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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15,

1937.

Balance

of a Continent

is Being Upset

SPARE

CANADA

PORT

CANADA

OTTAWA

TORONTO {untario?

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THE GREAT LAKES

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T 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 certain depth by continual dredging that means that a portion of the cost of dredging is due to this tilting.

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

Canada is like a cushion that has been sat on and then relleved of the sitter's weight. If nothing was done ubout it it would, mean that in re- mote times all the water in the Great

Lakes wou

FEVER

would be

be tipped into the Gulf of Mexico along the Mississippi TO

basin, but

engineering wil sve

that long before it happen.

to

A far greater geological danger to Americn is the loss of its most fertile soll, which pours down the Mississippi in alarming quantities, threatening that the Middle West

be a desert a couple may generations.

Flotsam

and

Jestam

of

TO STOP

ILLNESS

TEXT time you feel feverish

Nemember that Nature is

A

already acting the doctor. fever is Nature's way of attack- ing the cause of disease and Man has been learning from Nature how to use fever as weapon.

According to a report recently Issued more than 50 diseases have been found to be benefited by giving the patient a high fever,

is

One of the latest discoveries that of two Scots docters who have had great success against one of

enemies patients monkey

HUNDREDS of okl boatmen mon's most horrible.

giving

and retired fishermen spend malaria. the winter looking for treasure on Britain's bonchies, "

Sometimes they may search from dawn until dunk for days without finding anything.

But when there has been a storm

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THE first discovery was an accident.. Fifteen years ១៥០ a Viennese doctor found

majazin

that

or a shipwreck in the neighbourhood, sufferers from General Paralysis of their finds may range from tin of the Insane improved when they had "sip" to a case of spirits: ***

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

Finding's not Keeping

D

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

Now, You

EAR Madam,

Mothers-in-Law

Answer This One

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

subjects, but you go your own sweet

way.

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12 Pedder Street

21 French Concession, Shameen

Lloyd

FOR your edification, I have compiled a rough sum- mary of the subjects you have touch- on during the last nine days. summarise what you have sald in my presence. Here it is:

ed

Your daughter and I have been married for three years-Fortunately, can only three happy years but since your departure this morning we have not spoken. Nor, dear lady, will we speak again until the memory of your ill-timed visit has been obliterated.

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 usually pictured us fall, gaunt, hook- nosed creatures with pincenez and capable handis.

That picturisation is. of course, symbolical.

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

Face the facts

BUT

UT don't deceive yourselt,

word:

quarrelling. My wife and I have hardly ever spoken a cross and I believe it annoys you. You were Lucky

my

YESTERDAY,

when

you

I see

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

Suggestions on how to improve the appearance of the flat--none of which, let me add, are practicable

(2,000 words).

I

3. Idle gossip dealing with. Unicle, Auntie, etc., and "that awful woman who used

to wear the red hat" (3,000 words).

4. About cooking and kitchen Mary utensils (2,000 words), head- complained of a

5. On clothes and personal ap- ache, you were so disgustingly solici- pearance (3,000 words).

6. Your son and daughter-in-law's tous and so reproachful in your at-. titude towards the that you can new baby (2,300 very treacly words), count yourself fortunate in escaping Indictment

of

violence. physical In mentality and in their an exhibition

Do think um indifferent to

you

Now why on earth should actions they are of a pattern. They

wife's sufferings? Do

towards be attracted have it in them to muite strong men

you? You come up here and dis- behave like sully schoolboys; and Imagine that I neglect her? they can cause weak men to cry out her every day, cat with her, talk organise the household. You try to with her, live with her. But I don't alienate the affections of my wife. in high-pitched, whining voices.

conversation Let me say at once that you your-make love to her in public; nor do You monopolise the sellaro entirely lovable. I have I ooze sympathy over her in front with a barrage of ridiculous drivel.

---Your friends

your-dear-family Because Because being anything else.

But sympathetic outburst yester- sweet old

woman.

to And this, I may add, is the begin-your

I don't are the essence of all that is most ning and end of all my troubles, day, It doesn't mean that

You are so that I want to a clever, calculating misch: you cannot understand this: you are care-so much too delightfully ignorant of the ways pour out all the sympathy myself, and not half so ingenuous

would have us all believe. with no one else interfering. of mankind.

You don't understand wh

why I find You arrived at our little lovenest

(I have pinched your presence so unwelcome? Well, just nine days ago.

Pranted you've probably guessed that I am myself.) You look it for that I would come find meet you at not physically in love with you Euston; so much so, in fact, that you And, intellectually, what have we in couldn't sen me standing on the plat common? I have often tried to emp- (Howture your interest on a variety of form waiting to greet you. did I know that you had been given.

