HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END
SECTION
OF COURSE YOU KNOW, BUT
PPARENTLY it was a good week-end for one reader- for he writes in high glee to say that he not only got all the questions right but totalled 100
ARE YOU SURE?
10.--You would be justifiably ns- points, instead of the reguln-tounded if one of these birds Inid on tlon maximum of 50. He must have seen double.
Now, sit you down and get busy on the questions below, gouging your mental magnitude by taking two
mints for each correct answer.
1. The man who discovered how to weigh an atom and who won the Nobel prize for it. is:-
Professor Atomiser; Dr. Asion; Lord Hampton; Nir George III: Dir. Einstein; Mr. Epstria.
2-It's too but if you are not a silor, because if you are one you'll know without having to think that an azimuth is a
Ship's speedometer; true bear- ing by compass; wind яuage; en- glue room ventilator; crusty old skipper.
3.-Probably in the less exciting moments of your name of luin yout have found time to notice that the dots on the dice are arranged so that the sum of those on mposite sitles is always!-
Ten: five; aix; thirteen; seven, ten: ninc.
4.If you found yourself among a lot of real gipsies you wouldn't know what they were talking about-un- Jess you understand their language, which is called; --
Egyptian; Gyppo; Jip; Gypsum; Spanists; Romany: Roman.
5. When you feel like referring to the left side of a rhip in the enr reet nautical team you would look superior and all it the
Port; bilge: binnacle; star. board; winch; capslan, 6. You or
anyone could meet a virtuoso without knowing it -unless you know he was!--
carly
An arranger of concerts; manager of a violin genlus; cap- able of skilled artistle expres- alon; without a fault; a native of Virginia.
7.--If you accept a ukase it is just as well to know you are accepting: Some stolen property; an ul- Lachic case: an Eskimo's canoe; a
Government edlel; Russlan
£
farm tractor. #Palimpsest, if you were given some, you would use fort-
Pulting in your black coffee; topdressing your lawn; puting on your bed; writing on; putting on your horse.
Absinthe, the one that makes the bead go round-not the one that anakes the heart grow fonder-was originally prepared from:—
Plums; wormwood; pepper...“ mlut; Juniper berries; pine tress.
i
Pengula; lyre-bird; peacock; ' kookaburra; cuckoo; duck. 11-The Kiels tight the super powerful illumination mostly used in:-
Lighthouses; neroplane beacons; search-lights: movie cludios; advertising ́signs, 12.-Tace, short for talcum powder, gets its name originally from: -
Fuller's earth; the good earth; the th you buy 1 in; mugnesi, um; French chalk.
13.—You will have to know your seripture only reasonably well to be able to nominate the disciple who was a pabilean by profession:--
Slinou, called I'cter; Judas Iscariol; Matthew; John; Simon the Canaanite.
14. Have you ever seriously thought about a paladin and realised that a paindin Is a
Jumble word puzzle; knight rrrant; covered Hitler; ruler of Turkey; loose cloak.
15-Only one boxer has ever held three world titles at the one time...*** and if you are up in your boxing news you will know his name ist-
Bombardier Welis; Gene Tur- ary: Iteury Armstrong; Lou Am- hers; Joe Louls; Jack Dempsey; Snowy Clarke,
10. The venerable would be the correct manner of
address if you were writing to:-
The Lord Mayor; a Supreme Court Judge: the Archbishop; an Archdeacon your great grand- father.
17. Many fashions Rese days are ephemeral-meaning they are:---
Very effeminate; striking In colour; flimsy; short-lived; vul-
gar.
18.Blick Maria may or may not be familiar to you as another name for;→→
A
Д Fun:
famous Jamadea negro dancer; one of the murder- ous Borglas; a prison wagon.
ID Some writers deserve to have their work described as esoteric be cause it is:-
Controversial: easy to under- stand; bard 10 understand; stylish; full of mistakes; ungram- matical. 20.-Micronesia-ns doubtless you know-15--
A group of islands; a bad at- tack of headache: a science; a family of tiny nea insects.
21.-A woman might aptly be re- ferred to as nubile when she is
Marriageable; dark skinned; quickwilted; duti; fashionably at- ilred. 22. No one worth his salt will fail to know that a mezzotint is al-
Soft mauve colour; in-between flour in a building; entrance to a theatre: sort of engraving; oil -palating.
