PUZZLES
STORIES
HOBBIES
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, ‘APRIL 22, 1950.
The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
THE GIPSY GIRL TELLS SOME ASTONISHING THINGS IN TO-DAY'S INSTALMENT OF
THE CHILDREN'S
SERIAL, Five Fall Into Adventure
Jo Begins To Talk
NEW READERS START HERE
Julian, Dick and Anne pre staring will their cousin Georgia (eorge for short) and her dog Timmy. All kinds of things have happened, he stay has been ransacked And Valgable paper belonging to Grurge George's scientist father have been inven
The kidnappers And Timmy have been kidnapped. bite demanded ather scientific papers, and Dick hum
Cbt the Beat to collect them, I Lorne out
to be do,
ragamist girl they knus. Hihn Ray-
she will trad them to where Cirurge 14 held prisoner.
CHAPTER TWELVE
MIE hall clock suddenly struck loudly,
DONG!
"One o'clock," said Joan. Master
"One o'clock in the morning k Julian, we can't do any more tonight. This gipsy child here, she's not fit to take you trapesing out anywhere else. She's done for she can hardly stami.'
"Yes, you're right, Joan," said Julian. at once giving up the idea of going out to find George that night. "We'll have It's a pity The to wait till tomorrow. telephone wires are cut,
1
do really think we ought to let the police know some- thing about all this."
Jo looked
up at once.
I won't tell where **Then George is," she said. you know
Booner
"Do you know what to patree will do to me
if they get bald of me?
by Ewa Blylon
Jo saked.
to be admirezt. "I wanted him to go on king me," she said.
"I aboli Dick looked at her.
take as fo ke you you Grorge," he said. "Not unte
"Da and looked very clean and chil- If you decrive us, I shall think what the police dish and somehow pathetic,
I've
"Everyone gets a chance said lator," Julian, gently. "You'll get yours, Jo-but see you take All right it when it comes.
we'll leave the police out of it if you promise you'll take us to where George in. That's a bargain.”
now--and
11:42
Go ahead," saki Julian.
you're like one of those mar stone-only it to be out as far away as pos sible."
"Tu take you tomorrow,"
.ต.
A.CLASS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA, LAST FUMMER, FOUND THAT
IT WOULD TAKE FIVE YEARS TO BREAK DOWN THE KIOWA INDIAN LANGUAGE
INTO SOUNDD AND
THEN AN ALPHABET
AND TRANSLATORS WILL BE WCLINI
FOR VENKS ON A LOST PARCHMENT OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE FOUND IN A
CAVE IN 1947
MANY OF THE HIEROGLYPHICS AND CLAY TABLETS OF ANCIENT PEOPLES
ARE NOT COMPLETELY UNDERSTOOD-
TS ALL GREEK
TO ME
AND NEITHER ARG? THE TOTEM FOLES OF OUR OWN NATIVE NORTH AMERICAN
INDIANS-
Students
seek
CRAFTS
lost
key to
Indian
language of Kiowa
AST
the at
By 1. R. Hegal
L University of Okla
more
11
in
4
£113-
and
Yet when it is com rectly. pletely transcribed the worki will have one of the lost books of the Bible.
**
*:
GAMES
JOKES
FORTUNES BY COLOUR
By WALTER KING
SCIENCE tells us that the rainbow colours have
.
an important bearing on our health, happiness and character. You go red in the face, turn white with anger, give a black look, act yellow, go green with envy, turn purple and get the blues.
Colours have a hidden going forward but you are magic for people, too. liable and self-controlled. You Nome have good judgment and a right. Touchy people are
strong sense of what is times soothed by blue. On the other hand, you are Green helps nervous folks. bit inclined to be too Mauve or aky blue is sup- Laugh and let go a bit. posed to be good for sleep ORANGE - You and good trimming for bed- panions and a good lively time. You a falker too, are we sleep You rooms (even if when it's dark and there is should be quite popular because You would of your ready wit. Red offers & no colour).
