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Girls' and Boys' Corner

1800

This is all my own work

Name

Address

Dear Kiddles,

Age

Last week's colouring Com- petition was done very well although many of you coloured the spaghetti bright red, blue or green.

The prize-winners this week are:- Hazel Setater

1314). 32. inged

Nathan Rond.

ofers In Wyndham Street, The coupons will then be exchanged for money prizes.

Specially commended for work are the following:

WEEK-END SECTION

The Book Window

A Glimpse at Some of the Season's New Titles

good Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie

Senlorn: Robert Kingsley, Alice Lee, Fung Wo-pun, George. Saunders, † Paul Vescoona, Betty. Becker, Chung Sou-ying. Mansoor Ali; Penny Lay, Valerie Gruy. Chozi Khan, Yeung! Kit-wi

Intermediates: Albert Green, Rila Lay. Barbara Gascon, Charles Liu, Kwan Kung-sum. Wong Nul-chong, Constance lobertson, Elu Kal-shing. Ernest Luis Sousse, Frank Corren, George Lo, Eddie G. Sausae.

Juntors: Alfred Wong. Susan Wood, Hugh Morgan, Henry Litton. Elizabeth Oliver, Jack Dobson, Roger. Proulx, Ines Law. David Asche, Pau- line Kaye Brown, Marion Paterson. 3. Philips, Patriein Wood.

This week, kiddien, I want you to study the above pleture very carefully and find the initial felters of the objects in each row. These iritets rearranged apeli the names of different dogs. Write down your answers in a neat fat and send your

#raph", Wyndlinın Street, before 2pm. on Wednesday.

Allee Pan (aged 10%), 3313, Wong. | entries to Uncle Eddle, "Hongkong Teles

Nel Chong Road, 1st floor,

David Kulght (aged 63, 8, Cumber-

land Road.

I

Coupon have been sent to Hazel, Alice and David which I want them to bring to the "Hongkong Telegraphy"

Best of luck, kimdten,

Uncha

HIS

We're moving next week. Berry, It's a lovely little house with a separate play room

For Johnny

AT HOME THAT BYENING

I can't make things go.

fil beber throw niy

hand in

Yes, he even wakes

tired, doctor

THINKS!

Eddie

Years, by Carl Sandburg (Hor- court, Brace. 2 vols.,) New issue of a distinguished work, offered presumably in přemra- tion for the new "Abraham Lincoln: The War Years,” announced for December. The Writings and Speeches of

Oliver Cromwell, by Wilbur Cortez Abbott: Vol. II, The Commonwealth (Harvard), Covers the years between the execution of Charles I and the dissolution of the Long Parlia- ment.

Europe in Retreat. by Vern Micheles Dean (Knopf). A second edition, revised, and with a new foreword and two new chapters covering Eur- opean developments since Munich.

Who Gets the Money? by Walter Rautenstrauch (Harper). A revised edition of a study of how the national income of the United States is spent.

WIFE DESERVED

A MEDAL

WE COULD DO WITH

A BICCER PLACE

I WISH PETER

COULD MAKE THE GARAGE PAY

MEANWHILE PETER'S IN TROUBLE

Unless you can pay off. these mortgages on your garage in the next six

months, I'm afraid we'll love to take over your business, Mr. Graham

We're going to fight to

the last ditch, darling,

to hold that business It's just that you're run

down and tired always,

Feher....

THINKS:

WHAT WILL HAPPEN

TO BETTY AND THE BABY. OH, IF ONLY I DIDN'T FEEL SO TIRED

ALL THE TIME

I MIGHT PULL THROUGH

up

THAT SAME EVENING BETTY JAW THE DOCTOR

From what you've told me, Mrs. Graham. I'd say your husband's trouble is Night Starvation.

