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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY,

AUGUST 3, 1937.

But

Ma

WHY IS THAT CHIMNEY POT LIKE A DOG'S

LEG? WHY DO SOME TREES HAVE THEIR LEAVES TURNING

You can't fall in love to order

AM interested in the love story of the rich young man who shot himself recently because the beautiful girl he loved could not marry him because she did not love him. He propused to her

-by-

over and over again and she rejected him over JAMES DOUGLAS and over again.

In spite of her refusals he fled a date for their marriage, December 9 last year, three days ofter her to the processes of reason, we might twenty-first birthday. He had made elaborate plans for reflect that there are other wonder- ful and beautiful objects in life be- their honeymoon.

Without telling her, he bought an eighteenth-century sides love. house, reconstructed it, and Invishly furnished it. He was rich enough to buy almost anything he wanted.

This business of substitution and and transference of replacement

E did his utmost to transform her friendship interest is the health and vigour and

He did his mot inte storts fallet. The would sanity

of human existence. No 10 human nature manages

of love from the tyranny But it was escape

as an overmastering, "ixed, iden with- out being conscious of exerting its

not give up hope, and he worried because he thought his doubt ili-bealth was the reason for her refusal. not the reason.

"I just didn't love him, that's all." she såld,

"most people would have Wili-power. she said. "I suppose," considered his proposal a tremendous piece of good fortune. I did not look to it in that way. Gond Jooks and money are not the best foundations for marriage, It is a mystery why the rich young man could not fall in love with any winan except the une wanne who could not fall in love with him.

IS

It may be only a harmless hobby or a silly pastine, or it may be a useful kind of publie and social ser- The supreme remedy for any vice. obsession, any one-track idea, work, and work is the chief satubiliser THERE is a theory that i love ene of the lovers of life and the chief consolation and loves and the other is content to be loved anodyne for all trustrations and re- But I am disposed to suspect that this is a cynient view bulls and disappointments.

of love.

THE

second great refuge There may be a difference of temperament in lovers.

from any mental obses- One may be all worship and adoration and the other may be all acceptance. One may give all and the other son is play, and no life in at case may give little, or hardly anything. One may be re- without a blend of work and play, mantic and the other may be practical, realistic, re- It does not matter what the work is or what the play is, so long as served, reticent, and common-sensical.

or the Axed And yet the two-diverse psyetulogies may be the the mind obtains reprieve and relies complement of the other. There are men and women from the fixed iden who are inengable of self-expression. They may feel passion or the fixed affection.

but they are inarticulate. Yel deeply.

their love is Thats why all men and all wo- nevertheless strong and deep,

men need some refuge of work and

We may be astonished by the incongrulty of lovers play to save themselves from the Own self-centred We may wonder what a man sees in the woman he loves peril of their or what a woman sees in the man she loves. But the introspection. clue to the puzzle is not easily disenvered even by the lovers themselves.

TO DATE

But the obsessed lover takes no interest in either work or play or

I doubt whether any man or any in the marvellous variety of the hu

Ieir man scene. Everything in the world woman can explain, even in

own seeret thoughts, why they fall seems that. Life has the aspect of Hu love or why their love goes on and an implacable enenry. Huron be-

up and others hanging down? What makes a dog's nose BRINGING TENNIS UP, cold and wet? Mine's not. How do we know what sort of plant comes from a seed? Why do onions make us cry? Where do tears come from and why are they salty? TENNIS is changing very definite-on through a whole life without tir- its appear to be alien and remste

fullest force.

Faster and

ly. The outstanding character-ing or wearging or losing its power, and duil.

and it:

its magle.

terrible How shall I know when I'm going to be grown up? How in the style of the younger bules all the investigators. There is no torment more forsi

and all the ideatogues to old is Westminster Abbey Doesn't Jesus get tired if players today in speed.

faster that is the tendency.

power of satisfying, interesting and He never sleeus? Why does that swan fold one leg on The old like that lawn tennis explain why one lover can find it all its multiplicity of beauty, in its his back when he cleans himself?

patball has long lost all its cure for love and another lover can amtesing. It is a mistake to ask-too merely

One does not "pat" the ball tell its why love in some minds is much of life and to refuse to accept point. One

with an uncontrollable obsession and in the second best when the first is drives it

others merely a passing and tem- denied to us. That is a list of questions asked by one small child over one in these days, but

by hitting perary phase of emotion or derire. week-end. It gives you a good idea of what a child thinks, sees, Formerly

began hear- and worries about. It is interesting to be with children who the ball gently, and striving to keep,

in the court. Control are eager, natural and intelligent. But the harassed mother, with thing aimed at, and it was hoped her own worries about meeting hills, the threatened rise in income that strength of stroke would come tax, and deciding who wants new shoes the most, is not so on.¦afterwards,

Nowadays there is none of that playing for safety. Speed and force?

mere important. infinitely

thusiastic over her children's questions.

was the

If she is wise she'll never grouse about nor enthuse over whether you keep the ball in the them in the children's hearing. But she will remember that an ceart is of much less pecoms than observant child with an inquiring mind is more likely to grow up whether you hit it hard.

