THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1957,
FEATURES FOR
YOUR PUZZLE
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CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
1 Trades
7 Years of your life
B Devay
10 Arabian garment
11 Uncle Toin's frknd
جاز
You do this when sleepy
14 He's in the Bible
10 Rodent
17 Anger
18 Ocean vussel
1 Flags
DOWN
2 Jong, long →→→
3 Colour
4 Age
5 Steal
Stutter
12 Huge tub
13 Consumed
14 Pronoun
15 Exis!
WORD CHAIN
Con you! change SAFE tu RASH in four moves? Just chage one letter at a time and make sure you have a good word after each changt
Puzzleman says you may need these hints: First chage F to T, then S to R. T to S and E to H.
HOW AMAZO
TO FRIENDS
1.FIND A SMALL SLATE ABOUT 9 IN.WIDE AND 12 IN. LONG.
2.CUT A PIECE
OF WHITE
WRAPPING PAPER
TO COVER SLATE
AND PRINT A
SECRET WORD OR NUMBER ON PAPER WITHABAR OF SOAP
(LIKE YOUR
PALSHAME ANDAGE) PRINT IN
REVERSE:
3.DUST THE LETTERS WITH FLOUR,
POWDER OR
CHALK.
4.
SHOW YOUR PALTRE CLEAN SLATE AND SAY YOU CAN MAKE HIS NAME AND AGE APPEARONIT. NOW... '..LAY THE PIPER, LETTERS DOWN, ON THE SLATE
RUB IT CREAK-SLATE, BRISKLY SPEAK SLATE
AS YOU
SAY MAGIC WORDS
SNOW
JOE 12
PAPER AWAY
HERS WILL
SLATE.
TRIANGLE
Today's triangle hangs on VIRGINIA. The second" word I think third, "paused": fourth,
"opening in fencel": Afth, "followers"; sixth "a boy's nickname," and seventh, "exists."
3. Can you complete the triangle from the clues?
VIRGINIA
*
I
G
N
A
WORD SQUARE
After you rearrange the lotters row, rearrange in each strage
the rows so you can read your Lower the same down ps across:
AEOLR AAMLT AERLT AENRS AOMNR
SOUND ALIKES
A TRUE STORY:
BOYS
AND
RAG DOLL WAS HISTORY'S SILENT WITNESS
TIE date was April 9,
1865.
T
Little Lula MeLean had been happy playing with her rag doll, oven though the sound of firing sounded every once in a while in the fields and woods and in the witte valley close by.
at
Lula and her family lived Court Appomattox House, Virginia. And there, on that long-ago Palm Sunday, something of the utmost ámportance about to happen.
was
She had overheard her father talking with her mother. He had been out walking that morning and hud met an officer in a blue uniform.
The rag doll, a slient witness, was carried away by young officer.
an net. She was only
the
of such The officer had asked Mr Ave. McLean if he could direct And when the strange men him to a suitable house for came into the room where an important meeting which was playing house," she
out so quickly! that she forgol was to be held soon-to take her doll. meeting between General It Grant of the Union Army und General Lee of the Con- federacy.
Ana Lula had heard the sad Missing words In the Puzzle-ness in her father's voice as he man's sentence sound alike, but told her mother he had offered they are spelled differently. Can their home. you complete the sentence cor- rectly?
The scouts sat down and the last of their rations before continuing the hike.
(Solutions on Page 19)
not a was
and
pretly doll. I judged by today's standards. It had stampy burlap arms legs, a queer-shaped head with not much stuffing in it. And it had no hair at all.
Its face had been, painted on, Within an hour, famous men but the features had a smeared were gathered together in the look, as if a Bille girl might McLeans parlour, and history have kissed them a lot. There was written. General Lee was was no doubl but that Lula surrendering.
loved her doll quite as much But Luin McLean was 100
as any little mother today inves young to realise the importance her beautiful, Incy-dressed one.
DEPENDENCE WAS DECLARED, TOO
TAVERYBODY
EV
KNOWS
about the Declaration
of Independence. But did you know there was also Declaration of Dependence at about the same time?
Absolutely. It still exists and is in the possession of the New York Historia! Society.
It was issued in New York during the British occupa- tion, about four months after the famous Declara- tion of Independence was proclaimed in Philadelphia.
