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SPORTS
STORIES
PUZZLES
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1949.
The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
CRAFTS
GAMES
JOKES
MENTAL GYMNASIUM Dame Dandy's Umbrella ZOO'S WHO
CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
1 Mongrel
4 Conclusion
7 Indiro dye
• Above
10 Heap
11 Not as much
12 Vexors
14 Ocenn
15 Halled
10 Portal
20 Merit
22.God of luvo
23 Greek portico
24 Scine
25 Foreign agont
DOWN
Ifead covering
2 Integral part
3 Irritate
4 At all times
5 Promontory
6 Doctors (ab.)
8 Renters
- Chemical salts
13 Observe
15 Pierce with homa
10 Plant part
17 Dines
18 Let fall
19 Low haunt
#1 Negative vole
WORD CHAIN
Chango KICK to GOAL in seven moves, altering one letter at a time. Make sure you have a good word after each move.
PICTURE SQUARE
The four words of this square are 'suggested by the pictures. Each word has four Jetters, which can be arranged into a squaro.
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DIAMOND
This diamond centres om a CAPRICE. The second word in "a felino creature," the third "a Mediterranean island," the arth is "backneyed," and tho sixth "frozen water."
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CAPRICE
· ADD-A-SCRAMBLERS
Another Rubbalong Adventure By
Enid Blyton:
ow, I'm just off," said Ma Rubbalong, tying her bonnet strings. "I'll only be gone two daya, so you can't get into much of a
Add 8 in a scrambled "laan" muddle in that time, little Rubbalong." and have "arggests,"
"No, Mn," said Rubbalong, busy Add D to scrambled "to dir-hammering a nail into a boot. "Have à ty" and have "frm, compact.”
good time!"
ANSWERS
WORD CHAIN: KICK, lick, lock, look, cook, cool, coal, GOAL.
DIAMOND:
C CAT
CAPRI
CAPRICE
TRITE ICE
PICTURE SQUARE:
STAR
TAXI AXES RISE
ADD-A-SCRAMBLERS: Thin,
Hinta; Sol, Solid,
CROSSWORD:
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"And Rubbalong-you will remem- ber to take back that umbrella of Dame Dandy's, won't you?" said Ma. "Tho one she lent me this morn- ing, I promised she should have it today."
"I'll remember, Ma," said Rubbalong "You'll miss your bus if you don't go."
TTLE ROBS
'Into the dustbin you go,” said Rubbalong
The window was open just a Cher Erhék: “Thöjumbrella shut finelf, hopped up to the ill. and squeezed Itself through the
cock...)
""I'm 'cold, I'm wet," it whing od and hopped over to little Tubbalong, "Move up spe "cate Let me come, too!" afecte The cats yowied and leapt off Rubbalong's knee at once. Ha woke up in a hurry and found Tho himaelf very wet indeed. dripping umbrella was on his
***This is too much," said Bubbalong, angrily. "Into the dustbin you go]"
And Into the dustbin it went, and the lid was banged down on top of it. No more was heard of the umbrella for a long time. In fact, little Rubbalong for- got all about it, and he hopped into his warm bed, cuddled his
"Goodness! It's you tolking!" chased the umbrella round the hot-water bottle and went to said Rubbalong in astonishment kitchen, but it kept tripping, sleep with Tib, Tab and Tubby "I forgot all about you. You're him up. At last it stood self on his feet.
a nuisance. Now I shall have to in a comer, quilo quietly,
take you back all the way to Damo Dandy's."
"Well, you just stay there
vald little Itubbalong, And don't let mo hear
What was that noise on the
tap!. Let me in. I'll break the window if you don'!!"
"Well, don't forget about the
"LAZY creature!" Enid the umbrella," said Ma. "You never umbrella, and gave him a sharp a sound from you all day!", window? "Tap-tap-tappitty- know what anything belonging poke, It stared round at
the That umbrella was a perfect to Dame Dandy will do, if it's three cats who were altting nuisance. It hopped at the cats left about. Goodbye Rubbalong" down watching it, it suddenly barking and opened itself out It was that dreadful umbrel- Off she went, Little Rubba- growled loudly and opened it every time Tib, Tab or Tubby la again! It had jiggled off the long got on with his work, and self out with a click
They dustbin lid. It had hopped out, came into the kitchen. the three cats sat and watched The cats streaked out of the didn't even dare to drink their and come to the window. It him. He whistled softly, door in a hurry. "Now stop milk.
was hung with potato peel and He liked working-It was nice it," sold little Rubbalong. "I
tea-leaves, and it was very cold maklag old things new again. don't allow umbrellas to behave
and very cross, He forgot all about the um-
Uko that." brella till the next day, Ho
He caught hold of wouldn't have remembered it
He tapped the dog's shut it. head handle. "No more nudery from you," he said and walked off to Dame Dandy's with it.
then if It hadn't spoken to him. It had a dog's
head for a handla and it spoke quite suddenly in a barking volce.
