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Mid-Week Problems

by Hubert Phillips IDENTIFICATION TEST

PROBLEM I.

Mrs. Scribbler's daughters were nt- not very successful in their tempts to identify the portraits of famous poeta. Mrs. Scribbler had nut Ave porirails on the mantel- plece those of Browning, Byron, Keats, Shelley and Tetinysou-and she invited each girl to write down the names of two of them. These were their answers:

Mubel: No. 2 in Byron, No. 3

Tennyson.

Gertie! No. 1, Browning. No 2.

Shelley.

Diana: No. 3 is Shelley. No,

Is Browning.

Puan No. 2 Is Byron and No. 4

In Krats.

5

Sheila: No. 4, Keala, No. 1. Ten-j

nyson.

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER

SPARE MOMENT PAGE

Do you know yourself?

Here is a

new kind of test. Try it out on yourself or friends. Think over these situations and ask-

What would

you do if

a friend, knowing that you detested gambling in

Each girl gave one correct and any shape or form, had, for a joke, taken out and paid for

one incirrect answer.

What number did Mrs. Scribbler

assip to each poct?

PROBLEM II,

NUMERICAL CROSSWORD

Ench square is occupied by a digit,

1

Z 3 4

5

16

7

8

9

10

.

Clues: Acroes

1. Half of clue 0.

5. Three times cluo 10.

0. See clue 1.

IV. See clue 5.

Clues: Down

4. The first two digits of clur ) ae,

multiplied by the font two digits.

2. Same as 1.

3. Twice the first two diplis of V

dn. reversed.

4. First two digits

versed,

7. Same as 2.

of 1 ne. Te

B. Twiven perfeet square,

9. A perfeet square

PROBLEM III

A DOUBLE 'ACROSTIC.

UPRIGHTS

D'you think that, when e

this is heard,

The this-and-thafa

1. A

that in

are coming"

LIGHTS

How absurd!

youngster were be sex-appeal.

A measurement

might reveal.

ven

in Scripture

2. The smallest of the stars is here

at call.

But don't be nervous-there's:

no risk-at-all--~.

3. Curtail that "le gentleman"

whose toll

Shuffled

mortal coil.

monarch fr this

A king's at home here. But, I

do not doubt,

What's greater

than

must stand without

aking

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In your name a sweepstake ticket which won a tremendous

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(a) claim the entire amount for yourself?

(b) claim the money and devole it to anti-gambling propa-!

Kanda?

(c) lot the friend have it?

*

nobleman, a neighbour of yours who ...you found that a haughty

into the river and was in always passed you by unnoticed, had fallen diMculties? Would you

(a) hurry away gleefully? (b) refrain from lending him a hand for fear, since you had not

been introduced, you would insult him? (c) apreciate that he was the type who would not deign to give you a rivil word, inat would promptly risk his own life for you if you were in danger?

*

*

you were a woman, returning from a lecture on "The Superiority of Women to Men," enthusiastic but slightly fatigued, and found all the

Would you seats in the train occupied by men?

(a) feel insulted if no one offered yati a seat?

(b) fervently pray that one would offer you his seat so that you might say, "I'm as empable of standing us any man, thank You"?

te he only too wiling at that moment to be thought the weaker vessel it only one of them would got up and let you sit clown?

"Oh, come on und lave dinner with us. This is my house, isn't it? What do I care how mad the wife gets?"

In Olden Daies,

26, 1936.

expressions we think new and snappy were in common use. Jullus Caesar began one we now attribute to Mae West.

Once he had conquerod the British chieftains he began to multe himsett pleasant to them...He told them he had come here on necount of the oysters of which he had heard so much while staying Ju Gaul.

Ife admired some of the buildings in London. He thought the British maidens n 1ttle too much addicted to the use of wond-stain (probably it gave him the blues), but otherwise he thought them not too bad,

After a good dinner at some wealthy ebleftain's private house, he would say: "Vent, ut aliquando me videas," which, translated in the way we did it at school, meant, "Come, that some time thou mny's see toe. In other, and more familiar, words, "Come up and see ine some time."

