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5-DAY DIARY
FIRST DAY
ET out of bed even later than usual, after dreaming girl friend has un- accountably been chasing me round deserted house with carving knife.. Think this odd. Rise to find whole world sway- ing about me. Think this odder still. Mother makes pseudo-sympathetic marks about Christmas festivities and liver salts.
Stagger into bathroom, re- solved to be hardy; pick at breakfast. World still sways. I Set off to office swathed in furs, fiance's Christmas present, des- pite mother's warning that it is raining and rain is bad for fura. Feel better in train.
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Feel worse in office. No one there to notice new furs. Leave them lying on desk as long as possible, but no one comes in. SHOWROOM
Put them away. Holiday- spirit Boss says I looked wash- Phone 27778-9)ed out after Christmas revels.
Smile wanly, say It's nothing.
The
Feel much worse. Head spins, limbs ache, begin to shiver like wire-haired terrier. Sit brood- ing, teeth chattering, bathed in Argue cannot leave post of duty. Argue ought to leave post of duty for sake of others.
Hongkong Telegraph. perspiration.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1937.
WORLD TRADE OUTLOOK
BRAIN TEASER
When George was young and courting he read in a book that the age of a man's wife ought to be half her husband's age plus seven years.
So George started working out how much longer he would have to wait for his wedding. At the time the sum of his age and his girl's age and the differ- ence between his age and his girl's age was twenty years less than four times his girl's age.
If you don't know the answer und you want tu know the answer, it's at the fool of Column Seven.
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This article is not very serious but the advice br-
tore is.
It was given by LORD HORDER
Go to bed in a room that is as airy as possible.
A free current of air is fro bably Lie most important single point. If both ventila-
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CRAWL into bed, smothered in woollies,' hot-water bottles, hot drinks, and sympathy.
tion and warinth camust be obtained at the same time, give preference to ventilation.
The bed should be placed as near the centre of the room as possible, and all articles of furniture that are not required for nursing should be removed from the roam.
The amount of bedclothes. should be determined by the thermometer and not by the patient's sensations, but quilta and bed-covers are disallowed.
The diet should be restricted to warm quids... not less than four pints in twenty-four hours. The drinking of plain water, cold if preferred, is to be encouraged. "Feeding up" fa to be deprecated.
SECOND · DAY
side. That hip begins to ache. Sit up again, furious. Whole lower portion of body aches. Fall furiously asleep.
Wako up hungry and think about fool. Bacon and egga. Fried bread with perhaps one grilled kidney. Dripping toast. Roast chicken with green peas. Shall never cnt again.. Resign- ed to it after sleep. Rend book with sad love story, makes me weep a little. Think again about grilled kidneys. Doctor calls. Confide my dreams. He says I may have
boiled egg. Whole world is suddenly wonderful place, and he the best of men.
Egg is brought. It is beauti- ful, russet and good to look upon. 1 pore over it. I eat it. It is beyond words wonderful,
Sink back, mellow and sweet natured. Read love story and think love is wonderful. Agree with father that I look better. Let fiance take temperature to heart's content.
Only when am alone do I ad- mit have over-caten.
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FOURTH DAY
SURLY, Did not sleep. Resist flance's pre- office temperature-taking, De- clare he has thermometer fixa- tion. Father says am looking to tell much better. Refuse him I feel it. Demand cold creams, lipstick and manicure
WAKES feeling better. things. Work in silence. Bed Washing in bed pur- is again made of concrete and ticularly unpleasant. Hair has iron, pillows of cement. There come out of curl. Head aches. is no way in which any one can
bids food of all kinds. Have doesn't doctor come? Am bored. overwhelming thirst.
Hate reading, nothing to look at, no one to talk to, nothing to do. Toss about angrily. Fall 48- leep out of boredom.
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Begin to die again, and weep into pillow when every one has
gone.
THIRD DAY
temperature. Know it is down. Lie und curse because cannot get up. Know would be all right if I got up. Everything differ- ent when one gets up. Next room wonderful place.
