1948-05-15 — Page 8

An Alpine Legend Tests

Bix Brewer's Character

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1948.

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BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

THE SPECTRE IN THE SNOWS

By 1. R. HEGEL

THE trio made a turn in the steep

IX BREWER Inboriously Not many of the young crowd had mounted the slope behind been paying any special attention

to bim and he was lonesome,. his two Swiss com- panions. At first he thought ho would enjoy the nacent of an Alpine peak, but he was certain. ly having a hard time right now. For one thing he resented the superior attitude of his two fellow climbers-Francois Killan and his self-assured sister, Marlene. As if Bix couldn't climb!

Marlene was glancing in his direction, smiling like fun amused pixle. Bix decided she was secretly laughing at his outfit of leather coat and slacks. Francois was wearing a pair of Tyrolean shorts, the approved Swiss costume for mountain climbing. Bix vowed he would never wear & Fauntleroy outfit like that. He wasn't going to have his naked knees banged on every crag that came along.

"What's the most important qualification for mountain climbing?" Bix suddenly de- manded, feeling that someone should say something to break the monotonous silence.

"Character," answered Mar- lene, her elfish smile giving way to a sober expression.

Francois, looking around at them, added in the correct English that these Swiss knew so annoyingly well:

"That is very true."

pass, and a flurry of snow, stung their faces. Francols moved more cautiously, his piolet-n two-headed lee axe-digging harder into

eks. Overhead, a huge gray fog- bank was gathering over the blue of the sky, Francois turned:

"This is the difficult part—”

the

Dlx held his breath while Francois

made ready to ascend the perpendi cular wall The young Swiss stood gracefully poised on the small ledge, sheer drop hundreds of feet beneath him. He made ready to throw his climber's rope over a jutting crag, leaning slightly back- wards to do so.

BAW an

At that moment Blx enormous crouching shadow moving gigantically against

the giny regbank. Was it the legendary Death? A hoarse scream started to

risc

Bix's throat. Hic throttled I whipping his gloved hand across his mouth. His widened eyes con- tinued to store, the figure rising larger and larger as if it could grow no more. Then Francois shouted:

"Excelsior!"

nix felt a tug on the rope around his waist, It was the come-on signal. Francois, already at the cliff summit, was bending over the edge, rope in hand, urging his com- panions on.

Marlene followed, sure-footed as a mountain goat. Then Bix dug his Iron-clamped shoes into the rock and began climbing. Ife reached the

swinging summit,

himself panting beside Markene. The fogbank

FADER.

A hoarse scream started to rise in Bix's throat.

Another dig, thought Bix. They think I haven't character and they're going to rub it in. Bix wished himself back home. Why did his father have to be a stuffy embassy attache, any- way? His father was equally stuffy about this business of understanding foreigners-as if anyone wanted to understand the superior Francois Marlene.

and

was growing colder after the springlike alr of the valley, Only the steady uphill climbing was keeping Bix warm.

that

"Ahead," said Francols, waving a lang nm toward a sleep ascent rose perpendicularly to a towering cliff above, "is the Death Walk. There is a legend that the enormous spectre of Death crouches behind the cliff and springa upon the faint of heart."

out

"Am I supposed to believe that?" Blx cnapped, his already nettled temper rising. ---

"It is, as Francofs' fold you, a legend," reminded Marleno coldly, "To me, it has always enhanced, the excitement of the climb. Per- haps to you, no.”.

was still in the sky but the gigantle Bix noticed then Agure was gont. that Marlene's small face was white

beneath her blue puff-ball helmet.

CHE looked at her brother, her volce low. "Bix and I saw the spectre, Francois. For a little mo- ment my heart was in my throat. thought Blx would cry out and

the unexpected cry send you off balance. But not a word from Bix. He is a real, mountain. climber, Francois. He has character."

Bix gulped, looking at Mariene's shining eyes and noticing for the first time how blue they were and Francols was grinning how kind. down at him like the boys grinned back at school when they liked a fellow and wanted to show it.

"Stout fellow, Bix," sold Francois. "Now you can retell the legend and you can say you saw the spectre."

"What was it, Francola?" Blx usked, his stand-off manner melting in this warming glow of friendly intimacy.

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wos

Francois explained.

"The shadow of another climber." "Perhaps wo we shall soon meet him. The figuro

because magnified

#t thrown on that fogbank. These mirages. ara often seen in high places where fog occurs. Look, Blx, the cloud is passing. There is the view we camo for What do you

"No," said Bix · definitely and think of 17′′ lapsed into llence.

