"YUNNAN"
"SZECHUEN"
BUTTERFIELD
and SWIRE.
CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
SAILINGS TO
5 p.m. 3rd Dec.
Shanghal
1
"PETEK KEED'
„Kuching- & Sibu ....
Kichung
8 m. 4 Dec. 11 am.
5th Dec,*
*Salls from Custodian Wharf
ARRIVALS FROM
.Shanghai
20th Nov.
.Keelung
3rd Dec.
"YUNNAN"
"SZECHUEN"
A.O, LINĘ LTD./C.N. CO., LTD., JOINT SERVICE
SAILINGS TO
Kure & Kobe ...........
"CHANGTE"
"CHANGTE"
151 Dec.
ARRIVALS FROM Australia & Monlin
In Parti
BLUE FUNNEL LINE Scheduled Sallings to Europe via
den & Port Said
Load
5th Dec. 13th Dec. Dublin 23rd Dec.
Balls
8th Dec.
24th Dec.
22nd Der.
"PERSEUS”
Marseilles, Liverpool &. Glasgow
.5th Jan,
24th Dee.
6th Jan,
"PATROCLUS“ Maravilles, Liverpool &
Glasgow
"ANTILOCHUS" Liverpool & Glasgow "CYCLOPS"
...Liverpool & "AUTOLYCUS" Genoa, Itosterdum, Amsterdam London & Hamburg
G. "CYCLOPS"
Scheduled Sailings from Lurope
Balls Liverpool Saller
S. "AUTOLYCUS"
G. "PERSEUS"
S. “ANCHISEM”
G. "CLYTONEUS“
b. "ASTYANAX”
3rd Dec
7th Dec.
G. “PYRRHUS”
S. "EUMALUS".
18th Dec.
Balls Rotterdam
Sulled
13th Dec..
the
THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1953.
BOYS and
NOW FLY YOUR OWN PLANE
by EDWARD B. SNETTEM
wing
PLANE that really notches on to the glued Alles? Here it is, made when in position. from a matchstick.
Next cut the vertical notch at 'the rear end of the match to It is a model of the Avro take the "heel" of the rudder, Vulcan jot, and it was with the An resting on the five specially designed for rend- spots of glue shown on the wing
centre. ers of this page.
When all is dry, she's rondy Follow the instructions, to fly. Turn up to just under and then when your plane 45 degrees the elevator-sections is ready launch it catapult (marked E) Icave the 14th Dec.fashion from the "flight allerons (A) set at noutral.
deck" you learned how to Launch first at low speed. make in the China Mail of Correct tendency to bank by!
the October 10-from a strip turning down a fraction of three-ply wood with an
alleron on the falling wing, and
elastic band fixed in a slot in une endi. Now this is how to make the plane:-
Arrives Hong Kong 1st Dec. 8th Dec. 14th Dec. 27th Dec. 20th Dec. 1954 13th Jan, 1054 22nd Jan. 1954
Đu Jân.
O. Loading Glasgow, before Liverpool. 8, Loeding Swansez, hoture Liverpool Carriers' option to pracoed via olhar ports to lond à diɛɛharge fargo.
PRE DE LA RAMA LINES
t
ARRIVING FROM U.S. ATLANTIC &
PACIFIC COAST PORTS.
"AJAX"
Salla N.Y. Baits Br. Sailed
Atr. fil.F.
Salled
3rd Dec.
"HAINAN"
- do -
“AGAMEMNON“
-do-
2nd Dec.
"DONA AURORA”
17th Dec.
"DONA ALICIA"
11 Dec.
2nd Jan.
14th Dec, 31st Dec. 16th Jan. 31st Jan,
- do I
SAILING for NEW YORK, 'vin SAN FRANCISCO,
LOS ANGELES & CRISTOBAL.
"DONA NATI" "RENARES"
"AJAX"
Loads
4th Dec.
19th Dec.
4th Jan.
Salla Bila Dec. 2011 Dec. 5th Jan,
Accept cargo for Kingston and to Central & South American ports on
through bills of lading.
Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd.
Roule
HK/Bangkok Singapore
Depart langkung (DC-4) 7.00 a.m. Tue. Fri. (Conncers at Bangkok with U.B.A. on BK/Manila/F.N. Borneo (DC-3) 8.30a.m. Tue, Fri. BK/Saigon/Singapore (DC-4) 11,00 m.m. Wed. 1?16/23/along
Calcuti
(1-3) 1100 m. Wei.
(DC-4) 11.00 a.m. Salį,
Arrives 1.K.
(un return) 7.15 am. Wed. Sat, Tuesdays for Rangoon)
3.45 p.m. Wed. Sal 5.Do p.m. Thu. 2.455.m. Thu,
4.30 p.m. Sun,
All the above subject to Alteration without notice.
for particulars please apply to:
Butterfield & Swire (Hongkong) Ltd.
