SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1938

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Mary Grace and David Arche. of Stanley, who won prizon this wook in the "Boys' and Girl'

Corner" competition.

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When they were it enough to The parents, the twins wande tres be a time, to the Pets AT 11 Hey were senedines photographed with

They ati{Ltit}:t!1- Visitors au testtrris would stay in the Pets Corner for 100t

of the day, but they always returned to The parts in the evertog

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INSPECTOR PLAYFAIR

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Solution Playfair had had made a

examination microscopie stavon any kirst of andrond tree

ron! the dust from Alum's peket that coat in which he had for two months "slouched about the streets of Butters- worth."

inst Among this was unmistakable evidence of the "starch works, blacking works and brewery" a series of painters, which, taken to- gether, left no doubt in Play- fair's mind that the wearer of the cont was the man he was looking for.

MAX AND

CLIMAN

--By Animal Lover"

Jes the late spring of last year. were hunt at the London Zoo They were

af Jock Max and Cox, who

The Juor, London Zoo Bon al orient

the twin progressed wonderfully, and fusily was a happy one

Max and Climax would play like kl

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

WEEK-END

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Books-edited by Roger Pippett

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ADY OXFORD is a wonderful old body.

Sho invited Afteen women

* of Influence and achievement" to write of their youth and, adding a chapter by herself, has made a book called Myself When Young (Frederick Muller, 12s. Gd.).

And how she can write Among her chosca

contributors arc Marjorie Bowen, the Baroness von Hutten, Ellen Wilkinson and Sylvia Pankhurst, but she writes thera all to a standstill. Tull of verve, full of fun and Inalinet with downright good hense.

I have enjoyed rending little in the inst year or two as I have her thirty pages in this book--and, for my aina, I have to read thousands of pages a year which I do not cujoy at all.

The other contributions are all in. teresting-except one by Chanel, the draamaker, which is prefcatious non- sease it they all tend to illustrate what Lady Oxford says in her opening paragraph:

-Men seize opportunities quicker than women because my sex have less imagination and think that they can by their looks, and their brains, always Coninand attention,

- Women, unless they are squawa, APC as over-individual and untamable as enta and here an erroneoua belief in their own powers."

Few then, with a sense of personal safely, wendt ve dared to print that. Yet to quite True,

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Lady Oxfordd in shy about telling us

But Mr. Gladstone wat writing funny verse about her in 1889, wad tier spirit to-day remains as greeti and rinatie on the OM. ntler Ida Both birthday

Without boasting," she declares there is nothing which I have not alone with my youth. I have valued it from the nest hour of my conscious- barns, encouraged and exploited it. and

with a to-day." Mint

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Russian Salad

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TANYA ALEXANDROVANA has

valec. a lovely

She used exercise 1, to the delight at ber Vulborzhets the Red fellows, in factory in Moscow.

That Tanya doesn't sing there any One day Foreman Bergel cune hung and said really the must stop. Taby was holding up the second Five Year Plan. ven Foreman Bergel found himself perking up his ears and lying down his toula when she started

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Win

So Tanys Alexandrovann Jolemily fined and told not to do it again and reported to the factory com-

nites.

Comrade Bergel risted on th And when ne had done 11s duty he to up and demanded that Tanya be sent to the Cotiservataire,

Everyday Life in Russia, by Bertha Mainick Haurap, 12s. 6d.), is full of atorica the that; trivial, perhaps by to make but collected themarives, nearly 300 pages vastly stimulating

The author tells them (with the Artful akt of Pearl Bidder's dissur 3- ingly naive illustrablons) not as stortes, but as quolations from, il neetrin, every single piece of quotable material she could put her hands on.

the quotes a shop's invitation to its Customera to conferener to discuss what is wrong with its service, a letter from a child who wants to be kn Sebulanci devole "her whole life to the conquest of the Arelle" note to Auntie Dora from eight-yeur-old Sasha. a girl who

"Wants to be an airman. militia inan and doctor. In the day time I'm going to be a militiamati, in the evening 1 can look after my patients

BRIDGE PROBLEM

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Hearts are trumps. South leads and North-South have to win eight of the nine tricks,

Solutions by Arat post Wednesday to "Bridge Problem," Hongkong "Telegraph."

.. a wonderful old body."

and on free days I'm going to be ani airman"

Room with a View -to authorship

Concert programmes, factory club Bewapapers, quick lonel counter nd- VOTUMENETts, market prier lata Mlan Malnick misses nothattig to make her intrror of Soviet life from infrey to maturity.

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Ami mighty exciting tranITIUSO Soviet lite must be Just as reveling about it is exciting bustless if you n Herp out of die back of your land than mentory of Gerential pieces of dirty wort in the Kremlin. SER. W

Chinese Sage

UCCESS, punctuality, effeleney, how they clang about our lives like alarmn clocks rousing HIN violently from dreams of idleness!

Will the appoint humselt our prophet, die down at the Paris 15f our relaxing conks and dreamly frre u From the tyranny of a hustling tvillin- (luch?

