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SPORTS,

STORIES

PUZZLES

MENTAL GYMNASIUM

DIAMOND

The diamond centres ou SUMMERS, The second word

4s "a huge cask," the third is "domesticated,” the fifth "ro- quires," and the sixth is an abbreviation for "doctors."

π

M SUMMERS

S

CROSSWORD

122

14

12

18

13

17

G

H

120

22

124

Z

* Number

6. Larlat

ACROSS

7 On the ocean

9 Snakes

12. Part of a boat

14

East (Fr.)

10 Symbol for tantalum

10 Distress signal

18 Army order (ab.)

10 Before

21

What Indians took

23.. Network

20 Limbs

20 Manifest.

20 Nostrils

DOWN

1 Woody plant

2 -Listens

3 Egyptian sun god

4 Greek letter

5 Facility

2. Flower

6. Fixed look

10. Sacred cong

11 Pauses

13 Numbers (ab.)

17. Frighten

20 Engilsh school

22 Crafts

24 Uncle Tom's friend

21 Symbol for erbium

SUNDAY PUZZLE

How many three-letter words can you form from the letters in SUNDAY? The puzzle man

NAME OR DEFINE

1. If a helicopter fien, what does a horse coper do?

2. The word maxim meat "a saying." Now of what country

was. Maximilian emperar?

B

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1949.

The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE

ALL

UPSIDE DOWN

UTTON the Brownie "You've had one of your came running into Clover Thoughts I know you little Rubbalong's kitchen. have," panied Button, And little Bubbalong certainly had. "Rubbalong! What am I

.

He told Button his plan, and to do? Grabbit's moved into our cottage, and he Button laughed till he cried."

Then the two of them got a won't get out! His horrid Jargo sheet of paper and printed sister, Mrs Well-I-Never, is big words on it. with him."

BEWARE! THE UPSIDE- Little Rubbalong stared at DOWN PEOPLE ARE HERE! Button in dismay. "Bution!

BEWARE! THEY CAN'T. DE what will your mother sY SEEN AND THEY CAN'T BE 4. Which name does not be-when the comes home from her HEARD, BUT THEY'RE HERE long in this group of planets: hoilday? She'll have nowhere

BEWARE! Mercury, Venus, Juniper, Mars, to go-and all her nice thing Saturn?

will be spoilt."

3. Friday WAA Robinson Crusoe's servant;' who Was Billy Sunday?

ANSWERS

DIAMOND:

TUN TAMED SUMMERS NEEDS

DRS S

SUNDAY PUZZLE: And, any," day, dun, nay, sad, say, sud,

Sun,

WACKY COMPASS; company, Uree is a crowd.

CROSSWORD:

know." walled Button. "And

daren't go there efther -30 I can't do any work. I shall STARVE.”

AND

can

won't You you come and stay with me" cold Rubbalong. "It's a pity my Ma'o away-cho might give us 4 spell to

to get Grabbit out of your houre,"

"That

looks good," #ald Rubbalong.. "I hope we've spolt all the words tight, Now let's go and put it up near your cottage."

Guid Blyton

Little Rubbalang calls in the Upside Down Pòople, to drive Crabble from the cottage of Button Brownto,

And thea they popped them all into two big baskets and carried them in the dark up the hill to Button's cottage, where Grabbit and his slater mill were. They hid under a bush and waited.

the

"Now look De I'm doing foot- prints on the ceiling, too," said Button,

Presently the gnome and his those boots

"We'll just Rubbalong sister. came out. walk down to the village to get laughter. Ho

CRAFTS

now. Quick-wo

across the celling the celling

squealed with must go before they grab us!

took another QUICK!"

n fow things," sald Grabbit, pair of shoes and walked them

and off the two went.

two

up

across the Boor again and

Without even walling to get their bags the two shot out of another well

the collage, ran into a bush in By the time those

darkness had the

and fell over Anished, the floor, walls and Rubbalong and Button. cellings were covered with black

footprints. It looked see them going hurry!" said very queer to

the walls and across the celling!

"Now quick!" said Bitto Itubbalong, and he and Button So out they went when it was went to the front door. Button dark and put up the big notice. unlocked it with hin' key and in "Ooooh," sold Dutton, cheer- They looked through the they went. Ing up. "Yea-a spell. Where lighted windows of Button's does she keep them? Can you cottage and scowled to

"The ladder - Grabbit one?"

and his unpleasant Rubbalong. sister there.

