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Holiday Puzzles
CHRISTMAS CROSSWORD
Cartoonist Cal dressed up the crossword puzzle by placing on the wilhouette of a Christmas
tree:
ACROHN
t
2 Christina is not far away
4 Palm Bly
3 Boy'a nickname
7 Indian sacred city
10 Flower
1 Bertruge
DOWN
2 Accomplishing
3 Dadre
4 Golf mound
6 Hawaiian wreath
7 Air rifle shot
8 Army order (uk).3)
• South Amerlen (ab 1
DIAMOND
The YULE LOG kate
with Christmas mod makes
good centre for thtr
diamond. The second
wond
word
14 "1 bucketfilter VISURE";
third "stories"; fifth "things om churches
And atinol
sixth "a distress signal
YULELOG
HIDDEN TOYS
Each of these ventences con»
a hidden large. Can you
tai find them?
She had a shiny new silver dollar,
Rumble followed rumble dur-
Ing the storm.
Even in in Spain (setae dien
were not unknown.
CAROLS
curols
£
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1956.
FOR
BOYS
A SHORT STORY
Magic Touches Mousy
Th
could possibly
Ninagine what the little
kitten wanted Iur groy Christmas and no one
THE NAMES OF eight well-could find out because the known Christmas hidden in the lines below. Can kitten couldn't speak to let you pick them out?
anyone know.
Oh, the hulls of Bethlehem
silent.
Lown
Sing, three
little kings We herald joy! Oh world, hark the noel of angels to Christmas night Deck the Orient free.
CHRISTMAS REBUS
Karen bent down สมม stroked the soft fur. "I wonder what you would like for Christmas, Mousy If only you could tell me!" "Would you like
The Puzzlemian has concealed | frosh fish?" asked Georgie. four Christmas presents in his The kitten licked her lips- pre-Christinus rebus Find them
but it wasn't what she really wanted.
by using the words anal pictures Lo your best advantage:
+S
MY NAME S KATE
THE FOX LED
US À MERRY
CHASE!
S
TOO!
(Solutions on Page 20)
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Mousy purred because Karru petted her, not because she was
there was content for
really something that Mousy wanted very much.
"I guess it will never come true",
"No she thought.
Chet' knows that 1 just don't want to be Brusy-even if it were only fur one day She licked a grey insported 1-Lites" she murmured, "plain dran old Bryand to add ins Jury, they call me Mous
WILS
She felt sorry for herself. DUT It wasn't easy to stay word for the long, when everyone else
The children laughed No Ky and fallend as they helped the
decorate the grownups
dark green with shiny Teuve with bright red berries Everything smelled so nice
ke a pine woods kitchen there kind of streil 2000.
Mousy
By FERN SIMMS
IT'S MAGIC! THAT CHRISTMAS RIBBON MAKES "MOUSY "LOOK
DIFFERENT":
You
Look In
This is yours to wear" sald "Now Foot The Tree" erted karen as she thed the bright red Georgie elic agull, AA
they subbon around Muusy's neck, headed toward the living room, When she first sow the tree, It looks lovely, Mou53!
Mesin look very Christmassy
Stocki
still. absolutely Never did she dream if would the mirror at yourself"
Moury looked. Sure, she was be so beautiful! Silver Unsel
but きれい
more hinung red down,
coloured and balls shone with the lights wil inoked She
soft famed hingine how it looked red ribbon. and Ray.
and Indeed, very to a little grey kitten who loved Christmasxy *She
was quite colour so much, proud.
BAY,
holly -bokey
thum mousy
roi
Qui in the was a different
all spley and "She always looks cute, even stayed close to without thes root, salt the kitchen. It was so nice ani Georgie. Karen nodded.
with the oven
"That's going.
they Once in a while, a few spley me," thought Mousy, feeling all cookie crumbs would
warm and głowy. drop to
WALETE
the floor
Mmul
Mousy hopped up on the win- dow sill and looked out. My, it was starting to snow! The Bakes lonked soft and white, Karen opened the door and lousy sneak out to dance around in the ow It wasn't wet and dagp like vold rain.
What was that behind the hodgey She backed away. was something orange or She'd better be careful!
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red.
A little orungs face looked around the hedge. It was the Purtr cat, Rusty.
Mousy "What beautiful fur," righed
becaus
love
"And now for the tree!" erted Georgie,
The tree WAS what Mousy was waiting heard such about if
"Let's feed the birds before wi
the tree," me
suggesinl Kuren *Il' their Christmas, too."
to see, She had wonderful things
Mousy good idea.
