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(ENGLISH_MADE)
"Pay for the Gallery but be in the Stalls,"
Whatever it is that is being watched-cricket, meing, the stage, boxing, yachting or tennis-a TELESPEC, by bringing things nearer, virtually puts the user into a better seat than he has paid for. More than that it does it without the anns aching and the neck being Fricked through the hands having to he kept up to the eyes, all the time--as with an ordinary binocu
lar.
The TELESPEC is more
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ordinary spectacles were being
Wor.
No-TELESPECS are supplied complete in English made solid" London Colour" leather, velvet lined cases with nickel clasps and, shoulder
strapt
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THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.
LTD.
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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY. November 9, 1930,
COLONY TOLL
OF ROADS
The need of "Safety First pro- : paganda in the Colony is vividly illustrated by the large number of accidents reported in the weekly returns issued by the police. [Summarising these for the month of October, we find that there were, during that period, no fewer than twelve people killed and 164 injured. Scarcely a week passes in which no fatalities are record- fed. The authorities are again halding a "Safety First" campaign very shortly, and, whilst it lasts, it may have some effect in reduc- ing the number of accidents. If any real impression is to be made on the situation, however, pro- paganda of this type needs to be continuous and insistent, the more so since so large a proportion of
• the people involved in mishaps are transients, many of them coming in on visits from the country, The employment of street lecturers would serve a useful purpose in this connection, whilst for the community generally much could be done by cinema films and by advice in the schools, Hongkong
is at the moment in a state of transition as far as traffic is con- cerned, and the dangers arising therefrom are intensified
on the
No
Advice to a schoolboy
given by the great Duke of Wellington'
hundred years ago
a
My dear Lady Shelley,
London, August 30, 1825.
As for John (her eldest son) you must impress upon his mind. first, that he is coming into the world at an age at which he who knows nothing will be nothing. If he does not choose to study, therefore, he must make up his mind to be a hewer of wood and a drawer of water to those who do. Secondly, be must understand that there is nothing to be learnt but by study and application. I study and apply more, probably, than any man in England.
Thirdly, if he means to rise in the military profession-l don't mean as high as I am, as that is very rarehe must be master of languages, of the mathematics. of military tactics, of course, and of all the duties of an officer in all situations.
He will not be able to converse or write like a gentleman- much less to perform with credit to himself the duties on which he will be employed-unless he understands the classics; and, by neglecting them, moreover, he will lose much gratification which the perusal of them will always afford him; and a great deal of professional Information and instruction.
He must be muster of history and geography, and the laws of his country and of nations; these must be familiar to his mind if he means to perform the higher duties of his profession. Impress all this on his mind; and, moreover, tell him there is nothing like never having an idle moment. If he has only one quarter of an hour to employ, it is better to employ it In
me fixed pursuit of improvement of his mind than to pass it.. in idleness or listlessness.
Ever, my dearest lady, you's most affectionately,
YOU
WELLINGTON,
The new term has begun
are
AFRAID
of
your FOOD
INDICTMENT
by J. B. MORTON
་
THERE is a type or person who lives like An athlete in training for some thing that never happens. He
Furthermore, many
women
who have discovered a perfect specimen of quack persuade their husbands, by tears or by blows, to visit him, and to follow his advice.
In this way many are sur- prised to learn that they have been eating too much, and eating wrong, all their lives, and that they are already in the advanced stages of 20 or 80 of the very latest diseases, curable only by the strictest attention to that particular sorcerer's abracada-
bra.
OBVIOUSLY I shall re- ceive ·lotters from people telling me that I am callous and unsympathetic, and that dieting is good for certain ailments. Of course it is. When I have gout I do not drink port or eat tomatoes.
But the point I am trying to make is that the quick gets hold
--or she is never ill, but is of credulous people who have nothing the matter with them. always expecting to be ill.
and creates this abominable Every thought and every
[OTHING in this dark I is one of the ironies action is concentrated on the nuisance of foolery with food. retention of that extremely self. Men and women who are well of history that the conscious kind of good health should eat as much as they want age of ignorance and
well-to-do should have discover which consists in repeating. of what they like. When they superstition is more ed the danger of eating too much
He includes among illnesses genuine doctor, remarkable than the achieve at the very moment when the "Thank goodness I am not ill. are ill they should go to a
less fortunate cannot get ment of the quack-doctors,
that natural increase of weight enough,
THE whole thing began which should come with the
because a few rich who have succeeded in in-
But, to level things up, the years, and which he has been women wanted to have those flat venting a new disease of the poor are now being lectured on taught by the quacks to regard and hideous figures upon which mind-Fear of Food, or, as their injudicious diet. Quncks as the first sign of a general they could hang the kind of have decided that, they gorge break-up. In middle age, just clothes the dressmakers were themselves on the wrong kind when he is beginning to savour forcing on them.
they would probably call it, Cibophobia..
