1937-11-30 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY,

NOVEMBER 30,

1937.

Huge Cost of Nerves to Britain

NEED FOR MIND DOCTORS

Reducing Sick-Roll by Psychology

Neuroses and psychoneuroses-simply "nerves"—— cost Britain 10,000,000 weeks of working time a year, Sir Farquhar Buzzard, 'the physician, stated recently.

Proper treatment of nervous disorders is essential to the nation, he told a meeting of industralists at the Bloomsbury headquarters of the British Medical Association.

Leaders of almost every branch of business in the country attended the meeting, which marked the launching of a campaign to ald the Tavistock Clinie.

Sir Farquhar pointed out that it had been recently discovered that I to 14 of the working population of needing suffered to the extent treatment.

Above that, 20 per cent. people examined had less

symptoms, which were,

of the severe however,

sufficient to interfere with happiness or eficiency, and another 20 per cent. showed odd symptoms which were not important.

"APPALLING STATE" "We are brought to the conclusion

That at least one-third of all the sick- ness of this country is due to causes which are not organle in origin," he

xdded.

SHE IS

BUYING A

HUSBAND

Miss Klai, Burmese Giraffe- necked beauty. is going home to buy a hushed.

She is packing her bag and draw- ing her money out of the bank, ready to travel 11,000 miles just to huy her man.

Eighteen months ago Miss Klai came to London with three of her women friends and two men friends from the Shan States, wedged be- tween Tibet and Upper Burma, to appear

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"The coonomic implications of this appalling state of things arBertram Miles' Circus. obvious, even if we disregard humanitarian aspect-the unneces-

Thousands of men and women past them, hundreds were

sary, the avoidable, unhappiness filed

and suffering of thousands of our introduced to them, but of all the fellow creatures.

not one met

young men who seemed attracted to Icolish Miss Kint,

with her "We doctors are neither enough nor conceited enough to say, approval.

In the present state of our knowledge,

The husband who is worth having,

that all these cases of nervous dis-so she says, is the one she picks for order can be prevented or cured.

herself and buys with her own money.

"We do contend, however, that o large number is preventable or cur-

Miss Klai hns put more brass able, and that that number would be

ringa around her neck. She has were increased every year if there

score there now, lift- mote doctors trained to deal with more than

ing her head nearly two feet above the them, and if more doctors had facilities and opportunities necessary her slim shoulders.

Her trouseau is an odd Bazoriment for psychological research.

£

nrellaces....

Young men about jungle town will compete for her land ... she will have a grand time buying thal hus- band.

UFS

Both were born in Los Ar geles. They played together and studied together in school. Now it is rumoured that Auna May Wong, noted screen netrers, and Philip Ahn, sero.n player. are about to be married. But following Hollywood tradition The couple. shown above, diserunted the report. "Of course, I'm very fond of Philip.” Anna said,

Michael, "Quad"

Baby,

BY

Leads One Tooth

By Louise Morgan

Four babies are just exactly four times as much work as one baby. But they are four times as much fun, too.

So thinks Mrs. Walter Miles, mother of Ann, Michael, Paul and Ernest, the St. Neots "Quads."

I found them getting into perks of auburn, thick and straight. His rkin mischief in their apple-green and is brown, eyes dark and altogether he has an elan personality of great beige currery with its four apple charm. green high-chairs in a row and its

"POOBA YEG” four apple-green cots two by two on either side of the gaily-painted fireplace.

of boys' shoes, silk stockings, "If you were enlightened enough to place me at the head of a great remnants of bright silk material, business organisation, the first thing brass bangles and brightly coloured when she gets to her I should do would be to take on

to jungle home town she will be a whole-time medical psychologist study my employees and their con- local milionairess. ditions in health and to deal with all they 13 cases of nervous disorder

their arose.

consultation with in panel or privato doctors.

The two men in the Giraffe-necked *The sick-roll would rapidly diminish the certificates of debility, party plan to buy a shop in Rangoon. 'gastritis and

'shacmin⚫ would The only one who wants is remain An had taken off her shoe- and

15-year-old gradually become almost unknown, in England is

Miss was stuffing it into an empty camera and the emelency and happiness of Swaltha. She likes the stalT would certainly

and has not saved box, Michel was concentrating on tinguishable. be roust beef

straddling the balancing feat of enough money to buy a husband. enhanced,"

very thred-looking woolly horse, while Paul and Ernest were having n wrestling and gurgling match fat on their stomachs under a table,

ROYAL

DIARIES

SECRETS OF OUR

ice-cream and

HOLD

TIMES

Entries Systematically Kept Up To Date

TWO private diaries that may one day throw a unique side- light into tho intimate corners of English history of our own time are kept carefully locked up at Buckingham Palace. One is the Queen's diary. The other is kept, în enthusias- tic imitation of her mother, by Princess Elizabeth. She started it only recently.

