"HE-MEN" DO GET COLDS
SPARTAN LIFE NO SAFEGUARD
U.S. TEST OF 300. PEOPLE THE regime of the "he-man"-cold haths, open windows, outdoor exercise, light clothes in the severest weather does nothing to harden him against the common cold.
This is the verdict resulting from a large-scale investigation by American medical scientista.
More than 300 people were observed for 35 weeks from September to May for cold attacks,
But some were
They were of both sexes and of varying ages. Spartan and others led a more normal life-warm baths, plenty
of clothes, and so on.
And there was no appreciable
difference in the Incidence of
cold among them.
The matter is of
far-reaching
FOUR MOST
interest, for doctors are daily GLAMOROUS
questioned as to the advisability
of employing the cold bath system of hardening both adults
children.
and
unsuited to the
Most people are rigorous change of dally habit which those who advocate this system im- pose on its devotees.
While many are not ill-affected, a consklerable number feel less fit.
A prominent Harley-street phy. sician said that he had maintained "thin cold bath businces In
WOMEN
AND ONLY ONE IN HOLLYWOOD
Hollywood, Apr. 1. There are only four glamorous women in the world, and only one in Hollywood, Bronx-cheered Elsa Maxwell, and duchess of Manhattan, said on leaving, this "People who take cold batha film capital for New York, have the temperature of their
nonsensical.”
body reduced and in that condi-
Lion
colda."
are more susceptible to
Declaration Of Accession By King Edward
WHEN IT WILL BE MADE
America's No. 1 party girl named them:
Marlene Dietrich, Hollywood. Mrs. Harrison Williams, New York.
The Hon. Mrs. Reginald Fellowen, l'arix,
Lady Diana Duff-tanner, London, Elsa plumped her round person in the corner of a white leather lounge in the Beverly Hills home of her hostess, Countess Dorothy Di Frasso, drained a draught of Coca Cola, and gibed that the glamour of film sirens exists chiefly in the imaginations of movie press ngents.
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Garbo's "Common" Quality
King Edward is expected to
"Greta Garbo glamorous? Ha, subscribe to the Accession De-never." she boomed in her deep voice: "A great actress of course, claration, which the law requires but hardly human. the Sovereign to make, at the "Glamour is not so common a opening of a new session of Par-quality. It is a mixture of genius liament next autumn.
and childishness, sex and simplicity. humour and sorrow, mystery and fraukness.
This is the oath which ensures the maintenance of the Protestant faith by the Crawn.
"Try to name some others.... Carole Lombard? Claudette Col- Katherine The law requires that the de-bert? Joan Crawford" claration should be made by the Hepburn? Grace Moore? They Sovereign on the day of the meeting have sex, certainly humour, genius, possibly, but of the first Parliament after his perhaps _accession,_or__at his Coronation, Glamour, No.” whichever comes first.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY,
Here is Sheik Quraishi, shown in his native robes, In the London laboratory where he blends perfumes of the east for the ladies of the west. Sheik Jaint has brought his scents and their recipes 12,000 miles from Mecer. He can tell any of the hundreds af different scents by their smell. His nose, or rather his sense of
smell, has been insured for several thousand pounds.
MARY PICKFORD BELIEVES IN
'LIFE BEYOND'.
-She Tells Why In New Book
APRIL 14, 1936.
What It Is Like To Freeze
SCIENTIST TELLS OF
; HIS TESTS
Birmingham, Apr. 1..
A scientist who, has reproduced on himself the sensations of a lost polar explorer, of an Everest climber and of a man approaching death by suffocation came here to deliver the Huxley Lecture at Birmingham University to-day.
He is Sir Joseph Barcroft, the Cam- bridge physiologist, and ho spoke of the effects of these and other experl- ments on the human minul. Sir: Joseph maintained that man is only) what he is because the conditions of
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than those of any other living crea- ture, and that the most essential effect of any serious change in environment in a dulling of the higher faculties. Even mountain sickness and the delu- slona, nervousness, and irritability produced by changes in conditions were really dinorders of the central nervous system.
