THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1957,
FEATURES
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS ***
IN THE
YOUR PUZZLE It's
PUZZLE It's A Hard Road From THE ANCIENT SMELTER IN
CORNER
Visit to San Marino: CROSSWORD
To give you some help with This crossword puzzle, Car- robist Cal has feffered in part of the name of the country we pre visiting:
...
MARINO
ACROSS
We are visiting San-
7 Skdps over
Compass point
9 Dine
11 Kind of fur
14 Consent
1 Pronoun
DOWN
2 Malt drink
3 Stair parts
4 Form a notion
5 Northeast (ab.)
Bone
10 Number
11 Mother
12 Willic
13 Night (ab.)
SCRAMBLED MESSAGE
Here's a chance for you to straighten out the Puzzleman's senilence about Sun Marino:
mallest tunica slope Titano Apennines in of Marino, is the Mount the lumini heart S Italy. republle, on of in near the
THOW FOOL
TO YOUR PALS
I FOLD Z DOUBLE NEWSPAPER PAGES IN HALF 3 TIMES.
000
2.FOLD ONE STRIP IN
HALF 2 TIMES.
3. GLUE FOLDED SQUARE TO TOP OF FOLDED STRIP.
4 HOLD SQUARE SO IT DOESN'T SHOW...OPENSTRIP TO SHOW PALSITIS ONE PIECE... THEN FOLD
IT UP AGAIN.
(DONTLEY
YOUR PALS SEE THE SQUARE)
SQUARE
5. CUT ALONG BOTH EDGES OF STRIP TO CUTFOLDS APART LDON'T CUT INTO THE SQUARE)
6. TELL YOUR PALS YOU
CAN PUT THE PAPER TOGETHER AGAIN... NOW...LET THE SQUARE DROP AND UNFOLD WHILE YOU SHOW THAT YOU DID CUT THE STRIPS...THEN SLYLY TURN ITAROUND
UNFOLD SCHARE
DIAMOND
Stock RAISING is unc of San Marino's
Industries mait and the realre of this word diamond. The second word is tree fluid"; third "steps øver a
fence"; $fth "worked at and
sixth "conclusion." Finish the
diamond from these elues:
R A
RAISING
SAN MARINO MIX-UPS
Rearrange the letters in each of these strange lines to form
fact about San Marino;
DUST GONE LI BIN LET ACT WE IN
A
+999 999
PUBLIC
CHIRANCE
HE'S A TITAN
WONG
SAN MARINO REBUS
The Puzzieman has hidden four facts about San Marino in bis rebus. Find them by using the words and pictures to full advantage:
(Solations on Page, 20)
1
Novice To Champ
ROM the amateur ranks
FRO
of boxing to the top of the ladder, the world's championship, runs a long, hard road.
There can be only one title-holder at one time in each one of the eight weight divisions; there are tens of thousands of fighters, both amateur and professional, throughout the world.
In the United States, most fighters start out as amateurs or as semi-pro. Tho age limit for this is sixteen, but some boys start boxing at an earlier age by joining the P.A.L. or some other youth organisation. Still others start later, many putting on gloves for the first time while in mili- tary service.
There is no cash payment in the amateur ranks. The rewards here are in mexlais, trophies and fame.
This Chicago Boys' Clab bout features-11-year-olds.
A semi-pro boxe; will receive television fee if the light is be- and hock off top boxers in his The fee is going division. Then with the right ten or teen dollars for a bout ing televised of three two-minute rounds and up all the time and runs into breaks, he may get a crack at about twenty-five dollars for a the thousands-from $2,500 up. the title.
Then he must go on to win If he does take the crown, he match uf Alve two-minule
one main event after another will earn big money, rounds
After serving his apprentice- ship in the amaleurs, the young boxer s up with a manager i starts out on his professiorial career. His first bouls are four- rounders, for which he receives from fly to one hundred a mor dollers, depending OAL where he is fighting. Then he moves on to six-founders aud eight-roundi semi-finals, for wtilen he may receive an high my a thousand dollars.
