THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1957.
✰✰✰ FEATURES FOR
BOYS AND
YOUR PUZZLE A Glimpse Into The Crystal Ball-
CORNER
FRUIT CROSSWORD
The Puzzleman had the Car- loonist put his crossword puzzle un the stlhouette of a fruit to make it took lee:
ACROSS
Morning (ab.)
3 Italian river valley
4 Church part
0 Entrealy
7 Trial
DOWN
1 Fruit
2 He led the
Egypt (Bib.)
4 Quallied
5 Consume
Israelites from
HIDDEN FRUITS
The Puzzleman has hidden
練
fruit in each of these sentences,
but saya
you will find their
notes in retation;
On the map, each state was a different colour,
The comet will appear on the southern horizon.
FRUIT REBUS
The Puzzlenam has everested four kinds of feult in his rebus, but you can t them easily if you use the words and pictures to your best advantage:
PEAS
APRIL
T
DIAMOND
ORANGES provide the centre for the Puzzleman's word dia-
GIRLS
A Redskin Legend
Glass Has Sparkingling Future The Wind Brings
IF
we should ever see
purple cow, We might
For jun, about
nond. The second word la "an expect it to be made of
African glass. age"; third "n large antelope": Afth " spiritunl being and sixth an abbrevin- everything is made of glass tion for "Delaware. Complete nowadays. the diamond from these river:
R
ORANGES
能
MIRROR WORK
Ilere are four more kinds of fruits. If you have trouble with them, rend them in a mirror (or backward):
EPUOLATNAC ELPPAENIP NOLENTETAW AYAPAT
(Betations on Page 10)
HOW MAKE A
Bru
There
glass auto- mobiles. And just recently an acroplane of glass has been the subject of experi- ment. It has wings, fuse- lage, ailerons and stabilisers of glass-and the parts are held together with ' glues rivets.
In some factories there ❘nre coal chutes of glass. This is because metal chutes cause sparks to fly, often dangerous.
halls Large basketball often have banking boards of glass. Special
glass is now made that will not conduct the heat. You can pour hot coffee in this container, store it in the refrig
TO PEBBLE TILE crator for awhile, take it out
1.FIND A BOARD ABOUT IZOR 15 IN.SQUARE (THE END OF A FRUIT BOX WILLDO) 2. TACK NARROW STRIPS OF THIN WOOD OR THICK CARDBOARD AROUND IT.
LEAVE
ABOUT LIN. RIM.
3.
SMEAR
A THIN
LAYER OF
LINOLEUM PASTE OR TILE
CEMENTOVER INSIDE.
4.
STICK
WASHED BEACH PEBBLES, PIECES OF BROKEN GLASS OR TILE SHELLS,MARBLES, ETC, IN THE CEMENT... COVER ENTIRE BOARD... MAKE A PATTERN... KEEP SURFACE AS SMOOTH AS POSSIBLE. 5.SMEAR A MIXTURE OF THICK PATCHING PLASTER OVER SURFACE TO FILL SPACES...
WIFE OFFPEBBLES (USE FOR A WHILE PLASTER PABLE TOP
IS STILL WET.
OR
HOT
DANTILE
New this month!
DINKY TOYS No. 697
25-POUNDER FIELD GUN SET
This excellent ret, which will provide hours of fascinating play, consists of a 25-Founder Field Gun (No. 686), à finely detailed miniature of a British Army medium artillery piece, a Trailer (No. 687) and a Field Artillery Tractor with driver (No. 688). These components can be coupled together so that they can be moved na
• unit to the position where the gun is to go
into action. Each piece la finished in service
green and fitted with heavy-duty rubber
kyra. The overall length of sar (couple Gor
Keep on collecting
DINKY TOYS
again and the coffee will still bu, hot.
For centuries glass has been considered an important mate- rial.. 11s manufacturing methods have been kept seere! and glass workers have been treated with great respect. Fathers taugh their sons to be glassmakers,
them apprentieing factories at an early age.
