THE CHENA MAH, SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1957.
FEATURES FOR BOYS
YOUR PUZZLE AN ODD ROAD LEADS TO
CORNER
CROSSWORD
Cartoonist Cal has tried to crew up this crossword puzzle by drawing it on a boy's toy:
ACROSS
1 Boy's toy
First garden
6 Conduct
7 Chuma
DOWN
1 Seawood ashes
2 Notion
Rivor duck
+ Finishes
DIAMOND MICHAEL was picked as the centre of this word diamond The scoond word is "to tear": third a speedster"; fifth "fruits" and dxth an abbreviation for "residence. How good are you at solving the diamond from these clues?
MICHAEL
MICHAEL
HIDDEN BOYS
The Puzzleman has liidden a boy in each of these sentences. Can you dad them?
PETRA
By R. S. CRAGCS
They delivered the earlnad of THE world has many-
enal,
Janek
ancient buildings that
The court settled as he gavellare carved out of rock. But tapped
hone are more interesting teak,
fn
Alderman
MIXED-UP BOYS
MULE AS
than those of Petru.
In the Bible is found the Just rearrange the letters first mention of this city. each of these strange Bues to It lies inl Trans-Jordan, And the three boys the Puzzle-about 50 railes south of the anan has tried to hire here.
Dead Sea. For hundreds of years Petra was a centre of trade for the caravans that passed, going to and from other nearby countries. But since the fall of the Roman Empire, It has been tically deserted.
LAD NOR
MORN DAY
BOY REBUS
You'll have little trouble find- at the four boys hidden in this rebus if you use the words and pictures right:
/ WATCH YOUR.
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JAM]
J
WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT BRIDES?
QINCE June is the tradi- tional month for brides, here is a quiz about brides of fact and fiction. Eight
is a very good score.
1. Pocahontas became the bride
of
John Smith
b. Jolin
Alden c, John Rolfe
2. The sixth bride of Henry
VIII was
a. Catharine Parr b. Anne
of Cleves C Catharine Howard
3. "Bride
ان
the Sea" is
name often given to
a. Liverpool
Venico
b. Marselles
4. The First Lady ITI the United States oflèn referre:1 to as "the White House marri- Bride," because ker
nge wug salumaised there, VIS
a. Lucy Hayes 1. Edith Roosevelt Cleveland
ር. Frances
5. One of these men returned to find his bride married to another.
u. Ichabod Crane b. Enoch Arden c. Johnny Apple-
cod
the stralia of "Lohengrin" by
Verdi a. Wagner Puccini
6. Many brides march to
to
b.
c.
7. It is traditional for brides wear "yomething old, something new, something borrowed. Bomething”)
+ Jalute
a. Red b. White
8. Because so many American
airmen And
their brides
here, "Mother-in-law of the Air Foroa" is a name often given to
b. San
a. Denver, Colo. Antonio, Tox. 2. Miami, Fla.
9. The new bride who came to Mandalay in Daphne du Maurler's novel, "Rebecca," was known as
Mrs
a. Mrs de Winter b. Danvers e. Mrs Van Hop-
10. She did not become a bridc
until she asked, "Why don't
for
учла Johny"
B
yourself,
a, Virginia Dare b. Roxanne
c. Priscilla,
(Answers on Part 20)
+
(Solutions on Page 20)
HOW TO
"MAKE A
GHNUT MA
1.Punch holes on each side
of a 12 inch long CARDBOARD
+
3.PUNCH A
TUBE like this...
2.STAND TUBE IN BOTTOM CENTER OF ABOX ABOUT ZIN. HIGH AND 5 OR 6 IN. LONG...TRACE AROUND TUBE AND CUT OUT HOLE.
HOLE IN CENTER OF EACH SIDE OF BOX AND PUT A
KNITTING NEEDLE THROUGH
BOX AND
TUBE THIS
WAY.
4. PUT ANOTHER NEEDLE IN
OTHER HOLES.
5.CUT OUT A CIRCLE OF COLORED PAPER LINCH WIDER THAN TUBE... SLIT AND OVERLAP INTO
A CONE.
6. PASTE
LAP
AND STICK APIPE
CLEANER IN TOP.
DECORATE
WITH PAINT DRCRAYON.
SET CAP
ON TOP
AND LOAD HIM WITH DOUGHNUTS!
ZOO'S WHO
MINKS ARE BOLD AND COURAGEOUS AND WILL
ATTACK AND KILL FOR FOOD SPECIES HEAVIER THAN THEM- SELVES,
SUCH AS THE VARY-
ING HARE
AND
MUSKRAT
M {I FEEL
LARGE BLACK : PENGUINS ARE DESCENDED FROM CAT STROLLING.
