SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1988
Another Minute
Mystery
How
good a detective are you?
PROFESSOR FORDNEY picked up a chunk of lime from the
single hect impression on the edge of the dahlia bed, while Henry Inmented the damage done to his flowers, "Here I spend the whole morning fussin' with them flowers, coverin' the bed with ferillser, pullin' up weeds, and now look at 'em." Fordncy sympathised with the old gardener as he glanecd up at the second-storey window of Dillingham's laboratory directly above. It had been ransacked and a large quantity of narcotics stolen..
Re-entering the bullding, he went upstairs where he found the doctor's son wiping the windowsill. He smiled. He had already observed heel marks there.
man.
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"Ind those tennis shoes on all day?" he asked the young
"Why-er, yes, sir."
"Suppose you tell me just how you happened to see this
burglar
room,
"Well, about two o'clock this afternoon I came upstairs for some aspirin because I had a bad headache.
"The door was open and I saw a 12
this in There wasn't any one else around and I was afraid to attract his attention, so I just stood quietly in the hall and watched.
"He took Dad's gun from the desk drawer and then be opened the cabinet with a chisel and put the drugs in a little sack he carried.
"Just then I sneezed. He dropped that clgar over there, jumped from the window and escaped."
The Professor carefully studled the chisel marks on the cabinet,
"This is a serious matter, my boy. Don't you want to tell me the truth before your father returns?" he asked.
The Professor knew the doctor's son was implicated in the theft. How?
The solution is upside down at the foot of Column Four.
Girls' and Boys' Corner
Name
Address
Dear Kiddles.
This is all my own work
Laat week's "Find the Month" cóm- petition caught most of you guessing. It was a wee bit dificult, I think, for some of you, especiaity among the Juniors. Never mind, though. This week's petition will be much better,
com
C. E. Clark (aged 12), 19, Illwood Road, Kowloon, is awarded the Benior prize. The Junior prize goes to Susan Robertson farca đi, có Startey,
Will C. E. Clark and Busan call at the offices of the "Hongkong Telegraph" in Wyndham Street for their prizes?
Specially commended for excellent work are Yseult Cooper, F. Hortock, K. Martin, Charles Foster, Eva Grady and Diana Hosking (Seniors) and Roy King a juntor competitor.
silcardo Ribeiro: Thank you very much for your lovely drawings of birds and flowers.
Manuela da Luz has' apparently had a rather nasty Juke played on her. You seo. I announced last week that she was too old to enter for the competilons and Manuela got the shock of her life wa she had never sent me an entry. It is a mixtako..
Keith Martin:
Thanks for your draw.
ing of the Engilsh Warrior.
A. Brown and 8. A. Dux: Thank you very much for your contributions.
This week's competition is just plain painting or crayoning. On this page you will see a skeich of Queen Victoria's Coronation. Paint it me
ally as you can.
coupon
In the
your name, address and ago and send to Uncle Eddie, c/o Hongkong Telegraph, Wyndliam Street, before 4 p.m. on Wednesday.
When the present stack of prizes ja exhausted 11 lins been decided to present cash coupons in order to allow successful compellfors to buy their own prizes. The senior prize will be 13 and the Junior prize 13 each week. Coupons will be posted to successful competitora.
Uncle Eddie
joka
-From 8. J. Bux. **Tell me Wally. How many p4 aro there in up?" asked teacher,
"Please ir Mother always puts two rents worth in ours."
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Poom on fast wook's competition
By Ada Foster. August is the time to swim, January wnowfalls are white and clean Heptember apples now we gather, Apri) showetu make very wol wasther. March is the month the wind goes
-W$-11-12
ARC
July holidays are good for you June the roses are in bloom. February weather is full of gloom May we have the Queen and ä erowa. October leaves begin to turn brown December Santa brings the toys November Guy Fawkes are for girls
and boys.
Story
-From S. 8. Bux. Once a tork was fying round and round the sea-shore looking for food. Suddenly she saw a big clam open her shell jying on the shore. Without think. ing, the fork darted down and thrust her long. bill into the clom. But the latter quickly closed her shell and trapped the stork. During the struggle. alisherman found them and took the stürk and clam home. This is an Cx* cellent fable to work out.
