HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION
OF COURSE YOU KNOW, BUT
ARE YOU SURE?
PPARENTLY it was a good week-end for one render for he writes in high glee to say that he not only got all the questions right but totalled 100 points, Instend of the regula tion maximum of 50. He must- have seen double.
Now, ait you down and get busy on the questions below, gouging your mental magnitarle by taking two points for each correct answer.
1-The man who discovered how to weigh an atom and who won the Nobel prize for it, ist-
Professor Altomiser; Dr. Aston; Lord Hampton; Bir George II; Mr. Einstein; Mr. Eprteln.
2.-It's loo but if you are not a sallor, because I you are one you'll know without having to think that an azimuth in -
Shilp's speedometer; true bear- ing by compass; wind guage; en- gine room ventilator; crusty old skipper.
3.-Probably in the less exciting moments of your game of ludo you ve found time to notice that the duts on the dice ore arranged so that the sum of those un opposite sides is always-
Ten; five: six; thirteen; seven, ien; nine.
4-If you found yourself among a lot of real gipsies you wouldn't know what they were, talking about-un- less you understand their language. which is called:-
Egyptian; Gyppo; Jp; Gypsuma; Spanish; tomany; Roman. 5.--When you feel like referring to the left side of a ship in the cop- reet nautical term you would look superior and call it the:--
Port; bilge; binnacle; star- board; winch; capsian. d.--You or anyone could
casily meet a virtuosu without knowing it -unless you know be wast-
An
conceris; arranger manager of a violin genius; cap- able of skilled artistic expres- alon; without a fault; a native of Virginis.
of
7-If you accept a ukuse it is just as well to know you are accepting:-
Sume stolen property: an at- tache ease; an Exkimo's canne; a Russlan Government
edict: farm tractor.
8.--Palimpsest, if you were given some, you would use for
Cassing
in your black coffee;
your lawn; puiting
on your bed; writing on; putting on your horse.
9Absintle, the one that makes the head go round-not the one that makes the heart grow fonder-was originally prepared fron
pepper-
Plunu; wormwood; mini; Juniper berries; pine tress.
10-You would be Justinably as- [ 21-A woman might aptly be re- tounded if one of these birds tak inferred to as nubile when she is
· Penguin; -lyre-bled; peacock;, kookaburra; cuckoo; duck. 11-The Kleig light la the super powerful illumination mostly used in:---
Lighthouses; acroplane beacons search-lights; movie Eludios: advertising signs. 12-Tace, short for talcum powder, gets its name originally from
Fuller's earth; the good earth; the tin you buy i fa; magnesi- um: French chalk.
13. You will have to know your scripture only reasonably well to be sule to nominate the disciple who was a publican by profession! --
Sinion.
called Peter: Judas Iscariot: Matthew; John; Bimon
ie Canaaulle,
14.-Have you ever seriously thought about a paladin and realised thut a paladin is :-
Jumble word puzzle; knight errani; covered Hitter: ruler of Turkey: Joose cloak.
15.--Only one boxer has ever held three world titles of the one time- and if you are up in your boxing nows you will know his name -
Bombardier Wells; Gene Tun- ney; Henry Armstrong; Lou Am- bers; Jor Louls; Juck Dempsey; Snowy Clarke,
16.The venerable would be the correct
manner of
address if you were writing for-
The Lord Mayor; a Supreme Court judge: the Archbishop: an Archuteacon: your great grand- father.
17. Many fashions Prese days are ephemeral-nning they are:--
Very effeminate; striking In colour: nsy; short-lived: vul- Mar,
18-Black Marit may or may not be familiar to you as another name for:
穎 rum
Marriageable; dlack skinned; qulekwilted; duff; fashionably at- iired.
22. No one worth his salt will fail to know that a mezzotint in ni
Soft mauve colour; in-between floor in a building; entrance to a theatre; sort of engraving; oll painting.
23.-Greek mythology has it on record in black and white that Echo was al-
Valley: saint: nymph; flute; wind; messenger of the Gods; shepherd.
24-What about brushing up your table of precedence? For instance. the one who takes precedence over the rest in this list in:~
The youngest нon of a Royal Duke; the Lord Great Chamber- Jatn; an earl: a viscount; the Lord Mayor.
25. You are sale from contradic- tions If you say a minion is n
Million million; police court officer; little fish; Javory: favourite.
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She Is Single And Married
A SCOTSWOMAN who married a Indoo of the Brahman caste, pro- vided the Edinburgh courts with a problem stated to be without prece- dent.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1939.
Are you happy
in your work?
(OW many people really like their jobs?
Ho
You don't find many statistics about this problem. Some indication, though, is given in the answers to a question- naire that was recently sent to 500. Americans who graduated from Harvard University twenty-seven years ago.
Here were 500 middle-aged men, with university education, setting down on paper the results of almost a telime's work.
Had they been successful? Were they content? Would they like to have their life all over again?
