THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1955,
FEATURES FOR BOYS
YOUR PUZZLE Indian Chief Makes Peace
CORNER
CROSSWORD
ACROSS
Period of time
4 Doctrine
Writing Implement
7 Craft
Salver
10 lading peasant
12 Egyptian sun god
13 Preposition
14 Ledger entry
17 Borrowed amount
19 Compass point
20 Measure of cloth
21 Great fear
23 Bilter vetch
2 Any
DOWN
1 Disavow
3 Twelve months
4 Bevernga
5 Allempt
0 Prattle
8 Add up
Three times (comb. form)
11 Unit of weight
15 Conclusion
14 Simple
17 Meadows
18 Aged
22 Comparative suffix
SCRAMBLE 'EM
TRIANGLE
The Puzzlemun buses bis triangle on PARENTS. Tho
With Brave Little Boy
BADIAH,
are
you
"Boing to split that
wood today, or not?"
feel.
Mistress Prescott spoke a rreand wurd Is symbol for trifle sharply, and her son "calelum"; third "blemish";at opce roxe to his fourth minute skin opening":"Yes, Mother, I'll get at it Afth "to Inment"; and sixth "a right away!"* vegetable." Can you complete
the triangle?
PARENTS
BEHEADINGS
The Prescott cabin hud been built on the borders of tho Okle Bay Colony; and in those early days of the 18th century life was rough and dangerous.
to
Sounds from the inner
Obadiah room crused pause. "How you feeling 10-
Behead "mixtures and have day, While Doo?" he called
Jonns": behead this and have "eoncludes.**
(Solutions on Page 20).
out cheerfully.
"Me
better?
Paleface
medicine do lut good!" wan the reply.
White Doe was an Indian maid of the Wampanoag fell
UGH... ME TAKE GUN!
There Is A tribe, whom Obadiah and clearing.
Reason Teapot's
IN
For Cost Hungry and hurt, she could possessed
TN the old days there were!
not
many banks or other safe places
keeping money.
Instead
silver vessels.
for
sume
little
AND
GIRLS
CAN WILD ANIMALS MAKE GOOD HOUSEHOLD PETS?
PEOPLE Who
go vacu-
tioning in summer sometimes bring home four- footed souvenirs of the most extraordinary type, Georgo Hortler of Hamden, Conn., went vacationing in Min- nesota one May. At the Canadian border he camo
upon some hunters who had just killed a mother bear. Pleased with their prize and anxious to tote it off, the hunters insisted they had no time to look for the cubs.
Mr
Hertler spent six hours hunting the orphans. Finally, in a thickly wooded jaren, he found three bits of fur huddled together and shivering. The cubs
were
about three weeks old and weighed together about He pointed at the partially four and three-quarters
severed pine.
**How paletace boy want pounds.
11
help?"
Indian of the
iL easily rend
VACATIONERS OFTEN BRING HOMS STRANGE- SOUVENIRS-ONE MAN CAME BACK WITH
THREE BEAR CUBS-
HI, TINY!
A FARMER CAME HOME
WITH AN ELEPHANT-
of white
ZOO director in thetr home city was glad to identify the velvet-white benuties
ITG
LUNCH
TIME BABIES.
IF YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT ANIMALS, BE CAREFUL ABOUT WHAT”
YOU BRING
BACK.
Merlin Goes To Market
-For A Tin of Purr and Other Fancy Things-
the across
elderly couple derived a great albino Dying squirrels. This Glancing up, he beheld his father had rescued from
He gathered
deel of fun and entertainment squirrel does not change colour Berce-looking savage, who now
the tiny from their pet. "I'll show you!" Having taken flerce Mohegans
with the season as does the fox who had
between him and his firm grip on one stopped
section of animals in his arma, took Two boyn
in the and ptarmigan. The director. camping captured her
Silently the up-river. rife.
the trunk by gestures he in them to his ear, and all the northwest brought back a pair was pleased to give the boy: himself
vited the Indian to grasp to
white directions on feeding and care Between them long miles back to Connec- of small moniccy-Inced
had for their pets. only tell them she'd been precious weapon, then turned to the other half.
the ad saying: "Paleface have
they could
in ticut he bottle-fed the little and-ton rodents that they taken from
distant
plenty fresticks! I take um.
been feeding nightly on peanut fellows. When he entered a twain.
butter. The boys were sure they on and patience, make
Wild animals con, with affee- camp of the Wampanoags. Lose mine in big river. Ugh!"
