THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29,
FEATURES
NEW YEAR'S
CROSSWORD
today's
Cartoonist Cal put crossword puzzle on the outline of Father line to dress it up i bit:
ACROSS
1 Your nose, Eye, ut ant
are on
6 Boy's Hue
6 Sho, he, you, and
7 be full of
9 Eust river Cab 2
12 Look
10 Number
at
DOWN
kezone.
1 Ties
2 Hoy's
3 What
porty
22111:
1950.
FOR
BOYS AND AND
GIRLS
A SHORT STORY
SOMETHING TO TRY
PUZZLES Mrs Pokey Makes
WHAT'S IN IT?
How many three-letter words can you make of the Intern In NEW YEAR? The Puzzleman Sound 20. Can you do as weli?
The
WORD DIAMOND
Puzzlewon
picked
GAMES, which can be payed at New Year's Eve, as a centre for his diamont Can you and 117 The second word is " boy's nickname" Barth Is "a taimber"
(1
A
GAMES
そこ
5
NEW YEAR REBUS
the
The Puzzleman says you just etate the words and ple The ughts about New Year's Eve:
Tiene bagh to
PA!
final
R+
cloth toyu.
4 These an asset dan İs
811' akce
11 Northeast falz
MY NAME'S
DAN
C
HOW TO
MAKE A NOW-YEAR
RATTLE
WELCOME IN THE
NEW YEAR WITH THIS
ZOMBI RATTLE.
HERE'S
HOW
1.COVER A LARGE
his Foter
I LIKE TO SING!
(Solutions on Page 20)
Picturesque
**English
USED UP LIGHT BULB WITH A
4 OR 5 LAYERS OF WET NEWSPAPER STRIPS.
TEAR PAPER
INTO STRIPS ABOUT 2 IN WIDE AND IN LONG CRISS-CROSS THE STRIPS.
2.NEXT COVER THE BULB WITH 4 OR 5 LAYERS OF PAPER STRIPS THAT HAVE BEEN DIPPED IN THIN FLOUR AND WATER PASTE.
SMOOTH PAPER AROUND BULB CAREFULLY...COVER END. 3.WHEN COMPLETELY DRY... PAINT WITH BRIGHT POSTER COLORS. WHEN DRY PAINT WITH A COAT OF SHELLAC.
LET DRY AND HIT WITH A RAMMER TO BREAK THE BULB.
NUMBER
of years ngo a fumous American comedian went abroad to
Resolution
und Mrs Pokey lived
Min a little house on a
Hill. Mr Pokey was a hard- working man who went to work early every day at a were factory whore shoes made.
She sighed, "So there is. I muat sew it some day."
"Why don't you do it now?" he asked. "It will only take a few stitches and A few minutes.”
"I'll do it tomorrow," she
Mrs Pokey kept house. She worked too, cleaning promised. and shopping.
Somehow or other, Mrs Pokey never seemed to get finished. She would start her housework and then stop to look out the window, for at book. She'd forget to go back to her work, and before she knew it, the day would be nearly over and Mr Pokey would be home for his supper.
Then
came
✩
the hurry scurry scramble to cook the supper fast.
When Mrs Pokey shop-
the market and carried back So Mra Pokey want off to all her packages.
When sho CRMO hame and took out the bread and fruit she saw that the holo had grown a little larger. She knew she must sow it someday, but someday never seemed to come.
A Belated How To Keep Your
IF YOU SEW UP THAT HOLE NOW, IT VIILL TAKL ONLY A FEW MINUTES...
Mrs Pokey went to "Yes," sighed Mrs Pokey, market again and again "I don't have the time to do with the shopping bag, and it now, though. I'll do it cach time she returned the when I have the time." hole was a little larger.
Tho
shopping bag green travelled back and forth, back and forth, to the market.
Now Mm Pokey
had to be
Mr Pokey noticed this ped, she carried home the and said, "The hole is too groceries in her green cloth big to sew together with a
Mr Pokey few stitches now. You'll careful to put only larger pack- shopping bag. picked up the bag and have to put a patch on the ages on the bottom, for small examined it one day.
bottom of the bag. It will ones would slip out, "There's a tiny hole intake longer than a few The bottom of the bag," he minutes to Bew
a patch told his wife.
on."
