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HE FOUNDED THE RED
CROSS...
Founder of the world's greatest humanitarian organisa- tion-the Red Cross-Jean Henri Dunant died in abject poverty in 1910. Embittered by the world's forgetfulness and taunts at his bankruptcy, he steadfastly refused the pensions and awards which would have brought happiness to his old age.
WAR is not dead!" If it h W changed its form, it is only to become more terrible. Every thing that makes up the pride of our civilisation will be at the ser- vice of war.
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"Your electrle railways, your dirigibles, your submarines, your
your flying bridges,
snapshot photography, your telegraphs, tele- phones and photophones and
wonderful inventions many other will perform splendid service for war side by side with the in- struments of human murder." photoptiones and so many other will per- wonderful inventions form' splendid service for war side by side with the instruments of human murder."
had
led
In 1097 an almost forgotten men, Dunant, then living like a hermit in the poarhouse of Hellen, a henitis resort in Prophette Switzerland, spoke these words to a sceptical world that accorded him belated recognition,
Atler Florence Nightingale had
to the her eroic and to minister British wounded in the Crimen, and be- hnd performed fore Clara Barton similar work in the American Civil War. Dunant, who was born in Geneva in 1828, vislied the battlefield af Solferino in June, 1859,
Previously he had endeavoured in interest Napoleon 11 in the relief of wounded.
When he saw the terrible spectacle at 40,000 dead and wounded men with no medical attention of any kind he forgot the financial aide of his career and spent three years in writing a book which he intended to circuinte privately. describing the hell of Solferino.
The first edition of 4000 coples o "Recollections of Balferino" created an immediate sensation which demanded two more editions Immediately.
Translations in dozen different the world languages were made and acclaimed punani for writing what one called "the eminent French writer greatest work of the century,
17tus in 1862, the foundations of the Red Cross were laid.
TWO years later Dunant was being feted by Napoleon IT a Algiers. Not Jong afterwards, after the war between Prussia and Austrin, Queen Augusta in- vited him to Berlin to join in the wel come to the returning any.
At a private luncheon. at which he was the special guest, the Queen wore an armband with the red cross in his
hon Royally in many parts of Europe teted Dunant and everyone apoke of his tremendous work in the cause of humanity.
But within the year many of those who had praised him treated him with
contempt. for he had become ban kaphy
Paris passed unrecognised the genteel beggar who wandered around the boulevards seeking odd scraps of food.
Inquirers of Dunant's whereabouts were even told he was dead, but both in England and Parts his unquenchable enthusiasm for the movement caused him to raise his voice again on its be+ half.
Then for 15 years he lapsed into cilence. Nobody cared what happened to him...
One day, in 1000. » man with a lang wälte beard ani gazing wistfully through the window of a hut m the village of Helden. The crimson rays of the set- ting sun cart his sitadow on the white. washed wall as he rested on the plain wooden form that consiituted, with an old table, the sole furnishings.
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I was contented because his exis- tengo w unknown to the world out. wide,
Yet that very day a school teacher had recognised film in the villago and had written in x diary that he had seen the Genevene, J. H. Dunant, the Ron who has brought about the work of the Red Cross, wandering about pick- ing up white pebbles.
Boon afterwards the teacher's family gave theller and comfort for a couple of years to the old man until a place could be found for him in a local horples.
To 1807, a Swice Journalist on a holl- day tour sought him out and the world was staggered by the rediscovery of Heart Dunant.
THE Village postmistress of, leiden stared when envelopes bearing impos- ing seni arrived addressed to bid Henr uf the hospice,
One riter told that the Empress of Russia bad granted a pension.
the Another contained
gold medal awarded to lear! Dunant by the Samaritans of helme. On his birthday. in 1800, 411 Switzerland paid fkn hoinage and called him "Our Henri Dunant."
The
Asked for the reason of his refusal to leave the poorhouse he would say excitedly: "Why should I? They let me die of hunger!" Bad On October
of group 30, A villagers stood in the room of the poorhouse where Henri Dunant was dying.
One by one they cane forward to the old man's bedside to alako his hand while In a weak volce he thanked them, for their kindness,
He loved them all as they had learned to love him. The end camo as the morning sun was rising over the mountains, He was RE
Next day thal same group stoot wide- eyed white lawyer read to them the open- ing words in his last testament;-
"Old Henri could never have written that!" one of them whispered.
