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Are You Sure?

Answers on Peor 10

1. Which of these great painters designed A Пlyink machine-

Whistler, Fru Angelico, Moroni, Turner, Leonardo the Vinct?

+ Chu you name a com- mon British werd from which may be made-

Wine, coffee, salad, cure for warto?

3. Ally Sloper was-

Steep tane; comte character du newspaper. Turkish, migrant, large marble?

4.

Can you name the coun- tries from which these football teams came

All Blacks. Springboks. Dimamos, Watiables?

4. One of these counties has no seaboard-

Westmorlanit. Glamorgan, Hereford, Dorset, Cumberland, Durham?

6. If you were to lapidale a coconut you would-

Pelt it with stones, drink the milk, cut it in pieces, ahane it?

* The bundent ralfway station in the world is in

London Chiengo, New York, Calcutta, LION 770?

R. A cromlech is

Relic of Oliver Cromwell, prehistoric structure of

reddial brown ore?

stune,

9. An oologist collects Birds' cups, clocks, fueri prints, dust?

10. Which of these Dic- kens's characters knew. Mr Wackford Squeers—

Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Tiny Tim, Mr Pick- wick:?

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1948.

William

Barkley

SAYS

YOUTH IS

THE TIME

ΤΟ

To jump

OUTH

is the time for

Y getting on To get on! It

was a great phrase in the circumstances of my boyhood in, Scotland. "You want to get on, don't you ?” was what the teacher said when I was dull.

Let such be content with the tot to which they call them selves. Let them grasp that unequal exertions will always reap unequal rewards. If they lack ambition let them seek happiness in little things.

Youth is the lime of spring "Spring it was when the world be And if you detect a pun Kan." sings Vergil. Ver illnd стас

between "spring" and "jump" then blame not me but the wonderful English language which provides more fun than any other in throwing it about

ה

Get learning

of

order the

whole

NOT ALWAYS PLAIN FLYING

1. Sighin

sent up by spark plugs of ears are confus- Ing homing devices on passenger planes.

gulded

to

Instead of being

airport, the planes follow streams of cars along national highways.

This has happened since the U.S. Civil Aeronautics. Adminis- tration adopted very high frequency glide paths and run- way location transmitters to help planes in

bad

weather. During a

demonstration last year, a machine (it WIS the Game that recently flew itself to and from England on an auto- matically-controlled pushbutton system) suddenly left the glide path and started to chase cora along

highway adjacent to the landing field.

HELLO

The plot had to take over the controls.

Airmen who write smoke advertisements, high above American cilles are forming A "Legion of Hate" against Jet pilota.

The leader is Tom Murphy, who

has written 0,000 sky signs above New York.

These men met no inter- ference beyond normal weather conditions unill the U.S. Army started sending up jet planes.

Said Murphy:

ruby: "Jet boys keep through our letters to

diving

Us

bave some fun, knowing poor working guys have an air- speed of 175 miles an hour. Wo can't even chase thein.

"Those Jet Jabr dispel minutes of hard, accurate work in a flash"

The SNAPSHOT GUILD

Animais, ke humans, have distinctive character traits. A picture such as this usually pałaphrases the expression, "playful as a kitten.” PET PERSONALITIES

SEVERAL months ago a news the picture--not a small figure paper story appeared which leat against a background of

They he wanted to be an engineer. "He concerned a talking dog. It was trees or shrubbery.

"But Jim was obstinate. He said puffed did not want to go back just

and mind the machine. The

old workers they were, or had been, took their point and they for they averaged 15 years. their pipe, despite the taxes, this is what they said.

Jim

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to offered in good faith, foreman

Still, it

Second, insure naturalness. Trying to make pets pose is, if anything,

difficult But whether or not you place than trying to make Uncle Jim

even more

got angry. He said to Jim, 'It's the Was hard to believe, machine for you or nothing. And THEIR sans had all got on, middle manager. The manager sent for the fact remains that animals As a result, it's wise to have a

A father's pride

came home in distress. "I told him go and see the any credence in such a story, relax when he faces the camera. them nearing the pension age them there bad never been anybody like aren't unlike humans. Anyone pet occupied-playing with

one or two of the foreman, and the foreman said salvation is difficult to convey the Jim to mind the machine and he who ever has owned a pet will ball, feeding, sitting up for a cookie. This enables you to attest the fact that they under pre-focus your camera, call the

aged men now,

satisfaction

with which these old must go back to it, looked back and how inevi

"The

manager said to the fore-

to take

I am often told that young people are not Ho ambitious nowadays in Britain as

they YOUTH is the time to get na big used to be. I don't believe a

cargo

book-learning word of it. The truth as I see again have as much time to

aboard as possible. You will never rend It is that the majority of people until you reach the slippered Tokyo.

ense Met-never did and do not now want of senility.

to get on.

Youth is the time to collect paper qualifications, degrees, memberships being of technical They don't object to

and learned associa- got on Jimmy Maxton used tions, bits of parchment la which to say with a philosophic smile one college hend or another in flow- that most men do not want world to address you as Magister or

ing Latin will reach the top of the ladder.

Master.

Nobody will ever obey the college head. But it is astonishing and absurd the attention that bosses and old fonzies in general will pay to a inen little bit of parchment rather than tably their thoughts turned to their to the evidence of capacity In n familles and what fliey had made of man: The machine has been work-and commands, that they have animal, and shoot when he's young fellow's personality.

life.

ed all through the war, husn't it? Is distinctive minds and charac- advanced Oh for the speed of a

the "bait" wireless the whote yard going to stop be- ters, that they are subject to you've offered. wave to fil round the country and cause Jim doesn't mind the machine round the globe-to meet all these now? That's all,'

moods and are capable of R VOUTH is the time to learn to sons and observe. should hope, the "When the foreman had gone the variety of expressions.

