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ish: rowdy, extravagant show, d. there will be plenty of laughter. hi spite of the reformation of the ittle tough guys" at the end, their departure is noisy and mischievous enough to suggest that we may see them again.

Edward Everett Horton's butler, who catches the slang infection and dances the "Big Apple," is the most ninusing figure.

SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1939.

Of Course You Know, But Are

ELL, are you lined up at the barrier for this week's event?

W barrier for this wook's event?

points for each correct answer, a total of 30 just gots ye vinto a placo, 40 you aro running niesy and 50, I'm afraid, looks suspiciously like a caso for the stawards.

1-Either my English master made a mug of me or else John Milton, of Paradise Lost fame, really did:

Get beheaded; go blind; drink himself to death; get drowned: dle in the Wars of the Roses; write The Pilgrim's Progress, 2.When the King goes to India and holda a public levee it is officially described as a:--

Panjandrum: Durban: Durbar: Durbin; Derby: Howdali: Safari; Field of the Cloth of Gold.

3.Sicily, which is off the south of Italy. has a pretty famous volcano, and as volcanoes go it la jolly good one." Its name ist-- Popacatapeti; Vesuvius: Etna; Fuji- yama; Everest; Appalachlan; Blanc, 4-When an incoming ship has a patient suffering from an infectious disense aboard IL:

Goes full spoed astern; drops both anchors floods, the, bilges; flies a yellow flag; Issues gas masks to its stowards; demands a bill of lading.

5.-You are always pretty certain of find- Ing davit:

In a zoo; on a golf course; In a ship; . In an Ironmongery store; in a church. G-As probably already you have arranged about your Enster holidays you should not have to dush to a calendar to find out that Easter Monday, is:

March 31 April 4: April 8; April 10; April 16: May 1.

7. When the infant is howling in the still watches you might get some comfort by nir- ing your knowledge to the wife by telling her that, the first, teeth junior will cut will be:

Molars; bicuspids; incisors; wisdom; false.

canine;

Are You

You Sure?

B."All my eye and Belty Martin" is a way-a bit old-fashioned these days, I fear

of expressing:

Excitement; love; admiration; hatred; disbelief; repugnance; Joy: sorrow. D-The odds are against your not getting married some dny, so it's just as well to know that at the altar the bridegroom stands:

Right out in front of the bride; at her left side; at her right; five paces to the rear: as far away has ho con gel, ... 10-And afterwards the right thing is done it will be seen to that the bridegroom does not have to fork out for:

The music (if any); the clergyman's fee; the bride's bouquet; the wedding ring; the wedding reception; itp to the verger.

11.-And, if the couple see the distance, on their 40th wedding day you can congratu- late them on celebrating their:

Golden wedding: diamond wedding; silver wedding; tin wedding; ruby wed- ding; crystal wedding. 12.-A lyre hos:

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Two pedals; five sirings; 88 keys: a mouthpiece; bellows; a smooth tongue. 13-In the event of someone presenting you with n casserole the right and proper thing to do with it would be to:

Wear it over your shoulders: put it in a comfortable kennel; add to your library: cook in it; hang it with your other masterpieces.

14. Without the bother of going over to count the population can you say off hand that the largest city in South America is:

Buenos Aires; Lima; Valparaiso; Rio de Janeiro: Barcelona: Santiago,

15-Just now the President of the Chinese Republic is:

Lin Sen: Sun Yat Ben; Chiang Kal-shek; Tsao-iln; Dim Sim.

16-It shouldn't be hard for you to know your kings these days-Leopold is King of:

Spain; Italy; Norway; Sweden; Bel- gium; Portugal; Holland.

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· 17,--And just to prove you really do know your current history the leader of the Spanish Government is:

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Franco; Negrin; Azana; Vespucel; Columbus; Alphonso.

