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Stay Young, Live Longer Diets
YES, YOU CAN PUT YOUTH ON YOUR MENU
By Chapman Pincher
OCTORS estimate that without table salt helps to re-
duce thirst,
drinks must
be
THE CHINA ~ MAIL;, MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 1954."
Remember, one cocktail is as fattening as two slices of bread. many people Bro Alcocolle
This diet is designed to reduce over-weight to a de- strictly rationed. One cocktail weight g-r-a-d-u-a-1-1-y. Rapid should never be which ruine
their or one small aberry or orre glass slimming
under except their of wine only is allowed during attempted
doctor's supervision. health, and may shorten the reducing period.
gree
looka, threatens
their lives. About 95 per-
д
Seato
cent of this obesity in due MENU FOR WOMEN AGED 35-60
to over-cating.
There is no sound reason to
prevent anyone adding youth- BREAKFAST lialf a cupful orange juice, half grapefruit, OR
ful years to their lives by un- burdening themselves
of sur- with these Stay-
plus weight
Young diets.
The
Arat cl of
here
diets
ne orange. One cop botted or poached, OR haddock, one kipper, OR one raster of bacon, OR one rautage, OR tinned tomatoes, One thin slice of bread OR toast thinly buttered, Tea OR coffee, with or without milk.
is designed to bring down LUNCH Clear soup, OR half the weight of men and women
aged 30-00, who are lod heavy
to
a grapefruit, OR alico melon, OR tomato juice.
a cupful peas, plus Half
Uiberal helping greens. Salad.
Half a cupful stewed frull
OR fresh fruit salad, or orange; OR appic.
bo healthy. When their Fair portion of fish (bolled OR the level best
steamed, or baked), weight reaches sulted to their height, the diet, shellfish (crab, lobster, prawns OR tongue, OR if continued, should niso keep OR roast beef
corned beef, OR lean bailed it there.
ham. Chicken OR chicken sand- (Bread cut thin.) wich,
TEA Tea ONLY with or without milk
biscuits.
ut
The quantities of meat. Ash, and KOITC vegetables which hould be eaten are not given
the requirements because these vary according to stature and level of physical activity.
You can adjust the quantities to your requireinent simply by eating as much of these foods as your appetite demands, for the meat and fish dishes Bre Rourishing foods as opposed to the fattening loods, which aro almost eliminated in this diet.
A little luxury,
soon as your
A down
weight 15 level
to its proper
you can test the effect of treat-
Ing yourself
to luxuries
like
EVENING MEAL Clear soups
Coffee OR tea, with or with- out milk.
NO pastries, toast, or
pear or runner beans, OR half a Or broths expful beetroot, Greens or green OR 4 cup tomato juice, OR main ad lib. shellfish cocktail, OR half slice melon,
Fair-sized portion roast lean meat (Including pork), OR (In OR liver stowed steak, casserole or occasionally tried), OR chicken, OR Ish (usually bolled, steamed, or baked, but occasionally fried).
One apple, OR half a cupful fruit salad, Olt fair portion
cheese.
Coffee OR tea, with or with- out milk.
AT BEDTIME
One
Half a cupful potatoes (not fried), plus half a cupful drink.
marmalade, a small helping of MENU
corcal, breakfast occasional fried dish.
By
and
on
were
THE RED PIPER OF PEKING
World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian
OLIVER LYTTELTON, LOSS TO COLONIES
London.
T was not much more
than a year ago that
the Tory rank-and-file
By Harold James
as
121
out for the blood of with a gold watch chain worst side. He was brusque, and at times - straddling his waistcoat, overbearing, one of their colleagues
cozed discourteous. "As, light- cup of milk, OR a milk the Secretary of State for Oliver Lyttleton
illustrated footed
elephant," the Colonies. With every prosperity. He step he took, "Ollver Lytt.", successful Private Enter- remarked a member of the
True, he had Socialist front bench
walked out of the with Eton and he FOR MEN AGED 35-60 as he often signa himself, prise.
