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PUZZLES
STORIES
HOBBIES
CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1960.
The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
CRAFTS
AS THEY SEE YOU ZOO'S WHO Jack The Whirler
Boys
ET A GIRL REPLACED the tolo phone receiver on the Book slowly, not at all notic 'ing what I was doing. Henry had naked mo to go to a party, and I had said, "No," Bo quickly it puzzled me. I wanted to go. I had no prospect of another date. Why, then, had I been so prompt in turning down Henry?
I leaned against the wall to think. It didn't take mental gymnastica to re member the last time I went komewhere with Harry. He wanted to spend his birthday money
steaks at Charlie's Grill just about the swankiest place we teen-agers over go and he asked me to go along. Maybe he knew Sara Fontaine was going to be there. Maybe he didn't. But he has a crush on her, and he spent half the even- ing at her table while I twiddled my thumbs and wondered why I had chosen the occasion for initiating my new linen dress,
I
When finished with I thought about Harry, other boys I knew. Some I liked, some I didn't; and just for future reference, I filed my thoughts.
Bo
DOYS I Like fit neatly into five categories, but the preferred one can be classified in more than one group. Popularity, I think, is seldom
due
we have the same problema to talk about. Algebra, for instance, and Mias Wicker's English com- positions,"
Earl threaded the bait on his hook and dropped in the water. "I like a girl with
he said. cheerful disposition,' "Not just when the going's good, but when we hit the bumps, too. Tako Pamela."
We knew Pamela.
She isn't
pretty. She's freckled, and her hair gets stringy on warm days, but no one notices. They only see her warm,, friendly smile that's genuine all the way. "Pamela and I were going to It worked a movie in the car. out that dad had to use the ear, but he gave me taxi money. When I told Pamela about the taxi, she suggested we walk. She thought I'd be taking the fare
out of my allowance."
Hank gave a guffaw. "Brother, what would Janet say in a case like that? The thought makes me shudder."
WE went over the subject pro
and con before we caught. enough bullheads for a fish fry on the bank, and we agreed on several points.
one to
should
show an
1. Girls interest in us as well as them- selves; help put us at case so we won't feel shy and timid.
2. Helght, weight, or colour of hair aren't as important as disposition
3. A fighty, high-strung girl, and talks who puts on "alrs"
cud to attract attention got We don't like a three NO votes. Minnie Mouse either. There's a middle ground.
4. Clothes should be neat; appropriate for the occasion. No "sloppy Josephines." Even Betty Grable would look unattractive that way.
5. We don't expect girls to go "Dutch" on dates. But we do appreciate their thinking of our quality alone in either boys or allowance when they're tempted! girls; it's a combination of a lot to order a super-duper banana a pop is all we can oplit, and afford.
of little things.
6. The bubble gum chewer. Never! Especially when she pops it between her teeth,
8.
James is the courteous type, He never toots the car hora at the door even though he knows perfectly well I'm physically ablo make my way out the
7. And while we like girls to door and down the steps without look pretty, we want them to tils help.
He opens the car door, make up at home, not in public. too, but there's nothing sissy
But our pet peeve? Here it about the way he does it.
After we've manoeuvred to feel conspicuous nover makes me at a party, either, by doing all get the family car, saved up the sorts of silly things to attract allowance for something special attalion. Neither does he hold me at arm's length when we're dancing for fear he'll catch the measles I don't have.
on
Te is.
and bought a new tie, maybe, we arrive at the girl's house and find she has a surprise for us. Another "girl friend" who 18 "50-0-0 sorry if I'm interfering with your plans," That, girls, is twisting the halter, and I'm not kidding!
Arthur's strong point Is thoughtfulness. Ile consults me
how
we shall spend the evening, and I try to be con- siderate of his pocketbook and suggest amusements I know be can afford. He's thoughtful of family, too, bringing littic my gifts to mother or my youngest | 4 brother,
David is neither
or
1
2 In 1 Game
a "talkingERE is a jigsaw puzzle and a
"walking three-in-a-row game com-
dict" but his vocabu-|
Lary is more than adequate to
bined.
