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FEATURES
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1958.
FOR
BOYS
AND
GIRLS
TAKE A TIP FROM CHINESE YOUTH ON BUILDING KITES
TWIN FISH CHINESE
DOUBLE
KITES
BUTTERFLY FLYINO
DEGIGN CENTIPEDE
SPLIT TAIL SWALLOW
Merlin's Magic Wagon
-When the Magician Told It to Go, It Went!......
By MAX TRELL
KNARF, the Show Bay with
I the turned-about name, was sitting in the little red express wagost, HE alster Hanid was pulling him.
At the end of the street, Knarf got out of the express wagon, Hanid gol In Knart pulled Ilunld back to the top of the street
And so it went on for an hour or, more with Knarf pulling Hold and Henld pulling Knart,
both in turn.
Suddon Surpriso
It was toward the end of the afternoon, when both Khurt and Hanid were too tired to pull the express wagon any more, that they were surprised to see on- other express wagon coming up
tic strect.
A man was sitting in it. How- ever, no one was pulling him. This led them with astonish ment, especially as the street went up hill.
How, they wondered, could an express wagon roll up hill all by liselt. They watched it coming nearer and nearer.
The next moment the mm sitting in the express wagon waved to them. Then they were surprised to discover that it was Mr Merlin,
Magnificent the Magiclan.
Magic Wagon
He
9:30
Kwarf and Hand took turns pellin; each other in the
Wagon,
you won't find any mator under my little wagon, either."
it
By IDA M. PARDUE
someone asked you to
a picture
probably be
would diamond-shaped.
That is the kind we all love to fly when sharp winds blow. It is the most common kite shape, but it isn't the kind of kite a Chinese boy or girl would prefer.
China has been a kite-loving country for hundreds of years. Not just the children but their fathers and mothers, too, play
wi b
KITES THAT WHISTLE Mementoes Trace Baseball History
RESIDES building them in many fascinating shapes, the Chinese are fond of kites that whistle and hun. Bamboo sticks with hates in them are fastened to the kite. The wind, rushing through the holes. creates a whistle or a musical sand, according to the design. The sound cometimes carries a long way.
Then there are the fighting klies. These have sharp blis of glass glued to the kite string. flushing. gorgeously If two Oghting kites come closo coloured kites during late together, their owners try to senison. And Buch kitest Our fly them in such a way that one cimple diamonds look tame will cut the other down. Some Indeed, beside China's magnifi Chinese believe it is goed to cent flyers.
10:0 ake. Often a kite is Soaring proudly above the deliberately cut, for as it flies lied house-tops, one stes away, it takes with it any many different shapes- sprawi- punishment
the Owner's ing zarda, wiggly spiders, mistakes. serly dragons, Ash, hawks, Many long years ago, Ilies butterflies, Towers, and insects. were not just playthings. They What is the largest kite you were probably invented about ver saw? In China, spokes 30 400 B.C. In ancient China and feet long lm the skies in kito Korea, kites were used by the season. There are kites which armies to carry cables across measure fix or seven feet from rivers and ravines 50 thet wing to wing.
coldiers could follow,
GET
for
The kids who aren't up when breakfast is ready are usually called down.
Old and new in baseball mitts.
Collection of historic press badges.
Think It's Easy To Cut A Hit Tune'?
Read What This Singing Star Tells Us
By GUY MITCHELL
As Told to Jocy Sasso VER since I was lucky enough to score with my Columbia recording of "My Heart Cries for You" people everywhere
song?" you ask him.
"Maybe of the studio goes on and "take"
It doesn't look like anything number one is under way. Half right now," he replies.
"But way through, the recording wait till you hear the arrange- director shouts, "No good. Let's ment we can do on it. We can take another. You boys In the give this a real sound." There's brass, put your mutes in your masie horns with less noise. Sounded Then, like a boiler factory."
a standard offer in the business: "Pick nothing but hit tunes for a record company and have you can name your own salary how what makes 11 go by 1-been bombarding me with up to a million a year.”
self?" asked Knart.
one remark in particular. "It's a little trick." said Mr "Boy, how I'd like to be in I talk to my wagon in your business," they say. Mezin,
There's nothing) the right way.
to it. Here, get in your wagon, "Cut a record and then alt 20. of you and I'll show you, back and watch it climb.
Nothing to it."
Nothing to it?
what I mean."
Mr
SPECIAL LINGO
the song for Next, the arrange- ment. Sometimes this poses no
So they've got
you.
problem at all. Other times it Without believing that
I've got can get pretty Involved. Things like: "The feeling is wrong"; Merlin could do anything at all. news for them. It isn't as
"The
homa are Д Utile There's
strong"; "Don't to it. I don't could use
etc.
