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NOISE THERMOMETER

LOW FLYING LIO ABROPLANG

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1948,

FULL-PAGE FEATURE EVERY SATURDAY,

BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

HOW DO YOU RATE THE NOIDED YOU. HEAR 3 YOU CAN HAVIS PUR WITH

A HOIRD THERMOMETER, BRADINS NOISES ACCORDING TO THE DECIBEL

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NEUMATIC

100

HAMMER

THUNDER

YOUR

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CAR?

PLACE THESE ON

YOUR NOISE THERMOMETER

VACUUM MOTO CLEANER

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MUATLING, Riso HOW PAPER

PUKE OF FO

A CAT

YOUR

HONK

YOUR NOISIRET

WASZTY

ROME NOISES CAN BE NERVE- JARRING AS

WELL AS LOUD

PING! RATTLE! KNOCK! RATTLE

-

THUD?

BANG!

WAH!

AT LEAST, AFTER YOU'VE MADE A NOISE THER- MOMETER, YOU'LL BE A LITTE MORE NOIGE

CONSCIOUS -

SPORTS • STORIES - PUZZLES - CRAFTS · GAMES «JOKES

MONARCH OF ALL HE SURVEYS MATCHBOX

-by-

JOE BEASLEY

ACK in the days when circuses travelled by highway instead of by rail, little groups of kids were always lined up on the out- skirts of our next stop waiting eagerly for our arrival. Be- love me, the man who held the many lines leading to eight or ten big horses pulling those big animal dens was a king.

That's why I wanted to drive one of those big red circus wagons. But I had another job-walking tight wires tuid swinging on trapezes. Monkeys could do that, but it took a man to drive eight horses. ·

YOU and Your NOISE Charley Amos, the best

By WALTER KING

ALMOST everyone's inder of

noise is a clap of thunder or the explosion of an atomic bomb, But recent tests show that some of the most Irritating noises of this mechanical age are right in the heart of big cities where pneumatic drills, street cars, motor cycles, and motor horns make a general din. People are made almost dent without being aware of it, To measure this nuisiness, an in- strument which Jooks something like a portable radio recortis the volume of sound in "decibels." can register the smallest sound an car can detect.

It

Sounds up to 50 decibels don't annoy very much. In this category come the rustle of a newspaper, the sound of a human voice talking nor- mally, and a typewriter that is being used. A radio receiver grows dis- turbing if the volume is too high or if there annoying static.

Sounds of 10 decibels or more arc bad for the nerves and health. Screaming children, vacuum cleaners, motor horns, motor cycles, thunder, boiler factories, and low- flying planes are the worst offen- ders.

you

Decibel Scalo

can have

drawing n tun noise thermomeler and letting your friends grade nolaes according to the decibel scale.

The chief noise makers are pretty well known. Place a "quiet noise" such as the purr- of a-cal at-20 and the nerve-jarring racket, of a pneumatic drill at 100. Then see

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driver in our outfit. WRS follow about my age and sizo who learned to drive from his pierced occasionally father, who handled the 10- Such a disturbancehorse team on the lend band- with a shout.

wagon. Charley always C- existers high in decibels and has

knowledged the plaudits of particularly harmful effect hanan nerves. Possibly this is be

those roadside kids with gracious nod.

With hands full of leather reins and feet on the brakes, this was all he could do.

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cause most people like peace, and disharmony creates a double jar.

in terms of disturbing effects you If you learn to think of sounds

are less likely to be accuseri "weaking" the soutif thermometer."

of

The Old Junkman's Old Horse

-He Pulled the Cast of Old Clothes- By MAX TRELL

KNARF, the shadow-boy with

the turned-around name. heard the bells tingling and heard someone in the street cull ing out: "Ol' hats! Or clothes! Anything old to sell!" Then the bells sounded again. Knarf ran out of the house to see who it Was.

