Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 19, 1940.
IMAGAZINE: PAGE.
STORY
"You must remember what you put away. Mother," I say when she sits down, ready, knitting.
"Of course
and begins
I remember,"
she says, knitting intensely. "I know exactly where I put everything. But
Father's
dress studs, I must say, I can't recollect at this moment. Perhaps it will come in time
"I am a simple man," excialms Dad, who is talking so loud this evening becise of the Town Hall affair being dress optional, and the Tapera, the Quilts, and Colonel Haze-Brown known to be dressing. "But, ah, my God!" he continues. running out of the room and turn- ing the go in the bathroom, which Ja kept at half for economy, of Instead of on. "I want nothing of #fe but just where the blazes
re those stul?"
"You must remember something about bly dress studs, surety. Mother?"
How she knit when she is e- wildered, or ready hours before she need be.
"They belonged to Aunt Hd." не внук.
"And how long has Aunt Widn been dead ? bellows Father, foreing That bottom drawer of the wardrobe on the Innding whore we keep the bowls,
Now I have always wondered and meant to ask somebody how long Aunt Hilda has been dead, because Aunt Hills so often crops up in the conversalon and always in moments of stress.
"Father knows perfectly well, of course,' says Mother in a long, suffering, qulet way. "She passed over ever so quietly in her sleep. poor thing, and feft him thoses drekk stucts."
FATHER drops some of the
bowls down the story and we lose the thread of the conver sation,
"I might as well ask Aunt Hilda herself as ask you anything," he -eries, running about the hall col-
leeting them.
RIC
"But, my dear Henry, you not the Mayor, but the Sanitary Inspector... We listen to the click
needles of her
for pondercu
moments.
"May I remind
you, my dear,
that the Tapers, the Quilts und Colonel Haze-Brown.
"I don't see what they have to do with your dress study,” snaps Mother with decisive logic,
"You might as well be Aunt Hilda for all the help and use you are," shouts Father, rushing at the stans.
DRESS
THE
We seem to sway about in the candle light. "It is fortunate that I'm dressed und rendy at least, sighs Mother. "You'd better look In Aunt Hilda's tallboy. I can't recollect exactly what we stored in there....but if you must have these.... mean you're not the Mayor."
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Like one of those heavy tanks Colonel Haze-Brown mentioned in his lecture as having won the last war when he took the place of Mr. Haze-Brown, who
Wan have spoken on Indian Customs-- Eather approached the tallaş tore open the door, crying: "I am a tidy-minded man, but..
MISSING
DRESS STUDS
ARE
FOUND
Try the attic, then, dear," Mother culs after him,
"You were telling me when Aunt Eta died. Mother.'
It
some
S
con-
ECO I was, but well, as a matter of fact, when was Your Father was awOY At
Sonitary Inspectors ference. And everybody sent most lovely Howers, the Tapers, the Quilts, you know, and Mrs, Haze- Brown. One simmer it must have been. I don't often forget Bings,"
"Hadn't we better go up to the attle and help Father. Otherwise you'll both be late."
"Fauny things." NILYA Mother. namping up with her knitting under bir ris "I don't often forget Things, but i cannot recollect just when it was Aunt Hikia...except that she left those dress studs to
Father
"This attle da a disgrace,“ shouls Father: relighting a candle and spilling hot grease on hip dinner Trousers. "How can I third dress studs in a place like this? I'm a patient man, but..." He strikes the parrol cage with his free hand and brings down Aunt Hilda's oleo-
graphs of the Seasons against the marble washstand which stood in our bedroom before we had the b. and e. basin,
Mother
MlYN: "Look, you've cracked the Jug and to think, Aunt Hida used it all those years and never cracked it."
"Can't you stop Inliting, howl Father.
IF the Tapers, the Quilts, or the Haze-Brown could .see us all standing in the attic now they would be surprise 1, and 1 f
they might eut us like they did that poor Mrs. Hollyoak who was aequitted of killing her elder sister with a blow-lamp during the thaw.
THE THOMAS PATENT STEAM-PIECE IT is diffeult to describe the invention without using technical language. Roughly, it can be explained that the Thomas Steam-piece is n watch (e. a timepiece), driven by steam. The watch is of ordinary size and can be carried in the waistcoat, or (if really de- sired, but with far more pain and Inenn- venience), on the wrist.
