1937-05-10 — Page 10

THE

HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. MONDAY,

MAY 10, 1937.

1.

Get your husband

to answer these QUESTIONS

If he says "Yes" to more than half of them then the odds are that sooner or later you'll leave him

Do you bury yourself behind the newspaper at breakfast?

2. Do you put off shaving until after breakfast?'

3. Do you read your mail and listen to hei with only one ear?

Do you interrupt her when she is telling a story, with the remark,

"Let me tell it, women can't tell stories"?

4.

5.

Do you refer to her as the little woman," "my boss," or "my beller halt

6.

At every new gathering does she have to listen patiently to your favourite laje?

7. Do you tease her about her political beliefs?

8. Do you give her age away?

TO-DAY IN ‘HISTORY

HE STOLE THE CROWN JEWELS

YESTERDAY was

the and was passed by. Blood and the 266th anniversary of the confederates on their way out. They had the crown and orbinder the most daring burglary in their cloaks and had left the half- British

Afed sceptre behind. history Colonel Blood's theft of the Crown Jewels.

THE

TUIE old Keeper snatched the pag from his mouth and began shout- Blood was the most notorious, Ing: "The crown stolen, The swashbuckling daredevil

ever crown is stolen."

horn in Ireland.

Instantly the Tower was in con- fusion. Soldiers, servants, wurders He gained his millary Fank

in rushed about vaguely. Many no- Cromwell's army.

each while he sent persons nearly killed It was

9. Do you speak of her marriage as "When I got caught," "Condemned was passing himself off as a physician other,

for life, etc.?

10.

Do you explain with alarming logic how she should have played at bridge?

11. Do you recall with sentiment your bachelor days, your student days,

and your care-free days before your marriage?

12. Do you remark (sighing) that women are "Sa prone to flattery," "Always falling for foreigners," "Drive recklessly," "Love uniforms"? 13. Do you tactlessly grab a newspaper when your guests are getting

boring?

Do you leave your things be- hind in the bathroom to the annoyance of every one else?

14. Do you say "Don't waste good; 43.

drinks on her she only drinks out of courtesy"?.

15. Do you tell family secrets when 44. Do you leave your bath robe

you have been drinking?

16.

Do you say 'I am going to buy when a new car instead of "we"? 17. Do you drag ter away from 15. people with whom she is en- joying herself, with the words, "You zever seem to think that I have ta get up early"""

18.

Do you compare her household with your mother's?

19. Do you ask "Why haven't you

time? You have nothing to do

all day"?

lying on the ground as you' did: you were at school?

Do you borrow your wife's comb and make

it wet and easy? 46. Do you tell her what has hap- pened during the day at the offer just when she wants to go to sleep?

47.

When you come home lale from a gay party, do you wake her up and tell her all-about it?

20. Do you complain that people 18. Do you switch off the light at

are always seeking your · com-

the very moment when she is pany?

reading the must exciting part of her detective story? 21. Do you bring home 3 few

friends from the Mice withou: 49. letting her know beforehand?

22.

Do you preach " could run 50.

this just as well as you on halt

Do you let her get up to stop

the alarm clock? Does she have trouble in gei- ting you out of bed in the

the money," "No woman can make mornings?

a decent cocktail,” “If I ran any busi-

nesa as "you" F" the huise,"·"It-t

told you, you wouldn't understand" The P. & O. Banking

23. Do you sulk if she doesn't

ately?

in London in 1671 that he conceived

the idea of stealing the jewels from Pistol Misfired the Tower of London.

Not So Safe

In those days, the Regalia were not safeguarded as they are to-day.

They were kept locked in an Iron cage on the ground floor of the Martin Tower, in the upper floors of which lived the eighty-year-old keeper.

as

3

Blood added to the contusion as he ran with the crown under his cloak by shouting, "Stop the rogues," pointing to other running figures.

The captain of the main guard. however, had kept his tye on Blood, chased

out of the Wharf.

.***

Tower to St. Katharine's and closed with him. Blood levelled a pistol in his face, but it misfred. LOOD disguised himself

Blood was captured after a tough BLO

in which

of the mony parson and struck up a friend- struggle,

with the keeper.

In time he stones fell from the crown into the marriage between

the mud. ship proposed a

A pear! iceeper's daughter and a well-to-do

Was picked up by a sweeper, a diamond by an appren- "nephew" of his."

tice.

A meeting was arranged at the

At that hour Blood arrived with- romantic hour of 7 am. on May 9.

out

the "nephew," but with three swordsmen.

"

BLOOD was Jaunty in the face of

public indignation. "Ah, well," he said, "

was

barge

The keeper was seized, knocked galiani attempt, though it failed, I down, and gagged before he knew was to gain a crown" what was afoot.

He flattered Charles II. by telling him that he had lain in the reids Blood snatched the crown, He look at Battersea as the King's a wooden mallet and knocked in is passed with his carbine levelled at Jarches to make it easier to satry,

Charles' head, but that his "heart was checked by an awe of majesty," Son Arrives

and he lowered his weapon and compelled his fellow-conspirators to do the samc.

Another man seized the orb with ils enormous ruby...

་

Another man..began....tofle̱___the_

sceptre into three parts.

