1938-02-19 — Page 11

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1938

How good a

detective are you?

You ought to be able to solve this potted mysery

in one minute.

PROFESSOR FORDNEY,

the

renowned

"John, here," he continued, "says that the criminologist, was seated bually engaged in it happened. But he wasn't. He was standing man must have been kneeling or lying down when his single hobby-mending toys-while ten eager right straight up and the donkey was a very little faces watched him.

"No, son, that's a true story! This great big man, six feet three inches tall-much taller than Billy's dad-bora an ugly scar on his cheek, which Thad been caused by the kick of a donkey."

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK END SECTION

for the

Something for children?

'This chart will help you to plan out à programme of games for children of all ages. In the left-hand column you ace the times into which the afternoon is divided up; each of

Up to seven

Team games with big wool-

ly ball

Blind man's buff

Musical chairs

3.30

small one!"

How did it happen?

to

Nuts and May

Solution is upside down at the foot of Column Four:

Blowing a feather

4.30.

"I wrote a letter" Hide and seek

4.30--5

Here it is.

the next columna tells you gamer suitable for children of the ages given at the top. If some of the games are new to you, you will find them explained below.

Ten to Fourteen

Seven to ten

Throwing rings on to board,

or playing cards Into basket.

observation

Telling fortunes

Sardines

"Lives"

Charades

Hide and acek with paper:

and pencil

Memory

and

All ages mixed

Guessing each other's fancy.

dress

Postman's knock j

Family-coach

Dumb charades

Playing with toys Telling fairytales

Find the ring

teals

Musical chairs

INTERVAL FOR TEA

Question and answer

Whispering

Consequences

Guessing games

Picture consequences

Guessing tunes

Simplo guessing games

Wordmaking from long word

Baby pictures Alphabets

Intelligence tests

TREASURE HUNT

Hunt the slipper Oranges and lemons

6-6.80

After

7.30

The up-to-sevens will pre- sumably have gone to bed by this time

poper Singing carols

Making bata with pins, and Naming pictures cut from

advertisements

Murders

Supper and dancing

Hide and seck

Personalities

Community singing

Country dancing

Remember Your

By The

Rev. DESMOND

Old-School "Tie" MORSE-BOYCOTT

THREE things tempt me to consider the old school "tle," not merely the brilliant thing which as a new music-hall joke. competes in popularity with mothers-in-law and twins, but the link that should exist be- tween you and the school you went to.

Myriads of parents are breathing a thankful sigh that the schools have reopened.

Mother finda

time to do things, and father, home from a hard day at work, hos peace,

Of course, the bairns are missed if they have returned to a residential school, but relief tempers grief,

If they have gone to a day school, they are enjoyed as they could not be when on hand all day.

I have been entertaining the head- master of a public school, who has been in the job all his life, and is perfectly attuned to its ups and

downs.

Some old boys who had passed through my hands into his and then out into the wide world, and for- gotten to send him Christmas cards.

You would hardly suppose that a public school headmaster, who has had many thousands of boys in his care, would have noticed that and

pang felt a

grief. of But he spoke with sorrow which reminded me that, if one end of the old school tie is let go by youthful hands, the other is held by the teacher.

Then there is Mr. A. Prait, head- master of Brockley County Secondary School, who has taught slx genera- tions of pupils, amounting now to several thousands.

Overseas

His boys are scattered all over the world especially in the Dominions, 80, having resigned, he is going out to visit all who have kept in touch, instead of sinking, at the age of 65, into a well-cared armchair. Mr. Pratt exemplifies the spirit of the old school tie.

I hope I have said enough already to make you hark back over the Relds of yesterday to the classroom in which your character was formed by the dally impact upon you of a master or mistress whom you would like to meet again, If only to thank

them.

You may have left school in umbrage. You may even have been expelled. Or you may have left in the odour of sanctity.

You may have done well In Bfe, or be a failure.

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To back into the old school for

get an hour or two, to hear the old volce

to which you used to be responsive, to shake the hand that guided yours along the copybook or whipped you soundly, will help you to reorientate your life.

But to go back is not only to get. but to give. If teacher still means much to us, we mean much to him or her.

his

1 remember a Philistine of sixteen winters who was packing up school books in a dusty, untidy class- room. A great adventure was be- ginning for him, the adventure of going to work.

Glad To Leave

was

The Philistine WOR me. 1 thoroughly glad to be leaving school, although I loved it as much as a Philistine can love anything.

