12
SPORTS
STORIES
PUZZLES
MENTAL GYMNASIUM
CROSSWORD
1 Devotee
4 Idoliso
ACROSS
4 Make believe
8 Caterpillar hair-
9 Paradise
11 Near
12 Southeast (ab.)
13 Lacking colour
10 Selze
18 Washes
20 Ponderous volumes
21 Notaries public (ab.)
1 Notion
2 Drunkard
DOWN
3 Woody plant
Sk
6 Conclusion
Flower part
7 Writing tables
BTree Buld
10
Born
14 Land. parcel
15 English school
10 Pedal digits
17 Answer (nb.)
19 Little domen
SCRAMBLED CITIES
Below you will and names of 10 principat cities of the United States. The letters are scrambled and you must write them correctly. The first Lofter of each clty is placed cor- rectly to give you a start.
1. E-EIR
3. O-HAMA
G.-B-ONTOS 7.S-ATELET
9. B-ALOFUF
2 N-ISVELHAL
4. D-IRTOET
8. T-EDOOL
0. W-OTSAGNNI
10. C-ANOGOTHATA
RIDDLES
Here's a chance to use your thinking powers. The key word "nation appears in each un- swer.
1. What nolion liberal?
moat
<
ADD AND SCRAMBLE
Add P to a scrambled "crip- plo" and have a bezuúful, syrug- producing tree.
WORD CHAIN
Change FACE to NECK in four moves, changing one letter at a ume and making sure it's a word cach lime.
ANSWERS
CROSSWORD:
NPS
SCRAMBLED CITIES: Elro. 2--Nashville, 3-Omaha. 4 Detroit. 5-Boston 6-Toledo. 7-Seattle. B-Washington. 9 Buffalo. 10-Chattanooga
RIDDLES: 1—Do-nation. 2—
nation.
3-Discrimi-n88-
Itejuve-nation.
SCRAMBLED SENTENCE: A man may be older than his
4-Procrasti-nation.
uncle, but never older than his
father:
ADD AND SCRAMBLE: Lame, Maple.
WORD CHAIN: FACE, pace, pack, peck, NECK.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY: 16, 1949.
The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
CRAFTS
GAMES
JOKES
My goodness, what a joke ZOO'S WHO
구
Another Story By
ENID BLYTON
NE day Mrn Well-I-Nover came
rushing to speak to her brother, Grabbit the Gnomo.
"Grabbit," she said. "Where are you? I've got news for you. Look what I've found."
Sho opened her hand and showed a tiny box of blue powder...
'It's a Blue Spell," said Mrs Well-I- Never. "Dame Dandy must have dropped it on her way up the hill this morning. It's the same kind of spell that she put in her cauldron, and you fell into it and came out blue-don't you remember?”
"I'm hardly likely to forget while my nose is still blue," said Grabbit, gloomily..
I never did see such, a fine coke. Make your pushed the cake in at the win
dow.
"You take it to Mrs
Popa-
long, sald Ma Bultori.
Button went to Mrs Popa- long's, She was very, busy baking. Mrs Popalong I've trought you something from Ma," called Button.
"Put it down on tho hall- stand," called back Mrs Popa- long. "I'm busy this morning, little Button.. You put it there and I'll see to it when I've finished,"
So Button left the cake on the hallstard and when Mrs Popaling come along to what he had left, she laughed aloud.
BCC
"Well, I would get a present of a cake just when it's
my baking day, and I've made six." she said. "It's a nice enough cake, too-but It looks a bit battered somehow, round the top. I'll ice it when I ice mine and send it off to someone. I know Pa Pupalong won't cat any cakes but mine, so it's no good keeping this one.".
*
****
"No, but laten," said Mrs Joke I ever heard. Well-1-Never. "You know we've cake, quickly." always wanted to pay little Rubbalong out for making you the cake. It was a beauty, you're kind." said Mra Nearby. So Mrs Well-I-Never mado Thank you, tile Bubbalong, fall into Dame Dandy's blue crammed with fruit. She shook "I'm expecting the doctor room, spell-well, now we've got a
the blue wonderful way of paying him powder into it and and maybe he'll tell me I can out."
a pity I can't leo, get up." It," she said. "I haven't any The doctor did come, very Icing sugar." "How?" said aurly Grabbit. "Do listen, Grabbit,"
saldon, never mind about that" soon after that. He was Doctor to? Everyone was going to Ma
Healem, and he was just like his Mrs Well-1-Never: "I'll make a Well, take it down to Ma Rubb- Mrs Nearby.