-ond

Soon after,. in a Surrey hospital,never heard any one refer to you as of others remained silent during may continue to think of you as a

years

who had lain unfortunale wrecks unconscious, and worse, for

were experimented on.

Mosquitoes were carefully collect- ed und given a meat off malaria

allowed to bite. patients, then paralytics.

the

Many of these beachcombers are The paralytics 5001 developed regular law-breakers, for it is an malaria, ran high temperatures, un offence to take possession of uny- in a few cases began to throw off the thing washed ashore from a ship at more terrible disease. Some even sea. Finds should be reported Im-

recovered. there

mediately to the Receiver of Wreck When one realises that before this for the district.

was no hope for the victim of Jetsam is material that sinks when G.P.I, the cure is seen to be remark- thrown into the sea; flotsam is any-able indeed. thing that floats; lagan is anything

then on From

more and more thrown overboard with a buog or Ruccess has been gained. It is no

some other marking attached in the longer necessary to employ mos hope that it may be recovered.

quitoes as toxins-

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

They sometimes

get Money

is

can be

Injected

In the early morning watching the uncovered shore and the breakers.

Besides flotsam and jetsam there the vasi hatural wealth of our seaboard. Amethysts, crystals, Brooches, rings, coins, watches, carnelians and other semi-precious and even pound notes come to light stones, when cut and polished, look after heavy seas have washed the as attractive as voluable Jewels.

They have a ready snic. Each sands.

The men, who have astonishingly part of the coast lins its own kind sharp eyes, stand at the water's edge of stone, but nil are beautiful.

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me you

Because I do not love you. I know care any more: It means that I do distasteful in the BD techief-maiser,

a new hat for Christmas?)

So you arrived at the flat to find no une in. But that did not prevent you from making yourself entirely at incidentally turning our sit- home,

Inter ting-room into a 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

But as yours. as much what we will not forget is your in- ability to understand that while my wife is still your daughter, she is Also my wife,

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

At the outset, what I want you to understand is that I am not your When I married your daughter

son.

I did so because she attracted me, and because I thought she would make a good wife. Also I believed and still do believe in my clumsy, masculine way-that she loves me. Selfish?

DID not marry her to be near you. I might even say that I married her in order to get away from you. Itather selfish of me, I know, but better men than Including, I I have acted

the events of of mental

hope, your milarly, spouse.

But let me over an

the past nine torment and suffering for me. Re- member, the invitation did not come from me in the first place. Nor, I

to

am surpris 38220, did it come

from your

You came, in

"of your own

accord, you saw, and you conquered. And now you have left us feeling sorry for your daughter and con- temptuous of her husband..

man,

alt

I am a fairly easy-god inclined though quick-tempered and to be intolerant of others. But my [Wie (bless her) is aware of my short-comings, and is silent, while you take great delight in exposing my fallings on every occasion.

Your beloved son and daughter- in-law, whose union you never ceasë

presence, spend most of their time

Telephone 28021, to hold up as an example in my

1

as you

I dare say you will see this lotter

in print and read it. Although you will not belleve for a moment that it refers to you, I know you will say, "I believe you wrote that!"

And oh, how sorely I shall tempted to say, "I wish I had."

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OUR BRITISH-CROSSWORDS-

ACROSS

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116

120

21

12

7123

7 Think of the insect met last.

8 This country loses colour with a

spike.

10 7 In another form plays a lead-

ing part here in Ireland:

11 Must rein in here, though it most inappropriate sounds a method of stopping.

12 Restrict, but in a more severe

manner.

14 Russian river girl.

18 Ho takes Ada with him.

18 A lense is simply the making

of them.

20 Squaw or papoose?

22 The end of pride and

beginning of anger.

the

24 DoubtlesA a good judge of

Oriental matters.

20 Time and date arranged for

to think it over.

20 The land of tours,

you

30 Fastened the door and buzzed

-off:

31.No, bluff King Hal was not unë,

despite his name..

32 A small number in any situation

is bound to cause vexation

DOWN

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

2 Strainer (anag),

1 Cowardi. to make father hold the

actress.

4 This is awful!

6 A little street-band-holds-the-

package securely.

6 Not a handsome nose, goodness

knows.

9 Part of a chasm utterly dark. 13 Comfort.

16 He wrote "Rule Britannia.“ 17 The most clite mixture.

10 It is done for the paper's out-

put.

21 The colonising that must be payi

ing

23 Electrical units of mensurabent 25 One way to treat water to mix

with whiskey.

27 Experts in Bish

28 I do not think one would be likely to suffer. ennui ‘In the *presence of such bearta.

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