1939-12-22 — Page 21

DONALD DUCK

WILL YA READ US

A BED TIME

STORY,

UNCA DONALD?

NO

DOGGONE, IT

Y' SHOULDA BEEN ASLEEP LONG

AGO!

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- Work fizh Brent

MURDER WINDOW

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 22, 1939.

By Walt Disney

---AND THEN THE LITTLE RED HEN CRIED, WHY, CHICKIE BIDDY,

YOU NAUGHTY

CHILD!"

OPEN

UNTIL

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P.M.

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.

WALT DISNEY!

Two British airmen prisoners at internment barracks somewhere in Germany, chat with Gorman officer, loft. Barbed wire runs along building to discourage anyone who might consider jumping out of a window.

Make It A Safe Christmas

FIERE are futtr "Do's" aut four "Newt's" fo make your Christmas

"afe: DO

Hang up paper and other lan- terns by wire, not string-and

make sure they don't swing

Warn your family and guests there are colun or similar surprkes

In Christmas pudding:

Wait until the padding is on the able beture pouring un lighted

prit:

well clear of open lights and elce-

trie fuses.

Teasers

Nephews'

Will Be Worse

This Christmas

By GUY RAMSEY

You

TILE spate of Christmas games is upon us. know the kind of thing: "What was the maiden name of Mrs. David Copperfield?"-one given at the Liberal

Keep all flags, paper streamers || Party ball-or, "What murderer called his victim an egg?" which was set to the pupils of King William's College, Isle of Man, in their annual General Knowledge test. e

DON'T-

fake any change at all in elen. tric wiring escent under direction of an electrician or ebm- petent persane

Hitherto I have been able (more or less) to hold my own when my young nephew Roderick has returned to the bosom of his family for Christmas with a store of such teasers, specifically designed "to make Uncle Guy Ese relluleid for any decorativebok an awful juggins."

Give highly painted toys or those with tharp edges to very young chlidren-whe

tut Mem straight into their mouthst

purpose-it's highly inflammable.

Leave paper streamers bangbut

ar fylg abent after the parly

WFT.

PHILIPPINE FLOODS

Manila, Dec. '21.

For General Knowledge tests (which ought really to be called. Special Knowledge tests) are really tests of other people's intelli- When Roderick, helping himself to his fourth mince-pic, to the peril of his waistcoat; buttons, splutters:

gence.

ing

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If the letters in the word NOR are in the same order as they are in the dipitabet, write the number which to less than 5 by the num- 12 mol, write the number 1-unless ber of letters in the word AND,

it is a Wednesday, in walch ene write 174,

So This Is Fair

"Uncle, how long is the Equator": jur, worse, "Who said. 'My lagdon for a horse I and my dearette taen empty (I always keep my The Province of Cagayan is stilarette ce compty when Hoderick cut off following the typhoon and home) and, on pretext of

it, to tr my library and look up douds of the week-end. Authorities Equator

in the encyclopedia or 'car epidemics and famine. Some Kingdom' in un anthology ef quota-

I smoked three cigaretten. My fie 1,600 people are homeless at Nagan, tions, arad return ustentatiously was creeket, my hair (such as is Joebella Province. The Postmas pag and

come out pal with theft)

was wild. } had my paper; that several for reported

person fanswer.

checked. I had scored 15 per cent. were killed and that crop

-having laken 25 damage

minutes Tor WOX CHDYMOUR, The flood waters have not receded.United Press.

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We also wish to state that to show our goodwill, wo are giving free gifts in a great variety of valuable articles to oach purchaser of goods to the value of $3.00 and upwards, cach free gift having a value in proportion to the value of the goods purchased.

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ten-minute paper.

Chagrin (and, of course, mince-pic) Outraged, I telephoned to the reduce Roderick nearly to bursting Board of Education, asking if they point. For (with the aid of my encouraged this monstrous system for Ibrary) I am a bit of a whale at the discomßituire of uncles. using other people's intelligences.

