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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPHI, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19,. 1917..

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Winter squash

will keep you trim

-it's cheap too

How are you keeping up

ter?

In a busy life, squash and bad- summer fitness this win-minton take up the minimum amount

Squash and badminton are the ideal games for winter. There are several reasons, besides the obvious one that they are good for the figure, to account for the fact that fo-day the Y.M.C.A. aquash court in Kowloon is more popular than it even has been,

ils and that badminton cognised as one of our "big" sports.

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of time in proportion to the amount of healthy exercise it gives. Con-

trary to popular opinion, they are not expensive.

The "rabbit," who in most other but usually gets lenat fun out of it, sports may see most of the game, can get all the exercise she wants and a bit over, from the first lesson.

Although primarlly young percona" games, squash- and badminton can be played by a woman of 40 or 50 with great beneft to health, gure and temper, provided she plays with an opponent of about equal proficiency.

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club varies. Usually it is only n dollar or so a month. Rackets, as they to not depend on tension, have a long life. A racket should last three years.

When squash or badminton are played for exercise, four games a week in the maximum. In first-class games twice a week is considered to be sufficient.

Fun For Novices

A well-known badmintén player suggests that any one who is thinking of taking up the game should inspire a friend to follow her example, so that they can start level.

Two or three lessons may be necessary, and afterwards a pair of novices will be able to get plenty of fun and exerelse. Badminton can be an exhausting game, and it is a great mistake for a woman to play out of her class, as many are tempted to do, when, they find their proficiency in- creasing.

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What To Wear

Dress is a simple matter: flannel shorts, cellular shirt, socks, and rubber shoes. The shoes should have white rubber soles.

The woman who is not so slim as she would like to be, should choose pleated shorts, and have them in a dark colour instead of white.

To millions of persons this winter, 'Ovaltine' will bring the appearance of robust health.

There is definitely nothing to equal 'Ovaltine' as the best safeguard. against wintry bad weather 'Oval-

tine' presents, in the most easily digestible form, every nutritive element required for building up the entire physical and nervous system,

"Ovaltine' ensures proper nourishment and proper sleep the two most important factors in building up a high standard of resistance to cough, cold, and other winter ailments.

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THIN ICE

TOGETHER AND APART By Margaret Kennedy (Casic, 7, 6d)

EOPLE before now have cer- tainly drifted into divorca. Even so, I feel sure that it has been rather more troublesome than deciding, after all, to have a second cup of tea.

In Miss Kennedy's latest novel Betay and Ales are toying with the idea. But the reasons she gives for the parting are so obviously flimsy and the fo they. Uve to- gether, is so comfortable that not all the author's skill in depleting the comle-seriousness of a domestic situation could convince me that they would have allowed them- selves to be separated.

She is on aurer ground when sho shows us the correspondence which passed between kind and mischief- making friends and relations, after Alec had been gonded into running - away with the children's governess.

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The real theme of the story emerges, when the author deals with the effect the divorce has on the children, who are just begin- ning to grow up and find them- selves forced to tako sides in an artificial squabble which they can- not really understand.

The emotional upheaval in their young lives is competently though never very profoundly handled,

In fact, throughout this tale Miss Kennedy is skating over thin ice and only the lightness of her technique prevents a sudden cold crash into reality. But that very lightness makes the book extremely entertaining.

Many of the minor charactora are touched in with deftness and humour and the complications of the situation when Alec and Botsy have each remarried (unsuitably, of course) are staged with just the touch needed to erento the illusion that we are reading about flesh- and-blood men and women.

What Miss Kennedy never manages to do is to stir-in me, at any rate-a spark of sympathy for folk who have got themselves into an entirely un- necessary mess.

Still, sound sense doesn't always have a chance in this world, so. perhaps, it is unreasonable to look for it in a novel about marriage and divorce. The wise thing maybe, is to accept with thanks fun, this characteristic mixture of fantasy and pathos,

R. P.

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PAGEANT of the RING

CIRCUS PARADE By John 8, Clarke (Batsford, 7. Od.)

IME was when the standard seven-and-sixpenny book was a novel of about two hundred not very packed pages, unillus- trated.

Nowadays for the same sum you can buy a book like this, a size larger. demy quarto), with over a hundred photographs in half-tone, pictorial end papers, coloured frontispiece and "some odd decorations in black and

while.

