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SPORTS

STORIES

PUZZLES

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,, FRIDAY, DECEMBER, 24, 1948.

The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE

MENTAL GYMNASIUM Linda And The Leprechaun

RIDDLES

1. What most resembles half of

a cako?

2. Why in the letter T of a

mixed nature?

3. What beverage may stand for

the beginning of time?

4. What is the difference between

the earth and the sea?

5. Why Is the Irish national emblem like o fake boulder?

MIX-UPS

Rearrange the letters in each of the lines following? ta form the name of an Ingest

CUSS LOT

ROC O PINS

O QUITS SOME

-DIAMOND

· HORNETS form the centre of to- day's diamond. The second word is "a drunkurd," the third "painful spots," the Afth very small,” and the sixth is "a pig pen."

Use

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II.

HORNETS

E

T

S

INSECT REBUS

the words and pictures to uncover four types of insgets:

B.B.BHS⋅

BB B BBB

DADDY!

ANSWERS

RIDDLES

+

TOM!

CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Stinging Insect

Social Insectu

V Great Lake

19 Castle ditch

11 Bookkeeping item

community

13 14

15 Standards of perfection

17 Measure of cloth

18 Paid notice

TINDA put her chin in her

fists and propped her elbows in the tall grass under the apple tree. Sho looked critical. ly at her sketch and nodded. It was good. The dress would be wonderful. But, what about allp-. pers? : *

Coming in from school she had known that the fat en- velope on the hall tablé con- tained her sketches for the dress design contest. So she hadn't won the scholarship to a fashion schooli Feeling low,

she had carried the other letter to the lunch table without in- terest. But when she opened it at last, her eyes grew wide and her pretty mouth fell

10 Tops of waver

22 Article

21 Over (poetic)

25

Not fresh

Incursion

29

Goddess, of discord

30

Paradise

31 Soaks tax

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10

31

14

17

15

21

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25

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228

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Linda found her tongue. "It's from "she peered at

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£2

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Be seated

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of "to be"

Wanderer

Kite purt

Steamers (ab.)

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Yard (ah.)

10

Church festival

17 Weird

19 Apple crire";

20 Peruse

23

Tasto solo (ab.)

Dismounted

Promontory

26 Exist

28

Debit,note (nb.)

open.

"Tell us, child," her mother begged.

By LEE PRIESTLEY

LINDA pooped round the grey trunk of the apple tree.

you aren't Green Tree

"Young woman;

to

to. meet

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the signature, "Mr Paul Selman going alone Sergeant, one of the judges in Inn

Jierfect.

"It won't do you the least good to squirm and twist and scold," she told the furious Bttle man sovercly, "I'm going to hold on until you grant my wish. But it should be an easy one for a' shoe-maker,"

Dangling from her hand, the leprechaun growled, "Since I. can't i help myself, I'll' grant your wish. What is it?"

"A pair of very special slippers," Lindu said ruptly, “Red, glass," and beautiful."

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"sily girl." The leprechaun held up the sturdy little shoes on which he had been hammering. “What's wrong with shoes like these?"

Linda shook her hond. "Too old- fashioned"

The leprechauni looked startled. "Old-fashioned? Put me down, girl. I must do some thinking."

"And if you vanish? Oh, no."

"I won't vanish. the wee man promised. When Linda released him he asked: “Are my shoes real- ly too old-fashioned?"

Lindo picked up the tiny shou round toed, high laced, sensibic heels, thick sole. She shook her head. "Yes," she said, "that's a very old shoe."

"That must be why business has

the design contest. He thinks stranger," Linda's. father said fallen o!" The leprechaun

my sketches-deserved the first firmly.. prize! He wants to talk to

his

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was

thoughtful. "I've hardly had an ori der al year and I seldom see my shoes worn nowadaya

Linda picked up her pencil and

pad. LINDA consulted the letter sketch

me; he says he can use a promising apprentice in

He says he's going studio.

again. "Ile wants you and to be at the Green Tree Inn

mother to come and have over at Hardwick tomorrow dinner with him. He says if night."

it's agreeable-Golly, IS it!- studio?" his son will come for us, and he hopes we'll stay for dancing." Linda's eyes turned to her mother who was nodding assent. "Oh, Mom, what will I wear?" Linda asked.

