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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1951.
PAČKA
the Boys and Girls Pack
FUN WITHER HULASHAKER
WORDS
BY MARION 1. STEVENS AND RITA F. DEWEY MOTHER GOOSE PEOPLE
VERYONE knows some
E Mother Goose rhymes.
but maybe we've forgotten
few. To determine if you're a Mother Goose ex- pert, here are " list of words. Ench word is somie- thing out of n nursery rhyme. The first
10 are
fairly easy, but the last 10
may floor you.
You tell the nursery character
makes you
that
think
each
!. point for each of the and 2 points for each
rhyme word Score 1 first 10 of the
last 10. A perfect score is 30 points and a score of 15 or better is passing.
1. Horn
2. Spider
3. Crook
11. Turis
12. pickled
peppers
4. Cockle shells 13. Kettle
5. Candiestick
U. Whate
14. Sec-Яw
15. Pumpkin
gown
7. Pail of water 18. Night-
8. Dog
9. Fiddles
10. Exc
17. Stock-
ints
18. Straw-
berries
19. Silver
buckles 20. Puddle
CHARACTER SKETCHES
This is more of a game than
a puzzle and it can be a lot of
fun at a party.
eight
Write the names of friends on a plece. of paper. After each name write three
that describe adjectives
that
- person. Each descriptive word must begin with the same let- ter as the felend's name,
For
example, if the friend's name is John, his sketch might De "jovial, jecund, joyous." Pauline might be "grim, pretty, popular," or she might be "pesky, penurious, pestiferous."
ROAMIN' LETTERS
Here are some deânitions for words with
missing. lotters You are to add one letter for each space, but the only letters used in you can use are those numbers, 1, Roman
V, X, L, C, D, and M. For example complete the word-A—ATE, you'd add V (5) and making the word VACATE
Now
you do
to
C (100)
YEAR
1. Put a few small PEBBLES
into a large empty TOOTH POWDER CAN.
2. Tie a STRING lightly] around the top and put the cap back on.
201
3. Cut three strips of
fringe from fancy CHRISTMAS PAPER or colored CELLOPHANE,
Iron Curtain
BULGARIAN CROSSWORD
Here's a puzzle drawn on a silhouelle map of Bulgaria:
ACROSS
1 Unusual
7 Hawaiian bird
8 Bamboo-like grass
9 Obese
11 Light brown
12 False god
14 Egyptian sun god
15 Flower
DOWN
1 Capital of Bulgaria
2 Leaping amphibians
3 Army reserve (ab.)
Seine
$ Machine part
0 Girl's name
10 Small child
13 Loft end (ab.)
MIX-UPS
Two facts about Bulgaria will unfold for you when you re- arrange the letters in each row of words:
KISS THE OGRE OX CHEAT THOR CURD.
ALAS CIG NOVA ISLE GUN.
RIDDLES
1. When a boy falls down, what does he fall against?
2. When are two potators alike?
3. a person faints, what number will restore him?
4. Why did Mrs Farmer call it. Answers one of the little pigs "Ink"?
are in the answer column.
1. A number. EE-EN.
2. A colour, YEOW.
3. Opposite of "go." ---E. 4. What's television?
1.
EO.
A drink, -0-QA.
A
6. 5280 feet.
E
7. What the earth turns on.
AS.
fish. SA ON.
8. A
9. Winter sport. SK---NG.
10. Kindness. —ERY.
11. When two people talk.
A-OGUE.
12. A land mas5, A-EN-—A,
13. Sickness.
14. To ascend.
NESS.
-B.
15. Between boltom and top.
-E.
16. Southern United States..
u
STARS AND BARS
Get out your pencil and put (star) or (bar) in front"
of each of the following-and form the word suggested.
5. What tree can you carry in your hand?
4. Fasten the Giach strip around the con with SCOTCH
TAPE.
5.Fasten the Sinch strip over the 6inch
one.
6.Tape the 4 inch strip over the 5inch piece.
