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"HE-MEN" DO GET COLDS

SPARTAN LIFE NO SAFEGUARD

U.S. TEST OF 300 PEOPLE THE regime of the "he-man"-cold haths, open windows, outdoor exercise, light clothes in the severest weather-does nothing to harden him against the common cold.

This is the verdict resulting from a large-scale investigation by American medical scientists.

More than 300 people were observed for 35 weeks from September to May for cold attacks.

But some were

They were of both sexes and of varying ages. -Spartan and others led a more normal life-warm baths, plenty

of clothes, and so on.

And there was no appreciable difference in the incidence of cold among them,

The maller la of far-roaching interest, for doctors are daily questioned as to the advisability of employing the cold bath system of hardening both adults and children.

Most people are unsulted to the rigorous change of dally habit which those who advocate this system im- pose on its devotees,

While many are not ill-affected, a considerable number feel less it.

A prominent Harley-street phy- clan said that he had maintained “this cold bath basiness is nonsensical"

"People who take cold baths have the temperaturo of their body reduced and in that condi- tion are more susceptible to colda."

Declaration Of Accession By King Edward

WHEN IT WILL BE MADE

FOUR MOST GLAMOROUS

WOMEN

*

AND ONLY ONE

IN HOLLYWOOD

Hollywood, Apr. 1.

.:

There are only four glamorous

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY, APRIL 14,

Here is Shelk Quraishi, shown in his native robes, in the London laboratory where ho blends perfumes of the cast for the Indies of the west. Shelk Jalal has brought his scents and their recipes 12,000 miles from Mecca. He can tell any of the hundreds of different scents by their smell. His nose, or rather his sendo of ameli, has been insured for several thousand pounds.

women in the world, and onlMARY PICKFORD

one in Hollywood, Bronz-cheered Elsa Maxwell, and duchess of Manhattan, said on leaving this film capital for New York.

America's No. 1 party girl named them:

Marlene Dietrich, Hollywood. Mrs. Harrison Williams, New York.

The Hon. Mrs. Reginald Fellowes

Paris.

Lady Diana Duff Cooper, London. Elna plumped her round person in the corner of a white leather lounge in the Beverly Hills home of her hostess, Countess Dorothy Di Frasso, drained a draught of Coca Cola, and gibed that the glamour of film sirens exists chiefly in the imaginations of movie press agents.

Garbo's "Common" Quality "Greta Garbo glamorous? Ha, King Edward is expected to subscribe to the Accession Denever," she boomed in her deep voice. "A great actress of course, claration, which the law requires but hardly human.. the Sovereign to make, at the

"Glamour is not so common a opening of a new session of Par-quality. It is a mixture of genina' liaraent next autumn.

and childishness, sex and simplicity, humour and sorrow, mystery and frankness.

This is the oath which ensures the maintenance of the Protestant faith by the Crown.

Try to name some others..

Claudette Col Carole Lombard

The law requires that the de-beri? Joan Crawford? Katherine Moore? They claration should be made by the Hepburn? Grace

Sovereign on the day of the meeting have sex, certainly humour, genius, possibly, but of the first Parliament after his perhaps. accession, or at his Coronation, Glamour, No." whichever comes_first__

no

Elsa was willing to recede from her-position that "there are. Misunderstanding has arisen on gentlemen in Hollywood," which this subject through an impression created a furore some time ago. that the Accession Council of the "Of course there are gentlemen Privy Council on Jan, 21, the day in Hollywood," she exploded. "Basil Cozar following the death of King George, Rathbone is n gentleman. was the appropriate occasion for Romero is another, and much goed making the Declaration, Some may It do them. It takes too Privy Councillors actually came damned much time to be a gentle- away from the Council in the be- man, and I'm glad people are lef that they had heard the King beginning to realize it. repeat the words of the Oath.

BELIEVES IN

'LIFE BEYOND'

-She Tells Why In New Book

1036.

What It Is Like To Freeze

SCIENTIST TELLS OF

HIS TESTS

Birmingham, Apr. 1.

A scientist who has reproduced

on himself the sensations of a lost polar explorer, of an Everest climber and of a man approaching death by suffocation came here to deliver the Huxley Lecture at Birmingham University to-day.

