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BOYS'

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1948.

FULL-PAGE FEATURE EVERY SATURDAY

AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

SPORTS . STORIES. PUZZLES - CRAFTS • GAMES · JOKES

HOW CARL WON Colourebus ...

THE CONTEST

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By FRANK HAMMOND

ARL knew he was next

Carl rose slowly.

llis face พกง His breathing was short and rapid, Unsteadily he walked to the speaker's stand, The muscles

on the programme. He florld. was terrified because so much was at stake. He raised a handkerchief; mopped his high forehead, and smoothed his wavy brown hair with nervous fingers.

Carl's mind ran back to the Interview with the reporter just before he came on stage.

"Are you Carl Brown?" the Carl reporter had Inquired. had answered that he was and the reporter continued: "I'm a reporter and I'm Interviewing the contestants before the cur- tain goes up. How long have you attended Hillmoor high school?"

"This to my replied.

in his long arms grew rigid. His sta clenched. When he stopped him the mass of faces looked Hite a hiy knees literally quaked. Before waving fleid of dalsics. He looked

at the microphone and thought multitudes more, Ilstening.

of

THE clapping which followed the introduction died down to com- plete silence. Would he be able to speak? Would he stutter? Car! His mouth moistened his ps. opened. Ha chin trembled. He faced the Beld of faces.

"Mr Ch-ch-chairman." He felt his neck flush as he realised he was "Lndles and E--- stammering gentlemen."

Somebody snickered. A ripple of hmmusement run over the audience. last year." Carl Carl's heart sank. He was falling. Falling himself and falling his father.

"How did you happen to enter the contest?"

"I like public speaking and the course has helped ine a great deal," "You see, I used Carl explained. to stutter terribly. Like others who have this handicap, I was self- conscious about it and tried to overcome it."

"I notice you've succeeded."

"Yes, except when I'm very ex- cited or frightened."

"How do you feel about the con-

test? Do you expect to win?" reporter's eyes wrinkled measured Carl's tall Ogure.

The

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"I'll do my best," Carl grinned "The broadcasting station contract is something to shoot at. I can be a announcer when I finish school and I might work my

through way college at it."

"And of course you're not forget- ting the $500 cash prize!"

"MS"

"That's the most important reason for entering the contest against older young men, most of them college students," Curi saich. father's life is at stake."

"The reporter's eyes widened as he sensed story, "What mean?"

The thought of his father caused Carl to grils teeth. He blinked and looked fiercely at the nudlence. Sudden enger rose in a surge. They were laughing at him! Laughing at bl#

weaknessi Laughing at his

fallure.

Curl squared his shoulders and pulled back his head. Ils expres- ston was like that of a wounded bull which turns upon the matador who wounded him. He raised his right

hand dramatically and the audience deathly silent. Anger dis-

Krew

placed the fear. Without hesitation his volce rose full and strong. He Anished, walked back and stumped weakly into his chair. He scarcely heard the applause.

The orchestra played. The judges conferred. In a few moments the chairman of the judges appeared to

the decision

announce

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By Calvin Fader

The squares with letters in them are to be filled in with colour either water colour or crayons. Colour the squares marked R with Red; O stands for Orange; Y for Yellow; G for Green; B for Blue; P for Purple, etc. When you finish you'll have a picture.

Tricks Make Fill-In

Dull Days

Match That Produces Heat But No Light

By KATHERINE HOUISON

VER since the invention of E

the first friction match, scientists have been trying to produce one with a clearer flame and a more dependable light. Then war came and they were asked to produce a match with out either light or dame!

A lamp had been made

for the armed forces which gave hent but no light, so the men could heat soup and coffee any- where. But there was a catch to it. This hexamine lamp had to be ignited by a mateli, and the flame of a match was all the

enemy needed to start something. Scientists were asked to produce a match which would set these lamps going without endangering men on the battlefront. It took a long time to find it, but Canadian scientists found the answer-a match which ignites, but which has no flame and does not throw off any light.

