PUZZLES
STORIES
HOBBIES
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER
1949
The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
Parlour Magic For All
* SOLID CANDY MINT HIDDEN
IN HANDKERCHIEF
D
HIDDEN PIECES
DOWN WITH 2ND
FINGER...
HANDS OMITTED
-A
ROPE IS PULLED
AND LOOPS OPEN
WIDER THAN
NECESSARY
TO MAKE
MOVES CLEAR.
I
N presentation and skill,
PIECES REMOVED
UNDER HANDKERCHIEF.
2. ROLL FORWARD
SOLID MINT BROUGHT TO VIEW FRIE
END "B" THROUGH LOOP
TO POSITION "C"
STARTING POSITION
3. TWO ENDS HAVE
FLAPPED OVER..
STOP AND UNROLL
4. BLUE IS NOW IN MIDDLE.
FORMING LOOP "A"···
THUMB THEN PUSHES
This solid mint le conceal- napkins are unrolled and it.
the string.
a professional magician ed until the handkerchief is is in the middle. outshines the amateur. draped over
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THE MYSTERY OF THE PANTOMIME CAT
Chapter Nine of the children's sorial
tolling
how the Five Find-Outors set out to solva'the crime at the Little Theatro,
Clue of the
F
ATTY thought hard during his lunch. His mother found him very silent indeed, and be gan to wonder about his teeth again.
"Frederick, how is your tooth?" she asked suddenly, "My tooth?" he said. "What tooth, Mother?"
Z
Gud Blyton
Fatty decided he must go to Mr Pippin and get the list of names and ad- dresses. Il c rushed off,
It c walked by the sitting. window how swollen room
this
morn-
"Now Jon't bo silly. Frederick," said his mother. "You know your face was ing."
"Mother," Raid desperately "that toothacheit WILA pads."
of the little cot- Inge belonging to Goon. Pip- pin was there, Fatty. facing the win- wasn't dow. Goon was cheek- also there, his
"Cheek-pada! What do you mean, Frederick?"
back to 11,
writing at the table.
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CRAFTS
people, mustn't it? Nobody else had so much Inside knowledge ns to be able to give the manager a cup of tea, and then take down the mirror, find the key, work out the combination, and open the safe
"Don't forget it was the Panto- mime Cat who took in the cup of ton," said Pippin,
Fatty was horror-stricken to think that there was somebody with o nome beglazing with Z !
Fatty tiptoed to the window and tried to attract Pippin's "Things you put in your attention. Pippin looked up, cheeks to alfer your appearance. astonished to see Fatty winking A-a port of disguise. Mother." and beckoning outside. Не
turned round cautiously to see sald "How very disgusting," sald
what Mr Goon was doing. wish you wouldn't do
like that, Frederick."
they snaps the mint on the string trick is in rolling up his mother."1 do
Stage magicians almost Then the magician reaches always have little Im- beneath the handkerchief, promptu stunts that
Aolid mint is perform when ing and the
hand friends and these are as brought out with one
other folds an simple as an amateur's bag while the of tricks. But with the pro- other corner of the handker. fessional touch they
look chief over the broken halves and keeps them hidden until nstounding.
the handkerchief is pocket. ed.
This is an observation in a recently published book by Walter B. Gibson, "Profes-
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the napkins. The nap kins are rolled normally un- til near the finish. At that which the corners point
to
were toward you begin flip over and forward. Since they are laid out unevenly at the start, you allow two
Things
that he was
cane at the
When he turned back again he saw, held up to the window, a plece of paper on which Fatty had written. "Meet me in High Street in ten minutes' time."
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"Yes. That's queerer still,"
Falty.
"Anyone would think he'd done the job.
"Goon thinks so," said Pippin. "He thinks all that business of the cat saying he doesn't under- stand, and he doesn't remember, and bursting into tears is put on-good acting, you know,"
"What do you think?" asked Fatty. Pippin considered. think Boyslo's a bit queer in the head-never grown up, poor fellow. I don't see how he "Out to the post office," sald could possibly have donc all
Dant."* Pippin.
Pippin grinned and nodded. disappeared.. Pippin Anished what he was doing and Fatty then got up.
"Where are you going?" asked Goon.