Frightened King

He also frightened Charles by

At this point there occurred one alleging that he was bound by oath

notice your new sult immedi- Corporation, Ltd of those incredible things that make with hundreds of other discontented

24. Do you forget birthdays?

25. Do you kiss her just as she has

made up her lips? 26. Do you interrupt her Just as her story is beginning to get interesting by saying. "Just start again, will you--I didn't hear the be- ginning"?

27. Do you hold forth about:-"The mental and physical advantages of your secretary, "Your old flames, "That a woman's life is an easy one"?

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truth sound stranger than fiction. people to commit deeds of violence. The keeper's son arrived home on

A free pardon, he suggested, might leave from Flanders.

turn potential rebels into loyal sup porters.

RG.000,009 K2,694,160 He was surprised to see a stronge Blood was pardoned, received Into

189,000 man lounging about on the stairs. Court. and granted on estate

He ran upstairs to see his father, Ireland.

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31. Do you stand damp glasses on

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99. Do you want to be continually potted when you come home with a cold?

34. Do you put your feet on the

sola?

35. Do you forget which is the

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In

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Many important facts depend on the answer.

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Is it possible for air raiders to fly at a height which would enable them to arrive over their target without giving any indication of their presence? I man cannot live above 30,000 feet, then air raids from this height are almost out of the question.

enco

Human beings have many reactions to height. Climbing an Alpine-peak which rears up to 10,000 feet above sea level can be an exhilarating experi

to some, while others suffer severely from mountain sickness. Even at 10,000 feet there is great strain on the heart. It is estimated that there is only half the normal amount of oxygen in the air at an altitude of 18,000 feet.

Yet there are people who live and work at about 18,000 feet up and do not suffer the sightest apparent discomfort.

At Chuquicamata (South America), the alightest movement сал cause the, site of the world's highest copper acute physical pain. (mine (17,500 feet), about 15,000

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Two years ago

FLIGHT at 20,000 feet is not

30

arduous, because move-

GROG GLOSSARY

The Navy is to take less water with its rum-Ad- miralty announcement.

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to

DAILY RATION-The dally allowance of Grog has been th of a pint of spirit mixed with three parts of water Three Water Grog". This is now to be changed to "Two-Water Grog."

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GROG-MONEY-An allow- ance in eash for those who pre- fer it to rum, is credited quar- terly. And in recent years more than half the ratings have chosen to have the money!

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THE

SPLICING

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In the days of aall the

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QUOTATION—And to

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Tis prog, only prog.

Is his rudder, his compart, hia cable, his log,

The sailor's sheet anchor is grog."

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Breathing is laboured. The lungs seem to gasp for breath. Every step is accomplished only by a supremo effort to drag unwilling Umbe along. an inter-

Risk of fainting national high-altitude ex- pedition, led by investigators' from ". [Harvard, Columbia, and other famous American universities, spent many

for though the ment im not called months in these lofly regions, study-risk of fainiing is just as imminent. ing this neclimatisation factor.

Things were not pleasant to begin, The cold, too, is intense. Evary description of Banking and Ex with, but the scientists soon found forms even at 15,000 feet, 41. Do you ask for a second help-change bales transacted. Lone wanted that their blood began to get thicker, can rapidly upset a, plane's equili

securiția,

while its

it. complotely Jarbin Current Accounts opened la Local Cun 25 per cent. The amount of oxygen

oxygen content increased by brium, or even throw

out of control. Ing when unexpected guests

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For all practical purposes, year or shortor perioda in Local and Foreign in the miners' blood was 50 per cent. are present?

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40:

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Kobe

Ban Francisco

London

Calcutta

Jee will

and this

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Макота Fenstien

(Mukden) New York Ilamburg

OLATE ∙Dzaka Paris

Taiping

there-

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for hours so that no one else

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a comforting thought arduous. There is never-ending when the possibilities of air attack fight to overcome drowsiness, Even are being considered.

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OUR BRITISH crossWORDS

16

16

ACROSS

1 Cape and frock for some male

and where he lives, (hyphen, 4 and 5).

0 Become void.

9 Their work is cut out for them.

(two words, 8 and 3),

10 Also ran evidently.

11 Boot or canvas? 12 Oriental.

13 To come out of one's shell.

15 Take off more than one under-

garment, apparently.

18 This trader is in the village High-street, about the end,

10 Aristotle's last letter.

20 A nail starts this, and its Juvenile version is sometimes little mo

more than a bent pin, 22 Splendidly, but not lastly. 24 Comes in flushes. 20 Advent of a

a compotior. 27 Might be a notice; anyhow, it

to display one.

30 Strained relations are likely to

follow If one gets this. Disentangle.

31

32 Leads astray.

33 Fore-runner of the watch

(hyphen, 4 and 5).

DOWN

1 Contretemps that begins with

a blow, ends with frritation, and gets you into a knot.

2 A sail under an assumed name.

3 Shakespeare twins.

4 Fur that doesn't end yours

B Such footgear would be a dis-

grace, were a hundred in it.

• Girl in her salad days.

↑ Stop.

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8 Chilly tea camouflaged accord-

ing to moral principles.

14 Vegetables.

15 An abstainer indeed got round a well-known club and reduced the credit due.

16. Court that maintains the King's

rule in the East.

17 Fivo. to the loot.

18 Goes for up.

21 A priestly caste.

23 Pressing business.

24 Saline product.

25 Possesses a number, so hurry

upi

20 Foreign make of car.

29 Vessels with a sheep's head.

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