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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1951.

PAČKA

the Boys and Girls Pack

FUN WITHER HULASHAKER

WORDS

BY MARION 1. STEVENS AND RITA F. DEWEY MOTHER GOOSE PEOPLE

VERYONE knows some

E Mother Goose rhymes.

but maybe we've forgotten

few. To determine if you're a Mother Goose ex- pert, here are " list of words. Ench word is somie- thing out of n nursery rhyme. The first

10 are

fairly easy, but the last 10

may floor you.

You tell the nursery character

makes you

that

think

each

!. point for each of the and 2 points for each

rhyme word Score 1 first 10 of the

last 10. A perfect score is 30 points and a score of 15 or better is passing.

1. Horn

2. Spider

3. Crook

11. Turis

12. pickled

peppers

4. Cockle shells 13. Kettle

5. Candiestick

U. Whate

14. Sec-Яw

15. Pumpkin

gown

7. Pail of water 18. Night-

8. Dog

9. Fiddles

10. Exc

17. Stock-

ints

18. Straw-

berries

19. Silver

buckles 20. Puddle

CHARACTER SKETCHES

This is more of a game than

a puzzle and it can be a lot of

fun at a party.

eight

Write the names of friends on a plece. of paper. After each name write three

that describe adjectives

that

- person. Each descriptive word must begin with the same let- ter as the felend's name,

For

example, if the friend's name is John, his sketch might De "jovial, jecund, joyous." Pauline might be "grim, pretty, popular," or she might be "pesky, penurious, pestiferous."

ROAMIN' LETTERS

Here are some deânitions for words with

missing. lotters You are to add one letter for each space, but the only letters used in you can use are those numbers, 1, Roman

V, X, L, C, D, and M. For example complete the word-A—ATE, you'd add V (5) and making the word VACATE

Now

you do

to

C (100)

YEAR

1. Put a few small PEBBLES

into a large empty TOOTH POWDER CAN.

2. Tie a STRING lightly] around the top and put the cap back on.

201

3. Cut three strips of

fringe from fancy CHRISTMAS PAPER or colored CELLOPHANE,

Iron Curtain

BULGARIAN CROSSWORD

Here's a puzzle drawn on a silhouelle map of Bulgaria:

ACROSS

1 Unusual

7 Hawaiian bird

8 Bamboo-like grass

9 Obese

11 Light brown

12 False god

14 Egyptian sun god

15 Flower

DOWN

1 Capital of Bulgaria

2 Leaping amphibians

3 Army reserve (ab.)

Seine

$ Machine part

0 Girl's name

10 Small child

13 Loft end (ab.)

MIX-UPS

Two facts about Bulgaria will unfold for you when you re- arrange the letters in each row of words:

KISS THE OGRE OX CHEAT THOR CURD.

ALAS CIG NOVA ISLE GUN.

RIDDLES

1. When a boy falls down, what does he fall against?

2. When are two potators alike?

3. a person faints, what number will restore him?

4. Why did Mrs Farmer call it. Answers one of the little pigs "Ink"?

are in the answer column.

1. A number. EE-EN.

2. A colour, YEOW.

3. Opposite of "go." ---E. 4. What's television?

1.

EO.

A drink, -0-QA.

A

6. 5280 feet.

E

7. What the earth turns on.

AS.

fish. SA ON.

8. A

9. Winter sport. SK---NG.

10. Kindness. —ERY.

11. When two people talk.

A-OGUE.

12. A land mas5, A-EN-—A,

13. Sickness.

14. To ascend.

NESS.

-B.

15. Between boltom and top.

-E.

16. Southern United States..

u

STARS AND BARS

Get out your pencil and put (star) or (bar) in front"

of each of the following-and form the word suggested.

5. What tree can you carry in your hand?

4. Fasten the Giach strip around the con with SCOTCH

TAPE.

5.Fasten the Sinch strip over the 6inch

one.

6.Tape the 4 inch strip over the 5inch piece.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

CLANK

MAKE YOUR

By I. R. HEGEL

GIRL who travelled with her father around the world owned a gold bracelet on which was fastened tiny charms from every country she had visited.

