1939-06-17 — Page 10

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION

Of Course You Know, But Are You Sure?

HERE

TERE is another bouquet of bother from the gar- den of knowledge. Bowing to the publle wil}, I have purposely made my questions cakyat least, relatively easy-this week.

In the circumstances I consider 40 should be a good average for this list and the possible 59 not Impossible. Remember, the object of this quiz is not to

questions up on a plate, but to serve the make them at least dimeult' enough to exercise your ingenuity,

So go right ahead, and score two points for every correct answer.

(1) Next year, that is, if we're all still here, what with war rumours and whatnot, the world will celebrate at least one great centenary, regard- jess of political and national antagonisms. That will be the centenary of the

Discovery of anaesthetics; issue of the first postage stamp: opening of the Suez Canal; In- troduction of the first rable (ram in Melbourne: navigation of Sydney Harbour,

(2) Zane Grey, Z.G. to you, writes novels. and catches fish. He is at present In Australin because he has a yearning to hook what is believed to be the biggest game fish in these waters, which Is the

Grey nurse; killer whale; hammer head; ghost shark: mako; wide-billed swordfish, bun- yip.

3. I've got to go quiet on colour questions, beenuse I got into trouble over that primary colour one the other day--but I'll take a chance on asking which of these has no yellow in it:

Ochre; slenna; indigo: gamboge: chrome, (4) If you were to ring up the bulcher and Inform him that you were looking forward to hov- pancreas for lunch you would be ing a sheep's Blinoyed, and rightly, too, If he did not bring you.

Tripe: tongues; liver; sweetbread; kidneys: tenderloin.

(5) The British people have come to regard Home, Sweet Home almost as a national anthem; which is strange, because the composer was

Dutch: Canadian; Australian;

Portuguese: English; Scotch.

American;

ΟΙ

(B) You know what citrus fruits are? course you do. So I should be easy for you to pick which of these is not a citrus fruit.

Cuniqust; pomelo; guava; grapefrull; man darin orange: lemon.

(7) Murgatroyd built a fence two posts to the punel-across his ancestral neres the other day. When he had finished 100 panels, he discovered that the number of posts he had put up was

101: 200; 12314; 100: 150.

(B) one of those rare friends who can lend you money just before the last race told you up in a burst of confidence that he had taken up the study of osmies, you would know that his studies. related to

A being system; some of smell; racial difference between Australians and Trish (Aus- Alicks, pardon): oyster culture.

(0) Skoda is another of those uncomfortable words which have a knack of cropping up and causing bother in times of crisis because when you think of

inevitably think of

Skoda

you nee Books (troops for the use of); withdrawal of diplomatie aellon; armaments; music.

(10) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." I'll bet you've heard that one before, and I'll bet you know it was perpetrated by

ShakespearC;

Keats; Browning.

Wordsworth;

Tennyson;

(11) The Lyrn, for the beneft of those odd people who mightn't know, is:

A constellation of stars; an Italian coin: a bird; a stranger from the truth; a musical

instrument.

I

(12) Like all respectable continents, there are parts of Africa which are extreme cast, extreme west, extreme north and extreme south, and the extreme southern point of Africa goes by the moni- ker of

Cape of Good Hope; Cape, Horn: Cape Lecuwin; Cape Verde; Cape Agulhas; Madagas-

car.

(13) in the national arms of one of these countries there is an engle in the design. If you can recognise an eagle when you see one, you will know that that country is

Poland; Soviet; Scotland; Australls; France (14) There is only one word spelt wrongly here, and, believe to get only one word wrong

mc. Is more or less marvellous for me

Barmecide; fratricide; matricide; homecide Insecticide.

(15) There are four missing words on this 11ttle plece and those four truant words are made up of the same letters. What are they?

After having ... ... ... ... ... ... ....... his house by rather means he proceeded to live beneath ....... skies far from the........ of the city.

(18) Do you know what a statute mlle is? That's right. It's every one of 1,760 yards. But one of these inlles is shorter than a statute mile.

Roman mile; nautical mile; geographical mile; Irish mile: Scots mile.

(17) It doesn't matter what dictionary you take, you can'i escape the fact that a horologist is

Head reader; stargazer: weather fore- caster; stamp collector; rag and bone merchant; watchmaker.

(18) Cuba is an Island (which is information 1 gleaned from my old school teacher years ago), but until the other day I had quite over-looked

that it In the

New Hebrides; Philippines: Bahamas; East Indles: Great Antilles; Solomons.

(19) You may search from now until King- dum Come, but all the same I'll guarantee you won't find any Eskimos,

In Alaska; In Greenland; in Canada; at the North Pole.

(20) in the 17th century there was an am- bitious pilferer who, on one historie occasion, tried to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower. His name was

Captain Kidd; Colonel Blood; Perkin War- beck. Wat Tyler; Scaramouche: Ned Kelly.

(21) You can't beat them. They've got is name for everything. Government by the few, for instance, they call

A democracy: an oligarchy; a monarchy; an anarchy; a hierocracy; a dictatorship.____

(22)

you

wanted to mind you, I'm not suggesting that might express electrical power

you as horsepower you would use the term

Wati; ohm; ampere: cycle; kilogram; cur- rent; anemometer.

(28) Surely everybody knows that they pul- verise tobacco to make

Fine cut; morphia; cigars; snuff; ash; co- caine; caffeine,

(24) One of the apostles in the Bible had the bad luck to get shipwrecked three times, which is a lot of times to get shipwrecked even for an apostle. The Biblical gentleman to whom I refer

Was

Peter; Paul; Simon; John; Noah; Jonah. (25) In the Brst innings of a cricket match three players made 47 runs between them. They struck form in the second innings, the first player scoring three times, the second four times and the third ve times as many as the first innings. Curiously enough, they all made the same score in the second innings. What were their Individual scorca In the first innings?

(Answers on Page 3)

SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1939.

Keeping Out The

London,

Burglar

INSURANCE companies are rightly Some Precautions inga farly simple matter. Open

over the increasing toll

of successful burgiaries. In fact,

there has even been talk of the formation of o-speciál, Watch Corps to protect Insured properties. This would mean revival of the old cus- font in force before municipal fre stations and police forces were esta- blished. The mere fact that such a proposal is being seriously considered is in itself n grave reflection on the present situation.

Present-day burglars are not the Ignorant Dili Sikes of 30 or 50 years Dgo. It is now an accepted fact that educated men are taking to burglary as a means of livelihood, and they are doing their jobs very thoroughly, making the most careful preparations with great skill.

Their

depredations are aided by the fact that the police force in this country has not yet got rid of the most cases · R clothes complex,- In well-dressed man will still escape close scrutiny from the police or plain-clothes detectives. There is

For Householders

open during the night to admit the fresh air. fron bars or grilies look ugly and prison-like on windows, but artistic steel shutters admitting air can be had at moderate prices, and can be depended upon to defy un- lawful entrants with ordinary bur- glar tools.

Many of the houses in Britain are made with rones and water pipes, and these crections make housebrenk-

IN

and unguarded balconies and veran- dahs also greatly help burglars, and house owners would do well to examine all those matters and act accordingly. By the outlay of a few pounds a building can be protected from burglars of the ordinary kind, and burglar alarms accurately placed can defeat the most skilful cracks- man and cause him to retreat hur- riedly.

Burglary must be stamped out in Dritaln, and only by the intelligent co-operation of the pollee and public can this end be accomplished.

Frank Bardon

Look Prosperous: A Tip

to Business Men

conversation recently with a way to do it than to look and talk business man who employs a prosperously when calling on them. fairly large number of cominercial travellers, he told me that he never kept a man in his employment who good a traveller the man was.

Applicants for a job do not gener- ally need to be advised to dress as smartly as they can, but what about sitting examinations? My

ground for believing, therefore, that did not dress smartly, no matter how friend told me that when-

the majority of the most valuable hauls in recent months have been made by seemingly well-to-do bur- ators whose immaculate clothes have enabled them to escape suspicion.

Too Easy

The public are largely to blame for the increase of burglaries, House holders and shopkeepers

in general show almost incredible carelessness in the guarding of their properly. There are quite a number of eficient new burglar alarms on the market nowadays, but as the best are natur- ally expensive, only a minority of people will invest in them,

made Burglar alarms might be compulsory for all buildings. It in- surance companies as a body made them so for their accepted clienis, burglary would not be quite the pro- Stable and easy pastime it seems to be to-day.

A surprising number of people still have faith in dogs as guardians modern of their properly, though burglar gangs never have any dif- ficulty in silencing a dog. They do not find it so easy to stop a loud bell ringing from an unseen posi- tion.

