14
NED AND THE CLOUDMAN
A knack came to the front door, and little Jimmy Brown-called out, "Mum says, can May come to my birthday party?"
"Certainly," Bald Mrs. Williams, “and thank you for the invitation."
Ned. May's brother, overheard the conversation, and he frowned, at the same time saying to himself: "May invited out again. It's al
me,"
Ways May; nobody wants With this he walked away, out into the garden and through the back gate.
Just think of it! May going to Jimmy Brown's birthday party, where there would be lots to eat and plenty of fun, and he was not Invited. He stood still for a moment,
CHILDREN'S CORNER
carried some distance away to a room where many children were playing together.
"Now," said the little man.
"X want you to watch carefully the boy in the red cap and the little girl with the flaxen hair."
KIDDIES GAMES
Place
I
THE
A Jolly Trick This little trick is quite easily prepared.
few used matches in a matchbox and then fix Ned did as he was told, and sawit up your right coat sleeve by slip- that if any of the children had ing an elastic band round your arm. sweets the boy in the red cap want-Remember, it must not show. Now ed the biggest share. If any games take an empty box in your hand, were played he insisted on being and go to a chum with it. Of the leader. If any little boy or girl course, the box up your sleeve will rot in his path when playing he would push him or her aside. they fell it mattered not to him. He must be first in all things, and no one ought to think otherwise.
raltic.
Then give him the empty box that you hold in your hand. He will be so surprised to find that it is quite empty.
Bat And Catch
"What a horrid boy," thought Ned as he turned to watch the little This game is played by as many girl with the flaxen locks and amil-players as care to take part from,
stuck his hands deeply into Lising face. She was at the moment say, Half-a-dozen upwards. You
pockets, and then leaned against a sturdy old tree.
"Why do our friends like May better than me? It must be because they don't know me properly," he whispered.
sharing a bun with a little girl by her side. She was kind to all, helped all she could, especially the very little ones, and In return she was loved by all."
"Now," said that Httle man "do you see any difference between the girl and the boy?"
the boy
"Yes", said Ned, "the boy is a selfish little beast."
"Look closer at him," said the little man.
"Why, it's me!" cried Ned. "And the little girl is May!"
"There you are wrong," said a valce nearby, which gave Ned such a tart as he saw a very small, white-bearded man at the foot of a tree a few yards away. Then, just as quickly as he came, the little man disappeared again. Then Ned called out, "Old man! Old man!" and immediately the queer little chap appeared again, and said. "What do you want, my boy?"? Ned didn't answer, but he guess- "Please, sir, can you tell me whyed all right, and when the little our friends like May better than man had taken him down to earth me?"" "Yes, my boy." said the again. Ned made up his mind that queer. little man., "Come here and things were going to be different. take my hand."
"Can you guess now why people like May better?" said his com- panion.
Red Cross Note.
Little Vera had been behaving badly, and her nurse got more and more annoyed.
Nad went over to where he stood, bent down and took his hand, but no sooner had he done so than he felt himself growing smaller and smaller until he was no bigger than the little man, and before Ned could | utter a word he heard a whizzing holte, and they were carried high in the air until they came to ♬ smalt ¦ inspiration. cloud, which opened at the old man's bidding. In it they were
Suddenly the child had
an
"Oh, she cried. "now I know what a Red Cross nurse is!**
will need a bowler and a back- stopper; one player takes the bat and the rest go fielding, and so you carry on till the batsman is out.
The length of the innings de- penda, of course, on the skill of the batsmen in placing the ball out of the reach of the fielders. There must be no grounding of the ball, and you must strike at one of two good balls or give up the bat. The lucky fielder who catches the ball takes next innings and so the game
goes on.
That Concrete.
hair grow on your head?"
Eaid: "Grandpa, why doesn't
Grandpa: "Why don't flowers grow on a busy street?"
Enid: "Oh, I see, grandpa; It can't get up through the concrete."
Sonny Boy.
Mother (to her little fat son): "That wag very greedy of you, Tommy, to eat your sister's share of the birthday cake."
Tommy: "Well, you told me that I was always to take her part."
CHINA-
WHOSE KNEE ?
MAIL.
A capital variation from the or dinary blind man's buff game, and one that is not so rowdy, is played by the members of the party sit- ting on chairs, and the “blind man" or "woman"—has to guess whose lap he sits on.
The players take their seats be- |fore the “blind man” is blindfolded, and then he passes round and sits down on some player's knee. There should be no talking which might enable him to guess, and though it is adding considerably to his task, same players try to con- fuse him by using aprons, shawls or handkerchiefs over their laps.
If the "blind man" guesses wrongly he must try again, but should he prove successful the one he judges correctly must take up the centre position,
A good plan for the blindfolded player is carefully to note the dif- ferent materials the others are wearing.
