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CLIMATE TOO OFTEN BLAMED.

DAY BY DÁY

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IT 18 THE JUST DECREE OF HEAVEN THAT A TRAITOR NEVER SEES RI run, but also for the mental con-ANGER UNTIL HE RUIN IS AT HAND. tentment which they bring to those |--Metastasio, who run them. "There la," anya this doctor, "no greater enemy to mental, peace than the feeling of being ageless to anyone except one- self in the work, and there is no more potent cure for such a feeling than the spending of a proper part | Walker, of one's time and talents in freely-

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P

Jmz Ukxxsz Avzpz Te

By PUZZLESMITH (in the Monitor). Dojtge.

UZZLED? Yet you can solvef In a way this resembles the it very easily if you know crossword, in that the dots are to be how. As old as the riddle, replaced by letters, forming words, Passengers who left by the Blue Fannel liner Hector yesterday in-cipher writing-now sopular in in accordance with the following cluded Mr. and Mrs. H. S. 11. Mr. the form of cryptogram puzzles definitions: 1, To command- 2, and Ara, J. D. Kinnaird, and Mr. V. was used in ancient times as a Single, 3, Large knives. 4. Relat.

secret code for messages of iming to the study of plants. b, Inert, [portance. The Greeks. the 6. Tithed. 7, In the Shetland and Through falling on a quantity of Syracusans, Carthaginians, Orkney Islands, crown taxes given service to others." C. E. broken earthenware in Bullock the Jews, and the Romans, notably pasturage, etc., on commons. 8, Montague ins written the Street where he was playing, a Julius Caesar and Augustus, uned Devoured. 9, Induced.

of

the

Edgar Allan Pou was the rat

+

for

While these form puzzles occupy*

Chinese, Yu Ming-young, of 111, the cryptogram, "misery of those who have failed Wanchal Road, was taken to the to save themselves from the band-Government Civil lospital suffering American auther to make use of the time of a large group in the

from, a badly cut right wrist. ness of taking from the world more

the cryptogram in a story, accord-league the flattists-those who ling to "Primrose," who holds champion the charades, homonyms, than they give it." and it was a The return of notifiable diseases" for i

the past week shows three canes of Binong members of the National transposals, deletions, rebuses, and famous physician whose prescrip-diphtheria (two fatal), two of typhoid Puzzlers' League an enviable 100 anagrams contribute greatly to tion for his neurasthenic patients (non-fatal), one of puerperal fever per cent. record for solving over how they enjoy puzzling each other. the task of puzzling a puzzler. And thousand of cerebra-spina! |A was that they should spend a week fever (non-fatal). There were along the entire plot

straight "crypts"

run- In Poe's story, The Gold One puzzler recently composed the

following rebus: 44, deaths from pulmonary tuber|

centros culosi

Unun,

(fatal) and one

trying to make the people they lived

around the solution of a a crypto- with happier. The want of outlet

gram, and the author successfully for the nitruistic needs of our Injuries received in a fall down a solved every example, numbering nature in cited by Dr. Wangh-Scottbank, a height of 15 feet, and the ever 100, which was sent him rienth of Le Sze, aged 64, a woman through Graham's Maghzino in colie, who was gathering deal tree 1841. Of cryptograms Poe sald: branches on Stubbs Rond gesterilny.)

It may well be doubted whether She was ranked to the Government Civil Hospital at 2.30 pm, but died human ingenuity can construct an

enign of this kind which hunt. three hours later.

ingenuity may not, by proper a

"Cultivate emotionat control, Con- Lecious suppression is source of

strength

attractive instrumental and plication, resolve. voch! concert is announced to be

Kon,

antonncernent of the

A paradox is brought to you:

Connect the UN's before your

view

Then disconnected they will be

When you have solved the

mystery,

That's too much for you? It didn't take the puzzlers long to catch on that the hidden word was "un-

Back in the gold rusk days of the following would have been a mast

RRRRRRR

RRRRRRR

RRRRRRR

RRRRRRR

RRRRRRR

RRRRRRR

RRRRRRR

[4s largely responsible for the futtle search for happiness in pleasure and excilement, and he adds that "no degree. of skill attained t games, no number of successful bets | An made, none of the joys of eating!

the Canton Y.BEC.A. OM In Puzzledom to-day the crypto-coupled." or drinking, can bring the satisfac- Saturday night. The proceeds are gram is a puzzle in cipher, and is tion of spirit to be found in steady, Women's Club of Canton to be levatof varying length, in which ench rebus

far the benefit of the International commonly composed of a sentence grandfathers, devoted work for the general weal."ed to the free elinten run under the letter is represented by another popular one. Perhaps you

