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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1948.
FULL-PAGE FEATURE EVERY":"SATURDAY,
BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
SPORTS. STORIES. PUZZLES · CRAFTS. GAMES . JOKES
Emma Lou Didn't Wear Armour, But Chunky Found That She Was Every Bit A Leader
BRASSY voice rang
through the hall, which had grown unfamiliar
in the glare and shadows of night lightning.
"Let's strike!"
Emma Lou, sitting on the platform, tore worshipful eyes from the speaker to search the excited faces of the other high school students perched and sprawled in the room, on chair window arms, radiators and
Bills.
Sho pushed back her straight, dark bangs, which made her look like Joan of Arc. Even Misa Parkins called her "The Maid of Orleans," after seeing the film. How Emma Lou hated it when everyone begin "Joan" This was bad calling her enough, but Mother liked the idea and wouldn't let Emu Lou have a permanent.
Chunky Edwards was still talking in his brussy volce.
"Are we men and women—or are wo mice?" he continued tritely, and Emma Lou smothered
wish that
Chunky might speak with just a Httle more originality.
MAID
"Are wo
The judo her brother Jim had taught her worked.
OF ORLEANS II
going back to the kindergarten and aroutt uurselves be slapped let
Ilke-like dogs?" Mice, kindergarten, dogs! Emma Lou shook her shining bol and agdin eyed the audience. Evidently no one else wan crilicnl of Chunky's Aures of speech.
The
were with him. "Tite, how did it feel to have Old Laudly Parking slap you Just for humming class?
By FAITH YINGLING KNOOP
her Bittle bit in her mall
was
Tige. rou Cand tongue-tied, assisted to his feet by a. nlf dozen hands. The hall became quiet whille
bave
"But It hurt Us all. here!" QUDDENLY there was a pounding Chunky's smallish hands few dra- on the locked study hall door, matically to the approximate position the key of which Jingled in Chunky's
The teachers must "Are we going to be pocket. of his heart.
that the "committee slapped around like. prisoners in a discovered
No! camp? concentration
We'll meeting." called by Chunky after strike-strike to get Old Lady the basketball game, was unattended Parkins fired! We'll show the by any teacher. Emma Lou uncrossed w-world that Bluff City High men
feet and
straighter. up And sat and women can't be slapped around!" ready for Chunky's orders.
Someone in the room catenlled. ang wants to come in!" The cry was taken up, and be-
terrible.
Why.
this might become what the papers called mob violence. Emma Lou thought. Those kids were liable to do anything. It some- body didn't stop them!
BOAR
all faces turned towards hlm. "Well. A drowning out a few scattered came a feer, nat silly, but menacing,
"It-well,
I-cr-blurted Tine. what I mean, it didn't hurt much!" boos. He folded up
AUGHTER
•
echoed
tr
cracked ceiling
the ink
was
Woo,
Children Grow Fast In The Jungle
By FAE MCKEOWN
(Fae McKeown lives in Panama girl in the second picture wore a and although the story about.Anita wedding vell and carried a bouquet la fletion, the facts about how girls of flowers. It was Anita's mother's of Panama live are based on obser- pleture, taken on her wedding day. vation).
A little smile crept Into Anita's than *NITA
came running to expression. "Yours is betler
nine," she said. "Everything you wards her home, breathless do, you do better than 1. But that is and full of excitement. Her the way it should be."" white dress flushed in the sun- "You do everything well, my light.
A
dear," nald Mother. Her nind swept bock seven years, when Anita was a girl. of five. Then Anita tended her younger sister, who was a baby, often carrying sister when
"Mother!" she called. "Mama, mial"
A woman appeared in the door way of the house, which was built of poles Inced with vines, except for she was almost half as big ng tiny rough boards which sheltered the Anita herself. Mother remembered sleeping rooms from the tropical how Anita first learned to use the storms that often swept Panania. machette to cut broom weed and "Hello, dear" greeted Mrs Gon- bind it for sweeping the dirty floor zales,
did of the home and the yard outside. Panama Anita was always tky. You
"How Anita's mother.
to like your trip City?"
Then Anita learned to pick rice "I can't wait to tell you about it!" Anita exclaimed. She motioned to and beans and to cook corn furti1- her brother Pancho, who was pok- las. Anita also washed the little cooking pals and Bourdi ing along the path behind her. "It earthen
was so wonderful! And the most dishes that were used for the meals. exelting thing happened!"
Safety Hint
PUZZLES
DON'T TRY TO CARRY
TOO MANY THINGS DOWN- STAIRS AT ONE TIME-
ANOTHER MAGIC SQUARE FORMULA
ECENTLY ♫
Later she did the laundry, benting RE
Anita had just returned from Panama City.
clothes
method of
making magic squares with odd numbers of spaces each way was given on this page. Here's
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another way to make a square of numbers so that they'll add horizontally and vertically,
diagonally. This method was suggested by George W. Con- way, Jr.
