THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1948,
FULL-PAGE FEATURE EVERY SATURDAY
BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
WORKING GIRL'S LUNCH
P
ERHAPS Minetta Thomp
Bon
should have been warned. Her 14-year- old brother wore his best oh- what-a-good-boy-I-am expres- slon as he handed her a square white package, in the hall. her Minetta hastily thrust
by
I.R. HEGEL
MINETTA bent down, ripped open
arms in the sleeves of her coat have you the naked the
and took the bundle.
"What's this," she asked suspiciously.
said
"Your lunch, dear," Mother, poking her blond head out of the kitchen doorway. "Bob helped me wrap it. "We're Our little proud of you. Minetts off on her first Satur- day job."
00
"Money -it's
said Bob.
wonderful,"
Minetta made a face at her brother. "It feels like a rock," nhe Bald, hefting, the packing.
"Mother's apple pic," Bob whis- pereti and winked.
"Thanks," sald Minetta to both of them."'ll be hungry when noon don't expect Mr comes. And I Clock to pay me until six. I just hope" She looked warningly at Bob.
her, box, silenced the ancient alernt clock that still quivered Indignantly from the force of the ring and looked at the open-mouthed spectacled student before her,
"Are
that book you
student sweetly. "If you are, you'ro a lucky purchaser. You see, when- ever the hidden alarm in Clock's Bookstore ringe, a 10 percent dis- count is given on the book being bought at that moment."
your
"Whoops!" the surprised student exclaimed. "Sure, I was going to buy the book! I was just ready to hand it to you."
He turned to the silver-haired Mr Clock who had come up behind them, "Say, Mr Clock, this is great. I mean your idea of a covered alarm clock ringing at a certain time and those When getting a discount! Scotsmen at the university hear about this, they're going to jam this old bookstore. Oh, man, wait till I tell them."
The student paid his 45 cents and left, his book under his arm. He did not even wait to have 111 wrapped. Mr Clock stared at Mineiin.
"It's quite all right, Mr Clock,"
SPORTS. STORIES - PUZZLES - CRAFTS « GAMES · JOKES
AFRICA
Brale
CAN OF
GOOD HOFB
'PHODICIA IN AFRICA 18 NAMCO AFTER CECIL RHODES, WHO REFERRED TO IT AS MY HOBBY-
RHODES HAD A DREAM OF
A CAFE TO CAIRO ROUTD STCLYCHING THE LEHOTH OF
APRICA
NORTH
MIND SOUTH
RHODESIA
RHODEBIA'S VICTORIA PALLO 16 ONE OF AFRICA'S MARVBLE IT HAG A PALL TWICE THAT OF
'NIAGARA
HOQE TAM
THE COUNTRY HAS ABOUT
25 NATIVES FOR EVERY ONE OF EUROPEAN DESCENT-
He Founded A Colony As A Hobby
"It's really a superduper lunch," sald Minetta looking squarely basi. THERE are
her brother promised.
"Good luck, dear," said Mother.
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INETTA walked out of the front door down the tar path to the bus stop at the corner. It was ex- citing, she thought, to be 18 and on her way to her first job. Of course, Clock's was the most dignified atore in this quiet university town.
She was fortunate in being se- lected out of such a wide list applicants.
By B. BENGTSON hobbies and more
hobbies all the way, from the at the proprietor of the bookstore, safe and somewhat prosaic collecting "It was only a five-cent discount of postage stamps indulged in by by and you can take it out of my salary thousands of people, to making pets sorry it happened. of poisonous snakes, which is the I'm not even If I did me right wrong you can discharge passion of Grace Wiley, former cura
A slow smile spread Clock's face.
for of the Museum of Natural His
Cecil Mr Dry over
in Minneapolis. But Rhodes had perhaps the most gran- "ilow exactly did it happen?" he diese hobby of all when he founded a nation and named it Rhodesia for himself.
asked.
