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*A LAY SERMON

PRAYER would be a different

thing for some of us if we did not O often forget that Christ

advocate. IL

• would be for easler, far more confident, for more naturni f

-we thought of ourselves not as plending before our Judge, bait as pincing ourselves in the hands of our Counsel.

Sometimes we pray, in private well no in

We have

advocate,

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the court

public, us if the answer 10 petitions de- pended

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bur powers of night address like that, but we

should nut attempt Buch speeches l counsel's chambers, We should simply tell him all the facts and leave him to confurt the case.

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Inkes The ship-captain pilot aboard and entrusts the havigation to him. The alck man rends for a specialist and hands over to him his life. Our Pilot, our Great Physlelan, Is also our Advocate, and in that capacity is entitled to ex- peet from us the stone seil- relinqufchalg frust. If any man sin, as St. John puts it, he has One to lend his caurd. And this can be said of Jesus our counsel, that He has pever lost a case.

PUZZLE CORNER

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SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1939.

A SNOB of Course Your Know, But Are You Sure?

WOULDN'T be honest if I didn't; drink the champagne which she is admit that it's not only very easy, foul enough to provide. but also quite fun to be a anob, That, ey declare, in her funeral

If

it weren't, then there wouldn't be so many snobs us there are of one kind or another.

What's more, I'll lay ten to one that you, whoever you are reading this article, are a snob about some ining. I won't even exonerate my self now that I come to think about It.

snob in that I I consider myself don't suffer fools gladly, and quite deliberately select intelligent people may with whom to spend my time. declare that this is not true snobbish

the ness, since I genuinely enjoy minds of these people and do not merely collect them for the pleasure of being seen in their company by others not so fortunate,

I feel, though, that this would not be altogether bonest. an inclined to be a snob about Interesting, witty and elever people. Though may 1 in water and mud together. How never be seen by another as I saw the hostess of the party to which 1 went a few evenings ago.

Here's proof that it's the little deep was the mud? things that count:

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Word Square Definitions are given below for words which are to be filled in. and which read the same both across and down:

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1. To get away, 2. Common in kitchens. 3. Secret. 4. A broad Street. 5. To survey. 6. Appraise.

Letter Changing Following the usual rules, try changing OIL to GAS in moves.

How Deep?

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A surveyor was testing the depth of water and mud in a pond with an 18-foot pole. He found that his pole was twice as deep in water as it was in mud, and twice as much above both as

More words and their tonyms to-day:

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Fishermen Indignant

FISHERMEN at Folkestone are indignant at the corporation's action to take possession of premises at the fish market that have been used to store nets and other gear.

Recently workmen knocked dowa windwork enclosing the stores, leaving gear valued at more than £300 un- protected from the adjoining publie footpath.

a. Suurders, with is interested

in two local dishing boats, was re- rently removing gear for storage in ni Istroom at his home.

The building was turned into stores

by the council when other premises were demolished In connection with

provement scheme.

The clever people were there all right. any number of them. There were also a great many who weren't so clever but who thought that they were because of the altitude of their hostess.

And, if you're honest, the answer is bound to be, "Well-not that much fun." You'll find that when you're

If it really nimuses her just to be in a dx of any kind you turn to

cut) is as good as I think it ought to be, the possible 60 should be the rule rather than the exception this week.

ous ones do:-

Nest In ireen; lay eggs elvo birth to Uving young from the body; die only when the sun scis; haunt dipsomaniacs,

able to say that she knows them, then people, not to callings or social posi-F your LQ. (intelligence quoti- snakes, you tell me what shé ovipar- they're quite ready to oblige-al|tions. And if you're a real snob- their price.

which I very much doubt you'll And this price is the disgusting find that there's nothing to fall back price of the vicious anob-circle. The upon but a handful of claims to snob herself carne the humillating famet reward of being laughed at by those whom she is snobbish about. And Which is all boiling down to the these, in their turn, let themselves Anal point that to let snobbery net n hold on you is to face the sea of life down by being party to series with no more than it fistful of fancy meanest little bargain on earth.

straws.

