FEATURES
HAIR-RAISING ADVENTURE:
· THE CHINA 'MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1957.
FOR
COLTER OUTWITS BLACKFEET
TAVE YOU EVER been
Ho Yellowstone Park?
Long before the geysors and hot pots had been scen by white men, the region was known to the Indians. They thought it was in- habited by evil spirits.
It was in 1807 that some traders established a fort and trading post at the mouth of the Big Horn River in Wyoming. One of the truders, John Colter, started out on snow shoes to mecl with the Indians and
for trade supplies furs,
He travelled pust the Teton als, throur h Jackson Hole and into the land of wonders that we know today
Yellowstone Park. As he went from
one
bubbling peol to another ho sold, "This must be the region the Indians talk about I'm not
All day long Colter kept out of sight bentath the raft,
BOYS
chance to save your life. If you can outrun my warriors may go tres.”
you
Coller's clothes were stripped from him and he stood noked before the savages. The chief sold, "Now, save yourbelt, if you can,"
Colier was really a very good | runner and now, spurred on by the slim chanco of raving his ufe, he surprised even himself by his swiftness.
SAFETY MILES AWAY
He knew that his only hope By in reaching the river-about five mile away. He ran untü
from the blood streamed
his nose. He sped on until he had outdistanced all of his pursuers except one, who was fast galn- ing on him,
Ho saw only one
way out. Stopping sil, Coller spread his ernis and tripped the
Indian,
whose spear was broken in the foll. He killed the Indian and continued his swift race to the river.
AND
| ZOO'S WHO
THE BADGER IS KNOWN THE WORLD OVER AS A FIGHTER. ITNEVER SURRENDERS,
NO MATTER HOW GREAT
THE ODDS... IT CAN HANDLE TWICE AS WEIGHT IN WILD CATS, COYOTES OR DOGS
CALIFORNIA HAS THE LARGEST DEER POPULATION IN THE
U.S. WITH MORE THAN A MILLION
ANIMALS.
THE BRONTOSAURUS, LONG-EXTINCT PLANT-EATING DINOSAUR WAS THE LARGEST ANIMAL EVER TO WALK THE EARTH, AN AVERAGE ANIMAL WEIGHED MORE THAN 30 TONS AND MEASURED TO FEET LONG...
Jill's Shadow Takes A Holiday
By MABEL HARMER
IGGLES was a shadow-
JIGGLES
When he reached the bank he dived under an old raft that
floating a very black, very lively luckily chanced to be near There were trees and shadow. The reason he was
at:out
HOW MAKE THE suri rised that they think it is chief motioned for the two men shrubbery so that he so lively was that he be-
TO CANNIBALS DANCE
1.Cut a strip of TYPEWRITER PAPER 2 inches wide and 1 inches long. 2.Fold it into 8 parts lin. wide like this.
3.DRAWA CANNIBAL ON THE TOP SECTION AND CUT OUT A CANNIBAL CHAIN.
1. COLOR THE CHAIN WITH COLORED CRAYONS.
5.PASTE
AND FEET
HANDS
TOGETHER
INTO A
CIRCLE.
6.PUNCH SEVERAL SMALL. HOLES IN A
CARDBOARD
OFF
OVER
PAN PUT
A COOKING
2M OF
WATER IN
PAN AND BOIL!
WATCH THE CANNIBALS DANCE
the home of evil spirits,"
to come it.
the
the before
GIRLS
YOUR PUZZLE
CORNER
CROSSWORD
Thomas Jefferson's silhouette was used as a background for The Puzzleman'a Crossword puzzle by Cartoonist Cal:
ACROSS
1 Armed conflets
6 Tumult
0 Religious book
7
Golf mounds
A
God of love
DOWN
1 Jefferson-the
Declara-
tion of Independence
2 Cue who venulates
to
3
Western caille show
4
Opposed to les
could occasionally raise his head longed to Jill, who Was EL When he went back to
Col er started to obey but above the water.
