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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1938,

THE COST OF LIVING

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a

have

NOTES OF THE DAY

Saturday's murderous attack upon a well-known local doctor has served to reveal a highly disquieting Bituation, scarcely

paralleled in focal criminal Bn-

TRAIN YOURSELF TO SLEEP SOUNDLY

By A Harley Street Physician.

The Very Idea!

STOCKS & SHARES

By Ed Kolly, Broker (Only More 99).

FTER reading all about, the

·Chicago share market, alirer agreements, dollar fluctuations, Wall Street, War Debt -Moratoriums,........'International fin- ance, the incidence of salaries in

other high - lights usually *28- sociated with Ice House: Street, Mr. Edward Kolly has decided to become a Ariancier.

the medical profession ure, 80. for Tenaflan living in nate. The Chinese members of THE recent claim of a septus surely the nervous system becomes South lowered, and then stimulants and torrorised that many are refusing Africa to have set up a record of narcotics are required to whip it up tu answer night calls from un-46 years alcoplessness calls atten- and keep it going-the sooner to known persons,

the feeling oftion to other, though less startling, drop.

What the public do not realise la cases of prolonged insomnia. For menace being enhanced by the months, or even years, it is allogod, this: With many people when they relation to purchasing power, and · mystery of its nature. Some of these people have not closed their sloon badly it is not because they are not tired out enough; it is be-; the frequent Incidents Boem to eyes in sleep. point to the activities of a maniac, Yet they carry on with their daily cause they are over-tired-over- cautious with the suspiciousness avocations. That these people have tired in the nervous system, though of the mental pervert, a factor been completely sloopicsa for months they may not be aware of it. This

·

next (writes Mr. Kelly) apparently saving several practi-or years in out of the question and is the most prolific source of sleep-COMMENCING Thursday

If those who sleep badly through

aclentifically Inaccurate. It cannoting badly. tioners from a harrowing experi-be done; the machine would give ence. Other aspects suggest the out if subjected to months or years this cause can only get a short nap We have decided to invade In the afternoon they will sleep Ice House Street. It's the possibility of criminal intent, with of complete aleeplessness.

It is a fact, known to doctors and infinitely better at night. It is kidnapping as the plotted objec

to nureca,

that people who sleep only those in robust health and only way we know of in tive. It has now been going on badly and say they have "never had strength who are likely to be put Hongkong of eating your for some considerable time, for a wink all night" scop more than of sleep at night on account of a cake and having it. tunately without very serious con- they have realised. An hour or short sleep during the day. These sequences, but nevertheless ex-two awake in the night appears in are points that want to be driven They are seldom

these the morning to some people as if home hard.

realised. ceedingly alarming.

The following are some of the above,

..man isn't hardly necessary, following the they had never slept at all.

chief causes of sleeplessness:

A depleted nervous system as safe any longer unless he's mentioned above. This, of course, a broker. If you don't want to

It

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assault upon Dr. Ma, to urge that vigorous steps be taken to bring the person or persons responsible to book.

THE MOLLISONS' MISHAP

com-may make.

..

Besides, what with all

things mentioned

over

A MODERN PROBLEM. Sleep-or, rather, the lack of it It should not be difficult is one of the grant medical pro requires medical investigation and be broke, become a broker.

blers, especially in these days of supervision during treatment, when

The first step is to register If the activities are persisted in and stress and strain. Regarding sleep, the habit of sleeping well can be continue to be aimed against a there are some genralisation ono restored. For good sleep or bad yourself as a Limited Company. sleep is much a question of habit. It's simplicity itself. When you very small section of the

In the first place, the young re- || Get the habit of bad sleeping make some money you put it in munity.

quire a vast amount of sleep; one broken and the normal rhythm of your pocket, and when you lost has only to think of the baby, the losing consciousness at night will be some money you say your company

is insolvent, and start all puppy, or any young animal. It is restored. pitiable to seo young children being Many people lack the power of again. dragged along the street hours inhibition; they cannot shut off the

We shall be known as Messrs. ·

and It was a thousand pities that the after they should have been sound tap when the day's work is over: Kelly, Kelly, Kelly, Eddie

up future they take their work and their Kelly, Inc. Our annual moetings Mollisons should have marred asleep; it is laying

model of decorum. their magnificent flight by a crash trouble for these poor victims of worries to bed with them. Practice will

is the only thing thint will produce within sight of their goal. The ignorant mothers.

riso on our hoofs and ask ourself crossing of the Atlantic from East These children become Irritable this power of inhibition. When When we, as the only shareholder, to West is a rare enough event to and nervy, and they lose their re-work is ever let it be over; when (as the Managing Director)

·(na the merit worldwide applause no mat- sistance to the inroads of illness and the worries of the day have been awkward question, wee

no dealt with let them be Anlehed.