The nouveau-riche who toady to ltles are pretty pitiable-but the titled ones who accept the toadying for what they can get in return, are despleable.

The snobs, as I said, do get a cer- tain amount of fun, even if it is of a warped kind. All of which, you say, doesn't apply to you. Well, it may not, but all the same I'll still lay ten to one that it does, however slightly, tr's Only Human

a young

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A great friend of mine had her te wrecked by a snobbish mother

who wanted her to marry a mur- quess. She fell in love with a young and was immediately Journalist, carted off abroad in order that she might forget the meaning of happi- ness and learn that of the snob-cult. She is not a strong-minded girl, and he was iterally badgered into inak ing a half-baked marriage with the third son of a fairly new Buron.

It's pleasant, you must admit, to The Good Maich be seen about with clever or other- wise exalled people. Deny it if you You have only to open your news- ean that your nose will likt a mill-paper to read about the abnost week- metre or two higher when you collectly-tendency of American heiresses to

with a red

and buy themselves European princelings chromium sports Cor. And how and subsequent tendency, equally about that visual acquaintance who frequent, for these miserable traves The entire party was little more suddenly becomes distinguished by thex of marriage to increase the than a mutual admiration sucfety and talking shop, a company of cleversong on the stage or writing a best-wreckage of Reno,

selle-won't you all of a sudden fini The snob-matriage is not confined and elever-elevers assembled at the

close to millionairesses and the Balkan invitation of a woman who hadn't the yourself claiming her as a

friend?

elite-it's all over the place in every least idea of what any of them were

walk of life) and it's nine times out talking about.

of ten the doing of a snob-mother who preaches the pernicious doctrine of good match."

The answer is that you wouldn't be human if you weren't a bit of a snob. And the problem is to know just when, and where to stop.

In fact, the only idea in her head was post-dated by about twenty-four hours. She wasn't enjoying her

It's so easy to find yourself bask- Neither a match nor a friendship party very much, but the following

ing in reflected glory and thinking is good unless there is the love and day she was going to enjoy enyourself no end of a fine person. The affection of rent people to forge It, mously boasting about the eminent

pilure of

satellites Nothing is worth cultivating unless it sycophantie wits and intelleels who had fore-

who gathered reimd some

a commands genuine affection, pleasure gathered at her hearth.-

clever, or rich, or fanous, or titled Is or appreciation in the cultivator. not a pretty one. You'd be among I like elever people, but don't give the first to rut.demn it—yet are you a hang whether I'm seen about with

them or not. On the other hand, altogether blameless!

like staying in crofters' coltages in the Scoftish Highlands, and the only time I ever went to Deauville I had flet like a scalded out in forty-eight

Willing to Oblign

This woman is a true snob. She collects geniuses. Like wealthy ignoramus who pays thousands for Old Masters which he wouldn't know from reproductions stress, he were told, she pays up for her snob-sho

The geniuses, mortover, despise her and laugh at her behind her back, Being cynically-minded, however, like a great many geniuses, they are perfectly ready to eat the caviare and

Musical Notes

THE Covent Garden Opera Six months ago nolice was given to) Season which ended recent- quit, but tenants understood the cor-ly has by all accounts been one poration would provide new stores of the most difficult seasons to before enforcing the order."

arrange since 1919,

PALE, ‘NERVY'

NORMAN

HOW TALK HORMAN LOOKS RESIDE YOUR JOHN AND

{ SIMPLY CAN'T GET HIM

TO EAT PROPERLY. I'M

GETTING

WORRIED!

Norman's mother was worried- very worried about him. He was 'nervy,' pale and highly-strung. Ho tired easily and was finicky over food, unt!!

NORMAN'S A 'NERVY, HIGHLY STRUNG CHILD MARY IF YOU'RE WORRIED, YOU SHOULD TAKE HIM

TO SELA

DOCTOR...

ALL THERE TROUBLES OF

NORMAN'S CAN DE TRACED BACK

TO HIGHT STARVATION, MRS.

