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Lazy-practical – romantic-what are you?

your forehead

You ore the kind of person

who stays in one job.

This does not necessarily mean that

will tell

you like your work, but you lack the smile in your face and talk about thought and persistence required to find another niche for yourself.

you when your back is turned.

Your chief virtue is single-minded- ness and the ability to hold to one course. You are a plodder.

you.

cannot

your first thought. You bother to put your ideas into practice or reason out the problems that come your way.

Sensible feeding would take away that heavy feeling and you might do much more with your life.

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You do not like new ideas. What was good enough for you fail by being too clever, your grandfather is good enough for You are continually think you. The truth is that you see in Ing out impractical schemes-all in the world around you the despairing different spheres. In addition to effects of other people's rashness and this, you like action. The result is tolly. can only see one side that you get involved in for more

This of a question. In an argu- affairs

makes you determined to than you can reasonably stick to your practical, safe and sure ment or crisis you seize on the first handle. You have too many irons methods. You Iden that occurs to you. You are in the fire.

are obstinate about very observant, and you are quick

this, and touchy. If any one criti- your attitude you are often

You

Before engaging in your next ven- claes on the uptake. You make many ture, talk It over with a friend. It rude and tacticse. enemies, chiefly of that kind which will probably save you money.

Washing up the Orient

De

wan and

VOU get most of your ideas

Beauty

you

Do you sit about life instead of living life. You weight resting on elbows and fore-

from books. You read A STANDS for ARMS,

at a desk or table with all your have imagination and you thorough arms? Don't. It makes your skin ly appreciate the thoughts and ideas harsh and ugly. of good writers,

nixed ideas that you never express. Your head is full of valuable but You are dreamy and In a crisis you hesitate and are lost. unobservant. You never ake netlon.

You

YOU have a good forehead, showing a balanced and energelle attitude to life. Though

you have worked hard, it has not

been easy.

If you have done so treat your roughened elbows to a mulk pack, Mix witch-hazel and powdered milk into a stiff cream, mussage it smooth- ly into your nems and elbows, and allow to dry. Remove by splashing with icy cold water.

If your arms are too plump, re- ducing vinegar and massage with a rubber roller or electric rejuvenator are indicated. If they're too lean, rub almond oil Into your flesh at bedtime and indulge in muscle- developing exercises each end of the day.

B STANDS for BROWS. Study the

natural

curve

of the eye in brows. Distance

relation to your You have had to use a strong will between the two should equal the You eat too much. Food is

your trouble. Either it is to drive yourself to concentrate on depth of your open eye, the wrong food, or you don't give it the problems that came your way; a chance to digest properly.

Just now fashion Your most valuable assets are a good brows. Keep them fairly slender, is for natural You are naturally a lazy person, memory, good reasoning, good judg-but, follow the are of the eyes,

and bodily comfort are ment, and a fair amount of action.

R. Victor Helser was for many fabulous prices to the

years Director of Health of the shaking sufferers from malaria. Philippine Islands under the United States Public Health Service.

"Medical relief had never been extended to the 300,000 wild people After that, he worked for the of the mountains. Even so simple a Rockefeller Foundation as Director thing as fracture caused severe Pleasure for the East of the International auffering, lifelong deformity Health Board.

handicap which could so easily have been avoided."

"For twenty years I travelled furiously on my mission, pedding

and

This is but part of a long catalogue my line of idens. Research workers of the horrors which American medi- In the United States would be brim- eine Inherited from the proud em- ming with experiments they wanted pire of Spain. These doctors set tried out in the tropics, and tropical themselves, in the author's phrase, health ofeers were enger to have to wash up the Orient." projects tested in the big laboratories

And they did it. The tale of this

DON'T BELIEVE

BELIEVE IT!

SAYS THE DOCTOR

of the outer world. I carried in my Red Cross crusade was mugnificently MANY everyday "facts" which we

head health ideas gleaned up

down the whole creation,"

The specific gravity of the human; worth telling and it is magnificently take for granted are fallacies body is slightly greater than water,! told. One by one the historic based on superstition, Ignorance and hence its natural tendency to sink,

*

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Before you set about this pluck- ing business with flat-ended tweezers, apply hot towels to open the pores and smear on skin food or vaseline. Firmly grasp each hair as near the root as possible and pull -sharply.

As a final touch, dab on either peroxide or witch-hazel to retard the growth and close the pores.

so deep and so varied; and not many fore a campaign which was ruthless, Thomen, Lecturer in Medicine at the surface in order to breathe beat time in putting on-the years.

