BOYS
POP GOES THE HOLIDAY
B
By I. R. HEGEL
Grub
chased because he cais
know, those worms worms--you that cut into young trees and destroy them. I imagine Perfume is on the Job right now,"
IG LARRY EARLEY was be
wrapping the last tie spruce in burlap when he saw two boys from Camp Mo. hawk coming up the trail.
"Hi" he yelled, straightening and waving a sunbrowned hand. Last summer Larry had been one of the Mohawk gang.
"Hi, siave!" answered skinny Al Strable, waving back. "Don't you know it's Sunday? What are you working for?"
The two came nearer ank Larry pushed his cap back, scratching his curly blond lend reflectively.
"I forgot all about it. We work every other Sunday here at the He spotted a newspaper nursery."
under Al's arm. "Fire- package works?" he inquired, nodding toward the package.
Pini-size Bill Chester, who strolled beside Al, wagged his head. "Glont- *Ize
he explained, Arecrackers," "We're going to have a bang-up cele- bration at camp. Ask your boss for the day off."
SCC."
"Okch," sak Larry. "You fellows wall here. I'll be back in a lle sprinted in the direction of the nursery office at the far end of the wooded lot,
ever
MAYBE I wouldn't be too much ask, he decided. He had been working out this nursery job
High school since
Vacation started. It was the outdoor he lied but a fellow did need a little fun.
He jumped up the steps of the nursery office, knocked an opened the cloor, But instead of grey-hatred Porter, who owned the George
Over- a slim girl with nursery. whelming brown eyes glanced up from the familiar chair by the desk.
"Don't look so scared." she said. laughing. "Tin Becky Porter. Dad told me to stay in the office while he drove over to Cheshire for seed- lings."
"I'm one of the new hands." Larry blurted. "The boys in Camp Mo. hawk are giving a celebration this afternoon, I thought-"
"Sure, go ahead," said Becky. "I'll ix it with Dad."
Larry hesitated.
"No. ma'am,"
he decided. won't take leave without Mr Por- ler's permission. The Isn't that important.
celebration
"Well,
altair," I guess it's your declared Becky, following him to the door. She stopped. A small black- and-white animal scampered out of the bushes toward the clearing.
Perfume chuckled. "11 Larry can stay on the job, so can I Thanks a lot, Becky."
camp
LARRY went to find his
friends, eager to tell them about the skunk named Perfume. But Al nowhere around, discovered the two
were
BIL and Finally Larry
boys at the experiment section of the nursery. The pair were peering into a wire enclosure marked:
DANGER, STAY OUT! · "Hey!" Larry yelled. "Can't you rend?"
Al hollered back. "There's only a funny tree with wide branches Inside this wire. What's dangerous about that?"
"I don't know." Larry retorted, coming closer. "We keep so busy around here, we don't have time for snooping. The boss isn't here, by the way. 1 won't leave without his permission, so you two run along."
"Don't be sore," sald Al, strolling Perfume with Bill. Then away appeared and the pair started run- ning toward the trail ke mud.
to Larry laughed and returned the row of spruces and started to tag them. I'm glad I'm working. he thought. A fellow begins getting different ideas when he works.
Pop-POP-POP!
The sudden explosions startled Larry. Those fellows have hurled cracker at Perfume, he thought. But no-two men were taning to-
the
scetion. experiment wards
At the Larry began running too. crest of the hill Becky joined him.
"This is something we don't want Larry, sold when miss," she panting, caught up to her.
to
Larry's blue
THE group gathered before the
wire partition, eyes began widening as he looked inside. On the branches of the tow- spreading tree were several gourds
bout the size of large oranges. Then one of these gourds exploded like a giant firecracker.
Larry turned to Becky.
"What is
"It's the Dynamite Tree of "When Mexico." Becky explained. the fruit is ripe, It explodes. That's why Dad had it fenced off. Dad'll be furious when he finds out he missed the fireworks-ho hadn't expected it to happen for another -week---1-told-Mom-how-super... you.
Morn were about working today. says as soon as Dad returns, we'll have a weenle roast for the whole gang. Of course, we won't have any Brecrackers
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1948.
FULL-PAGE FEATURE EVERY SATURDAY,
AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
SPORTS. STORIES • PUZZLES - CRAFTS • GAMES', 'JOKES
JJULY IS INDEPENDENCE MONT
GREENLAND...JULY 3.