M
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her
nodded toward of MINETTA Jobs were not as plen-brother sprinting in the direc-
tion of the door. tiful as they once had beca.
1.
Minotta silenced the ancient alarm clock.
white
To enter was like turning back the calendar to another Overhead were old-fashioned Axtures, reluctantly
electricity.
Endicas
over my
Su11 hugging her square
"That's my younger brother, Mri package of lunch, Minctia got off Clock. He put the alarm clock in the bus and walked to the book my lunch box and I was so excited store.
new job, I didn't even hear, it ilck. Then Bob came in to century, watch the fun. I couldn't let him
gos
see me embarrassed, Mr Clock converted to I just couldn't."
shelves of Mr Clock stroked his chin,
A musty chuckling.
tomb-like
"Don't go, Bob," he called to the Old Mr. Clock, bent at the
"I need a young shuf- 14-year-old boy, shoulders and silver-haired,
man to open cases in the basement fled out of the gloom to meet her.
turned to this
afternoon." "You aro carly, Mits
Thomp Minetta, still chuckling. "It might son." he said. "Prompiness is a
to have sharpen you still more virtue I relish. Now your first him around. Maybe what I needed
books lined the wall.
smell
quiet
the permeated
up a customers are in the habit of browsing. They do not like disturbances!"
"Yes, sir," sald Minetta..
on
Не
His dreams were even greater, för he planned a Cape to Cairo rail
stretch route which would
across
the length of the continent of Africa, and. bring all of it into British hands. The colony of Rhodesla was only a part. In a letter to a friend he re- ferred to it as "my hobby."
Rhodesla divided into two parts, the northern section being larger In area. Today Southern Rhodesia has a white population of about 50,000 while the much larger northern colony has only 15,000. There are 25 natives to each white. Though rauch has been done to develop the country since the day Rhodes called it his hobby, it is still a frontier re- gion.
NATURAL RESOURCES
There are almost unbelievably
Rhodes sold ice cream, pumped water, and dug diamonds. A few years later he had organised the
that company was to dominate the entire South African diamond 27. ho re- mining industry. At ceived his degree from Oxford University, and the same year ho entered the Cape Parliament.
Though he did not live to see his dream fully realised, few men have accomplished as much in a short life span. For ho died in 1002. less than 60 years of age. He was burled on a mountain-top he had named "View of the World" in the land that was his hobby, a place he had himself chosen, and the inscription on the bronze alab that marks his grave says simply: lie the remains of Cecil "Here
There are no dates, John Rhodes." He felt none were needed. Posteri- ty, he said, would remember him 4,000 years.
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JUNE
YOUNG IDEAS PUZZLES
To
of
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needle-
PRETTY favour for a birthday! hobbyist cuts individual pieces of Learly is a mug, wrapped in green veneer with a wavy instead of -a
So successful ora. cellophano, with a living plant in-straight line. alde. You can rales a variety of Warren's veneer paintings that they seedlings in box on your window. are hung in many art exhibitions, Transplant into the mugs a couple of days before the big event.
Girls who Dro clever harmonise with the table favours and thimblers COR always do there should be a centrepiece
something useful. Sinco the greens
by paper sequla
started, crazo
some of flowers.
the girls from home- econo- mics are sewing self-designed te- оп semi-format If you are playing tennis for the quin ornaments
Initials are popular right whack the frocks. first time don't try to
now. Instead, con-
Good luck charms min ball like a Hercules. centrate on where you want the ball close second.
interspersed
to go. The sport experts claim this is one way of golling that "tennis form" more quickly.
the
Do your bobby-sox bag at ankio? The fault may be your own.
