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SECTION
OF COURSE YOU KNOW, BUT
IN this short life we ure
ARE YOU SURE?
started out on a Polar expedi tion is:-
beset by many problems, one way and another, but if they are all as easy at this week's
there "knotties" should be no complaints.
Wrinkle your brow and look crudite and if you don't know what crudite means, look know-
11. I'm hoping like anything ing. Then take a pencil in your that there is only one word right hand (If you are right- handed) and check off the an-spelt wrongly here the word I
swers, taking two points for each correct one.
1. When you want to show off by using another word mean- ing bookseller you can
URC:-
Bibliographer; bibilologist; bibliomanist; bibliophile; bibliopole; bibber.
2.-A lot of little bables in France every year are christened Jacques which is the French equivalent name:-
for the English
Horace; Thomas; William; Jack; James; Frank; Mont- morency:-
3. Just suppose you are an average adult in normal health -well, take a stop watch in one hand and your heart in the that will see other and you
minute
heart | your every beats
52 times; 62, 72; 82; 92; 98.4; 120.-
4.I've known people to get tricked on even such a simple word as tangible. Now, a thing is tangible when it:-
Can be stretched; cannot be seen; exists only in the imagination; is real.
5.A fair enough way of de- scribing the meaning of the
-verb to feint is to:-
Swear false testimony; strangle; drive fast; become unconscious; make a decep tive movement; own up.
6. A hin-now don't stand gaping at this one-a hin is
4:-
Hebrew measure; cross be- tween a horse and a donkey; male hen; Japanese coin; bar- barian of ancient Europe.
7.-When I ask you what race the Czechs belong to don't be smart and say: "The human, of course." The answer is one of these:-
Mongol; Celt; Latin; Teu- ton; Slay,
Ellsworth Vines; Ellsworth Lincoln; Lincoln Ellsworth; Abraham Lincoln,
mean is:-
J
Gazetteer; emmigration; deterrent; gangrene; embon- point.
Kanaku-for the 12.-A benefit of those who never learnt it at school-is a native of:-- New Guinea; Greenland; Borneo; Java; Hawaii; Mada- gascar.
13. A part of Australia is in the tropical zone and a part in the temperate zone. The greater part is:-
Tropical; temperate.
As You Like It; Much Ado About Nothing: Julius Caesar; The Tempest; Hamlet.
21.-Composer George Gerah- win- should say the lato George Gershwin-wrote:-
In the Pink; In the Blue; Symphony in Blue; Rhapsody in Blue; the Blue Danube; Alice Blue Gown.
22. Some people have a habit of pouring maledictions on other people's-heads. A malediction, of course, is a:-
Warning: blessing; phecy; curse; special hair tonic.
pro-
23. If you were asked how full-blooded aborigines many there were in Australia, you'd be pretty right if you said:
25,000; 35,000; 55,000; 75,000: 100,000; 250,000.
14. When it comes to geome-
24. If ever you go to France try Euclid is my authority and you will discover that the French I believe him when he says a people speak French. For in- straight angle is an angle form-stance, when they want to say ed by:---
Two curved lines; two lines at right angles; two bisecting lines; just a straight line.
16. If you listen next time. there is an election about you'll hear politicians use the phrase "Government of the people, by But the people, for the people." it is not original. It was first
said by:-
Socrates; George Washing ton; Alfred Deakin; Abraham Lincoln; W. M. Hughes; HHC- ler.
16.--Some day someone might present you with a lampoon. If so, you would be in order if you said:-
I don't like tree-climbing carnivorous animals; I don't like expectorating in those things; I don't like oil-burning lights; I don't like this scurril- ous piece of satire.
·
17. Stand up and let me have a look at those who have never heard of Jack Johnson, world's champion heavyweight WAS the fighter! Well, he champion until beaten by:-
Luis Firpo; Jack Dempsey; Gene Tunney; Jess Willard; Joe Louis; Sharkey.
18-Being Prime Minister of Australia once is not a bad per- formance, but one
man was IIis
8.--Historians don't always agree, but they are pretty un-Prime Minister four times. animous that the last King to be buried in Westminster Abbey WAB:--
Henry VIII; James II; Charles I; George III; George IV; George V; Edward VII; George .11.
