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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END

Why Has Invented

SECTION

No

One

These?

"If you want to make ninetached which snippe moff a milli- An ever-going clock worked by

clianges in temperature or atmospheric pressure.

Some of these fileas were in E booklet called listed

"What's Wanted" published by the Institute of Patentees about six years ago.. They all seom fairly simple. Most of them Why ⚫on would make money. earth hasn't someone invented them?

money the mini-metre of hair every morning. mum of effort, your best way is From the kitchen two bell- by inventing something," said a tinkles announced that the patent agent who is a friend of | breakfast tea-kettle hnd boiled mine. "But it must be some and switched off and that the simple gadget which the ordin-egge had had exactly three ary man will buy in millions. minutes before the water ran

what do For instance,

you itself off. Want?"

The breakfast table could not wobble on the rather uneven tile floor because of the screw cach leg. length-adjusters on

a holder for the

My patent agent went on to There was paper, hollows for salt, mustard the more complex ideas. What and pepper on the plates, ad-about an attachment to pillar- justable egg-cups, non-spill milk boxes which would weigh let- Vacuum dishesters, Indicate the postage needed jug and teapot. kept porridge and bacon burning and then frank the letters when a hearty dream | coins were dropped in a slot? hot tit was

(What about penny atamps breakfast).

which divided into two half- penny units?)

That night I dreamed. In my dream I had just woken up After a perfect night's rest, Patent fastenings had kept bed. clothes and clusive eiderdown in place, had held the sheet-top nently folded over the neck sawing blanket. My "hot-water bottle warmed by some chemi- cal action-had held the same temperature all night. Elastic pyjamas had appeased every 'twist and turn,

The after-breakfast cigarette- end went out instantly in the special tray, but would not have Anburned furniture, carpet or chair coverings if I'd left it about carelessly,

When the alarm went, the bedside lamp glowed on. electric gadget connected to it had turned on the kettle sonic minutes before and boiling The morning doorbell ringing water was now pouring into the had lost most of its sting- tea-pot. And already the room thanks to the panel of "one- warming up (it was away" glass which enabled one winter dream caused by typical to see without being seen. summer weather) thanks to the electric heaters switched on by the alarm twenty minutes ago.

Was

And even the telephone didn't have to be answered, because it clocked up the numbers of the people who had rung.

Then, as the story-tellers say

The bath had only one tap, I woke up. fitted with a temperature dial

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The camera enthusiast would!

a simple attachment welcome which adjusted lens aperture and exposure infallibly and with one movement. Surely some way of recording phone mes- sages when no one was there to An take them could be devised. infallible anti-dazzle device

fortume. So would make would a really cheap refrigera- for demanding neither gas Nor electricity. So would a way of silencing aircraft.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1939.

Do You Believe This?

IF

[F I were asked to provide a test, not for the intelli- gence but for common sense, I should ask the following questions:

DO YOU BELIEVE...

(1) That barbers are talkative? (2) That women are bad tip-

рега?

(3) That whlaky taken with violent oysters produces stomach pains and even death? (4) That

diphtherin? (5) That "Pellens et Melisande" was composed by Střavin- sky?

sewer HILS

chubes

(0) That Stovisky was a musi-

cian?

(7) That whales are mummals?.

Ellis Bell (8) That

wrote Wuthering Heights"? (9) Thut sali. to bring out Bavour, must be introduced early in cooking? (10) That sleeping in moonlight

produers madness?

(11) That 13 is an unlucky num-

bert.

(12) That you can invent a sys-

tom to break the bank? (13) That cela are alive weben they jump in the pan? (14) That pinprick is more needle- dangerous than a prick? (15) That Tennyson wrote "Hia-

watha"?

(18) That S. T. Coleridge wrote

the music"

(17) That Gludstone said any- thing worth remembering In 18207

By G. W. Stonier

(10) That

(18) That people rode in han- soments to avoid the dan- ger of smallpox?

Christianity teacher. Br Just to your enemies and kind to your friends? (20) That Lincoln's Inn Fields la larger than the base of the

Great Pyramid? (21) That Goldsmith sald: "I can

talk more

more easily in London than anywhere else" (22) That it bad to sleep with

flowers in the room?

(23) Thai brushing the teeth prevents dental decay? (24) That quarter-day is always

on a Monday? (25) Thai the

teeth?

sea-horse

(37) That Show once had n ginger beard and rea blcycle?

(38) That Stevenson once rode a

donkey?

(39) That the donkey was called

Modesty?

(40) That a slesta in a divan? (41) That

o divan is a prana donna?