This Perhaps Dr Lin Yeung will Chinese

whone platinopluer,

Mu Country and Mp People was so popular, has now written The Importance of subtly Living Heinemann, 158.), seditious testatten, wideá undermines uty wit, with irresistible languor, Hatters the banner of Do What You Will

hla eroonist battle-song. Bere is witch, he says, sums up the ancient mrsage of Chinese philosophy

There is the wisdom of the foolish, The pracefulness of the slow. The subtlety of stupidity. The advantage of ang toto But don't imagine that because be counsels idlenesa bis photosopsty is a megative one

Late for all is a crowded pageant at rating, drinking, lying curted up in bed and thinking. having conversations. drinkut ten routing wild grere ikis they wank BPTISE the sky in a word. AVDUTI slowly stead of betract

Than forced to lay like most of us tonierros, thal wak!"

Read his book

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Cryptogram: "The average ding en tell you all he knows it two hours," declares a college profes-i Not If we are him Brsit

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HOULD Women novellats start

in pigtails? If you ask Mar- gery Allingham, she'll toss her dark head and laugh and say, "Why, of course." For, at thirty- three, she is an ace detec live-story writer-and sha began as a girl,

Use 'Em Agahı Toothbrushes,¦ territories, superintendents,

Letter Juggling: Replicas, call~]

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pers.

What

Per Cent.

15-5/0 per cent,

Increase?:

He was child of sin when a kind, far- aceing father gave her n room of her own to work in. For a year she wrote the same fairy story over and over and over again -not

unnaturally, she can't for the life of her remember it today. Then, 1 D, she thought it wns time she left school and got down seriously to Authorship.

Within twelve months ahc had finished on 30,000 word yarn about pirates, which she sold straight off lo an English publisher - and to an American publisher, too.

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Then she had a shot al "highbrow stuff" Ja long, psychological nuvel. She couldn't sell it any where. But she learned a int writing

After that came yearn of seriain. A atrady out- put of adventure storira, always competent ngd more and more convinc

11. And then came the Inles of mystery and detection which Death of u have put her at the top Ghost, Mystery Mic, Police at the Funeral. Flowers

The Jutgr Dancers in Mondaing

Miss Allingham dorsat Imve io take hopeful shots at the psychological

the happiteal nowadays. She is one o creators of character and atmosphere 1 know. Largely because she has worked and worked at her trade Largely be cause her inther gave her that room Der WI

Fun With Antonyms: Deter- ninutive-Indecisive; challenging -submissive; definite ambigu-

tender- mus; deep-shallow; bardy; gloomy-cheerful; perish-j able-indestructible; distributed- concentrated; august—undignified; irksome amusing.

Her latest, The Fashion In Stireuis #Reinemanną, B Od), alarts slowly an the chattering crowd gathers in Paperi- drik's golden dreis salon. But she has

as before and play will continue as Solution To Problem No. 69 South leads heart nine and (1) in solution No. 1. But if West re- West ducks North wins with the turns his low heart lostead of a dia- king and returns the eight for West mond, North wins and again the to win. South discarding Jack of space Jack is discarded from South. spades West must now lead away North now leads the ace and jack of diamonds. If West ducks the second, from a diamonds and, with finesse if necessary, North wins two play is as in No. 1; but if West wins tricks. If Enst naves only one spade, the second diamond with his queen both North's spades are good; it he he must then lead a diamond to saves only one club North puts him South's ten, North discarding his in with the club and East has to Jack of clubs. if Enst holds a club lead spades from, hla queen five up North's spaces are good; if East holda two spades, South wins with club three and king of spades.

to North's king seven,

(2) If, at trick one, West plays

Correct solutions from D.W., 50023, "S'Easy," Mr. K.A., "Finesse,"

queen of hearts North plays low and West win. If West now lenda a diamond North will win two tricks AB,C,

A PEER WITHOUT

PURPOSE

given you the authentle thrill on Page 18-and thin innocent and the not-too- guilty soon begin to sort themselves oul

ORD ELTON is one of those National Labour" peers created by Ramsay MacDonald for no ascertainable reason

Mr. Campion, a little older and a little more serious the in the nicest nervous detectivo tint I khow), is noon In the tolls of sleuthing, with the nge- lens Lugg breathing startling encour- agement to him from his lair,

Sun- ponso growa. And another man dica under very mysterious circumstancen,

* ☆

Finally a foolish mannequin is found "To the polico dead in an Essex wood.

& corpso is a corpse and murder is n hanging matter, and the whole affair nild out of the shrouding mists of the fashionable world and the gossip of the bridge clubs and came under the glare of a thousand bulla'-eyes and the ruth- lessly indelicate curiosity of the Preas."

From then on-and you nte still only about half-way through the story-the axeltement is terrific. with the Yard pounding along at Mr. Camplon's heels while he draws level with Destiny, ...

It cannot even have been that he delighted to Indiente his con- Lempt for the House of Lords by bis additions to its ranks, because towards the end of his life Rum- say certainly loved a lord.

