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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, · JANUARY 137 · 1987.

Cut this out-it's a CHART telling you

What

to

You hear a lot about vitamina A, B, C, and all the rest of them these days, but do you know what they really are, what fooda you And them ing or why they're good for you?

Vitamin is a chemical found in different natural fonds. Practically everything you cat contains one or more vitamina;, cach one has a

FOOD

£

Butter, Milk, Cheese,

Liver, Animal Fata.

Wheat, Nuts, Yeast, Bread,

Fishi, Ment.

Fruits and Vegetables.

Fats and Vegetable Oils.

eat

& Why

distinct value for you. Your diet should contain foods which will give you fat, energy and heat; you must balance it according to your age, sex and work.

Here is a table showing you where you will find the various vitamins, and what good they will do you..

ITS VITAMIN

<<ងធៀបផ

B.2.

WHAT IT DOES

Helps Digestion.

Helps Respiration. Makes Natural Juices

· Makes Natural Juices. Opposes Infection.

Assists Digestion,

Third in new Series of

Intelligence

O not expect your child to be able to do

all the tests in the

following age groups.

But he should be able to score

in at lost one of the tests if

they are presented in familiar surroundings by a person in

for

Tests

CALLING

ALL CALENDARS

The calendar season has just been in full swing. We have all bought calen- dars to give to our aunts, and our hunts have bought calendars to give to us.

There are few signs of originality in this year's crop, which is as it should be. The perfunctory, the almost mechani- cal, nature of our reciprocat generosity would be ill served by the introduction of a disconcert- ing element of novelty.

It is, moreover, extremely diMcult to be original with a calendar. Such experiments with time as have been made in the past have not been popu-

n

THE

FUNNEL

BLUE

LINE

REGULAR AND FAST FREIGHT AND PASSENGER SERVICES

LONDON SERVICE

HECTOR sails 13 Jan, for Mar'ics, London, Rotterdam &c Glasgow MENESTHEUS Balls 27 Jon. for Marseilles, Casablanca, L'don, Rotterdam, Hamburg & Glasgow LIVERPOOL SERVICE

EUMAEUS

salis 30 Jan, for Havre, Liverpool,"

Bromborough and Glasgow

lar. Interference with the establish- ed order of the months has, it is true, often passed unnoticed in country where there is too seldom climatic evidence avaliable for those NEW YORK SERVICE pedants who wish to discover whether they are living in January or June; but any tampering with the usual sequence of days is strongly resented.Į PACIFIC

The moral of many an aunt has been seriously Impaired by the re ceipt of a calendor which led off with a month of Sundays; and the vaguest and most unobservant of women becomes the prey of painful suspi- Test 2: Paint or crayon four clons when she finds herself dating patches of colour-red, yellow, blue, jher correspondence "March 48th." green (four similar objects in these The firms responsible for these fri- colours or squares cut from different volous innovations are now for the book jackets with serve as well).

most part out of business.

GLAUCUS salls 23 Jan. for Boston, N.Y., Philadelphio & Baltimore vla Manila, Batavia, Straits & Capo. of Good Hope SERVICE (via Kobe, Nagoya and

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& Scattle

Children

if your child is between 3 and 5

whom the child has complete years old, try him with these questions

confidence.

Simple for a Start

GE 3-Test 1: Show the A child a sheet of plain paper menzuring about 4 Inches by 3 inches, Tell him to watch you making a book out of it. Then fold the paper dðubla and press it down. Open and close the paper several times, pointing out that it looks like a little book. Then Jannd the child a' similar plece

of

paper and ask bin to make you a

brouk.

four must be correct for the child to the child names three objects in one pass the test successfully. TC the picture spontáneously, child wins, herows of his nose, opens

his mouth instead of actually painting Test for Handiness at the features mentioned you can consider it quite satisfactory.

GE 4. Test 1: On an ordinary A postcard, rule two parallel lines about one inch apart. Make one line half an inch longer than the other. Test 3: Find a large coloured ple- Then give the card to the child and ture (from a book or magazine if you ask him to point to the longer line, like) with plenty of objects and life You may Use the superlative SCORING. If the child folds the Int Praise the pleture and give it "longest if you like, as it will prut paper, one or more times so that it to the child so that he can see it com- ably be more familiar to the child. leaves a clear crease, the response is fortably and clearly.

Then withdraw the eard and

pre- a success. It does not matter if the Then osk him to tell you what he sent it from another angle. Do

Do thais fold is irregular or even diagonal. Sees in the picture. If there is no once again, so that the child has see Test 2: Ask the child to indicate inmediate response you may help the the lines in three different positions. with a finger parts of his face-such child by saying "Show me the...

SCORING-All three comparisons ns muse, eyes, ears, mouth, hair. Use indicating some specific object. That must be made correctly, or you can- your normal inelliod of speech in do- should be sufficient to start the not consider the child successful.

ing this.

SCORING. Three responses out of

child's reptics.

"

SCORING. The test is passed if

OUR BRITISH_CROSSWORDS.

ACROSS

1 Bats in red crate? Well,

be: a bit mad, though.

10

7 Tar nine (anag).

may-14 It's worse in Savile-row.

15 Hill horse?

8 Bet this takes years, but

9 If you do, you shape badly, 10. I struck a light in my Italian surroundings, and was ready to defend my country.

11 There's decay in this form of

progress.

