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Girls and Boys' Corner Stacks and

BATH:

Mess Janda,

Mr. Robinson

LONDON

the Greens

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Hanes Black

NEWCASTLE

Mia's White

SHEFFIELO

Has Witham's

MANCHESTER

Address

Name

Dear Kiddies,

This is all my own work'

...Are....

Bo many entries were received week, kiddies, that

your knowed

this

poor Uncle under with Eddie was nearly them. An there were so thany excellent paintings, it took me considerable time pick out the winning entries. How. careful judging I have de- ever, after

this rided thint

week's prize-winners

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Mary Asche (aged 129%), St. Stephen's College, Stanley.

Joyce Logan (aged 8), 4, Cox's Path, Kowloon,

Oscar Lindquist (aged 543, Home. No. 4. Cheung Chow,

have been Coupons

sent to Mary. Joyce and Oscar which I want them to bring to the "langkong 'Telegraph" offices in Wyndham Street. This coupons will then be exchanged for money prizes. for excellent Specially commended work are the following:

Sentars: Ho Shuk-chun, Martha Wan, Amalla -Wilbur Marshall, Majida Ornng.

Ilantcedah el Sales, Yeung Kl-wa.

E. 0. Cropicy, Arculs, Y. Cropley,

May. Charles F. Vivienne Jex, Henry Clark, W. Yotkson, Mansoor All, Gloria Habara, Belly Becker, Francisco Britto, K. Grant, Lulamal Eil Look, M. Grant, Gus Velasco, Wille Hencher, Alice Toddy. Intermediatre: Thelma Organ, Juita Jane Paget, Stuber, Jimmy Yorkson. Ronnie McEwen, A. Castro, Donald Mar- shai, Ann Itunter. Noelyn folmes, 5.8. Bux, Desmond Inglis, Rose Won, Angelina Marijues, George Elliott, N. Ho, Wendy Lela Corvisilano, Barton, Enid -Pellatt, Ann Cullinore, John Hardoon, Pamela Coombs, Julle Fok,

AMSTER

Yut-fa. Sliclx, Shik Juntore: Atred haran Bux, Gerald Marshall, Pat Clarke. AS # F10W Wille Hencher! Welcome member of our Girls and Boys' Corner. Please let me know if your last name is spelt "Floncher" or "llencher."

Jimmy Yorkion: Unfortunately, Jimmy. we cannot have a cross-word puzzle this week, but I will try, as soon as possiblo, to put one in nu a competition,

This week, kiddies, we are having a very easy competition which I am uro you will a like. You can show me how well you know your English geography. The artist shows seven letters addressed to people in various places, with a map

numbered dota mark on which portions of a number of places in End- land. You are asked to say where on the map cach letter shout! no.

Stackers

ANDURANCE feats, of which we

like child's play to the farm hands who are busy.stacking the harvest during September.

Crawling on hands and knees for twelve hours overy working day is to them just part of the day's work. Not one thinks he is doing anything remarkable in crawling several miles ny, but all are proud to be every day as the most skilled men recognised on the

forth. Stacking

is no job for the weak, the inexperienced. the clumay, or The safety of the corn crop through the winter depends entirely on whe- ther or not the slacks in which it is stored arc properly built. A badly bullt stack allows rain to seep In, ruling the grain, which is spoilt nx soon as it gets wet.

Secret Of Stability

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The stack is built on a foundation of stones or branches covered with straw. The sheaven

thrown, one at a time, to the stacker, from the waggon in which they have boen brought from the cornfield, and he begins his stack by setting a lew sheaves upright in the centre of the foundation. He then proceeds to lay other sheaves in circles round them, with the heads nearest the centre.

He works right round the outside of the Black, laying each sheaf in position with his hands, then pres3- with his ing it firmly into place knee, while he lays the next sbeat. Each ring of sheaves round the out- side is followed by three narrower rings in the centre, called the heart-

Ing.

These inner rings of hearting are the secret of the well built stack. Their effect la to give the outside rings a pronounced slope upwards from the outside. No malter how stormy the weather, zain just drips off the tails of 11to outside sheaves. Inouticient hearting allows the rain to run straight into the stack.

the To Be Finished At Leisure

Thún, as Both is dot 12 on the map, Miss Jones's letter would go there you write BATH.. No. 13 as the first answer. Now find out the others. Please do not use an attas unless you find that you cannot manage any of the answers. Only seven of the numbered dots on the map tave to be chosen. Ink or pencil may be used to write the answers in a neat list on a postcard. Remember to ad your naine, address and age. Po to Uncle Eddie. c/o "Itongkong Telegraph. Wyndham Sirect, before 2 p.m. on Wed- nesday. Please note that the closing time for the competition has been changed.

