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A British Crossword Puzzle
Che SNAPSHOT GUILD
To get good, crisp piatures you must keep your camera tens clean.
A
CAMERA 1
Hints on Camera Housekeeping
very in- touching those glass surfaces. genious Instrument. Through Don't ever wipe your lens with πt cloth that is solled. Tiny particles of dust and dirt con easily scratch the pollshét sur- face.
the marvels of modern chemis- iry and physics, it enables all of us to become an artist at the snap of a button. Ingenious as It is, however; your camera does require a little help from you.
should
be always handled with reasonable care and kept clean and in good operating condition.
The most
important single part of your camera is the lens. Through it passes the light that produces the images on your
your
lena Alm. It
becomes dusty or smeared with
finger prints, obviously can't form
are
fore
with
Dusi usually gathers inside the camera, too, and, if allowed to remain, will cause annoying Be- specks on your pictures. loading the camera film, wipe out the interior sur- faces. While
is open, you can reach the back surface of your lens and clean that, too, with lens paper.
the
camera
One word of caution - don't tinker with, or attempt to all,
0 con-
When not in use, the cameras should
be in a clean, dry
kept place,
in preferably venient drawer where It has protection from dust and the prying hands of Inquisitive young children. A carrying case is a good Investment for a camera, for it offers consider- able protection against damage from bumping or jarring.
an image that La
Your sharp, pictures in turn will be fuzzy the Internal mechanism of the and indistinct. It is simple to shutter and lens. That's strictly 10 1 Job for an expert. If you prevent such fuzziness by keep- suspect that something Is ing the lens clean. While you wrong, let a repairman. make
shooting, keep some good the adjustments. lena
cleaning paper or a soft, clean lintless handkerchief right with you.
your lens is thickly coated with dust
and
grease, it is a good idea to use a drop or two of lens cleaning fuld before wiping the surface with your lens paper or linen. But, don't put the lens cleaning fluid directly on the lens itself-put It on the lens cleaning tissue- and don't, in any event, try to clean a lens without first blow
the heavy, scratchy grit and dirt away.
Most of the grease found on lenses comes from Angers, go to form the habit of not
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Treat your camera well and it will reward you with the. best possible return on your snapshooting. It is certainly worth the little effort that it takes
-John van Guilder.
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7:
12
ACROSS
Voluer. (8).
Was painfia (0),
8 Striking (8).
8. 1
10 Mysterious adviser (6),
13 Full (7),
13 Fasteners (4).
17 Fishermen (7).
18 Cut short (7),
20 Dregs (4):
21 Restricted (7).
26 Legislative body (6).
27 Completo (8).
28 Implements (0).
Guards (8).
122
123
26:
8-
DOWN
1 Military rank (5),
2 Inexpensive (6).
3 Confuse (5).
4 Trees (4).
3 Seat (0).
Hoilday (6).. Sell
(0).
11 Stage show (8), 12 Coagulates (6),
14 Joln up (6),
15 Unadorned (8).
10 Welcome (5),
16 Frees from dirt (6).
19 Motive (0).
22 Encounters (5),
23 Claw (5)
24 Stupid (5).
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25 Obscure vision (4).
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24
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD: Across Mrald, 6 Acule,
12 Dull, 13 Steep, 10 8 Teeth, 9 Rasher, 10 Tarry, 11 Miles, Rested, 18 Trades, 20 Steam, 22 Acid, 23 Split, 25 Mecca, 20 Orator, 27 Argue, 23 Dealt, 29 Sensed. Down.-1 Abridges, 2 Re-
7 Terse. Chaste, Bdtute, 3 Item, 4 Derided. 5 Attesta, G Educates, 15 Pondered, 16 Rampart, 17 Serious, 19 Rascal, 21 Theme, 24 Tree.
YOU ARE RIDING
A HORSE-
THIS DREAM MEANS:
Wilde's Friend Still Keeps Them Guessing
M
ROBERT ROSS: 'FRIEND OF career and Oscar Wilde's n
FRIENDS. Edited by Mar- friend: gary Ross, Cape, 301, 3676 pagos.
Some authorities look upon him as Wilde's evil genius, a view while has been given' some n
1-Now to come to the rouragement by St John Ervine. aycation of Robert Ross. From this now collection of let- When I start to write about tors written to Ross (within few him, I am reminded of that written by him) what emerge phrase of St. Paul, fiue Rose's kindness to Wilde'
sona ter their father's down- mystery of iniquity. The fall and his strenuous finally trouble about Ross hay soccessful, efforts, to rehabilitate always been that what he the literary repulation of hi
friend. did was so bad as to be, on
the face of it, incredible.” Although Ross inevitably suf- 2-"We shall not annis fered in spirit and repute as a meet such a compound consequence of the Wilde acond»' of loyalty and affection, of , is is remarkable to what an shrewdness and enthusiasm, the trust and affection of a wide extent he retained, or regained, of originality mainly direct- circle of persons of influence and ed to the help, and en- standing. The list of his corres- couragement of others. pondents ranges from the wite Robbie's character 1008 auy, Mrs Asquith, The highest nobly unselfish."
pundits of literature and ari,
In short, there
is some dispute
about the charac-
fer of Robert
Jf the Prime Minister of the
by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON.
Ross among those who knew Shaw, Sickert Wells, Arnold him.
Bennett, etc.
