THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1956.
FEATURES
YOUR PUZZLE
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DIAMOND
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extensive
Nor was FOTESTS and the Puzzleman fax the them as al centre for Tuprantul The second word.
third
11 Ja
cooking
5th Ma
A
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ACROSS
There puzzle are atental
□ Oratorio (ab)
7 Norümeant (als )
B Canvas shelter
10 Bel
12 Company tab)
14. Look at
15 Rubbed out
DOWN
1 Announcement
2 Norwegian coln
3 Kave
4 Arilclo
Shouted
• Girl's nickname
11 Boy's naZIJO
13 Ether
JUMBLED SENTENCE
Perhaps you can
Puzzleman in his sentener about
Norway by straightening
the words correctly.
Norway. midnight a the area
North
The
of
phenomenon Cape.
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**previsti", and Finish the
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FORESTS
FOR
BOYS
Feather-Collecting Offers Fun
WANT A HOBBY that's really worth while and lots of fun tuo? Then start collecting feathers. They're beautiful to see, and best of all, you can find them any- where.
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To get started all you will need
strong envelopes to hold your tren- sures, and a guide book to help you identify them. You borrow site of those from the library and probably after you get really started you will want to buy a book fof your owJE
PIGEON FEATHER
OWL FEATHER
I'M NOT
THE SPEEDY TYPE
THE FEATHERS THAT ENABLE BIRDS TO FLY ARE NOT ALL CONSTRUCTED ALIKE -
A PIORON'S FEATHERS ARE MADE FOR SPEED; AN OWL'S ENABLE IT TO FLY SLOWLY AND NOISELESSLY-
Then
will you
notier hurbiles the tar pershire would hundred of thin barbs use the burts te separate mid the air wend just slip through, from the spreading out
The barbs grounding the tril centrui quill. These are what and bales interrreked the the ale so the but can fly. uf
NORWEGIAN REBUS
By in the wohls and ple-
Brack hara right, you'll
four -blas about Nurway hidden an
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GO SLOW
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★ ☆ Exactine one of the flight feathers you pick up, under microscape and see for yourself what 1 wonderful creation a feather is. (The ilight
the feathers bigger, stronger feathers of the wing and tail.
form the body feather.
wit
HALE
HEARTY!
AND
help the
WE FINISHED THE
HOW MAKE A TO SUBMARINE Punch a hole in each end of an EGG with a large NEEDLE:
BLOW OUT CENTER. WASH IT OUT AND LET IT DRY...
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4. STICK CELLOPHANE TAPE OVERONE HOLE AND POUR FINE SAND IN THE OTHER UNTIL EGG 19
FILLED TAPE HOLE.
5.Fasten
a SPOOL to top with
3. Тарв а PENNY to
bottom with
CELLOPHANE TAPE.
ATB LUNCH
NORWEGIAN MIX-UPS
Fist of theme e a Norwegian Idand group. second I Nor-
way's parteanaut, and third in The name of Norway's king,
which thi Pozziensan bays You can Find by TEGAKADKI The letters in each strange line:
ZIF RED GENTS.
TOTS GRIN
ĐAU HAN
Solutions on Page 201
The first thing you will the central stem, sometimes called the quill.
SPO
K!
huld
collection.
fenthers enlly be mounted on sheets of
Now look closely an Art
see Title hairlike branches of each barb. along each side These are called turbutes Sampe of them are notched and some
Wat of the m are hooked, they interlock.
][',, Uds interlocking that enables
the bird
1
AND
GIRLS
"Talking Leaves” Inspired
The Indian To
Invent
A System Of Writing
TN Statuary Hall, Wash-
IN
ington, each state makTM
have a statue of a leading citizen.
state of The Oklahoma has chosen for
statue, Sequoyah, Cherokee Indian. This man
MONL
outstanding
ia universally considered the Indian who ever lived, and he is the only Indian so honoured,
Sequoyahı Was born in 1770 in western Tennessee. Early in his life he had an accident which left him lame. However, in spite of that, he became adept at several trades. He was
mer-
If you wish to display your good blacksmith, a painter,
hunter, farmer, salt
silversmith Dart chant, expert b The paper can
and a soklier. form
He fought serapbook hentateful devorah for your ir the War of 1812. berort wall Feathe, rollerting |
Sprin winter.
