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Beginning

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1936.

new series of

Intelligence

for Children

T

.

Tests below are for children aged 10 to 14. Without claiming to fit every case, they will serve as a fascinating guide to the way. your child's mind is developing.

HE following tests are designed for boys and girls aged from 10 to 14, of average weight and height, living in normal and happy surroundings.

Properly approached, the child should enjoy doing them. They will reveal to you his stage of development and quickness, of mind.

A GE 10. Test 1: Draw two

simple designs (such as these illustrated), not having more than 12 lines in them. Allow the child to look at each design for 10 seconds, and then ask him to TC- produce them from memory.

SCORING: One design should be produced quite correctly and the

half cor-

rectly. Holf cor- WAN

rectly means that

the main inter pretation is right but that one or two linen are mis-

nished.

or half

2: Road

Test out to the child three sentences in which there is an obvious absurdity | of thought. For instance: -

.

them

minutes. He must not run together in one sentence-merely nome words separately.

GE

12.

At this

age. A

A child should be able to deflue abstract words such as plty.

misery, envy, revenge, justice.

Test 1: Use words which are commonly in use in your household and explain that for the time being you do not know what these words mean all, and the child must in Its own langunge explain them to J'ou.

SCORING: To pass the test the child must explain these abstract words so that his comprehension of them is perfectly clear to you.

Test 2: Write three sentences to between seven and ten words and jumble the words up thus: "OPENED THIS I BY LETTER MISTAKE MORNING YESTER-1 DAY." "RAN LENGTH ROAD WHOLE MINUTES TEN IN WE

THE OF "ANGRY AN PERSON GIVE CANNOT

Do you know the American for-

Cupboard

Season ticket holder Come of droughts Full slop

Underdone (strak) Braces

"From my office is a road running daronhill to the station, and down- bill all the 1000 back again."

The

"The greengrocer saya that the more orders he has the more quickly

he boy deliver them."

cat

ncar

"Old Mr. Adams la very sighted. He loves nature, and you will often see him gazing out of his window at the long stretch of field and beech woods in

their autumn colouring, full glory of

SCORING: Two out of three absurdities should be detected at pnce. Make quite sure that the ellid understands the idea.

Test 3 Tell the child. to name as many words as he possibly can in Uire minutes. Any word will do, atan, pronoun,, verb, adverb, ad- jective. Explain thts and then. any "Go"

SCORING: A child of ten should be able to name 60 words in three

M

Put

nil

the

words In copl taly and do not show any pune- tuation.

SCORING: Twoj out of three sen- tences should be correctly

Rolved,

allowing one minule to cach

solution. If you give a sentence that will read sense in a variety of ways, the child has, of course, passed if he Interprets it in any of them.

Test 3: Repeat five numbers to the chlid very slowly twice. Such as 3-1-0-7-9. Child should then be asked to repeat these reversed. You may give him two other combina- tions of numbers, but do not repeat -any-of-them-more-than twice.

NEXT

WEEK

For children agod

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to

ton

time be then? Give two other problems like this.

SCORING: Two out of three answers should be correct. Five minutes' range is allowed in giving the answer to the reversed big hand that is to say, 0.22 may be inter- preted, ns 4.30 or 4.35,"

Test 2: Find out if he knows" differences of meaning between nl- stract words such as laziness and Idleness, poverty and misery, Ione- liness and isolation, character and. reputation,

SCORING: The child should be ubie to contrast the meanings of the words in each case. Individuals may be used in the definitions, but the meaning of the words must be made quite clear:

For instance, "Tom is Jazy be cause he doesn't work hard ni school and Jane is idle because her mother doesn't give her any work to do," would be a correct answer.

Tests

SHORT SHORT STORY

Shrew

Ash

by

JOHN HORNER

HAT

there were

Twitches, pixies, and

various hobgoblins, SCORING: The child has passed Tom Gammon had no doubt. if he is able to repeat one out of That was why he was busy three series correctly the first time. boring a hole in the ash tree. AGE 14. Test 1: Without He believed that old Widow letung the child look at a Johnson was a witch. Didn't clock, ask it to visualise the position she put the evil sign on Clara of the two bands at, say, 0.22. say, "Supposing the hands were re-:

Penwarden, and didn't Clara fall. versed and the big hand put where down and break her arm? the Httle hand is,

Moving house

Then

what would the

-ways of saving yourself

a lot of trouble

OVING house is bound to be a tiresome business, but here are ways of saving yourself trouble.

In the first place, it is essential to see that chimneys Are all swept before you move in, and that the cisterns are all in proper working order, that windows, doors and locks are. correctly fitting. `---

Accurate measurements for such things as carpets, linos, curtains are necessary, and it anves an enormous amount of time And trouble if these are all in position before the furniture actual ly arrives.

Leave it to the Movers

"Who0-F100!" The white otol had made' its kill.

And as his red tinted teeth sank into the soft worm he heard the faint patter of tiny feet, feet liny

ns his own,

He looked up. There before him

There were also various pixies whleb must not be offended. Woe knows how many ancestors knew of was another of his kind. betide the man who grew no fullps the only cure. in his garden. Did not the Litfle People use them as cradles for their babes?

