“THE CHINA MAIL.
FEATURES
FOR
SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1967.
BOYS
YOUR PUZZLE BAD BOY AMONG
CORNER
CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
1. Proposition.
4. Window parts,
U
Golfer's term.
7. Lion's home.
9. Army Reserve (ab.).
10. Compass point.
11. Point.
13. Fruit drink.
14. See them in the skies.
10. Busy Insect.
1. Distant.
2. Alop
3. Colour,
DOWN
1. Capual of France.
5. Dispatche
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d. Nickname for a buy or girl. 4. Born
12. Your parents should belong
-to this.
13. Do you like
subject?
16. Article.
this
school
TRIANGLE
CASTLES form the base tor this word triangle. The seconit word is a baby's "father"; third
IS
man- TS the cougar a
killer? Is it a blood- lusting destroyer of game and stock?
These and dozens of other questione are naked about this
"a footlike part"; fourth largest predatory mummat in nuisance"; Afth "hazard"; and the United States, A mystery sixth a longing." The clues cat, sume Bay. It is known by should help you solve the many commou namics---moun-
tain lion, puma, calamount panther, paimer, Mexican llop, Mexican-figer, and big cat,
triangle:
CASTLES
HOW MANY?
caa уси
One the big cats zonmed ayer ost of North America, Central and South America. Tousy, this most colourful mem- ber of the cat family is nutr the vanilang point in most of fine United States except in the
Wesk
But a week soldom passes in when one does not Perhaps
How many three- or four-the West
make hear a cougur story. -letter wordu
from the word PALACE with-the anime has died a calf, o
or plurals?colt, says
out using homes
or sleep,
Occasionally
he can there is à seport that a cougar has attacked a human.
The Puzzlcmur. make 11 three-letter words and seven four-letter words.
WACKY COMPASS
"WACKY
COMPASS
START BT Souni, AND READ EVERY THIRD LETTER YOU DECIDE THE DIRECTION) TO FIND THE PROVERB HIDDEN BY PUZZLE PETE
(Bolutions ou Paro 20)
OPINIONS DIFFER
is
Whatever the cougar does font-page news, for the ani- mal's power,
apparent fertelty, and sterelive hablis contain uli the ingredients for drama.
Yet men
hunted who have cougars all their Ilves say the animals will avol men if pos
that ible. They have learned mcs, plus inn dogs, mean dai- ger.
There aro cases in which cougars have attacked humans, | including sdults, But all such
authentic cares may be counted, on two hands. Not much of a
for kiling record
animal whlel once numbered in the hundreds of thousands, is it?
Let's look ut a few such cases, In the 1920's a Washington state
Pretty Stationery Can Be Profitable
you're looking for a
I hobby that can be pro
fitable as well as interest- ing, start examining all the clothing and other fabric items that are thrown away around your house.
If the niuterials are col- ton and feature good-look- ing, colourful, small-sized designs, you can use them for decorating plain station-
cry.
Any sort of fabric picture will de, as long as it isn't too big to A into a corner of the static- cry. A flower,
animal on choices.
A fish *
figure, an
are
Rued
Wash the material, staveblok it lightly. Then iron it, so that
It will be easy to handle.
THERE'S MONEY IN THE WRITING PAPER BUSINESS-
主催は
CUT-OUTG
PASTED ON STATIONARY
By FERRIS WEDDLE
AND GIRLS * * *
LET'S TAKE
CATS? LET'S
EXECONESIAO.
Cougar stands high,on rock, watching.
out even mentioning the plas WHAT'S THE CAUSE? you have in mind. However, those who exclaim, "How pretty your paper is," are ready for sales talk.
WAS
cats were
TAKE A TRIP
TO THE MOON ·
[EARKEN, you future
Hravellers. A
aboard for a trip to the
moon.
Climb into your space suite-the latest kind is of aluminium cloth durable, lightweight and pressure- resisting. Be sure your supply of oxygen is plenti- ful.
