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Semarang.
Sourabaya & Macassar
"YUNNAN" "FENGNING"
......Shanghai
.... Djakarta,
"FENGTIEN"
"BZECIUEN"
"SHENGKING".
"HUNAN"
"POYANG"
"SHENGKING"
*PAKHOP
Yokohama, Nagoya, Ogalen
Bangkok
Keciunt
Tientaln
&
Kobo
Singapore, Penang &
6 p.m. 11th Nov,
G-om. 12th Nov.
8 am, 13th Nov. 10 am, 18 Nov.
3 p.m. 18th Nov,
10 am, 17th Nov.
7 a.m. Din Nov.
Belawan
10 am, 10th Nov.
Keelung
Bangkok
• Sails from AERIVALS FROM
3 p.m. 22nd Nov. 10 am, 23rd Nov. Custodian Wharf
"SZECHUEN" "FENGNING"
Kobe
Kabe
"800CHOW”
Indonesia
"SHENGKING"
.coluag
"HUNAN"
Tientsin
"POYANG"
"FENGTIEN"
Singapore & Sibu
.Singapore
& Bintan
2 a.m: 9th Nov. 8 nm, 9th Nov.
11th Nov.. 7.m. 13th Nov. 13th Nov. 14/15th Nov.
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"ANSHUN"
على
Sydney & Melbourno Kure, Kobe, Yokkaichi,
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ARRIVALS FROM Australia & Tarakan
SAILINGS TO Yokofninn, Nagoya, Yokkaichi, Kobe Kurc
“TAIYUAN"
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Noon 8th Nov, 12th Nov.
12th Nov.
"ANKING"
3rd Der:
"ANSHUN"
"CHANGSHA”
Australia
Bi
Monila
"TAIYUAN"
Yokoliama
In Port In Part 7. 10th Nov,
"ANKING"
Australia & Tarakan
20th Nov,
BLUE FUNNEL LINE
Genoll,
"AUTOLYCUS"
Scheduled Ballings to Europe via Adon & Port Said.
London, Rotterdam & Hamburg
"ANTILOCHUS" Liverpool & Dublin
"PATROCLUS” ...Marseilles, Liverpool
"ASTYANAX“
"CLYTONEUS”
& Glasgow ....Genoa,
London,
Rotterdam & Hamburg
.. Dublin
& Liverpool
Scheduled Ballings from Europe
8. "PATROCLUS"
6. "ANCHISES"
G. "CLYTONEUS"
S. "ASTYANAX"
G. "PERSEUS”
8. "AENEA8"
G. "ASCANIUS""
8. "AGAPENOK"
Balls
Rotterdam
Salled
Balls
Liverpool
Salled
do
do
do
12th Nov.
10th Nov.
18th Nov.
25th Nov.
5th Dec.
G. Loading Glasgow, before Liverpool.
23rd Nov.
25th Nov,
6th Dec.
24th Dec,
25th Dec,
Arrives
Hong Hons
17th Nov.
23rd Nov.
1st Dec.
10th Doc.
18th Dec,
-24th Dec. 31st Dec.
10th Jan 1953
B. Loading Swansea, before Liverpool. Carriers' option to proceed via other ports to
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1952.
the BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
If you had been
་।
By James Bartlett
THE big adventuro that page-boys in tasselled, peak
morning of September ed caps:
it
27 was the promise of The train left at ten Excit- o'clock with Stephenson's a ride on a train. ing? Just imagine if you engine "Locomotion" puffing had been there for it was out clouds. of black smoke,
Behind it 127 years ago, in 1825 and
were black, nobody in the world had over rough-wheeled open trucks, before bought n railway packed with 450 top-hatted, ticket.
foppish men passengers and The booking office was at their wives. Stockton, in the North of
All along the line as England, and the new run through the meadows, single-line of railway track people were cheering, horse stretched for 25 miles to men were galloping ahead, the neighbouring town of children were run- Darlington.
ning alongside. For If you were a girl you the train was mov- might be wearing a frilly ing at six miles yellow frock with
an hour! length billowy skirts and long, ankle-longth pan-
tulettes,
calf-
of it a In front man on a white horse
red* kept waving
П
Your hair would perhaps hag to clear the track. be parted in the centre, in a quiet section of smoothly combed to
the the line, George sides and plaited, the ends Stephenson'usked him of the plaits being caught to get out of the way up to the sides, of the head so that he could test with small bows.
Boys would be in tight- fitting, high-waisted coats with frilled 'collars ankle-length something like
and trousers →→ -modern
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15th Nov.
18th Dec: YORK,
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(DC-3) 4.43 am, Tuce, (DC-3)~8.45-a.m-Thurs." (DCA) 10,45 am. Tues,
Artires II.K.____ (on returny
1.45 am. Tues. Fri. U.B.A. to Rangoon)
4.45 pan. Tues.
4.15 pm Thurs, -6.48. Da. Wed,
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and
24th Nov,
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Make A Card Calling Trip
By Ida M. Parduc
TAKE this game to take with MAKE
your the next time you go
on a car trip.
