1948-07-03 — Page 8

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1948.

FULL-PAGE FEATURE EVERY SATURDAY

BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

SPORTS. STORIES - PUZZLES - CRAFTS - GAMES - JOKES

By

Lee

TERRY ABBOTT, Priestley SURPRISE

T

THE voice of Terry's father came over the phone. "Will you keep the office

⚫ for me this afternoon?"

A Terry Abbott's face was

How study in consternation. could Dad forget the water meat? Terry had talked about little. else for weeks, planning to see it, hoping to pick up a trick or two to improve his own form on Central's swim team. Now, with Bud Coleman, the crawl champion, defending his title, Terry would be stuck in

SALESMAN

should have reminded him about the meet in the first place.

His Central team-mates made room for Terry without taking their race. Coleman was eyes from the defending his title--and defend was brown the right word. The little

real fellow from California was a threat. Terry watched the smooth. na-cream crawl stroke of the cham- eyes turned to the plon, then his next lane where the Californian cut the water like a torpedo. He began to overtake the champ's lead-to draw ahead.

The crowd roared as the challen- The racing Ret Increased his lead. beat of the champ's -BITTIS never faltered.

COLEMAN, his stroke unfaltering, passed the challenger

and crossed the line with inches to spare.

"I have a prospect in Mandeville," his father explained, and I

the office answering

IL

tele-

in outrage.

afford to overlook

can't anything. The

Californian slowing

the phone! He opened his mouth little? Then. Terry saw that

two between the blue water gap

Coleman closing. swimmers Was sorged up, passed the challenger, and crossed

to the line with inches spare.

Was the

my last letter."

troubled

face. Dad was

New Orleans prospect didn't answer

Terry saw mentally his

father's

watched

with hero Terry worshipping eyes as the two hauled out dripping on the float.

"Gosh. Bud, I thought you

were

a goner!" one boy hammered Cole- man's back and yelled.

you've

"That's odd." A frown replaced "*] the smile on the man's face. wired him that I could come today Silvermere. look

the over to properly."

FIG.

you

"I'm sure Dad didn't know

sald. "Ic were coming," Terry didn't mention it."

The man still frowned. "g the wire this morning"

sent

PERRY remembered the telegram desk. "Please on his father's come in for a minute, sir," he said. "I may be able to explain." Inside. envelope. be tore open the yellow Glancing at the time of alling and of receipt, he handed it to the man. "You're Mr Coleman? The wire was held up for some reason.

seem to have "It doesn't anyone's fault, but I'm sorry to miss your father." Mr Coleman ald.

"Du 'left Terry spoke quickly. me in charge, sir. Couldn't I show you Silvermere?"

been

The man smiled at the cagerniers on the boy's face. "I'll just take

fellow."

you up on that,ards the suburb,

As they drove

from

they

Mr Coleman naked many questions about the town and the suburb that "I must have could answer. Terry

Information soaked up the Dad," he said honestly,

Mr Coleman grew sllent as drove over the roads of the project. Terry's hopes dwindled as he saw that he was failing to arouse enthusiasm. His father should have shown the development. In the car again they started back to town in silence.

any

at

"I think you've got something in

Celeman said Silvermere," Mr lust. "It should become a valuable property."

talk lis sales

had registered. 4119 Terry thought. "Dad thinks the future is big." he said carefully,

0

"With a good. promotion In New Orleans you could sell sites for summer lakeside colony," Mr Cole- man's voice grew enthusiastic. "It that supersonic test field goes in, you can't miss."

•

•

PERRY was sure he hadn't missed. Mr Coleman was selling him- self!

and

"So there's no doubt your father will want to expand." Mr Coleman said as they stopped in front of the office again. "I think we'll be able to deal. Tell him to call me terribly

I'll give him a price on my adjoining "Okay, worried about the business.

d" He looked at Terry's thun- Jand," Dad, I'll stay." he answered slowly.

and derstruck face. "What's wrong?" Then he hung up the receiver and

We want to wanted to buy!"

to sell Terry, blurted. his slammed

on the floor.

So did 1," Bud Coleman dashed "I thought you want clip Dad had completely forgotten the

water from his

Mr. Coleman's eyebrows rose quiz- he Terry realised, ns swim meet,

But to keep kickin "But

"Two salesmen selling cach zically. reached the ofler of "Abbott; Real

hung open in the other" He laughed, then grew sober Terry's mouth His father put the photo- Estate."