Just how far do we have to travel? The moon ro- volves around the earth in an elongated circle. At it furthest point (called the apogeo) the moon is 252,000 miles away; at its closest (called the perigee), 226,000,
We look on by walking along the shores of
a strange Kont Mare Imbrium.
world of very little colour, with Perhaps we can get a better no breeze or moving cloud to The distance usually re- ferred to, however, is half- view from the top of that high disturb the absoluto stilines!. way between these two tack of gravity, we
mountain peak. Because of the find out- 238,000 miles. An airliner solves leaping up the momials-- travelling 500 miles an hour side 30 feet in one jump. Care- Because of the lack of ating would make the trip in three ful now, don't land on your sphere, there is never twilight
head.
al sunset nor dawn at sunrisć. weeks a mere space-skip
From high atop the mountain, One Instant it is day; the next, away.
we look below, atul see nige night, eraters and hundreds of smaller
Wo decide that the eralertels that look like thim- a wonderful placa to visit, but bles krust Into the ground. no place to live. Lot's ignore theso con- Deep valleys appear to be shal-
Imaginary moon explorers Install a power transformer.
ventional means of travel, low trenches,
and "imagine" ourselves to ·
the moon, forgetting about
such troublesome things 29
luggage, time and space,
We find ourselves standing
+
moon le
—D. S. ROMNEY
The Beginning Of Fire
on the southeast shores of Since He Was A Smoke Man, Jón Knew All About It -
Mare Imbrium, the greatest
of the moon's seas, As wo
stand in the jet-black ashadows of a tall peak, we
By MAX TRELL,
ranchers find that the temperature is FATHER was sitting under the
250 degrees below zero.
lamp, reading a book. Over
ranch boy was killed by 2 Once the big |ree-year-old fumalo cougar, serious menace for
The largest posse in Washing- especially sheep and honge
in the corner on the other side tour history was organised 10 ranchers. Some long grow ex-
of the room, Knarf, the Shadow track down tho er, A tremely fond of coll or adult
Now fasten on that oxygen Boy with the turned-about work, you might start by sim-trapper later caught the prota horse fare. Others grow overly helmet firmaly, ila. there a name, and his two friends, ply writing Letters 10 your tor in t set of trups put out for foul of sheep or cattle.
US scarcely enough
atmosphere to Teddy, the Stuffed Bear. and friends on your product, with-coyales.
ally they pay with their lives enable anyone to breathe. As Hiawatha, the Wooden Indian. for such oppetitest
the aun climbs high enough to Boy, were altting quietly and Today, cougars are seldom a dispel the shadows, the ten-watching. menace for stockanen except in perature gradually rises to 13 They all felt very sleepy.
arcas. high as 212 degrees, the bolling Then all at ones."Father" filed
point of water.
his pipe. He struck a match. The fame burned brightly. He lit his pipe.
the The next moment,__Joc, Smoke Man, came floating out of the bowl of the pipe. He sat on the edge of the pipe for a second or two, then sprang into the air. He went sailing laally across the room just under the ed heavy furs over themselves, ceiling. He waved down. to When they found food, they FISHING TIP, Teddy and Hiawatha couldn't cook it. How could they!
below.
To determine a selling price, you might double the cost of raw materials, which most peo- pie will think fair.
BENEFICIAL?
As recently as three years ago, a young Idaho girl
a few very IORIOLO pleked up by a cougar, The Nevertheless, several westem girl's brothers saw the old kid- states pay bounties on the and- nuping and started screaming mala. With hunting dogs, traps and throwing rocks, The lion and poison, ranchers and game-- dropped the girl and escaped. management personnel worl The giri was not harmed, Later, the year round- to control the a man shot this cougar,
eats One of the largest outbreaks The cheapest, most attractive or cougar attacks way to package your merchan-curred
dise is to wrap it in clear cello- phant, using either the colourless or tinted variely, depending on which tooka the best against the paper, Seal it on the wrong side with a small strip of cello- phane tape, after adding A curd- plain white
venient. Milliner's glue is ideal backing of because it will not stain the board.
medical fabric. Keep a box of celton sirabs on hand for wip-
ing away Bay excess cze cut frein under.
that may
At the beginning, choose only prints that have simple outlines, which won't be hard to transfer, differently Keep upply of
Now, using manicure telason, carefully cut out the selected picture. If there are small lines and such details, omit them, They can be drawn in teler with coloured inks and a fine pen on tinted paper on hand for your the paper itself.
work, In this way it will be
To paste the fabric to the possible to pick out a sheet that paper, you can use rubber ce- matches or contrasts well with ment applied with toothplek. the fabric trimming.
