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Thursday,

HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH

July 6, 1939.

73 Per Cent. of Us Like Eight Hours In Bed

Head Boy Shot After "Overwork"

TWO months before he was due

to take his first examination 1

for a Bachelor of Medicine de- gree, 18-years-old James Edwin

Women Sleep More

Than Men

WHAT time do you usually go to bed? What time

do you usually get up? How many nights dur-

Mussett, head boy of Cranleighing the last week have you had less than this amount of School, Surrey, was found shot sleep?" through the head in the school armoury. A rifle Was lying nearby.

The sergeant-major Instructor of

the school O.T.C., of which Mussett boy when he noticed a broken win-

was a prominent member, found the

dow in the armoury on Tuesday.

An Inquest was Inter held at the

school.

Mussett was the son of Mr. and

Mrs. Harold E. Mussett, of Highlands, Foxley-lane, Purley, and his father said;

My son had been working very

These questions, asked of a representative sample of adult men and women all over Great Britain in personal interviews with field-workers of the British Institute of Public Opinion, have brought to light interesting facts about the sleeping habits of young and old, rich and poor.

About three-quarters of the total number questioned revealed that they normally sleep eight or more hours a day, while the pro- portion of those getting less than that amount rose considerably as wealth declined, but only slightly with increase in age

hard lately. He had stayed at school| The table below gives a summary night during the previous week, the an extra year for his 31.B. exam. in of the Institute's analysis of the re-proportion among the "ver-Bities" August and later was going on to plies to the Orst two questions.

London University and St. Mary's

Hospital.

"He was a brilliant scholar and

keen sportsmun (he was in every} Total

first team). I can only think that bis] Men

95%

73%

Eight hours Less thon or more elight hours

2767 35%

70

21

70%

24%%

Axe 30-40

6702

33%

Age 50 and over 60%

315%

Higher Inconir 126

1874

Medium

income 71

Lower income.. 07

201 33***

studies, combined with his duties as Women school captain, caused a sudden brain- Age 21-20 storm."

A Husband

And His Meals

rose to 15 per cent.

Those who had had less than their usual number at bours' sleep on two nights or more during the preceding week dropped from 40 per cent, in the young to 34 per cent among the middle-aged and to 15 per cent, in the elderly.

Of the total number questioned, very nearly half said they had hil their normal amount of sleep every night. Men and women were about

Only 3 per cent. of the total num-the same, but Irregularity in sleeping ber questioned said they got six hours labits was much more marked in the or less, but 14 per cent. suld they higher and medium-income groups

A JUDGE discussed recently normally slept more thus nine hours, than among the poor.

whether a husband is en-and 2 per cent. said they slept more

thun ten! titled to complain if his wife The detailed analysis of the Insti- gives him corned beef and bage four times a week,

cab-tute's results shows that the differ-

ence in sleeping babits between youngti

He decided he was not, and called and old is very slight. The proper- husband who did "selfsh."

"MARRYING A CHEF" He and of the man. "He thought he was marrying a chef and wanted to be like a stall-fed ox.

wife,"

tion of those sleeping less than eight{ [hours a night rose a few per cent. Inj the middle-aged group, but declined again among the over-fifties,"

MISSED THEIR SLEEP

Greek Inspiration

Wins

SYDNEY.

T. P. Higgins, student of Sl, Jolm's

College and secretary of the College Grecian Society. inspired by the "I was half as fat as he is every- one would be congratulating · my: The regularity of sleeping habit. Greek ideals of a healthy mind in a as revealed by the Bird question healthy body, cind tumself in a young Grecian loin cloth, and ran 16 miles. The Judge was Mr. Justice Little, varied remarkably between

in two and one-quarter hours, around, and in the Dublin District Court he and old. granted a separation order and £2 a While only 40 per cent. of the young the college oval as preparation for week maintenance to the wife of the were able to say that they had had taking his examination the next day,

their normal amount of sleep every He passed. man who protested.

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King Boris of Bulgaria reviews military parade in Sofia, Parade was first of a kind in Bulgaria since the nation was released from military prohibitions by Salonika agreement, in July, 1938.

How Doctors Will 'Vet' The Militiamen

MEDICAL examination of the "twenties," called up under the Military Training Act, began recently.

Notification was received by the first batch recently who have been told the time and place at which they are to report, and examinations will be held every week-day.

The actual number to be examined will be about 70,000.; It is from these, after allowing for the rejections and those who secure postponement of service, that the first 50,000 will be! selected.

The examinations will be carried

Policeman Is Diviner

out by 150 medical boards established A CONSTABLE who, with In all parts of the country. Each. others, had searched five board will consist, normally, of days in a vain attempt to recover chairman and four medical practi-

lioners drawn from the district. In the body of a seven-years-old girl.j cases where it is difficult to obtain lost in a boating accident at Tit- fals number of medical men, the ford Lake, Langley, Worcester- board will consist of four or even shire, was astonished to find he

three members.

In view of the Murc specialised had powers as a diviner. which type of work done by the modern led to the finding of the body in soldier, the boards will net in a rather a few minutes, different munner from those of thi

Jast war.

Constable aines was continuing

Instead of certifying as a bady the search when some-one in the whether a magis fit-or-not-each-dose crowd suggested that a diviner might for will have a certain specifte part be able to help.

of the examination to conduct.

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From the completed data, the man will be placed in one of four grades.

Baines tried to show the wulchers how a diviner worked. Cutting a bazel twig, he walked along the lake Sud- bank with the fork upright.

A man in the fourth grade-rejected denly the twig twisted violently in will be given a certifiente string that his hands in the direction

all members of the bourd agree that; water.

he is permanently incapable of being; placed in any one of the other three times with the same result, and at

of the

test was The

repeated

several

grades.

the third attempt the body was re- Following the apnouncement that covered.. registration could still be made, n

con-

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are provisionally recorded as tious objectors, registered.

These brought the number regls- scientious objectors,

Royal Furniture To Return To Old Home

AT an exhibition of Royal and Historic Treasures at 145, Pic- cadilly-the home of the King and Queen when they were Duke and Duchess of York-furniture which they had there was in its original place.

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The exhibition also contained.

The pen with which Sir Aus-jald of the Heritage Craft Schools,

Chamberlain signed the Challey, Sussex. Treaty of Locarno;

A Jewel worn by Napoleon on his way to S1. Belena;

A walking stick given to Fred Archer by King Edward VII:

The

One of Lord Baldwin's pipes; and

manuscript of Sir James Barrie's "Peter Pan."

CHILDREN, TOO.

Rooms will be named so that visi- tors to the exhibition will know which Was the dining-room, the King's study, and the Queen boudoir.

One of the Princesses' rooms on the nurtery door is to be used for the children's exhibition, in which will be shown the personal belongings of Princess Elizabeth, Princess Margaret, Prince Edward, and Princess

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