1938-09-17 — Page 11

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1938.

Girls and Boys' Corner

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Address

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Cluan Acrole

1 A cat has them

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Where goods are

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Dear Kiddien,

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This is a my own work

Age.

14 A country whose

king has just been

made an Emperor

id Manuscript

7ly oneself

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Clues Down

1 A play upon

words

2 Part of a build-

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3 Divide

10 One who

after horses

fooka

4 Secret

Fewer entries This wrek, kiddies, I think you must be Bnding your hands Juli with school work thicke Klays,

Although I asked you not to work through a dictionary to get on any words possible out of “Multiplication," found that many of you had paid no attention to my request. The Junior entries were A obviously done by older children or taken word for ward out of the diction- ary that I feel it would not be fair to nward a prize in the Junior section this werk as there are no entries which appear to have been done entirely by a Junior without helps.

The prize-winners this week are: Alex Danilo (aged 13), 10, Carnarvon Iload, Kowloon!

l'amia Ceonsbes

Avenue, Kowloon,

faged 8), 30, Xtart

NEW

ENGINEERING

DESIGN

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OPERATING ECONOMY

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London

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school

Amith

near

public

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3 Man-ike animal 15 Limb

& Squalid district

10 Perform

Coupons have been sent to Alex and Pamela which I want them to bring to the "Hongkong Telegraph offices. The coupons Will then t exchanged for

monty prizes,

Correct entries were sent in by the following (although it is obvious that some of you want the dietlunary)-Vin- cent Silva, Mak Wal-inm, Kostia Danitol, Legliln Remedies, Henry May, Paul

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Unssonar, Stanser och Gloria Babara, Carios. Castilho, Kil-wa, Mak Sic-keung, Charles E. Clark, Winifred Barnes. John Cameron (Seniors): George Nesteroff, David Wilson, Thielina Organ. Theresa Souza, S.S. Bux (inter- mediates).

Peter . Pan and Any floater did not give their ages.

Tuls week, kiddies, here is a cross- word puzzle for all age sections to work nut. When you have mived the puzzle.

G: FRIGIDAIRE

YBY GENERALSI

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HOUGH I shall be on

once more to Peru next year, never again shall I climb there the pre- cipitous slopes of El Misti.

In Precipitous is the word. places this volcano, 19,200 feet high, is as steep as the sides of a house, with sheer drops of a thousand feet or more.

Truc, it is not as dangerous as it sounds, for most of the ground is just soft ash, but the Journey is too uncomfortable to invite à repetition.

Quite often you see a mass of rock, high up on the slopes, slithering down towards yo You know you can get clear in time, but your heart is in your mouth until it sweeps past lest it should fall on one of the mulcs."

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ERUVIAN-INDIAN WAE Besides our my gulde. own mulca, we had a third to carry cargo-Linned food and a precious barrel of water.

And for a while it seemed that the long and wearisome climb would be a wasted effort.

Just as we pitched camp two

Die name, address and age coupon and send your entry to "Unele Eddie." Wyndham Street, before 4 pun. on Wed- nesday. Three prizes are main being offered-one cact to the best in each section,

Heaps of luck, kiddies,

Uncle Eddie

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION

Miss Stafford (left) as London aces her, and above, with .a group of her Peruvian Guides.

She sleeps

on a

VOLCANO!

Fair-headed Miss Dora Stafford, only woman plant- hunter, is back in London after 15 months' adventuring in Southern Peru. In this interview she tells of thrills and perils on the remote, awe- inspiring heights of the Andes, where she risked her life secking-rock plants.

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thousand feet from the summit, the whole mountain began quiver. There was a rumbling as of distant thunder.

i could not make up my mind whether to stay or make for lower ground as fast as the tired mules could take us. El Misti in eruption was not a pleasant prospect.

I admit I was nervous, but I de- cided to take the risk. Climbing up to the peak, I looked across a sea of clouds to another volcano which 1s always quiet when its alster El Mit is active It was quiet now. A puff of white smoke billowed up

from the crater beneath me. Yet I spent a whole day and a night All that there without harm. happened was occasional carth tremors.

They are common enough in Peru. Sometimes they occur day after day, but the natives are as scared of them as any visitor. There's no getting used to earth- quakes.

I was in a town one day when the dogs suddenly began to howl. Birds screamed in terror. No doubt what was coming!

The air grew so desperately hot

The SNAPSHOT GUILD

The St

SUM

SUMMER SUNSETS

Bilhouettes against the sunset make striking snapshots. QUMMER'S gorgeous sunsote arefcases, a mero striking,result will ba splendid snapshot material, and obtained K you place a color filter naasot pieturon are easy to take, over the camera lens. The Alter whether you have a simple box cam- brightens its own colors, and dark- ons its opposite or complementary era or a high-grade folding camera

colors. When in doubt, shoot ono with ultra-fast Ions.

pleturo with the filter and one with out. A good sunset is worth an extra shot or two.

