SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1938,
How good a detective are you?
You ought to be able to
solve this potted mysery
in one minute.
ROFESSOR FORDNEY, tho.
renowned
John, hero," ho continued, "saya that the Pomimologist, was seated busily engaged in it happened. But he wasn't. He was standing man must have been kneeling or lying down when his single hobby-mending toys-while ten cager right straight up and the donkey was a very littlo facos watched him.
small onol"
"No, son, that's a true story! This great big man, six feet thres inches tall-much taller than Billy's dad-bore an ugly scar on his cheek, which thad been caused by the kick of a donkey,"
How did it happen?
· HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION
for the
Something for children?
This chart will help you to plan out a programme of games for children of all ages. In the left-hand column you ice the times into which the afternoon is divided up; each of
Up to seven
Seven to ten
Here it is.
the next columns tells you games suitable for children of the ages given at the top. If some of the games are new to you," : you will find them explained below.
Team games with big wool-Throwing rings on to board,
ly ball
or playing cards into basket.
3.30
Blind man's buff
to
Musical chaira
Nuts and May
Solution is upside down at the foot of Colum Four.
Blowing a feather
*4.30
"I wrote a letter"
Hide and seek
4.30-5
By The
5--6
Ten to Fourteen
Telling fortunes
Hide and seek with paper
Sardines
and pencil
Memory
and
observation
"Lives"
Charades
All nges mixed
Guessing each other's fancy
dress
Postman's knock
Family coach
Dumb charades/
Playing with toys Telling fairytales Find the ring
Hunt the slipper Oranges and lemons
tests
Musical chairm
INTERVAL FOR TEA
Question and answer Whispering
Consequences
Picture consequences Guessing games
Cuesaing tunes
Simple guessing games
Wordmaking from long word)
Hido and seek
Personalities
Baby pictures Alphabets Intelligence tesis
TREASURE HUNT
advertisements
The up-to-sevens will pre- Making hats with pins and Naming pletures cut from
sumably have gone to bed by this time
poper Singing carols
Murders
Supper and dancing
Community singing
Country dancing
דין
Remember Your
Old
Rev. DESMOND
School "Tie" MORSE-BOYCOTT
THREE things tempt me to consider the old school "tie," not merely the brilliant thing which as a new music-hall joke compotes In popularity with mothers-in-law and twins, but the link that should exist be- tween you and the school you went to.
Myriads of parents are breathing a thankful sigh that the schools havo reopened.
Mother finds time to do things, and father, home from a hard day at work, has peace.
Of course, the balms are missed If they have returned to a residential school, but relief tempers grici,
I they have gone to a day school, they are enjoyed as they could not be when on hand all day.
I have been entertaining the head- master of a public school, who has been in the job all his life, and is perfectly attuned to its ups and downs,
Some old boys who had passed through my hands into his and then out Into the wide world, and for- gotten to send him Christmas cards.
You would hardly suppose that a public school headmaster, who has had many thousands of boys in his care, would have noticed that and felt a pang of grief,
But he spoke with a sorrow which reminded me that, if one end of the school to is let go by youthful hands, the other is held by the teacher.
old
Then there is Mr. A. Pratt, head- master of Brockley County Secondary School, who has taught six genera- tona-of-pupils, amounting_now.to. Beveral thousands.
Overseas
His boys are scattered all over the world especially in the Dominions, so, having resigned, he is going out to visit all who have kept in touch, Instead of sinking, at the age of 69, a well-curned armchair, Mr. Into Pratt exemplifies the spirit of the old #chool de.
the
hope I have sold enough already to make you hark back over fields of yesterday to the classroom in which your character was formed by the dally Impact upon you of a master or mistress whom you would like to meet again, if only to thank them
You may have left school In umbrage. You may even have been expelled. Or you may have left in the odour of sanctity,
You may have done well in life, or be a failure.
To get back into the old school for an hour or two, to hear the old volvo
to which you used to be responsive, to shake the hand that guided yours along the copybook or whipped you soundly, will help you to reorientate your life.
But to go back is not only to get, but to give. If teacher still means much to us, we mean much to him or her.
