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1A pavane ts

A slow dance. A device for mine

A blade of a wind

mill.

keeping.

A main man.

palpable

2-Anything which

[can be

Crushed as a drink. Enten with a

Fell or perceived. Used as a medi-

spoon.

etne.

3--"Cranford" was written by:

Mra. Gaskell.

Jane Austen.

George Elliot,

Charles Dickens.

4A codicil ta

A young fish.

A secret cixir.

A mall window, A clause of a

6. A plutitude is

A recumbeni

position.

milf,

A memorial

tablet.

A rare mammal. A trite remark.

0-A yarbarough is

A famous picture. A hand of cards

A klud of a yacht.

A mdt town.

containing no

card orce wine.

7. What are the proper titles of the football clubs with these nick- tanies:-

(c) The Ham1-

Mers

(a) The Gunners

(b) The Spurs

(d) The Thros-

fles

8.-A topographer is a person

who:---

Take

angle phate-

unusual

graplin

Producea Or

atudies maja

Makra topa on a

inthe

Fills in propha

B.-Macaroni is made out of:-

Pith of a plant

Indian corn

Sunflower seeds

Wheat

10-Give the correct spelling of Use following words:-

Acceptence

Sicze

Doulle

Srige

Vermillion Terittoria!

11. Who exercises the mandate these former German Colo-

over nics:-

(a) New Guinea ({} Cameroons f) Marshall (c) Samon

Islands (1) East Africa (c) S.W. Africa 12. Which of these are inlund

reas:-

The Casplan Sea of Azov

Dead Sea

13. With which

connect:-

(a) Hitler

(b) Mussolint

(c) Addison

Red Sca

Sra of Marinora Sargasso Sea newspaper do you

(d) Lenin

(c) The Vatican

Brains

14. What was the name of the:- 1- (a) Founder of the Quakers

(b) Author of

Martyrs"

the

Test

21-Who were the queens of:--

"Book

ot

(a) Czardas

(b) Jig

(c) Leader of the Opposition to the younger Pitt

(c) Mazurka

(d) Tarantella

(e) Reel

[ Floral dance

23-In which counties are the..-) Forest of Dran New Forest Ashdown Forest Forest of Arden Sherwood Forest Epping Forest 24-The largest number of levers Nelson - Mr. in a British railway signal box is:

15. What title was assumed by:--

Dhologics Sir

Arthur Helg--Sir Wellesley-Benjamin DiardeliJohn i Churchill-Herado

Asquith

16. The lion and the unicora en the British arma date from the reign i

of: ****

Elizabeth

Henry VII.

James I.

Conqueror Victoria

William the

George 1.

17. Identify the e

fa) Coningsby

(b) Connemara fet Connecticut

IB-Name

the

( Coniston

Old Man

standard fquoted to the pounds in: --

(a) U.S.A.

the Portugal

fe) Greecr

di China

( Hungary

(1) Helland

258

20

1,000

413

75-4

374

Russian Arctic

expedition is called:

Malaky

23. One of the

Cernin

Kri

Liternor

Papanin Tuchachevsky

SATURDAY, AUGUST 19,

1939.

WHAT'S in

α

NAME?

A HERESY-HUNT against improper names is now tarlo" and "Dynamita"--but name meant "Little" and was

afoot in Spain. The authorities are examining the birth-registers in search of what they regard as un-Chris- tian names given to children in Republican territory dur- ing the Civil War and cancelling them wholesale.

What happens to these names, I wonder, in Inter Ilfo? Iauspect that their bearora almply drop them and become known to their friends as plain "John" and "Mary."

Some of the children affected | Holiday." have already chosen new names in which they have been re- registered; and a number of small girls have reared to be known as "Liberty".

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OTHER names that have been banned-fortun- 26-Which of these islands belong ately enough, perhaps, for their possessors in after life—are "War Flower," "Unification," Unification in and "Harmony."

10 Britain:

Turk's Talenda

Easter Island

Ascension

Manila Hayti Tahiti

21. in which of these Shake (peare Dolaps des Paletuft appeart-

19.What is the name of the last book in the Old Testament?

