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↑ THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1955.
FEATURES
YOUR PUZZLE CORNER
CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
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Fax So
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DOWN
:
I hate
Elk
teluno
(romb. form)
b. trm)
th Posbreak
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20 Judu (Cacile)
23 Correlative of vither
SQUARE DANCERS
1. Draw the dancers on CARDBOARD...color them with CRAYON and cut out.
PINCH HOLES,
4.
2.PUT 2 PIECES OF PIPE
CLEANER THROUGH HOLE
WORD CHAIN
Change MARE to COLT in four moves, making sure you chango only one letter at lime and have Rood word. Now change COLT buck to MARE in four moves Using different words from the frat time where peralble.
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HOMONYM
Puzzivihuo tuya the
worths in lus sentence alike, but they
sound
ale i differently. Car
www the fight words?
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one could what might
happen next.
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WORD SUQARE
thel
Rearrange the letters Tal esta JEAN So form pond word
Blake
The
til they round the
3
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OMN
KINT
CKR EONR
TRIANGLE
Jord".
ADORED make a bar for the angle. The second word
an abbreviation is third "and": touriä ta
11. |triy". Wikt Afth on
Finish the triangle from these chas
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ADORED
MARK
OFF
(Kolutions on Pago 201
IN
INCH
SPONPES
PUNCH
HOLLS
TRIE!
"CLEANER
IN CENTERO 5 NĂM LÊ TH
THE ARMS.
New Issue From
A
The Stamp Republic
DAINTY yacht clips
smartly through n Bet
of azure blue and unce
more the little
rc-
stamp public of San Marino sends
3. Put the dancers togetherus a new issue.
It
with PAPER FASTENERS. honour
4.PUT THE DANCERS
IN A BOX LID
LIKE THIS./
TIR
9.M.
STUNG
NO SCREW
مل نوع هم
KCXCWS IN
کو ان کے نفر
BEND PIPE CLENKERS FLAT AGAINST BACK OF LID...
PUT THE
{ PIPE CLEANERS
FEFTOCKGH HOLE INLID!
STRING
TURN THE PIPE CLEANER IN THE BACK TO MAKE THEM DANCE/
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which repub- lie has or Kanised.
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this sort all buss
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Cause
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FOR
BOYS AND
GIRLS
THESE BABIES CRY FOR THE BOTTLE, TOO!
THEN they're full-grown, these babies will want a variety of
foods, from gross to peanuts. But while they're silll young, they cry for just what human babies cry for their bottle. In cose you'd like practise on something smaller than on elephant, you can use the milk method successfully with such tiny creatures 58 orphan baby birds. Best you use a medicine-dropper in that casol
lula, aerd Ave months, insists on her own drink at a cocktail party given by Paris 200 spoILMOTS. She's a "society" leopard.
Different Kinds Of Odd Tongues
▶EOPLE their tongues
PEOPLE
for talt ing and tasting.
bat hards
anitats 1240
thens for* many different ed
levogra
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with
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the strangest
It is sort
tome and
lowest have any imal Temerge is moverent wow of little hall sauf them made
WITH FRINGE
There
a lot of different of some thing like prisile
world. Kit of tongues in the Pope abn most animals have
Inusele, a losques #aste of they any piversite. That ments they can stretch or slick the U414.
A toads atque is prehensile. It is also sticky, und It's fastened in the midse and louse at belh
A flamingo has fringe on his tongue, ile uses 1 is a strujner for the kind of food he eats, ile tako
big mouthful of weeds and whatever else 25 in
uf the water along the bank maudi ur stream where he lives. Then he strains out
doesn't words and things want Birough the fringes on his And he swallows the lite nadies and food he likes.
lie cu suck it out at a passting fly, catch and swallow u By, and be sitting sil
load £1
later, Logue, moment walling for grasstopper.
