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STORIES

PUZZLES

HOBBIES

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1950.

The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE

Modern Gullivers By I. R. HEGEL

By

¡DO-IT DALE COSS

WHEREVER

. IF YOU HAVE A VEN TO

TRAVEL AND SEE THE WORLD, YOUR CHANCES OF

doing JUST THAT ARE NOT TOO REMOT-

SECRETARIAL

HELP IS REQUIRED BY DIFFERENT US. 40ENCIES

THAT ARE SCATTERED OVER

A GOOD PART

OF THE WORLD-

MILITARY PERSONNEL

IS STATIONED

THERE IS

ALMOST ALWAYS

A NEED FOR SCHOOL

OSOBUZZLE

1. Cut a picos

of CARDBOARD

4 in. long and

in.wide....., Punch 2 holes

with a small NAIL,

5.Thread left bop through hole 2.

2.The BUTTON

to each end of a

26 inch STRING.

3.Make 2 loops the

lip loop over button

2 and draw loop

down through hole again

ASK YOUR

Dame length

and thread

string through

holes in the

cardboard,

4.Thread left hand

lop through

• SPOOL

with a BOBBY PIN.

SHIP SOPMONTE

THEM.

FRIENDS HIS

TO GET THE SPOOL OF WITHOUT UNTYING THE BUTTONS!

YAW

TEACHERS TO

INSTRUCT THEIR

CHILDREN-

or

ET

wail

DOCTORS, NURSES- AND OTHERS CONNECTED WITH MEDICINE ARE NEEDED BY BOTH THE GOVERNMENT AND

PRIVATE INDUSTRY WITH

OFFICES OUTSIDE OF CONTINENTAL US

TIM LA TWIG

By IDA M. PARDUE

TIM LA TWIG is an amusteg fellow who enn be con⚫ structed in a few minutes-for a party favour, or to wear on your coat.

First, and a twig which 10 roughly shaped like a body without head, hands or feet. It does not matter if the arms and leys are alike, or different sizes, Tin will be all the more amusing if ble limbs are twist-

eu.

Now go through on old fun- ny paper and choose a head, two feet and two hands which Nurses, doctors, technologists it will be easier to fasten them you think wist Tim's body. steamer

and others

with connected mournfully, 11 train

to Tim if they are not too medicine are in demand by the fi

swall. The feet and hands do whistle in the distance governteil, blg companies and 1st have to matels. a plane roar overhead the missing fields.

hands The head,

and feet and the modern Gulliver

Openings in the foreign may imply be pasted in place sighs deeply. These sounds service,

with cellophane tape, Bat they have been found for mean far-off places, and secretaries, typists and stearound the

will last longer if you trace head, hands and those faraway places is traphers.

fect on plain paper, and where he wants to be.

Frequently commissioned for it; then paste the top of Tim's are skilled, neck between the funny paper foreign campaigns salesmen and mileswomen who phead and the plain paper head. sell everything from radios to Do the same with

The airlines and feet. plastle products.

companies

To hold Tim and the steamship

to your dress or cont, tape a small safety pin variety A wide employ

to the back of his twig body." Gullivers.

of

The yen to see another part of the world Is a perfectly normal urge. Many young men and women are satisfying that desire and earning a astary be- sides. They are simply aiming at a career abroad.

And it is not always a jobs

headlines,

The

Juoking for with banner position of teaching, for instance, statistics you will And *p- is regarded as a typical slay-at- proximately 300 jobs that can be home job. Yet it can be a filled by competent people for: springboard to foreign travel, work abroad. The question of male whether you are competent enn

Schoo! teachers, both

If

you are

and female. have been sent only be answered by you your- abroad

to teach the children self. You should have the re-

be

C3-

ur military personnel. These quired education, plus the young teachers travel wher.ver sential qualifications, pitis lllary personnel may experience, plus a real desire to stationed.

live abroad and not grumble Opportunitie for overseas over the critices necessary to teaching may also be had in

such a mova, the mission field. Salaries are generally lower but the tenerer who wants to see fe abroad cun the experience as the

added value.

Many of the large companies employ teachers for their em- ployees' children.

An ambition to see the world.

