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WEDNESDAY, Apati. 28, 1937.
COLLECTIVE ACTION AGAINST DISEASE
When sailing ships gave place to steamships in the last cen- tury, not only did
passengers
travel more easily and safely- so also did disense. Great Bri- tain and other Western coun- tries were menaced with cholera and other plagues brought by ships from the East, and each country tried to protect itself with quarantine rules of. its own. They did not succeed. Trade was delayed and disease still entered freely and quently. Each epidemic 1851 was followed by an Inter- national Conference and it soon became clear that only by hav ing a common quarantine system
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The
METHUSELAH TEST
Give yourself marks for each ques- llun was instructed, and keep your Acore. When you have answered ali of them add the total. Divide this total by 5. The result is approximate- ty how old you will live to be.
10
11
How old were your grand» · mothers and grandfathers (on both sides of your family) wlien Add up their ages they died? when they dled, and divide by any of them are still ten. If alive, set their age down as If you can't exactly
the
ages, guess, as
closely as possible. Mark yourself
2 Mark
from one twenty-five on the basis of the health of your vital organs Juugs, stomach, liver. 1.
glands etc.). If you have any organic disease or vital de- feet do ni mark yourself Higher
than ten. If you've never had anything but colds, measles, ete, and never been in a hospital or ill for more than a few days, you may put down twenty-five.
Mark down from one to twenty- dive the degree of hazard or your occupation or danger in activities. If you drive a car take off five at once. If you travel much, take off another
If you work at any on cupation with life risk, take of another Ave. If you are some- what of a reckless temperament, take off another.
Mark down from one to twenty- five how sedentary 'your work and habits are. If you sit in an oee or stand in a shop all at home without day, or stay much physical work to do, you connel inork yourself higher than ten
5 How many hours per week can
you honestly say that you spend outdoors? (Don't murk more than 25 in any circumstances, i Marle yourself from 1 to 25 on moderation in cating
If you
ea meat more than once a day, can't mark yourself more you. than 10, nor if you are
ire- quently subject to indigestion, constipation, billousness headaches.
01
Mark down how many pounds under eleven and a half stone you weigh (if you are a man); and how many pounds under ten stone (If you are a woman). If you weigh more than these Ogures penalise yourself by subtracting from your figure for Question 6 the number of pounds you weigh above cleven and a half stone or ten stone. How many glasses of alcoholte drinks can you honestly say you drink on the average dur- ing week? Subtract this figure from 35 and mark down the result. the number of drielts per week is more than
35, subtract. this number from your figure for Question 7. to Mark yourself from 3
25 relax OF for your ability to habits of relaxation. If you are one of those who do not or tind _it_difficult to relax, then..._3′00 cannot mark yourself higher
than 5.
How many diversions or hob- bies have you which you use for relaxation? Count only those which either take you in the open air, or do not require stiff posture or tension, and which make you do things that are different from your regular (Bridge or parties, activities. Dr lodges and organisations or
night clubs, etc., are not to be included, as they require a cer- tain amount of mental, social or muscular tension).. How many hours of you get every night a.m.7 Multiply this 5.
sleep do before 3 gure by
12 How many hours per week of
athletic exercise do you take?
13 How many cups of coffee or tea
14
you drink? Sub- per day do tract this number from 25. Mark yourself from 1 10 25 to how much worrying you do liabitually. If you are the kind. of person who has a good deal of anxiety and has a habit of worrying, mark yourself no higher than 5. Then take your Agure and subtract it from 24.
I
read this first
average man
you are on
for woman), then you will live till you are fifty-seven...
But nobody is absolutely average. And there is no reason why you should not live quite a bit Jonger than statistics allow you.
or
or
15 Mark yourself from 1 to 25 ac- cording to how much love and affection you feel for one more of the opposite sex, or for children,
for people in whole. reneral, or for life as a (You can choose which, accord-
to which rates highest). If 4 you are one of those who are not deeply, emotionally iss- terested in any of these and are cynical about life, put down
zero.
First of all, here is a test which, if you follow it conscientiously, will icli you round about what age you will die. At the same time, most of the Alteen questions I asks gives you same sound advice which should help. you to increase that age. If it comes out that you haven't na long to live as you would like, then these ques- tions give you your
Naturally, the "test"
cannot be regarded
scientifically accurate, and therefore shouldn't be taken too seriously; but it gives a rough general indication, and in any
case the mere answering of the ques-
on
tians is a good mental exercise. They are based research work by psychologists and doctors, and one of the questions is supplied by a doctor who recently died at the age of a hundred,
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Ti age is arrived at by a system of marking, which at first may look a little complicated, but which is, in fact, quite simple.
Another
a middle-aged man with a thick," long beard, would make an ex- cellent valet for him. He decid- ed to play for him.
The wheel was spinning. The bearded man was about to an- nounce "Rien ne va plus" when he found himself being lifted bodily from his chair and being placed on red (an even moricy chunce).
bit of red on the map
Did
you.
know we
One of the red numbers won
The local tidéspeople are do- ing their utmost to have the casino closed. It appears that the English spend all the money there that they might be spend- ing in the shops.
DURING the peak sen-
son, now just finish- ing, there are about 1,500 visi- tors.
Seventy per cent. of these are English. Women outnum- ber the men by rather
than two to one.
more
Apart from the strident Eng- lish voice and hourse laugh, one
had a new small pro. would not notice their nation-
ality especially in the even-
vince where you fightings.
They deck themselves up in Tyrolean blouses and skirts, and
your best friend after try their utmost to resemble the
a drink?
