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DAB and FLOUNDER

FLGUNDIA SCHOOL OF

MEMORY

TRAINING

ING

An expert on primitive tribes brings the same approach to a sovan-year study

of the U.S.A...

By WALTER

Women

Money and Youth

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And the girl?

ITH the eye of a scientist with a more fashionable line like:

primitive "You're reegosh-gorgeous. at looking tribesmen that he

If she falls for the Bine she is a eus loser in this intricate social gate. can report their strange toms to the world, an English. If shy stays so cynleal that he feels to risk clating! her the to downeast been studying

autain, she is equally the loser. men has Americans.

feel

both

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She knows that mutual enjoy ment of the date lies in knowing When ill-health forced Geof how to yield to her partner's per-

without making him frey Glorer, tall, satirical, 43- somity. year-old anthropologist, to give that she accepts his words too much

at their face value.

At the end of the evening up his life work of finding out his men and women behave in should feel at the date has

hanced their arui

self-esteem. That is Tibet places like Africa, he changed his ground at There is no emotional feeling in this, even though the man experts a Loodenoghat kiss. He went to the United States,

after Now,

seven years' the this about

study, he says Americans" :--

1

West

admit

CONFUSING......

ATING is an American custom

which looks like courtship but

to

They are dominated by WOMEN DAT

#fly besumess isn't. except in

This

Es confissing, or course, affour-though they hate to

who do not girls outside America know their anthropology so well as Mr Corer. He has looked co close-

y at the Americans,

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They think the reason for living

The ja 15 to be measured by how easily they get and spend MONEY

They think the best years of their lives are over at 23-and

mone fetish of YOUTH

They They hate to be alone. need other people's nutmuration

to keep their self-esteem.

MOS

THE FORMULA

the people think that MOST

American's way of impressing a Hirl is to more formal than a long. Tow whistle.

Not so, saya the more closely ola- servant Geoffrey Gører,

Take "dating." which occupies a

HOW they sit earnestly in classes learning about the Smile that Wins, the Handshake of Good Fellowship, Making the Visitor Welcome.

HOW they judge

a man by his wife's fur coat,

HOW they expose their homes to the street-the blinds halfway up so that furnishings can be stimired... HOW they get on so well with machines that once somebody else 1- las Invented them--they proye, adapt, and mass-produce with a skill unsurpassed.

can

Mr Gorer has probed all this. But having lifted the top off the bustling. dynamic hive of 12 million Amerl-

THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1948.

Mr.Wicksteed

goes in

F you ever find the conver- sation languishing on

some hot summer day you might do worse than turn it to little-discussed refrigeration, a

topic that in full of cool and restful thoughts.

One of the things I've found out that might make an opening gambit is that in Abadan, on the Persian Gulf, they have special refrigera- 1or into which they put people. is used for cooling down pallents with heat stroke. A quick helps to cure them.

cold

storage

This is more than the grubs and stancl. They the moth eggs can can't bear the change and they die.. your fur 10 store If you want It

cont in a fridge you don't need to temperature. But you change the freeze

won't kill the bugs that way. You'll only put them to sleep, and if there theory they should wake up all the anything in the American doctor's better for the rest they've had,

An American doctor has a theory that you could cure other complaints by matting the patients on ice. You

Into would cool them

of a state comm, he says, and slow down their rate of Living to give them a rest.

I TU-

"This is merely a comparative ab- sence of heat," he answered,

It seems that everything on earth Ini has some heal in it, oven ice. fact, If you could extract all the hent from the ice floes round the North Pole and pipe it to your town there'd be no need to worry about cont next winter.

Refrigeration is the art of moving Another. place to heat from me The domestic fridge takes heat from Inskle the cabinet and puts it out- side. So a room with a fridge in it is always warmer than it would

An apple Is something else that bencfts from a good rest in frigerator. Apples are living organi- be without ane, nisms, you know. They breathe.

INIS SAYS

When they warmed u again they'd be twice as f as they were before.

cure

Me Chaptonn Pincher would points out that it be dangerous to try this at home by curling up in your fridge. It once your food froze, he says, you might not wafte up again.

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You can freeze without killing it because It has cold blood, but you can't freeze human beings. Surgeons are using re- frigeration now as a form of annesthetic. Instead of putting you to sleep when they are going to remove your leg they just freeze it and you don't feel a thing.

Leaving medicine austher

Sort of

I think th steep on th

wall bien to this

If you but one I a mall alr-tigt box and would kept it there you

suffocate it, the poor thing. FU

ordinary

way

In the when an apple falls from a tree it lies on the ground and leads a short, fast life. breathing

the hard The tire.

pace is too treat. ant

rots away until in a few weeks It has breathed Its lust.

But if you put it in a gas-light chamber at a low and partly Temperature suffocate it, you can re- duce its rate of breathing and so prolong its life. Frugt farmers are

duing and all over England now,

fridge that reapples that would normally be dend moves water from beer. It is ever by Christmas are still fit for eating Water freezes before the alive in the prize something slowly so simple.

form soon as the

other contents. So you pour in barrel or so, and as water is frozen you take out the ice, The stuff that's left is the real thing.

