THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1955.
FEATURES FOR BOYS
AND GIRLS A
PRESIDENTIAL The School Comes To Her Daily CHANGE A DOLLAR
PUZZLES
CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Pasteboard
5 Minstrel
Brend expread
10 Great Lake
1 Year between 12 and 20
12 Eternity
13 Compass point
'14 Handled
17 Unit of weight
13 Rounded
21 Musical note
23 Native metal
24 Arabian gair
20 Flower
28 Sharp
20 Italian city
30 Withered
DOWN
1 Folding beds
2 On the sheltered side
3 Scottish sheepfold
4 Give
5 Exist
Ú Scope
7 Tumult
B Low sand hill
16. Negative word
18 Moves furtively
18 Ripped
19 God of love
20 Pause
21 Sidelong glance
22 Girl's name
25 English river
27 Early. English (nb.)
TRIANGLE
Today's triangle is based on PATTERN. The second word
Is "mother": third "ght touch"; fourth "endure"; ifth "sticky substance"; and sixth "subdue." Finish the frlangle from these clues:
P
N
PATTERN
VOWELL-LESS FLOWERS
. Can you ll in the vowels
which have been omitted from
these flowers?
-NM N-w
L
PNS Y
NRC - S S - $ PHL X
CITY SQUARE
The Puzzleman says you must
find the right starting point and then read each letter either up. down, back, or forth (but not diagonally) to Buc the six American cities he has bidden here:
SOBHI TONG|G|A
C
NALEOC.
DDE
EIL
IHTRO1 APLENT ADEWY TO
HPKR
(Solutions on Page 20)
Vanished Race In
A Desolate Land
O. LTD
ON A BEAUTIFUL Jonely plateau In New Zealand lives a girl' who walls for school to come to her every day. Kathryn rides out on her pony to meet the mall truck which brings her lessons for the day. Her "schoolroom" is her living room, where her mother often Joins her while she studies. Although her life is isolated, it's comfortable in a modern home. And although she has few playmates, there's lots of tobogganing to be done on the beautiful mountain slopes around her.
Glamourise
NSTEAD
INS
Your
Jewellery
pieces of metal contine paint, all you do is shield JEWEL BOX 3.fold cardboard into an
away
of throwing such to be covered by the
costume them with adhesive tape jewellery, try transforming first. them into glamour get-ups
For unusual effects, you with the help of ordinary enamel or
oil-base paint, might try cutting small dia- You'll be surprised at how monds, triangles or squares of such tupo too, and attach pretty they will look. What's more, you'll need them where desired before dipping the jewellery. Don't very small amounts of
remove the masks, of course,
colour.
Start by preparing the paint bath. This requires any
deep tin, such as one that used to contain family-size amounts of fruit puice. Fill it with water. Then pour a little paint on the surface. It will float.
until the paint is quite dry.
It's also a good idea to cover rhinestones and the like with
adhesive tape as well.
Don't be hesitant about applying paint to favourite picces because you're afraid that "mistakes" will be difficult to remove. For Next, tie your pieces of there's an easy
way to do jewellery-which might be this. Place such jewellery in
a simple earringto a an air-tight tin, such as one piece of string, and drop the that contained vacuum- ornament below the film of packed coffee. Add a few
ATO
1.GLUE PIECES OF COLORED PAPER OVER ALL SIDES
accordian fold.
...WITH SCISSORS, CUT AND TOP OF NOTCHES FOR RINGS, A WOODEN BEADS AND PINS.'
CIGAR BOX.
2. With point of SCISSORS and a RULER score a heavy piece of CARDBOARD
Into Zinch strips.
--TUNER LENGTH OF THE BOX
蔬
TURN OVER AND SCORE ON BACK
of paint. Bring it up through tablespoons of lacquer thin that the paint will be soft satisfied with your new the colour and enough will ner. Replace the lid. Seal enough to wipe off. painted accessories. For you cling to it to cover the piece it with Scotch tape. Twenty- This is a good trick to re can change the shade at will URING the recent war
completely. Then tie the four hours later you'll find member if you're completely to match different outfits. The Iplutak used a central string's other end to and DURI
one of the largest open fireplace for heating convenient horizontal bar- settlements ever found in while most modern Eskimos such as a towel rack or the the North American Arctic use stone lamps. No remains shower curtain ring, until it was excavated. It's on a of sleds have been found, is quite dry. sund bar 20 miles from the little pottery and little of
Other items, of course. mainland of Alaska and 200 the marine hunting gear-such as necklaces and ear- miles north of Bering such As the harpoon-rings, can be painted in this
generally associated
And if you don't present-day Eskimos.
want the catches, screws and
Strait.
with
manner.
