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1 Henelulu Hawaiian islord Another Hawaiian island
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10 Prosent month (ab.)) 11 Military cap
1
Bern
13 Compass point
14 Small candles
17 Before
18' Heavy
21 Bate
23 Make a mistake
24 Summon
26 Arrow poison
28 Many malls are includ-
ed in the Hawajice group
20 Bedics of water
30 Conduct
DOWN
Sturdy tree;
2 Afresh
1:
3 skip, and jump
Hawaii is a territory of the ----States
5 Musical notc
6 British princess
* Employer
3 Followers
35 There
- 47gre inhabited
islands in the Howajian
group
16 Writing implement
18 Hawaiian wreaths
19 Sea eagle
20 Hawaii has
square miles
21 Palm Icat
22 Winter vehicle
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25 Peer Gynt's mother;
27 Electrical term
HAWAIIAN REBUS
If you use the words and pic-.
tures to good advantage, you win Hawail that have been hidden
casily find the four Tacts about
in this rebus;"
I'VE BEEN ALL OVER
THIS TERRITORY
'LL BE GLAD TO
GET INTO A SAFE HARBOR
DIAMOND
MOLOKAL
ot CAL
the
Hawaiian islands, provides the Puzzleman with a centre for his
THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1955.
FOR BOYS
AND
GIRLS
Carpenter Bees Never Burrow New German
Into A Live Tree
By Ida Smith
NE day in June, while
ONE
trimming the lower branches. of our umbrella word diemend. The verond tree, I noticed a huge, word is "a witticism"; third
esting to the check"; Lith bluish-black bee, much Sizes" and sixth short-larger than a bumble-bee, napped bris. Complete the hovering in front of my dirmond:
face. Several times it now around my head and then darted into the tree.
MOLOKAI
CODED MESSAGE
The Puzzkman used a simple de constructing his sentence tour Hawaii, Can you decipher the cade? As a clue, the eighth word. is relcario":
It had burrowed two neat holes, one above the other, in a dead portion of the tree: The holes were about a fost apart and slanted a bit from each other. The bee darted into the lower one. An enemy spider had built a thick web across the upper one.
I cleaned the web
A carpenter bee knocks off for a bite of lunch.
away each day after that, where she has stored a' supply Ibxbjj't Nbvob Mpb
urbut the bee kept on using of mixed flower. nectar arid mbshfta "bdujwf wpmdbop to the lower entrance.
pollen for her baby to eat when uff xpsme,
It hatches,
across
the
One afternoon I saw her sur- ning herself on a branch, her "CEMENT MIXER” HAWAIIAN MIX-UPS
hardsome indigo body shimmer-
Then she mixta some saw- "Ing in the sunshine. Thinking. I Three fact about Hawaii are might be able to photogrpah durt with raliva and builds a
partition I broke the branch off little hidden in these strange Ines. her,
but in carciully,
tumbled tunnel over it. On this partition
another supply down into the grass. Partnerly she stores
and en: in the food, lays another egg,
builds another partition over that.
Just' rearrange cach to fed them:
The letters
SLID VANS AN COLIC DUKE A LOAM ANU ANNA
AMA
AIFE TIP FORTE LEAN
(Solutions on Page 20)
HOW POUR AIR
unccriccrnen,
she
the Arass and washed her face and brushed herself carefully all. over,
BECOMES, TAME
After that she did not seem afraid of me but would Ay close whenever I was in the yard. And the did not dirt in- 10. her nest
any more.
but
would fly in leisurely,
When finished she has about 12 little compartments Dr cabinets about an inch high, cach containing on
egg and food.
The tag hatches into a grub, which is a wam-like creature, After it eats its supply of food, chrysalis or goes into the pupa stage during which it grows legs and wings. Each
herself head down.”
Stamps
THE Germans are again
spreading their wings which were clipped by the war. Not the Luftwaffe this time, but the Lufthansa -the civil airline, which has been reborn with British pilots and instructors to help.
Such a proud event calls for new stamps, of course, and the Germans never slow with pro- paganda have issued a set of four.
The motif is a white bird-it side in the tunnet from which might be a stork or an eagle- the main tunnel could be used skimming on its streamlined as an exit.
fight Carpenter, bees are part of the skies" "gainst a backcloth of blue But even a prejudleed scheme of nature to break up critle of things German would dead material and prepare it for And it hard to say that there is disintegration and later reuse in anything militaristic about this
They never Lufthansa bird. burrow into a live tree. come other way.
