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PUZZLES
THE
STORIES
THIS JOB
By. I. R. HEGEL
JOB for fun? In
The
way this one is.
men and women
who
work for the American Mask Company at Findlay, Ohio. make funny faces and got paid for it.
Every ml of face. A laugh- a one-eyed Jug Santa Claus,
pirate, a henk-toned witch, an imple grinning
clt. A 200 comes to life under the skilled Angers of these workers; rhing-
reroses, ells.
T1100C, Hiraffes, man-szert
elephants, cow!
any
mice, rabbits, Birds range where from chicks to eagles.
Mak-making is an old art, The first false faces were made from the bark of trees.
Later masks were designed on leather Ibra on wood, fashioned and
the individual to according whim of the wearer.
When the ancient Greeks and
atoor, Romans came
masks
were introduced in their thea- tres, where actors always wore large hallow heads to identify the characters they were repre- these hollow renting. Inside
metallic heads were
way
two inches
mouth-
HOBBIES
LOOKS
MASK MAKING IG
AN OLD ART THAT HAS COME DOWN TO US THROUGH THE CENTURIES.
CIVILIZED CONEG
AND PRIMATIVE TRISES HAVE CARRIED ON THE CUSTOM OF MAKING FALGE
FACES-
•THE ANCIENT GREEKS AND ROMANS MORE
LARGE HOLLOW HEADS IN THEIR
THEATERS TO
IDENTIFY THE
CHARACTERS THEY
WERE
REPRESENTING
IN OUR OWN DAY, MASKS ARS USED FOR HALLOWEEN, MAGQUERADES, COSTUME
BALLS, ETC.
This process has not changed Masks pieces, the mouth being about much in recent years.
from th
made of papler- ยาย are
The wearer's lips so, when the ac- che, gauze and linen,
over ຄ for spoke, like voles had add material is stretched
ny- ed resonance, coming as it did form, then a steam-press
until alt the through that metallic passage plles pressure
In bulges and the hollows are W:13
their right places.
The
Later, the Italian actors used the half mask. Itt ur own day, masks are used for holidays, particularly Beggar's Night and
ng แกะ Hallowe'et, Mardi Gras, querader, sostum: parties and all the fancy dress balis enjoy. ed by the different ties.
schools. fraternal
and clubs.
DON'T
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1950.
The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
LIKE
FUN
IROQUOIS INDIAN MASK
SATIRICAL MASK OP GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
BOO!
General Tin's Tall Tale
-It Was About a Fishy Pirie-
By MAX TRELL
NAUF and Hanid begged
more elaborate masks Kieneral Tin, the tin soldier,
are fashioned by hand over moulds, shople masks are done by machine. The infra-red pro- cess under which masks Univer- How dried is something
orders
ONT visit a musk factory if you are the jumpy type
because you are bound to stum.
Yes, there stomachs
painted vests,
in
art new.
1 tell them a story. A lory about what?" he asited them. "I have all kinds of different stories: sterles about lors and tigers, stories about pygmies grid iants, stories about whales and
the faces passing along on a conveyor bell, Paint is applied by brush or with a spray gun.sardines, and stories about the
of
whole
ปร change
to
General Tin paused,
"What's the tookie?" Knart.
TIE Encyclopaedia Britannica and Hand bath exclaimed al
says: "The moment a per- { once. 501 puts 00 IL mack, he ble upon all sorts of ruesome changes to another being;
"A toode," replied General objects like a barrel full
body seems to
Tin, looking very surprised, "Is nases or a box of out-size cara
its appearance, its proportions a fishy sort of pixie, I thought with piled high or a crate
character. The onlooker everyone knew what a toakle and strange swollen huids and feet.