✰
was a
thought that
She could show a a bit now in front of that old Mr Blue Jay. Parker dat wat She looked almost a pretty an they did today. In fact, she could give Mr Jay a good seare. she thought, "Oh, to look like Karen tossed handful of that,"
crumbs on the white car- cookie Rusly swished his full fail pet of
of snow. and walked by proudly,
"Fishcakes," muttered Mousy, "Show off."
flutter in
It
"Мегту Christmas, Mr Jay" she cried as the blue Juy swoop- ed down. The kitten edged to ward the open window now was the time to scare the bird. was Mr Blue Jay, displaying his Mr Jay tooked up with his One blue feathers.
Then she heard
the trees and looked up.
"Thought he'd gone SOUB
i with his old blue feathers."
Mousy sneakert behind
the
hodge, "When he comes down to gel the bread crumbs that Karen threw oui, I'll give him a real scare,
Mr Jay swooped down for his food and Mousy leaped out. Mr Jay was fast, though
away, shrielding.
Noisy old scairty mean scairly bird,” Mousy
He flew
cat muttered
bright eyes, admiring Mousy's red bow and Mousy decided not to frighten Mr Jay — let him
joy his Christmas breakfast,
★
over
AND
GIRLS
How Other Youth Trim Christmas Trees
you want to give your
DChristmas tree an in-
ternational touch this year?
If you do, you can gain this ideas result by borrowing from several countries throughout the world.
In Japan, they hang coloured cards on their trees. You can make your own by copying a Japanese scene upon a small card and painting It with water colours. Chinese children hang paper lanterna thair trees. Construct your lantern by latticing a square of coloured paper. Paste with gummed tape und add a handle.
תנ
From Europe we can take the Gernun cookie
from
and
France, the candy.
By IRMA HEGEL
CZECHS
LIKE APPLES- THEY'RE EASY TO FIX
UP LIKE ELVES
USING PIE
CLEANERS FOR
ARMS AND LAUS-
WHY NOT LEND AN INTERNATIONAL
FLAVOR TO YOUR CHRISTMAS
THIS YEAR?
MELLY CHLISMAS
YOU MIGHT ADD A
PAPER LANTERN
TO THE TREE AS WOULD
THE
CHINEGE--
....OR GO FOR A YULE LOG, LIKE
THE CROATG AND GLOVENES –
use TWIGS INSTEAD OF 4 100 ·
MAKE A DUTCH
SHOE FROM
A PIECE OF
CORK -
THE FRENCH LIKE CANDY - (GUM PROPE AND TOOTHPICKS MAKE ATTRACTIVE DECORATIONS)
Sweden likes
Gum-drops lend themselves attractively to decoration into a ball and tie securely at stop them. Norwegian children the top and bottom. Clip the top place fish on their trees. DokRT- ideas. The gum-drops are but leave a fringe of brow at fullah can be cut from guld placed on toothpicks, either the bottom. Take fluff of and silver paper. singly or
in clusters, the cotton, affix A yellow paper flags. Copy your paper flugs and
beak and pasto a few feathers place thein in garland form, more colours, the better.
where the tall should be. Hang Lithuania boods a straw bird this bird on a string inside the rage. Simply take a handful of
cage. straw, press down until it buiges
Italian Stamp
Pictures 'Flying Footballs'
Mousy spranj
to the Tree, and swiftly shot oul 4 ifttle paw at one of the big red balls It bounced back
and forth. What fun!
She waited for it to stop. She looked close- ly at the bull-why, there was thing in it. It was a kitten She put a bright red kitten! up a wel Bittle nose to snif at the strange kitten, und the red kitten did exactly the same ship men were there and
Mousy remembered look they all thing
Kat and talked t Into the mirror. The cat in
about the mirror always did the samo
the possibility of a thing too.
trip to the moon and back.
Georgie mughed. "Look at Mousy She sees herself in the balls
I
Wis
I was true-the ball was just 18ke a mirrur
The beautifu) red cat was she, Mousyl she wasn't grey! She moved ever near a blue ball, and there The
blucj agoin-bright Mousy went from ball to ball sometimes she Wos guiden, sometimes Kreen, sometimes silver In each ball she looked mere beautiful. Karen and Gordy cane close to the tree now, 100. All three looked at the beautiful tree, and dozens of happy, coloured shiny fucts looked back at them,
Yes, Christmas is Indeed magic!
