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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1947.

Every Wednesday in the Telegraph:

Sitting on Fence

MINISTRY OF SELF-DEFENCE

Being

A BILL

by NATHANIEL

GUBBINS

To be presented before the House of Parliament in the Nest, to make provision to ex- cuse and exonerate N. Gubbins, Esq., journalist, of the Nest, in the County of Surrey, from all organised Christmas festivities in the past, has not only been in the year 1946 and there swindled by the licensed and after; and from the responsi unlicensed vendors of Christ- bility of providing a turkey, mas cheer, but by the vendors goose, duck (or ducks), or any of all saleable commodities at other form of poultry, game or all times in the year and at any other foodstuffs known as time in nis life.

within the Christmas cheer, meaning of the Bill, except that he will undertake to provide monies for the purchase of the Said Christmas cheer by a third

person.

B

the

expense, any present, sen- adnable gift or geegaw, to be wrapped, tied with string, card or fancy twine and posted to any person known as a friend or rela- tive, unless of his own free will and judgment.

(e) It shall be lawful for him to present, or net to present, nc- cording to his own free will and Judgment, such monies ns may deem advisable and within his means after deductions of income tax, to such persona in lieu of the said presents, sea - sonable gifts or peegats,

It being well known also, not only to the ladies temporal, but to a large number of his Most Excellent Majesty's subjects in the County of Surrey, that the said N. Gubbins, Esq., lost six enacted by and with Christmas Ait

tarkeys in trains, the advice and consent of omnibuses, taxicabs, telephone the Indies temporal, boxes, and other public vehicles though not so spiritual, in the and places in the years 1942, present Parliament assembled 1940, 1939, 1938, 1937 and in the Nest, and by the att- 1936, and various other items

In the event of an invitation 'or fol of Christmas cheer in other thority of the same as

Invitations being received to lows:

years, he shall hereinafter be attend a Chistmas party or parlies Inown as an Irresponsible Per- it shall be lawful for the said N. son unfit to negotiate, trade or Gubbins, Esq., to say Yea or Nay to make purchases in any market any one or all of such invitations. whatsoever.

it shall be teful for 1 That

N. Gubbins, Est. journalist, in the County of from all Surrey, to abstain Christmas entertainments, fes- tivities and whoppee by his own free will and judgment and without Recrimination.

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2 That the said N. Gubbins, Esq., shall not be asked at the last moment to purchase, if available, in the open or black market, or by any other means.

turkey, goose come by, a

other foodstufs known any hereinafter as Christmas cheer, as it is well known to the ladies temporal of the said Parliament of the Nest that the said N. Gubbins, Esq., is a Fool, who,

It shall be understand also t there is no obligation on any other inember of the Parliament of the Nest to leave at the same time; that it is lawful for them to leave at any time they think fit, singly, in pairs, or in groups, by any means available, on foot, by car, or in ambulance, according to their con- dition,

an

That it shall be lawful to hold a party within the Neat Itself, If provisions are available, and that any member of the Parliament of the Nest miny Invite to such a party any person who is not a convicted criminal, undischgged bankrupt or Imbecile; that it shall be lawful also for any member of the Parliament of the Nest, and for N. Gubbins, Esq. to leave the party in a courteous manner and retire to bed at any time he or she thinks it, providing always that each member shall be responsible for his or her own guest and not retire to bed until the snid Ruest has departed.

to

That it shall be unlawful place a paper cap or any other humorous headgear within the mean- ing of the Bill on the head of N. Gubbins, Esq., without his consent,

POCKET CARTOON

by OSDENT, LANCASTER

"The travel ban won't warry them. As soon as the leavre begin to fall, you'll find they're all fixed up to go south on Important cultural lutons for the

British Council,”

BY THE

WAY

by Beachcomber THE

E row about the pronun- ciation of Eros is full of fun. The cream of the jest is that the statue was apparently never intended to represent Eros, but the sentimental public could not imagine any- one but the God of Love shoot- ing an arrow across Piccadilly- circus into the ground floor of

