"No use shuffling the glasses
this is WHITE HORŞE”
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1934.
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Equal to a fine liqueur
To judge whisky, pour out a small measure of it and add an equal quantity of water. Roll it round in the glass and "nose" it for bouquet. Then sip it, rolling it on the tongue and against the palate. Finally swallow. If it seems in every way the equivalent of a fine liqueur it is "White Horse."
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CRICKET IN
THE MOON
SURPRISE FOR CHILD EXPLORERS
SIR J. JEANS ARRANGES ECLIPSE
"We have just arrived at the moon, and now we are going to look round and see what kind of scenery there is."
Sir James Jeans had brought his conducted children's party by rocket from the Roya! Institution to the moon. As travelling equip ment for a Saturday afternoon's entertainment he carried:
once-Sir James took his visitors [tion of celestial gunfire. He took for a walk round the moon,
Two Colours Only
"Everything lookn either black or white," he pointed out. "The sky is black. Everything in the
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out the Big Bertha and claimed confidently that, if its shells would reach 70 miles on earth, they would jump right off the moon into space and never come back again.
Freezing, But No Frost
sunshine is white. There are no
Sir James also managed to ar- soft-tinted landscapes.
range for the sun to be eclipsed "We feel as if we were in awhile his party wore on the moon, cinema studlo lighted by one ter- and warned them that when this happened they might expect the ribly powerful light, the sun. temperature to drop suddenly from There is no poetry about sunrise that of boiling water to almost as or sunset. It is just like turning far below freezing point. on an electric light."
If they stayed the night, it ap- Then Str James explained that peared, they would have to be no one need be afraid that his equally careful not to catch
chill. The drop in temperature oxygen
equipment would fool would be just as sharp, but there heavy the moon's gravitational would be no frost, because there pull was so small. "We feel so was no water to freeze. If there athletic," he suggested hopefully, had ever been any water it would "that we may as well try to break have all boiled away in no time, our jumping record, and everyone because it would be boiling in else's ng well."
A good athlete on the moon, he thought, should aim at a high
vacuum.
Then Sir James pointed out that a million or so shooting stars and A cricket bat, a cricket ball and jump of 36 feet and a long jump meteors were hitting the moon 120 feet-but about criekot every day, some of them travelling stumps,
Sir James was less encouraging. In hundred times as fast as a rifle
bullet.
Oxygen equipment, because the moon has no atmosphere, and
A "Big Bertha" gun.
of
"We shall find that it is no game"
at all," he warned them, "unless It was these, he explained, we make the pitch six times as which had whittled away the long as usual, and place the field-mountains of the moon until they aera six times as far out. The ball and peaks which cast shadows like will travel six times as far through || cathedral spirés. The ginot the air.
craters which they saw all around were not the
marks left by meteora, but were extinct vol- canoes. 2
They might as well make thorough job of it, Sir James Jeans thought, because afterwards they were going to travel on to the
"But even then we cannot hit stars, and they would want quite the ball any harder than usual, a lot of luggage for so long awhich means that cricket on the journey.
moon la a six times slower game than it is even on the earth. It is But before unpacking the lug-no game to play here." Rage-except for the
oxygen
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once
The party then packed again into their rocket to travel at fabulous speed to a destination (undisclosed) among the planets, So, to relieve any disappoint-where they hoped to arrive safely equipment which they wanted at ment, Sir James gave an exhibi- to-morrow.
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