Kart and Hanid nevertheless simple as that
sat themselves wagon.
to go.
Say
that
you think
too we
10 a harp or Hlute
the background
fake two. Take three. Take four." How far can you go? We did 16 takes on "You'll Never Be Mine."
Tolking of "takes," when the going gets rough and musicians "take berin to tire they get five" which is anything from a And, guess I'll take of now. five to 15-minute break.
Oil And Animals
CREW had completed drilling of an oil
A the
well in Oklahoma. Two of the crew wore swabbing.
Suddenly there was an ex-
Flames enveloped the two men who were swabbing. Shricking in pain and terror, the twe mea Icaped uway from the The rest of the crew
Chicago Historical Society display of baseball mementoes -includes step-by-step demonstration of method used to make bats of ash, Rackberry or blekory.
Make It
down in their much more
want you to get the idea "We're all ready," said Knorf, that it's the hardest thing
Let's skip the problem of gel- "Good!" said Mr Merin. "Now I've done. It isn't. Try this is all you have to do.
ting the arrangement and go to cowhand, the recording studio. 1
The first Go when you want your wagon working as
And say Stop when you riding from before sunrise time you enter one of these want it to stop."
to after sunset as I did places you think your hearing is It was the most amazing thing and you know what a hard left out of your education. Peo-tric motor had ignited gas from or maybe something was plosion. A spark from an elec- Mr Merlin now drew up be-
Harid side Knarf and
when Knarf said Go the ex-day's work is. But making ple speak whole sentences and utlered the word: "Stop!" press angon went rolling down a record has its own special sto don't know what they're the well. Whereupon
Then you realise the express wagon the street; but at the command brand of headache that can talking about.. Immediately cume to a stop. Stop, it instantly stopped,
special language has been wearing be Just as Mr Merlin now slepped out of My Merlin followed along with sitting in a
developed for this special world. saddle for ten Ca-231456 take one on the red" the express wagon. He greeted
translated means Record Num flames, hours. Knarf and Hanid in his usual them in his own express wagon.
Before you even begin to her Co-231450, this is our first pounced on them and wrapped
recording of the tune. Start re-them tightly in canvas, smother-FREES!! think of cutting a tune, cording when you see
lives. "We feel fine, thank you," said "It's a good invention," he you've got to find it. This light go cn.
To some, drilling for off le a I think I'll have it takes anywhere from two "And how do you feel, agreed.
Here дго some
and glamorous busi- patented."
days to two months, You "Balance is off." This doesn't thrilling
work, and hazardous, For the rest of the afternoon, take time out every day to mean that you're tipping over. It means that the string, reed or Kharf and Hanid went riding up look over new material. stane other section of the the streets in their Sometimes it's necessary to orchestra is either too strong or and down expers wagon without having to do any work at all. It was try a hundred new songs not strong enough. A "clinker" "The attack 19 Be a beautiful little automobile, before you find one you like. is a sour note,
wrong" means the musicians or
pleasant manner and asked them how they felt.
Hanid. Mr Merlin?"
"Smashing" said Mr Merlin. "Just smashing?"
"We're tired of pushing our express wagon around," said Khart.
"I see," said Mr Merin, He walked slowly around the red express wagon in which Knarf and Hardd had been rid- ing. Carefully, he examined the wheels, then he kneeled down and peered underneath.
"What are you looking for, Mr Merlin? Hanid anally asked.
"The engine," said Mr Merlin.
this,
Good Invention
But the surprising thing is When, the "next day, Kaart and Honld climbed Into
others:
but better than an automobile At the same time your singer are coming in ni tho because it moved and stopped manager is doing the same wrong time, either late or early, the minute you spoke to it, just
thing and 50 в the particularly at the very start like a horse,
"Keep the voice recording director of the of the song.
on top of the music" is what the record company.
the Kcording director tells You nally And the
stund engineer when the musle song is drowning out the vocalist. the express wagen and com- you'd like to do and then the munded it to go, it didn't go at fun begins. "It's a good tune,
THE PUNISHMENT pl.
your manager tells you, "but it's "It's okay," "Oh dear," said Hanld, not your type."
