1939-03-04 — Page 11

SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1939.

Girls and Boys' Corner

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Dear Kiddies,

This is all my own work

Lots of entries within this week. The seven swarfs are certainly popular competitions. The prize- for painting winners this week are:-

Nabey Y. . Pan (aged 12), 63 B, Wang Nel Chung (oad.

Jacqueline Moradbery (aged 1), 205, Prines Edward Road.

John White (aged 4), 18. Caroline Road, Top Fluor.

Coupons are being sent to Nancy, Jacqueline and John which I want thein to bring to the "Hongkong Telegraph". ollers in Wyndham Street. The coupons will then be exchanged for money prizes,

Spertally

excellent Commended for

colouring work are the following:

Sentors, Charles Faster, Patsy Colter, Freddy Jatnes, les Spoor. Joyce Wood, Jean Kempton, In Man-clion, to Shuk chun, Carnicy Tavares, Irene Ostund. Oleg Julebin, G. Jumat, Yeung KK-wn, Alberto Rodrigues, Jr., Serge Vdovin. Mary Grace Asehy, Gregory Ho, Hasle Shin, Josephine - Cheang, Paul Veksoona,

Grady.

Carnelia Chow. Muhearn,

Fred Intermediates: Lee, Joan A. Daniel, Kwaan Hau-ming, Jean Hunter. Paddy Gelinmitt, Ursuin Escher, tuth Squlüb, Ann Itunfer, Shelagh

NEW

ENGINEERING DESIGN !

NEW

OPERATING ECONOMY!

NEW

SILENT

OPERATION

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DODWELE

Ace

Close, Joyce Bishop, Morgaret Hall, Betty sin

Juniors: Blions Meintyre, Perry Shek. Susan Wood, Anthony Cutcher, P. Wong. 9. S. Bux, Judy and Gildan Price.

Conny Bonhelf: As you did ut stale your age, your entry had to be left out of the competition,

This week, kiddies, 1 want you to study the rhyine below

A turnip, two broomsticks, an old cout

and hat

I'm rugged and battered in spite of all

that

The farmer depends un me every su

To cover his crops from her foes on the

wing.

What am I? You can find out by cut- ting round the ten shapes above mud then nitting them together. Paste the complct- rd puzzle on to n postcard, and send to "Bangkong Telegraph", Uncle Eddle Wyndham Street. The competition closes at 2 pm on Wednesday. Three prizes wil nitala be offered.

Best of luck, kiddlen.

Unche

Eddie

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MADE ONLY BY GENERAL MOTO

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OUTDOORS AT NIGHT

Above taken at twilight. The "campfire" can be an amateur Nood bulb on extension card. At right- silhouette against roat camparo, using time exposure,

PICNICH, And campfires,

are

events which offer a wealth of picture opportunilles. Some pientes Bre daytime affairs, but uthers take place at twilight or after dark-and there are no times mure opportune fur charming campfire snapshots.

For twilight sanpa, wait until the sky is almost dark, Bot the camera for a "time" exposure, place it on a firm support, and take a pieturo that includes the camparo, the group around 1, and somo sky, with proper clioice of time the sky will ro produco deop gray, the cumpare warm and brilliant-glving a picture full of the mystery nad atmosphere of ending day.

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support, shutter on "time," lens sot at f.11. Open the shutter, flash the huth, clone the shutter-that's all there is 10 11. Flash baths can be Campfire shots taken' well after used in a "synchronizor" that area nightfall are wonderfully effective, the bulb and trips' the camora-shut- They show the fire, the faces out theter at the same time-or they can be group about it-bat everything else used in inexpensive Holders that in rich, mysterioas shadow. Theno resemble a pocket flashlight.

Campfire effects can be obtained can be taken just like the twilight shois, with a short "timo" exposura, with flash bulbs, without a camparo, It le best to have someone alt be-Set up the camera for a snapshot tween the camera and tho brightest of your group, and flash the bulb part of the re-his silhouette will from the ground, below or slightly add fatorest and keep the firo from behind the camera, The low anglo ot lighting produces the campfire appearing too bright,

offect. Amateur flood bulbs can be used on an extension cord in tho

Modern me aro fast, so or posures need not be long. With a good bright Aro, try two to five became way! onds at 1.6.3, or ten to thirty seconds with a box camera,

To show added detail in an out- door right seene, use a Bushi bulb. ll's easy. Have the camera on a firin

Tako the camera along on your noxt evening plenie or other outing. You'll come home with zuppahots that aro-distinctive and differenti

John van Galldor,

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BOOK REVIEWS:

SMALL, thin little man who wore an ancient bowler and who clothes, and looked half-starved, deliberately cultivated an appearance of help ! lessness in order to get on in e. The ruse succeeded, and Bert Garal, the "little man in the bowler" this description), who has done much globe trotting in building up one of the biggest newspaper picture agencles, re- lates exciting and amusing ad- vontures in his book, I Get My Picture (Geoffrey Bles, 10s. 6d.).

