HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
WEEK-END SECTION
The Children's Corner
week's Competitiont
Dear Kiddies.-My word; what a Job I had going through all the entries for
There were, only one or two who gave the wrong names of the fogs; so, in deciding the prizes, the chlef factor was realness of taken work. Age, alko, was naturally
into account. After much time spent in sorting out the best efforts, I have de- cided that the Senior award must go to Nella Mae Willam (aged 10), 2C Nathan Road, Kowloon,
There weren't quite no
many entries
In the Junior Section, but all were quite good. The prize goes to Margaret Ven- ables aged B), tin Austin Hond, Kow.
II.
Now For the terit Certificates. Sa keen was the competition sal I've te cided to allot sixteen of there. They are awarded to the following:
Grady,
Mu-
Seniors: Vivienne Jex, Jean Alan Cutcher, Pamela Ho, Suen tak, Creilla Remedios, Jean Reimpton, Muriel MeЛan.
Juniors; Rodney Mariin. Meira Patey, Juan Gulmgam, Tootsie Garela, Aythony Domund, Paddy Grimpi, Pinky Rilva, itay King.
When you love noted all the four- letter objects you can find, make a neat la nundered this week sent
list; and put the total
underneat. Then not plain Bit These entries.
Are
address, and the your runne, age wi must show allowed, as the work competitor's handwrtung in competitions ward your entries to Unele Eddie, 2/0
Tw campeliturn typewritten
of this kit.
Commeared
for good work, but not
Fa
itleie
for-
"Hongkong Telegraph," not later than 4. Wednesday,
The your best, kidilies, and remember
quite up to Meril Certrate standard, that if you don't win one of the two are the following:
Seniors: Michael
Ko Mu-line,
17. M. s
Bertran. Benjamin
Bo Shak-chun, W. K. Mark, D. fan.
Ildefonso,
A Met- Aus Mansfeld, Armando Bolche.
Beler Eldora Santes, Zinda Gutierrez, Hunt, Theresa da Latz #Shameens, Cira-
clients Rozario. Peter Gilbert,
11
Orlando
Vas,
Marker, Man-chan, Witam Charles Foster. Prudence Mayhew, Inger Madsen. Ada Sumad. Angela King, Patsy Koirwall, Audrey Nash, Maggie Alves, Yeong RR-wn, Morale Xavier, Myrtle Decker. Harvey Decker, Eva Grady, da Carmen Tavares, Silva, Betty Becker, Fall Bejanjer. Jim Edmondron, Reinedios, Teddy Cropley.
Juniora;
Inez
Alicia
da
Ditly
McMahon. Silva. Nocardo da Luz, Sheila Cooper, Arthur Fisher, Alan Jex, George Hudson, Violetin dos trivedios, Patrick Bertram. Joyce Plinberine, Tommy L. Laurence Becker, Patricia Oxorio, Horacio Orarin. Nan Provan, Victor Ruwell. Teresa Chow, And Joyer Irene Osmund, Elmo Leon Margaret Hall.
Now, Hidden, I know you are going to like this week's Competition. It's one which will test your powers of observa- tion. The picture shown contains inany things, but what I want you to do is to pick but only those names which con flat four letters. For example, tree. book, etc. No item may be nained more than once-thus, "band" can only be given onec, not four times. No general words. much as "ne". may be used. All must be objects.
For
prizes being nitered this week, you may get, a Merit Cortilleate; and when you've collected six of these yuu get a prize, anyhow. Good heel.
Uncle Eddie
WEEK-END PROBLEMS
by Hubert Phillips
PROBLEM I Monkeyface on Manoeuvres
"The number of men I con- mand," said Monkeyface, "is an interesting one. There are enough but only just enough—to form either two
three hollow squares."
"So what?" suid I.
"Why," said Monkeyface, the Colonel has set ine a problem. I have to dispose my troops on parade in Iwo similar hollow squares, and in such a way that, to re-form them as three hollow squares. I only have to move eight men. Can you help me to do it?"
Can you?
PROBLEM 11. Double Acrostic UPRIGHTS
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friend; my
My first is just
sccund More powerful than the King is
reckoned;
Yet still the King would find of
Use
What both together can produce. LIGHTS
(1) Aguin a top!-Does that dis-
close
A land to which one seldoin
stoes?
(2) Pet, i can sit!-And so one
sets
What's in demand!
M.17.5.
anong
(3) O
my, mude it clear
Charles-Have
I
That this poor chap must
shed a tear?
Answers on Page Three
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Bridge Problem
No. 16
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Diamonds are trumps. South lend and Nurth-South must win six of the seven tricks.
Solutions "Bridge Problem" long- kong Telegraph, Wynditum Street.