1 Connaught Rd. Tel: 30331/8
Branch Office: 50 Connaught Rd. West. Tel: 25875,32144.24878
EVERETT LINES
EVERETT ORIENT LINE Fast regular freight-refrigerator-passenger service to Korea, Japan, Philippines, Indo- China, Siam, Malaya, Rangoon, Calcutta and Chittagong.
"NOREVERETT"
In Port Sails
Leading
for Nov. 28
"REBEVERETT"
Arrives Sails
Kobe, Yokohama, Shimizu, Nagoya & Osaku,
Dec. 6 from Manila
Dec. 6 for Singapore,
Rangoon
&
Penang, Calcutta
(Accepting carro for transhipment Kobe/Pusan and Kobe/Okinawa)
EVERETT STAR LINE
Fast regular freight-refrigerator-passenger service to Korca, Japan, Philippines, Indo- China, Slam, Malaya, Colombo, Bombay, Karachi and Persian Gulf Ports.
"THAI"
Arrives Sails
Dec. 2 from Sandakan. Dec. 3 for Okinawa, Kobo
Yokohama.
"STAR ARCTURUS”
Arrives Salle
Dec. 14 from Japan. Dec. 15 for Singapore, Port Swetten- , Colombo, Bombay, Karachi, Khorramshahr, Basrah & Bahrein,
(Accepting cargo for transhipment
Kobe/Ruzan and Kobe/Okinawa)
EVERETT STEAMSHIP CORPORATION S/A
(Incorporated in the Republic of Passation
Win Limited Liability.
Queen's Building, Telephone 31206. Chineto Department: Telophone 28293.
Trace the three actual sized parts on to stilish notepaper, and cut out without creasing,
FIN AND AUDOIN
WING HEAL
Muke small cut
the
and:
up on the opposite wing.
Turn only with rudder, not to desired direction.
Cowboy But
GIRLS PAGE
PLYMOUNTIES
1.Cut al0inch square of CARDBOARD...and color
in squares. 2 HOW TO PLAY
PLAYERS TAKETURNS. ...1 PLAYER
USES
FOUR RED BUTTONS.
FOR THE ROYAL MOUNTED POLICE THE OTHER USES A WHITE BUTTON FOR THE ESCAPED CONVICT
THE MOUNTIES MAY NOVE
FORWARD ONLY ON THE DARK SQUARES
-MOUNTIES.
SECAPED CORNIFT.
THE ESCAPED CONVICT MAY MOVE BOTH FORWARD OR BACKWARD ON THE DARK SQUARES.... NEITHER A MOUNTIE NOR THE CONVICT CAN JUMP... 3.The convict must break through the line of mounties ånd reach the woode to win.
4.The mounties must corner
the convict to win.
Belongs to West Origin Is Surprising
By HAROLD GLUCK
"Want
ST
me to explain?" says our hero who sees ព chance to save his life.
UR hero has.fired the
"Go ahead, white man," last bullet in his six- says the
redskin. "My shooter. His rifle in
secretary is ready to take useless because the firing it all down. info
pin was destroyed. Now he
But make it clear. My people want to faces the foe with courage know just what a cowboy in his heart..
apex of the wing down to the dotted line, and after bending of the down the front edges wing to an angle of 45 degrees, glue the seal over the apex of the delta.
Lay
a
Make four cuts into the rear of the wing for "clevon" laps.
match on the plan und mark off position for front and rear notches to hold the wing and cut with a sharp penknife.
Glue the wing parts which go into the notches, and insert the reur of wing Arst. Press the
"Before
is."
kill you," The cowboy has been known
taunts Chief Rain-on-the- by different names. He has
end, "who are you?"
been called "cher," a 4. Suncher..
"I am a cowboy," replies the lone white man as he ** "hand watches the tomahawk and 80 other redskins.
"A what?" asks a puzzled Indian chief.
Some Strange Conversations
-Christopher Cricket Hears Interesting Things--
By MAX TRELL
me
"IT'S amazing," Christopher Crickel was saying to Knart and Hanid, the shadow- children with the turned-about tinmes, "what happens' to whenever I go anywhere. Things talk that never talked before. It makes me think that there's something magical about every thing. Or maybe,"_ he added, Hits Just because I'm a cricket
Kanri and Hanid bolli interrupted Christopher Cricket before he had time to say any more. They demanded to know what had happened to make him think that there was any- thing magical about things.
"Well," sald Christopher. scating himself comfortably 011 the edge of the corpet, "I'll tell
The rooster was saying "That'll never do!"
