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FEATURES
GETTATREYNSL
WEN
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1957.
FOR
YOUR PUZZLE How A Vine
CORNER
CROSSWORD
Cartoonist Cat ha pinced Puzzleman's Crosword puzzle on the silhouette of something boy may And under the Christmas tree;
ACROSS
1 Something we enjoy
7 Fart of a radio or
vision
8 Bridge holding!
9 Rubbed out
DOWN
1 Satiale
* Equal
3 Mianme
4 Narrow inlets
5 Silent in music)
tela
G May be under the Christ-
mas tree
HOW MAKE A BEAN
TO NECKLACE
THIS IS JUST THE THING TO MAKE FOR MOMS CHRISTMAS/
GIFT.
HERE'S HOW
1.Soak NAVY BEANS in VEGETABLE COLORING over- night (YOU'LL NEED ABOUT 300 BEANS FOR ONE NECKLACE)
2.NEXT DAY
WASH OFF EXCESS
COLOR WITH RUNNING WATER AND STRING ONTO A 60 INCH LONG NYLON STRING...
LIKE THIS...
3. PUSH BEANS CLOSE TO- GETHER AS YOU STRING THEM.
4.WHEN STRING IS FILLED UP- TO ONE INCH FROM ENDS,TIE ENDS IN A TIGHT KNOT AND DIP THE NECKLACE INTO A SMALL CAN OF SHELLAC!
HANG
FROM
A NAIL
UNTIL
DRY.
TRIANGLE
BOYS AND GIRLS
Became A Christmas A Yuletide Joke
Legend In Texas Lasted
TN the Texas countryside it and needs ne rare and costly IN the Texas countrystal gift"
Antonio an evergreen vine sparkling with cheerful red berries is highly prized as & Christmas decoration. Puzzleman hangs his word
But the San Antonians of thia SIERRA triangle from
descent will tell time. The second word is "an Mexican Asiatic
country third "alyou that the Margil vine Dutch city; fourth "edge" and has not always been avail- fifth an Egyptian god. Findshable for such use.
It all the triangle from the cluco;
happened because
of Shavano, the Indian boy.
SIERRA
MISSING VOWELS
One vowel has been left out of the first sentence below and 4 different vowel has been left out of the second sentence. Can you complete the two (споса
Virls clos in a hrricane
are gly and amarm.
Yur ful
entist fr ur schl,
CAS Ixt
HIDDEN LOCATIONS
the
Shuvano Ilved long ago near the mission of San Antonio de Valera established in 1716. The Indian boy had come to know Antonio and love good Fray
Maxil, the padre presidente of the Texas Missions, who bnd founded San Antonio de Valetu. But because of Fray Antonio, Shavano had a problem.
But I should like to bring film a star or a cloud," the In- dtan boy thought.
Then he climbed down from the poplar tree. There at the foot of the tree he saw a wisp of green vine, jewelled with rod berries. It was a pretty thing. Carefully, Shavano dug the vine and potted it in an earthen Jar. Then he placed it at the foot of the manger.
By LEE PRIESTLEY
The Indian boy
remembered
His tiny vine had suddenly grown into twining beauty and Turning away he heard ex- now wrapped the manger with elted whispers, "Milagro! A shining green leaves and crim miracle!" Shavano turned to look son berries. It was the most old man who knew that love was at the altar.
beautiful gift of all.
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what the good Fray Murgil had said about gifts and co he named the beautiful vine for the good the best gift of all.
THE MAYAS TOLD A STRANGE
the
the
YUH" THE "POPOL
(Book of Community) a compilation of 11 was such a serious problem that Shavano climbed the poplar sacred teachings of tree that was his special think-Mayu tribe known 43 lng place. Whenever anything Quiche. They inhabited troubled him. he perches high among the green leaves until he northern Guatemala at the could find a solution. Shuvan time of the Spanish con-
solve this quest. sighed. If he could problem.
LAU YUN BHING —— Fray Antonio has chosen Shu-
The book was written in the to represent the Christ Qulche language, but used the The Brst of these sentences vano
It has been conceals a country and the sec-Child in the Christmas Nativity Spanish alphabet. ord Bides a state. Can you find scene. The Indian boy felt that described as the most important ane so honoured should bring a them?
of a pre-Columbian American rich gift to place at the altar, literature.
He had And he was so poor.
The
worked native author nothing to bring.
between 1554 and 1550. Later, Shavano remembered what the the volume was translated into good man had told him, "If you Spanish, French and German, love the Christ Chilld. He knows An English translation did not
appeur unill 1950.
"After 1 put down the pa- pars. I answered the door.
hot The pitcher slid strike across the plate.