The pixles. were mortal bad enemies;

Whiskers briailing, red teeth bared, The hole was bored. The place there were no preliminaries. Both of torture ready, Tom Gammon shrews sprang at once. The ballie made his trup.

waged with an Incredible ferocity

intense ... bloody....

Probably there is no more quarrel- some creature in the wild world tiny Look what happened to Farmer creatures meet and they fight Jones. Of course he came from usually to the death. Why they fight Wales and didn't know any better,, no one knows, no one ever will. but he ploughed up a Fairy Ring,

and even went so far na to pull up Of course, it may be that as their all the tulips in his flower garden. lives are so uncertain, death means He lost ten pigs from swine fever, so. Uttle... Not that they have any three ewes dived into the river, and real foe, except the owl. A cat two cows died in calving. At least will kill them, but not eat them. that was what he said, knowing no They sell rather badly. better. Twas the Little Folk. They did it.

BU

QUT It was not for the Little Folk Tom Gammon bored the hole in the ash tree..

Death came-trom the sky; with rush of air the silent swoop of down-feathered murder.

The shrew's opponent disappeared. "Whoo-hoo! The white owl had made its kill.

NOW the shrew scurried

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Opera change (anag). Plant that makes a spirit when divided

9 Plant that seems to promise.

boy amusement.

12 The motorist doesn't want to use

this boy's help.

away. He lay hidden for The shrew differing from its a while until, fear forgotten in the cousin, the common mouse, is not need of food, he began to search a rodent, it is an Insect enter, with new.... a partially for worms, slugs and He searched silently. In the 13 A necessity for the angler. snails.

midst of his searching-click Tom 14 One of 5 down taken the wrong Gammon's trap had claimed its way is possibly painful.. Probably, it is their love of insect, vielim. The shrew was a prisoner,

15 Card game. food that causes them to die in the Twelve hours after Tom Gammon 17 Part of the first ald outfl autumn by the thousand.

found him. Half an hour later he Tom had a horse, and it was 1.

18 In this car you can easily get Insects, worms and slugs are hard had made in the ash tree.

was placed in the hole Tom Gammon on. But Tom wouldn't have it that to and when the cold comes, harder hole was sealed,

And the 20 Amaze.

24 Opportune. colle was the trouble. The vet. was still to store, and as shrews hibernate a fool... he knew. He had heard they have no store cupboard against "I'll cut me a twig from this tree,

"Now, when he's dead," said Tom, 20 The person who has this is ony- his father say many a time. It was lean times, and so they die, at stroke my horse with it and it will 28 This rage is damming.

how sure of a living. shrew mouse that had made his least most of them.

horse sick.

.

The horse had been sleeping and nabrew had walked over it. Every one knely that would make a harse

Don't get harassed about your prized possessions and try to sick, or a cow for that matter, ex- pack, them yourself; you probably don't know the first thing cept these fool vels who drew their about real packing. Leave it all to the professional packers; which did no. pod.

fees for n dose of fiorse draught everything will be quite safe with Ham. Don't bother the men who A month's Notice There was only one cure."

are moving you by fussing; tell them

THE spring sun, a little weak

and watery, was setting.

A shrew mouse had survived the winter and he awakened from his winter sleep hungry and angry. There had never been a time when he had been anything else.

He meandered across the mea-

how you want things done and leave Before you move, you must notify He must put it in the hole he was He must trapu shrew mouse alive. them to get on with the job.. the Telephone Company if you want boring. He must sent the hole so dow seeking food. He walked warlly,

Do not forget that all your elec- your telephone best

your telephone number to be the that the tiny mouse must die, slowly, u creature hard to discern in the

'month's trical fittings must be in position notice for this.

of starvation. Then he would break longlah grass, for he was smaller. before the company's meharrive The gas company must be notified, stricken horse with the twig, and

a twig from the tree, touch his than the common mouse. to connect up the supply, other so that they may disconnect the of course, it would recover.

He sniffed with his long pointed who you will have, to pay for a supply at your old house and con-father had told him so. His grand- side to side with beady eyes. Then His snout, and looked cautiously from second visit

neet up at the new one.

father, his great-grandfather, for he made his kill a large earth worm.

be cured!"

That day the horse died.

20 "We rove to Mecca, Dieppe, Rio, Texas, and Aleppo" (hidden). This poet was British and did not live la Rome;

But the shrew mouse wus forgot-31 ten. Possibly he tried to eat part of himself, such things have been known. But what does matter?

A shrew

Did you know the American for-

Closet

Commuter Checkers Perlod

Rare

Suspenders

32 Many a fine blade came from

here...

33 This keeps a dredger busy. 34 What is Puritan parlator.ers called it when the person came a cropper skating

WWW

DOWN.

2 the lark at Heaven's gate

ainga" (Cymbeline),

3 Feminine name.

4 Not at all vulgar, and apparently

best in a certain colour.

5 Game that can be found most

work-baskets, <

6 Food that may serve as 19

ncròs,

་་་

7 Words of this nature are often

bad, ones.

8 Occupation that is not real.

10 Spirit of Japan.

10

People present (apparently they show where);

This In a dance is plenty.

19 Early morning,

21 "Hamlet's "solid flesh," 22 Result.

23 Author of two wonderful books, but he might be a nuisance to a motorist

25 Debatable.

27 Skilled,

poetry

not necessarily in"

30 This might be got from a goat. 31 Part of a plant,

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