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LOVELY Complexion
You can have a clear, un
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Bule Beans daily remove impur)-- ties from the blood-stream, thus, the enriched 'blood feeds the tissues and removes blemishes. elc.
So, If you want a lovely. clear complexion start taking Bijo Deans to-night,
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OD
OVER ONE MILLION BILE BEANS ARE SOLD EVERY DAY
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Saturday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
Weekly Health Column Conducted By
January 25, 1941.
Dr. Claud North Chrisman, M. D. The
Food
"I EAT
SO
THAT IT
and Weight
Queer
NE of the inexplicable in-
Odonto the whole ear-
eer of Matheson Lang, the famous netor, concerns T Jewelled cedarwood snuff-box.
Matheson Lang was playing one of the greatest roles of his career-The Wandering Jew"- when an elderly woman came to the stage door and asked to seq
MUCH tions in the blood vessels, the MAKES heart muscles and kidney func- ME POOR TO CARRY IT" tions. Then the doctors keep is a jovial way of many good telling us that overweight after caters to pass off the fact that the age of 35 may be the fore- they stay thin in spite of a cre- runner of gall stones and liver ditable intake of food.
him.. troubles that can only be re- medied by curtailing the amount Now, the actual amount of of food consumed. Along with food ingested is not directly the the love of good things to cut, reason one is fat or thin. True, there must be an alimentary the fat person usually is not a canal of such length and capa- sparse cater; rather he shows in city aa will favour the extension his obesity his love of the good of the digestive period and allow things of life.
for the absorption of the nutri-
If one is inclined to be re- ment and its distribution to the miniscent of ancestry, it is ensy system.
to find that portliness carries through the generations, but it'
Anyone will admit that though
"I had her brought to my dressing-room,” says Matheson Lang in "Mr Wu Looks
Back". (Stanley Paul. 13s.), and she at once offered
the box,
Book
me
holding in hands,
of the which the. Week
"She told
was her
בוה
it was called 'Lie Wandering Jew's'
box and that it had been in her family for more than a hundred years.
Why do you want to give it to me?' I asked her.
"Because, she replied, "It is supposed to bring good luck to `a man but bad luck to a woman.""
is a large appetite that is in the fat person is usually of a herited and not necessarily a jovial nature, he would find it Large girth.
much easier to get about and to do his work if he were less cum- outdoor Among
folks,
as bersome in weight. He would among primitive people, there not be so troubled with his feet was little overweight. Exces and legs, nor would he have sive eating results where food such a tendency to varicoso is abundant, and where folks veins, and "blood spiders" or material to the proper channels have leisure for social habits tiny broken vessels splotched for elimination. The body fluids that encourage the partaking of anywhere. food. We say of some folks that they "run it off," menning
that they are so active that they
UNC
must maintain a constant pres-
sure, and the acid base balance.
ON THE OTHER HAND, must also be guarded, and in the very thin person is these processes, water in re-
up more food by their just as hard to fit in becoming quired. spending of energy.
DIGESTIVE
clothing-he is usually cold in It is facts like these that up- cold weather and hot in hot
Story
of a
Jewelled Box
She told Matheson Langto legend of the box,
of her It was given to one ancestors by a ragged Jew. Her ancestor had befriended the Jew, who later conducted him to a
house full of
of priceless treasures "the Wandering
and made the extraordinary claim that he was
Jew," condemned to live through the centuries with the weight of a curse upon him and without the consolation of death,
THE VISION
Matheson Lang kept the box on his dressing-table for many
years.
One day a friend of his brought hla young wife, a Spanish girl," to see him.
Thinking she would be inter- ested he handed the box to the girl.
"The moment she touched it sho turned ghasliy and fell back fainting in her chair. Her husband and I, in great alarm,
managed to restore her, and after alle time he said to her:
"What was the matter, dear? What did you see?'
"She replied: 'I naw; I saw .. Oh, it was horrible, horriblel saw a man being crucided and he was suffering terribly.'"
EMBARRASSING
It was as "the Wandering Jeton that Matheson Lang was paid a great but rather embarrassing... honour.
Owing to the exacting nature
of the performance dressing-roomst
visitors were banned.
One night, however, the door opened and Asquith, then Eng- land's Prime Minister, came in.
The in Hle stayed chatting
which terval,
to have been 10-to
6 minuter, to.
16-to 20. Still Asquith chatted. The stage manager and his as- sistants were frantic.
