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PUZZLES
STORIES
MENTAL GYMNASIUM
A Tour Of Afghanistan
CROSSWORD
This puzzle is on allhouette of Afghanistan:
the
ACROSS
Symbul for tantalum
3 Kind of monkey
4 Name of this country's king
6 Delnimi
7 Filth
0 Bustle
DOWN
Oriental $5RY
2 Ventilate
3 Timid
4 Nothing
Social insect
Accomplished
7 District attorney (ab.)
AFGHANISTAN REBUS
Four facts about Afghanistan are hidden here. Use the words and pictures to uncover them:
NO!
+ BANG
THE SUCCESS
OF THE AFFAIR WILL BE UP YO
ODD WORD
What word six letters con- lains six words besides itself, without changing the place of a single letter?
MISSING VOWELS
The vowels are omitted and the words of this sentence are unseparated. Fill in the vowels and remake the sentence about Afghanistan
fghnatn'achftröristhighth hybr
Pasnind.
L
RIDDLES
When in the easiest time of year in read?
2 What has four fingers and a thumb, but neither flesh nor bone?
Why is an umbrella odd?
3. 4. When 15
heap of show?
A
bout
like a
3. Why is a pair of lates like an apple?
RIVER MIX-UPS
Three Afghanistan rivera ace hidden in these odd lines,
You
can find them by rearranging
the letters:
LEND HUM
A BULK
US OX
TRIANGLE
This word triangle hangs trom Afghanistan's capital, KABUL The second word is "n
third god," the
W wager, Brandun."
And the fourth
KABUL
A
It
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1.
LITERARY RIDDLES
HOBBIES
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1949.
The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
THE MYSTERY OF THES PANTOMIME CAT
THE FIRST
T
SUSPECT
THE next day, Monday, the Five Find-Outers really eet to work. They all met at Pip's as usual. They were early, half-past nine-but, as Fatty "a pointed out, they had a lot
"
1 Why to bootblack ko an editor?
2
to do.
"You And lets must go and (buy a birthday present for that chih-Zon Markham's niece,"
he said. "Got any money?"*
"I haven't any at all," said Bein " Owed Pip three and threepence for a water-platol. and It's all gone to pay for that,"
Why pro Aesop's speaking "I've got about a shilling. I animals not so very improbable? | think, wald Dalsy.
1 Why was Dickens consider- ed a most Industrious novelim?
4.
by
te Blutow
And out came the handful of silver again)
"It's good thing you're so rich, Fatty," Bold Beta. "Wo wouldn't find detecting nearly bo cary if you weren't("
Fatty put his hand into his
"Now, let's see," said Fatty. pocket And pulled out mo
"We've all got jobs to do this allver. He always seemed to morning, haven't we? Report What best describes and
have plenty of money. He had back here at twelve, or as near most impedes a Pilgrim's Pro nunta and
who upped that as possible, I'm off to see uncles Cress?
him well, and he was just like
Come on. Buster. play
a grown-up the way he always him alone. od Willlary
Wake up! Bicycle basket for do two talkative med
you!" girls bidding each other goodbye | spend. remind one of?
4
What Shakespeare's
ANSWERS
RIVER MIX-UPS: Helnund; Kabul, Oxus.
TRIANGLE:
KABUL
ARIES
BET
US
I
RIDDLES: 1-In the autumn, when nature turns the leaves. 2.--A glove.
3. Ja effective 4-When only when used up. #sadrif1. 6-Because both have brought about the fall of
maa.
AFGHANISTAN REBUS: No railroarts. Fat-tailed sheep; Islam, Mountainous.
CROSSWORD;
ODD WORD: "Herein" which contains he, her, here, ere, rein at in, all in proper order.
MISSING VOWELS: AL- ghanistan's chief trade route is through the Khyber Pass into India.
Lo hava
enough
to
CRAFTS
CHILDREN'S
SERIAL
up here. Who are these friends
of yours, Helen?"
