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Building up
Energy and Robust Health
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, MARCH 2nd, 1929.
THE WOMAN'S CORNER.
7 DON'TS FOR TOO-FOND PARENTS.
[Br A HOUSEMASTER.]
Boarding schools are no longer the homes of torture that once they were but even yet there are many young boys who dread the end of the Jholidays,
Sometimes, no doubt, the schools are to blame for this, but sometimes it is the well-meaning parents who make the parting more difficult.
A good send-off to the term is.
to all parties," a consummation devoutly to be wished. So, to in Crease the likelihood of "many happy returns, "I have tabulated the following seven "don'ts."
9. Dox'r let him get slack in his days If he has been allowed to personal habits, during the. boli- forget to open his bed, comb his hair, and clean his teeth be is in for a rude awakening when he gets back to school
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minor persecutions which have to be endured, through the thoughtful ness of food mamma in securing "something, out of the ordinary, my dear!?
Fancy braces and futuristic pyjamas are to be shun ned like the plague; nor must one be unduly grieved if Johnnie te- fuses to take that tie which auntie sent him for Christmas And don't forget that his schoolmates see his underclothing.
NEXT CRAZE, PLEASE!
What next? What will succeed: dancing as a craze
Probably a former eraze will ben come, a craze again-for there is a strange periodicity about some of" these, things. Just as there were dancing manina before the one that
many other manias have waxed and is now declared to be subsiding, so,
waned again and again, and may one of them might become epidemic anew.
a. Don't forget to sånd his trunk in advance. The trains will pro The next craze will not of neces bably be crowded with other school-sity have much, if anything, in boys, and he will not want to worry
common with dancing; but the about cumbersome luggage.
chances are that it, too, will be of a nature that brings about the in2 termingling of the sexes and in- volves physical exercise,
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A Scene on the Railway Station, So, according to the prophets, it 7. Don'T-oh, don't l—make amight be ping pong! An awful British boy feels emotion, but he game has had some brief spells of ** scene" at the parting. The possibility this, perhaps, but the tries not to show it especially on a popularity since it first slumped. railway station, with other boys heavily about fifteen years ago.
1. Dox't take your boy to too and romping fun-every father
many parties, pantomimes, and the and mother delights in this evid-rest, in the last few days of the
B. Dox'r give him some handsome ence of glorious and health.
vacation. If he comes back over-parting gift which he cannot share The energy and vitality children are so tired and bilious (as several of my with his chuma. Most boys would prodigal in spending have to be made charges invariably do), he cannot still prefer a well-filled tuck-box to good from the energy crosting elements be expected to get off the mark well. an expensive mechanical toy. to be obtained only from nonrishment. The children are growing--physically and mentally and nourishment is essential for healthy growth.., During the growing years of childhood more nourishment is necessary than ordinary food contains. Children need. Don't Criticise the School. "Orsline" as their daily beverage, for this delicious food beverage supplies con-school in his presence; even if you 3. Doy'r continually criticise the centrated nourishment in an easily change your tune as the parting ap digested form.
proaches, he will remember your "Ovaltine" is prepared from the richest earlier strictures Granted that of Nature's tonic foods-malt, milk and the head may be an overbearing eggs. It contains a superabundance of tyrant and the matron an inter- the nutritive elements which build up fering hussy, it won't help Johnnie brain and body and create energy and to be told so... vitality.
Make "Ovaltine" your children's daily beverage. Note their increased energy and vitality, and see on their cheeks the glow which comes only from the enjoy. -pent of perfect health
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4. Dov'r provide eccentric cloth ing for the young hopeful. Oh, the
Simplicity is the keynote of this dres of blue jersey with ila trimmings of jersey printed with bright rings, and tie of bright red crepe de chine. De- signed for a school girl it woulų be equally smart and practical carried out in light weight tweed in a brown and beige check pattern, with pieces cut on the bias for trimming and a brain milk tie printed with "black dots.
HEALTH TALKS.
INFANTILE PARALYSIS.
about. The one occasion when the average youth is thoroughly asham fal in public. ed of his mother is when she is tear-"
Again, some students of publie taste would not be surprised to see a boom in ice-rink skating. Of inte several new rinks have been open.
are
Still more numerous
the backers of roller-skating, which even some shrewd caterers for public amusement think may develop into
I have usually found parentsed, and the pastime is certainly thoroughly anxious to help UA growing in favour, schoolmasters, but rather puzzled as to how they can do so. With re- gard to this perennial problem of starting the term well, they can. help us enormously. If only they' would try to follow qut these simple suggestions, I believe that the boys would come back to school almost reconciled to their fate!
Your Home and Mine.
ROUGHENING DIET.
Dieticians have been constantly urging us for the last few years, to lock to our health in the matter. of breads and cereals.
It is true that we have got very far away from the pre-civilized diet of natural foods. Modern manu- facturing methods have made pos sible the refining and over-refining of foods to such an extent that if we expect our "ystem to function. as it should we are forced to get "roughage." by a conscious effort. It must be added to our re- gular foods, instead of being taken in as a part of them.
our
"Of all health campaigns, this is the one that has produced the most widespread and lasting results. Bran cereals are found on the pantry abelf of almost every home, And wholewheat bread has become a nationst institution.
But aside from the health angle, these products are generally liked for themselves, and can be used in making delicious muffins and "breads. In addition, they can be obtained in a prepared powdered form, for use as a beverage.
