Saturday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
March 30, 1940.
THE
MAGAZINE PAGE
TELEGRAPH'S"
EXAMINE the profiles you see above-
study the shape of the chins, the mouths, the noses. Where have you seen
TALKING
WEEK-END
RIGHT hundred and fifty words are all you require to
nation.
them before? Every one has at one time ink to another, carrying on an ordinary conver-
And they or another made front-page, news, come from all walks of life-from criminals to Cabinet Ministers.
I'm not giving a prize for correct solutions, because half the fun will te in looking up the answers (at the bottom of this column) and, saying: "Of course
Profiles nre why, yes... yes, I can see it now tracings made from actual front-page photographs, BO there is positively no deception.
Room Furnished By
YES
7ES we are having a competition. Imagine you're going to live in a rectangular room. twelve yards by eight yards. Into this empty
room (call it n
studio
ff you
like) you have 10 place: one amall
Brand
plano, one writ- ing desk, two lamp standards,
à radio, a porta-
ble electric Arc,
a dining table, a divan, an arm- chair, four tip- right chairs, two booxenses. # small sideboard. Cit- " cocktail
binet. How would you ar- range them with the best possible artistic results,
and practicable?
Two
windows face
south on
Dnor
twelve-yard side of room.
Is in cash wall. Draw cut gour rectangle, mark in your furniture (with names).
Answer next week,
Muscle-Play
TAND sideways against a and wall, right aric hand drooping at your side. Press your arm hard against the wall (keeping your body away from it) For ten seconds.
Then stand away, let your arm
go completely limp, and watch it inexplicably, rise mysteriously, without any effort from you-into the air.
Match Trick
TAKE
clean handker- chief, hold it up for in- spectlun, ask somebody for a match,
Wor-
LOST PROPERTY FOUND: den's helmet, ball, love, Hairpin, handkerchief, book, lighter, penc pipe, key, button; walking stick, foun- Lain pen, torch, whistle, watch, hand- bag, hat safely pin, umbrella, cigarette packet. flagon, envelope, suitcase. apanner, gas mask case, bus ticket, collar stu, penknife, motel,
ANSWERS TO PROFILES, reading from left to right: Montagu Normon. Greta Garbo, Mr. Neville Chamber- lain, Tuller. De Valera, liore-Belinha. Schner.le Durante, Starley Hilton Thurston (escaped convict, caught this week), C. B. Cochron, Bernard Shaw. SOLUTION TO DARTS DIDDLER: Double 20 single 3, treble 20 twice. Bingio 9, and doublo T.
Physiologists say that we make the finest and most delicate use of our muscles in speaking,
PARTY-
2000
4-class Quiz
stiff start --- easy finish
HARD
The average talker speaks about 90 words a min-1. In the improbable event of the following authors ever having
ute; a fast talker will frequently reach 150 words per minute.
An analysis of 500 conversations heard on the streel, at games, in churches, at the theatre, in barber shops, shows that men talk most often about business, and women mest frequently about men. The second most popular tople among men is sports and amuse- ments; among women, clothes. Third most frequent lople among men is, ether men; among women, other women.
PROBLEM PICTURE
The "Alt-clear" has sounded. Out troop the people from the . air-raid shelter. And what's left be. hind? Thirty articles
spot -If you can them. (Key at foot of Col...)
fold
into, handkerchief, match Hand it round, make some one else break the match into little pieces, unfold handkerchief, and shake out the match UNBROKEN. Now, isn't that mystifying? Not really. You have another match, previous- hem of thie ly inserted into the handkerchief. And do take care that your audience breaks the right mateli.
Darts Diddler
A
2
SLICK darts player com- pleted a game of 201 "with six throws. His Anal.wo shols were 2 and double 17. An- other shot was a single in the bed 17. Other от opposite elther throws consisted of the starting double and two trebles. How was his score made up. (Bet you an old-and-mild you don't do this in under hell on hour). Answer in Column One.
STUD
HANDS
appeared in a police court, what name would the clerk have given to the magistrate? (a) “Sapper," (b) "Boz," (c) "Saki,” (d) "Lewis Carroll," (c) "Ian Hay," (f)."Q." (*) "Beachcom- ber," (b) "George Eliot."
2. Explain, without wasting words: (a) The Braille system, (b) the Bedaux system, (c) the solar system, (d) the ali- mentary system, (e) the decimal system.
UP!
STUDY your pulm-get the low-down on your character and habits. Is it soft and slightly moist ? You're emotional, wear your heart on your sleeve. Dry and firm? You are cool, deliberate, well balanced.
Is your thumb tony and flexible?
You have great powers of will and logic.
Note look at the diagram.
LIFE LINE, if clearly present, denotes good health and length of
We.
HEART LINE, if starting be twvent first and second fingers, shows contradeskip as well as love in marriage. If broken or ragged -un 80 good.
trlore
GIRDLE OF VENUS, generally a semi-circle between first and second fingers, denotes a highly sirung temperament. The broken, the calmer you are.
HEAD LINE. If
and short, starting from inside the Life Line -lack of self-confidence. If stort- ing away from the Life Line- daring and love of excitement. If curving downwards--optimism and imagination.
MARRIAGE LINE, I looped by the Girdle of Venus-a worrying and jealous nature. If curving downicards-you will outlive your partner. The nearer this line to curlier the Die Heart Line, the marriage or love affair.
FATE LINE. Breaks in it infla- ate change of occupation or mode of life. If exceptionally clear- SUCCESS.
ACROSTIC
DOUBLE ACROSTIC No. 1. "Up above the world so high" Silver fish in a sunlit sky.
