THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1955,
FEATURES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
YOUR PUZZLE DESERT PROVIDES OWN Lost
CORNER
CROSSWORD
Wait un
d Attempts
Presently
Pace
ACROSS
12 Open me uthat look 13 Hip
It Part of "to bre
15 Leave
15 Heverage
TR Clasped
21 trdnet
22 Greek war Red
23 Small bajba
25 tub out
1 Censo
DOWN
TRIANGLE
WATER
BARRELS
UPPOSE you were on a quiz programme und the following question was
The Puzzleman has hung his tasked: "If you were lost on
triangle ferom a SWEATER. The
the southwest descri al second word is "apent"; third “a German cily": fourth Solar Amerien without water, Mik"! Beth " munbey", and | where might you find soch a nicknatue for "Edward".
water?" Finish the triangle.
SWEATER
W
E
It
SCRAMBLEGRAM
Set the letters Fa ht Best port of each ne do tothe 16 wont des che day the list parl
พน STARE something to
WIE?!
MPT ME
BILGE Anny
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QUE RACES revelter ROBES FAIR leaves alan
DE-TAIL WORK
Ity area wise in southwest CONSOLĖ Joe, your answer would Te From the barrel encturs.“
Thu rackus, growing from Two to six feet high, is the iderext's a tural waterberrel. It haz avval the lives of many was dying of thirst on the sieseri
Interpf the
The Beshy 11. cactus is water-saturated, But the plant has many sharp 2, utes and a tough, rubbery skin to protect it. So a strong knife. at ur ulher sharp weapon to hack away the 15iihv }"23** zpined crown. In an enzgency.
sharp wick will suffice.
PULPY MEAT
Orice the tough crown is cut
was, the interlor is pounded Eventually, wine kuk a "up."
water wall colleet
Jes the basin,
61 Why pulpy meat งาน sucked for its water contesst.
be
De-add a sea skeleton" and have "a girl's naine"; de-fall. This and have "heart": again Jul This water 15 far from 3 "Suurtlest Slide" In America have an abbreviation for "eom- [1Basant to the table, but it wil
2. Sen engle
(ab)
4 Sleeveless garment
5 Italion eity
7 Shooting marble
Batterl
10 Bird of pity
11 Gonds
17 Mility assistant
18. Asterisk
1 Head coverings
20 Goelie
24 Egyptian sun gou
AMAZE
HOW YOUR FRIENDS
ILL SHOW YOU HOW
TO TURN ALL THESE GLASSES RIGHT SIDE UP USING 3 MOVES
AND CHANGING EACH
pany.
WACKY COMPASS
SHIN
NOTRA
N
WALKY
COMPA35
START AT WEST
AND READ EVERY E FIFTH LETTER (YOU DECIDE DIRECTION)
VOERSPSEA
TO FIND THE
PADVERE.
S
(Bolutions on Pago 20)
Jarep you alive.
Many desert plants have fruit, 17. SOBNIH, which may bla thek Wirst. Among such Įplants are the prickly pear, Uns S. KILAN, the organ pipe, and
thers.
The barrel cactus.
These Workmen Walk On Stilts!
W
JALKING 01 stilts makes one feel like giant. Stilts, of course,
th
are
THIS IS ONE WAY
Some of these desert denizens those two long, light wooden lso have water in their fleshy poles, with
a step placed
- 'ASIA, A "leaves,"
but often
this water is too inineralised to some distance up from the chrank,
hottom of each pole. The walker balances himself on the steps and goes striding over the ground with giant steps.
Sizce barrel cuell grow ex- tensively throughout the desert Legion of the southwest, there's Llways a waterbatret handy for Energencies.
HAND TO ANOTHER GLASS How's YOUR
WITH EACH MOVE!
1000
HERE'S HOW:
FIRST MOVE... TURN OVER NO.1 AND NO.Z.
SECOND MOVE:
1
CROSS HANDS ON THIS MOVE AND TURN GLASSES INTO THIS POSITION... THIRD MOVE,
NOW...JUST TURN UP NO.1 AND NO. 2.
NOW YOU TRY IT!
