SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1938
Girls and Boys' Corner
Dear Kiddies,
Robertson, Ranold Lang, S. I am sure the Intermedi-K. Khan, Patricia Ozorio, ates and Juniors were very Paul Sum and Donald Mar keen on last week's competi- shall.
tion.
I received lots of
Junior: entries from them. But, Gerald Marshall,
Asche, P. unfortunately, the Senior
entries were disappointing- Rozario.
The prize-winners
week are:
Tsang
To-ming ycars), 56, Lyndhurst race, Hongkong.
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SOLUTIONS.
NOW YOU KNOW
Answers from Page 2
1-A roo:.
2. A queue. 3--Surrey. 4.A prayer. 5.Earl. 6-A wood. 7-Berne, 8-Golfers. D-Phthisis. 10-Victoria Crosa. 11-Shintolam.
Maran
Bux,
11. David
Wong, Teresa
Horacio Ozorio: Thank you so much for your kind (11invitation. I would love to Ter-be there but, unfortunately, cannot be present. My best Patricia and
Con- Cynthia Silver:
Arthur Fisher (8 years), wishes 7 Austin Avenue, Kowloon. yourself.
Richard Remedios (5%
to
years), 68, Robinson Road,gratulations on your birth- 3rd Floor.
I hope you day, Cynthia.
a lovely day and had received lots of nice pre- sents.
we
Coupons have been sent to Tsang To-ming, Arthur Fisher and Richard which I
This week, kiddies, want them to bring to the "Hongkong Telegraph" are going to have only one want office. The coupons will competition which I
for all the different age sections then be exchanged
to try. You have had this money prizes.
Specially commended for type of competition before the follow that, as 1 know you like it, good work are
I thought it would be grand ing:
Seniors: Doris Moy, Mary fun to have it again.
Leonardo Grace Asche, Xavier, James Sanders.
Kung, Townsend,
Souza,
can
That means
only usc one
Below is the word: MULTIPLICATION Intermediate: Peter and from this large word I as Rose Woo, John want you to make up
as you John Ewing, many small words
Please remember that Bobby Cropley, Theresa can.
Francis Rozario, you can only use the letters Ann Hunter, Foo Shun, S. shown in the word "Multi- A. K. Bux, Ghazi Khan, S. plication." A. Bux, Laurence Becker, you
as in "Mop" and Sidney Hollands, S. S. Bux, "M"
use such Sylvia Xavier, Cynthia Sil-you cannot
Pamela word as "Mam." I want Julie Fok, Coombes, Agnes Cheung, you to write down your Habiba Moosdeen, Donald words in alphabetical order Marshall, Anita Lee, Wendy-that is, all the words Barton, Violetta Remedios, beginning with "M" under David the "M" heading, "L" words Francis Wong, Wilson, David Colman, under the "L" heading and
va,
Gloria
Silva,
Constance so on..
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Vertically,
13.-Tasmania.
14.--Corclate should be correlate. 15.- Where meals are eaten. 10-Group of islands. 17.David Copperfield. 18.-Xylopyrography.
10.-Swiss.
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Weariness.
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INSPECTOR PLAYFAIR Playfair had substituted for the pennies found in Sacedge's poc kei marked pennies of his own., Sneedge He thus discovered that had telephoned from Earl's Court the day after his interview with the Yard, and I was therefore possible to make elaborate pre-
Tracking parations for Sneedge's next call.
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Puzzle Corner Answers
solution of Cryptogram: The elementary erypiegrams requires! mostly common sense and a little deduction,
rental Trusts, Word Square: unyoke, stolid, taking, sledge.
Letter Changing: Creep, creel,] kreel, kneel, knees.
How Many Games?: 7 gaines. Fun With Autonyms: Fictitious) actual; premternal; lxed-- changeable; hilly-flat strong- flimsy; honest-unjust: kindred- onrelated; stern-benign; relaxed -st; humid-dry.
