THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1956.
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your
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EACH PAIR
A CUP WITH
5 MARBLES
IN IT
AN EMPTY
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AND TWO SHARPENED PENCILS.
3. SET THE CUPS AND PENCILS ON A TABLE.
4.EACH PLAYER TAKES ONE PENCIL... ATA SIGNAL EACH TEAM TRIES TO PUT THE MARBLES IN THE EMPTY CUP.
5. PLAYERS MUST USE
POINTS OF
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MARBLES.
GIVE THE FIRST
TEAM THROUGH A PRIZE
TRIANGLE
FOR
BOYS
AND
Topical Stamp Collecting Is Fascinating And Educational
RE you interested in stamp might appear in £
A topical stam collect
MARTS provide A baz for come this Utangle. The second word 13 "father": Cilest in "om odgan of hearing": nod fourth
separate. Can you #nish the triangle froth these clues?
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TAKE THE TAIL OFF
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Take the tash sự “a bor" and Ting planet"; take the tall off
Again
$ have a blemish": ner mote any have "mother"
PICTURE WORD SQUARE
Pick a door-letter word that boost tells about caeti 40 these JE
You' M your alsaver reads the gasne fown as at them ross when they written berth the other:
'IT'S A 0000 OMEN!
I LIKE TO READ ADVENTURE
TALOS-
aro
or
collection
de- ing, a term which has be- voted to "Birds on Stamps" widesprand among since Audubon is famous followers of the hobby? for his paintings and studies of birds. Or, the Audubon stamp could also be included in a collection of "Art and Arlists" or "Famous Scient- ista."
YOU CAN SELECT your own nubject and include whatever stamps you with, which is one road why many topical fans feel that their type of collecting
fascinating for is the mont
educational,
"Topicals", are generally agreed to be stamps which are chosen for a certain sub- ject, or topic, included In the design, rather than for
which the country the stamp.
issued
If you collect only stampa which show pictures of
birds, animals And example, you are a "topical" collector of animal life wildlife stamps.
Or you might specialise even further, and collect
Nah, only birds, horses.
or
or
can
and
only
T TO SUIT YOUR TASTE
Many collectors profer stamps which picture an animal (or bridge or mountain, etc.) as the central or major part of the design. Others like to Include thore on which they
dis- THE MAIN SOME OF
favourite cover their
kubject the stamp, per- divisions of topical collect anywhere on ing
biology, trans-, haps as a corner ornament
a border or as part of famous background pure. portation, religion,
Kite? persons, sports, music
A BEGINNER may ask, "But wouldn't such a collection urts.
completed to
quickly
are:
ENDLESS LIST Smaller groups might in clude stamps picturing ships. Boy or Girl Scouts, Red Cross, maps, portraits of Queen Elizabeth, llowers or trees.
The list is almost lers.
Some collectors also
like
The answer is no. Thousands
от
Liny
LPS:
of stamp have the diferent frenc the world
been issued by routrien
during the 461 century, and Many new ones appear every year.
attractive special
In
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for
Some of the most stamps commemorate end event or famous person
country's history, such as Cap- thin Cook's rediscovery of Now Zealand. These "commemor.1 - to add those stamps which lives, as they are called, usually sold at post offices are related to their favour aliy
few weeks and there- only ite topic in some way.
fore ere not seen oo often ordinary letters, But they are all rounded up by dealers or collectors, sooner or later, to be proudly mounted in somebody n album.
On the one-cent stamp of one of the United States series of "Famous Ameri- cans," for example, there is portrait of naturalist
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John Adams Audubon. This
THE DIFFERENCE One difference between topl
and
other types of collections 1s that the toplen! specialist is often required to prepare his own albumi,
cal
Leonidas Belts demonstrates use of brush to clean bones
ARCHAEOLOGY IN NORTH
Teenager Finds
'Buried Treasure'
BURIED
treasure is a The Mound Builders are magic Jure. Leonidas so called because they con- Betts, 17-year-old from structed mounds
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of earth, Varina, North Carolina, used some of them burial mounds: to go out searching for it and some bases for their
like everyone else.
temples. These temple
Printed albums are plentiful but for work-wide collectors, there isa't likely to be a printed album for a collector of "costumes" or "inedical science" on stamps.
THIS IS PART of the fun, however. An ordinary three- ring, loose leaf notebook with standardi радея ut 8 by 11 inches, is popular with many topical collectors. Others like a spring-back type of binder.
can Pagus, which
50 pur- chased at a stallonery or stamp store, may be blank or "quad- rille. The latter type is printed with light squares to help in contring stamps, and resembles used by Lho "graph" paper students in algebra classes.
Experienced collectors will toll you never to paste or glue stamps on t page, since you either would probably damage stamp or page if you want change your arrangement, Use stamp "hinges" instead.
to
You can arrange as few or as many stamps as you wish on a blank page, with your own de
RF CARCASSONNE 5
5¢
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REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE
POSTAGE
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COMEQUORE
•CENTENNIAL OF OPENING OF JAPAN-10
Top three stamps shown here illustrate calicetion of castles (Carcassoand, France; another in France; Windsor, England). than one topical Three lowest stamps could be in more collection--the French one for castles, boals or churches; the
(Elizabeth British for castles or famous peoplo
1); the. American for boats, mountains or people (Com. Ferry).
signs or notes-something which the "centre of interest" For the cannot be done with a printed true collector, the stamp is the
reason for the page.
album.
