THE
HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14,
193-4.
TRAINING. OF CHILDREN
Finger-Sucking Habit
"Discouragers,"
nu her book drops off for map, 1 should not says, are all right, that is, taking warry. The sky won't fall, Lots means to keep the hands away of babien do it and get over it and from the fure by lessening repeated although it isn't a very admirable or. habit for a child to grow up to, gestures. Using long sleeves inittens is recommended. Inifeed few do grow up to ft. The idea of it in advocated by the very best breaking the baby is to prevent the
habit from clinging. counsellors.
But there are times, as, in sum-! A young mother wants to know mer, when It is almost impossible what she'll do about four thumbs.to day this. And besides mothers Two belong to the baby and two toare im. young Elizabeth, sed nearly thren.
No one wants a greni bir child booking dumb and queer atanding about with his thumb where his langue ought to be.
KEEP HANDS OCCUPIED. Other discouragers" then inust
Elizabeth is at the getting-over- These thumb have a habit of be tried. Hands that are busy
It stage. She really should be over getting thoroughly, messaged in won't seek the mouth. Even a lit their small owners mouths. At the baby's hands can be occupied
care can be hurried by giving her lenat the baby's do. Elizabeth'a by safe toys, rattles, little rubber-bat-well, she isn't yet. The dolls, and such things. Also teamething to play with at bedtime only when she goes to sleep.
be o likely to suck his fing- "My book," gaya thus mother, he is interested in people or She can't bo nacked or shocked |
in
"tells me to in the baby's niplit- gown sleeves down over his hands, things moving about him. It or to put on small mittens. How the ionely baby in the lonely cradle can I do that in this weather? Her eart or play pen with nothing to no but lia or ait, who is going to doesn't wear a nightgown or dress and I haven't the heart to seek companionship in his thumb, put things on his hands."
There is no quick or mugle cure for thumb-sucking,
FORMED EARLY.
It is true, however, that the habit is formed in early babyhood and this is the time patiently persistently to discourage far are possible.
net
of it. The danger here is tion to it, or by diverting the habit rafting the habit by calling atton- into less admirable habits. Habits
Heldom successful. One mother ore peculiar. Drastic methods are minde her child look in the glasa every time. It might work with some children.
MAY GROW OUT OF IT. Of course, when he is very little The will sleep most of the time,
By the time he gets over this Something to do. This is the Tired enough sleepy stage he will be old enough great secret of cure.
to play with tiny toys and also to at bedtime to go right to sleep and
be interested in affairs about him.to avoid loneliness during the day.
If this baby continues to put his The very busy child has very few thumb In his mouth just botare head habits as a rule.
The desperate charge of these Austrian troops shows how the best stronghold of the recent Nazi uprising was stormed and taken. The acone was the railroad station at Lavantund, to which the Nazi starm troops had retreated.
BOY MEMBER OF "CRIME CLUB"
the provise that it is undesirable 40 HOURS WEEK NO that a pensioner should have a job for which a non-pensioner is equal CURE
ly fitted, mainly because his pen Ixion enables him to accept a lower
wake.
"WOMEN IN INDUSTRY.
Hanged After Reading | Opposed by League of
Sensational Books
ment."
Industry
Major William Kepner. and his companione narrowly escaped death when, while attempting to set a stratosphere flight record, their three-acre gna bag burst. The men leaped with parachutes and landed in a Nebraska farmyard.
ST. PAUL'S IN ITS HELLO, JAPAN!
OLD GLORY
Interior Of Dome Being Restored
A new grandeur has come to St. Paul's.
PHONE LINK WITH LONDON
London, Sept. 10.
When the final telephonic link between Britain and Japan, is com The work of cleaning the inside pleted within the next few weeks,
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OUR
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of the great dome in rapidly near-London will be able to claim the distinction of being the world's ing completion.
chief "Hello centre". It will then Already the interior of the be possible for King George's sub- cathedral Beems transformed; when jects ring up the international tubular exchange in London and ask to be one of 33 the Inst of the ugly scaffolding is removed the vast but through the 35
million out of the 36 million tele- cupola will be revealed in all its phone subscribers in the world. pristine whiteness.
In fact, the only countries The dust and grime which have equipped with telephone systems percolated into the building and with which there will be no direct Albania. The British Post offico The general eviction of women contaminated the white stonework connection will be China and from industry in order to replace of the dome throughout two
authorities are already experiment them by men la not favourably turice have heen removed.
ing over the possibility of connect- At an inquest at Dover on the
received by the Committee. "It is body of Samuel George Alfred Me-1
WOMEN'S RIGHT
The faded gilding at the base of ing up London and Pelping in the an impossible inconsistency," the
near future. They believe there Ghle. 16 of Clarendon Street, Dover, it was stated that the Intl.) "Not only do we nat recommend, Committee report, to say that was the pilasters around the Whisper-are no serious technical difficulties who was found hanging was aut rather we earnestly oppose, the men are capable of taking part in
ground of the niches in which stone speak-with-a-cruising: liner in the member of a "crime club" attached introduction of a 40 hour week as the Government of the country, but Gallery and the dulled back to hinder this as they were able to
of increasing employ are not capable of taking part in saints stand have been restored to harbour at Shanghai recently, to a library from which he borrow.
ja means
RN industrial its econemic life
their former glory with gold-leaf.
Attempts have also been made ed books.
