12.
STORIES
PUZZLES
HOBBIES
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1950.
The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
CRAFTS
George escapes Left-handed There may be some money
What has happened so far.
Jution, Dick and Anne came to stay with their couila Georpinn, called Conroe To thost, and her dog Timney. All kinds of unpleasant things have happened, ond now Carge is imprisoned in a tower of an old house on the roost. Jution, Dick and feer. So ho actually climbed Jo, a little dirty-pist, have come to try and restve
walls of the tower enligst intiife. in the y corred Ges-30's awit can it to find Craigs
CHAPTER 20
EORGE looked as if she
had seen a ghost, "Jo!" "It can't
she whispered.
really be you."
She got up as if she was in a dream. She went across to the door. She and Jo slipped out, und stood at the top of the spiral staircase,
Have to go down here, I said Jo. She "suppose,'
cocked her head and listen- ed.
But before she had gone down
dozen more than a steps she stopped in fright. Somebody was coming up!
The slow steps came up and up, sounding hollowly on the stone s'airs. They could hear a pasting breath now, too.
An idea came to Ja She put her mouth close to George's cur. "Listen! We took awfully alike
cluthu.. on
In that
Vean gave Te Yours,"
12:19
How the has just unlocked
Markhoff pounced on to and dragged her out,
music
By JOEY SASSO
"DONT Une
feeds you" worth breding. didn't fake the
that
proverb
the hand
Is a One small pla ivice and bit the
maestra Johummy Long on right hand, severing the ten- dous on his tight wrist.
Johnny decided that his hand was going to be long the heal- frut and that he might never le de- again play the violin. cided on a rather unusual step. Taking his violin in hand, John-
y studied It. "Why," he thought to himself, "couldn't I restring strings this violin, with the just reversed, and play it left- handed?
It was a logical thought and She come into a dark, enor-Johnny diet it. 11 was a lucky strong mour ball that smelt musty and hate the severed tendons
She ran to the great door at never did grow back the front and tried to open H. enough to play well. wa very heavy but at lust it
ung slowly back.
She stood there in the bright light, neering out cautiously.
Johmy practiced day in and day out in his new "habby." He had a lot of time and he perfected his southpaw ddling. probably the only violinist in port-side bly-line Now,
and the world. She tore acre a the courtyard the Western Hemisphere and came to the immer-housa, quite possibly in
one who plays southpaw violin. Titomy was there, lying as it heHe's never heard of or met ang- wire tebep. George flunt her.
she
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FUNNY thing happened be-
.in
your garden
THERE MAY BE MONCY IN YOUR BMCKYARD OR GARDEN-
ONE CIRL RAIBED AND SOLD SMALL AFRICANĮ VIOLET PLANTS FOR
A NICE PROFIT-
TO6GBLY THERE MAY BE A TREE THAT HAS BEEN BLOWN DOWN-
IF YOU ARE HANDY WITH TOOLS AND PAINT THERE ARE MANY wase
THAT CAN BE MADE OF THE WOOD-
DOOR STOPS, BOOKENDAR, AND COASTERS FOR GLASSES ARE A FEW GUGGESTIONS-
By BESS RITTER
cover
started selling brand new gult-a whole series of sale-
able merchandise!" plantlets!
The "pots" you use cost. "To grow them," sho I let myself be caught and ref on him, her arms round his
IF you've ever said, "I wish I had a room and thick neck.
and gold mine," says, "is very simple, once nothing. Cut down square locked up!
take the chance to tip you
Or "Timmy, oh Timmy!" duyn and go to Dick and Julien.
Les him for A
cause of the special violin start digging in your gar- the original plant starte milk curlons
healthy gift wrapping paper. Red will never know I'm not
Set each in agild your violet containers even got theme id, and couldn't you-weve
became tears. Tintiny, for away in some Johnny used. One day recently den. There may be lots of lowering. First, pluck off a them with faney, low-cost aluminium foll of drugged dream, heard the volere was appearing at a benefit substantial spare time cash few of the large,
separate petful of dirt. Take with the he loved best in all the ward, how with Dove Rubinoft. John in the sod, patiently waiting leaves..
sold in the food bit and then Jy
care that the soil touches that's 11 He stirred. Be oprned his eyes
A little while later to be exhumed. "No," said George, astounded.
turn and h was Rubino's
That's what Ellen Sheer, only the stem. Moisturize' stores. You'll sell each plant asked Johnny if he might bor. "You'll be caught. I don't want and raw George!
violin. Rubinoff for New York schoolgirl, dia- these starters via the roots, for a rather pretty profit. row hig you to do that."
"You've got to," whispered sice to do more than fleke her some reason hadn't bothered to covered recently, after re- by pouring a little water in Be sure to reserve a few of ceiving an inexpensive pot- a saucer placed underneath your baby plants for start- ted African violet plant as each pol. Soon enough the ing a new crop.