4
"cowhand" uncl Now 10 nil this you can add his slang
such as names,
"leather
pounder," "cow-prod," "saddle suf" or "ranahan." When the
rodeo comes to town people add such expressions as "branco buster and bronco peeler." Whether the heroine in a clien story
can fall deeply in love with a "bull nurse," a buckaroo" or 1 "cowman" is open to question.
The fact remains, that in pre- Revolutionary days, the iden of the "cowboy" was born.
the After
of battle
San Mexicans the Jacinto, rancheros left their herds behind while they fled to safely perots HARDY PEOPLE
the Rio Grande. The problem of feeding, the hungry Техад Offhand, it sounds very simple army was simplified by sending to work out the origin of the out "cowboys" to bring in the
"cowboy." expression
Some beet on hoofs. They were really where, it should seem logical, in tough hombres in those days. the great wide West of America, One.complaint mentions that "at our hero as a young boy took that
time Was a company of care of a cow, and became a organised bandits and cowboy.
thronts called, cowboys,"
But the fact remains, that in pre-Revolutionary days, the idea cowboy was born. We
of the
have in existence а letter
cut-
After the American Civil War, when ranches grew and the herd went on the trail, the day of the. cowboy began.
written about 1750 by one of Charles A. Siringo wrote his Braddock's offices horscoack 1885. About a million copies of He de- book “A Texas Cowboy" in
.on
scribes the meni ង២ who drive their herds of cattle. it have since been sold in He makes this comment: "The various editions. The day of the Cow-Pen Men are hardy Feople, cowboy hnd finally arrived. And are almost continually on Horse both in fletion and in fact, the back, being obliged to know the cowboy became something of a Haunts of their cattle." And hero. during the U. S. Revolutionary
War there were tough gangs of
you. It happened very early singing, I'll be glad to sing an-cowboys. Actually most of them this morning--just after the sun other song." So I plunked the were Tory refugees and they Jose. In fact, started happen- strings of my banjo again and stole many cattle. ing just as the sun was rising, was about to begin singing an-
other song when I heard other voice saying!
Pretty Farmhouse
"Now, I had gone out long before that," Christopher weat on, "for it was a beautiful night
"No-no
Play Ball-O
game.
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PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL S.N. CO.
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Outwards "CARTHAGE"
"CONFU"
"CHUSAN"
"CANTON"
Leaver - London
12th November
20th Decomber
18th Decembar
Due Hongkong 15th December Jith January
16 January
10th January 12th February,
Via Southampton, Port Said, Aden, Bombay, Colombo
Homewarda "CARTHAGE"
"CORFU"
"CHUSAN"
"CANTON"
Fenang & Singapore
Leaves Hongkong Due London
แป: December
18th January
31st January
18th January
15th February
1st March
15th February 18th March
Accepting cargo for Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Bombay,
Outwards "BOCOTRA”
"SUNDA"
Homewards
Aden, Port Said & Londan
FREIGHT SERVICE
-- Arrives
Jet December 4th Deceinber
Sails
"BILLONG" th December
For Singapore, Penang, Port Swettenham, Colombo, Aden, Port Said, Genon, Marseilles, Havre, Lon don, Antwerp, Hatterdain & Ilamburg,
With 'liberty to call at Delawan before or after Biraita
Bombay if inducement offers,
Tanks
Torts and
avallabio
for cargo Space for refrigerated cargo.
of Oll in Balk Limited Fassenger
accommodation.
BRITISH INDIA S.N. CO., LTD.
"ANSHUN" ·
"WARLA"
"
"BANTIILA"
ail 28th Nov. for Singapore. Penang,
Hantoon & Caloutta due 6th Dec. from Jupan sails 7th Dec.
dua 7th Dec, sails at Dec.
"SIRDHANA" due 13th Dec.
"ORNA"
als 14th Dec.
far Singapore, Rangoon
& Chittagong from Japan
for Singapore, Penang. Rangoon de Calcutts froin Calcutta, Rangoon
Straits
for Japals
P. & 0./B. I. JOINT SERVICE
"OZANDA"
In Port
from P. Gulf, Karachi, Bombay Bingapore
Nagoya
sails 28th Nov. 1ot Kabe,
duo 701 Dec. salla 8th Dec,
from Japan
&
for Singapore, Colombo, Bombay
Karachi aho F. Cuif Ports Vi Bombay
due 15th Dec. from Karachi, Bombay,
Colombo & Straits for Japan
"UMARIA”
"OKMLA"
sails 36th Dec, duo 18 Dec.
from P. Gulf, Karachi, Bombay, Colombo & Singapuro
Balls: 18th Dec, for Japan
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN S.S. CO., LTD.
"EASTERN"
"NELLORE"
from Japan
dun 7th Dec.
sails 13th Dec.
for Sydney, Adelaide & Melbourne
doe 18 Dec.
from Australia salls 2001 Dec. for Japan
Ail vessels have liberty to call at any ports en or off the route & the route & sailing are subject to chanzo or amendment with or without notice.