She for and told the other men of Po'ls erlod. "Thyn nel golog in. He had but a few minutes very lively little girl.
discovery
Indlans loved to jump the rope, they merely leke no chances with the respitu
reached the river, yelling with skip-to-my-Lou, "Nonsensel Buckfeet," farhed and said,
skip You're just uing your imagina-
out frenzy because they "Bu you've no chance tion overtime." So he had to here, warned Colter.
their prey. All day long Colter anything. walt for another opportunity to
For wer. Polis raised hi; kept out of sight beneath the prove that he
had really seen it and
When darkness fell he Bred at onc of the raft. this place of wonders,
Indl ns. A second later he was made his way to the oppostle
NARROWEST ESCAPE
Except for one of the narrow est escapes on record Coller would never have had that chance.
had lost
One day she skipped down to the store to buy a bag of Joll- outside pops. Jiggles waited because shadows weren't allow- girl!" undered in the store. "That
he sighed. "She's always on the go. I never get any rest."
His
the turpet for a dozen arrows.
bank and stole away.
Colter went ashore but
For days he travelled he krew now that his chances for the blazing sun, naked and bare- At night there was no life were less than ever,
The Indians marched him protection from the cold, over to their lodges. Then, only food was the roots he dug
"You're lucky and don't know deciding to make what sport from the ground.
who One summer day he and an- they could of his death.
But a man who could outwitt," said a large shadow they
also waiting outside. "I and outrun ether white man by the name asked, "Can you run?"
a band of Indians was
who fat lady of Poits were travelling in ca- Colter had a faint glimmer of was not likely to be beaten by belong to that
up the Jefferson River what their plan might be and the forces of nature. At the end just went in. We never do any Poking for beaver. As they he answered, "No, I am a poor of the fort with his fellow trap anything for a chance to run of a week John Colter was back thing but pled along. I'd give Lenne around a bend they were runner."
down the street." horrified to sto a band of war- That is bad," said the crief pers
"Then why don't we trade?" suggested Jiggles quickly. "You'll get some fun and 1'11 got a rest. Is it a doa?"
1.Des
Is Runs on the shore. The "We are po'ng to give you a
Ring
FIND
MOST
-MABEL HARMER
Recalls Famours Ancestor
OF
HER
stod of friends, felene's
name is a little unusual, but still just another name. But from her history professor it prompted the question, "Any
relation to the
Baron ?"
In reply, the coed flashed a signet ring bearing A fammis coat of arms. It was the crest of Baron Frederick Wilhelm Von Steuben, aide- de-camp to Frederick the Great of Prussia and later for George drilimuster Washington's troups at Valley Forge during the Revolutionary War.
Helene Von Steuben ex- plained that she is a great- great-great-grandniece of the baron. She is from Bethlehem, Pa.
The buron became $1 soldier at 14.
in the
"It certainly is. Here comes my lady
now. Run along. I mean, pled along."
Jiggies followed the fat lady. She walked very slowly indeed. In fact Jiggles had a hard time keeping behind her because he Was used to going ro much faster. Worse than that, she shipped to talk to everybody. How Jiggles longed to skipping behind Jill again! But he knew that he couldn't go off and leave the lady without a shadow. It simply wasn't done! For three days he poked along
ba
Weather Log
TM A BUSY SHADOW..
WANT
THAT LITTLE GIRL
REENE ME,
HOPPING
TO
SWAP?
DIAMOND
Jefferson had strong faith in the CONSENT of the governed, which fact The Puzzleman uses of his diamond. as the centre The second word is "deeny": third "Hindu queen"; teth "years between 12 and 20"; and sixth "an abstract being." Com- plete the diamond;
N CONSENT E
SCRAMBLED MESSAGE
It seems The Puzzleman had some trouble with his sentence about Thomas Jefferson, so you can help him get straightened cut:
died 1820, as was Thorina on the John Montieella. 4. day at Jefferson same buried July and Adams
JEFFERSONIAN MIX UPS
By rearringing the lettera in cach line, you will find cach
▸ Jack concenis
pertaining to 'Thomas Jefferson:
DIPS THEIR TREND SUCH A PURE AI SALON SKILL ANEW CARD
(Solutions on Page 19)
Call For Chanty Clair
—He Didn't Have Much Time To Talk--
By MAX TRELL
SUALLY, late at night, when
everyone in the house wON behind the fat lady, getting asleep except the Owls, Mies, more bored every minute. Then Cats and Kharf and Hanid, The they went back to the store Shadows With The Turnusi- agula.
