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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,' SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1948,

FULL-PAGE FEATURE EVERY SATURDAY,

BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

QUICKSAND

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SPORTS · STORIES . PUZZLES · CRAFTS. GAMES. JOKES

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On a log he saw Vallee Rae's blue sunbonnet.

EFF · MASTERS, bending Vallee Rae. Tomplin's daughter, had above his berry baskets, promised to pick berries with him.

the dark shadow spreading over the sun-painted cabin doorway. He turned, then smiled relievedly as he looked up at his tall father.

MIS there something you want. Pop?"

"Where's Chet?" the elder Masters demanded, raising his straw hat and mopping his head with his kerchief.

Jeff's thin face flushed be- neath his freckles. "How should I know?" he countered sulkily.

"Chet is your cousin and our guest," his father reminded him.

** wish Chet would clear Out tomorrow," Jeff snapped. "Ife and his braggia' and his airs."

"Chet's gone rabbit hunting his father explained. "He don't know this country or the ways at it.

unteksand at the crossin Ponocran,"

the

BY I. R. HEGEL

years of life in the river country hat taught Jeff every inch of this isolated section. As he moved surefootedly along the twisted patis he had trudged hundreds of times. before, he thought of Vallee Rne and wondered why she had selected Chet after promishng him.

It didn't matter, he told himself as quickly. Nothing mattered but their safely, hers us well on Chet's He moved faster in the direction of the luggish muddy Ponoerna now visible through the shrubbery,

clinging

113። patched shiri was darkly to his thin shoulders. The perspiration stood out on his fore- head and on his freckled nose, It WIN takinut KO lang-so nwfully long-he must have liked two miles nlrendy.

Tlast he reached the crossing, a A long sandbar in the middle of the sluggish serpentine water. His eyes darted to the white clay shore that heralded the approach of the His heart froze. On quicksands.

a log he saw Vallee Rao's bjuc sunbonnet.

"Valleel" he yelled. He ran blindly into the thicket. "VALLEE

Then Irom the green woll

Vallee's voice: scrub trees, he heard a sob

"Jeff!"

of

and

DON'T LEAVE TOYS AT TOP _OR AT BOTTOM OF STAIRS

POSERS

TN this unbalanced menu you are to select the correct information from each group of items given. Six out of eight correct amwers entitles you to a meal ticket (you pay the cost), and eight really takes the cake, The correct an- swers are on this page.

Mution chopa were once (a)

cut fron a ramson, (b) popular with young men, (c) eaten from

a turritable.

The 13-year-old boy pushed aside tangled trailers and jumped nimbly across the short stretch of Swampy ground. Where the trees

3. Salod at parled, he found big Chet and little Vallee, her blue dress caked to her shivering form.

The Tomplins were newcomers to the river country and Vallee Rac with her bright blue eyes and bright red braids had brought a lot of fun the and laughter along with her. You could fish

ог pick berries with Vallee and have as much fun as at a party, But with Chet, a fellow had to be on constant guard against his tricks and they were many and mean,

Jeff stopped suddenly at a cotton wand. Tramping through the forest, a forked stick in his hand, was his cousin big Chet Yanchak, is black hale shone like a crow's wing.. A smug grin was on his square face. Jest stood still, his hands clenched. I hate him, he decided. 1 won't tell him about the quicksand. He's too mean to fall in I.

Chet swung past then, unaware of his younger cousin's presence. When Jeff was sure his tormentor was well out of sight, he ran back

"You fell in the quicksand!" Jeff erled out. "I should have warned Chet-i saw him starlin' along the path"

"Chet. rescued me," Vallee Rac explained. "He said if I kept quiet, straightened my legs and stretched out my arms, I wouldn't sink any lower than my armpits because my body was lighter than sand and I would float. I did Goat until Chet found a log and pulled me out."

"Only u yokel is afraid of quiet sand." Chet spoke up.

.

But Vallee rlsen ani wan running

to his cabin, collected his baskets JEFF stepped back. and hied over to the Tumplin farm. toward him.

burn,

bad

"We were lost," she said, coming closer. "Chet fold me you were going

to meet us here and pick berries.

You'd best be warnin' him about the BALD Mr Templin met him at the

When I didn't find you. I wanted "II, Jeff!" he said, u grin lighting to go home. Then we couldn't get

Benial

face. You plump

eur direction. I fell into the quick- All I could think of was that Plannin' to pick my berries today?" sand.

