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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH ́ ́1, 1958.
FEATURES FOR
BOYS
AND
GIRLS
From Milk to Music-Trees Bear Strange
NE OF THE first sclent- each day of its rowing season.
Ot to explore the
Orinoco River, over 150 years ago. told about strange tree.
stone. For several
not a
cur
a
"On a barren flank of a rock grows a free with leathery, dry
rools leaves. Its large
into thu scarcely penetrate
months of single shower folinge.
It branches
and прореаг dead dried; but when the trunk is plerved there Blows from it a sweet and nourishing milk.
the year molstens
"I is at the rising of the sun that this vegetable fountain is mont abundant. Natives
from all then soen kastening quarters, furnished with large bowls to receive the milk which Arows yellow and thickens at the surface. Some empty their bowis under the tree itself, Juice home to others carry the their children."
No wonder those natives in the northern Cordilleras call the tree "arbai de leche" or "the milk tree!"
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BUT IF it in your job to take growing white oak, care of you may find that this is a very thirsty friend, because it will 15 gallons of water
consume
In Borneo there is a very odЛ
tree which we might think of
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daddy-long-lege. It has roots that grow 80 feet high before the trunk begins to grow.
Do you
judge the ego of a its size? If so, free by
the Japanese plum is one which might upadi your calculations because this variety has been cultivated to remain tiny, There which is over 500 is even une years old but which is only
nice feet high.
And if you predict futuro стора from the number of blossoms a frult tree may have, the Japanese cherry would equally deceptive. It la prove Used merely 23 07 ornament and never has any fruit.
And did you know there are real "good neighbour trees?" are the pipals. These They are planted inside the houses in India and trained to grow out through
The the windows. sound made by the wind os It branches is con- rustles the sidered music, which should be shared with friends.
ALL OF UB Bike to have our bloom profumoly. frull trees To
This fermera encourage carefully protect their orchards from the cold.
Cannonball tree, from the tropics, grows round pods which explode with a loud bang, throwing seeds in all directions.
WHY CALL THEM
runge.
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THERE ARE MANY He speaks elcary, though in a versions of the story soft voice: As some of you may not know what a "Maverick" is, about the origin of the term I will try and explain. In the "Maverick." For my money, curly days, a man by the name the the one I like best is the of Maverick settled short yarn told by Charles Lavaca River and started a cow He, being a chicken- Siringo. Charlie was born hearted uld rooster,
wouldn't on February 7, 1850, in the brand nur carmark any of hi
All his neighbours extreme southern part of cattle.
Mr the Lone Star State, on the branded theirs; therefore
Maverick claimed everything Peninsula of Matagorda. And during his life he help the
broke war
out, Mr cd brand steers without any Maverick had to bid adieu to marks on them as well as wife and babies and go for chase the men who tried to a night for his country's When the cruel war was change brands.
ended, he went home and found his cattle roaming over a thou- ang hills. Everywhere he went he could see thousands upon thousands of his long-eared calile.
Get bit closer to the camp fire and listen to him spill his tule of the early west. And re- member, sir, that the West to a Texan-is only Texas.
that wore long ears, When
Dway
THAT CRITTER DOESN'T HAVE SOMEBODY ELSE'S BRAND,... IT MUST BELONG TO ME
A Matter Of Small Size
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-Teddy's Unhappy Because He's So Big-No Bigger~~
By MAX TRELL
EDDY, the Stuffed Bear, was
TEDD
shaking his head from side
to side. There was a diamal
expression on his face,
By and by, Hiawatha, the Small-Sized Wooden
Indian, came along. In contrast to Teddy, Hiawatha looked very cheerful. Hia bow was plung ever his shoulder and there was D. quiver of crrows at his side. He had just come from an after- noon of hunting.
Hiawatha stopped to look at his sad friend, Teddy,
"What's the matter with you. Teddy?" Hiawatha said.
In A Cracked Volco
“Hi ya, Teddy” said Knarf.
"ts" Gald Toddy. "And caterpillars grow up to be "Nothing that
And tadpoles grow do buterflies? can you
And calves grow anything about," said Teddy in to be frogs?
