THE HIGNOKONG TELEGRAPE, SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1987.
Che SNAPSHOT GUILD
Put Your Pictures to Work
The "Photo Tray" and the "Photo Lamp" are good places for your choice anapshots.
NASMUCH as the purpose of a photograph is to be looked at, did it over occur to you that keeping prints of lovely plctures in a dosk simmwor, in a box or ou the shelf of o closet, as too many amateurs do, utterly defeats that purpuso. To he sure, they may be takon cut onco It n while to show to friends, hat, an far as giving pleasuro in concerned, the pictures might as well have been taken, if they, are kept out of sight. Even when tuounted in a photo album, they are not n lowed to do the fall duty that they might
over
Of course, it is impraelien! 10 keep all your prluts constantly in vlow, but why not keep sonic of the cholco mes out in tho open and at the same time beautify your home! Having thein enlarged and framed Is ono obvious way, but here are three moro ideas for doing this which are not dimcult to execute and which will afford you continuous plenauto in wholesale fashion.
Do you remombor the fad for trays and with elgar bande back aboul 1905 The modern and cor. tainly much more dignised variant of that schemols a "photo tray" with a design worked out in your best enapshots. The prints are mounted on a board beneath the glass cover. Any amatour craftsman can do such a Jal canity. There is a fascinating .evening's work in selecting the
prints and arranging patterns. It
a challenge to your ingenuity and artistic taste. If you happen to be n hobbyist in flower plctures, you can use them to make n Bower denigu of great beauty.
aliould be made on aluglo. weight paper and pantod out the shade as your artistic dens dictate. Botter for this is to have your nogalivea or enlargements printed on the spectal translucent photographic paper that Is conted with emulsion on both sides and practically produces a Transparency,
Another and somewhat moro
| elaborate way to keep your pictures In view, is to make a snapshot bed- room acreon. Contact prints or en argoments are trimmed to n unl form size and paste-mounted on panela fitted into the screen frame. This idea in capable of infinite varin- Lions. The acreon can be a veritable family history in snapshols or it can toll of a memorable vacation, pleas- ure cruise or trips abroad, A 15 enlargement on each panel of the most significant or outstanding plc- ture of the selection gives a strik-
Another idea is to make a "photoing effect. inmpshade." Prints or enlargements
JOHN VAN GUILDER
Smith
has
a brainwave
-he will have more
leisure
of them if he learns how to blend and work MITH can think of his mind as a card index. He files ideas away, he stores them and he recalls them when he wants them-if he can. In short, he learns,
he retains, and he recollects.
Skilled brain-workers know that
a man cannot hold his mind in In- tense concentration more than a few short, moments at a mo.
The
trick in to concentrate in short, rhythmic spurts: relaxing in between, either by slumping in your chair, gazing into space, walking up and down, pausing. doing routine work, chuaiting to some one, closing your eyes, smoking, and so on.
Every one has his own little re- Inxation tricks, his own little repres- sure thinking icchniques,
Four hours' concentrated or crea.
tive work is as much as any man can do in one day. The rest should be
routine.
PERHAPS the most impor- tant thing about plänning And if Smith will get, is a person's attitude to time. Some Learning is nine-tenths of memory. interested, get to understand, use the learning technique-he will people tire sa time-obsessed, so thine- haunted that they cannot work ef- have no trouble with his memory.
lelently.
Naturally there are tricks for particular kinds of memorising. They ure much worse off tian If he wants to memorise faces, names, verses, stock prices, tele- those who have no appreciation of phone numbers, he will have to invent these tricks and tailor them lime
to his own particular type of mind.
And he must not forget that when he develops his memory for one subject it has no effect on his memory for other subjects.
nt all After all, the object
of a planned life is to master time.
to have more of it for living: not to
be its slave.
These people are so eternally busy. that they have on time to do any» thing that really matters. If you
OR instance, here is a technique for memorising fans probably find they were running
́and names that is used by one man who attaches im- portance to these things.
He faces the person when introduced, repeats the name himself observes
(solto voce
if necessary},
away from something, trying to for- Inner sense of get, to drown an
to failure. At any rate, they are in-
emcient.
