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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1956.
FOR BOYS
FEATURES FOR
YOUR PUZZLE The Athletic Skill Of
CORNER
CROSSWORD
1 Pronoun
ACROSS
3 Musical note
5 Unit of weight
Chift
8 Sonk uĻ
Gustropak tandlusk
11 Pertaining to partes
13 Italian
ver
14 Mister (Spanister
14 We
18 Continek story
21 Nutsnices
23 Health MOT
M
24 Golf devlee
25 Encountered
26 Pull notice In the PIJAT
27 Preposition
DOWN
| Deaire
2 Half-om (printing i
3 Enmity
4 Акс
$ Also
7 Poin!
8 Spanish (2
P Trigonometrical functione
1
10 Behold
12 Tre
15 Grets
15 Upware
17 Harden, vermitt
## Qualifiest
20 State
22 Ocean
25 Mother
Strange Things
Can Happen In North Borneo
T
firs!
The
I though
This atanip, shown to the right of the Queen, was about to throw a spear. On closer inspec- tion found that the lady and is weird was playing wonderful musical mistry. ment.
After all, the from British
comes
stamp North BOTIN- land of the legendary wild m
and strange things can be ex-
pected to happen there
It is a very handsome stamp The girl in full nalive costume is pictured against a background
ORTH BORNEO
of thick jungle. And the picture
of the Queen, her crown glint-
Ing with diamonds, is skilfully muper-imposed.
North Borneo produces ber, timber and tobacco.
greater riches
Brunel,
TO
rub.
But វត
found British administered
neighbouring State. There oll
is the prize.
Another
neighbour in Sara-
wak, also British. There again
oil is money-spinner.
Yes, it is a wealthy and in
teresting part of the world. And
a very interesting stamp. costs only Id. in London, printed in photogravure end
perforated 131⁄2 by 14%.-J.Anë
TRIANGLE
This Triangle hangs from PERFECT
The second word s IS
for
wickeder": third fourth " doggy insect"'; afth in a contradiction for ever, and Nixth
abbreviation 24th mervekt." From these clues, enti vou finish the triangle?
PERFECT
F
HOMONYM
Polynesian Girls
WIFTLY the service came zooming ACTOBA the nef. It looked 48 though it would be an ice. But the receiver, racing into position, executer? quick twist of the wrist. met the ball perfectly with hør racquet. A neat 2't turn
21
This could have been 011 the courts of Summerfield, La., or those in Sacramento,
The Puzzleman says his miss- | Calif.
For that muller,
ng words sound nike, but are these girls might be pellet differently
24
Finish is couple of players anywhere
in the USA,
ventegen
The cut from the broken →→→→→ vained him severo
SCRAMBLER
Scramble "a fruit"
to harvest**.
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have to peet ·
and
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BY PUZZLE
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(Solutions on Page 20)
HOW SUNNY DAY
FAN TO
1.CUT OUT 5 CIRCLES 4
INCHES ACROSS FROM DIFFER- ENT COLORS OF CONSTRUCTION
PAPER.
7.GLUE EACH CIRCLE TO A TONGUE
DEPRESSOR STICK LIKE
THIS...
3.CUT ALIN.SLIT IN CIRCLE ON BOTH SIDES OF TOP STICK...CUT ONE SLIT ON SAME. SIDE OF OTHER CIRCLES.
RUN A RIBBON
OR HEAVY CORD THANAGH HANDLES.
PUNCH
HOLE
AIN. FROH END
4.THREAD ALIN. RIBBON THROUGH SLITS... TWIST RIBBON AND GLUE IT TO ONE SIDE OF EACH SLIT
TIE ENDS
-GLUE
5.GLUE RIBBON TO BACK
OF EACH
END STICK.
ZOO'S WHO
THE ANGLER FISH REGULARLY DINES ON FISH BIGGER THAN ITSELF, ITSWALLOWS THESE WHOLE, ITS STOMACH MUSCLES
STRETCH-
ING TO
ACCOMMO~
DATE THE
ENORMOUS
MEAL UNTIL
It is DIGESTED.
Wusth
HOGS TRAMPLE AND EAT ANYSNAKE, THEY SEE THEIR THICK LAYER OF FAT PROTECTS THEM FROMBÅD
EFFECTS OF FOISONOUS BITES.
POUND IN AUSTRALIA THE BARKING" LIZARD GIVES A COUGHING BARKS WHEN DISTURBED.
