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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH: MONDAY,
FEBRUARY 22, 1937.
Is It True?
Some of these statements are right, some wrong. Do you know which?
1. Napoleon was a very unsatisfactory
pupil at
school.
2. The mass of the carth is nearly six times greater than if it were made of 'water,
3. An anemometer is an instrument used for measuring the dampness and temperature of the nir.
4. Radioactive sub- stances can be made nrti- ficially,
5. Some birds migrate across the Pacific Ocean.
6. "Nordic man" was first invented and placed on a pedestal by a French-
man.
Answers at foot of Column Five.
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Bringing Corgo from Marseilles via ports etc., arrived Hongkong un Friday, 19th February, 1937.
NEW BORN
"When help arrived, among the
dead
Were consin Mary, little Fred." HAT crazy poem is the only reason "that
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I can think of why Fred was the name given to Sally by her future. father before she was
born.
POPPA
by
M
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doughter that he was ollowed
Wan Nurse Robertson brought home..
Us
fall to picces without her that slic made us all a little Jittery. It seem- ed quite probable that nobody would remember to order the dinner and that it would rain before we got in the baby's washing (the Inst few days she was with us we had an unusual rainy spell).
We were as surprised as sho, would have been to find that the sun shone, the dinner was in the ice box, the water bottles were sterilised, the maid AVAS eating alone in The kitchen.
Nurse Robertson's Influence, though it is on the wine, still re- mains. The not-so-new-born poppa still baths his daughter every Sun-
remembering to
little colion-tipped orange sticks for
E still puts her nighty on over her, feet first, lays
A good deal of carpet was see was a small, angry fat efle of discrub aid to wash the baby's diapers clothes out befondanday the clean
A score of others--waving hungrily In three clean waters). worn out in the transition stage over a pink crib behind the germ- She even broke her of the habit drying out her cars, for cleaning her between Fred and Saily. Two proof glass window of the hospital of wanting to lunch with us, a trick nose.
But that before she's thought out that had reduced He's Efficient things bothered this almost-a- muscry.
all us to sneaking sandwiches out of the poppa: one was the car, which
house and eating them behind the developed a jinx and got every- Nurse Robertson was crisp and ludio. Sally stopped crying at a thing wrong with it that a neat and sterilised, all-white from word from Nurse Robertson and I
her in her art face down. He will car her starched cap down through her didn't even dare to begin. middle aged American
to face, uniform, alockings her She told us All knows how to get. For nights white-soled shoes.
get up in the night, re-make her bed, and strong-mindedly wheel her into it was left out on a convenient True, at night she appeared a
another room if she takes it into her hillside so that it would be sure little different as she glided into our
CHE had once
to head that the 2 a.m." feed had not
to start.
room to bring the baby for her 2 In habit of eating from a.m. 'food (n
Mexica, and she used to been such a bad idea at that,
He can get her despland two ounces which we broke Sally the night tell us about it at meals. We said Nurse Robertson left). With her that we had been to Mexico, too, but of water into her in a space of time in which the female members of the day grey dressing gown and her dull red she didn't let that bother her. family would still be locking to see However the conversation started, if she really had only one dimple. and hair dripping down her shoulders the she looked like the wraith of Lady it always came back to Mexico in the And he is an expert at potting her
end. We heard about "this friend
The other was the solemn warn ing, given him by all our experienced friends, that the
developed extra started in 10 spring-clean house, that would be the time. get ready to leave.
I
No Difference
WITH
energy
as natur-
Mucbeth.
We felt Helpless
by
been
of mine (we never knew which on the back to debutible her with friend) and the man on the train exactly Nurse Robertson's technique. And If II is not now unknown to nyho had been so 'kind, and what the Mexican in the store had said to her and pyjamas fung to opposite ends the bathroom Boor; it the dogs come BUT during the day, when it was all very, very exciting, and of the room, bath towels in heaps on
ended
driving the-new-born into the house again in the evenings she was quite wide awake, poppa to town in a swirl of dust. Waly energetic as I am it she was she was quite wide awake
and we find ourselves once more cat- But not before he had learned all ing luncheon out of doors to escape Is hard to notice any extra spurt made us all feel a little helpless, about his duties as a father. Nurse the mald, it is because we have no- But it is true that the house was She took over the management of Robertson neglected nothing, as I other Influence who doesn't mind spring-cleaned the day before I went the household with a quiet ruthless think I have indicated, and father about these things. to hospital. Unable to bear the nesa
which was disturbing; nothing training was as important to her an, The household has a new ruter, and suspense, of waiting for me to start
all she asks (and, sees that she gets in on it, the future father got out had ever been so well managed be the Hoover, rolled up his sleeves, did When all the rest of us were looking after Sally, the more chance and dry, that she should be wheeled it himself.
