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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, DECEMBER

28, 1936.

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SPARE MOMENT

Slumber

HOME

PAGE DOCTOR tells you what you should do if

you find it hard to get to sleep

HE way you sleep is one of the most important things in your life.

Select a spot just between the eyes, at the root of the nose, and bore,

Go dead straight until you've gone three inches and there it is.. the Automatic Human Sleep-Regulator, a tiny area in the brain, hardly as large as a small seed.

When the millionaire offered half his fortune to any one who could help him sleep, there lay his trouble; in that tiny spot of brain.

THE

Fog Lore

There is no

There

was

Instincts and impulses to show whicht way our emotions are urging us.

The commonest · causes of poor sicep are your health, your roundings, and your nerves.

MX-

Sleeplessness is often the first sign of physical illness, and points to an overhaul by your doctor.

Oftener it is the outcome of not taking care of surroundings, People will spend hundreds of pounds

on

car in which they spend two hours day and begrudge £10 on a bed in which they spend eighti hours a day.

Bed Clothes

HEAVY people should choose

"

heavier mattress than light- weight folk. It should, to give the maximum support, sink to about half its thickness when lain on.

Sheets many be of linen or colton, and rheumaticky people will benefit

with scientist from using cotton sheets B. young

remark finannelette Anish. help

of Zurich who devised a the ahle apparatus by which he could focus shocks on any part of that he selected.

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combine

of The best blankets electric lightness with warmth, Three light the brain blankets are better than two heavy ones because of the layers of air in shocks between.

Neither top sheet nor blankets should be tucked in. See that they are wide and loose cnough enable you to move freely. during sleep without witho your becoming uncovered and chilled.

THE season of fogs, with its train of ruids and spoiled household goods, is almost due, so perhaps as When he focused electric few suggestions for combating the on the sleep centres of laboratory trouble may be opportune,

cats, he found he could send them known means of

faut asleep controlling a fog economically, but its effect is lessened in a room that for warmth makes a fog is warm, belt

Fixe, 50

so that it is less likely to

to in swamp

a waimn room

convenience those sliting in it.

After a

a fog has lifted, it is advis- able to go over the greenhouse glass

at any moment of the day or night, just by stimulating that centre.

Now n scientist trying to do the same. thing for human beings. When he succeeds-as

no doubt he will it will

or the garden frames with a cloth, be possible

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send

Diseases of the brain

for the fog leaves thin film of dirt yourself to sleep just which shuts off much of the thin by pressin

pressing your bed- winter sun, so precious to plant life side switch. The same, of course, applies to win- dows where plants stand on the sill. When a fog falls it is wise to remove plants from any place near the win- dow, as the sulphur and other chemicals in the fog can do a lot of damake.

are

See that your furni- ture, doors, and win- dows

creak-free. See that your lighting and mirrors are glüre- free. Keep your bed- room comfortably con- ditioned for air, warmth

"I've offered her two bombers and a tank and she still won't be the enemy."

Afoot in Britain

WINTRY WEST

by Tom Stephenson

HREE weeks ago, after summer-like

In week-end North Wales, I decided to ro-

or of the arteries that carry the and sound. Have some light iltera-

flash,

and some often affect ture, a hot drink in a blood into the brain these centres and produce disturb- biscuits on the low bedside table.

If it lan't your health or your turn to the delectable mountains ances of sleep.

Then you get people who cannot surroundings, it must be your nerves. at the first opportunity.