The Smart Susle irons her socks in flat paira and lays them in the bureau drawer that way. Never, NEVER does she bundle them into tight little balls. Do you
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An absorbing hobby for hikers is collecting pine cones, nuts, seeds, twigs, bark and branches. With a sharp penknife, some glue and little Ingenuity, all sorts of birds, animals and tiny people
emerge in
from the hobbyist's fingers. book on the subject, published 1039, enlled "Naturecraft Creatures," by Joseph Lippincott and G. Roberts, is a good authority for this type of hobby-work
who A fellow
can
A lack of swimming speed should not keep you from enjoying water polo games. keep swimming steadily often wins while a speeder, who tires easily, will lose. If you like the water, you'll like water polo, and you're
thrill sure to find
swimming.
A
new
Hair stylists say the short sleek For hairdo is gaining popularity. those who want it long, the fashion rules still hold: keep it smooth and sleek.
Warren Bourget has made an art of a hobby. Without lessons of any kind, Warren takes bits of furniture veneer, cuts the tiny pieces with a Jigsaw and fits them together in what he calls a "vencor painting." To achieve the "oll" effect, this
Willy Lost His Toadstool.
But Another One Soon Replaced It— ·
By MAX TRELL
to everyone he met, telling them that someone had come along and made off with his favourite chair.
rich deposits of such ores as copper,FILLY TOAD was complaining zine, lead, and vanadium. In area 75 miles long by 20 miles wide are some of the largest copper mines the world. Besides, there are many gold mines and valuable de- of asbestos and chrome.
Porchards of tens of thousands of ou
orange and grapefruit trees, planted from stock imported from California, grow on Irrigated land
reclaimed from desert. Maize and tobacco are also raised in amounts so that some is exported.
overed in 1808 by an
He had a whole crowd of his friends and neighbours around him Clive the Snail, Blackle Beetle, a Mouse who lived across the road In the cellar of one of the big houses, grasshoppers, Д cricket. several They were all listening to him in silence, and now and then shaking their heads (Blackie Beetle couldn't- shake his head because it was al- In Rhodesia, too, Is one of the tached too tightly to the rest of him, world's great mysteries, the "ghost
of Zimbabwe. It was first dis-so he shook all over), just to show American how sorry they were about Willy's It
losi chair, Is a Hunter, Adam Itenders.
Then Knart, the shadow-boy with of crumbling strange assortment
the turned-around name, came walls and battlements, conical stone
And Willy started all over lowers, gateways and platforms and along. again. passages. There are no pictures or
"My favourite chair! Gone" cried inscriptions cut into the stone, or any other clue as to the builders. Willy. The chair where I sat and Carved figures of birds and animals caught all my fles! For one half
Like dust." in the debris, hour I left it, just to hop across the been found have some of them overlaid with gold, brook to visit my cousin Gregory som
who hasn't been feeling well lately estimate that the Archaeologists
on account of eating spider. And city may be 1,000 years old, but
when I come back, what do I find?" why it was built and by whom, is still very much a mystery,
He shuffled off, rubbing his thunders," gnarled hands together.
They All Searched
"Not your chair?" said Knarf. "Certainly not! All I find Is the place where I left it standingi Just the place, not the chair!"
"What did it look like, Willy?"" the Mouse asked.
"It looked like a toadstool. In fact, It not only looked like a toadstool, it was a toadstooll"
"I've found lots of toadstools." Willy told Knarf. underground house. stool,
"Missing tond- ch? Hmmm... happens
for ever. They dry up...disappeur. right along. Toadstools don't last
Then Blinky put his head out of the doorway and took a quick glance up at the sky. "He'll have another one, soon. Yep, it looks like he'll have another one by tonight." Knarf said in a puzzled valco: "Is it coming from the sky?"
"Sort of," answered Blinky, and himself went downstairs to make some dinner of dandelion roots and n wild onlon.
That afternoon it rained
Did you ever try to sweep coin from the palm of your hand with a whisk broom? It's hard to do-you might say almost impor
The little hollow in the sible.
hand holds it like palm of your
matter how suction cup and no
the broom slides hard you brush, right over it. Anyone who doesn't know the trick believes the is held by glue, but all you have to do is to turn your hand upsido the coin falls out. down,, move your palm a Uttle and
coin
HOBBIES UCAMES
this floor scooter are a
six-inch
THE
only materials needed to make square of heavy, cardboard stout plece of string about long.
