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HOW'S YOUR APPETITE?

CHAPMAN PINCHER reports surprising news about the food you eat

H

AVE you noticed that that one cadet used

there are some days 70 percent mote energy

another did.

when you aro ravenously hungry for no apparent reason?

nearly

thán

In climbing staim at normal speed one man unec tựiça, qe, much enfrgy' as another.

You have not done anything Even when the energy output particularly energetic yet no of cadets was menused while woner have you filshed one they were standing, sitting, ment than you are almost ready lying, gelemiga Louch quer for the next.

ences.

On the other hand there are These results must mean that days when you have worked

some people do the ordinars exceptionnity hard set by the things of life such as walking, evening you are" "too tired to running or even sitting will' eat"

much less expenditure of quærgy Counell than others, Thale bodies, a09 Modical Research doctors have just discovered more efficient machines, why after a bout of heavy As the scientists expected, the Works of extrcise it usually taket men who used large quantities two days befqre your obpatite of energy had cursive starts urging you to eat extra uppothies, while those who dis food to make up for the energy their work economically be you expendext

much moro sparingly.

So the effort spent in Sun- day's gordentlig does not make you feel specially hungry until Tuesday, And it is usually On

Storing Food

Wednesday that the housewife World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Quardian

Thus one man consistently ate feels a seed to make up energy about 1,000 caboring a day used on Monday washday.

• almost 40 percent more food man of similar This two-day time-ing was than another discovered during research on build who was doing the same

work. appetites of cadets at Sandhurst, the Army's officer school near Camberley in Surrey.

They Hear What The

Engines Are Saying

stiff

London.

By SIR BEVERLEY BAXTER, M.P.

2 flying speed

nose cast words

clinging

There

was

just

and

Cadets were chosen for the experiment for three reasons. It was easy to find 12 men whò were all almost exactly the same age, weight, and build. Becausa of the fight training schodule the men did almost exactly tho same amount of

work and excercise.

Surprise Finding

So it seems that some people are born with body "engines which do far more "miles to the gallon" than others.

These findings explain why some people can be active yet cat lithic food.

They also explain why some people put on weight although eat, no more than others. Their bodies are more efficient

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and they store excess food the Straight from Paris

do not need as fat,

4heap

the pilot

On the other hand some people T is difficult to write

and no one else. The plane il- self looked Mke a Heath Robin-

much put on weight however

cat, with

They use so neck.

Bon contrivance

The disciplined He made it much Avith sirings Worse than that it is

possible to measure everything much energy doing their day's 'That historie

#Lached to strange levers night was whatever the weather, musl

work that there is never any difficult to look upon achieved in a fantastic machine maintain

The

the men ate and drank during It instancats.

pilot of my

tho two

weat weeks they were surplus to affect the world with that detach- of struts and string and wires, really was a horrible feeling as plane was about fifty years of

I $ seems

certain watched. and looked a jolly fellow. ment that is essential to the probably rose as high as five the plane crawled upwards and setzte siced. And off

findings must also apply to Teet and may have turned

The scientists, led by Dr. children. So they answer the contemporary observer

of hundred

travelled as much

the as a mile. through

But it was a com- moist we wonh

Otto Edholm, used ingenious worried mother's question: "How H events.

the There was no caula or cockpit.

forting thought that clouds.

devices to measure how much does Johnnie manage to be 59 brake or the engine The fault is with my son Moore Brabazon, as he was then,

un strings shall never fy again

energy each man expended in energetic when he eats so little?" different tasks. who is so air-minded that he sat on a tiny scat in the open long as I live," said my wife, failed we could come down on

the water. feels a sense of shame if and watched the miracle of the "Never, never, never."

On we went, on and on. Then with a completo anti-climax wa at Ottawn where came down there were clear skies. It was

was about 2 a.m, and there

he takes a train or a ship

nir.

from a maching he la reluctant to fly in was not surprising when he a modern awr liner. "I hear

what the meines are

for a journey. Therefore, it

well

100

זיי

In fact I have never under- stood why the flying boat has passed from favour. I flow the Aflantic twice during the Hit- ler war in a flying boat, We did to bother about

Think what a vast saving of

a

not

have

informed me that we wero saying he once told me Oddiy bus to take us to our hotel going to the opening day of enough Lord Beaverbrook's son, "There's a plane over thera derodromes. the Air Display at Farn- Group-Captain Max Allen, who that is going to Montreal," said Land there would be it flying

speaking borough.

was one of the bravest of the the pilot "If you're Battle of Britain pilots, hates to the tomorrow why not take it I explained that there travel on a modern airliner. Like

and have a good night's rest?"

looked at my wife, "Lot's gol" she said or words to that effect. And thus we flow to Montreal and slept like tired Shilpinen in the very hotel where I am was due to speak at noon.

was so much to do and so Lord Brabazon, he knows what little time to do it in. His the engines are saying. reply was: "We take off in half an hour."

That was the only thing to do. To live happly one must be a fatalist.

boats were the normal means of travel. Yet coming back world in a flying boat in 1941 from New York where I had been on a special mission we had a somewhat standing experience.