Kays the
recording director, VOU learn the language and guess the only time this trick
Not
you learn something else, "It hasn't got an engine," said works is when Mr. Merlin is "okay, but it won't sell.
commercial," So you give up too, Before you star: a "take" Kunid.
around. I only wish we were and look over the number your you have to rehearse a number Meanwhile Knart had been magnificent magicions!"
m.naper artected. "It's great," pad work it out with the orch- looking under Mr Merlin's little
"but this is for stra. Timo consumed for this i you tell him, Jakonde Ray, not for me. Then varles from 20 minutes to two wagon.
you look at the recording hours. Then everybony gets rector's choice. *This is 3 Eat, the red light in the centre
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"But we aren't" suld Knarf. "Don't bother, my boy," said And so they had to take turn Mr Merlin, after he noticed pulling and riding, just as they Knart looking under his wagen, always did.
Rupert and the Lost List-12
Rupert, explaine as clearly as be can where the, new voortigen arb. though the for blots put the view, and the Golliwog blows a shrill while Almost at once another figure in cowboy costume runs out of the min. What is it now ?"
waiting for you, and the reindeer are getting impatient, They won't tind all." *** Can's help it," maps the Galloway. I thought our work was done buc ̈ ̃^le-incife, Rupert has told ine about two new -costages 1 had never heard of, and
cries the cowboy. "We're all the are children in chem
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Only the drill bit can answer
EARRING PIN SET
Yourself
Little League players and any boy or girl who takes a turn at bat in a neighbour- hood
should be game interested In baseball'a history. The Chicago His- torical Society has exhibited some of the interesting equipment from the early days, From the foundation of the first professional the National league, Association, in 1871, base- bull has come a long way, with many changes in its wake.
When the bills come in, dad has no trouble at all being the head man of the house,
A Scrapbook Gift W Here is
17ANT A NEW hobby? one you can start right away. Make an activity scrapbook, using articles clipped from the Boys' and Girls' Pages. Add to the scrapbook all through the school year-and soon you will have a well-filled book. It would make a wonderful gift for a friend, A scrapbook can be bought at most varioly stores for ✡ amall sum. Buy a jar of puste, or make some from flour and water-and you are ready to
3.When plaster is dry,peel
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1.Mix 4 tablespoons of HOUSEHOLD CEMENTincups PATCHING PLASTER into of the earring screws
a thick paste...(MIXINWATER when cement is tacky. A SPOONFUL AT A TIME)
ARHING MASTER
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OF FOOD
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Helpful
Customer: Td like to buy
these and other questions. Fornomo pillow cases. oil is where you find it.
Pocis of oil began forming
Clerk: What size, sir? Customer: Well, I wear
nges ago. Ancient seas rolled size seven hat,
over the land, eventually sub- ckled, and years later returned. And every time there was A flood, sediment was deposited.
Various formations were laid down. Some of the limestone and sand formalions were DOR-
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Lamps
By IRMA HECEL
caENT.PUTA SMALL SAFETY PIN
ON BACK OF FREE FORM AND FASTEN
PLACE WITH
CLOTH..
DECORATE WITH WATERCOLOR PAINTS..
WHEN DRY COAT WITH
CLEAR SHELLAC
This Is Why
Question: Why do they dress baby girls in pink and boys, in blue?
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Answer: Because they can't dress themselvOK.
edge to her shade and in each flower sticks a scaller-pln brooch A cul-out artist cuta dogs, cats and fish from blue and red paper, fixes them to
or
Oll i thought to be deenyod animal matter or a combinationAVE you a lamp on your shade and presents the finished
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of decayed animal and vegetable desk or your burcout Boys original to a 'a cat-owner, dog-
girls Crude oil in a rather i and
aro buying plain lover or fah-hobbyist chum,.
be can thick, duld, Some olls contain shadea for their lamps and doing Shader
purchased paratii and
from the lampshade. contain their own decorating. A stamp cheaply asphalt.
Adding
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girl has posted a flowered felt shade distinction.
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Carefully cut out the rugges- tions of projects and things to Faste etch clipping neatly on a scrapbook page.
Now, suppose you decide to give your scrapbook to a hos- pital, as a gift for sumo sick child. An activity book im't much good without
the necessary materials for making the things described. But you can provide those, 100.
Suppose you have clipped three items which will fit on one scrapbook page directions for a mim wrapper ring a paper napkin greeting card, and a gume played with a gummed label All you need do is add an evelope, pasta the front of it to the scrapbook pago, and tuck inside a gum Wrapper. gummed label, and paper napkin. Bulkler ma- terials, such as a small pair of scissors,
a pencil and SOLA crayons, could co Inside a larger envelope pasted to the front of the scrapbook.
A tow riddles and quizzes, with the Enswers, would do nicely for the activity book, too. It will be fun for you to make and watch now
READING
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getting · z... great desi ár enjoyment from her book ut trpe stories - Xt's 'Fan V BE well as good for you to read
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