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MY FIRST BLUE
I was a first-year small and reckless, when it Arst came to me that members of school terms got blues.
"What are blues?" I asked.
"Blues, Why, don't you know?" my friend replied. "They are honour ribbons with the sport printed on them and the year they are won in; you wear them with your colours."
Oh, how I longed for a blue to wear with my colours. That's all I thought of then-to show off.
Two years later I won my first blue. How proud I was! I had worked for It; I had prayed 'for it; I had trainer and trained and then I got it. I lived on alr for three weeks, so happy was 1.
Then, one day, as I was sitting idly in the grounds, the thought what vain, silly came to me little thing I was: what an honour to be in a school teum, a team of such a school, tao, where only four girls out of over seven hun- dred could swim for their school. From that moment my blue be- came my second thought; my very best effort for my dear. "High" the first.
We won our race; we won the aecond and the third, and the honour of the season was ours. I have another blue,now, but my first I treasure among my great- est treasures, for it brought me the true team spirit.
More Howlers
Bookkeeping is the art of not returning books.
Journalism is going for a long journey.
Rowing is planning a quarrel. "Etc." is a sign used to make believe you know more than you do.
Double dealing is when you buy something wholesale to sell retall.
A focus is a thing that looks like a mushroom, but if you eat it, it feels different from a mush-
room.
CHILDREN'S
CORNER
THE FAMILY BOOTS
Along the wall, in ordered row, The family's hoots arrayed. With worn-down heel and kicked-
out toe,
Black leather and grey suedo.
The little pair that spoke up frat
Belonged to baby Paul;
"I get so tired of trotting round
I never rest at all."
John's boot replied, "Without
doubt,
a
I'm quite worn out and old; My toes are out, I'm kicked about,
Although I've been half-soled."
The grey suede puir, belonged to
Sia;
They tilted up their nose. "You common boots; I never get Worn heels or kicked-out toes."
A
COLOUR-CHANGING TOY
THE
From a board cut a circle inches in diameter. In hall with a pencil, and paint one side black, leaving the other white. Then cut out a portion of the circle. Fit the disc on to a thin nail or hat-pin so that it can freely be revolved.
piece of white card- about three Divide this
Take the toy to window where there is a strong light and, whilst it is apinning briskly, hold behind it a red flower with a
Hittle foliage. The flower becomes
green and the leaves bright red. Strips of cardboard coloured with crayons may be specially prepar- ed for holding behind the toy. Always it will be seen that ba hind the spinning disc a red ob- ject turns green, a green ene red, a blue one yellow, a yellow one blue, a purple one orange, and an
heavy volee from Father's orange one purple. boots,
Sald, "Yet you must agree, You only last about a month;
You can't be cleaned like me."
Mum's shoes were just about to
have
The usual last word, When out the boot boy came for
them.
And closed their talk absurd.
Go up
A CATCH
to a friend and say: "Do you know what they call people, in Hong Kong who ride! on top of double-decker trams." He is sure to say "No."
Then, as you prepare to walk away you tell him they are call- ed "passengers."
MONEY CATCH
Go up to a chum and say: "What does six and two make?" and he will say "Eight." Then ask him what two and six make. He will probably' say eight- again. Then you say, "Wrong. They
make half a crown."
ROUND
GOOD ADVICE FROM "B.P."
“I would urge every ranger and, Indeed, every guider, to deliberate ly plan for herself occasional rest pauses, periods of solitude and re- flection, be they vigils, or retreats,
or-my own
If the light is poor, the change is not so marked.
This Year's Model
How
Visitor (to small girl): old is your baby sister, dear?
Small Girl: She fan't old at all, She is this year's model!
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CHINA MAIL.
AIR MAIL STAMPS
On the air mail stamps of the world may be seen what is, figura- tively, a study of the conquest of the air.
Switzerland has a purple stamp showing a goggled pilot in a 'plane flying over the Alps.
Albania has a whole series of air stamps, each showing a 'plane and a menacing eagle. Eagles have several times attacked pilots in the Balkans.
Some fine engravings are the Chinese atamps, which show an aeroplane over the Great Wall of China...
Danzig has a dark mauve stamp showing a plane flying over a city skyline.
Hungary's air stamps portray in buff and brown the classic Icarus or flying man. Estonia has printed a salmon and black tri- angular stamp showing a дел plane above the clouds.
An American atomp shows a map of the trans-continental air route, with a 'plane setting out
from each coast. Others have a
propeller.
The stamps issued by Norway in connection with Amundsen's flight show a Polar bear sniffing an acroplane in the sky.
South Africa, Austria, Mexico, Morocco, Germany and others also have air mail stamps.
Greatest Change
Science Teacher: What is the greatest change that takes place when water becomes lee?
