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SUNDAY, DEC. 7
1.00 FORCES' FAVOURITES,
0:00 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER,
0.15 WOMEN'S TALK.
630 BUNDAY BERVICE.
from St
Paul'a
Cathedral,
London,
conducted by the Very Rev. Dr W. J Matthews, Dean of #1 Paul's.
7.00 THE NEWS.
7.45 ITMA',
7.43 "COMMONWEALTH; AND EMPIRE.
3.00
HOM TODAY'S APEKS.
115 HOME PLASH,
8.45 Jean Metcalfe
THANKS YOU POR YOUR
TEILA.
9.00 THE NEWS.
0.13 SWEET BERENADE.
LET.
Peter Yorke and th Concert Orchestra.
10.00 RADIO NEWSHEEL.
10.15 "OILERT AND BULLIVAN'.
The Story of a Great Partnership 5:The Summit of Buccess'.
MONDAY, DEC. 8
5.00 OBSERVATION POST.
5.30 NEW LONDON ORCHESTRA. Conducted by Mosco Camer.
Jolm Hunt" (plano). Overbiro in
Schubert,
M
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1947.
WALTER
Thinking
Aloud
Y trade is different from
By PAUL
yours only in this
HOLT overybody will talk to a journalist. We reporters have only regret at the thought of her
sister's wedding is that it means
The Wicksteed alarm
has a good pair of lungs
At one month a normal baby can Aneeze, and If you tickle its feet it will wave them about in the nir (known to science as "Babinski too fanning").
When It is four months a baby wi bink at a saucer wavedy, In front of its eyes, though probably not at something as small as a pencil. It can also put its hands in
So they got hold of one and its mouth, and laugh.
At 10 weeks It should close its hands on a dangling object, at 20 By noting changes in the baby's weeks pick up things on touch, and breathing and pulsation they be at 24 weeks gab them on sight. By ten months It should be already partially left or right handed.
It should walk when to months
O you've been invited Into What a wonderful thing it would hear. the heart of my family be If some Divine light were to blew whistled at it, rang bells, shout- because we find it good.velop us all so that willy-nilly, ed and held tuning forks to its cars. to be alive in 19477 Very whatever we did, we could teach our well, then,
come along and offspring no wrong.
What a world' they could build leved they had made themselves meet us at five o'clock in the morning when the baby is without the greed and Jealousies we heard.
Being slentisia, they weren't yelling and we are all at our pass on to them by our example.
-You know," said my wite, open- satisfied with that. That next Wing and run when aged two. very best.
ing one eye and interrupting, "you're they wanted to know was whether There's nothing whatever the going to spoil that child, talking to babies could hear before they were At three it can copy a circle, at born. Tesla with one showed that five a square and at seven a damond, At four, it should be able to tap with It probably could.
a penc at the rate of 100 laps minute, rising to 250 taps a minute at 12.
matter with the baby, I may him half the night."
no lack of raw material to work there will be no home-made Christ-ments with which he is pro- me out of bed beenuse the baby is
un,
The porter as I left my flat the fallan Style said: "It's C In
come, sir."
(He meant the winter.) 'It's better." (He meant his sinus.)
Introduction and Allegre apparalonato for plano and orchestra-Schwinann,
8.00 WORLD OF WORK..
4.15 REQ LROPOLN.
and is Players,
0.30 MUAIC WHILE YOU WONK.
7.00 THE NEWS,
7.15 TIP-TOP TUNES.
1.00 FROM TODAY'S PAPERS,
NIS SPORTING RECORD.
8,45 BETSY DE LA FORTE,
(South African menzo-soprano).
9.49 THE NEWS.
9.13 NAVY MIXTURE.
9.43 PARLIAMENTARY SUMMARY,
10.00 RADIO NEWRIEKI..
18.15 MERRY-GD-ROUND.
coupons, it seems to me.“
10%
He was bitter
mag pantomime at Windsor Castle this year. "A natural actress, that young woman," said the artor re- spectfully.
At the play.
she ald loudly.
heard tonight," Aller empty. The rest of the house was more curious to stay to hear the arguments, put carefully and fairly for and against the British policy in Palestine.
say. He's not in any danger of
"Well I ke that," I answered, starvation, and there are no de-
"That's rich. First you go shaming fects in the sanitary arrange-
death from imaginary · bleeding to vided.
