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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER
20, 1936.
SPAREMOMENT PAGE
"I hope they call my name soon. I'm afraid 1' get another summons for parking while I'm waiting to pay for this one."
WEEK-END PROBLEMS
by Hubert Phillips
PROBLEM I GUFFINS
I've just had thla cryptic nate from my uncle:
43, Trinity Square,
Oct. 18th. I wis This will amuse you,
this for the City Just setting out inorning when I met Professor Guns, who lives next door, isn't this annoying?' he anid. I've just had this cheque back from the bank. I'd stupidly dated # 1935.
should 4 "I lauglied. thought, anid, that you at least could remember what the year is." "Poor old Guffins! He completely missed the point, of course.
Can YOU see it?
PROBLEM II. LOOPY'S LEGACY
have
and
be
Is Your Name
TAYLOR?
Te tailoring trade is well repre-
sented in directories, for in addition to the name Taylor (spell- ed in the old fashion) there are Seamer, Shapster, and Parmenter.
Of these "seamer" and "shap- ster" are old English names for the French craft, and "parmenter" a importation.
Yet in spite of these rival nemes The Taylor is the most common. reason is that the name hus ob- sorbed another, even more popu- lar, Teler or Teller, meaning weaver.
Teller and Taylor when spoken -and in old days they were hardly ever written-casily became con- fused, and gradually the Tellers were absorbed and all became Taylors,
Weaving was one of our key in- dustries; the loom which stood in every cottage was its most valu- able article of furniture, and was transferred from further, to son as the heirloom.
We can understand, therefore, how the addition of Tellers to their numbers swelled the ranks of the Taylors.
As well as Teller there is the When I asked my young friend, Loopy, how much money he
Saxon name for weaver-Webb, -been-left-ho-replied, "Why, the number of pounds I have in a very-which-has-weathered many cen- interesting one. I
and it can divided into three numbers, each of perfect each a three digits, and square. And in writing down those three numbers, all nine digits employed."
+
are
What is the amount of the legacy?
PROBLEM III
DOUBLE ACROSTIC
UPRIGHTS
A country's nume suggests
Hon-
Al,"castwards"
fection.
solec-
Fives
you its
LIGHTS
1. The first was clubborn-lost his
head.
The second, laughing, died in bed, its "erest" can
2. This family
elaim→→→
Upupa is the Latin name.
3. Here's a beginning. And I think It starts with gold, and ends with
drink.
turies, and retains its old "Torin almost Intact. This name, along with the more modern Webber, sul flourishes.
IS YOUR ENGLISH
· CORRECT?
CAST AND CASTE Cast is correct for the cast of o of countenance, the play, cast right cast.
But caste is used when refer- religious and sociat to ring cleavages in Oriental countries. NUMBERING THE FINGERS
The English marriage service eails the ring finger the fourth finger.
excludes the Modern usage thumb in counting the fingers, so that the forefinger to the first and the middle Anger the second.
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Are findings keepings?
INDINGS
are not
keepings we are told Well, it depends.
as children. That is
true enough when you know
to whom your find belongs.
says
the Law
ind? The rule is that it the furn- ture is not sold "with contents" the former owner can claim whatever is found inside, whether he put it there or not.
This was decided nearly a hundred years nga. A shoemaker bought an old desk at an nuction sale for £1 0s. When he got the deak home, he found it had a secret drawer, in which was A purse.
The purse contained "eight pieces of the current gold coin of the realm known as sovereigns, a golden guinen, no half-crowns, 50 shillings, 50 six- pences, a five-shilling plece, bank notes to the value of £139, a pair of any damage done and the cost of jewelled carrings, two silver thimbles,
and a snuff box."
The story of the find got about,
If you can find out the owner keeping the animal. you must return his property to
for him. Indeed, if you keep some- Transport undertakings, too, are and the former owner of the desk thing you have found without in
a speelal position. Parliament had the shoemaker arrested
But there was a doubt, whether taking all reasonable steps to often gives them the power to exnet stealing the purse.
certain percentage of the value of discover the owner you are guilty articles left in their vehicles. This the desk had been sold with of theft.
percentage is given to the employee tents or not. The cobbler was given who found the article or to the start the benefit of the doubl and got off. The purse and its contents, however, welfare fund.
had to be handed over to the original owner of the desk..