PHILIPPINES..JULY 4 PANAMA..JULY 4 VENEZUELAJULY S /FRANCE-JULY 14 PUERTO RICO
JULY 17
BY KATHERINE HOUISON TWELVE out of July's 31 days are TWE
actually holidays in honour of
celebrated independence,
by Tany different
countries, which certainly makes it champion Inde- pendence Month!
In
In the United States, July 4 is the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
1777 Philadelphia proclaimed July a holiday, and it has been celebrated as lndependence Day since,
The Fourth of July is also re- cognised by Panama, and its flag. adopted in 1903 and omong youngest
JULY 441776
DOMINICAN
MONTH
REPUBLIC JULY 1T
· VRUGUAY, JULY 18
COLOMBIA.JULY 20
BELGIUM-JULYZI
flown on
of all flags, is officially that date.
The Arst day of July is celebmled By Canadlans as. Dominion Day.
On the third, the people of Green- land have a holiday in honour of They call it their independence. Flag Day.
Venezuela sets aside July 5 and Argentina the ninth, in recognition of independence in their respective countries.
France has always considered July 14 as her special tribute to the spirit of independence and cclebrated as Bastille Day.
Both the Dominion Republic and Puerto Rico, have holidays on July
it 13
· PERIL-JULY 28
17, with Puerto Rico keeping the 4. United States holiday of July #iso.
Day In July 18 is Constitution
and is celebrated as un Uruguay important day in its history.
July 20 is known as Independence and July 21 in Day in Colombla
Belgium,
Most South American nations
of
celebrate the idea of independence
the name on July 24 under Simon Bolivar Day.
And on the 28th, Peru celebrates her Independence Day, closing a 1st long enough to warrant calling July "Independence Month." -
Cowboy Who Punched Turkeys
BY LEE PRIESTLEY
ENRY HOOKER, builder of one
of Arizona's great ranch and cattle fortunes, tralled a herd with wings to get a start.
Henry, to begin with, owned a booming hardware business in Hangtown, Culitornio, in the days of the gold rush there. He was making more money outfitting miners than most of the miners made ligging for gold, but he longed to become a rancher. He planned to money to enable himself to get a Food start. Only Henry counted his cattle ranch before it hotched.
save
He had invested almost all his available cash in a large supply of slock for the hardware business Ite pot it safely packed in over the trail from the coast and on the shelves just in time to be destroyed by Arc. After his plans literally
smoke, he up £11
had thousand dollars left. But that was enly chicken feed by inflated gold rusli standards.
went
·
Invests in Turkoya LIENKY HOOKER decided to in-
HENK
vest all the money he had in a
flock
all'e
of turkeys. His Friends Λιμά thought he had gone crazy. where they learned-that-ho-planet- to herd the turkeys over long, rough mountain trails. they were of it.
Henry explained in vain that the Larry was looking at the Dyna-old camp ut Carson City, Nevads,
Tree, ils milte
wide-spreading was booming wildly, that food was still trembling from the hard to obtain there and deadly in branches
He would sell the Jorce of the explosion of its gourds. Ils monotony,
Who character.
wants recrnekers?" he turkeys to the miners, hungry for
"They're -kick
bacon a change grinning I'm surprised you haven't inet him asked, stuff,"
dough. Dad won't allow Perfume to yet.
stepped back. "Say," Larry said, "wasn't that a skunk?"
he
Becky laughed. "You bet. That's Perfume, a privileged
MENTAL GYMNASIUM
ACROSS
TREE DIAMOND
forms the The BUCKEYE tree centre of our diamond. The sec-
ond word is "a protuberance," the
third "mother-of-pearl," "an authorisation letter."
sixth an "ergan of sight":
13
U
C
BUCKEYE
E
the fifth and the
answers
•
from
and Sour
Brain Teasers
• About TREES
TREE REBUS
Use of the words and pictures four will give you the names of trees:
I'M GOING TO COLOR HER HAIR RED ON
MY SKETCH
| PINE
FOR YOU!
TE
YOUR HANDS ARI BLACK WITH
STÁR
E
Pooking Isn't Fair
2 full!
