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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION"

OF COURSE YOU KNOW, BUT ARE YOU SURE?

1-You could, if you felt that way about it, point a trembling finger of scorn at one of these and accuse it of being a mammal:-

Snake; chicken; crocodile; walrus; ibis; flounder.

2.-To-day's memory test. The predecessor of Sir Andrew Caldecott as Governor of Hongkong

WHE

Sir Henry Blake; Sir Thos, Southern; Sir John Pope Hennessy; Sir William Peel; Capt. Ellioti; Sir Heary May.

3. "I that horse would only fly," a sorrowful punter sald to me at Happy Valley on Monday. According to Greek legend, a horse that could fly

was:-

Polyanthus;

Polyphemus;

Pegasus;

Perseus; Promethens; Permission. 4.-Here 1 am again-just throwing points away. The word "niche" (meaning a shallow recess In

a wall) is pronounced:--

Nick; nitsh; nish; nl-chay.

3. Sometimes when you go to a play there is u

prologue. it comes:-

At the end; half way through; at the beginning; Just when you least expect it; after the crowd has gone home,

G-Now take the word holster, for instance-it is used correctly in which of these sentences:- "No!" he cried, spurring his holster (a) tato a gallop; (b) "I've been a holster in these stables for 20 years"; (e) "it's the braces that holster pants up"; (d) "whip- ping his pistol out of its holster, he fired." 7-When a man is. ganled for sedition he should know, without having to ask the judge, that he has, been found guilty of:-

Bad language; obstructing the tragic; the police; anti-church teach- assaulting

inga; exciting discontent against the par ernment; criticising the Interport selectors, 8.--Without being too specific you could safely say that the situation in the world to-day is grave, Speciile gravity, of course, ist

The weight of 116. of any substance; Welght necessary to stak a substance In water; temperature at which a substaure burns: Amount of duty papable on 1 cws. Mrs. Edward Kelly's reception of Eddie Kelly after a binge; Weight of any volume of a subriance compared with the weight of the same volume of water.

9. may not concern you much, but a lot of people are interested in the fact that the radio listening-in licence fee for blind people in Hong- kong Ist

$6; $10: $12; $15; nothing. 10-Salling to the attack

ented:

Wolfe

on Quebee General of the Light Brigade: Big Bud Wolfe ta Dead; Rule Britannia; Thomson's Seasons: Gray's Elegy: The Schooner Hesperus: Hiawatha; There'll Be Time in the Home Town To-night. 11--1 Bked grammar-she was always so kind to me. It your grammar is kind to you you'll

a Hot

be able to correct the mistake in one of these:-

(a) The principai speaker was the man who spoke on the principles of good govern- ment; (b) The people that do this are wrong; (e) Who is the man for whom you are walthio?; (d) Is is a matter of business between he and I.

12. Observation test.

There is

word in one of these sentences:-

one

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incorrect

(a) The Crown has indicted him for murder; (b) Here we are together again; (c) The music seemed to have a soothing affect on her; (d) it is unneccusary to delve more deeply into the intricacies of the subject.

13. Pomelos are in season in Hongkong, no you should know that Pomerania is In:-

Saini, Poland.

Austria; Jugo-Slavia; Germany;

14. You needn't try, but you ought to be able 10 do this one

is a country going on your car. An oligarchy

The

the

by: people; Onc man; ccclesiasts; a a representative democracy.

few;

15. "My Kingdom for a horse," ore the famous words of:-

The Duke of Wellington; John Clipin Henry V.; Adam Lindsay Gordon; King Richard; any disqualified jockey.

10.-If you come back from a trip abroad Jangl- ing a pocket full of sens almost any. Sherlock Holmes would know you'd probably been to:-

Russia; France; Manchukito; Japan; Senegal, Austria.

17. "Why

occasionally?"

don't you give us a movio question writes render. Right-Mary

Pickford's husband is!---

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Gene Raymond; Douglas Fairbanks, jun.; Richard Artes; Buddy Rogers; Douglas Fairbanks, sen.; Charles Laughton the VIII.

18. When you find a boiled potato roving about your dinner plate you surreptitiously pull out your book on table etiquette and discover that the correct way to go about eating it is to first:--

Cut it with your knife; dip it in the water jug; mash it with your spoes; break it with your fork; squeeze it in your hand. 19-It's one thing to convert Roman numerals into our numbers, but if you are asked to convert, say 70 Into Roman numerals you would write: MXX.; CXX.; XC.; LXX.; DXX.

20. A man who legally marries for the second

is called at- time

Polygamist; bigamist; digamist; polyan, drist; scoundrel; fool.

21. "Witat is a tandem?" said the teacher to Johnny.

ny. "That's easy," sald Johnny. "A tandem

is -

Fit of temper; hat worn by Quakers;

a frult like an orange; a large lizard; a blcycle made for two.

22 This is a sad story-can you stand Well, a frog fell down a 10ft, well. Each day he jumped up the well 3. but fell back 201. would clear the top of the well-bless him!-on the-

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day:

Sixth day: seventh day; eighth ninth day: 10th day; day before Christmas. 23-1 warrant you've often put over the say- ing, "Cleanliness ranks next to godliness," without knowing it was Arst said by:

Martin Luther; John the Baptist; Lord Lister; Florence Nightingale; John Wesley. 24. Meeting an anchorite the other day I felt quite justifled in saying to him:

How are the meals in the monastery? Did you get on well with the rest of the crew? Did the mild summer help busi- ness? Do you ever feet lonely? Do you make unchors for rowing boats as peit? 26. Just a nice little tricky one for the last question. One of these lles in British India:-

Gwalior; Delhi; Baroda; Mysore. (Answers on Page Three)

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SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1938

NOT 50 —/ WEIGH-TEA.

