THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY,
JANUARY 2,
1936.
MORE BRITISH TRIPLETS AND QUADS NOW..your complexion stays
Science Investigates A Mystery Gland
MEDICAL experts and
scientists from seven- teen countries are in London -all to study one small gland, slightly larger than al
pea
It lies beneath the brain, where it is well protected by the skull from injury.
Although so amall. It has become recognised as the most important .gland in the body.
It controls growth, and is called.
the pituitary gland.
It creater piants or dwarfs, deter wines nez, and is, in fact, the king gland which keeps all others work- ing in tenison.
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POOLING IDEAS
These medical investigators- than 100 of them-attend lectures and pool their ideas and researches at the National Hospital, Queen's-square. Bloomsbury, the world's largest contre for the study and treatment of nervous diseases. They are learning, when the mystery gland breaks down, why;--
1 boy grows to be a man of im mengo 'height yet remains extremely weak;
The bones of the face, hands and feet of a man become abnormally i large;
A person broomce blind;
Girls never prate 1427.
They are also investigating the part this gland plays in fear com- plexes.
Forecast Of New Multiple Births For New Year
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THEY OCCUR
IN
CLES
16,000,000-TO-1 CHANCE
JORE TWINS, TRIPLETS EVEN QUADRUPLETS — ARE --EXPECTED TO BE BORN IN BRITAIN DURING THE NEXT FEW YEARS.
Multiple births occur, in cycles, and the world is at the begin- ning of one of them, a famous Harley-street doctor said,
Recent birth statistics reveal that Britain in particular is ex- periencing the full effect of the boom in multiple births.
Figures show that normally
only one mother in 10 millions
stands the chance of giving birth to quadruplets.
Yet within the past eight weeks two sets of "quads" have been born in England alone..
Walter The latest case, Mrs. Miles, of St. Neota, Huntingdon- shire, gave birth to three boys. nud a girl recently,
Her case follows "close-upoñ that of Mrs. Victoria Harms-
Juan Bennett and George Raft use n Buick during eu important scene in worth, who gave birth to quad-
Wheir new co-starring film "She Couldn't Take It."
Sheik Of The Snows
Is Visiting England
Retainers of the Mir of Hunza, "Sheik of the Snows," have just arrived in London to prepare for their master's visit.
He arrives in January.
MORE BRITISH TOYS WERE SOLD
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TO EMPIRE THIS CHRISTMAS
POP-EYE
TORE British toys were sold for Christmas,
M 185, ever before in the Empire,
and even among foreign nations.
One of Britain's leading toy manufacturers explained the reason,
"British-made toys are more attractive, .more ingenious and better finished than those of the majority of their foreign competitors," he said.
"They are also being produced in quantities which enable them to compete in price with foreign rivals.
"But British superiority is still most mark- ed in the better quality toys and novelties."
Before Christmas orders for thousands of pounds' worth of toys were received from the Dominions, France, Holland, Spain and South America
COW
C719
Soon the Mr will leave his great castle on "The Roof of the World" in the corner of Hin-
dustan where India, Russia, and China meet-for his long journeysl He will leave behind him in the castle his harem of blue-eyed the all Practically blondes, people of his kingdom are blue- eyed and .fair-haired.
On Silver Jubilee Day the Mir
ruplets in a London hospital in October.
Unfortunately two of her babica afterwards died.
Triplets are being born by the thousand, quadruplets are becom ing a commonplace.
"Canada has been getting Ngh ly excited over her 'Quins added the doctor, "but the honour of being the world's record-holder Mexican woman.
motherhood must go to
Shell They Used as Hammer Kills Boy
Aveklund (N. Z.), Dec. 19. A "harmles" shell, which dar. ing 10 years had been red for hammering pure atulien, ani ather add jobs, and submerged for laup period under water cr ploded and killed an eight-pear- old boy who dropped it."
The shell had been lying almul the boy'a tome for 10 years.- Reuter,
three sets is unequalled as far as I know."
RECORD YEARS
The years 1890 to 1899 showed a cycle of multiple births in this that period country. During there.wore 36 recorded instances of quadruplets.
