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SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1939.

Girls' and Boys' Corner

Kamo

Address

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This is all my own work

Dear Kiddles, Lots of entries again this week, kiddies, and quite a few were correct. As handwriting could not be taken into coli- sideration, in judging the win- ning cutrics, I am awarding the prizes this week to the first cor- reet entries which were opened. The prize-winners this week

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Svend Madsen (aged 1381). 11.

wood Road, Top Floor. Paddy Grimmiti (aged 9), 218. Wanchal Road,

Armando Luz (aged 8), 25, Gran- -ville Road, Kowloon,

Coupons have been sent to Svend, Paddy, and Armando which I want them to bring to the "longkong Telegraphy" offices in Wyndham Street, The coupons will then be exchanged for money prizes.

Specially combrended for excellent work are the following:

Seniors: Joan Wardle, Theresa dn Saza, Paul Vessoona, Joan Gordon, Dick Dedear, Peggy Stend, Frank Langley, Yu Clan-wab, Lione! Houghton, Winifred Lum, Louis Pomeroy, Shella Le Tissier, Lee Koon- jan, Colleen Cheung, Carolina_Cruz, Marie Luz, Chilu Ru-Cheung, Catherine Lai, Myrtle Decker,

Intermediates: Chan Kan-wa, Shirley van Langenberg, Shonn Mc. Intyre, Joan Daniel, S. S, Bux, George Ferries, Gloria Silva, Colette Yalie, Lore Korner, Doris Edwards, Francis

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Wons. Frankie da Luz, Pinky da Silva, Patricia Osmund, Shella Law son, Pamela Minett, Ronald Wood.

Juniors: Ites Law, Alfred Shelit, P. Wong, Betty Mair, Ion Fraser, David Arche, Doreen Houghton, Kwar Chuen

Gloria Kennedy, and Mary Wong: As you only attempted half the com- petition your entries had to be dis- qualified. You were asked to find out the sums of money and then add them together.

The word

Norman Hellovick: shilling was quite easy to find. Take the first then the hill-in-G. Many thought this sum of money was a Huizen.

This week, kiddies, we are going to live an amusing picture and word problem. The puzzle is to it the names of the animals shown into the traine diagonally-that is downwards from left to right.

All the spacec marked are for one name, all the 2's, for another, and so on. Some letters have been tilted in for you already. Thus, P-1-G nts the 1s can you fit the others? If so, 811 in the square and add your name, age and address on the coupon below,

Post to Uncle Edrile, c/o "Hang- kong Telegraph", Wyndham Street, before 2 0.51, on Wednesday. Prizes will be awarded for entries which are correct and the best written.

Good luck, kiddies,

Uncle

Eddie

Che SNAPSHOT GUILD

PICTURING OUTINGS

On an outing, watch for amusing In- aldents, informal moments. Avald stiff, posed shote,

•UMMER plenica and outings are fus-and the fun can list, if you bring back a collection of anapaliota that really tells the story of the day's activition.

Gotting such snapshots isn't dim- cult when you keep your oyes open for Incidents and detalls that truly explain the "what, where, and how” of the plenic.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION

Don't bother with stiff, posed group snapshots, Make "story" pfc- lures, Get a shot of someone coming down the steps with a heavy picnic hampor... putting it in the car... a picture through the windshield showing the picale grove as you ar- rivo. Snap a series of shots which show the spreading of the cloth. the setting out of picklen, cake, aud mndwichesi, .. cutting the cake...tered, random snapshots. And it's no "close-ups" of Individuale munching trouble. Most of the pictures you can away... sports or games after Junch capture when your subjects are "off. ... the girl friend gelling her skirt guard"-not even aware a pictura caught on a barbed-wire fence. If the is being taken. Other pleturen may picnic lasts foto the evening, taxe a require a little posing, but as long iting exposure of the group gathered as you make the picturo show some around the campire, singing or tell-ineldent, something going on, IL ing alaries. They'll have to hold still won't have that milff, "posey" look. for this one, and the camera must bo armly supported on a handy post or uble-but it's worth-while pleture,

When you take a series of "story telling" snapshots along this line, you have something that gives tar more satisfaction thin a few scat-

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Try making a series of related; "story-telling" snapshots on your next plente or holiday outing. You'll quickly decide that's the way all your pictures will be taken da auch occasions in the future,

John van Gullter

LIFE in a Borstal Institution, accord- ing 1 Louis Edward in Borstal Lives Gallez, Ba), is much what you might expect-a mixture of brutality and aspiration, repressloti and futility. Iear, work-dodging and energy wisted in kang rivalries and contests for flower.

It is not a nice book to read, but I

5. F. think it ought to be read.

Puzzle Corner Answers.

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Cryptogram: *This thought had been a lord among wits, but I find he is only a wit among lords."

A Rebus: Plain TIFF (plain- UIT).

Letter Changing: Shop, ship, slip, slid, said, sall, mail; mail.

A Bit of Division: 4 and 28. Fun With Synonyms: Close-re- stricted; lyric-melodie; rebellious)

rlotous; scerel-hidden; alert- vely; careless-heedless; silent- quiet; yielding-plant; observant

attentive; hopeful-sanguine.

Morleyan Courage

Angle

Leliers of Askaner, by Christopher Mor ley. Philadelphia: Lippincott

ARTISTS TELL US that the

Of

Stella Benson

"Portrait of Stolla Benson."