sleeping exhaustedly in the hot Fred had acemed nice little afternoons she would be cooking up tre bout of not being hopelessly mis- out in her pram at 2.30 every after- treated when the time came for noon, and that her dinner should be fellow, and for a few days after he elegant little dishes for dinner. She Nurse to pack up and leave.
served on time she knows the time left us Sally seemed a pretty poor followed me around presenting me The first time Nurse Robertson and tells us--and that there should
with glasses of hot egg nog and ice allowed him to hold Sally, the poppa he plenty of it. There was a time for about 10 cold beer; she folded up pyjamas and looked surprised and a little pleased. days when being a father didn't bath towels and put away thirts; she The hospital had led him to suppose 4-1-1-4-4 {o4mt={Hea•-ileef=f&iཨདི་དིfe=4ཤ scem us if it was going to amount made the dogs sleep out in the dog- that, scrub as he might (and Nurse very much: when all of his house; she trained our raw Califor- Robertson insisted on that, too), he would never be quite clean enough to handle such an aseptic morsel as his baby.
any other branch of her job. fore, nothing ever would be again. The more people who knew about it) is that her crib should be smooth
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After a few days of this Sally had made, quite conquest, and he was willing to hear all about Mexico for the tenlit, .or it may have been twentieth, time if he was really going to be allowed to perform the morning bathing ceremony.
When she Left
THE
HE day Nurse Robertson left she was so quietly assured that the household would
Was It True?
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1 Gave an account of something noticed about the second letter.
5 Moves a foot at a time; a joint
alair.
-B Makes a start with a letter.
10 Good, times for backers,
11 A repeat performance.
12 Due to be changed: it's knocked
out!
13
Increased in bulk.
16 A number of counters that make short work of stockings.
17 Amend by alteration.
18 Dry and rather roguish.
20. There's always something rather fishy about such money affairs.
22 The longing of a half-wit chim-
panzee.
23.A minor diplomat who takes
nothing in Jealousy.
24 Though it comes from the West It's eaten North, East and South ng.well.
28 This will make one howl.
28 Trip frequently taken in a
hurry.
30 Makes smooth.
31 Pigs's chap?
DOWN
I What is it that goes to the front
door but never rings?
2 Most schoolboys have been, and
cast off In the end
3 Scold: that's the fine to take.
4 Mado, with cinders. See?
6 Mon, this is ruler, ye ken.
Relations of a sort-coloured, In fact,
7 Re-whistle (anag))...... 0:Qats.
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14 This is a gem.
15 It appears as named in another
part of this puzzle.
10 The artist Binds it useful to put down fruit beside the river (hyphen).
18 Everyone may tell Д
chuste in the extreme. 10 Hampers.
story,
20 It was Goldsmith who said that
the wise bustle and laugh as.
21
they walk in the pageant, but
A
these bustle and are important. dining-room with this would be a trifle awkward, though, admittedly, noteworthy.
26 Handle,
20 Seall.to these.
27 Neat.
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STEA 07 Preciding Charters Domini Enfilden, beautiful and wealthy tourist visiting Algoria, in rescued from a riot in an al perian cafe by a mysterious Bha rida with him stranger. later into the desert. When some Arab giris oak the stranger, who calls Aimaniƒ Horia Androvaky, for the crucifiæ that Aanga fround his neck, ho snatches it off and finge it towards them.
Chapter Three
tlin
two
There was a strange contrast bo- twoon
men,
Domini thought, the one oo ill at enso and awkward, the other so friendly and engaging.
"Some day I must make a pli- grimage Into the desert na you do," she said.
"Let me advise you to wait, Ma- dame. Wait till the cail is so strong that it can't be ignored," Anteoni replled,
translated.
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The Tapsed into. Árable, and Anteonl
"I nee a caravan - camole.. waiting by a church.” He continued in Ariblë.
"He says that in this church your life begins," Anteoni translated.
"My life?"
"Your rent life. As ho describes. It, it is only then that you are |fully born."
"The Sand Diviner continued his prophesies, in diajointed images. It seemed that from that church Do- mint, accompanied by another par
was to start into the desert.
O day, but not like other' days. The wind is rising, It drowns out the musle of the church. The dosort is angry,"
"Where is the caravan going? Can he tell me?"
"It is on the road to Bambara," Anteoni replied.
"Bambarn? But that's the route I planned for my pilgrimage."
