THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY,- DECEMBER 11, 1948,
She's Engaged!
"She's Lovely! She uses Pond's!
The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
MENTAL GYMNASIUM
Six Puzzles For You To Solve
CROSSWORD
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ADD-A-LETTER
Add a letter to "him" and have "har:" add another' and have "an outhouse" add another and have “a particle,"
SCRAMBLERS
Scramble "a particlo" and have "'flocks."
Scramble "part of a circle" and have a vehicle."
SOLVE-A-RIDDLE
Work the puzzle and find
the
missing word in the
answer to the
following riddle:
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ZOO'S WHO
WHALES ČAN DIVE TO DEPTHS OF THREE-FIFTHO OPA MILE WHERE PRESSURE ON THE BODY IS FIFTEEN HUNDRED POUNDS PER
SQUARE INCH.....
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CANDRA BUILDIN
ACROSS
1 Painful spot
5 Apple centre
9 Notion
10 Prayer
11 Dinted
cruling
13 Paid notice
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14 Compound ether
15 Bitter vetch
10 Half д em
17 Transpose (ab.)
18 Insane
20 Knight's protection
23 Correlative of either
24 Commend
25 Mature
27 Institution (ab.)
20 Paradise
20 Meadows
DOWN
1 Lateral part
2
3
4 Consuined
5 Low vulgar fellow
Myrtle syllable
? Erect
0 Concludes
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12 Comparative sufilx
15 Type of fur
17 Fath
18 Greater quantity
10 Dry
20 Measure of area
21 Bones
22 Soaks flax
24 Writing implement
20 Hebrew letter
RIVER SQUARE
Find the correct starting point, then read elther backward, forward, up or down (but never 'diagonally), and you'll have the names of six rivers in the United States:
SI MOLLIO SOORAC RUDAIB
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TH│CUS Q
Q│DIESEL ANIR][H] A- RGOANN
Rupert and Margot-14
JMargot. wants Rupert to see her new hout, but the little bear remembers the words of Horace, the hedgehog. This part of the wood is supposed to be folly dangerous." he iyi. "Don't you think we'd beller go back at once
states at him strangely haven't 'seen any danger except for the earthquakes. he says. " Earth. quakes? What earthquakes?" crita Rupert. As it in answer to hit question the hillside suddenly trembles, and lumps.of earth and pebbles tumble from aboye.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED,
Why does a banker, ilke to business next to a bakery? He likes to be near the
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B B D
Read down: 1-A sharp tool, 2- Loot. 3-Purchased. 4-Commences.
-Look.
Now read across the third row of letters and find the missing word,
DIAMOND
COR-
The diamond centres On RALS. The second word in "a soft Frenchman's drink." the third "a name for Faris," the fifth "a gem,"
and the sixth a measure of cloth,"
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CORRALS
ANSWERS
CROSSWORD PUZZLE:
DON'T PEEK
ADD-A-LETTER: He, sho, shed, shred.
THOU ART UNDER. ARREST, SIRE!
SCIENTISTS ARE STUDYING BIRD MIGRATION BY
AIRPLANE.
EN 1370, WHEN THREE PIGS KILLED A CHILD, THE ENTIRE HERD WAS ARRESTED. UPON THE PLEAS OF THE SWINEHERDS OWNER ONLY THE
ORIGINAL THREE PIGS WERE GIVEN THE DEATH SENTENCE.
Mr. Punch's Back-Yard Circus
-It Had Jugglers, Magicians, and Acrobats-- By MAX TRELL
"WHEN YOU were small," Knort YY tho shadow-boy with the turn- ed-about name, said to his friend Mr Punch, "did you ever go to the circus?"
reading a
Mr Punch, who was book, didn't seem to hear what
Kuuri asked him for moment or Then suddenly, he lifted his "Eh? What was. that you
two. head. sald?"
"When you were, small," repeat- ed Knarf, did you ever go to the circus?"
"Ah, the circus?...When I was RIVER SQUARE: Susquehanna: Ris small, my boy, I never bothered go- Missouring to the circus the way most chil- Grande: Columbia; Colorado; Oblo
SOLVE-A-RIDDLE:
DARHOJAS
SCRAMBLERB: Shred, herds: Are, cat, DIAMOND:
POP
PAREE CORNALS PEARL
"Loot The Mine” Is Good Game
AMES are essential for a good party and new ones
are always welcome. "Loot the
Mine" will make your next party
n howling success. It can be
played by any number.