Kood salesman, make a cure for blues.
watch that opinion of yours. It the With this in mind
ts likely to change with sometimes get a good idea what winds. a person I by his colour pre- terences.
Whether this is true
W
end
"
serious.
like com-
But
GREEN-You know the value or not, it makes a good party of money so should do well in
Telling fortunes
life. You will make a good type by
of citizen, loyal to friends and colours.
your quite a society bug. You have Inve
your guests or audience check his favourite a genuine liking for wealth and and all the newer colour and the following chart, comfort
tendency an things of life. Your
100 little while not guaranteed to he
may be to think a exact science, can be used to
much of yourself, tell his fortune.
RED-You are hasty in de- will cision and have a strong You like action and excitement, You long to travel and
bart
you lack planes, severance.
YELLOW You
studious type, a deep
DOT-
the thinker.
You have strong ideas and like others think as you do,
PURPLE - You Bre big- hearted and noble with many fine sentiments: You may, how- ever, be a bit vain and proud,
and too much so good mixer
own A pretty good for your good.
Wear your favourite
when you can to have
colours because they
ISCOVERING a lost languakeouts chief weakness & Inability will help to bring out, the best
the
us
three
of
In you.
$ this
If του
the "stick- choose
backward about
Modelling's
a model life
To looked at them and gave damson will do to me if they get them a very small smile, "What To say to 16" hold of me? They'll put me do you want
Kiowa Indian homu,
down to analyse the sounds in into a Home for Bad Girls anked Julinu.
asked grunted words of his native alphabetical order. Those and I'll never get out again "I've got some things to till
Is George?" "Where
bluntly. Julian,
thinking language to a class of 220 written to date are 356 African
its key is not Or
the --because 1 mm a bal girl you" sald Jo, stirring the bread
point of view to tre 60 of Found and round in the basin would be as well to know now,
job the prusale
most of
You become South America,
be and do bad things.
To translate another perrca. -1 feel good
into But in case Jo changed her mind by students who translated his languages, 175 of Central
Imagine it to Philippines. never had a chance."
the reulptured impatient when you can't have clean and and all that.
and became her gultural syllables I like the morning,
on your own way. phonetie symbols. 1 wicked little self again.
Augient languages need more inscriptions on
King Darius monument
*་་ maybe tomorrow
Professor 4--
BLUE-Ah! Iran, Behitun Ja hesitated. She looked at always do and
This went on 11 weeks be- translators too. In the spring of
of the favourite colour of the Dick. "It
would be very nice
parchment of last
Campron Georke
Michigan stood in-the-mud." of you to tell us," said Dick, ineuse all the rounds had to be 1947 wouldn't to'l you everything. So
a kind voice, Jo loved a bit of distinguisher fird, then class- Biblical Rterature was found in University of
on a scaffold rigged precariously blur you are 4 belter tell you now."
boy who was chasing a goal above a 225-foot rocky charm, "Well, I let the mon into your ladness and can't resist thisted for use as an alphabet. While a cave south of Jericho by
"Well," she whispered, "the classification required three
take This
written This archaeologist worked on will had
parchment was house here, the night they cante,"
months
complex hts the Arannic,
dangerous pereh and do. Julian and Diek stared know I told you my Dad
Jo went on gone off and left me to Jake.tudents five years to learn the
language of Christ's day, and weeks, freezing rain and snow why-bat
down
him, upon in astengshment.
brend round and Dad didn't tell me
Peltig was found to be the lost boul: #reint er
Inscription. the vise the correctly written form. Jake did. He shut George and language properly and then de
of Lamech and other valuable sound.
Timmy into our caravan,
King Parkus monument, like documents.
the famed Rosetta Stone of another Because of the difficulty of Exspt. provides
the the dearth language key this to
document the
of tongues ancient
WHEN your club initiates think just to be healthy read cor Babylonian and the Elamite.
new members, make the and reasonably intelligent, a fairly good Another discoverer of strange
Any girl face and figuṛc. language keys is
Dr Leonell room look spooky and add and to have
One good way Strong of the Yale School of to the fun. Medicine. Dr Strong, whose consists of draping all the can learn the rest-placing your hands and feet proper- hobby is cryptography,
Shade the lights well, or bet-ly, graceful walking, stand- covered the key to the Voynich furniture in old sheets.
the mout amatwcript, one of
regular replace the mysterious documents In the er still
bulbs with mysterious-looking world.
