SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1938.
Girls and Boys' Corner
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Pantomime
puzzle
proved at too difficult for some of you. Ta characters were Red
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in
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Telegraph" offices
Wyndham Street. The coupons will then exchanged for money prizes,
Specially commended for execlient
Rating . Dick Whittington, Puss-work are the following:- In-Itools.ndrella and
Alladin, wilst the lden people were the drther, the cat, king, prince
aid Pag vittu.
The pain winners this week are:- Shu-chan (aged 14), 119, Robin Road,
David Awele (aged 7), 8. Step-j hra's College, Stanley,
fudy Prive (aged 6), Cathay intel, B10, King's Road.
Coupons are being sent to Ho Shuchun, David and Judy which I want them to bring to the "Hongkong
LIVES SAVED BY
PRISONERS
THREE close relatives of men serving sentences in Lewes Prison were taken ill and re- ported by the hospital authori. ties as likely to die.
They recovered after the
Seniors: Mary Grace Asche, Oleg Julebin, Paul Vessorna, George Hud- ton, Percy Gardner, Ho Man-chan.
Intermediates: Teresa Marcal, Anthony Cutcher, Wahid Mchal.
Juniors: Roy and Sylvia Reme- dios.
I want to thank Stella dos Ramos, Young Kit-wa and S. B. Bax for their cards and greetings.
Stella dos Ramos: Unfortunately, as you are too old for these com- petitions your entry had to be left out.
This week, kiddles, we are having a simple colouring competition.
Examine carefully the pleture above and colour only the whether large or small, which are crackers, exactly alike in design. Leave the others white and untouched. You wish, but remember that only the may use any colours and design you crackers which are alike, except for size, are to be finished.
Fill in the name, age and address coupon and send your entry to Uncle Eddle, c/o "Hongkong Telegraph", Wyndham Street, before 2 p.m. on
prisoners had been allowed to Wednesday. Three prizes will again
visit them.
Ja cach case the recovery WDB tributed at the hospital to the
ioner's visit.
This is told by the Governor of es Prison in the report of the on Commissioners,
be awarded.
Uncle Eddie
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Margaret knocks the gentry.
N American has been among us taking notes. and, faith, she's printed them, in With Mallep Toward Some, by Margaret Halsey (Hamish Hamilton, 7a. Od.). Her book will make a good many English people as mad as hatters, But it has lightened these days for me.
The author is the wife of a young lecturer who spent a year over here on an exchange protestorship. Most of the time they lived in a village near Exeter, though they got about the comtry quite a lot and enjoyed two short holidays abroad.
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When Mr Halsey got down to the West, sho found her fret-and her pen. She liked the form- houses which have not only an air of having pashed their way up through the ground, but also of being quite ready to push their way back down And she liked the foaming gardens. But agola. The Gentry1
with
She was staggered at the table-talk of the Gentry. Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennta Imaginary balls" And most of the women the met seemed to have exhausted their strength in the "debilitating effort to be English Ladies."
But the phenomenon that enraged Mrs. Halsey most was the English Gentleman.
Englishmen, from what I can see, do not talk to women if they can possibly avoid it--and, if they must talk to thein. they keep the conversation inexorably down to their level of feminina under- standing. And Englishwomen-even the brainy ones, apparently--mcckly concur
Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman, the English lady regards him apprehensively na something between God and a goat, and equally formidable on both scores."
Fortunately for the author's sanity, however, there are plenty of Ordinary Men and Women st about The Ungentry, she christened them. People who plough the fields and scatter. People who work hard to keep the Gentry upright in a boring world. People like Phyllis, who was Mrs. Haisey's cook and house keeper and general guardian angel.
"Phyllis cooks so well that some times it hard to believe we are living in England." Phyllis, in fact, was a paragon. In her blushing, innocent way, I fancy she opened Mrs. Halsey's eyes to the true nature of our country. alde. Bo that our American is soon saying pertinent things about the double standards of the hunters and the workers, the rich and the poor.
"FEARFULLY SORRY. I FORGOT TO PACK THEM," From "The Week-End Wants of a Guest," a memorandum book arranged by Nicholas Bentley, who also drew the pictures. (Cobden-Sanderson, 25. Gd.)
