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PUZZLES

STORIES

MENTAL GYMNASIUM

A Tour Of Afghanistan

CROSSWORD

This puzzle is on allhouette of Afghanistan:

the

ACROSS

Symbul for tantalum

3 Kind of monkey

4 Name of this country's king

6 Delnimi

7 Filth

0 Bustle

DOWN

Oriental $5RY

2 Ventilate

3 Timid

4 Nothing

Social insect

Accomplished

7 District attorney (ab.)

AFGHANISTAN REBUS

Four facts about Afghanistan are hidden here. Use the words and pictures to uncover them:

NO!

+ BANG

THE SUCCESS

OF THE AFFAIR WILL BE UP YO

ODD WORD

What word six letters con- lains six words besides itself, without changing the place of a single letter?

MISSING VOWELS

The vowels are omitted and the words of this sentence are unseparated. Fill in the vowels and remake the sentence about Afghanistan

fghnatn'achftröristhighth hybr

Pasnind.

L

RIDDLES

When in the easiest time of year in read?

2 What has four fingers and a thumb, but neither flesh nor bone?

Why is an umbrella odd?

3. 4. When 15

heap of show?

A

bout

like a

3. Why is a pair of lates like an apple?

RIVER MIX-UPS

Three Afghanistan rivera ace hidden in these odd lines,

You

can find them by rearranging

the letters:

LEND HUM

A BULK

US OX

TRIANGLE

This word triangle hangs trom Afghanistan's capital, KABUL The second word is "n

third god," the

W wager, Brandun."

And the fourth

KABUL

A

It

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1.

LITERARY RIDDLES

HOBBIES

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1949.

The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE

THE MYSTERY OF THES PANTOMIME CAT

THE FIRST

T

SUSPECT

THE next day, Monday, the Five Find-Outers really eet to work. They all met at Pip's as usual. They were early, half-past nine-but, as Fatty "a pointed out, they had a lot

"

1 Why to bootblack ko an editor?

2

to do.

"You And lets must go and (buy a birthday present for that chih-Zon Markham's niece,"

he said. "Got any money?"*

"I haven't any at all," said Bein " Owed Pip three and threepence for a water-platol. and It's all gone to pay for that,"

Why pro Aesop's speaking "I've got about a shilling. I animals not so very improbable? | think, wald Dalsy.

1 Why was Dickens consider- ed a most Industrious novelim?

4.

by

te Blutow

And out came the handful of silver again)

"It's good thing you're so rich, Fatty," Bold Beta. "Wo wouldn't find detecting nearly bo cary if you weren't("

Fatty put his hand into his

"Now, let's see," said Fatty. pocket And pulled out mo

"We've all got jobs to do this allver. He always seemed to morning, haven't we? Report What best describes and

have plenty of money. He had back here at twelve, or as near most impedes a Pilgrim's Pro nunta and

who upped that as possible, I'm off to see uncles Cress?

him well, and he was just like

Come on. Buster. play

a grown-up the way he always him alone. od Willlary

Wake up! Bicycle basket for do two talkative med

you!" girls bidding each other goodbye | spend. remind one of?

4

What Shakespeare's

ANSWERS

RIVER MIX-UPS: Helnund; Kabul, Oxus.

TRIANGLE:

KABUL

ARIES

BET

US

I

RIDDLES: 1-In the autumn, when nature turns the leaves. 2.--A glove.

3. Ja effective 4-When only when used up. #sadrif1. 6-Because both have brought about the fall of

maa.

AFGHANISTAN REBUS: No railroarts. Fat-tailed sheep; Islam, Mountainous.

CROSSWORD;

ODD WORD: "Herein" which contains he, her, here, ere, rein at in, all in proper order.

MISSING VOWELS: AL- ghanistan's chief trade route is through the Khyber Pass into India.

Lo hava

enough

to

CRAFTS

CHILDREN'S

SERIAL

up here. Who are these friends

of yours, Helen?"

