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Puzzle Corner
Cryptogram
To-day, a quotation by Dic- kens on "Go and Do Likewise." "A BCDF AB BECB GH IJKALFKK AL BEF KMNACO KHKBFG AK BM IF CPQFF- CIOF: A BCDF AB BECB FRFQHIMSH'K IJKALFKK AL BEF KMNACO KHKBFG. AK BM IF CPQFFCION."
Use 'Em Again Twins
As usual, the letters in the word in the left-hand column are to be used as many times as necessary to form the 2 words defined in the right-hand column. The figures following the defini- tions denote the number of let- ters in each word:
{ makes favourable first ROPES impression. 12.
makes an offer. 8.
Letter Juggling
Four different 6-letter Eng- lish words, and one well-known 6-letter Spanish word may be formed from the 6 letters given below. Use all 6 letters in each word:
EGNRD A
Find the Dimensions The area of a given rectangle is 2400. If its length and width are each increased by 50 per cent, the area of the rectangle would be increased by 125 per cent. Find the dimensions of the rectangle,
Fun With Antonyms To-day, 10 words and their antonyms to be paired off:
idrocale
21 Sortan
1%) talafate
senounc
rolfact
lengthen
revole
tecede
5 | exonereTO
2 raider
A concede
TALITY
15) || groes
mp_advance
ANCHOS
792003 disperse
(Answers Appear on Page 3)
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SILHOUETTE PICTURES
Outdoor silhouettes are' easy, with sun behind subject, Indoors, with artificial light, they are just as simple. ILHOUETTES offer many of the brightly illuminated shoot-- chances for intaruntlag, decora- and fire away. Livo pictures--and aro onsy to take, Indoors or out.
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With the sheet, norel effects are possible. For example, you can show Outdoors, place your subject on a person juggling any number of high ground, with the sun aquarely tennis balls or batties, with most of behind him, and shoot frunin low them in mid-air, Actually, they aro camera position, Use a smaller lons just cut out of black paper and opening than maual, to provide less-pinned to the sheet-bat in the plc- than-normal exposure and to sub-turs they took qulto real.
Exposure time for allhouotter Ta dye shadow detall,
Indours, there are two simplories with the strength of the light. methods. For one, use a large-size With a box camera and one largo photo bath, in cardboard reflector, photo bulb in cardboard reflector, Place on the floor a few feet from try "time" exposures of one to threa ona wall, and pointed toward the seconds. Keep the camera on a lem wall. This creates a "bright apol," support, and be careful not to move Darken the real of the room, let the it durlag exposure. subject stand la shadow between the camera and bright spot-and shoot.
Usually, silhouette subjecis should be shown in profie. The room In which the camera is used must be kept an dark as possible.
Another method permits unusual
Anyone can acquire the knack of slhouetter. For thin, stretch a whlto sleet smoothly across an allhouetto-making, and it is great open doorway, leaving no wrinkles. fun to work ont story-telling ideas Placo a strong light such as a for this type of snapshot. Try some, photo bulb in reflector five feet and you'll film they offer delightful behind it. In the other roam, poso pastime for the long evenings.
John van Guilder your aubject about two feet in front
SPELLING BEES COME BABY ORANG PARTY
BACK
Hutchinson, Kus. Reno county rural schools are turn- ing to old fashioned spelling bees for entertainment and education.
St. Louis.
A baby orangutan. belleved to be the fourth of its kind born in the United States, is to have a coming out party at the zoo here soon.
SATURDAY. APRIL
29,
1939.
What D'you Know? Answers on Page 3
1. Give the name of the hunch-1 backed dwart of Victor Hugo's "Hunchback of Notre Dame,"
2.-A
suffering person
B-Which of the following poly- gons fins eleven sides?
from
agoraphobin dreads;
Darkness
Travelling in
Open places
a lift
Soiltude
Marriage Work
31 which
of the following
towns did the "Peterloo Mussacre"
of 1810 take place?
Petersburg
Manchester
Canterbury
Parts
Peterborough Liverpool
4.What is a hyperbola?
An exop-
geration
A mathe-
motical curve
A figure of
speech
A winged
insect A. musical
instrument malignant
growth
Heptagon
Octagon
Nonagon
Decagon Duodecagon Undecagon
10. William Tell is a legendary national hero of
Switzerland
France
England
Belgium
Scotland
Ireland
11-Hugh Ceel Lowther in the name of man known to millions
as
Lord Lonsdale Lord Burghley Mr. Middleton George Arliss
Hugh Wake-
Acld
Col, Lindbergh
12. In 1927 Thomas Edward Law- rence (Lawrence of Arabla) changed his nuine by deed poll. What was the name he adopted? -
-13.--There are two Cleopatra's the Thames Where Js
5. In which of the following Needles. One is on Shakespearean plays does the tine Embankment, London.
the other one? "Never, never, never, never, never,' appear?