"Is it ready? name. He shook his head.
over. cake and I'll put this blue along at once. Oh what a joke!" spell into it and I'll send it
"Well, I never! I've not seen along to Ma Rubbalong because it's her birthday. She'll eat it you so pleased for years," said
his sister. and so will-Rubbelong-and they'll both turn blue."
Bald Grabbit.
*
*
RUBBALONG
WAS GUP-
ELL, she Iced it beautiful- Wly in pink and white and put pink roses on the top.
Now, who should she send it Rubbalong's party this after- noon,-but wait! "Didn't she hear Ma say that Mrs Well-I- he said. "And what's this rich mg? Well, she'd send them the "No, you can't get up yet." Never and Grabbit weren't go- fruit cake I
sco here on the cake then. They'd be glad of windowsill?" You mustn't eat it, if they wero missing
like that yet, Mrs party.
"Ha
ha, ho ho!" roared Grabbit, suddenly.
MA "That's a
prised and pleased with "Oh dear-well, will you take good joke. Oh, that's the best Mrs Well-1-Never's present of a it away and give it to someone?"
cake, "Thank you,"
sho said said Mrs Nearby. "I right "Do come to my party this nibble a bit if you don't, it looks afternoon and share the cake, 50 good.". will you?"
"Yes-I'll take to Mrs "Oh no, thank you," said Mrs Shifty," said Doctor Healem, Well-I-Never at once. That and he took it away. But Mr would never do. "Well, happy Shifty was out, so he left the birthday, Ma."
cake just by the front door. She "Look at that," said Ma to found it there when she got
The Unhappy Soap Bubble
-It Felt It Led a Useless Life-
By MAX TRELL
* SUPPOSE you think," Mr Punch sald to Knarf and Hand, the Shadows with the turned-about names, "that there Is nothing in the world so light- hearted and happy-go-lucky es
bubble. You see
Salling.
in the breeza with the sun sparkling like diamonds on its sides. How can you help wishing that you were a coop bubble, too?"
Knart and Hand agreed that there were very few things in the whole wide world that seemed to be as gay and merry
2. What nation goes wool- a soap bubble. Fathering?
sald
A Soap Bub
Bubble
**Well,”
Mr Punch; "there once was a soap bubble 4. What nation is the slowest who wasn't happy at all. It
3. What nation is the most exacting?
nation?
wasn't that it didn't look happy It did. The sunshine sparkled
G, What nation is growing on its older as brightly as it did.
younger.
SCRAMBLED SENTENCE This sentence has been setan- bled, but you can easily put it back into its proper shape;
father, may A uncle, older his be older man than than never his but
on the sides of all the other soap bubbles. But inside it wain't happy at all.
"It had a very good reason for not feeling happy," con- Uinued Mr Punch. "The minute it looked over the top of the pipe that the. Ittle boy blowing, it knew what the rea- SONI WAS."
Wha
The soap bubble saw the drowning ant.
hiding-places for all the small creatures who had no other place to go.
"But what could a soap bub- ble de except sall with the breeze and let the sunshine sparkle ico- diamonds on 'Ite sidea? And just then," said Me Punch, "the soap bubble started salting over the brook, and at that instant it heard a tiny volee calling
}
the
So kind Mrs Popalong walk- ed to Mrs Well-I-Never's house with the iced cake, Mrs Well- 1-Never was thrilled to see it.
"Grabbit," called Mrs Well-I- Never that teatime. "Come and have tea. Mrs Popalong's sent
fuo feed caked for us."
*
*
WARWHAL WHALES
DEVELOP BUT ONE TOOTH, WHICH IS USED AS A BATTERING RAM
TO BREAK HOLES IN
THE ICE...
** HEYS WHAT GOES
PIKE CASI SWALLOW." HER FISH LARGER THAN ITSELF...
TRAINS CROSSING THE PLAINS IN THE EARLY DAYS BOMETIMES WERE HELD UP FOR THREE HOURS AT A TIME BY BUTTALO HERDS.
An Indian Who Made His Own Alphabet
EQUOYAH, & Cherokee
white men part of his life, but reading was a great may- good," said Grabbit, and stery to him. One day he saw a letter, and shortly afterward a book fell into his hands.
he sat down at the
Rubbalong, "There's kindness home at that. Somebody has table. "My, it certainly is
even in Mrs Well-I-Nover. What
er
"Ma, send Mrs WNearby
£1
a pity she sent me a cake though left a cake here for me," she fine-looking cake. I say, sister I've such an enormous one said. "Well, I'd have it, only I'm do you suppose little Rubba- already, and it's 'iced so beauti- going away tomorrow, and it long and his Ma are sitting fully
would get stale in my larder, down gobbling up that Blue- I'd better give it away."
