નાના માં
14
PUZZLES
STORIES
Quilting Isn't
By MADELINE CORSE
TARTING
u patchwork, Ray- quilt, begging coloured bits of material from mothers, grand- mothers and nunts, setting small stitches into straight scams, one way to have fun being nseful.
A patchwork quilt may seem like a lg undertaking,
begins with only
triangles of
frin
Bilractive colours,
but it small 1wo material in Sew them
together, and there's a square. Minke a few more squares, then new all the squares together to
That's make a large block,
good start, and not very difficult either.
If you have mastered the sew. ing machine, stitch the straight neums with No, 10 colton, but if you sew by hand,
Letter,
No 50
be a pattern to
There must follow in making your quilt. A
HOBBIES
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER
The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
A Bad Sport
GRETIN
CHURN DASH PATTERN.
OND 5" BLOCK CONGISTS OF..
4-SQUARES
A
B
A-SQUAREC PLAIN SQUAKC
20 BLUC
RO WHITE-
ALSO
COUNLER
great many quilt patterns are like an outside border, use the nine-patch, loves third of the large block, that each large posting it along the border.
of nine
varialkan.
of the
which means
block is made up smaller squaFUS,
CHURN DASH [a
2
simple
It's a
FLUTTER WHEELD
QUILT MAKING WAS FUN FOR GRANDMOTHER, AND CAN ALSO BE FUN FOR TEEN-AGRAS.
AND THE QUILT YOU MAKE WIERY. LAST FOR MANY VEURE OF LEBEN SERVICD
เน
Although plain green and Wheels pattern, but you require are pug fewer blecks than the Chum vole peint pieces dested, other colour combine Dah pallern. The total amount west-pink and at work is practically the same. Uns can be Rep rope bright blue and soldi
and plain or ved print 1ɔliter.
light
An Indian _Logond
1960:
GAMES
CRAFTS
GIFT OF FIRE
Rotold by LEE PRIESTLEY
"Hush Husi:!" said the Pine
LONG and long ago when Tree, bending under the weight
the world was young,
of snow. "If a secret la told, It
it was a dismal, cold place. Is a secret no longer."
The sun shone in the blue
The wind shook the Pinc
sky, to be sure, but there Tree's branches and snatched at was no fire on earth. When the eagle feather in the hair of all rain fell or the snows of Manapis. The wind went
the corners of the winter locked the forests around
and prairie in icy hands, world. Perhaps the wind would
help him. the then
Red Indians shivered in their buffalo
"O Wind," said Manapls, "do for you know the secret of fire?"
"Who-o-o... whoo-d-o...
destroys 1cils
secret, a
the wind answered. sceret,"
11
robes and longed warmth and light.
Manupis, the son of a great "Only if your hands, Mona pls, chief, was strong and young so and the Sun will give you are!"
Krently
that he did not ruffer old The wind laughed then. "So
from the cold,
But the
blue
of
men of the tribe sat with chat. the trees received the gift," tering teeth and stiff, Angers Inside the tepeen. There must be some way. Mannpis thought, to bring the gift Bre to his people.
☆
413
ANAPIS could not believe
Male held up his hands
broke
JOKES
ZOO'S WHO
GIANT HORNED TOAD
OF SOUTH AMERICA BARKS AND BITES LIKE
AFRICAN PORCUPINES
A DOG..
EEET LONG REPTILES RULED
THE EARTH FOR ABOUT FIVE MILLION YEARS.
GIRAFFES CAN DELIVER A TERRIFIC · BLOW BY USING THEIR HEADS AS SLEDGE
HAMMERS....
ON LIVING LONGER
He chlu upon his chest
with GROW QUILLS THREE the pondered
problem, tutil his muscles ached
last he was. into the the strain. At the interlining from slipping out Mannpis wandered
forest. The cold wind rattled forced to drop his arms to his of the pine sides, trembling with pain. He proper balance between light top. Tufting at Intervals keeps h
of place, and dark-coloured paielies, You need more pleces
the through an The Snited quilt should be the icy branches
the sunumer make a quilt block in Flutter
trees did. The Wind sald the the received from 72 in 1 inches wide, and tree as he passed. Perhaps the could not hold out his arms all
said Mana- Pine Tree bad may be 90 to 108 inches long, tree could help him.
"O Pine Tree,"
the zeeret
A. Did that mean that depending upon your preference,
A flounce or valance may be pis, "do you know the
tree had the gift of fire now? but are?" ved to finish tho
Was it locked inside its branches de of ually a binding is
which it held out to the sun all material like the backing. Blass
summer? ୧୮୯ wide 11 inches trips
the around machine-stitcheri is an- Wheels Platter nine-paleh pattern.
is most quilt on the wrong side, and quaint idea, dating back to the other nine-patch easy-to-make.