Georgie: Please, miga, the change in the price.
PUZZLE
OUR ANIMAL
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Here is a picture of a well-known animal. To discover what it is, draw a straight line from the first numbered dot to the second numbered dot and so on in order, starting at No. 1 and finishing at No. 57.
THE CAMP FIRE
THE REMEDY GAME
Make a list of emergencles and accidents. Then get ready an equal number of glips of paper for each patrol, and write one word, Indicating a remedy on each, l.e.,
RECORDING HUMIDITY
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shakes hands with another Scout, he does so with the left hand. It Is the secret sign of brotherhood between them.
CATCH-AS-CATCH-CAN
A Coin and a Tumbler
Firat you take a glass tumbler and fill it brimful of water. Then say to your chum, "I'll bet you I can put six two-shilling plecas into the tumbler without overflow- ing the water."
Your chum is sure to say that you cannot. Then you take the two-shillings pieces one by one by the edge of the coln, and gently let them touch the water. Then you gently let each coin fall to the bottom of the tumbler without, rippling the water.
The water rises over the top of the tumbler, but will not flow over. Try this, and see.
Stopped in Time
A certain little boy had long expressed a wish for க haby brother. His mother finally ad- vised him to ask God for one. He adopted the suggestion, and night- ly prayed for a baby brother. After a time, he became discour- aged and announced that he would pray no longer.
On Christmas morning his father took him to his mother's room, where two new baby brothers were awaiting his in- spection. His first comment was: "Dad, isn't it lucky I stopped praying when I did?'
TYING A KNOT
Produce a rather large hand- kerchief, and tell
your mate to hold two opposite corners, one in each band, and tie a knot with- out loosing his hands from the corners. He will not be able to do it, so then you show him. First, fold your arms, and take up the two corners in your hands. Then by simply unfolding your arms the knot is formed.
Why He Giggled
Jimmie giggled when the teach-
er told of the man who swam a river seven times before break- fast.
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"Do you doubt that a good swimmer could do it?" asked the teacher.
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"No. but it's a wonder he didn't make it eight times, that he could have got his clothes."
OUTSTANDING YEAR FOR SCOUTS
JAMBOREE INFLUENCE
Lord Baden-Powell's Tribute
A Scout does not A Scout's drink. A Scout does Donta not smoke. A Scout
A year of outstanding advance does not take a tip. in numbers, in recognition, In
He is expected to do one good deed training, in responsibility, and in daily, but he never misses an op-evidences of the success of its portunity of doing a good turn to methods was reported at the annual anyone at any time. He does not meeting of the Council of the Boy take any reward for doing it. A Scouts' Association, beld in Lon- The humidity, that is the wetness Scout does, not beg. The movement den. or dryness of the atmosphere, isis self-supporting, so that it la indicated by an instrument called a hygrometer, of which there are many forms. In one of these a
scores two points. Failing to bring amount of humidity can be measur
largely dependent on the generosity the Coming-of-Age Jamboree at Much of this advance was due to of interested cititana.. When a Scout wishes tot rafse money to
Arrowe Park, Birkenhead. In a letter to the Council, Lord. Boden-
boree bad been immediate, its Archbishop ulterior effects were yet to come, An Archbishop Downey, Roman
On Scouting
and promised to be far-reaching. Catholle Arch-
"Our methods can only adequate bishop of Liter- pool, recently addressed a numbery be judged by results," he went of Scoutmasters during a rally of
on. "Until Scouts grow into men, it is impossible to say whether
choice-fishing!" | "splint," "hot water," "doctor." &c. human hair is used, and this varies build a Scout hall, etc., functions. Powell, who is abroad, said that writes the founder of the gulde Give each patrol leader a set of in length according to the amount of various kinds are organised. although the success of the Jam- movement, Lord Robert Baden- slips, and send them to their patrol of moisture in the air. It in. Powell. "They bring refreshment corners. Then announce an omer creases in length as the air gets of soul. They help you to see gency or accident, and give a time drier and by means of a simple things in proportion, and bring a limit. The patrols search among device a pointer is made to turn to content that can never come when their alipa for the remedies, and] right or left, indicating, damp or του are motor-biking yourself the patrol bringing up the best sat dry. If a scale be graded the through life."
Guiding is an imaginative move the doctor when he is needed lases ed. The hair is first washed in ment, and "B.F," stresses the in-two points. portance of this on every occasion. He anxious that guiders shall pre- serve the keen freshness of outlook with which they entered the move- ment. Therefore ha advises them to adopt something like the Rover's Vigil. "Without periods of clear, quiet thinking, I don't see how any- body can escape beyond the limita- tions of routine," he says.
