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BRUSH UP YOUR WITS

WEIGHING MACHINE,

LE five daughters of sor Diddleham were ed at a side station.

weigh

station. I might hey passed the time themselves, in pairs,

the slot machine. in pairs they were

able to get all the weights ther wanted for one penny.) The ten

sets of weights of the girls

two at a time, were as

2Tb.

8st. 6lb

8st 116.

5lb Alb

оть.

1215.

The procession last Sunday, when the Feast of the King of Kings was celebrated, in the Catholic enclosure. ("Mail" photo).

Plows to Spears.

"The smaller democracies, like the strongest dictatorships, are beating their pruning hooks into swords and their plows into spears, preparing the earth for a harvest of blood,” declares Lionel Curtis, in "Civitas Dei” Spiritual Paupers

"Materially," declared Dr. Van

NEWS FLASHES

der Leeuw, at the New-Education Fellowship Conference in South Africa, "our modern world is richer than perhaps any preced- ing age: spiritually we are paup- ers. Not all our truly wonderful physical accomplishments, not all

THE ASIA COY'S

FOOD

SALE

-

TO MORROW THE LAST DAY

Oven Baked Bean Heinz

Cambridge Sausages St.

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our abundance of amusements and sensations, can hide the fact that we are poor within Japan and the Powers

"As the beginning,” says lichi- ro Tokutomi, in the Japan Maga- zine, "Japan was disdained, made a fool of, then was pitied or lov- ed, yet not much taken notice of But she has later been feared, rather than respected, detested instead of being shown- tachment

Standardised Man

at

our

"Science and technology," says General Smuts, "in their advance are changing the face of the earth and creating problems in civilisation of enormous magni- tude for educationalists and for all who are interested in the hu- man fate. Both these factors I to produce a mass mentality, both tending to the suppression of individual personality and

the creation of a standardised hu- man being of uniform type." Nazi Millennium

In a speech at Nuremberg, Hitler declared tha the past-

years have been an era tianity and that the sand are destined to national socialism:

of comim

of China's suspi-

ays 1 E Dean, nly be guessed at from a of Japan's encroachments during the past few years. Perils of the Press-

surv

Can you work out the five girls' individual weights?

CLASSICAL?

The following inscription was unearthed at Camulodunum (the Roman Colchester) -

ORE STABIT FORTIS ARARE PLACET ORE STAT

Can you decipher it?

CIGARS

There were three brands cigar at the cigar stall co respectively 25., Is. 6d, and 1s.

Fach of Mary's uncles bought cigars there. Each them, moreover, spent exactly £1 in the purchase of 12 cigars.

On the other hand, no two of them laid out their money exactly the same way___ Tris in- terested Mary, as also did the fact that, among them, they had exhausted every possible way of buying 12 cigars for $1.

How many cigars of each kind were bought?

A WORD SQUARE These tales end in air.

Hard but brilliant.

What any chası did- Film-star's come back A mere plant.

Solutions to "Brush Up Your Wits"

WEIGHING MACHINE

The individual weights five is were: 4st. Sib

The invention of the printi 21b., 4st. Olb., 8st. 1215;

Wha

George

Grapefruit Juice

S. & W.

Jelly Crystals

Chivers

Loganberry Juice

Libby

Pork & Beans

Libby

50 36 cts. tin 30 ct. pkt. 34 cts. tin 23 cts. tin

Lily Brand 45 cts. pkt. C. & B. 26 cts. tin

Del Monte 13 tm Ma Ling 35 ets bot.

4 tins for 70 cfg.

tins 2 tins

pkts. for 86 cts. 2 tins for 70 cts 4 tins for 90 cts 2 pkts. for 85 ets tins for 75 cts. 6 tins for 75 cts. 2. bots. for 67 cts.

cans

for 95 ets for 70 cts.

Rice Starch Soup, Assorted Tomato Juice Tomato Katsup

ALSO MANY OTHER ATTRACTIVE VARIETIES

CALL IN EARLY FOR A WIDE SELECTION

ALL GOODS GUARANTEED.

THE ASIA COY.

Ol-Kwan Bldg., Des Voeux Road, C.

press was a blessing for human- ity" declared Dr. Van der Leeuw, at the New Education Fellowship Conference in South Africa, “but” the result to-day is not deeper thinking, braver, more independ ent opinions. On the contrary, men these days live by the few predigested thoughts of a few, they live on syndicated opinion.. Nation of Shopkee

Sydney Cradle of

also state

2 CLASSICAL?

The spaces between the letters need readjusting. “"0 rest a bit, for is a rare place to rest at.

3-CIGARS

This problem is not “algebra it should be solved by trist an

error:

for

4th 525

Gigars at

6d 1

uncle bu

SOLÁRE

venteen is

pared with

United

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