the real was. They live wherever it's are even bulging immediately forgels
features, even if the masked wet." encased
gally
person is an old friend." were A innsk also appears When modern masks
a delusion were change expression, Orst manufactured, they
of pasteboard or made
cloth. Lrought about by muvements of
the the head and the neck. Ciny was used to model
a plaster
cast The smiles on the employees fcatures and
company come made of the model. The paste of the mask board musk
soaked in from the fun of working in water and pressed on the plas factory that is truly a magic ter model in thin layers, world of make-believe-goblins, knights and Indies, lovers held together by paste. fairies, After dried, the mask was reeding nothing more than
and wearer to make painted and colton nir
alive. whiskers glued on.
was
PUZZLE ✰
Four
GEORGIA REBUS
the
cities of Georgia will be unfolded if you use the fol- lowing words and pictures correctly;
*T CERTAINLY 16
WARM
TODAY
-B
DAL OSIVER
THAT
THE HORO PAILED TO
SAVE HANNAH
FROM THG
VILLAIN'
CLUTCHES
EH
CROSSWORD
A silhouette map of Georgin forms a base for this crossword puzzle:
1 Oblain
4 Ireland
ACROSS
Old English (ab.)
7 Mystic syllable
o Proceed
11 Tungsten (ab.)
12 Hospital resident doctor
15 Capital of Georgla
DOWN
1 State shown in silhouette.
2 Before
3 Palm Wils
5 Negative reply
8 Weep for
..
10 Ontario (ab.)
11 Beverage?-?
13 Total loss (ab.):
14 Bymbol for piloa
a
them come
BRAIN TEASERS ABOUT GEORGIA
MIX-UPS
Two facts about Georgia are concealed here and can be un- covered by rearranging the let- tera:
CHEEK SORE ORE TIME PAST THOSE FEE OR HUT
TRIANGLE
Georgia's capital, ATLANTA. forms a base for this triangle. The second word is an abbre- viation for "right," third 'sun," fourth an opera by Verdi, Afth an enchantress," and the sixth "a rat."
ATLANTA RIDDLES
1. How may bookkeeping be taught in three words?
2. If all the seas
dry up, what would
say?
ما
were
Neplune
3. Why is n bald head Heaven?
4. Why does a Ian's hair usually turn
grey before
moustache?
his
5. What word of only three
syllables contain 20 letters?
1.
RELATIONS
What relation is the door-
mat to the scraper?
2. Which of your
relatives
are dependent upon you for a
living?
3. How long did Cain hale
his brother?
4. What do mother and daughter have in common?
Tell
did William 5. Why shudder when he shot the apple from his son's head?
POSERS
1. Change one letter in each
of the names of the
animals
following
and ret another
animal; cow, hare, mule.
Knart said he had
never heard of a lookje before in his hadn't life, Hand Bald she
tookie either ever heard of and doubted very much if any- one else ever had, "except you, General Tin," he put in with a smile.
Like A Pixie
"Well," said the General, "as I mentioned before, a tookte in like a pixie, only instead of
PATCH
GUESS WHO?
By Ai Karalla
served
Our subject private
in the Unton
most
A water tookle.
underground DUI living pixies do, it lives underwater
"Why does it do that, General Tin?" sold Knarf
"It's used to it," General Tin answered, "Why do fish Live underwater? They're used to it, If you got used in it, you'd live underwater, tou.
"Yes,
Life with Father
CRAFTS
Air Vice-Marshal
Bennett's daughter says.
NCHOOL holidays are the
ISC
best times for me, be- cause then I'm at home and father and I have such good fun together.
But sometimes when I come ho in't down to breakfast, there, I nak where he is, and mother rays he bag flown off to. ny, Karachi, nt half-past four that morning.
He may be back in a week. Then off he'll go abroad some- know where else. We never when we're going to see him.
together, But when we are fe becomes most exciting. Two years ago, he taught me how to drive a car and
n miniature motor-bike. Sometimes I drive him in our trap when we're feeling like slower motion. But we both love speed best of all. We have, lovely holidays in Switzerland,
15 which mother's home country,
rily CS-
'Jets'
NOREEN BENNETT We boli Jore speed.”
recially in the winter when wo ski,
I want my life to be a full father's, 60 c thrills ni my when i am older I would ke in to be a skl-ing Instructor Switzerland during the winter; and in the summer a riding in-
structor Australia.