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design Can dy 11
GARMENT
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GAMES OF YESTERYEAR
ARE STILL POPULAR
N these nice days of sun- shine, games for playing outdoors are going to sup plant those you have been playing indoors. Here art few you may like as well as boys and girls of ausotherm generation.
ever
ןןןת
י' י'
ruti
"Piling the Gap" is popu- lar. Make a circle. Who-
is around and touch one of the players on the buck or with knowled handkerchief,
2
DON'T SPILL THE
SALT!--AND WHY
DON'T SPILL the salt! Not if you want to keep the good will of your host or fellow guests, for that's one
way to break up a friend-
ship.
Spilling the sali always signifies a quarrel.
Salt used to be so scarce
that it and precious
Was used as an offering to the gocis for centuries. To spili a grain of salt was con- sidered an insult to the immortals, who would cer- tainly retaliate in some un- friendly fashion.
"SALT MONEY"
Caesar's
time,
NO PAY THIS BATTLE.. YOU WEREN'T WORTH YOUR SALT MONEY"!
This boy Or girl break away and both players run around the circle in different. directions, trying to be first to reach the gap made by The person touched. Who- ever reaches this gap Arst remains in the circle while the other player becomes "It" and starts the game by touching some one else.
Skittle"
ᎯᏛ".
the "Guarding needs either a minepin large stick of wood around which the players stand in a circle. They face the player in the centre who
has the object (the Skittle) between his legs. Those around the circle
GUARDING THE SKITTLE (OR NINE PIN)
now try chosen as
Fox and,a etrele of
to hit the skittle with a ball about four feet is drawn on the
to ground as bis base. While with while the keeper tries
he
one
und
could read
write. This WIN something never before accomplished the world
To Sequoyah göen the honour mut only of inventing an entire alphabet but by its meuna tribe became the most literate Indians in America. Further, in 1828 the Cherokee Phoenix was
It
Wa
published. 11 Was tho first Indian newspaper. four-page paper printed partly
partly Cherokee and
11
English.
An
A translation or the New Testament was begun and in a short time completed und So were hymns, ser- printed mons and tracts on teinperance. ONE OF THE TWELVE Sequoyah was given a silver medal by his tribe and treated He toolt n with great respect. prominent part in representing the Cherokes in Washington
about pose and also brought
Can
The giant Sequota,
most massive of all North Ameri- trees. Les named after Sequoyah, a great Indian who Invented the Cherokee ulphabet,
Is
NO SCHOOLING
Was illiterate. Sequoyah That is, he never went to a white mum's school. But he had great intelligence. He knew white men were not more intelligent than indians, mnd decided it was their "talking leaves," what
made the cau that or books, difference. When an Indian died all his knowledge died with him, but a white man could put his knowledge in a book and it lived a long time after he was gone.
a
So Squoyah set about trying to tind a way and means to put the print- Cherokee language into a uble form. He studied the prob- lem for 12 years. At Brot he worked on the idea of having symbol for each word. Bul there were so many words that he could not remember which symbol stood for what word, Then he worked on finding symbol for cach
word sound,
444 From Stially deciding on combination t these sounds,
read it. Then the men were divided
Intu two groups and aparated. Each group was told to write und when they ມາ14: together TICH could read what the others had written. Then the oki mexi were satisfied, in three months the whole Cherokee nation
also on one
within the Cherokos nation.
Bertues the statue of Seque- yah In Washington, his profile of the bronza doors of the Library of Congress
that Annex where it noted
ali one of the 12 men in he tunnu history who have in- vented an alphabet.
Than when the big trees were discovered in California, Sequoyah's name Wal glyen tham
Да (Sequoia).
these trees
those ure larger than about themra, so was Sequoyah
larger than the men about him. JENNIE A. RUSS
A Wistful Strawberry
-Everything Looked Creamier on the Other Side-
*TT'S
and
By MAX TRELL
Mr Punch was saying
onetimes a bad thing," Knart and Hanid, the shadows,
Stuffed Bear and Teddy the
Doll and Mary Jane the Rug L
Hawatiun
Wooden the Indian Buy, "I'm bad thing to be tou inquisitive. Some It's
to thing bad
too be to curious. There are certain
be things which you have to
love. For instance, strawberry shortcake."
all words
were formed. of the symbols are similar our letters. Others are original His system was not an alphabet but is called a syllabary, since each wharacter represented a sund, and not a letter as alphabet does.
