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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19,
FEATURES
FOR BOYS AND
GIRLS✰✰✰
YOUR PUZZLE A MIDGET'S FAME AND GLORY THE PAST WAS COLOURFUL
CORNER
CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Head covering
Rudent
7 Free nation (b.)
8 Note in Guido's scale
9 Sabor
10 l'int
11 Drink
12 Biblical High priest
14 Anger
17 Narrow Inlet
20 Body of water
TRIANGLE The Puzzleman has based his word iriangle on a DREAMER. The second werd la short "liansposo": third observe fourth volcano" Afth
vapour
for
IF you were living over
years ago, you could have ABON a real livo general who never grow any taller than 81 inches.
Charles Sherwood - Strat- is "toton was a midget, born in
Sleilion
Conn., Ari "Invisible Bridgeport,
and sixth "a bridge 1837. When he was
five
holding. Con you complete years old, Mr P. T. the triangle from the clues?
DREAMER
OLD WORDS
How many four-letter words can you make ending in OLD?
WACKY COMPASS
A
ONNO
WACKY
COMPASS
START AT SOUTH
„AND USE EVERY
FOURTH LETTERE U
FO
1
E
18 Negative word
ID Measure of cloth
E
w
DOWN
H
P
E
18
1 Sever
2 Mau's nome
3 incomplete
4 Keeps
3 Babu and the 40 thieves
8 Light knock
12 Before
13 Girl's nickname
10 Fish egga
10 Greek letter
HOW HAVE FUN AT A TO PARTY Play BURIED TREASURE
PUT A LARGE BOWL ON A NEWSPAPER... FILL IT HALF FULL OF FLOUR... BURY A RING INIT GIVE EACH PLAYER A THIN STICK...ONE WHO FIRST PULLS OUT RING WINS! DON'T USE HANDS!
PLEASE PASS THE
BEANS Play
EACH PLAYER IS GIVEN 2 BEANS.HE HOLDS THEM IN HIS FISTS... EACH PLAYER GUESSES IN WHICH OFHIS NEIGHBOR'S FISTS THE MOST BEANS ARE..GO AROUND 3 TIMES...EACH PLAYER ADDS THE BEANS HE GUESSES TO HIS OWN..BUT HENKUST KEEP THEM IN HIS FISTE..
YOU DECIDE
DIRECTION TO./K
FIND PUZZLE PETIS
PROVERB
BACK AND FORTH
When you complete this bit of wit work; you'll find your first answer will read backward to form your second nnawor cach line:
Uncooked
Conflict
in
River barrier Insone What teeth are In Drink- ing vessel
Num-
Used by fishermen
Opposite of
ber
Preposition
"yes"
(Solutions on Page 20)
Barnum visited him and his parents. The great show. man was 80 charmed by this well-mannered, intel- ligent little fellow that he engaged him to appear in his museum in New York.
Dressed in an elegant uniform, Charies was introduced to we
Tom Thumb. public as Gen.
Tom entertained with olever Fongs nou dances, In costume, he posed as Cupid, Alias, Na- poleon, and Grecian characters in mythology. The people fell in love with him, and ciamoured tor kis plature and his auto- graph.
Perfect in manner
By GENEVIEVE BRUNSON
This is an original old photo of Tom Thumb and Lavinia, with their wedding attendants.
ringe, rode through the gates of Buckingham Palace to be re- ceived by Her Majesty.
American and English dags, the New York society people to the caglo and the Hon, and the wedding in Grace Church. molto, "Go Ahead!" Two Lavinia's bridesmaid was her midget twins were the coach- midget sister and the best man man and the foolman,
Wis a midget friend. A plat Every day Gen. Tom Thumb form was erected so this bridal of woo folks could be would ride out the Boulevard party all under three years in this grand style, smiling and better seen. They were a hand- bowing to the cheering crowds, some happy couple Gen. Tom
Thumb, so dignified, and Lavi nie, besutiful in white satia and Society wedding
lace, carrying a bouquet in her thy hands.
Mr Bargnum took Tom abroad, taking 19 days to cross the Al- Janule Ocean. They were accom-
Both the Queen and Tom pumed by Tom's parents, valet, his agent and others.
were thrilled by this visit, as he sat on his own tiny couch Renting a mansion in London, talking to her and her three Mr Barnum sent engraved children, Vilations 10 the nobility and of age. wealthy persons to be enter tained by the tiny general. Later Tum appeared to pubile for others to see him.
Sitting in his gold chair, re- ceiving the life of London,
Icra
Also present were the Duko of Wellington and other court- The Queen's mother, Queen Adelaide, presented Tom with a tiny jewelled watch.
