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Are you

-HOW

MUCH

YOU WANT

mercenary?

WOULD-

FOR-

1. (a) Committing a murder providing you knew that no one would øver find

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(b). Committing same murder if it was to be known that you had done it but you were to cacape punishment!

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2. Never for one moment-sleeping or waking-being left alone for five years.

Ever-present companion to be chosen by you?

e.. Alternatively, living in a self-supporting house and grounds without human

companionship for Ree years?

4. Sitting down at u cinema throughout the playing of “God-Save the King"! 6. Having your hair dyed green?

6. Falling into a trance during one month of each year for the rest of your life (taking into account the effect this would have on your business and social activities)?

7. Becoming insane during one month of each year for the rest of your life?

8. Abandoning all hope of life after death?

. Agreeing to die (by any means you like) in fifteen years from to-day?

10. Making o parachute jump from an airplane 3,000 feet up?

THIS is not part of an application form

for a high position in gangsterdom, but one of a series of questions asked of a group of responsible men and women, in order to find out whether for mercenary considerations the average human being will perform actions that-from fear of public opinion, moral conscience, physical repugnance, or fear-they would not ordinarily commit.

From the results it seems that most people will do most things for cash,

The answers to these questions (it first being explained that the subject was to imagine him or herself in a state of financial need at the

time of the offer) suggested some provocative generalisations..

Over the whole questionnaire, men wanted nearly twice as much money as the women; were On prepared to commit fewer of the actions. the other hand, the average sum for which a man would commit a murder (provided he was not found out) was a mere £20,000, whereas the average sum demanded by women was £70,000,

Fifty per cent. of the questionces said that for no mercenary consideration would they com. mit murder.

Majority of the potential murderers wanted more if (Question b) their act was to be known to the world. One woman, however, asked less- a mere £25,000-explaining that her feeling of repugnance was not for the act, but the fear of afterwards being unable to keep her secret, that is, fear of ultimate punishment.

These People Play at Mickey Mouse

YESTERDAY you heard

another Mickey Mouse programme--the Chinese New Year morn- ing show at the Alhambra.

But you did not know who "Mickey" and all his friends. really are. Their names are purposely omitted from the programmes.

Here, then, is the complete cast. Minnie: Anona Winn. She needs Rome past no introduction. In Mickey shows this character has been played by Wynn Ajello,

Donald Duck: Elsie Ilay, Wire- less chorine. Tall, deep-voiced. Usually laughing.

Pluto: G. Stern Scott. Tubby, spectacled. Wireless khorister- once a violinist under Sir Henry Wood. Also plays Grasshopper.

Big, Bad Wolf: Jimmy Bund. Elderly, portly, genial. Has bassed it in the Wireless Chorus for years. A traveller in his spare time.

"Three Little Pigs: Mesdames Elsie Hay, Marie Colon, Linda Parker chorines all. They sing those cheerful Httle close-harmony tries that, trickle through all the Mickey shows.

And now for the big shot. John Watt plays Mickey: And why? Because Walt Disney plays Mickey in the screen' version. But Watt is difdent about stepping Into the great man's shoes. Mickey is kept severely in the background.

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Answers to Question No. 2 show that the majority of unmarried inen would not suffer a constant companion for any money in the world. And those who would ask

Is Your Name Anne?

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPIE SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1986.

A flock of birds fol- smoke grey are in accord with the

Symbol: loving the plough. vibrations of your name, and these

..reserve,

THIS namo signifes

patience, the power to arouse and retain affection.

Saturday is the day of Fortune, and the luckiest hours are the sixth and eighth after sunrise. The most favourable day of the month is the 17th. Quiet tones of the purple and

WINTER TIME IS DANCE

cums which are hard to imagine. TIME

Apparently man thinks his com- pantonship cheap at round about billion pounds for five years:

Women usk large sums, too, but usually, keep below the million mark.

National Anthem

The amount for which they would sit down through the play Ing of the National Anthrom varied hygely from threepence thousand pounds...

to A

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The average sum for which women would have their hair dyed green was £550, Men asked a median of £8,000. One, butler to a pedantic and peppery man I know, asked only £100, though.

A bald man replied that he would rather have green hair than none.