THE TRIAL
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sometimes
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Teddy Knarf and Hunid and the Stuffed Bear and Mary Jane Find
usked Mr Hiawatha all Punch to please explain what he meant.
in this base the Fux may stand use his hands and keep the
on both feel, but whenever ADEL skittle from being knocked comes out of it, he must hop on
The ekters of has tribu
He Lit His Pipe If he puts down over. The bali
be une leg unly around the ring. the stond one, he can be rid- thought it was a silly idcs, that passed
and "Gladly." replied Mr Punch DS by the Sequoyah was a bit crazy, to his bast den buck the Quick passing keeps
riche lit his pipe and made him- that he was making bad magic self comfortable in his rocking nearest player. It while on
and jlved alone the fool be succeeds makes fun going and
in tagging a Sequoyah player, that person becomes the worked in a small hut. his Fox, and can be ridden back his system was about
10 his base by anyone catching the old men of the tribe burned that I once had a friend who
the Fox him. To give
a for his cabin and Sequoyah had
"A friend who grew un chance, the aren m which the
start all over.
bush!" Handd exclaimed be game
must not is played
astonishment. very large.
keeper lose out to someone throwing from behind
back.
For playing "Chip The Stone" you need small wooden spoon and a top Mark a circle on the ground about three or four feet in diameter. Place a dozen
When chair. completed
tu
He went west to Indiau Ter ritory where many of his friends had gone. There he perfected his syllabary and also taught it ta his 6-year-old daughter, Ah-yo-ka.
small pebbles about the player quickly throws the did.
"Let me explain by
grow on a bush."
saying
B-Z
Strawberry was on top of a shortcake, Kurrounded with
cream.
kitchen of the house. There he saw mother cooking and baking. into the oven putting things and taking them out later. They a looked and they smelled de its licious as they stood on the top of the oven ready to be taken Mr Punch nodded.
to the dining room table, This friend
I'm talking of
Like every "One day he saw a wonder- was a strawberry,
thing in a plate other strawberry In the world, ful-looking
Ittho wish.
"And did he get his wish?" Knart wanted to know.
“Handkerchief Tag" In 10-
Roll other way of playing log. up a handkerchier and throw
he grew on a strawberry bush. with whipped cream. He asked it from one player to another an
He had 0 wonderful view of the his friend Cricket about it and eith The young men decided that
it Cricket explained that it was a quickly as possible. "It"
the whole garden and even, as only tag the person with the a litle girl could learn
strawberry shortcake. And they happened, of the whole house. Daly handkerchief. That is why every system, they could.
It's "Because it was his good for-
fl
with enko mado tumo to be on a hill, he could strawberries, just like you.' elze. Then Came the trial before size of small marbles in the hundkerchief to someone
"And from that moment on," see all around him. His straw- old men
tribe. of the
and continued Mr Each If the handkerchlet fails to the the
Punchy berry hill was so cheerful centre of the circle.
pleasant that the birds used to strawberry had only one In medieval castles, a player spins his top, picks ground, it must be picked up by Sequoyah went out of the room
the nearest player.
and the elders told the young
come and stand just above him, To find cut how it felt to sit on dish of salt was placed in it up while spinning on
Sequoyahanging their songs. The butter- top of a cake all surrounded by -E. M. MARSHALL | men what to write.
flies would visit him, So would whipped cream" the the centre of the long diuing his spoon and throws it so
the May flies and beetles. Roman legionnaires received tables in the great halls as to hit the pile of stones Each stone of The salt container served as with its peg.
out of their pay. (That's where a dividing line between the, which is knocked
comes nobles or honoured guests the ring counts a point. If from.) For a soldier to spill and the servants or those of the top still goes on spin-
One more turn and his smooth his salt or lose his
sult low degree. Our expressionaning after being thrown, it AN Marino, the small
Mountaintop public of the more turn and his smooth the 600-metre dash in 40.2 money was indeed a
mis "above the salt" and "below may be picked up again on
this the spoon and again thrown in Italy, has done a good job acconds, a new world record. fortune. Any man who the salt" come from
by the sime player, on its new set of stamps Tho San Marino Olymples failed in his duty wasn't practice.
who can make additional issued for the winter Olym. lamps also show foo hockey, ski-ing the bob-sledige descent, "worth his salt" and re As late as the 16th century it points.
pic Game at Cortina.
and a very beautiful girl figure ceived no pay.
was a mark of hospitality and
E vor y
skating. special favour for a host
In "Fox. Fox, Come Out of
Hole,"
is class of player one place a small dush of salt before Your
contest n guest.
"salt money" as part
CUTOUT
quick drying*
CEMENT
FLAG FROH
PAPER
Stick in a
AND
Short PENCIL
GLUE
70
our word salary
for a mast.
MAST.
ZOOLS WHO
FUSSBLE!!
DOGS AND TURKEYS WERE THE ONLY DOMESTICATED ANIMALS IN AMERICA AT
THE TIME COLUMBUS DISCOVERED THE NEW WORLD
"THE CAMEL IS ONE OF THE UGLIEST AND MEANEST OF ALL ANIMALS...
