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STORIES
PUZZLES
HOBBIES
A FURTHER INSTALMENT OF THE CHILDREN'S
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1950.
SERIAL Five Fall Into Adventure.
The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
Hobbies Led To
By WALTER KING
A Strange Message Tt
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Julian, Dick and Anne have come to stay with their coutin Georgine (George for thort) and her dog Timmy, whilst her parents pre touring Spain. Curious things hare happened. The study has been ramiucked by thieves who know that George's father, a fomous scientist, has some valuable poperi there. No George and Timmy seem to have completely disapproved. A little ragamultin girl called to has just owed at the front door.
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CHAPTER
NINE
ULIAN opened the front door.
Jo
silently gave him a plain envelope. Julian tore it open, not knowing what
in the least to expect. Jo turned to go- but Julian put out his hand and eaught hold of her firmly, whilst he read the note in complete amazement.
"Dick" he called. "Held en to jo. Better inke her indoors,
Don't let her go.
This is serious."
Jo wasn't going to be taken indoors.
She squealed, and wriggled
like an el. Then she be-
gan to kick Dick viciously
with her bare feet.
I only
to squealed and wriggled like an eet.
by End Blylow
him before, ro
of
tin connected by string proved to be the toy that led to the invention of the tele-
| phone.
cans,
Try the experiment your- self. Get two empty tin the narrower the helter. With the point of a mail drive a small hole in the bottom of each
can.
Connect the cans with a long piece of string, which is knotted on the inside to prevent it from slipping out of the holes. Pull the cord tight
a friend and have speak in one tin can while you hold the other firmly against your ear. The voice is carried plainly by the front the string "wire" mouthpiece to the car phone.
INS
Alexander
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THE PHONOGRAPH,
CRAFTS
GAMES
JOKES
Famous Inventions SILHOUETTE
IF YOU HAVE A HOBBY IT MAY LEAD TO A VALUABLE
INVENTION TWO TIN CANG CONNECTED BY
A STRING LED TO THE INVENTION OF
THE TELEPHONE - ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL PLAYED WITH GUCH A TOY DURING HIS SCHOOL DAY-LATER ON, THE STUDY OF SOUND BECAME HIS
EDISON WAS CALLED "CRAZY"
BUT HE MUDE A MACHINE
THAT WOULD TALK
and invented an air brake, Of sourse, he just had to show this a rallway offeint to hear the drcouraging answer, "Listen, I no time to wale on fools, don't really think you can a railway train with wind,
u
stop
a
HOBBY-
THE FAMOUS WRIGHT BROTHERS FIRST WERE BICYCLE REPAIR MEN- BUT THEIR HOBBY WAS KITES AND FLYING OBJECTS – THEY WERE
AIR MINDED
THE KITTY HAINE PLAND
familiar
the Edison Hot "crazy" label, 100 when he an
nounced he had a nucbite that could all. But a perron fol- towing a hobby, is not cally daunted by words. The hobbe may turn out to be worth full- time attention.
tu
Graham JT 11
telephon Fuch played with toy
during his school days, Later, as a
teacher, the study and waited to see whoever came [64 soltad became ta hobby. to take up
the notebook weWhen he was an instructor in coutel follow the fellow and school for the draf be devid maybe he'd lend us to where
a means of speaking to a num→
LI Ciemne hidden." Susurested
ber of pupils at once by using
did actually thinks Dick.
a citer of
at and rubber tubes.
For a while Edison was a telr- moreover the that,
first
However, he Finally, when his first work-
experimentally equipped graph operator, tredn 28th model of the telephone was
The Westinghouse Dir wanted something else to do to it in
brakes stopped y suddenly occupy himself after work hours. official, that Ibent povernment
was wrecked, The air So he set up his own laboratory "It reeins to work all rig
who broke has now made high-speed nad official, "but phd the
railways possible, would want to talk through a thing ke that,"
Most modern inventions "crury house this evening? Any of the
to be trades met, for instances asked were consideredi Aune, again in a whisper. She contraption" at first.
was George Westhphotse fell as
if people must be all
trade Hatening and machinist by round the house,
hobby
inventing watching!
gadgets.
