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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1 1907.
FEATURES FOR
BOYS
AND
YOUR PUZZLE SHORT STORY FROM AN OLD INDIAN LEGEND
Claw-Foot Earns New
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CORNER
CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
1 Vegetables
7 Mineral rock
8 Fishermen use this
Trial
11 New York Cab.)
12 Salior
14 Printer's measure
16 Kind of tide
10 College cheer
21 Girl's name
22 Langed
DOWN
1 Folding bed
2 Exist
3 Pouse
4 Upon
$ Number
* Pigpen
TRIANGLE
S CLAW - FOOT
Was
A pushed into the wig-
wim of Chief Broken-Wing, ho knew his people were Puzzieman's word doomedi. His two cuptors held him rigidly as the grent chief surveyed him.
** triangle 13. hung from
REDEEMS. The second word la "eaten away"; third is plural of "a football term: fourth, "a
"This brave hunt our buf-
girl's name"; fifth, Scottish for falo," one of the captors Reyes"; and sixth," doctor's Bald. "His name Claw-
title"
Completo the triangle from these clues:
REDEEMS
PRODUSE
PICTURE WORD SQUARE
Substitute a four-letter word for each of the pictures in this square. When you're done, you'll find your answer reads the same down as across.
DRESTRICTEDS CAREAS
wwwd van..
10 Light brown
13 Bring up
14 Bliter vetch
16 Chart
17 Fruit drink
18 Cushion
20 Him
WE STAYED NEAR
MOUNT RUSHMORË LAST
NKSHT
HOW AMAZEur TO FRIENDS 1.FIND A BOARD ABOUT 12 IN-WIDE AND 36INLONG TIE IT TO THE BACK OF A PAL WITH CLOTHES LINE.
2.DRAPE A WHITESHEET OVER THE BOARD SO IT HANGS LIKE A TABLECLOTH.
3.SAY A FEW MAGIC WORDS
ABRACADABRA, FLIMFLAM...TABLE TABLE. MOVE IF YOU'RE ABLE.
AS YOU SAY THE MAGIC WORDS YOUR
PAL CRAWLSAFEW
HOW MANY?
How many three- and four letter words can you make out of the word MANNERS with-
Foot."
Claw-Foot winced at the sound of his name, as he always winced when it was spoken before strangers. How he hated it!
"The herds in the valley are mino," the chief said.
"But my people
дго near
starvation," Claw-Foat plead-
ed. "Our berds havei gane. We have journeyed many moons in search of new hunting grounds, und we must have ferille land on which to grow 'crops."
The land is ours. Go." Broken-Wing spoke with In Rexible surety.
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Sun
соли
Name
GIRLS
BROKEN-WING mounted lis buckskin while, Claw-Foot' took
the lead on his pinto. As they rode, about the valley and the ridges, Claw-Fool pointed out ila small pieces of buffalo hide his scouts
had scattered over tho land
"The one buffalu hide covers enough ground for many wig- wans, much hunting and fine crops," Claw-Foot explained.
Broken-Wing's·
Looked like darling black clouds, zono rampant before a storm. Hie uld not reply, but slapped his horse, who reared into a gallop.
rapidly
HE-WHO-THINKS
CLOUD SECRETS
These are allo-straitis clouds, seen out of an acroplane window.
bottom,
Cumulus clouds are seen in
Claw-Fool urged his pinto to VOU have watched clouds Although flat on the follow, and his mind raced us racing across the sky they are Luffy.
at his horse's hoots like lambs chasing each. clear weather. They are biggest Would Broken-Wing grant the other. And you have seen when there's the least move- land? Would he keep his word?
looked like ment of air. A big wind will Back
send to pieces and
of follow-the-leader. CIRRUS
the
chief, who
mat
of
that
tear them
The
These are cita
word
JOVITEITEN
at Broken-Wing's wig-clouds that wam he stood onto more before monsters, porpoises, boats, them across the sky in a game
himself or puffs of smoke. cross-legged before the fire, Ho But have you noticed how was thoughtful.
certain kinds of clouds go From this day on you will not be known as Claw-Foot," he said.
Looking up at Claw Foot he with certain
klads
Often before a rain or snow help of his scouts he separated But Claw-Foot worked on. Baid: "Only your body is lama,
you see clouds high in the sty A LAME BODY
that the biggest and finest cow from All through the next day he not your thoughts. You have weather?