-18-If, as a kid, you took just an average interest in your geography lessons, you will. remember that one of these is not a wind:

Monsoon: pampero; chinook; tycoon; typhoon

19-Also-and this will take you back to your elementary geography lessons-Afghan- istan is in the continent of:

Europe; Asia; Australia; America,

Africa:

20.Ah well, I suppose there is como ex- guse for your not knowing that a banneret is n:

Soldier's cartridge bell: smalt banner; fegal term; knight; sort of biscull, 21-Except in abnormal cbses a man's heart beats faster when he is:

An Infant; elderly.

a youth;" middle-aged;

22. That animal the sloth-you know, the one that used to be in all the cross-word puzzles-is a strange creature because it can:"

Fly; live without food; kill an elephant: live upside down; change its colour; run faster than any other animal,

23-Supposing you had to keep one of these animals in your backyard and you wanted the one that made the least noise, you would select the:

Elephant; goat; puma; giraffe; bull; orang ulan.

24. Marmot is the name of a:

Small monkey; beef extract; rodent; bird; Norwegian Bord; a French line, of forts.

23. Sable Island, which is south-west of Nova Scotia (if you know where that is, and If you don't It doesn't matter), is famous for

its:

Black cais; mink coals; shipwrecks: fortifications; aerodromes; striet criminal- colo,

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From what you tell me, Mrs. Norton, your trouble is Night Starvation. You see,

even at night you go on using up

energy in heartbeats, breathing and

other automatic actions. In your case,

this has also led to an excess of acid waste products in the blood.

All this causes you to wake tired, feel and look nut-down and Kervy: Recent tests have proved that Horlicks is what.

people need for that ..........

ZY WEEKS LATER

Img, I'm proud of you.

bright and.

THINKE

BOB LOVES ME AGAIN, THANK GOODNESS, *FOR HORLICKS

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BE A PHOTO HISTORIAN

The story of our times is being told for the next generation by amateur photographers who take and prosorve simple scories of pranont-day life,

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such as this.

Dit over occur to you that as of becoming a photographilo histo DID

the owner of an amateur camorn rian for the bevont of your own you are blessed with the means of postority? This you can do effective-

· making a valuable and truly signify even-on-a-small-scalo.It-simply cont record of the times in which means making a collection of pic you live? Magazine, newspaper, tures, takon by yourself, best repre- news-rool and other professional seating the life, customs, dress and photographers are doing just that activities of the prosent day and every day and a vast store of picto placing them in a special album to koop and hand down as a family pos. rial history la accumulating,

session. Some of these pictures will Thanks to the progress nad spread soom commonplace now but as in- of photography our descendants are foresting and valuable forty or fifty going to know much more about the years hence as those of the "gay way we lived and acted than we nineties" are to us. know of the way our great-grandfa-} Bolect subjects which in your thors did. Through these millions of judgment are most typical of the photographs of life and action now current scene: Cortainly you should being taken our descendants will not neglect, to includo your own Dossena visual evidence of the home life, street scenes and other things we did, how wo dressed, how vlows about your changing éity, the life went on. In elty and country, homes of the rich and the homes of Contrast the adrunings they will the poor, Ilfe in the country and have over this generation which has present types of automobiles, air- to rely upon the descriptions of writ-planes, railroad trains and other ora and the work of artists for fin things in general uso which today understanding of life prior to the in-spoli modorn life and tomorrow will troduction of photography scareoly be obsolete,

more than two generations ago." You should not fall to includo off- However accurato the work of writ guard anapshots of people doing era and ariisis, may bo, It cannot things Illustrative of comman life- equal the reality and truthfulness of | what the artists call genre plctures, photography,

Make your camera your companion

We amatour photographors, now capoeially in traveling and be ready millions strong fr'overy country, are for thoso, For example, a shot out of also making a tremendous contribu-¦ your car window of a scone on the. tion to this photographite record of platform of a railroad station may our time. Few of us, howevor, aro 200m ordinary' enougli today but it doing it by doalgn. Most of us take in a samplo of common life. Years platures for the present amusement hence this picture will be a curioalty. of ourselves, families and friends The modern scono is constantly with not so much thought to their changing. There të no other medium value and interest to our children's than photography which can show children, Too tow of us take janso truly after a lapso of yours what to prosorvo the pletures wà tako. those changer have been.

