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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY,

FEBRUARY 3, 1937.

MOMENT PAGE

Know

the Truth about your Friends"

are

features an index

series in which facial examined as index to character, temperament, ability

Do you know any of these noses?

A

LARGE nose betokens.

a good breather, full

of life and vitality.

The degree to which the nose

muscles have been compressed

TO-MORROW

What you can learn from a

study of chins

shows how much this vitality quickly and completely. This gives

has been controlled and directed the impression of bigh emotion.

by concentration and good thinking."

It is

to distinguish ensy between the narrow nose that indicates lack of energy and that of the person whose vitality

is controlled.

In most cases "hese fit either men or women. the lines and contours modified.

structures

In women are

more

THIS HOSE

Is scen

more often on women than on

men.

You have an active imagin- alion, largely

as a result of a

"high degree of

emotionalism.

You appreciate

colour

You are best ut Judging the work

of other people-particularly artistle work.

A

man's nose.

TAP-DANCING.

LESSON 6:

YESTERDAY, we "shufted," holding on to a chair,

counting AND 1, AND 2 AND 3, STAMP 4.

To-day I want you to leave your chair and, after‡ Iputting a fortrol record on (to aloid tempo), shuffle AND-+ #1 on the right foot, stamp R. and shufie AND 1 on the‡

left foot, atamp L.

Keep ateing tourself a rest and, while resting from your shugles, go back to come of the earlier clop and alamp exercises,

When a Ship is

HELPLESS in The GALE

WTHE

By Captain FRANK H. SHAW

'$'B

Defore

you finish your practice for to-day try to pet

Is lying helpless The following titie routine:

with her steering-geor disabled," hands: Stamp R; Clap both hands: Stamps a fairly common report during Clap both Shuple R; Stamp, Stamp (R and L); Shuffle L; Stamp, these days of winter gales. It doesn't Stamp (L and R).

sound very dramatic, and, to the casual observer, the steering-gear of

Now try to "all out the movement by clapping and Tstamping with style and swing. Never make your clans in front of your face. On every stamp movement let your arms swing anywhere, as long as they move,

Do you use long words?

D

a ship seems the one thing unworthy' of interest.

Actually, however, a ship's steer- ing-gear is even more vital to her than her engines or her waterlight bulkheads.

What happens when the steering- geur breaks down? The hard-tried thip immediately swings round into the trough of the sen. What has pre- viously been a semi-orderly molion, blend of pitching and rolling, be- comes at once a heartrending roll.

Not that rolling which affects pas- sengers to their discomfort, but real rolling, with white-crested waves raging aboard over either rall, with the well decks so deeply awash that a man, attempting to cross them, is dipped shoulder deep, and has to cling lo whatever hand-bald offers to save himself from being torn to leeward and brought-up-stunned and help- less, in the lee scuppers,

Waves pile up as high as the navigating bridge and occasionally wash the watch-keepers from their

ON'T let your bad spelling get foothold. The ship, in a word, be- you down. Fonetic spelling is a comes little better than a tide-washed grate help to filologists hoose job

rock.

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is to find out how our forefathers spoke as well as wat they sed.

Bad spelling is a good guide to pronuncia-ONLY those who have known the

fury of

Atlantic seas coming tion, because bad spellers aboard can appreciate their devaslat- write 112 they talk. Ing savagery. And the rudderless The "ologies"; Spoken language is dif-ship is at their mercy. She cannot ferent from written lan-feint and dodge as she is able to when under control. She cannot hurl her- philology' guage, always has been.self across the foamy crests: shipping "Hath" was written long a little, certainly, but nothing danger- after "has" was spoken.

And all the while lifeboats are be- Philologists track these things ing splintered to matchwood; deck- down. They find out when words house doors beaten In.

While the havoc progresses the were first used and how their pro-

unciation has changed through the desperate crew, led by second mate ages. Philology deals with the struc- and carpenter, whose duty it is to ture and development of languages, tend the steering-geur, strive to make

Philologists use their knowledge to repairs. investigate national characteristics, to bility to rig a new rudder from der

It is within the bounds of poss!- write history.

You show acquiescence, sweetness and a faint

You give 11. high degree of air of mystery. directed

In men this nose effor!

Indicates im- You OTC not You work well practicability. and

live type who gets things done. Never- you sanely. Thus you theless, you appreciate action in have

a healthy athers and are usually ready mind in n healthy follow some one else's lead. body.

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Your emotions are under good control. In love,

you display discrimination.

A large place in your life is given

to work and social engagements.

You have

had many

and disappointments.

rhythm and Check after other artistic qualities.

On the other, hand, you are not very good at expressing yourself, You lack confidence. You long for more friends, but you draw within yourself when meeting strangers.

In love, you ure usually the weaker of the two partners. You let yourself be tolten rather give yourself. It means much you, for you need some one to lean

You are sen

lo

sitive and renct instantly to It m spheres, Your brittle per- ception malces you a good critle

of artistic values 'and you have

discrimination.

You are emmo- tional but not deeply so. Rather- your sensitive. ness and readi-

ness to react to

check. You have been set back

and this has bred

a bitter reserve towards your fel- lows.

