BOYS'
A Story For All Teenagers:
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1948.
full-page FEATURE EVERY SATURDAY
AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
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BOOGIE WOOGIE FOR
BABY KAREN
"B
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ING, bing, bang!" cried Baby Karen, na she hit
pegs the wooden her pounding bourd with a Halting, she wooden mallet. beamed a four-tooth smile at Millie Craig, her baby sitter.
"Tint's fine, Baby Karen, but just turn your head and keep hitling those pegs until I get your funny little nose, mouth and double chin into my picture."
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Baby Karen banged the wooden pegs and booed to the music.
"Why don't we all get baby sit- ting jobs! We could have a party every day in the week," suggested Jackle.
Everybody laughed except Tesa, different who apparently had Iden. "It would be a good idea if Baby Karen. all bables were like I've tried It three times, but the babies wore me out The last one screamed so long and loud that the neighbours began calling up to ask what was I doing to that child!"
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by
E. ANN BRUSH
Fifteen minutes, and then in
a tray- came Mrs. Dexter with ful of cookies and cups.
Millle felt as if she were going to faint. Well, she would just have to own up to what she had done. release her friends and get her "walking papers," Mille decided. It was too bad. She would miss Baby Koren. and sho needed the money.
She took the sketch from the top! of the plano. At least, he would have it a keepsake.
"I . I've got something to con- fess," Milllo began.
Then she saw that Mrs. Dexter was smiling mysteriously.
"I know," sho said, "and now you may call your friends and tell them we're having refreshments, I'll go and get the chocolate."
her
"You know?" Millie was amazed. Mrs. Dexter nodded. "I've known for some time, but today I thought I'd teach that snoopy Mrs. Smidge next door to mind her own business. Sho's telephoned me each time, and in a funny disguised voice sald, 'While you're playing bridge, your baby sitter is making merry with friends. They piny boogie a friend who woogie music. This thought you ought to know.""
Mrs. Dexter made a face indi-
what sort
of a friend eating just she knew her to bc. "So, we'll out on the havo our refreshments veranda where she can see and hear plays boogle wongie us. Who music?"
"Jackiel Jackie Bunzell," offered
Mille.. was
Millie, who studied two evenings
week at an art school, sketching Baby Karen. The money she earned for minding the baby week while Mrs two afternoons a Dexter played bridge at her club, helped towards paying for her art course.
Millie would have been a pretty draw or good: subject herself to paint. She was a slender girl with light blonde hair and big brown eyes. The sketch she was doing of the baby proved that she was not inking up art in vain.
to Baby Then came competition Karen's cries in the form of whistles and "Yoo-hoos" from the lawn out- side the Dexter house.
Mille ran to the window. There, on the lawn, stood her friends and Billie June, schoolmates: Jackie, and Tess.
"How's the baby-sittin'?" asked Jackie with twinkling brown eyes.
"Need help?" came from blonde, freckle-faced June.
"We're it," called Bille and Tess in unison.
MILLI
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LLIE grinned, looket up and down the block and then sl- nalled to her friends to come in.
hour of She still had another
Mrs. Dexter baby sitting before would return home.
"Ill-yah, baby?" asked Jackle getting down on his knees in front of the child, who fairly gurgled with glee.
"Great hunks" said Blille, star, ing down at Baby Karen. "She's added an
extra tooth!" And, as I Baby. Karen understood every word, she showed all of her four teeth This was not and said, "Da-da." the first time that a group of kids bad descended on her.
When It began to look as if Baby Karen were getting a little bored with her wooden toy and the com- pany, Jackie decided it was ime in chungo the entertainment pro- Komme.
"play
number
decided.
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a new boogie woogle I heard last night,"
he
He sang snatches of the song as ho struck up the piano.
Baby Karen banged the wooden pegs and booed to the tune. of the boogie woogie music.
Millie and her friends laughed and danced. Baby sitting was lots of fun.
"Guess I'll get a baby-sitting job, too," remarked Elllle, "and then I Invite you all in.”
"Say! that's a good idea." said
June.
HAVE
NLY a half hour had passed,
when thero came the sound of a car stopping outside, and Millie getting out of a saw Mrs. Dexter
car.
"Good
"After he's had his chocolate and
YOUNG IDEAS
JUNE MAY
LITTLE known in career-dreaming
is the job of radio librarian, which means keeping an index of musical titles licensed for broadcast and listed in the Alea of overy broadcasting station of size. The qualifications for a radilo librarian Include a knowledge of music and the ability to meet people and got on with them, particularly tempera- mental musicians and eingers. It is a colourful profession, wide open to young men and women.
