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What time do you feel

at your best?

RE you one of those people who wake up all merry and bright, whistle on your way to the** bath, and spill wisecracks at breakfast?

Or do you feel like something the cat has brought in when you

first open your eyes?,

a house where most of the other

OR

Ever been to a matinee and como out with a headache? Or had a billous attack? And with it have you had a headache, or haven't you?. The answer is "Yea."

Well, in both these cases you fool like the morning after, don't you? Of course you do. Because the causes are the same. Bad blood.

In the first case, bad air caus- ing bad blood; in the second, bad digestion. And, see here, neither you nor I can afford to ⚫ be poisoned.

If we are, we lie all night in a stupor (no! not alcohol-our own pet poisons)—and wake up with ahead we have not deserved.

Now it takes some folk pretty nearly the whole day to work

Once you have got going-per- IF you want to feel

Perhaps you belong to neither and got up at six feeling fine. (b) There is something circu- this off. Luckier ones are them- of these groups. You may be Bicycled four miles to the lating in your blood which pro- selves by noon. one of those people who just garage-pretty nice life except duces fatigue. wonder, as they stare about when there was one of those them, why they were ever born, something-or-other fogs.

haps by lunch time--you feel

fit on waking, don't thinking, with regret that they Did he get tired by the even better. By then, you see, your make up your mind to be cars- are face to face with another ing? Not he. What did he do circulation has recovered its ful for twenty-four hours only, darned day.

to keep himself fit? (Laughter.) night stagnation.

No one but a bone-head believes Personally, I am a Group 1 Nothing. Did he think it was Ever had a really good snort- he can alter his body in that man. I like the early morning. all the fresh air he got? Might ing nightmare? You

know, time. Not long ago I was staying in be, (Early morning grouper.) the kind which haunts you oven Follow this scheme out for a

I hate suspicious people. Usual. after you are awake.

whole month and note results. guests were obviously not of my ly they have got a guilty con-. At intervals through the And if you are not 100 per cent. FARMER-At the War Memorial Way of thinking. They dragged science. No. 3, having replied next day you wonder if some better by Christmas, well, per- Nursing Home, on December 30, themselves into the dining-room, firmly that he regarded eleven thing dreadful is going to happen haps I will eat some one's hat. 1937, to Dorothy, the wife of C. looked with disgust at the food, a.m. ns quite early enough for us to you then you remember with L. Farmer, a daughter.

It is mostly don'ta:-, and turned baleful eyes upon me to discuss, suddenly asked me relief that "it was only a dream." and my plate.

Well, if you have, do you remem-

Don't fill your lungs with bad what I was getting at. I decided to try to find out if most people feel as I do, or if I

Was I suggesting that he al- ber how tired you felt on wak- air or tobacco smoke immediate- ly before going to bed (go out- am in the minority. So I asked ways had a hangover when he ing?

woke up? Because, if so, I was a Frightening dreams take it Hide and breathe deeply for five the first three men I met what liar-he was a teetotaler. (Group out of you because you have minutes-better still, go for a time of the day they feel at their best: and (if possible) reasons. for same. No diagrams re- quired.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, December 30, 1837.

"Preparedness"

President Roosevelt has made

3.)

come in

been working in your sleep, i.c., walk and when you your imagination has been keep drink a glass of cold water).

Don't at late at night. ing your body on the go.

Don't sleep in a hot bedroom, Don't have too many or too

And you can't work any párt of your mind without tiring the cells of your brain. Therefore, heavy bedclothes on your bed. nightmare produces one kind of By the way, do you drink cold hangover.

water when you wake up? If

Other people I asked were 76 per cent. "best in the evenings" -25 per cent. "early mornings." THE first person I up- proached scowled, ask-

THEN there are another it known that he may ask the led me whether any one who had

lot of people who wake Appropriations Committee for ever been born felt at his best in up tired and get going by mid- further funds with which to his back on me.

the early mornings, then turned day. And still others wake up

EVERYBODY dreams. you don't, you should. His reaction tired and are still tired when it

Though many people What makes the 25 per cent. construct warships. The Ameri- was definite enough. (Group 2.) is time to go to bed again. can't tell you what they dreamed wake up fresh? Becaust they can naval building plan, as laid

The next was a motor-driver. These people are always tired. about--some don't even know are not poisoned neither do down for the 1939 fiscal year,

He said he went to bed at ten They say they were born tired. that they have dreamed. What they worry in their sleep (1..,

But there is a cause for it, they do know is that they are nightmare). was not sensationally extensive

right enough. First thing for fagged out on waking.