Land of Mako-Bolievo
-By Yseult Cooper. Every day when my homework is done
I like to sit and knji̟ by the fire And I sing to myself and sometimes
hum
Or pretend 17) a maiden in distress
Bo diret
Oh dear! I am tied to a tree in a wood
By my uncle, a rascally knave, The dragon near by thinks he'll have
me for food
But my knight comes, my life he
Bavčat
I picture myself with long raven locks
A girt full of beauty and grace (Were the truth to be known I've a
very knub nose.
My
freckles all over my face1] knight is so handsome and daring and bold He fears no earthly for
The dragon is too gnite dead and cold
And in the dust laid low,
My hero there comes and sels ma free
thank him on my knees
lie says. "Will you kindly marry me?"
And then I say, "Yes, please!"
I am married in silke and nation gay
With a joy that is hard to conceiva And I smile and I taught on that happy
day
In the Land of Make-Belinve
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How to got Fat
-From 8. E. M. Bux. There was once a man who was, so thin that he was ashamed to go out into the streets because everybody would laugh at him. One day, he happened to notice a siDi-machine with the notice on 11: Drop one shiiung Into the slot and leazu how to kot ini.
Of course, he was delighted and Ima mediately dropped in a "shilling. Out esme & paper on which was written the worder Gel it at the butcher's shop.
LORD DONEGALL says-
If Women Want
H
ERE'S an article I've
been wanting for a long to Please
time to address particularly to young women readers. And as it concerns their bes haviour towards men you all may as well read it-men too.
I want to see more women to- day going all out to please men, to cultivate fascination, subtle attractiveness-call it what you will-that mysterious quality that makes men (und other women) talk and think about
you,
Lot me try to bring the whole. subject down to a few, aimple "do's" and "dont's."
Do use your brains. Thoughtful- ness is a great thing. I give you a
irl-friend of mine as an example.
My Red Carnation
WE
WE go out to parties occasion- ally, and whenever I call for her the butler hands me a red carna- tion for the buttonhole of my even- Ing clothes. It's the fact that she has taken the trouble to order it, that there is nothing savouring of ostenta- tion, nothing embarrassing about it that shows her thoughtfulness.
So I give you that tip. A lot of girls think that they demean them- selves if they offer any reciprocity to a young man. They haven't the brains to know the difference bc- tween thoughtfulness and "chasing a man."
Don't, if you are married or en- gaged, run down your man to another man so as to flatter your listener. This is chiefly a fault in young mar- rled women bordering on 30. Far from making an impression or induc- ing pity this sort of disloyalty is abhorrent to most men.
If you say of your husband:
"He's
Conduct Code for
Young Women
DON'T-
Run down your husband, Use baby-talk or scandal, Be patronising or mean
other women,
to
Forget to pay men for your
bcts.
DO
Try to listen.
so mean. I'd cry if he gave me a bunch of violets," It is quite possible that the man you say it to was with your husband when he bought you that bracelet for Christmas. That happened to me once, and I haven't spoken to the woman since. The husband is still wondering why I "don't get on" with his wife,
Don't go in for baby-talk. Baby- talk is the death of on evening. There is a wave of it at the moment, but resist it. Make that a big resolu- tion.
Anyone who talks "baby-talk" should be Imprisoned in a padded Temple doesn't nursery, Shirley talk "baby-talk." So why on earth should grown-up women do so? You know the type of thing:
"Oo! What's he done to his humb?"
"I cut it shaving!" (slightly terse). "It's all oozły!"
"What does that mean?" (fed to the teeth).
"Goozy-woozy!" (At the murder occurs.)
this point.
She Never Pays
DESOLVE not to make bets with men and "forget" to pay. It is never the enthusiastle
horsey'
y" type of woman who does this on a racecourse. It is the occa- sional race-goer who wants ten bob on Catsmeat because she likes the colours, She never pays up.
Actually, one could stand the bet and save the len shillings were it not for the possibility that Catsmeat might romp home ot 100-1. She would remember then all right!
