THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1937,
Smith lives in a world that is only a tiny fragment of a vast universe, which affects – every part of his life every moment of tine. This is
another of the articles in the "SMITH INTO SUPERMAN" series on the importance
to Smith of his UNIVERSE
MONG the millions of stars in Smith's Universe, one-the Sun- governs and regulates his life.
It controls the seasons, the climate and the weather, supplies him with light, heat and energy, and helps to build up his food. It is easy to see why his ancestors worshipped it as a god.
Smith cats vegetable naætter and meat. He dresses himself in products obtained from plants or animals. But ultimately both his food and
clothes originate in plants-ali
his
flesh and calment is gross.
Plants themselves are chemient machlies that extent carbon from the gases of the air and change it into sugar, stores and wood. To do this the Job they need energy which
green colouring matter they contain enllert ebiorophyll-extracts from the sunlight. Without the sunlight. they cannot function at alk Smith Ilves on transformed sunshine.
COAL, too, is trapped sun-
light. Thousands of years ago, in přimovnd swamps, trers grew te a great size, died and decayed. Their fossilised remains are now used to raise steam and to warm our houses, Even water-power comes from the sun. It is its bent that eva- porgles the water of the sea aud carles it to the tops of the hills, from 'which it descends to drive our mills
of turbines.
The star that
Smith
keeps ALIVE
wood of trees and the shells of These, numbers, are too great
growth rings.
to
them better,when we work out that a train moving at 100 m.p.h. would take 100 years to reach the sun and that even a shell from a naval gun would take three years.
The ball-shoped mass of stuff on ysters, for instances, show yearly mean much to us, but we understand "kich Smith lives whirls round a Line Joining its North ured South Poles. it whirls it exposes him to. the sun and then carries him into the durkifess; he calls these alterations day and night.
The earth also rushes round the ran describing in a year a gigantic
a circle.
Smith shares in all this, He, too, lates his life, his food, his well tes by the seasons and his routine according to the presence or absence of the sun.
bun
coal It would not have lasted 5,000 years. Probably it contains vast re- steves of rndlum-like elements, which change their substance directly into radiation.
un.
"The ball-shaped mess of stuf
on which Smith lives whirls round a line joining its North and South Poles, As it whtris it exposes him to the sun, and then carries htm into darkncas."
are cooler than their surroundings, and when there are many of them the sun radiates less energy. The earth, receives less heat. in consequener, and changes in weather and climate follow the variations of our står.
Sun-spols are the seat of electric and magnetic storms, and these affect
in many ways: magnetic
com-
E can and out what the passes all over the world are disturb Wu is made of by examined and telegraph services ure some-
ing carefully the colour of the light itmes disorganised.
The sun emits not only visible it sends out. Smith, would know most of the substances present up there-iron, carbon, hydrogen, and so light, but also ultra-violet rays and X-rays. Most of these are filtered One of the elements present in the out by the atmospheres of the sun sun is called, helium, which "the sun substance For a long time and of the earth. Otherwise the it was known only by the peculiar colour of the sun would be a full, rich yellow light which it adds to sun- blue instead of a yellowish white.
All this is fortunate for Smith: shine, and was thought not to occur
means
On a world as large as the Smith would find it difficult to move, Everything would serm so heavy; he himself would turn the scale at about Its a ton and a half instead of his usual on earth. Forty years ago, however,
10 or 11 stone. He'd probably be. crusheby his own weight,
Smith's moods and temper depend Agure which is nearly, but not quite, on the weather, but the wind and the
rain are governed by the sun. rays warm the ground, which then warms the air in contact with it.
This air expands and rises, and the wind is merely the current
of air which moves in to take its place: its energy is thus derived from the sun's radiation.
The line round which it whirls daily is not, however, at right angles to that which joins its centre to the gun. As a result, the mid-day sun y not always at the same height in the heavens, nor are all days of the same length,
LL, living things share in this two-fold rhythm of days and years. Many of them show
In the structure of their bodies; the
But he could never stand the heal, even if he wore the thickest asbestos for the temperature is about suit. 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit,
at a
and is now largely used for filling stand the full impact of over-ener- It was isolated by an English chemist his body is too delicately bull to getic ultra-violet radlution and would balloons.
be destroyed by it. But a little of it just about as much os gets through is excellent far him. It colours his skin to a pleasing brown and builds
STR
Smith can picture the sun to him- evit as a great globe of highly com- Surrounding it pressed vapours. ther is a caronn of flames, shooting Su hot a surface loses heat (remendous rate: two square inches out to space for many thousands of up vitamins in it. of it rudiate enough energy to keep miles. He can only see this aurcole
during
total eclipse, because usual- The fun is 92,000,000 miles away a 12 h.p, car going at full speed.
