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THE HONGKONG TA, LEGRAPHI, MONDAY, JANUARY 31937.

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MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1938.

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HANGOVER

ESTERDAY morning Smith overslept and Hongkong people read every throat and a nasty taste at woke up with a dry day-if they see their news- papers-of persons prosecuted the back of the mouth. for cutting down trees or other- Lying in bed late seemed wise damaging the all-too- to have done no good: he sparse timber of this Colony. felt more tired than he Often one may be moved to com- usually does at 7.a.m.

And passion for the unfortunates who fall foul of the law in this he cut himself while shav- respect; but it is out of place. ing-his hand wasn't too They are unfortunate not be steady. cause they are exught and punished, but because they have of erosion and the protection of not the wit or opportunity to the vital water supply. earn a livelihood in any lawful Many of the great timber| way. The temptation to cut producing nations of the world, down a tree or two and sell the including Canada, the United firewood thus to be obtained is States, and the Scandinavian particularly strong at this time countries, realised early the when prices for the commodity necessity of preserving their Amare excellent. Every day scores forests not alone for the wealth

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After three days of hard celebrating a good many of you will be feeling as Smith (an entirely fictitious Smith, of course) feels to-day.

It may fascinate you to know exactly why you feel as you do. This article tells you.

TODAY

is, the third day of the 1948th year of the Christian era; the 295th day of the 1356th year of the Moham- medan era; the 109th day

of the 5608th year of the Jewish cra.

New Year's Day, 1939 falls on a

Sunday.

Round the intestines, blood was circulating, rapidly carry- ing away the useful stuffa set free by digestion. Everywhere -extra rapid circulation, extra work for the heart. In a word, Smith's digestive organs were not ready to go to sleep.

JSUALLY he has a light

evening mcal and drinks a cup of ten just before going to bed. Then he sleeps lika a top because his tummy has just enough to do and no more.

But this time it protested against the extra work and let the brain know what was going on. Smith was not altogether' asleep-ho was uncomfortable

and thought he was now fit for and dreamed "all the time." anything.

But another result of the con- tinued general excitement was that he did not notice how much he was eating and drinking nor how badly he was doing it.

This was unfortunate for him. During the day, as a result of his ordinary activities, poisonous in his substances accumulate blood and muscles.

THESE are called toxins,

of woodcutters go into the hills to be obtained from forest pro- and gather up the dead stuff, ducts. But in some sections the and they can scarcely be blamed knowledge of the protection if, in some quiet, out-of-the-forests afford came too late, way spot, they lop off a few or legislators were not suf- green branches or even take afficiently ative to the

Blood is drawn away from

and they reduce the the brain and tree. After all, what is one ger to make laws to save the

other parts capacity of the nervous system tree more or less, they maytrees. Consequently

of the body to supply the to carry normal messages to the deserts argue; though the chances are have appeared where once were

needs of the digestive system. organs and limbs; their presence And, therefore, he felt lazy and causes fatigue and discomfort. they have no conscience in the green trees and valleys and matter whatsoever. They might out of the Dust Bowl

preferred to sit in his chair, ab- During normal sleep these toxins have did they appreciate the of the United States

sorbing into his system the vari- are gradually got rid of. But purpose of the law which pro-great, demolishing dust storms

ous organic poisons always pre- Smith was only half or a third tects Hongkong's timber. i which ruin

When crops of countless

asleep, and so toxins were being he did drug himself sent in the air of stuffy rooms.

produced nearly as fast as they Though that, too, is unlikely. square miles of country every downstairs he smacked Young

WHY didn't he sleep as were being eliminated. Timber, as most people know, year, and scatter the grass-less Smith for being cheeky, com-

soundly as usual last. is a very essential thing to civili- Boil. These disasters for they plained about the coffee,

night? sation; not only in the shape of

major tragedies, affecting thought that the bacon WDS board feet of lumber, but as the

thousands of lives and thou-greasy and unpalatable.

Sleep is nature's way of giv. sands of farms-would have What's wrong with Smith? ing to that wonderfully intricate guardian of a country's water been preventable if fifty years Usually he is a cheerful, level- piece of mechanism-the body chemical condition: he feels Without timber, there is no there had been laws to save the yesterday, and the day before, but absolutely essential activi- is occupied with events taking supply, top soil and grass crop. ago, even twenty-five years ago, headed, pleasant fellow, but a period of relaxation when all tired, trifles worry him, his brain

is

аге

come:

and-

the

This morning, therefore, he woke up with his system clogged with half-digested food.

