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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1936.
FEATURES
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
BACK Race Track For Young Cyclists
YOUR PUZZLE GAME OF LACROSSE DATES BACK
TO THE DAYS OF INDIANS
CORNER
CROSSWORD
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Nicaragua is part
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Central America
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Groove
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CIRCLE AND FOLD
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CLOSED END OF FOLD
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AGAIN... ALWAYS KEEPING
DIAMOND
Nicaragun's mountain PEAKS gave the Puzzlemon a centre for The diamond this time.
NOME of the games that
SOME
the ok time Western Indian liked to enjoy are still played by Colorado Redskins, on
the reserva-
Excond work is " boy's mich-tions today. Others have name" and the fourth is "where The van and stars are".
P
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PEAKS
K
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HOW MANY?
How mary Three-letter and tour-letter words can you make from the letters in MANAGUA. which Is Nicaragua's capital
Six is good, seven excel
nine lent, sight rupeTU. an perfeet
NICARAGUA REBUS
Four things about Nicaragua ladden here by the Puzzleman will uncover themelves for you if
words use the you picture right
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IT'S A BRAND VIEW FROM
HERE!
andi
WATER 15 AGUA
IN SPANISH,
(MY NAME.
IGADA
(Molutions on Page 201
been modified and adopted by the white map. All are different from any kind of else- that's found sport. where.
Lacrosse is an example. Its implement is something like a hockey stick, except- ing for the fact that there's the not attached over
the curved end, so that
player can catch a ball in it, then bat the missile away great amount of
with force.
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Today the game is played with two teams consisting of 12 members each, but originally it wasn't limited in this way. All the men and boys in an entire village added which sometimes up to as many as 400 per- would take part. SONS -
two villages Other times would play against each other; which would put as many na 1,000 persons in a single Beld.
ANOTHER, SAME,
UGH! GET UM
SCALP!
AMONG THE INDIAN GAMES ADOPTED BY THE WHITE MAN IG LACROGS- (BUT WHEN THE RED MEN PLAYED THERE WERE SOMETIMES HUNDREDS OF PLAYERS IN THE GAME.
P
GOT EAGLE
eye
THROWING A SPEAR THROUGH
SMALL ROLLING HOOP.DEVELOPED
ACCURACY ON THE PART OF THE REP MAN-
to honour a visitor or chief than to have a game of incrosso played because of his visit.
The game of darts was often added to lacrosse and is well to the known to this day Indian Old Timer.
Two teams of 15 to 30 play. ors cach were chosen and were Elven a hal dozen wooden speare aplece. These were ap proximately five feet long.
MOVING TARGETS
The players stood in line so that the
were umpires who stationed a short distance away could roll an 8-inch reed hoop in front of them. Each player in turn tried to throw a spear it hoop botore through the could pass. When
mcoessful, the umpire took the spear. The team that lost all its
spears
Sometimes spears were thrown Horst was declared the winner. the for distance instead. Then the went the furtherest scored a point. The team with one that the most victors was the cham- ploned side.
The game was rough and disgrace to be wounded.
hobbled off fast, with the players rac- quietly' ing, dodging, and scooping field, very much ashamed, up the deerskin ball with and retreated to his home.
sticks. their netted throwing it with the prae- tised aim of the hunter.
und
OFTEN INJURED They were often hurt and sometimes killed.
player, how
An injured ever, made very little fuss because it was considered a
But the
Wus con- gamo sidered more than just a sport. A person who was ill might be cured by watch ing it. A good game might also please the spirits so much that they would drive away famine and disease. There was 110 greater way
but This may sound came, excilement ran so high that the umptres were obliged to hold the beta that were placed. The most valued possessions put up, such as strings of wam pum, embroidered balls, pou- ches, pipes and tobacco.
An Indoor Women and
girls would participate also
Odd Eyes
E
In The Animal World
YES that see, and eyes without question. But, in
that are blind; eyes large and small; eyes full of meaning, eyes blank with disinterest.
of
There are the usual kinds eyes, that we accept
HOW MONTHS
WERE NAMED
OVER 2,000 YEARS AGO THE ROMANG NAMED MOST OF THE MONTHS
THEGE NAMOS HAVE- COME DOWN TO US THROUGH THE CENTURIES:
MARCH (AFTER MARG
GOD OF HUR)
OPEN END
THE
CORNER
OF
FOLD
WITH THE
ON TOP.
MESSAGE M
5.PRETEND TO BICYCLE. THROW THE SCRAPS
IN THE FIREPLACE,
BUT...KEEP
THE PART WITH
THE MESSAGE
AT IT WHILE
AND GLANCE
YOU PRETEND
TO THINK...