Managing Director) will an- ter what happened subsequently, discaso. For Nature bears

thwarting.

nihilate ourself with one of those and the mishap will doubtless be

Those about the age of puberty

scathing glances. éxcused in view of the undoubted

To concentrate on this, and to re- strain the long trip imposed, Tho require plenty of sleep too, for this fight again serves to illustrate that also is a time of stress and strain member this every evening, will re- no matter how perfect one's ma- for the body. Much tissue-repair sult in a power of inhibition being chine, and the Seafarer behaved has to go on, and it is. during sleep gained that in time will, of itself, that the tissue-repair goes on most magnificently, and no matter how actively. As age goes on less sleen become a habit-a second nature. Chronc digestive disturbances unsuspected because there may be

expert those in control, the weather finally has the last say. But for the fact that many valuable hours

HANSARD

short hours of sleep.

on

SOURCES. INSOMNIA

SOME "DON'TS”.

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on

Of course, there is bound to be some tough moments. But with the aid of a few buils and bears we expect to be able to pull through.

After all, it's the survival, of the fittest, and when in Ice House as the street, you've got to do ice-man does.

We are pretty good at bulls. In fact, a lot of our acquaintances Bay we are all bull.

Bulling is done in the best of Ice House street circles. For Instance, if you think the price of your sharen is too low, you start a

will be all right:

If you don't reach the fence before the buil, yon' may find yourself on the horns of a dilemna. Dilemna le another word for Bull.

With bears it's different. Berts are just the opposite to bulls, al- though both-wear-tails.

is required, and those who are getting near the sere and yellow of can do with comparatively neither pain nor any very definite

1 symptoms-are most prolific were wasted in finding a way.

source of insomnia. When these through the fog soon after the But even with them, though not have been cleared up medically it is Mallisons crossed the Newfound actually asleep, there should be no astonishing how quiet and natural The dancing dollar, jumping land coast, all would have been curtailment in the number of hours sleep will follow. The "colonic" plain sailing and the Seafarer of recumbent rest. Some people man of the Americans-a most apt about awkwardly liko

would probably have made a per can, of course, do with fewer hours title is the gentleman who wakes marionette controlled by half feet landing at Roosevelt Field of sleep than others, and yet keep up after a restless and broken night dozen independent wire-pullers, amid a roar of greeting from at and well. Some can do well on is blamed for so many of our huge crowd before darkness set in. five or six hours of unbroken sleep; with a vile temper and a miserable Bull.

face. Make his digestion work Providing you can reach the economic troubles that the high Were we in Mr. and Mrs. Molli-others may require eight or even properly and his sleep, his temper, fence before the Bull everything

son's place, we are not sure what ten hours. It depends much [will improve! cost of living can hardly escape would be the greater disappoint their mental make-up, their phy. To summarise these see that enumeration among

them. It ment, missing well-carned plaudits sical condition, and whether or not the nervous system does not get··

run down; cultivate the power of would, indeed, be absurd to at- for an undoubtedly fine feat, or the they are brain-workers.

Inhibition; and make sure that the tempt to discount the im- destruction of plans for an even

greater project,

BRAINWORKERS' NEEDS. digestive processes are functioning portance of its influence OR

Active and concentrated brain normally. That will break the back prices. When the dollar slumps,

work takes Infinitely more out of of three of the greatest sources of to sleep normally and the cost of everything goes up

the nervous system than any man-fallure ual labour or physical exertion. peacefully. automatically. Dealers

Whether legislators should be Compare the weariness of a hard

Bears were first introduced by need to. consider the problem grateful or otherwise to Themas day of brain work with the healthy

Cleopatra in the days when Baby- of replacement coats. It is Curson Hansard, whose hundredth tirednes of a long day's shooting! And now a few general hintelon was young and they made only when the exchange value of anniversary falls this year, is a One la mental fatigue and lassitude; often most useful and successful: whoopee in Minervah and Tyre.. It was Cleopatra who beared the dollar begin to appreciate doubtful question. Many an orn- the other is the pleasant tiredness Never go to bed with cold feet:

tion that has held the House of of the muscular system.

