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TUIE newspapers have been culled prelly thor- oughly this week for posers. You wouldn't admit, would you, that you don't read your papers? They're so easy that I fear I am being too generous la dlowing you to score the usual two paints for correct answer. Fifty is the top, which is nice work, if you, can get it.
1.The bark that held n prince went down." Every school child knows the poem about the King who lost his son and never smiled again. Well, the King was
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William the Conquerer; Richard Crouch- back: Robert le Diable: Tenry the First; John; Stephen,
2-1 am going in for a lei of proteins, be- I feel like some altrogen to build up my tissues. So I think 11 feed sumptuously on Bananas: polatoes; onlons: nuts; apples; turnips: carrots.
3. This one might, start another of those acrimonious arguments. 1 believe that the biggest Jiving
thing In the world la
Tarongs Park Jesslet a whale; a moun- fain ark-tres in Victoria: a sequela tree in California:
4-You fund of the Terpsichorean art? you know that Terpsichore is or was
Then
Cup-bearer to Jove; one of the Three Graces; the Mase of Dancing,
5.-Shqiptare-It looks wrong, but, belleve ine, It's right-made the news in a big way recently. Shulptore I simply a fancy name (in fact, it might be the correct Gaine) for
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Poland: Memel; the Polish Corridor; Albania; Danzig.
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these waters, -We never see teebergs which in O.K. by me. 1 read a piece somewhere that the great bulk of on iceberg below water is
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Three-quarters; elght - ninil; eighths: five-sixths.
7-Murgatroyd, who gets the screwlest ideas. tells me he would give a great deal to have shawn for his very nwn. We all know that a showm is
Something to cat; a cape-like garment:
a musical instrument; an ancient convey- ance.
8-Those of you who go or have gone down
to the seu in ships, test your nautical knowledge on this. One of these is not a ship-
Gufa coracle; felucca; clavicle: kayak: kzinpang.
Your teacher probably wasted many pre- elous hours of his time trying lo din geography Into that space between your ears. If he surveeded you should know that Grafton, N.S.W.. is intimately associated with
Banju Paterson: Don Bradman; Billy Hughes: Earie Page.
18-Folk who are particularly addicted to his- triple- go to the pictures, so I know-re
University professors; highly strung
women; epileptics; actors; surgeons. 11.-One man's meat is another man's poison (joke!) But, joking apart, the staple food most in demand in the world is
Ilam and eggs; hot dogs; wheat; oats: rice: hamburgern.
12.-1 there is one thing I like better tha anether it is a nice new disease, or a new brand of psychologteal jeepers. I've just heard about
narcism, and I've discovered that most of my friends suffer from it, poor wretches! Narcism (some call It narcissism) is
Dislike of spinach; self-love: halitosis; dandruff on the collar; night starvation boorer's gloom.
bee Cocon, If you can take it, is good for you
i swarms with vitanilps. Cocoa grows
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In bunches like grapes; in pods on trees; below the surface of the ground; in hard abels like peanuts. 14-Given
a cleat night and a fairly power- fui glas, you will see that one of the stars-all right, smart guy, planets-has a thick ring around it. That slar or planet is
the
Pluto: Saturn: Venus; Atars; Jupiter.
astronemiently. 15.-Astrologically and symbol for April Is Aries, which is always repre-
sented as a
Man with a bottle: a bull; a crab; twins; a rain: A guai.
10.- -If you know even the least thing about sesal-precious stones, you will at once pick which of these is not a semi-precious stone Chalcedony: serpentine; lapis chrysoprase; schizanthus; cornelian.
Juzulk:
17. Don't pull your radio set to pieces to prove me wrong, but I maintain that the unit of electrical resistance is the
Farad: henry: ohm; volt; wall.
15. You can challenge the correctness of my interpretation of the meaning of words us much as yo like and you are at liberty to consult a work written by
A umismatist; spidary; lexicographer: dromedary; trained seal; dragoman.