* ★
the
?
used, os
small heads from a quarter of
on inch to three inches, which fitted over a nail which, held a
Strange Visitors
picture or mirror on the wallTHE snow lay doop and
They would also slip over
thead which was supporting the North Wind yelled the lower edge of a picture or and howled around a cabin mirror or would be used in on the edge of a doop forest. drapery furnishings.
There an aged Indian, Wabun,
and hin wife Menonqua lived all alone, ANOTHER UNUSUAL use of They had no near neigh- glass was the witch ball. This
bours. Seldom did anyone WEB a. hollow ball of gloss, coloured, from two to seven or pass their door: more Inches wide. It was hung] Que cold, blustery day as In the windows of glassmakers Menonqua sat embroidering homes and others of the pop-her deor-skin dress with lation who might be supersti-
away.
ticus, to keep the "evil eye" porcupine quills and Wabun was mending a not, Menon- qua thought she heard a
Later, people hang a lot of theso glass balla
free
Ground Christmas time. So be Kan the custom of decoraing tree with coloured balls,
knock on their cabin door."
door?" Menonqua asked.
"Can that be comeong at our ing two extra mouths all winter,
"The North Wind in furious
Yel not one word of com-
The glassmakers made many today. Very likely it was only plaint passed their tips. Pieces
toys or shapes
and
LOUD POUNDING
of glass for
whipping a branch of pemmican or whatever else oddities. Among these were the wind kitchon stoves, washboards, venture out is such a storm," their surenta,
ugainst the cabin. No one would they had was offered freely to furniture, fans, umbrellas, answered her husband. planos, sleighs, Bibles books, well as high other
Gutomobiles,
Glass has a fascinating his- tory and an interesting present. Everyone is eager to see what its future will be.
--CHARLOTTE RADFORD
with roller skates attached.
some had decorations such as were flowers or fruit laside of them, button shoes and even shots telephones and acroplanes,
ko poperweights.
Another fad was glass in the shape of boala to use as drink- Ing glasses. Some were elab- orately decorated. Ladies' boots
How To
EVE
VEN though you may never have been on 1 GLASS WAS first mede in bicycle before, you Can the East, in Egypt and Syrtu. learn to ride one. in five Then it spread to Italy,
minutes with a friend's help and this formula.
The first glass-moking place in America was James Towne, Virginiu. Gloss was so import ant in New York City that they named one of the clly streets "Gitss Makers Street."
Glass has been tegarded as a luxury. Oac household Item
The formula consists of thres unbreakable rules. (If rule, you you break One won't be able to learn in five minutes.)
which was more for decoration Rule 1. When you sit on
than for
use was the elched
tumbler or drinking glass. your bicycle ready to start These had pictures of famous off, make sure your shoes persunages etched or painted on rest FIRMLY on the pedals, them, Washington, Lincoln,
Frankiin, Joha
Hancock, Paul pressing down a little.
Revere, Grant, Shukespeare, Helsy Ross, Jenny Lind and
Santa Claus were favourite
subfeels.
★ ★
If you don't feel your
Dottles with famous person- | feet secure underneath, ages pictured were popular, too, you'll start worrying and as well as glass busts of the lose your balance. If your
people.
feet are secure, you'll con- centrale easily on the next rule.
A GLASS OBJECT that we And odd today
hand was a
Rule 2. With feet Àrm
cooler. Elegant ladies of years on the bicycle pedals, fix ago would pany one of these your eyes on one object 25 egg-shaped objects to cool their feet or more ahead of your hands in warm weather, Some
of these were of clear glass, but bicycle.
Even the nails in the wall were not forgotten by the glass makers. Decorative glass nail- heads were made, These were
Ride A Bicycle
In 5 Minutes
This - automatically keeps your eyes away from your feet and the ground around them,
Creatures From The Past
This is one of our strange THE kangaroo of Austra-
animals whose direct an- cestry dates back thousands of years. The kangaroo has remained unchanged by evolution through the ages because its homeland is an island.
It has been isolated from the large continents for thousands of years and its geological and climatic con- ditions have remained the
same.
