14
LAYING THE GHOST
Experiments With A Loud Speaker
"Guides!" scoffed Leonard Oliver Percival Sicele (otherwise Lopy). "What good are they? Now, if you were any use at all, you would solve the 'Greenhouse' mystery."
Pat, his sister, looked down scornfully at the long lazy figure an the couch. "Idiot! Everyone knows 'Greenhouse' is not haunted. It's only a tale."
Lops nodded his head slowly several times like a Chinese man- darin. "That's all you know," said
he.
"Well," said Linda. Pat's friend, who had come home from a Guide: meeting "do you know any more?" "I've heard!" said Lops, in sepulchral tones.
"What?"
"I went past 'Greenhouse to-night and heard a queer wailing scream."
"PL-E!"
"Which, though doubtless express- Ing your feelings, my child, is very rude. I have heard."
Pat looked at him searchlugly, and Lops looked back lazily, innocently.
"So if Guides were
any good." said he, "you two would go along to-night and solve the mystery."
“Come on. Lin." This at the end of a heated debate.
CHILDREN'S CORNER
"Greenhouse" lay ghostly in the moonlight. Lops slipped amongst | a clump of bushes beneath a win- dow. The girls, watching from behind a tree, heard from sonie- where in the house wavering screanis long-drawn-out clanks, and
groans.
They slipped into the house, and hurried into a room from where they could jump from the window into the bushes that bid Lops.
somewhat, two very
Plop! Lops, Lin, and Pat, mixed very amazed, were all amongst the
bushes.
cheerful, one
"We've laid the ghost, Lops," said "But there's really Pat, sweetly. no need to take it home to you, us you are here." She dived past him suddenly and began searching in the Then she gave a cry of į triumph.
In the light of her torch Lin saw a small portable gramo phone, and a maze of wires.
bushes.
"If I had not known you were no found of experimenting. Lops," said Pat, "I might not have guessed, I have a loud-speaker
suppose you hidden somewhere in the house?"
"Yes? Lops recovered suddenly. and the record is a Chinese one, with the speed set as slow as pos- sibic."
"Then you will admit that we have won?"
If I
"My dear child, not at all. had not given you a ghost to lay how could you have laid it? have won,"
property. You cannot
"You're going?" asked Lops, "I had better come, too. go alone."
Pat hesitated. It was lonely enough, and had Mra. Steele boen home Pat knew just what she would have said about their going along It at night alone. But she sald sternly: "Wa go alone.”
Along the road and round the corner went the girls; then Pat stop ped, took Lin's arm, and hurried her through a belt of trees.
They came into full view of Pat's home, pre- sently, and there was a dark figure hurrying across the fields.
"Lops!" breathed Pat. "I thought he had something on. We'll fol-
low"
I
Whereupon he gathered up his If there was one thing. Leonard Olvier Porcival Steele could do, it was retire gracefully from the field of battle.
Like Dead Horse
The school Inspector was dis appointed with the class. "If anyone can ask me a question that I cantion answer. I'll present him with six- pence," he announced.
asked a small boy.
"Why am I like a dead horse?" The inspector confessed that he could not supply the answer,
PIRATES
"Terror Of The Seven
Seas
"
THE
CHINA
:
MAIL.
Why. Oh, Why I
plete. Blindfolded, hands tied, after one last look, Captain Repard put foot to the fatal plank, Two- "Now, supposing," Bald the three-four-steps. He thought of his teacher, "a man was working on a wife and his little old farm in little river. and auddenly fell into the old Britain (out loud, so as the water. Ho could not swim, and pirates could hear) but their stony would be in danger of losing his hearts were untouched. Was there life. Pleture the scene, boys-the no hope of safety? He was nearly at mah's sudden fall, his frantic cries the end.
for help. His wife, hearing his screams, and knowing full well his peril, rushed to the bank. Why did she rush to the bank?"
"Now, children, what's this? You-va spilt red ink all over my nice white table, and what's Bob doing on the ironing board. Oh, pirates! I see! Well, you can have one more minute, and then you must straighten up for tea,"
"
Food And Drink
The teacher of the infant class had just finished reading a fairy story in which reference was made to cives and goblins.
"I suppose, children," she said, "you know what an elf is?"
"Yes, miss," answered one litte girl, "it's another 'cos when
name for beer, *19 'Is supper beer, 'e always raises the glass to ma and says, 'Ere's elf, Maggie."
father
pelled by four great sweeps, drew Slowly, the pirate barque, pro-
and Captain Robert Repard, owner alongside the "Bristol Swallow," and master, deserted in the dark- ness of the night, by his cowardly crew, stood alone to face the terror of the seven sens, Black Bagábones,' crossbones Hags, to whose ship carried four skull and
show that he, was the greatest of all the pirates. With a harsh grating noise, con- tact was made, and the grappling Black irons were thrown aboard." Bagabones, followed by his three lieutenants, Dog's Tooth, Yellowtail, and Sharkey, leapt on board, and was met by a fierce lefthander from Captain Repard. Soon his blood was staining the snowy whiteness of
"It's when you eat too qalekly," the deck. captain was pinioned by Sharkey replied a small boy, "for mother sald and Dog's Tooth (he used to smile i to me at dinner to-day, "Stop goblin' all the time so that everyone could | your food like that!'" see it), At last, Dagabones, hold- yelled in a voice of thunder. ing his handkerchief to his 'nose,
But in a trice the brave
"Bring out the plank. We'll settle the hash of this miserable worm. You'd dare to knock down
Black Bagabones. Ha! We shall SEL. We shall see.”
