FEATURES
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1957.
FOR
BOYS AND
YOUR PUZZLE GRANDPA AS A WEATHERMAN-
CORNER
CROSSWORD
but
BACK AND FORTH
When you solve
These
de hard, so finitions, you'll find your firat Sun< D3 your answer in the
The Puzzleman's crossword puzzle is short Cartoonist Cal place it on the silhouette of something that is
the first conver
second when you
ward:
Preposition Floor cover
Cooking vessel
URN to Matthew 16.
Tverses 2 and 3 in your
Bible, and you'll read: "He answered and said unto them, 'When it is evening, ye say, it will be fair weather; for the sky is red read it back... And in the morning, it will be foul weather today, Bathe in this for the sky is red and lower-
Scottish cap ing.' "'
Spinning!
Present Snaky Ash
112
14
toy
Was victorious
time
Boy's name
"F" WORDS
ACROSS
1 More than one of this all-
hourlie.
6 Mountain (comb, four.)
Uzed with a fishing rou
7 Essential being
DOWN
J Minute skin opening
2 Angers
3 Driving commands
4 Part of the foot
HOW
TO
HAVE FUN ON A PICNIC
LEAF HUNT DESCRIBE A CIRCLE ABOUT 100FEET ACROSS FOR BOUNDARY.EACH PLAYER IS GIVEN 5 MINUTES
TO FIND AS MANY DIFFERENT LEAVES AS
POSSIBLE.
• PLAYER WITH MOST-WINS... PLAYER WHO CAN IDENTIFY MOST SHOULD GET A SPECIAL
PRIZE.
PEBBLE HUNT IF YOU ARE
GOING TO THE BEACH TAKE ALONG A PAPER BOX WITH
A SMALL HOLE PUNCHED IN
THE LID... PLAYERS HAVE 5 MINUTES TO FIND PEBBLES THAT
WILL GO THROUGH ROLE IN BOX,
ONE WITH MOST" RIGHT SIZED PEBBLES...
HING!
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As time rolled on, this |Biblical
became : passage "Evening red and morning grey, send the traveller où his way." The last verse
How many things beginning was rhymed to: "Red in the with "can you dad in Care [morning, sailor 'take warn- toonist Cal's drawing? Ten or more la very good because the Puzzleman says he finds 13:
TRIANGLE
Here's a word triangle based on COMETS. The second word
Jing."
These are without doubl our oldest weather signs, And today, after centurice, science admits there is tuch truth in them.
Not all weather signs, of course, are correct. Some are pure fantasy, folk lore, superstition.
Old Tabby, they say, was merely trying to replenish her supply of vitamin B.
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Grandfather referred to doppled cloud condition "rain seed clouds." Senmen re- ferred to it as a "mackerel aky” and girded their ships for rough weather, Selence upholtis the expectation of bad weather.
HE
GIRLS
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AN INDIAN LEGEND
LOST HIS ONE EYE
.1
IN A BET.....
TEAR a valley between
Nechado and Grants,
New Alexico, there once lived Jan Acoma Indian who had
From the first days of record-only one eye. Because of cd bistory, men have studied this misfortune, he was call- and written about the weathered Ishkia-Am.
The wind, clouds, air humidity,
all come in for attention...
Radar is now used hurricanes; men fly Into the reedle of a hurricane to clock its velocity.
lle was an expert player
And we've #made pores, of quoils, a game in which to study the players toss a ball at a
Ishkia-Ana stake.
played quoits as often as he could find an opponent. And he always won.
"Thunder In July, frost in June," is an old saying dating Bul back far into the past, sclenco cannot associate any truth to it,
One day the other Acoma Indians got together and decided to gang up on this Jone-eyed champion and to
People suffering from rheu- try to beut him ut his nation and bursiils often re-favourite sport. At last they
that the weather murk
is devised plan by which changing, for "they feel it in they could bent him. their bones." Chonge in baro-. metrie pressure might cause this, science says.
