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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1954, ?
the BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
As Early As 2,000 Years Ago
The Day
Of
Marble Games Were Popular The Stamp
Among Egyptian Boys
"AYBE Egyptian boys
M 2,000 years ago didn't
yell: "Slips!" "No histing!" and "Knuckle down!" but there is no doubt that Egyptian boys played mar bles. Boys in old Rome played too. Their marbles
were little round balls much like ours except that they were made of marble.
Thin is the way ours got their name-the first ones were of real marble, the beautiful stone we often see in public buildings.
Marbles nowadays aren't made of anything so expen. isive. Most are of clay, stone, or glass. Clay marbles are cheapest. They are balls of clay, coloured and baked, Boys nually cali them "mbs" or "commys."
In Germany people make millions of marbles from stone. They break a hard stone into little square blocks
By EVA BRINKER
ARMOR CHAMP
200
MARBLE PLAYINO 15
NOT NEW-
FOR SOME 2,000 YEARS OR MORE,
BOYS HAVE BEEN KNEELING IN THE DUCT TO ENJOY THIS MOST
PLEASURABLE OF
PASTIMES -
THE PRETTIEST OF MARBLES ARE MADE OF
GLASS-
FIRST, A MORTAR LIKE MIXTURE IS PREPARED AND THEN EMKED IN
2300 DEGREES OF HEAT
THE ROMANS MADE THEIR MARBLES
OF REAL
STONE -
THEY CALLED
17 MAHOR"
with a hammer and put them headlights catch the rays in a mill. The mill has a flat reflected through the mar stone and a block of ouk that bles and the driver is warned fits over it. About 100 or to take care. 150 blocks are placed between the slab of stone and the oak top. The oak in Turned round and round us water flows over the stone.
The Prettiest
In just 15 minutes the stone blocks
are worn
to
How To Play
In hatcheries where baby sh are calsed, gings marbles are often used on the bottom of the pools. Fish seem to prefer this to a a smooth bottom. And the marble-covered bottom provides i # beiter surface for holding the
eggs.
nish
THIS
HIS stamp prompts 4 question. Why, do other countries get RO much
more variety
their stamps than doeg?
into Britain
end
The answer is partly British tradition for uniformity dislike of frequent change,
in Britain,
special
such are few. Tho pos tal authori
ties have turn ad down
STL-
for
gestions alampa to halp chart- the
thes
00
grounds that
If they told
In one caso
other deserving causes will flood them with appeals.
YOUR PUZZLE CORNER
פו
1 Youth
Crossword
Riddles
1. What letter of the alphabet,
If substituted, would make
dog act like a cat?
2. What word will, if you take away the first letter, make you sick?
3. Why should a ship's offlepe chronometer put his
never
under his pillow?
4. What is the Bifference- be- tween a bell and an organt
B. Why is a violin jike a bank of issue?
Triangle
ACROSS
Thin triangle
↑ Closed car
B Meadow
7 Decor
U Blow with open hand
10 Famous English school
12 Babylonian deity
13 Three-toed sloth
14 Exudo
17 Direction
of
19 High card
But look at France. She pro- duces an immenso variety stamps and nobody suffers.
Look at this one. It is issued to celebrate, of all things, The Day of the Stampl
M. Man in the picturo is Lavallette, Director of the Post In the Napoleonic years 1004-18. The face value is 12 francs and there is an extra charge the of 3 francs for an unnamed good
causo.
20 Huge tub
21 Compound ether
29 Unit of weight
DOWN
1 Jump
2 Fuld notice in a newspaper 3 Challenge
4 Body of water
5 Negative word
6 Andean beast of burden
is
discovered; National Champion.
летет The boys from Egypt
how far their games guessed
marbles with
would marble travel!
this In
The stamp is recess-printed; perforated 13 and costs 6d.
