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Saturday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
April 19, 1941.
It all depends on how old you are
YOU THINK
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That you should never pay an un- deserved compll- ment,
That one ought to live on love and cold water.
That actors are wonderful nen.
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That you should sometimes puy an undeserved com- pliment.
That one could live on love and cold water.
That you often. That no Com- have to pay un- pliment is ever deserved complt really deserved. ments.
That one can't live on love and cold water.
That pilots are That there are wonderful men, sonia wonderful
business-men.
That her little tailor makes lovely frocks. Indispensable.
That her tailor is expensive, but
That bridge is a boring pastime for others.
That An extra dollar would set tle everything.
That a garden is made to walk in In moonlight,
That it's natural to be slim.
That a man is attracted by beauty.
That a good men! is not worth the
money.
That a baby is a rather ugly doll.
That bridge is a boring pastime.
That another $10 would settle everything.
That one can pick flowers in a gar- den.
That it's easy to be slim.
That д man is attracted by ele gance.
That a good theal is agreeable.
That a baby is a demanding being,
That a car should That a car should be fast.
look smart.
That everything That everything Is fine, because is fine, because they love each he loves her. other.
That old age doesn't exist,
That one doesn't get old unless one wants to
That her shoe- maker ought to Invent children's shoes which don't wear out.
That some crazy people talk of ilving on love and cold water.
That men are no more wonderful than women.
That her corse- tiere ought to let her have corsets cheap.
That bridge is a That bridge 18 Frent resource indispensable for against boredom. hostesses.
That another That 50 cents is $100 would seitle 50 cents, after everything.
all.
That a garden is useful for chill- dren to play in.
That it's difficult to be slim.
That a man is attracted by in. telligence.
That Ε garden ought to supply fruit and vegeln- bles.
That It's not worth being slim.
That n maa Is attracted by the woman who loves him.
That a good meal. That after a good is fattening.
That a baby is a demanding being,
That a car should be roomy.
meal there's al-
ways something left over.
That a baby is a pretty doll.
That a car should be well-sprung.
That everything That everything Is dne, because is fine, because she loves him. they really love
each other.
That one gets old That one learns quickly.
to get old.
That happiness Is That happiness is That happiness is That happiness is sontething-one-something "owe"something rome-something
gets,
When she takes macintosh,
shares,
exchanges.
gives.
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umbrella.
car.
home.
soon
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she will Incel the will meet the. will incet
the will meet the dreams of her life, dreamt of her He. dream of her life. dream of her life.
SPOTLIGHT ON BANABA
What is the best age?
TH
PHIS is a question which usually brings in many different answers,
yet I am sure that it is also one which can be answered in a more or less definite manner. With this end in view I recently put the query to a number of men and women of widely differing ages and in differ- ent walks of life.
My first victim was a business man of forty-five. Although he maintain- ed that this was a tople dangerous to generalise upon, he gave it as kis opinion that the best age is between thurty and forty. His reason for say- ing so was that the average person's powers are at their highest during that period of life.
at which
I next asked a lady of eighty-five. "whose experience of life is as wide as that of anyone I know. In reply to my question she told me that she Little heard of Banaba, come to the surface with the blocking the importation of considered childhood the best part of better known on maps of underlying limestone when this islanders whose ancestors were one's life, since it was the only age the South Pacific Ocean as cd. The island's highest point in some sports, the races on the her opinion, was the happiest and mountain peak island was form- cannibals. Except in trade and world's many cares. Childhood, in one was Ignorant of the Ocean Island, has jumped is 280 feet above the sea. island do not mix.
therefore the best age of one's life, into prominence with news The Banabans are an intelli- Ocean Island is headquarters A youth of eighteen told me that that its residents have con- gent and hospitable brown- for the British colony known as twenties. It appeared that he hoped
he was looking
forward to his early tributed $50,000 to the Bri- skinned people of good physique the Gilbert and Ellice Islands then to do the best part of his work, and straight hair. Their great- Colony, whose 200 square miles and that he expected this to be the tish war chest.
est need before the coming of of land fleck over half a million happiest period of his life. Again The tiny island, which white men was drinking water, square miles of ocean.
the standard was that of relative happiness. boasts only 500 native re- found only in small pools in With the development of the
school teachers agreed in their sidents, is less than twice caves, their articles of trade phosphate deposits, Ocean Is- answers to my question. The best the size of Central Park in then were shark fins, shark teeth land has become a prosperous age, they said, is that which canbles
swords, and vegetables and area. New York City, according fruits.
In addition to wages, the one to do the most efficient work. Banabans receive payment for They agreed in putting this around
thirty-five. to a recent bulletin of the They lived largely on fish and the phosphate taken from their National Geographic. The birds, coconuts, pawpaws and land, and their contribution to
wero Great Britain's war chest was the opinion that she had already island lies about 1,800 miles pumpkins. Their
A young married woman was at. northeast of Australia, just made from the pandanus tree, from their royalties.
There is no unemployment on dea was that this is reached be- the wood forming the frame
passed the best age of her life, Her: south of the equator. which was thatched over with Ocean Island. Roads have been tween the ages of eighteen and The island has made rapid the leaves. Housing and cloth built and the phosphate com- twenty-five, a period when one is economic strides since 1900 ing were simple problems on pany operates a narrow gauge not too young and not too old, and when rich deposits of phos- this torrid island, possibly the railroad. At first the natives when one can enjoy life's pleasures
to the full feared the hissing locomotive, My just victim was a gentleman phate wore discovered.
but soon. came to enjoy train of seventy-two. At first he refused Phosphate Abundant
riding.
to give his opinion on the question, The discovery was made by a To-day the population of A broadcasting station, whir- told me that he considered thirty-
but when
I pressed him to do so ho young English chemist. Albert Ocean Island is 2,300, including ring electric dynamos and re-ve to forty as the best age. "You F. Eilis, who recently estimated 120 Europeans and about 400 frigerating plants, sewerage and can do a lot at things when you're that the island contains more Chinese; the Chinese came to other sanitary facilities have all that, age," he said. than 20,000,000 tons of phos work the phosphate flelds. The come to the leland as part of people thought thirty to forty the On the whole It seemed that most phate. World consumption is 500 Banabans, as the first fami its commercial development. best age of one's life. There were, about half that amount annually. lies of Ocean Island, hold them-, Schools and a hospital as well of course, a few who disagreed, but The phosphate may have settled selvos aloof from their neigh as motion pictures now are the majority, favoured this summ to the bottom of the occan and bours, and have succeeded in available.
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