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YOUNG IDEAS.

To nike your personal notes and Buch a bit different, paste little seats at the top. You can buy their in sundry shapes: flowers, animals, birthday cakes Included, But if you want free, note paper

decorations

cut comteal or pretty little coloured gures from magazines and Klue those on your notes, Find something appropriate to the friend who will receive your letter.

TF your budget can't stand today's high cost of clothing, girls can! ret the ribbon-darn habit ant save monter now, had throughout your Illc. Those rips, tears, and pulled- npart places that appeur two noun in your everyday slips and other gar- ments should be fixed at once. Darn them with matching ribbon from bolts and lengths of white pink and

It' halve kept in your sewing box.

matching easier than hunting ups silk, cutting it the right length, me having to her the eilge. The Fits bon has flukshed edges and can be busted down with toy running and back athletes (Wicked uud it anbasted, if your darn s can go good and strong). Of course want to do a darning job on your best

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professional

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TREE QUIZ

Answer to this set of questions be rath of pes. There danger of you being "treed" if think emtehdly. Elsewhere on this paste are the correct answers,

1.

tser

You'll that this tee IN

replaces.

must

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"Olive" bart her name",

what

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3

4.

a coru

This term is not a blue sprice.

It doesn't have fext but grows.

5. The Nathaniel

Antenean novelist,

Your Plus here

The maine if this tree is very fatherly

7. Derlet the last felter of this und af tree and get a beverage.

This free shradd be very much.

in demarsi.

9. Yani might went this type your feet

10. Perhaps

Swedish nightingale rat under this trent

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1948.

FULL-PAGE FEATURE EVERY SATURDAY.

BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

SPORTS. STORIES . PUZZLES . CRAFTS . GAMES . JOKES

DUE WEST

5 Mi. EAST

NAMES CAN BE

AMUSING DUE WEST" IS THE NAME OF A TOWN IN SOUTH CAROLINA

WHAT PLACE IS THIS ?

WHO KNOWS!

Mental Gymnasium

Crossword Puzzle

Quickwink Riddler

When is it strictly proper to 'giva

n host the name of a girl?

When

the boat is by women.

Z

Do the puzzle and find the miss- ing word.

3

+$

16

F

0 F

BY JOYCE HUNTER

things. For colton and mustin under- hand tape on wear, keep cotton

in the various colours.

•

MOST clutter boxes in basement M or workroom have an old door handle the horizontal kind, a few inches long-rattling around inside. Bring it out to the light and fasten it over the work bencli as a holder for inols. It may be found handy In the kitchen, over the stove or sink, for holding some utensils. Give it

it cont of paint, of course. Or try

a clothes eluset, perhaps on the back of the door, inside, as a Gie- hander,

NOT many people know this im

ekt "breathes" through His large end, and will "mother" more qutek." down. By if packed with that end

Airle Distributors pack then large down so they stay fresh longer. Stump the experts by remembering this when

1 Use grocer's

FOR

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tra

a Yipper-e-e party, provide you family members with ear- *nti- plugs and then invite your

Trading to visit.

Posl. hers" Western outhis, the funnier the bet

Tell them ter, can be worn.

bike's. kide ear Paddle up t broomsticks or what-have-you, and bring saddle bats (paper sucks) ill- ed with articles they don't want or Anything's in order from can't use.

a cracked plate "dag from the rins of Pompe to a trick electric candle. Save a funny, ugly, or useless Hem an a prize for the boy or girl who nives out the best sales lalk" about his favourité dortion to the Pust. Western with Add refreshments

Warpaint Crete Candy, Matters: Lemonade, Cowboy Cookies. And whether you'ce draped in blanket. In and-feather or whipping it up

pants Tun Is brune-busting

flar

worri.

Te for anitation trees for

your railway sel, use

branches

of your droryard hedge Cut out the low. little, plece that grow down with an eye fa thus whine twigs can be triagued most easily to the rtupe of a tree, Green sponge rub-

rexi.

Pull it ber comes

apart into many different-size pieces, and ement there to the "tree" mutil it slopes up.