Ket

to

have

heard of them."

"Well, if they're

ECO

up

"Here it lat" said Button, and came the step-ladder into

*

put

*

"Got you!" said Rubbalong, in a horrible sort of voice, and Mrs Well-I-Never screamed.

"They're

here! The Upside are here they

Grabbit

Bcd

Rubbalong and Button rolled

and over over

on the grass, quite laughing.

You're wonderful, Rubbalong," said Button, at lost.

"No. She keeps them locked up." cald Rubbalong. “Any-

In the morning, Rubbalong out way I wouldn't take one with-

and Buiton PETĖ out and the kitchen. out asking her."

heard everyone talking 'excited- "Oh. Well, what are we Two I's

"Ooooh! ly about the mysterious notice. do then?" asked Button, Took It was near my house," said

The Upside Down again. Think. Grabbit. "What do the Upside Ing

been dismal

people have

here all Down People Rubbalong, think. You

right!" caid Button, with an- grabbed my legs!" sho squeal- nover

and Use ed She such

other Wiggle. "T Clever Thoughts Down People. do? I've very

"You do the celling. I'll do ladder away. We'd

down the hill at top speed. beller go. sometimes,"

the ones the walls," rat down and I'm thinking of, they walk all with a

sald Rubbalong, Rubbalong. It looks too queer Rubbalong

giggle, "Use all thought. Button watched him over your ceilings and walls," choes

the for words. When I look up at there are-in anxiously. He saw him scratch said Rubbalong, solemnly, "and course!"

pales, of those footprints I feel

giddy!*** his head. He saw him scratch they hang down from them, Rubbalong took his NOSC. He saw his eyes quite invisible, and walt for slippers, coated

They hid outside under a begin to twinkle, and his mouth people

pass. Then they with black Boot. He pressed bush. Grabbit and his sister begin to smile.

Brau

them first on the floor from the came back, and went, Indoors. Grabbit was fond of grabbing door to the wall, and they left They lighted the lamp again- things himself, but he wasn't black foot-prints!

and then Mrs Well-I-Never at all pleased to hear of some-

gave such

zcream that body else who might grab him.

Grabbit jumped. He went off looking scared, That day Button and Rubb- along were very busy. Do you

now what they did?

NAME

Cheats.

on DEFINE: Z-Mexico, vangelist. 4-Juniper.

:

titen

And

Hits Rubbalong leapt up, slapped his hands on 1-his knees, took hold of Button 3-An and dariced him round

kitchen till he almost fell over

Teaching a Kitten Manners

-It Isn't a Very Easy Thing To Do-

By MAX TRELL

TANID, the shadow-girl with

H

the turned-about namie, foole

Purr Purr in her lap.

"You're only a kliten, dear,” Hanld said, stroking her gently

lista nine (no proper names).across the back, "and you aren't

You may find more.

-WACKY-

1906

COMPASS

A HIDDEN PROVERS YOU'LL FIND IF YOU

START AT WEST AND PICK THE RIGHT WAY/M

TO MOVE, USING

EVERY SECOND/

A

LETTER

old enough to know everything, fluf I do think it 19 about tline

that learned your table man-

you nera. Do you know what table imanners are, Purr Purr?"

Hanld held Purr Purr up and tooked into the kitten's eyes. "Do you? Answer me."

Purr Purr didn't answer any- thing, which was a little trouble. some because Hanid couldn't bo Jauns whether Purr Purr knew what table manners were or not

Better Explain

"I'd better explain them to you, tear." Ifanid said presently as she put Purr Purr back in her lap again. Table mannern are the rules you obey when you eat your breakfast dinner and sure Rupert & the Arrows 32 per. They're called table manners

At his mother's words"; Rupen pricks up his ears and runs into the ball just in time to open the front door in reply to a sharp knocking, To his amazement, his visitor, ik none other than Bingo, who clittera in, accompanied by a swirl of, show and dragging a sledge behind him. He has some clumsy looking thiriga takened to his boots, and he beams at Rupert. topping day 1” he cries: Rugène grins. "I'm glad you think so,” he s

"Da, please, tell me why.

Jaya.

"Well, in't this

Ga Todde 200 và cheerful"

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BRONCHO BILL ·

because-

Itanid stopped. She suddenly remembered that neither kittens nor grown-up cats ever ale at a tablo. “In fact,” she thought to herself uneasily, "the very worse table manners for Purr Purr would be for her to eat from a table"

Hand decided to skip the part about explaining why table man.

the

5-12.

