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STORIES
PUZZLES
Nobody's
"THE" "CHINA
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11,-
The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
HOBBIES
by ritbo
By OMER HENRY
House
ILLY BARTRAM'S "Don't be afraid," Billy said. faced the alloy, watching for
Bflashlight cut a funnel. His voice sounded hollow, and anything that might offer help.
unnatural,
into the darkness. ro-m vealing Nobody's House. "I'm not, Jane's voice trem~ An old, unpainted real bled. Much.
dence, it was throo, blocka ̈ from any other home. With
3. second-stomy window
its boarded-up windows and she alle was not grilled basement doof," t was a mysterious looking place.
Mounting the shaky steps, Billy moved across the rotting porch, He grasped the door knob as he often had, but this time the rusty hinges creaked as be pushed-and the door opened.
boarded up”, “All, piters were nailed shut, and each door was locked...
can
"What
we do?" Jana asked when she and Billy, were again in the sitting room, "Mother and Daddy'll be worried."/
Billy peeked through a crack His flashlight disclosed. 4. In the darded-up window. broken chair. hobby horse "Somebody's coming," he whis-
Billy peeked through a crack in the boarded-up window. "Haznebody's coming,” he whispered.
almost as tall as himself, and on the floor, folded -over once, a handful of paper money.
Billy darled inside, picked up and counted 10 crimp $20 bills.
"What are you doing?” The words sounded almost behind him. They startled him....... Hls light showed Jade Norvell,' his classmate, in the entrance through which he had just passed.
"Oh," he said, catching hia breath. I've found $200.”
Jane gasped as she stepped into the room and closed the door. The lock snapped sharply. Blily
With rushed in alarm. both hands he turned the knob, blod, and tugged. His efforts
pered. "Two men. We'd better
hide,"
Just as Jane and Billy ream- pered from the sitting room, a key grated in the lock and the sent out their rusty binges weird screech.
"I thought, I forgot to lock that door a soft voiced man Again sald. It warried me." the hlores complained and the lock clicked in the darkness.-,**
“Sure," a
} cruff voice scomed
LMOST a block away Billy
ALMOST a
aw moving
Billy flashed his light. On, off, on) off, on, off.
signalled again. On, off, on, off. The figure stopped. Billy
on, of. For a moment the man hesitated, then walked on.
"Why doesn't he investigate?” Jane asked.
Billy was amazed. "I haven't the slightest idea," he said. "Not the slightest."
"We're prisoners," Jane said.
Billy stood by the window. Every word Jane sald was true. Gruff Voice would never let
CRAFTS
ZOO'S WHO Food Can Be Fun.
them escape. Not if he couldOLARBEAR prevent it. And, in all probabl-
UVERIS POISONOUS lity, he could.
A car was cruising along the street. Billy aimed his light at the driver's oyes, On, off, on, off, on, off. The machino kept mbying. It turned a corner, moved towards Nobody's House.
"Come on," Billy sald. Flashing his light, he led the way downstairs. He peeped through the crevice in the sit- ting room window. "It's the palice," he sold.
But
He turned to the door. "Break the door down," Billy whis- pered. "We're locked in." an officer, with a key, opened the door.
"Two men are here," Billy bald. "They're in the basement."
Billy brought out the roll of "I $20 notes he had found. picked these up from the floor."
The
exchanged officers glances, "How do we get them?"
"This way," Billy showed them the door.
to
said, and basement
The officers found and opened the secret panel in the basement wall. Behind it, in the light of gdsoline lamps, the thugs were trapped. The officers handcuffed them.
to
The tall officer turned Billy. "Good work, son. Mighty good. What's your name?"
"And this is Jane Norvell,"
Billy Bartram," Billy said.
TO HUMANS..
"Ecarb"] "THEMOOSE,UNLIKE MOST OTHER MEMBERS OF THE DEER, FAMILY, DOES NOT GRAZE........HE FEEDS ON BARK, TWIGS, LEAVES, MOSS AND LICHENS...
CAMEL
REQUIRES AS MUCH WATER AS ANY OTHER ANIMAL OF ITS SIZE,BUT CAN DRINKS 15 GALLONS ATONE TIME SO HE DOESN'T DRINKS AS OFTEN ever.
A Very Peculiar Bakery
-Odd Things Happened When You Ate Its Cake--- By MAX TRELL
патев.
