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THE HONGKONG DAILY 1RESS, TUESDAY, APRIL 25TE, 1922,

THE WEDDING RING.

Lady Norah Bentinck writing in a home paper, says:

Every woman is interested in her wedding ring that little band of gold or silver which is the outward sign of plighted troth,

It is, of course, emblematic of the highest things being first of all circle which represents eternity-a love, a constancy, a satisfaction with each other which will go on "till death do them part."

Secondly, it is of gold because gold is (or was till the advent of platinum) the rarost and therefore the most presious of metals.

Solomon said that a value of a good woman was above rubies, but indeed it would be a man richer than Solomon who could afford to give his lady-lovo a ring shown out of and fushioned from a pigeon's blood ruby !.

However, I once saw a ring made out of one emerald. It must bare been a won- derous stone, for the lady's finger was not over smali, and it would take a fairly large emerald to encompass the finger of a ția gloves hand,

But the ring I saw looked nothing the heart of it had been punched out to make samething for which it was nerar intended with the result that it seemed to be nothing more valuable than a piece of jade..

Now that platinum is the rarest metal, lovers seek it to deck the beloved because but perhaps not only because of its rarity.

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Although it is dim, it is in nowise dull," and, slenderly set round a protty finger, it could make a diamond seem like a scintillat- ing dewdrop placed there, instead of on a roseleaf, by fairly bands,

During the war flying men gave their wives wedding rings made out of aluininium. Not, of course, to typify lightness, nor because their love was of a fighty character, but because it was the thing most remiais cent of the lover, and, therefore, the thing that the beloved would value the most

Indel, in courting days it is not the gift of the lover, hat rather the love of the giver, wuich is of the greatest importance.

Some wedding rings are thick, others thin: some have words inscribed inside them; some signs.

The finer Hais,

THE SCIENCE OF CLOTHES. VENTILATION AND WARMTH.

Few people realize that there has TOWE up during the past years a erience of clothes and clothing. The subject, like many other vital matters, was largely neglected by modern medicine till Dr. Leonard Hill came forward and showed its importants.

The real significance of clothes from a health point of view is the relation which should exist between warmth and ventilation. Unhappily experiment that custon and fashion has shown impose on us clothes which are either up- suitable in character of in qantity. Some have a weeny stone sunk into the The chief error is lack of ventilation, and it gold, so as to be scarcely visible to the out can be asserted that too heavy clothing is side eye, and only of importance to the less of an evil. The badly ventilated gar. donor and the wearer-their loved littlement inflicts injury because it induces secret, hidden in their hearts and memorised for ever in concrete form in the Ettle band of gold upon the loved one's finger.

It is said that the third finger of the left band was chosen to be the wedding finger because a small vein runs direct from it to the bear Yet in the most European countries the wedding ring is worn upon the right hand.

Among the poorer people the engage ment ring is the wedding ring worn upon the left hand.

excessiva perspiration and leaves the skin needlessly long in an active state." Scien- tific clothing should,"on the contrary, allow great adaptability of body to change of should not provoke temperature. It perspiration in a man at rest in still air at

low temperature.

IMPORTANCE OF TRITURE.. The qualities of hygienic clothing sre contained not RO mach in the manner of in the 2.9 fibre itself wearing and the looseness or tight- neas of the complete garment. That is to say, that the same results can be obained with wool, cotton, or linen by weaving out of each a material with the aime" porosity" and air-bolding power, permeability to mor- In year to come, looking at the ringing air and water evaporating power. Thus, upon her finger, Frincess Mary will, per-dry cation flannelette is no less warm haps, think of the simple words:"

"At the marriage ceremans the husband withdraws it from one hand and places it upon the other. "

...This little silver ring.

That once you gave to me Keeps in ita narrow band Every promise of ours. Each picture of the past. In its circle I sé

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Alone it has consoled iné "In my saddest hours. Salcese comes sometimes to all men and to all women, but that it way withhold its hand from Priu Marry of England is every English woman's wish to her upon ber wedding day..

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The colder the weather, other things being equal, the less ventilation by the clothes is desirable; hot weather, makes ventilation a matter of supreme importance. For bad ventilation finders evapora tion, which is nature's method of cool- ing. The ideal protection" of a white from

in the sa

tropics," says Dr. Hill, is an umbrella, allowing the movement of air and sweating. The nearly naked native secks the shade as monkey does, or wears an umbrella-like hat. Loose, flapping garments worn in hot weather set up currents of air inside the. clothes and so held evaporation. In this coanation" porous substitute for, boots" is required at present.

TENTS OF COOLING POWER.

Drs. Hill and Flack made a large number of observations on cooling power, sitting || Figures are available about the stupen dous task performed by the London Un- dressed in shirt and trousers out of doors on an East Coast cliff in the summer. They derground on the occasion of the royal found that it made little difference whether wedding.

It is estimated 5,000,000 passengers were carried, which the shirt, worn was cellular, cotton, or flannelette or flannel; the cooling power de- approaches a record. The companies were confronted with a very dificult task in pended, not on the rature of the material, handling the ordinary morning rush hour but on the amount of restriction traffic, which synchronised with the traffic ventilation--that is, on weaving and

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looseness. Double garments very much

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wedding At time the allied companies were moving considerably over 500,000. The choice of clothes, therefore, so far an health is concerned, is a choice of shape and passengers an hour. The work was made sure not of material. It is neither more difficult through the principal bua services having to be split and turned at healthy per unhealthy to wear or not to wear wool or cotton nert the skin. If the the traffic points meeting the route the procession; and the fact that the rail should be relatively close fitting and of such clothes are designed for cold weather they Ways had to concentrate their sight-see-fabric

will" · prevent -evaporation. ing passengers on the nine Under-Moreover, it must be remembered that ground stations adjacent to the line of heat-loss is enormously greater when route. The railways ran over 250,000 cur miles-50,000 miles in excess of a normal clothes become wet, because wet materials stick to the skin. Thus funnels and loosely day. The heaviest stations on the Bywoven materials which, when wet, stick least tem were Westminster with 48,000 pas- sengers, Trafalgar Square running a good easily to the skin, lose least heat. The second with 15,000 passengers. The great entangled air" in them acts as a hest

retainer. power house at Lots Eoad rose to the

Hot weather clothes should be of exactly Occasion by distributing an additional 50,000 units of power, and consuming the opposite type as has already been close upon 1,000 tons of coal, in providing pointed out Here the object is the the power to shift the enormous volume of production of air-currents next to the skin. trade Six.car trains were run all day on Looseness is the first consideration-Times. the Tubes, and eightear trains on the Dis- trict. Every available car was passed into service, and the new trains, with their 201 per cent. increase of capacity, did yeoman service. An interesting feature about the traffic was that a record number of babies

Jim Jeffries, the form heavy-weight were carried. Never, indeed, in the history champion of the world, who recently of London's Underground have so many fined the ranks of the preschore, made bables and small children made use of their first pulpit appearance on March 8th services. Three thousand: buses were in at Los Angeles.

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service, and all day long these were running Wearing a loud check cap and a many- crowded with sightseera. It is estimated |öskutired stripped shirt, Jeffries discoursed that 50,000 more" "bus miles were run by on the subject of “Giving cùs fellow-man | the fleet.

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