"Chel's 100 ernery to stick in quicksand." Jeff mumbled. "Besides Pop, I promised Mr Tomplin I'd help him with berry plekin","

"Tomplin won't mad if you're a few minutes fate," said his father, replacing the broad-brimmed hat upon his head. "Get goin', buy,"

"Oh, all right." Jeff shoved his baskets nside and rose, a kinny figure in his faded blur overalls and patched blue shirt.

LIGHTLY he swang off toward the

woods. He disliked big Chet who had come to visit the Masters a week ago. Jeff was anxious to be of to the Tomplin farm where

his

Je placed his baskets On a you'd come, that you'd follow. Oh, nearby rack. "Yes sir, Vallee Rne's Jeff, I knew you would!" goin to help me, isn't she?"

"Ve-ry touching,” said Chet, ain- ing a pebble at Jeff's head.

Jeff ducked and escaped it. "Let's go home," he said to Valler

Mr Tumplin pursed his lips. Vallee went to the Pangeran sec- tion with Chet. I thought you knew."

Jeff's throat went dry. lle thought Rae. of his braken promise to his father. "Doen Vallée know about the quicksand al the crosslar', Mr Tamplin?"

"Is there quicksand at the Pon-

ocran

Jeff threw the remainder of his baskets on the rack, "I've got to And then, Mr Tamplin-now-"

He sprinted off along the famliiar path that led to the woods. Fifteen

General Tin Fights a Lion

By MAX TRELL

And the Lion Ends Up in the Zoo

"Eldid, to Knart and Hanid. said General Tin, the

the shadow-children with the turned- about names, "I had a derrible light with lion. And," he welded. lowering his voice #little, "the lion had a terrible fight with me.”

Knart und Hanid, who

knew General Tin WAS wonderful hunter and had hunted wild animals in forests and jungles all over the world, asked him to tell them more about this terriblo fight he had with the lion, and the Hon had with him.

the

"Well," sald

General, **it happened in the Jungle of Bo-Po- Moko, not far from the banks of Lake Zumbrella."”.

"Where's that?"

Hankd inter-

·rupted to ask.

Sun Came Out

General Tin didn't bother to an-

swer her. "It had been raining for

The lion roared at General Tin,

"What did you do?" Kuart and Janid demanded.

"I knew," said General Tin, "that spring at me I was

a month or more. But finally the if I let him

zun

came out. It was a beautiful

last. So I sprang, too. We met in

day. As I walked through the jungle the middle of the air."

Like a Hoop

"Yes. No one would have believ

of Bo-Po-Moko I heard the Looki-- "In the middle of the air!" Looki birds dinging, and the curly- tailed monkeya chatlering, and the conaries

twittering in their cages ed it, but there we both were the in the tree-tops."

lion and 1-right in the middle of "Were the canaries in their cages the air! Then he held my feet in even in the jungle?" Knurf ex- his paws, and I held his tall in my claimed in astonishment.

hands, and round and round, we General Tin nodded. "They lived went, spinning like a hoop, in cages, but they always kept the rolled all through

the jungle... doors open except when they went rolled over the flelds and nicndows to sleep. But the most beautiful and hills and valleys and moun- sight of all were the jungle rabbits, tains rolling, rolling, rolling" You've never seen such a colour!" "What colour were they, Gen- eral7" Hanid wanted to know.

They were bleen coloured

bright bleen."

"And what Hanid.

Wo

happened?" naked

"Finally we stopped rolling. And I glanced around to see where wa were. To my surpriso (and to the

we

At this bath Knarf and Hanic disappointment of the lion), looked so surprised that General were right next to the entrance to Tin decided it would be better to the Zoo. So I took the Hon Inside, explain. "Bleen," he said, "is half- and put him in n cage. And there's blue and half-green. I made up the where he is to this day. And that's word myself. It's quicker to Gay the end of my story." bleen than to say blug-and-green. Knart and Ifand thought it was And suddenly," he said in an ex- a marvellous story. But it mado eited voice, "there was the lion, them wonder whether it really right in front of me! He opened his could have happened. And the one inouth and let out such a roar that thing that seemed most remark- the whole jungle shook. Before I able of all was the bleen coloured could get my musket off my rabbits. No one had ever seen them shoulder he sprang at mo!".

before!