He is Sir Joseph Barcroft, the Cam- bridge physiologist, and he spoke of the effects of these and other experi«! ments ONL tho human mind. Sir Joseph maintained that man is only what he is because the conditions of

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than those of any other living crea ture, and that the most essential effect of any serious change in environment in a dulling of the higher faculties. Even 'mountain-sickness and the delu- alons, nervousness, and irritability produced by changes in conditions were really disorders of the central nervous system.

SPECIAL CHAMBER

Sir Joseph's self-freezing experi ment was undertaken in a special cold chamber at the Woods Hole Labora tory in Massachusetts. "A noment came," he stated, "when I stretched out my leg; the

sense of coldness patiful feeling

away; it was succeeded by a of warmth. The word 'bask' most ftly described my condition. I was basking in the cold. What had taken place, I suppose, was that my central nervous system had returned to my skin and gave that Benge of warmth, which one experi- ences when one goes. out of a cold storage room into ordinary air.

Marts of the films, and former wife of Mr. Douglas

ISS MARY PICKFORD, the first world's sweet-given up the fight, and that the blood Fairbanks sen., has written another book.

It is 5,000 words long; follows her first book, "Why Not Try God?"; is called "Why Not Look Beyond?"; demonstrates her be lief.in life after death, her faith in God, her design for happy living, and is on sale to-day.

She recalls when her mother and her brother. Jack Pickford-"two of the people I loved best in this world" died: how at first she was plunged into despair; how simply, by gaining faith in God and in her self, she emerged from her sorrow

content and happy.

"Thinking Kindness' Here are characteristic paa-)

God wouldn't make each of us a unique personality as distinct from ench other na our finger-prints are Just to wipo us out in a few brief

He wouldn't destruy the lov years.. ing work of His hands. That hori zon we label extinction is a thing we only imagine any horizon is a place we never reach.

*

Don't blamo God because we don't know how-to use-what-llo has pro vided for us.

When we stop running around in eircles and turn to Him for guidance, when wo start thinking kindness instead of hate, He'll show

even how this har- economic confusion can ba monised,

The last few-pages-of the book are analytical. Thus: "Man is a progressive spirit. And though Elsa, who left her thumb-print the Divine. spark was always in The King on that occasion took on post-war America" by throwing him, the cave man started from a aa Oath for the security of the parties instead of giving them, pretty low state of understanding Scottish Church.

says she can't understand why to climb to his present manhood. people are interested in what she

'Far From Perfect'

Ад Parliament will probably thinks, but she is always willing to have begun a new scasion before tell them in so many words.

the Coronation takes place next year, it is expected that the De-i claration will be "mude, subscribed

Good Enemies

"It is still a state that is far from perfect. Which is the best reason I can offer why God wouldn't dés troy us. He is a Just God. And "Why not?" she growled. "A He is certainly going to give every A good friend." Unexpectedly, she one of us a chance to prove the is willing to admit that Hollywood powers still latent within us.

"It is not what happens to us Is at last socially adult,

that matters. It's how wo react to each experience."

and audibly repeated" by King Ed-good enemy is just as valuable na ward when ho opens that acsalon.

Love Letters

"For ten years it was just a money-making merry-go-round, but

to be Buried movie people have learned at last

MR.

in Coffin

to have a good time,

Ano

Have

They Original

"There is one important distinct- on between Hollywood and New York society. It is a society of men, MAR. ERNEST LAWRENCE not woman. Hollywood men WINDOVER, of 20, Princes-far superior to their women.

Muswell Hill, N., Joint avenue, managing director of Windovers, and amusing, far more so than the Ltd., who died on January 22, aged oil, and gold and steel millionaires 74 years, left £15,788.

who hide away-In Santa Barbara and Pasadena and look down their Ho desired to be buried in St. fastidious noses at the movice. Marylebone Borough Cemetory, in "I was invited to some of their his late wife's grave, and that the

"But people in pictures are real Thiefs In

love letters written to him by his parties, but didn't go. I knew wife and "mine to her, which I have they would be so dall I'd be bored to preserved," be placed in his comin {death."—United Press.

Reprieved Woman Dies In Gaol

A63-YEAR-OLD woman, who Inst October was sentenced to death for murder and was later reprieved, has died in Holloway Prison, London.

