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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1948.
FULL-PAGE FEATURE EVERY SATURDAY
BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
Young British Artists' Work To Be Shown
breath-taking fashion as the crowd roared about them. In the quiet of the garden little five-year-old Ann out her washing, Edwards hung very wet and clean, to dry In the sunshine, and further on a family gathered in the cool green of the Grand- to wish drawing room mother "a happy birthday."
SPORTS. STORIES. PUZZLES .CRAFTS
YOUR TONGUE TRIP YOU
FOR
POR many months in Britain over 13,000 children between the ages of fivo, and sixteen years have been paints. brushes and busy with Long daylight hour Idee, draw rpent in sicetching out
and ing designs, mixing colours, at night the youngsters have gone to bed with a dream that later in the year their pictures might be
tongue, the annual chosen to hang at National Exhibition of Children's
from
By WALTER KING
YOU want people to like you and you long to make and hold as many friends as possible, Yet you may be getting careless about that best of all friend-winners-your
to
and
•
CAN
key's "How! Haw" every time they
make a lilla riip.
GAMES. JOKES
5. Lying? True friendship grows on sincerity of speech. You can't ex- peet friends to trust you if your talk is unreliable and treacherous,
0. Hogging? What! you've never heard of the word hog? That's the You've got "Wait a minute rowi that all wrong"""
Art. in London. Now, for 247 of England's Devon coast, to the hushly by psychologisis brought to light fellow who contlaun)ly cuts in with i them, this dream has come true, and the wurm well-lit Academy Hall of Oxford Street suddenly was transformed into a wonderland of bright colour.
The drawings miraculously trans- planted us from the breezy reas of the ut prayer. of people excitement of the football field, tu the shadowy white Olight of the
But the pictures that "lold swan.
whole of not the a story" wero
There
some the exhibition,
were
of designa charming wallpaper fishes and flowers, red circles, and one or two blue diamonds. And
with
gleaming still-life paintings
fried fruit in bowls, and newly eggs waiting to be eaten at the breakfast table!
an
A series of tests conducted recent
just what it is that people do loosen the bonds of friendship sag the pole of popularity..
Section A of this test covers small annoyances which cause only chance dislikes. Section B, includes the more important factors affecting popula- rity.
Answer each question with honest "Yes" or "No" and hope for the best. The method of scoring to
comes later. get your P. Q. (popularity quotient)
SECTION A
1. £250 Cynthia Pell,
Do you sometimes fail to greet training grant for her painting of your friends on the street with
Agure in a cornfield. friendly "hello?" a sleeping
Do you ollen try to Coloured in greys and browns with heavy clouds curling across the smart" by using such phrases
me?" or "[low A black-haired Hawaiian girl dark sky, it is an imaginative and "You're telling wriggled and twisted in her mala very beautiful plece of work, richly come?"
Do you brag a lot about what bistri against a background of bri- deserving of the great opportunities you have done, places you have
bring to the young been, and so forth? yellow flowers, the it will now
round in artist.
4. Do you use expressions?
The room seemed to echo with the shouts of the fairgrounds, the rustle of jungle grasses, the beating of hooves, and the sighing of the wind through the apple blossom in the orchard. The plump orange cat pt twelve-year-old Ann Coop winked knowingly from the warmth of her wicker chair, us Jennifer Hawthorn's wild crayon over the went pounding
animals turt close by.
lant red and speedway
meers
spun
WOR
Chirpie Went Exploring
-He Went Way Beyond the River End-
By MAX TRELL
TT was usually early in the morn-
ing when Chirple Sparrow came bread-
to the window-sill for his
crumbs. The crumbs were supposed
to be for his breakfast.
Knart and Hanid, the
shadow-
children with the turned-about morning. But names, waited all
Chirple didn't come.
Finally, late In the afternoon (quite a good dent after lunch), he appeared, very tired-looking but happy.
"Where have you been, Chirpic?" Hanid asked.
"I've been exploring," Chirpie answered. "I flew across the bridge
and down the river-down,
past all the buildings and
down,
houses
the end of
and churches....down, down, down, until I renched the river."
Vide
the
Chirpie met sea guil.
