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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1952.
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Tom Thumb Was Always Hiding
-He Was So Small, It Was Very Hard to Find Him!----
By MAX TRELL
MR PUNCH," said Hanid,
יו
V the shadow-gki, "won there ever really anybody named Tom Thumb?”
Mr Punch, who happened at that moment to be watering the geronluth, stopped short. “Toen who?” · ho`said, "toolting puzzles). "Tom Thumb. He wen sup- posed to be no bigger than a thumb.
That's how he got his namic!".
on, Tom Thumbt....Tom
Thumbl
thore really such A
"Certainly!"' Mir punch
TC-
piled,
setting watering-can. "I
down
tho know him
5-17.
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MOTHER LEOPARDS, TIGERS AND LIONS DONOT KILL THEIR YOUNG WHEN THEY ARE BORN IN CAPTIVITY, BUT OFTEN INJURE THEM IN SEEKING A PLACE TO HIDE THEM...
New
quite well. Vory fine Httle cháp- Mr
Punch might find Tom
pie he was, too.When you Thumb hiding under a pebble. could see him!"
"Couldn't couldn't you see him, Mr Punch?”
Ho Was Always Hiding
"Well, it all depended," said Mr Punch. "If I had my magnifying-glam with me I could see him as plainly as
Colour Detector
AVER heard of a spectro-
photometer? You've
By VIOLET ROBERTS
Known
1
can see you. But otherwide I could hardly see him at all. Be-j sides, he was always hiding somewhere or other."
"Hiding?" said Hanid in sur prise.
"Ho. was as mischievous as a I mouse. 'T'a be taking walk -him to town to go to the with grocera to buy corne groceries, and all of a sudden-pouf! He was gone!" Gone
They now use this new device to learn how well their oysters
une.
where?"
#That's exactly what always bothered me, too," sighed Mir "Where has he gone? Punch. I'd say to myself. I'd look all over. He w
wouldn't be behind a wouldn't be under He
wouldn't be craud- ind under the steps of a house.
tree.
wna
bush.
scientifically 0.3
One of the oddest jobs the spectrophotometer, That's in Web- "recording
device has ever performa this instrument la mathemati- to analyse the skin colour of ster's. But this new colour- rally capable of detecUng more several ducks so that by con- He wouldn't be anywherD.............
is in
odd business of matching and on Big Wave Bay and "must attractive skin could be laagh."
Cove false teeth, predicting the Turtle
E
20th Aug.
heard of a spectrometer, perhaps.
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colour of orchids before you want to see the actual figure they bloom, telling good oysters from bad ones and, maybe, finding the pearls.
If there jobs don't corn for it
a place in the colou: Hall of Fame, it is currently performing such extracurricular activities as analysing lipstick, colours
crime detection, determining for Hollywood which colours aro most photogenic for techni- colour movies, and finding out for laundries how much soaping certain fabrics can stand with- out fading.
PUZZLES
down,
Boy Squaro
ог
NARTER
CSFL IO IR
boys
ÍBRING ME MY
GYECTROPHOTOMETER (50 I CAN IDENTIFY THE COLOR OF THE
PAINT ON THE CAR THAT,
HIT THIS WRECK
on papor, write 10 with 90 zeros following it, (Jimmy, our Lino. typer, says he doesn't have that many.)
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How does it perform such un-
And where goodness! was he blding, Mr Punch"
"In a crack in the pavement of the sidewalk! Or under à pebblel Or behind a dandelionil"
Hanid was astonished.
Under His Noso
"Once," Mr Punch continued, "I heard him laughing right under my nose. And yet I couldn't find him!"
"Where was he?" "Right under my nosel Ha-hal He certainly fooled me.",
"He
dia!" certainly
sald Hanld, who felt bort at fooled herself that she hadn' guessed
usual tasks? This is best explained by comparing it to the human eye. The eye integrates or brings together all of the parts of whatever object it sees, Thus, when the eye views a single olie the spectrophoto
colour, it sees only, that colour, meter goes much further and gees" the amount of all colours, which
when blended, make up the single reflected colour,
To lucrate, suppose the
сус веся white. Now there
are many before Mr Punch told her. shades of white, but the eye "Of course," said Mr Punch, usually sees only white and let's the reason Tom Thumb used to i 20 at that. The Instrument, do so much hiding whenever we On the other hand, "sece" how went to the grocer's was because much of cach colour is in that he hated to carry paredia. particular shade of white. The always complained they were instrument plots an accurate
too heavy." curve of what it "sees" when "And were they, Mr Punch? It! it's on A matching job. The he was only as big as a thumb colour of the item under test he couldn't carry very large must follow the same curve to parcels, I suppose." be identical with the colour "No, he couldn't. But I took being matched.
quite a bit of care to give him only the smallest and lightest parcels. For example, I'd have the grocer wrap up one or two very grains of salt, or a toothpick, or of a speck of pepper. But hod
Ho
Find the right starting point and seach each letter eitherword By examining anything from cloth to the skin of a duck, (but never dingonally), and the spectrophotometer is able to you will and the eight
record with pla-point necuracy hidden here:
the exact colour of the object. Orchid grewers knew that the
And space pilots of the future shade of foliage encasing an un- may use this device. The human opened bud furnished a clue to blood changes colour the orchid's colour before it slightly with the amount bloomed. The spectrophotometer oxygen it contains. In space a keep right on complaining. One was used to count the various very tiny meteor might open a day just to show him how shades of leven of the fellage, pin-hole in the outer wall of a foulish te was to complain, I had and the grower was able to pre space ship. A diet and classify scientifically the attached to the car, or to some all."
photometer the Grocer wrap up nothing at colours of his potential orchid other part of the body where tho "Nothing at all!" Hanid' ex- crop.
blood is near the surface might claimed. Oyster growers, aware that an detect the loss of air pressure complained just The Same Oyster's colour indicates whether long before other instruments It is good or bad, have found the could do so, On high-flying human LILAHIC
"Nothing at all just empti- Inefficient in planes the device could also be ness. But he complainett just the detecting colour differences, used. Wacky Compass
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WACKY COMPASS
START AT WEST AND USE EVERY FIFTH _M LETTER YOU DECIDE DIRECTION)TO UNCOVER
PUZZLE PETES
PROVE-RE
Diamond
Ethiopia is a KINGDOM aj that's the centre of this
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CUT WITH PINKING SHEARS
3. Cut 3 more strips of
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Strips in half
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same. He said the string and the paper weighed too much. It was; Just no use trying to get -any help out of Tom Thumb.
But he was a fine, marry fellow just the same. He played the plane beaulfully."
Honid looking amazed, sald
she couldn't believe that at all. "If he couldn't carry a package
how could he ever press down the keys of a plano, Mr Funch?"
Me Punch smiled an The
picked
5. Turn strips right side or a parcel with nothing in th out and gather each CATHERINE one to fit around the can.
STITCH
up the wagain.
was quite
clever
for anyone as
as Tom Thumb. He would run up and down the kere, stamping with all his might. This way and that way ho would
10 th Cash, Arst on a while,
on black kuy. And if he wanted to play a chord
6. TURN THE CAN UPSIDE DOWN. FASTEN THE WIDESTROY RUFFLE TO THE TOP WITH A
RUBBER BAND. FASTEN ON THE OTHERS THE BAME
WAP
IN YOUR CLOTHES
which is a lot of notes all play- ed at once he would just fall Dat with his and legs all
ALTERN
sprawled out! He was a won- dérful chapple all right, not much body but lots of braini"
And Hauld laughed, and Mr Punch
laughed, and the geranium finally got the water it was waiting for, and probably laughed, too.
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