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MENTAL GYMNASIUM Goographical Puzzlos About Mexico
INDUSTRIAL MIX-UP
Throo Mexican industries are hidden in these stranke Hnca. Uncover them by rearranging
the lotters:
MY RING DIN I STUN
·POET MULER
CRAG U LURE IT
MEXICAN REDUS
Use the words and pictures correctly, and you'll learn four
facts about our subject:
COURS
TAKE LATIN
INSTEAD OF
#PUSNIGH
FTECTION. ZO
MEXICO LE ON
THE AMERICAN
[CONTINENT
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GANOR STATES THAT PRESIDENT
STO
TO MY
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CODED MESSAGE
A simple code has been used
to conceal our statement about
Mexico. Can you decipher it?
(Clue! A
nomed.).
Mexicon
river is
DIAMOND
Mexico's province of YUCA- TAN forms the centre of out. diamond this time. The second word is a strong drink," the third "speed contests," the fifth "Iron," and the sixth "girl's naine."
YUCATAN
A N
ANSWERS
INDUSTRIAL MIX-UP: Min-
ing Industry: Petroleum; Agri- culture.
MEXICAN RENUS: Latin American; 28 states; President Aleman; Federal republic.
CROSSWORD:
forms
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHY, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1949.
By
The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
DO-IT Dale Goss
Congo
DRUM
1.Cut bottom from COFFEE CAN with roller typu CAN OPENER. 2.Cut out strip of COLORED PAPER and GLUE around
can.
3. Cut 2 CLOTH circles linch wider than ends of can.
Fasten over ench with RUBBER BANDS
FASIAN ZNALAD
ALOUND NEEDLE UNTIL FINISHED. STRECHINO SLOTNA
5. Laca together with NEEDLE and HEAVY THREAD.
REMOVE RUBBER SANDS. ...PULL LACING TIGHT/
6. Paint cloth
on both ends with SHELLAC or thin GLUE...pull facing tight again, When dry, shellac once more..
Let dry and decorate
of
with CRAYONS.
Vix Tky Itcyfg tkxgt boton CODED MESSAGE: The Rio มวย
bzkeq'u palvjgip Grand river gh
most - Mexico's northern boundary. dqwpfcts.
CROSSWORD
This puzzle is on the sil- houette of a map of Mexico:
ACROSS
1 This puzzle is about
B Any
7 Short for Ronald
8 Not long
10 Girl's name
11 Indian weight
12 Point
14 Hnwalian bird
1 Mother
DOWN
2 Abstract being
3 Pressco
4 Trumpet
5 Canadian province
Laughter sound
13 Cooking utensil
DIAMOND:
Y RUM
RACES
YUCATAN
METAL
SAL N
7.Tic STRING lightly around
can. Leave
loop to
put over
your head!
BEAT WITH A STICK!
Teddy Bear Was Dissatisfied
-He Wanted Parents Like Other People Had
By MAX TRELL
Wisit," said Teddy, the
"I stuffed Bear, "that had a
mother and father like every- body else."
And he sighed. Because he felt quite unhappy. Then he looked all around the playroom, at the other toys. None of them said anything. They all pre- Lended to be busy, and as though they hadn't even heard what Teddy had just sald;
"Do you think," Teddy said to the Tin Soldier, "that I have a mother and father?"
The Tin Soldier coughed once
or twice. "I'm...of course, of course you have, Teddy."
"Everyone has a mother and father, Mary-Jane the rag doll Bail.
"Certainly you have, my boy." said Mr Punch cheerfully.
Mr Punch's wife Judy nodded and smiled. Mrs Cuckoo opened the door of her cottage in the clock and said: "Of course you have
Shadows Agrond
Rupert's Queer Path-18 Shadows, came into the room.
Rupert soon binds that his pal in mischievous mood, and J Anxious to get back to the-crity "We'd better keep of it paving. until Daddy gets back." he says, clutching at his arm and trying to hold him back. "Nobody knows what Tigerlily may have done to the test at the path." But Bill insigte. "Didn't you notice what Tigerlily did?" he smiles. "She. only put the powder and the magic on to some of the slabs. She didn't touch the others. Don't you see- what a game we could have?"
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
BRONCHO BILL
THE STRANGERS FINO FIDANT IN THE GET
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Teddy anked tieneral 'l'la about his parents,
MA PUTS ON HER THINKING-CAP
AT-TAT! Rat-tat!
R "Who's that knocking at overy-
one's door?" said Ma Rubbalong, looking out of the window. "My, my- it's Mr. Plod the policeman !"