1. A shilling either way,
2.
Behold the dawn of day.
3. Nought similar, "tis suld;
4. Without the King that's dead.
works" would no!
The
wrong.
6. Had it itself, too long.
7. And midday ends my song.
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Count the "TELEGRAPHS" everywhere
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Here is the key to your palm MOUNTS.. (a) Ambition and and scri- pride. (b) Melancholy
ousness.
3.
Making a coustal journey by sen from Falmouth to Ber- wick-on-Tweed, in which order would you pass the following ports and seaside towns:: Brighton, Har- wich, Portsmouth, Scarborough, Devonport, Dover, Felixstowe, Sun- derland, Eastbourne, Bournemouth, Lyme Regis, South Shields, Cromer, Shoeburyness, Brixham, Tyne mouth.
NOT SO HARD
In which countries and places.
4. did (or do) the following rulers operate? (a) Mandarin, (b) Rajah, (c) Shah, (d) Mikado, (e) (h) Sheik, Emir, (g) Lama, Sultan. (1) Doge, (1) Khedive.
Give an appropriate word, end- ing in the letters "ET," for (a) Borotra's headwear. (b) agentic man's gentleman, (c) a
dance (d) a seventeenth-century tune, (e) a popular wedding pre- (g) some. sent, (f) a song-bird, thing you bury (h) distress signal. (1) the blackleg's bete noire, (1) the Chicago gungster's delight, (k) a little yellow one has been lost and found.
"blow-out,
(Exceptional ability 6. your pemmican disagreed
in your chosain occupation. Adaptability. (e) Emotions affections, (f) Imagination. Physical
(d)
and (g)
conrage. (h) Mural cour (The larger the mount, the
(1) greater the degree.) LINES. Line. Head
(3) Life Line. (2)
(4) Heart Line.
Fate Line. (5) Marriage Line. (6)
Double Life Line. (7) Girdle of Venus. (8) Line of Influence. (9) Jicalth. (The stranger and clearer the line, the greater its signif- cance.)
Line of
Spotting The Rank
LIEUT.-COMMANDER
The rank of lieutenant-com- mander was introduced into the Royal Navy as recently as March. 1914.
As the name Indicates, it fa the intermediate grade between com- mander and 1lectenant, and cor- responds to major in the Army. IL Is conferred automatically on every lieutenant when he has altained eight years seniority in that
and rank. Thic
a halen siripes indicating the rank of Ileutenant-commander had pre- viously been worn by all lieuten- ants of eight years' seniority and above since 1875.
A proportion of the lieutenant- commanders command destroyers and other small ships, but the majority are otherwise employed. There are usually five or six in a battleship or baltle-cruiser, and if the is the flagship of the Com- mander-in-Chief of a big fleet as many more will be found on board as members of the Ad- miral's staff.
When the war began there were 150 ileutenant-commanders on the active list and 1,550 on the retired and emergency lists.
with you, you would (a) send It to the Zoo, (b) call in another Inwyer, (e) have it painlessly de- stroyed, (d) consult your house- agent, (e) change your diet.
PLAIN SAILING
What are for were) the out-
7. Standing Incial peculiarities of
E. (a) George Robey, (b) Joc Brown, (c) Cyrano de Bergerac, W. C. (d) Sir Henry Wood, (e) Fields, (1) Jack Hulbert,
Would you say that Toscanini was rare type of spaghetti, an exotic cocktail, a famous sculp- tor.__musical conductor, an open- ing in chess, or an Italian ver- mouth?
DEAD EASY
When the traffic lights change from STOP to GO, in which order do the lights appear?
Frem your knowledge
10. American
Alms, give
of
Eng-
lish equivalents of there phrases: "step on it, buddy," (e) "Scran." (d) "Give him the wolks!"
CHESS
PROBLEM No. 2
By R. GUNNING (Whilton)
BLACK (7 pieces). WHITE (6 pieces).
(MATE IN THREE)
Forsyth Notation check on diag ram: 8:3 Q2 kt K; 7 B; r 1'q 5; 5 n 1 KT: 2 P1 2 p; 4 b 3; 4 I 3.
Key to Problem No. 1 way Q-Q3.
ANSWERS TO QUIZ
Sir
1. (a) H. C. McNeile, (b) Charles Dickens, (c) H. H. Munro (d) Charles Luttsidge Dodgson, (e) Arthur John H. Beith, (f) Quiller-Couch,. (0) J. B. Morton, (h) Mrs. Mary Ann Cross. 2, (a) A systems of printing for the blind, a system for speeding up (b) factory
production, (e) the sun, 10- gether with planets and other bodies with it, (d) the digestive system, (e)-method of counting by Brixham, tens.
Devonport, Lume Reals, Bournemouth, Ports- Eastbourne, mouth, Brighton, Dover, Shoeburyness, Harwich, Felixstowe, Cromer, Scarborough,
3.
(d)
Sunderland, South Shields, Tyne- mouth.
4. (a) China, (b) India, (c) Persia, (d) Japon, (e) Arauta, (
Tibet, Afghanistan, Могоссо, (Venice, () Equpt. 6. (a) Beret,
valet, (c) ban- (b) quet, hatchet, (h) rocket (1) minuet, (e) cruet, (1) Linnet,
(g)
picket, () racket, (k) basket 6.. Change your diet.
7. (a) Eyebrows, (b) mouth, (a) nose, (d) beard, (e) nose, (f) chin.
8. A musical conductor.
0. Red-red and amber-green. 10, (a) You're stupid, dear, (b) hurry up old chap, (c) get out, (d) shoot hint.
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