Important: Please count the num- ber of words you make and place that number at the top of the page. If you do not do this I cannot al- low your entry to stay in the com- petition.
would also like you not to use detionary. Try to work out the words yourself.
m2 your Don't forget to give name, age and address. Send your entries to Uncle Eddle, c/o "long-
on Telegraph", Wyndham Street, before 4 pan, on Wednesday. Uncle Eddie
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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END
SECTION
ROBERT LYND'S SATURDAY ESSAY
REPORT from America-I do not is know whether it true or not-announces the inauguration of a "No Cour- tesy" movement. The ob- ject of the movement, if it exists, is to do away with social hypocrisy.
reasons
There are other equally good, however, for the For ono abolition of courtesy. thing, it would save an enor- mous amount of waste. Think
of all the ink that is wasted in London every day in writing or typing those empty phrases of
"Dear Sir"
and politeness,
Wo know per- "Yours truly.". fectly well that the "Sir" whom we call "dear" is frequently a man we do not even know and that we are not "his truly" in any sense of the words what-
ever.
Why, then, waste millions of year in quarts of ink every using words that do not mean what they say?
This is a practical age, and of ink could be those oceans more usefully employed.
man
2
Think, again, of the appal- ling waste of muscular effort that takes place every day as a result of the masculine habit of taking off the hat to a woman. It seems to me an extraordinary
an elderly thing that should be unable to meet female acquaintance in street without immediately showing her his bald head. There is enough energy wasted on hat-raising in England every a new Embank- year to build ment on the south side of the Thames.
A
the
Д
What Do Manners
Matter?
seem
come
all human naturally to beings. Many children have to be badgered by their nurses in- to saying "Thank you" for such small mercies as chocolates and There are mandarin oranges. children, it is said, who so hate
""Thank you"
that saying nothing would induce them to do so, if it were not absolutely necessary in order to get the oranges and chocolates.
no
These are, doubt, the children who, we are told now-
adays, have
a secret wish to
kill their fathers. As they learn to say "Thank you" and the wish probably "Please" diminishes and ultimately dis- appears.
IF you feel tempted to join the "No Cour- Lesy" movement, try to imagine what it would be like to live in a house in which none of the members of the family ever took the trouble to be polite to each other. There would be no morning greetings. If a boy wanted jam, he would simply say "Jam" in a sullen voice. If the father made a joke nobody would smile. If the mother asked a daughter where she was breakfast, the going after
FEW years ago
absurding a book, would pretend not
to hear her. number of Austrians The bus conductor and I ex- pienses just for the fun of the daughter, who would be rond-
"thank-you's" every thing. It may
How the members of the founded a "Club of Opponents change of Handshaking," and the sup- time I give him a penny and he that a woman who sits in the
other! How glad the pression of hat-raising was also gives me a ticket. What is it house with her hat on should included among their objects, but a waste of breath? I can be considered perfectly polite, family would all get to hate What earthly good has it ever not ask anyone at table to pass whereas a man who wears his each
a man the butter without making use hat in the house is looked on as beastly father would be to word a kind of savage; but I am sure escapé from the presence of his the superfluous done a woman to see temporarily bare-headed, and of
The truth is you cannot have what earthly good has it ever please." My meaning would that there is a sound reason for beastly children!"
his or be perfectly clear if I simply this if we could discover it. done anybody to have her hand crushed or held like a said "Butter." Some men do fancy however, that the same
men were allowed to wear their many apparently meaningless gestures and phrases that sym- dead fish in yours? Hand- this. They become the heroes object would be achieved if a friendly world without a good hats In the house and women bolise friendliness. Why, even its tail, thereby shaking is also said to be of women novelists,
a dog wags
the unhygienic. A Chub of Op There must be some reason, were forbidden to do so.
for the code of ponents of Hand-shaking might however,
promoting confidence in has grown up
stranger who is most terrified with advantage be founded in courtesy which
in all countries. Men ali civilised countries.
can
M
I
THE important thing of dogs...
is to have a code
Perhaps the members of the matters I can think of very few forms scarcely have invented all these
and of politeness that could be de- foolish hat-raisings and. gri-
thank-you's and of good manners-it
very little what particular act No Courtesy movement would fended on utilitarian grounds. maces
or form of words you make the like to stop dogs from wagging their tails. They may regard symbol of courtesy. In country you take off your hat; it as a form of hypocrisy. But in another, you take off your it isn't. And no more is "Dear shoes; in another, you stand on Sir" or "Thank you."
