WHIPPING BOY
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1954.
Hullo! Some Anglo-American
relation I presume
LOW
The Strange Mysteries Of Sleep
By W. O. MURPHY
Then there was Mr Paul
ECENTLY a wealthy him, and when he finally
Indian offered £20,000 slept it was in death. to anyone who could tell him how to sleep. He said he had not slept for Kern who was wounded in the head in the First World War and has not had a wink of sleep since. He eats eight meals during the 24 hours, and smokes twice as much as the ordinary man.
two years.
magazine
in case the ahock would be too much fat him!
In another case a well-known Rugby footballer went to mea. finally landed up in America where he went into a deep sleep. I lasted ten years and when he returned home it given him married again,
had
was to find that his wife
up for dend and
Sleep plays some odd trieks, too.
Some of the Immortal written by Mozart in his sleep. "Magic Flute," it is said, was The American tune. "Battle Hymn to the Republic,"
wn
Sleep, however, has pro- vided many baffling my steries. Britain has a man who last slept in 1916. To- day, in his seventies, he Thomas Edison, the believes that the incessant famous American inventor, clanging of hammers affect-
was able to work for days ed his nervous system. For without sleep when he was sight years he lay in hospital engaged on some intrate composed in sleep by Julia while doctors and specialists problem. Brunel, the famous tha famous English poet, he tried everything they knew engineer, restricted himself composed one to send him naleep. They to three hours sleep per while fast asleep. failed with drugs and even day, while Littre slept for chloroform.
only four hours a day during the 40 years he was com- piling his dictionary.
Ward Howe, As for Coleridge.
I'
of
his poems
Solved Problems
thai
Not so long ago, a man
Is also on record died in New Jersey who had
ma hematician solved white not been asleep for 94 years At the other end of
askep one of his most puzzling In his last illness doctors the scale are people who problems which had defled him
watching are never awake.
Several during his waking hours. World Copyright by aitonarment with 1hr Manchester Guardians fell asleep while
Stranger
is the case of years ago 11 poignant the Canadian girl who singe romance came to an end beautiful songs while sleeping, with the death of Patricia yet she can hardly sing a note Muguire. About six years when awake. before her death, she re- turned home after
RENE MacCOLL
IN SIBERIA
A Manicure In Kurgan
Spotlights
Changes
WON'T easily forget Petropavlovsk is like the chemistry to art class, and this out that at 55 she has all
my arrival in Siberia "before" part in a "before where, by the way, and after advertisement. the дил is shining
They haven't got around hotly--because 1 said 1 would like to go to the to Petropavlovsk yet but no
doubt they will. barber's,
being 2 bit travel-stained after 6,000 miles.
Two brief years ago, I am told. Kurgan was rather like Petropavlovsk. There wasn't a single paved street in the place. You were apt to flounder up to your your ankles in the jet black mud. The people lived in mouldering wooden chalets.
Raid Don't worry,
the
WOMILI
the who runя newly built hotel-the bar- ber will come up to room right away.
A few minules later there came a knock on the
stood door, and there 20-year-old girl loaded with such properties as a razor, clippers, a strop, seent, and
so forth.
Vitalised
takes
her Thum of the hands of own teeth and indeed her own their doubtless grateful parents, hair. Well, good for her. Inside the palace, the paint Around here it you kill a wolf A chap wasn't quite dry and the plas- you're in the money.
Some people do extraordin- a game ary things when they go to of tennis, posted મ love sleep BOC of which letter to her boy friend, tragically. Not so long ago at
dropped off
an Inquest it was stated to
and
sleep. She never awaken-
ed.
end
that
young airman who had been tandergoing parachute training "baled out" from his bedroom window in his sleep.
During her long sleep Recorded too, is the case of her mother's hair went the Scots soldier who dresseTÍ white.
his buttons But Patricia
polished re- himself. mained
and went on sentry duty-still : the beautiful,
fast asleep! youthful figure she had been when that long Inst sleep began.