In that
www
LOYALISTS
was in
WERE LOVAL PATRIOTS ENGLISH PATRIOTS
the
When they inally, left, Tak baby left with them. L. Col. Thomas W. Moore, a red- de e-de-cump, look her with him, and Lula never saw her doll again.
But the doll is still me to day, and is love not only by whole chiktren, but
family".
by
th
She belongs to the grand-
GIRLS
CAN YOU SOLVE THIS MYSTERY?
By
•HAROLD GLUCK
THE JUDGE of the pro-
bate court sighed.
"What I need in the wis-
One of of Solomon.
son of the young colonel who dom rode away with her that bright those twins is antitled to spring day His name is Rich-the million dollars."
ard Channing Moore, and his homo in just outside New York on Long Island.
"But which one?" com- pleted the court referee. "They are identical twins. Have perfect teeth. Records The rag doll siis on the liv were "destroyed when the ing-room mantel,
cotton mission building at Kee body un colt as ever, her straw Chow burned. We haven't
led legs und aring Just as
Isu handwriting specimen.
her
when What do we do?"
otiff. Perhaps her clothing
than more disarranged Title Lula McLean saw her last, but she is just ng greatly loved as ever,
Mr Moore also treasures the of bis
and
spurg grandfather.
epaulets
But his two children, a giri and a boy, have always known that these lifeless tokens could not compare with the rug doll tho who actually did witness surrender at Appomattox. To them she is a
their be loved
on -M. S. SHELTON
THE LIFE OF RODEO COWBOYS
By M. G. SHELTON
DEOPLE who complain
its romance, and that to- But she was so frightened by [day's cowboy is a poor all the strange med that she substitute for the ridin'.
ran out of that room her.
without
GENERAL GRANT, in his rumpled blue omber's coat, sat at a table and wrote the terms of surrender which President Lincoln had suggested to The week before.
hm
shootin' boys of the old days, just haven't seen rodeo cowpokes in action. For heady excitement and cold chills nothing quite eqiass a roden cowboy on a bucking horse.
There was to be no harshness. No spirit of revenge. The de- feated armies were to give up their rifles and turn over commons and wagon trains and rodeos and competing for get back as quickly as possible prize money) are not to be to their homes.
These boys who "ride the (which is their shows"
following for the language
confused with mail-order
pensive cowboy regalia.
or
"sun-fisher,"
The oilcers might keep their cowboys-tenderfeet in ex- swords and pistols, and their horses And then Grand wrele thut
Le soldiers night keep They are the real bronco thetr horses, too, and their busters.
mules. They would need them
....
THERE'S GOTTA BE AN EASIER
WAY TO
Д
MAKE A LIVING/
bucking brone that twists its body in
ONE OF YOU 16 AN -IMPOSTOR, AHD I KNOW
•WHICH
"They say money is the root of all evil," snapped
"Hold your hands out and back the judge. They were happy together until it was Icarned that the late Frank- let me look at them," he lin Reimels was heir to his said. aunt's million. His widow gets that million.
WHO?
Both women followed in- structions and the judge studied the hands carefully.
"But who is the widow? "Seems to ine the widow family Who is Ethel and who is should have the Anne? Can't you help us at wedding ring and engage. all, Mr Tobin ?**
ment ring on her finger," he
VERDICT
Hiram Tobin, attorney for commented, tho estate, shrugged his shoulders. "Franklin went That Can bo easily CX- abroad to do some research, plained," said the twin on the fell in love with Ethel and right, "we were penniless. In married her.
order to raise funds to come to
"Three year ago I was at America I had to sell my rings," Kee-Chow and met Mrs Ethel Reimels for about twenty minutes. I can't tell who is who!"
"I've been thinking about something I observed," said the judge. "Bring the two sisters into my office. I want to speak to them."
Ethel and Anne stood before His Honour.
"Corrtet," Interrupted the other twin. "Except that I am the widow and I sold my rings. My twin sister Is lying."
"The court is now capable of coming to a. decision," said the judge. "The twin our the left is Mrs Ethel Reimos."
How could the judge be cer tain about his identification?
(Solution of Page 19)
The Thirsty Canary
He Rejects An Old Enemy's Offer Of Help-
By MAX TRELL
CHRISTOPHER Cricket camo
over and sat himself on convenient dulsy next to Knarf and Hanid, the shadow children with the turned-about names,
"Did you hear about what. midair so that sunlight hits its happened to Canary?" hu sald. belly..
"What happened to Canary?” usked Hamid.
