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SPORTS
STORIES
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7 Part in a play
8 Exclamation of inquiry
9 Linen is made from this
11 Acram alikworm
1 Master of ceremonies (nb.)
13 Preposition
15 Bach (ab.)
Doctor (ab)
2 Type of butterfly
3 Alfred (ab.)
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14 Symbol for iron
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The bear caught ita slagry——————As li climbed the tree.
DIAMOND
We have a MEXICAN centre for our diamond this time. The second word "a boy's name," the third "assessments," the Afth "a lure," and the sixth "to volce."
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MEXICAN
N SOLVE-A-RIDDLE
When is a clock like a pursuing policeman? When it is after, Do
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Read down: burica. 2-Part vegetable.
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MISSING VOWELS
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1949.
The BOYS and
GIRLS PAGE
CRAFTS
GAMES
JOKES
BEAUTY IS ONLY SKIN DEEP ZOO'S WHO
W
HEN I asked Pop for the
car and an advance on
my next year's nilowance
to take Verna Monroe to the Palmer Park football victory Vowels have been omitted from the following sentence. If you in-dance, he didn't go into his sert the correct vowels in the proper places, you will learn an interesting fact about Mexico:
usual spasm.
"You're making smart choice, Son," he said. "Mrs
MXC & N'F TR RCHST MNAL Monroe is ono of the most CNTRS N TH WELD
ANSWERS
MISSING VOWELS: Mexico one of the richest mineral countries In the world.
DIAMOND:
M
TED TAXES
MEXICAN
DECOY
SAY
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CROSSWORD:
HOMOŇYM: Far, Fir.
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CRAZY COMPASS: Bo sure you are right, then go ahead.
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charming women I know. Gra- cious, lovely and well bred, she predicts a glorious future for her daughter. The old philoso- phers tell us to observe the mother if you would see tho daughter 20 years henco. Verna will be a fine woman some day."
Later while I waited for Verna to finish her make-up I studied Mrs Monroe very care- There, indeed was a fully. woman, in spite of her 38 years. "I'll hang on to Verna," I thought, "and some day I'll have a wife just like her mother!"
The victory dance wasn't too exciting, partly because we lost the game, and partly because Verna felt it her duty to dance with all the stags and boost their morale. So I-was happy to get her into the car and away carly on the long drive to her house.
First we stopped for ham- burgers to replace all the energy Verna had used up dancing. I ato a hot dog because I still had I came with all the energy except for the little I used holding Verna's compact.
FINALLY we got off and I was tossing off bon mots and witty sayings right and left when I thought I heard Verna whisper:
"S-S-S-S-T!"
What Knarf and Hanid Saw
-A Beanstalk Grew Out of the Story Book-
By MAX TRELL
AVERYONE in the house was fast sleep. In a corner of the play- room; "Knarf and Hanid, the shadow- children with the turned-about names, were about to fall asleep, too, when they noticed a strange thing happen. Out of the top of the Story Book, whitch stood on the book shelf, they suddenly noticed a tall, green stalk growing,
Now it wasn't usual for a stalk to book, and Knart be growing out of and Hanid were greatly surpriced.
feet and ran: They sprang to their.
over to look at it.
"It's a beanstalk," Knarf started to |say..
1-4
A small boy climbed up the bean stalk
1
At that instant, un even more as- dog tonishing thing happened. For just 3-AUen, a small boy began climbing up
the bean stalk from inside the book. It turned out that they knew more row stepping quickly from leaf to leat about what was going to happen than
he know himself. along the strong stem.
"Wa I Anally asked Jack.
Rupert's Elfin Bell—9
Rallo is tremendously excited at what he hai found. Fatust ask my Granny at once what this means!" he cries. The three pals don't have to search far. Just beyond the edge of the wood they see another wisp of smoke carling up fram some more rocks and there, staring intently at it and mattesing. to herself, is the old ginay Granny. She, looks very solemn," *sys Ruperi "D'you think, anything terrible is going to happen ?"
There's someiling here that even- she doesn't understand." Whispers Rotto.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
RED RYDER
His STRENCH
EBBING
RED
RYDER
SAVES
HIMGELF
BRINK
Stopped and Stared
"Of course, you will," said Hand. On spying Knarf and land, he "He'll be very big and fierce and at stopped at once and stared at them, first you'll be very frightened." Kmart and Hanid thought he looked "But you'll take his hen that lays said Knarf, "and a bit frightened, but the next the golden eggs," moment he shouted in a bold volce: you and your poor mother will be "Are you giants? I've come to come very rich." fight you."
"Oh no, we're not glants," laughed Honld.
"We're just Knarf and Hanid," sald of the Knarf. "We're the shadows children who live in this house."
"Oh." said the boy on the bean stalk, "you look like ginns. be in the wrong place."
doorway but Mr ing in the Monroe. He wore a blue and red bathrobe and a large-size frown.
"Mr Monroe," I squeaked, "you know what happened."
"You should have been hero half an hour ago!"
"Gee whiz, Mr Monroe." 1 ex- plained, "when Verna raw that I still had 33 cents left she got hungry again and I had to get her a malted." That's not truck she walled, "I Just went along to keep you company while you got a pack of gum."