4 Greek letter
6 Mystic syllable
7 Stout cord
Warble
11 Proposition
12 Lite pastries
DOWN
1 Type of irco
2 Part of "to be"
3 Self esteem
4 Leave out
5 Genus of bees
6 Bone
8 Half on em
10 North America (abbrev.)
MIX-UPS
Rearrangement
lincs following will bring out two
more types of trees;:,
WELL NOW PIE WIG
IDOL FAR GUS
ADD-A-LETTER
Add a lotlar to while and, bave niype of tree, another letter and have to whip, another and have to gash, yet another and have to splatter.
RIDDLES
It is not only people who cry in
the movica. Riddle No. 1 will ex- For the correct plain.
look below.
1. Why is the Interior of
thentre always a sorry sight?
2. When is a bill like a gun?
3. When is money dump?
4. Why is E the most unfortunute
of letters?
ANSWERS
MIX-UPS: Douglas fr.
ADD-A-LETTER: slash, splash.
RIDDLES:
1-The boxes arc. al- ways in tiers. 2-When it is pre- When
zented and discharged.
It is due in the morning and missed. at night. It is never in cash, always in debt and never out of
willow; danger
DEBUS: Redwoods; Pino; Maple;
Weeping
As ash, lash,
Black poplar.!-
of
the
strange
CROSSWORD:
TREE DIAMOND:
B NUB
NACRE
BUCKEYE
BREVE
EYE
E
citement sent the whole herd off the trall in a flurry of wings.
H
Fruitful
BY WALTER KING
Party Trick
ERE'S a stunt that comes out of an apple, an orange, a lemon, 24 grapes, and an amateur trickster. Of course you can use substitutes.
Ask by
threo name present to make
of those
a choice of the apple, orange, and lemon while you are out of the room. Then get out, When you return, give one grape to the first person you named, two to the second, and three to the third.
Now instruct these three players as follows: "When I leave again. the person choosing the apple is to take as many more grapes as I gave him; and the person who selected the orange will take twice as many and the grapes as I gave him, person who picked the lemon will take four times the number of grapes I gave him."
"AN Go out again, When the ready!" signal is given, returti and
YOUNG IDEAS
JUNE MAY
Do you know how to fall with-
It's an art out getting hurt?
tumbling learn in that you can practice and in regular gym exer- cising. The knowledge will save you from Injury in certain serious emergencies, like falling off a lad- der or down steps. Don't drop as
You A dead weight.
go along with the direction of the fall, even roll- ing a
But Henry and his winged herd as you plunge, Gym and
they nade some progress and were well into the mountains when the dim trail ended on a high clift. As the lurkeys milled and gobbled in confusion, the dog's pressed them too hord.
Flow Into Trees WITH a great flapping and com- motion the entire herd swooped from the cliffs to disappear in the Irce tops far below. Helplessly, Henry watched his wings?
Rounding
Tortune take
note how many "grapes ure loft b the bowl. And now you are ables
tho to call out who has chosen apple, and the
lemon,
orango, and the
You have nothing to remember except the order of the players you name, and the trick just cannot be solved by the smarties present.
I left ALO
2 left LAO
3 left AOL
4 left LOA
5 left OAL
7 left OLA.
Indicato O
The letters, of course, the hidden frulls. A for applo, tor orange, and L for lemon. The order of the lotters indicates which which fruit. chosen player has
the Thus, if three grapes are left, the first player you named 'has
player has the orange, and the third player has Pe, the second the lemon.
to
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Rupert's Island Adventure-16
provide the balance needed strength fall with the least possible injury. It will help in games
such football, basketball and wrestling. And did you know that more than half the accidental deaths that occur in private homes are the result of falling? Play safe, and learn to fall intelligently.
The other day we saw herd smart black hat with
a plain a sterling
up the turkey nearly did drive Henry crazy. He silver question mark parked jauntily Its wearer climbed trees; he drove the birds on its turned-up brim.
cor-ringt back with a whistling lasso; o confessed it was a spare
the brim, tempted them with corn: he chased She had screwed it to
inio corners. Finally he and then sewed it firmly in place. the last one and started Keep your "spares" and try them as raught Starting with a boy and two dogs, aguia on the slow drive to Carson hat decorations.
And he made it! The miners Henry began the slow, exasperating City. Journey with 500 turkeys which had
chance to pay $0 cost him $1.50 apiece. The birds fought for the could neither be hurried nor pro- cach for turkeys and he sold every perly controlled. Slowly they inched one. With the money Henry Hooker over the mountains.
