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SATURDAY, AUGUST

19. 1939.

Girls and Boys' Corner

Name

Addreas

Dear Kiddle,

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This is all my own work

Age

10

Not a Hnny entries this week, kiddles. I was rallier diyappointed bes cause I thought you liked colourlist com- petition zo" well. F have derided award the prizes this week foż

Elizabeth' Geall faced 13). IA Buildings, Kowloon

Ann Patriela Thompson (aged 1812), 130. The Peak,

Peter Heinsoha (aged 31. 8. Kennedy Terface.

Coupons have been sent to Elizabeth, Ann Patriein and Peter which I want them to bring to the "Hongkong Tele tropli“ offres in Wyndham Street. The cotipons wi Chest be exchanged for

excellent

motey prizes,

Specially

fast coretherl colouring work are the follow

Seniors: Paul Vessoo Tinnler, S. Coom, Penny Lee, 7ory G. Anche. Anneliese Chan, Mary Wong. Dorothy Lee.Donald Andrews. Collect Cheong John Anderson, Hameedali el Arcut, Wendy Barton, Sybil Roussent,

Intermediates: Lela Corvisslano, Vera Humlanzeit, Hwang

Chin-hain, Francis Brett, Phoen Suet-ching, Shona McIntyre, Hit Lay, Jatin kamer, Pamela Pass, Claire van Wyllek, Sturley Boyle, S. 8. Flex.

Jimlora: Haymond 14, Patriela Wood, 9. D. Bux, Lora Jidkoff, Junie Quie, Tony Neubronner. Helene Ribeira. David Asche. Gerald Well, P. Wang, John White.

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Coller Chrung: I was worry to hens that you had been Ill for there werkn I do hope you are in the best of health

INDW,

Job, Anderson: Many hoppy returns and congratulations on your 13th birth day when you celebrated on August 7

Rita Lay: A duplicate coupon has been | sent to you.

This week, kudies, we have a pleture ero-word that has to be solved. The four words illustrated by the little plc- hizes have to be nised into the four columns 14 squares lay the ftome, so that with the betters already given they com plete the names of two wild andrinks In ibe pacin neross and saltom.

When the puzzle has bera solved the trang should either be cut out and pasted on the back of a postems, or 11 may be copied on to the end as ynter entry. Fill in the name, nite and address coupon and new to Uncle Fakir, c/o "Hongkong Telegraphy" Wyndham Street. The competilon eluses at 2 p.m. next Wednesday. Three prizes will again be awarded for the best entries in encli age section.

Best of luck, kiddles.

Uncle Exdia

BOOK REVIEWS

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION

Bernard Shaw's Cousin Charles

ERNARD'S BRETHREN is all about George Bernard Bhaw's ancestors and relations. His cousin Charles Macmahon Shaw, retired Melbourne bank-manager and golf club secretary, wrote it up out of romantic whiffs of Scottish, Irish and Australasian history, family gossip, and his own lively memory.

Then, at the shrewd and kindly Instance of the family prodigy, he sent the manuscript along to Whitehall Court. There G.B9: rend and annotated it. Recently, Constable and Co. published it Interleaved with the prodigy's own comments printed in red ink.

By this means G.B.8. hoists his cousin onto his back and no ensures that the world shall buy and read all about the other Shaws.

A superb gesture of family kindness -but, then, G.D.5. la like that, His generosity and practical sympathy I know no end. Any innocent, denevő-

lent "Job Brentes his beaming co operation.

Probably his boundless, loving kind- ness wil cause him to be canonized somewhere about a century hence, to the disgust and alarm of his shade.

Cousin Charles Macmalion, to be candid, is not much of a writer. He la wian enough not to imitate, where he cannot compete with the prodigy. Faint flavours of the authentic and Slavian fart geniality infuse la narrative now and then. The rest, I ww afraid, la just pleasant chit-chat.

"... Many of his plays have been acted on the Melbourne boards, and usually with great success. I have been present on most of these occa sions, and one of the very few good things my relationship has earned mo is the ability to see any of his plays on the nod, the management ap- parently, and to my mind very sensibly, believing that a cousin has every right to see a cousin's plays for nothing, and to bring his fainly with him if he wants to."

That is fair sample. Dit by his Charles Mac- cousin's unnotations, mation Show will now reap a much more substantial "good thing" out of his relationship.

There is no doubt that this book will Fell. Trivial, gossipy, sentimental non» sense of this nort is, after all, very charming.

FRIGIDAIRE

Leads The World

See The 1939 Cold Wall Models

DODWELL & Co., Ltd. Alexandra Building

What G.B.S's

work table Looks like. His notes on the pad are in shorthand,

CHAMBER-

R. NEVILLE LAIN'S pubilshers, Hutchin→ son and Co., must believe that we are all morons, or clse that no one who buys their collection of the Prime Minister's speeches, The Struggle for Peace (83. Od.), will trouble to read it.

