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PUZZLES THINGS TO DO STORIES Book World Picking Books for Their Pictures BY MYRA DIXON DO YOU EVER choose book because you like the pictures? I'm not surprised if you do. Nowadays children's books are often beautifully illustrated by famous artists. And yet, a rmn- dred years ago, even 50 years ago, children seldom chose a book for the pictures. Often there uere none, or they were far from attractive. Kate Greenaway and Randolph Caldecott were among the first to make pictures especially for children's books.

Here are some books j'ou will enjoy for the illustrations, some beautiful, others clever or humorous: MAKE WAY FOR DUCKLINGS --Robert McCloskey. Have you ever been to Boston? If so, you'll get a special thrill when you read how 12 little Mallard ducklings stopped traffic. It was at busy corner, at the entrance to the Public Gardens. You'll laugh out loud at the pic turev. THE STORY OF FERDINAND-Munro Leaf, illustrated by Robert Lawson.

Ferdinand was really a gcntl little bull. He liked nothing bet ter than to smell tht flowers under the cork tree. One day he was picked for the bullfight in Madrid. But did he fight or imeli the flowers in the lovely ladies hair? THE I STAG --Kate Seredy. This is the legend of how a White Stag appeared in old Hungary during a snowstorm.

He led Attila and his tribe through a narrow pass in the mountains. After the blizzard died down they found themselves in an enchanted land, a land of promise. But the While Stag had vanished in the gold of the daylight. The pictures are dramatic and beautiful. THE 500 HATS OF BARTHOLOMEW CUBBINS--Dr.

Suess. Just imagine meeting the King and being ordered to take off hat. But as you did so anther hat appeared, and another, nd another--Even the execu- ioner couldn't chop off your head 'ith a hat on it. 'RAYER FOR A CHILD--Rachel Field, illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones. Rachel Field wrote a beautiful prayer for her little daughter, Hannah.

Later Elizabeth Orton Jones made pictures to fit the prayer. You'll love the one illustrating, "Bless other children far and near, And keep them safe and free from fear." It looks as though all the little children from all over the world were gathered together in one happy group. Read the prayer to your little brother or sister, or a neigh bor child who's too small to read They'll adore it and the pictures QUIZ WHO? ate 169 pancakes? made hundreds of doughnuts? had roast goose and plum pudding for their Christmas din ner? wanted to buy a pie going to he fair? Answers--1. Little Black Sambo. 2.

Homer Price. 3. The "ratchit a i of Dickens Christmas Carol." 4. Simple iimon. PUZZLE PETE'S CORNER About Girls: GIRL REBUS Use the words and pictures fully to find the four girls hidden in this rebus by Puzzle Pete: Sports Forward Passer Always Makes Team BY JAY WORTHINGTON MANY BOYS can throw a football, but few ever learn how to complete half their forward pass tries in real games.

A good passer can always make the team. The average a considers himself lucky if he has one dependable passer on his squad. Here are the five points which, may help you to become expert: GRIP. Use your left hand (if Fingers should cross the laces, a little back of center. Grip the ball about as you do in throwing a baseball, except that fingers are spread.

Practice gripping exercises to develop finger strength. POSITION. The right-handed passer steps back with his right foot, cocking the ball above and behind his shoulder. The throw is made overhand "close to the ear." As he throws, the passer an' shifts his weight from the right foot to the left by stepping comfortably forward on his left foot. you throw right-handed) to push the ball into your right, hand.

Follow through. TYPE OF THROW. The ball be released with a snap 'of the wrist, so that it rolls off the fingers. This provides the spin or "spiral." Careful. Too much spin makes the ball haid to catch.

Practice throwing to a companion to learn how much spin is necessary. Tilt the front of the ball slightly up for long throws. AIM. Mechanical perfection is wasted if the ball fails to "hit" the receh er. After mastering the throw, the passer's biggest task is to learn how to spot his receiver and then judge his distance and time his throw with accuracy.

Practice! Games of "touch football" are excellent practice. Always throw to the side the receiver is facing. Give him a "lead DECEPTION. The best pass in the world may fail if the rival team sees where it is going. The passer should hide his true target by every possible trick.

