THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1937.99 :
FEATURES
FOR
BOYS
AND
YOUR PUZZLE Amusing Mistakes Provide
CORNER
CROSSWORD
1 Barrler
4 Vehicle
ACRO88
7 Maku native
Ocean movement
10 Boy's nickname
ii Morning (ab.)
13 Roman dula
17 Put back in condition
10 Busy insect
20 Used by fishermen
DOWN
1 Baseball stick
2 Cuckoo blackbird
3 Free of
4 Central America (ub.)
a Dined
6 Colour
# Barn
11 Constellation
12 Malca
14 Put on
15 Before
16 Group of matched pieces
18 Street (ab.)
SOUND ALIKES
The Puzzlemon's missing words soundt auke. but they are spelled
ferently.
Cun
you Anteh his sentence?
She couldn't to the
straight.
HOW MAKE A TOV
TRUCK ΤΟ
LWITH ANAIL AND HAMMER
PUNCH A HOLE IN CENTER OF
4 SMALL CAN LIDS.
2.GLUE A STRIP OF
PLASTIC CLOTHES
1W IN LINE AROUND EDGE
OF EACH LID.... ON
BOTH SIDES....
MAKE THE TIRES.
IN
3. CUT BOARDS
LIKE THESE.)
TRIANGLE
SCHOOLS serve as the word from which the Puzzleman has The Irung his triangle this time,
coond word is "a ful" third
For The Collector
ALL. I need for my bobby
is a pair of scissors, a pot of paste and a big book.
I collect advertisements. I cut them out of news- gan papers and magazines and
stick them into my book.
insportare body fourth "rowing implementa";
Brth hops kil"; and sixth an abbreviation for "left end." How good are you nt getting the auswer from these clues?
SCHOOLS
C
WORD SQUARE
"Advertisements?“ wondering---"Why leet dvertisements?"
'you're
does he cul-
Ah, but iny' advertisements are different, They're not the ordinary announcements you
every day it the news- Daper No.
The kanal I collect are queer advertisements--the ORCH with mistaken
Like in them,
this which up- for instance, une, peared in a newspapër rrently;
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as
"Wanted. Two reinforcrit concrete draughtsmen."
Rearrange the letters in each EUW to form a good word and Then restrange the rows so they wall read the sarpe across)
down
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AE I AEI AEMR
ALPR
WORD CHAIN
Good
Or this one: "Nurse required for four-mouth baby,
-wkry."
That nurs will have to get
fa good salary,
have another advertisement
in which a young man wants a job as a garilder so that he can Inside and "improve himself
Queer Jobs for queor
| out."
people!
What do you think of the Virginia, professor in Norfolk,
for a "cook; advertises who finiddie-ngd: just plain fol,
nothing fancy"
One of the best "Situations Vacant ads in my collection la
WE MAKE NO MISTEAKS
FOR SALE: Grand piano by woman with mahogany legs.
Bernard the Butcher's
Customers May inspect Their Meat
While Being Choppad
FOR SALE: Cow by lady
with ring in her nose.
FOR SALE
ENGLISH BULLDOG:
EATS ALMOST ANYTHING:
ESPECIALLY FOND OF CHILDREN
WANTED
spelled, others have mistakes in 545; also two
gloves," grammar. Here's another;
"For sale. Motor car made in year 1998."
Fun
"After using your ointment my face started to clear at once; and after using two jars ointment it Was gone a)- Ingother)"
of
Poor Indy. She would find things awkward without a face,
Another one in my book ad- vertises a circus. It says: "Az- salsalon 50 cents--including tea" instead of "including tax." Some people, when they put an advertisement into the news- paper', don't say at all what they mean. Look at this one;
"Ton stillings reward-lost by a gentleman, a white jerrier dog, except the bend which is black."
And this one: "Wanted-a
young man to look after a horse of the Metho- dist persuasion."
I have a small ad, advertising au aquarium, which says that there are "tropical fish from all over the world,"
*
GIRLS * *
Scientists work at the Modoc Rock Shelter.