The practice of reading, he points out, is very closely allied to quiet contemplation and thought, and helps one to acquire the habit of peace. In the hustle of modern Kfe, occasional slacking off is more i than ever necessary."B.P." says he goes of fishing to be alone and
to think. He doesn't mind whether be catches a fish or not. But his
DO GOOD
Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can, In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.
16TH H.K. GROUP
Best-All-Round-Scout
Competition,
The results for the best-all-Round- thoughts are ble own, undisturbed. Scout competition of the year held dur by the chatter of others or the de Scout M. Gutierrez
ing January resulted: mands of politeness.
VALUE OF SKETCHING
Beouts who know how to make's rough hatch will And that this ac complishment is a great advantage. to them in scout work
201.1 pts.
(Peacock Patrol) 2 Scout F. X. Sequeira.200.8
(Peacock Patrol):
8 PL JA Tavares A 1974
(Peacock Patrol): Beaut LE Sequeira .. 195.1 LUISSES BUE PAvit, Patrol)
5 PL
E. Marquis
(Pdowit Patrol)
Map drawing is one thing and fo Scout 5. Oporto sketching another. “Lord. Robert Baden Powell, the world's Chief.
Beout, is quite an accomplished ar- 1 Scout tist He is quite famous for his humourous drawings, while his Beout field sketching is beyond criticism.
The Scoutmaster should try to 8 Secut
to rive the troop some
(Porwit Patrol)
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For the month ending Februnfỹ,
L. R. 85quelta *** 2028 pla,
Peewit Patrol):
Guterres 261.1 (Peacock Patrol)
X Sequeira. (Peacock Patrol) 4P.LT Marquis v.,
Ravi (Poowit Patrol)
end aimed for-building of charac-|
Roman Catholic Scouts from the Scout training really achieves the weak ammonia to take out the oil;
Arch Diocese, Archbishop Downey, and is then fastened to the top of referring to the fact that Liverpool ter and good citizenship. But the a wooden framework. Near the Cubs had increased in numbers to way in which the administrative other end it is passed round a 20,000 during the year, said that duties at the Jamboree-in the clear-. small wooden cylinder to which a this was largely traceable to tho pointer is fixed, and a weight on the Jamboree, and It was an increasing up of the Camp after all was over were carried out by the Rover hair keeps it taut.
"I am pleased - to As the hair to marvel at. lengthens and shortens it turns the know," said the Archbishop, "that Scouts showed not merely in what cylinder and pointer.
all-Catholic boys are being brought they did, but in the spirit in which funto the movement; for I have bean they did it, a universal sense of for many years convinced of its which came up to our highest ex- self-sacrifice and willing service great value in training boyhood.
“Guarantes of Pence” "The "spirit" of patriotism and love for the Old Country, which brought their fathers to serve to- gether in the Great War, was at the Jamboree renewed In the new generation, and we may well hope with lasting effect.
The
In the days when there were no pectations, and proved that Scout "Old Scout's"
Scouts, boys were, to a certain extraining can, in understanding
hands, achieve its "alm. tent, left drifting about....
The Column. movement got the cream of our boyhood together and gave thèm The uniform of the what was no badly needed, forma- What is a Scout movement is tion of character, and discipline,
Scout
renowned - Hạt,' minds," and Œsciplined tompers, shorts and bare,.. The ordinary undisciplined knees, A Sea Scout wears blue boy was a perfect pest. I think boys have taken up "Bea Scouting, ficent work in the formation of jacket's cap each. Thousands of you Scoutmasters are doing magul-
and are to "Be Prepared" for life good, sound citizens.” on the ocean Wave, Sea Scouts do most of their work on the sea, lakes and rivers. Every Scout, fn very,
SOLO TENNIS
A wider patriotism was awaken- ed when these future-men of the British Commonwealth mingled in their hundreds with the future men of forty-two different natións In. a common comradeship that may live and help to form a guarantee for peace in the world in the year to come.
proud of his Scout Badge, the deur- - This simple rame is a good way de-lya, or arrow-head, which shows to obtain exertise with tennis rac the north on a map or on the com- quet and ball han here is no pass, with its three points, which court handy, or no one to play with: remind him of his threefold pro Get two, boards, ach four inches A remarkable growth in the mian. It may be worn at all times. wide and thres fest in length, and movement as indicated by the fol
fasten one horizontally to a wall at lowing figuren was reported: Scout a height of seven feet from the Scout ground. A foot above this board. compla-fasten
When meets
of about
Increase
Total. over 1928.
ding: Great Britain & Wales) player Ireland 897,88427,392) Gil so that it. British Empire 690,586 86,456. rebounds, Foreign .......... 1,907,772 122,212 board, and Big deresses, were also reported boards for in the numbers of Wolf Cubs. may rebound. More training courses for Boout
masters were held at Gilwell PATE than ever befɛro,
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