Ife took tight hold of her hand. Pop was right. Chet did not know the country or the ways of it.

But Vallee didn't know The country either. The disaster. that nearly overtook Vallee seemed to Jeff to be punishment for not warning Chet.

"Next time, no matter how I dis- like a person, I'll try to do the right thing." he told himself.

PUZZLE ANSWERS

REBUS: Unknown

Soldier's

Tomb; May 30: Taps; Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.

WORD SQUARE:

LOVE

ONER

VEER

ERKS

ADD-A-LETTER: Ticket, thicket, thickest.

CROSSWORD:

POSER ANSWERS

2. The Upper Crust would bo

banquet served at a {u}

of the Four Hundred, (b) pie eating con- test. (e) love feast.

days occur In (a) youth, (b) middle age, (c) old age. 4. Oswego lea is most enjoyed by (n) bees, (b) Indians, (v) soda jerks.

A GOOD CITIZEN

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democracy

clilzen, have rights and privileges. But because we do have more privileges, wo also have more res- ponsibilities.

Even if you are not old enough to vote there Are many ways in which you can and should show that you are a good citizen. You can discus

questions of government, and learn why inwa must be passed which will assure the greatest good for the greatest number.

OBEY

LAW!

You can prove that you value your citizen's privileges by obeying ALL laws, even when they seem unnecessary to you. There is a good reaso31 behind even what looks unimportant, once you can see it in relation to the whole.

You can obey the regulation which Instructs you to put waste in the bins provided for it and help to keep your elty clean. You ran obey EVERY traffle rule, whether you are walking, riding, or driving. Obey traffic signals as carefully as you would the Inw against burglary, and you will not only protect your own life but set an example in good cliizenship.

Be a good citizen now, and you will grow up orderly and law- abiding, ready to play your part in civle affairs because you realise it is your responsibilty to be a GOOD eltizen.

Dress Up Your Dresser

By E. ANN BRUSH

This is n girl's burenu sel that

"ooks what it isn't showy and expensive. It's a rose-designed tray; a box for a large powder puff, or tissues; a discarded toilet water bottle that can be refilled with any liquid.

Actually, the tray was a paper pie plate: the box

Jee crean container. and we've already told you what the bottle contained.

BUREAU DRESS-UP SET

We gave the pie plate a coat of sky-blue quick-drying lacquer. While this was set aside, we cut 5. The chef who stave us tho the top for the ice cream box, cold shoulder was (a) discharged, trimmed it and. in order to keep (b) unsympathetic, (c) pie eyed in place, we

fastened several 6. Love apples. grow in (a) dressmaker's weights

flaps we glued to place. The print- Inside, using ed matter on the outside we covered truck gardens. (b) kindergartens, strips of gummed paper. Then we with strips of paper before painting

pasted a round plece of paper over it. this, pressing it well over the welghts. Later, we painted it red Now we looked through some old inside and sky-blue outside.

wotnen's magazines and found four bright rose designs (they were part The box. itself, we strengthened of an advertisement). These we cut with extra bits of cardboard glued out and pasted on the bottle, the ngainst the sides, and the bottom box and the tray.

(c) the Garden of the Gods.

7. A puddingwife is well versed In the art of (a) making desserts, (b) swimming. (c) frivolity.

8. If you were given soupcoa, (u) carry it in your you should pocket, (b) report it to the police, (c) swallow it.

Lights Are Only Use For Lazy Neon Gas

THE NEON SIGN IS ONE OF/ THE MANY MIRACLES OF

OUR MODERU AGE- THESE BRIGHT SIGNS ARE FOSSIBLE BECAUSE OF

NEON, GAS»,

NEON LIGHTING IS DIFFERENT PROM ELECTRIC LIGHTING IN_THAT_TO_TUBES

ARE COOL-'

By WALTER KING

FROM one end to the other of the main street of almost any town or city you will see the brillant glow of neon signs, another of the miracles of our modern age.

'NEON"LIGHTS 'ARE

ESPECIALLY 'VALUABLE FOR

·GUIDING AEROPLANCE

THROUGH FOG AND HAZE-

REBUS

TISE the words and pletures to un-

Memorial Day:

cover four facts about American

DON'T KNOW YOU

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WORD SQUARE

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word square- of words to form a

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ADD-A-LETTER

Add a letter to a word for an "admission card" and have a word meaning "forest," add another let- ter and have a word meaning "most dense."