A journey on the same train as the Duke and Duchess of York, now King and Queen, led him into an awkward situation. Leaving his

crushed

his compartment, he finger in the door. The Duchess, who was in the corridor, saw the Poor accident and exclaimed. man!... Let me do it up for you." Mr. Gara felt 'an awful idiot" starling there like aittle boy holding up a finger to be bandaged.

He has lived aining pictures but has Dover laken a photograph-a fact he must have regretted when he unex pectedly found himself talking to Jack Diamond on board the Belgenland.

He was helpless without a photo- grapher-other than his eight-year-old Bon, whom the gangster threatened to throw overboard for taking anapshola.

It. L. 8.

Just an old English custom

Fa man raises his hat to an acquaintance he is simply repeating the gos- ture of his medieval fore- fathers, who lifted the visors of their helmots whenever they wished to show their friendli-

ness.

You didn't know that? Neither did I until I read Old English Cus- toms and Ceremonies, by F. J. Drake-Carnell (Batsford, 78. 8d.). Full of exciting facts and decorated with scores of fascinating ritual photographs, it lightens a re- viewer's darkness in the emptlest publishing week of the year.

I knew the origin of the gay bou- quet of wild flowers which is pre- Bented to the judge and the aro- matic herbs that are strewn on the court tables at every session of Old Bailey, "A survival of the time when the prisons were such althy.

notsome

that placea prisoners were prone to all kinds of distase."

the

But I was blissfully unaware that barristers carry a little fold in the back of their gowns-a survival of the pouch into which hopeful - gants would drop their offerings before asking a man to plead their case.

Hiring fairs, Whitby's Penny Hedge, beating the bounds, Chert- scy's Onion Fair, Manx ceremonial. magnificence, mayoral

country customs, town and city customs, military

ecclesiastical Customs,

customs Mr. customs, school Drake-Carnell has studied their ancient outlines and knows nearly all their secrets by heart.

Tacing the origin of the Dun- mow Fitch gave him a lot of

Famous

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The Minehead hobby-horse, one of the customs dealt with in

"Old English Customs and Ceremonies.”

trouble, for the ceremonial has often lapsed, The Lord of the Manor stopped it in 1772, but it was revived again after some years, only to be "abolished as a nuisance" in 1809.

Harrison Ainsworth, the novelist, was responsible for its revival nearly half a century later, when his story, The Flitch of Bacon, came so popular that another Lord of the Manor reinstituted the trial. Kern Bables and Kern Dolls figure in an almost forgotten har- vest

custom. A

A sixteenth-century traveller met one at Windsor as he

TELL returning to his

to his inn. Bome country people were cele- brating their harvest home. Their lust load of corn they crown with flowers, having besides an image richly dressed, by which perhaps they would signity Ceres, the

was

"Jail-Birds"

HEN

British added Madras to the Empire the first public bulidings we erected there were two Churches-- -one Catholic, the other Protestant -and a prison for debtors.

The history of empire, the history al the world, is a history of privilege and property und, so, a history of prisons.

Thousands of the world's illustrious men and women have been fall-birds. For example, John Bunyan and Oscar Wilde. Sir Walter Raleigh, Trotsky and Bertrand Russell, Tom Paine and Ross Luxembourg. Mary Queen of Ecois, Toussaint L'Ouverture and St. Paul.

What a good idea it was of Messrs. A O. Stock and Reginald Reynolds to compile their Frison Anthology (Jar rolds, 12s. 6d.), for the writings in it by prisoners of all kinds from pre- Christian times until yesterday make

most stimulating-collection.-

On the evidence of this book the jail- birds of to-day are the classics of to morrow. And one feels almost sorry For the clumsy, stupid imprisoners whose bludgeons and instruments of torture appear so crude beside the of the jailed sensitive expression sufferern

Here is Countess Marklewicz, im- prisoned in Dublin for participating in the Irish Rebellion, saying what she thinks about you and me!

"What puzzles me with most of the English is that they never want to hear the truth and that the most they ex; pect from their rulers is to conceal all

UST as I expected from the title, The Time of Wild Roses, by Wallace (Collins, Doreen

8s. 6d.), is a love story. But it is no idle romance of an empty hour.

Young Laurence Blackmore wanted: to be a farmer like his father, but his carcer mother had a more genteel"

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mind for han. So he went to Oxford and met Anne, and they fell idylically in love. And when Anne's father bought a country estate and made Laurence his agent, it seemed Jike the dawn of a perfect day.

But Laurence, with no real responsi bility and playing at farming Instead of fighting the earth for bread, fretted, while Anne enjoyed her easa and took work as an escape artistic to futile from boredom.

