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STORIES
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1950.
The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
GAMES
PUZZLES
WHY DOGS HATE CATS
NCE
there
By Dan Murdoch
were
110 So Reynard bit right into ho better friends in the centre of the cheese, taking a
Bittle out of the
ON
animal kingdom than cats enuring!
L
alleys in company with was entitled
dog than with another cat, and a dog would want no better companion than a cat when it came to tipping over garbage pails.
centre
and
HOBBIES
it to fall apart. Of and dogs. A cat would course, Reyard swallowed the bit, out, but any rather go up and down part he
sensible person would walke he
commission. to u
the large Hey hard pushed piece over to Rover and the small piece to Tom. Tom look- ed his piece over and said: "O course, I'm sinaller than lover, but size has nothing to do with
diaro I agreed to The reason for their dis- this deal
half and half with Rover. The like for each other ROCs pieces should be the same size."
that's "Well,
Pasily buck to a dog called Rover
fixed" sald Reynard. So he bli off and cat named Tom.
Tom was strolling through piece from lover's plece
it down cheese and gulped the market place on this over growled:
"You took too much. Now my particular afternoon, long,
an plece in smaller than Tom's, 1 long ago, when he saw old woman selling cheese, thought we were going to share
equally."
While she waited on a cus- tomer, Tom reached out nis is
A
Anstructive
value of
pen pals
BY DAN MURDOCH
to
DERHAPS you don't have
pen-pal in some other coun
want try,
or perhaps you
different another one, Here's a
correspon- approach to world dence, that you might ke try In your club or your class. It's the "riendship-chain."
The idea is to have
th Broup in club
even or
with Ponci
abrond,
it whole acuntry-class, school-corres- cimilar group
sponsoring
The organisation the "friendship-chain" idea the School Affiliation Service of Service the American Friends
12th St., Committer, 20 South of
Miss Jennio Philadelphia 7. Palombo, the director, will try to Gd you an oversens club or class or school that is about the level caine size, type, and age
as yours. She has an interest- ing suggestion for getting art-
"Hmmm," sald Reynard. "So it
ed. I didn't judge it correctly.
Heynard bit right into the centre of the cheese, causing it to fall apart.
a
paw and snatched a piece of cheese. Tom, as you can see, WRE little lacking in honesty, but he didn't have the right kind of bringing up.
Tom ran up an alley and ran was Rover who smack luto
pail. cheese and
Upping over a garbage
Tom dropped the Rover picked it up,
"Begging your pardon," said Tom, because he was polite, if nat honest, that's my cheese."
"It's mine now," suh tover. And they got into a friendly argument, with a lot of talk and no real hord feelings in either side. Finally a named Reynard stuck his head
ul from under a garage
loud
Inx
and
told them to quiet down.
Now this fox named Reynard WiS LILLY smart, and
But never mind, I'll fix it.”
So he gulped down another bite from Toni's plece of cheese.
"You
Oh!" ried the cat. look too much! Now Rover's got inore than I have!"
on he
Ami so Reynard kept
biting and nibbling and never could get the two pieces of cheese exactly the same size. and maybe he didn't care, be- cause he swallowed cash piece he bit off. And then suddenly uliced that Tom and Rover
the cheese was all gone.
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ን፡
OM looked at Rover, Rover I looked at Tom, Tom and Rover looked at iteynard.
"I went to a great risk to get that cheese," said Tom to Rey- nard. "Now my risk was all for Bot because I've
dog
aflet hinte
Tom and Rover had explained why they were arguing, the fox wald:
"Why don't you let me arbi- tmte?"
EB
**
*
TOM and Rover, not being mad, agreed to let Reynard jugo which was to get the dicese.
to
The simplest thing to do," sad Reynard, wou be divide the cheese between you." "Of course," eld Tom, "[l'a a wonder I didn't think of that myself. I'll give lover half and half my self."
"Sure thing," said Rover.
It
of
The fox nodded. "That was the cause of it all
"But Tom promised half the cheese to met" cried Rover. doesn't keep his promises," said the fox, and he ducked back under the garage. crumbs of his licking chees Whiskers
So from that day on, when- ever a cat sees a dog, they 16- member Tom and Rover.
The cat says: "Che-e-e-sel" The dug syst Word br-r- reaker--!"
And the foxer just stay
nut
in the woods pretending that the whole quarrel wasn't any of their business in the first place.
