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STORIES
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RIDDLES
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riddles about this
and that. The correct answers pro elsewhere on this, page.
What have a tree leaf and a
CROSSWORD
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1. Why in a frolful baker like ona
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of his hard-baked Janves?
gold mine in common?
3. Why is a water lily like whale?
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4. What would be a favourable day on which to play tennis for a cup?
5. Why Is the elbow a belligerent Joint?
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WORD SQUARE.
Itearrange the letters in each row
form
word, then good n rearrange the rows to form a word square!
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BROKEN SENTENCE
See how quickly you can read this broken sentence:
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HOMONYMS
Missing words in our
sentenco
sound alike, but are spelled dif-
ferently. Complete the sentence:
The horses moved
with an cany
-unul they reached the
of the corral.
DIAMOND
OCTOBER forma the centre of this diamond. The second word, is "a "doed," the third "pertume," the fifth "a plece of furniture," and the sixth "a Scottish sheepfold,"
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OCTOBER
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ANSWERS
CROSSWORD:
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*SCRAMBLER: Tela, tale, late.
RIDDLES:
1-Because he is crusty, 2-Velns.
3-Because it comes to the
surface
to blow. 4-A muggy
one,
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Because it is always in arms.
WORD SQUARE:
DĦAMA
ROMAN
AMEND
MANSE
ANDES
BROKEN SENTENCE: Keep on trying if you wish to suceced your taske,
HOMONYMS: Gait, gate,
DIAMOND:
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In
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1 Solicitude
ACROSS
5 Chemist's weight
17 18
777
(2 22
On the sheltered side
10 Interpret
$1 Dance step
12 Chairman's symbol
13 Venerate
15 Night (nb)
16 Pilfer
18 Symbol for erblum
20 Take for granted
23 Vine fruit
25 Companion word for "neither"
20 Storin
27 Hindu garment
20 Female saints (ab.)
20 Woody plarit
DOWN
1 Sleeveless garment
2 Exclamation of sorrow
3 Pauses
4 Eye (Scot)
5 Stage plays
6 Reverend (ab.)
7 Arabian gult
8 Dissolve
12 Duck-like birds
14 Russian storehouses
17 Pertaining to the moon
10 Hen products
19 Spoiled child
21 Greater quantity
22 Great Lake
24 Mall drink
27 Street (ab.)
SCRAMBLER
and
have
Scramble "a tissue" and have "a story'': re-scramble "tardy."
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER
The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
TEE JOE SEEKS PIRATE TREASURE
By LEE PRIESTLEY
1948.
CRAFTS
GAMES
JOKES
"What you got there, Tee Joc," Clobile asked, "Man you struck it rich!"
the
FUN WITH AN
ANIMAL PARTY
'NVITE the crowd to an
"Animal Auction" to bid on
most complete stock of animals they over saw. It's n good party idea.
Give each person a good-sized bux marked off with strips of paper. or cardboard to form stails. This Is the "barn." Tell the guests they are expected to stock it at the auc- they Ilan with os mony animals as can afford. Give each-one the same » amount of make-belleve money. You can use the numbers from calendar sheets pasted on cardboard as cur- rency. Then start the auction.
cut
The "animals" are pictures out and mounted on folded cards sa they will stand in a fenced space on the lable in front of the auctioneer..
the The backs are to the crowd so bidders can't sco what they bid on.
1190 For an extra large crowd fowls, birds, and even Insects you need them. Cut several plc- tures of all the animals but onu, Try to And a thoroughbred animal He didn't move, but he rolled his of some sort for this one, but be,
sure no one knows what animal it eyes as far around as they would go. He could see nothing. Then the soft | 19.
