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I hear that at present in America there is # craze for limericks, which accounts for the tremendous number of advertise-.| ments appearing in their illus. trated magazines that contain limericks. In Hongkong we are o bit more sensible and do not easily give in to these momen- tary fads.
The following limericks have been sent to me by some of my friends.
1. There was an Irishman named
PAS,
Who on a real hot stove had.
SAL
His trousers were burnt;
A lesson he learnt,
To be cleverer next time than
that.
2. There was a certain girl who
gail,
With so much work she'd sdon
be dead.
So she told the "Miss
"I won't do all this?"
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"THE OLD SEA-COOK!"
You mad have heard of the say- ing-which, by the way, is not so very sincero-"Son of a sea cook." and may have wondered from whence it was derived. will tell you.
were
In the last century, when the ten-clippers used to run between Europe and the East, the cooks
shipboard employed on very unpopular people. They gave the crews bad food, and with the In the following, move two "squeeze," provided themselves. matches and add one, to make two fund their sons, who usually ac
companied them, wish better diamond shapes. Can you do it?rations. The sons did not do
A Word Square.
Can you fill in the missing! letters so that the words in the square read the same from left to
But now she's quiet-she saw right us from top to bottom?
the Hend!
much work; they ate and slept and that was all. So, the expres- sion, "són of a sea-cook,"
hus come to mean "thar the one to whom it was directed against was a "stupid" good-for-nothing fellow. This week, I am specialising in meat dishes, and give below a few of the most delightful recipes I en at present find. "Chicken'á la King.
Required:-2 "Cupfuls" Cold Diced Chicken; 1 green peppert 1 onion can Mushroom3: 3 tablespoonfuls Butter; 2 tablė- spoonfuls. Flour: 112 cups Milk: 11⁄2 cups creain: 2 Egx yolks: paprika and other sea- sonings; lemon juice.
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Though freedom' is grand, Nuts keep off the Strand. And I find that Bananas do
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4. A hümming-bird called to a
bee,
"You're a hammer. 1 notice..
like me;
The solutions to the above puzzles will appear next week, to- gether with new ones. However, I shall be pleased to hear befors next Saturday of your own
So duets let us try," Said the bee in reply. "Should be pleased; but I'm efforts. "
buzzy, you see!"
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We can truly assert that every human being, no matter how he may try to hide it, has a very strong thirst for knowledgn have-you have it too, I daresay Well, I will act as your deliverer then, and give you here further items which will interest you. So, every one of you, quench your thirst here!
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Do you know that-- Below 1,000 fathoms, the tem-
perature of the orean varies?
never
A bright light strengthens the
eyes?
The human heart is six inches long by four inches in diame- ter?
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The nails on the left hand grow slower than those on the right? In four years, a single pair of rabbits may have over a mil- lion descendants?
As a rule, beasts of prey are not
fit for food?
A cucumber is always of lower temperature than the surround- ing atmosphere?
At least 20 per cent. of the men in the British Merchant Service cannot swim?
Mice can sometimes be drawn
from their holea by whistling?
ARCHIMEDES' PUZZLE.
A HOLIDAY TRAGĖDŲ.
I wish to thank, "M.C." for following poem, which has kindly béen- sent by mo” a
ago.
day.
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for a little more than five min-i
onion; Add the small utes. grated; the four, mixed" with part: of the milk, and the remaining. 'milk and seasonings. Stir until thickened: then add the chicken, and the cream with the two egg yolks beaten into it. Cook a few minutes longer, stirring; add a few drops of lemon-juice. and serve on toast or in patty-cases. Shrimps Crrote.
Required:-1 b. or I can shrimps: 2 cups tornato juice;
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I green pepper: 1 onion: 1ALLIC TILAM Pass Entrance, Electric, tablespoonful butter: 2 tabletas Plugs Hot and Cold Water Syste
spoonfuls flour; 1 teaspoonful sdgar; seasonings (to taste). Cut the pepper and onion into the strips and simmer them in the sochating dish with the tomato juice, to which the sugar haw been added · Cook for fifteen minutes: then add the shrimps.
week
"I bought a motor cur on holi-Blend the butter and flour to- gether. and stir slowly into the contents And learnt to drive-taught by Cook until smooth and thickened. of the chafing-dish
old friend Chris;
Each morning from our digs I
drove, away-
In
dead
straight
line
like this.
One Wednesday evening to the
fair we went,
The flying boats, of course, we
could not miss;
A dizzy time homewards the
car I sent
In
R
wobbly
like
course
this.
Along the prom. at twenty
miles an hour.
(I fairly put the wind up poor
old Chris):
Until we ran into another car Result:
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GOOD AT MATHS?
Season. Serve on buttered hot tnast.
Oaiteil Ragert.
Sauté about 3 pounds of thế | heavy part of the oxtails in fat, and cover with hot water, season with salt and pepper, and add a handful of soup-greens, a small buy-leaf. and one pepper-com. Cook very slowly until the meat! is tenderi Then strain off the stock. Brown 3 tablespoonfuls of flour and add to it the same amount of butter, a slice of onion, 1 tablespoonful of tomato purée, and 3 cupfuls of the stock, and cook for about ten minutes. Add the talls, and 4 cupful of sliced mushrooms
which have been sacted in butter until terider, to the sauce. Rehent very slowly and do not serve until very hot. A few veal" meat-balls are delici ous added to this... Put 'on.a deep
and platter,.
surround with mounds of diced carrots, turnips, and white beans." ་་
Breaded Veal Cutlet.
With a slice of veal, about three-quarters of an inch thick, cut into cutlets wherever it is veined. Break into small crumbs a few soda crackers. Dip the cut- lets first in these, then in a: beaten egg, and again in the crackers. Dust with salt and pepper on both sides. Cook in a frying pan containing heated lard
I am sure that of all those who oroil which is thick enough to cover the cutlet half way up. when one side is brown, then turn and cook on the other side until done.
There has just been exhibited at the Royal Society a parlour | game discovered twenty years ago on a palimpsest written two hundred years ago covering a description of an invention of two thousand years ago.
This was a pastime of the Greeks and Romans, and is attri- buted to the Greek inventor. Archimedes. Before the removal read this page there must be a of the upper writing which ap few who are really good at mathe- peared on the palimpsest, which matics. Here are two problems 14 a paper with several writings which may interest them and at one over the other, all that was the same time puzzle some of the known of this game was that it
others. consisted of pieces contained in a square box which were used to form figures of men, fish, animals, and so on. It is now, however, actual possible to make the pieces, triangular bits of wood, that is, (x + 1) (x − 1) = and to build from these a ship, a
Dividing, x+1=1 cat, an elephant, and many other things.
A
story tells
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that
1. To prove that 2
2
E
and
1 Let x 1 Then x 1
x2 - 1 = X
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Archimedes. regarded the princi-2. To prove that 45 ple he found (which is known
163625-45
nowadays to every schoolboy and
schoolgirl) as being too unworthy By adding () to both sides we
of a man of science, so he per- get | 16~36+(-)2 −25 +45 +(-)", fected his puzzle, which really
did puzzle his countrymen. He, (42)~(gil 1 y
would feel no great thrill of whence 4—-—~5~— pride, however, in-learning that'
his puzzle was quickly learnt in
this twentieth century:
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In the last recipe. "Crisco" or Be "Purico" may best be used. careful to see that the cooking is. done slowly.
[The Editor will be pleased to8: hear about, or taste results of efforts based on these recipes.] ‹.
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