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Of Course You Know,

But Are

DROWS

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pursed?

By The Dragoman

Fingers packered? twiddling? Right-then you are all set for this week's knotty problems come not so knotty as others; and others, maybe, knotiler.

The way to score is to take two points for each correct neswer (if any). You must total 30 to are only passable. post-but a pass means you Aim at 50, and if you hit 40 you are not a bad shot.

1.-Governors come and Governors go and some But in the first pince stay longer than others. they are all appointed for a period of:-

Two years; three, four; five; slx; seven. 2.Brass, they told us at school, is an alloy, and the metal of which it is nestly composed 1s:-

Zine; gold: tin: copper;

ganese; lead,

from: ENKAT-

3. People who can be bothered studying these things sell me the title representing the lowest trade in the English peerage is:

Daron; viscount; earl; tord; marquesS.

4. See the Olymple Games were revived ira Athens in 1808 they have been won most mea by'

Germany, Great Britain; United States; Japan; France; Sweden; Greece.

3. Do you play tennis? Well, next time you Gee that the net at the go on to the court you centre in no higher than:——

2ft 9. 3ft. 3ft. 3.; 3ft. Gln, ft. 6.Did it ever strike you, when you sat down to a quiet game of droughts, that there was some- thing wrong if the number of men you started with wasn't:--

10; 12; 14: 16; 18: 20.

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21

Which of there have been disestablished-

Church of Ireland

Church of Scotland

Church of Walca

-Don't think I'm trying to be offleloss if point out to your that the little binch opening in the centre of the eye is called the

Cornea,

acferntle.

2

Iria; pl: retina; conjunctira;

Cinves-Chase little black things put in the

are really.. apple pie to agravate the guests

fruit: needs of a dried roats;

Pipe of a flower buds

darned nuisancea.

Do you k

enough 10 know that vaar sterntant in you!

$2

nar

flower: kernels:

about yourself tu

Cheekbone: coltarbone: sutur: hipbone;

breastbone: uriatlone; shinbone,

Orinally the Pharieven were:- Goths; Huns: Saxons, Danes: Jews; Bed Indians.

Be fair with this one and don't guess -do you know whether a marten is...

A bird; an animal; or both

13 t don't want to start shielachs Bring or

I'm a for peace Het into a political argument

All I want to tell you that the words Sinn Feln

men:

Us and us onli: unity is strength: on our oum: frat ua; ourselves alone, keep to the right.

Going-

Ooh

Going

that was lovely!

You Sure?

14. The U.S.S.R. stands for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republies. (Volces: Thanks, thanks). All right, smartles-now tell me how many re- publics in the union? (That's got you-I hope):-

Trou; three four; five; six; seven; eight.

15-When a man is contemned It means he

Exiled from home; put in irons; sen- tenced to death; despised; declared insane,

thrown out after six.

10-You've only got to rend your Bible to find out that Noal built the Ark out of:--

Teak; oak; cedar; sandalwood; gopher- wood; matchivood; jarrah; pickets from his neighbour's fence.

17. This might cheer you someday. When n inan in convicted on six churges and sentenced to 12 months' Knol on each and two of the sentences

are to be cumulative and the other four concurrent

he should serve (without remissions):-

One pear; two years; three; four; five;

(what's that?-of course I've He makes his got a friend) is an horologist.

18. My friend

living by: ---

their

Telling prople's fortunes from paims; the bumps on their heads; urzicing Burgers; making clocks; minding babies. 19-You've heard that old saying about having crossed the Rubicon? Never mind if you haven'i

you still should know the Rubicon is:-

a

namic

The imaginary line between right and wrong; an old Roman road; a mountain

river: another

for the equator. 20-"Let's have a spelling bee," said the teacher. Spelling bee blowed," remarked Tommy (a for-

So the teacher made Tommy spell; ward lady

Allgatter; allgater; alligatior; alligator; alipatter; alligator. 21It's not every Toin, Dick and Harry whe knows that a tortoise is properly classed as --

Marsupial fish: mammal: crustacean, reptile, felte; malinze; batrachtan; hard

CRAC

22. You needn't pass this on, but Murgatroyd in what I would call a nescient mas. I mean be: ---

Ja veru vain knows a lot, doesn't know much, beats his wife; in greedy; drinks too much.

23

If you went to Spain (though you'd be crazy if you did) and a beautiful senorita handed you tortilla you would be more or less obliged (she's beautiful, don't forget; to:---

Wear it on your head; put it in pour buttonhole; eat tt; chain in a kennel: sign it and hand it back to her.

24-Very simple, this (perhaps). X, who has a bag of apples, meets Y. who also has a bag of angles. X said: "If you give me one of your apples I'll have the same number as you." Y (an Ameri- one of en replied: "O yeah!--if you give me your I'll have twee as many as you" Now, low inny amples in each bag?

