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BOYS'

ZOO'S WHO

Scarve

HELP!

HAFRICA, NATIVES HAVE ORGANIZED COMMANDO BRIGADES" TO FIGHT OFF BABOONS

WHICH RAID THEIR

CROPS

A CROSS BETWEEN A CHICKEN ÄNDÅPHEASANT, RECENTLY DEVEVOPED IN ENGLAND, LAYS GREEN

AND BLUE EGGS...

SOUTHERN RHODESIAN NATIVES REPORTED A RECENT BATTLE BETWEEN A CROCODILE AND HIPPOPOTAMUS IN WHICH

THE HIPPO WON.

Christopher Cricket's Song

-It Wasn't Like a Regular Song At All —

By MAX TRELL

TNARF, the shadow-boy with the about heard the

someone

sound of singing and of plunking a guitar, and climbed over the garden wall (for the sound came from the other side) to see who it was.

It was

Christopher Cricket, slt- ting an a pebble with his guitar over bis knee, singing and plunking 05 loudly as he could. On seeing

Kanrf, Christopher stopped..

"How'd you like that song?” asked Christopher. "I made it up myself." "What was the name of it? asked Knarl.

About a Daisy

"Wa)-I-1," sald Christopher slow- ly, "I don't know what the name of it is. I never gave it any.. But it's about a daisy and how it stands all day in one spot and never moves

Away. Would you like to hear the worda of the song?"....

lightly as the spoke.

I know a little daisy,

A pretty little daisy,

But ohf it is so lazy,

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Christopher at playing his guitar.

"Sing 'Pop Coes The Weasel,'" suggested Knari.

"Hmm, never heard of it,” 'said Christopher. "Any other?"

London Bridge Is Falling

"The

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH; ^ : SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER: 18, 1948.

- FULL-PAGE - FEATURE EVERY SATURDAY,

AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

SPORTS. STORIES - PUZZLES - CRAFTS, GAMES. JOKES

People Aren't Perfect At Naming Children Desk Set

By WALTER KING

AMES are tagged on to whether you like

N YOU

them

or not. Of course you nre allowed to rename yourself and have the change officinily, recorded, but it's a very good rule to live with what you have if you can make a go of it at all..

In the Philippine Islands a girl named Palmaristerisinimaluzmin- daniela Fernando was discovered. you say it fast enough it sounds like autumn leaves falling, But most people can't even eny it.

Deep In Central Africa the Iribes name their children after the weather, Ilke Mist. Heat. Flood, Dewdrops and Cloudburst. Some vages believe that once you are christened, no one should call you by your name. So a nick- name is promptly adopted such as Misty, Floodlight or Hot-Box.

Other primitive people refuse to give a child any name at all. They sny they fool the evil spirits who like to put a hex on people. The spirits can't find people because they don't know their names, Oc- ensionally a baby is given a name such

as Dusty in order

to fool the spirits into belleving the kid Isn't even worth a box.

Some Indian papooses are named from the first object which meets Dad's eye as he tears out of the wigwam to pass out cigars. So they get called Kicking Horse, Snake-in- the-Grass, Jumping Frog and Mud Splosh.

An Town. family named Ita eleventh child Finis. A Missouri girl has No for a name. Mr. and Mrs. Meow of Washington coiled their baby boy Katz. In Los Angeles girl was born during a slight tremor of the earth,

so sho was given the name Earthquake.

The most alphabetical name on record belongs to a London girl, Ann Bertha Cecillo Diana Emily

Fanny Gertrude Hypathfa Inez

Nora

Incidentally, the "A to Z" name makes a splendid

party

game. Read Miss Pepper's Christian names to your guests and then ask thent to write na much of her name s

they can remember.

HIM, FLUID DRIVE"

MAR, 'AND MRS-

MEOW OF WASHINGTON

HAVE A BOY

CALLED *KATZ"**

NAMES COME IN* DIFFERENT WAYS- AN INDIAN PAPOOSE SOMETIMES GETS ITS NAME FROM THE FIRST THING HIS FATHER SEES AS HE LEAVES HIS WIGWAM-

MEOW

THE WEATHER HAS ALWAYS HAD A SUPPLY OF TERMS FOR NATIVES TO DRAW ON WHEN

THEY NEEDED A NAME -

particular Bill Smith Ire was any resemblance to a real persort'a named Willie Five-eighths and he name is coincidental.) But became a teacher

what of mathematics if you were named Phyllis Irene in Georgia.

