FEATURES
THE CHINA MAIE,
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1958.
FOR
BOYS
AND GIRLS
LEARN CHINESE FOLK LORE
IT WAS ON A FINE DAY. a shining butterfly had emergoð,
IT A
another and another butterfly popped Out
thon
Few
of China nearly five thou- aried their gleaming wings in sand years ago, The Em- the Busting and prens Si-li-shi walked among aray. the flowers with her ladies.
"1 must see this
curious thing," said the Empress to her There were not many days
imperial court could indies. "Bring me some of the when the go comfortably abroad, for install shining ovals." those days even emperors and empresses had only leaves and grosses and the skins of birds 10 wear us clothing. So the Empress 3-8-ahl walked slow- ly in the warm sun, enjoying the morning and the flowers
The ovals were sleek and cool
to the touch. Soon the Empress' Angers found a Uny projecung thread. Carefully she began to
ned bids and insects that made wind the shining fibres and 11 beautiful.
found them surpisingly strong. of The web became a heap shining flaments. The Empress wound the threads on the out-
of her ex retched hands
ladies
Het have happened to fall upon a mulberry tee near the
"How beautiful!" Patti, claimed the Empress, "Seo, the tree is filled with silvery fruits that away in the breeze..."
She
sionung paused, her oriental eyes growing round with astonishment,
From one of the silvery ovala that she had thought were frulls
all the 4,400 yards of silk that can be secured from the coooon of a single silk worm filed those hands with beautiful fibres.
The Empress stared from the bres to the leaves und bird skins that were her clothing. "If fruits of the mulberry these
The Empress thought, "Thes fruite of the mulberry could be woven into a magnificent
coat for the emperor."
mulberry "fruit" had become a tiny bit of cloth.
Oller ladies were set to work unwinding more of the "fruits." All the servants were set to work at weaving. Soon there WAR a length of a beautiful strong cloth that was worthy of clothing the Emperor him- self. The Arst dik had been woven.
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The Emperor Hwang-il was impressed by the gift of cloth. I was made Into a magnificout cout. Then he lamed an im- perial edict ordering the people to learn the art of silk spinning and weaving.
"Let enough be woven," he that the people urdered, "so
shall have such clothing.""
Grateful to the Empresa Si- -shi who had first noticed the
could be woven into cloth --" "Irults" of the mulberry, the she said thoughtfully.
Chinese named her "the Ances She and her ladies
tress of the Thread" and gave When they were her name to one of the stars the threads from the in the sky,
monted. through
experi-
Doll's Clothes Easily Made
FE OF
Measure from dolly's nook to knes, then use this lengtà in a string compass" and draw a circle on a piece of paper. Using this as a pattern, with pinking shears cut dolly's dress out of any cloth. Cut a small neck out of exact center, make two short allts for over shoulders, then punch (with card punch) four boies. Silp it over doily's head and ship one- quarter-inch ribbon through holes and make a tie on each shoulder. Then arrange the gathers and tie another salla ribbon around for a bell, making a bow at the back..
Make the coat like the dress, except an inch or so longer, and prem back two front lapels after siliting it up the front. NEGA PO Put it on dolly with three little gold safety pins. over dolly's hair for the hat wish, cut a circle as large as is wanted and punch two boles at edge of hat crown. Ban the wider ribbon through the holes frons underneath, and over the top of the hat, leaving a brim from the holes to the edge. Tie under the chin.
GENERAL TIN'S BIRTHDAY
-He Thought The Lady He Loved Had Forgotten..........
By MAX TRELL
GENERAL Tin, the Tin Soldier, was standing guard in the Playroom with his musket over his ahoulder when Kaart, the Shadow Boy with the Turned- burst into the About Name,
room.
They ran right up to General Tin, shouting "Congratulations, old boy! Happy birthday, Gen- eral! Congratulations, Sir?"
said General Tin
"Sh-s-s-"
to all of them,
By this time, everybody in the Toom was asking General Tin in
he a puzzled voice why sh-sh-ushing them.
General Tin lowered his voice as he pointed toward the doll house on the other side of room under the sunny window. "It's Thursday," sald General "I don't want her to know," he
is
"General Tin!" erled Knerf. "Do you know what day it today?"
Tin,
"No! It's your birthday!" said Knarf.
"Sh-#-#-!" said General Thi "Not so loud, please."
Genomi Th hod Hurdly finished
this when saylog Knart's sister, Hanid, dashed Into the room through another door, she thr:w her arm around General Tin.
Bald.
the
"All right," said General Tin at length, you can hint to her.' "Hint? What's that?" Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, asked General
Tin.