There are many other aspects of auspices of the club where others letter, but always the same letter Kuess it:

are taught the cure and feeding of Dr. Waugh-Scott's address which infauts, home sugitation at throughout. Occasionally characters we should like to have touched upon. The instrumentalists are the well-are used instead of letters, but the known Lingnan trin: Mrs. Arthur R. As a cryptogram should be perfect- rule is carried out in the same way. but we will conclude with the follow-Knipp, Miss Gertrule Henderson, and

in grammatical ing rules which he heartily recom- Mrs. G. Wieldman Groff, while the y falr, should be

soloist in Mr. B. E. Poster-Hall, English, properly punctuated, and mends for people who live in the accompanied by Miss Katherin Jacob- should contain about ninety letters. tropies:

I hasten to add to the title:

Ukzzazo? Lzj lgk ode iganz tj Count the R's. Perhaps that will became an acute problem, and has nzy! zdial ty lgk acgp ngp.

thelp you. ever since been solved. Britain Sul puzzled? Possibly by read-

But while rebuses tax the puzzl then added to the troubles, the bareling over the Arst line or two of ing ability of many a puzzler, it is "Accustom yourself to conlure

this article you may find a clue the anagram that holds, deservedly, India com-which will aid you in solving this one of the highest ranks slights, criticism and oven abose,

among the mitter's gold standard rectummenda-eryptogram.

puzzleistic fraternity. To many, "Control your thinking. Never lettious being sufficient to produce

anngrams is a letter game-played the attention dwell on the useless or the catastrophic fall in silver values

As a member of the Puzzlers during childhood days and recent- People who live in the troples or

painful.

which may not

have ended even League, I have been asked many y dusted off and brought to light sub-tropies are apt, when suffering

"Practice. If a thing is lifeult to now.

of puzzies do again. But among in establishing the gold puzzlers solve?

times, "What kind

real puzzlers mental or physleal disorders, de, but desirable, exercise yourself in standard, it is argued, the world's

Do they tackle making an anagram consists of blame the climate. Here in Hong-it. Skit will soon develop.

anything besides crossword puz- transposing the letters of a word bankers have brought the world's zles ?" It was with a desire to or phrase so as to produce another kong, most of us know the type of "Imitate gond models, make friends economic structure to the verge of learn for myself the answer to just word or phrase that has a meaning individual who adopts this attitude.f the people you want to resemble rain till gold itself is cracking these questions that I first joined similar to that of the original.

the Krewe, Crossword puzzles, I Perhaps one of the best examples Paul Oliver it is interesting, therefore, to note in character and keep away from under the strain of a colossal burden have found, are considered rather of a true anngram-and good ans- of credit and must collapse unless too simple. Indied, of late, this grams are chiefly notable for their extremely illuminating ab- others. FORM

Do not ael from motives such as relief soon appears. The remedy form of puzzling-has descended to fewness-is that composed by servations recently made by Dr. G.

is at hand if the leading countries mere race against time, success, veteran puzzler who transposed Waugh-Scott, the new President of | jeufousy, nager or hatred. Reisman's Drekestrethe Malayan branch of the British

"Bave a goal in view. Know what of the world will avail themselves ring measured not in terms of THE EYES to THEY SEE, And mere solution. but of rapidity of so I leave to you the solving of the Modical

following anagram, which recently Association. during the you want to accomplish,, to-day to of it. The machinery for organis-solution.

But again, what sort of puzzles appeared in the Enigma, and which course of his presidential actress,morrow, next month and in the nexting an International Monetary Con-

ference is written into American do these puzzlers like to puzzle for radio listeners, at least, should in which he took "Mental Hygiene

sintutes. There is nothing to pre-lover? Recunt copies of the Eni-not prove very difficult: vent Britain from co-operating gma, official organ of the league, AMOS, ANDY ARE POOR, EXPE in the Tropies" as his subject. Wel

wholeheartedly. Indeed, the Bri-dom finds interest in all sorts of FAITH IN CAB

would seem to indiente that Puzzle-CT TO FARE RICH; CLAIM have not the space to devote to

tish Government, with immense in-perplexities, for it contains puzzle- many of the points which this medical man made, and will have

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Bimetalism. "He would be a bold man," said terests in the Far East, has the istic references to rhomboids, Verse puzzles also find popular diamonds, support antong the Krowe, these to content ourselves with one which Lord Goschen in 1876, "who would most to sain and the least to lose. pyramids, heptagons.