669VE just discovered a won- derful new bakery, sald Mr Punch to Kart and Hanid, the shadow.children with the turned-about
"The cakes and buns you buy there not only taste good but they make curious things happen." Knarf and Hanid wanted to curious know what kind of things happened after you ate the cakes and Uvas, “Al kinds of curious things" Me Punch smiled. Knart and Hanld then urged Mr. Punch to take them to the bakery so that they could see for themselves....
"Fine," said Mr. Punch "We'll go
next Woosday half-past twenty-six_o'clock,”
"There is no such day Woolday," Bald Knarf.
"And no such tirne twenty-six o'clock," Hanid.
Mr Punch chuckled, at his calendar, then
"You didn't unlock it just now. You only think'you did.' If you *Well, Billy and Jane, I've un weren't the best engraver in the idea this story and your pic- United States, I'd say you were tures'll be in tomorrow's news- crazy,"
papers. And you really deserve "All the same" Soft Volde it. Not often a couple of kids
past counter- l-time can were useless. He and Janes eredu Em going to look around.felber locked insido Nobody's House.
He turned to Jane. "Til find
a way out - I hope," he said uncertainly.
From
rubbish- one barren cluttered room to another the two walked. On the floors were piecza of faded wallpaper, broken blts of plaster, and
mildewed books.
DO-IT
By
Dale Goss
SALAD
STRING
1. Put a piece of SALAD MACARONI ona TOOTHPICK.
2.Paint
with
FINGER- HAIL POLISH
3.Stack with picks in an APPLE to let macaroni dry. Paint about 40 pieces.
4. Put a HEAVY THREAD 36" inches long through a DARNING: NEEDLE.
5.String macarons onthead alternatch with WATERMELON SEEDS...make long enough to go around your neck.
4
I thought I heard something didal" snarled Gruff Voice,
when we came up the stops!
"Now you're going nuts," glaring. "Lame Brain and a Gruff Voice said. "This house couple brata!" is empty, Bea?" And Gruff Volce stamped downstairs Le basement
to
"All right," said the tall policeman. "Get going, mup Get going-8-8-g!"
i
Through the house Soft Voice moved kicking loose paper Billy and Jane lett Nobody's crunching bits of plaster under House From the street Billy foot When he finally went to glanced at the old, unpainted the basement, Billy and Jane place. He drew a deep breath. to be was a good place crept to the second floor. At the It
aboarded-up' Window Billy leaving.
Can You 'Size Up' Things?
TH
By WALTER KING THIS world is full of fan- tastic figures and Good strange rumours. judgment and keen sense of proportion prevent us from swallowing
million nearly quarter of a miles away. Would the rocket take two years, two weeks, or two hours to get there if it con- tinued this speed?
B. What's your
estimate of your own sense of proportion: Tops, Average, or Fratty Grim? and Check your
answers crazy calculate
your rating as follows: yarn we hear. How is your judgment?
every
In each of the following statements one answer is cor- The other rect, or nearly so. two are so far from the truth that you should have no dificul ty rejecting them. The idea is to check the
one answar that appears to be the most reason-~~
In бле
second a bullet travels 40 yards, about quarter of a mile, 40 miles.
2. To walk down from the top of a. 55-storey building (no. resting allowed) would take: 80::
minutes, 3 minutes, 3 hours.
3. Suppose you had to make' a putty Bit. Everest on a school globe three feet, in diameter mountain had to be and, this
in its true proportion (about 51⁄2 miles high). Would you make it less than a quarter of
Inchca, four an inch,
40 inches high
or
4. People line-boll sides of A street one mile long to watch line® in' six-foot
derrade
bet
The
both sides. Would n this crowd 300,000,
br. 90,000, cubical box thres feet Cost wide and three Azureek hura la filled with medium
would it contain: fired wobles, woy
AFDÍST
Tot
/* 1,000, 800, or 20
bs What is your off-hand of Limate of the total weight of air in #lapki mudilerista 100, feet.
(20, park në de A and 20 feet
On the first seven estimates, six of seven zight is Tops; four or five is Average; below four Is Pretty Grim.
Now check your rating on queation No. 0 and 14 you knew
at
The baker.
see the baker and Mr Punch, both seeming to be no larger than ants.
"Hello, up there!" they heard Air Punch shouting to them, said "Do you like being big?"..
FTWWO. cars cracked up ro-[
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cently in Los Angeles, which perhaps is not news. One driver was named Hamburger, the other was named Weinor. In West Chester, Pa., another pair of drivers collided. One was driven by Donald Dill and the other by James Pickle. Those names make all the news in the world; because (strange is it everyone seems!) is interested in food, ki
"Food" names are so common that we scarcely notice them un- less they are unexpectedly cou- pled, as in the case of a Mr. Lemon getting married to a Miss Sugar, or a Miss Ade.