PRICKLY
fund
A bird's longue is hard rather rough. This helps him to hold on to anything he is carry- g The penguin has a spiny or prickly tongue. With it calch slippery fish and the other sent fous he kes
can
he
Chic
The honey bee has a long thin tongue. It will reach deep down
ile the heart of a flower and gather up the honey. The honey clings because there are some Htje hairs on his tongue,
There is a little liard called the gecko that has a tongue so Lung he can reach up und wash
Thas little eight-pounder is only a pygmy hippo, but if họ keeps
us drinking at this rate, Skipper will soon be non-pygmy.
عد است
WELL, WELL,
A NICE CATERPILLAR FOR LUNCH!
Mrs Florence Byers of Cleveland "has a litle lamb whose flecco in white
mow." Sally makes 13 cuddly lapful.
TIPS TO HELP YOU HIT
THE BASKET OFTEN
By JAY WORTHINGTON
THERE are only two basic
Today's
Toxlayin basket (Yours
shorter distances, however, There are because the shooter can get off ball: the shot under the several types of one-handers, his shot more quickly,
however. Generally speaking, Watch the different types of backboard, and the
shot the "hook"
hil other pivot
ahols used by good players. Try from out on the floor. The shot are used more by tell
them, until you and the one that fewer different shots you player. Smaller players often seems best for you. Then, can- practise, the more often you
use Jump shots to scape the can
centrate on that one shot, Move reach of long arms.
around will hit the net.
If you can make your The old two-hand shot is still shot from only one place on the The two- floor, rival teams may recognise good for a long try.
"spot" shooter hander
and is made by pushing or you as a flipping the ball from the chest, smother you.
The best shooters never stop with both foot together in a balanced or "sel" position. The practising. You can't, either, It une-hunder is considered better you hope to be one of them.
The
commonest shot under the backboardi is called tho keep lay-up.
Jump UA
left your
he has hin
with
for
the
his eyes with it if uning to. It helps ched out of his eyes. But the creature longest tongue of all size is the anteater. One kind of anteater has
long it won't
mouth. No,
out.
Д
tongue 50
all be
go in ไป
Joesn't run
around with his tongue hanging But his tongue begins away back below als
Lluroat. It fastened to his breastbonel What a time doctors must hayo looking at that tongue,
PAPAGO INDIANS
Evva Brinker
HAVE
NO WANDERLUST
NE of the most remark- able archaeological sites ever excavated in the United States is Ventana Cave. It's in the Castle Mountains on the Papago Indian Reserva- tion in Arizona,
The caye hus been 2011- tuuously inhabited since 8000 B. C.--perhaps even longer. The blood types of the mum- Dies
are 90 discovered there per cent type "O," the same as that of the Papago Indians who Inhabit the
This area today. suggests that they
may be of
it lives, apparently, by the same race.
and for stumps.
The cave lu located in
where
Brea
A
summer
Every week, it seems Jiew desert Issues go out to the stamp shops | temperatures of 115 degrees are of the world and find their way not upcominos
when into the albums of the world's man collectors.
The yachi stamp of the stamp festival is perforated 13
by
clie
But
what
to the country
now Arizona, was covered by a Juxurlant of grass and growth
rivers flowed across the plain. Today, at spring remains in the cave, a never-falling source of water since the day: when now- vxtuet animula roamed
photo- 14 and printed by the gravure process-which brings out the delat with almost life- like perfection.
The
casts 1/8d. in U.S.A. Lamp London-J. A. A.
ZOO'S WHO
WILD
TURKEY
GENERALLY
TAKE
WATER
ONLY ONCE A DAY,
FLYING FROM
THEIR ROOST FOR THE DAILY DRINK
KIENTISTS CAN PE- TERMINE THE AGE OF SKELETONS BY MEA-
SURING THE AMOUNT ·
OYSTERS ARE RICH IN COPPER IRON, JODINE AND VITAMINS...
FTEN.