Use the corners of your eyes. Learn to fake in several directions, or fake a run, lateral pass or pitchout. Finally, don't hold the ball' longer than is absolutely neces- sary. An instant's delay may ruin the play. i Thanksgiving Good Time To Entertain Friends MIXED-UP GIRLS Reai range the letters in each strange line to form the name of a girl and you'll have three more iris' names in your collection: AS IN LORD GAIN LACE THEIR NEAT CROSSWORD Cartoonist Cal placed Puzzle Pete's crossword puzzle on the silhouette of a girJ's head: Pen -Here Are People Who Want Letters Dear Captain Hal, I am a boy 8 years old.

My hobby is Cub Scout work. I uould like pen pals of and 8. Johnny McClelland 1734 Kessler Blvd. Longview, Wash. Dear Captain Hal, I am a girl 11 years old.

TVIy hobby is collecting picture post cards. I would like to have boy and girl pen pals from 11 to 12 years of age. Sharon Hopkins Box 77 Doniphan, Neb. Dear Captain Hal, I am eight years old. I like to ride my bicycle.

I live on a farm. I would like to hear from girls all over the world. Mary Ellen Katterhagen Box 522 Union Grove, Wis. Dear Captain Hal. I am 12 years old.

I will be 13 in November. I like to swim and. play volleyball. My hobby is collecting funnybooks. Jeannette Hudspeth R.

F. D. 4 Lincolnton, N. C. Dear Captain Hal, I am 14 years old.

and have a twin sister. My hobbies are sports. I also play the piano. Jo Ann Novak 1653 Thurston Avc Piacine. Wis.

Dear Captain Hal. I am a boy 10 years old. I would like to have pen pals of bojs and girls fiom 9 to 12. Jimmie Bartlett Box 682 Cramerton, N. C.

Dear Captain Hal: I am a girl ten years old. My hobbies are pen pals and collecting miniatuie horses. I woulc." like to hear from boys and girls all over the world. Lynne Dilloway 315 Thurston Ave. Los Altos.

Calif. Dear Captain Hal: 1 am 12 years old and am going to junior high. I like to collect autographed pictures of famous personalities. I would like to have pen pals of the ages of 11 to 14. Karen Stadle 2129 Dymond St.

Burbank. Calif. BY IDA M. PARDUE THANKSGIVING is just about ivith us and it's time to talk about a Thanksgiving party. Here are some games which can be played at get-togethers during the holiday.

It is a delightful time of the year to entertain your best school riends and there are many absorbing occupations which will make the parly a success. Three of Thanksgiving's most popular symbols are used in these all games: TURKEY STUFFING: This oral game is fun for scv- al lounds. Players form a cir- le. One player begins by saying, I stuffed a turkey with an--," ben adding anything beginning vith the letter for instance. The next player stuffs the turkey with a so on.

A player who cannot think of a word in five seconds--or who icpeats a word already given, drops out of the game. PICKING CORN: Place a bowl of uncooked pop- This is just the season to hold a party before the open fireplace. corn--and four toothpicks (two for each team) on a table in the center of the room. Make up two groups. Groups line up on opposite sides of the table, behind a starting line about six feet away.

At the word go, a player from each group races to pick three grains of corn with the toothpicks. The picked coin is dropped to the table. When a player has picked all three, the toothpicks aie left on the table, and the player runs to tag tin next player in line, for a turn. The team to pick all of their corn first, wins the game. LANDING OF PILGRIMS: Some time before the party, cut a "Plymouth Rock" for each player, out of brown wrapping paper.

Give each person a pencil. At the word go, players are to list the first and last names of everyone in the room. The player to do so first has landed all tht Pilgrims--and won the game. Here is another game that can be played at the table on Thanksgiving Day if you like. One player begins by naming a dinner dish--turkey, for instance.

