SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1939.
Girls' and Boys' Corner
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Dear Kidates,
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This is all my own work
You sremed to enjoy last work's Animal
puzzle. trassword Some of you elfri not name the ardmals correctly but, on the whale, the competition was well done.
The prize-winners this week are:
Merela Xavier (aged 12), 222. Tung
Chol Street, 1st Floor.
Wilma Way (aged 1), 5. Village
A. A. Remedios Jr. (aged 6), 2, Hlwood Road, 1st Floor.
Coupons have, been sent to Mereia, Wilma and Junior which 1 want them to bring the "Hongkong Telegraph" offices i13 Wyndhara Street. The coupons will then be exchanged for muvey prizes.
Specially commended for excellent work are the following:
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van Langenberg, Daniel E. Pereira.
Juniors: Cluries Ozorio, Virginia Gonzales, Gerald Marshalf, P. Wong. Cutcher, June Gordon, Anthony
Doreen Kwok Yee, Armada Luz. Houghton, Lawrence Wong, Jetta Whites Joan Woodward, Kwan Chuen,
Betty Mair, Peter Stichael do Roza, B. Philips, Gloria Kennedy. John Huriman.
Wille Mok: Welcome to the Boys' and Girls' Corner.
Charles Ozorin: Thank you very much for your nice letter and kindl wishes.
Important: i can see by recent en- trics that some of you are beginning to copy one another again. Please do not sle this as it is not fair. If it is obvious that you hove copied some or else in order to send in a correct answer, your entry will be taken out of the competition.
The puzzle this week, kiddles, is to
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Wonder Plants and Plant Wonders
Wonder Plants and Plant Wonders by the plant's patience and per- A. 1yall Verrill. New York: Appleton- | Heverance.
Century.
What are the 10 most useful Can anyone picture our
■F YOU'VE EVER seen the air-trees?
plants growing on telephone modern world without palms, wires in Ponce, Puerto Rico, fruit trees, pines, maples, or milked a cow tree, stood beneath oaks? What would you say was Bermuda's famous silk-cotton the strongest of all living tree, tapped a desert cactus for things? The water, watched natives gather orchid seed pods for flavouring extract, picked the fruit of the Bausage tree, or walked among violets 100 feet high, you know the sort of material Hyatt Ver- rill has drawn upon in writing "Wonder Plants and Plant Won- ders."
trees may eventually rend apart grent rocks, and the pallid mushroom will break and lift the concrete of a cellar floor. What's the answer? Perhaps it would be better to read the book, but if you guess that the laws of hydraulic pressure have some- circus might thing to do with it you're on the choose the elephant, but a right track.
It might not seem very re- pachyderm is a weakling com- pared to even the smallest, most markable to say that violets and delicate-appearing plants. hellotrope grow to the size of Sprouting seeds can force their tall shrubs in the tropies, but way through the hardest picked more than one roving botanist earth. Thread-like roota of has been answered "Oh Yeah?" when he tried to convince friends he'd climbed panay trees, verbenas, and violets, all more than 60 feet tall. It's true though, and the blossoms are as lovely and sweet na in more tem- The Week-end Wodehouse (Double-land's fall foliage display can at perate climes. Only New Eng-
day, Doran), Selections from the
Jeeves, Mulliner and Dronry stories uf P. G. Wodehouse, together with his novel, "Fish Preferred," com- plete.
We all know the important The Book Window part the busy bee and other in- sects play in the plant world. Just as a department store or the corner grocery welcome any old bee or fly who happens along and wants its aweet stock in trade. But there Are many plants as particular as Fifth Avenue's exclusive shops. No ragged butterfly or tramp bum- blebee may enter their doors. Plants, ke the orchids, for example, cator only to special patrons, and are provided with cleverly designed portals, in lieu of gorgeously uniformed door. men, which can be opened only by the right people (insectively speaking).
all compare with jungle moun- tainsides, or plains covered with forests of pink, golden, mauve, cerise, or orange-coloured blos
A Book of Short Stories, by Maxim i soms.