WHEN YOU ASK
FRIENDS
TURN GLASSES UP LIKE THIS
...AND WATCH
THEN BAWAM!
100
-FERRIS WEDDLE
Handwriting?
Too many people today
have hard-to-read hand- writing. So a new organi- sation called "Handwriting Foundation, In c.,"
in
America will attempt to in- |terest people in becoming better penmen.
IT'S ALL RIGHT DO THINK LIKE HORACE BREELY,
BILLY, BUT DON'T
SCRIBBLE
LIKE
Stille Are Д favourite amusement with many boys and girls. They are used by clowns in circuses and funsters in parades.
A unique use for stilts has been introduced recent- ly in the southwestern part of America. Plasterers in
work.
HM!
on
OF GETTING LIP IN THE WORLD..
offer.
When the soldiers sented theniselves on
IN
Civilisation Buried In Colombia
the jungles of Colombin He the remains of a civilisution that the world forgot. Most people have heard of the Inca, the Aztec and the Mayn empires. But comparatively few persons other than scientists
know of the existence 'of America's other great civili- sation: the Chibcha.
Near the headwaters of the Magdalena River in southcastern Colombin there is a cemetery of
over live
square miles which seient- ist think dates back to the beginning of. the Christian
ora.
were
20
Thy se
ancient deat inarled withhat eutling 131 stone-lined grave. Today little [rem ins of tven their skeletons
to tell what they looked like.
*
IN THE
GRAVEYARD JUNGLE
TEMPLES CARVED OUT OF ROCK, SITUATED ON
THE TOPS OF HIGH HILLS, ARE GENERALLY CIRCULAR IN CONSTRUCTION.
these mounds diameter.
CARVED STONE STATUES
HAVE BEEN UNEARTHED IN
THE COLUMBIAK GRAVEYARD.
to
IN 90 feet in slatance at all to the white mon
Within a hundred yearn their Another cemetery in an ad- nguage has vanished. joining district has
Iven Sentists have long tried Excavated. Though I apparently and sim.larities between Now Oild-looking statues (etane of
bolags to a related culture, Word cultures. In this regard them very crude) serve as grave the tumbs are
archaeology different in the Vastly
of Colomqu markers and representations of construction. These are carved would be particularly reward- pitests or gods. Upon the head uut ul rock, situated on the tops lag. A glance at the map wil euch imege 13 Carved a of high hills, are generally cur- remind us that it is directly un smaller head; this is believed to cular, and stairs lead down to the migration route for peoples represent the soul of the dead the chambers inside. person.
and
tavelling between North Figures of frogs, The Chibchas endured unt South Amerlea. This route may monkeys And larger animals the Spanish conquest in 18590. have first ben used before any have also been found. Some of Never a closely-united people, civused culture In the New the human statues have been this semi-civilised race with low world.
depleted wearing
animal-like masks.
grotesque cities
Within the boundaries of the cemetery иге a number of temples, partly underground and overed with earth. They con- in statues of the "gods of the gaveyard. The largest of
put up almost no THE-
-R. S. CRAGGS
Merlin's Magic Lessons
-He Shows Punch How To Be A Wonderful Magician-
By MAX TRELL
Russia Puts Her M
H Punch greated his Knarf and
One-Time Critic Hanid, the shadow-children
On Stamp
Mr. Panch pat on a tall, pointed hat.
7-4
So Mr Punch went over and gave the table a little push. As... ho did su, Knarf and Hanid dot" noticed that Mr Merlin quickly mumbled some maglo words, Instantly, the tablo wont prancing around the room like a horse,
with the turned-about names, with a broad smile as they entered the room. There, sitting next to Mr THIS stamp speaks for Punch, was Mr Merlin the peace. It shows that Magnificent Magician. Both the Russians are publicising Mr Merlin and Mr Punch in- people who have at some vited the shadows to come this region are using alu- ly. Albert
was intrigued time been critical of the in. mínium stilts for their and puzzled by this strange Soviet regime, and is a sign
"I'm getting a lesson!" of Russia's more genial out- Mr Punch announced. look. pre-
"A lesson?" said Hanid: One such crille was Vladimir "A lesson in what?" stilts, Mayakovsky, who started his This new variety of stilts the Archduke was BO carver in letters as the most Im- Mr Punch explained that is strapped around the work- pleased with their novel portant poetic mouthpiece of he was getting a lesson in man's legs, while he stands transportation he gave the Soviet revolution immediate-magic.