The Head was sitting at a table, writing letters in a beautiful hand. His writing was as lovely as he him- self was untidy. Although a clergy- mun, he was usually unbrushed and ungroomed,

and he word dirty collars yellow with ago. He shaved twice a week.

An inveterate smoker, he used to commit the unpardonable school zin of smoking in the class-room, and he almed the tag-ends into the grate. often misfiring.

never understood the lead, bist.

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ho made me mind my manners. He was a disciplinarian, and you could hear a pin fall during clusacs. He temper was highly uncertain.

Now that I am a school master. I realise how profoundly he has-in- Buenced my life for good, despite his gaticharles. 1. Uhink of him with graulude 1 could kick myself for not being kinder to him when i grew

WAT I was packing up, on that day, he looked and from. His writing, and.

brimming his eyes: "Do you realise long since and lost awhile, come

that we shall never do any more lessons together? No more German, no more French

ever again."

I shifted uncomfortably from one foot to the other. I wanted to escape. I did not want to do any more German and French, I mut- tered something boyishly inane and departed. I decided he was dotty.

Now consider any school in the world, day, secondary, prep, or public. Into its tranquil port float Uny barques, A teacher spends precious years patiently rigging them out, so that they can weather the storms of after life,

Leaving time comes. The little barques, trim and seaworthy, azli provided the teacher hopes, with a away, out on to the occan of life,

chart of right principles.

Seldom

RTO they seen again. Teacher, fades out of mind. If re- membered, he or she is referred to as "Old So and So."

But the scholor never fades' out of the teacher's heart, and is always "Young So and So." Other bairns efface the desk in an unending suc- cession, but they do not efface the memory.

Daily association, over many years, has twined the child around the teacher's

heart.

The teacher's heartache, though akin to the parents, is deeper, There is much more of it for one thing. A but not out of the home, for the new child grows out of the parent's arms,

nest made by marriage is an exten-

sion of the family hearth.

Parents, moreover, can sce the fruit of their travail. Teachers enn- not. Seldom the angel faces, loved

back to smile and thank.

The children of to-day should be encouraged to honour their ties-the tle of respect to the man or woman who builds up their characters and lays the foundation of their educa- tion; the tie of loyalty to school itself.

The day schools should copy the pubile and secondary schools and have old scholars associations, for the day school, by its hours and holidays. defeats the best Intentions of the lad or lassie meaning to keep. In touch.

Revived

Later in life the lass may return to place her children under the old hand, And thus revive

happy memories.

But the day school can do little or nothing, it is up to the old boy or girl to take the initiative, to write for news, to subscribe to its funds, end, amid all the changes and chances of life, keep in touch with the teacher.

Track

down your marm or your dominie naw! You will find a pleasure in doing so. You will learn how much you are cared for.

I had a marm who was always scolding me for having my laces undone. Many years after I went a long journey to see her. As I sald "Good-bye"" on the doorstep my lacus came mysteriously undone.

She said, with a sweet smile! "Desmond, laces undone again." I laughed too. What she had suffered over my laces remained beneath the arches of the years-our old school tic,

GRAMOPHONE

NEW

RECORDS

VAUGHAN

WILLIAMS, certo. It is an extraordin- our greatest living com- arily pretty piece of writing, poser, heads the lists of new and the solo instrument has January records with his many amazing and brillant Fourth Symphony (H.M.V.). things to do.

It is his latest extended or Molsciwitsch, the soloist, chestral work and it is mag- throws off these decorative nificent music. In saying embellishments in though

that I know that I shall get they were the merest child's hard words from

renders.

some play. They are, in fact, very

far from that. This is a

I remember how I felt record that can safely be when first I heard this stark, recommended. The orches- uncomromis-

ing music, how disturbed

and antagonised and yet transported. Circumstan c'es have given me the chance to play through this notable re- cord eight times before it was íssued.

That has acttled things

for

Hands of Rachmaninov

tra Is the Lon- don Philhar- monie, the con- ductor Walter

Goahr.

