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Of Course You Know, But Are You Sure?
IF your intelligence is func- tioning at its top, you should have no trouble in making the coveted 50. If it isn't, 40 should be a fair average effort. But remem- ber, below 30 is not so good. So take two points for a win, nothing för-a loss and hope for the best.
6.-Newfoundland, in enso you do not already know, is Britain's oldest colony. It was discovered by
tent; the heat producing value; the fat around your heart.
13. Many of the world's greatest musicians died in pover- ty; several were amicted with blindness; at least three went mad, but one wrote his greatest works when he was deaf. That
was:
Drake; Froblsher; Colum- bus; Cabol; Captain Cook; Flinders. 7.-"Harry," said the Tycoon of Toorak to his wine steward,
see that you serve the spark-one ling champagne correctly. meaning, of course, that it must
served.
1-Somewhat less than hube
somewhat man.
than more beast is Sagittarius, the Archer of the Zodine and the sign of December. Being half-horse and half-man, the Greeks, who had name for everything, called him
Satyr: demigod; dryad; centnur; orend; sylph.
2. It is difficult to believe that in these troubled days there still exists a race which
does not know the meaning of aggression, has in fact, got by
without a war. That race is.
The Dyaks of Borneo; the Aruntas of Centrul Aus- tralia; the Eskimos; the Negrilios of Malay; the Javanese; the Lapps. 3-Assuming that you are an' average man or woman with an average heart, your Average heart every day beats
10,000 times; 10,000 times; 60,000 times: 100,- 000 times.
4. Which of these is the largest structure in the world?
Salisbury Cathedral, Eng- land; the Eiffel Tower, Paris; the Brown House, Munich; St. Peter's, Rome; the Empire State Building, New York; the Harbour Bridge, Sydney,
Slightly chilled; at room temperature; at body tem perature; very cold; at boil- ing point.
8.-Wellington was the corpse which came like an honoured uest, which does not alter the fact that the city of Wellington, Fin New Zealand, is in the.
North Island; South Is- Jand.
Handel; Bralims; Mozart; Buch Debussy; Beethoven; Gershwin...
14-If I told you that while I was playing my favourite sport last Saturday I was struck on the shins by the puck, you would know at once that my favourite sport was
Lacrosse; basketball; skittles; euchre; ice hockey; pelota; polo; hallai, 15-Murgatroyd, who can be 9. If you don't know your modern history, you look like an offensive end when he likes, called me an antinomian. Na- losing two points cold for not turally I beat him to his knees knowing that the first country in righteous wrath, because an to make peace with its op-antinomian is one who ponents in the Great War was
Italy;
Ger- Belgium; many; Rumania; Russia; Austria.
10. You've heard of things getting into a state of torpor during the summer-you call them
Hibernators; members of Parliament; mammals; tor- porales; estivators; nivora.
car.
11. Some people suffer from tinnitus and they suffer so badly that they don't know what. They needn't worry, though, for tinnitus is only a
Bud memory; mild tooth- ache; ringing in the ears; form of sneezing; tummy-
5. "Pass the
ache. sodium chloride," said Myosis Mur- gatroyd, airing his erudition at lunch the other day. "How of- ten. must I tell you to say, Please, barked his father, passing the
Mustard; vinegar; salt; butter; pepper;
sugar;
pickles.
12. If you've heard of dieti- tians you've heard of vitamins, and if you've heard of vitamins you can't buck out of this by saying you've never heard of
calories, which measure
The distance between meals; your daily liquor allowance; year acid con-
Resists all progressive laws; sleeps with his boots on; ents spaghetti with a spoon; opposes established law and order; beats his .wife.
Carries an umbrella in his portfolio; refuses to work on Fridays; suffers from gout; dislikes garlic; is a keen huntsman:
SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1939.
Help Your Children to Study
How many parents, whose children
attend day schools, can honestly By A Schoolmaster|standing of their difficulties and by
more nЯ a
but by sympathetic under-
Bay that they give their sons and
helping them to overcome them. daughters every encouragement and
Give them a room or a corner of opportunity to study at home in the gard the passing of an examination evening?
as the chier alm of education; far n room where they can keep their from it, but I do realise that many Homework, I fear, is regarded by children are kept at school for that table to work at. Home-lessons are books and, if possible, have a little 19.--Murgatroyd is thinking fathers and mothers
on the corner of a nuisance than a necessity. At best, purpose, and it is the duly of a school-not to be done very seriously of having his it is often an excuse for telling the master, whether he likes it or not, to ten-table or on the arm of a chole. eldest son. Myosis, when he children to keep quiet and get on help as many of his pupils as possible it is an important piece of work, and to pass their examinations. If it deserves some little dignity, if the leaves the university, appren-with their lessons, so that dad may ticed to a dowser.
read his evening paper while mother means a certain amount of grind and children refire to a special room, it
uninteresting work, it is Knits and listens to the wireless.