21: most of This occupied
12 and eventually pare time paid off. When 19 he Inventut "They never be able to that
in the air." a "frog." Not the croaky kind but a Kadget that would put a thank derailed railway car back on Wright for their courage and the track.
persistence at the hobby which Next George went to work appealed to them.
"Does
anyone
to comi
Be
"Let me sto! I'm not du ng any harm.
The two buys looked sternly at her. "I believe you're makbust all brought you that note!"
"You forget that we've all got that up. Ju." said Julian. and "Stop squealing
to sit in the lighted front roum, "1 "I'm not," said Jolly. would easily be spotted if realy, he took being silly," said Dick.
on of it were missing," said don't want to hurt you, you "Til never been
frere,"
Julian, Even Joan has to sit there. know that. But you must
"36" said Anne, taking do's This is impossible." brown little pate in hers, "tell us come indoors,"
Jo wouldn't stop truly anything you know. We're But wriggling and pulling and so very worried about George. kicking. She looked senved Tears sprant out of her eyes as she spoke at be gave a litle 11. out of her life.
was as watl. Dick and Julian much as
"Serve that George-giri right could
little flo tu get the
if she's got taken away," said Jo wriggler into the dining deerely She was rude to me-- room and shut the door, the front and unkind. Serve Anne followed, looking very her right, I say, I wouldn't tell Frightened. Whatever happening?
voll
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anything not even kaw gamithing to tell.
"No, Eke we could give them Then he a note," said Julinn.
gave the table a raftaald if I the others jump, "Walt a bit! paper-boy Yes, of course the yumes! Ours is most the last house he delivers at. But perhaps it would be risky to give him a of zome- pid Jullan note. Can't we think "ET her ko"
"Shela wearly
ke
a thing better?" savage little cat-all claws and We want the second notebookpit. I thought there might be but there od in her. the One with Ayures in, and we some
Flip and act." mean is haza
"Listen to this," said Jutlan when the door was shut. "It's unbelievable! He held out the typewritten noe for the other.
It read it a loud.
to see
Is Foon
"Listen," said Dick, bis eyes shining. "I've got it! I know the paper-boy. He's all right. We'll have the front door open, and as he put it under the last stone th
"I thought so, tot," said Dick. yank him the crazy paring path at the bot-
lettitut poJo's arm. "I quite appears. And I'll go out immedi tam of the parden, Put it there liked her. Well, go. Jn. tonight,
don't want you any more." We have got the girl and the
Jo rhed 10 the door, rl057.
frie We will Net them
what we tunt Wienered it egen, and fed down when we have from pon. If you tell the polire, the hall and out of the house neither the girl nor the dog will he was a lence after she had come back The house will be
"Mulan," whispered Anne, watched to sep
that nobody hat are we going to do?" Irares it to warn the slice, The telephone wires are cut.
Julian said nothing. He pot
H "When
it is tark put the swi went to the hall. Lights on in the from room and up the telephone receiver and pot is voor to it, listening for
you it here
wn
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e
TAMANH
in mind.
'
ibut
But
started
experiment. Finally, he succceded in deve- loping a clever telegraphie de- vice famous Wright brothers Tableycle repair
When he sold it he expected to men. not a few hundred dollars, and flying But kites
ubjects he was in for a big surprise. fascinated them. Their work You inventors always expect his was on the
but their stround,
tuo much," the purchasers said. useful hobby kept their gyer on the We'll pay you only $30,000 for
vast emptiness the sky.
of the
Take It or this contraption. Those crazy
Wright boys' leave it." Edison took it. He
would neighbours
S thought the world had suclidemy
dropped into his lap.
the
Wilbur
WA
Yet today
Orvilte 11
Pan Told the Shadows a Story
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made,
-Knarf and Hanid Were Good Listeners- By MAX TRELL
iden. Thick!" said the three of the faint, makes hat would "dukas, turning it quickly sumbered him t
felt as he was comerted to the Inpa match on put. Let the exchange. After moment he posible. It would be big bay leave the use at I o'clock, shining a torch and prd put it back again. the notchool there we said. He must then go bacl; to the lighted
"No
Comsertion."
