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OUR DAILY TALK ON HEALTH.

TUBERCULAR TEST URGED FOR CHILDREN.

A SAFEGUARD.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER

8, 1927.

A PROFESSOR'S RULES FOR MARRIAGE.

POWER AND MISCHIEF

OF BEAUTY.

THE IDEAL STATE.

The Massachusetts department Professor McDougall's new book of health for three years has been on "Character and the Conduct of trying to determine the relation-Life" (published by Methuen) is ship of underweight to disease, not the severe treatise that wo and to complete a ten-year pro might exp st from the pen of a gramme pointing toward the build-Fellow of the Royal of the Royal ing un of strong citizens.

Solety and a former Professor in Fifty thousand children have the Universities of Oxford and been examined, the examination Harvard. He is now Professor including weighing and measur- of Psychology in the fabulously. ing, the recording of the tempera-wealthy Duke University, of Dur ture, and careful study of the ham, North Carolina, which re hose, throat and lungs. If aus cently received an endowment of picious signs were found, addi- £18,000,000 from a millionaire. tional examinations, including the tuberculin test and X-rays of chest, were made.

The author is distinctly uncon- ventional in some of his opinions and in certain of his advice to girls and to young men. -

He is, he explains, not a con- demner of youth.

In City and Country. It was found that city children and country children were about

The only serious charge I bring equal in the observations made in against the young people of to- this investigation. Furthermore, day is that they are allowing the amount of tuberculosis in boys themselves to fall victims to the and girls was about the same, mechanisation... In the old sterilising influences of universal although many more girls at the days it was always possible to hope ages of 12 to 15 were found to that a boy might run away to sea be underweight and to häve tuberculosis in the glands near the and spend "two years before the lungs than did boys of the same boy should go to sen, he could

But nowadays. hardly get beyond the reach of his his underwear. mother's anxious inquiries about

age.

Malnutrition did not appear to the investigators to be so much a cause of the tuberculosis as to be associated with it, perhaps as a result of the tubercular infection It was found that of the children exposed to pulmonary tuberculosis through other cases in the same family, 50 per cent. became in- fected by the time they were six years old, and that those under- weight showed a much larger per- centage of tuberculosis than those not underweight.

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Power of Beauty. day, he writes:

Addressing girls of the present

When I was a youth a clever and beautiful woman. asserted to me that the influence of feminine beauty is on the whole degrading. I did not believe it then; and I do not believe it now. The beauty of woman is a tremendously powerful influence, and, like all great forces, it may serve base of noble purposes. Urges Tests for All.

The mischief is that this great in- One-third of the cases of pul-

fluence is given to the young monary tuberculosis were in chil- females of the specias, at an age dren who were not underweight. when they cannot understand its This evidence may be taken as power and the gravity of the re- conclusive that all children, responsibility that goes with it. gardless of their weight, should be given a thorough examination for tuberculosis before they are

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THE BETTING HABIT.

CAUSES OF ITS INCREASE.-

Some illuminating facts on the subject of betting and gambling among the community appear in the report of a sub-committee ap pointed by the National Assembly of the Church of England in 1925.

Writing on marriage, he says: Do not believe the foolish people who tell you that marriage is a bondage imposed by man on woman for his own selfish purposes. Its raison d'etre is the protection of women and children. Monegamous marriage is the best device that the wit of man (or of woman) has con- ceived for this purpose, for not only does it protect women against men and against themselves, but much it also secures for them a higher level in social life than any other system hithero tried. 'or imagined.