A PREHISTORIC
TOURIST COURT
I have another big advertise- ment' which says that we can have "24 liliums in three dif terent
each, varieties, Bot
flowers will produce throughout the summer, all separately packed and labelled."
woula
Bowers
which
like to sto
pairs of boxing grow in my garden all separate- TURIST COURTS are lifted and screented.
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Each And supposedly modern, but was crefully charted and cata- ly packed and labelled, wouldn't
here's one that dates back logued,
at found It's a tough plans that needs you?
Cumplires were Here are some more examples 18,000 years B.C. playing with boxing gloves,
various levels down to bedrock. And here's another;
tom my collection:
tests were made, bones Perhaps that car was used by
"Hernard the Butcher's. Cus- The "Mixed with fish and chips,
site is in southen Pollen Celumbus' grandfather!
analysed, carbon testa run on Under the heading of "Arti- 3 bods, modern fireplace; rea- tomers may inspect their meat Illinois, near the little town the sui ratioactive ash. eles for Sale" you can often find unable offer accepted."
while being chopped"
of Modoc, where 100-foot Uttle weird
wonderful and
"Wanted companion for IT'S NOT ONLY the small
When the work was comp- Wanted. Woman for frying. Items worth cutting out. For classified advertisements which lonely
pre-cliffs spread along the edge peacock. Peahen
scientists came up plated the Wed, and Sal, p.m. in hot dog instance,
Mississippi flood with a startling story. Man had look at this queer have mistakes in them, either, ferred."
of the "Bathroom in Sometimes the larger advertise- assortment offered for sale
wanted-prefer- stand.
ments Even the hard-headed people one paper:
worded
three plain. very ably with one, two OT Latenshire, England. can
sale, Planu by C. peculiarly,
a letter of rooms attached." Here's mistakes. This odd ud Kenumler
in a face ointment Co., Stuttgart. testimonial and
-RODERICK WILKINSON make
frame, good condition, ad: Pard in one of their papers: iron
Lusil, Inside gent's wrist
this one:
of
+
The Puzzleman wonders if you run change DEBT CASH 16 five moves, changing one letter 44 time and having word each time. If you have watch, P6 Corporation bus." trouble, he suggests you change
good
That watch must have been
B to N, DC, E to A. N to Seme size,
All sorts of odd little Items and T to H.
find their
book. way to thy Some of them have words mis-
(Solutions on Page 20)
These two wrens built a cozy uest in a discarded cream pitcher.
4.NAIL BOARDS TOGETHER. WREN-WATCHERS REPORT
GLUE ON CORKS
FOR
HEAD-
UGHTS
ZA
5.GLUE AND NAIL
2 BLOCKS
OF WOOD
FOR ENGINE AND CAB... 6-NAIL ON WHEELS GLUE ON CARDED BOX... PAINT WITH WATERCHAN 1. OR GRAYOW.
INTERESTING FACTS
THE MORE you watch enough not to let the sparrows do, they will
And did you know the father will understand them. And chase the wrong out. those who have studied and mother wren look exactly wrens have some
very alike?
Wrens like a little porch to interesting reports about
A short stick placed light on. beneath the doorway to their For example....Did you house makes a good porch,
Another interesting fact know that wrens are happy birds by nature and that that the mother wren doce not sing at all. She is far too busy, she twitters, and she may even scold a little.
TRE you watch enough not to lo
them.
they like to build their houses near people?
If you have a wren house for them you should put it up before they come be cause they like to set up housekeeping right away.
The size of the doorway to a Wren house should be sinall
ZOO'S WHO
Look What)
I Found,
THE WEASEL IS THE SMALLEST ANIMAL
OF ALLFLESIKSATERS,„, THIS FEROCIOUS MAMMAL WILL ATTACK CREATURES MANY
TIMES ITS OWN SIZE;INCLUDING PEOPLE. IT IS UNLAWA
OWLS, IN FLIGHT, ARE AS SWIRT AS
UP"A LOST PAWN AS A PET IN MINNESOTA:
FULL TO PICK
SWALLOWS AND ARE AS SENSITIVE TO SOUND AS A RADIO RECEIVING SET, IN ADDITION
„TO BEING ABLE TO SEE IN THE DARK..
is
She Alles straight to the house the material sho has with gathered for a nest. She tucks
And more.
