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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1937.

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CANADA

PORY ZARYMUR

CANADA

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of a Continent

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MARITIME

STRIKE ENDED

U. S. A

THE GREAT LAKES

Passengers holding reservations are requested to

communicato immediately with US to confirm

bookings. Parsons intending to travel this spring

or carly summor are advised to' arrango bookings

immediately,

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Importers may instruct shippers to resume forward-

ing via American Mall Line or Dollar Linc.

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IT has just been discovered that the whole of the

Great Lakes area of Canada and the United States is tilting about what geologists call a "hinge line.'

"

This is having a practical effect which is quite serious for Canada since the harbours on the United States side are showing a depth increase of about four inches, while the Canadian harbours must be becoming correspondingly more shallow. As they have to

be kept at a cerinin depth by continual dredging that means that

a portion of the cost of dredging is dne to this tilting.

What is the cause? Simply that Canada is still recovering from being too violently squeezed down by the ice cap of the last Glacial Epoch.

Cannda is like a cushion that has been sat on and then relieved of the sitter's weight. If nothing was done. about It it would mean that in re- mote times all the water in the Great Lakes would be lipped into the Gulf of Mexico

FEVER

along the Mississippi TO STOP

basin, but engineering will see That long before it can happen.

most

A far greater geologicül danger to Americn is the loss of its

fertile soil, which pours down the Mississippi in alarming quantities, threatening that the Middle West may be a desert in a couple of generations.

Flotsam

and

Jestam

ILLNESS

TEXT time you feel feverish

Nemember that Nature is

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The Telegraph wants to print husbands' and wives' reactions to problems of their marriage. First one is a LETTER FROM A SON-IN-LAW

Now,

EAR Madam,

You

Answer

Mothers-in-Law

This This One

| subjects, but you gn your own sweet

way.

I would address you in more endearing terms if,Talks Summary after your recent visit, you had not left me in such an embittered state of mind.

FOR your édification, I have

complied a rough sum- mary of the subjects you have louch- on during the last nine days,

cd

Your daughter and I have been married for three years-Fortunately, I can only stimmarise three happy years-but since your departure this morning we have spoken. Nor, dear lady, will we speak again until the memory

of your ill-timed visit has been obliterated.

already acting the doctor. A fever is Nature's way of attack-not ing the cause of disease and Man has been learning from Nature how to use fever as a weapon.

According to a report recently issued more than 50 disenses have been found to be benefited by giving the patient a high fever.

ان

One of the latest discoveries is that of two Scols doctors who have bad grent success against one man's

enemies most horrible

by UNDREDS of old boatmen |

giving their patients monkey 11 and retired fishermen spend malaria. the winter looking for treasure on Britain's beaches.

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Sometimes they may search from down until dusk for days without Anding anything.

But when there has been a storm or a shipwreck in the neighbourhood their Brids may range from a tin of soup to a case of spirits.

Timber, coul and other useful odds and ends do a great deal to help a poor family through the winter.

Finding's not

Keeping

for

ugo

THE first discovery was un

accident. Fifteen

years

a Viennese doctor found that sufferers from General Paralysis of the Inanne Improved when they had

malaria.

Soon after, in Surrey hospital. unfortunate wrecks who had lain und worse, for years

uncerimented on.

were

Mosquitoes were carefully collect- ed and given a meal of malaria patients, then allowed to bite the paralyties.

even

When une realises that before this there was no hope for the victim of

'Many of these beachcombers are

The paralyties soon developed regular low-breakers, for it is uninalario, rau high temperatures, ind offence to take possession of any in a few eases begun to throw off the thing washed ashore from a ship at more terrible disease. Some sen. Finds should be reported im recovered. mediately to the Receiver of Wreck

district the Jelsam is

is material that sinks when C.P., the cure is seen to be remark- thrown into the sea; floteam is any-able indeed. thing that foals; lagan is anything From then on more and thrown overboard with a buoy or success has been gained. It is no some other marking attached in the longer necessary to employ mos- hope that it may be recovered.

can be quitoes as toxins

Articles left by holiday-makers direct. after the season provide many a good And for beachcombers..

They sometimes get Money

Brooches, rings, coins, watches, and even pound notes come to light after heavy seas have washed the

sands

more

infected

of

in the early morning watching the unravered shore and the breakers.

Besides, flotsam and jetsam there la the vost natural wealth our seaboard. Amethysts, crystals, Earneliang and other semi-precious stones, when cut and polished, look as attractive as valuable jewels.

They have ready kole. Ench

The men, who have astonishingly part of the const has its own kind sharp eyca, stand at the water's edge of stone, but all are beautiful

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Was it only nine days, or was it nine years that you remained with us? In vain I try to recapture the atmosphere which pre- vailed before your ungainly frame crossed the threshold.

Mothers-in-law, as you know, are, quarrelling. My wife and usually pictured as tall, gaunt, hook- hardly ever spoken a cross nosed creatures with pincenez and | and I believe it annoys you. capable hands. That picturisation is,You were Lucky

of course, symbolical.

Outwardly they may be short, fat. perky little women, loquacious and full of wit.

Face the facts

what you have said in my presence. Here it is:

Valueless advice to my wite (3,500 words).

Suggestions on how to improve the appearance of the Ant-none of which, let me hdd. are practicable

(2,000 words).