Not many men have had experience scourge of mankind went down be-old wives' tales, says Dr. August A. The drowning person struggles to C STANDS for CHINS, Multiplied by two, chins are a, tragedy. They of those who have had it are able to fundamental.and-successful..... New York University. In a series of drawing water into the windpipe

articles, he demolishes some of those which causes him to cough. But on Not quite enough exerelse, a habit pseudo-medical nations which most the next Inspiration, more water is of slumping and sleeping with your of us believe to be true for in- taken in, which may be swallowed head in the air-these are the three stance:

or drawn into the lungs. The body original causes, Give your chin a That a high forehead is a sign of at first tends to rise because of the good slapping night and morning intelligence and culture.

air in the lungs and as a result of with a rubber suction patter and This fallacy results from insuf- the-movement of the limbs. Soon it take to using reducing vinegar or clent observation, associated with the is again preconceived notion that the larger.

submerged.

cream.

Next, place the first and second In some fatal cases, this alterna- angers together the head the more the brains. When tion may be repeated several times with the tips upwords,

write about it in a way that will appeal to the general reader. Dr. Helser is writer as well as scientist.

But how the poor human fool will His nutobiography. "A Doctor's for ever set himself to fight against Odyssey," has just been published: the things that belong to his peacel it is most readable book; for the When some of the native girls were author has always had

hod a quick eye being trained as nurses, their parents for character, he has a sense of made the horrifying discovery that humour, and his unusun job throw they had been introduced into roomis him into contact with every sort of where men were in bed

An angry deputation waited upon the. Prince of Wales. when Dr.

beneath the chin, and press

person from King Edward VIII., who Dr. Heiser to point out that the girls caller is subjected to a stalisil- before the final sinking, when in- fairly hard in a circular movement. Helser treated him at Manila, to the were ruined: never again would they! diferent it is found that there is no sensibility

Was

comes on and

intellectually between the occurs from suffocation.

poorest sort of half-breeds and out- be able to lift up their heads in de- "highbrow" and the "lowbrow." cists,

cent society.

When wells were dug, the people The book is excellent not only as said: "If God had intended us to a survey of medicine applied on the drink out of a hole dug in the crust grand scale but also as a record

of the

struggle

and success of an unusual

and like-

able min. For the

by HOWARD SPRING

In America, it has been shown that members of the National Academy

of Sciences have forebeads of almost exactly the same height as those of

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death

That caling green apples cause stomach-ache. old

will

of the earth. He Tennessee mountaineers of would have put it American stock-one of the most be- Unripe fruit is hard and unpalat- there," And they lnted groups, educationally and able hence it is likely to be insuffi-

country,

ciently chewed. It is this that causes Ing out of the

Whether a man is streams in which "lowbrow"

racc from which be

I

Try this exercise. Make all the muscles of your neck feel tense and breathe in deeply. Slowly bend the head towards your left shoulder and breathe out. Lift your head back to normal and repent to the right. Do this six times each side.

STANDS for DIET. Fresh fruit and green vegetables, milk and

Continued "drink- otherwise, in the thighbrow" or stomach-ache, and not the unripeness gods did not shower their gifts into carabao waliowed and the wells in- upon the

anatomically depends of the fruit. Dr. Helser's lap. He passes lightly to which filth drained."

springs. It is not the size of one's ten was once called to see a boy of

who was doubled Úp with all its by-products, fish and eggs enough over the story of his early struggles, but they must have been rising in the form of a cross through with it.

When a Asherman saw bubbles tend that counts, but what one does cramps. The boy's relatives were all these foodstuffs are Nature's pro- positive he had eaten green apples. tection against li-health. If you're the salt water of the bay, he tasted

I found that while he did eat apples, sensible you'll consult a doctor be and found the water sweet.

they were perfectly ripe ones,

you set about dieting, and re-

severe.

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paddled ashore, proclaimed G He was orphaned when little more miracle, and a priest went out and than a boy. It was in 3880 that the putrescence

blessed the cross bubbling up from reservoir burst and wiped almost out

sinking.

The trouble was caused by his member that old text about patience. It 19 said that carrots put glints having eaten them too hurriedly, as

That a drowning person rises to was evidenced by the large chunky into your hair, tomatoes, cucumber of a burst sewer

the surface three times before finally pieces he had swallowed.

and watercress banish blemishes, of existence the small Pennsylvania There was a run on the holy water,

All too often the drowning person alone to cause

There is nothing in green apples and oranges and celery make your city of Johnstown. Young Helser and the cholera sintistles leapt up.

a stomachi-ache. I eyes shine.. sinks at once. On the other hand, the apple is eaten slowly and suffi- lost both his parents and himself.

drowning people often come to the clently chewed, the stomach la not)

*Look out for more of escaped only after a series of tre-

The book is packed with such in-surface two, three and more times able to distinguish between a ripe mendous hazards that make a Ane stances of the pitiful superstition, before sinking."

this Beauty Alphabet and an unripe one pigheadedness, and the opposition

opening chapter.

the sheer

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He was almost penniless, He obstinate underground worked as a plumber's assistant and which the medical service had to

avercome

a carpenter, and later, when a little meet and money had been salvaged from his Not only

father's estate, he began to study give us a thri Dr. Heiser here

record of his fight bubonic pingue, cholera,

mechanical engineering. When these against and other discases

Things falled to satisfy him, he took as he found them existing within the to the study of medicine.

of his own work; he also

The lesson which most

sphere He arrived in Manila soon after writes mast Interestingly about all the United States had taken over these scourges as they have affitted the Philippines from Spain. The mankind throughout the ages and condition of the public health was about the investigations and expert- appalling.

ments of the great medical pioneers "Plague was creeping through the progress.

who

have been in the van of hygienic alleys of Manila. The morgue was piled high with the bodies of cholera emerges from a book that I found clearly dead. Forty thousand unvaccinated enthralling is the importance of lay were uselessly slaughtered each year co-operation. For example, it is Tuberculosis, uncon- beyond dispute, that beri-beri is by smallpox, sidered and unfeared, was responsible caused by the absence of a certain for 60,000 deaths annually. The vitamin-from diet, that that vitamin the tens of thousands. Every offer is present in unpolished rice and

absent from polished rice. child died before its first birthday.

"Any time the Filipino house- "More than 10,000 men, women wives decided to wipe out berl-beri and children, blighted by the scourgo from the Islands they could do so, of leprosy, wandered, sad and lonely, But even to this day they have not

been convinced." among the uncontaminated, Only a

beri-beri victims were numbered in

few hundred were cared for by the Church, Tha insane were chained

Nikos'doga: underneath-- the "houses. "A' Doctor's Odyssey," by Victor Imitation quinine pills were sold at Heiser (Cape, 158.) ̧

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1 That's just the point,

5 Such advice to shoot hér natur-`

ally gives rise to commotion.

& The perfect type.

This word doesn't seem to be, going the right way. 10 Lessena,

11 Proverbially old.

12 Direct the wrong way.

14 Was it the poet, and not the tal- lor, who finished off this cere- monial garment?

16 Responsible for the training, but the race in out of order for him. 17 William the Conqueror, for ex-

ample.

18 At stake.

1 Tennis player who seems 10

make a profession of love. 23 Food but mostly more rum. 26 Foles are, when positive. 27 Twist this artist's tall-his head suggests he tuna one-and he'll measure at least a yard. 28 Salesman who may play

Important part, even when he has lost his head.

Hon. Mr. M. T. Johnson.. (Ball 29 Stove off. Fund)-425,

Wing Commander Bishop (Ball Fund) $20,

Dr. K. K. Wong-Baby cots, troi- ley and stand for Kem Tin Hospital. China Emporium, Ltd.-Paper hats and confetti for the annual ball.

Mr. Fung Wel-shing-$0 towards novelties for the annual ball.

Hon. Dr. Li Shu-fan-Vapour lamp, for slerlilser.

30 Woman's name,

an

ai To make a mistake is half the

object of the journey, 32 Relation...

33 Ma isn't a form of Insect. 34 French town..

DOWN

I A race between two Poles, but

of another race,

2 What Erasmus became. In our

• own day.

3 Get thin possibly--and then you'll have the chance to do it.

23

1 A Midland Edge.

5 This belongs to Paris.

I never knew anyone put his shirt this horse that has thoroughly chewed up a rat

(two words, 3 and 4),

7 Dwelt.

13 Emphatic type.

15 U.S.A. State.

10

Miracle (anagram),

20 Anyhow, there was one very young person in this very an- clent city.

21 Eat nuts (anagram),

22 Sharp walk-on Dartmoor, per-

haps. 23 What a good service inay mean. 24 Reduce credit, duc, 25 Aitar-piece.

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