Saturday,
MAY 18, 1940.
"TELEGRAPH"
WEEK-END MAGAZINE
PAGE 9 HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
How to Keep Cool When the Heat Waves “"It's a good thing
F
she said "you're not like my brother. Henever makes friendts
"with people.”
HE SAID
'I should Bay
depends on the people. Fate was very kind to me when I noticed you looking for a cigarette."
The editor must have a very poor opinion of our readers. "Write about heat waves," he said. "They're in the fashion now." Ho talks like that. "WHAT the devil can I'write about heat waves?" I
asked.
"Oh-cr-just heat waves and all that. Anyhow, get on with it."
... heat waves (time Ab, well off to walk up and down the floor a bit.)
The history of beat wuveg goes very far bucks and traces of mum- mified heat waves have been found in Eyptian tombs. No.. no goud.
That's
It has been noticed that the inci- dence of heat waves or periods of Intense heat occur mustly during the summer equinox (now we're „off) in northern miltutes.
In the temperate zone, heat waves do not occur. That's why people remain temperate in those zones.
Some people, of course, own their (If you say own zones" two hundred times, you go sound asleep. Try it!)
own zones.
HOW
their
They can turn a temperate zone intemperate by carrying a bottle un the hip-or by having a ivell- stocked ice-chest.
Personally, I am not averse to heat
WAVES. I have a natural propensity for lassitude, cool drinks and general exhaustion, and during heat waves this goes unnoticed. In cool weather when everybody is hurtling about the place doing things, they point at me and say, "Look at that lazy brute!"
It is quite nutural to show signs of fatigue on a hot day, but some- how my boss doesn't seem tå under- stand. If I'm doing t bit of
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BRIDGE PROBLEM
No. 3
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Hearts are trumps. South leads and North-South must win all five trieks. Solution next week.
SOLUTION OF PROBLEM NO. 2 South wins with ace of spaden · and follows, with nine of trumps (hearts), which North 'overtaken with ten. North returns spade nine which East wina with king and leads mail club which Sauth wins with ace. South wine with apade queen. North discarding
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club South follows with small club cut North ruffa. West'a klog, with trump Jack North lenda queen and three of trumps, the second of which is won by East who has to lead clubs and South with thek 9 of clubs,
If, at trick one, East throws his king under the new of spades, South follows with queen and seven of spades the last of which West wins. North discarding a club. West may, (s) win with jack of diamonds and follow with trump ax which North will win with queen and follow with jack ten and thres of tramps and West will be squeezed so that he must throw either lite mastor diamond or unguard his club king, and North- South will win the last two tricks I, at trick four, West (b) leads is trump Immediately instead of diamond jack. Nett will win will ten, play hia etub to South's ace, ruff the return club with jack lead queen and three of trumps and the last two tricks will fall to South's clubs as in first solution,
'Ribbentrop As Purge Victim'
NEW YORK.
A prediction that "1940 will bring purges in Germany, and that Von Ribbentrop, the Foreign Minister, will be one of the 'casualties," is made by Dorothy Thompson in the New York Herald Tribune.
She ̈ ̈ ̈alid ̈ ̈ forecasts that-the-Na- tional Socialist regime will encounter the strongest opposition from the women and farmers during 1040,"
Dealing with the Allies' control of the seas, the New York Times writes: "There are good technical reasons for doubting whether
will Germony accomplish anything with the 150- ton submarines which she is about to build.
"They would just about reach the Janes of Transatlantic_traffle In mide, ocean when they would have to re- fuel. The harbours and estuaries of Isles are the British
how so well mined, and the convoy system so ef- "Lective that not much enn be ex- pected from thu nebylies in watera nearer home."--Reuter
fatiguing with my feet up on the dvale und eushlon at the back of my neck he starts asking me what lo I think he's paying me for.
How the devil do I know? Fancy asking a man a difficult question ike that when he's half asleep.
Heat waves can be treated in various ways. Personally, I'fnd that lying on the floor of the bath. room watching the shower pour la fairly soothing. Walking about the house in your pyjama pants and singlet is burred at our place,
That's why I'd like to slay at a boarding-house run by a broad- minded landlady. Most of the Handludics Eve stayed with_have__ been broad, but not in the mind.
I seem to have slid off the sub- ject of heat waves. I get chatter- ing way-you know how it is.
HEAT WAVES!
The heat wave is frequently re- sponsible for sunstroke, prickly fical, rabies and hot rhythm. They werd invented by a Phoenlelan lee- cream vendor in the year 859 B.C.--- strangely enough.'.
Mysterious Origin CINCE writing that bit about
strangely enough" I have been entled to the phone and I have for- gotten what it was about. I'll skip If it you don't mind.
About these heat waves, and to blazes with them, where they be
Brain-teasers
-Here--ls-
the answer
to last
week's No..
1 Teaser
Here are nine circles, three
red, three while, 'and'
three blue.
They are arranged so that each rai circle touches a white, ench white tuuches a blue, and "cach:"blue" touches a red.