Spell Cake?" cake across to Mrs
So what did she do but take ald Rubbalong. "We've
It: that very afternoon to Mrs cakes, enough
really, and it's Button Mrs Button was pleased. nice to be generous
"Well, that's nice of you," she If we can. Mrs Nearby can't come to your sald. "I'll let little Button have party, she's not well. She'd love it for his ten.” a cake to Herself
rot
*k
*
"Bless your kind heart, lite Rubbalong,"
Bald Ma.
"You PUT Hittle Button was very take it along then, with my best
naughty that afternoon. Wishes,"
Now you just shan't have that So the Blue-Spall coke was beautiful cake,
Me taken over to Mrs Nearby's by Button. little Rubbalong. Mrs Nearby
scolded-
"All right, Mo, bll
right,
was in bed and couldn't come said Button. "What shall I do to the door,
50
Rubbalong with the cake?"
"Yes,"
sold
Mrs Well-I- Never. "Oh, what a joke. I'm glad I'm not having a bit"
taking his second slice of cake. "I'm glad, too," sald Grabbit, "It's the best joke I ever heard In my life. Ha ha, ho ho ho, What a joke."
Well, it was, of course--but not quite in the way they meant. By the end of teatime they were both as blue as cornflowers,
My goodness-what a joke!
-London Express Service),
Genius Is Found In Some
Strange Places
for help. It looked TF the marks on your report down. There, in the middle of the brook, was a tiny ant who
card aren't
just the grades wero
for his
was past 40 and very few great statesmen are under 80. - Titian was still painting at 90..
oo often boys and girls and their parents place too much emphasis on high grades. The passing honour roll is alce; but it doesn't Swedish tell the whole story.
Henrik Ibsen, the great play- as high as wright, barely managed to had fallen into the water and you would like them to be graduate from high school His was being swept along, already one of several things may minimum "What was it?" Hanld asked, half-drowned, into a deep pool be wrong. You may not be school wondering what kind of a rea- Rupert & the Arrows-44 son could make a soap, bubble
a few yards off,
trying to do as well as you unhappy.
Bingo has grabbed the falling ski. and is putting it on while he waita to bear what his palˇiz'shouting" about.
Meanwhile Rupert hua. scrambled down the tree and alights in the snow. "I say," be cries. You remember those arrows I told you about? Well, the third one is up there. It went right into that
hollow tree, I must tell the others. at ante." "No. I don't remember."" kays Bingo fretfully,z ?? Why don't
you do one thing at a time? Let's finish our ski-ing first. This lovely: now la melting all too fast ta li 4.”
ALL RIGŬTS RESERVED:
BRONCHO BILL
WHAT GOOD
A GAL AROUND HERË ONE CANT FIGHTINGJUMI
LIKE US AANG
Could Be Useful
The ant was heavy. It was
A student who learns quickly. is learning nothing if he forgets what. he learns. A student who learns a lot learns nothing. if he doesn't use his knowledge.
The real geniuses of the world remembered what they learned, even though they often learn
learned and they used the
.
He could tell at
once that here was something wonderful On
paper people could "talk" across long distances without seeing each other. Ho decided that his own people must learn to talk that way. He would Invent an alphabet and teach them.
'His own and
He soon discovered that the English alphabet would not ald him. His own language · con•-- tained many sounds not in the. English tongue. The Cherokee used grunts, Inflections, nose and throat sounds no white mon used. He had to invent his own signs for these, and whon bo had finished alphabet contained 10 letters, instead-of-20:
people remember him gratefully and when they write even today, many of them use Sequoyah's alphabet.
Words Of
A Feather...
YEAR after year he kept at the task. His own people first laughed at him, then persecuted him, but he kept on. Once they burned his alphabet and home, but he did not even let this stop him. His tribesmen were afraid of his peculiar-
WORDS of a feather flock to- looking
Wher signs They
When you hear they were something magical, ane word spoken it often brings But no one could destroy his to your mind another knowledge of the alphabet word.
which he had in his head.
related
If somebody mentions Paris After he had finished his your thoughts may Immediate- alphabol, his people would not ly flash the words "Aunt use it.
But he taught his Mary.": (If Aunt Mary has he Invited some of the leading men of the tribe to
What thought first comes In- his house. He asked two or three of them to your head when we mention to tell him what to write, and Teacher."