KNOTT. YOU SEE,

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HEARTBEATS AND BREATHING AT NIGHT ALSO UKE OF ENERGY, IF ENERGY IGHT REPLACED DURING SLEEP OF COURSE

NORMAN GETS NERVY, 'FADDY AND DIFFICULT. HE NEEDS HORLICKS

FOR THAT

SIN MACKR LATER |

NO VALENESS OR

TIREDNESS ABOUT

NORMAN NOW!

NO-AND HE BATE LIKE A WOLF SINCE DOCTOR FUT SHBA ON TO MOSLICKS

If your child is pale, nervy, tires easily, if he is fussy over his food, remember what the doctor said. Guard your child ngainst Night Starvation-give him his Horlicks at bedtime Horlicks is best when made with the special tloriicka inixer, oblammable, as all good stores.

at bedtime bullds appetite, and

HORL

ORLICKS strongthens norves, by guarding

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chlidren against Night Starvation

To have carried the season through hus been a hazardous task, so inter- mingled nowadays are polities and music. Until the last moment I was not certain that there would be any sson at all. It is not to be won- dered at tint the bookings were be- low the average,

However, once it. twice shy; the 1940 season is afrendy announced 13 months before-hand. Hope springs eternal in Bie human breast and fe is going to be worth living for-the "Opera"enthusiasts.

This season has been memorable for the magnificent playing of the Londen Mulharınonic Orchestra, Thnt organisation has been hero, heroine, villain and divinily of every per- formance.

Then the conductors, headed by Weingartner whose interpretation of "Parsifal" will, I think, not easily be forgotten by those fortunate enough to have heard it. Sir Thomas Beecham's broad, symphonic freat- ment of the music of "The Ring“, bas left equally persistent memories' and "Turandot" under Constant Lumbert was another refreshing experience.

And then the singers. Of then I recall 1wn with special pleasure and gratitude. Firstly the French so- prano Germaine Lubin, one of the most perfret Isoldes it has ever been my good fortune to hear and to see.

Secondly, Richard Thuber. His Don Ottavio In Mozart's "Don Giovanni" will have surprised those like myself for whom this charming singer was little more than an idol of the concert halls. We now know || better. Tauber made that rather ineffectual Bgure of Ottavio into something of great dignity and pathos,

One was left with the Impression not of a noted singer with an Im- mense world reputation but of a refined and subtle artist. It was a revelation both of the pit and of the man who played it.

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If the future of these summer seasons of opera al Convent Garden depends on the type of attdlence attracted to them, then the omens are not favourable. I say that when I recall the Inst night of this season.

Sir Thomas Beecham, having

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Take two points time. If you score less than 38, you're wrong! 11-A little more natural history. somewhere, If you score more than This time the beaver. Not the one

50 you're still wrong-mitaculously with whiskers, but the che that wrong. The age of miracles is past, chews down trees and is Canada's 1-A dottle is all right in its place emblem or something. The beaver if you know where its place is. The as a tall which is:- correct pince for a dottle is:-

Short and alry; Bal and broad; slender and curlins; mar- relled at the tip,

In a bottle; on the saloon bar shelf in a pipe; down the cellar; In a mental home. 2.--Don't go down in

mine 12 hope you history experts Daddy to prove I'm wrong when I don't boggle over this. The battle- declare positively that the eage in a Beld of Waterloo, where Napoleon

gol his. Is in- colllery is:-

the

The truck for hauling coal: the gadget which cuts the coal at the face; the 19f4; the contrap- tion they keep the horses in when they aren't working.