Finally, after 25 minutes, the great man took his leave, and the play went on.
Women-or
Ostriches?
by Annie S. Swan
heart.
Conceive a world inhabited by suchl
THE PHYSICAL FACT IS weather. The latter fact is set all the results in figures that MORE LIKELY TO BE probably explained by the lack we hope to gain by certain diets
NOT long ago I met a woman limited intelligence, and a narrowed THAT
who refuses to acknowledge HABITS of proper covering of the nerve and exercises, If we are con and absorption of nutriment are ends under the skin.
cerned with the number of that war exists, calories which are allotted to us limited and much of the actual
She reads 110 newspapers, Fortunately we cannot visualise it, nutritive value of what they eat. The laboratory technicians say for daily rations, let us pay at-listens to no radio bulletins, nor surrounded as we are by heroines of ull ages, classes, and creeds--who, is lost through lack of assimila- that the varying explanations tention also to the intake of to any talk about the war. tion. We might be resigned, or concerning the conditions of liquid as well if we want to at least complacent, about the over and under weight are govern the results in number of whole matter if the life insur- made clear by understanding pounds. ance companies and the doctors the water balance in the system. The whole matter of whether
were not always harping about
When she cannot altogether escape while lonthing war and all it stands that, she can close her mind in an for, are ready to fight with what- extraordinary way, her expression ever weapons lie in their hands for
the Immortal cause that is at stake. becoming absolutely blank.
In other respects she da a quile The various tissues of the we shall be fat or lean depends normal person. Her argument is HERE is no menn choice of wea- the dangers of overweight, and body contain from 75 to 90 per upon the individual capacity of that when anything you can do is pons, but the quiet, uncomplain-
courage of th the menace of underweight.
of what disturbs her cent, of water. This liquid con- storing or eliminating nutrition, no account, it is beller to steer ing yet fearless
Beside it, the narrow outlook Obesity. It seems, predisposes tent is very loosely confined in and it should be a matter of in- interferes with it in peace and ordinary woman is one of the finest. There can't be many like her, which refuses to recognise danger, to infectious diseases, especially these cellular tissues, where it dividual study before subjecting diabetes and pneumonia. It is helps to carry nourishment to the system to any particular re-surely, but she interested me as a the selfish Impulse to slink out of specimen of human nature-com- anything that threatens to disturb responsible for many of the ten- the many parts of the anatomy, strictions or additions in the pletely centred on self.
case of body or of mind fades into a woman of nothingness. dencies to degenerative condi- as well as carrying tho waste matter of food intake.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
of
She is, of course,
"You're in the Army Now..
BY KEMP STARRETT
VLOW DO I KNOW THESELL HT? THEY DONT LOOK LIKE THE RIGHT LAST FOR ME. HAVENT YOU GOT ANY OTHER STYLES
THE LAD WITH TENDER FÉLT IS SURE
TO GIVE OFF AN AWTUL SQUAWK WHEN
THEY HAND OUT THOSE ARMY SHOES.
ON VISITING DAY AT CAMP THERE'S NO NEED FOR THAT SEEMINGLY USELESS, TIRESOME ORDEN "PRESENT ARMS"
SOME OF THE BOYS WIO MARRIED TO
AVOID THE DRAFT FIND THEM- SELVES HOOKED TO A CYCLONE AND WISHING THEY WERE IN A
NICE, SAFE ARKY CAMP.
"DID YOU BRING YOUR
HOPE-CHEST WIT"
YA, DEARIE
"I SAY, MAJOR:: WITH WHOM DO
LEAVE A CALLEJO BE AWAKENED, I MEAND LIKE TO BE UP AND DOING BEFORE TEN
"ME SALESHAN AT THE HABERDASHERS" THOUGHT THE BRIGHTER COLORED UNDERWEAR WAS TO AUCH MORE CHEERFUL... AND STIMULATING
THE LAD VIO ARRIVED IN CAMD DRESSED LIKE SOMETHING OUT OF A FASHION BOOK.
EVEN THE TOUGHEST GUY IN CAND WILL BE GETTING REGULAR REMINDERS FROM HIS MA TO BE SURE AND WEAR JIS RUBBERS
THE ALMOST-BUCK<PRIVATE. VAIO HAS LIVED ALL HIS LIFE IN THE BEST HOTELS AND NEVER READ ANYTHINGL BUT THE SOCIAL REGISTER...
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