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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1939.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEEK-END SECTION.

*For Our JUNIOR READERS

and Boys' Corner

Che SNAPSHOT CUILL

Your MODEL FARM

BETTER CHILD PICTURES

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This is all my own work

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PASTE STEIN BENNO TALL

DOJECTS AS SHOWH.

Dear Kiddies,

You seemed to like the new type of figura crbas-word puzzle given for last week's competition. Many of you, however, did not know the number of days In

Leap Year a whilst others went astray on the date of the Great Fire of London. Lothing herhana di) the last question

was renilmirdi.

The primers this wk are: Wong Yung-(oing (aged 14). Rhenish Mission Church, Bonham Road.

Carlos da Roza (aged 9), 5. Ho. muntin Street.

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Bunny Brown (aged 7), 4, Liberty Avenue, Homuntin.

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Keith Marlin, Gladys McLeny. Frances Ko, Mary Wong, Putricia Dickson, Mary Grace Asche, Alan Whelpton, Angel Cheok, Belty Becker, Willam Muk, Wendy Bar- ton, Nino Xavier.

futerinediates: Eileen Pelers, Ha- zel Culler. S. S. Dux, Patricia Grim- mitt, Pauline Neubronner, Shona Mcintyre, Michael Hourihan. Eulalia Xavier, Stella Leong, Nelson Young.

Juniors: Alexandre Pereira (Ma- rau), David Asche, Sahmat Samy. Muris Pereira (Macau), P. Wonk. Mereta Pereira (Macau),

This week, kiddies, I want you to study the above picture very care- fully. In each sand easile there is hicken the name of something which can be found or eaten at the sea-side. When you have found the

Ave bidden names, write them down In a neat list and then fill in the name, age azıd address coupon. Send your entries to Uncle Eddie. c/u "Hongkong Telegraph", Wynd- hum Street. The competition closes at 2 pm: on Wednesday.

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RST you have the farm stock, cows, sheep, pigs, etc., and a fine windmill. Paste the whole sheet on thin card, colour the models when dry and cut them out carefully. Paste a supporting strip behind tali models as shown in the small sketch.

Through A Glass, Darkly

New York: Macmillan, CATORM JAMESON continues

The Cautala's Wife, by Storm Jameson. pasure of Sylvia, might have combined to form a powerful narrative: but the repeti- live incidents and unrelieved gloominess weaken the potential strength of the book,

her saga of the Hervey family in her newest book, "The Captain's Wife." The central character here is. Sylvia Russell,

The story is, nevertheless, an daughter of Mary Hervey and important unit in the history of mother of Hervey Russell, who the Hervey family, in so far as were featured in previous it shows the devastating effect volumes. A paychological study, of selfishness and pride. The complete in itself, of an arrogant material goods which Sylvia so woman's attempt to compensate painstakingly tries to assemble for her frustrated youth by through the 50 years of her mar-

Coupons, have been sent to Wong Ying-tsing, Carlos and Bunny, want them to bring the cupons to the "Hongkong Telegraph" offices in Wyndham Street. The coupons will. then he exchanged for money prizes. one for the best entry in each age dominating her husband and riage afford no recompense for

Specially ommmended for excellent work are Mfollowing:

:Seniors: Sheila Le Tissier, Andre Ruyters, Jean Hofe, Paul Vessoona.

Three prizes will again be given

section.

Uncla

Eddie

Best-Seller Formula

Take Your jhte in One Hand, by George R. Stewart. San Francisco: The Col! PTERE.

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CAN FRANCISCO has long been famous for its fine printing. This year, somewhat as an accompaniment to the Golden Gate International Ex- position, its presses have been some exquisitely producing printed items in the field of Call- fornia history and literature. This is one of the best examples.

Herein is contained a sketch of the life and work of William Henry Thomes, an author whose name is to-day almost unknown but whose books, published in the sixties, seventies. and

were

children, "The Captain's Wife" | her spiritual, poverty. Reared is often more like a case history in luxury, but cut off from it eighties of the last century, sold than a novel.

Miss Jameson's after her marriage and her sub-to the number of half a million individual turn of phrase, to- sequent

accounts, from copies. They estrangement gether with her relentless ex- Mary Hervey, Sylvia expends fact and fiction, of stirring ad- comprising closely intermingled much ingenuity Trying to gain at measure of pocketbook com ventures in the California gold rush, in Australia, at sea and elsewhere.

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Leads The World See The 1939. Cold Wall Models

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Mr. Stewart, author of "Ordeal by Hunger," "John Phoenix, Esq., and | “East of the Giants," explains that he gathered a lot of material about Thomes while preparing n arilele about hin for the Dictionary of American Biography, and was foth to see it disappear. Hence this book.

delightful It has been given format, with spacious margins em- bellished by attractive woodcuts, and be-typography that Is up to the high San Francisco standard for a work of this kind. The edition is limilled to 780 coples issued from The Colt Press by Jane Swinerton, Willam

Her chief efforts, however, are employed in duplicating for her self in her home the dictatorial position which she had seen her mother achieve in the Hervey household. Blindly self-wiled, she thus becomes guilty of in-

the ducing

conditions very against which she had formerly rebelled. Sylvia's story comes, in this respect, a vivid example of that too-familiar recurrence: the transformation of a freedom-loving rebel into a he gains tyrant as soon power,

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Roth, and Jane Grabhorn.