Fun For safety

During Bad Weather

BY WALTER KING

WHEN the weatherman keeps you indoors and you need a bit of exercise, invite yourself to your own stunt party.

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your hands to stendy yourself os you get up, but unless your body muscles are very obedient to commands of your brain you are dus for an up-set or two.

The match looks like uny

other match except for the heat. This is much larger than an or dinary match head. Like all safety matches, it must be struck on the box in which it is packed, but once It is struck, there is no flame at all. What happens is that The

heart Renerates such intense heat It im- mediately Ignites

it any surface touches, without revealing flame or light.

It can be used anywhere, even When the wind is blowing a gale for, having no flame, it cannot blow

REVOLUTION IN INDUSTRY

After you have mastered the stunt, have a family competition You may not be able to flap and see who can get up the quickest. your ears or wiggle your toes (Mother holds the watch). Every-out. in opposite directions, but you body laughs, even the person doing

the trick. can certainly limber up your For some pencil fun write "Boys senses and a good few stagnant and Girls"

with your right hand. underneath muscles. Settle down and enjoy Directly

write these a quiet corner of the room. Try three words with your left hand aliming to copy the right hand effort these muscle controls stunts and as nearly as possible. Then attempt when you have mastered them, give your friends a demonstra-

"I speak." said he, "both for the committee of judges and for the broadcasting company for which

talent scout, I do not know these boys, and did not see them when they spoke. I listened in a rudio booth, but the other judgestion. watched the speakers.

do you "Each speaker displayed strong points, but some weak ones were "My father is seriously 1," Carl also evident. I'd like to comment sald quietly. "Only an expensive on the merits of each discourse, but operation can save his life. That the judges have honded me their money will be enough to see him scores and I know you want the through."

decision.

EDEL

"Mr Ch-chairman" Carl felt himself flush as he realised

"I hope you do," spoke, dropping his atitude for a moment.

he was slammering.

the reporter professional "This con- test is being broadcast and I hope your dad is listening.

ARL'S thoughts were interrupted as the speakers were called to the rostrum, Carl thought of the sincere handshake the reporter had given him and how good he felt.

Then the curtain rose. A sea of faces

loomed in front of Carl. Everything changed, and Carl felt A cold chill ran no longer. along his spine and his body grew

good

tense.

"What if I fall!" came a thought. It ran through his mind, echoing from every nerve fibre. "What if I get up there and start to stutter)" He pulled out his handkerchief ngain and wiped the chilly moisture from his brow. His hands felt cold and clammy.

The chairman made some intro- ductory remarks that Carl did not hear, then introduced the Arst speaker, Carl relaxed slightly, and looked at his watch. Quite a while, yet. Each boy would speak at least eight minutes. By that time Carl would be cool again, he hoped.

Then before he knew it, the

"One of the most important abill- ties a speaker may possess is that of colisting the audience on his side, The judges unanimously agree that the prize goes tonight to the boy who did the best job after he got started, but whose greatest ability was displayed in winning the audi- ence by his first five words. The winner is speaker No. 6, Carl Brown."

PROLONGED applause followed his announcement, An usher touched Carl on the arm. "Long distance telephone call for you, Mr Brown."

Carl hurried back stage, picked up the receiver and heard his mother's voice. "We've been Hstening, son, and we're proud of you! We were # bit scared nt first. We were afraid you were starting to stutter. Then we saw you did it on purpose to get a laugh."

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Carl gulped, tried to speak, but could not, so his mother went on. "The most wonderful light come into your father's eyes when they clapped so long for you. The radio was by the bed and he heard it all.” Corl's voice was a little choked, but

"Dad can have his

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fourth boy was finishing. Carl knew operation right away, Mum”

Ho

he was next and shuddered.

Place First, a finger test. your hands together, pulms facing each other, and the points of the fingers and thumbs Now bend down the touching, middle fingers inside the hand so that the backs of the two fingers touch one another from the fingernails to the second point. . Then while all other fingers remain vertical, and touching their partners, try. separating the thumbs, the little fingers, the forefingers, and finally the third fingers. If

TRY TO LIFT YOURSELF FROM THE FLOOR BALANCING A SPOOL ON YOUR HEAD-.