1 have

3.

word;

VESTERDAY, when Mary complained of a hend- oche, you were so disgustingly solici- tous and so reproachful in your ut- titude towards me that you can

Idle gossip dealing with Untle. Auntie, etc., and "that awful woman who used to wear the red lint" (3,000 words).

and

kitchen

4. About cooking utensils (2,000 words).

5. On clothes and personal penzance (3,000 words).

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6. Your son and daughter-in-law's new baby (2,309 very treacly words).

QUT don't deceive yourself. count yourself fortunate in escaping Indictment BU

In mentality and in their fan_exhibition of physical violence. actions they are of a pattern. They

Do you think am indifferent to

NOW why on earth should have it in them to make strong men my wife's sufferings? Do yoll

be attracted towards you? behave like sulky schoolboys; and imagine that I neglect her? I see

You come up here ond dis- they can cause weak men to cry out her every day, eat with her, talk organise the household. You try to in high-pitched, whining volces, with her, live with her. But I don't alienate the affections of my wife. Let me say at once that you your-make love to her in public; nor do You monopolise the conversation self are

have entirely lovable. I

Doze sympathy over her in front with a barrage of ridiculous drivel. never heard any one refer to you as of others.

Your friends and your dear family being anything plsc...

Because I remained silent during may continue to think of you as a And this, I may add, is the begin your sympathetic outburst yester-sweet old woman. But to me you ning and end of all my troubles. day, it doesn't mean that I don't are the essence of all that is most Because I do not love you, I know care any

Any more. It means that I do distasteful in the species. You are care-30 much

that I want to 50

mischief-maker. a clever, calculating pour out all the sympathy myself, and not half so ingenuous as you with no one else interfering.

would have us all bellove.

you cannot understand this; you are too delightfully ignorant of the ways of mankind.

You don't understand why I find your presence so unwelcome! Well, you've probably guessed that I am

not physically in love with

+

I dare say you will see this letter You arrived, at our litle lovenest Just nine days ago. (I have pinched

in print-and read it. Although you myself.) You took it for granted

will not believe for a moment that it you. refers to you, I know you will say, that I would come and meet you at And, intellectually, what have we in "I believe you wrote that!" Euston; so much so, in fact, that you

I have often tried to cap- And oh, how sorely I shall be common? couldn't see me standing on the plat

interest on a variety of tempted to say, "I wish I had." (How ture your form waiting to greet you. did I know that you had been given

a new hat for Christmas)

sit-

So you arrived at the fat to find no one in. But that did not prevent you from making yourself entirely n home, Incidentally turning our ting-room

Into

sort of cloakroom- cum-parcels-office in the process,

We will not dwell upon our miss- ing each other at the station. It was my fault as mu

much as yours, But what we will not forget is your in- to understand that while my ability

wife is still your daughter, she is also my wife.

scein

Surely you were a daughter once, however fantastic that may to-day? I seem to remember that as a young girl, you once said, you were very beautiful! Or am I thinis- ing of some one else?

At the outset, what I want you to understand is that I am not your son. When I married your daughter I did so because she attracted me, would and because I thought she make a good wite. Also I believed- and silli da believe in my clumsy, masculine way—that ghe loves me.

Selfish?

I DID not marry her to be say that I married her in order to get away from you. Rather selfsh of me, I know, but better men than I have acted similarly, including, hope, your late-lamented spouse.

near you, I might even

But let me review the events of the past nine days days of mental torment and suffering for me.' Re- member, the invitation did not come from me in the first place. Nor, I am surprised to

You came, in

of your own accord, you saw, you conquered.

2nd And now you have left us feeling sorry for your daughter and con- temptuous of her husband.

from your ald it come

I am a fairly easy-going man, al- though quick-tempered and inclined to be intolerant of others. But my wife (bless her) is aware of my short-comings, and to silent, while you take arent delight in exposing my failings on every occasion.

Your beloved son and daughter- in-law, whose union you never cease up as an example In my presence, spend most of their time

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ACROSS

7 Think of the Insect met last.

8 This country loses colour with a

spike

10 ? in another form plays a lead-

ing part here in Ireland.

11 Must rein in here, though it

sounds a most inappropriate method of stopping. 12 Restrict, but in a more severe

manner.

14 Russian river girl.

15 He takes Ada with him.

18 A lease is simply the making

of them.

20 Squaw or papoose?

22 The end of pride and the

beginning of anger.

24 Doubtless, a good judge of

Oriental matters..

28 Time and date arranged for you

to think it over.

29 The land of tours.

30 Fastened the door and buzzed

off.

31 No, bluff King Hal was not one,

despite his name.

32 A small number in any situation is bound to cause vexation.

DOWN

1 Even though they prove ties in the end they should add to your pleasure.

z Strulder (anng.),

3 Coward! to make father hold the

actress.

4 This is awful!

0 A Hittle street band. holds the

package. securely.

0 Not a handsome nose, goodness

knows.

9 Part of a charm utterly dark. 13 Comfort.

10 He wrote "Rule Britannia.” 17 The most elite mixture.

19 It is done for the paper's out-

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21 The colonising that must be pay-

ing.

23 Electrical units of measurement. 26 One way to trest water to mix

with whiskey:

27 Experts in fish.

28 I do not think one would be kely to muffer conul la the presence of such beasts.

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