THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1956.
FEATURES
FOR BOYS AND
GIRLS
YOUR PUZZLE How Willie Earned The Right She Lost Her Violin-But
CORNER
CROSSWORD
Cartoonist Cal has lettered in GREECE to give you a good hint toward solving this
crossword
puzzic:
ACROSS
1 College cherr
4 Fruit drink
Eray
Black bird
10 Minutes skin upesin
11 Siouan Indlun
12 Sollellor general (ub!
13 Seu vogle
13 Written foun of Mister
10 Cluid
17 Proposition
10 Haster
20 Tensile strength tabs › 22 Peel
24 Native of Scotland
26 Greek god of love
27 Large plant
28 Hardet.
29 Hups' Kin
1 Knuck
2 Excited
3 Pronoun
4 Wile
DOWN
5 Condemnation
6 Pitcher
8 Boils
↑ Dispute
14 King (Fe)
17 Mimles
18 Biblical wred
20 Pedal digits
21 I 1 stand
29 Deeny
25 el manev
DIAMOND
To Blow His Own
By FERN SIMMS
WHEN Wille saw
the in the music OLYMPIA, original site of the Olymplan games, provides ashop, he decided he must centro for the diamond. Tho have it. He counted the second word is an abbreviation
money in his pocket. Just for "lines," third
hen":
He had a few fourth a calyx tear"; and an 85 cents.
A variation for "brooklet." dollars in the bank at home. Complete the diamond:
He'd draw thất out to pav for it.
OLYMPIA
CODED MESSAGE
A simple code has been sub- stituted for the correct letters in this sentence about Greece, but that's just what the fifth word is-GREECE 80 you have good start.
Latma Nkxlotr, hm Sedrakx, Fqddbd, wxr bamrbodydo sed
enid ne sed fner,
ambhame Fqdā),
MIX-UPS
When you rearrange the letters in these strange sentences, you'll fine three Incis aketzal Greece hidden here:
HARM CAD DOM GINK
SOU SNAP MIND UNIT
GREEK REBUS
The Puzzlernan hus burled four facts about Greece in this rebus. Use the words and pld- tures to foll him by unearthing then
AT
S
COZ+K+
-C
(Solutions on Page 20)
FUN WITH AN OLD
DECK OF CARDS
VOU can play this game with
You
an old deck of playing cards.
It does not matter some of the
cards are missing. Each player
needs a piece of paper and penel!. The cards are stacked
in a pile face down.
Playera take turns taking
EL
card from the pile-and drawing parts of a "cootle" as follows:
No
10-hood
No. 9-body
No. &+mleg
No, 7-arm
No. 0-eye
No. 5-nose No. 4-mouth No. 3-féeler
Two's, kings and face cards do
not count. To begin drawing, a player must got a 10 first-and
then a , in order to add the
body. After that, the other parts are put to one side, to
8
When he handed the shop- keeper the money, the man said. "That's still not enough, son. But I'll let you have the horn if you will pay me two dollars week until the horn is paid for,"
This satisfied Willie, and he was the happiest boy in the world when he brought home that horn. He showed it to his mother.
Wille. "It's a fine horn, But you'd better get busy working so you can pay for it. If you do some extra chores each afternoon, I'll give you a dollar a week.”
He tucked the horn under
his arm and went over to
grumpy.
WHAT KIND
OF FISH DO YOU
HAVES
clean up my yard each must have been better that day,
for he blew out of his chair. Saturday."
"Wille-please," he begged, Then he sat down again, he mopped his brow and said Towser." he wille. I'm not a rich man, but
I gladly pay for lessona"
His next trip was to see Mrs Joner.
"I'll walk offered.
"That's fine, Willie," she said. "I'll give you 50 cents a week if you take hin for a nice long walk each day.
cim play
Mra Take
Willie declined the offer, He stamped unit with als precious horn. He'd go and walk Tuwser now, as long as Grandpa didn't When he told his mother know good music from bad, see his grandfather. Grand- about his
said, new jobs, she
him, Jones cautioned father's rheumatism
Now you Wan "That's nice, Wille.
good care of Towser." bothering him, and he was must take lessons. Then, maybe she went back into the house
In the school #1 bit
But he you
and Willie look Towser's leash. band." agreed, "Yes, I'll give you
Maybe Towser would appreci- 50 cents a week if you'll
ate his music. He blow his hor
Mra Jones charged out the door. "What happened Tower?
