THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1967.
FEATURES FOR BOYS
YOUR PUZZLE New Books for Young Readers
CORNER
DIAMOND
CROSSWORD
The
Puzzleman River you
Kome help with his Crossword
ERAL wealth, which
letter in Poland's name:
飯
M
ther
-with subjects ranging from exploration to mystery
London, 30th anniversary of the Wright pected.
forward,
AND
GIRLS
A STORY IN RHYMES
Sal Finds An Answer To End Silly Questions
So angry was Sal that, to save her soul,
She couldn't slow down to a comfortable stroll.
And the adventures
SAL. London streets,
THE GIRAFFE. ended hundreds of miles in the was all in a dither Poland posesses great MIN. PERHAPS because youth brown flight, is a long tiep begun in busy
a sense, a period Summing up at the end, Mr air above the city.
Pacing the jungle hither With this volume, the day-of- puzzle by having Cartoonist Cat Puzzleman uses us the centre of of exploration, children and Taylor looks to the future:
his word diamond. The syond
people invariably
the-week series, which started and thither. "Already," he writes, "de with "Saturday Adventure" in word is to perch": third "more young rational"; Afth "hea birds"; and welcome stories about ex- nell K-2 has been built to
1930, comes to an end. But sixth "a short-napped fabric." Iplorers their courage, challenge the heat barrier at John Pudney, in a postscript, Complete the dinmond.
their endurance, their ad- speeds over 2,000 miles per makes it clear that the young ventures and, Frequently, hour, and the X-15, ordered in reader is only saying farewell 1055, is being designed to fly to his friends not a final good- their sufferings.
st 0,900
miles per hour, at bye. heights to 100 miles above
up the earth....it will be only a
The hair's breadth escapes of brief step from the X-16 to the Bob Moran, ex-Spitfire ace, are spaceships which seem
Jeg thrills which await readers of to us today than did "Bob Aforan and the Pirates of fantastie
Alp by Henry
Verno the aeroplane in the days when the
grandfather our
by Phoenix House were at (published
Ltd-7/04). school!
ACROSS
1 Golf Leacher
4 View
7 King, in France
8 Sallor
9 Shoutem
11 Where the Irish come from
17 Boy's nickname
18 Cuckoo blackbird
20 Colour
18 Roof nut
DOWN
16 Accomplished
16 Compass point
14 Swiss river
N
MINERAL
R
L
POLAND REDUS
The four facts about Polond's products will selves for you if you words and pictures correctly.
I'M CALLED TEX!
Z
13 Biblicat high priest
THIS 10 MY
OWN PET
12 Knock
11
Frozen water
10 Girl's nickname
8 Bitter vetch
Organ of hearing
4 Femalo saint (ab.)
3 Lubricant
2 Fish exEN
1 Lever
HOW
THROW YOUR TO VOICE
FIRST MAKE A DUMMY
FIT 2 CLEAN MILK CARTONS TOGETHER LIKE THIS... LCUT OUT A WINDOW IN CENTER OFA QUART CARTON 30 A PINT CARTON WILL SLIPINTO IT SLIT BOTH SIDES OF
TOP OF PINT
ANDCUT
WINDOW
INSIDE.
PUT SIDE -WINDOW DOWN.
2.DECORATE WITH INK ANDSLIP YOUR
HAND INSIDE
THIS WAY...
SO YOU
CAN
WORK LIPS
WITH
THUMB
AND FIRST FINGER.
HERE ARE
A FEW TIPS!
1.KEEP LIPSA LITTLE APART AND LOOSE, 2.PUT TONGUE IN BACK AND TOP OF MOUTH
3.TRY SAYING WORDS WITHOUT
MOVING LIPS BEFORE
A MIRROR.
#MAKE
-YOUR
VOICE DIFFERENT
THAN
DUMMY'S
VOICE
In "Great Moments in Exploration," (pulished by Phoenis House Ltd, London -7/6d), Mr Kenneth Hop- kins tells the story of some of the greatest explorers in including: Henry them-history uncover
the Hudson who dedicated his life to the discovery of the North-West passage, Marco Polo; Captain Cook; and Sir Douglas Mawson, whose ordeal in Antarctica ia parti cularly topical at the present time with so many expedi- tions going there for the Geophysical Year beginning in July 1957. Each story is illustrated with line draw- inga.
