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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1948.
Double-ration pocket cartoon by OSBERT LANCASTER
The double life of
Now why do bacon & eggs smell so good?
AVE you noticed what n fue lot of seasonal smells there are floating about Just now? The roses, for in- stance, hay, tar on the ronds, and mint with the new pota-
{ng.
*They are part of our lives. thene nmells, They build up morale and help us to carry our burdens. Yet, as far as the scientists are concerned, amell is the Cinderella of the Renses. They don't even know for cer talo how a smell works.
Book upon book has been
written about sight, sound, but all that taste, and touch, smell ever gets from the authors, is an orphaned chapter at the end.
So I've been collecting some data on smell myself, and here is n round up of what I've found out.
In the air
LIGHT waves enable you
sec.
'I asked ten poople:
What smell do you like boat? Six plcked out foods or drinks... one sald a railway tunnol.' Soo If YOUR favourite is mentioned horo...
by BERNARD WICKSTEED
Whatever
the mechaalea of the snelling system, it often
breaks down. That's why mercaptan mella like are though the two are no inore afike thin nail polish carnations, which also sell much the same us each other.
and
The sense of smell was presumably given us to make life casier ០
to help us distinguish between the things that are good for us and those that are not
polling the set-up.
but the chemists are
By concveling these mixtures that smell like something else they are bringing this noble sense into dis- repute. Take the polson gas Lewl to site. If you sniff it though it will kili you. Yet smells the same as a beat of geraniums. indin rubber is another example. According to Mr. Chapman Pincher it smells just like & gorilla,
to
and sound waves hear, but there is no such com parable thing as a smell wave, At least, nobody has discovered
one yet.
Incidentally, do you know, what makes the ground smell so nice after a shower? Mr. Pincher told me once that was the moisture releasing millions of tiny fungus apores.
I also asked the same ten people whether they amell when they dream. They all said they didn't think so, which is probably right, because smell is one. of the first senses you lose when you fall mileep, People who were born blind some- times dream by mell. They can't dream by alght because they don't know what it is like.
One of the best, and least used, mediums for spreading smells is printers luk. A San Francisco firm with a new brand of perfume to sell had it mixed with the ink that was used to print a full-page advertise- ment in one of the magazines.
The claims were borne out by the
smell of the advertisement, and the rm sok its entire stock, in ten days.
A similar idea was used by an American insurance Arm. It printed its circulars with ink that smelled like burning wood, and their policies sold like a house on
fire.
In British countries most of the work on these lines has been done to stop the ink smelling. Some of the kinds used a high-speed colour printing are the worst.
Scented ink
People and gorillas are not the constantly troubled hy readers NOT long ago one publication was So how does a smell get from only ones to be bamboozled by
magazine the cheese or the onion to you? chemists. Bees' are being muddled who rang up to say the
stank. The printers had to mix per- It comes in the form of minate up too.
fume with the ink to make the pages invisible particles of the sub-
At to read. stance you are smelling.
They float in the air waiting for someone to sniff them. Sniffing is a vital link in the The part of the nose process. that smells is high up in the nostrils, off the main route of the air you breathe in.
This is odd, because bees haven't got noses. They smell with the last eight joints
of their legs instend. when printing Yet the mistakes they make much the same as ours.
are found this out when he was teaching a bee to pick out the smell of orange peel from 43 other aromas.
Another firm had the same trouble labels inside elgar A German scent of tobacco with the ink so as
boxes. They got over it by mixing not to spoil the cigars.
for snelling is probably held by the The existing long distance record
slik moth. Males can smell a female
of the species from a distance of six miles 1,427 yards and two feet (11.0
mos.),,
Take your choice PEES like the smell
with
What
of flowers
do you like
There seems to be scope for humorists here. They could boost laughing gas. their sales by mixing their ink with
One of the providential arrange- ments of Nature is that your nose soon gets tired of reporting famillar smells to the brain. That's why you don't notice the smell of your own house. But come back it from holiday, and you spot it at
a once,
The saddest thing about our sense
lowed to fall into disuse. Scientists
So you have to snill to get it up there, otherwise you can't tell what it smells of. The particles settle on the business end of the nose, which then sends a ́message to the brain to say there's an onion about.
