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not getting rid of your waste products.

The colour of the face is n880- clated with disturbances of the ductless glands.

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Excessive thyroid accretion in adults is associated with beautiful "school-girl" plexion. But deficiency leads to R dry, sallow, deeply lined face. You can often tell such people by the slow rate at which their expressions change they give the impression that their faces have been carved out of granite.

ND then there's your AN

manner. If you give

shaped fingers are often usso- the doctor the impression that quickly he'll arrive at what's the pituitary.

As you walk into his consult- clated with too little, thyroid you resent his questions, he'll matter.

wonder what lies behind. can tell secretion. For instance, he will watch the ing room, the doctor

quite a lot from your nose and When the skin of the hands He may guess that you're de- way you walk into a room and checks so much, indecil, that he and forearms is dry and rough, termined to tell him only just see whether there's anything in knows what to look for when it's the thyroid which is at fault; what you think he ought to your gait which suggests disease.

when smooth and "waxy," it's know, and that you're afraid making his examination. He'll study your face; possibly Diluted veins on the nose sug- the pituitary.

he'll wander from the strictly Then there's the question of medical point about which you're there'll be a clue there which gest disorder of the digestion or will help to explain some symp- liver; on the checks, trouble in your figure. If you're over consulting him, and begin to

weight he'll soon see whether it's dive into your murky past. tom about which you'll presently the heart or lungs. be telling him. Then he'll be in- He'll take in this much at a your trunk or your whole body

But you shouldn't mind if he is carrying the super- does, for you can't possibly terested in your manner-how glance, and register what he's which you talk, and even how you sit geen, to be confirmed-or other fluous fat.

judge whether his questions are And-whatever you may have vitally necessary or merely due in a chair.

wise-a little later on with his

read to the contrary obesity to curiosity: and by withhold- WHO KNOWS?

It's surprising what little stethoscope.

isn't always a matter of over- ing information, or, worse still. THERE are many things cating. The Parisian authorities seem things will help the observant

wilfully misleading him, you he can tell from the

Suppose the doctor's already may be the cause of his failure to be concerned for the safety doctor. He will look at the chair upon which L nervous

mouth. The way the teeth noticed signs of thyroid failure, to cure you. of the French holding in Shang-patient hus been sitting.

erupt is often a guide to the then his eye will run over your Doctors can generally tell hai as a result of the statement

figure, expecting to find the fat when a patient is trying to hide If it happens to have a loose way the child is developing. [attributed to General Matsui, cover you can be sure that, after Did you know that the "lateral arranged in certain areas, such something. They'll notice that (two front teeth on as the root of the neck and the his answer to a direct question is Japanese commander-in-chief in the interview, it will be rucked incisors"

short, and that he then leads. China, that he might not be up and need tucking in. For either side of the large centrals) abdominal wall.

nervous patients always wriggle are apt to be underdeveloped In that case one of his first the conversation into a different able to respect the neutrality in the excitement of describing where the pituitary gland is act- questions will be "D'you feel the of foreign concessions during their symptoms.

ing deficiently? And that, in cold?" And you'll probably won-

So remember, when next you these cases, you'll very seldom der how on earth he knew. his campaign. It is not sur

HERE are a few things find any white crescents at the But it's not black magic! For see your doctor, that he pro- bably knows far more about you prising. Nor is it odd that a

about you which will roots of the nails?

he's well aware that all people than you think. But whatever Japanese Ambassador' should interest your docter.

from thyroid You mustn't blame your doc- 'suffering

he knows about you he'll keep to reassure the French Govern- First, he'll probably look at lor (or think him unduly inquisi- ficiency have a subnormal tem- himself. and it's you who'll ment by remarking that too your head. He'll want to see tive) if he scrutinises your nails, perature, and consequently are benefit by his knowledge.

how low on the forehend your. He'll certainly be interested in always chilly mortals. much attention should not be hair grows; for, in certain types your palate for he can tell a

THEN there's the indivi- of individuals, a low hair-line few things about you when he's

dual who is thin in all suggests characteristics which had a look at the roof of your are sometimes linked up with mouth. If it's a high-arched parts except the "middle"-the A so-called "girdle" type of fat. tendencies to certain diseases. palate you're a nervous type.

broad roof to the mouth is gen- Very often he's middle-aged and People who go bald premature-rally seen in people with calm-is suffering-from-too-little-pitui- ly, or who have a high hair-line, dispositions.

tary, belong to the opposite type, and they, too, have their special ten- dencies.

paid to the words of soldiers in the field, and that, after all, matters of high policy are de- cided in Tokyo. Here, it seems, is just another indication of the lack of restraint influenced by the civilian authorities upon the Army chiefs. Or it may be taken as a "proof" by those who argue that the military leaders accept no guidance from the capital, except, of coures, from the mouth of the Emperor

himself.

In any event, General Matsui's statement will certainly have

de-

!

But the doctor won't have to IF there's a fulness in wait for a detailed examination the neck, he'll wonder before he arrives at this conclu- For he'll find the two cen- Don't we all know that bald- why your thyroid gland is en- sion. ness tends to run in families to larged. It will also explain the tri teeth in the upper jaw are such an extent that we're almost way in which you walked into widely spaced: the complexion is justified in regarding it as an the room-the quick, short steps like a Dutch doll's-two red dabs hereditary affliction? Is it too you took, and the almost sus- standing out on a pale surround; far fetched, then, to believe that picious way in which you looked and the fingers are shapeless.

All of which signs will tell him certain physical temperaments at him.

is a patient whose are also inherited?