His feelings correspond to his

BUT how wonderfully adjusted is Smith! The sight of food was distaste- ful as he was very thirsty.

watershed. Without timber

forests, erosion is rapid, the soil is

to force lumbermen and the day before, he had a ties, such as breathing and the place in his body, his nerves are too beating of the heart, are reduced not carrying messages with washed

to cut timber scientifically, and party and ate and drunk away, vegetation

their usual efficiency, so that his perishes, and there is left such to re-plant and preserve new much, took less exercise than on to a minimum.

growth.

Blood Hongkong's timber, other days, and spent most of his desolation as is to be found in

withdraws from the hand is not steady. He has a head and moves out into

hangover from yesterday. a sizo or time in fuggy rooms. the bare hills just across the while it is not of the Colony's

variety to be called forest, is

a warm boundaries

Smith'a body is a living or limbs. It is because in China. It has been said that a

nevertheless vital to

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the ganism that functions contina- bath assists this redistribution nation without timber needs of this Colony as are the ously, day and night. It serves of the blood that it may help us shackled to poverty. The green-clad lower slopes of the him well, but he must feed it to go to sleep. meaning is not clear until it is Canadian Rockies, the Cascades, wisely, air it, and give it enough Clearly, if the brain goes on

He left his breakfast practical- realised just what purpose tim-the Olympics and all those other rest. Otherwise, just as with a working, blood must go on circu- ly untouched, and will eat little berland serves,

ranges where nature makes her neglected car, the engine will no lating in it. It is no good ex- tin: his digestive apparatus greatest reservoirs, where water longer do its job.

pecting to sleep if we go on will have a change of clearing up Recently the editor of a well-power is born, and from which

worrying about our jobs or about arrears. The water he drank known agricultural magazine are fed the agricultural low- FOR dinner Saturday paying the rent. was asked why his publication lands. There are guards in the

before breakfast performed a night he had large

Because Smith was still excit- useful function by stimulating gave so much space to grasses bills of this Colony and they portions of indigestible food and ed by his unusual last three days circulation and increasing excre- and forage crops.

"I must con- have an important work to per- washed them down with a bottle he didn't drop off as quickly as tion. fess," he said, "that I was form in preventing destruction of claret. Then followed gim usual. Further, think of all the amazed. I had taken it for of the woodlani. It must lets, whisky-sodas, Hongkong bustle going on fhaide him! granted that everyone knew be wondered

If they are horrors flavoured with brandy,

His overloaded stomach was that grass is the basis of human sufficiently numerous whon, as and a couple of glasses of port.

still trying hard to catch up, existence 1011 this carth. wo are told, it is possible, This alcohol went into his and blood was circulating rapidly. Without grass we would have no for scores of Chineso to stomach, where some of it was round it. bread, no meat and, in a short raid the New Territorica" tim- quickly absorbed, circulated by The extra ment he had eaten time, no vegetation on the face her daily and carry it off by the blood, and carried to the was being broken up into sim- into his lungs. His circulation of the earth." He might have truckloads. The importance of brain.

pler, easily assimilated added that timber, especially in protection of what little timber Here it acted directly on the pounds and ammonta. Because will be naturally massaged.

a country, as that about wo have cannot bo over- brain-stuff, and the stimulus it ammonia is too dangerous to be. Hongkong, hilly, with shallow emphasised and it is worth caused was conveyed along the set free in the body, Smith's deeply, and to-morrow ho'll feel surface soil, essential for the spending money to preserve it norvas Almost Immediately liver was working overtime to perfectly at again-Indeed, pro- préservation of the grass he against vandalism, Ignorance Smith's nervous energy seemed change It quickly into harmless bably all the better for, his little- montions, but the prevention and poverty.

to increase, he felt really well, uren.

such

Probably, during the tiflin hour or this evening, he will feel like getting out in the open and ▪ taking a brisk walk. This exer- cise will increase his rate of breathing and, his pulso-rate.

More oxygen will be drawn com will become brisker, his muscles. To-night he will sleep more

OIRY,