SOLUTION OF PROBLEM NO. 15
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South wins with queen of hearts und the six of hearts is rulfed by North with dianaand deuce. The return of a small spade is ruffed by South. When South now leads
nine West, In an effort to slap the gross- ruft and protect his other sults, Jumps in with queen of trumps and North refusing to overtrump, discards club three.
West leads trump eight, which is covered by North's nine and won by South's ace over East's Jack. North Wins with trump king. West discard. ing club 4, and the lead of the spade ruffed ais brings down East's pee to by South.
The lead of South's master trump (the ten) squeezes West who must discard either a spade or a club and North, discarding the reverse, North- South win the last three tricks.
to
Ir. a trick five, East refuses cover North's trump nine it holds the trick and North follows with Diamond King and small spade and the end play is the same,
This was found a most difficult pro- blem, and far more solutions are
One says,
wrong thin are right. was hard on on old un with heart trouble-but congratulations."
A few renders sent in solutions which were correct though they did not follow the above play. The fol- lowing fulfilled the contract against
Mrs. Various defences:
C.W.S., "Emjay". Mrs. A. K., R. U. o., "S'Easy".
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Answers
LIERE are the answers to the questions at the top of this page. Give yourself points, 1 for cach question you answered cor- over reetly. A score of 10 or shows that you are a good con- versationalist; 7 or inore, mode- rate: under 7. poor.
1-YES. Hongkong weather be- ing what it is makes this un interesting tople of conversation.
2-YES. These
subjects which invariably turn up in the conversation,
3-NO. To do so is both tire-
some and annoying. Always venture a reply, give your reason. for accepting or rejecting a ques- tion.
1-NO. People arc not gen- erally interested 1 what you have been doing during the day.
5-NO. Do your best to show some, interest in their com-
pany,
6-NO. Variety is the spice
of good conversation. 7-NO. You will be less con- spicuous and more popular
if you circulate among the guests.
8-NO. Because
don't you
like the look of a person it doesn't always follow that you with have nothing in common him. Get to know him.
9-NO. But tu ask people about their activities and Interests promotes a feeling of friendliness.
10-NO. If you have you will sooner or later be found out. People will class you bore. Let your conversation be varied.
11-NO. This is an unfortunate habit many people have. Allow the person with whom you are talking to stand up for him- selt.
12-NO. To persistently find
fault with people's remarks may be a right in court but In pulite conversation it is not done,
REMEMBER thint # good Istener is usually a good talker,
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Can You Talk?
W
HAT sort of a talker are you?
When you go to a party, entertain people, dance, whenever you meet strangers
or friends, what impression does your conversation make on them?
To find out what kind of a con- versationalist you are, read through the following list of questions; then compare your own answers with those at the foot of Column 4. And don't cheat.
Questions
-Do you talk about the weather?
1-
-Do you argue about war, politics, religion and other important sub-
jects?
3-
--Do you give "Yes" and "No" as answers to your friend's questions?
4-Do you make a point of always re- counting your day's experiences? -Do you read in the presence of entitled to your
5-
people who are
attention?
6-Do
you steer the conversation round to subjects with which you are especially familiar?
7--Do you monopolise the company of
a particular person at a party?
Do you ignore people whose appear. ance you don't like?
9-Do you ask personal questions?
10-Do you have a special line of talk which you trot out at the first pos- sible opportunity?
11
Do you hold people by the arm or shoulder when you are talking to
them?
12- Do you automatically disagree in an
argumentative manner with what people say?
THE CEDAR
MURDER
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H. Dumbell,"
GROVE
said compete in one of our tourna-
schools, and
Playfair to his Serments. They've all got plenty of geant, when the latter money, they're chaps of good reported for duty, "A
standing-public busy day there's likely to be for all that and they've been having a devilish good time. Dances, suppers, excursions to Brighton -the West End knows them pretty well."
murder of Elsie Da
you. This Pinci, in Cedar Grove."
The It was front page news. well-known soubrette had been A found in her flat, strangled. crime of jealousy or passion. For, though her bureau had been ransacked-someone, apparently, had been searching hastily for letters-nothing of value had been stolen.
a
"You don't happen to know if any of them was acquainted with Miss Da Pinci?"
“I should guess they were all But with her. acquainted there's one man-Jeremy Broole -whose name has been especial- was ly prominent. A good-looker, Playfair detailed what known. The girl's body had Broole is, with-they tell me a See what you been discovered at 8.15 that flair for women. morning. She had been dead for can find out from him." perhaps six hours. She had re- turned to the Grove, from party at Carmagno's, at a little after one. Soon after the night
"Thanks, Captain Slee," said porter deposed to this-she had Playfair, making a note of the admitted to the flat a tall, well-
name. "And one more question, set-up young man. The night please. You say these men as- porter had not seen him at close sert that none of them, last quarters. An
the night, left the Barracks. But same young man-or presumably surely you have a guard at the the same young man-had let gates who would be able to con- himself out of the flat and had firm their story?" walked rapidly away.
hour later
A brass
mo
ས། was afraid you'd ask that," said Captain Slee. "Wo mount a guard every night, of But there's a sort of course. side entrance to the building where
the Carabiniers are lod-
ged, and they've been allowed д to come and go as they please."