CRAFTS

GAMES

JOKES

No Place Like Home, Zoo Animals Say

By WALTER KING

(APTURED animals live

happy and contented lives in zoos because huve food and sur-

дя near EAS

they roundings possible like what they have been used to "back home."

The themo

song of all captured birds and animals seems to be:

Mid zoos and menagerles through which we have to roam,

Be it ever so streamlined, there's no place like home.

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How do wild animals feel About being cooped behind a wire fence and stared at all day 7 At first

it makes them feel a wee bit sick. They don't eat and feel pretty badly about the whole thing. But after while, if handled properly,

ANIMALE, LIKE PEOPLE, BECOME HOMESICK WHEN SEPARATED FROM

THEIR NATURAL

HABITATS-

THEY SOON ADJURT THEMSELVES

TO CONFINEMENT, HOWEVER, WHEN

PROVIDED WITH

PROTECTION, GOOD FOOD AND CLEAN AND GRACIOUS

CACGS-

~FADER"

they begh to get used to of their own kind. Usually home" is the menu of all balls, old car tyres, chains, their new surroundings. they play together. Oc- captured Ruimals. And ropes and bells are provided. ensionally, like human their special tastes are Hygiene, sanitation, and And what are some of the beings, they get in a fight catered to. The meat eaters hospitalisation also come in things the zoo animals up and get injured, but they get not only huge chunks for a large measure of atten- preciate most?

prefer that to being alone. of raw flesh but also such tion. Bath pools are provided Mainly, there is security Monkeys especially, are delicacies as liver, kidney, as well as fresh drinking from attack. cut

All zoo in- noted for bullying. There and stale bread. Chickens, water. Raccoons are es- habitants like the stout is usually one fellow in rabbits and owls are killed pecially clean. They wash back walls of their cages every cage who tries to for. the snakes. Some before every meal, and have and the lough wire they show off, or set himself up monkeys refuse to eat fruit have tested for strength. as leader of the group.

the hands

Puls are precious. All animals enjoy the company

TEENER TOPICS

By Bess Rittor

1

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"Hammer and Nails"

is

tions

to have a special small pool where they can wash each piece of food before they cat it.

unless they can have the fun of peeling it themselves. Others sulk if they have to Large zoos are now work for their food.

provided with A special SURROUNDINGS that re-

In the modern zoo every hospital

with equipped mind them of condi- thing possible is done to operating tables, X-ray at home are always cater to the special whims equipment, and the usual appreciated. Mountain sheep and fancies of the captured appliances for Bick or and gonta love high narrow animals. If they like toys, injured animals. ledges to climb. These sure- footed animals are happlest when getting the thrill from stunt walking.

The baby Beetles Took Swimming Lessons

is at home there, too. He will come toddling down the narrow ledges without any help at all when he's just a few hours old.

A NEW kind of game need night Ladies" and "Put on Yout the following props: A Old Gray Bonnet." As soon as Jorge crochet needle, a ball of "I" catches on, and correctly cutd, a screw driver, a piece of follows the musical directions, suft wood, and a large screw, the person who thought up the Give a girls team the screw song sequence becomea "It" in can be satisfied. Should it be driver, the wood and the screw, his turn

males with the Prezent the your ambillon right now might crochet needle and the thread. be a good time to query the As soon as you give

a the Fig- vocational fleld appealing to nal, one should

the immediately 5000 relay game to play when you ond streamlining your

trying

you feel like making a lot of start

to crochet

noice. You'll need two small, education accordingly,

titches, while the other pt-

a board lightweight hammers, tempts to screw the screw into the wood, as far as it will 50. the more

of wood, a handful of nails, and players the better. Then they take out their work, Players arrange themselves in and pass the materials to other two teams. At the word members of their team. As soon Go," the players first in fine as everyone has had a turn, the hammer anall into the wood team that finished Drst is

Rupert and the Back-room Boy-36

Rupert's first idea is to get help for Grannie Gost. On his way down he tooks closely at the leaves. "Yes, it's an I thought," he cries. "This is another tree that nobody"> ever seen before. It's the work of that black imp that they call the back-room buy. I was on my way

PUZZLE PATCH

CROSSWORD

Alhouette map of Belgium serves as a background for our crossword puzzle.