On animal sme in them, dogs prefer of smell is the way it has been al- The smelliest substance earth is probably
a chemical best? I asked ten of my friends and estimate that we use only a fifth of
four answered, "Bacon and eggs." our potential ability to smell. called mercaptan (CSI), The others said: Lilles of the valley, What we miss was shown me once
bread being baked, n rallway tunnel, by which is used sometimes in the coffee being roasted and two sald who could bend over a stick or a an Inding trapper in Canada, - rubber industry, It smells so a shower of rain falling on dry stone and say, after smelling
what kind of an animal had passed strongly of garlic that you can
that way and when. detect it when there is only a single 460,000,000th part of milligram in a noseful of air.
A
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ground,
You'll notice that six out of len went for fand or drink. I wonder if they would have done before the
war.
it.
"Anyone can read and write," he raid, "but it's only a few who can smell."
Forever Mayfair
ABANAUEMAAKTAILIR LADY BARATILEXI BILTENGIRAN MUDEZIFIKIM STRANKA
THE INTELLIGENT MAN'S GUIDE TO THE ENGLISH UPPER CLASS, 1948
By NIGEL NICOLSON
YOUNG man drives up in
a taxi to the ladies' annexe
of his club in Carlos-place, Muy-
fair. Before the war he would
sense
from
rowed, and what inherited, the language of the people.
Thus, in recent years, we have had, framed in the Topped curtalus of quotation marks, phrases such have parked his own 'open Their
of clanship grows as: "Not my cup of tea," "I had the 'Morris 8 in a side-street, and aronger as the wedges of economie fright of my life," "ever so nice"
his button-hole would have and political divisions
(usually accompanied by a mimic surc sported a crimson carnation, deeper into the social structure of refined accent to make quile
that she rem
the remark is not thought in- Now his car is laid up in the iritain.
A glance across a first class rail- digenous to the speaker).
Some words, originating with the
driven Sre
-com-
garage of his mother's house at way carriage at a face smoothed by dke classes, lose their shibboleth Princes Risborough; and he can yours of clean shaving and neither afford the carnation nor fortably living is sufficient for one qualities very slowly: bus, taxi and wire are now universally accepted, risk the glances of indefinable member of this clan to recognise
while phone, Town and photo frem- follow. hostility which it would attract w
And If, though strangers to each ble on the penumbra between the as he walked back to his office
engage in con- classes, and pardon, servietto other, they should across Berkeley-square.
factors partial to are still beyond the pale versation, certain
common He tips 9d. on a 28. fare and will be taken for granted, others of polite society. passes into the hall where his will be .made testing points to fiancee has been waiting six determine to which or the few per-
missible variants of the class the
minutes, sipping a Martini. She new acquaintance belongs.
*
and
MERICANISMS are welcomed in
A The first aid to recognition is ac-
tradition of
the natural state and orten
Chinese Worse Off Than In 1936
COUNTRY-WIDE
POLL and other elties in closest proximity
the i conducted for the North- to the battle front state that
Influx of refugees is threatening to China Daily News by the deflate wages still further and add Institute of Chinese Public further unstability to working class Opinion reveals that an over- conditions. whelming majority of
This poll conducted in Kalteng o the
few days before the fall and recap- selves worse Chinese people consider themture of the clly reproduces the back- off today than ground of what has become a signi- they were twelve years ago. seant epoch in curient Chinese In this public opinion poll, in Kaifeng and its environs only one history. Of all people interviewed the Institute of Chinese Public half of one percent said they were Opinion, directed by Walince better off than in 1936; 95 percent Johnston, canvassed
stated that they were worse: tho
percent claimed that they were about the same. Almost identical figures have been received from points as widely removed as Foochow
and Changsha.
opinions of people in 23 widely separated regions of China. All classes of the rural and urban populations were included in the sample, and in the propor- tions in which it is estimated these classes exist in China.