19. One of these is a deep lethargle sleep- Nuance: Sopor: Mistral: Samitc; Solum; Prisage.
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20-Spare time army" sounds like ernek to me. It was recently applied to
Biffer's stormtroopers; Mussolini's Black- shirts: -King Zog's grenadiers; the British Territorial Arty; the Swiss Navy. 21. hope that when you go out to dine you don't dip your bread in your gravy, bernise Curt would be a
Maloproplam; anachronism; boner: Male- elsen: faux par.
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22.Your spelling is improving so rapidly that two points for picking the wrong one here should be a nuturni
Recidivist; maguanimity; archevist; pro- gnathous; antidisestablishmentarianism. 23.-Amerlea is having a loan of one of Bri tain's most historic treasures. If you read your papers you will know that that treasure is
The Black Prince's armour; Shakespeare's
copy manuscript; the Lincoln
of Magna Charta; the Dumesday Book: the Statule of Westminster.
24.in my favourite game of cards one of the conventions is the misere. Therefore I play a fair game of
Strip poker; grab; solo; euchre; old mald. 25.-What was the pen-name of the Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dalgson?
Lewis Carroll; Seamark; George Ellol; Jane Austen.
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Year's Opera
NE English have always W Bock good choral singers and rather less good choral
-SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1939.
THE DOCTOR'S
WORD
Widows and Old Ago Pension
You have often seen these word" Hereby Certify application forms are frequently th
on a sheet of notepaper. You! have often asked for, and been given a sheet of notepaper on which they were Inscribed. That sheet of paper may have got you out of come more or less serious difficulty. It may, and usually does, put money in your purse.
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тения bringing another bornets round the doctor's cara. These forms contain a declaration,': which the doctor is required to sign, widow or Are they to lose their money for to the effect that the
pensioner algned the the days they were off because the form or, if unable to sign, made his application doctor won't give them a line? Oh,
If they can't
or her cross on It-in presence of get one very well! But have you ever realised exactly they's transfer to the list of another the certifying doctor,
means?
ductor. And, us he sticks to his what that sheet of paper Do you appreciate the fact that the gun, before the docter is many days moment it is signed it becomes older he receives a note from the Committee The bulk of choral music legal document? Did you know that clerk of the insurance
if it contains the slightest misstate- turned out annually has been ment, or is misleading in any way, notifying him that Mr.or Miss-So
and-So has withdrawn his, or her, fairly constant. It is the quality the doctor signing it is able to have came from his panel, that has varied, at times dis-stume struck off the Medical Re-
gister, and so be deprived tressingly.
means of livelihood?
composers.
of his
Ignorance of these facts is a con- alant cause of friction between doc- tora and their patients, and patients and their doctor. It seems such a little thing to ask a doctor to do to Isn't every doctor supposed to be a scribble his name on a bit of paper! gentleman? Well, surely no gentle- man would be so disobliging as to refuse to comply with such a trinting request!
BRIDGE
PROBLEM
One of these periods of low- water was about a hundred yem's ago when Mendelssohn had come, seen and conquered. Through no fault of his own he became the Idol of English 40- ciety and his music, easy enough to imitate but impossible to do ns beautifully as he did it,. in- fluenced our music profoundly.
Church music especially fell
• K970 an immediate prey to the Men-
Provided the statements in the ecr- | 4 Q 30 delssohn cult. Parry and Stan- tificate or document he is asked to ford thereupon rescued it and sign, and for the accuracy of which their pupils continued the work. he vouches by his signature,
true in every particular, no doctor As a result there now exists a large amount of modern church object to putting his name to any certificate a patient is entitled music worthy of its place in to be given. divine worship.
