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NOTES OF THE DAY HOW TO KEEP COOL

EPIDEMICS

IN ENGLAND

By DR. BETTY MORGAN

The Indian envelops his head in half an hour. the voluminous folds of a turbano-bathing as a means of keep burnous in the scorching heat of for special cases (principally people the desert day and the biting cold with weak hearts), nothing is heal

thier than a sea-bathe on a sunny of the desert night.

The Very Sore!

SENBE, OR NONSENSE

It's All The Same To This Unconscious Humourist

By Eddie "Ratbag” Kelly

would you like

HOW

The Health Organisation of the League of Nations has Just published some interesting Inforina. tion regarding the influenza

HERE are many different day-makers in a heat-wave Is to epidemic of the early part of this theories out the boater to take things slowly, Summer days year. These surveys, published by do it, Down in Devonshire the were meant for short, spells in the the Health Organisation are of very country people have a saying that sunlight and longer spells in the considerable salus to doctors and what keeps out the cold hoeps out shade. And both spells should be public health authorities in their the heat. According to this idea, lazy,

wo should all muffle ourselves up If you happen to find yourself' studies of epidemics and the means In great-coats when the ther unbearably hot, and have neither a of controlling them. When one mometer takes a leap upward. tepid bath to drop into, nor a coo! remembers how many hundreds of After all, in very hot countries, the bed to lie upon, the only thing to thousands and even sometimes natives are inclined to set that do is to find a spot of shade and earn $2,500 in the news- to sit in it, quite still, for at least paper game like Edward. millions of poople may lose their way.

Kelly or some other big lives in great epidemics of world- wide dimensions, one realises how

journalist? You would, necessary it Es to encourage

would you? Well, so would. medical and scientific research in

Kelly. regard to such problems. The re port of the Health Organisation regarding the latest influenza epidemic states that the form of the influenza was unusually mild It appears to have been more severe in Germany than In most European countries. The number of deaths reported in the great towns is comparable with that recorded in the winter of 1930-31, when the last severe epidemic occurred. France, wo are told, influenza spread to all parts of the country, but the deaths which occurred were mainly amongst people of advanced age, as is uslly the case in re latively mild epidemics. The dis ease look on an exceptionally mild In the

In

form in Great Britain. United States the disease was four to five times more prevalent in 1935 than last year, but the mortality rate

was fortunately low. This work of the League, which goes on unknown to the masses, is for the world's good and deserves support and recognition.

It may even be that the city day, providing: clerk who wears his navy blue suit. 1. That you don't stay in too in July and January aliko does not long, auffer any more from the heat than 2. That you don't let the sun the bathing beauty who lies for beat down upon your unprotected hours in the sun with the irreduci-head. ble minimum of covering.

3. That you don't exercise your Always providing that the city | self beyond your real strength. clerk does not wear a tight collar. 4. That you don't lie about in There, at least, is one fairly safe the rule for hot weather, and none the after coming out of the sea, unless less convincing because it might you have really acclimatleed your equally well apply to cold weather. golf to t

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sun for hours, immediately

Become a humourist. will serve you right.

There are only a few simple rules to follow. If you follow them there's no telling where you'll end up. Maybo (n gaol,. who knows?

One of the easiest ways of breaking into a newspaper office is to use a burglar's outfit.,

Another way is through the use of expensive gifts. This.

We are only just beginning to

Few things can be more unplea- may fall, but there's no harm la Anyway, realise that the production of ideal sant than a sunstroke after a sea-trying. Bosides, who hasn't falled heat and ideal cold both depend to bathe, and hardly anything can be since the dollar rose?

an send around a Rolls Royce OT: a large extent upon the free cir- so thoroughly enfeebling as

Chrysler to Eddie Kelly with your culation of air. Cellular blankets overdose of the briny.

Thanks to persistent newspaper card in it. Tell him you can write are warmer than the soild variety. An open neck in winter is often and wireless propaganda, most peo- funny stuff. You may get a job more warming than a muffler. ple now have a fairly good idea right away if there's an opening. And If it is true that a fire thrives of how to behave in hot weather If there's not, keep on sending the on air it is also true that refrigera what to eat, what to wear, how to expensive gifts.