Be A Blind
Who Sees
Seer All
[ll it as an assistant, his mouth.
you have a friend who init bis Jaws without
you can perform two very entertaining feats of mental telepathy. And unless you give the secret away your self, chances are that no one will be able to guess "read" his how you
perform in 111 English | mind. speaking country. He wus going to perform exactly as he did in his own country.
can
First sit down und blind- fold
eyes. your
Then request your assistant
to
random and touch various
This permite slight
opening
13
you to feel
ugo-inst pre-suce
your Singer-detected by the most observant watcher. Each pres- mure Indientes que number-and 10 may and for zero,
☆ ☆ ☆
home One day she hurried from the market, for it was beginning to rain. The bag folt very heavy on her arm for it was loaded with oranges ond bottles of milk.
She had just reached the top of the hill when she noticed her bag didn't seem heavy any longer. She was greatly loved until she found out why, I
re-
There was good reason for it to be light, for there, rolling down the hill, faster and faster, were the bright round oranges.
"Oh!" she cried.
And then came a crash, "My milk!" She watched the stream
of white milk trailing after the
To top off the performance, your assistant con announce oranges. that he is going to add up the whole column of figures, sllent- ly, of course
Yet you will read off the numerals 6 he writes them down--which you can do with Bo trouble whatsoever.
Then came the downpour of
rain,
It there is
Resolutions
one charac- The other cule is as simple: make up your own mind, after due thought.
teristic that more than anything else makes a boy or girl weak and Inefficient and undermines the chance of success, it is the inability to carry out an intention.
In the cast of any single plan, they may not care greatly whether they execute it or for- get it. But one lapse of purpose prepares them for a second and a third. They start a habit that may last a lifetime.
The secret of just how to keep resolutions is therefore a useful
one.
The reason most resolutio till u because they never were resolutione in
the
true sense.
but only vague hepen or desires.
It often makes a difference at what time you do your think. ing. Do not wait until it is time to act. Begin early, and yet not too early.
The best time to make a re- solution for a day is the night « venturo before. it you have ahead of you that requires cour- age, if you have a habil thel. There are two well-known you cannot break, sit down for rules for keeping resolutions. Ave minutes just before going The first one is tell somebody, mind,
to bed and Armly make up your Observe that you are dot to tell everybody. The boaster does that and he or she is the lest person in the world to ae- complish anything.
"
Go to bed and to sleep so be- lieving. In the morning you will find that your customery doubla and hesitations have vanished, and you will go through the task with a rush, hardly aware of ita dimeulties.
It is a scientifle fact that when you grapple a resolution in that The way before you go to bed. mind will "have it out" with the situation while you sleep and be ready to furnish you all the nccessary will power when the time ecmes for sellom.
Mr Pokoy came home while she was still working on the bad. She looked up expecting him to say, "I told you so," and But selcot some one person. indeed at first it looked
your father or mother, your though he might by the ex-teacher, your sister or brother. pression on his face.
Go to them and tell them avhat you intend to do. Ure the same No Mr Pagere melleed
any poor habit earnestly she worked over her method about
you wish to drop. You have now
繇 acquired powerful ally, your confidant'a expectations. It is so if two persons were working at it, in- stead of one.
A pit
شاد فة
linav
HUSK LIELU,
He smiled and said, "It looks like a big jcb. I help you with the sewing. Let me know when you're tired."
His wife anlied back. **1 think I'll manage," she said.
-FERN SIMMS
UNIQUE STAMP
ISSUED BY SIX
IN
If you are strong on good in- tentions but weak on achieve- ment, try these rules.
-JULIA W. WOLFE
The Winner-Glive!
it Took Him A Little Longer. But He Won
By MAX TRELL
BY SIX THE secret telephone behind
COUNTRIES
the bookcase started ring- ing. Knart and Hanid. the shadow children with the turned-about names, who were the only ones in the house who knew whero the mogłe telephone was, ran to
It.
answer
game,"
the perpetual struggle of mankind seeking a safer, better war-free world this stamp now place. It is something the phone first, "Come on out
I'm unique among stamps be- and play with us.
here Hopalony's cause it is issued not by one Christopher's here and so are country but by six.
Blackic and Glive."
It as Willy Toad. "We're playing # takes its wally anid to Honid who got tu
The
are all in
Mrs Pokey put the bag over | Europe. her head to keep dry, but alos, They arc her head came right out of the trying k
build
the big hole,
continen. She Anally reached поліс, into a united whole Just the U.S. the bad. She held up
inte- whole bottom was out. Now it grated unit most certainly would take long- or than a few minutes to fix.