I shall not let distances wor- ry me. For I'll go by jet-plone, Just like my father.
WORK MAKES JACK
By BESS RITTER
IF you believe that all work
and no play makes Jack Fight, boy, you're
201 according
to Joseph Har vey, who lives In Brooklyn. He's a teen-used boy who earns by working spending money ufter school hobby.
at his favourite He doesn't consider it "works," because he enjoys what be does so much. It is doctor- ing up household gadgets that refuse to function.
People give this boy-who is specialising in mechanical en- gineering at school-a telephone call, any time after school, if typewriter, electric iron, or the living room table lamp in the 1083
order.
RADIO PIKING CAN MAKE MONEY FOR YOU-SA YOU ALE MECHANICALUY” AÄINDED
colns
Thals boy
enough for codes and many other treats by muking quick trips up and down the streets of his
the blink. In the past year he has put clocks, lamps, mechanient toys. and even radios in good running He charges by the hour for all jobs that he does, plus the price of replacement parts.
own hom If he must travel some distance
town. He selects only streets to get a job, he adds the carfare
that
have single or two-storey Andy," Joseph dwellings on them, and totes a and the travelling time.
"Any Handy
can
the same kind of hammer, nails, and an assort especially if ment of houso numbers 1ก ณ but how do you get profitable hobby,
he has a mechanical engineering variety of styles, He rings the teacher like mine, who helps to belt of each domicile that needs solve the really tough problems. new, more legible, numbers, and sells the householder a new set, Just do a good job for person, and he'll get you addi- if he can. tional customers,"
used to it?"
to
General Tin didn't bother answer this question. Or per- haps he didn't hear it. He often didn't hear questions that were hurd to answer. This saved him a great deal of trouble,
says,
*
one
It only takes a few moments, plentiful. yet the profits are
the Joseph charges twice amount that he paid for the numbers.
INDA Larsen, of Ludington, this "I once knew a water-tookie Michigan, discovered aamed Ripple the Whizzle," when she started trading second- General Tin went on. "He was hand, paper-bound volumes. Her
these one of Just try any customers send her $1 and 10 about as big as a clothespln.
that they've hobbies yourself, in your spare He wore a green wrapper made pocket-size books cut of old sea-weed, and he read. In return, Linda delivers time when there's nothing else
of different to do.
There'll be plenty of always walked around with an equal number
TA
army main-drop on his head instead
the Ear
jolly He was very hat.
Then Civil except when he got dry.
he would usually hotler,"
as
during U.S. War. He was
born
In
1810 and he
died in 1807.
"Holler?" said Hauid.
shout,"
or "Holler
titles,
Linda gels her customers by play time left over to enjoy the advertising in her school news fruits of your labours. paper.
Should you want to make
book "sure-Br"
money,
try WHAT'S NEW? said collecting textbooks. They can
be purchased for approximately TERE
He was an General Tin. "But hollering be
inventor and louder so he usually hollered, me-fourth of
latest water toys..."Jack-in-n-Boat" remote control sub-
the current et HERE are the I first met Bippic-the-Whizzle price, at the end of each school and a known. for in a rain puddle outside my
his
Anished with them
the
10
The sub- marine dives and has
I
lock-buck door. He was Just Sitting from students who have marine. Jock, wound up, rows sutch sewing machine which he in the middle of it, smiling and ginning of the following term self across the bath, Bs. Gd. patented in 1846. Guess who saying good-morning to every-
passed.
I got very friendly with him, and after the rain-puddle began drying up he came to my room and asked if minded it he stayed with me
this man is.
sen-
SCRAMBLED SENTENCE The Puzzle Man had ittle trouble constructing his
Put the tence about Georgia. words into their right positions: largest east river, the Georgia Mississippi the of is state
ANSWERS
Rava: GEORGIA Spring: Macon: Dallon: Savannah,
CROSSTFORD:
M11x-Urst
20 LEK
NTA
Cherokee rose;
pire Slate of the South.