withdraw silver from that partner. As with the Mission now in Hong.quares, hexdecagons, trapezoids.Jusually being submitted as trans- is of more than passing interest ship with gold by menus of which king studying our currency pro forms upon which the formist group deletions, linkades. alphagrams. icosahedrons-and many other posals, phonetic charades, trans- namely, the laneful effects on the sufficient supply of currency has blem, it is first necessary to disre-build their tricky words. Take, for and heteronyms. Difficult as mind of failure to undertake cren-been furnished for the whole globe."gard the counsel of those interests example, this hexdecagon:

tive work for the good of those

amongst

whom we

coming to it, let us point out that

Appearing to contain a moral and and influences which have effected

an

live. Defore warning to the world's economic the present entanglements, before leaders to-day, the quotation pre-solution can be found in the one faces an exceedingly interesting case, and in the other, berore a real Dr. Waugh-Scott contends that the article on the silver crisis from the efort can be made to place gold and mulign intuence of climate in the

of Mr. Charles Thomus,

silver upon common monetary į tropics is greatly exaggerated, hold-American expert, who argues thesis, and once again open up the ing that the fault is usually with cast for bimetalism. At the out-highways to progress,

set, he shows clearly that until 1816 The theme to which Dr. Wugh-bitnetalism was recognised without;

ourselves.

Scott devoted himself was a con-

pen

seriaus dissent as the basis of all |human netivities, and that the his- sideration of some of the directions Lorical ratio of about 14 to 1 con- in which the life conditions imposed forms to the prevailing rate of out- on people in the tropics, or which pat, Britain's decision to disearti they impose upon themselves, are the silver pound in 1816 commenced psychologically unsatisfactory and the muccessive assanits upon potentially dangerous,

First bimetalism, every one of which has amongst these he placed the queabeen promptly succeeded by a wide- tion of service, for others. It might "pread and protracted reonomie de- pression. Stage by stage the face

be thought that this urge could be of the monetary world has been neglected with impunity, but the altered, silver has constantly re- authority quoted disputes this view, feeded in value, till it now stands He points out that in places with a rarely above the financial horizon. population largely made up of over-Values have been wiped out, ex- seers and officials, and of others changis revolutionisal, and credits multiplied until the monetary who regard themselves as mere so- journera, the conception of work:ystems of the bulk of the world, resting on gold, have become vast in the service of the community as inverted pyramids of constantly in- a duty is often lust sight of. This creasing proportions threatening a means that an important instine- cataclysm that must shake the tive arge which only finds its full world. Somo interesting facts are satisfaction in much work finds no quoied regarding the collapse of expression and to some extent in silver in 1919 after it had reached Butch a phenomenal mark that the pairs fall mental health. Accord-Hongkong dollar was quoted at over ing to this medical man, what is six shillings. Mr. Thomas reveals | lost In contentment of mind through that the break was brought about lack of civic pride, local patriotism directly by the American Govern- and sympathetic interest in the wel-mant, which carried out a dollberate fare of those among -whom' people campaign for destroying the mar- ket, and then refused to repurchase in the tropics live, is difficult to

the bullion employed for the angers, but there can be no doubt manoeuvre. Within a year, he says, about the loss. The canker of came the grimi harvest, American social and racial aloofness must bear agriculture collapsed. Farm relief

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he's going uggest that very thing."

to be a lawyer? Why, I was just going

of these have been for the Krowe

to solve, a number of poetical con- tributions appearing in the Enigma during the last six months have had even the best of puzzicro puzzled. These were all signed "Pennsylvan iam,

"and.

according to Arty Ess,

official editor, were all posted from the Quaker State. Every effort to identify this new puzzler seemed in vain, and the contributians final- ly ended in this manner:

Penultimate,

The masquerade is ending,

The curtain soon will fall; But one more act impending.

And then-well, then, that's

all!

I've had poor Arty guessing,

He knows not whom to blame; But soon I'll be confessing,

And tell the Dom my namo.

This verse only served to whet the curiosity of the puzzlers, and at their recent Baltimore convention they were all ugog for a glimpse of this puzzlor they had failed to solve. During the business meet- ing a telegram in verse arrived say- ing that Pennsylvanian "quite.

lirty" would "reach the

the Southern's door by eleven thirty." Promptly int the time mentioned a phone call from the alleged "Pennsylvanian" resulted in the sending of a com- mittee to the lobby of the Southern Hotel to cacort this "unknown"

meeting

the

to

Tho escorts (L. M. N. Terry and Orion-both Baltimoreans) finally rotu

urned-but whore was Pennsyl❤

"When wo

down

Bild

Orion,

looked

around the lobby, but for the life Jof

me I

couldn't Anyone who looked extremely puzzled. Perhaps because I didn't look in a mirror. Finally, however, I caught a glimpse of Terry's badge, (All the puzzlers wore badges bearing their nom plume) There it was, ne big na life, "PENNSYLVANIAN," thus was the boax slipped over, and after many explanations from M.

And

Na Terry who had played the dual (Continued on Page 7.)