Gorky, edited by Avratim Yarmo-
Flowers. themselves grow to linsky and Baroness Moura Bud- berg (Halt). Including "Creatures be giants. In humid, swampy That Once Were Men."
areas plant lovers everywhere pitcher-plants Year Book and Culde of The Rho have gathered
deslan and Nyasaland, with Bio- and calla lilies, but none can graphies, 1938-9 edition (Rhodeslan compare with the Rafflcala Publications Ltd.,). A useful re-flower of Malaysia, which men- ference book.
sure a yard or more across.
Norway Changing and Changeless, by Agnes Rothery (Viking). By the author of "Sweilen," "Den- mark." and "Finland."
Mr. Verrill's compondium of strange and wonderful plants is an amazing and well-told story. of botanical wonders, unbeliev-
Spanish, Creole patois and some of the Indian tongues accounts tales that won't be
They say that plants have no intelligence, that they don't suf- Wild Country. by F. Fraser Dudable but verifiable. His grasp of
fer when injured, never know pleasure or pain. But did you ever meet Miss Lucy or any of her kind who always have "good luck" with plants? Can you say finally that plants don't really "take to" a successful gardener? Seniors: Wong Yung-tsing, Frank
Horticulture teaches that vines Langley, Lillen Burt, Sheila Le
grow toward a support in an- Tissier, Marie Latz, Joan" Wardly. Jacqueline Sulva, Yin Shul-fat, Gil- and the names of six popular kindswer to the influence of a shadow lian Murray, Lionel Houghton, Mary of biscuits from the above pletures. cast by a stake or tree, but how ean a vine's actions be explained Wone. Dolores Luz, Marjorie B.; Buck shape illustrates one unme. Wong, Wilbur Marshall. Yoult Co- Can you and all the names
when the whole neighbourhood oper, Paul Vesson, Theresa da | write the six mnswers in a neat num-
is in shadow, or when a trellis is Roza, C, S. Coom, Joan Gordon, ved list on a postcard, adiling your
so situated that hovin has Heftevick, name, age and address in the coupon Rose Tobins, Norman Ghazi Khan, Cura Xavier, Alice Lee, given below the picture. Send your several supports to choose from? Henry Carvallo, Francis Baptista, entries to Uncle Kadie, e/o "Hong-The author tells the story of a Sophie Wuila, Alma Chan, Chm Tu-| kong Telegraph", Wyndham Street, eleuung,
Mak. Eusebin | before 2 p.nu next Wednesday,
Best wishes, kiddies. d'Aquino,
Intermediales: Ronahi Woud, Gloria
Leslie
If so.
(Macmillan), Photographs of wild life by biologist on holiday. Take it frum Me, by Neat O'Hara for many
(Waverly House). Fauts, quizzes, and gags from the author's syndic-found in any other botanical ated column.,
work of similar nature.
1938, Recorded in Two Books
Reitannica Book of the Year, 1839, Chicago and London: Encyclopedia Britannien, The World Over: 1914, edited by Joseph Button Smyth and Cliaries Angol. New York: Harrison-IIlkan.
HERE IS, OF COURSE, that
story about
the famous author who granted a moment to British gardener's experiments an aspiring writer, only to be "teasing" a vine by placing a faced with the query: "How long pole at some distance, always is a book?"
Silva. 5. S. Bux, Pamela Millet Uncle Eddie moving it before the youngster
Yolle, David Tavares, Paky
da Silva, Barbara Hankin, Donald
Marshall, Shona Melatyre, Shirley
could reach it, until eventually it seemed a limit was reached to
Features of the FRIGIDAIRE 1939
Cold Wall Models
The New Quickube Tray will find favour with avoryone. It increases the capacity of the froozer for froozing dossorts, salads and ico cubas; also for storage of bulky frozen articles and highly perishablo foods.
Three in one. All three functions of the Cold Control, the Automatic Resot Defroster and the Master Switch are now controllablo from a single dial which is known as the Frigidaire Uni-Matic Control,
Here's an added refinement that users will appreciate: a new Super Freezer Door which closes at a fingar's touch, but, most important of all, it opens all the way and stays opon until you want it to close.
The great mun replied: "Oh, say 60.000 words."