Knarf Had a Bright Idea

--It World Ro Better if Lettuce Grew on Trees-

By MAX TRELL

Knart, the shuutow-bay

"With the turned-around nine,

asked his friend Me Punch, "do apples grow on trees?"

Mr Panch, who was just almat to light his pipe, blew his match out. "Why do apples grow on trees?" Mr Punch repealed. He looked puzzled,

"Yes," said Knarf.

"Where wild you like them

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grow, my dear boy?"

"Well," said Kharf, "it would

much better if they grew on

the

ground. They would be mich easier to pick."

"I'm," said Mr Punch. "That's right."

penches and "And cherries and

Bald Knurf. pears and oranges." "ought to grow on the ground, foo They'd all be much easier to plek.”

Looked Thoughtful

Mr Punch looked thoughtful. "Yes," he said at length, you're right, my boy. Apples atul cherries and penches and pears and oranges and good many of the uther things that grow bigh up on trees would certainly be easier to get hold of it they grew on the ground."

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"You'd just have to bund and take all you wanted." sald Knarf, pleased that Me Punch agreed with him.

"Yes," said Mr Punch. "But what would we have growing on all those trees? They can't just be standing there without anything growing on them. It would be a shame not to have something grewing on them." "Oh," said Kaarf. "That would be easy! There are lots of things Krowing on the ground that could put up in the trees. be much better there."

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Punch told Kaarf it would be bet- ter if an apple hit him than a water- melon.

They could go in the apple trees. And cabbages could go in the pear trees. And watermelons could go in the peach trees. And lettuce could go in the cherry trees. Then every thing would be fine."

Mr Punch was foughtful agguin. "Suppose." he said, "you were sitting ler an apple tree and au apple fell down aid hit you."

"It would hurt,"

"But not very much."

atel Koori.

"No," said Mr Punch. "But up pose a watermelon fell down out of

tree and hit you?"

It Would Hurt

"Oh!" cried Knorf. "Thot would hurt a great deal. Watermelons are big and bavy."

"A cabbage woukl hurt too, and se We

would n evrumber. They'd

As for the let-

"What things do you think ought to be put up in the trees?" Mr Punch askerl.

"Cucumbers," said Koart. "They grow on the ground."

“They do," said My Punch,!

Rupert & Ting-Ling-12

Taking Ting-Ling away from Pong Ping's house, Rupert tries to Gnd his friends, and has not to search far, for just below the aim mon he sees that Algy Pog has joined Edward and Bill in a game of cricket. There, that's our grea! Rame," says Rupert. Then he stops. Oh, dear." he thinks. "how on darth does one explain cricket to a Chinaman?" lost then Edward gives a great swipe in their direc tion. Hi, mind that ball doesn't hit you. It's a hard one)" cries the little beat.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

it."

fure, a good wind weld blow it all away before anyone could even pick

1 never thought of that," said Korf, feeling quite disappointed.

"Perhaps," said Mr Punch as he I mother match and hold it to his pipe. "perhaps apples should be left on apple frees, just as they are. Perhaps all the things that grow on trees should be left to grow In trees, and all the things that grow on The ground should be left to grow on the ground. You see, my dear boy. there's a reason for everything.":

Konrf nodded. Then Mr Punch lit his pipe, blew out the match and smiled.

RED RYDER

WOTTA

TOWN!

You ARE

NOW ENTERING DEATHLY, ILL

"QUIEN SABE" (WHO

KNOWS) IS A PLACE IN CALIFORNIA,

AND THESE

ABBREVIATIONS POISON

MAKE UNUSUAL

NAMES-

CAN YOU THINE

OF ANY?

PA.

Make This Strange Names And

Wire Puzzle

For Fun

LTH O

42 INCH

KINU

AGCEMPLEO

By WALTER KING PLIERS. 15 ches of wire, and a

pinch of patience are a the materials useded for this ht mare parzzle that will provide hours. of fun and entertainment for But your friends.

This particular ring puzzle is easy to solve when you know how, but if you haven't the secret combina- tion, it may be baffilag for hours.

the The wire chosen to make puzzle should be stiff enough that it Pool he too cannol

easily sprung or forced, and yet pliable enough to be bent into the shopes required. Stovepipe wire will do very nicely. First, a closed ring one inch in diameter is nude (Figure 1). This ring is linked to # Bairpin-shaped piece of wire that has two 1-inch legts.

