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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 29. 1940.
MAGAZINE
In wartime it's likely the
nurse will announce
IT'S A BOY
Is it true that most of the
children born in war time are boys?
This rather pleasant theory is already on Its rounds again. Is it anything more than a rumour?
Did the figures for boys horn rise disproportionately in the last war?
The fact is: They did.
They rose in England, Scotland and Ireland; they rose in Hungary- and Finland. They rose in neutral countries such as the Netherlands, Switzerland
Denmark, and
James Agate picked this out
THE DOCTOR'S SERMON
In
We Ustened, as all boys in their better moods will sten-ave, and men too, for the, matter of that--to a man who we felt to be, with all his heart and sout and strength, -striving against whatever was mean and tumanly and unrighteous in our title world,
It seas not the cold clear voice of Due giving advice and warning from serene helghts to those who were struggling and sinning below. but the toarn living voler of e who was fighting for us and by our sides, and calling on us to help him and ourselves, and one another.
And so, little by little, was brought home to the young boy, for the first time, the meaning of kis life: that it was no fool's or slug- pard's paradise into which he had wandered by chance, but a battle- field ordained front of old, where there are no spectators, but the younpear must take his side, and the stakes are life and death.
Aut he who roused his conscious- nens in them showed them at the sume time, by every word he spoke In the pulple, and by his whole daily life, hose that battle was to be
fought;
and stood there before them their fellow-soldier and the captain o! their band.
The true sort of caplain, too, for a boy's army, the who had no mis- givings and ware no uncertain word! of command, and, let who would uield ar make a truen, would sight, the Apht out-u every boy felt- to the last gasp and the last drop of blocit,
Brown's School-
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Germany the proportion of boys to girls rose as follows:
Boys per 1.000 girls: 1913, 1,060; 1014, 1,002: 1913, 1,000; 1910, 1,071; 1017, 1,072; 1018, 1.077; 1919, 1,085.
The Agures for the United King- dom were-Boys per 1,000 girls: 1914, 1,035; 1013, 1,040; 1018, 1,049; 1017, 1,044; 1918, 1,048; 1010. 1,000. Some people belleva. In the old "Mother
"It's Nature" theory. way of correcting the Nature's balance," they say.
But what do we actually know? Just this: that it seems certain that there are normally more boys born than giris: that boys are more delicate.
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The boys are more liable to in- lection than girls. They weaker before birth, Otherwise the proportion of boys to girls would bo. much higher than it normally is.
So anything thent improves feminine health standards produces -more boys. And women's health certainly did improve during the last war. Possibly the simpler lic and the change-over In many women from ready-mode shop food to plain home cooking helped. Especially the simpler war-time lite,
What else do we know?
Hesearchers have established some support for the theory that, If anything, there are more boys among first-born children among others.
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During the last war more people got married, but there were fewer for children. People went in smaller familles and, as we have just agreed, first-born children tend to be boys.
And 50, sir or madam, that is the probable explanation of the rumour that during war time the next arrival in the family is now more likely (but only a little more
kely to be a son and heir.
John Fisher
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"CHEAP GLORY," by Thomas Phillips (London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.),
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It is glory dearly bought as far as Leary is concerned, overcome by the dreaded punel drunkenness in the last fight of his career, which forms the dramatic climax to the story.
Apart from knowing the sporting world biside cut, Mr. Phillips, who is a Fleet Street, journalist, writes In the brilliant, staccato style which recalls Hemingway in both it manner and its choice of n here.
Oriental Drama
"THAT WHICH IS HIDDEN,” by Robert Hichens (Loudon: Cassell & Co. Ltd.).
THE mysterious and glamorous East still holds its sway over Mr. Hickens. The hero of this novel, which is picturesquely set on the French Riviera and and In Swit- zerland, is Kho Ling, a young Chinese who has developed.powers of concentration undi intuition Under the Influence of great teacher and through wide travels
East.