Neat beer

When you freeze the ice tends to

in large crystals, if you've ever mule tee cream at home you have probably noticed the chunks of ice in it that you don't get in the shop product.

manufacturera because

That's

APORTABLE model you could freeze it more quickly than you can

take to the local would be n useful gift, but so far they are made in the larger sizes only.

Their

the purpose is to reduce bulk of beer and so save transport costs. AL the other end of the journey, I am sorry to say the beer is watered down again.

Fridges have their uses in medi- cine and the brewing trade. There is one of sort in the organ a Notre Dune Cathedral, in Purls. Hot air doesn't seem to make the

so it is cool best religious musle, ed down to 40 degrees F. on its way to the pipes from the bellows.

You can use a refrigerator to kill moths in your clothes. Having removed all the milk bottles, etc. their you put in the garment and drape it They will probably give dollars freely for that American so that the cold air is free to circu anthropologisis can cross the Atlan-late.

down for tic and go

to Somerset- where they can study Mr Gorer at home.

much of the Americans young man's spare time from the moment he puts on long pants (Oxf. Diet.: trousers) the day he signs the marriage artister.

To other nation is there such a form pattern of young people. In a date the open- ing move comes from the man. He invites the girl to spend an evening ki company. He paya, the

few pet (although in the last years girls occasionally have inst-

behaviour

edan pasing their share...

He calls for the girl in u

<x-

and must take her home agam in it, Log Clinch phrase in so many ar Kuments

this On

between topic American fathers and sons is. "Gee, not won't look at you if you haven't a car.

the brings flowers for the girl to linir. wear on her dress or in her Then off he goes to show the girl a good time."

LINE-SHOOTING

cans, he is no longer safe. They are certain now to come out sting him.

I

"

and

tem- For the first two days the perature should be kept at 30 de grees F., or lower if you can get it, two day's rnised to 50 degrees.

James Bartlett and then for another

at

Well,

Pared

WASHINGTON.

do, and the ice crystals are con- sequently smaller.

It meat is frozen slowly the large crystals alter its structure and make it taste like cotton wool.

I

Frozen rabbits

KNOW a man in the refrigerat- ing business, and the other day he took me Into 11 cold-storage chamber at Blackfriars-right under the departure platform of the rail- way station.

The place was full of Australian rabbits frozen Together in blocks, and mutten so hard that it rang like a hell when you hit it. The walls and the ceiling were covered in frost and the temperature was 15 degrees below.

"I suppose you know there is no cold," such thing in the world as said my friend, viewing the scene with a professional eye.

"No?" I said with a shiver. "Then what's all this?"

least I was 'the Gileses'

Prices ranged all the way from a an English girl who is working on AM slowly recuperating low of ten shillings for two-there a newspaper in Topeka, the capital from that most American of was a central public bathhouse to of Kansas. She had expected that which one walked through the rain-- she would be asked many questions about England. "But no one seems the least bit interested here."

all summer holidinys, the dash to two pounds for a newly com- to the Pacific Coast and back by pleted de luxe motel with a long car. In 24 days I covered 7,389 Spanish name in San Francisco. THAT is the essential background

miles-hot, searing, soul-weary- for a date. It pruves to the American girl that her partnerising miles many of them were, worthy of admiration and affection. too.

The

Tux

couple always go first

fo

some public place to eat and dance- The only hazard I didn't have food being anything from an ice- to endure was the company of cream soda at the local drug store to the most elaborate and expensive the Giles family!

dinner,

by

R. M. MacCOLL

But I thought that Topeka had done rather nobly. Only that morning 350 students from a nearby university had uskembled in an hotel for a pre-breakfus! lecture by the English girl on "Comparative Forms of Government."

The Berlin crisis was at its height

in this while I was

this Mid West, but the only way I could find out through what was happening was

But, as with all else on Transcontinental treadmill, you quickly full a victim to yet another

urgency, the

reservation"

In one 16-hour day I drove

"early On the Arst

ure 710 miles, with the temperature tyranny. date as they strangers-they talk comparative

10 over 95 in the shade much of The theory is that it is fatul about each other. But their talk is

walt until later than 4 p.m. if you I started out at 1

bed. Aller different from other conversations, the time.

mixture of persiflage, a.m. in the little township of want to get a motel

that they are all taken, or the dallery, wit, and love-making, Gallup, New Mexico. That proprietors, well knowing that the Reserally known as a "line"

got the night I tottered wanly from my drooping motorist hasn't Have

It i

a good line and you are car in Barstow, which is a gort stamina to drive another 350 miles

a greater social success than the ofher fellow.

Where he might drag out some ot-dated compliment like "You're swell," you could knock him for six

Gorer

of sub-tropical Swindon set in the California desert.

Many of my fellow travellers engaged in the same re- lentless vacation.