YULETIDE FUN
ST
AND YOUR
some
That night the kitten watch- ed the chlidren hang theu
QTART with a group of stockings in front of the fire-
friends add pince. Their eyes should have been sleepy, but they were
Yuletide gumes and some- bright and shiny, knowing what thing good to eat and they would find the next day! there'll be Christmas fun Mousy was all eyes and ears, listening to the exclting talk for all. about Christmas-the toys the children would
get, the good food, the sound of the church bells, She too
waiting eagerly for Christmas Day, foxr this would be her Arst.
was
"I think Christmas is magic." sighed Karer.
Did you ever try to draw a complete circle with your eyes closed? It is not easy-which makes this game a good one:
WREATH MAKING
son tries to draw i wreath, with While blindfolded, each per-
a green crayon, on a pleco of scratch paper scotch-taped to a wall
Georgie nodded. "Let's hang a sock for. Mousy, She can have this old one of mine."
Mousy watched fondly as the children she loved so muchwreath (just a circle) wins, hung up a little red sock for bor. It was very nice of them, even though she could
never
Put up a tranh piece of paper for each artist. The one who makes the largest and best
got what she really wanted,
ICICLE OUT
FOR YOU FRIENDS
I THINK BOMEONE 15 PULLING MY
WHICKERS!
Dear Sinta
Hrass sem unng
to Pablu Enemy
to get away.
foment it att
THE
were
rocketmen there and the space-
SREFEITALIANI
• British familles always have a royal crown upon their trees. A Polish boys and girls wrap crown cut from gold paper, plus nuta in aluminium foil. You can
a few sequins for jewels, inakes do the sume. Czechoslovakians like apples.
added If you
glitter. You can whit- to fur want
tie a Dutch shoe from an old cork from the apple, add a marshmallow head and if you have a basket left u seal for a over from a party-favour, that la
Denmark's favourite trimuning. and Tiny
baskele can be made, too,
matos a Santa Claus
སྦ་
on toothpick
a white paper fuce, pipe-cleaner arms,
belt
Croats, Serbs and Slovenes from pieces of Christmas wrap- have their Yule logs. Bundle a pings, a pipe-cleaner handle se- Now twigs together, tio with a cured through two holes on each red ribbon and ser a small elf side.
The Midnight Rider
-Keart Found Out That Teddy's Story Was True-
By MAX TRELL
ย
66T HAD
funny thing happen to me last night," sald Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, to his friend Knarf and Honid, the shadow children with the turn- led-about names. "' tell it to you when I get up I'm going
to bed now."
Knar! grabbed hold of
It was at the seventh Inter-Teddy: "It's early morning!" he namonal Astronautical Congress shouted. "You can't go to bed held in Rome
recently for now!" which the italien Post Office has issued this new stamp.
דיי
was up all last night," said Teddy. "I'm sleepy."
But Knart held Teddy by one The president of the Congress, arm and Hanid held him by the red-haired Frederick Durant, other. They made him sit down. put things Into o very sober They insisted that he tell them focus. He said: "Space fight what had happened to him the at the same stage of develop- night before, ment now as conventional flight in the days of
Wright Brothera
the
Which meant that the rocketeers and spaceship tren are only beginning to crawl.
bow They were bold enough, ever, to get to their feet and peer out into space.
Horseback Ride
"I went for a horseback ride," he said.
10-101
Knart and Hanid made Teddy sit down.
Bur-
"But the next moment, Whoa did an even more wonderful thing. He took a leap right out through the open window and "Where did you get the horse, landed in the garden. Teddy?" asked Hunid.
You can imagine how "Right here in the playroom,'
„prised I was," Teddy continued. said Teddy, "There's the horsej" "I just held on to Hiawatha with And he pointed across the room, all my might, while Hiawatha Standing in the comer of the held onto Whoa, the Hobbyhorse room was Whon, the Hobby- with all his might. horse.
"Whoa!" I cried "don't go so fuat."