9-If you went looking for Polar bears you'd find them in the regions about the:-
North Pole; South Pole; North and South Poles.
name is:--
Lyons;
Bruce; Barton; Deakin; Hughes; Fisher.
19. Waiter, take this soup away and bring me Julienno- you know I like my soup:-
Clear: made with vege- it: tables; with bread in watery; cold; with a dash of brandy.
20.-Prospere, the dear old chap, is a pleasant character evolved by Shakespeare in his
10. The name of the famous American explorer who has play:-
"well bred" they twirl their eye- brows and say:-
Savoir faire; parfait d'am- our; au fait; amour propre; comme il faut; R.S.V.P.; faux pas.
25. Put all your family trees away and just say quickly that the only child of your only uncle's only brother is:-
Your cousin; your nephew; your step-brother; yourself; the man outside Hoyts,
26. Just about any dictionary will tell you that sinapism is just another name for a '
Religious cult; disease of the joints; band of Oriental robbers; mustard plaster.
27.You can't become an horologer unless you know the art of horology, which is the art of-
Reading bumps; foretelling the future; measuring time; table rapping; tracing new stars.
28. Anything that is achro-
CHESS PROBLEMS
Black
Nos. 79-80 Problem No. 79
陶
14
White
5 Pieces
8 Pleces White to 'play and mate in two.
Problem No. 80
Black
4 Pieces
White
6 Pieces White to play and mate in three.
SOLUTIONS TO LAST WEEK'S PROBLEMS
KI-Q4
P-KJ
F-KI
K-Q+
Q-Usch
No. 77 No. 70 1, K-KU
2. Ki-Quch
matic is, according to people who write dictionaries:--
Over-coloured; coloured just enough; free from colour; red, white and blue,
(Answers on Page 3)
A Lay Sermon
By HUGH REDWOOD
❝ITTERMOST" suggests to us the wideness of God's mercy. We read that Christ is able to save to the uttermost, and we think of another familiar "As far as the east passage:
is from the west, so far hath He removed our transgressions from us."
But the wrlier to the Hebrews
To the Uttermost HEBREWS.
is following a different train of thought. "Utier- most" with him Is a measure of time. We shall vii. 25
miss his mean- ing unless we lake note of two phrases with which the word is closely associated. The first, in
His child's future nearly ruined
by NIGHT STARVATION ви
| OH, MR. JACKSON, I WANT! YOU TO MEET MR. GRANGER, HE'LL BE WORKING WITH YOU
IN THIS DEPARTMENT.
AND SO HORLICKS EVERY NIGHT
M-M-M. DELICIOUS, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT 15 MIXED WELL.
!
TAKE
(THINKS)
JACKSON
A NEW MAN! THAT MEANS COULDN'T AFFORD THEY ARE GOING TO SACK SOMEBODY AND IT'S BOUND TO LOSE HIS JOB TO BE ME. MY WORK HASN'T HE WANTED TO BEEN TOO GOOD LATELY.
GIVE HIS BOY
A GOOD EDUCATION. IF ONLY HE DIDN'T ALWAYS FEEL
TIRED. IN
TWO MONTHS LATER CONGRATULATIONS, MR.
JACKSON, ON YOUR PROMOTION AS DISTRICT MANAGER. YOU HAVE DONE SPLENDID
WORK.
(THINKS) MY WORRIES ARE ALL OVER. THAT
HORLICKS IS WONDERFUL STUFF)
DESPAIR HE
DECIDED TO SEE
A DOCTOR.
the preceding verse, is "an un- changeable priesthood," and the second is the statement "He ever liveth."
Actually, therefore, the assur- given is that Christ is able
ance
to save to the last. What com- fort there is in that knowledge. What release for the prisoners
whom Satan keeps chained by telling them they are beyond forgiveness. Maybe. someone will read this who has been listening to that devil's own lle. The living Christ is the answer to it. Behold in Heaven our great High Priest! 'His name is still Jesus. His saving ministry is unaltered: He lives to be our Saviour until time shall be no
more.
