1953-03-14 — Page 5

So you've got a bad heart?

By DR A. CHESBY

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1003,-The doctor is leaving, From the deeps of his beard the "words emerge: "Morbus cords. Bed for a long time. 1'18 call again tomorrow." Ho climbs Into him ele. 1953-"Nothing much wrong.

Small leak in a valve," says dcelor. He departe humming "Walking my baby back home."

WHAT

W

gulf between

these ldentical синея. And that gulf was caused largely by a man called James Mackenzle.

He was a Scot who burst into London in 1916-17 saying that lots of people were leading invalid lives, described as heart enses, when there was nothing at all wrong with their hearts. This caused two separate earthquakes. The first arose from hordes of established experta dashing about find their tomahawks, but the second WAN associated with widespread moaning of bogus Invalids who were firmly levered from, their reluctant couches by relays of delighted relatives.

to

For Mackenzie was a true prophet. He got a knight- hund.

James sorted

out

Sir heart troubles to two kinds: 1. Functional. 2, Organic. I'm not discussing coronary. disease here.

It's balance

THE FIRST: A man comes home grumpy just after butcher and laundry have wife presented the little with unheard-of accounts. She faints,

Sebool attendance officer reports Tommy as playing truant. Mother and Tommy both get palpitation.

Father gets a rocket at the office and arrives home breathless with pain in his chest..

There is nothing wrong heart with the heart as a in these cases. But the heart works with a double check from the brain, ac- celerator and retard.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 14,

1953.

"O.K., Honey-if you say it's the 'Mode Boulevard do Pari' I guess it's the Mode Boulevard de Pari.'"

London's Lady Mayoress, Lady De la Bere, has brought changes to the Mansion House. She tum-

ed the old ballroom into a badminton court. And she has ideas about the curtains.

FIRST LADY

OF THE CITY

But

and I do not "their farm,

their second the ceremony. even know whether I am to wear daughter Valerie works on it full day or evening dress. I hope it time. will be evening dress. I think it would be mare in keeping with the coach.

Early this year they gave party at the Mansion House for the children of the farmworkers and their mothers. They were taken to London by couch. the wife of an MP. onde ncheon was sei up on a long-

"I saw the last Coronation us

SALES

London Express Service

Lady De la Bère will

drive in the gold-

and - scarlet coach

There are which

to the Coronation

а de much time alone. She was presented as

she was a girl. many

official functions batante when Since the has become Lady only her husband attends. Mayores she is to be presented again and this time she will be introduced to the Queen by Mrs Rome Churchill.

"Special

Each Lady Moyoress makes change in the boudoir, although the furniture is officially Lady De la Bere was provided. permission

change the figured

House, the City has discovered for any civic banquet's be more Valerie, who works on the farm, by different Lady Mayoresses.

whether I shall get as good a view this time."

Since she left for

half- timbered home with its farm at Crowborough, in Sussex, to sup- port her husband in the Mansion ils Lady Muyeress is something of a "character."

har mer requests One to the General Purposes Com- mittee sent the eyebrows of the City Fotliers shooting upwards. She wanted to turn the okl ball- into 2

by Vivien

us

bad-

Batchelor

She got her way,

room minton court.

the

al

table and Sir Rupert appeared in granted for me to be presented plans to full regalia, complete with mace on the same day as I am pre- curtains to plain deep rose to The bearer. To the delight of his senting my daughters-March 25, match the chair backs. guests he took his place at the the first day of the Presentation sofa and armchairs are, in a different figured pattern, the head of the table as solemnly as Courts," she said.