"This
is Daisy and this is Elizabeth, or Bets-that's what you are called, isn't it?" anid Mrs Thomas, turning to Bets
“this is zoda
Soon they were being shown a doll's house.
pretty young woman come into the room.
Then a
my nister -- the one who plays in the shows at the Little Theatre."
Well! What a bl of luck!
Daisy and Beta stared carnestly at Zoe. How
Pretty she was-
what д smiley face. They liked her very much.
"Did I hear you
talking about poor Boy sle?" said Zoe. sitting down by the doll's house, and beginning to rearrange the furniture in It.
"It's a shame! As if he could have done that Job on Friday evening! hasn't
got
the
brain he'd nevet,
never
Pippin if I can manage to get sen for little Jane and then the manager
*Jussi my we've gol a pre- think of it, even to get back on
He picked out a two-shilling plece and
"Hero from a sixpence. you are, Daisy. You can get a
for halt lite something
When's crown.
child's
birthday?"
"Tomorrow,"
"Bald Daisy.
met her little
for hda unkind- Thomas mys," ners," see what Mrs sad Bets, surprised to see how "Why is the manager unkind nervous Daisy was, "Pil manage to Boyse?" naked Bets. this if you can't, Dalsy."
"Yas awfully impatient with
You
nee,"
sald Zoe, quitc
"Boysio is slow, and he's only for get
given
like silly parts
Dick Whittington's Cat ΟΣ Mother Goose's Goose and things like that and the
manager shouts
That
WIS make Datay
enough to
all ber
Duster opened his eyes, got up the hearth-rug, yawned and wagged his tail, He trotted sediately after Fatty.
Bets went put on her hat
and coat,
nervousness. "I can manage it ready to do the bit of birthday all right, thank you," she said, shopping with Daly, Pip and humily. "Come on!"
a
to
"'1
sister yesterday
and asked her."
"Good," said Fatty, "Couldn't be better! Now you go and buy something, you and Bots, and put a message on it, and deliver It to Mrs Thomas, Zoe's sister, And mind
into con- you Rot versation with her and And out exactly when Zoe went there on Friday night, and what limo
sho
leh."
"How shall we get her talk-
ing, though? said Dalsy begin-
ning to feel nervous.
Fatty looked sternly at poor Daisy. "Now I really can't plan everyone's conversation! It's up to you to get this done, Daisy.
"Use Jour common unrise, Ask what the mother herself is giving the child something like that and I bet she'll take you In to see the presem she's pro- pared."
Oh yes that's a good idea," Kuld Daisy, cheering up. "Como on, Bets we'll go and do
our bit of shopping."
"Tim going to see Pippin
Larry went to get their bicycles, meaning to ride down to the
Little Theatre to get the lekets.
Fatty was just wheeling his
They went to the front door bicycle from Pip's shed. He and rang the bell, Mrs Thomas called to the other two. upp! opened the door. "Hallo, Dalsy!" Larry! Don't just buy the tie- she said. "And who is this--oh, ketstalk
to as many people little Elizabeth Hilton, isn't it? down there as you can! See if
"Yes," said Bets, whose name can And
out anything at
really was Elizabeth.
you
DIL"
"Right, Captain!" grinned Larry. "We'll do our best."
were DUON
"Er-it's Jane's birthday to- morrow, isn't it" began Dalry. a te "We've brought her prevent, Mrs Thomas"
"How kind of you!" caid Mra Thomme "What is 117**
"It's
him.
at him ull poor old Boysie gets worse than ever. I couldn't bear it on Friday morning, when we had a rehearsal-I fared up and told the manager what 1 thoughi of him!"
"Did you really?" said Daisy. "Was he angry?"
"Yes, very," said Zoe. "We had a real shouting match, and leave al be told me I could the end of this week."
