SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1939.
Girls' and Boys' Corner
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Dear Kiddles,
This is all my own work
I am afraid many of you did not read the rules of last week's competition. You
were
asked
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Age
Specially commended for cor- rect solutions and excellent colouring are the following:---
Seniors: James Sanders, Ho Man-chan, Paul Vessoonu,
to study the picture carefully and then colour only the crac-Maude Suen, Jill Stokes, Mary kers which were exactly alike in
Grace Asche. design. Some of you coloured
nl the crackers and others Intermediates: David Asche, coloured only three. Actually | Anthony Cutcher, Marie there were four crackers which Pomeroy, Eulalia Xavier, Con- were alike in design.
stantin Bonhoff, Lore Korner.
Juniors: Judy Price, P. Wong, Maurice Dobson..
The prize-winners this week
are:
Song Yung-tsing (aged 13), Rhenish Mission Church.
Ann Hunter (nged 8), 11, Leighton Hill.
Horst Korner (aged 61⁄2), 5, Basilea.
are
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Danger
JOHN D. CRAIG went to the bottom of the sea by way of the Indian Jungle. The bottom of the sca is my workshop," he says, and he explains in his autobiography (Danger Is My Business. Arthur Barker, 128, dd.) why he went there- and why he made danger his bust-
ness.
You have probably seen under-water shots or sequences in Aims-bright amall flat flashing, sharks posing, octo. pus tentacles eerily undulating, the villain in a diving dress stalking the Hero (also in a diving dress) to cut his life line. And you may have said com- fortably, Done in a tank."
On the contrary, Mr. Craig has spent len of his thirty-five years with a div ing crew and a ballery of under-water cameras taking sucli pictures below the surface of the Pacifle Ocean. Holly- wood's film libraries are full of his work, ready to be fitted into any plcture.
But he is not merely a film sunt artist. After Leasing different kinds of danger, he has made diving his study. He and his friend Gene Nohl, In a diving dress of their own inven- tion, were the frat men to carry out an under-water broadenst. The Craig. Nohl dress achieved a new world's record dive of 420 feet.
The pith of the book lies not so much In his adventures as in a effort to explain the true nature of the different ktinds of danger that a man may meet
he choose.
The tiger, for instance, merely finds you curious when he meets you in the jungle. If you let him look at you long enough, he will get bored and wander away. The octopus will let go after a while. If you don't make him think you must be good to eat by struggling.
Much less easy to endure. It may em to the render, are the diver's aches and pains and discomforts-- "sticky warm with cold blue hands." He puts one of the worst in a sentence -indersen you can't scratch-you Just lich, and bear it." A. B. A.
c/o Hongkong Telegraph, Wynd- ham Street. The competition closes at 2 p.m. on Wednesday. Three prizes will be awarded. They will go to competitors whose answers are correct and,
Best of luck, kiddies.
This week, kiddies, we having a very simple competi-in my opinion, are the best writ tion. The artist has shown the ten or printed. Age will also be shapes of six different leaves of taken into account. trees and inside them are the nanies of the trees in picture- Coupons are being sent to puzzle style. You have to find
the six names. They Wong Yung-tsing. Ann and
familiar. Having found the Horst which I want them to bring to the Hongkong Tele-answers, write them in a nent -graph offices in
are all
P.S. I want to thank Timothy and Anthony Lee, Mansoor Ali, Eulalia Xavier and Teresa Mar- cal for their good wishes.
Wyndham numbered list on a postcard. Uncle Eddie
Street. The coupons will then Fill in the name, age and address be exchanged for money prizes. | coupon and send to Uncle Eddie,
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Book Reviews
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A Child is Born
AND IT STILL MAKES
A GOOD STORY
[ONSIDERING how important it is
'to be born, you might think it odd how little attention the story- tellers pald to birth until, as it were, the day before yesterday.
The simple "begat" statements in the Bible have become altogether too laconic. It no longer suffices to list four sons and eight daughters" after the casual manner of Victorian romances (I always find carller writers incurably vague about the number of brothers and sisters their characters might have lurking in the darkness of the family background),
Childbirth, in short, has become good copy for the novelist, A territying business, you might Imagine-enough to score any woman out of her Wha And yet women are not scared so easily. Hosts of boys and girls are born every day.
And now Enid Bagnold has written a remark- able tale about a mother who enjoyed having children-The Squire (Heinemann, 85, 6d.). She brings an air of calm and balance to what was becoming an increasingly hectic and confusing situation.
True, the Squire" was a wealthy woman, who already hnd four healthy youngsters, But she was the significant type and symbol of mothers who are to be found in all class- women who, somehow or other, can resolutely shut out all worries and face all dangers in their single-minded dedication to their task.
The story 13 as simple-and as fundamental-as A B C For a few days we enter the life of a household In which everything leads up to the anticipated event. Preparations must be made-not too soon, and not too late. Distractions must be cleared away.