be Bald.
in-
SOMETIMES famous inventors have followed hobbies which have little in common with their every-day work. Herschel built his wonderful telescopes while earning a living playing a fiddle, Morse, inventor of the telegraph, was a painter. Eli Whitney, Invented the cotton gin, who was a cabinet maker by trade. History proven it pays to have though the hobby. Even hobby does not ring wealth or fame it always helps to make Hfe more interesting. And the most interesting point of alt is right kul of that, with the hobby, there is always the pos- sibility that following it up may lead to something really worth- while,
A Laughing
Matter
or rather listening to his We niels, with his cap on, and his KING Nep was busy talking-- papers, whistling friend named Pan when Khart satchel of jump on his bike and ride away. And none of the watchers and Hanid, the shadow-children with the turned-about narnes, I'm not the bay came will
along. The shadow- ehildren had
l'an before. crane back when it's dark, sueak round the garden at the bottle was quite small and very and je to watch who comes spry, and he had dark hair and for the hidden notebook—and enormous dark eyes. He wan
' flow him!"
So King Nep told them, the ruler of all the animals, all the birda and all the bugs. Or, at guy
he unrest
their rater, be 10 long ago. Not many folks
"Pan in telling very "Yer-It's
better to testing story, King Keys sald
professor of Inw was lectur- watch and see who come rather when he saw Knar and Hankd.
the fun felt
policence if "Here, sit down on this rock Pan was the ruler of the animals. A
ing to his students. Pin sure he won't thee kidnappers mean businers next to me.
"When you're fighting: a case, be in mind starting at the beginning about to tell you. The rain fell The wores have been cul, as the core would rertainly
so hard that the animals all if you have the facts on your
them they knew we'd again, will you. Fan?** Tom. You tell hear a hoot like note raid. And no doubt there's tomble aner
into the on watch to see, we beg able to get in
rusher off and hid in caves. side, hammer tnich with
Good Story
you have the the most uniu tee have collected sanatoriy
But the wind was the worst of jury.
side hammer it it. The girl and the dog will don't slip out to give warning.
"Noy at all," sald Pan, It's a the police."
all. It blew with such terrible law on
your crazy. It can't be This is all
rood sture, though you might strength that trees When be returned,”
up-into the judge." "Won't the newspaper boy
say," he added with little rooped and went flying off in "But if you have neither the "That it is," said Dick. "Hor- think it's queer?" asked Anne.
unile, that there's very little the air, and bushes rose up like facts nor the law?" asked one rily rae Julinn. de you know
It all has "Not very. He's a bit simple," beginning about it.
kites and disappeared over the of his students,
Then hammer on the table," HIS amazing and terrifying what notebook they want? I've ad Dick, "He believes anything to do with the end."
occtin. At this Nep smiled, too. "It's ste marie Anne burst into no idea!"*
re's told. We'll make up some-
"It was fine ngafn the next answered the professor-From the
story," he him and tive
said to Knart and
mornlung tears and cling to Julian's arm. "Nor have T," sal! Julian. thing to satisfy
The sun shone in "A Writer's Notebook," by W. Julian Julian! George can't "And it's impossible to go and him such
a good
time that anid, "about how the animals easy But when the animals Somerret Maugham.
their tails, That's why
caves they have come back from her walk hunt for it, because the safe has he'll want to keep visiting ust" with Tammy at night! She been mended and locked-and
there's hardly any beginning to came out of their must have been caught then --
"About this notebook," said it. Well, start again Pan; we're discovered that something had happened even more awful than
to Teacher ucked her class Julian. "We'd better get some all ready."
the wreckage left by the storm.
iron was first dis- and Timmy, too. Oh, why did the palier have the key.”
"Well, that's that, then," sald kind of book out of one of the
So Fan winked one of his They discovered that all their tell how
covered. Dick. What are we going to do?
tails were gone!