**So "Oh, dear." said Daisy. mu've lost your job, then?"
"Yes. But I don't mind. I'm sald tired and I want a rest,' Zoe "I'm coming to stay with
We for a bit. my sister here shall both ilko that."
you
it
Off went all the Ave Find really good morning's work of Outers and Dog-to do в Detection. Bets and Daisy walk- ed, as Bets's bike hed a pune- Daisy gave it to her.
*'1
thought expect down just some dulls' furniture," she ture. They in the town, and went to the said. "Ifas she
doll's served the manager right, when до 11
was drugged and robbed tuy-shop Use
house?"
that night," said Daisy. "Where "Well, isn't that strange her were you when it happened?" daddy and I are giving Jane a doll's-house tomorrow!" said Mrs Thomas,
"This furniture will be just right!"
"I left at half-prist five with the others," sald Zoe. "And came here. I believe old Goon thinks I did tho robbery, with Boyslo to help me!"
"Jane's only four," sald Daly. "She won't want anything too advanced. It's no good buying her a game or a Jigsaw. We'll "Oh-could we see the doll's "But how could he, if you look at the soft toya".
house, please?" asked Bets at But there was no soft toy for once, seeing a wonderful chance' for helf
a crown-they were all of getting Inlo the house and much too expensive. Then Bets talking. pounced on a set of dolls' furni. lure, for a doll's house.
a few minutes, if I can," said Fatty. "I want to find out ono or two things before I make further plans."
"What do you want to know?" asked Larry, interested.
"Oh, luck! Isn't it sweet! Let's get this, Daisy, Two Uny chairs, a table and a sofa-lovely! I'm sure Jane would love it."
label. "Two shillings and nine-
"OI course," said Mrs Tho- mas, "Come in,"
WCT here all the evening?" said Bets at once. "Didn't your sister tell Mr Goon you were here?"
"Ye-but unfortunately went out at a quarter to seven, afler I'd put the children to bed, and were went So in they
to go to the post office," soon being shown a lovely little said Zoe. "And my sister didn't hear me come back ten minutes doll's house in an upstairs room. Daisy led the talk round to the later! Little Theatre,
"Your sister, Zone Summers, plays in the shows at the Little innocently.
"YCE,"
"I went up to my bedroom and stayed there till about a quarter to eight and then came
"Well-I want to know if there were any fingerprints on that wall-mirror, which had to be lifted down to get the safe "How much 16 it?" said LITERARY HIDDLES: 1-Be-
open, at the back of it,' said Daisy, looking at the price- cause he poilshes the understand-
Fatty. ing of his patrons. 2-Because
pence ha'penny Well, I've got we hear of deers talking (door-
"And there might have been Fatty's hal-crown, and I put Theatre, doesn't she?" she said. down again, stalking) in the Highlands, 3-prints on the safe, too. If there
the other threepence ha'penny were, and the job was done by to it myself." Because
" All he wrote
the Year Round," 4A Bunyan
we might as well give up our (bunion) Much Ado About detecting at pre--because Goon
hos only got to
to take everyone's fingerprints, compare them with
ones on mirror or safe-
Nothing."
Rupert & a Mare's Nest-5
Rupert persists in his questions and Mr. Bear sighs. "A Mare's Nest, did you say?" he smiles, “That's difficult. A Macy's Nest ? Wel, ita the sort of thing you look for and it isn't there I never is there i
"You're teasing me, daddy."" laughs Rupen. must be there some
ALL RIGHTS
C
times in this book of yours) But a mare isn't a bird. How cen it huve a nest?" Mr. Bear gels out of his hammock. "I tell you what.""
he says," suppose you and your pale
go and search, and it you can show mea Mare's Nest i'll take you away for a whole week's holiday at the seaside." RESERVED
BRONCHO BILL
OUCH THAT LAST SHOT.
HIT MY RIPLE~ THEM RANKSBR KIDS COULD SHOOT EYES
OUT OF A COYOTE”
one of the actors or actresses,
the
and there you are. He'd have the thief immediately!"
"Havo
I get," said Bets. "Oh, I do like shows?"
