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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1948.
FULL-PAGE FEATURE EVERY, SATURDAY,
BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
A Story Of The Circus:
SHEBA, THE UNCONQUERABLE
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By JOE K. BEASLEY
The vicious cat would not be forced into any net. -
HERA, the unconquerable. was jungle-born and pit. captured,
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au this though
tigress from
half northern India was only
when trapped in grown -camouflaged pit and forced into a mobile enge, she quickly he
for the news- copy
canie
papers.
Lithe.
lightning quick. ławny, with tremendous strength and un- 1amable will, she brought home to circus-goers as du to other animal how savage and ruthless the jungle
killers really were,
Her malevolent green eyes-dead- ly cold-the nervous, switching tail, and the constant, rippling, effortless pare, left no doubt of her ferocity If they had, her angry scream would have done it alone,
was
wrong.
"But she's the biggest in the coun
BOW," replied his winter try, 71142CT. "Very nearly seven feet 15th nose lip in hope of switching tall. Otto Myers, the trainer, saya he can tame her, and that within a
her in the arena. your he'll have working with the mixed group."
That cat Myers would not be forced Balo any acl, And she would tenr into any animal that came near her--and any man, her. རྟAt:J8s he was prepared for After she made a mess of Mike, the big byera, on the next pertestal to her, she was taken out of the net, But she was a territle, altraction in the lot in her the parade or on wagon cage,
She clawed one native's arm brand- ko the tip of it
fy before they got her out of
the
On
The Mike, the hyena, strangely enough, had a hit of revenge
He shared half her cage, a Sheba, sliding partition separating them. A new man left this partially open. Ju swishing her long tail aroumi Sheba Inta the narrow opening. In a second the beautiful end piece was between Mike's iron 10 it and they had constantly to re- jaws, Sheba screamed, turning
damage to the
came pair the
ket at film. The new man find on the journey to
back on a
partially run, saw the
It When the vicious cat was fully put opened partition and slammed aboard the schooner Blue Moon, to
shut, giving
bad Sheba other start her trip to New York and the
was caught by moment as the tall the animal aremi,
Jungle
the closing partition. breathed a sigh of relief. Aut well
schouner -they might, for the
not much more than out to sea when there was a commition An the hold,
cute she Calcutta.
וויוונן
was
"See what it is," the Captain or dered the first mate. Take a de- fait of men. Just in case."
Confidently the men started down. but in a remarkably short time they pouring up out of the hold
came
Jike jumping Jacks,
A
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BOUT 74 week later our circus train was passing through one of seven short tunnels Contrected with short bridges in the Colorado wheel chucks of Mountains. The Sheba's wagon cage shook loose and the wheels rolled. The cage struck against the Junnel wall.
"That cat is fanse" the Mate shouted. "She has killed one of the We started zebrast. We were lucky to get away from her?!
Just then i bloodcurdling roar came from below, and in a thomont
Quickly the train was stopped.
therard running broken wazon
cage, hearing sounds of a death battle.
the the
SPORTS. STORIES PUZZLES. CRAFTS. GAMES. JOKES
•
HOUDINI, HANDCUFF KING
HARRY HOUDINI, THE HANDCUFF
∙KING, HAD A STANDING
-WAGER THAT NO MAN
COULD HANDCUFF
HIM SO HE COULD
NOT ESCAPE-
NO' JAIL COULD
HOLD HIM - HE
COULD BREAK OUT IN A MATTER OF MINUTE6-
HOUDINI
DID THINGS
IN A BIG
WAY-
HE WAS ABLE
TO MAKE
AN ELEPHANT VANISH
FROM SIGHT
PRECTO, CHANGO DISAPPEAR
WATER DID NOT FAZE HIM- HA WOULD DIVE INTO A NARBOK, HOUND HAND AND FOOT-
By WALTER KING
"CHALI
HALLENGE!
t, the undersign-
the ed have deposited with manager of this theatre the sum of
forfeit 16 $100 which I will person who can bandeul me so I cannot escape?
boasted So world's ebampton
Harry Houdini. Harden king. and he never once lost his money.
Iron Whether he was sealed in un
foot and casket, band hand d stulled into a milk can, or hand cuffed and locked in the staunchest jail cell. he always suerreded in escaping.
!
HUH?
the simply
the
POSTER MAKING IS EASY!
