PUZZLES
STORIES
HOBBIES
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1949.
The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
MENTAL GYMNASIUM Pippin's story-and
CROSSWORD
A slbouette of a capital "1" is in the centre of this puzzle and the first word across is what you do with your "cyes."
ACROSS
1 Observo
4 Nativo of Rome
9 Symbol for certum
7 Aretle gulf
Soft drink
11 Heavenly body
13 Verbal
14 Engage
15 Step
10 Eternities
17 Lieutenant (ob.)
10 Nova Beotia (nb)
19 Painful spota
23 Distant
1 Thus
DOWN
2 Type mereure
2 Each (ab.)
4 Edito
5 Ideas
Sen theleton
8 Farm bulldings
s Sonk up
10 Malt beveragü
11 Her
12 Residence (nb.)
20 From
21 Egyptian sun god
22 Comparative sufix
DIAMOND
A DREAMER sleeps in the centre of today's diamond. The "a constella- mccond word is tion," the third "to tum aside," the fifth "upplled with wea- pons," and the sixth "to real- ter."
D
E
DREAMER
M
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KATE QUIZ
For
This quiz lan't concerned with personalities, but it deals with "Kates." See how many of the questions can be answered with words ending in "cota" example: What "Kate" lovolves an innocent person in a crime? The answer is "impli-cate."
Kate tolkn
writes?
RIDDLES
1. Why are riddles which cannot be answered like a man dimppointed by his visitors?
2. What root are policemen most familiar with?
3. Why la n blacksmith like
a sato steed?,
4. When is an altered dress
like a secret? (\
5. It a box w ble sister Tall into a well why could be not: rescue her?
FRUIT SQUARE
And the correct When you starting point, rend each letter up, down, backward, or for. ward (never diagonally), and the "right" hidden you'll find kinds of fruit:-
RRI NEA YGPL PIP AHCE |T (6 [P {R } []CIO IR EPGE. PA ARL B A IN A IP PROA [&]G]N]A A N
HOMONYM
Although the missing wurda spelled sound alike, They are differently.
The mayor enlled upon the populaco to--the city would not fall-to the enemy's forces.
ANSWERS
KATE QUIZ: 1-Communi- cate. 2-Duplicate, 3-Extriente. 4-Suffocate. 5-Advocato. — 7-Eradi- Indicate or locate.
rata B-Eduente. 0-Syndicate. 10-Lubricate.
CROSSWORD:
A
OB
R
D
1. What
and
ARA AVERT
2.
What Kate is twing?
3.
What Kato wiggles out of
tight places?
DREAMER ARMED.
TED R
4. Which
Kate cannot
5.
What Kate is full of ad-
vice?
6.
Which Kate shown
the
way!
breathe?
RIDDLES: 1-Because there
is a host put out and not one guest (guessed).
route (beet root).
one is a
2--The beat
3-Because
barse-shoer and the other is a sure horse. 4-When
* What Kate makes things it's let out 5-Because he could
invisiblot
8. Which Kato Bikes to go to
school?
9. What Kate is found
newspapers?
10. Which
Kato keeps the
machinery going?
not be a brother and assist her too
FRUIT SQUARE: Pineapple, Cherry, Apricot, Grape, Banana, Orange, Apple, Pear.
HOMONYMI;
Pray, prey.
Rupert at Rocky Bay-11
Ramus screws up his courage, and, joining Rupert at the chif edge; he gases downward.
There
get away.. I'm cut all by the tide i” Good gracious, he may be drowned i we don't do something." says Rupert. "Come on, let's seß Cap'n Binnacle, he'll know what to do." The old man's danger makes Ratus forget his own tears, and be wins Rupert is he racea 'downhill. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
he sees an old gentleman standing on a rock surrounded by water. The old man has beard Rupert's cry and "Can you get waves to them. same belo?" he shouts " can't
BRONCHO BILL
BOLLY
a meeting
A
Fatty and Pc, Pippin, the holiday relief policeman, plan
· Ip Investigate the robbery at the Little Theatre secretly. They make a pact not to say anything to P.c. Goon, the village constable, who has been unkind to Fatty's dop.