And with tender hantla they carried his
they remains to the tile cemetery, for knew Old Henri had not written that wish for them to obey.
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Saturday, JUNE 29, 1940.
Please, please, beware of
THE WOMAN WHO hng open aversion for other women; she probably lacks all the nice characteristics of n woman, and has adopted some of the unpleasant ones of the
man.
THE MAN
EX- WHO PLOITS his good looks; he usually does it at the expense of something else, or possibly, he has nothing else to exploit, Do not ask him out simply be cause he is "presentable.""
MAN THE BUSINESS WHO tells you he is selling
something "at a loss"; he looks surprisingly well fed on- it.
THE GLAMOUR - GIRL WHO says she lives "such a lonely life"; if it's true, why complain about it? It's her own choice.
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THE NEIGHBOUR WHO tells you scandal "in the Atrictest confidence" about other neighbours. One day she'll do the same about you.
THE "HUMORIST," who always cracks jokes at other
people's expense; can he crack one about himself?
THE DEADLY · RIVAL,, who suddenly befriends you and comes to your ald; there is poison in his charm. You can't change vipers Into household peta.
YOUR MAN RIVAL, if you
nre a woman; your woman rival if you are a man. There in fur greater enmity between men and women than between men and men, or women and women.
Simple Rules For Introductions FIFTH COLUMN
Or. What To Do Till Help Arrives
By Alan Marshall
I hate being introduced to people because it makes me feel so embarrassed.
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YOU never seem to hear their names and half the time you go to shake hands and they don't, or they go to shake hands and you don't, or you both go to shake hands and some- one says don't. If your extended hand is not taken you have to raise it to your head and pretend to scratch yourself, or do something else with it that appears natural. It is most dis- concerting.
Fighting Forties
By H.W.Seaman
SOMEBODY is always accusing me of something.
Recently I quoted a few lines from an article by a young man who said he couldn't even en- joy the sight of daffodils because there was a war on; and now I get this in my malibag;
"Who are you tu criticise others? Are you eligible for military ser- vice, or are you one of those heroes hiding behind your age? Maybe you are over thirty.."
If I had a wooden leg 1 sup- poso I would be accused of hid- ing behind that. In reply to his aspersion 1 plead guilty to the crime of being forty-five years ald.
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And that is not much fun nowa- days. Before the war, when Wis 44, it was not so bad, and I looked to the next hurdle without alorm
that I I should have said then would rather be forly-five thon thirty-five ortwenty-five.
They way to stay happy
"Army life will get my fat down...
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bridges. I have not gone out of my way toavold any of the ha zards of youth, including war. have suffered measles, whooping cough, and the pangs of love.
with a war raging, I And now,
doubts about my have bogin to
any longer worthiness to remain on this planet.
Boys I used to know come to see my me. Formerly, recognising eminence as a man of the world, they would ask me for advice. Some of them, being properly
brought up, wou
would call me sir,
Others, even better reared, would hond me cigars.
say
But now they are in uniform, and they bounce in and Hello, uncle" That is a terrible thing to happen to a man.
where we gather in the evening, and it started a buzz.
I looked round the room, and for the Orst time noticed that there was not a man under forty in the ty. place. Most were nearer
They looked at one another, nod- ded, smiled, and braced themselves up.
stager. "Well," suld one old "They are going to make us use- ful after all."
"It will get some of the fat off you," said another.
Fitter than a young man
My father was forty-five when he joined up in the last war with the Canadians,
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I went with him to the recruit- two of my office. He and brothers got in, but I was turned down. It was my fourth rejection, In the United States and Canada.
One doctor told me that I was not worth the cost of transporta- tion equipment as a soklier. Ai- be though there didn't seem to much the maller with me, I was clearly a crock, it caly for po- lities, journalism, or worse.
If that wOB a crime, I plead guilty. But Imm filter to-day than I was at twenty, There may still
AT forty-five I ought by all the rules, to be content. I have come this far without losing an arm or
lég or un bye, which in-feat-You-can-imagine, then,-how-be-a-chanco...-- in itself.
Motor-cars have hurled them- selves at me, and driving at eighty
miles a hour, I have hurled myself at trees, fences, and
ver
greatly cheered I am by Mr. Oll- Stanley's announcement that the turn of the forties-to-At- ties is coming. The newa came
tho radio ever
into the place
Meanwhile I hope nobody will object to my cheering the home It is side and booing the enemy. one way to slay happy at forty- ve.