"What kind of Linda's father asked.

"He manufactures girls' clothes. Wouldn't that be super? I could go to art school nights and work days--"

Mr. Punch Expected a Letter

By MAX TRELL

"DID you happen to notice any letters for me in the post box this morning?" "Mr Punch said to Knarf and Hanid, the shadow-children with the turned-about names.

Knart and Hanid said they hadn't. "Very strange.” sald Mr Punch. I thought I'd be hearing from him by now."

"Whose him?" asked Hunid.

"My old friend Santa Claus," re- |plied "Me Punch. "He always drops Isme-a-note-about-this time of-the-

year. You 920,". Mr Punch went on. "Old Santa is starting to get very busy in his ice palace up near the |North Pole.”

1-The other tir 2-1 both earth and water. 3-Tea. 4 One is dirty, the other in litly. Because it is n shamrock.

DIAMOND:

H SOT SORES HORNETS TEENY STY S

CROSSWORD:

MIX-UPS: Mosquitoes.

NTS

Locusts; Scorpion;

Dragonfly:

INSECT REBUS: Bees; Moths; Daddy-Long-Lega,

Rupert and Margol-25

"Because

Knarf.

of Christmas?" said

Mr Punch nodded. "That's ex- nelly the reason. He usually has a fhousand and one things to do to get ready for his Christmas trip all over the world. And usually," said Mr Punch, he writes to ask me to get him different things that he sud- deniy sees he needs."

"What kind of things does Santa Claus need, Me Punch?" asked Hanid.

Different Things

think

ho

The policeman told Punch where he could and a sleigh.

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"This Cinderella should wear to the ball-" She drow a tiny high- beeled sandai.

The leprechaun looked at the pre- ture, stroking his pointed chin. "

admitted. see what you mean," he "More grace, lightness, eh? Now, what would you wear for walk Ing?"

Linda's penell sketched brogues, loafers, ballet slippers and mocca- amazed. sins. The leprechaun was "Hmm-m." he said, "The things

CRAFTS

GAMES

JOKES

ZOO'S WHO

| He BARRACUDA, NOT THE GHARK,! IS THE MOST DANGEROUS OF ALL!. THE MARINE FISH... -

BRR IT'S CHILLY

·TORTOISES SOMETIMES ARE FOUND ON THE DESERT, SIXTY MILES FROM WATER...

The WOOLLY BLEPHANT DIDN'T DEVELOP HIS HEAVY- COAT UNTIL THE COMING OF

AN ICE AGE...

A Baffling Trick

HERE'S an amazing little trick for you to iry on your Christmas parly. It will amaze your friends.

Take a piece of medium-weight paper, about three inches square, When she had considered her

and fold it diagonally from corner ordinary dress, Linda found people wear on their feet" Then into corner. Then open it and make another diagonal fold- so that there it much too simple for a pro- a flash he was gone,

will be two folds or creases form- mising young designer. Then

Ing intersecting diogonals, Again open the paper, which will now present the appearance of a low, partially flattened-out pyramid.

"Drat!" Linda said, "I should have sho got the idea while she held him tight until he delivered the cleared the lunch table. The slippers!" red and white damask tablecloth was seldom used; Mother had

:

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Now take a long needle and force

both.

WHAT MAKES GO AROUND

said she might have it and NEXT day the and her mother it through a cork so that the point would help her make the dress. made the table cloth dress. It extends an inch or so above the top

was a great Success with Linda looked again at the white collar and a bustle back. 1

round side of

the cork. Place the cork with its needie, point up, on top sketch she had made. The she only had slippers, Linda sighed. of an inverted glass, so that there dress wouldn't look right with But her father had all he

could may be free movement of white slippers. It needed red manage without luxuries like red hands and of the paper which is to elastic kings ones, glamorous as glass slippers.

revolve on the needle point. Cinderella's!

As she dressed, with her parents

Then take the piece of paper and

the paper, so that it may revolva where the

creases in- freely. ready and waiting downstairs, the balance It, doorbell rang and a car stopped in placing it so that the four sides of needle point. At first it will wobble tersect, on the point of the needle, Now order it to revolve on the front. Linda's mother brought the package the messenger had deliver the pyramid polit downward.

