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Of Course You Know, But Are You Sure?

FOR

MOR your amusement, and I hope instruc- tion, 25 well-chosen and well-assorted brain teasers this week. Not so easy and not hard... well, not so hard.

For 25 questions two points each. Thirty is f.n.q.; 40 is splendid; 30 is phenomenal, but 60 is impossible. So go right ahead.

1. Signor Gayda, who is Mussolini's yesmun, can turn pretty phrase, particularly if it is at France's expense. Recently, he fumed agains! France's intransigence, meaning In plain English, France's

Belligereney; stupidity; cowardice; ob- alinacy; untruthfulness.

2. Join Gilpin's great ride (now don't say you didn't read about it at school) was to

Bell at

York: Edinburgh: dino at tho Edmonton; Alx; Ghent; the two miles poat

al Flemington.

3. In a recent storm, a 30ft, steel telegraph pole bent over in the wind so that the top hit the ground 10ft. from the base. The height from the ground al which the pole bent was

10IL; 221414; 13ft, 4in.; 18ft. Gin.; 3ft. from Ure top.

4. Murgatroyd, who can revoke as expertly as anybody at contract, is also mildly

addleted to cribbage. Not until he told me' did I know that there is one score under the possible 20 that it is Impossible to get in cribbage. That is

3; 11; 17; 10: 23; 27.

5. Queen Mary, which braves the stormy Atlantic with a bone in her leeth and a blue riband in her hair, has everything, or almost everything it takes for comfort on board ship. All the same, if you sailed in her from New York, you would have to wait until you reached England before you could,

Get your hair cut: have a perm; play bridge; cat hamburger; play billarda: drink a cocktall.

G If you are a misqquoter-you know, one of thuse people who quote weighty words of wisdom but never correctly-you may be in trouble select- ing the missing word in "A little-is a dangerous thing."

among these!

Information; knowledge; enlightenment; education; erudition; learning; perception,

7. Don't be a meaney-give Persia its officiul name, which Is:

J.

Bagdad: Teheran; Mecca; Iray; Iran: Caliph; Mesopotamia.

Miranda Murgatroyd affects cyclamen tip- stick, sports, an Edwardlaa hair-do and goes to town at the Incat Palals whenever Pa Murgatroyd lets her out of nights. But when i told her that Swing meant nothing to me and that I much pre- ferred Sibelius, she sneered loudly and dismissed

mons:

Corney; whacky; long hair; serewball; icky; barrelliouse.

V. Before the era of rug-cutting, clambakes and jam sessions, simple people called a piano a plane and no nonsense. The Jitterbug in his jive would not think of calling it anything else bui a:

Woodpile: agony pipe; groan box; gobble pe: mothbox: tram,

pipe: 10. All huntin', fishin' and shoutin' should

to the ow that the art of venery

hunting of the:

'.- outwards; Incilned inwards; one of the per-

forations in cheese,

13. And If you've ever looked into a concave mirror' you will have noticed, no doubt, that your face looks:

Thinner: plumper: back to front; front

to back; inside out; outside in; covered with spots.

14. Whenever you see unyone

using a loupe,

you can make a pretty safe bet that that person is:

An aeroplane pilot; cowboy: cradle-znat- chier; boxer (knocked him for a loupe); Jeweller; stonemason; undertaker.

13. I have never seen the Tropic of Capricorn, because

it is only an imaginary line. In astronomy, whence Capricorn originally halls, he is in the shape of a

bulf; llon;

Katyr; crab; mcorpion; goat; man with a Jar. 10. England

used

to own Heligoland, but she swapped

it for some other place. And Ühat other place--you will reflect everlusting shame on your

• teachers if you don't know-wns:

Mauritius: Madagascar: Corsica; Caroline Islands; Zanzibar; Singapore,

17. What, after all, is a heptagon but a

Fabulous animal: scolding wife; seven- sided figure; alx-sided figure; musical term: deceased king of Egypt.

18. This is May, isn't it. .. and that re- minds me that we derive the names of our months from the

Babylonians; Jewr; Greeks; Romans; Arabs; Exyptians; Indians,

10. In the news recently was the postage siump

hidden principality of Liechtenstein,

nway in away in Europe somewhere between Austria and Switzerland. With its standing ormy of one. Liechtenstein has gone Nazi, which means that the Swastike nag will wave over the public buildings In the seat of Government ot: *

Oberammergau; Horstwessel; Vaduz; Berne; Linx; Prabia,

Stuttgart;

20. If you met a numismaticlan, he could hardly be surprised if you began a conversation with him

un:

Old masterpieces; rare postage stamps: antique silver plate; old china; coina; elgaretle cards.

21. Have you got a British passport? Well, you'll want a visa on it if you want to go to one of these countries:

Canada; France; Italy; Holland; United

States.

22. You can call a shaddock what you like-

It won't alter the fact that it is still a:

Jewish church offlelak small fish: back woodsman's hut; frult; tiny trading ship on the Nile.

23. Some day they might make you an admiral of the British Aeet; so it will be Just as well for you to know that the admiral's fagi

Has a skull and cross-bones on it; is a white crom on a red background; is a red - cross on a white background; has a rising sun on is blue with a Union Jack in the corner.

24. "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day"..

that's poetry, that is, and the next iinë

fellers uppertains

1st

Wild pl; fox; buffalo; deer; hare; snark.

These boxing gentlemen 11.

So often chuse nomes redolent of battle, murder and sudden death, such as, Manassa Mauler, Homicide Henry, Brown Bomber and what not, that it comes us a refreshing relief to learn that two old-timers rejoiced in the nom de gueire of Gentleman Jim. The original Gentleman Jim was:

Firpo Dempsey; Belcher; Jeffries; Cor- bett: Jackson; Slavin: Jolinson,

12. You will recognise a concave surface so long

as you know of concavity Is:

Fall of hotes; flat as a pancake; inclined

Pamela picked at her food

BUT MNELA, DARLING,

DO EAT YOUR VEGETABLES.; YOULL NEVER GROW INTO

A BIG GIRL

LET HER GO AND PLAY, IF SHE DOESN'T WANT

ANY MORE

THIS NOT WANTING TO EAT, NERS BURTON, GOES BACK TO HER SLKER YOU SEE,CHILDREN GROW DURING SLEEP. THIS USES OF ENERGY, HEARTBEATS AND BREATHING AF NIGHT,

ALSO USE THEIR

ENERGY...

AND SO EVERY NIGHT

'PAM'S LOOKING STURDIER

ALREADY MOTHER? THIS HORLICKS IB DOING HER GOOD)3%)

'N I LIKE IT, ÁRTOO, SPECIALLY

ATRIS CHOCOLATE}}|

FLAVOURED HORLICKS

(Whispara) BUT JACK, I'M

SO WORRIED ABOUT PAM THE WON'T EAT, SHE'S GETTING 50 PALE AND

"MERVY

"The herd winds slowly lowing o'er the lea"; "The slowing herd winds lowly o'er the lea"; "Lowing slowly the herd winds o'er the lea": "The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea"; "Tis better to have loved and lost."

25. Next time you throw a party, instead of getting "two nine-gallons, get an IB. It mightn't be any more economical, but at least it will keep the doin's in une place. So ring up the brewery and order a

("Sippers)

kilderkin;

Buskin; nipperkin: firkin; mannikin; parmikin; rumpelstitliskin.

(Answers on Paro 3).

IM WORRIED, TOO, BUT ITS NO USE FORCING HER. WHY NOT SEE THE DOCTOR?

AND IF ENERGY ISN'T REPLACED OF COURSE CHILDREN GET 'NERVV) DIFFICULT AND YADDY, IT MIGHT STARVATION. I STRONGLY ADVISE KORLICKS.

SIX WEEKS LATER

I'M GOING TO EAT.

SOME MORE WHEN ¿YE FINISHED THIS!!

THANX GOODNESS

FOR HORLICKE

IF your child is pale, give her Horlicks at

'nervy, tires easily, if she's fussy over her food, remember what the doctor säld. Guard your child against Night Starvation

bedtime.

