THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1953,
BUTTERFIELD the BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
and SWIRE.
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Bails from
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ARRIVALS FROM
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8 nm. 25th Dec.
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30th :Dec.
Scheduled Sallings to Europe via Aden & Port Said
Louds
Tied-Up Gifts for Carollers
70 is going to enter
tain the carollers this
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Christmas season? If it is your turn, make it a kitchen with hot chocolate, party hot peanut butter sand- wiches, toasted on one side, har candy, pennuts und popcorn in bowls. Everyone will be hungry, and a kit- chen party is warm and in- formal.
Balls
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28th Dec.
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5th Jan. 13th Jan,
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22nd Jan.
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Balls
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13th Dec.
do
24th Dec.
3rd Jan
7th Jan.
13th Jan.
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G. Loading Glasgow, before Liverpool, 8. Loading Swansea, defore Liverpool, Carriers' option to proceed via other porta to load & discharge cargo.
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No one wants to play the night of games
sing- -the carol-singing
have walked and are tired. You could have
but a grabbag.
Christ- mas balls are more ex- citing. The store pro- vides a number of low- prices gifts for such occasion pencils, pens, crayons,
diaries, candy, chewing
an
pads, miniature puzzles, key chains, etc.
gum, scratch
Wrap It Up
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Art. H.K. 301 Dec. 104 Jan- 3in1 Jud. 13th Feb. 6th Feb, 0th Mar,
2nd Jan, 15th Jan,
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3rd Feb.
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Wrap the aft in tissue paper in a thick ball of green or red yarn. Fasten the end string with n Rumined Christmas seal. Begin to sing. Any boy or girl muy toss hit yarn ball to someone else, and the tossing continues until each person bus a ball. The' yam is unwound and the gift claimed.
You certainly have a lot of yum around by this time, so here is a quickie game to wind it up. Divide the carollers into two lines. At a whistle start,
the leader of cach column be- gins winding his
Wach his ball is com
he knots it to the yarn. of the player back of him and that boy or girl starts winding, The line that finishes first is the winner. The losers must sing a Anal carol as a fortell.
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DOT PUZZLE contains a special message for all readers When you've finished con- of the Boys and Girls Pate,
necting the dots, colour red and green.
Christmas Puzzles
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Crossword
ACROSS
1 Christmas visitor
Hollday
7 Three-loed sloth
8 Street (ab.)
0 Larlat
11 Compound ether
DOWN
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2 Zodiacal constellatiwi
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10 Preposition
Christopher Sees a Stranger
-He Thinks It was a Winter Garden Tenant-
By MAX TRELL
"I MET somebody very strong. last night," "Christopher Cricket was saying to Knart and Hanld, the shudow-children with the tunnel-about names, "and I'm not sure who it is. I have an iden, but I'm not sure,"
Kharf and Hanid asked Chris- topher to tell them more about this strange person he met. So Christopher sat down on a loose brick-in-the-fireplace (for-the- evenings were beginning to get cold)
and started his story from the beginning.
"Well," began Christopher, "last night was a night pretty much like it is tonight, I mean it was sharp and clear with a bright moon chining, I was
sitting
out by the garden wall, wondering whether I ought to tune up my guitar and sing n few songs. A far off church belt was chiming the hour. counted the strokes of the bell,
There were twelve of them.
Strange Footstops
Christopher was killing by the
garden wall, tuning up.
"And did you see who, it was then?" Knext and Hanid both asked excitedly, for they had been growing more and more curlous, the more Chrislo pher Cricket told them his strange adventure.
Christopher nodded slowly. "I
about
*** forget whether I had finally decided to sing some saw who it was all right but I songs or not. At any rate, I can't really belleve it. I think Buddenly heard the crackling perhaps
the
moonlight was
Yuletimes
Games Give Fun
CHRISTMAS comes but
once year, so make the most of it. Here are yome new games to play, in case you decide to have the gang over to help trim the practise singing
tree carols.
or
1
Tell it to Santa: All players but one form circle. The extra player is Santa, who takes his place in the centre of the ring. Santa points to any player, saying, "and what do you want for Christmas, ——, | adding any name he wishes. That is, he may point to Joan and say "Vincent” or "Alien." Santa then starts to count to 10. The other player must answer with a gift-word starting with the first letter of the name men- tioned. If Santa has said- "Allen" the player gives a word starting with A (apple for instance) before Santa calls 10, or drops out of the
Yule Scramble Straighten out this statement about Christmas by putting the words into their proper order. Claus as in as in is Father
game. France, known England Pere Christmas and Noel Santa
Christmas Diamond
About three times around the circle is Tong enough for this game.
10
The YULE LOG is burned at for two teams. Make two fista
Carol Cut-Up: This is a Christmas and provides the like the one below. If you can centre for this word diamond use a typewriter, type the tiles The second word is "a groove"; in capitale, double-spaced. Or third "regulations"; Afth print the titles in largo letters. "related"; and sixth "a distress Then cut all the
words apart, signal." Complete the diamond: keeping each set separate.
To play, give one set of cut-up carols to one team, and the other to tcam number two.
The words can be placed in the cm- tre of a table, for each team, or on the flacr. At the word go, players try to re-build the carol tides. The team to finish first, wins.