Third, convey an idea or tell have been more industrious or

I balance your budget. No mat- pride with which they in turn look- manager sald: Jim, if you want

a story. Notice in today's ter how small your income, live ed back to their fathers' labours to be an engineer, you'll be an en- enterprising.

These facts within it. See that your outgoings occurred to me then that

are important snapshot how the kitten, push- and encouragement,

Kineer." total less each week than your In- IL

"And the

when you approach the business ing at a door, seems to sum up. today," said the old man, comings.

Put a little bit away each old men had something of a mes-. "Jim is the head of one of the big- of photographing pets.

the phrase, "playful as a kit- For ten." week.

Enge for many a young man today gest oil werks in the Persian Gulf. just as a good informal portrait the animal's mood, expression, Let your pictures show S to ambitious youth that inflated prices we have ever known mut long enough to feel dissatisfied recently had a fine complimentary

At the period of the most grossly coming out of the Forces or come And he writes me that he has just of Incle Dick or Cousin Sue or character. megaphone. in

Britain, just after the second last with hin' position; anxious to get on letter from the King of Egypt." tells something of his or her the German havoc in 1918, I saved but nervous of his chances. So I

This, you'll discover, is the quarter of a cen- lot of money to a professional life will consolidate their teaching

character, so pictures of pets secret of the best animal pic- tury's observation on this topic. with another fellow, furnished

on £3 weck. I rented a room the simple tale of. Jim. The plan is Included in z

should be indicative of the tures. A dog may have dignity, grunme for modernisation of Tan-If you don't like the job you with two Army camp beds, and we

nature of the animal. gier which is now before the Legis- fare in-jump out of it.

a cow calmness, a lamb almost As a result, many of the rules The team that pulls a wagon childish helplessness. If you see somewhere else to

which apply to making informal has a look of patient plodding. However, opposition to gambling land, so much the better. If you

portraits of people also can be Monkeys is gathering and observera prediction, then take a leap in the dark. that there will be difficulty for And keep Jumping until you make

applied to taking snapshots of Animals-all spuntars of the casino when efforts a happy landing.

DRATATORTA PER CONTI DEZIRAFLAME STYLISTSPRAKTIZING

They have all but one life to live. Do not burn it up with

· CASINO PLAN FOR greet and envy of those

TANGIER

There 5 movement under way

to make the international settlement

of Tangier into a rival of Monte

of

In a sentence

Carlo through the legalisation

direct my gambling and the construction of acre in one sentence are luxurious casino.

fruits of a

Intive Assembly.

pro-

who

Your budget

it

cooked our own breakfast and sup- per.

Ti is not to say you should never borrow money or take a loan for a business venture. But never take your living expenses on tick.

And what is it makes me talk as if I were an old man? Why, be- not cause I fell in recently with a com-

pany of old ten.

Splendid, solid,

and

are mate to revoke an article, in the Youth is the time to jump. When Tangier Statute which forbids gam-you are older with wife bling in the settlement.-Associated children on your back you will j'ress.

be so good at the long jump.

in

*

And the old man knocked out his Bark in 1919

pipe, and stood up and danced a jig. It seemed to him the oddest thing was in 1910 that Jim cane that ever happened that the King of back from the Army," said the Egypt should write a fine letter to old man, "and he went down to the his con. shipyard. The foreman said: "Jim,

"IT

are

nn

mischievous. I'm glad to see you. So few of you "I have alx children," he said, animals. For example, take distinct traits. Your best snap- of them-have Shoot at sufficiently shots of them will show these.

boys have come back. And you'll "and three grandchildren, and one go right back on the machine. No- great-grandchild, but I must body's been able to mind that back to the amissus. She's wonder-close range so that the animal machine like you since you left." ful. She's always happy."

is the most important part of

close-ups.

get

"Benefit Performance

29

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

WHO'S TH STOFFED SHIRTS

BU KEMP STARRETT

John van Guilder

THE PERSON WHO WEARS HIS NOSE AS HIGH AS THE NECK WILL ALLOW WILL BE THE PATROI) OF THE WHOLE SHOW, HE CONTRIBUTES NOTHING BUT HIS NAME.. AID A HAUGHTY LOOK,

• Ledger Syndicate

THE TALENTED AMATEUR WILLING TO HELP MAKE THE THING A SUCCESS: HE'S SURE HE'S ANOTHER. LARRY ADLER.

GIMME TEN!"

YOU HAVE TO TAKE CHANCES ON ALL SORTS OF THINGS.. DONE BY THEIR OWN TAIR HANDS. THE ONLY THING ISTO PRAY YOU DON'T WILL ANYTHING.

ANOTHER GIFTED AMATEUR WHO HAS TO BE RESTRAINED FROM BUSTING OUT ALL OVER WITH CONG. SHE'LL BE AS EASY TO SHAKE AS A NINE-BY-TWELVE RUG.

WHEN IT'S A BENEFIT FOR THE LOCAL FIRE DEPARTMENT YOU'D BETTER BUY SOME TICKETS: IT'S SAFEST, HOICES- DO CATCH FIRE.

A GIRL WITH A HAPPY SMILE AND

A GOOD FIGURE CAN SELL CHANCES ON A TOOTHACHE.

MARRETT

ONLY A HUNDRED AND TWO BUCKS IN THE HOLE...GOODY GOODY! LAST YEAR IT WAS TIREL HUNDRED,

MORE OR LESS.

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