But remember that the stamps
always themselves should
A TRUE ADVENTURE
Counterspies Get
The Evidence
the business of com- always with him.
the
be
Dr Albert never let it cut of his sight. In
The
* WORTHINGTON
GIRLS ✩
|
EVEN A SPARROW HAS TROUBLES
THIS is the story of 1
gas
sparrow who lives in a station at Delton,
Michigan.
He must be some bird to have a nice heated home like this and he ought to have a name. Let us call him Tom Sparrow.
He has lived in this wonder- ful home almost two years now and how much longer he will stay here no one knows.
It was in January, 1954, that we first become acquainted with Tom. Bert Parker was building his station at Delton and
the workmen were putting on duers. They noticed a sparrow watching the
with operation
the
great intercsi. This was our Tom
It began to get dark one
and the evening
men noticed that Tom Sparrow was getting restless and kept hopping from
YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GET ME TO LIVE IN
A 'GARAGE.
One beautiful duy the next spring he brought home a second mate.
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Again poor Tom had his
one side to the other of a pli troubles. This mate would come far as the beam but she of tyres on which he had porch would not build a nest in that ed and was chirping loudly at knothole. Oh, no! not she!
as if entreating them to do something for him.
the
When one of the men open- Tom cd the
overhead doors, never asked permission of any one, but flow himself to a knɑt- hole in an overhead beam and quickly fluffed himself up the night.
for
He stayed every night until spring and
one day Tom ap- peared with another sparrow. She
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They argued and argued over the situation. Tom's mate would not give in and it was almost too late.
Right across the street from Mr Parker's service station wus a stately old clm tree and here they hastily built a hest and Mr Sparrow laid her eggs. She sat on her nest and protected her brood from the rain and snow but Tom
slept in
his warm little knothole in the station.
to be his new mate. She did not like his home and
The employees of the station refused to build any nest. She had watched with great amuse- had her way and they built ment the anties and the tribula- nest elsewhere so Tom did not tions of Tom and his mates ond spend much time at the station. they are wondering if Tom will After the baby sparrows were ever bring home a mate which old enough to fly away, Tom
came back every night to his enjoys his snug home as much
he does. home at the station and 90 passed the summer and winter.
-ROY L. WARREN
Was It A Good Deed?
-The Mouse Was Hungry, But So Was The Cat-
By MAX TRELL
the
NARF, the shadow-boy with turned-about name, went up to his friend Teddy the Stuffed Bear whom he found sitting on the floor with his back against the well.
He said: "Teddy, I'd like you to tell me whether I did a good deed or not."
Teddy nodded his head very pleasantly, "Of course I'll tail you. I know all about good decda. I always do them myself whenever I think of them, which
ете
you
KALE
ms almost every day.
"What good deed talking about?" he suddenly asked Kaart.
He Hoard Footsteps
"Well," said Knarf, "this is what happened.
"I was in the kitchen, looking around for something good to est before I went to bed, when 1 heard footsteps, very Bitle pittering-pattering footsteps."
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The trightened mouse dropped his cheese sandwich,
Knar! said: "What happened was this. The mouse told me all
about it.
A Bit Of Choose,
"He had gone into the kitchen "Who was it?" asked Teddy to eat before going to bed. Ho to try to find himself something
"A llon?? A tiger? An elephant?
Something big and dangerous?" was hungry the same way that I was. He found himself a bit
"It was a mouse," said Knarf, of cheese which he put between two crumbs of bread and at that "Oh," said Teddy, "Just a very moment, just small mouse. What did it want?" about, to eat his bread
Mu
as he
crumb
and cheesy sandwich, the cat.
"It was all out of breath," who was dozing under the over, Knart said. "It had just been spied him and jumped out."
running a race."
"You don't say!" said Teddy.
mouse
motico
ΣΑΠ
the cellar stops."
s." said
"I suppose the
down
Teddy
did," said Kaart.
was
**The
Stic
"The race tho running," continued Kharf, "was cat ran ahead of him.
Sho with the cat. Now what hap- jumped over his head.
herself out right in pened was this, Teddy, This is stretched
the front of the opening to what the mouse told me.
mouse's room. And there nhe walled."
in The Callar
But soon he realised that mounds face the west, the Ibating sples almost any most of the time he never his treasure-hunting could dying face of the sun. For be more than a game. For the people worshipped the talent or skill may come in allowed it out of his he is.
U.S. Leonidas lives in a region sun.
handy, including some of the
counter-a onage other full of real treasures-- When Leonidas became in-devious methods of crooks agent finally bought
portfolio, an exact dupi ate of bones, pots, arrowheads terested In these mounds, he and swindlers.
