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"PROBLEM" PICTURES

"Problem" plotures showing amusing altuations at home-add Interoat to your album, Think of such situations that have occurred at your house--than re-anabt them for the camera.

SHOW

a subject la an amuslog the collar button? it has happened "Az"-a problem altuation-and to everybody. And it is worth soy- you have an antertaining picture, oral plctures-a saquetico-conclud- All manner of simplo everydaying with the doni triumphant recov. problems, can be used tor picture fory of the elusive button. Just purposes and if you just show the try it

situation clearly, those snapshots Ofton, in the comic strips or hu nover fail to be interesting.

morous magazines, you find, altun

If there's an old, worn-out alarmtions that will make good up- clock in the junk box or the attic alots, with real people in them. fish it out, lat Johnny take the Bome time ago, one comte strip works apart, and then got a shot of showed a man trying to even up the him trying to mako everything go legs of a tall kitchen stool, it back in place.

would stand level. Bit by bl, he If thoro's a puppy at your houso,aawed small sectionn off each teg→ pose him with a couple of cans of until he wound up with nothing dog food, and a can-opener on the more than a footstool, If you have floor in front of him. Beold him 'aan old, broken-down stool around bit, and you'll got a doletat expron-somowhere, try this-It. fo. will alon that makes the pictura perfect.make a marvellous snapshot se- Hero's another. Once I tried to quence, with five six pictures bake an angel food cake, and it toit jail equally funny.

so dat we tried to use it for auto- Just alt down and recall amuking mobilo tira patches, Now, why not thiage that have happened at home got hubby to don an apron. Then In the past. Door the kitten got him. have him hold a cake pan, and pleself all tangled up in Grandmother's turo him ung a big brittle sugar yarn-beyond encapo? Did you ever cookie out of it. That's the cake-thump your finger with hammer, as his baffled expression will revoal trying to hang picture? Nota -and you'll have a shot that really down such things-then put them "rings the bell.”

into "altuation" saapshots. It's a Again how about platures of splendid way to have lots of winter hubby or Uncie John struggling camera fun. Into a full-dress shirt, and losing

John van Guilder

Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 10, 1941.

Science and Ourselves

THE UNIQUENESS OF a mere first cause or vague scope of merely rational investi- MAN. By Julian Huxley: Chat- general principle." fo and Windus. 10s. 6d.

gation?

May it not be, however, that Professor Huxley ends his there is not only a natural book with the sentence: "My 'science, but a supernatural final belief is in life," and he

PROFESSOR HUXLEY is tural e antislaust as the na- states his creed nobly. But it is one of the most attractive tural scientists peor into worlds whether his faith, for all its of scientific writers. He is at of the ordinary man, so the generosity, could ever have pro- once original; in his quest of great religious teachers, the duced the life of Socrates or St knowledge and popular in his supernatural scientists, aro dis- Francis, or the music of Handel appeal, Ho is both rationalist coverers of truth beyond the or Bach.

and idealista biologist. who proclaims in the preface to his' new book that "the most vital

task of the present age is to formulate a social basis for

NEW NOVELS

THE LAND OF SPICES. By "The Land of Spices" a book civilisation, to dethrone. econo- Kate O'Brien. Heinemann. 8s. fascinatingly rich in the sense mic ideals and replace them by Gd.

of reality.

human ones." :

Book.

"The Unique-

ness of Man" is

a book of es-

LAST TRAIN OUT. By E. IN “Last Train Out" Mr Phil-

says, ranging Phillips Oppenheim. Hodder. 89. from the pro- 3d.

clamation of the

of the Week

unique place of

lips Oppenheim has written the best of his recent "thrillers." He has obviously been deeply moved by events in contempor- ary Europe and, as a result, the man among the · THE GHOST OF THE DUN- beginning of his book hus some animals to

an SANY. entertaining review of a volume

By E. Laurie' Long. of the qualities of a serious good of "Who's Who," entitled "The

Ward, Lock.

novel. Analysis of Fame."

