<* THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1958,

FEATURES FOR BOYS AND

Crayon Fun Build Coloured Castles In Air Things To Do

Make Your

GIRLS

*

Own Menagerie

COLOUR LEGEND

- RID..

1 BROWN

ORANGE HE PURPLE

YELLOW

NOTE KEEP ALL

** BREAN COLOURS LIGHT

BLUE...

Our World -Scotty's Castle Is Still Amazing

N amazing feature about and five-gallon

Stetson.

A only red necktie an

"dress-up" occasions.)

that man conquered it even

Although he was above me- to the extent of erecting dium height, his weight made huge and beautiful build him appear stodgy. Everything Intriguing, ings. If you were to go about Scolly was there today, you could visit but I was his blue eyes which

particularly drew you to him! Death Valley Scotty's castic, which is really the show place of the area. YOLE would find it up against the in mountains. Can-yon. "Scotty."

of

Scotty had a great sense bumour. I think he was amused Grapevine at the whole world, and do you

know why? Well, I was cause he claimed to have "secret" gold mine

name

whose rent was Waller Sentt, "died in 1954. He has almost become a legen dary figure today In spite of the fact that he was one of the roughest, toughest old planeers

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somewhere

this

in Death Valley which to day no one has ever seen. But would openly the way Scotty flash rolls of currency

around

who ever attempted to "ame", seemed to give weight to his Death Valloy,

Once he decided to enter it, anakes, sandstorms uncl

claim.

There were also tales about

pockets being crammed buz- his zards had to give way to him. with gold. No wonder bandits

Scotty was a man of great look "pot

no wonder that he erected, this seemingly Impossible, but magnificent, casie. Nothing less gaudy would have satisfied him. I hope some day you can ärlyp up 10 the concrete, towered atructure which perhaps remind you first off, Spain. You will pay the $1.00 Yee, and then walk over the brloge Into the castle.

R

You will have lots of fun making all sorts of animals of wire and putty or clay. You can have all the toys you wait. Simply bend the wire roughly into the shape of the animal you want to make, as shown at left. Next,, press the material over it and shape with the fingers. When it hardens, sandpaper smooth and paint, as shown at right, above. There is no limit to the size of your menagerie-a long-necked giraffe, elephant with outstretched trunk, pudgy hippopotamus, spotted leopard and even a long boa constrictor.

Mr Merlin's New Shoes

When He Put Them On, He Went Floating Around-

By MAX TRELL

NARF Ind Hanid, the Shadows with the Turned- As you travel from room fo room, gay coloured files (which About Names, were sitting on

the house.. blend with the desert shades) the steps in back will smile up at you from all They were wondering whether I was worth walking around directions. Exquisite rugs and the block to visit a friend who tupestries and valuable ortid- ments from Italy, Spain

and always had cookies to give other European countries will them, when they heard footsteps make your eyes pop, You will on the pavement. find everything you expect to

Looking up, they saw that it

And in

a castle, from hand-was their friend Mr Merlin, ibe He was wrought

iran work to beauti-Magnificent. Magician, fully carved doors and coloured carrying a shoe box under his

arm, linhits.

All of this will seem strango-

Death Valley Scotty

"Good morning, my dears," shots" at this rick

"spinning all yarns." All he ly out of place to you in this sald Mr Merlin.

Knarf and Hanid returned the old desert dweller. M- wealth in his later years

blazing weird

desert. But According

greeting Langer asked was an audience.

land of un- would never have though you

At che Ume in his early days Death Valley is scars. have Scotty had many bullet dreamed 1 If you could seem him as I did in his faded But the old man was fearless, he rode with Buffalo Bill Be believably exciting contrasts

enjoyed ing a natural showman, it was By CAROLYN M. CRANE blue shirt, open at the neck, He

Short Story

PETUNIA

Lo

one

He loved

and

-Petunia Elephant Plays A Joke

ETUNIA elephant walk. games. Big tears slid down her

down the path frank.

"Why. Potunda," said Peler through the jungle. At Parrot, "you have cried a pud- least, she was walking as die of tears. Step on it and well as a very fat young make it disappear." elephant could walk.

"Here's

puddle. Petuniu!". screamed Peter Parrot from the tree above "Step on it and make it disappear."

the

Then she stepped hard onto In water.

fnet, she JUMPED in right by the log

Splash! What a tremendous holse it made. First the log Bounced. Then, down fell the water all over the monkeys and on Peter.

"Won't!" said Palunía, pout- Ing. Now they would tease some more. Oh, if only she could think of a joke to make

"Why, the water is still Chem laugh, They always hero."

Petunia tried to sound made jokes and laughed at her.

surprised. "It hit you and Dida loke have to hurt people's bounced back into the lake. feelings?

Brownie began to laugh. Suddenly, Petunia cheered Peer and the monkeys laughed She had thought of a joke They all thought Fetumiu's Joke stretched clear across the path, and it was one that wouldn't was funny. And they loved the

hurt anyone.

cooling shower. "Let's go for a walk" she suggested.

Sure enough!.

