FEATURES
THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1958.
FOR
BOYS
MESSY SAMBO AND MRS. BUSTLE
SAMBO, the
cocker
ond the rest was torn.
of blu mouth. He tried to catch apaniel, drooped in his but, alas, some blow away corner, as Mrs Bustle mop- ped up the milk he had just spilled.
"I'm afraid we'll have to give the pup away," she told her children, "He makes such a mega,**
"Look what you've done!" oried Mrs Bustip. "We'll inst
have to give you away!"
At lunch time the children ate every bit of food without Sambo de- dropping a crumb. elded he would clean his plato 100. He bit so hard into his food that his nice now dish fell
"Cluny Sambol" said Mrs Bustle "You must go."
There sai Sambo, the saddest pup in the world
Sambo cringed. Mra Bustic was the neatest person in the world and her la half. house was sple and span. The children just shone and even the baby was always bright and new looking.
Mrs Bustle
baby. fed the Then the took the baby in one arm and some dish towels in the other which she wanted to put in the clothes hamper,
She left the room and Samba He decided to be made plans. neat and helpful,
When the paper boy threw the newspaper on the porch Sambo picked up with his teeth Mre Bustle di in't like papers lying around. He would take it to her. Just then a big wind blow the paper right out
Mrs Buslic left the room. When she came back into the kitchen she looked very worried. "I can't and
she sald,
the baby,"
Mother and children looked all over but no baby was found, Mra Bustle walled, "Ho's too little to crawl away. He must be come place in the house?
Sambo wondered how the baby could be lost in such a nent Nothing was ever out house,
of place. Sambo had been try- ing to use bla bead, Now he used his nose. He miffed all over the house and when he came to the bathroom he barked, Mrs Bustle came in and Sambo scratched st the clothes humper
trying to tell he lifted the
"What are you mot" she asked,
cover of the hamper, and there, nestled in the, dish towela ' fhai asleep, was the baby.
"My baby" she cried, "Why, I must have put you in there when I was cleaning up."
Sambo went back to his cor- ner to drink his milk. He tried to drink without spilling drop, but his long care kept dipping into the dish and then the milk dripped from his ears onto the floor.
He waited for Mrs Busto to come with the mop. He waited for the words, "I'm afraid we'll have to give the pup away,”
But Mrs Bustia patted him ant cooed. "Such A nico puppy." He watched her mop the floor and he heard her say "He's a fine to the children; puppy to take ruch good care of our baby. We must keep the puppy always,"
Now Sambo wasn't the neatest pup in the world, but hạ was the happiest.
-By FERN SIMMS
Cats Are Old And Honoured Friends
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They Once WAS IN 1849, and a Post Office Department.
fi Persian klug made large crowd had gather were alven the job of guard good use of this Egyptian love ed on the waterfront of Sank the mall bags against rate for cats. He gave each of his
and mice,
Boldiers a eat to carry. The Francisco harbour. They No one knows just how many Egyptian soldiers would not were eagerly watching a ents there are in the United hurt a cat, so they could not ship that was coming in. It Sintes today, but it is believed hurt the Persian soldiers.
that there are about 27 million.- was named the Ohio, and They are badly needed, for rate on it was a strange load of And mice destroy about one bil- goods
dollars' hundred on
worth of goods
cats.
every year.
several
No sooner had the ship come to shore than the people crowd- cd around. They bought the cals, some of tum paying ns much n $50 for a single animal. They took them to their homes and their mines and lo a few weeks the thousands of rats and mice were gone.
The California gold miners are not the only ones who have found cats useful. Some years the 1ted States kept more them 300 cals for unc in the
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Cats were ciso found in Syria and Polesine a long time ago, When the Romans took control of those countries a kalo, or kit, was in almost every home. That is where we get the words cat and kitlen.
The Romans carried them to their homea in Italy. From there they found their way into the homes and hearts of people
Cata tre nice also na pets, as people have known for thou- funds of years. The first cats to be used as pets may have lived in Egypt more than three thou sund" years ngo, They were all over the world.