·
con-
cannot Generally speaking you even demand the expenses you incur If a reward in finding the owner.
come A difculty arises where valuables Finds of gold and silver has been oftered you can' claim that. And if you find in animal trespass- are found in furniture just after it under the law relnily to treasure ing on your land you can hold it had been sold. Should the old owner trove. If no owner can be traced,
owner benefit by the such ands belong to the state. until you have been repaid both for or the now
CANOEING is the NEW
WINTER SPORT
N
new
By Stanley Baron
strength. It is borne with the water, rather than thrown aboul by it.
Where water is being suddenly boltled into a narrow channel, which is precisely what happens when the rupid is being formed, it invariably an arrowhead formation. From the point of the arrowhead down both its sides the water will be broken and foaming.
assumes
EXT year will see a to- sport march ward popularity. Last year something like three thousand canoes were sold in Great Britain. Next year there may be twice as many, and the year after that, the experta pre- dict, will mark the beginning of a national canoeing boom. Water the other hand they must open up stream and the canoeist must direct minded readers write to ask what beautiful tracts of country of a kind his craft through the middle of it, season is most suitable in which not easily seen, except from water keeping out of rough water until he
emerges at the tip. to learn the art. I say, Now, level. In summer these attributes
hg will fect Now
the water are rarely co-existent Here are reasons.
middle reaches.
chopping violently under him, but the From October to March rivers fill the Severn, in its upper reaches, is Lorce should keep him in
of flow is. Increased,
up,
rate
where
above the
Between now
nnd
The actual arrowhead itself in
and fast. smooth
It points down-
obstructions are: safely submerged for expropia, is always fairly fast main stream until the rapid is pass- but in summer sinks low between ed. The paddle, of course, should be below keel level, rapids lose prin- sheer, clay banks, completely shut- held poised, ready to make, instant cipal difficulties, Irritating shallows Ung out views of the valley through correction if the prow gives any sign disappear, views open up
uf the current. high banks formerly concealed them, which it runs. Warmth of exercise proves suddenly spring will be easily the best time for of swinging away from the direct line desirable. Most important of all, a visit, therefore. prices of canoes reach rock bottom (10 per cent. below summer Agures In most cases).
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In long rapids there are naturaliy additional difficulties. There may, for example, be two or more chan- LOW muny miles #1 day? The nels, of which only one is negotiable. Hou
answer is that for most people When the whole course of a rapid In a canoe trip of 150 miles this
in cannot be seen from river level it summer I convinced myself that the the physical output involved
still water is a shede is essential to land and survey it choose modern folding boat is a perfectly canoeing on safe proposition and, when used as a less than that involved in walking. from the bank in order to complement to other forms of travel, Da a canal, therefore, one migh: the most suitable route.
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miles been imported from abroad, notably Packed up in a couple of canvas such that one cases a single-seater canoo-weichs more with the same energy. Remem- from Germany and Austria. But only
rate-priced cange at present be ob approximately 40lb. It is not, there- ber, however, that fastTM water inters-from-English-makera_may_a_mode- fore, a proposition to be carried for certain hindrances.
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water the lightness and fragility of the portable canoe is actually
Answers to Week-End Problems PROBLEM I GUFFINS
X PROVIDED there are no excessive land gaps, innumerable round tours by canni or river or both, become possible at winter week-ends by means of a portable canoe.
Canals have two advantages-(1) the rate of flow of most of them is
that they almost imperceptible, so can be taken as easily in one direc tion as the other; (2) being planned a constant contour, only to follow stepping down or. up from one level to another by means of locks, they frequently run well above the sur- rounding country and open up views of a kind the river, and often even the road, cannot give.
Being artificial, mercover, they have often the beauty of ornamental waters. But canal dues vary from id. a mile upwards.
the
Rivers, for the canoelst, have two separate appeals. They must fast enough to be Interesting, with hazards occasional rapids or other
to give a thrill to the journey. On
its
Cuffins lives next door to my uncle. ie., at 42 or 44, Trinity Square. And the square of 44 ls 19301
PROBLEM II
LOOPY'S LEGACY The amount of the legacy is £1,674.
(£1,074 £361+ £329+ £784)
PROBLEM III DOUBLE ACROSTIC
CHARLES
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Finally, on a long trip, spend one day in threc, and preferably every second day, ashore. Almost any river or canal is perfect baseline for walking expeditions. Get away from the boat occasionally, to break the monotony of paddling, and you'll vote canoeing as grand & sport as you've tried.
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