About Names, it was then that Mrs Cuckoo
came outside th clock where she lived,
Just chcock he
saw Jill go Into the store. Oh, how he wanted to runt But no, he had Mry Cuckoo, though she look- to poke along with the fat ladyed Bke a bird, was made of When they reached the store he wood. She was wooden through saw the other shadow resting and through, from the tip of against the wall,
her beak to the end of her tail
Warm-Hearted Bird
★ *
"Boy, un I kind to see you!" panted the other shadow. "I'm | Nevertheless Mrs Cuckoo hail so tired 1 could die."
a worn (though a wooden) "You mean you'll trade back heart. There never was 21 again?" cried Jiggles joyously-friendlier bird, wooden or other.
"I'll say I will. I'm worn to wise, than sho. shadow. I mean, I'm-
Now it happened on this par-
The Shadows offered to help Mrs. Cuckoo.
Mrs Cuckoo noid: "I'd like to "I know, I know," replied ticular night that she came out get the telephone number of Mṛ Jiggies. He couldn't wait to of her clock and settled down Chanty Clair." say goodbye for just then Jill on the floor next to Knarf and "Sounds like a Rooster," Knauf came out of the store and off Honid. they went.
Fine Pastime AUGUSTUS
ID YOU ever keep a
cord of the sunny days, the
cloudy days and the stormy
KARBUNCLE
By MABEL HARMER
8
ever see.
what heigh nodded, "and a
put in. "I wonder," she said, "If you'
That's mind my using the telephone." Mrs
Cuckoo didn't mean the Cuckoo regular ordinary telephone. She beautiful one." meant the magic telephone that
stood behind the curtain at the
end of the bookcase.
"Of course you may use the telephone," said Harid.
Thank you, my dear, satıl
Mcs
very
"I hel." said Hanid, "I know where he lives. He lives in the Chicken House on the other Elde of the road."
This time Mrs Cuckoo shook
days? It's fun to do, análA QUEER & goblin as you' Mrs Cuckoo. And suddenly she her head.
here's how it's done.
Lived in the stump of a big erksaid: "Oh dear!"""
First, gel a good, big calendar tree. sheet for the month for which
your
His cars were long and ended
He had the roundest possible checks.
"Something the matter, Mrs Cuckoo?" asked Knurf,
She Forgot it
"Yes," said Mrs Cuckoo, "I forgot the number, I wrote it down somewhere, Now I can'L remember where."
Hanid said that was easily
The hair of this funny little fellow
Was a tuft of the brightest orange-lah yellow.
He had a Wifle round disk of | Axed. a nose,
Which wasn't so bad as a gób-sald. Un note goes,
His mother had named him Augustus Karbunkle.
ace keeping the chart,in peaks. you Holone Von Steuben seals a letter with her ring.
Festen
bedroom It to door or wall. While she Prussian army to become
is proud of her Next, each night before you the weather Ife resigned drillmaster of Washington's noted ancestor, Helene is a bit go to bed, chart commission
modest about it and wonders for that day. It the day la troops. A statue of him why all the fuss."
sunry and fine, draw a bright stands today in Washington,
yellow run in the square for D.C.
However, she does occasional- that day. If the day has been Helene is the great-great- use her signet ring to peal a rainy, spatter the square with lotter as her ancestors did, by lois and lots of little perell Bob's mobile crane was built great-granddaughter of Dr melting wax on the envelope raindrops.
Peter Von Steuben, the and pressing her ring into it, If the day has been one of with a No. 3 outfit.
baron's brother, who settled
Ohio those dull. A musie major at an
Frey with neither rahi in Easton, Pa: The doctor college,
has she
chosen
might colour the whole of fuss, and his brother visited each difficult and unusual career, you
д Hight grey. It Helene hopes to be a musical square other frequently during and therapist, teaching crippled por- the day is a mixture of sun and plain Gus. after the
in- sons how to use their hands by roin, you can dependence.
means of the rhythms in music.
Young Robert loves cranes and he gets endloss pleasure building them in Meccano, along with scores of other fine working models. His No. 3 Meccano la a 'middle siza' outfit, and he hopes
I will become a No, 4 on his birthday when he gets a No. Ja accessory outfit. That will mean more elaborate models! The Interchange- ablo matal, parts of Meccano make it the snost fascinating of xlf-hobbies for boys of ‚dertry age.
