<* 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."
ก
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.
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"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
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(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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