1938-02-26 — Page 31

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1938

Another Minute

Mystery

How

good a

detective are you?

PROF

ROFESSON FORDNEY picked up a chunk of me from the

single heel impression on the edge of the dahlia bed, while Henry lamented the damage done to his Bowers. "Here I spend the whole morning fussin' with them dowers, coverin'.... the bed with ferilliser, pullin' un weeds, and now look at 'em." Fordney sympathised with the old wardener as he glanced un at the second-storey window of Dillingham's laboratory directly above. It had been ransacked and a large qunailty of narcotics stolen.

Re-entering the building, he went upstairs where he found the doctor's son wining the windowsill. He smiled. He had already observed heel marks there.

man.

"Had those tennis shoes on all day?" he asked the young

"Whyer, yes, sir,"

"Sunpose you tell me just how you happened to see this burglar."

"Well, about two o'clock this afternoon I came upstairs for some aspirin because I had a bad headache.

rocm.

This "The door was open and I saw a man 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 he opened the cabinet with a chisel and put the drugs in a little sack he carried,

"Just then I sneezed. He dropped that cigar over there, jumped from the window and escaped."

The Professor enrefully studied 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.

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Girls and Boys' Corner

Name

Address

Dear Kiddies,

This is all my own work

Last week's "Find the Month" com- peillion caught most of you guessing. It was a wee bit dimeult, I think, for reme of you, especially among the Juniors, Never mind, though. This week's com petition will be much better,

C. E. Clark (aged 12), 19, 1wood Rond, Kowloon. is awarded the Senior prize. The Junior prize Forn to Busan Robertson (aged 8). (7) Stanley,

Win C. E. Clerk and Busen call at the office of the "ongkong Telegraph" in Wyndham Street for their prizea?

Specially commanded for excellent work are Yesuit Cooper, F. I'orlock. K. Martin, Charles Foster, Eva Grady and Dians Hosking (Bentors) and Roy King.

como-t'tor.

Je nibeiro: Thank you very much Ricardo for your lovely drawings of birds and flowers.

Manuela da Luz has apparently had a Father nasty joke played on her. You kea, I announced last work that she was 100 o' to enter for the competitions and Mamla got the shock of her life a tho had never sent me an entry. It ia a mistake,

Keith Martin: Thanks for your draw- ing at the English Warrior.

A. Brown and 8. A. Bux: Thank you very much for your contributions.

*Th's week's compaUt'on te just plain painting or crayoning. On this nego" VOL will sena aketch of Queen Victoria's Coronation. Paint 11 am getly as you can. rl in the coupon with tour name.. address and ago and send to Uncle Eddie. ela Hongkong“ Tel grani. Wyndham Str. before 4 p.m. an WednesdNY,

When the present stock of prizes 1 exhausted it has baan deelded to present cash coupons in order to allow succesful competitore fo huy their own prizes. The sealer prize weg te co and the Jun'or each week, Coupons will be posted to successful compeiltars.

Unche

Eddia

Joka

From 8. J. Bux. "Tell me Wally, How many p's era there in coup?" asked teacher,

Picasa air, Mother always puis two conts worth in ours."

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Poom on last wook's competition

Dy Ada Foster. August is the time to swim, January mawfalls are white and clean Bepsamber appien now wo gather, Apell showera mako very wet weather, March ja the month the wind gues

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 a crown, October leaven begin to turn brown December Sants brings the toys November Guy Fawkes are for girls

and boys.

Story

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-From 8. 8. Bux. Once a #tork Waz

fying round and round the sea-share looking for food. Suddenly he saw a big clam open her shell lying on the shore. Without think- In the stork darted down and thrust her long bill into the clam. 11ut the latter quickly closed her shell and trapped the stark. During the strucnio, a sherman found them and took the stork and elam home. This is an ex- cellent able to work out.

Land of Mako-Believo

-By Yscuit Cooper. Every day when my homework in dene

I like to sit and knit by the fire Anding to myecil and tonetimes Oretend I'm a molden in distress

to diret

hum

Oh dear I am tled to a tree in a wood

By my uncle, a razeally knave, The draron near by thinks he'll have

me for food,

But my knight comes, my to he

GAVES)

pleture myself with long raven Jocks A giri full of beauty and grace (Were the truth to be known I've A

very anub nore

And freckles ali over my farel)

bly knight so handsomă and dating

and bold

Its fears no earthly foa

The dragon is roon uulte dead and rotu

And in the dust aid low.

My

hero there comes and sela me free

„Í thank him on my knees

It says. "Will you kindly marry me?"

And then I say, "Yes, please!"

