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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1055.
the BOYS and GIRLS PAGE YOUR PUZZLE
Here Comes The WHIZZLE Stamp
• PLAY HOPSCOTCH A START WITH WINGS...
HOPSCOTCH is brought
right up to date with the news today for a new jet-age game: Whizzło.
Why Whizzle? Look at the drawing anch you'll see why: you must whisz round the world from square A to square L-but the puzzle is to get from A to Ļ by "inking" the people of ideas pictured or drawn--and without Jumping over a square,
cati
move
up,
You
along, down or diagonally. So, starting RA, you have a choice of B, E, UT F.
(Answer on Paze 20)
MIDDEN,
EXSEX
KONT
AUSTRALIA
FINISH
From Chile
Olds
NE of the most exciting
in specialised | T collecting is air mail stamps.
It is doubly rewarding when the stamp shows the deve- lopment of flying from the old days of "stringbag" planes to the modern air- itners of today,
体
ZA
भ
is
You can ECO nn uld-type bipiano on this Romp from Chlic.
In the background
the outline of a new glant.
CORNER
CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Negative reply
DERMÄNTONG
Planes
ute a vital link Chile's postal services. In o quick hop they take lotters over the towering Andes Mountains lo the Argentine and Europe.
In
3 Constellation
8 Italion river
1 Preposition
10
9 Impair
BALLOON PARTIES CAN BE AMUSING
By
TEXT TIME you give a
Narty, stock up on bal
loons. They make colourful decorations, unusual bil- vitations and
the can be "mainsluys" for many
Kanguun
games.
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Demu Japonki
fur bil-puje, Hangou?}, Comica a Cilegona
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due 2310) Jan
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dar Ana Juli Putin 10 Jan
Lambay fur Jasian
from Japan for Sung-pore, Petang. Colombo, lumbay. Bai-
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11 in- in
Send each guest flated balloon wrapped
large
box. Inside the balloons, tuck notes that read: "BLOW YOURSELF TO A PARTY THAT WILL GO OFF WITH A BANG BY COMING ΤΟ OUR HOUSE ON (DATE, PLACE, TIME)." On the outside of each, letter with red nail polish: "BREAK THIS BALLOON AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS."
Gather
BESS RITTER
BREAK THIG BALLOON AND
SEE WHAT HAPPENS
ed. Whenever one bursts, slup
same. In basketball, the player who lets the balloon touch the floor it also "out."
Tennis can be played with paper plates for rackets, A string stretched about 12 inches above a table forms the not and court.
would
No postmat on foot Luckle the Andes as part of his regular round. The climb would take wooks and "posty" would be lucky if he survived.
pf
In the Antartic regions Chile, too, planes lake airmail und army and Davy men For a quieter game, try mak-to
In the ing
**Balloon up
Headlines, explorers manning bases
lee and now. Everyone writes a news head- line in which the first letter of
from Chilo The each word should spell out BALLOON
very illustrated here in perforated 14, amurzg wny 10 end your reccss-printed in blue and white
ballon party.
This
la
stamp
and costs 6d in London.-JAA.
Many Types Of Rain
-The Regular Kind Is Not Very Interesting
By MAX TRELL
been raining hard all monring. In fact it was still
with tho shadow children lurked-about names, was stand- ing with their TASCA pressed gainst the windowpane, kok.ANG out.
all nelivities until the person re- sponsible Agures out the answer to his question,
called A good Icebreaker, "Balloon Blew," is played by T had more balloons
gelling cach couple, upuri inte an enormous bunch, so,äirival, to crouch 011 their ruining. Knarf und Hanid, the that they can loat over the hands and kaves at one side of the room. Now place an in- Tie refreshment table,
fluted balloon in front of each. colourful стере paper They must be blown to the streamer to each. These opposite wall, The Ars one to should be long enough to get there is, of course, the win-
There's only
rule: extend to all the walls
Balloons must out be touched. the room. Tuck tiny notes As new arrivals enter, they can
balloons. Euch watch the race that's in pru
who one should ask the reader a
along with thore Kress, have finished, then take their silly question, which will re.
own turfs. quire a sillier answer. Here are some examples:
inside the
1. "If five fat men go out in a storm under one small umbrella, how Can they keep dry?" (By going out into a wind storm, stead of a rain storm).
in-
2. "How many potatoes will go into an average five
basket?" pound
(None. You've got Lo put them there.)
Now simply use these balloons for playing games by removing them from the celling us nord-
ner.
one
"It certainly is raining hard," Knaif had just remarked to his sister, when all at once a voice behind them said: "Pshaw, it's not raining hard at all.
A Hoary Downpour
Knart and Hanid looked around. It was Mr Merlin ho Magician.
Reserve "Balloon Botud Race" for friends who refuse to get
"Oh Mr Merlin! It IS raining sewn on all fours. Line up all players against one wall. Alhard!" said Hard. your signal, they race with "My dear
said Mr girl," balloons resting on top of soda Merith the Magician, "it's only pop bottles to the other end of
Raindrops the room. Those who drop their ralning raindrops.
aren't hard, cow are they?!'. balloons en route must pick them up and start again from Hanid and Knarf both had to that
11-5
Cats-and-Dogs rain outside this magic window.
noses
Knarf and Hanid pressed. their the magical against windowpace. They opened their eyes as wide as saucers.
"It's raining cats-and-dogal" they shouted.