JANUARY (AFTER JANJE THE TWO FACED)
JULY
TAFTER SILIUS
CAESAR)
to
APRIL
(TO OPEN
FOST of our names for So Numa added January montha come us and February, and squeezed from the Romans. At first, them in ahead of all the the Romans had only ten rest.
The months in their year.
Of course, September, names September, October, October, November, and December were no longer
November, and December mean nothing more than seventh month, eighth really seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth, but the Romans month, ninth, and tenth.
Then about twenty-six kept their old names any- hundred years ago, along
way.
- one
the animal world, there are inany unusual eyes.
of
The honey bee that itoats
its store through the air so intent on gathering nectar, has 12,000 eyes. In, that is not an exaggeration. Its compound eyes are made up of thousands of longus, each one a complete eye in itself.
EXTRA EYELID
The birds have a third oyelid, a transparent lid that covers the eye. when the birds fly among the tree branches. They
can see
VIPPOPOTA MALIG
PAREN
THE EYES HAVE IT
BATTLER
where they are going, and When it's time to thed its skin, still have no fear that a it sheds its eyelids also. waving leaf or a twig will the new skin come new injure the vision.
This extra eyelid is of special value to the owl with its habit of night flying,
The kingfl: her has double vision.
When
I feel there is danger about, it can see from either side of each eye individ unlly. Then, when it dives into the water for Ach, it can focus its eyes straight ahead,
new house new windows
forever
Ilve. through, against enemies.
With
to
021
eye. which to look guard
were
game of chance that's another man's favourite is still played, too.
stakes
Six cherry stones were re- quired. These were placed in
bowl, and the gambling were slupendous, with all sorts of priceless per- sonal possessions held by the umpires.
The players were divided into they took two teams. Then
turns
the stones,
at rolling coloured black on one side and white
other, in *
the
wooden bowl. It five out the six showed the same colour when the bowl was set down, the man who shook them won one point. Should all six stones show the same, five points were made, Play continued until one side scored a hundred.
Bess Ritter
IN BERLIN, Germany, there's a fanfor-sized race track for There, the Berlin boys and girls can rent young cyclisis. small-sixed racing bikes and zoom around the track, which tracks javo. tilted han
Liko
regulation curves
the An enterprising Berlin man made the track himself, and used an old abandoned auto trailer for his shop.
Strawberries And Cream
-Willy Explains Why He's The Luckiest Toad--
By MAX TRELL
You low something?" wid
of the pond. We were talk- that ing about this and 66▼OU know something?" when all of a sudden Goggle Willy, we had he met his friends Knarf some strawberries now we and Hanid, the shadows, at could have strawberries and if we had some the edge of the Pine Treo cream Grove. "I think I must be cream."* which the luckiest toad in the likes to live in the water, huaworld." his eyes on the top of his head.
THE LARGEST
The hippopotamus,
Lying perily submerged it can "Why, Willy; I'm glad to The eagle which flies high up keep a wary eye out for enemies I hear you
the
say that,"
sala
To A Pobble
"Then," Willy continued, "I
as it takes its case in a mud tanid. She thought to her. said to Goggle: 'Cousin Goggle,'
bath.
inches in diameter.
Cousin Goggio dived down after the pebble,
In aky has feathered eye- shades, They come in handy
cream you'd like to have, I can when, high in the air, he peers The largest eyes in the world self as she said this that said, 'If It's strawberrica and
All I've looking for that pebble, I'd hop keenly below at the earth seek- are found in the great blue while Willy might not per- got them for you. ing his prey, unblinded by the whale, The eyeball itself is five haps be the luckiest toad in got to do is toss a pebble in the off so that when he got back,
Then you wouldn't be there at all. But, the world he certainly was water of the pond. bright sun.
The fish have #dlers eyes, be- The horse has the largest cyce the happiest and best have to dive down after it. By as I said before, I'm the luckiest cause the water in which they of the land animals, but they natured toad in the whole the time you get back here with load in the world, live profeels the eyes, But there only one and a half umes
the pebble, I'll have the straw- snake has eyelids which do not larger than the eyes of man- neighbourhood.
berries and cream." move. It sees the world through kind. windows of clear, horny plates, Strange eyes indeed!
A NIGERIAN STAMP-AFTER THE ROYAL TOUR
Tof
came a king named Numa, January was named after He decided that instead of the Roman god Janus.
