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(To the Editor of the ** Hongkong
Telegraph.")
The Jockey Club, "
Sic-Will you kindly allow me the use of your rolumns in order to tell a story, which, I think, will express the views of the thinking public of Hongkong?
Some years ago, there came to this Colony a man and bis family. The man was act, nor bas he ever
bis owa
SUNLIGHT AND SLEEP.
Mare Repose Required
In Winter.
MONDAY, JANUARY -&
“PREHISTÓRIC "MENU.
Cooking in Primitive Times.
A French writer has declared cooking to be the oldest culturali It is a sound rule to arrange step of humanity; since with the for an extra hour of sleep during development of actual physical the winter months, writes a Doctor taste the foundation for all other of Medicins in the Daily Chronicle training of the senses was laid For, as the light dwindles in The development of cookers intensity, our bodies lose one of certainly meant an important ad- their greatest and most important vance in civilisation, and interest- sources of energy. That other ing researobes in this dark and Ereature, sleep, must be drawn difficult subject have recently upon to increased measure.
bean published. been, of high intellectual standing. This is the secret of the winter Primitive men nie everything, but, at the time of his arrival, he sleep of many animals and of the and did not differ in their dist was filled with Ulpian ideals, winter sleepiness of so many from the animals about them. The and, at least, a kindly heart.
others. As the light fades their bəginnings of cookery were only Perhaps it was the knowledge of strength seems to fade with it made when man discovered the weakness that led him The organs of their bodies fone-control and use of fire. His first to realize bis need of balp. At any tion weakly, and gradually they efforts in this direction consisted rate, he took to Eis hume an int into a torpor,
probably of no more than a flickor- Men, however, and the higharing fire in the forest clearing or adopted child.
This child was keen and filled creatures, have learned to outlas: an ashen glow in a hole in the with wedom and understanding. the dark days without perpetual ground. There were no utensils. For nifty years, or more, he labour, somnolence. Thanks to the use The meat was simply put in the ad for the family of bis adopted of foods which in some measure fire or roasted in hot ashes on fat father. Under his guiding hand, place the sunlight, they keep heated stones. the family became great, and, what awake and at work.
The cooking by means of heated was once a tender sapling grew
The chief of these foods is stones thrown with mast into into a mighty oak, because of the animal fat; and the farther north water in feather-lined holes in the genius of the adopted child.
ona travels the more fat is requirground-seems to have developed But, when the tree beesmed. The Eskimo with his blub considerably, and probably about great, it forget the source of its ber is the final illustration. By the same time the beginnings of Greatness and its heart was turned aeans of it be veta even the bakery were attempted. Grains to toe. The son of its adaption, Arctic night at defiance.
were roasted and ground between! cow grown old in faithful service,
stones, then made into a paste was suddenly drives trom the For fat has recently been found with water, and so sata. This family circle. They became putted to exercise the same effect on the sort of porridge has been found up because of their riches, and felt human system as direct sunlight now and then in old vessels. that be was not good enough to Thanks to the work at the Kinder- The connection of women with Vienna on rickety baking is not evident nati! was driven from the house and children we have learned that cooking utensils and boiling asked to find shelter in the out-sunlight is a food in a real, became common-in fact, until houses and barns. A wooden fence batantial sense. In its absence man exchanged his nomadic, was even erected to prevent him
absence of animal bunting life for a settled agricul from again entering his old bome.
eg. milk, butter, coatural one. The cooking pot The Old Man felt de-ply the liver oil, children waste and itself is the last member of a long Jagratitude, but, realising the us-
languish. In its presence fat is evolution from drinking vessels. worthiness and shallowness of the not required to the same extent. In the hollow born or wooden family for whom he had given bis tion between these observations age softened his raw food in It may seem that the connec-cup the huntsman of the stone life, he let the wooden lease rend the hours of sleep is not a water: into this be threw red-hot 0:3:2. He even left the outhouses and the stables. He left them-vers apparent one. Yet in point stones. till the water actually the weaklings of the earth-to enjoy
of fact intensity of sunlight, boiled. the fruits of his sears of labour.
te degree of fat in diet and the Evidence of the actual menu of Even the snobs and least "en-
duration of sleep are aspects of primitive times has been obtained lightened of Hongkong would rebel the same thing. If one is dimiu- from ash-heaps of satiquity, against, and try to rectify a creased.
ished the others must be in-especially the one known as jokkenmoddinger in Denmark.
asaociate with the royal blool. He
cumstance like that which bas
been described above, but. is doing
ment on their own selves.
SUNLIGHT FAT AND SLEEP.
klinic
and in the
Fut,
เป
obtain buttter and other animal and two or three yards high sod, Nowadays it is easy enough to This is about 50 yards long so, they would pronounce jus-fats even in the darkest period of from the varied refuse in it we Thire score, or more, Sears in obtain sleep. City life, on the monotonous bill of fare for the winter. But it is not so easy to lean discover by zo means the past, the Jockey Clah came into our mid-t. They were poor who participate in it of their due shellfish seem to have been a contrary, tends to cheat those primitive, msa, Oyster and and helpless and even had to begin this respect. for the ground on which they now
most favoured dish, for there are stand.
Short hours of sleep may be millions of their shells. Bat October and the succeeding, of other courses: of fish, poultry, safe enough in May and June: there are also plentiful remains months they are dangerous. For and mammals, of herrings and the ffect of want of sleep is sets. of swans, of deer, roe, and lowering of the bodily resistance wild boat. Less often we find to the germs of inflammations of remains of wolf, for lynx, or va ious kinds.
bat; still less often of rats and
wad gecrows
The adopted child was the public of Hongkong, and noder it is
care, the Jakes Club has grown isto a mighty tre
Sew. in the ignorance of bl mind, the prode of his heart, the greatness of his riches, be turn- the faithful benefactor from his The writer, in talkie tocar alicinal who claims to be at and becoming seriously unwell split to obtain the marrow. Some her of the above highly intelligent! organization, was full, to uw his own words, "We don't care the ther the public compa u not. We've got All the angry we need
Kat.
