DAVID LANGDON CARTOON
REGISTRÅN OF BIRTHS
"We'd lika to call her 'Austerity' and change it by deed-poll tokan things get
batter
They Still Believe In Santa
By FRANK TREMAINE
United Press Staff Currespondent
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1947.
Ears? You can't
keep your feet without them!
ARS are the subject for discussion.today. Mr Chapman Pincher has been giving me a lecture on them, and now I find myself try- ing to waggle my ears whenever I look at a mirror. It makes shaving quite fun.
There are nine muscles for moving the ear, he anys, but most people can't use any of them. If only you could train them properly you'd be able to move your ears like a horse and be the life and soul of the party.
One of the muscles is in that little flap in front that you push in when you put your hands to your cars. If you give this muscle a mik electric shock the flap will make a feeble effort io close.
A hippopotamus, among other animals, can do this without an electric shock (which is hard to get in the jungle). It closes the flap to keep the water out when it submerges.
The part of the car that you can see is called the pinna, and it is really nothing more than an enr trumpet that doesn't work too well. You'd lock funny without it, but it would not make much difference your heuring.
tu
BEFORE you road.
thle, mark with an X, the position of the ear in each picture.. Read .cn and check your guestos.
by Bernard Wicksteed
WHO LENT AN EAR TO
Chapman Pincher
butterfly Nobody knows where a Seals don't have a pinna. Nor do
trace of them No hear all right, keeps its ears. They birds, Yet Elephants have them so big they can has been found, but buileries can certainly hear. Goldfish hear some At one time people believed that sound with their skin.
Apart from being something
be used for swating dies.
1
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With human beings the sound are pleked up by the drum (three-thousandths of an inch thick) and taken through a series of small beges to a spiral shaped thing called the cochlea.
This is 14 Inches long and has 24,000 harp-like strings. One theory is that different strings respond to the various frequencles coming into the car, and send appropriate nerve impulses to the brain.
Mexico City-Santa Claus is
But nobody really knows just how
Scientists have it works.
becn off on one of his earliest trips
arguing about it for years, so we'll of 1947, lugging three crates the shape of the pinnat gave a cluc
put waggle at parties and to produce as have them to get on with It and the size of dining room tables to character. The theory was
railed evidence in court, the human ear has turn ourselves to the other function forward by a paychologist
ear, which is helping you to a tiny
village in France, Lambroso, and ce day he gave a two main uses. It enables you to of the where faith in Santa Claus al-lantern lecture to some professors, hear and to stand up without over- keep your balance.
with slides showing the "erminal balancing.
most died three years ago.
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What We'll
first. take hearing your cars do is pick up vibrations
three When the lights went on the pro- in the air and convey them as nerve LOSE to the cochle are The crates contain packages
semi-circular cannis set at for all the nearly 400 inhabi-fessora ipuked round at each other's impulses to the brain, which then cars and that was the end of the registers them as sound. Without
you lean forwards, or backwards, tants of the village of Maille,heory, bernure, if it had been true, curs and brains there would be no different angles and full of Ruid.
of the audience sound and we should live in a silent or my other way, the fluid moves, near Tours, including its 158 high proportion
ought to have been in Dartmour.
world.
tuo, just as it does in a cup of ten children and the "four suscepta- Your habits and character can
look of your mouth or If a tree fell on your house you when you utt it.
The ventent of this aid nets ble of being born before change the
are a would probably say, as they dug you but, unless you boxer. they don't make much out, that you'd heard a terrife crash. on a series of nerve endings, which then rend messages to the brain differenes to your curs. They get But if a tree falls in the middle of a
living creature to reporting the latest situation-how bigger us you
but they forest with no older, get
hear it, there is no sound at all, just for the head has moved and in what don't change shape much. '
direction. air and pregnant Do you remember the case of the vibration of the
silence. Slingsby beir about 30 years ago? The parentage of a boy was in dis- pute, and he won his case In the
partly because Prubate Court
Christmas."
Mony of the children hadn't even
Claus heurd of Santa
before last Christmas, and wouldn't have be- lieved in him if they had. Santa Claus and all the other good spirits seemed to have abandoned the little town one day in August 1944.
