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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY

1954.

HOW TO LIVE⚫ The Chius Mall continues the lary of the great health adventure in which

YOUR THREE-MINUTE CHECK-UP

TO BE 100

sive men and women are seeking an answer to the question: "Es is possible to live longer and more restfully?"

• Today the leam of medical experts consider the case of the business man

represented by the radio star and hualneas cxecutive KENNETH HORNE.

• Is your age group 10 to 009 Then Und your health rating by answering the questions on the right. If you fall in aroiber age group, your ca will be dealt with on suoccoding days this week.

The Kannoth Home that radio Hitanem never so i at bla business desk

★ The business, man: Age group 40-60 ★ Tick the answers applicable to you. Then read the key below

(a) I have a good appo

file

2 (a) My

roid,

digestion

̧3 (x) I sleep very soundly,

(a) I usually feet fresh in the morning.

5(n) 1 can relax onally.

(A) AFTE very Oven-

Lempered.

(a) My weight Gover

varies

8 in❘ Only violent

anja

heart never

(b) My appeilts is fair,

(b) occasionally have in-

digestion.

(b) I sleep fairly soundly,

(b) I tend to wake up feel

ing liveristi,

(b) And it hard to relax.

(b) I tend to be irrliable.

(b) I am worriest about my

weight.

(b) i get breathless fairly

quickly.

(b) it thumps occasionally.

(D) 1.

makes

excr. the

trenthiew.

0 (a) My

thumps

10 (a) never feel dizay.

11(a) hardly over cough.

12. (a) I don't worry about

my health.

occasionally

teel

dissy.

(b) 1 óflen get coughs.

(b) A sometimes ret alarmed

about my health,

| (0) My appetite is bad.

(0) 1 suffer from chronio

буврернія.

(0) I suffer from Insomnia.

(c) I feel nauseated in tho

morning.

(e) I cannot relax.

(0) The least thing irri-

tates me.

(0) It goes markedly up or down if I don't diel

(0) The slightest exertion

makes me breathless.

(a) thumps often.

(a) I often feel dingy,

(c) i baro a chronic cough.

(e) constantly think

bave something wrong with me

THE KEY TO YOUR HEALTH RATING Count two points for (a) answers, one point for (b) answers, and nit for (c). Total

up and find your rating below:

Over 18 points: Good; 12–18 points; Average; Under 12 pointa: Poor. II your answers to 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, are fc), you should see a doctor.

BETTER BE RUTHLESS

THIS

at lunch-time, Mr. Horne Smog! blue

K

ENNETH HORNE'S chief problem must be how to At his astonishing runge of activities into 24 hours,

It is a problem which he uppeurs to be solving mutis- factorily at present, without detriment to his health, but how long can he go taking so much out of him- self without risk?

THI

KENNETH HORNE

Age: 46. Profession: Salvi director.

Quisido activities : Broadcasting. TV.

Sports: Golf (about once a month).

Health Passed Al for life Insurance (three years ago). Smoking: 20 cigarettes a day and an occasional cigar. Health rating: 21.

On drinking days, a dry sherry

o dry Madeira is permitted as lunch aperitif, and a dry hock. for a lager or light ale, with the

food.

Another polat about lunch; the best time for putting through business.deale is not while you are esting your food. Keep the conversation Renerad ut table. and if business details have tu be discussed, do it comfortably hi vasy chairs afterwards, over

exercise he gets is about 12 long at the man who controls rounds of gel in the course of his misthoe and his eating. Caffee.

be a year. He smokes 20 Cigarettes Kenneth Bone should plump

M

nil.

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1 daily routine, as fold it to the medical touril, a day, and on occasional engar. where possible for stenk,

In the health tably which chicken, is not vastly different from

omelets, fruit, vege- that of other top ranking Horne oblamed

appears on this page, Kenneth tables and sand.

21 1

PERLE.

