THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1987.
FEATURES
FOR BOYS AND
GIRLS***
YOUR PUZZLE Legends of the Maids of the Mist The Rajah's Birthday
CORNER
CROSSWORD
The Pizzlernan hnd Cartoonist Cal place his crossword puzzle on the althouclie of an Indian chlers head to dress it up?
ACROSS
5 Capuchin monkey
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INDIAN DIAMOND
The tribe of Oltawlis Rave the Puzzleman a centre for his word diamond. *1*።
word
MIOUSANDS and thou-
THO
sands of people have taken boat rides at Niagara Falls on two little boats, each named "Maid of the Mist."
They second
13" plgpen"; third "bristles"; 1th "apes"; sixth 18 an aubreviation for "Enster." Complete the diamond from these eltics.
OTTAWAS W
VOWELLESS INDIANS
Here are five famous Indians, but the Puzzlenin left the
vowels out of their names. Can you name them ?
PWHTN
PCHNTS
SQY H
Indians
The tribe
were an Iroquolan
STTNG BLL MSSST
The third and arth are exceptionally hard, but the invented the first of these Cherokee alphabet and the other welcomed Lie Pilgrims 10 Massachusets.
(Sulutions on Page 19)
8 Toward
5 Arc
11 Be al case
DOWN
1 Boy's name
2 Exists
3 Dine
4 The
fought against
General Custer
7 Before
10 Boy's nickname
INDIANS IN AMBUSH
Each of these sentences has a
hidden Indian tribe. Can you
And then?
carry
tourists through the swift currents and geysers at the foot of the world's most famous waterfall.
Today, these twin boats nre sleek little metal craft. two They were launched years ago to replace their predecessors, tv'o wooden boats which burned in dry. docks. The wooden ones were also called Maids the Mist. ROUGH
of
Going West In
Books
XXHEN the everyday
routine grows dull
and monotonous, we
call
always "escape" in books.
George Bernard Shaw, need-Young readers often escape Icsa to pay, was an Irish wit. to the West, where any boy
The silver in the dog's paw
needed removal,
The World Series la an exelt- ing baseball event-
INDIAN REBUS
The Puzzleman has hidden the names of four Indian tribes in hly rebus, Find them by using the words and pictures to best advantage:
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This vid photo shows the two wooden Malds of the Mist going through the waters of the Niagara. At the left is the Ameri- can Falls; in the background, the Canadian or Horseshoe Falls,
In great distress the maiden leaped into her canoe, guided it into the rapids, and plunged
of
way to change the custom of sacrifice.
But there was no way it could be dono. The tribe had spoken, and the chief's daughter must be caerised to the gods of the falls.
Party
ET'S go to an exciting
birthday party that of the "rnjah of Udaipur (00
of
an
The day for the ceremony dle-poor). It's in the state come and still the chief could
to save his of Rajputana, north not find a way
Но watched daughter.
his Bombay, India, on tribesmen place the maiden in island-dotted lake. the conco and shove it into the current,
He could not bear to lose her At the last inument, before the canoe got too far away, he
A trumpet blows. The waiting populace is in gay holiday attire. The trumpet is the signul that the ruler 18 leaving his pink and
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
RAJAH
waded out to it, haped into the canoe, and was taken over the white marble castle high on falls with his daughter.
the hill, riding his favour- ite elephant. The band plays, the rajar's subjects throw flowers in his path- dwellers attack each other with
The triba WAS 50
deeply grieved over the loss of the
well-loved chief that they gave
With angry trumpeting, these
strong trunks. The crowds cheer and bel un their favourites. -
up the cutsom forever. How-way, salute and cheer him. thele sharp tusks and ever, it is said that tho chief's lovely daughter, the last of the Indian maidens to be sacrificed to the gods, still hovers in the mist at the foot of the falls. SOUVENIR
the legends.
He sits majestically
on
The struggle continues until one clephant is too weak and A modal in his throne-like seat on this thally gives up.
the neck hung about
of the huge elephant, wearing
aviator and he enjoys an extra turban and costuma af bale of hay.
The proplo silks and
then turn their to the with attention
pavillion, where the rajah siis under his precious silken canopy, He is the main
encrusted of
netor in the next scene, the The clephant wears a distribution ot the birthday
Tho
Passengers arc always given waterproof coats and hata because the boats pass through heavy, spray on as the lower bridges, two They battle miles away, if they had to. very trip.
At both the
So, because of these twin bright-coloured rough water
and American The old wooden boats over the falls to her beloved. Canadian
And according to this legend Indian legends, the twin boats, velvets were powered by steam. this Indian malden may sill be which were built in 1885 and thousands falls.
the interesting seen at the foot of Niagara Falls 1892, were named Maid of the jewels, The line's officials proud. One
Mist, ly proclaim that they could things about these twin ne a misty figure, with her arms reaching out toward the spot avigate the rapids as far boats was that they got where she last saw the body of now, you can have a piece of with gold, and around its
When you vialt Niagara Falls red velvet drape, trimmed money, their name from twin her beloved. Indian legenda.
are tiny dangling The other legend of the Maids these boats. They burned in ankles
drydock two years ago and the bells.