It shall be unlawful alse, in the 8 That it shall by unlawful to ex- Swan and Edgar.

verse

0

Sour-

That

are

rumour

although A second joke in that this is the statue to which Londoner

supposed to be particularly attachel, nobody knows what it represents, and there was even a that it had been put up facing the wrong way. If, of course, the arrow was aimed to wards Leicester-square and the Charing Cross-road; tho Bintuo wonk! obviously represent, not Love, but Theatrical Agencies

pect the said N. Gubbins Esq, to event of the verdict being Nay, for

pull more than two crackers after any member of the Parliament

dinner or to read more than two the Nest to make any attempt to re-

the verdict by persuasion, bumarous verses or to guess, or to the answers to by attempt to guess, -enjolery ·

wit, or mockery~~~to 3 That it shall be unlateful for

the said N. Gubbins, Esq., describing the said N. Gubbins, Esq. more than two funny riddles, to be coerced as a member of as Spoil-sport, Scrooge, or any Christmas shopping ex- puss. pedition, or as an escort to any uch expedition, or detailed as a one-man fatigue.party to any Such expedition or expeditions. It shall be unlozeful also to ex- rect him to

(a) Choose, select, have printed and post any Christmas card or cards to

unusual event of In the any person known as 5

N. 10 verdict being Yea the said friend or relative, unless of Gubbins, Esq., shall have the Tight courteous his own free will and judge to leave the party in a

manner at any time he thinks flt for (b) Choose, solect

any reason whatsoever, and all be loyally supported in any lio, excuse purchase by divers meats, or deception he may invent for that and at great trouble and purpose.

It shall be understood and lainful

It shall be unlawful 10 for any member of the said Paella- ment to attend, or not to attend, ne- expect the said N. Gubbins, Esq. cording to her wishes and free will, to play more than one game (each)

draughts.

domines, halma, and without let or hindrance. any party or parties, without escort of

and Jad-A Uddley-winks, or snakes

ment.

The clue of the musty clover..

by CHAPMAN PINCHER

*TTUNDREDS of people

whose lives

and

a

the

American Dr Edgar Allen has just reported on 1,086 operations in which the drug was used. There were only two deaths.

Other doctors have gone further. They are using dicoumarin against a

ders.

That

over

Tibetan Moonflower' (III.)

CROSS

the forecourt of the summer residence of Dingi-Poos walked Colonel Egham And Mr D. J. Mince, each carrying a neat black attache case.

**TO

ret this deal settled," said Mince. lot will depend on her figuro," whose mind was not on Egham, the negotiations, replied dreamily: "You won't find anything to com

"I hope ninin of in her figure!" you're right," sald

Mince we've had no hint yet.

It shall be lawful to expect the said N. Gubbins, Esq., to tie small packages or decorn-

on any Christmas tens

tree or trees; to all and hang on a bedpost any stocking for person

any the age of 10 years; to hang, nail, or otherwise suspend any part of good najharvest, I believe. evergreen shrub or parasite plant may make her tough with us." (ie., or or any other place; softly,

holly or mistletoe) in any part dark wild

of the

any

moke

to sing songs, tell funny stories, give recitations or imitations, or speeches; to dress up as any charac ter, including the fictitious charac- ter of Father Christmas.

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wondering his chief. "I was

"but

It was a

That

1000 #

nald

"What?"

mapped it the sun had affected

"Sorry," said

was thinking of something Presently they came through B

great

marble entrance into avast hall, and Mnce began to picture the usuni austere conference room; the big table the pena, ink and paper, the chalra. And at the

the table, delegates this

บรนด And

and #coretaries. fast-increasing form of thrombosis 11 shall be understood that Christmas Is over at 24,00

Woman Dingl-Poos-3 which attacks middle-aged and

hours precisely on the twenty-fifth fussy little business woman, he elderly people who seem to be in day of December in the year 1947

looked A girl in what supposed. perfect health.

