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BOYS'

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1948.

FULL-PAGE FEATURE EVERY SATURDAY.

AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

SPORTS. STORIES . PUZZLES. CRAFTS, GAMES . JOKES

ZOO'S WHO Korean Children Always Smile Safety Hint

the ONLY SURVIVOR OF CUSTERS LAST STAND WAS A-

HORSE...

WILD MONKEYS ARE FOUND AT GIBRALTAR AND AT NO OTHER PLACE ON THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT.....

The ARCTIC TERN IS BELIEVED TO BE THE WORLD CHAMPION BIRD TRAVELERT MIGRATES FROM THE ARCTIC REGIONG TO THE ANTARCTIC,A DISTANCE OF 10,000 MILES, BACH FALL, AND BACK AGAIN EACH SPRUNG

In

IDA M. PARDUE

: she han neither

F you don't like school or housework and can't wait for the day when you'll have a job of your own, Korea is just the place for you. this Oriental country, school nor housework has

the great part In the life of average child. But if you want a job, whether you are six or 16, you can get one. However, it's not as rosy as it looks.

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Mrs Pardue is the wife of a U.S. Army captain and been living In Korea. Slic gives first- hand Information LE article about Korean boys aud girls.

An unpaid chore few children escape is tending babies by carrying them Korean style- "upchn" or "piggy-back." Koreans seldom put their small ones down. They are carried constantly, generally by older brothers and sisters.

This doesn't keep the baby- tenders from playing, It

many doing a part, there is doesn't even slow them up. They play tag, hopscotch; ball, in not much work for anyone.

fact, anything, while the babies Korea's child does not stay

So, with neither school nor school by away from

choice. household chores, Korea's chil- ride upcha. attend. dren are free to work but, He can't afford to Schools are not free in Korea. again, not by choice. Primary school education costs

about 400 yen a week, in a

One of Korea's biggest prob lems today is the vast army of beggar children. Large cities are overrun by these ragged

families by from

DON'T TOUCH ELECTRIC CORDS OR PLUGE – DON'T

TOUCH ANY WIRE (F

YOU DON'T HAVE TO-

country where men labour long KIM DUK EE is only eight youngsters. Homeless, separat- NEW

hours for about 100 yen

per

war,

NEW GAME

day-and apples cost 40 yen a coolie, trudging all day long leath or accident, they room FOR PARTY

apiece!

years okl, yet she works as ed with, a burden on her back so the streets, clutching at people heavy that her father must lift with

scrawny, Bore covered There isn't much housework it into place. Like most of hands, to beg. The older ones in a Korean home. There are Korea's millions, Kim works are Korca's "Dead End Kids." no beds to make. Koreans because her father cannot earn robbing, picking pockets, plun- sleep on thick mats which are enough to feed her. spread on the floor cach night. Meals are simple, and that

No few dishes.

means

Kim's small brother. Lee, has one job, also. Armed with an

wear shoes inside, so no dirt old rag and a half-empty tin of or mud comes in. Besides, shoe polish, he haunts the rough families are large, and with city streets. For a few yen Lee will scrub your dusty shoes -vigorously.

Storms at Sea Are Terrifying Experiences

For Passengers, Even in Modern Ships

By JULIA W. WOLFE

TORMS still endanger lives

S on the sea.

Man is better

equipped nowadays to encoun~

ter storms at

sea, but the old

elements are still n canning

foe.

made

the

certainly

for This brawny (deal of n wave-drenched, stoon-lashed mariner. But moregu big warfare demonstrated that ship can be manoeuvred just efficiently if the men in charge have a roof over their heads and windows in front of them. Today nearly all ships have the luxury of a covered bridge.

Ve anked an old sea captain to tell his "worst" experience at sea... "What do you mean WORST?" he alt the worst, "They're roared. when they're going on."