Mr Merlin nodded and smiled. point.
admit that raindrops weren't For other games, convert out-hard at all,
Sure enough, the sky was door sports like soccer and basketball Into Indoor sports,
"Besides," Mr Merlin went on, filled with falling dogs and cats A3 using a balloon for the ball. "when it rates raindrops, there all scrambled up together,
tho as they landed on bai- isn't anything unasuni Penalty for breakers of
to talk Soc loons is elimination from the about. If you come to my room ground, the cats scampered of the dogs running and and look cut of my window, I'm with sure you'll see a more interest barking after them. Some of the ing rain falling than just plain,
cato landed on i top of people crainary raindropa."
Don't Be Afraid Of
Generosity
In Friendship
carrying umbrellas, and some of
the dogs landed on top of roots Knart and Hanid both said and awnings. But none of them that they didn't see how rain seemed to get hurt. could be any differcat if you
looked at it out of one window "Now, my dears,” said Mr
than if you looked another.
out
of Merlin, "raining cats-and-dogs isn't the most remarkable way
it can rain, although you may
"HOW
"It's always the same rain, thinic so.” Isnt it, Mr Merint" said Knar: "Really?" said Hanid.
"Not at all," sad Mr Merlin. "When you look at rain out of cise can it rala?"
Magician's window, it's "Look out the window again different from every other rain and see for yourselves," said Mr. in the world. You'll seel"
Merlin
So
the
the
what
beds.
Again Mr Merlin multed. "It I doesn't always rain in
sheets," be said, "Sometimes it rains in sheets of paper.”
10 Alleged force
11 Compass point
172" 13
12 Blackbird of cuckoo family
13 Universal language
14
Ages
18 Mimicker
18 Eject
21 Fee for passage
24 Accomplish
23 Prem
27 Within
28 Symbol for iridium
29 Negative word
30 South Dakota (ab.)
31 Total expenses (ab.) 32 Before
33 East side (ab.)
DOWN
1 Organ of shell
2 Heavy blow
3 Eucharistic wind vessels
4 Hustened
5 Operatic solo
Minute skin opening
7 Smell smen
16 Fourth Arabion caliph
17 Green vegetable
18 Redact
10 Greater quantity
20 Musical qualliy
21 Festival
24 Get up
23 Concludes
28 Drone bee
HOMONYM
WORD CHAIN
Change. WHITE to BLACK in nino moves. Alter only one letter at a ilmo and make sure you have a Lime,
good word ench
SCRAMBLER -
Scramble "duration" and have "to clock scramble, again and havo "a ledger entry again
and have "on arachnid."
TRIANGLE
The Puzzleman has based his triangle on his BROTHER. The second word is an abbreviation for "pair"; third is "a Siamese fourth "saucy"; fifth dialect":
restraining
device': and sixth "a lire worshipper." Com- plete the triangle:
a
BROTHER (Solutions on Page 20)
TREE QUIZ
By Marion Brownfield
1. I come from Chile and my
name is komething
to pair with salt,
2. "Yes, I have no
people like
3. I climb a tree and also
ride on hand-organs,
When people clean up
they often say the name of this evergreen.
uscs
5. The carpenter
me (name of tool) to smooth wood,
4. When folks suck out their
neck-that's my namet
and
7. I'm really a cactus, not a tree, but my name is a
Book in the Bible
8. My nuts have a prickly husk ar burr and the first bail ut my tame is a place to koop things.
9. I'm a pickled fruit and a
pretty thade of green,
10. I'm a colour plus "wood” and grow in
Seat forests California.
in
21. I'm good to chew, but
Missing words In this sentence my other name is better knowa sound allke, but ore spelled in Australio. differently. Finish the sentence:
The had to remove each from the cob before he could eat the corn.
.12. I'm
sald "to keep the doctor away", and I am 0 popular ple fruit,
(Answers on Pare 20)
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ETE had been sore at timid about uttering the first PET
Andy all day, As the word that might make up
quarrel, scared of saying "hello" two boys were walking to the strange boy or girl at
Room of Mystory
Suddenly it stopped raining home from school, a good your school or place of worship,
cats-and-dogs. It began raining they nli wont to Mi half block between them, drawing back from the bit of
someone's due, Morlin's room (it was a very great big, white things, bla as Pete suddenly remembered praise that is
behind will shut you away from a lot mysterious room the model plane meet that of fun and happy adventures. baokshelves which no one else "Hey!" shouted Knarf, "It's | Chinese Croods & Customs he had been invited to. It Make it a rule to any and do ever seemed able to fcd) and raining on cheets!":
Enjoyable Cookery was the last moet of the what you believe to be the right they immediately went to
Baby Book season and all the junior and the kind thing and you will window and locked out.
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There... THAT'S crowd would be signing up
-IRMA HEGEL call a rain for the spring term, Andy was a beginner in model building and Pote knew that he could not let him miss this opportunity, Pete decided that, just for to night, he would call a truce, shouted.. HI Andy!”: he "Walt up. Do you want, to, go to the plane meet with me to- night7 Mr. Mack says: 1 - could bring a friend.
to
The single word "friend" had lipped out before he know it. Andy stopped and began grin. When Pate finally caught up to him, Andy accepted the impulsive Invitation eagerly. Whatever the trifle was the boys had quarrelied, about was
"Always Kober mod Impulse, even aff the robunt: Being: tald
.
Rupert and the Magic Ball—27
Rinusgredi hij, pal magic into k SW-what did you say about -- her, and da magic •lè quavara, ** (t's 'that 'do?) Rupars explains belongs
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Knarf red. Hania noticed all- other curious thing na they looked out of Mr Merlin the Magician's mysterious and magical window.
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