SCHOOL TEACHER NEARLY
THE BOYS WILL NEED) A LOT MORE COACH-; ING IF THEY ARE TO PASS THEIR SENIOR CAMBRIDGE NEXT,
TERM.
FAILS HIS CLASS
WHAT'S
WRONG WITH
THE BOYS?
IT'S PARTLY MY FAULT.
I JUST CAN'T CONCENTRATE ON MY WORK, BUT I MUST NOT LET THE CLASS DOWN THEY ARE SO KEEN TO PASS THEIR
{EXAMS. I'LL}
SEE A
DUCTOR,
AT THE DOCTOR'S
EVEN
WAKE
TIRED
YOUR TROUBLE IS NIGHT STARVATION. YOU SEE, WHILE YOU SLEEP, YOUR HEART, LUNGS AND OTHER
AUTOMATIC
·PROCESSES
CONTINUE USING UP
ENERGY
And then, what do you say after you say: "I'm are introduced? It they pleased to meet you," it trumps your nce, and you can't repent the greeting for fear of being thought unerfginal.
When I Arst met George, I said: "I'm pleased to meet you," and he said, "I'm pleased to meet you, too,"
This set mo back a bit, but I attacked again with, "We're both pleased to meet each other."
I thought I had him, but he came
Again with. "I knew I would be pleased
to meet you before I met you."
I staggered, but rallied with, "So did 1. 1 was pilvased as soon as I heard of you."
"Is that no?" he said. "The friend that told me about you said he was plenesd to meet you when he met you, foo."
"How ringe." I kald. Before I ever heard of you people fold me they were pleased to meet me-er-you."
"You win." eald George. "uw much do I owe you?"
ren Dob, I enld. Then somebody separated us. but Itanaged to about "I'm pleased to leave you," before was dragged away to start it all over again with someone else.
THE "How are-you?" brigade always drift into discussions about the weather. "How are you?" Bald Mrs. Applebloom when I was introduced to her,
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"Fine," I said. "How's yourself?" "Very well, thank you. Isn't lovely day**
"Fine," I said. "Wasn't it cold yester. day?"
"Not so cold as the day before." stie said.
"It would depend on how you, WETO dressed." I said. "Take last year-but, walt a minute-take a ctiatr Arat. Now, take this day last year. That's what I call cold."
"It was very warm about three o'clock, though." she said.
"I'll admit that with great reluctance," I said, "but, as I said beforn, Mrs. Applebloom, it's all a matter of dress. Do you wear woollen singlets?""
100 far," she Bald "Sir, you go hought
It got me thinking. I have now devised a scheme that has the effect of making introductions most Instructive and intercaling, pastime.
Be Interesting. That is the key to the idea.
I tried out the scheme on Mr. Slather. block.
"I'm pleased to make your acquain- tance," he said. When introduced to me. I DISPENSED with the conventional response and grasped him by his coat lapel. I looked deep into, his eyes and said carmenfly:
-..-"Do you know, Mr. Statherblock, that Taustin is Barried Irons Musul in Asia: taffeta from a street in Bagdad; drug- ket from the city of Drogheda in Ire- Innd: cambrle from Cambrol; pouze from Gaza: balze for Bajac; and dimity from Damietta?"
"No," he said in a startled valce. "Let us leave materials for the moment, Mr. Slatherblock, and concent- rate on the Seven Wariders of the World."
"must go." he said hurriedly. · "Do not go 1 beseech you, Mr. Blatherblock," wald. "Let in first diss curs the Mausoleum of HalicornREIUS, that magnificent tomb built 354 years B.C., by Mausoleus Queen Artemisia.
I haven't time," he whispered. "Aren't you interested in tombs, Mr. Blatherblock?" I asked.
"No." he faltered.
"Then let us talk about the principl lakes and mountains of the world, Bald.
He fed. I have never seen # man STORA TOOM with such speed,
I saw him talking in lots of people after that. They all turned and looked
al me.
It cured my inferiority complex. But I never meet many people noWR- days.
ANSWERS
TACT-1, (d) is best. (a) and (c) erente embarrassment; (b) is bad taste. 2. This is a tough spot, but I recommend (c).
