THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1948.
"FULL-PAGE_FEATURE EVERY SATURDAY
BOYS' AND GIRLS'
MENTAL GYMNASIUM
Give Your Brains A Workout With These Puzzlos
CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
20
WORD DIAMOND
centred
on
diamond Here's a REVERED. The second word fr "dry," the third "to disconnect," the fifth a "goddess of vegetation," and the sixth a "legal point."
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QUICKWICK RIDDLER
Name the easiest way to obtain sawdust from a dwelling. The easiest way is to obtain it from the ---- floor.
Do the puzzle and find the miss-
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1 Accomplish. 3 Perched, 0 Prepo,ing word. sition. 8 Companion word withs "either." Hearing organ. 10 Inter- national Doctrine (Abbrev). 11 Back of the neck. 13 Heating device. Musical note. 10 At this place. 17 Select 10 Conduct, 20 Neur, 22 Nul- hance. 23 Portico. 25 Any, 20 Long fish. 28 Editor (Abbrev), 20 Nega- tive reply 30 24 hours 31 Thus.
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1 Put on. 2 Verbal. 3 Observe. 4 Rough lava. 5 Woody plants, # Fork pronit. 7 Harem room. 12 Steps. 14 play the part of host. 18 Coal scuttle. 18 Delested. 19 Cotton fabric. 21 Pedal digits. 22 Cooking utensil. 23 Crafty. 24 Busile, 27 Each (Abbrev).
MISSING VOWELS
the
After omitting the vowels, Puzzle Man ran the words of sentence together. Re-Insert vowels and decipher the sentence:
this
the
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MIX-UPS
Rearrange the
strange lines fol- lowing to form two good statements about the holiday:
YE CAR GONE TERM LINT RAY DAD TIE COON
2 3 4
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Read down: 1-A scrimmage, 2 -Conflagrations. 3-A wrinkling of the forchend. 4-Recovered. 5- Amusing 6-Candy.
Now read across the third row of letters for the missing word,
A SCHOOL YARN:
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THE LONG AND SHORT
(HORTY PAUL
JOHN-
SON, sprawled across two seats in the school hall lifted a limp hand in greeting.
"Hello, Shorty!" Slim eated. himself into a neighbouring sent, drapping stork-like legs over a first row back. "You've got the Cyril part in the bag.
Miss Bumble Bee Needed Help
-She Asked Chirnie to Wake the Morning Glories-
By MAX TRELL
SOME folk do nothing but ask
favours and never give any in return" Chirnle Sparrow was complaining to Knarf and Honid, the shadow-children with the furned- around names when he came to the windowsill for his morning bread- crumbs.
Hanid asked him whom he meant.
"I don't know what her first name
is. But she's a Bec....a Bumble ce," said Chirpie. "Just imagine." Dee."
he went on, growing. angrier as thought about it; here it was
first thing in the
morning.
he the
1 hadn't
had a bite to cat, I hadn't had my
bath, I
Justn't
anything. I was on the Harden wall
where the morning-glories are grow ing: and taking a few breaths of fresh air, and bending my knees up and down to get all the sleep out of them, when what do I hear but n buzzing around my ears. Who do you suppose it was?"
Chirple told the Bumble Bee ha would help her.
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Not a single one of them had opened its petals!
continued Chirple,
"Now,"
Was
OF SHORTY
By Faith Knoop
Jack's the only other chap try- 20 or later. But who would go to a ing out for it."
doctor just to get an X-ray of the sounds like soda Shorty grunted. He wasn't epiphysis (which very enthusiastic today. What water) junction?. Not Shortyl
Shorty didn't sit moodily thinking the matter with him, he about his height all the time. Daya wondered. Ever since the sum would go by when he wouldn't even mer drama class had started think of it. And then Judy entered
his life. writing this play he had pic. " tured himself playing the lead in "Cyril of Bakersville" oppo- site Judy. But now he didn't feel peppy enough to get up on the stage.
The play was a comedy, based on Edmond Rostand's "Cyrano do but the class had used its Bergerac," own Imagination and wrought some astonishing changes.