(Solutions on Page 23)
He Invented The
First Stove
"BR-R-R. IT'S COLD outside," said Mary as she leaned against the front door to close it against the wintry wind. Mother looked up from her knitting to call "Hello," and then she chuckled,
"I'll bet that's just what Benjamin Franklin said be- fore he invented the Frank- ilin stove."
as she
"What?" asked Mary went to stand by the warın radi- alor.
"I bet he said 'Br-r-r, it's cold in here, and then began to gure how to keep the replace heat from going up the chimney instead of warming the house."
"But why didn't he just let the fire go out and close the draft?" asked Mary, taking off her heavy coat.
"Because the fireplace was the only thing he had to heat with in those days.. That was long ago when there were no stoves or furnaces. There was an open fireplace in almost every room. and even the cooking had to be fire or in
done over the open ovens built into the fireplace,"
"You mean they didn't even
BEN FRANKLIN'S
STOVE-
kettles then, and they had to lift and tug those big heavy utensils full of food. Women should be awfully thankful to Mr Franklla. He was the first inventor to take have an old-fashioned cook stove heavy labour from housekeeping,
to cook with?" asked Mary.
"No, dear. Not until Franklin
It
interesting to this Quiche story of with our own:
compare creation
There was a lime when the wurld did not exist, Then a vast expanse of water appeared. After this the earth rose out at the water.
CREATION TALE
Rible
OF ANCIENT AMERICA
THE QUICHE STORY OF PLANS CREATION, AFTER THREE FRUITLESS ATTEMPTS TO CREATE HUMANS, FOUR MTH WERE CREATED FROM CORNMEAL BY THE GODS, FROM TRESE MIN AND THEIR WIVES OUS ALL OF THE TRIBES OF THE EARTH.
THE 'POPOL VUI, WRITTEN IN
THE QUICHE LANGUAGE WITH THE STANISH ALPHABET.
3901
A
That
No newspaper
writer
over cut up more high jinks and got away with more practical joking than Eugene Field, the celebrated Chicago columnist. He was always having fun at the expense of his employer, Melvin E. Stone, for whom he conducted his depart- ment "Sharps and Flats" in the Chicago Daily News, Once, when Field wanted a raise in pay, he dressed four of his children in tattered cloth- ing, and went with them to face the boss in his office.
While the writer meekly bared his head, the youngsters set up a pitiful chant about their poor father's need.
Stone knew the act had been carefully, rehearsed, but he was |a good" sport and promptly
Boosted Field's saiury.
However, he once thought he could get back at his columnist. This was the Christmus when Ficid let Stone know he was not satisfied with the turkey that
It was Stone who was now due for a marprins.
Not long afterward the "boda"" was taking a party of dislin- gulahed visitors on a tour of the big newspaper plant.
In the midst of their rounds they came upon Field, He was dressed in his convict's suit and puttering aboul with a coni scuttle and a shovel.
The striped garb stirred ont guest's curiosity so much that ho managed to draw Field off into him a corner where he asked what he, a convict, was doing there.
the
Never batting an eye, 004 employe usually got. Field columnist confessed that he wAN would prefer new suit to the "fer" and had been son- The request gave the fenced to serve out a long term boss an idea.
of hard labour for Blone.
turkey.
Came Christmas Eve and a
**
The boss never saw the last
messenger boy handed Field a rectangular cardboard box. It was beautifully wrapped and of that convict sull He must looked as if it had come from have often regretted his Christ- Chicago's nest haberdasher. mas joke. As sure as he brought writer opened any important guests into the
But when the
It, he got a jolt. The box con- plant, there would be Field. In fained a convict's suit, atripes his striped garb, shuffing around with his cool scuttle and, shovel.
and all
It Field was disappointed, he stirring up no end of pity among- never let on. Very carefully he his visitors.
their intellect to human propor-hung the suit up in his office, tions and, from these four men not and their wives. came all the
tribes of the earth,
Of living things, birda and
The second time, man was beasts were first created to wer- made of wood. But he lacked
disappointment,
they proved
Therefore it was decided to
dispos, rods, But, to the gods intelligence too stupid to do this. create man, to worship.
The Arst men were made of mud. But these. although capable of speech, were very Inert creatures, indeed. So they were destroyed.
and
could
A third construction proved as fruitless as the first two.
Finally,
four men
were created from cornmeal and so great was their knowledge that they know all things at once. The alarmed gods restricted
The Popol Vuh contains both fact and fable. It deals mostly with the exploits of mythical characters and with prayers. It Wes compiled from several
sources.
