14
THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY, OCTOBER
1938.
T
NORWAY
shows the way
\HERE is, one country in Europe which is free from the hysteria which Infects Europe to-day And restricts holiday-making..
It is the size of the British Isles, with less than one-tenth the population. On the map you sec Norway like a fish with an outsize head stretch from dus East of Aberdcon for North into the Arctic Ocean.
The Norwegians have cannily Avoided creating any large cities. They have managed to make themselves comfortable in small communities along the Bords, the rivers and the hillsides.
They have spread themselves out to such an extent that there are no villages in the English seILSO.
This type of civilisation is not subject to war-scares. After all, you have got to collect people in one spot to make a bombing or machine-gunning expedition effoo-
tive.
every sense. It is no sport to the Nor weglans, just a natural means of "going places."
The country is made for the natural and unaffected use of akis. There are dangerous, alopes, but normally akis are not the means of taking riska, but of providing enjoyment.
Skiing in Norway escapes the fear of avalanches and the terrors of un- Bullable territory, because Norway and akis were made for each other, and the mow there happens to suit both
BOVE all, there is room
queue up to enjoy an outing on skia, or, indeed, to enjoy any kind of out- door life in Norway.
Canoeing along the coast from the Innermost end of the Oslo Flord in the East down to the Southernmost tip of Kristiansand one-can lose oneself among the innumerabla lalands, 11vo and dress nnd behave as one pleases.
A few strokes of the paddle, and you are out of sight of any habitation that may turn up.
Fecause of the settlement-habita of the Norwegians, inhabited places, are,
THE air you breathe when Taking er hand, never out of reach.
you stop ashore in Nor
way is also frea from contamination, and the people have one thing in com mon, They pro singularty free from tuy kind of oppression. Bo a holiday atmosphero is guaranteed for the visitor,
In contrast to the smoke-inden sir of industrial elites, the astonishing absence of dirt is 'nnother..contribu tion to the hallday feelings Cleanliness is no longer a Dürdên: The" laundry' but is not a consideration of any im- portance in the holiday budget)
In summer, Norway is a country of sunshine and light. In the far north It is the country of the Midnight Bun.
But one should pèrlinps sparo a though for the inhabitants whose winter is anything but light When
in early spring the sun appears to them ngain they try to meet it half-way. They gather on, the mountain tops to eutch its rays at the earliest moment. Yel, except in November and early December, oven, this darkness does not become oppressive in the way ono might expect. The snow lightens the feeling of all-pervading 'darkness. Eki- ing.gives a conquering scrise of winga, I day start as early as November and goes-on till late spring.
Norway is the country of ski-ing in
the capos up the rivers of Southern and South-Eastern Norway, Occasional clearings show that human beings are within reach, although the forests may seem interminable
NORWAY, OF BRA
pects overy Englishman
to bring his falung-rod.. As a holiday country Norway was, in fact, opened by the salmon-flaking Englishman. Trout and deep-sea fati aro avaliable, too, ntid in ni parts.
But salmon and English visitors be long together. In the proper season There may even do a litle too much of the former. It is worth while demand- ing other Ash products for the table. Norway excels in the cooking of fish,
In any case, to Norwegians a tourist and an Englishman are almost synony- mous, In consequence, the hospitable Norwegians take trouble to learn English, which, as they are a seafaring nullot, happens to be useful in other respects as well. The English visitor may therefore forget that he has gotte abroad.
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Some people like to take their holi days in a manner that does not remove them too far from their normal habits.
One English novelist wually goes to
a small hotel in the heights just above Oslo. A walk in the woods, the view of the city and the ford satisfies hier aspirations as a Nature-lover. In be tween, she works at her next book.
But the climax of her every day la the ten minutes' evening ride by the mountain radway down underground into the middle of the city,
Then two minutes' walk, and a lazy and contented evening undisturbed at a tablo In Fasen's old café, the Grand, looking at the passing crowd indoors and outside. Enjoying Norwegian civilisation, she calls 11.
This curious arra
arrangement works the way around.
In a quarter of an hour you can be whisked from your hotel in the Picca- dilly of Oslo into the forests of the heights surrounding the town,
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'AST stretches are free to the wanderer. He can -pitch his tent, light a fire, prepare his food and make believe that he has renched the wide open spaces. There is room here to walk for days without meeting people,
In Norway no city-dweller has to make arrangements to " commune with Nature." Everywhere, the forest, the heights, the sea, the flord or the river and the lake are within reach,
There
1, no need to escape from the cities in that country, because it is an escape in itself.
