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THE HONGKONG Telegraph, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1936.

The TELESPEC

(ENGLISH MADE).

Pay for the Gallery

but be in the Stalls,""

Whatever it is that is being watched cricket, racing, the stage, bowing yachting or tennis-a *TELESPEC, by bringing things ucarer, virtually puts the user into a better seat than he has paid for. More than that it does it without the arms aching and the neck being oricked through the hands having to be kept up to the eyes all the time--an with an ordinary binocu lat. The TELESPRC is non- like spectacles. It leaves the hands free and enables moving objects w be followed just as casily as it ordinary spectacles were being

worn.

Nor-TELESPECS are supplied complete ja English made solid "London Colour" leather, velvet lined cases with nickel clasps and, shoulder

• straps.

Call and inspect at

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THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.

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DEATH.

1.0.-At hi father's residence. "Woodgreen", 62 Conduit Rond; on November 9th, 1936, Lo Tak Kuen, aged 14, eldest son of the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. M. K. Lo. The Funeral will pass the Wing Bit Ting (Pokfulum) at 5 p.m.; to-day.

Tkc

Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, NOVEмurn 9), 1936.

COLONY TOLL OF ROADS

The need of "Safety First pro- paganda in the Colony is vividly illustratest by the large number of accidents reported in the weekly returns issued by the police. Summarising these for the month of October, we find that there were, during that perind, no fewer than twelve people killed and 164 injured. Scarcely a week passes in which no fatalities are record- fed. The authorities are again holding a "Safety First" campaign very shortly, and, whilst it lasts, it may have some effect in reduc- ing the number of accidents. If any real impression is to be made on the situation, however, pro- paganda of this type needs to be! |continuous and insistent, the more so since so large a proportion of the people involved in mishaps are transients, many of them coming in on visits from the country. The employment of street lecturers would serve a useful purpose in this connection, whilst for. the community generally much could be done by cinema filma and by advice in the schools. Hongkong is at the moment in a state of

transition as far as traffic is con- cerned, and the dangers arising therefrom are intensified on the island by the narrow thorough- fares in the busiest part of the city Tricycles, of which there would appear to be a growing

Advice to a schoolboy

given by the great Duke of Wellington a hundred years ago

My dear Lady Shelley,---

"

London. August 30; 1825,

...As for John (her eldest son) you must impress upon his mind, first, that he is coming into the world at an age at which he who knows nothing will be nothing. If he does not choose ' to study, therefore, he must make up his mind to be a hewer of wood and a drawer of water to those who do. Secondly, he must understand that there is nothing to be learnt but by study and application. I study and apply more, probably, than any man in England.

Thirdly, If he means to rise in the military profession--] don't mean as high as I am, as that is very rare-he must be master of languages, of the mathematics, of military tacties, of course, and of all the duties of an allieer in all situations.

Ile will not be able to converse or write like a gentleman--- much less to perform with credit to himself the duties on which he will be employed-unless he understands the classics; and by neglecting them, moreover, he will lose much gratification which the perusal of them will always afford him; and a great deal of professional information and instruction.

He must be master of history and geography, and the laws of his country and of nations; these must be familiar to his mind if he means to perform the higher duties of his profession, Impress all this on his mind: and, moreover, tell him there is nothing like never having an idle moment. If he has only one-quarter of an hour to employ. it is better to employ it in me fixed pursuit of improvement of his mind than to pass it in idleness or listlessness,

Ever, my dearest lady, you's most affectionately.

YOU

WELLINGTON,

The new term has begun

are

AFRAID of your

INDICTMENT

by J. B. MORTON

OTHING in this dark

age of ignorance and

⚫ starch, carbo- hydrates, vitamins, and protein

FOOD

Furthermore, many women who have discovered a perfect. specimen of quack persuade · their husbands, by tears or by blows, to visit him, and to follow his advice.

In this way many are sur- prised to learn that they have been eating too much, and oating wrong, all their lives, and that they are already in the advanced stages of 20 or 30 of the very latest diseases, curable only by the strictest attention to that particular sorcerer's abracada- bra.

OBVIOUSLY I shall re- ceive letters from people telling me that I am callous and unsympathetic, and that dieting is good for certain ailments. Of course it is.

THERE is a type of When I have gout I do not drink

person who lives like port or eat tomatoes.

an athlete in training for some But the point-I-am-trying to thing that never happens. He make is that the quack gets hold or shi-is never ill, but is of credulous people who have always expecting to be ill.

nothing the matter with them.

because a few rich

Every thought and every and creates this abominable IT is one of the ironies action is concentrated on the nuisance of foolery with food. retention of that extremely self- Men and women who are well of history that the conscious kind of good health should eat as much as they want superstition is more well-to-do should have discover which consists in repeating, of what they like. When they

are they should go to remarkable than the achieve-ed the danger of eating too much "Thank goodness I am not ill.

at the very moment when the

He includes among illnesses genuine doctor. fortunate cannot ment of the quack-doctors, less

Ket that natural increase of weight who have succeeded in in- enough.

which should come with the THE whole thing began venting a new disease of the But, to level things up, the years, and which he has been mint-Fear of Food, or, as poor are now being lectured on taught by the quacks to regard women wanted to have those lat they would probably call it, their injudicious diet. Quacks as the first sign of a general and hideous figures upon which number, and rickshas--one of which, incidentally, was involved

have decided that they gorge break-up. In middle age, just they could hang the kind of Cibophobia. |in a fatal accident last week--are

So great is this fear that themselves on the wrong kind when he is beginning to savour clothes the dressmakers were without question a

cannot induce of food, and the genteel word to the full the delights of food forcing on them.

