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Work It Out For
Yourself
Young George was elected twelfth man for His club foot- bail team. It WILK an away match, and the twelve of them arrived at a small hotel and asked for accommodation for the night.
"I'm afraid," said the man- ager, we have only eleven single rooms available. It looks GB one of you gentemen would have to step across to the Red Lion."
There's
no need for that, interrupted alr,"
the pretty chambermaid, who was stand- ing by. "If the gentlemen will come upstairs with me, I think
I can fix them all up."-.
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"Now," she said, when the fired footballers had trooped up to the first landing, "if two of you gentlemen will go into No.
1 -bedroom, I'll and
a spare
room for one of you as soon as I've shown the others to their rooms."
So, having put the captain of the team and George into No. 1, she put the third into No. 2, the fourth into No. 3, the fifth into No. 4. the sixth into No. 5, the soventh into No. 9, the eighth into 7, the ninth into No. 8, the tent into No. 9, and the cleventh into No. 19.
Then, going back to No. 1, she Bold:
"I've found rooms for all the other gentlemen, and there is still a room to spare, so if one of you will go along to No.. 11 you will find I empty."
So George thought he had
after all got his bedroom.
Or hadn't he?
Work out for yourself until
you look at the answer in colam Four,
Corns and Warts
UDGING by the frequency
Jith which I receive letters
asking for advice on corns and warts, they must be fairly com- mon afflictions.
For both, the best advice can give is that expert treatment should be sought whenever possible.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1937.
Give Yourself
You Can
Do These
Exercises
1.
with Stand Icel About
one foot apart and your back one foot
from the wall.
Hold your arms lightly
below
shoulder level
with elbows at
shoulder lovel,
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New Body
By APOLLO
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EASY-TO-DO EXERCISES THAT MEAN NO HARD WORK
ITNESS simply means abounding cises "now and then." Get the habit of doing health. And if you want that them every morning at the same time, and do a kind of health you must eat few "slackening" exercises before going to bed
every night. You'll soon know the difference. nourishing foods at regular intervals, and Walking, in the New Territories where possi- ble, is the thing for you typists. Get on your you must do your daily exercises.
Diet is very important. Unless this is comfortable shoes and stride properly regulated, the result is that the body is along, breathing as deeply overloaded with food it cannot assimilate, and you have a heavy, "below-par" feeling.
Try a fruit breakfast, a light lunch, and a
Then turn smartly right and with plain, wholesome dinner each
the finger-ups of the left hand touch day for just a week, and you'll the wall, and repeat the movement be surprised how much better to the left.
you feel. If you are peckish in Take a deep breath between each between meals, eat some fresh moventent, but don't move the post- fruit or drink a glass of fruit
feel Twelvo times,
And see that you have juice. please.
plenty of fresh vegetables every day.
ion of the
Lying full length on your back,
raise legs until they are six 40 Years Ago
inches from the floor, then, bring them up smartly so that the knees touch the stomach, and clasp the knees,
.
Health Was Better
Hold for a resume starting posillon, and at the
moment or two, then I FIRMLY believe that the standard of general fitness
Corns, skilfully treated by chiropodist, will soon become less painful and will in time disappear
When "treated at home the safe- ty razor blade or knite used for cut ting should first be bolled and then your head. dippert in methy
Only
By Family -Doctor
lated spirit.
same time stretch both arme until was higher in this country 40 hands are touching the floor behind years ago than it is to-day.
My own opinion is that people
Breathe in as the legs are drawn 40 years ago lived more simple then is it safe to up and out as they are extended. Do lives. They ate simple foods-- apply to the corn, this 12 ilmes, If you do not find #natural foods. There were no Needless to say, the feet should be too strenuous.
cinemas, so they found their well soaked in softened water before attempting to cut the corn.
entertainment in the open air, Lylar full length on your back, and were consequently more outdoor games and raise your less to right angles keen on
THERE are many varieties of
corn cures on the market.
A small piece of alleylie silk- corn plaster applied direct to the and left on for a week is quite effec- tive. The corn can then be removed and the spot touched with fodine.
A protective circular pad should be constantly worn over the site of the corn to protect it from pressure
of the shoes.
Soft corns between the toes can be gently shaved with a sterilised blade and a small piece of cotton wool soaked in spirit can be left in place for a few days.
WARTS of the small flut.
variety may occur in crops in young children, on the face or the hands and feet.
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Usually they disappear after morning dose of magnesia or a small quantity of Epsom salta. This must be continued for about six weeks.
Warts with narrow necks can be tied at the base with silk. This re-
·mains on until the warta wither and drop off.
Polated warts may be treated with acetic
acid
or painted with allver
Warts in elderly people should be regarded with suspicion. Medical advice 'should be taken if they are unduly hard or If they grow rapidly, ...as sometimes they may
malignant.
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No, he hadn't. Because the chambermaid put two visitors inia No 1, she had ten more to accommodato and only ten rooms to put them in. No 11 Was therefore already pied. Poor Georgel
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5 Falls in the Ukraine. 6. Is: 12 Across intended for this
complaint?.....
7 Might be worse.
9'Hurt as clocks, are..
13 Cleaner suppressed in the UK..
14. Pinces for the rash.
17. The chap to blow you up: many
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