A grocer had a pair of false scales which registered a quality ofleags weighing 2231b.The customer

changed the lea to the

apposite pan and found it weighed only

10lb. WHAT WAS THE CORRECT WEIGHT OF TEA?

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WORD. LAST 2 LETTERS AOTAOE

OF FIRST WORD START

SECOND WORD AND SO ON

Keep-fit

SEVENTH WEEK

Do the exercises the way the picture shows you

DEADERS have written since the it calendar started to say

how excellent they have found it. Many of them have wanted to know who has designed the exercises,

Me runs

His name Is Eli Polz. the largest gymnasium in Europe at to time the Vienna. From time Duke of Windsor has paid regular visits there,

Edi Polz, wounded four times in the war, was advised by a doctor Siberian prison camp to while in do exercises. So he planned some for himself, and later on instructed other prisoners.

After the wor he began his gymnasium with four pupils, and it has steadily grown.

Last year he gave a series of lec- Lures on physical culture at Oxford and Cambridge and also at the American universities, Harvard and Yale.

All you have to remember when You do these exercises are following simple rules:

(Solutions on Page Three)..

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PLEASE!

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FROM AN ART-DEALER

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tight 4 letter words into S letter ones.

calendar

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1. Wear as few clothes as possi- ble,

2. Breathe OUT vigorously through your mouth when bending, breathe IN through your nose when stretching.

3. Keep your feet pointed for- ward.

4. Follow the with the picture, means do it four right.

instruction given c.g., 3-6x+r. sle times left and

4. Follow the instruction given, do four springy movements.

6. Do cach exercise twice in slow motion before doing it at normal speed.

7. Add one new exercise every day of the week; the seven exercises form one group.

Seven More Pictures

Next Week

6-10X

YOUNG Bank Assistant Promoted

GRAMO

THE

NEWS

THE new B.M.V. swing re- a modern cords include

old setting of that charming scalimental ditty of ten years My Heari back, "Who Stole Away?" It used to be an inti- In mate little plece of nonsense.

is very clever up-to-dale versions (performed by Tommy Dorsey's Player) it becomes brilliant and nolay "Jam Session" foxtrot re-

corded

players

Goodman's

by Benny

Ilke better because, be- harm

Ing all new stuff, it does

no

to tunes I enjoyed in the past. It ls a queer shindy and, to my cara,

a very odd jumble ut times, but it is amusing in small doses and, played us capably as this, it is an excellent example of its kind.

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NOTHER type of music is also made by Fischer and the London Philharmonic under Lawrance Collingwood, the con- ductor of opera at Sadler's Wella. This work is Mozart's Pimo Con-

C certo in minor, three ments

one

move-

of great beauty, the middle among the most lovely that even that superb writer of slow movements even created.

The performance is wholly ad- mirable. Fischer interprets won- orchestra derfully well and the plays in its best style. The whole thing is attractively done, dawdling, no undue haste.

no

AFTER swing, the musle of

Mozart sounds incredibly casy to listen to. But play some of the madrigals in the H.M.V. album of Monteverdi after a "Jam Session" and you will have the sensation of listening to music not of another age but from another planet.

An adventuresome listener will welcome these records of music by the early

all forerunner of vil How magn!- operatle composers. Rcent his Intensely dramatic music, can sound these records teslily. They have been made by singers and players from Paris directed by that great French musicion Mme. Nadia Boulenger, who is, Incidentally, the only woman the Royal Philharmonie Society of London have admitted as conduc- tor of their concerts.

What she does not know about the performance of old muste (new, too, for that matter) is not worth

These records, knowing. which should at least be heard if not bought right out, I strongly recommend to the discerning col- lector.

8. G.

CASHI

when he got rid of NIGHT STARVATION

I HAD EARLY TEA HALF

AN HOUR AGO. I MUST

GET UP WISH I DIDN'T

FEEL SO DONE UP IN THE MORNINGS I'M GOOD FOR NOTHING,

ALL DAY.

LOOK HERE YOUNG MAN, YOU'RE LATE AGAIN THIS MORNING, WHAT'S WRO ́S WITH YOU LATELY? YOU WERE ONE OF OUR PROMISING

YOUNG MEN ONCE!

SORRY,SIR, BUT I'M NOT FEELING WELL. I'M ALWAYS

TIRED AND... ..I SUPPOSE I'D BETTER SEE THE

DOCTOR

SIL AT THE DOCTORS TIRED, WHEN YOU WAKE UP NO ENERGY ALL DAY-LOOKS LIKE A CASE OF NIGHT STARVATION. ENERGY IS STILL USED UP DURING SLEEP YOU MUST REGAIN IT. I STRONGLY RECOMMEND HORLICKS, REGULARY LAST THING AT NIGHT

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THEY HAVE PROMOTED HIM I KNOW BECAUSE I SAW A LETTER FROM HEAD OFFICE ON THE BOSS'S DESK.

I WISH I KNEW HIS SECRET SINCE HE WENT TO SEE HIS DOCTOR HE'S BEEN FULL OF VITALITY.

TAKE

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