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THE COME BACK

(Continued

adure:

enough Youll perhaps forgi me for saying so, but your pluck and will power as much as I do your seamanship, and I'd like to apologise for any thing in the business you

feel dangh

justifies an apology Yoused to

ter hasn't absolutely

marry me yet, but whether she does or not, the command of the Brenda is yours for just as long as you care to handle her. That's what I think of

Tann"

The hands of the two men met and gripped across the desk Then Hadd transferred his grasp to the Captain's arm, and ·led him across the room to an inner door.

"There's some folk you might want to see in there!" he said, as he opened the door and gently pushed the Captain through it.

Tann found himself in the arms. of wife and daughter at first. Later he became aware that it was his wife only-Brenda was in the other office, and George Hudd as well as Captain Tann was reaping the reward he had earned.

A little later: Mrs. Tann noticed far-away look in her husband's

THE GHINA MAIL FRIDAY SUPI

BRUSH UP YOUR WITS

Mrs Addem And Her

M

Children

Addem's age

times, the sum of (in years) of her children.

This ratio will, of course, de- crease from year to year. eleven- Fears time Mrs. Addem's age will equal the sum of the children's ages

The age (in years) of the eld est child is equal to the product of the ages (in years) of the other. twose

No two children were born in the same year:

What are the children's ages?

eyes.

"What's the matter, dear not sad, are you?””..

He laughed: “Hardly, my dear! I was just thinking.””

"What?"

"Oh, only that when I take my next trip out I shall have to go into the long-bar of the French Club and have a nice, long cool gin- ger-ale. You see, there's a big, beefy chap in a shantung suit uses that place, and I've got a lit- tle message for him!"

So pleasant, so SAFE for them

Children's delicate dig

are easily upset frequently-very

gin in

their

Dad's Day Out

Dad went afternoon with and carrie back wi bought a new hat and some daffodils place. He had also stopped.

Dad gets paid on Friday and the banks are open on Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday.

The dentist comes every day but Saturday

Thursday is early closing day and there is no market on day.

What day of the week is it? The Lily Of Malud

certain pond in Central America is a perfect circle 20 feet in diameter. Every year a magnificent waterlily appears in the exact centre of the pond. The lily grows with remarkable rapidity, doubling its area every day, at the end of exactly - 21 days the lily fills the entire area of the pond. Then it dies away and for 12 months no more is seen of it.

At the end of how many days from its first appearan does the lily occupy half the area of the pond?

NEW (TIN)PRICES

80

oz. $1.20

4 oz. $0.65

Old (Bottle) Prices

$2.00, 4 oz. $1.45

because, ANDREWS cleanses in Nature's

way-by OSMOSIS

Andrews is the perfect laxative

-because it young

ANDREWS

BUY IT IN THE to the ECONOMY TIN

causes complete flushing

intestinal linings. Andrews differs from other salines in having a slow, continuous effervescence. This slow effer- vescence releases carbon-dioxide which has a remarkably soothing effect on the linings of stomach and bowel. Andrews is much more ihan "just another saline -- it is

After years of patient-research Liver Salf is now sold in Tins “out this country. Cara

has definitely prov keeps-better in the Andr fin "containers than in over the Economy In

CHEAPER

THE ARMISTICE DAY SILENCE ORIGINATE?

THERE has been a great deal

of contention in many the world about the origin the Armistice Day co tion rite of the Two Min Silence, which is now observe 11 am. on November 11 year by every country fought on the Allied side the Great War

Actually, the "Pause" was p

thought of and observed in Cape Town

The idea of a two minute pause was first given expression by Bishop Furse, in an address which he gave during the war in Pretoria A short report of that address was read during a jour- ney to Somerset East by a well- known Cape Town man, who every month during the war published letter to the soldiers on actr

booklet in which he

service.

In the April, 1918, number. his booklet he proposed that the idea should at once be adopted and carried into execution Cape Town. He worked hard to get the idea adopted, and, though

Fat first it wa ed at once when, within a short time, news came of rever the British

First Observance

Sir Harry Hands, then Mayor of Cape Town, put the idea mto effect at once.” Arrangements were made, and when the midday gun was fired on Signal Hil! May 19, 1918 there was a cr of citizens gathered at the Darl- ing-street intersection of Adder- ley-street. All traffic stopped and

silence of two minutes was served

granite flag let into t treet, trodden on unseen by thou- sands who daily cross the

at what is the city's principal corner, marks the spot.

The memorial rite wa

adopted universally,

day

observance chang- actual day and hou cessation of hostilities.

be restored to or lowered vital young sufferer an epidemics. Harsh never be given to cause straining and

easily injure the sam

the bowel and so weaken the

that the taking of purgative become a confirmed habe

clean

may

fimulating laxative

impurities. 10 17

LIVER

refreshin

ANDREWS

LIVER SALT

EFFERVESCENT-PLEASANT-TASTING

BETTER

THE IDEAL TONIC LAXATIVE

Solutions to "Brush Up Your Wits

Mrs. Addem And

Her Children.

Mrs. Addem is deduced

from

The childre total 11, and, since them were born in the

they can only be 6, 3

2Dad's Day Out

Tuesday

The Lily Of Malud

Twenty days.

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