THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1948.
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CHILDREN'S CHRISTMAS SECTION
MENTAL GYMNASIUM There's More In Nuts
CROSSWORD
ACROSS
2 Golf teacher
4
Winter vehicles
0 Laughter sound-
7 Preposition
8 These are decorated at Christ-
mas
→ Snako
DOWN
1 It's time to give these
2 Plural (ab.)
3 Alleged forco
4 Perched
6 Distress signat
CHRISTMAS REBUS
Use the words and pictures to and the names used in varioua countries' - for A very important Christmas Ogure:
I'VE ALREADY SAT HERE FOR
AN HOUR
W
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YOU'RE
YOURSELF NICK!
SANO
PERE IS FRENCH WE SHOULD
THER GINO A
NOLL OR
TWO
DIAMOND
The word diamond is built around this HOLIDAY. 'The second word is "a = spinning_toy," ́_the third "storics,"
Than Meets Your Eye
ZOU will probably get plenty You
of nuts over Christmas. the fifth is "part of a And you will no doubt enjoy blcycle," and the sixth
zul's eating them. nickname."
HOLIDAY D
MISSING VOWELS
We've omitted the vowels and
But do you know that thero is excellent geography in a bag of mixed nuts 7
Since ancient times, nuts have been world travellera to give people the good nourish ment concentrated in them. Many nuts come from far cor- ners of the globe and fill the
By LEE PRIESTLEY
America they tooke, peanuts with When Negro slaves were taken to them, so that now they are popular all over the world.
Another commercially important: nut will not be found in your bag. of mixed nuts. This is the coconut, which provides food, clothing, undi shelter for millions of people. It is also the source of important oils.
and often chestnut, is popular in many forms Another important food nut
cakes.
indo into breads and
the
The peanut is perhaps the most they have other uses as well. The We think of nuts as a food, but important of nuts for Britain, as a soep nut of the West Indies makes. East Africa to grow millions of thems huge scheme is now under way in suds for the family laundry,
to
increase the oils and fats;
run the words together in our sen-holds of cargo ships sailing the anyika, where up to now the land sometimes called vegetable ivory,
tence. Can you're-insert the vowels 8oven scas, and break the line up to make a statement about Christmas?
Brazil nuts come from South America, where they grow on ma- THSHLDYSNFTUNRTUNDGD | jestic forest trees. Native nut hun ters find the trees and bring in the nuts to traders.
WLLTWEDMN
MIX-UPS
By rearrangement of the letters in the lines below you can learn two things which are done at this time of year:
TAX FOG FIC SEC HEN ORE COT FAN SEED TRIO
CODED MESSAGE
A simple code has been substituted
for the correct letters in this sen-
The life of these nut bunters is
world supply of The cornubin palm nut is the- source of ine waxes and polishes.. Towns are springing up in Tang- Corozo nuts from South America, has been just bush and jungle; are carved Into buttons and loya thousands of square miles will be covered peanuts are sometimes called) when a valuable ingredient for varnishes.
with the scheme is fully working.
groundnuts (as
Nuts from. hung of trees provide From bitter almonds, deadly poison and delicate perfumes are made."
Nut shells are burned to make a shells are ground fine and added to fine commercial charcoal Peanut. commercial fertilisers to keep their contents dry.
not one of safety, for the trees grow nut from Africa is made in
NE deep in the jungics and drop their heavy pods of nuts like bombal Men by African
to drinks. The cola nút, prized natives who think it have been killed when struck by gives them greater endurance at falling Brazil nuts.
So if someone says, "Nuts to games, used as the base of many you take it as a compliment. Nuto- popular drinks usually Many Alberts, or hazel nuts, come by the word "cola,"
designated are important things in the world from Spain, but these
today. also grow widely in the United States.
Almonds and English walnuts, once grown in Porsia and Italy, aro now planted in temperate climates, and may come from almost any Country, Cashews, those-
curious
tence, but a good cryptographer should have little difficulty with it: comma-shoped nuts, grow at the
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CHRISTMAS REDUS: Clous; Father Christmas; Nick (St. Nicholas); Pere Nocl
Pistachios are the kernels inside the heavy stones of dry, inedible Mediterranean region.
The Orange Family Was Sweet
‚-But Their Cousins the Lemons Were Sour---
By MAX TRELL
T'S a curious thing," Mr Punch
fruits. Most of them grow in the "S,
nut
are
Pegans, the most valuable crop in the United States, natives of the new world. and grow best In the southern alates.