This
I'LL SHINE IN MY NEW ROLE
TONIGHT
UM
SCRAMBLED SENTENCE
Can you straighten out this
Polanc sentence about
nakes sense?
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Et
is a book for the children which will appeal
THE RUNAWAY CONVENT GIRL
And
From stories of exploration to history is but a step. most children also like history --if it is properly taught.
Two historical stories for the early teenager come from the
Bob Moran was in Paris when he read of the crash, after taking off from Aden, of the of Britain's now fourth Thunderwing jet aircraft.
instant, he most in the sume met, by chance, the designer of the aircraft and came to the conclusion that the disaster He set
was not an accident. American author. Machette off to Aden to investigate on the
**1 wish I could solve this
problem." said the,
“I wish that my friends would just fet me be.
But whether the skies are cloudy or fair.
They always inquire, Flow's the weather up there?"
"I know that my head is up high in the air.
I know that it looks quite absurd from down there,
Where the lions and monkeys come just to my knees,
And only the monkeys up in the trees
(No matter how much or how hard they try)
Cart manage to look me
Chute, who is already well- spot and found plenty of thrills straight in the eye." imown for such adult books as an adventure before he solved "Shakespeare of London and the puzzle. "Ben Jonson of
Westrainster.
Her two offerings (both
Phoenix published by Lid-10/8d) for the folk are:
"Adventure In
runs
to many a grown-up as well. England," in which a girl named MAN'S FLIGHT IN 50 YEARS
A sister book, by Mr John W. R. Taylor, entitled. "Great Moments in Flying,' imarks the milestones in the 50 years' history of man's flight.
we
of Here
meet airmen many nationalities whose cour- history was the seventeenth age and genius have helped the whose 966, from centuries, dates aeroplane to develop from a creat to Poland, a from four-frail contraption of stick and teenth power the
canvas to the latest jet turbo-jet airliners which have changed all our lives
MIRROR WORK
If you have trouble with this strange sentence, try holding It up to a mirror.
DNALOF FO LATIFAC EHT SI WASRAW
(Solutions on Page 20)
and
From the first fight of the Wright brothers in 1903 to the dam busters at the flight at 3% times the speed of sound, made by the United States Air | Force Captain Charles ("Chuck") Yeager, over the Californian desert only five days before the
Here's A Gift Girls Can Make
through the
piece bag and locate a pretty washable print with flower clusters. Buy towels to match the flower colours. Then decide which type of stitch you will use to ap- plique the flowers on the towels. Try those illus- trated:
Jonquilla (lop): Cut out flower
leaving clusters,
about 1/8 buch extra to turn under. Fold aver this edge and baste cluster In place on the towel will this edge tucket under. Sew on with u fine catch silich in the towel colours. A catch stitch is a tiny stitch with hardly any thread showing on top and not much showing on the under side.
This Rose Cluster (centre);
cretonne was b firm type of which won't ravel, so the clus.
ter was cut at the edge of the Towels above illustrate 'various flowers and basted in place with nothing turned under Then
stitches and flowers,
reptat al and
around the
Anno her
Sal trotted down to the lake for a drink,
And while she was drinking she happened to think
of a
wonderful plan to end her woes.
So she fatshed her drink,
I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE.
QOING
TO SAY!
"That may put an end to this awful drouth,
That is, if it grows to a reasonable dzc.
I'll let you know if is acema to viac."
The
looked about,
tiger
As it ho
way out.
squirmed
and
were trying to find
But Sai ignored this alto-
Fother
And vent on talking about the weather.
"Yesterday, if you recall,
all.
We had hardly any who at
Right tkow there's a 11:10 breeze from the west
That seems to be growing in Power and pest--"
Lyle, the uger walked away. But he passed on the lesson he'd learned that day,
And now, whether stormy, cloudy or fair,
No one asks Sal "How's the weather up there?!!