"Sorry, Mother," said Fatly, hoping the would talk about something else. She did. She
who Mr Pippin, talked about the extraordinary behaviour of had snatched at Mr Twit's hair. or hat-she didn't know which. of them to go by, but stop And she also told Fatty that the rolling before the third is vicar and complained about it zional Magic for Amateurs," NOTHER page describes flipped. Now when you uni-to Mr Goon, now
how handkerchief roll the napkins the one that back again to take charge of Mr Gibson, a magician of the first runk, gives 225 can seemingly be passed previously was on the bot- this new robbery
Tho tom will be in the through M rope.
Should you start with tricks, ranging
is pages of from simple sleight-of-hand diagram shows
done. For this stunt care is blue in the centre, it will skill. unroll on top. If the blue in to the large singe per- neederl formances given by profes- When the rope is drawn on top when you start sional magicians in bygone down at A while two specta will be on the bottom when to,
his mother all that! He began cald Fatty. "I don't want Goon tors hold the ends, it is con- the three are unrolled as cealed by the hands.
years.
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more
how it
than
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contre. the
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He
over
GAMES
JOKES
ZOO'S WHO
IN THE WEST INDIES GEESE
OFTEN ARE USED AS WATCH DOGS
AROUND A HOME...
A CARIBOU
OFTEN TRAVELS A HUNDRED MILES PER DAY
WHEN WINTER COMES. FROGS BURY THEMSELVES
IN THE MUD AND BEGIN BREATHING THROUGH: THEIR SKINS INSTEAD OF THEIR NOSTRILS.
A Very Remarkable Pencil
THE
to
-It Could Talk as Well as Write-
By MAX TRELL
Knarf, the
dark, and house was everyone in It-from collar attle--had already gone to
All except bed
the turned- shadow-boy with
nnnre. He was sitting about
of the deak near on the edga tho window, wntching $10 moon climb up over the trees. For quite a while Knarf sat Bound or there, not hearing a "Well, it's qhite possible that seeing anything move insido somebody hid in the kitchen the room when all at once he somewhere when Boysle was heard a sharp little voice say- and popped ing: "Pardon me. zir! You're making the len something into the cup when sitting on me!"
wasn't looking." Boysle
Gald
He walked out of the house Little Teatre.
and up to the post office. Fatty didn't answer. He knew posted h's letter and then looked a lot about the case, and he meant to meddle in it for all he for Fatly. Ah, there he was, sit-
ting on the wooden bench, was worth, and if he could annoy it Mr Goon he was certainly going 'Come into that shop
Knarf Instantly sprong off "Of course I can talk," the pencil But he couldn't possibly fell there and have a lemonade," Futty.
the deak. He peered closely
wald "Yes, there's something in at the spot where he had been to think hard about all the to see us hob-nobbing together."
All he could see way ibat," said Pippin, "But we still sitting.
no "I mean 'G'.' And If you ask pencil. small yellow suspects,
And if Its a question, say "Y" They went into the litle shop, come back to the fact that it He would have to And out their
you're talking about somebody These are only three tricks should be drawn only far of the
names and who they were and Then Fatty told Pippin what he can only have been done by one larger than a clothespin,
of the theatre folk-no one else point was broken.
else, say "U. And if you're IN most
knows enough to have done it- described, very little is enough to put the end of the tricks in the book. Mr where they lived. It was pretty wanted.
Edge Of Desk
talking about yourself say 'I'. only one of the
Ali "Do you know the names and and they
have allbis—so '|
And if you're talking about needed in the way of equip. the hunkerchief B through Gibson has chapters on rope obvious that
honey say tricks, after theatre people could have com-
actors and there you are! the loop, to position C. Then tricks, card
Knarf had just about de- insects that make
that he ment and preparation.
had only 'B' And if you're talking take the two ends of the dinner tricks, party tricks mitted the crime. One of them addresses of the
"Can I have their names and elded had come back that night, let actresses of the Little Theatre?"
And beard some about the ocean, say 'C'. imagined he had nddresses?" One trick that a young handkerchief and pull. The anything
asked Fally. "one speaking to him. amateur himself in quietly, and done the he asked.
He was if you're talking about a cer- handed magician can
con- knot seema to pass right wizard might need.
on tain kind of bird, say. J. And "Yes," said Pippin, at once. copy them down." Pippin sists of taking a ring, which through the rope.
