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5-DAY
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 re- marks about Christmas festivities and liver salts.
Stagger into bathroom, re- solved to be hardy; pick at breakfast. World still sways. 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 furs. Fect better in train.
Feel worse in offlee. No one
Hongkong Hotel there to notice now furs. Leave
Stubbs Rd.
Garage
SHOWROOM
The
Phone 27778-9
them lying on desk as long as possible, but no one comes in. Put them away. Holiday- spirit Boss says I looked wash- ed out aftor Christmas revels. Smile wanly, say It's nothing.
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 anke of others.
Hongkong Telegraph. perspiration.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1037.
WORLD TRADE OUTLOOK
At length feel so awful that decile post of duty must fend for itself. Shiver to beloved furs, shiver into taxi, shiver on fiance's shoulder, feeling like
DIARY
of a
FLU
Victim
·If you
go down
with it
This article is not very serious but the advier bo- lone is. It was given by
LORD HORDER
Go to bed in a room that la as airy as possible.
A free current of air is pro- bably the most important single point. If both ventila-
CRAWL into bed, smothered in woollies, hot-water bottles, hot drinks, and sympathy.
tion and warmth cannot 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 room.
The amount of bedclothes should be determined by the thermometer and not by the patient's sensations, but quilts and bed-covers are disallowed. The diet should be restricted to warm liquids
.. not less than four pints in twenty-four hours. The drinking of plain water, cold if preferred, is to bo encouraged. "Feeding up" is to be deprecated,
SECOND DAY.
aide. That hip begins to ache. Sit up again, furious, Whole lower portion of body aches. Fall furiously asleep.
think Wake up hungry and about food. Bacon and eggo. Fried bread with perhaps one grilled kidney. Dripping toast.. Roast chicken with green peas. Shall never eat again. Resign- ed to it after sleep.. Read 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.. I 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 flance 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 fiance'a pre- office temperature-taking. De- clare he has thermometer fixa- tion. Father says am looking much better. Refuse to tell him I feel it. Demand cold creams, lipstick and manicure WAKES feeling better. things. Work in silence. Bed Washing in bed par- is again made of concrete and ticularly unpleasant. Hair has iron, pillows of cement. There I refuse doctor. Mother pro- come out of curl. Head aches. is no way in which any one can 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 Shut eyes and prepare to die in none of us can read it. Fiance, bids food of all kinds. Have doesn't doctor come? Am bored. taxi, wondering if vibration is goes masterful, says he can. overwhelming thirst,
Hate reading, nothing to look at, no one to talk to, nothing to do. taxi or my shivers. Discover Patient's chattering teeth are
Fiance arrives, immediately Toss about angrily. Fallas- clenched it's my shivers.
about and family stand looking hope- takes temperature. Am much leep out of boredom. ful. Thermometer removed. worse. Father, drawn like mag-
Wake up and eat egg. Fiance says 101. Father dis- net by thermometer, returns and putes this. Mother says How scurch 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-solo bonne Father and mother unconvinced, but flance. Begin to think this femme... grilled turbot but interested. Fiance demons- sinister. Test temperature taken even steamed sole. Why doesn't trates, while father and mother again: below normal. Yet again, the doctor come? Deny father Once more, 101. Flance the privilege of trying to take cluster round trying to see the 102. "silver bit up the middle." Arc decides this most suitable, so temperature. Know it is down. Lic and curse because cannot get unsuccessful for twenty minutes. stops taking temperature.
up. Know would be all right At last cry from father: Does
if I got up. Everything differ- fiance mean that black line?
ent when one gets up. Next room Fiance says it's silver to him.
wonderful place. · Argument about colour reaction between father and fiance.
world trade is that of the volume of merchandise which moves through the Suez Canal, writes D. M. Marvin, economist, for the Royal Bank of Canada. The recent unprecedented rapid
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 busband'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,
thermometer,
Patient lies dying and goes to sleep.
Begin to die again, and weep into pillow when every one has gone.