Ils thoughts middle of a cheer. Silver-

nn Terry did not join him. "You graphs and data sheels on

the

of dew to

locked-up office

I was really mere in a brief case.

impressed with airfield Being assured that the

"Have your father call me, Terry." be a permanen: installation Would

Mr Coleman repeated thoughtfully. out-a Terry's father had borrowed heavily

"Maybe we could work it suburb. to set up the Silvermere

been

partnership, perhaps." He looked at Then the alröeld had suddenly rest

his watch. Now I'll go hunt up. left unused, The town hand retrent-

Bud. How

It did happen yout ed to financial storm cellars.

weren't at the meet, Terry? Swim- ming should be your dish, with chest ike that."

"Silvermere hangs around my

Terry's

Albatross," neck like the father said gloomily as he snapped the catches on the brick case. He dropped a hand on Terry's shoulder and shook it n Bttle. "Use your best judgment if anything comes up. Not that I think anything will." He went on to the car.

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.

WELL, It probably wouldn't kili incet, fellow to miss the

Leafing through Terry thought. magazines, he rend with one eye on the clock. The teams would lining up on the banks of the Inke about

the now. As ADOU

magazine smacked against the wall he heard someone at the door. But the caller was only a messenger boy. Terry sighed and propped the yellow en- velope on his father's desk to await his return.

crawled

com-

The hands of the clock as Terry gave up hope of a last minule reprieve. The chair he pushed to the window was fortable and the air conditioner puff- ed a cool breeze over, him, but he thought longingly of the hot beating down on the water.

He simply

•

Bun

couldn't miss it-be

up, locked the office door sprang behind him, and ran down the street. There wasn't a chance in a hundred that anyone would in. Dad would understand;

Rupert's leland Adventure-28

come

ho

While the dwarf goer down to make yet another attempt to move the wheel at the water's edge. Rupert and Wille watch the pro- fessor as he thinks and worrita over the half-remembered boat of his childhood. After fiddling with little pieces of paper for a while he jumps to his feet with a smile and grabs a . pair of scissors. "Are you going to cut another oblongi queries Rupert. "No." says the old man. "I need a "square piece this time, the biggest I can get."

KIOUTA BESERVED,

ALL RIO

**

"Abbott; Real Estate." He watchert did a good job, mere.

was

an-

absently while the next ruce

the hearing called, hardly nouncers. His friends looked up in them surprise as he crowded past for the second time-in-five minutes, but Terry didn't stop to explain.

A car stood in front of the office the as be rounded

corner. That lifted Terry out of his conviction that he was being a sap for the second time that afternoon. arrived panting as the man tried the locked door,

He

"I'm looking for Mr Abbott," he said with a look of inquiry.

Terry caught his breath to answer. "I'm sorry. He went to Mandeville on business and won't be back until six."

д

Bud Coleman! This man was

rush of Coleman's father. In a words Terry told of his five minutes at the meet, of how he had planned to walch the champion for pointers. Mr Coleman was sympathetic. us. Bud can "Come up and visit

then. give you some real conching That'll be a bonus for 'selling' me on Silvermere by accident."

Knarf Was Asked to a Party

-It Was Held on a Fence at Midnight-

By MAX TRELL

in

Was the house VERYONE

sleev E

getting ready to go to when Hanid, the shadow-girl with noticed turned-nround name. that her brother Knart was putting

the

his coat on.

"Going out, Knarf?" she waked.

He nodded.

"Where? It's quite late.

It's

time you were thinking of going to

bed"

"I'm not thinking of going to bed

at all," said Knarf. "I'm thinking of going out. And If you want to come with me. you're invited, 100," of I? Hanid smiled. "Am But course I will! Where are we go- ing?"

To a party

"A party? AL this hour of the night?"

"It's too late ta go out," Hanid told Knert.

"We can't bring a "That's right. I'm invited to a "not? I don't want to bring a dog, party, and you can come with mo. but why not?"

Late at Night

FIG. 2

PUNCHED

HOLEG

~LACE -

A MEMORY SCRAPBOOK WILL MEAN A GREAT DEAL

IN YEARS TO COME -

New

My SCRAP BOOK

LACEG TIED IN A

NEAT BOW

Objective For

Makers

Scrapbook

THERE'S a new angle on our old friend, the scrapbook, will enjoy. which everyone There's something fascinating about making them and an ob- jective adds to the fun. You can utilise the idea in all sorts of ways.

for a

Colleet old magazines, calendars, advertising handbills, and all the entchy, descriptive phrases you can And. The whole crowd can join in central on the project and meet at noint to make the scrapbooks, Or, it you use looseleaf ones, the pages can and led at home, be distributed then assembled at a general get-to-

excuse n good gether. It's party, If you need one!

The idea is to make your scrap- book at the occasion for which it is of selection Intended by your pictures, words, cartoons, and what have you. If one of the crowd is leaving town and you are giving a going-away party, instead of an expensive store gift, make the guest of honour a "Memory I{ is something he or she will prize and everyone in the crowd can have a hond in it.