"Isn't a cowboy afraid of get- ting hurt?" you may ask,
Let's just say he isn't afraid, "He got thirsty," said Christo-- priod. If he were, he would phor.
and some other way to make a
start crops right away. General LAC,
impeccably They make a profession of dressed in his Confederate uni- toaning wild horses in the arena, form, sadly signed the surrenIn addition they have to be ex der terins. Then he mounted perts at bulldogging, wrestling bis beautiful horse, Traveller, steers and throwing them by living. to ride back to his lines.
OK
"What of that?" said Knart, "Everybody gets thirsty some time be other."
"Yes," said Christopher, "only whs different with Canary. He didn't have any water. It's not good to get thirsty when you haven't any water."
This is the story that Christo pher Cricket told Knurf and Hanid while sitting on a con-
the
"ater! Water!" Canary called from his cape.
"Just then the Cat walked in; Then the Hobby Horse ari- nounced joyfully: There's some- one who cars open Canary'a door), The Cati
Stroked Her Whlskors
their horns, fourfooting (roping During a riding career that is Robert Lincoln, son of the an animal by the feel to keep not yet finished, one champion president and 矗 captain on from being thrown) and Roll- rider from South Dakota has General Grant's stat, was in hanging (dropping on a steer's had three ankle breaks, geven the room that day. He tried to head and throwing him bodily broken fout bones, a blood clot As you have already guessed,
remember everything that hapwithout wrestling him down). it was prepared by loyal British
his
which led to temporary paraly their It is dated Nov. 2, 1776, and pened there, for be knew
sis, and
So many broken ribs They wanted cubjects.
ancestral names of father would want to know.
Rodeo is a heavily contested that an X-ray of his chest looks king to know they had no part bears the
dolin gulched families As soon as General Lee rode sport. Brone riders in a sin ragged, "life, liberty and the many
York, oway, the McLean home became gte rodeo may number, around pursuit of happiness" paper. It still prominent in New
100, And since leading con- the Tory
the These signatures remind us to a whirlwind of excitement. answer to
Swarms of officers in blue ar-testants must enter as many as Revelation.
day that during the Revolution many good and great Americans rived from nowhere, all want possible to pile up points, they But in that time he has won venient day.
"The Cat stroked her whiskers This declaration
"I had just come into the sincerely believed that the re-ing to buy something from that jump from roteo to rodeo at a eight Rodeo Cowboys Assoc-
said
as she looked up at the cage. form of a peiltion to the famous bellion against the king was now-famous room. Every single pace that would be killing for ation world championships, 10
Christopher thing in it would be a precious the ordinary buckaroo.
'It will be a pleasure. I can't tell International Rodeo Association playrDOM, Howe brothers. the king's reason.
you how many times I've commissioners
relic from then on. for restoring
on They have to be good to be world championships, 29 sad-when I heard Canary. He was
saying or singing out, if you thought It sounds incredible now how
They bought the table
of doing that myself. gold dles, 70
suiver buckles, peace in the rebellious colonies.
pleaad: "A fine thing to Of course I'll open it. Grant had wrillen bis top winnerTE. colonists actually which Tow of the
HO pen to me When they come out of the and many other prizes.
A fine thing?' It is an imposing document favoured Independence and surrender terms, the surrenderi
And he thinks it was sworth
Fin
"The Cat looked hungry. But covering a large sheet of vel fought to win R.
pen, even the inkstand. Soldiers chute they like to "bicycle," or
horse with getting injured so many times, hopped down from his pich
the centre of the cage and Canary didn't seem to like the lum. These additional pages are Two of every three persons even knelt and picked the vlo-Scratch a pitching
a hard fall źrom
eys Idea at all. He fluttered around crowded with the signatures of in the entire population were leta in the yard, to send away first one spurred heel and then He refers to
the other. They have only con- a bucking brose or steer as glanced sharply with one
Into his water cup. in letters that night, more than 700 Loynilats,
either still loyal British sub-
and it's all in mg doll? temat for a horse that crow- "enting gravel,"
emply. And what of the This Declaration of Depend- jects or so lukewarm in their
and hups, which is a mild form of the day's work. were afraid to Sumcone had found her,
And it at times he finds him- "Not a drop? Canary went ence assured the commissioners loyalties they
now the men looked at her, and bucking. of their unswerving allegiance take eliher side,
smiled, calling her the "slient They want a pitching, buck- self broke, he wraps himself in on. Not a drop of water
at night
and pil-drink! Water Water' he called jumping high roller, a wild his ougan
head on his saddle, shrilly, hoping the children up horse that will jump as well as lows his buck in attempting to rid him under the stars. A cowboy can stairs in their room would hear self, of his ridex.