Do, at least, try to listen? Many good talkers are equally good listeners, and mony women have been called "good company" because they never interrupt at the wrong moment,
But few women in this world re prepared to listen to intelligent con- versation. If you have a luncheon party of six people, it is almost im- possible to get any inteligent talk short of turning the party into a de- bating noclety, with the host as chair- man.
And this is not to be recommended unless you happen to be a conversa- tional itenlus like Lady Cunard,
I remember a case in point. Leslie Hore-Bellaha and H. G. Wells were
Solution
The answers to the problems Gcorge set are (1) Tulips do not grow from seeds in a year, they grow from bulbs. (3) 4, 7, 10, 13,
10. (3) Two hours for two days, 4 hours for 4 days, 4 hours for d days, 12 hours for 12 days.
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having a discussion about Russia I was out of my across the table. depth, so I shut up and wanted to listen.
Of the three women, the hostess did the same as I did. One of the others continually interpolated bro- midic remarks into the discussion. und the third, who did not want to listen, kept trying to stort a rival conversation with me about the
Riviera in winter.
So it always in.
Don't fain the ranks of what I call the Scandal Group,- A branch of it exists in every town,
Suppose that a couple becoine estranged and a sensational divorce Case seems likely. The Scandal Group immediately gets to work, decides which party (generally the man) is in the wrong, and, having nothing better to do, makes the dif- ferences of Mr. and Mrs. X into as much a dinner-table issue as Fascism v. Communism.
Give Her Credit LASTLY, a word or two about
are
your attitude to other }
women. They
assessing your allure and fascination all the time just as much as the men.
Don't remind a mized company that you were at school with は toman who looks half your age. Give her the credit for having taken the trouble to preserve her good looks.
And why lell your women friends to go to the wrong hairdresser or steam the labels off your face-creami pots so that no one can imitate your lovely complexion? Such pelty things. So unworthy.
And as a final injunction don't be patronising to older women: be good mannered and no more. Don't step aside ostentatiously to let a woman of 40 pass through a door. It makes her feel 80.
P.S.:
Just a word on that theme to my own sex, Golden Rule: Be- fore you call a man "Slr" (I don't mean employees, etc.), be sure that he is at least old enough to be your father I he; is not, he will regard it as highly tactless-not to say plain offensive.
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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION
Don't Forget, the Game Bridge Problem
Is "Snooker"
No. 48
By Melbourne Kuman
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How to break off safely. Diagram “A” shows how Alce Brown broke hitting the two top reds with strong running side. Diagram "B" la Joe Davis's safe method of crashing the pyramid from a break-off, white running to safety no matter how the reds scattered.
West.
10 9 8
South
Spades are trumps, South leads the three of Hearts. North and South to make all the tricks..
Solutions by 4 pm. Wednesday to "Bridge Problem", Hongkong "Tele- graph."
PROBLEM NO. 47 SOLUTION
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North
West is now squeezed.
Mouth.
Correct solutions from E.M.A.,
**58023," N.E,
NATURALLY, I am expected to write about safely play in this "Emjay"; A.E.G., Mrs. A.K., “S'Easy"
little series, and I accept the aubject with enthusiasm. If people think I am still cunning. in the art of laying anookers,
I am proud to know it,
It means a lot to me. It means that the thoughtful, crafty player, the man with a billiards touch, has
· been given 'a set of rules designed to enuble him to beat an opponent who hns nothing more than a gift for pot- ting.
Whatever you may read or hear, there are no Arst-class snooker play- era who are merely good potters,
They can all lay snookers and evade snookers. They know, the safety moves and when to employ them; and If you really desire to Improve and win the local handleap, you, too, must study this important side of snooker.
FOOLISH RISKS
The time to snooker or play for safety must be judged, of course, pa the state of the game and the posi tion of the balls. But no snooker frame is lost until it is won, and. with no ball on to pot, you would be foolish to try a dimeuit pot no matter how big your lead. The pool bulls represent 27 points, and couple of nasty snookers can increase the possible margin against you to
40.