This ruler, who is quita of the Mist is about a tribal LOVELY MAIDEN
wood from them was salvaged
Now they have arrived at heavy, sits in one side of a huge This legend begins custom,
andi used to make wooden with the Erle (Cat) Tribe of nickels for tourists who want to the centre of town, where Hell scale, while gold and diver coins are piled in the other side One legend says there Indians who lived in the Niagara remember the famous boots and the exciting event of the until the scale balances. was once a very beautiful orca.
day takes place the duel band plays, the people shout, throws this. Indian maiden. Two war Each your the tribe chose the
The first real vessel to sall the of the elephants and the and the rolah riors were in love with her loveliest maiden in the tribe to upper lakes was launched way distribution of the birthday money to his admiring subjects.
be sacrificed to the gods. The back in 1679. Her name
The rajah then rides on the and fought for her hand.
was money.
Jake in his beautiful barge, placed in a "Griffon." one chosen was
On each side of a stone powered by 20 carsmen. The A terrifle fight took place canoe in the upper river and
Ten years before, La Salle wall. about as high as an people dance in the streets and on an island on the very sent to her death over the falls,
had first visited the Straits of elephant's thigh, stand the have gay parties. brink of the precipice over HEARTBROKEN
In the evening, the rajah has Niagara. He had an idea that combatants. Each animal a party in his castle, where all the falls. The men yelled
immense trade lay to the west has one front and one hind enjoy delicacies and dancing. and hurled vicious blow
Finally, one year, a spectacu- ward and set about to capitalise foot chained to a support, And the rajah has had another after viclous blow at each lar thing happened. The chiefs on it.
daughter was the chosen oncl other.
so they will not' get out of happy birthday. First he forlined the mouth of hand and kill each other." The chief was heartbroken. the Niagara River, for protec
-GENEVIEVE BRUNSON Finally the brave whom He could not bear to lose his tion. Then he built the Griffon the maiden loved most was lovely daughter. But he know struck dead by the other, he could not go against the and opened up a fur trade with
the land to the west. Sho Saty his body topple custan of the tribe vory candly, were portaged around the falls.
if at all. and fall into the water, He spent many sad days where the swift current talking to the medicine man and of what la now the vast Great carried it over the falls, to the council, trying a find a Lakes commerce.
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in the Pacific Northwest in Old West by Olga Hall-Quest those days.
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And euch was the beginning An Old Broken Gate
COLOUR DOES THINGS TO YOU
OOK for a few minutes \\\\ | | | | RED MEAT AND
the West krew many renegades.Lat
The author stresses the whole- some, less sensational aspects of
paper,
square yellow then pull it away
the marshal's life rather than and keep looking at the
his gun-slinging ability.
Caught in the stampede in a gold rush to Virginia In Mountain Dor by Hubert Russell Evans, you'll read about British City, young Tom wondered if it was worth- Columbla, an Indian boy,
Airedale
ownerless
their
and
תם
country.
white paper you had placed underneath. You will think you see a blue square, the same size and shape as the yellow one.
while, for if you struck it Mounted Policeman who foll This blue "after, image" rich, road agents usually villain determined to exploit the almost ruined the business stole the express shipment. Indians and
that those of a big Chicago meat Vigilantes, Ride?! by Dale. (And you'll learn
colourful policemen are market. To brighten White is as exciting as the "Mounty," not "Mounties."). his shop, the owner had the title promises.
walls painted vivid yellow.
In The Great scoop by Loring Mackaya, Jon Olson leaves
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-It Suddenly Come to Life When The Wind Blew-
By MAX TRELL
IT was Teddy, the Stuffed Bear,
who told Hiawatha, the Wooden Indian Boy, about It and Hiawatha, of course, had immediately told it to his friend Knart, the Shadow Boy. So now there were three people who knew about it.
What it was is this. According and yellows to Teddy, there was gate in are apt to make people nau- the fence behind the house that scated, airlines usually uso hadn't been used for a long- green or blue for the Insides of time. It was old and broken. their planes and try to avoid serving foods that are yellow, But a wonderful thing hap- such as mayunnalec.
pened to this gale on a windy
A blue light will draw mes-day. It cpened and shuri. It swung It was better quitoes and red drives them back and forth.
At least that's away. So if you're going to be then a swingi Butdoors, put a blue light where what Teddy said! you are not going to be, and a red or yellow one where you
are.
!
The three friends were swinging on the galo.
