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SATURDAY,

OCTOBER 7, 1939.

Girls and Boys' Corner

Dear Kiddies,

Very few entries were received for the seaside competition

given

last

Saturday. Many of you did not manage to find the name hidden in the fifth sand-castle.

The

correct

answer was "Pierrots."

I have decided, to award the prizes this week to:

Cissy Lapsley (aged 12), 8, Highburgh Ter- race, Kowloon Docks.

Anthony Cutcher (aged 81⁄2), 12, Tai Hang Road.

Sheila Stokoe (aged 7), 4. W. O. Quarters, Ken- nedy Road.

Coupons have been sent to

This is all my own work

Name

Address

Are

Specially commended for

Cissy, Anthony and Sheila excellent work are the fol- which I want them to bring lowing:

Tele-

to the "Hongkong

Roy Holmes, Sheila Le graph" offices in Wyndham Street. The coupons will Tissier, Hazel Cutter, Nena Ronald Holmes, then be exchanged for Ozorio,

money prizes.

Six Lives Owed To

A Mackerel

Four children, their mother, and maid owe their lives tua mac- kerel.

Francis Brett.

This week, kiddies, we are having а diving maze puzzle. The diver shown in

the sketch above started · straight but took a round- about way down to the sea. Follow his course with pen or pencil without crossing a

Their sibling dinghy capsized off

thurwing of line.

St. Tudwall's Island, Abersocts Bay. Caernarvonshire,

nil them in the' water.

Nearby was motor-boat which had been stopped so that its nec pants, Mr. N. Phelps chil Mr. T.

Houghton, hath of Nottingham, could

hat in a mackerel.

Both men jumped overboard and swam about 300 yards to the people in the water,

They hailed a passing boat into

which the mother, children and maid were put. The two men were also

taken on board.

An RA.F. spredbeat took the re- setting boat in tow.

Mr. Phelps mald kater thul but for

the marker they might never have

Fill in the name, age and address coupon and send your entries to Uncle Eddie, c/o "Hongkong Telegraph," Wyndham Street before 2 p.m, on Wednesday. Three prizes will again be given- one for the best in each age section.

Good luck, kiddies.

been near the scene of the accident Uncle Eddie

When they had luuled in the mae- f

kerel the boat's engine refused to

restart.

The SNAPSHOT GUILD

The SNA

SCHOOL-TIME PICTURES

SCHOOL GO SLOWLY

HONGKONG

An easy, humorous school-time "story" snapshot, that could be made with

Any camera.

VACATION is over, and a new always treasure. Again, have you school year has began. Tho any snapshots around the school heclic rush and bustle at freakfast, Ground-at the tennis court, the outdoor drinking fountain, the the patter of small feet down long

awings and seosawa, and other school'Italie na clans bells ring, and places where children gather? Ple minch poring over texts and uni turn your children there, and latur books under the living-room lamp at on your snapshots wilt help them re- night. A now season-and a new call the good times they and thele Arld for the camera.

young friends had at school.

How many of us have good roller- flons of school-day snapshots-pic - turen of our own schoot days, or our children's? 31est albums reveal too few, and the chance to make ethers will not return. Look at Johny as he tighten the strap about a books, nad goes whlailing down the walk to another day of classes. If he's in the fourth grade now, you'll take another ple never be able to take ture of him at the bled grade stage. The moves on, and the pictures we Jem today are lost forever,

Do you haven good "aff to avitool" snap of the children, showing them as they turn at the gate to wave goodbye? frubably wot-yet would be so easy to bring out the camera aby my moming and catch a quick anapshol you would!

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At home at night, "study" plc- fures are worth whils, and you can make them with any camera. All you need a couple of furxpensive photo bulbs, and a roll of fast super eastire panchrontale Blm. Why aut try to keep the full story of the schont year in pictures? Some day,, these school-time snapshots will be highly valued postrasions.

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TELEGRAPH WEEK-END

Sir Ian Ian

SECTION

Hamilton Looks Back

When I was a Day, by Gen. Bir Tan Hamil

1on, xber, 1 Robert Koule Stevenson, by Steption

Gwynn. Msemillars; de, The land of Zans, by Ralph Brewster.

Duckworth. 156. The Child in the Cryst

by Lady Bybil Lubbock, Cape, 104.

London.

ness about his tale which is entirely, hadn't looked at my Stevenson for. captivating. The German sense of many years, and some of the quota- hierarchy he naturally admired. He tons in this book are a shock. has an evident, feeling for the Ger- man character, though he la writing of a Germany which has gone as surely as the Scottish life he des

cribes.

One

finds, of course, the same Scottish feeling for style in I. L.

and Mr. Stevenson,

Stephen Gwynn's succinct, admiring. and

of Letters

There is another autobiography of a Victorian childhood by Lady Sybil Lubbock, which stands sedately beside Sir Ian's, Here is pedes- telan England, the warmth of pleasant, decorous,

closely guarded family life. Again, one notes how completely this life has gone. The rich no longer want it and the rest get it. The mistake seems to be to think that- becausa. the old life with the old virtues haa disappeared, that there are no vir

and satisfactions in the lifa tues where the family no longer domin«' ates.

The next book is a travel book about Crete. Mr. Brewster, who was lively about Athos, is harassed, The kind of wild childhood which

Jumpy, personal, worried, fntultive,- island. Monry and adventurous on his present Sir un describes, rightly savouring his own theatrical touches in the

his chief troubles. There is to my nalive manner-see Stevenson: the

mind loo much tolk In this book, but Scots are always amusingly aware of themselves is entirely gone. The

between his groans as he sits in his to us, with an awkward sodden tent, walling for the rain aristocratic, or rather, clan feeling

to stop his donkey to get up or of the great landowners gave a very suggestion of staginess, did move the

for someone to send him money, of his contemporaries. real degree of freedoni fron class

Imagination

there is a valuable picture of the barriers.

He was a gregarious man, where we Class-consciousness la n

island and its famous Minoon re- have become solitarles; sermon- middle-class invention and the bur- riers are certainly higher than they

zer, and we like our sermons drasile mains. If you like your remaina. were in Sir Ian's boyhood. His nowadays and in the prophetic mun served up in this undeniably lively of the sermonizing personal way, Mr. Brewster is the childhood, one gathers, was boundedner. For one on the one hand by entrancing aunts and grandiloquent temperament, he

V. 8. Pritchett. did not have very much to say. with funny named and formkinble servants like Mrs. Miller, the cook.

I HAVE been trying to think of general who has written an interesting book and I have failed. So, for the mo- ment, Gen, Sir Ian Hamilton Meny blography for the English of long

series brings this stands alone. His account of out. The elaborateness of the Scots, his Scottish boyhood and the he, anys, comes from the powerful conventional youth of a rich cultural tradition of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The style boy sent into the army from the in Stevenson, however, did become Afiles of last century onward stylish, and now the same cloud which covers Meredith covers R. L. has an eccentric vitality and

S.. Mr. Gwynn faces this fact and ho attractiveness.

manages to sort out tie Stevenson who meant so much as a person to his time. He was one of those few writers who do raise this personal feeling. His courage and his crafts- manship, his capacity to put up a fight, even though he did it all, as

What strikes him now, as it must also strike the reader, is the com- pleteness of the family on this big estale. It was world of its own. There was nn uncle for every emer- gency, a commitice of experts, Over money. this onc presided; over morals, mother; there was one for religion, another who "knew the world."

to speak, until his moment came, Even the inevitable unsuccessful un- ele, constantly subsidized, always in a mess, had his peculiar gift. He knew very important-a good deal about dogs. And grandfather pre- Alded and had the special funellon of ́administering a "penty," or filck on the pose. to those who spilled their porridge on the tablecloth.

It accms

man.

and donkeys were

Chemistry and Agriculture

12 soon

28

the

Farmward March: Chemuzzy Takes Com-, ning motors

mand, by William J. tale. New York: agricultural product is given a tree Coward McCann.

chance in competition with - gasoline,

is

The chemist has no more use for

incans New Dealers, than for inter-

HEMURGY is what this book Dr. Ile averts. Each remained dormant, so

is about. It is an idea that apt to become more familiar, "economie soothsayers," by which ho though one may hope the word national bankers. But he proposas itself will not outlast this book. to modify capitalism to circumvent Chemurgy means growing the Communists. He would have chemicals to industrial ende. It stockholders yield 23 per cent of their dividends to encourage the is a chemist's prediction of the brawn of production. If chemistry future of agriculture. By makis to rule the world so soon as Dr. ing farming the laboratory of Inle thinks, there should be a good chemical industry, the chemist market for public relations man to citizens that persunde nonchemical expects chemurgy to save the chemargy is a sufficient substitute world, not necessarily for demo- for centuries of striving toward de- mocracy, freedom of trade, peaco among nations, eivil liberties, and all that.

Sir Jan is not a pinus writer: he is houest and does not smarm the tang out of life or his relations. His picture of the family Sunday, a day of overeating sandwiched between two-hour sermons, for example, is crucy. grand entertainment. Ite Is ba-

The chemist--that ineed, kindly, and spirited, and later, when be comes to his school who is a man of parts in the chem!- days and the time he spent in Ger- { cat world—is not much interested In many during the Franco-Prussian War, there is a racy, simple steadi-

Voices of Concord

Listen fur the Volces, art.