"The Americans," by Geoffrey on the great highways I took a man who likes to lie late in

(Creasel Press, 103. Gd.). were

my car radio.

Even in San Francisco the big news on the front pages was a row of some kind between two civic

dignitaries. Mr Marshall ran a poor third. Hollywood, of course, was immersed in the death of Carole

Landis.

·

A

10 the next whistle siop at Wheez- ing Diaphram, Ariz., will "put the T Hollywood I made pleasant hite on you" and raise his rents.

pilgrimage to the "C. Aubrey Such un early end to the day's Smith Memorial Field," where the driving entalis an early stari. I local cricket team was defeating

visiting eleven from San Francisco. I regret to report that Mr Boris bed, especially on a holiday, but I found myself getting up earlier cach Karloff dropped a catch in the slips. morning, feverishly fumbling Into "Oh, bad luck indeed, sir," boomed You could spot the haunted my clothes in the dark, and setting the mellifluous tones of Mr Herbert off with the long-distance lorry Marshall, watching from his open look in their eyes, the groggy drivers while the sun was still hull "convertible" on the boundary.

This was perhaps unwise of Mr manner in which they walked down behind the Grand Canyon,

In New Mexico my ear was in M.. because 08 a result ho Im- to wayside hot dog stands, gulp- volved in a slight collision with a mediately became surrounded by The universe is probably governeded sandwiches, tossed back a large trailer; and that night the man a squeaking festoon of autograph-

person soft drink and then hurried who ran the repair shop invited me seeking bobbysoxers.

to dine with him at his house. He back to their cars, glancing un happily nt watches and road maps as they went.

JESTS AND JEERS

by committee - one could'nt make so many mistakes.

Tuis is the season for sales. Sporadic counter ullacks already begun.

away for a brainy day.

have

"I just love this cricket," said one had been a major in the U.S. Alr as they walked back to their seats, Force during the war, and spoke flushed with triumph and Marshall's glowingly of the British and "Aus- smile. "You get. the swellest nuto- sles."

Kraphs of all the British this way."

English I suppose that most Leaders, when they think of gambling

I am tired, so tired, of the motel. At first it is quite a.

T dinner time we went out to lls in Novada, visundise the gilttering pleasant change from the older fashioned sorts of hostelry. You intned, he said, enough food of all and Las Vegas. But legal gambling deep freeze locker, which con- and heavily publicised towns of Reno A lot of people put their problems drive your car into a private kinds to last him three months, and goes on all over the State. In one

garage and pay your money in fished about in its contents.

town of 2,000, population through advance for your

What kind of steak you want?" which I passed, the You

"one-armed room.

The inquired. "You can have any- bandits" (slot or fruit machines) Chemistry, says a professor, as are independent of beil-hops thing you like-T-bone, filet mignon, stood in rows in every drugstore. made many outstanding contribu- and clevators. You can leave tenderloin, anything." He juggled "You can lose two pounds Just tions to the world. Blondes?

when you like without form some huge stenks, selected one and walling for a bus," gloonied a house-

tossed the rest enrelessly back. Ilty.

His wife said, "Oh, I do so much want to visit England, but I don't And in the local hotel at break-

A sensible giri is never as sensible

3 she looks, because a sensible girl

har too much sense to look, sensible

•

Add famous last words:

COME of the motels are very clean enough courage

10.

'wife.

"

Ruppose 1 ever will summon up fast me, right next to the air- I asked her conditioned" ""Coffeo Shoppe, A and well appointed. Some ure what she was afraid of. "Oh, all group of lack-lustre men were com downright

Быле sleazy.

Dost those terrible deadly snakes you pleting an all-night session of dlce, radios and air-conditioning as well have there," she replied solemnly. complete with eye-shaded croupier. Well, it's all over now, and I'm back in restful Washington with only the crises to worry about,

as showers and bath-tubs. In others Not snakes but downright indif- "Well, if he won't dim his, I won't cockroaches have long since staked "ference about England and European di ming.**

affairs in general was bemoaned by

out exclusive rights.

Heat from 'ice

UNNY to think of getting warm water from a refrigerator, isn't not use it for something 17 Why

waste? instead of letting it go to That's just what engineers are be- ginging to do.

They for instance, that it is

kay. perfectly possible to use the

heat from an lee rink to warm up the rest of the building or to hent a swimming bath next door.

This brings us by natural stages to the heat pump, cne of the most romantic inventions of the stay. It you can get heat from an ice rink you can also get it from a stream.

This is what the heat pump does. that They've got one at Norwich takes heat from the River Wensum

in midwinter and uses it to warm a when the building was heated block of office buildings. The cost Is only about half of what it was

botters.

by

when we houses

The time may come shall all be warming our with heat taken from the cold alr outside or from a hole at the back of the garden.

Then in the summer we'll just put the pump in reverse and the heat from the house will be pumped out- side.

The only trouble is that when that day comes we'll have nothing left to grumble about.

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