Three years ago it seemed that Der Tag, the day when the Western Alles would allow the Germans to fly powered planes, was extremely far off.
POSTS FOOL THEM Semetimes they mistake, our fence posts and barn rafters for dead material. The only way we can explain to them is to paint the posts and rafters with creosote or something which they do not like to burrow into. Carpenter bees will some- times use hollow reeds for nests to save themselves "labour, and sometimes will repair and use. old nests.
Now German air sovereignty has come just in time to scoop the cream of the season's tourist traffic. from its former enemies
airlines.
Lufthansa's time-table links six West
By German cities, mid-summer it will extend to-as many European countries and a trans-atlantic service with a carrying capacity of 39,000 a These boos are very
pretty year. and interesting little characters,
The stamps are printed in Being much mure gentle than photogravure; perforated 13 by
easy to waich and study,
London-J A, A.
1.Push an empty GLASS bee, and the largest of our bee little chrysalis places himself or the average smaller bee, they are 132 and a set of 4 costs 4d. in
straight down in a bucket of water.
IF YOU KEEP THE GLASS
STRAIGHT,
WATER WON'T ENTER!
2.PUSH ANOTHER GLASS DOWN BUT TILT IT SO IT WILL FILL WITH
WATER
3.Hold the lip of the air filled glass up against the one filled
are
Backs from the library ex- plained that she was a carpenter
family. There
numerous specics of carpenter bees. The females hibernate in winter. In the spring and early sum- me they build their nests.
Illustrations
the showed tunnel which these becs make to the other sometimes with rcoms leading off.
from
OTC entrance
All of the sawdust from the burrow the carpenter be piles carefully,nearby. Ordinarily she lays her first egg in the bottom compartment
the tunnel,
-NATURE'S PLAN
The first one at the bottom becomes full grown first because that was the first ega laid. It breaks through the outer parti- tion which its mother made to protec: it, and flies away, Then the next one comes down, etc.
Apparently in my bee's home the plan had been changed in some way due to the spider at the top hole. ably she made rooms off
The Children in a Shoe
-They Moved into a Beautiful Doll's House-
By MAX TRELL".
MR PUNCH WDE smiling enemy when Koort and Hanid, the Prob-shadow-children with the turned- to the about names, walked into the room. He locked wonderfully pleased with himself,
LEARN TO SWIM
THE RIGHT WAY
I rolled in a summer swim-
you are a swimmer en-
ming class, you are prob- ably impatient at the time
the instructor is talking on with water... NOW...breathing and the flutter
YAIR!
TILT IT 'AND SLIP
THE LIP OF THE AIR
kick. You
feel you know
all that stuff. You've done a little swimming on your own-it wasn't exactly right still you did move FILLED GLASS through the water. ---UNDER THE
It is of the utmost importance ONE WITH WATER
to learn swimming the right STRAIGHTEN way, preferably from, a trained WATER FILED Instructer. It is just as imper- GLASS. AND 1ant to un-learn those wrong AS AIR GOES habits you've picked up ducking OUT OF 1. about on your dwn. AND INTO
For instance, if you have been Z... WATER
swimming "as comes naturally" GOES INTO nine chances
TAKE IT EASY-
NOT SO MUCH LIKE A
MISSISSIPPI RIVER STEAMBOAT!
out of ten, you tions, you won't be able to see "I AND OUT emphasise the arm stroke and the other fellows.
splash like mad on your kicks'. After a few lessons, the instruc-
OF Z...
TRY IT!
ZOO'S WHO
"A BIRD EATS MORE FOOD
IN PROPORTION TO ITS WEIGHT
THAN ANY OTHER
CREATURE f
TABROOK TROUT, WEIGHING
144 POUNDS HAS BEEN THE
APYBARA,WHICH IS MORE THAN BOUR FEET LONG AND TWO FEET HIGH, 15 | WORLD RECORD FOR YEARS. THE WORLD'S URGEST RODENTIT MAY IT WAS CAUGHT IN THE NIPI? | WEIGH AS MUCH AS ONE HUNDRED.
GON RIVER ON THE SHORE
OF LAKE SUPERIOR..
POUNDS
Learn to swim the right way tor will show you how to keep and then keep practising until your knees loose in order that you have overcome all the wrong both your legs will swing free habits you have picked up on You will enjoy the ty from hips to tocs: The kick your out,
you will breathe is up and down to be sure, but sport more; the sole of the foot should be more easily and you won't be tilted upward and the instep on inclined to tire half as quickly.
a level with the top of the water
as the foot reaches the surface. Then your foot is acting like a propeller.
