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Women CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Posed by Diana Lym for Lois Levits,

Here are answers to your problems.

"DRAR LOIS LEEDS"

benr Lois Leedly danger. thirteen yearnizad, is chubby and she wants to ent the your approve!

MOTHER ET

Dear Don Ida-Haw Fong after having a baby should I wait heface dunt exereisen? THELMA." That must be determined by, your plywem. He knows your physical can,dition,

Dasar Loap Leer.

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the ita of IN amulla ha be ablerne to wood?

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daughter

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Minule Makeups 4 GABRIELLE

Blondes need special makeup ahadea which are just suited to their delicate coloring. Blonde hair needs very special care. The finest of white soaps, specia) bils and oint ments should be selected, as the av erage

knir preparations, while helpful to growth and cleanliness, often darken Blonde hair.

SIDE GLANCES

!

Scarves-to-frock transformation

Frederick Starke used", three Ascher scarves to make one of his new spring frocks. Hodler and bolero back areaunt for one scarf, and what appears to be two scarves are used for the wrap round skirt which ties on either lip. The design is an outsize black flower and leaves on each coloured square,

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1948.

Earth Isn't Round DUMB-BELLS Any More, He Says

Only very foolish people could still believe the earth was round, says 60-year-old George Fowler of Australia.

Small, rugged, red-faced, and

HE'LL NEVER and active, Mr Fowler has been

PLAY THE

GAME AGAIN

A loser at "Russian roulette" has lived to tell how it fell to lose.

pondering over the riddle of the universe in a simple bush-shack study for 40 years.

Be has evolved the Georgian theory of the universe as a small cylinder.

He has amed his theory Georgian after his Christian name, George. verse is a small cylinder of matter "No one can doubt that the unl standing perpendicularly to space,"

"The earth, which of course, is flat, occupies the bottom of the cylinder. "The heavens fill up the top part, in between is a twopence- ba'penny collection of stars, planets, fund the sun.

Burton Chassin, a Washington grocer, walked out of hospital al- most completely recovered three weeks after sending i hultet crash-and ing through his bratn.

Chassin

commented: "I feel Boe." A 30-year-old ex-muldier, Chassin tinxt

demonstrated the game of Russian roulette to a circle of wide- eyed youths in his tracery shop.

He removed four of five cartridges from 38-calibre revolver, the cylinder, held the barrel to his head, and pulled the trinker.

Into Right Temple

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The earth as a globe is, a mon strous impossibility.

"Suppose for a moment it were

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ball-shaped: ench parallel circle of Usually You Open Suit

its muurface would be either above or below the others.

"Two lines of latitude could not be at the same level, which means that two ships could not be at the

Water Curvature

He lost, The slug ploughed inlo | same height." the right temple, passed Through both sides of the brain. It emergel from the left temple, destroying sections of the frontal lobes of the brain.

A former United States

naval surgeon, Dr Whom Spence, who had performed similar operations during the war, succeeded in saving Chassin's life.

He removed all the destroyed brain Ulusue and blood clots, halted the internal bleeding, and closed the

wound.

After four days in a comn, Chase sin made a rapid recovery.

roulette again.

Пut be will not play Russian

FURS FOR

DOLLARS

Partner Bid

By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY

are many four-handled card, games in which two of the con- other two, but there is no card game instants play na partners orabist the

in which partie rship means as much as it does in bridge.

Such

Howard

As the curvature of circles was in-THERE versely proportional to the rodil. the water curvature at latitude 75 degrees would be four times greater than at the Equator, Mr Fowler said. This meant that a ship calling eat one of the poles would resem de a double-decker bus travelling round a sharp curve--it would hardly be able to puake it.

than

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"What alleged scientists call the dis of the horizon should be called rise," Mr Fowler added.

our flat earth the law of per-

area between Spretive causes the the olzerver

and the horizon to rise to the height of the observer,

"No matter how high we zo, the horizon risen with us

"bis phenomenon couldn't pos- jsibly ovvür If the world were a globe, There would be a constant falling

nwny.

"The centre of the flat earth is what is commonly called the North Pole In Communist Russia hunters

The entice perimeter round the are setting their traps and gun-edges of the cylinder is the South sights to provide rich furs, Pole. many of which would later race the windows of stores in New York's Fifth Avenue--the richest street in the world.

The opening of the trapping endl record numbers Kamar season SHW out with the first snows hunting the

ininks. mables,

ermine.

muskrats, rabbits, offers, henvers, raccoons, silver foxes. lynxes, wildents, tigers, panthers, and bears.

But seas not entirely a dollar hunt. Thousandu sint for sport.

Moscow Booting Club alone war reported to have 3,705,000 acres of hanting geounds, and 50 cabins for its #800 menbers.

hart

The Soviet Army Huntingt Society 44 hunting ground, enveriant ans area of 7,720.000 acres, in the mi- tury districts of the Soviet Union,

The society's president, Lärutemut-

| Generit Y. A. Khotenku, called on

to lostroy wolves alest with their favourite game.

To Investigate

Jet Sickness

No-Cause Realities.

"When neroplanes rize from the surface of the earth they set a couran, keep to it, mud arrive at a planned destination.

"Where would they end up if they on à globe? Rept to their courtes They'd fly right off it!"

As well in evolving the theory of the Geritian small-cylinder verse. Mr Fowler has postulated five Georgina great no-cause risalities.

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They are wisdom, space, time, sub- stance, and Jehovah.

He said, he called them no-cause realities because they existed, but could not be explained.

