VIKELVIR
GILAAJANKIAN”A, MEMUKULEPAJES
LOU
SOLD OUT
We regret to announce that owing to the overwhelming
demand all
"Belling"
ELECTRIC FIRES AND HEATERS for the 1950/1951 Season have boon completely
SOLD
OUT.
Still Available
"Belling"
ELECTRIC RANGES AND COOKERS
SINGLE & DOUBLE BOILING RINGS CLOTHES DRYING CABINETS
PLATE WARMING CABINETS
etc.
etc.
are still available FROM STOCK af all Leading Electrical Stores or Direct from the Solo Agents.
BOYS' AND GIRLS' CHRISTMAS
MOKEY AND THE
SNOW
M
A Story by BRUCE BLUNT
diced.
TOKEY woke up. The began to feel very lonely lu- room was dark. He was just beginning to think "How
strango!" about having a good cry, when he heard faint "tap-tap... tap he thought. "I must have tap." It seemed to come from woken up earlier than the bottom of the door. He usual." It was very strange, jumped out of bed, put his car to the door, and called, "Who because Mokey was a Inzy
is there?" little donkey, and nearly always woke up later than usual,
He lit the candle which stood by his bedside, and look- ed at his clock. The hands
pointed to eight o'clock. This was not sa strange, because they always did.
""Open the door," squeaked a volee. "It's me...Mouldy."
Mokey opened the door, and was instantly buried in a mound of snow. He had forgotten to be careful that time,
He had hardly got to his feet
Mouldly, who had gone on bhead, was waiting for hla_com- panlon at the mouth of the As he came out into tunnel. the daylight, Mokey took a deep breath, How lovely it was to be in the fresh air again!
He was trying to think of come way in which he could repay Mouldy for his kindness In rescuing him when he suddenly thought of Penelope's party.
when Mouldy the mole popped to Penelope's party," he began, "I say, Mouldy, are you going
"because if ...'
out of the snow-mound.
That's E
nice welcome to Mokey had found the clock
give anyone, I must Bay. on a rubbish heap, months ago, squeaked Mouldy. "But still, and he was very proud of it. It's the sort of welcome I get Not only the clocks but on whorever I go. Only not quite empty feeling Inside told so much of it, as a rule." Mokey that it was breakfast
U.
SPALINGER
& Co., Ltd.
(ENGINEERING departMENT)
time. This made the darkness seem even more queer. He glanced towards the window.
York Building, Chater Road.
Tols: 26774.
"It wasn't really my fault," It was light after all. Through said
Mokey. "In fact, I've the half-drawn curtains he never been so pleased to sco could see light. But something anyone in my life." 31258.
- TRIUMPII
MAYFLOWER
Britcia's New
Light Con
FAR EAST
MOTORS LIMITED. 26 Nathan Road, Kowloon. Telephone 52029
"Party!" said Mouldy. "No- body ever invites me to a party. That is what comes of living underground. One gets out of touch with things."
"Well, come along to Peno- lope's, then," said Mokey.
"I'll come," said Mouldy sad- ly, "but I shan't know what to do, or eat, or drink,
от
say.
very queer indeed had hap- "I should hope not," an- I shall be very unhappy." |penod, The fir tree had gone in swered Mouldy. "I've been So the two set off across the mow for Badger's Wood, where From where he lay in bed I've made a tunnel big enough Penelope's cottage was. When
the night.
"Hear frost," said Mokey to himself. He pulled down the window in order to see out. A shower of snow fell on top of his head. For a moment he was too surprised to do any- thing. Then
closed the ho window with a bang.
for
you
gone
lantern.
some
my
"What party?" cried Penelope, "Oh that party! It's over. was the day before yesterday."
"Just
luck," sighed "When I am invited
was
20
預
Mokoy wakes up later than usual
Mokey looked and saw with When he came within sight a shock that half of it was grey of his own house Makey found and the other half bright red. that the snow bad not gone at all. It had simply changed to a dark colour. In fact, it had changed into gingerbread,
"That is what comes of trying to dye my hair ginger," sald Penelope. "Only half the spell worked."
By this time the Ginger Baby had brought along a very small carrot "Ask Penelope to make it larger," said the kitten. Mokey immediately asked her to make it into the largest carrot ever known.
отеча
♫
When he came sadly to the edge of It he nibbling at a corner,
50W D mouse
"Good evening, Mouse," said Mokey. "How long will it take you to eat all this?"
"Years." said the mouse. "Then please
go and friends about ii,"
your
Mokey.