25-Take your bat and go home if you don't Enst here that is in the know the one Island

Indies

Cuba; Thor; Haiti; Jamaica; Bermuda, Answers on Page 3

Creamy, cool und delicious no wonder 'Ovaltine' Cold is his favourite summer drink. Give your children 'Ovaltine' Cold this Summer, al ment-times and whenever they want a refreshing drink. It in very ensy to prepare; just add 'Ovaltine' to cold milk mix thoroughly with an egg whisk or in a shaker.

Regular daily 'Ovaltine' Is the Anest way of keeping children fit and full of energy during the long summer days, Hot or cold, 'Ovaltine' is the perfect food beverage for children. it pro- vides all the essential food elements needed to build strong, sturdy bodles and steady nerves.

Gone!

Ovaltine Cold

SERVED

A Glorious Summer Drink!

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INSPECTOR PLAYFAIR

was

Episode No. 64

SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1988

·R. DERRICK IVIS, callousness: About a year ago I fell secretary to Sir in love with her, and she fell in love with me. We have been meeting Lancelot Farabout, secretly for some time, and I had arrested last been hoping that before long Lady night at Charing Cross. He's Farabout would leave her husband charged with the theft from Sir and come away with me. Lancelot of £1,000 in banknotes. Have a look at these two state menta,"

Dumbell,

Thus,

Sergeant to Inspector Joshun Playfair.

Dumbell took the papers which hin superior bonded to him.

1.

STATEMENT OF SIR LANCELOT FARAIKOUT

"DERRICK IVIS came to me us

DIC.

rivate secretary about two

He was a half years upo. azrel Cambridge graduate and very well showed recommended. ile himself competent and went out of bin way to make himself useful tu Before long he was practically one of the family, having the run of the house and taking full control of most of my private affairs,

Ivis "Unfortunately,

presumed tag much on our good nature. I do not propose-for obvious reasons to set out in detail why I decided 1 will confine my- to dismiss him, self to saying, in general terms, that his attitude towards Lady Farnbutt, at no time as respectful as it should have been, became altogether intoler- able.

"When, therefore, I heard him speak to her with a familiarity quite out of keeping with his position. I made up my mind that he must go. |

Ludy Farabon! left on Monday for a cruise round the world; unit she confled to me. afor

lafore she went, that young Ivis's misplaced atten- tions were a source of great annisy ance to her. f promised to get of him forthwith, and yesterday marning I called him into my study and gave him a cheque for three He dertook to months'

salary depart immediately

"Later in the day

was missing that £1,000 in notes

Ivis, up to the from my safe. moment of his departure, had the key of the safe in his possession. returned it to me just before he left. "I nolied Scotland Yard of my Ivts, loss, and I understand when arrested, had the notes in his

identified possession. I have notes handed to ine as mine.

"I

discovered

2te

the

thu

am prepared to waive question of a prosecution-regard- ing this abstraction of my money as a temporary aberration on the part of i foolish young man-but I understand that this is not possible. 1 shall be glad, however, to testify as to Ivis's hunesty and reliability prior to this deplorable incident."

"H'm" said Dumbell. He picked up the second document.

11.

STATEMENT VOLUNTEERED BY DERRICK IVIS, HAVING BEEN DULY CAUTIONED BY SUPER- INTENDENT POOK.

SIR LANCELOT FARABOUT has for years neglected his wife und has treated her with great

Puzzle Corner

Cryptogram

Saturday brings us the more difficult cryptogram, this one being shared by a Plainfield, N. J. reader. WZB ZG ALL DRGS OBMC, JFZRO, AVYIZ, ERXFMZ, JFRXPOB UROOH EZXFFN; YIRMTRMT QFNKB, DROW XZOOH GL SVOK NZPY QLB.

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What Were Their Ages? This is shared by a Collingswood, N. J reader: "A father told his son that he (the father) is three times as old as he. The son said: But, when I'm twice as old as I am now, you'll be twice as old as I am, not three times.' What were their ages?

Leiter Juggling

This one comes from an Okmul- gee, Okla., reader: Try forming 4 different 5-letter words from the 5 letters given below. Use all 5 lof- ters in each word;

VRESE

What Is the Value?

