1934-12-05 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER

5.

1934.

BUILDING FOR BIGGER AND BETTER BABIES

FRESH AIR WILL PUT AN END TO MUCH ANXIETY DR. Johnson, when he was asked such is not so well suited to the by Boswell, how he would haby's needs us Sir Gilbert's plan. bring up a baby answered:. "If i had no garden I would make a shed on the roof and take it there for fresh air.

Samuel Johnson know a great deal more about bables than many mothers do to day,

Far proferable to this fa somo sort of small iron balcony outside the window. Enterprising mem- bers of the Chelsea Babies Club have for some years lind such But, although they "baby-cages," are perfect from the point of view of the baby's health, they are only a make-shift.

Sir Glibert Scott. President of the Royal Institute of British

Every flat in the country should Architects, describes the baby aa "essentially an out-of-door crea- have a balcony for babies, for ture," and says that "it is import-balconies are as necessary na win- ant that the baby should start an dows themselves, out-of-door life at once, Fresh air is one of the first and preventatives against essential

From the point of view of design there is perhaps some dificulty, It is aesential that the "cages",

colda, bronchitle, pneumonia, luhould be open, and at the same berculosis and rickets."

The discovery of the value of sunlight in the treatment of ric- kata has tended to obscure the im- portance of children being in the open air. Our city air may be smoke luden, but even so, babies thrive far better outside than In aide the house.

The baby remains a prehistoric little creature, and he cares no- thing for the changes which modern parents have made in their habits of living. What was good enough for his forefathera mill- lons of years ago seems to be what he really prefers even in the twen- tieth century.

OUTDOOR HOURS

On the other hand, a baby is the first to be affected by an in- door life. A large proportion of

find. city-dwelling parents

It

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

These are the conditions which have been found experimentally to be capable of producing rickets in puppies. It is true that a daily ration of cod liver oil greatly re- duces the risk, but it is difficult to believe that ced liver oil can en- tirely replace so fundamental a hablt us millions of years have im- posed on babies,

How is it possible to provide an for babies? open-air existence The old houses which have been pulled down did at least have yards, and sometimes little gar dens, and a certain proportion of babies were able to use them. Now these houses are being re placed by large blocks of flats, boatuiful in design and convenient in every way for everyone-except the baby.

Outside staircases, communal balconies or flat roofs do not meet the need. They are noisy, the) prams get kicked and shaken by passers-by, children as they pass throw orange peel on to the babies, and blankets, pillowa and even the baby's clothes disappear in a mysterious fashion.

BALCONY NEEDED. What is needed, as Sir Gilbert Scott says, is "a small privatel balcony, large enough to take a basket or cradle, within easy ranch] of the mother." Simple, cheap, and, above all private.

Some attempt has been made to achieve this ideal in the new blocks of flats which are being put up by the Stepney Housing Trust. But here the balconies, although artistically pleasing, have many disadvantages. The solid concrete wall in front shuts out a large per centage of sun and air. The "balcony," in fact, seems actually to be more of an alcove, and s

time not ugly, but in these days of beauty in functional design it ought not be difficult to combine the two principles,

In the future we shall be a race' of Bat dwellers, and unless some- thing is done about it, the bables! of the future are going to be un happy and unhealthy.

Balconies for better babies!

The fact that King Peter is only II years old" detracted not an iots from the respectful welcome accorded him by the generals of the Yuge Slavian a-my when he arrived in his capital from London. 'He is shown shaking hands with the army leaders who greeted him at the railroad'station in Belgrada. Behind King Pater stands his widowed mother, Queen Mavle, and second from the right is Prince-Paul, : the principal regunt

a clever device to hide it. "When stead of a "board." All this goes I am not sure that I have,spolt a to show that the fincat and most ex- word correctly," 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 London weekly paper always wrote "algnalled out"

ONLY A VAgue idea Artists are bad spellers for a

A well-known man in the literary when he meant "singled out." He world was weak in his grasp of had had a University education and words like "receive" and ""believe," was, moreover, the son of a famous He never could remember whether Scottish man of letters. the " or the "e" came first. He. therefore, made both letters look alike, and placed the dot between them. To sitch subterfuges are the very simple reason. They will best of us forced in order to conceal our failings. Some people take re- fuge in making the writing of a doubtful word rather illegible.

"WORD BLINDNESSTM

look at a word as a whole, and will not separate it into its component letters. They thus get a general vague impression of it, instead of a clear-cut one. One of the principal cartoonists of a humorous journal A frequent cause of bad spelling tickled the town and weok by a defectiva eye-sight. The patient blatant spelling mistake in his de- simply cannot see the letter singly sign. The word misused was "in- Suitable glasses would correct thisdemnity," which he chose to spali disability. Many a wretched boy "indenmity." It was a long time has been punished for bad spalling before he heard the last of that. when he ought to have been taken

The famous Italian tenor, Gigli, ats anthuelestic applause from his part-Is ner the famous Conchita Supervis,

after the succses they met in London.

Spelling

No Sign Of

Learning

SOME PEOPLE "JUST CAN'T"

SUBTERFUGES OF THE FAMOUS

BY A. M. FRASER-NORTH

to an ocullat. "Word-blindnesg" is a much commoner complaint than las generally supposed.

But when

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comes to in- dividual vagaries in spelling mis- |takes, one might make a list as long as it would be astounding. It is a A most curious aspect. of had fast apthenticated by historical spelling is that not only long words

documents that one of the American have evaded the writer. Some generals-in-the-revolutionary_war very simple words are frequently mis-spelled. That very useful and common abbreviation. "etc.", is as often written "eel," as not. Yet the very same people who put down "ect." Instead of "etc." may deal quite correctly with a word of half » dozen syllables.

had to write the word "ammuni- tion." He rendered It thu “'aminucleon.”

Another gonlus contrived to spell the word "coffee" without using one of its letters. This was his effort-"kauphi" The other day a despairing fulher wrote to a Lon- indon daily paper that his fourteen- year-old son's idea of the word "anxious" was "angeshus."

We come across these mistakes quite simple words almost dally, well-known authorers wrote of a prisoner being "balled before a

"haled"-

Why is it that some peopic can spell correctly as it were, by injudge." She meant stinet, while others never seem to quite different word. Another wo be able to master spelling at all? man, equally practised in writing, Eduention has nothing to do with mentioned a "horde" of money in

It.

The fault is in the indivkuni.. 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 weaknces, and adopted

Individual notions of spelling can be very dangerous.. It was a mis- take of this kind which helped to hang Alloway,

the chauffeur-

murderer. He misspelled a word

in a letter to his victim. At his triat 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 lettera which led to the "Parnelllam and

Friedrich von Schiller, the well- known German poet. The hundredth Anniversary of his birth was markend on Nov. 10.

Crime" inquiry, was forced to con- vict himself. In one letter he had written "hesibency" instead of "hesitancy." Cross-examining counsel dictated a passage contain- wretched ing that word. The

It was Pigott spelt, it "hesitency." enough.

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