What al

drink? For business executiveS with good rating. But what will hi man who tends to put on weight many outside interests. It rating be after a

Jakk if there should ideally drive his

catorific addis

1 body adobol up to a ninety-hour le continues to

und his mind at such prevetre? value is too high. week.

Bs digestion, which is

But how

Kenneth Horne

would good, wil suffert he will berete flod it difficult to cut out drink more breathless,

altogether. Not because he is a his sleep may well be upset, un

und his whole heavy drinker. He is nut. He

ibut nervous system more

however, Tects.

it as an essential This is the regime

ww pre- purt of his job to be "sociable" scribe to enable Kenneth Borne with las business contacts. and other business en of his The Medical Board takes cog- After breakfast --sometimes cxx, age, to nyert these dangers, alsanice of the fact that the 13 aug

while continuing to lead has very question of midday drinking for Limes only tea and toast-he active dubile life Let's start lasitess executives chirve to The offee t 8.40, the

The morning. unless he traveling.

7 a.m. start

onti

He gets

an hour pottering spends about about in the bathrosan, soaking

In the luxury

up 7.m.

a hot bath.

and bacon, some-

In line weather, instead of And Keneth Borne towels wasting time in the bathroorn, often and to all parts of the he should put on a sweater and country in his capacity as sales stacks when he gets up and go

director.

bisually big ment.

Buck

the office at 230, he puts in an- other three horas of really in- tensive work.

On

changes

Dut

10 ат

Saturday

This stimulates,

baseut

to

help

Avoid these

Relax

On Uhose days when there is no business lunch relax in on

HAVE from

DIOR'S SOVIET RIVALS

By ELISABETH HUNKIN

T would be an exaggera- With better

It would in

folk Use of there could be fashions have become the "simple, comfortable, and at talk of the day in Moscow, the same time elegant" but with the new drive to Soviet clothes that would please the Soviet consumer rival_the_"gesthetic, refined they are receiving are and decadent fashions of the markable degree of official West." attention.

The author of the article, how-

on artist himself and was over,

A

In the old days, one barely aware that Soviet Stalin prize winner, admitted

fashion magazines existed; sadly that he could not find a: now, they have come Into good word to the open and are exposed to magazines searching criticisms.

say for Savict mnd that Soviet women were "slavos" to foreign onca. Artists working for the For even fashion, it Soviet Journals did not combat scems, has its Ideological "petty bourgeois vulgarity" but side. A recent article in the often spread it themselves. Some Soviet youth paper, Komso- of the drawings showed great molskaya Pravda, hinted ignorance of anatomy, and as that with greater caro it for the photographs, they were could become another feld "extremely unattractive and in- in which Soviet culture expressive, depicting dreary, could demonstrato its primitively finished garments." superiority over the West.

is where skies

are MADE

One can gather something of this dreariness from a skit in the Soviet humorous journal, Krokodil, published at the end of August 1953. Under ther hending

"Krokodil's Fashion House." there were drawings of 9x gatments produced by various clothing factories, with a commentary on each,

Two models

Number one was described as "a poplin blouse of dirty lilne colour-an exemplary uniform fer a genreerow in the leftchen

as And that meant the family garden," Model number two was

as the factory woman's winter cont, the but

NEW YORK. All this, ns well

just.

As well and boller come coughs, sore throats a city that hus inflamed eyes. conquered smog-and Now we come to Nov- less fuel. conquered is not too strong omber 28, 1930, the a word to use for the St Louis success story.

"Black Tuesday" of St Louis.

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furnace. All others foeding their tons of which, said Krokodil, fires by hand must burn smoke-"in elegance and size recall the noble outlines of a barn pad- lock." Of the next model the "This is a severe ramp in Journal said:

or- or to style without unnecessary

Next: To stop Д prices

due to scurelly, It was midnight at noon. The break resistance by coal deal-namentation or tailoring devicies. For St Louis (pronounced whole city gasped and Lewis), on the Missouri retched in the grip bank of the mighty Missis sulphurous miasma. sippi.

