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STORIES
PUZZLES
HOBBIES
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1950.
The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
THIS JOB LOOKS LIKE FUN
By I. R. HEGEL
JOB for fun? In a way
this one is. The
men and women who work for the American Mank Company at Findlay, Ohio, make funny faces and get paid for it.
Every kind of face, A laugh- a one-eyvi in Santa Claus, pirate, beak-nosed witch, an impish grinning
elf.
A 200 comes to life under the skilled fingers of these workers: rhino- verosen, elks. elephants,
moore, giraffes, cows. man-sized mice, rabbits, Birds range any. where from chicks to engles.
old art. na Mask-making is The Aral false faces were made from the bark of laces. Later masks were designed on feather and then on wood, fashioned to the individual Recording Acco! whim of the wearer.
When the ancient Greeks and Romans
along, masks were introduced in their thea- treti,
where actors always wore large hollow heads to entity the characters they were repre-
Inslee there Renting.
eame
heads were
metallic
#WAY
hallow
mouth-
MASK MAKING 19 AN OLD ART THAT HAS COME DOWN TO US THROUGH THE CENTURIES-
CIVILIZED PEOPLES
AND PRIMITIVE TRIBES HAVE CARRIED ON THE CUSTOM OF MAKING FALGE
FACES-
THE ANCIENT GREEKS AND ROMANS WORE
LARGE HOLLOW HEADS IN THEIR TUBATERS TO IDENTIFY THE
CHARACTERS THEY
WERE
REPRESENTING
IN OUR OWN DAY, MASKS ARE USED FOR HALLOWE'EN, MAGOLIERADES, COSTUME
BALLS, ETC.
This process has not changed 'Masks pieces, the mouth being about much its recent years.
the are frutn
stili rende
of papler- two inches
The wearer's tips so, when the no- anche, gauze and linen, for spoke, his voice had add material is stretched ed resonance, coining us I did form, then a steam-press until all through that metallic passage- lies pressure
Fulges and the hollows are tele right places,
Later, the Italian actors used the half mask, in our own day. tasks are used for holidays, particularly Beggar's Night and Hallowe'en, Mardi Gras, thus quecades, costum: parties and all the fancy dress lintis enjoy
univers- ed by the differen! ties. schools, fraternal Order: and clubs.
DON'T visit a mask factors if
or
it
in
over
ap- The in
over
IROQUOIS
INDIAN MASK
SATIRICAL MASK OF GEORGE BERNARD GHAW
BOO!
General Tin's Tall Tale
-It Was About a Fishy Pixic
By MAX TRELL
IZ NARF and Janid begged The more elaborate inatis General Tin, the tin soldier;
by hand
to tell them a story, "A brý re fashioned
about what?" he asked them, zolds; simple masks me done
"I have n kinds of different by machine. The infra-red pro-
stories: stories abou; lions and nuw dried is something es under which masks
tigers, stories about pygmids and the faces passing along on conveyor belt. Paint is applied lants, stories about whales and
are
new,
Б
by brush or with a spray fun, and stories about the
Son
a?
Kelly
General Tin paused.
"What's the tookie?" Kuart
Encyclopaedia Britannica and Flanid both exclaimed at
to
once.
Lookle
You are the jumpy type
says: "The moment a per- because you are bound to sun-
puts
mask, he bie upon all sorts of gruesom changes to uniher being
"A tookie," replied General his objects like barrel futt noses or a box of cut-size cars whole tedy seems to change Tin, looking very surprised, "is with appearance, its proportions fishy sort of pixie, I thought piled high crate
onlooker everyone knew what a strange swollen hands and foet, and character. The
the real was. They live wherever it's Yes, there are even baling mediately forgets
features, even if the masked wet." stomachs
encased
an old friend," i:: person
Knart
bnd said he
never painted vests,
A mask were
niso
beard of a tookie before in his appears
a delusion lite. Hanid said she hadn't were che expression.
ever heard of tookle cloth. Lrought about by movements of
either and doubted very much if any the the head and the neck. east a plaster
The smiles on the employees one else ever had, "except you, come General Tin," he put in with mude of the model. The paste of the mask company
roaked
aa smile. board mask
In from the fun of working in
that is truly a magic water and pressed on the plus- factory ter model in thin layers, the world of make-believe-goblins. and ladies, layers held together by paste. fairies. knights After dried, the mask was reeding nothing more ilmn
and wearer to make -them come painted and cotton hair
alive.
When modern masks first munufactured, they made of pasteboard or Clay was used to model features and
was
whiskers glued on.
