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Why Has Invented
SECTION
No
One
These?
"If you want to make ninetached which snippe moff a milli- An ever-going clock worked by
clianges in temperature or atmospheric pressure.
Some of these fileas were in E booklet called listed
"What's Wanted" published by the Institute of Patentees about six years ago.. They all seom fairly simple. Most of them Why ⚫on would make money. earth hasn't someone invented them?
money the mini-metre of hair every morning. mum of effort, your best way is From the kitchen two bell- by inventing something," said a tinkles announced that the patent agent who is a friend of | breakfast tea-kettle hnd boiled mine. "But it must be some and switched off and that the simple gadget which the ordin-egge had had exactly three ary man will buy in millions. minutes before the water ran
what do For instance,
you itself off. Want?"
The breakfast table could not wobble on the rather uneven tile floor because of the screw cach leg. length-adjusters on
a holder for the
My patent agent went on to There was paper, hollows for salt, mustard the more complex ideas. What and pepper on the plates, ad-about an attachment to pillar- justable egg-cups, non-spill milk boxes which would weigh let- Vacuum dishesters, Indicate the postage needed jug and teapot. kept porridge and bacon burning and then frank the letters when a hearty dream | coins were dropped in a slot? hot tit was
(What about penny atamps breakfast).
which divided into two half- penny units?)
That night I dreamed. In my dream I had just woken up After a perfect night's rest, Patent fastenings had kept bed. clothes and clusive eiderdown in place, had held the sheet-top nently folded over the neck sawing blanket. My "hot-water bottle warmed by some chemi- cal action-had held the same temperature all night. Elastic pyjamas had appeased every 'twist and turn,
The after-breakfast cigarette- end went out instantly in the special tray, but would not have Anburned furniture, carpet or chair coverings if I'd left it about carelessly,
When the alarm went, the bedside lamp glowed on. electric gadget connected to it had turned on the kettle sonic minutes before and boiling The morning doorbell ringing water was now pouring into the had lost most of its sting- tea-pot. And already the room thanks to the panel of "one- warming up (it was away" glass which enabled one winter dream caused by typical to see without being seen. summer weather) thanks to the electric heaters switched on by the alarm twenty minutes ago.
Was
And even the telephone didn't have to be answered, because it clocked up the numbers of the people who had rung.
Then, as the story-tellers say
The bath had only one tap, I woke up. fitted with a temperature dial
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The camera enthusiast would!
a simple attachment welcome which adjusted lens aperture and exposure infallibly and with one movement. Surely some way of recording phone mes- sages when no one was there to An take them could be devised. infallible anti-dazzle device
fortume. So would make would a really cheap refrigera- for demanding neither gas Nor electricity. So would a way of silencing aircraft.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1939.
Do You Believe This?
IF
[F I were asked to provide a test, not for the intelli- gence but for common sense, I should ask the following questions:
DO YOU BELIEVE...
(1) That barbers are talkative? (2) That women are bad tip-
рега?
(3) That whlaky taken with violent oysters produces stomach pains and even death? (4) That
diphtherin? (5) That "Pellens et Melisande" was composed by Střavin- sky?
sewer HILS
chubes
(0) That Stovisky was a musi-
cian?
(7) That whales are mummals?.
Ellis Bell (8) That
wrote Wuthering Heights"? (9) Thut sali. to bring out Bavour, must be introduced early in cooking? (10) That sleeping in moonlight
produers madness?
(11) That 13 is an unlucky num-
bert.
(12) That you can invent a sys-
tom to break the bank? (13) That cela are alive weben they jump in the pan? (14) That pinprick is more needle- dangerous than a prick? (15) That Tennyson wrote "Hia-
watha"?
(18) That S. T. Coleridge wrote
the music"
(17) That Gludstone said any- thing worth remembering In 18207
By G. W. Stonier
(10) That
(18) That people rode in han- soments to avoid the dan- ger of smallpox?
Christianity teacher. Br Just to your enemies and kind to your friends? (20) That Lincoln's Inn Fields la larger than the base of the
Great Pyramid? (21) That Goldsmith sald: "I can
talk more
more easily in London than anywhere else" (22) That it bad to sleep with
flowers in the room?
(23) Thai brushing the teeth prevents dental decay? (24) That quarter-day is always
on a Monday? (25) Thai the
teeth?
sea-horse
(37) That Show once had n ginger beard and rea blcycle?
(38) That Stevenson once rode a
donkey?
(39) That the donkey was called
Modesty?
(40) That a slesta in a divan? (41) That
o divan is a prana donna?
(42) That Telchov wrote “An-
najanaka"?
