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"Just another

five minutes Mummy?"

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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1937.

NO!

M

OST people who know anything about child welfare agree that children to-day stay up too late

at night.

For no apparent reason, many young chil dren stay up till 10 and 11 o'clock most nights; in fact, they do a fifteen-hour day, standing and walking about in crowded streets and shops, sit- ting in stuffy rooms.

Lack of sleep is enough to make children ill; constipation, dyspepsia, insomnia, irritability and ill-temper, inability to concentrate, and lack of vitality-those are some of the complaints caused by late nights. It is literally cruel to prevent chil- dren from getting the sleep they need.

ESTS to prove this were carried out on two Broups of children, boys and girls, aged be

Each group had the same iwern three and eight years. food. Group A were given good, firm beds, warm, light blankets well tucked in, windows open at night, except

The children were put to I fongs. bed after a warm bath or wash down, and had an average of ten and a halt hours' sleep every night.

$20,0GC.DOL Group B slept on the beds they £1,500.0% were given at fiome-some $10,000,000

some crenk- Ing. They had the amount of sleep they were used to about eight hours.

$60,000.gur

Reserve Liability of Propristem $20,000,000 short, sopac sagging.

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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Chairman,

Han Me. M. T, Jolineon,

Deputy Chatan,

3. K. Bousfield, Eay,

K. B. Morrison, Esq.

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were underweight for their age and most of them considerably shorter After some time the children in and weaker, age for age, than their

A were

good-tempered, opposite numbers in Group A. to play: they had

A. II. Comptus, Fad., Han, Mr. J. J. Intern Group

A. II. Dodwell, Pad, T. E. Pearce, Esq..

J. R. Mason, Ear A. L Slidelda, Elways ready

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calm nerves and had steadily in-

creased in weight.

In Group B the children showed

MAN

[ANY children stay

up til bed their parents go to

the opposite characteristics: they (a bad habit started in babyhood),

FIGURE for YOURSELF

Menus to make

you thin

HEREWITH A BALANCED REDUCING DIET FOR BREAKFAST HALF GLASS ORANGE JUICE ONE DAY STOP

LUNCH ONE CEREAL WITH RAISINS ONE CUP MILK STOP

CUP VEGETABLE SOUP TWO SCRAMBLED EGGS ONE ROLL LEVEL TEASPOONFUL BUTTER FRUIT JELLY STOP

DIN-

NER LEAN MEAT SPINACH PEAS SLICED TOMATO AND. LETTUCE SALAD VINEGAR DRESSING STEWED FRUIT CREAM ADD NO CLEAR COFFEE OR TEA ARE ALL RIGHT BUT FURTHER MIDMEAL SNACKS MOLLY CASTLE HOLLYWOOD

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IFFERENT

with the result that they rarely got more than seven or eight hours' sleep-not nearly enough.

They wake up dull and tired. their senses are never alert, they are pale and moody. and often character- up apathetle--a grow istic which they have developed in self-defence. And you see children like this in all classes, not only among the very poor who suffer from uncomfortable homes and Jack of spaec.

This does not mean that An becusional late night will harm child. provided he has plenty of sleep in the ordinary way, and has hidd

rest

the diny on during which he is going to stay up late. It is the habit of late nights that is bad.

HERE is a summary of the

hours of sleep that children need, according to their age.

Up to three months old: twenty- one hours out of twenty-four-From- three months to a year, the twenty- une hours can gradually be decreased Between three and to fifteen hours. five years, thirteen hours; between five and seven yours, twelve hours; between seven and ten years, eleven hours: between ten and fourteen years, about ten hours; between fourteen and seventeen years, from eight to ten and a half hours.

And after that from seven and a half to nine hours, according to the particular needs of the person. If you luy n

foundation of fine bealth, most children can be trusted to look after their own sleep when they grow up.

USHION OMFORT

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rooms, cushions. different Newest idea for the

sitting room of the country cottage, or the room in town

Foreign Exchange and General Bankio where one can sit on the

business transacted.

Current Accounts, opened

and

Fixed floor, is the hearth-mattress.

Deposits received for one year or shorter

periods at rates which will be quoted on Mine measures 4ft, by 2ft, and

spolkalion.

The Bank's Bond Off in Londen vaderis bout 4 inches deep. It is

recovery of British Income Tax everpsið, en

Ita Agencias a Branches,

of

takes Executor & Trusted business, and claims covered in green baize and piped these heirlooms are useful in their lems which may be ascertained at any with black. Half a dozen black buttons on either side quilt the hardish stuffing into position. Three people can sit on it, in front of the fire. ・・・

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be pepped up by a cushions. The old Iden of slipping the pillows into day-time covers is still a good one, but they're not enough by them- selves to brighten the divan,

For sitting in front of the fire. It's no good going on pretending present state. Take strength mind and a pair of scissors and cut out all the sound squares and rounds and oblongs you can.