Next, In

made open ring (Figure. 21 the

The same size is closed ring and fastened to a hair- pin-shaped wire like the one in Figure 1. The Anal connecting point is left open until the puzzle is assembled.

third piece is a, snåller ring three-quarters of an Inch in diameter,

Now link the three parts of The puzzle together by sliding the small ring over the point of pleve 1 and locking pieces and 2 together as

1 shown. The open ring of piece is then closed nnd its ends locked with pliers. The loops where the wire is joined must be large enough to allow the ring to swinst freely on the hair- pin.

To remove the small ring! Inoks impossible. That-if you hold the puzzle so that both large rings are to the left of their hairpin points (see the diagram) and then swing the open ring over to the right you will have no difficulty in removing the small ring if you follow the path marked in the flustration.

In fact, so easy. Is this puzzle to solve when you know the trick, that you can do it behind your back before anyone has a chance to Hulsh saying: "I don't believe it'emm dose at all.”

1 THINK THOSE MEN IN GOWER BEND ARE THE BANDITS SHERIFF. BUT WE CAN'T PICK 'EM UP

WITHOUT PROOF/

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bc

Scientific

BESIDES, WE DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY HID THE * 2000 IN GOLD DUST TAKEN FROM THE STRONG BOX ON THAT

STAGE!

Funny Places

By BENNIE BENGTSON

ET out the atlas op a rainy tay and amuse yourself by looking over the names. on the maps. There are

Any number of names that look funny because we are not used. to them. Of course, if ww should happen to live at one of these places the name would mot seem strange. We'd be used to $1.

No country in the world has such unusual and picturesque names as the United States. Many of their place names came from the Indians, a large num- ber were carried on by the colonists and settlers from their homes across the oceans, andd some, like Topsy, "just growed" when some place desperately needed a name.

There's Tombstone, Arizona, for infance. It all started when the man later founder The town set off

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trip In prospecting

into the Apache country. His friends told hain: "All

aston' find there is your.

But he found a mine which he called "The Tombstone," The mining town that later grew up around it took the same name.

Raised A Flag

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TN Arizona too is Plugstaff,

called because a group of early settlers camped there one Fourth of July; and raised a Nag.

Punxsutawney,

Pennsylvania, (people there Usually ዱኒያ just "Punksey"), got its name from an Indian word meaning "place of the sand flies." Uwchland is another Pennsylvania town that looks un- prouecable. The name came from Wales anti is pronounced) land."

The small, half-wild horses of the meaning plains, but in Spanish "rough." There is also

Mono, * comly and also a lake, which de rives from the Spanish word for monkey." We may wonder why #tot name was chosen.

especially as wild monkeys' are not at home Here An answer of sorts may be found in the

ов namic

another Colifornia town, Quien Sabe, which is Spanish for "who knows?"

I

Why Not Town

A

North Carolina town was named Why Not. 1a ns good a name as Due West, to pick out place in the neighbouring state of South Carolina, or Difficult, in Ten-

nessee, 数

In Montana there's a lake, river, and a county called Flat- head. The term was given to tribe of Indians who had the un- asual custom of Battening the heads of their papooses by fastening a piece of board or a hard pad of grass to their foreheads.

Oshkosh is a famillar name to a lot of people in Wisconsin, and else- where too, for that matter, especial- ly since it is 0 manufacturing centre. Its name doesn't

originate fr. m a sneeze but honours an Indian chief. Su another place whose mune was that of an Indian chief Je Sleepy Eye, Minnesota. In the eriginal it was Ishanumbak, "man whose eyes have the

appearance

of sleep. Once upon a time Tia- cup, Colorado, was a booming min- ing town where gold was so plenti- ful it was mensured in a incup. hence the name.

IF

Further List

you think some of those names are funny, look what happens when you abbreviate the state names after come towns. There's Shapeless, Mass, for one; Oola, La., and Good- Bess, Mc. Income, Tex., is another, and a Pennsylvania we come Polson, Po., and Grandpa, Pa. Others from here and there are "uke

Deathly, Il tor, Miss.; Coco, Colo.; Lither, Ore; Farmerion, Del.; Pronn, Coun. Don't miss this one: Bee, O.