"Hope Jack gets it!" Sharly surprised himself with his own fervency. He pulled a moccasined
foot up to his face and began railing
down
a several-times-turned-over cuff on his trouser leg, Golly, he thought, cleaners certainly shrink pany!" Slim
turned a mildly surprised countenance towards Shorty, "You aren't beefin' about a hot scene with alish thrush 10 Judy? If you are, lead me to it
"Shuddup!" Shorty nudged Slim and sank silll farther into his two the business seats, bending over
the aisle.
The Bumble Bee!" said Knarf don't agree that that's any good. I with the cuffs, as Judy came down promptly.
"Yes.
"I
morning-glories
think it's lazy for And what do you suppose not to wake up in the morning. she wanted?"
They're not afternoon-glories, evening-glories. They're morning-
Couldn't Answer
Knorf and Hanid couldn't answer that. So they waited for Chiroje Sparrow to go on, which he did after eating three or four crumbs.
"She wanted me to do something about the morning-glories."
"My goodness, what could she wont you to do about the morning- glories, Chirpic?” Hanid sald in sur- price.
Well, here it was morning, with the sun up. and the birds singing. and the children in the house on the hill getting ready for school, and tho. morning-glories were still asleep!
Rupert's Island Adventure-22
Rupert and Willie promise that they will not tell anybody what they have acer until the Professor gives them permissions. "It's going to be hard to keep it to ourselves, but we'll do it," laughs Rupert. Then there is a pause. "My servant is long time preparing the boat for you," says the old man uneasily. They stroll cut into the corridor just a hurried footsteps are heard on the stairway and the dwart appears. A terrible thing has happened." he cries, anxiously.
That wheel has stuck 1”
'ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Or
Been want me to make them open the pelals?
"Please,' she said, in that hum- ming voice of hers, "please wake those morning-glories up! If they don't open their petals, how am I ever going to get any honey? And if I don't get any honey, how am I going to be able to go back to my ĥive?'
Miss Pierce called for Shorty.
Funny, how he wanted to throw up the part-a part that only accented the difference between his height and Judy's.
SHORTY had the dialogue with
"Know that
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& YOUNG IDEAS
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June MAY
TOSS MARBLES
OSS the Marble is easy to play
over the TOSS
A
TRY "Title Twisters" at your next strips can be tacked
party. Get ready a pile of flm Insteps, and book pages cut from old news- papore and magazines. Spread the pages out on a big table, and asic your guests to study them and make. them up funny combinations of (1) Tell Aim titles and (2) book titles. them to keep their best combinations secret. Later, have each guest write down his most comical title twis- ters, in the two classes, and give prizes for those that bring the loudest laught.
If you are shy, you might be hit on roller-skates. The manager of one of the larger skating rinks says his shy boy and girl patrons always turn into the besi skaters of the season.
If your dog turns up his nose at old-fashioned bones (real or rub- ber), rings and balls, that's because he's a sophisticate. He knows about the now crackle trees and jingle bells, balls, barrels and even
and a lot fun for two or oven
a larger group of boys and girls. You can play it on the lawn or In the house.
You will need half a dozen con-
of tainers
different sizes. An kitchen match emply
box, a coolde box, a paper dixie cup, a sta- paper nut cup, n note-size tionery box, and a cereal box muke a good selection. You will also need six marbles.
To play this game, set the boxes in a row on the lawn fire-
or the floor, about five inches apart. Threo fect in front of them put down stick or a ruler. This marks the stand when spot where you must
Two two-inch thicknesses of soft plugs, all made of rubber and all wood will make a pair of beach making a bright sound. The crackle a suction cup and clogs. Whittlo them into shape tree stands on
bent. Be- crackles snappily when and paint them red,
blue lieve it or not, the rubber is said to yellow. Striped
canvas be chocolate-scented. Here's hoping
your dog likes chocolate!
or
ANSWERS
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Here's a beach game which all can play. Draw three circles in the sand, one small, one a little larger and one larger yet. Space them about three feet apart. Number the
circle 10, the Arst
second 20, the third 30. Each player takes three pebbles and, standing six to ten foot away, tries to hit the highest-scoring elrele. The player reaching 300 Arst is the winner.
Longer skirts may be definiicly 1848 style, but the advance show- ings of teen-age dresses for the nu- tumn display modela sil in the
you play. Each boy and girl plays in turn.