He saw the Junkman und his horse and wagon. The bells were on the Junkman's horse; and they rang. every time he took a step. As Knarf came out, someone opened a window in the house across the sircet, and the junkman stopped the horse and went over to see what the lady had to sell,

at tha

looking

Knart stood and looked horse,

"Well?" said the horse, right back at Knarf. This was sur- prising, as Kharf didn't usually hear horses talk. So for another moment

Knarf ran out the door to see the Junkman.

a

good and heavy sometimes, all piled up with old hats and old clothes and old trunks and old lamps and old stores and old chairs and old flower- pots... and everything else that's or two, he just kept standing ant-old, Yes, it gets quite heavy.

Knart wanted to know what hap- storing, not being able to say any thing. "Well?" the horse said again. pened to all

No king ever sat on his throne more proudly than a circus wagon driver.

Reaching the-efreus lot, he unhitched his horses and saw that they were fed and watered before he went to the cook tent to get his own breakfast.

"I never get tired of it," he told me.

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When I heard that, I'll have given anything to drive a cir- cus wagon. I begged for chance, but Charley said no.

"There's thousands of dollars worth of equipment and wild animals in my wagon," he ex- plained. "I don't dare let you even in open country. If the reins got twisted, you'd be lost.

boss rode across The trail first to watch. for approaching traffic, all horse-drawn in those days, and to see that things didn't get snarled up.

our

Somehow a light rig, carry ing a boy and a girl home from moonlight ride, got past the trail boss and started onto the bridge just as

wagon reached the centre span. The horse hitched to the buggy was getting his first whiff of wild animals and was rapidly get ting out of hand..

Charley grew sarcastic about the trail boss falling down on the job, but stopped talking when the torches gave him a glimpse of the frightened girl in the buggy.

"That horse won't pass the said elephants," Charley

He stopped the hoarsely.

and handed me the wagon reins. "Hold the horses, Jon!"

over the With that he was side, just as a piercing scream

BUT he let me ride up on the high seat one night while he drove. I watched the cir cus breaking up and get ex- pertly into line for a 20-mile trek to the next town. Lead ing were the "cook house" and stable wagons. Then came the cages, the baggage trains and lead stock, such as elephants and camels. It was late when filled the air. we were finally on

way, torches flaring and lanterns bobbing and winking.

our

"How do you feel, Charlie?" I asked hopefully.

"I'm not tired and I'm not

to

The wagons and animals stopped and men cante on the double to the broken spot in the bridge, but Char- ley was ntrendy there. He plunged off the bridge into the river.

The horse was swimming down- stream. The buggy apparently had brei away and gone to the bot- lom. The young man was tryloft

and to keep the girl above water Chartry was trying to

them First both.

the girl disappeared, I was plain then the young math. that he was a poor swimmer.

Eight, horses or none, couldn't

stay there. I was over that broken all before Charley re-located

the

girl. But I landed nearby and we both got hold of her, pulling her ushore between un. Charley sig nailed he could carry her alone and went back in time to pull the boy friend to safety.

BALANCING

TRICK

THIS matchbox balancing trick can be done with large size match boxes, of course, but safety match boxes are best to work with.

Get as many "emplies" us you can. -up to about 10.. Then with a great deal of supposed steady blancing and pulling as serious a face as you can, proceed to pile up the boxes on end on the palm of your hand.

The secret for success is simply this. As you pile on each box, the

MATCHBOX BALANCING TRICK

DRAWER .OP NO.G

PUSHED

DOWN INTO COVER

OF

NO.7

BOTTOM DRAWER OUT

drawer must be pustied down about half an inch into the cover of the box below it. Do this by applying little pressure to the drawer with one of your fingers as you place each box on the top of the plle. Then, when ready to release the boxes, push up; the bottom drawer with Anger ef your free hand, and crash! the whole plie goes down just as if you had lost balance.

This is one of those simple tricks that will create a great deal of amusement among friends.

F

ATER we got back to the wagon, In the excitement. the lines and traces had snarled, the horses were tangled, stomping and tossing their heads. Charley said quietly, "Whon, King

"Kinda messed up, aren't they? Time-Telling Fish Stendy, Jick!" He was in Amort the horses, calming them, getting them back in their places, arranging the harness. Finally he them out. straightened

"Well," he said. "There they are." "Huh? What do you mean?" "I'm

tired," said Charley,

nags."