(CTTON BATTING have cut out 20
often used as an luterlin- whipped down on the front by days when housewives churned
Litir
and 20 their own butter. If you study When you
patterus Flannelette Simple quilt will see that pieces of plain the design, you
puffy, but is just as effective as those mate sil: black, you begin by sewing the average quilt. there is a plain three-inch square Peces of white for each 18-inch 1, une "bat" being enough for hand.
each of makes the quilt
Whip the seams difficult, and the teenage girl in the centre. The four corner together one triangle
bulkiness who completes just one patch- to avoid pieces are lite the small pattern
square, together
an old thin werk quit has proved herself ranked A, and the remaining blue and white, joming the long ratisfactory.
she has done smart because are like the small Mal four streh squares, and sew Another lining s pallern marked B.
them together to form a larger cutton blanket.
Any of unstarched material some creative work, maka square, which then becomes one carefully,
corner of the quilt block. Five may be used for the backing- of these larger squares, and four unbleached or "factory estion." and mom pink print squares, will com or plain while. But your quilt
back in plete your 18-inch block,
four piece
Measuring:
of each of cardboard patterns
the the three pieces shown in diagram and mark with pencil wron side of the on De material, cutting about a quarter
vilside the pench of an inch mark to allow for seams. sure your diagonal edges are vo a true bly, and handle the trees with gentle hands so the none of the edges will stretch or ravel,
1
to form
will be daintier
Plains strips of white anasterial colourful if you fur inches wide are suggested Fretty shade used in the quilt
to set the Flutter Wheels quit block together. A good berdor
is the corner sure or pinwheel quilt, alternating with squares; "peater around the edge of the of the pink print
Filter Wheels is an especially PUZZLE ✰
colours, 10 good pattern for small scraps of
different
The finished blocks will ba nine inches square, and may be
plain white ny et together with strips two inches wide,
If yus which case you try to keep a
Pixie O'Scow! Needed Help
-He Had Tos Much Work to Handle-
By MAX TRELL
"DON'T suppose," said Pixie
O'Scow) to
Lindow-boy with
Kharf, the
the turned-
about name, "that you'd cure to help me to do some of my work
this morning?"
Knutf, who just happened to neel Pixie O'Scowl, down by the Big Oak on the other ste
of the Squishy Marsh, said:
kind of work do
430
Pixie Knarf to follow him. They walked across fallen tog until they came to a by two formed sort of cave moss-covered rocks leaning
"What
Instead of
mean?"
answering, O'Scow motioned
QIL
cach other. Pixie O'Scowi went Inside and Knarf went in after him.
Top of Rocks
The cave was dark until Pixle Scowl turned on three or four glow-worms who were banging
SCRAMBLED SENTENCE
are
If you belong to a club, cut pieces patchwork but your friends to help you to sew some with extreme care and ask your of the patches together. That's
a quilting party, and it's fun!
FACTS AND THINGS ABOUT ILLINOIS
POSERS
1. What outstanding com- Word do not appear in their
this sentence modity is associated with these Kansas, California, correct order in
Con Illinois.
you lates: about
Wisconsin and Michigan? traighten them out?
to to Illinois Springstid, Van- dalla Lincoln, led move capital
Is a baby squirrel called squirrelette, or a
the the then Abraham rising pup, a fight a young, from lawyer, stale
GUESS WHO?
This than was
is parents died
kilten?
3. Is the first stripe in the United States flag red or white? penguins found at born in 180V,
Are
Equator, or when he was the North Pole,
nly two years old, but in spite South Pole?
having
of
no
father
5. Why
do we
wash
139
and mother water?
to help him
He became
brilliant
student and
later was a world
writer
poems stories.
RIDDLES
1. What PURS this way and that way in a bed?
2. What is it you seldom touch, but often have to hold? or
3. What vegetable is it that the outside, and you throw away
He cook the Inside, eat the outside melancholy and throw away the inside?
4. What part of tendon I and many of his poems, such as The Rain and Dew Department. was unhappy and
kind of shoes ore misery. He died in 1849.
bucket into the pool and drew "The Ruven." reflect his life of in France?
ut a bucketful of water.
"Pour it i here. orderest was he? Pixie O'Scowl.
the bucketlu!!
Knari poured from the top of the rocks. They of water into the keg through
ttle the open top.