broad, rubber-covered city a perpetual exemption Stalin and Co., took over from them what you can
ly after 1917, the year Lonin,
"Just go ahead and show steps. The stilts save the from one of their many the Czar. workman the bother and taxes. In those days of At first Vladimir halled the said Mr Merlin. work of setting up a scaf- high taxes, that was a privi-new rulers with every word he folding which
turned out. has to be logo Indeed.
But the hardships moved around the room.
imposed in those first Ironbound
Stilta
In 1801 a French baker sot an years of the regime disillusioned got their start unusual record when he walked him. many, many years ago, on stilts from Paris to Moscow In two ploys, Klop, produced French and Belgian pea- In 38 days.
in 1928, and Banya (1028) he on a tall, pointed hat which, he ly learning how to become a Many years ago, in the south salirised sants, living in marahy low-
magician. Then he put on ខ shepherds would of France, lande, used the wooden stand all day on stilts, keeping
sort of bathrobe with pictures sticks to carry them across, a watch for straying sheep. the wet lands. Long staffs after the invention of the typewriter. There were ille- the stick walkers
were carried, which helped to keep
Today the French shepherds The foundation hopes to gible fists before that.
their balance and served as only at festival time when they of this district use their stills each individual One of the worst offen-arm rests.
n.ount their poles to run a race. least to the point where he Greeley, the famous jour- About the year 1600, the This is an unusual contest, for the city of they have to run on the slits can sign his name legibly, nalist. Printers who had to governor of It hopes to rouse personal translate his "turkey track" Namur, Belgium, made un through an obstacle of a herd of pride in signatures until handwriting into type were unusual offer to the Arch- elicep."
duko Alberta company they become readable and said to turn it upside down!
Want to feel like a giant? Try of soldiers which would nei- stick stepping's funt artistic signs of personality. to read it. It points out that thousands
ther ride nor walk. Natural-
—ERMA REYNOLDS
Since the invention of the Lypewriter, less and less stress has been placed upon acquiring a beautiful and legible personal ship. But the need for fine handwriting remains in everyday living if not in business.
encourage
penman-
to improve his writing at ders was said to be Horace
Mark Twain tells about a of dollars annually and Sumous letter that Greeley once endless time will be saved wrote to a subscriber. To reas
sure a wETT!od mother whose
БОП only
was determined to
that is now spent in trying to puzzle out illegible hand- make turnips, grow on cucum- writing.
ter vines, Mr Greeley sent the letter in his own pecullar pen- manship.
When the mother received
for A distance of 500 yards
!
Books Spell Parties Ho
Bad handwriting is not a problem that developed only the letter she tried turning OW about a book party? upside down, but was still un-Send informal invita- ,able to rand": it.
ZOO'S WHO
THERE ARE FOUR SPECIES OF
ANTHROPOID APES WITHOUT "TAILS: THE GORILLA,THE GIBSON,
THE ORANGUTAN
AND THE
CHIMPANZEE...
THE AVERAGE ROOSTER EATS 90 POUNDS OF FORD A
BIYEAR
I PAPER, WHICH JO A MIXTLURE CEN
DARE, WASPS CHEW THE MATERIAL
KEY FORM IT INTO MASSES
All tho
neighbours came to help. Finally, they thought they had ono sentence that read:
tions, telling everyone to bring a book of his own he has enjoyed and is willing to give to someone else.
When the guests arrive, “Horton, botany, cakes folony place all the books on a table undertakes but who shall for the grand swap, bilny?"
Maybe a few of the Turning the letter right sido rendera would like to give up again, the `sentence" seemed
to say: "Butter but any cakes, thumbnail reviews of books
ll any undertaker, we'll wean they have read and liked. him from his Ally,"
Vary the reviews adven-
The mother wrote to Mrturo, science, pete, sports:
Greely saying that she would
How about a gamo
of
bo glad to follow his advice Authors" with a penali prize she could only find out what if
for the winner?
