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SPORTS

STORIES

PUZZLES

MENTAL GYMNASIUM

CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Amount (nb.)

4 Cooking utensil

7 Young salmon

Rail bird

10 Ansam silkworm

11 Related

12 Enliken

14 Golf term

15

Sloped

19 Brain passage

20 Nights before

22 Tidy

23 Ent

24 Grain spikelet

25 Lixivium

1 Mankey

DOWN

2 Grupe refuse

HOMONYM

The missing words in the fol

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1949.

The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE

This Dog Owned A Man

ER name

was Buddy Fortunato Fields, and

she was one of the

lowing sentence sound alike, greatest of all the harness- but are spelled differently. Com-ed dogs who act as "eyes". plete the sentence:

The Hues for his required for the blind. him to develop speech.

---- in Isla

REVERSAL

17 [

Reverse a word meaning "R victim of leprosy" und lave Vlo drive back."

ANSWERS

WORD SQUARE:

SOARS

ORLOP

ALONE

RONDE

SPEED

HOMONYM: Role, roll. CROSSWORD:

1

Group of three singers

N

4 Needy

Shield bearing

Child

A

Bulwark

! Begin

13 Kitchen utensil

35 Seethe

16 Thin

17 Wicked

18 Disavow

10 Girl's ante

21. Observe

POSERS

1. Is "Crabtree" a fruit tree,

A kind of fish or a character in a novel?

r

2. Ia "Conus" a sleep. heavenly body or a poem litie? 3. 1s Goldsmith's poem "De- Gerted

Village" about France, England or Spain?

4. Should we class "Dome Durden" with singing 111 stors, the opera "Rabin Hood" or as the, friend of Pythias?

5. Is "Goody-Twoshoes" the name of a blacksmith, a nursery tale character or make of children's shoes?

TRIANGLE

This word triangle

from

popular

brangs

the third

REVERSAL: Leper, repel. TRIANGLE:

FORWARD

OCHRES RATES

WATT

ADA RS

POSER ANSWERS: 1-Novel character (Smollett's) 2-Poen tille (Mon). 3-England, 4- Opera Robin Hood. 5-Nursery tale character.

"I don't own her,”. 'waid Morris Frank, her master.

"She owns me!"

And in many ways she. did. He never went any- where without her. They worked together, and play- ed together, like a perfect team.

When they were walking on the street and passed a place where they usually

would went. Buddy.

stop and wait to see if her mas- ter wanted to go there again. In hotels, Buddy always"marched up to the registration desk ahead of her master. She knew when he wanted informa- tion or a service, and led the way to n uniformed tant, she made up her own bell-boy or guard. without mind what to do. being told.

Buddy knew she was

When Morris Frank special dog and had special wanted to buy clothes, rights. When her master Buddy sniffed at various went visiting, she chose suits, and he would finally bed for herself and slept on buy the one she sniffed at it. If she wanted food, she longest.

never begged for it, byt Many people thought found it and took it. Buddy was spoiled, but she wasn't.

She

was

superior dog. She obeyed SHE liked to tease her mus Morris Frank completely in ter. Ife would brag to every important matter, people about her kind and but she would decide for gentle ways. "Buddy never herself whether it was im- gets into fights with other portant or not. If she dogs," he would say. "She's thought it was not impor- too well educated."

Then, usually. Buddy would bare her teeth, and snarl and bark ferociously,

their wits. Then she would cock her head at her master, put out her tongue, and come as close to laughing as In dog can.

A SEEING EYE DOG MUST BE A

A SUPERIOR DOG -

MINE

CRAFTS

GAMES

JOKES

ZOO'S WHO

*I DON'T OWN HER, SAID ONE

MASTER - SHE OWNS

ME

MOUNTAIN GOATS

| WOULD NOT SURVIVE THE WINTERS HIGH UP IN THEIR ROCKY ABODES WERE IT | NOT FOR THE RAGING WINDS... WITHOUT WIND TO SWEEP AWAY THE SHOWIN

I SPOTS THE ANIMALS

WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO REACH THE MOSS AND LICHEN ON WHICH THEY FERO

They always went swim. He was lonely and unhappy, ming together, and once and angry at the wholo Frank got confused and world. After he got Buddy, tired, and began swimming Frank became happy. His in the wrong direction out whole nature changed.

