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1. Cliles apart, the largest lown in England is--

Southampton, Bolton, Derby, Preston, Sunderland, West Ham, Croydon, Brighton?

were in-

2. Our ancestors troduced to one of these bover; ages by the Romans-s

Whisky, tea, mead, ale, gin? 3. Popocatepetl is

Alpine flower, Mexican vol- cano, American waterfall, Swiss, avalanche?

4. You often medal being

know R7

read of this WOD. Do you

5. Ona of these bowlers look more than 300 wickets in

a season's first-class cricket-

II.

M. W. Tate, W. Rhodce, A. P. Freeman, J. T. Hearic, Verity. W. E. Bowes?

0, "Queen of the Forest" is the title given to the

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kash, willow, birch, elm,

7. The President of France

Grorges Daladier, Maurice

Bidault, Edouard Vincent Auriol, Thores. Georges

Clemenceau?

8. If you were to beat pla- tinum, gold, silver, fin, and fead, in what order would they melt?

9. A Trappist is a- Geometrical figure, fur trader, monk, harness maker, driver of light carriage?

10. hero-

The federal fuses are the ulti- mate results of scientific in- vestigation combined with the. fruits of long experience?

How many "s" are there

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1947.

BEVERLEY BAXTER, MP, writes on-

THE death of James Agnie THE

has been rightly treated by the Press as an event of na- tional misfortune.

No other critle and no other journalist of our time could have commanded at his passing such wise and generous tribute. There was a universal feeling that London 'especially had suffered an irreplaceable loss.

To those, of us who watched his many activities it was both pathetic and magnificent to note how bravely he attempted to fulfil his many writing con- tracts to the very end. He could only visit the theatre oc- ensionally, and he would perhaps see ono film in a week, but he summoned his vivacity and richness of experience to fill his columns,

Perhaps only in the Daily Express was he able, in his book reviews, to show no decline of activity. He could read his books in bed and not have to make the heart-break journey to the theatre or the picture house.

HE MET DEATH WITH A PEN

FIFTEEN years ago we

used to

play golf together, he was good 10 handicap player, and one day he told me that the fear and inevitability of death filled him with terror and gave him many sleepless nights. Yet when death approached he met it like Cyrano, except that instead of a sword he held a pen in his hand.

So many writers in the last forty eight hours have written of J113 gaiety and wit that one might sup- pose he lived a lite of intellectual detachment,

at reality and Jesting remaining untouched by the cares that beset mankind.

He certainly Jested superbly and

THE REAL AGATE

In friendly dispute he used to ask, only mentioned the cinema In how one could judge any actor or passing. It appeared in the Tatler actress without having seen Rejane, two or three weeks ago when, to fill Duse, or Irving in this or that part. his claema column, he took a French Wo would counter by asking him film na hla theme and wrote of the how he could judge Irving without countryside in France as he knew it. having seen Kean or even Burbidge, when an officer in the first war. and why in his sixties he put such trust in the judgment of his twenties.

a championing of the dead, who was not a pose on his part, but sull lived to him, against the living, who were so often pale shadows in his eyes.

ENTHUSIASM FOR

Here at Inst was tho quality which he so seldom permitted himself in There was no striving for a phrase, his criticisms, the quality of serenity.

no xem of wit to set the town laughing, no shearing of the Lamb or brandishing of Hazilli, But the dust rose on the road that led to the village, the fields were gold with corn, and the blue hills in the distance brought balm to the tired senses. At the inn the villagers THAT first act," he would explode talked not of the war but of things at the first night of a comedy, that mattered and would endure longer than the first act of when man's insanity had passed. Tristan and nut nearly as funny." "This play proves that there is n bottom to the bottomless pit." "A inaudible."

the decency to be lenst, Mr.-has

TALENT

So he would storm between the acts, but if he saw a glimmer of rent talent In author or actor his face would shine with enthusiasm. There

was no compromise in his nature: he was an advocate, nn Inquisitor, and would have been .a difficult Juidge,

It was not merely the knowledge that the English prefer quotation to creation that drove him so often Ile never to Lamb and Ilazlitt. quoted the saying of any living man should such a wit and raconteur because he never listened-and why

waste time listening? He found a mellowed with age just as he loved deep delight in the wit that had

a wine that had a history as well as n label.