"Woot! Lazy boy. Why didn't
take me back?"
you
the cala,
Rubbalong jumped. So did "WOOF!" said the umbrella again and its little dog-mouth opened and shut at the top of the umbrella handie.
Knarf Helped Pixie O'Scowl
-They Looked for Missing Tadpoles-
By MAX TRELL
WAS' down at the pond,"
Knarf Bald. Fis sister Hanld looked up at him. "Were you swimming?" she asked. "Or diving? Your hair is all wet. So are your clothes."
Knarf smiled. "I was help ing Pixie O'Scowl hunt for tadpoles.
"What did Pixie O'Scowl want with, tadpoles?" Hanld asked in surprise.
"He didn't want anything with them," - eald-Knari "HO- just wanted to hunt for them." "If he didn't want them," Hanid said in a puzzled volce, why did he bother to hunt for them? And
did you have why
to help him?"
Mrs
Pixie O'scowl counted the tadpoles.
"Well," said Knart, “It was all because of Mr and Croaker. You know Mr and Pixie O'Scowl had to get in the Mra Croaker?"
water and go poking around Hanld shook her head. "It's after them. Finally he counted afunyname," 'sho said, "but 1 them all.. "There are nine thou- don't know them. Who are sand four hundred and sixty three of them, he told Mr and they?"
Right Over Pond Mrs Cronker.""
Became Worried
It and
But when he got there, the door was shut and there was a noto pinned to it "Back to morrow."
"Bother!"
me
"All right," said Rubbalang. and he picked up the umbrella suddenly by the handle, "Out you go into the rubblah-heap where umbrellas like you be long."
But noon there was a tap tap-tap at the door again-and in came that umbrella, smeling of all the rubbish in the heapt
"I think you're
and
Rubbalong Frumbled groaned and the cats hissed and spat. It wasn't a bit of good. Tap-tap-tappilly-tap, let me th I'll break the window, top-tap- TAPPITY-TAPI
Rubbalong opened the win- dow. "You wretched, tiresome thing! Go, and stand in the corner," he said, and got back into his warm bed
But the umbrella crept in beside him, cold and wet and smelly. It dug its dog's-head unkind to handle into him. "Cuddle me," me," it said, mournfully it whined. "I'm cold" feel ul. Let me stay by you."
"Certainly not," said Rubbia long in disgust. "Out you go.
He threw the umbrella out
And he stuck it firmly into the middle of the rubbish-heap, with just the dog's head show sald Rubbalong. ing. well I'll have to stand you here in the porch, umbrella. Dame Dandy will see you when she comes home,"
"I
to be left here," don't want called the umbrella, in alarm.
Take
with you. But Rubbaleng had run off down the hill. He sat down at his work when he got in, and the mended boots and shoes began to pile up in heaps There came a knock at the door. "Come in!" cried Rubba long. But nobody came. Rubba long got up and opened it./
In hopped the umbrella. whining a little. "You shouldn't have left me. It's a long walk back!"
inlo
But Itle Rubbalong wouldn't; Cuddle a knobbly apiky wet umbrellano, smelly, thank you! He got out of bed, the yard. It was now pulled the elderdown over him pouring with rain, and the um- and went to sleep on the floor. brella opened itself at once, It Tib, Tab and Tubby went with hopped round on its deg's head him, so he was warm, but most handle, getting wetter and wet- uncomfortable.ka ter, and wetter.
And that Uresome umbrella Then it peeped in at the win- | dow. It saw little Rubbalons ipt peacefully in poor Rubba long's bed, all night long. Ho's sitting in his mother's arm- chair, fast asleep by, the fire, going to take it back to Dame "What! You've come here to with a newspaper open, in his Dandy today. I hope she's
back, don't you?" me again!" cried Rübbalong in hands. The three cats weTA ON- a rage, "I won't stand it!" Ho hla knee.