I am married in klike and satins gAY

With a joy that is hard to conceive And I allo and I laugh on that happy

day

In the Land of Make-Delteve

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How to get Fat

-From 8. E. M. Nux, There was once a man, win wAA BA thin that he was ashamed to go out into the streets bestitse everybody would laugh at him. One day ho happened to notice a slot-mechina with the holico on it: Drop one shilling Into the wlot and learn how to get fat.

Of course he was delighted and imi mediately dropped in- a -- shifting,- Out came a paper on which was written the words Gel 13 at the butcher's shop,

LORD DONEGALL says-

If

Women

HERE'S an article I've

Want

been wanting for a long to Please

time to address particularly to young women readers. And us it concerns their be 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 (and other women) talk and think about you,

Let me try to bring the whole subject down to a few simple "do's" and "dont's."

Do use your brains. Thoughtful- ness is a great thing. I give you n girl-friend of mine as an example,

My Red Carnation WE BO

out to parties occasion ally, and whenever I call for her the butler hands me a red carne- tion for the buttonhole of my even- It's the fact that she ing clothes. has taken the trouble to order it, that there is nothing savouring of ostenta- tlun, 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 be- tween thoughtfulness and "chasing a

man."

Don't, if you are married or en- Kaged, run down your man to another man so as to flatter your latener. This chiefly a fault in young mor-

For ried women bordering on 30. from making an impression or induc- Ing pity this sort of disloyalty is obberrent to most men.

If you say of your husband: "He's

Men

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having a discussion about Russia across the table. I was out of my 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 bre- midle remarks into the discussion. and the third, who did not want to listen, kept trying to start, a rival conversation with me about the Riviera in winter.

So it always la.

Don't Join the ranks of what i call the Scandal Group. A branch of it exists in every town.

Suppose that a couple become estranged und a sensational divorce The Scandal seems likely.

to work, Group Immediately gets decides which party (generally the

case

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END - SECTION

Don't Forget, the Game Bridge Problem

Is "Snooker"

By Melbourne Kuman

No. 48.

North

343 K.6

Wast

first

How to break of safely. Diagram. "A" shows how Alce Brown broke hitting the two top reds with strong running side. Diagram "B" is Joc. Davis's safe method of crashing the pyramid from a break-off, white running to safety no matter how the reds-scattered.

It means

man) is in the wrong, and, having NATURALLY, I am expected to write about safety play in this nothing better to do, makes the dif

little series, and 1 accept the subject with enthusiasm. If ferences of Mr. and Mrs. X Into us

people think I am still cunning in the art of laying snookers, much a dinner-table issue as Fascism v. Communism.

I am proud to know it.

It means a lot to me. that the thoughtful, crafty player, the man with a billiards touch, has been given a set of rules designed to enable him to beat an opponent who has nothing more than a gift for pot- ing.

Give Her Credit

ASTLY, a word or two about attitude to other your women. They are assessing your allure and fascination all the time just as much as the men.

A

Don't remind a mixed company that you were at school with woman who looks half your age. Give her the credit for having taken

her the trouble to preserve

good looks.

And why tell your women friends to go to the wrong hairdresser or steam the labels off your face-creat pols so that no one can Imitate your lovely complexion? Such

pelly things. So unworthy.

And as a final Injunction don't be patronising to older women: be good

| Conduct Code for mannered and no more. Don't step

Young Women

DON'T-

Run down your husband, Use baby-tale or rcandal, Be patronising or mean

other women,

to

Forget to pay men for your

bets,

DO-

Try to listen.

50 mean. I'd cry if he gave me a bunch of violels," 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 an evening. There is a wove of it at the moment," but resist it. Make that a big resolu- tion.

Anyone who talka "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 fumb7"

he

donc to

"I cut it shaving!" (slightly terse), "It's all oozly!"

"What does that mean?" (led to the teeth).

"Goozy-woozy!" (At the murder occurs.)

this point.

She Never Pays

DESOLVE not to make bets with men and "forget" to the enthusiastic pay. It is never "horsey" type of woman who does this on a racecourse, It is the occa- sional race-goer who wants ten bab on Catsmeat because she likes the colours. She never pays up.

Actually, one could stand the bet and save the ten shillings were it not for the possibility that Catsmrat might romp home at 100-1. She would remember then all rightl

Do, at least, try to listen!

Many good talkers arc equally good listeners, and many women have been called "good company" because they never interrupt at the wrong moment.

But few women in this world are prepared to listen to intelligent con- versation. If you have a luncheon parly of six people, it is almost Im- possible to get any intelllvent taik rhort of turning the party into a de- baling society with the host as chale- mon.

And this is not to be recommended unless you happen to be a converan- tional genius like Lady Cunard.

I remember a case in point. Leslie Hore-Belisha and II. G. Wells were

Solution

The answers to the problems George set are (1) Tulips do not grow from seeds in a year, they grow from bulbs. (2) 4, 7, 10, 13, 16. (3) Two hours for two days, 4 hours for 4 days, 6 hours for days, 12 hours for 12 days,

aside ostentatiously to let a woman of 40 pass through a door. It makes her feel 00.