Was.
A
Mr Greeley was forced to
AT LONG LAGT THOSE. OLD COMIOS ARE GOING
YEAH TO A BOOK PARTY..
Charades are fun. Keep the ingThe finder of the Book admit that now he couldn't read subject on authors and split the keeps his "treasure," of cour his willing himselfi
writers' names up to add to the Have you any discarded comie Finally, the printer who potkuessing skill. Longfell-shi books around Roll them ürkür up. the great man'a editorial and Whit-tea-err translated the sentence to rendi
axamples, "But: diet, bathing ofc, etc. Beylowed undformly WI woan the boy from this folls!".
two an alb an elastic band gave
them th_kong Aho magazineð fa "Hidden Book mokos for a good a roll. · Now, stand them “Shin- omewhate and also apostles on mag the magazines with quote trousers, hunt. Hide the book the ground and have, the players
LEE PRIESTLEY make the gewigh amoreal interrater
Painted Hat Knarf and Honld sa! them- selves on the floor under the "There, you see?" cried Mr. window. Mr Punch now put Punch in delight. "I'm certain-
the philistine op-said, gave him the look of a magician, Lel's all take a ride!"
DIENENG
£14000
AUTOPUT LETA
INDERFUL SKAFT
by the
*
Went For A Ride
Knarf it. Finally he
of the moon and the stars em-. broidered over
sold:
and Hamid and Mr Punch and Mr Merlin oll climbed on top of the table and "Now I'm ready to show you went riding around the room. how well I've learned how be a magician,”
to It was a good thing that every-
one else in the house was fast asleep. They might have been surprised to soo à table running around a room,
His First Trick "What's your first trick going to be?" Kart asked Mr Punch. After a while, the table got tired and settled down for a portunism displayed
Mr Punch stood in the centre Soviet bureaucracy in feathor of the room. "Do you see that long rest in the corner. ing their own nests.
table over there? It's got four Perhaps somebody told him to legs. I'm going to make it, do an even harder trick.
"Now" said Mr Punch, "I'
I'll | Bot back on to the party line walk!!'.
make a pencil write a letter all again because later he turned cut a series of poems glorifying
by itself." the Communist polley.
It
A Marvellous Trick
This, socmed like a marveļļoust
With that Mr Punch clapped his hands
comhanded; brought him personal "Table, walk around the room!"
and
the table stayed right happiness has hit whore 1 wat. It had four legs trick Knart and Hanld wen- search for the content that al-all right, but it didn't choose dired how Mr. Punch was going waya eluded him an clusion to move any of them,
which played on his mind no much that he killed himself at The comparatively early age of 30. [300]
Punch Was Upsat
Mr
to be able to do it.
Mr Punch laid a pencil top of a piece of white paper Punch looked upset, and commanded: "Pencil! Wife
wrong?" a letter all by yourself!" Now he appears again. Russin "Now what did I do puts him en this stamp which he said, turning to Mr Merlin. is perforated 12, printed in "That table must be tired," photogravure and costs Ddr in sald Mr Merlin. "Just do over to move at all..
London.
and give it a little push."
Rupert's Deep Sea Adventure--18
other way out of their 20Pjolessor" provided iiwo dwarf picks the other, of rope/!"he says,
and I'pould taką. 'that "stft, had,
leed, helps
hts to
Breads the second
(seriya ^feel and the prostand that bos: le Back!” that the 21 the, loop on the diving wit
Kharf and Hand watched the pencil carefully. It didn't seem
"Oh dear," sighed Mr Punch,
But Mr Malin wonj.over and a picked up the
acne You'vo"
paper. "You've done it" be
shouted, "The pencil wrote
letter! Just Alston:
Dear Mr Punch,
You're a wondórful ( magician
Yours truly
Pindi
11
"But there's nothing og ; tha paper' at all!" said Henid."
***Tul-tut!” said Mr. Merito, "It's invisible writing. I can see the words a plain, as day"
18o con 1" mit M4 Pungh. And
Anally
Kaart and Hani wald they could see the wors
|couldn't. The Ikid M. Pun 16o much to hurt his feelingh