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What bores this dieting craze
can make of us all! Why not-
EAT-and be
EAT what I like and
"I drink what like
explained Charles Keene's cheery octogenarian in a "Punch" of the 'eighties "and then I go to bed and let 'em fight it out among 'emselves!"
But the old hedonist came of more philosophic and less neurotic generation which still
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acca-
MERRY!
Walking Makes Men Think
TAVE you ever noticed how opt
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you are to walk when you ar under the stress of some violent emotion?
The worried husband paces up. and down with a final notice in his hand; the anxious lover moves- rest- lessly while he awaits his tardy
......................... disgusting to themselves. This lady and the fearful patient in a
By Lt.-Col.
still.
bred "the vapours" (now dia. dentist's walting-room can not sit guised as "temperament").
Walking, they find, has a soothing As a result the graph of effect on the turmelt for their mind, tuberculosis cases among wo and unwittingly they have stumbled men shows an upward curve,
on the real secret of the walkers of history. Moreover, whatever form
conducive
sors for the expression of C. P. HAWKES food Inds may take, their pre- thought, Buddha meduce to
Įpiness Instead of hypochondria,
of festivity rather than of fads. the well-known Soldier, Author,
He lived in golden days when it was the board that groaned - and not the people round it.
Cooking was plainer and bet- ter, dietetics were in their infancy, and slimming was Stubbs Road matter more of accident than design, concerned with staylaces rather than with atinting.
ROJDESTVIN-Captain N. A.
Rajdestvin, died after a short ill- ness in Kowloon Hospital, at 2 a.m., 30th December, 1936. (Shanghai Newspapers please copy).
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1936.
TRADE AND TARIFFS
Genial Interlude
♫
and Bon Vivant
scarcity or profiteering (sound foodstuffs have never been cheaper or more plentiful) as of sheer laziness and 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 re- actionary cult. Our first
valence tends to kill sociability and good table-talk.
Slimmers and dietists alike are too preoccupied for the amenities of con- versation and their pre- occupation Is inimical to the proper social influence of good food.
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walk in meditation on the lawn of the peacocks." St. Paul was another who walked on his last visit to Jerusalem, "for so had he appointed. minding himself to go on foot."
The famous philosophic school founded by Aristolle is called still the Peripatie school, a name given from the Greek peripatpein "to walk. about." The term arose either from Aristotle's own habit of walking up and down as he delivered his lec- They offer instead a querulous tures or from the porch of the and egotistical catalogue OL Lyceum along which the pupils and their personal prejudices which their master used to stroll, would have been anathema to Achilles used to walk by the side the great men and women of of the grey sea and bemoan his sad the past, who, though seldom lot, for he knew he was fated not
lo return alive from epicures, were good conversa- Troy
the alege of tionists and discerning diners.
Wisely and Well
YET the world went fairly
well then, and grown-ups #s, well as children thanked Heaven for their good dinners and actually enjoyed the kindly fruits of the orth at meal- Adam invented agriculture and parents were fruitarians until times, which presented, in con- Eve the Textile Industry, when sequence, a happy combination their progressive labours re- of these material concomitants sulted in a healthier human with a feast of reason and a appetite demanding ก more his best with a plate of veal
sustaining diet,
flow of soul.
Not that mere gluttony ever connoted galety, 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 a sound day's work, in which of the Ottawa agreement which lunch was a genial interlude and governs their trade relations. not just an interval for refuel- ling, and to which a simple, Mainly, the desire for reform well-cooked dinner was the ap arose in Great Britain, follow-propriate cnuoi.
ing the Canadian trade accord But in our more sophisticated with the United States. It is days all the 'ics--dietetics, ethics,
Kills Sociability
AND so to-day a home-grown apple, eaten raw first thing
or decently cooked as an item in almost any meal, is still a prize fit for a twentieth-century · Venus.
one thing, but deliberate ab-
Selection and moderation are.
stention from food by women from motives of vanity and fashion is another.
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Rousseau, to come to more modern FANNY BURNEY and Ladytes, was a great walker. In fact, Holland talked and ate with almost be said to have been caused whole French Revolution might equal.zest; Dr. Johnson was at by one of his walks.
When he was serving as an up- and prunes, as was Coleridge prentice to an engraver in Geneva over Devonshire apple-dumpl- he went out one Sunday evening for his usual wok In the country. At the time Geneva was surrounded
ings. Wordsworth in front of a joint of Westmorland mutton, or Charles Lamb before a second helping of hare.
As
Let us do our best, there- fore, to perpetuate this great tradition, and dine and talk wisely and well, abjuring faddishness anti-social and unhygienic. A meal to-night, for instance, of grilled trout, lamb cutiets and new potatoes, or ducklings and green peas, topped-up with Kingdom that the Canadian-menu.
new-gathered strawberries some peaches warm from 'the American treaty has the effect Dietetics dictate the bill-of-
sufficiency of a well-chosen 29 wall and washed down by a of nullifying the preferential | fare, Ethics the alcoholic content
hock should evoke our happiest advantages which were the basis of the drinks, Economics rule the price and quality of the
The ladies of an earlier age converse and send us to bed at of the Ottawa agreement; and food, and Politics Its nature and considered eating ill-bred, un- peace without and, unlike that is probably true. Britain, origin for milk and meat have healthy, and unspiritual, and Charles Keene's old gentleman,
their Boards to-day-and Ath Bucceeded in making good food within as well. letics, no longer a relaxation.but ——:
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If the case for the United
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As a direct cause of tuber culosis the dealiest discase of modern supercivilisation-this should be punishable as a crime against Public Health.
prohibitions on all ages and NO CHRISTMAS-BY ORDER
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Kingdom appears sound, that both sexes. for the Dominion is scarcely loss. How often does one hear: 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, Canadian Government which my singles play, my high dive, hurdles." or my wind over 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 Libernis. To many these acts by the immediately- past and present Governments in Canada reflect the chief political difference of the major parties. It is a political differ- which is completely
ence economic.