Scholors lind tried to
Let blue or yellow ones. translate the work for 30 years curtains at the window
my make
I watched them.
har-
language and
"I got nessed Blackle the horse, and One thousandi languages are Jo understood bargains.
"It's true," she said.
still unwritten in the world to- She nodded. Joan pulled in at that tiny window that was drove away in the night with
because no translators heday the'n Kone--where her to her feet and half leh left unfastened, and then I went them both. And I guess i know
fransistors, to the back door and opened where
ing the sounds down into words of half carried her upstairs.
and let the men in. They did plways Rocs when he wants to have tackled the job of break the
root, hide."
words will take years a mess of that
"Where?" asked Julian, feel- and then breaking the There's a couch in
ing so astounded at these extra- room," she
he told Julian. didn't they?
revelations that
wonder if he "She
can bed down there They took a lot of papers."
**You
possibly rdinary couldn't
that window," really began to squeeze through
was dreaming.
middle of Ravens. "In the
Ju Wood," Enid
"You don't know where that is, but I do, I' doped him so that he dept all take you tomorrow. I can't tell that night?" demanded Dick,
you any more now. She began
for the night-but late or
not she's going to have
11 sid Dick at once.
Well I did," said Jo.
bath first. She smells like something the dog brought in!"
"What about Timmy?
Who
"I did," said Jo. "That was to spoon up her bread and milk easy, ton."
foth boys were amechless. To Z fast indeed watching: the TN half an hour's time Jo mink that Jo did that, too! The boys through her long! eyelashes.
was tucked up on the wirkt little misery!
made friends with Timmy couch in Joan's room, per-
her?" said Jo. fectly clean, though marked on the beach, don't you remem
Was her.
1
pretty sure
she had
to
Being a Rubber Ball Was Fun
-Knart Thought Rolling Easier Than Walking-
By MAX TRELL
ANID, the shadow-girl with the turned-about naine, was surprised to see something co she sat reading rolling by her under a pine tree near the top of the hill.
What was even more was the fact surprising to her
ICK considered her. He felt DICK
told "Anyway, I was coming back then the truth, though he was with scratches and brulses from top to toe, hair washed, to tell you I would take youally certain she would have that, as this thing went roiling
to George. Not because 1
That made her very plainly. dried, and brushed so that I don't. I think she's rude old les if she could have go by, it shouted. "Hello, Hand,"
He thought he a bad, cold- quite sure it wasn't a ball. it stood up in wiry curls and horrible. Pd like her to stay me by doing so.
Ittle monkey like George's. A basin of unapped for years"
She was about to run down the "What a nice, kind nature!" blooded, savage steaming bread and milk
What
can you do with a kid her unwillingly for her courage.hill after it when it stopped sud- sorry I hurt you so," he dienly and came apart. Hand saw on a tray in front of ald Jullan to Dirk, helplesy, but he pitied her, and admired
in Jo saki tuccel #ke this?" He
"You know I didn't mean two arms, two legs and a head again. "Seeing that you wish
to recognise Joan went to the landing George would
stay kidnapped to. It was a mistake.
astonished Jo looked at him as a slave pear. The next minute the was and called across to Julian's for years, what unde yult de
his feet. mind," she sale, "I'd do any- "Master Julian! Jo's cide to come and tell us where might look at a king, "I don't brother Knaef.
Sho helped him to room.
"What were you doing rolling I don't like George- "Well, to
and
le like him!" said Jo. You're kind." something
Joan knocked tropatiently at down the hill?" she asked, Master Dick."
pointing with her spoon at Dick.