Treat them for moths with a rag in sulphur, freshen the dipped -colours by A dash of ammonia. Make them into jazzy cushion covers together with those charming but up-to-date, useless, sale remnants and the bits of bright coloured materials brought back from cruises, ing-in-bed pillow. This has to be semi-circular to at round the back Remnants of pink satin and lace prefer to live in the best bedroom, turned into these small cushions of ND this is where grand all shapes that are, so fashionable just now piled in a heap on the waistcoats come in bed. grandpapa's handy. Most of us have stored

They help prop up at breakfast, nway in some glory-hole bits of old Let there be among them a read- Deposits received for Azed periods at rates dresses, or tapestry hangings, or of the neck, and takes a firmer all-

period curtains once a seven days' ing than its confederates. wonder, now mere moth-eaten relics. Its cousin in the bathroom is made

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Y. KANO.

Manager.

Lengkong, 19th Märob, 1997.

Get out your grandmother's Dresses

Another down and great-

of rubber in the same shape and attaches itself by suction to the back of the bath.

For short people in long baths this is a god-send. It. gives support and prevents them from going down the drain on reaching excitements their bath-reading.

BOOKSHELF

NAVEE

THE HAPPY RETURN By C, H. Forester (Michdet Joseph, 7s. 6d.

VIA HONOLU

BY EMPRESS?

L

ERSATILITY is Mr. Forester's middle name, but he has gone down to the sea ngain for the scene of his latest tale.

Captain Hornblower, commanding · the Lydia, is saffing the Pacific under secret ordera to nuslat-with arms and powder-a rebellion against a Spanish colony in Bouth America. Thai, says the British Government, will teach the Suniards which side to tako in the long, rolling world-dispute between France and England."

The Lydia's cargo is delivered to a particularly repulsive, brutal and in- sane tyrait-and used to anek a town. But there is a Spanish worship cruis- ing in the same waters- vessel more ticavily artnet than Hornblowers, Nevertheless the Lydh fights and cap- turca the Natividad and hands her over to the rebel chief.

Hornblower, benves a sigh of relief. But Now he cus tum for home. another Spanish ship appears, making the friendflest signals: inoreover, her captain is a message for,Hornblower. Britain's policy has changed. Spain has come over to her in the struggle with Napoleon-and Wellington is in the Peninsuinr

That rebel business? Nothing to worry about there: the chief is clearly Incapable and ripe for nasassination by

his own nien. But there remains the very awkward affair of the well-armed Nattvidad. now obviously in the wrong hands.

...

And to complicate matters still more, a woman insists on travelling home on the Lydin-no less a woman than Lady Barbara Wellesley, the sister of the Iron Duke.

How the Lydin lights the Natividad again and sinks her--how Hornblower rounds the Horn-how he finally deil vera Lady Barbara to His Majesty's Admiral at St. Helena-all this is told in the swinging, sea-slinging. com- pletely convincing style which second nature to Mr. Forester.

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A truly thrilling yarn, with puzzled. plucky, honest, almost-a- bonehead hero and countless close- ups of the perils of rail and diplomacy and the King'a Navee a hundred years ngo.

R. P.

THRILLS

BLACK LAND, WHITE LAND, by H.

C. Bailey (Oollancz, 73. Od.). Assist ing at the diainterment of a prehis torio elephant, Mr. Fortune dug up a murder and a feud

going back to the red Normans and the blond Baxons and the dark people who came before both. Atinosphere, incl dent, detection. In fact, good For tune.

THE FEATHER CLOAK MURDERS, by Darwin and Hildegarde Telitel (Gollancz, 7a. Od.). Brisk criminal action in and around Hawall Shrewd detection and a neat climax against background of love and local colour, Featuring Baron von Kaz Again.

THE CASE IS CLOSED, by Patricia Wentworth (Hodder and Bloughton, 78. Gd.). An ingenious plot in brightly unmasked by a friend of the wrongly condemned murderer's wife.... A good deal of help from coincidence

and some sound reasoning.

DEATH COMES ON FRIDAY, by Lillian Day and Norbert Lederer (Cussell, 7 d.). It came twice and each time by way of a meat-skewer. The murderer hnd his reasons, nud the reader will not quarrel with. them. American.

MURDER FOR LOVE, by Sarah Balt (Peter Davies, 7s. Gd.). Two long. short stories of madness and murder suitably jacketed in black, Harrow ing rather than convincing.

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Populate the nursery with animals and story-book people, either appil- qued on to the covers you already have, or, if the shapes are simple, cut out and stuffed to their pattern. Keep some eretonne or chintz bugs with zip fasteners in the summer- house. They can go on picnics and be filled with hay or atraw,

To keep the stuffing safely Inside

FOR the insides of the other

cushions use strong sateen or twill or calico. If they are to be. the filed with feathers, beeswax wrong side of the material and al the seams. This will prevent the feathers poking through.

If they're being filed with down save a lot of anguish by having this. done at the local upholsterers." But if you must do it at home, be care- ful. Localise the hurricane, do it all in one corner of one room-your own.

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