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HOBBIES
PUZZLES
PUZZLE PATCH
JIG SAW
of
DIAMOND
ROSTRUM forms the centre this diamondi. The recond word is "sh Hgs," the third "lowers," the fifth weird," and the sixth In "to take court action
alast."
CHECKER BOARD
JIG-SAW
Here you have
checker board which
n 04 squaro
you must
cut into 13 pieces and then t
the pieces together
make
before.
I square
again to
as it was
lines show
you
The heavy where the cuts must be made to get the 13 pieces. An, interesting which point about the pieces
you should not fail to noties is ut 12 of them contain Ave squares all different shapes, and the 13th pirce comes out as a tiny four square checker board.
You may
think that putting
the 13 pirtes together agam is a very simple matter, but don't be to sure about that. It is real- ly que trily business intes you have really sharp eyes. Just try
WORD SQUARE
After rearanging each row of word to form a good word, change the rows aroung so they form a word square:
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TRUE OR FALSE?
Decide whether each of these sentences is true or false:
George Whitury invented the cotton gin.
Flest day of the 20th century was Jan. 1, 1990,
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15 Lamprey-catcher
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18 Little pastries
21 Pedal digit
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24 Self itcom
25 Merits
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27 Narrow inlets
29 Expires
30 Greater, quantity
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These riddles involve parts of your head. They're intended to
make your
than arbe.
head grin,
rather
1. What has a nose and can't meli?
7 Irritate
4 Arabian prince
12 Meaning
16 Half an ent
17 That thing
18 Duration of office
Premium exchange
20 Bellow
2. What has
eyes and can't
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3. What has hear?
cars and can't
21 Group of three
a Hervy blow
4. What has a tongue nud
can't speak?
5. What can't eat?
That'
mouth 20
and
HIDDEN GIRL
Can you find
the gal whose
name is hidden in this sentener?
The newspaper
23 Ential being
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26 Pail newspaper notices
28 Compass point
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part on both sides
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,' SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1950.
The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
SQUARE
HANDS WITH
GHORT FINDERG
ARE THE MARK OF A PRACTICAL WORKER
A LONG
FINGERED
WHAT DO YOU GEE IN YOUR FRIENDS HANDS ?
NO TWO HUMAN HANDS
ARE EXACTLY ALIKE
LOWE
ALL THIS
TO A
LONG
UFE
LINE!
STUDY THE LENGTH AND DIRECTION OF THE LINES AND THEN TELL YOUR FRIENDS HOW LONG THEY'LL LIVE, IF THEY'LL BE RICH OR LUCKY IN LOVE -
PERSON IS ABLE_10.
HANDLE DETAILED WORK-
What Does Your Palm Say?
By WALTER KING
70U can always have fun, covered which mounts on your
are nu wrist,
7. Below headline, near the usually points
New
CRAFTS
GAMES
JOKES
Aeroplane Race Game
TTERE is a new parlour
Hboard game.
Being an
neroplane gume it involves a certain amount of good luck Ins does all long distance ying, but there are times when you must make a de- cision between "ying safo" in bad weather and "taking a chance."
F
to The according
cht Whichever
the
sidd
4
LAN
low over the
The spinner is a piece of card- banret about two inches in diameter with a central spindle
spinner. by skimming such as a match stick. 1s divided into
touches the dangerous lake. spliner
no table when it comes to rest in- marked
A plane landing on one of the equi spaces, hown. When completed, the dienten the next move; up ono spaces already occupied by an- forward two other player's machine or on circular edges are cut off so that space forward,
down one one of the spaces with a picturo the spinner is eight-sided, Spin spaces, or perhaps
forced to lose During light, a player of a plane is it with the thumb and fore- space. Anger and it will stop with one Whose spinner hands black gets altitude by moving three spaces
down. of the flat rides resting on the
o move at all.
A machine hitting the table.
"celling (the top of the board) E real fun begins when the can go no higher and is unable planes meet the hazards. If to move until 蝨
The playing board is just as
to make Interesting
spinner. Get a good sized piece
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forward or
a machine is forced below the down spin releases from the
the
THE
horizontal
heavy line,
it
"grounded"
and must remain
inthia nie region.
there until
cnst the black is
again.
It is then moved
up straight
into the Ave
and spaces flying on the next turn.
THE SPINNER
SAYS "BLACK'
JAME OF AIRPLANE RACE"
*
**
FTER passing the black line air at the left of the board a continues plane can only move up or
down.
If the spinner indicates
If a plane falls into the lake, a forward move the player loses Iriaks out of sight and in his turn.
The first to reach any one of eliminated from the race. And here is where the decision has the four landing fields in the Any other contestant to be made.