ROSO ONES PATH GANEMBLEM OF
GOOD LUCH
ANCIENT BIRDS THAT HAD NORMAL FLYNG WINGS.THEY BELONG TO A FAM LLY OF WHICH MOST MEMBERS HAVE DIED OUT AND NOW ARE KNOWN ON: LYAS FOSSILS,VISPECIESSTILLEXIST.
prac-
"
EL KHATNA
A CAMED
CUT OUT OF
BOUD ROCK
EL DER ON TOP OF THE PETRA WORLD
"OBELISKS ON JA
ZIBB ATUF
The Rose-Rock. CITY
can pass
AND
GIRLS ***
CAMELS ARE GENTLE
TO KIND TRAINERS
THAT do camels carry
ists today say, the humpa are storage places for food -not water.
Win their humps Scient
If camels are given plenty to eat the humpa grow large. On the desert where food is scarce the bumps shrink.
Water is carried in muscles
and u130 the
By AYLESA FORSEE
(I'M NOT BUCH A`DAP GUY WHEN YOU GET
TO KNOW MEY
patient. They love to be pelted. Onco -trained, camels take Chings in their stride. In tho face of ring apparantes, cav flying plance, bad storms or the barking of unfriendly dogs, the humples go right on chewing their cudo,
Producers of
movie the "David and Bathsheba" feared that the camels being used might stampede during the fliming.
Sure enough, there was a stampede one day when a plane flow low over location, But horses caused it. The woll-pe- haved camels didn't even foolę up.
Jack Joyce, one of America's best known animal trainer, has tamod everything from chim- panzees to tigers, He protera camels to almost any other
stomach, which is lined with water pockets. On the dosert camels will travel un- watered for six to eight days. There are records of humpios taking on enough road and no one
Umm el Blyara la the highed liquid to last thêm 35 days. through.
mountain in Petra. Its name is
But once camels get to anyone who comes near them linal. They are, says he, believed, to mean "Mother of One of the first buildings the Cisterns for, on its top, hollows Water, they are thirsty While they are being trained sweet and lovable-even mure
Next to watering for circuses, camels spit so much so than deer or dogs. Perhaps the oddest thing traveller sees when he emerges in the rocks store rain water for brutes.
passageway is El use during siege. about Petra is the road from the
It can be elephants, the biggest job couls to get near them.
that attendants must wear rain-
STUPID AND LAZY? Khuzna. This temple to an un- reached by n series of path-around a circus is watering The city can known god is carved out of the ways, each leading to it.
narrower than the camels.
Actually the bumpies wit
Camels are usually described be reached only by a rose-coloured rock. It has one
and kick only because they are as stupid stubborn and lazy. These animals have gotten afraid and unsure of what may But the way they carry heavy cleft in the rock which large room and two small ones, as, eut out of the rock.
one sixth tho
The repulation for being mean be going to happen to them
burdens for daya across hot is over a mile long and in and reaches
because they kick at each other If trainers öre kind to the desert sands proves they aren't height of the cliff. places as narrow as 20 But at n later date is the
or at people and often spit at animals they become gentle and always lazy. Watered or un- Two thousand years ago feel. Above, the
walls Roman theatre, which is large Greek writer told of the prople sometimes come together to cough to seal between 3,000 that had no bullt homes and
and 5,000 persong. shut out the sky,
A tunnel leading to the two columns of stone, several
On top of one mountain stand lived on a mountain with only north carries off the water times as tall as a mai, Tha But today the fortress is t in time of flood. Another whole surface of the mountain fortress no longer, Airplanes carefully remover aften fy over and can see in A
one way up.
a
gorge carries off the water has been
down to that depth, leaving few minutes all of the cily that
on the other side of the these two rock fingers standing many armies tried to conquer city, but here there is no alone.
in vain,
WATCH OUT FOR TINY
H
CANNIBAL
TAVE you ever reached for your Sunday-best shoes at the back of the closet and found them covered with a rough, grey film? Or taken a slice of bread from a loaf that had been left for several days in a warm cabinet in hot, rainy weather and found it spot- ted with a bluish-greci, black or white cottony mould?
This is caused by tiny cannibal plants called fungi. They are cannibals because they have no lenves of their own with which to facture their food. So they must proý upon anything which
furnishes nourish-
ment.
