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Have you ever sat down and asked yourself what are tho factors which determine your own expectation of life?, It's really rather interesting, and few when you've grasped a facts you'll be able roughly to assess your own chances. First I'll remind you of the cheer- ing news that your chances of lite aro improving ns the years poss..
In 1931 the death rate was 10 per
This bright ind can Jook forward to a lite 20 years longer than his grandfather's.
The fact, revealed by the Minister of Health in his annual report, Just Imnued, led
DAVID HAMPTON
to write this article, In which ho discusses
your chance of long life.
1,000. By 1937 it had dropped to 0.3 eles (by using them) per 1,000.
(ditio).
or
brains
And now just a quick run over a
But your children won't few more important Agures before
grow much you
do the we get down to discussing this Inter- talls, however esting topic.
stimmy. And if you lose an arm Of 100,000 mate children born, the your child won't be boin without expectation of life is $0.74 years. Of one. the same number of females 02.00. Karl Pearson considered that en- But, when you conte to the Psalmist's Vironment is less important then allotted span, i.e., 70, the man's ex- heredity, so for as longevity is con- pectation is 8.02 years, the women's, cerned: that from one-half to three-
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Marry and Live Longer.
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NTATISTICS show that married people live longer than, un- married-women to a considerable extent, men even more so.
Now, what are the factors which influence a person's chance of long life? Some of them may surprise. you.
quarters of deaths are predetermined at birth by inherited factors.
But don't run away with the idea that diseases are inherlied. Lite in- surance companies don't put up your rates, even if you have a family his- tory of consumption, provided you yourself are healthy. There's proof that you Inherit specific dis- coses.
no
What you do inherit is a measure of resistance to disease. And if your First of all comes the queation of parents have reached old age, this heredity, If your parents were long- tends to show that their 'realstance lived, well, you've every right to has probably been first-class, reckon that you'll follow in their After heredity, what next In- footsteps.
fluences your length of life? Let's You'll be told all kinds of reasons look at it this way; deaths in infancy why you shouldn't take any notice are high, of heredity. You'll be assured that After infancy, your chances of your environment counts more than Riving increase every year what you've inherited. Some people 50-55,, And here's a curious fact: will tell you that you acquire your the chief cause of death up to the own characteristics, and that these age of 60 is your breathing appara- are the most important factors in fus-lungs, nose, and throat. After determining your
of that age it's your circulation. expectation life,
Certain diseases have a very de- You can certainly enlarge what finite tendency to shorten life. And you've been born with, cliher mus- If you come down to bross tocka,
Do You Know ?--
100 a
up
Day Climb
the Mattehorn
THE holiday siege of the Mat-, THE
climax.
terhorn his reached its grand
School-teachers (why are they such indefatigable climbers?), and other tourists of all kinds are now disporting themselves on the 14,780ft. summit.
H. L. McNally
shows how the siege of Swit- zerland's famous peak is greater than ever before.
to
In Europe, is the north face of the
as 100 visitors and guides may make the Recent In one day, and, before the winter snows begin, many hundreds of people will have climbed this world-famous peak,
"Soon we'll need one-way traffic Eiger. Dozens have been killed in regulations
the Cervin" (the the attempt on this ascent, and no French name for the Matterhorn), I was told by Otto Furrer, one of the succeeded until three weeks ago, when four young Germans reached best-known guides, when he dined the peak. with me at Zermatt recently.
on
"I have seen as many as 110 people They were watched through teles- on the peak at one time," he said. copes, and when snowstorms veiled
and
I
"It is not a dimicull climb nowadays, them from view, eight guides ascend- or any other guide would be ed the mountain by the ordinary willing to make it seven
times a route, but could find no trace of them weck.
nt the top. "Climbers should, of course," have some practice for a few days before. Yet the four men came down safe- hand, to get quite ni, then it's cosy, ly, having had to cling all night to the climb usually taking about 10 perilous ledges while 20ins. of snow hours. {up and down) from the but, fell and winds threatened to blow which is 10,820ft, high. The hut it them into the abyss. Their only in- self is about six hours simple climb. Jurles were bruises. from falling
from Zermatt,"
stones.
ing the on-mountaineer, climbing
the Matterhorn has always sounded
What a vastly simpler proposition
crowds of climbers,
a wonderful feat. Memories of the the Matterhorn has become. But, tragic deaths of Lord Francis Doug with all Its
Ins, Mr. Hadow, Michael Croz, and guides are finding business less pros-. to be. The Mr. Hudson in July 1803, seem to perous than it used Invest the challenging peak with an growth of winter sports is respon- aura of tragedy, and to be a grim Bible.
taineers.
THE
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LIVE
most of them depend on poisons (or toxins, as the doctors' call them).
Now you get hold of these in two ways-elther you take them in from outside, or your body manufactures them for you. Example of first is excessive use of alcohol: of second, poisons produced in your Intestines.
