PUZZLES
STORIES
HOBBIES
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1950.
The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
How Science Looks at Pretty Flowers and Trees
By BESS RITTER
TIE New York Botani-
T
cal Garden in more collec- than a pretty
tion of flower beds, and if you are under the impres- alon that its prime purpose is to exhibit plants and holding shows you're in
for a surprise.
This Institution
cinchona
and
tha in
Scientists
their
made
A
PLAUT
THAT
tur-
varnishes,
spices.
ather large Kreeneries
various places are real univer- sities of pinni life.
spend a great deal of
time studying everything that gows, from chicle for chewing bark for fum, to
fighting malaria.
Here discoveries are
about the "what for's" which make life livable-rubber, cot-
ton, lumber, linseed oil,
resins, pertumes,
Davourings, ariselal alk.
Everything that Krows
the taisiness of the scientists
n1
botanical these
They study the glatt redwoods, which are
all the largest of
peer also plants. And they
the plants micro-
through microscopes
amallest
· organisms so small that thou- sand live in a drop of water.
pentine, Incquers.
Hardens.
ONE
which given un many secrets to selence Is fun-
of plant NE kind
recently has
gl. These are brightly colour-
ed colonies of micro-organisms which
kinds cause all
trouble, yet
which can
of also
help mankind.
Fungt
Cate athlete's
foot
and spoil bread.
They
can
In-
short circuits.
But In recent
years
fungus
family,
mem-
"THE PRIME PURPOSE OF THE NEW
YORK "BOTANICAL GARDEN · AND THE FOUR OTHER GREENERIES IN THE STATES 16 THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF
· EVERYTHING THAT GROWS, FROM THE GIGANTIC REDWOODS TO
THE FUNOI THAT CAN ROT THE INSULATION on "THE
WIRING OF AN AIRPLANE
AND THUS GROUND IT-
CATCHTS
INSECTS
VENUS FLY TRAP
KNOWLEDGE OF THE PART THAT PLANTS PLAY II SUPPLYING NECESSARY THINGS FOR MODERN LIVING. JE OF THE FIRST
IMPORTANCE
PUZZLE
PATCH
TOWN REBUS
COLORADO SCENIC BEAUTY BECKONS PUZZLE ADDICTS
COLORADO CROSSWORD
Colorado's silhouette forms base for this puzzle:
ព
Four Colorado towns are hid-
ing In this rebus. Use the words and pletures to bring them
a button.
to
light:
TRACK THAT LION
TO IN DEN
MY NAME
ground planes by rotting
sulation on wires and causing
onc
which has over 25,000
bers, has proved itself one of
Aghters against
ACROSS
1 Rocky Mountain State
B Smeli
the greatest
0 Neither
diɛense.
10 "Old
Dominion
State"
Few people who
are
not
(a)).
scientists know the names
of
11 Deed
which produces six
these beneficial fungi, bul case you are interested it is the Basidiomycetes family,
In
13 Entire
14 Pronoun
and
bacteria
acid, pleurin, irpexin.
Grisle obtusin
15 Floor covering 17 llebrew month 13 Liners
DOWN
'Licki
destroyers pleurotin,
and cortieln. That's a mouth-
ful even for a scholar.
2 Karem room
3 Behold!
4 Verbal
05
5 Social Insect
In the botanical gardens are
flowera pretty
03
well
micro-organisms. There are 500 kinds of
dohlias: 7.000 plants
in the rose garden,
including:
750 kinds leveloped by man and 2.000 types of plants grow- ing in a five-nere wild flower,
meadow and rock garden..
all there are 230 acres UFO- viding homes for
plants in the botanical
the
car-
'Acccomplish
7 Commands
12 Bivalve molluse
13 Era
14 33mish
10 Note in Guido's senio 13 from
CEOGRAPHY POSERS
This group of questions deals with geography. If your Ket memary doesn't serve you.
out the allas before looking at the answers.
den. Altogether there are 2.-
1. What is the principal 200,000 identifed specimens
nens river in China? the her- of press plants in
In adition there are Larlam class rooms, a library, labora- tories and offices which make in- the gardens a $10,000,000 vestment.
While this may seem to be a lot of money to spend to study "words and flowers" and things, the cost has repaid it- rell many times. For example.
TILL HAVE TO
-A
THERE IG A CIRAND [VIEW PROSS THE
HILLS OVERLOOKING THE LAVAGGEN
OF THE TAD RIVERS
DU+
THE LAST 'BELL KANO PIVO
MINUTEC_5
TRIANGLE
This time it's a triangle hang-
ing from the famous mountains
3.
