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PUZZLES

Something Nice To Do

By JOHN Y. BEATY

I had rained, but Joan

wanted

to pick some Howers for her mother. But when she went into the garden to get the flowera. she got mud on her shoes, When she returned to the house she thought to her- self:

"I go into the house with trese muddy shoes, I know it will make other feel bad. 1 wili make extra work for Alother to clean the four. want to do something nier for Moder to 1 wilt clean my shoe and with clean them very, very well."

Jom all the flowers down: on the doorstep besitle

Then she brussed her shoes on

the mat in front of the door, but f there was still and on le Rides

ker shoes. There

u{ paper lying The ground

The BEAT

Jam used that to bru

012 Alerji.

all the mind from

the sieg oti

STORIES

DO-IT

By Dale Gou

BIG DIPPER

1.Mark off the bottom of a round CEREAL

CARION into tinch squares.

HOBBIES

"THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1950.

The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE

THINGS TO MAKE WITH MATERIALS AT HAND

2. Draw dots to mark the

Big Dipper..

5.Tumat the room lights and flash the

'big dipper

'ceiling.

on the

5.Ruch out the

dots with

a large

NAIL.

4.Hold.

lighted

FLASHLIGHT

inside

carton.

Croak-in-Hole Game

shoes. She even lifted upROAK-IN-HOLE

int the

her foot to se wa uff the bottom. Hey shoot were clean-top and bottom.

"Now," said Joan, "It take the flowers to Mother know shelt

and

feel glad that 1

ciconed my thues."

opened the door. When Joan she held up the Cowers and said:

Surprise Mother, surprne!"

"Oh you lovely, sweet little gir)," sald Mother. "You picked wanne nice towers for ine,"

"Yes," mald Joan, "but 1 chal something else alte for

you, ton."

"Ol let ne other.

Kue,"

Mother looked ML Joun'

dum. Isn't it muddy in

Zanten?" she asked.

It said Joan.

"You

the

Now I know what you let |

was nice! exclaimed Atother.

cleaned your shoes. Your shons are just ast clean as they can be. Tint 19 vine of the nicest things you jran do for Mother-clean your aloes when they have mud on, them; then you won't track dirt on to Mother's clean thoor. You are a lively, sweet little girl. Jonn, You do many nier things For Mother"

las cach

farcit invented for family fun on a night when it is ruining so hard doors that even the frogs wish for a raincont sale,

NEW TABLE GAME

CHECKERS!

6911 AOX

CROAK IN HOLE

The playing area is the top of a full-sized auit box. About three inches

from

one end, and three inches apart. three holes are made.

HOME EXPERIMENT

TTERE is an interesting strings as shown in the illustr.-

Hesperiment that

demonstrate

string which

will tion.

Each weighted "sympathetic become a pendulum should be vibration." Until you see it exactly the same length, about done you will never believe 24 inches, For weights on the it could happen.

string you may use such item

ink bottles but

THE PENDULUM EXPERIMENT

be sme both weights are exactly the same.

Then fie the strings on each side of the centre of the cord at a distance of eight juches from each other. 13e sure that the distance of each weight from the floor is exactly -the same and you are ready to

start the performance.

ຕ

Set the left band weight swinging

sideways. After while HIN 11112 left hand punctulum gets itred and it movements slacken, it passes on its energy to the right hand Take two chaire and place pentium which begins to tick

from on its nwn, quite rently fr

shivers. it has the part. as thou

Then

as the frat pendulum stops, the second pezialuse swings real vigorously.

Tals curious exchange

will

them back to

back

three to four feet

Make the chairs stationary The

by having a spectator xit

ench of them for you,

Conneel the chairs with a piece energy

10

nd cord tel to each back an considerable time. from this "elothes-line," which swinging movements stroubl be quite lightly and less until they

- stretched, suspend two weighted altogether.

ot for Finally the Jesy die down

ZOO'S WHO

BIRD BANDING AT LAST HAS SOLVED THE RIDDLE OF WHERE THE CHIMNEY SWIFTS SPEND THE WINTER, NAMELY IN THE SPANISH AMERICAN REPUBLIC OF PERU,

PANIARDS WHO SAW THE MOON'S REFLECTION IN A POOL DISAPPEAR WHEN THE MOON WENT UNDER Å CLOUD, ONCE. IMPRISONED A DONKEY

FOR DUNKING THE MOON!!.