Keeping her diary up to date is moments when she returns one of the Queen's favourite spare-Buckingham Palace.

ns seriously as any duty

of State.

to

D

Ume occupations, which she treats Sometimes the Queen leaves Almost invariably she devotes from space in the middle of her neatly

written lines so that she can paste half an hour to an hour writing up in пл Illustration-some her journal every evening just be snapshot taken by herself or the fore going to bed.

King.

Blriking

DEMANDED A LOCK,

The Queen's diary is neatly welt- Diary-keeping has been a life-long ten in Ink, with a generous margin. habit with the Queen. Even during Only one or two people besides her the wearying, rushed days of Coro- self have ever been privileged to nation time she did not allow her obtain a gilmpse of the entries. Cne Journal to inpse. Just now she is is the King.

busy entering up the vivid notes she Intimate friends spenic of the took during her Yorkshire tour with reful accuracy with which the the King.

records every activity of her crowded day. She never makes a mistake in the spelling of the name place or a person; and checks up If she finds herself in doubt,

adds The Queen's personally note of piquant originality that its her diary out of the rank of mere daily jottings. Unlike the Balmoral diaries of Queen Victoria, however, It is unlikely that any of it will be published in her lifetime..

IT STAYS HOME

of

Princess Elizabelly's diary is only about nine months old, but it has proved close rival to her toys. is bound in blue and from the King.

THEIR TOYS

a

Like all normal children, they scorn luxury toys, preferring some- thing like empty sauce bottles, jam Jars and scraps of old cloth.

They will be two years old next month and four healthier, happier, bonnier or more intelligent bables of that age it would be hard to find. Here is their latest weight and tooth chart, which is precisely what it should be:

Ann

Michael

Teeth Weight

10

17

16

IG

24lb. 7oz. 23lb. foz. 21lb. Doz. 251b.

I'aul Emest Michael has always been the "or one." He now has an extra laoth, its hair has changed from raven to

Paul and Ernest are the only "like"

RADIO BROADCAST

Pipe Major MacLennan From the Studio SCOTTISH PROGRAMME

Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.BW. on wavelengths of 355 metres (845 k.e's.) 31.49 metres (9.52 in.c's.).

H.K.T..

12.00-12.20.pim. Relay of Special Service from St. John's Cathedral,

12.30 Songs of Kennedy-Fraser. 'Songs of the Hebrides'; The Island Herdmaid; An Island Shelling Song ...Joseph Hislop (Tenor); In Hebrid Sens; Kishmul's Galley......Muriel Brunskill (Contralto).

12.42 Scottish Music.

Savoy Scottish Medley (arr. De broy Somers)....New Mayfair Or- Gathering: chestra; MacGregor's

(Traditional-orr. Annic Laurie

Batten)....Heddle

Quarlette;

Nash and Malc Schiehallion. Eightsome

Reel....Meredith-Kay and His Or-

chestra.

1.00 Time and Weather.

1.03 Light Orchestral.

Summer Day-Suite (Eric Coates) Light Symphony Orchestra cond: The Composer; Molly On The Shore; Shepherd's Hey (Grainger)....Royal Covent Garden. Opera Orchestra, Cond: Lawrence Collingwood; Mid- night Rose (F. D'Erlanger)....Sym

cond: John Bar- phony Orchestra biroll; Turkey In The Straw (Guion) ....New Light Symphony Orchestra. Rugby Press; 1.30 Reuter and Weather and Announcements.

1.40 Musical Comedy. Home And Beauty' (C. B. Coch- ran's Coronation Revue).....Magda Neeld, Janet Lind and Webster Boalh; Bitter Sweet'--Selection (Coward).. ..Jack Hylton and His Orchestra.

1.50 Band Music.

Songs Of Scotland (arr, Duthait).. Band of H. M. The Regimental Grenadier Guards; Eightsome Reel;

Highland Schottische.....Pipes and Drums of the 2nd Batt. Scots Guards; Royal Cavalcade (Coronation March

Bells- Coronation Ketelbey);

.The. Band Of March (Partridge). H. M. Coldstream Guards.

2.15 Close Down.

4-7 p.m. Chinese Programine. 7.00 Dance Music. Fox-Trots-A

Sailboat In

The

Moonlight; Love Is Good For Any- thing That Ails You (flm The Hit ..Orlando and His Or- Parade): chestra;

Little Love, A Little Kiss; A

Body And Soul....Quintette Of The Hot Club Of France; Tangos-Lund Of Magic: Lamento!....

...Heinz Hup- pertz and His Orchestra; Fox-Trots They Can't Take That Away From Me: Let's Call The Whole Thing Off (Alm 'Shall We Dance');,...Roy Fox and His Orchestra; Waltzes-Brigitte (Moretti); Cuckoo Waltz (Jonasson) ....Dajos Bela Dance Orchestra.

7.30 Closing local Stock Quota- tions and Hongkong Exchange Mar-

The other three have fine, pale-gold curly hair, bright blue eyes, and milky skin. Their is the enchantment of what is known as "typical English"ket Report.

7.35-Scottish Variety Programme, (Bantock); childhood.

Dumbarton's Drums Iquads, but they are easily dis- The Laird O' Cockpen (Robertson)..