• Blow cracked voice.
to be cows?"
"I feel Ane," sald Hiawatha. "I've just been hunting buffalo and antelope. I didn't catch any, but I'm happy just the same."
"I wish I was," said Teddy, shaking his head dismally agein from side to skle.
It's All True
Knart kept right on nodding
Mr Punch laughed.
"You're not small, Teddy. You're big!"
"I am not," said Teddy. "Teddy," said Mr Punch, "there are lots of things I could ask you to do and you couldn't do them because you're too big" "I'd just like to know some things that I couldn't do because I'm too big" said Teddy.
"All right," said Mr Punch, pointing to the door, "lot me see you get out of this room without opening the door."
"I can't," said Teddy. "Nabody can."
"You're
wrong about
that."
sold Mr Punch. "A By can get through the door by crawling through the keyhole. But you're too big to do that."
Toddy was "sflent,
Little Ledge
that little
ceiling?" "Let me zec
"And do, you see ledge just under the said Mr Punch. you sit on it."
can't,"
his head and saying all this was "Nobody can," true.
sald
Teddy.
Just then, Mr Punelt "A spider can," said Mr walked over from the other side Punch.
of the room.
Teddy finally fell happier. He began to be glad that he wasn't any bigger than he was already A what's bothering because there swere 1019 of me," said Teddy. "All those things he could do now, such as Hiawatha had just about gone is,
and crawling under the sofa, hiding' tors, children Shodow Boy caterpillars, when Knarf, the
grow under the desk, squeezing him- all
self behind the bookcase, and so
Hiawatha. seeing that there
"Now what's this all about?" was nothing he could do, went he asked Teddy.
"This whooping off.
they with the Turned-About Name, bigger. But I keep staying the
me, along.
same size. I was a Teddy Bear
" ya, Teddy!", said Knarf last year, the year before that, "See this Ashing rod?"
and the year before that and
** do," anid Teddy, "What I'm still the same Teddy Bear. about 87"
"I've just been down to the nond to each some gunfish and sticklebacks. I didn't catch any bul-
"But you're happy just the aamo? sold Teddy.
His Fat Friand
Knort looked at his fat friend in surprise,
"How did you know that, Teddy?"
"I guerood It," said Teddy. "Everybody's happy, but me.”
"What's the matte with you, Teddy?" said Knari,
"Ne this," said Teddy. "Little trees grow up to be big trees, don't they?
"Of course," said Knarf. "And Uttle birds grow up to be big birds? And klitons grow up to be cata?. And puppies TOW up to be dogs? And children grow up to be mon and
"That's right,” Knard kept moring: "That's right!”
not an inch bigger than I ever way."
on, which he never could do it
he got an inch bigger.
"You Just keep on being p Teddy Bear, Teddy," Knari said. "I will," said Teddy. And he smiled.
Rupert and the Lost List-22
says Rupert, "I think I know what all may pale want for Christmas and you'va "juar· found out what Mar. garet and Brian want. Why not make a new Bat ? *ony brought the one bit of paper."
The reindeer only grunts when it la spoken to and does not try, to rise This is the last stemw erica Gily in desperation. "Stupid thing! 10 must have eaten my but. Suppose it dies ¦ What will Santa
I can't camember what I. Golly" moana. ** Oh dear, what Zwrote on my liat and * shall I do ?. What shall I say in
**Perhaps I can help you then,” Santa Claus 2.
ALL MONTH, RESERVED
Mover
. But did you know that there are trees which are never per- mlited to bloom, allowed to bear fruli, and are always chopped down to pre. vent them from blooming and frailing?
Tho save palm of India (Matrosylon Rumphil) is such An oddity. It will bloom only once in its litotime and it wit be 15 years old.
But it is chopped down at the oge of 14 Do that it is not allowed to bear full. The pith which fills jts trunk
extracted, pulverised, pressed, baked and rendered into the Inge of commerce, a well-known food and dessert.
Should the tree be allowed to bear fruit, it would
DOZZELIGIO the entire 700 pounds of go It contains and would be a total loss to its cultivators.