100% like feathers, Farmers and pilots of ships streamers, or wisps of wavy THEN HIS quick, intelligent the herd. With strong, sure aim was busy cutting the hide into outwilled mo fairly. You may
have the land.”
the clouds silver pras or planco watch his arrow hit the heart of the little
and pieces
conferring eyça lingered for several ino-
Claw-Foot made the sign of very carefully. Of course you clouds. with hig scouts. After each
cirrus ments on Claw-Fool's left foot, beast and felled t
can't predict weather just by means curl. the clawlike shape which even There was great happhitess conference the scouts went in gratitude,
Weather Then Broken-Wing continued clouds,
forecasters After a deerskin and feasting that night among one direction and then another.
storm, 12 his carefully made
"From this day on study much more than speaking.
clouds there are cirrus clouds and the moccasin could not disguise. his people, but Claw-Foot
Ilo was Next
But aky is a deep blue, you can be A he stared
not partake of food.
rise Claw-Foot you will not be known as Claw before giving a report. The mocessin
loo concerned with tanning the sought admittance to the wig- Foot. Your name is HE-WHO- clouds do tell you some things. quite sure good plante weather his right hand went Instinc-
You perhaps know wam of left arm. hide.
Chief Broken-Wing. THINKS."
is on the way. tively to his own
clouds are made up of water And so it was Broken-Wing came to watch, "I have
for my land,
Those low clouds that come There was scorn on his face, Come. I will show you,”
--By Evelyn Witter,
to so close Tho
the ground that they of hills or tops of tall buildings almost swallow up the erests
stratus clouds. Stratua means spreading out or scatter- These masses of crystals all ing These clouds aro often have names. Since nobody has seen just before the forming of thought up an everyday label storm clouds. for them, most of them go by
The Latin name for storm clouds is nimbus. These clouds Latin names they've long had.
Оде kind of cloud is arc grey or black and may cumulus, In Latin that means bring "ofiber rain or mow, heap. Cumulus is a very good They are so thick that they name for these clouds because cut off much of the light from they're the big white ones that the sun. Of no special shape, often look like blobs of theso clouds completely hide the whipped cream all piled up, blueness overhead. When you These clouds take different see a sky full of nimbus clouds shapes often mountainlike. It's time to find shelter,
Claw-Foot which twisted like a gnarled branch,
spoke:
Iroken-Wing
too, have a lame body."
Was
"YBUL
"I was born with a foot Wire
Claw-Foot told hint. a cluw,"
"My arm was not always this way." Broken-Wing said sadly. "When I was small boy and fell from my horse.....You may have one buffalo, Claw- Foot."
1
Couldn't Tell Left Shoe From Right
AKING pair of shoes
Mighly involved
"But one buffalo," protested Claw-Fool, hastening to speak and expensive procedure before Broken-Wing had the nowadays, requiring any- Lo 300
chance to draw the blanket at relentlesstens about himself again, "one buffalo will supply food for only a few days."
"One butale," repeated
at using plurals? The Puzzle-Broken-Wing impatiently.
man finds 10 three-letter words LIGHT OF AN IDEA
and 17 four-letter words. Grade yourself four points for each one you can make.
BEHEADINGS
A
Behead "a tally" and have "an apple centre"; buhead again and have "nineral rock"; once
more
note,"
and have "u musical
(Solutions on Page 19)
Claw-Foot tell the darkness of defont us he turned to leave, Then out of the darkness came the light of an ides.
He turned to face Broken- Wing once more, "And may we have the land that this one buffalo hide will covery"
from 150 where operations for just one shoo
and remember, you wear two.. Manufacturers have dono an outstanding job of giving us shoes that alt every need and every purse.
This was not true in the old days. For centuries the Atting qualities of shoes were entirely overlooked, und It was not un- 1 1865 that we had a right and left shoe!
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two widths-elim and slout.
that has evaporated from the surface of the earth. water has turned into floating crystals of ice,
CUMULUS
are
It Served Him Right!
-Pixie O'Scowl's Trick Fooled Only Him---
By MAX TRELL
When this antique shoe was made, foot was raised with two htels.
TWEN before
o'cheer
they reached Hall, where
the
The chief snorted in dhgust, "Even if you take the largest
Up until that time shoes had huffalo its bide would not cover
for enough ground
a single been made on straight last loved fairy tales--such as Puss scarce and therefore precious
and were interchangeable, Aud in Boots; Cinderella, with her wiewam."
In many societies, the kind Pixies lved, Knarf, the Shadow, "Perhaps," reasoned Claw-shoes had been made In eaty small gloss suppor; the Seven of shoe worn indicated ranks or with his friends Teddy, the Foot, "I can stretch the hide."