Mobile Crane mode with Meccone Oucht bias 1
MECCANO
MADE IN BIGLAND-81 MECCANO LIMITED, KUHNS ROAD, LYRUPOOL. ES
war
for
a
nor
days sun
decorate the quare with both sun and rain drops
In windy times add a tiny letter "W" to the centre of each raindrop and turn the rain to
START OF A NEW FAD wind. When you have finished
To
your chart for a whole month, you con casily settle any" argu- SIGNATURE SCARF
make the signatures ment that comes up about the Doesn't that sound like a permanent, embroider
the post
weather by consulting smooth idea? ...
embroi-your own weather chart. pencilled names with dery floss. Or, trace over the To make this clever acces- writing with indelible cloth- sery you'll need a plain, Eight- markding ink. If you use the coloured scarf. When you meet ink system, be careful not to friends, ask them to use too much ink on the pen. write their names on the scarf, Excess ink can make blots" on using a soft black lead pencil. the scars.
your
PAPER-BAG HOUSE-
CUT OFF BOTTOM PORTION OF PAPER BAG}
PRAW WINDOWG AND
POGRS; REST
ROOF ON Maya
A COMPLETE Village of THESE HOUSES CAN BE MADE BY USING
BAGS OF DIFFERENT SIZES»
HOME FOR PAPER DOLLS TF YOUR paper dolls get torn and messy long before you are ready to part with them, maybe i'a because they don't have good home.
You can make ono with the simplest materials. All you will need are:
1. A loose-leaf notebook.
2 Notebook paper
3. Paste
Here's what you do.
1. Put paper in notebook
2. Moke pockets by cutting off
the top half of EVERY OTHER page, and pasting
the remaining half to the next whole page. Paste only around the two sides and bottom of the half-pleco leaving the top open to form n' pocket.
8.... Slip each doll and dès clothes iné sopurale pocket, and priot the doll's name on the outaldo,
After a wealthy goblin uncle, But his father diatiked a lot
So he called Augustus Just
It's
TRUE. I'M NOT MUCH TO LOOK AT!
“We'll call Information," she
"You're thinking of the wrong Rooster," she said. "Mr Chanty Clair doesn't live in the Chicken House. He ilves on top of the Courthouse is the Town Hall."
Khart and Hould looked as tonished, and they were,
"I think," said Mrs Cuckoo, "you'd better dial information for me. I promised to call Chanty. I don't want to dis- appoint him."
Then Huold dialed Informu➡ Oh, that would be lovely lon and asked her for the tele- sald Mrs Cuckoo in a grateful phone number of Mr Chanty voice. Would you mind dial- Clair who lived on top of thu ing Information for me? It's a Courthouse in the Town Hall. Bittle difficult for me to do."
The telephone number," said Knarf and Hanid ilda't Information, "Is Windblow 1219, wonder at that, Mrs Cuckoo I'll connect you," she said.
Cheerful Volca
would have
to dial with her wing tips or with her feet.
"I'll be glad to dial for you, Mrs Cuckoo," said Honid,
So they all went to the ti telephone behind the curtain at the end of the bookcaso,
But just as Ilanid was about to dial Information, she stopped. Whose Number?
A moment later, Honid henri a loud, cheerful voice crowing:
Hello!"
**Hellof
"Just a moment, Mr Chanty Clair," sald Hanid, "Mra Cukoo wishes to speak to you. Ho's on the wire, Mrs Cuckoo,"
Mrs "Hello, Chanty," said "What number do you want Cuckoo, She held the tele- me to get from Information?" plione, in her wing.
"Are you Hanld asked.
very busy?
'Not at the moment," Knarf and Hand heard Chanty Clair His voice was to answering. loud that it could clearly be
Rupert and Rusty-41
Groping their way down the nough dark maira Rupert listens for any sound from Rusty. “That man cars up here alone, so he must
· have left the boy somewhere down
push on the handle opena them and they step out into the bril liantly. It save-room. The old man can hardly believe his
There's electric light here, he here," he says.” I wish I could criju "How on earth did my hear him.** The doors of the nephew discrete this extraordinary lower cupboard are closed, but a; pláce 2,70
ALL RIGHTS REARATED
heard
coming over the tele- phone. "The winds has died, down. I'm very glad to speak to you."
Then Knast and Manid heard Mrs Cuckoo naic Chanty Clair how he felt and couldn't ho come and visit her soon. But Chanty Clair never got lo answoring, for sudilchly Knarf and Hand heard the wind blow- log. They hoard Chanty Clair swirling around,
Mr
Cuckoo sighed as she hung up the phone,
"Poer doar," she said, "ho's always busy when the wind wonther starts blowing. He's vare. I don't suppose ho'll ever get time to come down from the roof of the Courthouse and pay me vip-not while the wind icepe on-blowing,"