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TTH au germs in the very air we breathe, and a full quota of colds and other
minor illnesses to keep us company, it is up to everyone to keep in a hundred-per-cent. good health, so that we are well-armed against infection. Doctors everywhere are
To Keep You Fit
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working from early morning till late at night. Their advice for keeping patients off the sick list is to get fit and keep eat sensibly, gargle your throat, avold becoming overtired and, above all, got sufficient exercise.
It sounds easy enough, but the last part of the advice seems to be the most difficult to carry out. Apart from the fact that most people are tied to homes or work for the greater part of each day. sports are spoilt by bad weather, and even a brisk walk is avoided when rain and gales are the uninvited companions.
P
EOPLE who are recovering from colds or 'flu and aro
In the meantime going through that depressing, run- down stage which is often followed by loss of weight, are just as much in need of proper exercise as the keep-1 brigade.
What's to be done? Ten minutes or so a day spent on physical jerks wants a lot of beating, as it gives the maximum exorcise in minimum time. A dally dozen tones up the system, exercises those muscles which are too fond of taking life lazily, and it gives new "pop" to your circulation.
T
HOSE who have suddenly got thin, as well as people who would gladly dispenso with their extra pounds, will all beneft from exercises. After a few minutes you'll have a fine feeling of well-being-just the glowing condition we all need at this difficult time of year.
Ten minutes out of twenty-four hours is not much, but it is ourprising what a help it can be to figure beauty and good health.
It is as well to know a set of exercises which give some work to each part of the body, so here is a general all-purpose dozen which are easy and pleasant to do and will suit the whole family.
THE HONGKONG: TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1937.
Mother, Father and the children can all join in, and, what's more, they'll enjoy it. Whenever possible, practise to music. A waitz or fox-trot on the gramophone not only makes the exercises more interesting, but helps you to do Ülem rhythmically, which is important. toes, holding for a few seconds and Start always with deep breathing.
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a factory down an English Jane pretty girls, in clean overalls, are manufacturing fire that no water can quench,
They have not the slightesi idea that they have spent eight hours preparing death for thon-
then exhaling and lowering the feet
Take good long breathis rising on tip.
this is the exercise you did at scho01, Keep your hands on your hips, concen- trate on filling your lungs completely and don't hunch the shoulders.
Touching toes with the fingers, keep Ing the knees straight, la excellent. Once you find it casy) try to touch the floor with the finger tips. As soon as this is mastered, try getting the palms of the hands on the floor, stil keeping
the knees flat. This is difficult, so don't rush at it.
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This generally only indicates that they aro sluggish and need toning up.
Another schooldays exercise which
Tuck your toes under a heavy piece of is good is lying dat on the floor and raising yourself to a silting position.
furniture (the wardrobe generally does. the trick) to help,
unless there is Bomeone who will hold your feet for you. Be careful that your elbown
don't give a bit of aly assistance,
The next move- ment is done by lying on your back, and, with the legs in the air.
air, toes to the sky. Now lower then, very, very slowly. Difficult, but so good
for you!
Then there's the ballet dancer's
favourite. For this hold a chair or table Giving
with the right hand. Raise the left kneo till the thigh is at right angles with your body, Now raise the foot until the
"Breathe deeply and evenly"
says
DAPHNE EARL
no if you are riding a bicycle. Do it slowly and deliberately, making quite big circular movements:
AKE all your exercises working thom gently, and remember round and round that movements which seem impossible now, may be easy by next week. Never atrain, but also don't be alarmed 1 your muscles ache a little bit at arst.
sands. All they know is that This is Progress they are dealing with dangerous. substances under strict work. shop rules and that it is worth somebody's while to pay them a Their job is to wage to do 50. watch machines.
The machines are grinding metals to very light powder. When the particles become very small they change their proper-
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tion, raise the legs straight up in the Whilst in the same lying down posl.