"THE ROMANS OF OLD VIEWED THE OWL WITH DISTRUST AND EVEN DREAD,THEY CONSIDERED IT AS A MESSENGER. OF DEATH, AND WE READ THAT THE DEBATES OF STATE WERE MÜTERRUPTED WHENEVER AN OWL OBTRUDED ITS PRESENCE
ON THE NEIGHBORHOOD
.
to
was
to
Any spilling of the salt in-
otherwise tentional or looked
B threat 10 upon friendship equivalent to throw- ing a gauntlet in one's face.
A THREAT
Can You Solve
These Riddles?
1. From what ailment does D teaketile ruffer?
The
Pretty Olympic Stamps
Games
is featured and tho atamps have cap tured tha
dosh and
the ting skull of the high bro D70
coll
Detitors
who matched their wits and 2. What has tooth but does strength for the glory of sport not use them for enting?
3. Who may marry mony a
Leonardo da Vinci in his Inmous painting of the Lord's' Supper, shows Judas, o bo-
overturning the trayer,
Balt container.
Those who accidentally spill
sometimes throw Jew
graina over The Loft life? shoulder. That's becauso in
4. What spends conturios past, unseen spirits of
were supposed to hoverdrawing things and yet is not cvil about every mortal on the left, an prift?
some
Enit,
and for their own personal honour and that of their coun-
wife and yet stay single all histries.
Look at the speed skater
its timo
or sinister, alle. Throwing a itio salt in their direction G. What has three feet would monitor the Rttle demons cannot stand? -
before they could do any harm.
but
0 Why should fish be smart?
Even today, in some parts of Europe, the animals and farm 7. What does a garden say buildings: arg... sprinkled with | whion It laughs? salt on a proteolion against ovil
(Austwats on Page 20) spirita.
llustrated on the stamp repres duced Jere. Ittannia's Sorgo Grishin had the same symmetry, Like every other Soviet entrant at Cortina, akator Grishin was honed to a fine edge,
When the main cracked, Grishin pushed into his start. Down the first straight he flashed, arms lowinging in time with his skates.
At the turn, his speed pulled him- wido and under his flying foot sical bindes trusted woơw at the Flame's edge.
A short set of alx, printed in photogravure and perforated 14. cost 17 in London. These are no! the type of stamps to soar in value. But they are extremely pretty to look at. Well done, San Marino.-J. A. A.
His Best Friend
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"Oh yes," said Mr Punch. "A few days later, mother came to strawberry hill with a basket. My friend the strawberry swung himself loose from his bush and fell down. Mother spied him and put him in her booket along with
great
many other strawberries from the patch,
"Presently, he found him- at self in
big bowl in the kitchen, all clean and fresh and roster than ever. He could hear his
"But his best friend WEB cricket. They were always to- gether, day and night"
"Oh, how sweet!" said Mary Jane the Rag Doll,
con- Mr Punch smiled and tinued
"But the strawberry was not happy. He had been green
as the Spring first but now, wore out, he got fine and rosy
And yet he was not happy." friend Cricket calling him from
"Why
wasn't he?" asked strawberry hill. Teddy the Stuffed Bear.
Good luck Strawberry, good "Because he was inquisitive luck!"
and curious," replied Mr Punch. "From the top of strawberry into The hill, he could look
Rupert and the Winter Woolly-13
In his excitement over what room.” Choosing some leamed Rupere has brought the old Pro-, hooker from his, dielvég ha suities fessor forgets how busy, he l down to examine it in hd cosy 'I've po idea what tren, that leaf, study. Suddenly they start back came from," he declares, “It'"' - with natonishment, for witherit new to me. So is: that : queer say warning the caterpillar hai Carpiller. Come, we must take' insped highs of the table and into the pode thing. Into a, wilmsar,
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED "
Strawberry Shortcake
"Then Strawberry was taken out of the bowl and put right in the middle of the top of the strawberry shortcake, ull sur- rounded by delicious woet whipped cream. Then the cakto was taken into the dining roomi and eaten.".
Mr Punch stopped. There was ellence,
"And is that all there is to the story?" Hinwatha the Wooden Indian Boy asked Mir Punch.
tho That's all, except that strawberry from strawberry hill who now knew exactly how it felt to it on top of a straw berry shortenke, didn't havo anyone to tell it
But the to, birds still seng, and the butler- Bites fluttored and the May fien and bootles went visiting.
"Tho Hue éricket just.... képt looking at the kitchen windasir. But he wasn't the loust bit carious or inquisitive. Hờ junt stayed on sizhwbtery · hill,»*