OFFRAMIOACTIVE AUSTRALIA, HOME OF THE ONLY EGG LAYING MINUS
SON IN THE BONES.. AND MOST OF THE SURVIVING MARSUPIALS,
IS CALLED" LAND OF LIVING FOSSILS!,
the
The remairas
were Arst dis- overed in 1941
by Professor End Haury of the University of Arizona. He already itnew of the cave's existence but, since it wasn't large, about 150 feet long, and had been fully ex- lored, he didn't "peel to find muclf of value.
But over three dozen mum.
mies were uncovered, all uf them in the first few feet of 'digging. As ha dug down through the centuries, Dr. Haury came to the period when the dead were cremated instead of buried. Further digging re- yealed the period when, pottery was first used:
(Corn became a staple item of diet about the same time.).
Over 11,000 stone implementu, as well as many shell and bone remains, were uncovered..
Fifteen teet the archaeologist dug and nor the bottom came the most interesting discoveries of all: bones of animals that no onger exist in the United Blator. There was ‹ the tapir, which today lạ found only da
VENTANA CAVE, LOCATED IN THE CASTLE MOUNTAINS ON THE PAPAGO INDIAN RESERVATION, ARIZONA, HAS BEEN INHABITED SINCE 8000 B.C. OR LONGER, 90 PERCENT OF THE MUMMIES FOUND IN THE CAVE HAVE THE SAME BLOOD TYPE AS THE INDIANS WHO INHABIT THE AREA TODAY.
IN
10,000 YEARS ARIZONA
were
THE LAY-ZIP
MOST DEPENDABLE
SHOT IN BASKETBALL,
IS MADE BY JUMPING FROM THE LEFT FOOT (IF YOU CHOOT WITH YOUR RIGHT HAND)
AND LAYING
THE BALL AGAINST THE
BACKBOARD-
foot,
If you shoot with your right hand, and simply "lay" the ball against the backboard at the top of your jump. spin. Nothing fancy. Just lay t up there, and you'll never
have trouble under the basket.
No
The lay-up is the most de pendablo shot in basketball, which is why so many pinya are built around it.
Teddy Gets His Wish
-Even Though His Legs Were Too Short for the Pedals-
By MAX TRELL
EDDY the Stuffed Bear com-
TEDD
plained to Knart and Hanid, the shadow-children with the Lurned-about names "Why has
everyone in the whole world got
a bicycle exe
except mo?" Hanid said very kindly as she took Teddy's har
hand: "You poor little dear! I know how you žeol. But you aren't right when you say that everyone in the world has a bicycle except you."
The Shadows Have Them "But you have a bicycle," said Teddy.
Hand nodded. "And you have one," Teddy suid, looking at Kaart. Knauf mudded, 100. "Well,"
sndly
کیے گئے۔ قبیل
Teddy rode on the handle bars
: of the little strľa biko.
Bald Teddy with a sigh, maybe everyone the whole world hasn't got a bicycle "They're too short," sald but everyone I know has!"
"You Hankd.
con't
ride a
too Having said this, Toddy walked bicycle if your legs are
OUL the
ot room. He stood short.".
"Where can I get long legs?"" front of the open door, looking Jut into the street where almost asked Toddy.
You everyone in the world seemed to be pedalling up and down on their bicycles.
can't get them any- whore, sald Hanid. "You have to wait."
One tip: try to jump straight up, when possible.
Any for. ward motion of your body will affect the ball's flight, and may spoil your aim
In A Kindly Volco There is often v temptation to
"But, Teddy." said Hoold In broadjump at the baskel, espe~
the same kindly cially
voice, as she Fenid. when a rival guard is
put her brus around his breathing on your neck. But re-shoulders, "there isn't any use either," said Kaart, who had just member that the guard is more boing so sad about not having mo
a bicycle."
"Isn't there?" said Teddy. "Even if you had a bicycle, you wouldn't be able to ride one."
"No?
I wouldn't?" safd Teddy. can't rido sald Hanld. "They can't?" said Teddy. "Why not?"