discovered brand-new
good Obadiah understood that the The Indian understood. "Pale- restaurant, armed with six bad
household pets. But unless you chipmunk.
are willing to give time to their DROVE A WEDGE red man had lost him own gun thee tazy dog" he grunted, but nursing bottles, waitresses species
special feeding and supply "Fine!" said Obadiah, and and was toking his to replace it. having put the rifle cown beyendid look startled but Mr The wide flat talls and the hints
Well he'd not let him get away the Jad's reach, he did
of flanges on their sides puzzled ns Ilertler quickly announced them, however.
sultablo quarters, best leave hurried out to the shed with it. Making menacing Obadiah had asked.
them in their natural state, of having money,
The that he had "triplets" in his therefore, people had thelafter an ax. He found his motion with his ax he said de-
It's But no sooner had his fingers car. family: "Put that down! wealth in silverware, Nut only father at work there.
Irma Hegel miue and you'd better leave it taken a Arm grip, then Obadiah did they have knives and forks, "Better take your rifle, where you found
withdrew his own and knocked. but they had bowls, cups.
his parent. It was bold speech, and the out the wedge. At once the two beakers, tumblers, goblets, salt too!" advised
made sections *closed In a vlec-like
The three bears now run and pepper shakers, and other "One never knows when the savage, scowling darkly,
Mohegans may come growl- as though to aim the rifle at the clutch. The Indian was caught.
around the Hertler garage lad, "When me shoot, me kll!"
Quickly the lnd took the The wealthy people oftening around!"
the and yard in Connecticut. DARING PLAN
Indian's tomahawk, and measured their riches in terms
Bearing his double bur-
rifte too. Then, putting two When they grow older he of gold or silverware,
den, Obadiah started off, Obadiah had to think fast. fingers to his lips, he blew an intends to give them to the
Park having He was certain the Indian was ear-piercing signal which soon Lincoln and
Zoo in Scramble "a spare" for "en-
If they had to move suddenly whistling,
his father bursting thralled and scramble th' for to escape from an enemy they plunged into the forest, not a Mohegan-probably from brought
By MAX TRELL some 1ribu up-river. As he through the brush, musket in Chicago, where bears "separate"; scrumble "a cruci-either buried their wore or took Ax" for "a smell and scramble it with them. There is many a came upon a pine tree trunk stood facing the stranger a plan hand. Two to one now, they not behind bars but in large
mont-aurrounded areas. W7NARF and Honid, about he'd felled the day before, popped into his mind whereby released the unlucky red man. "trengare trove" story
While they dehater what to
shadow-children with the such buried treasures and a few He started to strip it of its he might save both his life and
his rifle. Worth trying, any do. with him, White Dee comme Mr and Mrs Orrel Parker of turned-about names, were sitting been branches, after leaning his
into view. how!
Sho had left the Clevelang visited Arizona and on the edgo of the bookshelf rifle against a huge oak.
returned with seven ittle ler-(the lower "Huh. You got me in a tight cabin in search of berries.
edge on the shelf The modiaeval
bons, known as kangaroo rats, church had Soon it was necessary to spot. And maybe you do need
PEACE SIGN
"The jerbons make ideal pets," Merlin the Magnificent Maglelan the floor) when Mr much of this precious ware, and drive a wedge between the that gun more than I do!" he merchants and crafts guilds
At sight of the tall savage she the Parkers say.
came along. Mr Merlin lived (organisallons somewhat like two sections of the partly said evenly.
toward him, arms out- Have you ever heard of any somewhere behind the bookshelf. our labour unions today) also severed log, and having ed the Indian.
stretched, and he clasped the one bringing home an elephanty tie was carrying a shopping bag. fashioned one he drove it in
former (and former ZOO Obadiah and his attendant) did. The elephant's addressing giving me a lift here," went on father? allverware in its city hall, Even very firmly. That done, he gun, maybe you won't mind little one to his breast, Then, "Me Long Fox, Wam-
when namo was Temple, and iversities had raised his ax in air, but Obadiah. "Help aplit pine trunk, panong chief This my daughter she began fighting the colleges
"Good morning, my dears," he and
other large quantities of it.
paused as a sinister shadow hun?"
In the Swope Park said to Knart and Hanid. "Would Mohegans steal many moons elephants since."