WOOFS THE NANE

THE DOG OF LEC KENWARD IN LAKEWOOD OHIO,CAN REPEAT ITS

OWN NAME. THE DOG'S NAME

WOOF...

PUZZLE ⭑

★

Real Mental Firecrackers

To

Shoot Straight

PUZZLE TARGET

TAKE

A SHOT

Po quality as a marksman on this target puzzle you must Are four shots at the 20 mil bull's-eyes so that phey will form aqtuare.

The first person to try scored with Nos. 13, 14, 17, and 18 as The next markinna

hit No. 3 with his drst shot but went a bit wild with his cond which landed in 6. As a result he had to put the next

shots in 13 and 18 TWO register

Bomewhat Farger square and 1418 qualify,

a

Now is your turn to shoot. remember, if your second shot happens to go wild you retusto

your wits to discover how *tlil quality by best you shunting out a square with four Ahots

two inches

in diameter. Then a line is drawn across the playing area six inches from the box where the end of the holes have been made. The holes are mumbered 10, 20, and 10, which indicates the when u allowed "frog" gets inside. Any

You TRAY shoot as moty frog standing on the end of the box completely inside rounds as you like. The puzzle how many the "5" line scores veterem ways it is possible to points.

form a square

the target with each four shols. Use your

score

-are

ordinary

is to estimate

Here is a useful Up. You

The **Traits" checkers.

Players are allowed to do the shooting. six cach, all of one colour." The trons are placed on the edge of the box on the side opposite the

All six are set up in holes. row along the edge.

Blucks shoot first, striking the fruns with the forefinger as in erokinole. As the frogs land in a hole, the total

score is re-

order and the frogs in the holes are recovered. Then the reds shoot.

cantial for any of the quares without wing at least one of the following bull's-eyes: 3, 5. 1. 14.

15, or 20,

GUESS WHO?

Born in 1785, Mis Whiter of folk tales Bed 1803. With his brother Wilhelm, he wrote the

If no black frogs 120 in the holes, all frogs on the top of the board are left in place until the E

shoots. ved player

The red player then behaner to mash these black frogs out of The scoring zone while trying to land his tors in one of the holes The frons are never dive Into a they safe, until

which is something to croak abonat,

After the six rods have been chot, if blocks left on the bonni ure scored. It any reds are holed, all from are cleared alter scores have been tabulated. It no reds have been holed, the remaining blacks are cleared but the surface reds are left where they are for the blacks to shoot at.

This xyslem k continued

even number of

an

et unels, rintil one sine hos seared 250 or more. If both sides seore 250, the leam with the highest score

wins.

TEENER

TOPICS

By DESS RITTER

"PROVERB CHARADES" is

If

to play. All you do is act out a favourite saying. you decide on. "A stitch in time saves ning just pretend you're sewing while counting slowly to nine. Then "All this work just

The forgot one."

say

Plaintively,

becauso 1 Arst player

who parodies this saying' gets

his turn.

A good one would be, "It'a nine imes harder to wipe up a glass of spilled lik nine days after the accident than It is to do so one tiny later."

* *

Tum 1 square cardboard carion of the proper size and shape upside lown, aru you have the makings of an altrac-

story uf Jans and Gretel and many other churning stories.

Both his brother and 10

*.

were born in Hanau, Ger- many, and devoted most of their lives to collecting old folk tales into a book. Who was this

an?

DIAMOND

CLIENTS form the centre of this diamond. The second word is "a high mountain," the third Je "the first sign of the zodiie," fifth "a copper coin," and the Lixth "a pijpen"

CLIENTS

N

S

BEHEAD AND DE-TAIL

Behead "a comeľa appendage" and have "to be indisposed"; detail this word and have "A Bnce-toed sloth,“

T

ho

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30

CROSSWORD

も

1 Hops

ACROSS

Kiin

4 United

7 Erect

9 Release

10 Near

---

11 Long, smaky Ash

13

Transpose fab

#2

14 Street and mumber

Indian army (ab)

18 Daybreak (cemb, form) 19 Shrinks

22 Toward

23 Unit of weight 24 Italian river 26 Organs 28 Pleased 30 Constellation 31 Exist

of hearing

1 British

DOWN

money of

2 Caterpillar hair

acount

3 Symbol for tantalin

4 Either

5 Seines

6 Ever teontr.)

Prepares for publication

Running away

12 Symbol for erbiutte 12 Sym

15 Expire

16 Sur 10

Bellow

20 Hawaiian bird

21 Must

22 Afternoon social event 25 Poun

27 Egyptian Fun goa

29 Louisiana (ab.)

She began to draw at 3

CRAFTS

* PATCH

Į.