Buddy turned him around, and guided him safely to the shore.

to sex.

When Frank first met her, and was introduced to her, he was told her name was "Kiss."

"Kiss? Kiss?" said Frank. "That's an awful name for a dog! I'll call her Buddy." The rest..of her name came from her home in Switzerland;

a dog farm called Fortunate Fields.

Drum, and Drumsticks Fought scaring people hulf out of BUDDY and Morris Frank

-But They Found They Couldn't Get On Alone

By MAX TRELL KNARF and Ilanit,

the

shadow-children with

the

the word FORWARD. turned-about names, were sit- The second word is a plural forting under a cherry tree in the "brown plament,"

garden of their friend. The-n- "charges," the fourth a unit of Ling. It was very pleasant, for electricity," the Art "a

the day was beautiful, and the name," and the sixth an abbre-birds were singing and the bees

viation for "rupees."

FORWARD

girl's

were hummin as they flew from flower to flower gathering honey.

were

All at once. however, Knarf. Hand and Ting-a-Ling disturbed by the voices of a boy and a girl quarrelling In the next garden. Finally, after con- tinuing their quarrel for several Rearrange the letters in each | moments, the boy and_the_girl re-walked away from each other.

-Shook-His-Head-

WORD SQUARE

row to form a word, then arrange the words to form

-perfect-word-square:~

EINRID TO SISIA O IR

SEP D E

LOOR IP

EILINA O

Rupert's Elfin Bell-27

Rupert and it search carefully without finding any sign of a way into the cliffs or up to the cattle. "We may have missed our direction at the end," says Rupert, "Let's ring the Elfin Bell again." He doe

and immediately there is a light creaking overhead and something comes swinging down to them out of the mist. 'Look, it's a sort of chair with no legs." shouts Bill, and it's on the end of a rope." ***Gracious, is it meant for us?" says Rupert. There's only rooms for Tone."

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

BRONCHO BILL

QUICK } THE LYNCHERS ARE OUT ~ FAN IT',

MISTER MANNING.

a

.

#1-27

"You're Just two sticks of, wood,"

Drum fald Drumsticks,

Morris Frank owed his life to her many times. Once he nearly walked into ELIT empty lift shaft, but Buddy pulled him back in time.

It Takes

Two To Quarrel

†T'S, always true that it takes two, to make a to keep one

"Then the Drumsticks," Ting- Ting-n-Ling shipok

his head sadly. "It is not good to quarrel," ang went on, "answered just he said to

as angrily to the Drum: You quarrel, Knarf and Hanks. "Everyone should try as hard

are nothing but a round box going. as he can to get along with his of wind! We can get along very well without you.' So the Druin neighbour. For see," he went

and the two Drumsticks parted "in the course of quarrel between the

company, even though they had girl and

And been the closest of companions.”

on,

this

boy, the game that they were "Oh, dear,"

playing is now broken off. They happened 26 bald Hanid. "What

have lost hele fun; they are angry with each other, and in- stead of happy hours they have nothing but frowns and scowls.

It reminds me of the quarrel between the Drum and

Drum sticks"

Down the Street

or

When Alice. makes a mean re-

mark

a boul you, or Jim does something you don't like. your ter

Temper flares and try to. get even by aying and doing things

you

Everywhere he and Bud- dy went, people liked them tremendously. Fey could believe that a dog could be so intelligent and under- standing.

GIVE

ALCATRAZ MEANS "PELICAN THE ROCK ONCE WAS A COMMON HABITAT OP THESE BIRDS.,

WHEN TWO LEOPARDSBEING SHIPPED TO A700, BROKE FROM THEIR CAGES ON A LINER IN THE GULF OF SUEZ RECENTLY....

SEAMEN TRAPPED THEM WITH FIRE HOSES...

Sneezes Are A Guide To Character

to a

Buddy took such good also refused to believe that care of Frank, that people

Frank was blind. For Buddy Fortunate Fields Was the THIS is the season for starts way down low and then first Seeing-Eye Dog, the

sncczes. And, strange. advances in higher gradations crescendo. This is the very first to become a cum-ly, we can learn much about

sneeze of the spotlight-hugger panion and guide to a blind person by his sneeze. In who likes nothing better than a describe chance to show off. He has, however, good mind and it is fun to be with him because he is interested in a variety of sub- Jects as well as sneezes.

