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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY

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Lazy - practical romantic-what are you?

VOU are the kind of person

γου

who stays in one job.

This does not necessarily mean that

your forehead

will tell

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

Your chlef virtue is single-minded- nesa and the ability to hold to one course.

You are a plodder,

you when your back is turned.

•

you

VOU do not like new ideas. What was good enough for

cannot

your Arst 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.

You

OU got most of your ideas from books. You read about life instead of living life. You have imagination and you thorough- ly appreciate the thoughts and ideas of good writers.

YOU fall by being too clever, your grandfather is good enough for mixed idens that you never express. Your head is full of valuable but You are continually think you. The truth is that you see in You are dreamy and unobservant. ing out impractical schemes all in the world around you the despairing in a crisis you hesitate and are lost. different spheres. In addition to effects of other people's roshness and You never take action. this, you like action. The result VOU can only see one side that you get involved in far more You aquation. In an arguitars

folly. ,,

This makes you than

determined to ment or crisis you seize on the first handle.

you can reasonably stick to your practical, safe and sure idea that occurs to you. You are in the fire.

You have too many irons methods. You are obstinate about very observant, and you are quick Before engaging in your next ven clses

this, and touchy. If any one criti- on the uptake. You make enemies, chiefly of that kind which will probably save you money.

many ture, talk it over with a friend. It rude and tactless,

your attitude you are often

Washing up the Orient

the wan

DR. Victor Helser was for many fabulous prices to

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

and

You have a good forehead, showing a balanced and energetic attitude to life. Though you have worked hard, it has not been easy.

YOU eat too much. Food la You

You have had to use a strong will "Medical relief had never been the wrong food, or you don't give it the problems that came your way. your trouble. Either it is to drive yourself to concentrate on extended to the 300,000 wild people a chance to digest properly. After that, he worked for the of the mountains. Even so simple a

Your most valuable assets are a good Rockefeller Foundation as Director thing as, a fracture

You are naturally a lazy person. memory, good reasoning, good judg- for the East of the International suffering,

caused severe Plensure and bodily comfort are ment, and a fair amount of action. Health Board.

lifelong deformity and handicap which could so easily have been avoided."

"For twenty years I travelled furiously on my mission, peddling my line of idens. Research workers of the horrors which American medi

This is but part of a long catalogue In the United States would be brim cine inherited from the proud em- ming with experiments they wonted pire of Spain. These doctors set tried out in the tropics, ond tropical themselves, in the author's phrase, health officers were eager to have to wash up the Orient," projects tested in the big laboratories

And they did it. The tale of this

DON'T BELIEVE IT!

SAYS THE DOCTOR

1937.

ABC

of

Beauty

at a desk or table with all your STANDS for ARMS, Do you sil weight resting on elbows and fore- harsh and ugly. arms? Don't. It makes your skin

rougheried

If you have done so treat your Mix witch-hazel and powdered milk elbows to a milk packs. into a stiff cream, massage it smooth- ly into your arms 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 bil into your flesh at. bedtime and indulge in muscle- developing exercises each end of the day.

STANDS for BROWS. Study the natural curve of the eye in relation between the two should equal the to your brows. Distance depth of your open eye,

brows. Keep them

Just now fashion is for natural but follow the are of the eyes.

fairly slender,

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,

of the outer world. I carried in my Red Cross crusade was magnificently MANY everyday "facts" which we head health, idens gleaned up and worth telling and it is magnificently take for granted are fallacies body is alightly greater than water, down the whole creation."

The specific gravity of the human told. One by one the historic based on superstition; Ignorance and hence its natural tendency to sink, Not many men have had experience scourges of mankind went down be- old wives' tales, says Dr. August A. The drowning person struggles to STANDS for CHINS. Multiplied so deep and so varied; and not many tore a campaign which was ruthless, Thomen, Lecturer in Medicine at the surface in order to breathe, of those who have had it are able to fundamental and successful.

by two, china are a tragedy, They write about it in a way that will

articles, he demolishes some of those which causes him to cough. But on of slumping and sleeping with New York University. In a series of drawing water into the windpipe beat me in putting on the years.