To the question:
Do you believe that your standard of living is better than It was in 1936, that is do you have more food, clothing and better housing than you had in
19367
The answers were: Better Worse
2 percent. 84 percent. About the same. 14 percent For this deterioration in their standard of living, blame was shared first of all by the Civil War, then followed infl tion. Iligh taxation, lack of land, and lack of work followed
4.5
MORE TAXES To the question: Do you pay more taxes now than In 19307
All taxpayers polled answered: More 81 percent. Less 3 percent.
About the same 10 percent.
11: this poll labourers and all others who are not subject to direct taxation were not required to answer this question; as it was felt they would find difficulty endeavouring to estimate the Indirect taxes Inherent
in the commodities they purchase.
To a further question: Are you able to pay your taxes
No 41 percent.
without going into debt?
Yes 50 percent To the question:
1s inntion having any effects upon your standard of living?
Yes 12 per cent No 8 percent To the follow-up question: Do you find yourself forced to interest?
in that order-us-popular com-borrow money at... high-rates-of-
plaints.
LAND AND WAGES
As a standard of comparison 1930 was taken not because it was any particular laudınark either in peace or prosperity in China but it was the last year of relative stability and peace which the country had enjoyed.
Regional directors of the Institute
the
Forty-six percent of all people interviewed replied "yes."
The report of the director, Mr Wallace Johnstone, on the poll reads:
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From these Ogures it is indeed obvious that the great bulk of Chinese workers and peasants exist at best on subsistence level. There of Chinese Public Opinion stress in is certainly very tle residue their background reports that which they might contribute Great
masses of peasants and from which they might be further workers interviewed, state that laid taxed. Fundamentally this buz holdings and wages have always been the result of age-old handi- been too low to provide adequately caps, a scarcity of land, and a lack for the large families which are the of industrialisation which could rule rather than the exception in inve trained оп the surplus China. Landholdings in China vary
lem. is, when all is said and provinces themselves. However the
the problem of endeavouring frequeney of
pensant claims
to supply adequacy to a people to possessing between two and one half whom adequacy is denied by and Send acres and three and one half acres of land; by luck of
and room of land indicates that these holdings machinery to employ the energies are most prevalent.
In this one of its people. Now considering that peasants be tempted to state that China and who do not own their own land are all similarly over-populated further burdened with the necessity tries are impossible equations to ul paying between one-third and domestic administration. They are one-half of their produce as rent, work problems and must be re- it is not hard to imagine the plight solved on a world scale by those of China's farmers.
who enjoy the room, the machinery, the facilities to employ thu The proportion of landowners to and tenant farmers show amazing varia- enerales of the constricted and the i 23, pretty, except for a cer-
lons in different regions of China. Impoverished. Estimates arrived at by regional
"It is doubtful if dividing up the tain sharpness about the nose, cent. Basically it should be cut- start their transatlantle carcers directors of the Institute of Chinese land would prove any permanent her hair bunched at the back tured, or rather nurtured, in the among the males of the upper Public Opinion range from the 80 amelioration of the problem, and into wiry curls, and crowned by Junior Common Room, and officers' me,"
the pubile school, classes; for example, "You're telling percent tenant peasantry reported certainly not If Chinese peasants
"You'd halo hat which suspends a mess.
better watch your
from parts of Flunan to the 50 er retain the old practice of every step," audi "'I wouldn't know" cent reported from the environs of generation of dividing up their light-bluo vell across her face. Jokes in popular papers and on (Chiengo accent desirable).