A man rents a house for $45.00 a month. He realizes 8 per cent "en the money he has Invested, after paying $108,00 for taxes, and $16.00 for repairs. What is the value of the property?

more,

World Epics This list is shared by a Fenni- Win reader! Con

you match each one correctly,

in- dicated by the example checked?

had written to me-a which

Was

"Unfortunately, a note which she

note merely said, Derrick, darling, at eight in the conservatory. In haste.

intercepted by E-vas

Farabout, ago. That was three days

"He at once packed off Lady Farabout on a cruise-I haven't seen her since the interception of the note and informed me that I He should have to leave his service. told me also that Lady Farabout red of her tion for he was ine. but that, in her willing to buy my promise never to He would give molest her again. me, he said. £1,000 in cash would undertake to go to Americn and stay there for two years.

Keene In the "After a stormy

On Farabout's in- library, I agreed. structions, I then opened the safe and took out the bank notes which He gave them to me he and there yesterday, with a cheque for three

months salary.

see now how foolish I have been and how Farabout has trapped me.

course.

that

too. realise,

my sty y. quite likely, not be bellever. Indy Farabout in weak-willed, and desperately afraid of her husbami, She will never adinil that there was ever anything between us,"

UMBELL Anished reading. 1) "Well?" said Playfair. "Whom are we to believe?"

"Whom Indeed!" said Dumbell.

of n The young chup's a bit blackguard, even on his own show- Ing. Farabout, I suppose, denies his story altogether?”

"or

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Playfair. "According to Sir Lancelot, Lady Farabout has always loathed him. Come. Dumbell; we'll go round to Stalcombe and look over the Far- about

ihat reakdence, Lanevist, very parfait gentil kalght, has given us rarte blanche."

rosirse

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"What do you expect to find, str?" "Nothing.

there's always But

We'll Dumbell

hope, you know, just rummage around.”

The Farabout study yloided no clues of any interest. In Lady Fur- about's room,

however, Playfair "rummaged around" for some time.

"Look here, sir,” called out Dum- bell, who was seated at her Lady- ship's writing-table. "Look at the Inscription in this book.

Playful looked. The book was a copy of the "Sonnets from the Portuguese." On the y-leaf was written "E. F. from D. 1. Always"

Joshunt Playfair abrugged his shoulders. "Hardly evidence, Dum- bell. That muy bo merely {1 'familiarity." All the same, I've n snenking feeling that Ivls has been falsely arrested."

A few minutes later Playfair was sure of 11. Can you conjecture why! (Solution on Page Three)

CHESS PROBLEMS

Binck

Nos. 11-12

В Месси

BIDYO Dead

White

10 Pieces

White to play and mate in two

NO. 12

Black

White

1 Pieces

4 Pleces

Facts About

OPIATES

PIATES which in tho strict pharmaceutical senso are the sleep producing drugs made from opium-are at once of the greatest boons end worst curses known to mankind.

For while the chief opiates- morphine, heroin, codeine, and laudanum-bring through their legitimate use sleep and relief of pain in human suffering, in their illegal use they lead to, the darkest depths of human passion ending in physical and mental degeneration.

The story of the use of opiates go09 back to prehistoric times.

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By Stuart Emeny

has the advantage that it is not so Hlable to cause gastric trouble as do some of the other opiates, but the disadvantage that in iis powder form it is the easiest drug for the addfel to administer to himself. A single sniff and he is drugged,

In the dwellings of the Stone Age aceds of the oplum-bearing poppy, Mother of the Opiates, have been found. The ancient Greeks used opium to dull their senses against the danger of battle and "to numb the soul to the horrors of combat."Tes papyrus of ancient Egypt men- tions seeds of the unripe poppy os a

remedy to "prevent excessive cry- ing of children" and ends with the assurance that "the crying will stop at once"-a reinedy frequently used with fatal result in Eastern coun- tries to-day.

FOR

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centuries opium was only the sundried known in gummy mess in which it is derived from the sup of the poppy. In this form it was peddled in the streets of Caesar's Rome and in the sixteenth century carried by the plcturesque natural philosopher Paracelsus in the pommel of his saddle as he rode through Europe trying welrd nnd wonderful medicines on credulous mankind. He enlied it "the stone of immortality." and mixed with powdered pearls and

(50 gold

be Fald).

But in spite of such quackish tricks Paracelsus did at least one ht pharmacy useful thing for dissolved oplum with alcohol and so invented laudanum-the Arst known derivative of opium.

Laudanun to-day is used mainly in medical prescriptions for digestive troubles. Now it is on the list of "dangerous drugs" but within Hving memory people could buy as much of it as they wanted at the chemista - many of them did.

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Addicts

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drank gradually increasing dose us with continued usage they found that mere sip no longer sensations brought the "plensant" of what is called the "honeymoon stage" of opiate tuking. were known to drink as much as a Smokers soaked tobacco pint daily.

the alcohol in laudanum, allowed

cvnporate and then content to "enjoyed" the equivalent of opium smoking.

