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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1939.

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BD-5437 Two Sleepy People-Slow FT.

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While a cigarette was burning-Slow F.T. BD-5438 In that the way to treat a sweetheart-F.T... Geraldo's Orchestra

Colorado Sunset-Waliz

BD-5439 Love makes the world go round--Quick step. Bylton's Orchestra

The Chesnut Tree-Qülck step

BD-5440 Stop Beatin' round the mulberry bush—Qulck step

All Ashore-F.T.

BD-5436 Stardust-Slow F.T.

BD-5445

Who Quick step

Hylton's Orchestra The Ballyhooligans

Hylton's Orchestra

BD-5446 Bjuo Skies are round the corner-F.T.

I'm singing a song for the old folks-F.T. Don't let that moon get away--F.T. Why doesn't somebody tell me these things-F.T. BD-5441 I've got a pocketful of dreams-Quick step ...Plerre's Orchestra

Two Sleepy People—F.T.

BD-5442 Cinderela-Waltz

D-8842

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ALSE notions about health common to mankind the world

over.

are

For instance, to be topical, that the benefit derived from have you believed this summer sunshine is determined by the length of exposure to the sun's rays, by the intensity of the tan produced; that "one cannot get too much sunshine"?

Here are some facts: 1-Man, being an animal and που a tree, does not require prolonged exposure to the sun's

HEALTH

The nations mass their forces in search of what was once man's individual ideal: good health. Some. believe that gymnastics will bring bodily fitness; others doubt it. Many think that diet is the secret of physical efficiency; many more trust in exercise.. What is one nation's meat is often another's poison.

Here a distinguished American, Dr. AUGUST A. THOMEN-whose work Lord Horder says will "successfully challenge the most severe criticism" tackles the subject from an entirely new angle.

THE correct answer is that it is much more important to chew the bread. stuffs, vegetables, and fruits than it is the meat. Yes, strange as it may seem, it is for more important to chew one's mashed potatoes than meat or fish.

one's

That oranges,

Lemons, grape fruit, tomatoes, cto., form acids in the body? ·

FRUITS and vegetables

rays for his proper physiologi. is perhaps not too dearly bought sent in the body fluids which ing to note that most often ripe,

cal functioning. The best proof

of this statement is to be found in the fact that the inhabitants of the Arctic and Antarctic re- gions do not suffer as a result of their yearly recurring six months of night.

caith is a delusion.

2. That a sun-tan promotes Its chief benefit derives from the fact that it permits one to go about in the sun without further burn- ing. The tan is thus Nature's device for protecting the body against continued absorption of the sun's rays.

3.A brief exposure to sun- shine is productive of all the good that can be ex-

thus,"

of

FATIGUE

That chronic fatigue in healthy persons is usually due to over-work?

cases

bathe them.

Tests made in physiological laboratories have proved that it is very difficult to produce fati- gue in a nerve.

It is the belief of many phy-

THIS is an erroneous sicians who have studied the opinion, however, for, problem that this type of fatigue the real reason in the majority is due to the drugging, as it is a chronic acidosis were, of nerve tissue by the ranging in degree from mild over-production of acid products ness to severity. It is easily due to an excessive eating of proved that the hardest kind of acid-forming foods. physical work does not proluce chronic fatigue in a healthy in- dividual.

A night or two of sleep, es- pecially with a day of rest be- tween, will always suffice to re- fresh person who has become

work.

EATING

That if one cats green apples he will most certain-

ly get a stomachache?

form alkaline sub- stanges in the human body-ok- cept prunes, plums, cherries, and cranberries, It is interest-

have uncooked plums and cherries a pleasant, sweet taste, yet they form nekds in the sys-- tem, while the most sour lemon taste is not a proper guide in forms an alkali.. Evidently our the matter.

READING

That reading light must come from over the left shoulder to be the most ef- fective?

IT has been determined by experimentation that it matters not from where

the light comes, provided there Bre no shadows cast upon the THERE is nothing in page, and provided the rays green apples to cause from the light do not enter the

Thongkong Telegraph.pected. There is no scientific extremely tired from excessivo a stomachache in itself. If the eye.

Wyndham St., Hongkong 'Phone 26615 April 4, 1939

All In It Together

Hylton's Orchestra ONE IMPORTANT factor in the defence of Hongkong seems to have escaped notice.

