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PUZZLES

STORIES

HOBBIES

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, VOL.

The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE

Tee Joe and Blessing Day ZOO'S WHO

By LEE

T

PRIESTLEY Tee Joe could see himself should talte shame. Big Jop the stepping up, swaggering captain of the feet and they do EE JOE dipped the proudly and bowing

Tee Joe stared aghast at what

not have pride to decorate boat."

he

T

puddle dreamily. Tired he had done. Frantically, of gathering Spanish reached for the big package that Moss with Gran'-Pere he he had knocked overboard.

Bul

had been glad to go down the current caught the package, the househo bobbed it beyond his grasp. dollars and forty

to Guldry's store

غلط

Joo

Mr Guldry for the package he

Teo money. Two cents he had to bring When he got it aboard with the been saving for muskrat traps,

falling- home Big Joe's package. paddle, it was a soggy, Now on the way home he apart mess of bright dripping Joe had given him $5 to pay

his mind ours. Packages and packages had dropped in the Bayou. could just see in

of crepe paper, red, blue, green, how it would be tomorrow, and yellow that Mr Guldry hind The judges would look at urdered for Big Joe to use in

his

boat. Ruined. an- decorating the shrimp trawlers

plumb ruined. chored after the ceremony Miserably, Tec Joo of the Blessing of the Fleet. hoine. Tomorrow

Mr Guidry shook his head when Tee Joe hurried back to the store with his money. "Tee Jov, they ain't another package

crinicle of

paper in south

went Louisiana. The shrimpers neighbours bought it all for Blessing Day," Teo Joe went home, his misery growing every minute. Pride goes before a fall in the Bayou, he told himself. Gran'-

Teo Joe went home, his misery growing every minute. Pride toes before a fall in the Bayou.

Mere was waiting.

זדי

here.

said.

thought you'd never get: Tee 300," Gran Mere want you should

empty up 10+ me. I been

dycin rug rags for tho

THE NORTHEASTERN PANTHER, LONG THOUGHT EXTINCT, WAS REPORTED SEEN RECENTLY IN NEW BRUNSWICH AND IN NOVA SCOTIA.”“”-

whole BEE RAISING NETTED SCAUSAS

tadler club and every cook pot | FARMERS ONES-3LOC and every wash pot is full of a pretly colour."

Tee Joe went over to the che- niere, the Island-like high ground rising out of the marsh like a back yard for the house- boat. Piles of noft. Kray Spanish

moss that Gran'Pere

moss an

1949

Fun With

BŘETS USED IONCH SZINA VÍCH COST

$2,000 SACH...

Words

BY MARION P. STEVENS AND RITA F. DEWEY

+

BURIED WORDS

move

10. A cloth maker.

1. One who colours cloth.

14. One who drives a wagon,

takes

care

of

Love

CRAFTS

GAMES

Finds a Way..

HE Puritans tried to

na miserable as possible. They thought it was every man's duty to support a - family, and the Booner he started the better. That is why they passed so many laws to discourage A mn from staying single,

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For example, an unmarried man could not "batch" with an- other unmarried man. He had to room and board with a family, Wherever he went there was someone snooping to see that he smart behaved properly. Tho thing it seems for a young man to do was to get married "while he was still in his teens.

Only it wasn't cosy. It was

simple enough for a fellow 10 girl, but to

Не

but to "date" her

plck

out

was a bit difficult.

could, of

surrounding the

course, take her for a stroll in

the

forest

JOKES

... By Mary Goss

The day was saved for many a bashful bead by the invention of the "courting silck,"

stick" they could carry on i

village. Only there was always get that could be held either to the fireplace. With a "courting a chance that an unfriendly the car or mouth. bear, or Indian, might turn a

If a private line of chit-chat just as Now, it didn't matter A twosome into Cozy

young man and his heart throb silly as they ever could have on threesome,

had to sit on opposite sides of a telephone,

☆☆

lively

I was no use for a guy to take a gal for a ride either. True,

days there

it was one way to be alone with her. But in those were no buggles.

weather.

