THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1956.
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At one time. Mark Twain; and his wife were the over- night guests of friends, whose household had a large]
number of clocks.
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Their ticking kept Twain awake. he wert around and stopped them all. As a re- sult, everyone overslept the following morning. When the hostess woke up and discovered what had hap pened, she wont to her famous guest and told him about it.
"Well, those clocks were overwrited anyway," replied Mark Twain, "They will feel much better now after a night's rest,"
MATCH 'EM
FOR
BOYS
A SHORT STORY
THE BAD REPORT CARD
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By RUSSELL GORDON CARTER
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T to see was his younger
From the first list, match the nons of the person with the sister, yanse of the correct ship in the
cena list
1 Henry Harkoty
2. Christopher Columbus
Clapton 2ugh
4 Rober Filton
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HOW amaze
TO YOUR FRIENDS
SURE, I CAN PICK UP THAT ICE CUBE WITH A PIECE
OF STRING.
HERE'S HOW
1. DIP A SHORT PIECE OF
STRING IN THE WATER..
THEN LAY THE
STRING ACROSS THE ICE CUBE.
2.SPRINKLE SALT ACROSS THE STRING AND ICE....
THE SALT WILL MELT THE ICE ALITTLE AND THE STRING WILL FREEZE TO THE CUBE.
ZOO'S WHO
INDIANS VALUE THE PORCUPINE,
AS FOOD, BUT THE WHITE MAN.
HAS MADE LITTLE USE OF
THIS ANIMAL...
INDOUBTEDLY EGGS WERBONÉ- OFTHE ORIGINAL NATURAL FOODS,
OF THE HUMAN RACE AND HAVE BEEN USED.
FOR FOOD SINGE THE
· DAWN OF HISTORY....
"THE CHIRP OPA CRICKET HAS A SURPRISING- CARRYING POWERIA CRICKET BARBLY AN INCH.
LONG HAS À CHI
AUDIBLE FOR MOST A MALINE
Elly, but there she him coming toward Across the park.
WIS
"What yuh sittin' here for she damanded when she reached the bench.
A he remained vitent,
A aufderd, "Bet you're fru'd to go home becATINE you flanked everything!"
Bab Andrews winced as
he thought of the report
card in his porket.
Then a girl on the far side
1 the park yelled, "Hey, Buy And as illy need ett, he pureed himself to his He wished he could the report card, but powerald you forget when
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AND
GIRLS
Create Items
Of Beauty
From Discards
THUNT up a pair of dis-
H carded
candlesticks.
Then find, an old dish whose shape complements candlesticks.
your
Decide where the net will be use and also connlder the favourite colours of the person you want to give it to, Select your paints accordingly and paint the candlesticks and dish to match. Lacquers will usually work best.
If you paint the ander- side of the dish a different colour, you cat 140 match- ing dollies under the candlarm sticks.
You can use a little gloss frog to hoki real flowers in the dish. Or you can get a crepe paper flower book and with making says experiment Khow what? artificial flowers, which you can stick in a lump of moderla "Now you won't get a bawling clay in the dish. ut
knew you'd
Al is left, well uk from the Fawling out from Mom and tub, a child was pushing a dolf emange, og her veny muh the 1 Pred
street stud
J read Faces Spot the bus woulst CURI The lowered his head as he swinging round the burn
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Street,
East down
7th the where
buses ran, then gave a jump us a bus honked its horn. close behind him.
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"Hey, kid, wake up an' don't walk in the middle of the street, the driver yelled while the vehicle sped pust.
Bob strude to the side- walk and thought of his falber.
Dad himself used to drive a bus on this very route with its norrow streets.
"Worst route in the eity," he used to say, yet he had had only one accident: at the corner of East 7th and Benson, where ho ha smashed into a truck to
hitting
a group of
enildren.