Cam Be
DILL and Mary got out their
biker and
map. irond "Let's make a tour of the towns on this road map." Bili sug- gested. The map is shown
tho dingrarr:
HOMETOWN
TUILGA
Dome
Can you discover the route that will take you from Ilame- town, marked with a stor,
that you'll back. 50
town only travel the
10
through each and yet not
BOSTON
ITHICA
| NEWARK
DENVER
EUCLID
and
pass олсо samo
NASHVILLE
EMPORIA
AKRON
CHICAGO
the same of road more
"Sults me." said Mary, "but I don't like to visit the same lown more than once. And I don't like to travel mrotch
"It would be hard not through momo of the more than once," Hill said.
than
to go
OGDEN
stretch of road more than once. You can cross your path, but you must not retrace.
HOW IT'S DONE Starting at Hometown, visit the towns in the order of their initial letter, which spell
out
"It Can Be Done." The correct towne route is: Ithaca, Tulsa, Chicago,
Akron,
Newark, Boston, Em- the peria, Denver, Ogden, Nash- beville, Euclid and back to Home
tour
been studying Mary said. "It can
So
An
AMONG THE BEST LOVED AND LONG REMEMBERED OF CHILDRENG STORIES ARE LITTLE THUMB, RED RIDING HOOD, FUSS IN BOOTS, BLLIE BEARD AND DIAMONDS AND TOADS-
THESE SIMPLE STORIES WERE WRITTEN BY CHARLES FERRAULT, A
DIGNIFIED AND INTELLECTUAL
LEADER OF PRANCE,
IN_1697
intellectual
CRAFTS
JOKES
Picnicking is just the thing
Co
for
summer
By 1. R. HECEL
A
A
NOMES the summer and score of 30 first being the win-
read er. we are bound to
Another game is to place something about the roman- basket on a pole or tree trunk, tic Middle Ages when the the distance up the trunk head
the high. Each player receives lords and the ladies of
newspaper and must mount his bicycle in the court gathered flowers in lightly folded the early dawn, placing manner of a polo pony, them in baskets to hang on feat a balloon, air-filled,
see who can wat it into the one another's doors.
basket in jig time. *
*
Now
RTKİ
flower dawn-rising for picking would never rate rave? today. A bleyele basket plenic
*
another game
is more the 1930
maner
of
TILL
divide your group Inlo
in
to
1
wrote
Puss in Boots
The
THE French gentle By Lee Priestley ads: "Let
"One American group," che,
thing they ays, listed Ave wanted to know about France. that French assumed They
Fame chlidren would have the questions about America. they have the Information our end at the same time that
from asked for It they
the Fretch end. They look up one question each month, and sent
without waiting to
Meanwhile
24
material unit
reply. for forested repouses
ita from
began
from
10
man paused with
On au impulse, the visitor re
to the desk where his hand on the door tumed
wrote 1:0 knob of Charles Per- Charles Perrault
busily. What is it that you M'sieur?" he asked rault's study. Turning write,
The old man looked up with atari. "Oh, nothing nothing
with in but old tales
which
say a word of fare curioudy. well to the old man who the French had buried himself youngsters. The project is all his country chateau, there myself."
visitor shook his head sadly.
going strong."
"FRIENDSHIP - CHAIN"
A doegit
records.
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115
visitor shook his head not quarrel about this," he said. "I will re- turn now to Paris and suggest to your friends that a manu- ment be built to your earlier cenius,"
The
visitor sighed and left. Charles Perrault turned to his work and wrote: "Once upon a time there was a little girl and everyone called her Little Red Riding Hoof...."
TN
N
for
putting the romantic custom to teams again. Hand the leader of Rood use, even if the basket is Cach group a basket filed with salt crackers. When the basket merely the scuffed basket
school- reaches the end of his line, the the old bike, And any
leader whistles. The last player a cracker and com- must take
free afternoon will do,
on
Invite all the pedal-pushers pletely eat it. The moment the for the big scension, everyong cincker-cater is able to whistle lunch answer, he must run, bas-
bringing his own picnic
in his biteycle basket. Selest aket in hand, and lake his place from at the head of the line, passing order the
basket
picnic
too far
sile not the gathering point in
that plenty of energy may
reserved for the games.
*
*
be where the same action
down un
before
takes
place. The first team to
Anish
樂
pedal-
the basket of crackers is the winner, the basket being tossed
gh in the air.
And then, of course,
there's
the
of
TF there are enough
pushers attending the plente, divide them into teams and set last, but you cannot tag a basket at either end of a 10- girl or boy who keeps one
Paris a few days later, the Charles Even before the visitor visitor had heard about
the nonsense that
man who had visited Per- letters left exchange
rault Charles Perrault had Perrault wrote. He asked: "Old
monument, proposed a but it was never built. No only. Groups send one another
picked up his quill pen and steries that the peasants tell?" Tales that children's nurtes re-
monument poems. stories, photographs,
was needed, Charles Perrault's pen built a Haries, taken some sheets of paper pest at bedtime?" кешув, photographs,
The old man nodded, a spark
greater monument to his books, magazines, newspapers from the desk drawer in
coming into his
the games, and even phonograph which he had hurriedly hid- of engerness
memory. The folk tales of "I have Anished
French peasants that he record- den them when his servant faded eyes.
the tale of Puss in Boots' and
ed with that pen are still told and now I begla today to young people all over had announced the visitor. Cinderella'
went
another
the world. Already his quill pen
"Is this childish stuff proper scratching and squeaking
wark for you who have been across the page.
