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DEAL I ZABIL1/THE, CHINAT MAILJU SATURDAY, INOVEMBER 4, 195
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The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
The Bright Light Look
H
ARRIET NELSON grabbed a handful of
one
By Lois Wedel
Froggy Hunter's plaid tunities to talk to me, trying to flannel shirt and squealed: get an invitation to tonight's "Golly! A black cat's walk party, Well, he'll not get ono." ing right
"Oh, conie now, Amold's not across my path. After all that's happened just the go-getter type."
bad," Froggy objected. "Ho'o to me today, event amidgen more of jinx would be more than I could take." Harriet and Froggy were going to stoke up on Double Chocolate Delights at the Sweet Shed and to put the finishing touches to the party Harriet was planning for that evening at the Nelson house.
Harriet ticked off her woes. "First I snagged a three-cornered hole in my gabardine skirt. Then Miss Huncher popped that surprise history quiz on
us, and I hadn't even read" last night's assignment. And when they gave out the class rings in assembly, I didn't get mine."
Froggy's eyes atole down for an admiring glance at the shining new Jefferson High School ring on hia own littlo Anger. His pride in ownership and his sympathy for Harriet fought a brief duel. He gulped, and offered: "You can wear my ring."
"No," said Harriet, as if she'd; known all along that he would make the offer and had made up her mind exactly what sho would say when he did. "I don't want wear anybody else's ring. I want my own." She added miserably: "I really
Hore doorway and lowered her voice to a whisper. “Awful Arnold thinks he's so smart he can outsmart anybody and end
ARRIET polled Froggy into a
up getting his was too light team, he hung
way. When he for the football around practice
pulling
out of the doorway, Froggy with her, "It's really
• сдву to outsmart
him." the
smiled, her voice tingling with triumph, as they ducked across the street and she guided the reluctant Froggy by a circuitous route, meant to misdirect Arnold walked into the Sweet back, to the Sweet Shed.
Not five minutes afterwards Arnold walked into the Swee!
dropped Shed and ordered a soda at the counter. Instantly, Harriet to her knees and hunted the scattered beads on
broken imaginary
string unut Arnold's departure.
an
"I'd have found your ber for you," growled Froggy.
Harriet lowered her voice to a whisper. “Awful Arnold thinks he can outsms rt anybody."
ARE YOU
Are Your Spending Habits Good Or Bad?
By WALTER KING
CRAFTS
TOPICS FOR
567 TUMBER PLEASE?"
"Nis brain tensor
JOKE
TEENER
open ends up, to
By Bass Rittør closet and bedr
somcono
known
game. You can start it by "Who am I?" You take turns Such metal "pocke for holding bent n saying, "Twelve." The first describing peraon who replies, "That's to all the group, present com- objects, like big
pany excepted. You might say, and a catcher's ba the number of units in/a
for example, "I'm always dozen," gets the next turni yelling, *Stop whispering!' Koep, an eagle ey He can keep the game Where's your home work?" time you pass a rolling by giving out with, and Will those boys in the Many of the weed
behave?' Who am in such places can "1492," The player who back row
1?" The player who gustes, house plants, if you answers, That's the year Teacher!" gets the next turn. up and transplant
discovered Historical or story-book char- to
Columbus
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inexpensive per Paint the pottery in
plant need cost no
half hour's work cents in cash.
America," can continue the meters and comic-strip game. A good number is sonalities may be included. I with quick-dry 26 because it's the number you like.. of letters in the alphabet..
It's easy to snip bangs even. First, straighten the hair by The handiest paper weight wetting it. Now comb it over You won't soll, goi you can own can be made in a an ordinary eye-shade. It the you'll remember to Jiffy from a square piece of eye-shade is marked straight hands thoroughly." picture-frame glass.