Actually this was in one u! islands, out in the Polynesian the vast expanse of the Pacifle The girls were brown and healthy, their long, biark
Howing in the breeze. Your Pacifle friends, who are These native girls, have taken Dy tennis in many of the Poly- front nculan group, which are
the north to Now Zealanul
the south, from
W" + Sammon etic Tonga on the
Hawai
UI
to the Marquesas on the cast
OTHER SPORTS
+101
1
By EMMETT Maum
THEY'RE ALSO LEARNING TO PLAY TENNIC, AND
THE DAME NAO COME
» LONG
WAY
ARE DOING
WELL AT IT-
or pollion. shools - and
It's
14
Вор =P
PACIFIC GIRLS ** EXCEL IN GWIMMING AND DIVING, AND COULD COMPETE-
FAVORABLY AGAINST
THE BEST IN
THE WORLD-
AND NOT ONLY THAT - BASKET BALL HAS BEEN TAKEN | Up er OUR POLYNESHAN
FRIENDS -
ball into the forward's batis The forwardi tein's her guard out
dribbles and fel Ko
Yes, the The game is wen girls are playing basketball on Suve
Un
2
for long periods of time and are graceful divers.
Girls of Hawait and the Solo- inona aro
are more swimmers
AND GIRLS
Underwater Mikes
Pick Up
Shrimp "Conversations"
URING World War II, 'micro.
DURI
underwater phones work developed for the purpose of listening for enemy submarines in the the waters around American continent. And when using them, Navy engineers were surprised to hear an underwater clatter very much ilke the noise of a large cafeteria during the noon-hour rush.
causing it?
What Was The microphone had been lowered over a school of anapping shrimp.
Snapping shrimp are not good for eating. They seem their to exist just to snap single claw. And they are found over the oceans the world.
of
By M. G. SHELTON.
A grouper, four feet long, visita divers.
Chesapeake Bay to mouitor other end to your car, you will
hear ships at a great from you."
distance
So sound recordings of the sound of passing ships, these shrimp "conversa- One spring evening a noise tiona" had to be made and like a drill tearing up a pave- to training centres ment was heard, and this kept good sent particularly
Now, electronic
allow Hube swimmers. No girls, though, throughout the U.S.A. This op for several nights.
Navy men to hear ships and fearless and capable was to keep Navy listeners Then L WILN fours! thut it listen in
the chatter of than the Maoris,
moved marine life too, It is possible of from confusing them with school of croakers hack dark-complexioned natives
from their winter quarters in that some Ash product
sounds Zealand. Purile New
As young the sonic output of enemy
higher than the human car can the ocean into the bay. they are taught to
to ships.
The whole idea of listening to hear. Some stringe underwater children,
heard ut swia, using a side stroke that
fish can be traced to a man who wounds have quires a great deal of stamina.
Other marine creaturca
was the master of Invention in supersente frequencias which They are capablo at surf-riding
may prove to be "ish talk," and canoe racing, and treading have ways of making them- the 15th century, Leonixto da
of their
So far, Porpoises, Vincl. He wrote in his journal: heard. great selves
equipment When Maori 11
place the head of a long talk. Like much human sourud, treading, you think often called the "court jes "If you cause your ship to stop been devised to interpret he will surely sink, she stays ters of the sea," squeal and tube in the water, and place the it is probably only alle chatter.
animals as they
lands, the girl athletes run in eresting foot races. They have
and long runs short dashes Sometimes they have n three- leggeri
But the biggest fir༥ event: are obstacle ruces, which are extremely difficult
water is one achievements girl begins
QUT tenna is only otic of D mumber of games played by the girls in the Pucifle. If you go to one of the Pacific ales, you are likely to see girls playing hockey there The r Polynesian girls play it quite woll, tox They are taught to master anything they undertake,
Cricket
favourite stort Aastrabo, Bagiand, New Zealand And out iti the
of Samoa, Paçitle isiozid
the kurk like it as well as any guine Now take a Trip to Suva in the Fiji islands. You see them LL Wer the Pacific, girls
frolic in the waves or vul there. the Wo teams
Aexcel at one sport, in which The Maoris have had as wide
cavort around a passing Interest is running high And
they could favourably compete variety of games and sporte
school of lied against the best in the world.
shrimp. Their AS ARE. In the score is
for girls as any in the Pacific. only a few seconds remain
tree climbing great voices had to be recorded These young indica really lear: They find The crowd is cheering madly to swim when they are merely recreation and you will seldom also. A shot is messed The guld bubles IL M no surprise then ever sce one fall Hop, step grubs the rebound off the trick-
that the girls thrill to swimming and jump is among their more dribbles and
and puisers races of varying distances. Also interesting sports puss senica the thoy can stay below the surface soever.
