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more inclusive St. Lawrence Com- mission was formed, with Mr.

Com. Hoover, then Secretary of merce, at the head of the. Ameri- can section. And after another. two years the report of the joint board of engineers was published, and elaborate cost and engineering data were submitted to the two-Ruskin. nations. The hiatus that has oc- curred since that time has been due in part, it would seem, to sober thoughts In Canada over the con- alderable cost involved. The United

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The Postmaster mivises that, the

THIS "KEEPING FIT" FETISH

By BEVERLEY NICHOLS.

TYSELF when young

My

baths, and dumb-bells. At

and conditions of people who told me how to keep it. At school, In conrequence of the King's Res-earnest masters, who were obvious States hun twice sent notes expres-taurant Grill Room being engaged. y dying of high blood-pressure. sing willingness to proceed with there will be no ten dance on Satur growled injunctions about cold the development.

Another phase opened when Mr. Bennett visited Washington some time back and is understood to have discussed the seaway project Informally with Mr. Hoover. Again, quite recently, Maj. William Herridge, the Canadian Minister, was closeted with the President. Sponsors of the canal then hoped that final negotiations for drafting a construction treaty would soon be instituted. The

opportunities offered by the seaway are obvious. There is now a bottle neck between Lake Ontario and Montrent which holds back the 100,000,000 to 150,- 000,000 tons of freight annually

For drawing water from

You cannot possibly judge your than itself. That is why I distrust all these columns in the newspapers about "how to keep fit." They treat the public as if everybody were ent to pattern.

a great that it wishes to stay in bed. Stay there. It sends you a message that

is n

Ox- It has never been my painful IA nowford, huge "blues" used to charge necessity to reduce," but if IL The Tajmahal Silk Store agent for the well-known "Ferguson" into one's room, filled with a de- were, I should certainly not be Ho voile fabrics, a special sewefiim of termination that one should row. foolish as to imagine that I could And after that I discovered that do it by eating less. Eating much which is now being shown

the so-called "great" world is filled or little makes absolutely no dif- Chinese Postal strike having been with people who apend their lives ference in my weight. Worry doen. rettled, the old practice in despatch trying to make other people take A good worry will take off a couplo of mails (via Siberin for itunes) is exercise. The exercise fond is of pounds in a week. An over- being resumed.

like the drug fend. He wants to halt with me means underweight. Therefore, if I had any advice on convert everybody else to his own

the subject, I would say that the H fre habita. hydrant in Stone Nullah lane, n I cannot share this belief that beat way to keep fit is always to do chinese was fined $10 or fourle

all day days' hard inbour in default by frexercise is the cure for all the ills exactly what you wish, Your body cat Sir William ang Oly those messages. It Schofield at the Central Police Court to which the flesh is heir. Neither, is sending you messages this morning. His Worship remark-1 muy add,

ob-sends you a message in the morning that the fire hydrants had the Arbuthnot Lane, who once ett alone.

served to me that with many Englishmen exercise An overdose of Adalin poison was fetish. Well, isn't it?

A city man eats an enornious

For, after all, the body in all about 6 years whilst occupying a

we really know about. This is rene at the Luk Hoi Tung Boarding lunch and then takes the train to and down House, of Connaught Rond, yester golf-course where he violently world of clouds and dreams-Des- day. When his condition was dis joggles his body up covered by inmates of the premises while glaring at a ball. The whole tarts said "I think, therefore I am," he won stantly removed to

of his system-digestive, muscular but even this apparently incon trovertible philosophical assertion Government Civil Hospital, where he and judging from his language) has been contested. I should pre- is now seriously_R1.

mental-is subjected to a violent fer to say. " ache, therefore I am.” strain. He will observe blandly And I know that I shall ache, unleas that he is able to eat a "heart" do what my body wants. And so. lunch because he is playing golf

will you. Des Voeux Road Central, who

1 prefer to alleged to have absconded yesterday afterwards, morning with 4,200 teels of silver, light lunch and sit down. to the total value of $6,000. The two men had been detailed by the master of the shop, to take delivery of twe sacks of silver from the s.5. Charles Hardouin which was lying alongside the Po Tak Wharf.