Such a resolution, unlike the vows Disturbed sleep is the most regu- snatches, except in tiny sleep

nervous or we may make on New Year's Day, has They may deceive themselves into lar symptom of any

of prolonged a fair chance of fainment, and inst thinking that they do not sleep at mental complaint or

go worry. Obviously it is the cause week-end I was again at Capel Curig. Recent experiments should prove all, but it isn't possible to

must treat, not the symptom, On the previous occasion we had helpful to all flower and plant lovers absolutely without sleep for more your doctor can always prescribe silmbed leisurely on pleasantly warm this winter in combating the fox than a few days.

hypnotics to tide you over a crisis; rocks beneath soft blue skies. Lazily the crags and idly nuisance. They found that a

moderate hypnotic drugs are effec- we had lingered per cent, solution of ammoniu, stood Why We Sleep

tive and safe. That may break gazed over pastel shaded hills, and in trays on the floor of the green- house, neutralised the sulphuric acid You get other people who sleep the habit of sleeplessness, but in tooked down on the still mirror of Liyn Insomnia will Ogwen, and the faintly rippled, spark-. nearly all the time, and others the long run your which proven sò damaging fog to flowers. Very little shedding of who drop fast asleep at the must never be cured until you put your ling waters of Llyn fdwal. the leaves and flowers followed this unsuitable times-say, when crossing mind and your affairs in order.

the road or

out of taxienb. Betting Why do we sleep?

in the

emperature.

much

be Con

done

two

=

is

the

No such lotus pleasures did we find on the second visit. Summer was gone, and winter, making its first on- slaught, called for extra sweaters and

sustained activity.

We

climbed

the Milestone

farther, and then renewed its attack with increased fury.

Should we attempt Qe climb, or should we retreat? That was the ques- tion each considered towardly, each walling for someone else to decide that the conditions Justified us in aban doning the climb,

Eventually it was agreed that, as we were a large party and as progress would be slow in such circumstances, it was possible that the climb would not be accomplished before dark, and we should be faced with the awkward task of descending in the black night.

So it was we returned to the Quest House and welcome hot baths and dry clothes. The in comfort we listened

to the bowling galo driving rain and hall against the windows whilst we talked of other days and prospects.

* +

futur

On Sunday morning the storm had aubalded, but cheerless clouds were stül The

Liugwy, awollen and racing, had spread across the meadows, and the woods on the flanks of Moel Slabod had lost much of their autumnal blaze.

treatment,

Pleasant Thoughts Tropical begonias and orchids were saved by the use of electric fans that. Easy on the imagination is

TO our To fall asleep easily, let your mind

Saturday opened with a cold and for. By lowering the humidity of the air, sensible theory that aleep

wander. Don't try to think of

bidding countenance. Moel Siabod diminished the damage by fog, which adaptation to the rhythm of dark-

the___contrary, think was wreathed with mist, and steel blue depends largely upon the amount of ness and lightness, to night and day, nothing. On moisture in the air and on the--5 Sleep enables us to rest the of anything you like, especially if clouds hung low on Bnowdon. Even in

to to build up. the food we eat into like sunt; "the riches you would "the valley the wind`monned with zus-~-~zcudding low across the hills-

muscles and organs of the body, it is

to squander, the beautiful wo-tained threatenings

the counteract the fog's effects In the the cells of the body. (that build- men you would like to woo,

In the enemies whose faces you would like Buttress, there were further indica- house by standing saucers of weak ing-up action is stronger

tions of stormy weather ahead. The in to smash. about the place to Arst three hours of sleep than

to ексарс Το neutralise the air, by having fires or any other period) and

rise casily, never use an alarm. wind now bellowed and shrieked, and along the length of Llyn Ogwen ran system,

while waves of foam crashing and, 30 points and shocks

have had the right amount of breaking on the eastern shore. If you will not need it

At Umea, frenzied gusts swept the If you go out with your dog in a Dream Clues

sleep you

water in the air like ascending rain, thick fog, and he is one of the long-

Stretch your arms above you: while from above came the first warn- hared breeds, he is sure to comeREAMS can foretell the future,

then and eminent and then your legs: stretch says Dunn, an back dirty and sodden. A grown dog will clean itself of the dirt, but the distinguished thinker. Perhaps so, twist your irunk. Then roll gently ings of a deluge. sodden coat may soon induce a cold, though I cannot see it, except in so out of bed. or "paralysis of the hindquarters" far as they are clues that bubble up left like that for the night during a from prolonged fog

heaters on, and by keeping the from the stress and strain of living. It sends your blood pressure up by

electric fans going.

brisk rub-down with a rough cloth as soon as he comes in is most important, and the dog should be kept out of draughts especially when sleeping at night. It is beiter io

sleep with no window open than to be forced to breathe fog-inden air.

brain.