Old ́as Your Arterios
THESE
IESE potsons may damage any system in your body. But they seem to have a tendency to harm your heart and arteries more than your lungs or nervous system.
And that's why, after the age of 60, your expectation of life largely depends on the state of your arteries.
There's a well-known saying, “A man's as old as his arteries, a woman s she looks." That's pretty true; for man is more likely to suffer from arterial disease than woman,
As regards the poisons you manu- facture Inside your body, the great physiologist Metchnikov advanced a theory that duration of life depends largely on how your digestion be- huves.
There's reason to think that simple living tenda to long fe: and this means a plain diet, and, consequent- ly, less risk of self-polsoning.
A factor which may cut short your life is gross overweight and it does this by damaging the heart and arteries. Fat people have been re- fused-or rated 'up-by insurance companies, which always require to know your exact weight and height..
Disease of the liver is another handicap: so is kidney disease; bul the latter is often associated with arterial trouble, so it comes into the circulatory group.
Your occupation, of course, has a definite bearing on your length of Ic. A nice quiet life, such as n clergyman's, tends to longevity. A hurried, anxious life, such as П doctor's, Jan't so uod. Dentists, also, аге way down the long-life scale.
Certain jobs are prone to lead to one kind of dicase. Bokers are Hable to chest affections, so are stokers, from working in over-heated atmospheres. Boller-makerS are ilable to nervous diseoses from con- to lead- tinuous noises; plumbers poisoning.
Family History
THEN, climate has something to do with your life-span. Apart from the traples, where you places in Britain have acquired a re- putation bated on the number of in- habitants who have reached extreme old age. (I'm not going to mention any names, or 1 shall get into trouble with these I don't include,)
A Now, how can you apply this knowledge to your own expectation of life? I'm afraid it's not easy to arrive at a cast-iron conclusion. But you can do this:
take extra risk from disease, certain
Think over the facts which are known about longevity. Begin with your family history, and write down grand- the ages of your parents, parents, uncles, and aunts,
Next, think over your owri life, what illnesses 'you've had, and try to find out any physical weaknesses you may possess.
Then make dus allowance for
(a) Where you Uve;
ན་བཞི གས་འ ོས་
(b) The healthy nature (Or otherwise)-of your-work;
(c) Your own habite, .. You should then be able to form some kind of rough estimate of your own "specific potential longevity" (the length of time you may expect to live, If accidents and inesses leave you aluno),
One last word. Don't forget the commonest cause of death over the
warning to all but the hardiest moun-Nowadays," Gentinetta told me, would not be profitable if These men, with Edward Whym- it were not for places like St. Moritz, per, had been the first ever to reach where the guides give ski-ing and the summit. In descending, the rope skating lessons during the winter. broke, and all but Whymper and two In fact, the sit-ng and skating are more important than climbing as n quides fell to their death.
Now there are Axed ropes at cer- mattor of business for of the Mat. age of 80. So take care of your tain difeult places to make the as- Since the first conquest of
heart and arteries by leading cent simpler,
terhorn by English climbers, more and more mountaineers have travell-healthy a life as you con ed from England to repeat the feat. and Zermatt, from being a tiny pea- LEX *Gentinelto, another sant village, has been transformed
Eigor Porile
A well-known guide whom I by the seller family into resort
met with Dr. Seller, who seems to equipped with ane hotels. own all the hotels around Zermatt, The Swler/elimb chiefly as a means told me that the guido's fee for the to getting about their mountainous Matterhorn climb is £which in- country, and if it were not that the dientes how it is regarded on English climb just for sport, these ordinary day's work. The usual hotels might never have been built. party consists of two quiden shd two I suppose it is only a matter of visitors; though occasionally a pair time until there will be an hotel with
look after of guides can
a bigger cocktail bar and dancing on top of party.
the Matterhorn, with a tube like the. He added one warning: "There are Jungfrau railway to take tired tour- too many climbers nowadays with lots to the summit.
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don, luncheon in Balo, and tew on
denilnetta, said that the most the Matterhorn with, possibly, supper dangerous climb, possibly the worst in Paris, Rome, or Berlir.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13,
THESE ARE MY PEOPLE
By Cedric Douer
Who is himself an half-caste. He here explains the position of
Eraslans in India today.