"

Bottles by the million-

N

we use them daily from infancy to old-age

OBODY knows how many millions of bottles there i are in circulation. 1,500,000 new bottles are made in Britain each year.

What happens to them all? To begin where most people do begin, we must look in the nursery-to the baby's feeding-bottle. Glass-blowers who make these bottles drink as much is a gallon of beer during each shift, so thirsty is the work.

These roth-blowing glass-blowers suggest another kind of bottle- the beer bottle:

ber-coloured because long research proved that that was the kind of .ss men prefer to see their beer through.

Clare! bottles, burgundy bottles, champagne hotites, lager botiles, whisky bottles beer, wine, spirit and similar bottles nerount for 10 per cent, of the output.

For fun and fashion

▸

With

us of other bottles; the stone ones filled Schooldays remind

never seems to laste so good Ringer-pop. It's strange that ginger-beet as it did in those days! Then there are the lemonade, soda-whter. Jemon- sush-all the different kinds of mineral water bottles-Including those with the little glass ball in the top which are in such great demand by marble-players,

The health of a nation can be judged by its bottle output figures. Doctors and chemists are good customers for bottles. Feminine fashion, too, influences the side of bottles-sernt bottles, nail-polish battles, hair- lotion bottles-there's a big drinand for them all.

arc there?

What other battles Milk bottles of course! And the sture cupboard displays a galaxy of hotties. Bottled fruits, bottled swerts, bottled pickles, bottled salad oil, bottled sauce, bottled beef ex- tract. the list goes on.

The Vacuum nask is another special bottle, useful for giving you 14 first drink when it is cult to

get one otherwise.

Even when the day is over we are not Anished with bottles. Up to hed with us comes the hot-water bottle,

To Chart Currents

Life would be Inéonceivable with- out bottles. Think of the part the ink bottle plays in human affairs.

By floating bottles out to sea and watching where they go, experts have been able to chart ocean cur- rents. By floating bottles out Sea castaways have saved lives.

to their

Asiatic way

The American Harkness Expedition sent an SOS this

of the party when the members found themselves stranded between Philippines last Borneo und the

year.

There is another side to the pic- ture. When bottles are broken they pune- Inay cause serious injuries, turea and road accidents, Left in in hot weather try undergrowth they start Ares.

MID-WEEK PROBLEMS PROBLEM I. IDENTIFICATION TEST

No. 1. Byron. No. 2. Shelley. No. 3. Tennyson.

No. 4. Keats... No. 5. Browning. PROBLEM II. NUMERICAL CROSSWORD

3989 456 797

6381

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PROBLEM III.

A DOUBLE ACROSTIC

C

U ASTE RISK

I IT

M о

L E A L ACE

Light 3-The "ittle gentleman'

in black velvet," al- leged to have been responsible

for the

death of William 111.

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ACROSS

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1 Not really unfair, this, as a clue, and yet not fair, either.

3 Is a little drink taken here?

It is, with a distinctly unsober result.

10 Mude ma real mad: She had a

jar, of course.

11

Has your cake? I hope so.

12 What Canute did, but not to

the waves.

13 This space might just as well

be inside..

which

16 Latitude

the captain doesn't let the crew take, 17 A three-cornered affair in which nearly all appear in the

scene.

10 Goes high in the air.

21 Call a little bird in.

22 Went through slowly with one

cad coloured.

24 Our French is not remarkable

at the start.

27 Follows the bride in

church

and transports her afterwards. 28 A cur

curious animal to be tracked

to a puma's lair, surely?

29 Not so much thunder in the air, as the other way about, ceri- ingly.

30 Stop.

DOWN

1 Throw into confusion.

moral is obvious,

2 Truly this may be a test.

4 Conceive.

Covers for the sash.

6 Culter.

The

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7 Make a revised statement. Damp article in decay,

Give the company some money for a hanky (one spelling).

14 The part of the brain that n

mutineer occupies.

16 The charm that starts to go one

better,

18 "It's noun," that's what he is

(anug.).

20 Men who have a pull in certain

races. 21 Back.

23 This colour is largely metallic. 25 It isn't on infection, and yet

it is.

26 As It was in the beginning.

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