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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

EXERCISE YOUR FLYING

SENSES

HARMONIOUS

ENVIRONMENT COUNTS FOR MUCH

By Dr. HARRY ROBERTS

WHERE is a very intimate con-jand would say, "Put Into your Tnection between happiness and room nothing that you do not know

health on the one hand and bo-to be useful-choosing that most tween discomfort and disease on obviously fitted for its purpose, no the other. Flensing sensations far as your means permit--or feel and pleasurable. emotions are, to be beautiful, or that has some Hauntly, hygienically as well as definite and recurring Interest for immediately desirable, whilst un-you." pleasing sensations and depres king emotions are, in general, hygienically evil, or forerunners offovil

But our senses and our emotions, like our muscles, and other bodily parts, If they are to be kept in good working order must be nuit-

UTILITY FIRST,

But let us put utility and fincas first, hesitating to sacrifice space to objects irrelevant to our daily life and daily wants,

A jug, or a leapot, or a chair, ably exercised. In the artificial can each be beautiful and pleas circumstances of our civiltention, ing, or ugly and displeasing. If which affords so many new forms they are not obviously suited to of stimulation, and has detached their purpose, they will certainly us from so many of the natural be the latter.

once, we need to be careful that i

We should not get it into our

all our senses and all our emotiona are stirred and satisfied in duehends that there is anything funda-

incompatible mentally proportion.

between Invention modern

inet modern

Otherwise, there is deinile risk of some of the more valuable mechanism on the one hand and clements in our sensibility at-beautiful objects on the other. It that the rophying or fading out. Many of is much truer to say

us have as good as lost our sense former makes possible a renter of smel!, whilst quite a lot of us abundance and a wider distribu- lend such emotionally sedentary lion of the latter.

A rare object has its own In-

lives that we have come to be can- sulously interested in little but ourselves and our personal ones.erent, but it is not necessarily more beautiful, or la the long run aions.

Not always can such individuals bresatisfying, thun is the com- be blamed for this real degenera-monest useful thing which every 'tion: for our social structure has he may possess. One has but lo for many people made it almost think of the costly orchid and the daisy to realise how inevitable. Their work, their food, common even their homes, Are Hobson's universally true is this generalisa-

rather than their own choice,

PLEASING THE EYE

tion,

Nearly all of us could add en- ormously to the peace and happi-

Not all, however, can plead thisbuss, and therefore the healthiness, If we would Jut excuse; and many of the nobler of our lives.

manifestations of-emotional vitall exercise our senses and cultivate ty are shown by people whose our sensibility.

circumstances are least encourag-i

ing. The generosity of the poor, for instance, is notorious; and sensitivity to natural beauty is not infrequently most marked in those whose customary environment is such as to make access to beautiful things difficult.

At a Health Congress the other] day one of the medical apaukera stressed the point that the tasteful] presentation of foods is nearly as hygieneally important as is the choice of the foods themselves.

DOG GOES TO WEDDING

Guest of Honour at Caxton Hall

A

best

She

RECORDS OF 1934

FRANCE AND U.S. LEAD

TUESDAY,

OCTOBER 9, 1934.

mance of the Russians, who do not plane, whose horsepower was con- belong to the international federa-alderably lifefior to that of Mrs. tion, the stratosphere record re- Haizlip's or Weddell's craft. The mains that made by Lieut.-Com- latest word in nerodynamics, this mander T. G. W. Settle and Major French ship was designed primar!- Chester Fordney, Nov. 20, 1935-ly on a fast touring plane and the 18,665 metroa (31,237 feet.) The Air Ministry received a mild shock Bussians flow 11,000 feet higher, when it spun over it. three- according to their reports, but the kilometre course at 468 kilometres federation cannot recognise this an hour, on one lap, and maintain- (ed an average of 144 kilometree an as a record na the Soviets will not hour over 100 km. submit their instruments to check. I As far as airplanes are con- cerned, the highest point attained In the unbreathable air was that With good flying weather drawrenched by the Italian, Renato ing to a clone in the Northern Donati, April 11 last-14,433

DISTANCE, SPEED AND ALTITUDE

Paris, Oct. 4.