NATTY'S brains began to work at top
speed: "Goon," he said. “Toll......... me all you know, Mr Pippin." "Well, actually I was after two rogues I'd seen under a bush the other night," Bald Pippin, and Fatty had the grace to blush.
i
1
"I thought they might be meeting at the back of the Little Theatre, and I was hiding there. I got there at half-past eight, and when I looked into the room at the back of the verandah
-where you saw the Cat-I saw him too. He was lying fast asleep by the fire, Funny to wear a cat-skin so long, isn't it?**
by
"Ok, Bustar, how could
you like that! Ihats Goen
I do, I do!
A Buk
The Children's
ger would have known all those "Yes-you're right. No stran facts," said Fatty, thoughtfully "It must be one of the cast either an actor or an actress," It's queer that Boysle took in the
think he helped in the robbery?"
"Yes, Must be a queer fellow," sald Pippin, "Seems pretty ten, though, In't 17 Do you sald Fally.
"Well-he le queer-queer in the head," said Pippin "I saw tvm this morning. Without his cat-skin. He's not very bla except for his head. He's about twenty-four, they say, but he's never grown up, really. Liko child the way he walks and acts They call him Boycle."
"I suppose he not dropped when he was a baby," said Fatty, remembering stories he had heard. "Babies like that don't develop properly, do they? Go on, Mr Pippin. This thrilling."
La
Patty.
serial
CRAFTS
bursting with it. He must have| plenty of news!""
He had. He began to relate everything from the very begin- ning, and when he got to where Goon had actually struck poor Buster with a poker, Bets gave « scream, and Dung herself down on the floor beside the surprised Scottle.
Buster! Are you huri? Oh, Buster, how could anyone hit you like that! I hate Goont I do, I dol"
Falty went on with his fale. The children squealed with laughter when they heard that Goon had demanded all the false clues and had been solemn- ly handed them by Pippin,
"He'll
mest that Sunday train, Fally!" chuckled Plp. "Can't wo meet it too?”
"Oh yes, begged Bets, "Let's Do let's, doon would be awful- ly annoyed to see us all there.
which we do," said Larry, He'd think we knew the clue,
"Seeing that we thought of it!"
"It's 骂
idea," said
Fatty. "Quite an idea. I've good mind to disguise myself and arrive on that rain-and Arouse Goon's suspicions and get him to follow me"
could "We
follow, too." all giggled Bets. "We really must do that. It's tomorrow, isn't it Oh, Fatty, wouldn't it be fant"
GO
on with the tale," said Dalay. Let's hear it to the end before Wo make any
more plans. It'll be dinner-time be- fore Fatty's Anished."
Fatty then told the rest of the tale to the end. The children glad to hear that were very Pippin had stuck up for Buster and Fatty.
"Well, I saw the Cat asleep by and actresses, you know-hid hò da quite unmistakable as the brave enough to peep into the
the fire on 1 fald," went
GAMES
JOKES
ZOO'S WHO
THE ARCTIC TERN FLIES 11,000 MILES BETWEEN ITS NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN HOMES, A TREK BELIEVED TO BE THE LONGEST ANGRATION ROUTE OF ANY BIRD, IT NESTS IN THE FAR NORTH AND SPENDS THE NORTHERN WINTER NEAR, THE SHORES OF THE ANTARCTIC CONTINENT.....
BOY! "AMI TIRED"
HELP
OON 15 A FINE SWIMMER AND LIKE A MONKEY, HEHAS FOUR HANDS INSTEAD OFFSET MANY A COON HOUND HAS BEEN DROWNED BECAUSE A COON SAT ON HIS HEAD UNTIL HE STOPPED BUBBLING...
THE AVERAGEBEE IS COMPELLED TO TRAVEL APPROXIMATELY $50 MILES TO MAKE A SPOONFUL OF HONEY.