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But don't jump. That's bad for our deepest subconscious the circulation.

*Beauty*****

Hints for Beauty Sleep

SLEEP with your skin free to breathe; don't clog it up with thick coatings of cream. If your skin is over-dry grease it before going to bed certainly, but don't leave the stuff on all night

SLEEP every evening before your evening meal-for half an hour before it when you can spare the time: Pads of cotton wool Boaked in eye lotion or rose-water will help the general reviving effect on a tired system.

SLEEP. In the cinema-when you feel like It Struggling to keep awake when there is a chance to sleep is hard on your looks. SLEEP nine hours a night or more if you want to or if you're nervy--or your face will line carly.

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3: hopeful, we ridged up the Heather Terrace, that tony track which traverses the grand cast ince of Tryfan, and which, seen from be low, appears as a falut Broy Une scratched diagonally across the crags and buttresses of the mountain.

At 230 p.m. we stood at the foot of he climb known Pinnacle Rib, which starts from a point about 2,000 'eet above sea level and mounts the rags to the central peak of Tryfaen,, By that time the storm had broken nd the rain battered us and slashed at our faces and the wind tugged and Pushed us hither and thither: sub- ided la brief lulla as if to tempt us

Some of us returned to Tryfoen by the Heather Terrace. As we climbed on Central Buttress it seemed tha every climber. In the district had sought that east face in hope of shelter from the chilly blast.

While we climbed the storm re opened, this time with ball in place of rain, in this there was the consola- tion that the hallstones, sting as they might. did bounce off instead of saturating our garments.

As the hall melted in crannies and ledges of the rocks it made mighty cold liquid in which one's hands sought a hold Consequently, there was much blowing of Angers and swinging of arms for circulation.

But there were comprasations in the prospect of silver-grey curtains of frozen rain rippling along the hill- sides; the sight of the mountains in their first winter white: the flash of lightning and the echoed roll of thun- der, and above all, the glowing tingling warmth regained on the homeward journey.

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ACROSS 1 Alice is immersed in a manual treating the whole of these minute creatures.

I'm afraid there's no getting on with it, this time.

10 A range of mountains.

11 Tip them for stealth.

13 Strong drink with plenty of

bite

15 Equine feature much like Wilt-

ahire.

10 Satellite that appears with one

atroke more than 9.

17 Is strongly

home.

drawn

7 The effrontery of such a return

indisputable. 8.No need to have a truce in

order to be met.

12 For a complete solution stopa must be taken, of course, to secure them.

14 Thero deceptions are usually

practised after school.

15 A cry which, by repetition,

loses efficacy.

10 These are to be found in the

midst

of both salt water and fresh. гезл

22

towards

10 Boys frequently have a gamo with this animal in a field. 20 This is rather loutish, I'm afraid, but it's nothing to a born swimmer.

21 Unless you prefer wusts, say

no.

23 Taska? Enquire within,

24 Put It-and then some,

27 Old-fashioned. odvice, It's true

but maintain a healthy colour.

28 Just one more.

20 Dave in? Yes, in a way. Not

invited,

it would seem, though.

32 Hard study.

33 Seared (anag.)

94 plus 2 divided by 4.

35 Just one degree between cloth- ing and card enables many a woman to make ends meet.

DOWN

2 Driven into the wood, and left

there, poor thing,

3 Border where it is necessary

to spoil drink.

4 Seel. A couple of articles one.

has to detest.

6. It's against the law, of course, but many singers do it without a blush. (Three words, 5, 5, 5). d Flatters,

Legal employer.

25 Making an about six.

exception, sang

28 Run down for the master, he's

so upset.

27 Referring to a foreign coin, say. 30 Jugged hare, we all know, but jugged sheep, comparatively is

well, uncalable.

31 It's very unpleasant not to have one, but don't let anyone give you too many.

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