Sometimes it took hours to conx that put many cattle herds on end a bird back into line with a care- trails.
Dever agoln Any ex- with wings! fully laid trail of corn.
founded a famous
But
Arizona ranch
Pooh-Pooh Didn't Understand
He Thought His Coat As Valuable As a Lamb's→→
By MAX TRELL
DOO-POOH, the white poodle.
soon
met Koorf, the shadow-boy with the turn-around name, in the garden just outside the back door of the house. As
as Pooh- Pool met Kaart, he wagged his fail quickly and rau to the far end of the garden,
den. This was a siguel that Pooh-Pooh had something very important to say; so Knarf followed
him at once.
pd like you to explain some- thing to me," Pooh-Pools said as soon as they were alone.
Knarf wanted to know what It was that Pooh-Pooh wanted to have explained.
#
Worried Voice
in "Well," said Pooh-Pooh, worried voice, "I'd like you to ex- plain la me whal folks mean:
needs think Pooh-Pooh
cut.
י
hair-
It means just that," said Knart, "It means that your finir is so long that it needs to be cut short,"
"Which halr?" asked Pooh-Pooh. "I've got millions of hairs growing all aver me. Which hair do they think ought to be cut short?"
"Oh, no," said Knarf, "they don't mean just one halt. They mean all the hairs."
hairs," "If they mean all the Fosh-Fooh pointed out, "why don't they call it hairscut.
"Halescut sounds
funny,"
"Poodle hair isn't used for any- thing." Eneri sáld.
herd
will be liko taking your coat off on he added, a warm day. Besides," "sheeps-I.mean sheep - have all their hair taken off. Their hair is used for wool.”
"Really?" surprise.
said
Pooh-Pooh, in
Coats and Camels "Yes," said Knert. "They uss it to make clothes. They also use the hair of goats and camels."
Oh, that's wonderful!" exclaimed Pooh-Pooh. "What will they make out of my hair, I mean hairs."
"I never
heard
of poodle-hair sald being
to make anything," Knart. It would be just like say- Knarf answered,
"Not even for a deor-mat?" said ing
a whole flock of sheeps."
Pooh-Pool.
"It sounds all right to me," sakt Pooh-ooh. "What's wrong with #. whole flock of sheeps? Anyhow," Poch-Pooh went on, "if I get a hair. cut and they cut off all my halvs, I'll look very strange, won't 12"
"No," said Knarf, "It will be nice and cool for the summer time. It
RED RYDER
RED RYDER'S RANCH
Knarf shook his head. Pooh-Pooh was very disappointed. But he was very pleased about how to feel all pleasant he was going tummer afler getting his hairscut or should we sill say (as almost everyone else does) hair-cut?
LET IT. YOU AND THE DUCHESS STOP FUSSIN'! THE ONLY THING WRONG WITH ME IS A BULLET HOLE?
Although nature has blessed the and an abundance of blue flowers world with blue skies, and produced birds, for some reason the has never produced a blue food! We talk of blue plums or blue berries, and a few other fruits have so-called "blue" skins, but the part that is to There be eaten Is NEVER blue.. literally is no such thing in nature as a blue.food!
Kupert is delighted at the sleek motor-boat as he drops into it. "Why, I feel safer here than in my last boat he laughs. Sailor Sam puts his bundla of fools inside, casis off from the little pier and soon they are gliding smoothly upstream. After rounding a few bends they find Edward Trunk waving from the bank. "Those foxes are still in the paper-boat, he cries. "They're out of the river now and are in the middle of the lake." "Good old Edward." says Rupert. "Now we shan't be very long."
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ZOO'S WHO
BEAVER IS THE
LARGEST RODENT IN NORTH AMERICA..SOME WEIGH MORE
THAN SIXTY POUNDS..
Howdy, Friend!
1AIN'T
SICK
STOP SQUAW MARI
THERE'S
AT THE
A HUMMINGBIRD HAS ONLY A THREE-INCH WINGSPREAD, BUT IT CAN FLY NON-STOP OVER THE GULF OF
MEXICO.
A FEMALE STARFISH
PRODUCES ABOUT: 200 MILLION EGGS
ANNUALLY..
By Fred Harman
BUCKSKIN LANGFORDY
I THOUGHT THIS WAS RED
BUTTRECKO GOT IN THE HORSE PITAL DY MISTAK