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"Perhaps I'm hard to please

When I was younger

I didn't much care what I ate or drank or

smoked. But nowadays I take my pleas-

ures, not sadly but seriously. I suppose you'

would call me faddy. I hate to be put off with second-

best, no matter what it is. I `won't eat a peach unless

it is English. If I order.caviare it must be Beluga.

You see what I mean about whisky.

While I can obtain a whisky as soft

and smooth as a fine liqueur,

why on earth should I be

put off with anything less

than White Horse? I

admit that perhaps I am

hard to please - but take it from me, it pays.”

WHITE HORSE

WHISKY

You can tell it blindfold!

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There seems to be no subject about munity has a much better expecta- which people are more eager to be tion of life than of old. In half a informed than the doctor. The popu- century the norm of life in this larity of Dr. Cronin's, book and film, country has advanced by ten years. "The Citadel," has been very great. There may be many and various Americans have been joyfully read- reasons for that, but better medical ing, on a large scale, a lively, candid attention is certainly one of them. autoblography called "The Horse Whereas, if we turn to the lawyers, and Buggy Doctor", by Dr. Arthur can we say that any similar progress Hertzler, who tells of medicine in the has been made in the cheapening Middle West half a century ago and and simplifying of legal progress? later. London, again, has so en- It can fairly be claimed that the joyed a revival of "The Doctor's magistrates, paid or unpaid, show, Dilemma" as to prolong the original as a rule, more sense and clemency run. Mr. Francis Brett Young al- and psychological intuition than of so won great favour with a recent old.. But the slow, cumbrous. novel about a medical practitioner, pedantic, costly business of legal and Dr. Oliver Gogarty's memories procedure changes very little, and are another attraction. Looking far the barristers and solicitors show ther back, one is constantly remind- no ardent passion to modernise the ed of the best-selling possibilities of

a doctor's reminiscences Dr. Halliday Sutherland and

Dr.

cesses

Axel BUC-

the

By IVOR BROWN

Munthe have enjoyed

far beyond reach of men no less gifted as wri- ters but lacking the raw material of the medico's 'experience. As readers at least we take our medicine gladly. * * #

.

machinery. Most of us feel that, Doctors, like politicians, parsons however grievous our wrongs, we and schoolmasters, and all who are would count it extremely rash to supposed to be men of light and lead- venture on a lawsuit, since it would ing, healers of poverty, sinfulness, surely keep us busy and bothered ignorance, and pain stand up to be for months and would cost us more shot at. The profession has been the in the long run than we could ever special target of the epigrammatist hope to gain. We may be frighten- since the wits of the Greek ed of the doctor, but not so frighten- Anthology started to sharpen their ed of going to the quills by the Ionian Sea.

ever

I saw no Doctor, but, feeling queer inside, Just thought of one and na- turally died.

wrote Callicter, and Hipparchus capped it (both renderings are by Mr. Humbert Wolfe),

"Dead," cried the Surgeon, laying

down the knife,

"Ah, well, I've saved him from

cripple's life."

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surgery as of

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MI

Joanna

Anna Lee, is

where her f

troducing he

going into court.

ly told to keep We ask a great deal of doctors, healthy body, an the vital secret, no less, and we do not tell them much. .That is where.

physical exercis the doctor, if he is not just an over body is a temp further informé worked man dealing out bottles by universal spirit

routine, has his work 'cut out. He if he is to relieve a carnal pain. Dr. may have to probe a wounded mind temple clean, m preserved from Hertzler says that when any patient his own curiosi what is a gland

comes to him vaguely talking about stomach trouble he begins to It is so easy to bid the parson save diagnose a mental sore. At any rate, himself, the teacher school himself, before proceeding to see what is at the physician heal himself. “Every the back of the stomach, it is always profession," our own “G. B. S." has well, in his opinion, to try to-dis- cried, "is a conspiracy against the cover what is at the back of the public." He himself. has pilloṛied mind. Folk are oddly remote from

young persons h exhausted by th they usually kn constitution thái work will suppl

Hence, emerg

the medicals often enough as public their own insides, be those "innards" with some part dangers. Dr. Cronin, revealing of mind or of matter, and do not, why various me certain scandals, did but follow easily connect an emotional with a ́a comprehensi after.

bodily lesion.

the operation of That brings us to the really extra- -with the brain Mr. Shaw, however, included all ordinary point about medicine. We many far-off thi professions, and we must be consi-, are passionately eager to read about cient of itną own derable humbugs to imagine that our other people's bodies because we are we find our felve own crafts and callings are free of so strangely ignorant of our own. ly to such edic all imposture, chicanery, and greed. Nothing could more closely concern ten without opp These generalisations about sections us than our blood and bones, our and simply grat of the community are sometimes tissue, skin, and organs. Yet it is osity. Ptly amusing but never accurate. If the possible to have what passes for a ing un abdit of PRINCE'S CAFE doctors wish to answer all their first-class education and be taught and bother]| par

critics they can at least plead that nothing whatever on this subject, side oursel baz the average member of the com- At school the growing boy la vague- such strana

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THE ITEMS?

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RIGHT.

A DRUM OF OIE HAD BEEN PLACED CLOSE UP IN A CORNER OF THE GARAGE A SPOT OF OIL A. HAD ROLLED DOWN THE SIDE. IT WAS I INCH FROM ONE WALL AND TIME FROM THE OTHER WALL WHAT WAS THE DIAMETER

OF THE DRUM?

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