That was the day when a com- pany of German troops killed 120 of
your eyes,
his
left car was the same shape as that of the woman who claimed to be his mother.
vibrations
Lucky dogs
the
to
On receipt of these reports brain issues appropriate orciers the muscles to move one foot for- ward or backwards or whatever is HE average human ear can pick necessary to keep your balance.
Sometimes your moventents are up sound, waves ranging from 20 too violent for the fluid to cope with second up to 20,000. immediately, and you lose your People with exceptional hearing can balance
much or get dizzy. Too Later the decision was reversed. go up to 30,000.
alcohol can also upset the apparatus. the population, slaughtered the The House of Lords didn't thinit
Dogs can do much better than If you spin round several times of the child's ear was this. Their ears and brains
can and
fluid livestock and razed the village as the shape
then stop suddenly the sound out of Waves
that goes on moving just as the lea punishment for harbouring a down-out as important as some of the make
vibrate 70,000 times a second. filler. Then,
does in a cup. The thing In ed British
April
That's how it is you can call then, as you know, is to turn the 1048, Girard and Kathleen Hale, of
dog with a whistle that you can't other way. This helps the full Santa Barbara, California, stepped
hear yourself. To you it is a silly settle down and the feeling of
makes no into the picture.
dizziness Kocs.
PROGRESS
other evidence.
Odd insects
MOST animals have their cars on sort whistle, because it
to do
the head, which seems natural, noise, but the dog hears and finds There is a race of mice that hasi but insects have them in the oddest nothing remarkable about it.
something permanently wrong withi
hear.
pinces. A cricket has cars on its Bats can tune in lo waves of this balancing mechanism of the The increase in Maille's juvenile legs, just below the knee, and 98,000 vibrations a secund, so you ear.
They
ure called dancing or various moths and beetles have them could probably make a special bat- waltzing mice, and they spend their population from 141 a year and a
to the present 158 and their tummies._the_dear_little_calling_whistle_that_even_dogs didn't lives-going-round-in-circles.--Some half ago
things.
people are rather like that. "four susceptible of being born be- fore Christmas" is only part of the continuing progress reported to the Hales. The reports started in 1846, shortly after the Hales began playing. year-round Santa Claus by sending off a shipment of 7,000 items ranging from layettes and workmen's clothes to furniture for the city hall.
BY PAUL HOLT
THREE GHOSTS All 1947 Vintage
"At Arst our loiters from the village wero stift and formol," said i Mr Hale, who is bisiting here. "Now we know Just how many pigs Mme. Dubois got in the last litter. The filters are getting bigger, too." Progress of the war-devastated
to be scared by them NOW, a First Night story. village also is indicated in the re- and to seek out with a relish Once upon a time, in the days quest lists Mollie sent to the Hales. The first list, received after the what Chesterton calls "the before Lilinn
THILE we who do not be- lieve in ghosts continue
STORY 2
Braithwalte
WES 1
himself at his mirror to make up. He held the grease-paint in his right hand and slowly drew it down his great handsome nose.
And he glanced at the mirror.
wealthy couple decided to "adopt" healthy lust for darkness and Dame, there were two actors who And there, staring back at him was were great friends. One was stupid the face of his friend. Blindly he the town, consisted largely of the terror which may come on us and handsome. a great piece of stumbled on to the stage and opened
fustian fellow. downright essentials of every-day any night in walking down a buckram,
The his mouth for his first line. And living-clothing, cating utensils,
clever and the sound that come out was the go other, his friend, was dark lanc," the seasons frying pans and household nens,
voice of his friend. drably by and spooks become retiring.
Above the electric applause that
Now the Holes are sending such forlorn with a general neglect. Now the stupid actor couldn't play greeted his final curtain he heard things as rakes and hoes and other
n part, he couldn't hold a sword, he the volce again, although he had farm Implements. They even sent a tractor which the villagers call "Girard."
"We wondered about that Mrs Hale said, "unil we got a letter ex- plaining that no family would dare name a child Girard or Kathleen for fear of making all the other families In the village Jealous. So they named the tractor, which belongs to all of them, after Girard."