"Most decidedly," they said. "X-

But this term. Roderick's schontelligence tests provide a new insta- has at last awakened after 350 ties. It has, of course, its limitations. ment to measure a child's potentiali- years of exbicure) to the theory (sychologists co-ordinate that it might be a good thing to with a case history and a personal the tests find cut not how much is pupils interview.) It takes no account of | know, but how intelligent they are.mperament-or-charneler.--

To this end they have evolved a "Is great advantage is that it does system of intelligence tesis.

not put the wind up' children, as do jordirary examinations. They treat it

a game."

These have fled me with dread. No book of reference, can help me

now.

Young Roderick will mumble with his mouth full; "Brothers and sisters have I none, but that man's father is my father's son, Uncle, Who is! 1. Uncle?

-Of Course

Or he will ask me to complete the next two of a series of taures that rum: 1, 3, 7, 13, 21.

le will ask me what is the oppo- site of "Not in," and crow disgusting

ly

course, I may testily: "Out

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A Game For Whom?

A game, forsooth! If I-play it with Roderidt, fear I shall lose,

I knew it Roderick has just emerged from his cab with a dirty face and a dirty crack.

He asked me: "If a man bought 2d. thing and gave a fd; and if he got two coins in change; and if one coln wasn't a 3d. bit, how did it krippen?"

went to the library. I used up five i found my cigarette-cuse empty I

of sheets of a bridge pad, working it

out.

thought to bt prepared for I returned, smoking and milling. Roderick's home-coming. 1 wer! You can't catch ine." Irmirked. long to the National Institute of "I know the answer. The customer Industrial Psychology.

glanced at the paper for 10-year- las-and scored a superb 47 per cent.

I inquired of the Vocational Guid-

once scetion whi that indicateri;

wis done"

"Wrong again. Vorle Gust One coin wasn't a 3d bit-hut the other coin was! Ikat ha!"

An American doctor adus the int. they said that if I were 10 they would telligence declines after the age of Fadvise me to go in for a manual job. [15. He is quite right I shall spend I tried the paper for eight-yone-this Christmas at my club playing

[contract. It's casier..

alds. This was one question

Woman Buys 6 Perfect Gifts

I'VE done my window shop- fur rug made ping early, pressed my nose wool in brown. against the glass in an effort

of Jong pile alpaca

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My brother doesn't know it, but to find the ideal Christmas his habit of changing his suits about gifts for six people I love. It three times a day has made me want was not easy, for there is to give him on umbrella with three handles, мле of such an embarrassment of interchangeable

whangee, one of leather, and one of choice.

malacca,

But now, after # lot of changes, I've got what I regard

na the perfect list.

MIY wkward Aunt, charming in herself, is apt to be dimeult as re- Bards gifts."

I'd like to buy her a Siamese old and house

MOTHERZ Ikes things for the home-kitten-three menulis

I'd like to buy her a special amp-trained. It is pale cream and brown,

liade made of two pieces of trans-

parent

stuff with dried flowers, and in the wickedest pair of eyes whent, or barley pressed between. It has ever been my misfortune to An 10in. diameter shade for a see through glass. alandard Erump will cost $8. Others

nre made to estimate.

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FOR my favourite girl friend, Ell- zabeth, mild-Victorian by Inclination

Fon father 14 Ilko to buy some-these two months past. I want to buy

thing to keep his feel. warm in the car.

I've got my eye on an Inliation

bracelet and matching necidet of three strands of pearls, mounted on black velvet ending in tiny bows

THE TWO FUNNIEST THINGS THAT EVER HAPPENED!

Gen. Nuisance and Chief Disorderly! They're gaga over the Commandant's Cútie! And when Gorgeour Georgette gives them the eye) -it's Ready-Aim!—TIREWORKS!.. Come and

I go completely dally-happy!.......

Stan

AND

LAUREL

•HARDY

Oliver

FLYING DEUCES

Reginald

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