New York: Farrar &

Colver.

NNE Colver, in "Listen for the Voices," has attempted something new in writing about a town that for a hundred years has been an important biblio graphical item. That Concord, home of the shot heard round the world and of philosophers, could be approached from a new angle and that the new treat- ment could result in so pleasing a novel is surprising,

A novel the book is, in that it is made up

is, Dr. Hale,

democracy. He gives all his current

praise to the efforts of the undemo- craile governments. Their concern to become self-sumelent and to sub- ordinate political and social proce- dure to their basic organic needs to the chemist to make sense. He halls them as the "sclentine" tands and demands of them a place in the SUTI. By this he means literally a share of the tropics, and he calls on the English, French, Dutch, and Por- aged 93, the village news: old Mrs.tuguese to yield a shore of the sunny Moore, confined to her room, was funds to Germany, Japan, and Italy wishing her daughter Caroline in the interest of a "more selentlße" would give her some time to herself, world.. and Katherine Hart and her young husband were trying to emancipate mother-in-law,

their bills-while these more ob- served affairs were going on, Miss Harriette Daly was trotting home from her dressmaking to give Papa,

themselves from a

situations.

are

not

The chemist shares the impatience

of the totalitarian mind with the These familiar fully worked out, the characters are conventional politics and economies skelched rather than developed, but of the democracles. When chemurgy such material convinces the render takes command, his prediction is that Concord was-a-real-place in-the-that-every land-will-be-so-self- eighteen forties and Blues, much

aufficing that international trade will more than do the quotations from

have no value. To hasten the day of the words and deeds contemporary Concord writings that lie supports the highest of protective bead the chapters. Both, however, tariffs, particularly on chemical Im- of fictional characters; but it is also

are voices of Concord.

ports. As a corollary to the coming biography, in that famous Concor-

at the age of chemical-wrought self- dinns say and do, in Its pages, things

sumelency he sees the end of the power of the International banker, that history has recorded of them. The book is really an inside view of

the gold standard, and a revolution what was going on among those

in taxation. residents of Concord whom history

mention, the way did not

their domestle complications, their twists of temperament and character, were interweaving and working out, and what they thought of the great ones who were living in their midst and mecca for making their town a literary and fadlistic pilgrims.

The story does not centre in any Ռու character, though possibly librarian Laura Simpson, village and wife of 11 tencher In the Academy, comes as near unifying the tale as any. Laura was the kind ni person of whom Concord ad- enthusiasts were male. She infred Emerson, basked in the sun- shine of the great, whole-heartedly belleved in the liberal tenchings that emanated from the Concord coterie.

On the other hand, there were persons like Mrs. Hart, wife of the Academy principal, who seldom rend a book and never considered a so- enlled modern theory except to deride it. All in all, there must have been a good many of those objectors, persons who thought their town would have been better oft it it od not attracted men and women from all the world with views 10 promulgate. Such deprecintors, be sides Mrs. Hart, were the Conrads. who represented Concord's retired businessmen; Mrs. Fortune, who ran shop for ladies' accessories modeled on Godey's fashion notes. and Dr. Glasgow's Southern wife. who thought all that fuss and pother over ideas an uller bore,

I

While Emerson philosophized, limes making hay or taking his children to swim in Walden Portd Ind at times spending earnest evenings of debalo with Theo- dore Parker; while Thoreau glided Indian-like over field and wood- land and at times. berated the village xtorekeeper for selling boots that were not pegged with iron; while the Alcotis found Bronson's particular kind of thinking some- thing for which the world was not yet ready to pay lilm a Hving wage, and, according to the gossip of wo- men like Mrs. Hart, had to leave Cuneord because they could not pay

PUZZLE CORNER the termination of inan's fetish for

ANSWERS

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Charade: Match-less, malchless, Letter Changing: Mine, manc, male, male, cats oars, OUTA.

How Right: 8 feet,

Eplibeis From the Odyssey: Hosy- Ongered dawn: Bwing-paced. oxch; white-toothed swine; strong-built roof; wine-dark sea: bronze-tipped spear: toil-worn men: crook-horned kine well-benched ship; sea-giri Ithaca,

The promise of chemurgy within the production area affected by chemistry itself is that there will be no more agricultural surplus and no more unemployment when the land Is appiled to the production of the raw materials of Industry, Dr. Hale sces a reversal of the cityward trend of the last century, Normal em- ployment will be in relation to the land, and Its significant production will be cellulose, vegetable oils, and fuel alcohol. This agricultural al- cohol will replace' petroleum in run-

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