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Have you got your pencils out know which of these coins la, not and your lips drawn in that supposed to have grim, determined traditional edgò:- British way, prepared to do or dlo? Then get going-taking |two points for each correct.... answer and keeping your eyes on the possible 50.

1. Some people don't know the difference between chalk and boarding-house cheese some keepers, for instance. Which In this list isn't a cheese:-

Cheshire; Gorgonzola; Eaam: Stilton: Gru- yere; Burgundy; Ched- dar.

2. It's just as well when you go travelling to take a valise

with you- vallse being al-

Passport; man servant; maid servant; heavy overcoat; portmanteau; map; flask on the hip.

don't write 3. Maybe you poetry, but if ever you get cor- nered and And you have to you cun, if you like, rufer to Scot- Iand

8:- Kiltonia;

Moravin;

Macedonia;

Belgravia;

Lauteravia; Caledonia;

Erin.

4. There is a man in out office who is an aerolst. He is at-

Stamp collector; poet; parachute-jumper; ver- sed in aircraft; a bird fancier; social climber.

5. Whenover I get an attack of the 'Varsity blues I can't help thinking of the days when I was don at Oxford. Ah, we Oxonians-they used to call us

in

the:

Red, white and blues; red sox black-angela; light blues; dark blues; strike ne blues.

6. Just in case you buy a fleet of-ships yne of these days it's just as well to know the tallfidil is the:-

Gangway:

top deck;

rall around the bar: rail round the stern; rall of the bridge.

7. Fiji-that

place

where

bananas and rich uncles grow

is in the

Arctic; South Pacifle; North Atlantic: North

Pacife; Indian

Baltic Sea

Ocean;

8. If I'm ever, in a motor car that's going to have an, accident I'd like to be asleep when it hap- 'pens, becauar

1

I'd never know any- thing about it; wouldn't get my eyes hurt: I'd stand, less chance of serious in- jury; It might be only a dream..

9. If you were up in a plane, and the engine failed you'd probably be in trouble-unless,

of course, the plane was:

A monoplane; a flying-

boat; a tri-plane; a

moth; an autogyro,

10, You'd never do much good

in the 'colning game if you didn't

Figure Hattery.

FOUNDATIONS

Styled by MCKORY

DNTAINALI

HARIRAM'S

shilling plece; one shilling; six- ponce; threefence. 11. Don't tell me YOU don't know that a squab is a:~~

Small yacht; baby deer; young pigeon; award; test for diphtheria. 12. When, in our high falutin way, we refer to the staff of life we mean only:---

The heart; the blood walking- system; a

stick; bread; beer; the stick Moses whacked

the rock with.

13. "There was a young lady

from--"(don't pretend you don't

Governor-generals; gen- bral-governors; gover riors-general; nors-generals; marshals.

govern. fiold-

15. This is so old it ought to be about chestnuts, not. If 14 fowls in 14 days lald 14. chestn-I mean eggs-one fowl in 12 days would lay

5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; down a Yarborough. 20. Put your magnifying| glass on this one and find the

, word spelt wrongly:-

It is a common practice among lawyers who want to accommodate their clients to ask for an adjournment.

21. Film fans-here's a throw

know the rest) is the first line in for you; and lots of others, in a limerick and the total num- too, might know that the volce ber of lines in a limerick, as a of Mickey Mouse is:-

Greta Garbo's; Nelson rule, is:-

Threy; four; five; six; Hoven; 13; too many, anyway.

14. Suke, the liquor Japanese mude drink instead of beer, Is from:-

barley; Poppy seeds; oats; camphor; rice; Aus- cherry blossom;

tralian scrap iron.

15. If you

could shoot

straight as William Tell you'd

the

Eddy's; Popeye

Sallor's; Tom Mix's;

Jackie Coogan's; Walt Disney's.

artic-

22. If you don't like hokes you don't like artichokes,. All the same you. that's all. ought to know artichokes are:

fruit pump- Herbs;

kins; flower-buds; nuts; skilled garrotters.

Puzzle Corner

Cryptogram

one.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER

1938

"The Double Bluff"

ADUMBELL" asked Joshua

Here's an easy quotation by Beatrice Harradon. "EG E SYZY ABC ESBCDF HBI SBZZA, KCJI LNOY CQ ABCZ, LEHF, IB FB RYYZ STYH. ABC UYI NIIBITYZ VTNHVY, NIE RY VBHIYII'|'to_mo, SEIT ITNI."

Ten Hidden Flowers

The names of 10 flowers are hidden in the square below. These names road horizonally and vertically-not diagonally -one letter at a time.