In his native Escrutable in correct
Dapper and Oriental fashion, he divines the secret of the death of his friend's. Mark Ravensworth's, father. But
used to.
bring his knowledge is about - no vulgor police court. des nouement in the usual crime story style. Kho Ling's Intervention secures 'a much less backneyed, al- though no less effective and drama- tie, climax.
Mr. Hichene tells his story in his usual, necompished ́ ́manner, although it may be doubted whether it merity, the more than 400' pages, he has devoted to it.
A Different U.S.
COUNTRY LAWYER, by Bellamp Partridge. (London: George G. Harrop & Co. Ltd.),
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In a vein of leisurely reminiscence ~not unlike Mr. Footner's story-of- village life in Maryland recently reviewed here - ("Charles's Gift'), which suggests that the more highly coloured works of the Messrs. Hemingway, Frulkner and Co, du not by any means give a complete leture of lite In those United States.
Mr. Partridge tells the story of. his father's 50 years of practice as a country lawyer to a small town- up-country in New York State. Its scope is the narrow scope of county' doings with New York us an lo- finitely remote metropolis
sonie-
wher in the distant background: its highlights are the highlights of village life the fire that almost destroyed the main street, elections to the humbler ranks of politicn! preferment, birth, marriage and death in a sinoll community where everyone knows everyone else.
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because Mr. Partridge's father was a village Solon ripe in wisdom, humour and experience and because his son tells the story of his life
as village guide, philoso pher and friend with such sympathy and understanding and in so plea-
sant and direct style, this humble
material becomes significant. It given us a welcome picture of American life behind the facade of the films and the big cities, even I that tire is now largely a thing of the past.
A human document in the best sense of that much-abused phrase. Mr. Partridge's book is worth a dozen more spectacular volumes in helping us to appreciate the real bases of American life and its roots in solid and conservative past. Apart from all that it is very de- lightful reading for those who have not lost their taste for simple things.
Author's Modesty
IT COULD NEVER HAVE HAP- PENED, by Allee M. Head. (London, W. Heinemann).
I WAKE up in the morning and say to myself: "It could never have happened. But it had." In spite of the fact that she is one of the most successful English women journalists, Miss Head has never kol over her astonishment in finding.. herself at the top of her profession.
For the last 18 years she has | been edlior of the popular English
magazine, "Good Housekeeping," Before that she served her appren- ticeship with the "Academy when Lord Alfred Douglas was editing it, and later with "Nash's" (both now defunct). There was little in her
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What the Nazis
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"All"over"the"world"from" the" fur"; South Atlantic to Narvik inside the Arctic Cireia Germany has been kit herd by aca power.
This map shows what she has lost and where her ships were cap- tured or sunk.
In round Agures her merchant nny losses are 450,000 tons, while her fighting navy has been reduced in most classes of warshipa to half- its pre-war strength.
The record takes no account of U-boat sinicings, the floures about which are confidential.
Since Germany started her tu- vasion of Norway she has tost twenty-six transport and supply ships, certainly sunk, ten more tor- pettoed and probably sunk, and four captured.
So far as is known there are very Jew German chips, naval or mer- cantile, at sea anywhere outside the Baltic and the Skagerrak to-day.
carly life to presage the success she ins since.won.
The daughter of a strict noncam- formist family, her parents
und teachers did their best to dissuade her from taking up the precarious profession of journalist in pre- ference to the much safer, und much more respectable task of teaching. But young Alice know what she wanted to do, she set determinedly about realising her ambition.
It is a curious complaint to make about a blography-especially in these days but Miss Head, once her childhood and schooldays are lelt behind, keeps herself too much In the background.
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celebrities; literary und social, but she says very little about. herself. Yet she must be a good editor and a capable executive to held her job, since her employer is that
notable-figure in American journalism, William Rondolphi Hearst
For her employer Miss Head hos admiration which borders on hero-worship a feeling that some renders will find rather diMcult to :shore as the author breathlessly des- cribes his fantastle home In Californin, his castle in Wales and the awesome reverence in which he is held by many associates,
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