Ernest was further distinguished by a leg bandage where he had burned himself.

IC,

"Eny pooba you,” he explained to smiling confdingly. Which, interpreted, meant "Ernest's poor *bad leg."

The Qunds do not talk much yet, Their four-year-old brother Gordon does most of it for them.

Their favourite word is a loud, Arm and most perfectly articulated "No!"

Engine Of 1915 Still Used

Glasgow Orpheus Choir: Melodies Of Robert Burns....Light Opera Company; Young Laird's Toast Of Robert Burns....William McCulloch (Humorous Monologue); It's A Roon Th' Toon (Lauder)....Sir Harry Lauder.

8.0 Time, Weather and Announce-

ments.

8.03, Scottish Ballads,

Annie Laurie (Traditional-art. J. A. Murray); Will Yo No Come Back Again (Baroness Mairne-Arr. Scott, Wood)...Sydney MacEwan (Tenor); My Ain Folk (Lemon, Mills)...Mary Kay (Contralto); Ye Banks And Το Braes (arr. Murray; The Road The Isles (MacLeod-Kennedy-Fraser) Sydney MacEwan (Tenor); Comin' Thro' The Rye (Traditional); The Bonnie, Bonnie Banks

Loch Q' Lemon (Traditional)....Dora Lab- belte (Soprano); Skye Boat Song (traditional arr. Malcolm Lawson); Sound The Pibroch (Traditional, ner. J. I. Lees)....Alexander MacGregor (Burliene).

Sydney, N.S.W. The engine of the first motorcar ever seen in Papua, Imported second- hand in 1915, in silil in regular use. In 1918 a merchant converted the car into a delivery truck. In 1920 the golf club used it to pull a mo-

1920 wing machine. In

an en gineer installed it in his repair shop. | Highlanders.

10-ft NAVAL STATUE

OF KING GEORGE V

The King George V. memorial statue, to be erected on the £120,000 site in Abingdon Street; Westminster, will be 10ft. high.

I will show the Iste King stand-

Ing. In naval uniform, wearing garter robes, and fncing the Victoria Tower.

•

A large area around the site is It being cleared, and the cost met out a present of a fund of nearly £600,000, allocat- ed by the King George V. Memorial

Mammoth Flower Puzzles

Norwalk, 0. A Jack-in-the-pulpit had botanists

puzzled. A plant of here

that species, the normal height of which is 12 inches, grew 4 feet; 2 Inchies

Princess Elizabeth jealously guards Fund the secret of its contents. While her mother's diary is kept in a desk, the out to the design of Sir William Reid

The statue itself is being carried toll. Princess prefers to take here about Dick, R... and the memorial to the with her, and she insisted on having design of Sir Giles Glibert Scott,

tiny lock attached to the caver so R.A. that grown up eyes cannot peep into The dinry, u amati, sensibly bound | the pages without permission. book in the Queen's favourite dark

Century Plant Forgots

Alamela, Cal. Forty-one schemes to provide play- Alameda's one and only century Sho enters up the diary sometimes Ing fields คร memorials to King plant has gone berserk. belongs grey suede, never leaves her desk. in pencil, and sometimes she adds a George V. have been approved. to Miss Lilian. C. Wagner and was When she is way from

London little drawing. Princess Margaret Subscriptions to the fund amount to brought from Mexico: It is not supe evornight she still makes daily notes Rose's doings are recorded from day £600,808 13s. 4d, and £391,000 bas possed to bloom except mod in

sheets of paper. She cuples to day with the wise comments to been paid over to the King George's century. Just at present, however, it those notes into the diary in spare be expected from an elder sister, Fields Foundation.

is in full bloom after only 30 years

on

8.30 Studio-Pipe Major D. K. MacLennan, 1st. Bn. The Seaforth

1. Two old Highland Airs; (2) The Land of Trees; (b) | MacGregor's Search; 2. Three Marches: Parker's Welcome to Perthshire; Bonnie Ann;

Highlanders; The Abercairney Two Strathspeys: The Atholl Kim- mers; Lady Louden; 4. Two Reels: The Rejected Suitor; Miss Proud.

8.50 Orchestral.

3.

Norwegian Rhapsody (Lalo).... Orchestre Symphonque de Paris.

9.00 London Relay-Scottish Dance

Music-George Davie's Sextet. Country Dance, Lady Mary Douglas

Country Dance, Roxburgh Castle:

Davie-Halstead).

(arr. H. Wiseman). Eghisome Beel. The Lurder (arr. Highland Schottische; Stumpic; Mag- gle Cameron; The Devil in the Kit- chen (Trad.). Waltz, Country Dance (arr. Davic-Halstead). Country Dance, Dumbarton Drums (Trad.), 9.30 London Relay-Thin News, 9,59 Variety.

Novelty Top Liners Of Variety.. „Jack Hylton and Illa Orchestra, Florence Desmond, Sir Harry Lauder, Gracie Fields, Clarice Mayne, Paul

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EDW. G.

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