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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1937.
Climate, Clothes & Vitamins
N
o one can complain that this weather of ours lacks variety. But however
much we may complain,
it is this variety which makes the climate of these Islands so tonic In property.
The past two years or so have un- fortunately been lacking in 'sunshine. bul in hormal year we usually get all we require.
Sunshine is necessary for health, be- cause, apart from its stimulating effect,, It has a chemical action on the skin. This action converts the forerunner of Vitamin D into Vitamin D itself, and this vitamin in the one which regulatce the supply and distribution of lime in the body.
If a child's diet is incking in the foodstuffs which contain the early form of Vitamin D and the child does not get sufficient aunshine, rickets aro certain to develop.
In countries where the sky in always blue, the climate is not topic. It is tho alternation of light and shade which makes our climate definitely tonic.
Most of you have noticed that feel- ing of extreme fatigue which follown too much sun-balhing during the sum- mer months. This is the result of over- stimulation by the sun's rays, Too
BITS TO CUT OUT
Crumbs
Burnt Paus
Jellied Apple Pudding
OVER the bottom of a but- toploca
“RUMBLING bread for pud-
Fill them up with, salt and water dings, rub it through the and stand for two hours. Then holes of a colander. This is quicker bring slowly to the boil. Finish by and half all with water. Leave to than a grater. Always keep a tinful a wipe round with your favourite soak i!ll next day. Fill the dish up of crumbs for fish and rissoles.
well with sliced apple and soap powder.
sugar. Use up the old bread, putting it in
Cook for an hour in a moderate pleces on a baking tin, cooking till
oven. golden brown. When cool break up and roll fine with n rolling pin..
Reflections
mirrors and windows now and then To get good ones clean all your "with"-methylated spirit on a clotly
Polish
dered
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Flowers
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them fresh by putting { little
now- charcoal in the water.
or almost any Rhubarb, pears, fruit may be used instead of apple. If you're making the pudding with
dropping in an espirin. Brighten if they've got headache by tinned fruit use the syrup Instead of
them
water.
New Paint Smell well with .dry champİS Recut the stalks to make leather. Tissue paper and news- last-always with A knife, never Put a handful of hay in a pall of paper rolled into balls give a good scissors. Splice them a short way water and stand it in a newly paint- shine, too.
up too. Never plunge them into leyed room-the smell of paint will soon Water; they're much happier, in go.
Tops
warm.
Don't throw green celery tops If you are repotting flowers put o away. Let them dry, then powder few cinders at the bottom of the them and keep in a lin. Good for lowerpot.. These will absorb mols- flavouring soup.
ure the soil gets too wet.
Dry Cleaning
You can do quite a bit at home with a rubber sponge. Always rub the way of the nap..
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PHYSICIAN
much sun also destroys the chemicni changes causes in the skin.
Because of the bad weather which has been our lot for so many montli», ft himportant to take advantage of what sunshine we can now get. Those whose work carried on indoors should make a point of getting a walk during the lunch hour,
Wet weather is not necessarily harm- ful, nor in cold weather, Chills are not caught merely because of the climate, So long as you nro on the move and feel warm, ne amount of cold or wet can do any damage.
T is when you stand about in wet clothes and with sodden footwear that tho normal powers of resistance to infection are lowered. Then any stray gérm of the infectious type may get' a footing.
The germ may be carried by your self and, provided you are fit and well. jiva quietly doing no harm at all But as soon as conditions are favourable, ns soon as your resistance is lowered, organisms of this kind begin to mult ply and become virulent.
Protection may be acquired by tak ing the right sort of diet, namely, ona with plenty of good fats, butter, fish liver oil, fresh fruit and green vege tables, if they are to be ind; also by wearing sensible clothing.
Sensible clothing does not mean pling on your thickest garments. Clothes should be light and warm. It too heavy they will cause perspiration on the slightest exertion.
If the perspiration cannot get away. as under these circumstances it cannot, the body will be chilled without help from the weather.
Heavy clothes also cramp the move- ments of the chest wall and, in turn, the lungs. If you do not get a sum- clency of oxygen into the lungs you will again lower your vitality and so become a prey to infection:
FOR WELSH MOTHERS
The isolation hospital, to be erected for Neath, Wales, will be one of the most up-to-date in the country. It is expected to cost about £35,000,
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