MEMORIES OF FRANCE

added territories to the land of theo him progress was often a form mind, but he also walked In the To

of decay and he looked back to the

shadows, some of them very deep.

TERESARIAT SERIES USANNAMESTNIKA ROTANICAMENTARCIA on the

Blind Sawmiller's "Seeing Eye"

Bright Min, greyhound racing dog

belonging to Leon Rose, blind saw- miller of Sydney, doubles

as his *Seeing Eye,"

In the day she walks with Rose, and at night she runs on the local tracks, often winning enough for Roan to pick up alzable United Press

stakes-

I was the writing of a poct. It was the writing of a man who seem- ed, at lost to have found peace, it only for an hour.

HE GAVE DIGNITY TO HIS AGE

1.

NAVY BELLS FOR SALE

More than 400 bells from ships of the Royal Navy are being offered for sale by the Admiralty. Their weights vary between 5 lbs. and 148 lbs. and prices will range from £1 to £10.

The bells may be acquired by naval personnel and civilians.

In order that the claims of officers serving abroad may be considered with those of applicants In the United Kingdom the bells will not be sold until Octo-. ber, all who have applied will then be informed of the results of the allocation.

New Aircraft Carrier For Cold Storage'

T

HE nearly-completed 14,000-.

For 10 months the 700 feat ton British aircraft-carrier long ship which can house nearly Leviathan, now at Portsmouth, 60 aircraft, has been the home is to be "scaled" and put in of two or three watchmen in "cold storage” In the latest Portsmouth dockyard. American manner for at least two years.

The Leviathan, air-condition- ed and insulated for tropical service, had her machinery in- stalled when work was stopped in May 1946. She was then in the Tyne, where she had been launched from the yard of Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, a year earlier.

Chippy makes the bed-disappear

you live in a small flat or bed-sitting but it's room, you may sometimes want to put

JAME JAMES AGATE gave diguity to the

uge in which he lived, perhaps | up a visitor for a few nights, and then there for because he did

not belong Those of us who were

you are apt to envy people with a spare the guest his fellow- critics, and the theatre which

he bedroom. loved and castigated, should

find

I faced the problem this week and man-

some way of creating a lasting aged to solve it by a new arrangement of my

memorial to his name.

DUST-PROOF

BUILDING

two divans,

Follow the illustrations and you will see how to do it. You will need these pieces of tim- ber:-

1 plece, about 7ft. 2ins. X @irs. x 1in, for the top shelf. (it should be 134ins. longer han the back divan covered),

A housekeeper's dreami dust-proof, germ-proof building

has been opened in Rens-x selaer, New York, Engineers who designed it described it as

"scientific Utopia."

when

1, plece GM, 3ins. x 2ins, x in. for top shelf support. in. for ends (at back). 2 plocen 2ft. 6 in. x Gins.

2 pieces 2 ft. 0ins." x 5ins.

a tin. for ends (at sides). (Or in, more than the width

of the back 'divan.)

for

and

Now the hull compartments are to be sealed and do- humidifled and delicate fittings are to be put into airtight plastic

cocoons.

To keep the Leviathan in good condition for two years, It will not be necessary to carry out all the American processes on her.

The new weapony that aro now in the field are expected to bring revolutionary changes in warship design in the next fow years.

The Leviathan. when sho emerges

from her "sleeping beauty" treatment, may become Britain's first anti-atom bomb ship.