Horlicks is best when made in the special Hor- licks mixer, obtainable at all good stores

News About Music

HITLER'S

P.I.H. Naylor

reads in the stars that here is

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a man of

Unshakable obstinacy

Lust for power

Poace through diplomacy

And a man who will

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Spring many moro surprises Ba deserted by Mussolini

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SATURDAY, MAY 13.

Saturn and Venus.

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HOROSCOPE

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self but for the good of the people over whom he rules.

HERE you see a horoscope called a diagram of the heavens drawn up for the moment of Herr Hitler's Birth 50 years ago:

The time given to a German His chart shows undoubted astrologer by ↑ member of artistic talent, a strong dramatic

Hitler gains little personally Hitler's family was 17 minutes sense and a streak of unshakable from the adoration of his follow- past six in 'the evening.

obstinacy and prejudice.

ers and from the territory and The place Braunnu, Austria. The symbols round the outer to an important group of planets and will continue to acquire for Saturn is in Leo in bad aspect resources that he has acquired ring of the circle, represent the in Taurus signifying overween Germany. twelve zodiacal signs: those ing ambition and within the division or "houses”.

wealth and power. of the horoscope the planets.

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HITLER was born under com- bined influences of Uranus,

If You're

TT is becoming Increasingly common

a lust for

in the

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Yet owing to the predominance THE horoscope shows the of Saturn and Venus

peace-loving sign Libra on horoscope, this urge to amass the ascendant on the castern wealth will be used not for him- horizon and the Sun, Venus and

In

The

Dumps-

There is another factor that has a good deal to do with our outlook on

for people to complain of a feeling There's A Reason life, and though we refer to it free

of depression. Unfortunately they do not mention this to their doctors, ex- cepi perhaps as an apologetic additkin to a list of physinel symptoms con- neeted with some defluite illness from which they are suffering.

They imaging that depression Is not worth bothering a doctor about. It must be due to the troubled times through which we are passing to business worries or lo domestle dif- cullies; and what can the doctor do for things like that?

Actually, he can do a great deal. I am not suggesting he can cure the Is of the world as well as those of his patients, but he knows far more than the layman about the causes of depression. Above all, he knows that except for brief attacks that are caslly

overcome-healthy prople don't get depressed.

In the vast majority of cases de- pression is a danger signal; It tells us that some slight readjustment is neces- sary in our mode of living. If it is tackled in time it can easily be put right. But if it is neglected we be gin the downward slide that may fend first to neurasthenia and Anally

to psychosis.

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stand is that the reason for depres- ston is often purely physical. Be- cause it appears to be a mental state we attribute it to any Hitle worry that may be bothering us at the moment, whereas if the bodily cause were tracer and eliminated the mental feeling would vanish at the same time.

quently, we do not always realise how close our comments are to the truth.

Specially Cast

By A Famous English Astrological Expert: Mars in Taurus, another peace- ful sign.

A strange combination this for the man who is indirectly responsible for the rearming of Europe, but so it is.

THERE IS NOTHING IN THIS HOROSCOPE TO SUG- GEST WAR.

According to his stars Hitler is a man of peace who will get what he wants by diplomacy, by. skilfully playing off his oppon- ents one against the other.

As long as he remains the leader of the German nation there is little likelihood of Ger- many plunging the world into war.

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How long will Hitler remain in

control?

Saturn afflicted in the mid- heaven of the horoscope indicates. ultimate loss of power but the end is not likely to come just yet.

Provided his health remains

good Hitler is likely to remain in control of Germany until 1948 at least.

Between now and then he will add to German territory and German prestige not by war, but by a series of successful poll- tical manoeuvres.

Hitler in fact is a superb there has arisen nobody among wangler and spellbinder. As yet

the leaders of other European nations who is able to outwit him..