HARMFUL
manu-
Some of the cannibal plants enuse untold ham Millions of their tluy spores are always floating through the alt, just waiting to sellio on something in which to grow.
Some of these sports settle in damp clothing, causing mildew, Some get into the jams and syrups in the cupboard, or on the vagitbles in the vegetable
PLANTS!
ancient Romans thought that n
Know What To Wear For That Hike?
UMMER
SU
time means hiking time. How much fun you have can de- pend on how you are dressed.
Some hikers suggest rubbing sock heels with soap just before starting, to help prevent blisters from forming on the feet.
watered, they keep going.
They would prefer hay, graln for carrots, but on the desert they cut course, bliter, thorny weeds usually considered to bo worthless. And they're smart | mough to and this food,
Alhtough camels are grouchy looking they are really quite good naturudi. Frequently they cavort around playfully, mak- ing their bells jingle giy funo.
Camels measure from six to nine feet high, The Arabian animals, often called drome- darica, have only one hump. But Bactrian camels, natives of central Asla, have two humps.
Many of these taimals ilye to an age of 35 or 40 years, trua not have Humpies do boots Their big padded feet have two toes each.
Most of the cunels you sea But in some parts of the world theso swift-footed woinals still stay, passengers and supplies,
Hiking is an enjoyable as well es an educational pastime, Some boys and girls think, whether you walk with a denti- that the fewer clothes they nation in mind or just for the wear, the cooler they will be. Joy of being outdoors,
It This isn't always true.
So dress properly and special rust god, Robigus, was especially isn't true when often. For double pleasure, take are in zoos or circuses. visiting his wrath upon a the sun is very bright and someone with you. wicked people.
hot.
For thousands of years farm- Pem now their efforts destroyed So forget your bandanna by this scourge. When it was and skull cap and choose n finally discovered that the mists hat which fits you comfort and smuts were caused by
fung!, the farmers were able to ably-one which has enough handle the problem more in-brim to shade your face. If telligently,
the day is windy, borrow a Boy Scout tip, lace a long
MIRACULOUS
Not all fungi are injurious. Take common, hurnble yeast, so necessary in bread-making the green matter in Roquefort cheese,
which gives it it de- lightful favour. Put them on the credit side of the ledger.
has been Even rye smut found usetul In A medicine enlied ergot, which controls haemorrhaging. The miraculous yellow stuff known as penicillin -o powrful that 1/1,000,000,000 of it in dilution can kill bacteria-G obtained In certain climates, most us fungi grown for that purpose. ually in the hot, humid regions, But only a scientist can tell they cover wallpaper with ugly the good fungi from the bat. So black amuiges. This fungus can beware of the palo grey alm even ruin the paint on houses, that forms on foodstuffs in bot
The blights which affect our weather, and be sure none trees and crops are caused by it gets into your system. For It cannibals is definitely bad, as cannibal plants,
Every year
farmers wring usually are, their hands when the rugs and smuts get into their crops. The ---MABEL SHELTON
bin, covering them with fuzzy coal.
from
of
YOU CAN GO DOWN TO
THE SEA IN BOOKS
THERE'S nothing
like
are
"messing around with boats." But the next beat is reading thing
about them. The most worn books at the library often sen stories, for tales of ships and sailors are always popular with boys and girls. So come aboard for a voyage in these new books.
Cold Hazard by Richard Armstrong has I desert Island with difference.
a
From tramp steamer to ice.
pan to jolly bont, the 17- Simpson, but the young fisher- year-old third mate takes man hero has troubles a-plenty, the duty in the best tradl. What Grampa did when Lan borrowed money to buy a better
tion of the men who go beat well, you'll be pulling an
down to the sen in ships. car for Linn.
You can't dodgo work on
蠱
BIL, the hero of flight of the
Great Lakes grain freighters Peacock by Patrick O'Connor,
Todd Morris discovers In Cabin
had hard muscles and "
Boy by Vinet Dempacy But hundred dollars. You can quo the reasons why Todd decided what happened to the money against jumping ship make but not what happens to Bill. bang-up story,
Action Starboard, written by you won't want to miss Ellil's
visit to China.
