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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION.

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The Telegraph" Brains Test:

TRIALS OF A FAT MAN' Is

I REMEMBER once

By ONE OF THEM

watching 21

AL battalion of soldiers pass, their rear marched a fat little ser- geant obviously designed for exec tive rather than military duties in he But wherever tite battalion. passed there followed a ripple of 15. Who wrote "The lung and the laughter and again and again the cry was sounded, "Oh, look at that fut little sergeant"

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Which of the Psalms is called

De Profundis"?

What is the capital of the **Bermudas?

Does any fish dimb trees?.

In archaeology, what is it paleo-17.

th?

Itoleigh associated?

Book"?

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What is a clinker-built boat? What Spaniard discovered Lower California?

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name?

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Who wrote the stories about

Stalky"?..

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What Mexican seaport was taken by U.S. forcer in the Wilson administration?

21

What enabien les to walk on ilo ceiling?

did Greek With what science legend, connect Aesculapius? For what Gehenna another did On what European river Fulton launch a steamboat? What did the Dutch settlers call the present New York? What was the former name of Toronto?

To what-country does Greenland belong?

22

10 What does "coplous" mean?

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11 About how

high is

Mount

Everest?

Under what name is Leghorn known to Itallons?

what 24 To

WI Constantinople

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12 Who established the "Second

Empire" In France?

What were the former names of Leningrad?

changed after the Inst Wor? What was the old name of Edinburgh?

As one who suffers from a surfelt of adipose-flesh 1 similarly have to suffer from the ribald laughter, jeers, and comments of my fellow men,

Why is it that stoutness seems to provoke such amusement? People are interested in seeing those who are extra tall or extra small, they sympathise with the folks who are

Puzzle Corner

A Rebus

The letters below, in their present position, represent u 9-letter word 13 What in the chief crop of Brazil 14 With what plot was Sir Walter 20 To what was Christians changed? in ribus form. The lines below give

Did You Ever Wonder

a clue:

3.

NERE If at Arst, you don't succeed TOTALed effort's what you need.

Letter Juggling

word:

AKPRS

How Many?

In

Two different 5-letter words may When a be farmed from the 5 letters given each How Shatterproof Glass Is Made? jalm yielding und Sexible.

D-ounce stert ball was dropped onta | covery to the fact that in 1003 feet, the glass bulged and cracked,

Shatterproof glass awes. Its dis: this glass from u eight of about an below. Use all letters Bene- but did not shatter or break into French chemist; Edouard

Five big companies worked dietüs, nceldentally knocked a hot pleces. tle from a shelf. The bottle, which together on the research behind this flexible glass, and it is said that the had contained liquid celluloid, nd been left uncorked; and in evaporat cost of developing it was close to ing, the liquid left a layer of cellu- $6,000,000. lold on the Inside of the bottle. Instead of flying into fragments when it dropped, the bottle retained its shape, the hardened Huld vellu- loid holding the broken bits of glass In place,

There are several methods ut pre- In same, paring nutshattering glass.

preparation of bliomen is filed in around the edges of the glass to seal and protect the cellulose layer. So long as moisture ned air do not reach Shatterproof or laminated safety the filter, liscoloration or deteriora- glass, is a double sheet of ordinary tion do not set in. Other processes Klass (usumily plate) with translave been developed which do not parent filler or binder forming require any protecting seal around

Arst safety the edges.-W. P. Keasbey, between. The layer Kloss was made with a middle layer of cellulose nitrate; bul more cently, polyvinyl acetal resin synthetic plastic made from acety- lene), has been substituted..

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Cigar Store Indian Revived

COLUSA, CHỈ Seventy-eight year old Chief remaining the unsitine made it turn Cotus, one of the few ddy brown. To combat thi cel-rigar store Indians in the country, Is bark on the job at a local store, out for repairs. acetate was used in conjunc

Kinss, after taking time netinle-MiterinK With

He returned with streamlined Jass, however, while it did not our nor fly into jagged chunks, "schazzle," a new arm and a new coat of paint, It took 14 pounds of Hurd and unyielding and became

plastic wood which were applied in cold weather.

during his hospitalisation to put him back into a war-like mood and up- jiearance again.

glass has been developed not only shutterproof but

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A purse contains $10.50 in dollar bilis and quarters, but there are twles bills. How many quarters many are there of cach?

Lelier Changing

ustal rules, try Following the changing DARTS to SCORE in

ITOVAS.

What Is the Length?

The length of a certain rectangle The rectangie in twice its width. has the same area as another, 14 times as wide, and shurter by 44 feet. What is the length of the first rectangle?

Fun With Antonyms And, to-day, 10 more words and their antonyms to be paired off:

obscursi trifling

urdu

12

brief

bonest

AD

A

definite musical

dejustad

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wired

18

Moth

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important

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turbulent

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very thin, but to be fat seems only to exercise their sense of humour.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1939.

A

Your Doctor Personal Friend?

by

Wherever I go T am greeted with the remark, "Your shadow is not getting anythinner, old chap," or "My goodne, you are gelling fat- ter than ever." People will draw me into a corner and say, "Have you tried this diet, old nan?" 11 1 qu fato the sen a crowd will gather to watch me bathe. Should I mount a ladder some fool will make panto- tho I play goll ur nime gestures and laten for indder to creak. tennis people look at me in wonder that I can play at all. If I and the courage to mount n weighing machine

how many JUDGE DUMAS, who to discuss his patient-that much can every idler in the vicinity would

from West-be taken for granted.

But he will have to watch every alones were recorded. By almost

train his neck to see everyone I am considered a legitiminster County Court recently word he says, or someone will place mate source of mirth ment,

amuse- and

DAVID HAMILTON

retired

a wrong construction on what he has is reported na saying, "It is a

Then, again, suppose some patient Once cind in appropriate bathing mistake to know your solicitor said-or even what he has not said. sult 1 accompanied my small nephew or your doctor." He holds the

"Miss Jones is a remarkable woman to all his yacht in the small chil-view that you should not get "onfitend Bres this question at a doctor: dren's pund at a seaside resort. The terms of social intimacy with for her age, doctor. Let me sec, ake children stared at me in wonder.

Now the doctor knows, of course, and fessionally acquainted."

Jones la. But when I slipped und fell into the those with whom you are pro-must be 70'if she's a day?" pool their hearty amusement

Therefore, it is no use his pretending So far as doctors are concerned, I exactly how old Miss

Ignorance. But it is equally difficult heen heard quite a distance awny.belleve Judge Durons is right.

about

for him to avold n direct answer whole-hearted laughter must have I heard one little child hurry off to cannot speak with authority

without snubbing someone who pro- shout, "Mummy, come and see the solicitors-mine has never given me

that she is the chance to know him.

bably does not realise fut man fall in the water."

being Indiscreet.

If it had been the thin man, or the small man, or the one-legged - man," or the tall man, it would not have appeared in the last funny. But "a fat man"-there was a whole wealth of humour in the phrase.

Medical Orders

1

If the doctor avoids social contacts with his practice, awkward questions such as these do not arise.

OCTORS make a mistake if D

cultivate 10 they 1ry

A woman's age, you will say, is a friendship with their patients.

trilling matter. I can assure you that There are several reasons for this. It is not so. I have known a woman The first is that the doctor is about of 78 move out of the hotel she lived In the in merely to avoid ling the only professional man who has to exercise on adults the kind of

Census paper at the hotel, where her her order i authority to which children are acquaintances would discover customed. Who else can grown-up person so to alter his way of living that, in effect, the victim returns once inore to the nursery?

Who but a medical man has the right to pry into the inner secrets of

Do we who are tat resent such

there are Possibly amusement? some sensitive souls who do, But we In the have always taken refuge widely reputed saying that laughing makes you fat or it is good humour which is the exist But even that consolation is to be taken from us A doctor has been saying that it is not the lean and Cassius type of per- son noted by Shakespeare who worsen and women? rles; it is the fat mun.

real age.

One further argument. How can a Insist on his orders being doctor

obeyed if he encouraged that faml- larity which, we're told, is half way to contempt. He cannot strengthen preeept by example If, for instance, Who but a doclor can took a woman

he has forbidden his patient to take then adjourns to the alcohol and His theory is that it is the fat straight between the eyes and ask

drawing-room and laps down a whin people who are carrying all the bur- her real age, adding that it must be

ky nut soda, dens and eares of life, n the worries according to the baptismal certificate

Some people labour under the and the problems, and that stoutness and not the one she uses for social

mistaken idea that by mixing in one Here is one example to show why

can increase his is due just to bat temper or bad feci-purposes? ing or bad living, whichever you like to take.

doctor should not seek "social insectely a doctor

practice. But when you're ill you tells People who worry, he

us.timacy."

want someone who can make you Supposing medical man is at- begin to have a craving for some-

a craving set up by emotional tending a patient with an incurable well in double quick time.

And because you've met a nice teaving us up by as the disease, if the inture of the com-

is continually man at dinner who let you tell him Now, the doctor craving for food. The form of th

(without audible protest) all about more you worry, the more you eat lead to serious business repercussions.

Now, if the doctor is contaiually the diseases from which your Aunt and the fatter you grow,

where he Agulha suffered, it by no means moving in social clretes

ollows that he is the best man to meets the friends and associates of

horis, or even with your housemaid's his patient it is certain that he will cope with your own lumbago or clrr- be subjected to a constunt stream of questions. Of course, he will refuse knee.

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In his opinion it all comes back aur old friend, the inferiority complex-ns if we who are fat had not enough trials to bear without that!

What I Think About Jazz

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VAST food of melodies has been poured out to a listening world ANPUR during the past fourteen years.

spite of all criticisms, it has done a Immense amount of good.

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Jazz music came to Western civi Usation at a titne when the whole world was struggling to get out of post-war chaos. The crying need was for new forms of entertainment, new variety, new music, and new dancing. This jazz provided, und Kave scope for talent which could not have existed if the post-war genera-

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By Charlie Kunz, amount of dance music avaliable, and

the Pianist

efforts of the research engineers and themists, but vast gramophone in dustry could not have beca bulit up on artistic records alone, Only by the introduction of mass production musie has it been possible for thru- sands of people in this country alone

In this generation, atuny rate, we need not fear that the various com- binations of melody and rhythm will dry up.

But I can assure you that broad- would very quickly dry up it some casting (ut least as an entertainment) obscure South American negroes had ut introduced this particular variety of rhythmic music to the Western world, and some enterprising American had not renilsed the com- and the "blues" when exploited on a War-worn world crying out for any form of mad frenzy and galety.

to and cployment in the manufac- tion had been content to dance to the

ture of Instruments and the produc-mercial possibilities of the fox-trot stately waltzes and polkas which had

tion of millions of records every year. satisfed our parents and grand-

You have to thank dance music for parents.

this.

An Immense industry has been created out of this muss-production of music, and the fact that this has brought employment, and happiness to thousands probably millions in directly--must not be overlooked by those hard-balled people who still criticise jazz to-day as though it had not progressed at all in its short his Lory of approximately fourteen years.

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As I have so many friends who are radio listeners, I must be excused for saying that dance muste lins been the saviour of broadcasting. This will probably compel you to disagree with me. In spite of its immense popu- larily, dance music is always fuced with opposition; but it has become so much a national institution that It is very easy to criticise and pick faults in it.

I feel sure that some of those high- syncopated brow critics who scorn

music often find a simple melody running through their minds, and, to their great shume, they discover that it is a popular dance tune which they heard on the wireless the other day. Well, utter all, It's only natural. People cannot go about humming the melodies of Beethoven's sonatas and Chopin fantasies all the time. Some times you have to hum a popular tune to yourself, no matter how high-brow you may be. 8 Flects

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Probably mony of our serious mu- sichins would not be so tempted to remember the melodies of popular tunes if they did not hear them al- most everywhere they go through the medium of broadcasting. That is proof of my statement that dance musle has, to a very large extent, 1 been the salvation of broadcasting.

Can you imagine a B.B.C. alition but serious transmitting nothing musle, radio plays", and news bul- letit? Probably for thousands of advanced thinkers it would be ideal station, but as one who has had. a. fairly intensive training in the, serious alde of music I can assure you that the supply of what we gen- erally term. classical music is very lifted, and the works of the serious composers could be broadenst in only a few months if a B.B.C. statlon were to continue with its normal hours of brandrasting. If wooxtended the acope to include a large amount of light music-not strictly "classical" of the type played by restaurant or- chesiras at lunch-time, then we migh! have enough serious music to last the average broadcasting station for seven Wo or alght moments, and then should have to start the sume pro- gramme all over again.

Already people are beginning to talk of a dearth of nowy dance tunes, and they suggest that even the fold of syncopated music is not vant as at Trap it seemed. In spite of repoti- tion, which is bound to occur, of the opinion that there is for all

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Fortunately, the jazz of to-day is Jazz with a difference. I am sure that this rhythmic musie would not have survived If we had been content to put up with the blarings und bang- ings of the early Jazz band.

We owe

a great debt to the musicians in this country, and in America who trans- formed this burst of negre enthusiasm into dance music with its own parti 'cular form.

You may say that we have amply paid that debt, and that many of the men in the world of dance music have made fortunes out of it. Well, that may be, although a fortune has not come my way yot. But you can- not blame a handful of men who have realised the commercial possibilities of dance musle, and, in making prac- tien application of this commercial have brought melody," possibility, brightness, and happiness to millions.

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YOUR confidence in the doc

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tor of your choice resis not on his social activities, not on he bellef that he in very busy, but on the results which follow his treat- incut. The days of Bob Sawyer are no longer, now that medicine is a science.

No embryo doctor need, therefore, worry to arrange bogus calls; possible patients soon see through such a de- vice. He will be better employed studying the recent advances In asking to be called out of church, And now what about the patient? diagnosis and therapeutics than in

Does he or she benefit from know. ing the doctor Boclally? Judge Dumas thinks not, and again I fancy ho is right. For while it is not necessary someone to regard your doctor as with superhuman powers--someone who is gifted with second sight--t must be admitted that successful treatment does depend to a certain

xtent on bls personality.

You must regard him as knowing good many things about you of which you are. Ignorant; you must look on him as a superior Being, so far as your health is concerned.

And I, for one, feel that the rela- Uon between doctor and patient is weakened if you meet him often as a friend than you do as an adviser. For then your friend-re- action to hin is likely to be stronger than your authority-reaction.

Friday's Bridge

A

more

WISE man will realise that It is next door to imposal- ble for his doctor to handle his case (as he should do) entirely on an in- tellectunt level unless he is a patient only aid not a patient-cum-friend.

Suppose the doctor la anxious to the get him well enough so that usual Friday's bridge can take place. His own wishes are bound to inter- tere with what is best for the patient; possibly to stay in bed for a few days on a milk diet. I am sure that the right advice will be given; but I am equally sure that it will lack cen- viction if the doctor is subconsciously regretting the necessity for such ad- vice.

This is a little point, too, but other more serious engagements may have the same result.

So, although, if you like your doc lor as a doctor, you probably would like to know him as a man, you must not take it amlys if he keeps to the professional relationship while,, you are a patient.

A Lay Sermon

MANY & mind has stumbled

over the story told in this chapter. Many a reader, unable to believe that the shadow on, a sundial could go back ten degrees

(though have seen thy could"

have made Hazekiah

teart.

Gad

2 Kings xx, 7. see what others could not see, Just as He made Paul hear what others could not hear), has missed all the comfort it holds.

the These, among others, are things it tells me, That God ean heal a man and deliver a nation. That He is powerful enough to send a blast upon the Assyrians,

and yet not above using homely means, as when He saved the life of a dying king by cleansing e poisonous boll with a poultice of figs. But chielly it tells me that to hear He is so near as not only our prayers but see our tears.

As for the retreating shadow, it bids me remember that the Lord who abundantly pardons does more than put back the hands of the clock. He restores not min- utes or hout but years; the years that the locust hath eaten, yes, even the opportunities that wej seemed to have Irretrievably lost,

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