TREAMS of electrical from the earth in winter and '93,000,- Where it all comes from is still a ly the disc of the sun is too bright,
particles from the sun oc- 000 miles
Have you noticed that we get dry, away in summer; It is mystery: certainly it cannot be just
eleven casionally strike the earth. They are 1,300,000 times us bulky and 300,000 ordinary burning. For even if the hot summiers about every as massive as the earth':
sun had been made of solid anthracite years? An eleven-year cycle can be affected by magnetic forces and enter found elswhere then in the weather our atmosphere neur the Poles, in the grain of wood, for instance. Their passage through the air makes
The cause, as
might expect, lies it glow like the gas in an advertising In the sun. If you exumine it care- sign. Such in aurorn" can some fully, through a plece of heavily times be seen even as far south as smoked glass, you may sometimes see Britain. sone small black specks. With telescope you could be fairly certain to see then every time you look.
If you counted the number that can
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All these radiations transform the air which absorbs them. In the upper layers oxygen is changed into
be seen every day for, say, thirty or ozone. Other parts become electri- forty years, you would notice that it fed, and are called the Heaviside and changes continually. Every cleven the Appleton layers. years the number of spots increases DA "maximum" and then again” diminishes.
THEY are not really dark at
all, but hotter and brighter
These act like mirrors, reflecting radio waves back to the ground. Without then long-distance broud- casting would be Impossible; only those stations that could be seen would be heard.
Smith cannot even listen-in without than our hotlest furnace. But they, the helpful co-operation of the sunt
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DRAYCOT DELL and A. NORAID-GILFERT
1. From very cor- me of the
B. in might weshalbu foar'a
sur Zungus Floge nu-Turzh Com aat ihose, they weak for gal Wes
* TUNE; which may become
year-the new "Land of Hope and Glory" has been composed by an amateur who had never before writ- ten a note of music in his life.
He is Mr. M. Droycott Dell, the children's author.
The song is called "The Empire's
A the patriotic mony of the Cull;" and this is licechorus:
IN HALF AN HOUR · Jumping from bed one night, he eaptured a melody which skimmed through his mind and kept him from sleep.
Next morning he remembered the tune as clearly, as when it first came to him. Suddenly it struck him as Ideal for a patriotic song. He hummed
mmed it over-tg Mr Morris-Gilbert, the composer, who took it down. Mr. Dell explained his idea, and, while he wrote the lyric, Mr. Morris-Gilbert composed the music for the verse.
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The whole thing was finished inside half an hour,
Sons of our Empire rallying on Thus ranged to serve their King, Whilst on the Ude come those that
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Their clarion call to bring," "Wo died for Peace and Freedom; ' Was our great gift in vain?" Our richer dust says, arm you must Or it will come again!"
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The song is to be offered to Mr. Duff Cooper, Minister for War, a recruiting song. In the meantime, of the biggest music publishers, Messrs. Chappell, has decided to publish It.
"We need a patriotle song now, If ever we did," said Mr. Dell.
"Rouget de Lisle, who composed the Marseillaise," did not know_fl note of music, yet his song caught up a nation. But for the 'Marscillalse, there might never have been a French Revolution.
"If this song tenches us to arm and draws recruits to the army, it has been worth dolog,"
The real TRUTH a b o u t
COLDS
you CAN'T cure them, but CAN them
you prevent
VERY week some one estimates afresh how much colds cost the world. Being a rough guess; it always varies: some one has said about £3 per person per year. Whatever it is, it is pretty serious.
Every fortnight from October to April a new cure is announced from the laboratories, to the infuriation of the research-workers concerned, who promptly deny it as premature in the medical journals.
a cure
Every month a new book by a nature-cure writer announces which turns out to be the usual list of instructions that any general practi- tioner could give: excellent treatment sometimes, but never a cure.
The truth is: you can prevent a cold, you can treat it, but you cannot cure it.
If you understand what a cold really is, you will know why. [HAT is a cold? It is an infection of your blood-stream that has managed to slip through your body's first line of defence against infection-the delicate mucous membrance of the nose.