Richard II King Lear
Much Ado About Nothing As You Like It 0-Name the modern artist fam- ous for his paintings of horses,
the following 7-At which of places was Lloyd George bom?
Llanystumdion Manchester Bangor
8.What is an
A boring tool A soothsayer
Llandaf
Llanberis Capel Curly "augur"?
14.Which of the following towns
is often called the "Modern Athens"?
Oxford
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Rugby Winchester Exeter
15.In a bull-fight which of the following men plunge the darts into the bull to Infuriate him?
Matador
Toreador
Banderillero Picador
10. A prestidigitator is a person skilled in legerdemain. What Is he?
An orator
A conjurer
A priming tube
A composer
A monster
A Lay Sermon
ONCE, in a police court, I heard
of a man who was found at midnight, standing still in the down, pouring rain. "Coming isn't it?" said a polierman. "Yes," he replied, "I'm waiting to see it go up." They fined him 408.
I thought of him the other day when a worried young fellow came to see me. Whosoever shall call He could feet upon the name of the not Lord shall be saved, that God Romans, x. 13. had for- given him. He had called upon Him, he was genuinely repentant, and he knew that he now detested what once he
A dentist
A herbalist
A surgeon
craved for, which should have) satisfied him of God's deliverunce, į But he had no feeling of forgive-
ness.
So. 1 told him that God's word is laiv, and forgiveness a matter of fact, not feeling. We don't, us a rule, feel-law at work; we don't, for instance, feel the pressure of 14.7 bs. whlett the atmosphere exerts on every square inch of our bodies. But it is a fact, none the less, and so is salvation for those who claim 1, based on
law which is "as the rain cometh down not from heaven und returneth thither."
CHESS PROBLEMS
Nos. 102-103
Problem No. 102
Black.
• Pieces
White
4 Pieces
BRIDGE PROBLEM
This Week's Problem
No. 100
10
❤4·10 0
• 10 0 6 2
♣ X 10 9 63
KQG+ ❤75 a
..
N
87 ♥AJ
W
E
3
A
MAIDS 32
There are no trumps. West lends spade king and North- South have to win nine of the thirteen tricks. 11 Pieces
White to play and mate In two.
Problem No, 101 Black
White
7 Pieces
White to play and male in three.
SOLUTIONS TO LAST
WEEK'S PROBLEMS
No. 101. White: K on KR: Q on QKU: B on 23: Kt on KK10 Nackt Kon Q2; Kt on QK16; P'n on QR, Q5, KK1. Three Inovca. Key BK17 120 marks). Throat 2. Q- and 3. Q-K7.
Black White. Black.
1 - 2 Q-K8ch
1 KD4 2 -ch
littlo
K-3 3
K-B3 x
X elke 3 B-KG A preity
problem, with a "quiet" (1... non-checking) threat and four model mates, Strategy is simple. the most pointed being Black's defence by K-B4, forming a self-block in anticipation of K-3.
Thieves "Bury” Victim
Cleveland, O. When thleves held up James Kirkwood, 50, a grocer, they heaped insult upon Injury. They injured Kirkwood's pockelbook to the extent of $45, then plled 500 pounds sugar and flour on their vletim,
of
Solutions by first post Wednesday to "Bridge Problem" "Hongkong Telegraph," Wynd- ham Street.
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COLD CONTROL
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FRIGIDAIRE
Features of the 1939 Cold Wall Models
Three in one.. All three func- tions of the Cold Control, the Automatic Reset Defroster and the Master Switch are now controllable from a single dial which is known as the Frigidaire Uni-Matic Control.
Here's an added refinement that users will appreciate: a new Supor Freezer Door which closes at a finger's touch, but, most important of all, it opens all the way and stays open until
you want it to close.
PREFERRED EVERYWHERE
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The New Quickube Tray will find favour with every- one. It increases the capa- city of the freezer for freezing desserts, salads and ice cubes; also for storage of bulky frozen articles and highly perish- able foods.
DODWELL & CO., LTD.
ALEXANDRA
BUILDING.
Storage space for the extra ice cubes needed for parties is an added use for the Meat Tender. It holds all the cubos that can be frozen at one time, thus doubling the ice cube capacity of the rofrigerator.
OUTSTANDING RELIABILITY
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