HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION
The Children's Corner
Dear Kiddien, Thanks once agala for all the entries you went in for the Bathing Girl Competition, There were very few who did not select the two correct girls, so in awarding the prizes It became a matter of good colouring, with account alan taken of the age of the competitors. I had a particularly hard tank in pleking the winner in the Senior Section, as there were so may really good entrien. But, after going through them carefully, I have dechird ta nward the prize to Magale Alves (nged 14). of 302 Prince Edward Rond, Kowloon, for some really lovely colour. Ing.
The Junior prize goes to Dorothy Re- vie (aged 7), of 1 Albion Terrace, Kow loun Bucks, who has already won three Merit Corticates.
Merit Certificaten aro nwarded to the following:
Seniors: Charles Foster, Jean Grady, Margle Xavier, Yeung Kit-wa, William Barker, Netta Macam.
Juulore: Toutsie Garcia, Anthony Demand, Jean Crighton, Joan (julmyam, Rodney Martin, toy King.
Commended for gond work, but not quite good enough to win Merit Cer- tificates, are the following:
Crella Senlurs:
Remedion, Sybil Kosseau, Mario Ho, Zlusia Gutierrez, Kwak Yik-cheung, Vincent Svn, Peter Hunt, Fernando Alves, Willy Leong, Ko Miu-ling, Perry Barton, Ho Shuk-chun, Eva Catcher, Alan Int Remedios, Grady, Myrtle Becker, to Man-chan, Edmundson, Betty
James Becker,
Graciano Romrla, Dorothy Lee, Suen Maink, Irene Mann, Lolly Rodrigues, Vivian Elsie Pomeroy.
Juniors: Robert Cropley, Alda Castro, Tommy L Mary Fitz-Gerald, Diaserine, Violetta dua Remedies, Billy McMahon, Barbara
Jankia, Patricin
Grimmitt, Brian Platt, Pinky Silva, George Hudson.
Now, kiddies, I've
got something
really new for this week's 'Competition. How many days of other countries da In 1:1 interesting you know? Here puzzle which will test your knowledge. The six buys and girin. whunu n tionality are shown underneath ench
the wrong
Anga. ru carry What you have to du, chitren, in to tate which dage they should be carry. ing. In the picture, the Russian boy in
ohe.
CAFE
RESE
RUSSIAN
DUTCH
GREEK GERMAN
JAPANESE
EQT TIAN
shown carrying the Rising Sen--well, you know that isn't his nations) Ang: don't you?
To show your answers, just write on anent list the six nullunalitics named In the pleture, and opposite each one put the number of the fox the boy or girl aught 10 he carrying. Thun Itaniu
Hend
your tries to Uncle "Houkung Telegraph," u
Eddie,
58
tu
141
c/n Teach
bing not later than 4 p.mt. Wednesday. Don't forget to state your age: one canpetitor amitted to give him
weel: d was Jast
thus disqunlined.
So be careful, kides.
there lagert sumber), Dutch Unche Eddie
there insert number), and an en; until
you
Mix.
have correctly given the
whole
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Anthony Osmund, 罪 Recent
Janlor
winner in the "Telegraph" Children's Competition. (Photo: Phutogein Studio),
Prudence Mayhew, who recently won the Benlar prize in the "Telegraph" Children's Competition. (Photo: Photo- xrm Studio).
Good News! OVALTINE' COLD or Hot.
is now served
in the leading
Cafes and Restaurants
He
A LAY SERMON
By-HUGII-REDWOOD
EFORE He put forth is
hand
and cleansed the leper, before ted the followingg crowds and heal:d the sick among their number, with com- Jesus Was
passion
"moved
And looking up Emotion, with tu ficaven, He im.
sighed Mars vi. 34
released power. Before restored II c the deaf muie, He sighed; before He raised Lazarus He groaned and wept. He was not merely sorry for people; He did in fact take their sorrows upon Him- self.
But if, in His love, He has "borne our griefs." He has bidden us do the same for each other. Do we strive to practise Divine compassion? It possible timt, if we did, we should learn more of Divine healing?
Tormented by Insomnia, a friend Ko asks tor our prayers. As we yawning to bed, we remember the request and nak God to give him sleep. Would compassion be really content with that? Or would it be willing to forget its own sleep and spend the night in loving endeavour to bring relet by transferring the burden? I am quite sure, at least, that I ought to be willing; and per- hups, if it first looked up to Heaven, It might see some surprising results.
Bridge
Problem
NO. 15
K 803
K 92
A 63
10974
N
73
W
E
#B
J64
S
K94
NU
A 10 7 5 3. Q8 5
Diamonds are trumps. South leads and North-South must win ten of the cleven tricks agakist the best de-
tence.