League Boots and many others, caste. The Homan calecus, on Stuffed Bear, and Hiawatha, the Brokon-Wing looked at Claw- On the whole, during early
Various traditions were
.heard Indian Boy, also elaborate sandal, distinguished Wooden teft moccasin nguin, history, shoes represented al associated with thens,
Something must anything except foot com throwing shoes after a newly The senator's calceus was made what it was they couldn't guess.
such as the senator from the patrician. bursts of laughter. "You may have the land
place but funny was taking. hide will cover," he nodded. fort. At one time the shoe was wedded couple to bring them of black leather;, the patrician
THE NEXT SUN RISE Claw-a symbol of
Then, finally, they supernatural Juck.
wore red. Ladies of high rank O'Cheer Hall, which is down - Foot mounted his pinto and powers, Shoes figured Im- All this may have started be- rule into the valley. With the portantly in many of our best cause shoes in those days were the Middle Ages were alder the roots of the Old Oak on Ways plcluted us wearing red the other side of the Pine Tree Shoes.
Grove,
Perform This Foo 'Timely' Trick
F YOU have a friend who is willing to be magician's assistant, you can perform the "italultion line trick." Ap point him to take charge, after sprending checkered eloth on the table. TOOM.
Then ienve the
Now any volunteer sets watch to any time of day that sulis his fancy. The assistant places 1, face down, upon the
fabric.
You return, merely glance at the watch back, and announce
the time that is indicated the face.
on
une
Make Lazy Susan From Old Vic
MAKE this Lazy Susun, you'll need the
following materials:
Turntable from
an old victrola or record changer.
A base. A lathe-turned one is best, but you can use a matal container and fill it with cement after the bolt is put through.
Eight plastic pieholders. (You can get half of them How? Well, you and your coloured and half clear). confederate worked out a secret A wooden dresser-drawer
code before the trick started. [pull.
This involves a special set of
A small metal disc with a
Each check refers to a num-hole in the centre.
FEET AHEAD, TO
12 checks on the cloth.
THE
COMPLETE SURPRISE
OF YOUR
AUDIENCE.
Bery ranging from 1 to 12. Thus, A rifle shell casing with should the volunteer set the the bottom sawed off.
watch at 0, for example, the nssistant places it neatly in the No. 6 square.
ZOO'S WHO
(A RAINBOWĄ
ŠIKTY DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF TROUT ARE FOUND ON THE NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENT.
KELEPHANTS
CAN SWIM.-
A TARANTULA SPREADS HIS FORELEGS, PERİYALPI" AND, BLACH FANGS, JO STRIKE; BUT THOUGH HE LOOKS VENA TOMOUS HIS POISON, SO FAR AS MAN IS CONCERNED,
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Aluminium paint.
balt
Drawer pull is tightened on bolt (left) after passed through base, turntable, casing, dise. Finished Susan st right.
A bolt of the right length. and fill with gement; then put paint When dry, put the ric- After the other parts are as- on cover and let harden before holders back in place. sembled, find a bolt the right doing the next step. length to thread them on
It Then thread the bolt through The Lazy Susan is one for should be countersunk into the the turntable, through the cut dining table or to hold sewing base and end part way through off rifle-shell casing, then the accessories like pins, snaps, but the drawer pull, which is the disc. See that the space between tons and such. Lazy Susan handle.
the turntable and the dise Is exactly the hoight of the pin- holders. Do this by cutting the rifle-shell until it is,
The Actual threading is fun, Hike stringing heads. "Counter- sink the head of the bolt the 'base. This Easy if 18 is of wood. If you mao a metal con- fainer you can pound the metal in to house the bolt trad.
There must be a hole through the base. If a molat container is used, thread the bolt through
The end of the bolt ends fr the drawer pull. Place the ple. holders, and scrow (he bait the exael degree to hold them firm- ly in place.
Then remove them and paint the entire piece with aluminium
This Outdoor Game Keeps You Hustling
-
TERES an activo, out-of- the former is in danger of being
Hdoors and which uses can he can save, funsets by
you to think fast and move. linking arms with one of the your feet even faster. Players couples.. choose partners and in their arms together.
That original partner,must Immediately unlink his own farm-arid become the runner. To Two players in the group re- sava himself he must dodgo in ingin partnerless. Ono hi the runner. The other is thò charer
couples, walk, sumas The quickly while the nummer dodges in and out among them, pursued by the chater. ⠀ When
and out and ling his nam even= tunity with another girl, whose original partner, continues: by detsching himself. If the rudner is caught, bu changes, rolsu with the shaner. -
-By G. A. Springer
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reached
So that this member of the The only Pixie they couldn't royal household should suffer aço was Pixie O'Scowl.. no embarrassment, an cdlot
"Come on up here!" all the was issued decreeing that to be Pixies shouted to Knart, Teddy truly noble, off ladies of the nod Hiawatha.
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Mrs. Robin, looking very stern, was sitting in the next.