THERE IS
NOTHING EXACTLY) I KNOW, MR. WRONG WITH ME JACKSON, IT HOLDS DOCTOR BUT I you BACK AT YOUR ALWAYS FEEL SO WORK WE CALL THIS I WAKE UP YOU SEE, YOU ARE TIRED EVEN WHEN NIGHT STARVATION
NOT REPLACING USED- UP ENERGY DURING SLEEP HORUCKS REGULARY AT BEDTIME;
FOR YOU.
If you wake tired, if you suffer from 'nerves' enervation and that dread- ful feeling of exhaustion GUARD AGAINST NIGHT STARVATION
HORLICKS
YOU SLEEP SOUNDLY. WAKE REFRESHED AND HAVE EXTRA ENERGY ALL DAY
Horlicks is best made in the special Horlicks mix- er. Obtainable at all good stores--80 cts, large size and 40 cts. small size.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY, 4, 1939.
The Smoking Pineapples
"
"WELL, Dumbell," said Joshua Playfair, "let me wish you a happy New Year and a peaceable one."
"No problems to be solved, eh, sir?" grinned the sergeant.
INSPECTOR PLAYFAIR EPISODE 97
constable couldn't catch, and and sharp words had been ex- then-according to the Intter's changed between Piping and the evidence-he said very clearly, murdered man. Chief-Inspector Set; current set!' Those cryp Horwell, who handled this case, tic words, Dumbell, wero was fairly sure that Ferrinat's only clue to the murderera' dying words had reference to
this discussion." Identity."
our
"Cryptic indeed, sir," said Dumbell. "But I suppose they "No very serious ones, any linked up to something?" way. There'll always be the Playfair laughed, not mirth- usual little holiday-time mys-fully. "They linked up," he
The teries.
for said, "to mystery,
too many things, example, of how my boy, Chris-Claude Ferrimat was a chap with topher, contrives to put away so a wide range of acquaintance many mince ples. The mystery and a very sticky past. But it of the silk stockings which come wasn't easy to attach a motive to my wife every year from for murder to any of our possi- Sumatra." He meditated. "Su-ble suspects."
"Were there many of them, Bir ?".
"There were four blokes As who'd been at the party-
matra! Can you beat it?"
"What about the Ingledene brothers, air?" asked Dumbell. "Where did they come in?"
mer-
Playfair's eyes twinkled. "I'à forgotten them. The point is that they were produce chants, with trade connections at Athens."
"Athens?"
blankly..
said Dumbell
"Yes, Athens. See the point? Athens is in Greece, and the principal export of Greece is-"
"Yet even at Christmas," said
"Of course," broke in Dumbell. "Currants! The idea was that Dumbell sententiously, "crime
the term 'currant set' referred rears its ugly head. these writing chaps put it," he drinking party it was, given by to the Greek merchants! A added apologetically.
a man named Lowster who very likely theory, sir. We had a boy at school named Ionides, "Don't I know it!" answered had left at about the same
time as Ferrinat. We were and everyone called him 'Cur- Playfair. "Let me
see"-he
," rants." proffered his tobacco pouch "it fairly sure that one of them had
two "Quite so," answered Playfair, was just two years ago that stabbed his fellow-guest. To
begin with, there were Claude Ferrinat was murdered. brothers named Ingledene who and the 'currant' theory was in At a party, or rather, just had not too good a record. favour for several days. You after a party. Stabbed in the street, he was, about one o'clock They'd been jugged, two years see, there was no direct evidence before, for long term frauds. against anyone-no witnesses; in the morning." He rummaged Then there was a chap called no fingerprints; not even & foot- Worst of in his filing cabinet. "I've got
Josef Mistri-an appropriate mark in the snow. the papers somewhere."
name, come to think of it!who all, we couldn't find a direct mo- "Ferrinat?" said Dumbell. had anarchist connections. He tive. There was this alteren- "A foreigner, sir, was he?" belonged to a disreputable so- tion at the party, between Fer- "A Belgian," said Playfair.ciety, the Smoking Pineapples, rinat and Piping; but Piping "Parlez vous francais, Dumbell? which had its headquarters in swore and at least we couldn't Where's that file 7-yes, here we Paris. You know what a pine- rebut his statement-that he'd apple is, Dumbell?-a type of never set eyes on Ferrinat be- are. An interesting case, was
man be- Ferrinat's. A constable, on his hand grenade. Mistri was a fore. And to stab a beat, found the poor fellow valued member of this precious cause ho disagreed with one on and he'd been some point of abstract theory- slumped on the pavement, dying, organisation, He was barely conscious. He under suspicion before, when well, it didn't seem to me that muttered something, in broken a certain Balkan king visited Piping would go as far as that. "And similarly with the Ingle- English apparently, which the this country. We'd intercepted
་་
BRIDGE PROBLEM
This Week's Problem
No.
Onna
+ B 7 6
95
AK 10
3
240
6543
4 3
N
W
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S
à Nit
076
⚫K 10 8 6
A Q 10 z
BRAK
South
Hearts are trumps. leads, and North-South have to win eight of the 11 tricks.
me
a coded telegram, to say that denes. I didn't like them, and I agents 19, 26 and 47 had been was sure they weren't truthful
And witnesses; it seemed to detailed for special duty. we were fairly sure, though we highly probable that Ferrinat couldn't prove it, that Mistri knew something to their dis- credit. But what?-we couldn't was one of the three,"
find anything; though we ran- Backed the past pretty thor- oughly.
"And was Ferrinat one of the Pineapples?" asked Dumbell.
Playfair smiled. "All in good time,' he said. "There was "Well, Dumbell, to cut a long still another possibility. Piping story short, I paid a visit to -Stanislaus Piping-was an Paris. I can speak French electrical engineer. It came out, pretty well, you see, and I had in the course of our investiga- my eye on Mistri and his fellow- tions, that there'd been a heated pineapples. I took with argument, at the party, about photographs of the dead man's voltages, amperes, and currents," fingerprints. And, do you know,
CORNER PUZZLE
Cryptogram
me
after two or three days' re- search, I found those same fingerprints where I was looking for them at the headquarters of the French C.I.D."
Dumbell. "Did you?" said "So Ferrinat was a Pineapple, was he?"
"No," said Playfair. "But his
The asterisks (*) denote pro- prints were on a letter, discover-
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SOLUTION OF PROBLEM No, 94 South wins with king of clubs and follows with queen of hearts (trumpy), and
(a) If West wing with the king and follows with the queen of spades, South refuses to ruff and discards club jack if East hangs on to the queen. If West leads another spade, North will ruff and South discard his small diamond. South then wins with diamond queen, trump ten and diamond úce. If at trick four West leads his second trump In- stead of his second spade, North wins, and East must discard either his club queen or his second diamond, and North- South win either with club eight and ace-queen of diamonds, or three diamond tricks.
(b) If, after winning at trick two, West continues with trumps, North wins with jack and leads diamond ten, which East must cover, and South wins with queen. East is put in with club queen, and South wins with ace and seven of diamonds, finessing the seven if East leads back a small diamond.
(c) If West refuses to win at trick two, East is put in with club queen, and thereafter East- West can win only with king of trumpa.
No doubt many thought at first sight that this problem was casy and did not take sufficient heed of its little intricacies. After an unsuccessful 'effort one concluded that it was not possi- ble of solution. But the follow- ing were successful. "A.E.G." J. P. M., R.C., J. A. A.A., H, D.
"Mysterious Inscription"
ed in the pocket of a chap who'd been fished out of the Seine. He was a Pineapple; I've forgot- ten his name, but he was No. 19 on the list."
"And when you came back, air?"
"I arrested, Mistri, pronto." "Even so," said Dumbell, after a pause, "the connection between him and Ferrinat seems thin."
"Do you think so, Dumbell? Can you decipher the "mys- Come now, try again," said terious inscription" said to Playfair. "Think of my story have been found chiseled on a rock-although we are some- what in doubt about this:
+
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P
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Hin nert Han as He Etof pap ER.
Letter Juggling
Four different 5-letter words may be formed from the 5 let- fers given below. Use all 6 letters in each word:
AERST
How Many?
A 3-inch pipe fills a tank in 1 hour. How many 1-inch pipes, under the same pressure, will fill the tank in the same time?
Fun With Synonyms Ten more words and their synonyms to-day:
151
delaty Delonging besser
17 glosing 181 posthing
9 fiskie
burning
Pl
carping
CASEYING Tariable
pertaining
deting
(Answers Appear on Page 3)
us a whole." What
further evidence against Mistril was there?
(Solution on Page 3)
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