HAPPY NEW YEAR
CLANK
MAKE YOUR
By I. R. HEGEL
GIRL who travelled with her father around the world owned a gold bracelet on which was fastened tiny charms from every country she had visited.
From Japan there was a Shinto lantern; from China, a sampan; from Java, a conch Alled with perfume;
EVERYONE from Egypt, a camel; from
BANG
•BONG!
Country
DIAMOND
Centre of this word diamond is CENTRAL. The second word is "to soak Bax," third "renovate,' Afth "gull-like birds," and atxth "existed."
C
E
CENTRAL
R A
BULGARIAN CROPS
Jerusalem, an old coin; a weo basket from Greece; a- tortilla stone from Mexico; a vendor's bell from Peru; a teapot from Jamaica and a bead from ancient Maya, worn by a Mayan maiden who had been dropped into a pool as a sacrifice to the rain god.
n
Every boy and girl cannot travel around the world and col- lect bracelet of such interest ing charms. But there is noth ing whatsoever to prevent the
from starting stay-at-home
collection of hand-made
OWN HOBBY
A NOTE BOOK FILLED WITH GAMES PLAYED BY BOYS AND GIRLS OF OTHER LANDS SHOULD
MAKE AN INTERESTING COLLECTION**
SCHLAGBALL, FOR INSTANCE, IS A GAME THAT GHOULD BE FUR
FOR BASEBALL-MINDED BOYS AND GIRLS IN THIS COUNTRY-
WE ALL CAN'T
TRAVEL AROUND THE WORLD AND COLLECT ITEMS OF INTEREST, BUT WE CAN READ ABOUT PEOPLES AND CIVILIZATIONS OF THE PAST AND
LEARN OF THEIR GAMES AND HOBBIES-
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6
8
A B C D E F G H
6 STAR PUZZLE
BY WALTER KING
CALENDAR GAME
BY IDA PARDUE
HOLD everything! Don't throw away that old wall calendart You can make this game with It! First draw lines with a ruler between the numbered days on a calendar so that each date
Page, is in a little square, then cut the squares apart. Pasie cach num- ber on a plece of light cardboard. Now cut another calendar page into we
weekly strips. Use only the full seven-day strips. Cut one
TWO stars are on the diagram strip for each person who is to Tin this puzzle and you must player Be sure bered exactly the not use strips place alx more, total of eight,
serac.
in the unshaded squares, in Paste each strip on a ploco of order to solve the puzzle. But heavy paper. How big the paper no star can be in a line with should be will depend on the another star, either vertically, size of the strips. picce about horizontally or diagonally. And, eight inches long and tour of Ave Inches wide should be about right.
Have a caller pull one square
at
2
of course, none of the shaded squares can be used.
You can draw the diagram on To play, give each player one a large playing board, paint the of the strip-cards and seven The date two stars and use coins or beans or buttons. checkers for the other stars. This squares should be placed in a makes a good puzzle to entertain bowl and mixed up well.
friends your
when weather searcher after other types of Sweden. You are expected to
keeps you indoors.
a time from the bowl and call foreign ball games, and ho has memorise the population figureS
out the number. If player a scrapbook devoted to hand and the topography of that To make the puzzle harder, has that number on his strip, be printed accounts of different games he has heard of or copied country but are you interested set a time limit of six minutes. places a bean on it. The first The solution is in the answer player to cover his whole seven
days wins the game, from public library Bourcea
ces. Ho enough to look farther? Two column. Last August, one of the boys has also duplicated the equip students, mulling over encyclo- at the soap box derby camp at ment as best be crild in his poedin accounts on Sweden, Y-Noah, heard the German basement workshop and, if he found a brief paragraph on straw champion talk of schlagball. keeps going, he will be an dolls, a specialty of 'Swedish
German version
ston authority on international ball
w
which is a ΟΙ baroball. It ed with
of
ed
two bases,
play- home
plate and another similar
to baseball's second base. No
games.
IRL'S tastes
Use the words and pictures to pitcher pitches in schlagball and much to games as
learn the four chief crops of Bulgaria.
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I WISH THIP
WOULD.DIVD
HI, LEB!