However, his mariager is en- titled to a third of his fighter's
Pitsend the trainer takes ten
per cent.,
If the boxer fares well these matches, he may be
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moted to a main event. Now he
is the big money. He will re- celvo a cut of the gale plus a
An Ingenious Way To
ST
Make Use Of Your
Duplicate
12
con-.
QUTAMP collecting is
hobby that can tinue all your life. Start in now and for the next fifty or sixty years you'll have something enjoyable and profitable to spend your time with.
But there is one problem that
bothers all stamp collectors-what to do with Iduplicate stamps.
The usual thing is to trade these duplicate stamps for other stamps. It you. have a stump club, this is what you will do.
But here is a different
Stamps
DUPLICATE STAMPS CAN BE SWAPPED OR USED FOR DECORATIVE PURPOSES
STAMPS
GLUED ON PAPERÈ
UNDER GLASS
woy
If you have
stamp top table. If
a small table
to use your duplicate stamps, without a glass top you can usa Make a your mother has an old serving a plastic cover. table with a glass top this very easy to muke.
You can pur- chase thin plastic in n roll
Cut out a thin, large sheet of paper the size of the table top.
Olue or hinge your slampa the
to this sheet.
Cut of the amount needed to cover the table top and an ex- tog so it can be folded under lable. You can then gluo the plustle to the wood under-
Remove the glass and ploco neath. the sheet willi the stamps
underneath.
Replace the glass, You can organise the stampa Into countries,
Scries, or CYCD destima,
ZOO'S WHO
THE FISHER, A MEMBER OF THE WEASEL
FAMILY FOUND IN CANADA IS ONE OF
FEW ANIMALS THAT WILL
ATTACK AND
WILL. A
PORCUPINE.
HAVE BEEN COUNTED
THEN GIER HAS A HABIT OF TAK UPT030,000 QUILLS: ING A NAP NEAR THE SCENE OF
HIS CRIME TRAPPERS TRAIL HIM. FROM HIS, WILLTOA HOLLOW LOG QATREE WHERE HE IS SLEEPING.
ON AN INDIVIDUAL
PORCUPINE.
a
Or you
can moisure your Inble top and purchase sheet of thicker plastic, can be kept in place by three different methods. One is to attach moulding to the sides of the table so that the plastic is sunken in ond can't move,
is to pur- The second way chase four Emali clampa and La cach Elda of the
uso ono
plastic.
The third way is to drill hola
PITTSBURGH OF PALESTINE
ING
Solomon ruled
Kartel in the 10th con- tury-B.C. As well as being a famous king, he also owned many factories and many ships to carry the goods produced to other fands.
However, it was not until 1938 that there was up- earthed near the borders of Trans-Jordan and Israel the copper smelter of King Solomon. This is in tho town of Ezion-Gebor, which has been called "the Pitts- burgh of Palestine."
*
This ancient furnace stood on the shore of un arm of the Red Sea. It was
built between hills so that
TYPE OF SOLOMON'S &SHIPS
KING SOLOMON'S FURNACE
When scientists uncover
the winds that blew from fan the flames. Copper was the north would fan the the chief motai umelted an ancient city they usually flames that smelted the here and, to a lesser degree, find remains metal, After nearly 3,000 iron. years, a strong draft still blows through the ruins.
Forming
square
on
of carlier dwelling beneath it,
But not in Ezion-Geber. ;
each sklo were the factory The refinery was roofless, rooms where the manufac- turned
This city was bui't- over It contained three large tured objects were
These included fish a period of only one or two rooms and three small ones out. with flues in the walls to hooks, arrowheads, spear years and its only purpose points, dishes, hoes and was to serve as a manufac knives.
turing contre.