You see, even at night we go on

using energy in heartbeats, breathing and other Butomatic actions. In his case this has no

doubt also led to an excess of acid waste products in the blood. All this causes him to wake tired and feel no good at his work. Recent hospital tests have proved that Horlicks is.

what people need for that condition

BETTY SAW TO IT THAT HER HUSBAND HAD HIS HORLICKS

EVERY NIGHT

İSIX WEEKS LATER PETER FELT

! KIA NEW MAN

The front axlė....... OK. Sir. I'll send some down to

minutes with the breakdown

VAR

SIX MONTHS LATER

Thanks to you, Betty, the mortgage is paid

off-the garage is

ours. You deserve

a medai

Do you feel worn out, depressed and nervy?

Take

K$

"THINKE:

HORUCKS DID

DO WONDERS

FOR PETER

Do you even wake tired?

HORLICKS

Guard Against

O

NIGHT STARVATION

Then you will sleep soundly - wake refreshed-and have extra energy wil day

Tell Me About Tokyo, by G. Calger (Tokyo: Hokuscido Press.) A guidebook to the Japanese capital, written by an Englishman.

Main Currents in American

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1939.

Etymology

In Word, by Margaret 6. Ernst. New.

York Knopi.

grammar,

THIS IS a book for everyman. It instructs amusingly. Al- though the author is a teacher of etymology and there is no trace of pedagogical stiffness in the paragraphed de- finitions and derivations of words,

Thus

The Modern Reader, edited by' James Thurber's illustrations John Beecroft (Doubleday). in his familiar vein of submissive An anthology of fiction, blog-bewilderment are peculiarly ap raphy, plays, pooms,

and propriate to the subject.

the word Canary is illustrated Americana.

by a drawing of dogs lying for- Moving On, by Norman Dwight lornly about on a group of Harris (Chicago: A Kroch). minuscule islands. This is, of Travel notes of a

North-course, explained by the fact that canaries are etymological western University professor

cousins of canines, the relation- of international law and

ahip going back 2,000 years to diplomacy.

Canary the time when the Islands, from which we got our. Thought,, by Vernon L. Par- singing birds, were believed to роздевя a population of large rington (Harcourt, Brace). Adogs. But why does Thurber one-volume edition of a Pullt-pieture the Pioneer

on horse- back? zer prize winner in history.

Pioneer is etymologically a foot soldier. Photography as a Hobby, by

Mrs. Ernst ls, of course, aware Fred B. Barton (Harper). In- formal instruction in dark that many supposed derivations room processes, easily graspedare only picturesque associations, a child's de- and sure to yield better prints, In the class with and sensible advice about buy-finition of a hurricane: "you ing and using a camera. have to hurry and hold on to your cane." By way of extenua- Field Book of Animals in Winter.tion, when giving a particularly by Ann H. Morgan (Putnam), fantastic bit of "science" (such A guide to animals, with us cancun coming from the Latin Blustrations.

quamquam), she adds: "doubt ful etymology, but such fun."

North

Carolina,

With

a

Smile

"Canary," Drawing by James Thurber for "In a Word"

not in 1850. True, the Oxford Dictionary gives 1850, but that refers to the first known use of the phrase, not to the time of the speech.

MORE

PEOPLE

New

York: Appleton-Century,

DGAR Lee Masters adds 60

this

The Whig Supremacy. 1714-1760, by Basil Williams (Oxford). Eleventh volume of the Ox-

Once in a while the author ford History of England.

allows a minor slip. In the paru- In the item on Dexterity. Mrs.

on "bunk" We North to Nome, by Louise Anita graph

read: Ernst, speaking of things sinis- American slang term. Coined ter, adds: "Also the Left in More People, by Edgar Les Mosters. Martin (Albert Whitman

threat." The 1C- Co.) While this look on travel from the name of a county in politics-a in Alaska is definitely a young

Buncombe, cepted derivation of Left is that people's story it is, neverthe-whose member in Congress once the radical parties in political move poems to his series of less, the type of reading any insisted on making a speech for assemblies usually occupied the adult with an eye to northern Buncombe. He wanted to be left side of the presiding officer, portraits in verse. With travel would not find dull. sure his constituents would know and in this explanation Webster book his volumes of poetry total

that he was doing things for and Oxford concur.