Tom remembered what b.la Там was so well liked that mother had told him: "Son, re- he was invited three times to The little Princess member to be kind, and always the Palace, be a gentleman,”
would clap her hands hearully when Tom, like a wee creature from her falry books, would sing "Yankee Doodle."
This is what his audience saw
little man perfect in monner as well as in his wee form.
Young Queen Victoria batame curious to see Gen. Tom Thumb. So one day Tom and Mr Bur- num, in the Queen's awn car-
HORSES And HUMANS
ANIMALS,
By IDA SMITH
like people, can be spoiled-some- times for good, sometimes for bad.
Blackle was R year-old colt when Chet, his 13-year-old master, bought him.
He was said to be the son of Flying Ebony, the horse that won the Kentucky Derby in 1925, and a western cow pony. From his alre he Inherited the artist's temperament; from his mother, his delight in being a bucking broneo,
up
Chet and Blackie grew together and became fast friends, Riding bareback, Chet would take off with the colt
prancing and kicking up his heels-not hard enough to buck
IS THAT
HORSE CRAZY?
Chet off, but in the high gice coming, he thought it was his pal and, in a burst of joy
of piny.
When Chet joined the Navy began to put on his wild show. it was evident That Blackie missed him sorely.
CRAZY OR SPOILT?
When
horgo
.
Charles Stratton in the
After touring Asia and President and Zim Lincoln America Tom decided he should received the famous Mr And have a home of his own. Now M he und Mr Barnum were very White House, and were de wealthy. A magnificent home lighted with these charming was built in Bridgeport, Conn., young persons, and managed by ble mother with many servants,
Part of this mansion was fur- miniature for Tom's nished in comfort. It was like a doll
On a pedestal
AND EXCITING
LIBRARIANS And that
many young readers like what they call "old- fashioned" stories. If you are one of the boys and girls who like books with historical backgrounds, there are many good new
onea,
Begin with Pepy's Boy by Rachael M. Varble. Toby served 1.9 D pago to Samuel Pepys (the one who wrole famous diary) in London long ago. Toby experiences
bitter poverty and a terrible prison, inects young Willam Penn and a highwayman, and seeks his fortune in the New World, This is a fine book.
Cowboy of the Ramapos by Marjorie S. Green is, surpris- ingly, not a western story. In its pages a young scout for Gen. George Washington tracks down and, helps capture a gang which is preventing food from reach- Continental ing the hungry army.
LONG
AGO STORIES
wound heals and hope returns. Trail From Taos by Loring excitement in New Mexico Ter- Mackaye mixes Apaches and ritory. You'll Menio.
love Squitrei
Ensign Roman by Leon E.
when the
Burgoyne... Fort Dearborn In 1811 with great "Chief Tocum- sch on the wurpath; Day of Glory by Philip Spencer Uniquel A chapter for esch hour of the day battles of Lexington and Con- Ford were fought, Candio in the Sun by Elizabeth Hamilton Friermood
An Diling father and a general store in sunny New
Mexico; Lanterns Aloft by Mary Evans Andrews
Young Man With a Sword by Jane Oliver tells how Scotland was freed by Robert the Bruce. Young Gavin Maitland joins the Bruce when he had only seven followers and tights by his side unill Scotland is an indepen- dent country.
In 1855 the hero of The ... false alarms and funny Wound of Feler Wayne by adventures in the War of 1012.
"Nothing exciting ever hap- Leonard Wibberly had lost the war, his home, and his hope. pens nowadays,
to respect the As he comes
men, tho once-hated Lincoln
»
-LEE PRIESTLEY
A Fight With A Monkey
-General Tin Tells the Shadows All About It-
By MAX TRELL
This tiny general lived "DID
years. He and his wife'enjoyed
I ever tell you," cald General Tin the Tin
In France Tom was received by King Philippe, whe was charmed to hear him sing in house with e real live doll in 1 most salling on his own yacht. † Soldier, "about the terrible fight French,
Thrilled
Tom loved to entertain his He was very hɛppy, baying bla) I once had with a monkey?” friends here and display his darling Lavinia beside him Knarf and Hanid, the shadow thousands of gifts from all over sharing in all these luxuries, the world.
Today, in Bridgeport, Conn., IN PARIS Tom had the thrill WHEN TOM WAS 24 years there is a statue of this beloved of his young lite. His greatest old, he married Lavinio, ape midget. High on a pedestal, be wish was to have a pony. One other midget, whom he loved, looks out on a world that was day Mr Barnum Baid, Toin, Invitations ware scht to the a kind to him as he himself coing out to the back driveway; president, congressinen and was
I have a surprise for you. But
first close your eyes."
