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Monday.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

July 22, 1940,

DONALD

LA

SERVICE,

GARKON!

DUCK

PARAPLUIE

SIDEWALK

CAFE

HUMPI

WE'RE NOT SERVING

OUTSIDE, TODAY. MONSIEUR! IF YOU'LL STEP INSIDE, I'LL=~~!

I DON'T WANTA EAT ·

INSIDE! I WANT

SERVICE RIGHT HERE!

WELL, IF MONSIEUR

INSISTS---]

MONSHURE

INSISTS SO MAKE IT SNAPPY!

then Protection G-7

By Walt Disney

MAGAZINE PAGE

ARE YOU SURE?

The Telegraph · Brains Test

1. "A dolmen is-

A hussar's jacket

Answers foot of Page

An animal of the whate species

a funeredt poem

A stone table

A multan's bodyguard

2. How did Downing-street get its

· name?

3. One of these cities is for its motto: "Nisi Dominus Frustra."

Liverpool Belfart

Cardig

Edinburgh

Manchester

Birmingham

4. What British Prime Minister

was murdered while in office?

5. Supply the missing verb in the following:-

the buck

(b)

the caber

(e)

the main braze

the lead

the atom

the cat

6. When was the official ending of the Great War?

7. One of these animals will die

of suffocation if its mouth is kept open:-

Tortoise

Frog

Wild boar

Jackal Stoat

B. With which sports are these!

places arsoclated:-

(a) Westward Ho!

(b) The Dell

(c) Forest Hils

(d) Madison-square Garden

(e) Hambledon

(†) Lingau Fen

Handel Purcell

Sullivan

Dr. Bull

Dr. Athe

Elgar

11. Oom Paul was

The name of a ship

Title of a play

President of a country

Dutch admiral

12. A snake casis its skin after hibernating; what is the operation called?

13. If you were using an isobar you would be:-

Arcertaining weather jacts

·Smashing your way through a snowdrift.

Drinking a cocktail

Learning to skate

Weighing imported meat

14. John Wesley's original` pulpit

Is In-

Durham

The British

Cathedral

Museum York Minister Lincoln College, Westminster

Oxford

Abbey

15. A day la gained or lost in travelling round the world. Where?

18. Robin Hood was sometimes called

Granville

Jameson

Locksley

Perceval Charlwood

17. Jargon is the name of at-

Chinese parac Fabric

Language

Eastern mitler

Precious stone Food

18. "Who would furdels bear?": What is a fardel?

1 Who wrote a poem contatning|

0. The longest ship canal in the the line: "I'm farther off from world is the:----

Sucz

Kicl

Panama Manchester

10. The music of "Rule Britannia"

was composed by:-

heaven than when I was a boy"?

20. Light travels at the rate of:- 340,000 feet a minute

8,680,000 yards a day

180,300 miles per second.

Did You Ever Wonder

Why Bees Make Honey?

The

FUNNY SIDE UP

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TION

and this is the part where we forgot to put film in

the cameras!"

Growing

Old

GRUMBLE

ANCHOR

Butters

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It's Good for You

MAN I know was having

An' good grumble the other

day

There was a third person pre- sent, and he made this remark to me:

**To Hatch to George grumbling you'd think he'd got all the troubles, of the world on his head.

Shut up, George. You're not in the Army yet."

That remark gave me the idea for this article. :

Because George was perfectly right to have his grumble.

And the man who made the re- mark was WRONG in telling him to shut up!

For instance, B good case for grumbling is made out by Dr. David Robertson, consulting psycho-thera- pist to the Northern Command.

But if it is true that Hilter works It was one lorut, incessant grumble.

off his tantrums in this way, it And a very good thing, too.

doubtless helps him to keep what Otherwise we should probably all lille mental stability he still has. have gone mad.

*

I'm going to tell you here and now to let yourself have a thumping good Bwear sometimes.

First And the right people to u sympathetic chorus, and supply then

grumble about anyone or any- thing you like.

