14.
STORIES
PUZZLES
Jerry and the
By OPAL LEE SHORE
GOT the notion of
making a part of
basement into a
our
кут
about the same time Betsy got interested in sewing. I what could soo
dandy place I could fix up, with bars and rings and the punching bag and set of bar bolls I got for my birth- day. But Betsy got a portable sewing machine for her birthday present, and she wanted to make a dress design studio out of that
room.
I showed Betsy the before and after pictures of Rudolf Stran- ateholl that came with the bar bells. "Han he ever got a build" I said.
"Humph" Betsy sniffed. "All over lumps!"
"That's muscle-but big. Like It says here" I found the place in the bookiel and read to her; "Be able to defend your
weaking' A few self! Don't be a minutes a day with Strangleholt Bar Bells will develop muscles you never knew you had, and you can practise the manly art
self-defence of
with com- plete
"What's he mean-the manly art?"
"Boxing. You don't want to use the basement for a sewing room, do you? It would knock me out of a chance to get a build Bike that."
"More than ever," Betsy said snuppishly. "To keep you from getting lumpy!"
HOBBIES
| CHINAS MALIA – SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1950.
The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
Manly Art How To Remember When You Forget
Everything jolied out of my pockets,
kalves and combs and stuff. I picked up I'll show you who's felt my jaw carefully. Then it going to get hurt!"
had been That's why I've been staying came to me. Betsy
bar bells every home pretty close. The spili Up moving those day when she cleaned up my and the bruises
I could maybe Betsy room.
had developed explain, but it takes me a long muscles!
time to clean up my room and manly art is pretty Betsy's. Then, too, I have to strong stuff for girls," I sald hide whenever the doorbell feebly. "Maybe we'd better call rings, for Betsy is always using : off before you get hurt." me for a dress form to At some "Call it off?" Belsy shook a of her sewing. And she isn't
nose. glove under my
"The very
the careful with
pins either. manly art? For a nickle-for double-headed nickel that I just
The
Ouchi
T
By I. R. Hogel
trouble
you have memorising homework, his- tory dates, grammar rules and the 10 things
Jour teachers expect you to carry in your mlad, here 10 An age-old memory system that will help you keep things in mind.
It's an old science, but only recently it has been staging a come-back after being forgotten for centuries. It's called "Mne- monics," pronounced "nee- mon-icks," and you can even remember this difficult name by the science.
"If you think you've never used a mnemonie
think ald, again. Nearly everyone knows hath the jingle "Thirty days
April, June and
November." In spelling you
remember your friend "Alice"
and
JDo you
REMEMBER ME, RAY?
Yes, You're
UNCLI
BILL!
you know that it's always is long, but you almost
"I before E, except after C or to shorten it when you add IC. when sounded like A, as
neighbour and weigh.'
UNWELCOME PARTY PESTS
THIS IS
WHAT I
CALL A
PUNK
PARTY-
in
TC-
AT
DO-IT
By Dale Coss
CRAFTS
GAMES
THINGS TO MAKE WITH MATERIALS AT HAND
CRAZY-PILLAR
1.Find 10 empty SPOOLS about the saliza.
&.Stip.PIPE CLEANER though
4 spod so both
anda are even.
4. Slip the spool
have
over the twisted jount
23- named
which Was
Greeks,
2.Slip another spook on one end of the pipe cleaner...Bend cleaners and twist together.
B.Slip another cleaner through the second spool and repeat until all spools are linked together.
6.Draw
face on
last spool with CRAYONS.
Put in a pipe cleaner and bend for feelers.
BEND THE CRAZY.
PILLAR in ALL KINDS OF
FUNNY! SHAPES!
The Shadows Hear a Story
---It's All About a Pen and Pencil-
By MAX TRELL
T Yale It's That's ranemonics.
University, N membering one
year-old student thing to member something else. You Donald Yales revived the old can remember "Mnemonies" by memory system, recalling the adventurous Cap- used by the ancient tain Nemo, whose story is in when be found it helping him
of "Ten Thousand Lengues Under in his studles
Japanese. Sea." Of course the O In Nerno Yates was studying to become
a missionary.
When he studied the Japanese language, he could 66
Mr not recall the word for "tools" "NCE upon a time,"
Punch said to Knarf and until he found out that
Hanid,
shadow-children the wounds like the word "dog." with the turned-about names, Then he pictured a dog carry- "there were a Pen and Pencil. ing a bag of tools in its mouth They both lived close to ench and had no further trouble father on the desk in the house. with the word.
Every day they nodded good- Next he memorised a word morning to each other when cutline of the New Testament the sun first came sicaling in-
ench by associating
chapter to the room under the curtain. with the stores in a business And every night they sald block which he knew,
BLAH! BLAH!