(42) That Telchov wrote “An-

najanaka"?

(43) That the heart is on the

Jeft

side of the chest? (44) That

league called the "Antikatzvercin

wns form- ed in Westphaila for the destruction

cals? (45) That Eleonorn Duse was a

great Halian actress?

huntsmen shout "So- (46) That

ho"?

(47) That funambullsan is sleep-

walking?

(48) That the

bras

(48)

(24) That white is R entour of

the rainbow?

(27) That gouache' is Hungarium

stew?

(28) That mockturtle is fish? (29) That sound travels quicker

than light?

(30) That Č. B. Cochran is a

knight?

(31) That an apple-pie bed is

made of apples? (32) That sweetiepie is a sweet! (33) That the Angers of a smoker

are discoloured by sientine? (39) That a man who falls out of a six-storey window is dead before he reaches thr ground?

sculpted

wrote

Banstein (35) That

Rima? (36) That Shakespeare

"What you will"?

hair Can torn while overnight from fear? That Earl Gray is the name of a tobacco" (50) That the Dong was a char- neter in "Alice Through the Looking Glas"7

ANSWERS

(1) No: (2) Yes: (3) No; (4) No: (5) No; (6) No; (7) Yes; (8) Yes; (9) Yes; (10) No; (11) No: (12) No; (13) Na; (14) No; (15) No; (18) No; (17) No; (10) Yes; (18) No: (20) No; (21) No; (22) No: (23) No (24) No; (25) No; (28) No; (27) No; (28) No: (2

(29) No: (30) No (31) No

(32) No (43) No: (34) No: (35) No; (38) Yes; (37) Yes; (38) Yes; (36) No; (40) No; (41) No; (42) No: (43) No: (44) Yes; (45) No; (46) Yest (47) No; (48) No; (19) No; (50) No.

Did You Ever Wonder Puzzle Corner

Latest Music

Three Choirs Festival

Twhich is to take place this

month at Hereford is no ar- ranged as to give one the op- portunity of hearing not only accepted masterpieces but also the latest compositions of Eng- Hah and foreign musicians,

This year no new foreign works Bre announced but three by English composers will be performed for the first time. Two of these have reach- ed nie.

The mare ambitious is "Que Vadis?" by Dr. George Dyson, Diree- tor of the Royal College of Music. This is full-sized cantata for four Rolo voices, chorus and orchestra (Novella, 4s.).

(15

It is only the first part of what is evidently designed to be a work on

the something of

Rome senle Elggr's unfinished trilogy which bes gan" with "The Apostles," continued as far as "The Kingdom" and there ended without its Anul part, "The Last Judgment."

Dyson's works

appear regularly at these Festivals and one wonders whether he may not be in the run- ning for the place in the affections of the Three Choirs unce filled by Elgar. "Quo Vadis?" is setting- of five poems from various sources. Such a choice of words show a inquiring mind and much iterary intelligence. Many of the lines are In fact resplendent poetry, 20 flue that they seem hardly to need music. Without having heard the work fat which point only it can be tested) the music seems skilful, at times impressive and often beautiful.

The other new work is an Elegy for soprano and bass solo, chorus My patent agent friend was

and orchestra to the memory of E- word Elgar (Novelbo, 28.1. The which automatically mixed hot | quité pleased with the dream

composer is Alexundeć Breit Smith and cold in the right propor-¦ and said there was a pretty "But it's the simple, obvious

and the words are from the Scrip- tions.

penny to be made from some of, inventions which make the vast

tures. the gadgets and then went on fortunes," said my friend. "For

It is courageous to have challenged to list a few other simple de-instance the man who developed

en his own ground in setting are they who die in the vices which people want but barbed wire to discourage his

Both stars and planets are Our sun, which seems so big

Mr. Smith is already known which never seem to get in- cattle from straying he made

as a fluent and Interesting writer, vented.

£250,000 and a lot of enemies.celestial bodies. Both may be and bright to us, is by no means

This new work looks on paper as The man who noticed how many seen as tiny points of light in the largest star: for such huge

though it should sound well, It coa-

harmonie devices and there is some and thought of putting a crinkle ever, quite different, and they Antares are 200 to 300 times as OPU ZAJNA MBXORC MD-

ROJNMYJLD, REJLPRC QOR- | admirable unaccompanied choral in them made thousands too. even look different to the ob-

BJXFL PX PAR *NJBJS writing to the strangely topical "The Irish factory worker | serving eye.

