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SPORTS

STORIES

PUZZLES

MENTAL GYMNASIUM

CROSSWORD

ACROSS

Negative reply

1 Italian river

Wager

0 Part of a circle

8 Jumbled type

Trying experience

12

Also

14 Papal cape

15 Pointed a weapon

17 Kind of bear

10 Drunkard

22 Now

24 Symbol for ruthenium

25 Ocean

20 Poem

20 Right Blue (ab)

29 Toward

5

14

12.

13

2014-

15 16

17

i

22.

25

20

10

DOWN

I Compass point

H

O

N

WACKY

COMPASS

-START AT WEST

AND USE EVERY

M

B

S

W

THIRD LETTER

BA

YOU PICK THE DIRECTION) TO

R

P

FIND A

HIDDEN PROVERB

ANSWERS

WORD CHAIN:

Sinte,

Bints.

SWIMS.

234

19

20 121

125

شاع

2 Indian

3 Spanish priest

4

Mountain nymphs

5

Storage place

2)

7 Short for "Calvin"

狸

Father

10 Native of Rome

11 French article

Walizer

18 Utoplan

Pair (ab.)

Roman bronze

13

17

10

20

Native metal

23

Small child

27

Accomplish

21 Tungsten (ab)

WORD CHAIN

Change SKATE to

SWIMS

In Ave moves, changing one Zofter at a time and having a word each time.

DEER PUZZLE

(Observation Test)

Take a good look at this pic- fure, then cover it up and see if you can tell what is different about one of the deer heads shown:

sinms.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 196

The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE

A Shock For Little

Rubbalong.

seems to me, Ma, and rub you along my sideboard

ho, Itubbaiong rubbing tho ho,

long--that's good joke, that

that Button Brownie ia taking is some of my customers," said "And I'll turn you into a but- little Rubbalong one day, ton, and button you up!" shouted when nobody had brought Bubbalong. That's a better 'Into a but- any shoes or boots to be joke-go on, turn mended.

"Maybe he is," sald Mu Rub. balong.

"He doesn't charge as much as you do."

"Well, but my work is better," sald Rubbalong. "You know it

a."

ton?"

And Rubbalong mado the Hey magic sign as he spoke. Presto, Button disappeared-ard there, on his stool, lay a bright little red button, winking in the sun.

"Thank thank

you, yout

cried little Rub- balong and rush- ed after Kir Tuck - In. Ho found him in

Doodle's visiting

Mrs house, her husband,

"Mr Tuck-in, art Did you find a little red the button in road just now? asked

Rubb Rubbalong chuckled.. He pick- along, anxiously. SKATE,

"You go and talk to him," said ed it up and put it into his poc "Yes, I

Tuck- slims, Ma Rubbalong. "There's plenty ket. "Got you!" he said, and was said Mr

of work for you both. But be just about to go out when he polite

now, Rubballong, and heard Button's wife coming. don't lose your temper. A smile goes further than a a frown!"

Too

WACKY COMPASS: muny cooks spoil the broth.

DEER PUZZLE. One tine is nissing from one antler of one

of the heads.

CROSSWORD:

Hubbatong smiled and his frown disappeared. But it soon came back again when he ur- rived at

at Button's house, Button was just taking a pair of shoes

from Mr Tuck-In.

**

RUBBALONG

Tale No. 3, By ENID BLYTON

"Hallo, Rubbalong." cald Mrs Button. "How nice to see you! Button "And

was saying yesterday that we really must ask you to ten. He's very fond of you, you know."

"You're a mean little cheat," swild Rubbalong, fiercely. "Tak ing my customers like this!"

"I've got to live, haven't 17" sald Button, checkily. don't you call me names, Rubba long. I know plenty of magic, and I'll soon wish you at the top n high tree somewhere if of you're rude."

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cried

"Is he?" said Rubbalong, feel- Aing awkward, "Well-¡ must be

poing"

ton

"No-stay and have a bit of "You know magic***

new-made cake with me and Rubbatong, disbelievingly. "Why, you don't even know how to put Button, begged, little Mrs But

"Button, BUTTON! n shoc-heel on properly. I knew are you? Here's your old friend

hundred times more magic Rubbalong."