Look at the answers:—
Forty-five per cent, of these men confessed they were not doing the jobs they had chosen at the beginning of their career.
Twenty-five per cent. said they wished they were doing something else. They were not satisfied with their jobs. Work had become dull- a day-to-day routine.
Among those 500 American bad to confess, when they were more graduates there were Just three than fifty years old, they were In classes who seemed content-the the wrong jobs. farmers, the teachers and the doc- tors.
sunumer
NOW, every
more than 50,000 boys and girls in Britain leave elementary schools to start the search for a career.
For most of them it is probable The First Division of the Court of Session in Edinburgh recently de- that their first jobs will be unsulta- to another ekled that they had no jurisdiction to ble. They will move
ine of business; grant a decree of divorce in a mar-rm in the same ringe between a Scotswoman and a then change again when the novelty Hindoo, which is not recognised by of the new job has worn off. the Italian courts.
And in ten years many of them will realise that they are not only in the wrong jobs, but in the wrong
The action, which was undefended, was brought on the ground of de- sertion by Isa Jane Watson, or Man- famous
grulkar, of Levan Terrace, Edin-careers.
Moreswhar Yudas Borgh. against
A Jamaica negro dancer; one of the murder- ous Borglas; a prison wagon. 19.
Some writers deserve to have their work described as esoteric be
case it ist-
Controversial; easy to under- starul: hard Lo understand; stylish; full of mistakes; ungram- matical.
20. Mierunesta-as doubtless you knows.
A group of Islands; a bad at tark of headache: a selence; a family of tiny sea insects.
cent., starting off with a univer sity education, and at fifty years of age finding they have falled to get the best out of their working life.
TWENTY-FIVE per
What must be the percentage of people in wrong jobs among those who never went to a university?
When an analysis is made of the the career check-up on replies to this page. It will give some idea of the answer to this question.
in
HERE are more than
CAREER CHECK-UP
Here is a good chance to make out a report
on your own carcer.
Are you ambitious?
Would you rather be in a dif- ferent vocation?
Did you drift into your present career?
Do you think you would make more progress if you were-
Married (if single)? Single (if married) ?
Do you find the people at work pleasant companione?
Do you think you are treated unfairly at work?
Honestly-do you think your progress since you left school has been good, fair or bad?
THE
News About Music
new 20,000,000 people at work
of mind then Britain. It needs strength
If the percentage of Mangrullar, assistant pathologist at to turn to an entirely new line of people unhappy in their jobs is the
work.
same as that among those American the imperial Institute of Veterinary Research, Ruman Muktesar, North
university men it means that 5,000,- Provinces, India.
Nobody likes to learn the ins-and-000 people would like to change their outs of a calling for ten years and
work for something different. then scrap that experience to start as a beginner somewhere else.
Mrs. Mangruikar stated that in 1933 her husband returned to India promising to send for her later, but he failed to do so. In 1935 he mar rled a moo of his own caste,
The Lord President, Lord Nor- mand, said Mrs. Mangrulkar might be treated as not married according to the low of Indin, but as married according to Scots law,
He's a happy
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Even when the calling is boring. unremunerative, dull, the twenty- five-year-oldster doesn't like leaving it behind just like yesterday's news- paper.
And that is the whole trouble.
THE
HE twenty-five-year-oldster stays on; after all, he says, something might turn up.
He says it again when he is
the task of chong thirty-five, and
better career ail the
ind to harder,
Those 123 Americans must have procrastinated like this so that they
CHESS PROBLEMS
Black
Nos. 85-86
Problem No. 85
5 Pieces:
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White
7 Pieces White to play and mate in two.
Problem No. 86
Black
White
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4 Pieces
6 Pieces
White to play and mate in three,
SOLUTIONS TO LAST
⚫ WEEK'S PROBLEMS
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Five million worried people-here is a problem which will have to be Investigated, properly some day. A vast amount of effort and energy is being wasted. You can't put down the loss in terms of pounds, shillings
and pence.
But last year Sir Farquhar Buz- zard, one of the King's Physicians, made an estimate that at least 10, 000,000 weeks of working time are lost each year because troubles.
of nervous
And one very effective way to make your nerves litery is to work day after day when your Interest Isn't in your job.
A Lay Sermon
WE
TE have the promise of Jesus' Christ that it we seek we shall And. But here Is a IC- minder, which to most of us is a necessary one, that the finding of God calls for diligence.
Finding God, in fact, is a life work, and even at that must be in-
G.
A rewarder
complete.
In
who
they
of them that Christ, of course, diligently we can find Him Him as Saviour in the 3 cck
instant of HEBREWS, xl, very
realised need, but that is only the beginning of our discovery. Daily, hourly, we can wider and deepen our knowledge of Him, ntid learn! as we do so how true it is that there is no end of His greatness.