Fleaith is not too good, the throat, heart and kidneys being the weakest points,

When the skies are grey we talis, irritably, about the depressing wen- ther; the reason for our bad temper is actually a physical one brought on by the climate. Normally the body gets rid of a vast amount of polson

Incidentally there are no signs every day by evaporating it through of assassination; Hitler should the skin. If the air is humid, prac-die comfortably in bed. tically no evaporation can take place and the waste matter is reabsorbed into the body, Nature is compelling

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us slowly to polson ourselves; natur-THE coming twelve months are likely to witness startling

person a

For instance, at this time of your thousands of people have e slight attack of influenza. They struggle to the effee and carry un with their work; eventually they recover. Aally we feel depressed. forgotten all about that "bad cold," week or two Inter, when they have

These, then, are some of the phy-new developments in his foreign they cannot understand why they feel sical causes that make people feel policy, for at the moment he is so weary and despondent. If this down In the dumps, but there is under a benefic aspect of the Sun

weeks nothing in them to give any sensible to Uranus, Jupiter and Venus. feeling persists for severnl they become genuinely alarmed.

apprehension. The moment's mental factors which produce this The stars foretell that for the Depression is frequent sequel to result are equally easily dealt with next year or two, at any rate, influenza, but it is not realised that

Although mental factors alone can

can Hitler will do nothing that he is be responsible for and this may be far more Intense

depression, such prolonged after # slight attack, eases are surprisingly rare. Para expected to do. through which one has worked, than doxical though it may sound, worry Rumours may circulate about after a serious bout that has meant does not usually cause dejection. his intentions, but when he actu a week or two at home. The whole With most vigorous, healthy people n it will be in the way least expect- strain has been overtaxed by the worry is simply a problem to be double strain of working and over- solved. coming discase germs; depression is

ed of him, While a satisfactory

Look out for further instances an almost inevitable characteristic of being arrived at there may be some of his surprise tactics, this the exhaustion that follows,

anxiety, but once the correct answer i month and again in July. Common Causes of Depression.

has been found there is no further trouble.

The object of the modern doctor is to keep people well. It is heartbrenk- ing, therefore, to be called upon to treat one case after another of neurasthenia that should rever have been allowed to get within hailing distance of that very unpleasant chronte sepsis that is pouring

In the same way, any condition of condition.

fund

ચી stream People

of poking of polson into the system can pro- physicians who duce acute depression. A bud tooth RECENTLY

fun at fg_holiday.........for which is oftch "u" very different the Bath Festival started with a patients suffering from

"nervous performance of "Messiah" con-breakdowns," but this really is the ducted by the permanent conduc-only effective cure when the trouble has been allowed to reach an ad- tor of the Pump Room Orches-vanced slago. tra, Maurice Miles. The oratoria What To De was given complete and with the original accompaniments.

For once, then, we had our Handel plain, a fact which may cause the ghost of that stickler for propriety and decent be- haviour, Beau Brummel, to smile with satisfaction.

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RECENTLY the Kneller Hall Band conducted by Major Adkins gave a concert in the evening. There were or chestral concerts recently when Sir Adrian Boult conducted a programme which

included works by a number of English composers, and later there was an orchestral concert conducted by Maurice Miles at which Albert Sammons was soloist in Elgar's Violin Concerto.

Furthermore, there БУДБ # recital by Ethel Bartlett and Rac Robertson, a Young People's Or- chestral Concert as well as con- certs conducted by Albert Ketelbey and Sir Henry Wood.

A CONCERT was given in

the Albert Hall recent-

ly in aid of Spanish children. The soloist was Pablo Casals, who played the cello concertos of Haydn, Elgar and Dvorak. The orchestra was the London Symphony and the conductor, Albert Contes,

LATER at

and

the Victorin Albart Museum

the League of Arts concert was given by the English Madrigal Choir, conducted by Arnold

at bedtime strongthens norvos, | Foster. At the same time Myra

HORLICKS bullds appetite,guards children Hess was giving a recital at the

against Night Starvation.

Wigmore Hall, the proceeds of which are to go to Lord' Bald- win's Fund.

As few of us can ufford to take prolonged holidays, it is as well to know how to deal with these depres- slons while they are "shtillow," how "deep," and how to proat by the to prevent them from becoming warnings they give.