Goldbraid? Or Myrtle Ulcer Devon shire? You wouldn't want 10 write your initials.

are

From Odds

And Ends

THIS

By E. ANN BRUSH

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desk set will, nol' only give

service, but add a cheerful note to a room. The base is a drawer for nibs; the upright box has a hole for the pencil, with space for your penholder at the back, and the top of the pencil is a penwiper. When you pull the ears of the penwiper head, the eyes

move.

It's made of one safety mutch-box and the top of another. The bot- tom box is used as a drawer.

The upper part-after it has been glued to the base is filled

with plaster of paris or patching plaster, Before it suto, you fasert a rounded stick slightly thicker than the pen- cll you're going to use. This stick should be brushed with vaseline before being put into the plaster of paris; otherwise you won't be ablo to pull it out after the plaster has sot.

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the back is some gold paper At taken off a Christmas card and pasted on a plece of cardboard. Last names

Make the penwiper with a plece. born with us

of cardboard about the size of but there should be some way

visiting card. Draw a circle around of safeguarding n future doctor Many new names are now ap- from a name like Butcher

a small sewing-thread spool on the or an pearing in birth records, such cardboard. Add a neck about one aviator being named Fall.

Neon and Atomic. But the old and Even

one-half inches Initials must be watched, poetical names, Dawn.

long. Then (Here we must say that the fol- Gay,

April and draw two fairly large eyes and aren't heard ns much mouth. Cut out the eyes with contusion: about this lowing names are, Actifious and formerly.

sharp penknife.

Now, prepare a second head with- out eyes for the back of the head. Then cut a third circle, but add two big ears. Place your eye-piece over

Another odd name is that of Willie Five-eighths Smith.

The name Bill Smith annoyed his Dad thousands of Smiths in the coun- who knew there wene tens of

try and tens of thousands of Bills. To

avold

Mental Gymnasium

QUIZ

QUICKWINK RIDDLER

Jane Kate Louisa Mand

Unseramble the word "hotphoy- When does preacher use an axe Ophella Quince Rebecen Starkey grap" to learn what this set of ques-on his sermon?

When he concludes Teresu Ulysses Venus Winifred tlons is about, The correct answers it with smashing t Xenoption Yetto

Pepper. aro on this page.

Do the puzzle and find the missing

Zenus

ESKIMO

FOOTBALL

OOFBALL 19

cold

1. Here it is in capitalised letters word. for you, to unscramble: HOTPHOY- GRAP

2. What object do sonic people hesitate to face?

3.

4.

What man patented a success-

ful roll aim of paper in 1884?

What is the common name of the solution used In developing

Alma?

Itead

1 2 3 4 5

T T TT T

short addresses. 3-Journeys.

down: Tiny natis. 2 To allure,

4mm 5-Drops that fall from the eyes. One of the United

Now read across the third row of

5. The processes of Ives, Joly and weather Wood concern what phase of photo- Sintex. sport, so it's not too surprising | graphy? that Eskimos play t In the far North the date, like the game, varies | from that of other places.

Kourf 'said he would. So Christo pher Cricket recited 04 follows, Christopher Cricket shook his strumming the strings of the guitar head.

"Sing 'Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells.' Or sing Frere Jacques. Or sing 'Here We Go Looby-Loo," or

The Eskimos play football on the Farmer In The Dell, or "

ice fields, so they play during But Christopher Cricket just kept February, March and April, when And when Knart there is light enough to see and the shaking his head. finally said: "ging any

fee will still bo sirong enough to like,

song you Christopher! Christopher hold them. smiled and plunked his guitar and sang out at the top of his voice a Is there really song that no one had ever heard but

As lazy as can be!

I saw " nad its little head;

I asked for a walk

But all it did was stare at me

It wouldn't even talk.

Knart said: "T

words, Christopher.

sald; "They're very

such a daisy?"

nico

himself. For It was a cricket-son "Oh yes Indeed! They're all like and he had made it up. And these that. They nod their heads, they were the words: wave their arms-when the breeze

spot

I sing for folks to hear about,

I don't care what I sing about Except that what I sing about Must always spread good cheer

blows, of course-but they

won't ever slir from the

whore they're standing. They're lazy and that's all there is to it... I guess I'll sing another song," added Chris- about. topher the next moment. would you like?"

"What

That was Christopher Cricket's song!