NO
CAKE
good-night to
each other were put out,
裁常
and
By practising these aids his the lights memory became phenomenal, everyone in the house went to and in his spare time he or sleep. But it wwnem't all as ganised a class in the science happy is it seemed."
Among
and Knart and Hanid, who were three times delighted to have Mr Punch
of "mnemonics,” and his
were puplis women two and
men
his age.
STAMP
;
COLLECTING
The pen and pencil.
and WRS thinking about the desk and garden.
tell them a story, looked aur- look the other way, prised when they heard that continually the Pen and the Pencil weren't jumping off as happy as ibc.
they seemed to walking out into the
He was sure all the birds and fkrwers would be glad to make wrong?". Hanid the acquaintance of such handsome fellow as he was!
"What was asked.
Top of Dosk
"Didn't they like Hying on
2
JOKES
Colourgram
By WALTER KING THIS colourgram puzzl
of
cardboard. The playin board is a three-inch squar fand it is ruled off into nin compartments. The marker
aro
pieces of cardboar slightly less than one inc square. You will requir eight of them.
Colouring the markers i Jan interesting assignmen Choose any colour, such a Ired. The first counter
not coloured at all. Th Isecond counter is a ver faint red. The third cou! Iter is a bit stronger intens Ity and so on. You kee adding more red until yo get to the eighth counte which
is a very brillian colour or full intensity ret The counters can be done i pencil if you wish fro white, through the varyin shades of gray up to blac} The numbers are placed o the reverse sides of th counters starting with N for the white and endin with No. 8 on the black.
To start the colour ton test you must place th markers on the playin board in the followin order: top row 7, 5, 6: middle row 8, 2, 1; botto row, 4 and 8.
The Idea of the game. Is slide the markers about, mov ing always from an occupie square to an unoccupied squar without Kfting the marke from the board. You must en
Awful Thing
"But
one
afternoon," Mr "an awful
to the Penell. up with the markers: all
TALKED Pops over on my side, but Mother was оп Betzy's so we decided the only thing to do was to flip a coin to sob who got the basement. Ti shouldn't have done what I did. but gee whiz! Betsy could sow in her room and I couldn't set up a gym in mine. So I palmed the double-banded nickel from my magic cet.
I worked out in the gym every day at first and it was swell. Then things piled up so I didn't have much time. I took the bar bells upstairs to my room so I could exercise, but at night I was too tired and in the morning I didn't get up early enough to clean room and exercise too.
up my
One morning after I'd made the bod and put the bar' bells back in the clòset I had an fïèa. "Hey, Baby, why don't we fup to see who does both rooms för
a month? It would give the win- ner more time."
TEARLY
IF YOU WANT YOUR, PARTIBO TO BE SUCCESSFUL, ELIMINATE
THE FOLLOWING PEBTS-
1. SAMUEL, THE SNOB...
THE ALWAYS HAS OR DOES GOMETHING. BETTER THAN YOU) 2.ORVILLE, THE ORATOR.
(HE'LL HORN IN AND
DOMINATE ANY CONVERSATION)
3. CLARA, THE CRITIC».
(GHE FINDS FAULT WITH EVERYTHING)
I DIDN'T
KNOW YOU
WERB COMING..
На
IT'S ALL RIGHT
BUT...
PATRICK, THE PROCRASINATOR,.}
(YOU'LL NEVER BE ABLE TO DEPEND ON HIM)
By
VIOLET M. ROBERTS
party
TRICKS
(6CITAMP collections are never are never
"Buy a blank loose leaf binder uke a soldier en parade. Samuel, the Snob, has a fak- The games are too, too juvenile,
Nate pests. They creep ed pose
in as unobstrusively
"I could use some time if I'm ever going to get that finished," Betsy said,
formal
them
да
tone
and 201 exaggerated No one else will have fun with sense of his importance. He al- him elther ways has something better than ants in the school picnic yours, his vacations
Orville, the Orator, talks all are nicer lunch, but getting rid
Even that could be of than anybody's, his clothes come the time. is seldom as simple as from the highest-priced shops, all endured if he didn't talk in a
of which is
he didn't loud, ult right
senatorial
that She thought she'd be bound discarding a ham-on-rye.
remind
the I you of it constantly. The drown out all other conversa- to win because she'd Lost Ins
him So to keep pests out of your gang might even accept
tions. it
He will intrude on any- tline. So we dipped and I go guest list, know them ou sight he moved down to the level of one, pick up the conversation out of that choro. really need and don't be one! Not oven everybody else and became just and annex it for his own. The ed time for the magazine selling DDT can exterminate the worst plain "Sam" or "Sammy" He password when he approaches contest. Every year the sopho-ores.
never has fun at your party, is: "Jiggers Here comes the big tore class makes money on ma-
Cazine commissions to pay for prom
partios, and rallies, and a pro
sent for the class sponsor. BC- t«i«i«i«l»ï
sides the class
getting the profit
there were sharp prizes for
dividualn
I had
my eye on a
PUZZLE
est of boxing gloves and Betsy |-|-|-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-
was drooling for a dress form
so she could fit the clothes she
PATCH
pals in other cive to one in a bottle of fak; Her face was
seen
7 urid 8.