Many of us must remember even-which the pupil for perhaps I should say the parent) has set himself, and Ings when we were asked---"Have you по home
te that he must submit. lessons to-night?" The question often came, not out of in-
Everybody should know that a
dowser
the aim
Tint entalls study at home, for I
a study, and atmosphere helps. will soon take on the atmosphere of
Uses a divining rod; throws cold terest, but because we had become am firmly convinced that, however age them to tell you what they are
water
on everything; turna on the taps for the fire-brigade; extinguishes the street. Inmps.
20.-"Procrastination is the Thief of Time" is, as you know, an famble pentameter and a proverb which has been thumb ed and dog-eared so much that it has degenerated into a plati- tude. Its originator was
Charles Dickens; W. M. Thackeray; Solomon; Ed- ward Young; Charles M. Reade; Ella Wheeler Wil-
Cox.
quiet.
Show some interest in their work. Ask questions about it, and encour studying. Get them to explain things to you even if you don't understand the subject, it will help them to clarify their own Ideas and fix them in their minds.
fidgety and were irritating the older good the teaching in school may be, members of the family. I Was it is the conscious effort made by the simply an excuse for making us keep up himself which is the greatest factor in his success. Some pupils In this age
when diplomas and will learn In spite of bad teaching; certinentes appear to count for so others will never learn in spite of much, surely it is reasonable to ex-good teaching. There is more truth peet parents to do something to help in the remark that genius in three-write a friendly note to the teacher their children to obtain the coveted quarters hard work than we some documents. If the result is worth times, think. Both at home and in attic school there must bo a conscious effort having, it should be worth
of concentration and memory and the trouble during the school years. The Wrang Atmosphere
will to learn.
How, you may ask, is a parent to As a schoolmaster, it is my honest help? You may say to yourself that opinion that, although parents realise you weren't much
good at lessons that a good education is of greater and don't feel yourself in a position Importance than ever in the past, they do less than any parents hitherto do anything about it. You may simply say that you pay fees and to have done, to promote the right that it is the schoolmaster's job, not atmosphere for study in the home.
Their desire seems to be not
to
If they have dificulties, why not and explain this, asking him or her to look into the matter? Children
ally tell their parents more than they tell their teachiers about the difficulties they experience—and par- ents sometimes put them down to the teacher's inability to explain things, whereas it may have been inatten- lion on the child's part, A Place for Sport
lessons should be
While I strongly recommend that regarded as the
But do not magnity the importance serious side of life, do not forget that child must have exercise and games. of a child's sporting activities-unless bailer. he is to become a professional foot-
21. Strictly speaking this see their children well educated (with one should be for men only. If all that that entails), but simply to you presented your wife - Acate which will help in the quest see them the possessors of a certi: anybody else's wife for that for a job. If this is true, os i believe 16.All of these countries are matter-with a baboushka, yout to be, then the whole purpose of to educate them for you-and that Sports is the lighter side of life, which
would expect to see it
education has gone astray-and sadly astray.
kingdoms; at least they were when this edition went to press. And two of them are ruled over by minors. Those two are:
Norway; Belgium; Siam; Holland; Jugo-Slavja; Den- mark; Rumania.
17. Neville Chamberlain, Mr. to you, if you please, was a big shot before he became Prime Minister. was:
Yes be
WILI, He
Minister for Home Af- fairs; Mayor of Birming ham; Governor-General of Australia; Secretary Foreign Affairs.
18. Mr. Chamberlain
for
has
Adorning the kitchen floor; draped over the what- not in the parlour; around her waist; on her head; sleeping peacefully in the cradle,
22. Be warned in advance that I am out to trick you, so be very careful over this one. If each of four pairs of twins has a son, altogether their sons would number
yours. The easy way out! Examine just laziness on your part. After all, yourself and make sure that it isn't they are your children, aren't they? to go to some trouble for them, t'a If their own parent is not prepared jolly good of a mere stranger to try for a mere pittance at which a doctor or a lawyer would scoff.
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Help him to realise that
at the right moment.
to be enjoyed in the right spirit Sport is re- The strange thing is that many
inxation, and without it good work cannot be done, at least in the case parents of moderate means are pre- ared to make great sacrifices in
of a child. Inability to concentrate order that their children may have
You can help in many ways. First is sometimes due to lack of exercise, the benefits of secondary education, of all, set a time apart for the chil-so let the lessons be done after some and then they counteract all these dren's studies. There's nothing like me of relaxation and movement-not forts by failing to inculcate in them routine. The length of time will de immediately after school but do not concentrate on a desire to learn and to provide them end greatly on the age of the pupil expect a child to with a suitable atmosphere in which and the seriousness of his studies, mental work when he is physically to study. It is one of those obvious Chocso a time when there are likely fatigued. things which we often fail to see plense, switch off the wireless during which can be supplemented by par to be few interruptions. And do,
These are merely a few suggestions until they are pointed out to us.
