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MY
Can
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answer
Children's
Questions
Y son asked me a few days ago the
age at which horses finish growing.
He was delighted, and showed his delight by telling me that' my
answer Was the first actually exact answer he had received from an adult for many a long day.
He complained that when a child asked an adult a question almost inevitably he was given opinion instead of fact.
Forthwith, with true contri- tion, I examined my conscience Stubbs Road with his assistance, and found that he was justified in his remark..
Here is a series of typical questions, and the answers he has received from myself and other adults. Here are also the facts as revealed by searching for the information.
Hongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, FEB. G. 1936.
CANTON-HANKOW
RAILWAY
Q. Is a. Rolls-Royce a fast car? Or is it just built for com- fort? Can it, for instance, do 80 m.p.h.!
A. I shouldn't think so...The sort of person who has a Rolls-Royce would not want to do 80 m.p.h.
We looked up a test made of the car by n technical journal. and found that with and against the wind it could travel well over 90 m.ph.
Q. What is the fastest bird?
Pigeons are used for carry- ing messages, and a swift seems to-be-named-because- of its speed. I should say one of those two. Reference shows that a falcon is the fastest bird, its speed reaching sometimes 120 m.p.h. A pigeon's fastest is about half that speed.
Q. Why are opals supposed to be unlucky? Are they sup- NOTES OF THE DAY
There have been so many con- flirting statements latterly with regard to the completion of the Canton-Hankow Railway that the definite information given on the subject by Captain R. DA. Walker, in his address to the -Rotary Club,is most welcome It appears that there are now a little over ninety miles of this important system to be laid down, and that completion may be expected within six months' time. The result will be to bring Canton and Hankow with- in forty hours' travelling of ench other, with manifest advantages to both centres and to the inter- vening towns and cities. Even- tually, the time should be cut down to a day, with the possi-
The year 1936 will almost cer. bility of the trip between-Hong tally be the greatest in the his- kong and Peiping being made in tory of aviation. There are 'pros two and a half days, and the pects of development in many prospect of a link-up to Calais directions. Definite progress will by way of the Siberian railway. be made towards accelerated and Whilst, as Captain Walker multiplied Empire air services. stated, it is possible to take too The four-times-a-week service to optimistic a view of the paten-India and the scheduled four days'' tialities of this newly-forged journey to South Africa will be at link, there can be no doubt that hand, and other extended services it will act as a great stimulus to trade along the areas served by the line. The extent to which the railway will be used
EXPANDING AIRWAYS
such as the Imperial Airways service from Penang to Hongkong
เ
For
instance,
can you answer these?
posed to bring bad luck to the person who wears them?
Why should they?
A. It is hard to compare: some people speak slowly and others. fast in both lan gunges. But fast French is, of course, as you can notice when you
hear French people speaking, much faster than English. sought
A. Oh, it is probably something to do with their origin: All 'stones are supposed to be symbolic of something. Information was
Hay
Amerlen by foreign immi grants or from the Indians. Wrong: It comes from a small town now in Czecho- Slovakia called Joachimsthal. The word is actually derived from the word "Thaler," first coined in that town.
Q. Why do you sometimes sco sheep kneeling down in a field grazing? You often xce it.
A. The sheep probably has rheumatism, has hurt its foot or something like that. You might just as well ask, why does a man limp?
The facts once more: Sheep · are mountain animals equipped by nature to travel on rock and sand surfaces by hoofs, the horn of which grows very fast
Lo
make up for the constant wearing away. When they are kept on soft meadowlands the horn of their hoofs grows no long that, if it is not kept con- stantly pared away, it turns in points in front, under their feet or in long so that it is
to reach the grass. painful or impossible,. for them without kneeling,
So you see that poor protest- ing ten-year-old was right. In future when he or any other
under the direction of a collec- The truth brought forward child asks me a question I shall, tor of semi-precious stones. It from the pages of a shorthand if my knowledge is not exact, was this. In the Middle Ages book: opals became immensely popu- every
The French enunciate say: "I don't know.",
But I shall take him to the syllable evenly. They lar. In this way a great deal say, for instance, "Gou-ver-ne- and from there to the technical dictionary, the encyclopædia, of money was diverted from the ment" cach syllable being coffers of the Church. An.opal equally stressed. We
works which amplify the sub- shrinks when in a dry atmos- "Guv'ment"; their one word, Ject which we will then have phere, and will frequently therefore, sounds like four. In traced to its source. shrink sufficiently to fall out fact, English is spoken much of its setting. The Church un- faster than French.