The next player repeats TURKEY and adds another food, likt MASHED POTATOES. Player number three repeats both TURKEY and MASHED POTATOES, adding a third food, and so on. Any player who makes a mistake, or repeats a food already is out of the game. Tht player who stays in the longest, wins. A Page Fo of All Ages Test Your Sports Knowledge WordGomesI--Try This Round of Brain Teasers Music Makers' Bee A good team game to test players' memories of famous names in the world of music is this Bee.

A caller is furnished with a list of musicians (the following, or one similar). Teams line up opposite each other. The caller reads a surname to player No. 1 on team 1. The player must give the musician's first name or drop out of the game.

In this case player No. 1 on team 2 tries to answer. The game goes on in this way until all of the players on one have dropped out. Johann Sebastian Bach Chas. WakcficJd Cadman Stephen Collins Foiter Victor Herbert George Gershwin Richard Strauss Gaetano Donizetti Arthur S.

Sullivan Lily Pons Amelita Galli-Curci Yehudi JMenuhin John Sousa Giacomo Puccini Giuseppe Verdi Richard Wagner Chas. Samt-Saens Wolfgang Mozart Chas. Gounod Jan Pcerce John Charles Thomas Rosa Fritz Krcisler Animal Quiz 2. Dogs and cats cannot dis- 3. What has four wheels and tinguish color? 3.

Lions can chmb trees? 4. Salmon are never born the ocean? draws flies? 4. What runs all day and has a in bed but never sleeps? 5. Why is this alphabet like a 5. Male fish often carry fish a a pnaDGl Ke a leggs in their mouths to protect I Chnstmas son A them? I Is it true or false that 3.

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QCl SPACJJ -AVOJJB U3AVSXY Fun Project Making Yule Tree Ornaments 11 WHAT GIVES more fun and excitement than the trimming of the Christmas tree? Sparkling with lights and shining with tin- and the pretty colors of the many tree balls, is truly a joy to J-CC- I3ut 1here is fun in making oyr iox And it's' cot too early to start. There are many kinds to make, but perhaps the prettiest ones are those that sprkle. The span- Rle ball like the one pictured, makes a pretty sight v.hen the tree hsngs full of these in coJors, all shiny with glitter. Here is how to make them: Buy a numwr of round at a yporls More and (about one-haif cup of siarch paper, cotton, lace paper one-half gallon of boiling Put this in a deep pan or what to do: Cut the point from andI add several drops of red'a drinking cup, one-half inch food colonng. Mix well.

from lhc bol om Pasjc the cork balls in this mix- or metallic paper over the aip ture until they arc veil coated. jThcn sprinkle uith jjhcr slitter them come out in all directions to make big spiked balls. coiks lull of the picks, SPAPFRf a short cor): And bend "the fj.fl of for Make a of wire i a ciane of lhe buy in small pack- tht dime Hans sep- they dry. bottom of For variations, use oak balls or, the top of acorns with the picks or paint it. Paint a face on the top of the clothespin.

the the becomes the Color some of the balls blue, and sprinkle or vari gated grwn, etc. jlh gold tfitter. HERE is ANOTHER Christmas idea, tJothcypin angcK What you need: tint lothes- paper drinking cups (ronc- tape, crayon the comes the head. clothespin be- Fasten it to the clothespin with cellophane tape. Cut wings from colored or metallic paper and tape them to the cup.

Make a collar from a paper lace dolly and fasten it with tape. Glue a bit of cotton to the top of Ihe flftlhcspin for hair. Make a grou of crayon; Make a sroup of angels ami toJuUon.or paint, metallic paper or col-1use thtm on the tree or ACROSS 1 A girl 4 ScofT 6 Article 7 "Smallest State" (ab 8 Immature insect 10 Girl's name DOWN 1 Asiatic kingdom 2 Coir pass point 3 Pluck 4 "My Gal 5 Narrow inlet 9 Egyptian sun god HIDDEN GIRLS Puzzle Pete has hidden a girl in each of the following sentences and if you can find them: The campers arose at The rainfall was normal for the month. The the camera needed cleaning. DIAMOND AUGUSTA provides the center for this week's word diamond The second word is "a third fifth and sixth "pigpen." Complete the diamond: A AUGUSTA A Turkey Favor BY MARGARET O.

