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THE HONGKONG. -- TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY

13, ..... 1987.

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Cut this out-it's a CHART telling you

What

to

You hear a lot about vitamins A, B, C. and all the rest of them these days, but do you know what they really are, what foods you find them in, or why they're good for you?

Vitamin is a "chemical found in different. natural foods. Practically everything you cat contains one or more vitamins; cach one has a

FOOD

Butter, Milk, Cheese.

Liver, Animal Fata.

Wheat, Nuts, Yeast, Bread.

Fish, Meat

Fruits and Vegetables,

Fats and Vegetable Oils.

eat

& Why

"distinct value for you. Your diet should contain fonds 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 varimin vitamins, and what good they will do you.

ITS VITAMIN

A. A.

WHAT IT DOES

Helps Digestion. Helps Respiration, Makes Natural Julces.

Makes Natural Julces.

Opposa 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

for

Tests

Children

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 aunts 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- chl, nature of our reciprocal generosity would be ill served by the introduction of a disconcert- ing clement of novelty.

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It is, morcover, cxtremely difculi to be original with a calendar. Such experiments with thic as have been made in the past have not been popu lar. Interference with the establish- LIVERPOOL SERVICE ed order of the months has, it la true, often passed unnoticed. In country where there is too seldom climatic evidence available 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. PACIFIC

The moral of many an aunt hos been seriously impaired by the re- ceipt of a calendar 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

Iour clons when she finds herself dating

(four objects in theat The arms responsible for these fri- colours or squares cut from different volous innovations are now for the book fackets will serve as well).

most part out of business. Put the colours in a row in front of the child and say "What is the name of this colour?" to each in turn. if you are using objects, explain first calendar market where reform might that you are only interested in the well prove salutary. The "Thought colours, not in the shape of the ob-for To-day system needs gingering jects.

up. In theory, no doubt, it is a good SCORING-The test

correcllying with some fresh aphorism, AGE 4. Test 1: On an ordinary

postcard, rule two parallel all the colours are samed corsething to be contronted every morn- lines about one inch apart. Make the first time. This icat is not based

on a colour sense, as all five-year-olds epigrom, br. profundity. une line half an inch longer than the who have ordinary sight should be practice the confrontee comes, after these a time, to dislike these amug, able to dicriminate between Then give the card to the child and colours and will already have asso-Olympian Intimations, Besides, the ask film to point to the longer line. ciated them in the mind with the world's quotable stock of wisdom, is

the superlative

OR crayon

in at lant one of the tests if if your child is between 3 and 5 patches of colour-yed, yellow, blue, her correspondence "March 18th."

they are presented in familiar surroundings by a person in

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

confidence.

Simple for a Start

GE 3-Test 1: Show

four must be correct for the child to the child names three objects in one pass the test successfully. It the picture spontaneously. the child winks, screws up his nose, opens

A

child a sheet of plain paper measuring about 4 inches by 5 inches. Tell him to watch you making a book out of it. Then fold the paper double and rest it down. Open and close. the paper several times, pointing out that it looks liko He book. Then hand the child a similar plece paper and ask him iroaks.

to make you

of

his mouth instead of actually pointing Test for Handiness at the features mentioned you can donsider it quite satisfactory,

other,

Test 3: Find a large coloured plc- ture (from a book or magazine if you ilke) with plenty of objects and life You

may usc

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SCORING. If the child folds the in it. Praise the płeture and give it "longest" if you like, as it will not right riame by observation of adults preponderantly of a negative kind.

I success.

times so that it paper one or more leaves a clear crease, the response is It does not matter if the fold is irregular or even diagonal.

Test 2: Ask the child to indicate with a finger parts of his face such as nose, cyes, ears, mouth, hair. Use your normal method of speech in do- ing this.

SCORING.-Three responses out of

Pthis

to the child so that he can see it com- ably be more familiar to the child.

Then withdraw the card and pre-

Do fortably and clearly.

Then ask him to tell you what he sent it from another angle. sees in the pleture. If there is no once again, so that the child has seen immediate response you may help the the lines in three different positions.

SCORING-All three comparisons child by saying "Show me the.... indicating some specific object. That must be made correctly, or you cun

start the not consider the child successful. should be suelent to child's replies.

SCORING The test is passed if

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It consists very largely of warnings. "October 1st. "Pheasant shooting Test 3-See whether the child can begins), Trust few men. "Above order iwice the first Sir Walter Raleigh"-there is a notc carry out three very simple orders, all keep your follies to yourself.- Repeat the to do certain things for you. Ulme explaining that you want him of asperity here which is unaccept- 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 treated with 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, cessary. Such orders as "Bring me pay his respects, is and ask him to count-them-aloud as that vise (pointing at it), then put frigid suspleion. Thoreau may have he touches each one. You may point this pencil on the table and then said "Make the most of your regrets. to the first on the child's left and open the door."

To "regret deeply is to live afresh," SCORING All three commissions. say "Like this, 'One.'"

out in the right and Dryden that "No Government SCORING The child has passed should be carried

"can be, the test if his counting tallies with order. This test is a useful one to has ever been, or ever his pointing. He has falled 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 will take quickly and casily to is no reason why we and for less coins.

Test 3:-On a postcard draw a star orthodox school learning. thus leaving room for the child to copy it. He can use pencli, pen or

crayon.

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

Length of Lines

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

time,

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Cicar away all fallen leaves which may have collected on the wallflowers, and which might be a causo, of decay.

Remove all dead or weakly plants, and replace them with others from the seedbed, 23/11/30.

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dar-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 a day passes--none certainly has passed for more than week--on which there is not made public some statement of an inepli- tude colossal as to merit im- or another. mortality in one form Calendar magnates should make it their business to collate the more memorable paffer and incorporate them in thele wares.

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1 Bats in red crate? Well,

be: a blt mad, though.

7 Tar nine (anag.).

6 Bet this Laites years, but

may-14 it's worse in Savlic-row.

13 Hill horse?

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

11 There's 'decay in this form of

progress.

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

13 Flourish that I would make give

up.

18 The middle ages?

17 Points about roses.

∙19 Brings the writer in very little

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

22 Nan, a tot? (anag).

3 One thing and another,

26 They carry the Fethers of the.

Flock.

27 In a cap I appear in the Paclie.

30 Just a trace,

31. Virile or the reverse,

39 Additional assistance that has no

merit with fencers.

DOWN

Post my MS, (anag.).

Vulgar bunk.

Walked with the aid of a stick.

Novel combination of Catholic Fand Church of England.

5 The piece loft over is torn at the

8 Lled (of course, it's wrong), bo

had no work.

18 You'll always and the girls

here: it is so sweet.

20 Thus, in one particular direction,

show passionate zeal.

21 Dominion city that ends as it

starts.

22 A A Book of Days.

23 Hop, Tony (anag)..

24 A blow? For shame!

20 Look closely in Tuscany. Sharp solvers won't need to look long.

29 Takes an artist over the rails;

singular of 20,

Yesterday's Solution

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CE EUPHONY JS

Do you tell your

children the

truth?

Questions begin at Four THE questioning age usually begins

at four years,

Asking one Back

VITI most ten-year-olds

the

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 worlting, but you also encourage it to think for itself. For instance, if you are asked how something works your answer should be "How do you think it works? Come and have a fool."; Or if your child asks you why Peggy's mother It dies out again until ten or cleven tells her quite different things about question-time. Away from school, years. The beginning period is the babies you should say, "Which do you LEMON AN LIGHT FOR most parents holiday-time is UI CURA.CO AI children pelt mothers and fathers more difficult, as a great many of think are right-my answers

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