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"LITTLE WILLIE" BROKE,
SEEKS PENSION BOOST
By A. Do Montmorency
the Svenska Dagbladet of Stockholm,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1946.
SPARE MOMENTS PAGE
AND THE WORLD LAUGHS...
“Does your husband ever takto any j
hard exercise?
"Well, last week he was out reven nights running."
1
A farmer became the father of twins and on learning the news ne was to delighted that he hurried to the nearest post-office and sent this telegram to his alster-in-law:
"Twins to-day. More to-morrow."
*
a
A lover and his ass sought secluded lone, but to their disgust ai small boy arrived there 100. Snid the lover:
"Here's ten cents. Go and get
some sweets."
"I don't want any sweets." "Well, here's fifty cents.
away."
"I don't want fifty cents." "Then here's a' dollar,"
"I don't want a dollar."
"Well, what do you wantTM" "I want to watch,"
Captain:
with?"
Run
"What's he charged
DUMB-BELLS
WREGISTERED US PATENT OFFICE
GRAND!
I SUPPOSE YOU REQUIRE. I WANT
A GRAND
A PIANO, MAGNIFICENT MADAME? ONE!
Boy: What a wonderful night!; Don't you wish t would last for ever?
Worrying_hover solves a problem,
only aggravates it.
Are You A Worrier?
3. Arc
you
an over-anxious
By WELLS CARR WORRY is a thief-it steals
your sleep and robs you of host-always fretting about whether Girl: Yes, I've got a maths exam the energy which could be put
your guest are having a good time?
4 to solving your problemis,
Are finances one of your most constant concerns?
to-morrow."
this
5. Are you a bit of a hypochon- dring when it comes to your health?
0. Arc
you always trying to family-telling, them
In Shanghal, they're telling
Its ravages, over a period of time. story of speculation in commoditica, to health, zest and efficiency are an It concerns a case of surdines severe as these of n prolonged illness. which had been sold and resold in worry isn't always encapable, but about 20 transactions, with
every-
futile and exhausting "help" your one making money.
Then one man worrying is opened some of the tins. All were when you fret over troubles which what to do and how to do it? bad. Outraged, he last seller.
went to see the have already happened, and there's
Sald the seller: "You them! Good heavens, man! sardines aren't for eating. for buying and selling."
7. Do you frequently feel that you forgot to lock the door, put the Are out, &c.?..
nothing you can do about them. opened
Those And It's just as useless to take They're them from home to work-and those
from work, home again, You de 8. Has your imagination tricked prive yourself, your associates and you into creating, pessimistic pictures your family of all pleasure and en-of friends or family who are absent
from home? joyment.
shadow of forr and
See worry for what it is a grey uncertainty. Face those fears and tackle ench "Very much" replied he, engerly. And she pointed to the Queennew problem when arrives-not | 10. Even though things are pro- Mary Hospital.
the
They were motoring round Island.
"Would you like to see where I "I hear you're keeping a barrel of had my operation?" asked the girl beer in your room."
"YeR.
Sergeant: "I don't know the re-strength.” gular name for it, captain; but I caught him a-flirting in the park."
Captain: "Ah, Lhat's imperson- aling an officer."
•
The family had been to the Bri- tish Muscum and had visited the: rooms with the Egyptian exhibits.
'The children were duly impressed, but as they were leaving the little girl sald, "Mother, we've seen Mummies, but where are the Dad- dics?
*
It too I'm taking
demurely.
Kuta
"Any results?". "Marvellous! When I first got the thing I couldn't even move it, and now i can carry it all around the roam."
A private in a company of ch-
The shortage of accommodation is everywhere evident Even the theatres report "Full Houses,"
before.
1.
Do you keep wondering what others say about you behind your back?
ceeding sinoothly, does a feeling ripe in you that something will happen- and it won't be good?
If
Д
After given a plane ride, Rastus
to the pilot: 1. the gineers gained a certain reputation remarked politely
for mending his comrades watches. A sure thank you very much, sah, make a speech or give a report, do
Add 3 for “Yes,” subtract 2 for "No." score 0 for "Some times" or "Doubtful." Then! real "worry-wart" who has let pes-
you top 10 to-day, you're
total your score.
almist and fear, capture his Im- agination Worry is your worst habit, but habits can be brokent
A score from three to 14 and you but not con- worry excessively atantly. The habit is forming, but pilot. "You've only had me."