"But I butted, "But" "The whole thing is your fault," she glared. "You went and got a Bat tyre and now Papa is mad at
met
"I got a flat tyre! How can you blame me? How can it be my fault?" "I've been driving three months and I never get flat tyres,” said she. "Go home, young man," growled
"You don't have to whisper, Mr Monroe, "I'll take up the matter Honoy," I said, "we're all alone of your debt directly with your and no one can hear those father." tender words of yours."
"What's cating you?" asked.
she
"Aw, haw," I chuckled, "I heard you with my little cars."
"S-S-S-S-T!" she whispered again. "Flump! Flump! Flump!" With each flump the car jar-
she
red.
"That's a cute trick,"
"How do you do it?" sald.
"Nothing to it," I groaned. "All you have to do is run over a nail. That whispering was a tyre giving up the struggle."
I jumped out. The right rear tyre had ground itself into black, smoking strips.
"Oh, Dickie," squeaked Verns, "I never saw one flatter. Can you change It?"
And
'APIGEON,OWNED BY WILLIAMS, WELLMAN OF CLEVELAND,WAS ENTERED INA, RACE IN JUNE,1939.
.I THE PIGEON
DISAPPEARED, THEN TURNED UP AT ITS OLD {LOFT NINE
YEARS LATER....
Scarba
DT TAXES ABOUT 577,831 COWS TO" FILL THE MILK BOTTLES REQUIRED FOR NEW YORISCITY DAILY90°
THE CAT FAMILY,RANGING FROM A LIONTO A HOUSE CAT, HAS BEEN CALLED THE MOST PERFECT OF ALL BEASTS OF PREY,BECAUSE IT IS SO WELL FITTED FOR ITS CALLING)
A NAVAJO INDIAN LEGEND:
The Sunset
Painting
With Flowers
and
"Of course I can. A two-year- old could change it!"
I didn't see Pop until he got home
Using the rough brushes two-year-old could, the next evenings I told him my
ago, a little
gaudy colours of war paints, he tried have changed it if he had had and story
he laid a hand on my MANY Years n key to the trunk. But it was shoulder nodding sympathetically. I Navajo Indian boy, sitting to copy the sunset sky but the result. on Pop's key ring and I was decided to unload another heavy before the door of his hut, was so crude that he throw it away
watched the beautiful, blending, in disgust. driving with Mother's key, With thought.
changing gold and rose of the colours as he two men in the family sho won't
Aunset. worry about flat tyres.
"How come your old philosophers say that a girl will be like her Why don't they mention Verna put her dainty fingers mother?
her father? He's the old block to her chin and thought hard.
Verna's a chip off of!" "I'm sure we aren't far from yes, Richard." Pop sighed, "I had Daddy's petrol station. Let's a long talk with Mr Monroe this grab a taxi and run over there. afternoon and I see what you mean." He'll let you have a tyre."
He walked slowly around the car,
At that hour of the night a smile growing at each step. with a pretty girl in distress I white sidewall tyres!"
"But the car looks good with ALL
was too much of a gentleman to say that I only had $1.25 in my pocket. We took a cab to Mr Monroe's petrol station, where he greeted us all smiles and helpfulness.
-CHUCK THURSTON.
An Idea
SURE, he'd give me a tyre and For Your-
he dug out a white sidewall
and offered it for only $21.95
including the tube. When Next Party
protested that I did not NEED;
a white sidewall he looked at
me as if I'd kicked my grand mother..
IFT walnuts
are just what you
need to provide the mystery feature at your next party,
He could not paint the saw them with the
He saw the sky with prunitive means at his hands. the eyes of an artist, but he NE evening as he watched the flaming bunset, he heard a voice record Its knew no way to
your brush and saying. "Take up beauty.
paint!"
Looking about him in amazement, the young chief saw flowers growing ubout his feet, their 'brush-like petals dripping with the same red and gold he saw in the sky!
deerskin that was Snatching the pegged out beside the hut, the young chief began to paint, using the flowers for both brush and colour. As the colours in the sky changed, ho changed flower brushes that held the exact tint his artist's eye would use. As the colour flowed from the brushes to his deerskin, he cast aside the stems.
When the red and gold of the sunset changed to the purples and blues of twilight, the young chief looked at his picture and knew that it was good. On the creamy deeraian, the flower paint brushes had re- corded the glory of the sunset skies. With #sigh of satisfaction, the artist closed his eyes.
the
strange, now,
the
In the dear lucht of morning, the To prepare these surprises, split
colours faded from the deerskin. "Young man," he said, "when the walnuts carefully in half and
As the Navajo boy grew he. The young chief might have thought you date MY daughter, you remove all the nut. Scour the learned to duplicate the beauti his picture had been only a dream
Then enclose your surprise. This
busily gathered meet the glant?" don't skimp! Do you expect her may be a chocolate, a cherry, a coin, ful colours of nature in weaving, had not the children of the village to ride on cheap tyres? If you a tiny souvenir, a postage stamp for and in pottery but this was, flower that, grew on the hillsides,
ile gift that women's work and he could not As they broke the long stems don't have the cash I'll gladly a collection, or any hold your watch for security." will fit inside the shell.
