THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1957.
FEATURES FOR
BOYS AND GIRLS *
YOUR PUZZLE The Queen Visited England's
CORNER
CROSSWORD
1 Blemisht
ACROSS
4 Desert benst of burden
Is able
↑ Father
9 Article
10 Toward
11 Cushion
13 You write with this
14 Not a Winner
16 Small chlid ·
DOWN
1 Opposite of womun
2 Part of "to be"
3 Colour
4 Erle or Suez
5 Tardier
6 Hend covering
8 Put on
12 Perlod
.13 Favourile animal
15 Thus
MISSING VOWELS
The Puzzleman has left ouT the vowels lu each of these
words, but he shows you how mony are missing in each spol. Can you finish the words?
CR-SS
D-B
NML
CRT - N
HOW BE A PAREN TO MASTER MIND
IF YOU WILL WRITE) DOWN THE NUMBERS TELL YOU TO ICAN GET YOU TO WRITE YOUR BIRTHDAY AND AGE ALL IN ONE
NUMBER
TRY ME. MY BIRTHDAY IS ON APRIL 18.
HERE'S NOW
WRITE YOUR BIRTHDAY AND MULTIPLY BY 2!
184
Lox 2
184
MONTA
184
X2
368
+5
373
X50
18650
+9
18659
+365 19024 -615
-18409
ADD 5 AND MULTIPLY
THAT SUM BY 50.
ADD YOUR AGE AND
THEN ADD THE NUMBER OF DAYS IN
A YEAR
AND SUBTRACT
RIGHT!
615... IS IT RIGHT?
TRIANGLE
First Colony In
THEN QUEEN Eliza-
Wbeth
II visited RESORTS provide a base for Jamestown, Virginia, On the Puzzleman's word triangle. Wednesday, abe was pay- The second word is "a musical
"a footlike part" ing tribute to the mem- note" third fourth an extinel bird"; Aftory of 104 adventurers who pertains to the "poles" and left London 850 years ago. sixila la "to edit or revise." Can These men, sent by the Vir- you complete the triangle from these elues?
RESORTS.
TAKE YOUR PICK
1
ginia Company of London, founded the first permanent English settlement in the New World.
Records show there were 12 labourers, A few car penters, a tailor, a burber, a mason, n blacksmith and a clergyman. There were also more than 50 who styled "gentlemen",
From the words given, can themselves
you plek the right one to com-who were without an occu-
lele cuch of the Puzzleman's pation.
ventences?
dromedary The nimal, reple).
Tis aldewinder s animal, repille).
Ix
a (Est,
According to the charter granted them by the London a (sh, Company, they were pri
for gold marily to search and silver. They were also to spread the glory of Gold and the honour of the King (James I).
The bonito is a (fish, animal,
reptile).
WACKY COMPASS
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WACKY COMPASS START" AT SOUTHA SOUTH-WEST AND
READ EVERY THIRD LETTEROU DECIDE DIRECTION) TO FIND
THE SAYING PUZZLEń
РИТЕ НАС
HIDDEN
FENCED IN
"When are you going to fix that fence, Hirom?" asked the farmer's wife.
"Oh, next week, when Silen comes home from college."
Three Tiny Ships
the
Their three tiny ships Susan Constant, the Godspeed and the Discovery bad been fossed about by winter storms on the Atlantic for about Laur months and the weary travel. lors had drifted about for ntally another month before they selected the site for their new. bome,
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America
— $p[a[ taal
Ever see a picture
་
A MILE LONG?
THE biggest painting In tho world is on 11 three-mile long canvas. It is a panorama of the Mississippi River, paint- ed in 1840 by a thick- bodied, bushy-haired, round- bearded artist named Johu Banvard.
"Old Man River" look over 400 days to completo, Banvard net out in a skiff and floated down' the river from the mouth of the Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico, distance of 1,200 miles. He made sketches of the kiver and its shore ilntg as he travelled,
When the
sketches
were
Brughed, ie erected B special
building at Louisville, Ky., to from points as für as 100 miles House his huge masterpiece. away to view the painting. Onto a three-raile-long cunyas,
In all, over 400,000 Ameri- made espcially for him, at cans pald $50,000 to aco Lowell, Mass, he transferred great panorama. his sketches,
revolved,
tho
The "Old Man River" was
The painting was mounted lakšu to London. It caused a on two big cylinders. As tho sobaïlion at the English court, cylinders
the Liter Queen Victoria praised Panorama Of the Mississippi ft highly, €00,000 Brittan rolled by.