RIDDLES
animal
133 the
the
What 2. Jurgest brain?
What is bought by yard and worn by the foot?
4. What does the evening
GAMES
CRAFTS
JOKES
Silverstrand-
Study
Shadows Have a Mud Bath
"IT'S
It's Very Pleasant on a Hot Day, Too ---
By MAX TRELL
"T'S a good warm day," fignid was saying to her brother Knarf. "I wonder where overy- body is?"
She gazed all around the edge of the pond. A blue-boille dy whizzed by. A few feet off the bank a dragon-fly with black- banded wings stood on a llly leaf without moving.
There were no birds. Thero were no animul. There was no- body at all.
"They've all gone off where," said Hanid.
DUTO"
At that moment Wlity Tond came along. "Howdy," he said in n cheerful valce. "Sure & coldt Br-ri"
Head to Foot
They looked at him la no tonishment. He was covered from head to foot with mud. "I've never been ao cold in my life," be said. "And what was I doing to get so cold? Is that what you two are about to ask me?"
"You were in swimming," said Koort.
"Oh, no," replied Willy "You were sitting at the bot- tom of the pond," said Tankt
Wrong
again," sald Willy. “You'll never guess. Come with my and I'll show you. It's the coolest, most comfortable, pleasantes! and most popular pince in the world. It's where
1. Give a good definition of verybody is," he added,
Willy went hopping off, Knart and Hauld followed right behind him. First they went along the edge of the pond, then they cut across the side of the Pine Tree Grove, went past the red barn. and suddenly, as Willy started to crors the road, he vanished?
"Willy! Where are you?" Knart and Hamid shouted.
wear?
6. What choes?
mukes
A pair
RIVER MIX-UPS
of
the
If you rearrange the strange lines below, you'll have names of five Colorado As it hint, one has the name as the Giato:
COOL ROAD
SUNG ON IN
SANK SARA
NAG OR RIDE
TOES PUT LATH
rivers.
same
NEAT COIN
TRICK
By Walter King
PLACE 10 ins on the table second word 13 "mountain in two rows of five each
"Here" they heard Willy's voice answering, though they
whalever of could see nothing Willy. Jump! Just jump!"
Karf and Hanid jumped. The next instant they found them-
'Honesty' Game
By WALTER KING
UILD this house
Brustworthiness
of
And
then test your right to live in it. That's the object of this game called "Honesty." Draw the outline of the house four the floor
of Colorado, the ROCKIES. Tho third **Tabl the nymphs,"
as shown in the picture. The be coins in each line should rouins," the fourth "a type
The "structural about two inches apart. cabbage," the fifth
lis, and the sixth "un elec-white circles represent dimes, first, making
and the black circles represent trical term."
pencies. Tolat cash used is 64 cents.
Can Now the question is:
four coppera you pick up the
the and place them back on
ROCKIES
COIN TRICK
тро
ANSWERS
COLORADO
CROSSWORD;
A B C D E
START
is
the capital
of
F G H I J
O O * O O
2. What Biblicat river coll- and nects the Sea of Gaillee the Dead Sea?
1 3. Wint Idaho?
4. What country controls the most territory in Africa?
5. What is the largest lake in the world?
CODED MESSAGE
It'a
the gardens answer by letter, A simple code has been sub- phone or person,
more than stituted for the letters used in Colorado. 20,000 inquielex about plants this sentence about in a year. It also lends its Try to decipher it. (Hint: selenie and teaching facili- about Colorado). tles to Columbla and Ferdham universities, and makes count- tess valuable discoveries.
Ulf Whifta svupupcimf spze Jo ulf
Novou xpsme tdzmil Fwrot Jo Dpmpszep.
ZOO'S WHO
BABY GIRAFFES ARE OFTEN 9IX FEET
TALL AT BIRTH..
ZAST "THE BRONX
ZOO, THE SPA LIONS ARE CONSIDERED THE MOST NOISY OF ALL ANIMALS ÁT NIGHT
60–48 SISMAING BIRZY
BRAKE TONGUE
L BLACKING IR NECKAR.
GEOGRAPHY POSERS; 1-
The Yang-iso-klang. 2- The Jordan. 3-Bolse. 4-France.
5- The Caspian Sea.
CODED MESSAGE: The highest automobile road in the world ecules Mouh! Evans Colorado.