From Japan there was a Shinto lantern; from China, a sampan; from Java, a conch Alled with perfume;

EVERYONE from Egypt, a camel; from

BANG

•BONG!

Country

DIAMOND

Centre of this word diamond is CENTRAL. The second word is "to soak Bax," third "renovate,' Afth "gull-like birds," and atxth "existed."

C

E

CENTRAL

R A

BULGARIAN CROPS

Jerusalem, an old coin; a weo basket from Greece; a- tortilla stone from Mexico; a vendor's bell from Peru; a teapot from Jamaica and a bead from ancient Maya, worn by a Mayan maiden who had been dropped into a pool as a sacrifice to the rain god.

n

Every boy and girl cannot travel around the world and col- lect bracelet of such interest ing charms. But there is noth ing whatsoever to prevent the

from starting stay-at-home

collection of hand-made

OWN HOBBY

A NOTE BOOK FILLED WITH GAMES PLAYED BY BOYS AND GIRLS OF OTHER LANDS SHOULD

MAKE AN INTERESTING COLLECTION**

SCHLAGBALL, FOR INSTANCE, IS A GAME THAT GHOULD BE FUR

FOR BASEBALL-MINDED BOYS AND GIRLS IN THIS COUNTRY-

WE ALL CAN'T

TRAVEL AROUND THE WORLD AND COLLECT ITEMS OF INTEREST, BUT WE CAN READ ABOUT PEOPLES AND CIVILIZATIONS OF THE PAST AND

LEARN OF THEIR GAMES AND HOBBIES-

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6

8

A B C D E F G H

6 STAR PUZZLE

BY WALTER KING

CALENDAR GAME

BY IDA PARDUE

HOLD everything! Don't throw away that old wall calendart You can make this game with It! First draw lines with a ruler between the numbered days on a calendar so that each date

Page, is in a little square, then cut the squares apart. Pasie cach num- ber on a plece of light cardboard. Now cut another calendar page into we

weekly strips. Use only the full seven-day strips. Cut one

TWO stars are on the diagram strip for each person who is to Tin this puzzle and you must player Be sure bered exactly the not use strips place alx more, total of eight,

serac.

in the unshaded squares, in Paste each strip on a ploco of order to solve the puzzle. But heavy paper. How big the paper no star can be in a line with should be will depend on the another star, either vertically, size of the strips. picce about horizontally or diagonally. And, eight inches long and tour of Ave Inches wide should be about right.

Have a caller pull one square

at

2

of course, none of the shaded squares can be used.

You can draw the diagram on To play, give each player one a large playing board, paint the of the strip-cards and seven The date two stars and use coins or beans or buttons. checkers for the other stars. This squares should be placed in a makes a good puzzle to entertain bowl and mixed up well.

friends your

when weather searcher after other types of Sweden. You are expected to

keeps you indoors.

a time from the bowl and call foreign ball games, and ho has memorise the population figureS

out the number. If player a scrapbook devoted to hand and the topography of that To make the puzzle harder, has that number on his strip, be printed accounts of different games he has heard of or copied country but are you interested set a time limit of six minutes. places a bean on it. The first The solution is in the answer player to cover his whole seven

days wins the game, from public library Bourcea

ces. Ho enough to look farther? Two column. Last August, one of the boys has also duplicated the equip students, mulling over encyclo- at the soap box derby camp at ment as best be crild in his poedin accounts on Sweden, Y-Noah, heard the German basement workshop and, if he found a brief paragraph on straw champion talk of schlagball. keeps going, he will be an dolls, a specialty of 'Swedish

German version

ston authority on international ball

w

which is a ΟΙ baroball. It ed with

of

ed

two bases,

play- home

plate and another similar

to baseball's second base. No

games.

IRL'S tastes

Use the words and pictures to pitcher pitches in schlagball and much to games as

learn the four chief crops of Bulgaria.

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I WISH THIP

WOULD.DIVD

HI, LEB!

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CODED MESSAGE

do not run as

boys a player at bat simply tosses One girl in school grew absorbed ban

hits it into the air and

in her teacher's stories of the just like baseball players but out

early American Indians and nice to the fielders when they their crafts. Expertly this girl practise.