Soon the plank lay stretched out over the blue depths.
"Sharkey!"
"Aye, aye, sir."
"Have you got your knives? We might as well give this gentleman an exhibition."
"Beggin' your pardon, captain. I've 'ad no chance of practice lately. What if I misses?"
"You'll fced the sharks instead of my great friend here. That's all."
rather look on. Besides, how'd you "Aye, aye. cap'n, I think I'd
get on without me to mix the rum for you? Why, I'm the only man you've ever had who could mix rum so as to make you go to sleep."
"Quite; go ahead with the walk.
'Cos I'm waiting. for the ing of the plank then, my lubbers." tanner," burbled the youth."
The preparations were zoon com-
ROUND THE CAMP FIRE
ŞIR CECIL CLEMENTI
Becomes Chief Scout In Malaya
Speaking at the annual meeting of the Singapore and South Malaya Boy Scouts Association last week, the President, Mr. E. A. Brown said that Sir Cecil Clementi has been pleased to accept the invitation to be Chlef Scout for Malaya.
The
"Old Scout's"
· Column.
So often one is asked: What is
"What is the Guide a Guide? Law?" It is a most difficult thing to con- dense a description of all that the Guide Law means, for into each law every one of us can read different and personal lights. It holds in its ten points all that is best and most essential in a woman's character, and by the knowledge and through the practice of them guides attain further towards the desired end.
Guides are working under these laws. Guiders are following their precepts, and commissioners are, of course, naturally able to sway and influence all towards a better understanding of them when they, too, are guided by them.
THE SCOUT DANCE
The 1st Company Tientsin Boy Scouts were hosts at a very jolly fancy dress dance held in the Gordon Hall on February 21 even- ing at 8.50 p.m.
Scout master Cowen was Master of Ceremonies and by the fudicious inclusion of a number of Paul Jones and Tag dances kept the affair at a delightfully gay pitch throughout the evening. The music was furnished by the orchestra of
the Russian Club, dancing continu-
SCOUTERS' TRAINING
A New Feature In Malaya
The following is taken from the South Malaya Boy Scouts Associa- annual report of the Singapore and tion-
The teacher smiled; but told the class the definition was wrong.
"Perhaps," said the teacher, "one of you can tell me what a goblin is 7"
There Wad a dramatic pause. Then a amal voice piped out: "Please, sir, to draw his insurance money."
Setting Or "Sitting" ?
!
"Now, Timothy," said the head- mistress of the Infants' School, "which is correct: A hon is set ting' or a 'hen is sitting'?"
"Well, miss," came back the re- ply. "I asked father
once, and he said he didn't trouble much about What ho the setting or sitting.
was whether the wanted to know hen was laying or lying when she cackled.”
- Pink Dye !
Little Girl: A packet of pink dye, please."
or cotton
Grocer: For woollen goods?
Little Girl: It's for ma's stomach.
The doctor said she'd have to diet,
and pink lo her favourite colour.
OUR PICTURE PUZZLE
"Here is a picture of a vessel popalar on the China Coast. To find out 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 48.
BAGPIPES IN THE
VATICAN
THE POPE PRAISES THEM TOO
WHERE HADRIAN FAILED
THE ELECTRIC LAMP
It is astonishing how few of the many thousands who use electric light know why the bulb, or lamp, has a very thin wire inside. They have, of course, noticed the wire, but they have never asked them- selves why it becomes white hot and yet does not burn up. There are certain substances which offer a great resistance to the passage For the first time in history, the of electricity through them, and Fope on December 23, entered the from one of these substances (such Consistorial Hall of the Vatican to
Ав the metals
tungsten the sound of bagpipes. The occasion tantalum) a very thin wire is made. was the private audience, granted The wire is coiled, zigzagged, or by his Holiness to the Scottish pil-waved in the bulb, this arrange- Boy Scouts who went to Rome for if it were straight. The ends of grims and the troop of Glasgowment giving a greater length thap
the beatification of Jehn Ogilvit. the celebrations in connection with this wire are so arranged that they join the terminals of the electric
or
"A new feature of our work has been an attempt to introduce a re- gular
After the Archbishop of Glasgow current from the main, and when course of training for scouters. A training troop, which and the Archbishop of St. Andrews the switch is turned on and the cur we have been permitted to call the and Edinburgh had been received rent flows the thin wire, or file- In audience the Boy Scouts, carry-ment, offers such a resistance that ed until 2.30.a.m. Several very at-
1st Sands' Troop has been formed ing the Union Jack and their troop great heat is generated and it be with D.S.M. Cullen as Scoutmaster. flag, were drawn tractive fancy dress costumes were
up. in the Con- comes incandescent. The interior worn by the girls while not a few
A number of very successful week-sistorial Hall, headed by their of the bulb being either a vacuum of the boys also
end camps have been held at which pipers. As the Pope, attended by turned up in
or containing an inert gas, the wire costumes.
most of the Singapore Scouters and is personal Court, entered the hall does not exidise, or burn up. a number from Johore have gone the colours were lowered in salute through a course of tender-foot training and have been enrolled as
and the pipers struck up "Hielan" members of the 1st Sands Troop. Laddie."