Whereupon the 'embryo writer threw up both hands and shouted: "Whoops; I've finished my novel"
Thus one dare not, ask what it take to make a book. Or even a yearbook. Perhaps i Ja 750-odd pages, running from Abrasives 10 Zoology, us does "The Britannica Book of the Year, 1930." Perhaps it is the voluminous chronologies of "The World Over: 1838."
At any rate, one emerges from
them both with
a deep respect for editors who will beard the colossal task of fitting any year let alone the one just post-into neat cover and dennitive phrases,
of vexing problems, such as the divi- sions into which various diplomatic | developments like the Munich settle-
ment should yo,
ever.
There are unsolved problems, how- For instance, the summary of the year at Harvard University takes space to recall that it la the "oldesi
institution for higher education in the United States." But when it comes to the Balkan Entente, the editors teave their readers in ignorance of what mations are included in that diplomatic grouping.
The editor of the Living Age and the contributing editor of the North American Review, in producing "The World Over," have attempted to solve the problems of classification by treating each month as a unit in it- self. The book. turther, is divided Into two parts-a commentary which is indexed, and a chronology which is not.
The result is what the publishers describe us the "only book of its kind in any language." This, in itself, is
mean accomplishment. But the structure of the work raises problems for both the popular reader and the research worker. For casual peru-
Britannica-continuing the volumes sal, it is difficult, even with an inte- grated picture of developments. And first undertaken last year has set for the more serious student the ab for itself-the-harder-task-It-has-at-sence of organised classifications is o tempted to combine popular treat handicap.
The chronology, however, makes
ment and scholarly authority. Thus the Britannien, covering 1938 despite the
"39"
In its title, aims at a mork a distinct contribution to those in somewhere between the extremes of need of a day-by-day record of 1930. research and readability. The fac
For it includes not only those major tual data bear the imprint of Britan- news developments found in custom- nica reliabilty. Cartoons and exten-ary summaries, but reference to im- sive photographs add to its liveliness. portant speeches, statisties, and mis- It retains the conventional alphabetl-cellanea which escape the ordinary cal classifention, and the editors have compiler. done rather well In solving a number
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PICTURES AND SPORT
Combine photography with your sports or other hobbles... for studies of "form" in golf... wlid-life studies if you are a hiker... and so on. Picture taking mixes woll with almost any other hobby.
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NE of the fascinating features of full, well-rounded picture record of photography, as a hobby, is that all the things he does and secu. And it Bts in porfectly with almost any such "notobook" pictures add great- other hobby or interest. In particu-ly to the pleasure of other sports lar, nowadays, outdoor onthusiasts and hobbles.
For example, the biker or moun are finding that plcture taking harlain cimber muy employ bla camera moutros admirably with such sporta for pictures of woodland plants and as hunting, Nahing, biking, golf, and wild fo-gradually building up a other open-air activities.
collection which in genuinely worth More sports enthusiasis ara tak while. The hunter records life camps," ing pictures because modera cam-s kills, the trails and ators ho eran are so Biglit, compact, and easy traverses-building up an enviabla to carry.
Cameras taking fairly large mory of travel and outdoor lite. The pictures have been reduced in bulk Kulf professional may use a home in recent years, white many no morte camera to make slow-motion present-day miniaturo cameras are pictures of his students, so that they so compactly but that they can be can stody their errors on the movie pocket at all timca. creen-or golfers may take movies carried
Operation has been made moro of each other for the samo purpony. From these examples, it is gney to convenient, too, so that picture tak ing is quick and easy. Therefore, the avo how photography can enrich and sportsman can uno his camera about broaden other hobbies. It its in with ale would a notebook, "atting any of them-aud its great virtue is down" In picture form cachi Interest that pleturen have lasting valus. ing detail of his trip or sport active. Therefore, by using the camera to record our other hobbles and netist- ties.
This is the modern way to use a tier. we can put them in enduring camera. Instead of taking random form... and enjoy them over and snapshots, one here, one there, the over again. wisa picture talter iries to keen a
Are You Sure?
(Questions on l'age 2)
1. In a pipe, 2. The fi
3. 04.
4. So be i 5. 2 Gullons.
14. A pre-war
German liner. 15. Baldwin. 16. Elecirle no-
tors.
6. Viewing the 17, League interior ht Miles).
the stomach, 18. Draper's.