The shortest cut to the flat source

many people of danger not only to those in charge themselves to pronounce the "malnutrition" has made its and wine, the panic catches him

by the throat.

figure was starvation. But the of them, but also to traffic general word. They call it diet, just as appearance,

He reads about the dreadful craze has gone on, and very ly. These should be prohibited in those who dare not speak of People who are perfectly ravages of meat, the insidious many people have grown so 10- the busiest districts. With the

death call it "passing over.", healthy in body seem to be per- assault of pastry, the swift accustomed to eating and drink- increased transport facilities by

To avoid uttering such perilous petually gnawed by a wild treachery of the potato, the ing in a normal fashion that a trams, motor-buses and taxis, words as "meat," "pudding," jealousy of their sick friends. diabolical conspiracy of bread, full meal would probably upset there is little necessity for the "fish," they make use of a kind They vie with the invalids by and, before he mows where he them for a week. ricksha in the heart of the city.

of pseudo-scientifle jargon. Like denying themselves their is, he is exposed to all the Add to that the dict of strange certain sounds in a wizard's in- favourite dishes. Of other factors which cause mis-

imaginary complaints which the drinks which makes women 80 haps, speeding is undoubtedly the cantation,

No doctor in the old days, pre- skill of the "diet expert" can peevish, and so incapable of that repose which was their charm, greatest. In this respect, lorry drivers are particularly bad of recur in their conversation. And scribing treatment for a patient invent.

who was really ill, could have From that moment he is fight- und which went with civilised fenders; they need bringing under because auch sounds are com- hoped to command the respect ing to keep them at bay. His eating and drinking, and you much stricter control. Incidental-pletely meaningless to ly, as we have before had occasion majority of those who employ and obedience which are accord poor nerves go to pieces, but his have an explanation of the

ed to quacks and magicians to weight keeps down. And by the present barbarous situation. to remark, it is absurd to see these them, they are by that the more day by those who are suffering time he is forced to cat like a vehicles bearing a sign limiting powerful over their minds. their speed to fifteen miles per

Diets change, but diet goes on. from nothing but the fashion human being once more, to avoid dangerous weakness, he has be hour. The law is never enforced, Trustingly and mildly a man or able hysteria of the moment.

come a dyspeptic. a woman will say, "I can get When I was a and it would be ridiculous to do

boy you SO, If a speed-limit is needed, it should bear closer relation to

discovered that they don't make bade you to cat this.or that while

she," because men are who made the fortunes of the common-sense. Owner drivers

you fat after all. They make you were kept in bed. But to becoming as foolish as women in quacks will never pass gracefully are also marked offenders so far

you thin." Or. "He told me that day those who are up and about this matter.

into a jolly, humorous, robust as speeding is concerned, whilst bread would age me, but he says are only too eager to be told that

It is the women who have let middle age. taxis can be seeis almost every day

it's just been discovered that what they enjoy is bad for them, loose upon the world a flood of The grating, rasping voices dashing through busy thorough brend rejuvenates." The phrase and numbers of women become chatter about keeping young by will grow more shrill, and discovered" sulky and gloomy if they are starvation, and men are giving instead of presiding at a groan- fares at speeds which are obvi. "It's just been ously dangerous, We should like

means that the quacks have de- assured that what they like is in to the propaganda.

ing board these women will to see heavier penalties for speed- cided to ring the changes, good for them.

In a room where every one is snatch short, otinging drinks ing and others forms of incautious probably because too many of They go about with a nibbling lettuce, it requires and unimportant morsela driving, with the power vested in their dupes were falling ill. grievance and feel themselves at courage to go slowly and happily medicated food from chromium the Magistrates to cancel or sus

disadvantage in crowded through a long meal, and a sen- tables in dance clubs. pond licences immediately.

rooms, where their friends are sitive man, surprised with a They are laying up for them. offence is proved. In this respect, suggested, together with all-the- boasting of the quantity of gigantic mound of meat before selves a miserable succession of

nearly so heavy as they are in something to reduce the toll of the warned not to eat, or, as they grained monster among a lot of they would not see and grasp the England. Measures of the kind rend.

put it, are poison to them. Dresden shepherdesses.

food that was under their noses.

an

the

IT will pass, this four of food, but the generation. which is in the twenties now will still be haunted in middle life.

patatoes now. It's just been grumbled when the doctor for- I SAY advisedly "he or The ill-mannered, neurotic girls

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of

LTD. Hongkong punishments are not year-round propaganda, should do things which they have been him, may well feel like a coarse- empty years, and all because