Jo to stop Dick and Julian put on dress "He was nice to me, so I wanted the door. "Aren't you ready yet, ing-gowns and went into Joon's to be nice back. I don't often you buys? alic said. "I want to come on out neat room, They hardly re- feel like that," she added bur me to bed. Tell
belnit kind was talking, and you cognised Jo. She was wearing riedly, as if
Anne's old nightgowns some sort of weakness not really too, and go to bed." One of
in bed. She wants to say to find har?" he asked, puzzled. ing for you, straight I would.
you
but
I
Rupert and the Dragon Pills-10
For moment Ruperi doesn't grasp what is happening. Then he realises the cause of Pong Ping's sudden fright. The pet dragon has apled the strange object on the lawn, and, lika the good watchdog that he la. he harrits up to chal lenge it. The rocket in the vase
doesn't move, and he gels very Angry, grancing. round and breath ing fire at The fure catches light, but he doesn't understand, and next instant the big firework loud has ahos akyward with "swoosh." Having a shower of crackling sparks behind it. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
BRONCHO BILL
BSRONGHO BILL AND LEADRANTS LARKING [CANNOT MOLD OUT AGAINST THE INCIANS MUCH LONGER HOW BILL SUPS ==A RZGD- SKON RUSHES IN TO FINISH HIM...
her
flauid saw something roll by.
"I'm sure you're not going to like 11."
was pretending to be ball," said Knart.
"A ball?"
R
"A rubber ball. It's wonderful. The boys open the door. Joan If you want to go somewhere you at the rolemn don't have to walk. You don't took one look faces and guessed that what Jo have to run. All you have to du
them was important.s roll." had told She took the empty basin from the girl's hands and pushed her down on the couch.
"Now you go straight off to sleep and mind, if I hear any hanky-panky from you in the night I'll get up and give you such a spanking you won't be able to sit down for a month of s" she said roughly, but Sundays," she not unkindly,
was
Soon only Julian was awake. Ile worried about whether he doing right or not. Poor Would George was she safe? that seamp of a Jo really lend them to the caravan next day
tead them right or might she
mouth, and get into the lion's them all captured? Julian simply didn't know.
NEXT WEEK-on to Find
-London Express Service.
George.
No Help Yet
THE WANKHOR 1S HURLED ANRY HEELS HOVER HEAD
Might Be Fun
Hanid thought about this for a little while, then agreed with her brother that rolling like a ball might be a good deal of fun.
"And also," said Knarf, "you can bounce."
"That's right!"
"But 1 haven't tried bouncing yet."
copy
and repeatedly failed.
10 Tho
dis-
Teen Time H
By Boss Ritter
loose, and install an
the hang
electric
them,
The Voynich manuscript is fan directly in front of medical treatin dated about so that they'll flutter eerily. In
the time Columbus discovered
addition, your regular "in gond America and the content standing" members might deck
describe some antibloties in a
Dr Strong 500 the key.
class with penicilla.: It took themselves in
**
sheets so
that
hours to find they won't be able to recognise nther, Imagine how this will pep up the occasion!
19
•
THER research in going on
OTHER the time.
Babylonian
are
The
each
cards, d nad
#!
By DAN MURDOCH TAVE you thought of
modelling career? The requirements aren't as hard as you might
your
Save your chicken wishbones. polish kings who lived Point one with red nall
the lapel of 1,000 years ago commemorated and wear it on thele deeds by Inscriptions on your suit. Coat the others with columns. Now these transparent nail polish, and nt- Glone
greeting cuniform Inscriptions bc-tach them to
cards, ing translated, and these will congratulation help solve many of the obscure "Sorry you're nick-I-wish- problems of Babylonian history. you-were-better missives. And
hieroglyphics, Egyptian
the just for the rag of it, send one
that Special Someone Japanese syllable sign system, to
clay records
ing and sitting, caring for of the examination time. the Chaldeans, the primitive
your hair, face, and hands, alphabet
Phoenicians of the
amusement on the learning poise and good Try this vi "Bounce me. Go ahead,"
manners. There didn't seem anything and even the totem poles
native North
American school bus: Each person selects
who
kinds of classmate
two bro There else to do. Band thought hour
never been com- another
models ought to find a nice soft spot. Indian have
present, and writes down his models. Photographle
ere pose for the many pictures you All over the world archacolo-opinton of that person. Otherwise you might break a letely understood.