His father would probably be angry at the way this climb was going to turn out. Perhaps by the time they returned to Bern, Bix and his companions would not be on speaking terms. A

Francois, and Marlene were the most popular teen-ogers at the embassy. Blx had been proud when they had invited him on this climb.

Bix put one arm about Marlero and the other around Francols. Ila looked. down on a panorama of green valleys, blue lakes and tiny doll-like houses minutely small yet so magnificent in breadth. He felt like the glant on the fogbank.

"I think." said the, Blx, his grip tightening on hin two friends, "that lil never be antisfied with a short- sighted view of anything again."!

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· SEATING ARRANGEMENTS.

NO PARTY 19 COMPLETE WITHOUT

PARLOR MAGIC

These Will Pep Up Your Next Party

Nor

By WALTER KING

TOTHING is more fun than a new angle or a new stunt at a party, so here are ideas to add pep and originality to your next indoor get-together.

A

lively party opener is print then. sneaks

"guest bingo". This game helps to fill in the time until all the Kuosts have arrived, As each one enters he is given a sheet of paper with four squares marked on it. two down and two

across.

the guest must In each square write a separate name: his own, three other guests: and those of The "bingo" starts when everyone is sented. Then the names of the guests are drawn from a hat and to get read aloud. The first person

full card calls "bingo" and wins

of ice cream special helping

or

solo pantomime something like this: A burglar enters the room, knocks n book off n table, pleks it up, puta it back on the table, silently takes something from

a tablo drawer, starts out, returns, wipes of his with A on the book

away.

the A prize may be given for best name to the play. But that's Just a blind. Later on in the even- put and the guests

ore passed Ing. paper and pencil

are told the play was actually

observation test to find out who is the bost

detective.

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About 10 or 12 questions are then read out slowly while the guests rack their brains to remember the answers. Typical questions might r:: What time was

the robbery Did the burglar wear hat? D he have a bandage on his left wrist? Did he have a paper in his Did he walk with n right band?

Did he yawn while in the hand did he pick up the book?

some other prize. Also the winner limp?

room? With which

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and the person whose name pears on the opposite corner ot winning eard (diagonally across the square) may be named leaders of any group games, and the names on the winning card sit together. Fingers are used as markers, which all adds to the general amusement.

An

observation quiz con be staged when somebody puts on a

POSERS

HOW MANY?

How many of these questions can you answer without going for help? The correct answers be this page.

are elsewhere

1. How many lines are in a son- het?

2. How many legs has a spider?

How many names of calendar months contain the letter "K"?

3.

-4. How many permanent teeth are there in a grown person's lower Jaw?

5. How many legs has an ant? 8. In the Mother Goose rhyme, how many tailors went to kill a snail?

7.

Magic Tricks. Then for a bit of merrymaking magle.. No party is complete with- out at least one little trick. This is a "wow watch me closely" stunt, although you must not mention anything about your sleeves.

on

The first step is to place three safety match boxes in a row the table. Tell your friends you in- tend to shake each box in turn and then interchange them. At the con-, clusion of the performance they are to guess which box is the one con- taining matches.

one, and shake them.

Then pick up the boxes, one "hy' Only once: can a rattle be heard. Now move? the boxes around slowly so that their relative positions are changed. two or three times. Then you the matches?" After the guess, tors "Who can guess the box containing the chosen box over to the hopeful who volunteered the answer, and It will be found to be empty. Let' someone guess again, and even a third time.

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YOUNG IDEAS

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Jewellery stores are displaying pitching. Whoover scores that has an alarm. Alarms on small pitches wins. watches aro new. Striking is not. Back in 1780, when timepieces were covered with the tough skin of R horso and called "shagreen watches," many had a striking mechanism that could be heard every hour through a pierced inner case.

A new gimmick in hairdos for the ma'mselles is a flowered clip carring, attached with a bobby-pin to either side of the hair parting.

If you have an old tyre or hoop around, have two of your pals sland opposite one another and roll 'the hoop between them.

You try to throw your ball through the hoop on it passes. In case you have not guessed, this takes a good pitching eye and arm. Change positions to chanco at give the hoop rollers a

DOTTY STORY

Two

AWO Bittle monkeys were seen playing in the jungle by a kindly old clephant one day. A few hours later when the elephant passed by the spot a second time, he saw only one little monkey,

"What became of your playmate?" asked the kindly old elephant.

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Trace the animal by the numbered dots, starting with dot-No. 1-and going to No. 2 and so on, making a complete figure and you'll see what the animal was,

Should you pick your last year's straw hat from the trunks and and it has gone limp, clean it first by swishing a rag soaked in alcohol over

it.

