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· NURSERY TRADITIONS.
OLD NOTIONS AND NEW REASONS.
There are some of the nursery.`tradie. tions quoted by Sir Bruce Porter at a lecture in London and his comments thereon
1. That if a child has a defect be "will
grow out of it!!
Sir Bruce: "The first Ave years of a person's life are the most important. If be starts in the wrong direction he will go farther and farther from the right course. Nothing, from the doctor's point of view, is more tragic than to find on examining an older child some confirmed defect that should have been discovered in the early stage and removed."
That a child must be protected from draughts and kept warmQ.
Sir Bruce: "There is no greater fal- lacy. The windows of the nursery should be kept open day and night. If the child has to be protected from a draught it should be done by means of screen. His clothing should be light. One of the most pathetic sights one sees in the winter months is the little child in the park suffering untold injury because its parents are rich enough to buy a lot of clothes. Sometimes it is so wrapped up that the air can only reach a little bit
of its face."
3. That children should be put to sleep in a dark room.
Sir Bruce: "Because of this custom
there are many grown-up people who cannot sleep unless the room is in per fect darkness. It is extremely difficult to ventilate the dark room."
WHILE BABY SLEEPS.
4. That all noise about the house should be stopped while the baby is
sleeping.
Sir Bruce: "Not at all. Baby has to live in a rough-and-tumble world and ho must get used to it. My babies were brought up in India, and I have seen one of them sleeping peacefully in his cradle while a native was hammering a board underneath it. If he noticed the noise at all he probably thought it was just one of the queer things one must expect in this odd world."
5. That milk is a drink.
Sir Bruce: It is not a drink but a food. The child requires water. Every human being does, and even in prison water is always accessible. Whenever a child wants a drink he should have it."
6. That if a baby drinks cow's milk it is better to bave it always from the
same cow,
Sir Bruce: No, because if the cow happens to be a wrong 'un the baby does The milk should not have a chance. always be pasteurised. Rich people should set a lesson to the community by insisting on having pasteurised milk for their households.""
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7. That meat juice and gravy is good for young children.
Sir Bruce: This is a controversial question, but my view is that they should be cut cut of the nursery. A diet of milk, butter, cheese, cream, vegetables, and fruit will give child-all it needs. The fruit should, of course, be fresh, not preserved."
8 That childish pain is often growing pains.
Sir Bruce: That idea is responsible. for more heart disease than anything else. Growing pains are due to rheumatism. When a child complains of pain the mother should at once search for the reason."
9. That first teeth do not matter. Sir Bruce: “Quite as much attention should be paid to them as to the second teeth."
LEFT-HANDED CHILDREN.
10. That a left-handed child should be made to use hiž right hand instead
Sir Bruce: "If you try to do this you will upset the child's nervous balance A left-banded child has a left-handed brain and you cannot change that. If had a left-handed child and the teacher tried to correct the habit I should refuse to allow it.”
Sir Bruce Porter, developing some of these points, emphasised the importance of using pasteurised milk The danger of drinking raw milk was so great that nothing would persuade him to touch milk that was not pasteurized. The danger was much greater to amall children. When children were subject to fainting, he said, it would be wise to find out whether there was a tendency to epilepsy. This trouble was much more common than people. thought but parents were, so terrified of it that if a doctor diagnosed the trouble da epilepsy they often refused to believe him. Every epileptic child should be brought up in a knowledge of ita condi- tion. It was a tragedy, but not so tragic, as if it grew up in ignorance, married, and had epileptic children.
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THE UNWANTED EMIGRANTS. THOUSANDS OF MEN REFUSED.
While, as Sir Percival Phillips has been pointing out in The Daily Mail, Australia, i calling out for settlers, Queensland alone being able to take 12,000,000, the regulations laid down by the Australian authorities are limiting emigration from Britain to a surprising degree.
It is, admitted by the emigration officials at Australia House, Strand, W.C, that although at least 100,000 people offer themselves, only about 20,000 are taken, because Australia will only. have the very best, and will not take mechanics or artisans..