How you feel a storm, he explain- ed, depends on the kind of ship you are saling and how the big blow strikes. In shaal or rock-ribbed water the hazards are greater. Out foundering in a in the open sea. Rate is a rare occurrence for ships these days. There is damage, how- ever, such as crushed lifeboats,

FEW EXPERIENCES. EQUAL THAT OF 17 GOING THROUGH A WILD STORIA »

• AT GEA-

SINCE THE BEGINNING OF CIVILIZATION MARINERS HAVE BEEN STRIVING TO LESSAN THE SHOCK OF HEAVY STORME

THE MAN AT THE WHEEL HAS NOT ALWAYS HAD A SHELTER OVER HIS HEAD-UNTIL RECENT TIMES THE PILOT STOOD OUT IN THE GALE

IF

GOULD ONLY GWE UP THE

In rough weather, the footing on

various parts of the

broken furniture, windows, dishes the deck becomes so precarious that and so forth. But these can be lines must be stretched replaced. The passengers are usual ly sick, but they, too, soon forget, and the fact that they weathered a storm at sen becomes one of their most thrilling memories.

THE FOOTING ON DECK DURING A STORM 16 VERY

*PRECARIOUS-

or

the Many children work in

in silk mills,

weaving lace factories where they

dering.

LAUGHS

By ANNETTE LINGELBACH

The film. "Magic Town," suggests In the story, Jane Wyman and vernment is doing its best to James Stewart visit the school where THE American Military Gone le stoof, ancie help Korea's children. Welfare Jane and studied. They sit at desks

groups collect

the homeless,

give them baths, clothes, food and beds. Four-H clubs, Scouts, and Junior Red Cross organisa- tions are gaining members and popularity rapidly. But not strands of fibre into beautiful until the Korean people them- mats, baskets, slippers, purses selves become interested, and other articles.

212

can

Compared with

average Youngsters also tend road- any real progress.be made.

11s rich GS side stands, selling merchandise Korean child, you are

are hot Midas. Yet Korea's children ranging from tobacco to

And the an roasted chestnuts. They weed the "smilingest" on earth,

poorest coolle, straining under flail gardens and plant rice, impossible load, invariably sings as

he stumbles on his weary way. wheat and husk grain.

YOUNG IDEAS

By JOYCE HUNTER

50 that they looking Jungle Jog. won't mistake you for a guerilla.

•

as

UNDER 11 THE BOY"

THE

STOOD

SPREADING ON THE

QUOTH

THE

RAVEN- BURNING NEVER DECK...

MORE

DERHAPS you only think you re- Get F

and recite, both at the same time, member what you see, group of your pals together and test

Did you know that a human hair with loud voices and dramatic ges- the visual aptitude" of the crowd.

Artist tures, their favourite school poem. can be split lengthwise? Ask your guests to look around the

the Adelbert Boyer of Reading. Pennsyl- Jane gives "Hiawatha." and James Toom for two minutes. Time

The janitor, in the hall, overhears looking carefully and, what's more vania, who has won fome for minia-The Charge of the Light Brigade."

them why lure' paintings, uses split hairs important, don't tell

up, paint brushes. His creations are so them and joins in with lines from you're doing it. When time's

be best enjoyed "Romeo and Jullet." can small they

Let's

have a poetry contest like take the crowd into another room to

that! put down on paper the objects they through a magnifying glass.

Any number of contestants may noticed in the first room. When all

written themes. recite poems, with a judge listening have Balshed. exchange list with

other reports for each contestant. The neighbours, and have one guest read

It pays to keep

PUZZLES

CROSSWORD

1. Parent

ACROSS

3 This puzzle is on the silhouette

of an Eskimo

6 Sun god

6 Exist

Hawaiian pepper

10 Paid nollee

11 Opening

13 Sea engle

17 Doorways

DOWN

1 Italian river

2 Wine vessel

3 Refuge

4 Age

5 Rant

7 Paradise

Social insect

12 Transpose (abbrev.)

14 Red Cross (abbrev.)

15 Compass point

10 Electrical, term

QUICKWINK RIDDLER

What may you expect from worker who is toiling, flat on his correctly back? You may reason

that he is doing his best.

Do the puzzle and find the missing

word.

2 3 4

D D ກ.

Read down:

3-To plunge.

Little girl's toy.

<A!

-Stupid. 2-An act.

5- 4-An animal.