seemed to be getting deeper started off
after a pasan ge in the mud-Malaya, Mau the Guards, but he had Chamber
British
his Gulana, made
own way in of arms with the Colonial Mau,
He gave the Uganda-to say nothing of business and was getting a Secretary. lesger mornases such as five-figure income when he impression of being hard
and threw
for and ruthless. Honduras
up the City British
(Colonial House Nyasaland. What a cata Church
Office
In headquarters). combat, he asked for Suddenly, a change came. quarter; and he certainly By the end of the year the gave
He could be Colonial Secretary was
BREAKFAST Hall grapefruit, half cupful orange juice or one checking your weight
orange. One or two egge, bolled, poached, or frequently for a while you will scrambled, OR Finnan haddock, OR tinned tomatoes, OR ilver Th be able to judge when you cansarole. Two thin slices bread, OR toast thinly spread with have struck the right balance butter. Tea OR coffee, with or without milk.
between
and food income"
for then energy "oxpenditure"
your weight will remain rough- ly constant.
Men are advised to keep off the of because fatty foods mounting evidence that these can damage the heart,
Haif-cupful
OT
of potatoes,logue!
plas OR spaghetti,
half- cupful of peas OR liberal help- sprouts, ing greens (Brussels cabbage, spinach).
Green salad.
(crab
LUNCH Clear soup made from meat or vegetable. Or a cup of broth containing no fat, OR grapefruit, OR slice of melon.
bolled, steamed baked, OR nivellfish Women seem to be naturally
against this inhiry, lobster, prawns), OB roast beet
protected
so the
★ Fishi
diet permits them an (with visible fat removed), OR
corned feet, tongue. OR occasional fried dish.
Of course, some fat is needed ilver
(not fried),
OR OR bolled
in any diet and a certain pro- ham (with visible fat removed).
portion is provided in this one,
By taking half a pint of milk a day you will ensure that your fat intake is kept at a safe level.
A little sherry
oils,
QUGAR.
salad sweets, mayonnaise, and bread sauces are forbidden. So are "snacks" at al mes, though A Finall glass of fruit juice or a malted milk tablet half an hour before meals
Hall-cup slowed Les, on Apricots, OB half-cup fruit salad Oft one orange OR apple. NO custard.
TEA Tea ONLY with or without
biscuits.
EVENING MEAL Cear
fram broth free
fat. OR half Of shellfish cup tomato juice, cocktail, OR half silce melon. One roll thinly spread with butter or margarine.
leat roant Good portion beef. OR veal, OR roast meat, OR OR minced lamb.
and kidney, OR stewed steak may be beneficial by liver in casserole, OR chicken, inking the edge off appetite.
(boiled, steamed, OR Ash
Doctors recommend that baked). during
period the reducing fulds should be kept down to about three pints a day. Going
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Coffee OR tea, with without milk.
milk. NO pastries, toast, or
Italf-cupful
or
baked or mashed potatoes, plus half-
cup peas, OR carrots OR reens
ad lib. Balad ad lib.
Coffee OR tea, with ⚫ without milk.
or
-OF
drink.
Stay-Young alets for the Under-30's.
NO MOKR DIAPER DRUDGERY}} RINÉES DAINTY IN SECONDS,
Tailor and Cutter his
1
none.
Vendetta
the
no
rude to And,
THE TEN-YEAR DRIP
By DAVID LAIDLAW
BQ
+
Kabaka
one who "was a member of my university, a member of my club, a friend of my son he was Cambridge", deeply moved. Even the Socialists were taken aback.
at
OLIVER LITTELTON who has just left the - Colonial Office. •
THE MAN WITH A LOAD OF DIAMONDS
By ALEXANDER THOMSON
•
W
E were talking of
diamonds when
鵲
City friend said: "You should come and meet Harry Abrahams. He has Just sold £8,000,000 worth in three days." I must have looked astonished. "That's nothing," my friend added. "Harry Abrahams will have sold at least £60 million of diamonds by the end of the year."
And then I remembered. The one and only Harry Abrahams. The Number 1 in London of the fabulous Diamond Corporation, which rules and regulates the selling of more than nine- all tonths of
the mew diamonds dug up in the world.
We go along to the corpora-
offices tion's
London's on
Thousands Holborn Viaduct.
must pass its front door every day. But surely no one ever bothers to look twice..
