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THE ST. LAWRENCE
WATERWAY
more inclusive St. Lawrence Com- mission was formed, with Mr. Hoover, then Secretary of Com- merce, at the head of the Ameri- can section. And after another two years the report of the joint board of engineers was published, and elaborate cost and engineering data were submitted to the nations. The hiatus that hus oc- curred since that time has been duo in part, it would seem, to sober thoughts in Canada over the con-
1932.
DAY BY DAY
ALL BOOKS ARE DIVISIBLE INTO TWO CLASSES THE BOOKS OF THE HOUR, AND THE BOOKS OF ALL TIME. two-Ruakin.
The April Criminal Sessions, which will be were adjourned eine die, resumed at 12 noon on Monday next, the 30ur tast
THIS
YSELF
"KEEPING FIT" FETISH
By BEVERLEY NICHOLS.
when young
did
You cannot
Magerly frequent all ortex cunt possibly Judge your
and-conditions of people who than itself. That is why I distrust told me how to keep fit. At school, all there columns in the newspapers siderable cost involyed. The United In consequence of the King's Bes earnest masters, who were obvious about "how to keep fit." They treat States has twice sent notes exprca-taurant Grill Room being engaged,ly dying of high blood-pressure. the public as if everybody were cut sing willingness to proceed with there will be no ten'dance on Satur-growled Injunctions about cold to pattern. the development.
day, May 28, Another phase opened when Mr. Bennett visited Wanhington
some time back and is understood to have discussed the seaway project
*
-пож
The Tajmahal Silk Store is agent for the well-known "Ferguson" volle fabrica, a special selection of which is now being shown.
It has never been my painful Baths, and dumb-bells. At Ox- ford, huge "blues" used to charge necessity to "reduce," but if it into one's room, filled with a de- were, I should certainly not be so termination that one should row. foolish na to imagine that I could And after that I discovered that do it by eating less. Esting much the so-called "great" world is filled or little makes absolutely no dif- with people who spend their lives ference in my weight. Worry does. trying to make other people take A good worry will take off a couple exercise. The exercise fiend is of pounds in a week. An like the drug fiend. He wants to draft with me means underweight. convert everybody else to his own Therefore, if I had any advice on frei habits.
the abject, I would say that the
The Postumster ndvines that, the Chinese Postal strike having been settled, the old practice in despatch of maila (via Siberia for instance) is being renuined.
over-
18 A
a great that it wishes to stay in bed. Siny there. It sends you a message that it loathes the sight of that cold bath. Lon't take It.
informally with Mr. Hoover. Again, quite recently, Maj. William D. Herridge, the Canadian Minister, was clofeted with the President. Sponsors of the canal then hoped,
For drawing water from a that final negotiations for drafting
21 1 cannot share this belief that Best way to keep fit is always to do a construction treaty would soon be hydrant in Stone Nullah Lane,
fourteen was fined $10 or Chinese
lay instituted. The
opportunities days' hard labour in default by Mr.exercise is the cure for all the fils exactly what you wish. Your body it cnn Sir Willians long. Obey those messages, offered by the seaway are obvious, Schollell at the Central Pailce Court 10 which the flesh is heir. Neither, is sending you messages all
this morning. His Worship remark- may add,
obonds you a message in the morning There is now a bottle neck between that the fire hydrants had to be Arbuthnot Lane, who once Lake Ontario and Montreal which left alone.
served to me that with holds track the 100,000,000 to 150,-
many Englishmen exercise An overdose of Adalin poison was fetish, Well, isn't it? 000,000 ton of freight annually
enormous cats ou A cits man taken by an unknown Chinese aged borne on the lakes ou the one side about 20 years whilst occupying lunch and then takes the train to wo really know about. This is a from the traffic of all the seven seas and the ports of the world on the other. A twenty-seven-foot canal, as proposed, would join the two- would put. Minnesota on the sen- board and make Duluth a world port! It would, of course, havg equal advantages for Interior Canadian cities.
in now seriously
л
down
For, after all, the body is all
I do what my body want
incon-
om at the Luk Hoi Tung Boarding House of Connaught Road, yester golf-course where he violently world of clouds and dreams-Des- day. When his condition was dis-joggles his body up and
but even this apparently covered by inmates of the premises while glaring at a ball. The whole carts said think, therefore I am,"
the of his system-digestive, muscular trovertible philosophical assertion · he was instantly removed to Government Civil Hospital, where he and judging from his language has been contented. I should pre-
mental is subjected to a violent far to say, "I ache, therefore I am.'