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CODED MESSAGE
do not run as
boys a player at bat simply tosses One girl in school grew absorbed ban
hits it into the air and
in her teacher's stories of the just like baseball players but out
early American Indians and nice to the fielders when they their crafts. Expertly this girl practise.
The bat in schlagball, the Ger- learned to tinger sketch in berry man boy went on to explain, re juice, using the tip of her finger s bles
American police to make the broad soft lines m's night stick, and the idea
an
craftsmen.
Shadows Meet an Old Friend
-He's the Smoke-Man From Father's. Pipo By MAX TRELL
of the game is to hit the ball painting so many Indian stone Both girls have since become on reading, rose a thin stream
doll-makers
It
So engrossed did the girls be- come in their discovery that they stopped at a store on the way home, purchased a bag of straw and that night stripped FATHER was sitting in his and soaked it, letting it
remain
chuir in the evening, read- overnight in water. The nexting and smoking his pipe. day, the girls wrapped and tied was a heavy wooden pipe with the damp straw info figures long curved stem. From the and found they were up to their bowl of the pipe, na Father went elbows in a brand new hobby.
of smoke. It rose and rose, enthusiastic
and until the top of it reached the From this work, the girl ad- have copied their own versions corner of the ceiling. Knarf far enough to run from home to the base and back before the vanced into the colourful block of corn husk dolls, seed dolls and Hanid, the shadow-children printing used by the Algonquina and even apple dolls from all Belders
with the turned-about names, retrieve the opposing
who were sitting silently on the start tagging their and still identifled with berry corners of the world. ball and opponents. Each sido gets three juice.
opposite side of the room, kept By the time this young artist outs. The ball is an ordinary
watching it. baseball and the game requires is ready for art school, she will lot of running, which makes be an expert on Indian paintings it fun and health-giving. and dyes. Even now her dupli- boxer who listened cation of museum pleces is often The soap-boxer
this account of shlagball exhibited in her own school as became so interested that, on well as in other schools. reaching home, he made himself schlagball bat and introduced the German game to his chums. TOMO Now the boy has become a ment in geography could be
a
to
OMORROW'S school assign-
TATTLE TALES
THE
to
A simple code was used in this
HE Puritans loved senience. Decipher it to learn
tattle. In fact, it was about Bulgaria, Hint: The fourth word is "Bulgaria."
Npofuler vola pg Cvmhbsjb about the only fan they jt uit m/wb.
BEAT 51 PUZZLE
THE
51' moves in 1951.
By WALTER KING
had. But they didn't think they were having fun, they thought they were just do- ing their duty. And, of course, they wouldn't have been such tattle tales if they hadn't
the passed "Blue Laws.”
idea of this fascina- Make the qinying board from
They went to Armerien be- of stout cardboard, piece ting indoor game is to
drawing on it 17 14-inch squares cause they believed the laws solve the puzzle in less than as shown. The counters may be in England were too barab
If you eight red από eight black and unjust. Yet it seems,
checker counters or you can use they could hardly wait until The Idea of the game is to they got there to pass lawa make the red and black coun- that made life much tougher ters change places in less than than it had been in Eng-. 50 moves.
landi.
RED-
For
BEAT 51
instance, for No. 1 put a in
front of the k and you have "bar k" (back).
1. k (a dog sound).
2. ge (a fat boat).
3. ch laundry help).
4. b (tp of an arrow).
6. Jing (a kind of bird).
6. ber (one who cuts hair).
7. board (right side of ship).
B. t (to begin).
9. becue (to roast).
10. ve (to die of hunger).
Just Awful!
!
Grandma had just returned from her first football game.
"How'd you like it, grandina?” asked `Tommy.
ready to play
she said.
awful," "Just "They were all lined up and when some and ..up come the ball And they over it all the rest of
smart Block
kicked
tought
the time."
Or Moro
Dad: Son, your ropert card says you're lowest in mathes matics of your class at 25,
Son: Well, Dad, it could, have been words.
Dad: Wox?