M.D.,

Dover, A pirate, Thomas who sailed the Spanish: Main and rescued the shipwrecked sailor,

Selkirk Alexander

(the original Robinson Crusoc), mixed oplum with Ipecacuanbts and sulphate of potash, The mixture was called Dover's Powder and In various similar prescriptions in still used to-day by doctors for reducing tem- peratures and for the relief of pain.

Then one day_In

In 1803 humble

clerk, one Friedrich Serturner, employed in an old-fashioned phar macy in Paderborn. Prussia,, sa: sturing moodily at jump of the

дитму mess called oplum. He asked himself what was the ulti- mate part of the mess which made people feel sleepy and drove away pain. Between wrapping up penny-worths of salts and cakes of sonp he began experimenting. After years of work he finally produced crystalline substance which hud all the properties of opium in concen- trate form. He called it morphine after Morpheus the God of Sleep.

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TO-DAY morphine is the most used of alt for the relief of acute pain. Doctors usually admin- ister one quarter grain on operation patients as a nerve sedative and to ward off the dangers of shock.

Heroin, another opiate, made by the action of acetic acid on opium, has a quicker action than morphine and is used extensively for relieving Irritation in bronchial troubles. It

Bridge Problem

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No. 61.

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Melt drug taking has been prac- tically stamped out in Great Britain, but the opinies still clalm hundreds of thousands of victims in the Far East, the United States, Canada and

America. South

The legitimate ཐ་ medical requirements of the world for oplates and other narcotics are about 40 tons n year and this la dis- tributed under the control of the some 50 League of Nations from licensed factories. But all national and International efforts st

fail to prevent the amuggling and distribu- tion of at least another 40 tons of opintes, illegally manufactured in secret factories, to addicts through- out the world.

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use

aft

the concentrated on the

THE Hterary picture of the effects of oplates drawn by Quircev. Cateridee and others in a distorted one. Their descriptions may bear some reintion to the few hours of ecstasy produced during the

honeymoon" stages, but with

of continued modern opinies the effects endlet are swift and terrible.

The faces of victims quicitly be- come pale and yellow with a peru- llor aged appearance. The eyes be- ene sunk and glassy, teeth become loose and decay and the hair becomes

and falls out. Although Arst there Is Increased mental activity and intellectual brilliance, the men- ory quickly becomes impaired and moral degeneration sets In. Truth- and ful men become flars, cheats thleves.

There are two methods of treat- One is the slow withdrawal ment. of the drugs from the patient over a period of weeks or months with the use of bromides to relieve the consequent sufferings of the patient. The other is the sudden and com- method which is plete withdrawal met favoured to-day. This method in- ficta such pain and physical illness on the patient that it is believed that the

acts as a memory of It deterrent to the renewal of the drug habit by obliterating any pleasant memories of the drug itself.

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STUDY of the League of Nations efforts to stamp out the felt drug traffle suggests that the problem is as difficult as the outhwing of war and that the world has still a long time to wait before mankind is freed from the curseS and enabled to enjoy only the pain- relieving blessings of the oplates.

A Lay Sermon

By HUGH REDWOOD THESE words must have puzzled

Innumerable readers. Some- how they don't seem like Jesus. But It might be very different if we could hear the tones in which they were spoken.

How did Ho say "Woman?" Turn to John xix 20 and I think you will know,

For the tone wea Woman, what have the same, we may to do with thee? be sure, at Cana

Jo, 1. 4.

as nt Calvary. To mn its question speaks of the hidden years, before ffo took up His ministry. He was

fearning then of His Father's business; learning the powers at its command and the mite to set on their employ- ment, Don't you think He ahared His discoveries with His mother, tell- ing her, perhaps, to keep them secret7. And now she appeals to um at the welding, "Oh, mother," He laughs, "what am I going to do with you?” But He does what she asks becaučo le loves her.

That "sweet story of old" would be all the sweeter two used our ima- gination more. We like to picture Jesus with the children. But to hear

Him talking with Kla mother, sh, I should like to have been with Him then!

White to play and mate, in three

SOLUTIONS TO LAST WEEK'S PROBLEMS

Bolutions to Problems 8 and 10

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Answers On Paro 3.

There are no trumps. South Icads and-North-South have to win four of the seven tricks.

Solutions by first post Wednesday, Bridge Problem, Hongkong Tele graph, Wyndham. Street.

SOLUNTION OF PROBLEM 00 South wins with king of spades, discording North's jack of cluba. South also wins with club ten, North discarding diamond Jack, South then leads a

By

FINESSE

low spade for East to win. East must land diamonds for South to win two diamonds and the third spade.

This was an easy problem and the following sont in correct solutions. F.H.T., F. C. Wu, Bishop's. Gombit, D.W., "S'cnay", 60028.

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