Onco

of

In the coat the lady will look ers, the city should be empower-

like a retired guardsinan,” ed to buy and distribute coni.

Another garment in Krokodil's Finally, the 18 rallways con-list "doce away with the old- verging on St Louis should be fashioned division of clothes into

had a smog DONALD LUDLOW reports to conform like everybody male and female. Even the most

problem as

worse than. Lon- don's own.

armchair, even if it is only for bad as, if on the defeat of a 15 minutes, before going back not to work. Time must be found for rolaxation during the

at key points day, otherwise you are subjecting your body to a strafo which you

woulst dream of imposing on your chɛ. for instance.

not

menace

Two days before, the St Louis newspapers had been The choking, sooty, sul- raking the civic authorities, phurous blanket that

Raymond Roche Tucker, wrapped the city from au- tumn to spring was taking the young engineering pro- a toll of nearly £7,000,000 fessor who had taken on the a year in property damage job of smoke commissioner that nobody else would touch "It's impossible" was the view-was under fire.

Lunch time is one of these key points. The evening is another.

Lok at the way Kennet very Home rushes home from work, without counting the

changes and rushes ut again, Cust to health.

szthell one.

Courage

In theory,

we ean eul down

abstinence.

one pre-

luud

We are not suggesting he should give up his evening engagements. That is the equivalent of saying he should give էդ being Kenneth Horne!

So dirty

ND why so much smog? But he must find at least half AN

changes.

belts of warm

air"

on

He was being called Tucker the Tinker." Black Tuesday not only inflamed

its tempor. grem-

The Post-Dispatch detailed that veteran

newsman Samuel to Shelton to get an answer to

amog.

It pounded the Adminis

else. Any coal with over 23 per-¡experienced saleswomen are un- sent volatile matter was to be able to determine which sex is supposed to wear this inimitable regarded as smoky fuel.

article."

At once raltroads, the Illinois coal owners, and inerchants came out to do battle.

But 51 Louis, nick was not to bu deterred.

smidg,

A committee of citizens, led by banker James L. Ford and briefed by Professor Tucker, put the finishing touches to the or- dinance; slapped on fines up to $500 for anyone making *x- cessive smoke for more than six minutes.

By April the ordinance was make in- in effect, with 18 spectors on the job.

Results

MILLION

of

Soviet fashion designers are not entirely to blame, however. In a recent Issue of the organ of the Ministry

Culture, Sovetskaya Kulturo, an artikle by one of them, Okuneva, re- vealed that they work under but have no say in the making dimeulties. They design clothes of them; if the factory lees to

make niterations, they cannot interfore, Altogether, their opinion counts for little.

Horrified

Okuneva described a scene in the Artistle Council of the Soviet House of Fashion, the Dom Modelel. When an elegant satin dress, sewn with sequins, was greeted with exclamations of approval, a representative of the trade organisation declared coal, that

demanded "pockets in such dresses." The designers were horrified, for the model was a party dress to be

for a brisk walk for half on the turn inter of drinks t One d'elock lunch with custo- hour, allowing This with

A particular lunch-time session, STACH for initsiness contacts is shower or quick. led bath, and work out a strict rationing an hour fg compicte relaxation First, St Louis suffers St Louis lungs, it inflamed

while a lazy, system. 10

In an armchair, with paper and from those weather prietice it cannot hot bath enei vates,

always be done. It 15 aften Pipe or a cigarette, before helins known as "inversion A cup of tee (with sugar) and difcall to prevent

i am will serve lunch cocktail becoming three or most week nights, he three purposes. They will four it others Join the party.