One of the best ways we've over tors never work properly unless trent the sun, and when to exer-

heard of is the sincerity way. there is ample ventilation above cise

When it comes to the actual Sincerity is the big thing in be- successful journalist. So, if we want to keep cool, we cooling of houses, however, there coming a must allow for the free passage of is still a great deal to be done, With sincerity you can get any air around our bodies. We should both in theory and in practice. where. But, of course, you've got never wear anything tight about Seeing that human beings are un- to have courage too. Sincerity When Mr. Baldwin announced the neck, waist, and feet. A tight fortunately unable to order a cool without courage will get you no-

especially with breeze every time the house gets where, the National Government's policy ahoo, most of us will painfully re-

Still, sincerity and courage with- One of the proposals in Mr. of trebling the Air Force, he ex-member, is a hot shoe, whatever hot and stuffy, the only sensible Editors we know.

pressed a hope that there would the weather. As long as our sum-solution is an electric fan. Indeed, Lloyd George's New Deal plans on profitcoring in connection mer clothes are loose, the material it is high time that architects pro-out faith will do you no good is that the Bank of England with the construction of the addi- of which they are made Is of vided houses with electric fans as either. You might as well give up, part of their normal equipment. That's it sincerity, courage, falth should be placed under the con- tional acroplanes. But he did not secondary importance.

TUESDAY, AUG, 6, 1935.

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WHAT DEALERS THINK

Meanwhile, what the dealers aeroplane shares think about the effect of the Government's expansion policy can be seen from the

and around them

habit of warming you up later Ices and ice drinks have a nasty They stimulate your inside much ne a cold bath stimulates your outside.

the hot summer of 1830:

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Bome

"The fan is the most wonderful Forgiva Us Our Debts

the tactics of a whole troop of last Sunday. With Pete Whalosteeth, part of the whole scene. A Span ish lady with her fan might shame

Beliovo it or not, we went to Church. horse. Now she unfurls it with It was the anniversary of his wedding the slow pomp and conscious or something, and his headache had elegance of a peacock Now she insisted that he go along. As wo On the subject of baths, earnest flutters it with all the languor of were best man at his wedding, we experiment convinces me that the listless beauty, now with all the were dragged into the party, too.

When the collection plate was pris- ideal bath for a sweltering day is liveliness of a vivacious one.. neither hot nor cold, but tepid.

"You know that it speaks a par-ed, old Pots kept his eyes on the cell-

ing. This is a personal discovery, which ticular language and gallantry

I should think you'd be ashamed. I pass on for what it may be worth. requires no other mode to express of yourself, Pote," said Mire, W. after If you are very hot, and there is its most subtle conceita or Its most the service. You didn't put a thing no bath available, it is a good plan unreasonable demands than this in the collection plate." to run tepid water from a tap over slight, delicate organ. the wrists.

any what steps the Government After the problem of what to They are just as important in the and, of course, hope. Hope is the trol of a board representing the proposed to take to provent pro-wear the problem of what to dog days as central heating is in big thing.

But who ever heard of Faith and financial, industrial and com- teoring. On June 26, Dr. Addi- drink is the main preoccupation of the cold of January.

Meantime, there is still a lot to lopo without Charity? So we mercial relations of the nation. son asked the Secretary of State hot summer afternoons.

and

be said for the ordinary fan. As would suggest sincerity, faith, In this respect, the Lloyd for Air what instructions

There are two schools of thought an addition to the amenities of our hope, courage and charity.

But whore can you got on One belleves bathing beaches the fan has dis upon this subject. George schome differs from the powers had been given to those

appointed to

public

You've got to have Labour ideal, which is that the interests in regard to the prices to that we should fight heat with heat tinct possibilities. Anyone who charity?

Sincerity, faith, hope, Bank should be completely be paid for aircraft supplies. Sir cat curry, drink hot tea, have hot doubts that may consider the fol-money.

baths. For myself, decide lowing extract from a letter writ-courage, charity and money. Yes, Philip Cunliffe-Lister replied that nationalised. Actually, the

against the curry and the hot ten by Benjamin Disraeli in Spain with money you can get anywhere, the Government had appointed Sir Bank of England is a private Hardiman Lover, Mr. P. Ashley bath, but have not the least hesita- to his mother in England during even in newspaper work. All you tion In recommending hot tea with

have to do is buy your own newing. paper. Institution-the only important Cooper, and Mr. H. C. Judd to bank of its kind which has no that no instructions wore necessary.

