THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER, 13, 1947.
Looking Myself in the Face
With the help of CHAPMAN PINCHER, I have been having my head examined, beginning with THE EYES ·
HE proper way to read what follows is in front of a mirror, because it is all about eyes.
In fact, the iden came to me when I shaving,
WALA
As 1 gazed with pre-breakfast, distaste at the features I've known to long. It occurred lo me that weight for weight an cye must be the most intricate piece of mechan ism in the world.
Mir
So I tele a note to nak Chapman Pincher the weight of 21 human cyr.
of
Seven, grammes, or a quarter an ounce, he said, and then went on to make so many Interesting ce- marks about eyes that I've put them down.
For a start. did you know that
red? blue eyes are really
to do it: Crocodiler can't cry. They
are kesh, and have no tear glands at all Their eyes are kept
molat by the water they live m.
The human eye is covered by д Ane grease, produced by glanls be- stay in place it this, in its turn, was not covered by another film of fine grease, produced to glonds be- tween the eyelasher.
by
Bernard Wicksteed
When you cry you produce much fear fluid that, this film
so tears by blinking rapidly. This of drives them through a channel from
grease cannot keep it in place, and the eye into the nose, and, on the They the tears come away from the only look blue, in the same way tint and roll down your cheeks.
blue the blood in ymir velns looks when you see it through the skin.
The rks of the eye-that's the coloured part is covered with network of tiny blood-vessels, and In the blue-eyed people it is that you fee,
these
They seem blue because you ser
eye nose is connected to the mouth, you'
can often taste the salt they con-
tain.
of
The average daily production the tear #lands is about half thimbleful, but the crying can mare than double the stint.
The Buid is spread over your eyes lirls as you blink. The duration of
in
Now then, take another look the mirror. The black round thing in the malcdie of the eye is, as you know, the pupil. This is a hole in the iris in front of the lens, and it
oye. This is black for the same reason that the inside of a cameru is black-to slop stray light from fog- ging the image.
Shapes vary
THE pupil of your eye is round. But if you look n ent or an owl in the eye you will see it as a vertical slit. Horses, cows, goats, and kan- ifurons have horizontal slits. Whales have kidney-shaped pupils, various fishes have them lice crescent, and some lizards' pupils are like ณ diamond.
11
DAB and FLOUNDER
by Walter
SHOU?
BBC Overseas Shortwave
Programme
SUNDAY, DEC. 14 ·
6.00 WEEKLY NEWBLETTER. 4.15 WOMEN'S TALK. 0.30 SUNDAY SERVICE. from the Parish Church, Peterborough,
Do you see that pink thing in the called corner of your eye? It is the chruncle, and some people have eyelashes on it. Underneath it you can see a thin fold of skin. This is the rudiment of a third eyelid, conducted by the Rev. Canon L F. W. which is fully developed In and many animals.
birds
Duster.
7,00 THE NEWS.
1.15 ITMA.
Different people have different shaped eyes, and that accounts for long and short-sightedness.
Fi0,15 MUSIC HALL.
11.20 FORCËS' FAVOURITES, 12,00 MIDNIGHT THE NEWS.
THURSDAY, DEC. 18 6.09 CULTURAL TALIC.
Blography. talk about The Duke-Philip Guedalls's
fe of the first Duke of Wellington. 4.15 ELTON BAYER.
Picasure from Books":
6.30 MUSIC WHILE YOU Work.
1.45 COMMONWEALTH AND EMPIE.lle slags to a smail gultar. 1.00 FROM TODAY'S PAPERS. 1.15 HOME FLASH. B.43 She' Blewart.
7.00 THE NEWS.
1,15 PAUL AJAM,
THANKS YOU FOR YOUR "LET- | And his Mayfair Music. TERA.
0.00 THE NEWS,
If the distance between the lens in front and the screen at the backs.15 SWEET SERENADE. is too long for a proper facus, you Feter Yorke and his Concert Orchestra. are short-sighted (myople). If the 10.0 RADIO NEWARE!.. distance is too short you are long- sighted (hypermetropic). What if it is just right? Well, then, you are emmetropic, which merely means normal.
10.15 MERT AND SULLIVAN.
The Story of a Great Partnership Jarl 0; "The Yeoment of
"The Gondollers" and Guard.'
......Good-bye.
11.20 Interlude.
1.43 ATRANGER THAN FICTION,
Your against the Navy. 1.00 FROM TODAY'S PAPERS.