ITS QUITE ENA TRICK

hand script with

you can pass the final test, you to copy the left have exceptional muscle control. your right hand. You will find it

Calls For Steadiness

is almost as difficult for your right Here's a trick which calls for hand to copy the left as it is for steadiness and balance. To do it, lie-the left-to-copy-the-right-

Place a cotton nat on your back.

Perhaps you have not realized of habit you of your fore- how much a person spool on the centre

are. If placed in an unusual post- head. Then try to rise to a standing position without losing the spool and tlon you will have great difficulty without touching it with either in adjusting yourself. The following hand. You

a very amusing use experiment makes

pastime for a party.

may, of course,

POSERS

Two

WO lists below give 10 very com- mon objects and the names of Ure 10 famous people. Each of fumous people was in some way connected with one of the common objects in such a way as to make. him famous. The object is to con- nect the right person with the right thing.

Count 10 for each correct answer.

A score of 80 or better is excellent; is good and: 60 is fair. Anything

70

below 50 shows the need to study about folks who have done thingă, Answers will be found on this page.

Edmund Halley

Cabinet Sword

Gabriel D. Fahren-

helt

Opern

John Philip Sousa Thermometer Abner Doubleday Plano

Engelbert Humper-

dinck Pottery Beord Bend Baseball Comet

Thomas Chippendale Josiah Wedgwood Damocles

Frederic Chopin Anthony Van Dyck

PUZZLE ANSWERS

Crossword puzzle answer:

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PEN

Owed, ode.

United States paper money is made

"That's wonderful, son. I know looked at his watch again, but he'll come through. And then we'll in Washington. couldn't tell what time it was. The be able to hear could

hear your volce every chairman was speaking.

Ladles

and gentlemen, the last night on the radio."

When Carl hung up the receiver speaker in tonight's contest is a he lowered his head thoughtfully. He young man finishing his senior high had won the greatest battle that life year. I give you Carl had yet presented. He must find

strength to go on and win more.

school Brown"

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To Break A Habit

Stand in front of a large mirror and hold a strip of cardboard about one inch wide and three inches long over your forehead. Then take a pencil and write your name on the paper while looking into the mirror. This is not too difficult a task. Yet when you take the paper away from your forehead you will find you have written your name back- wards.

So you can write backwards! Well, just try writing your name tail first on plece of paper without using the mirror. test the exactness

To

of your handwriting hold the sam- ple up with a mirror which will tell the true story.

Strangely enough, when you tried the experiment in front of the mir- ror you were not conscious of the fact that you

were writing back- hond wards so your

went through with the nasignment.

But

when you write backwards really tried to your mind told your hand that it was too difficult

and feat

you had quite a time get- ting along with it. This proves that many a-time a task is made more difficult when you let your mind do the prompting with such ideas as "Oh you've never done this before, so it isn't likely you will succeed!"

RED

RYDER

WE DON'T WANT TO PROWL AROUND HAIRPIN CURVE TOO LONG BEFORE TRAIN TIME, BOYS --

This new development may start the same sort of revolution in the

match industry that the invention of the friction malch did in 1827.

Prior to that date, matches hatch been splinters of wood soaked in chersleals. and everyone had to carry a litle bottle of sulphuric acid in his pocket for lighting pur- poses. When the splinter was dip- ped in the bottle of weld, the match was supposed to blaze up. Often as

not the match only sputtered and Azzed and burned the user's hands and clothes. These splinters were too expensive for the general public. Most people still used Aint and tinder to take a light in those days.

An American chemistry student became disgusted with this waste of time and money. He began to ex- periment and it on the idea of add- ing a sulphur base to the known explosives.

