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DEATH.
What bores this dieting craze
can make of us all! Why not-
EAT-and be
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EAT what I like and
drink what I like". explained Charles Keene's cheery octogenarian in a "Punch" of the 'ciahtics "and then I go to bed and let 'em fight it out among 'emselves!"
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But the old hedonist came of more philosophic and less neurotic generation which still regarded meal-times as осед-
MERRY!
By
Lt.-Col.
sinns. for the expression of hap. C. P.
pines instead of hypochondria. of festivity rather than of fads.
He lived in golden days when it was the board that groaned and not the people round it.
Cooking was plainer and bet
in ter, dietetica were their infancy, and slimming was Stubbs Road matter more of accident than | design, concerned with staylaces
rather than with atinting.
ROJDESTVUN Captain N.
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Genial Interlude
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AYET the world went fairly well then, and grown-ups na Holdestvin, died after a short ill- nesa in Kowloon Hospital, at 2 well as children thanked Heaven 30th December. 1936, for their good dinners and (Shanghai Newspapers please actually enjoyed the kindly fruits of the earth at meal times, which presented. in con- sequence, a happy combination of these matèrial concomitants with n feast of renson and a flow of soul.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY, December 30, 1936.
TRADE AND TARIFFS
HAWKES
the well-known Soldier, Author, and Bon Vivant
nover
scarcity or profiteering (sound
have foodstuffs
been cheaper or more plentiful) as of sheer laziness ánil a widespread proneness to perpetual hustle.
Of prevalent fads vegetarian- ism is, of course, the oldest established, but it is interesting to reflect that if men had never
tasted flesh they might still be chattering in the tree-tops,
Fruitarianism is another res
parents were fruitari ns actionary cult. Our first
disgusting to themselves. This bred "the vapours" (now dis- guised as "temperament").
As a result the graph tuberculosis cases among wo men shows an upward curve.
of
Morcover, whatever form
Walking Makes Men Think
HAVE you ever noticed how apt
you are to walk when you aro under the stress of some violent emotion?
The worried husband paces and down with a final notice in kis hand; the onxious lover moves.rest- lessly while he awalls his tards- lady; and the fearful patient in-n dentist's walling-room can not att still.
Walking, they find, has a soothing) effect on the turmoil for their mind. and unwittingly they have stumbled on the real secret of the walkers at history.
Walking is always conducive to
food-fads may take, their pre- thought, Buddha himself, used to
valence tends to kill sociability and good table-talk.
"walk in meditation on the inwn of the peacocks." St. Paul was another who walked on his last visit tu Jerusalem, "for so had he appointed," minding himself to go on foot."
The famous philosophic school founded by Aristotle. is called still the Peripalle school, a name given from the Greek peripaipein "to walk about." The term arose either from Aristotle's own habit of waking up and down us he delivered his lec- tures or from the porch of the Lyceum along which the pupils and their master used to stroll."
Slimmers anil dietists alike are too preoccupied for the amenities of con- versation and their pre- occupation is inimical to the social influence of proper good food. They offer instead a querulous and egotistical catalogue their personal prejudices which would have been anathema to
Achilles used to walk by the side the great men and women o of the grey sea and bemoan his sad lot, for he knew he was fated not the past, who, though seldom to return alive from the siege of epicures, were good conversa- Troy. tionists and discerning diners.
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Until Wisely and Well
FANNY BURNEY and Lady Holland talked and ate with equal zest: Dr. Johnson was at hia best with a plate of veal and prunes, as was Coleridge over Devonshire apple-dumpl-
re-
Adam invented agriculture and Eve the Textile industry, when their progressive labours sulted in a healthier human appetite demanding sustaining diet.
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more
Kills Sociability
AND so to-day a home-grown
apple, caten raw first thing or decently cooked as an item which in almost any meal, is still a prize fit for a twentieth-century
Not that mere gluttony ever connoted gaiety, nor was wit necessarily the outcome of wine bibbing; but our fathers ate and drank more cheerfully than we Canada and the United King- do and looked on a hearty break- dom are negotiating for revision fast as the normal prelude to il
sound day's work, in of the Ottawa agreement which lunch was a genial interlude and governs their trade relations. not just an interval for refuel- Venus.
ling, and to which a simple, Mainly, the desire for reform well-cooked dinner was the ap arose in Great Britain, follow-propriate envoi. ing the Canadian trade accord But in our more sophisticated days all the 'ics-dietetics, ethics, with the United States. It is
economics, politics, and even -have invaded the
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Rousseau, to come to more modern times, was a great walker. In filet.
the whole French Revolution might almost be said to have been caused by one of his walks.