WALK WAT It
brilliant debater and a poet? true, thought the visitor, for you who helped design the what other visitors from gren building of the Louvre? who was King Paris had reported. The old for the
spokesman in the man, once the intellectual outs XIV'S
karued Academy of France?" leader of France, was not
"They are interesting tales," said Perrault quite right in his head.
Simple, handmade practical gifts are especially pleasing te both sides. To make a strong "chalu," a group doesn't wait
WRITING TO PEN FALS IN OTHER COUNTRIES IS FUN- AND YOU CAN GO FARTHER- GROUPS CAN CORRESPOND for an answer to each thing it wala. It keeps sending things regularly on its own, knowing keep that that's the way to things arriving to them just as regularly.
man
The Water Was Boiling Away
-The Steam Wanted to Get Out of the Pot-
that remembered muddenly jucomolives were pushed by
By MAX TRELL TANID, the shadow-girl with team.
tumect-about name, was sitting quietly in the corner
HA
the
W
*And we push steamboats- of the kitchen, when she wan and steamships! We push them)
Walt around the world. It came startled by a noise.
that was right, Hanid knew from the stove where a pot of ever get tired of pushing!" water had been set to boil. The
being made e
puth noise itself was the cover of the pot, which was
fseries. attling furiously up and down, we build buildings. We dig
But over and above the nobe
machines We push derrichts,
in
We
of the rattling pol-cover came holes. We blow whistles, loud hissing voices, "Let us out Press clothes"
"Press clothes?" said Hanid ut here! It you don't get or.
Let us 10 surprise, we'l
push you off!
"We pred clothes in tallor ON'T worry about not un-out!" DON'T Merry, edura dint a
next Instant The
the pot shops!"
raced arcand the They all sverseas roup sends, Many cover was pushed up into the
abroad
again Fot of water again. But Hand write air.
It fell right back young people English well. If not, you'll find the pot. But in the instant noticed now that they weren't teachers, parents, and students it was up a dozen white #gures racing around nearly as fast as in your community who can leaped out of the pot, hissing they had been before.
What's the maller? What foreign language foruri splashing.
goodness criod Hand. are you trying to do?"
The The water is bolling over!"
She quickly turned the flame down.
translate you.
Spud Sculpture
Racing and Whirling
In the meantime she saw that
the pol inside the cover DITI
you may not be artistle, buture widite, steamy figures were you can't fail to enjoy sculpting and whirling around the ture If you work with potatoes top of the pot. They seemed to Instead of marble!
their friends still Surprising results can be ob- be calling to. "Come Out Push talnel with a small knife and a the
"Here! sald Honid severely. supply of potatoes. Peel Dotato
that noiset and begin. If you study the shape of the potate, it may "Stop making all
Who are you anyway?"
Ave of There were four or them, but they all Were mixed up one with the other that Hanid
hand to found it eparate them. They all seemed to be arms and legs and necks n heads, which kept getting
carve
doesn't
an
suggest what you can from it. If the potato give you any ideas, carve Indian bend,
to
Indian
NO
sala.
tonger and shorter and flying A dozen white figures leaped
off and coming together again. Tier Anally all settled down the pot of around the edge of boiling water.
Giants" they all
answered **Wo
out of the pot.
His eight stories, published in 1697
were:
SLEEPING BEAUTY LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
BLUE BEARD
PUSS IN BOOTS
DIAMONDS AND TOADS CINDERELLA
RIQUET WITH THE TUFT LITTLE THUMB
It is said that he was
this
the
original Mother Goose, although in dispute, Molher Goose, say some authorities. had was the old woman who been Perrault's nurse.
"nonsense" But the Charles Perrault wrote no long aro has become one of the most famous and best known books of the world.
Try some other
type
of tanning
that
summer
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EXPOSURE to the sun is
popular
the boy or pastime. But girl who reaches the sum- mer's end, having only coat of tan, has done far too little with three big months. What about other kinds of exposure? For instance, the public librarian is ready to select Books fer help you
basketa quart-size fruit balancect on his head.
Tho basket slips off. After he's a target.
recovera his
foot playing space. Each player those
into must throw a tennis ball the basket at his end and. it minute the should enter on the first bounce however, and slay there to count. Playing him before is fast, the team reaching the headgear!
