THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1952.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE the BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
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SAILINGS TO
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Semarang,
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• Sails from
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p.m. 8th Sept.
0 p.m. 10th Sept.*
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10 am, 18th Sept,
S pun. 28th Sept. Custodian Wharf
ARRIVALS FROM Keelung
7 a.m.
Bintan & Singapore
Shanghai
1st Sept, 1st Sept, 1st Sept.
"HUNAN"
Tienisin
2nd Sept.
"FUKIEN"
Moji
3rd Sept.
"HANYANG
Kobo
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Kobo
"FENGNING"
Kobo
4/5th Sept. 6th Sept. 10/11th Sept,
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|“CHANGSHA"
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Japan
Sydney & Melbourne
Зарап
11th Sept.
15th Sept.
10th Sept.
Kure & Kobe
17th Sept.
ARRIVALS FROM
"ANSHUN"
Australia, Nauru
&
Ocean Is.
7 D.M.
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Yokohama
"ANKING"
Melbourne & Terakan
7th Sept. 12th Sept. 12th Sept.
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Scheduled Sallings to Europe via Aden & Port Said
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"PYRRHUS"
"ATREUS"
Marseilles,
& Glasgow
Liverpool
Liverpool & Holland Liverpool & Dublin Genoa, London, Rotterdam & Hamburg Marseilles, Liverpool & Glasgow
Dublin & Liverpool Scheduled Sailings from Europe
G. "AGAPENOR"
Salle
Liverpool
Sails Rotterdam
Sailed
9. “CALCHAS"
da
"PYRRHUS"
do
10th Aug,
"AUTOMEDON"
do
"ATREUS"
do
"BELLEROPHON"
6th Sept.
"PELEUS"
12th Sept.
16th Sept.
"ALCINOUS"
10th Sept.
G. Loading Glasgow, before Liverpool. S. Loading Swansea, before Liverpool, Carriers' opilon to proceed via other ports to
load & discharge cargo..
Don't High
Hat!
PERHAPS at a plenie er in
the school yard you have ployed the game of High Hat. Each player wears a high poptr He also bag atop his head, carries a rolled-up newspaper. The game consists of trying to knock off the hals of other in the players and somewhere tussle usually losing your own.
To those
who do nol ordinarily wear them, a high has always been an emblem
hat
of
hattery. We speak of "high |
another
person which
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in simply another way saying superior are assuming attitude toward that person,
we
NO
one is ever superior in the sense that he stops making mis- takes or is free from awkward- ness or loneliness. Remembering that, it is only good sense to be kind, working
at being kinder na hard as an athlete works to
TRUEMAN IS FAST
P&O B.I. E&A
-But You Should See His Brother Bowl COMPANIES
T is good to have a big brother who can give you
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Nn4-99625. Bannts Trimaran bewile at the same moment »
ana, has 'briartė „del cal
Daily Anishes much beartar.
Fred lends a guiding hand to Dennis-showing him the
Dennis and Brian start at the same time. But Dennis finishes his action whlie Brian's bowling arm is still in the air.
Lick nchieve a meritorious reward in eport. Being kinder, means a few cricketing tips. Ånd sort of action with which greater popularity, more friends. when that brother is Fred Fred got nine Indian wickets It means
rising above the un- Trueman, the England and in the third Test match. importance of the insignificant. Yorkshire fast bowler -
Yes, Dennis has already It means a happier you.
Dennis is a fast learner as well shown that he is a chip off the Elbert Hubbard once wrote: well, you will understand as a fast bowler. Watch him demon-bowler block. What will
his friend, character why nine-year-old Dennis bowling alongside weaving
he be like in a few years' time? every day, and the way to Trueman is the terror of his Brian Shevels, on plich at weave the best character is to schoolloy friends. In the big (That is where Fred learned to says: "He'll be a better bowler Maltby Crags, in Yorkshire, Good; very good. Brother Fred picture above, 21-year-old bowl, too.)
"WC
are
be kind."
on with the high hall
6th Sept.
9th Sept.
20th Sept.
1st Oct.
6th Oct,
26th Oct.
Arrives Hong Kong
31st Aug
10th Sept, 17th Sept 23rd Sept. 1st Oct. 10th Oct. 18th Oct, 24th Oct,
DE LA RAMA LINE
ARRIVING via MANILA FROM
U.S. ATLANTIC & PACIFIC COAST PORTS "ANDAMAN '
"HAINAN"
IN PORT
17th Sept.
SAILING for KINGSTON, NEW YORK, via SAN
FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES and CRISTOBAL.
"AJAX"
星
20th Sept.
Cathay Pacific Airways ltd.
Roule
Departs Hongkong
11K/Bangkok/Singapore (DC-4) 7:30 a.m. Mon. Thurs.