Older farmers,
plant
crops
DESPERATE
As Ishkia-Ana threw more sticks on the are, the bolling tar Bowed down Into the valley.
possession a secret and had guarded it with great care. As soon na ho reached home, he fumbled among the beams overhead until ho found this highly prized object. It was small and dark and looked somewhat like a lump of tar,
Carefully, Isbin-Ana Look the dark lump, from its hiding place and earried it down Into The valley. Then he gathered small sticks, built a fire and kept replenishing it until the hent from the flames was in- Lense
DELUGE
Then ho throw the dark object into the fire. As soon as the heat-penetrated the lump. It began to expand, bubble and Lefl.
many of them.
Those who
fire
"Red at night, saller's delight"; lone cull files against sunset,
The fre Krew hotter and hot- ter the dark object kept ex- mits he
panding. Soon it began to flow was right. The
that he could win back all from the are out into the valley. corona you see is caused by
Ishkla-Ana In game after game, these that he had lost upon one
kept the You've seen smoke rising a thin cloud layer flouting
from Ishkia- toss of the quot. The burning until the bolling liquid straight up from chimneys high in the heavens, with under certain indon signs. You players won
accepted
entire valley. This his filled the And Ana until he had nothing Acomas. qucation their judgment. in the morning. Grundfather millions of tiny ice crystals they come right back with this left. He had bet all his challenge; One-Eye rolled homes of the Indians and killed molten mass destroyed all the always insisted this was a forming a condition that puzzlor I the moon causes sign of goud weather. generally brings a weather been tides, why should it not belongings, his pony, his the quoit and lost.
According to the wager, blanket, his moccasins, and affect growing things? Science says he was right. change within 24 hours.
escaped even the clothing he had Ishkia-Ana lost his eye. the great migration to the sea. "It'li rain tomorrow." The Since the world began,
weatherman is always been wearing,
Enraged by his misfortune But Ishktu-Ana was left behlad Recording to popular
and the wrong done him, he to starve because he Wis man has fought his biggest grandmother says,
But he isn't. He is
despised In desperation, Ishkin-Ana stumbled home and vowed thoroughly battle
with the weather. cat has been eating grass."· right at least 80 per cent of the decided to bet his one eye to get revenge.
other Indians. Great nations have risen Science shrugs at this
The cooled tar can be seen Now it so happened that und
One-Eye bad hidden in his even today in what are
known as the great lava beds. home a treasure of great value. He had kept this -LOUISE JEAN WALĶER
fallen
of - because whims of the weather. Why'
Is to gecomplish"; third ado we talk about the
dress edge; fourth "where you live"; and Alth "to resign." Cun you complete the triangle?
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COMETS
(Solutions on Page 19)
weather? Simply because it the three basic controls essentials of life: food, clothing, shelter.
"My wrong, Syament. one, time.
Want A Good Dose Of Suspense?
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A halo, or ring, around JBRARIANS have the moon menat approach special name
for the ing bad weather to grand-kind of book that puzzles or father. Tolay science ad-
Cricket Will Tell
You Temperaturè
This cricket—a mormon cricket-destroys eropst
O you live where you can green make plenty of
listen to the chirping of noise, crickets? The snowy tree That is, the males do. They crickets which are pále
use their wings to make the sound in the warmer months nid after dark.
lew
this month!
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scares you half to death. They call them suspense" books. But many readers prefer to think of them as hold-your-breath books." Here's a list of some goodl
ones,
The Java Wreckmen by Frank Crisp may scare you right out of your shoes, There's 'gold, in a sunken i vessel, bad weather and
diver with adagger to mention only a few of the foxcitements. If you missed
SUSPENSE STORIES
mutch. So how did Rosina gut to England where she sleeps in a kitchen and "is turned out each morning with the cal”?
The trutir can certainty tre puzzling, In Mysteries of the North Pole, Robert De La Croix
Behind The Bookshelf
started
by the
now
-The Shadows Visit Friends In A Make-Believe Town-
By MAX TRELL-
mado themselves
tells of four ill-fated attempts HAVING
small and at, Knort and
he
to reach the farthest point Hanid, the shadows, got the north. Strange and still un- step Indder, climbed up to explained raisfortune's befell top of the bookshelf and cilmb- those expeditions.
ed down on the other side, that is to say, in back of the book- Other "suspenders" include shelf, Operation Gelaway by Ronald It was a remarkable thing.
this story of a rescue
All the boots which looked Fo from behind the Iron Curtain much co books when you has everything in the excite looke at them from the front ment department; Carolina
of the bookense, now looked like House by Elizabeth Kyle. Д
you looked at them from the back of the book-
Sell
this
town.
