Not Like Other Girls.
The lot of the girl who is "not like other girls" in the fact that she can- not participate in outdoor games because she lacks the strength and energy to do so is indeed hard. When she does overcame her nervous disinclination, and utleinpta to play, sho quickly gets out of breath, her heart thumps appallingly, her face becomes Bushed and her head dizzy. she feels hot and distressed and soon has to stop, completely exhausted.
·THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1937.
BRITAIN LEADS IN BUILDING
NEW HOUSES
3,350,000 SINCE THE
ARMISTICE
Record Number In
September
in the
The trouble with this girl is that she is anusale. Her blood has be- come to thin and impoverished that
Housing and health became the ratting party speech characteristic-| her whole system is starved through lack of that nourishment which chief subjects of the debate of the ally adorned by a luxuriance of vlo-
lent epithet. normal healthy, rich, red blood carries Address recently.
Finding a reference Sir Kingsley Wood gave the House! every minute of the day to the organs, muscles, fibres and nerves of then account of progress and policy in King's Speech to the League of Na- body.
these departments which had much tions, he deduced confirmation of his new information of importance. suspicions that the Government were guilty not merely of treachery to the League, but of
double-dyed trea- chery. Unrest in his party offered the assurance that their new decision on defence polley did not mean they were
were "Yes-men National Government,"
Ministers would not deal with the
To such a girl Dr. Williams' Pink Pilis-so-called because of their plak sugar coating-give immediate help, containing, as they do, just the elements necessary to build up the blood, to fill it with red corpuscles, to enrich it with energy-producing, brain, nerve and musele feeding haemoglobin. And persevered with for from 30 to 40 days their bene- fleent results are astonishing.
It was triumphantly shown that no country had done so much for housing as our own.
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Over 3,350,000 new houses have now been built since the Armistice, Many thousands more are being com- pleted monthly, and the number un der construction, at the end of September, 70,000, was a record. cost of living because they dared not The five years' slum clearance pro- rob the pronteer of his illgotten gains. Kramme had more than kept the pro- Th
They were afraid to face the problem Equally good for men, and oblain-mise of Its schedule. It was being of mainutrition because they were in
and now. in-office to
the system which, able from chemists everywhere, continually extended, you are run-down, weak, pallid, lack eluded over 400,000 houses, an in-made such things inevitable.
Sir Kingsley Wood, before proceed. appetite, weight, spirit, you will be crease of 44 per cent. on the first wise to give an Immediate trial to plan. No fewer than 650,000 slum ing to serious matters, chaited Mr. dwellers had been moved to better Greenwood on the adjectives he had Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, homes.
looked up during the vacation, ond dismissed his speech as a typical effort of opposition In the last resort, with little or nothing to say in sub- stantial criticism of the Government's measures.
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The subsequent debate was desul- Achind wandered
RURAL HOUSING SUBSIDY Overcrowding in many districts was already abated by some 20 per cent. Sir Kingsley agreed with the criticism that the statutory definition of what constituted overcrowdings tory. Sir should be improved. But work to through vague indignation on foreign the present standard still required, affairs, and lamented that Govern with slum clearance. 300,000 more ment supporters did not want to fight interests. Mr. houses, and to meet that need was except for British the Best duty.
Ells
Smith attacked the Ministry of for a a Buliding prices, he reported, had Pensions officials, and asked fallen since the sudden rise In the Select Committer to investigate its oring, and showed a tendency to administration. Mr. Lansbury put the pacifist case with, his usuni fer- With progress in rural housing any foreign Power was in the end vour. Capt. Cazalet declared that if was net satisfied. lle emphasised the foumi in possession of any part of importance of the measure to give more help from the Exchequer for Spanish territory, he would support cottages to he let at low rents to action by this country to dislodge the agricultural workers.
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It was obvious that the anxiety EXPENDITURE ON ROADS aroused by the plan
rebuild Mr. Alexander, who wound up for Newlyn had given the Minister much the Socialists, repeated yet once more the nervous asseveration that they
concern.
