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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER

the BOYS and GIRLS PAGE YOUR PUZZLE

SUPERSTITIONS DATE BACK MANY CENTURIES

New Year Brings Strange Beliefs

1

WO thousand years ago, broken crockery is saved until The

ancient Romans New Year's Eve and thrown the door of friends' had a wise and powerful god gainst

houses. The size of the pile in called Janus, for whom our your front yard, next morning month of January is named. shows how many friends you What made· Janus wiser have and the amount of good than most of the other goda luck you may expect for the was the fuct that ho had coming year. two heads, facing in oppo- site directions. Thus, ho was able to see what had already happened in the past and what would come to pass in the future.

So even now on the first day of January, many people believe that they, too, can tell what is in store for them throughout the

years to come.

AT MIDNIGHT

In Bulgarin, for instance, the boys and girls drop u leaf in a pan of water on New

Year's Eve. If it is fresh and green in the morning, they will have good health for the year. Summe believe that nt midnight of the last day of the year, the heavens open and the fucky ones who rutch a glimpse of Paradise will

have their dearest wish come

predlet the kind of weather to Many people believe they can

come from the weather on New

Year's Day. If the sky is red that day, the Swiss predlet yor of storms, fres, and wor

And in some districts of Ger- many the farmers use onions to foretell the weather. They talke twelve onions and hollow out the centre which they fill with sall. The onions ure carried up to the alte and each one named after a month, January, Febru- ary, March, and so on. The salt in some of the onions will dis- solve

quickly those will be wet, rainy months. In others, the sal will still those months will be dry

remain-

JANUS, THE TWO FÁCED, COULD TELL THA PAST AND FORSIELL THE FUTURE

CORNER

HAPPY NEW YEAR.

PRIENDSE

CROSSWORD

IN SOME COUNTRIES THE ANIMALS ARE BELIEVED TO BE ABLE TO TALK ON NEW YEARS EVE-

THE OVIGO BELIEVE THEY CAN

FORETELL

THE WEATHER FOR THE COMING YEAR

BY THE BRYON

| NEW YEARS DAY-

Qosed. WA'VE GOT I

LOTS OF FRIENDS");

IN DENMARK,

BROKEN CROCKERY IS

THROWN „AGAINST THE DOORG OF

FRIENDS ON NEW YEARS

there are

people, in bring bad

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ACROSS 1 Silhouette of this puzzle 3 Preposition

Part of "to be"

7 Pronoun

U.S. soldier

9 Mistake

DOWN

1 Another name for this

puzzle's silhouette

2 Heavy blow

3 Kind of pudding By M. L. Hopcraft | 4 Persian prince

Today in some places in Eng- should be tall and dark. If he' girls go from house to house as luts land and in Scotland, boys and has red bair-and

of red-haired American children do on Scotland-ho will On New Year's Eve,

somo Hellowe'en, seeking their "tricks luck instead. folks believe the farm animals or treats." Usually they curry a

th to each o her about how this: -horses, cows, sheep, and dogs little purse and sing a song ille

their master has treated them all year. But no farmer sneaks in- to his barn to listen, for he will surely die within the year.

FIRST DAY GIFTS

In English villages, boys go around making chalk marks on houses, which are supposed to be signs of good luck for he people who live there. In

in Spain, if you do not have Chameduvakin boys and girts

gold coin, you must beg or plum a tiny candio in a mut- borrow one when you venture shell, and set 1 in а рам ví

put on the street on New Year's water. If foals towards the Day. Empty pockets then means centre of the dish, they will empty pockets the rest of the enjoy a journey somewhere. If year. To meet a beggar is bad slays close to the edge, they'll luck too. And children must not stay at home all your.

quarrel or cry, for whatever The Hungartens "louch a pig you do on New Year's Day for luck." A tule porker, with you'll be doing all (brough the A bright ribbon around its year.

it

We are not dally beggars,

That beg fròm door to door: But we are neighbours' children, Whom you have seen before. We have a little purso,

Made of stretching lesther

skin:

We want a title of your money

To line it well within,

luck" not to give a penny or two Since it is considered "bad the boys and girls usually have

their purses well-lined to start the New Year.