"Fur
are
THESE BOOKS WILL MAKE
NOMETIMES
YOU GIGGLE
Slike reading
you
feel
24 book that's just for laughing. You don't want to learn a single thing; you only want to be entertained. So this list includes books that are filled with grins, giggles and guffaws,
Start off with Milliken's Ark by Richard Waldins. Monkeys in the
black wheel house, shakes in the boun's locker, kangaroos in the forecastle and fun on every page.
HA,
HA!
BARRELS
OF TUL GU FỤN KING
into swallowing a jug... well! If you missed Highwater st Calfish Bend you'll want to read
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nine
old Rome7; Risky Business by Elaine MacMann turkeys (including one with
and a bicycle to sell name) might stump any salesman; and Davy Crockett's Earthquake by William O. Steele.. read all about that "fee-rocious var- mint, the Rumsquaddle"!
Stuff and nonsense...
camped here 10,000 years ago, when America was still parily covered with glaciers. The ani mal bones found at some of the Several years ago, when deeper levels showed that and- a new road was being bullt mais, now long extinct, roamed here, a bulldozer dug into here.
a skeleton several feet under
the surface. The skeleton
They
looked very old, so anthro- This was a tourist court, used
wandering tribes. called in y pologists were from several universities to camped here, buried their dead They left, and new tribes examine the find. They came-always
hore.
to this same Its natural shelter mom spot. were suddenly excited.
the weather, the river, and wild beasts appealed to their instinct. The niin now has been given a permanent name: Modoc Rock
It is Shelter.
believed to be the oldest human ruin Cast of the Mississippi.
-GROVER BRINKMAN
Other excavations along the cliff line revealed mors interest- ing signs. The scientists øet up a permanent camp and began to dig seriously,
of
Ench
earth spoonfu brought up from the pit was
A SAILOR WITH
WINGS
----Policeman Tells Knarf About An Old Friend-
By MAX TRELL
Mea Wappinger's Secret by Florence Hightower is literally a riot. Charley Porter hunts for it, too.
KNARF, the shadow-boy with treasure while brother William
Some other amusing and tho turned-about name, runs a garbage route. Add Mra
easily read books include M walked down to the end of the parrot Joo Fickerell Goes to the Arctia by street. Wappinger and the and you really have something. Ellen MacGregor...you'd On the corner stood Polico-
Starboy by Carl L. Blemiller have even more fun if you read more has the different kind of fun, this one aloud to a younger "Good morning Policeman," that of the unexpected. Remo brother or sister, or to keep said Knant has strange powers and strange your charged
મ quiet you're toys that bring some surprises. baby sitting; The Dagger, the In Seven Stars for Catfish Fish, and Casey McKee by
hilarious chen Bend, Ben Lucien Burman tells Electa Clark
In by way of Doo Racoon the great nanigans indeed; Detectives achievements of his animal Togua by Henry Winterfeld frientis down on the Mississipp
Who wroto "Cahis is a When Joe Alligator is tricked dumbbell" on a sacred wall in
Didn't know feet could talk?
Take a look at these words
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Knari," an-
"Good morning. swered Policeman.
Policeman amlled and Knarf smiled.
Knorf Was Wondering
"I was wondering about some- thing," said Knart at last.
Policeman used to visit Jack Tar at the pier.
1
pet seu guil's name was Jack Tor Gull,"
He almost always gol meat this way. Of course, he had to fly all the way back to land, which generally got him just as hungry again.
*Stul,"
to said Polleeman Knart, Jack Tar Gull wouldn't change his way of living for that of any other bird in the world, no, sir!
" "Take the
robin, tor instance, be used to say tọ mo as he stood talking to me on the wooden pier. 'How can any bird go on day after day, just picking around for worst 1 wouldn't be a robin for anything!'
"Maybe worms waste' good,' I sold to Jack.
"May be they do,' replied Jack, but I need the sco, I lock for waves not worms,'
"You were?” said Policeman. "I often wonder about different things. It's good to wonder now and then. But what were you wondering about just now, you care to tell me?"
"That's a sailor name," said "I'd like very much to tell
"Or take the eagle, Jack you," said Koort, "What I was Koart.
