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Are
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION
You Quite Certain
You should be able to answer this week's ques- tions with anything from a blunt pencil to a match dipped in your wife's eye-
lasheen.
You Know?
relleve incurable pain; wholesale butchery; the Youth Movement In Asia,
Afrien;
12-When the fortune-teller told It's beginning to bore me to me I was going to travel, one of the have to tell you how to score. first places I made up my mind to Ah, well-take two points for ge to was Haarlem-you know, that jench correct Rnswer; for place in
heaven's suke don't get less than 30, or you will fall; and for anything over 40 you are entitled to buy yourself a bou- quet.
3-Without batting an eyelict, puckering your brow, looking up o dictionary or cursing, just say straight out that tile is:
A human bone; an animal; a member of a religious seet; an explosive; the dark purt of a clay.
2. When I was a kid I thought I expert, inight become a tensorial but when I grew up I wasn't keen on the idea of:
Treating other people's feet; drawing building plans, eulting cutting !! Lonsils; tailoring;
hair.
Sweden: America; Netherlands; Madagascar.
13-All I know about a horse is
that it eats chaff and it kicks, but maybe you can tell me that Its pas-
tern is in its:-
Mune: withers: chest; hoof; leg: head; neigh 14-A lot of people suffer from there is neuralgin. which shows something wrong with their:
teeth; stom- No:25; nerves: achs: les mothers-in-law. 15. Don't imagine that this is n uroposal. but which of the follow- ing were, or will be, lean years?
1800, 1000, 2000, 2400 16.-When the kloper of your ship yaws bit, don't panle and Jump
overboard. because he only:-
#s
thing about raising something or another to the nil power-the nth being:
The square root; the eighth; the ninth; the ninetieth, an in- definite power.
10. The Sino-Japanese war seems to have been going on for years and yeurs,
although actually its anniver say the other day was only its:-
First: second; third; fourth 20.-Your
sense, if any,
should rast priory
A
dance band, a drink of lemonde, flowers in the spring.
70 m.ph. car ride? 21-When a man has a good and a bat side to his character, people often refer him as a "Dr. Jekyll and Hyde" the bad side being
Mr. Indlented by:-
Dr. Jekyll; Mr. Hyde, 22.--So you know all about crie- ket, eh? Which, in the following ist, is the only way you can't he given out un મ "no-ball"
Hitting the ball twice (not in defence of your wicket); ob- structing the field; run out; handling the ball; treading on your wicket.
is int
23. When a lon, a coat of arms,
"Standing Cal couchant, it is:
on its head; running scratching its ear; stand- ing on its back feet; standing on its four feet; lying down.
away;
• Cursing the mate; pulling un the anchor: dropping the pilot: sleering of the curse; hored with everything.
24. Take Just an ordinary word 17. That long table-like misleal like contemn-thero ure jots of instrument, the player stands up in people who don't know that is con nd socks with a couple of sticks is temn a man is to:-
3.- bad u vleia f'd play you a tune on my viola if i could play (Neighbours (in thorus): a viola. Thank hearch you haven't g viata! But I know this much about
ordinary viola-¡¡:
Han
strings thon violin; has fewer; is smaller; is larger is nothing like a violin. 4-You could aptly describe a man as saturnine if he
AT)
Taw
more
2
1s always cheerful; whacks his mother-in-law; breaks the is chronically suspicious; Is clounty; never nys his debis. 5-A toxin is
warning bell; a flower; Russian form vehicle: #pulson cure; a poison.
Child's
6.People don't know as intel
about their own Empire as they should if they don't know that the Australian capital territory of Can- berra is bounded by:-
Two States; three States; four States; one State.
7.When I went to school (yes, 1
tn went
school all right-some- times), brimstone was Just another
Jivabh
name for:-
Carbide;
sandstone;
fire; sulphur; bluc-metal.
B. If you find it necessary to use
word opus just} plural of the
the
spell it:-
Opu
operate.
opuses! upme: opera
ever
D.-Have you
been your railen unt's gift-victim of neck- couldn't wear because you tie you couldn't bear the colour? Mine gave I gave it to
me 21
one once.
certs: the milkman because I can't stand
lavender; Purple:
scarlet, pink light red; maroon: malden aunts.
Don't try la 10.
get out of this one by saying you've never heard of Paul Robeson, the negro flm star and radio singer-bremise you have, When he was younger he was
Newsboy; slave, cotton plant- football star; acrobat; fuetary
er;
hand.
11-Time
aft
the word the euthanasia appears in
news- papers, and you've no excuse for not knowing it means;—
1521
A form of neuralgia; annesthetle; killing of persons to
Yxolophone; vxalophone, xylas xylophone;
phone.
delaphone; telephone: pianola. IRWhen they used to drag you into the mathemales class at school. doubtless, at times, you overheard the maths, master mumbling some-
Anger him; despise him; ne- cuse him; bel him; put him on a pedestal; love him. 25.-A jugular is:-
A wild, carnivorous. cat-like animal; on artery; conjurer; a veln; a large-sized jug.
