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SPORTS

STORIES

PUZZLES

MENTAL GYMNASIUM

Goography Puzzles About Franco

Crossword

The silhouette of Franco forms a base for this puzzle:

20

ACROSS

ffome of Frenchmen

0 Narrato

1 Rupees (ab.)

9 Pedal digit

10 Military police (ab.)

il Symbol for samarium

12 Bitter vetch

*- 14 Early English (ab.)

.. 15 Shower

4

17 Thoroughfare

DOWN

* 1--France has many of theso

workers

•2 Near

3 Fisherman's apparatus

4 Shut

5 Substanco

8 European herring

19 Courtory title

18 Northeast (ab.)

City Mix-Ups

I

Four French cities are hidden

here. Find them by rearrang- ing the letters in each line;

I SELL. MARES

HAL VEER

OUR AX BED

SAIL A C

ANSWERS

CROSSWORD:

CITY MIX-Urs: Marseilles, Le Havre, Bordeaux, Calals.

MISSING VOWELS: Eiffel Tower is in Paris, capital of France.

DIAMOND;

C

TAM

-----TAPER-

CAPITAL

METES

RAS HAD

Tho

POSERS: 1-Yes, 2-Mytho- logical creatures. 3A native white in South Africa. 4—Blue, 3-No. Astrology is sold to tell Ure future with aid of stars and has no connection with the. science of astronomy.

RIDDLES: 1-The wind. 2— On the head. 3-ln the dark. 4-Because it is farthest the bark. 5-The occds planted in the spring.

from

Art

Missing Vowels

The vowels have been omit-

ted in this sentence and the worda are not separated. Rein- sert the vowels and break up the line into a good sentence about France:

ThffiTwishFrs,epil{Fruc.

Diamond

4

Paris is the CAPITAL of France and so that word forms the centre of this diamond. The second word is "a Scottish cop," the third "n small candle," the onth "distributes," and the sixth "a short-napped fabric.”

C

CAPITAL T

Posera

1. Does a variable star's brightness fluctuate or not?

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST....

· 1949,

The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE

eva Burs

DON'T want to do the washing1" said Sniff, the goblin.

"You're a lazy, good-for-nothing little goblin!" scolded his mother. "It will do you good to bend over the wash-tub and rub and scrub, and then hang up the wet clothes on the line! Now I'm off to catch the bus. Fill up the tub, Sniff, and get the soap!"

His mother went off to the bus. Sniff grumbled and groaned and went to get hot water to fill the tub.

!

Somebody popped his head round the door. "Hallo, Sniff! Hard at work again? I say you're not going to do the WASHING, are you?”

"Mind your own buat-

ness, Pippy," said Sniff in A huff

INTO THE TUD WENT SHIFF

Sniff gets into

"Do you know what you want?" - sald Pippy, "You wont -washing- speltt

Ma Rubbalong's got a beauty. She's put it into a big scrubbing brush and my, you should see it work!"

"What does it do?" asked

2. Are harples performers on the harp or mythological Sniff.

creatures?

3. What is an Afrikander? 4. Whlch colour givea greatest effect of distance?

6. is Astrology a part astronomy?

Riddles

the

"Well, it rubs and scrubs all the diety clothes all by itself rinser them under the of top, and even hangs them on the line," said Pippy. "I Y it when Ma Rubbalong lent It to my aunt once.

It's a wonder."

hot water

grow

Sniff the Goblin In

sorry hostolo". THE MAGIC BRUSH

Sniff was most alarmed. "Here, you brushl That's enough! You did the-washing —now. stop!" :

The brush didn't take scrap of notice. It dragged everything to the tap and squeezed

rinsed... them ...; and them.

Little Rubbalong

was still

looking in at the window.

He was dancing about in de-

light laughing like a wood-

CRAFTS

BGC GAMES

JOKES

ZOO'S WHO

pecker, "Ha ha ha, ho ho ho! A PORCUPINE FISH

Go it brush, go fit".

Tha brush saw Mrs Sniffs

best

hat On a peg behind

Το the door.

Sniff's horror, that went into the dirly water, too.