2.
A
"talk
05
course or slang
5. Do you try to hand out a lot of unasked advice?
G. Do you
burden others with your personal troubles?
1. Are you a "wet blanket" when you Juin in a conversation? That is. do you run things down" Instead of adding the cheerful note?
a Do you chew gum while en-
deavouring to carry on a conversa. tion?
SECTION D
On the basis of your conduct during the past month do you feel you could fairly be accused of:
1. Gossiping? That's tongue
7. Snarling? People can snarl as well as wolves. They seem to de- their light in puiting a sling inte words. How about you?
Don't talk and chew gum at the same time.
A
(FIG.
FIG 3
DRESS PATTERN
SOAP HEAD PUPPETS ARE FUN TO MAKE AND WITH THEM YOU CAN PUT ON A GOOD SHOW- A STAGE RIGGED UP
IN A DOORWAY WILL
MAKE A GOOD SETTING FOR THE ACT
GTRING
HAIR
FIG. 2
CLOTH HANDS
SOAP HEADS FOR YOUR PUPPET SHOW
sew the
two
walking, when covered with a piece of After cutting PUPPET is a talking doll. It gets both cloth. Facial expression may pieces together along the dotted its walk and its talk, from the be emphasised by outlining eyes lines. operator who is called the pup- and mouth with black and red péteer.
That's you, because paint. you're going to make this soap head puppet show.
For
Outline Of Features
Now for the rehearsal. To operato the puppels put your forefinger in the neck plece of the dress, your thumb in one arm, and your middle the finger in the other. Then push doll's head on
over your forefinger. Wiggle your fingers to make
the arms and head move as you speak in a thin, squeaky voice. With
The old-fashioned Punch and
a square-hend puppet, Judy stands used hand-operated outline the features with good puppets with clay heads. You black ink or paint. If hair is can make a soup head puppet made by combing out some tle practice you will be able to with very little trouble from a brown rope or bar of cheap laundry soap and put
a piece of brightly coloured
8. Arguing? Some people just can't let an Innocent remark go by without challenging it with such as, "I don't agree with that at all!" or "Aw, you're crazy! you straight!" HOW TO GET YOUR P. Q.
Let's see what your tongue is worth to you. For each
question
Let me
to which you answered "No" in Sec- lion A szare 1 point. For each ques-
Section B score 2 points.
treachery. Usually when a person's lan to which you answered "No" in
tongue wags quickly, it wogs un- reliably too.
2. Criticising? The professional critic has a tough enough time of it. But that's his business.
3. Minimising? Trying to make
accomplish light of your friend's ments is like playing with dynamite. "Oh that's
and "Aw, at's nothing!" anybody could do that!"
the leading offensive phruses.
are
4. Ridiculing? You are just ask-
end of the river-that-land disap-ing for unpopularity If you let your Knarf and Hamid walted until peared, too. There was no land at tongue give your friends the don Chirple ate few more bread-all, just water. And I was beginning crumbs. They wanted to hear what Chirple found, when he reached the end of the river. At length he went
OFL
a
Something Else Began
a
"The river ended," he said, "but something else began. It wasn't river. It was something else. It was big and wide and it was all water, as for us you could sce. There wasn't any land at all on the other side no matter how hard you louis- "That was the ocean,” sold Knarf. "Ocean?" said Chirpie. "Is a lot of water with no land called the ocean?"
Knarf and Hanid both nodded, except that Hanid added: "There's land all right, even around an ocean. But it's so far away (because the ocean in to blg) that you can't see it."
"I wish I had known that," said Chirpie.
"Why, what did you do?" asked Kuart.
"I started to fly across the ocean. I was sure the other side couldn't
be too for away."
"My goodness!" said Hanid.
"I flew and I flew," sald Chirple. "But at I couldn't see any land. Even the land I started from the land where the big clly stood at the
to get very tired."
"Oh." sald Hanid in alarm, "and where could you rest?"
"No place." sni Chirpie. "If I were a duck, I could have rested on the water. But how can o sparrow rest on the water? It was a good|
that I met another thing for bird at that moment."
"Another bird" both Knarf and Hanid exclaimed.
