In light of the very recent occupa-fiom of Teschen, Czechoslovakia, by ihe Poles, the following fact is of great importance: The territory of Teschen, a portion of Austrian Silesia bordering on German Silesia, was claimed by both Poland and Czechoslovakia. It was decided not to hold a plebiscite (as the recognized policy would have demanded), but to leave "the adjudication of the matter to a special commission, called the Allied Commission on Teschen. The Commission reported om May 6, 1919, as follows majority of the Silesians, after hav-Today it would seem that the great
Wei ey Tealy were, feel them-been ignorant for centuries of How ro Live m ENGLAND ON A PENSION By "Mauser." Third editions Qiford University Prem, London.
The new and enlarged edition of "Mauser's" popular handbook, which has previously received world-wide acclaim, is right up-to-date and any individual who proposes to retire in the near future and settle down with his family in England will find this little compendium invaluable in the wise advice that it offers.
The author, formerly a Government official in India, gives the results of his own experience on a matter that has hitherto been approached with a show of diffidence, and although perhaps he has taken, as a general example, the man who expects to spend the evening of his days on a pension that this reviewer can only hope but never expect to obtain, the guiding principles are there for the man who can confidently look forward to securing a third or even less of the actual figure stipulated.
The Early Snags "Mauser" has gone into the problem—and settling down in the United Kingdom after a lifetime abroad or in the Colonies is most definitely a problem—very deeply and in twelve chapters has summed up his findings En the "art of successfully living at home" most clearly and concisely, so shat the intending settler—or should it be homecomer—has a thoroughly conerete idea of what snags he is likely to encounter during his first few years' return, These first few years are the ones that count, states the author, for it is understood that a certain amount of capital is needed to do anything at all, and if this capital be lost during the early period in ability to cope with the existing local conditions, then the pension-holder cam only hope, at best, to spend his declining days in some "genteel" boarding-house where the degree of homelike comfort is invariably locking and far from satistying, Saving All Round 'The first five chapters relate to the locality in which to reside, the type of home to purchase, the price to pay for it, how to pay for it, its furniture and fittings, where to secure such necessities and, of course, the capital' needed for these outlays. The remaining chapters are utilized to, tell the reader how his income should be employed, all essential expenses he is likely fo incur, how and where his children, if there are any, should be educated, how pensions may be supplemented by the judicious use of one's talents and a few paragraphs on hobbies, exercises, diet end social contacts.
In a very few words this excellent manual is a guide-book of unique value that, studied as it deserves to be, must result in the saving of money, grey hairs and tons of worry. It is thoroughly well put together by a man who understands the innermost difficulties of living on a not too fat pension and who has turned his research work into a commonsense way of assisting those who intend to retire. There must be many Shanghailanders to whom this sympathetic book must soon have a very definite appeal. If they do not secure a copy, they have only themselves to blame should they learn of the "what might have been," through the school of bitter experience.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.