-perhaps revolving slowly at arst ed. Inside were the benutiful red

Next put the equipment on and in one direction or the other; phoes that she had demanded of the table in a room free from draughts. but if your hands remain steady and leprechaun!

you concentrate upon si certain Place your hands around the direction of movement, the paper A note in her father's writing was plece of paper in a semi-cupped will revolve until it turns rapláty tucked into a toc. "A

Cinderella position, keeping the hards or on the needle point. who can make a dance dress from fingers a half inch or so away from an old tablecloth surely deserves a pair of glass slippers!"

品

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CHE Bfted her forehead from her fists, then. What was that noise? Linda istened and heard it again. TAPI TAP!" TAPPETY-TAP!” Like a tiny hammer. She rose to her knees and peeped around the grey trunk of the apple tree.

A tiny man with Baring ears and a fierce little face, green jucket and certainly a hard job. "But where did red cap was pounding at a tiny you get it?" asked Hanid.

shoe! It was the leprechaun, the shoemaker. Linda remembered that if you caught a leprechaun, he would grant a wish. Linda's hand reached out and clamped tight on the little man's collar.

"Well," said Mr Punch, "I walked all through the town, up one street and down mother, until Anally I met a policeman with a long, white beard. Then, as every one known, you don't usually meet policemen with, long, white beards (Just as you don't usually buy sleighs for Santa Claus), so I promptly told him what my trouble was,"

"And did he help you?" Knart asked.

A Little Street

Linda hopped on one foot, ex- eltedly, as she thrust the other into the beautiful shoe. She could sco from her window, a good-looking boy coming up the walk. Mr Ser- geant's son? Of course, not. With a Cinderella and a pair of glass slip- pers, it was the prince arriving!

*

Good Listeners Are

Good Learners

"All kinds of different things, my dear. For instance, Jast year Fneeded a new sleight. He had been using his old one for hundreds and hundreds of years and it finally started. wearing out. bumped it up against the moon and broke quite a big piece off of the side of the sleigh. So he wrote and asked me to get him a new one." for krasshoppers and beetles. Some of of things by not Knart, and Hanid were both eager them were long and narrow for spending part of to know where Mr Punch got a new coasting down the rainbow. But one your time 115 selch for Santa Claus.

of them was made out of frozen tening. moonbeams. And that war the one I

A DICKENS

FAVOURITE

a

CHRISTMAS in Britain would not

CHE

be complete without the radio version of the Dickens story "A Christmas Carol". For many years now this has featured in the Christ- programmes of the British Broadcasting Corporation.

TFLAS

If you mentally order a change in direction, the one-way movement will cease and the paper will start moving in the opposite direction.

Do

not breathe. on the paper. Many explanations of why the paper revolves have been offered. These lacludo heat waves, and body reflexcy.

BEAUTY OF

THE BELLS

"He did Indeed," said Mr Punch.

The evils which the great nine- teenth century' reformer - novelist MANY Iands will hear the Christ- "He took me to a little street that course you are good talker, learned that he was a real old-timer describes have,

mas message

bella he I had never seen before and here in

of course, possed

rung on Young folks all spend so much in town and he told me enough la

tunefulness and title store, were more sleighs than time

away-Bob Crachit's Afteen shillings which owe their nt it and there's nothing a few minutes to put me on the

Ancient I had ever laid eyes on before. Some wrong with being n talker. But track of half a dozen feature stories, as Scrooge's clerk would be

a week and one day's holiday a year beauty to a "lost art". of them were made of nut shells you

Im-craftsmen knew the secret of true miss 1 lot

all of which helped me in my possible in present-day Britain. But harmonic tuning, but for a long career. After that I learned to li the Christmas spirit of the novel period the formula was lost. ten Instead of inlk. You hear such remains. interesting things." --

Knowledge of I had died, with The story opens with Ebenezer the craftsmen. Much experiment People who never listen,

never Scrooge seated in his counting house was made to re-discover the skill: Icarn. A good listener. somehow on Christmas Eve, returning "Bahl of accurato tuning, but not until always goins friends. One reason Humbug!" to his nephew's season about 30 years ago was the lost art is that so many people, both young able good wishes. But when he re- finally found again

in the bell and old, are lonely because no one turns that night to his gloomy, foundries of Britain. This explains. listens to them.

solitary lodgings, the ghost of his the supremacy which bells from Watch yourself. it's fair to carry tells. Scrooge, shivering with fear of world.

former partner appears to him and Briteln have gained throughout the

sent to Santa Claus. And that's the Here's one he's using now.