So It was. He looked very solemn and serious, too, as he stood at each door, saying something in His deep, slow voice. He came to Ma Rubbalong's door. Rat-tat! She opened the door.
"Well, you're doing a lot of hammer- ing this morning, Mr Plod," said Ma. "What's it all about?"
"It's about the stealing and the thieving that's going on in Tiptop Village," said Mr Plod. "Eggs taken, crops taken, tools taken out of sheds. Very serious business, Ma Rubbalong. It's my job to catch the thief. I'm asking everyone if they have any iden who it
on10
"Oh yes I've quite a good ideal" said Ma. "But I've got no proof, Mr Plod-and you won't catch me accusing any- till. I've got real proof!" "Quite right, Ma, quite right," and Mr Plod. "Well now can you help me to and the thief, do you think-without naming any names or pointing any fingers? You're clever, Ma, How can we find the thief?"
"Come back tonight and I'll (ell," ald Min. "I'll put my thinking-cap on, and maybe I'l know how to catch the thieft"
As usual, her thinking-cap worked very well indeed!
Everyone stond in a raw and showed their hands,
purring. Tubby was enjoying all this surprising pellingl
Grabbit went in and stroked Tubby gently. He knew no wasn't the thief, but he was a bad fellow and he was a bit afraid of making Tubby yowl anyhow. But no, Tubby didn't. He just purred.
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But no-not everyone had- who was this with white hands? Who was this holding out trembling hands as clean and white as could be?
"Shif the goblin!" cried Ma, and she held up his hands for everyone to pee. thief! I guessed you were-you
"You're the
can, snivelling little creature! You're the thief!"
CRAFTS
GAMES
JOKES
ZOO'S WHO
the
| CAPYBARA..
OF SOUTH AMERICA.. WORLD'S LARGEST | RODENT REACHES, 4 FEET IN
LENGTH...
GRIZZLY BEARS CAN ATTAIN
THE SPEED OF 35 MILES PER. HOUR.in
"How do you know?" wailed A TRUE STORY:
Sulft, in terror. "Tubby didn't yowl, he didn't, he didn't!"
"No because you were too ofrald to stroke him!" said Ma. Well, will you belleve 1, "You know you were the thief every single person went into and you were afraid Tubby Ma's shed and came out again, would yow! ពត кооп по голя
didn't of course, Ma herself touched him! So except,
you and Mr Flod-and yet Tubby stroke him, as everyone else did. didn't yowl, No, he didn't give and your hands stayed clean "Now, you listen to me" she even the very smallest yowit and didn't get sooty." said. "Little Rubbalong is go- There! I told you Tubby ing to put my cat Tubby into wasn't clever
When Mr Plod came lo sco her that night Ma
fold him how she would catch the thief,
enough,"
sald
my garden shed. You're to little Rubbalong. Me nodded to get every single person in Tip- Mr Plod again. top Village here, Mr Plod, and
they are to go Into the shed pleadin
one by one, and stroke my cal,
"But whatever
Mr Plod, amazed.
one long row, said Mr Plod, "Thero
for?" sald done, ne more thing to be So everyone stood in a row and Ma and Mr Plod went down the line-and they said a most pecullar thing!
"You're to tell them that Tubby will yowl out loud when the thlef strokes him," sald Ma. "Oh, he'll yowl like 10 cats rolled into one! And we'll all hear him, for we'll bo standing outside the shed-and know who's inside, Mr Plod!"
*Show me your hands, please, palms up!"
·
"Come with me," said Mr Plod to Saiff, and, howling dis mally, the nasty little goblin went off with the big police- man,
"And everyone else can como with me" raid Ma briakty. and towels for you all! We'll "I've got hot water and soap soon get rid of the soot Tubby, you come too!"
washed
Little Rubbalong And everyone showed their Tubby clean, and whispered in hands and, will you believe his ear. "You found the thief it, they were aa black as sool all right, Tubby-but do tell Yes, what a surprise, as blacke me, would you have been as soot!
clever enough to yowl if Salf But it wasn't really astonish- had stroked you?"" we'll
ing because, you see, Ma had rubbed Tubby with black soot from
head to toil-so that everyone who stroked him had black hands afterwards
Mr
said "Extraordinary!" Plod, staring at Ma in umaze- ment." Yes, yes, Ma Rubbalong I'll certainly bring everyone. here."
Little Rubbalong looked at Ma when Mr. Plod had gone. "Oh, Ma! Honestly, Tubby, won't know."