Many shopkeepers and house- holders, even Jewellers and posses- sors of valuable goods, never give a thought to the premises above or on either side of them.

fondly They Imagine that if they securely, boli, own house or har, and lock their shop doors, they are safe. In nearly the recent robberies, entrance and exit has been made through ad- olning premises. In London and and other big towns many houses shops containing valuable property are next door to cheap and un- guarded premises but this fact is frequently ignored.

nl

Hole in the Floor

For immunity from the attentions of burglars coinmunal action must be taken by owners and tenants of

ever he had to sit an examination He went on to explain his doctrine he would always dress himself with of "looking prosperous," and I must particular care, because of the added confess that I agreed with much, it feciing of confidence it gave him not all, of what he said, "The me And in my own knowledge, he has to get a new suit or overcont in when

never been

In "ploughed" things are bad," he pointed out." examination that he ever sat! has an immediate effect, both on the traveller and on the prospective cus- tomer,"

Most men will 'swear with their hand on their heart that they dis- like wearing anything new, yet they agree that the psychological effect is one of increased self-confidence. If a buyer fixes his eye on a frayed cuff or a loose button when you are- in conversation with him, it is a con- Adent man indeed who will not Im- mediately feel awkward and embar rassed, but what a different atmos- phere there is if the buyer silently appraises or openly admires. Clothes and the Man

Many men are just as interested in clothes as women are, although they may go to great lengths to conceal that interest,

From the buyer's point of view, it

Did You

nny

L. G.

BRIDGE PROBLEM

North +65

30 65 4

+9 0.4

• 042

Wast

◆KQJIO D07

East 32

732 KQ 10

J10087

KQJ #73

South A4

Hearts Club Ten.

VAKQ 10 8

A 5 3

A 52

are trumps. West leads

North and South to make Ten tricks.

Solutions by first post Wednesday to Bridge Problem, "Hongkong Tele- graph", Wyndham Street,

Solution To Last Wooka Problem Dummy takes first trick with heart Ace, declarer discarding a din- mond. Another heart trumped by Spade Ace. Small trump to be over- taken by dummy with one just from Dummy trumped by Spade K. West's. Another heart higher than Three rounds of trumps on the last two of which declarer discurds his two remaining dinmonds leaving the lead a dummy all of whose slx diamonds are now good.-M. L.

Other correct solutions were re- ceived from D.W., 123, "Bridgemad" and XXX.

Ever Wonder Puzzle Corner

+

the waves."

This

Cryptogram MISCRAPLV PL BXIRPVL XHLMIPRG, GXDXHILRIG

SPLJ ESQ

*EXKSEERJSL'

Bathers at benches frequently indulge in a pastime called "jumping sport involves wading out to the NRJJARIG, *KPLJH BSOPIG,

the shoreward- point where

*SBIPFSL FSLLPTSAG, KX- bound waves lean over until they MMRLMXMG, NQVEPRG. cascade in a smother of white foam, the object being to jump up so the head clears the crest of the wave a bare split second

One Word

Can you find the single word before the wave pours forward hidden in the words listed be- low? By way of a hint, it may Not all bathers, however, be said that all the letters in

Is not very complimentary to him if like a waterfall. a traveller calls looking down-at- heel. He is hardly likely to place

out

and business-like. This is even more important if he is a new "prospect" being canvassed to open

an account.

LINE CHAIN HOPE CAP PUN OIL HUE

any confidence in a firm which sends know why it is that waves the word are different. The representatives looking other "break" thus upon reaching the letters have been used in form- than smart

shore. At sea, some distance ing the following words: from shore, waves tend to be broad and low, unless whipped into peaks by a high wind. As the waves approach the shore, they become taller and nar- rower, until at last they tumble booming roar, forward with a

"A traveller's best business card is his own appearance," said my friend. "Many travellers do not reach as for us the principal of the firm because the clerk who takes in their card is not impressed." The buyers uses his clerks as a kind of bodyguard, and anyone who does not impress the first line of defence will simply not

be seen.

one after another.

The reason for this behaviour of the waves is that as they ap proach the shore, the under Not only salesmen need to heed part of the wave drags on the

advice "Look Prosperous." the

Owners of businesses are hardly like-sloping, sandy bottom. This ly to create u good impression of their drag allows the tip of the wave stability unless they are themselves

property blocks, and again such ac-marily dressed, and insist on their to outrun its base until it finally

tion should be legally insisted upon. In one of the recent jewellery rob- beries in London the room above the shop was occupled by a hairdresser, and the burglars had little dimeulty in forcing the door of this room and Loring a hole in the door to allow entrance.to.the.shop_below._

The problem of leaving open windows in houses during the brief absence of the occupiers is rather a dimeult one, as is the habit of most people nowadays of leaving windows

CHESS PROBLEMS

Iliack

Nos. 116-117

Problem No. 118

10 2eces

a high

losen its balance and "breaks."

