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PUZZLES
STORIES
HOBBIES
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1950.
The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
ON THE TRACK OF THE KIDNAPPERS IN TO-DAY'S INSTALMENT OF
THE CHILDREN'S SERIAL, Five Fall into Adventure
Sid's wonderful evening
WHAT HAS HAPPENED SO FAR
Julian, Dick and Anne horo come to stay with their cousin Gearging (George for short) and her dog Timmy. whilst her father, a famous scientist, and her mother are in Spain. Curious things have happened. The study has been ransacked for valuable, booki of scientific notes. Now George and Timmy hore been kidnapped, and the kidnappers have ordered a missing notebook to ba put ready for them to find in the garden, Dick means to watch who collects the book, and is going to change ploces with the newspaper boy when he arriver with the ' papers sint menajam
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CHAPTER TEN
ID, the paper-boy, was most amazed to find himself yanked quickly through the front door by Julian. He was even more amazed to find his very lurid check cap snatched off his head, and his bag of papers torn from his shoulder.
"Elra!" he said feebly. "What you
doing?"
"It's all right, Sld," said Julian,
"Just holding him firmly. -joke. We've got a little
treat in store for you."
Sld dn't like Jokes of this fort. He struggled, but soon gove it up. Julian was big and strong and very determined,
Sid turned and watched Dielt stride out with his bright check cap sideways on his head and his paper-bng over his shoulder. Ho aped when he now Dick leap on the bicycle that he, Sid, hai left by the gate, and go sailing off up the lane on it.
WHAT'S he doing?" he ask- “མ
ed Julian, amazed "Funny Lort of Joke this."
don't know. Hope you dnd," said Julinu, leading him Armly into the silting-roun.
belted him he "Somebody wouldn't deliver the papers, maybe?" said Slu. "So he's taken the bet on?"
by
CRAFTS
GAMES
A Junior United Nations
By 1. R. Hogal
JUNIORS all
JUN
over
the
world aro starting a United Nations movement of their own and they are coming up with some sur- prising results.
The first surprise comes from Lake Success, N.Y., where n school is being con- ducted in a farmhouse for the children of the delegates and the staff members of the United Nations.
In the beginning the venturo
clistnnt
text
THAT BOYS AND GIRLS OF DIFFERENT NATIONALITIES CAN CET ALONG TOGETHER AND BE HAPPY HAS BEEN SHOWN BY THE WAY THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF THE DELEGATES TO THE UNITED NATIONS HAVE BEEN WORKING TO MAKE A SUCCESS OF
THE SCHOOL THEY ATTEND NEAR
LAKE SUCCESS, NY.
JOKES
TABLE TRICK
HER
ERE'S another trige to add to your bag of variour magic bamfern.
Apparatus required: A turn- bler, a table, a newspaper, a ser- vicite, and a magician (that's you!).
The trick: To push the tumbler through the table (nothing could be simpler).
The result: Oh's and ab's from onlookers.
The patter: "Now folks, I'm going to perform a little experi- ment with this glass tumbler, Just in cure I get rough with it I shall cover it lightly with several sheets of newspaper, SO! That will prevent any pieces of fying glass from hitting you.
make doubly sure there is no accident.
shall cover the newspaper guard with this cloth servlotte, SOI Now watch me closely folks. I'm going to hit was looked upon with doubts. These junior students deelded Plan." Since Springfield has of mind. The mark of good
that glass with A-bomb force How could children from such they wanted to know one citizens of many nationalities, citizenship to a true under-
and drive it completely through pinces ол England, another better. So they in children from 13 different landing of fellow citizens, not the table. Here I go! BANGI And Buenos Aires, Sweden, Tokyo, augurated "open house" parties nations may be found in one only at home but everywher here is your glass from under the Africa, China, Canada and t their individual homes: a schoolroom
in the verid One way to table." other countries Het along Chinese new year, R · Puerto The children have exhibit meet and understand people is together?
When you. Rican festa; a Swedish
The explanation: smor- tons, plays and contests, url through reading about them."
That is another achievement press the papers around than Kasbord; a Jewish candlelight the theme of world friendship The answer appeared during sprend. All
their Although the mothers
has ass, they make an empty form Pattern.
Ask any the junior United Nations the first sessions. The children
and the teachers planned and Springfield 10-year-old about made.
