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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1937.
Last Month the Prime Minister asked for a Fitter Britain
T
body.
HERE IS AN ARTICLE ON
WHAT YOU'RE MADE OF AND
HOW YOU CAN MAKE THE MOST
OF IT
HE Fitter Britain Campaign was officially opened by the Prime Minis- ter last month.
To get filter you must learn more about your
You might never in your life have handled a spanner or an oil-can. You might have no in terest at all in anything mechanical. But you are in charge of a machine that no engineer on, carth can duplicate.
Your body is more efficient than the finest steam engine or the most expensive motor-car. For the fuel you put into it you get back 30 per cent, or 40 per cent, productive mechanical energy. The steam engine gives back only 15 per cent.; the motor-car only 25 per cent.
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The ingredients of the human afufafaf body-without n mind inaldeare worth only a few shillings. There is enough cholorine in it to disinfect live swimming pools; enough fat for ten bars of soap; enough hydrogen to All a gas-bag that would lift a man; enough Irun to make a targe nail; enough carbon for 9,000 lead pencils; enough phosphorus for 2,200 malches; enough lime to whitewash a chicken coop; enough sult to sea- twenty-five chlekens; enough #lycerine explode a naval shell; enough gluten to make Blbs. of glue; small tumounts of different salts anti metals and ten gallons of water.
son
But all that is not very expensive to buy.
Selentifle research workers might pay a few pounds for a body. They pay twelve guinens for a normal skeleton.
But they are more interested in abnormal "bodies; not the ones that work well, day in, day out, for a fow score yours. And that is the sort you have got if you are a nor- mul, healthy being...
...
AND HERE
IS A GUIDE
TO RUNNING
REPAIRS AND
TUNING UP
Have at least eight hours' sound sleep every night in a well- ventilated room so that brain and nerves are clear and alert for
next day's work.
A good digestion is impossible without sound teeth. Clean them every morning and night, and let your dentist examine them
once in six months,
3. The heart can be strained by continuous over-exertion, so never run fast, bathe, or undertake any strenuous exercise Immedinte- ly after a heavy meal. Consult a doctor if you have frequent pains in the heart region or suffer from breathlessness.
4. The abdominal muscles support the Intestines and other vital
organa. They cannot do this if they are allowed to become flabby. Exercise them by trunk bending, stretching, and turning
If
5. The liver is responsible for removing poisons from the body.
it is sluggish these polsons get into the blood stream. Regular doses of saline to cleanse, and a regular "liver-squeezing” exercise (berding the body from side, knees kept straight) will
keep it active.
6.
The feet have to bear the weight of the body, Keep them free from corns by wearing well-litting shoes, and in good condition by toe bending and stretching exercises.
Two billion of these cells are in the brain. If the blood supply to
With a mind inside it, is worth a the brain wholly ceuses for only good dent more than a few shillings, seven or eight minutes, the cells American scientists have spent several necessary for Intelligent action are years and hundreds of pounds Just to permanently damaged. build a repilen of the human body in
MARRYING
MARRIED for money. Somehow
it is not considered su much an
gloss and metal. But it has not u The brain of an average man mind; for a mlad is worth anything weighs 40%4025.; that of n woman offence for a woman to marry for up to £200,000,000, or more.
weighs 44ozs.
John D. Rockefeller showed that.
rules:
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FOR
MONEY
enrefully over what they are · likely to win or lose before they plunge
money. I do not understand why A SELFISH DECISION into a marriage purely for money. there should be this difference, un- The nerve cells that control us less it is because a woman is sup- amount to only one ave-thousandth posed to have more right to the com- strove to WE should all be a lot nt of our total weight, the nerve mes-fort and luxuries of life than a man, success.
kept to these sages that are flashing backwards which sounds rather illogical.
ter if we
Don't have meals in a hurry: we need an hour for meal time in the middle of the day; half an hour at breakfast, and half an hour at ten.
Gel more exercise; cat food that is good for us.
best.
Most people find it too much trou. ble to keep to diets and exercises. But it is a paying game.
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I cannot resist the urge to reply "An Unrepentant Husband" muke his married life a to
who "married for money and has I only wish I had similar charac- never regretted it." In the a rate of nearly 270 miles an hour, Atter reading a certain article I teristics, for my marriage, plast has place I should like to congratulate or 130 yards o second.
came to the conclusion that it must not been a success. Certainly I have him his exceptional good fortune. admire his absolute take a certain type of character to all the comfort and luxury mur- Secondly,
my husband WATER is an essential part make a success of this sort of married for, and
Isap honey, which, however, leaves me the body. Blood ringe. In his circumstances, and purently quite happy, so 1
to reproach his rather practical type of nothing
myself with no alternative but to reply in un Don't have long walls between forms only 6 per cent, of our weight, with meals.
but water is equal to ten times as mind, it proved to be successful, and from that quarter. But my life has equally honest strain and say that
all honour to him that it did so.
something lacking. It he revealed himself as being selfish, The definitely lady appeared to be in love with seems to have little or no purpose. self-seeking, and self-satlanted. Don't hurry about walts between
in him, and he, fully
before If 10 per cent. of the water
appreciative of Perhaps ny circumstances meals.
He scoffs at the sentimentalist who the body is lost, serious Hiness fol- the material advantage of the union, marriage may throw some light on
the subject.
dicclures that "love is everything." Don't hurry about so much; take lows. A 20 per cent. loss of water
What he does not seem to realise is life more easily.
in the body means almost certain
As may be expected, I was brought that the success of his marriage is death.
breathe. A normal breath-taken up in somewhat struggling circum- largely due to the fact that his wife Everybody should drink a quart fteen to twenty times a mlaute stances. My parents had a very was, and has been all along, in love of milk each day-not only because ives us two quarts of air. A deep imited income, and I was forced to with him; and that, coupled with Well, what food is good for us? it is n quld, but because hus all breath tukes in a gallon.
work at an earlier age than most the material comforts her money has Two American professors say: "Eat the vitamins in it. Milk is
girls, I believe. When I was nine- been able to provide, has completely what you want after you have dairy producer. All the other high-protein into the lungs is breathed out again. was earning about £2 10s a week.