Solutions by Tuesday to "Bridge Telegraph, Problem" Hongkong Wyndham Street. SOLUTION OF PROBLEM NO. 14 South leads heart queen, which West wins, North discarding a club West leads a spade, which north wing with jack, and returns spade seven. of which South trumps with jack hearts, and with the trump puts West in the lead with trump ten. West can now lead only diamonds, and North, getting in with his queen, wins the rest of the tricks with his spades.
seven
If, at trick two. West leads any- thing other than a spade, North- South would win six tricks; were he to lead a diamond. South would ruff North's master card, extract the adverse trumps, and win all four spade tricks.
the
This problem proved popular. strange Most are correct, and It is that of those who are wrong majority have failed to see the obvi
second Ous flow in allowing the spade to win the third trick, and then ruffing the third spade with the Jack of hearts at the fourth lead. Here the obvious defence is for West to throw his ten of hearts under the
render as one
says, jack. Then, South Is "In nwful trouble."
Correct solutions from "Emjay." Mrs. M. S., G. S., "S'Easy", A. K., W. A. K.
SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1937
POISON
PEN
ISS PLATTAWAY, spinster, of
M
Digger's
Green, was one of those unhappy creatures who Bro martyrs to an unharmonious environment. She began life as
a misfit-people didn't under-
stand her; she, didn't understand
When Calliput had gone, ho studied carefully the latest batch of letters. They had all been posted at Charing Cross and, as usual, neither letters nor enve- lopes bore fingerprints. Play- fair was interested. The follow
at Digger's
INSPECTOR PLAYFAIR'S NOTEBOOK ·
+++++++++++++2 ing day he was
Miss Plattaway interviewed him at her own house. He was accompanied by a constable in uniform, and his face was very book- stern.
them and in time introspection its factual and psychological as- Green, with a warrant in his poc- turned to bitterness and bitter- pects; and I don't mind betting kot.. ncaa to mental disorder. Miss you that the writer is one of the the following." And he pushed over beginning as Plaitaway, victim of a society she hated, a typewritten liat of names: Elias Abwatt, tobacconist. became, in course of time, its uninvited censor; but her judg-
were subordinated to disordered imagination, and she took to writing anonymous letters. Before long, the "poison pen" of Digger's Green had ac- quired
local than
notoriety.
ments
a
more
Miriam Beldanı, spinster.
A
George J. Diplitter,
maker.
Harriett Diplitter,
woman.
He arrested Miss Plattaway married without stopping to ask her any questions, and, when she shrilly protested, advised her to consult a solicitor. And in the end, at the Assizes, Miss Plattaway school- pleaded guilty. The case against
her was conclusive.
Absalom Jellink, local prea-
cher,
Mura Lathwatter,
teacher.
Susan Plattan'ny, spinster. Dorothea Sellig, masseuse. frenc Waithling. married
woman.
Sergeant Dumbell looked at
What was the nature of Play- fair'a evidence?
Solution on Page Three
the list. "And what are you Contestant, Spare
doing, about it, sir?”
That Book!
Miss Plattaway was cunning. An earnest student, both of detective fiction and of the sen sational Press, she had devoted much thought to the develop- ment of a fool-proof technique.
Her
in stationery-Sought town-was of the most common- place character; moreover she
"More than anyone but you is nover went twice to the same
of,"
Seeker-after-Knowledge; said Playfair. "I
Seeker-after-Knowledge. store. Her letters were written aware
Secker: "Huve you a with the left hand, and she was went to the Assistant Commis-
about black grapes?" careful to wear gloves. They sioner, when I'd fully explored
Librarian: were posted in town, too-only the ground, and 1 secured the internal evidence showed their services of young Calliput. He's Paul writer to be one who knew Dig- one of our coming men,
is not yet twenty- ger's Green intimately--and at Calliput
all sorts of unexpected places, three, but keen, alert, and-un- Not even the Snark was as clu- abtrusive. I've got him a job sive a quarry as Miss Plattaway's down at Digger's Green, as
derk in the local post office." disordered pen.
a
"Ha!" said Dumbell. "Ha! Best of all (as she imagined} she had covered her tracks by I see what you're after. He's sending "poison pen" letters to watching who posts letters herself. These were really there, and all that sort of thing?”* nasty, and were written with
"That's the idea," said Play- great artistry. They were just fair condescendingly. sufficiently accurate, in their allusions, to give Miss Platta-
Three weeks later Paul Calli-
way a genuine grievance, while put came to see him. He was an not so well-informed as to point inconspicuous youth, with mouse- the finger of suspicion at herself. coloured hair and a deprecating manner. He brought with him a Or so Miss Plattaway believed.
batch of the latest "poison pen" letters.
own
"The name of the police, air,
Joshua Playfair, however, had his ideas. The Digger's is mud," said Detective Calliput, due "but I don't think it need be Green case, of which, in course, he was placed in charge, mud much longer." was his eighteenth anonymous
"You've a definite idea?" said letter case. And in fourteen of Playfair. the previous seventeen cases, the "I've a definite idea, sir.. wielder of the "poison pen" had Miss Plattaway. I haven't seen been on the list of recipients. her post any letters-I haven't "No competent anonymous seen her at all, sir, except when letter-writer," said Playfair to I've been serving her with stamps his sergeant, Dambell, "has, ao but, all the same, 1 think it's far, failed to. attempt to confuse her that you're looking for." the issue by sending a letter to himself... Or, of course, her self," he added, with a faintly sardonic smile.