Rupert and the Back-room Boy-6
Freling too, tanished to speak, Rupert leaves the net and lean forward just in time to see the angry little creature disappear behind the tree. He follows and gazes around. "Where on earth has he gone? He's vanished 1" be While he waits there is a noise below and his pal climbs breath
thurmurs,
lessly up the bank. "say, what's Did you happened?" nay Billy. ire that little black rabbit that I That was "'Rabbit > raught ?"
** it was no rabbit" cries Rupert.
live imp. just the same shape a the imps of spring, only he was in black. and he was very upset above it 1"
ALL RIGHTS RESERVAD
ZOO'S WHO
summer reading. Perhaps ex- posure to good Uterature is not NALUSES LIVED IN WHAT IS NOW FLORIDA
at
Just the
especially appealing theURING ICE AGE AND MOOSE THRIVED A school term's end.
FAR SOUTH AS KENTUCKY... same the fiction and non-fiction you are going to read on a rainy afternoon or in the cool of hammock when the temperature is sizzling, will give you enjoy- ment now, help you in your next semester and add cubits of mental stature
for the rest of your Ble.
Expose yourself to Acida un- known. Peep into a telescope on a starry night. It will not be as dull as you imagine. Try
if you
can get a apelunking,
explorers to- mineralogy.
or
crowd of cavo gether, They answered in low voices zoology,
"Move the cover a bit,
now.
erYea
DO-IT
By Dala Goss
KBOBO
The *
THE PORPOISE(S) KNOWN AS THE DEAD MANS FRIEND BECAUSE OF ITS HABIT OF FINDING) PODIES IN THE WATER AND ROLLING THEM
ASHORE...
BATTLE HELMETS HAVEN'T ALWAYS BEEN MADE OF STEEL HIPPOPOTAMUS HIDE WAS USED INBOTH; HELMETS AND BUCKLES BY THE ANCIENT
ROMANS...
Things to Make With Materials at Hand
1. Draw parts
BALANCING of CLOWN OWN
or
DRAW
}ilin.
ARMS
SCA
When the carving is done. use a ring and a hairpin han the carving where it con remain undisturbed for several ays. If your curiosity will per- mit, don't look at the potato in
Then you will The meantime.
and that the potato has darken-
Junior was determined to ed and twisted as dried so
"Who are you?" Hand asked please. We want to get back." <righton Loda Mae who hat the queer tony object again.
"Duck in the pot of water?" summer week-ending with his scarcely resembles the
Please move it back older sister. He placed a large you carved.
in their saing voices,
We feel cold."
spider on her pillow and that With a le practice
you were in that pot of water; It
They sounded weaker and night he waited for the expected can turn out strange primitive-
got so hot we Anally jumped
Hank was quite sure weaker,
serenm. When nono came, he look
Loda Mac was looking pleces that will
out We pushed the cover they couldn't push any locomo-peeked In.
We can push any- right off.
the spider under a tives, or steamboats, or factory examining thing off."
machines now, They couldn't microscope.
recommend You'ro "Oh," sald Hanid
iron
We
wouldn't a little handkerchief.
than epider
to the collecting You' She was much stronger nothing but
Yet it is true that nothing but a few drops of they were now. So she pushed squeamish. The those who
seek exposure to weter turned into steam."
the cover arido a little, Whirled Around water had stopped bolling. The now skills in sport, new proweES could under-
and craftsmanship Millie, nover rland why she lost her vacation At this the white figures all whlie Agures said: "Thanks in hobbles
Break-
whirled around again in mage, and Instantly dropped back into find a fresh world of adventure
each day. job as waitress at the
They are never water floach Katel All she did we're glants. We can do any the water.
In fact, a Hania looked, são bored. And never being bored Table ting. was mix her orders at
We can push loceme
Jaw that they had turned into themasives, they never bore No. 5 and ask the 200-pound | Livest”
Hanid was about to say: water: themselves; Utile drops other people. dat "unburned” dowager if she was the "stuffed
as if they had come from the ruins of a lost civilisation.
A Slight Error
"
deam.
even
CORRUGATED
CARDBOARD.
DRAW BODY
4.Twist
2 PIPE
CLEANERS together and push through holes.... Hook a small HUT
to end of each pice cleaner.
24.
ON YOUR
HOT ROLE
TRAQUGH
TANDS.
Z. Cut out parts
SIAMOCIÓ
and color with
'GUE
PAINTS.
3. GLUE Arms and los place
TWIST PIPE CLEANERS IN DIFFERENT
WAYS TO SEE THE TRICKS
BO-BO CAR DO!