"Tower?" Willie was puzzled. "Why, nothing."
"But, I heard him howl as if he were hurt, What was that wasn't
French Stamp Commemorates The Battle
Of Verdun
"Lessons!” cried Willle. "But I don't need lessons. That means | hours of practice--hard work.
I can play it already.
Listen!"
Her eyes clouded. "I hate to hurt your feelings, but I think you need ferscas.
to
ניי
Willie's face
grew red. guess it was just mo-blowing my new horn,"
Wille's feelings were mort weld moise Besides, he didn't think much Towser?"
He of his mother's opinion. sounded pretty good to himself, He had to work hard enough w
for the horn without the Mrs Jones sald, "Oh," softly. pey additional
of expense
the She looked like she couldn't be- Jessons.
lieve it. When Willle ployed for his grond-
Hin rheumatism Towser
THE French have very father, too. Tong memories
when
they look across the Rhine towards Germany. Today they are friends. But what happened yesterday muy happen again the day after
tomorrow.
And so, despite present co- operation, Fronce
ime to time
issues
from
which stamp inkes the thoughts of her people back over the years to the time
when Germany was a menace.
Such
staunp is
reproduced
It
hore com mem- orates the Battle of eróun, one of the
bitier est bouts of eliming- tion In World'
War I.
he
Horn
He was still itching to play his hom. He couldn't help himself. He put the horn to his Hips and blow.
A woman ran out the door. "I'll take a pound," she said.
Willie looked puzzled.
Gained A Singing
A Singing Career
By JOEY SASSO
CHE had planned to be a
violinist.
by
And as a violinizi her concert carcer was launched. She played reitals all over Canada, and her But in place of cadenzar
fine Clepl violin
the was all Paganini and concertos by escort she needed for a welcome Beethoven and Brahms, Gisele Inio diplomatic and even Roy- Mackenzie, Capitol Records ernment circles, you selling fish? I heard the ging star now precises song
hits and bouncy, ballads.
Shuttleworth, back in "elvvies" and leading his own baħd This musical change started the Lake of Bays, Ontario, was
He co
Cit
"Or fish," she said. "Aren't
Ach horn blow."
"No, I'm not selling fish, out with a catastrophe. Her looking for musicians.
Now, from membered Glele MacKenzie os said Willie. He was too embar-violin was stolen. rassed to tell her that it was her vantage point as a Capitol a girl who could not only play his way of making music. What Record and network singing plano and the violin, but could
wonderful ir. Gisele Mackenzie suspects also sing. He engaged her day ended a terrible one. Willle that the violin thiet was a bene play Adele in the band and to
factor in disguise. was unhappy. To be mistaken fox a fish peddler whon
Her musical talents were ap thought he was a musician was parent carly. When her mother just too much to bear. Some-a planist and concert einger in thing must be done about it. Winnepeg, Canada, discovered three-year-old Gisele picking out
storted
out to be a
he
to
eing in weekend concerts. This LlTre, the deal was for keeps, for Shuttleworth became her manager for singing dates, which alternated with her violin con- certs.
FATE STEPS IN
He guessed his mother and tunes on the plane, she started grandfather were right You to teach the little girl herself. didn't learn without practice. It But at the age of seven, Mise Thon, one Thursday, fate sent took work. He was working MacKenzie begon the serious along Д catastrophe which hard to pay for the burn. It study of the violin with Flor changed her career. One busy were worth working for, it was Matheson Goulden, and was soon shopping day, she stopped to call worth learning to piny
dimcult trills He'd mastering
and for a parcel at a store and left just have to work harder,
double alopa. When she was 14 her violin in her car. When she she was awarded a scholarship returned, a moment or so later. to study with the concert violin it was gone. 1st Kathicen Parlow at the Royal Mias Mackenzie was discon- Conservatory in Toronto, She solate. Losing a rare violin is stayed there for five years and like losing a friend--something paid for the norm and he prac-dreamed of a career as a lady which
carol be replaced ised faithfully too. He thought Mische, Jascha or Sascha, easily, if at all, Besides, Vis he might be ready for the school
necessary tool in her growing band but he wasn't quite sure,
caroor. He wasn't so cocky ahet mire of: himself now. He decided to try If he his grandfather first, approved, then the band would take him too.