Or rather, don't like-Hitler, the Government, or the Ministry of This, That, or The Other.

We should all be the botter for it If we could let go: our righteous in- dignation, as soon as it was aroused.

It is a wise maxim not to let the

7 o down upon your wrath. Within limits, of course.

No matter how righteous your anger against your chief, for in- stance, it would clearly be unwise to choke him off-unless he's the kind who can take it.

When I say grumble, I don't mean whine or inoar

But if you have a long-suffering mean a swift, shattering blast of friend handy, get him or her to listen fury, that leaves you saying: " to what you'd like to do to the old now I feel better!"

buzzard.

But far too few know how to ex- press real anger.

When it is done well, it is a truly magnificent sight and sound.

Plenty of us can be merely can- tankerous, in a rather childish way.

Usually, we shut down on our He says, in the annual report of wrath, and then sulk and fume and the Bootham Park Hospital, York,sinoulder until we nearly choke our- that for fewer soldiers have suffered selves. from nervous breakdowns than civl- lang since the war began.

And he explains it by the fact that the soldier Isis of steam much more easily than the civilian.

can partly confirm that from my own experience in the last war.

Disgracefully

Did I tell]

A Russian scientist says that Eh? Answer me that! When I was my boy, bring her along. I'm a we may yet live to be one hun-boy-my father would lash us with good judge of women. dred and eighty.

What a thought! Personally,

I would loathe and detest being one hundred and eighty.

YOU don't have to be drything like that age to be a most unbearable

n horse-whip if we interrupted him. you about the time when I used to A stern mon, but just,"

wait outside the stage door?" "Just what?"

"It's not anything like that. I've "Just what what? What the devil got to attend the Small Debts Court." are you talking about?"

"It doesn't matter, Grandpu. Let slide."

"Don't go, my boy. Don't go, Utter madness, Forget it. I'm an old man and I know. Well, what wes-1-saying? Oh,-about-tho-stage.. women like that these days, my

Probably because, when we were very

small, we never dared tell father or mother or nurse where they got off, if they annoyed us.

If we did, we would be told it was very naughty to be cross with any

onc.

Unhappily, many of us have grown up in that belief.

For it is a very bad belief, Besides making us like lot of thunderstorm. It dylig, ducks in can cause a great deal of headache, Indigestion and lost sleep.

*

I'm not suggesting that we need overdo things, and start throwing Ink af people.

RADIO

"Well, as I said to Charlie Grace I sald to an old friend of mine door. What a woman! You don't ZBW, 355 metres (845-k.c.)-ano-

The honeybee is the only "do- the form in which bees appear when bore. mesticaled-insect. It won this dis- first hatched from the egg.. tinction by reason of the fact man stored honey and pollen also form) is quite fond of the honey made by a reserve stock on which the com- of course, you wouldn't remember the bee. To obtain the honey, man munity of bees may subsist during Charlie

has provided hives for bees to use the months when they can no longer

as home, boxes in which they may make the combs to fill with

and by various ingenious bone;

A

A

Market honey is taken from the supers or storage frames "A" and "B", while the brood honey for the use of the bees is undisturbed in the hive below-

he has harnessed their energies and

put bees to work as domestic crea-

tures,

gather honey in the Beld.

A large bee colony needs perhaps

pounds of stored honey for win-

Ler food, and beekeepers are careful to take no honey, from the hive ex- cept that which is in excess of the amount needed by the bees.-Y. B. Keasbey.

The

HUSBAND'S

No. 1

FRIEND

A friend who visits Canada

I said to him

told me of a drink put up by a was in the Boer War with mo~———”

Montreal Club, the house rule

being that only one could bej

he

"There you are! That's just what careless, slangy misuse of the King's English is the hall-mark of the young

boy..

"I really must go and see this!

lawyer chap, grandpa."

"Very well, my boy, have it your own way. Would you like me to come with you?"

31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles) Trio in D Minor, Op. 32 Composed by Arensky

Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on a Frequency of 843 k.c's.j and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 pm, "No! What the I mean, no thank and 8-11 p.m. on 9.52 mc's, per you. Don't you bother."

second.