****
"FUNNY POOD FACTS-
A TASTY ROMANCE-
MR LEMON BECAMB
ENGAGED TO MISS ADE
By Bass Ritt
TABLE. MANNERS, HAVE CHANGED CINCE 1985- AT WAG, THEN POLITE TO WASH YOUR FACE WITH 2 NAPKIN DIPRED 'INTO THE FINGERBOWL *, :
PLEASE
DURING THE WAR, CAFE MEN
OFFERED VICE PRESIDENT GALARIES" FOR NELP.,
Laws about food are funny, too. In Massachusetts an old law, that somebody forgot to take off the books, made it illegal to refuse to Berve food to a stranger except on Sunday to Things Superior for Your Inter- Colorado, it is against the stato
for," and was probably correct, law to serve food in a room because there's nothing better used for any other purpose than good food.
Another cafe (possibly to prevent people owner in California told bls from eating crackers in bed). guests: "The only thing you can
Milan, Mich., forbade by city get on your cuff here is gravy". ordinance the throwing of apple cores on the city streets. Detroit
sizo regulated the
of wheat cakes by a law passed in 1833.
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Q
May
[any small restaurants take
delight in putting up signs that tickle their guests as well as call attention to their menu. In Lincoln, Neb., a basement restaurant posted a neon sign:
Our Coffee
Roll and Downstairs." "Frled Chicken and Tender Coffee" was adver- tised at another place.
A New York place asked: "Have You Tried Our Delicious Hot Plates?" Then the manage that perhaps ment decided guests liked something more pal- atable than a plate.
Another cafe listed "Barely Soup" on Its menu, until the pre- prietor found out how to spell "parley."
A proud North Dakota re- staurant proprietor, advertised:
TEENER TOPICS
W
on
Knorf and Kanid gazed looked around. Being as big as a tree glanced was interesting, You could at the clock, that hung on the look down at the rooftops, The wall over his chair. "My birds flew around your head dears, we're very lucky! Today like flies. You could reach out twenty-six luckie and almost touch the clouds.
o'clock! We can go to our new bakery at We like
ine Hand TNSTEAD of sending out party Anally said.
but once"
When she invitations, send two friends thought that they wouldn't be able to at in their beds, and the home of each person
your list, go. They should be wouldn't be able to fit their wearing sandwich sign. The torst rooms, and would be
one should” read, “I AM big to sit in their chairs for GOING TO THE PARTY THAT dinner, she added hurriedly WILL BE HELD BY (∞ and "But I guess we better be our SG) AT (date, place, time)," chumi wearing | this sign own regular sizes again. baker quickly arranged for should be full of smiles. The this to happen. He simply
sign should read, "I gave them a crumb of Shorten-CANT GO. The wearer of
second ing Cake to aut.
billboard should look
........Down the Road ---- They soon started off. They all walked down the road, flian over a fence, around the pond, nast the edge of the woods. Finally they comb' to a bakery shop they had never seen bo-
fore
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Walk right in" sald. Mr Punch.
The Tho
this
Later, as they were walking very downcast. The backs of A bell tinkled over the door home, Mr Punch said he had both signs should read; as they all walked In Inside given the baker three, kenales YOU'RE INVITED.” the bakery shop, was a man for his cakes. "They were all wearing a long white - apron.
the konnies I had," he said.
He was the baker. He looked
as he were made of round
A lot of originality is dis- played in the coinage of words. An Arizona luncheonette had "Our inscribed on its mirror
Jerka Arv Soda
Licensed Fizziclans."
Another punkter put up a sim When a person wants a cup of coffee BAD, he wants it' GOOD."{
LIVEN in advertising, men who
soll
moals aro original. During the war, desperate cafe men advertised in the daily newspapers: "WantedDead or Alive-Waltremes." The ad first appeared in a Joplin, Mo., news paper and was quickly copied in many other localities,
Another man in California ad vertised: "Waitresses Wanted --- free Good wages, free meals, bobby pins!" And that was no joke when bobby pins .../WÉTO scarce. A cafeteria offered","a vica president's salary"!' đón a good dishwasher.
HA! A BLUB-SHADED VARIETY FOR MY` BUTTON COLLECTION
BUTTON |BUTTON=
By/I. R.- Hogel By/l.