SPECIAL CHAMBER
Sir Joseph's self-freezing experi ment was undertaken in a special cold chamber at the Woods Hole Labora tory in Massachusetts. "A moment esme," he stated, "when I stretched out my leg the sense of enliness passed away; it was succeeded by a beautiful feeling of warmth. The word "bask" most fitly described my condition. I was basking in the cold. What had taken place, I suppose, wa
that my central nervous system had the fight, and that the blood
ISS MARY PICKFORD, the first "world's sweet-fevered to that Mheart of the films, and former wife of Mr. Douglas Fairbanks sen., has written another book.
It is 6,000 words long; follows her first book, "Why Not Try God?"; is called "Why Not Look Beyond ?"; demonstrates her be lief in life after death, her faith in God, her design for happy living, and is on sale to-day.
She recalls when her mother and her brother, Jack Pickford-"two of the people i loved best in this world" died: how at first she was plunged into despair; how simply, by gaining faith in God and in her. content and happy. self, she emerged from her sorrow
'Thinking Kindness' Here are characteristic anges:-
pas-
God wouldn't make each of us a unique personality distinct from each other as our finger-prints are just to wipe us out in a few brief years. He wouldn't destroy the lov- ing work of ills hands. That hori- zon we label extinction is a thing! we only imagine-any horizon is n place we never reach.
•
-Don't blame God-becausewe.don't] know how to use what He has pro- vided for us.
When wo stop: running around in circles and turn Him for guidance, when we start thinking kindness instead of hate, this! He'll show 108 tven, how
har- economic confusion can be monised.
Lo
Elsa was willing to recede from her position that "there are Misunderstanding has arisen on gentlemen in Hollywood," which this subject through an impression created a furore some time ago. "Of course there are gentlemen that the Accession Council of the Privy Council on Jan. 21, the day in Hollywood," she exploded. "Basil Cesar following the death of King George, Rathbone is a gentleman. was the appropriate occasion for Romero is another, and much good them. It takes too making the Declaration. Some may it do Privy Councillors actually came damned much time to be a gentle- away from the Council In the be- man, and I'm glad people are are analytical. Thus: "Man is a progressive spirit. And though lief that they had heard the King beginning to realize it." repeat the words of the Oath. Elsa, who left her thumb-print the Divine spark was always in The King on that occasion took on post-war America" by throwing him, the cave man started from a an Oath for the security of the parties instead of giving them, pretty low state of understanding| Scottish Church.
says she can't understand why to climb to his present manhood. people are interested in what she
As Parliament will probably thinks, but she is always willing to have begun a new session before tell them in so many words.
the Coronation takes place next year, it is expected that the De-j claration will be "made, subscribed and audibly repeated" by King Ed-{ ward when he opens that session.
Love Letters to be Buried in Coffin
ERNEST
Good Enemies
The last few pages of the booki
'Far From Perfect'
"It is still a state that is far from perfect. Which is the best reason I can offer why God wouldn't dos- troy us. Ile is a just God.
And
"Why not?" she growled. "A
He is certainly, going to give every good enemy is just as valuable as one of un a chance to prove the a good friend." Unexpectedly, she is willing to admit that Hollywood Powers still latent within us....
"It is not what happens to us is at last socially adult
that matters. It's how we react to "For ten years it was just a ench experience." money-making_merry-go-round, but movio people have learned at lust how to have a good time.
"There is one important distinct- ion between Hollywood and New York society. It is a soclety of men, women. Hollywood men are
MWINDOVER, of LAWRENCE for superior to their women.
"But people in pictures are resi avenue, Muswell H, N., Joint managing director of Windevers, and amusing, far more so than the Ltd., who died on January 22, aged oil, and gold and steel millionaires 74 years, left £15,788.
who hide away in Santa Barbara
He desired to be buried in stand Pasadena and look down their Marylebone Borough Cemetery, in fastidious noses at the movies. his late wife's grave, and that the "I was invited to some of their love letters written to hint by his partica, but didn't go. I wife and "mine to her, which I have they would be so dul: I'd be bored to (preserved," be placed in his coffin. donth."-United Press.
Reprieved Woman Dies In Gaol
know
A63-YEAR-OLD woman, who last October was sentenced to death for murder and was later reprieved, has died in Holloway Prison, London.
She was Mrs. Edith Mills; of Blackburn, who was sentenced to death for the murder of a three-year-old giri.