some 20-odd. His publishers The French-Canadians To-day, them. Since that particular

list two volumes preceding the "Spoon River Al- A reader who has gone over famous by Wilfrid Bovey (Toronto: gent, back in 1850, wasn't talk- Dent). An interpretation bying about anything, with no the classical treatise of Richard thology"; the others followed in the McGill director of extra-purpose but that of electioneer Grant White and Archbishop a fairly regular stream. mural relations,

ing, we call any claptrap, tall Trench will frequently find him-

Few volumes have reached the self in the position of Moliere's

popularity of the "Anthology." It Making a Poster, by Austin talk, humbug: the bunk."

Cooper (The Studio). Con- Now, that speech was made in Bourgeois Gentilhomme when is safe to say the poet's audience to n long series tinues the "How to Do It" the Sixteenth Congress by Felix that gentleman discovers that has not maintained its interest. It

he has been talking prose all his has been treated series with another manual by Walker, during the debate on life without realising it. But of books that, with few exceptions, never rose for more than a page or an expert.

the Missouri Question in 1820,

even a dictionary addiet will two to the level so beautifully estab find an occasional novel item to lished by the early volume. instruct and amuse, such as, for

"More People" presents some in- instance, the derivation of the teresting characters; some lloes of surname of the present Governor true poetle beauty; the rest fails of Massachusetts, which comes to hold the attention. Mr. Mastera from the old French salte-en- rumbles, ruminates, and, at times, estal, jump on bench. The falls to clarify his intent. I suppose the most regrettable part of the book Governor's first name, Leverett, is its bad craftsmanship. means hare,

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All of this, it should be under- Jined, is no criticism of Mr. Masters' Incidentally, how many people ability or stature as a poet.It is know the etymology of their own apparent that this seeming careless- ness is intentional. One must assume names? What gratification it that Mr. Masters has decided that should bring to Edward to know the tale is the thing. To appear to that he is the Protector of Prop- be coreless is, with some, a law of One respects the erty, to Eugene that he is well. artistic creation.

poet's integrity; his method seems to born. to Philip that he is a Lover leave a great deal to be desired. For of Horses, or to Elliot that he is myself I wish the poems in "More Fancy's Flight. Of doubtful People" moved me more. There is satisfaction to Algernons is the material in them that should do so, fact that etymologically they are with whiskers.

Such low words as mob and mobsters are of classical extraction, being abbreviated from mobile vulgus. Our democratic taxicabs descend, by way of cabriolets, frun the capers of the Roman goats. How many politicians realise that Senate is an assembly of old men, and that candidates, to be etymologically correct, should be wearing white?

J. 1.

DOUBLE ACROSTIC No. 910. SOLUTION.

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And does a student of calculus know guinea-pig. ho is only counting pebbles? This realisation ought to lighten his task. So, to one and many, this book of words Is excellent entertainment, particularly precious in these days of strain when words are so often used infame and to destroy.

NICOLAS SLONIMSKY.

Hurricane "Not Guilty"

NEW HAVEN, Judge Jolin Rufus Dooth refused to believe it was an "act of God" when the 1938, hurri- esne tore. Dr. E. H. Loiz's boat from its moorings and rammed it against another craft owned by Dr. Edward E. Martin, causing extensive damage. He ordered Dr. Loiz to pay $400.38 repair bilis.

PUZZLE CORNER

ANSWERS

Cryptogram: Pearls are the re- sult of abnormal condition within the oysters in which they are found. A Rebus: Bon Bon S (Bon- bons).

Letter Juggling: Crawls, scrawl.{

How Many Lots?: 45 lots. Fan With Antonyma: Earnest- playful; reasonable-absurd; ple-| belan-aristocratie; practient-vision~| ary; raging-calm; portable-fixed; ropid-sluggish; identical.different; curving-straight; innocent-corrupt.

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