SPORTS
STORIES
PUZZLES
MENTAL GYMNASIUM
IS C
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CROSSWORD
1 Complies
ACROSS
7 Naughty child
3 Guido's high notes
10 Also
11 Pilfered
12 Negative reply
13 That which seeps
14 Left over
15 Comes in
10
17 Thus
18 Horses
19 Even (poetic)
20 Vended
21 God of war
22 Cuddles
4
DOWN
Italian river
2 Low fellow
3 Court (ab)
4 Hindera
5 Run away to wed
a Bargain event
7 Flags
Serious addresses
11 Burns
13 Expends
14 Nut fresh
18 Midday
17 Observer
10 Before
21 Boy's nickname
DIAMOND
MASTERS moke His word diamond. The second word is an abbreviation for Tasmania, the third is "sample," the fifth "stairs," and the sixth "before."
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MASTERS
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FLOWER POSERS
You'll have to
scramble-around
In this flower bed to pick the correct bouquet.
1. EVOITL is the symbol of modesty; CUSSRAINS stands for vanity.
2. If the MALP FALE...signilleg. victory, the ARELUL suggests fame. 3. Loncilness is represented by the THEHERA; SPROWNDO is 0 friend in need.
if
4. Sand her OSERS for love; it's hopeless WELLOY PLUITS will do.
6. The LOYLEW SERO denotes jealousy: LETHENOOPI is for de- votion.
Rupert and Margot-48
door
At the end of the wall the kitin party reach 1
enormous fastened by great iron bars and hinges. There you are." says the Frog.
"That hole at the bottoni al the door was made by mice, and il should serve
"Mice? you. whispers Rupert, "Do you have mire that size in your castle? *'
"Oh, yes, our mics are about as
as you," says the frog calmly. they can get through that hole you should be able to. So goodbye and good luck, You'll Endle bridge outside."
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
RED RYDER
HOMONYM
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1949,
The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
Don't Believe Your Eyes!
T
HE sky seems blue, and
"the moon appears larger
whenitis coming up over
the horizon than when it is rid-
Insert the missing word, which ing high. But space really la spelled colourless, and you know very well the moon never changes in Into size as it goes across the sky.
sounda .alike. but are differently.
the
The
bird accidentally
ANSWERS
CROSSWORD:
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HOMONYM: Flew, flue.
DIAMOND:
MI TAS
TASTE
MASTERS
STEPS
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Your eyes do not always tell you what they actually ECO because through long habit and training they have become used to adjusting themselves to supposed truths. Your eyes never deliberately try to fool you, but they do draw some very wrong conclusions sometimes.
Try this: Draw a horizontal Une one inch long. From the middle point of the line draw a vertical line one inch long. The verticn! lina will look much longer than the hors- zontal line.
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COMETIMES these eye tricks can be used to help overcome some slight defect
DON'T ALWAYS BELIEVE WHAT YOUR EVES TELL YOU -
IF YOU'RE SHORT A CUIT, WITH VERTICAL STRIPES WILL MAKE YOU LOOK TALLER.
HORIZONTAL STRIPES WILL MAKE YOU HEAVREK
LOOKING
FOR INSTANCE,
A VERTICAL LINE LOOKS LONGER THAN *A HORIZONTAL ONE- "BUT THESE TWO
LIVES ARE THE SAME LENGTH
CRAFTS
GAMES
JOKES
ZOO'S WHO
A BLACK SQUARE, THE" SAME SIZE AS A LIGHT SQUARE, WILL APPEAR GMALLER THAN THE LIGHT.
CHINOOK SALMON, LARGEST OF THE PACIFIC SALMON, OCCURS FROM NORTHERN JAPAN TO ALASKA AND SOUTHWARD TO MONTEREY BAY, CALIE, SOMETIMES CALLED THE KING SALMON, ITS AVERAGE WEIGHT 15 ABOUT 22 POUNDS...
HEY!