By R. S. Craggs
Gets Glamour
Bottle Brush Gets
I'
Was 11 mid-December Saturday about thirty years ago. The air WAS tingling with Christmas. A New York manufacturer of bottle brushes felt it and shoved a report deep into a desk drawer.
"Brushes, brushes, always brushes?" he exclaimed im- patiently. "And Christmas, Just around the comer""
Abruptly he left his office an hour early to do some shopping for his children..
THIC CUTL
LITTLE CHRISTMAS TREE
LOOKS FAMILIARIS
branches, which were coloured greca and graduated to imitate a tree top. A wooden base gave Srm support to the little emblem of Noel,
He asked the price. "A dollar," said the proprie- Lor. "It's Imported."
The brush maker took it
and it way home,
much ad- mired by all the family us it stood on the mantel through the holidays.
Then instead
packing It
away with the other Christmas ornaments, the brush man took it to the manager saw it, he smiled un- derstandingly.
-By Jamos Aldredge
There Is Such A Person
THIS
-Christopher Tells How He Saw Jack Fros By MAX TRELL
the
that story Christopher Cricket told to Teddy the Stuffed Bear, Hiawatha, the Small-Sized Wooden Indian and Knarf, the Shadow-Boy with the Turned- About Naime, as they all sai around the crackling tire in the
replace.
"He's back again," Christo- pher Cricket said. "I saw him Last night."
"Who?" usked Kauri, "Jack," said Christopher. "Jack Who?" asked Teddy the Stuffed Bear.
"His last name is Frost," said Christopher.
Groat Surprise
11-18
JACK FROST
Jack Frost asked. Chris how he w7,
Khart sed Teddy expressed great surprise that Christopher should have met Jack Frost. Jack Frost?" Hiawatha, however
merely Christopher.
Kourt uslved
factory. When the grunted and mid that nobody "We walked across the gardien
By the next holiday season,
ever saw Jack Frost. He was
just a came for the wind and and down the road, all the way down to the lake," suld the snow and the coldness of
Christophicz. "And all along similar Utilo trees, glamour wintertime.
the way, Juck frost kept touch- "But I
him, ing things with the tip of his really saw Christopher Cricket Insistext.
conc." "And I felt him, even before i saw him
brushes cousins of the bottle brushes
and in the 5-and-19's..
As he was about to leave a toy shop, with a Brondway package of dolls under his arm, he noticed a charming little arts-
cial. Christmas tree. Although principle is his bottle he'd never seen its like before, (the kind so handy for washing appeared in all the toy stores I something about it seemed milk bottles. Į guess."
familiar.
The twisted wires made the invented it. Can you imagine "I didn't
suid know that,"
He examined it. The tree trunk. The fibres secured what it was like to cook all food Mary. "I knew Benjamin Frank-was made on exactly the same tween the wires formed the by hanging it over the open fire? In was a statesman and writer, Women used heavy iron pots and, and I knew he had proved that Bghtning was electricity, with a kite and a key, but I didn't know about the stove."
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"Yes, dear. Franklin invented the Arst closed iron stove with its chimney to let out the smoke but keep the heat. in the house. He invented many other prac- teal things too."
"He must have been awfully rich, with everybody needing the things he invented," said the practical Mary.
"No, dear, he didn't get rich from his invontlons. He dkin't take out even one pntent on any of them. He felt that what God let him learn he should teach to others without charge. So he taught other people to make the things he learned to make,"
Mary hung her cont in the
closet and come mother's chair.
back to her
"You know, Mother, I didn't think much about Benjamin Franklin except that he's a part
be-
MAKE THESE FOR
TW
THE TREE
TWO TINFOIL wrappers from sticks of chewing gum will make a silvery cross to hang on the Christ- mas tree.
Open each wrapper fat. Then fold It in half lengthwise, twice.
Snip an inch off the end of one strip. This will serve as the crosspiece.
Lay it across the longer piece, so it forms a cross. Scotch tape the two pieces together both back and front,
e
Pinch a small hole in the
cross, Thread top of the
twine or ploce of Christmas yarn through the hole and
so the of history, but now I'll always ends to make a loop, remember him, especially in the cross can be fiung over a tree winter, and be glad he lived to branch, make everybody comfortable." ~By VENUS INGLISH
HOW TO BORROW
I
ITEME YOU CÂN MAKE
FOR CHRISTMAS
FOLD AND TAPE- TINPOIL WRAPPERS TO FORM CROSS
BOOKMARK MADE FROM BLACHE THREAD AND BATALL JINGLE BELL
Each coaster · is a three-inch square piece of gingham, Indian head or any kind of cloth which is easy to fringe. Pull the FOR A REALLY Christmasy threads on all 4 sides until the bookmark, tie a single fingeringe is 4" đong."" bell to the centre of 20*
length of olastic thread. Tie These coasters are nice enough the thread cods in a good krot, fust as they are. But you can
To use, the loop of thread is decorate each with a lasting allpped over the book, to the design, if desired, an pago you wish marked; with the Draw a star, bell, tree, OF M. P. CUNIOUS: I say, old Jingle bell at the top.