He will observe blandly
And I know that 1-shall ache, unless The palice are searching two shop strain.
And so. fukis of the Lai Lung firm, of 7 that he is able to eat a "hearty
are lunch chuse he is playing golf will you. Des Voeux Rund Central, who
i prefer to ent 11 alleged to have absconded yesterdny afterwards. morning with 4,200 taels of silver, light funch and sit down. to the total value of $0,000. The two men had been detailed by the master of the shop, to take delivery of two ancks of silver from the ss. Charlen Hardouin which was lying alongside
Po Tak Wharf."
the
14
If you use a thing a great dent Diet and Exercise
-a tie, or a motor, or a body-it wears out. That is the obvious! truth that none of the exercise
A most attractive programme has finds seem to realise. Occasion- ben arranged for the open-air con- tally one reads in the preas of some fer to be given at the China Light seventy-year-old peer who alarms and Power Recreation Club enclosure his family by plunging into at p.m. to-morrow. The full marine lakes on Chistmas day, or some band of H.M.S. Cornwall will be in aged witch of a hunting woman attendance, and other contributors to
Icy
Bu
for City Men
By WALTER M: GALLICHAN
The question of costs is of course an intricate one. Un- doubtedly, much of the outlay would be met by the generation of power. The rapids of the St. Law- rence offer an inexhaustible supply of energy, for which there will be a growing demand. On the, other hand, it is likely that some of the hopes held out, for farm relief to interior wheat regions from access to export markets have been ex- ggerated, not through any fault of the proposed seaway, but be cause of the world glut of grain which may permanently outwist Bales of American wheat on Euro- pean markets. Modern estimates ---even the most enthusiastic-pf the usefulness of the proposed waterway might err on the side of understatement. Once unlock the
The following cable at the closel
The whole thing is entirely per-into offices and warehouses.
To keep well, the city man should interior American continent with a of the sugar market yesterday sonal. Your body is as individual liquid key and the imagination is has been received by Messrs. Pen-a thing as your mind. I found that spend most of his week-ends out of hard pressed to grasp the possibili-treath and Co.
ties..
Japan's New Government.
The formation of 12 National
the programme will be Mrs. P. St. A who bounces about on bays at an Sharpham, Mr. C. Reg. Anderson nage when she would be better em- Mr. V. C. Labrum, with Mr W. R.ployed in writing cheques for her to health.
grandchildren. Fleming as neconspanist, -
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a surching examination of for- eign policy as the first article in the prograiume for tackling the national crisis. Leading person- alities of both the Seiyukai and the Minseito parties have been invited to co-operate and the out-plore the excesses of Japan's mili- Reading between the lines, It is look is more hopeful now than it tary forces and are resolved to clear that the St. Lawrence water-
has been, There is, however, no end their domination over govern- way project negotiations between
sign of a check on the lack of co-mental policy. They must own Canada and the United States are ordination between the military responsibility for past mistakes of not proceeding so smoothly as wand vil branches of the Govern their war makers; but they hoped would be the case. Indeed,ment and unless this is done, the make themselves responsible in the Ottawa newspapers bint thathunders of the last few months future for peacemaking. the scheme is being held up pend- ing the results of the Canadlanmay he tragically repeated. Japan- is now engaged in eampaign protest against America's, proposal which is overtaxing the resources to impose practically prohibitive of the forces in Manchuria-all tariffs against certain Canadian the result of this anomalous relic products. Whilst the deepening of the Shogunate-and it is the of this great waterway should be taste of Viscount Saffo to seek a of untold benefit both to Canada
way out. There is a growing rest- and the United States, the projectlessness at the mounting costs of has been subjected to, some the adventure, in addition to which
parts of criticism in certain
Japan is more aware of world dis- Canada, where it has been anggent-approval. Unfortunately, even the ed that it will mean the exposingiberal elements in Japan are of Canada's lifeblood to intensified bound by the fact that what men American trade. That view, how strangely call "national honour"
become ever, by no means represents the n
involved. Japan bulk of Canadian opinion. It is, has a military tradition which
only Lpetinps none the less, hot surprising to
major mis- learn that the scheme should betary disaster will cure. But there used as a means of securing more is good evidence that the Japanese favourable trade consideration people as a whole had no intention from the United States.
df embarking on the military ad- This St. Lawrence scheme has venture which began at Mukden.
a
long been on the tapis. A decade As the Japanese army swept 'ago the engineers of the two Gov-through Manchuria it swept away ernmenta made their report to the the Shidekara policy and the Go International Joint Commissionvernment which had supported it. "that the physical conditions are And in the process it repeatedly favourable for improvements for falsified pledges which civillan off- navigation which will be permanent cinis had made.
