A Busybody
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY JUNE 12, 1948
FULL-PAGE Feature everY SATURDAY
BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
Learns His
Lesson
SPORTS - STORIES • PUZZLES · CRAFTS • GAMES · JOKES
MARK MISSED THE PLANE
BY C. J. RUSSELL
(Travellers in
Africa
often
frada chacts on a chain. This baboon-like animal uses some locate mysterious instinct to
travellers water. I the
run short, the chacma is fed salt wafers and grows thirsty. Then ho pulls his leash and leads the thirsty human beings to a water hole. Thus the chaema saves many lives).
THE desert looked hot and dry and Mark wondered how his big brother Jim
T
stood it.
"How do you stand It, Jim?" Mark asked,
Jim frowned.
"Look sharp, Buddy,"
He always called Mark
"I'm busy, you understand?
Jin said.
"Buddy."
I can't
look after a litle brother. This is business with me!"
"Oh," said Mark.
"And another thing," Jim went on, "we've got to catch the plane for Avenna at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning. "I've got a lot of work to
do"
Jim shouldn't have said that. He might have known that Mark was brimming with questions and to bring an aeroplane into the conversation would cause an overflow.
The bahoon sal up and scolded loudly.
Another renson to ask questions,
"I haven't time to answer all your questions, Buddy, he sald. "I've Eo work to do. Run along and mind your own business!"
Mark was a busybody. At home, he would pull open the oven door to seo If a calcn was baited. Or he would use the tyre gauge to see how much air the tyres of the car held, If the cake fell, or if the air escaped from the tyres. Mark was sorry but his curiosity was ratified. Often he let his sister's ent out and sometimes instruments standing on three legs. the ent got lost. Or he would let They wrote notes on little the dog in on a muddy day and the family settee got covered with paw marks. Day after day, Mark minded other people's business.
Mark ran along, but he didn't like the idea of minding his own bust- ness, especially since so many things were going on. lm and the other ne engineers were
through peering
this
Mark on through the desert.
cards
Mark fell that he was being neglect- ed. Everyone was so busy and he had nothing to do.
Mark decided to explore the comp. There was one lent with its flap
closed that looked interesting
and
MARK was always promising to
mysterious. Mark went to the tent. behave. That was why Jim took le cailed. No one answered. Tents engineering trip shouldn't be closed at this time of Ilm wanted to day. They should be opened to air locate rites for petrol stations. A out. With the flap closed the first, Mark behaved because he had would get unbearably hot Inside. plenty of things to stick his nose into
Mark lifted the flap. besides bothering: Jim.
AL
But
Jim
to be doing such Interesting
seemed to
things, and Mark had to find out about everything.
plane had
"A real
have
home
ority
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lent
baboon Right now the INSIDE the tent was e
fastened to a long chain.
A Mark nsked.
soon as the flap of the tent opened "We the baboon "Of course," Jim laughed.
sat
up and
scolded take to the plane so we can get loudly. He pointed to his dish of
nhead
which food and then lifted his paw, threw of the crew,
We have to get back his head and pretended travels by truck. work lined out for the men before drink. Ile paused and stared they get
here. Of course, we might
Mark. be delayed-if we don't find
"You poor, poor thing!" exclaimed water hole, but if Chalky does his work Mark. They've forgotten to give we won't have to worry."
you a drink of water! And you've nothing but salt wafers in your food dish. Never mind, Mark will you some water!" Mark poured some
a
"Who's Chakky?" naked Mark. Jim realised that every time he opened his mouth, he gave Mark
Ting-a-Ling's Strange Story
/NARF
-He Told It to His Friends, the Shadows-
By MAX TRELL
and Hanid, the shadow- A children with the turned-around Rames, were spending the afternoon in the garden of their friend Ting-a- Ling, who lived at the bottom
the Blue China Plate,
of
they
At the foot of the garden could see the lake. shining and sparkling under the
sun.
When they asked Ting-n-Ling to tell them in what the lake was called (for Ting-a-Ling's
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country everything
heh and beautiful name).
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Water
"
Dance,"
And
"It is called The- Where The Sunbeams
-
it was the name of this lake that reminded Ting-a-Ling of a story. He filled the tea-cups, and then he began:
born, there
ta
at
give
water from the nearby bottle into n flat dish.
Mark watched the baboon drink. In scarcely a minute the dish was empty. Mark led it again. អ៚• fore the baboon sank back satisfied. Mark had led the dich three
times. Then Mark put the water dish back where he had found it and left the tent.