12.15 p.m. Short Service of Inter-

"Just like your father. Head- strong and stubborn.. Lend me two cession. shillings for some liniment, my boy,"

12.30 Variety Programme..

Or if you haven't go home and kick the cool-heap, or thwack car- pels, or smash up crates for fire- wood.

Even if none of these safety-valves cm be used, you can still get rid of your fury by yourself,

Once. I had lo treat a man whio flew into towering rages on the

least provocation-and an Irishman at that.

I told him to lie down in his bed- room the next time he began to feel furious, and to picture himself doing and saying just what he wished to the person who had upset him, and to go on until he no longer felt furious.

-It worked very well, and I recom- mend it to all to whom li may apply.

and Thump and punch your pillow, or kick an old cushion amund the room.

throtilo

You'll soon find you're roaring with laughter at yourself and foci- ing at peace with the world once

more.

BRIDGE

PROBLEM-

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There are No Trumps. South. leads and North-South must win

1.0 Local Time Signal' and' Wea-Lall seven tricks,

Now I ask you, fancy. having to put up with that year after year! ··

There is only one

consolation: ther Report Your turn would come.

CHESS

man of to-day. What was. I pay-! ing?"

four

White plays and mates in two moves...

You know the rest.

"About coming home at To live to the age of one hundred served to a guest. His host, re-and eighty a certain amount of jo'clock in the morning." The bee business is definitely "big belling at the rule, repaired to stamina seems to be required. business," the value of commercial- his yacht where he had three.

Not mark you, by the person who ly produced honey running into the Two days later he could see lives to be one hundred and eighty, tens of millions of dollars a year. friends at the hospital. The but by the people who have to listen

Bees teed principally on the nectar and pollen of flowers. In honey- gathering, the bee crawls deep into flower after flower, seeking nectar that lies at the bottom of the flower

legs are the first to go.

1 part of gin

1 part of absinthe

to him.

When I'm getting well on in years ay 130-I'll take a vicious plea- sufo in picking on small nephews

Mix with cracked ice and and nieces. cup. This nectar is not honey as when frosted, sip slowly.

the bee Ands it, but it undergoes

rhemical changes inside the beej

which turns the sugary Bower-dew ANSWERS

into real honey sta

The bee's body is very hairy, and

A klona tabla.

From Bir George Downing, who be

in crawling about in the flowers the came Cromwell's Minister to Halland, hairs católi, a liberal powdering of 3. Edinburgh pollen: Before returning to the hive

"When I was your age.

"You'll finish In a pauper's grave.. But you can't put old heads on young shoul- ders. Go your reckless way. When I was your age I was up at four. o'clock every morning winter and

summer."i:

4. Spencer Perceval, in the House of "What a dissolute young coot you Commons, 1012

must have been, Grandpa."

the bee packs the pollen into little. (a) Passing. (b) Tossing (n) Splicing,

bollen-baskets on the enlarged sec 'tión of its hind legs.”

"

Ah, yes. Those were the days. There was one girl I used to meet outside the Tivolf when the show was over

"WERE you at the Battle of Waterloo, Grandpa?”

Vaterloo? Oh yes! I' was only aboy at the time. I remember rallying the troops by blowing on my drum."

"You mean tapping on your bugie?"

"Eh? No! Damme,

keep silent!! DO YOU HEAR ME?"

Grandpa, that wna Denyinst You keep on interrupling me on a maga

"It was about you being a burglar mean a bugler-ut the Battle of Waterloo.

TILLATELS

You know-Into the val-gooding Solution "No! No! I mean I was in bedley of death rode the six hundred White: K on RK7: Q.on Q3; B's

hundred!--Tommy rot! There "Yeah?