When the little fellow opened his eyes,
did he ace a pony? No, not one pony, but FOUR
Shetland ponies!
These little animals bliched to a mintakufa
The Interior
wate blus
and gold carriage, with silver jastips.
Was of brocade silk and silver lace. When Tom sat in it bla feat could touch the floor,
On this elegant curriage was
Ships Which Vanished
In Mystery
NHIRTY - FIVE
TH
YEARS
AGO an American fuel
a coat-of-arms which bore the ship, the Cyclops, left the
A
Manifestation
Of Independence
harbour of Bridgetown on the island of Barbados, for a voyage to Baltimore. She
had a load of coal and a crew
of more than 300 men.
exchanged
Good will greetings were between the sailors and officers of the THE star and crescent steamer and their scores of
of
Chet came home on his first furlough, the went wild with joy. Ile raced Blackie had talent for herding stands at the crossroads
around him, he
H
the
MIGE-
The lion hunter was horrified, over one of balancing points the steamer moved out to- "That horse," he said, "is ci.her in the onward march
wards the opening in the crazy or
too spoiled for any mankind.
coral reef, which forms the Situated where sensible kind of work!"
the Middle East merges into gateway to the ocean for Later
years disclosed that the
Far East, Pakistan that harbour. bucked, he callie
could have been
Since that spring morning, South Australia, under_ very, swaggered. He 1:00 up on his trained for a cut-out pony (for where the great contro-when vessel disappeared favourable conditions.
Every- successful med legs and reached his front separating certain animals from versies of this century below the horizon, nothing bar thing pointed to a fret toward him, Then he ran a herd).
born heard of the Cyclops of cruise. up and fald his head on Chat's
nationalism, Communismis crew. Did they meet dis- shoulder.
Today, in his old age, though and independence eddy aster so suddenly that no Six months after Chet had still without "formal educa- and flow. gone back, man vamo to tion," he is very gentle and is
So far, borrow Blacklo for a Bon hunt, helping to train
Chel's little Pakistan's boy to ride,
of spirit Berce indo DLUEBELL was a white ander bluish-grey pinto mare.
pendence and She
the Burg was Blacklo's friend. She, too,
that Bots had been potted and
young nation
She carried a crew of 17 sail on
Ita way
Lora, and there were 43 codols have provod toe strong for any attractions board, 1 feeling Ane when they embarkced. It was mid- Isolated one winter with her dangled by Moscow. But the mistress, she had managed to star and crescent slag faces
neaker and more direct chal- quater, though the calendar
ONE WITH
GAME WINS!
Chel,
The man
looked a bit like When Blackie saw him
ZOO'S WHO
THE PANDA IS ONE OF
THE RAREST OF MAMMALS...IT HAS THE FACE OF A RACCOON, FEET LIKE A CAT'S AND A BODY SIMILAR TO THAT OF A BEAR...
NICH
ACAMEL CAN DRINK 25 GALLONS OF WATER IN
HALFAN HOUR...
FIRST KNOWN ZOO IN HISTORY.
WAS COLLECTED BY THE CHINESE ~
KỈNG WẾN IN THE GARLY PART OF
THE 12% CENTURY BO..ANIMALS WERE CAPTURED FROM ALL PARTS. OF CHINA.
apolled,..
U
HORSE LANGUAGE
convey
blt
趁
But the fate of this vessol is hidden behind the fog curtains sage could be sent?
of the Antarelle Ocean, where Ten years after the Cyclops it is supposed that it struck - an left harbour for the last time, iceberg and went to the bottam the Danish training ship, of the sea in a few minutes. | Kobɩnhavan, aniled out of the harbour of Montevideo, Uru guay, bound for Australía.
| summer in this city south of the
in horse Itnguage that | jengo on the northern frontier month was December.
it was 100 much trouble to make drinking water run uphill from
a bucket on the ground. So her
where is illes facing Afghanistan,
comes This challenge
from raiding
Thousands of roving,
mistress obligingly lifted the tribesmen who want to set up a
Seven weeks later, off the bucket for her when giving bir country of their own. This new rest of the barren and rocky [drink outside the corral,
Slate, they say, should be land, of Tristan Da Cunha out between Bouth carved out of Pakistan's northern in mid-ocean One spring day her master territories. Their claim is up- America
and Africa, the saddled · her to go for ride. ported by Afghanistan-ord of Kobenhaven was, sighted once Before leaving, he placed the "untamed Lands of inter-mure. bucket of water" before her on, most Asia. the ground. Bistbeli promptly
began to bhw the ground, wat
The tribesmen say their state which may have been
She had u mingle wit ́-mes, if and when it is ever estab
ing for Him to, lift the bucket lished-will be called Paklooni-r" help.