If it is a very heavy evening, come in around 1,500 a teaspoonful of bicarbonate of 2,000ft. and seal smoke In into dinner jacket as prevent the stomach from being The answer, and it may sound soda la pint of water at bed- he gets homie, und goes empty. for too long. take the

ruthless. is for mich with wide

and a quarter straight

evening edge off the lunch appetite, and, business

fine will make you feel better as tightly as if by a lid. connections like the next morning.

ton's of smokeless function. He looked at his perhaps

dewa Kenneth cut

And, when Burne

to alternate

Second, the Southern tration. diary, and found

possible, follow a very late night that hu had before-lunch smoking.

drinking days with days of total with an early one (10 p.m., and Illinois coalfield,

And then, sur, gathered far and wide by Pro had evening engagements for 32

the prisingly, Shelton was buck fessor Tucker, were on order to the last 37 days.

It may need courage for Horne a novel in bed).

other side of the river, from within a fortnight with the St Louis dealers. A move they Every

to order a ginger ale in

which St Louis drew most answer-an Sunday

that answer Fried and starely foods, and voice when he meets his friends,

of its fuel, produces some Tucker the Tinker had done ferences from 9 am to 4 pay rich soups. all of which have But they lov will have rend and when "Down You Clo" was high caloriile values and lead to these articles, and many of them

One final word about exercise. of the dirtiest coal you can ELS much as anybody to being televised he went on to obesity

Kenneth Horne was at this age, should, he will accept the idea of a non-

right to find anywhere. the studio from 5'clock to 8.30 avoiried at lunch.

provide. give up squash drinking day.

a year ago. He used to play rugger, tennis

So when winter came and The business man of middle- In fact, why not synchronise Although it is possible in theory and squash, but has now given age who carries too much weight your

The spur to play the game quietly, the to the belching of smoke Ahrens էէ, The only is unlikely to carry it fur an

will to win often leads to the stacks was added the smoke BUT it needed the spur of tar. expenditure of inute energy from the stoves, fires, and thin e mun of his age can afford.

angry public opinion Golf the

form of furnaces of a million people and the powerful champion- ter of 1939-40 the city had exercise, but once a month is trying to keep warm, you ship of the Post to have any 718 hours of smog. The fol- not enough; once a week would be better, twice a week would

can imagine what it was chance of being accepted. lowing winter it had 1854 be perfect. 11 18 because like.

For the answer to.smog

heat

and every script con-

(WD)

min-drink

Wild theirs?

The Chapman Pincher Column

A 'SLIMMING' WAY TO

TH

HE

THE STRAIGHT PATH

day's

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Exercise

idcal

Kenneth Home cannot, presum- ably, spare the time that we have

walk.

over

couldn't resist they decided to assist.

The railroads bowed too. And over the river the coal owners started putting in plant for cleansing their fuel, taking out the ash, the sulphur, and the

Now results: During the win-

hours.

thoro wore only

|

consumers

worn with beads, a brooch, or artifletal flowers. What was the point of pockets, the inevitable features of working clothes?

The designers' protests were ira vain, although, Okuneva argued, the requirements of the consumer ought not to be decided simply on the basis of statements by trade reprezentatives. Tho designers should eay, since it was their task "to the final educate

the taste of Sovlat best and to sweep away all that people, to support all that is

la backward and allen to our culture."

Apparently

Shops lost millions from did not involve any waving In 1952 recommended the early morning the soiling of goods. Hotel of a magic wand by chemists eight and a quartor hours of Another handicap under which

almost and home laundry bills were and engineers. It thrust the light smog and last year there Soviet fashion exports work,

double those

was hardly any at all." in whole thing back at St Louis

is the limited range of materials, The styles they other cities.

And that dearer smokeless people with the most drastic

ordinance Nobody dared wear light smoke

conl proved cheaper in the end. design have to be made up in whatever material is available, People paid more for it, but Thus a winter model may have coloured clothes or have devised.

they used less of it and got to he made out of summer dress more heat. light furnishinga.

