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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1949.
The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
MENTAL GYMNASIUM Snoozy Comes To Stay
SCRAMBLERS
Here are five ceramblers for you to solve.
The words in re- capital letters *must be erriged to give the correct on- swer.
"For
.A start chango
MALES into an American city, 2. Now YODEL and get a British novelist.
3. Drive a STAKE
think of an English poet,
and
4. VOTES are dropped fa a ballot box, not in this,
DIAMOND
Today's diamond centres on the COMPASS. The second word is "a typo of lettuce," the third "groups of tents," Arth "left over" and the sixth "'a compass point."
2.
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.COMPASS
CROSSWORD
15
14
15
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20
22
ACROSS
1 Spinning toy
FI
4 Jump on one foot
7 Type of cheese
D Peel
10 Negative reply
11
Begins
13 Egyptian sun god
15 Takes nway
10 Toward
18 Musical noto
with a knife
19 Phonat (ab.)
21
Steeples
25 Pronoun
27 Rocky pinnacles
20 Paradise
90
Dined
31
Mineral rock
Number
1
Smell
3 Father
*
12
12
DOWN
Become hard.
Worthless moreels
14. Dress_
14 Dress
part
(nb.)
17 Boat paddies
10 Blemish
20 Exist
22 Pitcher
23 Station (ab.),
24 Southeast (ab.)
28 Compass point 29 Accomplish
the
WORD CHAIN.
Change BALL to DOWN in five moves, altering one letter at a time and having a word
cách time.
WACKY COMPASS
WACKY COMPASS
START AT WWW AND UGD EVERY IW THIRD LOTTER
YOU DECIOS THE DIRECTION) TO FIND OUR -HIDDEN
PROVERB
NOT
MISSING LETTER
W
THEN Ittle Snoozy's mother asked Ma Rubbalong if she'd have him to stay for a week or two whilst she went away, Ma Rubbalong, wasn't. very pleased.
"He's a lazy fellow, that boy of yours,”'. she said to Mrs Snoozy. "A real lie-abed I call him. I've got no use for people like that."
"Oh, he'll bo all right with you," said Mrs Snoozy. "He's promised me he'll be up and about when Uttle Rubbalong is. He'll help you a lot, Ma."
"He'd bottor" auid Ma. "My son's busy at his cobbling in the mornings, so I Ons letter has been left out shall want your Snoozy to go and do the all the way through this re-shopping for me." tence, which has been run to- gether. Go to work on it:
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ANSWERS
SCRAMBLERS: -Salem 2-Doyle. 8-Keats. 4-Slove.
DIAMOND:
COS CAMPS
COMPASS
SPARE
SSE
All
WACKY COMPABB: things come to him who waits.
CROSSWORD;
H
EN RIE
our
MISSING LETTER: But you surely must come up to Sunday night supper and just trust us to amuse you.
WORD CHAIN: BALL, bawi, yawl, yawn, dawn, DOWN.
Baw.
Well. Snoozy didn't. He was the laziest sleepiest-looking brownie you ever Ho just wouldn't wake up in the morning! He lay there in his bed, fast asleep and snoring, If Ma Rubbalong shouted at him, he grunted. If she poked him in the ribs, he turned over. If she shook him he yelled.
"Now listen here, Ma," sanid little Rubbalong. "Don't you go off and do your shop ping tomorrow, as you did today, and leave that lazy creature in bed. You rub a spell on the bed's feet. Go on!"
Ma Rubbalong gave a sudden geln. She went her cupboard of spells and took out a tiny box of blue ointment--and before she went to bed that night she rubbed some on cach foot of Snoozy's bed!
me.
ENID BLYTON
this week tolls the last
SNOOZY RAN FOR
story in her present Rubbalong series. Next wook sho begins A wonderful now sorial- "The Mystery Of The Pantomimo Cat,”
НОМЕ
It met quite a few people. They were full of amazement to see the bed stepping along with somebody fast asleep in it. The children followed, of course,
Mr Tuck-In giggling.
CRITIS round a corner quickly and ran into the bed, which creaked politely as if it were "Sorry, Mr Tuck-In, sir."
*
But Snoozy couldn't possibly get out of bed in his night- shirt, he was much toọ ashamed. He lay down and covered his head up with a sheet. Thor children pulled it oft. Somebody fucked the pocket of fish besido him in bed.