I remember à Philistine of sixteen winters who was packing up his Achool books in a dusty, untidy class- room. A great adventure was be ginning for him, the adventure of going to work..
Glad To
Leave
wns
The Philistine was me. I thoroughly glad to be leaving school, although I loved it as much na a Phillaline can love anything.
The Head was sliting at a table, writing letters in a beautiful hand. His writing was as lovely as he him- selt was untidy. Although a clergy- man, he was usually unbrushed and ungroomed, and ho
word
dirty
collars yellow with age. He shaved twice a week.
An inveterate smoker, he used to commit the unpardonable school ein of smoking in the class-room, and he aimed the fag-ends into the grate, often misfiring.
I never understood the Head, but he made me mind my manners. He was a disciplinarian, and you could hear,'a pin fall during classes. - IIis femper was highly uncertain.
⠀ Now that I am a school master I realise how profoundly he has In- Quenced my life for good, despite his gaucheries. I think of him with geatitude, could klow myself for not being kinder to him when I grow VẪN 1 Vu packing up, on that day,
brimming his eyes: "Do you realise that we shall never do any more lessons together? No more German, no more French... ever again."
I shifted uncomfortably from one foot to the other. I wanted to escopo, I did not want to do any more German and French. I mut-. tered something boyishly inone and departed. I decided he was dolly.
Now consider any school in the world, day, secondary, prep, or public. Into its tranquil port float tiny barques, A teacher spends precious years patiently rigging them out, so that they can weather the storms of after Hfe.
Leaving time comes. The little barques, trim and seaworthy, Ball away, out on to the ocean of life, provided the teacher hopes, with a chart of right principles.
Seldom arc they scen again. Teacher fades out of mind. If re- membered, he or she is referred to
"Old So and So."
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But the scholar never fades out of the teacher's heart, and is always Young So and So." Other baina efface the deals in an unending suc cession, but they do not efface the, memory.
Daily association, over many years, has twined the child around the teacher's heart.
The teacher's heartache, though akin to the parents, ↳ deeper. There is much more of it for one thing. A child grows out of the parent's arms, but not out of the home, for the new nest made by marriage is an exten- sion of the family hearth.
long since and lost nwhile, back to smile and thank.
6-6.30
After 7.30
come
The children of to-day should be encouraged to honour their ties-the tle of respect to the
woman who builds up their characters and lays the foundation of their educa- tion; the tie of loyalty to school itself.
The day schools should copy the publie and secondary schools and have old scholars associations, for the day school, by its hours and holidays, defeats the best intentions of the lad or lassle meaning to keep in touch.
Revived
Later in life the lass may return to place her children under the old
hand, and thus revive happy
memòrica.
But if the day school can do little or nothing, it is up to the old boy or girl to take the initiallye, write for news, to subscribe to its funds, and, amid nli the changes and chances of life, keep in touch with the teacher,
Track down your marm or your dominic
You will and a now! pleasure in doing so. You will learn how much you are cared for.
I had ti marm
who was always scolding me for having my laces undone. Many years after I went a long journey to see her. As i said "Good-bye" on the doorstep my
laces
came mysteriously undone. She said, with a sweet smile: "Desmond, laces undone again." I laughed too. What she had suffered over my laces remained beneath the arches of the year-our old school
Parents, moreover, can Bee the fruit of their travail. Teachers can- not. Seldom-the-angel-faces, loved-tie.
GRAMOPHONE
NEW
RECORDS
VAUGHAN
WILLIAMS, certo. It is an extraordin- our greatest living com- arily pretty plece of writing, poser, heads the lists of new and the solo instrument has January records with his many amazing and brilliant Fourth Symphony (H.M.V.). things to do,
аз
It is his latest extended or- Moiseiwitach, the soloist, chestral work and it is mag- throws off these decorative nificent music. In saying embellishments though that I know that I shall get they were the merest child's hard words from some play. They are, in fact, very readers.
far from that. This is a
I remember how I felt record that can safely be when first I heard this stark, recommended. The orches- uncomromis-
tra is the Lon- don Philhar- monic, the con-
ing music, how disturbed and antagonised and yet transported. Circumstances have given me to the chance play through this notable re- cord eight times before it issuel.