-MABEL HARMER
O'Cheer Hall Mystery
-O'Scowl Explains How A Loaf Disappeared-
By MAX TRELL
Any boy who wants to read House about more of Bob Moran's ad- younger ventures, this time in a very
setting, different
may also his pocket money on spend Chaucer's "Bob Morrn and the Faweelt
Mystery by the same author lifted her post, from away
published by
Poenix
And ambled back to the ban- ALL the Pixies were convent, Joins Nick,
In this young puck, and sets out from
cond
Bob Moran Surrey across country through and a rancher friend, Alexander Guildford and Dorking for Blas,
determine to find the legendary elty of Musus, or London; and
White Indians, in the remote province of Mallo Grosso, in Brazil,
"The
Wonderful Winter" which recounts the adventures of Sir Robert Wakefield in the winter of 1596-7 after he has
from his TRUN AWAY
three Suffolk-and sun aunts and a tutor-because
u
Puff
ADVENTURE IN THE home in NEW WORLD
maiden in bo
Adventure in the New World,
is forbidden to keep his spaniel this time in North America, is Making his way the subject of "Dale of the Pro Ipswich to Londort, he Mounted" from
by Joe Holiday finds himself tired and penniless (pubished by Evans Brothers, outside the great theatre where London 9/6d). Mr Shakespeare's company are performing.
o
From
Dale the moment Thompson first saw the Royal Canadian Mounted Police the well-known
"Mounties" - thoir bright red uniforms, he wanted to join their ranks.
yan trees,
Where the Bons and tigers about her knees
Were waiting to give her a silly stare
And spring the old quiz, "How's the weather up there?”
The first one she met was n tiger named Lyle,
Who peered up at Sai with an insipid smile
And said with a foolish, sim- Pering air,
"Good morning, Sal, How's the weather up there?"
*The weather?" asked Sal, looking around,
"TH tell you, my dear, 84- though I'll be bound
I can't quito decide on the spur of the minute
Whether there's good or bad news in it,
SQW
angry, but the angflest one of all was Pixło O'Scowl
Knarf, the shadow boy with the turned-about name, him pacing up and and
down, waving his arms and yelling. It was all laking place in front .or O'CHET Hall where the down under the Bixtes lived, roots of the Out Oak.
As Knatt
ho heard Pixto O'Scowl saying: "I
came closer,
didn't lose it at all, I tell you. It just disappeared."
That's impossible," crled Pixie McSauce,
Only A Magician
Pixie McMerrie anid (and his voice wasn't voy morty of this moment): "Nobody can make a whole loaf of bread disappear except a magicion."!
"And you're not a magician," said Pixie McSpoaze.
"You must have eaten that
loat
While neither book is meant
the be "serious,”
author herself, commenting on the ad- ventures of Anne and Nick in Chaucer's England, says that ***** meunt to be accurate. After a rigorous training, he "There is documentary evidence set himself to follow the
"The heat just at present, I'd for every detail in it, from the Mounties tradition that they actual name of the Mayor of "alwayo get their man"-and Gay
Is up Tather for successfully accomplished muy time of day.
high for this Guildford to the recipe
thrilling assignments which took face cream.
him all over Canada in search Early this morning, as I re-disappeared." of a
murderer, legal fur- cull, trappers and a solution to the
There was scarcely any heat mystery of a dead man found at all. under the pack-les of a northern
fact, the sun was fairly river.
high
On its daily journey through the sky
Before ita warmth reached a degree That/ makes you and me.
Both books are highly read able and as such will appeal to the imagination of the youthful reader while at the same time giving him an insight into life in the time of Chaucer and Shakespeare respectively.
DAY-OF-THE-WEEK THRILLER.
Mystery and thrills become more populer every year with the boys, and giris, of the atom age.
some
The monastery, of Mont St Michel, in Brittany, is the seme of the adventures of four boys and a girl in "The Forest of Quokclünde" by Miche Rouze (translated from the French by George Libane and published in England by Max Parrish Lit, London-8/6d).