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with BINE II, yellow animals,
Many famous men were fond black feet.
Egyptians of cats. The teacher Moham- med, who started i religie, had a pet ent. One day it went to sleep upon the wide sleeve of his cont. He wanted to wear his coat, but the pet musi mot
The treated them as members of the family and buried them care- fully when they died. It any body killed cat, he himself was put to death.
be wiked. He cut off the sleeve rather than wake her.
Charles Dickens, was also a cat Jover. His favourite cal was ok and deef, but he loved her all the same. One day she jumped into his lap and purred. He was so busy reading thot at arat ho did not notice her. She reached over with ono piw and put out the candle light. After that, he always rubbed her back when sho jumped into his lap.
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another There was who must have loved Midame Henrietta Romer. She painted some of our best known pictures of cats and kittens.
porton cats:
Yes, centa make good peta. They are easy to raise, and they are ceat and clean. They repay a little kindness with much love. They are the best known house pets in the world.
--By J. A. RICHARD
AND
GIRLS
Their
Faces Tell
Stories
"Please remove your caso.”
“You're paling my pony fall?”
DOES YOUR CROWD play action jokes? Lots of teen-agers 'do. In Clevo- land, Ohio, the fad began last spring and la silll going strong, as these pictures show.
To play, you must invent a pantomime expression to go with a gag Ene. It takes Ingenuity, a little dramatic ability-and very elastic facial muscles...
A Game Of Dominoes
--Mr. Merlin Had Other Games To Play First-
By MAX TRELL
Some Mice Like To Live Dangerous Lives MN, the Magniagent
Here is a pair of odd companions. Even though they live in the same paint shop at Chesterfield, li pays to be cautious. The mouse makes a slow approach when he Joins Tabby at her * evening meal. It's one thing to come to dinner and a different
thing BEING the dinner. In the photo at right, since the axi's food didn't appeal to mousie, he elimbs on his friend's head to prove their friendship. The cat seems to like the idea. The cat and manso svém nnaffected by their instinctive fears.
ENGLAND'S STONE REMINDER OF PAST
REMANS OF A Mount of it to rinse reduced much
SIVE stone wall built
Wending
Across
the
came out from behind the bookcase and looked sround the room. There, on the opposite side, under the sunny window, aat Kharf, the Shadow Boy with the Turned-About Name, and Teddy, the Stuffed Bear.
"Good morning." Bald Mr Merlin. "What are you two boys doing there?"
Playing dominoes," said
Knart.
"Sit down, Mr Merlin," said. Teddy in a very cheerful voice, "As soon as we Anish this game,
you can play the winner."
Mr Merlin amiled.
Thank you very much," he said. "If you don't mind. I'd Jike to play spin-a-top."
Very Strango Thing
Knart was about to say "You can't play spin-a-top Inside this room, Mr Merlin," when sud-
Merlin,
Mr
a't noiblo" but a houn' dawg.”
הטעם
Merlin faster and faster.
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around
“But Me Merlin" Teddy said. "No one is allowed to play ball in this room."
MOTI
I'm a pencil sharpener.".
"This bus is crowded,"
Giant Kite Had Its Own Launching Crew
By IRMA HEGEL
ERHAPS your grand-
PERHAP
fathar remembers the big kite called "Uncle Bam" ‹ that was launched not in March, the month of kites,
but on the last day of August, 1891, In Dudley. Mass.
The frame of this plant wan 22 feet high and 10 feet wide. pounds. weighing around · 34 The cover was sewer of 40 cotton of unbleached yards cloth, strengthened with canvas
The
tall war In the corners. made up of burlap stripe and the completed kite upped the scales of 68 pounds.
It took two weeks to build
and "Uncle Sam"
a swiveled
A KITE AS BIG AS "UNCLE
SAM WOULD
FIVE TIMES
AS TALL
AS A
SMALL BOY.