A Very Extraordinary Mouse
-He Gave Himself a Medal for Bravery---
By MAX TRELL NARF, the shadow-boy, was
surprised to see his friend WIDy (who
Was A toad) hopping down the road arm-in- arm with a mouse. It wasn'
On the an ordinary mouse. mouse's chest WH
a large niedal And even more ex- traordinary, the mouse wore white gloves, black shoes with a high shine on them, a big hat, dark glasses, and he carried a
"Yes the Pantomime Cat!"
suspicious, doesn't it? But if you talk to Boysio-the Cat-you can't help thinking he'd got nothing to do with the whole thing he's too silly--ho wouldn't have the brains to put a sleeping-
"I don't know! He says he draught into a cup of tea, and he doesn't remember a thing except last night certainly wouldn't know where feeling very sicepy the safe was or whers to get and going to sleep in front of the keyer how to find out the the re," sold Pipgn. combination of letters that opens "That's certainly where I saw the safe door, once the key is him when I looked into the room. He even says he didn't take in the cup of tea to the "It's very interesting." said manager, but that's nonsense, of "Who was in the Little courge the manager says he Theatre at the
and he wouldn't be time, besides certainly
They all agreed that Pippin Boysie?"
to be mistaken, likely
"I think Boyale
is scared, and Was very nice indeed. They "Nobody," said Pippin, "Not said he didn't take in the tea to were thrilled to hear about the the two a noult All the cast the actors try and clear himself-forgetting Pantomime Cat, and
Kirty wished they had been rone off after the free show Pantomime Cat!" they'd given to the children of
locka us if Boyale verandah-room and see him the Pippin. "Then, when the clock the Farleigh Homes, and we can either did the whole thing or night before. struck nino 1 reckoned I'd bet check their albis And out helped somebody else,' said ter hide mycelt. So I climbed check
exactly where they were be Fatty. "Well, thanks very much. up through a hole in the tween the time of their leaving Pippin. I'll let you know if we verandah roof and sat on the
"Do you think he did it all?" window-all of the room above. and eight o'clock. The deed spot anything. And remember waiting. And I heard groana" was done between half-past five don't you give away anything asked Be's. "If he look in the and eight-between the time the to Goon. He won't thank you tea, he must have done it He may be cleverer than we think," "Go on," said Fatty, as Plopin show was over and the time the for t
"I shan't open
He may be, Bets." said Fatty, cane. my mouth to paused, remembering. "Gosh, manager had drunk his cup of
him, said Pippin. "My good- "I shall have to interview him. weren't you lucky to be therei tea, and fallen unconscious."
ness-here he 15, back again In fact, I thought we all could This was the most rumark- "I sec. And you've got to and I haven't even begun this together, you know, just as if able-looking mouse that Knarf "Well, I shone my torch Inlo
EVET BOEN. And he was the room and saw the manager check the whereabouts of all the report he wants! You'd better we were children interested in had
have gone clear out the back way, Master him. He may be on his guard walking arm-in-arm with Wilty lying stretched out on his desk, people who might
rubbery." Frederick."
with <rown-ups. HA wouldn't Tond. and the eranty safe in the wall back and done the
Knari hurried over to The monas was all dressed up and Goon loomed up at the front be with children."
had a medal on bla chest. : behind him." said Pippin. "And said Fatty. "Yes. But what's
them at once. "Yes. That's I smashed the window and got to prevent a stranger doing it gate, looking most important.
good idea," I mean, why should it be one of He was talking to the vicar, id Larry. "Gosh, what a thrill "Ah! Good-afternoon, good-
"Now," said Willy to Knarf, the actors?"
solemnly and ponderously.
Knari!" this is! To think we put our afternoon,
greeted
"you know how big and forco Fatty tiptoed out into the clues in the very place where Willy, stopping and
sort of and ferocious
alon is, don't "Because whoever did I knew hall and made for the kitchen, all this was golog to happen bowing.
time to do it," said with
you?" Buster in bis arms. He and managed to put a police- the best
knew where the meant to go into the back gar man there, too, so that he would Pppin. "Ha
"Good-afternoon," cald Knart. safe was.
den, hop over the fence at the discover the crime. It's extra- bottom, and make his way to ordinary,"
The mouse with the medal "He knew that the manager Pip's. "The safe was quite empty, of
What a lot he had to tell
"Well-we must set our wits on his chest stood still, twirling there the
the other!
his moustache and Jooking course. It's being examined for had put the takings
to work," said Fatty. "We've and hadn't taicen Angerprints-I got an expert on day before
He heard Goon's loud voice. only got just over two weeks to Kourt up and down the job at once--and the cup in them to the bank that day a "Do you know what the vicar, solve the mystery and Goon is beinit examined for drugs--just he usually did. He knew where els me, Pippin? He tells me on the job, too-hampered by asked Willy.