In o
(Solution appears in
another Column.)
Puzzle Answers
top of the desk in the house?" Punch continued,
thing happened said Knarf.
He had finally decided to jump ranged in proper colour Mr Punch sighed. "Oh yes, off the deal and take that order starting with white in
So off top left hand corner. rence lamented. "I look at those they were happy enough living walk into the garden. albums and sco all the empty on top of the desk. That the desk he went. Alas, he felt words, the order of the mark aquares I've got to all. I can't wasn't the trouble. The trou- on
his head. His beautiful must be changed so that the get hold of the stamps i need ble was that the Pen was very sharp point broke. "Oh!" cried der is: top row, 1, 2, 3; mio until I just give up the hobby
by plain, and the Pencil was very the Pen in alarm when she W, 4, 5, 6; and bottom "Use a few tricks of your tall and handsome. He always maW
him go. "He's burt! own," 14-year-old Dick advised. wore a bright yellow uniform, Please pick him up! Some-
No body please pick him up!" and start collecting only what
whole desk slood No one came into the room one on the you're interested in, then fix it on
as tall and in
straight as he did. until late that day. Then ons 1109 the style
you want
As Dick has
for tho Pen,
she had of the children picked him up, the right idea.
that his dark blue dress, When It nothing but a Suppose it is travel that ap
most of the time (poor point was broken, he was put peals to you and you have pen thing) she had her head stuck in the sharpener to get a new
Hinge
But he was held too point. stamps you page and then draw or clip a almost always dark with Fard. His point broke again, map of that section of the world blot or two and even her best and again. and ogain! Then in which your
Blotter pal lives, friend—the pen pal
agreed at last he was put back on the Write in other bits of Informa that she looked untidy. But desk. tion about your pan pal,
pal your
there was very little she could. “But how changed Pencil pen pal's country or the par- do to keep herself neat. She won! He was no longer tall ficular stamps you have saved. Was always so busy writing and straight and handsome
You can have a whole gallery letters,
Oh no! He was short
and "Bu. of famous people on stamps and
the Pencil, as I said stubby and his yellow write your own thumbnail bio-before,
and scratched. worn was handsome and looked graphy of each person.
neat, He hod a fine sharp It was Pen who was now tall. You can start a 200 with the point. And he was hardly ever She towered over poor Pelch. koala bear stamp of Australia, used. For no one ever thought And no one looked at ba
the monkey that appeared on a using a pencil to write a letter any more--no one except Ben, do Sul. North Borneo stamp, the platy with."
For in spite of everything she still loved him. And how glad Pencil felt and bow sorry, too, for having been such a replied poor friend to Pen. But from
wind!"
Clars, the Critio, ands fault {~|~|~|~|~|-|-|-|-|-}=}=}=|=|=|==={~[]=with everything from invita-
tions to refreshments. She pre- faces every remark with, "It's then she out- all right but... lincs in minute detail the “Clara way that things should done. "Your dress is pretty but blue doesn't become you." "The sandwiches were good, but I've never liked boiled eggs." And 80 on! She's definitely on the peat list.
What Do We Know About BRAZIL?
was always sewing. The boxing gloves and the dress form took Here's the same amount of subscription puzzle points, too.
Brazil;
Bat the day before the con- test ended I had only half enough points for the gloves and Botsy had only half enough points for the dress form. "Look," I told Betsy, "why don't we flip to see who takes all the points? One of us would get what he really wants."
Boty thought about it. She figured she couldn't possibly Lope she said, this time. “Okay,
what have I got to lose?"
I got out the double-headed nickel.
THOSE boxing gloves were su
pat. When they came, Doaxed Betay to put them on with me. You're the weaker sex," I said. "I won't hit you.".. And how right I was I not qply didn't hit her; I couldn't hit She flow around like h swarm of beos and she was art as hard to hit.
tor!
"Stand still once in a white,
I growled.
But
0%
a short crossword on the silhouette
CROSSWORD
ACROSS
I Ribbed fabric
4 Leather thong
0 Hawaiian garland
7 Oriental kimono cash
10 Marked with wound blem-
ichos 13 Heavenly "body" 13 Ounco (sb.).