By day-

In matters of Anance he was sumptuous days of the 18th and 10th generous and feckless. One might centuries for the intellectual stimu-

lant that his mind craved. In his zest for

Four storeys high, with glass have thought that

4 pieces bins. x 5las. x in. blocks instead of windows, the bulld- Dickens he had modelled his affairs

The astonishing thing is that such

brackets. has 35 Isolated ing

laboratories by Wilkins a example oct

STEP 1 Arrange your divans as you see I have done in the small even an ornament If you want to questing, restless, nudacious,

where medicines are Micawber. I do not think that Mr extravagant brain

prepared, thown in the top illustration, with illustration. should be 60 They have their own automatically the lighter one on its side and its enough to round

If you are not expert make it look really attractive and Dalton will be enriched by his

disciplined. He was moody and controlled weather conditions.

off the brackets cosy. Each mattress tucked phsaing.

petulant, swift to take offence and varies according to humidity and wail

Inalde against the and top shelf just cut them on an swifter to forgive, at war with life temperature. Each room has round-

angle. STEP 2. Now for the surround, and in love with self-expression, but | ed corners, tile walls, flush lights Assemble your end shelf units as units to the wall. The distance ve- STEPS 3-Screw both end sholl always he could bring his turbulent and other means for keeping powers to turning out his

inspotlessly clean copy' In

tween them, should be the length of the back divan (when covered) plus time for the printer, and even after possible effort. knew everybody; Jonely because seeing three bad plays and four flood all ventilating durin to kill

1in. for easy movements. stupid Alms as well as rending five germa.

STEPS 4-Screw your top sheir and under- Indifferent books in a single week, the world he loved

support (this is the piece bft 3ins. Bernhardt meant there would be no sign food Frad gone.

fatigue in

x 2ins) to the wall between the two Ухать to him

living any

his criticisms. more than

ends. Its top edge should be level actress, Hazir

any Yet, strangely enough, the article eritic or essayist of modern times.

with the top of the shelf units. Then That was part of the charm and also

x the long shelf over. it and over the two ends. the reason for the occasional unfair- ness of his dramatic criticisms.

SOMETIMES UNFAIR -AND WHY

lonely AGATE was

moru

man who

with the lenst Ultra-violet rays

To make the dust-proofing doubly certain, all employees and visitors on through chambers with air blowers THIS entering the bullding must

pass

which I shall always remember and suction fans which remove dus! above all his writings had nothing and lint from shoes and clothing.- to do with the theatre or books, and United Press.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

"WELL, AT LEAST YOU

AIGHT SHAVE.

shows how it goes

"YOU MEAN I SHOULD

GO

WORK

WOLD. STUFF!

THERE'S NO EASY ROAD TO RIGHES, YOUNG MAN.....NOV,

VAENI

WAS A LAD.

This shelf is handy for a bedside Lamp, a clock, a book or two, and

STET 5.Paint your surround to match the walls of your room.

If you can manage it cover both divans with the same material in a scheme of your room. Provide loose fiade that matches the colour covers for the pillows so that during the day you cushions,

can use them as

If you have one divan and one- bed, perhaps ends from the bed, and use it as the you can remove the divan that forms the seat.

"Father's Day"

By KEMP STARRETT

DON'T GO TOO FAR IN CELEBRATING FATHER'S

DAY POP!

"FRED!!

TROUGHT, YOU SAID YOU'D MOWED THE LAWN AND. YOU WERE GOING TO WASH THE CAR AND PAINT THOSE PORCH CHAIRS AN-

IT MAY BE FATHER'S DAY.....

BUT NOT IN THE BATIRODIL.

THEY SAY SOME FATHERS STILL STICK TO OLD-FASHIONED IDEAS... NOT, OF COURSE, TO BE TAKEN 700 SERIOUSLY.

/"HAPPY POP'S

·DAY, POP/

EVERY DAY IS TATHER'S DAY WITH SOME OF THE LADS.

HURRY UP AND SET THE TABLE BEFORE DADDY GETS BACK...

SOHE'LL THINK DINNER'S NEARLY

READY!"

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LOTS OF FOLKS. DON'T GIVE À 1100T FOR FATHER'S DAY: THEY SEEM TO THINK WORK TO DO IS BLESSING ENOUGH.

BE CAREFUL DONT OVERDO THIS FATHER'S DAY THING: IF YOU "PAMPER HIM TOO MUCH HE MIGHT GET USED TO IT....02 THINK HE'S DANGEROUSLY ILL”.

COME GALS WILL GO TO ALL KORTS:

OF TROUBLE TO OBSERVE-

FATHER'S DAY ger Byndicals 6.15.