PETULUM

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Letter Juggling

Two different letter words may be formed from the 8 let- ters given below. Use all 6 let- ters in each word.

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A B of Division Divide 240 Into 2 parts, so that twice the larger part ex- ceeds 5 times the smaller by 10.

Fun With Synonyms

More words and synonyms.

their

23. Just sprain your ankle so

and!

get a trip to Bisley-providing you can get some lodine you coukl persuade them to shoot analyse it to prove that you've with hows and arrows at Bisley.also found it in one of these:-) Did you know, by the way, that William Tell was a:--

Hungarlan; Prussian; Croat; Swiss; Swede; Dane?

16. There are a lot of islands,

Hemp; cough-mixture; sturgeon; seaweed; banana

limestone; skins.

24. Young Murgatroyd's got brains, has young Murgatroyd.

in the Philippine group--rough- When a person sild to him: Son' ly about:-

80: 200: 800; 7000. 17. When you are at sea-and you hear four bells rung during the first dog watch there's no need to look at your own watch because you know it's only:---

three;

Two o'clock; four; six; eight.

13. Supposing Australia had more than one Governor-General

we would refer to them as:-

though you are my son, re- member I am not your father. just laughed and Murgatroyd laughed and laughed because he! knew that person was his :-

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Answer on Parc 3

BOOKS

UCHANAN III, Scots Sultan of

26. Another one for you film)

sound films came to Hongkong in:-

1929;

fans-you ought to know that Ba

1925:

1927; 1931; 1930.

Answers on Page 3

Che SNAPSHOT GUILD

POINT OF VIEW

Low viewpoint, sa hare, givos m platura ene aapact. High viewpoint pro- dunnu a different ploture. Try both.

JANY things go late the making on the springboard,

MANY

is picturo

ef an drilstle, appealing picture would have been quito differen~-~ and not the lonet important is the entirely becauso of tko differenco ja

rlowpoint. palal of vlaw.

In this picture, a K-3 fiter w used on the camera lans to darkon

In fact, the lowpoint determines the type of picture you got. Consider the sky and emphasize the clouds. Ca picture of a person out of doors. | Ordingrity, the filer would have ne

Stand back thirty fool to take the conellated increased exposure, but plature, and you get. landscapofiero tho, bench follected so much view wilt & gure in the foreground, fight that 1/60 second at 1,8 was cory Stand only a fow font from the, sub- | rest. Had the picturo bean inkon ject, and you get an interinal por Item a bich viewpoint, withs camera Reall-with- the ninimum of back-pointed down toward the water, no ground, lu giher words, it you want filter would have been used, becauso Tonture the person-got clona to tho water photographs dark with your subject, if it's the landscape cut it.. you want-stand back.

Next time you're taking pictures --and today Is As

as good a time as Anglo shots are unusual and at trael attention, Shoot from au ele Anytry suupping the same subject vation, and you get a "bird's-eye" from several viewpoints, hich, low.. view of your subject. Bhoot from he close-up, and distant. Then compare jow and you get a "worm'e-ero' the pictures. You'll readily ace how tho view. The resulting pictures of the viewpoint helps you to control same nubject from the low and high arrangement of your pictures. You viewpoints will be quite different can simplify backgrounds, eliminato and they will land varloty to your undesirable parts of a scene, mako - **nhpakoi colinction."

All sorts of changes-all by moving

For example, the picture above left or right, forward or backward, was snapped from the beach below ha in ono aure ronil to batter pic the diving board. If the snaplures-aludy different viewpoletn Ahooter had been parched aloty, in chose. the best 'era to tell your the diving tower, with his camera story-lon shoot. polited downward toward the pale

Jólin vao Guilder

South Seas Island, had among his subjects (but they mostly called him just "George") a group of white people whom the police of several countries had written off is dead.

To them came a visitor who pried Into their secrets, threatened them with blackmail, and shortly was in very fact dead-murdered, naturally.

That is a sketch of the rich situation presented by Faul McGuire in Burial Bervice Heinemann, a (d.) and elaborated with enthusiasm and inoro than a touch of Norman Dougins atmo- aphero to a grantly satisfactory climax. Heartily recommended for deck chair runding.

In Short List (Collins, 78, (d), R. Philmore takes us to a school of the less traditional type and a nicely subtin question of subin Like this: H ́A ́L cleared of suspicion by B's word and B then himself becomes a suspect, there being to collusion between them, should A thereby be automatically returned to the list of suspecla, so giving us two-instead of nono?

Short List in good, but would be all the better. for a plan and a more straightforward narrative nlyło.