And safety-pin wounds.
then you It's just that he has got so say I'm spotting him. I can use that much to say, and doesn't think in my article."
anyone else should be asleep "Well," she said, "If everything when he's awake and wanting that goes on in this house is going to to talk-a trait that he gets be put in the paper, I'm leaving." from his mother.
as I am.
Our wonder
IT'S FUN BEING BERNARD WICKSTEED
Other
Its vocabulary should be three words at one year, 300 at two, 3,000 at six and 14,000 at twelve.
The unhappy
The window clenner said: "Hun- dred and thirty-eight pounds from thirty-two plants, sir." (He meant ITALFWAY through the first net
TUESE are facts and very interest- the Anal verdiet on his
tomalo the man on the stage was say
things proved in the in- ing but when it comes to what plants.)
ing:"
at least in England they In a semi-comatose state we
terests of the new selence are that the parent should actually do I found The garage man said: "Basic or do not hit the Jews."
stand it for half an hour, and
E con afford to say things like bables have a senso of smell and that few of the experts agreext. So ne, I don't see much dropping off. A woman in the stalls behind me
W
that, my wife and I, because both taste very soon after they are born. I made an appointment to see the Men who have work to do get their snorted. "Tri sensible thing I'v/ then the doubts set in.
"What if he renily has got a safety of us know how little we mean them. This was
found out
by putting head psychiatrist at a London clinic. the interval her seat, wie pin stuck in his tummy," says my Really she's ns daft about the baby ammonia under, their nosts and salt,
wite.
"It is true," he sald, "that wo sugar, quinine, and citric acid on sometimes disagree, because
tlha "Well, he'd have noticed it before
In all humility she marvels at the their tongues.
science is developing so fast. But "Turn over power that was given her to make now If he had," I say. and go to sleep. He'll live for an- such a wonderful thing. She feasts Another thing they have found is the really important thing la to give your children a stable home fe, on the perfection of his that babies feel a pain in the neck If you don't give them this, what- age than one in the over else you do, they are most un- The author clearly seemed
says, "but it's angers and toes and cars. When he at an earlier "All right," she
pouts his lips and wrinkler his nose
likely to grow up into happy, ba- that
0 whole lot of nice your turn to get up, you know. So she laughs as gatly as when we were
lanced individuals. gentle people on both sides
were if there is anything the matter with courling. being pushed around by fanatles him his blood will be on your hands,
"Young children whose parents are and politicians. They not stupid you cruel man."
As usual, Philip, who is seven, puis
separated сад it best. We indented for a girl, and you may well ask what ail this miserable at heart, however content- be unbelievably poldlers with clubs nor Stem Gang hus
to each other when he heard it was a boy he said: ihugs. were responsible for
(Oh, yes, we talk the
to do with bringing up ed they may seem, and it is bound to violence which shames us all. Mr. like that in our house, specially in "Well, It's something, anyway
children to be good and happy; come out later. Hecht was the real villain of his the early morning. I have never said How
Everything, say the relentists, * right plece, which he calls "Little Holl-
he 18. We cannot
you don't know the order in which day" after that rabid gent's notori-
imagine aʊw how
"Is more important for this home we could ever their senses and have wanted anything else.
powers develop, life and care to be continuous than it ous remark.
how can you know the order in is for it to be enlightened, which to teach them things?
W the road
to give a I stopped it to a boy In the 'R.A.P. red- haired, Jutty-faced, Kum-chewing. He was homing on week-end leave. When he cald he had beer. in for think The Hand of the Royal Military School munths I replied cheeringly that
TUESDAY, DEC. 9
*5.00 MUSIC OF THE REGIMENTS,
of Mule.
Conductor: Captain Meredith Roberts. 5.30 WX1.8K HAL.F-HOUR.
6.90 PLAIN ENGLISH......
C. Strong talks "Words In Action,' I.. A. about the work at the verb-the word that brings action into the sentence.
4.15 COUNTRY DANCE PARTY,
4.30 MURIC WHILE YOU 'WORK.
7.00 THE NEWS,
7.15 JACK HARDY,
and film Little Orchestra.
1.00 FROM TODAY'S PAPERS,
8.15 ROMANCE IN RUYTUM,
Geralda and his Concert Orchestra,
400 THE NEWS,
9.15 HAND OF THE
GUARDS.
GRENADIER
Conductor: Pantain F. J. iteria.
9. TALKING POINT,
30.00 RADIO NEWSREEL.
10.13 VARIETY. BANDBOX.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 10
5.00 TWENTY QUESTIONS.
A radio parlour- HEADSHE with Richard Diebtrby, Anona Winn, Daphne Padel, and Jack Train making all the questions, and Stewart MacPherson knowing (al» most) all the answers.