BOXED BOUNCE
DOXED BOUNCES
Box played either indo
or outdoors. Take a he
corrugated carton, inches deep, and cut up i the following lengths: plece 12 inches long, 1 pieces 6 inches long, pieces 10 inches long, two pieces 4 inches long
Make one-inch deep slots ( is half-way through the t Inch depth of the pieces) follows: One inch and t inches from the ends a four six-inch pieces; ono l' three inches and five ind from the ends of the 12-1
BOX
CONSTRUCTION
"TAPE" CORNER
tell piece; two and four inches f ends of the two 10-18 said the
So the mouse went off and fetched every mouse in Elfond, The gingerbread was gone in no time,
pieces;
the pieces.
and two inches
ends of the two four-I
Now cross the pieces, fift the slots into one mother you will have a compact box
shown in the sketch. Tape: four corners of the box sc But they had eaten so much, will stay in one piece dur and were so fat, that as soon the game.
the
last
as they had finished piece the mice just fell asleep where they were,
To play, use a two-inch There was rubber ball, or a tennis an enormous pile of them.
floo So, Place the box on the instead of being blocked by ground, stand about eight
Mokey's gingerbread, was blocked by mice,
Suddenly
houseoway, and bounce the balls:
will land in the box,
Mokey heard
D
digging for you for two hours.
Mokey could always
to crawl along. There see the
พลต fr tree through the
curtains, is only a huge great snowdrift they got there the door
The witch made some passes they tunnel Penelope
open, and
500 could Sometimes he would see it on round your house. My
Inside the room, and mumbled some words. The open by the moonlight nights,
carrot shrank, and turned into glittering comes into the
along. You looking very cross, with frost, but it was always field-path. Come
a knob of solid ginger. better bring your had the first thing which he looked you creatures are so clumsy in
"What are you doing here?"
Mokey could not eat ginger, for in the daylight. And now
slie screeched at them. the
and wished that he had been it had gone.
dark."
"Please, we've come to the content with the carrot, When they had
how Mokey jumped out of bed little distance, Mokey noticed in party," Mokey answered,
ever small it wos. He begun to and pulled the curtains wide the glimmer of his lantern វា
think that his only chance of apart. Everything
gone. turning which went to the right. had
It getting a good meal was from There was nothing to be seen What is that turning?" he
the store of food in his except the window-pones glit- asked,
garden-shed, "It's not a turning, really," tering in the candle-light.
"Please, Penelope, can you answered Mouldy, "It's one Mouldy. of Rabbit's old burrows. My to a party, it would be an old make the snow disappear from tunnel just happened to
He vanished into the round my house?" he asked. cut one." across it."
ground.
"Oh, that is quite easy," sald the witch. She picked up a handful of snow, made it into a ball, and melted it in
To score a point, the cauldron. "The snow round Miaou...miaou," behind him. must stay in one of the
the mice. They have your house has gone already," So did
were partments. Each player she said.
awake and gone in no time. Li three turns and you can was Ugly's Ginger Baby.
your own limits on the num 0
"Panclope hos
turned me of points that make old, half aloud,
out," said the kitten in a very
a game. Mokey started to turn round hurt tone of voice,
It is a good idea, however, "I think I can And you u
make a decision before starti very small carrot," said a voice
Then come and live with the game us to whether the b from somewhere inside the
mo,"
," said Mokey, "so long as must land in the box after t And the next moment you go?" the witch asked him nothing is likely to turn into first or second bounce.
As he was very cold Mokey ginger in my house." was glad to
But accept it.
course not," answered when it was poured out he the kitten. took one rulp of it and ran, It ... had turned into ginger beer. milk, and fetched a basketful of
Before he got out of the carrots from his store.
DET turtles stay healthy if n wood be heard frightful yells When he had eaten them all overfed. Once a day is t and shrieks behind him. He he went to bed; and the Ginger maximum. Offer him bits turned round to see Penelope Baby curled up by the fire-raw fish, beef and liver, chopp and the Ginger Baby dancing place.
as finely as possible. "Eart about in what seemed to be a "I suppose it was because I worm meat" may be included yellow lake. The house had was only a kitten that the well. M- with a drop; gone. Penelope had made an- spelts only
half right. cod liver oll occasionally other slight mistake, She had She ought to have thought of strengthen his shell and t turned her house into ginger that." mused the Ginger Baby, only as much food za hơ”” marmalade,
When Mokey came to the turning, a most beautiful smell He put came to his nostrils.
As for Mokey, he down his lantern and sniffed.
ho It was the smell
could dried grass. hungry that This was too much for a donkey cried, who had had no breakfast.