"Who is this?" the to his brother few false clues, of course! But strong sleeping-draught, I the key was kept-in the mana-
ger's wallet, not on his key you were rude expect"
that the yesterday-snatched at his hat we've got Pippin to help us. He ring and he knew "Who
Impossible for us to find out."
"How are we going to set to work?" asked Larry.
in.
"The manager was already coming round. He was doped with some drug. I reckon it his cup of had been put into ten.
1
"This," sald
Willy
"Oh, yes," said Knart.
Saved Lion
"And you
know bow smalt and weak and timid a, mouss 187"
Knart nodded. mouse **Well, this is the mouse
to
the
brought the manager manager liked a cup of tea in the or something! Now, I really do may learn a few things that it's] mouse, "is my friend Knart, Ho nawing through the rope that
the cup of tea-did he say?" evening-and into it went the
sleeping draught!” asked Fatty, with interest.
DO-IT
By Dale Goss
Movie sta
Things to Make With Materials at Hand
FAN CLUB
1.Find a BUTTON about 1 inches wide with a flat rim around it... Sew a small SAFETY PIN to the back.
The Bogey Man
AWFUL DREAM
OLO
WASTE FAND
DAD BURNITU
WAD
FRONT OP AME AND
"DREA, NO
ANDWR
MARY
לתאיטרות
2.Put button
over a PICTIFE
of your favorite
MOVIE STAR... 3.Traces around button and
cut out j 4.futbulion on
place of COLORED PAPER trace around Cut out..
5.Put a button Finch across in center of colored paper circle.....
mark' around
and cut out
center.
0.00
6.GLUE circle over picture... glue picture to
rim of buttonwth BOYSEROLD CEMENT.
924
think.
to
what But
Goon really did think Fatty didn't walt to hear. Poor Pippin Ho was going get into trouble over his curlo- sity about red-headed people now! Fally couldn't help feeling very, very sorry!
50
*
*
"We must aid Fatty. "A properly-set-out
make a
Plan."
Plan. Like we usually do, List of Suspects, list of Clues, and so on."
the very mouse-who went and anved the life of a lion by
beld him captive. You can't in lives
Large white
Imagine how dangerous it was, house at the top of the hill. If the Hon had
one moved of mouses- paw-it
hla He's very fond mean, mice-I mean-"
mouse,
that
Pointed a Thumb
9110
he had swlahed tall just once-If he had even
Leo
have Would And don't forget,
Excer
lion is an enormous cat. Here "Mouses is all right," sakl the is a mouse who saved the lives "Introduce him pleaco" of ten thousand cats all rolled He pointed with one thumb at in one! That's why he got a "Oooh, yer" gnid Bets, "Let's Knart to show whom he meant medall"
pleased to
-If we'd known Pippin was begin now. Fat's. This very by him.
decent we'd never have minute. Have you got a note- thought up all those tricks," book?"
sald Faity to himself, as ho "Of course," said Fatty, and | Willy. made his way to Pip's, where took out a fat note-book and a
he knew the others would be very fine fountain-pen. He ruled Willy, turning
* impolite. Knart." a few lines very neatly. "Now like to
anxiously awaiting him.