It must not be thought that Norway is known only as a holiday country. Its export trade, consisting chiefly of fal fish oils and wood pulp, backed by a sound and efficient banking rystem, makes it a country of prime tinding importance.
Norway folk know how to enjoy themselves and how to ensure enjoy. ment for visitors to their carefree land. There are other parts of Europe that would benefit from a study of how pro- gress and pleasure go hand-in-hand this happy land under Labour rule.
HINDU FESTIVAL ́·
The Hongkong Hindu Association will hold D ten party at the Metropole Hotel, Wang Hing Build- ing, 5th. Floor, at 4:30 pm, this afternoon on the occasion of the Dewall Festival.
Blood Tests-What Can They Prove?
WHEN the Inspired writer talks of
the blood of the righteous call- ing out to Heaven for vengeance, he Is using pootle imagery. But the advance of science seems to be bringing expressions like this ever nearer to the realm of literal truth. Blood does speak, and it in telling us more and more..
Not very long ago it was just a
By a Medical Specialist
the tests for drunkenness and for paternity. They are different in several important particulars.
Can we tell with certainty by a blood examination whether a person is drunk or not? It all depends. Alcohol and sugar have two charac- teristics which make them unique among foods. Both pass into the blood-stream unchanged. There is,
red fluid, invested, it is true, with ing; we could distinguish only be however, an important difference.
and
lian blood.
but
One
an awful and mysterious significance, tween mammalian and non-mamma-There is a limit to the concentration of sugar in the blood which is not but indistinguishable from any other
To-day we can say definitely whe- exceeded in a healthy person. red fuld. To-day, under the micro-
ther it is human or not. We can go alcohol will get into the circulation scopo, we see that it is essentially n colourless liquid in which there are further, and say to which of a small up to any amount.n What will an examination tell us? millions of small bodies known as number of groups it belongs. In a
recent murder trial the police patho- Simply the quantity of alcohot there corpuscles.
logist stated that two groups-the is in a given quanilty of blood, from "Some of these are red. and others and "A"cover B5 per cent, of which we can deduce the total. But white,
it is the enormouse the population between them. That people vary in their reaction. ponderance of the former which accounts for the redness of blood to a conservative estimate, but we man will be drunk on an amount
which another, can tolerate, the naked eye. There are five or six millions of them to the cuble milli- metre. The white corpuscles are subject to greater variation. 4health there may be anything from eight to Bfteen thousand to the cen- entimetro.
Group Testa
In
can accept it.
- Not Compulsory
will
there
If we find no alcohol we can say definitely that the man is not in What bearing has all this upon toxicated, and the quantity may be
questions? The reader
small as to make 11 probable that legal liave no difficulty in recognising that is sober. At the other extremo is never entitles us to say that any that nobody would maintain sobriety
may
be so high a concentration particular blood is that of a specified with it, while there is a figure which individual. On the other hand, is Incompatible with Hfe. There is may enable us to decide that it is an intermediate range which is
sistent with drunkenness or sobriety, If Mr. Jones or Mr. Smith has blood in the "A" class a specimen for you. Thus an alcohol test may and here the test will prove nothing in that group may belong prove a positive, négative”: or
A "blood count," which, of course Thas to be made microscopically, is of 'great value in modical science. Some diseases are associated with de Helency and others with excess of the white bodies. Moreover, there which
to him, but it may equally well be nothing at all. are various things that will happen the blood of any one of millions of when we apply chemical tests. The other people. If, however, it in blood Paternity. Tests most important is a clumping of cells of another type, it will agglutinate. together. technically agglutination.
known
con-
as This would be a serious matter it if - What about the examination with The well-known occurred in living person,
a view to establishing paternity? and Widni test for typhoid fever is based, explains the care we take when on this, and it is in this way that we giving transfusions
but a decide to what "group" any portlet-
2 lar. specimen belongs.
Here we can never prove anything
a negative. If the specimen be-
THE TOY
GERTRUDE GELBIN
Copyright 1836 by Loer's, 200,
Chapter One
made Froufrou dizzy with exalte ment. They entered as a tall, hand- some, and elegantly dressed young lawyer was making an imparatonad plea before the judge. He stopped - as the latter motioned for silence Gilberte Drigard sighed with so that he might greet the Brigarda,
The lawyer then bowed to Louie delight.