Another good plano record is that of three well-

- known "Fantasie- stucke" by Schumann, played by Yves Nat (Columbia). The first is the

me and now I know that exqulaite "Des Abends," and when I say that this music ta magnificent, that for me is the for that along the record la

trath. It isn't so much that one worth possessing.

carca for all of But then, one docan't "care" for the Parthenon

J

or the Sistine frescoes, for we are HERE is

too small to come into

ment.

that

a selection of dance records, made after

relationship with those immense playing through a dozen of things. Dul one is moved, never the latest. "Star Dust," by. theless, to a condition of wonder-

Buch

one the Six Swingers, "Little Old as ot listener hha experienced with

Lady," by Howard Jacoba* this symphony. In the present instance it is conducted by the Orchestra, "Waltz Dream," by composer and wonderfully well Eugeno's Viennese Orchestra, all played by the B.B.C.. Symphony Columbia. And amony. Regal's Orchestra.

new records, "For Only You,”* by Brom Martin's Band, while

ONE of the most popular "Itemember Me" has the unusual Compositions of ond of distinction of combining in one the world's most fabulously record such great names as Tommy zifted planists has just bean Forr and George Formby. Final re-recorded and lasuod by ly the Columbia record of Johann HLM.V This is Rachman Strauss walls "Aristae. Life'l-

mus mude and Food nov's Becord landsc

Sharpen

your wits

Test your skill at putting a message into cipher. Draw up the cipher from the instructions. Then put the message into code. You ought to be able to finish the job in fifteen minuter.

Draw a Telangie aiviued into four horizontal lines of ten small squares.

Write in the top horizontal line the numbers 0-5 m consecutive order and in the first vertical line on the left the numbers 1-3, one underneath the other.

Then enter the letters of the alphabet consecutively into the

of the three remaining resines.

In elpaer each letter in ex- pressed by the corresponding number on the left (tens) anu the top (units).. Thus 11 = Ar 21 J. 38 Z. and so on..

Put the following messago into- cipher,

"Meet me on Friday at nine a.m. on platform two Victoria Station."

SQLUTION

DZSEZE

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Bridge Problem No. 47

Weat

-

North AK 7

A 10 6 5 4

+86 5 4 3

East

2

AJI

7 6

IC

73

K Q

South

K 3

10905 9 3 2

10 9 05

OAKD

++ J 8 7

Spades aro trumps. West leads Club King, North and South to make the Grand Slam.

Solutions by 4 p.m. Wednesday to "Bridge Problem", Hongkong "Tele- Graph,"

PROBLEM NO, 48 SOLUTION

Here's how to play the games

W

HEN you are giv- ing A children's party it is essen- tial to make a programme beforehand.

The first item must be some- thing in which guesta can join us they arrive without upsetting the game; also it should interest them sumciently to make them forget to be se

self-conscious.

to be selfconscious.

•

Arrange to play a quiet sitting down

game immediately after tea. Small children enjoy piny- ing with toys, romping games and any kind of make-belleve.

Older children like dancing, having fortunca told and gamca which test intelligence or general knowledge.

You'll

East

South West

North

recognise some favourites in this chart; children always like them. Here are few notes about the ones you may not know.

old

A

བྱམསཉྩ

Eoscanand qu

-North-and-South-make-the-last-

ya

148701 GBLOC TEZIO

waz ajkumar

three tricks.

dh Aup of AMA પણ શું પા.

E.M.A.

Correct solutions from "Emjay"; A.E.G., Mrs. A.K., "S'Easy" "58023," NE.

SOLUTIONS

ARE YOU SURE ? 'L-A baboon.

2.-A duke.

3.-Moscow. 4.-Incisors.

5.-$1,003,000,000.

4. Cinnamon (a bark). 7.-Cape of Good Hope. 8-1907.

9. Charles I,

10,--June.

11-Henry Ford.

12. Port Phillip (Union Jack

formed 1801).

13 Pacifc (04 million sq. miles).

14. The

Bible (Job, chapter 23). 10. The Aga Khan..

10,- 100,

17. The Emperor of Japan (op-

pointed 1930).

10.-Tho

Bishop of London (£10,000).

19,-64.

20.--Low.

21.-Ring-shaped,

22-A Portuguese possession in

India. 23.-Holland. 24.--For

from

barred souls Heaven, etc. 25.—Rarify-should be rarefy, ·

MINUTE MYSTERY

*Aoq

erin u kom sy warm harrop a fa pay wag" pri tour

BELS

-

B

STRONG WILL TEST IF you can honestly record "A"

scores to seven or more of the questions you are strong-willed, record "B" to seven or, more you are weak-willed.

in

Most of us will and ourselves the intermediate position be- tween these two extremes if we have sumclent insight into our own psychologieal make-up to be able to judge ourselves an curately ns an independent ob- server who knows us well is able to.

