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ARGATE has de- ligion have in many cases re-

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I know people who find it im-

a possible to belleve in the exist- house number in all new once of God, but who find it streets to be built in the perfectly easy to believe in the maleficent influence of a single The only "Ten" with Indepen- town. It would be interest- magpie seen flying across a field. dent front wheel springing

When I was a boy I do not. think I had a single superstition which changes riding into gliding to know what the men

of science have to say to of the magpie kind. I knew the rhyme about magpies, but this.

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fluence of 13 on the lives of the ders recklessly. And so did my people who live in houses so friends. We looked on supersti- as superstitions--comic numbered. Do worse things tions happen to people who live in the survivals from a mere credulous number-thirteen houses than to age. the people who live in the number-ones or the number- twenties? The Inquiry would

bours.

with that number.

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same

that

"In some respects I am strongly in favour of the anti-superstition propaganda of the Thirteen Club,"

Despite the growth of psycho-How To Live To

sitting in the sunshine."

100 Years

There is still, I think, a large not need to cover all England. proportion of the population A moderately small town or a which is of much the London suburb would provide mind, but is it so large a pro- all the facts that are necessary, portion as it used to be? I doubt it. I hear of new super- stitions-superstitions, at least, I myself do not look on the that are new to me-every day. pital, on May 12, 1938, to number 13 with a friendly eye; It was only recently, for Marjorie, wife of D. W. Water-but I blame myself for this: I example, that I learned

am convinced that, the facts one's fortune could be told from analysis, I do not find it easy to believe even in the interpreta- would show that people who live the moles-if any on one's tion of dreams. I have never in the number-thirteens are body. The science of telling for- dreamt

was eating that I just as fortunate as their neigh- tunes from moles is called radishes; but, if I did, I should

New York. Moleosophy. A mole on the

VISIONS of human life ties who warn me that "to VIS More than once I have stayed right knee, I learned from pay little heed to the authori-

and vigour extending Complete Fortune- at a number 13 without any ill "Laurie's

dream of eating radishes is a consequences. Twice I have Teller," "is the sign of a happy sign that you will have trouble well beyond 100 years are with certain qualms-sat down marriage. On the left knee, with someone nearly related to conjured up by "cradle con- at table in a company of 18, and warning of a bad temper."

trol" tests with diet re- none of us suffered any subse- Happily, moles scem usually you or a very great friend,"

I have never dreamt of a phea- not mind quent disaster.

to be lucky. I do much when sant; but, if I did, I should not vealed in a report by three Even those who, for various If you ask my opinion the superstitions

be unduly elated by the informa- American doctor-dieticians objection to the number 13, is they point to a happy ending. tion that "this is a good dream, to-day. reasons, do not hold with con-all rot." And yet and yet. It must be cheering to quite s

The doctors, C. M. McCall, traception will find in the work if I wore taking a new house, number of people to be told especially, if the bird is alive and

I should probably avoid a house that "moles that are raised like As for dreaming of a negro, L. A. Maynard and G. Sperling, of the Hongkong Eugenics

warts are always good wherever I have done that; but I never have experimented with white League something praiseworthy In some respects I am strong- they occur and whatever their found any confirmation of the rats at Cornell University for statement: "If the negro seems the past three years, and the and progressive. It is responsi-ly in favour of the anti- colour."

superstition propaganda of the Even a mole on an eyebrow friendly towards you, the dream results were told in Baltimore to the American Institute of ble for preventing suffering and Thirteen Club-if it is still in is descibed as "a good sign. may tell you of an unknown

Nutrition. death among Chinese women existence the members of It foretells an early but a very friend."

Possessors

Based on the principle that which sit down 13 at table, spill happy marriage."

however, eyebrow-moles,

life is prolonged by controlling and children, and it gives

& salt, open

umbrellas in the of

""The chief house and do all sorts of things should be careful.

-Bolief in such things is, it the intake of calories while that would scare an imaginative dangers with which these people

are from light seems to me, about as sensible as maintaining adequate nutrition carly stages of munity entirely without cost to man out of his life. But I are threatened those it benefits. On these should not care to dine at the ning or some form of food- belief in the evil influence of the during the

Of course, you do number 18. And there is not growth, the experiments show, club. I do not believe in supers- poisoning."

sense in that. I fancy according to the doctors' report. grounds it immediately justifies titions, but I prefer to leave it not need to believe in these much

that statistics on the subject itself and merits support and to other people to defy them. things. I don't.