HOW WINTER
TO LANDSCAPE
PUNCH A HOLE IN EACH END OF THE BOTTOM OFASBOE BOX,
Once again, Mr Merlin did a denly Mr Merlin did a very strange Ining. He was sitting reel was constructed to guide admirably to the biggy-size. strarge thing. I mean, it would on the floor with his head close the giant into the sky. Tills Your public library has many have been stranga for anyone to his knees.
He clasped his recl had a hand crank and, books on how to construct the except 0 magician like Mr hands around his ankles. His belog swiveled, could turn in plant models. Ask your Übrarion
back was
curved. He any direction according to the to show them to you. This is what he did.
lovacd na round as a ball.
think wind. You would not He put his hands on his hips. And that's what he had be- f anything to heavy could riso He stood on his toes with his come-a balk
and yet it did. feet close together. He gave He began bouncing around the himself a push and began spin- room, up and down, up and kkig around. Faster and faster down. He hit the walls and he The went!
hit the ceiling. He rolled across It took two men to walk the Mr Merlin spun so fast that the door and came rolling back kite another man to bold the he_looked like a biur.
again.
dying-line and three men at the Knarf shouted: "He's made Mr Merin bounced from the swiveled recl. "Uncle Sara" was breached A.D. 367 himself into a spinning top." flower pot to the deal, to tho was reeled out, fossed for a releet dem the violently protect it from the violently when barbarians invaded the After spinning for several top of the piano and up to the few seconds in the brisk, sum-
Picts moor- difcult
Caledonia Isle, subjecting Roman defend- minules, Mr Merlin of
slowed top. of the curtain rod. Hemer wind, then rose by Roman soldiers 1,800 lands of Northumberland and (Scotland),
1,000 fec; urs of Britain" to their greatest | down. Finally there he win, scalierod a cup of pencils, and remained aloft for two years ago still stretch like a Cumberland,Hadrian's
Wall Hadrian decided to bulld bumiliation,
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sitting on the floor, rubbing his knocked over a vase of lowere hours. bolt across the north of extends 79.8 miles, the Nation- continuous wall to block attacks
When the Roman anny was
pushed against a pleturo, on the Detachments al Geographie Society saya. Its from the north.
feel dizzy," he said. "That wall and made it hang crooked. England.
highest point elimas a crag of were drawn from the three rent A.D, 308, in the growing
moved to the European con- was quite a litle spin, I took," He came down on the plano To proserve Hadrian's Wall, 1,230 feet.
Boldlers
Almost Through
keya and made bad music. as it is best known, a move Is When Emperor Hedrion visit skilled at that kind of work, twilight of the Roman Empire,
Finally, he rolled under the under way. In England to put ed Britain A.D, 122, it was in They always carried entrench-
the wall's military history end- the wall under the caro of the
ed. It is not known whother all a state of crisis. The Ronan ing and engineering tools. The British government. Storms. Empire
detachments pulled out
from maintained three wall-rose_in_five yearL sheep, and the ravages of balid- teglons in the island province.
the forts at once or faded away, Curiously enough, the Romens seem to have taken the colossal wall's work was done.
one by one. At any rate, the task for granted, It is hardly mentioned in Latin literature.
The wall probably was about 20 Iect high, includnig the parapet, and eight to ten fest thick
·At every mile stood a· "mile-castle" or blockhouse.
ZOO'S WHO
ALIZARD CAN GROWA NEW TAIL MORE *THAN ONCE.....
THE ALLIGATOR GAR WHICH MAY GROW TO
BE 15 FEET LONG IS THE LARGEST FRESH WATER FISH IN NORTH
AMERICA.
THE SOUTH AMERICAN". OPECTACLED BLAR
HAS A HABITA OF BUILDING STICKS IN TALL
*NESTS" OF
TREES..
THE BALD EAGLE W HEADIS FULLY FEATHERÈDITS HEAD FEATHERS ARE WHITE, IN THE DAYS WHEN THIS BAGLE WAS NAMED BÂLD”WAS A
SYNONYM FOR WHITE
Iegions. The
wore
Forts with barracks for 500 to 1,000 men étteù into the wall liko keystones nt intervals of four to five miles. In addition to barracks, each fort contained a regimental headquarters, shrine for worship of the em- peror, baths, stables, shops, and granaries.