Colourless nail polish is a good If you're interested in build- adhesive too; the built-in brush Ing up a little profit-making maites It exceptionally con businicas through such
New
this month!
DINKY TOYS No. 443
Morris Commercial,
Van "Capstan"
This attractive, Onaly
detalled model of a popular
small delivery van is in
two-tone finish light blue and· dark blue with a Capstan cigarette
advertisement neatly reproduced
on the aldes. Length: 34"
DINKY TOYS No. 164
Vauxhall Cresta
Saloon
"Dignity and Daab”.
Is the maker's
slogan for this
popular six-cylindar
high performance car. The
Diriky Toys counterpart faithfully reproduces
sità "mgár-to-go” look, the characteristic
„radiator grille, masilya bumpers with over
riders and the dirtitetive Vauxhall “fluting”,
It is finely finished in rich two-tone colouring
and measures 34′′ In length.
Keep on collecting
DINKY TOYS
MADS IN ENGLAND BY BECCANO LTD., BINFO ROAD, UVERPOOL 13
craft
---BESS RITTER
HOW HAVE FUN AT A TO PARTY ITSET UP 2 ROWS OF BEVERAGE BOTTLES 10 FEET APART...
20 FEET
Z.BUNDFOLD THE PLAYERS....
The
main
ctress is
on men oe-
Since we were able to get to the moon so casily we won't let a little thing Exe boiling or freezing temperaturen bother us. We'll begin our exploration
Made No Sound. OCTOR up a safety pin so
that the point how curves:
He came slowly down and into a small hook away from landed with no sound at all on
fastener itself. This
will the carpet
in front of them. the perfect tool for "Good evening!" he said, greets
13-2
Joe fosted out of the bowl of the pipe.
.:
cook without fire? And when night came, they had no light, except the Hght of the moon and the stars, But one day they dis- covered fire."
"How did they discover fire?" Hiawatha askod.
Joe shook his head. "I don't know
exactly how.
No one does. But I have thought
in British Columbin, The main reason for control Canada, beginning in 1950. by federal Brid state Kame over a dozen women and chil- agencies is to protect ble-game dren were attacked, and some herds. Particularly is this true
of of the victims died.
deer herds. E, mountain
occa-j What caused this unusual be goats and sheep, and haviour? Game experts decided signally, antelope, become prey that it probably stemmed from of the powerful cats, which shortage of the predator's may weight over 200 pounds, mest
important diet-deer.
Ard cougars beneficial? Yes, the poll biologists They eat harmful rodents, and give you that cougars are like they also kill off aged asid dis-straightening out a snarled and ing Knarf, Teddy and Hiawatha all specter of wildlife--and cósed big-game entirels, They tangled fishing line especially in turn. people; they
individuals must are
be controlled, yes, But those little difficult, knots that "H, Joel What do you know?" about it a good deal. This is not exterminated. One stock-killing lon can cause absolute condemnation of all
what I think happened. Thero are almost impossible to get Knart said. Like all species of wildlife,
"Well," sald Joe, "I don't was great forest. The people out with the fingers alone. Afier tão other Hons.
cougar has his place in
sald Starvation, diseases, old age wilderness areas. He is one of the tool is no longer needed, the know much. But one thing I hunted in it
"I know about that," do know quite a lot about Is or wounds will turn these ani- the most colourful wildlife deal hook end will be protected by matches. Being a smoke man, 1 Hiawatha imals into stock-klijers,
simply closing the pin.
would know about them?",
"Yes," said Joe, "and come of Knari, Teddy and Hiawatha them lived in it, One day, there asked Joe, the Smoire Man, to was a thunder storm. There had tell them what he knew about been thunder storms before. But inatches.
this one was worse than all the others. Everyone was afraid, even the animals. They all hid themselves;
zens.
}} |PRINCESS PADMINI CHOSE
..ONE LESS
BOTTLE THAN NUMBER OF PLAYERS.
SPUT CORKS
IN ONE
ROW OF BOTTLES
ILLA
AT START FLAYERS GRAWLTO BOTTLES WITH CORKS IN THEM.
PLAYERS FIND A BOTTLE, PULL
AND PUT THE CORK IN
ANOTHER
BOTTLE.