PUZZLE ✰
Four
GEORGIA REBUS
elties of
Georgia wil be unfolded if you use the fol
pictures and
lowing!
correctly:
words
IT CERTAINLY
WARM
TODAY
-B
NER
THE HERO PAILED TO
SAVE HANNAH
PROM THE
VILLAIN'
CLUTCHES *
EH
CROSSWORD
A silhouette map of Georgia forms a base for this crossword puzzle:
I Obtain
4 Ireland
ACROSS
0 Old English (ob.)
7 Mystic syllable
9 Procced
11 Tungsten (ab.)
12 Hospital resident doctor
15 Capital of Georgia:
DOWN
BRAIN TEASERS ABOUT GEORGIA
MIX-UPS
[1
facts about Georgia are Two concealed here and can be un- covered by rearranging the let
ters:
CHEEK SORE ORE TIME PAST THOSE FEE OR HUT
TRIANGLE
Georgia's capital, ATLANTA, forms a base for this triangle. abbrc- The second word is an viation for "right." third "sun," fourth "an
opera by Verdi," Afth "au enchantress." and the sixth "yat."
ATLANTA RIDDLES
1. How may bookkeeping be laught in three words?
2.
were If all the seas
to Neptune
dry up, what would
any?
3. Why bald head like Heaven?
Like A Pixio
"Well," said the General, "as I mentioned before, a tookie is like a pixie, only instead of
✰ PATCH
Our private
GUESS WHO? By A Karalia subject served
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A waler tookle
underground AS most living pixies do, it lives underwater." "Why does it do that, General Tin?" said Knarf.
"It's used to'," General Tin
answered. "Why do Bsh live underwater? They're used to it, If you got used to it, you'd live underwater, 100."
"Yes,
but how do you ge
used to it?"
General Tin didn't bother to answer this question. Or per- haps he didn't hear it. He often didn't hear questions that were hard to answer. This ved him a great deal of trouble.
cut
Life with Father
CRAFTS
Air Vice-Marshal
Bennett's daughter says
NCHOOL holidays are the
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 down to breakfast, he isn't there. I ask where he is, and mother anys he has flown of to, sny, Karachi, at half-past four that morning.
**Jets'
NOREEN BENNETT
"We both tore apend."
pecially in the winter when we sk!.
Ile may be back in a work Then off he'll go abroad some- know where else. We never when we're going to see him.
together, But when we are life becomes most exclling.
Two years ago he taught me how to miniature driven car and a
I drive molor-bike. Sometimes him in our trap when we're feeling like slower motion. Bul we both love speed best of all.
We have lovely holidays in I shall not let distancea wor- Switzerland, which 19 my ry me. For I'll go by jet-plane, mother's home
Just like my father. country, es-
I want my life to be as full by thrills as my father's, so when I am older I would like In to be a all-ing Instructor Switzerland during the winter; and in the summer a riding in- structor in Austrolla.
WORK MAKES JACK
By BESS RITTER
IF you believe that all work
and no play makes Jack dull according
A
boy, you're
right,
Har
to Joseph vey, who Ilves in Brooklyn. He's a teen-aged boy who earns spending money by working at his favourite Bchool after hobby. He doesn't consider it "works," because he enjoys what he does so much. It is doctor- ing up household gadgets that refuse to function.
People give this boy-who is specialising in mechanical en- Kineering at school-a telephone call, any time after school, if typewriter, electric iron, or the table lamp in the living room
on the blink,
RADIO PINNO CAN MAKE MONEY FOR YOU- JA YOU AER
MECHANICALLY MINDED
This boy coins enough for sodas and many other treats by
In the past year he has put clocks, lamps, mechanical toys, and even radios in good running order. He charges by the hour for all jobs that he does, plus the price of replacement paris.
his the streets of
own home If he must travel some distance king quick trips up and down He selects only streets to get a job, he adds the carfare
town. and the travelling time,
Andy," Joseph at have single or two-storey "Any Handy
them, and totes a dwellings on
assort- says, "can start the same kind of hammer, nails, and an
itment of house
numbers in a profitable
intering variety of styles, He rings the teacher like mine, who helps to bell of each domicile that needs solve the really tough problems, new, more legible numbers, and Just do. n good job for one sell the householder a new set, person, and he'll get you add if he can. ilonal customers."
he has hobby seal
these
It only takes a few moments, plentiful. INDA, Larsen, of Ludington, yet the profits are
the Joseph charges twice this "I once knew a water-ibokie
Michigan, discovered
that he paid for the named Ripple the Whizzle,"
when she started trading second- amount
numbers. General Tin went on. "He was hand, paper-bound volumes. Her as a clothespin. customers send her $1 and 10 about us big
Just Try any one of He wore it preen wrapper made pucket-size books that they've hobbies yourself, in your spare of old sea-weed, and he read. In return, Linda delivers time when there's nothing else always walked around with a
of different to do, an equal number
There'll be plenty of army rain-drop on his head instead titles.