Get up. Stagger into bosom of astonished family in next Room dis-
room.
At length feel so awful that decide post of duty must fend for itself. Shiver to beloved furs, shiver into taxi, shiver on One of the best indexes of Garbo and looking like death. duces. thermometer, but says Doctor calls and is hearty, for ever be comfortable in bed, Why
fiance's shoulder, feeling like I refuse doctor. Mother pro- world trade is that of the Shut eyes and prepare to die in none of us can read it. Fiance volume of merchandise which taxi, wondering if vibration is goes masterful, says he can. moves through the Suez Canal, taxi or my shivers. Discover Patient's chattering teeth are
it's my shivers.
clenched about thermometer, Fiance arrives, immediately writes D, M. Marvin, economist,
Am much and family stand looking hope takes temperature. for the Royal Bank of Canada.
ful. Thermometer removed. worse. Father, drawn like mag- The recent unprecedented rapid)
Fiance says 101. Father dis net by thermometer, returns and Wake up, and eat egg. Why rise in this volume inust be re-
putes this. Mother says How search for "silver bit up middle" this fuss about eggs? Dull can fiance tell. Fiance explains. begins again. No one can see it things. Fish, now-sole bonne. garded as most encouraging.
grilled turbot. Father and mother unconvinced, but fiance, Begin to think this femme For the quarter ending in June!
but interested. Fiance demons- sinister. Test temperature taken even steamed sole. Why doesn't 1937 the volume of this trade
trates, while father and mother again: below normal. Yet again, the doctor como? Deny father cluster round trying to see the 102. Once more, 101. Fiance the privilege of trying to take was within two per cent. of the
"silver bit up the middle." Are decides this most, suitable, so record levels attained in 1928
unsuccessful for twenty minutes. stops taking temperature. and 1929. For the early part of
At last cry from father: Does this year, League of Nations
fiance mean that black line? Finnce says it's silver to him. statistics indicate that volume of
Argument about colour reaction: world trade was more than
between father and. fiance. ninety per cent. of 1929. Suezi
Patient lies dying and goes to Canal figures, which are more
sleep.
BAD temper when I room. Sit down. nearly current than trade
wake. Have not slept. appointing. Nothing to do in Head begins to reel. WAKES even more dy- Father declares am looking Smile and say isn't this lovely. figures by countries, show that
ing. Wishes whole much better. Scowl. Am very further important gains have!
body would unscrew and aching hungry, but denied all but milk. Walk three times round sofa, been achieved during the year.
limbs could be removed. Has Hate milk, loathe orange juice. Feel very tall and completely watched contemptuously by cat. weep of self-pity which makes Snarl. Cat gives me contemp. made of glass. Say, Well, I think The world shortage of shipping
headache worse and breathing tuous look as upsets VAJO of and the recent rapid rise in
impossible. Struggles angrily flowers. Wonder how mattress I'll go back to bed now. Wobble shipping freight rates supply
with self. year in world trade, the
Father bursts in can have developed violent list back into bedroom, lie crying Shall he take her tem- to
thankfully in lovely further evidence which points volume should be about twenty perature, he can read it now. Worse. Wonder how pillows can starboard. Bed remade.
Go to sleep. in the same direction. Ship-per cent. above present levels Patient feels like experimental be stuffed with concrete. Know yards in many countries Bre before it
guinea-pig. Temperature taken. they are. Sit
up. Discover more active than for years.