It is not enough to leave the this study period. Nothing is more
orents. I submit them with no hesita- education of your children to their distracting to a child when he is try-on, for I am
convinced that if ing hard to concentrate. schoolmasters, Unleas the teaching
children can be taught how to study they receive in school is amplified at Not long ago 1 suggested to a
at home, the increase in happiness home, the results will not be all that pupil that the exercise he had given both to parents and children will be may be desired. Certainly, there are me had been done to the accompani-well worth any trouble which may children to whom learning is no ment of the wireless. He admitted be incurred. Do, please, help your trouble. They are naturally interest-1, und promised to do the next one children to study. ed in the acquisition of knowledge
shut up alone in his bedroom. He
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Four; eight; 10; 16; 24; 40. 23. We will accept as an es- tablished fact that
Estonia, every right to claim the atten- formerly a Russian Province, is and will study without the appilea- kept his promise, and the result was
now a Sovereign State on the lion of force or encouragement. The amazing. tion of posterity for his cham-shores of the Baltic. We will average child is not so made, and pioning of the policy of peace also accept as an established requires a good deal of both If. he is through strength. He will also fact that its capital city is
to pass examinations, be remembered because he
Will to Learn
FRIGIDAIRE
Leads The World
See The 1939 Cold Wall Models
Kovno; Oslo; Memel; Riga: Helsinki; Tallinn: Narva.
24-It is not often that I dream, but the other night I dreamt-only dreamt, mind you, that somebody presented me with a Botticelli. So I dreamt that I
At this point I should, perhaps, make it quite clear that I do not re-
Help your children lo see thon homework is a job which has to be done. Like all other jobs, It gives a feeling of satisfaction when It has been accomplished--and you can add to that feeling by appreciating the young students' efforts. Not by brib-
News About
About Music
W. M. R.
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The letters below, in their present Theatre the Brook Musical Society position, represent a 5-letter word. "Orpheus." under Olive Daunt performed Gluck'i | The lines below give a clue!
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THE first concert of the London Music Festival took place Gave it to my wife to cut recently at Queen's Hall, the or up for the children; ate it;
chestra the
London Phil- stored it away carefully in
harmonic, the conductor
Orchestra, chorus and ballet are all Sir the old oak chest; hung it
Thomas
members of this Society, an organisa- Beecham, the 'on the wall.
pro tion evidently of great vitality, R. gramme Mozart (Haffner Sym-cently too the Musicians' Group of 25.This is one so old that phony), Sibelius (Sixth Sym- the Austrian Centre for Arts and "everybody should know the an-phony), Delius (
Selence"gave its first-concert, (Paris), Tchai swer. But I am putting it in in kowsky (Romeo and Juliet), the faint hope that somebody will fall for it. If a brick weighs nine pounds and half a brick, what does a brick and a half weigh?
This opening concort was under the suspices of the Royal Phil. harmonic Society and it set is mo. tion six-week period of intensivé musical activity the like of which 9 lbs.; 17 lbs.; 13 lbs.; has not been known for many years 27 lbs.
in London,
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At Cambridge the King's College Chapol Choir recently ang Special Music under the direction of Boris Ord. Other services of music were In Canterbury Cathedral, St. George's Chapel, Windsor, St. Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Cathedral,
This took place at the Royal Col- lege of Music and the programme, was fairly evenly balanced between the classical represented by Beet. hoven, the late Romantic represented Krenek and Barg. by Mahler and the modern such as
SCOTT GODDARD ·
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How Many Members?
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Sundaes Girl To
Film Star
A film agent's passion for "hot fudge sundaes" hoa brought fame to a golden-haired girl who used to sell. that delicacy in a candy store Hollywood.
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The agent saw the girl, told her she was wasting her time and gave her an introduction to the Paramount Film Co. She went to the studios for tests and recently she arrived in England as the star of Ave pictures within her first year of fini work.
She Is Ellen Drew, and with the Welsh-horn Aim hero, Ray Milland, she has gone to England to star in the film version of "French Without Tears," which is to be made at Sound City.
Miss Drow's biggest film to date. "The Lady's from Kentucky," in which, she stars with George Raft, was released-in-London:
A Lay Sermon
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particular adjective to describe the law, laid down by God, that I must fove my neighbour as my- Gelf?
The law in question is constitu- tional: It is royal in the sense that any breach of it is a revolt against the Kingship of God. The King- dom of God has a constitution, ----- whose essence The royal law resides in .the -JAMES-11.-8.words "many members, yet but
one body (I Cor. xl. 20). Authority resta with the head, which is Christ, but we ourselves are His body. and the mainten- ance of His rule requires the perfect obedience of every part. Obedience, is thus the only real standard of worth. Rank and social status have nothing to do, with it any man in my superior; who is more obedient than I
"If ye have respect to persons ye commit sin.” It is a bit of a shock to some of us when St. James reminds us of this. But his meaning is perfectly clear. Arnong! the members of Christ's body every dental" of equality is a threat to the Christfan common- wealth. It subverts the royal authority; it is treason against the King--
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