Booked to see 15,
The river caplains and plłoks
of that day said that the paint-
-EVELYN WITTER
The Shadows Do A Favour
-They Find A Shoemaker To Fix Merc's Shoe-
the group were burled In known as the "starving time." ways changing. Substantialing was absolutely geographie- wilderness graves.
And it was only the timely ar- béick buildings often stood un ally accurate, There were no While
the Indiana
retired after John Banvard were rival of the new governor with the same site and often on the Inilor judges than Wieso nich travelling for a quarter of n generally friendly at first, the fresh supplies of men and food same foundations
had the who lud apont their lives on century with his great paint- prevented colonists lived in continual fear which
complete rat primitive ones made of the Mississippi,
ing. He lived on a palace-like They had arrived abandonment of Jamestown. of attack,
Youghly hewn Umber and Banvard showed 'Old too late to plant spring crops.
Man estate at Cold Spring, Harbour, Under his inspiring leader thatched roofs.
River" all over the United Long Island, until his death in so food was scared,
ship, the existing communal
Stales. When it was shown in 1881. Wis also continual system
· There
WIS abandoned and The tower is part of a build- Boston, the raliroad ran special wrangling for leadership,
stringent lawa were set up re ng erected in 1039. Its three traine which brought people
of thievery, foot-thick wolls have stood up It was then
that Captain wording matters
and under more than three centuries John Smith showed this ability work, sanitary condlifens
many other matters.
of wind, rain and war's Д lender and Finally, in May of 1607, they
became
When they found that lobae- destructive forces. Well above governor. Many times when moord their ships to trees on
co would grow luxuriantly in standing height. the broad bank of a river. They the colonists were on the verge Virginis, the colonista Anally wide on the inside but narrow- named it "The James" for their of starvation, he personally
had a staple commodity which red to slits on the outer alde of Indian projecting made trips to nearby King and the two points of the bay became Cope villages to buy or bez supplies. assured them of economie rue the thick walls enabled those Plantations expanded first white settlers to defend Henry and Cape Charles, for He also succeeded in getting sil
along the coast as new settlers themselves successfully against the men to work.
came, into aren called New their fekte his two sons.
Towne and Middle Plantation,
Since the location of James- Lown was unhealthy there Under his sometimes harsh was talk of abandoning it. But but frm management, many it was not antti 1088, when a necessary projects were com- second disastrous fire all but pleted and the colony prosper- wiped out Jamestown proper, ed. In fact, he was probably that its records were moved to realised that the new country's away.
particularly tion.... These stones are wealth wasn't cold and silver Middle Plantation is now significant because they were but its forests and rich lands, known as the famous Willems- Consequently, he planted wheat
burg. fort, on Innds outside the started glass factory and ship- per loads of logs back to Eng- land.
THE SITE they selceled, about 30 miles up the diver, Ane deep harbour and had a was casy to defend. Although to the maluland "But what will the boy know the isthinus
wean't washed out until about nbout fixing fenees, Hiram?"
called later, they "He ought to know a heap.a century He wrote
he'd been their site "Jamestown Island". me that
But the low swampy takin' fencing lessons
was unhealthy and the water month."
supply na. Routl So in lear than six months about half of
for
a
(Bolutions on Page 191
The Colony Prosperad
Indian neighbours By MAX TRELL who were friends one day and savage manincs the next.
Cobblestone Foundation
Within these walls, visitors may see fragments of the cob- from the older log church of 1617.
Jand the only one of the group who Middle Plantation, 7 miles blestone foundation
How Papers Got Clipped
all
HE young bank clerk clerk's desk. "You don't seaan
frowned at the papers
to have papers scattered over," he said. "How do you on his desk. In reaching monage that?" for one, he had disarranged a whole pile. If there were only some way to hold the
The bank clerk showed him
a small contrivance of twisted wire that neatly held groups of groups of papers to. papers together. "There is the
gether
Suddenly
answer."
"And what do you call thin memory #
Item naked the sprang into the young man's useful mind. He had been only 17
employer.
years old at the time. But Remembering his father, the
recalled clearly he
his young clerk replied. "It's
father's brown fingers twist paper Clip, sir!"
Ing a bit of wire into a cer tain pattern. Samuel Clip the young bunk clerk's father, was a farmer but his son remembered how skilful he had been with his hands.
a
Many
there is
Old Church Tower
{THE secret telephone behind The bookcase begun cligings. Knart and Hanid, the Shadows, ran over to answer it,
It was ittle King Nep. "Do you know a good shoe- mastery King Nep asked
This was surprising ques-
part
"A cousin of mine has broken of the building which housed the first
the heel of his shoe. He has to Legislative
World. got it fixed as soon as possible." Assembly in the New
Hanid, said: "We know a very Thus, the old tower served not only as church but fort and good shoemaker. We'll be right THE SITE of Jamestown re- meeting hall as well. verted 10 plantations. For the only visible
over for the shoes."