Have
a soft light, like
could
CC now
lamps. Knar!
ANSWERS
5. Who
What crocheted?
ILLINOIS CITIES Four Illinois cities are hidden in this rebus. Careful study of pictures wil the words nud SENTENCE: Abra- HCRAMBLED
young bring them to light; ham Lincoln, then a rising Into the Keg
lawyer, led the night to move the illinois state capital from Vandalia "More water! Keep pouring to Springfeld.
Pixie O'Scowl. GUESS WHOT Edgar Allan Poe. Wheat: And standing it in cald
1- Oranges. POSERS: poured several
into the cheese. Automobiles. 2 pup 3 around the edge of the pool were Knart
It was alle. Red. At the South Pole. Be
quit plainly.
In the centre of the cave was
a puol of water.
four or Ave fat wooden kega bucketsful of water There was also a bucket with a keg, until finally rope attached to
mort
the handle Then Pixte O'Scowl took a big cause most kinds of dirt standing next to one of the kega. spoon out
crow.
diapolve in water and water is safer than of his pocket and most cleansing quida
water.
He
1--A river. 2-Your RIDDLES: started stirring the enrinkled
wolt and In some
tongue. Sweet.com. The lef "This is the Rain and Dew sprin
they looked ter N. Black shoes are Department, my boy," said Pixle pepper (at least
pepper). Whenade.
CITIESI Springfield lot of work the salt and
ILLINOIS O'Scowl. "I've got to do here this morning I was this was done, he tasted a bit
"Hmm, tastes just cogin: Princeton: Vandalia.
DIAMOND: Then he went expecting to get some help from of it. Pixie MeSnooze. But, as usual, ratne he said.
and got something that lookedi
from the he went off to take a nap,"
ike a meal-grinder and Dew back of the cave. "What's the Rain
Knarf
Kuart he said to Department?"
"Now,"
keep turning the "you just handle of this rain-machine."
Knart had never seen any. thing like this beforet As fast the 43 Pixie O'Scowl filled cain-machine with water from keg-and as fast as Knor! Fixle turned the handle out came
asked looking at the kegs and the bucket and the pool of water in the middle of the cave. "Here's where we sald Pixie O'scowl.
make it."
"Make it?" sald Knart. "Everybody,"
O'Scowl, "has seen
sald
the
rain-drops the most beautiful raindrops in and dew-drops. But can anybody the world! Pixie O'Scowl just make a rain-drop? Can anybody piled them up in a corner of make a dew-drop? The answer Pil is not They're made right here, the cave unul at last, when the in the pool, keg was empty, he put thent Dip that bucket please, and fetch me some water, all in a big Come now! If you're going to sack over work, you've got to work!!
sack, threw the and his shoulder
"Thanks for the hurried off. help," Kharf heard him calling "This is just enough for his a smajl shower!" Knart can him, to see if he was
While he was saying this Plxis. back. Oscowl had rolled up
alsaves Then he took the top off after
O'Scowl
one of the- kes. Meanwhile going to put them in a cloud Knarf, not knowing what was But Pixie Sense to happen, dipped the appeared,
SILE SPEE CHICAGO ERATO
EGO
CRORSWORD:
CAIRO
RULE
KU BOTG
PFLERE
just dis
ILLINOIS. KAVERI) - Sangamon; Kankakee; Rock,
THERE,
PRINCE
+
-H
PATCH
CROSSWORD
A silhouette map of Illinois forms a base for this crossword puzzle:
ACROSS
4
15
1 Illinois' city of flood
Regulations
7 Hawalian garland
A Haughty bearing
10 Eternity
11 Ceases
13 Courtesy te
DOWN
1 Crinkled fabrics
2 Symbol for gold
3 Middlewestern state
Bamboo-like grass
5 Willows
9 Decaya
12 Palr (ab.)
ILLINOIS RIVERS
Rearrange the letters in cach group of mixed up words below three names of lo form the rivers In Illinois:
NO GAS MAN EKE AN AKK CORK
Manopla
By BESS RITTER Hurrying.
battery. a storage down like
of small branches from the pineVERY 10-year-old child has
The result is the disease premature aging.
tree. He raw nothing. Perhaps E a life expectancy of 650 the fire was inside the branch years, according to Prof. I. 5. How coukl it
reached? Simms, of Columbia University.
be
If he rubbed the two branches The fact that no one lives, that and together would that wear away long is not due to germs
rub viruses, but because the body's the outer bark? Could be
system chemical away the wood until he came own
to the stored Are?