ace in your favourite magazines, bane," she said.
ista, hobbyists, scholars, Bible are only three rules: 1-Exer-
and if it's too students,
cise perfect honesty 2-Do not showing new styles. They earn won't bounce
cryptographists
U.S.$30 an hour. es much as "Balls don'
workers for the mention names. 3-Do not select soft," said Knarf
prospective
Cout they don't get steady work fields someone you dislike. Now col- religious
read
they bounce on soft spots. Let's find mission
L year
round. Often studying the strange lect all the notes, and
of rest good hard spot to I go 'way up are
loud. The
supply their own ward- languages of the pest and
home will be spent robe. in the air."
I was finally decided to And a thousand unwritten languages the way of the present and finding to guessing
of note and whether you possibly cels, worlds good medium spot neither
them cxesting
could have been his subject! adventure. soft nor too hard.
+4
Exactly Right
100
All at once land saw some. you thing that looked exactly right. "I really don't think
You might not It wasn't too coll, it wasn't too large hard. It was, in fact, a should, Knart."
who had like the way it feels."
But Knart was
it ought to goose named Brigit sure
of feel even more wonderful than come waddling up from the pond rolling. "You go up in the air. at the bottom of the hill and war Bright and down again: then up in taking a bit of a nap in a bed
the ground, the air... and down again. Fil daisies and buttercups. Just try it," said Knart. "You was lying close to pick me up and bounce me with her legs tucked up under down," he said to her at that mo- ler and her neck stretched out under the flowers. Her eyes were ment."
closed. She didn't notice and coming toward her, carrying Kanrf all curled up in her arms.
"Bounce met Go ahead!" Hanid dropped Knart on the goose.
By Harry F. O'Neill
(QUEP) WHERE
N BLAZES ARE OUR RANGER BOYS P
Instantly Brigit, feeling some- thing strange on her back, sprang up in the air, beating her wings. She flew up, dropped back again, flew up again, dropped back again. Knart clung to her back. All the way down the hill Brigit went bourcing, with Knart still And hanging on to her back, Anally she bounced straight into the pond with a mightly splash,
Hanid laughed as alio fished Knarf out on dry land agala. "How did you like bouncing, Knart?" But Knart just glared at her
and
DO-IT
By Dale Goss
Fantasies
ROCK
them out
who wrote
Things to Make With Materials at Hand
1. Find a few smooth ROCKS about 4 inches long. They can be either round or oval or odd shaped.
2.Paint flowers.fish, birds or designs with POSTER PAINT on round or oval rocks.
3. Paint
the hollows
of the odd
shaped
ones with
different colors.
4.USE FOR PAPER WEIGHTS PLACE CARDS TABLE ORNAMENTS
There
which
have
to
Wirst girls prefer to be fuskio: stylen showing new directly to designers and buyers. Fashion models carn from $50 to $150 a week, and they work steadily every
the
season of year. The Arms who employ iho them generally supply
โท clothes they have to model. the long run, fashion models make more than photographle - models, and their work is a litte easter and more interesting.
*
=
FASHION models from all
over the country have been asked what they think of their Job. They like it, and often ad- vise alstera and friends to go in for it.
A model learns how to make the most of her good points, and also how to Improve her faults. She learns how to handle her- self well in all kinds of clothes, and how to get along with all kinds of people. She learns how to save money by doing her own hale and nails, giving her- self facials, and caring for her clothes, in an expert manner.
BOR
most
Never, say ORED?
models. They're in at the vory start with new styles and fashiona. They're always meet- ing interesting new people, Uké writers, artists, publishers, actors, designers. Oflen travel to different parts of the
country,
they