2. Do you stay awake reviewing you can banish the shadow of worry "No, sah! Ah has had two-mah| the day's events and wonder if you with the light of intelligence and
could or should have acted different- | courage. A total of less than threa frst and mah last."
ly?
shows you're generally carefree.
Judge: You say you have known the defendant'all your life. Do you think he would be guilty of stealing the money?
Witness: How much was it?
How Good Is Your Vocabulary?
(Answers on Page 5)
Even though the test below is based in large part on common words, used every day, it may
fo bofe dem rides in yo machine."
When you know you have to
Ils reputation reached his captain's, "Both, Rastus?" said the puzzled you go through agonies of anxiety?
cars, who one day said to him, "Junes, I hear you
watch are clever at inending, here take this one of mine and see what you can make, of it!" Some few days after, Jones look back the watch.
"Well, Jones, how much do I owe You?"
"Thee shillings," was the reply. "Well, here you are, and thank you," said the captain,
"Oh. I forgot," said Jones, "here are three wheels which I had over."
An old gentleman of eighty-four" having taken to the altar a young. damsel of about sixteen, the clerip man said to him, "The font is at the other end of the church.”
"What do I want with the font?"
sald
said the old gentleman,
Girl: “You remind me of the At- lantic."
"Oh, I beg your pardon," still prove difficult. Many the clerical wit, "I thought you had familiar words are ́not so exactly | brought this child to be christened."
understood as we assume; we use them confidently but would have dificulty in defining them. Pick the word or phrase nearest in meaning to the key word. Check your choices with the answers on page 8, and look at your vocabulary rating.
(1) debonair
(2)
(deb o nare')-A: superficial. B: Mighty. C: gracious and gay. D: smartį and stylish.
(en engender
jen'dur)--A: angry. B: conspire. C to cause to develop. D: to deceive.
(3) phliately (ph Jatuh -A: science of power. D: collection and study of coins, C. collec tion and study of stamps. D: love of mankind.
(4) emolument (e mol'iu ment)-
A: a public office. D: an oily Battery. D:
substance.
profit from employment. (3) perimeter (pul rim'e tur)—A: the whole outer boundary of a
body B: the length of t
straight line through the centre object. C: 'an area
of an bounded by certain limits. D: a line extending from thu centre of D sphere to
burface.
the
(B) sartorial (sahr to'rl uhi)-A: of
or pertaining to tailored gar、 ments. B: conforming to the fashion. C: eloquent. D: ironic. (7) vertiginous (vur til nus) ----A; vertical. B: dizzy. C: sacred. D: fertile and luxuriant.
(8) noisome (nol'sum)~~A; disgust-
D; rambunctious,
Ing. B: loud, C: Irritating.
(9) empirical (em pir' kuhl)~~A. relating to a territory untler the rule of an emperor: D: based on experience or obser- vallen. C: relating to false and specious reasoning. D: patronl- sing in manner,
(10)
invective
(In vek'tiv)-A: n prayer. B: cursing. C: sup plication. D: a raliing denun- clation.
AN
Boy: "You mean wild, restless, romantic?"
Girl: "No. You make me sick."`
A
girl in #lucks, about to
down,
Has a very funny bearing: She put her hand behind
smooth
The skirt she isn't wearing,
Good conduct marked our little
Mille;
But it was much too good to last. She started well, the little silly, And then she grew up very fast.
SHORT SHORT STORY:
A KISS -
IN
THE
DARK
Scene: A train
compartment in Rumania, during the war,
Characters: A German officer, a Rumanian olleer, an old lady and an attractive girl.
The train enters a tunnel. Pus- sengers hear Arst a kiss, then a vig- orous slap. Truin emerges into the light again. "Everyone remains silent, but the German offleer has a black sit eye.
The old lady thinks: "What a good | to girl she is, such a fine moral char-
acter."
I
The teacher wrote on the black- board: "I ain't had fun all summer." Then she asked a youngster in the front row: "Harry, what should do to correct that?"
"Perhaps get a boy friend?" he suggested helpfully.
The girl thinks: "Isn't it odd that the German tried to kiss the old lady and not me?"
The German thinks;. "That Ruman- ion is a smart, one he steal a kiss and I get hit."