The Chinese may have been
Laughing Pixies responsible for the idea that a small size shoe for ladies indi-
They were murprised to see n cated elegance, culture and re-whole crowd of Pixles clustered finement, According to trade on a branch of the Old Oak,
the Empress Tak! tion.
Iaughing and shouting with glee. China, who lived about
the They secognised all the friends. year 1200, WDS 'barn with There were Pixie McGiggie, at all! It's McSnooze's tural Ho's club feel, which were also ab-|Pixto O'Gay, Pixlo MeSauce, ai fast asleep, I don't see why normally small,
Pixie McMerric,
Pixie O'Cop, I should, have to do his work!' Pixie McSpry, Pixio O'Brain "But off he went
anyway," and Pixie McSnooze.
continuod Pixie McSauce, "gumping and grimalling. that he always had to do everybody's work! He decided to get even with us. Instead of going down to the barn to get A chicken cgg, he climbed up the Old Oak to see if he could find a bird's ex-
He found this Robin's nest," Pixie MeSauce went an "and was just about to take one of the egg, when along came Mr and Mrs Robin. It was too late for O'Scow to get away. Ho crouched down among the eggs But Mrs Robin spied him.
"Look,' she shouted, one of them has just hatched!"
up
"That's what the fan's all about!" said Pixle MeMarie.
"He tried to play a trick on
court must have fect as timali
"Where's Pixle O'Scow!?" as her royal highness Thus. Knart naked after he and Teddy Rome say, the custom of blading and Hiawatha had climbed Chinese women's feet started. to the branch.
The people of long ago knew that kid shoes were outstand- | ingly comfortable, but they did not know why. Today, modern us," said Pixle O'Gay, selence and research explains Pixie McSpry said: "Do you it like this: Kld leather is posee that Robin's nest way over rous and "breathes out" mais at the end of this branch?” ture, keeping the foot free of
Stern Robin perspiration,
Kid "giver" za mach as 42 Der otut under stress and yel
Krant and Teddy and Ha
"So Mrs Robin: sat on him to keep him warm"
"And now he can't get away!" shouted the other Pixies.
and
in
the air
There was a whirring of wings
"Look" cried Knart.
returns to a normal sise. This watha nodded. They saw it very enables the shoe is adjust to well. A Robin was sitting in the
atst, not moving at al the tons of pressure you create looking very stert, like a chic- by merely walking during the kon lifting on eggs. course of a day.
"She's sitting on him,” sald Phale McSnooze, looking wide awoke for a change.
"And it servic him right," mail Pixie O'Brain.
"That'll teach him a lemon,"
By M. G. Shelton
Rupert and the Fiddle-27
Herong the bump Simen returns halg – you up ??** kuku Rupert, and picks up bin cap. At the sight - " Nay, Aberu is noʻtinin, **, KADHAA of yet soother the fag stewerd kööka the-steweed 'pointing to the box more: bewildered and inkta zio, get palihe: etablones Plig, majNEY. [up, # Then hvat akuype with an has two of them and ea the. unhappy grunt. Qugh 14] Mỹ" Instanzen, cannot take them.... Who andle "Tia wrenched... I catani -now zati beat them to him ? Ars riaus ? En criday, Oh dear, can we you staan tud ein & erunt, you ?! "ALL" RIQUITA MÄKÄRVED.
Raid Plate O'Cop
comes Mr Robin!"
He Had A Worm':
"Here
All the Pixies turned around and looked then they went off into peals of laughter again,
At this moment, Knart, Teddy For there was Mr. Robin stand- and Hiawatha heard the mufted ing on the edge of the nest, voice of Fixie O'scowi coming with a worm in his bill,
Mre Robin said: "I'm glad you from underneath the Robin,',
*Get off me, you hig luni og found one, dear. I'm sup ha's
● bird!” he said. “Get off! Let very hungry. 1'11. get up and me out!"
you can stutt it into his mouth!" Pixie McSauce," - who' cooked Poor Pisla O'Beqwli -Forw the meals for all the Pixion, cx« tunately, he jumped out of the plaked how it was that Phule ment-just in time, the two
Boowl" found · Himsșit - boing. Robina were grostly surprised. But on by a Robin,
to see him go.
It happened this morning," "Oh, dear?” said : Mrs Robin,. raki Pirlo Mešancu,
n-Hi's only a Pixio! I knew ta lille before broaktadt) "15 was Robla couldn't look quite that Visie ObcoviW tym toʻgo' to strange."
the bain
back and bring
a... Thon *Kuart and Toddy chicken egg: The Chickens don't Hiawatha ajoined the Piękn mind văn having an egg or two," for Hamby nk which u largo çok
Sete Carrot wea servod. Wan't His Tum - Phila 'Bodwi decided the empty. He was running.
way down
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