IF Australia would only take artisans and mechanice," said an official of the Church Army over-scas department, “ we could send out a great many more than. we do. Last year we sent 1,300 out of about 15,000 available, and a very largo number of those who were not chosen were turned down because they were mechanics or artisans. ACLIQUE CU
Sir Percival Phillips has expressed the view that the Socialist Party in Aus- tralia desires to maintain a close cor poration, and is afraid that il artizare, and mechanics from Great Britain are- admitted in large numbers they will lese some of their power.
M.P.S SIT IN.SECRET.
SOCIALIST - RUSE THAT "FAILED.
CONSERVATIVES TURN THE
N. G. Beale
HONG1079 - HOTEL
H. J. Pearce
Q. H. Potts R. R. Roxborough Mr & Mrs O. E.
Riddell
The only report of the proceedings VISITORS AT HOTELS. during the secret session is contained in the official record of the House, kept by the Clerk at the table, and known as the "Votes and Proceedings of the House of TABLES,
Commons." This reveals the significant fact that the Socialista, tried to undo the C. P. Anderson Merabers of the House of Commons-bad effects of their motion, for the record A. B. Bogd
runs! The question having been raised the unusual experience of a secret, sesams to whether, after strangers had been w. A. Dowley
J. H. Cook which lasted from 4.30 am till 7,15 a.ordered to withdraw, a motion for their ed recently.
Geo. A. Fafait readmission could be made, the Chair Mr & Mrs J, Gould man raled that the Standing Orders pro
MisserA. & F.Hamilton. vided no means for the readmission."
R. James Secret sessions of the past have almost
J: E. Joneph invariably been held only when it was
Mfe & Mes B. J. Laton" inadvisable that matters under discuta Afies E. Lillie sion should be publicly reported. Suck Dr J. Morrison sessions were not unusual during the H. Fearman war, the last having been in January Mr. & Mrs H. H. Priestley 1919, when the strength of the Forces at home was debated.
There was no real recessity for a secret session, says a Parliamentary Reporter. The proposal was put forward by the Socialists as part of the abstractive tat tics with which they are opposing the Safeguarding Duties, and they expected the Government supporters to oppose it, But in this they were both surprised and disappointed. Not a single 31.F. opposed the motion, and in consequence the Socialists were thenceforth compelled to make their speeches to the House alone.
None of their constituents will ever hear of the brave words uttered during those hours secrecy.
The official record shows merely a sue cession of divisions" on various amend-: ments and motions.
Amendment after amendment
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No aceret session has been held in peace time since 1975, when King Ed- ward, then Prince of Wales, was in the gallery, and as a joke an Irish member, Mr. Joseph Biggar, spied strangers" so as to compel his exclusion,
: 40CIALIST CEAGEL
Socialist chagrin af the result of their
moved to the main proposal, which was ruse was evident when the House met on the imposition of a 33 per cent duty the same afternoon, and Mr. McLean, ask Stran. on imported cutlery. Each amendmented the Speaker whether the term afforded an opportunity for repeating gers included the officials of the House. speeches already made, and at due inter He understood that lords who has. vais the Minister in charge. Sir P. Can-pened to be present in the Gallery and Effc-Lister, President of the Board of ever, ladies in the Ladies' Gallery night Trade, moved the closure.
be permitted to remain, these places Every time bound, made farcical protests against the he did so the Opposition, as in duty being technically outside the House..
The Speaker said that his study of the alleged curtailment of the Eberty of the rules convinced him that the official re House.
porting staff were not in a different pasi. tion from other occupants of the Press Gallery.
Whenever they thought there was.an Opportunity, they tried to move the ad- journment of the debate. On countless occasions they raised points of order. In short, the debate reproduced all the fami.
liar elements of obstruction.
↑ FY STRANGERS.” But shortly before 1.30 am, new tactics were tried. Col. Watts-Morgan (Soc., Rhondda, E.) rose and announced that be spied strangers. This is the custom ary method of initiating a secret session, any member having the right by this means to challenge the presence of strangers."