"Land Island”
the
Kangaroo mice like these are found on the sieppes of Russia.
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You'll also be able to where you're going, and find it
In a moment, Wabun himself the heard loud pounding on door. Both Wabun and Menon-
strangers to
Finally, when the snows bef gan to melt in the forest and the warm sun heralded the up- proach of spring, the strangera amounced that they were leav tag their winter refuge.
As soon as the aged Dadions
Do
qua hurried to the door, Open- were told of their guests plans, ing it they saw two women, they began questionlag them.
"Why are you leaving us? atanding them,
Have there in the cold. The aged you not like our home? Indiana
falled to be kind and invited them to enter wo
thoughtful? Have we not shared their home.
Th Viilors appeared ghost all that we have had with you?" like and unlike any people the they asked anxiously. couple had EVET seen; yet
THEY SPOKE Wabun, and Menonqua did not
Latroy their good manners by questioning the strangers.
Then the strangers replied, Wabun invited them to sit "We live in another sphere and near the fire. He offered them were sent here by the Great warm rugs and blunkels. Spirit to test you. Now our muls- Menonque served then dried dan is Bulabed. fish, beans, and bread.
*
"We have eaten your choicest The strangers matched the food
Anest and used your food from the dishes and ate it blankets. We have chosen the greilly. At night, they slept warmest places near the dire. on bearskins' near the fire, Yet you have not uttered a
Day after day passed, The single complaint. strange guests made no effort to "For your kindness and hos leave. They continued to act in pitality strangers, the Great the same manner and failed to Spuit will reward you willi give any explanation as to why long life, good health and a they were there.
comfortable living. You have Every day the food supply of learned the source of peace in the poor Indians dwindled. this life and have earned your They had not planned en feed reward after death,"
Hiawatha Has A Secret
-Did He Hold a Mountain in His Hand?
By MAX TRELL
TEDDY, the
Stuffed Bear, came over to norf and Hanid, the Shadows with the turned-about names. "He's' act- ing very funny," sold Teddy. Teddy?" sală Hanid, "You ex- "Who's acting very funny,
easy to obey the next rule. pect us to know who you're without even talking about mentioning any names," Teddy" said Knatt,
"Better" mention his
Teddy said: "I'm very sorry. -
Rule & Whee you stark to fall, automatically turn your steering wheel to the direction of your fall.
This will tend to hold up the bleycle. Also, it will lesson the falling distance, if you cannot regalň your balance is time,
Now, before your father or older friend takes you out to learn to rido a bicyclo in dve minutes, make sure he has read
is article, too.
Then he will be able to trace every tall, every mistake you make, book to the point where broke one of the three
you rules.
A
I'm talking about Hi."
Completely Weaden
namas,
11, or cather, Hiawatha, was a Wooden Indi in Boy. He was completely wooden, inside and out, from his head to his toes.
You said he was acting funny," Hania reminded Toddy.
That's right,"
Teddy, nodding. "He's sitting and laugh. ing to himself, He's hiding something in his hand and he won't tell what he's hiding. It's all very funny except I don't see what's so funny about it."
Mawatha was hiding something in his hands. "You guess 'em," said Hiawa- thm, with a cheerful grunt.
"A flower," saka Harid. "Wrong!" said Hiawatha. "A penny," said Toddy. "Very wrong," said Hiawatha. “Give us a hint,” gald Knari, Hiawatha thought this over
Koorf and Hanid accompanied, for a minute then he waki: "L'a' by Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, now big. Birds make nests in it. It You CAN cam to ride
marched into the house. They has lots of loaves. When the sun blcyclo in ive minutes, I know.
went down the hall and into the shines you sit under it and keep I've scon, this
room and squeezed themselves cool. formula suc- cessfully used over and over.
Remember the three sin- breakable rules:
In Arizona the same type of the When thing happened.