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because the Greek two small circles about two inches A short and tubby person should in the centre
architects knew a tall pillar with apart on a plece of paper. Hold the wear clothes with rather prominent straight sides appeared thin in the paper out at arm-length and try to vertical stripes. This will tend to stretch the wearer out a bit. On the centre section. So the three-quarter- look through the paper between tho
inch bulge makes the eye tell the two circles, You will
the ather hand, tall people can look less brain the pillars are straight. The circles move together to mako lanky by wearing horizontal stripes Greeks tricked the eye into fooling one, and then suddenly you will
le. Short girls the mind. or a wide bow
notice not one or two, but THREE should never wear close-atting hats.
• circles. Tall girls carry' best the big- brimmed headgear.
Architects employ many eye tricks want. The to get the effects they Parthenon at Athens is still con- FLOWER POSERS: 1-Violet, nar-sidered to be a first-rate example of
3-optical Illusions in buildings. cissus. 2-Palm leaf, laurel
Ils majestic pillars, 34 feet high, Heather, snowdrop. 4-Roses, yellow tulips. -Yellow rose, hellotrope. bulge out three-quarters of an inch
Christopher to the Rescue
-Frogs and Beetles Help Him Put Out a Fire...
By MAX TRELL
IIS is the story that Christo- pher Cricket fold Knart and Hanid, the shadow-children with the turned-about names, they all sai under the gate al the bottom of the garden.
ag
"It all happened just as I tell it to you," Christopher Cricket began, in his to chirpy voice. "It's a good thing that I happened to be there at the time. I hate to think what might have happened if I had been some other place.
After. Sundown
"It all happened last night," ho went on, "after everyone had had their supper. The sun had already gone down.
I had tuned up my guitar and was walking along the edge of the wood, wondering under what tree to sit and play my congs, when all at once I noticed a bright point of light. It seemed to be lying on the ground, Just under a clump of plae trees.
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Christopher Cricket was walking along the edge of the wood with his guitar.
brighter and then the wind blow some leaves against it. And the next instant-the-little-paint-of- brightness grew very big indeed. It was now a flame."
"My goodness!" cried Hanid. "What did you do?"
"There wasn't ⚫ anyone around," said Christopher. "There was no one I could go to for help. I couldn't go for water because the brook was be too far away and I didn't have a I couldn't' call the firo de- bucket.
"At first," Christopher Cricket conlinued, "I though it might
a cal's cyc. But the next moment
eyes.
Low
I told myself that all cats have two partment. All I could do was to call
out: Fire! Fire! And in a This shining thing in the seconds, a dozen beetles and trous shadow of the wood hnd to be and toads and grasshoppers and fre Gomething else. So I went in a les came running and flying up. little closer and had a good took at it.".
"What was it, Christopher?"
Hanid asked.
Picca Of Wood
"It was a small plece of wood," Christopher answered, "and one end
of it was burning."
"Burning!" excluimod Kparf and "How could it be Hanld together. burning?"
"You see," Christopher went on, Aro. "someone had bulit . camp Then they had gone away and for- gotten to put it all out. So there was this little bit of wood, sul
And at that glowing in the daric. very moment, something else hap-
pened.
Pulled Loaves Away
**Quick. I shouted. 'We've got
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templed to Next time, you are say, "I know it for a fact; I saw it with my own
eyes," pause and think of all the queer tricks 'your eyes have played on you.
OING back to wearing apparel, dark clothes will appear to re- duce bulkiness, whereas light clothes will make a person look larger than he really is. Long overcoats make tall people shorter. Square-toed On the other hand,' don't overlook shoes make feet look bigger. Spec- using these optical illusions to your tucles broaden a narrow face.
own advantage when it comes to the Hero's. another interesting ex matter of dressing up smartly and periment to prove your eyes can in a manner that best suits your make you change your minit. Draw Aguru.