(London Express Berdice);
THE SECRET OF THE
STRADIVARIUS
Michelson, a Cincinnati chem- ist, has learned how to make
how to m Strad varnish. ****
Michelson scraped of tiny varnish from Strad of varnish, TTS to be a gift," said layer
applied sa blts. ipf
examined them the haughty nobleman thinly the tone grows mellower, violins, and
the colour of the wood more under a
spectroscope. "You are to of Cremona.
lovely with age. Everything I Instrument uses coloured light exact make an excellent job of it." learned from my teacher. Nie- rays to
reveal the Antonio Stradivari looked up colo Amati Everything I dis- chemical make-up of a material. from his figuring. "AN addies are excellent, my lord."
my covered myself. All this, my Michelson found that the lin- oil in the varnish hadn't. "So they say, so they say, Stradivarius Addler And the cost?" "Mr and Mrs Croaker," said
specially treated before mixing. Stradivari named a Knart, are frogs. They live on "And when they heard that,"
Agure, In spite of himself. "Oh, very And the varnish had been up- and the visitor whistled, "All well! When shall I call for it?" plied in several thin coats after
few more worried that, for a
pieces of wood
"Next year, my lord." which the viollu was immedi- is and some catgut strings?" 'One of them
#Next--? Did I hear you ately put out they
The both shouted.
famous violin- ". most at the sky. They're the mama missing!'
Italian sunlight. sor next year?" and papa of the tadpoles. But 'Where's the other one? Poor maker In Cremona flushed, but
Stradivari nodded gravely. Now chemists can make the continued to talk calmly. "Not. they can't over noe them swim- Pixie 03cowl! He didn't know?
He wasn't suro | just ming-around in the pond bo what to do,
and pine
a white rock, right over the Knarf went on, "Mr and Mrs
Rupert & the Arrows-20 bunt They do nothing all day Croaker became
Pong Ping and Podgy are on out
of breath, so Rupert, arriving-Grst- -|
alt on this look than ever.
lord, you buy when you order been used "raw" but
seed *
The noble mowled, Impressed
Was
in the bright
varnish of Cremona's
cause Mama and Papa Croaker whether he had made a mistake mapleod, my frd. Spruce and "That is how long it will take, superb
and ebony. my lord. Now, you'll just sign great addiemaker. But varnish
1
RE OGLAN SUNFISI
ZUHICH ATTÁNS X WEIGHT OF ONE "TON IS NO LARGER THAN A PINHEAD (UHEN BORN,
WOODPECKERSCAT HEAR
A WORM INSIDE A TREE....
FRANCISCO PIZARRO, SPANISH CONQUEROR OF PERU, SKOD HIS HORSES WITH SHOES OF GOLD AND SILVERTM, BECAUSE OF THE CHEAPNESS OF THESE MEDALS
COMPARED TO IRON.(Istå CENTURY).....
The Poem That Saved A Ship
THE poem that saved a
ship-the
renowned
USS Constitution was written more than 100 years
ago.
The famous Constitution fought her last engagement in 1815. In 1830 it was recom- mended that the frigate. bú...... disposed of as unfit for service. A news story to that effect up-. peared in a Boston newspaper Sept. 14, 1830. Two days later
there appeared in Boston papera a poem which remains famous to this day.
It was "Old Ironsides" by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
The poem stirred America 50 much that plans to dismantle"]
THE CONSTITUTION”
AND THE GUERRIÉRO"
been sold following the War of Independence, making neces sary the beginning of a now Acat.
The six frigates were design- ed to outclar ships of the same and typo owned by British
French navics, The trigates Swaro
"not only
in
superior numbers of guns, but also more. timbered than the
heavily others.
In the War of 1812 balls from the lighter English guns re- bounded from the stout wooden sides of the Constitution and the other Ave ships.
On Aug. 19, 1813, the Con- stitution engaged the British frigate, Guerriere. The British. ship fred many shots during the ensuing battle, but the Con stitution held her fire.
Some time later the Consti- broadside the ship were laid aside and tution delivered a she was saved for futuro gen- within pistol range and in Sp erations Since 1807 except for minutes of heavy action, forced one cruise, she has been docked the surrender of the enginy in Boston, her Home port: ahlp.
The Constitution was one
of
During the fight an unknown six frigates whose construction seaman, seeing a shot rebound was authorised by Congress to from her stout hull, dubbed stem the ravaging of American her "Old Ironsides," a nick- merchant chips by Barbary name that stuck Const pirates. Every American, eraft in the small navy had
Th and perfect materials are always looking up at the in counting or whether one of The finest specimens, of even this order? Right here, where is only one factor. The job stil
takes sky. They are worried."
the tadpoles was really lost grain. Aged and seasoned by It reads: Dafe promised-May mo
months at patient, zkilful toll "Worried?"