Rick Davis "wanted a little puzzle that leads back to fehouses when Mr Crisp's carlier books, pandemonium" and what he volutionary days; Old Tangle case, It was all very much like
gets in William MacKellar's Eye by R. E. Johnson The Haunted Reef and Tu Danger in' the Misi is at least one lig-sows the Gold Rush and a quiet street in a pretty little Sea Rabbers, now is a good that. From the time a Swiss an ok buffalo, A Spy in Wil- time to check them out, too. coin is found on a Scottish hit Bamsburg
boy sples In side, things move to a real cloak ond dagger stuft of . There's
Kay Mexican surprise ending.
colonial times; and Step to the mystery in Senorila Okay by Nancy Hartwell. When Trisa A different mystery is Rosina Stars by Lester del Rey.. O'Kane, a pair of travelling Copper, Myslery Mare, by Kitty Suspense in space. twins and a man of mystery Barne. The story follows
Hey! Don't slop breathing are shaken 1 together, the amazing life of a polo pony altogether reader gels good, lively ordered killed after un injury
received in suspense.
-LEE PRIESTLEY international
an
the
These Have A Professional Look
VERY protly and use-
ful flower pot can be mudle from ย one-pound
Somo say that if you add 37 to the number of chirps given by these insects in 15 seconds, will have almost exactly the same number of degrees as would appear on the more coffee can, a short piece of ter at the time.
rope and strips of bark.
In some parts of the world
crickets are kept in small cagen Partly dry bark is best to even as pet conuries are kept use. Strip the pieces from -because people Rke to listen large limbs or a fallen tree to the tiny creatures chirping to trunk. Soak in water until
one another.
Perhaps you've wondered just very limber. Drain on news- what use a "lantern" is
to a paper. firefly, if any use at all. Well,
the frefly makes use of light in
f
Cut a short piece of small order to get in touch with other Orefics,
They may be signal-rope for a handle. Place in ling: "Here I come!" or "Get out position, looping it across jot my way!"
SOURCE OF LIGHT
the top and allowing the
HOME-MADE
CANDLE HOLDER
ان را می ایام میں میں
CANDLE INTO NUT
PORTION OF TREE
LIMB
ends to extend down into until it dries. Flash with one the can about one inch.
coat of varnish stala on bark and rope.
Down in old Mexico, if you ever visit that country, you may
Punch a hole with an fee And people making use of pick on each side of the two kind of bootle which is able to ends. produco light. Just place a half dozen cucuji in a
anali very bamboo cage. They will pro- vido' as much ghi as you could get from a 15-watt electric buib
in your own home.
Put a short piece of wire Can you pleture yourock from the outside of the can seated in an easy chair reading through holes, on each side light furnished by a half dozen to hold each rope end secure your favourite story book by the of rope. Wire ends together cucuji?
Fil can with rich dirt and plant on ivy slip. Water spar- ingly and your Ivy should grow nicely for a long time.
Unusual candle holders are nice for gifts and useful around the house too. Why not make some like the one pletured?
Cut the base from o green
thick, being careful not to loosen tremb about three inches in diameter. Saw a ploca one inch
It is suld that
bark around the edge. Iwere the original anodels for our Cont the outside of the
Smooth the Bawed edges with aeroplanes. You may get a lot can with a thick layer of sandpaper and sand cach sido
dragondies ly.
of amusement out of watching wood, glue or household slick. Glue a one-inch iron nut these creatures Blushing through cement. Then place
the in the centre with household
Length 51"
the air.
Keep on collecting
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But you might ‘laugh, even strips of bark around the cement metal glue. more heartily if you could get can evenly to cover the can. Varnish the holder with dark; a good looks at some of the Trim the ends smoothly to varnish stain. When dry, screw |nowly hatched Aretion. Scan
candle in the threads of the face to face, they might remind join without leaving any nut and the holder in finished. you -of-so`mány, woe bulldogs, space. -
Need flowers, for your, tablez Tie a wide doth around, the Thani maite your own. You will -GLARENCE LINDSAY can to hold the back in pisce like these
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"For your table centrepiezo Use a round shallow bowl FU it about half full of water. Float a few pleces of fern or several twigs of evergreen in the water.