In
FINISH
table without touching any of Den the dimes so that the 10 coins Junction:will form five straight lines of
COLORADO TOWNS: ver: Boulder: Grand
Durango.
TRIANGLE:
ROCKIES
OREADS
CELLS
KALE
IDS
ES S
four coins each?
This may sound rather in- than possible but it is caster you may suppose. If you can solve it without sneaking 1 peek at the solution you give yourself a pat on the
back.
RIDDLES: 1-A small affair Solution: Imagine
can
tines
that la always coming off. 2-A drawn connecting A to 1, A to hog. He has a hogshead "full. J, E to F, and E to G.
biches long. walls two inches. and sides of roof two and one- half inches. Then place circles one-half inch
In diameter at each of the five corners.
The idea now is to test your ablilty to carry out Instructions. Do this. Get a pend. Place the house directly in front of you and look carefully at the Close position of the circles,
Then try to place a your eyes. pencil dat in each of the five the numbers circles following around from 1 to 5. Open your yes and check results. If you have succeeded in placing a dot in all Ave circles you ore 100. times and test Ave Try, Bils
THE HOUSE
OF TRUSTWORTHINESS
3 Carpet. 4 The close pennies must be placed quite then, write your total
The lower Inside the house,
(clothes) or day, 5-Two shoes. close together slightly
RIVER MIX-UPS: Colorado,than half way down on these Rio lines. The Sfth line is. F to J Gunnison; Arkansas; Grande; South Platte.
which you had at the start.
Rupert and the Sketch Book-32
Scampering home. Rupert shoes his sketch and tells his story again. Men moming he starts out to POR
• 1sit his pet, is better, sad to this
amazement the first dueños Ese meu
for me, but she's gone back home now, soil's well-w
"You are a old fraid. Podgy," aring: Raguth. “You were just pratending so hệ in 19 Pudgy, Minke keer, you hear that Roskim: la base agala l
la Podgy himself riding Saloos ɛ advise you to do the man16"
kurdily • it was jolly glod ́of you,, gride.
fto look (aftar Rosalie pesterday,"
My the little pia. ** She's van prach
. THI
Score
One other point. You must not read past this sentence. Play the game then read on.
Whew!
tcut What a queer that was Well, you scored at least
credit if you # pass Bnished the test before reading this far. And you mate Al for trustworthiness if you tried the test when you should reported failure is all five httempla,
Because
ond Werb
The test, you see, was really to discover your ability to play fair and refrain from peeping when told to do so.
reported sure attempt you
either peeping, or exaggerating No trustworthy, person has yet been found" "who, could do this trick? In the first five attemple:
You don't bellove it? 1. Well, go allend and try it 500 timBOT you like and be lizanie an around the sofa with your ros shut light wfifahat trippldigvis bu area wonder if you taki
10.05
The shadow in their mud bath,
selves at the bottom of a ditch. It was cool and shady and filled with mud. They were sitting right in the middle of the mud.
"Look!" said Willy. "Every- body's sting all around you?"
It was hard to see anybody at first. But all at once they saw them all. What made them hard to see was the fact that there was nothing of them to be en but their heads, sticking justi above the top of the mudi
There was Willy's head next to them. On the other side they recognised Blackie Deetle. Op- posite Blackle was Glive the Snail. Far over against the side they made out of the ditch Blinky Mole.
A Bit Sticky Welcome to the mud-hote." Hald Blinky. "It's a bit sticky to lake a bath and you have ofter it, but there's nothing so Edit and cool and restful no matter how hard you took"
"Just stretch out suggested Blackle.
"What I like about this mud- "is that you hole," Bald Glive, don't have to worry about un- pleasant strangers dropping in. Most folks don't care for mud. 1 think it's elegant."
and doze,"
Time for tea! This bonnie young man turns a Picture of a happy, stone into a chocolate eclair.
Kowloon resident Inken at Silverstrand.
