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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1949.
FULL-PAGE FEATURE EVERY SATURDAY
BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
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9 On the sheltered side
11 Street (nb.)
12 Father
14 That thing
15 Drunkard ...........
17 High caro
£8 Treating
lfcad covering
20 rent
Opus (ab.)
20 United
27 Indian army (ab)
28 Sty look
30 Révolvo
32 Dull and munotonous
33 Woody plant
1 Throw
DOWN
2 Singing volco
3 French artiste
4 Natives of ancient Media
5 Cushion
6 Boy's nickname
7 Pertaining to laymen
& Allot
13 Malicious burning
10 Fondlo
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19 Turn
1 uru
20 Clas
21 Minicker
23 Irritule (coll.)
24 Yarn
20 Sphere
20 Each (ab.)
31 Correlative of either
BIBLICAL POSERS
Here are Ave questions pertain
ing to the Bible.
certain of the
hand at guessity.
If you aren't
answers try your
HOMONYM
Missing words the following sentence sound alike, but are spelled differently. Complete the sentence:
tree's The of the
follage. had no charm for the woodsman DS he prepared to It down,'
DIAMOND
NATIONS form the centre of our diamond. The second word is "a sheep's bleat." the third "friendly," the Ofth "o make amends," and the sixi "a compass point."
N
NATIONS
S
ANSWERS
HOMONYM: lue, hew.
DIAMOND: N
MAA
MATEY NATIONS ATONE
ENE
S
POSERS:
2-Michal:
T
SPORTS. STORIES. PUZZLES CRAFTS. GAMES. JOKES
NEITHER
HE last. half-mile in the cross-country race wns
coming up. Augio Lane's alim arms and legs felt like anchors, and his tongue was a dry, swollen gag. To add to his misery, Augie knew that pretty June Bowman would bu at the half-mile post, watching the weary runners.
Augie wasn't winning. He wouldn't even score. He was always No. 6, or worse, on the Franklin Junior College team, and only the first five members of a team are counted in cross. country scoring.
The Boathouse, where the harriers dressed, came into view as the path curved around the lake. Now Augie could end
futile this
suffering. The Boathouse was the best place even to drop out. Drop out, though the final half-mile post was just beyond.
Several school teams were Sixty entered in the race.
runners cross-country picked lotted the gruelling 24-mile
course.
Franklin had a chance
•
SLOW NOR
NOR SURE
It was June! Ho'd know her voice anywhere.
blue were the assorted jerseys
"I'm dizzy," he thought. "She
Gold's and shirts of other schools never called to me before."
nt Lou Then, blinking whites, reds, greens, stripes, blue shirt ahead, Augie suddenly what-not.
remembered the collapsed figure on the Boathouse steps. A blue figure!
啭
****
"quitters" The gang had really Approached the Boathouse.
Ife'd be one of the to win. turned out today, in the middlie today. Well, he'd tried.
season. 1-Judah of a dismal football
3-Per-hoping to see the blue-jerseyed Franklin runners capture the Cross-Country Cup.
1-Jesse. 5-Mt. Sinal.
BIBLICAL
and Joseph,
slana
CROSSWORD:
Bob Bowman, June's brother, was
No. 1-the reason June attended all the races, June couldn't know that Augle had been carrying a small torch, carefully hidden, for her. the crowds at school. Nor could
in
It could have been Augie's Auzle never seemed to have a chance day. Not to win, but he wanted he find courage to speak to her at after staggering in, to squeeze into the scoring just the once with June watching. But gasping, glassy-eyed, an aise-ran. here he was No. 6, as usual.
Lou Gold's blue shirt bobbed Further up, 20 yards ahend. somewhere, were Ryder, Vin Meer, Roberts and Bob Bow mun. Mingling with Franklin's
General Tin's Hunting Story.
-fle Went After Some Alphabet Animals--
By MAX TRELL
NARF and Hamid, the shadow-
K children with the turned-about
1. What two sons of Jacob's 12 names, asked their friend General
the Tin to tell them with had names beginning
letter-J-
David's wife Miriam, Michat or Hagar?
Although
a hunting story, General Tin almost al- wayn-stood-near-the-playroom door named with his musket over his shoulder, he was a great and wonderful hunt- er. Everyone agreed in that, espe thecially General Tin himself. Midi-
2. Was
5. Was Cyrus the king
of
Persians, Israelites or
the
unites?
"A hunting story-ah, let me see." the General said to Kart and
4. Was David the son of Juab, Innid. He thought, for a moment
Jesse or Jephthinh?
5. Were the Ten Commandments given on Mt. Nebo, Mt. Ararul or Mt. Sinal?
Rupert and Margot-36
What has made Rupert so excited is that the little stream is flowing in a tunnel right through the castle wali. As he bends down and peers upward he can ae daylight at the he "Of course," ottier end.
"I don't need to find chuckles. the cattle door: I can get in this way. There's just room for me. And this is why the lizard told me.
wear Wellingtons !"