Victor Maya, da ne zallyTANÁ | non #breeze. Toby notled "on" a " Other stories to logis Beaton brig in 1813 straight into your reading notebook Are Bes thrilling adventures in strang, Dog by Edmund Gilligan 27 JA watern.
collis pup falle onto the doble of Thereignis violetis actions in a fishing schoorsty and ments Zalaust in the Day by Dorothy Captain Philadelphia, King of
"AT THE END
OF THE
HIKE, I'LL BE GLAD
WORE ALL) THIS IN
shoestring through the hat
crown and tie the strings beneath your chin.
bike
-VIOLET ROBERTS
A Trip To The Clouds
-Merlin And The Shadows Ride A Magic Rug-
By MAX TRELL
"NARD and Hanid, the sandow children with the turned-about names, Ware Elim ting on the back steps of the house talking about Various din sucb as airplanes and clouds and frogs and railroad trains and wind and rai when they notlood that some one had come along and was sitting beside them,
"Why, t'e you, Mr Merlin!" sald Hanid,
"We didn't hear you get here," soki Knarf
Mr Merlin, the Magnificent |Magician, smiliņi pienmntly,
On A Cloud
"I wasn't here n mínute ago,”
iw sukk, "I came floating downs rough the air. I was salilag on cloud"
处
If anyone else had said that hoy had been calling on a [cloud, Kourt and Hanid would
Mariin took a tiny bit of
coloured rug.out of his pooket,
could grab hold. Soon the rug was as big na a sofa.
"St downl
Her
Make yourockt
Sunglasses help protect your never have believed it, But in comfortable!" Lavica Mr Mer- eyes from glare and dust.
Mr Merlin's case, it was differ- A long-sleeved shirt gives ent, He really was a magnificent Kaart and Hanid did not really There was plenty of rooth.
People looked up in wonder to
50
boller protection from the heat magician. than one with short sleeves, no
expect the rug to fly. But that's "But what I'd like to know." what it did. It went gliding over matter how warm it makes you said Knart, s how did you the garden, then over the street. feel when you put it on. The manage to get up to a cloud. sleeves absorbs perspiration. Anxi And by the way, which cloud see such a strange object fort when there is a breeze, the was it?"
ing over their heads. A lady, the Clippers by Edmund Collier skirt provides you with an air-
Mr Merlin obligingly pointed, carrying a basket of groceries, all your aboard conditioning systerh
to a Millo white cloud that became adventure ....much
astonished, pilo fam0123 shipbuilder Donald own.
seemed to be stuck hit on top tripped over a policemen und all Consider
wearing slacks of the hill. "It was no trouble her groceries scattered over tão MncKay's Sea King: Steam-
rather than shorts. Your leg at all," he said. "I sat on pavement. boat's Coming....there's
100, in fresh-water nood protection, too. Many hikes rug! The next minute, I went venture, sailing when Minnesota farm are ruined by a bad case of calling right up to the cloudk boy becomes a Mississippi pilot; sunburn, or by constant bramble
Both Kant and Hanif shout- and Sailor. Budd by Richard scratchings. Walkins....ZNOTE boyn more boats and salt-cured old timer named Mahogany Slocum
Glad to have you abound.........
-LEE PRIESTLEY
your
Shows really deserve cineful thought. Choose a pair which is large enough to allow The oxford dor heavy excks. dybe is best, but don't lace too
od at once: “What rug?”
.0
Bicanwhile the threð travellers rooo higher and higher instil at inst they reached the doud.
The cloud looked like a great, Tiny Coloured Rug Jeep of now. Kimst and Hanid rolled around in it for 'erveral Hero, Mr Merlin, merely minutes until
they suddenly reached into his pocket and took discovered that they were got. out a tiny coloured bit of ring quite wet Do larger than
hand- kerchief. Ho apicad it out
Abe bottom shop,
Knard looked
it and old
*Of course,” said "Bär? Morlin, you'en well. It's a rain cloud. I think we'd bettor be returning home. It's bogtoring to turn
Rupert and the Rolling Ball-39 x that's the bug you eat on to blades
While shay” nen rutini
tries to poll Alay, mmejhing
andle staring at the ball
hel, the orm that
That
glad
another
others, they
"get to the cloud, I don't sen’how you did it. It's not big enough
... Magic Carpet to sit on."
They got back on their tangic "Mäyrdner boy" said Mir Maiw carpet just in time for uddenly lo, this is ugle rug. It tego do rain. The wholy cloud. wiralcher. Just feel in and you'll: Alpped" over, All the rain game
Knart tell it and sprur.
Hit Cool-like
cinatie, Mr Merlin
pouting down, “Thwi must be why I called pouring," Handd pisos of mid to Mr Merlin.
fusioon os tiny, pogotied the "All right," "mik nie nagrlin, baolt mere again, a Wenterlin “If you two kids woga The to lagunent the rug together until salon a quick
shuated Zunact ană Hazed..
you