be Happy there, just dreaming him. But they didn't and they Listen to a group of cowboys about sinking his pothools wouldn't have known what he talk. You will hear them speak (spurs) into a real sun-fisher was trying to say in any case, almost reverently of a mount without once pulling leather," that "swallows, his tall" (does It's a great lie for those who genuine bucking and no foolin') love it.
to the king and if desire
to help pitserve the supremacy of England over
of the crown
the colonies.
ZOO'S WHO
THE SNAPPING TURTLE NEVER FEEDS OUT OF WATER BECAUSE IT CANNOT SWALLOW, UNLESS ITS HEAD IS SUBMERGED...,
GO AWAY
SHUCKS IT'S NETHIN
ONLY BIRD KNOWN TO HIBERNATE IS THE POORWILL, A SOUTHWESTERN, COUSIN OF THE WHIPPOOR WILL ONE. WAS FOUND SLEEPING IN A CAVE TWO CONSECUTIVE WINTERS..
AMOLE CAN DIG A TUNNEL AT THE RATE
OF 18 FEETW AN HOUR AFT
-RAY THOMPSON | witness."
PULL THIS TRICK
ON YOUR PALS
Tsingle prop-a card. tend to think deeply.
cover.
HIS trick requires but a box to your forehead and pre- Then you'll opent the ques- board kitchen match box- tion, exactly as it is written, the kind with the sliding and give some sort of answer,
if you like.
But the reason why you'il be Invite one member of able to do this is a. lot tess your audience to write a mystical than it sounds. There question on a place of paper will be a hole cut in the bottoni of the box itself. This will per- and place it in the box, mit the well-folded bit of paper which you hold open in to slip through and into your your hand Instruct him to and before you allde the box
ild shut, fold it up very small first, fust to make sure that you can't roud the writing.
Then, while calling attention to your right hand, which As the bow against busy putting your temples, pois can alsorostly at a table while you do funtold the paper undersenta this, and riem, the box in full the table with your left hand, view of everybody passent. And you can food is very easily Next, your sppose to clare, because your eyes only seem to your eyou, while you press the be closed as they look down,
Rupert and the Old Hat-19
Putting the wooden, cuckoo' ges
to a lower branch" Hupere climbs, you into a tree. I can, wa: you're gjuhëru too tired to go any farther,” hot sale
of shops angry birda. Perhaps 1
can make then change their mindsy
· If 'not: berhage, Ucinɑmen ́the'xtal.
It was the cage. He best his wings. 'I don't want any water! Get that cat away! I'm not thirsty, mog
to
more!'
"Finally, General Tin with the help of Whoa, the Hobby Home, got the Cat to change her mind about opening Canary's door.
"You'd think I meant to harm irim,the Cat sald in an injured voice. I was only gong Real Live Thing
to do him a Uttle favour. "General Tin, the Tin Soldier, can't understand why birds don't who was standing below the like me."". Canary's cage in the playroom,
tıla turned to Whoa, the Hobby Horse, and said: "You see? That's what comes of being a roul alve thing like a Canary. You ought to bo glad you're a wooden horse and not a roal liorpo.
Is water good?' naked Hobby Horse.
"I suppose, so mid General People and animals ke dogs and cal are always drink-
"Did Canapy finally got drink of water. Chiriatopher!"
old asked.
“Oh ya," malá · Christopher, "The children remembersä little later and filed bia: water- cup. He didn't duller about at ail. He Just dipped. In his bill and drank, h
"Don't aver start printing ing it. Bo are Canaries and water, Geridrel Tin, and to Robits and Thrusher and Wood Who, the Hobby Horse2T1 peckers and all the rest of the end of trouble. No metter? bow? blar. It must be good, much water you drink güb day.” "Suddenly, Mary Jane, the you're always sure to be furt.uk the birt WE LOWER VO Rags Dali sele on the top of the bookshelf in Heart said: "Only capita don') filed with water. If the Court got think? PRESA Bow oyes to it, he poult, delafe
all be wanted.
“Oh, 08. Shax do,” saka
But how can I get the dope. They dolls tarsty "the Canary 'ak'thu