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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER

1934.

BUILDING FOR BIGGER AND BETTER BABIES

FRESH AIR WILL PUT AN. END TO MUCH ANXIETY

K. Johusun, when he was asked much is not so well suited to the

bring up a baby auswered: "I 1 had no gardun i would make a aned on the root and take it there tor fresh air ..." Samuel Johnson knew a great deal more about babies than many motnera do to day.

Sir Gilbert Scott, President of the Royal Instituto of British Architeca, dostrives the bany as "essentially an out-Di-door crea ture," and says that "it is import- ant that the baby should start an

lize at uncet... Out-of-dour Fresh air is one of the first and against vasentiar preventatives colds, bronchitis, pneumonia, tu berculosis ung rickuta,”

The discovery of the value of sunlight in the treatment of ric- kets nas lenued to obscure the im- portance of calluren being in the open air. Our city air inky bu tuoke inden, but even so, bables thrive far outter outside than In-

side the nouse.

The baby remains a prehistoric) little creature, and he cares ho- thing for tac changes which modern parents have made in their habits of EVIRI- What was good enough or his foretuthors mill- lons of years ago seems to oc what he realy prefers even in the twen-" tieth century.

OUTDOOR HOURS

On the other hand, a baby iaj the arm to be atrected by an la

fter ju, A targe proportion of city-dwelling parenta

It

difficult to arrange for their babies to get more than one or two hours In every 24 outside their houses,

hese are the conditions which have en sound experTUREUITY to be capture of producing Tickets In puppies. 1 18 LIME true a onli ration of cod liver on greatly ru duces the 18, Our it a unneuit tou believe that cod liver on enn 1- tirely repice no tindamental Baon as anions of years nave in- pouce on baina,

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How is it possible to provide an Jur babies? open-airastence The eu houses which have been did At least have pulica dowA yards, and sometimes nilie gar dena, and a curtain proportion o babies were

do them.

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Now these houses are being re- placed by large blocks of beacusa in acaigh and convenien.) In every way for everyone—except the baby.

Outside staircases, coinnunal, balconies or at rvo.s do not meet Le

need. They are noisy, the prams get kicked and shaken by pazers-ly, caturen as they-pass! throw orange peri on to the paules, and Drankkaa, płdows and oven Lae baby # DIVINUS

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BALLONY, NEEDED. What is needed, as Sir Gilbert Seoit suya, in "a small private balcony, rge enougs to take basket or eradic, whatu easy reach of the mother." Simple, cheap, anu, soove all private,

Far proferable to this is some sort of small fron balcony outsido the window. Enterprising mem bers of the Chelaca Bables Club have for some years had such "baby-cagen." But, although they are perfect from the point of view of the baby's health, they are only a make-shift.

Every flat in the country should for have a balcony for babies, balconies are as necessary as win- dows themselves,

From the point of view of design there is perhaps, some difficulty. it is sesential that the "cages" should be opon, and at the same time not ugly, but in thene days of beauty in functional design it ought not be difficult to combine the two principles,

In the future wo shalben race of flat dwellers, and unless some thing is done about it, the Lables of the future are going to be un- happy and unhealthy.

Balconies for better babies!

The famous Italian tenor, Gigli, gets enthusiastic applause from his part nor the famous Conchita Supervia, after the success they met in London.

Spelling

No Sign Of

Learning

SOME PEOPLE “JUST CAN'T'.............

SUBTERFUGES

OF THE FAMOUS

BY A. M. FRASER-NORTH

The fact that King Pater la only 31 years old detracted not an lots from the respectful welcome Accorded him by the general of the Yugd-Slavian army when he arrived in hla capital from London. He is shown shaking hands with the army leaders who greated him at the railroad station in Belgrade. Behind King Peter atands his widowed mother, Qu-en Mario, and second from the right is Prince Paul, the principal regent

a clever device to hide it.