*
WE watch a grand conspiracy of women to ensure that nothing, absolutely nothing, shall be allowed to interfere with the safe coming of the child.
And round that central mystery of the oldest ritual in the world Milsa Bagnold has grouped several convinc ing it ninor human beings-the drunken cook, the flighty housemaid, the sullen butler, the young girl in love, the four children already tread- ing their different, and perhaps dim- cult, paths in life.
The child a born, and the house resumes its normal nspect and routine. The mother writes to her absent hus- band her final weekly chronicle, her inst report of the children and his home.
Night closed more deeply down and lights were put out. Outside the binck sky opened wider and showed by its Bignals its Imunenalty. The aquire's village, her white house and its black windows rolled with the rest of the world among the wheels and geo- metrical terrors of heaven.”
Those are the closing words of this sane, quiet, well-proportioned book. one of the most dignified and distin- gulated storica I have read for a long, long time.
JUST over a hundred years ago
a shock-headed Ind of seven- teen suddenly appeared in the streets of Nuremberg. He could neither walk nor speak. But he could write the name of Caspar Hauser.
Who was he? And where did hie
Spolling the Broth. From "Take Forty Eggs: A Compre- hensive Guide to Cookery and Household Mismanagement,” by Dasil Collier and Helen Kapp, coming next week from
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come from? A Number One Mystery to which the answer is still unknown, though the boy was the talk of Ger- many at the time and though scores of books have been written about him, the latest, but by no means the least, being Caspar Häuser, by Jacob War- sermann (Allen and Unwin, 10s.),
Nuremberg took Caspar under its charge, first as a prisoner and later in the homes of its councillora. He was a sensation, a peep-show for the popu Jace
and subsequently baining material for contemporary scientists
and theorista.
THEN he became the Innocent
cause of high political wrang- ling. One party tried to prove that he was a Princo of Baden, who had been "removed" so that others might usurp his inheritance. Another party maintained that he was nothing but a vulgar impostor. And, Anally, as a re- sult of all this uproar, he was mur- dered. Mystery on mystery....
Feeling ran so strong about him that, when Wassermann published this novel some years ago, he at once found bim- self involved in the old arguments But, as he explained in his preface, ne was never concerned to prove that Caspar was or was not a Oermna princeling.
His interest was in a human being who, no nearly as could be, started from nothing-who had to begin in adoles cence to learn painfully and suddenly a normal child's gradual adjustments to ille-a young man who might have
TASTY MR. TURNER
I CAN well imagine that of all the trials that beset genius the most alarming is the prospect of becoming a professional bio- grapher's prey.
J. M. W. Turner, the painter, 1s a tasty morsel for a hungry biographer. He was ugly, and he worshipped beauty. He was a barber's son who became famous. He painted the sun more dazzlingly than ever before, but his home in London was dark and evil. amelling.
He was a Royal Academieiun, but he Ilved without benefit of clergy with two women. begel legitimate chil dren and hild himself behind the false name of Poggy Booth. He made £140,000 with his paintbrush and left his daughter without so much as A toothbrush.
But Bernard Falk
the (Turner Painter. Hutchinson. 18s.) has done him proud. His book is just and re- spectful, as well as belog informative.
Are You Sure?
(Questions on Page 2)
1 The clenched 14 Pointed.
Ast,
2 Reaumur,
15 Two feet.
10 1015 (May).
3 of the Great 17 Paris.
Firo,
18 Sheep.
Hope-
4 Jenny Lind, 10 Lord
6 For
fnt.
6 Ears.
7 Bolivia
storing toun.
Paraguay.
8 Plant life.
- 20 Franco,
21 Bronchoscope. and 22 Io is sald to
9 Hypotenuse,
10 Mores,
11 On the day
be godfather
of more chil-
dren than anyone else in England, after the holi 23 Curry soup. day.
24 Colton. aner- 25 Prehistoric
12 British
cantile marine.
13 Hois
mammal.
tirelessly documented and extremely entertaining.
Lively stories abound. Of how, for example, the noble Marquess of Lans- downe calling at Turner's slovenly home in Marylebone where the painter dwelt with a diafigured housekeeper and seven Manx cats, was mistaken for the cat's-meat man.
But no story Illustrates more com pietely how a great artist is always an allen la organised society than an account here of Turner cursing a French railway guard for not holding up the train to allow him to complete
a sunrise sketch.
"Damn the fellow!" complained Turner, "He has no feeling?" B. F.
The map which illustrated Hugh Quigley's article on Czechoslovakla yesterday was reproduced by permis rion of the Royal Institute for Interna. tional Affairs, from a sheet of four maps issued in connection with the crisi
Puzzle Corner Answers Cryptogram: Because of the earth's rotation, smoke rising from a campfire will revolve counterclockwise.
A Rebus: P in CUSH i on, Pincushion.
Letter Changing: Less, loss, lose, lore, more.