For a
and Ave
square five rows
across columns up and down write No. 1 in the middle space in the top row and All the numbers in from there according to the follow- Ing system:
Always move one square to the
In the next number (2). That will put three in the lower right-hand
and
1
corner,
of approval prose.
Boys and girls popped up alt over the room, volunteering to picket morning. But Chunky tomorrow
whole school to didn't want the from
picket. What he wanted was for picke the
Chunky did not seem to be the stained floor. The tension relaxed, everybody to stay away from school
eute breath-taker he That was why he asked same tomorrow. Some boys stood up, as if to leave: Emma Lou
to cut the school bus yesterday when he noticed Emma Emina Lou learied forward. Trust
as it was Lou in her new, blue sweater. Then wire as soon ignition that dope, Tige, to say the wrong
genial "Hubba, hubba, thing. Everybody in Biult City parked in her farm yard tonight his High School liked Tige nearly an after the driver, her father's super- woo, and bo-la-n-ng!" had seemed huc driven everybody the answer to u prayer that he would think of her as a stick chick, much as they Ilked Chunky, who intendent, was raid to be the most popular honte from the basketball game.
Instead, of tall and Amazonlan and boy in the senior class. Tige was Emma Lou sal, feet demurely almost a matched sparring partner sweet, but dumb. Was Chunky able
Chunky crossed, marvelling at her own good for her big brother Jim. to get his audience back?
Chunky's
reddened, face fortune in being Chunky Edwards' was.
assistant-she, a "bus bent," necepled coarsened, as he shouted above the Emina Lou felt a prickly thril
imbecile chant: as an equal by the Town Kids. from her fast-beating
"It's a strike! Creep down
the
Get away-way heart to her saddle shoes. He was
Two red spots emphasised
away from that door, or we'll lear Certainly. so big and tall and good looking dark blue of her eyes.
the school down!"
MOTHER entered the house and bored the hours wasn't holding a
the swiftness of With one of the few boys taller than Emma she, personally,
n rocket
from a box she took a folded learning to carry a small tray Lou he
herself. His white teeth glistened grudge against Old Lady Parkins for
yellow plece of paper. She unfeld-empty bottles on her head. Mother but then we can't go down, so we that between full lips.
Joan stuff any more
placed another picture laughed and repeated her memories. go to the top of the first column and Count down the required two "Or
hurt." Chunky was for the time Parkins' course it-it isn't
"But you always did things better, spaces to put in No. 4. mark kept him Chunky stammered a bit. "It didn't math
out of the
first window was broken, Chunky two pictures were almost exactly Mother," Anita said. hurt physically. No woman's hand Millerstown football game. Parkins could hurt Tige!" Eyes again darted simply wouldn't do, in Blaff-City-platform at Emma Lou's feet. towards the lanky, blond boy whose High. And with the teacher shortage, one hope now, apparently, was to Parkins would probably get a better So why not strike? sink quietly through the worn floor job, anyway,
Teachers did. boards.
&
YOUNG IDEAS
to
How would you thread a needle learn Hiti did not have un eye? Needles looting the whistle.
have not had eyes for very long
and eyeless needles are still used
today in far-off corners
of the
globe. Before needles with eyes were
JUNE mAy
hurled
was
Anita fished in her bag and drew it on a rock with a stick. And sheight and then two down to put in forth a square, fat package, careful- helped to bathe her little sister
She fumbled with the river, when the ly wrapped. the strings, and finally broke them. the dishes were washed. From the package, she drew out a photograph.
"I had my picture taken!"
NITA Mother smiled and examined the A Although she never had real picture. "You will keep this all
toys, she pretended to keep house when she was not actually doing the your te!" she said.
insic for Mother. Mother rement- Anita had spent
and
daughter. The
dress.
projectile, Emuna Lou saw what she must do. Before the first book was el
to destruction, before the beside that of her
and dazed on the alike,
except for the lay sprawled
The Judo Jim had taught her was strictly in the groove.
GIR
had
A SET OF
POSERS
The
mrde
her own clothes.
of
Since the next number (4) will go out of the square, follow this rule: If you run out of the square to the right, move to the left of the same row, and if you go out below, jump to the top of the same column and continue to count.
Moving to the right of the three lakes us out of the square, so we ga columa, to the bottom of the first
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CROSSWORD
ACROSS
Printer's measure Paradise
Strings
One who tries things out Cross
Naval Reserve (ab.)