"Be quiet-and fetch Tubby here," said Ma. "You can watch what I do to him-and maybe you'll guess how he'll tell me the thief."
Six o'clock the next ovening came. Tubby was put into the And suddenly Mre Cuckoo, shed on a box and told to sit who had been listening all the there quietly. "You're going to while (and thinking as hard as have
a lot of petting, Tubby,
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she could inside her coltage in sald Me. "You'll enjoy that!" the clock), threw open her door Mr Plod came, followed by a again and called out: "There's long line of silent and astonish- picture of them in a book! ed villagers. There was Mr and There's a pleture of them in a Mrs Tuck-in, Dame Scary, Mrs book!"
Whine-A-Bit, Mra Well-1-Never. "What book?" shouted Teddy. Sniff the goblin, Button the "What book?" shouted every-brownie and his mother, Grab- one else.
Mr Clang, the blacksmith,
bithia wife Popalong, and
But Mrs Cuckoo disappeared inside her cottage again and many otheru shut the door without answering. A Long Tima
Ma nodded to Mr Flod, Ho turned and spoke to everyono
It took everyone a long Ume very solemnly. "Now, we are to guess what book Mrs Cuckoo here tonight, as you know, to meant. But it was Flanid, the find the thief of Tipton Village. Shadow-girl, who finally did.he
"Tubby, Ma's cat, will tell us
Then Knart and Hanid, the
And when Mr Punch and the Tin Soldier and Mary-June ex- plained to them that Teddy, the Stufed Bear was wondering If he had a mother and father like everyone else, they also agreed that of course he had.
"Then where are they?" said Teddy. "If I've got a mother and father, where can I and them? I'd like to see them. I'd like to see them right away." She darted over to the book who he is. Each of you is to go
At this everyone
fell silent. shelf, and took down a book, and along into the shed, and stroke Finally Mr Punch said: "They opened it to the story of Tubby from head to tall once, left you hero when you were Goldilocks and there-big and twice, or as many times as you
He will make like.
no. 'noise very small. But they haven't grand and smiling-wero Papa forgotten about you: I'm sure Bear and Mamn
except to purr-until the THIEF strokes him!"
"Ahal Then he'll yowl," sald Ma. "He'll yowl and we'll all was
the thief. Come along so happy he almost had tears in now. In you go one by one." his eyes. He kept looking at the In they went.Me Tuck- picture of his mother and fret. He wam't;
afraid
of making father. "And they were here him yowl! Mr Tuck-In was on the whole time," he kept saying. honest man.
could see them,” sadd
Beart
"And even a picture of you,
cried Hanld. -...
"I wish they'd comedy, when you were a baby
Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, know the
"Ec-owee+ow," sald Tubby obligingly. So now you know
the answer.
-(London Express Service)
You Can Have Fun
With This Code
I MADE
OF INKY
L
SALMON CAN JUMP A ̈ FALLS OF SIX TO EIGHT
FEET...
A PET CROW
By Laree E. King
AST spring a pair of vestigate, I found Inky huddled
crows nested in some in the cedors.
trees, near our house He greeted me with a
on our farm. I decided I H," then fow to my arm and would like a young crow for continued to chatter and scold,
much
say, "You a pet, because. I had heard shouldn't have
carried they could be taught to away.'
talk.
So I walled until the young
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to
me
ones were partly feathered, be- INKY was satisfied to stay fore taking one from the nest. I around in the mulberry and put the young crow in an empty cedar tree, near the house. He rabbit hutch and named him learned to cat grain with the Inky. His food was stale light chickens, but still expected and bread soaked in sweet milk and relished the bread and cheese. Dame cottage cheese. When I Everytime I would step outside, walked up to the cage, I always he would see me and call, "HL called out, "HI, Inky, HI!" and li," and fly, lighting on my arm, he would open his mouth for the shoulder or sometimes even on food.
top of my head.
Inky, grew very fast and When tho other erows came began to greet me with, "Hi, II
tho near, Inky always flow to when I came near his cage. thick follage of the trees and When he became strong enough hid, never giving out a murmur to use his whig", I put him out until the crows were out of side the cage, and he soon sight, learned to fly a little. It Was
then I decided to carry him He sometimes would jabber back to his own home and his like a baby trying to talk, crook- parents, because he had begun ing his neck and making comical to watch some baby chicks expressions, but "Hi", was the covetously, (But, I should have only word he ever spoke clearly. had no fear there, because later. He must have thought he was a Inky got the flogging of his life chicken, because he would sit on from two mother hens, when he the edge of the feed bin joining attempted to get too near their the chicken house, in the curly bables).