YOUNG IDEAS

BY JOYCE HUNTER

The weather inay be 20 to 60 dc- grees below zero, but everybody gets out and plays, pitting their strength and activity the young people

against the experience and wisdom of their elders.

There are no rules, no kick-off, no scores. The idea of the Eskimo: game is simply to get the ball, which is made of sealskin stuffed with rolideer hair. No fans watch the game because the whole village takes part.

There is no cheering section, no band, not even a goal-and the big Home Insts five or six days without a stop. Players drop out to eat and

old

. What precious metal is used letters for the missing word.

supplies? In making photographic

Which Draper made the first. photograph of the human face: John W. or Andrew S.?

8. What is the camera-fans- slang word for "face"?

COMPASS PUZZLER

M

RIDDLES

set of riddles. No

Stands on your own feet with this peeking at the good try first. If you need answers, answers until you have made a they are elsewhere on this page.

Puzzles, Riddles and Quizzas for You to Do

WORD ADDITION Acid a letter to a pronoun and have an article: add another letter and have a Biblical

pronoun; add still another and have a plural pro- noun.

WORD DIAMOND

Our

diamond is centred on RE- VERSE this week. The second word Is "to soak fax," the third "rants,” the fifth is "pithy," and the sixth is a compass point."

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catch their breath, but they don't ANSWERS strength holds out. When everyone is completely exhausted the people call the game off, perhaps ending it 10 miles away from the starting point.

BACK in the old days, ploncer your teeth. But we share the opinion stop for sleep as long as their

zettlers ale meal after meal con- of thousands of parents that blowing sisting of a pound of pork mixed bubbles with bubble gum isn't ex- with a pound of beans. Whether actly delicate nor does it add dignity the ploneers knew it or not, their to the one who does it. Chew, but diet made nutritional sense. Beans don't bubble. What do you think?

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are not a perfect meat substitute because bean

proteins are not as The Hart Publishing Company When the game is over, everyone Batisfactory ment proteins, But ently brought out a book. for trudges back to the village, beans do contain other things that boys and girls from nine to 16 en- enough exciting conversation to last; nre health giving. That's why "pork titled "A"

Treasury

of Laughs" them through the next dark season and beans" are better for you than This volume, full of jokes, rhymes, when the hot stove league is most beans alone, even it just a little riddles, anecdotes

and boners, is popular. bacon fat is added to flavour the edited by Joanna Strong and Tom disly

B. Leonard. Included are "Casey st the Bat," "Father William," and Sample class-

Speaking of eating, do you know many other favourites. the seven classifications of food that room

boners: "Abraham Lincoln

make a person healthy? Here they wrote the 'Gottysburg Address' while are: (1) Milk, three or more glasses

travelling from Washington

to

more Cellysburg on the back of an en-

a doy; (2) vegetables, two of my velope," and "Robert Louis Steven- servings besides a potato; (3) fruits, two or more servings 'n day; (4) son got married and went on his ho wrote

eggz, three ty fivɑ a week; (5) ment, honeymoon, cheese, fish or fowl, one

It

was

or more "Travels with a Donkey."" Oh, yes, "The climate of the servings daily; (0) cercat or bread, and the one: two or more servings a day, and S.hara is such that its inhabitants (7) butter, two or more tablespoons have to live elsewhere." a day.

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BUTTER FROM;

TREES

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QUTTER—in a place where there aro no dairies, no cows? . Yca,

even in the Junglos of Control butter. And it comes from trees! Africa and Indin the natives have

One of the best-known tree Bo the official door lingo oller of spreads comes from the "butter Amputees in Amerien are doing your family, It's a good job for tree" of Central Afrien. "Colam almost "everything that unhandi- a boy -or a mechanically-minted Butter" or "Shea Butter," as it is capped people are doing. Out of 300 "Cluny Drown." Take the pin partly called, is in big demand all through in out of a squeaky hinge and oil the Hem. To make the spread, the tree applications for membership

the jungles and is a fast-selling. Possibilities Unlimited, which pro- shank. And the door will

open seeds are sun or oven dried, and handicapped und close more easily, too. opportunities for

then boiled. The resulting butters applicants people. percent tho

of

while, smooth. and amazingly like drove cars, 00

Watch out for buttons when you percent bowled, 25

cow's milk butter, danced and 35 percent fighed, take things to be cleaned. Plastic

played golf, boxed and had ones dissolve in the cleaning fluid. Not only does it look the same, outdoor or atilelle hobbies. And covered ones, if glued, como but many people say It tastes even machine shop reports an amputee unstuck, or fray" out. It is safest batter. What is more Important, who magnetised his "hand" so that to remove all buttons before clean-Shea butter stays fresh and sweet It would help him pick up bits of Ing.