When he was serving us an op- prentice to an engraver in Geneva he went out one Sunday evening for
s usual wank in the coupury. AL the time Goneva was surrounded by a wall. The gates were shut every night at eight o'clock, Ra
seau was late by a few seconds, actually in sight of the gates, when the afficer in charge shut them..
As he had already suffered for being late he decided not to face the beating that awaited him, und started off that same night on the tour of wandering and vagabondage which made the prophet of the French Revolution,
Laler Rousseau wrote his
"Con-
Let us do our best, there- fore, to perpetuate this. great tradition, and dine and talk wisely and well, 19 abjuring faddishness one thing, but deliberate ab- Selection and moderation are
anti-social and unhygienic. stention from food by women A meal to-night, for instancé, from motives of vanity and of grilled trout, lamb cutlets fessions." In them he said that if fashion is another.
and new potatoes, or ducklings he had not been left outside that As a direct cause of tuber- and green peas, topped-up with night he would have probably been ora nappy and contented citizen, He Kingdom that the Canadian- menu.
culosis-the dealiest disease of new-gathered strawberries
"What I regret most is Quat I kept modern supercivilisation-this some peaches warm from the also said,
no record | American treaty has the effect} Dictation dictate the bill-of- should be punishable as a crime wall and washed down by a journeyings. Never have I thought
of nullifying the preferential fare, Ethics the alcoholic content against Public Health.
sufficiency of a well-chosen 29 so much, existed so much, been so hock should evoke our happiest much myself, if I may dare to say advantages which were the basis the price and quality of the of the drinks, Economics rule
The ladies of an earlier age, converge and send us to bed at it, as when I went alone and afoot." food, and Politics its nature and considered eating ill-bred, un- peace without and, unlike Another famous walk is the march origin-for milk and meat have healthy, and unspiritual, and Charles Keene's old gentleman, of Napoleon to Moscow, which we their Boards to-day-and Ath Bucceeded in making good food within as well. letics, no longer a relaxation but
of the Ottawa agreement; and that is probably true. Britain. in short, wants a "guarantee margin" of preference.
an end in themselves, impose prohibitions on all ages and both sexes.
If the case for the United Kingdom appears sound, that for the Dominion is scarcely less How often does one hear: "I reasonable. And probably it daren't eat this, I must never would be wise to mention, at touch that, because it affects this juncture, that whereas the my swing or my short game, my singles play, my high dive, Canadian Government which
or my wind over hurdles." approved the Ottawa agreement (Cricketers, it should be noted. was of the Conservative persua-are of all athletes the most im- sion, the "perpetrators" of the mune from food-fads). Canadian-American reciprocal
| treaty were Liberals. To many these acta by the immediately- past and present Governments in Canada reflect the chief political difference of the major parties. It is a political differ- ence which is completely economic.
To go back to the Canadian argument for reciprocity, we muat point out that America is
Dinner has come to be ∙euten almost apologetically and with a picksome re- serve, and as to liquids, the kindly gastric juices are too frequently flooded with tepid water.
Folk-lunches have imported the hustic of the quick-lunch counter into private hospitality. Malnutrition, on which medi- now so busy cal pundits are
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since politics are pretty closely bound up with trade, and the first axiom of trade, us in any business, is to please one's cus- tomer, it becomes apparent that the Dominion may well be torn between the desire to favour
paid $189,838,436 for which she took duty of $49,902,003.
my
one of the main causes of his down- fall..
Xenophon and ten thousand Greeks once marched right through Asin Minor with enemy army twenty
NO CHRISTMAS-BY ORDER times their size waiting to attack
CE
•ELEBRATION of Christmas was once forbidden for sixteen years by
the House of Commons-during Cromwell's time. Over in Norway the farmers give their cattle a tub of home-brewed ale on Christmas Eve.
In Madrid at 12 midnight on Christmas Eve everyone eats twelve grapes for good luck during the coming year.
The most famous Christmas present in the world is "Alice in Wonder- land"-written by Lewis Carrol—as a gift for a little girl's stocking.
Throughout Hungary at Christmas time collections are levied on the richer citizens to buy food and drink for the poor for no one must go hungry during Christmas celebrations.
The exact date of Christ's birth is not known and Christmas has been celebrated on more than 100 different days throughout the world. Pope Julius 1, in the year 151, decreed that Christmas Day should be December 25.