and each subsequent year. The day like a golderi nightgown conducted after, beginning at 24.01 hours on the thein ncross the ball, to a large door. It is caused by the sudden forma- twenty-sixth day of December, The door opened wide-and Mr D. “Lion” of a ̈"Blood-clot in the tiny ar-any time between-24.00-hours on the 4. Mince gasped.

teries which provide the muscles of 25th December and 24.01 hours on the heart with the energy for its the 20th December, shall be known as Aspirin Day, when no festivities Incessant work. These arc the shall take place.

coronary arterles, and coronary thrombosis is the name of the dis-j

case.

That is why, as the Canadian Jobg .are being Schofield discovered in 1921, cows

If the clot hinders the blood flow 12 saved today owe their develop a fatal haemorrhage if they to the heart muscles it causes great pain and breathlessness. If it plugs fortune to a Canadian scientist eat a lot of spolled sweet clover.

the vessels completely it kills. who discovered that cattle be- It took 20 more years before able to ill after eating

scientists were musty American

isolate dicoumarin and make it syn-

came

clover.

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Life-saving

thetically. As soon as it was avail- According to Sir Maurice Cassidy, able doctors realised its medical. one of the King's physicians, The patients are victims.of an

coronary thrombosis is more than ten nilment called thrombosis. It

times more common than it was 20 to dramatic strikes with

suddenness, They argued: If we gave li

before those killing outright or changing a healthy patients

operations years ago. thrombosis which so often end in person into a chronic invalid.

The cause of this increase is un- we might be able to prevent

the known.

Neither have the doctors formation of internal elots,

any clue to suggest why the disease its is four times more common in men

than in vomun. days,

A thrombosis is a clot of blood formed inside an artery or vein. It may wander harmlessly about the main blood stream until it is dis- solved away. Or it may suddenly plug a vital vessel. preventing the uction of the lungs or heart,

Such clots cannot normally pear, but during contain surgical operations internal clots are nearly always formed, and the death-rate of an otherwise successful treatment rises to a depressing figure."

That, at least, was the position before the discovery that dicoumarin caused hemorrhage in esille.

Experiments had shown that effects wore off after a few leaving the blood normal..

But they do know that dicoumarin

the looks like going far to reduce its There would, of course, be Increased danger of haemorrhage toll.

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That this Bill shall have three readings in the Nest and when, and If, passed by a majority shall become law and known hereinafter as THE DEFENCE OF N. GUBBINS, ESQ. (AT CHRISTMAS TIME) ACT.

Sh!

His panses sunro moro eloquent even than his playing,

(Musle critic) THEN, If I were he, I would futuro misa out the playing and give them only the pauses, liko the centenarian violinist Badhat, who fell asleep as he was about to play "Afghan

Lullaby" The audience leaned forward to catch the inaudible sounda, and a critic wrote: "So softly did he play that one heard only silence."

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during the operations. But that could Dr Irving Wright, of America, has be overcome by carefully controlling used the drug on 70 patients the dosage of dicoumarin and by acute or recurrent coronary throm having blood transfusions always bosts. He claims to have`` reduced available.

the death rate by more than half,

Preventive

So Ave years ago doctors began to use dicoumarin-spacingly at first and only in cases where they thought a risk was justified.

It worked.

Dicoumarin is a white crystalline substance present in large quantities in sweet clover which has gone bad. It la not poisonous when swallowed, Gradually, as more and more suc- but when rapidly absorbed into the cessful preventions

thrombosis blood It temporarily destroys the have been achieved its use has been power of blood to clot.

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Three other doctors have reported on a trial of 100 enses, 50 of which had dicoumarin. The drug cut the death rate by 00 per cent., they say.

Stirred by these

the successes, American Heart Association is or- ganising widespread trials to test the value of dicoumarin in routine clini- cal practice.

Doctors of all nations. anxiously awalt the results,

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