The infeeling germ itself has never been seen by human eye. Like the germ of measics, it is surmised to be a "Alterable virus" that is to say, a germ so small that no filter, however delicate, can hold it, and no microscope,
can reveal it. It is found
however Perhero-even in your own throat. To avoid the danger
dose of it be wary of:—
I
1. Sneezers.
.
2. Telephones (turn your hend from the "mike" when you listen). 3. Telephone kiosks.
4. Buses, trains, stuffy rooms and theatres.
FIRS
FIRST line of defence is the lining of your nose. Five hundred quarts of air puss it every hour on the way to your lungs. In Hongkong, that amount of air contains about 14,000 gerins. Only few reach the lungs if that lining is healthy.
It has two weupons against the gerini
1. The mucus which it produces to cover and protect it and to entrap and kill germs.
2. The hair-like Abres which line it in millions--called cilia (pronounced sill-ya)-which drive the entrapped germa to the nostrils, where they can be sneezed out.
itself.
..
YOUR second time of defence against infection is the blood-stream Once the germ has slipped past the first line, it may take the emergency reserves of the body about three days to drive it out via the kidneys, skin and liver.
Drugs powerful enough to kill the germ when it is already in your blood-stream would do you harm. That is why you cannot cure a cold already begun: you, can merely alleviate its discomforts and help, the
body to get rid of it.
That too explains the principles of treatment.
TREATMENT
ITEM NO. 1:
the nose.
Blow your nose s little and as gently The in- as you can. creased air-pressure In the nose. mayblow Infection back into the ear to cause in- fummation and deaf-
ness.
To relieve the de- pressing "blocked- nose" feeling, sub- the face in merge warm
water while the breath is held; the water Anding its- own level in the nos- trils will gently fush out the VECESS of mucus.
TREATMENT
TREM NO. 2: the blood-infection.
Go slow and give your reserves, a
chance. Carry on with your work-if you must at half- speed. Do the things that
would you if you left them
worry
undone postpone
the rest.
If the cold is really
Questions for
Housewives
1. What is poor man's goose?
2. The disease of rickets in children is often due to a díel deflcioney, Which special foods would you give your child In order to safeguard It' from this disease?
3. In a small matter of interior decoration
-where-is-wood sometimes used as a sub-.
stitute for silk, velvet, eretonne; etc.?
Answers:
i. "Faggots"-a dish of baked, season-
ed liper--is sometimes called thus, but there are several variations, Here's one; 3 onions,
Yon need I sheep's heart and spoonful of
2 lbs.
Ilba, of potatoes, a generous nowdered sage, salt and pepper to taste
taste... Prepare and parboll the potatoes, then stier hem thinly: Wash heart and liver well, thoroughly dry and cut in thick slices. Prepare and chop onions; mix sage and seasoning. 'Grease a fireproof dish and ar range in it alternate layers of potato
and and sprinkle cach layer with sliced onions and seasoning. Cover with greased
medium oven for paper and bake in hour and a half. Diced bacon be used
may as an additional ingredient if itked. In any case serve with it as good, in apple sauce as you make for real goose. 2. Rickets ta invariably due to an insufficiency of Vitamin D. This vitamin is present in the fat of cream, but more largely so in cod- liver oil and halibut-ilver oil. 3. Painted wooden pelmets are used frequently as a anish to curtains. They should be fited by a good carpenter,
severe, better bed than pneumonia, The cold never kills, but its com- plications may.
To flush the poisons out of the blood, take plenty of hot sweetened orangende or lemonade.
The fluid flushes the kidneys: the heut stimulates the skin to perspira- tion; the sugar and the fruit-Juices diminish the "acidosis" or acidity of the blood which is responsible for many of the discomforting symptoms of the cold.
fort.
[REATMENT-ITEM No. 3:
If you are still uncomfortable des-
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HAVING survived the cold. why not protect yourself against those risks by making your- self cold-proof?
Increase your cold-resistance, and be wary of the germ and its haunts (already discussed).
To increase cold-resistance: keep us it end as happy na you can, keep your nose healthy and unobstructed, supply cold-fighting vitamins by in- cluding one ounce of butter, one pint of milk and some fresh fruit in each day's dict, keep the skin healthy by giving it all the sun and air (air- bathe while shaving or hair-brush- ing) you can.
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