让
Next
moment lie has entered the tunnel
and is wading, carefully up the sloping bed of the stream and woul dering what he will find.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
or two. Then he said: "Did I ever tell you about the time I hunted the Alphabet Animals?“
animals?"
repeated
"Alphabet Ianid in a puzzled voice.
"Are they the animals in the Al- phabet Book?" aske! Knarf.
General Tin shook his head. "Al- phabet animals are real animals. For Instance there's the Lephant I've often hunted him. And there's the A-pe and the B-ver and the C-llon."
Just the Samo
"Oh," said Hanid. "are they the same as the Ape, the Beaver and the Sea Bon?"
"Exactly the same," replied Gen- eral Tin, "and then I hunted that astonishing long-necked Alphabet onintal called the Gir-F."
"Giraffe?" said Knorf.
"Right, and of course, I bunted the 3's which are birds".
General Tin buntest the L-ephaut.
races.
Well. It was time to puncture his little dream bubble.
Suddenly he
realised he
"Augle-you're five- That was One of what June had called, Franklin's scoring men bad dropped out. He was No. 5 now!
Augle
gulped. Those runners behind him, ahead-cach point, affecting his team's score.
was
稳
He drove himself forward. His chest was on fire, but he couldn't The finien let anyone
pass hun. Ine Jay across a yards of open, short-cut grass.
ZOO'S WHO
AN ENGLISH DAIRYMAN
SAID HE INCREASED
HIS CHAMPION COW'S MILK OUTPUT BY FEEDING HER ALE AND
RAW EGGS.,
SCRIVO.
HIC!
MANY "BIG GAME" ANIMALS INCLUDING LIONS ARE
ALENTIONED BY GREEKS AND ROMANS
AS LIVING IN EUROPE IN HISTORIC TIMES...
AMERICAN INDIANS DOMESTICATED THE DOG AND THE SOUTH AMERICAN
LLAMAS...
Odds And Ends Necklace
few hundred GLS like to wear neck-
The pair
laces, und both boys and girls, can have fun making
The
ean
He crawled past a white jersey. them. Here are ideas that are
Then easy and inexpensive. Then an orange-striper. scarlet for Melrose-a good team. necklaces are original' and so The Scarlet came back, was fought; stride for stride. Suddenly good-looking you'll be proud to finish port foomed up, voices make them for gifts for sisters passing the Boathouse! His burning they were in a crowd-lined area, say, "I made it." Boys
and girl friends. eyes glimpsed a blue figure, col- the lapsed on the stone steps. Ife should screaming at them.
But some be me, thought Augie. stubborn imp of pride kept prodling him on.
its
Augie jerked his legs forward, lunged across the line inches front of the Scarlet....
the fast half Now he was at mile post. He couldn't risk a look
June was Slowly, his head cleared, as he for her but he knew there--one of the real faus who climbed into bis sweat toga. He
heard light. running footsteps.
waited here
scurried and then
for the finish, as across the park the runners doubled back towards the Boathouse in wide circle.
A girl's clear voice, almost at his car, confirmed Augie's judg- ment. June! He'd know her voice anywhere. But what was she call- ing?
"Augle-you're-fine-!"
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won
"You did it, Augle! You for us!" June was beaming, in front of him, blue eyes sparkling. "Van Meer caught a cramp, and had to quit, did you hear me calling you?"
realised June must
to
He
For the first one, take a num- ber of safety plus of different sizes and dip them in coloured enamels. Silp a small hairpin through the round end to hold them by while you dip them, one at a time, into the enamel. Hang them on a string stretched between two nails by twisting the ends of the hairpin above the string.
NECKLACE
MADE
FROM ENAMELED SAFETY
PINS,
DISCARDED
KEY NECKLACE
DARNING
SPOOL NECKLACE
ed borders or strips of bright paper advertise- with designs from the ments.
Trim these to the same
Augle's voice was a croak.
When they are dry, string width as the spools and glue a And suddenly he nodded yes.
have noticed them on a narrow cord, tying different colour on each spool. Malic him before. She'd-called-him. each one-as-you-string_it_to_a_braid of three strands of wool and thread the spools on this, and marker! "Augie" at the hoff-mile
keep them from "bunching"
you wear the necklace. Ce what an unusual necklace you have to wear with your sweaters or He grinned back at her and when
HE couldn't turn' his head, or he'd winked. He'd be seeing her, later. Pince the largest one inize any sport outfit.
fall on his face. He wasn't co-
ing fine. He was still No 6.
JAY WORTHINGTON.