"If you here

There is, a small fish which ap- parently not only can tell the months of the year, but the days of tho week, and the hours of the day.

The silver smelt knows that when the months of May comes it is time. TURNED around on the high

seems lo you hadn't jumped in when

to raise family. It also footboard just in time to see the

know that it must lay its oggs on did, I might not have been horse hitched

the buggy.

tids do this is one hour after high. straighten up on his hind feet and to give you a chance to drive these shore and that the only safe time to

hun- I sat in the driver's seat,

three days after the full meani up as he saw the elephants following

as the ding the reins

caravan

this particular monent, during May, us and ran smack into the flimsy streamed along the road. At dawn June, and August, these little, fish guard rail of the bridge.

we upproached our next stand and struggle ashore and deposit their the anncl. then wriggio wigs in I saw a bunch of kids waiting for

happily Unck to their occan homes. us. No king ever sat on his throne more proudly than I did that day, Mission accomplished.

where your friends place the mise How long are you going to keep Junkman, the old things that the sick." Charlie replied. "There's Baw the air in a frenzy. He backed'

of such things as the cheers baseball game.

at a

are

time

js not The loudness of a sound always the chief factor In deter- mining how Jarring it is. The con-

in flict of rounds normal street traffic or when several people talking loudly at the same

than t is much more distressing loud note from a trombone.

Another thing about a noise is that

Some

You

to it.'

can't really get "used

poking at me? Have you lost your tongue?"

"N-no," stammered Knarf.

Lots Of Fun

"You can speak, can't you!" said the horse, sounding just as surprised as Knart. Then Knarf smiled, and the horse, who couldn't smile, Just laughed. Moat horses cun laugh. This one laughed very well,

Kuorf asked the horse if he liked what he was doing,

the horse sald. "It's lots oh yeh, walk up one street and is not enough to keep them in per-

of fun, feet health. Noises tend to increase down another, all around the town.

raise tension and

the My master's an old man and he muscular blood

In older pressure

people.doesn't like to go very fast... and the horse I'm sort of old, too," These are points to remember when

of making added. you are being accused

people can sleep In their rest

noisy surroundings

tou many decibels.

but

One of the most jittering noises

is the babble of voices during an

argument, especially if the

pro-

collected.

¿

a tough job ahead." self," the horse said. "I guess some- "I've wondered about that my

I soon saw what was aheal: body

a long rickety bridge on makes them all over again, us good as new. But I don't really narrow rond, spelling delay for know. We take them to a big yard the caravan.

Then we gO and leave them there. home and have our dinner, and go to sleep.

the

Just Rest And Rest "One of these days," the horse went on, "I'd like to go out in the country-out to a beautiful green pasture where

clover grows, and the birds sing. and the bees hum.

I'm sure my master would like to go there, too.... .both of us lo- gether. We'd just rest and rest, with the birds and the bees and the clover. Because he's an old man, and I'm setting to be an old forse, and we wouldn't bother any more col- the lecting old hats and old clothes and the old shoes and everything else that's "It gets old. We'd just rest and rest..."

And

just then the junkman re- turned with a pile of old clothes in an old box. He put them in the wagon, climbed back into his sent. and the horse went walking slowly with bells tingling at OVERY

"Fd like to go along with you,

naid Knart,

"You'd get tired pulling wagon," said the horse.

ZOO'S WHO

BLACKBEARSA

DESTROYED 379

BEEHIVES IN PENNSYLVANIA IN

1929,

Georg

The IBIS WAS CONSIDERED SO SACRED IN ANCIENT EGYPT THAT ITS REMAINS WERE EMBALMED AT.

DEATH..

THE BIRD'S APPEARANCE EACH YEAR CONCIDED WITH THE RISE OF THE HILE RIVER AND THIS INSPIRED THE BELIEF THAT IT WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PRECIOUS :WATERS THAT WERE SO NECESSARY TO THAT COUNTRY'S

WELFARE..