"I got them all last night. Wait hun over his note-book. Fatty starting once more to sit
blt-I think they're in jooked through the pages with the edge of the desk when the if you're talking about some
you drink, volce broke out again, thing
hot in this case is a candy mint
letters. this time
and Learn to use louder notebook. I don't believe I gave Interest. "I say are there your ty
your alphabet isn't with a hole through the
them to Mr Goon.
where they sald He's been notes about
Keep off!"
enough. And learn your com- centre, off a string.
out interviewing the whole Ipt, they were between half-part Ave sharper than before. "No! No! Knowing the
Demi-colons, mas,
ant and I expect he got the names and eight o'clock last night?"
question It was certainly not Knarfs period, and from the manager-same as 11
"That's right," said Pippin imagination! Now he was cer and exclamation points, and Take them along with you, toin that someone close by was dushes, too.
And above all," He I'll walk a little way speaking
peered very said the Pencil, "don't all on "Oh-he's interviewed them you like.
with you, Master Frederick-It's hard at the penell.
top of the desk. You've already, has he? said Fatty.
"Yes," sald Pippin. "He's a nice day."
broken my point already. "Well," said tho Pencil,
that's considerate are you looking at me don't think
at all"
Never in his whole life had "Old you say something to Knarf ever heard a Pencil talk
like that! me just now?"
master
Another trick for a party
is done with paper napkins. Three napkins, two of one
The method, according to colour and another of a dif- Mr Gibson, starts with a ferent colour-blue, we'll prepared candy mint, which say are the
equip-
has been broken cleanly and ment needed.
then stuck together again
by moistening the broken
only
The blue napkin is placed:
deed. But which one?
How Stranded Airmen 'SOS”
ALL air services, civil, edges with water. This mint on the bottom and the three military and commer-
the
au- diagram.
RSQUIRE DOCTOR SERIOUS INJURIB6 Require MEDICAL SUPPLIES
X UNABLE TO PROCEED
REQUIRE FOOD AND WATER V REQUIRS PIRDARMS AND
Is placed on a string after rolled up as shown in the cial, of the United States being shown to
The spectators and Canada have agreed on dience. In a handkerchief, are asked where the blue a standard set of signals by hidden beneath a folded napkin is. The magician 18 which persons in distress on told it is on the bottom. The the ground may make their corner, is a solid mint.
needs known to searchersEQUIRE MAP AND COMPACO and rescuers in planes over- head.
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Rupert at Rocky Bay-
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The old Collector takes much, a long time over showing the wonder Things in his tanks and cates that If I quite late when the others. inally say good-bye. Mira Bear soon packs the little people into bed, but Rupert in full of his idea. We do so want to fish in those pools and help the old gentleman find some.
more strange creatures” bị, says.
Can's "Reatur stay and help me.. Daddy? But Mr. Bear shakes hii head,."**Rastus did a very wrong thing when he got on the train with out a ticket," he says. When to morrow's post.comes we shall know who is coming to fetch him and then I'm afraid he will have to go.” ALL RIGHTS RESERVED:
BRONCHO BILL
HANGING OVER THE ROGE DRA 1000=POCÊT
STINY BUS ON
HIGH WALL, THE DOOMED STAGE- CORCH, Win
The signals are made with
AMMUNITION
INDICATE DIRECTION TO PROCEED
AM PROCEEDING IN THIS DIRECTION
WILL' ATTEMPT TAKE-OFF]
any sort of material that can AIRCRAFT SERIOUSLY.
be laid out on the ground in
eight-foot symbols visible
from the air. Old para-
DAMAGED
PROBABLY SAFE TO
·LAND HEAR
REQUIRE FUEL AND OIL
chutes, field stones, marks LLALL WELL
in wet sand or in snow, are
equally satisfactory.
(K
There's a certain pattern of logic in the cholce of symbols. "K" for instance, means "skow, me the way to go home." for question, undoubtedly). "N" means means "No," and "Y" "Yes."
o
Y YES
JL NOT UNDERSTOOD
did."
iny
found one of them has a name
same
down the "what wallted AR they beginning with Z too-you know" High Street they bumped for?" ons of the clues was on old handkerchief with Z on it. Well, at them both.
straight into Mr Goon! He glared
I incant it.