ZOO SNAKES

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There arc cerinin fundamental principles to which partners should adhere. Today's lesion band how us do with the rule to open your part- ney's suit unless you have a very One reasoTI for doing otherwise. Your partner very often will make la bid for no other reason than to ; have that suit led if the opponents

win the contract.

If South in today's hand is an in-

FOR MOSCOIF dividualist he will figure that the

oppements undouldedly have the club cuit stopped, and he will open his Regular exchanges of animalson spade suit. Then the stponents between-the-London-and-Most--|-will-have-no-trouble-to-make-Ahren cow Zoos, interrupted during or four no trump. But if he follows the war years, are now becom-club, his partner's suit; It is im-

rule and opens |the partnership

ing ever innre frequent,

sible for declarer to make nine From Moscow have eurne a north-fricks. North can clear the club suit ern lynx in full winter cost, three and then get in with the nce of

REESE, and

The R.A.F. is to carry out a raccoon-like dots, & breel marten, diamonds to defeat the contract.

seientific investigation into the two are red-breasted

several reptiles, Two species of question whether jet engines which have not previously been have HOY serious effect on shown at Regent's Park. pilots.

Check Your Knowledge

AndStates

What route from the United

to Eurore is "Stowhall Route"

Who invented

named the

the symphony

orchestra?

3. Approximately how old is the Republic of Halti?

In exchange London has sent Work has already begun on the mumber of reptile hose exhibits,

alligators development of special instruments including young which will be used to measure the snakes. noise and vibratión "waves" crisited; Keepers spent a busy morning by jet motors.

packing these creatures for their Some civiling test pilots and text-long sea voyage, in crates specially bench workers have complained of rm up for them in the Zoo car-

penter's shop. "jet sickness."

4. How does the secretary bird Among the snakes were some of kill its prey?

bon-constrictors born ld, none of these complaints has the western

confirined by medical Investiga- carlier this year. No snakes of this

species have yet been exhibited in Spain? tu the RA.F's the Russian inenagerie.

Suld

been

an Air Ministry

tion cording

official

By Galbraith Directorite-General of Medical Ser-

"They ought to make homework more attractive—I'm writing essays and limericks in three soap contests and might win thousands of dollars!"

vices, R.A.F. Jet pilots have not complained of

bryond "slight transitory fa

and deaf-

ness.

"On present evidence," the .A.F.' doctors say, "there is no reason to expect injurious results to pilots from flying let propelled aircraft,"

The measurement tests will be carried out on men and animals. Instruments for alr tests are now | being developed by the R.A.F. In- stitute of Aviation Medicine at Farnborough, Hants,

CHESS PROBLEM

By A. K. ELWORTHY

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Black. 9 pieces

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White. U picces

White to play and mate in two Solution to yesterday's problem:

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1. Q-p8. any; 7, Q, R (dbi ch) Or it mates.

5. Who was Uriah Heep?

6. What is the national sport of

(Answers on Page 43

Rupert and the Big Bang-39

-Rupers and Bingo ase nearly black with game and dust, and they try to explain what has happened, but Mr. Bear is now very angry indeed and marches them straight home. Mrs. Bear is hurufied to see them. "Good gracious Love never seen you in such' a mesT" she cries. Have you both been down a coal- imine Cone and have a bath this minute. Rupert sight. "Pour old Bingo," he thinks."Why do these wonderful ideas of his always have to go wrong?"

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CROSSWORD PUZZLE

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1. Un which you write. (9)

9. Leyond.

11. le makes the trio reel. (D)

As the crow may say (3)

16. The goddess of dawa, 103

15. In the blar she's a brand buskat.

(3)

16. When seetotaler changes gest there's something to atm AL. (0)

18. A highland daggeṛ, (4)

20. states this dower high 7 (8),

21. fles 1 Down.

22. To men It's a threat. (8) 21. Excessive. 101

24. Restful sort of teat? (8)

Down

and A. Invalid, (4, 0, 4) 2. It maxes the ounce tail. (0)

9. Two-cost work on a lath (7)

The victim. (4)

Following the "imp is, would do

harm

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7. It may be the messenger boy's

Job. (d) d. The man in rød. (0)

10. flead-drose, (5)

13. Baco & Roman jeder (0) 15. A fragrant essential ott. 16)

17 Wild animals protected by law

And hunted by sportamon. 14) 19. Clear. (3)

Solution to Monday's puzzlo-Across: RADU: B. THE 10. 1 Mally Luna. 13. Trades 15. *Tipi: 32 Kia raió, 21 Bronx, và Coffes] 25 HOD., 24, Riga: 125,"Liber, brwi

AFIS, A. PORT: 4. Barnej

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ET. PAUL'S OLD BOYS UNION Annual Ball

The Annual Ball of this Union will be held in the Gripps of the Hongkong Hz.el, on Tueday, the 24th of February, 1918, at 8 p.m. o.m. There will be Music for Dancing played by the Hongkong Hotel Orchestra. Hawaiian Music by Mr George Pearson and his Beach Boys, and Floorshows by ocal Artists. Tickets are avail- ible at the Hongkong Hotel Re- ception Desks. King's Theatre Booking Once, Wing On Bank, The Sun Co., Sincère Co., Ltd., China Emporium, Dragon Seed Co., Man Cheong (Gloucester Arende), Chang Brothers (King's Theatre Building) or apply to the Secretary (Imperial Trading Com- pany, Kinga Theatro Building, Tel. 28209). All Old Boys of our Union, and members of their. families & friends are cordially invited to attend this function,

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