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EXERCISE YOUR FLYING

SENSES

HARMONIOUS

ENVIRONMENT COUNTS FOR MUCH

By Dr. HARRY ROBERTS-

is intimate con- and

nection between happiness and room nothing that you do not know) health on the one hand and be-jto be useful choosing that most tween discomfort and disease on obviously fitted for its purpose, 60 the other. Pleasing sensations far as your means permit-or feel and pleasurable emotions are, to be beautiful, or that has some usually, hygienically as well as definite and recurring interest for Immediately desirable, whilst un-you."

pleasing sensations and dopres-

sing emotions are, in general,

of ovil

UTILITY FIRST,

hygienically evil, or forerunners But let us put utility and fitness first, hesitating to sacrifice space to objects irrelevant to our daily life and daily wants.

But our senses and our emotion, ilke our muscles, and other bodily parts, if they are to be kept in good working order must be suit- A jug, or a teapot, or a chair, ably exorcised. In the artificial enn each be beautiful and pleas circumstances of our civilisation, ing, or ugly and displeasing. If which affords so many now 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. onca, we need to be careful that all our senses and all our emotions are stirred and satisfied in duo proportion.

Wo should not get it into our hends that there is anything funda- mentally incompatible between Otherwise, there is a definite modern dnvention and modern risk of some of the more valuable mechanism on the one hand and elements in our sensibility at-beautiful objects on the other. It way that the rophying or fading out, Many ofía much truer to

us have as good as lost our sense former makes possible a grouter uf smell, whilst qulie a lot of us abundance and a wider distribu- lend Buch emotionally sedentary tion of the latter.

RECORDS OF 1934

lives that we have come to be con A rare object has its own in- sciously interested in lile but terest, but it is not necessarily ourselves and our personal posses-more beautiful, or in the long run alons.

Not always can such individuals more satisfying, than in the com- be blamed for this real degenera-monest useful thing which every- tion: for our social structure has may possess. One has but to for many people made it almost think of the costly orchid and the common daisy to realise how! universally true is this generalisa-

inevitable, Their work, their food, even their homes. Are Hobson's rather than their own choice.

PLEASING THE EYE.

tion.

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

but

If we would

Not all, however, can plead this mess, and therefore the healthiness, excuse; and many of the nobler of our lives, manifestations of emotional vitali-exercise our senses and cultivate

our sensibility.

and

ty are shown by people whose circumstances are least encourag- Ing. The generosity of the poor, for instance, is notorious; sensitivity to natural beauty is not infrequently most marked in those whose customary environment is! auch Re to make access in beautiful things difficult.

At a Health Congress the other! day one of the medical speakers stressed the point that the insteful| presentation of foods is nearly as hygieneally important us is the choice of the foods themselves.

DOG GOES TO WEDDING

Guest of Honour at Caxton Hall

"Mickie," the pet brown whippet

FRANCE AND U.S. LEAD

DISTANCE, SPEED AND ALTITUDE

Paris, Oct. 4

With good flying weather draw ing tunelase in the Northern

TUESDAY,

OCTOBER 9, 1934. .

mance of the Russians, who do not plane, whose horsepower was con- belong to the International federa-j siderably inferior to that of Mrs. tlon, the stratosphere record re-nizlip's or Weddoll's craft. The mains that made by Lleut.Com-latest word in aerodynamics, this mander T. G. W. Settle and Majer French ship was designed primari-, [Chester Fordney, Nov. 20, 1933-ly on a fast touring plane and the 18,065 metres (61,237 fact.) The Air Ministry received a mild shock Russians flow 11,000 feet higher. | whon it spun according to their reports, but the federation cannot recognise this As a record as the Sovlots will not submit their instrumente to check.

BROKE MANY MARKS, As far as airplanes are con. cerned, the highest point attained

Mlle. Boucher, taking to the In the unbreathable air was that air twice in na many days, bettered the women's speed mark of Mrs. reached by the Italian, Renato Halzilp; broke the absoluto speed Donati, April 11 Inst--14.433 mark for 1,000 kilometres, (hold

over a three- kilometre course at 468 kilometres an hour, on one inp, and maintain- ed an average of 444 kilometres an hour over 100 k.m.

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

We are all familiar with the of Miss Dorothy Pim, the well- relish and the appetite which we known woman golf player, was a experience when a meal is nicely Ruest of honour when she was cooked and daintily served, with married at Caxton Hall Register the table-cloth white, and spotless, Office, S.W., to Mr. John B. Beck. and the knives, spoons, forks, and the British Walker Cup golfer. glasses polished and bright. The The bridegroom arrived at Cax- very orderliness and convenience to Hall by car, accompanied by Mr. Hemisphere, the United States, metres. of the table arrangements please Dale Bourn, who acted as best France and Italy continue to share

A quarter of an hour after-air leadership-on paper. How much more hungry do we wards, Misa Pim arrived in 'a taxi

As far as the records of the In- need to be to tackle an indifferent accompanied by "Mickle." ly cooked meal, served in slovenly was dressed in a blue and white ternational Aeronautle Federation manner on a dirty cloth amidst dress, decorated with a spray of are concerned, at any rate, it is orchids, but wore no cont. As the fliers of these three countries who The difference in result is enormn- door of the cab opened "Mickie" have done the most for the future ous. The digestive glands, like sprang out and followed her up the of aviation. most of our other organs, respond steps into Caxton Hall. to emotional states; our moutha

and content us.

general disorderi

man.

Sho

AFTER RECORD.

The speed record

by the, Frenchman; Massotte) and took from Amelia Earhart the 100-kilometre record. The test for land fler Delmotte was preparing to plance made by the late Jimmy make an attempt on Weddell'a Weddell 400 kilometres an hour mark while Mile. Boucher's instru-

remained on the books as a

world mark although it seemed ments were being checked over probable it would be beaten in for homologation. France before the end of the year.

Rossi and Codes remain the Ground for this belief as to be The growth of interest in glið- water at the sight of luscious! After a reception at the Savoy long-distance heroes for their found in the startling pering in the United States was re- fruits or the smell of a savoury IIotal, Mr. and Mrs. Beck left for fight from New York to Syria fast formances of the twenty-six year flected in the F. A. L's now list dish. Hygienic aesthetics is far Paris by air, and the honeymoon year; Francesco Agello of Italy is old French girl, Mile.. Holen where young Richard DuPont's too much neglected in our schools will be spent there.

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

Mr. Beck last year won the St. an hour on April 10, 1933-and as speed record from Mrs. May Halz fight from Elmira to Basking This is but one example; but the George's Gold Vase, one of the far as altitude la concerned one lip at Istres in August and who Ridge, N. J., (254.7 kilometres, 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'a rècord,

world record, breaking a long health and emotional and sensory Pim, who is two years his junior, States and Italy.

| series of superior performances by exercise and fulfilment holds in plays at Addington and Portrush.

The French girl dew a. light Germans.-United Press. every department of human life. Our personal lives are far uglier than they need he; far more self- atultifying.

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- ance of expensiveness.

Even in the building of our houses thore are signs that good. sense and good taste are begin- ning to displace ostentation und! tawdry pretence.

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

I have seen rooms almost per- fectly, though of course, very simply, furnished in the homes of very poor people; and I have seen plenty of vulgar, showy, ill-fur- nished rooms in the homes of house we shall live in; but nearly all of us little more than does a shilling to some of us.

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

Despite the superior perfor-

Rescued members of the craw, and a few of the passengers of thé fra-ravaged Morro Castle, given temporary 'attention at a Spring Lake,

N.J. Grestation..

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