TANAPIS rubbed the two bits
MA
of wood together. He rub-
her until he was very
tired.
Then he looked closely at the no fre. branches. There was He rubbed his hand across one hot! of the branches. It was Then there was fire inside! If he kept rubbing, he could open a way for the Bre to escape!
anti Mampis rubbed fasler terler. Soon his breath was coming in short, panting gasps.
not He was ro tired he could
o on. Then a tiny gray wisp of smoke rose from between the two pieces of wood. He rub
The gray ted faster, harder. wisp thickened.
Then upon one of the branches Manaps saw a glowing red
coal
fret A
of Llew softly upon the coal
eye.
rung
Your Party Apron
SQUARES
LFTEN you have wished for,
He OF
As
a party apron to make the
the wind might have done. He task of serving sandwiches a tot dropped shreds of pine
The around it.
pni glowed.
A tay tongue of fame lick- As ed at the bark shreds. Kanapis
Well, hero's
bark more glamorous coal blinked one you can make yourself.
need to be an You do not
to scaunstress accomplished make the apron sketched here. sewing machine is not needed, Of course, machine sewing 14 faster than hand sewing, "but be there's so little stitching to
be done that
the apron can
plied fallen branches upon it. more and more Are came from the wood where had been stored.
it
"I am grateful, O Sun. I am grateful, o
Wind," Manupls raid. "Now there will be fare in will the tepees. The old ones warn their old bones. Now the secret is told, it is a secret no longer."
Definition
As a result, people lose their life expectancy by as much as if eight percent a year. Even we were able to prevent some of the loss of vitality, we might live to the age of 125, or even to 100 years old.
aru
Normal aging, scientists beginning to believe, is really "premature" aging. So old age should be tackled just ke disease and now is the ilme to.. start.
4
Medicine has increased life expectancy almost 80 per- cent in the past century. Once
our
but
at
n person grew old at 35, now people expect to live least to the age of 85, and the average length of life is grow-
Ing greater every year,
YIPPEE
HEH,
HEH/
Most of this is due to
the
made by either method in less gain over diseases of childhood.
than an hour.
When science conquers diseases squares, of old age, such as hardening ue pattern. of the arteries, then we'll real-
By using four-inch you can enlarge
Cut the apron organdy
material.
from colouredly live to ripe ages.
Swiss Prof ur dotted
Columbia, already
Sew a full rule around the some
apron.
Sherman, H. G.
discoveries
of
has made
alonst this
rata,
the
times This may be reatly-pe. He has found that made which can be bought at a when given four nation counter,
made.
or it can be amount of vitamin A that they sunily need, extend their age
work
For the band, cut a trip two by 10 percent.
This is a small beglaning and Inches wide and 30 inches long. Fold in the centre, turn in raw we don't now if it will
every edges, and sew to top of apron, with people, but boys and girls that it lon't The ties will be long enough to who eat their vitamins
going to hurt them. 10 make a large, uffy bow at the day can be sure
back.
the
and
Willie was called upon by the teacher who was training elass to describe animals objects. Wille was asked describe a kitten.
It
"A kitton," sald Wille, "Is ai ball of fur with four legs. runs real fast after nothing and stops before it gets there."
Vory Bad
She: "Things are in an awful thape."
He: "What things?" She: "Pretzels."
Rupert and tné Sketch Book-19
DO-IT
Play
By Dale Goss
SWAT
THINGS TO MAKE WITH MATERIALS AT HAND
BALL
1.Cut a piece of CLOTH to fil around a RUBBER
BALL.
4.Wrap band
at one end of chain
around the ball.
5.Tis end of rubber bands to a TREE
DIAMOND
CHICAGO, largest Illinols, the
word
city in centre of this
The diamond.
second word la "a pronoun," third "a steeple," alth "muse of poetry," and sixth "soli-orteem."
#
CHICAGO:
Rupert peeps anxiously on to the station platform. A train is standing: there and is signalled to go. Some of the doors art open, but at first there is no sign of Rosale, "I must find er." he thinks, as he moves for-
Here, come beckons her urgently. out, you've no business in there," he calls. "We must go back to Mts. Pig this minute " But Rosalie doesn't move. "These seat cushiona feel nice, she says calmly.
I think I'l ward to look into the carriages, can't run any more. Almon & Once he finds her, and be
her
rest here!** ALL RIGHTS REINNVED
3.Loop 11 rubber bands together with slip knots.
Z.Fasten cloth around ball with RUBBER BAND. trim away ends of cloth.
BRANCH and SWAT veta TENNIS RACKET
PINGPONG PADDLE!