Inter- Police-constable Horn suld that Surt is the conclusion of a com-workers. It is easy to say that a
Canon Alexander, treasurer of to bring Albania into the McGhie's 11-year-old sister told mittee appointed by the League of woman's place is in the home, but
marriageable age the driving force behind the so far without success, him that her brother was behind Industry to investigate schemes for there are, unfortunately, far more St. Paul's, who has been so largely national telephone family. though the cupboard door in his bedroom. the encouragement of employment. Isplusters of a
to be then there are bachelors to marry restoration and rebeautifying of
LONDON'S ROLE. The witness found the boy hanging The report, which is
the enthedral during the past few with a piece of thin rope round presented to the Malvern Con- them."
The Committee, however, recom-years, told ʼn Dairly Mail reporter:
London's "hello girls" at the his neck, one end treing fastened ference of the League In Septem-
international exchange are respon BEAUTY OF WREN'S DAY..
sible for putting through not only over the top of the door and held by ber, states that the replies to almond the raising of the school the door, which stopped it from questionnaire addressed la federa-leaving age to 15.
The only field in which the Com-
"The renovation of the nave and all the calls from Great Britain bul slipping. In the living room hegions and branches of the Legitter support any large increase the transepts, already carried out. in addition every call from coth found a novel about nightmares. throughout the country proved that j
Inspector R. E. Pay, of the Dover there was no general demand for an Government-directed activities worked wonders, but with the dome tinental Europe to North and South police, stated that he had examined reduction of the working week as is in respect of housing and slum restored to its old-time whiteness America, Asia, Australia and South the cathedral will resume the beau-Africa. Every time Cape Town the book and read a story. This a means of spreading employment. The Committee deny that tech-ty and magnificence of Sir Christo-rings up Cairo, Bombay or New York it has to put in the call told of ghost stories, and onded by In all replies from branches
through London. the uccupier of the house hanging where members were ungated inngical improvements crente un-pher Wren's day.
cployment. "Improved processcy." himself. Another story told of a
"Attempts were made in the past
Before the war the only coun- production for export it was em- case of an untimely death.
phatically stated that the increased they say, "do not in the long run
communication aucceeded only in leaving ugly telephonic The witness added that he found east ner unit of output, due tu as less employment, but create to redecorate the dome, but they tries with which Great Britain way
The Committee recommend that patches beside the newness. It France and Belgium, with that the boy was a member of what reduction in the working week was known as a "crime club" at-without reduction of wages, could when and where a competent took modern methods to remove all erratic service to Sweden. tached to a library from which the not be recovered in prices, and any group of expert industrialists can the traces of the dirt and gases
Owing to the immense volume of boy had a
week. There attempt to recover it would lose the give full proof that they can under which have blackened the stone." calls cleared through London datly were indentations on the top of the market and cause unemployment. take what, having regard solely lo
The topmost section of the dome and nightly there is a staff of 200 cupboard door, suggesting that With regard to other proposals business considerations, are likely
st. bears fine frescoes of the life of operators at the International tele-
(SEPTEMBER 9th to 15th INCLUSIVE) experiments had been made na to for bringing unemployed into work, to be profitable extensions of exist St. Paul, wrought at the time of phone exchange at Carter Lane, In what weight a rope would carry and the Committee reject the sugges. ing works .or the profitable its effect on the experimenter. tion that workers over: 65 or 60 establishment of new works, the Wren by Sir James Thornhill, but London. All the operators speak
Buent French and German, the TOMATO CATSUP "DEL MONTE" 14 oz. bot... Por bot. International telephonic languages The books with which the boy hand should be compulsorily evicted bringing together of idle capital long since blackened. been filling his mind confirmed his from industry in order that their and idle Inbour in a task in which "Attempts to renew these pic of the Continent. Some speak ASPARAGUS "CANFRU" No. 21⁄2 sq. tin ...... (the inspector's) theory that he had places may be filled by workers un- the Government could and should tures in the past were unsuccess several other languages as well.SAUREKRAUT "LIBBY" No. 21⁄2 1q. tin been experimenting, and the con- der these ages.” To be fair to take its part."
fel," said Canon Alexander. "Wo United Press. ditions auggested sudden impulse such workers the inducentent to Expressing approval of the experimented with a' newly devised rather than premeditation.
withdraw, by way of pensions, policy of the Government in re method some weeks ago and, It Dr. II. Stevens said that the would have to be fairly close up to iation to the building of the Cunar having proved satisfactory, the inspector's theory was borne out the wages which they could earn, der 534, the committee contend final work on the done, the reatora- by his own examination. He had and the cost would be far beyond that one of the things which the tion of Thornhill's work to its attended McGhie for small all the capacity of industry to carry Government can do is to raise original state, will begin this
money on the lowest possible terms, month." ments, and found him a normal. under present circumstances. healthy, nice lad,
The proposal that pensioners They hold the view that if eimilar Edmund Horace Marsh, manager should not be allowed to be employ-cases arise the procedent of 534 of the grocery stores where Me-ed in industry is also rejected, with should be followed. Ghlo worked as an assistant, said
book
that he was one of the smarest |
leds he had.
The Deputy Coroner (Mr. Rt. E. Pain) anid that the boy apparently obsessed with the books he had read, and particularly with the Incident of the man hanging himself. He had possibly tried to experiment on the same tines. The jury might have Home observa- tions to make for the public good as to the too-enay way in which boys could get hold of the type of books referred to.
The jury returned a verdict of "Death by. Miondventure." They added in rider advising young people
to refrain from reading such types of novel, and appealing: to parents to restrain their children
their homes.
elaxrance.
more."
were
an
SURGERY HERO'S
POST
The dome is expected to be finally Gave Minor An Artificial
restored by October,
Pânt ita big guns lumbering.toward.
Windpipe
Mr. G. Groy Turner, Professor of Surgery in the University of Durham, has been appointed to the University Chair of Surgery (British Post-Graduate Medien! School), at London University.
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