How Long?: 6% days. Fun With Synonyms: Happiness-bliss; quantity -- collection; domicile abode; honesty-integrity; arrogance disdain; image -effigy; Justice-fairness;
landscape--panorama; leave -permission; march-jour-
ney.
INSPECTOR PLAYFAIR
SOLUTION
The mysterious phone call was from Playfair, who had overheard Lydia's indiscreet remark to Michael.
been a miracle, but who was tormented and finally killed because nobody could understand his peculiar dim- culties and possibilitica
The skeleton of the story will always be
and fascinating
horrifying. Wassermann clothed those bones with rarefied flesh and set poor Caspar wandering in my imagination not as a ghost but as a conscience, rebuking the everlasting callousness of man.
R. P.
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The BEST OF BOXERS
Šimusm
THERE are no more gripping stories in ring history than thờ famous fights under Queensberry rules. Probably the most classical was the remarkable night for the world heavy-weight championship between that gnarled, freakish figure, red-headed, Cornish-born, Bob Fitzsimmons, and the former bank clerk, James J. Corbett.
The day was March 17, 1897, The scene: Carson City, Nevada. I know most of the principals in that ever-to- to remembered drama. LA. G. Strong has resurrected this epic in Shake Hands and Come Out Fighting (Chapman and Hall, 10s. 04.).
He recaptures the old thrills. Ro- calls the boxing heroes in the closing years of the old century. Не сли visualise the swaying fortunes of the two gindiators.
Corbett sending his opponent to the canvas, where the rests on one knee, while blood drips from his nostrils. The rear of the crowd.. the timekeeper's voice...nix, seven, eight,” Fitz rises while Corbett's supporters are delirious with joy,... Their amazement as Pita recovers, to eventually win the coveted title with his famous "solar-plexus" punch
Fitz leans
. Pandemonium reigns. across the ropes and klases his wife full on the lips, leaving her face red with blood.
There are descriptions, too, of more recent fghts Carpentier, Jack Demp sey and Bombardier Wells, but they do not interest as those which figure Tommy Bums. Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries, those giants of an almost for- gotten oge.
J. B.
SNAPSHOT GUILD
The SN
SNAPSHOTS AT NIGHT
PICT
Night anapshots are easy with simple lighting arrangements. It's fun, too, to create table-top" platuro scenes as shown here. SNA ONAPSHOTS at night aro fun, and results by setting the lens aperture a delightful way to spend long at 1.11 and the shutter speed at 1/25 winter evenings, Nowadays, with in- of a second.
In the picture shown here, the expoasiyo lighting equipment espeight colored wall serves as a reflec clally designed for the amateur,
for to illuminate the shadow side of
night snapshots are easy with any the "table-top" seeue. Ordinarily,
camera,
two lamps aro used for a picture, You can arrange interesting and one to fluminuto each side of a rub- nejistic "table-top", pictures, using Joct. Dy changing the angio and post- toy automobiles, doll houses and ton of the lights, many interesting miniaturo furniture, with a bit of shadow effects can be obtained. A dark carpol for grass, or sugar for piece of cardboard can serve as a scow, or a bit of glass on top of a background as in the picture above. dark surface to portray a quiet pool. For night snapshots, the camera You can also take informal portraits Į should be loaded with a fast film of of members of the family, pictures the "super" type. With slower films, of them reading or busy with other it is necessary to provide two activitios, snapshots of the pots, and or three times as much light, And interior views of the home. Indeed, for close-ups, as shown here, a por there is a wonderful range of pic trait attachment must be placed on ture chancos, none of which occur tho camora tous (unless yours is one outdoors.
of the fuer focusing camoras), The picture abovo shows how In night picture-taking, it is im night snapshots ara made. A photo portant to have your photo lights at bulb is screwed into a bridge lamp. In correct distance from the subject with a cardboard reflector replacing not too near, and not too far aWAY. the lampshade. The photo bulb An exposure guido is helpful in plac yields sa extremely bright whito ing the lights-or you can make soy- light, especially suited for picture | oral "test" pletures of each sceno." taking. With two large photo bulbs Don't miss the fun of night snap- In cardbanrd reflectors, three or four shots this winter. You will learn feat from the subject, you havo much about picture-taking, and pro-; enough High tor snapshots with avide many an interesting addition. box camera. With a focusing typo to your album. camorn you would get satisfactory
Tiny Baby Foot- Printed
John van Guilder.
Deer Challenges Auto
Skoderich
Eureka, Cal. Humbolt county authorities figure they have the record for the youngest
A 200-pound deer challenged `a Anger-printed and foot-printed person motorist's right to use a highway in northern California. It is a baby, here and ended up as a meal "for" just 33 days old. The mother had needy familice; in Bayßeld, Villagé. just been thumb-printed for a driver's | An automoblie driven by Leonard licence when she decided that.it was | Sararas struck-the stag as it emerged never too soon to get her baby trom a dlich und faced the ear with-2 started on the finger-printed way. hend down, 200