You were And about to sit on me
"Since when
and marks
FIT FOR
TREASON
person
see here," and he pointed to one
the names in the list he was "You be careful of the com- *I did." sald tho Penell, now showing to Fatty, "the name pany you keep, Pippin," ordered of Dick Whittington,
the Mr Goon. "I warned you against "and principal boy-who's acted by s that boy, didn't I? Always in-sitting on me, you werel girl is Zoe Markham, Looks as terfering and meddling, he is! you were if Zoe was out on that verandah he can't interfere in this
case again!" for some reason or other at a much! Cast-iron, that's what it
"Oh!" exclaimed Knari. mecting the
of crooks,
on arrest any perhaps."
making on is! I'll be
Then he added: Fatty WAS horror-stricken. time now!"
do Pencils talk?? To think that there was actually Mr Goon walked on.
cannot who "Don't be "It's that Pantomime Cat he's
snapped THE silly," somebody with a name begin-
"We write, don't laugh, sold Carlyle, "is not ning with Z Who would have going to arrest," said Pippin, "I the Pencil.
saw it in his eyes! And before we? Why shouldn't we be able only fit for treason stratagems thought It?
-Has Zoe got an alibi-some- he's finished with that poor Cat to, talk?"
him confess to one to swear that she was some- he'll make where else between half-past things he didn't do. He will!"
"Then I'll have to see that heart. five and eight o'clock?" asked doesn't," said Fatty. "I must set Fatty, looking worried.
"Oh yes; They've all got the alibis," said Pippin.
"Queer, Isn't 1," said Fatty, a allence. "I mean it of those theatre
The aircraft uses only three signs. If the pilot understands, after he waggler his wings. I he must be, one doesn't understand, he makes a complete circle to the right. If An arrow means "I'm going the doesn't see it, he usually fles this way." A simple siraight out of sight.
line which means a doctor in re-
US
quired to treat a serious in. The flustration shows the Jury-it is the simplest to te standard signals used by member and construct.
Thread
Canadian, and British alimen.
old brains to work immediately!"
MORE NEXT WEEK
-(London Express. Service)
Are You Tactful?
You Are THE altuation:
shopping with a girl friend By Harry F. O'Neill who insists on giving unwel-
KEEP IM TIGHT
IN THE HARNESS
A'LL TELL YOU WHAT KIND OF A PRESENT TO GET YOUR MOTHER FOR HER BIRTHDAY
come advice on the best kind of present to glyo your mother. on her birthday. You have Mile confidence In your HC friend's judgment.
(a) Ask
choose Ignore
What will you do? her. to please let you the gift yourself? (b) her advice without comment? (c) Thank her for her idens, but pick out what you want? (d) Tell why you do not care for your friend's ideas.
The solallous. In this situation solution-Cid the best. Thank
your friend, because sho' means well and trying to help. buy what you want" nevertho-
and spölls, but his whole life is "Pencils don't write," said already a treason and a strat-
agem." "People do,"
A traitor is a harsh name, yet "Nonsense. People just hold there are those of us who need
I'd us. We do the writing."
name for an attitude a kursh like to see anyone write any that robs life of much enjoy-
thing by just moving his fin- ment. ger up and down on a sheet of paper. All he would get is Cheerful- smudges.
can be Pencils wrlie wordsness that other people can read cultivated. That's real writing.
Start tie mora- ing by smiling the Pen- at your reflec
the ell went on before Knart could tion in interrupt; "since we know all mirror. Resolve the words, we can also talk that for one day Pens talk too only when they you will gay
"And of course,"
Ket excited they make blots nothing unless it is pleasant, and they splutter. And some-Look for a laugh on your jaunt times they suddenly stop. They to the grocery, GLORY or that
to know..
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can't say another word."! „; dreaded visit to Aunt Mabel's.
"Why
not?" Knari wanted
Before growing gloczny over the things you don't possess, of write a grateful list of those you do. possess. If you make it.a. balance sheet you'll be surprised
"Because they run out
ink. They dry up."..
"Oh," said Knart again.
"It seems to me said the and not little ashamed at the ro- Fencil, "that you're full of sult O's Don't you know any other Should you meet the gloom, Tetters?"
Whole Alphabor
know the whole alphabet,"
Bald Knarf Indignantly.
stear the conversation to another subject like the Irish labourer whom Charlio Schwab caught eating his lunch on company time..
Then use them, silly. In "I am the president of tho
of saying O all the company said Schwab,
stend
time, say "G"I"
Your mean. Kaarl
Ged
"Faith and I think ye have a
fine ob for a young feller
said: the Irishman replied. "Yo better
run along and tend to it."