You are not

very responsive.

A developed

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spicion of

others has made you close with money,

suggestion kindle your emollon very you. Your

kind

you are a woman this nose indicates discretion, a rea- diness to please, and a tendency to dreaminess. You

are romantic and

(other features

Y

OU are tactless. You are always putting your foot in it. -but-unfor.tu-. nately you don't

know it.

If you want to do a thing. you Just do it. You

do not stop to think how it will affect any one else. You can-

not take a hint.

HIS nose is

rarely found

THIS

in women,

It is an excel- lent sign. You are practical, With you, Initia- dive and caution go hand in hand, producing enter- prise tempered by good judg- ment. You have business acumen.

considered) very You are broadminded and a good attractive to men. judge of men.

Probably

you

are not very effl-

cient at running a home or a party, but then, nobody expects that from of men avants

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are a person of percep tion, # cool thinker, capable of sustained

concentration and deliberate thought.

You get an idea for your work, or a plan for a big recep- tion, and you work it out with a singleness of mind that produces a perfect design. This is a good nose in men or women. It is rare in women, but those who have it oflen make good novelists and Journalists.

In two words-controlled force,

YOUR lack of

confidence is

a bane to you.

You have many. unfortunate char- acteristics which are direally traee- able to this con- dition. You think too much. about

yourself,

Xou are secre- Uva adů muspicious. chiefly because you lock the courage.10.

get things off your chen. R TREA

Try to cultivate a more conddent

ous.

or

The greatest living English philolo- ricks and bulkhead doors; a grotesque

steered gist Professor H. C. Wyld, an elder- paddle that cannot be ly and enthusiastic Oxford don. He handled by any other power than the addresses audlerces of 500 and illus cargo winches. trates his teaching by making most A ship steered thus is slightly more

extraordinary sounds.

manageable than a foundering barge, The greatest authorities on the but only slightly so, And to make a

Dancs English language' are

and Jury-rudder bikes hours, perhops Dutchmen.

days. Its putting in place can be as There

are many philological long an operation, and even when theories. One is that the sound of in place the sea probably-takes--n every word illustrates its meaning,Bendish delight in destroying it forth- that we use the word "gong,

for with. Instance, because it sounds like the beat of a gong.

* *

Primitive people use long words:İMEANWHILE, the storm-hounded the longer the word, the smaller the ship rolls and sags helplessly in thought. Like children whe babble the troughs. To all appearance, she for sheer joy, they use their tongues is doomed: what's the good of fighting as playthings. We often speak sim-to save her, it is anty postponing the ply for the pleasure of exercising our evil hour? That is when the SOS vocal cords.

is sent out: an SOS which to the

No one's linguistic education is layman by his fireside seema waneces- ever complete. Our speech changes sary, with only the steering-gear enr- from day to day. We are influenced ried away!

by our neighbours' hablis, some more f have rolled, helpless, threatened, than others. New slung is constantly for 64 hours in a ship whose rudder appearing. Young people especially had gone. In the pre-wireless days.. love to play with new words,

We rigged a jury rudder; the main rudder-head having been carried completely away, so that it hung use-

Languages are tending to become lessly in the chains, more standardised. Local dialects A sea-anchor had no effect; the are passing. Districts are no longer wind and sea were so terrific that the isolated as they used to be.

ship was blown to leeward like a re-balloon.

Human lazincas is largely sponsible for changes in language. Three men were killed outright, When the beginning of a word two more were ruimed, and the ship conveys the sense, the shortened looked a wreck. But we weathered form sometimes becomes the general the danger. If we had not we should one. For instance, "eal" for "cab- have drowned. We were in the lone- riolet," "photo" for "photograph," Illest stretch of sca in the world.

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1 Proverbially weak,

4 When they absorb French wines, become The Empire citizens Scandinavians:

BA number of fellows that help

you to walk.

9 This foreign town may have

plenty of good in it, but it isn't apparent at first sight.

10 Often there's no admittance this

why.

11 More valuable than her mother. 12 Trembilag on the brink of being

vague.

15 Cereal of which one gives due

weight.

10 He is on the staff.

18 Was this the club that made the

Iron Cross?

21 A mangled torso.

23. Certainly on the large side.

24.As the day is long.

25 Soundo a stable business.

28 Unaltected.

29 Mine-sweeper.

30,Fluid-lyro-(anagram).

31 Sort of vocal garging.

DOWN.

1. With scorn, maices a cliche.

2.Iilding, in the open, may be. 3 Buck door? You've about got

its measure, I can see.

4 Vessel that contains part of an-

other,

's' Bird....

0 In briss me

7 A Surrey village ends here.

Easy

9 Put this on for a doctor.

13 He gets the cash.

14 Make love in a golf club, |17 Maple here possibly, but only

for a day.

19 Sort of pocket cratt.

20 A complete revolution doesn't

affect these monarchs.

21 Hand over fist, but knock to no

purpose.

22 Detains (anagram), 23 Cuses are,

20 "Hear! Henr!" is but poor en-

couragement to them.

27 Diminutive.

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