for as long as a year, even without metal and to hold nails,

being salted.

wo'vo

When you run out of tooth paste .Personally

got nothing and powder remember that soap and against bubble gum, or any otuur zalt are excellent cleansers--when kind of gum. It's a treat, it helps applied by vigorous use of the tooth- exerolse jawa and maybe it helps brush, Dentists recommend them,

There are other butter trees in other tropical zones. Both the In- dian butter tred and the Indian all tree, yield butter from their

pressed scotis.

QUICKWINK ANSWER:

1 2 3 4 5 6 TTTTTT AAREE E CLIMAX KKP PRA SSSTSS QUIZ ANSWERS 1-Photography, 2-The camera, 3-George Eastman. 4-Hypo. 5- Coloured photography, 6-Silver, John W. Draper. "Phiz."

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CROSSWORD

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5. When does a dead ruler dis-

regard the truth?

REVERSE SCRAMBLER.

Reverse have

"a heavenly body" and rodents"; scrumble and have the title of a former Russian ruler.

Easy, Aren't They?

BIDDLE ANSWERS

1-Because they

are leg-ends (legenda), 2-Because the engine cannot play upon it. 3-Because it would be fowl language. 4-Be- cause it has wards in It. When he lies in state,

REVERSE

rats, Tsar.

SCRAMBLER:

Star,

"Nothing

COMPASS PUZZLER: ventured, nothing gained."

WORD ADDITION; He, the, thee, these.

JP. WE DONT LYNCH YIVE AN THEM TWO CROOKS. IDEA CAN WE GET OUR A HOW IT MONEY BACK NOW? / CAN BE DONES

WORD DIAMOND:

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1 Sudden jerk

G Incursion

0 Great Lake.

10 Against

11 Wapiti

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12 Fermented apple drink

13 Female rufs

15 Musical note

10 Palatul spots

18 Boy's nickname

20 Tried

23 Walking sticka

25 Constellation 26 At all times

27 Neut

28 Rodents 20 Number (pl.)

1.Scoff

DOWN

2 Shield bearing

3 Is pleased with

4 Total expenses (abbrev.) * Elevates

0 Also

7 Roman road

8 Dreadful

12 Goddess of vegetation

14 Electors

17 Look fixedly

18 Genus of shrubs,

10 Volcanic residue

21 Ireland

22 River barriers 24 Selne

27 Size of shot

Political Aspirations

ELECT A JUDGE--YOU'RE PROPERTY OWNERS AND RESIDENTS OF GOWER BEND/ TOUR JUDGE WILL DIVIDE THE MONEY LEGALLY AND RETURN

THE STOLEN CASH TO THE

STAGE" COMPANY?

DRUM MAYBE YOU BOYS WILL CONSIDER MY CANDIDACY I'VE ALLUS HAD A MANGER'N,

BE A JURIST

FOUR- DUTY DESK SERVICE

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this and then draw two black eyes on the third carboard circle. Cup the third plece until it resembles a mask with two cars and two black

dots. Now paste the two outer heads at top and bottom, carefully, so that the in-between mask con bo pulled to the left or right, freely

When the gum is dry, "paint" tho head with flesh-coloured water- colour paint or crayon. Colour tho

mouth red and the edges of the cars pink.

Now taper a penell so that it la practically flat one end, slip it in between the top and bottom "necks" of the penwiper and glue and tie nically with coloured string. Then ahir a piece of chamois about an inch and a halt wide and a length of bright-coloured felt and gather it around the penwiper neck. Glue it a bit so that it will hold,

felt

To the top of the head glue 1 tiny cap of the same bright you've used for the lower part,

Rupert & Ting-Ling--42

After hearing the story. Me. Bear hurries out, hoping to see the great dragon, bu it has flown away. Meanwhile Rupert finds an emply box and runs to join him. China people don't lah with a rod,“. cres the little bear. If they want à fish they sit by the river and whittle for it "You must have been to a funny part of China." says his father.. Come on, let's see how it's done." As they make for the river Edward and Bill spot them and turn in their direction.. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

By Fred Horman

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