THE Queen and the Duke ten months in the year, the Janus had two faces
Edinburgh have Romans needed twelve.
looking back, to the past, } and one looking ahend. He toured Nigeria. Some of was the god of beginnings. the country's stamps are King Numa probably overprinted "Royal Visit, thought Janus would get 1956." This one shows men the new year off to a good at work on one of Nigeria's':
main industries, tin.
But it seema
ZOO'S WHO
A BARN SWALLOW, LIVING ON A FARM WHERS BLACK- CHICKENS WERE RAISED FLEW TO A DISTANT FARM FOR AWHITE FEATHERS WITH WHICH TO LINE ITS NEST....
ABRALO
-ÄNHILE THERE ARE MANY REPTILES. JISHES, AS WELL AS IN THE WEST INDIES, NO POISONOUS (SHIPS, USE THE SUEZ, SNAMES ARE FOUND IN THE LARGER CANAL,TRAVELING BACK, ISLANDS OF CUBA, JAMAICA, GAND FORTH BETWEEN THE
HISPANOLA AND, PYBRID RICOS RED GEA ANOTHER.
MEISTERRANEAN.
start,
· not the
people have to me that Dut
themselves on the neither the stamp nor the launched
grett adventure of independent after gods, too: March reports of what the Queen nationhood, because they feel for Mars, the god of war; May and Duke did tell the real that they are not a single ne
Three other months were named
for Main, a daughter of the glant reason behind their tour, on, but several. Allas; and June for Juno, theIt is this? wife of Jupiter, king of the gods,
The cultures of the three tim, dorninant tribes-Hausis, 'Ibos Seldom before how a British
-and · Yoruble-have beed com two months were named after Sovereign chosen to visit pared in their diversity to those famous rulery. There were July, Colony which is on the eve of for Julius Caesar, and Autust, great political decisions. The the British, French and for Augustus Cather.
hope thong the Nigerian February got its name from leader Is that Her Majesty's presence has helped to cranio a "lebrun," of feast of purification true sense at unity among the held by the Roffins during that
Colony's $2,000,000 people, time.
Gerlinds,
Luckiest Toad
"I threw the pebble in the pond. Cousin Goggio dived down after it. And would you I got the straw- belleve 117 berries and cream just as I pro mised. This is what happened."
Koart and Hanld waited eagerly,
"Of course," Willy Toad went on, smiling to Kuart and Hamid, Knarf, then asked Willy "Cousin Goggle didn't believe to explain why he thought that I could get the strawberries he was the luckiest toad in and cream just by having him the world.
Jump in the pond after a
"Well," said Willy, "as soon as pebble."
Cousin Goggle dived after the "I wouldn't have bolloved I threw some water on a passing pebble, the splash that he made
E that she now to the The sparrow Was Bo either," Bald Knarf.
"Neither would I," said Hanid, nearest tree and bumped into a To tell you the truth," sald squirrel. The squirrel scrambled Willy, "I didn't belleve myself. down the tree and fell against a I only ld it to play a little chi
The chipmunk ran chipmunks. came on Cousin Goggio. up the hill and scared a rabbit.
The rabbit jumped out of "I thought that while he was bushes where a fog saw him, down at the bottom of the pond The dog was w
B crowd of people who wero having a picnic under a tree on top of the hill. The
chased the dog rabbit in and out among the
"I'll tell you," said Willy. Knart and Hamid sat down on a mossy rock while Willy told them why it was that the he considered himself luckiest toad in the world.
"Well, I was visiting my cousin Goggle who is a frog and lives down at the edge
Rupert and the Black Circle-19
Lafor this year, the politicat leaders of the tires, tribes will moottori discuss a Nigeria's future. That is when the in Buerice of the present Royal And April coines from a
This is something that it will be snaily judged." meaning to open." What was neither the leaders themselves ADVERSE opening? The leaves and the nor the Bellch "dministration Momwhile, the 2d tampok wh flowers of course. In some have been able to achieve ove printem for Fing tour! way, April has the hietal dämne
word
of all the months. And samo Remember Qui
people think it is the nipost potentially treeilendoll: W withy
month of all.
5. RONNEY [70bbery, in, palm oil and coll
In a thiêle "part of the; word Rupefi, ipps. "This'li'de for dúr
ha'days. "k's dos' to the ỷ has
people and pushed over a bottle of cream and a bowl of straw- berries.
Bowl Of Berziós
"And," sald Willy, "down camo the bowl of strawberries and the bottle of cream, and they landed right in front of Cousin Goggle just ¦ qe he come up out of the pond with the pebble in his
a mouta
* Willy, sala" Cousin: Goggle, you to the ariariest cleverest and brightest. goddest and most romerka51" loka. 190 ever mew