1940-06-19 — Page 13

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 19, 1940."

"MAGAZINE PAGEL

STORY

YOU must remember

what you put away, Mother," I say when she sita down, rendy, and begins knitting.

"Of course I remember," she says, knitting intensely- "I know exactly where I put everything. But Father's

dress studs, I must say, I can't- recollect at this moment. Perhaps it will come in time

"I am a simple man," exclaims Dad, who is talking so loud this evening because of the Town Hall affair being dress optional, and the Tapers, the Quilis, ond Colonel Haze-Brown known to be dressing, "But, oh, my God!" he continues, running out of the room and turn- ing the gas in the bathroom, which ta kept at half for economy, off instead of on, "I want nothing of life but just

where the blazes

are those stude?"

"You must remember something about his dress studs, surely, Mother?"

How she knits when she is be- wildered, or ready hours before she need be.

"They belonged to Aunt Hildo." she says.

"And how long has Aunt Hlida been dead?" bellows Father, forcing that bottom drawer of the wardrobe on the landing where we keep the bowls.

Now I have always wondered and meant to usk spinebody how long Aunt Hilda has been dend, because Aunt Hikla so often crops up in the conversion and always in inmments of stress.

Pather knows perfectly well, of course," says Mother in a long- sufferlog, quiel way. "She passed over ever so quietly in her sleep, poor thing, and left him those dress

tenis."

FA

NATHER drops some of the bowls down the stairs and we lose the thread of the conver- sation.

"I might as well ask Aunt Hilda herself as ask you anything," he eries, running about the hall col- lecting them.

"But, my dear Henry, you are not the Mayor, but the Sanitary Inspector.." We listen to the click

needles of her

for ponderous

moments,

"May I remind you, my dear, that the Tapera, the Quilts and Colonel Haze-Brown..."

"I don't see what they have to

do with your dress studs," unaps Mother with decisive logic.

Aun!

"You might as well be Hido for all the help and use you are," shouts Father, rushing at the stairs.

DRESS

4

THE

We seem to away about in the candle light, "It is fortunate that I'm dressed and ready at least, sighs Mother. "You'd better look In Aunt Hilda's tallboy. I can't recollect exactly what we stored In there....but If you must have these....I mean you're not the Mayor

Like one of those heavy tanks Colonel Inzo-Brown mentioned his lecture as having won last wer-when he took the place și Mrs. Haze-Brown,

was to

have spoken on a Customs Father approach the tailboy. He tore open the door, crying: "I am a tidyed man, but........”

MISSING

DRESS STUDS

ARE FOUND

"Try the attic, then, dear," Mother calls after him.

"You were telling me xhen. Aunt Hilda died, Mother."

sume

101 was, but well, as a matter of fact, when was it Your Father was away at Sanitary. Inspectors' con- ference. And everybody sent most invely flowers, the Tapers, the Quilts, you know, and Mrs. Haze- Brown. One summer It must have been. I don't often forget things."

"Hadn't we better go up to the attic and help Father. Otherwise you'll both be Inte."

"Funny things," says Mother, Jumping up with her knitting under her Arin "I don't often forget things, but 1 cnonot recollect Just when it was Aunt Hlida...except at she left those dress studs to your father,"

This attic is a disgrace," shouts Father, relighting a candle and spilling hot grease on his dinner trousers. "How can I find dress studs in a place like this 7' I'm patient man, but..." He strikes the parrot enge with his free hand and brings down Aunt Hilda's oleo- graphs of the Seasons against the marble washstand which stood in nur bedroom before we hnd the h. and c. bush.

Nother says: "Look, you've cracked the Jug-and to think, Aunt Hilda used it all those years and never cracked it.".

"Can't you stop knitting!" howls Father,

If the for uld

the Tapers, the Quilts, or

see us all standing in the attic now they would be surprise 1, and I fear they might cut us like they did that poor Mrs. Hollyoak who was acquitted of kilEng her elder sister with a blow-lamp during the thaw.

THE THOMAS PATENT STEAM-PIECE

JT is diMcult to describe the invention without using technical language. Roughly, it can be explained that the Thomas Steam-piece Is a watch (1.c., a timepiece), driven by stcant. The watch is of ordinary size and can be carried in the waistcoat, or (if really de- sired, but with far more pain and incon- venlence), on the wrist.