HOW You Do Your Good
Turns Matters Most
use
middle, then graduate the sizes
of
on either side of it. The length
your cord will depend on, how long you want your neck- lace. Be sure to leave enough at each end so you can tie it around your neck.
same
Fasten the keys to a cord or o
Things Taste Differently
At
Heights
AIRMEN and mountain clim
hers long ago noticed that seeing, hearing and the sense of
"Yes, but I call then Hip-0's
Discarded keys can be used in the for short: And then there is the Z-
Collect these from way. bra and the Lion-S (She's the wife of the llon) and the wild Turk--E,
What you do is Important. You friends and neighbours. If you can get coloured bronzes at the paint or in ready-mixed and will be judged by your manners, shop, either and the O--R. Oh yes indeed, you know the fundamentals of General Tin sald, smiling. "I've good manners, courtesy,
your consideration of others, your powders to mix with shellac, you hunted lots and lots of Alphabet friendliness, but how do you
them? No one really likes a per- behaviour in general. But your per- can make a stunning necklace. animals."
son who acts as if doing something sonality rating will rise into the "Are there Alphabet Insects, too?"kind was a burden instead of the stratosphere If what you do is done Knarf asked the General.
privilege it should be. It is hard to with a friendly manner, goodwill, ribbon as you did the safety pins, taste were changed in high
courtesies and a real desire to be helpful. accept
ordinary even when they are offered ungraciously.
This was, dr- monstrated on the fram thic other day. "Katydids!" exclaimed Hanid.
An olderjy
walk man with a "Yes, and there are also Alpha-ing stlek got on. bel vegetables such as Pa and Q-
boy and a girl cumbers, and Alphabet plants such both stood up as I-V "
"Certainly, my boy. There's the Bumble-B. And everyone's heard of the K-T-Dids."
"Ivy!"Knarf and Hand cried.
-
"Do you mean Jays?" said lunld.
General Tin smiled. "Usually
caught the J's with cas0"
ple."
give him a seat.
The
boy
didn't
oven glance at the
old man, but the
SMILE
"Indeed. And even Alphabet peo-girl smiled and said: "I can stand
"Alphabet people!"*
"Who?" asked Knari.
"With E's" sald Knarf. · General Tin nodded again; "But Hanid. Uie Monk-E'S were much harder to catch. And so were the Ilp-O's." "ilip-O's?" Hanld cald, not quite sure that she was right. "Are they the came ns hippopotamusea?”
Er
exclaimed cally, won't you take my seat?" The man looked at the boy, then took with a grateful thank you," the girl's seat. Her rating with the passengers went up, while the boy's went down, though they had both dono, the same thing. The differ- ence was in the way the deed was done.
I," sald General Tin. And he winked and laughed na ho stood at the playroom door with his musker over his shoulder.
RED RYDER
YOU'VE GOT NO RIGHT TO TREAT ME LIKE
GORRY.MISS BETH BUT WE'RE TAKIN'
YOU WITH
WE DON'T DARE TURN HER LOOSE
Dilemma
YOU RIGHT,DOC COLD SHE KNOW HOW WE CHEAT INDIAN TRIBE/
IF WE LET HER GD. SHE'LL SET THE LAW ON US? IF WE KEEP HER. RYDER LL BE
ON OUR TRAILS
COLD
REMEDY
BY FRED HARMAN
THAT LEAVE ONLY ONE THING TO DO
altitudes. Now science is try-
Ask Mother round cardboard "spools" It is HOW you do things that is darning cottons. Look through old why. The influence is not all magazines and cut out plain-colour-to the had; but scientists know most important.
that the senses react differently when they are high above sea level.
the small to save troming to find out how much and
DO-IT By Dale Goss)
WHIRLAWIG
Things to Make With Materials at Hand
1.Make a pinwheel by citing a 4inch square of PAPER...fold cornere to center and fastenwith finch NAIL! 2.fold a 40inch
Long STRING in half.
Push loop thru
spool...
...bring down
and pull tight
3.
Cut a piece of
ERASER
about | of an inch squire
plug into top of apool.
4. Punch hole in center of CARDBOARD 'disc 4 inches across.i.
•Thread string thr hole...slip string
ends thru BUTTON. Tie button tightly at base of disc to anchor spoof to top
→STRADE
6. Tie string
mder chin... - and WHIRL
AWAY in the goalls BREEZE!
5.Slip nad thru & A piece of SODA STRAW or SMALL BEAD... slick into eraser..
At the altitude of 14,000 feet, scientiae researchers have found out that certain colours seem to appear norc vivid than they do in lbw. lands. Others accm to lose their brightness.
This fact makes it necessary to Introduce corrections in observations mnde nylators.
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It also has been learned that at high altitudes new and peculiar taste, sensations occur. Some people find meat. that certain foods, such as do not taste so good, while other dishes, especially hot foods, seem to be unusually delicious.
Scientists have refuled some facts that have long been belleved. One Is the ballet that the capacity for work is decreased in high altitudes. While muscular exertion is dimcult БОГТО at extremely high levels, nervous activity is increased by the lowering of atmospheric pressure.
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Other discoveries are on the bad. side of the ledger, however.. At high altitudes people freeza at much higher temperature than they do at low levels. In fact, the dan. from freezing oceura in low altitudes only at very cold tempera- tures. One explanation may be, scientists say, that the process of freezing differs when the pressure of the air is decreased..
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