Three prizes will be offered-ane for the best entry in each age section.

Best of luck, kiddies,

Uncle Eddie

When the stack is twelve feet high, it In time to put on the head. Just at the enver, where the head begins, is where rain most likely to find an entrance; so before putting on site head, the slacker puts several extra rings of hearting in the centre to give the outsido sheaves nati more pronounced slope.

After that each layer drawn in a little farther than the inyer below, and the head in quickly danished ult. One or two ropes are thrown over the Lop and tied down to hold the head In position, then the bullder goes on to hin next stack.

of sheaves is

Trimming and thatching are left to be dane nt leisure after the whole crop safely in, the stackyard.

A stacker considers he has done a good day's work if he Anisher six stacks during the day. By the time harvest is over he will have hity or sixty stacks to his credit.

In spite of his protective leather gloves and knee pads, both his hands and knees suffer in the process. But he has his compensations. For him there is always the harvest home dance or "kim" after the harvest is safely in, and he has lis well built stacks to look at all winter."

T. F.

G&H FRIGIDAIRE

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She Likes You

"OW do I find England?

Why, It's marvellous.. Fascinating. And: the English-I can just sit and listen to them for hours. Such a The way they talk. cute accent!

What I can't understand, though, is the way you com- plain the whole time-about everything. That was one of the first things that struck me. It began right when I landed, at the Customs sheds. ------I've never been treated ao cour- teously before, anywhere; and tho officials are really alick. Yet, right in front of me, and behind me, were two people grousing at every- thing.

One was an old lady with a pocket camera. I had a movie, and I just asked-how much? When I told him I was only here for a week, ho said, "that's OK. miss." The old lady made auch a fuss that it cost her about two dollars duty.

And then there's your radio. Be- lleve me, you have everything we have, and a bit more; but I never listened to a single programme over here without having someone explain how, bad it was. Person- ally I thought those promenado concerts Lip-top.

And talking of radio, there's just one thing I cannot get over. That's television. We've got nothing like that back home. We've all heard such a lot about it, but I'd no idea. It's absolutely uncanny. And it's so clear. I could just have watched that for hours. Actually I saw - part of your Test match by tele- vision, while I was cating a snack

THE SILVER

SHADOWĮ

In Iowa, USA., University. students have their own night-club. There, Youth' can have its fling just as in any other night-club. that Only difference is drinks are safe and prices Pictures ahow amall. club entrance, part of dance floor, and a trio of student crooners.

Puzzle Corner Answers

Cryptogram: "If I were you I would not worry. Just make up! your mind to do better when you get another chance, and be con- tent with that."

Ten Hidden Flowers: Petunia, peony, pansy, tulip, lupin, del- aster, phinlum, phlox, dahlia

rost,

Letler Juggling: Strain, trains. A Bit of Division; 67-1/7 and 1720/7

Skilful

Fun With Mynonymar profielent; cult; deficient-Incomplete; wiry-.. sinewy; Important-Insignin- cant; moist--humid; incombustible reproof; moderate temperate;

obliging obedient-rubmisslyc; considerate.:

inconvenient-difi-

INSPECTOR PLAYFAIR Mandaglio was the only moinber of the party who took the trouble to remove his fingerprints from the paper..

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in a hotel in Surrey. What tickled me was about half a dozen peoplo at the other end of the room not even looking at it. They were playing some funny game on the wall. Darting, I think the waiter called it.

OTS of people over here Lo

have asked me about co- It seems someone said

education.

I was a co-ed. Well, I'm not. What's more, I don't like it. In fact, I dis- like it very much indeed. Maybe it's all right for the boys, but I don't know.

Maybe it's all right in the first schools, too; while people are young. But I don't hold with it at all in the colleges, I think it would distract my work, apart from any- thing cise, having to work among a lot of boys.