The doorway is narrow, non- descript. Inside is an elderly litt, a narrow light of dark twisting stairs.
A
word from my friend to one of four questioning com- missionaires explains that we are certainly expected. Soon wo a small are seated in front of men behind a big desk, who says: "I'm just going to have
a cup of tea. Will
you?"
Diamonds and champagne champagne and
have
diamonds
1
T
always thought of them as going together. But
diamonds
and a cup of teal I suppose only men like Harry Abrahams think nothing of such a thing.
E
Grey-haired, grey-suited and wearing a dove-grey. tie, he alps
about dla his tea and talks monds. They are said to be girl's best friend. But Harry
they Abrahams belleves man's best friend, too. For have they not helped many a refugee family to a new start in a new country?
£25,000 touch
Ata
He explains:. "You can carry £20,000 worth around in your waistcoat pocket and no one is any the wiser."
I hasten to show him I am not wearing a waistcoat: But now he is talking of Wall Street.
"Demand is very brisk," be says, "We could sell much more than the mines send us."
The Diamond Corporation is linked with the famous De Beers and other mines. Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, who goverbs a bigger slice of the world's gold and diamond mining than any- one else, is its topmost boss,
How do their yearly millions af pounds worth of new diamonda reach the corpera- tion's first-floor offices in Hol- born Viaduct?
Through the registered post Mr. Abrahams is saying. And I get mental picture of a diamond-laden postman: trudg
there is stairs. Or perhaps some other arrangement,
And how are they Bent off
Bold again after being to buyers
all the world aver? in neat little packages they are taken to the post
office. Only once, have
any diamonds been lost. And that was so long ago no one can remember the details.
We go into the next room to
dismissal of the Kabaka the charming to those he liked BUT the debate over the gave a surprise insight into Tory Party's blue-eyed boy.devastatingly
another Lyttelton. When he The press, which had cas- those he did not. tigated him, began to talk of worst fault of all in his spoke of having to get rid of
attitudes. "statesmanlike
opponents' eyes, he did not What had happened? It all abide fools gladly. happened in two debates in the House of Commons-- the one on Uganda the other on a vote of censure on the Government for its
of handling
affairs in THUS it was that much The man, they murmured, Africa. And to understand
of the criticism directed actually had feelings. And quiet .tone, understand at Oliver Lyttleton was in this same stewed figs, On it one has to Half cup
of £ personal persuasive and sincere, he *
one bananA, OR half-cup something of the man him- the form
used to effect in succeeding was not Portion self.
vendetta. It fruit salad, OR small
от much his policy
his debates. apple pie, OR small portion of cheese.
This burly figure is, or actions that the Opposition
However, it tag the Was, the personification of disliked as the man him-
Until
autumn debate on the Government's that the self. everything AT BEDTIME
detest. Well- cf 1953, he showed in the policy in Africa that finally
what turned the scale, for that They know that the "maning up those dark and twisting One cup of milk OR a mith Socialists
dressed-the best dressed House of CommonS
enemies and indeed, revealed to his friends and at the top" would not let man in the House, according his
friends-thought his to all but the most bigoted them 'down. to the
of his foes, that he had been
Apart from putting things up against something not of his own making-against right, however, he had solid events which would have achievements to his credit, occurred whatever govern- Malaya is cleaned up and ment was in power at West- far-reaching constitutional minster. It was nothing less changes have been approved. than the awakening of The West Indies have taken Afrien. As Mr Hobson, a a step forward on the road Socialist Member said in to, federation. In Central debate, the Africa has been laid the TOUSING Is a major calling in about this matter? which appeared in the news last week's
Evening Moscow, on trouble with Kenya is that foundation stone of a new February 10, 1954.
the African is having to do dominion. In Kenys the The District
of in 70 years what it took Bri- aceda of multi-racial, co- Council been calculated that the A check of the office files Shcherbakov., Moscow, is aptain 700 years to achieve, operation in government
Ono is opened for me. In it are average amount of living showed that the man's claim parently so buried under papers
Africa, political leaders now dozens of small, flat paper space per person in Soviet was quite true. The earliest of one kind or another that its And, he added, "it can't be have been sown. In West
employees have to put in hours, done."..