Answers on Page 3
NOVELISTS, BE HUMAN
(VAN some great writer fell us why, girls of 28 who can sympathise with we meet so few homely, lov-the typist in "Angel Pavement." able souls as principal characters in She did not find London a modern modern novels? Can be that Babylon where at every step she en-
it lovable, homely folks are dull and cour
lurid temptations. In- countered stend, she saw others just like her- unimportant?
self, growing old and dull on the daily round and common task. Miss Delafield draws B similar picture of
life a working-girl's "Tension." We know it to
in her novel. be so true! Because of his
sympathetic insight into the life of the worker, its duiness, and its little nobilities, Priestley has become justly famous. By him the humble man and wo man in the street are not dismissed as beneath his notice as a creative writer.
A lendency 10 draw principal characters who are either thorough ty objectionable or much too lofty and epigrammatic for us is growing Rose writers. While up among Macaulay can make us smile over her brilliant and satirical picture of "Potterism," the Potter family in and can prove to us beyond doubt that they and their kind are hum bugs of the first order, we are le with a growing conviction that, were
SSL with our- mercilessly honest selves, we might realise that we, in our humble sphere, might also be humbugs. But the reader, alast dors not wish to close any book feeling like that.
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we
We want our characters hornely and human. We would much rather read of a fellow-woman who could understand her problems were they put before her, than of a lady whose chief pre-occupation is discussing the stringe mentality of the "ser- vant-class.
It always refreshes us when we make the acquaintance of a novelist who understands the real moral de- gradation of unemployment, or whose sympathies are with the un- xious worker held fast within the economie claw. That is why "An- gel Pavement," and "They Walk in the City" touch. There
are many
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We wish to be taken out of our- selves when we read
a novel, but we want to be able to say, when the book is finished: "I'd like to hear more about that woman. Her pro- blems are mine, she laughs at the same things, and she makes the same mistakes as
<lo."
The writer who makes us desire to meet his characters again because they are so like ourselves, is not go like ourselves, is not so far up in the cold, clear regions of genius that we cannot see him as our kin. The writers whose characters are in- variably clever and cynical, are, on the uther hand, artists but arrogant ones. They make us feel cold and "left-out."
So, novelists, consider the humble. readers, how they live and what they feel!
Olivia Clarke
Puzzle Corner
Cryptogram
SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1938
The Beauregards Case
Saturday and no hints to- EVERY day, Dumboll,"
can
you
INSPECTOR Playfair,
Joshun "brings forth its own peculiar
day. How quickly solve it without any clues? XYZ ABCDEDFH ADEGHIC, | problem." GZJ EYBLHFK MZJAGYKZ- DIE-ANOOBCPYI'E DZHE
GYMDZGE.
Use 'Em Agula While it works out the same as others of this type, the clues are given as follows:
ALP CUES
If you divide me in two's:--- Of my first, let us say, one a
day to make you fit; A goose and gander equity is
the plea in the other bit. My all, spoken, or caten, is meant to sweeten, and al. ways makes a hit.
Letter Changing
A hard one this time. Following the usual rules, try changing WHOLE to HALVE in 12 moves.
What Number?
What number must be added
to each of the terms of the frac- tion 2-5 in order to make the value x the fraction 2-37
Poems and Their Authors
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to the Reven
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Longfellow
Diyent
Wilcox
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213 Pohlm of Life
Columbus
While
Hunt Viller
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Answers on Page 3
A Lay Sermon
H
By HUGH REDWOOD
ERE is a thought which, to Paul, In his prison, must have come as a song in the night. He is in
but he is still an am- bonds, bassador, speaking boldly, na he that ought to speak, knowing God, through the the power
at
Sergeant Dumbell stared hard
his boots. Finding no in- spiration there, he anid, non- committally, "Yes, sir."
PLAYFAIR
EPISODE 76
"How do you know, sir?" asked
Dumbell.
"I terrupt. I know
"Only," answered Playfair, "that I thought you might have-certain contacts. You can't suggest where I could go for Information?"
He handed over his list. "Sevres vases now. You don't know any concern-outside the regular dealers -that specialises in those?"
Sald Adleiner doggedly. "It's nothing to do with me. If this is a Playfair's face relaxed. “You don't know what I'm getting
trap-as I suppose it is I couldn't at?"
WISH you wouldn't In- walk into it if I tried,"
Pinyfair Inughed. "You
must "I'm sorry, sir," said Dum-Dumbell, by the
think I'm an optimist. No, Adleiner, pricking of my thumbs. bell. "To be perfectly frank.