Father has lost "black line" and mattress is stuffed with iron. "statistically normal". After fiance has to be recalled. Tem- Slide down. Lie on side. Hip
DOCTOR rings up to say During the first eight months the heavy recession of 1929 to perature now 103.
begins to ache. Lie on other Call jovially that he is a rotten he has influenza too. of 1937 the volume of mer-1932. however, the present re-
doctor. He replies, through chandise passing through the cord seems extraordinary,
mother, I am rotten patient. I Canal amounted to 22,139,000
Normally, the ships of Great
the aggregate, the Belgium and Holland. In its reply, Can I have some fish. He tons as compared with 16,563.- Britain have handled more than increase in the volume of freight onset the improvement was in- replies, Yes, and don't deserve 000 tons during the correspond-one-half of the total volume of handled by these other countries ternal. It took place behind ing months of 1936. In August merchandise passing through as compared
Itariff walls and resulted in the cident. I eat fish. I write let- Day becomes fraught with in- 1937 the tonnage amounted to the Suez Canal. Between 1929 great importance.
expansion of production for ters. I read. I play backgam- 2,789.000 48 compared with and 1932, however, the decline
home consumption; goods from mon. Fiance takes tempera- The total Italian foreign trude 2,071,000 in August 1936. This in British traffic by this route for the first six months of 1937
other countries were largely ex-ture, which is below normal. Takes it again and can't read it. is an extraordinary change for was disproportionately heavy was 147 per cent, ahead of that
cluded. Statistics of this type Takes it third time, finds it statistics which usually change and further losses were experi- of the corresponding months of
of improvement lend themselves norinal. Calls It a day. only very slowly.
to the argument advanced in The climax comes. The bath enced during the political dis- 1936: 90 per cent, of this was During 1935 and early 1936 turbance of 1936. While the in the form of increased trade favour of extreme nationalism is ready. I mount stairs. They are very steep. The bath looks there was a pronounced decline volume of British freight dur- with her colonics. This special and self-sufficiency. In the past horrible. I no longer want it. in Sucz traffic because of dis-ing 1937 has shown a healthy comment
two years, however, the bene-I protest. Mother stands by concerning Italian
fits turbed political conditions in increase over that of 1936, it is trade is borne out by the move-
of increased purchasing looking encouraging. Got into it, stubbing tacs, which are too that part of the world. Even still well below the level of 1929. ment of freight through the power have resulted in a greater far away from me to be man- during this period the steady. This is also true for the Nether-Suez Canal, Norway has risenow of international trade and ageable. Enjoy bath, but it is.
talk of self-sufficiency has given alt very difficult. Feel upward trend of world trade was lands and Sweden. German and from eighth place in Suez
bed. Feel better.
can
be considered
1929. In
with 1920 is of
it.
FIFTH DAY
down soft bed.
dizzy
maintained. The extraordinary French traffic are buck reason- Canal traffic to sixth place in place to renewed recognition of when it is all over. Retire to rise beginning in the latter part ably close to 1929 levels. The 1937, and the increase
the desirability of foreign mar- Call for lipstick. Call for in the kets. The change in the volume food. Talk of getting up next of 1936, however, seems to fore-amount of freight moved by trade of Greece has also been of world trade has largely day. shadow a further continued in Italy has increased enormously notable.
Decide I am no longer ill, and crease in world trade if there is over the amount moved in 1929,
escaped notice because it has
go to sleep. Over the past five years Inter-taken place at a time when in- no political setback, Year by but the reason for this is
Joan Myers national statistics most common-ternational political diMculties year there has been a marked obvious the Ethiopian adven- ly quoted have indicated have held the centre of the seasonal trend in Suez traffic,ture. While the amount of but the upward movement dur-freight moved by any of the steady and consistent improve-stage. If the trend of world mont in the internal trade of trade, as indicated by the recent ing the past twelve months has other major shipping countries Great Britain, countries of the movement of goods through the been so rapid as to obscure the is not in itself significant, it is sterling bloc and also of the Suez, is maintained, of itself normal seasonal trend in both a matter of some interest that
curves.
Answer to George's problem In Column Three is four years. You let his age be m years and his girl's age be a years, and make equations of what his girl's ago la and what it should
With a long-term in- in each instance the volume is United States. More recently this will constitute a basis for
bo improvement has been noted in optimism concerning the pollti- crease of two or three per cent. I substantially ahead of that In other countries, particularly cal and economic outlook.