In Shakespeare's time Christmas festivities lasted for twelve days- and no one did a-stroke of work during then. Merrie England with a vengeance!
There are 175 diferent kinds of holly in the world.
Ellis Parker, detective in New Jeracy, is stamped each year by a shoal of Christmas cards sent him by prisoners he has sent to gaol.
BAD HABITS AT BRIDGE
them.
March to Lucknow
In India the British Army's most famous march was to the relief of Lucknow, when the relieving troops marched over thirty miles a day.
In comparatively recent times many of the philosophical essayists. have found in walking comfort and solace. Emerson and Thoreau were both great walkers, and Carlyle once walked from Muirkirk to Dumfries. a distance of nifty-four miles, in n single day.
Wordsworth was always trying to find the secret of that strange solace he found in Nature, and his friend Coleridge was agreed by his con- temporaries to be the perfect com- panion on a long walk.
Hazlit wrote an essay, "On Going on a Journey," which Robert Louis Stevenson thought so much of that he said a
inx should be put on all who had not read it. Stevenson,. who himself used to tramp in the
Soub of France with a donkey to carry his pack, agreed with Huzlitt
Thousands play bridge-thousands must just be nervousness, and it be-that truly to appreciate a walk the traveller should waik, alone. He more think they do. Some now play comes very tedious for others.
Then why do contract, but the vast majority stead-
some players ap- also mentions the solace to be found tions were reversed, and
In 1929-30, when the condi- costly continue to play auction-parently grip their cards in a vice- in walking.
the merely using the contruct scoring. like grasp, necessitating a terrible
When walking has been for su average ad valorem duty was making them feel up-to-date and re-
This serves the dual purpose of tug from the other hand to extract:
eenturies philosophical any card, and frequently causing on many 25.46 to Britain and only 28.34 moving any necessity for .extra extra one to foll as well? It's a exercise, it is a pity that it has been degraded in modern times into that to the United States, British thought, such as might be needed funny habit.
Somo conselentious souls solemnly cross between a paper chase and a as more practical reasons, and exports to Canada were $148,- if really learning contract.
F. W. G. the equally strong impulse to
Whatever brand of bridge they count their cards after receiving fancy dress parade known as hulking. 643,048 (duty $37,846,167), play, the growth of certain dis-them, and generally
an audible checking the avoid offending
United American $528,299,322 ° (duty tressing habits seems to be spreading States-whence comes so much $122,122,853). In these figures among the great rank and. ale of things can be carried to far: the
is rarely wrong without being opponents of "boosting them up
| Britain, for sentimental as well
In
voice. Carefulness
in
players.
noticed by someone. Why waste when they've gone "one down** Why, for instance, do · 80 many time? The "counters" are usually several successive times. They don't people find it necessary continually not renowned for arranging their have to go any higher than their hand warrants. Maybe they wore to fiddle with their cards, passing hands quickly in any case. them backwards and forwards be
doing the boosting!
FOT
of her income.
resta Canada's case. The average ad valorem rate
We agree
that Canada's of duty on dutiable United King- favourable trade balance with dom products is 26.74; on Britain is. $204,560,000 as tween their fingers all the time they The Smouldering Cigarette All things considered, thero American products 26.29. But against one of only $52,648,000 are playing? They give the impres
sion they are always looking
Smoking seems inseparable from quite enough bad temper generated it seems to have made little dif- with the United States, and that some kind of super-ace of trumps bridge, but we would all rather be at bridge by the actual play alone ference that the American trade the income from tariffs is not so far uninvented-which they sus- without the person who lights awlihout adding to it by irritating cigarette and then lays it on the ash little personal mannerisms which are Everyone knows should benefit, in the average, the only sort of duty Canada pect is secreted in their hand.
tray to smoulder till it burns away. quite needless, by a fraction of one per cent. should consider when dealing Just Nerves
The smell of a smouldering cigarette people who have these annoying any is not a pleasant one. The smoke habits, but they never have Canada imported $65,967,230 of with her Motherland. Just the
It arrange their hand in a table-level generally gets into themselves They might get a opponents and partners' opinions They can ace everything in it, In-meant to hold cigarettes anyway. cluding what fan't in it, painfully Another unpleasing little trick were. plainly. Any further fiddling about some have, is of accusing their
CRAWFORD, LTD. British dutiable goods last year, same, we can see the logic of the fan they don't need to move it again. other people's eyes, and mouths are chock if they know what their
on which she collected $14,966,- argument of the Ottawa Govern- 1000; to American traders she ment.
L. S. P.