(Connect at Bangkok with
21K/Fanol
(DC-3) 7.00 am. Tues. HK/Iphone
(DC-3) 7.00 a.m. hurs. JIK/Saigon/Singapore (DC-4) 10.43. Tues. HK/Monita/BN. Dorneo (DC-3) 7.00 am. Tuc- Fri,
Arrives H.IS. (on return)
6.41 5.m. Tues: Fri.
UB.A, to Rargoon)
3.00 p.m. Tuen.
5.300 jaan. Thtaks. 6.40 p.m. Wed.
4.45 p.m. Wed. Sat,
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ARRIVALS
FROM
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Japan
DUE
30th Aug.
3rd Sept. 7th Sept.
ZOO'S WHO
MOTHER RABBITS
LINE THEIR NESTS, WITH FUR PULLED FROM THEIR
OWN BREASTS,..
THE ELEPHANTS HEART
HAS A CIRCUMFERENCE OF FIVE FEET AND MAY WEIGH
OVER SIXTY POUNDS..
COUNT
CATERPILLARS
HAVE NEARLY 4 BLAD STUDY IS THE MOST POPULAR NATURE TIMES AS MANY HOBBY AND MORE THAN A HALF MILLION AMER- MUSCLES AS ICANS ARE ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN IT........ HUMAN BEINGS
than I am."
Willy Wants To Be An Acrobat
-But, Alas, His Tricks Didn't Turn Out Right|---
By MAX TRELL
KNAHF and Hanid, the shadow-children with the turned- about names, could hardly believe their own eyes. There, standing by his toadstool in thé middle of the Pine Tree Grove, was Willy Toad. But this wasn't remarkable thing! What was remarkable was that Willy was standing on his head, with his feet of course-high up in the
the
airl
"Willy" shouted Knart and Hanid together.
Willy immediately
answered:
"Hi, Kaori! HI, Hanidi Were you just talking to my feet?".
"Keep out of my house!"
sald
the mole. glaring at
Willy.
Hanid Spoke Severely "Certainly not! What are you doing standing
on your head? Get on your feet again at once?" said Hanld severely. She lifted want me to show you another Willy off his head and stood him trick? I'll walk a tight-rope," he on his feet:
sold, you do that?"
Willy grumbled: "Now why did Knart wanted to know what "walking a tight-rope" meant. "Why were
"Well," you standing on
explained Willy, "you your,
head, Willy?"
stretch a rope tight from one "I'm practising to be an place to anothér, pretty high up, aerobat," replied Willy. "All and you walk across it. acrobats have to stand on their walk on the rope." heads."
"Just on the rope, Willy?" "Just on the rope, yes,"
"That's
said hand.
You
sald
PLANT MONARCH OF DESERTS you're a tond. How can a toad Willy. As he said this, he looked
of
THE Saguaro, giant cactus the southwestern deserts, is one of the most amazing plants in the world.
The great tree cactus may reach a height of 50 feet, weight of 10 tons, and grow to be 200' years old! Native of dry desert coun- try, the Saguaro is
more
than 90% water. Five large species of birds will not build nests in any other "tree."
Actually, the great cactus is an efflelent water storage system. It
la supported by a root system
lying only a few inches under drill half gallon sized nests into ground but extending as far as
the branches,
be an acrobat?""
Dround for rope "Ah!""ne" But Willy didn't think that his cried suddenly,
pulting at a being a tood had anything to do spot in the air midway between with his being an acrobat. "I a blackberry bush and the trunk know some more tricks," he said. of a pine tree. "There's onel "Do you want me to show them And all stretched already!"
to you? Just watch!....Here I
Bop
Silken Thread
Willy took a long run, then threw himself into the air. He hard before they discovered that Knarf and Hanid had to look went somersaulting round and the "rope" Willy was pointing at round. Then all of a sudden he
than the landed on the ground. And the
next
Was
nothing more
"But
instant with a loud "Hey!" silken thread spun by a spider.
Willy!" sald Kharf. Willy completely vanished!
Kharf and
You're
to walk on Hand looked at
not going erch other in astonishment. Then
that
tiny spider's thread!" Knurl called out: "That was a
"My boy going to do it!.... said Willy, "I'm an acrobati wonderful trick, Willy! All right,
Here Willy, where are you?"
"Willy! Willy!" shouted Hanid. But there was no Willy!
An Angry Mole
The Saguaro, like most cac4fen out of my house, do you out ·
several
I go!" the air. He came down straight Poor Willy! He sprang up into on the thread. For several seconds he wobbled from side to side. He almost last his the spot where Willy had disap-
Knorf and Hanid ran over to balance....
