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Of Course You But Are You
Now, before you begin, make sure the old slab of pencil in sharp-or, it someone han borrowed it, do what they do in the army, borrow anather from the next mug, take a deep breath, squaro the shoulders, furrow the brow, and carry on. You nover know one day the answer to one of these questions may show you how to dodge some of it.
Heurd of a school teacher who is giving a group of questions a week to his' class and awarding a prize to the highest scorer. First week's winner stured 38, which wasn't bad.
Here's the way to score-two points for each
But you must total 30 to pass. correct answer.
-Every small boy has caten liquorice, or he isn't steletly a small boy. But perhaps not every small boy knows liquorice comes from -
Kernel; melon; root; bark; flower bud; beetle.
2.Sometimes when you forget to book your seats for the theatre you love to land along at the door about an hour early and stand in ot--
Que: geue; rue; queu; kew; queue; draught.
3. Fest fever patients will walk in with this one but even if you are normal, probably you will know that The Oval, where the last Test was played, in:
Lancashire; Middlesex; Kent; Yorkshire; Surrey: Derbyshire; Ireland,
4.--Orison is a word meanlan:-
A constellation; a bird; the limit of human vision; the base of a pillar; a bluze
of color; the fan of France; a prayer. 5-King George VI. is the son of a King and
his wife is the daughter of a:-
Bishop Count; cntrale; Knight: Earl; Baron: Viscount; Prince,
4.- Ebony, which hard and heavy and black,
Is; -
A mineral; a metal; a sort of vulcanite;
a wood; a composition; fossilized bone.
7. I know a chap who, after he left college, settled down to educate himself and now he can rend and write and knows almost everything. It ww he who told me that the capital of Switzer- land -
Zürich; Basle; Simplon; Geneva; Derne; Edelweiss
When Britain won the Walker Cup from recently she had good reason to be proud
America of her:-
Footballers: tennis players; chess ex- badminton champions; golfers; perts: basballers; yachtsmen; tiddlewinkers. 9.-Underground miners sometimes contract a call "miners' complaint"-the correct
the real name being:-
phthises;
disease
way of
Palttacosis:
phthisis; thysus.
10-I don't want to boast.
pthisis;
tisus;
When I was handed
the following decorations the King called me aside and told me if I wanted to wear them in their
correct order the one to wear first won the:--
Order
the Gorter; Order of the Thistle: Order of the Bath: Order of Merit;
the Order of Indian Empire: Victoria
Cross. 11--Supposing you went to Japan and a charm- ing geisha girl persuaded you to embrace the State religion, you would become devoted to:--
Mohammedanism; Confucianism; testanism; Shintoism; Buddhism; getsha girl.
Pro- the
Know, Sure?
12. Those three stripes in the Hallan flag run:~ Dingonally; horizontally; vertically; In circles.
13. Van Diemen's Land It used to be called but now its name is:--
Australia; New Zealand; N.S.W., West Australin; Tasmania; South Australla, 14.-"I've never heard of her," sald Murgatroyd. when asked If he knew anything about misspelling -but perhaps you can pick out the word misspelt
here:
Corrupt; corrugate; corollary; corrode; colciate correspond.
15. No matter what your religion, you should know that In convents and monasteries the re- fectory is where
Morning prayer is said; meals are enten; the bells are tolled; Confession is heard?
Good-bye-Abyssinia Samon"-ha-ha, you know that witty old gag-but do you knew Samoa is the name of at-
10.
River; mountain; Island; city; group of islands; Fijian flekmarshni.
17. If you've been like Mr. Micawber wolting for a question you can answer to turn up, here it is (maybe). Mr. Micawber was a character in Dicken's novel:-
Tale of Two Cities; Donibey - Son; Martin Chuzzlewit; Dávid Copperfield; A Christmas Carol,
10. This one often tripped me up when I was at school. The production of pictures on wood by charring with a hot iron
Xylopyrography, Vorticism, Woodbury- type, Tectology?
19.-Met a chap the other day who said he was an Hevletion. He told me Helvetians was just another name for;--
Germans;
Icelanders;
Slave; Swiss; Belgians,
Greenlanders;
20.—Lassitude is an ordinary enough ward, and it only means: --*.