Rubbatong couldn't bear this. He felt that he really must rush out frito a corner

and chance Button back again to his own shape at once. He was dread- fully sorry he had been so silly,

than you do,"

"Oooooh-fibber!" said But ton. "'ll turn you into a duster

Knarf Was a Little Confused

-He Wanted to Know What He'd Grow Up to Be-

By MAX TRELL

NARF, the shadow-boy with

the turned-about name, sat down beside his sister Hand. "Hunid," he sold in a voice that

anything

cheerful. Was

but "when I grow up am I going to be different from the way 1 am now?"

Ianid looked at him in sur- prise. "Different?" she said. "No, you won't be much dif- ferent from the way you are now. You'll just be bigger and taller".

"Oh," said Knart unhappily. "Why do you ask? Nobody is much different when they grow up except that they are bigger and faller."

"I won't have wings?" "Certainty no!! What strange idea!"

Edge of Pond

51

"And I won't.". Knart con-

tinued, "have

to live under-

13:11

Knarf took a walk with Mrs. Goose.

*

*

*

In, surprised.

"Was it yours?

Oh, dear - I

"I'll turn you into a button," shouted. Rubbalong.

gave it to the little girl next door."

"Oh my!" wailed Rubbalong and ruthed out of the house at once. He went next door and knocked

loudly.

answered the door.

woman

ed gloomily into his kitchen and sat down on his stool.

CRAFTS

GAMES

JOKES

ZOO'S WHO

[CROCODILES...

SWIM WITH THEIR TAILS

NOT THEIR FEETaup

:

"What's the matter?" sold Ma Rubbalong who was sitting be- || Starba. hind a pile of mending.

Rubbalong burst into tears. "I daren't tell you what I've done, "Where's your little girl?" Me, I'm bad, I'm wicked!" panted Rubbalong. "She's got n

Don't be

be silly," said Ma Rubb- button of mine, I simply must along. "Take off that cont of wat it. It's most important." yours, and let me mend the hole "A butlon? I didn't know in it. Put this one on instead." she'd got somebody's button," said the woman. "She's gone down to the shops, I think."

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She held him out his other coat. Rubbalong 'gave a doleful sniff and held out his hand for it. Then he stared, and stored! He gave a yell.

Hubbalong fled down to the "Ma! Mal Where did you get shops. He found the little girl. this red button-the one you've "Where's that button?" he asked sewn on

my coat?" "From Tiggy," said his mother, her. "The red one Mr Tuck-In. whero Auve you, I'll buy you an ice- astonished.

ChI gave it to Tiggy the you've done? You've sewn t

if you'll give it

"Ma! Do me"

you know what

goblin boy," said the little girl. ton the Brownie on to my coat!" "He liked it because it was red. shouted Rubbalong. "Oh Button. le gave me this shell for it. dear Button-1'] change you Would you like that?"

back again now. Do, do forgive "No, no," crled poor Rubbe- mel Oh, to think you've been long, and tore down the street sewn on my coat! Oh Ms. Ma, to look for Tiggy. He found him look what you've done!" at last, sitting on the kerb.

"What have you done with that little red button?" he asked

He rushed out, down the path. and along the rood. He came to

*

OWLS ARE TEN TIMES

BETTER MOUSERS THAN CATS

CORMORANTS.

DIVE MORE THAN ONE" HUNDRED FEET BELON (WATER'S SURFACE IN THEIR SEARCH FOR

FIGH

A HIPPOS STOMACH

WILL HOLD FOUR TO FIVE BUSHELS OF FOOD....."

Electricity

Does

This Little Trick

A

SIMPLE electric experi- vigorously with a piece of silk cork powder mised presto! the ment is the basis of this jumps up and sticks to

the glass just as iron flings fly to

magnet.

trick.

If you slide your feet along

siatic

This

ury

experiment

some trees and stopped under Tigny, "Don't say you've swal- the Brownie. And was he angry? Friction creates static. If you quickly) and outline on the

them. He felt in his pocket for the little red button.

But it wasn't there! There Was a

a hole in his pocket. The button must have dropped out.

lowed it! I

* ** Well, in a trice the red button was changed buck into Bulion

Was he furious? No-he in aphed And after a bit and laughed. Rubbatong laughed too, and so did Mn.