(43) That the heart is on the
Jeft
side of the chest? (44) That
league called the "Antikatzvercin
wns form- ed in Westphaila for the destruction
cals? (45) That Eleonorn Duse was a
great Halian actress?
huntsmen shout "So- (46) That
ho"?
(47) That funambullsan is sleep-
walking?
(48) That the
bras
(48)
(24) That white is R entour of
the rainbow?
(27) That gouache' is Hungarium
stew?
(28) That mockturtle is fish? (29) That sound travels quicker
than light?
(30) That Č. B. Cochran is a
knight?
(31) That an apple-pie bed is
made of apples? (32) That sweetiepie is a sweet! (33) That the Angers of a smoker
are discoloured by sientine? (39) That a man who falls out of a six-storey window is dead before he reaches thr ground?
sculpted
wrote
Banstein (35) That
Rima? (36) That Shakespeare
"What you will"?
hair Can torn while overnight from fear? That Earl Gray is the name of a tobacco" (50) That the Dong was a char- neter in "Alice Through the Looking Glas"7
ANSWERS
(1) No: (2) Yes: (3) No; (4) No: (5) No; (6) No; (7) Yes; (8) Yes; (9) Yes; (10) No; (11) No: (12) No; (13) Na; (14) No; (15) No; (18) No; (17) No; (10) Yes; (18) No: (20) No; (21) No; (22) No: (23) No (24) No; (25) No; (28) No; (27) No; (28) No: (2
(29) No: (30) No (31) No
(32) No (43) No: (34) No: (35) No; (38) Yes; (37) Yes; (38) Yes; (36) No; (40) No; (41) No; (42) No: (43) No: (44) Yes; (45) No; (46) Yest (47) No; (48) No; (19) No; (50) No.
Did You Ever Wonder Puzzle Corner
Latest Music
Three Choirs Festival
Twhich is to take place this
month at Hereford is no ar- ranged as to give one the op- portunity of hearing not only accepted masterpieces but also the latest compositions of Eng- Hah and foreign musicians,
This year no new foreign works Bre announced but three by English composers will be performed for the first time. Two of these have reach- ed nie.
The mare ambitious is "Que Vadis?" by Dr. George Dyson, Diree- tor of the Royal College of Music. This is full-sized cantata for four Rolo voices, chorus and orchestra (Novella, 4s.).
(15
It is only the first part of what is evidently designed to be a work on
the something of
Rome senle Elggr's unfinished trilogy which bes gan" with "The Apostles," continued as far as "The Kingdom" and there ended without its Anul part, "The Last Judgment."
Dyson's works
appear regularly at these Festivals and one wonders whether he may not be in the run- ning for the place in the affections of the Three Choirs unce filled by Elgar. "Quo Vadis?" is setting- of five poems from various sources. Such a choice of words show a inquiring mind and much iterary intelligence. Many of the lines are In fact resplendent poetry, 20 flue that they seem hardly to need music. Without having heard the work fat which point only it can be tested) the music seems skilful, at times impressive and often beautiful.
The other new work is an Elegy for soprano and bass solo, chorus My patent agent friend was
and orchestra to the memory of E- word Elgar (Novelbo, 28.1. The which automatically mixed hot | quité pleased with the dream
composer is Alexundeć Breit Smith and cold in the right propor-¦ and said there was a pretty "But it's the simple, obvious
and the words are from the Scrip- tions.
penny to be made from some of, inventions which make the vast
tures. the gadgets and then went on fortunes," said my friend. "For
It is courageous to have challenged to list a few other simple de-instance the man who developed
en his own ground in setting are they who die in the vices which people want but barbed wire to discourage his
Both stars and planets are Our sun, which seems so big
Mr. Smith is already known which never seem to get in- cattle from straying he made
as a fluent and Interesting writer, vented.
£250,000 and a lot of enemies.celestial bodies. Both may be and bright to us, is by no means
This new work looks on paper as The man who noticed how many seen as tiny points of light in the largest star: for such huge
though it should sound well, It coa-
harmonie devices and there is some and thought of putting a crinkle ever, quite different, and they Antares are 200 to 300 times as OPU ZAJNA MBXORC MD-
ROJNMYJLD, REJLPRC QOR- | admirable unaccompanied choral in them made thousands too. even look different to the ob-
BJXFL PX PAR *NJBJS writing to the strangely topical "The Irish factory worker | serving eye.