Willie did work too, He
DOING IT FOR FUN
But fate was working in other Meanwhile, she sang-for fun, directions, for it was during this for friends, for Army and Navy
same week that her first singing canteens, for informal audiences record was brought to the alien- who enjoyed her smooth, warm ion of the directols of the voice and her own plano accom- Canadian Broadcasting Corpora- He was a bit nervous for his pantments. During her last year grandfather eyed him with sus-of violin study at the Royal Con- pleton, remembering the first servatory, she sang at a party Within a week, she Was ilme he played for him.
at the Toronto Naval Officers starring on hes Own "Meet Club and was introduced to Lt. Gimole" network broadcast, which Bob Shuttleworth, a bandleader ran four years. Her unique the Royal Canadian Navy, singing style and fresh voice won After the Bonga Shuttleworth her acclaim that within a month asked her whether she was * of her initial broadcast, she was professional singer.
singing on three separate showa cach moeh.
best
Willle played the very he could. Then he waited for his grandfather to say some- thing
HIS grandfather said, "It makes me think of"
"Not of lish!” cried Wille.
"Fish?" The old man asked. why, no. I was going to say it reminds me of the wonderful days when I was a boy. I listen Anished walking and I feel young. Why, it makes home. me forget my aches and pains, WULE, You must play for me often."
Willie walked
A SPORT FOR ALL AGES
Almost everyone
enjoys
backyard
badminton.
stow
In those days, Verdun and i' outlying fortified hills formed barrier to the German march o
who HERE are few things teceiver,
wins the THERE Paris, The German High Comm
that can beat an after- right to score points, mand decreed, therefore, that
The birdle must be kept off Verdun must be smashed in noon of fun and exercise the ground at all times. order to breach the French line such as you find in a good A fauli la commited when a and drive through to Paris, then
out of game of backyard bad- player hits the bird on to the Channel coast, The
bounds, hits it twice before it minton. It can be played ultimate German objective was
pasaca back over the net, holds the breaking of the British army. by almost anyone and it in it in his racquet or fails to bit the favourite pastime of it over the net. A fault is also committed if the birdje shodla Against Verdun, the Germans threw 49% divisions. The many families and
groups hit a player or part of bls French decreed "They shall not of friends.
clothing. Pass." Marshal Petain, In Badminton is for supreme command, wrote for the rocard: "Nous les aurons we official sports world be re-shall have them and his wor indoor game. Here the rules hold and the championship The Germans, in fact, were matches are played. ahad And now France m
members In 's stamp which is reces-printed, perforated 19 and sells at 1/- in London 3.A.A.
máy be drawn in any order stacked if needed. Note the passed into history.
Don't forget to give the costle "coolle illustrated
two eyes, two legs, two
and two feolers. Drawn
arms, The player to complete curds cootie first wins the game,
ZOO'S WHO
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TEXAS WYNTI-TAILED DEER. SELDOM WEIGH MORE THAN
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GRATING BIDS HELPED COLUMBUS DISCOVER
VOYAGE À PLIGHT OF BIRDS WAÐ BLEŃ HRADING SOUTH
LAND CONTING
3 FÉME TO THE 'BARAMA
WORD
CHARADE
Huve you a policeman doll? Billy thinks it would be tops, But they could not find him one, Though they looked in sil the
S
the
an
Fifteen is the winning score. In a case of a deadlock at 10.
Nothing could have made Willie happier. It was worth áll the work--all the practice. He had really earned his horn.
PICTURE QUIZ AND RIDDLES
$502
picture
a baschall term. Con you name them all?
RIDDLES
"A singer? Why No! I'm violinist. loughed Miss Mac Kenzle.
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And she's 'never had time to be a violinist Bifice.