Now read across the third row of letters for the missing word,

ESKIMO REBUS

Use the words and pictures decipher four facts pertaining Eskimos:

I LOVE THE SP: TIME, WHEN THINOC

TURY CR

LAN

THE EMBERG GAVE OFF, PAINT GLOW

contes-

the

-W

the

+0

TIME

HUSK THE

off the Hat he happens to hold. Other term papers and guests will check their lists, marking you've worked hard on. The famous tants may use gestures, but the objects as they are read aloud. Swedish scientist, Svante Arrhenius, main thing is to recite loud enough

until received a low but passing grade on for the judge to hear above

submitted for an ad-voices of others. Credit is given for Then have other lists read

is found, thesis he the most complete list Give the winner a look in mirror-vanced degree. Nineteen years later accuracy and memory,

thesis won the Nobel others just that same and have him tell the. what he sees,

"

almost touches the

To "make" everything-more confus- Prize.

ing and difficult, a "sound effects provide amusing back- whistling, You can make a napkin ring suit-man" can On huge Uners, such as the Queen

dropping pans, clapping hands, sing- Show your fondness for your pet able for dining room table out of an ground noises, such as

the ing and so forth, Mary and the Queen Elizabeth, cap-

courses cat by giving his coat a good brush- old spoon. Just bend back between tains hold close to their vessel. Short while avoiding the worst of

the Ing occasionally. A well-mannered himale until it blow. The sea captain is man who cat who is a good purr-former rates bowl. ropes, like bus straps, are attached so that they slide along these life- adheres strictly to his time table, this special attention.

and those of the Atlantic and West lines, providing something for a man to hold onto.

Indies Innes pass' through some weather

the areas of the worst Northern Hemisphere,

Bad weather is not confined to any season. In the winter the At- lunlic steamers pass day after day in "northers," and hugs waves lash the ships.

Chirpie Was Planning a Trip

But the Shadows Told Him Not to Go-

By MAX TRELL

WELL." said Chirpie Sparrow

W to Kaart and Hand, shadow-children

with the

the

wrned-

Soy

D

about names, "I've come to Hood-bye. I'm going away on long trip."

Chirpie, was standing on the win- daw-sill. Knarf and fanid looked

at film in ostonishment.

"Going away

Where are you going?"

asked.

on long

trip?

they both

ost

"I've just met an old friend mine-a sailor. He's invited me to It оседа, go with him across the ought to be very interesting. I've never been across the ocean,"

Knarf wanted to know the name of Chirple's sullor friend.

"His name is C. Guil.....Charlie Gull.".

"Sea Gull! I've heard of him!"* Hanid exclaimed.

Doesn't Like Land "He's been a sailor for years and years," Chirple went on. "He lives down near the

"

When he was hungry, a gull could dive for fish.

Poor Chirpief He wanted so much to fly across the ocean and see what was on the other side. But he knew now he couldn't. For it wasn't easy, once you were used to the land. to co flying...flying...flying across He doesn't something that was bigger than all like being on the land at all. He the ponds put together. doesn't like trees. He doesn't care

Like A Duck for flowers. All he likes is water and waves. Maybe I'll like water

and waves, too." "The ocean

ocean.

is very big," said

of

The old captain says 'waves in big This storms average 25 feet high. means that from trough to crest, the wave rises 1232 feet above the meat level of the water and falls an equal listnnée. Waves izi hurricanes sometimes have measured 80 feet.

The

They look like mountains about to smother a ship. Waves 60 feet high are not unusual in severe storms. These are incusured easily because they break over the bridge. bridge usually is about 60 fcel above the waterline in big ships. But a 20-foot wave can be dashed over the bridge if it strikes at the right place at the right moment, and per- haps some of these 60-fool waves were exaggerations,

Engineers' job.

can

Every time a contestant pauses to recall the next line (or out of pure. Most of their waking time, people confusion), a mark is made against talk; part of the time they converse. him. It's best to perform this out- Want to strengthen those fabby 'Thik is usually about ourselves and doors, and "horse play" should be shoving or push- middle muscles that keep you from our own personal Interests. Conver-ruled out. Distracting noises walking like Iledy Lamare? Just sation. on the other hand, means anbe made, but no take a stroll on all fours, night and exchange of ideas and soft-pedallinging! morning, to the tune of your radio, yourself. At a party, if someone is Walk as flat of feel as possible, and a stranger or is shy, draw him out You with interested comments and ques- on the palms of your hands. will do well to warn your family in tions. That's how to start a conver-

rather pecullar sation. advance of this

The men who make the ship.80-4 the engineers-have a job that re- storm. quires vigilance during a

tho They must be ready to ease propellers and

"racing" prevent when the plunge of the ship lifts them out of the

water. Sudden kies. strains can put the engines out of commission.