Wock-End Problems

PROBLEM I MADELINE

DC-

Madeline is now 15. ("When I first knew the three girls" their ages were: Made- line 8; Mistletoe 4; Margery 3].

PROBLEM II. PLAIN LORNA ARIE 5- INER T NAST

Mrs. Donniger's

Diamonds

Stuttering is the thief.

No

one had told him that the miss- ing Jewels were diamonds.

A Lay Sermon

By Hugh Redwood

ELSHAZZAR'S culminating man deflie the temple of God, him

offence was that of putting con-

shall God destroy." One rends the apostle's words and one's secrated vessels to unholy use. The

thoughts go back 10 gods, that is, of this world's wor-

Daniel's: "In that night was Belshazzar alain." ship, were toasted in the gold and .

To seek the consecration of God, aliver cups· of ·

to be made a vessel meet for the The vessels of It is nn

the temple, N

Master's use, and then to ba old His house,

turned atory,

arned from His worship end fear lightly DANIEL, V dismissed by

to the worship of place, or power, or favour, this is to do what sornia on a ples

Belshazzar, did

Klid--and to head for turesque legend, this tale of the

"Belshazzar's destruction. We have ghostly Angers and the doàm thay one purpose only, and all 'our,ways spoiled on a palace wall. But the musi. be Clodi The manj. the Saternal kuthit containa was dienza church on the organisation which

14lled by Bt. Paul, and go Chriosd, compromises on tila olens, instin is : 2 Kan, cined: Clarosaf4 11m*11 MAY / Mking for, pentwice of death.

Tolling Fortunes

HERE are lots of ways. of doing this. If you haven't a specini board arrange the children in a circle and spin a knife in the middle. While (2% spinning nak it questions like: Who's the prettiest?" Who'll_pe the first married?"

The answer is the one oppo- site the knife when it stops.

Paper and Poncil Hide and Seek

י,

(LIVE each child a list ad things hidden

in the room and guaranteed visible (penknife, fork, soap, etc.). Let them write down where the things are (on the clock, in waste paper basket, etc.).

First one with whole list right wins; do it early before they have time, to notice things. Memory and ̈ Observation Test

GIVE them two minutes

to look at twelve things on a tray; then tell them to make a list or answer ques- tions.

Or give them three minutes to make lists of things in the room (objects beginning with B, or things of a particular colour). Baby Pictures

of himself as a

.

TACH guest brings ple-

baby, drops it in a box by the front door. Game is to guess which is which.

Question and Answer

CLIPS of paper and poncils required; write down a question, fold the paper and pass it to your neigh- bour. Then write on the slip re- ceived answer to your own ques- Hon.

Lines

FIRST person thinks of

a word and says, the first letter; next one thinks of a word beginning that way and saya second letter of his word and so on. If you finish a word you 1010 a life; same penalty if you can't go on and the next person has your turn

You can challenge if you don't believe there is such a word, but If you are wrong that's one lo less.

Family Coach

MAKE it up to date

with airplanes and radlo mensages. Giva avery one n "name," and see that all the names occur often, so that there's always some one getting up and twirling round. A Personalities d

Naves out and each of the others makša

a remark about him; he comes In Land: Hind: Le guese who anid whletic

WEEK-END PROBLEMS

--PROBLEM I

MADELINE

Madeline is at school with my daughter Clara; the two girls, Indeed, are in the same. form. Madeline's age in years is greater by one-half than the age in years of her sister Margery. And three years ago her age in years was greater by one-half than the then age in years of her other plater, Mistleton. When

Ifrat knew the three girls-Madeline,

Misletoe and Margery-their combined ages in years totalled 15.

How old is Madeline now?

*

- PROBLEM II

WORD SQUARE

(1) Unadorned

(2) Exmoor's heroino.

(3) Astrologers ram (B) Lacking in animation (5) Disgusting

(Solations on Pago Nine)

KING'S THEATRE

on..

THURSDAY,–Mar,-10 at 5.10 p.m.

Undor tho distinguished patronage of Lady Northcote

THE SEASONS'

BALLET

will be presented by The George Goncharoff School of Dance

Part Proceeds for the Society for the Protection of

Children

Booking at KING'S Theatre Pricós: $4, $3, $2, $1

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