Bob let his feet drag, washing dn't have L 10 home. Tn her crandud analo 16. breket and pulled Lask ched ont 15 multa's at her w #1. Niet of ly
mak tance, the
betabe
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For
awful Instant seemed there was nothing any body could do,
Then Bob hurled himself for-
ward
the shw
The had a temifying glimpse of the big yellow bus coming straight at him, heard the bursh
of brake. abavc scream the child's frightened blue eyes shrill screams of winch,
the grabled her and funged toward the curb. Then he felt Che hard rephull against the why le length of his body.
He won't hurt. That was his list thought as someone in the swiftly as embled crewd lifted
him to his feel
Clothes dirty and a bruse pir one knee, that was at.
And the child wasn' hurt, But Bo; knew dewih had come How to bell of them, His legs theok
People began
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Mut! When Mom and Dad nt whet you did, will they be pond. Specially Dad!"
B-t was light while the two of them walked side by side.
HOY.
what's the matter?" Ally demarded. "You don't seem to happy.
"Huh," Deb sid
He didn't know whether he was huppy or not, but one thing WAS sure he WAS TO Tower werried.
It was odit! Only A few minutes carller he had been wishing he didn't have to go hom
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Use your ingenuity, what interesting sets this you can create from Items no longer used.
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Novelty Silhouette Stamp
COULD not resist buying
this silhouette stamp. It
think you'd feelin' perteet," Eily aid, "b
In a novelty from Western cunse now you won't get a—"
Germany and Bob halted.
the white How muld he make her un-head of Heinrich Heino is derstand That after you've set
on u background of risked your life to save another
uttle green. He loved the green- you don't worry about thing like a bowling out?
Elly gave her dress a hitch. "Bob, what's the matter? look."
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"De gomethin" how tos, Elly?"
"Hard or easy?"
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When benched the inter- mot.m he saw et and, boy, was
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The next Past Heb apled omething that forced a low cry From his p
She way cut of 1.muth when ง eu,hed him.
"Bob! What you did! Gue. I fiver--know--| had a brother
"Cross your heart
"Okay, but what as it**
Beby ushtrned his bps. "Den't raything about what hagated tk aft: I've a wn my port card!"
Elly's mouth dropped open, but before she could speak, he Rave her a push that sent her off balaner. "Beat yuh home!"
he shouted, laughing, and then with Elly tearing after him, went racing down the street.
How To Test Your Knowledge
Of Water Safety
LOW much do you really
I know
about
safely
when you are out in a small heat such as A skift or Canoo? Test
your know-
ledge.
Answer true or false to cach of these questions, then check your answers,
1. If your small boal cap- sizes, your best teraver is the
overturned boat, ——
2. When your small boat cup- alzu. the best thing you can do
is 10 Ewl ashore,
too
3. Even with experienced swimmers along It is not difficult to right an overturned boal,
4. When o boat capsizes it soon sink: completely to the boltom, so got away from 1.
5. Even a
small bont will keep atveral people aftont for un Indefinite time.----
Not long for the surface, that boy. Armful, of care and; skip-to-shore kiant steps do not make, for waloriers landings.
5. You stand a much better 10 extend an car for him to.
graip, ly hon
chance of being spotted, either 11 When boarding a small from another boat or from the boat, step onlo a scat rather air, if you remain with the boat, than onto the boat's bottom.
7. If you remain in a sitting position in a submerged boat your body is 10 times lighter than it would be if you Mood upright,
C. 16 you remain seated in a ribno:ged boat you can hand- padd yourself to rafzly,,
9. 11
achowimmer falls sverbond, Jump, in add rescue him even if you arba 1-100 good a sivimmer,"
1
10. The best way to rescue whelma from mail: bour, in
12. Step into "the" centre, of, the boat, rather than to the side clate to the dockt, tender
(Akiwwert on l'ago 20)
IT'S RIDDLE TIME
1. Why are you always tired
on April Fool's Day?
2. What hor" olähteen and entches filter
3. How many
buttons, you put into an empty Box?
Which I bigger. Blager or hey baby?
con
Mrs
5. When a clock strikes · Life- teen what line is it?"
6. What part of Boston is tri Chicago?
7 Whay tree. Is' like ពព animal's coat??
Here, the bottom, sides and flu Ung at the top of an old picklb" dists are painted with gold. Candlesticks and the insião of dish are palmed in a complementary colour of lacquer,
Matching dollies and real or Paper flowers complete the st.