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THE ST. LAWRENCE

WATERWAY

Duluth a world

port! It would, of course, have equal advantages for interior Canalinn cities.

The question of costs JA of intricate course

Un-

onc.

The police are searching to shop fokia of the ai lung firm, of 79,

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val

it loathes the sight of that cold bath. Lon't take it.

If you use a thing a great deal Diet and Exercise

tic, or a motor, or a body-it is the obvious wears out. That truth that none of the exereiне

A most attractive programme has lends seem to realise. Occasion- been arranged for the open-air con-ally one reads in the press of some cert

to be given at the Chinn Light seventy-year-old peer who alarms and. Power Recreation Club enclosure his family by plunging into icy at 9 p.m. to-morrow. The full marine fakes on Christmas day, or some band of H.M.S. Cornwall will be in aged witch of a hunting woman attendance, and other contributors to who bounces about on bays at an the programme will be Mrs. P. St. A. Sharpham, Mr. C. Reg. Anderson an age when she would be better em- Mr. V. C. Labrum, with Mr. W. H. ployed in writing cheques for her

grandchildren.

for City Men

By WALTER M: GALLICHAN

A

USINESS men living in large cities are handicapped and threatened by constant risks

always a high. rate of disease and to health. A dense population has the town-dweller

doubtedly, 'much of the outlay would be met by the generation of power. The rapids of the St. Law rence offer an inexhaustible supply of energy, for which there, will be a gruying. denund. On the other hand, it is likely that. some of the hopes held out for farm relief to Interior wheat regions from access to export markets have been ex aggerated, not through any fault of the proposed sedway, hut be cause of the world glut of grain which may permanently restrict sales of American wheat on Euro- pean markets. Modern estimates even the most onthusiastic--of the usefulness of the proposed waterway might err on the side of understatement. Once unlock the

The following cable at the close The whole thing is entirely per-Into offices and warehousen.

To keep well, the city man should interior American continent with a of the sugar market yesterday soul. Your body is as individual liquid key and the imagination is has been received by Messrs. Pen-a thing as your mind. I found that spend most of his week-ends out of hard pressed to grasp the possibili-treath and Cn. tles.

Japan's New Government. The formation of National Government in Tokyo. under Vis- count Saito will doubtless lead to of for. a searching examination eign policy as the first article in the the programme for tackling national crisis. Leading person- alities of both the Seiyukai and the Minseite parties have

been

A

Fleming an accompanist,

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microbes and

But these are the exceptions to mortality, and the general rule. Do you know tho needs a vigorous power of resist longest-lived profession in the ance against the world, according to statistics? The bacteria that menace him. Forty judiciary. And judges take a per cent. of the sunlight over many minimum of exercise. There is one towns is obstructed by a pali" of I know who would be a good deal amoke and vapour, and the essential ultra-violet rays cannot penetrate better for some-on a treadmill.

mut at the age of three when I suf- doors, for he needs fresh air and fered excruciating torments by get exercise to counteract the stuffiness Ling sand between my fingers. The of the office and the ill effects of a whole of my small skin used to go sedentary occupation. Without be-. goosey." Nobody understood, but coming a faddist, It is not difcult it was a very genuine pain, which to follow a daily regimen of health that will mitigate the common in- lasts to this day.

Melba could not eat a pear, be. Jurica to the system that life in a

crowded town involves. cause it gave her a cold in the head, (This was not a joke, nor a piece of affectation on her part. It was a medleal fact). There used to be a don at Cambridge who tablespoonful of earth out of his garden every night.

of u

Ate

the labour of a navy. The tendency to obesity common among middle- aged elty men is the result in eight cases out of ten of over-enting and insufficient physical exercise,

Persons who take little exercise 'cannot digest and assimilate a large amount of carbohydrate or starch- food. The sendentary require a light protein diet, a moderate quan- tity of ment once a day, fish, eggs, a regular supply of vitamin-provid- ing green salads, tomatoen, and fresh fruit.