ACROSS

1 Skul

TRIANGLE

to warn you that he was going 10 settle account with you but I wan too late. Whatever will he be doing next?" At he teaches tha ground he is bined by fedgy. "! heard what happened up there." says the little pig. "301 tan to Billy's cottage and, look, I've found

one fine rope."

ALL RIGHTS RESERVID

This triangle hangs from a BELGIAN. The second word is "eatchers of lampreys," the third "an Andean beast of burden," the fourth "Jewels," fifth " boy's

ham:"

and the pleth "while."

BELGIAN E

BELGIAN CITIES

Four elties of Belgium aro hidden in this rebus. You can had them by using the words and pictures;

WE WERE IN DUROPES LAST

YEAR

4 Apple centre

0 White fle and-

0 Grates

1 10 Escapes, as a liquid

12 Bind

1 Deed

2 Bellow

DOWN

THIS BRUSH SELLE 91.00

3 Court aetion

+

5 Otherwise

. Pelty quarrel

D Runner on snow

11 Compass point

SCRAMBLED SENTENCE

Rearrange thoro words to farm a sentence about Belgium: are rivers, and The principal die Dolclub's Böbelde Meu

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+ U

ng that wina.

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::

10

the

"

then pass thele hammers the line. The persona at end of each line, race to 11:0 When your stacks get mud table, hammer their nails into dkd, clean your clothes this the wood, then pass their ham- work-true way: Allow the gar- mers down the line again.

* ments to dry thoroughly. Nost

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-But Tencher Got Stuck in the Mud—

By MAX TRELL

exclaimed "Kaster Hanid, staring at

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Cramped cages will break him in alarm, "Just look at you! You're covered with mud! What hearts of birds or

have you been doing?" animals who say, “We were Knarf smiled. His face raised in the great wide caked with mud. It made open spaces, please don't teeth and his eyes seem whiter

than usual.

taking a "I was fence

us in.' Sometimes swimming lesson," he said. the placing of a small tree

Hanid wanted to know all

in a bird cage will make all about this, no Knari sat down the difference between des-on a stone, scraped some of the mud of his legs and said: "I pondency and happiness. the

the road was walking down One of the biggest bird when all of a sudden I heard a cages in the world is located lot of noise. The noise came from

behind Just

the blackberry In the famous San Diego busties, not for from the brook. Zoo. It is 122 feet high,Well, I ran right over." 210 feet long and 60 feet "And what was there?" asked

Hanid. wide. This permits good long flights by engles and beetles" other big birds. The cage, | "Bugs and breties are the in for a swim!" of course, can accommodate same," said Hanid. full-sized trees.

go over them carefully with When you give a party for a your mother's vacuum cleaner,

who don't after attaching one of the small group of friends

know each other, "break the fumiture brushes to

the nee" by placing them in a cir. zic. This will du such herough job of sucking up all each person to recite his cle in the living room. the dried bits of mud, that your pants won't need a to the cleaner's after all.

*

*

*

Ask full

and

trip name once, then write his last name only on a slip of paper. Collect all the slips, and chake them up in bowl. Now take A good way

the them out, one at a time. keep mates of your canvas sneakers rend them aloud. The first per- Hogsher is to sew one half

from the ron to give another persons cor- #lunt snapper to the outside of reet full name is awarded the the heel of each shoe. This will dip. The guest who collects the enable you to snap the shoes most slips wins. together in a lifty, right after you remove them.

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"A whole crowd of burs and

Were All Bugs

were

The

beellen watched

teacher carefully.

their

an island. All the beetles were shouting at they were going

"I never heard beetles shout," caid Hanid, "and I don't think Here, the famous man-of-

beetles like to swim, either." Knarf nodded. "Then they war bird can be raised. This

But they were were all buga.

