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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1953-8-5, Page 7Your Chances Of Living To Be 100 What are your chances of liv- ing to blow Out ono hundred candles On your birthday? Im- proving, according to some med- ical authorities. When a vital Organ, such as the heart, weal's out, life ends —though the other organs may be good for another 25 or 30 years, Doctors are asking why old age attacks differentorgans in different people, and why some families are long-lived and others short-liyed, Diet is believed by nutrition- ists to offer some hope of pro- longing life. Tests with rats have shown that those on good diets live a quarter as long again as Obese -;ori indifferent ones., I do not say that diet will prevent old age creeping on," the American Dr. J, S. McLester has Csaid. But I do believe that, if the result of dietetic experiments with animals are correct and can be applied to human beings, mod- erate balanced diets will post- pone senility and prolong the useful .period of life." That diet has undoubtedly an important bearing on life and longevity is borne out by the re -2 searches in India of a former chief' of the Indian Medical Ser- " ''vice, Major-General Sir Robert McCarrison. Sir Robert was impressed by the good health and long lives_ of the Hunza tribes in the Him- alayas. The +Hunza are skilled agriculturists. They eat coarse unleavened bread, vegetables and fruit. They like meat, but treat it as a luxury. In complete contrast to the Hunza, Sir Robert found a south- ern Indian tribe called the Mad- rassi, who exist mainly on rice, with little or no milk, cheese, vegetables Or fruit. They neither live as long as the Hunza, nor do they enjoy such good health. Sir Robert fed two groups of rats on the Hunza and Madrassi diets. Rats fed on the Hunza diet •were like the people, free from disease and long-lived; those on the Madrassi food were sickly and short-lived. " Dig That Chompin' Champ!—This is the technique—efficient but slightly messy—that won 12 -year-old Ralph Hoyne first prize in a. watermelon -eating contest. He put away ten slices like this. Doctorsbelieve that some- thing can be learned from mak- ing a study of very old people. But the centenarians 'generally have differing explanations of their long life. Three years ago a Hindu was reputed to have reached 182. He did not look more than 50, and claimed that his .secret lay in a special rejuvenation treatment, which included being shut up in a sealed chamber for 40 years. Some p r o f e s s ions, notably painting and the church, seem to produce more long-lived people than others. Titian was painting steadily until his 99th birthday..; Until he died at 90, Michelangelo never lost his in- comparable skill. In England to- day, Sir Frank Brangwyn has reached 85. .. Sp RT JQ by Ia SLXBITC IT'S MUTINY, THAT'S WHAT 1T IS — THEY'RE FIRING ON THE GUARDS! In other words they've gone and changed the rules of the sacred "Wall Game at Eton.'„ * * * Now we never saw the Wall Game at Eton played,and if we never should do so we imagine we'll manage to survive, Still, ever since we used to read those books like "Tom Brown's School Days" and the like, this peculiar form of football has somehow intrigued our imagination, if you know what we mean. In fact, we thought it was something like the Laws of the Medes and Per" sians, solid as a rock and by, net means to be tampered with. a a And now, they're changing the rules. Why? -you ask.. Just - -for the paltry reason thatthere hasn't been a goal scored in.the - annual contest since 1909. ,Next thing you know they'll be *short- ening the right geld will • et Lords or the Oval se that there'll be more four -baggers in cricket! Mutiny, we calls it. Or, even worse. Here's the low-down as. reported, direct from London, by Sydney Skilton. * * a Old Etonian., former pupils of England's most famous school and the delight of cartoonists who caricature them in top hats and monocles as symbolic of the English: race, are said to bebak- ento their shirt-tails. The rules of their old school football kerbs are to be changed on the orders of the Keepers of the Wall..•. ' * e e Itis a change described as rib: solutely revolutionary and some - thing like having an eiglit-oar race with seven men or plsging cricket with a soft ball. What 'is happening is that with effect from next St. Andrew's, -pay (Nov. 30) when the 113th anual match is dueto be played,' only 10 boys instead of the traditlbnal 11 will line up. The idea behidd the dropping of one defensive player from each of the two' opposing sides'is%to try and' pro- duce some action and pessiily some more goals.* • a Goals in Eton's Wall Gamer an 'exclusive brand fromwhich;pFe- sent-day soccer is said to have descended, are rare. One in every 88 years is the rate since records were first kept, and so old.;Et- °'mans may justifiably .be excus- ed at their disquietude at this sud+• den prospect of speeding things up and a glut of 'goals. 'Goals to Glass -Jawed Entry-,Abb'eseng,' a''crdtk'entry, irv.the $.100,0OQ^^' Hambletonidn stake on August 12 is given TJ good thence or, winning, despite its twice -broken ja,w,Raymond "Bud" Cotter,,. 26, isshownwith the horse he hopes will b'eat' the 1O -year-old„• retoreset by "Dec" Earshall, who was 34 'When" he won the,, Hambleton!an in 1934, • them are an almost sacred busi- ness, And although the old school can never be what it was in their day, the idea .of "cheapen- ing" the Wall Game is not a mat- ter to be discussed lightly. Indeed the Wall Game itself cannot be discussed lightly be- cause its vocabulary is just one. mass -of weird and odd sounding words and phrases that include "calx" "shy," "bully," "rogue" and "cools." All these have thein' special place in a game that is contested up against a brick wall with an ancient elm tree for a goal at one end and a little old door for a goal at the other. It is a game that has been going on for a long time, a good two centuries before the present list starts. This dotes from 1841, prior to which nobody seemed to bother about keeping the records. a a v Traditional signal for the start of the Eton battle which is al- ways betwen the Collegers, who are the boys residing in Eton College • proper, and the Oppi- dans, who live in houses around the town, is the striking of 12.30 by the old clock in Lupton's Tower. The two teams which until this year were each com- posed 'of 11 players—three known as "walls," two in support of the "walls" known as seconds," three known as "outsides" and three known as "behinds" then quickly become one seething mass of humanity. The "walls" who op- erate in direct personal contact with the Wall, which is a. stretch of brickwork 12 ft high and sur- mounted on the great day by as many voting Etonians .as can clamber on it, wear protective clothing. a : e Mostly the play is "tight' which means that the ball, rather smaller than an ordinary soccer ,,, ball, is kept within the scrim- mage as the two sides fight their way along the all into each other's territory. "Loose" play consists largely in booting the ball out of play as far as pos- sible in the opponent's territory. Half -way through the two teams change ends, the side which be- gan by kicking into "Good Calx" takes its turn at "Bad Calx." The latter is the ten -yard area at the tree end and, as its name implies, the more difficult to secure a goal in. - * * * • A goal is scored when a player hits the target—an area marked on a tree trunk at one end or a small door at the other—with a "shy" he has earned in•the scrim- mage. When a player, despite the interference of many, pairs of stout boots but with the• assist- ance of the wall manages to hook up the ball with his foot and touch it with his hand he shouts "Got it!" Providing he is in "calx" and providing the umpire agrees withhim he has a "shy"' at goal. Ten unsuccessful shots at the goals,, which are extremely diffi- cult to hit from ,an,angle or at ii distance, are counted as one succes3ful one, The last time a goal Was Scor-• ed was in 1909•' This Inove by the Keepers' of the Wall -to try and snake goals' easier . to , ebme by is what ;has so„ruffled the equanitiilty of Old Etonian. And what' hes pr'a faced today'§ col- umh. ' SMELLY STO1Ix Even in the rush hours there's ' ,always a seat fo Asclmio Spoli- Coro, Of New York, when he travels by subway train. Be, takes hid pet skunk with him. "ft's deodorised,,” he says!,' "Bid ether people don't know7" World Warmer? Blame industry Do you yearn for, . the old- fashioned winter? Then blame Industry, D. Gilbert Plass, of Johns Hopkins University, has stated that the world`s average temper- ature is rising at the rate of 1% degrees Fahrenheit per hundred years. He told the American Geo- physical Union that industry an- nually adds about six billion tons of carbon dioxide to the atmos- phere; ' "It acts in the same maifner as the .glass in a greenhouse," he said, "It prevents the escape Of heat radiation from the ground, but is transparent:;to the radia- tion from the sun." Experts searching for evidence of a change in the earth's climate . 'have discovered that an upward trend of about two degrees Fah- renheitis on record for such wiliely separtted places as Lon- don, Winnipeg, Paris, Vienna, Buenos Aires, Capetown and Bombay over the last century. The climate has warmed up even more in the Arctic, but has had a downward trend in the West Indies, North Africa, and the Mediterranean. The increased number of coal fires and factory chimneys in this country have also tended to give an impression of a milder cli- mate, since the "good old days" by reducing the time taken for a fall ofsnow to melt; Notonly has central heating raised the temperature of our towns and cities, but soot soon blackens the • snow, and the sun's rays are ab- sorbed instead of reflected. We cannot, to any great ex- tent, alter the weather to suit our convenience. Vast quantities of petrol had to be burnt to clear the fog over airports ,temporarily fdr war -time bomber raids, while Sir It. A. Watson Waft has esti- mated that a`40 m.p.h. gale Would cost about $800,000' to create. For years scientists have bom- barded clouds with dry ice, ;alt„ particles, water drops, and silver iodide in attempts'to make 'rain fall to order. • e Small Fry Stuff It was a very •unseasonable January and Charles had been unable to use his new sled since h��SS father had given it to him at Ctllistmas. Father sympathized. "I wish," he said, "I could do something about it, Charlie." "Yeah, Pop," mused the boy. "It's too bad you didn't give me a snow storm for Christmas. I coulda borrowed a sled." o * Two small children bad just visited New York's famous Mu- seum of Natural History for the first time. When she asked them where they had been, one re- plied: "We've been to a dead circus,' * Y * Upon coming home from