"Oh, I am Mokey thrust his head into the door and peeped through. the turning, and his mouth closed keyhole. He could
He took the key from
the
SCC no-
on a bunch of grass. But not
thing. Very gently he turned the handle and opened the door for long. Just a tiny bit. He was not
going to be caught again. Molsey shut the door quickly. He had seen enough the crack. There
over,"
In another second, he shot through back in the tunnel, and his cries was Snow echoed along it. "Ooh... ow! right up to the top of the door. ooh...ow!" he yelled. "Some The very, very worst had hap- thing has pricked my nose all pened. He was snowed in.
Mokey
back to bed went and began to think of all the awful things which were going to happen to him. He was go ing to be hungry. He was going to be lonely. He was going to miss Penelope's party. Since Penelope was a witch, her par tles were most exciting. Mokey
CHRISTMAS GIFTS
FOR
I
HOME & HEARTH
#
An exclusive selection for every choice
MOHAIR RUGS
36" x 72"
MOTHPROOFED LISTER PRODUCTION IN NINE SHADES
GRAFTONTM BLANKETS
In all sixoa
A gift worth to envy
SHORE SHEETS with Pillow-Slips to match
white & coloured
TABLE-CLOTH & NAPKINS
A VAST RANGE IN PURE LINENS & IN COTTON DAMASK
TYEB &
(ESTD. 1900)
-H.K. HOTEL BLDG.
CO.
"It serves you tight," came "for trying to eat my bed." a cross voice from the turning,
It was Hod, the Hedgehog, in the middle of his winter's sleep.
"Fancy trying to eat a per- con's bed," he went on. "Not only that, but you've woken me up six weeks too soon. Please g away, and take that light
20017.
so hungry," he
a kiten came through the door- way.
It was Ugly's Ginger Baby. here," asked Mokey.
"Hello! What are you doing
"I'm living here now," said the Ginger Baby. "Ever since the black cat left her because he could not put up with her singing, I've been Penelope's cat,"
"And my magic has gone to pieces ever since you come," snapped Penelope.
"What magic?" asked Mokey, "Ginger magic, of course, yelled the witch. "Always do the magic which matches the with you. It is keeping mo cat. Black cat-black magic. White cat-white magic. I'd even have a try at tabby magle, it I had a tabby cat. But ginger mogle is difficult enough. The books say very little about it. I cannot seem to get it right. Look at my hair."
awake."
Mokey picked up his lantern and went on. He had not gone far before ho heard the most tremendous snoring. Hod was settling down to sleep again. Mokey's nose still smarted."
PUZZLE
CROSWORD
ACROSS
1 Winter vehicle
B Plant part
# Peel
10 Rant
11 Operatic solo
12 Legal point
13 Road (ab.)
14 Speedsters
17 Ago
18 Ensnare
21 Parent 23 Drone bea
24 Wicked
20.Notion
20 Get up 29 Golf mounda
30 Satinto
Box
* Grease
9 Silkworm
PATCH
21 Light fog
22 On the sheltered side
25 By way of
27 While
SCRAMBLER
Scramble "a flower" and have "painful" rescramble and have "mineral rocks,"
RIDDLES
1. When is a boy most like a
wild animal?
2. How would you express in one word having encountered a doctor of medicino?
3. Why is D person who nover lays a wager as bad as a regular gambler?
4. What bridge creates the most anxiety?
5. Why is the fight of an eagle a most unpleasant sight to witness?
WORD SQUARE
After rearranging the letters in each row of the diagram to form a good word, renITango the rows of words so they will read the same across and down:
AEEMR
AEHRS
EEERV
ITO
DOWN
EEDRİR
More expensive, Senior (ab.)
Waste allowance
7 At all times
8 Disorder
16 Constellation
113 Antics
18 Prepare for publication
is Complication
EOHM]R
ADD-A-LETTER
Add a letter to a form of "to: bo" and have a Brottish cup another letter and have “donesi ticate:" another, and have Huntched."
for home. "Have
a cup of
tea before
First Watch
to Wind
Itself
on a
So Mokey got the kitten come
came
as it fell asleep.
Ball Bearing
ETERNA MATIC—you'vo asked for it
A watch that winds as you woar it and stays wound 40 hours after wearing! ETERNAMATIC—with revolutionary wind- Ing dovico:... oxclusivo in styling and por faction in Nimo-keeping qualities.
ETERNA MATIC-look for this symbol on the dial.
Pet Turtles
Immediately.
ETERNA-MATIC
49410 ED. A KELLER & CO., LTD.