A player may, winner. choose to fly safe high above the flying in late to claim recond or land an on of stiff cardboard not less than loke and then spend time losing third place must 10 by 20 inches and rule off altitude apain, or he may take unoccupied field or a crash land- to guide THE length and proportion of
your thumbs and lingers also as shown. Four "take a desperate chance in an effort ing is the result and the plane is
off" ids are
marked, Ave to reach a landing field quickly disqualified. et something about the type of planes are shown on the wing, and four terson you are. În general, the
in
then in position to compare painence here your hands with those of others wild imagination and fancy. who have Just such prominent
Be
mounds.
將
谢
Here i the chart you:
ing. reading palows. You
on't have to believe palmistry to have fun. sides, fortune telling"
of predicting mystical future events-is frowned upon in many localities be Cause too many sharpers have duped innocent vic- tims. So we're only having fan.
n
of longer and larger your thumb, starred innding fields are pla A Very Sensible Question
1. Bass of thumb, the Mound of Venus, Indicates love people love of music, a sym- pathetic nature, along with.
tasy to
He
2. Base of forefinger, Mound
the more force and power you at the end, at the flying course. will have. A good thumb reaches As many planes are required up to the middle joint of the there are players, but these
and it can stretch should not exceed four. Coins down almost
Art
Bnrer
-Karl Asked Why Goldfish Were Gold- By MAX TRELL
10 A
horizontal or coloured buttons may be used "WHY" Kamit asked Ting- to say, it is es markers or
board can be As a rule, a long-fingered per-
pleces of card-
a-Ling.
"are
roidflsh
csigo the
cut out to re-gold?"
were
about
of Jupiter, ambition, leadership, position. That Is
Bexible.
Knarl and Ting-a-Ling What
now counts honour. you are
sitting on the most in the sturly of the size,
3. Base of middle Angen is better able to handle de present planes and colour them
of the dark pool under shape and nes of your hands.
Mound of Saturn. wisdom, in- lailed work and is more logical red, green, yellow, and blue,
Let's start dying To open the
water, Hold up your left band and clined to be too serious but of a than the owner of stubby fagers the spinner is twirled by tive in Ting-a-Ling's garden. In
swimming Square hands with short fingers
The first the examine the palm. At the base well-balanced nature.
the mark of each Anger and thumb you
of a practical ach player in turn.
stop with slowly were five or six pold- to make the spinner
A few of them were at Ash. Anger, fourth 4. will to a little bump or mound.
worker. Base of Also you will notice & network Mound of Apollo, brilliancy, wit,
If you want to decide whether he black portion touching the dashing.
Ting-a-Ling looked down into make a trustable, places his plane on field the top, swallowing. The
No. 1. The next to score black)
"Then he the water,
smiled. of small lines and three or four friendliness.
human sparkling happy-go-lucky tye worthy, loyal friend, size up the starts on fleld No. 2. No player
"Some
the No two main creases.
say, Kuart, that the handshake. not Friends galore, hands are exactly alike,
hands und
until he has
reason Holdish are gold is be-
the sunbeam even your own two. Examine 5
of scored with the black. flager, palm frm to the touch, a long can start fiying and you
Angers thumb, will your right hand,
Rut the water. Oner having qualified for the cause they eat and especially difference in the Mound of Mercury, good bus. Bexible me quite a
player moves that fall in the landing feld,"n thinking, medium length,
perhaps that is not the real rea- head, quick
prominent mounds below direction of the main lines from ness
little Angers, those of your left. The left hand Steady.
fourth and fells what gifts you have, your
tell you for sure that you have a friend who will prove to be a headliner in times of need.
Base of
little
6. Between heart and head-
right, what you have done with line, Mound of Mars, this in
them..
Ines Gral. Study the head These cut right across the middle. of your palms. Long, deep lines are supposed to in- dicate wisdom and good judg-! ment.
hem
The heart tines are usually more curved that the hear lines
They run between the head Ies and the base of the three inside fingers, Long prominent Indicate lenderness bearl lines and affection,
The life lines are seen making | around the base!
a wide curve
dicates courage and coolness,
a person would
Richard Hayes,
A
wil
19,
Is Top Favourite
By JOEY SASSO
of the thumb. The longer and ➜ICHARD HAYES, the newest clearer they are the better is of America's "wonnhearts," your chance of is only 10 years old, and already supposect to he
one of the top living long without any serious he is becoming illness.
The lines of destiny run from
the wrist to the top of the pain Think-Then
almost straight down the centre
TEENER TOPICS
By BESS RITTER
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son though it is a very pretty Ting-a-Ling looked at his gold-
che."