For full particulars apply to:- MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO. OF HONG KONG LTD, Telephone Nos. 27721-4.
Now... FLY the shortest routo
TO
South Africa
or
Via Cocos Is., and Mauritius
Ewen Cameron and his boys A WIDE cardboard dress in-bocame
sult box is needed for this known as "cowboys." Things were not so good infid or the bottom part.
You can use either the no-not
Texas with Santa Ana's troops "Who was that?" asked Knurf. on the one hand, and the Indlanis On the inside of the box, "The cat. She usually says on the other. So each district make three big O's by tracing dark around saucer with.a when she gets organised its ranger me-ow, me-ow
company, last night, with a fine full moon But I heard ready
Print a 2 in the centre emyon.
1 in each of the and
play, put the box on the Boor. Players take turns tossing the ball into the box. If the
and Just the uniest, fleeceest up in the morniny saying, no-horses, and with their rides de circle,
spring upon their
little clouds drifting across the
.. no-no. So I said: 'All to the rescue. Do sky. So I took my banjo and walked across the fleld and right, Kitty, if you want me to. through the woods and over the go, I'll go. I got up. Then camo
hill, until finally I came to
garden pretty farmhouse with
and a big red barn and morning- glories climbing up the side of
another voice:
Stay
stay-y-y-y!"
"Who said that?" asked Hanid.
"The horse. Usually he says,
the house near the kitchen door Neigh. But I wasn't mistaken.
This morning
saying, he was
'All So I said,
right, Horsle, I'll stay. And I sat down again."
and lots of other flowers grow- ing all about. I could see 'stay. everything in the moonlight.
"So," raid Christopher Cricket, "I decided that herë WOS Just the place for me to stay and Blug a song. I was sure that everybody in the house
like
would
Christopher chuckled.
To Go or Stay
and the
"You have no idea how many 1. I rat myself down times I sat down, get up, sat under the morning-glories, tuned down again, got up again, The
started up my banjo and
to cow said, "No" (though she sing. Well, I sang one song, usually says, 'Moo'), then I
another, sang
and sheep said, "Yeah (though sho another, and another. I guess I usually says, 'Ba-a-ah');, and must have cung twenty different the dog sald, Bo off (though 50019, Then all at once I he usually says, 'Woof-wood!'), said, 'Come
notlood that the moon had gone and the ducks down and the sky was begin back-back-back!' (though they ning to turn pink in the cast, usually only say, quack-quick- 'It's high time you stopped quacki), and the sparrows; singing. Christopher old bean who didn't like getting up I was starting to say to myself carly and were very annoyed at when suddenly, I started to all the excitement and noise, hear a volce from the barn chirped, 'Sleep sleep-sleep,' (in- yard calling out loudly:
stead of chirping 'cheep-cheep- "That'll never
that'll cheep)
do.
never dol'
"Oh, who was it?" asked Christophor.
Honid
Another Volco
"But by this time," said tonid Christopher, "the sun was up abd shining, and the farmer his house, and came out of looked at the sun, and took a "It Was the Rooster, who deep breath of the fresh mom- usually.saya
and cock-s-doodle do ing air and smiledi... when he gets up in the morn then he opened his mouth and ing. But there was no doubt began singing himself. So I saw about it. This morning he was there wasn't any nood for me saying, "ThatTi nover do." to sing, and I went right home. Thank you. Rooster,' I said. If Now what do you think of all you don't thinic I ought to stop this? Wasn't it really magical?"
others,
DOWN ON ball stops in one of the circles,
THE FARM
THE young farmers of tho Empire are working to produce more food for Britain's dinner tabica,
"And in this stamp Australia honours her young farinars who have boon studying food production in *organised movement for 25 years.
The stamp is printed in open-
air colours of green and brown, and perforated 14%. Is le face- vallied 3%d., and costs 6d, in England.-), ATA.
the player scores the number written there. There is no score if the ball does not land in a. circle, or if it misses the box.
The player to score 10 points Arst wins the game.
:
BOX TOUCH TRICK
Ask your friends, if they can louch box inside and outside without opening it. You can show them how by touching a box while standing outside of |the house and again while
standing inside.
Rupert's Coral Island-23
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The great, fish swims so power- "The Merboy said that the fish fully, sometimes on the surface and would put me home." he thinks miserably. But where aml sometimes under water, that alt
He becomes very, tited, Land is soon out of sight. Poor
but as evening 'approachra "the sta ́, Rupert can do nothing about it but gets calmer, and he Ends himmelf cling to the mast as screaming sulle passing more slowly between small. wheel, around him inquisitively. weirdly shaped islandı..
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