The "props" are A good supply of beans and plenty of the sipper straws used with cold drinks.
dren, do. You see, didn't have to. I had my own circus."
Kaart exclaimed in. astonishment: "Your own clrcus!"
A Good Circus.
The fuggler in Mr. Punch's circus,
"Well," said Mr. Punch, "It was all under a sort of tent between the raspberry bush and the back gate, “That's what I said. I had it in The juggler was named Beetie. It my own back yard. It was quite a was wonderfal to watch him throw- the air and good circus, too. I had jugglers, and ing clover seed into tight rope walkers, and magicians, catching them as they came down-"
"Oh, but began Knarf,. and prancing steeds, and tumblers, and acrobats, and girls who danced. in the air and even clowns."
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"And the tight rope walker," Mr Punch went on, without, paying any "All that right In your back attention to this interruption, "was yard! Knart rasped. He begged Madame Spider. She stretched Mr Punch to tell him more about long, thin ropo a thread,--you his private back-yard elreus that he might call it-from the gate post to owned all by himself.
a branch of the raspberry bush. You should have seen how graceful sha ran from one end of it to the other. And even when she fell (which she didn't do very often), she had a way of spinning out another rape as quick as a fashi and letting herself down on it as lightly as a feather."
"But Mr Punch-
Face Challenges
And You'll Win
"And as for magicians," said Mr Punch, "no other circus had them you will seldom meet a problem as good as I did. There was Tadpole a frog. greater than your power to who changed himself into solve it if you face that problem. And Caterpillar who made himself Into a butterfly. My prancing steeds The danger comes When you are ready to start, pile fusal to stand up to it, look it in the wore all Grasshoppers. My tumblers cya, and da something about it, were Worms who could curl up in a the "nuggets" or. beans on a table regardless of how big or how im-circle and go rolling off like hoops. possible to solve It appears to you
at one end of the room. This is the "mine."
If you have a large crowd, divide it into two or three teams. With a small group this won't be neces- sary.
Give each player a straw and let the contestants, draw num-
one at a time, picking up a nugget from the mine by sucking through their straws.
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Family of Frogs
"My acrobats were a family of Frogs who jumped over each other's back and could hop into the water
at the moment. In reality, problems say: "Here we aro challenges. They arewhat are you going to do about us?" They put it up to you, Face them and win, or refuse and fall,
The wonderful thing about facing and out again faster than lightning And and thunder. The Girls Who Danced bers for their chance to loot the these challenges is that you mine. This is done by the players, what a lot of undiscovered power in the Ale were Dragon Flies with blue wings, And my clowns were all and talent you actually posacs, Toads with painted faces and strip- and how willing these latent sources are to help work out dit-ed: pants who could blow themselves up like balloons. Yes, it was a won- ficulties,
derful circus and best of all," added: Whether you face an unusually. Mr Punch, "it was free". hart lesson, or tacklo a now job,
"But Mr Punch," Knart said, "it, start with the idea that you have the
said Mr. Punch. power to do them and you will win wasn't a real, regular circus.” aut. If you must meet a personality
any regular circus problem, set your brotherly love to hero work and watch the difficulty dis- that's as real as mine used to be. All the other circuses are just copies of appear as though by magic.
These challenges offer you the op- mine, and not quite as good. Mino portunity to use them and grow to may not have been the biggest ona your highest potentiality. If you in the world, but it certainly was face your challenges you CAN win the first."..
Wears Like Iron.
They must hold it at the end of the Stainless steel stockings are a straw. whise they carry it to their possibility. Steel threads about one team's cache at the opposite side of five-hundredth of an inch in diame- the room. It is hilariously funny ler have already been made for war to watch the faces players make purposes. Though not quite "sheer while they try to keep that silver they are smaller than service-weight nugget on the end of the straw.
Keep the game going until the stocking threads. Such perfectly flexible steel threads might be mine has been "looted." Have each team or each player count the nug- knitted on regular machines and
of greater gets in the cache and give a prize have the advantagó strength than textiles and be to the one who did the best job easier to wash and quicker to dry of looting.
RED RYDER
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