room

the

That

Stamps Oddly Treated

NOTH

with

steady

three

same

the

engraver, TOTHING in the world the And it was

.glass, and gathered and dried to sell to

awfully hard for fellow to furniture makers in the city lay

gets licked, punched, magnitying all about. Spanish moss was

sharp instruments on a cuddle his dream boat when she pounded, chased, and then nerve, has to trace the design

with stuff, even if Toe Joe did

pampered like, a postage soft

A lot more steel plate. Pretty

was perched behind him on pulling it from the

tail get tired

end of a horse.

thán most people think in It hung big old oaks.

of a In the winter the situation was stamp. It may be just a work

into the making feathery and graceful festoons.

really desperate, The weather tiny bit of gummed paper goes Thea Tee Joe stopped and TN this word box you will 12. One who sews cloth,

was bitter cold. Houses were but as a relic it can become tiny postage stamp.

Sometimes two Ur stared at the piles

small and fires a luxury. see at once that each of 13. One who makes footwear. if he had never seen any

engravers work on the be-

meant the

whole family had to the most valuable thing in the five horizontal lines 15. One who

to keep the world for its size and stamp, each doing a different He fore. Feathery? Festoons?

huddle in one

part. And occasionally hurried from the moss to Gran-spells a word. But buried

flowers.

warm even though a young man weight.

makes an error Mere's dye pots. Maybe those in the box are at least 25 16. A tensorial artist.

was "calling" Guthreaux wouldn't be shamed other words containing four 17. One who searches for game, after all....

18. A music maker, or more letters each.

19. One who builds walls. Those judges who would and friends would nudge cach

To find the buried words, 20. One who cuts up wood. choose the most beautifully other when Big Joe's boat was

the only one without decoration THE morning of the Blessing start anywhere and decorated boat would stop for

Blessing Day when the Day was bright and hot. one square at a time-up; at Big Joe's boat.

Bishop blessed the feet so the Tee Joe could scarcely breathe down or diagonally. "Magnificent!" the judges shrimp Ashermen would have

wedged on the decks with Here is one of the words would say.

good fortune during the senson. everybody

The Passes The Bishop ning with the letter T in either this fine first prize winner was the most important day to

of the whole year.

proyed for safety and success those for the fishermen and the boats "What is wrong with the docks would push Tee Gauthreaux?" people would that would soon sal out into

Too tight

shrimp. Then Joe and say, "Step up. Teo ask.

for the Blessing the gally decorated boats sailed Joe! Reach your hand for their bout

#lowly past to

the receive Day?" that prize! You decorated

Others would shake

Bishop's blessing and berthed their

the Gauthreaux at the docks to wait for "Those Big Joe's boat, didn't you?" heads.

judging.

Early that morning Gran'Pero had

complained about the misery in his back, so Tee Joo wasn't surprised when thunder rattled in the clouds that lay on the horizon and when some big of rain slatted down. People in the tight packed

from New Orleans which can be made "Who decorated

The people in the crowd on

to

decorate the Gulf

Toodles Was an-Unusual Pig

-She Wanted to Eat Dinner at a Table-

By MAX TRELL

“NOW you may not liku pigs," NMr Punch was saying to Kaart and Hanid, the Shadows- with the-turned-about- names, "though I don't know why you Pigs don't ask to be shouldn't, born into pigs. It just happens that way. And there they are whether you just pigs. But like pigs, or you don't, I'm sure you'd like Toodles."

sald

"Todles, Mr Punch?" Honid, and Knart repeated: "Toodies?"

"That was her name," replied Mr Punch, nodding. "I mean, that's what everybody called her who weren't pigs. But all her frlends and relations who were pigs called her Oink-Ka-Oink- Goink-Goink. Toodles

was

made Toodles feel quite sad,"

From the Cat

ro-ag

ed Toodies

right or proper

for

hard

crowd kept hoping the rain would hold off until the

judging

was over.