The Band Diviner continued: "A tent far in the desert close by a ruined tower" Buddenly some great emotion geomed to possess Their attention was distracted by him
What does he say?" Domini a group of four Arah girls taking thair washing to the stream, Thin naked. might of the foreigners seemed to hera is something glorious 'In At store for you. It is no if all the Intrigue and to amuse them. Domint's request, Anteoni invited trees of the desert bear fruit and them over to where they stood. One the sand is covered with millions of the girls, bolder than the rest, of golden flowers Ulg as the flower
of the aloe" went up to Boris, attracted by a
*Is it joy? It must be joy?" gleam at his throat. Playfully, sho}
He stopped suddenly and uttered a ory. "It la
a tearning?" he said,
withdrew a cruelfix from about his доск
"Yes. Great joy.”
Thon, as the Band Divinar made "Give? Give?"
another pattern in the sand, he sud- The strange look that passed over denly stopped and uttered a cry. Boris' face made Domini and An-He stared down at the sand with a tsoni stare at him. In confusion, he look on his face as if the cry had fore the cross from his neck. boen frozen there.
"I won't hear any more," said Domini muddanly.
"It is a Wakingre
"I don't
"You want it? Horo, take it. It's yours." He flung It into the stream, and the girls scrambled after it. Somewhat guiltily, Boris looked at Domini who was watching him with amazement. Then he spoke brusquely "I'll go zoo about the she led Antoont out into the street. horses," and walked away.
this great Joy comes to me, I don't care what comes after. Please let us go." And
They did not talk about what had
Anteon looked Inquiringly, at happened. Domini.
"A curious man, Mr,
Who is bot
"A follow-traveler.".
"And a friend?"
"I don't quite know."
During the next few wooks Do-
Androvsky.mini and Boris, who were almost
the only travelers in Bani-Mora, were together constantly. A warm affection and a certain degree of intimacy rose between them, but
"A man who fears to acknowledge | she novor felt that she was really his God is unwise to not foot in penetrating into his real self. Only on one occasion, when they rodo,to- the desert."
Domini looked at him question- gother to a Black Pool in the de- Ingly, "The Arabs have a saying, ort, did Domial gather the cour Mainme. "The desert is the Garden age to ask him about himself. When Boris remained silout, sho of Allah
asked his forgiveness for her Jn-
In Bent-fora, Count Anteon! owned a uniqus garden which fur trusion.
"Please don't be impatient with nished, his principal pleasure in life. He was a charming host and know zna Domin!!" no Implored with fore the desert and its people Intimately, warmth than he had ever heard Domini enjoyed his company, and in his voice. “Your friendship is all I have. I've tried to imagino what ono ovoning she accepted fie in- vitation to show her the bazaar I'd do alono hore. I couldn't Just outside the gates of the elty, have faced that. Then I thought of Wandering through the atroots, our days together the day at Bidi- past the various stalls where the Zerbour - the time we rode to the natives exhibited their goods, they tomb on the desert our walk panned a tent in which was a tall, on the dunes that night under the thin, mysterious looking man bontstars. Something's happened to me, over a pile of sand which he ran I can breathe again: I can feel sur through his fingers. The man ao and wind ngain. For the first line costed them.
"Madame the life of Madame
In the sand tonight -- I show you all,"
Domini shrank back instinctively
I can bear to live in the world. You've done that for me, Domini." Dooply moved, Domini said, Thank you. Boris. Tra glad"
"Please, Domini, don't question
but Anteon! assured her there was me. There are things in a man's life nothing to fear. This man, he ex-it's best to forget. There are dark plained, was a Band Diviner, a do- places that should be left dari"
There was so much emotion in nort man who madɑ his living by
telling people's fortunen by the pat-le voice that Domini half expected, half hoped although she would not terna in the sand grains.
admit it to herself, that he was go "Has he over looked in the sanding to declare his love for her, but for your Domini nakedT.
he seemed unable to say more, and the apoll was broken. "Once. A long time ago." "Were the things he found there true?"
"He found nothing for the years
that wore past."
"And for the years that woro still to comeT"
fow days afterwards, Father Roublor summoned Domini to talk
with him in the church. There wAN evidently something weighing heav ily on his mind.
"It's about your fellow-traveler. What is the matter with that man? "It might have been chance What is he?. What can ho Bo?"
yes, he found what was still La carne, Would you 10kto to hear
but
bim?"
"He's a man traveling as other men travol," said Domint, defensivo-
fy. She did not want to continue Domini decided that she would, the discussion.
But Father Roubfer instated. "Do and they went in. The Band Diviner began to work ile hande rapidly. mini," he said firmly. "Mother Jo He broke up the patterns in the saphine put you in my caro, My Band with his fingers, making them first duty is to protect you, And form spirals, circles and enkelike I warn you most solemnly, not to iinas, Bo swirly did he move that to make friends with this man." It seemed as if the sand was sud- denly endowed with Hfe. Then to began to speak, in staccato fashion in Engilah. When he grew excited,
(To be continued.).
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