DOWN
1 Routes (ab.)
2 Boy's namo
Parent
4 Bouth Intitude (ab.).
43. One of Brazil's university
cities is Alegre There's, lots of coffee in- 9 Nous avok
my twin sister was having fua "Battling Betsy's on B11 While
Bicycle!" She imitated on PROVINCIAL MIX-UPS cited radio announcer Shoe The three Brazilian provincer, moving Inf She's coming out! or statos, juncealed, here bygal She's waiting for an opening the Puc Man, can be de She Jabs, she connectal"
Thea wam't any doubt about tersir,
inally jolted everything out or
Baur, helped me change, and, por
BOʻRAM GOURITE T
"AI CAT BAN AB" ANT KaronemANGKAT TLING DUE BOLD DAR
10
to a
· TRIANGLE. Brazil's INDIANS form the support for this word triangle. The second word is "a sewing Patrick, tho Procrastinator, tool": third "distributech,
receives
your invitation cards"; fourth is unoccupied dinner party, but he never quite fifth an abbreviation for gets around to letting you know "altitude"; and sixth is "a com-whether he'l be there or not. pass point."
How surprised he is when he INDIANS
arrives to learn you hadn't ex- pected him. "I didn't think one more would make any differ ence," If you do Invite
plate warming in the koop a oven,
but don't bake a cake. He'll probably show
up. and he's sure to be late.
N
BRAZILIAN RUVERS
Careful study of the words and pictures in this robus wil reveal four Braziling rivers to
your
THIS ONE
HOX PARKING] =
ZONE
E
1R
him,
Dians, the Dodger, likes to be invited to parties, but she nover social obligations. I paya questioned on the matter, she' probably may, "Oh, I'm so busy. Besides my parties are any fun.”
never
Baral, the Snooper, is a one- woman detective agency. She ferrets out little-known fots ábout her friends, thon : trans- latea, them into delectable mor- sole of gossip. She fan't a
whispering
(Oh that she sees you it' a 'party abu drops a'""crumb" Where all the birds can scram- ble for it, leaving you fushed and embarrassop even though What she says distorted, and Untrue!
she werol) Whon
J
Ken, the XIII«fog. - Is” the vocat piest of sul. His long Sage, him pesimistic atišjkide make
toes third degree to make sure you, too, aren't a party, part
"Why not?" asked Knari,
',
coat
RCP- GTRAF
LEI OBU
ĮSCARRED
9TAR OZ
بالملة
FROVINCIAX. MIX-UP'S: Peneli Grosso Santa Catarina; Rio Grand
pus from Australia, the horse from Central America and the animal stamps of many coun tries. Welte what you and out "It's never done,” about these animals. You may Mr Punch. "Letters are always then on they were the closest unearth
earth many surprising facts.
written with pen and ink. And and best of friends. They Are you interested in aero- so the Pen liked and admired always planes? A whole series of air the Pencil very much, while always."
stood together--always,
from
Pencil remained foroign
domestic and
very He said good-morning, proud. sources. Study the planes. Chart and good-night to the Pen.. the air routes. There could be but that was all. The rest of
mall stamps can be collected the
an education in air mail stamps. the time he took great care to
Hobbles are made for enjoy
ment. Start your stamp collect
ing
hobby
in the original way:
that appeals to you. Don't ape COLOURGRAM SOLUTION others and pass up/ the albums
that direct collecting in a man-
The fowest member of moves
Der appearing dull to you. is 20. The counters are moved Should you become an advanced in the following order: 1, 2, 8, 1, collector, you can transfer your 2, 6, 5, 3, 1, 2, 6,0, 3, 1, 2, 4, 8, stampa to beftor albums.
17- 1, 2, 4, 8, 7, 4, 5, 0,
Rupert's Climbing Adventure-36
Gi and Pauline ane Beryl jovi
twerkstify takes ofre frais Zadʻisha:
ragh) and, with KERENENÉ KO
Paveight sipin bu metičan
guided by the trailing ropes.
have come this way.
TRIANGLES
INDIANS NEEDL DEALT
BILAZILIAN RIVERS: Amazon Madeire; Negro; Tapejos.
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STARVING)
A BLOTH MA SPEND $19|-. ENTIRE LIFE... HANGING INA SINGLE TREE.H -EXISTS ON A
DIET OF
LEAVES.
ATS HAVE A HOMIN INSTINOT THE SAME A.. „BIRDS. THEY HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO FMCG MILES BACK TO A BAVORITE LOOST„e
NI PER NEVER RETURNO. ME FROM HIS HONEYMOONG.
QUEEN RETURNS WHILE HE ISS
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