1938-12-16 — Page 6

THE HONGKONG Telegraph, FRIDAY, DECEMBER, 16, 1988.

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is anti- Semitic

GERMANY is thinking of reviving

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

In Germany, which contains only. 360,000

of Europe's 10,000,000 Jews,

mitism is more intensively

than in any other Euro- country

Are

The map shows how Jewa treated elsewhere in Europe. The big concentrations

in Czecho-Slovakia (336,000), Germany (300,000). Great Britain (333,000), Hungary

(445,000). Poland (3,600,- 000), Rumania (900,000), and the U.S.S.R. (2,750,000), haly, centre of so much recent anitation, has barely 77,000 Jews,

And the degree

of oppression?

In Italy Jewa who arrived in the Country after January 1, 1819, are

to leave within six months.

In Hungary laws were passed in April of this year limiting the num ber of Jews to be employed in any ene ollee to 20 per cent.

In Poland anti-Jewish riots occur almost daily.

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.

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Hongkong Telegraph.

Wyndham St., Hongkong 'Phone 26615 December 16, 1938

Maskee

HONGKONG'S predilection for leaving things undone unt]} the last minute is always more manifest just before Christmas than at any other time of the

year.

You notice it, first at the Philharmonic show, where no- body turns up for the opening night and nobody can get seats for the closing night. You notice it, with Christmas mails, with the unfortunate postal clerks twiddling thumbs for the first few mails and tearing their hair for the last two.

And you notice it, too, with Christmas shopping.

Health Nonsense Can you

Feed a Cold,

Starve a Fever

THIS saying dates from the time when "winter

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

ed doctor for saying this.

a

you

mote villages.

Yet now that we have every

You come in to ace him, a man And so folk lacked the vita- whose purely medical education min, and got mild scurvy, and is icumen in" would have passed has coat £1,000 and six years, all sorts of vague anaemias and And if they ate for ordinary phraseology. Fever to say nothing of the hard school disabilities. was fever then, typhoid usually, of actual practice; you show him apples or drank plenty of cider

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

And if you had typhoid, and pharynx turgid with inflamma- tion, vocal cords swollen to twice It cannot be said that the your inside was likely to per Hongkong public is not urged to forate with it, it was quite a good iden not to have it crammed post early and to shop early.

with peacock and stuffed capon. But this is the season of masked, when to-morrow is just. But woe to the old wives and as good as to-day. What a motherly spinsters who insist on howl there is, though if over-feeding patients, clamorous for loaded planes cannot cope with food, on slops just because the mercury inside a glass tube goes the last mails, or overworked

a bit beyond the red arrow. Woe shop girls and assistants say to them, if I catch them at it. apologetically that their best You silly old wives; let your lines have been sold out.

menfolk take it or leave it. When

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

A PLETHORA of "remedies"

for rheumatism have been sent to a contemporary in res ponse to an appeal by a reader.

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

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

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they go off their food, and get flushed, don't complain to me if their stomachs revolt at your basins of gruel and your horrible concoctions of "egg-in-milk.”

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 morning, but he couldn't keep it

down."

Here's the truth. When a 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.

their size, so stiff that you can sort of fruit available cheaply,

of people who are ill-from quite.. only talk in croaks; and then this saying does still make a lot

declaim

your proud

other causes stuff, themselves diagnosis, "Relaxed throat."

full of apple in the hope of buy- Honestly, there is no such ing immunity. They burden

Your lovely thing.

dream of their colons with indigestible cellulose, and torture themselves with flatulence.

Don't believe all you hear about That was your health. the advice of an Ameri- can doctor whose articles appeared recently in this page. Here a Medical Expert, explodes a few more popular fallacies.

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your vocal cords flopping like

a

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

Catching that

work

this out?

EORGE, who had been travelling round England on leave gai home last Wednes- day evening and started to make out his expense sheet.

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

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

He was then able to Agure out how many miles he had done each day.

* Can you do so tau?

Next, George began to eal- culate how much he had spent. Entertaining had come to a lot, A quarter of the money he had allowed himself had gone on theatre letsetz, a 8fth on din- ners, a sixth on odd drinks for buyers, and a tenth on tips and extras.

In all George had got through £2 38., and that was being economical.

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

Internal Chill PEOPLE with an appen- dix, people who have stepped out and eaten mixtures of things they are ashamed to remember, poor folk who have unwittingly eaten a bit of sau- suge past its prime, all these ex- pect a sensible doctor to believe that the cause of that pain and internal turmoil la a chili draught. of air reaching their Insides through clothes, skin, that nice All that saying means is that OF course, that idea is way of thromy fat musel of, and the first hour or so of sleep is the have, abdominal muscles, and most profound, the most actively peritoneum.

starched shirt left out in the rain as soon as the damp air gets to them is just a dream.

One Has Always Seven Boils

just magic. If I had a skin that could count up to seven

See foot of First column för ilio menwer,

restoring and that the later.

luxury than a necessity.

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 It is the chief cause of heart caught, then eat what you want, Norman out of his job years ago. men, belong to the days when no disease, which kills 200,000 and nothing else. But mind

Of course, if you like to get all Equally magical are the be sensible citizen slept without a people in Britain every year. you drink by the quart. Water

liefs that good cures

for sties Bightcap for fear his brain would mystical about midnight, and While rheumatism remains aand fruit drinks are best.

be overcooled, with possibly fatal refer to human vitality being at are the touch of a gold wedding results.

its lowest at 8 a.m., and the joke, many Bufferers, fearing

As soon as you feel the long-ring, or anointing them with

ebbing tide, and – all that; you.... ridicule, will not hasten to being for a steak again, have it. 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 I Have a

An Apple a Day

red lane from your mouth, and

sympathise Keeps the Doctor Away you have colitis, enteritis, peri- typhlitia, etc., according to the apologies all exact circumstances. round for any asper- mata

cured till it is too late.

In England, the Government is spending half 14 million pounds this year in searching for a cure.

Postscript

"PLEASE GIVE my prize-

* money to some poor chil dron's fund.” ⠀

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

Cornerst

But an object lesson to many Hongkong adults,

Relaxed Throat HEAVEN knows how many of you have

FIRST,

been in danger of throttling at sions that may be felt by Rus- Hour's Sleep Before

Assets, Cox's Orange, or other of

our luscious English apples. `1′′ eat them only for pleasure.

DID YOU WORK

IT OUT?

George drove 170 miles an thefrst day, ofë, his mine-day trip::ije His expense allowance

The truth behind the saying *

Midnight Is Worth Three

After

An apple a day, etc. "is that it ,-rt

THAT would be perfect-

And now, just to show I'm not Just another dry-as-dust, cynical scientist, hero is a say ing I heartily approve Oysters and Whisky

Are Exceedingly

BELIEVE this to fact I can't

I

ly sound if only people why. Próbably gin or ten would

mined coinage at a time when would not be too narrow.minded, mix equally badly with the nation diet was sadly lack If you go to bed at 2 am 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 Lan't so long since grapefruit zero hours for the proverb. I Nature's gifts with auch will was unknown here and foranges aboħid that put it *

Sur Irreverence