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'To make..a room smell DUTTON collecting is not now
lumps of dough with raisins and PUZZLE ANSWERS nico all the empty, spick-and--but it is a hobby that is pruñes and plums for his eyes
and nose and mouth. There all were counters and shelves around the bakery shop filled and cakes and bung with cookies.
"What would you like to buy today?" said the baker. TvO got lots of everything, all hot And, fresh. The price is two for a kenny."
"Well," enough about yoursel to score a bull's-eye, add this to your previous score to get your
HOW HIGH WOULD ME EVEREST BR ON A SLOBA 5 FEET IN NANOTAMNTAR 17:
final rating as follows: "A" OL of night, is phenomenal pas brilliant;
Knart and Hanid asked. the baker to show them his wares. said the baker, plate, of chuckling as ho set" sugary-looking, buns on the counter "there are my Tat- tling Caken. Just try a nib- ble,” he said, offering a bun to Knarf and Hanida
#Lattling - cakes make you ittis." said Mr Punch, 1
Knarf and Hanid both took a ribble, The bun tasted won- derfully good. But no sooner had they each swallowed the
DIAMOND:
SMASH
REATHICH
span jar of an insecticide gun tendily gaining popularity.
water or calogne,
Another item, which does concern the people who sell i meals as much as thone who them in table manners. Th have changed entrprisingly { || the past century and a hall
In 1000 it was said: "The s should never be taken from (tea or coffee) cup you satisfied with the contents." Ev In 1885, it was considered proj
tuto to dip your appkin Inger-bowl and to use it to wi your dirty face after ent
dinner.
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DIAMOND
LEATHER forms the cen
The second word is "s" body. of the word diamond this we Bhatic water third "to (firth “pale***" and the sixth is chicken," gangs
WORD CHAIN
Change DRAW to LOSE In moves. Change only mo la at a tits and have a good y dit each change.
PREVERSE-SCRAMBLER
Roverso "duration" and h "to exudo; cramble and † "a partició "re-scramble have "a ledger entry."
CROSSWORD
with toilet and spray a fine mist into the Sometimes a beginner collects alr, Be sure that the jar is all kinds of buttons from all
sources. Unless there is ample!! thoroughly clean,
storage space, this is a mistake because collections have run CELAINT DRAW,
over the 20,000 mark. It is better claw, clap, alap, adat, most, pesa,
a smartic, 7 bet you to decide on one type of bulten looms, Losm REVERSE-SCRAMIILER: Time, don't, even know how many at the start.. wilt, inide, Stern,
CROSSWORD:
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ate there in your full Chances are that he'll name?"
little checking Itavo to do a before he replies!
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One girl began collecting Boy's nickname pearl buttons. Soon the shrewd 17 Native of Latvia ness acquired through shopping 10 Devotees and swapping manifested itself, 20 Looked fixedly and she was keenly aware of 22 Early. English (ob.) likenesses and differences. So 23 Dog's name k ahe einsafled her Ands: black, 25 Place of another Make your own bubble bath smoke, natural, mother-of-pear" },2% Mix a few drops of cologne | and blue-shaded. Her one- with a quarter-cupful of mild (bution houby granulated detergent (the stun branches.
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6.Bwift currents in a river
Pare
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that does the disheal). Let the mixture «stand while you all
Other popular collector' the tub with water. Now add
Items are calico buttons with the
thick paste, and enjoy
andringer glamour-scented movie actress bright colours beauty bath!
miniature buttons, some of them the size of a pin; pewter
18 Oriental guitars buttons; hair buttons; animal 10 Horse'a galt...
9 Puff up! Thick
Mr Pinch and the bar Rupert's Climbing Adventure-18 buttons that have dogs, cats, Nollen
now: seemed as large as
molintaina. “Make - us - big | agala Khurt yelled.
"Ah they heard the baker roaring Homewhere over their hoada, seh you don't like my | Lattiing Cakes. Well, try some of my · Biggering, Buns," AN enormous band came down with two gigantic bums on It
[ust***dibble will do," "sald
horses or bears adorning them; 21 Might before an avont
buttons: 34 Road (eb.) emblem national military buttona; transportations | SWORD SQUARE
trains button with boats
planes or bicycles. The list is Arrange the
practically imitions.
letters inse
row to for 'ALLSWORTH, ¦-then-
After collecting the buttons, arrange the rows of PINK: the second step in to sort them. They road, the same sORTE
downward: The third step is to pow. them en large-white squares of card=" bosed Embarking and filing them mocording to their user.cation. Buttons must be in a sbod siste of preservation to have view,
worth