HERE'S an easy way to make
signs
without experience
as a showcard writer. Even if you have no artistic ability at all you can turn out some really smart-looking letters and figures. You simply draw square and then carve out the letter by adding three or four simple marks which take the form of triangles, or rectangles,
a
one
to-
Look at the letter A. It is formed by cutting three tri- angles and one rectangle from a square. Letter B is made by carving Dut two triangle shapes, one square, unl rectangle. Sometimes you must use two rectangles stuck gether as in letter C, or three in which form a letter Y, as figure 5. Once you have gone over the alphabet you will have no difficulty in carving up 11 square with the proper marks to make a smart-looking letter or figure.
ABIC
BY USING: A COMBINATION! OF THE SHAPES NUMBERED 1 TO 5, ANY LETTER OR NUMBER" CAN BE CARVED OUT-
SIGN
EACH LETTER WITH THE 'EXCEPTION OF ↑ TAKES A SQUARE -'1" USES TWO THIRDS OF A SQUARE
nicely spaced and they have a smart shape that uniformity of size and gives a sign a top-notch appearance. The letter formations Also are different than usual and the speed with which you can carve them oul will astonish even yourself.
excellent
Д
Perhaps the greatest cireus stunt
You can get n realty for hours with a fi wire until he
When ready to try yourself out hd mastered the secret of opening in Handbut's bug of teleks was mak-
Ave-ton elephant disappear as a streamlined sign writer, draw effect by using soft coloured pencils. them. The secret was just a matter ing
Ines. straight *** Draw the squares in red, and then parallel It was a case of "how you see two of tapping at the right place.
When asked how
them off Into put the carving out marks in blue. mark curved, and Houdini worked for a locksmith now you don't."
For
If you wish to make a big outdoor the letter *1** unkts, square for several months in order to study he performed this vast trick
poster to advertise wauki
two-thirds sign, or allow an oblung about master magielan handcuffs. all types of locks and
to smile
say. "Nut even
the width of a square. This gives school, church, or club event, lay out Then he began training himself
you proper spacing between tetters the work in pencil art, then use palat brush to do the under-fed a withstand great physical hardships, elephant knows!"
Houdini's daring feats of physteal because "" is the only
India ink. Black and Fortunately, he was gifted with ex-
control,
penwegg brought him the aut fame letter in the alphabet. Then you carving muscular ceptional
In Kansas City in 1918 he thrilled curve the spaces with your special white signs, neatly done, are most practised making his wrists and an
A large erowil by freeing himself clash system and the sign is complete effective, as the letters stand out at les bigger when he was being; tle
relax from a strail-jacket while suspended in a jiffy. inckled; then he could them to normini size for slipping out For months on end of the bonds, he trained for underwater escapes. Couldn't Hold Him
or
To prepare
Irimersions for
in mid-air 30 feet above the atreel. Note that
with
this new sign
In New York he invited unbeliev-writing method your letters are all ing newsmen to see him lossed Into
while melosed in the harbour
packing box. First, his wrists and bound. Then. ankles were tightly
In
isl
himself for his freezing water, he took cold baths after he was lifted into the box, the
Whit a big success be- cause he trained
started career from the time t
always kept him- school, and the self in the pink of condition.
Door kicks came in for attention They fasealed early in his fe.
He would pick away at them
hira
ANSWERS
CROSSWORD;
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ADD-A-LETTER:
Al, air.
hair.
chair.
WORD DIAMOND:
-0 STR
SATES
OTTOMAN
WHA securely nabled, down, until he could climb into ice tanks
Finally
a steel band was fastened without feeling numbed,
WE No jail in the worbi could hold around the bux. This box Houdin), but be kept the secret of almost whily submerged at the end The omleial to himself of a hundred-foot line. his miraculous escapes because, he said, "the knowledge reporters scoffed at the idea of an contraption. But would be dangerous in the hands escape from this
in less than a minute Houdini i criminal." One of his earliest stunts was bed up outside the box. breaking out of the federal jail Washington, After being stripped and searched he was locked in the cell that opee had housed the assas- sin of President Garfield got out in two nulnutes flat.
of
In
Houlin
At Boston he was bound head to foot by a heavy silk fish which was then securely sewn
trom
or
up.
