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TUB HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1938.

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

Wyndham St., Hongkong

'Phone 26615 December 16, 1938

Maskee

HONGKONG'S predilection for leaving things undone until the lust minute is always more manifest just before Christmas! than at any other time of the)

year.

You

first few mails and tearing their hair for the last two.

Black-out for Jews in Europe

More than half the Continent

FLITTLE OR NO {ANTI-SEMITISM

ORGANISED ANTI-SEMITISM ANISUPPORTED BY THE GOVERNMENT

GOVERNMENT-APPROVED

PANTI-SEMITISM

DELLIUM

DENMARK

FRANCE

Health

*

KORWAY

SWEDEN

GERMA

FINLAND

POLAND

HUNGAR

JUGOSLAVIA

ALBANIA

ESTONIA

LATVIA

LITHUANIA.

USS.R

'CAST PRUSSIA

RUMANIA

BULGARIA

TURKEY

is anti- Semitic

CERMANY is thinking of reviving

the medieval "ghetto" system under which Jews are allowed to live and carry on business only in pre- Keribed districts..

In Germany, which contains only 300,000 of Europe's 10,000,000 Jewa, anti-Semitism is more intensively

organised th

than in any other Euro- pean country.

.

arc

The map shown how Jews are treated elsewhere in Europe. The big concentrations Czechu-Slovakia (350,000), Germany (380,000), Great Britain (333,000), lungmy (445,000), Poland (3,000,- 000), Humanla (900,000), and the

U.S.S.R. (2,750,000). Italy, centre of so much recent gilation, barely

77,000 Jews.

has

And the degree of oppression? In Italy Jews who arrived in the country after January 1, 1910, are

to leave within six months.

In Hungary laws were passed is April of this year limiting the num- ber of Jews to be employed in any one office to 20 per cent.

anti-Jewish riots occur

In Polat

almost

In Rumania they are still talking of decitizenising more than a quar-

ter of a million Jews.

But in all the white and tinted areas on the map the Jews have full civil rights.

Nonsense Can you

-

the hands of your mild-manner-were unobtainable luxuries in re-

ed doctor for saying this.

Imote villages.

Yet now that we have every

You notice it first at the

Feed a Cold, Philharmonic show, where no-

Starve a Fever" body turns up for the opening)

You come in to see him, aman And so folk lacked the vita- night and nobody can get seats

THIS saying dates from for the closing night.

the time when "winter whose purely medical education min, and got mild scurvy, and notice it, with Christmas mails, is itumen in" would have passed has cost £1,000 and six years, all sorts of vague anaemias and with the unfortunate postal for ordinary phraseology. Fever to say nothing of the hard school disabilities. And if they ate clerks twiddling thumbs for the was fever then, typhoid usually, of actual practice; you show him apples or drank plenty of cider

EL red and angry gorge, a they looked better, and pretty common at that,

And if you had typhoid, and pharynx turgid with inflamma- your inside was likely to per- tion, vocal cords swollen to twice And you notice it, too, with forate with it, it was quite a their size, so stiff that you can sort of fruit available cheaply. good idea not to have it crammed only talk in croaks; and then this snying. does still make a lot of people who are ill from quite declaim Christmas shopping,

your proud with peacock and stuffed capon.

other capses stuff themselves diagnosis, "Relaxed throat.'

full of apple in the hope of buy- But woe to the old wives and

Honestly, there is no such ing immunity. They burden motherly spinsters who insist on

dream of their colons with indigestible feeding patients, clamorous for thing. Your lovely

cellulose, and torture themselves food, on slops just because the

with flatulence. mercury inside a' glass tube goes a bit beyond the red arrow. Woe to them; if I catch them at it.

It cannot be said that the. Hongkong public is not urged to post early and to shop early."

But this is the season of maskee, when to-morrow is just as good as to-day. What a how! there is, though if over- loaded planes cannot cope with the last mails, or overworked shop girls and assistants say apologetically that their best lines have been sold out.

Not only does the early bird get the worm, but the early shopper gets the best bird. Creaking Joints

A

You silly old wives; let your menfolk take it or leave it. When they go off their food, and get Tushed, don't complain to me if their stomachs revolt at your basins of gruel and your horrible concoctions of "egg-in-milk."

you

Don't believe all

you hear about your health. That was the advice of an Ameri- can doctor whose articles appeared recently in this page. Here a Medical Expert explodes a few more popular fallacies.

Well, if you can't enjoy a good apple without a proverb, here is ond I approve: "An apple is gold in the morning, and lead at night."