Have you
wooden seen those mail boxes Imported from Swedent They are decorated with bright red thing to Agures and are just the hold letters on your bureau. If you aren't the pen-pal type,
the box could hold hobby stuff.
"How Did You Like the Pla?" is a pantomima zame for laughs. One player arises and in pantomime shows how he enjoyed eating the ple. Ho could rub his stomach to show approval. The next player stomach and ada a must rub his
his own. It could be gesture of Bicking his lips with his tongue. The third player now goes through the motions of the first two players, adding still another movement or his own.
If any player laughs or
· APPROXIMATELY 180 PARTS ARB REQUIRED TO MAKE
A WATCH SOME SO FINE THEY CAN HARDLY BE SEEN-
TIMEPIECES GAIN A PEW BECONDS IN THE SUMMER, LOSE A FOW IN WINTER
THE BACK OF A WATCH GHOULD
· DE OPENED ONLY FOR REPAIRING- MOISTZULE MAY RUST THE PARTS
PUZZLES
and
THESE variety puzzles taka!
up animal, mineral vegetable objects.
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CROSSWORD PUZZLE
THUNDERSTORMS HAVE
BEEN KNOWN. TO CAUISE. WATCH SPRINGS TO
BREAK
DON'Y PEEL GO PEPPY THIS TIBOR VBARI
Tiny Parts Are Used In Watchmaking
By WILLIAM J. MURDOCH
if he fails to remember the preced-magine drilling a hole in a ing players' motions, he is at once piece of metal with a drill disqualified. The player who
that is only half as thick as one stay in the game the longest, wins.
of the hairs on your head!
Cam
Wa
Watchmakers do it every day. Microchemistry is a new field in
The drills are only 24 thou- science that is attracting heirs. think it must be like entering aandths of an inch thick. The Lilliput. One of the weighing in-highly skilled workmen who use struments is called a micro-balance and it is kept in an air-conditioned chamber, free of even the tiny dust pat
particles, since these would be suf- Aclent to throw the miniature mechanism out. of line. Young
cookies, we'll have him play for scientists weigh one-millionth of a
us," said Mrs. Dexter.
gram on
a micro-balancet
Mrs. Magpie's Rummage Sale
griclit she exclaimed. "Now I'll lose my job."
"Can't we beat it out that back door?" asked Jackie.
"No," walled Millie. "The door's KNARF locked and Mrs. Dexter has the key, but she was thinking hard
go down into the cellar and walt until I call you. Then you can come up and go out the front door."
So far, Mrs. Dexter had always gone upstairs to take off her hat
house dress and change to a
or slacks, and Millie thought it would bo so easy to call her friends and let them slip out through the front door.
But today Mrs. Dexter seemed to have other plans.
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-Practically Everyone, Even the Mice, Attended—
By MAX TRELL
and Hanld, the shadow- children with the turned- around names, were sitting quietly wall wondering on the garden whether the daisies and the butter- to them or to cups were nodding
they each other, when all at once
the noticed something moving in
distance grass a short
off. The next moment someone wearing
fight-nting bright green coat and trousers sprong into the air and fell back into the grass again. They recognised their friend Willy Toad.
a
Jumping off the wall, they ran over to him. He was carrying large empty sack and seemed to be in a great hurry.
Rummage Salo
low's my precious darling?" she asked, kneeling in front Baby
awake Karen. "My! Wide and bubbling over with happiness. You'll stay for another half hour,
I can't wait to chat with won't you. Millie?" she asked.
"Oh yes, Mrs. Dexter." Millie you, my dear. The rummage sale agreed, hoping Mrs. Dexter had will be starting in a few minutes. I don't want to be late for IL So planned to go out again.
Sorry"
"Good," said Mrs. Dexter. moving her hat and coat and hang ing them on the rack in the hall. "I'll be busy in the kitchen for a while."
"Sorry
The shadows followed Willie te tho rummage sale.
"That," said Willy Toad, "is Mrs Gatherum Magple. Pardon me whlie I get in on the sale. I'll see you later." With that Willy hopped up down in the crowd, on top of some mice and a turtle whom everybody was stepping Knarf and Hanld walled for moment, then they pushed in, too.
Willy was about to hop aft again. in the air and came FQ-
Knarf darted in front of him and stopped him. "What rummage sale, Willy? Who's having a Tummage sale?"