school Sammy was surprised when his mother had him sit down to a heaping dish of ice cream. "Gosh, mother," he sighed, "I wish you'd told me about the ice cream this morning." "Why should I?" "Then," reasoned Sammy, "I could have expected it all day!' * * * The teacher was instructing the second-grade class on ways to avoid catching cold, "I knew i a little boy seven years old," she related, "and one da he took his new sled out in the snow when it was too cold. He got his feet wet, caught a cold, it de- veloped into , pneumonia, and a week later he was dead." There was an impressive silence, then a voice from the I rear: "Where's his sled?" * 5 * Monsignor Fulton 3. Sheen, in I Philadelphia to give a lecture, ' stopped to ask a group of small boys how he could get to the Town Hall. The leader of the , group gave explicit instructions, then 'asked, "Wotcha gonna do there?" "I'm going to speak," replied the Monsignor. - 'Tin going to give a lecture on how to get to heaven. Would you like to come?" , "Huh!" grunted the boy, "You don't even know how to get to the Town Hall!" M * * A little girl came across a pressed maple leaf in the pages of the family Bible, "Look, what 1 fourfd, Daddy!" she cried. "I bet it belonged to Eve!" * o * The young father had just"ar rived home from work 'when he noticed a confused look On his wife's face. "What's wrong, dar- ling?" he asked. "You look kinda flustered." "Oh, I've had an awful- day," she moaned. "First Herbert cut his first tooth, then he took his first step, and thenhe fell and broke his tooth." "Myl" exclaimed her. husband, "then what happened?" "Then," she,replied in a shock- ed voic8, '!then he said his first word.", NDMY SCHOOL LESSON The Christian's War (Teknperance Lesson) Ephesians 0;19-20, Romans 14;19-21, Memory Selection; It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything whereby thy brother stumbletb, or is offended, or is made weak. Romans 14:21, There is an eternal conflict on between right and wrong. It be- gan when Lucifier and his co- horts were cast out of heaven and will continue until the con- quering Christ shall declare that time shall be no more. If we are going to win in our personal conflict against evil we must have the strength that God sup- plies. There is no covering for the back. There is no place for the coward in this warfare. We must face the foe. The memory selection states an important principle of this temperance lesson. If it were t0 be observed how different would be this world. J. Frank Hanley former Governor of Indiana says, "I bear no malice to those engaged in the liquor business, but I hate the traffic. I hate its every phase, I hate it for its utter disregard of law. I hate for the human wrecks it has caused. I hate it for the almshouses it peoples; for the prisons it fills; for the insanity it begets; for its countless graves in potters' fields. I hate it for the crimes it commits; for the homes it destroys; for the hearts it breaks, I hate it for the grief it causes womanhood — the scald- ing tears, the hopes deferred, its burden of want and care. I hate it as virtue hates error, as righteousness hates sin, as jus- tice hates wrong, as liberty hates tyranny; as freedom hates op- pression!" In a highway accident in which four young people were killed ' the evidence that liquor was the culprit was found in the broken whiskey bottles among the debris and mangled bodies of the youth- - ful victims. The father of one of the girls in frenzied anguish over the untimely death of his beau- tiful daughter threatened to kill the one who had provided the four young people with liquor, but upon going to the cupboard where he kept his supply of choice beverages he found a note in his daughter's handwriting, "Dad, we're taking along some of your good liquor—I know you won't mind." The only remedy is for men to be born anew by the Spirit of God by repentance from sin and faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour. Stole World's Most Famous Painting Once more the woman with the most famous smile in the world is in the news. It is reported that the number of people visiting the Louvre, Paris, to view the Mona Lisa, Da Vinci's master- piece, is expected this year to be greater than ever. Her haunting face and enig- matic, flickering smile has al- ready intrigued millions of men and women of all races. Why is that smile so irresistible? Art lovers have been probing the problem for years and nobody has given a really convincing answer. Look again at those ruby lips that pout and smile so faintly. It is said that the artist sur- rounded his exquisitely beauti- ful Neapolitan model with sing- ers andcomic dancers to keep that smile always on those lips, Some art experts say that the model was one of the loveliest women of the Renaissance, Isa- bella Deste, Marchioness of Man - CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING pans •CHtOKO PON't MISS thee° leW price Oanndlap Approved Standard QualltY Aar 014 heavy breed puaoto 514.96 per hundred, Th060 -low prices made possible by. tromehdOp* demand for cockerels, Money Maker Quality add 92,00; Extra Profit add 54,09, . SPeelal MatIag ,Ad 25.00 per hundred, Also non -sexed and cockerel chicks at competitive prieee, TurHoY poults, older Pullets, Started ohleke, broiler chicks, 'SWEPDLE clncK HATCIIERIES TJrn, Fergus Ontario Eggs are high 10 Price and Will go higher. 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