Finally, two lots of shorts, the very things to pick up between naps. They are E. C. Dentley's Trent Intervenics (Nelson. 79. 04.), beautiful puzzles classically solved, and Mrs. Warrender's Profession (Collins, 78. Gd.), which . D. II. and Margaret Cole show you is nothing like that of the Ehavian almost-a-nomranke but consiste of clearing up cases that barte a deteo 'tive son.

On second thoughts, I won't guar- antee those napa.

P. EIL

NEW AGE

MONG all the books on poilt-

Açal and economic themes that

flood, in these days, shop and desk and shell, how few there are of which at the fast page ona can think: "Now, that was really worth reading!

Among that sminti arkatocracy of merit. Moria Boni's The Crumbling of Empire (Allen and Unwin, 168.4 Lakes is place unchallengeably,

Its main Lenso is this?" that the age of Empire building han passed and the age of Empire breaking is dawn-

All the European settlements of the great columising age have become self. governing nations.

De Kruis," in the Near Enit, in the. Chiriose dependencies, aubsfock firesTerm move towarda independence. Exploita- tion grows more difficult dominion more precarious

The Imperial Powern “cannot change fundamental tendencies. The coloniki struggle for which they are girding their joins is very much like lie figlit for the body of Introckin-even a vie- Lor cannot revive a corpso.”

Here is Dr. Bonn's central theals/ But in discussing It he discusses in ficat of allied and associated " subjects- the geneau of Pasciam, the emittorial alde of Imperialism, “nutarchy,”. Uan Penco Treittes, DalsMeriam, "Mittel- Europa" and a lot more.

To it all he brings a deep knowledge of his subject, nbreddll" of scholar- ship, a kren analysis, a nice humour and a gift of epigram and, perhaps above ntl, a calm and shruwd under. atanding.

Playfair, "have you ever heard of the Double Bluft?"

Dumbell went through the motions of looking Intelligent. "The idea conveys something sly," he said, "but I'm not quite sure that I can define It."

"Try," said Playfair encour agingly. "Nothing's more use- ful than being able to put one's ideas into words."

INSPECTOR

PLAYFAIR Episode 80

tell me a straightforward I'm getting more and more

you'd story. anuddled."

Playfair laughed, "That was tho altogether Iden. Things have been too easy for you Intely; I thought you wanted shaking up a bit. How- rest of the ever, I'll tell you the story as simply as I can.

"Omitting Irrelevant details, this is the gist of it:

Case Party, at sir Tracoy Fatils.

"Quite so," answered Dumbell "Essays and all-that, fr. Well, now, let me think. 1 should say, air, that the Double Bluff is when you're not bluffing though all plong you've given the impression that you

Dumbell, "Excellent. That's Double Bluff Number

to speak, the positive variety, so

Two or There's also the Number negative variety: overy positive has its negative, you know, Seo Joshua Playfair's Guide to the principies of human action."

one's

"I'm not quite sure that I follow Well, then, let me explain. Your definition of a Double Bluff is where one does not blur though given the Impression of having done 80. But suppose

bluffs after Elvin

the impression one is not doing

"Ah.

followy

You,"

that one

converso-

thiet, Next, that the entire party shpult be roped in for these penelt and puper gaines.","

"Ah, yes," said Dumbell. "I got you. A very Ingenious plan, sir They'd be so busy concentrating on Gand mid so on that they'd leave their fingerprints all over the place."

Playfair laughed. "You're right up to a point," he said. "That was what I thought they'd think I was thinking. The Double Bluff, if you: follow.

still Dumbell

·looked rather worried. "I'm not qulie 'sure that I to, air, even now. This is what's puzzling.mo

1

"Yes, I know," said Playfair- "I beg pardon, sir," said Dumbell. "I haven't told you,

was going to Eny" "Mondagilo was a member of a

Again he was interrupted. "You were going to ray," sald ser's--you know that big place out-Playfair, why all that bother to side Amersham? I happened to be collect all the fingerprints when you could have got them off drinking staying in the neighbourhood: sort of unofficial holiday but not un- glosses or almost any other way?". connected with a murder caso.

*་

"On the Sunday morning, the Chief Constable, a friend of mine of the house and niso a member party. rang me up to any that there'd been trouble. A considerable auTTI in Bank of England notes had been from the mysteriously abstracted pocket-book of one of the guests.