Much of the enterprise which has engineered thus change has come from Messrs. Batsford. And, with a book as certala a huge sale as this ono, there can be little risk.

The author, before becoming an M.P. and a journalist, was an animal- trainer. He has a pleasant style and some erudition, so that clever turns of phrase and sidelines of observation constantly emerge to plense the fasti- dious render in chapters the material of which would make them enthralling however ill-written,

After summarising the history of the Roman elreuses and the origins of the present European ring, Mr. Clarke deals with all the various branches of artistry-haute ecols and liberty horsC- manship, trapezing, clownery, animal training (note, not taming), winding up with an account of the circus là America.

Incidentally, ife for rather death) has provided a more formal conclu- sion to this last chapter since the going to press of this book--the last of the Ringing Brothers, associates and successors of Barnum and Balley, has died.

This is a generous book. The collec tion of photographs is encyclopedic as well as exciting.

There are many memorable ance- doles. It is pleasant to learn that Queen Victoria, when she examined "Lord" George Banger's clrcus after a command performance, respected hla

Waves That Give Life...

they provide colour, speech, and help to fight disease

E owe our life on, earth to many kinds

light-waves,

heat-waves, Bound-waves. The visible light- waves from the sun, made up of different colours of the rainbow, travel in varying lengths.

Red light has 33,000 waves to the Inch, orange has more, green has even more, and so to violet light, which has 60,000 waves to the inch, There are other important light- waves which cannot be БЕСП. Beyond the violet light are the ex- tremely short ultra-violet waves with their great health-giving pro- perties,

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They produce essential vitamins and give us that healthy tan we get on holidays. Thank the earth's atmosphere, however, tor prevent Ing them all from reaching us--- for the full force of ultra-violet rays would kill us.

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Beyond the red light are the in- visible and comparatively long, in- fra-red waves. They pierce the darkness easily, enabling photographs to be taken through fog or over im- mense. dlstarices. With their ald television became possible.

The fight against disease became Immensurably stronger when X- ray waves were discovered; waves so short-one ten-miflionth of one- twenty-fifth of an inch-that they can penetrate solid substances and unearth the vital information that la required,

Heat-waves are all-important. Every action we do produces them; we cannot work without them.

Sound-waves, about

million

times longer than visible light- waves, have given 115 speech, -music, talking films and tele- phones. We notice these, perhaps, more than any of the others be- cause the noise of modern civilisa- tion compels attention.

Like the invisible waves of light, there are also ultra-sound waves. They were used during the war to detect submarines. When ultra- sound wave bentris are directed towards a submarine, its hull reflects them as an echo.

Research, in ulira-sounds · may well produce results as important, as the discovery of X-rays,

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self-conferred tile of nobility. Then there is the tragic story of the death of Adolph Cossmy," who used to scrub liis Polar bears (to their delight and beautification) with comp- Blakes. Ho slipped on a Boapy zine floor; accidentally struck a bear's pose as he fell and was horribly killed.

A on living in a cage sets many people in a rage, but the author's account of the modern methods of training, which began with Hagenbeek, should do much to silence their snarls, There could scarcely be a better book for a Christmas present. M: 11

CHARTA

CABINET GOVERNMENT By W, Ivor Jennings (Cambridge University Press, 214.)

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Y any measurement this is a great book. It stands out Immediately as one of the half-dozen classic, works on the British Constitution. It marks Dr. Jennings as the man who, in this century, will repeat the work which Bagchot did at the end of the last.

The knowledge is tnumense. Put the style is of unloaded simplicity and case. The scholarship is immaculate. Yet, all the while the reader's interest in held because the author continually relates what actually happened or was said by the men who co-operate in working the Constitution.

He describes the Constitution not as a remote and Invisible body of principles, but as a workaday set of rules, to .which electors, sintesmen and Kings

relate their political lives.

There is hardly a political happen- ing of the last húndred years which is not recounted in its proper place and given its proper weight.

The book, as the title suggests, is mainly concerned with the way in which "IIis Majesty's Government" is carried on. The Constitution is ap proached, in Dr. Jennings' words, from the angle of the Government," and King, Parliament parties and people are considered chiefly as they contribute to, er limit Cabinet autho- rity.

To the chapters on the Monarchy, and particularly to the discussion of the influence of those whom Lord Palmerston once called the "Irrespon sible advisers' of the Crown, recens events have lent pecullar interest. But the whole book is equally fascinating for all who take a serious interest In the phenomenal success of the British Constitution,

The preface promises a further book on Parliament and the Party system. It will be eagerly awaited, R. F.