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GIANT POLISH BALLOON TO SOAR 20 MILES INTO STRATOSPHERE
Zurich.
The Polish balloon plant at Legionowo is building a revolu- tionary type stratosphere balloon designed to safely reach a record height of 20 miles, it was revealed here by Major M. Mazurek. director of the plant.
the
It is planned that the ascent take will be trolled under it, emply with pluce in 1938 between July and the aerial airtight Er suspended
below both. September from near the village of Polish army. Ojcow, near Cracovia,
With officers may pilot the novel, craft.
increasing altitude. hydrogen will expand and escape, The balloon will be of gigantic through a special valve, into the constructed for this purpose. The balloon Prof. Auguste Plecard used
Efforts by the Ministry of Health rather than to the human factor dimensions, far larger than any yet lower bog. eventually filling it.
Turcater
He discussed at length the generai hnd not made a volte-face on defence, problem of renovation versus demoli- but his main themes were alarms of tion, protesting frat that an outward- coming slump and increased unem ly picturesque and attractive cottage ployment with. protests against the was not necessarily n healthy home,higher cost of living.
The Minister of Transport, Mr. but arewing his own preference for Burgin, made the Government reply. renovation rather than pulling down He had something to say of his own if the result was effective,
department, insisting that accidents were caused by
defects. We hul n rondage per square
quare mile than to persunde local authorities to make
This procedure will greatly lessen use of their powers for recondition-any country, much greater than Ger -in- -1931-and-1032-for-tho-Arst flights the dangers-during take-off, since_a ing, he announced, were at last bear many. In the last six years we had into the lower stratosphere had a light balloon of such huge proper ing fruit, though his figures showed spent on major improvements and volume of 14,100 cubic metres; the tions as to be almost unmanageable that hitherto the possibility had been new construction £80,000,000.
Polish giant will have 120,000 cubic) on the ground would be necessary To Mr. Alexander's alarms he re-
fully inflated. The to reach an altitude of 20 miles. neglected.
Emphasis was significantly laid on trade expansion had not come to an and Russians to beat Piccard's record almost certainly wreck a balloon this
torted by evidence that the period of metres when
Americans The slightest breath of air would balloons later used by the Importance of the design and
end, and pointed out that while low i the obligation to entrust schemes to major causes of depression, a rise had bag. but were bables compared to material of new rural housing and commodity prices were one of the he present record is about 14 miles) size, fully inflated on the ground..
were much larger than Piccard's Having announced that the Mid-brought increased export trade and
the one now being built. wives Act would be in operation over the whole country next January, he
similar scheme for nurses. He was
to set up about
a committee to examine in:0 the conditions and recruitment of the nursing profession. SOCIALIST ATTACK Mr. A. Greenwood opened
persons of experience.
employment.
declared his hope to Introduce Crow Invades Courtroom
debate
for the
Socialists
with
To the hermetically sealed metal car In the Polish craft will be attached a giant parachute, in which The Polish balloon is really two is hoped the observers would be
balloons-one of only 4,000 cubic able to descend safely should metres capacity and a diameter of accident occur.-United Press. 24 metres superimposed upon and Bucyrus, O.
connected with a bigger bag of 116,- Court house employees were amazed 000 cubic metre capacity and a when a handsome crow, seemingly diameter of 60 metres. For the quite fame, flew into
probate judge's chambers and hopped about ascent of the first few thousand feet, the contentedly for some time before the upper balloon will be filled with hydrogen gas and the lower balloon a flapping away again.
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He was gleen four stormtroopers and a non-commissioned oficer accompany him.
to
He laid his wreath, then some one looked at the inscripíion. With con- sternation it was found that the wreath was in honour of the Jewish war dead.
Two policemen took Mr. Gennett to the palice station and questioned him. Then he was allowed to go.
The man in charge of the memo rial has now placed a bunch of geraniums over the offending · in- scription,
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