Late that afternoon Mark saw his brother tending the baboon out lo- wards the other engineers. At the evening meal the engineers had not returned. The stars came out and at lust Mark went to bed in his brother's tent.
a。
LONG time Inter Mark awaken- ed. His brother was talking to a man just outside the tent.
"We can't leave tomorrow," said Jim,
"I'm sorry, Jim, I can't under- stand it. The chacma never failed me before. Why, I've travelled in absolutely uninhabited sections of South Africa with him and he always found a water hole-al- ways: All I had to do was to keep him waterless, on a salt-wafer diet! Always,
Jim!" "Sure," answered Jim's voice. "I belleve you, Charlie. But he falled
upl us today! The job is held depended on your African chacma
to locate the water supply and now well, who knows how long we'll be stuck here! And I have my re-. port to make, t00-
Mark jumped out of bed and went outside the tent. "Jim, is chacma a-a baboon?"
the
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SWIMMING TIP
WHY A RUBDOWN BEFORE SWIMMING
A rubdown with a rough towel before the swim tones up the bady
£ YOUNG IDEAS These Mules
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JUNE MAY
Som the pages cave full picture on the wrapping paper.
with them.
AVE the pages of coloured you have printed your own funny Keep these funnies you print and you will soon have enough to make a book. Tie the pages, (the pictures) together about an Inch from the top and the bottom. Thrend a needlo with wool, push it through the edge of the pictures, then tle the
ende together, and you will have a funny picture book, áll your very own..
You will need sheets
of wrapping paper or any rough Anish paper, a pencil with a thick lead, and a piece of the wax Mother uses for scaling fruit jars.
Choose the picture you want and cut a piece of wrapping paper just a little larger than this. Put the wrapping paper flat on the table and rub it all over with the wax, being careful not to miss any spots. Bet- ler put a sheet of newspaper under it first to protect the table top,
Now, put the comic drawing you have chosen on top of the waxed paper with the coloured side down.
and makes you more able to resist fold it so it won't silp, and rub the chilly water. The pre-swim rub-pencil all over the back of the ple- down in excellent insurance against ture, pressing Just a little. When cramps caused by chill.
you lift up the picture you will and
ZOO'S WHO
The GLYPTODON, A GIANT SPECIES OF ARMADILLO WHOSE PREHISTORIC REMAINS HAVE BEEN FOUND IN TEXAS AND MEXICO,SOMETIMES ATTAINED A LENGTH OF FIFTEEN FEET.....
ROLAR
BEARS
HAVE BEEN SEEN SWIMMING FORTY MILES FROM LÅND, THEIR SKILL IN THE WATER IS ALMOST EQUAL TO THAT OF A SEAL
C¿CHIPMUNK GOT ITS NAME FROM AN OJIBWAY INDIAN WORD MEANING HEADFIRST "BECAUSE OF ITS MANNER OF DESCENDING.
FROM TREES....
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•
first
WOULD-BE swimmers who are
tackling the sport for the time are advised to "take it easy. Most water novices start whamming until their arms and legs around anyone would think swimming was. a marathon race with special prizes and to the most energetic. "Slow easy" does it lots more thoroughly.
Worm
PIGTAILERS are playing a school-
yard game called "The
About 15 in all and Early Bird."
placing their form a "worm" by hands on one onother's shoulders and keeping them there. The "carly bird," a lone player, flops his arms and starts running. The tries to encircle the bird. It' yard is big, the chose Is long merry. If the yard is small, bird must be spry. Should the line break, the early bird gets the worm and carns n repeat chase.
Worm
the
and the
H but don't believe everything you THERE'S a game that sounds easy,
hear.
ar:
place
Take 10 toothpicks and them vertically in nline. Players pick up one, two or three toothpicks nt a time but never more. The idea of the game is to force your
to pick up the last one. three players can play, but if two are taking part you can force picks your opponent to lose if he
the up the fourth, the eighth or twelfth toothpick. If you play first, always draw three, this will foru him to take up No. 4. If he takes Nos. 4 and 5, you take Nos. 6 and 7. forcing him to take No. 0. It he Lakes Nos. 4, 5 and 6, you take only No. 7. The same operation is work- ed on Nos. 9, 10 and 11, forcing him to take No. 12. If he takes No. 12, he can never pick up beyond No. 14, so you take No. 15, and he must lake No. 10.
If your opponent draws first and doesn't know the secret of the game, watch closely and once you have him on one of the "atal" you have the game cinched.