Soft Spot For Children Houdini always had a soft spot in his heurt for children and invalids. Scarerly a week went by in which he did not perform at an orphanage or a hospital. He even invented a show for blind children.
Houdial had a way with birds and animals tou. Dogs, cats, canaries,
It took 45 minutes to complete the
Houdini set himself free in parrots, and even eagles seemed to jobs.
with the friendly just over an hour and a quarter but love to work
and trickster. His nfectionnte fox ter- his body was a mass of wells
considerable fame. bruises when he was through with rier Bobby won
for his ability to escape from u pair the struggle.
of tiny handcuffs.
Harry Houdint died on lallow- His fame spread' rapidly and he
his e'en in 1924, taking most of made an exhibition tour of Europe.
secrets with him. It was lucky for There was hardly a river or har-
Germany or Eng- the world that he chose an honest bour in France,
Had he been on outlaw, no career. he had not clived land lute which
juil would have ever held him. manacled hand and foot.
The Toys Go on a Picnic
-And Teddy Bear Stuffs Himself —
By MAX TRELL
was Teddy, the Stuffed Bear,
"Let's," he said, as souI- RE
REMIT
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QUICKWINK:
I who first thought of it.
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MIX-UP
ANAGRAMS:
"It's Seba and Big Mike!" the Lamps; Chiffenter; Tables, the hatch cover rose upward and wagon boss shouted, "They're out the wild-eyed Sheba was standing of the cages!"
on the deck!
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The traued wagon
mea went into netion.
In the twilight of that tunnel two groups of men, each with a straight wall of canvas, reaching from tuni- nd wall to wall, started from each THAT
rigging crew took to the
vnd, the sounds of the battle spur- quicker than ever before. The ring them an Captain himself was on a spar try- ing to Agure out What to do. it anything.
By this time the eat had inspect- ed everything In sight. The men waited, thankful that they were
We
I was with one group, but
mouth from the hadn't gone far
over and
when a great body hurdled our human and canvas fence was gone down the tracks with the
out of rich. Sheba spat up at speed of an express train.
them several times, then tisdain- fully as if she couldn't be bothered
just now, but undoubtedly because
It was Sheba, Big Mike, of course, was dead.
halfway across The tigress was
went from onl of a stomach full of inest, settled the bridge that
another, when the second down on the hatch cover and calm tunnel tu
circus contingent section of our ly went to sleep.
"Strip the salts from the
rumbling out of the yard: come arms," the Captain ordered. And tunnel, blocking her escape.
lower them to the deck
unfolded.
other
Sheba stopped dead, then looked
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We'll try to corral and smother back us. Quickly the wall was her with a wall of canvas, and wrap held up. Sheba stood there her up so tightly she can't use her moment as the train came at her. legs and claws! Isn't that the idea, Then, tensing her magnificent, Mr Jackson?"
wicked body a moment she de- a long, graceful liberately made
"Well, I wouldn't suggest trying arching leap, down to her death on to put salt on her tail," Jackson grinned. But really it was grim the rocks 200 feet below.
business as the men quietly cane down to the deck and started to close in with the narrowing walls of
sailcloth. She was trapped, but not without casualties.
"When? Never again. How many casualties, mato?"
"Two seamen with leg, chest and
Incerations.
with a JEUTTA
One shoulder gush. My! What a beauti- ful, vicious ball of fire., And what a lot of money to put into such
ahe-demon," the mite repiled.
A
*
A
ND his words were nearly re- pealed Inler by Mr Marlow of Marlow Bros., being shown through his animal barns in winter quarters. "A beauly, all right, but it's a whole lot of money to put into one attrac- tion."
RED RYDER
I'M BEGINNT TO BELIEVE, YOU'RE IN ON BUCKSKIN'S SCHEME TO SWINDLE US, COWBOY
LET'S STRING HIM UP, 100
Floor
the
sun came through the windows of the playroom, "go on a plenie!"
"That's wonderful!" exclaimed Miss China Doll from the porch of duil-house. "I'll make her private the sandwiches.”