AH CHO !

SPLUTTER

person. She was not only fact a snceze can

character. the first, but the greatest.

Buddy and Frank travel- travelled from Switzer- led over America to get a land to America, to give dog-training farm started. lectures and demonstrations They amazed and pleased so of Buddy's training. Once a many people, that soon the train conductor would not Seeing Eye opened its farm let her ride in the passenger at Morris-town, New Jersey. coach with the people. Mor- Today, 150 people every ris Frank refused to be year take home trained, separated from her and intelligent dog companions. travelled with her in the Like Buddy, these dogs are baggage compartment. not owned-they own their i

masters!

Before he got Buddy, Frank led a miserable · life.

DO-IT

By Dale Goss

Where LANTER

WISH

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-DAN MURDOCH,

Things to Make With Materials at Hand

Take a rectangle of white or colored

paper in

3.fold half lengthwise. Mark off with lines of an inch. apart... Cut on lines up to colored bard.

CUT ONLINES

PAPER 12inches long and 9 inches wide or AND PARTE

Paste strip 12 inches long and inch

you would not

do if you were

wide of darker paper at top and bottom.

Again Ting-a-Ling shook his head sadly. "The Drum thought the it could still go marching down the street with the children, but

not 50 angry without the help of the Drum-with them. That starts a qune- Knart and Hanid had never sticks it could no longer make rel. Ani you are unhappy, for heard this story and promptly its merry rat-n-tit-int. And as no one LIKES to quarrel. begged Ting-a-Ling to tell it to for the Drumsticks, they thought Next time someone says

them.

от

or say

they could go marching with does something that makes you the children 100, but they could "mad," try not to pay any atten- "Well," , said Ting-a-Ling, make no sound either. And so, tion and see what happens. .It "the Drum and the Drumsticks because of this quarrel, the you don't like another person's were once the best of friends, Drum was really nothing but a dicas, maybe he doesn't like Where one went, there went the round box of other. Often they would turch Drumsticks were nothing more issue of it. If you refuse to take wind, and the yours elther, so don't make on down the street with the child than two pieces of wood. And offence, to be resentful ren, making a lively rat-a-tat- nether the one nor the other meari,

spiteful things, lat as they went. Then one day was at all happy.

there won't be anyone to quarrel with they had a quarrel."

and there won't be any quarrel. anid Ting-a- "Fortunately," "What was the quarrel Ling. "they saw how foolish We all say and do things we their quarrelling was and they would like others to overlook quickly became friends again, and forgive. We want them to "I don't rightly remember." And, at once, every one was tee the good in us and we should answered Ting-a-Ling, "but it happy again, and the merry be willing to see the good" In was nothing very important, rat-a-lat-fat gladdened all the them, instead of getting into # For most quarrels ans about children far and near."

Even over something. nothing very important, At

Kharf and Hanld were pleased though it takes two to make a any rate, the quarrels grew to hear this story. They were quarrel. It only takes one worse. The Drum said angrily, even more pleased a few mom-stop it! to the Drumsticks: 'You are no- ents later, when they heard the Make it your responsibility to thing but two pieces of wood. boy and girl in the next door stop quarrels and see how much I can get along very well with garden laughing and playing it adds to your happiness and out you.'

ngain.

your popularity,

about Kaart asked,

:

Appreciation

TEL. HOOP IT TO COLD SPRING

FETCH ME MY HOBS~,

AND "THE SHERIFF HURRY

THEY'RE

COMIN

BACK

COULD BE TOLIVAR MANNIN'S HIDING OUT" ROUND HYAR → SEARCH) THE PLACE, MENA

RIGHT

fuss

to

2. Paint or crayon on large flowers.

In center of each flower print a wich.

A

4. Unfold and

paste end strips Logether.

5.Punch holes in top band... string with 2

pieces of yarn

each 12 inches....

MAY ALL YOUR. WISHES COME TRUE.

A PERSON CAN BE "TYPED" BY THE WAY

HE SNEEZES

י

The person who covers his anecze with a handkerchief knows the rule of hygiene and is thoughtful of others who sit or stand next to him. This boy or girl is lutelligent, courteous and kind.