An iron band, to be obtained in many colours, is wrapped round the wearer's waist; from this, propped against the chest and protruding from under the specially con- structed from collar, is the heavy, but attrac- tively painted, funnel,
From the back of the collar hangs a long chain with a hook in the aiddle; this must be linked, between the legs, to the other shorter chain which be from the front of the iron belt. Fra hook on the linked chain a dequately commettious coal-settle
neat.
is
--
ended; this causes little actual discom-
to the wearer as the specially smoothed and rounded sides of the scutite it into the
small of the back.
.
The wearer's suit, or (preferably) robe. must, of course, be at least two sizes too large. The protuberance matie, by the scuttle under the wearer's garments causes little derision, and is, in fact, often an improvement to a mille-aged figure, balancing the natural protuberance on the side opposite to, or (to put it more colloquialty), round the corner of, the scuttle.
STRATEGY TEST:
RAD
** CAD
ERMO
MUSICILY
1. Multa la 17 miles long, about Dmiles wide. (Area about 14 6. mites.) Civil, population 244,000,
2. Cozo, Comino, Cominotto and Fin.
my,
13. —-1814,
54 miles from Stelian const, 200 miles from African mainland.
6. Pantellarla.
CATANIA
VALETTA
Answers
6. Bizerta in Tunisia,
Malta is strategically almost as Important as Gibraltar. It is a first-class naval base well as a port of call for merchant ships. But-ita-proxensity to Italy might make it vulnérable to air attack. The Maltere are a race of Semitic origin with their own language.
"Why!" sald Mother. "What have we got here?"
11 Is Aunt Hilda.
She stands upright, just like the photograph of her in the hall; and her eyes blink balefully in the candle light. I should think she in out of sorin, but I do not ask her how she is because I've never met her, of course.
"Why, Aunt Hiida." Mother be- gires, "I forgot all about you
"Where are those dress studs?" Father interrupts, the thought of the town hall causing him to forget
manners
"We'll came to that later," snaps Aunt Hic in an old and rather disagreable voice,
UNT now wants to know what they have been dohg and why, how Mother came to forget her, and why we have not LINITUS ber Tallboy: and Mother says how will she explain about the Bowers to the neighbours. and why didn't Aust say
she was, or shout; but Aunt says why should she, even If she had known, she had been thinking, and if Henry
(poor Father)
aver thought she
have would
risen higher
and Mother says that being sanitary inspector is goud enough for her in a borough of this size, she's proud of him.
Father has been forelug open a nicht
commode
which Mother always says is dated, and now loses his temper,
crying in an awful voice: "I have reached the end of
my tether. Where those dress turis?
*n your
dress
shirt, of course, where they always are, barks Aunt, breaking off her complaints and arguments with Mother.
ure
Time is getting short. We rush down from the attle.
His dress sluds are there, in his shirt.
CLIPPER ARRIVALS
U.S. Aircraft Plants At Top Speed
visited nearly all the big air- craft factories in America and found them so busy that they didn't know where to turn as they cannot enlarge their plants fast enough," said Mr. Leslie A. Lewis, United Aircraft Aviation Co. representative ол arrival hy the Honolulu Clipper yesterday.
"They think It will take six months to turn fighting planes and bombers out at the required speed. The United Aircraft Company is building Vought dive bombers and Pratt and Whitney engles in huge
numbers for the Aes in Connecticut.
The Lockheed Company has more than 2.000 planes building and combined, the aircraft companies have orders for 15,000 planes which they have not yet begun placing."
the
"Judging from the opinion. United States is definitely going to get into the war. Mr. Roosevelt's inst speech almost amounted declaration of war."
a
Mr. Lewis has been away from Hongkong for two months, six weeks of which he spent in the United States, as he made the Journey bolh ways by Clipper.
There were 41 passengers on the Clipper, which stopped al Macno. for eight passengers.
The arrivals included Dr. Francis K. Pan, of the Chungking Govern- ment Foreign Service, who has been Qu * mission to study transport methode in America: Mr. Ousny Upetz, General Manager of the South Sea Trading Corporation, New York, on a business trip from San Francisco; Mrs. A. L. Coppinger en route to Rangoon accompanied by Miss C. Coppinger, front San Francisco,
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From Honolulu.Mr. W. Nicholas. metallurgist connected with a British firm on business trip; Mrs. Jernt McCarthy, and her daughter Jeanne, en route to Bhamu, Upper Burmo, where her husband is stationed at the Central Aircraft Manufacturing Co.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
ABNER
DEAN
"Whoa, Tillie!.. You'll get indigestion again!"
