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HONGKONG TELEG RAPH

November 8, 1940.

By Walt Disney

| MAGAZINE

This is the fourth of an interesting series of articles which tells you how to get the maximum benefit from sloop, which in these days of strain is more important than ever,

MINOR ANNOYANCES

In addition to mental and physical tensions there are several other factors, mainly physical, which tend to keep people nwake at night. For instance, it is axiomatic that it is difficult to get to sleep when one's feet are cold.

The hal-water bottle, human pr otherwise, is one answer to this problem, but it is never entirely satisfactory. For one thing, it takes quite a time to warm feet at any kind of hot- water bottle, and the time so occupied is time needlessly spent uwake.

In most marriages there is often one partner who is a "chilly mortal and this partner sometimes considers that it is a recognised marital privilego to warm cold feet on the other partner. This is not so funny as it sounds-not for the people who have to put up with it.

But do they have to put up with it? Actually, nol In somo circumstances, however, this contact cannot be avoided without the risk of giving aerious offence and the suf- ferer judges that this is not worth while.

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ncarly always the male partner who is left with no choice. During the honey- moon the wife chooses her. sleeping position and this is, naturally, the side of the bed she has always been accustom- ed to sleep on,

Quite often, this forces the husband to adopt new sleep- ing habits but he is never quite happy on the wrong side of the bed. When his wife is away he returns with relief to his old sleeping position, and sleeps the better for the change. In one case that came recently to my notice,

BY D. COMPTON JAMES

This sort of thing is three parta selfishness and one part laziness. A stone or rubber hot-water bottle would serve the adme purpose without causing discomfort to the other partner. Unfortunate- ly, cold-blooded people are never able to appreciate the degree of discomfort that warm-blooded people suffer from contact with cold extre- mitics

I remember very well an oc- casion when I was running a high temperature with malaria. The doctor attend- ing me came straight out of a snowstorm and pressed his icy hand on my spleen. He was never called in to attend me again.

In many marriages one spouss has always to sleep on what is, for him, the wrong side of the bed. I write "him" advisedly because it is

FUNNY SIDE UP

DEAN

ARMGRIS DELIVERY GERNIG

the wife decided on twin beds because her husband tossed- and turned so much that he disturbed her rest. She did not realise that her cholge of sleeping position was probably the primary cause of her hus→ band's restlessness..

Married couples should al- ways sleep in twin beds. This removes all restrictions on position and makes It im- possible for one partner to dis- turb the other except by snor- ing. And, incidentally, twin- beds may prove to be a cure for anoring. This habit is greatly aggravated by an un- natural sleeping position.

To return to the question of cold feet. The best way out of this difficulty is to make sure that the feet are warm before going to bed. Toast-- ing them in front of the fire, or soaking them in a hot foot- bath will not always achieve this. Indeed, cold feet res-

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fleutenant, that you are A prominent inember of the Strength Through-Joy movement

pond very slowly to external applications of heat. The best way to get them warm is to take a sharp walk before go- ing to bed. A mile stepped out briskly is usually more than enough to warm up the coldest extremities, especially if precautions are taken to en- sure that circulation is not hindered by garters or tight stockings.

Another physical factor which delays sleep for some people is an

the skin. Inexplicable Itching of This beging soon after the victim gets into bed. Much of this irrita- tion is nervous in origin, but there are focal points on the skin which give physical expression to the nervous symptoms. bath just be

ems. One

good re- snedy is a lukewarm tore going to bed; not a hot bath because hot water tends to make the skin prickle. Another remedy te id brush the skin all over with a medium-stiff hairbrush.

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awake for hours

People whose feet perspire rather lot often suffer from intense it- ching between the toes. This starts about ten minutes after they have ellinbed into bed. If they ̄nisa"the first boat for sleep, they may lie urs trying to ignore Sometimes they are the itching. actually awakened in the middle of

night

annoying symptom. It really saves time to get up 08 6000 as the itching begins, wash the feet thoroughly,

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and dust between the toes with boracle powder,

Any form of itching at night is often a sign that there are too many blankets on the bed. This is an- other Important argument in favour of twin beds, since "chilly mortals" require more bed-clothing thun ordinary folk.

By Abner Dean this dimeulty, nor

"MċNoodle doesn't trust ANYBODY!”