Bind the across with red nail polish, at Laundry soap before edges with coloured Scotch exactly the length you want tape or white adhesive tape, your bangs to be, all you have paint. Let the thic This gadget is ideal for study to do now is cut along the line. after you purposes because it will keep Ittst face your mirror, and
scraps of paper vialble, salp away. while
protecting them from open-window breezes,
your
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Remove
on
your hands
finish v
all
the paint will because "the" invisi Foap prevents th
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the tops from a from seeping into tas- scrics of large square tins your skin. Make a dandy blotter holder and clean them out thoroughly the perfect your desk by screwing a and you'll have pretty plastic drawer pull place for storing cumbersome- NO answers: 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 down to one side of a square sized objects. Fasten the tins, sticks on your froze Paste a solt wood
ONE of the finest arts is and 12.
come,
to "blow" all they have; others like to hang on it more than they should.
for
block of
*
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Some people seem Count one point for each blotter on the opposite side.
answer that agrees.
can If your You
wood decorate the
using score is more than nine, sub- with fanciful designs, trast nine from your total, and red nail polish. A new blotter give yourself & PLUS score. can be posted on top of the old If your total is less than nine, one, when # becomes too Where do you come in?
Are
subtract It from that Ogure soiled for use. you a spendthrift
tight- and or B wad? It is
a MINUS Important that you should know if you have
weakness
one way or the other about spending. If you spend too much you will soon grow unpopular with your solf, and if you spend too little It may not be long before it is whispered around that you are
A
a
bit of a meanie.
give yourself
score.
Your rating:
Plus
Top-grade
thrift,
Plus 4 or 5-Too free easy for your own good.
K
for
you're always fumbling car-fare and odd change, spend-sew a tiny change purse in the
palm of your left glove.
and
Plus 2 or 3—A liberal
the
Bre
Plus 1,0 or minus 1 The happy medium, which is what you should be.
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Use long pepper
Shadows Trip to the Mod
---Merlin the Magician Made It Possible By MAX TRELL
4400 you'd like to go to the
"So
moon?" Mr Merlin the Magician said.
Knart and Hanid, the shadow children with the turned-about names, nodded eagerly.
"Well. I guess that can be
"Rhyme " is a fast-moving game. To start it, shout "cat" arranged," guy (or
The "It can!" Hanid exclaimed. any other word).
to get are we going next player must shout a word "How
The there, Mr Merlin?" that rhymes, like "rat."
"By aeroplano?" said Knarf, E third player says "at," and so
Merlin shook his head. "Not on. The player who can't think
in by of another rhyming word
an acroplane, not by a
Minus 2 or 3-Inclined to be "out," and a new word is rocket, not by anything like
don't know what happened to tlons, he wound up as manager.
and offered so many augges. Why'd you insist on looking all my ring I had paid for it, of He hired a trailer and borrowed put out,
by yourself?" He was surprised, So here is a shappy litle who will just get by. course. I was handed the ring his father's car to collect waste
and not a little bit test to help you decide envelop with my naine on it
puzzled when Harriet explain-point. Tic questions but it was empty. Maybe I paper for the last suivage drive ed. "If you did that to hide taken from paymbology tests
and so the class made kini away from Arnold again, you used in universities. won't be able to get one until
With noxt
chairman of the drive." autumn when
could have spared your knees," the next effort she kept her voice- quiet. class orders." She stopped short, though ominous. "And that staring ahead.
Bright Light Look he gets when he's put over something clever usked reduces me to hysteries! It's to "Would he have rushed off smug I can't stand it!" She 30 conveniently fast, if he had?” waved a menacing anger. He'll demanded Harriet, with never get a chance to Bright found logic. Light Look mel"
"Another black cat?" Froggy, anxiously.
"Worse!" walled
Harriet. "Here comes that awful Amold
Gelison. He keeps following me' A moment after Arnold had gone whistling by Harriet crept
around, trying to find oppor-
DO-IT THINGS TO MAKE WITH
By Dale Coss
Button BOARD
2. Mark lines with a ruler and pencil.
MATERIALS AT HAND.
1. Cut a 10 inch S.Each player uses buttons of a
square from different color piece of CARDBOARD.
3. Trace around a inch BUTTON
at points shown... 4. Color alternate
spaces BLUE
color circles RED
Players taks
turns putting
them on the circles... each tries
to get buttons in a row, across,
up and down and diagonal,
THE ONE WHO COVERS THE MOST ROWS
WINS!