"It wasn't easy," said Mr Punch "You can't just go in a store and say you want a sleigh for Santa Claus, Hardly any stores have the kind of "But I did want to hear from him abigha that you can hitch a team of just in case. he needed anything else, reindeer to and go sliding through such as a mop of all the houses in the sky among the clouds and the the world or a bottle or two of chim- stars and the moon, and then, como ney oll to help him slide down all down on the roof of a house without the chimneys.” knocking down the chimney

"Maybe, Gald Knart, "Santa breaking, any of the shingles, or Claus doesn't need anything this waking up the children."

yenr."

Mr Punch smiled and said, yes, ting a sleigh for Santa Claus was maybe that, was so.

or

Knart and Hanld agreed that get-

In spite of the lizard's words Rupert does worry very much. Margot's being carried miles away from her home," he cries. "Good- ness knows what will happen to her. I must get help." Galloping back through the wood he finds Rex and Reggie strolling homeward and pours uut the whole terrible nory. The. twin stare 41' him almost sprechi less," "So, that's why Florace said the wood was dangerous up there," Rasps Reggie. "It's the giant's country thought he only meant those queer earbquakes,"

ALL RIGHTS RESKAPSP,

RED RYDER

HELLO,BETH, I'M GLAD YOU DROPPED IN? LITTLE BEAVER AND I ARE GOING OUT TO THIS, RESERVATION AGAIN TODAY

WHAT'S

UP RED?

a story told by suc- cessful woman writer. She was working at ono

of her first jobs on a small news- paper where, in addition to running down little news stories, she had to serve port of her time as a re- ceptionist.

on your own end of the conver

sation, but don't try to monopolso the miserable fato that awalts him the talking. It you find that you if he does not change his ways-a

One foundry alone in London has falic too much, stop .awhile and eternity of loneliness and regret.

mads bells for Canada, Australia, "One day a shabbily dressed old notice what interesting things othera man came in," she relates "Ho have to say. You'll not only learn, the Ghost of Christmas Past, Who West Indies, Egypt, Persia, Holland, Then come three moro ghosts-New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, Palestine, Argentine, the started talking and I. Ustened. I but you'll win friends.

takes the old miser back to the Belgium and Malta, Old bells have scenes of his childhood and earlier been sent to Britain from many lands manhood, showing him what might to be retuned according to the re- have been had greed not become discovered formula, which has been his master: the Ghost of Christmas improved upon since first if yielded Present who shown Scrooge the

A Big Job

ITS OUR LAST STAND IN TRYING

BREAK

SWINDLE

WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO CONVINCE CHIEF BIRDFEATHER, THAT DOC'S MEDICINE ISN'T WORTH A SMALL FORTUNE

IN FURS!

BY FRED HARMAN

CHIEF IS HEAP STUBBORN REDSKIN, AND RED RIDER IS HEAP STUBBORN RED-HEADE HEAP.BK3 ARGUMENT, ME.

BETCHUM!

simple happy Christmas festivities up its ancient oceret,

of his despised and poverty-stricken

and unwept.

The casting of bells has not clerk, Bob Craohit: and the Ghost

medieval basically sinco of Christmas Yot to Come, who changed shows him his own death, lonely days, though it has advanced tech- nically uning is still the most Important process in bell-making.

Evory bell that is, cast

five When he awaker: on Christmas morning Scrooge hoars the church notes, and the principle of harmonic tuning is to get the main note and bells ringing: sends the biggest turkey he can buy to Bob Crnchit the other four in perfect harmony. and increases his pittance to a living slightest discord, and no to get the

so that they will not

cause tho wage; makes up his, quarrel with his nephew, and becomes the soul main note in tune with other bells. of the samo peal The tuner, of generosity to charity.

carrying" "on", hla anolent art, now. Brilish. Isteners know it almost has a machine to pare away parle off by heart, but afill they tune in. of the metal until he gets the bell., It has become part of the Christmas. || lo ring_trus Bells, are made of ani ritual

alloy of pure copper and tin. Ali