DOES Smith ever ask him-
One of the happlest men is the the features closely, and of clear thinking. Lots of things can'
and seems the lazical: 50 picks out the leading or accentuated safely be trusted to reference books busiest
Memoring where gunningly is his time contrived. He features that any caricaturist would and note-books.
he these books are to be found.
has lived long enough to know what automatically select. Later
At the same time, recent psycho- are his basic emotional needs if you visualises the face while repeating
logy has revealed that people are don't know that by forty, you should the name
he is able to form some especially apt to put the wrong be properly ashamed): and he has between the person's things in their forgettery: the things allotted a reasonable amount of time
are so distasteful that they and attention to each. name and some individual character that istle of that person. 11s success with would rather forget about them than this technique is certainly uncanny, deal with them.
Right down into the depths of When it comes to recalling ideas useful trick is to relax and wait their subconscious mind they repress Just wait. Somewhere in the sub- them. And there these represented his perfect day?
mind the Information is things ferment and go bad and start It must be given a chance to tensions and hidden energy-draining the perfect day, though he admits
"complexea."
ΤΟ deal with unpleasant things he rarely achieves It: work, then a little interval of relaxation and rest, It is also then play or love or social amuse- promptly is common sense, good mental hygiene.
ment or even all three, then enough to freshen him for the next sleep cycle.
Each day should be a gem of per- fect living in itself. To refer too much to the past or the future. Is a
a use
conscious there. emerge.
Often a man will have a "hunch” but he is not sure. The odds are that his "hunch" is correct.
If Smith wants his powers of re- collection to improve, he should learn write to rely them. Don't everything down. Stop using book- marks.
on
JUST
as important as
memory
AN psychology give Smith uny hints about the plan-
self how he would plan
Here is one man's conception of
ning of his work?
One useful psychological fact that form of cowardice. It is stinking
he ought to know-most successful life. the people have stumbled on is that
Even If Smith disagrees. on that,"
is the forget the mind works in waves, it works he will agree that it is just as well tery, Smith should not clutter his to rhythm, it oscillates between high- to know what one is planning one's mind with junk. It gets in the way pressure thinking.,
TEST ANSWERS
Current Affairs
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You can't get rid
of this Number
HAVE you ever, when making up the house keeping ac-
count or struggling with figures at your office desk,. noticed what a remarkable figure 9.is?
It was a certain Mr. Green, who died in 1794, who first called attention to the fact that throughout the multiplication table the product of nine comes to 'nine.
Multiply nine by any figure you like, and the sum of the resultant digits invariably adds up to nine. Twice nine is 18; add the digits together, 1 and 8 make 9. Three times 9, is 27; 2 and 7 are 9. This goes on until you reach 11' times 9, which in 99. Add the digits together; 0 and 9 aro 18, and 8 and 1 are 9.
However far you go, working on these lines, you wil Thus, find it impossible to get away from the figure 9. taking an example at random, 9 times 5071 is 45,639; the sum of these digits is 27; and 2 and 7 åre 9,
Another student of arithmetic, a M. de Maivan, dis- covered that if you take any row of figures, reverse their order, and make a subtraction sum of the two rows, the final result of adding up the digits of the answer will always be 9. Thus:-
2041
1492 (Reverse).
1449
1+4+4+9=18; and 14-8-9.
You will get the same result if you raise the numbers so changed to their squares or cubes. Start, for instance, with 62; reversing it, you gel-26. Now, 62-26-36, and 369. The squares of 20 and 62 are 676 and 3844 res- pectively. Subtract one from the other, and you get 3168,' which adds up to 18, and 1 and B are 9.
Take the cubes of 26 and 62, which are 17,576 and 238,328. Subtracting, the result is 220,752, which adds up to 18, and 1 and 8 are 9.
Here is another puzzling peculiarity of this mysterious figure. If you write down any number, as for instance 7,549,132, and subtract from it the sum of its digits, no matter what figures you start with, the digits of the result
This will always add up to 9.
7649132, sum 'of digits=31.
31
7549101, sum of digits=27, and 2-+7-9.
It is a persistent, self-willed and obstinate number, for however hard you try you cannot multiply it away or get rid of it.
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Solution
The photograph, which Pari- lees so naively thought clinching Treecastle's alibi, ac- tually furnished Irrefragablo evidence that the allbl was fake. It was a "brilliant after- noon in June"; the shadows in snapshot told their own story. Playfair's experienced eye at once spotted that time of the photograph was 2,45, but much Inter. As he ex- pected, his question to Parilces threw the latter into confusion, and Playfair could now recon- struct in his mind exactly- what had happened,
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