OUR years ago, in a Kitzbuhel cafe, I asked a waiter for a dry Martini. He-brought me three (bless
him!).
At that same cafe the other day I made the same request. "Very good, sir," came the ans-.. wer. With or without angostura bitters?"
It is the same in the shops. One's exit is no longer followed by that sweet lilting Austrian "Auf wiedersehen," but by the formal "Good- bye, Sir!" of the English grocer.
Kitzbuhel has become thoroughly Angli- cised. Plumbers have been busy all the summer installing new baths, for it is well known that the English are a dirty race. They have to bathe at least once a day,
BACON-AND-EGGS are
now on the
breakfast menu of every hotel and pension. Large stock of whisky have been im ported for the first time..
A casino, to gratify the well-worn English theory "Man is by nature a gambling animal" —does a flourishing trade. A supply of kippers from Lowestoft is ordered each week by the "Goldene Gems" cafe.
local farmers' daughters.
The main sport is ski-ing. The funicular, however, is quite inadequate to deal with the in- creased popularity of the place.
The "bucket"
takes only nineteen people every twelve.
Strap-hanging on minutes.
the Ilford line must be com- fortable in comparison.
SKI-ING is the least snobbish and most exhilarating of all sports. It' is as easy to wrench a knee or break a leg on the nursery slopes as it is on the steepest run.
In fact, non-participant sitting on a shooting-stick at
the foot of the nursery slopes
had her leg broken in seven. places.
A skier, out of control and unable to stop, went slap into her.
I heard, when I arrived, that a girl had killed herself coming down the Fleck. She fell, and the end of her ski-stick went through her lung, There is, on: average, one leg broken a day.
administer it could the nations be freed from danger. It took forty years to persuade Govern- ! ments to face the facts and ̄ac"] cept international control, This they did at long last in 1892. Since the invention of wireless and the creation of the- League of Nations it has become possibio to fight disease by an easier and cheaper international method, As the Far East is the danger spot, the League has established an Eastern Office of its Health Organisation at Singapore. This oflice 18 iri contact with some 180 ports all over the Indian and Pacific Oceans and receives from those ports and supplies to them by wireless rapid notification re- garding epidemics. To show how the League Office works an example may be taken of a ship. from China arriving, say, at Sydney which is known to have touched during its voyage at a port where a number of cases of
Even sleepy little nearby Kirchberg, which plague have occurred since the
marks the finish of one of the ski-runs, has come ship left. The rats on board
under our influence.
On others they would send me may therefore be
Little boys from the local one day when I was being shav- infected.
into trees, make me sit down Singapore broadcasts the news quarantine. In this way the school hover round the church ed there,
"What a wonderful singer," I hard on icy patches, tangle them- selves in front and throw me on which is picked up in Australia League has saved the world's (where one takes off one's skis
to carry them to the bus-stop or remarked, in German. I relapsed thousands and the health authorities in shipping many
station),rush up on one's arrival into English to ask whether it my head. pounds by helping them informed. As
THE best part of any Sydney are
and ask, "Carry your skis, air?" was a he or a she. escape the expenses and delays
"No, air," he replied proudly; when one sits in à pub drinking ski-run is the end, consequence, on the ship's ar- of quarantine. Besides such in- THE only two people who also in English, "it is a canary. rival steps are taken to prevent telligence work, the League's
the excellent light Austrian THE only place in Kitz- beer, tired but relaxed at last,
buhel possibly infecting the shore rats an International Health Year looked after my room and the
where the happy in the consciousness that speaking of English is in any no bones have been broken. with plague. The ship is moor- Book showing the progress made barber who lived next door.
in the collective fight against Whenever I spoke, in my un- way frowned upon is the rather A band, with vocalist croon- led some distance off the quay
disease. It also arranges for orthodox German, to the maid dingy one-room casino. Here ing a l'anglalec, churns out the side, the cargo unloaded in
atudy tours of administrative she would blush, giggle vio- one speaks French.
Intest American and English ratproof sheds and gach bale or health authorities who are thus lently, and scamper off to pro- It is unlike any casino that I dance hits. (One feels stack of cargo examined and any able to exchange views and have duce the thirteen-year-old have ever been in. There is strangeness of dancing a fox-trot rats destroyed. The ship is, if access to the latest and most daughter of the house an in- none of the stolid hear-a-pin- in heavy, sodden rubber-soled necessary, fumigated before and scientific methods of fighting telligent youngster, who dili--drop atmosphere, and "immacu-, boots!) after unloading the cargo. At and preventing disease. Thus gently learned English out of a late evening dress" is conspi At half-past six the masculine. the same time Singapore has the League renders great ser- school-book most of the day: cuously absent. Betting is not inclination for stronger refresh-
vice to the cause of health by The barber had in his shop a high.
ment (to coin a phrase) rears ita given the warning to all ships co-ordinating the efforts and fine canary. It was in full song The most famous scene in it ugly head. Cocktails are very in the Far East who can con-pooling the experiences of all
A friend exponsive. Ialways used to take. sequently steer clear of the in-those engaged in the ceaseless the same as "drol which is German of mine decided that one of thothe local white wine (7d, a quar-
The joke is that "dry" sounded took place last year. fected port and thus avold war against disease.
croupiers at the roulette-table,
(L
of
to
cheered me up were
Jann Arvations hot hostname than the will be presented with the rats coming on shore and Health Organisation publishes the buxom young maid who
is out written, fumi National notions to
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We try to pretend that we are masters of our skis. I disagree. We are their slaves. They would take me whizzing down the mountainside, stopping, turning at the right places, with-
out a fail.
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