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Generally speaking, the first rule in laying a snooker is to snooker the cue Ball. There are times when the object ball must be dealt with, as, for instance, placing the last red be hind a close bunch of colours. But the white is the ball, as a rule upon which you must concentrate, hoping that the object ball will also run Into a snookered position.
difficult When a snooker is obtain, and the position may be dan- gerous if it is attempted and not obtained, select instead an ordinary safety shot. Put the white under a cushion, with the object ball as for away as possible. Make cueing awk- ward for your opponent, and Gi-
LIKE OURSELVES.
WHEN THE DAYS WORK IS OVER
- THE BOSS SAYS - Under the re-organisation 1, can see no reason for paying Gilmore highly. It's quife sparent has not pulling his weight, the days
Then every night-
Sharpen
your wits
The other night George ihrew a party so that he could "show off his powerful brain.
"Suppose you had a triangular patch of ground 100 feet long ut the base," said George, "and you wanted to find out how many, tullp seeds you could plant at one foot Intervals to raise tulips in a year. How would you work it out?
"As you know, I have just re- turned from a fishing hoilday," George went on, "I caught afty fish in five days, and each day I caught three more than the day before. How many did I catch on cach of the five days?
"One day four tramps came here asking for work," sald George, "and I gave them a piece of work that would take 200 hours between them.
"They decided to draw lots to see who should work the most hours a day and who the fewest, and then let each mon work ng many days as he does hours a day. "Now how were the 200 hours allotted so that each tramp should work as many hours a day as he did days; and yet so that no two tramps should work the same number of hours?"
Answers at the foot of Colum Three.
དན ད ་ ཤ་དཏ།
སྙནཏན though you get no penalty points you may well get a good leave from his shot.
Hurry dear, breakfasté ready. Don't look so gloomy-it'te sausager,
Aw Mary. I hate going to work these days. Every morning! wake feeling tired like this-absolutely
washed out
*GILMORE THINKSI 'THEY'RE PUTTING BACCON IN MY PLACE ENT IF ONLY I DON'T FEEL DO LIMA IF- ONLY I WASN'T SO 'NÈRVY"
AND RUNDOWN. STAL SOMETHING MUST BE
DONE FOR MARYS SAKE~
I CAN'T AFFORD
TEST YOUR MIND
AVERYONE Iikes to think they are
EV
broadminded! Ask yourself these questions and then check up your answers. If you agree on more than half of them you're broadminded.
1. Would you trust 1 man ΟΣ woman gain once they had let you down?
2. Do you think women doctors are as good as men?
3. Even thought you may ba teetotal would you serve drinks to your friends?
4. Do you think gambling of any sort an unforgivable sin?
5. Would you divorced friend's new wife?
welcome your husband or
6. Do you object to your boy friend or husband having friends?
women
7. Would you give an unmarried mother employment?
8. Have you an unblased mind ofter hearing gossip about your friends?
9. Can you forget' and forgive your boy friend's past?
10. If your boss tells you exactly what he thinks of you-when he is mad with you-can you take it?
Here are the answers.
1. Yes. 2. Yes. 3, Yes. 4. No. 5, Yes. 6. No. 7, Yes, 8, Yes. 0, Yes, 10, Yes.
Hello Gilmore! fired again this morning? Cheer up we're putting Barron into your department to take a bit off/?
your hands
Aren't you satisfied with the way my work
has been going,
Mr. Harris
SO GILMORE SAW THE DOCTOR
Even in the mornings I'm tired. That makes
it an uphill fight to hold my jolt My wife's expecting a child In the Spring, so
its serous
Oh now Gilmore, don't take offence-
We realise
you've got
more from
You can cope with
really-
Well, Mr. Gilmore, waking tired many means youre not replacing the energy you use up in breathing, haut-beats and other automatic actions during sleep. That's Malt Starvation. Fadvise Horlickr....
TWD MONTHS LATER
Oh darling, I'm so glad those old fogies at the office gave you a rise lovely to have Hus
little car of
Our awm
What's even better, darling, for sure of my position now I've got nd of that awful firedness
Does your husband wake fired- is he overworked, run-down?
GIVE him a captal of fioriické hot, every
aight at bedtime, Ha wtil soon be rid of waking tired. He will have new energy, mie vitality, new conßdensos Delping kles towards tha success that bia benise and real ability muita him to bavK.
HORLICKS
GUARDS AGAINST NIGHT STARVATION.
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