They have, la summer that appears to contain the tum- got along un well as if they helped with these programmes, almost any country and you'll courses of reading, read about bier. To give the impression you He was back in the lighted a known
one another all yet it waɔ
the enthusiasm of receive a speech on art, musle, other lands and other peoples, are really trying to protect your silting room In under two their lives. Languages might e boys girla of this history and accomplishments
audience take the tumbler and minuter, yelling "Scap" with be different but they always section of Manhattan
The Junior that of the people of that land that
United Nations newspaper on your kuce for two the others. He played stupidly, found the point of contact in made the parties so successful will make
and no Дng. bug-eyed. has no churter you
three seconds you press partly because he wanted the a sport, a song, a book, a hero. that the New York school These Springfield boys and yet wherever boys and girls the paper vigorously around the delighted Sid to win and partly
overcome racial ass. Then place the paper because he was wondering Not for from Lake Success system now includes there get- girls really know world history are working
together parties of all nation- and the world's people,
bigotry and intolerance the form on the table leaving the about Dick. Was he all right? is a Manhattan Junior high alities s ollelal part of
seeds of friendship and under- glass on
your lap. school. The children of this social study in three schools.
standing spreut. This move- As you bang your ist down on An outbreak of owls boating school are as
All over the United Statement could become the greatest the hemp that seems to contain racial them all jump meltground
We have citizens of
many as those In the
in the world the glass the newspaper of course nt Jona and United
Nations' farmhouse.
races, all degrees of colour and force for peace
That is since today's junior boys and collapses and you whip off the different in customs. Their nationalities are Irish, OR eight years in Spring where
tomorrow's men serviette to prove the gloss has the Junior United girls will be Jewish, Swedish, German, eld, bias, school children Nations
completely disappeared. Chinese, Negro, have been
They Puerto Rican,
following what is are not italian, Turkish and Armenian. known As the "Springleld ference, They are getting
Jid was amazed to find his lurid check cap snotched off his head and his bag of popers torn from ht shoulders
BlyTowe
friendly with my Mum, so she knows. The things I'm partial to I like very much, see?"-
Aune tiggled and agreed. She was enjoying Sid although she loudly made www very worried and anxious. Julian glanced Bui Sid was so comfent. He Anne, and they nodded. They didn't grea tu be. He was just guessed that it was the signal enjoying himself hugely, and he to tell them that the parcel had been found and collected. Now maid so every other minute,
In fact, he was really a very they could get rid of Sid, and nice guest to have. It wasn't wait for Dick.
Joan disappeared and came everybody who could welcome everything with so much gusto back with cups of chocolate and and say how wonderful it was some buns. Sid's eyes gleamed.
dozen times on end. half
Talk about an evening! He went out to the kitchen after supper and offered to wash up for Joan: "I always do it for Mum," he said.
Another hour. was spent in ealing and drinking and bearing
mixed in
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A Really Wonderful Secret
-And Glive Just Couldn't Keep It-
By MAX TRELL
"I won': Sid relate details of all the TT
WAS Kanrf, the shadow- break a thing." So he did the most exciting games of Snap he
boy, who told It to Glive He then went the Snail. But he never thought washing up and Anne did the had ever played.
on to talk of Happy Families Gilve would bother telling it to drying, Julian thought it was a good thing to give her as much and seemed inclined to stay anyone else; or that anyone else to do anything to do us possible, to stop her bit longer and have a game at would bother
about it. But that isn't the way worrying.
Sid looked a bit taken-back
it happened. when he games later
that.
"You're clever, you are, Sid, Laid Julian, and Sid beamed all over his round, simple face.
I hope he'll deliver "Well, them
sem all right," he said. "Any
"Your Mum will be getting way, there's only two more, up at the farm. Yours is the last
r worried about you," said Julian, but one that I go to. house
It's very dunno."
he said I'm not much looking at the clock. When's he cuming back?"
I did try to late." "Will Good at games. "Soon," cak! Jullan. you stay and have supper with learn draughts,
-118, "Sid?"
wan sized to play
on.
"Well
around
and
ACTOS
As soon as Kharf went away, Give started gliding down the thy path that wandered across but all that "Where's my bike?" said Sid, the field among the blades of jumping over one another got reallsing with sorrow that his ass and the dandelion stems,
pebbles If I want to smasher of an evening" intuldled.