DOWN
1. Our puzzle is on the allhouette
2
of Thomas -
Teacher
3 Pitcher
Want
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MISSING VOWELS Vowels have been omitied and words run together. Insert the vowels in the proper places and break up the line to form a good sentence about the personality above:
DSN'SMDDLNMWSLV
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FURNITURE REBUS
Use the words and pictures uncover four items of furniture.
MUST BE
OUT OF
FUEL
HOME ON THE RANGE
wa gure
'I'M GOING TO GET
A JOB AND MAKE COULD MY OWN LIVING
ROOM IN
—ANOTHER THIS SUITE
RIDDLES
There's a big word in this batch of riddles. Riddle No. 5 may bo "Juxta" bit baffling but you can always turn to the correct answers appearing on this page:
school--barefooted. How You Do It Which West India island does
"Perhaps," - Mother--said. "Then you went to You have finished the sixth grade. Next year they may let you help teach the first grade!"
"But you are so good at weaving
Is What Counts
a mother resemble at preserving ilme?
2. Why
books your best friends?
pre
IRLS screamed and boys sprang
3. Why should turtles be pltied forward. Emma Lou held up
and sewing." Anită pointed outHAT you do is not half as 4. Why is the latter A like 12 one hand for attention. Remem-
"You can cook a meal so quickly
important as how you do it. o'clock noon? and with so little effort. And my There is a man who bering the inughter that
works in a 5. When is a comparison really threatened Chunky's sway, she began answer this set of questions brothers and sisters listen to
they listen to park who has done his job in an affectation? takes a lot of general knowledge] much better than Soon the study hall
such a way that echoed with ridicule of the fallen but if you get stuck you can al- | me."
everyone who uses demagogue, outwitted
guess. Correct and out-ways take a good
to laugh.
you
"You are still just a giri," said years Anita's mother. "In a few Forestiera, you'll have a home of your own and Turtlehead then you'll be just
as skilled in But or a all the home crafts as I am.
even now you know more than I know."
2. If a sprat is a European sh
For the game of "Busy Day", use made, needles were almost like ping. a long table with strips of ribbons, Miss Parkins, a group of teachers what is a sporran? They had heads, and just below the a basket of marbles, pins and pin and head the needle narrowed just the cushion, pencil and paper and a pile least bit. A thread end was tied of toothpicks on it.
was n
"Why, Mother! You know every- thing!
ANSWERS
the park likes and 1-Crossword puzzlo:- respects him. His job is the humble one of picking up the paper and the mess other people leave behind them. Most people would not consider that
an important job.
But the way he
"Lichfield" operas, ca- Mother smiled. "You have been has done it has made it a satis
to Panama City."
to your way of manoeuvred by a girl. Emma Lou answers are on this page.
stooped and extracted the key from 1. Do the words Chunky's pocket. She tossed it over Malaviscus and Lyon's
ket audience the heads of her
to Tige, suggest chemistry, botany
group of reptiles? who opened the hall door.
Led by a white-faced but fearless
parents from the basketball At the
3. Are "Amiens," game surged into the room.
the erstwidle strikers, same tim
and "Milan" famous as unobtrusively as possible. were thedrals or composers? around this narrow place. The cyc The contestants march around the attempting to trickle out into the of the needle was unknown less that table. At a signal, they stop. Each hall. Not exactly trickle, either. 4. If a follo is a leaf of a book, 300 years ago.
"You've been there many times!" contestant starts to work on what-
It n rush!
what is a follicle? ever is in front of him. If the
Emma Lou
understand slepped to the front
"But you were able 5. Docs The ribbons are nt
Home at is spot, he starts of the platform. Sho was amazer
of The what you saw, my dear. You have Heron" and "Landscape" tying as many bows as he can. Ito feel quick tears well into her
remind been to school." Plain penny postcards con be he
you of stage plays, famous paint- he gets the
he must toas marbica
toas eyes when she saw the anxious faces ings or novels? turned into pleture cards. We know them into a tinor Into another bas- of her mother and father among the
woman who sends cute
must click pins into the parents. She was glad, very glad 6. If a nucet which delight her friends and keep pincushion, write all the words he
to be
their daughter, and, unex-what is a fucet? her in touch with many people can knows beginning with the initial of pectedly, the pitled Chunky's people. stantly. Sometimes she pastes first name, or count toothpicks. At the same time, she felt a sudden,
7. Do AXMINSTER, cartoon
and on a card
writes an
und PERSIAN suggest vases, rugs the end of one minute time is warm rush of sureness of herself. At amusing line or two of her own called.
or conveyances? under
the decoration. Usually she
"Why
she didn't have to be fol- Not only are the contestants very lowing the other kids nil the time. signs the card with a printed monogram that she designed herself, busy, but so are the judges who Let them foilow her! After all, the
have to check the scores. sometimes in colour. Once she
Maid of Oricans wasn't exactly oft the beam. And Ingrid Bergman started her rather long message direct
wore a straight bob. Not bad, not centre of the card and wrote it in tiny lettering in a circle of ever- increasing size that finally ended when it reached the edge.