Just mark them off nccording to Their
colours. The answer will appear next week,
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YOU'LL FIND THE ANSWERS TO THE FOLLOWING TEASERS ON CALS. 4 & 5. ̧
2. What was the name of the Inmous musical comedy that was adapted from Bernard Shaw's play, Arms and the Man"?
3. A lepidopterist is n student of (a) flowers, (b) insects, (e) fish, (d) foreign languages, (e) « the Old Testament,
4. What is the name of the organisation that controls England's lighthouses?
8. Is it true to say that Brown- ing wrote the poem "How They Brought The Good News From Aix To Ghent"?
Loy
0. "Lillibullera" is the name of (a) A famous Italian pirate, A town in Ireland, (c) Country name for a potent vegetable wine, (d) Popular sony of the 17th Century..
7. Who succeeded Sir Ronald Lindsay last year as our Ambasa- dor to the USA?
B. Which of the following holds the greatest amount of liquid-a kilderkin or a puncheon?
N
9. What services do the follow ing abbreviations stand for
(a) NAS, (b) RES., (c) E.N.S.A., (d) F.AA.
10. What famous British.comė dian played his original profession in a recent film?
11. Out of the 52 counties ·In England and Wales, which two combined. are knownL As the "County Palatino"? qu
12. Is Helsinki in the north or the south of
for the upkeep of the Jewish. Chess Club In Palestine.
long! They are caused by solar. reaction on the upper substrata which generates nebulous cross. It was rash of him, but we all currents at the zenith and all points get a rash of some kind at some west,
tinic or other.
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There is no known cure for them although I have discovered palliative which is a simple pre- paration of orange juice, crushed ice and gin.
I regret to say that my distin- guished relativè has been thrown out of Germany for asking Doctor Goebbels for a couple of pfennigs
Getting back to this heat wave business again, I have found a way
enjoying it.
of
You just go and sit in the hottest When you are place you can find.
two degrees from total collapse, est a cucumber.
I did this and finished up in a lovely air-conditioned hospital with lee-packs on me. It was glorious.
This is pay day for me. My pre- gramme on this day is-
(1) Dodge the wife,
(2). Plate of iced asparagus, (3) Pint of sced lager.
(4) Take collar off.
(5) Take shoes and coat off, (0) Put forchtad in wash basin. Remember, there is one final hope. If many visits the bar still leave you feeling hot, you ca assure yourself of a coul reception at home.
I am now going home-devlously,
FLIMSIES AND THINGS!-
AVAOU-HEAR-IT-EVERY-HEAT-WAVE-
"WHY DON'T MEN DRESS LIKE. WOMEN?
– WELL HERE GOES -----
WIGOT IT AT A BARGAN SALE ✔
- ONLY THIRTY SHILLINGS, MARKED DOWN FROM TWENTY-FIVE /"
HONGKONG
UNTIL 1841 Hongkong was
a group of desolate "islands and peninsulas, occupied by a fcus fisherfolk and many pirates, Then the British took over the territory. To-day, it is one of the world's greatest ports the main trade gateway to China. Commerce, which, to the main- spring, of its growth, Inspires" she historical coat of arms
ITS A WONDER YOU'RE NOT ASHAMED TO BE SEEN OUT WITH ME IN THIS OLD FROCK/
SHE SAID
"And I was lucky, too, in finding someone with du Maurier in his pock- et. It's my special smoke because it's so cool.”
*TARNATION/
A LADDER/
20 cants for 10.95 cants for 50
MADE IN
LONDON
The filter tip is what
appeals to me. It makes
the flavour of good tobacco
better still. And du Maurier
never give you a dry mouth.”
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'V'YOU BEEN AT MY · LIPSTICK AGAIN, YOU YOUNG MONKEY?
The way to a lovely body
I have a bunch." moaned Betty
Bead,
That Spring is in the air, Yet I feel jll—I do Indeed, Sluggish and full of exre.. For Life I do not give a pin Whatever shall. I do? When summer is foumen in How loudly sing cuckoo ?"
* Winter, 'my' dear,” said Miss-D.
Cooke
* Has made your blood run slow, Given your eyes that dullah look And made you feel quite low, Get well the exercising way! |~{To`grumble-is-ng ust),
To cleat your blood drink twice a
day,
A glass of orange-jules.
EXERCISE
Take a light "skip jump" on the toes and swing boili arma back (1), hap high on left fool, bending tight knee up and swinging right arma forward upward (2), repeal - the :“ skip jump” (3), hop kith on right took left knee and left arm up 16).
Do the exercise with bare feet or wear at shoes, and repeat it eight times. Think of a jolly tune while you hop, two beats to each movement.
If you think you need an exercise for your especial body...-boiler, - - write to Dafit Dorothy Cooke; Birror," Felter-Jade, E.CA, and - enclose a stamped addressed envelope.
~~~~by Dorothy Cookew
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"TEASERS ANSWERS
are the answers to the puncheon. 9. (e) Nursing Auxiliary
Hreasers in Column Two.
Service. (b) River Emergency
2. The Chocolate Soldier, Service. (c) Entertainments Na- Insects. 4. Trinity House. 5. No tional Services Association. Drowning wrote "How They
(d)
Brought The Good News From Fleet Air Arm, 10, George Formby Ghent To Aix.", § A popular as a jockey in "Come On., George.". song of the 17th Century, 7. 11. Lancashire and Cheshire. 12
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