One third possibility crosses my mind-that they wish to shatter what remains of the poor man's reputation-but it seems a bit im- probable.

The volume covers the decline of Mr. Chamberlain's reputation as a statesman from his words at the Cax ton Hall neeling, a few days after he supeceded Baldwin, up to his Com- mons.exposition of the Anglo-Polish

Pact.

The whole isastrous corpse of Appensement is here, barrido con. template in its ultimate corruption.

Again And again the Premier declares that small nations must not be encouraged to imagine thint the League or the great Powers will come in arms te nid them if they rest aggression. "Nothing of the kind can expected. drily explains the

be

Premier.

He hates war because it upsets the trade recovery of Big Business on which his hopes are pinned as the salvation of the world. Fascist Blates don't play fair with du P.B.I, and therefore Fascists need to be appeased, and shown that it will be to their obvious advantage if they calm down a bit and engage in Big Business Instead of invading Abysstrils or what-have- you.

Book Window

In

Selence

Progress, edited by George A. Bailsell (Yale Univer

sity Press), contains 10 of the National Sigma Xi lectures de- Rivered in 1937-38, nie of which are in the fields of biology and physiology, with the remaining lecture on the structure of atoms. Ponderous and superacadeinic.

All the Brave, by Luis Quintanilla (Modern Age). Drawings of Spain in war time, with text by Elliot Paul and Jay Allen and a preface by Ernest Hemingway.

Rebels In Art, by George Slocombe (McBride). A discussion of the contributions to modern painting of Cezanne, Renoir, Sisley, Gaugin Van Gogh, Utrillo, Matisse and others of their period, the last third of the nineteenth century in France.

Tuscan Spring, by James Cleugh (Reynol & Hitchcock). A novel about the lie and times of Bolti- celli. Famous figures of the Hallan Renaissance. Drong in the back- ground of this picture of the "golden

nge."

Collected Poems, by Robert Graves (Random House). Poems by the English poet and novelist covering Of late some 23 years of writing. years he has submitted his work for criticism to Laura Riding. Eng- lish obscurantist poet. This has added an opaque qually to have

the later poems.

If Mr. Charaberlain's present policy. is right, everything which this book stands for must be confusion and non- sense. Thest speeches represent the exact opposite of all his present mental

Assumptions. Never events and the pressure of pubile opinion forced a man so to eat and to digest his own words,

You get a great impression of sin. cerity from these speeches. The man speaking absolutely belleves that Com- merce and Peace must rule the world in righteousness, and that Sir Horace Wilson should be their dove.

As you read, you grow sorry for the man who speaks. He has been proved so wrong, so insanely optimistic, and led no fur up, the garden and mocked by the more ndroit. unscrupulous foreigners with whom he had to match his wits.

How much better it would have been If he had stack to municipal affairs in Birmingham. There he was a valuable citizen in his right place.

P.S.-Mr. Chamberlain's honrat wrongheadedness is one thing. The nasty funkcyism with which Mr Arthur Bryant strings the speeches into a book needs to be rend to be believed.

T. D.

Dumping Duty On Motor-Cars

Cape Town.

To protect the motor-car assembl-

ing factories at Port Elizabeth the Government may soon introduce freight dumping duties to offset the advantage which cars imported into the Union enjoy as a result of the present freight war on the direct

between South route

Africa and

America.

The Ford and, General Motors ¡¡undertakings at Port Elizabeth have- uppealed for assistance and there is a possibility of the Government in- troducing this duty at all Union porta on cars, the cheap sea transport of which is threatening the Port Eliza- beth industry.

As a result of the freight war, freight rates on cars from the United States to the Union have dropped from $8 to $6 a lon, crated, and from $10 to $7 ton unerated. In some instances the rates have dropped as low us $4 a ton,

This has resulted, it is contended, In cars shipped infact being landed -- the Union.at prices - which are, so sharply competitive that the Port Elizabeth Industries are asking for protection.

Summer Roads to Gaspe, by Dorothy Childs Hogner (Dutton), A routine account of an automobile comping trip around the Gaspe peninsula with a brief bout trip to Newfound- land and Labrador.

The Old Stone Capitol, by Benja- min F. Shambaugh (State Histor- leal Society of Iowa), commemo- rates the centenary of the founding of the State's first capital in Iowa City, For Iowans at least, it has a defnite historical value.

Australians Physically Fit

CANBERRA, Australia (U.P.)—If Australia ever gets into war again, few men will be able to escape on the grounds of unfitness. The Min- istry for Health hus Just reported that the physical examination of the militia showed only 3.8 per cent un- fit,

Acacia

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PICTURE TRIMMING

TrimmingImproves many pictures. Belact

best part--have it enlarged, with romain- der masked out. Ona ploture may contain many, a akotohes at right show. Expert- ment with your plotures, find composi tion you like best-then enlarge.