พลร jump over things I'll play leap, now over. "Hasn't that brother bridges made of twiga. frog and do the thing properly." Well-we did think of play, in Suap said Julian, and Sid Jullan, brightened up at once.
of nie
Sid's eyes nearly fell out
"Supper with you his head,
"Coo! That'd folks?" he said, be a rare tren!!"
All right. You sit and look
at these books," said giving him two or three story books belonging to Anae. Just go and tell our cook to mako a specially nice supper for
you
NEWS.
of yours come back yet? Well, By and by Glive came to u you tell him to leave it at my nie dat stone, bail-covered house in time for my paper-with mosa. He walked around round tomorrow morning.
And-or rather slid slowly around Blackle was puzzled at Gilve's That's my Special it-several times until finally iny cap, too. Cap, that is, I'm very partial to he found what he was looking that
cap-it's T
of for. It was
a small opening the table-cloth that was going under the stone. Glive leaned to be shaken out. It made smasher."
shell and called Blackle moro and moro curious. out of his down into the opening, "Blackie!
Kitchen Door Blackie!"
bit
are not
you
14
never
a con
in, stepping waiting for acquainted with those different races and customs right now. Poople you really understand these can hate, young people sincerely believe, A Sunday school group of boys and girls wanted to call on Canadian boys and girls of their own nge and find out they were like. They
their approached
minister with the proposition that they would like to take
trip across the border, To raise money for the venture, the boys and girls sold greeting
walnut
what
R
bug
Luuge.
cards and Finally the long-looked-for holiday arrived. The minister had made previo arrange ments with a Sunday school of their own denomination on the other sido of the border and boys and girls had a field day. Here, of course, there was по real problem. Canadians speak the same language as boys and girls of the United Slates and differences
customs are elight. But with- out friendly contacts, these small differences might grow
of ench people
country might become cuspicious of the other. The value of such
and
That's right up my NAP! street!" he said." And so it
"It certainly is," agreed Julian, Sid was all at sea about this was. Ifis habit of shouting snap who was now feeling very tired. listen, Sid. It's very unexpected treat, but quite will and collecting all the cards at "Now
the same moment as his shout, late, and there may be bad folks A moment later a black ing to accept a free meal and n
In fact, just as they reached visits 13, these cannot be under- sit down. He sat beating on lest to his winning quite a lot about. If anyone speaks to you beetle put his head out through the back steps and could see estimated. the couch, turning over the of games. He was delighted.
run for your life and don't stop the opening. "What's the the kitchen door of the house In a smasher bock.
of an it you get home." a falry-story
matter?" he asked Glive. What would his mother evening," he kept saying. "Don't
"Cop," mid Sid, his cyes heard he'd had know when I've enjoyed myself say when she
that early falling out of his head. She so much. Wonder how half he surprised, brother of yours is getting on- "Yes, I'll run all right."
hope he brings my bike back
pages of Coo!
supper at Kirrin Cottage?
wouldn'
thought Sid
In
the
of Snap.
Julian,
someone
♫
als
there
"Something
After Dinner
wonderful setur to happen right after din- ner tonight at the white house whore the children live."
to
"You don't say! What's going
Glive?" happen, The tablecloth is going to be shaken out," said Glive.
the Giri Scouts 100,000 complete
and Ala.
very plainly, Blackie could no longer hold back his curiosity AST year
"Please," he sent and impatience, suld to Glive, "I know 1 wardrobes to the destitute shouldn't be asking so many children of Europe questions, but what is going to And there were Brownies who be shaken out of the fable colleeled buttons and strung to size and them according cloth when. It is shaken out?"
"Deliciousness," answered colour because they had heard live: "all kinds of delicious that buttons were badly needed Glive: ness."
too.
"Like for instance what, Glive?
do something to to be shaken out at the kitchen point few minules it hap-ras
don't like it-that's fat I don't » Burden. She had found a big without any doubt the paper- peclally if you're hungry."