The WHALE HAS HIS EYES. SET FAR BACK ON EACH SIDE, AND THEY LOOK IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS BUT CANNOT BE MOVED TO LOCK STRAIGHT AHBAD, OR BEHIND! INORDER TO SURVEY THE HORIZON, A WHALE STANDS UP IN THE WATER AND REYOLVES."

DIT.

.

There was a crash and the horse, biggy and occupants went into the

stream below.

MENTAL GYMNASIUM

5

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15

17 118

15

120 121

20

22225 124

27

50 151

1 Languish

ACROSS

step.

"Good-bye!" shouted Knarf

And

he hoped they'd both get to

their

5 Sturdy trees

Paradiso

green pasture soon so

that

they

could rest and rest.

Rupert's Island Adventure-52

When the whole party in safely. out of the dark entrance, Sailor Sam Koca on happily working the handle until the barrier, clases. Then he, takes the other bost in tow and heads back for Nutwood. **I'atill wonder what sort of paper that was to make a boat strong enough to azil you across the like,” he says. The professor overheats him.. All In good time," he calls. "It's = secret al present. Meanwhile Rupen" has given, it a thorough teating, and has saved us all from avery, awkward situation Ing

THE END. "ALL" MIGHTS RESERVED,

10 Woody plant

11 Compass point

12 Fabric:

14 Light

knock

16 Spanish Amerleon Jabourers ~ 17 Preposition

19 Right line. (abbrev.)

20 Indian's weapon

23 Coal resilie

20 Hented

28 Musical note

29 Poker stake

30 Mineral 32.Saintes (abbrev.).

33 Tidy

RED

RYDER

SOME MILES FROM RYDER'S RANCH LIVES JANE CLARK

I DON'T KNOW

WHAT I'D DO WITHOUT MY FRIENDS

SINCE FATHER, DIED, HARKY?

1 Nuisance

2 Nation

DOWN

3 Northeast (abbrev.)

4 Abstract being

5 Fur-bearing animal

G Interstice

7 Sharp

a Oriental coins

1

13 Air port (abbrev.)

15 Sea Tobler

10 Part of thee (plural)

20 Exclunation

21 Tom

22 Us

24: Portico

25 Clue

27 Noise

31 Note of scale

WORD DIAMOND

on

We have a "safe haven" in our word diamond, which centres REFUGES. The second word is un "Indian weight," the third is "freer of danger," the Bil "kingly," and the sixth a unit of reluctance":

REFUGES

THE RANCHERS FOR MILES. 'AROUND HAVE CHIPPED IN TO GIVE ME A STAKE AND THE- MONEY'S COMING OUT HERE

- ON THE STAGE TODAY!

·

•

Use Your Head and You Can Sölve This Tricky Group of Brain Teasers

Box This Wacky CODE COMPASS

HOMONYMS

Missing words in each

of the

following sentences sound alike, but, are spelled differently. F in the' blanks:

The farmer's ----crop records.

اله

The badlie beds by the ime they returned to their room,

HIDDEN STATE

One of the original 13 American colonies is hidden in the following sentence. You should be able to find it with ease.

The forest consisted of huge, or giant trees.

ANSWERS

CROSSWORD:

Lonesome

BUCKSKIN LANGFORD

BAID HE'D BE HERE WHEN THE STAGE.

“ARRIVEDI.

W

START AT WEST. AND USEY OVERY F/ETH LETTER / You

DECIDE WHICH

WAY TO GO) TO DECIPHER AY

PROVERB

Try Before You Look-

WORD DIAMOND:

R SER BAYER

REFUGES

REGAL

NEL 2

́HOMÚNYMS: Beot, beat; Muil, made,

HIDDEN STATE: Hulge' of glaint, ji

COMPASS PUZZLER: Don't lock the Stable door after the horse is stolen.

By Fred Harman

BUT WE'LL IRPRISE HIM?

WE'LL MEET HIM UP THE

TRAILY