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THE AERIAL.
George said: "You get a bamboo, a good, long bamboo, and you'll have no trouble, Bamboo poles arep't heavy, and all you have to do is just lean it up against a fence post, tie it to the post with, wire, put a few stays on it, and there you are."
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what helped to make nations great. The man from next door sighed, and told George to hold one of the wire stays, and take it and put it round the fence on the other side Then he gave me of the yard. another stay, and sent me to the fence at the bottom of the yard. and told us to pull the bamboo up Then he took another wire himself, that way,
George said that he wanted to know if I thought it was funny to cut his hands nearly, in two by dragging a wire through them. He said he was giving up his whole Imorning showing me how to do this thing, and that was the thanks ha got for it. He said that for two plus he would leave the whole job, and let me finish it the best way I could.
So I got the bamboo-60ft. of it, all nice and green, and with two graceful curves in it that George | sald would come out when it was staightened up with the stays. got some wire, too. George said long pole like that would need a few good, strong stays, so I got four clothes lines and tied one on near the top, the next a bit lower down, and so on till I'd used them up. Then I got the copper wire for the aerial, and some china egg things that George called insula tors, and fixed them on to the top. of the bamboo. Then George said we were fixed nicely, and the rest
was easy.
"You just want to dig a pit of a hole for the bottom end," said George. "Dig It alongside the fence-post. I'll show you." Then he got the garden 'spade and start ed. My house is on a good, rocky sort of hillside, and when George had got down a few inches he said that would do, and a hole wasn't really necessary, anyway. Then he told me to lift the top end of the bamboo while he put the bot- tom end in position. Then he told Then me not to do it that way. he said that was wrong, too. Then be asked me to remember that the hole was alongside the fonce, not In his neck. Then he swore. He zald that any man who could not manage to lift a light bamboo pole and hold it in place was no man. He said that a bamboo was as light as a feather, and he came and took my end of it just to show me.
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George said that any fool could see the wires I had used were too heavy, and no man could lift a ton of wire straight up in the air while an idiot at the other end stood and George said that I was no use to men or angele, and he was surprised that I hadn't got myself killed by my idiocy long ago. He would have said a lot more, but just then the end of the bamboo slipped away from me and George was too busy staggering to talk to me properly. I tried to help him by getting hold of my end of the bamboo, and George fell over. then. So did the bamboo.
Then the man who lives at the back took a hand. George let him hold the top end of the bamboo, and George reated. George said it was no good hurrying, over a job like that, and we had all Sunday to do it in. He said that he knew a man who hurried over the job of putting up his aerial, and before it had been up a week it was down again. He was going on to tell us about more men he knew when the man from the back said that the bamboo was getting heavy, and he would have to be going to dinner soon. George told him to lift the pole, and we would soon have it up, and the man from the back lift- ed while George and I tried to fix | the bottom end.
me.
The man from the back was a Samson compared to George, and He lifted splendidly, and George shouted praise. Then the man from the back staggered a Ilttle, and the top and of the bam- boo entwined itself in the aorial belonging to the man who lives next door to me.
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The man from next door sighed again, and asked George to just keep tension on his wire while the man from next door pulled at his..
RADIO HINTS.
In the event of anything going wrong with the set, do not be tempted to tear it to pieces to see what is the matter. First see that the aerial and earth wires are con
aerial to the earth. Next check up nected, and that the switch in open, and is not connecting the on the batteries and see that the voltages are in order. Examine the set for loose connections, and take out the valves and clean the con- tacts. · Sometimes a dirty contact | on a valva pin will put the whole set out of operation. If the trou bie is not located by this time, take out the valves and test the wiring of the set from point to point with a battery and a pair of headphones In series. A click in the 'phones, la an indication that the part being tested is O.K. See that the moving plates in the condensers are not touching and thus shorting. If there is any suspicion of dust, be- tween these plates, clean them with a pipe cleaner or a feather,
George said that the man from next door might have seen that he
In the average set the only trou. wasn't ready, and that anyway able that develops is a fiat battery, bit of a bang on the head from and the remedy is of course ob bamboo was nothing; bamboos were vicus. Still there may come a time too light to hurt. George said that when the set will not respond to once when he was putting up a new batteries, and under these con- fifty foot flagpole of hardwood, it altions the temptation to pull the fell right on his shoulder, but after parts of the act out gets rather rubbing the place he went straight ahead and finished the job la no time. A bit of a knock was all in the game, George said, and for his part he ignored them.
The man from next door sighed a little, and then naked George to go and stand in the middle of the yard while the rest of us hauled at the pole, and to tell us when it was perfectly straight.
George said that was the job that suited him. He said he had won- derful eyes, and could tell at a glance when anything was the leant bit out of the perpendicular. Then he told me to keep pulling, till he said "right."
After a while the man from next door eald that he saw no use in pulling the fence down. He said that the post we had tied the bam boo to, was six inches out of plumb already, and he said the fence was partly his property and he valued it. He twisted himself round a bit till he looked like a contortionist, and told me to just keep my wire in position while he pulled his.
strong.
When installing an outside aerial make cure that there are no kinks in the wire. The slightest kink will cause the wire to break with a very small strain.
If you are troubled with a con- tinuous and high pitched howl from the audio end of the set, it
сол can usually be overcome by
of the necting the metal covers transformers to the earth terminal. For best results always avoid charp bends when installing the aerial and earth wires. The high frequency currents that constitute radio waves have a bad habit of jumping off at corners, with the re- suit that signal strength is badly reduced on distant stations,
PROBLEMS SOLVED,
SR.S.-Is it possible to solder aluminium? I have been trying for some time to solder a few of the aluminium parts on my set, so far without success, and a friend of mine tells me that it is an impos- Still, before he sible proposition. Presently
would like your anid that was right, and he tied quitting it 1
opinion. his wire round the fence and came over and fixed mine. George said the bamboo was a couple of inches out of the perpendicular, but the man from next door only looked at him a little, and then told me I was pretty right now, and went off home.