Then take a small, paint brush and apply a coat of shellac. You'll be surprised at the result.

Boys who are looking ahead to the fishing season should he In- terested in a blinking bobber that Ohis. is manufactured in Cuyahoga Falls, The bobber FLASHES A SIGNAL when a fish is caught no fooling!

The egg joke is being played for

at many

The parties. hilarity nest, holding a dozen eggs, is placed in the middle of the room while chairs and pillows are tossed all A teener is shown tho

around. nest, then he is bindfolded and whirled around three times, While the victim is being whirled, the

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nest is removed and a newspaper on which 4 A handful of crisp crackers

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are spread, is placed directly in the blindfold's path. The breaking of crakers and the breaking of eggs much alike and the victim's sound expression, when the crunching starts, provides side-splitting tun.

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Lighter shades of Upstick swish this season, coral-pink being a leading favourite. If your mouth is large, keep the pink to the centre of the lips. To widen a too-snia]} mouth, ply the stick more heavily to the outer edges of the lips.

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Tiny wooden figures are easy to make it you use plastic wood.

Plastic wood can be worked easily as modelling clay, and figurines can be painted any colour you wish, then varnished for

Wood modelling is a our-fastness. good pastime for a rainy day,

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PUZZLES

LET'S go fishing down Puzzle. Lane with these puzzles. The subject, of course, is fish.

FISH REBUS

Use the words and pictures to find the four Ash named in this rebus:

(MIN)

I HAD A NICE TIME AT YOUR PARTY-

NO NO

NO NO

NO NO

.NO NO

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MIX-UPS

Rearrange each of the following words to form the name of a kind of flsh:

RAG

DASH

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CROSSWORD PUZZLE

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18

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circle 24, divide the

be Clock golf games may chased at most sports, stores,

It is easy to construct a home-made Imitation. Mark out a

fect in diameter and

circle Into 12 equal parts, placing it

marker at each

part. Cardboard

can be used with numbers

rked

in crayon.

A tin can can

Jua

for the

be into the ground left of the centr

centre of the circle

With putting-hole.

a putler-or stick shaped liko n n putter hole in small ball from each plate. As in true golf, the object of clock-golf Is to hit the ball into the hole in na few strokes as

You'l possibic.

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need a scorekeeper for this 'game!

Knarf's Home-Made Telescope

-He Saw the Most Wonderful Things Through It-

By MAX TRELL

her

ANID, the shadow-girl with the

turned around" nome, told brother: Knart that if you had a telescope you could look at thing for away and it would seem to be almost in front of you.

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"Captain Ned, who lives in the house at the end of the street, has telescope."

-Hanid went on. used to be'n sea-captain. Often, when he was far out-in-the-middle of the ocean he would see, a speck on the horizon.

Then would look through his telescope at it, and see that it was another ship. He would even be able to read its name. Or sometimes he would see that the speck wasn't a ship at all."

"What was it?” Knarf naked. [they] --- "It might be a whole,"

All are bound to be wrong be- cause all three boxes are empty, The half-full box which caused the If a man broke one rib, how rattle is pinned inside the sleeve many whole ones would be left?

left arm just above of your 8. In the poem "Barbara Frict-cuff. Of course, when shaking two! many flags are there of the boxes on the table you use; chlo" how

your right arm, so no matter how "with their silver stars"?

colours constitute much you shake it, there is no rat- 0. How many

tic. the prismalle colours?

10. How many major races of mankind are there?

PUZZLE ANSWERS

1 Minnows; Cod; Sturgeon; Had- dock.

2 Gar; Shad; Tuns.

3 Crossword puzzle answer:

DU

Amber-Jack; 4 Bull-lead; Ark; Her-Ring.

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C ILAS RATES

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Stunt To Close

merry, evening may be finished off with a "mock me" gag. Stand In front of the players and say, "Before going home I'd like to see how many of you can do and say everything just as I do,"

Then

The

tired Bay,

motorist looked to the North (look North),

he South (look South), then

did this (scratch your head), then be ald

that

(rub your

our hands), then be turned around and faced the Then he looked East (look East), then he looked. Went (look West), then he did this, (raise your arm); then he did that (toss a kiss), Then he turned again, and

and oh! ob this spoiled policeman-

tired motorist everything, for our jumped in his car and. drove away home. Goodbye everybody!".

saw.n

And so cods another party with [n_big_"Ha-bah" and thoughts...a of

new fun neatly-carried out.