Her two younger daughtera carpet in yet another chosen We thought it

would fun for them than the usual and Camilla, who is part-time

"Plain Cutiiliswill, help, I party we give them one with secretary to her mother at the

the ones trust," she said, Rupert wearing ordinary clothes, Mansion' House-are said Lady Do la Bere. who Lady De la Bere will present. Famela. ü obviously enjoyed it Eldest daughter,

much

the

schoolteacher, has already been children even presented. though she was hob. two sticks

Coronation, After bling on with her knee in plaster after Guildhall Lady De la Bere will Now, In a white blouse with a a fall down the Mansion House be hostess te the Queen and ("Before lunch, mark Prince Phillp when they attend knee-length full white skirt, she stairs, OR Lady De la Bere, smacks the birds (she explained you, not after)

the civle banquet given in their London's Lady that shuttlecock was not the

In spite of her anxiety about honour. Coronu- right term) across the net with her costume for the Coronation, -Mayoress,

Meals at the Mansion House tion Day will be a the Serjeant-at-Arms,

London's Lady Mayoress is not have become a source of delight

Sho "He seems to be the only per- very clothes conscious. specially notable occasion.

prefers clothes which are com- to the Lady Mayoress, who cooks fortable-rather than the latest the dinner when she is at home whim of fushlon. ridden in the 24-carat gold-

Black is her in the country. favourite choice for evening. and-scarlet Lord Mayor's

Her hair is silvery white and coach.

naturally wavy. She never goes "They make me feel as if I have a corrugated roof on my head instead of hair.”

She will tell you that apart

F

SENSE OF FUN

When the citizen gets all-Nowoman now alive has son' here who can play," she says. fussed up the balance be- tween these two paths gets upset and symptoms de velop by the quart. But the sufferers do not die.

But Lady De la Bere will ride in it.

She also brings up her own club teams from Sussex. They come from Crowborough ard to a hairdresser. East Grinstead.

NO PLANNING

"Now I don't have any plan- ning or thinking out to do," she sald, "The steward just usks me how

many we shall be for luncheon or dinner, I tell him (If I know) and the rest is dealt no with in the kitchens, When I'm hobbies except arranging flowers. here alone I never know what

It is only when the Lord Cure lies in tact and Mayor drives to the Although she is the mother of firmness by those around Coronation of a Sovereign three grown-up daughters, a son the patient, coupled with an that his Lady Mayoress is in the Army and a son still at effort on his or her own allowed to accompany him school, Lady De la Bere has the from badminton she has

sense of fun of a schoolgirl. behalf. It is not a high in his coach.

"How do

I like being the Lady She does, in fact, play the plane I'm going to get, although I price to pay for health, but The prospect presents a Mayoress?", she repeated after (classical music), works at em- could order something special if it is best to start it early. problem for Lady De la my question. "It's like being in broidery and collects photographs I fancied it. But I prefer leaving

Bere-a feminine one. What pantomime. Yes, that's exactly of her family, which she care it to them."

It reminds me of when I fully pastes in a It's leakage

"Them"

the are

firm shall she wear?

"I'm not the slightest good at see Rupert dressed up in those

almost medieval, makin dresses," she says. "1 caterers responsible for all the "So far I am neither fish, fowl marvellous,

Too Mansion House catering, includ- nor good red herring," she said clothes, Instead of the gum-boots always get them lopsided.

ing the private family meals, as she sat in her cream-and-gold and old patched jacket he wears careless, I suppose." walled boudoir in the Mansion on the farm."

THE SECOND: The heart

is a tidy piece of en- gineering with muscle for metal. Waves of contraction and relaxation flow through it in orderly rhythm and its efficiency is maintained by valves.

But these valves can go wrong. That is V.D.H.

(valvular disease of the heart).

If a valve doesn't open properly the heart has extra work pumping blood through.

what

Look,

of

By Coronation Day, Lady De

Now she is at the Mansion House, Lady De la Bere 'spends

House. "Everything is settled Both Lady De la Bere end Sir la Bere will have been presented for Rupert, as he has a part in Rupert take a great interest in at Court twice.