"I don't think they eat sun.
beams," Knarf said.
there were two of the te Gray fish!" Another Story
"I bet he was happy ex- "Perhaps not. There is a claimed Knarf,
who felt very
other story that long ago there happy to hear about the little was a kant who painted them bay's huele.
gold for he would bave nothing "He was very happy!" and about hit that did not look Ting-n-Ling. "He was about to
And gold is precious, put the fah into
a pot of water lo krep them fresh until he horne, when all at
precious.
Would
HOING SOFT, SING LOUD,"
SING
Is an easy Hame to play.
us everyone knows" Send "1" from the room, then t "I don't think anyone painted could get decide what particular stunt you them, either," Knarf said. "Ilaw once, just as he was picking the want him to perform. When he can you paint a Exi?"
Ast uut of the net ho was doing
It can be done." said Ting astonished to hear
Ash back, he starts
tho comes various gymnastics, hoping he'll a-Ling. "But I agree with you walking.
has i don't think they were painted. hit on what the gang
"What a fool this boy is to think of eating us." mind. When he's on the right think they became gold. But
the first track, everyone else sings there is still another story," he ish naid.
"And perhaps this last
"If only he would put us in recording stars. His recording of popular song loudly. When he's added.
inue one. story is the
Hittle shady pool in his gor "That Old Master Painter" ansar anel, they hum very softly.
den we would
soon repay him Knarf said he would very for his kindneul. We would topped all other cuttings of that he's completely a dead you like to hear it?" same tune and his most recent silence should prevail. As soon
So Ting- malcu hin and release, "My Foolish Heart," is as he does what's expected of much like to hear it.
lum, he can select the next a-Ling, after glancing down into
rich." high on the best seller list.
"Peek's person to be ","
the pool once more and smiling, Richard,
typical
began as follows:
time, many, "Once upon n Bad Boy," was born in Brook-
in Brooklyn, I the balls of your ping pong many years ag
there was n lyn, faised
Brooklyn.
had a Bon. woman who high me are dented and lifeless, poor boys'
back into hardly
ent. would school and there became an out-on't throw them away. They They were so standing baseball player, and to be "doctored" of this day he is an avid fan. As ancing condition by placing They lived in a small hut at the
matter of fact, he tries to ar-hem in a jar of boiling water. Dan never thought before he range his time while on tour so screw the cover on tightly, and from their hut was 'n lake. And fer, he thought to be rich and five minutes. This here, in this take, the woman not to have to worry about such will remove
het to try to things as being able to find a So ho mado up gray sh that dinner or not. entch the small swam around tu il, that she and bis mind to do as the fish sald, her son might have food to eat, and to put them in a pool in But one dry the woman felt his garden. But he made a vow 10 eat them both if they failed to keep their promise to make him and his mother rich.
"And what happened?" asked Knart.
of the hands. These lines are to tell what success supposed you will have in life. The longer, straightes, and less brokers the HOW
es are, the more prosperity is supposed to be in store for you. Frw people, however, clear, unbroken line of destiny oo either hand
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Talk
the wo- important is ment before you speak? Listen to this experience an American boy. have a
spoke.
He just spoke. When Mrs Merivale and her twins invited him for a Sunday's Dan outing at the state parit,
and Te
lives attenled
In
Richard started his carcer at MIE bumps or little mounds wanted the Merivales to realise the very early age of nine when
at the base of the angers what a clever guest they had he starred tell
About something
your selected. character. Almost every hand
the others. When you have dis-in what do these ickies
bottom
11 mother
THEY WERE HUNGRY "Now,"
Ting-a-Ling, sald "when the little boy heard this
didn't know what to he
do. mother were two little
poor that they
Uc .and hig
The hungry.
10
Just enough
10 had enough
Ash
for
of the hill. Not far dinner. But it would be bet.
all often threw her
that he can work out with some hake for catment sand lot learn in whatever city he is appearinst.
imples," too.
A REMINDER
12
CARD- BOARD
DIAL
/10,
NEXT APPOINTMENT
9
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8
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PAPER
FASTENER
| INDICATOR-
PROMO AG
PAPER CUF OPENCO
Besides
famous radio in · 4
*Ram- children's programme, bow Ilouse." From then on he the park he saw nine boys
business" and at in "show has nt least one mound that playing baseball in the recrea was stands out prominently above all
tion area and he began laugh the age of 16 ho was star of bis own television show, "At Home Ahink With Richard Hayes." |they're dolag?" he demanded, acting and singing on the slow,
helped with loud enough for the little Richard also group of onlookers to hear him. production and the writing of "Why, that ball they're using is the script. bigger than
softball und their bat belongs in cricket, nut | un a diamond.
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4. Fold B in half. slip it through the alit. in A...then unfold to this ⚫position.