Yet in the 20 years, 1912 to 1931, only 15 mothers had quad-
Aruplets.
"We cannot explain these mark- "In the course of ten yearsed rises and falls," an official of she gave birth to two sets of the Royal College of Surgeons quintuplets *** then
followed said. "Birth of quadruplets is a that up with triplets.
problem which has bafiled gynaeco- "Her record of 13 children in logists, for years."
became a British protege, at his "In Addis Ababa Square"
own request. The Union
Jack
was hoisted by a solitary political officer on his castle without any sort of ceremony.
The thing the Mir will find most difficult about in England is food.
been
The staple diet of his country and his favourite dish is buried butter-butter which has buried under the snow-covered soil for about twenty-five years.
When it is dug up it looks like a brick and tastes like rancid i cheese.
Golden Hours
How quickly, they pass those happy hours of early Motherhood! bow pleasant their memory now! And how wise you were to feed your little one on something that made his Health and Happiness sa definite and indisputable-something pure and wholesome-something he loved-It was Cow & Gate.
GATE
"The Best-filk for Babies when Natural Feeding Fails".
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ITALY IS SINGING
ITS TIPPERARY"
Rome, Dec. 24.
ROME is singing to-day; singing the songs of war,
of conquest, of victory.
Italians are certain their troops' are march- ing to a triumph. This is the song they sing, the "Tipperary" of Italy at war:
In Addis Ababa' Square,
Som we'll all be there,
And as for the Negus, If he won't leave us,
We'll string him up. by his
hair.
Addis Ababa is the Italians' goal, and if their cry is not exactly "Addis Ababa by Christmas," is certainly is "Addis Ababa by the spring."
nor the official denials .Glowing descriptions of the roports
published in the Italian campaign from the Italian cor- were respondents with the armies are newspapers..
Now there is silence. "We are splashed every day on the front
Any more pages of the newspapera with the not going to issue official communiques, which daily donials to Abyssinian communi achieve the feat of saying nothing ques," officials at the Italian
Foreign Office said to-day. and saying it optimistically.
War with all its superficial glamour-the life of the troops, their courage and enthusiasm-is extolled and magnified thou- sand times.
The Italian armies are ad
"All reports from Abyssinia are lies, and it is not worth while bothering any more about them. We are pushing ahead and winning this cam- paign: that is all there is to
vancing, every Italian will tell it." you-Adown, Aksum, Makale---For a "campaign"-the-Italians "In Addis Ababa Square, Soon refuse to call it a We'll' All Be. There."
war-oven
The B victorious "campaign," the interminable refrain drones on casualty list is miraculously your ears from morning to small... night.
"MINOR PROBLEM" ··
£50,000,000 SPENT Official figures published this month give the Italian losses dur- Occasionally a thinking man or ing the month of November as: officers, three privates, two stops for a moment and pon- Four dera. He may oven take a map thirty-five labourers. The official from January 1 of-Abyssinin in his hand and grand total
(which was long before hostililles oxamine it closely.
"Italian airplanes to-day bombegan) until November 30 le: 241 barded 'X he has just read. "But soldiers killed; 229 labourers dend our troops were supposed to have from various causes, taken "X" some woolta ago?" he These figures tell only of the pondera. Finding "nobody to whito men. There is no knowing answer his question, he stops the number of dead among the singing Italian native troops. No figures thinking, and starts
are published of the number of again.
wounded, or sick.
Continual reports from Addis Ababa appearing last week in the foreign. Press to the effect that the Italiana -haye been beaten back in the Ogaden region and also in the north, rumours of transport difficul ties, shortage of fuck, and sick- ness, were all officially denied in Rome."
But if the casualty list.is small the cost of the campaign is certainly not insignificant.
It is estimated that Mussolini. has so far spent three billion lire or £50,000,000 pinco hos tilities began. Make
Thus, the land which Mussolini has so far acquired in Abyssinia hás cost him roughly two thou- But neither the Abyssinian sand pounds per square miles.
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