Recently some of that was heard at St. George's Chapel, Windsor. At this service, form- ing part of the Festival of English Church Music, new an- thems by Sir Walter Alcock of Salisbury Cathedral and W. K. Andrews of New College, Ox- ford, were sung by the St. George's Chapel choir under Dr. W. H. Harris. The service end- ed with one of the noblest works in all the history of English choral music. Parry's "Blest Pair of Sirens." that miraculous setting of Milton's "At a Solemn Musick." It is one of those works to which I always try to take friends from abroad whom I discover harbouring a sneak- ing suspicion that we really are aland without music."
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Well-intentioned friends will often arrive at the doctor's rooms with the applleant's signature slready written In. "She's got a bit of a cold and didin't want to come out," is a com
mon excuse for the old lady's non- oppearance.
it takes much explaining to con- vince the friend-if one ever does convince her-that the value of the declaration to be signed by the doctor fles in the words in my presence." She cannot understand how it should nake any difference whether the signature's nude in one's presence or not, and usually tries to settle the argument with a "Who's to know whether it's signed in your presence or wasn't?"
Recognising that many old folks find it a bit of an ordeal to append their signatures with strangers look- ing on, for some years now the Gov- erninent has relaxed the rule to the extent of accepting an assurance from the pensioner that the signature on the paper la his or hers. But this concession, while it may be a con venience for the pensioner, is no help to the doctor, for the assurance, lika the signature, has to be given "in Westbls presence."
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Solutions by first post Tues- in front of him as the risk of have South have to win all 13 tricks, Register if he "signs or gives under day to Bridge Problem, "Hong-refers was lately brought home to a his name or authority any certificate, | kong Telegraph" Wyndham notification, report or document of a Street, kindred character which is untrue ar misleading." no doctor is going to put his neck into a noose by deliber- tely Bouting the instructions of the General Medical Cound and doing what the Council says must not be
done.
SOLUTION TO LAST WEEK'S
PROBLEM
The risk of giving a certificate with
whom it out seeing the party to doctor in a very evident way. III himself at the time when this man's fourth weekly certificate was due, the doctor accepted the word of the messenger that the patient was "un- able to come," and issued the certl- deate without seeing him He got the same message and did the same. thing the following week.
Before giving the seventh certificate he went see the inan. He found
Declarer leads spade three, dummy ruffs and returns club five. Declarer ruffs and leads Pane! certificates are supplied to spade four. Dummy ruffs and panel doctors in printed form, ready plays the heart King and Queen the messenger had not misstated the to nil in. Each distinctly bears the and the club Jack, declarer disposition. His words had rung true. words:" hereby certify that I have examined you on the under-men-carding diamonds. Dummy now day plays diamond five. If East tioned date." Yet hardly passes but someone or other walks takes the trick he will lead his into some panel doctor's surgery and diamonds into dummy's, and if ment: "Mrs. So-and-So has sent me West wins the trick he will play into declarer'a spade.-"Bulbul." for her panel line."
greets the doctor with the announce-
When it is pointed out that all panel certificates bear the above de- Anite statement-"I examined you en the under-mentioned date"-and that be issued no panel certificate can unless the doctor sees the patient in person, the deputy usually tries to argue the matter and to cajole the doctor into snapping his fingers at what the visitor denounces 25
absurd red tape."
Far off the beaten track of opera lie two works that were performed recently by The Chamber Opera Players at 8, Greville Place, St. John's Wood.
As she warms to the subject-the There is,
an obliging I believe, near messenger is generally
chides the Southampton, a village called doctor for what she calls his pig-
female neighbour-she Dibden, named after the grand-headedness, and declares he could father. of Charles Dibden, who give the certificate quite well if he composed "Tom Bowling." That song was one of hundreds and Dibden, also wrote over seventy operas. For some of these, such as "The Grenadier," which was given recently, he wrote words as well as music.
wanted to. And as she opens the door before making her exit she turus to him with the parting shot:-
she'd been a private patient from whom you could have got half-a- crown for it, you'd have given it without a word!"
