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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3,

1937.

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Third article in Know

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the Truth about your Friends' series in which facial examined as index to character,

features

an

are

temperament,

ability

Do you know any of these

A

noses?

LARGE nose betokens

a good breather, full "of life and vitality.

The degree to which the noNO muscles have been compressed shows how much this vitality has been controlled and directed by concentration and good thinking.

It is

саву to distinguish between the narrow nose that indicates lack of energy and that of the person whose vitality is controlled.

In most cases these structures At either men or women.

In women

the lines and contours are modified.

THIS

more

nose

is seen more often on women than on

men,

You have an petive imagin- allon, largely

an result of a high degree of emotionalism.

TO-MORROW

What you can learn from a study of chins

quickly and completely. This gives the Impression of high emotion.

You are best at judging the work of other people-particularly artistle, work.

A

man's nose.

TAP-DANCING

LESSON 6

YESTERDAY the "shuffled," holding on to a chair,

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

To-day I want you to leave your chuir and, after putting a foxtrot record on (to slow tempo), shuffle AND+ 1 on the right foot, stamp R. and shufie AND on thet Fleft foot, stamp L.

Keep giving yourself a rest and, while resting from your shutes, go back to some of the earlier clap Land stomp exercises.

Before

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Whon a Ship is

HELPLESS in The GALE

By Captain FRANK' H. SHAW

the following tour practice for to-day try to getE THE 5.5, is lying helpless

Ittle routine:

Clap both hands; Stamp R; Clap both hands; Stamps L; Shuffle R; Stamp, Stamp (R and L); Shuple L, Stamp, Stamp (L and R),

Now try to fill out" the movement by clapping and stamping with style and awing. Never, make your claps Tin front of your face. On every stamp movement let

your arms swoing anywhere, as long as they move,

Do you use long words?

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with her steering-gear disabled,"

a fairly common report during these days of winter gales. It doesn't sound very dramaile, and, to the casual observer, the steering-gear

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 watertight bulkheads.

What happens when the steering- gear breaks down? The hard-tried ship munediately swings round into the trough of the sea. What has pre- fviously been a semi-orderly motion, a blend of pitebing 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 abcard over either rall, with the well decks so deeply awash that ja man, attempting to cross them, is dipped shoulder deep, and has to cling to whatever hand-hold-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 watch-keepers from their

ON'T let your bad spelling getthold. The ship, in a word, be-

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you down: Fonetic spelling is a comes litle better than a de-washed grate help to filologists house job rock, is to find out how our forefathers spoke as well as wat they sed.

Bad spelling is a

The "ologies"; philology'

You show acquiescence, sweetness and a faint a high degree of air of mystery. You give it. directed effort. In men this nose indicates im- You work well practicability, You are not the and you live type who gets things done. Never- sanely. Thus you theless, you apprectate, action In have a healthy others and are usually ready to mind in a healthy follow some one else's lead.

body.

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 appreciateYou

have

· had-many-

colour and disappointments. rhythm and Check after other artistic check. You have qualities,

been sel back "and this has bred n bitter reserve towards your fel lows.

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

In love, you are usually the weaker of the two partners. You fel yourself be taken rather than give yourself. It means much to you, for you need some one to lean

on.

VOU are sen-

sitive and react instantly to atmospheres. Your brittle per- ception makes you a good critic of artistic values and

you discrimination.

have

You are emo- tional but not deeply so, Rather your sensitive- ness and readi-

ness to react to

You are not very responsive. A developed suspicion of

others has made you close with money..

suggestion kindle your emotion very you. Your

kind

IF you are a

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

YOU are tactless. You are always putting your foot in it. but unfortu- 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..

are

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THIS nose is

rarely found

In women.

It is an excel- lent sign.

You

are practical, With you, inilla- live and caution go hand in hand, producing enter- tempered prloe by

good judg ment. You have business acumen. broadminded and a good

(other features considered) very you attractive to men. Judge of men.

Probably you

are not very eff- cient at running a home or a party. but then, nobody expects that from of men -wants

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OU are a person of great percep- tion, a cool thinker, capable of sustained concentration and deliberate thought.

You get an dden for your work, or a plan for a big recep- tion, und 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 I often make good novelists and Journalists.

In two words-controlled force.

YOUR lack of

confidence is

a bine to you.

You have many unfortunate char- acteristics which aro directly, trace. able to this con- dition. You think too much yourself,

About

You are secre- tive and suspicious chiefly becaŬRO YOU lack the courago to get things off your chest.

Try to cultivato a more · consdent'

Telephone 28021.outlook; be ready to meet people hall-

fury of Atlantic seas coming

good guide to pronuncia-ONLY those who have known the tion, because bad spellers aboard can appreciate their devastal- write 15 they talk. Ing savagery. And the rudderless 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- gunge, always has been.self across the foamy crests: shipping "Hath" was written longla titile, certainly, but nothing danger- after "has" was spoken. ous.

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. were first used and how their pro- While the havoc progresses the. nunciation 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-gear, strive to make

Philologists use their knowledge to repairs, investigate nationai characteristics, to It is within the bounds of passi- write history.

bility to rig a new rudder from der-

The greatest living English philolo- ricks and buikhead doors: a grotesque gist is Professor H. C. Wyld, an elder-paddle that cannot be steered or and enthusiastic Oxford don. He handled by any other power than the addresses audiences of 500 and illus-cargo winchen,

ly

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 English language are Danes and jury-rudder takes hours, perhaps Dutchmen.

days. Its putting in place can be as There аге many philological | long an operation, and even when theories. One is that the sound of in place the sea probably takes a every word-illustrates its meaning, fendish delight"in"destroying it forth that we use the word "gong," for with. instance, because it sounds like the beat of a gong.

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Frimitive people use long words: MEANWHILE, the storm-hounded the longer the orders M

ship rolls and sags helplessly in thought. Like chlidren who babble the troughs. To all appearance, ahe for sheer joy, they use their tongues is doomed; what's the good of fighting s playthings. We often speak sim-to save her, it is only 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 seems unneces- ever complete. Our speech changes sary, with only the steering-gear eat-, from day to day. We are Influenced ried away!

by our neighbours' habits, some more I have railed, helpless, threatened. than others. New slang is constantly for 64 hours in a ship whose rudder appearing. Young people especially had Fonc love to play with new words.

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

effect; the

Languages are tending to become lessly in the chains. more standardised. Local dialects

A set-anchor had no

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ship was blown to leeward like a re-balloon.

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

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Information from Telephone 20752

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1 Proverbially weak.

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4 When they absorb French wines, the Empire citizens become Scandinavians.

8 A number of fellows that help

you to walk.

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

way.

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

vague.

15 Cereal of which one gives duo

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.

20 Sounds a stable business. 28 Unaffected,

20 Mine-sweeper.

30 Fluid lyre (anagram).

31 Sort of vocal gargling:

DOWN

1 With scorn, makes a cliche.

2 Hiding, in the open, may be..

3 Back door? You've about got

Its measure, I can sco

4 Vessel that contains part of an

other.

'Bird.

6 In brisk time.

7A-Surrey village ends here.

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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

pocket.craft,

20 A complete revolution

affect these monarchs.

doesn't

21 Hand over fist, but knock to no

purpose.

22 Detains (anagram). 23 Cases are,

26 "Heart Hear!" is but poor en-

couragement to them.

27 Diminutive..

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