Indly
His peculiar specialty was wander around the room at telling jokes in slang. And whenever he told those articles of clothing that Later, while you take the jokes on The stage, The your spectators are wearing, blindfold from your eyes, pass drenched and without food.
around, so that audience would laugh and These
be everybody present can check on laugh-almost until
tears rings, spectacles, shoes or the addition, rolled down their faces.
-BESS RITTER
But alas, the comedian was a tertible flop abroad. He told the
ame jokes, but not a person miled. In inet, one man in the (audience cud to his wife. "My Įdéar, do you think the actor is
The actor should have known that Jakker English-speaking camtries have a different slang than that used In his Own country.
Suppose you went to Austro- lia. Here are some pleturesque words and phrase, used in that continent. Perhaps you will recognise a few of them.
Yakka-hard work.
cobber-pal.
swoggle a tramp.
La-thanks.
to sisite--to boast.
push-a mob or gang.
7. Collins Street Squatter
n drugstore cowboy. Jackaroo--a tenderfoot on
a sheep ranch.
J. Diggers Australians.
10. John-
cop.
11. Sanvo-this afternoon 12. shivoo-a party
ZOO'S WHO.
THE INDIAN BAYA, OR WEAVER BIRD, BUILDS A PENGULOUS, BETORT-SHAPED NEST;BUT IT MUST MEET WITH THE AP PROVAL OF A CRITICAL FEMALE BAYA BIRD... ABAYA COCIA HAS BEEN KNOWN TO SNIP OFF HIS HALF-BUILT NEST WHEN IT FAILED TO SATİSEY-Á VISIT-
ING BAYA HENISTUS I
THE IS AN ELKHORN
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PEER AND AN ANTELOPE IS IN THE HORNS DIER, HAVE SOLID HORNS, ANTELOPES HAVE HOLLOW HORNS.
*ZOOLOGISTS ARE AGREED THAT THERE IS ONLY ONE SPECIES OFFE (LION EXISTING AT THE PRESENTA TIME, WHETHER:FOUND IN AFRICA
whatever.
things might
the
As he puts his hands on cach he says. "I am touching what?" And
Answer-correctly you every time.
Mystifying? Of course. here's how it's done:
But
The two of you have worked et secret procedure. which means that he touches things in
parer
The
What Do You Know About Mistletoe?
W
the same relation always: First VXE use it us protty
then aring, for example, head, then a shoe.
✡3
holiday decoration, but
we know that it has no
in this way, you always magic powers. know what's next. without looking.
Many years t[ច, men re- garded mistletoe very different- ly, They thought it was plantod
To complicate things for the spectators, you can, In addi- on the oak tree during storms tion, use a few catch phrases. If by a very powerful god. It was he says, for example,
"Now I
am touching what?" you know that he is following the code as
¦ pre-arranged.
But I he says instead. "I'am touching what now?"
supposed to be a reward be- cause men had worshiped that, god and perhaps made human sagrlices to him
Д
Only the medicine man could you uncut it from the tree, and he had derstand that he is repeating to do the cutting with himself, and touching the come special sacrificial knife, perhaps thing he did a moment ago, aahe same knife witly which be another ring.
had killed the human victim.
You can also work out a series of sound effcets in order
indicato different colours.
A
cough may mean that the ob Ject is blue, If he claps his hands, this means it is red.
In those days, men believed that carrying a sprig of mistic toe with them would help them in win wars.
J
· PREFER WHAT
FOR
TODA
精椒
the
have come to us through experience of many generations..
Learning things sometimeR They thought, also, thing if stoms dill and uninteresting, 'they put a spray of mistiotoo, but maybe we will volpo our The second telek can be per- near the roof of their housos, It chances to learn thinges more. It formed immediately afterwards, would prevent fire from de- we remember that nowledge has been bought with the labour, stroying the houses. Chango placer with your as-
of many men who. Erled and sistent and Leave the room. Or it a bit of mistletoe were tested ways of doing things and Then ho produces paper and put into a baby'k crib, it would ways of balloving.. pencil and writes down a scries provont the fairies or bad spir of numbers as suggested by the its from alcaling the baby and audience. He holds this in his leaving a fairy baby, there - hand, and algnals you to come | stead. back.