23-Greek mythology has it on record in black and white that Echo
was
Valley; safnt; nymph; Bule; 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 is
The youngest son of a Royal Duke; the Lord Great Chamber- lain; an carl; a viscount; tho Lord Mayor.
25. You are sale from contradle- tlons if you say a minion is :-
Mlion million: police officer; little fil; favourite.
court Ravory:-
(Answers on Page 3.)
She Is Single And Married
A SCOTSWOMAN who married a Hindoo of the Brahman caste, pro- vided the Edinburgh courts with a problem stated to be without firece-
dent.
The First Division of the Court of Session in Edinburgh recently de- elled that they had no jurisdiction to grant a deeree of divorce in a mar- riage between a Scotswoman and o Hindoo, which is not recognised by the Indian courts.
The action, which was undefended, was brought on the ground of de- sortion by Isa Jane Watson, or Man- of Levan Terrace, Edin- grufkar,
Yados Moreswhar against burgh. Mangrulkar, assistant pathologist at the Imperial Institute of Veterinary Research, Ruman Muktesar, North Provinces, India.
Mrs. Mangrulkar stated that in 1933 her husband returned to Indiu promising to send for her later, but he falled to do so. In 1935 he mar
tied a Hindoo of his own caste,
The Lord President, Lord Nor- annd, said Mrs. Mongrulkar might be treated as not married according to the law of India, but as married according to Scots law.
He's a happy
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1939.
Are you happy
in your
work
?
How many people really like their jobs?
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 met, with university education, setting down on paper the results of almost a lifetime's work.
Had they been successful? Were they content? have their life all over again? Look at the answers:-
Would they like to
Forty-five per cent. of those men confessed they were not doing the Jobs they had chosen at the begin ng of their career.
Twenty-Sve per cent. sald they wished they were doing something cise. They were not satisßed with their jobs. Work had become dull- a day-to-day routine.
Amung those 500 American; had to confess, when they were more graduates there were Just three than 1ty years old, they were in classes who Leemed content-the the wrong jobs. formers, the teachers and the doc. tors.
Now, every summer 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 that their first jobs will be unsuita- blu. They will move to another firm in the same line of business; then change again when the novelty of the new job has worn off.
And in ten years many of them will realize that they are not only in the wrong jobs, but in the wrong
carccra.
It needs
strength of mind then to turn to an entirely new line of work.
Nobody likes to learn the ins-and- outs of "a" calling for ten years and then scrap that experience to start as a beginner somewhere else.
the
Even when the calling is boring, uhremunerative, dull,
twenty five-year-oldster doesn't like leaving it behind just like yesterday's news- paper,
And that is the whole trouble.
HE twenty-five-your-oldster THE
stays on; after all, he says, something might turn up.
He says it again when he is thirty-five, and the task of chun ing to better carcer all the burder:
Those
125 Americans must have procrastinated like this so that they
CHESS PROBLEMS
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Problem No. 80
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TWENTY-FIVE
per cent.. starting off with a univer- sity education, and at fifty years of age finding they have failed to get the best nut of their working life.
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 replies to the career check-up on this page, It will give some idea of the answer to this question.
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THERE
20,000,000 people at work in Britain. If the percentage people unhappy in their jobs is the same as that among those American university men it means that 5,000,- 300 people would like to change their work for something different.
Five million worried people-here is n, 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 und pence.
But last year Sir Farquhar Buz- zard, one of the King's Physielana, made an estimate that at least 10,- 000,000 weeks of working time are lost each year because of nervous troubles.
And one very effective way to make your nerves jittery is to work day after day, when your interest isn't in your job.
A Lay Sermon
WE have the promise of Jesus
Christ that we seek we chall find. But here is n TC- minder, which to most of us is a necessary one, that the finding of God calls for diligence.
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A rewarder
Finding God, in fact, is a Bej work, and even at that must be in- compleie. In of them that Christ, of course, diligently we can find Him seek Him us Saviour in the Insiunt of HEDHEWS, xl, very
realised need, but that is only the beginning of our discovery.