CROSSWORD

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District attorney (nbbrev.}

3 Three-toed sloth

Domestic animal

6 Antelope

Soothsayers

10 Snake

12 Preposition

13 Exclamation

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Fisherman's ald

15 Armistice

17 Insect

10 Universal language 20 Any

22 Before

In making neon signs, bollow gloss tubes are heated and twisted into shapes of letters and the con-23 Muse of poetry

To separate

neon from the necting tubing is made opaque by Muse tape or palat. Air inside the tubes 25 Limb oxygen, nitrogen and other is pumped out and a bulb of neon American humorist gases.in the air, the air is com- Is hooked on, a valve turned and 20 Compass point pressed and cooled until it turns the gun hisses into the tubing. into a pale blue liquid. • When

20 Behold!

1 Female deer 2 Concur

air turns to liquid form it is of different colours can be made in Neon always glows red. but light

about 400 degrees below zero, various ways. To make brilliant of mercury are Fahrenheit, which is more than blue, a few drops

than the added. For green, nton un mer- 300 degrees colder

cury are nut in. yellow-tinted | 5 coldest place on earth.

tubes.

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These bright glowing signs, visible in dny as well as at night, are made of glass tubes filled with a gas called neon,

The other gases in the air do not Neon light is both powerful and which is changed into a tongue

object too strongly to being in cheap. Only a small amount of 11 Pini (abbrev.) of fire by a current of elec- quid form and are slow to evap gas is needed to make a sign, and 15 Equals tricity. The name "neon," orate-which is simply changing its light seems alive and pulsating. 16 Sen skeleton meaning "new," was applied to back to a gas. But neon likes to Business firms like the gas for 17 Exist

so it sneaks off" signs because It gives as much 118 Age the gas when it was discovered be a gas and

nhead of the other gases by the lumination for less cost than 20 Consumed nearly 50 years ago. In recent process of quick evaporation. The ordinary light bulbs. Furthermore, 21 Negative reply years neon has been made use- first "steam" from liquid air is it glows without too much heat, 24 Bustle ful.

fact result is mostly due to the

that very Kttle

20 Myself energy. Is wasted and neon puts all lis strength in light.

collected and the

con.

Neon is curious, lazy gas and Neon is a safe, harmless gas

signmaking Is about the only found in the air.. We breathe worthwhile thing it does. The gas Ncon is, especially valuable in · Rupert & Ting-Ling—30

Red beaconS it every day, but in such small, helps an electric current to "jump" guiding aeroplanes. 1b (sidewhiskers).

tube to the can be seen 20 miles through a 2-a (aris- quantities that all you inhale in from one end of a tocrats). 3-a (inexperience). 4a three or four hours adds up to electricity

other. Instead of sparking, as haze which would make other a flower). 5-b. G (lomatoes).

docs in air. the gas lights invisible. It is pretty useful 7-b (a fish). #-c (a taste). labout one lungful.

glows with a strong light.

for something as lazy, as it is.

RED RYDER

5 OUT'LL TAKE TOO LONG, LITTLE BEAVERY WE'VE GOT TO FIND A QUICKER WAY.”

Determined Men

WE DON'T AIM TO HURT YOU, SHERIFF, BUT WE DON'T WANT NO BUTTIN” IN WHILE WE DEAL WITH BUCKSKINĮ·

HUMPH/

RED RYDER MAY, THAT'S WHERE BE AT THE LUCKY HE WENT, BUT EPITAPH MINE,

By Fred Harman

THEY'VE MADE UP THEIR MINDS TO LYNCH BUCK HE'S BEENGINE | SKIN, WADES NOTHINYLL,

TOO LONG! STOD'EM NOWS SOMETHING

HAPPENED

Rupert runs on and on and, 16 hit dismay, Ting-Ling does not follow. "This is dreadful," he gasps. "I must find the Mandarin

-poo and tell him what has hap pened," He soon discovers the way and chambers upward until he quite out of breath. A large bird flaps round his head squawking, so he pauses to tell of the dragon, but the bird only screama louder ak_if trying to tell him something. “Oh, deat, he's talking Chinese, and I can't understand." pants Rupert.

ALL MONTH, KESERVED,