The playing board is made express himself in an interesting from heavy cardboard six inches manner. All the girls like to talk with him, for he can always square, Around the outer rim a contribute something worthwhile one-inch strip of cardboard is to any conversation. Too many glued to make a frame for the boys seem to know only two words: "Swell" and "Gee."
Andy is ambitious, Sometimes ho's misunderstood because of it, but seems to me that oven) Junior high is mone too early to start thinking about the future. An ambitious fellow is fun to be with. He makes you feel impor- taut, too.
*
WHILE several boys would it
but
in the fifth category, none fill as well as Alian. He .com adapt himself quickly and cheerfully to any altuation. He's a good sport. He's also careful of his grooming and personal appearance. You're proud to a troduce him to your family and triends.
3 IN A
PLAY BOARD
ROW
2 IN 1 GAME
JIO-GAW
10 one-inch squares which are marked with India ink on the playing board.
For the "three-in-a-row" gamo No boys aro perfect, just as no you need 18 markers. These are girls are, and I think girls are eight round and eight square willing to make allowances for pieces of cardboard. Flyers minor unpleasant traits, But move in turn, the "round" player win the trying to get three in a row and
The
cin any boy
before at pin in my soup, he'll the "entro" player endeavour-
Girls!
ALLICATORS
CAR CAUSH ALMOST AINTING] WITH THEIR POWERFUL JAWS, YET ONCE CIPSED A MÂU CAN HOLD THEM SKUT LIMI ONE HAND
SOM
GEGFISHERS EAT OTHER-
HOME SCIENTISTS HOW THINKROVA SCOTIA AND THE BRITISHLISLES ONCE WERE LINKED BY A LAND BRIDGE OVER. WHICH ANCIENT ELEPHANTS REACHED AMERICA_
FOODS BESIDES FISH MICE AND INJURIOUS INSECTS MAKE UPA GOOD PART OF THEIR
DIET...
PUZZLE PATCH
CROSSWORD
1 Beverage
3 Father
ACROSS
4 Lieutenant (ab.)
Girl's name
7 Boy's nickname
8 Symbol for cerium
9 Another girl's name
11 Egyptian sun god
DOWN
1 Grenter in stature
2 She wears a blue gown 3 Green vegetable -
5 Golf mound 10 Virginia (ab.)
HIDE 'N'-SEEK
Two girls have hidden them- selves in this sentence. Can you ing them out?
You may Czace!
your sub- Foription if you wish, but before you cancel I advise you to¬thlok of what you will be missing.
MIX-UPS
When you rearrange the lot- tera in each group of words below, you will have the names
of three more giris:
ZEAL BE HIT
NINE E GAVEL
TARE GRAN
SUBSTITUTIONS
Here are some sentences in which you't substitute дем words in bold words for the type.
The
new
words will have tire sant meaning дя
words the
bold in
type, but in each sentence both new words will contain the same letters, although
tho Ietters may not be in the same order. For instance In the sentence: "If you can pall this horse to water, I'll make a bargain to sell hun." The words would be "lead" and "deal.”
1. He wept in his apple juleo,
2. Sho found it a burden to follow a path.
3. They showed their visitor their basement.
4. He could work for money if a job was close by.
RIDDLES
have to be courteous, ambitious, ing to block the moves. and a good sport. And that goes diagram shows the "round" for girls, too, when we say, player scoring a win. "Yes," to a datel
For the Jigsaw
1. Who are the most wicked purile you must got a pleture four inches people in the world and why? "square" (or draw one), Paste it 2. What kind of a robbery is
on a piece of cardboard, rule inot dangerous? off into 18 one-inch squares, and
10 then cut it up into
separate pieces. Take out any one of the man often wonderful?
jumble last Saturday afternoon when corner pieces, Hank suddenly brought up the remaining
BY A BOY
FARL, Hank and I were fishing
$. Why is a very pinĺri wo-
TT was strangely quiet in the dark little London shop one day in 1765. No children taking down books from the row of shelves; no one pounding chemicals in the mortar and pestle on the apothecary's counter to make the famous "Dr James' Fover Powders." Even the clanking little press on which books wore printed was still
Hodge, the cat, who had followed his maater into the shop, went to look for mice in dark corners, But the great Dr Samuel Johnson thumped the floor with his
cane.