"Oh dear," said Teddy, "how the one carried by Dr Albert the remains of a civilisation contacted the archaeological as During the carly
"He sold that ho lived down did that mouse ever get past the days of They roughed it up a bit to give of Mound Builder Indiane sociation of his state and
he World War I, before the U.S. it the same appearance of wear, event to put a serious in the cellar in a corner where cal?" read books about these Indians, entered
conflict, German and stuffed
crimp in the German spy ring.
that the plaster is broken. It was a il to the
"He couldn't get past proper who lived at the time of By the time he was 11, he secret agents
had almost
Dr Albert, the extra-cautious [very comfortable place, with cat un- thickness with
"Bald Knart. "But I helped. newspapers. гру master, Columbus.
was digging with archaeologists, hampered freedom in America. With this substitute, they re taken
was thoroughly | nice furniture and curtalos and him. That's where the good deed in by that: Pitted against them was a small soned, they had only to seize swindler's
hoary old books and other mousey little came in. I tipbood learning their "methods.
down the These methods are very im- staff of U.S. miftary counter the proper
device, the, switch things such as pictures of cheese cellar stops, got behind the, cat moment to switch trick. So much so that he never mountains, and portant because
bread precious
They
crumb without her seeing in-asplonage agents.
or hearing the fake for the real one carried know he'd been had until the trees." were formation is often lost forever men who performed
me, Then I pulled her tail.” Guperb
by Dr Albert and get the evi- next day, when he opened the untrained diggers
cried "Very intereating," said Teddy. "What For fents
that never of detection
happened?" dence they needed to gnol the fake portfollo and withdrew a "But what about the race example, the exact arrange-made the headlinos.
the Teddy, greatly excited, German agent.
fat cluster of American comic mouse was running with ment of fragments in the earth These spy-chasers had their
cht?" sections! Is often
FLEETING SECOND valuable eye on a certain Dr Heinrich than the fragments themselves. Albert, omeially listed as com- Only trained people know howmercial attache of the German to record theso vital facts.
700'S WHO
CHIHUAHUAS,
WORLD'S Y
TINIEST DOGS,
WERE BELIEVED
BY THE
ANCIENT AZTECS TO GUIDE HUMAN
SOULS
THROUGH
THE
UNDERWORLD.
JUSTYNDNET GOPHER CAN RUN. DOWNITS HOLE BACKWARD ABOUT AS PAST AS IT CÁN HEADFIRSTITUS: SITE SEN (SITIVE TAIL AS ITS GUIDE..
EXCEPT FOR THE QUEENBEE, ALL-BUMBLEBEES DIE IN
JTER SHE ALONE GURVIVED TO PRODUCE ANOTHÉE
by
much more
When Dr Albert was in Now' Embassy. Actually, Dr Albert York ho always rode the same was believed to be the kingpin train from his office, and always of a German sabotage ring selected
first marked out by the digger.duction
FAT PORTFOLIO
Q corner seat. One os Dr Albert settled his favourite spot, agents moved into
A plot several feet square is dedicated to slowing down pro- evening
of munitions for the himself in three US, the car.
One sat close to him, hiding the fake portfolio behind him,
The other two went to tho other end of the car and, no the train started, began a loud and boisterous fight.
A spado is used at first, then n Allies. trowel and finally a brush, as delicate objects are uncovered, Many photos and sketches aro mado. Chemicals are applied to The Germans were spending care large sums of money for their remains and they are fully removed for further undercover work, and the man who hold the purse stringa' was study.
In an exhibli, Leonidas show-belleved to be Dr Albert. ed the bones of Indians he had
For a fleeting second Dr Al- bort turned his head to see who creating the disturbance. "nguat sliting innocently nearby reached over and made
quick switch of portfolios, Papers, found in Dr. Albert's
But getting the goods on Dr uncovered in one of the burial Albert--evidence which would- mounds. From crushed skulls, and evidence of a hasty burial, stand up in court-was quite he thinks the men were killed another thing, for he was an
extremely cautious man. battic.
The teeth ไก
· not too
But he did carry a fat port worn down, so Leonidas mowe they were not too old. He feels follo. To and from his bice, portfolio contained lists of Gor that the burial took placebo-riding in subways or trains, eat,many's agents and, asboteurd in fors Columbus, Boonkame doing In restaurants for walking the US, and accounts of pRY. Eiropain Foods were nearby, the "strosts, this portfolle was offs. Broliga vidange for the
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balow makea then tuin, and doon
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understand this at all,,” says Willies / njesam "How can the ́m pitery of the bel
defect appréching.
Zapobationen Erwin the axelied balk Ene-won't day where he "and" only" rulla' chard"; to
that
Home Safo
The cat jumped up and awing around." sold Knart. "She thought' I was tho mouse. And the minute she moved away from the opening, the mouse darted lifte his room and was enfe,"
"Why, that was a wonderful deed," said Toddy,
"I'm not so sure,” sald Kaurf. "Why not?" asked Toddy, looking at Knarf in a puzzled wwex" said Knert, "the cat
wate Any?
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both
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and the rounŐ. hungry, weren't mouse pot his bedtime mack:: But the cot, svented in bedtime aack, too. Her bedtime shack www.she mousel And when pulled the cat's fall, I kept her ecome must make her di bedcima
And whms: Teddy