+
While the smallest ONCE Much courage and resource.. follow eagerly each
new fulness are needed by the young episode of "Davy Crockett," or explorers to escape from the space travol serial, the cerle underground caverns into older child and the teenager which they had penetrated by avidly devour each new volume means of a tunnel, unknown for in John Pudney's thriller series centuries, leading to caves
after the days of the under the ancient Monastery. named Work
Adventure, amusement and drama for the 10-15 year olda are to be found in ""The Paradise Pullman" by
Andrew Wood (published by Max Parrish Li
9/04), a story of trains and early Flying Machines and ex-
folk, circus
China Mell Special.
This year's_offering (publish ed by Evans Brothers, London--- 9/60), is "Friday Adventure.” In it Uncle George takes Fred and I" to London to see the sights." What they actually did 200 were sights of quite a dif- ferent kind from those they ex-
A Quiz About "Relatives"
was put on with an appliqué or buttonhole stitch, Bring thread three-eighths Inch in from edge (embroidery floss is best) up at and come up at edge. Pull snug odge, swing a loop towards you cluster. You may use the nuw
THIS QUIZ is about various members of the family flower ncedio in
about
type sewing machine zigzagger of fact and fiction. A score of eight correct here instead, if you bate the should make you an authority on kinsfolk. edges very firmly before starting around.
put
ZOO'S WHO
"THE SMALL" EST BIRD IN THE LUNITED
STATES IS
THE CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRD
OF THE HIGH WESTERN
MOUNTAINS,IT MEASURES `ASCANT THREE. INCHES.
SCRAM)
"THE AUSTRALIAN DINGO. "THE SUMATRAN FARMER CLIMBS OR NATIVE DOG, DOES THE TOP OF A HIGH PLATFORM NOT BARIA,BLIT HOWLS ANDS WITH HOOTS AND YELLS..
MOURNFULLY IN THE FRIGHTENS THE BIRDS FROM HIS
„FIELDS OF GROWING GRAN.....
GELHOIN-
ly
Porn Lily (bottom): Cut out with one-fifth inch left at edge, turn under and-buste down. Then work the edges in outline stitch in black embroidery floss. Working on right akla of bring needle up through edge, mako
a siltats and come up halfway with neodle, make an other stitch and bring neodlo up at halfway and of last stitch and repeat clear around. lily centres were catch-stitched and the leaves were outline- stitched. This is a modernistic pond “Illy?
Tho
Towels like these would make fine gifts,
1. The famous "Uncle Remad stories were written by
n. Joel Chandler Harrin b. Mark Twain
c. Nathaniel Hawthorne
2. "Uncle Sam's Icebox" is a name given to
a. North Dakota
answers
In
Pixio
the O'Boowl osored hungry Spartow some orumbs,
"Fm_hungry, sald Sparrow.
'I haven't had a crumb to eat since yesterday."
"So I reached in my bag and thrów him a crumb from the big loaf of bread. Because, said as I said to myself, none of us
will miss a little crumb from this whole big lost.
continued Pixle
of bread yourself,” Pizle Ocap.
But Pixie Q'Scow! kept saying over and over again: "I didn't "Well,' eat it. didn't lose it. It just O'Scowi, "this Sparrow chirped so loud and so cheerfully when Then the Pixles ail noticed I threw hin the crumb that Knarf
When he asked what had another Sparrow came
along, happened, several of the Pics So I throw him a crumb and explained that Pixle O'scowl he was just as hungry as the had gone off to the balcer's to first one. buy bread for dinner and, when he returned, all that was left had was a
was a crumb or two in the bag, The rest of the loaf of bread discomfort for was gone.
"It just wasn't there," Pido McSpry.
said
"I think," said Knarf,
just what happened."
that
Had Vanished
"And as I walked along on my way homo-to this very place, as I mentioned before.... more and more hungry sparrows came flying out of all the bare trees
• "However I see a cloud to the Pixie O'Scowl ought to tell us and broken chimneys and
Stamp Issued
Ha Refused To Tell
At first, Pixie O'Scowl refused to do so, saying that it wasn't necessary.
from under loose-shingles. threw a crumb to each one of them, for it was a cold, blowy afternoon and all of them werɑ so very hungry.