Now for your flowers.
Find two or three large corka and cut them into U round slices. Draw, on paper, as mony Howers of different kinds as you have slices of cork, Colour
them.
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Mother Goose was making a beautiful, blg ple.
"
Отп reaching the Mother Goose House, Knarf and Hanld were about to ring the bell garden. These are very special when they noticed a little girl magle seeds. working in the garden.
"Now this seed is called Why, IP's Mary cried Hanld. Simple Simon. It grows in the silliest places, such as on top of walls and along the edge of And these," she
in Mary's Garden
At this moment, Mary looked flower pots, up from the ground where she said, holding up some yellow They éemed to be planting some teeds, "are Lazy Daisies,
their petals until seeds and gave a friendly smile, don't open
Three in the afternoon and motioning them to come over, As they walked toward her, sometimes they sleep all day, down the to gravel path especially when everyone else is through the flower beds, Knart working hard."
Hanld wanted to know the thought of the poem about Mary name of the star-shaped seeds. which went:
"Oh them-they're called Star Mary, Mary, quite contrary, Eyes" said Mary, "You can't How does your garden grow? see them, at all in the daytime. **Oh no, I'm not planting any-
thing at all," Mary said when But if you walk in the garden at night, you see them twinkling Knarf and Hanid came up to just like stars. And these," the her and asked her what she was fald, holding up a few of the dolng. "I'm doing just the con- tiny glass-like seeds, "aro called traty. I'm gathering all the Wee
Willie Winkle flowers. seed that my flowers have lett. They grow up-stairs and down- They've been growing all stairs and all about the town." summer, you know."
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Sho's Not That Contrary
Mary stood up and showed them a handful of seeds. They were all of different sizes and Mary had lots of other strange She had Dando- shapes and colours, Some were flower seeds. round, some were square, some lions that looked like lons and that looked like With just o drop of glue in hud ittle points like stars, some Tiger Lilies
were bright red, some were blue, Tigers and many others. slice, top of the
"You some had no colour at all, just Knart, as they all sat down on know, Mary" sald mount one flower, on each alice shone like bits of glass. of cork. Flout your fowers an the water
in the bowl among your spries of green.
the centre
"Of course," said Mory, "these the steps in front of the Mother aren't the regular kind of seeds Googa Houso, "I think you that most people grow in their ought to plant those seeds now." *Now?" sald Mary in surprise. "Now isn't the time to plant Accās. It's almost winter,'
"But your garden is different trom everybody else's,"
"So it fa," said Mary. “Then you ouhgin't to plant it of the time that everybody clea does," Knart said,
Rupert and the Fiddle-9
· Rupert'a pala watch him walking ing, şil the tiron, and sometimes my if he has forgotten catching the aquod quite clearly, slowly. He's playing his game Whatever is it 2.1's never heard #iberais
jolly weit."! Bill Leughs, le muaris „before,” he murmur. * Near a bedgy ha conta serais, a large be a game, since none of us ca hear the noise he aptaka of. Let's sostra Wals minute, don't run. just wait and pretend to forget and hide," he says, “I've ta ihim. Ma's, mure la come back."' quation to sak that you may be
However, Rupert'earsian on, latetë' 'able in answer,"
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Mary Emiled. Te not that contrary," she said, And the laughed. Mary took Knart and Hanid inside the Mother Goose House, There they found. Mother Gooso making a beaüll-. ful, big pla.
"It's a berry ple” Mary said to Knurf and Hanid. "The berries come from my OWN Barden And what do you sup- poso they're colled?! NALA
"Hush, dear," said Mofier' Goose to Mary, na sha shut the oven door You" kun on and wash your bands.. Fil tell them, They're Mother GooseberrSMET
Later, Kmart and Hani had a portion of that wonderful- Mother Gooseberry' ple." It WAB really good,