Majority of men show a marked disinclination to go into u-trance- for a month each year. Contrary to the women, the greater number who refused absolutely were quilz willing (they said) to suffer a month's insanity. Types of In- sanity most popular slowed desire for power-where subject thinks himself to be either God Napoleon (why Napoleon, who was surely a most unhappy man- who wants indigestion, anyway?).

Futuro Life

or

As to Question No. 8, the majority of the questionees belleve in a future life. The highest figure asked, by a woman who goes to church on Sundays, is £10,000.

The lowest is 2d. The aver age £3,000,

Young people, ona gathers, are quite ready to dle in afteen years' time for an Immediate cash con- sideration. The older ones want to hang on. £10,000 in the almost uniform figure asked by women. Mon, though varying greatly, ask about the same ou an average.

Girls and Boys' Corner

Try this trick

EVERY conjurer

should know how

to do a few pond tricks with cards, and herein. one which will never fail to mystify your audience.

Take a pack of play- ing cards, and holding up the top one so that all your friends can seç it clearly, ask them to mamorise that card. We will suppose that it is the four of dia- monds, and in full view of everybody you pro.. ceed to push it into the centre of the paol.

After making a few maglo passes the cards are dealt on to the

table, one by one, and it will be seen that the four of diamonds has mysteriously vanished. from the pack!

paste the four of dia-

monds and another You can

card together, back to back, and, leave them under a very heavy weight to dry.

When pushing the double card "into" the pack, be sure to do it as, the drawing showa, with the four of

make

music

diamonds facing up. You can make a folly wards and the rest of the pack facing down- wards. Then, when the cards are dealt face upwards on the Although this is tablo, the four of dia really a very puzzling monde will be on the piece of magic, the ex- underside of the double planation is quite curd. The double card, simple, and this is the of course, must always way the trick is work, be the card on top of ed. First carefully the pack.

musical instrument in this way.

Obtain a plece of soft wood about six inches long. Into this knock sight plna of various depths.

In in The further the pin is driven in the wood, the higher the note.

Tap the pins with a pencil and you will find that you are able to play. elmple tunes.

SOMETIME during Hong- kong's winter you are .It. al- sure to be dancing. ways happens some time during the next threa months.

Those of us who haven't been dancing much may feel out of touch with "the new steps.". But why deprive ourselves of fun just be. C.RU We cannot execute some 8pectacular- movements?

Surely this

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Is the very best-opportu. nity, in our own intimate circle of friends, to get the feel. ing for dan- cing again.

Mr. Santos Casani, the *The feet should always famous Lon- move in a straight line, don teacher of ballroom dancing, has decided opinions on the subject.

"Only the invention of a noi rhythm brings a new dance," ko a. "And as none is forthcoming at the moment, I am teaching hesitation waltz, a simplified tango, and above all the quickstep.

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THE great secret in dancing to-

day, he says, lies in knowing the correct way to hold your part- ner, and particularly in acquiring the proper balance.

The feat should always move in a straight line whether moving backwards or forwards, with the weight direct--:

ed on to the

balls of the feet and the beels just off the ground.

Shoes for dancing must have straight heels, not curved.

The now. hesitation -steps-intro... duced into the waltz provide a pleasant Variation. Long gliding move menta are correct

The great secret fley'

20 in balance.”

for the now progressive waltz,

Mr.

Victor Silvester, who with his wife, has won many dan cing competitions, always teaches the quick-stop first."

He advocates the new Charles- ton as a good dance for a crowded ballroom.This Introduces the knco-bending movements of the old Charleston without the exagger ated kick.

Into your

enter colours should schemes of dress and decoration.

The sapphire is your lucky gem: it protects you from accidents and fears.

The snowdrop is the lower ap signed to you, and the number four brings you good fortuno in all per-f sonal things.

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Fruit

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Wash.in lukewarm

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Coffee & Cocon

Soften

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Milk

Drip alcohol on to the stain and wash in a weak solution of ammonia. Then rinse thoroughly and repeated- ly with water.

Grease. Put a blotter under the mark and treat with benzine or benzol.

Tea. Treat with a mixture composed of equal parts of alcohol, glycerine, and water.

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