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STORIES

PUZZLES

HOBBIES

Old Game Still Fun

By I. R. HEGEL

you have a couple of

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around your house? Turn them over so that the three lega stick up in the air, find a hard tennis ball and you are ready for n backyard Kame of stoolball, an ances- tor of baseball.

The batter stunda in front of one stool and in the simplified version of the game, this player does not neel a bat. His hand will bowler, opposite do. The

throws full him, now pitch underhand. If the ball! hits the stool without hav ing previously touched the ground, the batter is out. When the ball is struck, the other batier runs to the

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stool placed opposite him. If the other player can regain

STOOLBALL CAN BE JUST AS MUCH FUN TODAY AS IT WAS HUNDREDS

OF YEARS AGO

he

M

TEENER

TOPICS

By Bess Ritter

the ball in time to strikeMUSICAL STANS is fun

player before the

to play. Mark large three reaches the stool to which stars in chalk about he is ruaning, he takes nis feet apart from each other place. The batter is out if on the cement. These should struck by a ball between be one star less than there Now start stools.

are players.

tune on your blowing a harmonies, while everyone star. from star to skips The person who is unfortu- nate enough not to have a star to stand on when you playing. is O-U-T. stop Erase a star and do it again.

Players CATI make up their own rules, depending on the number of players. space, etc.

☆☆ ☆ TRACE stoolball back far enough and you will And William the Conqueror's stalwarts playing a primi- tive version of this game. Even the young Pilgrim Fathers ran hases around stools when they were sup. posed to be chopping down

frees.

Hi

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are

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19,

1950.

GAMES

The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE

ACCORDING TO OUR ECIENTISTS

THERE IS ENOUGH POWER IN A DROP OP WATER TO EQUAL THAT OF A GOOD-SIZED STICK OF DYNAMITE - AND ENOUGH ENERGY IN A TUMBLER OF WATER TO DRIVE A LARGE

SHIP ACROSS THE ATLANTIC- THE PROBLEM FACING HUMANITY IS TO FIND A WAY TO HARNESS THIS POTENTIAL

FOWAR

HYDROGEN

ATOM

SOLAR SYSTEM

HELIUM

ATOM

KNUCLEUS

World's Biggest News Story

FT is your world science

that

science

By WALTER KING

happen.

atoms

fired But

CRAFTS

HOODOO HONEY

By Ida M. Parduc

HOODOO Ta" something including tobacco, antes, and

or

which brings bad luck, some species of heath,

The yellow Jessamine may be And when you are hiking responsible for atrange iliness ahould which, starts with prickly toes camping you

and then causeD learn to avold hoodoo and Angers

vision,

and dizainers, blurred honey. Steer clear of it, un extreme weakness.. less, of course, you your bee food. Not all honey tastes good. And some can make you sick.

know

You probably know full well that there is a big difference in honey flavours. The plant from which the nectar came made that <lifference, When bees go work on nectar taken from sweet clover,

to

orange blossoms, sare, bean, alfalfa or many other flowers,

is the the result delicious, nourishing aweet you dribble on hot cakes.

But wild honey is something else.

Sometimes bees loot the wrong plants-and the result is really hoodoo for anyone cal- ing it

Honey made from the sour- wood is a hoodoo. No "almple syrup" this, I can give you all the symptoms of plomaine

violently poisoning-A

upset stomach, with severe cramps and

tusea.

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REAAABER, WHEN IN THE WOODS- ALL THAT IF HONEY IS NOT

ZAVEET HONEY

JOKES

NEW TYPE OF HARMONICA

The addition of an ampli- fying horn to a harmonica the givea new sounds for amateur musician. Pre- viously the "pull out" tones, train sounds, mutes, razor sharp cut-offs and other effects were obtained by skilled players by using h glass tumbler as a sound chamber over the regulation harmonica.

Hanid Had a Good Question

She Wanted to Know If the World Was Round-

By MAX TRELL

Punch."

sald IIanid to

An explosion is w hydrogen is fooling around with, a sudden release of energy, ly be joined together.

Bloms are not like things we HERE are honeys, too, which, but the trouble is A# ordinary glass

have commercial value, but of know, One and one do not make

not good things are definitely that scientists

furnishes so, for a very good reason, cannot use drinking water

You do root live fo to raf. Usually we 490

about getting sick on simple enough terms for us power.

The helum nucleus (the base-worry to understami. Perhaps just a tiny bit of

this ball is four times: as heavy as them, because you will not eat Honey from the we can think out in a general power in our bodies. The the hydrogen nucleus, and do it enough.

chinkapin plant (dwarf way just what is going on water

chemicals therefore made up of four chestnut) is to sharp and stren provides with atomic energy, atoms energy to keep us alive. hydrogen nuclei (baseballs). So

it take the baseballs of four that you would stop after the and so forth.