(Don't look 'alarmed; | 12's just that crime is like politics. I must leave no avenue unexplored. 'Macbeth's' a set book at the Police I don't."
I College).
know who took the These Fujoyada prints now— booty Jesse Adleiner. But I only know it in the sense that I'm mor-
I
it ally certain. know who's got now-Carl Arrhenius. (The clever- est fence in the West End, Dumbell.) But I haven't got the beginnings of n cuse. I can't even establish connection between the two."
aunt's
superior pushed nside his chair and began to pace up and down the room. "It's this Benure- gards case," he said. "The burglary at Bealiregards Castle. A baffling Dumbell. Sixty-two thousand what the stolen stolen at." He glanced goods are valued
the inventory in front of him. "Pletures; prints, china; bric-a-brle; armour. What A handli Enough stuff to a respectable museum, driven off by night in a furniture van, And what maddens me is this. I know who took it all-"
at
BRIDGE PROBLEM No. 74
B
K 5
A 9 5 3 2
† AK J
W E
$
7 5 3
10 0 7 2 10 7 4 K Q 10 4 NIE
+
1
10 9 8
Hearts are trumps. Soull leads and North-South have to win all the eleven tricks,
power
of
His make
word. cun The word of God converts is not bound.
and
of his very 2 TIMOTHY, H., 9. guards
and lend captivity caplive.
50-
"Nol bound! How gloriously true it is! Into the sick-room as into
the prison the living word finds its way. There is no lone- liness, no
solitary confinement when this is realised; no sense of Impotence, no victory for pain. Darkness may come, and silence, but He hath said "I will never leave thee, nor forsake
Uhee." and none can fetter that echoing
Betting m stop its witness from
men free.
Let us if we chafe at our limita- tions thank God that a word transcends them.
Our sphere life may be small, our known op- portunities few, but with the love of God in our hearts and the word of God on our lips, we have it within our power to pass on
His message
of freedom to all the world.
Hong Kong Lawyer's reputation endangered
by NIGHT STARVATION/
TOMORROW THE CASE WILL BE HEARD IN COURT AND I CAN'T GET
THE FACTS RIGHT. I'M SO TIRED, MY BRAIN
WON'T WORK.
IN COURT
YOU ARE WASTING OUR TIME, MR. SIMPSON IT IS QUITE OBVIOUS YOU HAVEN'T PREPARED THE CASE.
(THINKS)
WHAT A HUMILIATION.
I MUST WIN MY
REPUTATION BACK, 171) SEE A DOCTOR ABOVIJ
\_MY HEALTH.
| AT THE DOCTORS
I GET PLENTY
OF SLEEP
DOCTOR
BUT NOT THE RIGHT KIND,
MA. SIMPSON, YOUR TROUBLE
IS NIGHT STARVATION.
ARE
THIS MEANS YOU
NOT REPLACING USED-UP ENERGY DURING SLEEP. LADVISE YOU TO TAKE HORLICKS EVERY NIGHT BEFORE RETIRING,YOU WILL SOON REGAIN YOUR VITALITY,
"I don't know whnt Fujoyada means."
Playfair lifted his eyebrows in mock astonishment. "So much," he said, "for culture. I thought every- one had heard of Fujoyada, one of the great names of Japanese_art, Just ng everyone has heard of Rem- Well. Adleiner, let's pass from the eighteenth century to the present. Have you ever heard of Carl Arrhenius?"
tobacco-brandt.. XL
Dumbell produced pouch. "Mind it I smoke, sir? Would it help you, may I hole, it you could establish the connection?"
nel
nar-
E watched Adleiner H
rowly 213 he put this
"It would," said Playfair prompt- ly. "In two ways. In the first place, it would enable me to narrow my circle of inquiries. The person signifleant question. But the little engaged in this case is costing man's expression remained Immo- the country far too much. In the bile. "Never heard the name," he second place and this is more im-said. “Arrhenius?
No, it portant it would give me a prima nothing. Is that another Jap?" facte. case
for the issue of certain warrants."
was
4
means
When he left, about twenty min- ules Inter. the interview had not extracted from him a single positive statement.
"I see, sir," sald Dumbell sagely. The upshot of this conversation
to Mr. summons
Jesse Adleiner to report to Playfair at the following day, much more to say for Nor hai Arrhenius, who called the Yard. He turned up that afternoon. himself."
A thfekset, wary, little man, with
broad shoulders and muscular fore- Ostensibly, he
arms. He it was (so Playfair was
Wis
a
general convinced) who had entered Beau-dealer in Hampstead. He began by explaining that he never read the regards Castle by a fourth-floor newspapers; and went on to em window and had made possible the phasise, when pressed by Playfair, wholesale burglary which followed. that he had hardly heard of the
"Mr. Adleiner. sald Playfair, Beauregards affair at all. when the little man had seated him- self, "I want to talk frankly to you. Do you know any reason why I shouldn't?"