RED RYDER

WHILE RED TALKS TO DONNA RINGO.HE IS UNAWARE THAT LITTLE BEAVER IS HER PRISONER

"UNS THE ROOM ABOVE-

YOU UNDERSTAND WE'RE NOT ACCUSIS' TOU

MISS RINGO-

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•BUT WE YE WHOA THERE, GOT TO ASK COWBOY YOU DON'T YOU SOME FHINK I ROBBED QUESTIONS/ THAT BRAIN, DO

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"Could ho tell it, name, too?"

Indignant Reply

"Certainly not!" Hanld replied In- dignantly. "Whales' don't have their the names written on their sides way ships

whales do. Besides, haven't got names. They're

Just whales.

Nevertheless Knarf agreed with his Bister that it would be very nice to "Do you sup- own a telescope. pose," he asked her, "that Captain

·Ned would let us look. through his telescope?"

Hanid shook her head.. "He keeps it locked up in a box. Now and then he lets the children look through it when

there's a full moon. You can

see the moon very well through 1

can see the moon without a telescopa, cald Knari.

Oh-but it Iooka different

through a telescope, Knarf. When you look at the moon in the ordinary way, it seems to have a face. But when you look at It through a tele- Ecope, you see that the face Jan't really a face at all."

"What is it, then?" Knart wanted to know.

Just: Trigger. Quick-

I WANT YOU TO KNOW. IMA RESPECTABLE BUSINESS WOMAK--- EVEN IF I DID WORK, IN A GAMBLIN' HALL ONCE

Knarf wanted a telescope Ilko Captain Ned's.

"It's mountains and valleys and dried-up oceans. And some of it is just deep black shadows made by the mountains. It all looks much different through the telescope."

Knarf decided to make his own cope. It didn't seem to be very telescope.

tube. difficult: just a long hollow You looked through one end and

things at the other.

$aw

Later that day Knart called Hanld

to look at his new telescope.

It was a long hollow straw!

⚫ Saw Wonders

Baw

But when Knarf sat on the gorden wall and peered through it, down at the meadow, he said he many wonderful things.

He saw two crickets crawling un- der a raspberry bush. He saw a beelle pebble from one side of carrying

other. He the path to the three potato-bugs jumping each other's backs. He saw a awal-

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saw

over

АСПОЕВ

AUNT

1 Fish-limb, 4 Mimic, 7 Bustle, 3 Cooking utensil, D Musical note, 10 Gathers and keeps, 19-Antics, 15: Dutch (abbrev.), 10 Yale nickname, 17 Malt beverage, 18 Compass point, 10 Affirmative reply.

DOWN

1 Short comedies, 2 Standards, 3 Negative reply, 4 April (abbrev.), 5 Onr, 8 Follows, 10 Him, 11 Com- panion word to "elther," 12 While, 14. Pastry, 17 Always.

WORD MARRIAGES

The paired deЛnitions

following

When you

each form two words. perform a word marriage by com bining the two words, you will have the names of four fish;

Constellation-Body part.

Kind of resin-Lifting device. ** Be quiet!-Noah's boat. She-Wedding bond.

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WORD DIAMOND

our

CATFISH is the centre of diamond. The second word is "a thort-napped fabric," the third "grades," the fifth "a net," and the sixth "a compass point":

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CATFISH

POSER ANSWERS

1-14 lines. 2-Eight. 3-None. 4-Sixteen. 6-Six. "Four and twenty" or 24. 7--Twenty-three. B-Forly. Six. 10-Four or five, depending upon whom you accept as an authority. Some scientists classify the American Indians as a branch of the Mongolian race. The others are Caucasian, Negro and Polynesian.

low chasing a butterfly, and a cat Rupert helps Dr. Lion-38

chasing a swallow.

"And when he looked through it at someone sitting beside kim, he saw that it was his sister Hanid. And he didn't need his hollow-straw

tele- scope to know that she was laugh- Ing. He could hear herl

By Fred Harman

THE GIRL OUTLAW CAME

•THIS WAY, MISS RINGO, AND SHE RODE A STRAWBERRY ROAD HOR:

JUST LIKE

YOURS!

The Wise Old Goat doesn't answer Rupert's question, but, rounding another, rock, he pulls at a bell-handle. Soon a door: opens and a smaller goat appears wearing a pair of dark glasses and carrying two other pales. **1 heard you coming, maiter,” he says, "all ki ready for your inspection." "This is William, my engineer," says the Wise Old Goat. He is the only other person who knows about my work. In this mountain. You'd better put on those glasses. You'l need, them,"

ALL RIGHTE MISERVED.