HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION
Of Course You Know
But
Are You Sure?
PREVISII complaints about the toughness of the
quiz are getting us nowhere. Personally, I am
of the opinion that never before have I prepared
so childishly easy a list of questions.
The scoring is ns ever. Two points a time with a maximum of 50. The minimum is your own guilty secret.
You and I would be kindred spirks if you ntso detested the hearty bloke who, when he meets you Ju the street, thumps you heavily on the back nad burbles cheerfully in a loud voice that can be heard three blocks away. Psychologists will tell. you he suffers from:
Claustrophobia; persecutionmania: kleptomania.
superiority
Inferiority
complex: complex;
2. You mighin't think slavery has been abol- Ishod, but that depends on whom you work for; but as a matter of fact the first nation to abolish slavery
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The United States; the British Empire: Portugal; France; Italy; Germany. 3--Being a gentleman with an eye for the ladies, Abraham became possessed of a wife an her name-now then, you Biblical scholars-was:
Sarah; Ruth; Naomi: Eve: Miriam; Hagar; Rachel,
4. Any astronomer will tell you that every year one of these things is bound to happen:
The earth goes round the sun; the moun has seven eclipses; the Noulliern Cross dis- appears for one month; a new comet Is traced.
mouse.
You can regard yourself as normal if you ean detect which of these plurals is correct:
Talisman, talismen; ox. OXCS; nieese; moose, moose; dear, dearies. 8.-If you wanted to closely examine a Plim- soll tee you would:
Look between two clothes props; find the shortest distance between two points; look on the side of a ship; look at the longest side of a right-angled triangle; go to the 200. 200.
7.Without going too deeply into details, a muezzin is 8:
Church tower; Mohammedan prayer: prayer bell in a minaret: priest; Hindu allar; how you gel at a party.
8.-Those majestle and world-shaking fights of oratory let louise in parliamentary debate by your member are officially recorded to the over- fasting glory of posterity in what is called:
Hansid;
Ilensard: Janserd; Hansad; Hansard; Hansurd; Absurd. 9.-Strictly speaking, one of these countries hasn't any colonies:
niust
Russia; Belgium: Britain; Denmark; Spain.
10"Drée your Weird" is good Doric, but you
admit it is a pretty weird way of saying: Take it on the chin; dry your eyes; drink up your beer;.nurse the baby: for Heaven's sake, shat up.
11. Now everyone knows that the organ of specch
is the:
Palate; tongue; larynx; molar; gullet; diaphragm; the mighty Wurlizer.
12.-Orcadians is quite the proper name for the
off
people
Arcadia; Orcades Islands; Orkney Islands; Spain.
Orcadiana;
.
13By far the best person to go to If you
wanted to learn something about marquetry would. bet
An Army Officer; a carpenter; a markel +gardener; a stockbroker; a member of the
Nazi party.
14. One of Mr. Murgatroyd's bridge partners is a Mr. Fletcher.. Fine old English name, Fletcher.
It suggests that his remote ancestors were:
Gamekeepers.to the King's Majesty; bil- cliers: grocers; arrow-Anishers; huntsmen. 15. Stagger Is n word which might be applied
to anything, but it has a particular application to aeronautics. So when an airman refers to stagger" he refers to:
The wings; elimbing speed; angle of flight; condition of the pilot when he gets out of the cockpit.
16. You may or you may not be nautical, but
I give you my word that one of these is not a ship:
Barque: barquentine: brig: brigidine: brigantine: nef; galleasE,
17-And now for one of those deplorable-to some people-lests in spelling. One of these words
is wrong and it's horribly wrong:
Deleterious; delerlous; delgn; woollen; exacerbate; palliasse,
18. You will have added an hones! two points
to your rapidly mounting score if you know that a cartographer:
Bulid bakera caris; designs playing cards; makes maps; removes furniture. 19-Synoptic is a word habitually used by bleal scholars-don't say you don't read your Hible it is usually applied to:
The Acts of the Apostles; the Gospel according to St. Juhn; the Septuagint; Revelation: Genesis; the Pentateuch.
20. Someone wrote "Philo Vance wants a kick
in the pance." which is a pretty neut bit of poetry.
or isn't it? Anyway, Philo Vance is:
A film actor; a writer of detective fiction:
an American politician; a fictional detec
five; a religious revivalist.
you haven't heard of vitamins, you can-
not be expected to know that the principal vitamin derived from basking in the sun all day is:
B; C; X; Z; D; P; F. One of the
22.
ing cards
One of the jacks in every pack of play- 1 have played with may be seen holding
of
a leaf to his nose. He is the Juck of:
Hearts; Diamonds; Clubs; Spades. 23-Supposing you had bad attack migraine, would you make your will and compose yourself for death? It would be ridiculous if you did, because migraine is merely another name fort
Fallen arches; food poisoning; common cold; headache; burdons; ingrowing toe- .nails.
24. Sometimes we get those old quotations right, and sometimes, to our eternal disgrace, we get them wrong. How about this? All is not gold that:
Glistens; glliters; glisters.