Seat your guests and let the nuc- tickling was repeated, Teo Joo's
into his rales talk, hair began to stand on end and the tioneer go sweat on his forehead was cold. The holding up each animal in turn for soft rubbing stopped. Then he felt sharp pain! Needles in his thigh!
to
EE JOE had never wanted swamped his boat and lost anything so much in his clothes, money, and everything
He yelled and whirled, ready to whole life. But the overboard except that harp, slash out with the shovel. Minette harmonica cast three dollars said it was worth $15. Me, Gran'mere's yellow cat, leaped and fifty cents!
don' know, but I got to get the top of the pile of dirt. She had three-fifty outa it. I let him been behind him, rubbing against have that much in gas and off and a pair of pants to put on instead of that wet bathin' suit."
It was twice na big and long as any he had ever seen. With two buttons, that did something to the music. And FOUR rows of keys that Tee Joe's fingers itched to try.
Tee Joe sighed. He had been a whole year saving up the dollar, six "I have a dollar, six bits at bits. Ile would be an old man, it home," he said hopefully.
seemed, before he had $3.50.
had Big Joc
gone shrimping. Gran'mere wouldn't lend him that much. Not after he'd been cutting copers trying to carry a sack meal on his head and spilled and wasted it. Tec Joe picked up the Paddling oil can and the packet of coffee and went out to the pirogue. down the channel, all he could think about was the blowin' harp.
Mr Andrus, the storekeeper- postmaster, shook his head and it placed the harmonica back the candy case. "I'd like the beg' in the world to see you have that blowin' harp, Teo Joe," he said. "The city man that
Punch's Wonderful Grandfather
He Could Make Anyone and Everyone Laugh-
By MAX TRELL
"MY great-great-great
grand-
father was 11 wonderful to was saying man," Mr Punch Kanel and Hanid, the shadow- children with the turned-about names. "His name was Punchinello. He was a famous actor,"
"Oh!" exclaimed Hanid, who was delighted to hear about famous people. "Did he act in plays?"
Mr Punch nodded. "He did in- deed. He played before kings and queens, duke and duchesses, and counts and countesses. He also played before little children. Every- one loved him because he made how laugh, No matter everyone Kad anyone felt, when they saw Grandfather Punchinello always laughed and were again,'
Smiled to Himself
they happy
Mr Punch smiled to himself as ho thought about his old great-great- great grandfather.
"What did he do to make every- one laugh?" Knarf asked.
Punchinello was a famous actor.
"Then one day," Mr Punch went on, "when Grandfather Punchinello was very old, he went away. He was gone. No one knew where he went. But he left a letter for everyone to
rend.
"He didn't do anything," said Mr Punch, much to the surprise of en Knarf and Ianid.
of
him.
his legs. When he had stood still. Tee Jos felt better!
she had reached up to claw
Sitting down on the edge of the hole he had dug, Tee Joe swung his heels against the damp sides. Dig- ging for treasure was work. If the
He look ground were only softer! ed across to the water's edge where the old ice house had stood. A big oak grew there, too, The ground was always soft and loose because of the sawdust that had been used to pack the ice.
the
YOUNG IDEAS
JUNE MAY
RING ITS TAIL OR
NECK
On
the crowd to bid on. A good auc tioneer can keep the fun fast and
cach bidder has exciting. As animal "knocked down" to him, ho places it in his barn. When a bidder uses up his cash, he must drop out. When all the animals have been counts auctioned off, each, bidder. the number of animals bought. Ask who has the animal there is just one of. Explain that this is a thoroughbred and its presence in the barn makes that bidder rate frat to the place. Second place goes person with the largest stock.
With the excitement of bidding, everyone has a lot of fun and has, his barn to take home as a souvenir: Here's a game that can be used at n mixer when you want to get a party off to a good start.
By JOYCE HUNTER
new hair brushes with perfume You don't have to own one of the pad under the bristles to make your.