Perhaps the old-fashioned ductor Is In some measure to blame for the reluctance of most people to go to their medical advisers with a tale if simply Не

on the back and a homily

feeling fed up with things in general, He used to treat such stories with a hearty slap on the foollaliness of harbouring such ideas. Ife would end by writing a prescription for a stimulating tonic perhaps the worst possible medicine in such circumstances.

We have learned a great deal since those days. The first thing to under-

A Lay Sermon

DAY

AVID prayed for a clean heart, but he knew that that was not enough. He prayed for a right spirit, and that, too, was in- sumclent. He needed the strong free spirit of God.

He had come to shipwreck on the mudbarks of passion. He was broken and ho Thy free spirit was foul. He PSALM, I., 12. needed a new creation, a new heart and a clean one. But ጆሮ was well aware that without n right spirit he would soon be in danger ngain. He. had been navigating with a faulty compass: he had erred from his course be- cause the needle had not been true. So he asked for a "right" spirit, constant spirii, properly mag- netised. This was to be within |himself, the needle within his soul's compass. And then he asked for God's "free" spirit, the unconfined power of attraction to which the needle would respond. Never for get the third part of David's} prayer. If we resist the pull of the Spirit, the Spirit at length may: cease to strive with us. That is a deadly peril Indeed.. David's cican heart and right spirit would have avalled little It God had taken His Holy Spirit away,

thing from one that is aching-in- fiamed tonsils, any nasal obstruction, and constipation can all make one feci that life is no longer worth living. Yet they are all things that can be. sel right.

CHESS PROBLEMS

Black

While

Nos. 106-107

Problem No. 106

12 Pieces

10 Pieces White to play and mate in two. Problem No. 107

1 Pieces

Black

White

11. Places white to play and mate in three.

SOLUTIONS TO LAST

WEEK'S PROBLEMS

No. 154 Q-n Na, 109 1. Kt-Qs

3. Q-K2ch

QxPcl

z, Q-Q2ch

threatens

K-17 or P-D¢

Kxkt

solution 1s

A Wimpole Street Doctor

Puzzle Corner

Cryptogram

XQZJNXO XYNVB GTZUO GTHYU FZVK FKZT GJVLOF TLOCHZQ QFKSN SVDJF QNOVYK KVQYU NBOGQZ, GTZFJ FZKVBD NBKGNK.

An Acrostic Definitions are given below for words to be filled in reading

P

across?

N --

C-

(1) Fright. The end. (4) ditional. (6)

(2) Rough. (8) Finer. (5) Ad-

Assessed.

(7)

Angry, (8) What these de- finitions are.

Letter Juggling

Here's one that's more difft- cult. Two different 10-letter words may be formed from the 10 letters given below: Use all 10 lettera in each word:

TACDIINORY

What Are the Dimensions?

A rectangle is 8 feet longer than it is wide and the perimeter 120 feet. What are the dimensions of the rectangle?

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Books and Their Authors Here's another list as shared. by a Greenville, Florida, reader:

The Virginian Jacobs

2 Laonboak

anug Nezbar

Sketch Book

5 Mark Twain

✪ Anthony adverse

Orden Manstone A Karwanteimtie 15% 444 Bede

in Don Quikers

Lenodok Wister

Zweig

Ferber

Ei 101 Corventes

Irving

Nagyon

alten

(Answers Appear on Page 3)

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the prospects of the Berlin- Rome Axis,-Hitler's-chart- does-- not agree too well with that of his co-dictator, Mussolini.

UNFORTUNATELY for

Hitler is a man of peace' who will use any means but war if. he can.

Mussolini is by his stars trouble maker.

Fortunately, Hitler's chart shows the stronger personality; for a time he will be able to bold his Italian colleague in check.

Ultimately Mussolini will break away from the alliance.

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ANOTHER public figure remark

ubly like Hitler in appearance came into the world only four days before him. Charlie Chaplin Was born on April 14, 1800.

Notice the same toothbrush mous tache; the same capacity for amusing the British public.

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