1 observe no "strangers," said the Chairman, Mr. J. F. Hope, but. Col. Watts-Morgan pointed to the Board of Trade officials sitting behind the Speaker's chair waiting to "give assist ance to their President in the debate." House, was the ruling of the Chairman. "They are not technically within the and Col. Watts-Morgan sat down again, for the moment non-plussed, whereupon Mr. Neil McLean (Soc, Govan), one of the Clydeside extremists, began to study the standing orders of the House, and discovered a rule which lays it down that when the attention of the Chairman is drawn to the presence of strangers be shall forthwith put the question to the House that strangers be ordered to with- draw..
The Chairman reminded him that this would mean the exclusion of the news- paper, representatives, and even the off- ad reporting staff. Mr. McLean's reply was, I move that strangers be asked to withdraw
SURPRISE FOR THE SOCIALISTS." The Chairman had now no alternative but to put the question to the House. The Socialists expected that it would be challenged by the Conservatives, and that another division, with its inevitable delay of the proceedings and with the inevitable Government, majority, - would' take place. · ·
But there was a burried whispering among the Government supporters, so that when the question was put there was a roar of "Ayes" from the Socialists and not a single answering "No" from the Government benches.
"The Ayes have it," the Chairman announced, amid a silence of stunned surprise from the duped Socialista. And amid roars of laughter from the Govern the reporters, were ordered to withdraw. ment Benches, all strangers," including
There was at the time one visitor in the
Strangers Gallery, and he, too, at once retired.
having at last secured the passage of the The House finally rose at 7.15 am. after necessary resolution regarding the duty
on cutlery,
C. B. Shank T. S. W. Smith
Mrs B. Thompson E. D. Talbot G. Wragge
1. A. Williams
B. Wylie J. F. Wright, Jr. Mr & Mrs J. F.
Wright
Baruzan Bay EOTEL.
Mr A. 8. Abbott Miss Adkins &
Me P..Araki
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children
and child
Mr & Mrs Van Andel - Mr & Mrs Bowman Mr Bannerina Lt. & Mrs Brown Mr G. W. Bradbare Mr & Mrs Bird Miss Bird
Mr & Mrs C. C. Black Mr N. Cousen Mr C. P. Cherry Mrs A. Crampton
Mrs R. E. Clifford Mr & Mrs Costello Mr & Mrs Dooijes When the duties of reporting the pr Mr Eagles
Mr & Mre Davies ceedings wore taken over from Hansard Messers Ferguson
the private firm which at one time Messrs Farrell supplied the official reports-by the Mr Gordon Official Reporter and his staff, a change Mr & Mrs T. S. L. ought to have been made in the rules, and therefore, he thought that the case Mr & Mrs Gain should now to reconsidered, but he Miss Holt added that Select Committees in the past had considered the Standing Orders, and declined to recommend changes in the practice.
His final ruling was that even if only inessengers and official reporters were present in the House in addition to mem- bere a member was technically in order inspying strangers" and moving a motion for a secret sitting, and Mr. McLean gave notice that he would raise this matter again in the following week.
SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN - HONGKONG.
FOR JANUARY, 1928.
(STANDARD TIME OF THE 120TH MERIDIAN, EAST OF GREENWICH)-
Greeusill
Com, & Mr. Ext Mr & Mrs Hinder Mr & Mrs Ireland Mr & Mrs Joseph Mr D. L. King
Mr & Mrs Lauritsen Mr & Mr Lammert Mr Lammert Mr & Mrs S. E.
Langston
Miss E. Morrison Mr & Mrs Mackenzie Mr K. Kalsen
Miss Nergen
Mr Y. Nagara -Dr F. G. Nerpina
Mr & Mrs Neqkleman
& Child
Mr & Mrs Oliver Mrs Poor
Mr Pratt Mr & Mrs Ross Mr A. H. Rowe Mesars Robbins Mr V. Rose
Capt. & Mrs Backes
Mr & Mrs J. Bankips Mr & Mrs Sadler
Mr Vander Steen Lt. Col & Mrs
Col
Stephens
Mestis Tarrant
Mr & Mrs Townend
Mr & Mrs Tully.
Mr Ward Wart Mr & Mrs Wrightmax Mr & Mrs Zumvalt
HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER.
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