Thus it not only and will have very low upkeep hooked the world, but built up a costs." In 1922, the American distrust of Japanese. itatesmen section of this same commission re- and purposes. The Japanese people commended to Congrene that" the to-day must realise that their army Governments of the, United States has brought on them a discredit and Canada enter into ate arrango- which no face-saving will wipe out. ment by way of treaty for a schemo The best way for them to rehabili of improvements of the St. Law-tate their country in the eyes of renco River between Montreal and the world is to show by their atti- Ontario. Two years later the tude and endeavours that they de-
USINESS men living in large cities, are handicapped and threatened by constant risks A dense population has always a high rate of disease and the town-dweller But these are the exceptions to mortality, and
microbes the general rules Do you know the needs a vigorous power of resist
the ance against the longest-lived profession in world, according to statisties? The bacteria that menace him. Forty judiciary. And judges take a per cent, of the sunlight over many minimum of exercise. There is one towns is obstructed by a pall of know who would be a good deal smoke and vapour, and the essential ultra-violet rays cannot penetrate better for kome on a treadmill.
and
out at the age of three when I auf doors, for he needs fresh air and fered excruciating torments by get-exercise to counteract the stuffiness ting sand between my fingers. The of the office and the ill effects of a whole of my small skin used to go sedentary occupation. Without be goosey Nobody understood, but coming a faddist, it is not difficult It was a very genuine pain, which to follow a daily regimen of health that will mitigate the common in- lasts to this day
juries to the system that life in a
Melbu could not eat a pear, be- cause it gave her a cold in the lead, (This was not a joke, nor a piece
crowded town involves,
The daily strain, in niany inst
1 hurried
of affectation on her part. It was auces, begins with
a medical fact). There used to be breakfast and a rush to the station or omnibus. It is not a loss of time a don ut. Cambridge who
In the
atc 2
tablespoonful of earth out of hirt, linger over a meal.
luncheon hour the busy man should
not discus a business deal while
dismiss
garden every night.
· Lady Mendl (whom you know eating. He should forgather with better by the name of Elsie de cheerful friends who can Wolfe) stands on her head every business matters at men! times, day before breakfast. I have seen Light Meals.
her do it, at parties, She is not a On the all-important question of young woman, but she has the body diet for acdentary workers it is Sapper. Elsa wise to consider personal idiosyn- and energy of Maxwell, the greniest giver of parties that Paris has ever seen that the wear and tear of office work erasy. But it should be granted tried standing on her head, too, and is of a very different character from strained her heart,
the labour of a navy. The tendency to obealty common among middle- ayed elty men is the result in eight cases out of ten of over-eating and. insufficient physical exercise.
"Can I be of any assistance? I'm à doctor's wife."
Persons who tako little exercise cannot digest and assimilate a large amount of carbohydrate or starch- food. The sendentary require a ight protein dlot, a moderate quan- tity of meat once a day, fish, eggs, a regular supply of vitamin-provid- ing green salads, tomatoes, and fresh fruit,
The output of nervous energy in. modern elty life is increasing year by year. Hasto and hustling are factors of the neurotic disordore from which a vast number of us suffer in these days. The nolue and the constant bustle of town life are n severe tax on the, senges and the nerves, quite apart from the mutual strain of business.
The city man'a evenings and. lelauro hours should be spont whenever possible in quiet recreu-- tion, which diverts the mind from bunines worrice. For the nerve- strained, extra hours spent in sleep at the end of the week will be timo well spent!
ATO
The following forthcoming weddings
innounced-Reinaldo
Carlon
Danenberg, of the Far Eastern Avin- tion Co., living in Liberty Avenue, Homuntin, to Carolina Autha dá Cruz, of 1, Middle Road, Kowloon; Emost Wong, of 727, Nathan Road, greund' door to Lily Loy, of 774, Nathan Rond, second floor; and Ma Ngai-man, of the Industrial and Commercial Bank, living at 04, Wellington Street, ground floor, to Chu Kakan, of 18, Wing Wah Lane, frat floor.