"I'll help!" cried Mary-Jane, the rag-doll.
curry them," said Mr Punch. 1 bake the cake," said
Judy.
said
Rupert & Ting-Ling—36
who was Punch's wife,
"I'll bring the lemonade." General Th the tin soldleg
good
Rupert stares as Ting-Ling. "You mean that I ought to ride that dragon after all and go all the way
him Very well.. to Nutwood on I'll try." he cries, making up his mind to be brave. Together the two friends rejoin the Mandarin Li-poo, and the old man smiles, "Your visit has been shon one. little bear," he says, "but if it has taught you not to fear dragons it has been well pent. Now here la gift for you so that you can make music for fish when you return to your own country,"
ALL RIGHTS RESENTED.
"fy ahead and find a
spot,"
t," said the Canary. He lived in playroom a cage that hung in the window. He was invited, too.
the
Mrs Cuckoo, who lived in clock on the playroom wall, opened her door and said to everyone: "I go alon and keep telling you the time, so that no one will be late in coming back.”
**
"Everyone can ride on my back sald Whoa, the Hobby Horse "I'll take everyone to the plenic!"
Then Kaarf and lianid, the
with the shadow-children
-turned- room, about names, came into the and they were also invited to come alonk
sandwiches were
the Finally made, the cake was 'baked, and the lemonade was put into a big jug They were all ready to start. "Where are we ming for the pic- nic?" Knart asked.
Hanld wondered how Teddy the Stuffed Bear, and Miss China Doll, Tag-doil, and and Mary-Jane, the General Tin the tin soldier, and Mr Punch and his wife Judy, and the Caunry, and Mrs Cuckoo, and the
Proof Needed
GET OUT OF HERE, THEY'LL LISTEN RED THEY WON'T FIAND THE LISTEN TO REASON MONEY THEY
THEY'LL HANGLOBT
YOU!
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Funch's wife baked a cake for the plenic. Hobby Horse could get outside. For single none of them could walk n step.
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But the Canary, after flying round and round his cage, was now chirp- in at the top of his voice as he stuck his head out between the pars of his cage: "There! There"
So they all jumped on the Hobby Horse's back-and he rocked fast as he could-and then he said: "Here we are, folks!" and stopped.. And Knorf and Hani saw where the plenie was going, to be held! It was right under the geranium plant, to one side of the sunny playroom window!
And strange as it may sound, the sandwiches and tire cake and the lemonade all tasted just us good in that place as in any other!
In fact, it was a wonderful pienie. Teddy the Stuffed Bear was even more stuffed than he was when he started,
By Fred Harman
WAND THE MEN WHO GOT IT♫
MITOW
great distance.
If you have always been a bit of
an artist, you are a "jiffy" artist now.
MENTAL GYMNASIUM
CROSSWORD
1- High-cord
4 Begin
6 Pithy
ACROSS
7 Article of furniture
11 Over (poclic)
12 Greek letter
13 Book of Psalms
1 Consumed
DOWN
2 Vehicle
3 Bitter velch
4 Looks fixedly
5 Rounded
7 Diamond-cutters cups
#Ase
9 Group of matched pieces
10 Unusual
ADD-A-LETTER
Add a letter
to
three-toed sloth" and have "atmosphere," add
another and have "what bald men luck," another and have "un articlo of furniture."
WORD DIAMOND
OTTOMAN, an item of furniture, forins the centre of our diamond, The second word is an abbreviation for "steamer," the third "gluts," the payment." Afth is "to send back and the sixth is "perched":
OTTOMAN
M
A
N
QUICKWINK RIDDLER
One Junkman boasts that he can whistle 50 tunes. The refuse man Anys: "I know two million -"
Do the puzzle and and the miss- ing word.
1 2 3 A
.
B
H
B
Read down: I-A combination of prickly and zinc. 2-A copper bush. 3-Made by noisy dogs. 4- Pan for holding water.
Now read across the third row of letters for the missing word.
MIX-UP ANAGRAMS Rearrange the letters in each of the strange Itnes following to form three pieces of furniture:
ROLL, FOP SAM
FINE FOR CHI BLEATS
ZOO'S WHO
SOME SPECIES OF CHAMELEONS HAVE TONGUES THAT ARE LONGER THAN THEMSELVES...
ABIRD'S FIRST NEST MAY BE AS SKILLFULLY BUILT AS ANY NEST CONSTRUCTED
THEREAFTER...
THE AUSTRALIAN KIWI IS NO LARGER THAN A DOMESTIQ HEN,1 BUT ITS EG 22ARS FIYZ TIMES LARGER.