For people with an enlarged that here Then there are the eyebrows, thyroid are nearly always highly pituitary is not doing its job.

bo 红 bad How many people know that strung. And, as long as the gland remains over-active, its

You may

colour. This may But once it's ntcan simply that you have been and unreasonable. is beginning to fail?

quiet again, serenity replaces spending too much time indoors, Buahy eyebrows-which al- fractiousness.

breathing overheated air. Or it most meet over the root of the The hands can tell him a good may be that your digestion isn't nose (particularly if the bony deal. Square finger-tips point working properly and that you're marked)-point to an opposite ridges over the orbits are well

when the outer third of the eye-

the effect of further shaking brow gets thin the thyroid gland Possessor is apt to be irritable

the confidence of the rest of the world in the reliability of Tokyo promises. It becomes more un- derstandable that the United States should treat with a cer- tain reserve, amounting to scepticism, Mr. Koki Hirota's - pledge that the "open door" on China is to be left permanently lajar to the world's traders. Reuter's Washington correspon- dent remarks: "If the keenness | of America's watch on the

BURNS AMONG

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channel.

Weymouth Anthony

These glands means this

to you-

Your thyroid gland-thot slight swelling on elther side of the Adam's apple keeps you young and slim, it's working well.

A shortage of 3% grains in the difference between intellgence and Idiocy. The thyroid deficient Is a martyr to disease, premature

old

age, middle-aged spread. Your pituitary gland, situated at the base of your brain, con- trols your growth. If it's large you're oggressive, calculating, often get brilliant. Idean. If it's under-sized you are small, lack- ing in stamina, self-control.

HIS AIN

"I'm no sac four shint this time, Robin, I'm thinkin', his fellow-work- er chuckled.

"John," the other returned gaily, "you're behind in something yet. minde a sang while I was looking."

"Tae Bury the Deil"

he terms the "stock phrase" of [ the Government that "Japan has no territorial designs on

O us who can only think of Robert China." He does. not say he T

Burns as the national poct of does not belleve that assertion, Seatland it may be difficult to con-

ceive the impression which he created) in so many words. But he does among his nin folk in Ayrshire.

For in-in the farmhouses of eighteenth- All Ears Yangtse is not relaxed it is be- show that the people are century Scotland it was not so much

Another time when there was u cause of fear, based on past terested in the Government's the poet and the thinker who was honoured as the brilliant raconteur

In whimsical vein is the story of was in the smithy of Mossgiel. experience, that Japan's real future intentions with respect who could keep a party going for doubt about the welcome of Burns

end.

The poet was accustomed to take how young Tammy Brown, neigh- policies are too often improvised to the occupied Chinese terri-hours en

Illustrating this side of the poet is his plough trons to this shed to be re-bour's son at Moseglel, came along by her forces in China." That tory. He asked: "What are the!

the story of the old farmer whose paired, and there is a story of one one day when Burns was working in is the situation in a nutshell. It Government's plans for the vast douce wite was somewhat scandalised occasion when the blacksmith was the moss digging pits. An the cut- tract of land... covering more because the whole household were so listening spellbound while his assisting was very deep, Tammy could is not the sincerity of the than half China ?”

carried away by the wit and drollery tant was told to go ahead with the only dimly distinguish his friend at And this was the dia- of the poet, "An' he's nnething but job. But the man who wielded the the bottom. statesmen in Tokyo that is

It is just possible that the "wi neither sense nor seriousness to his master with the cloquence of the

an idle, gossiping Ind," she xlormed, sledge hammer was as enthralled as logue which ensued:— doubted; it is the wayward ways Prime Minister, Prince Konoye, keep him richt."

pool, and so he stood stock all with of military chiefs who are in-

may have

This verdict was reported to Burns, his haramer above his head until the been much em- and the next time he called at that iron had cooled. clined to shape their tactics ac-barrassed by this interrogation. farmhouse lie made a point of enter

"Rab! Rub!" the smith protested. cording to the demands of the He answered to the best of his with the gudqwife herself. Then, maun gang for a drap yill, or ded

ing into a most edifying discussion | "This'll never dae. You

"Tao bury the dell in." "But hoo wull ye get him in?". moment, without remembering ability. But there is a chance with characteristic adroitness, he ne steek o graithen I bo mended

"Ay, man," sald Burns soberly, to consult the Foreign Ministry. that he does not really know contrived to change the tenor of the this night!"

conversation, with the result that the Burns was a man of great physical that's it, that's it." This state of affairs may not himself what is Japan's future mistress soon found herself laughing strength. He could litt

The very qualities which contribu polky in the occupied area. as heartily na any, and even clapping stone sack of meal without any pted to the greatness of Burns were Iba to blame for the sudden

her hands in rupturous approval. parent effort, and a neighbour said sometimes productive of an aspect Perhaps Mr. Shimada's ques- When Burns had gone her husband that he would "ford a cart with bags which caused certain of his neigh clamour of the Opposition par- tions had better have been silly rebuked her for foluing in the of corn in the time that other men bours to view him with suspicion.

night's fun,

were talking about it." ties in the Diet, but it is directed to the generala in tho

"But, man," she protested, "that's But there is record of one occasion There is a story of n visit which noteworthy that Mr. Toshio field who probably know better the awfu'est body, that Burns, that when he worked all day in the har-ho paid to old Nance Kelly (or Cul- Shimada, leader of the powerful than the Government what their ever heard. I'm sure I set mysel' wivest field with a rival, and found that e), and the dame, who was some

Amy mnicht to gninstan' him, but they appeared to be equal, at the what suspicious of the orthodoxy of It's perfect impossible,"

Continued on Page 4) Solyukat group, is tired of what ambitions are.

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an' me

twenty

"Is that you, Hobble?" "Ay, Tammy, it's me."

"What are ye daeing doon there?" "I'm howking a hole.” "Whit tae dac?"