Ezion-Geber lasted about 400 B.C. 600 years, until Though it underwent many the smelter con- throughout
TWENTY-ONE GUNS
FOR SIMON,
hands on deck and
A stand muster!" the command rang out,
The sailors quickly
Last of all came Simon, formed ranks for roll call.
and stretching yawning from his sleep.
He was the only member of the crew on the H.M.S. Amethyst who didn't have un. But he had other
weapons.
He had sharp teeth and claws. He used them with deadly effect on his enemies, the ruls who came aboard. Simon was a cat.
THE AMETHYST, 1949
the gear.
D.M.
the gunfire that whistled about him
For three months the fighting went on, One day Commander Kearns said to Simon, "Our supplies are getting low. A lot depends upon you. Unless you can keep on gtting, the rais will carry off what little food we have left and we'll bave to surrender."
Simon arched his back. He would fight to the bitter end.
"VIFAL SERVICE"
Hero, also, were built tho ships that carried the goods to southern Arabia, India, and Egypt, taking in trade changes, what the other countries tinued in use had to offer,
its history,
All About February
-How the Longest Month Became the Shortest One-
By MAX TRELL
T twelve o'clock, when Mrs Cuckoo opened the door to her house in the clock, Knarf, the shadow turned-about
the and
boy with rate, Hiawatha, the Wooden-Indlan Boy, climbed up the chain to the clock coltage.
Finally the gear was repaired and the ship made a run for: safety,
When
"We've got something Commander
he important to ask you," Kearns arrived in London carried dispatch recommend said.
.
very Karf
IX
ing Simon "For gallantry in "Fine," said Mrs Cuckoo; performing n vital service in "come in, both of you." Then behalt of H.MS. Amethyst." she led Knart and Hiawatha Island ani damaged
Simon had to obey the rutes inside the cottage and shut the moment Inter, they Within minutes the enemy and stay in quarrantine for six door. A
"Come in," Mrs, Cuckoo sald. shells were coming thick and months but when the word found themselves in her chees
The Captain was killed went out that he was to receive tul parlour.
"Sit
down, please," L-Commander
to Kearns the Dickin Medal he was visited
ing old. I have decided by scores of reporters and Cuckoo said to them.
divide my 365 days among you sat down herself, Some of Then she photographers,
the days are put on her spectacles and took some are rainy, some are warm up her knitting.
The Amethyst was in the fast. Yanksize Riveč In 1949, trying and
recommended
Important Thing
Mire
to carry supplies to the people took charge,
Each at the British Embassy. time the ship stopped at a poft After the volunteers had left, the rats would come aboard, there were only 115 men on Simon was the first cat ever carrying
for the disease
and board to defend the ship against to bo terms @ghting savagely to, get at the the Chinese Rodn. There was medal, which is awarded to food and supplies.
only Simon to defend the ship, animals that perform deeds of
heroisin.
"Now, she said at last, "what of the entire crew, not one Unfortunately he
was 50 la
this important thing you months of want to ask me about? put up a more determined and weakened by his It was bad enough in any courageous battle.
"This Ho risked fighting that he died before the
month is February, port but the worst came when death every
day from their metal could be awarded. And isn't it, Mrs Cuckoo?" said the ship run aground at Rose poison-Inden teeth, and from so it was received by members Knart.
of the crew for whors be und given his le
There was
to only 5lmon alght back at them.
PROTOTYPES OF
MODERN BOOKS
FOR
MOR the first fifteen years at the beginning of the many- after the invention of script at the top of the page. It "Here begins." Sometimes the thing-as a title page in & space was filled with an illus- in red or gold inkto
the initial
in Cách corner of the printing, there was no such usually started, "Incipit or plastle and screw it into place.
You can make a border with book. The printera followed tration stamps for your table top. And exactly the hand-written match you can also include small typed books made by the monks throughout the work.
or printed cardo which give in and because the monks did When the titio page formation about the countries not use title pages, they Andily added, it became or the stamps.