Today there is not a single tree on the area and pratically no vegetation of
The most prized posses- any kind. There are stant gales at 80 degrees sions of these early Alaskans
can
con-
UNUSUAL INFORMATION
the battle with
TTIGH in the mountains has been no war. Perhaps Surk was the eventual loser in
on the boundary be the Christ of Andes has pre- able steam ships.
more depend tween Argentina and Chile vented it. is a huge statue called the Christ of the Andes. People from both countries can see
miles away;
**
*
*
Leonardo da Vinci' con-
A comet's tall always streams out from the comet head in a direction away from the sun, so
INTO FIVE
ET a largo envelope
G the long kind and cut
off a very thin strip around all the edges except the flap, where the glue is. The en- velope will now be in two. pieces.
Take the plece which has the flap attached and slip it into another long envelope of the same size, so that the flap of the first envelope lies night in front of the flap of the other. It should look like one envelope.
Now tell your Dad that you want to show Mother
| how you can change a $1 bill into a $5 bill. Ask him
to lend you $5.
Put the $5 bill in the space between the two flaps. Drop it all the way to the bottom.
Now seal the two flaps to gother by moistening the glue on the uncut envelope.
PUT FIVE DOLLAR 'Bibli
ON THIS GIDE OF
PARTITION
PUT ONE DOLLAR ON THIG SIDE":
PRESTO!
by making an with the knife where you would write the address. Do this in mich à way that you will not cut the $5 bill inside.
Now break open the cut and pull out the $5 bill
Mother will be surprised, butt don't tell her how the trick is done. She may want you to do it for her every day, but, of Now you and Dad call Mother course, you can't do that unless and ask her to lend you a 41 Dad will furnish you with a $5 bill. Tell her you
it into a $5 bill.
can change bill every day!
Put the $1 bill into that part
of the envelope that has not yet been sealed and then seal it.
**
Be sure you don't throw the Tell Mother that if she will envelope away after you have pass her hand over that part of taken the $5 bill out, because the envelope where the address the $1 bill is still inside. After would be placed if you were Mother has gone, you can then to mall it, the $1 bill will break the envelope open and be changed into a $5 Bill.
take out the $1 bill.
After Mother has passed her If Mother took the $3 bill hand over the envelope, take a Dad will probably want you to knife and cut the envelope open give him the $1 bill
Merlin's Up To Tricks
-He Makes a Car from an Old Alarm Clock-
By MAX TRELL
T's an oid alien clock. It
IT'S
doesn't go any TOTO," Knarf, the shadow-boy with the turned-ebout name, was saying to his sister Hanid.
"Are you going to take it apart?" Hauld asked.
"Sure," said Knorf. "It isn't good for anything any *more. it's just a lot of wheels,"
On the Tablo It was later. The old alarm clock was about ten minutes standing on the table. Knarf had just come back from tool closet with a screw driver, a haromer and a pair of
of pincers,
Hanid had
the
78
watch the walled up a chair to
wheels come out
Merlin, on hands and kners, "Oh dear," she sa
do was putting things together." wish there was something we could do with that old clock."
"It won't go,"
and rods and springs and Bald Knart strango little nuts "It's
only good for taking apart. went dying
and bolts around the room. I'm going to whack it
out. The face of the old clock looked Watch out!
"I still wish wo
as if it were smiling. Then the could do something with that old clock," numbers went whirling around.
A bell Hanld repeated.
started ringing. It rang all around the room, up at the Behind the Bookshelves celling, down on the floor.
SHIPS ON it from many the Christ, ceived the idea of the aero- when a comet is moving away he lived, but kir Merlin the like rain. were buried with them: flint barely find tools, needles and other ob
below zero. Where 250 Eskimos food today, an estimated 4,000 persons once lived.
THEIR STAMPS
Germans are
tion.
His hand raised in benedic plane nearly 500 years ago, from the sun, its tail precedes
It reminds them that getting his inspiration from its head. once their countries were watching the birds.- enemies, but that now they
*
At that very instant who Kaart and Hanid covered their should come hurrying out from heady with their hands, for the behind the bookshelves where wheels and things were falling Magnificent Magician, He was
The Air Cleared pushing an empty baby carriage. On seeing Knart and Hanld, *
When the air cleared they save Mr Merlin stopped. He smiled, Mr Merlin down on his hands In South America there are nodded good-morning, then sud and knees. Ho was putting some ants which carTY large denly his eyes lit up. "An old things together in the greatest leaves into their underground clock!" he exclaimed.
hurry. homes. In the dark, these leaves "It's broken," said Knarf. "It is the only soon form a mould which the won't go any more."
Merlin," sald Hanld. the "Isn't thero anything we can do the leaves along
are friends.