"When stead of a "hoard." All this goes

I am not sure that 1 have snelt to show that the finest and most ex- word currectly," she told a friend.pensive education cannot overcome "I draw a line under it. Then, if a natural tendency to bad spelling, it is wrongly spelt, it passes for a little joke on my part."

The editor of a lipdon weekly paper always wrote "algnalled out" Fe when he meant "ingled out." had had a University education and was, inoreover, the son of a famous Scottish man of letters.

A well-known man in the literary world was weak in his grasp of words like "reccive" and "believe" He, never could remember whether the "" or the "e" came first. He. Therefore; made both letters look alike, and placcif the dut between them. To such subterfuges are the 'very best of m forred în order to concetal look at a word as a whole, and will

our fallings. Some people take re- fuge in making the writing of doubtful word rather legible.

"WORD BLINDNESS"

ONLY A VAGUE IDEA

Artista are bad spellers for a

simple

reason. They will

not separate it into is component letters. They thun get a general vague impression of it, instead of at clear-cut one. One of the principal cartoonists of a humorous journal A frequent enuse of bad spelling tickled the town ang week by a is defective eye-sight. The patient blatant spelling mistake in his des simply cannot see the letter singly sign. The word misused was “in- Suitable glasses would correct thisdemnity," which he chose to spell disability. Many a wretched boy"indenmity" It was a long time has been punished for bad spelling before he heard the last of that. when he ought to have been taken to an oculist, "Word-blindness" is ! a much commoner complaint than is generally supposed.

A must curious aspect

of bad

But when

carnes ana

to In-

dividual vagaries in spelling mis-. takes, one might make a list as long as it would be astounding. It is a fact authentiented by historical documents that one of the American generals in the revolutionary war had to write the word "ommuni- rendered tlun." De "uminucheon."

1 thus-

spelling is that not only long words have evaded the writer. Some very simple words are frequently mis-spelled. That very useful and common abbreviation. "ete.", is as i often written "ect." as not. Yet the

Another genius contrived to spell very same people who put down "eet." instrad of "ele." may deal the word "coffee" without using quite correetly with a word of half tone of its lettera. This a dozen syllables."

We come across these mistakes in quite simple words almost daily. A well-known authoress wrote of 11 prisoner being "balled before a

WHB his effort-"kauphl." The other day a despairing father wrote to a Lon- don dully paper that his fourteen- year-old son's idea of the word "anxious" was "angeshus."

Individual notions of spelling can meant "haled"-a quite different word. Another wo. be very dangerous. It was a mis- man, equally practised in writing, take of this kind which helped to mentioned a "horde" of money la-hang Alloway.

Why is it that some puple can spell currently as it were by in-judge." She stinct. while others never seem to Some attempt has been made to be able to master spelling at all? Education has nothing to do with it. The fault is in the individual.

ach.eve tud Tech! 125 the new blocka of usts which are being put up by the stopney llousing Trust. But here the balconies, although artistically pleasing, have many d.sadvantages. The soild concrete wail in iront shuts out a large per- centage of aun and air. The "balcony," in tact, seema actually to be more of an alcove, and na

A certain lady of title, who had received the best education, that wealth and position could ensure, remained a shocking speller to the end of her life. She was well aware of her weakness, and adopted

This head dress le the proudest possession of this African Chieftain.

ZADORES LEREGAL

the chauffeur:

murderer. He misspelled a word in a letter to his victim. At his trial he was asked to write down. the same word on a piece of paper. The same error appeared.

In the same way Richard Pigott. the forger of the Parnell letters which led to the "Parnelliam and

Friedrich von Sehiller, the well. known German port, The hundredth anniversary of his birth was marked

on Nov. 10.

Crime" inquiry, was forced to con- viet himself. In one letter he had of "hesitency" instead written ́"hësflancy." Cross-examining counsel dictated a passage contain-

word. The wretched Ing that

It was Pigott spell it "hesitency." enough.

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