Hanid. And just at that moment," sold my own secret processes. Care 17, 1723" 'sald
by artista and craftsmen. Even "What made them..
fully cut and shaped, then, worried?" Knari, "I came along."
over and The dazed noble took the when we know all of Stradi- LogLooking up at the sky and "And did you help. Pixie shaved and sanded
vart's secrets, we may still not able to ade their O'Scow17" naked Hanid.
.again, until they're pen, and signed.
Thank you, my, lord. This be able to equal the greatest exactly thin enough and curved will be my finest addle so far fiddle-maker of all Ume. just: right.”
I have several, new ideas! Sco you next year, my lord!", "
not
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tadpoles," said Knart in a voice "Of course I did," said Knart ne, though he thought - Hanid "I jumped in the pond with him should have understood all and we both started to count the along, what he meant. “So they tadpoles all over again. I got asked Pixie O'Scowl, who hap wet from head to foot. But TRADIVARI pointed to his pened to be passing by on his wasn't any use. One tadpole at the Professor house, le shown way to his mushroom patch, to was still missing. And then all work bench, littered with straight into the old man study please count them and see if of a sudden, I saw the missing tools and materials, and jars of THE finest violing in all the all sizes, "Seventy different world were mado it tadpolo. On seeing his arrows the Professor" they were all there.
He was missing be sups with delight." **Why: Vitle #Did he?" naked Hänid, think cause he wasn't tadpole any places, my lord-back, belly, Cremona, Italy, about the year bear, this is a surpètus 1" he cries." Ing what a strange thing it was more!"
ribs, linings, sound post, sound 1700. And in all Cremont, the by "How did you find them ? up to nak anyone even à Pixie- What do you meant asked holes. Anges board, pegs, scroll, finest virding were mada hastily explains what has happened
tall piece,
chi rest. Filled and Stradivar a thousand of them, to dois to his ball and to the window,
glued so "There he was, sald Knarf,
which we still have about You can't He
so exactly counted them all right," "And now please tell me why thaafd Kmart. It was quita, a lot sitting right between his mama the joints, and to give the finest 500. The materials be used cost arrows were in the air at all)?**he 102 - trouble though, for the and papa. He had become a tone, the most graceful design, only about £1, and his time. pleads. The old man smiles grally... fudpoles kept darling around frog and they couldn't see him Varnished
with oll
the time of his see that I shall have to let you andpouring under leaves and because they were too busy bakningar trees, now growing and adipta a today, a into my secret;"' ha sighs.
rocks at the bottom of the pond looking up at the sky."
scarcer and scareer. Layer after., “Strad" Addlo sells for as much
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"ALL MIQHTE RESERVED:
BRONCHO BILLA
1521
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BLOOD POMRON IN MA
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"Quiet Hope
of
By Harry F. O'Neill | verfection
£12,000 went into the
factors
of Strad Addles: Anest
materials, long, years, of training, patience, high stan dards of art and skill. One of Stradivari's "trade secrats" -WAN His varnish. This is most im- portant la a violin for beauty at tone and bounty of appearance. Strad violins
have A saft, okangas red lustre that grows Lovelier with age, which
per mits the sound to come through
clearer your
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The" varnish was lost when he died. For alldnig/time, nobody, wLE, able to make a violin, varnfið a good as his “. But modem sölenčy his stepped fun and/ puzkia) has been solvall.
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Things to Make With Materials at Hand
1. Fold PAPER SACK flats...fasten folded edges together with TAPE. Measure 10' from closecond and cut off.
Cut a hole
center
HAT BOX Lop
Punch a hole
from
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long enough.
to fit around.
box topi
Decorata
strip
and back!
6. Cut inch slits about 14 inches apart in edges of Back...PASTEck
and strip to top
NINOS!
BLOWING BUBBLES
DLOWING bubbles can be
lots of fun at a party? Giva each guest a pipe and a bottle of bubble water, a
Then see who can blow the most or the biggest bubbles be fore someone stops playing that popular song. "I'm... Forever Blowing Bubbles,” · on the plano
Other contests-Include blow- Ing the most 'big bubbles, the inost Title bubbles, and most bubbles to float across t glyon line. P
Tip For Girls
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with the help of ani,