.he caught it again almost Jost his balance 65 feet on either side of the obligingis Thes the holes with nichole. The next Instant willy for the second time. And now
peared.
found the second time....he plant. When infrequent rains strong dry fibres excellent for come shooting up out of the hole he, stood steady at Last, both come, the vast root maze soaks bird housekeeping.
followed by an
angry mole. feet on the thread, both arms up water ke blotting paper.
at his side. He started to Then the surplus is purpped into
said the mole, glaring at walk....and then happened, the trunks and branches which has beautiful blossom. The Willy, "I don't care to have Two spiders came dashing out
flowers, expandable
waxy-white, cylinders Inches
Ho at him, one from the blackberry dropping in on mel people across, and strengthened by wooden ribbing. booming, are the state emblem dinner!" the mole said to Knatt pine tree! Here's a toad! Grab
night-landed right in the middle of my
Bush, the other onc from the of Arizona. The fruit is specta and Hanid,
himt" the spiders cried, As large quantities of water cular,
Yes, too. First purple, the stored, the ridges of the fruit ripens and splits open to
tumbled poor Willy
into the "Anyway," said Willy to Knart blackberry busht. great tubes expand accordion- show a bright red pulp that has and Hanid as they walked away...I guess I won't be an like. As the Saguaro uses 'up the stored water,
long been a favourite of desert from the angry mole, "it was a acrobat," he said sadly. the
ridges con- birds and desert Indians.
good trick, wasn't it? Do you just be a toad!" tract. The dull
green colour, the spines, and the waxy, surface of the plant combine to reduce as much as possible the reflexion of bright light. This slows the. evaporation rate of the precious. stored water in the pulp of the plant,
Japan
U.K.
Здрал
U.K. via Singapore
on or abt, 20th Sept. 22nd Sept. 2nd Oct. 8th Oct
1120
SAILINGS
Loading on or abt.
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Havre, London, Rotterdam and Antwerp. Direct to Bingapore, thence Liverpool,
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aro
3rd Sept.
8th Sept,
8th Sept.
24th Sept,
24th Sept.
"BENCRUACHAN" Dublin, Gisarow
"DENNEVIB"
"BENCLEUCIF"
| NBENMHOR"
BENLEDI"
DENALDER"
·
Calls Manila,
¡A von m out b, and
{Liverpool
Hamburk
Жиго
•Yokohama. ¿Direct to Singapore, thauce London, Rotterdam and
Kobe and
London, totterdam and Antwerp, (Direct to Singapore, thence I ayre, Liverpoo
Glasgow... and Hamburg.
6th Oct
8th Oct
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All Vessels accepi Cargo for Aden, Küez and Port Said,,
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The Saguaro can survive à four-year drought and continue to bloom and bear fruit normally. Under more prolonged dry, con- ditions some of the branches. must be sheriflced to save the Ife of the
Waters plant entirely withdrawn from the doomed branches which soon wilt and dle in order that the Test of the plant may, Evo Since, even a moltions.
cut In
cat or Jury would cause the loss of the stored water in the plant, the
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ork Bullding,
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quickly any injury to trunk and branch by exuding a milky top that quickly hardens to a cork- Uke fibre. When woodpeckers:
Rupert's Summer Adventure-35
The Imp of Summer-Jooks - Verir annoyed. "What, you again!" he frowns. Haven't wo nhỏugti' to do repairing the damage that *** the dragon 'ala without
you warding my fine?","But I've
ing by dragons can be cured. Look, he's went this
maglu #play." "Never heard of sich a thing." grumbles. the Lap "Ilpwever,
me."le follow dashes away, and in's twinkting hoj has reached the boulder and come to help you enter Hupert, has opened the entrance to the
The conjurer saya tisat'ecorch»!-
underground passager.
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RUPERT AND THE
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2nd September 18th September 20th October
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"CARTHAGE"
Via Southampton, l'ort Bald, Aden, Bombay, Colombo, Penang & Singapore
Moraward
"CANTON"
“CÁRTHAGE".
Leaves Hongkong Das Löddon.
20th Sept.
24th October
27th Oct.
24 November
Accepting carto for singapore, Penadi, Colombo, Bombay,
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Homewards' "SOCOTKA”
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Arrives
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Loadings
14th September
D.
From
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For
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Favre,
Continent
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due 8th Sept. sail 7th Sept.
due 10th Sept. salls 12th Sept.
due 13th Sept.
nells 14th Sept..
from Japan
for Bingapore, Penang. Rangoon d Calcutta
froin Japan for. Singapore Be Chittagong from Calcutta, Rangoon, Penang, & Singapore for Japan
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P. & O./B. I. JOINT SERVICÉ
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duo
9th Sept.
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from Bombay.
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