25-If you haven't seen Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion or the talkie version of it or vice versa, maybe you've heard that in it Pygmalion is in love with:
Elizabeth; Ajax; Eliza; Galatea; Helen; Mrs. Shaw.
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MANNELL
CHESS PROBLEMS
BLACK
Nos. 118-119
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SOLUTIONS TO LAST WEEK'S PROBLEMS
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Puzzle Corner
Cryptogram
A quotation by Joseph Jeffer- son, the famous actor, forms the basis of to-day's easier type of cryptogram:
"JOSJE PH SPFR J OPTU VXR: UYR JTUZXH JXR UYR TZSZXH, JAB UYRE CVHU DSRAB FTUY ZAR JAZUYRX PG J ORXGRTU FZXF PH UZ DR OXZBVTRB."
Can You Do It? Using the 11 letters given be- low, try to arrange them so that they will form just one word:
TONDROSUJEW
Letter Changing
Here is an opportunity to change TIME to DAYS in moves.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1939.
News About
THE LOST PROFESSION
MUSIC T
IN the so-called Dark Ages one
of the few remaining places where the arts could be practised was the Church.
Music became the handmaid of the Church and in return she was given security and her de- votees, safe from the turmoils of a barbaric world, were able to think and work in peace, Later music was to issue forth into 'n world becoming more stable. Her secular netivities were to blossom into song and dance and later still into those highly so- phisticated forms of symphony and opera. But she never lost touch with the Church and in England it is in that service that she has produced some of the most glorious examples of our native art.
A representative selection of these were heard recently at the Festival of English Church Music in the Albert Hall. This was in the unusual form of an un-liturgical Evensong; that is, all the musical part of the ser- vice, consisting of hymns, re- sponses, psalms, the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Stanford's setting in F) and a number of anthems.
The earliest of these is by Peter Philips, a Tudor English- man who spent most of his life abroad. The intest is Parry's Coronation Anthem "I Was Glad." The English School of Church Music at Chislehurst with certain choirs affiliated to it, performed this music under
By AN OFFICE WORKER
male shorthand-typist is prae- mechanisation which automatically tically. extinct, having been dispenses with clerical Inbour, he ousted by the female. To-day many must recognise the fact that the gin women stenographers are the virtunt whom he once recommended to his heads of big business. They begun employer as a good typist now holds no ordinary typists, but by making his post. If he is one of the for- themselves. Invaluable to their em- tunale ones who have retained his ployer have come to know all his position, often finds she has pro- confidential business, even learning stressed so well that she is virtually how to deal with detalls during the In charge although he may hold a absence of their chief.
senior position!
The aftermath of the war brought women Into offices; girl typists being originally employed Partly on grounds of economy, partly with an Iden that their doing the routine work would tree a man for more im- portant duties. This has not proved to be the case. Instead of liberating the man for more responsible posts, the typist-secretary has herself leop ed into those positions. It is possible for her to become the real power be- hind the scenes.
The ostensible purpose of a Juntor
Where Men Fall
Such is the
power of a reliable confidential secretary. Sho is П trusted servant, continually having the ear of her chlef; an enviable position Indeed. Only those con neeted with a big office realise the favours she, through the chief, can. dispense.
To a certain extent men have the remedy in their own hands, Al- though it must be admitted that female labour Is cheaper, a very real reason Chlef is
for employing girls is that most men are bad stenographers. They may be good at clerkship, but when It comes to
comes
shorthand and, typing.
Yet there is no rea-' son why they should not be efficient In both branches.
manager or second-in-command is to assume control when his absent. Yet rather than disturb this man in his ordinary duties, calling upon him to pick up the managerial reins, many an employer with a trusted confidential secretory will defy convention and delegate the control of affairs to her, "The Chief Said"
Not openly, but by leaving instruc tions with her he makes her the principal administrator. The chief said so-and-so," is her security. The competent secretary, by virtue of her constant association with him, has sa thoroughly absorbed her chief's ex- perience that she really is a reliable. deputy.
This is no fanciful theorising but plain fact. Parents might do well to remember this when deciding on a vocation for their vaca
children. Ad
mittedly there is glut of typists, but for one who will rise above the mediocre rank of her fellows there are great opportunities. Such op- In fact, as should not be portunities,
missed by men.
Now that the black-coated worker is so badly hit by economic condi-
modern tlons as well as by
oflee
Women have shown that this is possible. But though woman is re- inarkably efflelent in her new busi- ness role, the fact remains that that commercial acumen which, by long tradition is man's prerogative would weigh the scales in masculino favour with employers were his other quali- Beations equal to those of a first- class girl stenographer.
Undoubtedly the humble typist has unlimited opportunities of making herself or himself invaluable if. stead of un automatic, stereotyped
performance, she or he introduces interest and initiative. Such qualities cannot be replaced by comptameters or other machines.