*ZBO. who nailed slabs of rubber to

The soap Bonted without dis- solving. The shower did not splash the floor. Shaving bowl, mirror and tackle swung out of the wall, allowing the supreme Juxury of shaving in the bath. The razor

blade Was Insting, needed no stropping. The shaving cream tube had no enp, but closed itself when pressure was relaxed. Same with the toothpaste tube.

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Cryptogram Present-day politics recall an old political party:

PARTYXZ-YXPAJYKL,"

Lord."

A simple cutter to take the ever rind off curly bacon, for instraight hairpins his wife lost the night sky. They are, how. red stars as Betelgeuse and LDNORP QXSJPJNMS QM-ins some convincing use of different

stance. A saucepan stirrer

In the bedroom clothes were

worked by the heat of the con- tents. A method of crystallis- ing tea, sugar and milk into a concentrated essence which needed only boiling water. A

his shoe soles to damp out the

vibration

machines-and of

patented the rubber sole. He's n millionaire. Another million- aire was the fellow who thought

large as our sun.

The planets, on the other hand, are not shining by their the planets. The planets move own light. The earth is one of round our sun and shine only by

means of reflected sunlight. The nearest nod brightest

masses, like our common, every- Stars are huge flaming

held on a chromium shape, with simple magnetic dust attractor

day sun. As a matter of fact, a quick-working trouser-press, which would keep the atmos-

the sun is itself a stur. The reason the other stars do not The rubber-fabric tie was phere clear. Some way of tell

look so big and bright as our crenseless. Shoes needed no ing coin-in-the-slot jas and

planet, Venus, could be reached of those glass marbles they sun is that they are so very polish, only a rub with a damp i electricity- users that their

by the imaginary plane travel- used to use for stoppers in cloth, but they did not crack supply is nearly finished. A lemonade bottles. And 25,000 much farther away from the ling at 600 miles an hour, in five like patent leather. The comb never-dripping tap. A simple a year for thinking of the mov-

years. Compared with the sun had a sort of cutting blade at-ash-tray for cinemas and buses,able head for collar-studs isn't Stellar distances are hard to and the stars, planets are not bad. Not to mention the for-express in ordinary terms be-large, for the largest planet, tunes made from the safety cause few people, other than Jupiter, is only a little more pin. the

eun-opener and the astronomers, are used to think than one-tenth the size of the metal shoelace-end.

ing graphically of such tremend-sun, while it would require more than one hundred earths to ous reaches of space. An idea,

PALE, 'NERVY'

NORMAN

Norman's mother was worried- very worried about him. He was 'nervy,' pale and highly-strung. He tired easily and was linloky over food, until.

HOW PALE NORMAN LOOKS NESIDE YOUR JOSIN' AND

I SIMPLY CAN'T GET HIM

FO LAT PROPERLY I'M

GETTING

WORRIED!

NOTHAN'S A NERVY,

HIGHLY STRUNG CHILI MARY IF VOLİTE

WORRIED YOU

SHOULD TAKE HIM

TO SEE A

DOCTOR...

ALL THESE TROUBLES OF

NORMAN'S CAN DE TRACED BACK

TO NIGHT STARVATION, MIRK

KHOTT. YOU SIE,

CHILDREN

AND SO EVERY NIGHT ||

'suke THIS CHOCOLATE=" FLAVOURED HORLICKS ANTLY, MUMMY!

PURINO

GLEEP

IT LIKES YOU,

TOO, NORMAN.

CAR STE

IT'S DOING YOU GOOD

HEARTBEATS AND BREATHING AT NIGHT ALSO UNE UP ENERGY. IF ENERGY IENT REPLACED DURING BIKES OF COURSE

NORMAN GETS 'NERVY, 'FADDY AND DIFFICULT.

HE NEEDS HORLICKS

FOR THAT

ZIX WEEKS LATER |

NO PALENESS OR

TIREDNESS ABOUT NORMAN NOW !

NO-AND HE EATS LIKE A WOLF SINCE DOCTOR PUT HIM ON TO HORLICKS

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

at bedtime bullds appolito, and

HORLICKS trongthens norvos, by guarding

Kit

children against Night Starvation

earth.

"Yes, there's money! invent-however, of how far away the ing. But you must choose stars, may be gained from the something which everyone would

fact that an airplane travelling welcome. Just ask your friends: 600 miles an hour would reach What do you want ?"

our sun in a little over 17 years, but at the same speed it would require 4,800,000 years to reach the next nearest star!