7. Old-man19 Albany."
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B. Civilian 20. President of
clothes,
9. Poland,
China,
10. Lay eggs, 11. Flat
Be World
Fair.
21. Hood.
22. Growing
plants in
nutrient so- Jution.
brond. 12. Belglum. 13. A segment 23, Kilometer,
of a wheel 24. Montreal.
25. Jugoslavia. rim.
The Human Element in Relief
Adventures in Qiving, by Willlan H. Mai-
Thews. New York: Dodů, Mead,
IN
Thus it is that Mr. Matthews urges
John Tan Guilder
250,000 Zoo Names
SCIENTISTS, after 18 months'
work, have just completed. the first international "Zoologi- cal Dictionary."
Nearly 250,000 living things have been classified in four volumes, all under names which will be accepted
·by-authorities-the-world-over."
The first volume was published through the London Zoological So- ciety this month.
of the Im-
Dr. Sheffield Neave. perial Institute of Entomology, has been in charge of the work.
Dr. Neave sald:
"We made it a rule that a name should not be used more than once in the whole of the animal kingdom. Although the task has been heavy, the preparation of the dictionary has been a spare-time Job!
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"Thousands of new insects are found yearly, and we have aimed at
It was in Pittsburgh that Mr. Mat- cause of much of the confusion that establishing titles that are valid." thews Arst girded on the armour of
has characterised 1." reform und went forth to battle with IN VIEW OF widespread eri.
that city's slums, vice, and, more im- a refining of relief procedure to a ticism of public re.lef as
porlant still, civic indifference. It
point of maximum self-respect for largely responsible for America's
was there that he learned that it is. the relief recipient und of greatest $40,000,000,000 national debt
the human, not the coldly acientific public.
lasting benent ta the tax-paying and its unbalanced budget, it is or theoretical, approach that enables perhaps well to be reminded that one to win men's confidence the bel- In this regard, the author recom- thene is a human aide to to-day's ter to help them. It was there also, mends placing the WPA programme as an investigator of labour condi- under the employment exchange relief problem that may, in the lions for the United States Steel Car-service of the Department of Labour, end, prove more important than poration, that the auther found his hoping thus to clean its ranks of the any financial consideration. sympathy for labour's cause and the unemployable,
conviction that, given its rights, la- and those place on it by politicians. And William H. Matthews, director bour would measure up to its respon- social workers, and relief agencies. during its existence of New York | sibilities,
J. G. City's Emergency Work Burenu and
present director of the Department But it was in New York City that of Special Services of the Community the author came to full stature, giving Service Suclely of New York, draws the aged the relief they needed but upon abundant experience in serving) were too bewildered to ask for, dis- the underprivileged to give us such | covering depression-born projects a reminder in his autobiography. that restored confidence to doubting From his lifelong service in hu- men, and, as director of the Depart- ment of Family Welfare of the Asso- manizing relief and in working for
elation for the Improvement of the which relief will no conditions in
Storage space for the extra ice cubes needed longer be necessary, Mr. Matthews Condition of the Poor in New York for partion is an added uso for the Moats carried away the conviction that City, providing summer joy for un- Tondor. It holds all the cubos that can be successful social work and relief ad- derprivileged mothers and children
ministration are possible only when at outdoor camps. frozen at one time, thus doubling the ico men are recognised us individuals It is from this background that the and not as so many case, citeds In an i nuthor speaks upon the problem of cubo capacity of the refrigerator.
indexed file.
Dodwell & Co., Ltd.
Alexandra Building
As a boy worker in New England mills, Mr. Matthews come to know the poor as human beings, not as nameless members of a class, and formed an understanding of their struggles and problems that pleasan- ter years at Williams College and Union Theological Seminary did not dim. Then cliance work at a boya' club in New York City convinced him that social service held his heart.
administering relief, criticising where criticism is due, but always in search of improvement. He deserves, there fore, audience among layinen and social workers alike when he writes that "the failure to differentiate in treatment of the straight, employable unemployed person and the generally incompetent, shiftless 'no'er-do-well' group has, in my opinion, been the chlef error in the country's unem. ployment relief programme and the
the cusual inbourer,
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