play time left over to enjoy the during the of hat, fle was very jolly Linda gets her customers by fruits of your labours, U.S. Civil except when he got dry, Then
advertising in her school news- War. He was he woult usually holler."
paper. born
make 112
you want to "Holler" raid Hanid.
book
money, 1010 and he
Big Surc
textbooks They can shout," died in 1887. "Holler or
General Tin. He was
"But hollering is be purchased for approximately Inventor and outer so he usually hollered, one-fourth of the current list HERE are
in the Unlon
Should
WHAT'S NEW?
the Jutest water toys...."Jack-in-n-Bont" (1 remote control cub. i s bes
I first met Ripple-the-Whizzle price, at the end of each school and
term, from students who have marine, Jack, wound up, rows outside my known for in a rain puddle his lock- back door. He was just sitting finished with them. At the be-
stitch sewing machine which he patented in 1846. Guess who This man ls.
SCRAMBLED SENTENCE The Puzzle Man had little trouble constructing his sen- Put the fence about Georgia. words into their right positions: largest cast river, the Georgia Mississipp! the of is state
ANSWERS
GEORGIA
REUUN: Warm Why doen a man's hair springs: Nacon: Dalton: Savannahı. 4.
hia CROSSWORD: usually turn Frey before moustache?
5 What word of only three syllables contain 26 letters?
RELATIONS
1. What relation is the door-
mat to the scraper?
2. Which of your
relatives
are dependent upon you for a Bring?
3.
How long did Cal: hate his brother?
4. What do .mother and
daughter have in common?
5. Why
Tell did William shudder when he shot the apple fron his son's head?:
POSERS.
1. Change one letter in each
of the nonics of the animals
following
and get
another
animal: cow, hare, inule.
G
ITA
XHX-UPS Cherokee rose) pire Stale of the South,
TRIANGLE:
KT
SOL
AIDA
SMEN RODENT ATLANTA RIDDLES: 1--Never lend
Ein-
books.
2- haven't a notion (I haven't an 2. Take one letter from # ocean), Because there is to part-
dyeing there, word that means "a big bunch ing and no
of people" and get a bird that hair is out a year older, 8-Al-
noisy
#
selling
The
sub-
R
marine dives
has and real conning- tower, 63. itd. ....
Other good
in the middle of it, smiling and ginning of the following term itself across the bath, 95. Od. saying good-morning to every- you'll have no trouble
"I got very or renting these volumes to one who passed. friendly with him, and after the other students. You can actually rain-puddie bega drying up he charge twice what you puld for come to my room and asked if them (one-half of what a new book would cost) and get the I minded if he stayed with me 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 Ocean
"The Whizzle told me wonder- ful stories about come of his adventures. He spent most of his time in the ocean-In the middle of it and way down at the bottom-with the rest of the toakles. Each of them had his own little fah which was trained to swim with them on its back. In this way 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 code on the backs
of fying-Ashes. Some rodo on the backs of sharks. And often whole groups of them would go out for a picnic on the back of a whalel
"They lived in a great grotto And deep down in the ocean. do you know what they had in this grotto?"
•
OSE all this sound like too DOSE
much trouble? Then, if you want to make upere ilme change, try Joseph Kericy's scheme.
buys...cheaper carpenters' tool
at 18x. suts
and 25s... robot and boy cycling 10s. 6d. for anyone's young brother who cannot YET tell the time, red-and-black plastie clock with removable numerals, 15s,
ZOO'S WHO
Knart and Hanid waited for GRUIT FLIES HAVE BEEN General Tin to tell them.
MORE CLOSELY STUDIED
phabet
"They had all the gold-all BY SCIENCE THAN SOME
BREEDS OF DOGS... RELATIONS: A step farther
Bunken treasure - of (fotlser). Your uncles, aunts and the
the
3. You can make a magnet cousins, for without U they could pirate ships that wied to sull
nut exlat, 3-Axton as he was the
creature with
1
State shown in silhouette.
coarse, loud voice,
2 Before
3
Palm lily
5 Negativa redly.
8 Weep for MAS
10 Ontario (ab)
11 Beverage
13 Total loss (ob.)
16 Symbol for niton
ocean. They had.
great
of a plece of steel by stroking Abel sellers T 11K and R. - chesis of jewels, great heaps of
it against: Lodestone, an uncut Because it was an arrow, escape diamond or another piece stee17
money. Rippi-the-Whizzle was THE US, GOVERNMENT.
APPROPRIATED POBK85; I-8ow, mare, mote going to tell me where to find
of for his child,.. A
Lodestona, m Crow... GUES WROT Ellas Howa SCRAMBLED BENTENCE: door
4. Did Little Miss Muffet Frigistened by a spider,
lase her slipper, fall off a wall.
OT become frightened by
spider?
It-but, alas, on the day he ww|| $1,750000 TO FIGHT to tell me, the vase overturned GRASSHOPPERS THIS and I never HAW
him again!"