P.S.: Just a word on that theme to my own sex. Golden Rule: Be- fore you call a man "Sir" (I don't mean employees, etc.), be sure that he is at least old enough to be your father. If he is not, he will regard it as highly tactless-not to say plain offensive.

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PEOPLE

Whatever you, may read or hear. there are no first-class snooker play- ers who are merely good polters. They can all lay sneakers and evade snookers. They know the safety moves and when to employ them; and if you really desire to improve and win the local handicap, you, too, must study this important side of snooker.

FOOLISH RISKS

The time to snooker or play for safety must be judged, of course, on the state of the game and the post- tion of the balls. Bul no snooker frame is lost until it is won, and. with no ball on to pot, you would be foolish to try a dimeult pol no matter how big your lend. The pool bulls represent 27 points, and a couple of nasty snookers can increase the possible margin against you to 40.

Generally spenking, the first tule 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.

When a snooker is dimcult to obtain, and the position may be dun- gerous if it is attempted and not obtained. select instead an ordinary safety-shot-Put-the-white-under-a cushion, with the object ball os far away as possible. Make cueing awk- ward for your opponent, and al-

LIKE OURSELVES

WHEN THE DAYS WORK IS OVER

---—— THE BOSE SAYS --- Under the re-organisation 1, can see no reason for paying Gilmore so highly. It's quite apparent he's not pulling his weight, these days

Then every night-

Sharpen

your wits

The other night George threw tt party so that he could show off his powerful brain.

"Suppose you had a triangular patch of ground 100 feet long ot the base," sald 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 holiday." George went on, "I caught fifty fish in five days, and each day 1 caught three more than the day before. How many did I eatch on each of the five days?

came "One day four tramps here asking for

slet work," George, "and I gave them a plece 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 man work as many days as he does hours day,

"Now how were the 200 hours allotted so that each tramp shou’d work as many hours a day as he did days: and yet so that no two tramos should work

the

same number of hours?"

Answers at the foot of Column Three.

though you get no penalty painis you may well get a good leave from his shot.

Hury dear, breakfasts ready. Don't look so gloomy-it's sausages!

Aw Mary, I hate going to work these days. Every morning

wake feeling tired like this-absolutely

washed out

"GILMORE THINKT: THEÝRE PUTTING BARSON IN MY PLACE EH? IF ONLY I DIDN'T FEEL SO LIMA IF, ONLY I WASN'T DO ́NÈRVY" AND RUN DOWN, KTILL, SOMETHING MUST BE

DONE FOR MARYŤ JAKÉ »

1. CUNT AFFUKO

TO PARROW

South AK

AJD

Spades are trumps. South leads the three of Hearts. North and South to make all the tricks.

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

PROBLEM NO. 47

SOLUTION

West +K

North

T

South.

West is now squeezed. Correct solutions from EMA.,

"Emjay"; A.E.G., Mrs. A.K., "S'Easy" "68323," N.E.

TEST YOUR MIND

EVERYONE likes to think they are brondminded! Ask yourself these questions and then check, up your answers. If you agree on more than half of them you're brondminded.

1. Would you trust woman ngaf once they had let you down?

n man

or

2. Do you think women doctors are as good as men?

may 3. Even though you

bc tectotal would you serve drinks to your friends?

1. Do you think gambling of any sort an unforgivable sin?

5. Would you welcome your divorced friend's new

wife?

husband or

boy women

6. Do you object to friend or husband having triends?

your

7. Would you give an unmarried mother employment?

8. Have you an unblased mind

about after hearing gossip

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. Ycs. 4. No. 3, Yes. 0, No. 7, Yes. 6, Yen. I, 'Yes. 10, Yes,

Hello Gilmore! fired agam this morning? Cheer up we're putting Barron into your department

to take a bit off/

your hands

Aren't you catisfied with the way my work

has been going, Mr. Harris?

SO GILMOREG SAW THE DOCTOR

Even in the momings I'm tired. That makes

it an uphil fight to hold my jolz My wifes expecting a child in the Spring, so

It's serious

On How Gilmore, don't take offence- We realise you've got

more tion

You can cope with really-

Wet, Mr. Gilmore. waking tired usually means you're not replacing the energy you use up in breathing, hout-beats and other automatic actions during skep. That's Fight Starvation. ladvise Horlicks....

TWO MONTHS LATER

Oh darling, I'm so glad those old fogies at the office gave you a rise, the lovely to have this

little car of

our own

What's better, darling,

Ifect sure of my posiñon now I've got rid of that awful fitness ·

Does your husband wake fired- is he overworkat, rundown?.

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