"
bad at all! She looked down on the platform behind her for Chunky. Use "hard"He had disappeared.
Here's an easy way to make a corsage out of candy.
candles or gumdrops, the more colourful the better, and wrap cach pleca in cellophone. Petals can be researchers tind, is made of crepe paper and a long stem October, the the best month of the year for can be made of wife, wrapped in
ท getting things done. This surplus green paper. Tie the bouquet autumn energy may be what makes together, fastening loose ends of the things a bit tough for grown-ups on cellophane and petals to the "stem". Hallowe'en. Gentle hint: keep Hal- and job is ready as a favour for low'en fun on the safe and happy party. An added touch can be ob- side.
A youngster in our neighbourhood has one of those dog whistles that human cars can't hear because of the ultrasonie pitel. He was quite upset when he was told that ALL
tained by putting the nosegay in the centre of a white paper dolly. It's decidedly tasty,
POSER ANSWERS
1-Botany. 2-Purse part of dress. 3-Cathedrals, wanted just his own dog to hear it 4. Small cavity or gland. --Fa- and no other. Here's an Idea: Blow mous paintings.
dogs could hear the whistle-ho Highlander's
Small plano
the whilsile a certain way—such as surface of a cut кет. 7-Rugs. two short toots, or some easy, signal | 5-Tool for digging. 9–Music. 10—— repeated several times. The dog will Sea fish.
RED
RYDER
faction and a pleasure to himself, and a service to others.
No
His part of the park 15 the cleanest because his willingness to his friendly, do his job well, and helpful interest in everyone make others glad to help him by pulling pro- Mother nodded towards n. news-their trash ln the containera paper under the child's arm. "That vided for it, instead of throwing it is a water tap, is proof you know more than I."
Just anywhere for him to clean up.
This works ali through life. Anita took the newspaper and matter how high or how lowly a WILTON held it before her eyes. It was true. position you have, you cannot suc-
Anita could
that what do
that ceed unless you learn one thing
Anita really counts is HOW you do things. Mother could not do well. could rend.
Whether it is your lessons, your job, cutting the lawn, helping "I will read it to you,
Mother." with the housework, do your work па you sald_Anita.
as thoroughly and as well "The funny paper first!"" exclaim- possibly can. Make each thing you ed Mother.
do important because of the way Suddenly Anita felt very grown you do it, and you will not havo to up as she read the comics to her worry about being popular or auc- mother.
cessful.
8. If a matriarch In a female ruler, what is a mattock?
D. Do CLEF, STAFF and SCALES | concern kinds of fish, music or, the culinary art?
10. If a scorpion is a poisonous spider, what is a sculpin?
'I HOPE THAT BANDIT GANG HASN'T HEARD OF ALL THE
MONEY THAT TRAVEUNG MAN
SAID HE WAS CARRYING?
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He's Allbi-Conscious
SOMEONE IN RIMROCK TIPPED OFF THOSE ROAD AGENTS THE LAST TIME, FLO/
1 WONDER IF JAKE DARLES
IN TOWN,
WELL,WELL, CHARLEY/ I'M SURE GLAD TO SES YOU/
HOW'S EVERYTHING/
HOWDY, JAKE/ ULP/ TAKE IT
EASY!
THERE HE 15
A BEAR AND
TWICE AS
NOISY
1ty Fred Harman
„BIG AS
NOG-00
POLNEY
NEED
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2.—MIMBING VOWELS:-Edison's mid- dle name was Alva.
3.-FURNITURE REBUG:-Gas range: Oftoman: Chair: Living Room Bulte,
4-RIDDLE ANSWERS — Jamaica (Jam-maker). When they bore you, they can be shut up without being offended. Thoirs is a hard case. 4-It is the middle of day. 5-When it i Juxtapose (just à pose).
Rupert & Mr Punch-24
RMM/ IT LOOKS LIKE HE WANTS· EVERYBODY TO KNOW. HE'S AROUND!
Mr.. Punch rows eight la stops by a shelf of rock,
useful place," he aqueaks. "Whatever the state of the tide there's always a shell of the right height somewhere," "But whit in this place ?" asks Ruperte
real home," says the other. We all sleep here.
Algy atares. "It looks jolly uncomfortable for sleeping," he mumura. But Mr. Panch gring widely. Clambering to a crack in the rock, be beckane
to the two little pals while the dowe. takes away the tiny boat,
ALL RIGHTS ARRAGEER.