My friend the motor-driver, -two battleships, à few cruisers

them to do is to recognise that

And they blame this or that when pressed, gave his bicycle- there is something the matter thing-including their and destroyers. And the de-

ances- ride the credit for his magni- with them. velopments of the past few

tors. (They will tell your that, ficent early morning feeling. It is all right to feel tired as a family, they are all tired And is he cheerful all day 7 He is, months, it may be imagined,

when you have done something, on waking.) have, altered the official view of

but it is all wrong to have a good

Frankly, I don't believe it. international affairs to a degree

night's rest and wake up more Of course, some people inherit tired than when you went to bed. more fragile nervous systems which makes further arming

There are many reasons for than others. These advisable. Not that the United,

chronic fatigue of this kind. But people who crumple up more States, is preparing for war

you wont't get rid of your own easily under stress. particular variety-until-you with

have found out the cause of it.

anyone in particular- President Roosevelt has made that clear. In fact he avoids the word "preparedness," hay- ing no destro to admit that there is anyone or anything against which to prepare, It seems rather futile, dodging a phrase or a word like that when the implication in any move to speed re-armament is so obvious.

Is It True?

Some of these statements are right, some wrong.

Do you know which?

1. Oysters are vegetarians. 2. Mozart did nol start learning music until the age of seven.

3. Margarine is made from animal fats.

4. On the average, forty boks a day are published in

Great Britain.

5. The second highest moun- tain in the world is Kinchin- junga, in the Himalayas.

6. One of Britain's greatest wellers was once a brick-leyer, Answers at foot of Column Seven.

was prepared to build warships, may be taken as an attempt to correct misconception.

AND now which group do you belong to? If you are one of those who feel mouldy when you wake up, have you any idea why?

There are two possible rea- song:-

are

the

Moral: If their family is like this, more care is required to avoid undue strain. If it is all

y-eye, well, all the more reason

for the sufferers to find out why they are not as fit as they should

be,

BUT supposing it is not their mind which (a) Your mind has been work- makes them bad wakers? What ing while you sleep and it has is likely to have gone wrong taken it out of you.

with their bodies?

Anthony

Weymouth

Was It True?

(See foot of Column four.)

1. Right. They feed on the wear and tear of seaweed and sen-gras, 2. Wrong. He play- ed before the Emperor when he

six years old. 3. Wrong. Usually from coconut oll. 4. Right. 5.

Wrong. Mount Godwin-Austen, also in the Himalayas, is 100ft, higher. 6. Right. Ben Jonson.

BRAIN, BRAWN and WAR

Nor should it be imagined However, President Roosevelt that the American hints of and his associates have no wish bigger and better fighting ships to create mistaken impressions to come mean for a moment that live to-day in such a continual arrays of tanks, clouds of neroplanes; enemy. The age that produced the abrond. They have made that she is endeavouring to match atmosphere of intensive discus-and ever more deadly forms of gna knights produced the castle, and in clear, too. Americans do not

Britain's naval

slon of all matters relating to war is the consummation of that long attacking castles knights were llable programme. that it might well be assumed that process of effort by which the human to meet extinction in the form of a want "peace at any price," minds which will jump to this understanding of most of the main field

There will be some suspicious we had attained a sound and logical brain has sought to dominate the deluge of molten lend, time or Greek of destruction as It has Fire, and to pass from life with os prominent politican said the conclusion. The fact is that by Implications of this important factor

minated

other flelda of human little chance of showing their other day by way of answering her actions and her attitude of in the history of the race.