When these trees grow wild, they bear fruit
only once and then die. That isn't much like our sugar maples, for maples keep producing every spring for yerra when they are given proper care,
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IT WAS Texas
Governor Hogg of who proved
what different varieties of nuts can dn when given a chance. On his deathbed, the governor re-
MAVERICKS ?
TO FIND AN EARLY AMERICAN, CONNECT DOTS IN ORDER,
STARTING
HERE
But when his neighbours and all the men in the surrounding country came home and went to branding their five years' in- crease, Mr Maverick did not feel so rich. He made a terrible furs about it, but it did no good, and in a very few years his cattle man's wore some enterprising brand and he was left out in the cold.
Hence the term "Maverick." At first people used to any, "Yonder goes one of Mr
Maverick's Animals!"
Now say, "Yonder goes a Maverick!"
It is submitted that this is the beat and only correct version of
quested that no monument bo placed at his grove. Instand, to Baked that a pecon tree bo planted at his head, an old- fashioned walnut at his feet.
And that when these trees bore nuts that the peerns and walnuts be given out among the plains people of Texas so that them and they could plant make Texas à land of trees,
Hii wlakes were carried out. The first Bula were saved in 1926 and planted in nursery
w
When the saplinge are large enough to transplant, they are
distributed to schools and coun- ty boards, a practice which has been done every year since.
This is the nicest memorial I have ever heard of, although iwis Inexpensive. It proved how Hille effort in needed to restore acres which lacked trees.
For the Rovernor's gift is helping the programme of better lumbering practices
that America wil not be denuded of forests in fact, it is now well-grounded policy to cut no more lumber than is grown.
By Eleanor Marshall "
WRITE TO:-
I am a boy eight years old. I
HOW AMAZE
TO YOUR FRIENDS 1.PUT A THICK COAT OF RUBBER CEMENT OVER ONESIDE OF A SMALL COIN. PUTABLOB OF CEMENT IN CENTER OF BOTTOM OF A DRINKING GLASS.
COIN~~
CEMENT
2.PLAGE A SECOND GLASS ON
A TABLE, BOTTOM UP.....
PUT THE COIN ON IT, CEMENT
SIDE UP... PUT
GLASS
WITH
CEMENT ONTOP
OF COIN.
Fruit
3.POUR WATER
IN THE TOP GLASS... 4.PUT A LARGE
COLORED HANDKERCHIEF QVERGLASSES.
6.REPLACE
GLASS UNDER
5.LIFT TOP GLASS ...POUR OUT WATER.
COIN
AS YOU POUR OUT WATER LET COIN FALL
HANDKERCHIEF... INTO PALM. ASK PALTO
LOOK FOR COIN...
NOW, HOLD COIN IN PALM AND POUR WATER BACK INTO GLASS AND AT SAME TIME STICK COIN TO BOTTOM. PIT GLASS ON TOP OF RESTONE!
Your Puzzle Corner
Visiting tho Disklet of Columbia:
WASHINGTON REBUS
If you use the words and pic- an in the third grade. 1 Ike to turen to your best advantage, flah and awim. I.collect minia-you'll have little trouble Ending ture licence plates. I also like to the four Washington bulldings make model airplanes and other Puzzle Peto has hidden in his things. I'd like to have girls and rebus: boya between eight and 10 write to me.
Donald Bishop
74 Bannett Avenue Auburn, Maino
I am a giri 12 years old. I have red-brown hair and blue eyes. My hobby is collecting ple- I would like tunes of unimals.
the story. If you disagree, don't to have pen pals from all over argue with me. Tell it to the world. Charlie Siringo. But remember,
he could
handle a
with deadly nécuracy.
elx-shooter
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Nancy Taylor
2020 Walnut Avenue Anniston, Alabama
I am a giri. I will be 10 years old in July 4. I have brown buir and brown eyes. My hobby le cutting paper dolls, i would like to have pen pals nine to 11 years old.
Diane Braga 393 E. McKinley Sunnyvale, Calif.
MY NEW DREDS 19
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USE GOOD
GENSE!
