SPORTS
STORIES
PUZZLES
MENTAL GYMNASIUM
IC
CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Used by fishermen
4 Kind of playing card
• Menda
8 At this place.
@ Jump
11 Rowing implement
12 Blackbird
family
13 Snore
18. Salar disk
16 Husten away
18 Concluded
of the cuckoo
10 S-shaped worm
7
DOWN
1 Back of the neck
2 Ακο
Jabour
Raised low
5 Played the part of host 6 Freets
7. More ratiot
# Torrid
10 Metal fastener
14 Window glass
15 Mimies
IT Medient directors (ab,1
FISHY RIDDLES
I. What Ach has the best chance lo mucceed in moviedom?
2. What fish is most valued
by a loving wife?
MIXED AUTHORS
fearrange each group of let
tern to form the names of the four authors bidden in our mix-up:
SICK NED STEAK
LINK PIG
AY TACK HER
WORD CHAIN
Change ROLL to DOOR Alive noves, altering one letter at a time and making a real word each time.
ANSWERS
GROSSWORD; ·
FISHY RIDDLES: 1-Star-
Bah 2-Her-ring. 3-Because they are hearty-sh-alltarit cial), 4-When it rises to take ally,
WORD CHAIN: Roll, to, tool, pool, poor, DOOR.
WACKY COMPASS; Two heads are better than one.
MIXED AUTHORS: Dickens: Keats; Kipling; Thackeray,
TRIANGLE:
BROTHER RATHER OTHER
THEN
HER
ER R
o.
3. Why, are fish in a thriy-
og stale ke- fich made
ummitate them?
4. When is a Ash out of its element?
TRIANGLE
This triangle is hanging from BROTHER The second word 19 "to prefer," the third. "clse," the fourth at that fime," the Afth "she," and the sixth is "a suffix."
BROTHER
H
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TISINFE
O
WACKY COMPASS
START AT SOUTH,
USE EVERY FIFTH,
HWLETTER YOU DECIDE
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH," SATURDAY, JUNE
The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
Mr.
Tuck-in's
M
Handkerchief
Ho put a bla knot in each comer to make a fitufa cap... then he Inacard kapply.
RS. TUCK-IN was very crosa.
"You've been down to the village
to fetch the fish for lunch-and when I look in your basket, all I see is a new pipe, a tin of tobacco, this morning's papers and a bottle of ginger beer!" she said. "Where's the fish?"
"I must have forgotten It," said Mr Tuck-In, humbly. "My memory, wifel
It's terrible."
"You mean your forgettery is ter- rible," said Mrs Tuck-in. "You'd better go along to Ma Rubbalong and get a Memory Spell.
I'm really
tired of your shopping."
ANOTHER STORY BY
aro
telling what hap- pened
when
little Rubba- long tried to help the man who could not remember
**My
goodness—there
four knots in my honky! Four! That's four Important things must remember to do, But what were they?"
He stood and stared at the knots in his banky feeling most alarmed. Had he promised Hirs Tuck-In that he would do four things for her? Ilo'd forgotten them all, every one. This was very, very, Berlous.
would bo
sure to
TE didn't dare to go back to
Mrs Tuck-Its in care she began to psic him about the things he must have forgotten. Perhaps Ma Rubbalong could help him. She might be home by now she would have some- thing sho could rub up hia. memory with.
So off he went to Ma Rubb- alona's but she still wasn't home. Only little Rubbelong WRO
there, washing up tea- things..
“Öh – als — ilitle Rubbalong, "She's out," said little Rubb- He felt his head. It was very isn't your mother home yet?
"I badly Mr Tuck-In knew he would along. "But you can always hot, Should ho risk Mrs Tuck naked Mr Tuck-in, hear about the fish all day long try Uie old, old trick of tying fa seeing him, and go and fetch want her help."
"What about?" asked Rubb- so he went out to Ma Itubb-koot in your hanky, sir. his hat? No-if she did see him along's. “I'll ask
When you want to remember
aber the
have along. her for A
Mr Tuck-In told him dole- Memory Spell," he thought something, you just tie a knot something for him to domand
Tuck-In didn't want to fully. He held out his knotted Lite won't be worth living in a corner of your hunky-like Mr I forget the fish again."
this then when you take it out have to do anything at all that handkerchief. Ma was out. Little Rubbalong of your pocket next time, you afternoon except snooze, was sitting in the kitchen, as see the knot and remember to usual, hammering at the shoes do the thing you want to do!" he was mending. He grinned at Mr Tuck-In
"Good morning. Sir.