But if all the power were hydrogen atoms and the marbles first taste. Willow honey is very

So it honey from the "M" her good and friend, "is turned louse, that glass of of two to make one hellum bitter. water could drive a steam atom. That leaves two marble snezeweel, And others, too,

A plant known as "snow-on-he world really round? ship across the oceans. Even the remainder,

the mountain" may be to blame

replied Mr "Certainly," We have seen that when the

makes a for a single drop of water con-

a honey which as ir an atom

he have no person feel

shutting the book he had Punch. tains far more energy than

Hanke en- was reading when to do they become swallowed Bolling soup. a large stick of dynamite.

which is pretty hot Tales of poisonous honeys have tered the room, He smiled, "My A glass of water contains stuff.

the So two electrons become ) often

Seme dear." been doubted, about 20 milion-million-million- energy and that is the principle authorities on bees say there is moment, it's as round as an

(20 followed by million

24 of the hydrogen bomb. The no such thing as a really harm- orange, Everyone knows that ciphers) hydrogen atoms and way the bomb is made is secret, fut honey. But there have been except my Grandfather. half again as many oxygen of course, but we know it takes many cases of sickness after eat thinks the world is flat." atoms. Don't worry about the a lot of energy, and this must ing wild honey. The United

said iguren---just say "an awful lot." he

he supplied by spitting up a

"Oh-but it looks lat," States Department of Agriculture Inger atom-the atom of one of states that honey made from the Hanid. "I mean, it looks flat ex- The heavier elements such as mountain laurel, or rhododen- cept for the hills and mountains urasium or plutonium. So we drons, is "likely to be poisonous," and valleys and things like that. must destroy an atom to build

It doesn't look round i all." un atom,.

"That's what my Grandfather

Although it is big nows that entry has be atomie

is of

work

he added

next

He

An atom some years ngo was the smallest bit of matter thought

existed. But Minory bouquets are made | lately--that is, within the

DA found from wildflower:

present lifetime of some of between Place them Dienirs,

Our grandparenta sheets of newspaper. Cover with

booics. Once the scientists have discovered a few heavy flowers

thoroughly dry, that even atoms are made. arrange them, with the help of up of smaller things, like tweezers and darning needle,

electrons, protons and so in an artistic design on coloured

Cover this forth. And when an atom construction paper. Stoolball is laid to be the with a pane glass, and frame in broken up, these smaller

of

baseball, andern

the whole

wide things become energy. thing with parent cricket

other arch

games, | coloured · Scotch tape,

Everyone knows what

of 3 c.riala although some sports authorities sadnut a barking of corrugated

CCIENCE is not sure just how

RESIDENTS

"I'm all right," said Grand- holly argue that issue. But it paper.

energy is.

Energy is

section of Turkey have rays, 'Secin' is believin', Grand- an atom lonks, but for our

re- ported time and again that eat-father keeps saying. What looks father, giving Me Punch the ap our cars, use wn can power-it

them ut, is flat. It is very hard to ple. But mind you don't eat think of it as leased in a bomb, the biggest ing wild honey gave makes our

it." On the convince him that the world electric lights baseball with a marble travelling

will be the discovery of news

headaches and nausea. the hundre million Isle of Sardinin bees brew a really round," People who have foreign pen burn, heats our food. When around it, like the moon circles

the earth. The marble is held how

"But how does anyone know War when an Eagli atleer, als rollees any interesting a lot of energy is released to the baseball on our atom) horsepow.rs in the atoms of a syrup which, it is reported, tives

Hanid started to ack simple buldoor

eaters a laughing fit. Bon.y from slamps as a result of

by the same force that holds the lies of water can be used to inded service

POWIT the constructive things the chestnut tree is claimed to be sport to mure

respond ace abroad. It's a nice

moon to the earth and the earth of life. Some of this power is able to full a person to sleep. I men, dug up the game of stool-

to the su

being usal now, but the biggest Introduce it

is possible that poisonous honey things are yet to come. the

comes from several other plants,

is safe to say that stulball s

the oldest of all bati games. It caine in the

dit of the

eentules until the First World

looking for

ball valescruts of

Lu the

spital, where it was enjoyed ༩༩༣་

to strch

popularity 3,000

an extent that

spread.