The tile is of a sort to pique curiosity. It derives from Thonics' repetitious 'assurances that his party of gold-seekers when leaving Bos- ton for the California diggings, were Rey. Mr. Kirk of the Ashburton Place Orthodox Church, Dr. Abbe, the Hon. Edward Everett, president of Harvard College and the United States Secretary of State, to "Take your Bible in one hand, and your Krent New England civilisation in the the other," and proceed to

exhorted in identical words by the

Sylvia-Russell-is-to-be-pitied rather than condemned, in spite of her obvious culpability. Miss Jameson spares no opportunity to show added proof of Sylvia's increasing selfishness and arro- gance with the passing years, but the guilt involved is the negative one of her inability to overcome the attitudes ingrained physical and spiritual conquest of El in her throughout a warped Mr. Stewart shrewdly points out childhood. The chlef value of | some striking parullels between the book is unfortunately Thomes thrillers and equally negative: superficially,porary "Anthony Adverse."

is a striking similarity of technique.

Dorado.

the contem- There

RIX MILLER.

it may seem to some readers it's apparently a sure-fire formula merely a depressing account of for producing best sellers in nny the tribulations of a headstrong uge. woman; but there is a warning implicit throughout, for the narrative points unfailingly to the barrenness of an existence fed only by the salt springs of resentment, selfishness, and des- potism.

M.. W. S.

Your child pictures will be more interesting If they "tell a story," Show the child busy at something—such as this rapuir job. And don't stand too far pack.

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FIRTUALLY Overy paront takes | clothes, a`dark bodgo may mako a' snapshots of the children and Food background. A hilltop with tho would like to take better ones. It's child against a sky background is

also good. not difficult to tako a good child plc- jure, and there's no subject more appealing. But most of thone ple tures can be mado still botter, if at tention is paid to a few common, easily-corrected faults.

Examine the child snapshots you have taken. If the subject appears too small in most of them, you're inking platures at too great a dis- tauce, Beo If you can't got closor. It's easy with a focusing camera, or an The cammonest faults pro: lack inexpenstvo box or folding type that - of "slory" interest, wrong choles of has a "two-polat" focus setting. A hackground or setting, subject too portrafi attachment is also useful tar from camera, and movement for "close-ups" at thres and one-half which blurs the picturo,

foot or oven a bit,nearer, You head Almost any child snapshot will be not fear cutting off part of your sub- better if it tells a story." Simply Joct, provided you locate the subject. gire the child something to do accurately in the view under and dreng a doll, draw a picture, fix a toy then do not move the camera won wagon wheel, blow sony bubbles, making the exposure. Buch activity adds interest to the Movement-althier of camera or pieture--and also makes picture tak subject-blare the picture. Tako. ing more interesting for the child. care to hold the camera at at the Give a small baby a rattle or bright- moment you snap the shutter. And, enlared object to play, with-it will with a box camera, pick a time when Arousa la lotereat, and you will get the mibject is not moving rapidly. liveller, more expressive pictures. If you have a finer enmora, uso a He careful in choosing back shutter speed of 1/100 second or grounds. Look beyond the subject-faster, with a correspondingly larger your camera lens will. Avoid a hick lons opening. ground that has a definite, obtrualvo pattern, such as the side of a cinp boarded house. And try for good con trast with tho kubinel. For example, If the child is wearing light-colored

Watch those polute in taking child" snapshots, They'ro all straplo, no' troublond.they'li Insuru you bets- ter plcturon,

John van Guilder

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Answers-

QUESTIONS ARE ON PAGE TWO

1. The, 130th 2. Hamilton.

3. Yes; the climbing fish or East

Indian anabantold.

4. A chipped stone object of the

primitive stone age.

5. One built will over-lapping

planks or plates.

6. Hernando Cortez.

7. Rudyard Kipling. |_8. Vern_Cruz. 9. Dezunark,

10. Plenteous, 'umple. 11. 20,000 feet.

12. Louls Napolcon. 13. Coffee.

14. One to put Arabella Stuart on the British throne in place of James 1.

15. Robert Browning.

18. Suckers on their feet.

17. Medicine.

18. Hell.

19. The Seine.

20. New Amsterdam.

21, York.

[22. St. Petersburg and Petrograd.

23. Livorno,

24. Istambul.

25. Dunexlin.

20. Oslo.

ANSWERS

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Lions From Kruger Park Killed

CAPE TOWN..

The king and crippling of at least 150 lions by "sportsmen" on forms bordering the Kruger National Park are described by the warden, Col. J. Stevenson Hamilton, in a report recently lasued.

He mys that on some farms during the winter of 1938 hunting parties specialized in luring lions out of the park. Wildebeeste and zehra werɑ shot in considerable numbers and left on the veld as bait for the lions.

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