I couldn't bear it!" "No. An old woman came by, and she saw the button, and she said it would match some others she'd got on A coat," sald Tiggy, Ma Rubbalong wiped her eyes. "Ellow! Bolher! Whera's he surprised.

"She gave me a "It's all come right this time?"" groaned Rubbalong, and penny for it, look!"

she said. "But any more nonsense ran back up the road. He met "Who was the old woman?"

asked Rubbolong.

But Tiggy from you two, and I'll do a bit of

magic-I'll turn you Into didn't know, So, feeling very couple of mats and put you on sad. very worried.

and very the line and beat you!" much ashamed of himself. And she would too!

Mrs Well-I-Never.

"Lost something?" she asked "Oh--a red bullon. Well, I never! I saw Mr Tuck-In pick It up a moment ago?"

Rubbalong went home. He walk-

ת

carpet and then touch

can be metal radiator you will hear turned into a

smart magical tiny "click" and see a minia- trick if you first dip your finger ture spark as the stored-up in some glycerine for other

electricity passes from your body to the radiator. sticky substance that will not face. This is Eass a come ruba piece of glass smartly

done on the siy, of course, and wiii with a piece of silk you will none of your audience get exactly the same result. notice that the glass has been In this simple experiment prepared if you hold it up for you place a rectangle of glass Inspection. on top of two thin books about three inches apart as shown in the diagram. In the space be tween the books sprinkle some cork powder made by filing an ordinary cork with a fine file. the surface of the gloss

Rub -(London Express Service).

New Hats Make Easter Gay

'A

GIRL who wears

a

new hat at Easter

you see them they'll be hopping will be lucky in love all

up and down on the rocks

outside the pond. They won't year.”

bo tadpoles any more. They'l be frogs!""

That's right!" said Hanid.

Would Be Cats

This was a superstition in

the Middle Ages, long since forgotten, but the tradition

of wearing new clothes goes

water when I grow up? Or "And then," said Knart jump up and down at the edge going right on, "we met some of the pond? Or have petals? kittens. Take a good look at on today. In fact, the cus- Or have all my hair blown' those kittens, Knarf, because tom. of "dressing up" for away? You're sure I won't the next time you see then, Easter has persisted for

Rupert & the live toys-6 change into something else?"

The Galliwog looks very annoyed. "i know what I'm talking about,"

he says crously. "I said I'm looking for a giraffe, and so I am. A giraffe and a hippopotamus.” Ruper gaspi, ** What a hippo as well1" The cries. But I've told you, we don't have such things in Nut- wood I" "A've no lime to argue.""

anaps the Golliwog, “If you do ter them call me with this and I'll come traight to you." And pulling,■ whisile from his pocket he thrusts

turns and hurrien away??

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

what was

By this time, Hanid' was so curious 10 know bothering her brother that she demanded that he explain.

more than 1,500 years.

they'll be cats." Then," said Knarf, "we saw some buds and Mrs Goose told me to take a good look at them because the next time I saw them they'd The man responsible was bo daisies. And we saw a brook Emperor Constantine, who "Well," sold Knarf, "I was

and Mrs Goose sald the next: just outside taking a walk with time I saw it (If I walked a bit ruled Rome

л

in the fourth

Mrs Goose. We were 'talking farther down) it would be a century and who trang- and walking when all at once river. And we saw a calf ferred the seat of the 'em- we spied a caterpillar about to puppy, a load of bricks

and an

climb a tree. Then Mrs. Goose Apple pie. And Mrs Goose said pire from Rome to Constan- said: "Take a good look at that the next time I saw them, the caterpillar, Knarf, because the calf would be a cow, the puppy tinople. ¡! next time you sec, him he'll be would be a dog. And the lood Buttering around on wings, He of bricks would be a house."

won't

"And what about the apple

Among other things, Con-

was a very; vain monarch.. Before his time

about," she

for

IT WAS ONCE BELIEVED THAT A GIRL WHO WORE A NEW HAT ON EASTER WOULD BE LUCKY IN LOVE ALL. THE YEAR- THAT SUPERSTITION HAS LONG SINCE BEEN FORGOTTEN BUI

WOMEN, AND MEN TOD, HAVE CONTINUED TO DRESS

UP -ALL OF WHICH HAS LEAD TO OUR

EASTER PARADES,

And

MEN

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be а caterpillar › any... · more. He'll be a butterfly." pie?" asked Hauld. "What did stantino

Mrn Goose say that would be?"