Ross was an untypical Cana- dian (born 1888), one of the three sons of the Attorney- 14. General of Upper Canada, was brought up and educated in Lon- Idon. He chose literature as
J.
What was the explanation of Ross's ability to survive digger?
Opinion (1), which does not appear in this book, was written
by Lord Alfred Douglas; (2) is Real kindness and disinterested- that of Sir Edmund Gosse.
ness, immense circumspectlon, probably a feline charm of man- er, coupled with a faint Cana- dian accent. Many people may simply have refused to believe that this cultivated, amiable lit- the man who spoke so warmly about art could possibly be the alnister hypocrite whom Lord Alfred Douglas, that master with the pitch-brush, accused of vice, theft and blackmail."
YOU CONVERSE WITH
IT AS YOU WOULD A
HUMAN BEING AND-ENJOY
.DOING SO
75
To ride a horse is to control and dominate it: in this case happily (you both speak the same, If you are horsewoman this may mean language). It may (even mean you feet you little more than that you feel right on top of have mastered the man situation: that you have' things, in full and happy control of your emo- your man where you want him. tional life.
If you are not-and even If you are — the dream may have other deeper meanings.
The horse usually symbolises the strength of instinct and sometlipes masculine, instinct
Advice Is Free
"YOU'D FEEL A LOT.. BETTER. IF YOU'D TAKE SOME EXERCISE.... THERET A HUNDRED THINGS TO BE DONE
IN THE GARDEN... AND THE ATTIC.... AND THE CELLAR AND
ETC. ETC.
By
More than one meaning has been given this dream, though the meanings are somewhat related: but dreams are like that, the more you study them the more you find there,
KEMP STARRETT
Certainly, after the Douglas- Ross quarrel had reached the Haw: courts with somewhat in- [conclusivo results' 360 'distin- guished persons, led by a Frime | Minisver,‹a bishop and half a [dozen pecra, signed a' testimonial to Ross and accompanied with it was a' cheque for" £700, ́ ́
There were, perhaps, some ad- vantages in being pursued by the shrill malignancy of a
Lord Allied Douglas.
Ross had a modest talent for
writing and made little of it. Becoming an expert on pictures, he ran an art gallery and acted as art adviser to the Inlind Re- yonue. Ho was out of sympathy with the war of 1914-18 and when friends expressed too bel- licose opinions, would hand them a collection of, photographs of dreadfully wounded men, say Ing, "Then these will interest
you'
"WAY PONT YOU TELL HIM OFF, BUT GOOD?? "LET RM
KIOW YOU'RE
NOT AFRAID
OF HIM....
d
"WHY DON'T YOU GET A GOOD DOCTOR? HOW AY. DOCH FIXED UP MY BACK, IN DO TIME
AT ALL AN
GET NICE AND COMFORTABLE AND SURE AS TAXES. COMEONE WILL COME ALONG AND START GIVING CIT WITH ADVICE ABOUT WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR SPARE
TIME
- AND VOS KÍNOW . MAO!
"YO AUST REMEMBER THAT
"YOU HAVE TO KNOW MORE THAN: THE .... DOG...IF YOU'RE
GOING TO TEACH ~
·JUM "ANYTHING*
ER
JUST
ADVICE FROM MOTHER: · START TRAINING HIM AT ONCE.... SHOW HIM, WHOS BOSS, AS I DID WITH YOUR FATHER A
KEEP YER EYE
"THAT'S WHATTE
BEEN DOI 2
OA RIC
LEFT
#u
DORT
FORGET #S
DISTEMPER
TOT
HOW... JUST STOP WORRYING
AUTY
HEVER SFEERS
SAY:
CARDY
IF YOU WANT TO KNOW YOU MITK
ADVICE YOU CAN GET FOR NOTHING
GET YOURSELF A PIP.
He will, however, be remem- bered best for the patronage add help he gave to young posts and writers, Ho would invite them to his rooms in Half Moon Street, papered in dull gold, and entertain them with figs, Turka) Delight, brandy and intelligent, admiration of their work.
Ross died in his sleep in 1918, aged 49. He had paid Wilde's last creditor and seen his books once more displayed in the bockshops. He is, at the moment of writing, the only member, of the Reform Club whose sehes are burled in Oscar Wilde's tomb in Paris.
a
The Ross 'ictters here publish- ed are an uneven lot. Gayest came from Wilde in exile:" "It i
curious. thing," dear absurd Hittle Hobble," that wou niów ai- ways think I am in the orang. The only thing that consoldi’me is that your moral attitude to- wards yourself severe."
"And true, "over Rosa's deeply divided naturé, presided a tor- mented conscience. In ́ much of |bis, „Júler “behaviour,: U Is not fanciful to trace the working of
a profound guilt complex
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Sif determined that, never, A
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tho horrors of comps liko Belsen and Dachau, the author of 'All Quiet on the Western Front hás distill- ed into one dreadful-broth: all that has been written or whils pered about the Nazi concentra tion camps.
He has threaded those frightful events together on the personal story of prisoner 509, a flying pkeleton who refuses to die, Tho is a novel unsporkably bre, tindeniably powerful. Some will shrink from it, those who open it will be torn between fascinación' anti tepulsion; howe who Finish it will realjen, Dist Remorque's purpose. throughout Kas been oranhibitæ mo dignity, not his degradations/