3. Enough of industry for the once. All devotees of that thrilling sport, chess, know, that the number of squares on a chess board in:

24: 48: 69: 72: 04. 4-This "Amen” at the end of hymns and prayers means:-

The end; Goodbye; Thanks to Jehovah; Praise be to Heaven; To be continued; So.be it; Let Hi be; See you on Sunday, 5-When you get home from the party and the wife says: "Iley, you say pick a peek of pickled pepper- curns," you can get over it by say ing it would be all the same if you picked

† 16; 12 oz.; one ton; 2 gallons; 4 bushels; a couple of ewi. 6. My doctor tells me he finds his gastroscope a mast useful gadget in these days. Of course, he uses it

for:

Have you never judged a person by what he has or does rather than by what he is? If you can truth- fully say "never?" then this doesn't concern you, and you may as well go hours. straight off and arder your halo. But Are you in danger of hanging if you find yourself pondering, “Well, round in an ephemeral Deauville of it is fun knowing as actress." then the social sense? If so-run. Fala it might be as well to start Winklog] if truth be known, it's despising you. just in much fun it really is.

Charles Gordon

CHECK THAT QUOTATION!

Testing blood-pressure; view- Ing the interior of the stomach; softening removing splinters; hard arteries;

fees Extracting

France, Holland. Luxemburg: Belgium; Alsace-Lorraine; Ger-

many.

13. The simple country lads and lasses can take this one as read. It's for the city slickers to tell me that

n fellee Is:-

A plaugh handle: a segment of a wheel rimit a thingummy for Sowing corn; the migrant cow-

hand.

14-The Empress of Australia, which took the King and Queen to Canada, has had an interesting his- tory. One thel about her is that she wast-

A famous hospital ship; mined for the English Channel; an Auxilary cruiser: a pre-war

German liver.

15. In case you have forgotten. The Prime Minister of Great Britain

ad was immediately before Neville Chamber-

Duff-Cooper; Eden: Halifax: Baldwin: Ramsay MacDonald; Winston Churchi, 10-When a submarine submerges it is propelled by: ».

the

Steam: petrol; crude oil; etre- irle molors: Its own volition, 17. Easily the longest distance in-

from unwilling patients. scusitive over some things, so that dieated in this list of measures is 7.—Murgatroyd, that carnest soul,

when I hated him-"Hey, gaffer!”— he took mortat hurt. Because every- body knows-ur do they?—hat guffer

Gilded

youth: old inan: chroale febriate; gangster; Just plain silly.

Last time the troops were on

Fathom: cubit: mile; league; red: metre: ell

WE all know that it is a little learn who read it to hasten with all posst-parade, with flags and drums advice, find buy it at the

ing-not knowledge that is a dangerous thing. But, whilst severe- ly admonishing the ponr wretch who happens to mangle this particular saying, are we sure that we our- selves are never guilty of similar in- accuracies?

How many of us talk of money be- init the "reat of all evil finden. tally remarking that we shouldn't mind having a bit of the root)? Turn up the reference and you will find that it is the "love of money" that is condemned-quilte a different thing, money itself being recognised as quite innocuous and indeed very useful,

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Anything that is obvious is often said to be so plain that "he that runs may read." The actual text is just "That he may run that the reverse. readeth It":"meaning that the mes suge is so startling as to cause all

BRIDGE PROBLEM

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South lends, to win all

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

SOLUTION TO LAST WEEK'S PROBLEM

North wins the first trick with the ace of spades. North feads a trump (heart), which South wins with the eurd necessary to beat East's play. South leads diamond eight, whleh North wins. Another trump lead from North and South wins two trump trieks, West discarding a space on the second South leads an other diamond, which North wins.

also wins with

North leads the ten of clubs, which the king. South also wins with the king of spades, on which North discords the seven of clubs.

brought to a moving conclusion one Another upade lead is

ruffed by

of the hest performancea of North, North now lends his tast "Tristan", he has ever given to my trump. on which South discards hle knowledge, came before the curtain and gave what I heard a member of the audience call "one of hila speeches." He said in effect thai there never was and never will be a public for the fine arts. Upon which the whole audience tittered loudly and hysterically,

If that is the way a Covent Gar- den audience treats a considered pronouncement of this nature.