Through Wars
terers were still hard at 1. In last winter knocked off a she-NOR can science explain the radio instruction room of the wolf and all her cubs and netted the case of Bettina Pieri, palace 1 remarked on all himself 3,000 roubles, say £275, portrall of a Victorian-looking in prizes for the pelts. gent brooding over the scene.
an
"Ah, yes, that is Popov," said my guide. "Popov. the dis- coverer of radio." I supposed I looked a shade taken aback because she
added: "He dis- DUT
Ludmila
generally
has a seven-year-old mukes £73 a month.
specking
con-
ВОП
and
Then there was the Irishman who swam two miles down a river, cane astiore and was subsequently discovered sleep- ung by the roadside, quite un- conscious of the extraordinary
feat he had accomplished,
ford, he would often rise from
ever
De Mille Method
In
To guard against sleepless nights, Cecil B. De Mille, the American
has film producer, installed in his Juxurious home an automatie gramophone with bedside control to play favourite symphonies.
his
As for Dr Haycock of Ox- aged 88, who, with the ex-
his bed, give out his text, and, ception of some dozen
while sound asleep. dellver an pericds of wakefulness, has excellent sermon on it. He was been asleep since she was frequently watched, but Do And just amount of tugging, pulling or 15 years old.
aucceeded before World War II, Sean pinching
arousing him. blissfully drop- O'Fallow cruered radio about seven years Siberians don't especially like ped off to sleep In his before that Italian what was chit-chat about wolves and Dublin home, and Alept h name again?but owing to bears. Both animals are
soundly
till the war Was the inertia of the Tsurist authored to be not quite in keep- rities the discovery was not ing with progressive principles over.
made
the known to properly ma
The blonde Soviet woman who
was nothing world. The documents are to took
Yet this me around Kurgan is in be seen in
to Moscow and con her thirties and is divorced and compared the beauty clusively prove all this."
Anna Swanepoel sleep of At the museum 1 was shown
Ludmila wears a red hat and of South Africa. She slept JOW Kurgan is being vitalised yellowing photos of Kurgan, 50 Nand rebuilt from stem to stern,
the two pink through back.
great They made the a blue two-piece suit and buildings place look extelly like a Wild blouse of which the coilar pro-wars of this century as well
the All over town new
rutted streets, trudes over the jacket of as innumerable smaller con- Western town be- are going up- horde of
low wooden buildings, hitching
heels platform
10 her shawled women labourers are
Ricta. harlequin red working on these
Soviet rail and all. new
perpetital Another of these now Kurgan is golog full glasses of which she is
Victor Cleave, of buildings of stone and brick and coment lowering the old-timer steam ahead and the place is full proud, and a red plastic hand sleepers, cottages.
owoke England, vitality and pride and effort. bag with a long off-the-shoulder Folkestone, of
after four years and With a light laugh they admit
strap. swagger There are traffic lights and to temperatures of 50 below in
And we don't get on too well recognise his own children. buses and although a good many winter but claim that Siberia is because her mind strikes me as
Another long sleeper, Wam ugo of the streets are "up" and sethe actually very healthy, and the being closed in and rigid. Maybe Moyd, awoke some years
a doze that lasted the pavements just manageress of my hotel pointed mine strikes her the same way. after
are my wooden duckboards, one gets
But, anyway, it was nice to years. He had fallen asleep WAS the Impression it won't stay that
see the brimstone butterflies, and an era of peace and prosperity moving train.
he was not Not way for long.
Ericanica Encyclopædia ay Marcoms pioneered radio in the in the park of Rest and Culture When he awoko
allowed to see a newspaper of Į "mu the lilacs were in bloom. content with all this she The town la well laid out 1800's. No mention of Popov. offered me D manicure basically because the "Decem- which I blushingly de- brists" group of evolution-|| clined.
Could this be the bur. ber's assistant? No it the barberess. And she proceeded to give me
extremely
ная
ELT
competent shave, shampoo, and hair- cut right there in my bed-
room.
She also washed cars for me, which thoughtful of
her.
A manicure in Kurgan,
classic the
gateway to Siberian exile
Tsarist in
of
aries named after the month of their abortive rising in 1825- were exiled here.
the Many of
Decembrista balled from Leningrad and it was with a nostalgie memory of
days, the town through home that they street-planned which countless bands of Kurgan. political prisoners with
Kurgan is immensely proud take my hat right off to it.