Your
st
was home
to
“See--a knot in cacli corner-- a large knot. I must have put "But I can't sit here without them there to remind me of a hat I'll get sunstroke," he "A very fine idea," sald Mr thought. Then an idea came to Oh, Rubbalong, if only your Ma something I've forgotten to do. Tuck-In pleased at such
him.
He would make a little
rub of his big white hanky memory for me!".
up my. Cheap Iden. Now he wouldn't
Cup have to buy a spell. "Good-day, Splendid!
Well, le Rubbalong knew Rubbalong. I'll le n knot in my
out his enormouk hanky the very next time
hanky and made it into a little hanky-cap when he saw one. Mr He guessed want to remember something" cap by putting a big knot in He grinned.
"Hey! What about putting each corner, There! It was a Tuck-In had slept in the sun penny or two Info that box good little cap, and fitted nicely that afternoon, and made him- over there?" called Rubbalong. over his hot head. Mr Tuck-In self a hanky-cap. "Ser-the one that says Money shut his eyes again and supond to help worn-out pixies, You're happily, rich, Mr Tuck-in. A few pence won't hurt you."
shoes aren't quite ready yet."
"I haven't
He took come for those," said Mr Tuck-In. "I've conis about my memory. I've forgol ten the fish again, and I'm in trouble with Mrs Tuck-In. wanted to ask Ma for a spell to help me."
Little Punch Had a School
"D
-Be Held Classes at the Bottom of the Pond-
By MAX TRELL
ID you ever go to school?" shadow-boy Kharf, the with the turned-about name, asked his friend Mr Punch.
"We'd like you to tell us something
school about your days," added Hand, Knarf's' sister.
Mr Punch, who was dozing the in his rocking chale by sunny window, opened his eyes with a start. "Eh? What did Did I ever go to you say? school?"
Knarf and
Hanid nodded. Mr Punch was by this lime. fully awake. He smiled as he
I went said: "Of course
"Of course I went to schooll” Bald Mr. Punch.
E
But
Mr Tuck-In pretended not to hear, “Old
meanie," IE woke up hear the ten-
HE thought Rubbalong, hammering
bell. He sat up hurriedly gracious-he had been
away, "Well, well-maybe I'll Good
be able to get more out of him to sleep for hours. What would
than a few pence, know."
M
You never Mrs Tuck-In my? He grabbed his cap. off his head, stuffed it into his pocket, and raced in doors.
"And where have you been
"El tell you what those four knots were made for, if you Dop 10 silver shillings into my box over there-the one that naves money to help word-out pixies." he said.
*
MR TUCK-IN was desperate. Ha took out 10 shillings and popped them into the box clink, clink, clink. "Now go
tell me quickly," he begged. "Did you go to sleep in the hot sun, Mr Tuck-In?" asked R TUCK-IN walked home hiding all the afternoon?" ask-
Mr Tuck-In lite Rubbalong. in the sun, He felt very, ed Mrs Tuck-In. "I suppose nodded puzzled, very hot. He decided that he you quite forgot you were go- "Dld your head get hot?" would
go and have Д nice ing to mend the watering-c said Rubbalong, and again Mr snooze in the garden that after for me?"
Tuck-In nodded. noon-in some place where Mra Mr Tuck-In gazed at her in Tuck-In wouldn't And him. alarm. He mumbled that he She might remind him of the was very sorry and then didn't Osh, if she saw him snoozingt say another word all tea-time. happily in the sun.
But Mrs Tuck-In' made up for that. She said plenty,
So he slipped out into the garden that afternoon, found a hidden corner in the sun, and opened out his deck chair. Aha! Now for snooze.
He al down and shut -his eyes. But be very soon opened then again. "My goodness--the hot today!" he
punctually at nine o'clock, dren spelt out a word, but euo's
B
10
D
schooll And I was a very good scholar too. I always came
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HIDDEN PROVERB
Rupert & the Arrows—§-
it'
Ruperi trots away with his two friends, who are very much out of breath. "What's all the axone- ment about?" he asks miously. *** It'a your ball.** says Podgy,
putat 1" moans Pong-Ping." "Yes." saya Podgy. "'} was just going to kick it when something flashed past my nose and well-look "They allstand round in a circle and gate - id astonishment at the extraordinary thing before them on the grass. Rupert's new. Ball is there, and through the middle of it, piùning it to the ground, is an acrow,
ALL RIGHTS, RESERVED.
BRONCHO BILL
JAT RANGER HEADQUARTERS ALL BOYS MUST-EAT AND
ALL DO CHORNB ***
WHAT-IN BLA
ARE YOU
"Were you seared to go in and get n hat?" asked Rubb-. along and got another nod.