HORT
•
numbers
hair is still a headliner, according to the hairdressers. They say the teeners are wearing it pushed forward on their foreheads and cheeks. Bangs look terrific with this push-forward style but wear bangs if your face is round or square.
MENTAL GYMNASIUM
"Go back to bed and mind business for once," ordered
your Jim
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
!
a
crossly,
"But
But I gave some water to baboon, Jim," said Mark timidly. "I opened the flap of a tent that was closed. Then i saw the baboon. He was thirsty, and I thought some- one had forgotten to give him water. So I gave him three dishes of water, Jim."
"Three dishes!" groaned Charile. "Oh, my goodness! He won't hunf water until he is thirsty!!!
"Then I won't get to ride on eeroplane tomorrow, Jim?" asked Mark.
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won't. And no one clse will. I'm sorry, Charlle. I might have known if Mark was around he'd be minding someone's business. I'll send him home tomorrow, One truck driver can take him."
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ACROSS
THE
HE next day Mark climbed slow-
1 Land of Aloha
"I have no money," the old man said.
ly up to the high seat of truck for the ride home.
the
6 Nimbus
7 Female deer
"I'm sorry to see you go, Buddy,” raid Jim kindly. "But this is im- A day's portant business with me.
money. Maybe you'll
Once upon a time, long, long be- fore
any of us were Ilved not far from this lake a girl handkerchief. Dui it was so finely named
Fingers-That-Fly. Perhaps and delicately woven that she saw delay costs you wonder why she was called that to her amazement that it was madeinind your own business from now name? It was because there was no of cobweb. And as for the holes, one whose Angers new so swiftly they were no larger than those made with a needle when the sewed.
by a pln. No one else in the world could have mended holes so Sewed Beautifully
as
smat.
по
But finally it was mended, and the "And not only did this wonderful old man thanked her and went off. muiden sew swiftly, but she also
"But the next day he came back sewed more beautifully and cleverly and knocked on her door again and than anyone in the world. Her said: Malden, you have sown my stitches were so tiny, and her thread silken snck so well that I have on so thin, and her needle so sharp that other wish to crave. I have a tiny when she sewed two pieces of cloth net that is torn and frayed.. Wiil together, none could tell where they you mend it for me? But again I were joined.
cannot pay you, for I have "And often, Ting-a-Ling went on, money. "the delicate butterflies and the
Like A Cup humming bees and the moths
to "And white as moonlight, would come
Fingers-That-Fly again her with their wings all broken or favoured film, and she saw that the net he spoke of was no larger than torn froin the sharp bill of a awal- low or a robin, and she would sew
a cup with a tiny golden handle. and patch them so prettily that they And it was woven of a cloth finer were better than new agala. And so than a wisp of smoke. But she her fame spread far and wide, and mended it and sent him off with a everyone spoke. of Fingers-That- smile. But all the while her Angers Fly.
flying, she kept wondering were "And then one day," sald Ting-a- what he caught with his net and Ling, "in old, old man came to her held in his sack. And then one day, floor. He was dressed in rags and as she looked out of her window at he leaned on a heavy stick and he the shining lake-the Water-Where- looked like beggar. But Fingers The-Sunbeams-Dance - she That-Fly spoke to him kindly and what he was catching with his net. asked him his wish, for she treated and holding in his sack." all alike, whether princes or beg- Knarf and Honld interrupted to gars.
"What was he catch- Ting-a-Ling?" said Ting-a-Ling
them?
asic
"And what did he do with
SAW
'Malden,' said the old man. "I ing and have heard of your fame, and how wonderful are the things you sew. I wish you to mend the holes in this I'll tell you. Late at night, when his little silken bag. But I cannot pay sack was full, he opened it and let you
your work. I have no the sunbeams free. And lo and be- mahay "
hold, the dark night was filled with "Then Fingers-That-Fly asked to flickering golden specks of light............ seo the aliken sack that he wished with firefles!" her to mend. He took from bla "And, that WELL Ting-a-Ling's pocket a sack по larger than
story. a
017."
"I will," said Mark as he watched the keeper walk the chacma around at the end of the heavy chain.
As the truck drove away, a plane zoomed overhend towards the alr-
his
port. It was the plane Mark would have boarded had he minded own business. Mark's lips lightly shut as he watched that plane.
Rupert's Island Adventure-10
were
When Rupert and Willie are free from the branches, the dwarf comes up to them. He thinks for a few minutes and then seems to make up bis mind. So you want to build Sarnething. da you ?" he murmurs. "I think you're just the people my maner wants. Would you like to tome and see if you can help him?" "Oo. yes, please." cry the little pala. "Where is he? When can start? Then the dwarf smiles and, leading them up a slope, points to a lake half hidden in a great forest.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
L'
we
Pair (abbrev).
10 Conclusion
7
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Universal language Sedafe Command
101 (Roman) Island (Fr.)
10 Alleged force 21 Peruse 22 Placed
24 Sacred songs-
DOWN
1 Laughter sound
2 High mountain
3 Not as good
4 Notion
Order of architecture
o Epic
[23
8 Spun, as in a whirlpool
12 Lower deck of a warship
14 Supernatural being
16 Laira
20 River barrier
23 Exista
RED RYDER
3-4
DEEP FEET
Why are tall men brighter than short men? Because you never hear the word "short" but you do hear.length——".
ng the puzzle and find the miss- ing word.
3
2
3 *
G G G G
Read down:
2-4 A dress, Courage. 3-A deep cut. 4-A nar- row valley.
- Now read across the third row of letters for the missing word.
WORD DIAMOND
ISLANDS form the centre of our diamond. The second word is a "snake," the third "was indisposed,"
the fifth "hangs," and the sixth is an abbreviation for a dentist,
L ISLANDS
N
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MIX-UPS
1ly rearranging the letters in the following strange lines, you find two facts about Hawall:
will
TWIN SLANT YES DINE HABIT IN DEN
SONIA LONE TO CAVE CAM AIM VAULT ANA
YELLOW GTUFF CALLED GOLD WORK ON PALEFACE LIKE MAGICA
SIT
MISSING VOWELS
never
Don't Kick
FIGURE ONE
MULES
FIGURE TWO
COMPLETED
THESE home-made "mules" are guaranteed not to kick, but you can get a "kick" out of making a pair yourself.
From heavy cardboard cut four pleces shaped like Figure 1 in the illustration, a trifle longer than your foot. Cover these with rather bourd shaped like Figure 2, measur heavy firm material, for, the soles. Cul two pleces from the card-
fit
ing carefully to make them nicely over the front part of the foot. Cover these with fancy ma- terial to suit your taste.
Then, with fine "over and over" stitches, sew soles and uppers to- gether. A bow of ribbon, rosette, or ult of embroidery may be add- ed to the front.
These make comfortable, con- Ventent bedroom slippers, and would be a welcome gift for mother ur sister.
JOKES
The teacher held a big, red appla In front of the class and asked: "Now, Freddy, suppose I cut this apple in two parts, then four parts, and each of the four parts into two parts, what would I have?"
"Applesauce," replied Freddy.
Patty: "What do you mean-your father can lose himself in his work?"
Halty: "Oh, he's an explorer,"
that Captain: "You can't take
below
Just decks, baby skunk think of the odour down there."
Sailor: "Oh, that's all right, slr. He'll get used to it, same as I did."
Give Your Brains a Workout With Those Sharp Puzzlers
The words of our sentence were run together after the vowels were removed. Can you replace the vowels and re-form the sentence?
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FUNNY FIVE RIDDLES
See how quickly you can answer You this group of five riddles. won't find them too dißcult but f you need help, turn to the correct
answers:
1. What speaks every language?
2. If an eraser anul a letterhend ran a race, who would win?
to
f
3. What goes from Boston Albany without moving an Inch? 4. What horse sees as much in the rear as he does in the front?
5. When has a farm boy the best chance to see his father's pigs? DON'T LOOK NOW.
HAWAII
HALO #PR
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STAL O
REBUS
LIKE STORING ABOUT DISTANT LANDS
CAN'T DECIDA
เอแรมเดอ
PHOULDN'T
Use the words and pictures to learn four facts about Hawaii.
—Hore Are All the Answers
Word Diamond:
I
ASP
AILED
PENDS
ISLANDS
Deep Feet
Mix-ups: Twenty
DDS 8
habited. Mauna Loa and dive vol
cano at times,
Missing Vowels Hawait was discover ed by Captain Cook,
Rebus: Sandwich Islands; Honolulu; Pineapples: Volcanle origin.
RIDDLE ANSWERS
1-An echo. 2-The craser, since the latterhead will always remain stationary (stationery). 3--The highway. 4-A blind horse. 5- When he has a sty in his eye.
By Fred Harman
SCASH
Shoot
THE SHERIFF MUSIA, TURNED JOÑAS
OUT OF MY WAY, REDSKINS
BACK TO YOUR RESERVATIONS
NO, YELLOWSJON, PALEFACE WITH SOUR LOOK DOES [NOT UNDERSTAND."