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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1936.

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LIVE

W

'OULD you like to

live twice over?

Th1 probably sounds like a quez- lon prefucing a treatise on some ultra-scientific problem. Actually it is a simple homely question.

True it is prompted by u Latin quotation which I came neross the other day. It runs:- "To be able to enjoy the recolleciton of one's past life. this is to live twice over."

Most of us would like to--- we could control the things we would recollect.

But a good memory is relent- less. It mirrors all the past. pleasant and otherwise.

Only an "artificial memory" will enable us to pick out the bright spots of days gone by.

"The only "artificial memory

i know is a camera, and so if

would live you

twice: over become a photographer 'or-1 that sounds too formidable-n snapshotter.

Even if you have never harley

camera before, I can sure you

1 be not diffenft. Do not expect to a profesional photographer becomes

do ve minutes, became That is bot

necessary.

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KAJAAN

want

le sex. to persuade you

that you snapshotter, may have a chance of winning The magnificent trophy, or the huller prizes, offered in this Sear's "Telegraph" competition.

even

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of

T

Many of you

many think that it peresanty

have years

befor photographie experience tempting to Bft » "plum" and that only pletares from experts win prizes.

This is far from true, for a pros fional photographer with miny

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DOUBLE LIFE

with your Camera

by H. L. SPOONER

This delightful snap and the one on the

right were submitted in a recent Competi- tion at Home.

years' experience confessed to me the other day, when adiniring some of the pictures which have won prizes in our competition: -

"Even if I was afinwed to enter this competition I could never win a prize."

This may surprise you, but there was sound common-sense in his reasoning. Most of the pictures, he argued, were so simple that he could not think of inking them,

ile would strive, he admitted, for

Girls' and Boys' Corner

Learn to Swim - Well

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No. 4. The

4. The BREAST-CRAWL

you are in a bath or narrow pool as the full none should be. Already there is a good game you can play ¦ you have a very important thing to- with some friends, called "Mind the|wards it-the lirenthing.

Shark."

It is equally good fun in deep Breathing out under water and take

or shaflow water,

One player

HLRY K in the middle he is the shark. All the etherμ dinsh across from side of the pool to the other, try- ing to escape. the shark. They can wade, swim, plunge, or go how they like. Al these touched by

the shark either.

drop out of the

ing a fresh benth through the mouth, in n wuick

gulp. really the hardest thing about the breast-crawl--and You should bo quite used to this by now. Sa do it each day. but practise arms and. legs separately as

well.

For the legs, grip the bath-sila so that you lis Each foot shon, not too

game or stay, in and become sharks face downwards along the surface. themselves, until everyone has been thrush the, legs up and cnught

Fast,

go down about 12 inches, one rising while the Your breast-stroke will be pretty other falls. Only the heels should good by now, and will no longer be show at the surface, Reep the knees using dog-paddle much. But you can still and point the feet.

Turn the begin to learn crawl, or hreist-crawl, toen in.

Help Kidneys

Don't Take Drastic Drugs Your kidneys have mine millim tiny tubes

ARM PRACTICE

For the arm prhettee, stand breast- deep and lean forward. One an Arives back through the water, while the other

recovers forward through and right in front of the head and the air. For the drive, dip the flat send it down under the body straight. and hard. Lift it from the water by

or Alter which are endangered by neglect or side. Turn the palm downward; drastic, irritating drugs. Deware: Kidney swing the forearm round tit points trouble

Diakier weaknes makes you suffer to the front: pash the arm forward to from Getting Ur Night Leg Pain, fall stretel. All that recovery move. Nervouses, Dizziness, Stiffness, Theumatism, | Tumbago, Neuralgia,

Itching,ment must be smooth and fairly quick. Burning, Saverting, Acidity or Lews al Vigour, don't į

nge practice. Koup with

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your plunge delay. Try the Doctor's new throwery called trying to glide a fair way before you cleans, lift your head. Keep the hend down

Critex Sia-tex). Booths,

health

tution.

and heals sick kidneys. Starts work in 18 between the arms as you glide ani minutes. Bring

Youth and press the elbows in against the tys. Cyntex com: ittula and You can start the crawl leg-thrash as

now

vitality in 48 hours.

Is Faranteed to end your troubles in a days, you glide from your plunge. If done properly, it will make you travel No. 2 farther,

or money back. At all chemists.

3 Silver Cups, A "Filmo" Straight-8 Movie Camera, $250 in Cash Prizes

to be won in the

Hongkong Telegraph's 6th ANNUAL AMATEUR

PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION

something very clever, and would fall because, whlist the result might be photographically perfect. the picture would label itself "pro- fessional" and would probably Inck the unposed charm of a genuine snap.

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result of last year's contest also proves this, Most "Telegraph" renders are Cuniliar with the wonder. fof pleture which carried off they prim.