The most dreaded storms, says our friend the sen captain, are those which tear up the warm current of CGull the Gulf Stream from the West In- It might be easy for (though Knurf and Hanid told Chiri dies. These are second only to the ple that it wasn't even easy for him): typhoons of the Pacific.

Ho But Charlie Gull was used to could sit on the waves like n duck.

Knarl.

**Yes, that's what Charlle Gull sait. I asked him if it was bigger than our pond at the foot of the He could dive for fish when he was hill, and he sold it was bigger than hungry. He

velocity

couldi sleep on the

all the ponds put together, That's water if he had to. pretty big all right"

"You'd better, not. go," said Hanld, "Where will you rest when you get tired?"

"Why" anid Chirple, "I never thought of that."

"And where will you sleep?" said

Kanc

"I don't know.".

"And what, will you eat while you're dying across the ocean?" said Hauld,

the wind During these storms

reaches 75 miles an hour. The wind moans. The sky is cover- clouds. Birds ed through dente drop on the ship deck from exhaus- But late at night, when the wind tlon in fighting the gals. The hur blow, and the storm broke, and the ricane howls and the ship rises and waves rose up like mountains, Char- falls lie Gull himself had a hard time flying.

When the storm ends, passengers thankful that the

So Chirple Sparrow had to tell are profoundly his old friend that he couldn't go shipbuilder knew his business and salling across the ocean with him. the crew kept the vessal pfloat. It's He'd just fly across the pond and f great experience, says the sea cap- back again. That would be enough tain, but once. is enougli for most sulling for him.

DI us."

PUZZLE ANSWERS

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

QUICKWINK ANSWER

~ADAR

'

DALYA

4

D

E

ESKIMO" REDUS

BAOHN

Greenland; Igloo; Reindeer; Hus-

RED RYDER

"RED THAT CATTLE DUYER LEAVING

OCK ON THE NEXT STAGE IS AFRAID OF HOLDUPS

RIDDLE ANSWERS

I-One weighs a pound and the other pounds away. 2-A half- dollar. 3-Grass turns green; milk Ho turns sour; hair, turns gray, might strike. 5-So he could sleep overtime.

MIX-UPS

aborigines; North American Short-statured people; Hunters and fishermen.

IT'S A RISK ANYBODY WHO TRAVELS

HAS TO TAKE,

fo

WORD DIAMOND

E

ASH

ASKED ESKIMOS

HEMPS DOS

Rupert & Mr Punch-6

Rupert wanders rather gloomily out of the orchard, Now that Podgy won't go for a walk I suppose you won't either," he says, Dup to his surprise Algy seems to have cheered up quite suddenly, “What Podgy axys was quite tight." he crici." A hammock is the best place this weather, and if he could make ons I could, too. Shall we try? Where can we get some setting strong enough" Rupen thinks `a „minute. * “Let's go atid sak Sailor Sam," he smiles. "He would be sure to know.""

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Bad News for Bad Men

BUT I PROMISED THAT A GUARD WOULD RIDE ON THE

·STAGE? THE SHERIFF'S OUT OF TOWN AND I CANT FIND

A SUBSTITUTE I

HERE IS CHANCE FOR FREE RIDE ON STAGE COACH,

RED RYDERI

JUST WHAT I WAS THINK

IN. LITTLE BEAVER! ILLRIDE THE

STAGE FLO?,

RIDDLES

to

to

1. What's the difference between 10 ounces of insect powder and a boy using a typewriter?

2. What coin doubles its volue

If you can take half awayî 3. Can you mome three that turn without moving?

4. Why

should 1

never be put to work?

things

rattlesnake

5. Why did the little boy put his alarm clock under his bed?

MIX-UPS

Bly rearranging the letters in the will following strange lines, you tearn three facts about Eskimos:

NOR BANGOR HAM ANI ICES RITE

on

. PEEL POD SHORE RUT TATS

SHUNS TEARS FIND HER MEN

WORD DIAMOND

centred The diamond ESKIMOS. The second word is "kind of tree, the third "request- ed," the fifth is plural for "gallows tho sixth is "dower rope," and properly.

я

K ESKIMOS

BY FRED HARMAN

RIDER ON THAT STAGEJ MMM? THATS BAD?