"You've got a line on the writer, then?" said Dumbell.
"I have," said Playfair. "I've dono some work on this case, Dumbell. It's a difficult case, but I've studied it carefully, in both
"Not her, Calliput," said Play-
"She. fair sententiously. We have to compete with the Police College nowadays, and I think they teach them grammar there."
York Public CENE: New
Time: Recently. Library. Characters: A Librarlan; D Next
book
have several books about grapes. Do you want to consult it in reference
picture puzzle"
Seeker: "Yes. Black grapes." Librarian (banding Secker a printed slip) "Sorry.""
Secker (reading printed slip Dictionaries, whisper): In a encyclopedias and other works of reference are not provided for use in connection with puzzles or contests of any kind.
Exit
Seeker, making way for Next Seeker.
Next Seeker-after-Knowledge: "Have you a book about rivers that flow into the Irish Sea? And about butterfish?"
Little dramas like this, it ap- pears by newspaper report, have been frequent enough require printed slip. There
the
library patrons who for one rea- son or another relevant to seri- ous research need the reference books that become unavailable if In use by other patrons fondly hopeful of winning prizes by finding hidden nomes in pleture puzzles. What is even worse, in the experience of the New York Library, is that some of the prize- seekers tear out pages of the re- ference books elther because they Rre too lazy to make notes, or else with intention to prevent com- petitors from profiting by what- ever help they think they may have found for themselves. Dur- ing a popular prize contest the printed slip is necessary to pro- feel the books as well as the interests of those who may wish to consult them for other pur- poses.
Without knowing how many other public llbraries printed similar slips, it is safe to say that botheration of libarians is one of the by-products of the modern commercial and widely advertised prize contest. These have multi- plied in the present century in way to suggest comparison with
that the growing things.
the suburban gardener did not plant when he turned over the spring soil and so carefully distributed the contents of his little seed packages.
I combine Health with Pleasure -in a glass of 'OVALTINE' COLD
The delightful Summer Drink
During the warm summor days you will find that a glass of 'OVALTINE'—served cold- is as delicious as it is health-giving and sustaining.
This refreshing, creamy drink, with a fascinating flavour, is brim-full of the nourishment which builds up energy, vitality and perfect fitness of body,
brain and nerves.
When the light summor moals you prefer ara insufficiently nourishing to meet all the demands on your strength and vigour, -this is what you need.
IML.30.
Quality always tells- insist on 'Ovaltine'
Is Your English Correct?
PANTS "Pants," meaning "trousers," Americanism. "Pants"
អ
an
in English means "drawers."
against 7 would justify the phrase "a majority of one."
SCABIES AND RABIES Strictly speaking, these words should not rhyme with "babies,"
GOURMET AND GOURMAND but should be pronounced as
If these French forms must be three-syllable words-skay-bec- ured in
former ay" and "rap-ben-ay."
VENUE means a judge or connoisseur of
"English," the
"Venue" should not be used for good food; the latter a greedy the scene, say, of a football match. person, almost a glutton
It is a legal term meaning the MINORITY
place set for a trial by juri, and should not be used in any other sense.
PATENT This word is best pronouneed "pay-tent," although the form "patent, in frequent use, is not wrong in the technical sense.
The phrase, "a minority of one," usually
a single vole against the rest. But "a majority of one" means that the decision reated on one vote. Thus 14 votes against I would justify the phrase a "minority of one"; 8 votes
WEEK-END PROBLEMS
by Hubert Phillips.
PROBLEM I HICKVILLE FAIR TE prie of beasts at Hickville Fair yesterday was: Cows, £11 each; pigs, £7 each; sheep, £3 each. Talking with various farmers in the Three Horseshoes, at the conclusion of the fair, discovered that seven of them had each spent £100 on beasts but that no two of them had laid out Yet his money in the same way. cach had bought the same num- ber of beasts.
How many beasts of each kind had been bought by these far- mera?
I
PROBLEM II
WORD SQUARE
1. In Paradise, there's one
уси-
for
2. Just dry, should be sufficient
clue-
5. Or mineral, or tree, would do- 4. Horatian verse is now in view,
To Solucrs: A number of readers have written challenging the answer to last week's Problem
What 2 (A Study in Speed), they overlook is that the average of three speeds is not their arith- metic
menn. If I travet equal distances at 15, 45 and 90 m.p.h.--
Eny 90 miles at each speed-f shall cover 270 miles in 9 hours, 'land hence my average speed must be
30 m.p.h.
(Answers on Page Three)
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