DO-IT By Dale Goss
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PARTY
Things to Make With Materials at Hand
Horn
1.Decorate a CARDBOARD TUBE (from a roll of paper Lowe's etc.) with crayons. 2.At one end punch, 3 holes 11 inches apart with a small nail..
3. Cut a circle of WAY PAPER Finch larger around than end of tube. Fasten paper tightly over end of tube with RUBBER BAND.
4.From 2 DIFFERENT COLORS
of PAPER cut 2 strips ..... I strip 4inches wide...I strip 3inches wide both inch longer than tube naround fold each in half 2 times and cut in a fringe.
15. Curl fringe around a
pencil.
6. PASTE the 4inch fringe ^- around end of tube covered -with wax paper...paste the
3 inch fringe over the 4inch strip.... HUM and SING into the open end. and bothaLIFE of the PARTY!
Some Tips For Good
Sleeping
LA
to keep this fire from burning any ATE again? Of course, you more! We can't put it out, but Wo
pulled the leaves
overslept. But have you
can keep it from getting any big-stopped to analyse the reason ger. The wind was still blowing on for a sleepyhead wanting to the leaves but we all dashed in and keep his eyes shut long past the
away before they started burning. Meanwhile all the allotted time? beetles WETO digging a ditch all around the fire and finally, with no leaves to burn and a deep itch around it that it couldn't jump across, the are died down and went out.
more
"But how tired we were!" Chris- Knart and Hunid. topher said to "None of us could move. And when I woke up this morning, there I was lying in the ditch between a beetle and a grasshopper. But you can't Imagine what a cheerful good morning we all gave each other. "The wind came along and blew For there is nothing in the world against the glowing plece of wood. so dreadful as a fire that burns trees I thought it would blow it out. But and houses but cooks nothing and not at all; it made it glow oven keeps no one warm."
YOU BAY DOC COLD AND KILLBEAR CHEAT
MY TRIBE /
End of the Chapter
YES, AND THEY'RE GOING TOJAIL FOR ITS
AND HERE'S THE PELT OF THE WHITE COTOTE YOU THOUGHT
WAS AN EVIL SPIRITS
It is not due to dark winter mornings and the cold temperature outdoors. The reason goes back
to those sensitive nerves that make us feel, see, hear, touch and taste. All day these nerves have been coming to the surface of the body to tole- graph their sensations to the brain.
of
10
At the end of 12 hours they are tired of the constant motion sending messages. They begin lose their aharpness. They need complate rest before they can grow keen again...
It a person does not get enough sleep he will have 'a "dull" day, be- cause tired nerves are unable to
By Fred Harman
UGHT ME FOOLED TWICE
BY WHITE COYOTE LEGENDS
NOT BELIEVE IN EVIL SPIRITS
ANY MORISS
BR-R.
RING!
IF YOU HAVE TROUBLE WAKING UP-DON'T PUT YOUR ALARM CLOCK
NEAR THE BED
carry sensations in anything, except n dull manner.
com~
DIXIE, A HEN OWNED BY BOB MUIR,AFARMER NEAR SALINA, KAN.REGULARLY LAID EGGS IN AN OLD FRYING PÂN WHICH
SHE USED FOR A NEST.
HO
{JUMMY)]
SOME PLANTS WHICH EAT" INSECTS ARE ATTACKED BY INDIGESTION WHEN GIVEN
RAW BEEF...
An Old Red Indian Legend :
Flowering Footsteps
LONG BO
a beautiful Red Indian girl lived in the.. northern forests of America. Gay, happy and hard working. she was loved by her tribe and her presence in her father's tepee was like the warmth and light of the fire.