The child was murdered at Blackburn on June 30, 1935, and both Mrs. Mills and her husband, John Henry Mills, were convicted and sentenced to death for the crime.
The conviction of Mr. Mills was quashed by the Court of Criminal Appeal, but his wife's appeal was dismimand."
prieve.
A few days later the Home Secretary recommended her, re,
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Budapest
MARY PICKFORD
Faith Made Her Happy
STAINLESS
returned to my skin and gave thei
ences
when one goca out of a cold storage room into ordinary air.
"I suppose that had the experiment not ended at that point my tempera- ture would have fallen rapidly-that I was on the verge of the condition of travelers when they go to sleep in extreme cold never again to wake."
DULLING OF MIND
Describing oxygen want, he told how, when riding a test bicycle in an atmosphere mostly consisting of nitro- gren, he had found himself mentally incapable of turning the taps which would bring him oxygen and rollet. The interesting point about this ex- periment was that he could do what was necessary when instructed to do It by someone else.
He told, alan, of poor muscular co- ordination as shown in tennis when played at a 12,000 feet altitude, and of the pathetic "last messager" written by a former Inspector of mines when within 20 years of complete safety had he chosen at any time to walk that distance.
EVEREST FAILURES
On another occasion Sir Joseph was n-member of a party who were suffer- ing from mountain sickness. All of them were interested he explained, mountain in the connection between sickness and oxygen supply; all knew there was an abundance of oxygen cylinders near at hand, but thought of trying their effect.
no one
To this same dulling of the mind he attributed the failure of Dr. T. Long- staffe, the Himalayan explorer, to check on his nuke the necessary
surveying observations on the famous occasion when he believed that he had: found a peak near Everest which was higher than Everest itself.
STEEL
SHIPS ON THE
WAY
Sheffield, Apr. 1.
STAINLESS steel ships and stainless steel bridges have been brought within, the range of practical possibility by a now! manufacturing process.
The method has been invented by Mr. F. F. Gordon, a director of Spear and Jackson Ltd., of Sheffield, who claims that it will mean a 50 per cent, cut in stainless steel production costs.
The outstanding feature of the
invention, which has been patented
all over the world, is the production Suez Canal
of a cheap mild steel plate with a stainless vencer,
Saving Expense
And Use
It is claimed that but for the In War
necessity of allowing for corrosion,] Budapest, Apr. 1. the plates of ships could be made One of Budapest's nicest 20 per cent. thinner or even less statues, a life-sized bronze carrier, with consequent saving in gross was stolen recently from a public weight and increased carrying! park in a dark winter night.
capacity.
.....
Lord Cromer Explains To Americans
Panama, Apr. 1. The palloe believed it first the
are put to heavy
The Earl of Cromer, Britfah thieves to be a couple of young Shipowners lovers who might have taken the expense by having to send their Government director of the Suez statue as a weighty souvenir be-vessels repeatedly into dry dock for Canal Co., who is travelling cause the benches, surrounding the the removal of barnacles from the through the Panama Zone, replied to some pointed questions by water carrier, are a favoured spot hull. of rendezvous.
Experiments made are said to American journalists when he Thoy were, however, just or have proved that barnacles will not arrived here.
Ho said that the Suez Canal Co. dinary thieves, and obviously only adhere to stainless steel.
was not interested in the quantity in their trade, who beginners sawed the status to pieces which
of oll transported, but only In the they tried to sell to several smelter- The North's Oldest ownership of the carrying vessels. The Suez Canal is interna ies. There they aroused suspicion by thoir lack of knowledge about
tionally owned and theoretically never closed to ships of any nation the value of bronze and, therefore,
MR.:
JR. JOSEPH MYERS, of South at any time," he continued.
Shore, Blackpool, oldest Free-ballove this fact is little under- were caught eaally.....
The amateurs compare unfavour- ably with a bunch of car drivers mason in the North of England, was stood by the general public."
00 this month who, not long ago, in one night Among his treasured souvenirs is Lord Cromer leaves to-night for stole the pavement of a whole the tattered counterfoil of the ticket Southampton in the Canadian street and got away with their of admission to the first event-kopt Pacific: Her Duchess of Richmond cumbersomo booty-United Press,now for 60 years.
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