The bat in schlagball, the Ger- learned to tinger sketch in berry man boy went on to explain, re juice, using the tip of her finger s bles

American police to make the broad soft lines m's night stick, and the idea

an

craftsmen.

Shadows Meet an Old Friend

-He's the Smoke-Man From Father's. Pipo By MAX TRELL

of the game is to hit the ball painting so many Indian stone Both girls have since become on reading, rose a thin stream

doll-makers

It

So engrossed did the girls be- come in their discovery that they stopped at a store on the way home, purchased a bag of straw and that night stripped FATHER was sitting in his and soaked it, letting it

remain

chuir in the evening, read- overnight in water. The nexting and smoking his pipe. day, the girls wrapped and tied was a heavy wooden pipe with the damp straw info figures long curved stem. From the and found they were up to their bowl of the pipe, na Father went elbows in a brand new hobby.

of smoke. It rose and rose, enthusiastic

and until the top of it reached the From this work, the girl ad- have copied their own versions corner of the ceiling. Knarf far enough to run from home to the base and back before the vanced into the colourful block of corn husk dolls, seed dolls and Hanid, the shadow-children printing used by the Algonquina and even apple dolls from all Belders

with the turned-about names, retrieve the opposing

who were sitting silently on the start tagging their and still identifled with berry corners of the world. ball and opponents. Each sido gets three juice.

opposite side of the room, kept By the time this young artist outs. The ball is an ordinary

watching it. baseball and the game requires is ready for art school, she will lot of running, which makes be an expert on Indian paintings it fun and health-giving. and dyes. Even now her dupli- boxer who listened cation of museum pleces is often The soap-boxer

this account of shlagball exhibited in her own school as became so interested that, on well as in other schools. reaching home, he made himself schlagball bat and introduced the German game to his chums. TOMO Now the boy has become a ment in geography could be

a

to

OMORROW'S school assign-

TATTLE TALES

THE

to

A simple code was used in this

HE Puritans loved senience. Decipher it to learn

tattle. In fact, it was about Bulgaria, Hint: The fourth word is "Bulgaria."

Npofuler vola pg Cvmhbsjb about the only fan they jt uit m/wb.

BEAT 51 PUZZLE

THE

51' moves in 1951.

By WALTER KING

had. But they didn't think they were having fun, they thought they were just do- ing their duty. And, of course, they wouldn't have been such tattle tales if they hadn't

the passed "Blue Laws.”

idea of this fascina- Make the qinying board from

They went to Armerien be- of stout cardboard, piece ting indoor game is to

drawing on it 17 14-inch squares cause they believed the laws solve the puzzle in less than as shown. The counters may be in England were too barab

If you eight red από eight black and unjust. Yet it seems,

checker counters or you can use they could hardly wait until The Idea of the game is to they got there to pass lawa make the red and black coun- that made life much tougher ters change places in less than than it had been in Eng-. 50 moves.

landi.

RED-

For

BEAT 51

instance, for No. 1 put a in

front of the k and you have "bar k" (back).

1. k (a dog sound).

2. ge (a fat boat).

3. ch laundry help).

4. b (tp of an arrow).

6. Jing (a kind of bird).

6. ber (one who cuts hair).

7. board (right side of ship).

B. t (to begin).

9. becue (to roast).

10. ve (to die of hunger).

Just Awful!

!

Grandma had just returned from her first football game.

"How'd you like it, grandina?” asked `Tommy.

ready to play

she said.

awful," "Just "They were all lined up and when some and ..up come the ball And they over it all the rest of

smart Block

kicked

tought

the time."

Or Moro

Dad: Son, your ropert card says you're lowest in mathes matics of your class at 25,

Son: Well, Dad, it could, have been words.

Dad: Wox?

· Gon: Sure, it might have

been a clam of 20.',:

1951 PUZZLE

copper and silver coins.

The rules arɑs

1. Red counters can be moved only to the right and down.

2. Black comaters

moved only to left and up.