For my money it is a really successful effort architecturally.
chains on their ankles have of Its brand new theatro and I in the past trudged pain- fully on into the Eastern vastnesses this gives the of the changes which are swooping on this land.
measure
Hot, Dusty
CIBERIA is hot and dusty
and astir with energy,
The butterflies reminded
pearl-bordered fritillaries.
My personal opinion of a lot of Soviet buildings isn't so hot. But this theatre is lovely--a fine
Good Film
years
But
Tho
sun- very
A man with an abundance of patience—and a pair of outsize scissors. He would be welcome in any land.
did not
Los
Novelist Farmy Heslip sings herself to sleep with "The Daring Young Man on the Fly- ing Trapeze.
One director on the Canadian Pacific Railways found the only place where he could sleep was on a train. So he rigged
his опе up
of the rooms in house cxactly
sle
11 in
like rallway sleeping compartment and even had it built in such a way that by pressing a button it would give the same motion
ก
д
His Job-Cut Red Tape
By Bernard Ronald
Milan. be. For no armadurer has yet TEET the man with the designed the type of axe Mitte man with the desced for his particular
Umberto Tupini, form job. Minister
Commiserate with
red tape that clogs up the
about 7d.
TO-
Taxes are not fugh, but there are literally hundreds of them
they are a The Italians say numerous as Joctists and, like up Iocunts, just about gobble place with grace and taate, Signor
Invoices are taxdiš. mouldings and cellings and a freshly-appointed
Take the railway. If you everything. good candelabrum, dark crimson for the Reform of State are unable to use your rail three percent. Football, cinemas and other entertainments -are walls, and seating for 700,
you find taxed. Postal packages are tax- Bureaucracy in the Italian ticket because Government.
yourself in the middle of one ed in addition to the postage, him of the frequent strikes, it is and paid for by whoever over, the magnitude of his a little matter of three ceives them. Usually the tax is task, which includes little months before you can get
NO COBWEBS » me of home-orange-tips MY only regret was that the items like unravelling the a refund.
You have to take your tirn repertory company was out
12 you put note in your and "' brimstones and large of town giving special perform, nationalised services like the in a post office queue to cash
"Buit for your refund cheque. And if one front-room window
in Sals-Sarrifice," that is taxed, but precious little else did. to the people tolling collection of taxes, customs little detail on the cheque
the "new lands, the massive new plan to develop agricultural departments, post offices not in order (this happened to too. And newlyweds living in me as it happens to many one town who buy their furni- capaelty which is going full and the railways.
others) you are given an official ture from another manufactur blast to the tune of the bull- And wish him luck that form to dil in. It has to be ing town and there is another dozers around these parts,
he will be able to start his ailed in ink but as there were tax on their bill the
no serviceable pene about, I tax. For customs are levied on job.
made do dipping my pinell in goods brought in from one town HE'S PERSISTENT
the inkpot, Then one of the 50 to another system, tas Odd clerks took it, andled and lingered aides the far-off days
off to Amitore Fanfani, who said: We shall end. It
number of little kingdomko from them in monia or ivoire Bimor Tupini's job is to snip This Petropavlovsk was where, and the other church, if aho picked Tupini as the fauling ticket omces, sway, the dohwabs and stream- What you find neatly every tried to form a government, the Ministry: You thould hear who Italy, was divided into a really pretty awful. I
man to reform the bureau-,
Written out
the whole bureaucrati which explaining why to, tangles. He; la determined. infortunatesmierno the pancredi and minions Soviet was torpedoed at wh fand shoul ave been the lauri
Just before I arrived in Kurgan, a town of 80,000 people and growing fast, 1. spent a couple of nights f a spot called Petro pavlovsk on the borders of northern Kazakhstan and Siberia.
But I saw a good colour dim with a concert, tossed in for the price of admission.
One of the town's ntrches is how a general store, i which
can't offhand think of any Proudly the showed me the crats. But his government
the town'a musim, Fa
thing to recommend it and how
Piombers "the"
"Pione Palace.
I won't dwell on Ita draw-quivalente da
But I am glad li`i vay
Which
Thay
the
fidence
customs
Patè- 18:57.
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