1939-02-13 — Page 2

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

February 13, 1939..

TAKING THE "STING" OUT OF MATHEMATICS

Mr. Hope-Jones Conquers the Improper

Fraction

IF a train goes 31⁄2 miles in 4%1⁄2 minutes, how far will, it go in 581⁄2 minutes?

That sum, bearing memories of chewed pens, tousled hair and stinging palms, would be worked out (by those who could work it out!) in this way:

D

9 minutes, it goes 7 miles

- I

2

}"

I minutes, it goes 7

2 miles

0

In 117 minutes, it goes 7

"

117 7 x 13 91

2

I - I #

2

=

45 miles

Mr. W. Hope-Jones, Okt Etonian teacher of mathematics at Eton, Auttered the educational and arithmetica dove-coles of Britain when he delivered his presidential address to the Mathematical Association at King's College.

He suggested it would be easier to do, and easter to check, if the sum were worked out as follows:

In 4 minutes it goer 34 miles

In 1 minute it goes 34 miles

7 miles

=

.

4 miles ក្ម

In 58 minutes it gues 7 of 58147 x 6454 miles

The whole idea of the Improper

fraction (in which the top half is

farger than the bottom half as Mr. Baby Under Glass

Hope-Jones with the irritation which

At unnretssary and diflcult process

rouses in the possessor of a necessary

and easy one,

Is Getting Better

Ring Falls Through Grating

WHILE a couple were being married in a Manchester church recently, the wedding ring WAS dropped and fell through a grat- ing.

-Efforts by guests to retrieve EL falică. Eventually a woman in the church tent her ring to the bride. With this the service was concluded,

Later the bride's ring was re- covered from the grating.

Farm Girls May Set Hat Style

TWO farmers' daughters who may set a new fashion in hats were

among 14 Danish dancers and a fiddler who ar- rived at Liverpool Street re- cently.

They danced at the three-day fes- tival of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, which opened recent- 1y, wearing high-fronted hats made by folding and twisting anew cach time on their heads red-and-green cheeked scurves.

senrver.

they

With a farmer and a gardener an partnera

demonstrated the Soenderhoning, a 400-year-old sing- ing dance known only the tiny Island of France, off Esbjerg. It has

special occasion.

Similarly, he produces a construc-ORNA MARIE, nine-week-80 different tunes one for each tive revolution on the theory of can- old first born of Mrs. Epple, cellation, which leads to untidy work, forgotten figures, wrong answers, and stinging potens,

:

THAT SYMBOL "PI" Again, Mr. Hopc-Jones prefers to refer to that intolerable symbol pi (which will not come out, though you take it to 10,000 places of decimals) by 3 1-7 rather than 22/7-because it is easier of

comprehension.

You can (if you are a small boy) understand eating three and onc- seventh biscuits or walking three and one seventh times round house: you cannot understand performing either function twenty-two-seventh

Ilmes,

n

To find the circumference of circle with a diameter of 2.6 inches, Mr. Hope-Jones's method is

2 1/7

7.5 times 2,6

37--1/7 of 2.6

8.17

Again, to simplify 2%/815. Instead of producing a long line of improper fractions and cancelling, why not, Mr. Hope-Jones asits, multiply both top and bottom by

the lowest common denominator) of the two fractions and say the ex“ pression is 15/50 or 3/10?

Why not, indeed?

A GHASTLY SUM

The finest example of Mr. Hope- Jones's methods is to be seen in one of those ghastly sums: Iłow many shares costing £634 can be bought for £300 and how much is left over? The normal method of working it out involves

300

800

47-~~ 17

300 R

6 3/8

51 17 The answer Is 47 shares and enough money to buy 1-17th of a share left, over.

GARLIC ESSENTIAL Twelve Rumanian men dancers

arrived at Victoria, with Dr. Brauner as leuder of the team.

of Pembury-road, Clapton, E., is getting better in a glass bell in which she has spent her first days at the Queen's Hospital for Children, Hackney-road, E. garlic at the top of their Maypoles Without a sprig of newly flowered She has pneumonia. The hospital they could perform the ritual Len- doctors put her under glass beenuseten dance. she was too small for an oxygen So a garlic plant had to be forced

lent.

inside the beb are the end of an

under glass at a London florist's.

Оле of the dancers, called "The

cxygen tube, a package of ice. 10 Animal Man," began a 40-day sil keep down the temperature,

nie to purify the air.

and

ence,

This be chserved before tuk- ing part in the dance. During that Lorna's mother spent Christmas in period he might be talked to but, the mothers' flat on the top floor of ike an animal, he might not answer The hospital to be near her baby. back. Her husband, an unemployed chef. visits them.

Missouri Keeps Old Law

Jefferson City, Mo. The Missouri statute revision com- mission report reveals that a law requiring county courts to make maps of French and Spanish claims, in

Fifteen Lithuanian dancers, most of them young students, and a team of Yugo-Slavfans brought their long wooden swords and wooden muslent plpes.

an

In ankle-length, while kilted skirts they performed ancient "Devil Dance" never seen before outside their native district.