"Well, to cut a long story short, Bald Dumbell. "I joined the party; modo the usuni you, sir." (But what the discreet Inquiries; could find no sort deuce," was his unspoken thought, of clue to the missing notes; and "Is the purport of this

came to the conclusion that I must tion?")

proceed by round-about methods. His query was soon answered, "What I was thinking about," ex- plained Playfair, "-and don't look A worried, Dumbell; there isn't any sort

crisis was the Jeremy Moudaglio. D'you

ol

cose

remem-

of

"I marked down as possible aus- pects no fewer than four members of the parly. Mondaglio was one of that the first them and I decided thing to do was to discover-with- bor it? He got 18 months' imprl-out bothering about evidence in the legal sense who the guilty party wonment for theft"

sit" said Dumbell. "No,

"I don't was; I should then be able to con- centrate on convicting him... The think I ever heard of him. If it was

principle," he added sententiously, one of your cases, air, It was before

"of economy of forces." 1 worked for you."

"Quite, sir," answered Dumbell, who disilked principles of all kinds.

"Yes, it was," sald Playfair. "I'm reminded of the case by these papers that I come across this morning."" "You see what followed?" re- He passed over to Dumbell half-sumed Playfair: "The parlour

dozen sheets of notepaper on which

were

various scrawled in peneli notes and 'dlograms.

"What on earth" sald Dumbell, after a few minutes' Inspection of these exhibits. "I can't make head or tall of them, sir,"

anyone

"Quite righi," answered Playfair, indulgently. "Nor could else. Dumbell, without the key. And this is the key I've got here" He took up another sheet of paper. "What you've got there, you set, ure answers to quailons, and here are the questions that were asked."

"They're funny sort of answer,” was Dumbell's cofnment.

"They're funny sort of questions," said Playfair. He took up the paper in front of him.

"Question 1. "I G Is not the next leiler but one before I, write down the letter which precedes the next letter but one after G. Other-

Ise write

down the letter after

that

"Keep asking you to answer the questions: It just explains why, on the papers you've the first answer's a single letter."

colm, Dumbell I'm not

He turned again to the paper in, Iront of him.

"Question 2. If London is to England as Paris is to France, draw

circle a

with a square Inside it, but

If London Is to Puris da France is to England, draw a square with a cir- ele inside it.

"That question, you see, explains the peculiar diagrams on the papers you have in front of you.

games. This is what I arranged.

"First, that I should be intro- duced to the party in my true role of Detective-Inspector. Next, that

I should drop a discreet hint or two to the effect that some of the stolen notes had come into my possession and that one or more of them bore the

Angerprints of the suspected 'i

A Lay Sermon

By Hugh Redwood SOM

NOMETHING strange used to

happen in the pool by Jeru- salem's sheep market. The last seven words of verse 3 and the whole of verse 4 are absent from many Scripture manuscripts, but that is no reason for passing them over. They explain why the blind arct the hall and the helpless filled the adjacent arches.

"Quite right," said Dumbell, and what's your answer to that, sir?"

"My answer is," said Playfair, **that I hadn't in fact seen any ot the stolen notes."

How was Mondaglie trapped? (Solution 'on Page Threa)

CHESS PROBLEMS

Black

NOS. 43-44 ;

2 Pieces

White

3 Pieces White, to play and mate in two.

NO. 44

Black

6 Pieces

of

White

9 Pieces White to play and mate in three.

At Intervols the water bubbled. It was probably Whosoever God's way

whatsoever showing that medicinal JOHN, V., 4. some

olement was finding its way into the pool... Its curative properties were for all, but to benefit from them the water must be entered Immediate- One thinks at: medicines ly.

are bidden to "drink! which we while effervescing."

Have we not also known times when the waters have been troubled; muments when God seemed very nene? And If some of us yet are spiritual cripples, is It not because we

"The point is, Dumbell, that this was the trap which was set for Jeremy Mondaglio."

"But what's the sense of these naked Dumbell. questions, sir?"

They don't seem to me to have my bearing on theft or anything" else."

"Ah, they're

take intelligence tests. We were using them, you see, at Lady Pallisser's as a sort of parlour game."

D

"I wish, sir." sald Dumbell, with gesture of helplessness, that

BRIDGE PROBLEM

✔ NI ❤ Q87

No. 78

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Spades are trumps. South leadi and North-South have to win six of tho, seven, tricks. --

Solutions by flat post Wednesday to Bridge Problem, Hongkong-Telc Graph, Wyndham Street.”

hesitated to

the plunge? The temper whispered that it was not for us, or for our disease. Friend, those moments of God are for whomso over and whatsoever. But don't lose heart if you've let them pass; don't regard yourself as incur- able. If you are willing to be made whole, Jesus is still by the pool,

We

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Now West has to play into North South's Club tenace,

W. N. E.

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