In Honour of houting and arguing, he con- of
Thomas Mann
"And when I got home to this very place, as I think I "It just disappeared," he said, said before I looked in the But Anally, after much more bag where I had put the loaf
bread and
it was
gone, sented to tell the whole story. vanished,
And disappeared. I gone the baker's I
I didn't
nor drop and bought the fonti ho ul. 1, noo eat, 10 myself." "Now it was a cold day, as you When they heard this story all know,
with a chill wind all the other Pixies smiled and blowing straight down from the told Pixie O'Bcowl that they K7OU may
or may not north where all the snow and weren't a bit angry with him any more. They were quite Mann, a German who was
"Get on with your story, got sure he hadn't eaten. the on with your story!" cried himself. They were quite sure born at Lubeck in 1876. He several of the Pixies. "We know it had just disappeared in was one of those remarkable all about the Ico and the snow exactly the way he had told, people who live to attack and the wind. What's that got And Knarf whispered in Pixie
car: from outside the country in to do with the missing loaf of O'Scowl's
"How many which they were born,
crumbs make a whole "foaf of
Mann was
one at the greatest In figures · Gorma: literary life when he Bottled in the US in
1933. That Was when began
b. Alaska c. New England Stalow | ho
8. Aunt Polly was a relative of
Huckleberry Finn
c. Tom Sawyer
b. Becky Thatcher
4. "Mother of Presidents'"' is a name often given to
a. Pennsylvania
b. Now York
c. Virginia
5. "Uncle Tom's Cabin” was an anti-slavery story by
a. Louisa May Alcott b. Molly, Pitcher
e. Harriet Beecher Stowe
0. Tather of Waters" in a name given to the
'a. Missouri River b. Mississippi River
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...
7 A "Mother Hubbard'' is a name often given to a
Tall hat b. Tight Jacket Grandma Mooca is a noted a. Writer
You might mako a set of:8, guest towels, with simple flower repeated an enoh,
Or you might create a set of abstract designs for matching
to make his attacks
on his homeland-or at least on the Nazis who were strangling the liberties in Germany which Mann championed.
He wrote a slieam of flory pamphlets against Hitler abcked the Dictator over
radio,
and
.the
And when Hitler svar
crushed Mann refused to return
to
Germany, though he revisited
Tio Grande Barope in 1947 and rouflrmed
his bellor in democracy and, in ternational co-operation.
c. Loose-fitting gown;
b. Musician · o Painter
b. Sargent
9. A painting of his mother brought great fame to
a. Reynolds
e. Wildiler
towels or place mats Squares 10. The two prosidents who were father and son were the
a. Roosavolla
airalen - and mother illapar, 115) varying sizes, can be arranged
| in striking patterna,
b. Harrison
d. Adamech (Anawoże on Page' 20).
Mann,
bodoured
Now Thomda died last year
by the land of his birth, but the sand wisch he would not re- turks to "This stamp""" its his honour is issued by Eastoris Germany. I la perforated 19, printed by the litho method, and dells for ad in London.
brend
bread?" "I'
got everything to do brad?" with it grumbled Pixio But Pixto O'Scowi didn't an- O'Scowl
awer. He just gave the Lindest "As I was heading back for lo chuckle which, of course, home, to this very place, I saw was most unusual for Pizle with the He was sitting O'Scowl, who lived
other Pixies in this very place, several times
Sparrow.
on a fence,
"'Sparrow"
I suich "You as he mentioned don't look choerful today, * before.
Rupert and the Old Chimney–28
"Laughing with relief Rupert
been?" he shouta," "How vaz
scramblas "thieugh the psoal, and y did you guy here? – Why didn'e
dasha sway to find the boy, and Spot, when he has got over his
· fright,, gder" with him. Hearing ?
you .coms, back down the chindi. ney?'-'ye been terribly scared": and was just going to send somāj
them coming Petee runs forward on to look for you an the rpofita
from the empty room, ***Why, Bupart, whien un north have yuna
Hay, Men me a chance," laughe Reperselinn Thin 15 ml pour slak,