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THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1931.

CORRESPONDENCE.

Popsy on the Differential

Calculus.

(To The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.]

A CHILD'S POSER.

How Would You Answer It?

"Mother," asked littlo Dora, wrinkling her baby browe, “If you had married Uncle Tom and daddy had married Aunt Sarah, whi would I have been?"

the

There is only one thing to de My dear, I think its simply when the little Deras of thin frightfully clever how everyone world start asking awkward ques has worked out all those dividends tions and that is to promise an and fees and things and it doos | answer at aomo suficiently distant show that every cloud has a sliver birthday. Children who ask this lining doesn't It. Well, Angus type of question are revealing has told me all about it and its normal, healthy, mental develop ever so simple when you know how and its just something to do ment. Children who are dull and with what they call a deferential uninteresting are usually some- calculus and about nature abhor- what below par in their health. ring a vacquuum (have I spelled Physical and mental fitness are su that right).

closely inter-dependent that if a Well, my donr, you see what child is backward mentally, steps happens is that sometimes when should be taken at once. to dis- you're trying to work things out cover what is wrong with you find you've got a thing that child's physical condition. varies because some part of it

Sluggishness of the interan} isnt always the same and“ Angua

organa makes a child lethargic Hays that If you know the rules

A well as physically. about the bit that isnt the same mentally you can make what rules you like Your child will be much brighter about how the other thing varios for an accusjonal dose of Baby's and its simpler at if you've got Own Tablets, the health-regulator what they call a constant you aso specially for babes and young what I mean. Well, sometimes chlidren. These pleasant-to-take silver varies and then the dollar | tablets quickly correct indigestion, varies and fees and things do constipation and stomach and the same but not quite and you've bowel troubles generally. They always got. Directors and they're check diarrhoea, expel worms, a sort of constant, so, my dear, when you want to know what to allay fever, colds and croup. pay them all you've got to do lang teething they are to take your deferentini calculus easing pains instantly and thus and work it out and the answer inducing sound, natural sleep. always comes out in, starling ar Guaranteed to contain no oplates more dollars and that's what's or narcotics, they are safe, pure known as a rule of naturo and and effective. All chemists can I've asked Tubby to buy one for supply you. his company and he says dont you bother, darling, we've scen to that.

And Angus anya you can use these deferential calculusses with all sorts of things that happen in nature but you dont often was them except for working out movements of big objects like stars and directors and things and he doesnt think it would be

much good my using one at the Races, and anyhow you couldnt uae it for civil servants because

no one has ever scen

in

motion ao you havent got an integer or something, so you use a different sort of calculus that works out in confidential dollars and sounds the same but isnt and it must be horribly hard for poor Sir William to explain.

Dur

a boom

AUSTRALIAN CABINET.

MR. SCULLIN SUCCEEDS IN REMODELLING RODY.

Sydney, Mar. 3.

In the reconstituted Cabinet, Mr. Scullin is Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Theodore is Treasurer. Minister of Industry, while Mr.

As the Senate in expected to re- ject the Government's proposal to expand currency hy £18,000,000, the possibility of a dissolution of Parliament is looming large. A meeting of the Nationalist caucus to-day decided to move a vote of non-confidence in the Scullin Gov- Even Tubby's been studying erament at the earliest oppor- economics since they brought inunity, probably on Thuradny the new Liquid Dues and he's Reuter. found out that its all wrong to [A former mesange announced have loan for getting water that the Australian Cabinet was because its always raining and being completely reorganised as a anyone can get as much as they result of the differences which want for nothing if they put a have made themselves manifest bucket under the back spout and since the reappointment of Mr. anyhow it tastes funny and what Theodore as the Federal Treasur- they really ought to have is a er. Mr. Scullin, the Prime Minister. loan for paying all all Liquid Dues will henceforth be assured of the so that people can get something support of a loyal band of Mo- worth drinking and its all wrong derates in consequence of the reor to tax food and it does scem ganisation, which followed a ballot hard with times so bart.---Yours instituted by the Labour Caucus

POPSY.

After all the "oxlating port- follos had been declared vacant. The ballot resulted in a triumph for Mr. Scullin, who with Mr. Theodore and other Moderates were re-elected as the loaders of the Party. The Extremist Ministers, Mr. Anstey and Mr. Beasley were ejected. Mr. Scullin WAR pro- ceeding to the re-modelling of his Cabinet, and the allotment of the portfolios.]

NAMSANG FOR SALE.

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After plying between Calcutta and Jajen for nearly 20 years, the Namsang, owned by the Indo-Chinn Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., is offered for sale. She is still an eminently seaworthy vessel and has been taken off the run as more modern vessels have superseded her. Her last com- mander was Capt. F. Mooney, who skippered the ship for a quiber of years. He has recently left Shanghai on Home leave. The other officers. and enrincera have been dispersed to other vessels in the Company's ser- vices, while the Namsang herself lies at the Cosmopolitan Dock, where she is open to inspection by prospective: purchasers.

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The Namaang was built for the company by the London and Glasgow

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