"Did you make a hanky-cap to put on your head?** Balt Rubbalong, a wide smile on his cheeky face. "You did? Well, how do you make a hanky cap?"
"My word-by-putting-four- knots into the corner," said Mr
"I haven't forgotten Tuck-in, and he did a litle fig
FTER ten Mr Tuck-In went out into the hall to get the evening paper. He really could not remember anything special of joy. snld.
Mrs Tuck-In. Surely he could a hanky-cap that's all. You're that he had promised to do for anything after all. I just made
in peace?
did hil my home work and under water fish always spill "Why didn't I bring out a hat never dropped blots
on my out a word."
"Fishtory," said Mr Punch,
papers. In fact my dears. I "And what's fishtory?" Innid learned so much that I soon asked. opened up my own school."
Knart and Hanid both ut- "is the history of fish, from tered exclamations of azionish- one end of the ocean to the Mr Punch never told other. It has to do with all the ment. them about this before. "What kings of the sea (who are the kind of a school did you open whales, of course) and all the different wars. But there aren't "I opened up a school at. the any dates to romer ber beenuse about care much boltom of the pond," replied fish don't Mr Punch,
diates." This was even
Knarf and Honid finally ask more astoni- shing to Knart and Hanid than ed what Mr. Punch mean by the first thing that Mr Punch reading brooks? had told "At the bottom of the pond!
up?" Hanid asked him,
them. Knart cried:
A Fish School
Baffle Your Friends
number trick will amaze your friends,
First write
clever, little Rubbalong. you -read the paper
He picked up the paper and really are." was just going back into the sitting-room when he felt sncezo coming. Now Mr Tuck-
ปี
undid all
the knots,
and
In was a big man and he did LTTLE Rubbalong solemnly sneezes then put an extra big one into jump out of their skins, Mra one of the corners,
the most enormous the kind that make
people
Tuck-In was always cross if ho on a piece of paper any number didn't catch them in his hanky In 102 hurriedly felt between 1 and 80, Let's tak: so he
"A WHOOOOOSH
་་
31 for a sample. Fold the paper pocket. and give it to someone to hold. Then mentally subtract your What a sneeze! Good thing ha
Now
tell someone
"What's that for?" asked Mr Tuck-In
CRAP
GAMES
JOKES
ZOO'S WHO
A COATI
A RACCOON-LIKË ANIMAL OF CENTRAL AMERICA,CAN WALK
A TIGHT WIZE. IT USES ITS LONG TAIL AS A BALANCING-
POLE....
IT'S EASY!
HIPPOPOTAMUS CAN GALLOP WITH FAIR SPEED ALONG THE BOTTOMS OF LAKES AND RIVERS, EVEN WITH THE BODY ENTIRELY
UNDER, WATER,
CEYLON'S NEW GOVERNMENT
CEYLON, a British crown colony for the past 260 years,
recently became a dominion of the British Common- wealth of Nations.
The people now govern themselves, and elect' their own rulers and law-makers, just as they do in Canada, Australla, or other British dominions.
Ceylon will thus be another strength "and fertility are used step in the march of democracy up, and the Sinhalese farmerS
have. around the world.
give the land a "rest" Ceylon is an Island in the In- enül it regains its strength, dian Ocean. Just off the 'south-. At times like these, a whole ern tip of India, with a popula- farming village will pack up. tion of 5,000,000.
and move of to a plece of The land In mostly moun- ground that's been "resting" tainous, largely covered with for a few years. When that's swampy jungles. There is not as "worn out" too, they'll move much good farming land as he back to the first neigbourhood people need. So they have to and start all over again! import o
nearby Indias many foods from The Sinhalese, as the people of Ceylon are called, And the raising of food their most seri- ous problem. What little form- Ing land they have, is too poor. to support the people.
After a crop or two, the land get's "worn out." All its
CUT-OUT
PORTRAITS
ARE FUN
FOR
&
FARMERS, IN CEYLON WEAR OUT" ONE PARMING AREA THEN MOVE TO ANOTHER
Luckily, Coylon's farmers
now spare-lime pas-don't need very much. They'ro time and a few hours of used to simple food and cloth- Indoor fun, try making paper | Ing. The banana herb and the portraits. You can model any- coconut tree supply them with body-yourself, your chums 01 a remarkable number of things: food, clothing, fuel, dishes, and a celebrity of the moment.
tools.
Cut the
"Just to remind you that you haven't forgotten anything."
You need white paper, big bor said Rubbalong and off went
Ceylon is famous for its ten, sheets are better; cardboard, especially, and also for its coca- Mr. Tuck-in, very happy.