Not quite enough exercise, a habit But how the poor human fool with / Pseudo-medical notions which most the next inspiration, more water 15 head in the air-these are the th

of us belleve to be true for in- take

taken in, stance:

which may be swallowed a high forehead is a sign of ht first tends to rise because of the

or drawn into the lungs. The body original causes. Give your chin a intelligence and culture.

good slapping night and morning air in the lungs and as a result of with a rubber suction patter and This fallacy results from insum- the movement of the limbs. Soon it take to using reducing vinegar or cient observation, associated with the Is

Is again submerged. preconceived notion that the larger

appeal to the general reader. Dr.

Helser

His

That

In some fatal cases, this alterna-

cream.

is writer as well as scientist. autobiography A Doctor's for ever set himself to fight against Odyssey, has

has just been published; the things that belong to his peace! it is a most readable book; for the When some of the native girls were author has always had a quick eye being trained as nurses, their parents for cha

character, he has a sense of

of made the horrifying discovery that humour, and his unusual job threw they had been introduced Into rooms the head the more the brains. When tion may be repented several times with together beneath the chin, him into contact with every sort

where men were in bed! of person from King Edward VIII,, who An angry deputation waited upon Heiser treated him at Manile, to the were ruined out that the girls cal study, it is found that there is no sensibility was Prince of Wales when Dr. Dr. Heiser to

never again would they be able to lift up their heads in de- cent society.

When wells were dug, the people

poorest sort of half-breeds and out

casts.

of

the.

struggle

and success of an

unusual and like-

bble man. For the

by HOWARD SPRING

the matter is subjected to a statisti- before the final sinking, when the difference intellectually between the occurs from suffocation:

comes on and death "highbrow" and the "lowbrow."

In America has been shown that members of the National Academy

of

That casing green apples will cause stomach-ache. able hence it is likely to be insuffl- Unripe, fruit is hard and unpalat- ciently chewed. It is this that causes stomach-nche, and not the unripeutas depends of the

Next, place the first and second

fairly hard in a circular movement.

the tips upwards, and press 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 repeat to the right. Do this six times each side.

STANDS for DIET. Fresh fruit

poaltive he had enten green apples, tection against ill-health. If you're I found that while he did eat apples, sensible you'll consult doctor be-

The book is excellent not only as said: "It God had intended us to of Sciences have foreheads of almost a survey of medicine applied on the 'drink out of a hole dug in the crust exactly the same height as those of grand scale but also as a record

of the earth. He Tennessee mountaineers

old would have put it American stock-one of the most be there." And

loted they

groups, educationally and continued "drink otherwise, in the country. ing out of the Whether a man is "highbrow" or gods did not shower their gifts into carabao wallowed and the wells in- upon the

streams in which "lowbrow" anatomically Dr. Helser's lap. He passes lightly to which filth drained."

race from which he I was once called to see a boy of and green vegetables, milk and enough over the story of his early

springs, It is not the size of one's ten who was doubled up with all its by-products, fish and eggs-- struggles, but they must have been rising in the form of a cross through with it.

When a Baherman saw bubbles head that counts, but what one does cramps. The boy's relatives were all these foodstuffs are Nature's pro- the salt water of the boy, he tasted and found the water sweet. He

they were perfectly ripe ones,

fore you set about dieting, and re-

He was orphaned when little more

miracle, and a

The trouble was caused by his member that old text about patience. a priest went out and

having eaten them too hurriedly, as It is said that carrots put glints than a boy. It was in 1889 that a the putrescence of a burst sewer. the surface three times before finally pieces he had

blessed the cross bubbling up from That a drowning person rises to was evidenced by the large chunky into your hair, tomatoes, cucumber Toservoir burst and wiped almost out

swallowed,

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

All too often the drowning person alone to cause a stomach-ache, If yes shine.