NEARLY, TWO HUNDRED
YEARS AGO, JACK
GAMES
e By LEE PRIESTLEY
THE WHIRLER" PUBLISHED A SERIES OF BOOKS
FÖR CHILDREN- (AGAINST THE ADVICE OF DR. SAMUEL JOHNUDE PA
ONE OF THE GREAT′′ LITERARY CRITICS
OF THAT TIME )
...BUT THE BOOKS WERE LOVED BY BOYS AND GIRLS AND THEY'RE STILL FAVORITES – REMEMBER
""GOODY TWO SHOEG "AND.. JACK THE GIANT KILLER?
He bellowed into the the silence, "Jack! Jack Whirler! Where are you?" A small bespectacled man, with a quill pen thrust behind an ear, peered out for the of a corner the eminent doctor had overlooked.
"Silence, Sir! Can you not see we are busy indeed?" chstood around John Newbery away in a huff, followed by Dr Johnson, the critic, stalked The head disappeared only did not even look up when Dr Hodge the cat. But the children to re-emerge. "You may Johnson and Hodge, the cat, were right about the story and
joined them. They were listen- he was come listen if you like."
HOUSEWIFE'S SCRAMBLER The housewife opened the ACRUDPOB. It wao ERAB
don, a except for a CRITHEP and a
Cradle." The little All the heads bobbed enthus volumes were illustrated with astically. small woodcuts, and the bind- ings were decorated with gilt.
The children who
were
of
"Then I shall print it," John Newbery doolded. "If the chil- dren like it."
the
Dr Johnson started in ag as the little bookseller read of
to them from a manuscript:
becamą a famous book, astonishment. He was not
flent of its kind to be written "Margery Meanwell was so especially for children. Down used to such casual treat- ment. He was the fore- poor that she was wild with joy to the time of our grandparents
when a kind clergyunan most literary man in Lon-. his wife gave her ta and it was still read and re-rend.
pair
John Newbery, who first be- writer and critic shoes. She went about saying lieved in children as discrimina
*Spo shy two shoeal" TIKLELS. Out in the yard whom even the King de proudly,
ting critics of books, is honoured the Newbory a little gifi could be -
John Medal is them children.
FC BUYB
and girls of to- History of Little Goody day can thank
the busy Jack Shoes' What is your
the Whirier for the many opinion of it, Doctor?"
beautiful books written pecially for them.
was
#
TOAG. She LEMKID lighted to honour? This Now Mayery was a good as annually Warded to the year's
པ
it and filled the CRITHEP. bespectacled little man stopped then to say to Doctor most distinguished literature for
a GEG and whom he half-contemptuous. Johnson, "I am reading
in the
TIKLELS.
wo
Then she found cooked it When
she found she had noly called Jack the Whirler The ARBED to go with her ALEM, because he rushed from one she sat down on an OLOTS and activity to another was only IRCED,
John Newbery, shopkeeper, bookseller, apothecary and publisher.
Unscramble the words and see what happened.
WHATZIT?
Can't see, can smell.
Can't talk, can tell.
A rose very well,
Can't cough, con sneeze.
Can't walk, but run with
case.
What's my name? picase.
GIRL REBUS
*TILZŁ.
*
The foremost critic of London
shook his shaggy head and ha- rumphed loudly. "I think it's nonsense, Sir! Sheer nonsense!”
a
A little girl half hiding behind. PUT Dr Johnson was a curious the bookseller said timidly, "II.
he you please, air, we like it," To what could listen fba Hked? Harumping fiercely, the great man stumped around the bookshelves
which JOHN NEWBERY turnix!