Yuu must learn to strike before, into a virile, active-minded, clever worker, resourcefully able to find pleasure in simple things, than the youngster who never asks you learn to aim; you must know questions and notices none of life's wonders and troubles.

how

Even if you have played for inany years, these modern requirements can quite well be worked into your It is difficult for some people to hit hard-they play the

to hit before bothering about; where to hit.

as though it were full of es-

NOME childish questions, we know, can be answered by the game.

children who put them to us. Mothers and nurses! should always help the children to try to find an answer to their own problems. They should be helped to explain what they see carefully with accuracy and colour.

If a child comes to you with a perfectly silly question, or for an explanation to something which he or she has not taken the trouble to "see" and remember-well, just refuse to help. Make

the child take another look.

plosives. But a little concentration will soon develop the proper habit. Study the proper execution of your strokes, for only when your techni- que de right can you hour to get the best results, Keep Your “Style"

Don't however, be too concerned with standardising your play. Per-

soine

PERHAPS life at its best in It may seem strange that a rich

all a sort of second young man with every kind of in- post. Our dreams outpace and out- ferest and activity open and tree run our power to fulfil them. On

We cannot fall in to him should not be able to sur-thing-is certain. render and abandon his quest for the jove by an net of wilt. The perfect impossible and the unattainable. fusion of two minds is either a hew If it were possible to subject love venly accident or the gift of God.

You

£30

can get

for finding

a torpedo

pays for A few dead

So much is done for children nowadays by schools and sonal peculiarities are of great value, RECENTLY Dock Porter Mr. Turit, marker of the Vintners organisations that mothers are often lazy. They forget that it property exploited. For example, F. Prideaux, of Wey- Company,

swans' heads at 18. a time. But they home should be the prime training centre of the child; they are farther round than most, so that the

players grip their racket mouth found a torpedo, cost od. to post. ready to pride themselves upon the work and career of a promis-back of the hand comes under the claimed reward of £5 from Tamest reward-sport is to sil down ing girl or boy, but want to take no active, consistent part in the handle. Shape of hand and let the Admiralty. home training.

to do with lot fingers have much

this.

-Such a player oflen finds that this

under one of those AA signs offering

Cab drivers get a standard re-

But Admiralty afterwards £2 for news of sign spoilers. Only grip enables her to play backhand said the torpedo hadn't been lost about three a year are damaged. strokes with the front of her racket,at all, had just been moored

the forehand. If you MR

[OTHERS miss a lot who have not known the satisfaction just as for

and companionship of a country walk with a child have this peculiar backhand ability there until scas became calmer. ward when the property they return

the abandon it for whose eyes, cars, nose and fingers are alive to everything. Don't it in both unnecessary and unwise to forget that nature study is the finest means of training a child method.

Agalo.

explanations.

more usual

for

to Scotland Yard is claimed. For

It turns out there is a regu- most things the rate Is 2s. 6d. in the lar scule of rewards that may £. But for jewellery, gold, and

claimed

casily you may be left-handed. be

finding the other

convertible property to be observant, appreciative of simple pleasures, and to seek | Don't make the mistake of trying to Admiralty's property.

there is a special rate of 3s, in the be right-handed. By keeping to A child will remember a walk through historie streets, an your natural habits you have a greatl

A floating mine recovered

de- than two miles off shore and exploration along the rocks and over a sandy shore, with his advantage over your upponent,

For instance, most players' weak |||vered to the local authority, mother explaining things and talking in that friendly, equal way point is backhand play, but the per-worth £5, but if found within two loser unless he is already adver which children like. These talks keep a mother's brain alert, they son who has schooled herself to con- miles of shore you get £2. Washed tised that a reward will be given. brighten up her general knowledge, and polish up her conversa-centrate on that wenk side finds, to up on beach is recovery value tional ability.