• PLAYERS USE 12 BUTIONS EACH,
PLAYERS USED BUTTONS,
I PLAYERS USE & BUTTONS?
ZOO'S WHO
TUSKS OF THE ELEPHANT
AND NARWHALAND
AHINOCEROS HORNS
ALL WERE SOLD 'MEDICALLYAS "UNICORN HORNS” IN THE MIDDLE
AGIS..
Froggy Insisted. "I'm positive he saw you."
pro
(One word of advice before you start. Be tough with yourself. If in doubt about an answer give the one you most disliko to give. That way, your scoring is likely to be more accurate.)
ANSWER with
bravely "yea" or "no."
oach
question
a straight
Minus
flint.
PUZZLES
As soon JUN
The Spice of Life
close.
started. No repetitions are al-that" He reached in his pocket
and took out a spool 'of'thread. ́ ́ Minus 4 or 5-A real tight lowed, of course. wnd.
there's only one player left, At least Knart and Hand Merlin yrend up thi declare him the Rhyme King" thought it looked like a spool of.
and Hanid, 6-Full-fedged skin--and crown him with the dic-thread. But it was much more Kndef
than that, as they soon found moment of hésitation tionary. Don't use "orange.”
out. "Come out into the garden after hins ve and we'll climb up to the "Come along moon," said Merlin.
a-1-p-n-g . . . PE Into the Garden.......
Merlin calling" "down "from" for bver-their-b They all went out into the
Soon they had left garden. The moon was hanging below them. They c [in the sky right (or so it -up-up, through a seemed) over the top of the with blinkkig stars. apple tree. "Now this," said kept growing bigger Merlia as be started rolling ger and fuller and something thin and thread. And all at once, have like off the spool. "is 'n' rope-were on the moon
ladder. It was spun for me Legs Crosse specially by a good friend of Merlin was waiting mine. His business in to make sitting on a moonston coh-webs
for 15 rope-ladder, is inde out of two shadows certain spiders. This legs crossed- nhd smili the thinnest thinnest kind of long time, climbing u thread. There's a million miles thing like rope ladd of it rolled around this little, moon,” he said. "Su spool. Now this is what we had to climb
CROSSWORD
HARRIET was dressed up for 1. When planning a party her own party but her right do you make plans for num- hand felt naked. Everybody ber of guests, lunch, and en- else in the room was wearing aing the cost at all?
tertainment without consider- When you've completed this puzzle, you'll find the special brand new Jefferson class ring. She was dwelling on this when 2. Do you save money remarked squares will reveal an
American holiday: the doorbell rang. She answered gularly? to see Awful Arnold standing under the porch light.
you
That is, have you benk account
or some system of saving regularly at home?
a Do you often leave the lights burning in unoccupied
"I'm sorry to bother when you're throwing a party," rooms?
Arnold murmured apologetical- 4. Do
you try to borrow
ly, "but I haven't been able to some things from your friends talk to you all afternoon and I to avoid having to buy them? knew 'you'd want this." His
& Do you have your clothes fingers went into the pocket of mended as soon as they need his best blue suit and came out repairing?
again with n brand new gold- 0. Have you. trained, yourself and-payx class ring tweezered to go easy on extras such between them. "Take it," in ice cream, candy, and "It's yours, drinks?
vited Arnold,
Harriot, You see, 'our last names
7. Are you careful chough
are so alike, your ring got into to checir all change, handed to to my envelope along with mine." you when purchasing and
make recheck purchase bills to
recolved full Harriet's eyes narrowed. sure you have. Angry words tickled on her value for your money? tonguo, · "Arnold Gellson," wanted to scream, "you
ako wore
8. Do you often make it a point
to wait until out-of- avoiding me! On purpose, you staron or special salo ume were avalding me so you could before buying clothes or other use my ring tonight as an in articles you need? vitation inside to the party. Her pretty class ring shone on- ticingly in the porch light; if she took it, in all decency, she'd have to ask Awful Arnold in.
Froggy commented the next day upon Arnold's presenco at the 'party. "You see," he said, "Arnold got into your party, after all I told you he would."
