ADVENTURES OF THE CHUMS

Taranaki Daily News, 19 August 1933, Page 22 (Supplement)

ADVENTURES OF THE CHUMS

Richard is a funny little dog. He is most good tempered except when he has a bone, and then he can be just the opposite! - Gwen-and Ted found him in the shed one day with a very large bone, and when he saw them he growled in quite a terrifying manner. It seemed as though he fancied they had come to take it away from him.

Of course Richard’s growls were not very terrifying to Gwen and Ted, so they did not run out of the shed, although they certainly thought their reception very uncomplimentary. - “What do you want to come and worry me for?” growled Richard. ’ “Well!” said Gwen, “you need not be so bad tempered. We have not come to take your bone away.”

When' Gwen said, she had not come to take the bone, Richard fairly yelled with laughter. ~ , /- .' “Ah! AH! Ah! he laughed. “That is funny! Fancy thinking you could take my bone from me. Ah! Ah! Ah!’.’ - “You need not laugh,” said- Gwen., “I’ve done more difficult things than that.’ ( 7 “Really,” Richard, sarcastically, “tell me some.”

When Richard requested her to tell him some of the difficult things she had done, Gwen saw an opportunity to teach him a lesson. •; "I 'will,” she said. “You couldn’t be blindfolded, turn round three times, and then find your way out of the door.” ' / ■"Oh” said Richard, forgetting all about his bone, “couldn’t I? Well, I’ll just show you.”-'.,. \

If Richard had been as clever as he thought, he would have realised that Gwen h*d sojne purpose in blindfolding him. Of course, what she wanted was an opportunity to run off with the bone, because Richard had been so sure she could not get it away from him. While he was groping for the door, she picked up the bone and hurried quietly away with Ted.

After bumping his nose once or twice, Richard did find his way out of the door, and then removed the handkerchief- triumphantly, with the idea of proving to Gwen and Ted how easily he had performed the trick. But they were gone, and so was the bone. Didn’t he get angry! What was worse, he had to put up with Gwen and Ted laughing at him. Next week we will see how he got his. bone back.

WIRELESS IN ANY ROOM. THE NEW CONTROL. An ingenious device by which a wireless programme can he heard in any room has been invented. Known as the Annan-McKinlay Telecontrol it consists of a small tuning apparatus to be used apart from the main set, which can in future be stored hi the attic or . the cellar. When turning the tuning dial to obtain the required station no sound comes from any intermediate station as the pointer travels along the„ scale, but immediately the station is reached its programme is heard from the portable loud-speaker in the volume at which the control has been let. The Telecontrol can be used with any sensitive modem receiver, and is free from danger from electric shocks. OCEAN DEPTHS. An expedition is to leave Aden in August, under Colonel Seymour Sewell, to spend nine months in exploring all that is below the surface of the water between Aden and Madagascar, from Africa on the West to India on the east. Large nets will be lowered to bring up all kinds of living and other things to add to our knowledge, but the expedi-

tion’s chief interest is to find out the depths of the sea in those .parts. Until recently it was thought the greatest sea depth was comparable with Everest, our highest mountain; but a German expedition ■ reports that it has measured a depth of no less than 42,000 feet nearly 100 miles off the coast of San Juan de Porto Rico. DOWN FROM THE HEIGHTS. Two Swedish scientists, Eric Norgin and Birger Bohlin, have returned to Peking after six years in the heights of Tibet. Their object was to find out something about the glaciers which covered the deep valleys of Karakorum during the Ice Age, and for the last eight months they worked at a height of nearly 20,000 feet. These glaciers seem to have formed an inland sea, which disappeared little by little during hundreds of centuries. Near Chian-Chu-Kouan, where the Great Wall ends, they discovered quantities of fossils, dinosaurs, fishes, insects, and plants, all of which were alive 200,000 centuries ago. The scientists had not seen a white man for years, and when they arrived at Bombay on their way to Peking they were astonished, on entering a kinema, to find themselves listening to a talkie film.