-YEAR
the jargon state east of the Ms And Gentral Tin sighed deeply, simippi river..
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GAMES
AWKWARD] HOMAGE
"JEALOUSY." wrote Mme.
Do Puleleux, "is na nwk- word homage which inferiority renders to merii." True, of course. If you are Jealous, it's n 10-to-1 chance that you have an inferiority complex hidden in your make-up. During the past few years much has been written about personality prob- lems. But they continue make for unhappiness.
to
In a family the green colour might start creeping under A fellow's skin when his sistor gets a formal just at the time he needs a jacket. Or his beat pal will start displaying 'an ex- pensive wrist-watch when #11 he owns is the Mickey Mouse variety.
Jealousy happens every day. Is an emotion that hits all of us, more often when we are not getting enough sleep and are
out of sorts.
Keep ft. Fade your green colour on a tennis court or in a brisk hike.
Return calmly to
your problem. Remember that ti popped up because someone was given what you wanted.
been The choice might have unfair. The person you envy could be your mental inferiori in every way. Both these facts are beside the point You're smooth number yourself,
inember. And 12 you're
re-
nol
chining, you could be.
Try to Concentrate on you. 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 superiority.. keep ideals high. No one ever gain- ed lasting happiness by sacrifi-
10 make eing honesty
JOKES
By
DO-IT Dafo Cars
Neck SCARF
1.Cut a piece of RAYON or thin COTTON CLOTH about 20inches square,
2. Find some pritty LEAVES or FERNS with big veins.
3. Fold and press doth in 16 sections. for quide lines...
4. Put leaf.vein side up, on a hardi surface... and put cloth over it..
5. Hold cloth
taunt overleaf
and draw
around leaf with
a sharp CRAVON. ...thennbover cloth and leaf lightly with
6.Put a crayon and fill in outline. darapeth Move leaf to another section over night and repaat until pattern- is completed. side of |design and
your
press with
the
a warm
grade.
By doing something well, in school, In a club, in hobby work or the arts, you'll be rid- ling yourself of inferiority.
in- And when you're rid of feriority, you'll find that jen- Joury has crumbled under
own awkwardness, You'll be- gin to see the merit of those about you, but now you will be nware that you yourself have also what it takes,
its
iron to set 7. Hem with a
small running
stitch.
TRAIN-JUST LIKE
ARSENAL STARS!
HOW
become their men to TOW do the big clubs train
Amall team-a school star footballers? And can a turn-out.or a Boy Scout club for instance--hope to do anything at all in that line?
The answer is Ye. All leading footballers have impro- vased their own equipment. Perhaps they once played in back alleys instead of on playing fields, and when dribbling along The pavement they probably used the wall to doflect the bali around an imaginary opponent,
Expert ad- vice comes
from Alex Wil-
sun".
for and
trainer
Arsenal,
inventor
of football
equipment. He tells you about two kinds
of
equipment used to develop the skill of young players... to
take the place
of the old-
time pavement
practice- grounds.
You can rig these up your- scit.
Says Aler:-
15.5555
THE DRIBBLING FLAGS: Be sure to practise kicking with both feet. You will soon be expert
SERVING
LIKE
TET HEAD-TENNIS; You can act up this ring on any piece of ground.
Says Alck:
"Arsenal
plays pinyers
"Most big clubs have drib- bling sticks," a fog fastened to this game, with four
heavy cride. casily be
a pole mounted on a base which cannot knocked over.
"A right-hand forward heads the ball from behind the back at line; over the net and into the Dia opposite court, and it may bo the ut returned by any part of
and between body, except
the hands
"Set up a line of these alx-yard Intorvals, or la
take gram 1. and dribbling the ball in
turns
and around each flag.”
armis. And ONE bounce, only,
Now for "head tennis-court," please.” as in Diagram 2. Mark out the court, stretch a rope over two
EMPEROR PENGUINS cross-supports of wood and peg
NEST DURING THE
SEVERE WEATHER OF
THE ANTARCTIC
WINTER...
Scarbo
it down,
Football *Writing 1 17
lon's Book for Boys, (Naidrett Prasi, 101).
Assocta- 1950-53
Rupert and the Sketch Book-26
**
Rupert thanks the driver and takes mustn't his sketch book back. wait.!! he says. *Goodness knowa
from 2** - In-4-puzzled way; they At the sound of a move around. little chuckle they look under the
where she may get to.” He is just van, and, there, crouching down, la
testing off when ba heus his name called "and haggries round in "awe- pris. "That's odd,” muermutes the man. ** Where has that voics pocas
the truant, sailing calmly, "Hullo, Rupert," mysTM Lambie, **The tain's too boavy. This is lovely place to shame." ALL RIGHTS BAUENTES
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