They were drifting farther and farther apart, and Laurence was grow- ing fonder and fonder of Jean, a local farmer's daughter, when the death of Anne's father, the breaking up of the estate and a food in which Jean WAN drowned gave them a chance to under- sland each other at last.

An honestly wrilien tale about reni people in real situations. In her quiet way, Mise Wallace is one of the wisest novelists alive.

R. P.

For Your Library List

FICTION

1fer. by Jim Phelan (Peter Davies, &. 6d.), in which a nan Brows grey in prison. The novel of the season.

There Was a Jolly Miller, by (Hutchinson, R. H. Mottram

78. Gd.). A squire's son ayd a vllinge under changing modern *kics.

After Midnight, by Irmgard and Warburg, Keun (Secker 74. Gd.), Nazi Germany glimpsed through satirical glares.

FACT

Cockney: Past and Present, by William Matthews Routledge. 10. Gd.). The Londoner's dialect heard Across Ave centuries First-rate.

South Latitude, by Dick Ommanney (Longmans, Green, Pa: Cd.). A doctor leaves the East End for Antarctic adventures.

Coloured Spectacles, by Fred- erick Nivent (Collins, 10%, Ed.). Men, moods and memories. By a veteran Scots novellat.

with

disagreeable and unpleasant facts and dangerous new ideas. It must be BO duil to go on aud on like that."

Tom Paine

fault finds Solomon's domestic arrangements: "Seven hundred wives and three hun- dred concubines are worse than none."

Vanzetti, Spiridonova, Tom Mooney and Arthur Koestler are here, Verlaine, Voltaire, Toller, Defoe and Jeremiah. This book should be in every prison Abrar- every other kind of library, loo.

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11 To this Goddess of Plenty... day they celebrate the Kern Baby at Whalton, in Northumberland. where they also light a fire to Bank, the pagan göd, on St. John's Eve every year.

Yes, as Mr. Drake-Carnell re- minds us, this has always been a land of customs. And they die hard. You can still catch the glint of their immemorial

colour through the smoke pall of this In- dustrial Age. But one Tudor cere- monial went out with the Puritans.

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Writing to a friend in 1600. Erasmus anys, "Wherever you go everyone welcomes you with a kiss, and the same an bidding farewell. You call again, when there is more kissing.

"If your friends call on you, they kiss you, and when they take their leave kisses again go round. You meet an acquaintance anywhere and you are kissed until you are tired. In short, turn where you will, there are kisses, kisses everywhere." So there may have been some- thing

in that

myth of Merry Eng- land, after alll

And now, perhaps, Mr. Drake- Carnell will give us a companion volume on the customs of English workers-old and new. Rich lodes are waiting to be mined there. Ask such authors as Leslie Hal- ward, James Hanley and Jack Common.

Five-Year-Old Boy

Created Baronet

R. P.

Is

-YOUNG-Andrew Hills, just five, was told recently that he had been given a baronetcy. He pondered long before he asked his mother "Can I play with it, or is it something to eat, like sweets?"

His father, Major John Waller Hills, once Unionist M.P. for Ripon, died on December 24, a few days before his baronetcy was announced in the New Year Honour List.

Recently it was announced that hair over his forehead, he said: "I

that the

want to be a doctor, and if I can't- the King had approved

be a doctor I want to be an engine-

honour should be conferred on driver."

Andrew plays for hours with

He be mechanical toys.

cares little for soldiers, although his father waS

young Andrew Ashton Waller Hills, and that the major's widow granted the style, place and prece dence of the widow of a baronel.

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his eyca Long after, bedtime iwinkled as he talked in his blue fawn dressing-gown,

At first, Andrew was bewildered. pyjamas and Balancing himself upon his father's beneath which his pink toes peeped favourite leather chair, a mop of out-like lots of other little boys the new Baronet prefers to lose hils slippers.

Are You Sure?

ANSWERS

QUESTIONS ON PAGE TWO

1. Sixteen.

2. Queen Anne.

3.

) July 14, (b) July 4.

4. Conway and Worcester.

5. Peterborough.

G.

9. Belvoir.

7. Viscount Snowden.

8. Mendelssohn (for Mid-

summer Night's Dream).

D. Almond (March).

Thames.

10.

11. Roes of the starlet and sturgeon.

12. Camberwell, London. 13. Because of its affection for its young.

14. George IV.

15. Provost,

10. Id.

17. The Court of Arches tries disputes affecting Eccle- Blastical Law and discipline in the Province of Canterbury,

16. Scraphander,

10. Yes.

20. Turkish high officer. 21. They are all narcotics.

22. Spain.

23. Philologist.

24. Jacob's Ladder, 35. Raise a family.

20. A revelation.

27. Porthos, Athos, Aramis. 20. Berkshire,

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