STRATEGY
TEST No. 3
1.
2.
3.
How large is Malta? Name other islands in the Malta group. When did Great Bri
Lain acquire Malta?
5.
4. How far is Malta from
Italy from Africa Name
Italian air- naval island base between Malta and Africa,
6.
Name
the
nearest
French naval base.
(Sep Answers below.)
PROBLEM
CORNER
A BRIDGE FOUR
"Four of the play Bridge after dinner," sald my friend North.
"We had three rubbers at one shitting a hundred, selth A change of partners each time.
"West won six shillings during the evening. South lost £1.
East won two shifthugs,“
What (in shilinga) was the nalue to the winners of each of the three rubbers?
SE SL 50
NOA ADIUS V.
The First Listener-in
-Thirty Years ago there
Was
no Haw-Haw
EARLY in 1909 a white-haired village schoolmaster in Northamptonshire was living in a wonder world of his own discovery.
Science had found a new marvel-n method by which mes- sages could be sent through the air for hundreds of miles with- out the aid of wires, carrier pigeons or beacon lights.
Frank Henry Wright, scientist, painter, astronomer, musi- cian, writer-a lonely man in the isolated village of Buchebroc (vulgarised to Bugbrooke) Northamptonshire--had ferreted out the mystery of sound waves.
In the quiet of the night he listened to the secrets of the air-the "pin-ping" of the Morse code from hundreds of miles away.
Many months of failure preceded his moment of triumph, but early one March morning the secret was yielded to him.
Every morning his son had been posted at one end of the schoolroom 10 work អ small, home-made electric tapper. His father was at the other end of the schoolroom, his enger eyes fixed on what seem- ex to be a compass.
Victory
On this particular morning there was a development which made the son's eyes open in astonisluneat. His usually dignified father sud- shout: "I've got it--the hand bas denly flung up his arms with a
moved! Work that tapper!"
One day a pole, fifty feet high, was planted in the playground and reared its head above the school. Long wires hung between it and the top branches of a neighbouring beech tree.
In 1910 the schoolmaster and his pupils were listening to Morse code messages from North Germany, France, Cleethorpes and Poldling (Cornwall).
Home-mado Apparatus
The copper wire induction coll Was wound on wooden rolling pln; the baseboard was
an old kitchen tray; earthenware inkpots from the school denks were used as Insulating spools. Other com. ponents were medicine boitles and Jam jars.
From Manila.-Mr. Jose de Leon, wenty Manila businessman, 011 11 pleasure trip ticcompanied by eight members of his family: Mr. E. W. Stumvoll, of Kuenzle and Strieff, Manila; Mr. Marcel Nubla, Manila tawyer; Mrs. Rose Pearne, accoin- panied by her daughter Odette after
The earth wires were possed a round trip by Clipper, to visit her through a window ledge by the aunt, Mra Bachrach in Moulin Dr. medium of the neck of a vinegar Elenvenido Trafik, and his wife, or bottle cradled off the main body honeymoon trip; Mr. Francisco Earphones, the only items of real Pulsjaner, of Latin Perez Samanillo expenditure, were obtained from Inc., Manila, of a business trip... London.
News of the schoolmaster's radio leaked Into the outer world. Letters of inquiry reached him from America, Australia, Canuda, Func other countries.
Learned scientists and professora visited the village school. They looked at the medicine bottles and Jam jars, and listened at the ear- phones. Some of them admitted that pet theories had been upset.
Secret Attic
Frank Henry Wright was the first amateur radio listener in Britain. Throughout the war he listened-in. The authorities had,
they thought, removed all his equipment when the war broke out, but the village schoolmaster heard all the hot news first-hand in a secret attle at the school-house. He had no outside visible aerial.
Frank Henry Wright died as the war ended. Radio
was still then in its Morse
code
infancy: "I am convinced," he said to his son,
"that 80011 people will speak to one another by wireless. I have occasionally heard human voiceu among the Morse."
A
young newspaper editor, sill in his twenties, site working throughout the night in an office in faraway Kuala Lumpur, Federated Malay States.
have bought a radio," ho writes to me, "and can hear London clearly from seven in the evening until breakfast time the following morning. I
bear Big Ben striking 11- a.m."
That young man is Frank Henry Wright's grandson,
can
"Pop" Wright.
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