уда
ductor
Goehr.
that
Walter
Another good piano record la of three well- known "Fantasie stucke" by Schumann, played by Yves has Hands of Rachmaninov Nat (Columbia). things
The first is tho for me and now I know that exquisite "Des Abends," and when I say that this muale is for that alone the record is magnificent, that for me is the truth. It isn't so much that one worth possessing. cares for all of it. But then, one
That
settled
doesn't "care" for the Parthenon HERE is a
or the Sistine frescoes, far we are
too small to
atich
ment, such
come into that
selection of danca records, made after
relationship with those immense playing through a dozen of things. But
moved, never- one theless, to a condition of wonder- the latest. "Star Dust," by at least one the Six Swingers, "Little Old listener han
experienced with this symphony. In the present Lady," by Howard Jacobs' instance it
in conducted by the Orchestra, "Waltz Dream," by composer and wonderfully well. Eugene's Viennese. Orchestra, all played by the B,B,C. Symphony Columbia, And among Regal's Orchestra.
now records, "For Only You," by Bram Martin's Band, while
ONE of the most popular "Remember Me" has the unusual compositions of one of distinction of combining in ons the world's most fabulously record such great names as Tommy killed planists has just boon fare and George Formby. Final re-recorded and issued by ly, the Columbia record of Johann
•Strauss'a Awalta = Artist's Life! H.M.V. Thl. Ise Rachmaniasi deldous misikend good nova Second 25 moto.
Sharpen
your wits
Test your skill at putting a message into cipher. Draw up the cipher from, the instructionă. Then put the message into code. You ought to be able to finish the job in fifteen minutes.
Draw a rectangle divided into four horizontal lines of ten small
squares,
Write in the top horizontal line the numbers-O- in consecuilve order and in the first vertical line the left the numbers 1-3, one on underneath the other.
of the
Then enter the letters alphabet consecutively into the squares of the three remaining horizontal lin
lines. In ex each letter is ex-
cipher
the pressed by
corresponding number on the left (tens)
and
the top (units). Thus 11 - A 21 J. 38 = 2 and so on.
Put the following message into cipher.
"Meet
me on Friday at nine am on platform two Victoria Station."
SOLUTION
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Bridge Problem No. 47
North
K 7
342
10 8 5 4
Wast
East
48.42
J 3
7.0
73
AR
10 0 0 5 4 3 2
South
10 9 8 5
K.3
OAKD +367
Spades are trumps. West leads Club King. North and South to make the Grand Slam,
Solutions by 4 p.m. Wednesday to "Bridge Problem", Hongkong "Tele- graph."
PROBLEM NO. 40
East
~10--0-0-
SOLUTION
South West
North
3
North and South make the fast three tricks.
Here's how to play the games
W
1
HEN you are giv- ing
children's party it is
esson- tial to make a programme beforehand,
The first item must be some- thing in which guests can join os they arrive without upsetting the game; also it should interest them suficiently to make them forget to be to be
Arrange to play a quiet sitting after down game immediately Lea. Small children enjoy play- ing with toys, romping games and any kind of make-believe.
Older children ko dancing, having fortunes told and games which test intelligence or general knowledge,
old
You'll
some recognise favourites in this chart; chlidren always like them. Here are a few notes about the ones may not know,
Telling Fortunes
you
THERE are lots of ways
of doing this. If you haven't a special board arrange the children in a circle and spin a knife in the middle. While it's spinning-ask-It-questions--Like: "Who's the prettiest?" Who'll be the first married?"
The answer is the one oppo- site the knife' when it stops.
Correct solutions from E.M.A., "Emjay": A.E.G., Mr. A.K, "S'Easy" Paper and Pencil
"30023," N.E.
SOLUTIONS
ARE YOU SURE ?
I-A baboon.
2-A duke.
3.-Moscow.
-Incisora. 6.——$1,003,000,000. 6-Cinnamon (a bark). -Cape of Good Hope. B.-1807.
9
Charles I.
10,-- Junc
11-Henry Ford.
12-Fort Phillip
formed 1801).
(Union Jack
13, Pacife (64 million sq, miles). 14-The Bible (Job, chapter 25). 10.The Aga Khan.