Historians today kay tie doubt that the entire
colony would have per- many years
for sign of this once thriving com- side tells no tales of the strug-living. it Tiot ished had
been
munity was the old, Ivy gle and hardship endured by Smith's courage and virour.
tovered church tower and a few these men who carved out a way of life which the rest of crumbling grave markers.
the world envies today.
Knart and Hunld ran down to Today the peaceful country- the brook where King Nep was
12
When Smith returned to Eng-
We are told that the town it-
land after an accident, so many died from hunger and disease that the winter of 1009-10 is self was always mail and al-
Baldness Is As
THE average man likes to
have hair on the top of his head. As soon as u little bald spot appears, what does he do? He uses a lot of tonics, massages the
COIN MAGIC calp vigorously, or runs to
THIS COIN trick requires the handkerchief- help of a and it must have a very wide hem.
a specialist.
On the top of my head there's a big bald spot. However, I don't mind, be- cause I always think of
On that day Samuel Clip had ihrust the twisted bit of wire Hold I open in your hand what happened to Captain his pocket unthinkingly, and flop it in the air, Just like Bonneville and his bald When he had drown it out latera dag. In order to prove that
Into
the wire was holding together there is nothing in it. two bills of sale.
Then spot. roll it carefully into a ball and present it to one
your than
of
This brave offie of more a century ago kad been
ommy
the western
The young bank clerk bor- audience. He will open. It and given leave from his rowed a hairpin from bis presto.there's a coln in the duties to explore mother and tried to remember middle hew that bit of wire. imnd been | twisted by his father's hands.
It was several days later that his employer spoke approvingly of the neatness of the young
ZOO'S WHO
IN THE TROPICS THERE ARE GIANT".
KATYDIDS FIVE AND SIX INCHES LONG, WITH FOREWINGS ONE AND ONE HALF
INCHES WIDE...
WATERBOY!
WHERE IS YOU
HIDINGTI
THERE ARE
EIGHT" KINDS OF RABBITTS ANDFIVE KINDS
OF HARES IN THE UNITED STATES.
HONEY BEEG CARRY WATER AS WELLAS HONBY.. SPECIAL CARRIERS BRING IT TO THE HIVE, DOLE IT OUT, SEALITIN CELLS, OR EVÉN ACT AS STORAGE TANKS
THEMSELVES UNTIL THE VIKTEM IS NEEDED.
Before
By Josephine Opsahl
Baldness Does
SHOW COME CAPTAIN NOT GOT HAIR.... WHO SCALP
UM?
part of America. One day. bis bald
the spot on top of Here's how it got there: Cuplain Bonneville and
his Captain's head.
They started small party
were greeted by talking among themselves. учи displayed thu handkerchief you ripped out a ten members of the Nez Perce
Then there came the import- few stitches in the hem and
question: "Captata, were inserted the coln here. You
you scalped in baille?" held onto it while you qapped the fabric.
Then, while in the process of rolling it into 0
ball, you pushed the coin out of the hem and into the centre of the cloth where it remained unul dis- covered by your Estounded friends.
tribe,
AT A FEAST
"Your horse lock hungry,"
the
and
aut
"BALD CHIEF"
Toctfully the captain exTM plained that over a period of They were escorted to lodge of an old chief. He wel years, the number of hairs on the top of his head had been comed the explorers.
decreestrig, And BO/W ttiamo are tired aald the Indian were less. øklef. "M braves will take them to the pasture and see that they are fed. And you and your mên shail join tim at a The Iridium called him "Bald feast.
Chief" after that.
explorer bad 201510 Unfortunately the Nez Perce / This
too much brakes in his head even if the Ones ht food to spare. But they shared hair was all miming, it with their guests,
w headed for the Blackfoot there It seems that the horses did River, when suddenly out oven better, for he Captain eine in sight a war: party of
Use Pine Cones Indians didn't have
TEXT TIME You're
peeled for plae caries. Unusual horses were furbed, loose, to
king, keep your eyes Bonnevilla fater wrote, The About 69 Bisckfeet Indians.
Outnumbered, our hɛfo
did
and inexpensive house plants rovel on the fresh sprouting some quick thinking "Spont can be made from them for grass. So that they had better loudly," he ordered his Handful decorating your own room or than their mastera”
of men, "and appene tai be as gifts for friends.