He had left behind him (Play- fair explained) one important nay, damning-clue. uniform button which had al- ready been identified; it was button torn from a tunic-one of The the famous olive tunics-of the Pogoland Carabiniers.
Carabiniers' own evi- dence was in line with Captain Slee's forecast. It WDS clear
"All seven Playfair.
A
of you?" asked
"There's a detachment of these from the outset that the famous Pogoland chaps-seven of them esprit de corps of the regiment, at the (with its motto, Each for All) altogether-staying Stanbury Barracks, Miss Da had been called into play. The Pinci knew several of them. I'm men's tunics were produced; no going along there immediately," buttons were missing anywhere. Playfair said. "And your job, Their accounts of the previous Dumbell, is to get along to Cedar evening, given separately to the Grove and ransack the flat for Inspector, fitted together like the further evidence. Also you're to fragments of jigsaw. "We tired of going out, sir," make yourself useful in the were finger-print department. I want, said Sergeant Rhombus, in com- if you please, photographic en mand; "we decided to have a largements of every print in the cheerful evening in Barracks. It place."
began with a modest supper-l can show you the empty bottles, Dumbell hurried off, and Play-air-and then we thought we'd fair, climbing into a fast car, was play poker." very soon at the Barracks. Here he was received by Captain Slec, the adjutant. "I'm afraid," said Slee, "that you're on a tough thing, Inspector. I've told the Pogoland contingent to stand by, and they're all of them waiting for you now. But I don't think
"Wo you'll get anything out of them.
started playing about They're prepared to swear,
cleven, air. We kept it up till four. Come into the far as I can make out, that last nearly night none of them left the Bar. other room, would you? Here are the cards-six packs we racks."
opened, sir-just as we left them Playfair was surprised. "But last night. Here are the chips- this_button," he said. He drew |nowly bought for the occasion... it from his pocket. "There's | Private Woolley got them at the this, and other evidence. Can stores. And here," he concluded, you tell me, Captain Slee, what with a somewhat rueful air, “are you know about these fellows?" the remains of five quids' worth
of drink." "Not much," said the Cap- "tain, "except that they're a fine "Each for. All," murmured lot of chaps. The detachment | Playfair. "Well, thanks very has come over, you know, to much, Sergeant. You won't, I'm
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"All seven of us.” "At what time did you begin to play?"
FROM
INSPECTOR PLAYFAIR'S NOTEBOOK
suro, mind my checking up on your story."
But by each of the party-in- Private Broole, who cluding looked pale and was suffering, so he said, from a headache-the story was in every detail cor- roborated
Playfair was shaken. Could the button have been a plant? No, surely not; it had been found in the dead girl's hand. There was so much other evid- ence, too. One of the Cara- biniers, at least, was implicated. Yet here they were, all seven of them; asserting roundly that they had been playing poker from ten o'clock till four.
Well, though the Inspector, there's still Dumbell's inquiries. Something in the way of finger- prints
Yet here too he drew blank. To his surprise and disappoint- ment, there was not a significant print to be found. Whoever had murdered Elsie De Pinci had
done so wearing gloves.
Nevertheless, before the day was out, Playfair was satisfied that Jeremy Brooke was guilty.
What was the starting point of his investigations?
Solution on Page Three.
A Lay Sermon
By HUGH REDWOOD
"DOL," mys
graven or
the dictionary, "on image, for worship." An Image, Le, & product of the Imagination. Perliaps, os we nole these definitions, we may have to confess to idolatry in our own
religious lives. Little
children, Not ugainst keep yourselves
from idols. 1 Jolin, v., 21, molten images WBB the Apostle's warning directed. The key to his meaning is the word "know," four times, employed in the two preceding vernes Idols his "children", must guard agalist are the God-forms of Imagination. Nothing less than the knowledge of God must con- tent them.
The
Look at the things, which, St. John says, the Christian knows. That the man born of God is kept from sin and that the Evil One cannot harm him. That he God's Son came with the gift of understanding, so that we might have knowledge of God as Ho really is. That in Christ we are In God. Have we this know- edge, this Spirit of understand- ing? With it, we too can say This is the true God, and eternal life." Without it, we worship only in form, and the idols of form are but silver and gold, man-made and man-imagined.
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