TRIANGLE:
SOL
SMEN
RODEN"
One
who
you'll have no trouble selling or renting these volumes other students, You can actually charge twice what you paid for them, (one-half of what a new bool would cost) and get the for awhile. I let him live in volumes back again at the end a flower-vase filled with water of the term. which I kept on the table near the window,
In The Occan
"The Whizzle told me wonder- tul stories about some of hE; Waadventures. He spent most of Bis time in the ocean-in the middle of it and way down at of the rest the boltom-with the tookies. Each of them had his own little Ash which was trained to cwim with them on Its back. In this was they could go wherever they wished. "Some of them," said General Tin, "would ride on the backs of porpoises, which sprang in and out of the water as they swam. Others rodo on the backs of flying-Oshes. Some rode on the backs of sharks, whole groups of
Ein-
VTLANTA RIDDLES: 1-Never lend books.
- haven't a notion (I haven't an ocean, 1-Because there is no part. 4--19 dyeing there.
2. Take one letter from word that means "a big burich Ing and no
phabet.
of people" and get a bird that hair about 21 year older. Al ja a noisy creature with coarse, loud voice.
3. You can make o
tarkher
And often them would go out for a plenie on the back of a whale!
**They lived in a great grotto deep down in the occur. And do you know what they had in this grotto?"
*
*
real conning- lower, 11d.
Other good
GAMES
AWKWARD] HOMAGE
"JEALOUSY," wrote
Mme.
De Pulsieux, "is m nwk- werd homage which Inferiority rendere to merit." True. of courte. If you are jealous, It's ja 10-to-1 chance that you have an inferiority complex hidden in your make-up. During the nst few years much has been written about personality prob- icina. But they continue to minke for unhappiness.
In a family the green colour might start creeplan under JE fellow's skin when his sister rets a formal just at the time he needs a jacket. Or his best pal will start displaying an ex- pensive wriɛt-watch when
alt
the owns is the Mickey Mouse
varlets".
Jealousy happens every day. is an emotion that hits dil of us, more often when we are not celting enough sleep and
out of sorts.
arc
greet
Keep A. Fade your colour on a fenals court or in a Return calmly to brisk blike.
your problem. Remember that popped up because someone was given what you wanted.
been The cholce might have junfair. The person you envy could be your mental inferior in every way. Both these facts, are beside the point You're a
TC- nol
smooth number yourself, member. And if you're thining, you could be.
Concentrate on you. Try to discover your outstanding abili ty and perfect it. Keep playing at different sports and hobbles which until you find one in
you can excel. While you work for
your superiority, keep
10
make
JOKES
By
DO-IT Dala Goss
Neck SCARE
1.Cut a piece of RAYON or thin COTTON CLOTH bout. 20inchossquere
2. Find some pretty LEAVES or FERNS with big veins.
3. Fold and press cloth in 16 sections.
for quide lines...
4. Put leaf,vein
side up, on a hard
surface... and
put cloth over it.
5. Hold cloth
•taunt overleaf and diaw around leaf with
a sharp CRAYON. then rubover cloth and leaf lightly with
6.Put a crayon and fill in outline. damp cloth Move leaf to another section over right and repeat until pattim aida ofis completed. #
design and prass with
the
a warm
ideals high. No one ever gain- ed lasting happiness by sacrifl- eing honesty grade.
By doing something well, nontos school, in a club, in hobby
work or the arts, you'll be rid- of inferiority. ding yourself And when you're rid of in- feriorlly, you'll find that Jea- its leusy has crumbled under own awkwardness. You'll be- those gin to see the merit of about you, but now you will be aware that you yourself have also what it takes.
7. Hen with a
small running stitch.
TRAIN-JUST LIKE ARSENAL STARS!