·

75. 6d.

*

Later It becomes a "thriller," Professor Huxley writes on

but an excellent thriller, about eugenics, and the future of the KNOWN AS Z.I. By George eve of the war with the smug- escape from Vienna on the very human race, and he has certain- Goodchild. ly made

gled art-treasures of a million-

опе

non-scientific

reader's blood run cold with the announcement that "it is now

aire.

open to man and woman to con- MISS KATE O'BRIEN'S new summate the sexual function novel proves yet again that "THE Ghost of the Dunsany” with those they love, but to ful- she is a writer with an original

is an exciting story of a voyage across the Atlantic with

fil the reproductive function with gift. those whom on perhaps quite

a cargo of gold, a new captain "The Land of Spices" is the with his navigator in a state of other grounds they admire." This possibility is due to the story, of a nun-a "tall, grand rebellion, his wife and her lover recent technique of artificial in- un," Reverend Mother of the on board, and so forth. semination."

Irish branch of an

ancient There are also essays on the of her affection for her pupil, French conventual order-and courtship of animals and the in- Anna, who came to the convent telligence of birds, and the book as a child of six.

THE secret service agent closes with statements of a bio- O'Brien's telling, at once austere hair-raising series of adventures It is, in Miss "known as Z.I." goes through a logist's creed. Here, Professor and delicious. Huxley seems to write with too

in the book of that name, by

The only

.great confidence, as when he The mingled French and Irish George Goodchild. says: "The concept of God has atmospheres; the nervous ten- trouble is that young Trevor is reached the limits of its useful- sion of growth that Miss O'Brien such a perfect little gentleman ness. "Natural science," he captures with such humour; that he gives his unscrupulous adds, "has pushed God into an psychic shock and its results, enemies every chance against ever greater remoteness, until traced with the gentleness of him. In real life "Z.I." would His function as ruler and dicta- genius through shadowy depths have been dead or become tough tor disappears and He becomes of thought and deed, go to make by the end of the first chapter!

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

HE WAS WANDERING AROUND OUTSIDE---- POOR DEAR

IS LOST./*

1 TOLD YOU TO PUT ALL THOSE

THINGS IN THE CLOSET

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The Stray Pup

BY KEMP STARRETT

YOU'LL HAVE TO DRIVE TO TOWN AND GET THREE OR FOUR KINDS OF DOG FOOD...HE WON'T EAT THIS!!*

"QU/DID YOU RHONE

ALL THE NEIGHBORS

01

BETTER PUTAN AD IN THE PAPER- WHILE YOU'RE

IN TOWN/A

0800

ON A NICE, QUIET SATURDAY WHEN YOU'VE PLANNED TO CATCH UP ON THINGS,NO GUESTS EXPECTED............. AND.......

SO YOUR OWN DOG GOES INTO THE CELLAR FOR THE

DURATION,

""ATS" A BABY?"" NOW HIR'S ALL NICE AN' SAFE LET'S GO

SLEEPY-BYE.

AND VOILE

YOU THOUGHT

HE WAS IN DEED AND PEACEFUL SLUMBER.... HE WAS EATING YOUR DOG'S BED.

I FOUND THE OWNER... HET COMING RIGHT

OVER!

YOU KNOW! *THE NIGHT COULDN'T TURN OUT

ANY OTHER

NURY/

NEXT DAY.

THANK GOODNESS

THATS OVER IF YOU EVER BRING ANOTHER STRANGE DOG IN HERE, I LEAVE

'I'LL TEND TO THIS!? YOU LET HIATOUT.... AND WATCH HIM. MIGHT: 12UN AWAYA

LIKEVICE, VULĖ HE. THINKS YOU ARE IN DEEP AND PEACEFUL SLUMBER

AND THEN WHEN THE PUP IS SAFELY BACK WITH ITS OWNER

PHOOY!