An fron band, to be obtained in many colours, is wrapped round the wearer's walsi; from this, propped against the chest and protruding from under the specially con- structed iron collar, is the heavy, but altrac- tively painted, funnel,

H

From the back of the collar hangs a long chain with a hook in the middle; this must be linked, between the legs, to the other shorter chain which hangs froin the front of the iron belt.

From the book on the linked chain a neal, but adequately convellous coal-scuttle is suspended: this causes little actual discom- fort to the wearer as the specially smoothed and rounded sides of the scuttle it Into the small of the back.

*

The wearer's suit, (preferably) robe, must, of course, be at least two sizes too large. The protuberance made by the scuttle under the wearer's garments causes little derision. und is, in fact, often an unprovement to i middle-aged figure, balancing the natural protuberance on the side opposite to, or (to put it more colloquially), round the corner of, the seuille.

STRATEGY TEST:

SCALT ÎN ABILEN

Péviser.

รูปท

1. Malta is 17 miles long, about 9 miles wide. (Area about 04 sq. miles) Civil population 244,000,

2.Gozo, Comino, Cominotto, and

Filia.

3. 1814.

4.54 miles from Stelian coast, 200 miles from African mainland.

5. Pantellaria.

SICILY

CATANIA

Answers

6, Bizerta In Tunisia.

Malta is strategically almost as important a Gibraltar. It is a first-class naval base on tuell as a port of call for merchant ship But its proximity to Italy might make it vulnerable to air attacle. The Malicae are a race of Semitic origin with their own language.

"Why?" said Mother. "What have we got here?"

It is Aunt Hilda.

She stands upright, just like the photograph of her in the hall; and her eyes blink balefully in the candle light. I should think she is out of sorts, but I do not ask her hen she is because I've never met her, of course.

"Why, Aunt 1ilda," Mother be- gins, "I forgot all about you

"Where are those dress studs?” Father interrupts, the thought of the town hall causing him to forget manners.

"We'll come to that later," snaps Aunt Eldo in an old and rather disagreeable voice.

UNT now wants to know what they have been doing and why, how Mother came to forget her, and why we have not been usic her fullboy; and Mother says how will she explain about the flowers to the neighbours, where and why didn't Aunt say

she was, or shout; but Aunt says why should she, even If she

hnd known, she had been thinking, and

Henry (poor Father)

ever thought she

would have risen higher; and Mother says that being sanitary inspector is good enough for her in a borough of this size, she's proud of him.

Father has been forcing open a night rcmunode which Mother

dated, always says is

and now loses his temper, crying in on awful voice: "I have reached the end of my tether. Where those dress luds?"

are

"In your dress shirt, of course, where they always are," barks Aunt, breaking off her complaints and arguments with Mother.

Time is getting short. We rush down from the attic.

His dress studs are there, in his shirt!

CLIPPER ARRIVALS

U.S. Aircraft Plants At Top Speed

"I visited nearly all the big air- craft factories in Ameries and found them so busy that they didn't know where to turiy us they cannot enlarge their plants fast enough," said Mr. Leslie A. Lewis, United Alveraft Aviation Co. representative arrival by the Honolulu Clipper yesterday.

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"They think it will take six months to turn fighting planes and bombers સાર at the required speed. The United Aircraft Company is building Vaught dive bombers and Pratt and Whitney engines in huge numbers for the Allies in Connecticut. The Lockheed Company has more than 2,000 planer building and combined, the aircraft companies have orders for 15,000 planes which they have not yet begun placing."

"Judging from the opinion,

the

United States is definitely going to get into the war. Mr. Roosevelt's inst speech almost amounted to declaration of war."

Mr. Lewin has been away from Hongkong for two months, six weeks of which he spent in the United States, as be made the journey both ways by Cupper.

There were 41 passengers on the Clipper, which stopped at Macao for elght passengera.

on

The arrivals included Dr. Francis K. Pan, of the Chungking Govern- ment Foreign Service, who has been a mission to sludy transport methods in America; Mr. Ousay Lipotz, General Muninger of the South Sea Trading Corporation, New York, on a business trip from San Francisco; Mrs. A. L. Coppinger en route to Rungoon accompanied by Miss

from C. Coppinger,

San Francisco,⚫

From Honolulu.-Mr. W. Nicholas, metallurgist connected with a British firm on a business trip; Mrs. Jern McCarthy, and her daughter Jeanne, en route to Bhamo, Upper › Burinu, where her husband is stationed ni the Central Aircraft Manufacturing Co.