By R. Ellis Roberts, Mac-

millan. 15s,

way to get a true view of anything is to, tilt one's head severely sidewise and gaze at the object with one's eyes half closed. Christopher Morley, in his practice of the art of writ. STELLA BENSON, when ing, does exactly that. He gets she died at the age of 41, at his subject indirectly, with an was already firmly estab- oblique view. Therefore he could lished in the minds of some have found no more appropriate title for a collection of his essays of the best critics as a writer than this he has used for his who had made a notable Intest volume, "Lettera of contribution, not only to the Askance."

fiction of her time, but to English literature.

In these comments or åvowals he may begin with a steam train

As we see her in Mr. Ellia -generally one that goes to "Salamis," Long Island and Roberts' time and original bio- end with "The Prose Works of graphical study, she is one more Alexander Pope," or starting example of genius struggling with a late spring day he may onward she endured the hard- with adversity. From childhood get to Sorokin's "Social and Cultural Dynamics" and Hous-ship of Ill-health and in her man's poems; or maybe it is the search for independence as other way about, with Sorokin woman and an artist she became and Housman giving the es-

a volunteer for other hardships sayist's head the right cant to of all sorts. provide him with a clear image of fleeing spring. Have it as you will, the approach is at an angle, the effect Morleyan and illuminating.

She made her first attempt to escape into liberty when she went to live in Hoxton and work, not entirely to her satisfaction, for the Charity Organisation. Society.

as a wife because she could not be a mother.

Novelist's Marriage.

HER marriage seems also to have been clouded by the feeling that marriage woman artist. She objected to puts too great demands on a being regarded mainly as her husband's wife, and insisted that writing with her must come first. "Life, in fact," she wrote for one's right to create." to him once, "is one long fight And again:

the only thing I cling to in the last resort I must put my writing first, .. I insist on being a writer first and a wife second... It man artist would insist and I inalst. A hundred years hence it will seem absurd that a woman should have to say this, just as it would seem absurd now if we should hear that Mr. William Blake's wife wanted him to take up breeding pigs to help her and he obstinately preferred writing poetry. Apart from that, I insist that I have a right to have a mar- ried life, to be fond of you and be faithful to you, and have you fond of me and faithful (more or less) to me, as long as your feeling war- . I wasn't born to be a wife to anyone, but to be a writer-however I am your wife, and I'm very glad I am; and if only you would realise that I can only be the kinki of wife I am-only secondarily domestic-it would be much better.

It is almost a truism, now

Her discontent with herself that Christopher Morley has had 12 volumes of essays published, and her surroundings then took besides novels, plays, and her to America, where she made poems, to say that he is an a living for a time at "the fan- excavator of recondite and re-tastic business of hill-collecting." warding treasures, an enthusiast.

rants this. After teaching English for n and a precisian. Mentally wing-few months in the University of ed, he can pass in a comma's breadth from the literal to the imagined.

California she travelled to Hong- kong, where she "promptly took a post in a mission school us teacher to a class of Eurasian boys," and soon after that she got a three-months' job at the Rockefeller Institute in Peking.

Things hit him hard. Small things like the sunset caught through a squirrel's tail as it comes down a tree trunk. Once he makes, in all solemnity, a

It was about this time that

Stella Benson, Mr. Roberts · vow-that he is not going to she met her future husband Mr. tells us, left a diary with in- end his days without an honest O'Gorman Anderson. "a curious structions that no one was to rend it till 50 years after her struggle to express his love and and clever twinklebud with an gratitude for the supreme gift untethered eyeglass," who was death; and, no doubt, when it is of having been alive. The es- working in the Chinese Customs, published, it will throw a bright. says called "Goodbye to Spring." Restless, courageous, and ad-light on her self-analytic chur and "Dialogue with a Windventurous, she seems never to acter. and the silvery phrases that tell have felt at home on the earth, how dogwood blossoms look to and it is the stranger in her him are all devout performances of that vow.

no one more

We cannot read a page writ- ten by Morley without being im- pressed with his capacity for en- joying literature of a difficult and clusive kind. At the same time there is tolerant of everyday matters. He is the man who mended a broken rosebud stem with piece of adhesive tape and wrote the essay called "The Chevvy That Hung Her Hend."

stranger often intolerant, not only of others but of herself that gives her work one of its most conspicuous flavours.

friend at whose house in the Mr. Ellis Roberts, a close country she wrote the greater part of "Tobit Transplanted," discrimination and understand- hns written of her with affection, ing. His book is not only narrative of events but a run- and the books in which they ex- ning commentary on her moods

Usually he has kept his inner-pressed themselves. most self to himself. This time There are readers who will he-is-less-oblique-about-himself-find her so self-conscious-at than common. "In a dull, in- times as to be irritating: but stinctive way I guess that my devotion with which she set out even they will admire the heroic strength, if any, is to see analogy in the hazards of every the doom of prostitution in to save Chinese children from day; to divine the endless one- ness and integrality of the whole have thought, would have com- Hongkong. This, one would process of living-brooding,”

mended her to the respectable; but, on the contrary, the respect.

W. K. R.

At the same time I fancy that the portrait that will emerge from it will bear a close re- semblance to the portrait that Mr. Roberts has painted in his distinguished and eloquent proge,

R. L.

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W. Perry (Manual Arts Press, It might be going too far to of U.S.$3.50). This Rhode Island state say that Stella Benson had an supervisor of industrial education unhappy life, for she lived to takes the student through every win the praise of those whose step in producing black prints of praise she thought worth hav quality.

humorist Russeli ing. She was also a Doubleday (Doubleday, Doran, with a heart often gay: She US$1.50). Practical Information was too self-critical, however, about processes and exposures that to be entirely happy. She re- should help many persons to bet- ter pictures.

garded herself as a failure even

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(Questions on Page 2)

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1. Henry

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tree in Call- grapher. fornia.

19. Sapor.

4. The Muse of 20. British Ter-

Dancing.

5. Albania.

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