The pinon, or pine nut, is the seed of a small pine cone found on the mountains and mesas of Southwest America. Most of this
crop is gathered by Indians; who call them "dondo de Dios," or "Gift of God."
are the
was saying to Kaart and Hanid, the shadow-children with the turned-about names, but just because ono member of a family 14 nice and sweet, it doesn't always. mean that the rest of the family is equally sweet."
The two shadows looked at Mr Punch with puzzled expressions. They didn't know exactly what ho meant.
"For instance," Mr Punch went on, "take the Orange Family. Orange is as sweet as anything could be. But there's his cousin Lemon. He's a sour one, he let He belongs to the same family, but what a differencel. You'd never think they were related to each other, And then there's Orange's other cousin, Grapefruit. He's not quite as sour
bo's not sweat way they are." And take the Apple. either."
Lemon. But
A fine, sweet, rosy-checked girl, it' Knarf sald: "Lemon and Gropo- ever there was one! But are her' fruit can't help being sour, can they cousins sweet?" Mr Punch?
THE best-liked nut in the bag, the peanut, isn't a nut at all. Peanuts seeds of a plant. When the white blossoms of the peanut plant die, tho stems turn down as ward and bury themselves la the Santa soil. At the end of the stems the Saint pods develop,
MIX-UPS: Exchange of gifts; Decoration of trees,
MISSING VOWELS: This holi day is one of peace on earth and good will toward men.
DIAMOND
.TOP
TALES HOLIDAY
PEDAL
SAL
CODED MESSAGE: Insects play
a great part in cross-fertilisation
of flowers,
Rupert and Margot-20
·Stumbling down the hillde Rupert reaches the wood again. He finds that when he leaves the rocks behind the earth does not tremble sa much, but he pops into a hollow tree for safety and waits for Margot 10 join him. The minutes past but there is no sign of his little friend. and he gets mate anxious. "She must have stayed in that cupboard." he thinks I do hope that great overhanging clit haan't fallen on the tiny house. I must go back and ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
RED RYDER
How They Crow "No," agreed Mr. Punch,
explorers, the peanuts were taken Discovered in Brazi by Spanish to Africa and Europe in old salicons, together with pieces nf sold and silver and other treasures the way they grow, and that's the
ZOO'S WHO
HERE'S A HOUSE!
Though he couldn't help it, Cousin
Lemon was mour."
"Who are her cousins?" Hanid. wanted to know.
that's" Quince, a very sour chop."
"Well," said Mix, Punch, "there's
OTHER SPL ÉS OF I DEER,EVEN LK;)
ARE OFTEN FICTURED AS DRAWING SANTA CLAUS'S SLEIGH BE- CAUSE THEY ARE MORE GRACEFUL THAN REINDEER.
WOODPECKERS HAVE BECOME THE DUCKS HAVE ATRANSPARENT. CARPENTERS OF THE BIRD WORLD, MANYTM MEMBRANE TO PULL OVER · SPECIES NOW DEPEND ON HOMES BUILT-THEIR EYES WHEN IN FLIGHT
BY THESE STRONG-BILLED BIRDS..... → LIKE GOGGLES...
Call of the Coyote
SURE ME KNOW FANGS THAT SOUNDS) HOWL ANYWHERE MAYBE
HIM COME BACK
LIKE FARG,
KILLDEARS
OF COURSE HE WILL~* SOONER OR LATER?
HE ALWAYS DOES WHEN HE GETS HUNGRY?
"And who else?" asked Kaart, "Didn't you ever hear of Crab- Apple?" said Mr Punch. "Ho's not sweet at all, no airec!"
Knart and Hanid were exceedingly_ surprised to learn about the sweet ind-sour members of the Orange ind. Apple Families. "And, of course," said Mr Punch, "there's Pickle who is sour and Cucumber who's rather cool' and sweet."
"Pickles, and cucumbers are the same thing!" Hant cried.
Mr Punch didn't seem to hear her. Ho want right op. "And, there's Plum and Prune, Plum is smooth and round Prune is all wrinkled up, and dry-
Both The Samo
"Plunt and prune aro both same thing tool" Hanid said in a the loud volce,
"And take Graph and Raisin," said Mr Punch. Is there anything prattler than Grupe? Is there any thing as wrinkled as Raisin?"
"Grapts and raisins are" Hanld begon, In the loudest voice of all.
Then Mr Punch laughed. "Yes, dear," he said to her. "Cucumbers my and pickles, plums and
prunes, grapes and raisins are all the same things. But, it just goes to show how different the same things can be. And there's one thing I didn't mention at all. Even though some things arej sweet, and some things are Bour, and some things aro smooth, and some things are wrinkl edll of them are well liked, bo- cause," he added, "they're all use- ful"
By Fred Harman;
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