I.

She was Mrs. Edith Mills, of Blackburn, who was sentenced to

the murder of a three-year-old girl. death for this mod murdered at Blackburn on June 30, 1935, and both Mrs. Mills and her husband, John Henry Mills, were convicted and sentenced to death for the crime, que

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MARY PICKFORD

Faith Modo Her Happy

STAINLESS

"I suppose that had the experiment not ended at that point my tempera- ture would have fallen rapidly--that I was on the verge of the condition of travellers when they go to sleep in extreme call never again to wake"

DULLING OF MIND

Describing oxygen want, he told how, when riding a test bicycle in an atmosphere mostly consisting of nitro- gon, he had found himself mentally incapable of turning the taps which would bring him oxygen and rollef. The interesting point about this ex- poriment was that he could do what was necessary when instructed to do it by someone else.

He told, also, of poor muscular co- ordination as shown in tennis when played at a 12,000 feet altitude, and of the pathetic "lost messages" written by a former inspector of mines when within 20 years of complete safety had he chosen at any time to walk that distance.

EVEREST, FAILURES

On another occasion Sir Joseph was a member of a party who were suffer- Ing-from-mountain: sickness. All of them were interested he explained. in the connection between mountain sickness and oxygen supply; all know) there was an abundance of oxygen cylinders near at hand, but no one thought of trying their effect.

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To this same dulling of the mind he' attributed the failure of Dr. T. Long- stafTe, the Himalayan explorer, to make the necessary check on surveying observations on the famous occasion when he bellaved that he had found a peak near Everest which was higher than Everest itself,

STEEL

SHIPS ON THE WAY

Sheffield, Apr. 1. TAINLESS steel ships and stainless steel bridges have been brought within the range of practical possibility by a newi manufacturing process.

The method has been invented by Mr. F. F. Gordon, a director of Spear and Jackson Ltd., of Sheffield, who claims that it will mean a 50 per cent, cut in stainless steel production costs.

The outstanding feature of the invention, which has boon patented

all over the world, is the production Suez Canal

of a cheap mild steel plate with a

stainless veneer.

Saving Exponso

And Use

It is claimed that but for tho In War

necessity of allowing for corrosion,! Budapest, Apr. 1. the plates of ships could be made Budapest'a nicest 20 per cent. thinner or even loss statues, a life-sized bronze carrier, with consequent saving, in gross was stolen recently from a public weight and increased carrying park in a dark winter night.

capacity.

Lord Cromer Explains To Americans

Panama, Apr. 1. The polico believed it first the

Shipowners are put to heavy The Earl of Cromer, British thieves to be a couple of young lovers who might have taken the expense by having to send their Government director of the Suar status as a weighty souvenir be- vessels repeatedly into dry dock for Canal Co., who is travelling cause the benches, surrounding the the removal of barnacles from the through the Panama Zoue, replied to some pointed questions by water carrier, are a favoured spor hull. of randervoUB, ETC.

Experiments mado are said to American Journalists when he They were, however, just or- have proved that barnaclus will not arrived bora dinary thieves, and obviously only adhere to stainless steel. beginners in their trado, who awel the statua to pieces which

they tried to sell to several smelter The North's Oldest fes. There they aroused suspicion by their lack of knowledge about

Freemason

Ho said that the Suez Canal Co. was not interested in the quantity of oll transported, but only in the ownership of the carrying vessels. "The Suez Canalis interna tionally owned and theoretically never closed to ships of any nation R. JOSEPH MYERS, of South at any time, he continued.**

Shore, Blackpool, oldest Free bollove this fact is little under- this month,PING The conviction of Mr. Mills was quashed by the Court of ably with a bunch of car drivers mason in the North of England, was stood by the general public.

who, not long ago, in one night Among his treasured souvenirs Lord Cromer loaves to-night for Criminal Appeal, but his wife's appeal was dismissed.o

stole the pavement of a whole the tattered counterfall of the ticket Southampton in the Canadian few days later the Home Secretary, recommended her ro-street and got away with their of admission to the first event kept Pecine liner Duchess of Richmond

cumbersome booty-United Probe, now for 09, years,

the value of bronze and, therefore, were caught easily.

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