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Saturday,

HONGKONG, TE LEGRAPH won April 20, 1940.

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WEEK-END PARTY

Quizzed at a cocktail party

IT was one of those cocktail parties where you couldn't move, couldn't breathe, couldn't hear yourself, speak.

"Everybody shout," seemed to be the motto-go I fed in the hour of boredom by composing a quiz for you out of the snatches of con- versation

1 overheard. Stand

by

1 From these isolated remarks, what, profession or trade would you unsociate with the spenker?

(a)" so the fool dropped the tabs on my head..

(b)

the got a festern-

point by-line, but I was cut to

n brief.

(c) ".

then I told him to

fit a new belly..

"

(d)

and the absolute should be through soon...."

(e)

the dogs were teor out so I changed the races while I was

(1)"

the called herself a coloratura, but we considered her a pain in the neck.

as nice a job of trepausing as I ever saw.

() ".. broke again! The falt was worse than last year,

63 a result, I had

to fit her up wilt a bridge-dad dfd she hate it.

2 Some spiteful people at this party. They referred 10 their best friends as (a) Uriah Heep

(b) a Jonah, (c) à Jezebel, (d); ä Peckteni, (e) Peeping Tom, (1)

Job's Comforter. Meaning whate

Numes of

places and people about--names floated

that pronounced one way and spelled another names like (a) "Marsh-

ure

banks," (b) "Bewly," (e) "Kees

(d) "Looson Gor,"

"Liggon,"

bury.

you recognise them outline?

froin

their

Optical Illusion

HERE quite plainly in the column above you have a fight of steps. And quite plainly you are looking down on them. Well look again. Stare. Suddenly you'll notice that you're looking up at the steps- and that the steps are, apparently, hanging from the ceiling. You don't get it? Try imagining that the black wall Is nearer to you 6811 than the white wall. You

don't get it? Turn the picture upside down, then turn it very slowly right-side up again. Gol it? Took me seven minutes of solid concentration.

Gestures

IF you don't giggle-hopelessly, helplessly, like a schoolgirl-when playing this game, then there's something wrong with you,

your-

Purk selves round the fire. Some one starts Off-"I the market to buy trainbone."

went (1) "Mawdlin College,"

"Coomsbury,"

(h) "Anies-

I give you the phonetic spellings. You give me the cor-

reet ones.

4 Finally, a bespectacled, pale- faced authoress was holding forth to a group of admirers, using such adjectives as (a) Rabelalaian, (b) gargantuan, (e) procrustean, (d) bowdlerised, (e) euphuistle. Put them into simpler language.

Answers foot of this column.

STOP, look and Itsten. Stop that gramophone, George-lock at the slhouettes below on the right, everybody-and listen to the rules for a new competition, which we will call-

The

Observation Game

Test your powers of observation. Do you notice things? Do you look at advertisements? The sil- houettes in the middle of the page are trade marks, or lgures, in- timately connected with twelve- well-known advertisers. seen them dozens of times, and if they weren't all black, you'd re-

onee. But cognise them at

can

You've

Spotting The Rank

ADMIRAL

The torm dorived from

Admiral

is

the Arabic word Amir, meaning Chiof, and was introduced to this country from Franco, where it is more correctly rendered by the word Amiral,.

It is the highest rank but one in the Royal Navy, corro- sponding to Conoral in the

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Ad- Army: There mirals on the active list and nearly 150 on the retired list.

are

Donotation of rank by stripes on the cuffs is of com- paratively modern origin in this country, though other nations have since adopted it with various modifications. Roughly speaking, the greator the number of stripes the higher the rank.

On the shouldors of the avercoat, owing to the moro limited amount of spaco available, the rank of a flag officer (1.0., all ranks above Captain) indicated in crossed swords and a varying number of stars.

by

Admiral tho Hon. Sir Reginald Ayimor Ranfurly Plunkett Ernio - Erlo - Drax. who possessor, the longest namo in the Navy, and is Commander-in-Chief at the Noro, is senior Admiral on the activa list..

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But he doesn't say trombone; he rukes the ges- fure of a trem- player. bonc Next player; "I went to the market

to

buy

same

GRIN AND BEAR IT

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SILY

By Lichty

"Whadd'ya mean, I don't know anything about music? Name any record and I'll tell you what's on the other side!!

Brain-teasers

1. In whut two countries have beards been the subject of taxa- tlon?

2. The Hinto was:

(a) a Roman sports arena, (b)

a Greck temple, (c) a bridge in Italy, (d) a Moscow theatre, (e)

a famous French art gallery.

3. Is it true to say that Great Britain, as an island; Is' larger than Borneo?

4. Who represented the Army

at the Supreme War Council?

5. Which two of the following Actors have played the title role in sercen productions of "The Hunchback of Notre Damo"?

(a) Boris Kartof, (b) · Lon Chancy, (c) Bela Lugosi, (d) Charles Laughton, (e) Lionel Attili,

6. Which M.P. made this state- ment in the House of Commons recently? "You cannot dig for victory with a pair of Treasury

· scissors."*

7. Which of the following writ- era gave us "Frankenstein"?"

(a) Nicolal Gogul, (b) Agatha Christie, (c) Edgar Allan Poc, () Mary Shelley, (c) Dennis Wheatley.