WE HAVE TO DO
BOLCTER OUR CLUB TREASURY!!
U.S.GOMETHING TO
CATE MY
SUPPER IN A
HURRY!
SCRAMBLED MESSAGE
Puzzle Peto had a little trou- Ible with his sentence about the District of Columbia, but feels you can straighten him out:
1 да
a girl 11 years old. have brown hair and I have grey eyes. I am in the sixth grade. I would like to have pen pals from all over the world. ages 10 to 12.
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Mary E. Weaver
801 Second Street Jacksonville, Alabama
District such, on municipal the as vote or of of matters do altber Residentia Columbia, not national
DIAMOND
The District of Columbia be- the U.S. ipg the sile of
I am 12 years old, with brown hair and blue eyes. I like all FEDERAL government provided kinds of sports. I promise to Puzzle Pete with a centre, for write to anyone who writes to his diamond. The second word 13 "encountered"; third Ha feminine couřiosy' tille''; fifth "to Unger"'; and sixth "arth month":
me.
Sharon Traxler. Route 2
Camden, Michigan
I am 12 years old. I have dark blond hair, blue eyes, I am in the seventh grade. I would ilke
to have a lot of pen pals.
1830 Clayton Avenue Racine, Wisconsin
Betty Kercher
FEDERAL
CROSSWORD
Cartoonist Cai, to keep the District of Columbla motif, has. Pate's crossword. put Puzzle
a silhouette of the puzzle on Lincoln Memorial:
ACROSS
I The District of
Columbia
Is the site of the U. S. government
7 Scottish sheepfold.
8 Poem
Italian river
10 The foreign embassies --
In the District of Columbia
11'Not down
13 Compass polni
14 High card
10 Ridicules
DOWN
1 French (ab.) 2 Lamprey 3 From
4 Stout cord
6 Bustle
Left end (ab.)
10 Micker
11 Employ
12 Frozen water
13 Diminutive of Edgar
14 Paid nolice in a newspaper 15 East Side (ab.) PRESIDENTIAL MIX-UPS
You'll And four Presidents of the United States concealed hors If you rearrange the letters in each of these strange lines;
SHINTO EGG WON RAGE RAH NEC MAIL LOAN DOOR HERE LOOT STEVE FORE FEN SMASH JOT
(Answers on Page 19)
Make Modelling Clay With Salt
Dhobby?
want A
new 24 to 48 hours. It will then be can get unusual effects in your Tired of the very hard, and can be painted pictures with this gadget. Wosh old stand-bys? Then try This clay is soft enough to using.
salt sculpturing.
with water colours,
It's as use in a cake decorator, so you
simple and easy as clay modelling, and doesn't re- quire a high degree of artistic skill. You can make the salt "clay" in the kitchen, but promise to wash everything when you're finished.
Combine 3 cups course, sait in- 4 sauce pan with 131⁄2 cups water. Heat until mixture bolls. Boil gently three minutes.
Add enough cold water to 1 cupe cornstarch to make a smooth paste, Blòwly add corn- starch to bolling salt mixture, stitrlag, constantly to prevent
Zumping. Bell and stir until mixture is thick and smooth.
Scrape into a clean bowi and
The accompaniment is only Incidental and must be "dog tool." harmony" rather
The salt clay la worked just than ERE'S a dog that's a human. To the people in the same type of articles can he as you do moulding clay, and Hcool cat when it comes to the
audience the music made. tho plano. Her namo'je Dixio sounds more like thumping To make malt
In place of ply«. Belle and she is an English of the keys. After all, the flatten clay en
wood (of the size "you wish the pointer. She Hives in Detroit vice is the thing and no falshed picture) and cut out dem
clay pictures,
at the home of her owner, one can deny that Dixio sign with a cookie cutter, or use Herman Park. Mr Park has Bolle has a powerful ↑ con- cardboard · designs. and cut taught her to do 80 tricks. tralto voice with tremendous around border with a' charg
imire Among the most popular la range, Some say it is more "When filated, allow olay t her singing act at the piano, powerful than contralto. " harden in a warm, diky place for
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the decorator immediately after
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