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HUMOUR: ANCIENT AND MODERN.
Did you finish at college cum laude?
"No, mirabile dicta."
Madge: Would you still love Harry if he didn't have a car?
Mildred: Oh, yes, if he promised to get one right away.
Young Man: "How much do pay for a marriage license "
Clerk: Five dollars down and your entire salary each week "for the rest of your life."
Gentleman (bewildered at the claborate wedding): "Are you the bridegroom "
Young Man: "No, sir: I was eliminated in the semifinals."
She: "Have you any poor rela- tions ?"
He: "Not one that I know,” She: "Have you rich relations 7" "He: "Not one that knows me."
Mrs. Rallings: "My dear, did; you never chserve that designers take & woman's head to adorn many of your coina".
Her Husband (meekly): "No, but I have observed that designers take many of my coins to adorn
woman's hend
"Prisoner, the jury finds you guilty."
"That's all right, Judge. I know you're too intelligent to be influ- enced by what they say.""
Do you believe in higher educn- tion ?''
"Well, judging from the lettera we get from my boy in college, it couldn't come much higher."
Indulgent Mother: "D'ye. mind doing up three pounds of rice in alf pounds, Mr. Smiggs! It fas vernates my little boy to watch you breaking the string on your fin. Ker."
Ia Robert, still in school?"
"Yes, ho is almost ready for his bachelor's degree."
"Do tell And I always thongre he'd be the first one of your child-} rer to get married!"
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She "Yea. Why?"
these little
He. "I just wondered who lifted them off the stove for you."
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"We had a wonderful trip. We saw snow-crested summits leaping toward the cerulean heavena: we yaw foaming torrenta raging
Faremid: "Well, everything all through the bottons of shadowy right
canyons; we looked down from the Ibretting erags into the depths of
irppid fakes-
Night Watchman: "Yes. Haven't done so bad for the first night. I've checked everything off. and there's only one thing miss ing-the steam roller."
First Chauffeur: Have you ever Second Chauffeur: No, but I've been slapped.
been pinched for going too fast?
"You wouldn't think," said the Mississippi youth, "that my musi- cal talent was the means of saving my life,"
No," remarked his friend, "I would not. Tell me how it happen- ed."
"Well, there was a big flood in my home town and when the water strack our house, Father got on a ted and foated down stream.'
"And you?"
"I accompanied him piano."
"How many miles to the gallon did you get 1
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"Boots" called the guest country hotel, thrusting his head out of his bedroom door. "Boots".
There was no reply to his wall, just as there had been none to his ringing of the bell. He ended again and again and at small boy in a much be-buttoned uniform appeared..
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The guest looked him, up, and down.
I want the boots You're no heats, gurely
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1930.
ĮSNAPSHOTS OF A MAN PUTTING IN ALCOHOL
GANDS WILLIAMS
UNSCREWS RADI- ATOR CAP TO SEE WHETHER HE NEEDS
·ANY MORE ALCOHOL.
DECIDES HE'D BETTER TAKE ANOTHER LOOK. SNIFFS, WITH HEAD COCKED AT VARIOUS ANGLES.
PEERS IN AND SNIFFS
DECIDES IN TURN NOT TO PUT ANY MORE ALCOHOL IN, TO PUT SOME MORE, AND NONSENSE, THERE'S PLENTY IN THERE NOW.
SPORT
INDIAN PRINCES AND ENG
LISH GAMES.
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
EVERYTHING SEEMS TO BE ALL RIGHT. PUTS CAP ON AGAIN.
LOOKS AT THER- MOMETER.GOOD- NESS, HE DIDN'T REALIZE IT WAS AS COLD AS THAT,
PUTS SOME MORE, WEATHER IMMEDI=
ATELY TURNS MILD, DRIVES ALL DAY IN A CLOUD OF ALCO- HOL FUMES.
(Copyright, 1929, by The Bell Syndicate, Iné) 12-19
AND ATHLETICS.
M.0.0. INDIAN TOUE.
The Indian Cricket Board of Indian princes have always taken Control met at Bombay to discuss In great interest in English games, this year's visit of the M.C.C., an and some of those of the present day excel in particular sports.
well as the Indian team's tour in The Rajah of Knisai, for in England in 1939. The programme stance, who is well-known by sights drawn up and forwarded to the "No, sit," said the boy. "ming pupil. At Oxford it is guner- at Stag-lane, is an enthusiastic 5-
31.C.C. for approval. The Lour the socks."
pens at Karachi on October 11, "Sockseried the guest. What ally nausmed that the Nawal of 7030, the M.C.C. subsequently visit- do you mean by that "
ing Peshawar, Amritsar, Patiala, Pataudi will receive his blue in Delhi, Ajmer Rajkot. Bombay, of Jaipur is already so efficient in the same game that he is a member
WOMEN'S ATHLETIC
FEDERATION.