Pass out a number of small hoops hair smell orange-blossomy for that same results
or circles of some kind. The hoops special dance. The can be had by simply nicking per- can be made of cardboard or heavy fume or cologne on your own im-paper, or they can be old embroi-
Don't clean hair, and brushing dery hoops, mac with your equally clean brush. best embroidery hoops because maculately
Figure the
excitement some might be stepped on and broken.
on
Don't use too much scent.
the lasting quality, too, unless you expect to do a repeat job in the powder room.
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Mother's in
Cardboard or stuffed animals aro guests placed about the room. The Joo Picking up the shovel. Tee
instead Does your mother know of the are, big game hunters, but
animals they toss treasure climbed out of the hole he had dug.
new paper curtains (plasticised cel- of shooting the moved down if someone who had no lulose) that come in different pathoops around the necks or tails of The one who Gran'pere had. sald the
wins. If you right to it got close with a pick or terns? In lovely and dignified living the stuffed animals. apade. Maybe
treasure had
light they bags the most game rooms under artincial
Perhaps your have no suffed animals, trace a fow moved over there where the old lee look exactly like silk.
on heavy cardboard. It's not hard house had been and where the dlg- own room could take a set to advan- ging was easier.
of to draw an elephant or rabbli.i toge. No laundry problem, course; just throw them away. But Followed by Minette, Tee Joe don't let the dog chew the tempting- began to dig in the soft molst soll, ty dangling ends. We know of at He often played here, but he hadn't been back since he'd spilled the least one pup whose innards currently paper lined in floral corn meal earlier in the week. The sign. circle of white had nearly disappear- That Inland-
ed. It was likely that the ants had carried It away. He drove the
into the black, shovel deep
CLOBILE GUIDRY's boat was tied the water steps when Tee Joe Kot home. Clobile, who 100k city people out for deep fishing. stopped sometimes for ittle balt frogs on the chenier. like mound back of the Ginuthreaux household was the last hard land.
Two before you got to the Gulf, city men were drinking Gran'mere's French drip coffee at the kitchen tuble-while they walled. for Clobile. Tee Jac sat down in a corner Usten- ing to the talk.
dirt.
Joose
·
pre
de-
To give your aquarium a high- brow touch, buy a geographic turtle, so called because it hos maplike de- signs on its upper and lower shelle. He's a little chop only two inches across. Provide him with a stone or floating board, as he just naturally likes to climb out of the water tured in mosaic on his back.
and see the world that seems plc-
Use vaseline to preserve your new
HE was still staring when Clobe came along. "Ain't it a fright "It's lonesome as a hoot owl round about," Graumere admitted. the way the 1'1 balt frogs disappear "When the shrimp boats leed here, right off the face of the earth when sometimes we'd see three, four you got a flashin' party?" Clobile "loafers." Rub it in well and wipe people at once. But the hurricane stopped to mop his sweating face. it off; then give the shots a double a dozen allllck of pollsh. That too-scuffed look blowed the fee house down and it "I didn't catch more'n wasn't built back. Shrimpers, get told. Say! What you got there, Tee chopped-up ice at the platforms now Joe? Man, you struck it rich!" through a chute."
hunters
"Don't you see treasure Dccasionally" one of the city men asked. stirring more sugar into his "Jean LaFitto buried coffee. treasure around here, you know,"
+
Twisting through the black dirt were more and bigger earth worms than Tee Joe had ever seen in one place. Dozens of the pink, squirmy things showed in the next shovel full. And in the next.
com-
One of the city fishermen, Ing along the path, kneeled to pull A 12-inch worm from the hole,
"I dunno how Tee Joe raised these,
began to dig.