Lost Patients
The other opera in the bill
Other patients, off work for a was Weber's one-act "Abu Ilas-couple of days, finding, on retum to san." It is an carly work, little business, that a medical certificate is known over here, and an un-wanted-to-verify-their-statement-of having been III, light-heartedly pop asually amusing example of into the doctor's surgery confidently German comic opera.
expecting they will get the required certinente for the asking."
S. G.
How can any doctor certify that they have been ill if he didn't see
Wise Use Of Time then while they were ? How can
he sign a statement that they were unft for work if he has no personal knowledge of whether they were ur were not?
When it becomes plain that a cer- tifleate is not fortheemlag, These
"One hears a great deal nowadays about the profitable or Intelligent use of leisure. The wise use quarter-hours has decided victory or defeat for many bottles; similarly, the wise use of quaricr-hours bas erstwhile light-hearted visitors be- been the principal deciding factor in come loudly eloquent in their ex- the success or failure of many a'pressed opinions of "the way doctors man or woman.”—George W. Blount. rent their panel patients."
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Hero's a portrait of Lord Chesterfield by Samuel Johnson, "PICT URE C PLJXYIP IRZ AQQE R SJVZ RUJEY FCPT, AXP C GCEZ IQ CT JESH R FCP RUJEY SJVZT.”
A Rebus
To-day's rebus has a legal twist. The letters below re- present, in rebus form, a 9-letter
Solution To Chess Problems
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If you guess this right You win your case on sight.
Letter Changing Following the usual rules, try changing SHOP to MALL in 6 movos,
A Bit of Division Divide 32 into 2 parts so that their product will be 112.
Fun With Synonyms
As usual, we start the week with 10 words and- their synonyms to be paired off:
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They were true, indeed the doctor discovered they were even truer, than he'd thought. He had said the man was unable to come for his certi- fentes. He was right! He couldn't He was do- in 60 days! possibly come for them.
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Lay Sermon
Returning and rest are words which no strangely together. To most of us the idea of returning, c., returning to God, is linked with that of special endea. your, for most of us who have to return are conscious of time and upper- tunity wasteil.
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interdependent. The quest of the Kingdom supplies the purpose which puis on end to rest-
lessness,
But it also brings home, to him the need of time for meditation through and prayer, and it is these that the purpose is further- ed. The 'rest that God's people require is not sleep or mere idle- ness. It is not the rest that Let us be sure, then, of what means rust. It is polse and ba "rest" means. Let us think of it tance of friction, and those things first as the very reverse of rest- can only be gained and held when lessness, Restlessness is a char- returning is followed by utter acteristic of the nge, and is utmost surrender to God. We come to entirely due to the lack of any our rest when by prayer we learn great, controlling purpose. For haw certain are His control und the Christian rest and purpose are ❘ support.
JAMES JOYCE AGAIN
AMES JOYCE is famous as the Irish author of " Ulysses," a fantastically over - praised And aver banned book,
HL new book, Finnegans Wake #Faber. 255.1. has taken him sixteen years to concoct. How shall I describe It?
He uses associative word-sounds and puns as Chaucer and Shakespeare did. and invents words ne Lewis Carroll did. He is a master of reverberating incan- tation like William Blake and the best politiciaus.
Unfortunately, unlike all his models, he does not make his menning clear.
Read a page or two aloud and every now and then among the reverbera- Clons of a dream-inngunge images will rise, strange and sometimes beauti-
ful offspring of the, marriage of queer
sounds.
The following, for example, may be as technically outrageous as a piece of legal jargon, but considered as sheer sound conveying the idea of desolate twilight by a riverside It comes off:
Who were Shem and Shaun the Ilving tons or daughters of Night now! Tell me, tell me, tell me, cim! Night, night! Telmetale of stem or atune. Beside the rivering waters of, hitherandthithering waters of, Night! But, apart from the sustained" in- dustry Involved, I cannot help feeling that a great deal of this six-hundred- page book might have been written by a precocious child with brain-fever.
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