Notice the case of a swimmer who uses the proper three kicks to a stroke and keeps his ankles flexible. His arms have more his feer ELEG power because" working with him, and not draaging like deadweights be- hind. He cuts the water smooth. ly and you see to splashing of thrashing
Another mistake beginners Imake is in submerging like a subiparine, Of course, there is Do set rule for position. Some swimmers swim low and others high, one doing as well as the
other f
But swimming with the head completely under the surface is bound to retard speed. When you begin swimming in compett-
-IRMA HEGEL
"Delightful ....delightful absolutely delightful," he kept saying to himself, rubbing his hands together. "Mr Punch; you've done a delightful thing! Im proud of you, I am!”
Just then Mr Punch looked up and noticed Knart and Harid standing in front of him.
"I suppose you'd both like to know what I'm so pleased about this morning, eh?"
Knart and Hanid answered that they would.
Mr Punch rubbed his hands
together again. "Well," he said, "Pve just done a good deed,"
"For whom, Mr Punch?" ask- ed Hanid.
"For a friend of mine who
a
A dozen little children stuck their heads out.
amazement,
Mr Punh nodded.
The Shoe Children
ISITORS MENS JENYICK. ING-NUEVA YORK
1503
"And I say I do love you! How d'you like that?”
YOUR BIRTHDAY ·· BY STELLA
SATURDAY, JULY 2
BORN today, you are one of those who have a "gypsy foot.” You are always on the go and you like nothing better than to move from one job to another, "No doubt you' will be happlest living in a large city, where there is always something going on. Yet you do have a deep 'ambition to succeed and it is probable that this desire to attain perfection is what sends you of looking for the gold at the end of some rainbow or 'the new opportunity which is just around the comer! -
You are rather critical of others and cannot endure those who You must seem content to stay in some regular, routine job, remember that there are two kinds of people; those who like to find security early in He and stay with It-and those who will fake reckless chances to get ahead fast! You are capable öf through imagination and energy, tackling large projects and, developing them into larger ones!
Your emotions are strong and you will be happiest if you wed early in life. Select someone who understands your mercurial temperament and there can be exceptional · happiness in store,
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Among those born on this date are: „ Robert Ridgeway, naturalist R. H. Stoddard, poet; James Boyd, author; Charles Chaille-Long, explorer; Nathan Read and Lucius Knowles, inventors.
To find what the stars have in store for you tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday, stor, be your daily guide. --
SUNDAY, JULY 3
CANCER (June 22-July 23)— Outdoor sports are fine, but if you are city-bred make sure you are not overdoing it.
CAPRICORN (Dec, 23-Jan. 20) Wherever you may be at home, or or vacation-attend church. You will beneft.
AQUARIUS. (Jan-21-Feb. 19)
LEO (July 24-Aug;23) — You may be having an excitingPerhaps you may be planning holiday tomorrow, so try to get to have visitors for today and
tomorrow.. Enjoy yourself.
a little rest now,
VIRGO
(Aur. 24-Sept 23) If you are driving in heavy traffic today, make sure that you keep an eye on the other fellow..
LIBRA (Sept 21-Oct. 23)- Get an early start this morning if you are going for an outing and you can avold the rush,
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) mars A misunderstanding could fur into a serious quarrel if you are not careful.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22)--If somewhat downcast to- day, you may and that good sermon is of spiritual help.
(Feb. 20-Mar. 20) -- PISCES Find the best way to have plea- sant rest and relaxation on this Sunday. You want to be rested fer tomorrow.
ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 20)-- There is need for a certain amount of caution in today's ac- tivilles. Just be on guard.
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)-- even if driving on country It will be necessary to be care-
roads, over the holiday.
GEMINI (May 22-June 21)- Get out of doors, if the weather permits, for you will find it does you a lot of good
"You whistled" Knarf said in BORN today, you are a quiet, independent, reserved individual who is apt to go bis own way without asking the help or advice of anyone. No one
knows exactly what you are You don't planning until what, you have in mind is Anished! make much "fuss and feathers"-that is put on a big show of activity but when the time comes for a job to be done, it 19 polished off in fine style. Your success may not be a speedy, or startling one but when it comes, it will be substantial and permanent
"That's what I did. I whistled,”
was vity lonely and needed he said, "The next second a dezen little children, boys and company, and for dozen children who needed a friend."
girls, stuck their heads out from inside the Mother Goose Book! They were the children, who lived in the shoe!".