Mr. Floyd Tangier-Smith with one of the giant pandas he took to England recently which is now on view at London Zoo. No specimens of this strange animal inve ever before been seen in als country. The panda is in the main whlic, but a remarkable black saddle runs right over ita shoulders, dowll over its forequarters to the toes of its forefeet, while the hind legs, the ears, the tip of the nose, and the eyes are also Black, thus heightening the somewhat incongruous effect. The panda's habitat is that dim, far-off corner of China sometintes known as "The Lost Triangle of the World," where amid mighty ridge-backed ranges it ruams for the nost part unmolested by human beings. It was not until 1936 that a panda was captured slive and taken in safety,Baby," the youngest of Mr. Tangler-Smith's to the United States. Scientifically speaking, the animal was not discovered until bandas, with four others alayed in Hongkong on their way to England,

Colonel Follows Wife's Footsteps in Snow

A COLONEL'S efforts with his daughter to trace his

missing wife by following her footsteps in the snow were described at a Hemel Hempstead (Herts) inquest recently.

She had left her home scantily clad and the next day was Lying dead under a hedge.

Blondes Backed By Psychology

PSYCHOLOGISTS, staff

managers,

athletes,

and men and women who habitually deal with or meet large numbers of people disagree entirely with the assertion of Mr. A. Rider, director of the

The woman was Mrs. Cecily Morton Sherbrooke (56), of Felden Croft, Hemel Hempstead, and the coroner's verdict was that she died from shock and exposure.

Col. Nevile Hugh Cairns Sher- brooke said his wife had suffered from depression, but was cheerful over Christmas and attended a party. UNBOLTED WINDOW Recently she was missing from her room, and a window opening on to a verandah was found unbalted.

He and his daughter followed foot- steps in the snow for about a mile and a half, but then there was no definite clue. The police were in- a search was made, but this, too, proved vain.

When she was found the next day by his son, his wife was dressed in under-clothes, a thick black cloth coat, no stockings und with shoes and goloshes.

Missourt is still in effect. Girl Overboard Hastings Chess Congress, formed and a rea

£6%, which works out to ths of a

or 79. Od. Suggests Mr. Hope-Jones: It la known that the price of shares is in

In Channel

eighths of a pound-i.c, half-crowns. When the Belgian mail steamer

crowns: 2,100 in £300. Now turn the Goodwins on the journey from Ostend

Turn the whole sum into half-Prinses Astrid was nearing the South

that blondes are inferior to brunettes in concentra- tion and stamina.~

A varied list opinions recently.

Kave their

"Snow was falling," said Colune! Niiss B. Simmins. educational Sherbrooke, "and there were no foot. price of stures into half-crowns: 51 to Dover recently a woman fell over-tychologist, who has given mental marks to show where she had come in £84. Right way:

51)2400

204

360

JGT

3 over.

three half-crowns75.

board.

thousands at Tavistock.

A boat was lowered and after Clinic, Malet Place, W.C: "I have Colonel Sherbrooke said he was half an hour the woman was picked found blondes quite as Intelligent shown a note. addressed to him, up, but a Belgian doctor among the and purposeful as brunettes: and which had been found by one of the passengers totind she was dead. quite as many dark-haired as fair- maids.

The woman had a British passport neurotic and mal-adjusted. Among haired people come to us who are

A SIMILAR NOTE in the name of Mias Margaret: Finaghty. She is believed to have my personal friends the ones who

Two years

ago his wife went been of Irish nationality. Aged 24. keep their heads In any situation away, leaving a somewhat similar she was travelling with a party of

are blonde."

note, but came back within an hour and a half. She then sald they

The answer, then, is 47 shares and conveni sisters from Ghent to St.The Fleet's Lit Up," at the Hippe- I would be better without her.

Gd-over. Francis College, Letchworth, Hers,

From here she

was going on to Tottington near. Bury.

This must now be translated back Easy. into £ s. d, and we get 1-17th of

Or is it?

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Miss Frances Day, now playing in drome: "I'm blonde, and I spend my would lock her in her room unless A week before he told her he life concentrating. One of my best she promised not to leave the house. friends, a brunelle, can't keep her mind on one thing for more than a

Recording his verdict, the coroner minute.

(Lieut.-Colonel Lovet Smeathman) "Blandes

said that no blame attached to any are Dot др helpless.of the family. They get Ground quicker, work harder, and have better memories. ! And they are much more truthful- which is why I find myself so often In hot water?*

"TOTALLY UNTRUE"

Rabbit Thief Concurs

Alts. Wine, head of the advisory

West Plains, Mo. department of the Women's Employ-him $1 and costs and sentenced him When a justice of the peace fined ment Federation, S.W.: 'We have no to six months at the county form on data to go on, but on genera! obser-la charge vation of the great numbers we deel Wray, replied, "it's just what I ex- stealing 55 rabbits, Jeff with I should say Mr. Rider's state-pected, and I think it will be good ment is totally untrue.”“”

A director of the Tiller Schools of

Dancing:

for me."

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Mr. W. Maoqueen Pope, who has been associated for many years with best six in our club are 1, jet black; A West End chess player: "The the London

don theatre: The calmest 2, dark brown; 3, blonde; 4 and 5, of all theatre people are dark-haired medium; 0, totally bald." men. Dark-haired women are apt

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