Brac muffins are especially good when raisins or dates are added to the ingredients. Serve them hot' with butter. The following a recipe:
Croam four tablespoons of short- ening and one-half cup sugar, and add two eggs. Mix and sift two cups flour, one teaspoon soda, two teaspoons baking powder, one-half
Manua LUNCHEONS
Consomme ...Vegetable Salad Bran Muffins Stewed Pears Hot Tea
Cream of Potato Soup Buttered Wholewheat Toast Stuffed Tomato Salad
Hot Tea
teaspoon salt.. To the creamed mixture add two cups bran, two Infantile paralysis is. an infeocupa sour milk, alternating with tious and communicable disease the sifted dry ingredients Bake caused by the invasion of the cens in a greased muffin pan for about tral nervous organs-the spinal twenty minutes. This quantity
and brain-of a cord
minute makes enough for two dozen muf- microorganism.
fina, (which can be reheated the The virus may be located in day after. healthy persons and such con. Bran can be added to griddic taminated persons, without falling cake batter. Use one cup of bran ill themselves, may convey the into one cup flour. Mix the flour fection to other persons, chiefly with a little sugar, two teaspoons children, who develop the disease. baking powder, and add the bran At least 50 to 80 per cent, or Beat two eggs with one and one- even more, of individuals infected half cups milk, add salt, and add with the microorganism do not de to the dry ingredients. Add one Ivelop paralysis in any form. In tablespoon melted shortening last. some of them there will be a high Beat thoroughly, and fry on a hot temperature with a sore throat or griddle.
nasal symptoms or gastro-in Bran is considered by many an testinal disturbance of a few days improvement to brown, bread." The duration, followed by complete refollowing is a recipe: covery These undiagnosed inser, Mix together two cups bran, two are the most dangerous cases, in cups sour milk, and one cup of so far as the public is concern raisina, Then add two tablespoons ed. because they are potential molasses, one opp sugar, and two apreaders of the disease,
Individual susceptibility varies. with two teaspoons soda, and one- cups flour, which have been sifted Not all children and relatively few half teaspoon salt. Put into a adults are susceptible to infantile
grensed tin, cover tightly, and
paralysis. Young children Are stear for three hours.
more susceptible than older ones; but no age can be said to be ab solutely insusceptible
It is a reassurance to know that Fortunately, only a very small so many recover altogether, and number of those attacked are" left that so much of what appears to severely and helplessly crippled. be permanent paralysis disappears (Continued at foot of next column.) { in time.
a craze.
Roller-skating has unquestionably shown great "vitality, A dozen times it has been pronounced, not dead merely, but absolutely, de- finitely, and finally dead beyond hope of resurrection. And what then? It has risen again.
The profits of rinking companies have been enormous. On the Pre- ference shares in a. Dublia rink 135 per cent. was paid in thirty weeks, and in fourteen weeks the receipts. of a Manchester rink amounted to £8,768, out of which the sharehold that period of 100 per cent... ers received an average dividend for
What, then, will be the next craze! Will it be roller-skating, some younger and less pleasant and healthful form of exercise, or 1 pastime that calls for little physical exertion, or practically none at ali?
FASHION NOTES FOR 1929.
Short jackets go with every type-
of frock.
New dress materials include
crêpes, satins, and chiffons. Skull-tight hats of tricolette and.
crochet straw.
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FAVORITE
FASHIONS
By SIMONE
This model achiever the desir ed vertical line through attached panels at each side of front of the skirt, and is further dis tinguished by mugness through the hips. It is flattering in šta individual and severely simple Zine. Black lustrous crêpe satin, dull silk crepe in soft broum shade with matching sheer velvet. tie and Royal blue crêpe Roma are quitable.
Brims slashed over one eyebrow
and draped at odd places. Straight-line costs and elaborate
Waistlines at top of the bip.
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CINEMA NEWS.
TEMPEST" COMING TO QUEEN'SA
THESIVA SIVA" AND
KNIFE DANCES; -
To-morrow at Star. Madame Claude Reviere and her "Tempest," the new John Barry, troupe of Native Samoane have more picture for United. Artists, arrived in Hong Kong to fulfil will begin a four day run at the an engagement at the Star Theatre, Queen's Theatre on Wednesday. cammencing to-morrow at 9.20 p.m.
Tempest" is L. picture in a They will give a programme of modern setting of twentieth music and dances typical of the century Russia. John Barrymore South Sea Islands, including the has the role of a devil-may-care Knife War dance and the famous subaltern whose affairs of heart" Siva Siva The troupe was re- and sword lend him into some ceived with great enthusiasm in strange adventures. The early Honolulu where an extensive en- sequences show the pomp and gagement was secured. ́ ́ Among the luxury of the Empire: Among the notables who have witnessed and supporting cast are Louis Wolheim, praised the entertainment Kra Camilla Horn, the German ster the Crown Prince of Sweden, and who went to America to become M. Paul Claudel, the French Am- Barrymore's leading lady: George bassador to America. Sents may Fawcett, Ullrich Haupt, Boris de be booked in advance at Moutries Fas, who also travelled from or the Star Theatre at the popular Europe especially to appear with prices of 82 and $1. A short pic- Barrymora; Lena Malena and ture programme will precede the Albert Conti
dancers.