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Yuletide Mix-Ups
Use this list: 1-Silent Night. 2-Away In A Manger. 3--Oh
5
These strange sentences con- Come All Ye Faitoful. 4-It tain three facts about Christ mas, You'll And them rearranging the letters in each line correctly!
Came Upon A Midnight Clear. by-Hark The Herald Angels Sing 6-Oh Llule Town of Betale him 7-We Three Kings of Orient Are. B-Oh Christmas Tree The First Noel lüh Joy To The World,
PEN SET STIRS CHARMS
SEAT SINNER READ
THIN LAME DOG NEAT COOP FORE WOEL
Christmas Rebus
You can find four
items about Christmas hidden in this rebus very casily if you use the words and pictures to your best advantage:
T&B
FLL HAY
NEW.
POCK
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We
of twigs on the other side of playing tricks. This is whom 1: Yuletide Word Hunt the garden wall. At first I saw. It was a man, dressed all
the cat or the in white with a
felt hai big,
From the letters in YULETIDE thought it was
make as many words of four or walking around. But after and a corncob pipe and an old pair of shoes and a stick for a lirtening, I could tell it was nose and two stones for eyes have found 20
more letters as you can.
such words, They were and four little pebbles for the They are ordinary words and footsteps...and уст they buttons on his coat,"
you should know them all,
No plurals are allowed, and no past-tenve words like TIED
of them.
in
weren't.
It was as though
"My goodness," were walking with "that sounds as though it might sald Hanid, someone -pillows tied to his shoes,"
"Pillows?"
have been the Snowman!" sald Hanid
That's what I thought it or EYED. Of course no letter was," Christopher agreed. "But except E can be used more Shat's how the footsteps who ever heard of a Snowman than once in a single word. sounded, nodded Christopher; walking around!" “soft and squishy;. Now this
"Where did he go?" asked was unusual enough to make Knart. me want to And out more about who might be making those footsteps so I climbed up on the wall and down at the other side.
moon dipped,
looked
Thumping Up
"He went along the edge of the pond until he reached the "As luck would have it," hill. Then he went thump-thump- Christopher,
"the- thumping up until he nearly behind a reached the top and thet, ho cloud at that moment but I crawled Into ule cave, made did. 200 something or rather by two rocks and then he took Or rather, I don't and unbuttoned his coat and lay romebody.
hat
and took off his shoes what it
$35.
It down his cane and curled up
in walking quickly scross the
toward the hill on the little lump and went to sleep. And by that time, it was morn- ing. And I hurried home again. "Did you follow it, Chris Now do you think it was the
krow
other
side of the pond."
"Knarf asked.
off
Snowman?"
róplied Christopher, just what I did. I
yes," said Hanld, I'm jumped off the wall and follow-sure it was. It's winter und he's getting ready to come back
ed it on fast uk 1 could across to the garden as soon as it gets the field, and all the while I cold enough. Ho's been away kept hoping that the moon all summer but how he's com would come out grain behind ing back d the cloud so that would be 115 100 "you did't kay able to see who to was. It was hello to him," said Knart. taking big sichs and I could **If I now him again," said hose tha
thump, tump, thump Christopher, I'll be glad to give (of a' cano;
*** hin your regards, But (a cor- palainen, "lat" last, just as I thinly a surprise the ad a thờ edgh of the pond, Snowman should be walking the moon came out.
around now!!!
Give yourself five points, for cach word you got. So If you got our 20, or any others we missed to make 20, your score will be 100,
Happy Yuletide hunting,
Solutions on Faze 20
Santa's Pack Puzzle: Before party time, fill an empty pillow slip with from 12 to 15 items, A good assortment could include a diory, fountain
pen, mechan cal pencil, pair of slippers, necktie, compact, box of stationery, doll, teddy bear, rattle, checker board, toy car, plane or truck, necklace, lupei plu, ring, cic. Choose anything which could be a gift. Tie the top of the pillow sup. sup.
from May, Santa's pack is passed |
one player to another. Players are each allowed one minute in which to feel the items and try to guess what they prc. After a player has passed the pack on, he lists as many
gifts as possible. The person who 1st the most Correet answers is the winner.
Bell Ringing: For this you will need three small bells, Plastic, bell-shaped tree ornaments, or paper, stand-up' ones, are ilne. Stand the belis on the floor about four inchos spari. Players take 'tumis trying to ring the bells with an embroidery hoop, from a distance of five inches, Each player gets three tasses nrid may try for any of the bella.
Bach ringer scores two points. The player scoring the most bell points is the champlon ringer.
CHRISTMAS CENTREPIECE.
Lay Christmas greens on the centre of 'a 'large sheet of alu- minium full. Core some red ap ples so that they will hold fall Cabdica
Polish the apples and Jay them in a group at the con- tre of the greens,
Lay balla here and thoro among the apples. To make the bells,
wrap paper cups with aluminium fod and insert balls of aluminitim wrap for clappers. Tie the clappers in place with red and green ribbons.
Rupert's New Year Adventure-3
Well,
Rupert heres forward.” Plakso gives a surprised inile." can'l help you ? In calls: "One", you are '1' hoce little bear!", ba of my New Year's resolutions Is chucklek Blue you don't unders stand. I let anyone do my wakk to help sodabody every day, I'm and should look my: job
isure l'anski zake all thone, litters Aromather, Why not to and mak
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