"To hint," said General Tin "is to tell somebody something without telling him anything. I them mean it's liko making guess."
went
So while General Tin WOS
back to guarding the playroom door with his musket over his shoulder, the rest of his friends went around to the other side of the doll house to see what they could do about hinting to Gloria Doll that today
General Tin's birthday.
Everyone understood that by "her" General Tin meant Miss Gloria Doll.
General Tin was very much in love with Gloria. One day he was going to raurry her.
She Has Forgottan
"She's forgotten all about my birthday" General Tin went on In his low voice, and I don't want to remind her, I she finds out today, she'll want
prepare
was
They found Gloria stunding in the doorway
kitchen. of her She was wearing an apron and covered with her arms were flowers.
They Looked Excited
"Good morning," she greeted them. "You all look excited. Ifave you some news for me?"
"Oh it's nothing," Knerf a birthday party for me. It's began. "We were just thinking much too late for her to RO about General Tin. We thought
we'd buy him a present.” through all that trouble,"
"Happy Birthany, General Tin! Happy Birthday to you!" "Sb-8-1" said Generai Tin.
Behind The Bookcase
"But General Tin, dear," said Then Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, Hanid. "I'm sure Gloria would ond Hiawatha, the Small-Sized like to be reminded that today Indian, and Baron Munch who in your birthday. She'll be very all disappointed when she finds out
tomorrow."
lived behind the bookcase, came into the room.
Her Slippers Weren't Glass
DID YOU KNOW that Cin- it made a little mistake
derella's allppers
all!
that
were gave us Cinderella's lovely glass really made of velvet or soft slipper.
Ile mistook the French word. furt They werra't glass at
You see, the story of Cin- "vair," meaning fine, soft fur, derella is very, very old. In the for the French word "verre," days when it was written, ladies meaning gloss wore slippers of soft fabric, so naturally the author had his heroine, Cinderella, wear slip- pers of the same sort as other indle and princessen were wearing.
That's how the famous glass: slipper came into our lives.
I'm rather glad, the mistake Surely was made, aren't you? anyone might wear a fur or vel- vet slipper, but only a princoss When the story was trans- could wear a gings slipper. Cin- Iated from the French into Eng- derella without her tiny glass Uth, the person who translated slipper wouldn't be Claderella!
Once when Abraham Lincoln. was prezident, a delegation called upon him and asked him to appoint a certain man as com» milaner to the Sandwich Islands. They stated. his merits and niso added that he was in poor health, and needed the job in that climate. To this, Lincoln replied: "Gentleman; 7-am murry to say that there are eight other applicants for that job and they are all alcker than your man.”
"Not for his birthday or any- thing? Teddy put in hastily.
"Just a little present." Fald
"because cause
be
Hanid,
+
"Because we love him NO much, sald Baron Munich.
"Oh, of course, not for his birthday,” Gloria said: “11 im't General Tin's birthday today, is | 14?"
10-10
Gloria put candles on the General's birthday cake.
Gloria suddenly
nut burst laughing. Shọ hvited everyöne inside her kitchen. There on the table, fresh from the oven, was a big creamy birthday cake.
"Forget it was General Tin's birthday! I should say not!" she exclaimed. "We're going to give him a surprise party. Everyone 15 invited. Forget General Tin's Gloria went on. birthday?" "Deat, dear! I'd forget my own before I forget his! And how
Oh dear, you did hint to me. oh dear, oh dear."
It was a wonderful surprise birthday party and it really was
a surprise for General Tin.
It really would have hurt his feelings if Gloria had forgotten that it was his birthday, He loved her very much and one day, as I mentioned before, he meant to marry her.
Rupert and the Thinking Cap-40
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Bok, there he lef And, mare push the bond of the Bache
In spite of his pride in 'hia stilte Gregory is still rather alors, ac Rupert leave him I'd better run ahead and say that you're guinea-ply appears, bobbing along ---owenig,” be oɛyn, The- unhingi : la past, the all acid proping tisrough ambling when · be. Zagrivos. Use: window, B-Est la that ** Pleuro, are** ba calla breathlessly,
"Gregory won't be long. · He wis”? How has be grown'
ALL RIGHTS - ARANIYA
ZOO'S WHO YOUR PUZZLE
Scarbor
EN CHINA THE SALAMANDERS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH RAIN AND
EVEN BELIEVED TO CONTROL IT...
NATIVES ARE ADVISED NOT
TO CATCH SALAMANDERS DURING DAY SPELLS.
THE PERUVIAN BOOBY, A MEMBER OF THE GANNET FAMILY, IS A CLASSIC HIGH DIVER...FROM A HEIGHT OF FORTY OR FIFTY FEET THEY PLUNGE INTO THE WATER, DIVING TO GREAT
DEPTHS TO GORGE ON FISH...
