THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY.
JULY 20
1938.
"NO THERMOMETER
Pleasure Found In Misery
JUDGE ON VARYING DEGREES OF ENJOYING LIFE INFORTUNATELY we have no thermometer of hapiness,” said Mr. Justice Langton when hearing cross-appeals, in the Admiralty Court recently raising the question of "expectation of life." The law on the point was, he said, extremely perplexing.
His lordship recalled a case in which Mr. Justice Charles had disagreed with a jury which had awarded £350 to one of two children injured in a perambulator, and gave £1,000 in respect of a child who was killed. Mr. Justice Charles said he thought the damages were exces- sive.
"Another court," said Mr. Jus-Eur we stuck to the fuels and tice Langton, "awarded a man multiplied by three! (Laughter). of 70 £1,000, taking into account the added zest imparted to life by the fact that he played golf. He had not even been killed.
Later, when counsel quoted the Registrar's finding and submitted that he had erred in considering the mutter statically, the judge asked:
"Did you say ecstattenlly? (Laugh- "Some men enjoy life most ter). I see he talks about the 'joy when they are most raiserable. of living* when I should have As one of the judges in the thought the gulding word was 'ex- House of Lords said in a recent pectation' and not 'enjoyment."
case, all this plunges one into "Enjoyment of lite is a pure ques- Loo abstruse thinking."
tion of temperament. Men who
i have led the tnost niserable exial-
than men who have had o sheltered comfortable and untroubled career."
LIFE AT 44
Mr. Justice Langton's statement ences have enjoyed li infinitely more wh prompted by cross-appeals from an award in the case of 22 claimants. relatives of nine Frenchmen drowned after a collision In the North Sean
Mr. . Bateson, for the owners 1838, between the French stener of the Spanish ship. suggested that Borer and the Spanish steamer young own enjoyed and expected Aizkarni Mendi,
more of life than the elder, and the teourt must be speelally generous to
do not
The Spanish shipowners complain-youth
that the Registrar, influenced by decisions of the King's Bench judges, Mr Justine Langton: had made assessments higher than
thirak * person enjoys life more at those to which nautical practitioners 23 than at 44, though he may expect
had been used.
to. and I have to get at the value of his expectation It does not come Els lordship said he supposed down to an arithmetiend sum, yet I judge might use his knowledge, of Fṛunnol, in exploring the intangible. the grades of French society. The Ignore arithmétie. widow of a cook bruci been given
1,000 and the widow of a second engineer £4,000, with allowances several hundreds to her children
BAR CUSTOM
"Do I give damages for the loss the life of a man who has cirrhosis of a life? would not give much for
of the liver!
Mr. Bateson remarked that one The one had become the richest judge had said that in considering widow of a French cook in all France, the value of life one had to consider and the other, at the age of 28, was the debits and the eredita. 4 more affluent woman than her sister next door, who had not lost Mr. her husband,
OF HAPPINESS" ༡༡
Claiming the Spoils of Victory
While Japanese infantrymen line the sides of the narrow road in a protective fence, a Japanese tank is pictured above as it enters the shell-shattered gato of Mongchen in Anhuel province. The ancient Chinese pagoda on the gate's top has surrendered to modern death- dealing machines. Here is typified the spoils of victory. The Chinese defenders routed after o flerce battle, the victorious soldiers occupy the captured city to plunder and pillaga to reward for their triumph.
Hay-fever Sufferers
Have Found A Cure
THOUSANDS of hay-fever victims are getting relief by a new treatment-“ionisation." Trouble that has long baffled the doctors is yielding to a special kind of electrical current.
A tiny electrode is inserted į No harsh cautery. Is involved. The what are they, in trying to find the electrical current passes through stored.
Justice Langton: Yes, but into the patient's nostril, and an inflamed tissues are soothed and re- une thing needful? I do not know "Are we to make it more valuable whether the millionaire or the dust- the over-sensitive and congested retain iman had the best of it. There must membranes lining the inside of
be dustrnen who regard fe as a the nose. Imuch better thing than does the
to lose a husbond than tu him?" he asked.
and
Mr. G. H. Wilmer, for the French- jaded and eareworn millionaire who man, observed that the husband of is disillusioned the sister next door might go on to everything.
blase about be promoted.
"Am I to give more for the mil- Mr. Justice Langton: There you lionaire than for the dustman who are!
You call an employer to say has got held of the better thing?" that the deceased was "In the run-the judge continued. ning for £500 a year," and then you question for an actuary.
"It is really a multiply by 10. When
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"One of the judges in the House of Lords said, blissfully, that some- thing must be left to the common- sense of judges. Well, that is the common-sense of the matter as I see
His lordship reserved judgment.
it."
"Ionisation" means that minute particles of electrical energy ste set free in the affected tissues. Exactly how they bring about their healing effect is not fully under- stood yet.
X-rays.
The new treatment floes not use
At the Margaret-street Hospital in London, where the new treatment has been tried out, people who have suffered all their lives have gained complete relict.
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