If the walnuts ΠΡΟ to be opened satisfy his own longing to create orange-red flowers, Lipped with the "Paint brushes! Indian Point He helped me out of my wrist at the table, little fortunes written by making blankets and water sun's gold, the children called them watch.. Then he went in his on tiny seroits are effective. These, jars.
Brushes!"
The young chief was content. His little truck to fix the car..
of course, are to be read aloud by
He was a each guest as the walnuts are opened.
chief's son and would wish to paint the sunset
had not While we waited Verna dis- the nuts are thrown in a bowl and himself become a leader of his people made, a beautiful pleture for the covered another humburg joint the guests are allowed to pick their one day, so he learned to make the picture was gone. But it had sacred sand paintings that have brought the bright reds and golds and had to be filled up again. Jown, the fun is all the merrier. Mr Monroe was back in half an the shells you must give the two But while he carefully sifted the seo their beauty.
After the surprises are placed in religious significance for the Navajos. down to earth where all men might hour and I asked if he'd drop halves together. If you wish, colour coloured sands to make the mystic us off at the car on his way the shells with gold or silver paint, designs, he longed for brighter, more home,
and you will have quite an effective vivid colours than'
the sands. "You expect. Verna to ride. in addition to your table decorations. n dirty old service truck?" he exploded.
The Giant's Harp
"And later on." sald Hanld, "you'll take the giant's beautiful singing harp, then you and your mother will be very happy."
Jack was very glad to hear about his good fortune.
"But what will happen to
to say. "Win I giants anywhere in the house. "Your giant?" he started nane is Jack, isn't it?" she said to have to fight with him? Will I wil
I must
Ifanid told him that there were no
the
himmy
and Hanld he answered.
before Knart "Yes, that's right," "How did you know?"
could answer, the Story Book sud "We've
read all about you. You denly toppled off the shelf and Jack
the fight?" Alos,
and
"But, Mr Monroe, I haven't got taxi fare!"
"Holy smokes," he yelled. money? Here's a buck. I'll put it on your bill! Get her home before midnight."
planted some coloured beans in your and the bean stalk vanished as quick"What do you kids do with your mother's garden they grow ly as they had appeared, back
book again. So Jack never wonderfully tall. So one day you the climbed up the stalk looking for the found out the end of his own story.
"He'll have to learn about it him- giant who lived in his palice above
self," sighed Ilanid, as she picked up the clouds."
Jack was more and more surprised the book and put it back on the shelf to find out that Knart and. Hand again. Then she and her brother re- knew so much about him, and the turned to their comer and tried once to go to aleep in the dark adventures that were li store for him more
at the top of tho magle bean stalk. house."
I THOUGHT YOU
WERE A GONER SURE, RED/
Dry Spell Ends
BATTLE AT THE CANYON
WITH ACE HANLON
YOU ANDI HAD THE GAME THOUGHTS,
BETH
BRING ME A DRINK
OF WATER, RED/I CAN'T MOVE ANOTHER
STEP
IT was just eight minutes after 12 when I finally got Verna home and who should be stand-
By Fred Harman
the dull tints of
DO-IT
By Dale Goss
Things to Make With Materials at Hand
Braided SAFETY PIN NECKLACE
1. Tako 6 SAFETY PINS £ inches long...12pin inch long and 6 pins 1inches long... Open and paint heads with DARK NAIL POLISH..hang on a wire coat hanger to dry.
DIP ENDS
THE NAIL
“POLISHE
2. Cut 3 strands of RUG YARN 45inches long... To together and braid for 13 inches Point ends and dip in nail polish.
23 231 31 11 28
A. Slipa small pin on strand·l. B. Braid lover 2 and 3 over 1....
slipanother, small pin on strand 2... C. Braid 2 over 3 and 1 over 2......
slip another small pin onstrand 3. D. Braid 3 overland 2 over 3......... Repeat with 6medium pins... 6 large pins... 6 more medium pins and 3more small pins.
In order as shown below.
4. Braid for more inches
knot and cut off ends...
THE AROUND NECK!
How Jan Saved The Bridge
'crind-
COME true stories as exclung as anything you have ever read in fiction can be read in a Now book on Boy Scouts.
It is called
The
Left shake," and is written by Hilary St
George
Saunder
the тал who wrote "The Battle of Britain." The best story is of Jan Van Roof, a Dutch Scout who #opped the Germans blowing up Nijme gen Bridgs. He climbed one of the arches from a canoe and cut the fuse wire, Today 30 troops of
Scouts
in Holland are
named after Jan
Europe
and Asia wartime Boy, Scoute worked in the underground movement and met secretly in woods and bombed buildings to make. their plans, Some of them escaped to England and were later parachuted back to sabotage faclorles and military targets.
AIL
over
ad- In Britain they had many ventures, too, carrying messages in the billz and helping with
bomb rescues. Their story in this book (it le published by Collina at 10. 04.) will All you with pride.