**Still-I can make it up.
the--Suspects,"
Knart was very mret Euch a famous
mousa.
under-
"Of course, of course," said But bo still couldn't
"Pardon me for being suud, who gave rum the modal. cald It was only later that Willy to Knarf, "I'd told him. "Silly," he said, you to know very "Leo gave it to himself!” him, perhaps, by solving this A bell sounded loudly from ick
famous mouse. This is Freder
Robert Alexander Leo peculiar mystery. The Mystery the hell, Bets groaned. "Blow! Christopher Cheeseboro Mouso- of the Pantomime Cat. Sounds Dinner Ime nlready! Falty, mux"
will you come this afternoon Larry, Daisy, Pip, and Bets and do 17"
got very impatient indeed, had
"Right" la Fatty. "Half- said Knurf, walling ages for Fatty. He had part
past two everyone—and
put hand. been gone for an hour and a your best thinking-caps on! half! What in the world could This is the finest mystery we've he be doing?
Food!"
"Here he is at last," called Bets from the window. "Hush- ing up the drive with Buster. Ho looks full of importance—
had yet!"
MORE NEXT WEEK
-London Exprçar Service)
Danger Baskets
New materials are now being DAN
VANGER is always present In
one object that you may be used in fluorescent tubes a facing in your home or in your result, but many old ones are schoolroom right this moment. still around.
wasto- The danger source is
Other instances could enough in basket, harmless.
"I'm very glad to know you." WORD GAME
holding out his
"I'm not surprised a bit," romarked Mousemus.
HERE'S a solitaire word game
which you play by reduc- F.A.L.R.C.C.g each word by crossing out one letter at a Úmo until you can go no further.
It sounda easy, but every letter crossed out must leave a
"He certainly thinks a lot of himself," Kmarf thought. But he said aloud: "What's that new word just one letter shor
medal for?"
"
er. You are not allowed to "There, I told you he'd notice charge the order of the letters. "A" and "I" are comploto worda Willy. it, Leo!" exclaimed "The FIRST thing he saw! Go but "O" is not ahead, tell him what you got it for!"
Exemple: STOOP, Drop an O and it becomes STOP. Drop the 8 and you have TOP. Drop P talk arid the word la To. That's
thres drops
Trut-tut... hate to about myself" Leo said, that
ing his moustache again, "You tell him, Wilty. I'll just- lkám be ten."
By Harry F. O'Neiller, yet as long as the core- elted: severe cuts from razors
ess persist in tossing away and
VOORN
ghes, a needio, plunging Willy, coughed several times
needles, light bulbs, razors and Into an out-thrust anger, freak to brcken glass you can develop accidents by the score.
ything from
cuts to, an ac-
tual
Hon
amputa-
New hazard
about rubbis were expose some month
ago when :
boy cut hi
hand on A
heal
braled mouse in the world.".
Try, with the following: SPEND (two 'drops) THOROUGH (Uros drops) BOUNCE (four drops),
· CHEATER (six drops) BHINGLE (six drops)
Your total possible score is 21
for anyone. But 18 or 10 is smart work.
clear his throat. Then he sald: "I won this medal for the bravest net that any «mouse The sonable method of emp- ever did. It's in all the boolm, tying rubbish to to place a few He's absolutely the most celo-dropped letters. That's "tops" thicknesses of opened news papern on the floor, put the trash on this and fold the paper "Well, I wouldn't say that," loosely but securely. Glass und
Interrupted modestly. metal" objects can be thalten to There mny be other rela-
end and dropped in. the tives of mine who have don proper receptace, the remain brive acla But hey're not in der burned. And this is age all the books, yet." advice, regardless of whether
one
Here are the answers: SPEND, SEND END. THOROUGH THOUGH. TOUCH.
BOUNCE OUNCE ONCE
101
THROUGH
fluorescent tube. Although the you are emptying rubbish for Knorf was getting quite im
CHEATER HEATER HATER boy's palms were cleaned and the teacher, for Mem or for an pallent by this Time to hear HATE HAT AT 20 auliched, his hands fulled to ofice boss.
what Leo was celebrated for, "Plenco tell me," ho said..
"Teli-hlm,” ́... snið Plio moUMU to Widy,
because of beryllium poledning, the beryllium com-
ing from the inside coating of eldent involves an even greater.
the Buorescent tube,
It takes Ume. But an as-
lors of time."
· SHINGLE SINGLE BINGE: SING SIN IN: 1.
Now try some words of your
own.
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