The Rumunian thinks: **E*rt clever fellow. I kiss the back of my hand, hit a German officer, and get away with SE."
According To Culbertson
North, dealer
(Copyright, 1946, by Ely Culbertson)
Both sides vulnerable
NORTH 4754
102
+3
The defence in today's deal was of utter helplessness) led the heart queen. West ducking. Enst won and scarcely to be commended!
returned his lowest spade. The ten won, and Weat now led another club, his object being to have East ruf high and force high tramps from the declarer. Actually, if East had ruffed with the queen it would have been a good idea, but he refused to "squander" any trump higher than necessary. South over-ruffed Eant's four-spat and led another heart. West, in with the blank ace, persisted with his plan, leading his last club, and when East rufted with the six, declarer over-ruffed with the seven!
WEST
+ Q5 9 87% EAST
◆ A Q 10 3 VA 4
• K J 8 AKGS
I
KJ 10 8 +91 44
♣ 10 5 SOUTH
◆ I 8 0.
Q752
• A 10 7 82
The bidding: North
labe
Foula
•West.
1 diamond. Doubta 2 diamonds Double
Already, South had taken more (11) congeries (con Jer'i cz)-ANI
tricks than he might have won in the conglomeration. B: magic, C:
entire play and the defenders hadn't. D: Lastes that are in allics,
yet done their worsti South exited with a heart. common.
West discarded a (12) anachronism (a mak'co nism)~~
A any mistake. B: extreme South'a opening. even though spade and East, winning the trick, awkwardness.
returned a heart to let his partner C any mis- third-hand,
practically was placing iTL time of events, psychle, and he should have passed got in a small trump by over-ruffing persons or objects. D: a time-to North's warning bid of two clubs, the dummy! Having ruffed with the plece.
even with the singleton four-spot. eight, West now laid down the ace (13) penchant - (pen'chant) A;
and another spade, giving South the West opened the club king, and king! South's ace of trumps held the something that hangs down. B: strong inclination. C: de- when East started an echo with the penalty to 800 points, as against the Aften, fald down the club ace. South) 1460 or 1700 set that was so extreme- pendent. D: payment. (14) fethol (le'thul)—A: sleepy. B: ruffed and (probably with a feeling ¡y easy for East-West to collect.
forgetful. D: lazy. deadly C (15) berserk (bur'surk)-A: coarse. B: awkward. C; countried. D: frenzied.
(18) execrato (ek'so crate)—A: to cut down evil upon. B: to get C: to completo. D: to
oxcuse.
(17) genuflect. (Jen’lu dect or jen lu flect')-A to guarantee. B: to think over. C to bend the knee. D: to pray.
he has tried in vain several umes to (10) primordial (pry mor'di uhl)--
Former Crown Prince Frederick, polley of confiscation. According to Willfora of Germany, son of the late Kaiser William II, now receives monthly income of 300 markk approximately $30-from the French Occupation authorities in the French zone of Germany.
get French authorities to increase his
allowance--equivalent to
Jy
the mont
income of an unemployed
Although Crown Princess,
who lives in the U.S. zone of
Agnest. lowest order.
C: first created. D: slimy or marshy...
whose personal · fortuno until, two to cross the Franco-American years no was several millions et
The '04-year-old "Little Willie," inany, has been granted) parsimonious (pahr. sl mo'nl
dollars, but whose properties lay in The Soviet zone of the K ich, now is ruined completely by the Rusainn
do-
only.
u)--A having the some deri- vation, B stingy. C: zymipe- trical. D: very poor.
+
tes a teric)-A: In-
•quiring. “B: foreign. C: per- taining to the human racz. D: profound and abstruse,
marcation line, she seldom sees her (20) esoteric husband, paying him visits when she can get transportation on a UB. army jeep..
NANCY New Way of Pronouncin'
GOOD DAY
FOR HUNTIN OR 'FISHIN
DON'T SAY HUNTIN'
AND FISHIN'
SAY HUNTING AND FISHING --
PUT A "G" ON
THEM
SIDE GLANCES
CÓPR, 1941 UT HEA BERVICE, DC, T. 34, WHO, 15, W. PAT, OFF.
By Galbraith
"Ah-er, isn't it about time for your father to come down und ask if I don't know what time it is?"
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