3.30 PLL PLAY TO YOU.
GOS SCIENCE AND EVERYDAY LIFE.
A talk on science and the manufacture of leather,
6.45 VOICE OF THE VIOLIN,
8.30 MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK.
7.00 THE NEWS.
7.15 FORCES FAVOURITES,
K.00 FROM TODAY'S PAPERS,
8.15 FELIX KING.
his plan, and is orchestra.
1.00 THE NEWS.
9.45 LONDON FORUM,
9.45 THINK ON THESE THINGS,
10.00 RADIO NEWSREEL.
10.13 MUSIC HALL.
THURSDAY, DEC. 11
5.00 SOLOMON (plano),
5.30 SCOTTISH RALF-HOUR.
6.00 CULTURAL TALK,
'Pleasure from Books': 'Autoblograrlıy'
-Anthony Trollove's story of life.
8.15 ELTON HAYES.
He sings to à sent) guitar.
430 MUBIC WHILE YOU WORK.
7.00 THE NEWS.
7,13 RECO1E
pod is Ravine.
GOFF.
7.43 STRANGER THAN FICTION,
5: No Admiral for The Blacksmith',
1.00 FROM TODAY'S PAPERS.
8.15 ACCORDEON CLUB.
Your Host, Hoy Plumley, invites you to Join him at the Club, far half-an-hour's entertainment,
1.45 STARLIGHT,
Christopher Stone this
werk
he had only six to go.
He said: "That's a rocket. Two years servi
service only? What n tark! That's the way they get blokes in. Limited
time of national service Once you're in they let you out on demob points. The way they go won't be out inside four years, and that's straight."
He was bitter about the RA.r. Before the war he had wanted to be an industrial chemist, but now he fell he hadn't the time to waste on the training nor the energy to learn.
They believe
in
other hour."
we are a perfect family, only that we're a happy une.)
After a few minutes more of try-
herself
93
Books
legs.
has
The 'normal'
So, by
watching hundreds through one-way
"And the future of child psycho- of logy? Well, in the Jast hundred glass years the selentine approach to me-
As a father I thought I should children
look into child psychology. So windows, dining them and tckling dieme has just about halved
with feathers, they have death rate.
tho
The same, approach to
in childhood should much for people's minds medicine has done for their
I noticed with a mild amusementing to persuade myself that I'm asleep that while the nudlence
warmed because I've got my eyes shut, I audiby
which begin to wonder whether, after all, to every sentimen! showed the English to be there isn't something wrong. tolerant, wise, and civilised people.
So, with the milk lorries crashing 1 went to the London Library, where them the biggest applause of the evening down the rund
a list of what are called mental health outside and dawn they have. 93 books on the subject. compiled
"norms" or, in other words, things do as character who Went to n
complain- colouring the bomb site opposite 1, a
Looking down the list I found that that an average child should be able as <if
them furriners in our
grown man, stagger over to the cradle
bodies." the solu queues." But, of course, tu him at
and say sleepily: "Well, well, well, most of the earller ones were writ- to do at different ages. Theatre, where I was to meet "furriners," but to get rid of queues. with 'ums, then?"
tion there is not to get rid of, the my little diddiums, what's the matter ten in German-h odd fact when you consider how the Germans have the Old Vic emony of players,
turned out. The later ones are by When all is said and
done, that steadying themselves for their win-
Americans, and if you know what ter season.
American children are like you may think this odder sl.
I
DROPPED
New
John Burrell, producer, was wor- ried lest packed houses may stili
Indation mean a los3. theatre hard.
hits the
A yard of velvet for a courtesan's dria or a yard of timber for a painted castle cep eats five umes is much now. Dui here I found no glumness.
The
slur of living is lightened
folk by the trust these have in their own latent skill. They are excited by the event to come. and believe that Celia Johnson will prove that Shaw's St. Joan will be
12
is all we need to make us feel our good selves again.
COMMON COLD and
common sense-
nedir val woman, single-minded By A Medical Correspondent
and`avid” for her “purposes" and no prinking pixie.
They also believe that Trevor THE sudden change in the
Howard's Petruchio will make the customers to само forget languors for
weather has brought the their usual crop of slight colds. for Olivier. Belleve is 311. Το To lunch there was Mr. Bobb Wilton, that puzzled policeman.