MENDED MÅli fosting and Strig They believed that mistletoe be doing in your
PPING Eg, nofir wayn, dust You blindfold your eyes would curo epilepsy and other ch again, stand behind his chair,inesses just because the god se you tod and place the tips of your An- of the storm and planted it mon “hate pe gors on his temples, directly Probably matrý people died, of time. above his chocks,
linger, because they didn't pa
Now, while he holds the know any other way to eat Ish's lit wonde
them shan by
paper so that only he can see meiades which, you, rend" off the numbers, de- spite you're blindfold, easily and really doesn't do anything at alle mani.
clearly, y
or "good or bad for any.
tson hay ve for of th
which allow.
Is dual com-
ponents certain individual Inwa and liberties.
and
So
here and
Over The Wall
Hopalong because
Knarf and
Hanid went
and climbed over the
garden wall and there they
first
jumpeȧ be could jump the
highest,
"VCry Uresome," По kupt found Willy Toad, Hopalon mumbling in his gloomy way. the Grasshopper, Christopher why can't we we play Climb- Cricket, Blockle Beetle and Glive, the Spoil.
shouted hollo Hanid,
the-Clover instead?
to
all They Knort And
less work."
"What game are we going to play?" asked Knart.
"It's called Jump-the-Dalsy, Gilve, the Shall, said. "I don't The ploneer six are Belgium, like it much." Holland, Italy, Luxemburg, "That's because Western Germany and France.
you can't
Ive much
"But how do we know who
wins this game?" Hanid asked Willy Tond after they bud quite a number jumped over of daisies.
Near The Barn "The one who gets over the They have all issued the Europe Jump, Glive," said Willy.
top of the 'Grandfather Dalsy," stamp showing the letters bull!
That's right," sold Christo- up in a tower. The scaffolding pher Cricket "t think Jump- willy said.
near the barn, wins the game," "Come on, every- ine-Daisy 18 n wonderful body, let's try to do the garne."
is still standing to indicate that a lot of constructive work has still to be done.
in game,
But too, shaking his head.
'Grandfather Dalay now!"
Shouting and loughing Willy wonderful and Hopalong and Christopher Binckle and" Knart and Glive kept and
Hand all started for the barb, that Suddenly they realised Glive wasn't with them, "I'm just going to
sit here At any rate, Клас and and rest," he said, mopping his Manid joined the gang in play forehead with a handkerchief
But the encouraging thing is The others all thought Jump- that such an enterprise has been the Daisy was ព launched at all by six countries which differ so profoundly
and culture. customs
More amazing is the fact that only 11 years ago Germany was prostrate in defeat at the hands of at least three of her new partners backed by the libera tion by the Soviet armies from the cast,
Wonderful Game
fug Jump-the-Daisy. It turned "You fellers go and jump that Daisy your- out to be, just as Willy Toad old 'Grandfather
selves," wonderful-game. had said, That, memory touches another
But Hand insisted that he note Will the wise process of
Starting at the edge of the come along She and Kharf knitting Europe together spread matil Russia, too, is included inadow, they jumped over all ended by carrying him to the
the daisies they could set, barn. a federation of sanity which will Hopalong wont first because he
time embrace the whole could jump the highest.
In world?
carne That is the hope which inc
Next
spires the builders of European
the
Gopher
federation today.
Tond Cricket. wasn't too good
...and
As they were walking, Kriart
XI kept wondering about The Grandfather Dalry, He was Blackie quite sure
there woren't any at big dalsies near the barn. Then Their stamp la perforated 12Jumping. But, even so, he was all at once, Knart enw
who.Grandfather Dalay It was by 18%, printed in photogravure better than poor Give and to values issued by Hol-couldn't jump at all and who. enormous
had to climb slowly up to the land cost 1/6 in London.
AA
the
top of each daisy and down "But It Isn't a delay ot dil,
Knarfoxclaimed."C"It'abo, sun- the other side.
!flower,"
Rupert and the Old Chimney——17
The Winner
The others
didn't em mind what it was called, looked like a dálny and that was..good enough, for
But when it came to
ver the top of the Grani father Daley, Wills couldn't do If Hopalong couldn't do Christopher couldn't do Blackle could ENEO LIL 1992 Knarf land. Hádlaïcouldn't ·