Little Geraldine put up her Shall I slip out and worn the drawers and wrap it up with a large dark eyes and started.
note inside to say we hope it's
"Now quite a while ago, when
"What was to be done? They hand. "Yea ma'am, I can," sho the one. The fellow who comes Julian considered. "No." he to collect it will have to have the world was quite young, all
said teachicT Co- the wote?" said ut last "I think
the some kind of parcel to take off world had the came size tail, it talls. They looked everywhere. said Dick, sharply, to the scared people mean business. It would with him to give to the kid-wasn't as large as a horse's tail, But nowhere could they find couragingly, "Stand
e terrible it anything happened
small
as a them. And then the files began tell the class." Also you might be happers. It isn't likely he'd unda and it wasn't as to George.
It and look at it-or even know
mouse's tail. It was something to bite and the horses and thei eat and spirited away your self. There are people watching the house, don't forget.".
T"
we star! hunting for her then?"
Julian looked very grim and
white. He was thinking bark.
"Who gave you
Jo. She trembled.
"A man," she rald.
What sort of a man?" asked Julian,
"I don't know," said Jo. "Yes, you do" said Dick, "You nust tell, Jo."
Jo looked sullen. Dick shook her, and she tried to get away, But he held her far too tightly.
police?"
"Go on-tell us what the follow Dick. was like" he said.
UT Julian-we can't just sit here and do nothing?" said
peven.
were
the animals that lived in the hunted high and low for thetru¥2,"
*
*
up and
to
Puzzle Answers
CROSSWORD:
"I understood my father if it was the right one or not." In-between. It was good for elephants and the cows and the say they smelt it, maʼum," rato
Julian went with Dick to the wishing off files. It was good lione and tiers, couldn't swish Geraldine.
And the dogs had And the monkeys them off.
made which front door, to help him to deal for wagging.
nothing to with the unsuspecting newspaper found it very useful for winding
And the boy. They stood there, patiently around a branch to keep them them unhappier than they hnd
ever been before, waiting hearing the clock strike from falling.
But what "Now every night," Pan went monkeys kept climbing up trees six o'clock, then half past, then
on, the animals used to hang and falling off again.
was to be done. their tails up in a tree or on "I know. This will have to be Here he coment" said Dick, bush before the went to sleep.
Make Own Tails thought about carefully," said suddents. "Now-getrendy to Then in the morning they would
"And then finally a wise old "I was tall and had a long Jullan. "If only we knew where yank him in Hallo SI!"
put them on again. But one
horse for horses are very wie- beard and a long nore and brown George had been taken to! We
0 dreadful But I Next week: Sid's Wonderful night there
thought of a solution. "There is eyes," rattled off Jo suddenly, could rescue her then.
storm.
nothing to do,' he said, but to And he was dressed in Asher- can't see how we can and out."
"Oh! What happened?" asked make our own talls. They won't man's clothes, end—and he spoke "If one of us went and hid
Hanid. down the bottum
be as good as the beautiful foreign."
"What happened? I'm just
ones we have lost, but they will be good enough."
BRONCHO
BILL
TRUCKY BOONE ANO LEADPANTS LARKINS WITHERS A FATAL FIGHT BETWEEN TWO RIDIANS OF ENEMY
TRIBES ~
of the garden
Waiting Too Long
WE BETTER FAN
IT, 'FORE THE BLACKYTET OLAME THIS ON US RANGER
BOYES
Evening.
-London Express Service.
ססטן
By Harry F. O'Neill
(GULP) TOO
"So," said Pan, "the horses made talle out of herschnir. The lons made talls out of ton-
RIDDLES: 1Because that's hair, the monkeys made tails out making a hog of himself. 3 where the ships lay to. 2-11e
The elephant
of monkey-hair. didn't have very much hair so-To keep the pigs in, of course, the record and lic had to content himself with 4-One beats
a very short tall for his size.
The rabbly made
himself just
the other records the bents.
