1940-03-27 — Page 3

UNDERTAKEN.

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

MARCH 27, 1940.

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Test your TASTE

HERE are three simple tests planned to pass a few minutes in measuring your good taste.

One of Begin with these menus below. them is nearly perfect, the other has several care- lessly chosen items. Which of the two do you think shows the better appreciation of food—and WHY?

MENU

Grape Fruit

Froch Pos. Boup

Filót or gale: Bonita Penny

Roast Aylesbury Duckling

Frash, Pous

Buálied Potaturą

Water Ice with slices, of Frosh orange

MENU

Grape Fruit

ConJouze

Pillet of Sole Bonn Fenne

Boat Aylesbury DuckLig

tash Pann New Potatoes,

Peach Holba

Now these rooms: One is in good taste, the other has errors in furnishing. Which do you think is the better of the two-and WHY?

PICTURE ARTICLE

Ulbrary, Simpreme Court

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Two concerts next!

Which one would you

choose? One of them has been selected with the

greater discrimination. WHY?

I. Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1

Which one is it--and

CONCERT A.

1.

Liast

2.

Two Songs

Ave Maria

Serenade

Schubert Schubert

Midsummer

3. Intermezzo,

Night's Dream..Mendelssohn

4, Overture. Marriage of Figaro

Mozart

5. Song. Sererinde ......Strauss

CONCERT B.

Overture. Marriage of Figaro Mozart

2 Two Songs

Serenade

Schubert

Ah, fors' e lui ......Verdi 3. Ballet Music from La Boutique

Fantasque

.Rogaini

INTERVAL

4. Symphony: Pathetique

Tschaikowsky

If you're not sure, look at the foot of columns four and five.

"Life has suddenly become very pleasant, Mother"

CASTORIA

Economical, 12

doses or more In each bottle.

Uwe wa mwadesty.

For this little follow a sombre world has sud denly brightened. His mother has given him his first taste of Castoria-the children's laxative. And he loved It!

Even the taste of Castoria is made especially for children. It is also propared just as carefully for a child's noods.

It contains only pire, vegetablé ingrédients that are suitable for a child. Castoria naver causes griping pains. It is completely safe, It acte gently, yet thoroughly. Get a bottlo today.

CASTORIA

Medinal Syrp)

THE LAXATIVE FOR CHILDREN

Give Castoria at the first sign of a cold, an upset stomach or constipation.

MARVELS

MODERN

THE first torpedo consisted of an explosive charge on the end of a long pole.

This pole was carried by launch so that it stuck out over the bows like a long bow- sprit, and a torpedo attack consisted of creeping up to the enemy ship, thrusting the charge on the end of the pole against her side, and firing it.

That method was only used once in action, and then, the attacking launch was also destroyed, which was hardly surprising.

It is a far cry from that primi- tive weapon to the modern self- propelled torpedo, capable of rushing at Its target at nearly Afty miles an hour, and travelling for many miles on an accurate course and at a set depth below. the surface of the sea.

Yet the self-propelled torpedo is a weapon which has been developed comparatively recently.

Admiral of the Flent Lord Chatfeld. the British Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence, witnessed, when he was a YOUNE officer serving in H.M.S. War- spite, the first self-propelled torpedo attack on a heavy ship In history.

That was during the Chilean Revolution, when the ballicship Blanca Encalada was sunk by tor pedo attack from torpedo gunboats, The first self-propelled torpedoes were driven by compressed air. They were known as

as "cold" tor- pedoes. They worked fairly well, except that their speed tilled off as the pressure of the compressed air became reduced, and they left a very marked track of air bub-

blcs..

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THESE disadvantages were overs come by the development of what is known as the "heater torpedo.. Compressed air still plays aŋ im- portant part in the propulsion of these torpedoes,

"air and the vessel" in which the compressed air is contained forms the greater part of the hull of the modern

The torpedo. compressed air, how- ever, no longer drives the torpedo. The air mixes with oli fuel and is burnt in the inside of a "genera- the tor". Down the outside of "generator" runs water.