A

Try

Letter Juggling

more difficult one to-day. forming 2 different 11- letter words from the 11 letters given below. Use all 11 letters in each word:

CDEIINOPRST

How Much Money?

A woman has 20 cents more

representatives keeping to standard of smartness. "Nothing If the slope of the shore is very than she needs to buy 6 novel- succeeds like success." Even if things gradual, the waves will break ties. If these had cost 5 cents are not going well, it is necessary to farther out at sen than if the more, she would have had 45 cents too little to buy 7 novel- drop-off is sudden and steep.

ties. How much money did whe have?

look successful,

The Slippery Slope

Once A

business begins to slip down, people soon get to know and, at maliciously perhaps, but firmiy begin to withdraw their support. If to be scotched, there is not a better

the rumour of Impending failure is

Girl Wins Marbles

Title

San Francisco.

The size of the wave, also, affects-its breaking point. The larger waves begin to feel the effect of the bottom's drag sooner than the small ones; and so, as a general thing, the larger waves break farther from shore

than the little ones.

"DINE" on These!

Although not all of these. words end in syilables that are pronounced "DINE"--they do end with that spelling. Try to Ocean waves are nice play- match each correctly as in-. things on bright, calm summer dicated by the example checked: days, but when storm-driven and mountainous, waves become quite another.

Experts have estimated that the 30 to 50-foot storm waves Betty McAtee, aged 15, of Berkeley; breaking on the coast exert a brought shame to the facer of thousands of boys throughout the pressure of 8,000 pounds per United States by winning the state square foot, Storm waves have marble championship in the 16-year- been known to toss blocks of old class at the Gold Gate Interna- granite weighing 50 to 60 tons tional Exposition. Marble referees declared she packed an accurate tow like pebbles, lifting them as and strong knuckles.

much as 20 feet into the air.

ardine

14) brigandine

E

au berdine

A

Q aordina

naborðins

precious carnES Burushlik, bird

A small fish

like a swallow Kiring andina opa) erumibal mut

Le Fabric

frar. of grape

Hong,voarsa freak

pik op

(Answers on Page 3)

麻

That happy Ovaltine' smile

SN'T he a sturdy little follow? His mother writes:

“John won two first prizes last year and now he has just won another first prize, a silver cup, 80 He has two silver cups to his credit. The doctors who judged the competition remarked on kis excellent teeth and general good health. John has had 'Ovaltino' and 'Ovaltino' Rusks since an early-age,!-

‚ 'Ovaltine' is the perfect food beverage for children. It supplies off the vital food cléments—proteins for healthy muscles and flesh, calcium for strong bones and teeth, nerve-building phosphorous and carbohydrates to give energy and vigour.

And how children love the delicious flavour of 'Ovaltino'. Even those who dislike milk drink It eagerly when "Ovaltine' is added.. "Ovaltino' also has the very great advantage of making the milk to which it is added completely digestible and much more nourishing. Give your children ‘Ovaltine" every day—and note the differencel DISTRIBUTORS: Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.

'OVALTINE' RUSKS for Easy Teething

Delicious 'Ovaltino' Rusks aro crisp enough to provide tho natural biting exercise which crisures easy teething.but they are not too hard for baby to eat and enjoy. Made from the purest unbleached wheaten flour to which "a proportion of 'Ovaltine' is added-Oval-

tino' Rusks contain the notes- sary health-giving and body- building properties.

White

11 Piecer While to play and mate in three. Problem No. 117

10 Pieces

Black

White

J Piecox

White to play and mate in two. SOLUTIONS TO LAST WEEK'S PROBLEMS

Q-RI 1.K

No.

No. 115 1. Q-Qit'

* FAQ (Q) ****

25C114

F-лG (D)

2. QKDP

Acacia

You can safely take your vacation knowing you will be "Right" for any occasion, for Queen Quality Footwear assures you of fashion, and perfect fit.

GORDON'S

HONG KONG Kayamally Building

Queen's Road Central

LTD.

-SINGAPORE

Room 32-5 Kelly & Walsh Bldg.

Page 10Page 11