20.Who were:-

(a) St. Pancrus

(0) St. Ives

(c) St. Giles

d) St. Alban (0) St. George (1) St. Joan

21.--Who were the quees of:--

William IV. Arthur

Grorge III.

William 11.

Charles H.

Grorge V.

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Henry V., Part !

Heor V., Part 2

Henry V

Twelfth Night

Mecatre for Megatire

The Merry Wives of Wondzor 28-If you heard some one was re- ponsible for a eulogy of yourself, you would know he had:--

Cut a silhouette

Taken your fingerprint Spoken in your praiset Made a war image

Imitated your manner Cast your horoscope

Ansurers Appear on Paye j

NEW NOVELS

OBERT TRESSALL, you re amber. made a novel out of Karl Marx's “Cápital.”

Sira. Elspeth luxley has done the same kind of thing with Sir James Frazer and those little Blue Books which come periodically from the Stationery Office to reassure us about our far-flung Empire.

Red Strangere (Chatto and Windus, B. 6d. Is the story of an East African tribe from 1890 until the present day,

I begins a few years before white men (e red-faced strangers) had come with progress and guns and Christianity and trousers and a pecu- A faculty for doing even the right things in the wrong way to transform the place ultimately into modern Nairobi.

Mrs. Huxley's close study of magic rituals and tribal customs makes her book valuable as well as enchantingly interesting She is never indignat or antimental. She just reports vividly. Occasionally permitting herself an ironic aside.

MAKE the hero of your book a wanderer, and there need be no end to it. There very nearly isn't to

Wine of Good Hope (Collins, Us GỊ); it has 482 pages.

Still, they are very good pages. David The Rame writes remarkably well. background of the story is a wine farm on the Cape of Good Hope. The nien in the family which awns It have a curse, a wandering devil in their blood. Bo Jacques Lemaire goes off, treks with ox-wagons, nearly gets drowned i

terrific storm at sea, smuggles diamonds, fights in revolutions, drinks, loves, wandera until ut last he exhausts the curse, and comes back to the land and the girl he left behind kim.

This is a vivid, exciting book with a lot of wisdom in it here and there.

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ALDYTH WILLIAMS in Rue with

A Difference (Gollancz, 78. Od.) describes an English country village with affectionate and slightly mocking detalt.

The action revolves round a perform- ance of "Hamlet" by the villagers. A strange parallel netivity is set up when the characters And that their parts in the play are following them into their private lives.

a fine ideal, but I confess, IC I were a girl, I should prefer to be called something else.

children names like "Prole thappy by the discovery that his were afterwards compelled to haunted by the fear that ho alter them-were doing all that would never grow to full stature. men and

could do to He grew to respectable propor- turn their young into propa- tions, none the less, and is now ganda for their political ideals. a fine figure of a man,

women

It cannot be that if you call a man Algernon, which means "Whiskers." he will inevitably in after life become a notorious whisker-wearer.

At the same time it must be admitted that very few people with freakish names have be- and men

women of

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some time ago warned parents against giving names to their children that might after- The French, it is sald, already wards spoil their lives. These however, names, tako precautions against the life-spoiling

were not names of the frenkish come beatownl of ridiculous names on the holpless young. No French sort, but names that seem per-genius. It is just possible that Jane Austen might have been parents would be permitted to feetly harmless, such as Re- give their son or daughter aginald, Percy, Hector, Horace, hampered if her parents had name like "Bank Holiday." In Aloysius, Daisy, Violet, Rose France, there is an offleinl list of and Patience. names—a long one-from which the parent must choose in nam- hug his infant.

called her "Unification" and that Christina Rossetti, if she had received the name "War Flower" in baptism, might not have been inspired to write

According to the psychologist, names like these might lead to "unpleasant Hocial grievances." | great versc. There have been no similar It may be ao in Amerien, but it

This cannot quite be believed, ensus of interference with the certainly is not so in England.but the facts certainly suggest Reginalds and Percles do not liberty of parents in England.

look as if they had any particu- that parents who are anxious to take no chances should avoid Some Puritan names, like lar grievance against life, nor

children, from that of Mr. Praise-God Bere-do the Violets and Roses show giving their