Dinner has come to be caten almost apologetically and with a picksome re- serve, and as to liquids, the kindly gastric juices are too frequently Blooded with tepid water..
Folk-lunches have imported the hustle of the quick-lunch counter into private hospitality. To go back to the Canadian
Malnutrition, on which medi- argument for reciprocity, we cal pundits are now so busy 118, is the- re- must point out that America is lecturing
not
much so Canada's best customer,
And sult since politics are pretty closely
of
CELEBRATION 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 cats 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 I, in the year 351, 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 tengeance!
There are 175 different kinds of holly in the world.
Ellis Parker, detective in New Jersey, is swamped each year, by a
shoal of Christmas cards sent him by prisoners he has sent to gaol.
BAD HABITS AT BRIDGE
or
by a wall. The gates were every night at eight clock Rou
scau
was late by a few seconds. actually in sight of the gates, when the officer in charge shut them.
As he had already suffered for being late he decided not to face the beating that awaited him, and started off that same night on the tour of wandering and vagabondage which made the prophet of the French Revolution.
Later Roussenu wrote his "Con- fessions." In them he said that if that he had not been left outside night he would have probably been a happy and contented citizen, He "What I regret most is also said,
journeyings. Never have I thought that I kept no record of my
much myself, if I may dare to say so much; existed so much, been 80 it, as when I went alone and afoot.
Another famous walk is
of Napoleon to Moscow, the march
one of the main causes of his down- fall.
Xenophion and ten thousand Grecks once marched right through Aala Minor with an enemy army twenty times their size welling to attack 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 Mulrkirk to Dumfries. a distance of fifty-four miles, in a 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.
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Hazliti wrote an essay, "On Going on a Journey," which Robert Louls Stevenson thought so much of, that he said a tax should be put on all who had not read It. Stevenson, who himself used to tramp in the Souh of France with a donkey bound up with trade, and the paid $189,838,436 for which she
.carry his pack, agreed with Hazlitt first axiom of trade, as in any took duty of $49,902,003.
Thousands play bridge thousands | must just be nervousness, and it be that truly to appreciate a walk the more think they do. Some now play comes very tedious for others, traveller should walk alone. Ho business, is to please one's cus-
In 1929-30, when the condi-contract, but the vast majority stead Then why do some players ap- also mentions the solace to be found tomer, it becomes apparent that
tions were reversed, and
the fastly continue to play auction parently grip their cards in a vice- in walking.
merely using the contract scoring. lke grasp, necessitating a terrible | the Dominion may well be torn
was This serves the dual purpose of tug from the other hand to extract When walking has been for su
many
centuries a any card, and frequently causing an between the desire to favour average ad valorem duty
philosophical 25.46 to Britain and only 23.34(making them feel up-to-date and re-
moving any necessity for
extra
extra one to fall as Britain, for sentimental as well
It's n well?
exerelse, it is a pity that it has been to the United States, British thought, such as might be needed funny habit.
degraded, in modern times. into that as more practical reasons, and exports to Canada were $148,- really learning contract.
Some conscientious souls solemnly cross between a paper chase and the equally strong impulse to
after receiving fancy dress parade known as hiking. 643,048 (duty
Whatever brand of bridge they count their cards $37,846,167),
and generally in an Audible
F. W. G. them, avoid offending the
play, the growth of certain dis- United
American $523,299,322 (duty tressing habits seems to be spreading things can be carried too far the voice, Carefulness In checking States-whence comes so much
$122,122,853). In. these figures among the great rank and Ale of of ther income.
players.
deal is rarely wrong without being opponents of "boosting" them up rests Canada's case.
mollced by someone. Why waste when they've gone "one down' The average ad valorem 'rate.
Why, for instance, do so
time? The "counters" are usually several successive times. They don't We agree that Canada's people find it necessary continually not renowned for arranging their have to go any higher than their of duty on dutiable United King-favourable trade balance with to Liddle with their cards, passing hands quickly in any case.
hond warrants. Maybe they were dom products is 20.74; on Britain is $204,560,000
doing the boosting! as tween their fingers all the time they The Smouldering Cigarette American products 26.29. But against one of only $52,648,000 are playing? They give the impres
All things considered, there 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 sion they are always looking for Smoking seems inseparable from quite enough bad temper generated ference that the American trade the. Income from tariffs is not so far uninvented--which they sus- without the person who lights a] without adding to It by Irritating should benefit, in the average, the only sort of duty Canada pect is secreted in their hand. elgarette and then lays on the ash little personal mannerisms which are tray to smoulder till it burns away. quite needless. Everyone known by a fraction of one per cent.should consider when dealing Just Nerves
The smell of a smouldering cigarette people who have these annoylag Canada imported $65,967,230 of with her Motherland. Just the
is not a pleasant one. The smoke habits, but they never, have any from table-level generally gets into themselves. If they arrange their hand in a British dutiable goods last year, sume, we can see the logic of the fan they don't need to move it again. other people's eyes, and mouths are shock if they knew what the
They might get on which she collected $14,966,- argument of the Ottawa Govern-They can see everything in it, In- meant to hold cigarettes anyway. opponents" and "partners' opinions; cluding what isn't in it, painfully 000; to American traders she ment.
Another unplenging little trick were. plainly. Any further Addling about some have is of Recusing their
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them backwards and forwards' · be-