And
come- signal
And row Julian had to tackle all right."" Joan, and get her to join
will," said "Oh, he
ND now, what had happened their little plot. He went into deating out the cards for the the kitchen and shut the door. sixth game
They to Dick? He had shot out Ite looked so grave that Joan were all in the lighted sitting of the house and salled away on
startled. . was
room now, sitting round a table Sid's bicycle with Sid's dazzling
"The what is going to be
Boy Scout Troop 40 is in the Julian, "What's the matter?" the sald. in the window,
Joan,
cap on his head. He thought watching he saw
shaken put?" asked Blackle in Julion told her. He told her Anne and Sid.
movement Anyone
"There's no telling exactly, leper colony at Molokai in the In the clearty and hedge near by
This troop thea
Binekin, about the kidnapping of George, would see
You'll just have to Hawaiian Islands. guessed puzzled voice.
is made up of every nationality would certainly not guess that som and the strange note. He pove
was
"The tablecloth, Blackle; the wail. hidden
Added found in the Islands, fourth one, Was
the
"Oh, dear." watching. it to her to read. She sat down, Sid,
deliberately slow-big white cloth that the children ed down, got off
have their dinner on. It's going "But
won't be you bicycle and
dlsap to this is the handicap of the her knees beginning to shake, paper-boy and not Dick.
direase itself, Yet Troop 40 At "It's the kind of thing
o'clock Julian left
Jeft pretended cleven you
turned Let the
splendid It happens every night.
up n watcher door. read in
to put the parcel that Aupe had the wheel. the papers, Master
learned about it. pened, just as Glive mid 1 record in the eight yours it has Julian, she said, in rather a carefully wrapped up under the ree his bag of papers and be But I just
You'd bet
existence and of the deceived into thinking he was
better come the bottom
with me, c5 would. Blackie and Gilve and been in shaky volee. "But it's queer stone at
members blink all the others who had come to times when it happens to you! I
that pass Binckie sold he was sure to be see it happen were standing in messages to troops notebood she thought would do, boy.
at a distance. It 15 hungry around dinner-time. He a group behind a thick tuft of them "Nor do we," said Julian, and one that didn't seem at all im-
He rode to the farm and was dying to ask why it would grass. From inside the house, thrilling, isn't it, to think that
the
Scout international Boy went on to tell Joan all they had portant, and had wrapped it in
She smiled a paper and tied it with string, delivered the two papers there, help his hunger any to be at the through the open window, they arranged to do.
of the children's could hear voices. They were, organisation reaches even to watery smile when he told her Juhan had slipped a note in- then down to the village, where back door
he left Sid's things outside his house when the tablecloth
way the
children's voices, They leper colony? how Dick had gone off as the side.
Then he went into the shaken out. But he "Here is the notebook. Please house.
was quite heard the clatter of dishes, and "World citizenship," runs a paper-boy in order to watch
that release our cousin at once. You cinema for a long while-unt convinced that Glive knew the the tinkle of knives, and forks the notebook who took night, and described how sur will get into serious trouble if it was dark and he could safely reason, and that it must be a and spoons,
creep back to Kirrin Cottage.. very sensible reason: Glive was a Then suddenly the kitchen prised Sld was,
you hold her uny longer."
very sensible snall,
door opened. It was Mother, He slipped down the garden He set off at inst going a Blackle crawled along after holding the large white table- and shone his torch on the crazy paving there. When he came to very roundabout way indeed. He Clive.
They met several other cloth, all bundled up. She shook
of theirs! a mouse, it out!
And Where should he hide? several bugs of different kinds, a
oh, what wonderful THAT Sid?" she said. "We'll the last stone he found that it came to the back of Kirtin gar-friends
had loosened. He lifted i den.
been 100
to Was anyone
already hidden cricket, and a whole party of things came never hear the inst of it up ensily and put the parcel into there? If so, the game was up ants who were marching along, bread-crumbs, and cake crumbs, raining down: down in the village-him being a hollow that seemed to have
one behind the other, carrying and all sorts of dinner crumbs. invited here to supper. He's been prepared ready for it. He and he'd be caught, too!
that they had There bits of a bee
was more than enough simple, that boy, but there's no
found, But they all stopped for everyone!