POOII!That was too much. Snoozy gave a yell, leapt out of bed and ran for home, hla night- shirt flapping against his legs, and the bed trotting after him, creaking ns If it were out of breath.
He flung himself into little Rubbalong's klichen, crying with shame, Ma Rubbalong looked up in surprize.
"Why, Snoozy! Where have you been? Surely you didn't go out to shop in your nightshiri
The bed squeezed in at the door and creaked politely. "Look at that now," zaid little Rubbalong. "They've the shopping back them. Well, well-do you often go shopping in bed, Snoozy??!
مر الله
brought between
Snoozy went sobbing into his saying, bedroom, followed by the bed. He chook his fist nt it, "Hale- ful thing! Miserable thing! If you ever do that again I'll chop you up for firewood and old
"Crevec-se-eenk,"
sald the the
It went to the fishmonger's, iron!" and the shopman read the note a pile of fish on the and put Snoozy look Little Rubbatong bed. It went to the baker and bed, and leaned against looked at his mother grinned. They both stood peep there. It went to the green-
and he put two loaves of bread wall as if it were tired.
Well, that was the last me ing in at Snoozy's bedroom. grocer and he piled the foot of
that Snoozy was ever alcopy the bed with plckling cabbagu again in the morning. and potatoes.
The bed creaked. It groaned. It put out an iron foot and tapped the floor with it. It put out another and scraped the floor. It did Utile dance on all four, but Snoozy didn't atir.
"Right. You can go," said Ma to walk towards the door. It was Rubbalong, and the bed began a small, narrow bed and it back. squirmed out easily. It creaked hurry. loudly.
"It's laughing!" said little Rubbalong, and he laughed, too.
At the
out
of bed
It collected the mended chalr very first creak of the bed he
it it was even
the wardrobe from the carpenter, and a clock was up and dressed! Dear me, from the clockmaker's. It even tried to cross the road by licelf creaking, he was and nearly got run over. A car like a shot.
His mother was very pleased most to the pavement in a the pot back from her visit. hooted loudly, and the bed al-
tripped over as it went to find Snoozy so changed when "What's happened, Snoozy?" sho and the jolt woke said. But he wouldn't tell her. The noise up Snoozy. He flung back his
Its name isn't Snoozy now. arms, stretched and yawned
You can probably It's Jiffy. Then he sat up.
gracious! He must be guess why-it's because he gelt
Ho couldn't 10 up in a fifty! sitting up in his night-shirt and that was nightcap in a trotting along a street in the middle of Tiptop Village. And what was this on the bed-cab bags and
In the morning she called Snoory. "Hey, get up, Sncozy! Your breakfast is ready I want you to go shopping for There's
"Ma, where's your shopping the fish to cet, and the bread to felch, and the old chair st?" to come back that's been mend- ed, and the pickling cabbage from the greengrocer, and...'
But cho might just as well have been tolking to the chest- Di-drawers for all the notice
PLAY SAFE
WHEN
"Here," said Ma, and she put It on the pillow. "Get along now, bed."
The bed squeezed out of the front door. Snoozy was still faat asleep, his head buried in the pillow. The bed managed the steps quite nicely, and even stepped over onb of the three cats, who was running herself there, Then it set off down the street.
bed
loaves and bread and POOH What could that be? Fish!
People ran beside the bed, giggling, Children called out out of bod and play, "Get Snoozy. Come and play!"
YOU'RE SWIMMING A Very Funny Sort of a Bird
N
summier everyone
wants to don n bathing "Buit and splash around,- even if he isn't an expert in the water.
Splashing and sunning are fun, but they can be dangerous unless a dose of common sense is taken along with the sunshine.
A lifo guard may have the most wonderful tan in the world, but don't expect to duplicate it in one day. Take the sun in small doses and protect the skin by applying Bunten lotion
Rupert's Queer Path 24 generously. The oil will give
The strange behaviour of the tap slab has taken Rupert more by aut prise than any of the others. the heara Bill's voice from round thr bend asking what he is doing, but before he can save himsell he has dropped between the two halves of the slab and iz sliding down a steep and very slippery chute in the dark He doesn't bump into any. thing and he has no time to collect his with a wonder where he is going." This hole wasn't under our path before Tigerlily started her Tricks." he gaspi",
mess.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
BRONCHO BILL
OLD MANT
LAHELBY'S!