WACKY COMPASS

G

A

WACKY COMPASS

START AT ESE, USE EVERD THIRD LETTER W(YOU DECIDE WHICH E

DIRECTION) TO UNCOVER THE FROVERB,

HIDDEN HERE

RIDDLES

What in the difference be. tween a chimney sweep and a man in mourning?

2. What is the difference be tween a summer dress in winter

and an extracted tooth?

3. What grows less tired the more it is worked?

4 When you go

bed, why are your slippers like a badly keni vesolation?

4.

ዩና

fearless of drowning?

GAMES

JOKES

Tepee Canoe By ALBERT B. KARALFA

FIGURA

FIGURE

A

FIGURE A

FIGURE C

PAGTZ TOGETHER

HEXA

Paste the ends together lane, as shown in Figure B. at the top and It will stand

Do the same with the second

TOW about playing In lepro.

dan if it's a rainy day and you have to stay in- doors? Here's how to make half-elrele. IC you want to your OWN tepces and make a completo Indiau village, canoes:

Just makes as many tepers you wish.

a

the ends and bottom together, using a buttonhole stitch as t

For the tepees, draw For the canoes, use stiff, heavy large circle on a sheet of paper, and cut out a cance pal- tem as shown in Figure C. Fuld extra heavy paper, using a

it on the dolled line and sew engraver compass. Cut out the circle, fold in half, and then cut SCRAMBLER

along the fold as shown in Figure D.

Dip your canes in melted wax Scramble "the dll" and have Figure A in the illustration.

or parafia to make It water- "ildy": again and have "a potorThis gives you two half-

Mako as disk."

Ught so it will float. circles,

- many canoes as you desire. Draw a doslyn on each half- Paint a design on your canoeu circle to different design on before coating them with wax. each, as shown in the illustra. You can use the same designs ton), then twist one of them 20 on the canoes as you put on the that both one meel, forming a сап

topees.

Answors

SHOOT STRAIGHT: You shoot 2 different muates; nine of the size made by the Best marks. juan. four of the sire made by the second, four equal to Nok, 1, 5, 0, 17: two equal to 1, 10, 11, 20; and two of the size formed by 4, 6, 15, nad 17. Your cure? Twenty -une tea inarkoman, 17 to 20 is a first- class saint.

GUESS WHO Jacob Grinin DIAMOND:

C

ALI

ARIES

CLIENTS

PENNY

Sty

HCHEAD AND DE-TAIL:

ail: al.

CROSSWORD:

WACKY

Mr. Punch's Secret Doorbell

----Three Strange Men Were Ringing It-

By MAX TRELL

MR Punch

M".

was just about 10

shut his eyes for his after- noon map when the door-bek rang, I wasn't the regular door- Tall: hell. It was, the little secret one

behind the bookense.

No one NO ONE knew about this other bell ex-

I

cept Mr Punch, He was just About to

30

to get to his feet and go

to the secret door when Knarf and Hanid, the shadow-children with the turnel-ubout INUTES, entered the room,

They had

They Bac

rinting, too!

For

heard the bck

For a moment Mr Punch hesitated. Then he smiled and said: "The door is behind the bookenre. Sce who's there, please. But don't," he added as Knurf and Hanid started running

oaks toward the bookense, "don't let

COMPASS: Great from 1 acorns grow.

RIDDLES: 1- t blacket with post, thr ether alled

tyone in until you tell me who it is." wh

Behind the Bookcase

nek. One is too thin, the other both out, 3-A car wheel 4-Be- cause they are pit off till the next I was quite dark behind the day. 6-rcause” he le reenstemed | koolteise, "At first there didn't to de sinking.

SCRAMBLEIt; Ånek; neat: aten.

* Eagernen in Triplicate "—the drawing of three Salukis that won the Royal Drawing Society's Gold Sine.

WHEN Margaret Baker was three she be- gan to fill her exercise books with lively drawings.

Today, at 13, Margaret, from Streatham, has a talent which is rare and precious.

Her mother has led suitcases with the quick, effective drawings of horses and dogs and ballet dancers which Margaret docs in

tive lampshade for your room. less than five minutes.