So high in the temperature of the "generafor” that the air, oil and water which go in at one end come out at the other in tho

OF TORPEDO

THE

forms of super-heated steam mixed with the kases of combus- tion. It is this mixture which drives the engine.

The engine of a modern torpedo is a marvel. It is a four-cylinder -radial engine which fits into the twenty-one inch diameter of the torpedo's -hull-and-takes-up- only about nine inches of lis length. This Hitle engine develops some three hundred horse-power, and is one of the most efficient power- units in the world. It is water- cooled by the sea, and it needs cooling for if a torpedo were run hot out of the water the engine would be reduced to a mass of molten meiņi in a very short time.

The engine drives, through gear- ing, two propellors which revolve in opposite directions. If there were only one propellor its grip on the water would tend to make the streamlined torpedo revolve while the propellor itself remained stül.

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THE depth below the surface al which a torpedo will run is regu- lated by horizontal rudders on the tall, which are operated by a com- bination of a hydrostatic valve and a pendulum weight. The

weight takes charge if the nose of the tor- pedo goes up or down, while the valve is actuated by the sea pres sure according to the depth at which the torpedo is set to run. The direction of the torpedo is controlled by vertical rudders uperated by a highly eMelent gyroscope run by compressed air

The explosive charge of a tor- pedo is, of course, carried in the head, and it is fired when a tor- pedo hits Its target by means of a "pistol" which fits onto the nose. of the torpedo. This "pistol" con- tains the detonator and firing mechanism. It Is provided with steel "whiskers" which stand out almost to the diameter of Wielor- pedo, so that if the torpedo strikes a glancing blow on its target, one, at least, of these "whiskers" is cer- tain to be struck and the torpedo fired. The actual weight of ex- *plosive in the head of a torpedo

is sceret, but experience has shown the power of these under- water weapons.

The modern torpedo is an ex- ceedingly

piece of complicated mechanism, and every part has to far as be accurate, not only as micrometer measurements are con- cerned, but also *15 regards weight. This is because a torpedo is very delicate. For efficient running a torpedo must have virtually 110 tendency elther to float or to sinic, so that its weight is a matter of nice calculation. Even the exact amounts of air, water, fuel and the rest of the things with which it is charged have to be carefully cal culated so that the resulting weight is right.

It is not surprising that a highly compileated and delicate mechanism like a torpedo should be expensive. If you wanted to buy a modern” torpedo and were able to do so you would not see much change out of £2,000.

Test Your Taste

1 Menu "A" is badly assorted,

Pea Soup and Roast Duck are both heavy, rich dishes and should not be combined. Peas occur twice, in the soup and as 2 vegetable. Mashed potatoes are wrong with the duckling:

Menu

g is better. In fact, there is nothing wrong with it until the sweet, which is too rich to fol- low the duck. If only the hostess who arranged this menu had ended her dinner with the Ice in Menu "A" It would have been a perfectly balanced meal.

In the grouping of "A" there

is n confusion of motives. The naturalistic designs on the rug clash with the formal modernlatle lines of the furniture. The flowern

for the ure out of place

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The drop antique handles on the tall-boy conflet with the rounded modern handles on the dressing trble.

In "B" there is one formal motive observed consistently throughout so un to make an harmonious whole. The rug is plain, there ore no flowers. The tallboy handles have also been made to match those on the dresser.

The first Programme, Concert "A" is just o' jumble of items, each one good in itself but strung together without pattern. There is no plece substantial enough to build the items around, Also they nee too monotonously alike. The two Schubert Hongs are similar. and there are two serenades, while the final item leaves a sense of incom- pleteness.

Concert "B" bulids up the atten- tion of the audience item by item to the climax. Then, when their faculties have been fully roused, comes a break to give them a rest before the big Item of the even- ing, which sends them home with something to think over and discuss.

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