He
They are nothing in them- selves, but they are
a. useful
One of the oldest theories about
That's the agreed signal for him to stop yelling and chuckle impu- face. And what a dently in my chuckle it is. I have only to look at it wreathing his face, and children, I read in one of the 93
forgive ready to
anything, for it brings so many warn thoughts to the
nind-thoughts
without venom and
of malice, jokes without joy at good company,
(un
books, is that they're inherently
sinful, and the way get rid of the sin is first to baptise them, and then, as they grow older, to beat them.
Both my children
were baptised There he is at half-past five in the morning, just busting with pleasure without our realising that it had at being alive and wanting to share anything to do with child psycho- it with somebody. At one time I logy. We had it done because we wouldn't have thought it possible to liked the ceremony and thought it feel so good at this horrible hour of would help us to realise our respon- the day. The very thought would sibilities, which just goes to show
"how ignorant parents can be. have made me shudder,
But how And 's Infectious. can't take my eyes off him, BO marvellous, and
we start sillfest conversation.
he's
the
A more 'I
modern belief is that children are not inherently bad but Inherently good, and that the method to keep them that way is to let them do Just what they like, even if it is blowing up grandmother,
ordered braised beet and the waiter warning to us that winter is on the world there are millions of other
brought him sauanges.
"Not zquin." cried Mr. Wilton. "Mr. Handley had them," said the waiter, politely but riproving. "Why shouldn't you?
Mr. Wilton had them.
the way, and we must prepare ourselves accordingly.
It's an odd thought, but all over
That's the theory behind some of Gables, not as lovely as ours, of course, but with equal possibilities these "advanced" schools that you
hear about. and equally unspoiled.
There are Chinese babies. Moslem
But now child psychology has Afler such a glorious summer, wo are reluctant to put away our babies, Hindu babies, Jewish babies, entered a new phase. The scientists Over
summertimo habits, but we should and the babies of Russians and G.I.s, have taken it up and hope to do for coffee a scientist was say- "I'm Socialist. The only start adjusting our clothing graduni- and not one of them with a scrop of it what Pasteur did for medicine.
with this Government and especially that of the
is children,
·
ing:
Invites thinking What you need
Claude Hulbert to talk with him and te
sing for you.
9.00 THE NEWS:
3.15 JAMAICA INN'.
Eutode 5: The End of the Story'.
945 A TALK,
10.00 RADIO NEWSREEL..
10.45 BRITISH CONCERT HALL.
Conducted and
Jacques.
Jacques String Orchestra.
Frederick Thurston (clarinet).
its
THROUGH THE NOSE
men with the objective viewpoint. Chops like you journalists! is no good appeating to the people
Cold germs are oot absorbed back you up in the matter of their life and death if you go on behav-through our skin or our clothes..
presented by Reglanlding like partisans or maquis or the They get in through the noge
underground or something. If itund the mouth, and the wna that kind of a night Churchill sense precaution, if you find your Concerto Grosso in B minor-Handel. would have taken to the hills long self addicted to a sniffle, is to put up an antiseptle barrier by using nose drops every day and gargling with a mild antiseptic.
Clarinet Concerto-Stamlir, Concerto from the Violin
Corelli, arr. Barbiroll
FRIDAY, DEC. 12
3,00 STRANGE TO NELATE.
9.30 MUSIC IN MINIATURE.
8,00 CURRENT AFFAIRs.
6.13 LLOYD THOMAS.
(theatre organ).
Sonatas
130 MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK.
1.00 THE NEWB.
7.13 AT YOUR 'REQUEST,
1.00 FROM TODAY'S PAPERS,
8.15 ON WITH THE MUSIC,
9.00 THE NEWS,
9.15 Wilfred Pickles in
HAVE A GO!"
1.45 PRODUCTION PROSPECT.
A talk by Willam Hott.
10.40 RADIO NEWIREEL.
10.15 Cart Bernard In
"WUTHERING HKIGHTS'.
Emily pronte's famous story made into
A three-part radio play. 2: The Usur- per'.
SATURDAY, DEC. 13
5.00 AS SEEN FROM SCOTLAND.
8,15 COLONIAL QUESTIONS,
836 UP THE POLE.
Guest Artist: Dernard Miles.
0.09 TALK ON MUSIC,
The Concerto.
For Plano and Orchestra: an illustrated talk by Frank Daunton.