Dod n a yard
First, mako a circle as large as possible on the cardboard using a schbol
two Then bore Compass. holes with the point of your com- pass, making sure that each hole is exactly one-half inch from the cen- diameter. tre and along the same Thread the string through the holes.
FLOOR SCOOTER
and tie the loose ends to make, a continuous loop as shown in the illustration.
When ready to spin, make. sure that there is an equal length of string on each side of the scooter. Hook a thumb into each loop of the cord and roll the scooter on the floor- until the string winds four or five turns. Then by alternately pulling and easing up on the tightness of the cord you will be able to start the scooter whirling-merrily.
Watch the spin; and when you find the scooter is twirling forward (with the top going away from you) and at the very moment when the cord is unwound, slide your thumbs out smartly, let the scooter touch the floor, and swish it is off to the corner of the room..
A little practice, and you will be
HERE'S a sot of puzzles about formyard” fowls.
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
1 Accomplish 3 Hallowed
ACROSS
5 Negative reply
Early English (abbrev),
7 Sightiess
10 High card
DOWN
1 A thing done
2 Poem
3 Weep
་
4 Young chickens
#Musical note
• Compass point
-2- HOMONYM
Missing words in the following sentence sound stiko, but arc spelled' differently:
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WAY TEN DOT NAB MAT
DAR ISLE RENE HOD CROOK THY PLUM
---WORD-DIAMOND
Our diamond centres on
noos-
TER The second word lo
feathered scarf," the third "shoes," the fourth "perfume," and the Bfth "an Indian weight":
ROOSTER T
able to send the scooter away at a Rupert helps 'Dr. Lion--50 dizzy pace Paint a design on
the
sides of your floor toy and you will add to the general effect..
PUZZLE
ANSWERS
1 Crossword puzzle answer:
CREAT WATERFALL Another marvel of the country the grent waterfall along the Zambesi River, where it drops 350 duty it to arrango these bargains,
into a roaring gorge, a Lal) please. All the books I have sorted years ago was a kid brother. Might m
have sharpened my wits. You hold twice as great as Niagara. Named here may be closed out at 50 cents
Falls by David Living-
Camo Up With Rain today." He paused, then added, " on to that alarm clock, young lady Victoria
and set it for this afternoon. I'm
stone, the famous missionary and need not remind you of the neces-
Everyone went home. But about my'
to a sign-painter. African explorer, the natives call He held
way sity for
gulet."
Watch the Clock in Clock's
it Masi-oa-tunya, "the smoke that
"Naturally, being à toad, Willy an hour later they all heard. Willy gnarled forcanger. "Our
capitall"
because of the clouds
would sit on a toadstool." Blackie hopping around and whistling with It in the Beetle said. "If he was a mush, joy. They all ran out to see if he of spray thrown into the air.
had found his toadstool again. one of the world's great waterfalls. he'd live on a mushroom."
"Found it? I've found dozens of Willy didn't think this was very them! Just looki, big ones, small was the first while Livingstone
funny. "I never heard of a mush." to see it, back in 1855; ho named it for the Queen of England. he grumbled. "I only want my chair ones, narrow ones, wide ones! I've got more than I can sit on in a week back! That's all where to put her coat and share. that lunch?"
up with The That is Rhodesia, a great dream
was of Sundays! They came Knart said if the toadstool hat and lunch, and because sho
"Okay," Mineita smiled.
Coming to the ask; Minolta was too scared to
diamond
what comers of her blue eyes crinkled by a great
mines as gone, then either somebody took it, the rain!"