"Their legs are too short," said
"Wait for what?" asked Toddy. "Wait until they grow," sald
"pigs
rido
blcycles,
can't
up to join Teddy_and
Hanid at the open door. "Their legs are even shorter than yours." Elephants and Giraffes
"Besides
that," said Hanid, "pigs can't ride bicycles because they're too fat.".
Elephants can't ride bicycles,
kely to foul you than block the shot in mid-air,
When the rival defence 15 blocking your pleys under the basket, you will need the other chot: from out on the floor. The chiaf differenco here is that you the tropics. The bones of the Ten thousand years is a long aim the ball at the rim instead extinct ground sloth
time for human life to exist of the backboard. identified, the first positive re- the same place but further r Most conches don't care what cord of this animal occuring in rearch may provo the period to type of shot you use as long as Henid. North America at the same be even longer. For taples and you time as man, Also found were
do two things; 1. Know ground sloths were among the when to shoot, 2. Put the balling down at his legs. "They're elephant on a bicycle.";
They are?" said Teddy, look- remains of jaguars, horses (ex- animals upon which these early in the basket. tinct for centuries
long enough for me." until re- Indians fed; and these creatures, introduced by the white man), say same
дос experts, have reccaries (will pigs) and 8,000- lived in North America since year-old dogs.
13000 B. C.
Rupert's Deep Sea Adventure-30
Rupart obedjendy holds tight to And, sure enough, while he dings of the rocky spikes while the on he is carried up through tha Merboy swims rapidly forward and water) Best slowly, and then fama, disappears. "Where has be gone until suddenly help out in the qu And why am I to-stick on here light. Abend “pë? kilusį“ his“ little! Rupert muses. He soon finds the Friend le noving back towards. ghawer," "Hi, this isn't a rocks him. "How d'you like our ber W's beginning to tiso 1" he gapa. serpent >" miles the Blechoy,
AL' NIGHTS KKENRYEP ·
Some Interesting Facts
ble.
said Kaart. They're too, Their trunks get in the ever BRW Git
WY; Nobody
"And
can't Eiroffes
rido blcycles," said Hanid. "Their- necks are too long."
"And mice can't ride bicycles,” sald Knorf.
"And cats can't!" said Hanid. "And dogs and cows and horses can't," said Knart.
By this time Teddy was feeling
The Canary Islands are a have so increased that they are much better than he was feeling group of islands that are located now regarded as a pest,
off of the coast of West Atries
•
before. He had always thought hu was the only one who didn't
and they belong to Spain, I you The soft mulch that develops have a bicycle and couldn't rido should visit these lelands, don't in formats in one of the prime ouc. expect to find thousands of reasons why forests help pre- yellow canarics flying about and vent erosion. This soft pad Something Happened singing sweet songs, because the absorbs rain wrter and prevents wild ones that you might see it from running off, immeditaaly.really happy thing happened. would be greyish brown in colour and poor singers.
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And at that. vory moment, a
The little girl who lived next Many areas, too rugged to be door, whose logs weren't too planted in seeding trees, are short, who wasn't too fat, who Flotting department stores, ceeded by aeroplane. Pine, onk, wasn't too big, who wasn't any- boats called bumbohin, rve the and maple reeds aro often thing. just right invited Teddy huge freighters on the Great broadcast from above in this for ride on the handle bars of
her bike. Laloes The bumbosis, most of way. them about 68 foo; long, dock at
So up" and down the street ha the
Toads of the Bufo marinus went with the breeze blowing freighter's side and sell anything from gloves to tobacco species multiply like rabbits and through his hair, riding a bicycle |to the big ship's crew.
eat everything from eigar butts just like all the pigs and ble **to paper nipkins.
•
White-talled dear imported by Liko birds,
Zealand from Amiclón, migrate in the autumn.
phants and giraffes and cats and dogs and miles and bows and insects heroes and other Toddybjpara
wered").