Out Fishing
"He He
"A sea guli," said Chirpic. was sailing sound very easily. was out fishing, he said. If he saw a fish in the water, he would dive enteli it in down for it and try to his bill. When I asked him if he could rest, knew a place where I
Just fy he said sure. He sold: ahead a little and you'll see a bit of sinoke right at the edge of the sky. Fly to it and you'll soon find a good place to rest. So I did just what the sea gull did."
"And what did you flu to rest on?" Hanid asked."
"A ship. I rested on it all right, funnet. I was so tired behind the
woke
I fell asleep. And when I up, there I was, back in the city again, at the end of the river, alt rested up. And here I am!" And that was Chirple Sparrow's story of why he was late.
ZOO'S WHO
Sonabo..
(H&ARAPAIMA.
A SOUTH AMERICAN FOOD FISH WEIGHS 400 POUNDS AND REACHES FIFTEEN FEET IN LENGTA. IT IS THE LARGEST FRESH
WATER FISH IN "THE WORLD
100
cloth.
groove around
hair.
ror.
and ties.
twine, cut a make your puppet perform quite the top of the naturally. Practise in front of a mir- puppet's head and fasten the
use an old doll's head You can hair down with a piece of
if you prefer and use it with your hend If you can carve a funny face string. A home-made hat adds puppet's costume, but soap
to the appearance of the doll puppets look funnier. You will be with a big nose and bulging eyes, you can make a realistic and will help cover the doll's surprised at the effect you can get roundhead puppet.
For this head if you do not make rope by dressing up the figures with hats your total is 20 or more you you must get a large, square are "tops" with all who know you.
The puppet's dress-cut two
Running A Show A score of 10 to IP is a fair average stick of the soap and and with a little more care you can carve away until you have a patterns as in figure 3 from a' increase your standing with your face that looks comical enough piece of brightly coloured cloth. To run a puppet show alone you friends considerably. Below 10 into suit you.
Make each piece nine or 10 inust dicates your tongue is a liability. In that case, use this test
to ngain In the neck piece which must inches long and about six inches and use both hands and two voices,
one and one-half wide at the bottom. The arms check your progress as you enden-be at least vour to improve your popularity inches thick, bore a hole about and neck should be one and one- quotient. Below 12, the less you say the better until you have learned to two inches deep and just wide half inches wide, at the ends, enough to hold your forefinger The arm span is six inches. discipline that tengue.
MENTAL GYMNASIUM
Heap Big Chief Make-um Face for Crossword Puzzle
1 Any 3 Filip
ACROSS
PICK YOUR ANSWER
You don't have to think to answer
this quiz. The right answer is given along with a couple of wrong ones. Your job is to decide which answer is correct.
1. Bridges (a) always stay in the same place; (b) rise and fall with the weather;
their move on (c) foundations because of constant vibrations.
1. A burgemaster is (a) a head of goblin; (b) a person in charge burges; (c) a chief magistrate of a town.
3. Butions
sleeves on the
of
WORD DIAMOND
The diamond
centres on
then
the
SHAWNEE tribe. The second word is "her," the third a bowling term. the fifth "sea eagles, and the sixth is Scottish for "eyes":
S H
SHAWNEE N E
CODED MESSAGE
A simple code has been used for
the following sentence. Your job is to decipher it.
JOEJBOT
UIF TFNJOPMF
men's coats were put there (a) us Joincau UIF GMPSJEB FWFSII-
a decoration; (b) to hold the cuffs MBETT
in place; (c) to prevent the use
the sleeves as handkerchiefs.
of
4. Your car is longer (a) on a very hot day; (b) standing cast and west; (e) on a winter morning.
5. The average number of thun- This puzzle is on the silhouette derstorms on the earth every day
is (a) 200; (b) 3,000; (e) 45,000.
of an
7 Musical note
@ Falsehood
9 Proceed
11 Behold!!
13 Accomplish
1 Also
DOWN
2 Fastening device
3 Catch roughly
4 Bucket -
5 Whether
6 Compass point
10 Aged
12 Hawalian bird
RIDDLES
1. Why is a wrist watch like * river7
- 2. When could a piece of cloth
be used in house-buliding?