When the officially declared the stone to top speed of reporting short be an unlucky stone. Many hand needed in the French women who had lost their opals Chamber was 180 the House of through shrinkage believed the Commons reporter had to, and report and left them alone. To could, write 250 words a minute keep an opal safe in its setting at times. drop it into a glass of water
when not wearing it.)
Q. Why can a fool or a calf gallop like mad when it is a few hours old, while we children can't even walk for' a year or more?
Q. Where does the word "dol
lar" came from?
A. Probably from some foreign
language Imported
Even if I am falrly certain of the answor to his question I shall look it up with him so that he, in a short while, will be able to seek out his own authorities in a similar way.
has not tired of trying to learn, handicapped as he has been by my fog of adult vagueness.
I wonder now that the child
Patrick Murphy
PENSIONERS ALL!
A. Animals live a natural life; we would probably be much more active if we lived like the animals we are supposed to be." "If you ̈ ́slept in a flold on a winter's night you would die of pneumonia, yet a foal calf would not. the information
Natural history book yielded horses and cattle are always in. danger of carnivorous animals, and nature, to defend them, ONE in every nineteen persons in Great Britain is a pensioner of enables foals and calves to run the State. Few people realise the
that wild
This article reveals some amaz-Britain it would be found that one- ing figures regarding pensions in in every three persons was in re- Great Britain. One person in every ceipt of State bounty. nineteen receiven some form of Every year certain individuals bounty from the State, and the are granted Civil Liat pensions, and future may see the pension-roll there are over 2,000 recipients. ussume even larger proportions,
When one of the Georges consented ***
**
to give up the Crown Innda in re- turn for a fixed annual allowance from Parliament it was stipulated that a certain sum be set aside for well of the State."
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as fast as their dams almost enormous sum which is paid out needy persons who had "deserved
from the moment of foaling or
calving. Flight is their chief defence.
A.
Ircland is a hilly country with poor roads, and horses are used a lot more there than here. Besides, Irish- men are fond of horses and (hunting. Life is cheaper
every year by the British Govern
there, and I imagine the old-age pensioners between the who receive very handsome · pen-
It's a
-CHILDREN involved when compared with perial Airways. They will have a there than in most parts of mentioned Act. Last year the victorious generals and admirals a
IN
RED, BLUE & GREEN
from $250
ALSO
WELLINGTONS
IN ALL SIZES
from $495
CHILDREN'S DEPT.
met in pensions of various kinds. Civil List pensioners in practice Take war pensions alone. More are nominated by the Premier, but Q. Why are frish hunters and then $43,000,000 is still being paid the King has full power to grant
Irish steeplechasers
out a year to ex-soldiers and their such pensions to anyone he may posed to be so good? The cers, 8,200 officers widows, 3,400
dependants. There are 23,050 off- think fit.
How Charles II. hid in an oak thoroughbred is absolutely children, 960 nuracs, and 4,680 tree is known to every schoolboy; English and every one says officers and nurses' dependants. but not so many people are aware he is the best horse in the The number of pensionera of non- that a small penalon is still regu- world?
commissioned rank is 440,725. In larly paid to the descendants of the addition there are 1,600 motherless man who helped the Royal escape. children, and 253,950 ex-soldiers Oddly enough, the descendants are dependants who are pensioned.
mostly living in Amerlen, and the Last year the Post Office paid pension is divided among four per- over 40,000,000 war pension orders. Hons.
There are 604,000 contributory There are two or three dukes
farmers as well as the rich no fewer than 1,626,000 men and legacies
GG and 70, while there are ages
Blons from the State. They are from the extravagant will be in operation. Perhaps
can afford to hunt.
women over 70 who receive 108, a Stuart days. One duke receives the most important advance will be
horsey country.
week from the State on a non-con- £30,000 a year because one of his. Two books. on horse-breeding tributory basis. It is interesting ancestors gave up the right to one preparatory work for a regular Atlantic Air service, which it is and a famous breeder's pro- to note that there are nearly 300, penny from every sack of coal for transportation purposes will hoped will begin in 1938. A series nouncement showed the in- 000 more women pensioners over arriving in London from Nowrastle. naturally be determined by of vitally important operational accuracy of this answer. 70 than men, the figures being Another pensioned duke gets his economle factors, in which con-exercises will be in progress dur-Ireland is a saucer of limestone 900,000 females and 626,000 males. pension for a similar renunciation
ing 1936. New aeroplanes and many feet deep. The grass that nection Captain Walker stressed flying boats will be on trial, and
Under the Contributory Pensions of foreign wine dues, grows in most parts of the Act of 1925 650,000 widows are Trafalgar and Waterloo are now the point that traffic will only soon we may expect steady and island is richer in bone-forming receiving pensions and also 300,000 history, but the descendants of the move by ruil if it is able to bear rapid production of suitablo tyre chemicals, and as a result live the last ten years over $230,000,000 and other privileges. After the orphans and other children. In victors still receive State pensions Twenty-nine large flying boats are the higher transportation costs already under construction for Im-stock grows bigger and earlier has been expended under the above. last war the Government paid its cruising speed of 160 miles an England. The hunter, or the Post Office cashed 121,200,000 old- lump sum in recognition of their conveyance by water. The view hour, and a range with full load steeplechaser is essentially a age pension orders, and 40,000,000 services. It was much cheaper to was expressed that the pros- of 1,500 miles. Some of the big powerful animal with big widows' and orphans" payments. the country than perpetual pon- perity of the line will depend to machines for the Atlantic route are bone."