Halsey settled down cosily and began Yes, Phylis saved the day. Mrs.
to enjoy herself. Stirring her third cup of tea one wintry afternoon, she even admitted to her diary that though a good deal in England might make her blood boll, "there is not nearly so much occasion as there is in Amerien for blood to run cold."
With Malice Toward Some la as witty and a tonte a performance as any vlaltor hins staged for us for years. It has its rare lapses (the Gentry can thank their hunting crops that Mire. Halsey is only human, after ali)," But It blows through our rural landscape. like an awakening wind.
The book closer with a tremendous tribute to Phyllis and her kind. Gentlemen. I give you the Engliab Ungentry. The next Éme we come to his country. I hope Henry will get an exchange with a plumber."
And so do I
R. P.
Are You Sure?
Answers
QUESTIONS. ON PAGE TWO..
1. Public Truster; Royal Botanic Gardens; Office of Works, Royal Fine Art Commission.
2. 10,000.
3. (a) Egypt, (b) Indin, (c) Holland.
4. (a) Solway Firth and Tyne, (b) Clyde and Forth.
5. Organisation of Democrats in New York.
6.
6. (a) 1,3 and 4; (b) 2, 5 and
7. Napoleon.
8. Superior,
Eric, Ontario.
Huron,
Michigan,
Tomorrow will be a big day, Mr. Dillon-busting your new retractable undercarriage design- we are all looking for results. This company's Just got to produce the fastest planes
NEXT DAY-TIVE TEST
A
MYSTERY
LMOST anything might come out of a story of three men in love with one woman, Make one an ex-detective who is twice a convict, another an ex- detective turned private Inquiry agent and the third a profession- ally righteous solicitor and put the woman in danger of the gallowa and you get a line on E. Baker Quinn's The Dead Harm No One (Heinemann, 75. 04.).
How these men tried to bluff the law to the limit is told with the sort of compelling violence that suits the theme.. A pity that bitter ending hud to be sweetened. All the same, a boot you will remember more than most of -ita kind
The Falat Holiday (Longmans,
78. Od.), Belton Cobb's latest, is well told, credible and ingenious. But it has a fatal defect for those who like to see their murderer nately into the dock or out of the world. From one point of view there in in fact no murderer. though from another. But read it amil ser.
The obvious person to produce Death from a Top Hat (Collins, 70, éd.) is o magician-the modern, super-salaried. music hall kind-and Clayton Rawson makes it so. Pay no attention to the patter and you may spot Mr. Rawson palming the murderer, Or you may
not.
Neal Bhepherd has hit on a new method of doing to death in Death FUes Low (Constable, 75. Od.). The story is all about an aeroplane factory, and is full of neatly dovetailed techni caillies.
As for E L Mann, lus The Chisle hurst Mystery (Eyro and Spottis woode. 1. d.) starts with digging in the back garden and ends in pursuing treasure under Enginnd by the nld of prehistoric landmarks. He challenges you to go and do something similar.
P. E. I.
Third Time
Lucky
VERA BRITTAIN, who strick a
very good thing when ahe, dei cided to write her autobiography: for us--it was Testament of Touth --now gives us "new chapters' of autoblography in Thrice Stranger (Gollancs, 108. 8d.), -\/
"
These chapters are sa racy, enter.' taining and honest as the earlier ones. She tells us of her early struggles, har marriaga and of three vialla to America.
Miss Brittain is a great humanist. She thinks of everything in terms of people. 1.
Bhe spent two years in America alto- gother and vialled thirty out of the forty-eight states. She first lived in the United States between 1025 and 1027, when the era of golden awag gering prosperity seemed destined to endure for over. I returned in 1994 to And long shadows of the great depres sion stili tying over the land.