Some Good New Year Resolutions

The Path To Popularity

Is As

Easy As A,B,C

Mint bapopular things moving and lively

koops

and

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OST boys and girls V Im

vigour)

sets up your popularly In Scotland, everyone-young It's surprising that

every going concern. and old-watches the "Old Year one out and the New Year in." Then secret.

doesn't discover the Work at it! To have Д

Popularity is as the church bella ring and the easy as A, B, CI

as friend, be a friend. Popularity neck, is let loose at midnight The custom of giving gifts on bagpipes

takes work. to run through the town. Who-the first day

play, they all digh of the year is ever ean touch the little fellow much older than the giving of relative or friend to be "First-Keep

medly to the house of some Activity niwaya is sure of a year's good luck.

something presents at Christmas. The an- foot." Whoever 15 If you lived in Denmark and cien

the first going on around you. Romans used to give visitor to enter a house is sup- accidentally broko a cup or branches of trees as omens of posed to bring good luck to all brains (yours, too) will not only Busy hands (yours) and busy plate while washing the dishes, good luck, while the children who live there and be lucky keep you out of mischief but in you wouldn't throw the pieces could safely demand a gift and himself through away. No, indeed. Every bit of

coming be sure of getting it that day. утаг. Bu! the "First-foot"

the

A VERY SWEET STORY! -General Tin Tells Everyone All About Sugar

By MAX TRELL

KNARE

and

the Hanid, shadow-children with The turned-about names, were hav ing dinner with Mr Punch and Judy and General Tin the Tin Soldier and Teddy the Stuffed Bear.

They were all grouped around the dinner table.

"Pass the sugar, please," said Judy to Knart and Hanid. For the sugar bowl was at their end of the table.

The Subject Is Sugar Hanid reached for the sugar bowl and passed it to Knarf, who passed it to

Teddy the Stuffed Bear, who passed it to General Tin, who passed it to Mr Punch, who passed it to Judy, who said "thank you" und helped herself to a spoonful.

One good place to get sugár

is from a sugar cane plant.

X marks the spot where you attracts, pre. And it will be a popular interesting spot if you work on your A,

B, CA.

Youth is the best time to improve your personality.

Zoal in every activity puts

a wide circle of friends.

Consideration for others

zest in your personality. Now we'll tell you

cut.

D

short The whole; secret of popularity is Always Be Cone one of the vital points of siderate. Easy as A, B, C, Isn't popularity.

Dependability goes a long way toward making people like

you.

Energy you must. have,

and by and by you have little follow those health rules. grains of sugar."

"And what's the other plant that sugar comes from?" asked Mr Punch.

"Beets," replied General Tin. Everyone exclaimed in по- tonishment "You mean, cried Knarf, "that sugar comes from the ordinary beet that we have for dinner."

eneral Tin nocking

BO

Friendliness is one of the most attractive traits

of per- sonality. Be friendly to 'every-

006.

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'HIDDEN FRUITS

The Puzzleman has hidden fru! in each of the following sentences. Can you plak them. 0117

She had a neat appeareñon. .... Mayhap plossing you fa dir-

flcult

The plump hen was to be our dioner.

DE-TAILED WORDS

and

De-tall "a fixed look" have "an asterisk dr-tail this and have "a musical direction;" ence more and have an abbre- vlation for "a thoroughfare."

TRIANGLE

Ted:y's triangle is based on Winter. The second word is “jumbled typt"; third "operated": four h "pause" and "nith "a siicky substance,”

W

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WINTER

PICTURE WORD SQUARE'

Substitute a

four-letter word

for each of the pictures in this sketch and you'll find your an- swer reads the same down acrosa,

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(Solution on Pare 18)

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"VIETNAM"

is earnest, but you needn't be cultivate. Life is real and life "CAMBODGE" long-faced about it.

High standards of behaviour "MEKONG" (1)" children agreed that make for enduring popularity, bects did taste sweet.