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It had a ditch in front, milltary road behind, and to the Bouth an earthwork of uncor tsin, use called the "vallum.".
For two and half centuries the wall was manned by a feros of perhaps 18,000 men. Many lived on the wall from birth to death. Villages drow up about this forla Noi mavy villages have been acrosysted, but merÍAT pholography ta lo ta thấy TIẾNG extensive.
The wall was overthrows and reconstructed at least twists,
Today, enough of the wall re-
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"I think you ought to play sofa. that game of dominoes with us,"
Knarf and Teddy watched Mr said Knarf, "We're
almost Merlla come crawling out from through right now."
Mr Merlin glanced over to see how the game of dominoes was getting along."
he sild.
mains to help or hinder farmers "You'll be at it for another
and to stand unrivalled as the five or ten minutes." greatest monument of Britain's "I'll play a game of ball in the Homan occupation.
meantime."
under the sofa. Ho was himself again,
"That was a nice game of ball you had with yourself, Mr Merlin," Knari sald,
"It was that,” said Mr Merlin. bumped myself quite a bit, too."
He rubbed the top of his head.
HAM І сев you're pretty
Rupert and the Thinking Cap-34 of dominoct he said.
The pole are all puasled as the¦ rune so the slope. ** Hi, Gregory,**- way. Gregory has kept himath / le sale Where here you best ? alsed from thani. Howsvate in seat Why do you keep away from us i `gold day and they soon Torput him ; - Hava yon moun the Qigay
in jira fegurner of the name of foot, Cannay?
ball. All st page: Rupert Guides
andy, breaking Lisent the memes know, some and walking
nearly through with your game
"Yes," said Knarf "We're nearly finished."
Fly A Kito
"I don't suppose," "zaid Mr | Merlin, "that I've got time to‘fly
a kitor"
Mr Merlin put his hands in the air with his elbows bent and his fingern touching. He stood with his knees stuck out and his Loco together. It looked for a second though he wera.about to tura himasif into a kits,
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No boy or girl would want to construct a kite of such gigan- tle proportiong yêt it is fun, 14 you have had success on fyld the small simple models, to double your proportions this season and make a biggy.
that
Buliders
recommend large kites should be made of cambric cloth for better per-
formance in the air and, of course, heavier cotton twine.
about 10-ply, is halter than the
kind
ordinarily used, The bridle should be measured ar- curately to make sure of the proper balance and the string must be the right length,
Boxed-kites, winged-kitea; novelty – kites, war - kites and trailer-klies all tend themselves
RIVERS
URING geography, clate the
teacher asked, """Wille, "eins
But at that second, Teddy yu name the principal river in
ESTRIT! shouted? "Our game of dominoes
...
is over, Mr Marlini Eve lost! "It's "the Nile” replied Willle.
You can play Kittl
That's right.
THREAD A PIECE OF YARN THROUGH THEM. 2.MAKE A FRAME FROM WHITE CARDBOARD TO FIT OVER FRONT
3DRAW
SHAPE OF BOX
IN CENTER OFALARGE PIECE OF WHITE CARDBOARD... DRAW A BORDER 2 IN.OUT FROM THAT AND CUT AWAY REST
DRAW LINCH FLAPS INSIDE BOX LINES... CUT TO BOX LINE
CUTOUT
CORALES
THEN OUT OUT [***] CENTER
4 SCORE ALONG BOX LINES.
·FOLD FLAPS BACK AND GLUE
FRAME OVER FACE
OF BOX
SET
BOX ON EDGE
OF A DRESSE
Now can you
PICTURE ANDE
do Mr Marlin smiled and be - hame" | noma»»of mile) Camaller didn't turn himself to a kite, tributaries?
Instead, he said himself down
and started to play a game of Wille beslisted and answered dominoes: S
with a smile, "The Juvonies"
LEAV
BOX.