1939-07-06 — Page 3

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

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

Women Sleep

Sleep More Than Men

WHAT time do you usually go to bed? What time

do you usually get up? How many nights dur-

Musseti, hond 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.

These questions, asked of a representative sample of adult men and women all over Great Britain in personal

The sergeant-major Instructor of the school O.T.C., of which Mussett interviews with field-workers of the British Institute of was a prominent member, found the

boy when he noticed a broken win- Public Opinion, have brought to light interesting facts

dow in the armoury on Tuesday.

school.

Mussett was the son of Mr. und

An inquest was later held at the about the sleeping habits of young and old, rich and poor. About three-quarters of the total number questioned revealed Mrs. Harold E. Mussett, of Highlords, that they normally sleep eight or more hours a day, while the pro- Foxley-lane, Purley, and his father portion of those getting less than that amount rose considerably said:

as wealth declined, but only slightly with increase in age

"My son had been working very hard lately. He had stayed of school en extra year for his M.D. exam. In August and later was going on to London University and St. Mary's] Hospital.

The table below gives a summary | night during the previous week, the of the Institute's analysis of the re- proportion among the "over-fifties"

lose to 63 per cent. plies to the first two questions.

"He was a brilliant scholar and a keen sportsman (he was in every Total rat team). I can only think that his Men studies, combined with his duties as school captain, caused a sudden brain- sturm."

A Husband

And His Meals

Women

Eight hours Less than For more eight hours

73

65%

27% 35%

70

21

Age 21-29

70%

24%

Age 30-40

67%

33

Age 50 and over 6D

31%

Higher income... 82%

18%

Medium lacome 71%

Lower income.. 67%

2017 33%

Those who had had less than their usual number of hours' 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 19 per cent, iu the elderly.

of the total number questioncil, very nearly half said they had had 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 habits was much more marked in the or less, but 14 per cent. said they higher and medium-income groups

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

thum ten.

whether a husband is en-and 2 per cent. said they stept more titled to complain if his wife The detailed analysis of the Insti- gives him corned beef and bage four times a week.

He decided he was rot, and called husband who did "selfsb."

"MARRYING A CHEF"

cab-tute's results shows that the differ- ence in sleeping habits between young and old is very sight. The propar- tion of those sleeping less than eight hours a night rose a few per cent, in the middle-aged group, but declined

gain among the "over-afdes."

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

"If i was half as fat as he is every one would be congratulating my wife,"

Greek Inspiration Wins

SYDNEY:

UFS

King Doris of Bulgaria reviews military parade to Sofia, Parade was firat of its kind in Bulgaria since the nailon wan released from military prohibitions by Balonika 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.

T. F. Higgins, student of St. John's College and secretary of the College Grecian Society, inspired by the

The actual number to be Greek idents of a healthy mind in a healthy body, elad himself in examined will be about 70,000, Grecian loin cloth, and ran 15 miles It is from these, after allowing in two and one-quarter hours, around the college oval as preparation for for the rejections and those who taking his examination the next day, secure postponement of service, that the first 50,000 will be selected.

MISSED. THEIR SLEEP The regularity of steeping habit, as revealed by the third question The Judge was Mr. Justice Little, varied remaritably between young and in the Dublla District Court he and old. grunted a separation order and £2 a) White only 40 per cent. of the young week maintenance to the wife of the were able to say that they had had

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

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Policeman Is Diviner

gut by 150 medical boards established A CONSTABLE who, with in nl parts of the country. Each others, had searched five board will consist, normally, tf{u chairman and four medical practi-days in a vain attempt to recover tioners drawn from the district. In the body of a seven-years-old girl cases where it is difficult to obtain lost in a boating nceldent at Tit- this 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 more

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 set in a rather a few minutes, different manner from those of the

Just war.

Constable "Haines was continuing

Instead of certifying as body the search when some-one In the whether a man is fit or not, ench dor- crowd suggested that a diviner might "top" WHB"have-a-certain-speelfie-part j-be-able-tu-help.

of the examination to conduct..

4,200 MORE

Haines tried to show the watchers how diviner worked. Cutting a hazel twig, he walked along the lake Sud- park with the fork upright. denly the twig twisted violently in his hands in the direction of

the

From the completed data, the man will be placed in one of four grades. A man in the fourth grade-rejected- will be given a certificate stating that all members of the board agree that; Waler. he is permanently incapable of being

test was repeated several placed in any one of the other three traes with the same result, and at grades.

The

the third attempt the body was re- Following the announcement that covered.

nude, n

registration could still be

further 4,200 men, of whom 118 were

provisionally recorded as conselen- tered up to 224,172, of whom 3,893 tious objeclors, registered.

are provisionally recorded as con-

These brought the number regis-scientious objectors.

Royal Furniture To Return To Old Home

ᎪᎢ .

T 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.

The exhibition also contained.

The pen with which Sir Aus-aid of the Heritage Craft Schools, ten Chamberlain signed the Challey, Sussex. Treaty of Locarno;

A jewel worn by Napoleon on his way to St. Helena;

A walking stick given to Fred Archer by King Edward VIL;

One of Lord Baldwin's pipes; and The manuscript of Sir James Barrie's "Peter Pan."

Rooms will be named so that visi- ters to the exhibillon will know which

was the dining-room, the King's study, and the Queen boudoir.

One of the Princesses' rooms on the nursery floor 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 It will last three months, and is in Alexandra,

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