which he did cheerfully after
his wife explained the situs
Lion,
stan. Paklitan's answer, is that She never reached her desi
will not be established her land,
son
And to manifest her indo
On his return ho gave his pendence-granted when Bri wife a curious grin and said, lain divided India in 1947--this
tination, The events of her final' voyage fre à Maled book. An other ship had gone, to join the feet of the imaginary - Flying Dutchman,
the
"I don't mind thing the bucket, new damp fired Late in 1933, Germ
but that mare la downright uns recpas-printed," perforatod. 1572 training vessel, - Adialral Karisa rendonable, she expected me to and sells for öd. in London, fanger, withứ 60 persons on lift up the crook!”.
board, left the part of Germėla
So mysterious things happen on the high seas, and only the occan know the secret of how those shipa" went down,
children with the turned-about names, who had come into the playroom to ask General Tin to tell them a story.
shook their heads.
"No, dear," said Hanid. "You never told us the story about the time you had a fight with a mobkey."
Fierce Fight
"It was a terrible, Bight," said General Tin. never forget it for the rest my life,"
flerze
***H
of
"We'd like very much to hear about that fight,” said Knarf.
"You would?" asked General
Tin.
Knarf and Hanld both nodded, "In that case,"
General Tin punched the Monkey right back.
General Tin nodded. "They lived in costs, but they always k-pl the doors open excop' when they went to sleep. Bu the mea. beaudful sight of all said General w.re the jungle rabbits. You'vd
never sten such colour!"
"What colours were they, Gloral Tiny" Hanid wened
Tin, "I'll start from the begin- ning which, as I think you know, is the best way to start
a story,"
General
After agreeing with Tin that starting a story from the beginning certainly seemed like the way to do it, Knart · and Hanid sa themselves down comfortably at his foot and waited for him to begin.
o know.
"They
wore biccn-coicurc .bright bleen."
At this both Knarf Hand looked tha.
General Tin
and
30 surprised decided it would be beiter to explain.
"Well," said the General, "It happened in the Jungle of Lo- "Been," he
said, is halt Co-Mo-Co."
bluc and half-green. I made
word "Where's that?" Krarf Inter- up, the
myself I' rupted to ask.
quicker to say bieen than to The Jungle of Lo-Co-Mo-Co zay blue-and-green, And sud- is, right close to Lake Zum- donly," he said in an exclied brella.
A Beautiful Day Neither Knarf nor Hanld knew where Lake Zumbrella was. However, they did not want to interrupt General Tin again.
voice, there was the monkey righ: in front of me! He looked at me, and I locked at him, And ifi.her of us liked eacú o.her. The next minulo - he punched me in the nose."
"What did you do?" Knarf and Hand asked,
Punched Him
He continued: "It had been raining for a month or more.
"I punched him back,” said But finally the sun came out. It was a beautiful day. As I walk Central Tin. "Then he aprang od through the jungle of Lo-Co- into the air and I sprang Into Mo-Co I heard the Look-Looki the air and we kept right da birds singing the curly-talled fighting."
and the "In the middle of the alt chattering monkeya onaries twittering in their cried Hanid.
tops,"
General Tin nodded, cages in the tree
"No one would have beloved. ***Were the canaries in their cagds even in the Jungle?”. If. But : there we both were--- Khart exclaimed in astonish- that monkey und. I-fighting right in the middle of the airi He grabbed my foet and I grabbed his tall, and round.
round wo went, spinuin
-----M. S. SHELTON ment.
and Bike
a hoop. We rolled ali
through the jungle of Lo-Co--
Rupert and the Old Chimney-34 Mo-co-1 mean over 1 of
When home of the excitement,old - Rad Indian)(aude.)
the boy
hat died down, the old sabremsanarias, los 10, shake of the dust startą wondering how harens · get- himself; through the serve worth dors, Then he' zeils-Peter to thr
his shoes, and have a thorough wash. *** My, I'm glad I kept this.
Soon
(do
candy for the next time i shayhew'saying goodbye,
could have. Man thịt Toy far": mys: Peter, je
You had ai the fuck soday!”
bourne. Wo
rolled.. and wa rolled and "wa: rollad "
"And what happened?" asked Knarf.
all said Central Tid, wopped rolling. Wo wire still in the air. When I looked
down. I
that
en renco
saw to my surprise we were right over the to the Zoo SOT dropped down (with him/ydad. put him in a cage. And there where ho is to this very dayc
"Kharf, and Hanid' “thought this was a very curious' story. But the things that, sattu more remarkablecidvan Stra the fight in the middle of the air between General print and the monkey were his epblaas odloured rabbita. und är Lake
note far from