Take one marble at a time and go down the row of boxes, keep- ing back where the stick ls. Try 10 toss your first marble into the first box, the second into the second one, and so on. Count one point for each marblo that goes into the proper box. It won't count if it goes into the wrong box. Whoever gets the most points is the winner.
HIGH-HAT PIE
DIE WAS
shorter lengths with tiny waists and PIE once so high-hht that
wide, whirly skirts.
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common people were not con- sidered good enough to enjoy it.
If the sun brings out your freckles,
Back in 1493, the English Parlia- it's a good idea to use a liquid ment passed a law forbidding any foundation cream before you dustone below the rank of baron to cat
your face with powder. Use pic.
darker shade than for spring and winter,
The ordinary
of eltizen
thase days just didn't Indulge in the
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If you are eager to learn how to luxuṛles reserved for tilled people, play chess or Improve your game, and pie certainly seems to. have write to the Acting Honorary been in the luxury class. Secretary of the Kowloon Chess Club, care of the Peninsula Hotel. Think of that next time you see The Club is arranging chess classea rows and rows of ples at your for children during July and August, bakery or restaurant or ask for But places are limited, so apply right your second piece!—and be thank- away.
ful you live here, and now!.
Stand-Ups-A New
Pin-Ups Are Made Into Real, Lifelike Miniature Figures
By L. B. POLLOCK
IN the younger circles, stand- ups are making pin-ups look as out of date as a shoe horn.
Butch, the heavy. Butch warned A stand-up is a little cut-out him about being like Don Quixote, picture to put on your desk, bu- attacking windmills.
reuu or shelf. You make it one of the far-reaching arms will pitch you down into the mud!" yourself, of course, and it costs
"Or up among the stars!" Shorty
practically nothing. Just go over magazines which have photos and sketch art and in- teresting coloured advertise. ments.
Butch
made
Cyril cried quickly, and the angry went into his philosophy of life, ending, "Scorn to be the parasite. If fulling to be the oak. Rise, not to a great height-but rise alone!"
Shorty looked up from his lines, flushed. He'd been good, he knew. But Miss Pierce
on
too
When you
And something you
with was looking at particularly like,
a simple him with doubt, almost with outline that can be cut out neatly, bewilderment in her spectacled eyes. clip it out very carefully and paste She called Judy from off stage.
not it Just as carefully The next part I intended trying cardboard (light boxes are
was the Brst dialogue with
good). Then cut around the ple- Judy." She bit her
"Judy,
ture's edges again, until you haVC stand next 10 Shorty-I
mean, it attractively mounted. Paul Judy obeyed.
The bomb fell. "No," Miss Pierce
onl
IP:
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· Cardboard Stand
glories. But why should the Bumble THE tall, yellow-haired girl broke said Armly. "There's no use
off her greeting and halted going on, Paul. You won't do in
Make a little sland with a nar- her rapid, rhythmic stride towards that part. You simply won't do, row piece of the cardboard a fle the stage. Shorty was doubled Why on earth, Paul Johnson, when shorter than the height
of your over himself, pulling worn the part was practically written mounted picture. Pasto one end of moccasin from a brightly socked for you, did you have to start the narrow plece high on the back foot. Dull red spread between his growing before you played it? Even centre of the picture, and bend freckles and crept up to his mop in high heels, Judy won't be a great the rest of the stand away from of red hair. Judy compressed her deal taller than you. In saddle the picture until It sits up firmly. mouth into a firm line and hurried shoes-well, look for yourself!"
With on up the stage steps.
a tiny piece of Scotch tape
the "Must have got
you reinforco
place where these shoes loo
This tight."
Shorty mumbled to Slim.
pasted your stand-picco on. Miss Pierce was directing the try- CHORTY looked. Goodness! His mokes the picture last longer.