Tee Joe didn't wait to hear any more. Under the tallest oak on the chenier, Gran'pere had showed him many times the very place! There "Gosh!" he said, "I haven't seen "'Dear Ones,' he wrote in his let-Jean Lafitte, the pirate, hat buried a fishin' worm like this since I was I used to raise them big in ter, this is the only time in my, life a chest full of gold! He remem a boy.
must bered, too, Gran'pere's stories about a barrel of coffee grounds and corn- that I am sad. For now I
who meal" leave you. But though you will the ghosts of dead sailors never see me again, I will stif be guarded the gold. But this early in "I mean," he hear you, I will se in the sunshine, the day, ghosts shouldn't bother but they'll make prime butt." Clobile
him. Teo Joe shouldered the shovel and in the raindrops. I will be in as he passed the back door. nd ded hastily "Grandfather the humming of the bees, and the Punchinello didn't do anything odd or strange, like standing on his head, singing of the birds. I will nod to you. with the daisies, and wave to stairs. He or falling down a flight
you with the blades of grass. But did just what everyone else does. above all, I will be with you when Ho dressed like everyone else. Ho talked like everyone else."
"Then why did he make everyone else laugh?" Hanid wanted to know. "he "Because," said Mr Punch, laughed himself. He was so happy that he made everyone else who saw him, or heard him, happy too.
Knart and Hanid smiled, too. They That was the only thing he did. He Rave everyone his own happiness, even laughed.
They happlor
hoped Old Punchinello And that made him oven
heard them. than he was before.
y
Finding his tongue, Teo Jos asked hesitantly, "Would they be worth five cents a dozen? I dumped a whole sack of cornmeal hero just
Men's awful high." last week.
The city man nodded.
"A very reasonable price. Why don't you put a sign out on the channel, boy? You have a little gold mine with all the fishermen needing balt.”
you inugh. So always think of me,INDER the oak hung with
strands of and always be merry."
Spanish moss, tho did morning sun
not reach to
Ho be "And that," said Mr Punch, smil-brighten the cool dimness. Ing again, was great-great-great gan to dig in the hard soil near the wish roots. As he turned the heavy grandfather Punchinello. I
earth, the hole grow slowly deeper, everyone, were like him."
Tee Joe nodded, too. "I ee Joe got a blister on one thumb; then ono tho other. He had straightened up to get the crick out about the gold, but I'm goin' to dig of his back when he felt something, $3.50 and a blowin' harp out of my tickle the back of his bare leği worm minet"
dunno
won't appear for weeks-maybe for months.
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on
You are rude if you and your crowd make a loud hullabaloo
or bus or in any other the tram public place-shouting, shoving_and giggling. It isn't funny. It reflects against your home and school train- ing.
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Safety Hint
Sudden weather changes ! are common at this time of the year. Be sure to wear enough clothing if you want to keep well,
ZOO'S WHO
- MOST DUCKS SEEK A NEW MATE EVERY YEAR BUT THE CANADA GOOSEAVATES
FOR LIFE.
Rupert wants to go another way. but Reggie gates at a little side path leading behind the signboard..." can't understand it at all," he says. "That board wasn't there at week.' It makes me feel'ingulaltiye. I'm going to try to find out why it has been put there and who did its“:“folly good Idea," says Rex. I'll go with you!". And, before Rupert can stap them, the twins run together down the private path: 'and 'disappeže/IRONMEN
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A Perfect Setting
THIS IS BETTER'N I EXPECTED, WE SELL PLENTY MEDICINE
KILLBEARS YOUR INJUN
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CEREMONY!
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MY PEOPLE GIVE YOU WAR DONNET, RED RIDER, FOR MANY BRAVE DEEDS AND FRIENDSHIP WITH INDIAN??
By Fred Harman
WE'LL TURN THE WHITE COYOTE LOOSE? SOME OF THE INJONSLL DE SURE TO CSEE HIM.
OLD'S
OWLS, CONTRARY TO LEGEND, ARS THE DUMBEST OF ALL BIRDS
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WHEN EARLY EXPLORERS VISITED AUSTRALIA, THEY FOUND THE WILD DOG WAS THEMINGOF. BEASTS ON THAT CONTINENT. THE WILD DOG "OR AUSTRALIAN DİNGO WAS THE HIGHEST -TYPE OF ANIMAL HATIVE TO THAT CON