"I'll give you the next penny
these little chairs!"
cald Mra you Bech
"We're going this afternoon," "I do want to see Daisy bought the doll's furni- said Bets.
that Pantomime Cat.”— ture. and had it wrapped up
"Foor Cat!" said Mra Thomas.
Cup
of
GAMES
JOKES
ZOO'S WHO
RAYNE ANDPATSY, TWO
FOX TERRIERS EMPLOYED BY THE CITY OF PORT ELIZABETH, SOUTH AFRICA, HAVE KILLED
*BODO RATS.
MOST BEARS
ARE LEFTHANDED
Killer WhalCS, TERRORISTS OF THE WHALE TRIBE, WEAR A CAMOUFLAGED COAT OF BLACK AND WHITE THAT. RENDERS THEM
MOST DIFFICULT TO SES UNDER. WATER...
A War Against the Hammer
-The Nails Wern Tired of Being Hit on the Head-
By MAX TRELL
NE day," sald Ting-a-Ling
"narr and Hanld, "the
Nails and Tacks declared war on the Hammer. The reason they did this was because as everyone knew the Hammer was always hitting the Nails and Tacks on their heads as hard as it could, and was always driving them into pieces of wood where they couldn't get out gain."
"Oh, but it wasn't really the Hammer's fault!" Hanld ex- claimed.
"The Hammer had to do what- ever it was told!" said Knart.
Ting-a-Ling nodded gravely. "The Nails and
the Tacks unid the Hommer was to blame even
them.
An army of nalls and tacka fought the hammer.
And
though I did what it was told, marked with deep holes. They said all their trouble was soon after that, while the Ham- caused by the Hammer hitting mer was going about its duty nall into a wall Why, they asked, did it and driving a have to hit them so hard? Why so that the man who lived in the couldn't it just tap them lightly? house could hang up a pleture, the handle broke off. With that the man threw the Hammer away, saying it was utterly of no use, without a handle.
Nevor Moant Harm
"The Hammer answered that it never meant any harm to the
"Naturally," said Ting-a-Ling. Nails and the Tacks. It didn't the Nails and Tacks were alled hit them on the head because it with joy.
hurt them.
I
wan
wanted to
Nails But
work
That night the cellar sound of their and Tacks had to be driven into ang with the pieces of wood so thr
that the
the pieces singing, and they hopped about of wood would hold together. In on the work table, the that way, said the Hammer, bench and in and out among the Houses were built-chaira and tables were built-hundreds and and pliers shouting: We've won hundreds of different kinds of the war! Hammer won't hit us useful things were built. But the any more!""
Nails
and the Tocks declared war on the Hammer just the Fame."
saws and drills and wrenches
Shook His Head
Ting-a-Ling stopped. He shook "What did they do to the his head. "But they were mla- Hammer after they declared war taken.
"So, you see, according to Mr
They won the war all Thomas Goon, I could have slipped
on it?" Knari wanted to know. right. But they only won it any of the down to the Little Theatre, put
sleeping-drought Inlo the "All sorts of mean things. They against no Hammer. For the manager's
tea, taken
crept out of their boxes at night next day the man who lived in and jumped up and down on the the house came home with down the mirror, opened the
big- safe and stolen the money-all Hammer's wooden handle. Nalla ger and stronger Hammer." with poor Boysie's help!
unlike most other und Facks,
cousins creatures except their
and Needles, have only the Nails and Tacks on the
sharp and pointed. The Hammer "It did indeed! didn't like this at all, and tried harder, and drove them further his best to hide behind the into the wood than did the other screwdriver and the chisel."
one.
The Nalls and the Tacka
"And Goon has actually found handkerchief-it isn't mine,
nicely. "Now we'll go home and Poor Boysle. He's in a dread by the way, with 2 on, on the "Oh, I hope he won't" said write a message on a label, and Bets, in diamay, "I want to 80 wake it to Jane mother and ful
state now-that awful
verandah at the back of the on with this mystery. I want us Daisy. So off they went, and policeman has been at him, you Theatre and he says I dropped to solve it, not Goon. I like this wrote the label. **Many happy know he thinks Boysie did that
finding-out part."