And tomorrow when he sees
crayon, pasto and number from 99 (99 minus 31 had caught it all right. All that knot I'm afraid he's going
staplers nuts and rubber. The farmers Ready? Let's goi
also raise pumpkins, peppers, to.. Liko Books
equals 88), This gives you your there was another one coming to thinit it's to remind him to
Не A-WHOOODSH-00000! are key number. "Brooks, my dears,
buy the fish-and as Mrs Tuck-
face from white matoes, and rice. Nearly every- hia Who went to school at the bot good deal like books. They botli
noso elpo to mopped his
with
for ordered sausages number be- hanky and was just about to In has
paper, giving special attention body in Ceylon forms and so tom of the pond?"
have lots happening inside of write down any
dinner she'll be most annoyed! to the shape, All faces aren't the country has already been nicknamed "The Farmer -Da- them and both of them start in tween 50 and 100. He is not to put it. back, in his pocket when
ovaj, you know. Some are Sup
minion." he stopped.
-(London Express Service). one place and end In another. let you see this number,
square, some are triangular, Bomo Arc Blighty lopsided.. "Fish," said Mr Punch. "You Children learn to read books. pose he picks 83. Tell him to
Mount the face on stiff card- ses," he added quickly, Fish learn to read brooks. The add 68, your key number (83 plus 08 equals 181). Next have
board. are always
out the left-hand digit and asked Knart
10 this case to teach them. So I decided to Honid. "The fish or the chil-two digits-la
would cross out the 1 and add spend my time teaching the dren?" little sh
"Both," said Mr Punca. And it to 51, getting 62. Finally tell What did you teach them?" with that, he smiled, shut his him to subtract this number the number ho first inquired Hand,
eyes and went on dozing again, from
cross
going in schools, more they learn, the wiser they and add it to the other
There are plenty of schools for chlidren and plenty of teachers
ha aloud
I taught them spilling, fan- And no matter how Kaart and thought of and read the answer (83---12 cquala a1). tory, and how to read brooks." Hanld, begged him, all
Kharf wanted to know it would say was just one thing Watch his tace when you have spilling Waa anything like more: "The fish alphabet only the person who le holding the spelling
has en letter-the letter C. Įnumber you first wrote, show it "It is in a way," answered After saying that, he fell fast to be the camo as his answer Mr Punch. "On dry land, chile asleep.
..
THIS DANGED
CAMER MUST. DE BRY, BILL I CAN'T PUMP A DROP OỪN OʻSHERM
Mysterious Rider.
LAT THIS TIME
MILES FROM
SETTLE
MENTE
RIDER
13 IN R
RACE
WITH
DEATH
31.
DO-IT By Dale Goss
Things to Make With Materials at Hand
TWASTLE
By Harry F. O'Neill ~1. From a leafing tres cut a small
BARNNATIVES HE GUNNE AFOUL OF DECLARES UTÁN RACES, OND
BRANCH about 6 inches long and inch thick..
NALS VIAV
4. Cut a notch about Tinch long and half way through the cére. 5. Whittle the end flats.
2.Tap all around branch
7. Whittle slice from and
lightly with handle of a
closed KNIFE.
3.twist bark gently. vetil it slips frut gorg
6. Slip back back over colo and make small Vahaped cyt directly over notch.
An each feature in cut, the samo mounting process must bo done with everything except the hair. Affix the nose by roll-
ing a small piece of paper into
Balloon Game
is
This simple party game fun..
A smati balloon is given cach contestant. First, ho must blow a boll and gluing only the bot it up to a certain size. Then ho tom: Cut out the mouth, cur-must tie it with a ribbon and a ving it for roundness, colour the fancy bow, Next he must blow Hips and paste in place."
it across a goal-line.
Eyes come next. Experiment
Once over the Une, he must
a bit at this point. You'll be deflate It, blow it up again, te surprised at the realistic effects you can achlove with properly shaped pupils. on coloured circles. The coloured circles are pasted on the white back- ground of the eye. Draw the eyebrows and cut them out, striving for expression, Loshes can be added by curling tiny feathers of black paper or by rketching with 'erayon,
Hair is drawn, enlóured and then curled by twisting strips of paper in place or running each strand over the blade of the scissors. The finished "wig may be fastened by means of stadiers.
Three or four, paper portraits grouped together, make a novel
décoration for your bedroom. it with the ribbon and then Affx' a couple' of hair bows or fancy bow, and blowback atlo depending on whether over the goal-line to tha:original
starling-point. you porleay a boy, or a girl,
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