Scrapbook,"

You can give each person one or two pages from the book to all at home or have an exciting evening idea. on the together working

a supply of Eveyone should bring them, materials with

unless you can provide enough so they can cut out what they need as they go along. For this purpose you can make as finish your own books, as well them. You need a package of coloured in paper about 11 by 17 Inches size. Ten or 12 sheels are enough

and you can use one piece of heavier paper or some stiff cardboard about

YOUNG IDEAS

you

JUGE MAY

have one

of those

old

I dinner bells hanging around the

house, wire it to a wooden hoop and nail the hoop high on a clothes pole, Throw A basketball through the hoop and see if you can ring the bell. Each bell-ringing toss through the hoop rates five points. To pass the ball through the hoop without ring counts merely one point. The highest scorer wins,

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Quart-size canning Jars make good stands for large summer hats. The Jars can be hand-painted with nail enamol. Yes, you can uso the rubber bands, too. Using thumb- tacks, attach the bands to your "loset door, and see fiow handy they are for hokling hair-ribbons coloured shoelaces.

and

Kitchen Klown

By E. ANN BRUSH NEE the little clown? He's made

of this, that and the other gadget we found in the kitchen.

The body la a bright red sugar scoup:

Foot, tho head, a spoon. two spoons partly hidden inside the scoop. We put a rubber bond around to hold the scoop and spoons of a meat In place. Collar: part Let a coloured candle drip over

grinder; cap: a clip that is ordinarily the base until it partly covers it. used for the grocery receipts. Arms: Put In another candle of A

ono doubled for soft-drinks alraws, different colour and let it

we used a black cach arm. Then drip. Keep this up with various colours. pencil for the eyes and a red pencil and in me you will have turned

for the mouth. nn old, ugly candlestick into an ob- leet of beauty. Be careful how you do it, though, ns the wax may easily get on the tablecloth. It's best to set your slick on a plate or tin while you're making it over.

Hove you started Album"? It's more

"Slang

The round object alongside lo a nut- plastic napkin holder. The pleker of a nut-cracker set holds up the clown.

You're as Good

Half an inch larger cach way for the graph album. Have your friends As Your Habits

cover.

in the sheels Fold

the middle (Fis

1) and punch four holes through them along the crease or should be fold. The first of these. one inch from the top, the second 44 inches, the third 0% inches and the last 10 inches from the top.

be made with a The holes

can

steel α with regular punch, or knitting needle. When all have been punched, get picce of coloured ribbon, or a shoc Ince and thrend it through all the pages at once (Fig. or lace in the 2). Tie the ribbon back on the outside of your book (Fig. 3).

Make a colourful title with eray- on or letters from advertisements. A picture helps the cover too. Better still a whole lot of plctures.

that have And lo

things Try something to do with your activities af honour was n while the guest member of your crowd. Snapshots sports of special friends, plenies, events, the school, and other spots of interest, or pictures cut from the local paper, can be added to carloona that tie in with special interests. Pictures and words that help make up a story of pleasure with your crowd.

The same

idea can be carried out for a birthday, as a get-well gift when one of the crowd is lil, and

Ane Father's Day makes Mother's Day present,

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The biggest thrill will come i you use this as a project for your club or group and make scrapbook for invalids, old people's homes aridi You'll find children's hospitals. several outlets, if you look,.

fun than an

write their favourite bits of slank and sign them. Your book will perhaps

Come day prove to bo valuable addition to the history of the language. Anyhow, it will bo fun to read.

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it

"Make-up"" like lipstick, cording to Veronica Pataky, actress, makes faces all alike. destroys personality, she says. Think this over, you lipstick-dabbers,

For indoor entertainment in case of rain, keep a

drawer or u box stacked with games such as Chinese checkers, parchesi, dominoes, ete. Quizzes can be fun, and old records 100. And, If you don't read all of this Boys' and Girls' Page today, tuck it away in the box with the rest

Start your of your things. rainy day box now,

the

neat party A

favour for flower

season is an empty basting spool wound round with crepe paper until it takes the form of a gay flower-pot. Two email hatpins. placed inside the hole of the spool and wrapped with crepe paper, form the flowers.

Don't throw away dingy pieces of jewellery. They can in many cases be returned into lovely new cessories in about ten minutes by painting with coloured nail polish.

Paint Use the little polish brush. the flowers on a pin, or the whole bead pin, clip, bracelet, or even a necklace, and see what happens. Then try nail polish on pretty cut small bottles and glass dishes.