3.
Why is n giri not a noun?
4. What man had no father? 5. Why is it
unrefined to
and play by yourself?
sing
RED RYDER
EASY PIC DRIV
(a) 6. Snow is white because white is its natural colour; (b) be- cause of its depth; (c) because the crystals reflect the colours.
spectrum
7. The nallen having the oldest flag is (a) Great Britain; (b), France; (c) the Unlied States.
D. The peanut belongs to (a) the rose family; (b) the vegetable king- dom; (e) the gubernatorial group.
ANAGRAMS
Itearrange the letters in each line to form the name of a famous In- dian:
NOW A PATH HE CUTS ME HILT BUT SING
• NO GUARD, NO
As clues, determine which letters appear most frequently. Study the combinations and the short words.
INDIAN REBUS
Use these words and pictures to uncover the Indian tribes concealed in this rebus:
Guns Blaze.
AND SUE
INVITED THEM
ALL
RAH FOR OUR ALMA
MATER
Questions and Puzzles Mostly About Indians
Don't Look——— PUZZLE ANSWERS
CROSSWORD:
HIDDLES:
AND
WALL
at have
Icast
two
dolls
but two operators are best.
The puppets are worked from be- so that only the
appeat.
A doll's head and arms hind a screen curtain hung across a doorway to suit your height does just as well.
You can model and dress up your puppets to represent almost any them character but try to keep quaint-looking and make them act lively.
To
produce nu entire puppet show make several dolls and get two or three helpers. A puppet play. like any other stage production, looks much better if you have
back-drop cur- scenery such as
翅
tain or a scene on heavy paper. Sound effects and music backstage will add to the general improve- ment of your show...
Some Suggestions
The following are a few idea sug- gestions. You will be able to think up many more.
1. Imitation of a broadcasting studio, Station PUPP. Gramophone backstage.
2. A health play. Doctor girl some good advice on habits.
gives
health
3. A mock concert. Thanksgiving
singers. reciters, and step
or Christmas show
long
1-Because it doesn't run without winding. 2-When it became brick (cambric). 3-Because a lass (alas) is an interjection. 4-Joshua, the son of Nun. 5-Because it is so- lo (so low).
This is really fun.
4.
Introducing dancers.
A short play selected from one of your school story books.
5. Dramatisation of a comic-strip story.
PICK YOUR ANSWER: 1-bi Rehearsals will contribute to the 2-c: 3-c; 4-u; 5-c; 0——c; 7-b; success of your show. A simple
ANAGRAMS: Powhatan;
BU
I LIKE
sch; Sitting Bull.
PLAY
WORD DIAMOND:
SOMETHIN' MUST'VE
HAPPENED TO RED/
I GOTTA STOP
OUTLAWS
MYSEL
S SHE
SPARE SHAWNEE
ERNES
EES
E
story well rehearsed will be much better than a Shakespearean drama Tecum-in which the puppeteera fumble
CODED MESSAGE: The Semi- nolo Indians inhabit the Florida Everglades.
REDUS: *INDIAN
Crow and Sioux; Pawnee; Hopi; Cherokee.
By Fred Harman
SUDDENLY THE STAGE COACH STREMS FLAME”
OTT STAGE
their cues and their lines. Don't try to out-do Hollywood in your first attempt.
Rupert & Mr ̧ Punch-
“BIRDS WHEN TAKING " FLIGHT,FLY UP, BUT BATS TAKE TO THE
AIR BY FLYING- DOWNWARD
MANY BIG GAME HUNTERS RÅTE THE AFRICAN BUFFALO AS THE MOST DANGEROUS TO HUNT OF
CAN ANIMALÝ
Sailor Sam In Kuper out of the boat, and then drags the tiny boat up the beach before he turns to listen to the astonishing, story of What has happened dunng the night. **The others are all trapped in that cave," says Rupert, na heliplines, explaining. **]ṣwa don't resche them. Mr. Punch will never gel,10- the little peep-bow where he ata, But, pleate, il "you hielp us will you. be sure and keep Me. Punch's secreti and never, never tell anybody where" - hit hidden caw-iƒ??»
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