Why Don't You Write To:-
My hobbles
Bre ceramics. swimming. skoling, and baseball I am 12 years old and going into the sixth grade, Maureen Christino McMullen
53 Gardner St. Vallejo, Calif
I would lite to hear from girls all over the world. I like to play tennis and collect re- curds.
Jane Burlew
739 Oakwood Ave, Vallejo, Calif. Age: 14
I airs an 11 year old and would like a pen pal from Eng- land. My favourite sport: are football, basketball, baseball, and competitive swimming.
Bob Foster 321 Crestwood Ave. Wadsworth, O.
I am
nearly ten years old
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CORNER
CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Low fellow
4 Native of Rome
7 Encountered
Feline nimal
9 Boy's nickname
11 Writing tool
10 Ua
13 Body of water
14 Flower part
10 Baseball stick
DOWN
1 Folding bed
2 Morning (ab.) 3 River barrier
4 Chest rattles
Stair
post
9 Head covering
Beverage
12 Fen point
13 Perched
13 Father
Z
ADD AND SCRAMBLE
My hobbies are collecting pins, To "a high card" add a letter barriers, stamps, and match-and have "a step." Add another covers. My favourite sports are letter and scramble for "an en- football and baseball,
tie"; and once again for "n floor |covering"
Bill Colo
488 Chestnut Hi Ave, Athol, Mass
TRIANGLE
MORALE provides n bos0 for the word traingle this time. The second word is on abbrevia- ilan for "company"; third is "pelther": fourth
gick's nime"; and fifth "a sea skole- ton." Can you finish the tri- anglor
MORALE
"H" WORDS
hidden
Cartoonist Cal has some things whose names begin with "H" in his drawing, How many can you find? Puzzlo Poto says he can find 12.
(Solutions on Page 19)
The Bow and Arrow Shaped History
XHEN KNIGHTHOOD the French, piercing armour,
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was in flower, archery was as much a necessity as food and drink. In fact, the tales of Robin Hood prove that archery produced most of the meat which made up a large part of the food then in use.
-
ers
bringing down horses and rid- to be trampled by other horses maddened by their
wounds.
At Poitiers and Agincourt, during the Hundred Years War and the Wars of the Roses, the longbow was the power which made the infantry a force to be reckoned with everywhere.
After the invention of guns, archery declined although arch-
by
those first weapons which made up in noise what they lacked In accuracy. and literally scared cnemies into flight.
In the twelfth and thirteenth urs could still get for deadlier
English centuries,
archers results than any achieved proved what frightful damage they could do with "arrow flights that darkened the sky."
Perhaps their greatest victory was the one at Crecy in 1345 when about 5,000 archers pour- ed 42,000 shafts a minute into
At
present, archery wholesome sport that muscular co-ordination.
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*Tie first archery club, the United Bowmen, was organised In Philadelphia in 1820.
In 1830, the National Field
Wis Archery Association ganised. It grew so rapidly that there was a membership of 4.500 when the first National Field Archery Tournament was held in later,
August. soven years
When the city of Columbus, Neb, went out in its search for projects that would supply jobs development, and help in city
Charles Saunders came up with one of his hobbies, making, of archery equipment. It provid- ed a flourishing business for the town.
-By E. M. Marshall
A GIRL'S DREAM
DREAM COMES
COMES TRUE
A DREAM CAME TRUE for Ann, Läno,' à “16-year-old farti girl. From the jeans. wblob'shin ordinarily wears on her farm home nëar:Delta, Ohio, sho waa- transported, se=15. by 'magie, into the mids) of a complete now, wardrobe of femtulas ritonealilon and....fanoles. It was; gjort, éfiler, priso" fer: boing picked 1987. Queen, of the Furrows for the thunal' pkrughing' content, thin your held in Poebles, Ohio, dan won over 1,100 contestants." She flow to New York to appear 'òn' "TV" and presided. over: tho....Weck's, POUŠTVELOS 26: Une contos). But har
chief, ibruli was the armfuls of clolies. Wanguneva: khak” she pisked on the photos: above. At the left is 'n dromer, outfi with the now: “French look." The box jacket has a kalited shawi collar and cuffs. The penalt-alim skiri la tired #4 ihn boltom with klok plonia. In the centre płokire she wYME A piald pull; and holds costs," dromed and handbagwa: Al etRREN, sho`haa' dolinet:sfeste skarvonë grey sladka and a abaroost SEO and whi's 'striped pullover, fervor. A colikko-style/ tillad cumpletos fala teleszo-fimo quiát,