After that the brush just went mod. It kept trying to take everything out of the door to hang on the line and as it couldn't, i went rushing round looking for more things to wash.

scrub

him

Into the tub went the kit- chen stool, two kettles and Sniff stared ht Pippy

My word You should have the clock. in

In went the apple delight. "Yes! I will Ma scen that magic brusht It plo Mr Sniff had baked for Rubbalong spanked mo once,

dozen a

bony little dinner.. Sniff howlod in rage, and I'll pay her out by borrow hands nul round itself. It and ran to the brush. He ing her magle brush. Hoool seized the clothon and soaped tried to trab It-but lastend: That'll be fine!"

and scrubbed them. It soused the brush grabbed him! He ran out to the galo and them up and down, and Sniff

went Into tho dirty watched for little Rubbelong to had to jump out of the way block water, too, and the come by. Ah, hero he was because the brush made big brush began to whistling on usual, carrying a splashes on the floor. bertan

"Good whisper, bag Di mended boots and

brush

then Don't say I told you shoes and with his

Ma's big brush," said Sniff, as if 3. Where is it that all girls-but little Rubbalong's taking scrubbing brush under one was talking to n dog.

it to Dame Scary this mor- arm'

Was delighted. The are equally pretty?

suddenly leaped out of

Oh, what a joke! tub, dragging. The soapy Ch if only Me was there to clothes with it, and off they see all thist went to the tap.

In a trico rinsed clean.

1. What can-pass before the mun without casting a shadow?

2. Where did. Nonh

the first nali in the ark?

Pippy strike

"Salf

to

4. Why is a dog's tail likening. to help her with her don't Why spring-cleaning. the heart of a tree?

borrow a bit?"

5. How does the water get you-er-just Into the watermelon?

It

for

The Squirrel's Own Ice Box

-It Was as Big as a Whole Meadow-

By MAX TRELL

"PEOPLE

think," said Mr Punch to Knari and Honid, the Shadows, "that they have all the good things such as Ice boxes and aeroplanes and plc- fures and music and books. But the animals have them, too. Yes, indeed!!!

Kaurt and Hanid looked quite surprised.

What animals have

boxes?" Knarf asked.

"Well," answered Mr Punch, squirrels hovo them, nd

"the

so have the chipmunks and the doga,"

Iceboxes? Real ice boxes?" snid Hanld.

In The Ice_Box

and squeezo him, and rub Anc soap all over him. Snitt yell- to ed and struggled and little He Rubbalong hold on to tho brush window-sill and

laughed ull the he cried.

went He

CAN GNAW ITS WAY OUT OF A SHARK'S STOMACH.

FIREMEN ANSWERING AN ALARM ATA ST. LOUIS CHURCH, FOUND THAT THE SMOKE" WAS A CLOUD OF IN SECTS SWARMING ABOUT THE STEEPLEN

RAFFIC WAS TIED UP IN RE~ GENTS PARK OF LONDON BY DOGS RECENTLY WHEN THEY

FLOCKED TO LICK UP MOLASSES DROPPED FROM

FATROCK...

For

Yardstick

Growing Up

RE you really growing

Sniff hopped out of his gate, leapt ΟΠ The

The brush dragged Sniff to surprised

they were being the tap and he screamed as Rubbalong, and grabbed the

tho cold water poured ail brush. He was indoora in a The brush wanted to take over him. Trice

Help, ittle Rubb- and banged the door, the clothes to the Hne out-

help.

"It'll drown mel" along, behind hin

side.

and hang them up to Rabbalong ลาก round the up? Sure, your wrists "Hey!" called Rubbalong, in dry. But it couldn't becaúsa

and house

а found window n stick out of last nrage. "That's my mother's the door was shut and so little open.

In he went. brush.

It's magic. Bring it were the windows.

So if rushed into the kitchen, and year's jacket and you take back!"

flung tho things down

when he two sizes bigger in shoes. on stopped in diemay The door was locked Rubba- the table, and pattered about saw the flood of water there. But do you really act your long looked in at the window on la funny little handa,

"I'll have 10 open the door very angry indeed.

ugo? It pulled up the rugs and and let it all out!" he cried. Saif put the brush into the put them into the tubi hot water and swished the soop tore down the curtains, and round and round tili a big in they Went tool It even lather came. "Do your work, put Mrs Sniff's bed cushion So he unlocked the kitchen brush, do your work!" he cried, into the soapy water and be- door and out went the water. and piled in a heap of dirty gan to scrub and souse and And clothes,

squeeze for all. It was worth.

Games

To Play

On The Beach

The squirrel can put food in his Ice box.

T'

#Ice, boxes as big as a whole by the birds, or the crickets, cr meadow, my dears. When the the buzzing bres, or the water squirrels and the chipmunks and of the brook as it bubbles around the dogs pet food that they a mossy rock, or the raindrops can't eat all at once, they, put it as they punk-plank

their ice box. I mean, they well?"

dig a hole and bury it in the ground. Now

you must know that when you bury something In the ground, it stays cool and fresh, and especially if it's an acurn or a chestnut or a bone,” "I wouldn't like to eat any- thing that

from the came ground," sald Knart,

Mr Punch chuckled. "Then

you wouldn't eat potatoes, or

onions, or radishes, or turnips,

Rupert's Queer Pat

or carrota."

"

circle is

*

out went the brush, too, with Salf the goblin, and pegged him

The Armly on lino by his

cars! great big There he swung. In the wind, howling.

-Tho brush hurried back and dragged out all the

had things it

washed-my, how queer they looked swing- ing on

the line especially Mrs Sniff's best hat!

Rubbalong called to the brush

"Brush, you've worked with

-might-and.main." _

Be still again, be still again, Rtiming-roming-ripple-a-dee,

Brush, come over here, to

mer

HERE are those who players must sit with their like to snooze while locked tightly around their knees drawn up and their ‹urms they are getting, a suntan, knees. They must remain in Others prefer to do this position as one tries to something while they get push the other out of the circle, their toasting.

The first one who is pushed

And hey presto, there was over the line of the For the active, into the

games can

the brush back again under the loser. and do add to the fun of any

little Rubbalonga arm. He. poor outing. Try these the next time

stood and grinned at scashore

Sniff shaking

the wing you visit a lake with your crowd.

Pieces of Eight: All players pegged up by his goblin earsh Or play them in your back close their eyes, while the lead- garden if you have a

sandy player

hides oight pebbles. pot.

Players uncover their eyes and

"Tell mo cach one is permitted threa

"when you

want questions. Are the pieces of to borrow Ma's bruch again,” called The Earth, and the other In a Pig's Fie: Draw the eight n foot away? The lead-

he said,

"And just remem- when you set ma

"But what about books?" sold Knarf and Hanid, "The animals have no books!"

Two Books

Mr Punch smiled. "They have only two books. One is

**

in

you know the words to stop

them when

is called The Sky. In the book outline of a huge pig on the player may only answer "yes" ber, Sniff of the Earth they read (not in sand, his head, body, curly tall or."no." The first player, find-gle things words, but in signs), the Spring, and feet. Now. In turn, each ing the eight pebbles on his the Summer, the Autumn

and "Oh, I forgot about them." the Winter. They read the new player has a paper bag dropped question-clues is the winner.

new over his hend the ice box, grass, the violets, the roses, the whirled too, keeping cool and fresh until voice of the frog, ond the young handed a stone you're ready to eat them. And birds dying. They read the ripe drop his stone where he thinks growing besides. Now as for fruit, and the smoke coming out aeroplanes, the birds and the of the chimneys as the sights the pig's eye should be. Who.

*They're all in

long before

while he is, three about

times, and told to

are grow cool. They

rend the ice

ever comes nearest apol is the winner,

bugs had them proplo even thought of them. and the silently falling snow. The swallows and the wild recse

going to happen, Rupert and "Bil ́beautiful, and m.small, and as

*pictures,"

they

the right

ro-

and the sea-gulla' con fly beller "And at night, in the book of

the Sky; they than any aeroplano, And so can'

read the moon | drògon-fliea, · And so can, and the stars; and by day they Gymnasio Class: One player even the common little flies. read the sun and the clouds and takes the part of a physical Nobody in the world can make the-rain and

Instructor. The the four winds, training. Wondering anxiously what i an acroplane as

And though they read and they maining players are the class. it fly as read, and each day is a new page Th instructor goes through witch carefully to see wius Tigerlily-well as the butterfly.

never come to the end, and gymnastic movements, speeding will do. Firat she makes them arant

And

as for

con- they never grow tired of read-them up as much as he can tinued Mr Funch animals Ing. For each page, my dents, while the rest of the class tries have them painted by Jack Frost is a puleture that is always to follow as rapidly. If a player in every field, on every rock, in different that they have never makes a mistake, he must drop overy brook and stream and scen before. Ob yes, the out. The game continues unili pond. They only last, perhaps, animals have everything that only one player remains, until the sun comes out. But people have, and maybe even a the next morning there are new little more."

And Kaart and Hanid, after

at the end of the bushes: Nobody

must tread on path while me, work ing," she says. "Nole waich From her black bag she takeajoz wand belonging to her father, the. conjurer, and a small box. The she sprinkles powder on some of the slaba and waves her wand while ah... murmurs queer Chinese words. “Ji ones, as lovely us those that have thinking about all this for a Billo sounds like magic," says Ruper melted away.

en “And where can you find while, had to agree that My ALL RIGHTS RESERVED,AWA,! sweeter music than that mada Punch was right."

nervously.

BRONCHO BILL

Revenge Trail

1P YOU

WANN

¿THEY TRIED (NEVER MIND! LET EM

Filly Goat: Draw a large circle on the sand and pose two players back to back. Both

Be

Can You

Tactful?

(QOOPS)

STUDY this picture lind try to decide what you would do

By Harry F. O'Neill in this embarrassing situation.

The inciful answer" la in the last paragraph.

The alluation! You have been Invitod out to dinner and you upset your water -‘over-the tablecloth.

Whatuwill you đó? (a) Just Igåöre:it? (b) Say, "Oh, I'm very sorryly This is awkward of met ((6) Ofer to leave the table and món things up ́ despite is the maruraned of the hostess: that it 1) unnecessary?..(d); Well-every- body Now unlucky you are?: 2

The' solutions: The best way. to handle the sijuntion is to' use: Sölution 2, ....- 10% tactful to say Točsorry, and admit; you're

There's

more

to

this

growing up than getting older by the calendar. talk about Psychologists chronological, mental and emotional ages, but, you can make it simple by men- suring yourself by how old you are, how old you think, und how old you act, p

The three ages very hol dom are the same In one individual, Maybe you know someone who is 15 years old, thinks like a 10 -year-old, and acts like s "baby!

There are 10 spaces en the growing-up yardstick. When you measure your, self by them, don't expect perfection. Be glad if you' can honestly say that even a part of the time you act like an adult.

*

HERE are 10 ways in

to work, be sure

they've finished! which we act our age: Good-day! Give -my best Learning to take disappoint wishes to Mrs Sniff."

And off. he went, whist-ment; to take responsibility; ling, tho brush tucked under to decide what is valuable "Sniff will be on and to make decisions; to.

practise self-control; respect the rights of others; to put something into life; to take criticism; to learn to appreciate; to take life as

his arm.

the line till his Ma comes

And

home!" he chuckled. then, dear me he'll certainly And tumselt In hot water again."

-(London Express Servica)

DO-IT By Dale Goss

Mammy DOLL

1: Bend and twist PIPE CLEANERS for body

and for legs... Cut 1inch from another cleaner

Things to Make With Materials at Hand

n

and bend for arms,

2.Lay body, logs and arms on a 3inch piece of POP SICKLE STICK and tie with 2mora pipe cleaners;;

NECK

3.Make head from BALL of

to

it is to think seriously and honestly.'

Before you Alng yourself on the floor in a tantrum, remem- ber that whether or not you get what you want today, tomor- row' you'll want something elset

you take responsibility even "In'small things, you're grow» ing up. If the class can depend

on you

to haul ice water and pop to the plenies; if the coach' · :-knows you'll show up for practice; if the sponsor con count on you selling tickets fot the play get the idea?

•

Are you a parrot? Do you re- peat the ideas and opinions of your friends, or weigh the good against the bad, the true against the false and form your own?

Many growing pains are in- volved in making decisions, but It is alsign Unt you are growing decido things for up, if you yourself. So, too, is the ability to control one's temper. No one can do this at all times, but a reasonable amount of self con- trol is the mark of an aðúlt.

EARNING

*

to respect the rights of others also teaches one to appreciate what is done for him. When you recognisa that your mother has a right to timo

you for relaxation, appreciate what the begin to does for you and perhaps begin sharing your part of the family see that she responsibility to pels that time,

Can you take R7 No one likes a sign of criticism, but it is growing up, if you can accept without too much resentment what honest people find wrong with you. Smooth your feathers and listen to criticism. It will do you more, good than. pats on the back.

THE

★

CLAY...usaBEADS for eyes and last three measurements

a ploca of RED CLOTH

for the mouth:

Stick head on neck.

4. from red cloth cut one 4 inch square for bandana...and another for the shawl cut a piece l'wide and 6 long for sash. and from WHITE cloth cut a place 22 wide

and long for skirt. 5: Fasten the shawl and

skirt in place

With RUBBER

on bandine

#and sauli

of the growing up yardstick scern to belong together. Learn- ing to put something into life, to "give

an woll as lako, bringe satisfaction. Learning to take things as they come without too rebellion saves your head from many knocks against a Adults know that stone wall! tite-world is an Imperfect place. So they do what they can to remedy wrong and injustice but spend no time feeling sorry for themselves and walling that life hasn't given them a square deal: Learning to think seriously and honestly

that few people ever be passbly good at. Wh I

Scan be honest with and

About yourself, you won't need fe worry about making a succes of life.

Try the growing up yard- lick, for size now and then. -It- Ianjeasy to gravé trom, an 'adolescent to 'an" ndult, but 117′′ “worthlevery effort.