DEAD BURI
BLABH
MORLEY
18-THE
CATTLE
BUBH KẾVER
WINT IN KOPL CATTLE BEFORIN WAS ALWAYS JUST
A HIGHWAY
[SHORETE
a more even tan and its use will avoid a painful sun- burn..
HAVE FUN WHILE SWIMMING BUT PLAY SAFE?
One of America's leading life guards, Michael Borodkin, dean
Don't duck others; it's danger- Municipal Lifeguard of the training course of the New York ous fun.
Don't buck the current or tide; department of parks, is an ad- vocate, of the use of suntan oil swim dingonally to it.
the for a safe fan.
He has also compiled a heip- tho ful list of "don'le" for average swimmer. He has com- plied his safely rules for swim-, mers from 17 years of experi- ence as life guard.
Here are some of his "don'ts": Don't swim unill at least on hour after eating.
Don't be a "channel swim- mer"-avoid long distanceR
Don't dive unless you know the depth of the water.
Don't swim away from shore; swim parallel to it.
Don't run on wet tiles. Don't take a running divo off the side of the pool.
-He Just Stood On a Roof All Day-
By MAX TRELL "YOU'VE been away all af
after-
noon," Hanld, the shadow- girl, said to her brother Knart who had just come into the room and set himself down, very tiredly, in the corner beside her. "What have you been doing?"
sald
Knarf, "I was help- Whee-Zee-Wheeeee." Hanid glanced at her brother
"Who?" astonishment.
ing
In
"Whee - Zee – Wheeese,
M
peated Knarf, "He was very
and dizzy on account of
sleepy and
having
all
to turn around so much
ing so he asked me."
Whee-Zee-Wheeeee?”
Interrupted Hanid Impatiently,
6-20
for she had never heard of any Knarf worked while the weather
body (or anything) by this name
before. "What's the good of
vane rested.
London Express Service)
ARE YOU TACTFUL?
STUDY this picture and try to decide what you would -do-in-this annoying situation. The tactful answer is in the last paragraph...
AND HE SAID...
AND SHE SAID!!
The situation: You are at the films, and a couple behind you Your starts to talk loudly. friend, who is with you at the show, is becoming very an- noyed.
Ask
What will you do? (n) your telling me how you helped this Whee-Zee-Whecoce," sho Hould. You can see him from the loud talkers to be still? (b) Concentrate on the Tim and added, "when I don't even know here!"
(c) Keep Then she hope for the best? who you mean?"
Hanid gazed out.
and turning around to glare at the her brother "He's a bird," Knart
looked at Bald.
to embarrass "Why didn't you tell
couple, hoping "Oh." sald Hanid, "that's laughed.
me that Whee-Zee-Wheecee was them into silence? (d) Make different."
comments to your "Just a sort of a bird," Knarf a weather-vane? I would have audible
But how friend about the disgraceful went on. "Whee-Zee-Wheeeee's known right away.
did you help him?" Hunid said, nelso? more like a sort of a rooster."
sitting down again.. Lives Next Door
"Well," said Kharf, "every
The solution: Here it seems
"A rooster?" sald Hanid. "I time the wind blows, Whee-Zce- best to follow solution B. Con- on the picture and don't know of any roosters by Wheecce turns around to look centrate that name. There's Freddie, who and see where its coming from hope for the best. It's tactful. lives next door, and Squawkde, Because sometimes the wind
from the
Don't swim under diving who lives on the other side of comes from the North, and boards.
the brook, and Alexander, who Bometimes it comes Ilves somewhere or other, but South- we've never
seen him only and sometimes from tho heard him.**
-East or the West," Hand broke Knarf smiled. Wheo-Zee- In. Wheecco isn't a regular sort of "Yes. But all this morning the rooster. He lives on top of the wind kept coming from every TOOL."
different direction, and Whee "Oh!"
keep bad to Zee-Wheeeee "And he's made of Iron turning round and round, so that Look," said Knarf, going to the he finally got so dizzy that he
and window
pointing out was afraid he was going to fall *"There's Wheo - Zed-Wheeeee, off the roof. But I helped him."
Mr Borodkin also says: "Deep water doesn't mean good swim-| niing. The Olympic tryouts of 1930 were held in four and one- hall feet of water," and ho
cat- tions the swimmer to keep away
and to ask a f from plers · guard for information about the rocks beach, currents, hidden aerobat at the and holes, rather than rely on
his own judgment,
Don't leave children too long İh cold water.
Don't be an beach or pool.