Charming ellbauettes of persons can be made with the sunset as a background, and auabot shuts across a lake or stream, with reflections, Either chrome type or panchiro- are remarkably beautiful, The effect matie film la excellent for sunset of a sunset la bolghtened by a good pictures. Short exposures are desir foreground, such as "frame" of able, in order to subdue detall in tho trees or overhanging leafy branches. foreground. If yours is a box camera · In the country, try shooting the aun- which has a choice of lens openings, not with a pleco of farm machinery use the smaller opening, With rapid- slibouotted against it. A plowing lens cameras, try an exposure of 110 Beene, with straining horses sillon-at 1/60 or 1/100 second. If the sunset etted against the sunset sky, makes is quite bright, and you are abooting a successful snapshot,

One of the most Important points, In picturlag auxsats, is to obtain' a strong, vigorous cloud effect, Good clouds are otten better than a tlot of brillant color, at least for black and-whito picturo purposes. In many

NOW YOU KNOW

Answers from Pago 2.

Division.

2-Swallow,

3-Austria,

4-Greater. (Population of Norway

La less than 4,000,000.3

-Receive a testacy.

5-Vienna,

7-Red,

8-10 some varnishing.

Inside wall of the ship.

10-eight of ship's deck above the

watering.

11-Octopi.

12-Four.

13-Denis in dark mystery.

I-Yes. France

Pondtefiorry) and]

Portugal (os).

15-Furt.

18-teart specialist.

17-The Merry Wives of Windsor.

15-Greece

10-Uses too much lipstick.

20-The diameter of the bore of the

barrel

31-The propeller.

22-Harrassing should be harassing.

-Double sirloin,

24-istia.

25-Philippines.

across water, you may use an open- ing as small as 1.22.

Watch the subsets-koop your camera londed-ready for action- and you will add many a charming snapshot to your collection.

John van Guildor.

Puzzio Córner' Answers Cryptogram: Hollywood is quoting Seneca: "I am not born for a corner of the world; the whole world is my country."

What Word? Nowhere; now here.

8.

Loge,

Changing: Letter love, lave, anve Find the Numbers: 3 and:

Fun With Antonyms; Sud- den gradual; plentiful- scanty; reserved arrogant; credible-unbelievable; subtlo -clear; harsh smooth;; boastful-modest; inferior- superior; briof andless; thick-slender,

that the quake threatened to bo disastrous. Curiously, the town escaped serious damage because the earth jolted in one direction Instead of rocking, as it usually docs.

So, instead of walls crumbling about us, they merely cracked and changed their angles. Onco again I was lucky.

Perhaps the worst experience In my life was really lucky, despite the scare it gave me. At any rate, I missed being eaten by wild dogs or held to ransom by bandits.

With a cook and a chauffeur, I set out for the gold-mining district of Montana in search of photographs and specimens for the London museums. The newly made road zig-zagged over three passes, 14,000 to 17,000 feet high; the thin air hurt our lungs,

Abruptly the road came to an end. An engineer confessed that it was not likely to be finished for months, and, since a storm was. about to break, he advised us to return at once.

Excellent advice, no doubt. But the car had run short of petrol. The lights falled; landslips seemed Imminent. There was nothing to do but pull my sleeping bag round nue and spend the night in the car, while the storm battered the countryside. And no words are vivid enough to describe a storm on the Andes.

T was still raging next day when we borrowed some petrol and began the ride back. Down we went, akding round corners with a 2,000 feet drop at the side.

The road, like those over the Swiss Alps, allowed no room for vehicles to pass; up-traffic being allowed on some days and down traffic on others.

We ignored the rule. Mercifully, we met no oncoming cars and my chauffeur kept both his nerves and his hands steady. Then the petrol gave out again.

My Peruvian cook and I decided to walk across country. Boon we were lost on thoso trackless hulk. slopes, Though Peruvians are simple, friendly people, bandits roam through the gold areas; moreover, we knew that wild dogs might attack us under cover of night.

Darkness fel. Yet we remained safe.

Really, I suppose, the gravest danger of sleeping out at such attitudes is pneumonia. By day I was warm even in a silk shirt and riding brooches. But always I car- ried thick underclothes, woollen Jumpers, coats-and a fur coat to put over them all,

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IRECTLY the SUB dropped I crawled into a Deece-lined bag and tucked it round me. Even that

could not prevent the agony caused by twitching and swollen limbs, a heart pumping at twice its normal rate, and air-starved lungs.

But the compensations! Some- times--as on El Mist-I looked across the clouds to wonderful anow-covered peaks. When the clouds parted, I saw the sea a hundred miles away and a vast salt lake beneath me, with tremendous vistas on all sides of an impressive and little-known land.

Besides, there was the satisfac- tion of discovering rare mountain plants and strange bulbs, of. securing a thousand botanical photographs for museums and many others to illustrate a book 1 have lately finished,

Not that I always reckoned the results to be worth the trouble.