As the maiden neared the age of marriage, her father dread- ed the time when she would leave him for Home young brave. Suppose the young man she would marry would wish to take her far away to live in another country? The father felt that he could not endure that.
she
soft
the
not endure the old chieftain
Donning ber was to marry,
Alling white, bridal buckskins and
gentians At last, he hit upon a plan. her hands with the blue
she leaped from He would pick the girl's hus from the woods, band-an old man, tired of the the top of a great rock into the deep,
dark waters of the lake. war path and the hunting trall, one-who-would never dream of pur she did not drown. As the leaving the village! The girl's bobbed to the surface of father found such an old chief water, her surprised eyes saw
warrior and made plans for the mar face of a strange young
bending down to her from a canoe. Drawing her up beside him,
to The maiden was obedient, and she young man paddled furiously
to make the blankets began
and escape the pursuit of the maiden's cooking pats she would take to her father.
But she was and husband's tepee. and spent much time weeping, alone in the woods. Her only foy was in gathering the pretty blue flowers which grew everywhere in the cool forest shade.
riage.
As the day for her marriage drow near, the Indian girl knew she could
Competition
Peps You Up
canoe and
the
fled
Coming to the end of the lake, they beached the away to the south and west. For
many miles the angry father pursued them, following by the flowery foot- steps the maiden left behind her. Wherever she stepped the blue gen- tions that she had loved aprang up in all their beauty.
Then the Bowers began to grow scarce and at last there were none to betray where the lovers had fled.
It
We may believe that the tiny gen- tlon seeds clung to the maiden's mocassins and were so transplanted. When the flowers grew scarce was because the seeds had all been shaken to the ground. But the In- dlan father belleved that the Great
TO many people competition menny Spirit did not wish him to has vil-
getting ahead
fellow, beating him
other daughter, so he returned to his to a desired lage, a saddened man who had lost
goal, sometimes - even by under what he prized most by a selfish hand methods. But there is another, | effort to keep it. and much better word.
meaning for the
When you compete with some- one, whether in sports, in industry, at the office, or in
Lessons For Your Dog
IF you want your dog to be oven smarter than he is now, and a follow these six better playinate,
training rules:'.
other field, Insufficient sleep can be caused by any factors other than a late bedtime you are spurred hour. The bed should be
on by a desire to fortable and the room well ventilat- make the most of ed. Thoughts of the next day's yourself, you feel work should be avoided.
to do urge mbre than you Sometimes a warm bath helps the ever did before. **wide-awaker. Or even 10 minutes | such competition
of light physical exercises.
creates an enthu Whether you get six or eight hours alasm to improve
the job you are doing. It peps you be is a puppy with simple le of sleep, set your alarm for regular rising hour each day and put up to work harder, to find ways of things he likes to do. the clock on the other, alde of the Increasing production.
2., Boguro to praise him with foom, nover next to the bed. Tho
You put the best efforts of your pats and kind words when he does jump out of bed to the clock is 'one heart, mind, and hands into handling right. sure way to wake up.
th
1. Begin training your dog when.
the problems and opportunities you
3. Train him for only. short A dash of cold water over face meet every day. It gives new vigour
hands adds to the rousing and vitallly to meet every challenge periods. When he gets tired, he bes process, as does a one-minute rub that comes to you.
comes cross and pouty and thinks
and
down with a towel. -
"
5.
you are trying to punish hin If clothes have been put out the It is n double-barrelled proposi 4. Always use the same 'words night before, that's another ald. tion, too. What it does for you it and a gentle even tone of voice to Shoce should be polished and in also does for your competitor. Ho command him. place. Teon-age girls should do is inspired to make the most of his A dog should have only one confuse their primping at night, completing chances and his abilities, to, do his master. Too many will.
good brushing and setting job with best as he meets challenge and op- him. ahalrnet. It doesn't take long
whip or abuse your toportunity along his way,
0. Never allp 'n not off and comb briefly In
dog. If he must be punished pinp place.
We are all competing in the game him gently or scold him mildly. He Last, but not least, stand before of life. The meaning wo, give this knows his master and likos to your mirror and smile--the broadest competition results. in our true plonso him. Treat him with kind- amilo you can muster up...
happiness and #UCTORS ———.or osir ness and he will make you proud failure.
of him.
You're on your way-on time!--