WHOA,BLACKIE?
THERE'S SMOKE FROM
Night Sounds
CAMP FIRE IN CRAGS CANYON
WE BEST HIDE OUR HOBBED
HOW AND TRAVEL AFOOT
TIME WE REACH THERE
(IT'LL BE DARK
By Harry F. O'Neill
WOYMENT Z HEARD
NOISE, LIKE SOMEBODY
SNOOPIN AROUND
..
How?"
Can't Soo The Wind
"I told him he could stand 'still and reat, or take a nap. and I'd turn ́ ́around and keep watching to see where the wind came from. And that's what I did. Everytime the wind blow, turned around. It's certainly hard work. And even when you look to peo where the wind, is coming from, you can't see the wind. No matter how hard you look you can't see it. Whee-Zee- Wheeeca can't see the wind elther. But he keeps right on looking."
Why is he called Whee-Zeo Whooses?” Hanid finally naked. ***I guess," said Knarf, "beenuSA (that's the sound he always nakes when the wind "(which The can't soo) whistles past him."
DO-IT
By Dale Goss
Winged WHIRLER
1.Cut 2 strips of colorad CREPE PAPER 36 inches long and li inches wide.
2. Hold together and tis in the center with «.' HEAVY STRING.
3. Thread (string through
nempty SPOOL, To enda together.
CRAFTS
GAMES
JOKES
ZOO'S WHO
Schabo.
BEAVERS.... AS
LARGE AS BEARS... ONCE LIVED IN THE UNITED STATES...
MUSKOXEN,
DURING ONE OP THE EARTH'S ICE AGES,ROAMED AS FAR SOUTH AS OKLAHOMA..
ROBBER CRABS. NATIVES OF CHRISTMAY" - ISLAND, CLIMB COCO PALMS AND BREAK OFF COCOANUTS WITH THEIR CLAWS THEY SMASH THE ENDS OF THE SHELL.
If You're Lost,
Don't Panic
YOU'RE lost! Stop and
think! Keep cool. Never rush hither and, thither in a vain effort to find your way. That only makes matters worse.
It is far better to eit down and think the siton- tion over and study the map, if you have one with you. If you decide to go on
ก
tour of investigation, break twigs as you go along so that you can return to
the place you started out
from.
1
IF YOU'RE-LOST IN THE WOODS, CLIMB A TREE AND TRY TO SPOT A PAMILIAR LANDMARK
If you have no map and no compass, climb a trec (the largest and tullest you tendency of human beings to can find), and get a view of live near a stream of water,
First, last, and all the time, the country around you don't let excitement get the the smoko better of you.
You may see from some house or oven-a familiar landmark. Note the position of the sun at the time and thus get your directions.
"Your companions, if at the camp and you are not back when start a supposed to be, will search for you. Keep shouting at short intervals. Keep near the place where you first decid- ed that you were lost.
This Growing.
Up Business
Is Important
this gets into business of growing up.
EVERY one
The stranger the country, the It's Important business too, and more need there is of using cau- it is important to you NOW be- cause what you do in youth tion, and the more wild it lo
you should sets the pattern-for success or the more cautious
ny. In the be If there is a railway in the for failure both now and later reglen, observe the direction of
up
it when climbing a tree. If you can find
You can make growing your way to a railway be almost sure track, you can of getting to a human habita- fun by what you do about the tion, even if you are far from everyday things that happen to
you comp. The same is true of stream. If you follow a stream,
it will eventually lead you to some house because there is a
Things to Make With Materials at Hand
4. Tie à 30 inch long string through the spool...
Whirl
THE STICK:"" IN THE
dir!
KHOT
tio ends to a long STICK.
GROWING UP
##
you. Home dulles and church activi- Lies,
studies
and 'dates, ».
sports and. hobblea, the friends you make, are all
part of the growing up business. The way you handle these things, your reaction to the experiences and emotions" they bring; can make growing up fun and will be a potent factor in your future.
You can make good use of all these things by hunting out the good in each one, regardless of what they seem to contain. The moro good you uncover, behind even an unpleasant happen- be Ing, the happler you will and the better pattern you sol up for the future.
gets
Don't let efrcumstances you down. Learn to face what- ever happens with a grin and life will smile back at you.": Stand up to difficulties and the good. In them will appear. IÐA
't what happens to you,' but ì how you react to it, that makes this business of growing up so. important to your future hap phes and mincess.de