"Don't
WOITY,"
said Fatty, with a grin. thief wouldn't leave prints behind I'm suret
MORE NEXT WEEK
robbery. I expect you heard it when Boysie let me in that retums to Jane, with love from about it."
night. What do you think of Daisy and Bets."
Jizst as she said that a tall that?" Then they set off once more and pretty young woman came info the room. "Hallo!" she He was pretty canning, who to call on Mrs Thomas, Zoe's ever he was"
sister. They came to the house, said. "I thought I heard voices "Do you think it was Boysie, a amali pretty
one, set back the Pantomime Cat?" asked from the road. They stopped at --- Daisy,
"No-not at
present, any-
the gate.
Daisy was
nervous. "Now, whatever chall. wo do if Mrs Thomas isn't in?"
"So we'll come again," said way," said Fatty. "Wait and see Bets, promptly. "But she will be what we think of him when in. I can hear, Jane and Dora wo see him. Oh, and Larry, will playing in the garden" you and Pip go along to the
thestro this morning and get *What shall we say "when the fickota for this afternoon's door is opened?" naked Daisy, show? Hero's 'the money." !stili nervous.
On the Run
EPH AND
COTTONTOP
HYAR COME, "TWO OʻTHEM BARTS, AND MY AMMUNITION'S
LOW
By Harry F. O'Neill
SI GETTER
RANGER KIDS
19 PLUMB PIZEN/
DO-IT By Dolo Goss
FISH
Game
1.fold 2 pieces of TYPEWRITING
PAPER 4 times.
2.Draw 3 FISH on each piece
and cut out; (BURL MYE 96 FISH)
PUT FISH IN A PIETIN. GIVE EACH PLAYER A DRINKING STRAW A SMALL COTTAGE CHEESE CARTON,
-{London Express Serview)
Things to Make With Materials at Hand
4. AT SIGNAL each player sucks up a fish with the straw and tries to drop it in his own
container .......
THE PLAYER WITH THE MOST FISH WINS
The Pills"
“And did this new Haminer bit
Knart.
one leg. But that one leg is very head?" inquirco And I hit them.
"And what finally happened, were worse off than ever. For Ting-a-Ling?"
unately they didn't try to fight
"A very bad and unexpected any more. They decided to make thing, Ting-a-Ling replied, friends with the Hammer-with "though at first it made the all the Hammers-for they told. Nalls and Tacks quite gay. They themselves that it was better to jumped on the handle of the work together and build things, Hammer so much and so furious than to Oght and not help' bulld ly that at last the handle was all anything at all."
Strange Fads From Around The World
TTERE are some
HE
fads' you Among the Dyaks, one must
might copy · They aren't have' black teeth to be in the new-but it Isn't likely that swim. To gain this end, teeth anyone you know has ever seen aro scrubbed with a pasio made them before. Already, the rage from burned coconut shells and In their respective countries, oll,
they are guaranteed to catch the In South America - women cye of anyone close enough for dressed in their evening best
"LOOK!"
fasten large fireffles in their hair instead of jewelled clips. The Rings, for instance Why Papuans have a different slant wear them on your hands? on hair style, That's old stult. Try them on strands of their very woolly They pull long, your toes and, oh yes, save one locks through sections of for your nose. This is the style bamboo, which wows the men of the Ceylonese Tamil people. the girls of certain New Guinen To acquire the "of-age look,"
Eur gems are all right for tribes endure torture when they some--but the bellen of Bornos don almost the only clothing would scoff at the idea. Through they will ever wear. This Is the, big, holes pierced. In thele tattooed on--an elaborate design, ears. They can, and do, pull, over the entire.› body...”. Once. cigarsi : Useful well. as finished, the girl is "dressed for ..... ornamentalf
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