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her people's snorca not normally waken a sleeper, but they can and do prevent a sufferer from insomnia from going to sleep. Twin beds are not a complete remedy for are separate room! solution, since a snorer in full blast can be heard all over the house. The best plán is for the poor sleeper to get to sleen before the snorer starts his unconscious serenade, even if this means going to bed an hour earlier.

Other people cough a lot before they settle down to sleep. Much of this due to

habit

and the practica of breathing through the mouth.

Many people put up with all kinds of minor sleep annoyances because they have not the foresight or the moral courage to apply the remedies.

King's

WALT

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After thirteen years' residence in Paris, the correspondent?

of the "Daily Herald," leaving as a war refugee, packs six, stuffed monkeys in his luggago. -

LEAVING

THE

HOME

THE queer things that people collect from their possessions when they flee their homes. When I was given only a few hours' notice to leave Paris-after having made it my home for thirteen years-I was able to take with me only one suit-

casc.

When I unpacked it in London I was surprised to see what unsultable trifles I had salvaged from my simple but adequate- ly equipped existence. Here is my list.

One sult, one frock, a hand- ful of underwear, a pair of roped-soled sandals that don't fit, two chiffon nightgowns, a beach robe, six stuffed mon- keys, a camera, a portable typewriter, Shakespeare's son- nets, Browne's Religio Medici, Humbert Wolfe's poems, air -raid kit, the office petty cash book, and a lace handkerchief.

Not much with which to start life afresh.

the man leading his horses, his dog walking to heel.

On a pile of blankets sat the family, their household goods stacked round them— tables, chairs, old fashioned lamps, cooking utonsils, pota and pans.

Wide-eyed children peered over the sides of the carts, clutching battered toys.

Some farmers had salvaged

By JOSE SHERCLIFF Others had provided more adequately for the future.

On the roads out of Paris you could tell the people who had prepared for flight with foresight and those who had bundled their goods in at the last minute.

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You could tell, too, which possessions had been. deliber- ately packed and the trifles rammed hugger-mugger into odd corners.

The beady eyes of a teddy bear peering from between two suitcases, an aspidistra wedged into a roll of blankets, a scattering of books, st cherished plece of crockery. tucked into a coat pocket."

One couple had entirely filled the back of their car with clothes thrown pell-mell and stacked to the roof. A grey-haired woman clutched a caged canary, hons in per- forated cardboard boxes were securely tied to the wings of another car.

Some had taken so little

and some had taken much. Many had only a bicycle or a perambulator with, which to flee and carry their all. One party in a Hispano towed a smaller car carrying all their Juggage.

Most pathetic of all were the peasants in their carts,

their tractors, harnessed huge haycarts to them, and re- moved their household goods and farm implements bodily.

Well, the irrevocable choice has been made, the key turned in the lock.

"On a les larmes aux yeux an fermant na porto," said án old peasant, a fellow refugee, as we sat munching a sand- wich at the roadside. "We can't help weeping as the door is closed..

When the tears have been smudged away, there remains only in the mind's eye the picture of what was home.

To me it is a tiny, airy flat among the roofs of Paris, a kitchen gay with blue' and white spotted crockery and scarlet saucepans, a bathroom hung with curtains of striped Basque linen.

There was a room with a divan, a desk and a scarlet table, with green bookshelves crammed with books, a bunch of roses from the Maginot Line, 籍 bonbonniere from Honflour, a statue from Spain. There were few, but much loved things in that room whose beauty was precious to me.

After all, maybe, this is the. best way to hold one's posses- sions in the mind's eye.

Father Had A Big

The King and Queen heard recently how a suggestion made by King George V help- ed to defeat the Germans in 1918.

In a heavy artillery school in the Northern "Command a

· Houtenant-colonel of the Royal Engineers told how on August 8, 1018, King George the Fifth came to a 14-inch naval gun position on a railway near Arras and gavo orders for the first shot to be fired on Dogal rallway junction.save, After the shot King George told the lieutenant-colonel in

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command of the battery that he had just come from the Fourth Army, which was launching its attack on Amiens.

You can be perfectly sure that the Germans will have to

· rush their reinforcements from Ypres through" Doual," and King George V. "Why' not keep up a harassing aro on the railway junction?"

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high explosives on the railway Junction," the colonel told tho king.

"Afterwards an English lady told me that there were 400 casualties, in a German troop train on our first day's firing."

Tho

gun, nicknamed the "Bocho. Buster,” and a sister gun, known as the "Sceno Shifter" are soon to be in. “We droppad 120 tons of action against the Hun again.

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