Pores Tell Tales

N improved method of developing invisible (in-

gerprints has been devised

by Dr. Wagenaar, Rotterdam

chemist and criminologist.

thought to

Iodine vapour is blown on to any object which have been handled. II Angerprints are present, they at once appear. Wagenaar has also worked out a method of obtaining reproduc- tions of them; he applies to the fingerprints, revealed by the loding- process, a sheet of paper soaked in a solution containing 5 per centr starch, 2 per cent thymol, and 10 per cent lodine of potash. An exact copy is obtained on the paper.

Pictures shown here are enlarged fragments of fingerprints showing the shape of pores,

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which have followed the harness- ing of radio waves.. Radio has,

Never before "have the benefits in an incredibly short space of ot an: invention or discovery be-time, affected the lives of people come available so rapidly as those throughout the world,

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PICK AND CHOOBE

By Daniel George...

(Cape, 78. Gd.j

OST anthologica present tried, and sometimes trying. favourites. Mr. George does no such thing. He must have been sifting the dustbins of literature for years to be able to offer such a treasure-storo of melties na Pick and Choors consists of.

There are poems, letters, diary notes, reflections, travel descriptions, ancient medical prescriptions and medieval pollee-court reports.

The entries mange from antiquity to mid-nineteenth century-none longer. than half a page, samo fathered "by celebrated writers, others orphans in fame, but ni deserving their exhuma- tion by reason of some touch of - humour, fantastic beauty, quaint wis-

dom or charming impudicity.

Read, for example, the story, related by Charles Buck (Ancedotes, 1807), of Frederick Morel, who "had so strong an attachment to study that, when he was informed of his wife's being at the point death, he would not lay down his pen until he had finished what he was upon. And when she was dend, na aho was before they could' prevail upon him to stir, he was only heard to reply coldly: 'I am very sorry, She was a good woman.*"*

Then there is Jolin Kenta complain. ing that someone said of him: "O, ha. is quite the little poet."

"This is abominable,” protesta Kenis. "You might as well any Buonaparte is quite the little soldier. ...

Dr. Jotinson, in 1791, forestalls Bernard Shaw with: "The notion of liberty amuses the people of England and helps to keep of the tediuma vita."

And there are three hundred more pages besides.

This book afters to the render what a large checae, does to a mouse-an orgy of contented nibbling.

STUART FLETCHER,

HAUNTED

ALL THE TREES WERE GREEN By Michael Harrison (Arthur Barker, 78, -6d.)

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HIB unusual and distinguished novel is the story of a haunted family, seen through the sym- pathetic eyes of a young man who could do nothing but watch its decay.

The de Freynes were three unattrac Live, middle-aged sisters, their mother and the ghost of a spoilt darling of a brother who was killed in the War, ...,

One sister has made loveless mar ringo with an adventurer. Another is Jilted by a rogue who thought she waS an heiress. The third is dying a pain- ful death.

The atmosphere of doom and resig nation is there. But it is a contained atmosphere. The story-teller himself 1s intelligent and purposive, although ho is helpless to stop the drift of things. And the various no-accounts who prey on the sisters are really vital and amusing scoundrels.

Eldred Figg, hila father, Count Juniper, and Captain Barafield, with their shady schemes, their plausibility and their cyo to the main chance, form n trio of flourishing rascality in fine contrast to those haunted women.

And the narrator bridgesn the two worlds by his understanding of both types, the pushing and the pushed. R. P.

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there were charming little homesteads at Charing Cross. About the year 1240 old Hubert de Burgh, Lord Chief Justice of England, built himself a country house on the Thames side of Whitehall, then only a narrow country lane. He bought the land from the Abbot of Westminster.

The views from his top windows were, superb. To the west, St. James's Park and miles beyond Il; to the south the Abbey, of Westminster as bulit by Edward the Contesser; to the east an unin terrupted view of the open Strand, the preity Ettle, Jane of Fleet St. and the City walls with St. Paul's Cathedral beyond; and to the north- the village of Choring...

One thing annoyed Hubert. He had n frst-class row with the farmers of Charing Village because of the noise of the fowls in the early mornings." He said he could not get his proper rest. And, what wos more, they could keep their cows out of his gardent: -Times have. - changed, it seems.

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