Soochow, And 91 percent of all holdings among their sons. How- On the lapel of her coat is the American stage have long since,
landlords Interviewed said they ever, reduction of the exorbitant the badge of the Coldstream atque) the final "er turned and
Many phrases are born in clubs were worse off now than in 1938,
rents paid by pe would
sants for the lands Guards, worked in enamel and tour, as in "Wait-ah,"
drawing-ropris and only
PARALLEL FIGURES
obviously the topped when they have penetrated
From the cities almost parallel automatically Improve by the imitation diamonds; her legs uropping of the final "g" and the below a certain level. "Actually" figures have been acquired. Of all mounts of reduction, the condition ure nyloned, and her two neat treaty ponacrousness of
is now dying a long-delayed acain. cities polled
A current favourite,
throughout feet enclosed in a pair of black wala which tops concert-parties, had a run of three or four years,
China; of the estimated 65 percent of which has
labourers, professional workers, Chinese, peasants who are either and white peek-a-boo shoes. bu not clubinnů, have made
merchants, bankers
and
tenant farmers or part owners. government Together they enter the dining- Romillar.
employees state that only 2 percent
BRIGHT SIDE are better off than in 1933, 84 per-
If there is any room, where they will ent a Jun-
to bright side cent sald worse and 14 percent this picture, it resides in reports claimed they were about the same. submitted by regional directors of To understand fully the state of the Institute of Chinese Public the depreciation of wages in China" Oplelon to the effect that around today, it la only necessary to come and above a yearly income of thirty pare the purchasing power between piculs of rice, peasants register no this year and lost According to similar intensity of complaint on is Government Statistics, in March voiced by thoso receiving less than 1947 a rickshaw puller in the cities this figure. of Nanking and Shanghat could buy Reports state, that peasants with his wage 3.0 plculs of rice per this level, though month. A killed worker or an In- majority claiming that their econo- dustrial - worker' could....' buy ap“. mie condiloh has declined since proximately five pleuls of rice per 1930, appeared. less vehement în month. In March of this year the casting blame, more cautious In same pedicab rickshaw puller, could allochting it and more deliberate in Luy only 14 pleuls and the skilled forming their judgments." In Pag- worker only 2.2. In one year, the gregate China's necessity does in- purchasing power of all wage corners deed appear a large, one, but in-li In forms of rice declined by simost dividually it might be álmcult to
of Chinese Public Opinion in Pal improve appreciably their individual And alsowhere In the world peasants Regional directors of the Instituto or workers who require so little to
ping, Taingtao; Wuchung, Talyuan economy, and outlook Madlenipowatt
emminated (though the jokes aro
-speech
is "for my sins," employed in ex- tenuation of an accomplishment or appointment of which the speaker is secretly rather proud-"They wont
cheon of oysters, ronst phea- TF there is any special attribute me to go to Paris, for my sins." sunt, and fruit salad, They of upper-class accents,
it is a will drink a glass of cider each, slightly exaggerated lightness of class cliches comes the trito quota- In yet another category of upper and a cup of Turkish coffee.
volee, carefully stopping short of ions which ore Buppobed, mis- the effect of young unruffled com sinned radeship, of undergraduates calling "Suffered
egelnst than to each other across the quad.
sea-change," "Mark, Thoso A mis-pronunciation of "ou" or learn and inwardly digest." "ow"futal sounds- dlmcult
to examples are enough to indicate
thu extraordinary Aubilety
SHE will then smoke two, and
he four, cigarettes at 38.
affectation, which is designed to give takenly, to indicate cultunulan
10d. for 20. The bill will come reconcile with membership of the
p.m.
no
there are
to 228. 61. They will part, on clan, but "R's" pronounced as "WE" English class-languaged which the doorstep of the club at 2.45 or a drastic telescoping of syllables other nation can match. If there '(such AB "Sochist Gumen" for were any rules, they would soon Here are two composita but "Sociallat Government") are allow grow out of date, but imaginary characters who will able, oven when sober.
no rules; the only guide is current practice. of Quotes
fit into any definition of the Moro subtle, as Indications British upper class. What are class, are forms of speech,
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