The SNAPSHOT GUILD
PICTURING THE HOUSE
Careful "framing" with troo
made this anxpshot more plone- Ing.
ALMOST everyone who has d
camera takes plelures of hin home, but many of us neglect tho fow elmple suggestions which would make our suapabots of "home sweet homo" much more pleasing. Horo .they aro:
First, keep the camera level, or vorucal lines will be distorted. Stand back far enough to got the picture without titing the camerat, It necessary, shoot from across the street-perch yourself in a fork of a tree, or maybu a stop- ladder will give you the proper ole! vation
Becond, plek a time when the sun lights the house at the proper angle. The sun rays should strike the houso as o sint so that shadows aro cast by such detalie as window frames and weatherboarding. These shad ows outline all the brightly lighted projecting detalls, and they will ap pear clearly in the picture.
Third, try to "frame" the picture attractively with trees of oror Langing branchos. Bach a natural "Frame" for the house gives depth to the ploture and adde pletorial
charod.
A good fourth rulo-use a color
com
plote view, but the doorway and Space didn't permit taking
roof angles alone made a charm-
ing shot.
alter over the camera lons to gire lono to thọ sky, ilich-toned sky in especially pleasing in pictures of white houses, and it improves the offect of any picture.
If you have no recent pietures of your home, tako a low today, follow- Ing these suggestions. Porhaps your bouso is no situated that you can't apply all the rules, but each, by it self, will help you produce pictures that more attractively prosent the placo where you live.
Joka van Guilder.
onc
one leg and raise the other leg,
as far as you can behind yoù. The language of courtesy varies as does the language of common always .ex- speech, But it
admirably what presses
means.
The
it
IK WORRIED ABOUT WINNIE. NURSE. SHE FRETS FROM HORNING TILL NIGHT. WHAT DO YOU ADVISE?
of original object courtesy, I imagine, was to sub- due the hostile instincts of hu- man beings. Men wished to make it clear to their fellow men that they were friends, not dangerous enemies, and so they rubbed noses and made all sorts of peculiar gestures to ingrati- ate themselves. I am always conscious of a faint hostility in a man who grunts instead of saying "Thank you," and I am similarly conscious of an atmos- when of friendliness phere
neglect nods and smiles and someone says "Good morning,"
It is significant that the Nazis Viennese forbidden have
use of the citizens to make equivalents of "Dear Sir" and "Yours truly" when writing The business letters to Jews. Nazis Instinctively realise that phrases of this kind increasing- ly contribute to the creation-of a friendly world. Hence this form, of the No Courtesy move. ment, which is aimed, not at the abolition of social hypo- crisy, but at the intensification of hostility, As regards hypo-. crisy, I am convinced that, if wo dropped all the ordinary forms of politeness we should be far greater hypocrites. We should bo pretending to be misanthro- pic boors when in point of fact wo rather like other people. We should be sping the hostil- ities of primitive man instead of onjoying the friendliness of civilisation.
It is true that saying ""Thank you" and "Please" does not
"Why, the poor little thing is consti pated. No wonder she's fretful. That is the chief thing a mother has to guard against, Mrs. Grant,
"Kiddies don't understand; they're so absorbed in their games, and often Nature's call. Then they get bilious, lose their appetite and be come irritable.
"Show me your longue, Winnic. Yes, it is coated a sure sign she's
sorts. All she needs in 'Cali Syrup of Figs, and she'll be as
gut
of
fornia
happy as a lark in the morning.
"You'll find it keeps the bowels regular, purifies the system and saves stomach upsets and filiousness.
"If children are to thrive and grow strong and keen witted, they must eat well and digest what they eat.. There's no better way than the regu- lar 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, Mrs. Grant. I am sur prised that some mothers 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 nad scientifically it is prepared."
"California
Syrup of Figs"
NATURES OWN' LAXATIVE
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