10-100
17-The Emperor of Japan (ap-
pointed 1930).
10-The
Bishop
(£10,000):
19.-04.
20-Low.
21-Ring-shaped.
22-A
of London
-A Portuguese possession in
India.
23.--Holland.
24-For Couls barred from
Heaven, etc.
25-Rarify should to rarety.
MINUTE MYSTERY
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B1q
a poy ver
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STRONG WILL TEST
you can honestly record,"A" scores to seven or more of the questions you are strong-willed, record "B" to
to seven or more you are weak-willed.
Most of us will find ourselves in the intermediate position be- tween these two extremes it we have sufficient insight into our own psychological make-up to be able to judge ourselves as curately as an independent ob- server who knows us well is able to.
Wook-End Problems
PROBLEM I, MADELINE
ከርመ
Madeline is now 15. "When I first knew the three girls" their ages were: Mode- lino 8; Mistletoe 4; Margery 3).
PROBLEM H.
PLAIN
LORNA
ARIES INER T NAS
Mr. Donniger's
Diamonds
Sluttering is the thief.
No
one had told him that the miss- Ing jewels were diamonds.
A Lay Sermon
By Hugh Redwood
BELSHAZZAR'S culminating man defile the temple of God, him
offenen was that of putting con- secrated vessels to unholy use. The gods, that is, of this world's wor- ship, were toasted in the gold and.
allver cups of The vessels of the temple.
It In an old Ills hotd.
story
lightly DANIEL, V., 23, dismissed by sume as a pic- luresque legend, this talg of the ghostly Angers and the doom they spoiled on a palace wall. But the eternal trush It containg was dia ulics by at Feul, and no Chrle Mianderendæregamut Pit Boy
shall God destroy." One reads the apostle's words and one's thoughts go back to Daniel's: "In that night was Belshazzar slain.”
To seek the consecration of God, to be made a vessel meat for the Master's us, and then to be turned from a worship and fear. to the worship of place, or power, or favour, this is to do what Belshattar did and to hend for Belshazzar's destruction. We have ona purpose only and all our Waya must be God's The Tan, the ohurch or the organisation whion: compromisor on this done issue fa making for sentence of destheses
Hide and Seek
IVE.cach child a list of odd things hidden
in the room and guaranteed visible (penknife, fork, soap, etc.).. Let them write down' where the things are (on the clock, in. waste paper basket, etc.).
First one with whole list right wins; do it early before they have time to notice things.
Memory and Observation Test
IVE them two minutes to look at twelve things on a tray; then tell them to make a list or anawer ques- tions.
Or give them three minutes to make lists of things in the room (objects beginning with E, or things of a particular colour). Baby Pictures
EACH guest brings ple
JM ture of himself us a baby, drops it in a box by the front door. Game is to guess which is which.
Question and Answer
CLIPS
and of paper pehclls required; write down a question, fold the paper and pass it to your neigh- bour. Then write on the slip re- ceived answer to your own ques- tion,
Linos
FIRST person thinks of
a word and says tho Arst letter; next one thinks of a word beginning that way and saya second letter of his word and so on. If you finish a word you lose a lifo; samo penalty if you can't go on and the next person has your turn,
You can challenge it you don't believe there is such a word, but If you are wrong that's end life Icas.
Family Coach
MAKE it up to date with airplanes and Give every one radio moranges, a "name," and aco that all the names occur often, so that thero's Always some one geiling, up, and twirling round. Personalities
ONE goes out and each
of the others ÷ maicen Aremark about him; he cornes, L and be to guess who sold whiche
WEEK-END PROBLEMS
PROBLEM I
MADELINE.
Madeline is at' school with my daughter Clara; the two girls, Indeed, are in the same; form. Madeline's age in years is greater by one-half than the age in years of her sister Margery. And three years ago her age in years was greater by one-half than the then age in years of her other sister, Mistletoe.
When I Arst knew the three Misletoa and girls-Madeline, Margery-their combined ages in years totalled 15.
How old is Madeline now?
**
PROBLEM II
WORD SQUARE
(1), Unndorned
(2) Exmoor's heroine. (3) Astrologers ram (3) Lacking in animation. (5) Disgusting
(Solutions on Page Nins)
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