FIRST
PRISH
WINS
DEATH BEFORE DISHONOUR
[ you ever travel to India,
the capital city of Rajpu tana. Here you can see the ruins of 11 once stately castle, whore Princess Pad- mini ́lived 400
years ago with her father, a Hindu. king. All East Indians know | her tragic story and respect
her memory,
This lovely princess was expected to marry
when sho was 16 years old. Many princes naked for her hand in marriage, but she refused them all; Pad- mini loved no man but her father.
Carrying" a torch, some oil and a bundle of sticks, they looked themselves in this hiding place,
The soldiers searched every- where for the princess, but could not find her. At last they dascended to the cellar.
The Mohammedan king who lived to the north, in Delhi, proposed to Padmini. As wis the custom, he had other wives, but this princess would be ha favourite wife.
When
she. refused him, he They tried the great kron door became enraged and made was to the secret room, but it would oh her father's kingdom. The not budge. Finally, with a bat elty was burned, and the print- tering-ram, they broke the door cusa' father was killed.
down
Padmini know. that if nke Horrified, there hearty war- viere captured, she would be rlors could hardly believe what forend to become the cruel they shw.' But it was true, The king's wife. And her maida and only sign of the prince and Indics-in-waiting
be her malda was their burned wchild
2. made slaves.
bodies. The princess could be When they heard the soldiers identified only by her jawela, bronking-intu the palace, she Thus, the lovely princses add her maids Inurried ta a proved to the world that. Also secret roam in the bestment, believed what she had been
"All I know about them," said Teddy, "Is that when you strike them, they light up.”
"Then all at once" continuo Joe, the Smoke Man wat " Joe, there was a flash of light seems like a simple thing to ning. It struck a free. The sexi strike a match and have a flame. moment the storm was over. The I wonder if you all understand store came out again. taught: "Choose death before that there was a time when no dishonourt".
Flickering Light Today this room in the an-was. Yas, there was a time on cient ruins is heavily guarded, this earth-long, long ago--when "But when the people so that visitors cannot come too! no one could make a fire. There aut at hiding, they saw a littlo near. On the door is the sign: was no such thing as making a flickering light in the forest. It- "Stranger, do not enter hero, Bre. People just didn't know was shining in the fallen tree This is holy ground. This is the how," tomb of Princess Padmini,”
one know what a flame--or fire
The three friends looked at Joe, the Smoke Man, in aston- Ishment
Lived Outdoors-
came
which the lightning had attack. "At first, everyone thought a star must have fallen from the sky during the storm. They cono nearer, The light was brighter. In India this story Ls well
It had little tongues which known by everyone. A girl of
cleod at the wood. They tried India is proud 10 she bears this "Of course, it seems surpris- to pick it up but it burned them, honoured natuë, She knows iting to you now. But long ago,
"Then they grey angry, and keeps fresh the memory of the people didn't have matches. They wanted to throw stones at It and brave young princess,
lived out in the open. When destroy it. they were cold, they huddled -GENEVIEVE BRUNSON together in the darkness or pull good. It gives light in the dark- But one of them said: "I ÍS
ness. It gives warmth. It can bo our friend if we treat it well. It can be our enemy and inuri. us if we do not know how to handle It. We must learn about it. Wo must always keep it but noves let it harm us.
Rupert and the Rolling Ball—21
Wondering what bus- is) wanted Le Kuper follows while the other kada through another of his workalapa with mori pÓKAT found shapes until he reaches a blus hall balanced on a stander (jim stand. ?! Now-watch “Thát, la mé of my karly experi
„menta,”
saya the dim, að žiu, preasca switch. Rupert freis the Boor aliake slightly, the air sect to tremble, and the glass bali piane quivering and, with nothing touching. Is hovers over the neapad antil the witch ʻik put of waiti Then the man movie on
ALL HIONTE REBARYED
"So they all gathorod about it and kept themselves warm and fed the fire może wood AM when they separated and went away, each of them took a bit of the fire along at the end at: a stick. And from then on, fire was known. It warmed tourna and coolond food and mado `light,
"But we still must careful.
Fire in # véry, good? friend. Bhat we must never let it harm us. Well, I guess I'll be Witing back where I belong.* 'And “with said Joe, rawring. that he said Good Evening Koort, Teddy and Hiawatha and went floating back abrow": rock and
Friber's pipes