The 1930 track and field games of the Women's Amateur Athletic Federation of Canada have been awarded to Hamilton, Ont., to be British Empire games there next staged in conjunction
Kummer.
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the
Miss Alexandrine Gibb, was res Miss Ruth Ferguson, of Toronto, elected president of the association.
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of the R.M.A. (Woolwich) team,angoon and Madras. The team W. E. Stirling, of Halifax, was
will sail from Colombo for home on March 6. It is proposed to play three-Test matches: the first
The young Maharajah of Conch Behar, again, who went to Harrow last October, is so keen on cricket that even in winter he practises en.
Delhi against a composite team; ergetically at the indcon nets. The the second at Bombay against an Maharajah of Patiala played for Indian team, and the third the M.C.C. when the latter visited A Calcutta against Bombay a few years ago and scored site tram more than fifty runs in one inring:
But, of course, Prince Duleepsinhji
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is the most celebrated of all. He twenty-five matches, including se- played last summer for England inventern - against counties, one cricket Test, and is now playing against a combined minor counties with the M.C.C. team in Australia, side, one against the M.C.C., and He is the nephew of the famous one each against Oxford and Cam- Prince "Ranji" (the Jam Sahib decided to ask for a match against bridge Universities. It was also of Nawanagar), and bids fair to rival his uncle in fame as a bats-
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again elected to the office of trea-
gurer.
The question as to whether a team should be sent to the women's in- ternational games nt Prague, Czechoslovakia, next summer was discussed and it was decided that in view of the British Empire Olympics at Hamilton, no tesm will be sent.
Scarborough und Folkestone festi also requested, in which the M.C.C. vals. A three-day Test match is
side and so be enabled to form an would play a purely representative opinion on the standard of Indian cricket.
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18.-Moist earth.
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28.-Holy.
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[BY A PHYSICIAN
We are only at the beginning of the knowledge which would enable me to understand the control of natter by mind.
When that knowledge is more complete we shall realise to its full extent the predominating part that the mind plays, in the great ma jority of illnesses. In all these it is almost true to say that a pati ent is just as ill he thinks he is.
PLAYING THE GAME!
THE THIRD VITAMIN.
His bodily ailment has very like- ly been the start of lness. It may, however, have been a trival affair, the effect of which would soon have worn itself out had it not been for the vicious circle set going by this light indisposition. Failing to deal with his illness mentally, the patient felt depressed. His cir- culation consequently diminished training. power, and all his organs suffered accordingly.
The
[Br A BIO-CHEMIST.]
vital problems of civilian and army foodstuffs during the world war gave an impetus to the systematic study of the antiscor- butic factor in food materials.
The antiscorbutie vitamin in the juice of citrus fruits is known as vitamin C. Children who receive no raw milk or other foodstuff con- taining vitamin C. show signs of stunted growth.
Few children are born with that relatively common among children. The carly stages of scurvy ará are and unspeakably precious They cause restlessness and irrita gift-an instinet for "fair play "bility, and retard the growth and with the majority of small folks development of the child. it has to be inculcated by careful spoonfuls of orange juice every Two
day removes any tendency to this partially developed form of scurvy.
Playtime, that should be happy and trouble-free, is frequently Among
internal spoilt by the tears and squabbles of these, those glands which should have counter one of the little people who does not acted, the depression, being poorly like to be beaten, and has never supplied with blood by the enfeebl been taught that winning is a mat- ed circulation, cannot supply the ter of deserving to win." necessary antidote, and the vicious Often this attitude is the result circle is established Mental de- of the mistaken kindness of a re- pression, poor circulation, glandulative or friend who played with lar failure, poor circulation, ment- the child when he was very amali al depression.
and allowed baby to be the victor It is at the beginning of illnesses every time. that it is all important to realise Lessons learned from childish and to act on the controlling po
games lay the foundation on which wer of the mind. "Laugh and be the character of the future man wall" is as true a saying as there or woman is to be built, and the IN among Thedical aphorisms, child who is not taught "play Laughter and the feelings that en- fair," starts with a big handicap gender it give a fillip to the whole in the game of life. ceonomy of the body. When you feel as though you are ill, or are going to be ill, do not stop to wonder what is going to be the mat of easy pleasure that circumstances seat at a gay theatre; any means ter with you. Instead seek laugh-suggest. ter and joy at once.
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Fresh fruits and fresh vegetables are the outstanding sources of vita- mia C. Orange juice and tomatoes (raw, cooked or canned) are rich in this vitamin. Other foods which Possess a high antiscorbutic value are cabbage, lemon juice, lettuce, pineapple, raw spinach and pers.
Milk is man's best food for gener. al purposes, but it is not the best source for vitamin C. Pasteurised milk is markedly deficient in vita- min C. It should be used because of its high nutritive value and absence from harmful bacteria, but it should be supplemented by orange juice to ensure anti-scor- butic protection....
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