"This

is Daisy and this is Elizabeth, or Bets-that's what you are called, isn't it?" anid Mrs Thomas, turning to Bets

“this is zoda

Soon they were being shown a doll's house.

pretty young woman come into the room.

Then a

my nister -- the one who plays in the shows at the Little Theatre."

Well! What a bl of luck!

Daisy and Beta stared carnestly at Zoe. How

Pretty she was-

what д smiley face. They liked her very much.

"Did I hear you

talking about poor Boy sle?" said Zoe. sitting down by the doll's house, and beginning to rearrange the furniture in It.

"It's a shame! As if he could have done that Job on Friday evening! hasn't

got

the

brain he'd nevet,

never

Pippin if I can manage to get sen for little Jane and then the manager

*Jussi my we've gol a pre- think of it, even to get back on

He picked out a two-shilling plece and

"Hero from a sixpence. you are, Daisy. You can get a

for halt lite something

When's crown.

child's

birthday?"

"Tomorrow,"

"Bald Daisy.

met her little

for hda unkind- Thomas mys," ners," see what Mrs sad Bets, surprised to see how "Why is the manager unkind nervous Daisy was, "Pil manage to Boyse?" naked Bets. this if you can't, Dalsy."

"Yas awfully impatient with

You

nee,"

sald Zoe, quitc

"Boysio is slow, and he's only for get

given

like silly parts

Dick Whittington's Cat ΟΣ Mother Goose's Goose and things like that and the

manager shouts

That

WIS make Datay

enough to

all ber

Duster opened his eyes, got up the hearth-rug, yawned and wagged his tail, He trotted sediately after Fatty.

Bets went put on her hat

and coat,

nervousness. "I can manage it ready to do the bit of birthday all right, thank you," she said, shopping with Daly, Pip and humily. "Come on!"

a

to

"'1

sister yesterday

and asked her."

"Good," said Fatty, "Couldn't be better! Now you go and buy something, you and Bots, and put a message on it, and deliver It to Mrs Thomas, Zoe's sister, And mind

into con- you Rot versation with her and And out exactly when Zoe went there on Friday night, and what limo

sho

leh."

"How shall we get her talk-

ing, though? said Dalsy begin-

ning to feel nervous.

Fatty looked sternly at poor Daisy. "Now I really can't plan everyone's conversation! It's up to you to get this done, Daisy.

"Use Jour common unrise, Ask what the mother herself is giving the child something like that and I bet she'll take you In to see the presem she's pro- pared."

Oh yes that's a good idea," Kuld Daisy, cheering up. "Como on, Bets we'll go and do

our bit of shopping."

"Tim going to see Pippin

Larry went to get their bicycles, meaning to ride down to the

Little Theatre to get the lekets.

Fatty was just wheeling his

They went to the front door bicycle from Pip's shed. He and rang the bell, Mrs Thomas called to the other two. upp! opened the door. "Hallo, Dalsy!" Larry! Don't just buy the tie- she said. "And who is this--oh, ketstalk

to as many people little Elizabeth Hilton, isn't it? down there as you can! See if

"Yes," said Bets, whose name can And

out anything at

really was Elizabeth.

you

DIL"

"Right, Captain!" grinned Larry. "We'll do our best."

were DUON

"Er-it's Jane's birthday to- morrow, isn't it" began Dalry. a te "We've brought her prevent, Mrs Thomas"

"How kind of you!" caid Mra Thomme "What is 117**

"It's

him.

at him ull poor old Boysie gets worse than ever. I couldn't bear it on Friday morning, when we had a rehearsal-I fared up and told the manager what 1 thoughi of him!"

"Did you really?" said Daisy. "Was he angry?"

"Yes, very," said Zoe. "We had a real shouting match, and leave al be told me I could the end of this week."