The public of Hongkong is great. They could tene dun with their -trength the ignoble [enry, or yen the house itself that covers the | ignorant and narrow-ruloded indict- dial, hot their pride and greatpe late too generns to permit there to night against we nepasikitina which tbey have backed so faithfully for jthree seure pears and tea. They will trave the wooden lence. the o ibnuses and stabies. They
In other words, susceptibility mice, which had apparently to to winter ilmrots is increased. appear as food in lean times... The chances of catching a chil Sometimes the bones have been
are greater.
Trgetables seem also to bare hour more of eleep affords the enjoyed considerable variety of It has been calculated that one been eaten, so the primitive man necessary protection against thi fare at this period. He could loss of fitness. Thus, if the sum borin his banquet with oysters or er allowance is seven hours the mussels, have then baked Esh or winter allowance should be eight. p.ultry, and finally, as his princi- pal course, a juicy steak from the bison, or a leg of venison or boar. --M. S. in Fa
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We next saw him in his baby chair playing with a teddy bear and evidently unaware this
There was once in the Gardens "I am forced to the conclusion What would you think. Mr. a specimen of this large and fierce that this vessel, was deliberately Jockey Club, of the V. I. C. if, at species taken 100 miles from scuttled with the connivance of their annual fete, the beat seats in shore. the bouse were reserved for mein.
the manager of the company One cannot mistake the new owaing her," said Lord Justice bers paly, sad you were forced to comer, for its feathers are Bankes in the Court of appeal in it where you could not see the immaculately clean compared November. finishes of the swimming races, or with those of the older resident, could only see the divers when in the next caze, which have be- case of the Spanish steamer The Court was dealing with the they left the board and not when come diomed by the smoke and arnus, which foundered while on Amusement and Instruction.ime that he was being filmed. they hit the water?
fogs of Londoa. You would look with contempt
voyage from Virero, Spain, to What is more interesting to Rotterdam on April 27, 1921. The
The most popular Christma on such a clut and it yearly lete note, however, is that save for his weather was fine at the time, the toy for children in Paris this Fear thrown on the screen, and all the would soup sink into oblivion. Acd,face the plumage of the latest sea was smooth, and the ship was
is the home cinematograph,
BABYHOOD'S RECORDS. Other scenes of baby life wern
if pleb were the case, hur senti lodger in the owls' aviary is rich-within easy reach of a fishing writes W. J. Death in the Dotime the boy himself was watch-
ment ead lack of interest would be ly adorned with wavy black fleet. thoroughly justified.
markins, while that of its neigh-
Chronicle. It is already on thing them. It xás a deligt:ful In the lower court, Mr. Justice market, and at a price which wilProgramme, and can Imagine the A member of" your organisation.our is almost pare white. The Bailhache gare judgment in practically bring it within the pleasure of parents who possess
such records. to quote his own words, wall: The former is the livery of the imma favour of the Spanish owner of reach of all, and there is a wide, public will come. They can't re- turs bird, and the istter that of the Arnus for £10,000 as part of a choice of films to go with it.
Home filming has a great fahrze Sist the method of making money the adult.
sum of £150,000 for which the It seems a very little while! We shall have to scrap the old- which we hold out to them.**
I suppose be hal reference to the treeless wastes of the Arctic. try.
The home of the snowy owl is rassel was insured in this coun-eince the magic lantern was refashioned pictures of baby, stiff. garded as an innovation at chil. and artificial after painfal efforts the tea cent dividends which you The bird is a regular visitor to
Against this judgment the dren's parties, but the cinema is as to persuade him to wit still and have so generously paid on five Great Britain, but it is extreme- Royal Exchange Assurance Cor- great an advance on the magic look in the right direction.
I believe that I express the Chronicle.
Poarce.-A. E. H. in Dailyporation, one of the underwriters lantern as the latter was on the The future picture of the boy sentiments and intentiona of the
in his first trouser suit will not
entire public of Hoogkong, when t I say to the Jockey Club:
dollar investoruta.
Either you tear down the fence which separates us from our old domain and allow us to associate with you as we base dune in the Fears that bave passed, or we will leave you to enjoy the fruits of our labour and never again lend our assistence bei such ad asapprecia- tive, bigoted and mobbish orgeniss- tion.Yura atd..
FIVE YEARS A VISITOR Hongkong, 5th Jan,, 1928,
Mr, MAYOR:
I cannot be yours
all the time but I will
be
"Occasionally Yours
affected, appealed, and, in revers-picture-book. ing it, the Appeal Court upheld The home cinematograph has look like a Weless fastplate, the corporation's theory that a great futare. I saw the other but will show him walking water found its way into the ship day, at a children's birthday proudly beside his parents or through the engineer baring de party, an instance of the "must romping in the garden. That liberately opened a Vaiye.
charming use to which the cinema memorable day when be receives Appellants were allowed costs has ever been put. The baby days his first prize at school will not in the Appeal Court, and in Mr. of the five-year-old boss were he recalled by a simple picture Justice Ballhache's court.
thrown on the screen. He had of a boy and a book, but he will- been filmed at regular intervals be seen marching to the front during his short existence platform of the school hall, and In the first picture we saw him receiving the prize amid the at the age of twelve months tak» cheers of his companions. Hog his earliest lessons in walk- The vision is endless, but pers ing, holding his mother's band and Sectly reliable.” The kinema zodding along with gleeful smilaw. was enable us to re-live balife:
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