A really nice one- London, JAA
in
8 Brown bread with heat
B Observe
A WILD "HORSE”
FOR KNARF
By MAX TRELL
WELL,"
Marble players Use certain round marbles. At one town terms that nobody else uses. To in Germany there are three "knuckle down is to have ono of these mills, and they pro- or more knuckles on the ground
Bald Knari the duce over 60,000 alone mar- when shooting. "Silps" is said hy a player when he accidentally bles in one week.
before ho is
the with shadow-boy ready. To
(pronounce { turned-about name, to his sister. shooting hand from the ground. again, I think I'll go hunting for like "lord") means to raise the Hanld, "now that spring is here to "hunch" is to shove the hand forward in shooting.
The
AS A
prettiest
marbles of all are made of glass. Just housewife mixes up eggs and flour and butter to make a cake, that is the way a glass maker mixes up his recipe for marbles. He weighs Get the right amounts of a special kind of sand and
other severni materials, and puts them in a furnace.
When the mixture in the
lets go of a
4
Most players
that agree shooter should not be over inch in diameter, while a play- Ingt marble is ordinarily Inch through.
Like Golf
wild horse."
"A wild what?" asked Hanld. Knart repeated: "A wild horse."
A Fuller Explanation
I
melts and the holes are made in degrees, it whole thing becomes like The players try to toss or bowl horse molasses. Now the men run marbles into each hole in suc-smaller."
cession. The game of golf which
come
Away want Knurf on the back of a grasshopper-horse.
Then, seeing that Henid looked puzzled, Knart explained. "I don't really menn a wild Though Ringer is the game horse.
don't even mean a most often played by boys now, horse, at all. I mean I'm going marble to make myself as small as $ some boys play other
Опе 13 called "Nine Kames. furnace gets W 2,800 Hales." In this, nine cup-shaped pin, and go riding on something
will be just as good as not that the ground.
except a great deal
whila the grasshopper jumped "Something liko
the air and grasshop- straight up into #
wasn't caught at all. Knart nodded, “A grasshopper
spied another Finally, they ought to be all right. Would you grasshopper sitting on a blade of Hit and Span is a
like to come along and help me grass, as it chewed a plug of to- game in
catch one? Maybe we could hacco. Knarf sald "Sb-sh-h-h" which опе boy tasses his
to Hanid, and crept up behind marbles to a distance and the catch two." other tosses his as close to the Hould said she didn't much the grasshopper with absolutely no also at all. Then with a whether Knarf caught a first boy's as he can. If he hits care
for If he grasshopper marble, he keeps it.
her or not. sudden shout, he sprang on the comes within A handsbreadth (a "Grasshoppers bump around too grasshopper's back.
Then they much," she said. "If I make Away went the grasshopper span), he scores one. start again with the second myself as smail as a pin and with Knarfi player tossing first
want something to ride on, I'll In
pick something tamer than grasshopper."
it into a forming machine is a popular sport in many parts per?" said Hanid.
into of the world, may have where it is moulded little balls. Their colours 1:em Nine Holes depend on the particular recipe the glass maker used for this batch.
Many Uses
Havo
you ever scen a highway sign with raised glass letters? Those letters are formed of marbles set deep into the iron frame. Behind each marble is tiny reflector. A
n
games of marbles In most other games, it is practice that makes perfect. In America every year there is a marblo tournament in which the best car's players in the whole country
Try These Water Games At
"Such as?" asked Knart. "Such as a daddy longlegs."
A Hunt in the Garden
ຕ
Hanid
Hanid watched her brother going
up and down, up and down, over the garden wall, into the next-door-neighbour's gar- den, then over the goldfish pond, then over the picket fence, theri across the road. "Whoopee! So Knart and Hanid went out
heard inta the garden behind the Knarf shouting.
Knart didn't get back until a house and started to hunt for
By that time, a full hour later. two "horses" to ride on grasshopper-horse and daddy the grasshopper was so tired, it longlegs-horse. But before they could hardly pull itself along the began hunting for these animals ground. It was much too weary bit of (or insects, if you like). Kaart to hop. Knarf had put and Hand made themselves as the spider web around His neck small as pins.
as a balter and was leading it. They used a spider web as a He tied it to a daisy stem. SEAWEED TAG: A long strip | Insso.