**So "Oh, dear." said Daisy. mu've lost your job, then?"

"Yes. But I don't mind. I'm sald tired and I want a rest,' Zoe "I'm coming to stay with

We for a bit. my sister here shall both ilko that."

you

it

Off went all the Ave Find really good morning's work of Outers and Dog-to do в Detection. Bets and Daisy walk- ed, as Bets's bike hed a pune- Daisy gave it to her.

*'1

thought expect down just some dulls' furniture," she ture. They in the town, and went to the said. "Ifas she

doll's served the manager right, when до 11

was drugged and robbed tuy-shop Use

house?"

that night," said Daisy. "Where "Well, isn't that strange her were you when it happened?" daddy and I are giving Jane a doll's-house tomorrow!" said Mrs Thomas,

"This furniture will be just right!"

"I left at half-prist five with the others," sald Zoe. "And came here. I believe old Goon thinks I did tho robbery, with Boyslo to help me!"

"Jane's only four," sald Daly. "She won't want anything too advanced. It's no good buying her a game or a Jigsaw. We'll "Oh-could we see the doll's "But how could he, if you look at the soft toya".

house, please?" asked Bets at But there was no soft toy for once, seeing a wonderful chance' for helf

a crown-they were all of getting Inlo the house and much too expensive. Then Bets talking. pounced on a set of dolls' furni. lure, for a doll's house.

a few minutes, if I can," said Fatty. "I want to find out ono or two things before I make further plans."

"What do you want to know?" asked Larry, interested.

"Oh, luck! Isn't it sweet! Let's get this, Daisy, Two Uny chairs, a table and a sofa-lovely! I'm sure Jane would love it."

label. "Two shillings and nine-

"OI course," said Mrs Tho- mas, "Come in,"

WCT here all the evening?" said Bets at once. "Didn't your sister tell Mr Goon you were here?"

"Ye-but unfortunately went out at a quarter to seven, afler I'd put the children to bed, and were went So in they

to go to the post office," soon being shown a lovely little said Zoe. "And my sister didn't hear me come back ten minutes doll's house in an upstairs room. Daisy led the talk round to the later! Little Theatre,

"Your sister, Zone Summers, plays in the shows at the Little innocently.

"YCE,"

"I went up to my bedroom and stayed there till about a quarter to eight and then came

"Well-I want to know if there were any fingerprints on that wall-mirror, which had to be lifted down to get the safe "How much 16 it?" said LITERARY HIDDLES: 1-Be-

open, at the back of it,' said Daisy, looking at the price- cause he poilshes the understand-

Fatty. ing of his patrons. 2-Because

pence ha'penny Well, I've got we hear of deers talking (door-

"And there might have been Fatty's hal-crown, and I put Theatre, doesn't she?" she said. down again, stalking) in the Highlands, 3-prints on the safe, too. If there

the other threepence ha'penny were, and the job was done by to it myself." Because

" All he wrote

the Year Round," 4A Bunyan

we might as well give up our (bunion) Much Ado About detecting at pre--because Goon

hos only got to

to take everyone's fingerprints, compare them with

ones on mirror or safe-

Nothing."

Rupert & a Mare's Nest-5

Rupert persists in his questions and Mr. Bear sighs. "A Mare's Nest, did you say?" he smiles, “That's difficult. A Macy's Nest ? Wel, ita the sort of thing you look for and it isn't there I never is there i

"You're teasing me, daddy."" laughs Rupen. must be there some

ALL RIGHTS

C

times in this book of yours) But a mare isn't a bird. How cen it huve a nest?" Mr. Bear gels out of his hammock. "I tell you what.""

he says," suppose you and your pale

go and search, and it you can show mea Mare's Nest i'll take you away for a whole week's holiday at the seaside." RESERVED

BRONCHO BILL

OUCH THAT LAST SHOT.

HIT MY RIPLE~ THEM RANKSBR KIDS COULD SHOOT EYES

OUT OF A COYOTE”

one of the actors or actresses,

the

and there you are. He'd have the thief immediately!"

"Havo

I get," said Bets. "Oh, I do like shows?"

"I'll give you the next penny

these little chairs!"

cald Mra you Bech

"We're going this afternoon," "I do want to see Daisy bought the doll's furni- said Bets.

that Pantomime Cat.”— ture. and had it wrapped up

"Foor Cat!" said Mra Thomas.

Cup

of

GAMES

JOKES

ZOO'S WHO

RAYNE ANDPATSY, TWO

FOX TERRIERS EMPLOYED BY THE CITY OF PORT ELIZABETH, SOUTH AFRICA, HAVE KILLED

*BODO RATS.

MOST BEARS

ARE LEFTHANDED

Killer WhalCS, TERRORISTS OF THE WHALE TRIBE, WEAR A CAMOUFLAGED COAT OF BLACK AND WHITE THAT. RENDERS THEM

MOST DIFFICULT TO SES UNDER. WATER...

A War Against the Hammer

-The Nails Wern Tired of Being Hit on the Head-

By MAX TRELL

NE day," sald Ting-a-Ling

"narr and Hanld, "the

Nails and Tacks declared war on the Hammer. The reason they did this was because as everyone knew the Hammer was always hitting the Nails and Tacks on their heads as hard as it could, and was always driving them into pieces of wood where they couldn't get out gain."

"Oh, but it wasn't really the Hammer's fault!" Hanld ex- claimed.

"The Hammer had to do what- ever it was told!" said Knart.

Ting-a-Ling nodded gravely. "The Nails and

the Tacks unid the Hommer was to blame even

them.

An army of nalls and tacka fought the hammer.

And

though I did what it was told, marked with deep holes. They said all their trouble was soon after that, while the Ham- caused by the Hammer hitting mer was going about its duty nall into a wall Why, they asked, did it and driving a have to hit them so hard? Why so that the man who lived in the couldn't it just tap them lightly? house could hang up a pleture, the handle broke off. With that the man threw the Hammer away, saying it was utterly of no use, without a handle.

Nevor Moant Harm

"The Hammer answered that it never meant any harm to the

"Naturally," said Ting-a-Ling. Nails and the Tacks. It didn't the Nails and Tacks were alled hit them on the head because it with joy.

hurt them.

I

wan

wanted to

Nails But

work

That night the cellar sound of their and Tacks had to be driven into ang with the pieces of wood so thr

that the

the pieces singing, and they hopped about of wood would hold together. In on the work table, the that way, said the Hammer, bench and in and out among the Houses were built-chaira and tables were built-hundreds and and pliers shouting: We've won hundreds of different kinds of the war! Hammer won't hit us useful things were built. But the any more!""

Nails

and the Tocks declared war on the Hammer just the Fame."

saws and drills and wrenches

Shook His Head

Ting-a-Ling stopped. He shook "What did they do to the his head. "But they were mla- Hammer after they declared war taken.

"So, you see, according to Mr

They won the war all Thomas Goon, I could have slipped

on it?" Knari wanted to know. right. But they only won it any of the down to the Little Theatre, put

sleeping-drought Inlo the "All sorts of mean things. They against no Hammer. For the manager's

tea, taken

crept out of their boxes at night next day the man who lived in and jumped up and down on the the house came home with down the mirror, opened the

big- safe and stolen the money-all Hammer's wooden handle. Nalla ger and stronger Hammer." with poor Boysie's help!

unlike most other und Facks,

cousins creatures except their

and Needles, have only the Nails and Tacks on the

sharp and pointed. The Hammer "It did indeed! didn't like this at all, and tried harder, and drove them further his best to hide behind the into the wood than did the other screwdriver and the chisel."

one.

The Nalls and the Tacka

"And Goon has actually found handkerchief-it isn't mine,

nicely. "Now we'll go home and Poor Boysle. He's in a dread by the way, with 2 on, on the "Oh, I hope he won't" said write a message on a label, and Bets, in diamay, "I want to 80 wake it to Jane mother and ful

state now-that awful

verandah at the back of the on with this mystery. I want us Daisy. So off they went, and policeman has been at him, you Theatre and he says I dropped to solve it, not Goon. I like this wrote the label. **Many happy know he thinks Boysie did that

finding-out part."

"Don't

WOITY,"

said Fatty, with a grin. thief wouldn't leave prints behind I'm suret

MORE NEXT WEEK

robbery. I expect you heard it when Boysie let me in that retums to Jane, with love from about it."

night. What do you think of Daisy and Bets."

Jizst as she said that a tall that?" Then they set off once more and pretty young woman came info the room. "Hallo!" she He was pretty canning, who to call on Mrs Thomas, Zoe's ever he was"

sister. They came to the house, said. "I thought I heard voices "Do you think it was Boysie, a amali pretty

one, set back the Pantomime Cat?" asked from the road. They stopped at --- Daisy,

"No-not at

present, any-

the gate.

Daisy was

nervous. "Now, whatever chall. wo do if Mrs Thomas isn't in?"

"So we'll come again," said way," said Fatty. "Wait and see Bets, promptly. "But she will be what we think of him when in. I can hear, Jane and Dora wo see him. Oh, and Larry, will playing in the garden" you and Pip go along to the

thestro this morning and get *What shall we say "when the fickota for this afternoon's door is opened?" naked Daisy, show? Hero's 'the money." !stili nervous.

On the Run

EPH AND

COTTONTOP

HYAR COME, "TWO OʻTHEM BARTS, AND MY AMMUNITION'S

LOW

By Harry F. O'Neill

SI GETTER

RANGER KIDS

19 PLUMB PIZEN/

DO-IT By Dolo Goss

FISH

Game

1.fold 2 pieces of TYPEWRITING

PAPER 4 times.

2.Draw 3 FISH on each piece

and cut out; (BURL MYE 96 FISH)

PUT FISH IN A PIETIN. GIVE EACH PLAYER A DRINKING STRAW A SMALL COTTAGE CHEESE CARTON,

-{London Express Serview)

Things to Make With Materials at Hand

4. AT SIGNAL each player sucks up a fish with the straw and tries to drop it in his own

container .......

THE PLAYER WITH THE MOST FISH WINS

The Pills"

“And did this new Haminer bit

Knart.

one leg. But that one leg is very head?" inquirco And I hit them.

"And what finally happened, were worse off than ever. For Ting-a-Ling?"

unately they didn't try to fight

"A very bad and unexpected any more. They decided to make thing, Ting-a-Ling replied, friends with the Hammer-with "though at first it made the all the Hammers-for they told. Nalls and Tacks quite gay. They themselves that it was better to jumped on the handle of the work together and build things, Hammer so much and so furious than to Oght and not help' bulld ly that at last the handle was all anything at all."

Strange Fads From Around The World

TTERE are some

HE

fads' you Among the Dyaks, one must

might copy · They aren't have' black teeth to be in the new-but it Isn't likely that swim. To gain this end, teeth anyone you know has ever seen aro scrubbed with a pasio made them before. Already, the rage from burned coconut shells and In their respective countries, oll,

they are guaranteed to catch the In South America - women cye of anyone close enough for dressed in their evening best

"LOOK!"

fasten large fireffles in their hair instead of jewelled clips. The Rings, for instance Why Papuans have a different slant wear them on your hands? on hair style, That's old stult. Try them on strands of their very woolly They pull long, your toes and, oh yes, save one locks through sections of for your nose. This is the style bamboo, which wows the men of the Ceylonese Tamil people. the girls of certain New Guinen To acquire the "of-age look,"

Eur gems are all right for tribes endure torture when they some--but the bellen of Bornos don almost the only clothing would scoff at the idea. Through they will ever wear. This Is the, big, holes pierced. In thele tattooed on--an elaborate design, ears. They can, and do, pull, over the entire.› body...”. Once. cigarsi : Useful well. as finished, the girl is "dressed for ..... ornamentalf

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