PLANTATION DEBUTANTE
"What are you thinking about, who answered with a curtsey. With Froufrou?" her sister Louiso asked. * puzzlad look ha glanced at Frou- Gilberte laughed mischievously, frou, who, all eyes, was fallowing "I'm thinking that for sixteen years the attendant to the chair assigned life was ob, so dull at school in her. She Battled herself comforta France. And then-last month we bly then turned to Louise who sat were on the boat making the vor down beside her,
"Who's the grande dame over Age which brought us from Paris. Yesterday we arrived here at the there?" she whispered. pinntation. And #oon-maybe to- inorrow we'll go to New Orleans and seo all the handsome gentle-|
men.'
Louise frowned in shooked al-
lence.
What I want to know, Louise, Gilberto teased, “ia when are wo going to New Orleans.”
"Not soon." ker sister answered primly. "Papa's been away four months fetching us. He'll be needed
here, now."
"What a pity!" Gilbarte pouted. "Where shall we show ourselves in all our pretty drazses? And how ninil wo, aver find husbander"
"Oh" smiled Louise, “so you want a husband, Mile. Froufrouqu
"Above everything, Mile, Louise!" She threw her arms about her is ter. "And you? Dare to look me in the eye and say that you don'tį want a husband, foo?"
That's Madame Valiaire, neighbor"
our
Wind who is the lawyer'? "Monsieur Georges Bartoris. You wouldn't remember him."
Froufrou tooked at Sartoris In- terestedly. "Ob." she whispered, "that's the boy you always liked, Jen't 16?"
"Shhhh!" Louise looked about self-consciously.
Georges Bartoris began his plea anow, spanking 'in' a clear; préchis manner. He then addressed an of Acer who waited beside a door. "Bring in the witness, plonas,”
The door opened. Two negro nuns entered, escorting m women (who was wrapped from head to foot in a torn shawl She advanced timidly, her head down, her eyes on the door,
At the night of her, the two prin oners on trial rose ominously in their acata,
"Don't be atrald, Rose," Georgon encouraged.
Louise cast a quick glance to ward old Suzanne, the negro slavo who brought up their mother be- fore them.
There was a sudden, great com- "Well," she" blushed,; "Well-not just any busband—” motion. The prisoners leaped from "My word!" exclaimed Gilberte. their chairs, knocking their guards "Do you think I want just any hus. to the floor and rushed for the open band? Ob, no! He must like to window. dance" she pointed her toe from under her rufted hoop-skirt.
"Lawdy!" cried Euzango. "Listen to dat! Heah dat fine silk rustle? Mademoiselle Gilberte's dress sound lak leaves blowin' or watch run-
nin'
Fronfrom pointed to the tally handsome, elegant young lawyer, "Who it be?" she whispered.
Rose," he cried "which one killed Georges drew in revolver. "Quick,
your child?"
- Rasa pointed. Georgs raised his pistol, almed,, fired and the man sha designated fell back dead. At
the same time the other prisoner "That's why we call her Froufrou drow a knife and throw it, Georges her dresses always sound like dropped to his knoes, his right hand *that," laughed Louie,
struggling to draw out the knife "My husband must like to dance," } implanted in his left arm. sang out Froufrou. "And he must
The whole thing happened within like to ride and he must make mo) a flash of a second. Pandamonium laugh and buy me Sowala—and int broke loose. With a quick gavel the me do exactly as I please
judge adjourned court and cleared "Don't listen to her, Buzanne," the room, Monsieur Brigard took bogged Loulo. "She's not half so matters in his own hands, silly as she sounds."
What's silly in loving a man who plandas ons in every way?" de- manded Froufrou, "Bosides, loving -----lmm't-xa difcuit!”— She pirouetted about and blow them both a kiss, "I love everybody!".
"Georges," he said calmly, "you must let me tako you back to the plantation. We'll take care of you there. It's far better then setting out now for New Orleans,"
"Yes, Bartoris,” insisted the judge. "Monsieur Brigard's suggestion la perfect-and have that wound at- lended to at once."
"Do stop, Broufrout" pleaded Lóujko, “Planse go out to the hall and great the servants, · They're “Besides," put in Madame Val- waiting for you. daritng -- they] faire, “was it not last week that haysn't seen you sinue you were Monsieur, Bigard arranged for us
baby-and they're so eager to all to dine with him today?" welcome you-
"Then let us be off," laughed Bri Froufrou's eyes danced. "And gard and ushered the way to his will I have a Alava for my very carriage. own, too?"