Nor do I believe in the evil would show that horses number-]

fall- ed 13 on the race-card win as sympathy.

consequences of pictures For a long time the authori-

I often wonder whether we of ing, or of dogs howling, or of often as any others. I have tles here have been aware that the unfortunate human race & present of white flowers un- often travelled on a 13 bus and Nor do I arrived safely at my destina- abortion is practised to a great are becoming less superstitious mixed with others.

Why, then, should the house~' extent among the poorer people. or more so. We belong to the believe that the future can be tion.

hunters of Margate worry? most scientific age in history, told from cards; and if it can, Just how widespread it is is yet I sometimes think that we I do not think it ought to be.

And as for fortunes told from There are plenty of things worth difficult to determine because belleve in a far greater number tea-leaves, I refuse to believe believing in without bothering

of allly things than the less unless something goes wrong

Even that if tea-leaves form them- about the number 13. scientific Victorians.

Margate should not be super- with the operation and the people who have lost their re-selves into a pattern like a bath

it means disappointment, or stitious. It should number its mother is driven to seek proper

that, if they form themselves houses honestly and fearlessly.

it I am in favour of every street geese, medical advice, the cases do suffering, sadness and despair into a pattern like

ed that somebody else lives in it. not come to light. But it is a of that mother can readily be means unexpected visitors and having its number 18-provid-

a good time. fact that men and women for imagined; and the Eugenics

practical service to the

com-

a small fee, as little as one League can help hundreds of GRIN AND BEAR IT dollar, will perform an abortion others as it has helped her. with medicines and instruments

A part of the work of the which would make a reputable League the importance of which practitioner shudder. If tho is incalculable is the pre-natal Eugenics League's work is en advice offered to mothers, and couraged it will certainly coun-the thorough medical examina- teract this evil. As its scopo tion given them. Frequently Increases, so will the criminal it is found that these expectant activities of the abortionists mothers

are suffering from decrease.

some sort of ailment which a serious In the annual report of the might do the child

cor- League,.recently issued, a num-damage, Often it can be

rected and by this means much

ber of cases are quoted from the needless suffering is prevented. records for the first year of As to the contraceptive work operation, 1987. They present of the League, there is no probably the strongest argu-obligation upon those who seek

for montprocurable

the advice that they shall make use encouragement of the League's of it.

the League's work. Hore

At present 18. a. typical example: "Case No. 17-Sixtéon activities are restricted by the pregnancies, five children living, fact that the public is not aware six died in infancy, one at nine of the service offered. In the whole of its firet year it had years, four abortions. Mother fewer than 300 cases. It should 41 Husband a hawker in a fish ba helping thousands. It is bout. The brief history reveals only a question of making its in a condensed form a story of presence known to the masses of vary tragic elements. The poor Chineso,

that

SPAN IS FLEXIBLE

Life's span, rather than being fixed from birth by heredity, is flexible and can be increased to an extent at present unknown; and

Retardation of growth af- fords a method of retarding senescence (growing old) and extending the life-span, far beyond the normal. The three doctors took 106 white rats and newly-born divided them into groups, one under control, the other feeding normally.

The controlled group were given the same proteins, vitamins and

were minerals, and

retarded in

By Lichty growth by lack of calories alone.

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Retardation of growth was stopped. in different sub-groups at 300, 500, 700 and 1,000 days respectively, after which the rats, were allowed to eat and grow normally.'

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The report says: "Before the group that was retarded for 1,000, days had reached this age all the members feeding normally, had died after passing through the uzunl period of old age. The retarded animals tended to remain young in appearance in contrast with those that grew normally."

CHALLENGE TO OLD IDEAS The doctors point out that the experiments challenge the popular conception that rapid growth de volops the best bodies for long life.

Cautious scientists attending the Baltimore meeting say there appears pt present no positive reason why the discoveries made in these experi- ments should not apply to all realms of animal life, and human life itself. The doctors themselves go no fur- ther than to point out that rats which should have died at the end of 600 days have lived to 1,068 days, which, In human life, would correspond to

period of nearly 107

107 years. The rats are still alive,

If the same laws apply to hur

"human beings Cand there appears no reason to expect, they will not), then parents by accurately controlling early diet could also control the prospective ilitasanah of 'their children aren