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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6,

1937.

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SPARE MOMENT. PAGE

The Eyebrows give

evidence

5th of five articles telling you how to know the Truth

A

about your Friends

RE

your eyebrows

blonde

or

brunette? Are they thick, thin or bushy? Do they slope down towards your nose? Are they straight or arched? Here is an easy indication of character.

Women's eyebrows are thinner than men's. Otherwise the same rules apply.

THESE eyebrows show that you think too much about yourself. You worry about what other people think of you. After meeting some one you go over the conversation in your mind, and wonder if you

said the right thing.

If you are brunette this tendency is marked. If you are blonde you do not dwell on these worries so jong.

DON

You have a good memory for faces and forms, and a good supply of energy to put your ideas into action. In men, these eyebrows, show that you are attenc- live to women.

THE rool of your trouble is bad concentration. Tired nerves and bad feeding have produced

la you a mind that works in every direction at once.

You are constantly in the throes of some new idea. But you lack the intensity to carry out your plans.

You are not very successful in love. You say too much; some things would be better unsold,

I you are a blunde you are reckless in your

undertakings. You trust to luck too much. Your fondness for trying anything once has been the cause of money losses from time to time.

If you are a brunette you are reckless In spurts. From time to time good sense warns you and you take yourself in hand. Then suddenly your optimism gels the better of you and it all comes out in a wild burst. Blonde or brunette, you are inconstant in love.

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you are a brunelle you are jealous of success luck, and this has made you Irritable and self-centred. in others. You have had a long run of bad People call you narrow-minded. This makes tings worse for you; it develops a sullen resentment.

If you are a blonde you suffer from 6is of bad semper, but they do not last long. You are sensitive and a little envious. Criticism makes you flare up in short bursts of anger,

ON'T buy it should be your motto. Your friends prevail on you. You are good-natured, and your belief in others often lands you in trouble... You drift through life saying

"Yes,"

You

YOU are good at art work in broad outlines

anything from painting scenery to producing

a pageant. But you are not good at detall.

You good memory

are broadminded and tolerant. You have

for names and

dates and things in the abstract. You rarely condemn any one in a fit of temper. You always take the trouble to find out who la to blame.

to one man.. To you firiation is silly. You have un If you are a woman you are very loyal, you stick evenly balanced outlook on life.

Brunettes with this eyebrow are quiet, with a reserve and dignity. Blondes have more bounce.

Canada's National Parks have Lovely Lakes.

PEOPLE'S PARKS

R

IN CANADA

by Tom Stephenson

ECENTLY I commented on our lackadaisical attitude to the question of National Parks, and as a consequence I have received an Interesting brochure from Mr. J. R. Mitchell, secretary of the Ramblers' Association.

Copies of this booklet, published by the Canadian Department of the In- terior, should be sent to all our M.P.S an an illustration of what may bo achieved.

Whereas in this country we have only in recent years awakened to the 'need of National Parks, Canada mado

beginning 50 years ago.

Ari area of ten squarà millen was re- served in 1885, and this was tho begin- ning of the Banff National Park, which now covers 2,535 square miles, includ- ing hundreds of lofty peaks and beauti- ful valleys, with rusling streams nikd lovely lakes and far-spreading foresta. Bince 1010 Canada has had a Com- missioner of Dominion Parks and Re- nerves. To-day he controls 12,000 square miles of reservations, protecting areas of outstanding scenie benuly or Interest which have been set aside by statute for, the use and gnjoyment of the people,

*

Four types of parks have been created, including the large scento and recreational parks of the Rockies, the Selkirks and the prairies; the smaller recreational parks of Eastern Canada; the so-called wild animal parks; and the national historis parks.

Motor roads have been made ́and camp altes, bungalows and tourist cabina have been established to pro- vide, "in contrasting settings, un- equalled opportunities for the enjoy. anent of outdoor life."

Riding by saddle-pany, walking,

climbing, canoeing, golf and tennis may be enjoyed under ideal conditions

and supervised outings, conducted by

trail riding and hiking organisations, are annual features of the Canadian Rockies.

In one important respect the Parts would not appeal to tie hustin' and shootin' folk of Britain, for the pos- session of firearms is strictly pro- hibited.

Within the reserves are to be found representatives of practically all the species of big game native to Canada. Jasper National Park, the largest 6t the reservations, covers 4,200 square miles, including an immense area of superb mountain grandeur.

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*

We cannot, of course, expect Parks on this scalo in Britain, but that is no reason for doing nothing at all. We have comparatively large areas of rare natural beauty which any far- seeing people would long ago have recognised as a natural asset, and which they would have secured for the benefit of the nation.