1.13 ACCORDEON CLUB,
1.45 STARLIGHT. Christopher Stone
Invites
this week' "Huich to talk with him and to sing for
the you.
11. FROM THE CHILDREN'S HOUR, Aller In Wonderland'-2,
MONDAY, DEC. 15
Every human being has a rudi-1200 THE NEWA mentary third eye under the skull
The at the top of the head.
old knew scientists
about this and thought it the sent of the soul. pupil gets warped... Then it doesn't. Zealand which has this third
There is n kind of lizard In
what is called astigmatism.
Sometimes the lens behind the
them through the outer covering of an average blink is one-fortieth of is not black, as it looks, but trans- Rive a true picture and you live sufficiently well developed to
the eye against a dark background, and that causes
Um sume
illusion
8.30 ATUAL WHILE YOU WORK.
TIP-TOP TUNES.
8.45 ALBERT SAMMONS (violin), 9.00 THE NEWS,
9.15 NAVY MIXTURE.
GO WORLD OF WORK. 6.15 REG LEOPOLD. and his player.
New
7.00 THE NEWS,
eye
second.
parent.
bo
1.00 FROM TODAY'S PAPERS.
If you And
yourself starting
to
The colour that you see is really realised before
I've got astigmatism, but I never that this was the you can sometimes hold back the the dark lining at the back of the cause.
able to tell the difference with between light and dark.
it
8.1% SPORTING RECORD,
⚫ can
red in front of one eye and
green
in front of the other the seems yellow. Do the same with red and violet and you purple.
result
thing
get
as the skin on your arm does with cry, at the movies or somewhere, the veins underneath it.
About pigment
BROWN eyes are different.
They
really are brown. They get
their colour from a layer of pigment
In front of the blood vessels blue-eyed people, don't have.
Uint
Blue-eyed couples hardly ever have brown-eyed children. but
it
Is possible for people with brown children, eyes to have blue-eyed provided each of them had an an- cestor with blue eyes,
The front part of the eye, which makes red look blue, is called the cornea, and it is one of the most remarkable parts of the body, be Cause the issues live without blood.
4
Thinking Aloud
by PAUL HOLT
HEN a man is young he on the pond by radio control. The learns a lesson. Say it angry men claimed that the new with kisses, say it with corner was destroying the spirit of flowers, say it with chocolates- but never say it with ink.
their sport.
noliced But 1
that the new- comer had attracted a majority of When a woman is
young she the reverent onlookers who once Blood vessels would spoil Its
learns a lesson. Always get
yachts it in bad gathered to watch the transparency, so it has to get along writing. You must have your lines that went by sail and the boats that without them. How it does
to show.
went by steam or lighter fuel. doctors du 10t
they know, but
Man.
an, I suppose, is nothing think gets nourishment from Those are the rules. not all the
you take away his applause. besides sult, tears. which,
have rules of course, but the two main
swooped Scamills savagely supar and other foods dissolved in ones, to be observed in the battle of crumbs thrown down for meek and them.
the sexes.
bewildered sparrows.
this
I
when
от
1.45 BATJAMENTARY SUMMARY,
With practice the average person
160 distinguish colours, but if you hold something 10.15 MERRY-CO-ROUND.
different 10.00 RADIA NEWSREEL
You need a special apparatus for this test, so I am afraid you cannot deny her husband access to her do it at home, four-year-old daughter Antoinette on the ground that the child was a "test-tube baby" and therefore hers alone.
Colour-blind
1120 AT YOUR REQUEST. 12.00 THE NEWS.
TUESDAY, DEC. 16
#.00 PLAIN ENGLISH. Beyond Description. L. A. G.
1.00 THE NEWS,
6.15 THE SIX STONER.
A play by Michael Davies.
945 EXPERIMENT IN FREEDOM. |18,00 RADIO NEWARKEL.
[10,15' BRITISH, CONCERT HALL.
11:30 MUCH-DIN]}ING-IN-THE-MARSU. 12.00 THE NEWS.
FRIDAY, DEC. 19
6.00 CURRENT AFFAIRS. 0.15 REGINALD ́ DIXON.
(Thenite Organ).
6.30 ŠTUSIC WHILE YOU WORK, 7.00 THE NEWS,
2.15 AT YOUR REQUEST.
8.00 FROM TODAY'S PATERS.
B.15 DANCING THROUGH, 9.00 THE NEWS.
2.15 HAVE A GOP
9.45 PRODUCTION PROSPECT,
A Talk by William Holt.