There is nothing in green apples and oranges and celery make your city of Johnstown. Young Heiser and the cholera statistics leapt up. lost both his parents and himself

sinks at once. On the other hand, the apple la caten slowly and suffi- escaped only after a series of tre-

drowning people often come to the clently chawed, the stomach is pot The book is packed with such in-surface two, three and more times able to distinguish between a ripe mendous hazards that make a fine stances of the pitiful superstition, before sinking. öpening chapter.

severe.

paddled nahore, proclaimed t

the sheer

He obstinate

pigheadedness, and the underground opposition

Ho was almost penniless. worked as a plumber's assistant and which the medical service had to

a carpenter, and later, when a little meet and overcome. money had been salvaged from his Not only does Dr. Helser hers father's estate, he began to study give us a thrilling record of his fight mechanical engineering. When these against bubonic

cholera, onic plague, things failed to satisfy him, he took smallpox, leprosy and other diseases to the study of medicine.

as he found them existing within the sphere of his own work; he also

progress.

He arrived in Manila soon after writes most interestingly about all the United States had taken over these scourges as they have afflicted the Philippines from Spain. The mankind throughout the ages and condition of the publie health was about the investigations and expert- oppalling.

ments of the great medical planeers "Plogue was creeping through the who have been in the yon of byglenle alleys of Manila. The morgue was plied high with the bodies of cholera emerges from a book that I found The lesson which most clearly dead. Forty thousand unvaccinated enthralling Is the Importance of lay were uselessly slaughtered each year co-operation. For example, it is by smallpox. Tuberculosis, uncon- beyond dispute that beri-beri is sidered and unfeared, was responsible caused by the absenco of a certain for 50,000 deaths annually. The vitamin from diet, that that vitamin Berberi vletims were numbered the tens of thousands. Every other absent from polished rico.

in present in unpolished rice and child died before its first birthday.

"Anytime the Filipino house- "More than 10,000 men, women wives decided to wipe out bert-ber! and children, bilghted by the scourge from the Islands they could do so.

But even to this day they have not

of leprosy, wandered, sad and lonely been convinced."

among the uncontaminated. Only a

fow hundred were ented for, by the

Church. The inaano were chained

like dogs underneath the houses. "A Doctor's Odyssey,” by Victor Imitation quinine pills were sold at Helser (Cope, 108.)

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ACROSS

1 That's just the point.

Such advice to shoot her natur-

ally gives rise to commotion.

This word doesn't seem to be

8 The perfect type.

going the right way... 10 Lepens

11 Proverbially old.

12 Direct the wrong way.

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

10 Responsible for the training, but

the race ts out of order for him. 17 William the Conqueror, for ex-

ample,

18 At stake.

10 Tennis player who seems make a profession of love. 23 Food but mostly more rum: to 20 Poles are, when positive..

27 Twist this artist's tail--his head

measure, at least a yard. suggests ho has one-and h64. 28 Salcaman

important part, even when he who may play”, dh

has lost his head. 20-Blava

The countries include Germany, 30 Wildcats N

South Africa Australia, Canada, 31 To Mistake is half the China, Cuba, America, France, Iridia,

Netherlands,

32 HoloLATAN Urnoy,

Italy.

Japan, tho Czecho-Slovakia, Russia and Jugo 33 Ma isn't a form of insect. Slavia Reuters Bulletin Service.

MIL EDEN'S HOLIDAY. Mr. Anthony Eden, Foreign Secre- tary, leaver on Sunday for a fort- alght's holidayIn the South" of France.Lord Halifax will depulise for him during his absence-leuter's Bulletin Service.

34 French town.

... DOWN

1 A race between two Poles, but

of another rued.

2 What Erasmus became in our

own day..

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

4 A Midland Edge.

5 This belongs to Paris,

I never knew anyone put his that has thoroughly chewed up a

shirt on this horse

(two words, 3 and 4).

? Dwelt,

13 Emphatic type.

15 U.S.A. State.

19

Miracle (anagram).

rat

20 Anyhow, there was one very young person in this very in- cient city,

21 Eat nuts (anagram)

22 Sharp walk-on Dartmoor, per- whape. 23 What a good service may mean, 24 Reduce eredis due.. 25 Altar-plece.

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