ITOW do the big clubs train their men to
Hot the best un
men beco
turn-out or a Boy Scout club for instance-hope to do anything at all in that line?
The answer is Yes. All leading footballers have Impro- vsed their own equipment. Perhaps they once played in back alleys instead of on playing Belds, and when dribbling along the pavement they probably used the wall to deflect the ball around on Imaginary opponent
pd- Expert vice comes from Alex Wil- SOT.*, for and
trainer Arsenal,
inventor
of football
of
equipment. He tells you about two kinds cquipment used to develop the skill of young players to take the place of the old- time pavement practic
grounds.
€9.
You can rig these up your- self.
Says Aler
buys...cheaper carpenters' foot sels at 18. and 258...robot boy cycling 16s. Od. .... and sound like 100 for anyone's young brother who DOSE all this
much trouble? Then, if you cannot YET tell the time, a want to make spare time change, red-and-black plastic clock with ty Joseph Keeney's scheme.
removable numerals, 15.
ZOO'S WHO
Knorf and Hanld waited for FRUIT FLIES HAVE BEEN General Tin to tell them
MORE CLOSELY STUDIED
"They had all the gold-all BY SCIENCE THAN SOME
BREEDS OF DOGS. of the treacuro
the sunken.
1-A stop RELATIONS: (father). Your uncles, nunta and magnet cousins, for without they could pirate ships that used to sail
not exist, 3-Ax fonu so he was the
great ocean. They had of a pleco of sicel by stroking Abel, Letters T K E and I!, 5m
escape chests of jewels, great boops of it against: Lodestone, an uncut sue it was an arrow
money. Ripple-the-Whizzle Was LHE U.S. GOVERNMENT
APPROPRIATED diamond or another plece
POTENSI-A mare, mole going to tell me where to find
S-Lodestarian stecit
1+ Crow,
1-but, alas, on the day he was $1,750000 TO FIGHT Frightened by A. EDIDOT.
to tell me, the vase overturned | GRASS HOTTERS THIS. --GUESE who is Now,
YBAK him again and I never saw And Generel Tin sighed deeply, i
4. Did Litle Mias
of for his old.
Muffet
load her slipper, fall off a wall, or become - frightened by spider?
SCRAMBLED SENTENCE: Conta is the largest stats engt of the Min-" stinianl rivet
15555
THE DRIBBLING FLAGS Be sure to practise kicking with both fret. You will soon de expert
SERVING
26YDS.
TRY HEAD-TENNIS: You can set up thala ring on any piece of around.
Says Alex: "Arsenal "Most big clubs have 'drib- bling sticks, a flag fastened to this game, with four
a pole mounted base which cannot
knocked over.
on
heavy side. casily ba
plays players
"A right-hand forward hrads the ball from behind the back "Set up a line of these et, line, over the net and into the
Dia opposite court, and it may six-yard intervals, as in
turns take
at returned by any part of the grami 1, and
between body
except the hands and dribbling the ball in
and around each flag."
Now for "head tennis-court," as in Diagram 2. Mark out the
bo
arms. And ONE bounce, only, please,"
court, stretch a rope over two writing in the Football Auocla. EMPEROR PENGUINS Cross-supports of wood and peg Low's Book for Boys,
HEST DURING THE
SEVERE WEATHER OF
THE ANTARCTIC
WINTER.
orge Scarbo
it down.
(Naldrett Prezë, 108).
150-ST
Rupert and the Sketch Book-26
la a purried way they Rupert thanks the driver and takes from 7!*
At the sound of a his sketch book back. “I'mustn't move around. walt,” he says: Goodness knows Ettle chuckia they look under the where she may get no.". He is just van, and there, crouching down, in starting off when he hears his tune the little trust, mailing calmly. caled and he gazes, round in sure Halo, Rupert, unaye - found. prisa....” That's odda murmute the “The eyin's too heavy. This is a
“Where has that voice comm. lovely plam so shelter.
T
ALL RIGHTS AMÉNYSO