Akron, Ohio's

was rubber city, Jaid out on an

elevation and took the Greek word, for "summit." Anaheim, California, was named for the first child born in the settlement, Anna Fischer, and "heim," the Ger- man word for home. In Callfornia Του is the little town of which is Spanish for "sweet potato Benhur was named for the charneler fucous In General Lew Wallace's

novel.

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California atso has the Golden Gate, called that by Fremont recount of the brilliant effect of the setting sun on the nearby hills and cliffs. Then there is the post office of Dronco, a term often applied to

Mining

AT THE LUCKY EPITAPH MINE IN GORER DEND •* EAS WHATS THE IDEA TAKIN' LEAD OUTA THE CARTRIDGES AND LOADIN" 'EM WITH GOLD DUST, JESS

to

There are lots more where these came from. Next time it rains Just the out the alles and nec.

TREE QUIZ ANSWERS

-Ash. 2-Myrlle. 3-Redwood,

J-Oak: (ncorn), 5-Hawthorn(c).

G-Purw. 7-Ten(k). B-Poplar,

-Sandalwood. 10-

(popular).

Linden (Jenny Lind),

BY FRED HARMAN

THIS HIRES ATRIED AND TESTED WAT TO SALTA

MINE, WADE? WATCH!

טל פן

? Shellish

17

24

[27

ACROSS

5 Plant forms

Girl's name

10 Garment worn in India

11 Not closed

12 Beret

13 Us

14 Wealthy men

17 Dutch city

18 Talking bird

14

21 Part of "to be"

23 Exist

24 Ripped

20 Paper measure

28 Sea eagle

29 Desery

30 Revelry

DOWN

Black bird •

2 Stout card

3 Peer Gynt's mother 4 Flag

S Rlectrical term

Roman philosopher

7 Arabian

a Becomes overcast

15 Bustle

16 More suited

1 Peel

19 War god

20 Harvest

21 Italan river

22 Encounter

25 Boundary (comb, form) 27 Mine

Scrambled Sentence

Rearrange the words In the fol- clear sen- lowing Jumble to form lence:

bigbeat England, In Mount point in New the Washington

ANSWERS

CROSSWORD ANSWER:

CRAB

ROBA

ECAD

QUICKWINK ANSWER:

5

en

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Read down: 1-A sheet of fre. -Dendly. 3-Girl's

4- name. Amising, 5-lient due to sickness. 6- Cunrrels.

Now rend across the fourth row of letters for the missing word.

Word Square

Re-scramble the letters in enen row to form a good word, then re- arrange the mws to form a word

quare:

RI SIEM SOMSE OMERO

RAME

1 A/E F R

Word Marriages

To a 3-letter word for augment, add a 3-letter word for conducted. Marry the words and have mud- ddles.

To a prickly covering. ndid ( French word for water. Marry the two and have a chest of drawers.

Word Diamond

Here's a diamond centred ATHLETE. The second word is n abbreviation for "attorney," the the third is residue from a dre," fith "very small," and the sixth Is a "pigpen":

H ATHLETE

T

E

If You Need Them

SCRAMBLED SENTENCE: Moun! Washington is the highest point In New England.

WORD SQUARE:

WORD

DREAM

ROMEO

EMIRS

AERIE

MOSES

MARRIAGES: 'Add-Led,

Addled; Bur-Eau, Bureau.

WORD DIAMOND:

A

ATT

ASHES

ATHLETE

TEENY

STY

E

ZOO'S WHO

SILENCE

IS NECESSARY IF THE OWL

IS TO BE

SUCCESSFUL

IN CATCHING

PREY, AND IT

¡ALONE OF ALL

BIRDS CAN FLY NOISELESSLY

DUE TO THE SOFT DOWNY FRINGE ALONG

ITS WING FEATHERS...

Wasta

RATTLESNAKES ARE PROTECTED IN THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL.

PARK.

AJACKRABBIT CÂN COVER, A DISTANCE - OF TWENTY FEET IN A SINGLE LEAP......