"DONAI"

100%

"

"There's lots of sugar in I deals, (high like your, stan- them too, just as there Is in darda) help you choose the best sugar cone," said General Tin, in friendships.. "When the sugar is squeezed out J olis good times make und purifled, it becomes sugar memories, hold friends together hoppy memories and happy Knart was about Interrupt: In spite of time and distance. "I know what you're going to K now yourself. Develop

General Tin sald quickly. every talent you have. "You want to know how white Likable people have more friends than ofther the beautiful or the brainy.

sugar can come out of red

.beets."

It was then that Knart sold: "Where does sugar come from? Everyone was surprised to Does it grow in lumps on trees, learn that sugar grew in plants or is it found somewhere in and in trees.

"Well,

Yes, that's it, General Tin." . {} Bonby? No. Popularity can atles like white Aund et the General Tin went on.

when the Juice is never be bought, so money or seashore?"

"When purified, it is bleached, just as the lack of it isn't important sugar is growing, It doesn't look clothes are, bleached to make Nice you do need to be. Not Beture anyone else had a anything like the sugar you take them white." chance to answer,

la Teddy

"Nice Ned or Nancy? but the out of S-uffed Bear

the sugar bowl. It's Hanld's final question replied;

was what people mean, wäen they, "Sugar just a juice a very sweet juice about the sugar that General say "a thoroughly nice person, comes from the sugar bowl.

-at Arst" Everyone knows that?"

Tie had mentioned grow ob Out-going-ness la a fine trait, But Hanid said to Teddy: come from?" Judy asked General, grow sugar, General, Tin? I word to describe ill If you "But what plants does sugar trees. What kind of trees even If we have to invent a "Sugar doesn't come from the Tin sugar bowl. It's just put there."

never heard of sugar trées," want to the popular cultivate an

Sweet Sag

| out-going interest in others. sald Knarf, "it comes from the Sugar cane is a tall plant, as whiling,

Punctuality means that you grocer's."

thin and straight as a

there must be know time in the raw materini Then General Tin started to (which is the reason it has that has ever heard of. The tree I other people's.

lots of things that none of us of life. Respect both yours and explain about sugar:

name).

Quter your changes? That's Warm When the

"Some of it comes from the

r it comes from anywhere," sugar canes, my dear Judy, "Y FLY THRINE Bald General Tin

IL

Catio

"Sugar is a very strange where it." Brows; in countries mean that grows sugar is the

ing. You might be surprised Gugar cone is cut down and sugar maple trea. The juice or what you'll do If you let to learn that it does really grow. squeezed in a heavy machine, sap in the troomakes maple popularity spoil yot. It grows in two different kinds sweet juice comes pouring out on pancakes) and it also makes Don't spread yourself on a bill-

Tike tho syrup

kind you pour -B, ciòrve is desirable trait. of plants and some of it Then the juice is boiled and brown hisple mugar. Maple sugar board for the whole world to grows in trees,"

MOK NEWYEAR

KWACKY STICK

1.Punch a hole about 2: ih.wide in the center of the top and bottomofa medium sized JUICE CAN."

WASH OUT CAN AND SOAK OFF LABEL BERRE : USING

2.FIND A STICK ABOUT ZO INCHES LONG THAT WILL SLIP THROUGH THE HOLES

evaporated and purilled

3.LET THE TOP OF STICK STAND UP ABOUT 2.IN FROM CAN TOP AND WRAP ADHESIVE TAPE THE CAN DO THE SAME AT AROUND THE STICK CLOSE TO THE BOTTOM

DECORATE CAN-WITH ENAMEL PAINTE 4Drop about 12 pebbles into the can and putTAL

usually comes in big. round read. shapes like large cookies. It's Sincerity in all you are and delicious,

shes in everything you do makes you Hardly had General Tin a real person, Inished whch Judy called down Talkativeness le One. · Don't „other end of the table, ovardo it, of course,; but how, Would passing que anyone mano, tiende the salt, please?"

But no one asked where suit

a cat's-got-his-tongue character? Usefulness is a key that un-

came from.... They, all kubw, it locks the door of opportunity. tame from a salt mine.

Be a ureful person.

Rupert and the Magic Ball

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