Knarf said: "Oh, they were of the air is only also beetles pirate

And they were all shouting all right. You could Some were bli, hear them from one end of the happy when stealing food | different sizes,

pool to the other. Yes, they all beaks of other some were—”

"What were they doing?" wanted to swim. But they didn't birds while they are flyingHanid interrupted impatiently, know how. So they all asked me from one branch to another. She didn't particularly care if I would teach them. I told What a specimen this is what size the beetles were. them I couldn't swim very well Never happy unless stealing a sort of pool. You see, a frog came hopping by."

ali They

Crowded myself. Then, at that moment, *

Match colours and make mer- ry by arranging seven dishes in

the brook had cverflowed a "Frogs do swim!" said Honit Play "Musical Molives" unio a row on a table. Each one

little, and all the water hnd "Of course. And they dive, day soon, by asking "It" should be a diferent colour.

gone into a ditch. It was like a tươ. They dive into the water Love the

Bile lake. There was a fallen and they dive out again. They The room.

other Now blindfold the first player players now deelde exactly after putting

the animals happy. "Just rock on the other, and one of teach them do swim. I asked the If you find this

like we used be, around three times, then guide

to get back the binckberry bushes was frog. 100. strange, try reading each word In his return. It might

At first he didn't "Say goodnight

standing in the middle of it like want to do it." backward:

and put

He is to on him to the dishes. mulzleß al ehi tsom ylesned¦yeur hat." When they call him put the scrap of fabric in the

~Why not?" asked Hanid. "He said the pool wasn't deep detalupop yrinuoc nl eporuE, back they start sloging "Good- dish that matches- he can!

enough for good swimming. But all the beetles shouted--and I shouted with them, that it was better for the pool not to bo

teep, because then none of us would drown.”

BRAIN TEASERS ABOUT BELGIUM

REVERSED MESSAGE

sentence what they want him to do up- cả cloth in fee of colour.HOD, too, helps to keep fog on one side, and a big flat all asked the frog if he would

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hand. Tum him

ZOO'S WHO

ANSWERS

QUIT SHOVING

WILL YUH?

CILOBA WORD;

ART

KIS

Play

This

Button

By ALBERT B. KARALFA

Game

a good home-made each bution, insert one of the

ERE'S

gume and a

HERE

one.

Use a

very dimple clicks and sharpen one end to

nake a spinning top.

From the illustration you can

"That's a very good idea," said land.

Into the Water

450 the frog said, all right, ba box lid about a foot see how to mark of the inside would show them how to jump quare, four large buttons, and of the box lid with black and into the water. Ho hopped up to four used household match while triangles, leaving the sticks. Into the centre hole of centre square white or colour sprang into the air, quite high the top of the fallen log and

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10

721

THE GOVERNMENT OF HYASSA HAS

AN OFFICIAL CROCODILE CATCHER...

10

10

10

JUMBLED BENTENCE:

Schride and the Zieuse are Belgium's principat river,

TRIANGLE:

BELGIAN

EFLENS LLAMA DEMB

1.9

Antwerp:

WITH ELECTROMAGNETISM AND GRAVITY,

BELGIAN CITIES: Brussels: Ohent; Bruges.

REVERSED MESSAGE: - Belgium populated

in the inest densely country in Nurope.

EINSTEINS NEW THEORY, WHICH DEALS

MAY SHED FURTHER LIGHT ON THE“ ..... HAS GOLD CROWNS ON 175 SEASONAL MIGAATOR OF BIRDS...

NUGO

BUTTON GAME

FUDGE,ADOG OFERWIN DUPREE OF SOUTH INDON, MICIL

BUTTON

LOWER, FRONT TEETH...

SMARREI IND TORRALATON

BIZAR

ing it any other shado you up. Then he turned and went

clinose,

cach

diving into the water. We ali

watched very carefully."

"And what happened?" "Nothing," said Knart. "Nothinal What do you mean!"

To play the game, player takes a tum at spinning two tops in the centre square, one right after the other. If the

e frog," cald Knart, "Just top stops in a black triangle, stuck in the mud at the bottom score five points; If In a white of the pool. You could see his triangle, ccore 10 points: it in legs sticking out of the water, the centro square, as Geore counted,

fa

to score

100

but you couldn't see his head. He kicked his legs up and down First player

quite a lot. Finally all the beetles points is the winner. Keep your sudden that the frog was right,

ren away. They decided all of scores with pad and pericli, The pool wasn't dear enough.

For a variation of the game. So I

a

scramble the number from one frog out in and pulled the to 12 in the triangles and score And is that how you got points accordingly. If you do yourself covered with this, it might Dep up the game ald Hanid.

mua

to cut the winning score down That's how replied Knart. to 30 points instead of 100. And Hanid looked at bee brother Whichever is chosen, keep the with pride.you saved the ano count frog 11le! Tm glad you didn't

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