A slow start and a glorious Anish. A mighty cluse one, too. I thought But let Mr. Camplon was almost Mis Allingham tell her own dis tinguished story. With those eighteen yearn behind her, stie knows how.

And 50, since peers, walike corpornio and diclators. cannot be reduced to the ranks agali, Lord Eltun and his fellows must remaja, melancholy re- minders of the unhappy ending to their creator's carer

Lord Elton. however, need not have wtierituel Ramsay's previne Judg.

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welling by

Others, Among an excursion into autoblograpi...”, pisb. ished by Collins at 18m.

R. P.

New Novels

Late Harvest, Dy George Bake (Collins, 8 d.) A solid tiarying changing story of humanity in Scottish towa

Bolden, by Humphrey Chesterman tarap, 7. Ga.). Or Where Jealousy Can Lead a Husband, Uneven but full

f promise.

Gadfrey Elton comes of a family long established as gentry in the West Country. He did well at lugby, he wan Kolt to do well at Oxford when the war swallowed him up, took his LO Indin as a subaltern, put ham through the hardships of the Kut campaign and the underfed tedium of Turkis captivity. What he suffered during the war has no stained the texture of his mind that all things are judged in relation to those days.

After the

Ellon went back to Oxford, quickly became a don and, s longing to the same College as Mal- coln MacDonald, gol taken up by Ramsay an a nice, genteel fellow. Itted in whose emotional "Hocialism with his own mental vaguenenses.

The real theme of the book in pas stomate haired for what Lord Elton calls the Intelligensia.

Mr. Finchiry Gorn to Paris, by Victor Crnog #Hodder and The cheerful Mr. Stoughton, 7, 64) Finchley Ands more fun.

Allsten, the last of the Mastiffs, by Albert Vigre 1 Nirn Hall Press, London, A tale of a toller in the N 31, 587

Attractive. Middle Ages.

Again and again be returns to thip curious trait. Bc rallies round him the soild comfort of British Legion Branches. Miners' Lodge Meetings. remote from the of people quite dons and gentlemen-and-lindies" folk Among whom he lives.

Itamsay used to seck solace among the peerage. Ramsay's peer tries to And armour for his soul among the "people.">

This scorn of intellect leada Lord Elton to say some odd pieces. Justify- ing his own and Ramsay's ratting in 1931, he writes, "... all that was gold in the old Socialist creed-the principle of organisation, of public in- terest beforo privale profit-survived as the common property now of all political Parties,

All that was dross-class bitter. nean, anti-patriotism, stereotyped for mulas was dead, no that the national ailince did but mirror the funda- mental truth.

There remains ene hypotheals worth suggesting to account for all this, Biner he was promoted to the stupid House. Lord Elton finds it necessary to make his book stupid.

T. D.

Dreams Of Paradise Fade

Alert Bay, B. c.

A prairie vinitor to this Pacific Const outpost thought that it was a

paradise, where the sen washed up

firewood to the, doorstep ready to be cut and chopped. He was astonish- ed to and every fourth house has an oil burner and there are four oll stations hero.

NOW YOU KNOW

Answers From Page 2

1 Is specially fond of Jako

mother.

2 "Endymion" (John Keats).

A quadroon.

3

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Their Houses of Government.

5- An aerobat.

#--Sea sluga

7. With long legs and long beak. 9 Fell out of an aeroplane 9--Covered liter. ID-Monolith. 11--70

years.

12-Harpsichord. 13-Germany. 14--South Afric 15-Esque.

16-Queensland (Cape York). 17-Thriftless

18-Six.

-Hats. 20-Silver. 21-Bucks.

22 East. 23--Oppidans. 24-Ukulele.

25-500.

IH WORRIED ABOUT WINNIE. MURSE, SHE FRETS FROM MORNING TILL NIGHT, WHAT DO YOU ADVISE?

"Why, the puur little thing is consti- pated. No wonder she's fretful. That is the chief thing a mother has to guard against. Mrs. Grant.

"Kiddies lon't understand; they're so absorbed in their games, and often neglect Nature's call. Then they get bilious, lose their appetite and be come irritable.

"Show me your tongue. Winnic, Yes, it is coateda suro sign she's out of sorts. All she needs is 'Cali- fornia Syrup of Figs, and she'll be as happy as a lark in the morning.

"You'll find it keeps the bowels regular, purifica the system and saves stomach upsels and biliousness.

"If children are to thrive and grow Atrong and keen witted, they must cat well and digest what they eat. There's no better way than the regu- Iar weekly dose of "California Syrup of Figs. All children love it.

"If I were you, I would send for a bottle now and give Winnie a dose at

once:

"Be sure you insist on 'California Syrup of Figs,' Mra. Grant, I am sur prised that some motliers are ready to experiment with cheap and drastic preparations. It's such a pity they don't realize that 'California Syrup of Figs is a perfectly safe children's laxative. I know myself how carefully and scientifically il is prepared."

"California

Syrup of Figs"

'NATURE'S OWN' LAXATIVE

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