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-moths, ants
flies
Don't let
them lake.
you by surprise
EEP close watch on that
"fifth column" - silent invaders who are even now planning a spring offensive in the home. Battalions of moth eggs, laid in dark corners, will hatch out into hungry grubs to feed on clothes and carpets.
Air squadrons of more moths are not yet on the wing, but they will be presently. Don't let them take you by surprise. Better to pre- vent their work of destruction than cope with damaged carpels, upholstery and clothing.
to
buses,
Destroy them at their See that they find no shelters in your home.
In old houses particularly, moths often Jay their eggs in cracks and crevices in flour boards or behind Wash woodwork the skirting. with hot water containing a little parama. Spray the rooms with Hiquid Insecticide. Fill the cracks in floor or skirting, with plastle wood.
The feit underlay of carpets, rugs and carpets whitch are under furniture are favourite beds Ick moth grubs. So carpets and their underlays, upholstery and rugs must be kept free of dust by re- gular brushing or vacuum clean- ing. If you suspect the presence of moth eggs iron well over the spot, using a hot iron over a damp cloth. Scented-moth-cartridges-or- ittle muslin bags filled with cry- stals of paradichlorobenzine pushed down into the choir crevices are good anti-moth weapons,
lurge in' a
Pack the parcels in a pillow case and put away drawer or cupboard; Maybe you have special moth bags or boxes
for storing which Bre better.still.
In summer
the great
ant army is on the inove. Columns
come creeping into harders and kitchens of country and, even town
houses. Destroy their
Ka nests; not easy, for these often well hidden.
are
Lay
crumbs
4
trail ct cake
(or something
similar) along the floor,
then
ants
watch where
the
the
and
come from which way they carry the
crumbs back to the nest. If It is practicable pour boiling water-over the nest. Where this cannot be done plug the holes from which they come with cotton wool soaked in parafin. This does not destroy them, but it helps to drive them away as they detest paraffin. paraffin.
Trap for Ants
You can make a trap for ints with an old sponge soaked in syrup the diluted with water. Leave sponge where the ants are gener- ally seen. They will swarm into the sponge crevices and passages after the syrup.
When you have a big "hau?" of ants pick up the sponge with the tongs and drop it into boiling water.
Bro Housefles
horrid insects, then crawling over refuse and trailing their feet over our food- if they get the chance, Don't give it to them. Cover all food with covers or muslin and starve
at them out of the larder, rate.
Use the insecticide spray in the rooms. Fly swats and ny-papers are ucelut, but the spray is best. Janet Jay
TACT TESTS
any
Suppose you walked into a robra and found a young couple kissing. Would you: (a) Say "Oh, I'm so sorry!" and fade away? (b) Ask if congratulations would be timely (e) Bay "Sorry to Intrude," and come an into the room? had noticed (d) Act as though you ...nothing?.....
If you are invited to dinner and given" tripe (which you loathe) do you say: (a) "Furgive me-I'm not hungry?" "I'm sorry loathe tripo?" (e) Tuke a lot of vegetables #tile tripe as you can-pretend to eat it, keep eating an fong as the others, and fill up with bis- for culta and cheese afiert (e)" · Ask something else?
Solutions (If you will accept my ruling in such dellesté inattern) bottom of this page.
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at the
AT THE DOCTOR'S
IN YOUR CASE ALSO THIS HAS
LED TO AN EXCESS OF ACID WASTE PRODUCTS IN THE BLOOD. -RECENT TESTS HAVE PROVED: THAT HORLICKS
AT BEDTIME
IS WHAT
YOU NEED.C
„KORLICKS!
SIX WEEKS LATER (THINKST THE BOYS HAVE [MORE BRAINS THAN I GAVE THEM CREDIT FOR.MUST HAVE AN EVENING L CLASS-FEEL 2
COULD WORK
ALL
NIGHT!
WELL DONE BOYS-WE HAVE NEVER HAD SO MANY PASSES IN THE SENIOR CAMBRIDGE. {THINKS) HORLICKS IS
THE SECRET.
THANKS TO YOUR GOOD COACHING SIR,
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IN HOSPITAL TESTS.
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It was found that these people had an excess of acid waste products in their blood during sleep.
This acid waste kept the brain and nerves' "'on edgo' all night even though the rest of
the body' was sound asleep.
But when Horlicks was given to theso people last thing at night, this excess acld waste was completely neutralised. They woke
« refreshed, with increased energy and vitality.
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