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You must have been a beautiful baby-FT. Dorsey's Orchestra

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Stop bealin' round the mulberry bush--F.T. Blue Interlude -I.T.

My Melancholy Baby-F.T.

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justification for the "ultra" bathing suit. The exposure of a small portion of the body ne. complishes as much good as if the entire body were exposed.

4. The exhilarating effect of sun-bathing experienced by many who use this measure in a sensible manner is derived as much from the free air circulat ing about the body us from the 6.The best time (some authorities say the only time) for sun-bathing is from dawn to 9 a.m., the next is from p.m. to sundown.

sun.

6. In summer one does not to obtain its benefits, because have to be in the direct sunshine

the actinic rays are reflected from dust particles in the air. the clouds, buildings, etc. What is known as skyshine is as healthful as unshine. This explains the interesting fact definite, though mild, sunburn that some persons can get # while walking on shaded city

streets.

through exposing health fal- Such is my approach to health lacies.

Navy pensions for civilians killed or disabled in air raids, aud, more important, for the

Here are a few more fallacies, payment in part of compensation of hundreds.

chosen at random from a collee- tion for wrecked or damaged lieve-

Do you be buildings.

SLEEPING

That it is not an entirely -healthful habit for one to sleep on his left side be- cause such a position em- barrasses the heart's action?

In the Far East, Hongkong.. property owners must be con- scious of the heavy losses they will face if this Colony is ever involved in war. Many people THIS misconception is now in Hongkong, in fact, were

evidently related to the losers in the Shanghai holu- tion

the fallacy concerning the posi-

of the causts in 1932 and 1937. There brought to

heart. It is the attention of must be hundreds of residents physicians every now and then in this Colony who have losty anxious patients. There is, however, no foundation in fact practically everything they pos-for such a notion. sessed in Canton.

Insurance is ruled out as a practicable basis for war risks

caust

In certain forms of heart dis- cuse the left side of the heart

The light should be at least

apple is eaten slowly and suf- But the chronic fatigue which ficiently chewed the stomach evidently helped by mere rest, between a ripe and unripe one. line of sight, and should be so we are now considering is not would not be able to distinguish 26 degrees away from the direct

which one cannot rest-a nerv- are so important because it is tions from the glossy pages no for it is the tiredness from Eating slowly and chewing well placed as to avoid direct reflec ous fatigue, with resulting in- necessary that the fruit be commonly used. efficiently to the day's work. ability to upply one's self thoroughly mixed with the saliva

for its proper digestion,

That

meat should be much

thoroughly chewed than bread, vegeta- bles, or fruit?

by the poisoning, so to speak, of This type of fatigue is caused nerve tissues by the impurities, chiefly of an acid character, pre-

more

The best reading light is that termed "indirect," in which the source of light is hidden and the rays thrown the ceiling. This is similar in effect to day- light.

on

DO YOU HATE ARUM

HINA HAS done much for me and

io nr.

On the credit side of the account she has all but conquered the sting of obliteration.

To hint that eternul oblivion no- where is preferable to temporary life in these parts is not the intention.

recollections of the truly

But, with intense and melancholy ghastly exhibitions of funeralism In other

seemingly countries, and now that I am, almost dally, an interested spectator of the

care-free, nearly hiiration, colourful pageants that company the deceased Oriental,

!

LILIES By- N. B. W.

SMALL suburban home faced o A London cemetery-not nearly io lugubrious a situation as it sounds.

Well-grown trees of laburnAM, mountain-ash, hawthorn and poplar enclosed the ground entirely inside a golden-chestnut fence.

In the portion yet awaiting tenants birds incessantly twittered in blas- ful security from all natural enemies, always excepting the ubiquitous cat.

Day after day there melancholy, deeply oppressing functions went on.

athing out of the ordinary is hap-and upon a day of chilling rain or dank mist. the eternal unrelief of black and white clutched ht the heart

Welcome was the cheerful inter-

the fact that I shail one day person-pening (and is it?). ally fill the role of piece dé resta tance in the grand finale, leaves little

It is not to be expected that the of the most volatile of individuals, pald bearers pang.

of banners, of bright of the most persistent of paper images and so on would ex-Tapleys.