morning and cacklo exactly like a hen. "He would jabber happily One afternoon I carried him when the hens were turned out- back to the neat, thinking all was siue for the day. diagram shows "New
well for Inky. I thought he 7" written In street would be happy to get back with his parents, brothers and sisters But the next morning DE WO were eating breakfart,
you can have heaps of fun and so on, but place a dot over making messages by means the letter to indicato numbers. of "secret" writing. It's called (The dot is a bulldozer waiting "street" writing, not because it on the street to start work on is written on pavements, but a new basement in his modern because the diegrams are alphabet "suburb.) "street" maps,
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PFLE NEW YORK STREET WRITING
of that, Teddy."
"I with Teddy. back so that I could see them.!
Now everyone in the playroom know that Teddy didn't have any father or mother. He was just a stuffed bent. Stuffed bears don't havo anything. But they all would have given anything in "Oh, it's wonderful to be able to Mrs Tuck-in went into the the world to And a proper see what they look like It's shod, and then Mr Well-7-*** mother and father for Teddy to wonderful to have a mother and Never. No yowling was heard;
father."" keep him from feeling so bad.
but just a soft and contented
Men of Ideas
GOT TWO
LOOKING FOR Lie
I. DO ALL THE TALKI
LANO
ALL RIGHT.
BE SURE TO
KNOWEM
By Harry F. O'Neill
RIGHT?
SUNT A MATT KA OF TIME, BLICK, AND VELL FIND OUT WHO'S
GOT THE BRAIND
The
York language.
First try. writing some secret messages using the code. Next, 'see if you can write out the alphabet code from memory.
write a now Finally,
secret message using your invented code and then see if you can
heard a
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feed him the
delicacies he
loud "Cawing" and saw our NY soon learned I wouldn't crowa.dipping down and fighting another crow, who was making slow progress in flying.
The exhausted crow flew into
read it without referring to the ❘ the shelter, of some cedar trees "blueprint."
near the house, Going
to in-
First Comes The
Idea.
This form, of secret writing
GOOD Idea often isn't the symbol quite enough. The 200- is useful because look a bit like some of the alphabet letters and yet they inch telescope at the Palo- have very different meanings mur Mountain Observatory This makes It confusing for In California is an example, anyone trying to read your ?bu! message. Not only that,
works.
how it
the code is easy to remember This telescope now haa once you understand how been installed and a lot of The lettors are formed along news has been printed about four streets. From A to G it, but before this. scientific the houses are on the north and marvel could be built some- east-sides only. From H to. N body had to have the IDEAMOUNT PALOMAR, HOME use east and south sides. From
O to U use ·south... - and west sides. And, from V.to. Z use weat and forth alder. Notes
In
for it.
OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST
REFLECTING TELESCOPE.
After the ideas, there had to
INKY GOON LEARNED TO SIT ON MY ARM
loved unless he would sit on my arm. After cating what he wanted, he always. took one more mouthful, hopped to the ground and proceeded to find a hiding.place for the food. Some- times he would choose an empty tin can, other times he would push the food under a stick, lopsd stone or. oven in a clump of grass or weeds..
you must go around a.block be drawings to show how the Make a drawing, build a model Somu fence posts were stacked a clockwise direction...
Letter A shows one wall of a idea could be made real Other that will work, and then fuas they were moved, my husband ('oh'a"wagon, and one day when house on the north side. Letter took the drawings and built with it. Try one way then found all kinds of objects under B shows two walls. Letter C
Lotter perfect models in plastic. These another until your idea, la as tho posts pop bottle caps, small shows three walls L
corner.
Letter E wore In the exact proportion) perfect as human ́ genius can sticks and pebbles and bones, one woll 'at a shows one wall on the cost with all the working parts in make it. Only in this way have which Inky had hid, wide, letter F two walls on the cast side, and letter three
the world, wils on the east side bon p
The other streets follow the tion of the actual telescope. (Even -ihe-almple Inventions crown that gather at that time same construction, as the Ato
Bo if you intend to be an in- such de safety pins and whosts of the year, or was killed by -To - make * numbers; simply | venfor," "carry through¦as the were the result of considerable knew...Becalino: 1 haven't woon write A for 1, B for 3, C for 3, other great inventors have done, thoughts, an
order.
MOUNdeas war become valuable to But one day in autumn Inky
After that came the construas dan Bang Ban
Kwan kimlesing; whether he took Nup Trailhi (the "7"largs, flock of
Bord unter's gun, I never
Inky since my