Hanid tried to teach Purr-Purr

some manners,

"And," Hanid continued, "when you drink milk, I don't think you should stick your face into the saucer. It's a little bit like a pic "Of course," she added quick- ly. "pigs have good manners, for pigs. But kittens aren't piga, are they? No one is pigs except plgs. Short you on my drio

when eat and drink. will, won't you?"

Remained Silont

You

to

Д pair of underneath

I looked as if someone bad walked over to the wall. Then Rubbalong pressed them all the way up the wall

- "Gmbbitt Look, look!" Button giggled and nearly

Grabbit looked. He saw the fell of the ladder. "It looks us They got together all

foot-marks going up the walla the it somebody has gone across boots and shoes ond

--and slippers the floor and walked straight up dozens and dozens of them! He

the celling across that Rubbalong had there to the wall, Rubbalong" he said. clutched mend, and they rubbed them in "Now look-I'm doing foot all round fearfully.

his later and looked the soot that came down Mo, prints on the ceiling, too-all Rubbatong's chimney when the way across!"

"It's the Upside Down they put the brush up the fuc! He had a pair of sooly boots People!! ho hissed. They may Well, well, well!

on his hands and he walked be hanging upside down from

WHAT IT COSTS KEEP CLEAN

TO

adding to the cost of your personal hygiene since the water does not heat itself.

If you are careless enough to

the sink while you wash, or if you make a swimming tank of the bath tub you pour good fuel down the drain.

KEEPING you clean is the material is the cost of allow the hot water to run down

one of mother's major cleaning and ironing. headaches.

Of course, you can't put 1 It often re- spotlessly clean youngster in quires considerable effort dirty bed or in filthy clothes and -along "advisory"-lines and it the cost of laundering bedding,

Your hair is a big expense certainly ents away a big heavy.

stockings, and underwear

13 since it must not only be washed, chunk of the family budget.

Move into the bathroom and but oled, groomed, and cut, Tho Take the main item glance at the strange mixture of average rate of hair growth calls for a cutting at least once every soap! Each person in North cleaning apparatus: disinfectants, two to six weeks. Then you must America alone, for instance, tons, bath salts, cleansers, oils, "fuss it up" if you are a girl or creams, powders, and brushes, plaster it down if you are a boy.. uses an average 12 cakes of The average person spends about This all adds to the cost of hair toilet soap, 33 cakes of HK$15 a year on tooth-brushes hygiene. Curlers, laundry soap, and 10 lbs of we sadly report, many thousands

and toothpastes alone. And yet, waves-oh, why go on? soap flakes, soap powders, of people never brush their teeth expenses will skyrocket despite s you grow up, keeping clean and liquid soaps each year, at all. This fact accounts for ths, the fact you may try to be more

This is an average, but if general prosperity of dentists, you are either exceptionally and tells why they are kept busy come in your habits. fussy about your cleaning or

girl has more polishes, cleansing alling and pulling neglected creams, and shampoos to buy, and a boy has to face the whisker problem.

teeth.

蹦

*

*

As

permanent

ZOO'S WHO

indifferent as to cost, your soap supply for a year will IN the bathroom, let's not over- Actually, it costs more to keep be considerably more. You hot water. Each time you turn but if you are really clean, it is look the importance of the clean than to got an education, Purr Purr remained slient. She would, for example, have to on the hot water tap you are was so silent that Hanld leaned be very sparing, with soap

worth it. over and found, to her astonish-suds to make do with only ment, that Purr Purr's eyes were 12 cakes a shut. She was fast asleep.

year. If you chase the soap in the bath. "Poor dear," sighed Hanid. tub you can melt up half a hers were called table manners. "I'm glad I'm not a kitten. There cake in 10 minutes and still "We'll just call them eating are so many things they have to face the problem of getting manners, she went on "Now leam. I don't suppose the heart

we eat something a bit of much of what I said. And it must the grime off your knees. when ment. or a. piece of Ashwo, be hard not

to drag your dinner

Then there is the matter-of drag it off our off into the corner, especially towels. The average family buys never NEVER piates and hide it in a corner. when the puppy comes running each year, 20 face towels, 13 bath But that," she said, trying to up to your plate and tries to towels, 11 wash cloths, and 18

take sound severe, "is what I saw you

whatever you're eating dish towels. doing at dinner. That's very und And when people servo your etiqueite."

wondered Hanid

tr milk in a saucer, how can you she shouldn't say cu-cat. She help getting your face in it? wasn't quite sure that Purr Purs Dear, dear it certainly must be etiquette meant, hard to have table manners (Hanid wasn't quite sure what without even a table."

know what

il mount berweif except that ik And Hanid let Purr Purr and hundreds

ON'T overlook the handker chief. An average of three handkerchiefs a year are bought for each man, woman, and child, of home-made had something to do with man sleep, and didn't say another handkerchiefs are used into the nors),

word.

bargain. Added to the cost of

Treacherous. Crossing

By Harry F. O'Neill

Ho HUMA!