This 19 what! 10 lold

material. down: that all burning high- Ironwork corroded at in- volatile fuel (that cheap and credible speed, paint crack- handy coal, containing a lot of ed and withered in a year sulphur nnd tar, from across the or two, Gardens were bleak river) must employ mechanical feeding equipment” to burn it and bare.

smokelessly.

if that, too, is not possible. then men of his age, leading sedentary lives, should walk to Animal tests have proved that pep pills which

This happened with Derak the women use for alim- the drug acts directly on a brain William Bentley two years before, or part of the way. Do directors think they will be "circuit, which is believed to he was hanged for being an oc- laughed at if they walk ming are now being given be faulty

the in many habitual complice to the murder of Police ofce? to young criminals to pre- criminals.

Constable Sidney Mlics at For certain

They should remember that vent them from becoming

types of young Croydon, but no medical treat the last laugh will be with the delinquent, whose brains are too ment was attempled. Abnormal to be improved by

funeral directors. Doctors have found that drug treatment, a London sur-

BLAME WORRY the pille alert the brains geon is trying out a new brain I bigger share of the worrying ,women would take over, a of some delinquents in such operation.

Jobe in ilfe fower men would

old lage.

a way that corrective train- A 14-year-old giri who was suffer heart attacks. That is ing has more effect on them. Judged to be beyond control the view of a loading London The pills, which contain the after she had broken out of a heart specialist, Mr David Evan

number of remand homes is now Bedford, put forward at drug amphetamino sulphato, seem to increase the delinquenta livin contentedly at home after private meeting of doctors ot ability to understand the differ- undergoing the operation at the Guy's Hospital ence between right and wrong Maudsley Hospital.

Serious heart allments aro and to learn that crime does not

The operation, which involves more than three times com- the removal of a considerable moner among men than among uncertain women. Doctors are

pay.

SLIGHT ABNORMALITY

part of the brain, was originally why the female heart wears devised for the treatment of err better than the male, but there TESTS made by Dr 11. Sessions who have undergonof 14 is evidence that ragging worriga Hodge and Dr Gray Waiter people who have undergone the weaken the blood vessels which showed that 84 percent of the operation, ten have to far been supply the heart and bring on youths in an approved school free from seizures. near Bristol had

coronary thrombosis, alight ab- Doctors foresee the day wher One obvious solution would normality of the brain, as it will

be possible to operate be a life of perpettini golf with Judged by recordings of their before

a delinquent commlis u ocensional pauses at the 19th serious crime.

hole for the male, leaving Tha

"brain waves."

They found that such youths A tendency to the form of more vexatious occupations to can tolerate execnsive doses of epilepay which may makʊ a per- the female who is ́ip much the pep drug which would pres son violent often shows early in boltor protected aminot the vent

from life as an abnormal "insinwave" hazards of coronary disease?

My Dvan Belford said...

ordinary people

·Mönning.et n

night

rwording.

Next Saturday: Calling Housewivesl

JOHNNY HAZARD

THE MISSING CRATE OF CYSTERS IS IN

| GAVEKTO RESTAURANT! HERE IN THE NOTE LEFT buc. BY THE CHOP/

THE OYSTER BREEDER, M. BLEU POINTE, ARRIVES AT THE MER...

HOW COULD YOU LEAVE THOSE CRATES UNGUARDED «FOOLS? GET THE CRATE

"BACK AT ONCE /

AND THE MEN HASTEN TO GAVERT'S KITCHEN/ YOU...CHEF...PROP WHAT HERE'S THE MISSING YOU'RE DOING... AND DON'T CRATE, AND (TY BEEN)

MAKE A SOUND!

OPENED

Mayor Thacker now, Light bills

Professor "Tinker" Tucker l

One way and another, the are down a million dollars a year, union le not an easy one, and it quest for elegance in the Soviet

Now for St Louis there arois scamely suprising if women no more sooty bluey when wins | and doelgners are still "alover? ter comes

Ito foreign styles and trends.

By Frank Robbina

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