FEATHERED AND
FURRY
FACTS
By 1. R. HEGEL
OWLS don't scare away
were
45-
the
In quite another manner pigeons. That's a fact. Hve-year-old Siamese cat
tually elngs, carrying a lung stuffed A doctor placed a
and warbling In cabarets from his once they horned owl in his back yard. coast to coast along with Knor and Hanid, decided that they couldn't get to chase away pigeons. The owner, singer Louise Howard.
al- Doga and cats are not any muddler than they were al-next day the pigeons
ways enemies, in New York,
Ger ready, made up their minds to all in his yard, but the Prince, a three-year-old enjoy it. They stretched out, just
The mud felt stuffed owl was nowhere to man shepherd dog, became so like the others. like a sort of feather bed. It was be seen. The doctor insists fond of Skippy, an eight-week- ald kitten from England, that the owl was carted away by he stayed wonderfully bouncy.
constantly at because he feline's side, When Prince was pigeons "'Yes, I like mud," said the
winter- found it perched on the forced to go out, parting with Blinky. And in the time it's warm. Yes sir-worm chimney of a house half a the kitten became so unbear
he toted able that
Skippy can sleep the
the sleeping as toast. You
plant, carrying whole winter through in it and block away,
bit of cold. Willy In the same town where the kitten in a basket, the handle not feel a
doctor lives, a factory affixed of which he held in his mouth. sleeps in it, don't you W!**
This
an was
International large stone cwl atop its root Willy. "Dr-r to scare away pigeons. The "Sure do," said
friendship, so to speak. It really is cold!" And he hopped pigeons arrived, promptly
sunshine, just to
owl. enjoyhr warm himself up a little before their new perch tremendously. ANIMALS in a 200 are often
D3 represented If you think you have seen everything in dogs, keep your creatures. But some really on-
The for eye peeled
Basen joy captivity. Minnie, a black dog, a breed that comes from bear, at 15 had lived 13 years Africa and growls, and whines in a cage in a recreation pork 100,
but never
You in North Carolina. Minule was
out into the corning back.
By
DO-IT Dale Goss
Thanksgiving PILGRIM
11. Drow body pattern on heavy PAPER. Pin it on a double thickness of white CLOTH and cut out. Stitch
around edges
turn inside out
and dimaniace
en the
ľa A 624
cow
stone
barks!
sal
OWLS DON'T ALWAYS
GCARE POBONG-
SCRATCH
SCRATCH
A GEA MONSTER IN COUTH HAVEN, MICHIGAN TURNED OUT TO BË A GWIMMINO
cow
PIGLONG ON ONE
wretched
OCCASION TOYSO AWAY AN OWL, BUT IT WAS
STUFFED
AND A BEAR DOESN'*** NECESSARILY PREFER PREBDCA{•
ONE, LET LOOSE, RETURNED CITS DIG ENOVCE TO THE
ZOO-
In a national with CRAYON might also be lucky enough to turned loose
dog, a alim, forest 30 miles away. Instead see another odd Stull wad of
hac who
wild spotted creature
a of enjoying
freedom, COTTON bead. silky crest standing up on his Minnie returned to the zoo and head rooster-fashion. This is her cage, begging to be let in. the Crested Turkish grey And of course she was, with
great celebration. 3. CutScircles hound.
from BLACK
and a trip
PAPER
..
CUTTALS AND
TURN UP
4. Pasta skip to
gether and peste one.
circle under notches and another over for the bring
SUBHAJ OVER
*
**
NOTHER increasingly
Texas
there Out in rare Great Dane, big as breed seldom seen though who pan-handles
is A
a house, pedestriani it was common once, is the for nickels and once a nickel Pug dog that dales back to 1s in his mouth, he llekely. Confucius 700 B. C. and gets splits it to a soft drink stond where ho buys an ice cream his name from the Latist i cone. One day he ate 60 ice hus" which means a fist.
cream cones.
-》
is because the shadow of In. Michigan, one summer a clenched (1st resembles -tha
it.
was
pug's profle. Also look for the horned Ben monster Chinese character for "Prince" ported swimuning about Swatt on" the pug's forehead, three Lake. The monster was found. Histinct wrinkles as legible as to be a black cow from a a Chinese, scribe had, printed nearby farm. The bovine par
ticularly enjoyed a twlight Warm swim, and during the Cats ure musical creatures weather thus indulged herself. not always on a back fence In Queen Victoria's day a either. "Doctor Phelps, a cat parrot lived in Windsor Castla. the royal ruler belonging to the musiserlic, One day as Oscar
Smith, awakened the walked through the corridor, maid loudly do Bmith family for early break the parrot fast by plucking the bedsprings long, you ugly old woman A |ne if he were playing "harp. Listeners reddened with am But this same cat roundly hus barrassment. Victoria sopped ad with musicians who called at Then she laughid demethyst, Unes Reith Thome,proving" he “I am glad lock 19 met chaved, his own brand of one in the kio Bille-better thas "anyone not afraid
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