THIRD DAY
Why
rise in this volume must be re- garded most encouraging. For the quarter ending in June 1937 the volume of this trade was within two per cent. of the record levels attained in 1928 and 1929. For the early part of this year. League of Nations statistics indicate that volume of world trade was more than
Get up. Stagger into bosom Suez
of astonished family in next ninely per cent, of 1929.
room. Sit down. Room dis- Canal figures, which are more
BAD temper when I than nearly current
trade
wake. Have not slept. appointing. Nothing to do in room. Head begins to "reel. WAKES even more dy Father declares- amlooking Smile and say Isn't this lovely. figures by countries, show that
ing. Wishes whole much better. Scowl. Ami very further important gains have
body would unscrew and aching hungry, but denied all but milk, Walk three times round sofa, watched contemptuously by cat. limbs could be removed. Has Hato milk, loathe orange juice. Feel very tall and completely been achieved during the year.
weep of self-pity which makes Snarl. Cat gives me contemp. made of glasar Say, Well, I think The world shortage of shipping
headache worse and breathing tuous look as upsets VISO of and the recent rapid rise in
I'll go back to bed now. Wobble impossible. Struggles angrily flowers. Wonder how mattress back into bedroom, lie down shipping freight rates supply a year in world trade, the crying Shall he take her tem- to
with self. Father bursts in can have developed violent list thankfully in lovely soft bed. further evidence which points volume should be about twenty perature, he can read it now. Worse, Wonder how pillows can
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 are before it
arc. Sit up. Discover can be considered guinea-pig. Temperature taken, they
mattress is stuffed with Iran. more active than for years. "statistically normal". After fiance has to be recalled. Tem. Slide down. Lie on side. Hip begins to ache. Lie on other
If you don't know the answer and you want to know the answer, It's at the fool of Column Seven.
Father has lost "black line" and
starboard. Bed remade.
FIFTH DAY DOCTOR rings up to say
1
he has influenza too. During the first eight months the heavy recession of 1929 to perature now 103.
· Call jovially that he is a rotten 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. Canal amounted to 22,139,000
1929. In the aggregate, the Belgium and Holland. In its reply, Can I have some fish. He Normally, the ships of Great tons as compared with 16,668,- Britain have handled more than increase in the volume of freight onset the improvement was in-replien, 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 it.
tariff walls and resulted in the eident. I eat fish. I write let. Day becomes fraught with in- ing months of 1936. In August merchandise passing through as compared with 1929 is of
expansion of production for 1937 the tonnage amounted to the Suez Canal. Between 1929 great importance.
ters. I read. I play backgam- . home consumption; goods from mon. Fiance takes tempera- 2,789,000 As compared with and 1932, however, the decline The total Italian foreign trade 2,071,000 in August 1936. This in British traffic by this route for the first six months of 1987 eluded. Statistics of this type Takes it third time, finds it 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 of improvement lend themselves normal. Calls it a day. statistics which usually change and further losses were experi- of the corresponding months of
to the argument advanced in The climax comes. The bath only very slowly.
enced during the political dis-1936; 90 per cent, of this was
favour of extreme nationalism is ready. I mount stairs. They During 1936 and early 1936 turbance of 1936. While the in the form of increased trade
are very steep. The bath looks. and self-sufficiency. In the past horrible. I no longer want it. there was a pronounced decline volume of British freight dur- with her colonies. This special two years, however, the bene- I protest. Mother stands by in Suez traffic because of dis- ing 1937 has shown a healthy comment concerning Italian
fits of increased purchasing looking encouraging. Get into turbed political conditions in increase over that of 1936, it is trade is borne out by the move-
it, stubbing toes, which are too power have resulted in a greater far away from me to be man- that part of the world. Even still well below the level of 1929. ment of freight through the
flow of international trade and ageable. Enjoy bath, but it is. during this period the steady, This is also true for the Nether-Suez Canal. Norway has risen talk of self-sufficiency has given all very dificult. Fen! dizzy upward trend of world trade was lands and Sweden. German and from eighth place in Suez
over. Retire to maintained. The extraordinary French traffic are back reason-Canal traffic to sixth place in the desirability of foreign mar-
place to renowed recognition of when it is all
bed. Feel better.
Call for lipstick. Call for rise beginning in the latter part ably close to 1929 levels. The 1937, and the increase 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 escaped notice because it has crease in world trade if there is over the amount moved in 1929,
go to sleep. Over the past five years inter- taken place at a time when in-
Joan Myers no political setback,
Year by but the reason for this is national statistics most common-ternational political, difficulties 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 steady and consistent_improve-stage. If the trend of world but the upward movement dur-freight moved by any of the ment in the internal trade of trado, 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 keen so rapid as to obscure the is not in itself significant, it is storling bloc and also of the Buez, is maintained, of itself normal acasonal trend in both a matter of some interest that United States. More recently this will constitute a basis for curves. With a long-term in- in each instance the volume is improvement has been noted in optimism concerning the politi crease of two or three per cent. substantially ahead of that. In other countries, particularly cal and economic outlook.
Answer to George's problem In Column Three la four years. You let his age be m yearn med his girl'a ngo be oʻyears, and make equations of what him ́girl's age is and; what it should
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