Punch a hole in the centre of the top for screwing the box to the

Now some of that work has been pub- lamp shade fixture. Paste white lished, In The Sketch Book of Margaret Baker, aged 13" (Britannicus Liber, Ltd., 65. Cd.).

paper Inside the shade. Cover the outside with helter-skelter photos of your friends. "Frame" ench pictur, and bind the bat- tom edge with coloured cellophane tape.

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•

Here's what a pup's first aid kit should have: (1) gruze pads: (7) a small tin of borle acid og n bottle of barle acid solution: (3) kurgical splints; (4) «majj bottle of peroxide:

(5) bulb avrinze to washing eyes and niouth, 01 cuts. Keep the supplies in a clean box.

Its nest piece is on exelting sketch of three straining Saluki dogs which won Mar- garet the Gold Star and the "In Memoriam RIH. The Princess Louise" award at the Royal Drawing Society's Children's Exhibi- Tion.

Out-of-the-ordinary Dachshunds.

likea Dachs,

Margaret's artistle development has faced writes Margaret. I loved their dear tetele heads and long abstacles, an attack of infantile paralysis, con- aemical bodies and huge flapping ears, but I couldn't agre cuisson in a riding accident, and the emotional with their absurd little legs. blow of her father's dash.

*7"Ultraföra dòcided to creste, for my own suitefaction, persible Ligt., Thaar were my drat attemote al portrayinoG animal which would resemble the Dach, but weten

Apart from ber. islent, she is an ordinary on girl, does wall at school, disliker mathematics likes miding and the bašínt. Etse loves cricket and dog.

"Hilustrated are examples of her work.

what 1 had in mind."

Punch told Knarf to answer the

door.

"Ask them who they are, pleuse!" Kurt and Hunjd heard Mr Punch calling.

"Who are you, please?" said Hank to the three visitors at

e magie door.

The fat man looked st the of

seem to be any door at all-just 2g-zag man, then the two a darkish kind of wall, But then looked at the mon with then ddenly they found it! the dripping wet hair who als "Kime!! Look! It's no bigger nl ones rtarted to drop down thun the cover of book!"

again. They yanked him up.

Not Ashamed

"That's just what like?" said Knarf.

fuel, the mure

looks

"Well," said the fat man, "i carefully it's my name you want, I'm not

they looked at the door, the at all ashained to give it to you. more it seemned to them to be My name is Nasti-Ole Cloud."

the cover of a book! They could "I'm Quick as Lightning." even begin to make out sone said the zig-20g man. words written across it in golden third man's legs doubled under "And my name is "here the

felters.

"It says, ald Hunia, "Door Him and he almost fell #gain ex- copt that the other two men heldt hu

name is up

When Knarf and Hand told Mr Punch who were at the daor, Mr Punc

Punch tuok his head.

to Happy-Happy Land!”

Just then the well rang. for

the third time. Knarf opened in-in-Thomy

ita file, "It opens just like the cover

Hand of a book," thought to herself.

דיי

Standing in front of them guess we'd better not let them were three men, One of them la They'll cause a storm, Cloud, was enormously fat with great Lightsing and Ruin are not good

The second things to have in a house." puffed-out cheeks.

"But we don't want

to

man was tall and very thin and

stay bent like a zig-zag. The third in the house. We just want you man had long, straw-coloured to let us walk through the hair that hung in front of his house and go outside!" the fat shouted from the magic said the So it was finally agreed to let Nastl-Ole Cloud, and Quick as

face. His hair WAY wel.

"How do you do!" enerous fat man.

the

dripping man

dcor

"We'd like to come in," said Lightning and Rain-In-The- Face run as fast as they could zig-zag man. The third man started to say: through the house and out into they "We won't stay very long "the garden. That's what

wagu little suddenly, however, he stumbled did. And there and begun to fall. Ha two com- stern, Knarf and Hankt watched panions promptly seized him by from the window. And when the arms and held him up. "He's they came back the fat man was always falling," the fai man thin, the zig-ZOK mon Was Bald to Hanid,

straight, and Rain was all dry!

Rupert and the Sketch Book-14

Seeing how puzzled Constable Growler looks, Rupert picks up the parol and the nearly empty box. ** Rosalie ate all those candied fruits she must have had a wonder. ful appetite, but that's no reason why the should run away, when she

seei

London Express Service

me."

Growler. "I wonder where the is going anyway.” They tum and gi After the young truant, and to their surprise there is no sign of her. "My, she's little but abu can rus," ays Rupert. "I must go after he w But I can't take all those thi with me. Wil it be anda to leavešt

declares Connable them here ?**

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