You might keep this table did not either." either in your room or in the!
living roon. murprised
uffer
And don't
De
lette
比
other men for ilustrators to express themselves.
One popular type of dealgu. Paper or parchment was for this page was called a "mir- people begin to so hard to come by during ror page. you duplento stamps. the Middle Ages that the Around the insido of a huga Some might even ask you to scribes did not want to use mirror-like circle was printed mako much'n table for therm
You might
also keep your an entire sheet for the title the ulle of the book. On
circumference of the cirlcls alono.
was a marine of smaller circles, atamp album on this table,
Before the age of printing, each of theso contalaing the ---Hy Harold Gluck the tile of a book was written side of a charter.
the
sunny.
and sume are cold But I shall divide them up as fairly as 1
can,'
"So with that be divided his treasure of days into piles, Each one of the piles had thirty
dayn.
"But he
a rainy days So ho
found ho had five days left over, They weren't Mrs Cuckoo nodded.
enough to give to each of the Besides they "What we
want to know, twelve Months, Hiawathin broke in, is why all were the other months of the year Just threw them on the second have thirty or thirty-one days pile," said Mrs Cuckoo, "They while February only has become February's daya," TEXAS TALK twenty-eight and in Leap Year "That gave February thirty-
twenty-nine?"
five days, didn't it?" Knarf and "Well," sald Mrs Cuckoo, Hiawatha, the Wooden-Indian- TEXAS, according to Texans,
very nice question, Bay, exclaimed, "But how is has the best of everything of course, there are quite a
February only has twenty- eight?" few reasons, But this is the Oh, the other Month be
"that's
there is including roses, onions, cation, helium, sulphur, water- meloni, pretty girls and oll way I've always heard it. You
sec," she went wells in that order.
As a matter of fact, no far happened
as this last
on, it all came jealous-not all of them,
Just
Seven: January, March, February bocausa
May, July, August, October concerned, We was so good-natured,"
They started Then Mrs really tops, because it own the
Cuckoo put aside and December. workta deepest bolo in
the her kaliting, pushed back her shouting: "Why should February have thirty-five days when we spectacies and explained. ground
there were the only have thirty?' "Long ago dem
twelve Months. They were all the children of the Year,
This depth can only bo scribed by an incident that oc- curred here not so long ago. A
Now They
Yoar Is Angry
"That the way
man fell in one morning. Next the Year hud 305 days. afternoon- a cablegram came were his whole fortune, back from Hongkong It was "Well, he felt himself grow decided, sald the Year. authored by him and stated ing oki, so
succinctly, 20,000 barrels end, too."
one morning he "Sho'n
his a-gushin culled
twelve children an hour at this together his twelve. Months
and said to them: 'I am grow.
1
Rupert and the Rolling Ball-3
The started little friends stand quielly the stranger" slowly approaches and then they walk for wlial he wants to say. - But for a long time the man says nothing, Enackad be vesika round and round looking closely at them. Then be pick up the new ball and pouch. Në
I have Ho was quite angry. "They, and rainy days, he added. February keep them!
"But February felt sorry for bis
coven brothers and alsters. Ha ald: Will you be satisfied if I give each of you one of my days? They agreed at once. So he gave them each one of bis days even in all whole week. And that left him just twenty-eight days. It gave the other seven months thirty- one day, and of course the June, other four April, September and November-still hed their thirty days.
"Everyone was now satisfied except the Year. Hmm, ho said, Februray has much less than any of my other eleven children. But whet Leap Your comes around, he shall have the extra day. And that it closely. That's it, the perfect
Is the way it is: every four shape, be mines. Still be years February got the mira does not speak to them. At lebash
day. No one minds that a bit. Rupers, screwn up ble courage.
"And that sold Mrs Cuckoo, dog't understand what you want.'
en she picked up, hor knitting fi mary".** but blows may l'havn my bil back so that wa DEN BE again, is the story of why February is the shop boni, monda [of the mat.**
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