A pipe was lighted and buty"
Very
Just tick the base of each possed around. Boli red men As a result it seemed stiere cone
square of wood. and white man smoked II, to a
11 wore more mening. Captain' Sprinkle gross seed betwoon
than there Captain Bonneville began to Bonnevilla's party The scales.
feel warm, 20, čim took out - Bis actually were. So the Indians
• did not attack in the daytime, And the Indians were very ***When might canle Bonneville surprised. When they saw at Bald, “We will burn Surfen fires.
|
Bet the unit in a bowl of cap. water. Before long, the bright green skoold willsappene,
The Shoemaker hammered Con the heel of Merc's shoe.
"I think. I banged my shoe against the top of the Rocky Mountains. It's got to be fixed
Ruler Of The Seas
Once upon a time, long, long ago, little King Nop was known os Great King Neptune, Ruler of the Seven Seas. But now he right away. I've got to be in had become very small, hardly England to meet
cousin much bigger than a clothes plň. Cupid and give him a`new set That was because hardly anyone of arrows." believed in him any more.
He showed them the broken On reaching the edge of the shoe. brook-it WES at the
There were place
two wings Just where it swirled lazily past the above the broken hoe) but the The Blackfeet will look at those overhanging willow tree they wings were all topped over.
"That's because the heel is fires and figure we have a lot found little King Nop trying to broken, King Nep interrupted.
comfort an even smaller person "Once the heel is
2
fixed, the
Knart and Hanid know a
of men with us.
"All my men will rest with dressed in a short tunic and their rides ready. for action, holmet. This small person was wings will perk up and Cousin on Оле Mere will be able to get going The guards will
the hopping up and down Besture
again." foot. horses,
"Please bo patient, Merc," "If the redskins attacke us, itLittle King Nep was saying. will be to get those horses. "We'll have that shoe Exed for They will try to frighten first you in no time. Ah, bere, come one "horse and that animal wil Knarf and Hanid now!" scare the others.
Then our
animals will try to break camp and run away. There will be confusion and we will be with. out our steeds."
QUITE A MAN
Glad To See Them
little shoemaker with a small shop at the end of their strect. He was an old man and he wore heavy glasses,
Harid gave him the shoe
of "It belongs to a friend ours," she said. "The heel is broken. Can you fiz 117′′
The old shoemaker nodded and smiled.
a brand
Little King Nep greeted Knart and Honld with every sign of gladness and relief.
"I haven't seen a shoo Ilke I'm certainly happy you this, since I was a boy," he said. could get here, my dears. You "They don't make them like great this any, more, Yos, of courso The Blackfeet watched those don't realise what a camp fires during the night favour you'll be doing my. I can fix it."
He hammered on would be cousin Mere if you get his shoe *They concluded it
best to go on their way witiont fixed. Oh, I beg your pardon. new heel. He polished it and
get This is Merc."
smoothed it. tacking and trying to
"How much is It?" Knart Mere came hopping over on He was quito a man, the Baldone foot. He shook hands with asked when the shoemaker was Chief.
finished. no So I have regrets Knarf and Hanid' about the missing hairs on top "I broke my shoe running of my head.
around the world," he said.
Kaart and Hanid looked at —HAROLD GLUCK | Mere In astonishment,
those horses.
Rupert and Rusty-5
A
When is over the ald; it. and it doesn't shit the ma gentleman kaks at his watch shit your young: trupeita, kakla Runy a not generally as laté sa hair in zailer, reda, «veryone calls "Jearch, thia be muzrastra. Rupert looks hits Rusty, Cere we -ape:** Rusty ? la that his name ? ** for him. think I know Well, not really laughs the old. De way he.... They; al gentlemanager Hig, mamame day drown the, houses, and no ku Gavdolphina, but he desact look like wakening the mia le fast
No Charge
"Free of charge," said the old shoemaker. "It's a pleasure to work on a winged shoe liko this. It must belong to somebody important somebody named
aybot"!
sald Hanid. ***That's who it is. But his namo le Mere now. He broke the heel against the Rocky Mountains,"
Little Mere was delighted to got his shoo back, all fixed and proper again.
"One of these days," he said to Knarf and Haald, "I'll lend [you, my shoes. You'll be sur prised how fast you can ruti,W
Then he shook handle with Little King Nep, and with Knart and Hanid and away by west, sklarning over the root tops, on [bid way to far-off? England with a Bundle of new arrows to delivery to his vonein" Coplă --- De Cuptor de wonderful fellow | too,70 mld.xing 2tep.
Kowp. He the follost one : la
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