And oh, how barm in him.
whatever they were doing happy they all were, especially which Glive told them about yes, most especially-Blacktel
I'll get him a fine supper, don't you worry. And I'll come and sit with you tonight in the lighted room-we'll play a card
One that Sid knows, game, sce?
he's never got much beyond] Snap and Happy Families."
hat's a very good idea." sold Julian who had been won- dering how in the world
they
could amuse Sid all the oven- ing. "We'll play Snap-and
him win!"
it was quite overcome at his wonderful evening. First there was what he called a "smasher of a supper," with ham and egg" and chilp potatoes followed by Jam tarts and a big chocolate mould of which Sid ate about three-quarters,
"I'm mould,"
Anne
to chocolate
partial to
he explained
to
Joan knows that he
I'm partial to anything in chocolate lide... She's
took a
round, cautious look wondering if Dick was hidden anywhere about, but could see no one.
BRONCHO BILL
THERE'S THE CAMP, FILLERS, WHERE
HJUND ARE HOLDING LEADPANTS YOU WAIT MERKWILL GO REVITH A
TUTUN WHITE PLAG I
NEXT WEEK: Dick Makes a Capture!
-London Express Service.
No Cordial Welcome
NOT ALONE, BILL! THEY KILL MÜHƏF LHO NUP!
IF ANYTHING GOES WFIQH3, SPM, YOU RANGERS MAKÉ A NOMBRE LIKE THE WHOLE DANKED UNITED STATES CAVALRYM SAVVYE.
By Harry F. O'Neill
THER
library pamphlet,
a
"is state
Puzzle Answers
CROSSWORD:
ALASKA RAB UR MBDT B A TREN
DE BRE
AUTARS
鼻
and women.
or
Puzzle Patch
CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 This puzzle is on a silhou-
eity of →→
@ Rebel (nb.)
7 East River (ob.)
& Encounter
10 Weight deduction 12 From 14. Before
15 Changes
DOWN
1 Spanish fleet
2 Sheltered side
3 Encourage
4 Knight of the Elephant
(ab.)
5 Rugged mountain cresta
Woody plant
11 Make a mistako
13 Measure of cloth
RIDDLES
1. Why is a lady in a cotton dress like a book?
2. Why is a plg with a "cur-
ly continuation" like the ghost
of Hamlet's father?
3. Why should Denmark be
an eminently religious country?
4. Why can you never buy a new stop watch?
5. What, is the difference be- tween a boy "over whose head 12 summers have passed," and
a man taking a nap?
PIED SENTENCE
The type was spilled in his sentence about Alaske. Can you straighten it out to make sense: is of flower Alaska. forect- me-not of The the the official Territory
MIX-UPS
Rearrange the strange words In each line below to form two
facts about Alaska:
VAST EN SANDY
LOOK THE FOE
SLUM
HOAST SLID YE SUN AIR LET RUN CLAD IN TIE
Rupert and the Caravan-44
1
Sufor Sam mystified by Rupert's words, but not for tong From under his jersey Rupert pro duces the black wallet and places it In Sam's hands. At the feel of it Sam gives a gaap and strikes a match. Why, it in the very wallet "he cries. "And there's the secret inside it, safe and sound.
How did . This is like magic. little fellow like you get it away ""Let's from that great pirate?
go home and I tell you a about it," laughs Rupert. So they set off. Sam's ankle is not quite better, so he leans on Rupert's shoulder until they can see the dark outline of the horse, still tethered. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
ZOO'S WHO
MAKE THE BACON LEAN/I
IT DOESN'T TAKE A PIG TO MAKE BACON. MICHAEL BALL OF
RIDDLES: 1 Because the VANCOUVER, B, C, appears in print, 2-Because it HAS PATENTEDA can a tale unfold. 3-Because it WAY TO MAKE IT has had so many Christian SYNTHETICALLY.. kings. 4-Because it must al- ways be a second-hand ono. One is 12, the other a 'dozing (dozen),
PIED SENTENCE: The for- got-me-not is the official flower of the Territory of AlaskE,
MIX-UPS: -Valley of Ten Thousand Smakos: Territory In- cludes Aleutian: Islanda,
"BUTTERFLIES HAVE 'BEEN KNOWN TO
ATTACK BIRDS....
"THROW
"THE ELEPHANT SEAL, THOUGHT EXTINOT ON THE CALIFORNIA COAST, IS NOT ONLY SURVIVING BUT MULTIPLYING SAYS THE UNIVERSITY OF C
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