By the same token, the per- son who sneezes in your face is type. He needs sanitation

the opposite

lessons in manners,

thoughtfulness.

and

psychologists

remind us

But

tha!

this fellow laughs more than he frowns. Maybe he's chucklehead.

Just

Aaaaaaah-CHOO! The EX- that

plosive

type of sneeze makes you jump a foot when you hear it, is the earmark of .is the self-centred person who an ardent admirer of his own never opinions and who will

IN the "Little Rabbit sneeze," the eyes blink, the noso twitches and at last a little burp of a sneeze emerges. This type of person is reserved, sensi tive and of a retiring nature.

A sneeze followed by a groan or sigh is the mark of the mooner, one who is inclined to- wards the blues and pessimism. He likes attention. He is talko- tive but his favourite subject is himself and he is therefore in- clined to be boring.

Yes, sneezes teli a lot about a person. Try cataloguing your friends' sneezes and see how well they At the thumbnail character sketches given here. Maybe you can observe a few additional types of sneezes and the characteristics Uut accom- pany them.

You Can't See A Millionth

Of An Inch

your favourite football player misses a goal by a "millionth of an

accept another's viewpoint will WHEN ingly. He is a good student, notwithstanding, and will crum before an examination in order inch" he is very close to to gain higher grades. He can making it.

work as hard manually as men- Few people who talk tally.

The comle sneeze that makes

everyone. hugh is the one

that

Read In Bed On This Pillow

THREE-WAY pillow has many uses. It's excellent for travel and it can be used as a prop for reading in bed. Here's how to make one:

Cut a pattern (Fig. A) wilch measures 15- inches along. two

By Harry F. O'Neill des The third side is cut

ALL I'LL KILL JAAP)

THAT KID FER

INFORMIN' 'BOUT ME

TRADINGUNG

KTO INJUNG me

diagonally.

For the outside covering

of

the pillow choose chiniz, imita-

tion leather

cloth, or my medium-weight materiai

wiilch

cleans easily.

Using the paper pattern, cut two pieces of material for the ends of the pillow. Cut a third. plece (Fig. B) for a pocket fo be sewed to one end for holding

or a book.

a

Bazine Fig. C cut n

strip from the same material for a handle for tho pillow. This strip is eight Inches long and two Incher wide. Crease the strip through the centre length-. wise, putting the wrong side to

A

THREE WAY

PILLOW

D

HANDLE

the wrong side. Sow the raw edges together leaving the ends' Unsewn, Make a TOW of nlitches along each side, onc fourth of an inch from the edre.

lem the pocket along edgo marked "g" in; Fig.. B..by

about millionths know what this figure means.

A millionth of an inch is more than 3,000 times Amer than a human hair.

powerful

n Suppose microscope could enlarge ono millionth of an inch so that

turning a one-fourth of an inch it would appear to be one

hem back threo times toward inch. Then:

the wrong side of the material. Fit the pocket, right side up, over one end of the plilow, which is also right side up.

Cut

a rectangular plece material 18 inches wide and 30 inches long. This is sewn to the two end pieces to make the sides of the pillow. The bot- tom piece is 18 by 21 inches.

of

A human hair would be nino inches thick.

The page of this news- Paper would seem to be 3,333 inches · Urick-that's more than 90 yards.

An object measuring otle sixteenth of an inch would

malle wide. seem to be

A

ten-cent place how

would be more than 1200

Turning to the wrong side of yards thick,

the material, sew the four pieces

People who manufacture pre-

of the pillow together, leaving cision machinery sometimes

ten-

a small opening along one side work to one ten-thousandth of through which to put the Alling. an inch.. Quilting cotton makes an excel- That means the accuracy of lent fillor. Turn the pillow to the tools or machinery doesn't the right site and stuff, making vary moro than Ono

of an Inch-not sure that the corners are well thousandth packed and that the surface is enough to be visible to the eye. smooth and free of lumps. Sow But to work to one-millionth the opening together by hand. of an inch, the manufacturer would have to be 100 times more Four inches from each end precise. along the back of the pillow sew

the handle, strip in place, Fig. to measure one-millionth of an

the

D.

Don't strain your zyes trying

linch-you just can't do it!