"Crepe paper festoons can't stanki water, one womari near Tee Joe treited, “We worked

all night futin' them streamers

LIE

and it printer Did we say "gummed"? It also meant the poor lad should have been tapiocaed." turns out part of a stamp up- had to

include his future in The taploca starch used on the side down. When he does, this stamp is chased all laws in his love-making or just back of a postage stamp Ja particular

by the stamp collectors. skip it and talk about the just as edible as any that goes over U.S. upaldo dowa

Into the making of the rest The

slurps aeroplane

are today tapioca pudding.

·ench. An $3,000 Enough stamps are made an worth over THE

and moon,

enough on its head in a centre design many bashful beau by the

It immediately became a invention of a "courting stick,"

starch is used on, the and This was a hollow pole about an back of the stamps to podvida $5,000 bird.

dessert good-sized diameter and six or inch in

At each end the

in London people eight feet long. there was a funnel shaped gad- 10 years old.

The paper itself So despite the is made of bleached wood Oure

from pine trees. taken

by begin YOUR BIKE Tawas Anaily saved for nually to reach from the earth Australian swan once got stood

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corner:

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"Tall." Now see how many other words you can find. and two buckets of rain will Froper names are allowed but each word must contain at least four letters.

purely ruin them."

WHEN the downpour came it

just

us if Big Joe's

boat bloomed and

TRADE NAMES

blossomed!

How did last

names, or sur names, come to be? Once people had only

one

The other boats lost their de corations

got!

מס

топу

trom

Bunks are

GEAR HAS ANCESTORS

BY JULIA W. WOLFE

HORSE has a heel, although this animal has for ages walked on the tip of his middle

We have an toe.

appendix, which is an organ that has long since lost its use. Human beings and all lower animals have traces of things their ancestors wed, but which are out of date today. And your bike can trace 'ils evolution from the "high

wheel' in the same way.

A bike gear still goes back to the old type bicycle. When the riders 60 years ago rode their bikers-awkesrard koking fore- runners of your sleek model- they had to work a great deal harder to make them go.

The pedals were attached to the blz. front wheel itself, When went around once, the pedals

1

DX P =

very

K

D. DAMETSe on kair WHEEL

THRYN NË PODIL BAROCKET BTINETH A KAAR SPROCKET GICHR

the crinkle paper name. But the time amme when the big wheel would carry the garlands and flowers melted there were too

Johns bike about 10 feet forward. A into soggy rain. But Spanish and Henrys, and some way had big step forward was the use Toodles eating her dinner.

moss loves the rain. The to be found to distinguish them of gears and chains which made festoons

Big Joc's boat So Robin's son John became "Well," sald

Mr Punch, looked prettier the wetter they John Robinson, and Tom's son the bike easier to propel.

Henry became Henry Thomp- much shorter. She was a very "Doodles the Polite Pig looked

Tee Joe had dyed bushels of son. Charles, who was a dark unusual pig."

around, wondering which chair

came Charles "Was she big and fat?" Knarf she ought to sit in. She counted the moss in Gran Mere's dyepots swarthy man,

was one for to decorate Big Joe's boot The the Black, later Charles Black." the chairs. There wanted to know.

Other names Mother, more it rained the lighter and

came from a Father, yes. But she had good and one for sister and one for more

and one for

OF business feathery the soft blues man's trade

See manners. At least, she tried to d

lavenders and grecos be how many of these common have good

manners. But she little brother. But there wasn't and

which came. When the red and green surnames for Toodles,

that came found having good manners was any chair

screens of man's trade you can get. Then a great deal of trouble. Folks was because no one had expect- riding Lights with

Then mass threw their glow over the make a list of other trade for dinner. kept saying, "Toodles, you're a

with names which belong to people Fig. Better stay a pig. That she decided that it wouldn't be boat, the crowd clapped

for her to sit delight.

you low. When the judges came along. in anyone else's chair, so she

Because climbed up on the table and sat in slickers with their notebooks old, the trades are the old hand Mr Punch

и тап smiled. "You there. She had plenty of room, sopping wet, it was just as Tee jobs like Wheelwright,

wheels, who made or wrought e," he went on, "Toadles had and no one else would be sitting Joe had imagined.