A Lay Sermon

Twould be much casier for

us to say "Thy will be done" if we bore in mind more constantly the adjectives here employed. Only, indeed, if we do so, can we pray this prayer as Jesus prayed it.

.

The first thing for us to re- Imember is that God's will is good will. It is something! better. a s That good and Christ Himself acceptable and said, than we perfect will of are able to im-

God,

agine (Mat- ROMANS, Xil. 2. thew, vii. ID. "Thy To say will be done" is not to resigni ¡oneself to the worst; it should be to prepare oneself for the best. Then it is an acceptable will. It is one which we can accept as the swimmer accepts the upholding power of the sea. We can trust ourselves, to it. If we are not as con- vinced of these things as we should be, it is because we so (often oppose it in our fearful

strivings for resignation.

And finally it is perfect be. cause God works to a known end. We cannot even discem the beginning, but Jesus taught us that God is perfection, and that for every one of His chil- dren His will is perfection too.

Tree Fall Due to Bullet

VISALIA, Cal.

equal the size of our sun.

Planets can be distinguished from stars in the sky by reason of their brightness and because planets shine with a steady light, whereas the light from the stars seems to twinkle.-W. P. Kenshey.

Stories of Insurance

Four Musicians The names of four famous

musicians are hidden below. De-

finitions are given for words which should be substituted. Then, one word, plus the other, will give you a phonetic version

of the musician's name:

To exhibit PLUS a baking

dish.

Footwear PLUS a masculine

name.

To shout PLUS to disparage. Small particles PLUS skill or

craft.

Letter Juggling Two different 7-letter words may be formed from the 7 let ters given below. Use all 7 letters in each word:

ADGGINR

What Is the Size? A hall of 90 square yards can be paved with 720 rectangular tiles of a certain size. But if ench tile were 3 inches shorter

quire 748 tiles. What is the size of each tile?

words "The Eternal God is thy re- fuge, and underneath are the ever- lasting arms,"

M

Interesting as these works may be, a set of nine unaccompanied part- songs called "Phyllida and Corydon," give event in the annals of modern by E. J. Mueran, is a mure Impres- British music (Novello, 38.). The

words are from English sources in the sixteenth and seventeenth cen-

turies.

A purely superficial judgment of the music would be that it is a clever copy of the Tudor style. Tudor it Is in manner but it is no copy. Its cleverness and its beauty nike are in the way the archaic-is mingledi with the modern while at the sume time unity of style and of thought is reached and kept. This is a not- able work, one that I look forward eagerly to hearing.

S. G.

tonyms, to-day, to be paired- off in the usual way:

prednos

2

molisy

retard clarify

3

otanss

interrogate

11

perplex

16

qulokan

117

intet

A

indores

១

rok

Federa

oppose avit

il

RZEDAZ

TRIS

provoke

Fun With Antonyms Ten words and

their an-

(Answers Appear on Page 3)

THE wife was having Jock insured, so he was requested and 3 inches wider, it would re-

to call for the usual medical examination.

"Now my man," said the doctor, "tell me the facts. Are both your mother and your father healthy.

"Na, sir. They're baith_deld," said Jock,

"Oh, they are? And of what did they die?"

"Weel, sir, Ah canna say as Al ken," said Jock with hesitation. "But Ah can assure ye, sir, it were naethin' at a' serious."

a

A man called on

Friendly Society and told the secretary that he had called for the eternity, bene- AL

"What do you mean by the 'elernity benet'?" asked the secretary, think- ing the man was trying to pull the old gag about maternity, "eternity means the hereafter."

"Sure, I know it does, and that's what I mean," replied the applicant. "I am here after it!"

•

In

The proverbial long life of annui- tants is well known

Insurance offices. The olher day an insurance chlef recalled the story of a woman who took out an annulty and lived to be ninety.

She called every half year for her money, and one day the clerk said to her "You keep very lale and hearty. Mrs. Blank. You've been calling for a long time now."

"Ay, sir, ay,” replied the old: dame, "but it's the Lord that'll no' ca' me. He'll no' tak' me.”

And the clerk added in an under-

tono

ором 7

We had

Insurance clerk, putting questions

to cowboy.

"Ever had any accidents?" "Naw," was the reply. "Never had an accident in your

Examining Profirlo Barajas, 9, tor Injuries supposedly received when he fell from a tree, hospital attendants life?" were amazed to end a bullet lodged i

at the base of his brain. They said thou. A rattle

the youth evidently had been struck

bit me once,

"Well, don't you calf that an ac-

by a stray bullet, which caused him eldent?"

to fall.

"Naw. He bit me on purpose!"

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