· Gon: Sure, it might have
been a clam of 20.',:
1951 PUZZLE
copper and silver coins.
The rules arɑs
1. Red counters can be moved only to the right and down.
2. Black comaters
moved only to left and up.
They would not » much as
let themselves celebrate Christ-
bo ma'not even with a few mince pless. To play cards, dance, or
3. A counter can go into the play any munital instrument next square only if it is empty.
5. No move ata be made ding- onally.
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Sometimes they acil their dolls as table-favours for children's parties and women's teas, adding profit to their increased skill.
Strange objects are interesting to read about. The interest is bound to deepen when you learn how to make the strange object yourself. Collectors who con- struct their own collections have
a lot of fun,
By Mary Goss
THE PURITANS LOVED TO
TATTLE. SO THEY HAD LOTS
OF LAWS IN ORDER TO HAVE PLENTY TO TATTLE
ABOUT.
EVEN CARRYING LUGGAGE ON THE SABBATH WAS BAD.
THEY WERE A SOUR
LOT ON SUNDAY,
And all at thing happenedt
once a strange
The top of the pipe-smoke took the shape of a head. The smoke underneath began slowly job. whirling around until it formed Finally the arms and a body. bottom part, right over the pipe, turned into legs. And then, without making or disturbing a single sound Father in the least, a Smoke Man stepped lightly out of the bowl of the pipel
slender
The Smoke-Max.
There wasn't any travel- ing at all. But I liked it.""
Knarf and Hanid walted for the Smoke-Mon to tell them about his third job. two very
"It was a job in a farm-house," he finally said.
I didn't have much to do. I used to live in- side the kitchen-stove. Three times a day-at breakfast time; lunch time and dinner time when the farmer's wife built a the fire I used to stretch up and take Kaarf and Hould Saw
a took around from the top of the around Smoke-Man look room. Then slowly be noticed the chimney. It was quiet and But one day a very them. He waved one of his peaceful.
came along smokey arms. The next minute strong wind
Waved an Arm
and
he started Boating over to wisere blew me this way and that. I they were sliting. He came to tried my best to stay in the chim- rest, with his pointed knees high ney, but the wind was too strong It tumbled and twirled over his head, right on the floor for me.
me, it spun me and twisted me In front of them.
Then the Smoke-Man smiled, and broke me up in little pieces. got myself "It's good to see you again," he And by the time sald. He spoke in such a low, all together again I was miles muffled kind of voice, that no and miles away from the farm- I suppose the farmer one could hear him but Knart house.
and his wife have a new Smoke- and Hanld.
here After greeting the Smoke Man now. So I came Man, whom they had seen right in Father's pipe. That's several times before, Knart said: quiet, too Just a puff-and a "Where have you been since the puff-and a puff. Well, I guess Last time we saw you, Smoke- I'd better be getting back." And with that the Smoke-Man step- Mon?"
"Oh, I went across the seal" ped silently back into the pipe "Across the sea?" Hanid said, and pulled himself in, sill
Father, smiling. Anti quite surprised.
"Yes indeed. I was working reading, noticed nothing. on a steam-ship. They had a nice warm place for me in the All day long- smoke-stack.
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Puzzle Answers
Bimors.
מתיד
still
trumpet or except the drum,
one Sunday they sald they saw he walked into his garden. The and all night long, too-I used
GOOSE PEOPLE: 1- to come floating out of the MOTIES him running to a church to get second time he picked a bunch smoke-stack. I used hang on Boy Buc. 2Miss Muffet. Bo- 4. A counter can jump any jew harp was ilgal
in out of a sudden rainstorm
of grapes. After that he must to the top of tha were hipped
smako-Boop. 4-Mistress Mary, quite con- counter of a different colour as Tea parties
Some busybodies finally have pacted his bag and headed
stack with my toes, while tray. B-Jack be nirable. Eimple also deple with in checkers but the Jumped the bad because housewives,
the Sabbath back for England where tattling the rest of me went trailing off simple Simon B-Ola Mother counter is not takeri off.
couldn't buy buns or cakes ex- claimed he broke cept for wedding or funerals, twles in one day. The first time wasn't so much fun.