Once a mule fell on me in tho middle of a narrow and bleak pass. Two others fell over us. In a few moments the track was covered by a swirling, kicking herd of enraged beasta,

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Y servants managed to pull me out just as a thunderstorm broke. The rising gate, the terrible lightning. the thunderclaps and my bruises were too much for me to weather.

I burst out crying. But I had to go on-and on foot.

Even the start of my last expe- dition might have been a tiresome business, for I was put off from the steamer and hauled up the clin face in a chair, and had the weather made this impossible 1 should have been forced to sali on for hundreds of miles to the Bra- zilian coast and then travel over- land.

Yet I have grown to love Peru. Generally I spend a year there and a year in England; perhaps be- cause I regard myself as a bit of a Peruvian (since my family have done much to develop that land's rich resources) it infuriates me to hear the people described as “un- washed half-breeds."

They are picturesque, yes. Their gay costumes seem strange to Eng- lish oyca. Many of them have In- dian blood. But they are a charm~ ing, reliable people who have served me well.

After giving myself' a 80, leisurely holiday In an English gar- don I shall go back. But not to El Misti.

J.T.

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AMONG THE GONDS

By A Janglo Parson

ALLOW me to introduce Mr. Bul of the most Mrs. Gond, two charming people I know.

Their home is in the forests of Central India. A group of little houses, walls fashioned of bamboo, plustered with clay baked in the sun, low roofs of grass or hempstalks, doorways and no windows. In cach is a Gond family.

The Gonds arc very shy, For centuries they have lived quite apurt from other communities in their own secluded hamlets, speaking their own language which is known to "very few except themselves. But once we are admitted to their friend- ship, they are the most delightful companions.

m men

Removing our shoes, we bend low and step into one of their clean litile of course, no huts. There are, chairs, but we are asked to sit on a wooden bedstead while the minster of the house sits cross-legged upon the earth floor. Three young men Imitive oil- are working at a primitive press, turning a heavy round log of wood in a cupshaped wooden bowl, rather like a huge pestle and

mortos. Our hostess is presiding over the bubbling cooking-pots. These

of clay-covered placed on a row stones, in the spaces between which s wood fire burns briskly.

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Mrs. Gond kindies the fire with a flint and steel. Millet is the staple food, and earthenware grain-jars, four feet high, occupy one corner of the living room, but the millet is mostly buried outside the house as an insurance against fire. The baby la sleeping in a kind of hammock made of a folded dress-length slung from the rafters. Two girls sit on sides of a round stone oping-mill which they turn at a

inust

en old

prodigious rate, chunting Gond melody as they work. A row of gleaming bra

brass woler- reminds

that every Gond Po have a bath daily. This is taken standing on a stone in a little wickerwork enclosure outside the house, the water being poured over the body from a small brass chembu. Our Western way of wallowing in a nool of

North Adams, Mass.

Wiscasset, A $3 bill issued by Me., bank during the Civil War is in the possession of George H. Carter. The bill, printed on thin paper, beary: a seal in one. CorNET.

of soapy water would seem dis- usting to a

Gond.

The men are great hunters, and in some areas are clever in the use of bow and arrow.

Nowadays the muzzic-loader

more

common.

They know more about tigers thon will never kill nost people, but them because they are held to be sacred animals. When guarding the growing crops or the threshing

spend floors, the men

the night sented on high platforms raised on bamboo poles, safe from attack by the beasts which abound in the sur- rounding forests.

Our Gond friends have no books and no written innguage, but we persuaded them to send a dozen of their children to the mission school a hundred miles away, where they had to learn a new language before they could begin to read,

The Gonds have changed very much since the days, centuries ago. when their fighting ancestors, under powerful Gond kings, built walled elties and went to war against aur- rounding tribes, but the well- thumbed copies of "Telugu Primer" and "Stories of Jessus" are likely to work greater changes sill.

INSPECTOR PLAYFAIR Horphery, on the Sunday, was wearing his brown sult for the first time. In the turn-ups of the trousers were, inter alia, the seeds of the two rare, grasses which hel had pointed out to Adela. This at once proved that he was lying to Playfair, and pointed unmistakably to his guilt.

"THEY BOTH PAY FOR THE SCHOOL HOW, INISO POUD OF THEM HRSE,"

"You have every

right

Evans. I can see a

wonderful improvement since you took my advice about "California Syrup of Figs."

"I could tell from what you said - that there must be toxin in their sys- tems. When children are cross and peevish and lose interest in their food and games, you can be practically sure it's an accumulation of poison- ous matter upsetting their Insides. I've seen it so often! Just cleanse the system in a safe, natural way, chil- dren go ahead like wildfire.

"But do be sure always to give them 'California Syrup of Figs. It's a natural fruity laxative which safely cleanses and purifies the bloodstream and creates a fine healthy appetite.

"Keep on with the weekly dose of 'California Syrup of Figs, Mrs. Evans. It's a fine laxative for young and old. As a matter of fact I use it myself and advise you to adopt it for the whole family."

Be sure to get the genuine "Call- fornia Syrup of Fige."

"California

Syrup of Fiqs”

NATURES OWN PALAT VE