10.00 RADIO NEWSREEL.
10.15 Carl Bernard in
Stronger part radio play.
talks about the use of adjectives to add enleur and detall in any description.
4.15 CAVAN O'CONNOR.
630 MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK. 1.00 THE NEWS,
7.35 SCOTTISH
THA
VARIETY
ORCHER-
1.45 VARIETY (gramophone records). 8.00 FROM TODAY'S PAPERS. 8.15 RHAPSODY.
Woolf Philline and the Skyrockets Con- cart Orettestra,
9.00 THE NEWS.
But has not the husband the duty ONE
NE man in 25 and one woman in of sheltering, protecting, and couring mother and childt, both between red and green. This means TALKING POINT.
fore and after its birth?
suc-
2,500 cannot distinguish be-35 BAND OF THE SCOTH GUARDS.
Conductor: Captain S. Rhodes. that in the United Kingdom there 10.00 RADIO NEWSRREL.
And are some 002,800
10,083 10.15 VARIETY BANDBOX. fulfilling women who cannot distinguish be- 11.20 FORCER FAVOURITES.
colours of the tween the
traffic 12.00 MIDNIGHT THE NEWS,
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 17 lights a terrifying thought.
5,00 SCIENCE AND EVERYDAY LIFE, Completely
colour-blind people. B. Gee tells the story of an industry rare.. To them all that was created by science, the rayon, or as it used to be called, the artificial are nah more
slik, inthetry. colours are black, grey, or white.
And as a reward for these dutles, which are widely de- manded of him, should be not have the recompense of some part of his child's affection and company? If not, what are fathers for?
Harry the Mole
The Little Fiddle.
Hey H, W.1.
your
move the other still:
a
leave Finally, before you mirror, just see if you can
keep ane eye and Very small bables do this involun- tarily, but so far as is known EAR Friend,
young man in Australia is the only Rising erly lost Sunday person in the world who can do morning I was searching the dial on purpose. ghi. Gingerbread-coloured for a trifle of Jive when I came ing. A shake of the band is good leaves carpeted the lonely road, and
across a session entitled The Crilles
Linst
1 Mrs Clover had had something Tera also contain an anti-sep-in writing from Sir Edmund Flem-
kills germs,
entler tic that
It is
Bushby the judge might have lysozyme, and was discovered by
believed her story. Sir Alexander Fleming, who Orst found penicillin. He tried to get a drug from it, but it wasn't much
of the body.
Mil. DEAR
Two sparrow boys were shouting course words at epeh other.
By the Saviet Embassy Itz
There was peace, I So when in future you hear some- lionaire's Row "I never have it in writ- tho borly
good against diseases in other partsough for me that is the man a milk-cart shone red, like a hand herd certain scribe.c call- talking. And when you hear some hox I once knew when young which ed Lionel Hale (so he says) say wrly, say "I've got it in writing" said "VR" in squiggly letters on its quotes that much overworked that is the woman.
Film of tears
ALKING about tears, the only
TALKIN
An Abbay shrine
Arc
BE
animals that can weep bears, and not all of them are able
Jests And
Jeers
Never argue with a policeman. You can't get much change out of
n copper.
The wise man, flatters his wife, The really says a psychologist. wise
man, married friends to flatter him that he hasn't one.
stomach,
One m
118.
me
me
word Sply exel mark unquotes. Now wy Peace here. Then two grubby aver
Is it
I oor asking you? le bdys carrying top pistols dart-2 overworked. I
their is too many of ed from the Embassy bushes.
Even yours ftally am
am being spivved said "Bang banig" and the
other on at this very moment by n spiv.. ERNARD SHAW is moved by the hid behind the milk-cart.
character sold This antisocial An Airedale puppy bristled with one bott. of cold enth of his old friend Sidney
ten for
for whisky and Webb in plead that his ashes should anger at the noise.
never had the courtesy to stop and Tie in
110 Is there Westminster Abbey. A great
explain that it was for buying and citizen, a great civiliser, a great In- world?
selling and not for dri
drinking,
Con- vestigator he calls him.
sequently I am urging that all true craftsmen she adopt a secret hand- shake (like my friends the Masons). Who knows, proparly organised one day we might form ourselves a nice Union and Ret Affilicted to the TUC. Then we shouldnt have to do
Now is the time, says Shaw, for the Abbey to open its doors world-betterers as widely na to kings and captains, novelists and actors, The Abbey would benefit, since owes its
Its peculiar sanctity
peace left in
Fatherly counsel
the
THAT is your opinion of father
hood? When does your respon- sibility end?
not to its stones but to the mighly There is a woman living in New eny work at all.