CAN'T CANDA BEARS ÖNCE LIVED

NORTH AMERICA,

TACK AND KJ

Thoughts like you."

"I wish I had Clever

"Well, I've just got another," said Rubbalong, getting up.

"Let's go and wash of those sooly fool-marks before your mother come

home. She wouldn't think them clever at all"

But I think they are, don't

you?

-{London Express Servic¤}.

GAMES

JOKES

By

DO-IT Dola Goss

FLUTTERBY

B. center of CARDBOARD

101.

trace around Kalf PEANUT SHELL. Cut sits on each sida &inch wide and i long.

2.Punch 2 holes

at end of shell...

thesad PIPE CLEANER through holes.

COLOR WINGS AND SHELL WITH CRAYON

3:Cutout

2 wings 4 long

7 and 2 wide with

tabs 24 inches long and 1⁄2 inch wide.

TOP

4.Glue shell in place. Fold tabs and slip them through slots.

5.On under

side.pasta strips 2" long and i wide to

hold tabs..

TURN OVER «nić, PULL TABS BACK and FORTH the FLUTTERBYS WINGS WILL FLAP!

A Song Of The Sea In Code

THIS is a cilly sailor's song.

TH

Is your ear for poetry good enough to pick it up? Trong- Into It:

I long 2 upon the O-2222 all where WINDS blow, 2X -tho-mu-in-summor—(8:30. p.m.) is Xcellent U krOW. ÜN

SHIP AHOY!

гол

Home BARK T'd make my Xs and

the CCCCCCC, Then learn to cry, naan mart "15," and do re me fah sol la to do the yds, yds, with oscoe, I'd gopher illes, mid tropic lale fale, near other. VALLAL graves, Their rot plank plank plank plank plank plank

plank plank' plank

plank hidden on on andy banks, (divided by. 2) by the wave

·wavo, I'd talk of wrecks and decks (divided by 4) and of XI would say, "Would · 1 were bound the wor 14 round, shore life makes 1DK."

TRANSLATION

I long to be, upon the sea,

Watch Your Standards

all use some sort of stand-

gauge ourselves and our ideals. If you are not sure that yours do the best possible job for you. check up those of the people you admire most and And out if you are using the same sort |of standards as they.

Happy, successful people have high standards. They are sin....... cere, friendly, honest and kind. They have

.courago and tegrity and practieo the Golden Rule. They will not sloop to do mean or petty things, they are.

critical, unkind,

never

jealous.

If your standards fall short then change those that need changing. Set up rules which will create the characteristics you want in your life-happi- ness, success, love, and so on.

Begin by being mare friendly with those you meet. Be courte Uus, zo, people will feel that. you are thoughthi and kind. Face, experiences at home and at school

with courage and good temper. Bo so honest in small, things that everyone will know you are completely trust- worthy and dependable..

High standards bring pop- larity, happiness, and, success pili through life.

To nail where big winds blow New Game For

To cross the lino In summer time, is excellent you know,

On some big barque I'd make my mark, and roam the seven [scan,

Then learn to cry a amari "Aye!" Ayal" and scale the yards with caso, da

Your Party

for your

HERE'S a new game.

(next party......... How many empty balloons, pieces of string or ribbon, and nome-cards, can you find in 10 minutes?

I'd go for miles, mid tropic

Your host or hostess has, hid- Isles, near other vessels' gravet, den, them around several rooms.

Their rollen planks on sandy - You try to locate as many as

| bankı - half, hidden by the you can within a certain time«.

Waves.

I'd talk of wrecks and quat ter decks, and often I would May,

“Would I were boutid wide world around," shere "stakesɛone: detay.”

limit

Then you blow the balloons up, to them with either string or ribbon, write your name on the hame-cards, and hang them from aldrepinče, a chair, a table, or life any other, sullable place;

höst har arranged.