Q

her discomfiture, that it is your only 104 strong side.

word

Σ.

more

If you find something in the street

is you cannot claim a reward from the

Es

A woman in Blackburn once found na wallet containing £1,000. She

was rewarded with a present twelve bananas, and to be content with them.

of

You can get £5 though for If, too, you can get some "kick"

(the thing that elcars into your service, you are likely to paravane UESTIONS put by children should cause no embarrass-be useful at the beginning of your mines out of the paths of ships).

game, for an opponent, expecting the

Biggest advertised Admiralty re- ment to their mothers. Such embarrassment is usually ball to break one way, will be em- is for serviceable, torpedoes Unclaimed £1,000 felt when the mother has neglected her duties to her children, barrassed when it breaks in the op found more than two miles off shore when her own life is not free from inhibitions, when she has posite direction.

Rewards last century seem The gure is £30. allowed her mind to become cluttered with affectations or morbid If you are right-handed and are and delivered to the local authority.

have bean more sensational. There opposing a left-handed player, you fears.

will be alert to such possibitles as

You need not expect anything was £1,000 offered in 1810 for news these. It will pay you, if there is from the Ministry of Agriculture, of Denjamin Bathurst, English envoy There is no more cause for embarrassment or reserve when an opportunity, to do a bit of hard but the Ministry of Fisheries does a child asks a question about his or her body than with questions thinking before the game-and, if its bit for the reward hunter.

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1 What carryings on.

Take out a passage.

10 Cane him in the engine.

11 Has put in an appearance.

12 English river.

13 Permit.

10 Pick

10

Chinese root that yields a cer-

tain amount of spirit,

17 in place of

to

to the Court of Vienna, who was supposed to have been killed for his

about the body of an ant, a lamp-post or a motor-car. The only possible, to study your rival's piny.

The peculiar effects of left-handed Any one returning one of the papers. It was never claimed.

difference is in the way that question should be answered for it may never be asked agafn.

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play

suggested;

is down to Is.

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lower. One willing for crabs with mark.

Lan be anticipated and coun-Ministry's marked fish with detalls

Bathurst was starting from on Jun if they tered readily enough

ure of where it was captured gets 25. beforehand it is when Return the mork alone and the fee in Perleberg on the way from liam considered

disconcerting.

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they are so

to the front of the horses before upon the parent who fails to betrayed.

In doubles it may be a distinct nd- The Ministry like to know just entering the coach. He was never

a left-handed player to have There are plenty of good, vantage answer such a question loyally,

plain, expressive English words your partner. You will naturally how old the fish is. Scale for crabs seen agaita decently, clearly and with

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Generally, it is best to have your measuring temperature, plain about the loss of their

left, conditions, and so on. Each is worth children's trust and friendship things. Snub, laugh at, belittle, for thus both your backhands will bs, to its finder. AA childhood gives way to or ignore their serious questions; come to the centre of the court, and You may possibly get a reward "ppeared with an advertisement of adolescence, and adolescance to fail to give them the help they you will cover your area more

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the bert Jennings, born about 1794, But can earn rewards on eause is the same: the child's only yourself to blame if they arm strokes will be able to reach out Scalo. 2s. 6d. to 10s.

the court on elther side..

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of.

ENTRUSIAST.

You

Ifa pautoloons, riddled with bul- lets, were eventually found, and, up about 100 years later, a skeleton was for turned up near the Inn. But no one electrical knows what happened.

On January 27, 1850, the Times

20 art with a murderous end.

22 One is bound to perform such

pleces.

23 Not all lit up!

23 Has to put up with being bored. 28 May be cats and dogs. 27 Uppishness.

28 Will won wee pig (two-word

ong., 7, 0).

DOWN

2 They know how to bake this

north of the Tweed,

3 Might well be Meath in Oxon. 4 Noteworthy, 5 The South American are not out, but in-in case you don't know.

This Is prejudiclat to health, 7 In spile of having a cruel nip.

Padre remains upright,

8 Modern household adjuncts.

10 A giant, and his wife or his mother takes precedence of the giant

13 Modern transport carries

World and his wife, hem spared, the lady,

14 Are these wireless messages all

my eye?

18 St. Andrew's

example.

Cross,

foc

10 Weeds that hold up a chip.

20 One way or another you'll find

it.

21 This South American gentle-

man lives in the great open spaces, so it's all up with the tyrant.

24 Ile covers a lot of ground con-

veying a sheep,

26 Describes one cort of cap. Yesterday's Solution

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