knightly qualities as if they had Yet a glance at the writings of For in war success has never come been caught in a cloud of mustard the even the pacifist complaints of those the past several years

some United States has Incitly ad- that some of the simplest lessons qualities, but through the control

possession of those "manly EUR

But was the warfare in which the Americanmitted that parity in that direc- have not yet been grasped.

of a greater range of the forces of knights engaged really so romantic nationals, marines and warships tion is something she does not deplores the use of poison gas in carry their conquering eagles Into in shining armour not bein Thus, H. M. Tomlinson, when the destruction. The Romans did not at all? The knights went theathed. withdrawn from the Far East worry about. It is just as well, warfare, might be taken as repre- the realms of their enemies because was a romantic garb, but because in It seems that the however, that President Robaesentative of that numerous class who they were stronger or braver men this way they were getting all the volt should have made clear at scem somehow to think that the in- than the harbarians. The deciding advantages the metallurgical science United States is trying to steer this time that it is not the cidence of such devices has made factors were belter arms, discipline, of that day could devise to aid man's ja safe and sensible course in the British building which caused war Infinitely more brutal and dis superior tactics and the science of task of destroying his fellows,

gusting. "Chivalry los gone and fortification-all the products of the These armoured knights would matter of armaments, which, him to consider expansion of the cannot be revived," declares II. M. hunan intelligence.

ride down the lightly armed infan- American programme.

Tomlinson In

In "Mars lis Idlot." "St. while not alarming

The Romans were victorious ostry, break their ranks, and slaughter to any

George himself in a gas alinch they brought a power of order and them at leisure, till the

development nation, will at the same time

Taken literally, the American woulti chake himself to death with thought to the tack of slaying their of archery, putting the necessary policy with respect to naval con- out sighting the dragon, Saludin foes. That in to say, they used factor of unfairness atruction accms to be: Everyone

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American lives and property.

combat which would involve situa- down the knights before they had a This sort of view la all rather very tinns where the skill and strength chance to use their lances. wo? This may not satisfy surprising. But it can quite readily of the barburlane would be of little Similarly, any of the expedients of everybody. It is reasonable be seen to rest on the tenaciously avall.

the military art in the days of the The pacifist element has been that the United States should that somewhere in the post victory An Old Story

held, if vaguely thought out, theory

past look very stirring and romantie till we examine them more closely. vociferous, and it is quite pos- feel some concern with the state fell in some romantic fashion to

A "Hank attack" depends for its sue- of affairs in the Pacific. She some nebulous qualities called "the To bring the maximum factor of cess on bringing an overpowering sible that its words, added to has large interests there, in manly virtuen."

unfairness to bear on the enemy, to Irruption of men on an exposed the widespread, if fallacious, Hawaii,

manoeuvre him into positions where wing of the enemy's orgonization. the Philippines and The Decisive Factor

his Anest qualities will count for bellof that American Isola-other-islandis, to say nothing of.

nothing and to crush him by ex-Taken in the Rear But what is the real and supreme pedients that leave him the mialmum tionism is still the outstanding investments on the mainland of!

and Asia. These must be protected."manly quality" the quality that chance to reply, is the end To take the enemy in the rear" į means to seek to shoot in the back in the most romantic days a crowd of men heavily engaged in caused misunderstanding. There that she should wish to be ready That quality counted in war away in history war nover was a testing front. An ambuscade has ils main fore President Roosevelt's an-to meet any challenge to her back in the morning of time, counted ground; unspoilt by Invention and value in the opportunities It allows Interests and rights in any in all the warn of the past and in all mechanism, for the manly virtues of killing numbers of the enemy nouncement that, though he was here and by any power? Why the most romantle, eplaodes of lils St. George need not have waited for before they have even the time to not seeking "preparedness" he not admit 197

wo are witnessing to- the twentieth century to choke him- put a hand to their weapons. In the evolution of awesome telf to death without sighting the (Continued on Page 5:)

point of policy, might have And what more natural than The power to think.

has related min above the beasts? menning of the military art.

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