THE HONGKONG Telegraph, TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1936.
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drinks four, Another cup, "Same again
glasses of beer a
week, five cups of ten a day.
The beer costs an average of ignorance of the food value' of
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cent.
drinks
to
The British Empire produces
As yet it is difficult to gauge fivepence each glass, the tea alcohol, and consequent over 70 per cent, of the world's ten the effect of the recent extra tax
consumes 75 per on tea, but it is expected one-eighth of a penny a cup, nourishment, Alcohol is a food exports, and
Thirty-one barrels of beer and is oxidised in the body like cent, of which Grent Britain affect the quality rather than and 170,000 cups of tear are carbohydrates, such as sugar or accounts for more than 50 per the quantity of consumption. It will counteract the recent rise streamlined appearance of the drunk in England every minute starch.
"Alcohol has the power of new. Studebaker truck makes of the year.
London is the world's largest in the sales of better class tens stand out from the
Plenty of nonsense is talked stimulating the creative power tea market. Sixty per cent. of due to increased purchasing
all tea exports (roughly 550,- power.
It is estimated that the extra crowd. With its sleek, busi- about the harm caused by alco- of the brain.
But it cannot make sense 900,000lbs.) are brought to Lon: 2d. a pound tax will increase the ness-like lines and powerful,hoi in beer and tannin in tea.
There is no harm in either where there is none. It can don, either to be re-exported or dependable engine. it is a truck for a normally constituted per only cause the brainless man to to be put into bonded ware revenue from $4,077,000 to near- you will be proud to own, a truck son who knows when to stop. If be jolly, the dullard to be bovine- houses. which inspires a feeling of pres-you drink too much water or ly happy.
More than eighty different
THE number of It helps the talented to use tige that suggests a price much lemonade you suller for it.
Mincing-lane. They fetch from public house their gifts, and hides from kinds of tea are auctioned at higher than its actual cost.
others their lack of them.
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TUESDAY, AUG. 4, 1934,
THE ROLE OF THE
AIRSHIP
WE E drink beer and
PROBABLY the
SELLING
ly £8.000.000,
ik decreasing steadily. In 1881 there were 106,941, or one for every 242 ELLING tea is a persons. Last year there were 76,310 in England and Wales, or funny business. Englishmen to one for every 530.
about to care inch
In 1881 there was an off- not seem
Int West Ireland licence for every 1,524 persons. quality.
sants buy the finest "golden in 1931 there was only one to bud" at 58, 64, a pound. Scots every 1,835. and Southern Welsh pay almost
2
But our beer consumption rosas
Last year one investigator announced that a man of aver
Ale, formerly beer without about 9d. to 8s. a pound. age weight (11st. 1 h.) could drink forty-three cups of tea a hops, was used from earliest day without harm. The corres- time as a natural substitute for in countries where the ponding allowance for a woman wine WHIS thirty cups. Tibetans grape did not flourish.
Private home brewing fell in- drink fifty to eighty cups a day.
to disuse less than a hundred years ago. Despite the conven- tional wiseerneles, modern far
is a great im- tea because they are stimulants. tory-made heer
as much.
8 per cent. in 1934, another i Tea contains xanthin, a sub- provement.
Time was when infants were Every part of the country has per cent. in 1935. Even so, stance which seems to satisfy
0151 beer. Their different water and needs auit there is no comparison between up some hidden human cravingg. 1 brought i found in nearly every na- chances of survival were 1 in abk blends. Eighty per cent, our 1935 consumption of 12.8
and 50.
of the teas sold are blends or gallons per head and the 1900 1+2 tional beverage; in
of from 10 20 level of 32.2 gallons. Until the introduction of ten mixtures coffee as caffeine, in CocoR as
In 1934 Great Britain was theobromine, in Central Africa's coffee, and coena beer was used, growths,
Some Time ago 20,000 people third in the list of beer-produc kola nut. in Brazil's guarana It was taken at all meals and in
large quantities.
were asked when they liked in countries, making half ns paste.
much as U.S.A., two-thirds as drinking tea best,' An ordinary cup of tea con-
much as Germany. Of each 1s. Lains about per cent, caffeine.