12 When nursie leaves this Scottish town she leaves one little article behind. Careless nurale!

13 Flourish that I would make give

up,

10 The middle ages?

17 Polnis about roacs.

10 Brings the writer In very little

money, and that's hard, you'll admit.

22 Nan, a tol? (anag.)

25 One thing and another.

20. They carry the Fathers of the

Flock.

27 In a cop I appear in the Pucifle,

30 Just a truce.

a1 Virile or the reverse.

32 Additional assistance that has no

morit will fencers...

DOWN

1 Post my MB, (untug.),

2 Vulgar bunk.

3 Walked with the aid of a stick.

A Novel combination of Catholic

and Church of England,

The place left over is torn at the Lodges.

Lied (of course it's wrong)

Qi-had no work,'

18 You'll always find the girls

here; it is so sivcel.

20 Thus, in one particular direction,

show passionate zen.

21 Dominion city that ends as it

Atarts.

22, A, Book of Dhys.

23 Hop, Tony (anag). :

24 A blow? For shamef

23 Look closely in Tuscany,

Sharp

solvers won't need to look long.

20 Takes an artist over the rails;

alngular of 20.

Yesterday's Solution

OROW B C BUDE

OENE U PHONY Í 8{

Put the colours in a row in front of the child and say "What is the There is however one feature of the name of this colour?" to each in turn, calendrie market where reform might If you are using objects, explain well prove salutary. The "Thought that you are only interested in the colours, not in the clape of the ob- for To-day" system needs gingering jects.

up. In theory, no doubt, it is a good SCORING.-The test is passed if thing to be confronted every morn

the first time. This fest is not based

epigram. 01 profundity: But in un a colour sense, as all five-year-olds who have ordinary sight should be practice the contronice comes, after able to dieriminate between these time, to colours and will already have asso-Olympian intimations. Besides, the dislike these smuk. cisted them in the mind with the world's quotable stock of wisdom is right name by observation of adults..

preponderantly of a negative kind.

the colours are named correctly ing with some fresh aphorism,

Il consists very largely of warnings. "October 1st (Pheasant shooting Test 3-See whether the child can begins). Trust few men, "Above carry it three very simple orders, fall keep your follies to yourself.- Repeat the order twice-the time explaining that you want him of asperity here which is unaccept- Brat Sir Walter Raleigh"there is a note to do certain things for you, *

Do not alter the position of the able even to the mildest of aunts; orders in the repetition

and leave yet the advice is too sensible to Test 2: Put four pennies (or other the child alone with his task if ne-ignore, and the new vicar, calling to coins) in a row in front of the child, cescary. Such orders as "Bring me pay his respects, is treated with and ask him to count them aloud as that vase (pointing at it), then put frigid suspicion. Thoreau may have he touches each one. You may point this pencil on the table and then to the first, on the child's left and open the door."

said "Make the most of your regrets. say "Like this, Ont.

SCORING-All three commissions To "regret deeply is to live afresh," SCORING.The child has passed should be carried out in the right and Dryden that "No Government the test if his counting tallies with order. This test is a useful one to has ever been, or ever "can be, his pointing. He has failed if he just try out on a child who is just start-wherein time-servers and blockheads mentions the right number of the ing school. If he passes it well he will not be uppermost" but there colns.

will take quickly and easily to is no reason why we and far less

Test 3:-On a postcard draw a star orthodox school learning. thus leaving room for the child

to copy it. He can use pencil, pen or cruyon.

SCORING-Any attempt in which the main characteristics of a star are present is a success. The number of the arms does not matter, but they must cross in the centre and give the effect of radiating out.

Length of Lines

A

GE 5.-Test 1: Drive two ordinary in, screws into a solid piece of wood. Show the child how to take out one.with a screw- driver. Then hand him the driver and ask him to remove the other

| screw.

SCORING-This ig reckoned by the time it takes the child to get the screw right out. One minute is ex- eeptionally good time for five-year- olds. Three minutes is an average time.

Gardeners'

Plot

Run the hoe through beds of wallflowers, and press firm any plants which have become loose, and would only be made looser by the wind..

Clear away all fallen leaves: which may have collected on the wallflowers, and which might be) a cause of decay.

Remove all dead or weakly plants, and replace them with others from the seedbed.

23/11/36.

G.H.A.B.

you tell

(why our aunts-should be reminded

of their unexhilarating words:

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dac-mongers specialized, not in wis- dom, but in folly, Folly is a com- modity of which there is a far more inexhaustible and far more rapidly growing supply than there is of wis- dom. Scarcely ગી day passes-none certainly hos passed for more than a week-on which there is not made public some statement of an inepti- tude so colossal as to merlt im- mortality la, one form or another. Calendar magnates should make it their business to collate the more memorable pages and incorporate them in their wares.

The result would greatly fortify the self-respect of our aunts, whose opinion of their own intelligence and. good taste would be enhanced by reminders that the eminent are fre- quently deficient in both.

tell your

Do you children the

truth?

Asking one Back

WITH most ten-year-olds

110

simplest way to tackle any ques- tion Is to ask one in reply. In this way you not only see exactly how the child's mind is working, but you also encourago it to think for itself,

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