Simon's Kind Deed
-It Seemed Silly To Mother Hubbard And The Pieman-—-~
By MAX TRELL
as of the Harz Mountains BEHIND the bookcase was and his winter journey
a street called Broom- through them-Harzrelse in stick Lane. It was a won- Winter is one of the most derful street, for it. delightful of his earlier right through works.
Goosetown.
It was here,
Lane, that Knart the shadows with
ran Mother
<1
Broomstick and Hanid the turned-
their
about Noreg. came on
friend Simple Simon.
A Lollipop Tree
Simon was
£1
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green
ho
Bilting mder lollipop tree cating peppermint lollipop which had just picked. Knort and
In many ways Heine is Hanld both greeted him plea- one of the most poculiar santly. After asking Knarf and
Hanid what kind Germans who ever lived. they liked best,
He was
of lollipops ard shaking
Simple Simon WAA sliting under a follipop treg.
Pieman said he would take us so sensitive that several of them down from the both buck home, for years he preferred to branches of the tree, Simon "The next moment," Simon live in France. From boy-strolled slowly with them down went on, "the old horse started
hood his intellectual outlook the lane. had been French rather than German).
And one of the chief sims of his later life was to make the French and Germans acquainted with one another's artistic achievements.
All this at a time when the thought more average German about hunting and beer-swilling than how to get along with his neighbours on the other side of the Rhire,
Heine's outspoken opinions of the German government in the Arst half of last century re- mained an insuperable hin
drance to his securing any off-
"I'm Blways doing things," he said.
pulling the cart with us in it. Mother Hubbard put all her silly parcels down on the floor of the
cart, But I still held my basket "No, you aren't," Harid said, of potatoes and my bag of flour trying nol to hurt Simon's and my big tin of milk. foelings (though sho really thought he did some rather silly things now and then).
Knarf, however, wanted to know what silly things Simon had just done.
Basket Of Potatoes
this
"Wa-al," said Simon, morning my mother asked me
"Suddenly, Mother Hubbard and the Pleman both noticed that I was still holding them.
'Haven't cried, 'What,' they you sense enough to put them down when you're riding in the cart? That's the Ullest thing we've ever seen!'
"And they both burst out
to go to market for a basket laughing,"
of potatoes and a bag of flour and a big tin of milk. Mother Hubbard was going shopping. too, so I went with her. both rode in the Pieman's cart. A "Wa-al" sald Simon again, "I
We
Simon turned sadly to Knarf and Hanid.
Heavy Things
"Now why was it silly for me
"the
cial employment 好 the Fatherland. But in his writings -both poetry and prose poured from his pen he possessed simpllelly and directness of bought the things my mother to keep carrying dhose heavy feeling which.. even his most wanted all right. They were all things while I was in the cart? severe critics admired,
very heavy, Mother Hubbard You see," he explained, had a lot of parcels, too. Then poor old horse had enough_work Heine died; 100 years TEO.. The
we both went back to the Ple- to do currying me and Mother silhouette. stamp .com~ memorating him is preferated man, who was still waiting with Hubbard and the Pleman with- 132,
printed in photogravure his cart and the old horse that out having to carry my basket The of potatoes and bag of flour and and cosis 4d in London pulled it, and we got in.
din of milk as well, 1 only wanted to help the old, hersa,"
Knarr started to laugh,
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But Iland sald very gravely to Simon: "Since you wera riding the cart with your heavy load, It wouldn't be helping the horse any,” for you to be carrying them; tob. He was carrying, then anyway. The only way you could have helpe: ed the horso would have been by walking with your bad of shopping.
Simple Simon - sighed;!: "I: nover sech to thinic of the right thing to dol Oh, dear, I'm so stupid"
Hand kissed him w love you just the same whe
"Yer, wa Gol" said Hart, And that made Simple Simpa smile again, Hordid 'want,thley friends to love him.