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By ROBERT LYND
ARGATE has de- ligion have in many cases re-
cided to ban the tained their superstition.
I know people who find it im- number 13 as
a possible to believe in the exist- house number in all new ence 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- magpic seen flying across a field. dent front wheel springing
When I was a boy I do not which changes riding into gliding to know what the men
of science have to say to think I had a single superstition of the magpie kind. I know the rhyme about magpios, but Let us arrange for your Home this. delivery purchase of a car of I should like to see the Statis- looked on it as an old wives' tale. tions. Comprehensive facilities.mittee to inquire into the in- happiness. I walked under lnd- fluence of 13 on the lives of the ders recklessly. And so did my HONGKONG HOTEL
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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. number 13, with a friendly eye; It was only recently, for I learned that but I blame myself for this: I example, that
"In some respects I am strongly in favour of the anti-superstition propaganda of the Thirteen Club,”
Despite the growth of psycho-|
am convinced that the facts one's fortune could be told from analysis, I do not find it easy to How To Live To
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ties who warn me that "to VISIONS of human life
in the number-thirteens are body. The science of telling for-
dreamt that I was eating just as fortunate as their neigh- tunes from moles is called
the radishes; but, if I did, I should bours.
Molcosophy. A mole
New York. More than once I have stayed right knee, I learned from pay little heed to the authori-
Complete Fortune- at a number 13 without any ill "Laurie's
and vigour extending consequences. Twice I have Teller," "is the sign of a happy dream of eating radishes is a sign that you will have trouble On the left knee, with someone nearly related to well beyond 100 years are Even those who, for various with certain qualms--sat down marriage. reasons, do not hold with con-none of us suffered any subse-
at table in a company of 13, and warning of a bad temper."
conjured up by "cradle con- Happily, moles seem usually you or a very great friend."
I have never dreamt of a phes-trol" tests with diet re traception will find in the work quent disaster.
to be lucky. I do not mind If you ask my opinion the superstitions much when sant; but, if I did, I should not the Hongkong Eugenics objection to the number 13, is they point to a happy ending, be unduly elated by the informa- vealed in a report by three League something praiseworthy "all rot." And yet and yet, It must be cheering to quite a tion that "this is a good dream, American doctor-dieticians and progressive. It is responsi-if I were taking a new house, number of people to be told especially if the bird is alive and to-day..
The doctors, C. M. McCall, I should probably avoid a house that "moles that are raised like sitting in the sunshine."
As for dreaming of a negro, A, Maynard and G. Sperling, ble for preventing suffering and with that number.
warts are always good wherever I have done that; but I never death among Chinese women In some respects I am strong- they occur and whatever their found any confirmation of the have experimented with white rats at Cornell University for ly in favour of the anti- colour," and children, and it gives a superstition propaganda of the Even a mole on an eyebrow friendly towards you, the dream results were told in Baltimore statement: "If the negro seems the past three years, and the Thirteen Club-if it is still in is descibed as “a good sign. may tell you of an unknown to the American Institute of practical service to the com- existence the members of It foretells an early but a very friend."
Possessors
Nutrition. munity entirely without cost to which alt down 13 at table, spill happy marriage." those it benefits. On these salt,
however, umbrellas in the of open
eyebrow-moles,
Based on the principle that "The chief
Belief in such things is, it life is prolonged by controlling that would scare an imaginative dangers with which these people itself and merits support and
man out of his life. But I are threatened are from light- seems to me, about as sensible as the intake of calories while sympathy.
should not care to dine at the ning or some form of food- belief in the evil influence of the maintaining adequate nutrition Of course, you do number 18. And there is not during the early stages of growth, the experiments show, For a long time the authori-club. I do not believe in supers- polsoning." ties here have been aware that titions, but I prefer to leave it not need to believe in these much senso in that. I fancy according to the doctors' report.
that statistics on the subject to other people to defy them. things. I don't.
Nor do I believe in the evil would show that horses number- abortion is practised to a great
consequences of pictures fall- ed 13 on the race-card win as extent among the poorer people.
others. I have! Just how widespread it is is I often wonder whether we of ing, or of dogs howling, or of often as any
the unfortunate human race a present of white flowers un- often travelled on a 13 bus and Nor do I arrived safely at my destina- difficult to determine because
are becoming less superstitious mixed with others. unless something goes wrong or more so. We belong to the believe that the future can be tion.
Why, then, should the house- with the operation and the most scientific age in history, told from cards; and if it can,
I do not think it ought to be. hunters of Margate worry? yet I sometimes think that we mother is driven to seek proper believe in a far greater number
And as for fortunes told from There are plenty of things worth tea-leaves, I refuse to believe believing in without bothering medical advice, the cases do of silly things than the less
that if tea-leaves form them- about the number 13. Victorians. Even not come to light. But it is a scientific
Margate should not be super-! selves into a pattern like a bath fact that men and women for people who have lost their re- it means disappointment, or stitious. It should number its
The three doctors took 105 rats and that, if they form themselves houses honestly and fearlessly. newly-born white of into a pattern like geese, it I am in favour of every street divided them into groups, one means unexpected visitors and having its number 13-provid- under control, the other feeding a good time.
ed that somebody else lives in it. normally.
a small fee, as little as onc
the
dollar, will perform an abortion League can help hundreds with medicines and instruments others as it has helped her.
A part of the work of which would make a reputable
If the League the importance of which GRIN AND BEAR IT practitioner shudder.. Eugenics League's work is en-is incalculable is the pre-natal couraged it will certainly conn-advice offered to mothers, and teract this evil. As its scope the thorough medical examina- increases, so will the criminal tion given them. Frequently activities of the abortionists it is found that these expectant mothers are suffering from decrease.
In the annual report of the some sort of ailment which a serious League, recently issued, a num-might do the child ber of casey are quoted from the damage. Often it can be cor- records for the first year
of rected and by this means much operation, 1937. They present needless suffering is prevented,, probably the strongest argu-As to the contraceptive work ment procurable for the of the Lengue, there is no encouragement of the League's obligation upon those who seek work. Here is n
typical advice that they shall make use example: "Case No. 17-Sixteen of it. pregnancies, five children living,
At prosont tho League's six died in infancy, one at ning activities are restricted by the years, four abortions. Mother fact that the public is not aware 41. Husband a hawker in a fish of the service offered. In the bont: The brief history reveals whole of Its first year it had In a condensed form a atory of fewer than 300 cases. It should very tragic elements. The be helping thousands. It is Buffering, sadness and despair only a question of making ita of that mother, can readily be presence known to the masses of imagined; and the Eugenics poor Chineas.
"See! It's like I told
By Lichty
don't undestrand women!".
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 controlled group were given the same proteins, vitamins and In minerals, and were retarded growth by lack of calories alone.
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 cat and grow
row normally, The
report says: "Before
tho
group that was retarded for 1,000 days had reached this age all the members feeding normally had died after passing through the usual period of old age. The retarded animals tended to remain young in appearance in contrast with those that grow normally."
CHALLENGE TO OLD IDEAS The doctors point out that they experiments "challenge the popular conception that rapid growth velops the best bodies for long
Cautious scientists attending the Baltimore meeting say there appears. at present no positive reason why made in these experl- diacoveries ma
should not apply to all realms
the
ments
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 1,060 days, which, in human life, would correond
nearly 167 years. The
ve
period of rats are still
If the same laws apply to human beings (and there appears no reaPOTE to expect they will not), then parents by, accurately controlling early disti could also control the prospective life span of their children. A
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