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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1951.

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A

Merry Christmas

and a

Happy New Year.

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DISARMAMENT TALKS - DAILY PRESS CONFERENCE

trangement with Daily serve

IT

PARDON ME, YOUR DISC IS SLIPPING

FASHION NOTE by GEORGE SCOTT

a

was bound to happen. Before the war it Was In these days when practically unknown common mental niggles are medical diagnosis. It wasn't ennobled by the description that discs didn't slip; it "anxiety state," it was only was just that doctors hadn't to be expected that a "pain noticed them. in the back" would receive a

more exalted title.

More patients

There were always lum- PROOF? Here are the bago and sciatica, but they comparative figures of lacked B certain dignity. people treated for slipped And there was fibrositis. dise at a London teaching But the vogue has passed.

Now the "pain in the back" has grown up. With grace and fashion enough it has swept its way from many a Mayfair drawing room to Harley Street.

Poor Lavinia no longer has "a pain in the back." She has isn't it excit- ing?" "slipped disc."

TWELFTH NIGHT

SOME

LEGENDS

W

our

RETOLD

of Christ's

Oh, yes; they believe it I talked with an uld lady just before the wa

she

hospital.

Before 1939: NONE. 1947: 125. 1950: 192.

And to swell the 1951 total comes British heavy- weight boxing hope Ray Wilding. Fashionable com plaints have a long reach.

Now, what is this all. ment?

Doctors call it a lumbar dise lesion. A disc is a cartilage- A sori of shock absorber- separating the small bones that make up the spine.

When 1 dise is slipped it means that one

these

☆☆ by cartilages-usually in the lower

GEOFFREY

BRIGHT

part of the spine-bas been crushed. fragmented located.

dis-

ย

It can be caused by a sudden muscular strain-te lifting of heavy weight, or heel-skid.

But the pain though often acute. is like that caused by lumbago, sciatica, fibrosites. always

that sprigs to my neighbour, an old And an X-ray can't

reveal the difference.

lady of eighty. although

In

J

She politely

that

Here is a poor man's guide,

TE all look back with It is sald that when Joseph they kneel down at midnight,

in remembrance tender wistfulness of Arimathra ended his wan-

derings with the Holy

Grall birth to

childhood

at Glastonbury, in Somerset. and its fancies, and, the he stuck his staff in the ground to this day. older we get, the greater and blo:somed immediately

In the course of time, pilgrims who vouched to me becomes the pleasure in re-

cullings 10 various

had seen it happen, calling, if only for a brief carried

of the west

ref.ise and assured me Country:

she admitted that only a few moment, the incidents that where they wore planted and

she would not dream of pul-

in one sentence, for those who A of the cattle in became the

the particular ing it up in her coltage as it great abjects of seemed so wonderful to our

may be in doubt: If you are Very few have

stall she visited were

would bring twelve months of suffering as a result of exposure childish minds-the stories veneration.

to the present kneeling posture at midnight, 1

to damp and cold, or from pre- of fairies and hobgoblins day, but there are reports of suppose the sceptics would ex-

bought that the wood from longed train, the chances are that sent a thrill down our at least six in

made that

have plain that

you

Jumbago pointing which Christ's cross was away by

tree, was from the mistletoe

eciatica-not a slipped dias. little spines at the hour of and I know of two

out that cattle always arise

consequence. it

The best way to avald a disc bedtime.

from the lying position by fen the dignity of a furest

| trouble--as with many othe getting on to their hind legs free to become a parasite

conditions of the back-is not to slouch when sitting or stand- ing. Bad posture starts the paper discs, and that is where backache the bells of most sorts begins.

existed down

Herefordshire.

first, and, therefore, look as it they are kneeling, before heav-

iL

bad luck.

You

see,

it

was

fell

And those Hille-bunches of

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Christmas

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or

Perhaps that is why the Disney films created by Walt have much an appeal to all

One of them is only some

ing themselves up on to their bulls on the wrapping cinema-goers between the age five miles from my home. It is

front legs, d

reminded ine that of seven and sevenly.

was just a Perhaps quite unlike any native species

And watch how you push and that is why the

ring out season of

of thorn, being bush-like, with coincidence that a few of them

churches. and, pull and lift things. Don't strain Christmas is

of such impor-

stems intertwined, and very

decided to get up at the psy- from all our tance to men

and women

the those discs thorny. In consequence, is chological moment.

it

for that matter from all good will the world over.

it heid

The The in great respect by

churches throughout the length gives us on excuse to throw

ow locals owing to its resemblance

and breadth of Christendom, in- cft, for a short while each year, to the wood in Christ's crown the cares and anxieties of this of thorns. It blossoms exactly

chding Bethlehem itself. troubled world; to Allow our

Herefordshire, we have another minds to conjure up the love-

and ly legends

stories that have grown up round this most Christian festival. Important

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and which have formed an in- tegral part of the lives of men and women down the ages.

It may have been the sight

of my wife wrapping up a loy in some of last year's Christ- know the massy paper--you

reasonable,

bul was

custom connected

at twelve o'clock in the night 11 sounds

old Christmas Eve, or my friend. MI Elus, Twelfth Night, as it was more commonly called by our ances-

quite convinced that they did pols.

midnight, although tors and William Shakespeare.

Yes, the buds actually open at the midnight hour, and year after year people go to see the phenomenon. Perhaps you will

kneel at she confessed she did not want to see any more. She was o frightened that she ran pack to the house.

great day for Morris Dancing.

with

Age toughens it

25 and 45 PEOPLE between In

are most likely to get a slipped disc, say the doctors. And women. the men more often than

After 45 the spine

less gets yielding, and lumbago more fashionable.