In Scotland alone there are still three million acres of mountain and moorland preserved for grouse and deer. The Lake District and the Peak. the Pennines, Bnowdonia and much of our downland could be taken over as National Parks without any serious dis -turbance-of-the economic conditions

provaiting.

If poverty is pleaded, then again Canada has a lesson for us. national revenue approximately one-

With fourth of ours, she is annually spend kig a million dollars da her parks.

Italf that pum, or £100,000, was the maximum figure considered necessary by our National Park Commission of 1931, but we go on just doing nothing.

COUNT THE TELEGRAPHS" EVERYWHERE

POEM

When our two souls stand up

erect and strong,

Face to face, silent, drawing

nigh and nigher,

Until the lengthening wings

break into

firc

At either curving point—what

bitter wrong,

Can the earth do us, that we

should not long

Be here contented? Think). In

mounting higher,

The angels would press on us,

and aspire

To drop some golden orb of

perfect song

'Into our deep, dear silence. Let

us stay

Rather on earth,

where the unft

Beloved-

Contrarious moods of men re-

coll away

And isolate pure spirits, and

permit

A place to stand and love in for

a day,

With darkness and the death-

hour rounding it. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

(1808-61).

RUSSIAN RIOTS

STUDENT MOB SHOUTS "DOWN WITH STALIN”

Berlin, Feb. 6.

Serious riots have occurred in Moscow between studerits and the Soviet militia in which 16 were shot and about 40 wounded, according to reports received by the Nazi news- paper Angrif.

The report adds that masa demon- strations were held in the workmen's quarters when threats

were made against Stalin.

The clash between the students and militia occurred in the centro of the town, the students shouting "Down with Stalin.".

Yeshoff, the Commissar for the In- terior, mobilised special troops of the |O.G.P.U. who fired a few rounds into the crowd and small tanks, specially constructed for street fighting were brought into action for the first time.

An extremely grave food difficulty Is said to be the cause of the dis- turbances.--Router.-^.

Arrest in Moscow

Paris, Fob, 5.

-Le Matin's Berlin correspondent reporia that Commissar Voronkine. a member of the O.G.P.U.. has been arrested in Moscow.

It is noteworthy that he was at tached 10. the Lubianka prison in which the recent plotters against the Btalla regins were imprisoned.

-United Press,

Tap-Dancing Water

Lesson 8

LAPS lovely easy movements, made by just flapping one foot

al a time on the ground in front of the body-the sound of the sicp being like the sound of the word F-LAP. Pick the foot from the floor by bending the knee and, keeping the foot very loose, Just. F-LAP 11 on to the floor, making two sounds.

If you experience any dim- culty with the sound, go back to holding on to your chair, doing:

Flap R., counting AND Flap R., counting AND Flap R., counting AND 3

R. counting Stamp

AND 1,

4

3,

4.

AND 2 2, AND

ing AND 1 L., counting

Lan

counting AND

Flop L., counting

ing AND

3, 4.

Stamp

L., counting AND 1, AND 2, AND Now, with the body feeling quite relaxed, move forward with dap R., Aap L. Feel the leg heavy from the knee down. Go round the room "apping." and don't try to flop back, because it can't be done.

Rouline:

Flap R., counting AND 1 Flap R., counting AND 2 Shufte L., counting AND 3 Stamp L, counting AND Clap both hands, counting 4 = AND 1, AND 2, AND 3, AND 4.

In lesson 0 ve will do the "weight change", step.

DON'T BELIEVE IT!

SAYS THE DOCTOR)

That to scare someone who has "hiccups" is a good treatment. Hiccups are apparently due to spasm of the diaphragm, the broad, cavity from the chest cavity. thin muscle separating the abdominrd

magic

Drop in the well

A thing that's your own; Come back and fetch it-

Turned to stout.

an

THE well isn't a well. It's a waterfall: a thin trickle of natural, chemical fluid dripping, ceaselessly dripping, over overhanging ledge of rock in the park at Knaresborough, Yorks.

But the old wives' tale told in is true, Things doggerel

this stream do dropped in petrify.

. Glance at the things left hanging over the ledge. When I was there last they included a child's woolly lamb, n trilby, a pair of gloves.

They had been left one summer.

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Their owners-visitors to the well-0000000CESSNODE.SSSES.

were returning the following year to tuke them away when they had been turned to stone.

In the museum (all such places- Cheddar and Wookey. and Knares borough-have a little museum of their own) is a Victorian parasol turn- ed into solid stony lace, delteate as medieval carving.

Legend connects the well with Mother Shipton, the Afteenth century sceress who prophesied motor-cars and the telegraph.