1. Feel firmly on pedale at troples receded south many.
The The great Keewatin glacier
Cypress
Hilla, like all times, thousands of
years ago,
hold of the last ice age separated as Australia,
interesting 2. Eyos fired on specifle ob- Baboquivart (Bah-bo-soc-va- it reached this 4,700 - foot: socrtis of the past and telljeet 25 feet ahead of bicycle. ree) Idountains southern
plaicou, passing around it what Canada's flora and founa 3. Turn steering wheel Arizont were fenced in by blotting out all the life sur (plants and animais) were like automatically in the direction deserts. These mountain rounding it.
15,000 years ago.
of any fall. tropical
--IDA SMITH ---MANUEL ALMADA
11
these
in
"Islands" have a warm
Among the animals that were climate, due to rains from the swept away were the dinosaurs, Pacific that are warmed
mammoths, mastodons, sobre- toothed tigers, elephants and crossing the desert.
are rhinoceroses. mountains
They were later species of butterflies found no replaced by entirely different where else in the world, and kinds of animals. Hitle known plants and' aniriais. Their family histories date back into the dimn ages unchanged.
They never venture down to
the surrounding deserts because
Horned "Toads”
Unlike the tropical mountain
they could not live there. Their island in Arizona, the Cypress
special food plants grow only Hills
a sub-tropieni have in their native mountains.
climate. And unlike any other When past geological changes ourt of Canada, the Cypress
toady tock place, life in those pinces Hills contain horned which were left arid gradually thorned lizards), kangaroo rats,
'wasps, scor changed. Today the only species thread-walated found there"'oro those that plons, ratticsnakes, blacie widow could adapt themselves to the spiders and other forms of life hot, dry desert, like the call, peculiar to American déserts. lizards, Jackrabbits, etc.
For a time the dinosaurs and In southern Alberta, Canada, okker bare walumnis gervived in Hoga strazgo "land leland" the Cyprus ; HBs. Today ika where time la turned back strings" "island", la cum (CAS) 15.000 roars i in * takdelang, world's richest sites of dinosaur of 38 square miles, known as remains ti la protected by the the Cyprus - KULDN
Alberta governIMARA.
Rupert and the Fiddle-39
*After a long rich Rubert begins
·to secognian thy, Jaodmarks and st
·Hougth",hờ. Jaka' the soldier' to put blur. down. This it about wher
155 Land, Lhere's 'the winde
aptaka thero "la w`ruitle
and next
behind the bookerso, because Knart and Hunt and Teddy that's where Hlawatha, the looked at each other in aston- Wooden Indian Buy, had his ishment. wigwamn. Only Teddy, being fat, ***It sounds like a tree”- said had a hard job squeezing him- Hanid. "But it can't be. Nobody self behind the bookcase, Horld can hide à free in his hand.”. had to pull him by the hair and Hiawatha chuckled Knarf had to push him from opened his hand. behind before they could get him You botcha. It's ja tree-an through,
oak tree. Look at him! Right in my band!".
Made Of Toothpicks
In Hiawatha's hand was oo acorn. Finally they reached Hawa-
After the excllemont over this tha's wigwam. It was made of discovery had worn down, Hanid Stall toothpicks and several used anked Flawatha what he wram
postage stamps.
hiding in file other hand,
Hiawatha was sitting on the ground just outside the open fap - 2 Touching A Cloud of his wigwam. It was just ne
Teddy had described. There was "Guess fem,” saka Hiawatha. "I a smile on hiz face and his give you hint. It's the top of the tands were closed tightly over. Eiggest thing in the whole world. something that he was trying to I dimbes up and took it. It was hide.
touriling a cloud"
Hiawatha
them. greeted "How" he said, which meant Again the three friends stared hello in Indian language.
at each other, 15%
“It sounds as if you have the
"How." atswarod Hnatt,
Honid: and Toddy,
top of a mountala
They all sat down in front of and said Knart.
Hiawatha's wigwam. For several" can't bel"
mipments, there was silence etnisk
in your “But that
cept for, the soft sound of laughs - Hiqwatka opened his band. In tel coming from Hiawathaking his palm was to ting pebble,
* Bee what Is fear.", Tedily
whispered to Roarf /sod Hanisk. hughest wOK LIKE 22-
that: