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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.' 'MONDAY,

AUGUST

23, 1937.

How do you face Growing Old?

HAVE gone

have talked to I have plagued

gists.

into the thing pretty thoroughly. I wise old men and unwise young ones. the life out of doctors and psycholo-

I have read books from Cicero's "De Senectute" right up to "the best years of a woman's life" sort of thing.

talked to beauty specialists and rejuvenation experts.

And I have

And still haven't solved the problem of how to grow older. Shall I collapse into a deck chair and leave fun

for the younger folk, or shall 1 spend two days a week in ʼn beauty parlour and wear a brave, bright smile for the rest of my days and keep up the competition with youth?

1

I want to grow older and nirer every year-- and that shows that I have reached 30 or shouldn't be adding the "nicel" part. But I want to have fun and I don't want to look rasty. That is justly exactly what everyone in the worki wants to do and only very occasionally do I find people who have succeeded..

advice.

hove, of course, received seme very good

Several doctors told me that there wasn't a problem at all; as my body grew older so would my mind improve and compensate me for loss of physical vitality.

Asks Wulfred Pryke

I have got to wait until about 40 for that and then, apparently, I shall

no longer want to hurl myself into cold water or walk at night throusth the rain.

In my most unhappy moments I am wondering whether my brain

Collapses into a deck chair und leaves fun for the younger folk

Common Sense

in a

a Car

women who drive a lot should watch these points. They'll feel and look better when the journey is over

F you are a woman owner-driver

A nasty old woman .~, with brightly crnel tongue that -gathers all round her when they want a laugh.

really will play up and develop to its full strength at 40 as it is supposed

to do!

SYCHOLOGISTS tell me that I must get outside myself

PSYCHOLOGISTS fed and impersonal and that, anyway.

most journalists are neurotic--so you can guess that my talks with them were friendly and not those of a patient.

Beauty specialists tell me that, with knives and treatments, 1 can re- main lovely io look at until just about 50 provided I sleep a lot and am careful with my eyes.

Wise of men tell me that unselfishness is the answer, and unwise young one say "you aren't old yet, so why worry?"

But, all the same. I believe that there a period between 30 and 40 when every man and every woman had a nasty sinking feeling about getting older and wonders wildly how they had best adjust themselves to it. Once you come to your decision I imagine the battle is won and you are heading for peace and happiness.

I

But I haven't devided yet how to do it. There is a woman 1 much admire who has two children. She is very pretty and is only two years older than

She ins ZIFT).

nice husband and has always been admired by men. And now she has settled down and says that she is going to spend the rest of her days thinking and plan- ning for her children.

She is not going to dye her hair when it turns She frey. She is not going to have a "face-lift."

is going to forsake the company, of men and ve only for womenfolk. And she really looks extremely happy and content on her décision

I

Spends two days

a werk in a beau- [# parlour in order to compete with mouth.

KNOW another woman, also a few years older than myself, also married and with three children. She says she will fighf old age every step of the way.

That, of course, she will go to beauty specialists and mix with young people if she wants to, and compete with them as well. And that her children will like her far more if she keeps nleri, young and golden-haired than it she gets fut and grey.

And so, I want to know how to grow old and I am still going around I asking questions.

It eats with its Eyes

Τολος και ποι

be elegant,

but they are useful, for they devour lots of gruba and cater- pillars, Queer creatures, they can swallow hairy larvae and slinging bees with impunity, nor do they boggle at bilster beetles. It is worth watching one dine. It prowls slowly about the par- den and, when it spots it pren

Then stops dead for a moment, out it shoots its tongue, three or even

four inches. The sticky tongue catches the grub and pops backs with an audible click.

But the toad has no teeth, no cannot chew. Before swallowing it, therefore, it crushes its food inside its head ... where do you think?

..against its eyeballs!

1. 0.

One thing I do know, We are all alming at the same thing, that is to about it and enjoy Hlving forget every day of the week that comes alonit. And 1 have a very horrid feeling that it's an individual thing, If you have made a chaotic mess of

will being young you

ED B and make just as chaotic a one of grow- in older. I don't

believe you suddenly become quiet and resigned if you are a fighter and, what in more important,. I am perfectly cer- tain you don't want to.

7HICH shall I be? 1

Wnasty old woman in

several shades of bright purple, with crimson hair, who has such a brightly cruel tongue! that she gathers all round her when they want a laugh.

Or a nice rosy-cheeked old lady who knits shapeless matinee Jackets for her great-grandchildren and exudes peace and quiet and security?

Or do you think I could combine the two In any case I have atulied the subject for so many weeks that I feel like laughing until I get hiccups and I hope you do, too, because I believe, that is the way to solve it after all.

SMYTHE AND

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things more tre- research revealed that this Forber the Himalayas, Tendous than a first sight of the was the son of that Wilhelmina Coolins, 1 was forced to confess, Coolins. I crossed the ferry at Kyle Belsches who nearly broke the heart must seem pretty footing.

the you will often forget your of Loch Alsh one summer evening, of

youthful Sir Wolter

Nevertheless, I comforted myself

Red the biography of Forbes, though

they are exciting.