Intended to carry more than sixty Q. Why do people talk about men, and municipal employees have Most Secure in the World
Civil servants, teachers, police slons. a large extent on the rehabilita- tion of the present terminal sec-yet to be done, but we have now a persons. A great deal of work has
Soviet Russia? There is only all superannuation schemes which tions and on suitable road and definite assurance that a regular
one Russia, fan't there? enable them to receive a pension
In some countries State pensions What does Soviet mean, and there are over 500,000 such ing with a change of Government when they retire at the age limit, are in the habit of suddenly coas- rail connections to Kiangsi, flying service linking Great Britain and Canada with the United States
anyway? Kwangsi and Kweichow. One will be inaugurated at an carly A. The word Soviet is used to pensioners at the present time. or by a new decree, but not so
distinguish
Judges and Cabinet Ministers in Britain. British pensions are point on which Captain Walker date.
the
present are also entitled to pensions on the safest and most secure in the did not touch was the desira
Russia from the old Imperial vacating office, but ex-Cabinet Min- world. Hereditary pensions are. Russia over which the Czar isters seem very reluctant to accept sometimes bought for a lump sum, bility of linking up the Canton-
ence, both in regard to pas ruled: Historically, the dis- pensions. No ex-Minister has been and it is possible to commute either Kowloon and the Canton-
senger and freight traffic, is too means something like "re- paid a pension since 1924, and two, the whole part of a war pension; Hankow systems. Such Bobvious to require emphasis. tinction is necessary, and I Lord Gainford and the Earl of but once the State grants a pension development may not be ab- As to whether there are any presume the word Soviet. Balfour, have renounced their pen- it goes its full legal limit, and It solutely vital to the prosperity prospects of this matter being public."
sions.
is paid without fuss or quibble. The facts are: The word An ex-Lord Chancellor is allowed A famous American statesman of the new line, but that it reopened in the near future, we
A pension of £5,000 a year, and once declared
that Britain's would greatly add to its attrac. Bre without information, but it Soviet means council. It comes Lord Hallaham is in receipt of that stability in recent years was duo would be well worth while, for from the Russian verb "soviet sum, and so, it is understood, is to its army of pensioners." If, tiveness from the business point the mutual benefit of Canton ovat"--to counsel or advise. Lord Sankey. of view there can be no question. and this Colony, if steps were Since the revolution Russia has
as is suggested, the old age pon- slon age limit is reduced to 60 an- Nothing is more reasonable than soon taken with this end in view. been governed by councils. The
other 500,000 will be added to Bri- that two systems under the We therefore again throw out first was the "Council of Labour
tain's pension list, and should tho same national control, having the suggestion, inasmuch as both and Soldier Deputies," formed the "dolo" and the 1,500,000 on tenance allowances for children at The 2,000,000 men and women on Labour party's proposal for main- matters, concern transport be- immediately the Czar abdicated. Public Assistance relief may object school between 14 and 16 Be in- their terminli in the same city, tween the two centres, that the The full title of Russia to-day to their payments being classed as troduced, the number will be fur should be brought into contact question he approached from the la "The Union of Socialist Coun- pensions, but it cannot be denied ther vastly increased. one with the other by means of angle of reaching a double-cli Republics."
Dolcs of Various Sorte
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. a loop line. That is a natural barrelled agreement aiming at Q. 18- French a much faster biggest "pay-out" ever undertaken rapidly coming in Britain when the
development which should com- the construction of the loop-line mend itself to the Chinese rail- and the granting of facilities, for Chinese planes to secure landing way authorities. The conveni-
rights in Hongkong.
that these payments constitute tho It rather looks as if the day. Is language than English? I by any State in the history of the person without a State pension will mean, do Frenchmen speak world. If the unemployed and the be regarded as a curiosity. much faster than we in legally destitute were added to the
M. D. M'Leod. England?
number of bona-fide pensioners in
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