Breadth; distance north or south of the
vitality; Equator;
weariness; vision;
energy.
21-Once I got six marks (they were beauties) and had to stay, in half an hour-after-school be- cause 1 didn't know the number of minutes in a degree (circular measure) wost-
30; 60; 120; 45; 00; 180; 300.
23. When Fingleton-gul-hit-on-the-bead-with- a cricket ball the other day it was as well the ball only weighed about:-
216. 34oz.: 440z; 54oz.; 10oz.; a couple of ewt,
24.--When I was a bay we used to have bread and lord for tea-we couldn't afford dripping. Anyway, Jard is good for you, being the fat of:--
Bullocks; lambs; birds; pigs; deer; por- cupines.
24,--You've heard of the famous Marxe Groucho, Beppo, Harpo, Chico, Full and Karl Marx. Well, Karl wasn't related to the others-- he was a famous:-
Plutocrat;
autocrat; acrobat; Socialist; Tory.
Conservatist;
25.-Now a nice easy one to put you in a good mood before you go home: If an orange and a half cost a penny and a half, a dozen oranges would cost:--
d: 1s; in Od; 44d7
Answers on Page 3
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NOME of the songs from the
Concert held last May havo been recorded. They make an interest- ing record (In the original mean- a special of the word) of
for event, Parry's "Jerusalem," instance, sounding very fine and noble, though the Immense Blackening at the end does not, think, improve the song. That, of course. Is a particular point of performance necessitated by the clrcumstances
particular occasion. As such it is under- standable, however much one may personally regret it.
BUT why Mary
Jarred, who singe
well, resonantly
and should have been persuaded to do the same, in her solo verse in Parry's "England"
cannot understand. The
reason for only holding up
apart the rhythm. frem
be should
of voices
sentimentallon
vast Л
be
as
may not
able to move quickly as might be wished. With a single voice this does not obtain, jį How Parry would have squirmed at such manhandling of his tune.
BEFORE the records of Strauss'
new opera reach Hongkong, an
Hobert
no
I suppose they soon will do, it may be well to remind ourselves of his earlier musle. There is remarkably efficient new Parto- phone record of the waltzes from "Rosenkavaller" made by a
emelent orchestra under lleger, whose name will be remembered by frequenters of Covent Garden last year. This is Food performance, fluent fa Dillon, rich and varied in tone, well balanced, well controlled. There is a curious lasting quality In these waltzes which I should never have suspected after the first enthusisam bad given place) to the inevitable- distaste. Yet one comes back to these tunes and somehow they still please one. Certainly they do that when they are as well played as on this record,
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Word Square
This is from the Junior Puzzler. Definitions orc
for given below words whilch are to be filled in, and which will read the same across and down:
1. Places confidence in. 2. The amount of a ront. 3. To free from yoke. 4. Dull. 5. Act of one that takes. 8. A large heavy hammer.
Letter Changing Following the usual rules, try changing CREEP to KNEES. It can be done in 4 moves.
How Many Games?
A baseball nine has won 17 games out of 25. How many straight games will it have to win in order to make the games won equal 34 of the games played?
Fun With Antonyins Antonyms to-day. Ten words to be paired off as indicated by the example checked:
2
fictitious.
flat
benign
ROSURI
prouter
fized
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A Lutrons _bonest
indred
18 stem
Bi humpa
ELEC final
ohangeable Ellany
Majuns
unrelated
Answers on Page 3
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1938
The Mugwumps
OSHUA PLAYFAIR laid down the receiver. "Mako
a note of that, Dumbell," he said. "The Mugwumps contemplate a new outburst of activity in the neighbourhood of Hampton Court."
He took up the receiver again. Where "That you. Pollock? did that call that I have just
had come from?"
A voice at the other end of the
"From wire said:
the Flaxman Almost certainly a Exchange, sir. call box."
Playfair turned to his sergeant. "The Murwump affair," he ob- served, "is getting interesting.
This is the eleventh successive day Sundays excepted-on which, at about this time, I have received in- formation from nn unonymous source."
Dumbril was all attention. "Cor- rect information, sir?" he asked. "That's the important question, isn't it?"
PLAYFAIR smiled.