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"Who? Mrs Gatherum Magple! Busy in the kilchent Millie had a
Let go of me!" said Willy Indignant- feeling. The kitchen sickly close to the basement door and she ly. would not be able to call her friends.
Five minutes, ten minutes passed. Millle heard the rumbling of coal In the cellar. One of the boys was probably trying to open the cellar window over the coal bin "Oh, if they'd only be
quiet!" thought Millie.
In desperation, the pleked up and Baby Karen's wooden mollot banged the wooden pegs to drown out the sound of falling cool
This struck Baby Karen as being extremely amusing, and she gurgled with the greatest enjoyment.
Knar and Hanid said they hnd never heard of anyone named Mrs Gatherum Magpie, and had never heard of anyone holding a rummage sale in the garden. They said they
wanted to see it.
on.
Odds and Ends
0
Mra Gatherum Magpie had a big basket filled with odds and ends of almost everything you could think of. There were bits of thread and string, pieces of rag, scraps of paper, "Come along," said Willy. "Only old bottle tops, pins, needles, but- -time. If tons, broken shoe laces and glass, don't waste any more
saucer handle, hairs from a squir you're not early for a rummage sale,
at rel's tall, a burnt out matchstick, a you might just as well stay
long splinter from a shingle, a ring, home!"
a cork, a rubber band, and a with nothing in it.
on the other
an
box
So Willy hopped across the gar- den, and around the stump of apple tree, with Knart and Hanld at Everyone eagerly snatched some- his heels (or whatever it is that thing.
The robins and touds have Instead of heels). Final-
sparrows got all lye stone they came on a
side of a large the string and thrend and the picces
whole
of rag which they immediately flew crowd of sparrows, robins, beetles, off with to put in their nests. chipmunks, mi e grasshoppers, The mice got the ring and the old ladybugs and caterpillars; all push-, bolile tops, Ing and jostling, and squeaking and grunting. In the
It may be funny to you, Baby, but it isn't
white bit funny for me." said Millic, wondering what Mrs. - Dexter was doing in the kitchen and what her friends were cooking up in the basement.
YOUR HANDSHAKE
AVE you ever realised that your handshake say
things about you?
When Artur Rodzinaki, famous orchestra con- ductor, became conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, his only contract was shaking handa' with the president, Edward Ryerson. Mr Rodzinski is quoted as saying: "Ills handelaap is much more binding than any written contract."
That is not only a wonderful tribute to Mr Ilyerson, but proof that the way people shake hands | does say things. Shaking hands Is A friendly seature, but the way you do it gives it added meaning and value.
Is your handshake one of the limp, "dead fish" kind that says you are indifferent, laxy, even insincere? Or is it a warm, friendly grasp that sels up ani lastant liking and trust?
In a business introduction a handshake should be a sign of good will and Integrity. It may ratify a deal. Often, as in the case of ille orchestra conduselor meriloned, it is the only "contract" consider- ed necessary.
Be sure your handshake mys: "This is interesituat I like you snd
I want you to like me. Don't make it a pollte gesture demanded
by good manners. A sincere, warm-hearted handshake is an asset.
11 stamps you as a. friendly, dependabls persón, or the reverso..
Let's shake hands and see what our bandabakçu say?
middle of the Willy got the box with nothing in
crowd a large magple with rumpled it. What he expected to do with It
feathers was calling out harshly: "Don't push! There's plenty for all! Stand back!"
However, no one seemed to pay any attention to her.
no one knew. But he looked mighty glad to get it..
Gatherum Mrs Magple is called because she goes around gathering," Willy said.
RED
RYDER
ME HOPE-UM RED
2 RYDER SLE SMOKE.
SIGNAL
LITTLE BEAVERS SENDIA
AND HES
THOSE SMOKE SIGNALS
DANGERS
the drills carefully, can drill an average of 600 holes with one of these tiny tools before it breaks. Approximately 180 parts are required to make a typical watch. Many of them almost unbelievably small and fine.