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But if it does happen to you. if you feel something go "all of a sudden," giving a sharp, terce In a few churches, It is usual pain, then it is bed for you nu We still have Morris Dan- to ring a muffed peal on Holy your back for quite a ume.

Most likely treatment is a say that the heat generated by cers in Herefordshire at Christ- Innocents Day, o: Childermas,

cast and jacket round a number of people with Lan-

plaster Boxing La mas, although

Day, as we call it; that is a memorial the legs and spine. And rest. terns and torches causes the the day aftar Christmas, Is the to the babies murdered by or- Sometimes,

last resort, Oh yes, the doctors decide to operate to In recent years, the standard der of King Herod.

long memories in remove the slipped disc. of dancing has much improved, we

old

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London owing to the revival of folk Hereford hire, and many dancing among

the suggested that the women's in customs and legends, and

older we grow the more pre-many backaches was bad dlet. "It's certainly tied up with it The author of an old pamph help to take us

cious they become, for

they somewhere," he said. But just out of

our- how he was not sure. annual let. the

23 describing

"Mex "And shoes," he said. visitation is not too popular Dance at Hereford Racecourse selves.

should wear higher heels. It's to walk on you'

afraid

stitules.

have

buds to untold, or that it is an

Well, hallucination.

you would be wrong, because lest

year referring to kind of paper-printed with its the bush I am

mistletoe, blossomed on the one side only sprigs of holly and and little bunches of bells

and there were people standing on both sides of the hedge. may have been that that sel these thoughts coursing through Or it my brain.

may have been the letter from a corres- pondent to

best- of our known magazines--a paper that the dark, a number of people for tricks above ground; Essex Christmastide I am going to be not natural deals exclusively with country affairs which I had just read. On the

other

hand, it may have been the touch of frost making the log burn bright and clear as I set gezing into the fire. I do not know.

one

was

But I do know that the magazine correspondent endeavouring

in Lo explode cold print the lovely story of

of our mas

I

with the former, because,

Morris

Al

in 1609, says 'Middlesex men

for men

the are apt to trample down

men for the hay: Lancashire fences and

the walk across young wheat, as the object of for hornpipes; Worcester

bagpipes; but Hereford their pilgrimage is about four

for the Morris Dance.. felds from the highway.

He goes on to describe the dresses: the musicians had long couts with hoop sleeves gather- ed at the elbows, white stock- ings, white and red roses

their shoes,

slx, the one white Jew's cap with a jewel the red feather, that and a long people

It is recorded of one farmer, away in the east of the couts-

of arm,

crowd

of

the

bush cut

broke soon afterwards

down. own. his

teather. and a white

long Whifflers had

on

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The

R

be

the Holy Thorn, which is one ty, that he was so annoyed at

most cherished Christ- the legends. especially in eame to see the blossom that other six, a scarlet Jew's cap Herefordshire. He was at great he had

red-and- The next year he pains

to give its botanical

and

hls white staves; their job was to its habits name, describe

also had after that, part keep order; they growth, and assert that

leg; not long the flowering period was from of the farm-house was burnt fool with a bell tied on

down, and all these calamities hind. were looked upon by the coun- the light of a try people in Judgment."

know

November to late January, ac-

season. cording to

I felt sorry for that corres- pondent. It was obvious that

he was not a west-countryman,

I

ย middle-aged

or he would have know of women, hopeless cripple,

I suppose it was the Christ-

the okt legend the legend. I just will not be whose affliction is attributed by mas wrapping paper that made lieve that the shrub he de her neighbours to the feet that me think of scribed was thin true Holy

sho ploited a spray of bipsom connected with mistletoe. It is

Thorn

recently comparatively Thorn. I know I have the sup from the Holy

on only and Twelfth Night, when she was that mistletoe has become part port of all the children,

So you of our decorations; formerly, it most of the grown-ups, in this a girl in her teens.

to considered our was

unlucky see how deep-rooted are lovely, unspoiled countryside, when I assert that the flower beliefs in the supernatural. bring it into the houME. • ing of the Holy Thorn is

Only last year, Night miraculous happening,

Another and

Twelfth when you have heard the story legend is the adoration of the gathering a bough of mistletoe I am sure you will agree. cattle. Many folk bolleve that in my orchard, I offered a few

NANCY

WANT TO SEE MY AUTOGRAPH)

BOOK

WHY DONT YA HAVE THE GO IN FOR SOMETHIN'

I ad

Nice Pickup, Bull

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DUMBEST∙∙

HOBBIES

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WHAT'S THAT PICTURE OVER THERE

this

heels."

doctor cause of

So for a brief spoil

kid once again. I am going

He also said that apart from to pay my annual visit to the those doctors who said "slipped Holy Thorn. In fact, I intend dise" at the least opportunity, to make my Christmas as happy there were three schools as I can, and I advise you to thought among medical inen.

(1) Those who think a slipped disc does not happen nearly as often as some of their colleagues suggest.

do the same.

CIFTS

Was

London Exorasa Berrión.

PICTURE

Eralé Bushmiller

THATS: A CIGAR BUTT JOE DI MAGGIO ONCE...

THREW

AWAY

of

(2) Orthopedic specialists who do not think 1 exists at all.

(3) Physiotherapists who are bothered by people mistakenly certain they have slipped disc and determined to be cured In nothing less than half a dozen visits. Busy people, they say. can be put right in two visits; but shouldn't go round claiming to have had a slipped disc.

W

Too common

WHY the fashion? One doctor said: "After all, one can't have appendicitis now, can one? It's SU common that fou children in the same family at Weymouth have it all at the same time.. And a fifth is under observation for it. And a sixth

suspected of having it.

"Most of my patients are the world'a workers and they haven't got time to consider the delights of a slipped disc, A pain in the back is still good enough for them."

G-NA

ERARD BRANDIES