Use
"No,
Dumbell," he said. "That's the intriguing thing about this Mug- wumps business-to
a word which 13 very much overworked nowadays. So far, s I said Just Just now, I have bad ten items of in- formation offered
of me, Seven them have been Incorrect, but three of them have been very near to the truth."
"And what Dumbell, "do you draw from th¬t?" "You may well ask," answered Playfair. "There are several pos- sible explanations, but this is mine: that we are in contact with some chap or other who is, so to speak, a pathological
call him case. Let's X. X is one of those fellas who, owing to an inferiority complex or something other (everyone's psycho-analyst nowadays), is seck- ing to gratify a thwarted lust for power by playing Jehovah for the benefit of his own private world. That may sound absurd to you, Dumbell, but belleve me 'X' s, psychologically speaking, famillar type."
conclusion," asked
or
& fairly
"I'm not sure that I follow you, sir," said Dumbell.
"Then let me explain. X-K I rend the situation aright is either a member of, or attached to, this gang which calls itself The Mug- wumps. It's not in his Interest- any more than it's in the interest
CHESS PROBLEMS
Black
NOS. 37-38.
'5 Pieces
White
9 Pieces White to play and mate in four.
NO. 38
Black
5 Pieces
109 8 8
White
8 Pieces White to play and mate in three.
SOLUTIONS TO LAST WEEK'S PROBLEMS
Solutions to Problem
No. 2040
Q-KA
No. 2050
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Bxx
2 Kt-Kach
BXKL
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INSPECTOR PLAYFAIR
EPISODE 77
of other members of the gang-to give away information as to their activities. But 'X' driven by this secret urge to show how clever he is, cannot help disclosing, from time that he has esoteric know-
to
icc esoterie."
Dumbell,
a
SQLITIC
murmurod
"Yes, yes, esoteric; I'll buy you
dictionary. You get the situation, Dumbell, in Hamlett play with which you are doubtless familiar. I refer to the scene where Ifomlet exacts from his confederates on the ramparts an oath that they will not betray his intention to
madness. Hamlet, that super- chologist, knows perpectly well that they would be tempted to do so just because most people-such human vanity can't resist disclos- ing to others that they have special or exclusive knowledge."
"Yes, I see," said Dumbell, "and you think, sir that 'X' is in the same position?"
"Precisely. Unlike Bernardo and Marcellus, he has not been bound by an oath. Or if he has been bound by oath-he hos broken it. Every time X rings me up-for mark, Dumbell, he always asks for me personally--he flatters himself that he has scored off one of the functionaries at the Yard.
Hn, ho, he says to himself, 'that's got old Playfair guessing again.
And most likely he'll guess Dumbell ruminated.
wrong.
"It
seems to me, sir," he said, "thai 'X' is play- ing a very dangerous game."
He is indeed, Dumbell. So dan-
thai
think he has already
gerous
cooked ls goose. And I'll tell you why. The fact that these calls are always to my address, together will certain other indications, points, in my mind, to a definite individual,
that
is
and
"Pallister," Bald Dumbell. "No, Dumbell, not Pallister." "Miniver, then."
"No, Dumbell, nor Miniver, either though I must say that you are very bright this afternoon. My nominee, however, for the role of 'X' is our old friend, Mr. Lambert Sneedge."
BRIDGE PROBLEM
No. 75
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UMBELL slapped his thigh. "Sneedge! Of course, sir.
I should think that he fills the bill exactly."
Playfair laughed, "Well, we won't be too sure. But anyway I'm taking chance, Dumbell. I invited Sneedge to call round this after- noo:1,"
n
wng
Mr. Lambert Sneedge was certain-
a "character." Ha ly
on old lag who, on and off, had been in contact with the Yard for many years.
But there was a certain in- dependence and jauntiness in his bearing which not all his privations in the past had been able to destroy. ("He must," Playfair once observed, "have been a terror in the Army. The type of man who gave his ser- geant-major the lters.")
"Mr. Sneedge,” said Playfair, when Inter in the day that worthy pre- sented himself. "I want to talk to you frankly."
Sncedge winked at Dumbell. "I should doubt it, governor," was its answer. "But fre away: hard! words break no bones."