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Who could have Said when the

33784 taunetted that. Chinese girl at prayer would by khu that would carry uhject

GF this coveted 11ford Trophy? Or that a snap of a little girl in her bath tub would carry of the prize for Section

was only because the photo of The little girl was natural and 11- psed, full of human appeal, that i Jmediately caught the eyes of The judges,

What is more important is that it could have ben taken any- where. No beautiful surround- ings were required for a picture of this type.

The story of one year's prize- provides another winning picture

moral.

The man who took It subraftted it only because he was urged to by his wife. She wanted a new hat!.

Think of it! He won because his wife thought a cash prize would help her to obtain a much-coveted hat.

And the morni? Do uol BEL storn a critic of your own wo;

leave the judges to decide! The Important thing is alway: to have your camera with you to that you never miss an oppor- tunity.

Personally, I have seen hundreds ‚of thousands of photographs, and I am told I must get tired of pictures, but I would rather leave half my luggage at home than go away without a camern.

To see a pleture and not have a camera is the most distressing experience for

any photo-

grapher.

A professional golfer or an en- Kineer likes to go away and forget Jis work, but a photographer-- professional or amateur-is always looking for pictures,

If he finds one, and is unpre- pared, he is a sad, but wiser man. If you have read this far you will probably ask; "Yes, but what sort of pleture is likely to win a prize?"

Whỏ can ten? You are the only

the happiest and most effective pictures are the simplest

10 be jects for snapshots are found everywhere,

Photograph your children, your

and friends

even pets, your strangers.

Photograph them at home or on Hoilday.

Any one of those saaps may win

one who can decide if the incident you a prize-and they will help you

to live twice over! or scene before you make a picture.

But, generally speaking, you may take it that the happiest and most effective pictures are the simplest

Unless you are very lucky, a posed picture of, say, a very younK batsman on the beach will not be nearly so effective as an unposed plentire of that youthful cricketer sapped when he is unaware of the camera.

I know that the film producer rehearses his cat until sunneilmes the players are weary, in an efort Fu make them apar natural before the camera, 3301 so few

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NOTICE

born 1955,

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Cooling Drink

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URING the hot weather summer cops are most popular. In some Jof these long drinks a dash of alcohol is added, but many people prefer non- alcoholic beverages,

There is always lemonasie, orangeade and the various squasher, but if some- thing slightly different is required the following ingredients unke a most | delicious cooling drink,

The particular mixture given below may be new tu sonje renders.

1 gills orange juice,

1 lessertspoon lemon juice.

Joz, sugar.

1 pint ginger ale

Soda water to taste,

A few cherries.

Method: Strain the fruit juice over the sugar in a jug, and leave to stand for three to four hours,

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1 Showing this is to be easily Ind showing the last word by

Did he return your umbrella? I can see it has begun its travels again, for all that (hidden).

10 Appalled—10 And it might be

hallowed?

1 This course upsets the work. 13 A confection eaten at the in-

side.

15 Style of stuciace not much in

use 10-day.

10 Hidden in Clue 9.

17 You may regard this as bead-

ing, or bath if you like.

What connoisseurs have

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matter of course (two words, 9. 6).

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23 Compact though seldom brief. 27 Certain to take one trick, any-

way

28 Though Jaden still able to take

anything.

29 Quick.

32 A kind of hand that clergymen

enlarge upon,

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23 This, like o cow, may be sukl to a goose with il vegetable. growth. 34 The natural colour of linen, 35 Friendliness.

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2. When stripped of this a certain Red Inclan makes an interjee-

tion.

3 Nething out of the ordinary,

4 An upper garment.

5 Although this may be splied,

st it is endured.

None of us would

rufllan's embrace.

Add the cherries, and pour the kinger ale

G over the fruit, and add sufficient soda water to enliven and blend to taste (about 1 pint bottle). Put a lump of leg into the jug, and 00000 serve at once.

Shivers Plays Safe

HELY, LOOK OUT, SHIV! 'CAN'TCHA SEE BIG CHIEF RAIN-IN-TH',

PAN IS AIMIN' THAT WAY?,

I KNOW VERY WELL YOU ARE, SAR!

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enjoy this

# Done up again only to be cast

of finally. 12 No umblassed.

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14 Planned to take wood at first,

but was-anticipated.

15 Iidden In Clue 9.

18 Loud, and scarcely in good

taste.

10 Not much of a week-end, you

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-Feminine character in "Don

Giovanni" and "Masanicilo

25 This circle does not extend á

warm welcome to anyone.

26 What'a to-do! Note the centre

forward.

27 Taken in hand

cashier.

by the bank

30 Any following given this

pleasant organism is on the Con- tinent.

31 Hidden In Clue 9.

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THATS WHY I DEEM IT THE SAFEST

PLACE!