A puddle

up.

foot

Spionk! Down came on right in the puddle. The pad- dia disappeared. She bad splashed all of the water oul. It happened that way every

methose short legs.

*

"Yes, let's," ngrced Peter,

abead.

All the monkeys man ta jala. them Petunia started down the path that led to the lake. Peter laughes and laughed. She hurried but the others got He almost fell off the branch.

didn't laugh. Petunia

She almost felt like crying. She thought Pete was teasing her, She wiped her eyes with her trunk,

"Let's play hide and seek. Petunia is the base," a monkey called from another tree.

even

Down the monkeys climbed and began to run toward PC- tunia. One, Brownie, jumped onto her back.

"Last one to base is "it" called Brownie, from her back. Petunia didn't want to he

hase. She couldn't rin, she was

"What a good joke, Petunia," cala Peter.

Then Peter Jumped into the inke. He

a very tiny splash.

mode

Mr Merlin sut down beside

the undoing the string around them on the steps and storied

shoe box.

Brand-New Shoes

"I've just bought myself brand-new pair of shoes," he said. "They're a lttle tight on mc. I think I may have to take them back and exchange them for a larger pair."

"Oh, that's

sald shame." Hanid. "Why did you buy them

they were tight?" "They're supposed to be very All of the monkeys jumped good shoes," said Mr Merlin. in at the same time. Together"The shoe salesman who sold they made only a medium-sized them to me said that if I walked In them for awhile. I would feel splash

"Petunia makes the very best as though I were floating in the splashes," decided Feter. All of air." the, others agreed. “Maku äu- other splash Petunia. It's lots of fun the way you do k”

Happily, Petunia climbed back up on the leg so that she could jump into the lake again.

They Looked Ordinary

Knati saw the bird wings on Merlin's new shoes.

not going to wear them. I don't want shoes with bird wings. I want regular ordinary good shoes."

Mr Merlin put his feet in the and new.shoes, tied, the lates stood up.

Just walk to the bottom of the stairs and up again," he said, "I don't want to scratch the bottoms of the shoes, other- wie the store won't take them? back.”

With this, Mr Merlin started down the stairs, but he really got his feet down at all. Instead of walking down stairs, he Dosted dawn.

the

YOUR PUZZLE CORNER

Visit President McKinicy:

McKINLEY REBUS

Use the words and pletures to your fullest savantage to and the four pinces associated with President McKinley that Puzzle

Peta has hiddes. In his rebus;

WE TRAVELED,

FROM THE MOUNTAIN

SOUTH

IE

2000 KLOS

MIRROR WORK

If you never

hove trouble with these strange words, try read- Ing them backward, You'll find cach of them had a connection with President McKinley: ENIAM PIHSELTTAR NOTXAS ADI

"Look at those bird wings!" Knart said to Hanid. "Look at them flapping!"

Down the stairs went Mr Mer- in, floating like a bird

"Why, this is delightfull" he said. "These shops moke me By this time, Mr Merlin had feel as though I'm floating in united the string and had taken the air just like the salesman

the pair of shoes. They said!" out feemed like perfectly ordinary

"Mr Merlin Uked the shoes so ninck abocs except that there much that he went floating

ZSOGLOZC NOEL

MCKINLEY CROSSWORD

Puzzle

Peto hod

Cartoonist Cal place his crossword

puzzle on a silhouolte of President

McKinley to dress it up. By LORAINE BURDICKS

Hobby Corner-

CINAILS

urc

almost as

When she got to the lake she saw all the monkeys standing interesting as they are un the log. Peter was on the slow. according to

Пл

lou, also. They all liked to Oklahoma State University sland on the log and look into graduate student who is the water.

"Oh, dear. Another puddler probably the state's cham- Petunia sald,

plon snail collector. there.

Step on il, Petunia. Make It disappear!" shouted Brownie and the other monkeys,

when

she

got

That was just, what Petunia wanted them to say.

They

Snails

was something strange coming down to the end of the sireet out of the backs of them.

"They

to have bird and back again, wings on them," said Knarf

вести

"Dear me," said Mr Merin "I do bellove you're right. I've never seen such odd things on shoes before.

Wonderful. Thing

Then Mr Merlin did a won derful thing. He lent the shoes

to Knart. They were a bit big,

Knar went floating

"I'd better fake these shoes but back right away. I can't 8 around the, block, up to walking around with bird house wings on my shoes. What will people think?"

Mr Merlin started putting the shoes back in the shot, box but Knarf and Honld both urged him to ly them on first.

Wings Were Flapping

It seemed to Kart, that noilood that the bird wings were flapping about à bli.

he

a} the

the friend who had all the cookies, and came floating bock, smiling with joy,

Even Hanid tried the shoes ON. Sho Boaled over the garden, just above the Daisies and Bullercups. "Just the

said Mr Bame," Merlin later, "I think I'd better

these shoes. I don't return think it's a good idea to have bird wings on them. What will people think?”