Then Knarf understood hurriedly stuffed them behind the
up as she added: "You'll need food. Kimberley
youth
of 18 and in poor health,or else the wind had come along and bargain counter and started to It'll be hard work opening cases."
blown it away. So everyone acur- Bilnky meant when he looked up at rled around, looking under bushes the sky.
5 But Blackie Beetle thought they not and in the tall and behind trees
But looked like mushrooms and grass for Willy's toadstool.
for "Mushrooms Lig toadstools. There was no sign of it.
Then they met Binky Mole, sit-, mushes! Are you a toad or a mush?"
Willy refused to answer. ting in the shady doorway of his
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Bob meckly turned to his sister. "If I told you you were getting top
BECAUSE Mr Clock did not tell wise to play tricks on, would you
work,
cight
By 11:30 otro Lod Fold books, taken orders for": six more and cleaned 10 shelves. Once Mr Clock
actually smiled at her and
binging. went
Minetta's heart
was making good at the job!
Sho
At 10 minutes to 12 a spectacled student from university began
tho
thumbing through her neatly ar ranged bargain shelf.
"Is it all right for me to look?" he asked Minetta.
"Certainly," she smiled, and then
heart sank
herlar redhead was strolling
Into Clock's bookstore. Bob, of all people! He doesn't want any book to read, not Bob, Minetta decided, her temper rising I should think Mother would
co-operate fust once and keep him out of my hair.
BBBBBBRRRRRRRIMITING! OH.
*** Minatta felt as if her lega Workly
kly collapsing straws. Her head-awain. The wild ringing was coming from under the bargain countor. It was her lunch box! And there was Bob, his face coni- laughter, Ioanlag vulsed with against another book counter, ell Joying the show,,.
were
man
man.
AN IMPORTANT INDIVIDUAL
JERHAPS you never thought of yourself as but you are! You have a special place to fill in the world, one you can fill better than anyone else. It you will do your best Is the place where work, be useful and happy and prosperous. You are important because of the won derful things you can do with yourself and your life once you realise all this and begin to do something about it. It means study.·' training, and hard work, but it is worth any
HALL OF FAKE
effort to find that particular, spot where you can find happiness and real success. The sooner you begin, the better prepared you will
you
courage,
To be an important individual in the eyes of the world You must develop yourself. must Brat be worthy within all your capablililea. You must cultivate faith and Integrity, and that unselilah love which makes you want to do to others as you would like them to do to you.. In other words,
tanste
goodness. you must develop your own
and It takes high ideals, tolerance, good sportsmanship Jadament to reach that important place which can be yours. But you have the potential power and wisdom to do l'onco you know these things. It's up to you to use them and make yourself the Important fadividual you can and should be.
.
RED
RYDER
WHY, THERE'S
RIMROCE CAFE
MART LENNON
Foul, fowl.
3 Crowing rooster. 4 Wyandotte; Bantam: Rhode Island Red: Plymouth Rack. 'R
Fast Action
HIM DAUGHTER LETTY GO-UM
SO MY SCHOOL RED RYDER
BOA
BOOTS
ROOSTER
ATTAR BEN
When the dwart has gone Rupert doesn't delay further bur" faces raight home and takes one of the bottles of liquid sunshine and hands What on earth it to his Laiher. have you got there?" asks the astonished Mr. Bear. "Dr. Lion said that all that people needed to cure their colds was sunshine, 19 please give. this to Mummy." erien Rupert, a once again he tells the wonderful story of his journey. "I can't wait now. I must run and End, Dr. Lion." he smiles.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
LETTY HAVE UM MART'S HAD SAD TIME SINCE MAMA
HIS TROUBLES
·TOO...--HIS RANCH
1S MORTGAGED
TO THE TENCE.
By Fred Harman
WELL-REDAY LITTLE BEAVER WHATS THIS DID MOST OF THE
WORK-MARTZ JONLY HELPED
I HEAR ABOUT
CATCHIN FA WOMAN: BANDIT?
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POST HOLES