She soon leaves 'will take root. a birthday gift.
"Don't dift.
He was to heavy with his
Then 2. 35 closed
1 focr.
Jo, fiercely. emi open the window and chmb attain. dogh the ivy, ensy as winking, when Ref's out. It's your only chance."
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HE footsteps
THE
were noW set
the top. Jo pushed George
In de: pair
Flanced George over the courtyard, fearful that she would see Markhoff coming at any moment.
well behind a curtain and whis- CHE raw somebody else. pard fiercely again. "Anyway. D
not really doing this for you. I'm doing it for Dick,"
I'm
There was a loud exclamation when the man outside discover-
Sho standing in at cow Julian archway opposite, staring
1er.
nt
dial his
1cing his own bystrument.
smile, Without cracking Johnny gave Hubinoff the vio- in and rut back to watch. The
that crept
across really xpressions
were Rubinoff's face
He couldn' something to seat imagine how it higpened that what he was putting into the violin wasn't coming out.
fect what did come out was a series of weird discords. Rubin. off says he won't forget the cx- pericnc.
A Ride on a Wonderful Bus
-Mr. Punch Telis the Story of a Dream- By MAX TRELL
"ONE day," said Mr to
aud Knarf
Hauld, withi tc
Punch tha
"I de-
"Shantytown" 45 the record shadow-children that made Johnny famous and turned-about names, vice ver. Now he is associated cided that the most fun in the with the tune and dancers te-work! would be to be able
and Dick In a trice Julian
nerous the euurtyard to ed the door of George's room hot opc21. He went in quickly and George, "What happened, Jo7" wherever he appears.ive a found nobody there,
Camo status,
Out he sakl
1721 down and yelled
me,
George?**
"Ju-it's
George! said "Markhoffi The doors open and the girl's rana! Whe opened George, and Julian suddenly saw
was George her-vou that indeed it the door?"
"Well, the must be mente of self. He and been so certain that the other rooms," raid Barkhoff, it was still
to
"Did you Juijan.
find
hadn't
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"Help me with Tommy," pid George, and she pulled at the
"Where thali heavy dog. hide him?"
We
regular the Sometime ago Johnny put an-
in a dimlar kind that go through foller tune done
and take people vein on records, The song, "Last streets
they want in the Back Porch," wherever Night on features the band in a patter-Kaart asked,
Mr Punch nodded.
4110?" And did chorus background that reminds
of
you drive hin "Shantytown,"
Hanid said.
Again Mr Punch nodded. "I Blue Skies" and others.
adid indeed! It happened Johnny's latest release is
Build night after I had gone to bed." Lune called "We'll
is climbing "After you had gone to bed!" exclaimed Hanid Bungalow," which
Kaart and together.
regular bus-the
10?"
Olie
saic
Ju that he
atolidly, quite unmoved by his known it was George! master's fury. He came upstairs mut went into the room
toward the top. the room Bide to the opposite where Jo and George crouched trerabling. Then he came into their rooin, and at once saw the tup of Jo's head showing behind the chair.
He pounced on tier and drag- "Here she is!" he ked her out.
dragged yelling
"Down undergrounti," Dick. "It's the only place, Come
13.
managed i How they
"Bring um right down to the caves" said Dick. Those men for him and me sure to hunt for us too when they and Tim
the my pont,
ind."
aur us
not in
They all sat down in a heap they got there, together when
George not as close
Jeking into the room and its te he could.
to
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JOHNNY'S
have musicines been named "The Band to
I at,
I
ull
A:
Re-
14-19 "People started getting into my bus." Mr Punch sald,
down into the bottom. I
I
few Ellen always allows a to grow unill they're approx- Then imately six inches tall. the transplants then into pay pottery.
They sell," she explains, "for a much larger sum."
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If you try your based at such a money-making hobby, you can increase sales if you con- a hotel, and inct your hospital, the restaurants in town. Such institutions are always on the lookout for lot
for low-cost, good-look-
ing green growing things that
up their plates. will brighten up
A
in Weath-old boy who lives
Tex., makes up another garden originaled novel- ty, It's proits, however, comnes from wood, not leaves.
When
This mar-
Fem. And there I was, out in tnking to my coin holder.in his town. Others sold readily
of front 276
wern
1)
to to teachers and lugh school.
your
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GAMES
JOKES
PAPER SIDE-SHOW OF ACROBATS
I hend 60
By WALTER KING
the effect will ba you can stand on your the slage,
When you place tho tarling. seconds you
paper figures on the light rope, have the makings of, an they balance themselves with- acrobat although you will out any effort at all. very likely ask for a floor
When
Us
whito you on which to rest your head, string, paint the back scenery a dark colour to that the string Here are
paper can be seen. If the back pleco Ciring black acrobats who can stand on is black and the their noses on a tight rope, you can create another startling illusion by showing your aero- Some stunt!
batle figures apparently float- me in mid-air.
is done, Do you The trick
First you make a stage of a large cardboard suit box.
will see from the drawing, by
If you wish n more funcy means of a hitiden horseshoo claborate aerobatic magnet, held above and inside
and
SIDESHOW OF ACROBATS
ACROBATIC
CHOW
FRONT VIEW
PAPER TABS HOLD.