"Yes," agreed Harriet.
9. Are you a good, big- hearted treator?
10. Da you „EVER, EXCEED your spending budget? That is, do you ever spend more money than you intended for a certain article?
5 Gaelic
ACROSS
1 Card game (pl.)
- 9 Noblemdst
10 Decay
11 Bower
.*13 Malo
14 Postscript (ab.).
15 Rowing motion.
17 Protective covering
18 Pestered
20 Thus
22: Make a mistake 23 Fortication 25 Zoo inmate
27 Boy's namo 28 Smooth 29 Loyalist
1. Jumi
DOWN
2 Boat paddles
OF
3 Sphere
11. Do you lend money articles to anyone who hakat
12. If you dropped a smail cóiri in a mud puddio would you-reach Into the grime and Froggy seized upon Harriet's fish it out even though passers- unwonted: meekness as a cue to by were smiling? gloaty a Uttlo. "I bet you're sorry about the nasty things you said about him now that he brought you your ring." *
19. Have you evor
over- bought merely to an effort to keep up with your friends?
14. Do you buy some things "What nasty thing?" asked you reaïen you could do with Harrict,
out in order to kopp i styloT.
"You Bald when Ainola put covered, much to your, hisze over something clover, he got ment, that you had ~ a great what you called a Bright Light deal less money than you Look, Fronty pointed out, thought you had? "Now, I handia" Arpold, DDS:
Bright Idght Look jou?”g
tho, he didn't," Harriet admits,
4 Rigged vessels --
16 Symbol for erblum
0 Native of Rome
7 Malo doer
8 Domestic slave.
12 More unUTMİ 10 Rat
17 First Jewish high priest
10 Relate
19 Great Lake
120, French river: 7
21 Bolely
24 God (Latin) 20 Commons groint
-CAL TRIANGLE
Tiki trianglo bangs from RE- ERSEL The #oprid word 'is'
racije," fourth "enthumkasto Sour
tence," and "glath`ati (
tion for tietoamshi”;
SCRAMBLER
Scramble "a eleátrix" have "vehicles"; again and "parts of circles."
TRAIN-ED WORDS By wrecking a TRAIN, you can fill out these lines to form
words
S T
--E
— — — E — N
— L
PICTURE WORD SQUARE do....!!
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Rad th
to
́ ́Jupiter "* or any of
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Use the pictures to and a Kairfand" Hanid watched planets, which are word describing them. When while Mr Merin flod the end farther nway' than ti you are done, you will find you of, the strange rope-ladder to You'd both be clim
Then, hours and hours. have a word square reading the the trunk of the troe same across as. It does down- latting out some of the rope took äround a bit.”
ladder off the spool, he climbed Merlin, told them
until he reached moon. wam't really up: the treg
ward:
Puzzle. Answor
strange placo, and Hand had wald, that (when it's good look at the rope-ladder, on the earth it's day
the top. Knarf
It was
were
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this case, of the verý thin valley and,» mounta
the
almost exactly like a the moon, RĄKA:. ther regular wooden ladder except any trees, or brooks that the sides and the
} rungs or water of any all made of rope-or, in there are plenty of
thread,
you know," he added, bera
it goes!" Marlin lives-on the moon." shouted at this moment Kaart "The man-in-the-mo and Hanld caught a glimpse of Knarf zaid. “Everybod
spool flying up through that! : You"cád neo the air as Merlin throw it to when you look at the ward the moon with all his Merlin only laughed might. The spool unrolled as it haps no perhaps flew upward, letting the ropo- bøyer seen him. I do ladder out. At length Merlin, where he has his hous after peering up into the sky he lives on, the other si for several minutes; announced moon. I guess we'd triumphantly that, the spool start climbing down had landed on. the moon, and "It's getthe=late.” that they had nothing more to They bigot; down do ziow. cxcept climb up the and Mr Morlin' wound. Indder, "Follow me!'l be said, ¦ rope laddercón the apo
• Up the ladder went Mr Mer- It was a wanderful tr 30, na spry as a monkey, a rope-ladder to the m
Rupert's Climbing Adventure