Mother Shipton

Mother Shipton was really Ursula Scuth. Her father, it is said, was the devil, who betrayed her mother and endowed his daughter with the power to cure, to kill, to raise thun- Her mother went into a derstorms, convent to repent.

The whole district is full of legend. Not only is there Mother Shipton, but Eugene Aram, the schoolmaster murderer, who found he could not

Daniel Clarke.

de the body of his wealthy victim,

To scare the patient is as stupid ass a local hero nt Knares-

trying to cure deafness by a fall in an But the solid sponge in my bath- airplane. Other supposed cures in-room-it petrified in only a few clude drinking water slowly, holding months-is to me far more wonder- on's breath, counting numbers, pressful than all the legends of the falls. ing the upper lip.

Little drops of water wear away

I have used the following treatment stone, we know; what of the drops In several cases, with quite satis- that create it? factory results.

It has been shown

that

carbon

dioxide gas (CO2), the gas used in glandular disturbances, however, is

soda water, and which we exhale

from our lungs, is capable of stimulat-

ing

the respiratory nerve centre.

The only apparatus needed is BN ordinary paper bag. This is placed over the nose und mouth of the patient, who is told to breathe in and a out of it.

rare.

That it is harmful have flowers

in one's bedroom at night.

It is the practice in tnost hospitals

As the oxygen in the bag is used up for the nurses to remove for the night the exhaled carbon dioxide gas acali nowers from the rooms of patients. comulates, so that in a few minutes The notion is very widely held that there is enough to produce a curative effect.

If the patient again begins to hic cup, the treatment should be repeated.

*

That baldness is due to the too frequent wearing of hats, to tight

hatbands.

this is done because some injurious substance is given off by plants and flowers during the night."

There is no truth in the notion whatever. It is quite correct, though, to remove the flowers, not because they produce injurious substances but

helps to because

freshen the room and to produce a change in the patient's environment.

Some people think this alleged in- Baldness in most instances is injuriousness of flowers is due to the herited, and is wholly uninfluenced by fact that they exhale carbon-dioxide styles of headgear, of any habits of and absorb oxygen especially at night living.

(If they are alive-but most of the One might ask, "If baldness is in- dowers are cut). herited, why are not women equally They forget that this is just what affected?" Intensive research has the patient is doing, only many answered this by revealing that bald- thousands of times more intensively, ness is what is called a pure heredit- If the room is suficiently ventilated ary trait, that is "dominant" in men, for the patient's well-being. the "recessive" in women.

presence of flowers is of no signille-

The mother can transmit baldness,ance. but is not herself subject to it, unless

A. small oil-lamp or candle coil- she has a double dose of it, coming sumes far more oxygen in a night from both her parents, As this is than a roomful of flowers. rare, baldness in women is also rare. Disagreeable odours often arise Baldness is also associated with from stagnant water in flower-vases. minor insufficiencies of the thyrold Attention to this detail is of much and pituitary glands. In these cases greater importance than the removal proper treatment almost Invariably of flowers from sleeping quarters at cures it, Loss of hair caused by night.

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i The flower of the U.S.A.?

• Squared and squared again, but honest withal

The bird that takes a nip in a rug mat. What a game!, 10 Football term-a “bit queer,

11 NB.

12 Might be stiller, certainly.

tences in American Prisons start with this,

131

15 It's pretty cheerless, but put

your

back into it and it will be all right.

18 What a ton of coal comes to by

mineral

wealth, but not at seu.

10 In good time.

20 It's a very old custom, indeed, to give not many to a bad dog.

22 Completely worn out with a

holiday,

24 Part of every dinner.

26 Hale sex (anag).

27 Part of speech.

30 Moats (anag.).

31. Contract,

32 A fancy port of roof."

.33 The west of this town lo die."

posed of in, one lot.

DOWN

A saucy prank, indeed. 2 Makes a good deal of real

money.

3 Without a qualm one receives and requires his assistance.

4 Single-sticks without the sticks.

The ex-captain's score

Makes a move on board.

7. Touches bottom on the river

(hyphen, 5, 4).

6 Same darice (anag.). 14 A bodyguard?

15 Got less, like a letter in an en-

velope.

16 Cold creature though it be, It

might be warm to her.

17 The tree that gives permission

before May.

18 Yes, always sounds like one of

the first persons,

.

21 Something Uke a yard-stick, but it measures more than a yard

(hyphen, 3, 4).

23 Obesity.

24 Biblical character.

25 Describes the path of rectitude. 28 The creed of the Caesars.

20 A title has been put up, but not

for sale.

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