Then a sceOBCÍ
DIVING EXPERTS
there so long
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If You Have A Garden, Why Not
Get A Tortoise For A Pet?
By J. W. WOLFE
It is best
1
and to keep the lower petals
withered Tlak turtles garden water in shallow
blossoms of many kinds are feit them in Zoos.
ÍÇ a matter.
now
pun,
In
bark like
A network phones was
of hydro-
set up in the
NOTHING LIKE A QOOL SHOWER "TO KREP A TORTOISE CONTENTED,
much
and
no
גן !!
Swimming Is Wonderful
-Especially If You Are Able to Swim Like a Fish---
K
By MAX TRELL
NARF and
Hand,
the
shadow children with the turned-about names, had gone down to the brook and were siting
on the big white stone (which belonged to
frog)
when they saw their friend, Mr the Magnificent
Merlin,
Magician
Ite
wus dressed in green sull and was wearing a pair of big goggles
n bright
"Good-morning. Mr Merin," seid Hanid.
"Good-morning." said Knarf. "Those gogies you're wearing make you look like a fish.”
Fish Gogglas
Mr Merlin, the Magnificent Magician, sinlied and
"They're ash goggles."
"Why art
you
them?' asked Hanid.
sald:
wearing
G-28;
has this
They saw shails climbing up the stems of water plants,
"Well," he said to them, in a
"Because I'm going in swim- kind of bubbly voice, "how do Mr Merlin, "and you like being fish? ming," said when I go in swimming, F
swim liko, a fish,"
pot 1
Kлrf
and Hanid both sald
Knart and Hanid said they
wonderfully happy,
felt
must be very interesting to . Then
me
let go for a swim!
sald Mr Merlin.
keep a tortoise, or
comparatively simple tilted so that the tortoise
One tortoise will keep your it.
And garden can easily get at
perfect order. At it really earns its Of course, we metan af weeds are scarce,
some work all day, such as apple board and keep. small specie, not the Glant green food.
Tortoises are "sleepy-heads" Tortoises that used to live parings, endive or spinach and do not get up at the crack stir of dawn as do birds, but in seas in Eastern Europe should be provided daily.
13 high. only when the The almost extinct,
They go to bed around four black-shelled tortoise shell
o'clock in the afternoon, was once used in making
winter hold. They say They burrow for the ornamental bucks for
and
sleep until the days get brings good luck.
What a pleasant, merry, mar- vegetable swim like a th 19 The pots aro fed
It was, gliding "It vellous trip said Mr Merlin, and native fruits. The isn't very much trouble for me through the water as easily as place olives, for winter. That is a good hay or straw above the
your tortoise has chosen for children often put this pet into to turn you into fish if you'd swallows glide through the airl How different the brook looked time to "fatten" up
care to have me do it," Tortoises find their own pet by giving it all
your winter quarters to give it extra the sink and let the water run
the warmth.
gently on it Every morning Knart and
Hanid said they from the way it did when they
saw it from above) food in gardens. If the gar bread soaked in milk that
the tortoise is fed broad and would liko very much to bo In very hot, dry weather use
At this, Mr They
sitting saw the frogs contains plenty of
it. can લા. This
will a watering pot on your tortoise milk the same as the boys and changed into finh
Merlin reached into his pocket high moist soil and plenty of
up on the banks, with thoroughly ho girls. sustain the creature
all and
and gave them both a pair of their heads pointed up toward enjoys it. weeds, the only Krass and
Then he snapped his the sky. They saw duck winter.
In some country districts of provide thing you need to
As torioises eat many kinds of Italy and Greeco you will see a is water.
inserts, fallen
rose petals, sun-
Like tonds and frogs, the
begins early in warm. tortoise
When the winter
that
brushes and combs, but to autumn to look for a home severe, it is a good plan to pack Geroos, from the table, fresh "Well,"
day it is almost a lost craft.
den
PCC
how
AFTER THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF MOUNT MAZAMA, THERE EMERGED
The Bluest Lake In The World
MANY, many hundreds
Vkof years ago a mighty chain of "fire mountains" flamed along the Pacific. Coast, forming the Cascallo Mountains with their erup- tions.