*ZBO. who nailed slabs of rubber to
The soap Bonted without dis- solving. The shower did not splash the floor. Shaving bowl, mirror and tackle swung out of the wall, allowing the supreme Juxury of shaving in the bath. The razor
blade Was Insting, needed no stropping. The shaving cream tube had no enp, but closed itself when pressure was relaxed. Same with the toothpaste tube.
|
Cryptogram Present-day politics recall an old political party:
PARTYXZ-YXPAJYKL,"
Lord."
A simple cutter to take the ever rind off curly bacon, for instraight hairpins his wife lost the night sky. They are, how. red stars as Betelgeuse and LDNORP QXSJPJNMS QM-ins some convincing use of different
stance. A saucepan stirrer
In the bedroom clothes were
worked by the heat of the con- tents. A method of crystallis- ing tea, sugar and milk into a concentrated essence which needed only boiling water. A
his shoe soles to damp out the
vibration
machines-and of
patented the rubber sole. He's n millionaire. Another million- aire was the fellow who thought
large as our sun.
The planets, on the other hand, are not shining by their the planets. The planets move own light. The earth is one of round our sun and shine only by
means of reflected sunlight. The nearest nod brightest
masses, like our common, every- Stars are huge flaming
held on a chromium shape, with simple magnetic dust attractor
day sun. As a matter of fact, a quick-working trouser-press, which would keep the atmos-
the sun is itself a stur. The reason the other stars do not The rubber-fabric tie was phere clear. Some way of tell
look so big and bright as our crenseless. Shoes needed no ing coin-in-the-slot jas and
planet, Venus, could be reached of those glass marbles they sun is that they are so very polish, only a rub with a damp i electricity- users that their
by the imaginary plane travel- used to use for stoppers in cloth, but they did not crack supply is nearly finished. A lemonade bottles. And 25,000 much farther away from the ling at 600 miles an hour, in five like patent leather. The comb never-dripping tap. A simple a year for thinking of the mov-
years. Compared with the sun had a sort of cutting blade at-ash-tray for cinemas and buses,able head for collar-studs isn't Stellar distances are hard to and the stars, planets are not bad. Not to mention the for-express in ordinary terms be-large, for the largest planet, tunes made from the safety cause few people, other than Jupiter, is only a little more pin. the
eun-opener and the astronomers, are used to think than one-tenth the size of the metal shoelace-end.
ing graphically of such tremend-sun, while it would require more than one hundred earths to ous reaches of space. An idea,
PALE, 'NERVY'
NORMAN
Norman's mother was worried- very worried about him. He was 'nervy,' pale and highly-strung. He tired easily and was linloky over food, until.
HOW PALE NORMAN LOOKS NESIDE YOUR JOSIN' AND
I SIMPLY CAN'T GET HIM
FO LAT PROPERLY I'M
GETTING
WORRIED!
NOTHAN'S A NERVY,
HIGHLY STRUNG CHILI MARY IF VOLİTE
WORRIED YOU
SHOULD TAKE HIM
TO SEE A
DOCTOR...
ALL THESE TROUBLES OF
NORMAN'S CAN DE TRACED BACK
TO NIGHT STARVATION, MIRK
KHOTT. YOU SIE,
CHILDREN
AND SO EVERY NIGHT ||
'suke THIS CHOCOLATE=" FLAVOURED HORLICKS ANTLY, MUMMY!
PURINO
GLEEP
IT LIKES YOU,
TOO, NORMAN.
CAR STE
IT'S DOING YOU GOOD
HEARTBEATS AND BREATHING AT NIGHT ALSO UNE UP ENERGY. IF ENERGY IENT REPLACED DURING BIKES OF COURSE
NORMAN GETS 'NERVY, 'FADDY AND DIFFICULT.
HE NEEDS HORLICKS
FOR THAT
ZIX WEEKS LATER |
NO PALENESS OR
TIREDNESS ABOUT NORMAN NOW !
NO-AND HE EATS LIKE A WOLF SINCE DOCTOR PUT HIM ON TO HORLICKS
If your child is pale, nervy, tires easily, if he is fussy over his food, remember what the doctor said. Guard your child against Night Starvation-give him his Horlicks at bedtime. Horlicks is best when made with the special Horlicks mixer, obtainable at all good stores.
at bedtime bullds appolito, and
HORLICKS trongthens norvos, by guarding
Kit
children against Night Starvation
earth.
"Yes, there's money! invent-however, of how far away the ing. But you must choose stars, may be gained from the something which everyone would
fact that an airplane travelling welcome. Just ask your friends: 600 miles an hour would reach What do you want ?"
our sun in a little over 17 years, but at the same speed it would require 4,800,000 years to reach the next nearest star!