trust Britain's word and are packets, looking for all the cities is Icsa than five document on record was of overtime just to arrange them hoops. During 1953, the
confident that self-govern world like packets of powders at square metres)-but what dated 1944, and the latest in
8,000 first courell received more than
ment la round the corner. the chemists The
dia But in each there are there is seems to be in a August, 1968,
The Colonial Development ands
nout
but, already about the housing situation.
and Welfare Acts are being beautiful. I am told they haye permanent state of dila- stated that the repairs had letters-most of them complaints pidation. One of many sad been completed; the last These letters, in their
term of office velopment Corporation is at it never talks of sales
Diamond Corporation sights published by Izvestiya on started. In between the two of documents," for, although it
La so' overworked, the council that he had to spend so much last being run on business was a sheaf of yellowing seems unable to refrain from December 2, 1958.
pages, all carrying words to adding to the food itself. Cir time and energy in putting lines. the effect that the matter culars, questionnaires rosolu- things, right instead of
This and the list is not was being "taken care of " tions, reports a regular snow-putting things forward. But
storm of paper work hurtles to in putting things right exhaustive is no mean re Even the technical staff, ap he showed himself a great cord for two and a half parently, have been roped in to man. When he acted, ho years of office. Perhaps help with the mali.
acted firmly, and, above all, Oliver Lyttelton's greatest in time. Ho sought to forer asset is that he la o realist In fact, however, when a re
aid stall. trouble rather than that he brought a business presentative of Izvestiya called "In the recent years," at the house at the end of Octo- Evening Moscow, the housing deal with it after it had brain to bear on colonial ber 1953, there was billl, no department and · buildingyro, aim of any repairs having been pairs ellos have recruited started. He was not, as some problems,
The only new develop many engineers and technician believed, randy to jump to Addressing his Conservative expert look fors mant was that part of the cell- But considerable part of conclusions. He took time to colleagues for the first time. ho ing had begun to After listening to what he had begun
these people's time is spent not consider but, once having began the days of dominion had to say, the latter sug
feel sure that the unto
tun- gested that he should call ate hero of this tale would NG POST, LTD. gain in week's time. At cheered to know that the
this the visitors explodedz homing abihoride
ORIES LIKE A MIRACLE !
On sale at Watson's Bole Agente:
Colluton Pad's X. CAUDRON & Co.
PHOTOGRAPHS
Headache in Russin to. For go about this matter? paper.
day. Not only is there ten years.... not enough of It (It has
Confidence
d
•
it
see some diamonds. It is called the boardroom. A portrait of Bir Ernest Oppenheimer MONO- covered table under the window polles one wall. On a paper- are cardboard boxes ready for posting to America.
Misleading
by our Staff Photographers stories illustrating this was that they were about to be gave rise to tens of thousands was the pity of Lyttel renewed. The Colonial De- just been bought at one of the
Boy Scouts Dance
S.AS. Cocktail Party
Tea Party, for Brownles
Cine Club Presentation Arrival of Children from Ù.K. India Association Farewell Party Presentation at R.A.F. Kal. Kak RAPC Swimming Gala Local Presentations Local Christenings Local Weddings
SOUTH CHINA
In the Frunze district of Moscow lived a man whose celling persistently dripped. One day he went to the housing authorities to com. plain. It was far from the First time that he had done but he was intervlowed by ass official who was obs viously unfamiliar with the
case.
STILL NO SIGN
problems
KAM work extime! Do you ha
know how lonir 1 bâye been, res
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and fro within the office walls.
on medida tarks such as the
ton's
ntung out of buildings, but on reached what he believed to over palm and pins are overs
be the right decision, hemmot berhow the words
kuto It Above all he
pired, the Colonial
[Governor toil
bluez Tory Abut. (the -' worde
Harry Abrahams chips in to "say that "aights” is a'minlading word. For law of the Jewellers and merchants who buy ever come to soothe SUV » Whit
The corporations each curtanter Hes, and selecte his share from the new dia mondthey come in 7 Ita choice
la never queried si From a, little pile of uncut stones. I am shown the diamonds and the not They
good right colours and the