At his first demonstration of the new idea it was picked up by an English student and sent to his father, a chemist in London. continued to experiment and it was friction matches were minde in 1827. in this English shop that the first They were called "Juelfers," and to strike them the user had to draw them through a strip of folded But they were much sandpaper. cheaper.

STILL TOO EXPENSIVE Even at that price they were still too expensive for the Average family, they were awkward to use, and not loo safe. So selcntists con- tinued their experiments.

The next improvement was the present kitchen match, with it wooden stick and coloured head, and from that it was only a few short steps to our familiar package of safety inatches.

But in those few steps several Interesting things took place.

Some way had to be found to keep matches from going off with u anywhere, on any sort of surface- bang when struck. They must strike

and they definitely must not leave a murk behind them! They had to be shaped Just so, or they might rub together in the box

or in your pocket and explode at the most em- barrassing vinent.

Thomas

POSER ANSWERS

Cabinet,

Chippendale; Sword, Damocles; Opera, Engelbert Humperdinck; Thermometer, Gabriel D. Fahreubelt; Piano, Frederic Chopin; Pottery, Josiah Wedgwood; Band, John Philip Sousa; Baseball, Abner Doubleday; Comet, Edmund Halley.

What's a Small-Sized Game?

---It's the Kind You Play With Piries— By MAX TRELL

"Now when I was small--very,

very small-about as big as a small pin," Mr Punch was saying to Kharf and Hanld, the shadow chil- dren with the turned-around names, Little "I used to play with the People." He paused and smiled. "Of course, you know who the Little People are?"

Knarf said: "They're people who ure ittle."

"Yes, that's right-in a

way," agreed Mr Punch. "But they're also like pixles. In fact, you might call the Little People pixies. At any rate," he went on. "I used to play Games with them."

"What kind of garnes, Mr Punch?” flank asked.

"All kinds of games. For instances, I used to play laggle with them."

"Tuggie?" said Kharf in a puzzled voice.

The Same Way

"We play tag. The Litle People enll it toggle.

the But it's played same way, or almost the same way, The difference is in the places where you play it. Children usually play tag in the street, or around the out- side of a house, wherever there's

or

plenty of room to chase around In. But the Little People, being tiny. don't need much room. So we used to play toggle Inside a glove or 1 stacking, or on top of a table, around a pair of shoca. It was great fun. And then," said Mr Punch, "we used to play marbles."

"Like marblea?" sald Knarf. Mr Punch nodded. "Except that Instead of regular marbles, we used tiny grains of sugar. On windy days we flew our kites-or kitles, as we called them. Do you know what they were made of?"

Knurf and Hanid asked what they were made of?

"Stamps, old postage stamps, with cobweb instead of strings. We'd go

The Pixies liked hide-and-neck.

boating across a rain-puddle in half a walnut shell."

"Did you ever play hide-and- scek?" Hanid said,

"Indeed we dl. flide-and-Seckle.

We called it And when the Little People hid, they really hid," sald Mr Punch. "I remember one day it took me from breakfast untii. dinner time to find Tommy Small. He was one of my friends. I looked everywhere under the carpet, irt the cups and sugar-bowl, under the spoons, behind the matchbox. But 120 Tommy Small. But finally found him."

I

"Where?" asked Knarf and Hand eagerly.

"In the middle of Africa," said Mr Punchi,

"In the middle of Africa!" erled Honid. "How did he get there?"

Mr Punch smiled.. Very simply. He got there in half-a-minute. He just crawled. Inside a geography book-lying on the children's table. And there he was, stretched out across the middle of Africa, as snug as a bug in a rug!"

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AFRICAN SQUARE

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Rupert begins to lose hope as he ** Poor gets back to the common. Dr. Lian will have to go on work- ing too hard without any sunshine to help him," he thinks. All at once another tall house with a pointed roof comes in sight, and a strange idea comes to him. ** The old professor said that making the sun to shine was like a conjuring trick." he whispers. "I wander he really mean it Tha house over there is the Chinese conjurer's new home.

I've a good mind to ask if he can do the trick I

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