Ulamond. East must discard » club, and West also must discard a club as he cannot unguard his diamonds. North leads his ace of diamonds, and East has to choose between throwing his spade or unguarding his clubs. Whichever he throws South discardis the reverse, and South wins elther two clubs or a club and a spade,

Some variations of the order of the

heaven help Covent Garden, Or is lends bring about the same squeeze

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It that whenever this brilliant play. Correct solutions from: Mrs. speaker opens his mouth we all feel R. C. "Bulbul," T.S.MCC., we are expected to giggle?

W.J.S.

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"To escape by the skin of one's teeth" is now proverbial for a very narrow escape. The expression used, however, is with the skin of my teeth," that is, with scarcely nny- thing but my bare life, as will be found by turning up the context,

Anyone who is unduly censorious is frequently adjured to "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone." This, although substantially correct, is not literally accurate, as the words used are "first

stune."

cast

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Kuns and things, I looked for officers wearing mufti. It was wasled effort, but I didn't know then that mufti means:

Buckler and mace; helm and large; shining armour; elvijlan clothes; kilt and sporran.

Probably you raise a few hens In the backyard. 'I bet you'd be

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surprised and annoyed, too, maybe, you found one of these in the

Plymouth Rock; Poland China: Wyandotte: Minorca:

Rhode Island Red; Australorp.

10.Some snakes are oviparous,

10. Your wife-you know how I is with wives-might one day ask you to bring home some picot edging. Take an experienced shopper's

Hardware sture; draper's; hotel; butcher's;

florist'; greengrocer's. 19. During their visit to the United States the King and Queen enlled at the capital of New York State, which 13

Washington; Manhaltan; New York; the Bronx; Albany.

-One man the King and Queen

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met in New York is Grover Whalen, because he is

Mayor of New York: Speaker of the House of Representatives; President of the World Fair: Governor of New York State. 21" remember, I remember, The others Arc viviparous. Some arehouse where I was born, The little "A miss is as good as a mile" is venomous, others aren't. They gen window where the Sun ." and absolutely meaningless. Change it to crally make poor companions. Now so on, was written by:-

miss by an inch is as good as a that I've told you all I know about

miss by a mile" and it becomes quite

sense. Kood

Hood: Wordsworth; Long- Pellow; Shelley: Keats; Cowper. 22. This new craze of hydroponics a-getting- everybody-in.-- Actually-it-

In-some-cases-the-words-ure-cor- rectly quoted, but in a sense directly! opposite to that intended by the absolutely without meaning. originator of the saying. Even well-

As generally used, the saying is Is

rend persons are guilty of saying of A winess, who thinks he is being a custom that has fallen into disuse led to make a dangerous admission. in the ny say:

"Ah! You can't catch me.

that "it is more honoured

Far from implying that the custom of "keeping Wassail" had been dis- continued, he goes on to say:

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foollah

A Chinese

checker-game; a type of ico hockey growing plants In Д nutrient solution: water polo played In Warm water,

Barometer; pedometer; klie- meter; thermometer: gasometer. 24-I'm absolutely wasting em this week. You should be ashamed after all that has happened. If you don't know now that the largest city in Chada

breach than in the observance." In vathy is the snare set in sight of } But, as the context clearly indicates, the bird! And, probably, in his negented differently from the rest. 23. Of these words only one is Hamlet meant that the custom (of over-confidence, he exemplites the That one Is "keeping wassall" on famous occa- sions, such as a royal birthday) was gives himself away, like

true meaning of the proverb, and better "honoured by being ignored bird that walks into u

soare, al- than by being observed.

though it has seen it being sell

"Stuming" during a cold is often Justified by quoting the admonition, Feed a cold and starve a fever This means, "Feed a cold and you will have to starve a fever." That cold, will intensify it to such an ex- Is, the feeding, instead of curing the

They elepe us drunkards, and tion will be urgently necessary. with swinish phrase,

"The heavy-headed revel, east and wost,

Makes us tradue'd and tax'd of other nations;

Soil our addition."

tent as to cause fever, when starva-

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Quehev

Montreal; Ottawa: Toronto: Kingston,

monarch occupies the throne of

25.-Europe's youngest reigning

Belgium; Holland: Rumania; Jugoslavia: Bulgaria; Sweden,

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