They would not » much as

let themselves celebrate Christ-

bo ma'not even with a few mince pless. To play cards, dance, or

3. A counter can go into the play any munital instrument next square only if it is empty.

5. No move ata be made ding- onally.

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Sometimes they acil their dolls as table-favours for children's parties and women's teas, adding profit to their increased skill.

Strange objects are interesting to read about. The interest is bound to deepen when you learn how to make the strange object yourself. Collectors who con- struct their own collections have

a lot of fun,

By Mary Goss

THE PURITANS LOVED TO

TATTLE. SO THEY HAD LOTS

OF LAWS IN ORDER TO HAVE PLENTY TO TATTLE

ABOUT.

EVEN CARRYING LUGGAGE ON THE SABBATH WAS BAD.

THEY WERE A SOUR

LOT ON SUNDAY,

And all at thing happenedt

once a strange

The top of the pipe-smoke took the shape of a head. The smoke underneath began slowly job. whirling around until it formed Finally the arms and a body. bottom part, right over the pipe, turned into legs. And then, without making or disturbing a single sound Father in the least, a Smoke Man stepped lightly out of the bowl of the pipel

slender

The Smoke-Max.

There wasn't any travel- ing at all. But I liked it.""

Knarf and Hanid walted for the Smoke-Mon to tell them about his third job. two very

"It was a job in a farm-house," he finally said.

I didn't have much to do. I used to live in- side the kitchen-stove. Three times a day-at breakfast time; lunch time and dinner time when the farmer's wife built a the fire I used to stretch up and take Kaarf and Hould Saw

a took around from the top of the around Smoke-Man look room. Then slowly be noticed the chimney. It was quiet and But one day a very them. He waved one of his peaceful.

came along smokey arms. The next minute strong wind

Waved an Arm

and

he started Boating over to wisere blew me this way and that. I they were sliting. He came to tried my best to stay in the chim- rest, with his pointed knees high ney, but the wind was too strong It tumbled and twirled over his head, right on the floor for me.

me, it spun me and twisted me In front of them.

Then the Smoke-Man smiled, and broke me up in little pieces. got myself "It's good to see you again," he And by the time sald. He spoke in such a low, all together again I was miles muffled kind of voice, that no and miles away from the farm- I suppose the farmer one could hear him but Knart house.

and his wife have a new Smoke- and Hanld.

here After greeting the Smoke Man now. So I came Man, whom they had seen right in Father's pipe. That's several times before, Knart said: quiet, too Just a puff-and a "Where have you been since the puff-and a puff. Well, I guess Last time we saw you, Smoke- I'd better be getting back." And with that the Smoke-Man step- Mon?"

"Oh, I went across the seal" ped silently back into the pipe "Across the sea?" Hanid said, and pulled himself in, sill

Father, smiling. Anti quite surprised.

"Yes indeed. I was working reading, noticed nothing. on a steam-ship. They had a nice warm place for me in the All day long- smoke-stack.

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Puzzle Answers

Bimors.

מתיד

still

trumpet or except the drum,

one Sunday they sald they saw he walked into his garden. The and all night long, too-I used

GOOSE PEOPLE: 1- to come floating out of the MOTIES him running to a church to get second time he picked a bunch smoke-stack. I used hang on Boy Buc. 2Miss Muffet. Bo- 4. A counter can jump any jew harp was ilgal

in out of a sudden rainstorm

of grapes. After that he must to the top of tha were hipped

smako-Boop. 4-Mistress Mary, quite con- counter of a different colour as Tea parties

Some busybodies finally have pacted his bag and headed

stack with my toes, while tray. B-Jack be nirable. Eimple also deple with in checkers but the Jumped the bad because housewives,

the Sabbath back for England where tattling the rest of me went trailing off simple Simon B-Ola Mother counter is not takeri off.

couldn't buy buns or cakes ex- claimed he broke cept for wedding or funerals, twles in one day. The first time wasn't so much fun.