One aften encounters people are discouraged because, us say, God has nut revealed Him- self to them. They have been waiting for revelation when they should have been prosecuting re- search. The Inventor, the scientist, the student of healing, does not | sit down and await a vision; he reads, marks, learns, digests and all the while experiments. The Christian's search should be equally diligent. There is endless reward in the quest for God, but the quest must be made in earn- est.
'Leopard Loose'
Hoax At Park
POLICE and park offelals were the victims of a practical Joker who had them searching the undergrowth of Barking Park, E., recently for "ferocious Icopard."
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Two men approached the head keeper and said that the beast had escaped from its travelling cage after n road accident.
it was on its way to a circus at on liford theatre, and had not been fed, the men said.
The keeper posted his men about
the
production of Verdi's opera " Tro-j vatore" by the Vic-Wells Company was at Sudler's Wells recently. The produ- J. B. Gordon, the conductor was Geoffrey Cor- bett, and a new English translation was made by Pro- fessor E. J. Dent.
cer was
This last was an inportant and welcome piece of news. It means! that the nudience was able to; understand what was happening; on the stage, a merciful dispensa- tion when one remembers how often operatic performances have been mad
made unbearable either be- cause of a foreign language one
the rate couldn't follow at which it was sung or because the English ranslation was Billy that it was impossible to listen and keep sanc.
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Professor Dent's translations have the virtue of being true to the original, good for purposes || of singing, intelligible to any- wanting to make his way through these generally involved opera plots and at the same the written in a style which makes them worth the attention of the some- intelligent reader. It is thing of a miracle to succeed on Dent all four counts. These translations, of which this is the Afth to be published, are of the utmost value in increasing in- terest in opera in Britain.
After all, you can not only follow what the singers are talk- ing about but be positively in- terested in what they say, your much the greater pleasure is co and gradually opera becomes an Intelligent entertainment Instead); of a mere matter of top notes and thrills.
The chief parts were sung by Jeanne
Coales, Dusseau, Edith Wendon Henry
and Redvers Llewellyn. New seenery and) costumes were designed by Powell Lloyd.
DID Beethoven mean hisi
sonata in C sharp minor,|| called "Moonlight" by us, "Moonshine" by the Germans, to be played on a pianoforte Jor a harpsichord?
list ol
In George Grove's Beethoven's works it аррсага with the direction "clavecin or planoforte," and is the last but one of the keyboard sonatas 50 to be designated. Recently at Home a chinnee to hear it us clavceln music, when Joseph Sax- by played it on that Instrument, which we know as the harpal- chord.
It was A rare and interesting occurrence, forming part of the concert of music for the old wind Instrument called the recorder, which was given at the Wigmore Hall by Carl Dolmetsch, gifted member of one of the most re- markable families of musiclans Britain has ever possessed.
Puzzle Corner
Cryptogram
An old adage has been modern- ised a bit for to-day's cryptogram:
XE QUA LSST AUXB EQUE XC DFG XAQ
BFTS U EQXTJ HSKK, BITE OF XE DFGPASKC- GTKSAA DFG ZTFH QFH.
Word Squares These two easy word squares, are based on precious stoncs:
A
B
A (1), Jewels, (2) Ireland, (3) flaky mineral, (4) spell of weather. B-(1) precious stone, (2) position, (3) begs (9) not mare.
Leller Changing
By transferring the first letter of the word SHIP to the end of the word it becomes HIPS. This gives us to-day's letter-changing problem: SHIP to HIPS In'@ moves.
What Was Percentage of Galn? A merchant purchased an order of goods at 40 per cent off the 1st price, and sold it at 20 and 10 per cent off the list price. What was his per- centage of gala?
Fun With Synonyms More words and their synonyms:
intersect
Censure farSTIAS
anstal
E
12 Wilson
piausify
rolimish
Convey deny
5
BAJUNS
17
žapark
autob
9
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orl1leis
orage
ehsant
regulate
(Answers on Page 3)
woman
Police Collect Bill
Visalia, Cal. Police here have received a request from Minneapolis asking them to collect 30 cents from n loc
local resident who is alleged to have been owing that amount since April 17, 1938. The police were advised that the woman didn't have to pay the amount unless she wanted to, bul they were asked not to tell her that. The 30 cents in still owing to so far as the police know.
Permanent Wavos
We use the finest Cluster Curl oil
park, then fold the superinten Flood Medals For of Lavender, abn-ammonta solution.
dent, who telephoned the police.
Soon a squad of police arrived.in a vun and asalated the keepers in their search.
Gradually the search narrowed down to a smail area, and when everyone was expecting to come face to face with the leopard a messenger arrived to say it was a hoax.
The circus peuple had assured the police that all their animals wern safe, in fact there was not a leopard in the show.
Guard
Harrisburg, Pa. Pennsylvania's National Guards- men who assisted during the floods of March, 1030, will be decorated with "emergency service medals,' the military affairs department has announced. Award of the medals was authorised by the 1937 legisln- ture,
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