The daily strain, in many inst ances, begins with A hurried breakfast and a rush to the station or omnibus, It is not a loss of time to linger over a meal. In the luncheon hour the busy man should not leeus n business deal while Lady Mend (whom you know eating. He should forgather with better by the name of Elsie de cheerful,friends who can dismiss invited to go-opératos and the outplore the excesses of Japan's mili-Wolfe) stands on her head every business matters at meal tlines. Reading between the lines, it is look is more hopeful now than it tary forces and are resolved. to day before breakfast. I have seen Light Meals, clear that the St. Lawrence water-has been. There is, however, no end their domination over govern- her do it, at partles. She's not On the all-important question of way project negotiations between sign of a chrek on the lack of co-mental policy. They must own young woman, but, she has the body let for sedentary workers it is Canada and the United States are ordination between the military responsibility for past mistakes of and energy

flapper. Elan wise to consider personal idiosyn- crasy. But it should be granted not preceeding so smoothly as was and civil branches of the Govern-theit war makers; but they can Maxwell, the greatest giver of hoped would be the case. Indeed,

ment and unless this is done, thenke themselves responsible in parties that Paris has ever seen, that the wear and tear of office work tried standing on her head, too, and is of a very different character from the Ottawa newspapers hint that blunders of the last few months future for peacemaking.

strained her heart. the scheme is being held up pend-may be tragically repeated. Japan ing the results of the Canadians now ngaged in a campaign, protest against America's proposal which is overtaxing the restUTCEM to impose practically prohibitive of the forces in Manchuriú-all tariffs against certain Canadian the result of this anomalous relic products. Whilst the deepening of the Shogunate and it is thei of this great waterway should be

task of Viscount Sailo to seek of untold benoût-both to - Ganada

way out, There is a growing rest- and the United States, the projectlessness at the mounting costs of has been subjected to Bome the adventure, in addition to whichf eriticism in certain parts of Japan is more aware of world dis- Canada, where it has been suggest approval. Unfortunately, even the ed that it will mean the exposing iiberal, elements in Japan of Canada's lifeblood to intensified hound by the fact that what men American trade. That view, how strangely call "national honour" ever, by no means represents the hag liecomé involved. Japan bulk of Canadian opinion. It is, hus a military tradition which none the less, not surprising to perhaps learn that the scheme should betary disaster will cure. But Jbers. used as a means of securing more is good evidence that the Japanese favourable trade consideration people as a whole had no intention from the United States.

of embarking on the military ad- This St. Lawrence scheme has venture which began at Mukden. long been on the tapis. A decade As the Japanese army awept ago the engiicers of the two Gov-through Manchuria it swopt away ernments made their report to the the Shidehara policy and the Go- International Joint Commission vernment which had supported it. "that the physical conditions are And in the process it repeatedly favourable for improvements for falsified pledges which civilian'offi- navigation which will be permanent |cials had made. Thus it not only and will have very low upkeep ishocked the world, but hullt up a costa.” In 1922, the American distrust of Japanese; statesmen section of this anmo commission re- and purposes. The Japaneso people commonded to Congress that "the to-day must realise that their arely Governments of the United States has brought on them a discredit and Canada enter into an arrange-which no faco-saving will wipe out, ment by way of treaty for a scheme The best way for them to rehabili of improvements of the St. Law-tate their country in the eyes of rance River between Montreal and the world is to show by their niti-, Ontario."

Two years later the tude and endeavours that they de

only

il

major

are

min

"Can I be of any assistance? I'm a doctor's wife."

The output of nervous energy in modern city life is increasing year by year. Haste and hustling are factors of the neurotie. disorders from which a vast number of us. suffer in these days. The noise and the constant bustle of town life are a sovero tax on the senses and tho nerves, quite apart from the actual strain of business.

The city man's evenings and lolsure hours should be spent whenever possible in qulet recrea tion, which diverts the mind from byaines worries. For the norve atrained, extra houra apont in sloop at the end of the week will be time well spont

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The following forthcoming weddings

announced.-Reinaldo

Carlor Danchberg, of the Far Eastern Avia- tion Co., living in Liberty Avenue, Hemuntin, to Carolina Autha da Cruz, of 1, Middle Road, Kowloon; Ernest Wong, of 727, Nathan Road, ground floor, to Lily Lay, of 774, Nathan Read, second floor; and Ma Ngai-man of the Industrial and Commercial Bank, living at 64, Wellington Street, ground floor, to Chu Kakan, of 18, Wing Wah Lane, first floor.