Mr Punch paused to smile: Then he went on quickly..
A Crying Doll This all sounded very mysteri ous. The Mr Punch explained just what happened, It was late last night when he heard the Lound of someone sobbing To his surprise he saw. It was beautiful Miss. Loveles, the doll with the golden, curls who lived Come out! I shouted to the In her own private collhouse children, I've just found a fine under the front window in the roomy house for you all to live
in! children's room,
..."And why was she erying her heart cu Mr Punch said to Knarf and Hanid. "It was be- cause she was all alone in that magnificent private dollhouse, because she was lonely, so very lonely. I decided to do BOTTIC thing about it at once. This is what I did. I went over to the bookshelves where the Mother Goose Book was lying open, and I whistled.”
Rupert and the Cold-cure-34
secret that he wrote it in invisible ink. He was so pleased to get it back thai be gave me a bottle of the ink and, better still, some colde cure tablets real ones this time 17:
Taking pen, Rupert sign: hia name on paper, and after holding iz front of the fire he shows it this astonished parents. Well, I still don't understand how you've done it."" mutters Bill." **Ir's like this says Rupert, That firs thee?" was the one the Professor Lost Those marka on it were so
PROPANE ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
This time THE END.
A New Adventure - Brgini:
TomorrOW.
"Now, a shoe is no proper place for children to live). A shoe is good only for a foot to walk in
So they all tumbled out, I collected them around me, some on my knees, some on my shoul- ders, some on my back and one test girl right on top of my
head!
Miss Lovelee's House "Listen, "my tots,” I said to
them in a whisper, I want your to go over to Miss Lovelee, and tell her you would like to live in her house, Ask her to please let you stay with her.
"And that's what they |rald - Mr Punch, to Kaart and Hanid, "Of course, at first, Mias Lovelee didn't want them to ztay. There were so many of there, and she didn't know how
Actually you are warm-hearted and affectionate, but you
rarely display your true emotions. It might be better if you were to be a litle more expressive, for even your closest friends are inclined to consider you a little too aloof. You are especially attractive to members of the opposite sex and probably will have a number of opportunities to wed. Let your Intuitions guide you to the right mate. When that moment comes, be sure that you recognise it and mention it to the object of your affections.
Yours is a ne mind and you have literary and musical talent. Make use of these gifts, for they can bring you to fortune as well as fame,¦ You have a strong will and can become obstinate. The one way to persuade you against your will is to reach you through your affections.
Among those born on this date aré: Samuel Huntington, patriot; Charles W. Gilky, noted clergyman; J. F. Hunnjewell, Dans Burnet and Mary Love Dickens, authors, George Sanders, actor; John Singleton Copley, artist,
To And what the stars have in store for you tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your dally guidę.
MONDAY, JULY 4.
CANCER, (June 22-July 23)- You will probably have an exciting time today,
LEO (July 24-Aug (23)---. to take care of children. She This can be a highly romantic tried to make them go back to day for you. Make or receive a their own home again. But
VIRGO (ADE.
mind,
233 24-Sept.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20). There is romance in the air, but you must not forget business affairs.
AQUARIUS. (Jan 21-Feb. 19) If you are entertaining this évening, keep an eye on the when she discovered the one proposall Make up your
budget. Don't be ever extrava littlest girl hugging her knees
gant, end saying over and over again: Don't get into a minor argumenti PIECES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20)-- *I love you, Mies Lovelee, I love It could become a quarrel before pay to attention to those who send them well she is she kept you know t
might try to pass on some juley" away. So
gossip: State the facts
them
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LIBRA (Sept 24-Oct, 23) Now they've piezity of . If you've been romancing, lately, room to live in and play in, and it is likely that some of those Miss Lovelee is lonely no more! dreams may now come true. | TV's wonderful, wonderful...
wonderful And I'm proud Although this is not working
SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov. 23) of myself, my dears, I really day it might not be a bad
ARIES (Mst. 21-Apr, 20)*** This is a day when some of your.
fondest dreams might come true. Keep your eyes open v
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)— which is actually, a reward for You Sassyis receive {marprise,
you should be Hand to lay a few future plans, e Ggreed, And she went up and | SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. GEMENT (MAY 2-Juno ||21) Lrew her grins around ald Mr 2:) Your optimistic atitude Romance. In favoured Bamer Finch, And that made him more | can bring pleasure and foy to all social event may further your pleased than evert en sie
the family Just try iti www chances with the one you love.