George said he thought it was all right too, and he said it only show ed how easy these things were if you went about them in the right way He said he reckoned it was a real good morning's work, and he would just case off one of the stays a bit so there wouldn't be too much strain on the bamboo, and then he would be off to dinner,
He did.
The bamboo fell down that night, and the man next door says I will have to pay for the cost of putting his aerial up again.
I have no aerial, and I have given up wireless..
George says he washes his hands of me.-C. B. Astley in "The Queenslander,"
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Answer-It is quite possible to solder aluminium, though the or- dinary methods will not work, for oxide forms as quickly as you clean the surface, and flux is of no avall, Clean the surface where you wish to solder with a little benzine to remove all dirt and grense; then melt a small quantity of solder on the spot with a hot iron. While the solder is molten scratch the surface of the spot you are solder ing with a wire brush. This will break down the oxide fim, and allow the solder to reach the metal underneath and "tin" the alum Inium.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER · 20,-
DAILY CROSS WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho)
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HORIZONTAL 1-To alight". 5-Linear measure 8-Fasten 12-A nah 15-Formerly '14~Having wings
15-Parched 16-Decado
17-Gé up
18-Happen 20-i.ower in rank 2-Propeller
23-Ocean 24-Southern State.
(abbr.)
27-Lair 20-Versoa
33-Proceerted
95-Moleture
37-Calamitous
38 Turning machina 40-Swing
42-Fondla
THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE.
HORIZONTAL (C0)4)
47-Turn
60-Relates
64-Death of a person 55-Distani
157-Went horseback (BB-Give gut sparingly |89–Female cheap
60-Gang
61-Prophet
62-A color
63-Fowl (pl.)
VERTICAL
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3-One
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B-Plerced
6-Bhaltered aids!
7-Grants the
temporary use of B-Female servant 9-Medley
43-Organ of the head 10-Hindmost 46-Rap
11-Woody plant
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21-A feh
24-Painted atual
instrument
25-Meadow |26-Emmat
126-Unused
80-alte 181-Before |32-Determinad |34-Playhouse 86-8prinklad 89-Consume
41-A fish 44-Allude
46-acorch
47-Poles
148-Musical Instrument
49-Short earthenware
pipo
51-Mad
62-Famous garden 83-Stitches
156-Terror
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Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sure. These will give you a clue to other words crossing them, and they in turn to still others. A letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the niimbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or both.
(The solution of the shows cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue awng with a new cross-word puzzle,)
OFFER TO HEIFETZ,
Jascha Heifetz, the eminent violinist, was offered £750 by SLO. || Melbourne, for a broadcasting per formance of 20 minutes £37/10/
minute. His contracts compelled him to refuse. He wrote to the company as follows:"I wish to acknowledge your offer for broad- casting, but I must reply, as I have in the case of other companies, by advising you that by the terms of my contracts my playing is not to Thanking you for
A.E.R.-I have often noticed that when a fairly strong wind blows be broadcast. there is a rough scraping sound in your substantial proposal, which I the receiving set. The serial that regret I am not in a position to I use is about 60ft, of single wire,entertain.” with a lead in of ordinary insulated house wire attached to the centre. Is it possible that the ecraping is caused by the aerial insulation?
AnswerThe noise would prob ably come from a poor connection between the lead-in wire and the aerial causing it to make and break contact as it sways the wire. This connection should always be so dered. If you have soldered it there is still the possibility that it is what is known as a dry joint, and that the solder while taking perfect- ly on the outside of tlie join, --has left the inside dry, and in an oxidis: ed condition. It would be as well to check up on this..
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Dependence on Foreigners.
The man who lives next door Now that the Grand National came in then, He said we were raco meeting is over, "Musket," doing it all wrong, and he came the popular descriptive announcer and showed 116 how. George for 3LO, Melbourne, of race meet- told him he had telling me ings, will breathe a sigh of relief. all the morning I was doing The Inclement weather that attend- the thing wrong, and for his parted the national meeting made his he was glad to have the man from job anything but a sinecure. Tor- next door come in, because it was rential rain fell every day, and the useless for George to try and do the great, open stand was deserted, ex- Job by himself. The man from next cept for one solitary huddled door told me to put a loop of wire figure. The microphone is located round the bottom of the bamboo on the open stand, and there
London, Aug. 18. and the fence-post for a start, "Musket” had to remain, Blinding
Captain lan Fraser, a blind mem- Ten minutes later he took the wire downpours obscured the fields, mud ber of the House of Commons in a from me, and did it himself. He obliterated the colours of the letter to the "Times", disagrees with said it was a pity the hole wasn't jockeys, water-sodden race books Mr. F. P. Kelleway's statement deeper, because a fairly deep hole prevented any reference, and that amateur Empire broadcasting helped a lot. George agreed with molature clouded over his field would result in disappointment. him. George said, that was what glasses, yet he was able to give "Rather," he says, "will it stimu he had been telling me from the an exciting account of each race.late the overseas demand for a start but no; no use, I would hurry At the end of each day he was powerful British short-wave" sta- up the Job, and now this was the absolutely wet to the skin. At Lion. There may be disappointment result. He said we were very other meetings; he had further in-with this, but enthusiasts will be no | grateful to the man who lives next conveniences. Near by spectators less keen thai they are now with door,.and no one more than he was. become excited during race finishes England inaudible, save when a He said that little acts of kindness and shout in his ear, whilst others foreigner cares to relay our
pro- like the man from next door's were stand up and, obscure his vision, grammes.
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