"Sho sald "Oh, I'm beginning to see

take a very good. what you

mean." said Hanld. look at the apple pie because Easter ceremonies had been One of the big articles

now shoes, new "But tell me what else hap the next time I saw it, it would comparatively simple. But of costume was the head- clothes, now accessories pened."

be gone!" "We went on walking,” con- Hanid

the emperor saw a chance dress. And so Easter hats from handbags to earrings, Jaughed. "There's tinted Knarf, “At last wo came nothing to worry

pomp and ceremony, became more and more ein- also have their place in the to the pond. All along the-bot- told, Knarf. “The next time which he loved. So he borate. Because everyone Easter parade. tom of the pond were a lot of Mrs Goole sees you, you'll still dressed up. Reside him, wore new hats for Easter, it inta Rupert's hands. The black tadpoles with long talls..be Knarf, and the next time his subjects looked shabby, the superstition grew that

So Mrs Goose said: "Tako -a' you seo Mrs Goose, I'm sure good look at those tadpoles, sho'll be just as much a goose so they dressed up too. And those who did not wear new

TEN, too, dress, up for Knarf, because the next time, as she is now!"

the cydlo began.

hats would be unlucky.

Easter, but because arc conservative In the Middle Ages the dressers it is often hard superstition "switched," to tell just what is now from negative to positive and what isn't, but if you that is, anyone who wore glance around at the new a new Easter hat would be neckties, you'll see that mon lucky and the combination also believe that he who of liat, girl and Easter dresses up for Easter, may Bunshine must have pro catch the girl who wears a duced results, for girls still now 'hht. So both will be wear new hats on Easter lucky. nowadays, even if the rea

has been forgotten.'

BRONCHO BILL

FROM THE FILLS, MANY WARRIORS AWAIT THE OUTCOME OF BIG KLK'T POWWOW 194

BELO

Tense Intermission

By Harry F. O'Noill

TIME OUT IS TAKEN FOR ALLTO TEND THEIR

WOUNDED

WHILE FINGERS OF THE WHITE QUARDS |NEVER LEAVE THE

TRIGGERS OF THEIR

RIFLES

gon..

men

Of course, the custom is "I tough on Dad's pocketbook, Hand-in-hand with the, but it may be worth while skill of the hatter went the as long as it doesn't wreck art of hair-dressing. And the family budget. On one of course it is unthinkable Sunday, at least,- everyone today for a girl to go out on looks fresh and nice. Spring Easter Sunday without her is here, and days of warm best hairdo.

Bunshine are ahead!-

DO-IT By Dale Goss

DISH PAN ARMADA

TRICK BY

ELECTRICITY

STATIC

CORX

POWDER

SHADOW CAST ON SCREEN

Now hang a large sheet of -white paper on the wall and tell your friends you are going to project a picture on the screen simply by rubbing the glass. Place the glass on the books, between which are your cork Alings and rub it with the piece of sille until the cork powder jumps up and sticks to ihe glass.

At this stage of the trick, turn out the lights and hold the magic glass up in front of the screen a few inches away from it. Then ask someone to light a candle you have in readiness

with and advance

it slowly When Iri towards the glass. the right position, the candle will throw on tho screen a shadow of the funny fore you have drawn on the glass with glycerin.

Things to Make With Materials at Hand

1.Stick a small wad of CHEWING GUM insido center and outside front of a halfa WALNUT SHELL 2.Cut a PAPER sail Ik high. 'i'at the top. It"al bottom.

ODM

3. PASTE the straight odga

around a TOOTHPICK: Stick inta

4.Stick a short piece of tooth- pick in gum in front.

5. Tie a heavy THREAD to it. and to top of the sail. 6. Make a float with different

and shaped sails...

PUT OUT TO SEA qum in the IN A DISHPAN

center.