Besides, I think It gives a wrong Idea on life. One is apt to pay too

Ida Martha Akors, not quite 21, of Atlanta Georgia, one of « party of American College girls who have spent a week touring England. tells in this article, what she thinks o it-and the people.

much attention to the allly things And I that don't really matter.. think ono should keep romance so that it really means something,

A girl friend of mine, who was a co-ed, tells me that she got poal- tively sick with all the allly love. affairs that went on,

I think your educational system takes a lot of beating; and I can't sco why people are so interested and curious about co-education. Is it because of this "boy-and-girl" mystery I've just talked about? If so, believe me, it's not all that im- portant.

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I like the Englishmen a lot. like the way they talk, and parti- cularly the way they treat ladies. Maybe we're a bit free and easy in the States, which may be all right In its way, but one cannot help noticing, at once, how much more respect is that the word?-ladies got over hero.

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OLITICS) I've nover heard anything like it. Everyone seems to talk politics. Elevator men, newspaper sellers.. And if two people are portera. sitting over a quiet talk, you can bet your last dollar it's about Europe. But the funny part is that it doesn't really seem all that important to them.

In the States they seem to be far more' worried about Europe than you do, living right on top of it.

HIGH-LIFE without highballs

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IOWA CITY, U.S.A.

HE American college slu- dent has made a name for himself. Ho wears an oversize racoon coat and

a floppy hat. His hip bears a flask and his thoughts run solely to whisky, women and rolstering song.

Bo, at least, goes the popular version of him, a picture which owes more to Hollywood films than to reality.

It was to combat this picture and the grain of truth behind it that the University of Iowa-an Institution with 7,000 students, equally divided between men and women took a unique step in educational ventures.

Imagine swing music beating rhyth mically against walls of blue and silver. Dancing couples form an undulating ses of hende. At candle-lit tables bor dering the dance floor other couples. faces close, murmur through a haze of cigarette smoke. Ice tinkies in small glasses. Costumed entertainers mingle will: the crowd. A sprinkling of confetti lles festively on floor and tables. Every- where stii shirt fronta and barc shoulders,

TYPICAL night club or cabaret? No. The tink- ling glasses contain nothing more ex- Bilarating than ginger ale or lemonade. The location is the redecorated baar. And ment of a university buliding. closing hour is midnight.

The Silver Shadow, fancifully named "dry night club. In lown Olly, Iowa, is -being widoly conted by educational in- atitutions wishing to keep their stu dents off the highways at night.

For some It ni gora back to 1938. time university students who found themselves all dressed up with no place to go. had been beroaning tho paucity of entertainment faciles in this sinali cly of 15,000. population..

Obylous remedy, and popular one, WIA pile into a motorcar often borrowed-and drive to Cedar Rapids. the nearest city where night clubs flourish.

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Now, the university has no authority over where its students go, and how they spend their lime, who. cinases are not mceling. But it ren requira women students to be in their rooms at 12.30 each night.

So the speed of the cars returning, packell with

served.

By keeping prices low and entertainment standard high, they hoped to compete with the not-so-dry cabarets of Cedar Rapids.

The Bilver Shadow name was chosen when the State Board of Education stipulated that the project could be approved only if it were not called a night club.

Omelal gathering place of lown students has been the Memorial Union over since it was built in the early twenties as a monument to Iowana-

The cafe- killed In the World War. teria i la basement was redecorated, a dance-floor was installed, walls were disguised by curtains of silver and bluc.

THE

HE Silver Shadow was given a gala opening. Every Saturday night since-for nearly two years it has been filed to capa- city,

"When the Silver Shadow patron nlights from his taxicab with his part- ner, the uniformed doorman greela him with a sober" good evening "of official tone, and for good measure throws in the friendly wink of a fellow student.

His ticket-és a couple--is taken at Wraps the door by another student. are checked with another classmate, and the moderately obsequious walter In white jacket is a member of the samo fraternity as the guest, so he must be introduced to the lady in the party before the business of ordering can proceed.

Prices for food, soft drinks and those cigarettes are the same, as charged by inexpensive restaurants, and but a fraction of the amount any ordinary cabaret proprietor would ophe's aider his due. A cup of cofres costs jcam timis twopence, unda compicto alenk dinner, the most expensive item on the menu, only half-a-crown.

The dance floor is crowded, but no more than is usual in a commercial cabaret. The music, whether sweet or swing. Is by an all-student orchestra which apends is summers playing on transatlantic boats.

the orchestra stops,

Athe dancers rotire to

their tables to eat, drink and watch the floor-show-c series of singing, dano- 'ng, comedy and athictic demonstro- tion acts, chosen entirely from student talent. Many of the floor show mem lers have professional experience, from Hollywood to New York's Broade way.