MAGNET AND STRING
booth, make the theatre out of plywood and paint it. The diagram shows you the size of the stage and the best position for the "light rope" which is actually a piece of string.
The ticrobatle
MAGNET
INSIDE
NEEDLE
RUNS ALONG
TAIL
TIGHT ROPE
NEGOLD
HUMAN
ACROBAT
BACK VIEW
he stage with gummed paper. are fastened to Thin needles
ubber cement.
and
e paper Agures with a good When you place the Agures the string. tho magnet ou catches them by the tail, strong
Let dangles them in mid-air. the "marties" in the audience guesses as they are have as many figures
the gures pier- wish on how form. They are not likely to hit of the hidden the secret
tiem on
you felt magnet unless about it:
cut from stiff paper und col- oured appropriately.
If you present your show in a darkened room using a dash light as a spotlight to play upon
ZOO'S WHO
PENGUINS SWIM UNDER WATER WHEN IN A HURRY, AND ON THE SURFACE WHEN TRAVELING
LEISURE LY...
WALRUS WHISKERS ARE AVADE OF CARTILAGE.
Iriends in hin
BIRDS FAR OUT ON THE OCEAN CAN FLY AS DIRECTLY. TOWARD LAND AS A NAVIGATOR CAN STEER WITH HIS INSTRUMENTS.
small tree in his back- yard was felled by a tornado, ke carefully sawed the trunk into squares that varied in size from three to aine inches. Then he decorated the blocks by
Bheir covering
Willi surfaces embroidery patterns borrowed "You see, my dears, this
"So," said Mr Punch, "I got from his mother's work basket. in" with t was qulio right in! I was surprised to see
These were Valled happened when
my I told my bia and
was artist's oil colours, and permit ul.
moment that nt that
to dry for about eight cap ted bus-ciriver's IL wanted to go out by wearing l'a that I
coats of varnish myself and take a ride on
to (though how it got on my head hours. Two Watch This Year" by Song His But they said it was top I didn't
know). Then people were brushed on later, lo keep
bus. the pay
hues from becoming Magazme, which features of late. They made me go to bed. started
getting into my
and faded. my bed. There
old people, Were Abeyries. The editors think Long S
Sa there
These blocks sold very readily could only to oul. ajd, and didn't seem to realize ver quite know, but they did on the way to becoming the wishing. I
Gros Now I
boukends, door young people, and babies. They
11 diceoralive Think my eyes mall threw their fare in my box. that it was not George of all drag the heavy, supid Tammy top band of the year. but Jo. With their short hair, all the way across the yard and and attendance records wherever have closed after awhile.
youngster kept enterprising to follow along lie goen secin
sanidenly opened and I heard the money tinkling props, and wall plaques. freckled faces and their miliar
any rate, with their theory.
the coins out and put-keted some through a gift shop clothes they really were alike. into the archway.
must
tion Jo yelled and struggled
them all-around man the street Long in an realistically. Nobody would have
And I gave out transiers and at home
in any element. house!" Kuessed that she lind planned to
Looked Astonished
whoever asked for them. He's just as much at ease in a
Hausid be caught und locked up!
inoked "And then, when
everybody and Knarf ballroom or broadcasting studio
next movie set or astonished. But Mr Punch went was in, I pushed a button and as he is on a
the dours closed. The hotel's intimate atmosphere. right on.
the grounds The streets," continued Me minute I was driving down the
DOKE around green alica Fans everywhere say he is "un
home. There's "were Punch,
with street, watching all the
THE your refreshing" natural and
up and red lights to go and stop bound to be lots of dead wood Some
Boing when he went to Duke Univer-buses.
"Where did you go in going! One of and down, others were
nearby walling to be converted sily a few years ago.