Branicy Branson has col- lected approximately half a militon of these slow-moving creatures in the past four years.

breath is coming from, says Snails are unique, he says. Branson. He can take oxygen

walk can

water, on

the water by

And nothing that Knart and "Very well," zald Mr Merlin. She walked out on the log change their sex, breathe by directly from

means of a cloak of tissue in-

would "I try them on just to plense Hanid sald very carefully. How she hoped two different methods and on side his shell.

make -Mr Occasion have been used for

simply spreads you both. But mind you, I'm Merlin change his mind. Oxygen money,

through the issue which is richly supplied with blood, and carbon dioxide exápés in

so fat. Bo she never played they would laugh at her joke,

ZOO'S WHO

KATYDIDS KEEP SUCH

PERFECT TIME WHEN BINGING IN UNISON THAT

THE SONG OF A

DOZEN MAY BE

MISTAKEN FOR THE SING

ING OF ONE INSECT.THEY

LAY THEIR EGGS IN THE ...

SOFT BARK OF SMALLTWIGS.THE

ADULTS OF BOTH SEXES DIE WITH THE COMING OF COLD WEATHER. THE WARM SPRING SUN HATCHES THE BOOS

AND. A WHOLLY NEW CYCLE OF KATYDIO LIFE BEGINS.

MY PICTURE IS ON A FLAGIS

BABY ZEBRAS HAVE BROWN STRIPES THEY TURN 'BLACK AS THE ZEBRA AGES....

THE STATE FLAG OF.

LOUISIANA DEPICTS A PELICAN.-'

They cal by means of a rasp-

several

dena.

Some snails are able to glide along the surface of writer by laying down a path of slime on which to trend.

like tongue called Q raula similar manner. which is so efficient that in In Oklahoma, smalls have clates snails cause ile value other than as inhab- perlous damage to truck gar- Rants of the home aquarium, but in other places, they have a variety of commercial uses,

They aro conaided- quite à delicacy in some countries, es- peclaBy in France. To Dast years, natives in the Pablo - Shalls move Branson esti- lands have used shell shells for good sired specinien money. Even today, collectors can creep about six inches a will pay sa munh sa $500 for s minute 17. he's in a hurry by rare shell, Branson M675, means of periștitals, a series of waves produced by muscle con-1 traction

males a

TOOL

HOW 10: 1.FIND TWO. Z-POUND COFFEE CANS. 2.PUT THE CANS OVER THE EDGE OF A BOARD AND PUNCH

Farden KIT

2 KOLES IN

Most of Branson's analle bave EACH ABOUT gong into. the university's col- Suail breathing systems are jection which now total nearlyZIN. APART unique. · One species, the Appin two million specinična,... It in- small, which can be found in cludos, about 230 peeler, 120 Oklahoma only in one area, has from Oklahoma, ranging in size a tube which it olevates above from Cinnamon analis," about the water's surface when. It the din of a grain of sand, to noods air.

Apple doubla, karly the iize of

The Germans supposedly got a man's hand. the idea for submarine 'morkels Despito hii, fast mali coltre, afler, observing this email pro- ing pice in the, past, Brunion. codire,

isti't about tó exhaust, bila sub« However, if the 'mali esn't,ject.. „The Cíclátorja, staddati una for Boma TORBOE, ..

his timgion there are more than.

morkel, he still doesn't have to: 00,000 épecies of kindla m. the worry about whore, his next' world.

3. CUT A PIECE OF LINCH -PLYBOARD. THIS SIZE,

STAND IT BETWEEN CANS AND MARK WHERE HOLES COME....DRILL 2 HOLES THROUGH IT

4.FIX CANS. AND BOARD TOGETHER

WITH

SMALL BOLTS AND

ACROSS

President McKinley the

WES.

seventh of--chli-

dren in his family

6 Shakespeare's river

He was shot in Buffalo, a Lake - port

Soothsayer

DOWN

Titica

2 Four (Román?

3 Opposite of "yes"

4 Come in

Musical noto

Id est (ab.)

JUMBLED SENTENCE

Help Puzzle Pete straighten out his schtencs about President McKinley.

favourite red made of Ohio 1901, flower, flower winte, djed MoKinley's was native he

tha state emination, his when in

MCKINLEY DIAMOND

Mrs McKinley was a CASH- IER in her father's bank when she married President McKin- ley, so Puzzle Pete uses that ag a centre for his word diamony. The second word is "possCTICS"; third in a hurry"; fifth pene"; and sixth "opposite of diamond the Complete 110." Irom theso clues; cluce

C

CASHIER

E

R

(Solutions on Page 10)

Brain Teaser

TRACH of these words begins with "double." How many of them can you complete?

biguous langungo.

1. Double

Am-

3. Double --n sem pa man,

Bar

for Harnessing two horses.

3. Double-

Blow

รุมเ

4. Double

Two

couples going out together.

5. Double

Treacherous act.

6. Double-

U.S. gold coin.

7. Double

Hypocritical.

8. Double

Method of bookieeeping.

Da Double

.420

.Pair of pots that it into each

olher.

10. Double

Two baseball games,

11. Double

Two meanings.

12. Double

Descriptive of certain

type of guil

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