Only one-fth of the air breathed teen, I was engaged to a man who satisfied his one-aided desires. products, fruit, and vegetables are foods are acid producers. But at Oce workers breathe only one- We were both deeply in love with
He now looks with calculating eyes present the average person drinks tenth the amount they could. That's each other, and had planned
to at the other girl with whom he was why they're pale. less than a pint cach day.
Lu love, marry in two years time.
and pats himself on the Ordinarily, about five pints of
back at his fortunate escape. Ho The nose, important helper in the A Definite Mistake water pass through the human body breathing business, excels in the job
considero himself noble because, in the days when he was in love with At birth, a male child can expect for a great deal of it.
every day. Perspiration accounts of smelling, too. It can smelt one
ho suffered by repressing his In part of vanillin perfume in ten mil all probability I would have her to uld he ever give a passing 10 Chilly in the extreme (8). to live another Mity-nine years; a
to sallors Ilon parts of air. female can expect to live another Saliva in the mouth is a signat
curtainly married him, if it hadn't thought to her side of the question? Vegetable been for my mother's advice, and
either reversed or curtulled (4). sixty-three years, Those who live to that we need more water. Yet Ball-
TN the human body there the attentions of a rather wealthy fifty can expect to last, perhaps, to va is 98 per cent, water itself.
I suppose it never occurred to him 14 A stepping over the mnek (13) We seventy. But not many do.
aro 200 bones: 627 mus-business man whom I happened to that, despite the fact that he had not 10 Result in the cherry stories Yet it form more than one quart of it daily. clés, some with 600,000 Abres in meet through a friend of mine.
It is amazing how the body keeps them.
actually asked the
rhymes (5). girl to marry they take care what they cat and how they eat, they can go on living at an even temperature around 98.4 young, has 328 taste buds, but after sented
The tongue, when we дго
It happened that my flance re gement, to return his love. That 23 Put on this what is to be put off
him, he had given her every encoura-22 A companion finishes ailve (7) well post eighty.
dog. F all the time.
the age of twenty these tend to die mother definitely approved, and 59. She soon
his attentions, while
(5) my apparently was of no consequence, During fever it can rise to, 104 appear, and old people have only to cut a long story short, that is how young man and got married. How Most brain workers.cat top much.
found herself another 25 To this between doubles is dif
ficult (13) An average ran lying quietly in bed deg. F., but it, as in sunstroke, it about 100 of them."
I came to marry, more or less for typles that is of the average man's 31. The turning of this may indicate needs. just two lumps of sugar each rises to 100 deg. F. or more, and
to satisfy his body's needs, stays put for a few hours, nerve in our body, too-the safely margin
We have got a blg safety margin money.
point of view.
the catching of it beheaded (4), hour
33 Material for a pudding (8). But when he glands up his needs in- cells in the brain break down. that engineers allow
For a time, about six months to be when
Potr girl! How bitter her thoughts 31 Instrumental preliminary to air they exnet, I was certainly quite happy, must have been when she found her crease 10 per cent. A brisk walk
Alcoholle intoxication
bridges and ships and sky- but soon the monotony of my mar- self gently but Armly put on one side 35 An example (8).
production (a). sends the requirements up 200 per
body temperature down to 75 deg. with one eye or one car; but we are foreign travel did little to relieve this tural reaction was to find solace in
send scrapers. We could carry on living ringe life began to pall, and oven for a woman with money, Her na 30 The edge of this official is most cent.
F. At that stage the heart tend to given two. IT is strange that people become sluggish. But men can be
another man's affection; but in mar learn all kinds of things exposed to outside temperatures The heart can work twice as hard about a cur before they start run- above 250 deg. F. or under 30 deg. as it usually does without ill effect. years,
I have been married for several rage. It is the woman's love that ning it yet make their living with E. below zero and still keep an even Three-quarters of the liver can be and I am quite convinced I made a already been given where it was not We have had no children, home and a house, and her love had makes all the difference between a A much better machine without body temperature.
cut away, without serious diatur- definite mistake. I do not reproach bothering at all about how it works. The body heat caused by twenty bance. One lung can be collapsed myself unduly, because I feel that desired. No wonder she turned into
The marvel is how the human minutes hard muscular work would, and life goes on."
the adverse circumstances had n
☐ shrew. body works at all. For in it are one if not dispersed very quickly con-
to do with it. Nevertheless I am million billion cells that Is, five vert all the albuminous substance in
One must admit that “Unrepentant not let this extra convinced I have missed the really fustand" took a great risk, and I hundred million times the total num- the bedly into stuff, like hard-boiled laziness, You must exercise it you ing afraid to tackle marriage with the courage of his convictions; but
lull you
Into essential things in life through be at least give him credit for having ber of people in the world. All egg. those cells have to function perfect-
want to be healthy all the time, and out. a substantial bank-book at my I cannot say that I admire the char- THREE hundred million air brisk walking, with deep breathing back.
acteristics which prompted his ac- cello with a superficial and armswinging, is the best and I would therefore warn men and tion.
women, especially women, to think.
Just a Woman.
ly together without argument, B0
that we can live comfortably and well.
can
build
do Bmargin
area of 200 square yards help us to easiest exercise for everybody,
cnnul.
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of him (6)
known
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(0)
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this occupation (0)
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he would probably fly (0),
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(5).
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content (4)
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necessarily
slender as motorista know (3)
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