Beside
Make a few stand-ups for your- Judy the other girls eyes were almost on a level with self, and then make them for your were awkward, Shorty thought. Judy's gray ones. The pants getting family and friends, picking sub- one by one, with my bill. It wasn't The play, Cyril of Bakersville," too short the shoes too small-
golly!--the vitamins did i
jects that are their favourites. Keep Tho nose,
soda-water-named joint had not your stand-ups small-about three hardened, after all! What did he to five inches high. They won't be care about the lead if he'd snapped top-heavy that way, and you can Into growing?
slip them Into letters to your friends. Golden-haired Judy was smiling Mother may like a coloured ani-
"So, to make a long story short," Chirpie sold to Knarf and Hanid,
"I went and pried them all open,
CHE
an easy job, I can tell you. And, cast the hero not with a distressingly as I said before, I hadn't had
#
thing to eat, and I hadn't had my
Tonk
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at him, but her smile seemed dis-mal cut from an "ad.” Find appointed, too. "I'm sorry, Shorty, fine big flsh for your Dad if he's I mean, Red, I'm sorry you aren't an angler. He'll keep it on his
to be humong the stars" in the Bay she whispered.
In "Cyrano Bergerac," but as #short fellow, bath. And finally I was all through. 100 short to win favour with the
"They're awakel' I said to the gir! of his
of dreams. Shorty, Bumble Bee,
Cours Judy.
was much shorter than the Mum G
was tiny, but of course she was a woman. She never said: I anything-just left a book on nu- trition lying around with a book- "Growing-up Menus." mark against tke chapter
Shorty read the
chapter and began, without protest, to drink plenty of milk and oat quantities of greens, liver, meat and eggs.
Buzzing and Humming
"Did she thank mo? Did she? Not She went buzzing and humming in and out of the open morning-glories, and forgot that I was even around! "So," said Chirple, "I flow off, and had my bath in the fountain, and came right here."
Knarf and Hanid were just about to tell Chirpio how much they agreed with him that the Bumble Beo Was certainly
him after rude 10
getting him to do her a favour, when alt once they heard a loud buzzing
at
on
MUM bought some Vitamin B pills and Shorty took them. exercised, got to be a good swim-
Ho
and humming. It was the Bumble and did his chores without or
Dee, carrying a little basket - over ona àrm.
She buzzed right up to Chirpio and said (humming): "You flow of a chance to thank
You I had
E-I-I didn't think it was such a big favour," Chirple managed to stammor. But the Bumble Beo thought it was quite a wonderful favour. She gave Chirpio the whole basket of honey, and then went humming and buzzing on her busy, way!
almost without saying anything about it, just like he should but Daver had done before.
But the book had been discour- aging. It said that
the greatest growing years for boys were bo tween 14 and 10. Shorty was 10 почу and
had long ago quit meas- uring himself every week. Но thought of having an X-ray made of his arms or thighs. The book said if the epiphysis (haki) junction hadn't turned to bone, there was stil a chance of growth, even up to
Gosht Sorry he wasn't among the stars? Why, he was nowhere else but, right now.
RED RYDER
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desk. And how about a beautiful coloured stand-up apple for teach- cr's desk? These aro just ideas. You do the rest and start the new fad in your own circle of friends.
RED RIDER GO TO LOST
WITHOUT
GO AL
IVE GOT A COUPLE OF SPARE HORSES
FOR YOU IN THE CORRAL
Cutout Fad
DREES BY AGNES, WYLIE JE
BAVEIDE,LOND POLAND
Stand-ups can be made of cutout dolls too. Here la rolly, who is having a big time during her vacation. A party dress is part of her wardrobe and so a swimming suit. Make a stand-up out of Polly in her bathing togs. Then cut out the party dress which she can wear on "dress up" occasions. For best results glue the picture of Polly on stiff paper before cutting her out. Use. thic instructions in the article on how to make her stand.
THERE'S NO
LIMIT TO THE
VARIETY OF SUBJECTS YOU
STAND-UPS CAN BE AS POPULAR AS PIN-UPS AND THEY'RE EASY TO MAKE, use CUTOUT PICTURES PASTED ON LIGHT CARDBOARD
PASTE A CARDBOARD SUPPORT ON THE BACK OF YOUR CUT-OUT. TO
MAKE IT STAND UP
CAN FIND IN MOST ANY PICTURE MAGAZINE
Good Excuse
YELLOW SKÓW AND ME |-- NEVER RIDE HORSE
BOILING MAD TELL TRUTHS LOST BASIN CUT OFF FROM
WHITE MAN'S WORLD?
NO HORSE THERES
BY FRED HARMAN
THEN YOU BORROW-UM BUCKBOARD OF AUNTY DUCHESS, RED RYDER ME DRINE-UM INDIANS TO LOST BASIN.
YOU BETCHUMI,