Zoo, the director sold her to the you children care to accampany White Doc poured out her farmer for $200. Temple moved me to Superduper Market? My tale of rescue and how the in with the cows, horses, mules pantry is almost bare. I haven't whites had restored
her to and chickens to become a peť, been "shopping for months." health. Then Long Fox made Neighbours of mine brought
A fow minutes later, Knarf the peace sign, and shook hands home a bright-eyed fox from
Pennsylvania.
This fox had and Hanid were both walking screened-in quarters in the half side by side with Mr Merlin on to the Superduper of a double garage. When Foxy their way
Market. was brought into the house, as he was on occasion, he proved
Merlin,"
this for "a portal."
WACKY COMPASS
H
N
WACKY
COMPASS
1/4/
START AT WEST AND USE THIRD LETTER WÍYOU DECIDE DIRECTION= AND YOU'LL HAVE NO TROUBLE FINDING
0
N
MESSAGE
CARRIER
1. Cut 2 six inch long
pieces from a CLOTHES HANGAR.
2 Slip a wooden SPOOL in the
.
center of
each wire and
bend it like this...
3.TACK THE WIRE TO
A WINDOW LEDGE OF EACH HOUSE
UPHOLSTERING TACKS.
4. Runa STRING between
of these hoards have found.
had it.
Almost
3
every city displayed
This change of front astonish-
got "As long as you've
ran
the
Try These For Gloom Chasers
(USIE: “Daddy.
IS
my
teacher is really dumb." Daddy: "Why do you say that?"
Susie: "Well, today she kept asking me silly ques tions. Why, she didn't even
Teacher "Yes, Jerry." Jerry: "Calves.",
UP IN THE AIR
Jake: "Were you ever up in the air, Bill7"
BI: "1 went up once." Jake: "What airline?" Bill: "I didn't go up in
my order
you can't send over of groceries now?"
Grocery Clerk: "Certainly, It's your Inst Mrs Bigmouth. month's blli."
́KILLS HIMSELF
First Moron: "I was telling amyself jokes the other day and
with her rescuers.
"Long Fox no forget! Heap big "friend! Wampanoag keep the peace!"
And they did, for many year!
are
nearest
"You
Pantry Is Bare
the
The Magician had a long Ust of things to buy.
Sho said this last because at that moment Mr Merlin took a great sheet of paper out of his pocket. It was soribbled with
to be quite destructive, yet this Flanid said, as they turned the names of things he had to buy.
know the capital of our plane. It was the time I stood almost killed myself laughing at The Man Who Invented
country and I had to tell behind that stubborn mule." her."
REASON ENOUGH
one of them."
Second Moron: "How is that?" First Moron: "I told myself one that I had never heard bo- fore."
A DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIFIC AUTHOR
KIGHT ANSWER Teacher: "What does cow have that no animal has?"
Mra Bigmouth: "Just give me one good reason as to why
2
other
Jerry: "I know answer, Miss Groen."
tho
MEET THE
FAMILY!
a life.
Air-conditioning
In an effort to save the President's life, it was im-
Washington
Naval Depart-
09.
astronomer.
know,
Mr
comer, "we don't know where The Superduper Market is,”
"We never even heard of it," sald Knarf.
Tiny Alley
"We don't have to walk at all," Mr Merlin said. "Here, step Into this auto-basket, picaso."
What a wonderful thing this auto-basket was! It went by Mr Merlin raised his eyebrows Itself ke a motor car. Mr in surprise. "I'm surprised at Merlin steered it up and down you two," he said, "The Super- the aisles between the tall duper Market is on Nowhere airolves. Then he let Knarf and Street."
Hand drive it while he took the ting and boxes that ho "Where's that?" asked Knarf. needed off the shelves. "About a block away from
A Tin of Puer
*Mr
IR-CONDITIONING was ving the doctor, Newcomb A first used to try to save gave leg ball and even
Salem Mass., by shipping Everywhere Avenuo," replied Mr on a lumber schooner at Merlin, as he suddenly crossed James A. Garfield, 20th Saint John, New Brunswick, the strect and hurried down
Merlin bought a great Jules Verne Honoured
President of the United
tiny alley which Knarf and meny strange and unusual gro-
ceries In States, who was inaugurated He obtained work with a Hanld had never noticed before.
this. Superdüycr 1881, was printer and later daught school. "We're coming to it now ho Market. These are some of the has very Famous French is Jules Vernejon March 4,
14
He struggled through Harvard cald.
groceries that Knarf and Hanid FRANCE
saw him buy: pleasant and instructive and what a character he was assassinated in Washington Scientifle School and became at
Verne must share with tho
on July 2, the same year, tached to the custom of featuring her late H. G. Wells the honour of by Charles J. Guiteau.