"I've got it tamed now," he I like water garnes.
HIL So of seaweed for this one.
"Look," shouted Khart, paint told Honid.
Lame the must lasso another
Just to show how swimmering excitedly, "there's a grass- will your friends. Round with it, alther his arm, foot or
Was Kharf hopper hiding behind that grasshopper-horo
The them up for a swimming head. The tagged swimmer be daisy."
held out a bit of grass. party and a picnic lunch comes "It"
Knart ran around one way, grasshopper nibbled it right out afterwards. Everyone is BALLOON BALL: Balloon is Hanid ran around the ather. of Knaif's hand.
"Now, I'll help you and 2 passed among a team of thred. They both throw their lassos at sure to enjoy that.
A
Swimming
TF you can swim, you will
15
BALLOON RACE: Have many balloons ns you have swimmers. Infate each balloon to capacity and toes into the water. Swimmers must push the balloon shead with their
heads and advance to a given line in the water, then return. The first swimmer whoso balloon reaches the finish-goal is the winner,
RHINOCEROS RELAY: Swin- mers float for this one and, since their they have no hom on
they snoute like a rhinoceros, must hold one leg up. Any hand stroke may be used to paddla the swimmer forward. I tho "shout" drops, the rhinoceros La "out" Firat one to the goal is the winner.
FOLLOW THE LEADER: A kindergarten game that makes for ordictreme Thi thể TT. Swimmer, must follow anything the leader, 190gi==wall:"
Tours, in stralloros water, subw kerge, somaceault, awim, "Jump, Дов
Party
The other three-member team the same time. But Knarr's daddy longlegs," Knart said.
try to snatch the balloon sway- lasso
Hanid's, caught -IRMA HEGEL | Hanid's lasso caught Koart's,
Rupert and the Spring Chicken–25
When the big bird hu got lengw fast what i'm supposed to, over ją jatanishawnt- it tells a do with you,” saya" fía guida, penguin to guide Rupert to, that you've asked for the Spring pala Then mover solemnlý Chicks, so you'd better it. forward to pet to the case. Only don't blame me for what while the file bear is led for the ma, Aszpen the penguin tus other direction, up many Ripa tá - 14" thick ball 'rops that, in hoog?
11 insect egg
15 Frozen water
16 Trial
17 Level
18 River in Switzerland
22 Toward
Word Chain
Change an animal SKIN to a PELT. Make only nine moves and change only one letter at a time, but be sure you have a good word with each change.
hangs
ESTEEM. The second word
from
"ripped":
rago": third, fourth, "n sen eagle'; and "ngth. How the
measure of type." quickly can you complete triangle from these clues?
ESTEEM
Add-Anagrammatic
Add a letter to "an Egyptian
kun god" and have
Now
"a0
add another letter scramble for "genuine."
are,"
and
Repeat
procedure and have "to change," again
for "greater in stature,' and once more for " kind of football pass."
Word Square
If you rearrange the letters in each row of this square correctly and then rearrange
the rows, you'll find you can read your answer the same down as ncross:
AEINS
AINPT
EERST
AERRS
AEC PR
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and
"Oh, you don't have to," said Hanid.
"I don't?" said Knart in sur- priso. I thought you wanted
Social activity
Hanid's Mount "Look closely," sald Hanld, I've got anof!!.
Harle
Knart looked, closely. Sure slanding right beside was the sweetest and goulidit and best-natured daddy Is the whole garden. longlegs
Its logs were so long and thin and is hood and body were no arnail that Kriart hadn't oven naffced it.
Later that afternoon, «Knarf and Hanid both rode on their "horses" Knart went dying and leaping und bumping, jual though he were riding on 4 Hand went marching slowly and steadily and smoothly, just as though she
Idaßɓía" who loved everybody,
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