WACKY COMPASS: Absence
u bulion-of-a-tall, for he never makes the heart grow fonder.
bothered to ewish flies but just ran when they lighted on him. The pig made himself a little curly-tail: But the dog made himself the finest tall he could, and just wugged and wagged it from that day to this. :.
"And
TRIANGLE:
C
AL
PRE
TRIM
PROSE ARISEN CLEMENT
REVERSE that's the end of the story or perhaps the talo-of Ned, den, end, the tails," said Pan, and he twinked again.
BEHEADINGS:
res, cs
SCRAMBLER:
Cares, Ares,
19
24
A
PARTY
SILHOUETTE party in elky
to stage, no let's have one. Cut out letters for the words of your
black
Invitations from
on white paper. Paste them And mild a mall black plelure. Guests are to wear only black chocointa and white. Serve cake and milk as refreshments.
n
For entertainment, have large stock of black, white and tissue paper on hand, as well as pencils, paste and soine relators, The quests will make silhouettes of each other. Here's how:
-Place a strong light near the subject to that he profile falls on the wall,
2-Furler n sheet of tissue per on the wall with tape. 3-Outline the shadow, then cut it out.
4-Use this na pattem for tracing the silhouette on black construction paper.
3-Cut out the silhouette and mount it on white paper,
Puzzle Patch
CROSSWORD
15
ACROSS
1 Nobleman
5 Ring.
ย
Pen
name
of
Charles
Lunb
10
11
Operalle solo Permit
12 Crimsons
13
15011
Boll
Near
29
2-1
Perfumes Fly alott
16 Exclamation of inquiry
Electriård particle
B=908ERSERKRES
Lion
Assam silkworin
28 Pierce with a kalic 29 Social insects
Rocky pinnacles
DOWN
Lampreys
On the sheltered side Ceremony
Musical mode
Father or mother Before
7 Ailitary wesistant
Whip
Dinders
21
15
Torrid
On the ocean 19 Ripped
Singing voice
22 Erect
23 Crics softly
25 Hiver island
28 Street (ub.)
1. Why
RIDDLES
are ORAS
cheaper on the docks?
always
2. What Is a little pig doing
when he is eating?
3. Why
do
pople
bulld
their pig pens on the north elde of the barnyard?
4. What is the difference be tween a champion pedestrian doctor uses and the watch a when he takes your pulse?
WACKY COMPASS
R
START AT NORTH, USE EVERY 7TH LETTER
(YOU PICK
DIRECTION)
TO FIND A
HIDDEN
PROVERB
TRIANGLE
The base of the word trianglə
The CLEMENT.
second word is "a morindin dye," the third is a prefix for "priority." the fourth 1 "neat," the fifth
the and "non-poetry," "asconded."
CLEMENT
sixtli
REVERSE SCRAMBLER Reverse a boy's nickname and
lair rerumble have "a have "to haish."
and
BEHEADINGS Behead
meaning A word "worries and have " Greek war god"; behead him and have tlake " legal point"; behead and have "un electrical term."
Rupert and the Caravan-39
Just a the pirate is taking the paper from the waller Beppo gives in excited chatter which makes him turn and glance upwards. When be sees two Mrange faces gazing at tam Roderigo starts violently and backs away. He gasps and calls out partly in Spanish and partly in
བ་
English and flares fiercely before turning and bolting out of the cabin. "He's coming up on deck to catch We aw: get ur," thinks Rupert. off the ship." But before he can
grab Beppo, the little monkey, not liking the darkness, leaps down straight on to the table.
ALL monts RESERVED
ZOO'S WHO
TOO MUCH WARM WEATHER KILLED THE DINOSAURS, GAYS PROF. RAYMOND R. COWLES OF THE UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA...
BENERAL FRANK HOWLEY
SAYS THAT IN BERLIN
THE RUSSIANS EVEN MÅDE POTATO BUGS A
POLITICAL ISSUE...
HELP/
*THE BARKING OF A MONGREL DOG, LOUP, VAS CREDITED WITH) SAVING NINE PERSONS IN A BURMING HOME KT MALONE,
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