Playfair Ignored this anlly. "Have you ever heard of The Mugwumps?"
"The Mugwumps, governor," saldi Sneedge, scratching his head. "I can't say as I have. Or, wait a minute-yes-isn't that the name of a dance band? i don't know the West End as well as you police chaps do." Playfair looked hard at his visitor. "So you're not prepared
to talk business. Then let me ask you another question, Mr. Sneedge; do you object to a voluntory search of your person?"
NEEDGE was not in the
ienst put out. "Anything to oblige," he said, with another wink at Dumbell. "It's not exactly a flattering request, Mr. Playfair, but I expect if I did object, it would
examination
come to much the same things per-
A minute sonal effects threw no sort of fight of The Mugwumps. While Sneedge waited in an ante-room, Playfair the contents of his pockets. There and Dumbell together_ perutinised
notebook containing-ap- Was
of names and prices parently the certain racehorses; a handkerchief;
П
a bunch of keys; a corkscrew; a packet of cigarettes; crowns and elevenpence in
four
half-
coppers,,,
"Nothing there of significance," was Dumbell's comment. "I'm not 80 sure,"
answered Playfair. "To my mind, Dumbell, coppers suggest call boxes."
"So they do," said Dumbell, "but that doesn't get us much farther for- ward, sir, does it?"
Playfair looked at the ceiling, His hand "Possibly not, Dumbell." moved to the top right-hand drawer of his desk. "Go and fetch Sneedge In again, will you? He can have his possessions back again and
tha
80,"
Nothing happened that night in neighbourhood of Hampton Court, though a large-scale burg lary,
believed
to be the work of
The Mugwumpa, took place on the
outskirts of
of Kingston. The next day, at the usual time, a voice on the telephone informed Playfair that The Mugwumps were feeling full of beans and might soon be operating in Mitcham, And twenty-four hours after that Mr. Lambert Snerdge was arrested as he stepped out of a phone box at Earl's Court Station.
You had him 17 sir."
of
talled, had you, was Dumbell's
's comment to Playfair. "Do you know, I he was too clever for that, thought
In the manner himself, winked at Dunbell. "He was too clever for that," he Bald.
be perfectly candid. Dumbell, I never even tried to tall I'm glad to think that him. But we have our methods, es efficacious
they were How had Sncedge been trapped? (Solution on Page Three)
The solution was not difficult, but, as a reader observes, "One Shee smiles with satisfaction when solving this neat problem."
Correct solutions from A.E.G., D.W., 68023., Mrs. A.K., S'Easy. All those successful with No. 74 should have a real go at 76; it is more testing than last week's.
Hearts are trumps. West Icads club five and North-South have to win 11 of the 13 tricks.
Solutions by firat
post Wednesday to Bridge Problem, Hongkong Telegraph.
SOLUTION OF PROBLEM NO. 74 South leads the ace followed by the queen of spades which West ducks and North discards the jack of clubs South leads the jack of spades which West covers, and North ruffs with the king and leads with a finesse if necessary. South wins three trump tricks on which North discards his ace and king of clubs. South then wins with 10,9 and 8 of clubs, North dia- carding diamonds. On the third, club lead East is squeezed, hav- ing to throw his spade 10 or un- guard his king of diamonds.
Lay Sermon
By HUGH
Dul's armour, and promptly "assayed to go" in
took it of again. No wonderl With greaves on his legs, a coat of mail and a brass helmet into the bargain, the nimble-fooled Ind shepherd I have not proved must have
them.
fett
much as 1 SAMUEL Xvit,, 30. you or I would feel I we went for a walk in a diver's out- fit.
"I have not proved them," he said, meaning that because he was unused to them they were more of a danger than a protec tion. He placed his trust in what
REDWOOD
he had proved. "I come to thes," he sald to Goliath, "in the name of the Lord, whom thou has defled."
Surely the lesson needs no labouring. Goliath is rearing his ugly shape again, and roaring his even more ugly threats. The Christian is urged to arm for the froy, and very queer Indeed he looks in some of the armour pro vided for him. If he is wise, he will put saide that in which he can neither fight nor run. Let' him trust as David trusted, and the earth once more will learn for itself. that there is a God In
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