better a hot bottle than blues in her soul to Anthony. In the that we discover the meaning Commons spellbound at midnight So that those who work hard the morning. Always retire with subsequent gambol. (now spalt of that well-turned phrase, the reads coldly by daylight in Han-with thoir brains all day require a hot drink-but not milk. The gamble) the Hongkong dollar time-lag. This is doubtless the sard, where it lacks the illumina more sleep than those who work bottle draws blood to the feet, the dropped to 1/24. factor which accounts for the ten of the speaker's gestures, and hard with their muscles-the toll drink blood to the stomach, and as the magic of his voice. The quali- on the nervous system being so the brain is relieved of blood and wide disparity between the iles of good public speaking are much heavier. It is during sleep sleep is more likely to ensue. See energy is re-that the windows are widely opened wholesale price index figures not those of literature. It is con- that the nervous just published and unofficial ex-ceivable that the twentieh century stored; it la during sleep that the and the bed clothing light.

And don't keep on trying to go to does injustice to the reputation brain cells are rosted and repaired. perience of retail costs. Since of Gladstone as an orator because Hence the evil to those who habitu-sleep; this very trying puts many March, it is revealed, there, has his addresses appear dull in print. ate night clubs: "Jaded youth" people off. If you are sleepy you

(Continued on Page 7) been an average fall of five per Yet if print can take away, on must soon appear, and slowly but cent. in wholesale prices; since occasion it can also add. last year there has been a fall speeches with which Burke used

that reputation of about sixteen per cent, and to empty the House made him the

greatest since 1931 of nearly 30 per cent. statesman has ever enjoyed for Commodity prices to-day, in the political wisdom when they were wholesale field, are two per put down on paper, cent. lower than those of

19241 Analysed more close-

ly, the figures show that the GARDENS

average price of foodstuffs is.

the

English

The

nny

language,

less than ten per cent. higher Among the fairest words that- than that which ruled in 1924; grace textiles, thanks to cut-throat garden surely holds high place. Japanese competition, are quoted Its mero mention summons visiona at prices approximately seven- of grateful coolness and quiet teen per cent. lower, while in ropose. It matters little · where many of the commodities. used the gardon which the word recalls for industrial purposes there has may lie. To one it may call to momory a veritable oasis In the also been a marked fall as com- desert, through whose hospitable pared with 1924 costs. Official arch. of stone the guest passed figures are not required to show from the burning Moroccan sun to: that this apparently satisfactory an unbelievably refreshing shade improvement is not passed on to perfumed by rose petals, petala the consumer. Pass-books are that carpeted paths freshly damp- sufficient. Housekeeping costs with spray of fountains rising very little less to-day than it did from dark pools. To another will in 1981-when wholesale prices come the picture of some old- renched their record high level. fashioned close in England whero, Only in lines subject to intensive as the sun drops below the horizon, a woman lovingly watere competition does the consumer clusters of larkspur or hollyhocks, notice the benefit of the rise in sweet peas or wallflowers while a the dollar. What reductions wondering, wide-eyad kitten have been made scarcely make follows her, daintily careful of any impression upon the burden the changing stream that lays ita of monthly bills. We are not cool Jewel-like drop of water on. hore seeking a solution; we dusty holes of trees and thirsty merely point, the fact. Our flowers. Whether they nosila In middlemen and compradores Babine hilla or beautify the "two- might imagine that Edward Kal by four state of the city dweller, ly had strayed fitoshi Zoluwla gardens speak of men's labour for

That was beforo High Finance Wis introduced by western civilisation to China. It is a matter of history now that the mssionaries introduced High Fin- ance to Hongkong when they made the specific exhortation to some. of the Chinese to give up their heathenish ways and become civilised like the Americans and Britons.

Some of the converts took them at their word and bullt Ice House: Street. It was called Tee House- Street because they didn't want to take any chances with the devil

It's not everybody who knows as much about stocks and shares as we do. Take Pote, fo In- stance. The other day when an Ice House stroat friend of ours said he was buying "spot" as much as he could, Pete wanted to drag him across to the Hongkong Hotel. You can't be too careful dealing in shares. What you imagine is a good buy often turns out to be good-bye to all your cash-

There's no such thing as share and share alike.

Stock brokers may argue about a lot of things, but there's one point they all agree upon. That. is that they all should, relieve you, at Ulie carilesť“ possiblo, money, of your debased currency,

And a man without money in: Tea House Street is apt to find himself as lonely as a fracklo on the Peak winter. It simply isn't done.m

In order to assist us in our effort.

to get started in Ice House street wo are issuing shares in ourssif. Claims should be staked with adhesive plastor and the "drat come, first served" principle is the

At prosent our stock Blande; ab | 85098-1/4—1⁄4" If you khos

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