HE effectiveness of a picturo often depends on its proportions In relation to the natural composi· tion of tho subject. Snapshots mado with the same comern ara nocomari. ly the same shapo-but that does not mean that the exact proportions produced by the camera are the best

for each picture.

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whole. In that caso, trim out the essential part, and have an enlarge- ment made, using it as a guide. Someilmos a picture will look hot- Generally, a nubject with airong tor if portions on the eldes are horizontal linos, such as an open trimmed away, leaving a long, har landscape, calls for a horizontal plc- row panel. In other cases, a vortical turo. On the other hand, a picture picturo may be improved if it is with strong vertical lines, such as trimmed down to a horizontal shape. a forest scene with tall straight And often, a picturo is best if it is tree-trunks, calls for a vertical pic cut almost square.

turs. Watch this point when you are Don't accept your pictures just taking anapshots. If a subject is best ns they come from the camera. Try suited to a vertieni pleturo, hold tho this. Cut two Legkapod pieces of camera in the vortical "taking" po white cardboard, and use them as altion. Again, it the subject locks movable maaks over your prints. best in a horizontal composition, Move the two Laake about, ex-fiako it that way, With this method cluding various parta of the picture, you will not need to trim your prints and experimenting with different no severely to make them perfect. shapes. You are likely to find one Often, by trimming to a different shapo which is just right for the ant-shape, the whoto atmosphore and Ject. And you may find that thers "fool" of a picture can be changed. are two or three attractive, well- Try and when trimming brings composed pletures in one not-so- aut a really outstanding picture, have an enlargement made so that Food snapshot.

Frequently, you will find that the the picture can be enjoyed in a more "heart" of a picture the real pic- comfortablo, esay-to-view sizo. ture is just a small part of the

John van Guilder

Are You Sure? Answers

Questions on Page 2

Here are the replies to the "What Do You Know" answers on Page 1.

1. A slow dange; 2: felt or perceiveit. 3. Mrs. Gaskell; 4: n clause of a will, 8. A trite remark; 6; a land of cards.

7. A: Arsenal: B: Tottenham Hot- spurs: C: West Ham; D: West Brom- wich Albion.

Produces ar studies maneat wheat; 10: acceptance, docile, nelze. stage, vermilion, territorial.

1. (a) Australia, (b) Japan, (c) Union of South Africa, (d)" Britai and

Franer, (e) New Zealand, 2} Grent Britain.

12. Campion, Dead Sea.

13, (a) Volkischer Benbachter, ahj Papsto d'Italia, (c) Spectator, id)

| Pravda, (e) Oshervatore Romano.

14. (a) George Fox, (b) Jolin Foxe, (c) Charles James Fox,

15 nr Halg of Bemersyde. Duke of Welington, Earl of BeoconsBold, Duke of Marlborough, Lord Nelson of the Nile and Burnham Thorpe, Earl of Oxford and Asquith,

10. James I.

17. a Novel by Disraeli, (b) Dis- triet of County Galway in Ireland, (c) Slate of U.S.Á., (d) Ílighest point in Lancashire,

10. (a) Dollar, (i) Esculos, je) Drachmia, (d) Dollar, (e) Pengo, (†) Gulden (or Florin).

19, Malachi,

20. (a) Child Chetstian martyr born Do Asia Minor, martyred in Rome. Patron saint of children. (b) Twelfth century Bebop of Chartres, (c) Sixth century saint founded monastery in

Provence (4) Toman soldier. Chelatian,

martyred in England, (e) Palestinian soldier In Roman Army, Christian martyr, j1) Joan of Arc, leader of French Army against English in ff- teenth century,

21. Adelaide, Guinevere, Catherine of Braganza, Charlalte Mary, Caro- Tue,

[22. (a) Hungary, (b) Ireland, (c) Poland, (d) Italy (Naples). (e) Scot Jand, (4) England (Cornwall),

23. Glos Sussex, Notta, Warwick, Esacx.

24. 374 (Glasgow Central). 25. Paganin.

Lanta,

20, Turk's Islands. Ascension. 27, Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2. Merry Wives of Windsor.

29. Spoken in your praise.

Puzzle Corner. Answers Cryptogram: The average adult bea ver can cut down n tree a foot and hall in diameter. Beavers are ex- pecially adept at making trees fall in) any direction they desire.

Word Square: Charts, honest, antier, relate, tatae, street.

Letter Changing: Meal, peal, peak, peck, pack, sack.

What Are the Dimensioba7: 20 feet * 10 feet,

Fun With Synonymsi-Pictoriel-gra- phile: obstinate-contrary: trivial-petty: benevolent generous; reverent-devout; spicy peppery; evident - manifest; abundant-plentiful: positive-certain; courteous genteel.

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