Suzanne nodded. "You-all can pick de vas you likes!"
"Oh, I must ap, then," she cried. In another moment she was out the door, her hoop skirts rualling as sho ran.
At dinner, Froutrou, seated next to Georges, could barely eat for excitement "I suppose you've been wounded often in dusis, Monsieur?" she asked,
He shook his head. "I've never fought a duel, Mademoiselle." Bbe found the household slaves "No duels?" she cried in disap lined up in hushed expectancy. pointment. "I thought overy young "Bon jour, all of you," she greeted man in New Orleans fought duels," gally. "I'm glad to ass you—but Madame Vallairs leaned across you must tell me your names-X the table. "Monsieur Georges bas dan't remember them was such a¦ something better to do", sho zaid baby when I went away," she apol] severely. "He loaves the dual to ogized. She turned to the first ask idle young men, like my BON, ing her name, then the second, the Andrea third, and continued down the line, i
Froufrou looked at her with mud- Bha repeated thele names prettily den interest. "Where is your son, to fix them in mind. She came at Madamis?" lat to a small black girl huddled Against the wall.
Wand your name?" she asked. "Ah sínt got none, Mam'zall,” the other answered humbly. "Day just call me Pick -- short for Fickan-
"In New Orleans where he finds company which quits him balter than his mothers"
"New Orleans?” Froufrou sighed. "Even in France everyone talks of New Orleans!"
Madame Vallaire amlled wryly.
Pickiticried Froufrou "That's "I must go to New Orleans Louier-
lovely!"
row...to have my tooth pulled." Plok sink on 'one knee and leaned
"Ob, Madame,” cried Froufrou. forward eagerly, "And please, "How I envy you!" Mam'zall' she begged breathlessly,
Madame Vallalts eyed her with "Ah wishes Ah could be yo' OWD astonishment, "You envy mo. Ma- pariféular darky,"
demoiselle, Deɑacire,
.my tooth "You do?" exclaimed Froufrou in aches?" happy surpTICS. "Then-you-abali ~~~Wo, no,” answered Troufrou hur- be. But you belong to me, you're riedly, I anvy you because you got to wear shoes and stockings" can go to New Orleans and have Pick rocked with delight. "Shoes out." She sighed again. "New and stockingsl. Oh me, oh my la Oressewhere Nowers bloom; alt Buzanne Guttled down the hall, the year 'and it's fun' to Walk "To papa sent word bo's takla through the streets. How I long to Belle Lötine to de Jury Meetin' sea--New Orleans!TM -She lay her and he wants to know if you want | hand on her cheak and looked to- to go, too?"
ward her father with the timid, "Jury, Mesting? Why should any pleading look of a little child. "Be- one go to a thing like that?" / aldet," he murmured, "I have a
Pick grinned up at her. "Dry's always ista of gintlemin from Now
toothache, tool" Orleans dere."
Frontrou clapped her hands. "Lola ber. of gentlemen from New - OrlendsTM Oh that's good—that's splendid— that's perfect! Til go!"
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She ran down the hail and out the door and made for the carriage awaiting bor,
The events at the courthous
There are two kinds of blood tests longs neither to the same group as that he is one of millions of people, which have attracted public attens" that of the mother nor to that of the
the child.
Georges Bartoris throw back his head and laughed with delight, at
Will #ron/row's sudden "tooth- naher get her the trip to Now Orleans! Will Georges decide to po too, rather than remain: at the plantation! Don't miss. tomorrow's chapter,
It would, therefore, be unfair to compel him to submit to a test. It
is always for a claimant to prove the
It is a gamble, for however sure a claim or for a prosecutor to establlah
It must not be supposed that we tion lately. Both are permissible presumed father, we can say definite any of whom might be the fatlier of can recognise blood with the same and may be given in evidence, but ly that we have to look somewhere precision an we can tell finger- nofther la compulsofy, and I do not else. The fact, however, that the man may be of his own innocence, guilt, nor for the person arraigned prints It is only recently that we think it is either likely or desirable man has the same type of blood sahe. obviously cannot guarantee that to exculpate himself, which it may have been able to say whether that there should be any change or the child does not in the least prove the purent le not in his own blood be quite impossible for a perfectly specimen is taken from a human be-desirable in this respect. I refer to parenthood. It means no more than group.
Innocent person to do,
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