Wonderful uso "Magnifcentl lcorned somewhere or other, there.

or Smith, who was a blacksmith. of native material. Who de- Many of them end in the suffix probably from the cat, that

this fine first prizo people with good manners al-

which means "one, who." ways ate their

One who digs coal GraPere began to elbow table. They never-but never, around her neck, took a knife Tee Joe. "Step up there, son, ate their dinners on the floor, and a fork, and waited for din and reach for that prize. You or off the ground. I always her to begin. She felt a little was the one decorated Big Joe's do, sighed Toodles.

hungry. In fact, she felt very bent." "Then one day Toodles de- hungry which, as everyone will Tee Joe stepped up. But he cided that, plg or not, she was agree, is exactly the right way remembered that pride went going to show everyone that to feel just before dinner. But before a fall in the Bayou she could have as good manners the family was slow in coming he tried, not to swagger too as everyone else. So, Just be- 1

she much. be- in, and Toodles--though fore dinner-time, when sho

as hard as she could

hungrier heard Mother calling out that

help getting dinner was

length she ready,

hungrier. At

not wait any longer. She

squeezed herself

dinner from a

out between

Knife and Fork

"Then Toodles put a napkin

the boards that closed in her thought she would just

pen.

take.

The rest of the pigs who nibble and a taste of something lived in the

mamo prem with before the others came in." Toodies asked her

where she "But what was there for her was going. But all she would to cat?" Knart said:

answer was

that ke

it should be eaten."

"Whose ald sho

was Toodles," tuld Me

Mr

Punch.

going to eat her dinner the wayen't the picity sort of cater She was used to cating what- ever was before her. So she had a bit of salt, and a snitt or twe of pepper, and was just starting on the vade of flowers

Punch? sald Harld.

TO

the house, of course"

replied Mr Punch. "She push

with

dishes

and

od the front door open with her which she thought was the nose after knocking on it with main part of the dioner because her knuckles several times,

it was right in the contro, of the marched right into the dining table) when the family came room. Sure enough, there wa

in!...Poor. Toodical" the table all set glasses and nephins and silver And even without Mr Punch's and Hanid WATE,

00, Knart There was also, right saying in the centre of the table, is hig knew that poor: Toodles was Her vase filled with flowers. But chaat out of the house. none of the family had come manners weren't understood at

-alit· in yet.

:

B0

I.

2 A worker in wood.'

3. A candle maker. ·

4. A workez In gold.

5. One who gets food from the water.

6. One who grows food.

7. One who grinda corn.

8. One who prepares food.

9. A bread maker.

Rupert's Autumn Primrose-23

*At first Rupert cala bye, nothing of the Scottie rolling contentedly ins jock though. he cha buàtibúda make flower bed. Sesing the colour: 0, ing litde gruntiga polnus acti-ho is the flowers, he runs forwardwand en1973ng humigil,, Moving along the atmain samastust. “They ́AIL son of the wall thin little bear lindi, „primtoetasid he gaspari mal grims - another ivy, plang; ampinguam the round 1 Whatever, port, of garder

"pshme aldu" and "he climbs down, it ju ta' thin? There, and all, sorsára!:

sa insa pin "Kitdung1bn fiule, doisen) ""spring flowers, kruwingi baru sardell-

go on, and almost at onen beagles) sa autumn oneil

Be

PADALING A BICYCLE TOCKEY 19-NOT THIS

WORK IT. ONCE

WAS-

But the rear wheel, operated by the chain, did not make a turn with every turu of tho pedal But bike makers described the new machines in terms of the old. The "gear" meant the diameter of the high wheel that would make one re- volution while the pedals of the modern bike, turned one time

nund

PRESTO CANASTA

BY MILDRED KING. TONT throw the old pack of

playing cards away. They will be handy for tricks on many a stormy day,

the

tapioca

for all

over

...

banging and shipping around the stamps get, occasionally they become tiny the most

pampered stamp presses 2011 out things in the world. Stamp

patches by the paper

collecting, which is a nice lite millions. In one operation the hobby for many people, has

The

the

machines wet the papers print

the stamps, dry them, apply

to be a big grown

business, the gum on the back, and then too. If you had just one copy In the of every stamp listed dry them again. A number world catalogue you, would be. ing

rexxx dis batches of stamps have the globe. many been run off and · must be accounted for.

machine

how wo

one of the richest people on

each sheet. The everlasting hunt for old and rare stamps by millions of collector's is narrowing the of undiscovered stamp MAKING the picture plate field trick. The ap-MAKI parlour

treasures to a great for a new stamp is an in- Nevertheless, if you keep your tricate. business. 'The picture

. Right now you can prepare an easy

BACK OF

CARD

FIG.