Hiawatha listened very care-
"Come around and I'll show fully. He could understand the you," Teddy, said to his
of two languago
SENITTOWS and friends.
erlekotā and even "earthworms.
"What's the gate saying, Hi?" Tody asked him.
So they followed the fence During the war, colourblind around to the back of the house and there, sure enough, was the people were used to spot camo old broken-down gale. It hung flaged guns or ships, since they
people. Out of camouflaged person with normal
Explorers to the South Pole see things differently than other keep their drinking water guns, a
lopsidedly on one hinge.
It Disappears
"But it's not swinging."
You might check out Spook, He wondered why his the Mustang by Harlan Thomp customers began trading at birds In the Condor Rothe shop across the street, fuge; Beaver Water by Ruther until a colour expert told ford Montgomery ・ when him that after looking at gentlemen WoTe beaver hats! Horseman of Long Gone River the yellow walls his, fresh
red meat looked purple their water bags black. Even all 40, by Llela and Juanita Jones
a "curley as if it were ready to spoil, when the temperature is growing up to be wold" in the Rockies; and an- When the walls were re- 95 degrees below zero, black you're angry, but a bull doesn't. Perhaps you “sce red" when other Rutherford Montgomery painted bluish green, the bags absorb enough heat or at least, he doesn't get angry book, Tho Golden Stallion's
meat looked fresher than from the sun to warm the because he sees red. Victory... you'd never
ever, and business jumped water to 60 degrees above lieve what a horse can do!
back to normal. Out in the West...
Colour does many other interesting things to -LEE PRIESTLEY
from freezing by painting vision could see only 10, while
a colour-blind man could see Knarf.
HOW LEARN TO TO SWIM
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FAR AS YOU CAN
•AND
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AND KICK HARD
zero.
"It's saying," said Hiawatha, #thut it remembers the time, many years ago, who Grand father was a small boy. Grand- father used to awing on this cald gate just as wo're doing now."
Teddy said sadly: "That's be- cause there's no wind blowing" "But how do you get the wind to blow If it's not blowing?" said Hiawatha, the little Wooden In alan Boy.
Anyway, they all climbed on of the gate, and sat there
Animals are considered to be colour-blind, and the bull would get just as 'excited if the bull- Snow melts much more fighter's us.
cloak were black or top quicidy from a black maca- white or green. It's the move walling for the wind to blow
ment of the material that angere dam road than from a him. whiter cement one.
"You never can tell about the
Black horses can't stand thing to a bull, it does to you when it isn't blowing, all of to work as long in the sun lots of things, os white ones. And win-
"That certainly must have been a long time ago," zald Knart, "Grandfather is an old
man' now."
Suddenly the wind stopped blowing.
gate stopped swinging.
The
"It's tired now," said Ha
amy- wathu. "It isn't saying thing."
It Fall Asloop
But it colour doesn't do a wind,” said Teddy. "Somciimes "It must have fallen salcop/" said Teddy. "It always falls sudden there 10 is, blowing all asleep when the wind blown around. And sometimes," he add- away.” od, "when it is blowing, all of a
~HELEN SEYMOUR
Rupert and the Old Hat-25
Rupert pauses and tries to think
Muddenly the beginning, of other ways to help tim cuckoo, a bright idea coler to hizo anh” he but at length he gives up, and, "stoph. Then he hurries derini, pickáng up, his little friend, he turns the new alpections, snill be reaches (sadly bonawanda. Crossing a sbps) / farzand. Stände) the clock. "he looke to a distant bilde cachoo at the poste: Will you Theer's that poor, lonely atarsa wait for me"STRI crow,” he siya, **T wonder - IE,
walk, en talk to Odumzike.
sudden it slops blowing and dis- It wasn't any. uso waiting. appears. Nobody knows where The wind didn't come back, the v it comes from, when it comes, gato didn't wako, up and nobody knows where goes, when it goes.”
Knarf and Teddy and
Hia- wetha walked slowly away,
So Knart, Teddy and Hi-
And then just as they renched watha kept sitting on the fence, the kichen door, the wind blow hoping that all of a sudden the up again. The gate squeakou wind that wasn't would start and rattled loudly just as it did blowing.
And all of a sudden It éla
The old Groleen-down gate
before,
Once more, Hawatha Hatipo
"It's saying good-by, “Ifa that hung by one lopsided hingo saying come back again soon. became the most wonderful and
exclling swing in the worldi; "It's a wonderful old gito" Back and forthy it went, awing–” mid Knaaf. Ing Knarf, Teddy-and Hiawatha through the air like three birds | on a branch.
The gate itself seemed to do §joy the; aport, In: squonite and Henttled fry the knowtogful voice..
Kaart
"Just think," ania Tošky, fylk know Genndfather when Grand father, wami't even Grandfather mãe was, jun, a little boy g
addy and H. wetty Katha litle Wooden e ndien –