Aix! all ihe drivers bus?" Knarf broke in to ask,
into real live cash! Thick slices, his classmates also maestroederosa.
sawed from felled, waste boughs and still ends waved out of the window locked in again. Red and Mark-
Didn't Want to Go She told the boys in a low band in college
and covered with inexpensive me and shouted: Hiya, Punch! hoff began to quarrel about
them must have left veive all that hack lippened with one. Name-Les Brown. which of
C'mon and drive a bas
Mir Punch smiled, "I tuok maple staln, might make genti- de. "She made me stay hidden
Hat Kemp It was the late
to the Zoo. Some of inely beautiful round paper course, I was sure they
everybody could be caught," so that she
Johnny really snapped Red. he said. "She's wonderful. She's who suggested
concentrate on his first love were all fooling me. For how them didn't want to go at first weights. Very thin slices can be I Eet u u bus to drive? Who But I took them there anyway converted into "wooday" court- that dog yet? the bravest girl 1 ever knew.”
glasses, music. Johnny graduated from Go down und
Buri 22 ample, geometric "Listen," said Julian, sudden-Duke equipped to teach ly. "I think we ought to make fish. Now that he's one of the then I saw
was a fine, big green
I drove the bus right up sonalize your novelles with a This is done by George didn't know what to a plan quickly. I keep thinking
and married to beautiful
and heating the point of an ice pick the stone stairway. looked for soon, you know. Waters, forner actress, what do On the side of it were written to the cages where the animals single initial. Ko down
and terrific
you think his unfulfilled desire the numbers 999. And when were; the ilons and tigers
to a ruby red hue. Then use it monkeys their boots making a
Janked inside, there I saw
elephants and
of kust na you would a pencil, 1 birds. I
stopped in front noo et first, and then gradual
nign over the driver's seat. teach read: Punch Is The Driver Of each enge and everyone looked
This Bus
out of the window until they want- all they SECTI had
Then I drove to ex to sen.
peanut- the next coge. The and-popcorn-man came in and
bought peanuts everyone popcorn. The balloon-man came in and everyone bought bal- loons. Then we bought whistles and pin-wheels. Then the squir rels came hopping in, and the in. It camo flying sparrows was the most wonderful busful of people and things and animals and birds that anyone has ever seen."
the door unlocited.
"That'll do,"
"ilave you shot No, you haven't!
do it before he escapes too!"
POS
to
Eur-Wou give me one? And just And by and by they were er for
an empty
do. She heard Red and Marhoff I hear things. We're sure to be frp bandleaders in the country landings in front of my house had-and what fun I had. I pattern into each centre, or per-
ly becoming fainter.
She slipped down after them. They went into a nearby room, still arguing.
BRONCHO BILL
What can we do?"
(NEXT WEEK-A
Surprises) -(London Express Service)
Few
is?
Yeah-he'd English at Duke!
like 10
DID YOU BOVO JEB
SEE A MAN IN A POWER-
FÜL BIG HURTTTY P
YOU BET/ MISTER GORMLEY JES RODE OFF SMATANAY mor
Somethin' Worth Seein'
Pat
NO TIME TO
MAH
LOSE GOTTA FETCH
"MY HOGO.
BLACKIE
By Harry F. O'Neill
CHASE. DON'T WANNA
MIDO THRE
SIRLEY AND HOT WHIN BRONCHO BILL'S DOIN THE CHASING
bus
Oh, what fun they very glad.
bus too.
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i
and
Mr Punch sighed. "I hated to drive back home. But I had to because it was getting late. reached And finally, just as I the front of my house again pout! everything disappeared, bug and all; and there I was, The bed again. back in my whole thing was a dream. But wonderful what a wonderful, dream it wHA!"
A
Scientific Trick
The tricle is this. You dip the Every good conjuring trick
Arst paper roll in the inkwell Hould have a triple "yes" be-
out showing one and draw it hind I which are the answere
cad black with nic. To replace to the questions, Is easy to
the it easy to du? Is it the ink soaked up by the paper, prepare? Is
you pour more ink into tued to guess the secret?
Inege bottle. inhwell from the trick based on a Here is B
Then you dip the second roll of selentile experiment that en
white paper
Inkwell Into the qualify with a triple "yes"
magicus and-Iricitale scienko, On the magielin's table are:
second roll an inkwell with a large performus - the
comes out white as ever. opening: (2) a tall bottle, pre-
The secret? The large bottle ferably one used to, refill small ink containers; (3) plate; (4)
really contains no ink at all but white paper tied two rolls of
quantity of powered a emall or pasted to prevent them from unrolling
(1)
Rupert and Miranda-16
As soon as he gets his breath back Rupen points to the wording on the label. If this is yours thes you must be the present that Santa Elaus gave to Jennifer" "Yes, I certainly am," says the little doil as she steps out of the hollow tree and Laws him angrily, "but I don't
1
what it's got to do with you, didn't ask to be given to her and I Santa don't want to stay there. Claus forgot to un magie ma so I wriggled out of the brown paper and ran away." And before Rupert can answer the stamps her foot and runs away again,
ALL RIGHTS REINAVED
THE WHOLE BAG
OF TRICKS"
colophony. This is a dark resin which may be purchased for a few cents.
The trick, you see, really hinges on a sclentine experiment which you may easily perform timo If you dash poma any powdered colophony on the sur- face of some inic in a bottle and then dip a piece of paper in it. The resinour substanco clings to the paper and prevents it from becoming all inked up.