GRIN AND BEAN IT

By Lichty

ABNER

DEAN

"Whoa, Tilliol. You'll get indigestion again!”

STRATEGY

TEST No. 3

1.

2.

How large is Malta? Name other islands in the Malta group. 3. When did Great Bri- tain acquire Malta? 4. How far is Malta from

Italy from Africa

5. Name Italian air- naval island base between Malta and Africa.

6. Name the nearest

French naval base.

(Ser Answers below.)

The

PROBLEM

CORNER

A BRIDGE FOUR

"Four of us play Bridge after dinner," said my friend North.

"We had three rubbers at orie shilling

hundred, with 22 change of partners each time.

"West won six shillings during the evening. South lost £1. East won two shillings."

What (in shillings) was the value to the winners of each of the three rubbers?

* 82 80

UNO GIUS V

First

Listener-in

-Thirty Years ago there

Was

no Haw-Haw

EARLY in 1909 a white-haired village schoolmaster in Northamptonshire was living in a wonder world of his own discovery.

Science had found a new marvel-a method by which mes. sages could be sent through the air for hundreds of miles with- oul the aid of wires, carrier pigeons or beacon lights,

Frank Henry Wright, scientist, painter, astronomer, musi- cian,. writer-a lonely man in the isolated village of Buchebroc ferreted (vulgarised to Bugbrooke) Northamptonshire-had out the mystery of sound waves,

In the quiet of the night he listened to the secrets of the air-the "pin-ping" of the Morse code from hundreds of miles away.

Many months of failure preceded his moment of triumph, but early one March morning the secret was yielded to him.

Every morning his son had been posled at one end of the schoolroom

work

to

it

News of the schoolmaster's radio leaked into the outer world. Letters

from of inquiry reached him small, home-mude

and America, Australia, Canada, electric tupper. His father was at the other end of the schoolroom, other countries. his enger eyes fixed on what seem- ed to be a compass.

Victory

On this particular morning there was a development which made the con's eyes open in astonishment. denly flung up his arms with a His usually dignißed father sud-

shout: "I've got It-the hand her moved! Work that tapper"

One day a pole, Bity feet high, was planted in the playground and reare its head above the school. Long wires hung between it and the top branches of neighbouring beech tree,

In 1010 the schoolmaster and his pupils were listening to Morse code messages from North Germany, (Cornwall). France, Cleethorpes and Poldhu

Homo-mado Apparatus

copper wire induction coil

an

old kitchen tray: earthenware Inkpots from the school desks were used as Insulating epools. Other com- ponents were incdicine bottles and Jam Jars,

The was wound on a wooden rolling From Manila. Mr. Jose de Leon, pln; the baseboard WAB wealthy Marlin businessman, on a pleasure trip "accompanied by eight members of his family; Mr. E. W. Stumvoll, of Kuenzie and Strieff. Mandla; Mr. Marcel Nubla, Manila lawyer, Mrs. Rose Pearne, ́necom- panicu her daughter Odetto ufter

round-trip by Cilpper to visit her through a window ledge by the munt, Mes, Bachrach, in Manila; Dr. tedium of the ridek, of a vinegar lenvenido Frans, and his wife, on bottle cracked off the main body, honeymoon trip; Mr. Francisco Earphones, the only items of real Pulgjaner, of Luis Perez Samanille expenditure, were obtained from

London. Ine, Manaon a business trip.

The earth wires were

passed

Learned selentists and professors visited the village school. They looked at the medicine bottles arid jam fars, end listened at the ear- phones. Some of them admitted that pet theories had been upset.

Secret Attic

Frank Henry Wright was the first amateur radio listener in Britain. Throughout the war he listened-In, The authorities had, na they thought, removed all his equipment when the war broke out, but the village schoolmaster heard all the hot news first-hand in a secret attic at the school-house. He had

aerial. no outside visible

Frank Henry Wright died as the war ended. Radio was still then in its Morse code Infancy,

"I am convinced," he said to his son, "that soon people will spenic to one another by wireless. I have occasionally heard human voices among to Morse,"

In

A young newspaper editor, still hlo twenties, alts working throughout the night in an offer In faraway Kuala Lumpur, Federated Malay States,

"I have bought, a radio," he writes to me, "and can hear London clearly from seven in the evening until breakfast time the following -morning--I can hour Dig Bên

striking 11 n."

That young man is Frank Henry. Wright's grandson.

"Pop" Wright.

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