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He next turns to the dress of girts:

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Woman in general will always ex- pose as much of herself as the taste of men will permit her to do. There is no harm in this. But be ware

lest you make yourself martyr in the sacred cause of woman's freedom...Immodesty consists in going a little beyond- custom. If it is customary to ex-

A questionaire was issued to over pose three inches do not expose six. 100 individuals and organisations if it is customary to expose your in England and Wales, and seventy-shoulder blades, do not expose the

two replies were received stating small of your back also,

tha betting and gambling were very prevalent in those districts,

Fitness for Marriage. while sixty-five stated that there

Professor McDougall thinks that had been a notable increase since botter, not to

a great many people would do the war.

his Twenty-eight replies "ideal state," he says:

marry. In stated that women indulged in bet- ting to a "very great extent," a

Parenthood would be regarded similar number used the phrase those who were well qualified in as a privilege permitted only to "great extent," and seventeen "every way by personal qualities small extent." Some were of opinand family history, I imagine gambled, to that about one-half the adults of the same extent as men, others "not any modern state would be regard half as much as men; anothered as disqualified if the matter reply was, "Often more than men," while another read;

were regulated by a wise regard "In many streets 75 per cent. of the women

for the happiness and welfare of bet,"

the future citizens, instead of by the caprice of individuals and pass-

ion that

women

As to the use of children to coning gusts of emotion. vey bets to bookmakers, seven re- plies stated,

To a very great

Nor should the unhealthy marry: extent," thirteen read, "To a great ed of the health and general fitness A girl has the right to be assur- extent," and twenty-three said, "To of her betrothed as far as medical a small extent." One reply stated

that the professional bookmakers science can provide such assur- would not accept slips from chilance. When we have become a dren. Seventy-seven replies gave

little more civilised, certificates of horse-rading as the principal form good health will be legal require- of gambling, football was given as that time it should be the invari ments for all marriages. Pending second, following which came cards, dice, crown and anchor, pitch and couple to exchange such certificates. 'able practice of the betrothed toss in the streets, sweepstakes, greyhound coursing, pigeon flying, hilliards, boat-races, and marbles. Sixty replies expressed the opinion that unemployment tended to in- crease betting and gambling.

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Among the causes to which the increased prevalence of betting and kambling is ascribed are: The eraving for excitement; men have a lot of spare time; the amount of money at the disposal of the masses, and the desire to get something for After three centuries of hiding a nothing; many churches tolerate ghost has made its appearance in card playing for stakes in their Trafalgar-square. It is a very re- clubs; increase of schemes for col-mote cousin of the Shakespearian lecting money for charitable objects ghost with marrowless bones, be- by means of guessing competitions cause it has no bones; it has had intended to included in the outline of a Dutch burgher, dress the knees of Christ twice, and the and ballots; the ease with which emerged as a daub of paint on a painting but afterwards obliterated in sombre black. With a high- obliterated first orb has now reap richer folks can bet with impunity canvas in the National Gallery. by superimposing another arrange crowned hat, grizzled moustache, peared much darker than the other.

poor people to claim the

Technically, the ghost โช a right to dodge the police.

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and well-trimmed beard.

The artist has also repainted the pentimento a painter's freak; No apologies were offered for created in the years of the First.

Who is He?

The right arm is extended, and extended band of Mary Magdalenu gambling. "Men do not usually Civil War by the Dutch painter paint has thinned almost into trans-limb encased in trunk hose. the original version now obtruding With age, the substance of the only one log is visible a shapely far the picture, and with part of think it needs an apology lads are Pieter de Hooch! He was them at parency, and the ghost has stepped The discovery of the Dutchman itself, the hand appears to have siz generally proud of it: women of the work on his picture "Interior of a out at a fireplace, in the picture has focussed attention on poorest dags rarely bwn to Dutch House, part of the Feel col from his seclusion in the texture of other instances of pentimenti in In his Venus and Adonta"

two fingers.eduna Police officials were asked to what ion haught by the nation in the canvas. Art connoisseling and the National Gallery. Both occur Titian and also introduced and extent betting and gambling were 1971 for £75,000, and experts who student are already quarrelling in works by Titian. In one, "The afterwards erased a spreading tree, contributory to crime, but only have inspected the ghost surmise it about the identity of the wraith, Trinity Realving Charles V" ("La but the folings has reproduced it twenty-four stated that it was such is, that of a man whom the artist but the majority accept it as the Gloria ho ha painted an orb on self against the abyss a factor, P

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