3

BROKE MANY MARKS. Mile, Boucher, taking to the nir twice in as many days, bettered the women's speed mark of Mrs. Haizlip; broke the absolute speci mark for 1,000 kilometres, (held

Proud victor in the America's Cup race, the Rainbow, which defeated the British Challenger Endea vour, as she crossed the finish line in one of her series with Mr. Sopwith's boat.

a

by the Frenchman, Massette) and took from Amelia Earhart the 300-kilometre record. The test fler Delmotto was preparing to make an attempt on Weddell's mark while Mlle. Boucher's instru- being checked over

"Mickie," the pet brown whippet We are all familiar with the of Miss Dorothy Pim, the well- relish and the appetite which we known woman golf player, was u experience when a meal is nicely guest of honour when she was cooked and daintily served, with married at Caxton Hall Register the table-cloth white and spotless, Office, S... to Mr., John B. Deck, and the knives, spoons, forks, and the British Walker Cap golfer. glasses polished and bright. The The bridegroom arrived at Cax-, in mana, d very orderliness and convenience ton Hall by car, accompanied by Mr. Hemisphere, the United States, metres. of the table arrangements please Dale Bourn, who acted and content us.

A quarter of an hour after. France and Italy continue to share!

AFTER RECORD. How much more hungry do welwards, Miss Pim arrived in a taxl

air leadership-on paper. need to be to tackle an indifferent, accompanied by "Mickie.”

record for and The speed As far as the records of the Int ly cooked meal, served in slovenly was dressed in a blue and white ternational Aeronautic Federation planes made by the late Jimmy manner on a dirty cloth amidst dress, decorated with a spray of are concerned at any rate, it is Weddell-190 kilometres an hour general disorder!

orchids, but ivore no cont. As the lers of these three countries whe-remained on the books as The difference in result is enorm door of the cab opened "Mickie" have done the most for the future world, nugk although it seemed ments were

The digentive glanda, like sprang out and followed her up the for aviation,

probable it would be beaten in for homologation. most of our other organs, respond steps into Caxton Hall.

France before the end of the your. Rossi and Codoa remain the Ground for this bellef as to be The growth of interest in glid- to emotional staten; our mouths water at the sight of luscious After a reception at the Savoy long-distance heroes for their found in the startling, per-Ins in the United States was re- fruits the smell of a savoury Hotel, Mr. and Mrs. Beck left for flight from New York to Syria last formances of the twenty-six year fected in the F. A. I's new list dish. Hygienic aesthetics is far Paris by air, and the honeymoon year; Francesco Arelle of Italy is old French girl, Mlle. Helen where young Richard DuPont's too much neglected in our schools will be spent there.

the fastest human-682 kilometres Boucher, who wreated the women's and in our self-education.

Mr. Beck last year won the St. an hour on April 10, 1933-and na speed record from Mrs. May Haiz-ight from Elmira to Basking This is but one example; but the George's Gold Vase, one

of the far as altitude is concerned one tip at Istres in August and who Ridge, N. J., same relation between physical "plums" of the golfing world. Miss may choose between the United came within a few miles an hour June 20) was homologated as a

of equalling Weddell's record. health and emotional and sensory Pim, who is two years his junior, States and Italy.

world record, breaking a long series of superior performances by exercise and fulfilment holds in plays at Addington and Portrush.

The French girl flew a light Germans-United PreBR. every department of human life. Our personal lives are for uglier than they need be; far more self- stultifying.

096.

TASTEFUL FURNISHING.

An increasing number of women. are displaying a boldness in their choice of costume, trusting more to the appeal of fitness and beauty than to that made by an appear-: unca of expensiveness,

Even in the building of our houses there are signs that good sense and good taste are begin- hing to displace ostentation - und tawdry prefence.

Few of us are in a position to decide what sort of house, we shall live in; but nearly all of us have a considerable voice in deciding how! we shall furnish it. Beyond ́a very low minimum the rightness: or wrongness of the equipment of our home does not depend on money.

very

I have soon rooms almost per- fectly, though of course, simply, furnished in the homra of very poor people; and I have seen plenty of vulgar, showy, ill-fur-| nished rooms in the homes of “house we shall five in, but nearly all of us little more than docs n silling to some of us.

William Morris laid down a rule. for the tasteful furnishing of a room... He said, "Put into it noth- ing that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful," would modify that rulo a littlo,

.

Despite the superior perfor

(2547 kilometres,

Rescued members of the crow, and'a few of the passengera of the fire ravaged A

Castle, given temporary attention at a Spring Lake,

NJ, fire station.

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