THE Eurasians of India,
British
community, of some 200,000 Eura- descent
T mixed groups sowhere, not concerned with a however, is are the bye-products of imperial. Tels. It condnes its solicitude to a ism and evangelism. Their slans of European paternal origina go back to the Portu only, upon which the complimentary, guess adventurers of the early but erroneous and universally neg- lected, title of the "Anglo-Indian sixteenth century, who saw in
Community has been bestowed. a native Luso-Indian community Moreover, official generosity is large- the main hope of amiable) ex- ly restricted to the Protestant section of this dominantly Roman Catholic ploitation and conversion.
group.
important
This policy was shared by other The reasons for this weeding of expanding nations. The British, not the sheep from the goats are fairly always; so blow as popular concell obvious, These now Anglo-Indians supposes, lost little time in adopting carry the brunt of the white man's
burden in India. The majority it, too,
In 1678, the Court of Directors of them
by the Govern the East India Company, expressing ment in
are ategically Hself as following the wisdom of services, such as transport, the post "ye olde Dutch politiks," informed and telegraphs,
p public the President of Madras that "The services,
services. Their loyalty is terribly marriage of our soldiers lo the important in an embittered country St. George ↳ with three times as many Eurasians 4 maller of
of such concern to posterity (in the restricted Anglo-Indian
nalive women of
Fort
that wo shall be content to ca-
and
courage it. with some expense, and sense) as there are Europeans.
was a loyalty that seemed have been thinking for the future sect
Gandhl rocure unul Mr.
reappeared to appoint a pagoda to be paid to on the Indian scene. Of course, the the mother of any child, that shell Eurasians
in public grumbled born of any such cursed white men hereafter be
private, but marriage, upon the day the child is
they were content with their
and bragged about their "proud British
christened, if you think this sad statum
encouragement will increase number of such marriages.”
the
and services to.
They lived in
and
food.
and
the semi-
INDER such patronage clusters of exotic case, soaked in Latin trad!- gorged with Indo-Iberian
tions Eur-Asiotics sprang up and mul- tiplled all over India. They reached the bighest positions in the service
duced
different
To-day things pre of Crown and Company. They pro- Nelther patronage nor bragging has eminent opportunists and saved the Eurasians from the rising competition. As notoriously beautiful women. But tide of Indian
with on artificial they had no roots, They were not Anglo-Indians, permitted to own land or to live standard of living, they are clearly further than ten miles from a Presi- doomed, Indeed, it is said that a dency town or Company's settle third of the employable men of the irent. They were aliens in their community are already unemployed, native land.
while the majority are living in a With the turn of the eighteenth
state of acute distress.
On the other hand, as Eurasions century patronsge guve
way lo
readjusted ta new bined with changing economic con-
economic dillons to present mixed breeds in be in the
nation. a new light,
proscription. Feor and envy com- and Indons, they should
of a struggling minded are
The radically
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In 1701, it was decreed that "no therefore moving towards the Con- Person, the son of a native Indian, grass, while the bread-and-butter shalt henceforth be appointed by men have increased their whining on this Court to appointments In the the doorsteps of Whitehall and Lam- Civil,
They know the value-to
of order success themselves
reiterating fully excluded Eurasians from
all pathetic cry: "O Egland! who are the upper grades of official employ- these if not thy sons?" ment, but repression did not stop there. In 1795, they were also dis-
thecary or Moring services of beth,
This
qualified for combatant service in the BRITISH cialdom has met this
ower grades of Army,
with typical
dimeult situation The effects of such discrimination diplomacy. IL hus offered the on an urban community, devoid of Eurasians whatever sops the tax- agricultural or trading traditions, payers will stand for or charity pro- need no elaboration. They were vide. It has emphasised is recogn!- further aggravated by bank fallures tion of the devotion and
Proud involving 15 million pounds uf British traditions of its mongrel Eurasian money.
servitors, And, to keep the balance, it has also warned them that thele "future les in building for them-
B
•
Y the middle of the nineteenth selves a place in the New India."
century, when white women and Whatever the immediate benefits, British subordinates hud reached I wish to see my people freed from India In large numbers, the Eura-'the oplates of decaying imperialism, stans were already crushed into an I wish to see them freed from fur- Intermediate position between the ther conditioning which will deprive rulers and the
ruled.
They were them of their rightful heritage of buns, but there was no longer language given buns,
and culture,
them any cream in them.
I wish to see the Eurasiang have gone on knowledgeable sons of India with an multiplying. It is difficult to international outlook, into Indians estimate their number, but it Is who know India and can give it sufficient to found a small state, if added vitality and leadership, us Eurasian poet one includes Luso-Indians, Eurasians Henry Derozio, the of Asiatic paternity, and various im- und patelot, did more than a century migrant hybrids.
ago. This should be their destiny.
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1 Apparently a towler has made good shot to get material for
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12 Would these sailors- be doubly
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on a Const
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20. Part
art of the crofter's stock in the
Western Highlands (8).
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26 Wherein Dish are caught (8). 27 These methods increase produc-
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28 Aa. unwelcome
visitor to our
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29 "A stout try" (anng,), (9),
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2 People atten break the law to
get this (0).
3 French town (6).
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venomous serpent (9).
7 A son of Edward III, was distin guished for this crime (0).
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players (9).
10 A bottom fish apparently, any- how of no importance (9). 17 Direction obtained from com-
passes (3). 18 Edible coin (3),
12 There were wise men in the
East but le their superior occl dental? (6).
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