Radium, Eyes, Surgery, Germs
ties and become highly inflam. NEW inventions, new treat- are working with the radium
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Out of these powders thermite is made, and a thermite aerial bomb weighing three or four pounds will burn through an inch of steel.
ments making possible new and who have to risk the terror miracles of healing here are of radium cancer; for radium some of the things doctors. aro kills as well as cures. watching at the present time:
THE LOOK OF WISDOM In AMERICA & nex, four grammes of radium short-sighted ladies who do not have been enclosed in a con-wish to look learned. A grow. tainer weighing seventy pounds, ing number of people are being moved and controlled by elec-fitted with invisible contact
In LONDON, as the West- So dangerous is the work that itminster Hospital Radium An- cannot be done in ordinary air; the machines are enclosed in an atmos- phere of nitrogen,
touched.
whole
leg pointa atraight out. Lower it in the BAINO way you
the
very slowly. Rest
and
repent rovizo way for The right leg. Iater on, you'll be able to it with your handis on your hips and no support. Bix exer- clocs done, and on the drawing shown here you'll see six more move ments which complete the round dozen. The first doca good wark on the hips, waist, and abdommal muscles. You probably won't be able to bend over far ecough to touch the floor as is shown in the dotted figure-not at first, any- way. Work at it gently, first on the right side and then on the left.
Rabbits a Cold
friend you ever offer a from Australia. rabbit stew, will soon see that to an Australian rabbit is. not food, but vermin..
Que of the elvilizing InDuences brought to Botany Bay by early English settlers was the rabbit. In Britain nature has balanced out the problem of that notoriously proling beast by giving it enough natural enemies to keep it from overrun. ning everything. When the rabbil was given a passage to Australia its enemies were left behind. The re- sult is that millions of pounds have been spent in an attempt to pres vent rabbits exterminating mon- kind in their new paradise of a home.
Healthy circulation, supple shoul dern, and a good bust line are deve In South America rabbits die of an At last there is a note of hope. loped by the second exercise shown. In
unpleasant feverish cold, caused by Bland with the arms out in front of you and then make a biz circle with some ultramicroscopic virus. Care- them, stretching out as far as possible ful experiment has shown that Aus- tralian Tabbits catch the fover in every direction.
caally and that they scarcely ever recover.
Every part of your body has to work hard in Number Three, Start as shown And then "walk" your feet along until they are as near your hands as possible. Remember the knees must be perfectly straight all the time.
Moreover, human beings do not catch it.
The disease has been rushed to Australia.
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Water is no use, special chemical radlum and a special collar of can be ground to correct defects
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1 Stop hole with tobacco.
6 This bird requires a fish to turn
into an insect.
Roguish method in an architec- tural feature.
11 Ono girl in two thousand-and
sho's marriedi
12 Such a face is not a work of
ark.
13 Highly emotional.
14 A tallor doesn't have to be un- duly severe to tako these
inensures.
17 In extremities.
20 Sounds an 'exclusivo club. 22.33 Down puis a finish to this
kind of silk.
23 What anyone might be if n grenade burst to bits quite
close.
24 A gloring fault..
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20 Not one over the eight, but In- in another
***dulged
excess
27 Buck up!
form
28 A thousand gone another way. 31 In the crossways.
34 Intend.
of
33 The native who returns to-con-
fess himself -nomad.
36 Reign in a different way.
37 Hold,
38 TTT.
30 Tip-top, or either half,
Mollvert
2
DOWN:
3 Arab nearly playing for money.
Coal vessel, but no calller.
5 Welsh town.
A drink not to decry.'
*7 Land 'allotted."
8 Book, of the Bible.
10 Such ability does not make for
steadiness. batma
15 Continue Jeering in Somerset, 10 Platform of a sort broken in
spirit.
18 Not far from the temple. 19 Tin lyro (anagram).
20 Can build quite as well as any
stork.
21 Clubs 37 Across It.
25 Bare-faced.
20 Turk you can sit on.
20 Amusement,
39 Circle after nothing healthy to
breathe in.
30 A form of spice.
31 Might be Anne's.
32 Where two flues converge.
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33 Transformation of Eros. (
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