MILES OF WIRE
are
For example, from just one pound of steel watchmakers draw 20 miles of fine wire used When it is as hairsprings. made into springs, that piece of metal is worth 3,000 times more than it was as raw steel.
these watchmakers must
make the
ACROSS
1 Chum 4 Knock 7 Prince 9 Little rodents 10 Fork prong 11 poems 13 Resolves 14 Mineral rock 15 Lesa
20 Type merciful 19 Shower cheese 22 Former 23 Remove Observe 25 Seine.
DOWN
of
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Anger
point
1 Fondle 2 Among 3 Row 4 tiny screws they use in these time-borne 5 High cards 6 Footlike part pieces. One screw, made of tool steel 8 Count over 9 Molded 13
15 Solicitude 10 Get up 17 Paradise is only .034 of an inch long. It is only
18 Breathing noise 10 Legal 020 of ariinch thick at the top.
21 Encountered. It has about a dozen threads-or spiral grooves cut into its length- for holding it into the watchworks.
1
A
year,
Perhaps will give you clear idea of the smallness of these screws: 600,000 of them weigh only a pound, and you could put more than 20,000 into an ordinary thimble. Yet, tiny and perfectly made they are, these screws and others similar to them are turned out by the thousands daily at a watch plant. in fact, one shop makes about 10
all by million Ferowe, machine..
Not the least important of the delicate equipment used to mariu- facture watches are the scales on weighed. which certain parts are Some of these are so sensitive that the they will accurately measure woight of a pencil mark-four ten-! millionthe (.0000004) of an or less!
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ounce
WATCHES CHECKED
Before watches leave the factory they are taken to the factory obser- vatory where they arc checked
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HOMONYM
but
Missing words sound alike, are spelled differently:
A is a common walking sid In, France.
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COMPASS PUZZLER
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START AT
F
SOUTH SOUTHWEST AND USE EVERY THIRD LETTER- FORCIDE WHICH
A
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R
R
W
H
WAY TO GO TO
PIND A MIDOCH
P
PROVERB
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HIDDEN STATE.
Since these springs must sup-
the earth ply an exact amount of pressure against the rotation of
docs
Can you pick out the name of ari when they are coiled, watch- upon its axis. This rotation
state hidden 'in this a hundredth American makers are very particular, not vary as much as
The sentence? second in 1,000 years. about the width and thickness of a
know just . Don't you dare put a hand observatory scientists of the finished wire. If the how long it takes for an imaginary that book! wire varies more than one one line running straight out from the hundred thousandth (.00001) of earth to pass from one point in the an inch from the correct spring sky to another. size, it cannot be used...
If you've ever used a tiny screw to fasten two pieces of wood to- gether, you'll realise how carefully
PUZZLE ANSWERS -
1 Crossword puzzle answer;
2. Cane, Caen.
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WORD DIAMOND
on
There's little danger of brenking-Our-DIAMOND_centres_on_liselt this time. The second word is "a the mainspring of a watch by wind-
narrow inlet," the third a "lariat," Bay ing it too tightly. Experts
the fifth "particles," and the sixth these little colled bands of steel are
an abbreviation for answer": so strong and tough that you'd pro- bably twist the watch stem off before you broke the spring.
But that does not necessarily mean the mainspring in your watch cold unbreakable. A is
sudden snap in the weather has been known to snap watch springs suddenly also do the Thunderstorms - may. trick by Alling the atmosphere with electrical dischargos which affect weak spots in the watch spring and cause them to break
WEATHER EFFECTS
Your watch may lose a few sec- onds o day in cold weather and' gain when the sun comes out hot the duo to and heavy, This is lubricating oil
works. In in the cold weather the all becomes alug
gish and tends to slow down the
watch movement a trifle. But in
warm
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DIAMOND
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QUICKWINK RIDDLER.
One man has 12 doughnuts; an- other has seven. What is the dif- ference? One has a dozen and the other t
Do the puzzle and find the missing word.
1
2
4
DDDDD
~All!
Read down: 1-Fathers. Tiny
wenther the oll becomes bit of water. 3-Benumbed 4 soupler and lets the various wheels Very low. To have dinner. 6- and gears move faster.
Periods.
Now read across the third row of Don't open your watch, just to letters for the missing word. see what makes it tick Tiny par
ticles of dust will settle in
the
works and may In time clog them.
Worse, if any dampness in the air Rupert helps Dr. Lion-44
penetrates to the spring and other parts, it will condense later and cause rust. Experts say that rust
up more watch repair bills than all other causes combined.
Caught
BY FRED HARMAN
WHAT ON EARTH---?
The six bottles of sunshine are dropped into the string bag and then William ties it to the end of * slender pole. This is Gne, they're hardly any weight at all," sayi Rupert as he lifts them. "And How jolly to see all that brilliant light coming through the string Hag. Yes, I'ahall need all that light, as you will see very soon," days the Wise Old Lost, And now we had better say good-bye to William and start for homa. We've got all we came for and it's getting rather Itte."
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