Whatever idealistic motives, bone, were probably not given any traces of an Inferority freakish names. In baptism, but must have been complex. adopted in later life, like the namien assumed by the Negro Father Divine's followers in America to-day-names such as call-Trust Love and Live," "Honest Consolation" and "Sincere Smile,"

It is interesting to find the Totalitarian States attaching so much importance to names. It was only recently that Gorman parents were forbidden to give their daughtera - such · babyish names as Dodo, Vili and Mimi; and even in Russia thore is a five-year ban on the use of the name "Josef" for any more boys, as nearly half-a-million young Russians have already been ed after their lender.

I has been urged that it would not be a bad thing to have a censorship of names in England, not for any political purpose, but in order to save children from having to go through life with such freakish names as "Pretoria" and "Mafe- king."

One English child, it is said, was even christened "Bank

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It is commou enough among children, to wish that their parents had called them some- thing else, but as they grow up most of them get rather to like their names. Many could go through life perfectly cheerful-

"Obviously, people who give

Six British Ships Sold To Reich

ĶIGURES pubished in Innsborg

show that during the first six months of 1939 German shipping firms bought six ships from British Ines with a total tonnoge of 53,710 lons. During the same period British owners sold 65 ships to foreign flags. Germany also acquired, in addition to six British ships, 10 ships "second- will in-hand" from foreign owners. These vessels total 86,109 Lors, so that the tonnage acquired from abroad by the Relch during the six months under review was 139,819 tons.

It must be said for peoplely as Aloysius. who give or take extraordinary least they take names seriously. their children names of this sort They do not simply follow the have a mystical belief in the fashion, calling daughter magic power of names, and "Gladys" or "Jane" according to hope that the name the prevailing taste of the hour.fluence the child's destiny. If a man has his son christened "Union Jack" he has asserted a principle and to all intents and purposes painted the boy red, white and blue for life,

Similarly those pre-Fascist Italian parents who gave their

In Hamburg shipping circles it is BUT was anyone's destiny

stated that these purchases are made ever affected by his

necessary by the total employment of name? A friend of this writer

German shipyards, which are work- confesses named Paul

that, ing overtime to produce war vessels when a child, he was made un-and merchant ships for sale abroad,

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What Are the Dimensions? The area of a rectangle is 800 ABC ZXCYZDC ZEFGA HC-

square feet. If the length and ZXCY IZJ IFA EKLJ Z AYCC Zwidth of the rectangle are ench NKKA ZJE Z BZGN OJ EOZP- increased by 20 per cent., the CACY. 'HCZXCYQ ZYC CQR-aren will be increased by 44 per CIOZGGS ZECRA ZA PZWOJD cent. What are the dimensions AYCCQ NZGG OJ ZJŠ DOYCI- of the rectangle? AOKI ABCS ECQOYC,

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

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Fun With Synonyms Ten words and their synonyms to be paired off as in- dicated by the example checked:

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LOTOUR plentiful

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trivial

4

benevolant

5

reverent

contrary

6

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pally

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peppery

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positive

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Letter Changing Following the usual rules,

A LAY SERMON

HE prophecy to which

These words relate is

apocalyptic; it is that of a great restoration of God's people, accompanied by the overthrow of nations which have spoiled them. It is to be accomplished not by might, nor by power ("not by fight- Ing, not by force" is Moffatt's rendering), but by the opera- Not by might,

tion of the Holy nor by power

Spirit. Zechariah, iv., 4. Does it sound incredible? The Divine reply to any such doubt is in chapter viil., verse 6. In the sight of the present-day remnant of My people it may

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scem impossible, says Lord, but does that mean that. it is impossible in Mine? And there, of course, we have an utterance which, according to our faith, means either nothing or everything. Do we, or do we not, believe that Cod, with- out armaments, is able to change the current of human affairs?

To a world which had not lost its reason as well as its faith one thing at least would be perfectly clear. Its condi- tion to-day is the outcome of spiritual degeneration. Wat is no cure for that: you cannot cure madness by murder. The one cure for spiritual degenera- tion is spiritual regenerátion.

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