"Note whatever, Inspector. I've made mistakes in my time, but"- he looked Playfair full in the fuce-- "not lately. No, not for a long time
now."
"Good," Playfair's lones were non- commlitai. "Then you won't be uffended-will you? I talk about the burglary at Beauregards?"
"Offended?" said Adleiner, "Why should I be?"
PLAY
LAYFAIR_glanced at his
papers. "There were cer- valuables stolen which I'm
anxious to
A recover.
Solutions by first post Wednesday to Bridge Problem, Hongkong Tele- graph, Wyndham Street,
SOLUTION OF PROBLEM NO, 73
South wing with diamond queen
fellows with
queen of clubs which East wins, West discarding a tan spade. East returns queen of hearts specially which North wins, South discarding fourteenth-century clock; a Charles a spade, North
club II. sliver tankard; a series of colour which South wins, East discarding a Sevres vases."
prints by Fujoyada; a number diamond and West another spade. South leads queen of spades which i West wins and whatever West re- lurns North-South win the remain- ing tricks.
Icads
the
If, at trick three, East leads a small diamond North wins with len. South discarding jack of clubs. North wins with last club and (a) It East discards diamond nine North wine with king of diamonds and leads Jack of hearts, and whether East wins or ducks North wins two of the last three tricks. If (b) East discards a small heart, North, by leading king of hearts and small heart will again win two of the last three tricks.
This problem stems to have been harder than I thought. The opening tead of a club which many favoured
is easily beaten by West retaining all his spades and East leading back a diamond; West then simply ducks with spades until he wins with ace- alne. Others who got the first two leads correctly did not see that if East returned a small diamond at tricks three South should throw his club master,
of
Adiviner shrugged his shoulders. "What's any of that got to do with
me
CHESS PROBLEMS
Black
Correct solutions from A.E.G., D.W., 50023, S'Easy.
two.
NOS. 35-36
3 Pieces
White
4 Pieces
White to play and mate in
NO. 36
Black
2 Pieces
"You've no idea who
can have committed the burglary?"
"Never heard of a chap named Adleiner?"
"Never."
Playfair
consulted his
notes.
You're an authority on clocks?"
"Clocks?" "Clocks."
"I'M
011
On
authority nothing. I'm afraid," said Arrhenius. He repeated what sounded strangely like Adleiner's formula. "If this is a trap, Inspec- tor, I shall disappoint you. I don't know what you're driving at."
That's all right, Mr. Arrenlus. I merely asked if you were interested in clocks,"
"And 1 replied that I was not interested in clocks. Let me repeat, Inspector, that I'm just a general dealer. Not one of your West End experts. You mentioned clocks just now;
I know nothing about them. You sald something about SevrCB I Just know where the place is. You mentioned Japanese prints-well. I may have heard of Fujoyada. You alluded to silverware-my informa- tlon comes from Whittaker. If you want... experi advica, Inspector, You've sent for the wrong man."
"Another disappointment,
ch?"
sald Dumbell, when Carl Arrhenius had gone. "They know their job, those two-f Indeed they are, as you seem to think, implented."
Playfair looked at the celling. "No. they're not so hot as oli that, Dumbell. Send for Staff-Sergeant Grimwade, will you?-I've found out what I wanted to know."
How has Playfair's object been obtained?
Solution on Page 3
THAT'S
Harry's wife
THIS HORLICKS IS THE BEST
DRINK IN THE WORLD FOR PUTTING YOUR VITALITY BACK! DID YOU USE THE MIXER?
TWO MONTHS LATER
I NEVER THOUGHT
YOU'D WIN THAT CASE, HOW DID YOU DO IT? YOUR NAME
WILL BE IN ALL
THE PAPERS.
NORLICKS IS THE SECRET OF MY SUCCESS!
Horlicks is best made In. the special Horlicks mix÷ er. Obtainable at all good stores-80 cts. large size and 40 cts. small size,
If you wake tired, If you suffer. TAKE HORLICKS
from 'nerves' enervation and
that dreadful feeling of exhaustion
GUARD AGAINST NIGHT STARVATION
YOU SLEEP SOUNDLY, WAKE REFRESHED AND HAVE EXTRA ENERGY ALL "DAY
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SOLUTIONS TO LAST
WEEK'S PROBLEMS
Solutions to Problems Nos, 33-34
1. Kt-Q4
D-Qich
K-H4
2. B-Bich
R-Roch
B-QCI
UxBetr
B-K or KT
N-RA
2. B-Bücht
Kt-Boch
1.
13-338
KC-337-
2. Q-Bich
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