So great is this fear that many
people cannot induce themselves to pronounce the word. They call it diet, just as
death call it "passing over."
To avoid uttering such perilous words as "meat," "pudding," "fish," they make use of a kind
island by the narrow thorough- fares in the busiest part of the city, Tricycles, of which there would appear to be a growing number. und rickshasone of which, incidentally, was involved in a fatal accident last week-are without question a
source of danger not only to those in charge of them, but also to traffic general- y. These should be prohibited in
of food, and the genteel word to the full the delights of food The shortest cut to the flat the busiest 'districts. With the
"malnutrition" hus made its and wine, the panic catches him
figure was starvation. But the increased transport facilities by
by the throat, trams, motor-buses and taxis,
He reads about the dreadful craze has gone on, and very appearance. there is little necessity for the
People who are perfectly ravages of meat, the insidious many people have grown so un- ricksha in the heart of the city.
healthy in body seem to be per assault of pastry, the swift accustomed to eating and drink- Of other factors which cause mis- those who dare not speak of jealousy of their sick friends. diabolical conspiracy of bread full meal would probably upset petually gnawed by a wild treachery of the potato, the ing in a normal fashion that a
them for a week. They vie with the invalids by and, before he knows where he Add to that the diet of strange denying themselves their is, he is exposed to all the favourite dishes.
imaginary complaints which the drinks which makes women so No doctor in the old days, pre- skill of the "diet expert" can peevish, and so incapable of that repose which was their charm.. scribing treatment for a patient invent. of pseudo-scientific jargon. Like who was really ill, could have From that moment he is fight- and which went with civilised certain sounds in a wizard's in- hoped to command the respect ing to keep them at bay. His eating and drinking, and you cantation, starch, carbo- and obedience which are accord- poor nerves go to pieces, but his have an explanation of the hydrates, vitamins, and protein ed to quacks and magicians to weight keeps down. And by the present barbarous situation.
TT will pass, this, fear of recur in their conversation. And day by those who are suffering time he is forced to eat like a from nothing but the fashion- human being once more, to avoid
food, but the generation. because such sounds are comble hysteria of the moment. dangerous weakness, he has be-
which is in the twenties now will When I was a boy you
still be haunted in middle life. grumbled when the doctor for-
SAY advisedly "he or The ill-mannered, neurotic girls them, they are by that the more bade you to eat this or that while
she," because men are who made the fortunes of the powerful over their minds. you were kept in bed. But to becoming as foolish as women in quacks will never pass gracefully into a jolly, humorous, robust Diets change, but diet goes on, day those who are up and about this matter.
It is the women who have let middle age. Trustingly and mildly a man or are only too eager to be told that
The grating, rasping voices a woman will say, "I can get what they enjoy is bad for them, loose upon the world a flood of potatoes now. It's just been and numbers of women become chatter about keeping young by will grow more shrill, and discovered that they don't make sulky and gloomy if they are starvation, and men are giving instead of presiding at a groan- ing board these women will you fat after all. They make assured that what they like is in to the propaganda. you thin." Or, "He told me that good for them.
They bread would age me, but he says
80.
the
pletely meaningless to majority of those who employ
come a dyspeptic.
I
|haps, speeding is undoubtedly the greatest. In this respect, lorry- drivers are particularly bad of fenders; they need bringing under much stricter control. Incidental- ly, as we have before had occasion to remark, it is absurd to see these vehicles bearing a sign limiting their speed to fifteen miles per hour, The law is never enforced, and it would be ridiculous to do If a speed-limit is needed, it should bear closer relation to Owner drivers common-sense. are also marked offenders so far as speeding is concerned, whilst taxis can be seen almost every day dashing through busy, thorough- fares at speeds which are obvi- ously dangerous. We should like to see heavier penalties for speed- ing and others forms of incautious driving, with the power vested in the Magistrates to cancel or sus. pend licences immediately an
In a room where every one is Snatch short, stinging drinks offence is proved. In this respect,
with go about
a nibbling lettuce, it requires and unimportant moreels of
medicated food from chromium Hongkong punishments are not
it's just been discovered that grievance and feel themselves at courage to go slowly and happily tables in dance-clubs. nearly so heavy as they are in bread rejuvenates." The phrase disadvantage In crowded through a long meal, and a sen- England. Measures of the kind "It's just been discovered" rooms, where their friends are sitive man, surprised with a CRAWFORD, LTD. progamun, should decided that the ounces have de, things which they have been him, may well feel like a coarse. empty years, and all because suggested together with all-the- means quacks boasting of the quantity of gigantic mound of meat before selves a miserable succession of something to reduce the toll of the probably because too many of warned not to eat, or, as they grained monster among a lot of they would not see and grasp the
their dupes were falling ill. put it, are poison to them. Dresden shepherdesses.
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