"School?" It Lo probably
one after another they did so. Aller he had written down
their
Now here is an interesting messages he had them tost, It will tell whether your take the writing to his daughter first thoughts are like those of in another place out of hearing. most other people your age. She read the writing in the same words that Sequoyah had used,
William Wordsworth's elders can do, or you may not be bitterly complained about his as much of a student as the "lack of alm, grasp and in- "As it came out of the pipe.
young daughter to read. Then visited Paris). And at that moment," sald boy or girl who makes the terest." But he grew up to be and went sailing off with the
Mr Punch, "the soap
bubble honour roll.
come England's poet laureate, breeze over the garden where knew that it could be useful to But if you're trying, you the roses were blooming, and
Very often children who are It dropped down needn't feel downhearted. Many said dull, are not really over the meadow where the almost to the top of the water, of the greatest thinkers of his bald, to be owl learn, Educh knowledge in their life work. dalsies and buttercups were and then it bounded up again tory we
were poor to "mldding" in
hurried. waving, it thought to itself that with the ant clinging to its aide school. Some were even "rotard-loo
not ba
So if your grades aren't the which means
the teacher. Joseph Conrad published his first best, and if you're not on the the bubble could do to reach the thought they weren't bright,
alled "
successful novel' when he was honour roll, don't give up. May- bank. And then, Just as It One English teacher wrote on 30.Titian wan't great till he be you're the genius of the class. touched the grass on the other a boy's report card less than alde and the ant dropped safely
ago: "He in
is singularly off, the bubble burst"
Language" This, stripped of its "Oh!" exclaimed Knarf and big words, means: "He can't Hanld in pity."
the even talk good English," "That' lad, turned out to be Charles "No," said Mr Punch; "there Darwin, who and know that they gave faults
-wzole--- severni and nuts and cool shade and was nothing to be sorry about. Booker about evolution. even let themselves be used for As the bubble burst, it made a firowood when they were chop- tiny silvery shout, no louder IERRE CURIE, who was one ped down. And the humble than the echo of a whisper. I *of tho co-discoverers of grass that spread everywhere Only the ant could hear it radium, was such a slow-coach was the most useful thing of It was a shout of sparkling, at school that his parent had to all, for it gave food to the Cows sunshining Joy. The bubble hire a private tutor to teach and sheep and horses and made was happy, at last
hilm: at home,
of all the things in the world a soap bubble is the only thing that has nothing useful to do.
"No," cald Mr Punch, a soap bubble has nothing useful to do It looked at the roses and datales and buttercups and all the other flowers and know that they gave honey to the bees. It looked at the
trees
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De contutofmastering
any
Cleaning House.
·By Harry F. O'Neill
BEL THIL PRETTY
BUBEN ORT I FOU
MERCH
HERR
IN THE WOOD-
(GULP)
(A BRUNE
DO-IT By Dole Goss
Things to Make With Materials at Hand
STILTS
1.With large "nail and a
hammer make
2 holes in opposite sides
3. Pull up hard on the strings while walking and..
of 2 TIN CANS AWAY
near, the s closed end...
Run a long heavy STRING
outh the
YOU
GO, KLOMPETY KLOMP
Boon
Dome
the
can
the
Have a friend read out, one at a time, the 20 words print- od below. As he does so, shout That convinced
tribal out the very first word that leaders. and they naked pops into your head and have Sequoyah to teach the whole him write it down. You tribo to read and write. He also do it alone, it you're could not do this alone, but ho honest, When finished, com-
taught
of thepare your answers with brightest young men, who in Printed list of "standart an turn became teachers.
I-Table. 2 Slow. 8 Butterfly. Whistle. 6-Foot. QEQUOYAH · and his young Red 7-Sleep. B-Giri. 9.
men did the job so well Mute 10-Deep, 11-Eat, 12 thick Tri Lee thin two years Atom bomb. 13-Eagle, 14 almost every Cherokee Could White. 16-Fruit, ・ 15-Short. use the now alphabit. · Tkačy
17-Needle.
16-Ship. had a feast in his honour, and Arrow, 20-Adam. the Cherokee legislature passed
law:
setting up a school in every settlement.
If you have more than 15 an-
swers the same as the standard
list below it, means you think pretty much like the majority The United States govery of other people. ment in Washington finally |**
A
heard of his work: Theyt you have less than 10 an- persuaded him to visit the awers the same as the standard capital, where his pleture, was let it indleates you have a very painted, and he
silver-mada AAA even a original; mind.
Between 10 and 18 is the? Noto of these hotiours average score, affected: Sequoyah in the least.
Here's the list:
To everyone he said that his
1-Chair.
"talking lear was a glit from the Great Spirit He wanted", KNOTS V B other reward, he said, than the
happiness of teaching Iftoh
And that wng hikwork for