Mark The profusion of fresh blossom, and perhaps to the strings-of-school- hibit any degree of regret or sorrow; the gorgeous tints of peacock-blue, children or the little band of errupting note of the shrill and virile Nile-green, crimson and gold of ban-ployes a change of Head is of little neigh of the massive black Flanders ner and habiliments; the clear air, moment. the golden sunshine all

stallions engerder

which drew the hideous. hope; suggest the futility of sorrow

But even that rounded, mandarin-black and glaring glass, gilded knobs over-ornamented vehicle of shining for the Inevitable.

capped, black-silk-gowned, prosper- and futile, silly carvings. ous and kindly-looking old gentle-j It is true that the chlef mourners, man who paces with so dignified an. cream-sackcloth-clad, wail at times, alr and slow galt at the tail-end cumbrous of build, conts groomed to Fine creatures they were, though and are almost invariably supported of the progress, chats cheerily and Silken sheen, manes and tails of pro- on elther side by friends and sympa- with animation to others like him-digous length and thickness. thisers, but there is more than aselt. slight suspicion that such an attitude)

Upon the proudly tossing, impatient

is considered to be "the thing" and must be done in all decorum

The prevailing note is one every-doy non-chalance, as

The over-burdened, sweating, gro-heads great blobs of shapen horse- lesquely-habited bearers of their to-day fortunutely relegated to flower-secreted catafalque certainly the circus-ring, and gally coloured ut of realize the heaviness of life, what-that. thought over their attitude towards death.

enlarges considerably because of GRIN AND BEAR IT the extra work it has to per- form (quite as the blacksmith's,

1

of this kind. Although an at-muscles enlarge because of his tempt was made to force the strenuous work).. insurance companies to meet When the heart becomes en- claims after the Chapei holo-larged in such n manner,

larger portion of the organ is in 1932, the amounts found on the left side. Even in claimed were so astronomical such instances no harm can re- that they defeated their object.sult from one's sleeping on his Obviously, no insurance com-tory protection given by the left side because of the antisfac- pany in the world would be able chest wall, formed by the ribs, to meet the claims arising from muscles, etc. the destruction of a city hy bombing.

It boils down to this, then: If property holders are to be protected, protection must come from the Government,

If there is to be war, then from the start the principle must be accepted that we are all in it together.

The authorities are taking the necessary measures to protect human lives on this basis. But what about property?. It is ad- mittedly a far less important consideration; nevertheless the

people who invest in this Colony are entitled to some protection.

That night air is unhealthy!

tains fewer organic gases, since, DR. C. W. SALEEBY Bays: "Night air con- in the absence of the sun's heat, putrefactive processes are less active. Certainly night air con- tains no kind of miasma pecu- Fliar to itself-except produced in the bedroom.

that

"As to solid matter, night air again has the advantage for the means less dust,. less microbe- city dweller since less trafie laden dust. Night air differs, again, in that it is colder, as a rule, and undoubtedly if you propose to ventilate your bed- room you may require an extra blanket,

pure instead of foul air during "The advantage of breathing one-third of our whole existence

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By Lichty

Lichten

Copr. 1920 by Waited Posinca kradsHIR,

"I just gotta have more guns, planes, and tanks; Mom! All the other fellas in our block are re-arming!”

How grateful we were to those mighty unimals providing sighted-

for relief in a gloomy, despondent. hued occasion, scemingly purposely staged for the annihilotion of any future hopes.

✡

AN Italian provincial city. The

honoured

dust probably rests upon u weighty, ponderous vehicle of white and gold,

If the strident chanting of the long double file of white-clothed, professional lady mourers is not exactly musical, nevertheless it strikes a lively note.

tramp

The little acolytes, tired and some- what Inattentive with the weary on hard stone streets bent dnormous candles canting in the most [igrotesque of drunken attitudes.

The Ince-frocked, blue-jowled priests, gigantic feet incongruously protruding below the black alpaca cussocks, somewhat arrogantly scan the staring crowds, and provide In tones atentorian the anti-strophe to the atrophe of the walling muldens on ahead.

Then stride the incense-swingers, the gliden vessels all ablaze; the bearer of the Holy Water, to whom the people urgently and push, hoping to be blessed with a eagerly sprinkled drop of snered fuld.

*

WHEN AND H 1 have leisure be-

fore!

am induced to. All the chief role in such a ceremony. I in- tend to tracé the history of the British obsequies down the ages, and; discover whether we have always' taken our pleasures thus sadly."