One by one these volcarmes gradually cooled, off and became extinct with the exception of Lasson Peak, which was last known to have erupted around the year 1700!
B
| THE VANDEIRING AMERICANAS
out wre
In winter the tortoise has
E
and kitchen
range hibernates during
here It
tho
ŽUR
And
Hanta
astonishment.
هامي
and
several
linegers
saw only her moving legs and tortoise in almost every house- box of dirt and hay back of the magical words (which I wish I paddling across the brooks and could remember) and instantly her white fenthers until sud-- Khart and
found
them denly she tipped over-and they cold salves turning
1coping aw only her snapping black. months. Of course the soil is through the water of the brook, eyes and her yellow beak. sprinkled occasionally, It They stopped for a moment
ent in drice out.
where the water a deep pool
They met malls climbing up When the tortoise begins to fell, all froth and bubbles, from the stems of water plants. They. knock around in spring the the high rocks just overhead, gaw water bugs and water
scurrying owner know it is time to let it They looked at each other in bootjes,
along the out of the box
mud and sană at the boltam, In homes where there are
They looked up through the Scafes And Fins large palms, cactures and such
water and raw · a
little boy vanished into a huge cavern in
the tortolest is
fishing. houseplants, the earth.
allowed to-burrow at the roots They had talle and scales and When the lava hod cooled,
for
Italian ins.
Crowds of Fish At this moment, another autuma months. water began to flow into the familiee often keep three or four fish came swimming up to them, immense hole left
the
tortolees and trent them as wo They at once recognised their But the best fun of all was mountain > disappeared, and
do cats and dogs.
friend, Mr Merin,
racing through the water with formed 粒 beautiful body of
alf the other fish--- great crowd water now called "Crater Lakce,"
of them, jumping and laughing It is said to be the bluest and
and splashing. The brook deepest fresh water lako in the
wound across the posture where world,
the cows came to drink, and moved slowly around the foot of the hill among the dark pines. They saw rabbit drinking water at the edge and ilgbaning with its ears cocked for a fox They ́saw a robin" taking a bath and a little · girl- miling a wooden boat with her brother.
when
Two tiny islands are visible in the unbelievable blue of Crater Lake. Ono is called Phantom Ship,' because it hod sharp pinnacles of lava rock which rosethble o ship's mast, The other one in Wizard Island, and is the peak of one of the three' volstoon› which formed when Mount Mazima disapporod.
1016 Lasson Park Fer been quiet again, the only sign
Rupert and the Dog-roses-13
Then, suddenly on June 1, 1914, Laisser Peak wha seen to belch out
huge made of smoke. This was followed by a great ex
so hot every living of activity being a small jos of plosion of superheated gas plant and animal within its path, steam now and then, and a few which burst from the crater was destroyed. At other times shos, quickly scattered by the of the volcan, Lava rushed the rocks and ashes thrown out winch · Kuch small disturbances
pay mid he thinks. not considered eruptions by down the mountain gaides were lulooverin, or even cold.
For two years, the, volcans the geologists and acleaykatur V whene Marson has done for man 1 » Yasy and live done even better and out into the valley continued to pour forth smoke Pescope this last, great - "Are (will try + 10, find her, some of thanh tăng 1** Rupert chuckles. surrounding it
and stegn, rocks and lava, aga mountain? lng gone to; sleep Nự, nhưng zuri roses. It only I could * Tvs brought something to show, Basaglider golfioreneringslot, * Che of this famous chair
mywberiou Sometimes the lays that dowed Mount Mazama,
DINO.
Afore Jeaving the little girl's, dit with the others in the gardeni." how Rupert Roke very carefully ‹-Men, Bear-check all the things and low home with the new that Rupert has brought. "You'vn **
* don't care what they done. Very well, als miler. Bi 3* After){ “Everything's ', exactly right."
CALL RIGHTS ABLESYSD
And dinally, when they reached the spot where the brook, Joined the river on its way down to the sea, all at once Mr Merlirt Jumped out of the water and Knart and Fanid Allcked · their 'fails and followed; hun. They were all sitting on tho
· bank again, no longer JUST
themselves,
17 hope you liked your trip, enid" "Mr Merun). [Berimanting wordartial when you can swin
Knart and Hanid, both with that,