All you
will need is an empty paper bag, ten small cards, and a pencil or crayon.
the
To make the cards, just rule back of a tablet off into one inch squares. Cut off ten of the squares, write the name of a different make of car on Put the sqURDOS each square.
in the sack..
tuma
To play, players Lake "calling one of the ten car names. Then the player reaches into
the sack and takes out a card. If he has called the car name correctly, he may keep the card and call again. It not, the card is put back into the sack and it is the next player's turn. The game con-
nues until alt the cards have
been wan: The player with the most cards is the champion
Caller
the train's real speed.
The passengers held on to their hats, the women shrieked-and the train, with its 00- ton load (it was pull- ing coal wagons, too) rumbled ahead at 15 miles an hour,
there...
When the train, arrived Darlington at noon,"
nt
STAMP CLUB: SOMETHING
"Locomo IN THE AIR
tlon" wheezed and clanked to a
the Jerky aloy,
passengers
MONG the most interesting
They
bumped and sprawled in heaps A stamps you can collect are
but nobody minded.
reckoned it thos Not everybody
used for airmail,” was a success. Ono man said: are usually easy to identify-by This journey shows that a plane and words like Aero, people will always want to go Avion, and Luftpost.
Many
countries issue special by horse and carriage."
airmail stampe. For the first eight years he WAS
Let us look at the threepenny might have imagined he
coloured here, right because after that nd- oho shown venturous September morning chocolate and put out by New It ran for passengers were | Zealand in 1931. no more carried on the Stockton to Dar about four years, was replaced Rington
unill 1833. railway
and today its catalogue price. Bul, today, tion" stands idle as a muscum on Darlington station. picce nearly 20,000 other locomotives are on the move.
while "Locomo-
YOU WOULD HAVE FRILLS DRESSED N
FOR A BOY: 'tassels and frills. FOR A GIRL: pantaletics.
In 103.
unused (or mint, to quote the technical term) and Us. used.
The perforations-thoco little holes
punched along the edges are 14 to 14. This means .that 14 of those on top and bottom or 14% of those on each side. would fit into a space of two centimetres.
Some of
the
threepenny
stamps in this series had a perforation of 14 by 18.
They
not run for long and, are
uncommon.
Their catalogue
price is 953, mint, So you see how Empire stamps increase in and value as the years pass, how a detail of perforation can put their price higher still.- J. A. A.
TING-A-LING TELLS A STORY
- It's About the Pig With a Curly Tail --
By MAX TRELL
FNARF and
Flanid, the shadow-children, with the
turned about names (your shadow has your name turned. about, too!), had made them-
as small
and selves
as pens down inside the blue slipped China Plate which always stood on the long table in the dining roon. They went down to visit their good friend Ting-a-Ling, who lived inside the plate. They wanted him to tell them a story. They found Ting-a-Ling sit- ting under the shade of his favourite cherry tree.
Sat Down Bàside Him
"A story? Well...let me see. Oh, yes! Do you know the story of the Pig with the Curly Tali?" fie, asked them after they had ant-down beside him--
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The tile pig was sad because his tall wasn't straight.
little piggy was about to give up hope of ever having
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straight tall, all the other little from
piggies received a visit Owl late one night.
Best Kind of Tails "'Piggles,' said Owl, 'straight tails are only good on rabbits. You should all have curly tails. These are the best kind of talls to have. None of you wants to a-rabbit, do be mistaken for you?' 'No' cried all the little piggies,
thei
"And straightaway they set about putting curls in tails," Ting-a-Ling sold.
"And did they all stop making shadow- fun of Curly?" the children asked,
"Of course! They envied him.
their They all wished
talls were as curly as his. He was very proud to be called Curly "The little piggy took Owl's from then on. And when any- advice. He tied his tail 10 one called him Wiggly-Tall he straight twig-then-dipped-it In-was the proudest of all. water. But when he took the
"He was
very thankful to Hanid shook her head. So di stick off
again, dear me, the Owl, too. But Owl sald: H'mm, Knart.
tall was as curly as over-and don't mention it. Only don't
"ever lose your tail. I couldn't "Then I'll tell it to you. It's so was the twig!
"But the story has a quite a sad story-and for the
happy ever make a new one grow or Ting-a-Ling added make the rest of the pigs want
when quickly. "For Just
our to lose their tails, too!"
little pig with the curly tall. ending."
This is what happened.
"It was quite long ago," Ting- a-Ling said as the two shadows moved a litle closer to him, "long before you and me, and long before our grandmothers and grandfathers.
It seemet that in those days Huile piggies were born with straight table
straight as the
tail of a rabbit. Now all the little piggies had these very straight toils ex- cept one little piggy who hat the very great misfortune to inve the curliest kind of toil imaginable.
F1:
no
Called Him "Curly".
"Oli, how his brothers and sisters and cousins made fun, of him! They called him 'Curly' and 'Wiggly-Tail and laughed at him from morning till night."
"And was he sad?"
Hanid asked.
"Indeed he was! He was as sad us a little piggy could be.
"So," Ting-a-Ling went (K), "he went to Owl and said: Owl, how can I get my tail to hang straight down?". And Owl, who was very wise and knew
ZOO'S WHO
something about everything. THE AFRICAN WART:HOG answered: "Tie it to a straight 15 MOTHER-NATURE'S .. twig, then dip it in the waler HOMELIEST CREATION... and by-and-by, you'll have ITS ENORMOUS TUSKS GROW tall just like your brothers and TO A LENGTH OF TWO FEET. sisters and cousins."
tand the b
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