"advise" him in this matter, but lomun Jn it as the most cooling of

all summer drinks. form of Government control-Pressed by Dr. Addison to say what and one of its most important powers these gentlemen would have, the Minister said he did not think ply of money in the country.the present time. "I absolutely By its control of the bank rate. rfuse to accept the suggestion," and in other ways, it determines ho said "that the country and I are not going to be met in a reasonable. the amount of money which

way by the industry of this coun shall be available to finance try, until the contrary has been business developments. That is proved." a very great power, and there are many who believe that it ought not to be in the hands of a private institution. For the people as a whole, money is not something to be loaned out at a profit; it is the wherewithal to buy the necessities of life. If money is kept scarce, the peo- ple cannot buy, and when they cannot buy, other people cannot sell. The result may well be- as is the case nowadays-that although mechanical and scien- tific achievements are such that the country can produce an in- crcusing number of things

The City Editor of the Daily which everybody wants, they Telegraph commented that this rise cannot be distributed to the ex- In the share prices was "in un tent that they should, and the fortunate contrast to the stand which the Government has taken industrial machine accordingly against profiteering in the aircraft breaks down. The joint stock industry", but be admitted that the banks also play their part in shares in question "were not alto- gether inaccuratoly assessed by the this money business. Not only vendors and the broking house." do they decide which industries He concluded with a warning to shall have credit, but they can, investors to beware against "being as the Macmillan Committee led into, a dangerous market by the glamour shed upon aircraft shares showed, owing to the large by the recent Government decision amount of business done by to Increase the Royal Air Force."

ten choques, create credit to

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"I can't afford it," confessed Pete. "But remember, while you read, "Besides, it wouldn't be fair to the that here, as in England, it is not people in Hongkong I already owa confined alone to your delightful money to. Why do you know I owe following news item which

As for exercise: I have never sex. I also have my fan, which money to half the tradespeople in the

Colony?" understood why the laws of con- makes my cane extremely jealous." "I know, I know," replied his wife: appears in the Daily Telegraph on June 7: "Yesterday's outstanding vention demand that we should Perhaps, if the enterprising Impatiently, "but surely you also owe: a cheerful Stock Explay really strenuous games like youth of Blackpool and Bourne- something to the Lord." feature in

"I know that," replied Pote frankly, change session was a sensational, tennis in the full blaze of a sum-mouth took to fanning itself on and rather unedifying, rush to ac mer aun. All sane human instincts the promenades, dress reform for "but the Lord isn't pressing mo like quire the newly-introduced 108. aro against excessive exercise in men would follow as a matter of the rest of my creditors."

the Bristol the heat. The best advice for holl-1 course. Ordinary Shares of Aeroplano Company. These shares were purchased by a leading Arm of stockbrokers on the basis of 378. 6d. Yesterday, on their first day of quotation, they actually touched 578. 6d. before closing at 568, 3d."

times the amount of cash de- for the creation of a National posited with them. They can Investment Board, under Gov- only do this, however, because ernment aegis, to make finance of the credit and charneter of the true servant of the nation. the nation as a whole; yet it In short, reformers, including is often difficult for legitimate Mr. Lloyd George, and the sound business concerns, par Labour Party, seck nationally- ticularly small ones, to obtain planned and controlled finance, the credit they desire, although to ensure that as the nation's huge sums are often available ability to produce increases, 80 for out-and-out. speculators. shall consuming, power rise to There is an increasing need that enable everyone to benefit from the interests of sound industry the industrial advance.

advance. Whe

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"Well, you must admit that Hongkong is much cleaner than Shanghai," said the Peak resident to the visitor from the north... "Look how well it's laid out."

"It ought to be, rótorted the Shanghailander, "it's been dead for ages."

Ah, Mr. Kelly

Not long ago we met a girl who went in for this Felmanfaro, you' know, thinking of another word. with which you can associate. the word or name you want to remem- ber. The best way 'la toʻrytime a word.

When we first met her we were Introduced to her as Mr. Kelly,

We met her in the street next,

do you do, Mr. Stummick," abe gushed.

Eya'll Say So

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