page of the neared manu- "Pretty Little Pocket Tell me, held the
Books" that John
"Your friend Oliver Newbery script. sound advical) Goldsmith wrote the story, sir." had published for children. Ho Dr Johnson thumped the harumphed again as he saw an floor with his cane. "And I] open book that claimed to con- still say nonsense, sir!" fain two letters from Jack the John Newbery looked at the *But you Giant Killer! Beside it lay an- circle of children. other book called "Mother like the 'Little Goody Two Grose's Melody" or "Sonnets Shoes?" he asked,
Use the words and pictures
to learn the names of the four girls concealed in his rebus:
THIS COIN 16, CALLED AN AVAA (6)
IN INDIA
RECORD
PROVERD
(against all
Why Leaves Turn in Autumn
By DAN MURDOCH
E American Illins have a quaint story about the loaves turning colour in the autumb Hunters in the sky, they Y have tracked and killed the Great Bear. They have cut him up, and cooked him in the Dipper. The Bear's blood, you see, reddens the tree leaves. Drops of bear grease bubble down over the sides of the Dipper, and dye the leaves yellow-brown.
This legend, loe the familiar story of Jack Frost and his paint-brushes, is a folk tale. But World Series pitchers should the real explanation is interest- remember: A pitch in imeing, too. It shows how sensible and practical Nature can be-as saves your nine.
well as colourful and beautiful.
Puzzle Answers
CROSSWORD:
PALT
FALLDY
KYkngo-
"HIDE"N'-BKSI: You (may} <#D- Dol; canfeel I midviso
MIX-UPS: Pizabotta Hive, Margaret.
AUBSTITUTIONS: 1-Cried, elder. trail. S-Caller, collar. G-KAIDS. DEST,
subject of girls Nobody spoke them on the res and place between a mouse and a young them they do write (right), A
16
to
at first. Earl kept trying to free idea now is
DIAMOND
4. What is the difference. tho board. The lady?
6. When is a lawyer like a the picture right by sliding the a worm from a tangle of peat
donkey? aquarca moes, and I'm afraid I was along place by plece In any
A how sub- blushing. Girls are a'
When free
the 15 places ject to me..
Ard back in their true position, But once we started talking, the 10th piece is placed in the thu toplo struck this note: What
empty square at the corner. This kind of girls did we Uke? Hank's is counted as an extra move.
older. He has pretty If you are hi competition with definite idens,
another player the one whe arl my pwn age, the wolves tho puzzle in the fewest eaid. "Deliver me from the older number of movox is the winner. Eopaletlente who finds everything in As a molitaire game, the igsaw 400_c«l«e<y>a=hl And if she board, may be used over and me ova orain, as you undervuur 10
Tike
"A
CECILIA serves as the centre of thin diamond. The second word is "a colour third speedster." Afth "removed" and hixth in "disencumbered.”
CECILIA
RIDDLES: |--Pen makers: : they make people steel pens and tell BaDo Tobbery. S Cho is an "extra" ordinary on 4-One barma, the cheese, the other obarms live he's. When bá le drawing a convey- ones (A legal paper),
DIAMOND:
Accordingly,
"WELL, WELL;
HERE'S JACK
PROST, EBING
PENSIBLE, PRACTICAL AND
COLORFUL
with auturan,
All summer long, leaves make food for the tree out of sunshine, any food in the leaves travels to air, and minerals taken in by the trunk for storage. An empty roots. In the winter, there is leaf becomes a kind of skeleton Sun- little food to be obtained from --Just watery, oily cells,
The tree must light shining against these cells got along all winter on what it gives us the lovely yellow-and- has stored up in its trunk. So browns. Bornetimes, there le leaves are no longer useful to more food in the leaves, than
sun, air
or
the tree. They may event be a a the troe can use. Then the
a mowfall, they extra supply stays in the leaves, pile up
extra mow and slowly rotting away.
Who
add extra weight to the burden various chemicals in this food, the branches munt
carry. By shining in sunlight, gives us the falling off, leaves can actually
and Oranges
On
glowing purpics.
roda,
help the tree next spring. the ground, they break up into Finally, of course, the Deaves valuable chemicals and minerals, fall off their work nil dono for: and make the soil around the the tree, and their beauty all| roots more fertile.
gone for human eyes.
Rupert's Autumn Primrose—12
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