"People were apt to be very It is not necessary to have the sour on the eve of the Sabbath,
ard wrote one frank. hitorinn. Nag counters numbered. They given a number in the diagram wender!' fall, and are too brave to only in case you turn out to be
look look at the solution, call for a poor puzzle fan and have to
BLACK PLAYING BOARD
some help from the rest of
at the solution. (Note: The counters
do not: numbered
the family. You win if you have to finish in can beat 51 but you lose order, but the blacks must all be your rating as a first-class where the reads start and rods where blacks were when you finish.) puzzle fan if you don't.
Rupert's Autumn
Primrose17
Then he gets an idea. got bride. "The old Professor'a bouen- the edge of, tlist wood et fra 'thinks.' I'll no midi xək him iba has been
Leaving his mother, holding the alizary, primrose and looking very bewildered, Rupeh runs back to Common where lie the spot on the Courts day was stowing primedees in the Kamay gan coming from that direction," he
olithe year te hermes dver, the ynurmatay: ** but there's only thick, hill will be, apina, the Fletessor woodland over there, should, dwael sereine rocking nak sharʻsta never know white hi'd been once 1 man's meangs hough in 3. Ta
"HILDREN" could not
jump or play games. sons who were caught carrying parcels er pieces of huggage on Sunday were fed. Housewives, however, did get a break. They were not allowed to cook, wash dishes, make beds or sweep floors. But with Sunday's work piled up and the week's wash bealder, Monday must have looked blue!
Kissing was also forbidden on the Sabbath, but since the men couldn't shave, the women prob ably didn't care,
Lattled
About the only thing, the Puritans could do'on Sunday without fear of being on by their neighbours was to walk quietly to and from the meeting house. This fact was soon discovered by an Engilsh clergyman who settled in Con- necticut in 1779
y ta that he broke the
batupy cuphizing a look. on the top of hip thu thì terr
ZOO'S WHO
LATARE S
THAT'S BEAUTIFUL
MOSQUITOES
EALS WITH ARE ATTRACTED
20ES OF THE NICURE
in the sky. It was lots of fun Hubbard. -King Cole, 10-Humpty Dumpty. 11-que a Houve of salling over the ocean. After eat 12 Peter Piper. 13-Polly, got back, I found myself another who put the kettle on, or Sukey. job. It was a traveling-job, who took it off. 14-Margery Daw. 18- Feter, the pumpki calor. 10- too,"
Wee Willeke. 17- Knarf and Hanid were both John, who, went to bed with them Looks 10-Bobby cager to know what this second 10 Curk
Bitacio, 20-Dr Foster.
BOAMING job of the Smoke-Man was.
LETTERS: J-Bovezz
Video B a railroad train. -Yellow. 3 Come. "It was on
Cocoa šle. Temaxis, 8-Salmon. Or rather," he added quickly, kitag, 10-Meray. 11-Dialogas. 13-America. 13- 14 Clieb. 18-Middle, 18Dixie.
"on
a raliroad locomotive."
"And did you rido on the
locomotive, Bmoke-Man?" said
STARS AND HARS: 1-Bart. B-
8-
Knart, who envied anyone who Page 3 Starch. Barb, G-Star-
-Earber. 7-Bierboard. had anything to do with lacomo- start. Barbecue, 10-ve BULGARIAN CROSSWORD: tives,
The Smoke-Man nodded. "Right in the smoke-stack, just as I did on the ship. Only in- stead of floating out softly, I used to come roaring and mort- ing out, making enough noise to wake up everybody for miles around. You, should have seen me go shooting up into the air. I loved that job”
"And did you go very far?”. naked Hanid.
Up and Down
Did I? I went up and down the country-north" : 'and south and cast and west. I went over mountain went across de- worts and through forests. I saw towns and oilies, I saw farmin Tɛsaw zariches, YII saw cowboys and Indians. There's, hardly anything didus mo, And then I got me t
"quiet" mort de
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BULAJARIAN CROPS:
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