Tar Gull would say. There's a now 18 wondering about just
Follceman nodded: "Jack Tar fine noble bird. He builds blu- this! I
wondering what Gull was a sailor through and
Best high up in the mountains. even though he had He fles so high up in the sky kind of a bird I would want to through, be if I could be any kind of a wings,
don't sailors bird."
was
TT'S SURPRISING, when IT'S it in where she wants it, and you stop to think about thon hurries right off again to it, how many words in the English language came from Our feet. For example: Tako the word sabotage.
This "modern" word But the father wren sings nil the time. He sings before he came from the wooden shoes risen to unaccustomed social son gull. I used to talk to him stucks and wall for the sailors enters the house with his pleca of the French peasants of position.
SINGS AND SCOLDS
The word upstart hari e sim
which The European
you can hardly see him, Ho ilar beginning.
usually have.
likes the mountain peaks, He "Ah," said fifteenth century, The English
Policeman, "I've "I used to meet Jack down by doesn't care a fg for the sea. X peasant wore long boots in the called these
of often done exactly that same the harbour where the ships wouldn't change places with "sturtop"
were docked. Jack loved ships. him either, no, sir! "startups,"
kind of wondering myself," It
terma won from these
"You have?" asked Knart in He used to follow them for out that we derived the modern surprise.
to sea, He would keep flying word upstart, meaning a person "Oh, yos,
Once I had a pet just over the top of their smoke about what kind of a bird it to dump things over the side, very unusual would be best to be if I could then be would swoop down to
turn into a bird at all
to out, My seo if they were good If you lear through a the words.
book on word histories, you will unfairly
find many other.
times, when
were
of straw, even though his mouth the eleventh century. In Those is full. He sings after he has those placed his straw in the house.
Even when he helps with the peasants feeding of the babies, when treated by their overlords they are hatched, he takes time they sometimes avenged, out to ang.
themselves by trampling Wren watchers agree, though, their landlords' grain with
their wooden shoes.
that father wren can scold as well as he cat sing. It ho nees
WHY A PIG?
a cat or any other enemy, be! The name for their shoes weer bank at home at some
makes plenty of noise. He often asbots. So, hops up and down in his ex-(called sabotage. eltement.
such notion wis
2. .
LMOST everyone has had a
timet or other Dayou,
wonder. evor
why
If you want to join the fun When we talk about a man are so often medo ity, the and be a wren-watcher, too, put being a blackguard we are talia shape.
of a pig, inalond) of
up a wren house near your house ing in terms of polished boot. a dog or a cat or amo, other where it will be a full view In the reign of Charles II of animal? from a window.
blackguard England,
simply it's because the pig in many The top of a tali post would meant the fellow who blackebed countries for many hundred of be an excellent spot for the officers' boots,
years has been a symbol ofis
house Cats cannot get at the He was generally drewed in fuck and prosperity, wron family if the house is black. Many of these workers It is a centuries-old custom perobed on a high post, such as were course, disreputable fel- to eat baked balm on. Easter a clothes post.
low
Day
The curly These characteristics together roast pork, Rio Anglo Saxtons with ibeir occupation, wrene adaya bour¦ meat, sund, Amont of responsible
word" Burepe ate park" in one blackguard,
Or you could fasten the hous to a corner of the garage,
EVELYN
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shaa'am comping all their, luggage.
Pretty Discouraged
"I was pretty discouraged,” Kiart. and the Policeman to
kind of bird "Every mentioned, Jack Tar Gull said that bird wasn't any good..
"Finally I said: "Then what kind of a bird can I be?'
"Jack Tor Guli laughed: 'A goose," he said. "You can sylin in the water and waddle on the land.
That's for you, my friend. You can be a goose.
"And away he flow, still、 laughing," sald Polloeman to Knart "But I wasn't really angry at him, though I must say that being a goose didn't okactly appeal to me." E
"I'd rather be a sparrow," Bald Knast. "They don't sing much, they don't sy much, they don't look like much but they're very cheerful and everybody ilkes
them
***Very good idou," said Police- man. "Til give it some thought Good-bye,
"Good bye, Polloman Look I'm a sparrow!" and Kpart wont nuttering and chirping all the way down the streetsbo