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ufter

Cor-

* | hobby, and you learn things and

male friends.

its

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Second

Atoolball clube

when the

operating

World War began.

play

shalball Englishmen according to the rules of cricket. with wooden bats like rackets. No. 3 tennis balls mi four- foot eight-inch posts in place of the ancient tools. The game is played on level gravul in a

half the size ol space ordinary cricket field.

H

an

One advantage of stoolball is that it is flexible. You can play i with a couple of stools and a ball. Or, if you are slickler for form, you can look up the rules governing cricket, set up those your

construct posts, woorden cricket bats, select your team and

are ready for action.

you

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Pen puls Resp

1101מל !!

the

wond spring clothespins in their desks. One hales all uneswered letters. The other there answered.

Snapshot Shade

A

ul handful of snapshots

make an at- your friends will tractively different" lamp shade from the old, faded one that is on your desk right now,

Paste

|

runs

once, things begin

to

Tricky Trick

PROBLEM: CHANGE

ITO 2 WITHOUT TOUCHING

THE DRAWER

COVER

COVER

EGRAWER

PRAYER

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Bat the marble is so far from the baseball that all atoms any mostly empty space, not solid as we think of a thing being: solid. Most of the atom's weight is in the central baseball, wilch is called the nucleus.

This nucleus is made. up of smaller parts held together by

If we split up

energy is not

energy this

nucleus,

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Bhutan, Mysterious

PUZZLES Oriental Country

DIAMOND

Bhutan is a KINGDOM, mak- needed any more and is releaseding it a centre for cur dinmond. as heat, electricity, light or even the second word is "a courtesy radio waves. The larger atoms,utle," the third a tendon," Ine being more complicated, aretha fortification," and more easily broken and so one sixth was victorious." of the largest-the uranium otum-was Arst

used to make de ΣΙΓΟ atom bomb, which simply broken atoms from which energy is released.

KINGDOM D

CODED MESSAGE

the

A code has been used to write this sentence. As a clue,

BHUTAN REBUS

WN PUR VIASN'T TAKEN VERY WELL

AK

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CASE" THE COURSE)

PAR

Rap on Door

Grandfather Panch sat peeling an apple.

"Now," said. Mr Punch as he held the apple up in his hand, "I say the earth-or the world, tor they both mean the une thing is pretty much the shape of this apple. Only the apple is there was small, and the At that instant

world is chor- rap on the door. "Why, here's mous. Now suppose we were ab Grandfather now! Mr Punch tiny as the tiniest little bug, and exeltimed "We'll ask him a few we lived on the outside of this questions."

apple.

The apple would look Hand looked at Grandfather flat to us because we would only Punch. He was just about ay tall be able to see a little part of the far as we looked in As far as only he was as apple, Ar Mr Punch, thin as a pencil und he had any direction, it would all look kind of fuzzy bear around his flat. But suppor

"I "Yea!" said Grandfather, chin. He wore a flat bat with the

bone this doesn't take too long," word Capinin written on it.

he said, turning to Innid. "I'm as he Bust be a captain of a ship," Hanid murmured to he- tting hungry for my apple." Finlf.

Further Away

By this

Lime Grandfather

continued

Mr

"Suppose," Punch came into the room, Hu Punch, "que of the tiny bugs

at once. smiled to rat down

took a long walk-or a long rail (60| Hand, clapped Mr Punch on in it sulp. The ether bugs would the buck, and started peeling in all stay on watch him go. He Alway eat 'em, my would get further and further

said to Hamid. "Best"

away world: I'll save the world) In

apple

EL

dear."

Guit

the

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NO PARKING ZONE

But bomb-makbug is not the THERE'S, a trick to try with a

safety match box. Remove principal value of the atom to the pictures down on the parch-

the drawer from the cover and science. The experimenters are ment. Slant some to the right,

cover on top of the trying to find a way to make others to the left, and cut the place the

drawer as shown in Figure 1 of energy do the work that is now steam and remaining ones out, liktas paper

the diagram. Your problem

done by electric, dolls. Make sure that all the pictures overlap. in a crazy fort to change the pieces so that the water power. Some day, atemt word is Bhutan, Subsitute

Bind the drawer is on top of the cover, may run factories, it is possible letters and decode.