Women prefer times up to
spent on mild draught ale 4.4d. CUN- mid-afternoon. Men voted inore It is a stimulant which increases
tea advertisement Was the activity of the higher as first
for tea-time and later. Nearly goes in duty. Last year
toms and Excise collected £58,- Thomas Garway's in the Mer- half the people tested liked a 6.114 in beer duty, equal to well as the lower centres.
eup of tea before breakfast het- The continued success of the Excessive.tra drinking affects curing Politicus in 1658.
more than 8 per cent, of our total tax revenue. tiraf Zeppelin and the Marshal the stomach, produces insomnia, excellent drink, called by the ter than at any other time.
workers like Agricultural lastnightmare, extreme physical de- Chinese teha, by other
Brewers are supposed to make Vern Ilindenburg the
pression.
tions tay, alias te," could then named recently established
their tea best in the early fabulous fortunes (and indeed As to alcohol, insurance tables' be bough! for four guineas a morning and at tea-time. Indus- they do not do so badly), but it world record for the returu
that excessive drinkers pound. Journey across the Atlantic show
That was China tea. The first trial workers pay more atten- would nut be possible to lower moderate than
tion
mid-morning. mid- the price of beer without a re- jagain raises the question of the die
evening mission of duty. afternoon, and late value of the airship for long-drinkers, who live as long na consignment of ludian ten ar- 1839 and rived in London in
CUJA.
To reduce the price from 5d. distance trans-oceanic air trans-total abstainers.
A moderate amount of alcohol fetched £350 for 300lbs.
We have been drinking more to 4d. would mean a reduction port. it was in 1919 that Ger-
in its early days ten was made {mming produced her first post-helps digestion by facilitating
used 446.2 million pounds of tea amount in all to some £25,000,- the absorption, Too much harms the in little half-pint pois about the tea for some time past. We of 248. a barrel, which would war commuvial airship. Bodensee, which in ninety-eight digestion by causing congestion size of an orange.
Today British ten growing is in 1936 as against 435.7 million 000, and this could not be pro- of pounds in 1934. Last January vided out of normal brewery [days carried out over a hundred of the stomach lining.
£100,000,000 by Drinking water in excess is backed
drank 39,402,353lbs. as profits. scheduled flights between Fried.
of the world's we bad. Drinking too much beer capital, is one richshafen and Berlin. Then the Inter-Allied Control Com. or milk is worse, because of largest food industries, con- against 38,874,921lbs, in Janu-
A pint of stitutes 1 per cent. of the entire ary 1935. mission stepped in and ordered their food value. the airship to be delivered to beer has the food value of two merchandise of the world.
slices of bread. taly. In time, the interdict on German airships was removed, and Dr. Eckener. left with empty sheds and no money. gout, and heart troubles, more
a
sooner
CORPULEN
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S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd. cceeded in collecting two mit frequent among drinkers than
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Handwriting And Character
NOTES OF THE DAY hurls; the shape, size, and lines
characteristica.
Chesterton, both write beautifully SECRETS OF GRAPHO-ing poets, Humbert Wolfe and G.
and artistically. LOGY REVEALED
The Countess Elleen D'Armil (An expert graphologist, who has also made a close study of palmis try).
Actresses generally write the type of exaggerated hand which indicates
a desire to impress. An exception
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lion marks, with the result that abstainers, are largely due to the Graf Zeppelin was built. second ship, the Marshal
JUST as shape, size, and lines of the Hindenburg, is now in service.
round the eyes and mouth, can tell a and a third will be launched
It is noteworthy, in At long last scientific recogni-Tudot many things hidden from the next year.
to be found in the lovely, clear, well- this connection, that all this has tion is being given to-human baruninitiated or casual observer, so also mėlers. Their importance in the can the handwriting reveal certain
controlled writing of the inimitable been accomplished without sub-cheme of meteorological forecast- Many
Many years ago, whra 1 was only
Ellen Terry. sidy. Seventeen years aging was brought up at the Interno years old, it was discovered that
A Sixth Sense Britain was the first to fly an national Congress of Physica! I was clairvoyant. I was the seventh
Can you determine the age, sex, Attonchild of the seventh child. and their writing that they are nervous airship to America and back: Medicine, held in London,
It! and erratic. Very nervous people profession, or pusilion in life of the then this historical craft, the tion was directed to persons who family called me the "fair witch."
