When an intelligence test is produced, such as the Tsingtao Institute one which we publish today, the occasion is always ripe for funny or more often rude answers. The Tsingtao Institute asks its boys the meaning of Y.M.C.A., and the circumstance brings to mind a piece of rudeness perpetrated at a Town Council in Scotland. The local branch of the 1LO.G.T. (In; dependent Order of Good Templars) had applied for permission to hold some function or another, and the local wag had, naturally, to inquire what the initials meant. The rude member of the Council promptly forfeited the temperance vote by translating it into "I often get tight." There was one test much nearer home which produced a perfectly sweet answer. An interpretation of the phrase "bote noir" was required, and the applicant for the job (he failed to pass into one of the services in China) distingnished himself by suggesting black sheep of the family."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.