HYDE Cut a colored paper baking cup to make the fan tail for a turkey. Print the name of some- one who will be at your Thanks- giving table on the pleated part of the paper. Make a turkey neck and head a pipe cleaner and paste a scrap of red paper to It. Stick the pipe cleaner into marshmallow which will be the body of the turkey. Use toothpicks for legs with gumdrops for feet.

Fasten the tail to the back the by toolh- jpick pieces. Make a turkey lor each one who will be at your Thanksgiving table. Can't Catch a Sardine There reaily isn't a live flsh named a "sardine." That is what they are called when packed In oil (usually) in tins. They may be any small fish, like the herring. They arc called "sardines" they were first packed Let's have a blackboard drill on spoils.

Q--The dium major in a band a stick called a baton. In what sport docs another kind of baton play an impoitant part? A--Track. Members of a relay are required to hand a baton from one runner to the more than Lefty Grove as hurler for the Philadelphia Athletics? A--Yes. This year Shantz became the highest sal- Janed pitcher in the A's history. Matching Hearts I To select partners by matth- ing heaits, two baskets or bags are needed.

Into one place small red hearts on names such as the following are written: Hamlet, Rornco. John Alden. Jack, Punch, Hiawatha and any other male lovers. In a similar container place the heaits on which are written the names: Ophelia, Juliet, Pnscilla, Jill. Judy, Rlinnehaha.

and other corresponding female lovers. The Q--Of the top 20 pitchers boys draw from one basket the (since 1900) who have shown the from the other. best control, as measured by the number of bases on balls yielded The Tiger I cr same, very few have pitched The tigcr not in recent years. Can jou name A fnca and the only place that you would find him there would Fold a piece of TYPEWRITING PAPER 8i in. wide and Ufa lone) like l.FOLD IN HALF THE LONG- WAY.

next. I Q--Should a baseball bat be stored in a warm place, or a cold place, dm ing the winter? A--It should be kept dry. above all, but not exposed to too much heat. Some major leaguers rub their bats with oil or vaseline for storage between seasons. CORWERS OVER TO CENTER FOLD 3.

FOLD LIKE THIS. 4. FOLD BOTH SIDES OVER ONCE 5. TURN OVER ANDSPREAD OUT THEWlNfo any of them? A--Larry Janscn. Ken Raffensberger, Emil Leonard, Carl Hubbell, and Dizzy Dean are the only ones who have performed within the past 15 years.

Of this group, Hubbell rates highest-seventh, with an average of 1.82 walks per nine mnincs. Q--Jim Fridley suffered the unhappy fate of being optioned to a minor league last year, after performing a feat that had been achieved only 28 times in the history of both major What was it? A--He made six hits in six official times at bat in one game Q--Has a pitcher ever received; be the zoo. However, in the jungles of India, Indonesia, Southern China and other countries of Southern Asia, he rules as the "King of Beasts." as his cousin, the lion, rules the African jungles. International League The International League is true to its naifle, as it is represented by baseball teams from three different countries. Besides Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Richmond in the United Slates, there arc teams from Montreal.

Ottawa and Toronto in Canada and one from Havana, Cuba. most of the players are from the United States. Or LON6HCDM CATTLE MESTIC CATTLE ON THE AMEP: ICAM CONTWEMT WASTR FROM HAITI TO A15XICO SM1521 gY COR7EX. 2 AFOOT LANS AD FASTEN TOGETHER WITH AWER CLIP AND GIVE IT A Puzzle Answers GIRL REBUS: Amanda; Not- ma; Pansy; Alice. MIXED-UP GIRLS: Rosalind; Angelica; Henrietta.

CROSSWORD: CHJLDCEtf- HIDDEN GIRLS: a(ROSE)j (KORMA)l; KHE LEN)s. DIAMOND: A SUT RAGES AUGUSTA TESTY STY A Spiders Not Insects Spiders are not true They have no feelers as insects have, and instead of three pairs of less like the snasshopper, for example, they havt four puri..