PARIS NEWSLETTER...

from SAM WHITE

OPERATION COCKTAIL

A

The man held responable is newly-appointed Corsican cook who, like all Corsicans, is fond of both ingredients.

enter- ad Paris. Any guest lingering after the the adventures of

undertaker approached prising American The formula who plasters Paris with slogans:

of "Die and we do the rest."

£50 TRAMPS

ADC. T SHAPE headquarters allotted time was Aar Paris, the talk is by an AD Thesisto If it does not close accurately there is a leak through which blood flows back at each beat of Operation Cocktail. First one sentence: There seems to That means an extra railon of warning to staff officers be a general drift towards the guest was then blood to be issued with each about the exercise was ushered out without any good- THE scholarly Paris review,

Le Temps Moderne, heartbeat. Again extra work,

Now this condition used to kill terse typewritten message: bye to his host.

But the brilliant staff work produced the following

The giving French citizens Today their "General and Mrs Ridgway

down at the exit.

a lot of people

door."

The

chart social

His oppointment was made because of fierce regional loyal- ty among the three-man Par- has liamentary Catering Committee. Torn, three ways between a

ecok from Burgundy, Bot- number is growing less. Patients will receive you for cock-complicated arrangements for standing according to their in- Burgundian MP who wanted a deaux member who pressed the are taught about their greggy tails on. You will re- parking cars worked badly and come.

ค hearts and how to live with

These earning £50 a month claims of a Bordeaux chef, and them. The heart patient must port at General Ridgway's many guests spent almost

are little more than tramps. an Alsatian who thought long- live within the limits of the home at 1730 hours and much time outside waiting for heart's strength.

leave at 1800 hours. On their cars as they did inside.

The purpose of the exercise? Those carning £200 a month ingly of a cook he know. In Those Strasbourg the committee Anal- arrival you will hand over It was to enable General Ridg- are lower middle class,

Those with £600 a can. your car to military police way to establish friendly in earning £400 a month are mid-ly compromised on the Corsi-

month are upper middle class,

Now, summed up an irate mon for parking purposes." formini contact with his stag." dle class.

The truly successful require MP, "the kitchens reek of

gar- The assault was planned in MISS HUTTON'S HOUSES **

Nic and swim" in 'oil.” three waves. The second wave

and

all their wives HEIRESS Barbara Hutton has an income of at least £1,000 a

Typical menu to which month. His of officers

réport at 1015 arrived, in Paris incognito.. were told to

parties object is the following: hours and leave at 1845 hours, Reason for the visit: talks with

A, LA CARTE

Hot garlic sausage with pota- architect the third to arrivo at 1845 and aristocratic

toes in oil, veal saute cooked Bernard de la Tour D'Auvergne FROM French

"all" MPS. of leave at 1015 hours.

with garlic and oil, followed about two new houses he has

Gaullets, by cheese and fruit, been commitsioned to build for parties - Do

Communists, Cathallen, 50- For tile ment including wine her-one fin. Mexico, the other cinlets and Conservatives and service, MPs pay 78,- an At the entrance officers ex-

a Japanese-style

roar of protest has gone up. exceptionally low price for 50, If you have heart trouble, changed a brisk handshake with Hawaff: «

The sauc: the nature of the Paris, drink allent toast to the General Ridgway. The drinks

Parliamentary Small restaurants with

cooking in the. memory of James Mac. At worst were laid out on tables

kitchen, MPs complain that the French Parliament precision a you are only asked to be reason parado-ground able and avoid getting overtired. device which, saved ....... valuable FILM director Roger Nicholas food is cooked with too much crowded with retagoes

**** - --that “terrible" Corsican.” Banglate

military drinking time:

*** la*planning'a-flux-basedˇon' gaella” and “oil:~~~

Use reason YOUR heart, of course, has amazing reserves. The other. day, in consultation, I saw a man

disease. with valvular charts, showed 40 percent dis- ablement and he worked as a professional footballer..

It was something that man could do in comfort. living within his heart's strength,

We did not stop him.

He was

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