York named Mrs Julle Strand who the courts to
diend enshrines.
But where does this lead us? is secks to persuade Sir Alexander Fleming of penlelllin to have a claim equal to that, of Lord! Montgomery of Alumcin? Shall Churchill one day le by the
of Priestley?
We would have to change all our
For we have
the habit of enshrining those who flat- ter us. Kings flatter our patriotism and, latterly, our sense of domestic probity. The captains flatter our **Your son is quite a bright young courage, and the posts-our-dormant fellow."
sense of beauty. And gratefully we remember them all.
however, allows his values to get the always had
"He ought to be he's burning the candle at both ends."
From Malayan newspaper: "For other trant page news. see back page."
With the tendency for terror in
But world-betterers scold us too, often to gain our lasting thanks,
And if so be it happened that the choice of an. Abbey shrine lay with and us and not with the Cabinet the Dean of Westminster, would we choose well? Would we not prefer present success to lasting intention? Would wa so surely recognise our true benefactors?
The Abbey is presently clutter- posled pretty posed and
the Intest Hollywood pictures, one ed with
Shall
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of these days some producer is statues of men we neither care. going to make a terrifying film of about nor remember. three bridge players marooned. on continue the game? It seems to me a desert island.
to be a job for *posterity. Our grandsons can better judge what the men and women of today have a candidate Borrowing money, saya a magis done. Or have you
the Abbey? trate, is borrowing trouble. Except for
that It's much easier to borrow Where is peace ?
trouble.
"Was your Fachelor party success?"
#
I
WENT for a walk in search of
penco. But there was none
to
"Great! We had to postpone the wedding a week after it."
Spectator: This isn't a 'He's over Ave feet 'high.
be found. Two dogs were fighting in the road.
A woman pushed herself right in front of me at the tobacconist's counter.
the Round Pond In Kensing may
Gardens, a
quite cluster of menneing grown-up men hed gathered in profest They owned the model yachts and steamboats and Ho's they were plainly furlous at the ar-
rival of a now boat which is sailed"
dwartfon
Circus Proprietor: That's wonderful part about hlm. the tallost dwarf in the world.
SIDE GLANCES
I remain, yrs affectntly,
Harry the Male.
By Galbraith
DOPR. SM7 BY MEA SERVICE, ING. T. N. REG, D, KÕPAY, OFF.
"Haven't you something that would bring out the hipline-
-K`little more?”
6.15 VOICE OF THE VIOLIN, 6.30 MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK, 7.00 THE NEWB,
7.15 FORCES FAVOURITEA.
8.00 FROM TODAY'S PAPERS.
8.15 BILLY TERNENT.
and Itis Dance Orchestra.
9.00 THE NEWS.
9.15 LONDON FORUM,
it
1.45 THINK ON THESE THINGS. 10.00 RADIO NEWSREEL.
*WUTHERING HEIGHTS. Elly Drante's famous story made into a
3: Conclusion-The Manter.* 11,20 FORCES' PROM. Stravinsky's
Symphony of Praims, Straram Orchestra of Paris, with Alexis Viassay Choir, conducted by the com- poser: Borodin's Dances, Act U Prince fenor (ar. Rimsky-Korankov); London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Goossens igramophone records). SATURDAY, DEC. 20
6.00 TALK ON MUSIC.
"The
The Concerlo. Chilenza-an
Jomes Club.
Illustrated talk by
8.70 MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK., 7.00 THE NEWS.
1,19 JAZZ CLUB.
1.00 FROM TODAY'S PAPERS, 8.13 AMERICAN, DANCE DANDS. (gramophone records).
8.30 MERRY-GD-ROUND MELODIES. 9.00 THE NEWB,
9.15 RADIO RHYTHM CLUB. 9.45 A TALK.
10.00 RADIO NEWSREEL. 10.15 NEW
LEAGUE.
ZEALAND
A commentary on, the
egninst England.
10,55 DANCE MUSIC. !gramophone records).
RUCY
Third Tent Mnich
11,14 BATURDAY SPORT. Including commentaries on Bugger: Wales V.Australia, commentaries by G. Wynne-Jones and Rex Aiston; New Zea land Rugby
tho Lengue: Summary of
An- Third "Text Match Programme. nouncements included at a suitable time.
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