Well, what do you say to the idea

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John van Guilder.

Greenock Co-operative Party and China

London. from the Greenock Co-operativo

HE following question dealing Party regarding, inter alla, the taking with the communication the of action by the Government, with Greenock Co-operative Party a other democratic countries, to secure Prime Minister on the subject of the withdrawal of all aggressors from withdrawal of aggressors, from Chinë, was asked in the House of Commons recently:

and whether he has any ht to make regarding the matterrein contained.

The Prime Minister: Yes, Sir,

Mr. R. Gibson asked the Prime Minister whether ho has considered and the views exposed in the "let-- the communication addressed to him ter have been noted.

PUZZLE

Cryptogram

Here is a reference to a new process:

CORNER

the boy who owns the boat re- ceives $10 more than the other boy, how much does each re-

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tonyms to be paired off to-day:

Fun With Antonyms VZJKZ DFEF JB KAUGOT- More words and their an- POS РА VAAE, HQUKI, BEJNNJUL AU AUO'B CTO. QFHQBP QUS OQPJUL AUO'B GOBP.

Hidden Trees

The names of 10 different trees are hidden in the square below. These names read only from left to right or down never diagonally:

CHWILHO OES Y LIM AKTCOWE SHNAM BI POUTOER E-POORE.C LMPLARH

Letter Juggling

Two different 6-letter words may be formed from the 5 let- ters given below. Use all 5 letters in each word!

AMRSW

-How-Much?

Two boys earn $38 by taking passengers in a motorboat. If

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A Lay Sermon

THERE are two kinds of teach-

Ing, one based on text-book knowledge, the other on Intimate experience. The scribes knew their scriptures from A to Z, but they had no Gospel for the people, because theirs was a religion" of tradition and form.

Schoolchildren, as a

general

rule, sum up teachers

He taught them their as-one-having-shrewdly.~I~~

authority, call that, for me, MATTHEW 'VĪl. 29 masters fell into two categories: those who gave us sums to do and marked the results in our exercise-books

my ense, with an ominually, "in

cross); and those who, instead of Insisting that we must "show the working. wrote out the sums on the black- board and took joy in explaining the working themselves. These latter taught with authority.

So with Jesus, when He taught, for He always showed the work- ing. The scribes could quote by the hour and the yard, but the Son of God could demonstrate. The scribes

the Saviour ended the Law; explained the Love behind It. The scribes taught of God by the book; with Jesus it, was, as with us it should be: "We speak that we do know, and tes- tify that we have been.'

Income-Tax In Germany

BERLIN.

Germany's bachelors, spinsters and childless married couplés, who since the Issue of the income-tax laws have been waiting unxlously to see how much they will have to pay, learnt their fate when they opened their newspapers recently.

Unmarried persons with an income of not more than 4,250 marks-£212 109 at par-found that no additional demands are to be made on them.

For couples, on the other hand, who have been married for -five years Without having any children the in- crease affects all incomes above 075 marks, or £33 10.

The following table shows the in- come tax to be paid by unmarried persons and childless couples who have been married for five years, as compared with the previous : scales in force since October, 1935.

For unmarried people:je H Income. Old":fax New Tax In Britain £250 241 12 00 244 28 D₫ 406 64 - 2500 - 90 41.04

180 12

£1,000 208 108 od 302 s Dd

25,000 2,500.00 04 2,750 0% od 1,870 D

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94-30% od 34 6% od 45000 Da Dd. Ba 10% od 1,000 108 O Dd235 „še od 144 5,000 1.07% Os od 2,211 Da od 1,854 o Dd Childless couples who have been married less than Gyo years still pay according to the old scale,

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