MENTAL GYMNASIUM

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

DOWN

1 Steals

4

17 18

2 Russian city

10

3 Frozen rain

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16

17

20

21

25

ACROSS

1 Flower

Another flower Shield bearing 10 Memorandum

11 Honey gatherer

12 Compound ether

13 Heavy hammer

15 Myselt

10 Linger

18 Near

20 Flower parts

23 Crawled

25 King (French).

28 Ripped

dog?" Why

27 Aroma

It doesn't start until late at night." Knarf shook his head. "I don't

Hanid was curious to know more know, except that no dog is allow about this party, BO she asked: ed

party. But there is one thing that we can bring.

"Where is this party going to

held,

Knarf? In

"In_nobody'a

whose house?"

bo

at this

Hand asked what this was that

be held on 's going to they were allowed to bring.

Hanid exclaimed in amazement:

"A mouse," said Knart.

By this time Hanld was so curious

"On a fence? But what kind of a to go to the party that she insisted party is held on a fence? I never, that they start out at once. So off heard of such #

to

"It's a singing sold Knart. "Everyone who comes will have sing. I was invited by someone who Ilves next door. She said to be sure to wear a fur coat. Everyone who's coming is going to wear a fur coat." This party was beginning to sound stranger

and

stranger. "But I haven't got, a fur coat," said Hanid.

And neither have you!"

"Well," said Knarf, "I suppose. we can go without a fur coat. But everyone olso at the party; will surely have one.

And we can't bring a dog!"

they went, into the garden.

and down to the back, until finally they renched the fence.

And whom do you suppose Hanld met at the party, sitting on the fence, all wearing their fur coata?

"My goodness"

exclaimed. "There are all the cats in the neigh- bourhood!"

sho

"It was quite a "jolly, party. Tha cats all sang (they didn't have very good voices, but they sang!"). And them Knarf and Hand sang with until all at ones a window. opened and someone shouted:-"Be-c-cat!".

That broke the party up.

28 Heavenly body

29 Domestic' slave

RED RYDER

4 Eye (Scot.)

1 Inset

* Decay

7 Entry

a Withered

12 Heron

14 Lively

17 Units of length

18 Performs

10 Horse's gait

21 Diving bird

22 Forefather 24 Age

27 -Whirlwind

ANSWERS

CROSSWORD ANSWER:

ILIE

SPLIT SIMILES

HABITS

roads. They are like 11 offer a way to go places and do things and you follow them because they are familiar.

That would be fine if there

were only good

habits, but most

ΟΙ

of

of us have a few the not-so- good which pop out

when

we

least expect and send

us off on some pretty rough

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detours that carry us over very roundabout route. It inkes a delermined effort to break that bad habit and get back on the highway going to your destination.

It isn't easy to build good habits but it is vitally or break bad anes,

happiness and Important to your

habits like will And You success.

road and laziness, bad temper, resentment, or 'meanness iness up your

adetour from the send you off on main highway. But each time

sincerity, sot your crithusiasm, friendliness, and good will to work And on these bad spots you will things smoothing out, and each time détour it will come enster and the will be shorter.

you

Good habits bulld wide, smooth, roads. They lead well-engineered easily, safely, and directly to your destination. Bad habits make rough, roundabout roads that wander and often come to a dead end.

That is why you must choose good habits you want to be sure of havo reaching the destination you chosen..

Give Y Your Brains a Workout With These Sharp Teasers

BOY SQUARE

You've heard the expressions be- fore, but can you fill in the missing words?

Dry as a→

Busy as a ----

Bold as

HOMONYM

Our missing words sound alike.

but are anelled differently.

them in to make a sensible Lance:

Fill sen-

My sailor friend will never rest untit he the seven ― of the world.

Try the Puzzles First

SPLIT BIMILES: Bone: Bee; Brass.

HOMONYM: Sece, Beas.

BOY

SQUARE: Lawrence, Carl. Stephen, Arthur, John, Clarence, Robert, Lotils.

WORD DIAMONDI

COT CAMEL HOMONYM

TENSE

LYE M

EROB

ER

CINIS UIT RELAO L ANHWRE LCOEC URUCA R HANPEL

TR

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TS

Eight boys have concealed them- Find the selves in our

square. right starting point, then read cach letter backward, forward, up, or down (but never diagonally), to And them named in rotation. WORD DIAMOND

The diamond centres on a 10- MONYM. The second word is "a "a desert folding bed," the third animal," the fifth is "rigid," and the sixth "a lixivium."

M HOMONYM

M

Please Advise

YOU ARE ONLY PALEFACE WHO KNOWS TRAIL TO LOST BASIN,

RED RIDER?

IF OTHER PALE FACES COME HERE „THEY' WOULD SPOIL HUNT- ING GROUND..

OUR SECRET IS SAFE WITH ME, FIREFLY

BUT SOMEDAY OTHERS WILL

By Fred Harman

COME YOU TELL US WHAT TO DO.

RED RYDER!

UGH HER MAKE UM LARGE

ORDER!