Catching that

How smugly despairing you are when you relate. "I gave him a good dose of castor oil last night, and an egg-in-milk this your vocal cords fopping like "PLETHORA of "remedies" morning, but he couldn't keep it starched shirt left out in the rain. unwittingly eaten a bit of sau-

for rheumatism have been down." sent to a contemporary in res-1 ponse to an appeal by a reader,

Rheumatism has always been one of the complaints favoured by humorous writers and stage comedians 119 a subject for laughs.

But it is no joke. Recently, we read that it cost England alone something like £60,000,000 a year.

It is the chief cause of heart lisease, which kills 200,000 people in Britain every year.

While rheumatism remains a joke, many sufferers, fearing ridicule, will not hasten to be cured till it is too late.

In England, the Government is spending half # million pounds this year in searching for a cure. Postscript

"PLEASE GIVE my prize-

a

Here's the truth. When cold seems imminent, don't stuff to repletion, and then curl up round the fire in a nice fug of woollies and bedroom slippers. Get out and take exercise to clear the airways.

As soon as the damp air gets to them is just a dream.

One Has Always Seven Boils

work this out?

MEORGE, who had been

travelling round, England

on leave gat home last Wednes- day evening an started to make out his expense best.

He was supposed to enter up the car mileage he had done each day. At first all that he could remember was that he had left home the Tuesday before last and had driven 1,170 miles altogether.

Then he remembered some- thing else that he bad driven ten miles less on each succeed- ing day of his trip.

He was then able to digure out how many mile he had

+ done each day.

Can you do so too?

Next, George began to cal- culate how much he bad spent. Entertaining had come to lot.

A quarter of the money he had allowed himself had gone on theatre tickets, a fifth on din- ners, ixth on odd drinks for buyers, and a tenth on tips and extras.

In all George bad get through £2 35., and that was being economical.

What was the total amount of George's special expenses.

See foot of Page for the `ans-

wer.

Internal Chili PEOPLE with an appen- dix, people who have stepped out and eaten mixtures of things they are ashamed to a remember, poor folk who have sage past its prime, all these ex- pect a sensible doctor to believe that the cause of that pain and internal turmoil is a chili draught of air reaching their insides through clothes, skin, that nice All that saying means is that Of course, that idea is Wad of tummy fat most of them the first hour or so of sleep is the just magic. If.I had a have, abdominal muscles, and most profound, the most actively skin that could count up to seven peritoneum.

restoring; and that the later If and when you are fairly I would have had Mr. Montagu Your beliefs, ladies and gentle ones are more in the nature of a caught, then eat what you want, Norman out of his job years ago, men, belong to the days when no luxury than a necessity. and nothing else. But mind

Of course, if you like to get all Equally magical are the be- sensible citizen slept without a you drink by the quart. Water and fruit drinks are best.

liefs that good cures for sties nightcap for fear his brain would mystical about midnight, and are the touch of a gold wedding be overcooled, with possibly fatal refer to human vitality being at its lowest at 3 a.m., and the ring, or anointing them with results.

ebbing tide, and all that, you saliva first thing in the morning. In truth, your pain is due to are entitled to take the saying what you have lowered down the quite literally. But I won't red lane from your mouth, and sympathisc.. you have colitis, enteritis, peri-

As soon as you feel the long ing for a steak again, have it.

I Have a

Relaxed Throat

HEAVEN knows

many of

holy you have

An Apple a Day

Keeps the Doctor Away typhlitis, etc., according to the not just another dry-as-dust,

FIRST apologica

all exact circumstances. asper-

round for any beun in danger of throttling at sions that may be. felt by Rus- sets, Cox's Orange, or other of our luscious English apples. I eat them only for pleasure.

money to some poor chil-DID

dren's fund."

Just a few words, written to the member of the "Telegraph" staff who conducts the Children's Corner.

But an object lesson to many Hongkong adults,

YOU WORK IT OUT?

George drove 170 miles on the first day, of his nine-day Irip. His expense allowance was £3.

Hour's Sleep Before

Midnight Is Worth Three

After

THAT would be perfect-

·

And now, just to show I'm

cynical scientist, here is a saу- ing I heartily approve Oysters and Whisky

Are Exceedingly Risky I BELIEVE this to be a

fnet. I can't explain

The truth behind the saying "An apple a day, etc.," is that it

ly sound if only people why. Probably gin or tea would gained coinage at a time when would not be too narrow-minded, mix equally badly with them. the national diet was sadly lack. If you go to bed at 2 a.m. you Personally, I regard it as a just ing in Vitamin C. After all, it have obviously to make a new visitation on those who treat isn't so long since grapefruit zero hour for the proverb. I Nature's gifts with auch' wilful.

irreverence. was unknown here and oranges should then put it at 4 a.m.