"More recently. In 1937, 1 went back to discover a national temperature- which, in spite of the business reco sion, seemed aloser to sane normality than the boastful affluence of the first period or the retrospective apprehen, alon of the second
"One day in the late October of last year, as I wandered round the vivid,
sun-drenched Campus of a Junior College in Dallas, Texas, 30- flecting upon these contrasts, the sum- mer warnith of the South-West alirred my northern blood to excitement and I almost shouted to the sulpher-hued batteriles Gitting lightly above the scarlet cannas, "There's a book in al this"
There you have the reason for this volume. When you have read it. you will be glad Miss Brittain had that walk on the Campus
A gratly moring, actively alive, woman's book.
M.'T.
Quick Thinking Costs City
Pasadena, Cal. Motorcycle Officer Fred Lunt had presence for mind, but the city will pay for it. When his motorcycla back-fired and started to burn, he grabbed a rug off the nearest porch and extinguished the blaze. The rug. was damaged, and now the owner in- tists it is up to the city to pay.
FASTER
PLANES
Testing
POWE
tomonow, daar, and
I'm not too hopeful of
results. I've not bean working
well recently, "I've been so tirad
Chief Enginoor Dilton, head of the research department of a larga aero- plane factory, wan' tha most valued man in the firm. one day things began to go
wrong'.
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Don't Worry, Tom, I'm sunt it will be all
right
The humiliation of it.... can't think what went "wrong... I've gone all to pieces lately. Ok, this tiredness, f even make up feeling tired!
Fromise me, "Tom, you'll go
and see a 'doctor about it
8. Bartolomeo Diaz.
10. (a) Harry Lauder, (b) Lottie Collins, (c) Ellaline Terriss,
(d)
(e) Charles Coborn, (f)
Grimaldevalier,
Albert
Sibert Che
11. 225.
12.
13. entrop.
Anne, Chippendale,
Hepplewhite, Sheraton, Regency.
14. (a) Rector, (b) President, (c)
Provost, (d) Master; (c) Dean.
15. Christian.
10. Major.
17. Maine, New Hampshire, Con- necticut, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode
de Island.
16. Conducts a post-moriem exa- mination.
19. Venice.
20. Obadiah, Philemon,
INSPECTOR PLAYFAIR
(Solution)
Martin is the criminal, and the word which gave him away Is Gulidford. Playfair realised that Martin would try to be on the spot, with answers to incriminoling words. Martin was expecting and, when he heard 'Guildford," snopped out "Broad- way" automatically before he
ould realise his mistake.
Ilford"
surf-
Puzzle Corner Answers Cryptogram: Spray-dashed board rider vies with out-board motor racer as popular modern water sport. Ten Hidden Fruits: Apple, plum. year, peach, cherry, gooseberry, rasp. | berry, strawberry, currani, damson,
1.etter Changing: Filma, nies, plies. Sales, polls, pools, poots, soots, spots. pala, para, try.
How Much $1080, $140. Ars Theta Within Your Scopet:] Kaleidoscope-optical toy; thermoscope temperature Instrument; heposcope -for examining sun; hagloscope- ppening in church wall: mierpscopem for magnifying; bloscope-motion plc- Fire machine: telescope to close up, baroscope weather glam; kuniscope. for measuring dust; galvanoscope~ROF detecting electricity.
AT THE DOCTORS
·Exactly, Mr. Dilton. it's this waking tined thats holding you back
at your job." You sea, you bum up energy even while' you sleep - it takes 20,000. muscular efforts alone to breathe. If you're not replacing used-up enenty, of course you wake tired-thatic Night Starvation.
I suggest Horlicks,,
AMAZING, DILSON !... 20 MILES AN HOUR INCREASE IN SPEEDİ...
A CONTRIBUTION TO,
SCIENCE, SIA
and so every night :
↑ 8. WEEKS LATER
'I hope to goodnese Dilton has dona a good job with this new
design
DOES YOUR HUSBAND WAKE TIRED?
I'm pretty
confident.
He seems
to have got
into his
WAKING TIRED reduces a man's effi-
Wciency at work and play - he can't con-
centrate properly, he can't do his best wosic *** he's unfairly handicapped.
If your husband wakes tired, seo to it that hages Horlicks, a cupful regularly at bedtime. Horlicks replaces energy as it is being used up during sleep. He'll wake refreshed, he'll feci and look alert and alive.
HORLICKS
stride again
lately