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80
In 1904 the women of the
The Cutty Saric
jects. Many of these were so different from Eskimo things that the Eskimos in- habiting the region didn't know what they were.
NHC Ivory animal Excavation began in 1989
carvings
new two countries took the lead remaining clipper ship of their by American and Danish were uncovered. There were proud of
the in erecting the statue. Pieces great sailing ship days. Built ants use for food. As the ants "Mr
carry spiral-shaped museums. The town, com- prising about 800 houses, carvings which the natives effort that is going into of old cannon and other in 1870, the giant sea clipper is ground to the doorways of their with all the wheels and things
a pretzel-type building it that they are guns that had been used in now a museum in England. The homes, they look as if they were inside that old clock?" turned out to be nearly a mile long and a quarter of biscuit which Eskimos eat. putting one of their crack the fighting were melted ship, once averaged 15 knots on carrying parasols; hence, their
liners on their stamps..
also
many
likened to
a mile wide.
The Dimes came from Asia and have been here at
Icast This civilisation has been 2,000 years. Where did the called "Ipiutak," after the Iplutaks come from? Presum Eskimo name for the place. migrated to Alaska from farther ably these mysterious people Though they may have been south, perhapo across the Ber- Eskimo in origin, there ing Seo or Arctic Ocean, were many marked dif- more unlikely, from somewhere
on the Pacific coast, ferences in their living habits.
-R, 5. CRAGGS
THE SETTLEMENTS WERE DISEDVERED ON
BUZZARD SWEPT BAND BAR, 200 MILES. NORTH DE THE BERING STRAIT.) -
RYED POLAR BEAR”-
CARVINGS" WERK
"BSTEEL-LIKE:
Ancient CULTURE/ALASKA
HE
merchant navy and
This is the motorship Berlin. Stio is carrying the black, red and gold ng of Western Germany across the North Atlantic and challenging the rest of the world's passenger shipping with a service second to none and comfort on the super-luxury level. German shipyards are working day and night to build up the merchant fleet to many times its prosent strength and send new and bigger: Berlin-type liners to the far corners of the sarther
Meanwhile, the fraw Interrupa' are göing rihưng; fruf ge-a-when- ing to all rivals what to expost
* voyage
the
name, the parasol ants.
8%
down to make the statue.
from England to Australia, a record speed. ira
* There have been other dis- spite of an accident which dam- putes between the two count-aged two of her masts. Although the states in value of minerals Michigan ranks 12th among tries since 1904, but there she set sailing records, the Cutty produced.
| ZOO'S WHO
In competition WA FICH WILDO NARIES CANNOT Chatod lip is SING AS WELL AS TAMED'
BIRDS BRIS
QUALI
BEVICHICIAGO,
SMALLEST MEM- BER OF THE ARMADILLO FAMILY IS FIVE INCHES LONG AND LIVES IN ARGENTINA
THE SHIELD ON THE TOP OF HIS BODY IS PINK AND THE LONG FUR UNDERNEATH IG -SHOW-WHITE...IT LEAVES - ITS BURROW AT NIGHT TO HUAT ANTS AND TERMITES-
મો.
“I'll have everything ready, in a minute!'!, he saidi
"What are you going to do?" Hanid aske
"I'm making an Rutomobile, sald Mr Merlin. "Don't bother Wheels and Things me, please, "Certainly," said Mr Merlin. Knart and Hanid just gasped:
ho
turning to "An automobile, Mr Merlin? Knori, me have the wheels and things inside that old clock?"
Fitted Them Together
"My Do women if you'd let An automobile?”......
"I was going to take it apart,” said Knari.
"Go ahead" said Mr Merle, "Give it a whack!"
Mr Merlin didn't answer.... Ho cooped up handfuls pt machinery, from ... thời | broken clock and fitted them together. There is still plenty of in- It Seemed to Explode
It was amazing what he did. the vestigating to be done in
Knart gave the old clock an a field of insect study. It has been happy whack with the hammer,
minuto, în a mimita... estimated there are 10,000,000 || A. "wonderful thing
kept sayi happened he
Then
ho species, of which only 475,000 The whole clock seemed to BX- species are known to science, plode like a soap-bubble. Wheels
Rupert and Dinkie-28.
all the put-together wheels and under the baby carriage with
oftached it underneath. When he prawled out again ho was smiling.
"It's done," he said, "We now have "an automobile. Step into the carriage, please!"
Knart and Harsid, looking guita doubtful; stepped into the: baby carriage: MF Merila, stopped:fa after them." There woo'l konts ing wheel. There was Brakom
brid a starter.
Over the Fields "Here we go!" said Mr Merlin. Instantly, all the winele berors whirring and
the