wriler have frequently been ask-
as well as being t Old-fashioned and narrow-minded ed. Yes, for R31, was scrapped. Nine years are aware in no uncertain man-was not, however, until after the War serm to write away from the paper.
when I was employed by the Rhine- innd High Commission in Coblenz aa taler, the first German airship her" of the electrical changes pre-
ceding a thunderstorm and
man, and English, that I discovered Itimes out of ten the sportsman writes voyant, and naturally having deye- in 1930 the British R. 100 few metric pressure.
Dr. E. R. Collis was gifted at caligraphy, and could, with a big, strong fist. Mean people loped a sixth sense, I can even sco to Canada and back. This lat- Hallowes says that so far doctors by the quality and character of hand- usually leave no margin. The methodi more than the formation of the let Investigations have, however, proved know what the writer was cal leave the same spacing and Lers indicated.
generally make a big difference be ter craft had the speed and are practically in the dark about writing,
tweers their up-strokes and down that a certain type of writing is a carrying capacity of the present the reason why people should know like and his vocation in life.
Frequently, when I was handed 4 strokes. The extravagant write freure indication of a certain type of day Marshal von Hindenburg,uch things in advance. Another lettre, I would state to the orderly quently with a sprawling hand; the character. And as we can alter our
thing medical science does. not but after making one tran know is why some people should who gave it to me something about emotional write with large loops and handwriting, so we can most assured- ly alter character-surmount defects oceanic light she was sold as be sensitive dietetically to a piece the person who wrote it. I was in writing wide apart
weakness are natural to the type to which it be variably correct. The most dieult
Mental and mara! read; scrap for £450. But the Ger-of white egg which many others handwriting I can. perhaps shown in the handwriting and are longs. If we try and eventually auc- mans have still carried on with would not notice.
having learn to read German script very often the cause of a firm not ceed in correcting the defects in our accepting your services when you handwriting, showing moral, intel- the airship, and the record of Dr. Hallowes spoke of rheumatic when young has helped.
The real test of the quality of answer in advertisement, a clever lectual, and emotional inferiority, we your ourselves will be influenced for the the Marshal von Hindenburg subjects who, if they go to the definitely shows that this form seaside, suffer from aches and handwriting is the way people write graphologist has told what
walks of
have characteristic An interest in handwriting should write "their best" so to speak. to
in all circles." To-day of transport can be made a pay-pains, while other, sufferers, from habitually, when they are not trying character reflects; Geniuses in all better, and to a very great extent.
-un- How do you generally write? Is it handwritings. Many people of great be aroused ing proposition, even without rheumatism will be equally
comfortable inland. Apparently
write slowly?
and ability have had illegible hands. Leukenligraphy and conversation are both habit to State aid. A British authority the subject of climatology has been aboriously or rapidly and Is at Napoleon's, Beethoven's, Nelson's. almost lost arts. The telephone has on the subject states that the nerected, and no one knows why your hand difficult
Our late King George had a very nfected the former, radio the latter. decipher or is
easy-to-read, characteristic handwrit- How often we have a chat over the Jairship is an essential craft for it is that there are "hyper-sens it graceful and legible?
phane, whereas formerly we would long-distance ocean flights, the tive" people who only "really live"
How are your letters formed; of the ing. I rend a leller he wrote to an German flights having definitely at particular times of the year or same size, well joined together into artist about some pictures and I was have written an interesting letter
Are the words distinctly and eatly interested in the clearness and a letter that we could have had a shown that the experimental in particular places. Seemingly words?
but many times and kept and re-read stage has been passed. Nego-othing can be learned about this evenly spaced, the lines straight or ability of character portrayed in Ifis great joy in reading not only once
The occupation you pursue has in years to come.