A Lay Sermon
Twould be much casier for
us to say "Thy will be done" if we bore in mind more constantly the adjectives here employed. Only, indeed, if we do so, can we pray this prayer as Jesus prayed it.
.
The first thing for us to re- Imember is that God's will is good will. It is something! better. a s That good and Christ Himself acceptable and said, than we perfect will of are able to im-
God,
agine (Mat- ROMANS, Xil. 2. thew, vii. ID. "Thy To say will be done" is not to resigni ¡oneself to the worst; it should be to prepare oneself for the best. Then it is an acceptable will. It is one which we can accept as the swimmer accepts the upholding power of the sea. We can trust ourselves, to it. If we are not as con- vinced of these things as we should be, it is because we so (often oppose it in our fearful
strivings for resignation.
And finally it is perfect be. cause God works to a known end. We cannot even discem the beginning, but Jesus taught us that God is perfection, and that for every one of His chil- dren His will is perfection too.
Tree Fall Due to Bullet
VISALIA, Cal.
equal the size of our sun.
Planets can be distinguished from stars in the sky by reason of their brightness and because planets shine with a steady light, whereas the light from the stars seems to twinkle.-W. P. Kenshey.
Stories of Insurance
Four Musicians The names of four famous
musicians are hidden below. De-
finitions are given for words which should be substituted. Then, one word, plus the other, will give you a phonetic version
of the musician's name:
To exhibit PLUS a baking
dish.
Footwear PLUS a masculine
name.
To shout PLUS to disparage. Small particles PLUS skill or
craft.
Letter Juggling Two different 7-letter words may be formed from the 7 let ters given below. Use all 7 letters in each word:
ADGGINR
What Is the Size? A hall of 90 square yards can be paved with 720 rectangular tiles of a certain size. But if ench tile were 3 inches shorter
quire 748 tiles. What is the size of each tile?
words "The Eternal God is thy re- fuge, and underneath are the ever- lasting arms,"
M
Interesting as these works may be, a set of nine unaccompanied part- songs called "Phyllida and Corydon," give event in the annals of modern by E. J. Mueran, is a mure Impres- British music (Novello, 38.). The
words are from English sources in the sixteenth and seventeenth cen-
turies.
A purely superficial judgment of the music would be that it is a clever copy of the Tudor style. Tudor it Is in manner but it is no copy. Its cleverness and its beauty nike are in the way the archaic-is mingledi with the modern while at the sume time unity of style and of thought is reached and kept. This is a not- able work, one that I look forward eagerly to hearing.
S. G.
tonyms, to-day, to be paired- off in the usual way:
prednos
2
molisy
retard clarify
3
otanss
interrogate
11
perplex
16
qulokan
117
intet
A
indores
១
rok
Federa
oppose avit
il
RZEDAZ
TRIS
provoke
Fun With Antonyms Ten words and
their an-
(Answers Appear on Page 3)
THE wife was having Jock insured, so he was requested and 3 inches wider, it would re-
to call for the usual medical examination.
"Now my man," said the doctor, "tell me the facts. Are both your mother and your father healthy.
"Na, sir. They're baith_deld," said Jock,
"Oh, they are? And of what did they die?"
"Weel, sir, Ah canna say as Al ken," said Jock with hesitation. "But Ah can assure ye, sir, it were naethin' at a' serious."
a
A man called on
Friendly Society and told the secretary that he had called for the eternity, bene- AL
"What do you mean by the 'elernity benet'?" asked the secretary, think- ing the man was trying to pull the old gag about maternity, "eternity means the hereafter."
"Sure, I know it does, and that's what I mean," replied the applicant. "I am here after it!"
•
In
The proverbial long life of annui- tants is well known
Insurance offices. The olher day an insurance chlef recalled the story of a woman who took out an annulty and lived to be ninety.
She called every half year for her money, and one day the clerk said to her "You keep very lale and hearty. Mrs. Blank. You've been calling for a long time now."
"Ay, sir, ay,” replied the old: dame, "but it's the Lord that'll no' ca' me. He'll no' tak' me.”
And the clerk added in an under-
tono
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We had
Insurance clerk, putting questions
to cowboy.
"Ever had any accidents?" "Naw," was the reply. "Never had an accident in your
Examining Profirlo Barajas, 9, tor Injuries supposedly received when he fell from a tree, hospital attendants life?" were amazed to end a bullet lodged i
at the base of his brain. They said thou. A rattle
the youth evidently had been struck
bit me once,
"Well, don't you calf that an ac-
by a stray bullet, which caused him eldent?"
to fall.
"Naw. He bit me on purpose!"
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