There is ample scope for ateno graphers who will use their brains and take on intelligent interest in their work. Such may elimb to heights of executive ability and power which most men have to reach through for more tortuous ways,
its Director, Sir Sydney Nichol Chuckles in the Class-Room
son.
One of the most attractive events in the London Music Fes- tival was the concert, for instead of being given in one of the usual halls it took place in the Great Hall of Hampton Court Palace.
For the sake of the surround- ings alone it was worth making the journey out of town. The proper means of transport was, of course, the river.
The music was all of the finest quality, There were Tudor madrigals, string quartets by Purcell, Haydn and Mozart and a set of English folk-songs arrang- ed by Vaughan Williams. Leslie Woodgate conducted the B.B.C. Singers "A" and the Griller String Quartet play.
A new work by Vaughan" Williams is announced for the Three Choirs Festival at Here- ford in September. The name is "Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus" and the scoring is for What Are the Numbers?
strings and harp. That is all If one less than the smaller of the information I have to offer 2 numbers is doubled, it will give so far, but those who are curious one more than the larger num-may like to know that the Ox- ber. Three times the smaller, ford Book of Carols includes one increased by 4 times the larger, of that same name bearing the is equal to the product of the 2 initials R.V.W. at those of the numbers. What are the num- jarranger, bera?
Fun With Synonyms
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"Eau-de-Cologne," said the gover-
THE lesson in the class-room was
concerned with the convoynuceness, "do you like 11 of Queen Eleanor's coffin to London, and the teacher had explained how memorial crosses had been erected at the various stopping-places.
The boys were more than usually the
inattentive, and eventually teacher lost his patience. Fixing his gaze on the back sent, he shouted in ʼn voice of thunder, "Whose coffin?"
"Please, sir,"
nervous voice apologised, “I was.”
At a school in the East End the teacher was amazed and touched at the various gifts with which a ragged lille boy insisted on presenting her. Now it was broken porcelain vase, then a pottery jug (with the handle. missing) and finally a very bed- raggled bunch of honesty. As there had been several cases of pilfering in the neighbourhood, she began to feel uneasy about accepting these and so she tackled her young admirer.
"Where do you get those beautiful gifts, Johnnie?"
"From dad's cart on Saturdayı,” he answered cheerily.
"And what does your daddy work ut Johnnie?"
"He goes round with the dust-cart miss."
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In another East End school. certain pupil had been guilty of a serious breach of discipline, and the tencher had inflicted half a dozen "ot the best." In order to drive the lesson home, he directed the culprit to tell his mother what he had done, and also to relate what punishment had been inflicted.
"What did your mother say?" he asked him next day.
"She said she'd like to wring your neck for you," came the unexpected answer.
At a very select boarding-school a modern miss of fourteen went up to her governess and asked what por- fume she was using.
"N-no!" came the doubting answer. "And," she added, “I don't think that would allure any man."
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On another occasion, when teacher entered the class-room wear- Ing glasses, one of the pupils kept staring until the teacher had to ask why she was staring so rudely,
"It's your glasses, miss." "Don't you like my glasses?" "Yes, miss! They
sult you beautifully, and," she added in an encouraging tone, "you look as if you knew something now."
on
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The teacher was giving a lesson the importance of cultivating observation, und, by way of lustra- tion, she explained, "I saw a man black patent shoes, yesterday in plus-fours, tweed cop, and a bag of golf clubs slung over his shoulder. Now there was one detail which com- pletely spoiled his appearance. What WAB it?"
"He had a dirty neck," an eager ten-year-old laddle immediately sug *gested:
It was during the potato digging writing up the registers. Did any- season, and the schoolmaster was one know, he asked the class, why a lttle brother who was present had certain boy was absent? Yest His
a written excuse. And this is what he deciphered the writing on the togoataterin, tattered scrap of paper: Kepatome-
Here is a tale where. the Inugh Is against the teacher.
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"So It was you. Andrew, who wrote on the board, "Teacher is a fool."
"Yes, sir" the scholar admitled un- comfortably,
"Well," conceded the teacher, "at least I am glad you have told the truth.'
A. W.
Set out to capture
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There are no trumps. South
Inquiry Into Navy leads, and North-South have to
Ship Desertions.......
win five of the eight tricks."
-Solutions by first post Wednes
FULL confidential inquiry was day to Bridge Problem, "Hong- recently ordered into the desertions kong Telegraph," Wyndham from II.M.S. Endeavour, and the Strect. punishments aboard.
This announcement was contained
In written answers given In the House of Comments
by Colonel Llewellin, the Civil Lord of the Ad- miralty.
The inquiry will be ordered as soon as the Endeavour returns to Auck-
land.
No rating who makes represente tions at the Investigation in the pro- per Service manner will be penalised
-in-anyway..
A survey vessel of 1,280 tons the Endeavour arrived at the New Zen- land station two years ago. In 10 months there are stated to have been -among-her-complement of ́139,-15' cases of desertion, 11 of breaking ship and 128 of men overstaying leave..
SOLUTION TO LAST WEEK'S PROBLEM
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