(d) Swinging, (e) Spliting. (f) Bolling

8. August 31, 1921 when all treation of pesen had been ratified by the respective up till that time." Governments,

17. The frog.

Arriving at the hive, the bee puts its head, in an empty cell in the 8. (a) Goll. (b) Association, football; honeycomb and empties into the cell (9) Lawn tennis. (d) Boxing. (e) Cricket.

tho

Skaling

Suez 105 miles.

10. Dr. Arne. 11. President Kruger (South Africa), 12. Sloughing

the contents of a honey anc. In another empty cell it. places the pollen pellets, dislodging them from pollen baskets with the inter- mediate legs. When, after repeated 14. In a corner et the entrance to the trips to the fields, the honey cell and chapel in Lincoin College, Oxford.

meridian.

the pollen cell" are filled, they are sealed with the wax lids,

Upon the stores of pollen and honey thus lold up, the nurse bees draw to obtain food for the larvae,

3. Ascertaining weather iactal versi

Six

were only four hundred of us. They on QKI6, QBB, Kt's on Q84, Q4: P must have counted some of us on Ke KX10 Black K on Q4, R "Yes, my boy. A brisk walk of twice. Mind you, four hundred of on KR4: B'e on QRD, QB3; Kon seven or eight miles, a cold shower us were worth six hundred of any QRZ, KB2, P's on Ray bag

QJ, KBS, (10 KR2. Two and a hearty breakfast made me fl

clse,"

moves. Key

Varia marks) Threat 2. Q-K4 Yes, Grandfather" "DON'T KEER ON SAYING YES, tlons: 1. K-K4, 2. K. * B; 1; Kt-

B6, 2. KL (Q4)-B3; GRANDFATHER"

QB5:.1. Raka. 2. OB *No Grandfather.".

to face the day's toil.--%

"Look" at "me now! · Bound - mata

belli Fetch me my cratches and 11

15. At varying points along the 100th show you how' I: heat Rattler. Brown-sold to Wellington at: tha.timo, the Blackt. Ka fight: two, unping of

216. Locksley.

17, Language, 18. Burden,

19. Tom Hood In I remember, I re- member,

20, 150,300 miles per second:

ch. 2.4 x 1. Good key, glving my spares the White Kt, amusingly contrasted "If you'll excuse me, I really must

one being by the Black E himself;

in those days, my dad." OF MW

"That's wonderful, Grandpa, "but I've got to going to din path ghostleg

"Siddown! What's become of the "Ha! You sly young dog. Some Balf-block and interference play. A Imanners of the present generation? Woman, 1 suppose. Bring her along good mixture.

go now. A

Solution

1.03 Reginald Dixon at the Organ.

South leads the club five, which 1.15 The BBC. Dance Orchestra.

North wins with the card necessary 1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press, to beat West. North leads heart ten, Weather Forecast and Announce which East covers and South wins, ments..

South leads his second club and

and Webster Booth (Tenor),EESE AND

2,15 Close down. 0.0 Variety.

1.45 The New Mayfair Orchestra North wins os before. North also

wing

́at clubs, with ace

on which East and South throw diamonds. North leads diamond nine and East

0.30 Closing local Stock Quota- tions.

6.32 Compositions of Albenir. 7.03 Nights at the Ballet. 7.39 London Kelay-Tho-Neww. 8.0 Local Time. Signal, Weather Report and Announcemnets.

8.03 A Dance Programme. 9. London Bélag The News and Topical Talks

9.45 Arensky-Trio In D Minor, Op. 32.

(Plano), Elleen Joyce

Henri Temianka (Violin) and Antoni Scala (Cello).

10.12 Two Songs by The Don Cossacks Choir.

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at

must throw either a heart or a spade; South will keep whatever Bast discords. West also is squeezed and must throw either the master club or a spade. North-South con. then win the last two tricks with elther two spades or a club and king. of spades, or king of spades and a

"FINESSE." heart. 74. 36.6,

10,20 Tohaikowsky --- Themo and Variallons from ́Bulte No. 3 in G.

London Symphony Orchestra con ducted by Sir Landon Ronald, 10:40 - Mlitary Band Music. 110 Close down.

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