Is my left hand, glowed

the same, at whatever will prevent damage to the heels of your shoes. Suede is especial-rimson in the fading light; and the ferences to his achievements in the height one meets it, and Sgurr nan ly susceptible.

could I find Gillean alone has more than one of inlets at their feet were molten Alps, You will drive without sufficient support for your back streams of iridescent gold. All was about Spurr nan Güllenn, or any of these. But a further shock was in

and

the Coolins. splendour and pageantry,

store, for Mr. Smythe casually dis- colour and wonder why you feel tired after a run. Lack of support makes Then suddenly, as

as I came round n

dains the biggest thrills of the Coolins.

He talks of them sa lightly for slack tummy muscles and hip spread. Have a wedge shaped shoulder of one of the Red Hills, this

WA JUDGE THEN or my joy when, a few as

as you or would do of Ludgate Hill. cushion in the driving seat or fold a small rug into a hard roll andence of tint and hue

blotted out. The horizon days ago, I discovered that no less He climbed the pinnacle route of place it in the small of the back.

man Gillcan "lethargically": The wheel should be carefully adjusted so that you sit upright, was serrated with a range of moun- celebrated a mountainer than Mr. F. Sgurr

tains of almost appalling blackness, S. Smythe, the conqueror of Kamel, he found that the Coolins as a whole well back into the hard cushion. In this position you will have The light of the setting sun seemed one of the highest mountains in the provided a series of pleasant "scram

to have on them no effect whatever, world, had written of Sgurr nan bles." These were sore blows; but, better control over your car and will not ruin your figure.

nov. Gillean. But my Joy was dashed to bettered and staggering as

As I your most glamorous make-up when except that their jagged and enorm Gli

ground when I investigated 1 rally all my forces together, and Keep your elbows down

visit to ous teeth bit yet the more clearly the week-end going of for n YOU will often drive with friends in the country. Resist the into a still luminous sky. The inn further, and found that Mr. Smythe assert once more that the coolins are top of the wheel, temptation, or you may regret it that I was cocking, with its meals refers to the Cooling in an essay the most tremendous things I know.

called "Low Hills.". This, Indeed, But then I have your hands on

was a humiliation; but, compared Himalayas. Break yourself of this habit. It when you catch sight of yourself in and lounges and crowds of cheery

with the 20,000 feet of the glants of will give you sticking-out shoul- the mirror over that welcoming cup visitors, was near at hand; never-

Black Coolins sent theless, the blades and

back of tea. der

make your

chill through my heart. ache. Drive with the elbow swell nene down to the sides, the hands lightly

the lower rim of placed wheel.

Jax.

Fun.

on

with

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SINCE THAT DATE, I have looked out sharply

the for any literature of

Use a protective complexion milk the for your powder foundation, or it you want to get a tan, rub a little! YOU will often forget to re- sun oil or sun cream all over your

relaxation of Conscious

the face and neck: omit powder al- Coolins that might exist. Especially on a long together. Wear an invisible hair net have i ransacked the shelves of the muscle is most restful

peaked cap (linen with London Library in its mountaineer- Start

the head, then and the shoulders, next the arms. Final- slashed crown is high sports fashion ing sections. But, though scores of been written about ly the waist and legs. With a little this year), smoked glasses of course. books

the Alps, the Caucasus, You will be tempted on a climbs in And yoursel! practice you will

long

run to go all out and break and

the Himalayas, not a single long-distance records. If you want serious mountaineering work did to arrive at your destination fresh there discover that so much as men- and ready for anything, break up tloned the Cooling, Not, that is, un- . YOU will be tempted, if you your journey with frequent nye to til last week." run sports car, to cut a dash in ten minute rests.

Joosening up automatically.

Not too Much Dash

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Two

ays research in Bodley at daya Oxford, however, brought a small reward. In pamphlets of the Scot tisli Mountaineering Club, some half century old, I discovered that Sgurr, nan Gillean, the most sensa tlonal of the mountains of Skye, hind been climbed for the first time by a certain Edinburgh professor, J. S. Forbes. And this discovery I made one hundred years to the day after Forbes had got to that strangely fretted and Indented summit on the carllest occasion In history. Further

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ACROSS This kind of work obviously puts years on a man's life.

9 The girl shows up a falsehood

about a creature.

10 A kind of Venetian blind,

12 There is nothing beside it in the

game.

15 More than one make the reckon-

ing a certain number.

10 One of the porcine family.

21 One of the duck family.

22 Fish.

23 Dance.

24 A

man buying a

Jerry-bullt

house is mistaken if he thinks

this means his inst payment for it.

27 Arrangement.

30 One partner seems to want the

other's aid.

32 Drive.

33 This girl claims to be good-

looking.

DOWN

1. There is part of a whip in this

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2 Coax.

4 There is bloodshed if this mon-

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7 Sept.

3 Audible displeasure.

8 Oct.

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9 Nov.

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7 Command.

11 A sort of spice to annoy.

13 Worship.

14 A painter, not a soldier. 15 In the direction of a notice in a

hospital?

16 Reparation.

17 Sing about this for parting.

18 An emblem of victory perhaps, 20 Famous actor.

24 Not a complicated herbal re-

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25 An actor of old. 20 Weed.

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