Sure enough, a few stops fur- ment,
Robin Seed, to make you brought them on fiber
to the world's famous men on stamps. The being tho
most
warble like a robin: dils-
entrance of a large store. A scientific author choice ranges from charac- tinguished
sign sald: Superduper Market. Toad Pudding, to make you showed the
They all went inside. ters who shone hundreds of whose writingu
hopi shape of things to come. years ago to the heroes of
But Verne is, perhaps, worthyperative to relieve the hot, Honorary degrees were con- It was an enormous stare, The A Pound of Bumble Steak, to World War II.
of even Greater praise than
midsummer temperature, ferred upon him by 17 univer-leives filled with tins and boxes make. Into hamburgers; One of the most fascinating Wells. For Verzie was born Ordinary devices failed and skies in Canada, United States, seemed to go on and on.
of 1828 and therefore, "H, G."
and Russia. Holland, Germany was 30 years nearer to the age outside help was sought. Ho died in Washington In 1909, of marvels about which both of
and was given a full military' them wrote.
Professor Simon Now funeral. A bust of him is now comb, a Canadian astrono- in the New York University mer who migrated to the Hall of Fame. United States at the age of 18, was called in. He per- fected a formula whereby the air in the room and the body temperature of the sick man were lowered to al safer degree. His good friend, Alexander Graham Probably the most famous of Bell, located the bullet that all Verno's works is Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The had evaded many doctors. Sca." It isntung, therefore,
men chosen for a new set
the windows and loop ZOO'S WHO
it around the spools,
5. PUNCH TWO
HOLES OPPOSITE EACH OTHER LIN FROM TOP RIM OF A REFRIGERATOR CARTON... TIE STRINGS :
THROUGH THE
CARRIER
HOLES AND
THEN THE CARTON
TO BOTTOM STRAND
DE CARRIER.
AIHA
LUNCH
COMEN SNA LES FIÉST, SEPÄE "THEIR PREY THEY
POMERANIAN
IS A MEMBER OF THE LUPINE FAMILY WHOSE ¿NIMBERS ARE CLOSER “RELATIVES OF (OFTHE WOLF. THAN OTHER,
VOGS.
APRK!
DO NOT KNOW THE OFWORDS THEY' AND THEIR INTELLAM?
that the stamp which Hondur
his namo should show the
marine" from the book with "Although Garfield died, gallant Captain Nemo on deck. Professor Newcomb wad
Verne's other well-known hailed as a genius.
books are "Five Works in a
Batloon"**** "The English at the Simon Newcomb started North Pole
the life at Wallace, Nova Scotia.
World In, BG F "Around *
The novels of this far-sighted The son of poor parents, he man are now dreams come true. walked barefooted to village They look forward, not back- schools. At 14, hê was bound ward. Therefore they are ill out to a farmers for board the books of youth.
The stamps is perforated -18 Theit. at 16, he was appears TOKMONKEYE, İnnú costs 17- in London AMAticed na a doctor, After ser-
in
Out of His Pocket
Merlin, how are we going to be Hantu said: "My goodness, Mr
able to walk that far? And look at how many things you have
ERNEST S. KELLY to buy!"
Rupert and Dinkie-
The conjurer doesn't answer at
- prere? Going down, an çon knew
-40.
their amazement the rope begins
to rise, firat in a tother wobbly. ha begina 2là (wave bla (wand) way then more, firmly until found" and -round, over his ropes, rising nearly mralph), “This "non Chinese magic" ht - Rupert must climb, my field foding but we objurar betere magic powdere Pit cam, slo: 50 Ruperty, and” Payling... fosse, urungths and hi see, heavy.
as tünde base and watdy" and strain, to
A Box of Polly Finkes, to make you talk like a parrot;
Syrup, to make you dance;
A Jar of Genuine Mayfly
A Bottle of Ticks-and-Tocks, to pour inside Mr. Merlin's clocks;
A Package of Bounce, to give to the dog.
A Tin of
cat;
urr, to give to the
A Bag of Squeaks, to give to the mouse.
Knart and Haold would have been glad to spend the rest of the day riding up and down the aisles in that wonderful Super- duper Market. However, they had to go home.
But the next day they tried to and it again for they wanted very much to give their cat:A
tin of Purr. It was no use! They couldn't. And it
when
they went into an ordinary wo and asked for it, the man just Ahool
Hoad. The only ont
who seemed to know what they
H