D. By how many lengths did Cambridge win the Boat Race last yoar?

COPLACUT

tro-lifling gesture) "and

2

3

4

5

beer"

h

(push and pull ges- ture). Next player: "I went to the market to buy a pair of corsets" (waist wriggling movement) "some beer" (elbow lifting) "and a trombone" (push and pull). And so on-cach player adding a new article by gesture. Player who forgets onc, or who gets the list in the wrong order is out. Continue till hysterical-and play fast.

Luck In A Cup

SWISH the tea-cup dregs round three times in the left hand from left to right. Turn upside down carefully and empty. What do "You "Rel?

A leaf foniation like a bird fly- means ing from a cage? This good news.

An anchor? Loyal friends, con- stancy in love, the realisation of your wishes.

An

λ boat? ork? Security. Success in new enterprises.

A hollyhock? A friend or lover who will never disappoint you..

A surprise. I A padlock? can't tell you all the signs. Get good book on ten-cup fortunes and see for yourself. I've just read one and don't belleye a word of it. But it's a fascinating pastime.

PARTY QUIZ

1. (a) Acting, (b) journailem. (c) violla making, (d) law (divorce), (e) motor engineering, (f) ainging. () falt of forming Burgers, (h) lambs," (1) dentistry. 2. (a) One who practises false humility, (b) one who brings bad luck, (e) a brazen woman, (d) n hypocrite, (e) one whe pries, (f) one who add to your nor

9. (a) Marjoribanks, (b) Beau- leu, (c) Caius College, (d) Levenon- Gower, (e) Lygon, (f) Bagdalens AL- College, Congresbury, (h) mondsbury. 4. (a) Brond humour, (b) large, (c) deliberately distoried, (d) with everything doubtful omitted, (e) high-down and artificial

row.

$

3 more

guests for the party

I'D like to suggest that you' In- vite the Andrews Sisters, three loud and violent American ladica, to your party this week-end. have by now reached the stage in life..when my views on politics do not add up to any sense at all, but it remains my firm theory that if you have to have close harmony singers, then they should be the Andrews Sisters.

Easlly their best record (it in't new, but maybe you haven't heard. it) is "The Beer Barrel Polka" (Brunswick). They reroll out the Barrrrelli with all the palety and gusto

that this great number de- mands,

"Their latest is "Yodelling Jive" (Drunswick). They sing it with Bing Crosby. The contrast be tween their" brisk precision and Mr. Crosby's lazy care I find frre- Ristible.

P. II.'

Did You Ever Wonder

How a Sponge Holds So Much Water?

By experiment it has been shown that when one end of a very small tube is dipped into water, the water will rise in the tube; and the gnaller the diameter of the tube, the farther the water will rise. The first of such experiments were made with tubes little larger than a hair, and the term "capilary at traction" used to describe this ac- tion is from the Latin capillus, "Boir."

The action of capillarity is based

on a characteristic of water known as surface tension, Water acts as though there were

an invisible, clastic film or skin over its sur- face, exerting a tension or pressure on the water. Drops of water are round because the surface tension tends to make the surface as small as possible.

EXCLANATION OF CAPILLARY ACTION

Adhesion makes the water crowl up the sides os in A. Surface tension then roises the center as in "B" This ia repeated as in Cond E. until the weight of the water in the tube equalit the upward pull of surface tensionįj

Surface tension may be over- come by water coming in contact with a substance which has a

ntiraction greater

for the water

the

molecules (ndhealon) than water molecules have for one an ether (cohesion). Water adheres readily to clean glass; and we may notice that the surface of the water In a tumbler slopes up sharply at the junction of the water and the glass,

When the end of a small glass water, the tube is dipped into water tends to slope up where it touches the glass, both inside and outside the tube.

diameter the of the tube is very small, the curve or slope tends to extend to the

the sur- centre of the tube.. But face tension of the water tries to Batten the course, lifting the con- tre and allowing the water creep up farther in the tube. This creeping continues until the weight of the water lifted equals the up- ward pull due to surface tension; and the smaller the tube, the higher the water will go.

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INANITY FARE

Ivor Novello

Is a lucky fellow

Keeping the home fires burn.

ing

In two wars rurning.

The outer surface of the sponge has Innumerable tiny openings or

ugh these minute en pores. Through trances the sea water flows and is carried to all parts of the body of the sponge through a marvellous- ly Intricate network of tiny canals or tubes. The circulation of water through the living sponge is main- tained by little hair-like lashes Here are the answers to the

Teasers, constant canals. The along the waving of these lashes or fingella keeps the water circulating through the tubes.

These countless tiny tubes are what make the sponge "thirsty" that is, their capillarity enables the sponge to soak up and retain re- markable quantities of water,

Teasers' Answors

1. England; in 12th Century and Russia in the 17th Century. 2. A bridge in Italy. 3. No. Borneo la much larger. 4. General Sir Ed- mund Ironside. 5. Lon Chaney and Charles Laughton. 8. Mr. Lloyd George. 7. Mary Shelley, 8.4 lengths.

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