2

PACO

CARD TRICK

FIG. I

PACE

PRESTO CHANGO

paratus consists of three cards na shown in pasted together Agure 1. Any three cards will do. Two of the cards are folded in half with the face of the cards Then half of these two up. cards are pasted together back to back. Now you have Siamese twins twin cartis. Paste these

to the face of the third card. twins The hinged part of the will then be free to fap up or down so that with a fuck of the Luger you can expose either:

hold

the To present the trick,. flap tight again the back card and show the audience both The throe sides of the card.

the cards look just like one to onlookers. Now place the trick card in the palm of one hand and whirl your arma in a wide through the air saying, Hocus. pocus. miraculus, Jokus!""

arc

Quickly you turn the flap over and present the card as before, so that the audience may sto both front and back. The back, of course, looks the same, but the front has changed to a new card.

ANSWERS

So if you want to find-the goat" of your bike, measure, the number of inches you travel.

REG while your pedals go once, and multiply this by "pl. 3:1410. If your bike goco 04 Inchez

with one

turn of the pedals, It

that your

- BURIED WOnus; Sabu, bou, else, lees, bull, tease, ball, balo, wheel

wheel 84 inches abate, abet, beat, boll, blast, (sover foot) in diameter ft Elba, late, loas, less, sable, sale, would take a pretty long-legged sate, seal, soll, slab, slat, table, giant to ride an 84-inch lugn tale, tall, teal. wheel

moun

1970 "highends to an old

Another way to find the, genr of your bike is „jo multiply the diambier, of the rear wheel by the number of teeth in the ocdel sprocket and then divide this, by the number of teeth in the per sprocket. But the tags:

1--Miner. STRADE NADIES:' 2-Carpenter, 3-Chandler 4 Goldsmith, Fisher. Farmer. 7-Miller. B-Copk Baker. 10Wenver Dyer,

Taylong 10 Shoemaker Barber. Mi-Hunter-

drst drowni

open and

of every

extent.

examine the new issue,

on cardboard eyes and

stamp about three by grown four inches. This copy is then into fore photographed and reditced 201

worth down to the proper size. Next When

then looks like an over stamps

YOU may still happen to run

FRUIT BASK

Wirk

2.Make Z loops with pipe cleaners,

Wind ona loop around center bar of top basket.

THE W

LEaston 2. PLASTIC FRUIT BASKETS loose is together with THE CLEANER.

4.Slip loop

A through loop

PERGE EN WAR

Maka

·

tasse fike

this! 5.7ill tight and

2e tassel in the center of the bottom basket... Cut a piece of yarn 15 inches long, tie ends together and loop through top basket for a handle.

bend to form book

a faulty print which be

be very long would

a great deal of money.

It comes to the matter

14

a humble postage stamp, the imperfect specimen usually

worth more than the

true work of art.

Postage stamps get oddly

they sre treated and

odd things to deal with too.

LETTER JIGSAW

BY HEX RALEIGH

FERE'S a jigsaw puzzle you

HE

can make from the letter H Cut out the drawing, if you

wish, or tince it on heavy card- board, making larger. Four inches high by three inches wide ist a good size.

Draw the lines on your card- board drawing as shown and colour, the shaded paris.

Atter

H

THE COLORFUL H

'you'veʻout but the letter you can have a lot of fun trying to fit the 10 sections together without having two pieces of the raino colour next to each other. This Does easy, but it can be sur- prisingly tricky.

Let your friends try this

telling gaw without

them what letter theợ'ars' supposed to foam. This makes it duriorent

You ona make other letter

•puzileg by dividing them thila

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