General Gootano Crocco, of Italy, said a spaceship carrying crow of three would take a
"But you couldn't go for a year to travel to Mars
and ride on a hobbyhorse,"
nald Venus, take pletures with Hanid. telephoto cameros end return
to earth.
delegate,
In the realms
"'Fast!' caid Whoe, as ha streaked across the garden, 'I'm' "Just the same. I did,"
said not going fast at all. I've hardly Teddy
started. Just wait until I get on Teddy explained that he had the road. The chief German Professor Sanger, spoke con- gone to the playroom the night "With_thet," said Teddy, "he the garden wall. fidently of atom-powered space before after everyone in the sprang over
of house was asleep, ships "now
Then away he went, down the "That's the time,” said Teddy, road till we came to the hill, possibility which could approach €210 speed of Ught"-186284 "hat things like hobbyhorses The wind blew in our ears and miles a second. Such ships, he and teddy bears and wooden my fur wont flying. Up the hill mid, could reach the farthest Indians come to life.
we raced and down the other planet,
and I met in the side. And over the brook "The drst one playroom was Hiawatha, the through the forest and around One thing is SURE, American Wooden Indian Boy. He was pond and on and on, and Russians scientista ore climbing up
"And now,' said Whoa, worlding 10 launch within 18 Whoa, the Hobbyhorst,
Hobbyhurer 'I can even go said Hiawatha faster. Hold on!" 10 me, we're going for a ride,'
So I jumped on the hobby- horse's back and wat behind the Hobby-
months a mumber of 20-Inch* "flying footballs" which Will travel round the earth at 18,000 miles an hour.
the back on
Come along.
of
Like A Bird
Players form a circle, One school" or "to play each with."
"Then," said Teddy, "ho went The now stomp pictures two Hlewatha. Whoo, When everyone has finished, player holds a tinsel or pinatic
tho so fast that his teet lett Surely there wouldn't be a new
ornament felcle. While music players take turns reading the of those. It is perforated 14. horse, galloped all around the ground and he flew in the alc plays (Christmas carols would letters out loudh
Iltho-printed and costs 6d in room, rocking back and forth; There will be
like a bird. cont of fur for her in the sock.
London----J.A.A. bo good) the lelelo is passed.
What a wonderful ride it.was!. Rusty over for a day-that
some amusing resuulis--such as: would satisfy herl
When the music is stoppod "Dear Santa--Please send a Mousy slept in front of the suddenly, the player holding the fireplace that night. She heardlcicio drops out of the game. nolaes charing the night and The player staying in the long- tried to open her sleepy eyes. Cat wina,' but her ayolids felt so heavy
open.
SLED.
.-.
to Christopher Columbus
to wear to church.”
MAKING PRESENTS
LETTERS TO SANTA ·For each person, cut from an that she just couldn't keep them Everyone helps to write these old magazine, catalogue, 1 OF funny lotters, Plavors alt in a newspaper, "a picture of a toy The sound of brautiful bells [elrcle. Give everyone paper and or anything which might "be, ú | ... awakened Mousy, The church pencil. At the top of the page Christm present bolls were ringing This was everyone.
wrlice:
Jig-saw coch picture Into the dayther, day Karen called
adding any kind of gif ploture into an empty box on a when she heard the quick steps doll, sled, game; these words lable in the centre · of a room. of the children on the stairs are folded over twice. The Pass the other pieces out to 1216 They ran right to the fireplace papers are passet to the playere players
"They re filed!" cried Georgie,
on the itt pointing to the socks,
Make up two teams, “Teams Surs cough, they were adding any name. This room. N
writes to
ine up
on opposite sides of the Mousy bug
At the word GO
00, a pleyCT character of history or fiction if from bad runs to boa imppily spilled out the colourful cord was the words are, whole prey finding the
"Magicl”, She wasn't awake long Santa--Picasound two picos. Put half of such :
She watched as the children
[youry,
Now everyone
the
nano
Mousy" folded down, and the papers mate bair to the ploes W
the player: rune * Basic
| Georých tioned the red neck un passed to the leck fo
kide down; and out rolled a bluo. 5-Now) usen for the gift are to bart, a toy muung paid fit Waisted For Inawan.co red ribbon.
Rupert and the Old Chimney-13
uns I would 14. And
it's fairly claań up; the
mares at him,
Peter
*I'll take you to the moon? he said, "Look, there it is! Just
over the top of the hill,
"Ank Teddy?"
did
You get to the moon, Kharf
asked
Teddy shook his head. "I don't think so. You see I bo
"T" gan feeling sleepler and sleep- ber, on account of all the rocking bacic and dortis, When I open- od my eyes'agaits. I was back in the plasïoom, the sun was shins' ing in at the window and proak- fast was on the table."
Kirari" didn't believe a word that Toddy had said about his ride · with' FilawathaÒn the [hobbyhorso's back. So, as soon en Teddy was. Onished and had gone off to take a anodis: Knarf Mwend up to Hawathe - the Wooden Indian Boy found:
with his cras{ciound:
[Hobbyhorseal
ben
*