OTHER SIGNS
I will stir them. Here are three couldn't buss a heroine until he had not opened his lips. The voice said: ghost storles, opt to this season. I run through the whole of his part "So long as you live, you shall never do not know where they came from. with his elever friend.
play another part. I shall play thein
Perhaps I heard them, perhaps I But the friend taught him so well all."
that rapidly he became a star ond In the asylum they say the stupid
made them up.
First, a party story.
There was an old man who lived the flattery rose in fumes to his nelor has grown very shy and
head. So that there came one horri- tiring.
in a modern block of flats. Around ble day when the stupid hand-
him there was the continuing noise some actor believed, somewhere.
of shrill voices, the whining of deep down inside his foolish carcase, lifts. and slamming of car doors that ho was doing it all by himself. These he endured. It was parties
STORY 3
re-
he could not stand. That mean old. One that day he resolved to get mon could not abide the broken rid of his friend Murder he had After the ceremony the groom
FINALLY, a- wedding story; ' Progress also is indicated by other sounds of other people enjoying no heart for. Ha decided to kill
took his bride away to a quiet little signa.
themselves.
His friend subtly, by hinting.
He told producers that his friend hole!, away up on the moors arid "They have a roof on the school
There
was in particular a per-
other habitation. now," Hale sald, describing his own
cheerful could no longer he relied on, since miles from any sistent; addle-pated anick
he had token to drinking. He They wanted to be no quiet. Marshall plan for helping Europe. young couple who lived in the flat-
a word here, he raised an
The first night they dined well, "They did that and a lot of other above the old mah. Night after droppe there
Wo sent improvements themselves.
eyebrow night they would have a few friends worked. The clover friend declined, the bar parlour. The fire quite soon The polson slowly alone, and in front of a log fire in them blackboards and desks and in. The old man sat: glowering, yes dulled, and his tamo made them sleepy and they decided
Hin pencils and chalk and paper enough plotting revenge. for a year, but they fixed up the
withered under the cold glancer to go up at once to bed, school themselves."
It was a four-poster bed, hung . It came. On a blitz night a bomb. of his profession. "That's one of the things about hit the block of flats. Sneezing There came the tente days of with crimson damnak curtains, but, personal aid.
hand-out of money and malevolent, the old man was rehearsal for the greatest part the apart from this one medieval touch, was snug, draughtless from the government doesn't pro- lifted out of the rubble. Fire was stupid actor had yet been offered. the room vido inuch Incentive, but
It when beginning to lick up the Ilft shaft. was the part to make him greater and cheerful.
The bride was soon in bed and people get help from other people
than Gielgud. Painfully he struggled In the shape of things they can use, "Anybody in that flat above you?" through his lines without his friend, the groom was hardly a minute in they're inspired to get out and help usked a Heavy Rescue man.
"Hang It," he mid The Once he thought of seeking a recon- following her. themselves, too."
noise of the night's party was still cillation, but his mad pride for suddenly "I forgot to switch the
light The Hales estimate they've spent in the old man's cars as he said bade it.
out and he stared resentfully switch quiet. Young couple. Very "about $20,000 or $30,000" on their
A week before First Night his across the room at the light Want adopted village no far. The villagers Went away fortnight ago. Flat's friend died. He was found hanging, on the far elde by the door.
I'll turn "Don't worry, darling. to "save on Christmas de empty
And they left the with a note pinned to his breast, now." walons this year because we saved building to the fames,
confessing his fatal disappointment. the light out," said the bride. most of those from last year,"
Wherever the old man moves to, The stupid actor struggled on with And, without stirring, she stretch- The Christmas boxes contain three now, there is a party upstairs. He rehearsals. It would be all right on ed out her white arm. It went on and on and on. Across the room gifts for each child in the village has moved three times already. The the night. and the four on the way-one sweet, one useful gift, "and one just for happiness.
last time he chose a top storey, D. There came the night, and the, and on, until her little white hand garret. But still, night after night, stupid actor had been drinking, to reached the switch. And she turned he hears "a' porty upstairs,
steady himself. Grimly he seated the light off..
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