Each Baturday night a new groub of students, puts on the floor show. To manager has declared there is enough talent along the students to

como... Pranga

Kay students, to Town Olly after mid-provide fresh floor shows for years, to night,was literally breakuicet. The rushi home to meet the deadline after stretching the evening of fun as far as possiblo had the inevitable conso quence. Drivers were involved to a series of crashes, on the twlaking. 21illy Mind:

Journalism students of Iowa Univer alty have a daily rowspaper, Ile ort

ading editor, a New Yorker named -Jess. Barkin, was property impressed by the series of dangerous accidents, He called upon Frut. R. E. Pitzgerald chairman" of the University's: Boclai Committee, and from this call emerged

From the business standpoint, the Bilyar Bhadow has been an unqualined. success. Operating coats are about £15. an evening, whicti ineluden ki,for the-¦ orchestra and its tenor vozɔlist. Ploor show members are poida amali amount. Revenue is 625 a night, plus a modest but sure revenue, from the sale of food and drinking and When the dry night cluli (trst opened its doors, most studenta wing scept Sund, But no more; or thema Hare: Dova injured on die lówk Cly Cedar RADION road.

the Maty of University sportored Darrell Huff

night club, where bo liquor would b

You run down your politicians right and left-of course, we do that to ours, too-but in spite of that. I think you all believe they are doing a good job of work.

There's too much class disinc- tion over here; too. Thero's a lot of it in the Btates, but nothing like) as bad as hore. I must say, though, that I expected it, lo ba worse than it is, by what my felends have told me.. So maybe it's getting better. I hope so for your sake. That again may be all right up to a point, but believe me, you miss a lot by it...

OUR trains and boats

Your and

In service, I mean, and again in courtesy. That's something you British Boom to have over every- body else. It's more than just sor- vice. A kind of friendly omeloney that gets things done.

And, perhaps you won't like it. but I think a foreigner knows how to get more.out of it than you do. Perhaps that is becauso atrangers arq not used to it, and they appre- clate it more.

One thing I liked a lot was tho way your news is handed out to you. I'd call it well balanced. And your newspaper office was quite ́n Not a bit like what I surprise. expected. No noise or shouting. I don't believe even an earthquake would upset you.

1 got a bit tired of the screaming headlines back home. Thoy make too much of a lot that just doesn't matter I think it's a good thing We got too much to keep off that. dir, in our papers.

over hero.

I'VE made colour movies everything I've seen Hundreds and hun- dreds of feet, and I'll still be show- ing them in two years' time. If you ask me what I think of the coun- try itself, I should say it's about the most beautiful, peaceful little spot on earth.

Your money worried me more: than anything else. I don't know how any stranger ever manages to understand it. There's nothing' elso like it anywhere. It's all Everything should be divided by: ten-and there you are. Over here I just held out a handful, and let people help themselves. And: I must say I've never met, so, many honest peoplel

me, what do Someone asked me,

you think of London policemen??. But I'd heard that one before.

To-day's Thought

THE only sin which we never forgive in each other is dif- ference of opinion.

--EMERSON.

Thermometer Survives Heat

Altus, Okla.--Altus knows that this summer's heat has set no new.re cords-the official weather bureau thermometer here is still intact, was

ago years

this month) thermometer: cracked and "bolled over" when temperatures soared above its 120-degree limit.

"WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH SUCH A NAUGHTY DOY, NURSE?"

doesn't look wella Are You Burnie not constipated? Whenever hilde is cross and peevisht, I look at the tongue. If it is coated, or if the bralki is disagrecable, I know at once what is wrong,

always give Callfornig

of Bigs. That mot Scs in a few hours and".

the system.

"Children don't understand the importance of regularity. They got absorbed in play and won't troubles And it is only when they got thorough ly cross and miserable that you real ize that they are constipated. I find it saves world of sickness and worry to give them a regular weekly dose. I would do With a natural

fornia Syrup AS A You

"Doctors recommend it and livȘI

to their own children, und; we 1977 swear by IL Gate Fbottle ofre f forola Syrup of Fin xrom the dra atore and give him a Lima.

Ho'll be at happy the morning

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'California Syrup of fign