5.Flatten A and B(1)and fold in
half as shown)
...then slip
them through slit inc
Aand
6. Unfold A and B
as shown
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EVORY DOES NOT COME SOLELY FROM ELEPHANT TUSKS, A GOOD QUALITY IS PRODUCED BY, THE HIPPOPOTAMUS, THE NARWHAL WHALE AND THE WALLUS...
THE LONG NECK OF THE FLAMINGO
IS NOT DUE TO AN EXTRA HUMBER OF VERTEBRAE BUT TO EXCESSIVE LENGTH OF EACH BONE
ÁRIUNO GROWS LONG HONIS TOO... ONE OF THE LONGEST HORNS ON RECORD WAS MORE THAN GO NICHES
---·IN LENGTHAN
und
wished he
CREAT RECEPTION
AT BACK
CORK
·STAND
THIS DESK REMINDER NUDGE'S YOUR MEMORY ABOUT CHORES, HOMEWORK, MEETINGS AND EVEN FOR THE NEXT DOGE OF MEDICINE
stek,"
"Oh," said Knarf.
NOT ONE FISH
"So," said Ting-a-Ling. "the
Ting-a-Ling
amiled. "The
turned to geld.
boy went to the Juke himself to two little fich try to catch the small gray fish And
for his mother and himself. All little fish, all gold, foo
soon
there were more And
morning long he threw hip net, when the kit heard about these and all afternoon. But not a wonderful gold fish, he bought single fish could he catch. And them all from the boy and his
He put the gold fut at last when the late afternoon mother. sun fell on the water and the in his own royal pool, and the with the golden boy and his mother lived at the water shone
he decided to sunbeams,
go palace from then on, And that home. He was tired and he was in the story of how gold fish hungry and he was disappointed, became gold. Believe it if you Then, as he stood up to go, his like. But even If you don't, it net fell by Itself into the waler. is still a very lovely story." And when he drew it out again, And Knorf agreed.
Birds will cluster around your Rupert and the Back-room Boy-18
crawl in a hole some chores on the Art Ford television bedroom window all year long
besides being
Actually Rickle's big "break" The onlookers were frostily
didn't come until about a year: silent. A middle-aged man
appeared on the turned around.
ngo when he This entire
team is blind,"Arthur Godfrey "Talent Scouts" The informed Dan. "The
bail show, According to Godfrey:
the grealesi; "Richard received Is specially constructed makes
П noise when
it is spontaneous reception ever giver The bat
a winner on this show." After to thrown.
is special ico.".
appearing on the Godfrey show Dan suddenly
ho was signed to do the vocal could
signed to appear if you'll strip a branch about where.
Everyone has, at some time or in America's top night spots and five inches long of all leaves, Navy bare He also appeared on twigs, and follage. other, committed Dan's blunder theatres
holes in the wood, and fill them of blurting out the unind re- the radio with Arthur Godfrey.
long after winning with peanut butter. Nall this mark.
It wasn't caid kludness comes from the the "Talent Scout Show" that a outside the sill, just like a flag-
heard Richard pole. heart, and the truly kind-record company hearted never hurt in either and signed him to an exclusive word or acilon.
contract. Els record, "The Fiy Few
Dutchman," bom kiral. Ing people are
Wise men have
fellow and listen to him too...
immediately
*
Gids who sew their
*
own
We need to cultivate kindness. met with favour, and since then clothes have discovered that it Onc way to do it is to stop all his songs have been a su pays to take the time to wash,
iron and
all cotton showing of Forgel how cess. His newest tunes, "Thunder starch
Isn't materials before cutting them. clever we are and how ndept in My Heart" and "It at wisecracks. Watch the other Fair," already are climbing the This prevents the finished
Fabrics ment from shrinkage. ladder to acclaim.
is a veteran that are prepared in this manner. Puiting brakes on your tongua At 19 Richard
addition, cut without television will of radio, la no easy tank. It requires performer
off the endless practice. Yet on that and night clubs, and it is pretty ravelling or slipping day when you do speak with safe to say that by the time that table. They don't require very either, becoLLIS forethought. you Will be he reaches the ripe out age of much basting
creased casily for So 20 He will be America's top male the cloth pleased at what you say,
vocalist will others.
marking herna, seans and darts,
Still feeling very anxious. Rupert him with an expression as worried *Hallo, Rupert. I'm goes to bed and is soon aileep. It s his own. the middle of the tight he suddenly lad you's awake, says the little finds himself wide awake and, as a piping voice? **De tell me. What have you been doing so wuy back- turns oviya shaft of nonlight room boy? Rupert starea What makes hini di óp for perclied on do you mean?" he whispers: ['we the bed rail is one of the impa al never heard of a back-rsom boy. eping. The tiny creature gates at Who Is hé?"
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