O BEAUTIFUL MY COUNTRY.
O Beautiful my country! Be thine a nobler care Than all thy wealth of ronimerce __Thy harvests waving fair; By if thy pride to cherish The manhood of the poor; Be thou to the oppressed Fair freedom's open deer.
For thee.our fathers suffered, For thee they tolled and prayed; Upon thy holy altar
Their willing lives they laid. Thou hast no common birthright, Grand memories on thee shine; The blood of pilgrim nations Commingled Bows in thine.
O Beautiful my country?TM Round thee In love we draw; Thine is the grace of freedom, The majesty of law.
Be righteousness thy sceptre, Justice thy diaden, And on thy shining forehead Be peace the crowning gem..
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ROUND THE CAMP FIRE
SCOUTS TO THE RESCUE.
THE 1929 JAMBOREE
How three Boy Scouts joined in As most Scouts know, a giant the chase after an alleged burglar International Jamboree was held at was revealed at the Guildhall. Not- | Arrowe Park last year. tingham, recently, when a man was It extended from July 30 remanded on a charge of house-to August 14. The jamboree was breaking with intent to commit a to celebrate the coming-of-age of the felony. Going into his front room Boy Scout movement. The root of late one evening a resident of the movement was an experimental Nottingham was surprised to find a camp at Brownsea Island in 1907, stranger. As soon as the light was conducted by the Chief Scout him- awitched on the stranger made a self. The movement was actually dash out of the room, reaching the brought into being in 1908. roadway with the resident in hot From the following list it will be pursuit. After hiding near a coal-seen how many Scouts some of the house in a neighbouring garden he countries sent to the jamboree:- escaped, and was chased still fur- Denmark sent 2000. ther by the surprised resident. In Holland sent 1000. the meantime three Boy Scouts had U.S.A. sent 1000: joined in the chase. These Scouts France sent 1000. Anally pounced on the man and
Norway sent 500. brought him to the ground, holding him there until the police arrived:
The
"Old Scout's"
Column.
Sweden sent 500. Australia sent 500.
Belglum sent 400.
Hungary sent 400. Irish Free State seat 800, South Africa sent 300. Austria sent 200. Canada sent 100. Hong Kong, Gibraltar, Newfound land, Ceylon, Trinidad, British West Indies, Cyprus, Nigeria, Kenya, Jamaica and British Gulana sent parties varying in number from two to fifty-four,
Birkenhead and district received over 20,000 Scouts in a most hos-
pitable manner,
SCOUT RESPONSIBILITY.
APPLYING THE ROLLER BANDAGE
A MODERN NUISANCE
A Bangkok paper, commenting Now take the roller bandage, and
on the warning of the International steadying the arm on the injured League of Boy Scouts against an side, draw the bandage firmly, but impastor who is seeking to work not too strongly, backwards and in- his way around the world by wear- wards so as to brace the arm and ing a Boy Scout uniform and there- keep it both in towards the side and by gaining the sympathy of the backwards; the bandage is now car- public in general and the Boy ried round the back to the front of Scouts and their friends in particu- the chest and across the lower partlar, rightly calls attention to the of the upper arm; the point of the nuisance which these globe-trotters Since the first one The Bishop of Barrow, speaking triangular bandage is drawn up behave become. at a special service held in Pen-neath it and pinned to the roller rith for Boy Scouts and Girl bandage and the underlying folds of Guides, stressed the Indispen- the triangular bandage. sability of religion in the every- A couple more turns of the roller day life of Boy Scouts and bandage are taken firmly round the Girl Guides. Six months ago, chest, omitting, of course, the sound the Bishop said, they might have arm; the end of the roller bandage said "It doesn't matter what we is finally tied fo the short end. do because people don't take which was left hanging bose. By notice," but they couldn't say that this simple пом. The World Jamboree had brought them to the notice of the people. One could have one's photo in the paper for a month, } and think it a very nice thing, but It brought responsibility. He wanted to talk to them about re- ligion.
Religion was the very basis of the whole of their work, and without it their work W38
procedure the arm is
levered outwards with the pad as a fulcrum, braced back, and lifted 19 and if the work has been carefully carried out the patient will derive most wonderful comfort, the grat- Ing, jarring serisation will disappear, and pain will be either absent or greatly diminished.
The whole operation can be car- ried out in a very few minutes, and useless. They had to want reli- is best done while the patient sits, gion. What was religion going to lost be should become faint while do for them? It was going to standing. Naturally, this assistance make them serve, going to make should be regarded as temporary, them of some use, They should and the fracture should be seen by look forward to it as a prepara- a surgeon, but such a person is not tion of being some use. in the always handy, and if the simple days to come. When things went directions are followed there should wrong it was the Christian boy be very little dificulty in turning and girl who stood. out, because out a very ereditable job. they had got self-control.