Through this medium the scout-
Plux XI praised the music with
A NOVEL FOUNTAIN
love. It is quite easy to be loyal to our friend. But the true loyalty is that sense which withstands the
This is an interesting little ex temptations to swerve from the beat ors have come to know each other a ready smile and signed for them path, and which prevents us from better and there is a very marked to finish their tune. He then thankperiment which is very simple to the best path, and which prevents development in the spirited the pilgrims and the Scouts for You will need a glase jam jar
their visit, and expressed special and a small bottle about three- satisfaction in the cause of it the quarters full of water, and, cork beatification of John Ogilvie who well with a cork in which a hole died for his faith. He recalled that has been bored. Now, through this the pagan Komans had built Had-hole you must put a little paper rian's. Wall to keep back the Scots, but eald that now Rome welcomed
us from taking part in the petty brotherliness. differences, the jealousies, and un-
The strength and effect of the training troop were necessary troubles which will crop clearly demonstrated at our first ap. True loyalty to others is one re-unfon, held on November 1. of the highest virtues, and coupled with it should surely be the other her nature, until each one in her loyalty that of loyalty to the best nature, until each one in her guide
life may rench to heights that them. otherwise she might never have at.
in ourselves.
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A Guide's Duty la to tained. Useful and be Useful and to Helpful Help Others. This is a law which is one of the strongest foundations of the guide movament. Why should
A gulde's honoura girl guide earn badgest
Why
these two strong points is the one that tells in the practical everyday work in a guide's life.
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After his address the Pope asked the pipers to play again, and this time they gave him "Blue Bonnets
A Guide is Courteous. Over the Border." Courtesy "Courtesy is polite-
and
ness combined with Deference kindness." It is something. which
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tube or a stick of macaroni, long tom of the bottle. About an inch enough to reach nearly to the bot-
of the tube must project above the cork. Seal the cork down with 500p so that no air can get in, in a plate place a few sheets of wet blotting paper and stand the bottle In the middle of this. Take the jam Jar, warm it well, and stand It over the bottle. In a few mo ments you will see a small jet of waler spurt out of the tube like a miniature fountain.
MOTHER FIRST
"BEST GOOD DEED" Her Honour la to be trusted, make herself proficient and capable modern education rather lacks. How a "would-be-suicide", was
Is To Be We know what if she were only aiming at looking The
young do. not show frustrated from his purpose by the Trusted * honour means; after herself? No, it is the spirit the deference to old people | good turn of a Boy Scout was re guides have had of service for others that is coun- that real courtesy requires. It is voaled at the annual meeting of the the good fortune to live in anteracting already the selfishness, too much camaraderie in these Darlington and District Boy Scouts. atmosphere surrounded by it. But and the law that brings forward days, but the distinction between The man was without work at the what of the many who have not had
age and youth in there, and it apolle time, when declaring that life had that same chance in life? Shall
the picture if the boundary line is no interest for him, he was par they not, too, have the sine chance
not kept. Courtesy does not only sunded by a North Country Scout of learning what it can mean and
apply to the relative positions of to accompany the Scout's troop to what it can do? Guides are learn-
A Guide is a Friend old and young people. Those In camp at Whitby. In the life of the Ing through this low what it means A Real to All, and, a-Bister exalted positions, people who work camp the man found a new zest for to be trusted to ophold the honour Friend and to Every Other for us, the tramp upon the road, life in his new companionship and of their patrol and their company, a Sister. Guide. In the guide all demand courtesy from us. It is healthy outdoor atmosphere, with against, saying: "my injuries are and the whole good name of the
movements there not a thing which humiliates. Far the result that he returned to his not serious, I am quite all right. guide sisterhood.
home restored to health of mind have my mother to look after and and body, He is now happily at must get home to her as soon as work in Darlington. This good I can Eventually, however, he deed by the Scout was characterised was taken to the hospital, but sub- at the meeting as the "Best Good sequently was allowed to return to Deed of the year
his.home.
Loyalty Is RA in A Guide describable something
Loyal which wasma
wreel towards those we
are representatives from every part of the community, and it is this law that makes so great a bond between all. The guide spirit drews out of each one of the men bars the best and the highest in
from that. The practice of it must raise, us in our own, estimation, Courtesy comprise so much of or dinary politeness, which sometimes in these days gets domewhat over lanked and neglecte
When a 14-year-old Scout was knocked down in London recently the.constable on duty insisted that he should go to hospital and have his injuries attended to. This the Scout
persistently protested
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