030 MUSIC WINLE YOU WORK.
7.00 THE NEWS,
1.13 JAZZ CLUB.
8.00 FROM TODAY'S PAPERS,
8.15 AMERICAN DANCE bands,
(gramophone records),
8.30 MERLY-GO-ROUND MELODIES,
9,00 THE NEWB.
DJS RADIO ROYTHM CLUB.
043 A TALE.
10.00 RADIO NEWSREEL
1835. THORE WERE TUR DAYSP 13.99 SATURDAY SPORT,
Including a commentary on Soccer: Bouthampton v. Leicester City, commen- talor, John Arlott. ('Programme. An- nouncements" Included an miftable -(ime),
ngo...n
Not Charley
in his
bitterness
soul. Just jolly They avoid the human approach little people whose idea of fun is to as too sentimental, and treat children drag their parents out of bed at
test tubes and guinea pigs, fri daybreak and then to regale them order to build
up a mass of known with smiles.
facts on which to work.
Our teaching
ง
IN
The new-born
TN one of the 93 books, for instance, It tells how the child psychology thought it important to
COME day, when we bunglers are cominon drawing the old-age pension, all these little fellows will have grown. up and waiten over the world, and the selentists depend, for the most part, on what sort of job they make of it will know if a new-born baby could
We've taught them in the meantime.
Bastenlly, it is as simple us that.
This is the time of year to get anti- JERRY VERNO, a comedian, and your doctor to give you an
also a friend. or mine, thrust catarrhal vaccine injection to pre-
It may sound soft, but looking at the evening paper under my nose, vent your heavy colds later on.
my baby, smiling there in his cradle, "Chaplin
* Communist?” ́he de- mandied. "Why, I
A great many people--and I am gives me a notion of what the world remember when
one of them-have never had a bod could be like if there was only some Charley and I were in Casey's Court cold since they started these injec-way of letting people grow up an together, Held up the traffic of tlóns.
unsullied as they are when they're Leicester for half an hour pretend-
born:
ing
to measure the road. Got the However, they fattest policeman I ever say to help means Infallible
are not by any with everybody.
us, too. Nice little fellow, Charley. Only about 50 percent are successful Aloot, mind you. Genius, you know, as a rule, Didn't wash much as a kid, I re- member.
A Communist?"." Verua shook his head, troubled.
Barter?
Mr.
WENT to book sents for "You
It seems inconceivable as I watchi is wondering eyes and little hands that he should ever want to drop an atom bomb on someone, and even For the rest, it is a matter of more unlikely that anyone should common sense, A brisk walk every want to bomb him: day, wet or Ane, pumps the blood
How can I be possible that such round and keeps you fit and, moren pink and perfect thing should ever Important, makes you feel ft.
grow up to hate or be hated?
FRESH AIR, PLEASE
Do you remember that old womun Above all, see that all your foot-summer-Mrs. Margaret Sanger Slee? who came over from America this
is most important. Wet feet lead to get Europe out of its ness was to wear is well.soled and heeled. This She came to tell us that the way to forin fact, to rheumatism and kindred years.
much more serious things than colds prohibit babies for the next ten serious ille.
Never Can Tell." In front of me ,woman Was waving her ration book at the box office. It all seem ed to be going on in dumb show. Was this barter? Your tea ration two stalls? Shaw on points? I politely pretended not to notice.
A man on the bus was talking Put extra blankets on the bed if about Richard Strauss.
said, "but is he politically:
he you like, but keep your d?wide open at night,
have the feeling that there, is
no greater absurdilly thank to ex
windows
Sound sleep is essential to health, peot the usual emalions of patriot-and you need fresh, clean air all Ism, loyalty and so on from the night in your bedroom 11
is no more than' the sleep is to be 100 percent refreshing.
arist. He funnel throught
which sound
your
05
•
I've got an idea that's just as good
hers. Instead of world of grown-ups without children, why not one of children without grown-ups? They couldn't be worse than we are, Our examplo
CONFESS that. I soon run out of poured. When no sound is coming If you feel a cold coming on avold nice things to say about other you should expect nothing.
for as possible warm, humid" people'd babies, but, In their turn,
I drove down to Windsor to scofatmospheres where there are crowds, both of mine have filed me with a. play. Backsinge an actor was for your own: wake and everyone | lofty resolutions, like a diary on the roporting that Princess Margaret's else's.
first of January
SIDE
GLANCES
By Galbraith
COPR. 1947 BY NEA DERVICE, INC. T. M. REQ, U. D. PAT, OFF.
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