"People were apt to be very It is not necessary to have the sour on the eve of the Sabbath,

ard wrote one frank. hitorinn. Nag counters numbered. They given a number in the diagram wender!' fall, and are too brave to only in case you turn out to be

look look at the solution, call for a poor puzzle fan and have to

BLACK PLAYING BOARD

some help from the rest of

at the solution. (Note: The counters

do not: numbered

the family. You win if you have to finish in can beat 51 but you lose order, but the blacks must all be your rating as a first-class where the reads start and rods where blacks were when you finish.) puzzle fan if you don't.

Rupert's Autumn

Primrose17

Then he gets an idea. got bride. "The old Professor'a bouen- the edge of, tlist wood et fra 'thinks.' I'll no midi xək him iba has been

Leaving his mother, holding the alizary, primrose and looking very bewildered, Rupeh runs back to Common where lie the spot on the Courts day was stowing primedees in the Kamay gan coming from that direction," he

olithe year te hermes dver, the ynurmatay: ** but there's only thick, hill will be, apina, the Fletessor woodland over there, should, dwael sereine rocking nak sharʻsta never know white hi'd been once 1 man's meangs hough in 3. Ta

"HILDREN" could not

jump or play games. sons who were caught carrying parcels er pieces of huggage on Sunday were fed. Housewives, however, did get a break. They were not allowed to cook, wash dishes, make beds or sweep floors. But with Sunday's work piled up and the week's wash bealder, Monday must have looked blue!

Kissing was also forbidden on the Sabbath, but since the men couldn't shave, the women prob ably didn't care,

Lattled

About the only thing, the Puritans could do'on Sunday without fear of being on by their neighbours was to walk quietly to and from the meeting house. This fact was soon discovered by an Engilsh clergyman who settled in Con- necticut in 1779

y ta that he broke the

batupy cuphizing a look. on the top of hip thu thì terr

ZOO'S WHO

LATARE S

THAT'S BEAUTIFUL

MOSQUITOES

EALS WITH ARE ATTRACTED

20ES OF THE NICURE

in the sky. It was lots of fun Hubbard. -King Cole, 10-Humpty Dumpty. 11-que a Houve of salling over the ocean. After eat 12 Peter Piper. 13-Polly, got back, I found myself another who put the kettle on, or Sukey. job. It was a traveling-job, who took it off. 14-Margery Daw. 18- Feter, the pumpki calor. 10- too,"

Wee Willeke. 17- Knarf and Hanid were both John, who, went to bed with them Looks 10-Bobby cager to know what this second 10 Curk

Bitacio, 20-Dr Foster.

BOAMING job of the Smoke-Man was.

LETTERS: J-Bovezz

Video B a railroad train. -Yellow. 3 Come. "It was on

Cocoa šle. Temaxis, 8-Salmon. Or rather," he added quickly, kitag, 10-Meray. 11-Dialogas. 13-America. 13- 14 Clieb. 18-Middle, 18Dixie.

"on

a raliroad locomotive."

"And did you rido on the

locomotive, Bmoke-Man?" said

STARS AND HARS: 1-Bart. B-

8-

Knart, who envied anyone who Page 3 Starch. Barb, G-Star-

-Earber. 7-Bierboard. had anything to do with lacomo- start. Barbecue, 10-ve BULGARIAN CROSSWORD: tives,

The Smoke-Man nodded. "Right in the smoke-stack, just as I did on the ship. Only in- stead of floating out softly, I used to come roaring and mort- ing out, making enough noise to wake up everybody for miles around. You, should have seen me go shooting up into the air. I loved that job”

"And did you go very far?”. naked Hanid.

Up and Down

Did I? I went up and down the country-north" : 'and south and cast and west. I went over mountain went across de- worts and through forests. I saw towns and oilies, I saw farmin Tɛsaw zariches, YII saw cowboys and Indians. There's, hardly anything didus mo, And then I got me t

"quiet" mort de

STRANGE ÕO REND CAT TAN TOOL RA APTER.

MIX-UP!! fitate church is Or chodce Cinek. Langungo is fleronia,

-BIDDLESİ 1—Against · Ele 3-When they aro paned. must bring film 24-Decade be was always rising out of the pen.

·DIARUNDI...

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BULAJARIAN CROPS:

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