Thus, in half an hour, we did set out in his car for the opening day of the Many years ago I had an great display. The country- experience which is utterly un-

To live in fear It was night time and as we Important but might be of some is not to live at all. Never-eared the Lisbon harbour the side was misty with It

passing interest in the matter

theless I did not enjoy three pilot asked, and received, the all drizzling rain and I sug- flying psychology.

six attempts to land at Toronto, clear do come down on the gested that flying would be

water. Slowly, gracefully, I was on speaking tour, Since then we have Blown

dancer impossible or at any rate accompanied

the plane by my wife, and thousands and thousands of an adagio

weaved its way downwards invisible. He replied: "It had spoken on this particular miles yet I must confess to

through the clouds. will clear about two Pip day at a luncheon in Chiengo. light jolt when last winter wo My next engagement was a were staying with Earl Ran- Emma." Which I gathered tuncheon sprech 16 far off furly at Government House

was the Morse Code for two Montreal which meant that we the Bahamas,

it proved. On innately, the clouds, U

would have to tako from Chicago at 6 pm.

to

p.m.

And 80 arrival he promptly dis- the rain began to drizzle, and appeared and wandered we had hardly soared into the down the run-away watch the take-off as, at the shortest of intervals, each

miracle winged

followed another.

*

In

Then there was a sudilen roar of engines and we zoomed

Up wards again. The captain had just spotted the lights of a ship in time. The harbour had not been cleared at all. The Por- tuguese were profuse in their apologies when, an hour later, were able to and enough clear water and come to rest.

And now I have stiff neckt

Wo

ale when we heard on the loud One day he said: "I have speaker that all further flights chartered two flying boats and had been cancelled.

we shall spend the week-end from watching planes hurl them- visiting Gome of the islands selves through the air fuster The visibility was practically where the natives have never than sound, swifter than nil and all we could see from seen the Governor or any re- imagination itself. the portholes

clammy, presentative

was

wet clinging mist. The plane Family." tried to land at Detroit but

*

of

the Royal But it was good to see my ol

friend Mooro-Brabazon again

We were a house party of six, and to think that it was because could not manage it, 50 wa and husbands and wives were of crazy Toons like him that we crossed the Canadian border divided so that they would not have emulated the angels and and came down at Sarnia. be in the camo plane. And the eagles by giving ourncives

The weather was little when I saw the planes I under- wings. better there so we took off for stood,

with

One four-engined monster, the size of a Toronto where we would arrive destroyer, required a run of in plenty of time to catch the only a hundred yards for it overnight train, complete to be airborne.

sleeping cars, for Montreal. Even an In due course the usual in- earth-bound creature like structions appeared on the panel; Fasten myself could realise what illuminated. that can mean in our far off, safety belts." "No smoking."

Thank heaven the fight was undeveloped Colonial Ter- ending and we would soon be ritories. For that matter saleep in the security and com- it must be of equal impor fort of a sleeping compartment tance to aerodromes. in of an earth-bound train.

It is always a pleasant feeling

cities such as Paris, London as the aeroplano engines reduce and New York,

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YES, THERE IS

LIFE ON MARS

By HENRY LOWRIE

Washington. Mary since it was first mapped

unexpected."

M [ARS is not a dead 125 yours ago. It was "totally

their roar and the plane wafts LI swift order the planes its way downwards as though soared into the air and my head undecided whether to land or went back so that I could follow change its mind and stay in the world. Proof has been their ascent, For something air. At last we had penetrated captured in pictures taken like four hours I gazed upwards, the murky clouds and could see by an American-organised arul then we drove back home, the brightly lit serodrome call-

oxpedition to South Africa.

Next

morning a

hastily ing us to safety and rest.

summoned mussour tell my neck and said)

Nelson's monument."

hard as

In fact it

理

was absolutely agony to turn it He was almost inch. Wor to a a shadow by the time

holt an

*

"Never before has such a new dark splotch appeared except az an increase of an existing dark area. The remarkable "frans formation Indicates that tho A huge blue-green oren, division between the Martian desert and daric believed to be living vegeta (orange-red) tion, has been dispovered from aroma is not necessarily fixed or tho photographs.

permanent. Ong may change

Then there was an angry rvar The vegetation covers 200,000 to the other at any time. he had restored my neck to even of the engines and up we soared square miles of Mary, more than "I helps to support the-con- elementary manoeuvrability, into the blackness of the clouds, twise the area of Britain (80,000 clusion that Mars is not a dead You about have stared hack Six times pilot attempted the

world, that the darkening is due squiro milor).. said my

You won't landing and ·BIX. Umed ho

to the growth of plant life. watching a heap me out the swerved into the clouds

The surprise of the expedition Biologists suggest that this life "Attention pleaso.?! It was the in making its discovery is als may be akin to chims that 448 calm voice of the pilot.

by the National

was Lord Brabazon.

ng the friends that * “My is too low to come down In | Géographie Socioły, which, with grow on the earth's barren rocks come incredible but he is the We shall go on, to the towell Observatory, örgatio and mountain tops." højder of thing certifiante Na 1.

and arrespondenim with lid and paid for the South

And the society maid that to

in case you do not know what be made for hotel goompods Arrigan trip

- leaksi 'mory about it such plante that means let me explain that ton for nil passengers."

may nen bị cho In a lebiot hongide the fnt flying csily. Now it is one thing for a ship | 4 The sooloky jid that the disc tory, under physical and chemi- denle över Loved in. Groep at sen to slow down or even 19h, copepro ipagné tan sarentest, cal conditique thought to sel Britain.

drift in a dog but an aeron

Johrmio is healthy in ollier ways the truth is simply that ha is using his energy better than next door.

the

Sye; aun:#? Footnote for old sweats; The

Their most surprising Ending was the enormous differences in the amount of energy used by men of almost idencat bulb scientists measurements showed doing the same job in exactly that arms drill uses, considerably the same way.

niere energy per minute than Thus, in military marching, quick marching but standing at when men were walking at the attention uses only 15 percent same speed and with the same more than standing at ease.

(COPYRIGUTX swing of the Umbs, it was found

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