The radio may have taught us much through experiments on normal shunting upwards at the end of the Majesty's hand. tiations now taking place. in: people in laboratories; that will line? Is the direction of your writing deed, show that within the next not explain the reason
consistent, whether slanted or up-reat influence on your handwriting. for the right Are the capitais in the right In fact, so strong is this influence and distracted us from our cares, but ten years German, American, sensitiveness of abnormal people. proportion to the amall letters, fer that finnedintely some handwritings it has spoilt the art of good conver are shown to me I can state correctly nation, as the telephone had lessened Dutch and Japanese airships Dr. H. Fortescue Fox. who is not quite as large again?
what business, trade, profession, or writing. Are the telephone and the that good will be flying the length and president of the
Is your pressure of pen on paper hobby the writera follow. There are radio, then, the reason League Against Rheumatism, says firm and regular? When you are many general similarities to be found handwriting is to-day very rare? breadth of the Atlantic and there is a hope that a small in writing, at length do you keep uie in the hands of nit artista, architects,
It seems strange that writing in which beauty, legibility, and per- Pacific Oceans, Taking the
stitute could be established where same size and style throughout? Do men of selence, and actors.
Artists scem generally to make sonality are combined should not he figures of lights already accom-the idiosyncrasies of such people you avoid exaggeration in the charac plished, and using a combina- could be studied. The subjects he teristics of letters, without going to all the curved letters with a firm and more "In evidence." There
the other extreme of obliterating them graceful line. Architects form all the insuperable difficulties in the way of tion of aeroplane and airship, suggests are those with chronic altogether by a simplification' so that letters precisely and keep their per- acquiring it. Study a good model, a express mail could be delivered catarrh, rheumatism and circula-their Identity can only be guessed pendicular strokes almost straight good quality pen, best ink, and ex-
seem in cellent paper. Then proceed to in England from the United tory disorders. These 11, is why from the context? How do you dot Musiclans and scientists
suffer from different weather and your 17. Is the dot placed directly variably to indulge. In small, neat, and arrange letters in good style. States in twenty-five hours and
The crossing of the t compact writing. Selentists are most-Do not copy the model too closely, but from England to America in winds, and it might be possible to above it?
investigate them by scientific should neither be too. high nor tou ly logical, and their writing shows it learn from it and apply what you thirty-eight hours. There is means and learn the limits of their low, and it should he crossed with ano confusion, no hesitation buptied. have learned in an individual way. Arm, short stroke. Truly remarkable An author's writing shows nothing Most handwriting, I claim, can a
lesk. reason for believing that, with adaptability.
it is how much can be learned by the characteristic like the caligraphy of improved without becoming the expected increase of speed
writing of the, i's and La..
actors and actressen, which is general-characterised" in a niere favourable y large, rather untidy, and with many sense. in airship and plane, even these in the Pacific, can be served;
Good Writing and a Good Heart
superfluous flourishes. Authors' writ The monks of old who used n quill. elapsed times could be reduced, without interrupting the voyage
Handwriting and character are ing is very often enreless and illegible, pen usually wrote a beautiful, cur indeed closely allied. "Good" writing showing that the brain works quicker sive hand. A little practico in this England in three days, Sydney the event of war in Europe, the reflects good qualities both of the than the hand. In fact, an author's formal writing, with a properly cu in seven. Using this same com- Cape service could then be ex-mind and heart, and careful attention hundwriting usually indicates that it quill or with a steel nib having the Western to your writing is worth while, be-ia really a means of transcribingame chlvel-shaped cl, enables an
45 cause improvement in your writing thought quickly OLA bination of aeroplane and air-tended to India and
possible. insight into the construction Australia and so our Empire may react on your character... Naturally there are exceptions in letters and lawowledge of their form ship Britain's possessions along
Poople who write the samo letters every class. Thackeray and Arnold to be gained which is very beneficial the West Coast of Africa, and Air Services would remain un-
in different ways and sizes portray by i Bennett ·were, good `:pennten. Two to ordinary writing.
crossed the North Atlantic, and fathers who are sensitive to bar translator, translating French, Ger-people have a very stilted style. Nine student of graphology, 1 am clair-
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