Daily. hourly, we can widen and deepen 'our knowledge of Him, and learn
as we do so how true it 19 that there is no end of His greatness. One often encounters people who are discouraged because, an they say, God has not 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 The all the while experiments. Christian's
should bel
search
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 officials were the victims of a practical joker who had them searching the undergrowth of Barking Park, E., recently for a "ferocious leopard."
keeper
Two men opproached the head and said that the beast had escaped from its travelling cage after
road accident.
It was on its way to a circus at an Ilford theatre, and had not been fed, the men said.
The keeper posted his men about
CAREER CHECK-UP
Here is a good chance to make out a report
on your own career.
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 companions?
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?
News About Music
THE new
of
production Verdi's opera "Il Tro- ivatore" by the Vic-Wells Company was at Sadler's Wells recently. The produ-j cer was J. B. Gordon, the conductor was Geoffrey Cor- bett, and. a new English! translation was made by Pro- fessor E. J. Dent.
This last was an impurtant and welcome piece of news. It means that the audience was able to. understand what was happening on the stage, a merciful dispensa- tion when one remembers how often operatic performances have been made unbearable either be cause of a foreign language one couldn't follow at the rate at which it was sung or because the English ranslation was 50 silly that it was impossible to Isten and keep sane,
one
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 time written in a style which makes them worth the attention of the intelligent render. I in some- thing of a miracle to succeed on Dent four. counts. These translations, of which this is the arth to be published, are of the utmost value in increasing in- terest in opera in Britain,
After all, if you can not only follow what the singers are talk ing about but be positively in-, terested in what they say, your pleasure is so much the greater and gradually opern becomes an intelligent entertainment Instead of a mere matter of top notes and thrills.
The chief parts Jeanne
Henry
Dusseau,
Wendon
were sung by Cuates, Edith and Redvers scenery Llewellyn. New
and costumes were designed by Powell Lloyd.
DID Beethoven mean his
sonata in C sharp minor, called "Moonlight" by us, "Moonshine" by the Germans, to be played on a pianoforte! or a harpsichord?
In George Grave's Hist of Beethoven's works It appears with the direction "clavecin or pianoforte," and is the last but one of the keyboard sonatas so to be designated. Recently at Home a chance to hear It us clavecin music, when Joseph Sax- by played it on that instrument, which we know ns the harpsl
chord.
It was 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 musicions Britain has ever possessed.
the park, then fold the superinten Flood Medals For
dent, who telephoned the police.
Soon a squad of police arrived in u van and assisted the keepers In their search.
Gradually the search narrowed
Guard
Harrisburg, Pa.
down
to a small area, and when Pennsylvania's National Guarda- everyone was expecting to come face men who assisted during the floods to face with the leopard a messenger of March, 1030, will be decorated arrived to Яay it was a hoax,
with "emergency service tredals," the military affairs department has announced." Award of tho medals was authorised by the 1937 Iegiala- ture.
The circus people had amured the police that all their animals were anfe, in fact there was not'a leopard in the show.
Puzzle Corner:
Cryptogram
An old adage has been modern- ised a bit for to-day's cryptogram:
XE QUA LSST AUXB EQUE XC EQXTJ BFTS DFG XAQ U HSKK, BFT'E BF XE DFGPASKC- GTKSAA DFG ZTFH QFH.
Word Squares
These two easy word squares, ure based on precious stones:
A
•
•
A
B
A (1), Jewels, (2) Ireland, (3) Baky mineral, (4) spell of weather. B-(1) precious stone, (2) position, (3) begs, (4) not more.
Letter
Changing
By transferring the first letter of the word SHIP to the end of the This gives word It becomes HIPS. us to-day's letter-changing problem: SHIP to HIPS in D mo
moves.
What Was Percentage of Gain? A merchant purchased an order of goods at 40 per cent, off the list price, and sold it it 20 and 10 per cent of the list price. What was his per- centage of gain?
Fun With Synonyms More words and their synonyms:
intersant
GEBRİLYO
annu
3
Lazusfy relinquieb
GAZTEZ
emy Dandel
STRED
6
#djust
7
apart
A
contrados
5
fat SWEAT arrange
lulak
chooge
zeguista
(Answers on Page 3)
Police. Collect Bill
Visalia, Cal. Police here have received a request from Minneapolis asking them to collect 30 cents from a local woman 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, but they were palted not to tell her that. The 30 cents still owing to so for as the police know.
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