Pan Plays a Trick
T
***He Wakes Up Two Lazybones Under Hĩa Dibiya
By MAX TRELL
was
a warm, sunny, afternoon.
Lazy
Hardly anything moved. Tho leaves on the trees didn't move. The grass didn't move, Tho one little cloud in the sky just | stood where it was and didn't
move.
Under n daisy, loy Knart, the shadow boy, with the turned- about nome, with his arms around Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, Neither of them moved. They were both fast asleep.
All In Green
Suddenly, with moving,
there
WO rustling in the grass!
and
camto hopping out
nothing
a 'sharp The next
Pan dipped ise östießell hitä the brook.
second a tiny boy, drezed all sprang over the high, cornstalks. in green
except for a yellow in ten more hops they satlod cip
slippers, over the raspberry bushën síld yellow
the prickles and reached the edge back of gmishoper, The of the brookt. little boy's name was Pan. The "Whoa" cried Pan. grasshopper's name. was Bounce,
הזנו
Then Pan leaped off Bounce's back, picked a bluebell growing Pan spring off Bounce's back on the bank, dipped it in the and stood right in front of the brookc and brought it up. sleeping Kratt and Teddy, He dripping with water,
hold the
the grazshoppey by
Then once more he spring on bridle as he looked with a smile the grasshopper's back. "Bounce
at the two sleepers,
along there" he shoutöd, liber- "Lazybones," he said in his ing him back over the respberry allvery, elfin voice. "What do her hd prickle, over the
corristalks, serons you mean by sleeping under my meadow and over the lowering the high daisy? Wake up!"
garden wall But Knurr and Teddy, who "Now we're going to wake moved before, didn't them up, Bounce. Oh, how we 1. What part of their infant hadn't tuition have old bachelors and move now. And this made Pun shall wake them up!” old maids most profied by? angry because it really was his And he laughed as he hela tip 2. When does rain become. dalsy. It was the place where the bluebell dripping with too familiar with a lady?
be tied up Bounce while. He water. went down to the brook för a awim
the ride that reached that score rat can have the choice of ending the game at 15 or adding The outdoor game is for the three more points for a winning
score. people who are looking for inexpensive way of spending Backyard badminton is 3. When is the worst weather their leisure time A good wonderful castime for people of for rats and milce? complete set of net, poles, our all ages. Because of the mini- 4. When is a man like the mcqudio wnd three birds are mum space needed and the in-letter B7 the equipment required. The expentive equipment used, this 5. Which is the longest letter yard space pooded for the court in one sport that can catch Just in the alphabet?
In an ören 44. Met by 20.
the
about anyone's foney.
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The game can be played with:' these ruler, th
The person putting the birdie inte piny is called the server. The person on the other side of the not, his opponent, the rechive","
amrver is decided by vol- joying This moons that the bird has to pass over the not at losil, three times and Afide this, the (persón or side whi misses the bintie or faulty Bryll dopes the server spray only the
his opponenty If the migos the birdis or clammita
FARL IRELAND
·(Answers on Paro 20)
Rupert and the Fishing-rod-7
Bill: Badser, potping over a
"you mondia
Onco
Fast Asleep
This is what Pan did. When he reached the sleeping Kharf and his friend Teddy, he upped the bluebell on them, Then be ran and hid Kirmselt, behind a twice more Pan blade of grass to ace what shouted "Lizybones! They don't would happen.. hear me," he said to himself at Inst. "They're fast asleep. Well, my fine friidki, let's soo what, We can do about waking you up!"
Then he sprang on Bounce's Baer again, geboren
Hit Eyes Opened
· Knart-stratig ulo. Toddy, the' Stuffed Beary, opdied his with a start, bokeh
folt a drop of waist dried
"We've got a job to do be "It's raining" shouted heddy sald to the grasshopper. "We're rimbing ila west hote kiau) look, going to wake those. Jarybines the buff is shining... here's only up and make theth move awayne Hille cloud in the sity ge trom my tally so that I cha Wide awake now, Knirt and you up while I for my odd ran bank, to the house. down in the book "
ber: bent down
the. They didn't, soo Pan hiding, ben ävde bind the bladen, od tym then Imughing as though,” hiệ