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
"It is more noble to make your- self great than to be born so.”
Boy Scouts Association.
was sent out by the American sporting journal, Outing, thirty-five years ago, there havə been scores of them, some afoot some on bicycles, some on motor- cycles, a few in motor-cars, one or two on horseback and not a few If these `in diminutive craft. gentry. were prepared to pay their own way and not live off the coun- have any right to object to their tries traversed, no one would really methods of risking their lives. But when they depend upon the charity the regions traversed, they do be- or semi-charity of the peoples of come a nuisance and some inter national action should be taken to deal with them. If travellers were
compelled to furnish evidence of through each country which they their ability to pay their way were preparing to traverse nuisance would be greatly minimis- ed, if not ended. Straits Times-
this
in every sense of the word, and that is enough. The habit develop- ed in her of obeying the orders of her Patrol Leader, and she in her turn of obeying her Gulder, is all becoming part and parcel of her
character. likewise obey the Guide Law, will, Commissioners, who naturally enough, obey the rules and the wishes of the movement
to expect, through their own
their fellow-workers.
All the foreign and A Jamboree oversea Boy Scouts Link who were guests of the city of Edinburgh during the recent world Jamboree were sent
dragged along by his neck. It is Christmas
meant to give a further insight in greetings from their brother scouts
to the realms of Nature, so that In Edinburgh, These cards of
they may see the Divine Crestor in greeting went to Scouts in India, nothing," And it was not very Australia, Canada, America, Cey-
the birds, the flowers, the smallest It is en lon, South Africa, Southern Rhode-long ago that the Minister for attractive production and contains Insects; that they may realise that generally, so that they may be able
Education, Lord Eustace Percy, photographs of the Chief Scout
the same Hand which`ercated the ala, France, and Belgium, where they awakened in their recipiente said that the Boy Scout Movement (Lord Baden-Powell) and the Head-least of living things created the obedience, the obedience of all
greatest also, and, that through memories of Scottish hospitality was the greatest advance in educa-quarters Commissioner for Sesnature study children may realise the cadets in training at the Royal | Some time ago, in speaking to Scouts and Deep Sea Scouts (Vice-the part they play in the scheme Kilitary College, HM the King Admiral AV Campbell, CB, Plymouth is the D.5.0., M.V.O.) as well as a number Divina purpose, which remains have learnt the first principle of of life, and learn more of the said the following words: "You Deep Sen latast place to start of Interesting articles. These lalle veiled until we wish to ses tear command-namely, to obey.. Dis- Lord Knutsford,
Scouts Deep Sea Scouts, one deal with different aspects of Deep The Greatest chairman of the
of the latest develop-Sea Scouting and include a list of the curtain aside.
cipline is the bedrock of the whole. Boys Work Londen Hospital, ments of the Boy Scout Movement the Deep Sea Scont Liaison Officers
"He prayeth well who loveth military structure; without it an paid a fine tributeThe hauguration of the Plymouth in the various parts at home and. to the Boy Scout Movement recent Deep Sea Scouts took place at the abroad. "Under the White Ensign": Hoth man, and bird, and beasty is worse than useless. It is the growth of steady training and, Tocal Boy Scout Ifsdquarters, and "Under the Red Ensign”, signi-|
He prayeth best who loveth above all, of mutual confidence be-
enjoyed during the unforgettable tion during his lifetime." coming-of-age celcbrations of the Boy Scout movement.
*
*
ly on the occasion of the celebra Buckland House The Deep Sealy the scope of the new Scoot tion of their third birthday by the Boy Scouts attached to the hospital. Scouts enable members of the Boy Branch. The Commodore of the His Lordship eulogised the move Scout Movement to retain their Deep Sea Scouts is H.R.IL. Prince, ment as "by far the greatest boys membership aflost and to keep in George, while The Honourable Com- work ever created." Sir Alfred touch with the various branches of pany of Master Mariners are the Hopkinson, member for British the Movement in the different ports Patrons. visited. Universities in his farewell tapeich" in the House of Commons" fore the dissolution, said "the"
movement
Scouts I
the Deen
kind to
does not
is ou The Sith only encourage chil.
pony the
Well
beat, All things both great and
malis
For the dear Lord Who
loveth na
He made and loveth all”
on her hono
·tween officers and their men.; Al- ways try to realise the individual characteristics of those who com- mand: study their interest, supply their wants, ask nothing of them that you are not ready to do yours self."--Though Guides will not be. to be effec- called upon for the supreme test not the they shall doubtless, Innuence and brought leid lin dicho, way, Deople with fear Cox whom they come
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