any design, in the centre of man, I'm in a terrible., fx. Why not make several of each square, with crayons. Lay zeed, some donary badly and I these bookmarks as Christmas tas coaster face down on
presente for people on your gift place of brown paper and prots jistr
lightly over the back' with'' a SCRAPS: Or
green warm, invites
"This solar tha oblouz" so. 15. cloth Erosty Móth's scrap bag makes thede, guy, couriera, for will not wash out or rub off." someone on your gift list:
Six cository make a nion set.
hoven't the slightest idea where I'm going to get it from.
T..I. TWADD: I'm relieved to hear that was afrall that you might, have an idea you would borrow from me,
OF
A
From year to year the de- signs have varied with changes in the fashion in colour and ornament. Also, Christmas wreaths of Bito construction have been produced,
"Why did he do that?” muked Toddy.
Everything Got Cold
"I don't know why he did it," "I was sitting outside on the cald Christopher. "But I'll tell back steps when all of a sudden you what happened when he everything got cold. The next did.
second, Jack Froat come up "He touched a tree and all from some place in the back of the leaves turned brown and the garden. He was carrying on fell off. He touched a bush and cicle-cane in one hand and, ice appeared on all the twigs. the other, he had a big suitesse e
touched the gross and it Now most of the year the that looked like a block of ice turned white. factory is still producing only | On the suitcase was marked his "Finally we reached the lake.” the prosale brushes.
13ame-Juck Frost"
"What happened there?". asked Knart and Teddy.
But as the days begin to How are you, Chris?" Jack shorton, come one of theFrost said to me. *Here I am workers is sure to say, "It won't again! It's good to be back in be long now." And presently this neighbourhood.” cones a dramatic shift to big production of Christmas trees.
Chria Shiveredi I'm-br-r-glad to see you,
Naturally, following the dis-J-Jocic! I wald, shivering
Come now," said Jack. "You covery of the tle between the
Not much.
two kinds of merchandise, other don't feel cold, do you?' boltie brush makers have taken **'N-no,' I said.
up the novelty. But no danger Br-}"
of too many Christmas trees.
And
bottle
about the one thing brush type it nover shoda any neodies.
-By Mary Burhoo
Jack took, my orm.
right,
"Perhaps you'ru Christopher' he said, "No one
acems to like the cold
"Well," sald Christopher. "Jack touched the odge of the water with Jils Icicle-cane. Instantly the water turbod ta ice.
Co Ico-Skating ***The children will like this? Juck Frost sald. "They will be able to go ice-clating
"Y-yes, I onid to Jack, ‘And
I hope they'll feel warmer than I do right now.
“Oh, they'll feel ine,' said except Jack. Once they skate around
me. Let's take a little walk. “ the lake, they'll be as warm as EU with toast. And do you know what
"Where did you
Rupert and the Thinking Cap-7
Turning Oregory round the Gregory. "I can think about most Conjurar pisses his hands over his things but when I try to think head and while he muttete strange what Christien . premata to ask Cilines spella small electric sparke Santa Claus for, noshloge happonal”” begin to flat. **H*m, no. can The: Confuigt moves away quietly u understand." he tipeta, andy-as Rupert watches, ha unlocks Nothing wrong with Guineapisa cupboani picke up something, paddle. Why can he no s'ink and returns, whit á cloth obina in
Oh Im pot that bad (5 says his Band,
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
I've
got in this suitcase; of. minc? I've got o nice
snowstoren.
e
"P-please,” I begged Jack, ea be put down the zullense) and stacled to open it. 'Don't let's bave a snowstorm, Give me a chance to gel back to my warm house first.
Jack Was Laughing
จา
"I ran no fast as I could.. And behind
hoand-Jack loughing,
I
Don't worry, utile Cricket, I heard Jack sny. *I won't let this, nowstorm, out unsilk-yout are safe and erg in your litiko
Kract and Toddy were de lighted withs Christophor Cricket's story about Jock Frost, But Hiawatha,: the Bal-Bizod Wooden Endlang: only drowned glumily, sod, shook his hood and [repeated that there was: mal-guchi galamonte. Kho, Jack Frost, BADAL WIN only a name for the wind, wrigh | mow and the doldram- ok" k
wintertime,