Civubo bi bo bath pg fihluffo Stoolball is played in iceland, of patch-quilt style.

but you cannot touch the that they may drive boats and Japan, Switzerland, Finland and top and the bottom of the shade

drasser.

trains, even cars, in the future.uipvtboe trybst juft, cellophane tape. Russa. The game has bouneed with colourvil

After your friends have fried

CROSSWORD. Jovially down through the cen- If the lamp base is wooden,

very turies, having furnished sport for carve your friends' initials and the trick, you can do it men and women in many coun- Amnes in it. Metal bases can be simply, by putting your mouth

opening of the periods of coated with an attractive enamel to the tries unch in varied history.

that matches your colour scheme. suck in your breath so that e

drawer held fast to the cover | ALL. elements are made up of by vacuum. Now straighten up. A atoms, which you know

baseballs and marbles. Helion

RATTLESNAKES, PNELLERS OF THE DESERT, CANNOT SURVIVE 15° |MINUTES OF BRILLIANT

SUNSHINE...

hold your head back and

the enver

cover,

with the drawer on has two marbles buzzing around shown in Figure 2. Setits baseball and hydrogen has the pleces carefully down

on only ong. We would expect that

the table, and you're a whiz.

to make helium from hydrogen

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MIX-UPS

Now, if the apple (or the weir fal, he would altogether disappear "Oh, thank you," said Hand, when he got far enough away.

core for you."

Onally

But he wouldn't disappear alto-

thiri

down a flight of stairs stayed at the top."

his

thought to herself, though. that Grandfather Punch might have given her alee of the ether if the world (or the ap

ple) were round. First his feet apple instead of just promising would

disappear, Ther the cart. But she was glad thoulders, und finally his head. that he had thought of the core, it would be like someone going anyway.

if we "Now Grandfather," Mr Punch, Hanid and I were

"Yes, that's right!" cried These mix-ups conceal three just talking about whether the facts about Bhutan. Rearrange world was roung or dat,"

Henid. "And if the apple or the i21 each group the letters

Flat--it's or flat

as a pan- world were flat, he would just strange words to finel

heeet" sald Grandfather Punch. full off! But he docan't fall off!"

But nat, is flat! How

Grandfather Punch just "What looks many times do I have to tell nuchal cut and got his opple you that? Now don't keep tell back. "I'm too hungry," he said. Int me E round. I don't “Maybe the world is round-

answers,

YAM SAIL HA SING MOAN LO JAR AHA HAM

ANSWERS

DIAMONDI

IC SIR. SINEW KINGDOM KEDAN

WON

M

CODED MESSAGE: Butan

an area of 18,000 square miles.

CROSSWORD,

But it

ng an

and maybe

flat. believe it for one numUE!

It's Mr Punch Just smiled. “Just doesn't tasto ay good lend me that apple for a sccund apple, And that's what's Im- ur two. Grandfather."

portant!"

Rupert and the Back-room Boy-24

ZOO'S WHO

ARCTIOTEIN FLIES 11,000 MILES TO SPEND JUST 14 WEEKSAT ITS NESTING GROUND IN THE ARCTIC THEN FLIES 11,000 MILES BACK TO THE ANTARCTIO...

111 DIFFERENT BREEDS OF DOGS ALE RAISED IN

AMENICA, TODAY...

HONOLULU LET

L.Cut a strip

3 inches wide

from a package of CREPE PAPER.

2. Fold in four layers and ruffle the edges between your forefingers and thumbs.

3.Thread & NEEDLE with a double THREAD 40 inches long....... knot one end. Gather paper down center with small running stitches.

4 Gather paper on thread as

tightly as possible.

and

5.Cutmore strips andimpaat until thread is used.

6 Twist paper on thread...

then tie ends together.

WEAR

AROUND Your NECK!

Central Asiate kingdom Priority (prefx)

7 Son of Seth Bld.)

⚫ Row

11

12 German city

14 Rough lava

15 Baronet (ab.)

16 Chairs

18 Yue

20 Group of three volces

21 Withered

23 Not (prefix)

24 Serlous address

DOWN

1 Stif hairs

2 Poultry

3 Total expenses (ab.)

4 Collection of sayings

0 West Point cadets

6 Memorandum

B Time

of year

10 Eyes (contr.)

13 Fisherman's apparatus

17 Italian river

19 Anger

22 Comparative ending

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BHUTAN REDUS:'Punakha. Paro, Tangong, Taga Zong.

MIX-UPS: Himalayas; Mongolians; Maharajah.

The trolley-car lands gently, and negifers his proper work. He's in the impa hurry Rupert through the A very bad temper and keeps grow!

ing your pet." **Myoor "ba:k door and into the presence of their

room boy is a black kmo, all: I did king. Ah, tla bear, you are was to it him free fews & net." the person we need,” says the king, ya Rupen. The king staras. ** Well. *Till me, what hire you been 1 wish you'd put and calen hin doing to our back-room boy? We dowd." he says. " Wə can'a afford can do nothing with him. He to let him so on like this.”.

ALL NIGHTSTM KESKAVIR

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