THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1958.
FEATURES FOR
BOYS
AND
GİRLS
Nowhere Is The Name Of A Town And Another Is Henpeck
IF
BABY SITTERS' SPECIALS
you go to your baby and on time if you read the sitting engagements glory to them.
Still older children will like primed with something to
culpting" hends. Spread keep your young charges newspaper and peel a small Now carve busy and interested, you've apple or a potato.
features on the "heads." (Var the got it madet
edge of a spoon, it is easy and Push a trpin or safe, too.)
bby pin to the head to hang by. Then put 1 in some out er-the way pince. As the heads dry the polite will harden into a strange stamy-looking musk sue the apple will wrinkle like the face
For a small baby not able to get out of its crib, tie a coloured ribbon where it can be seen Or put a sheet of paper that Titles under the baby's hecis le will have a fine line making a noise by kicking H.
a very old. person.
elbow A small package of macaroni and some shoelaces try for long will amuse anali
the of Umr. Hiring periode
For older children, ask your librarian for an amusing ple- ture book. All children e macaront to nuke necklaces or Several strings will looking at pletures and most of bracelets.
then will go to bed willingly make "wampum" to decorate
become crow Final] Indians jewels for kings and queens,
pound All children like fo Jails. Ty amusing your charges with a bar of laundry soap ni a handful of small nails. (Count the nails before, and after, and A peneli daring for safely.)
spool makes a pushed into a hemmer. Pound the malls into the soup.
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The biggest part of your job, however, is to watch the chil- dren. Keep an eye open all the thno for things they might put in their mouths or sharp objecta they could sep on When parents know that their children are well cared enjoy their night out.
for they can
BOOKS, POTATO
SCULPTURE,
AND RIBBONG CAS ALL BE PUT TO GOOD
Use BY BABY GITTERS
Our Most Important Worker, Steam
THE FIRST STEAM ENGINE IN
2008C WAS A MERE TOY
THE FIRST USEFUL STEAM ENGINES BURNED WOOD
OTEAM PUMPS CAME FIRST;
THEN TRAINS AND BOATS
The
HAV
...THEN COAL, AND LATER OIL,
BEGAN TO BE USED TO MAKE STEAM. STEAJA DROVE TRAINS, SHUPS AND GENERATED ELECTRICITY.
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FOR MORE THAN A HUNDRED YEARS MOST OF THE WORLD'S WORK
HAS BEEN DONE BY STEAM.
AS WE ENTER THE ATOMIC AGE STEAM STILL PLAYSA PART. IT MAY SURPRISE YOU TO LEARN THAT THE PRESENT ATOMIC POWER PLANTS GET ENERGY BY MAKING STEAM,
ATOMIC
REACTOR
BOILER
TURBINE GENERATOR
CONDENSER
ENORMOUS HEAT RELEASED BY ATOMIC REACTION IS ABSORBED BY WATER UNDER PRESSURE. IT TRAVELS TO BOILER WHERE IT MAKES STEAM OF OTHER WAJER. STEAM DRIVES TURBINE AND GENERATES ELECTRICITY,
·EXACTLY SAME AS IN NON-ATOMIC PLANE.
Bill Apmar
Strange Battle Of The
[AVE you ever heard of ytry special reason to be afraid. the mysterious Battle Some of their leaders had made deal for a tract of land-
of the Frogs that frightened known in,history as the Susque settlers out of their Teds baruah Purchase-which the and sent them fleeing, half ledians were unwilling to sell. dressed, to the village green?
Word had come that they were on the warah about the lar
All night the noise went on. sometinis close and rumbling far like thunder, sometimes At
11. happened on a Warm June night in 1758.
away and mozuing. Finally as first distant rumblings were the day began to break, the heard. Then thunderous polses began to get lower and noises Krew louder and lower and finally stopped alto- louder.
of All night long people Windham, Connecticut, huddled together in fear, afraid that z Fund of Indians was about to descend on them.
gether.
When the sun was high in the beavens and there was sill no sign of Indians, the people went back to their limmes. But their
Of course these early settlers curiosity W09 uroused. What living with the had caused all the commotion were used to threat of Indian attack. But on through the night, they won- this particular night they had a dired?
The Real Story
NCE a woman on a quiz
O show lost
of
lot A money because she could not answer, "Who wrote The Tale of Peter Rabbit'?"
Can question?
you answer
WOS
thut
originated Miss
This story about 1802 in London by Beatrix Potter. From a child, she always liked turies, chil- dren and animals. She had many pels, a cat, a dog, canaries, and
a large. white, rabbit named Peter.
Onc day, after she
was 'n grown lady, she heard about a little friend being sick. Taking
The
ALE of PETER
RABBIT
some flowers from her, garden, end a baked custard, she visited Ave-year-old Joey.
ZOO'S WHO
STARLINGS BELONG TO AN OLD WORLD FAMI-
LY UNTIL 1890,NOT
ONE STARLING EXISTED IN AMERICA...THAT YEAR
60 BIRDS WERE RELEASED IN NEW YORK AND NOW MILLIONS OF DESCEND-" ANTS OF THAT ORIGINÁL BAND ARE SPREADING OVER THE UNITED STATES
AT AN ALARMING RATE »
THE COCOON OF A SINGLE SILK*
WORM WILL PRODUCE
A MILE AND A RALF
OF THREAD
`CROW QUILLS WERE USED TO WRITE FINE LINES BE
FORE THE INTRODUCTION OF SIBELPENS..
Some brave ones investigated. They circled around the town could and any to see if they vvidence of a fight. And there,
Frogs
Dit Cowskin Greek? Or
you ever go Ashing
drive along the dusty streets of a little village called Muddy? Don't laugh! Cow- skin Creek is an actund Missouri · stream -and Muddy is a town in Illinois.
They aro representative the thousanda
American of that Lichte place names
nct
funnybone,
breakers.
от
B
in
10
OUT
Why were so many American towne, sirecis,and streams given such outlandish names? If you
Into cheelt
their history,
generally there is a reason,
Clark county, Ga.. has a road colled Nowhere. Possibly when It was backed out of the woods It had no termintis, so someone sold It didn't to "howhere," Later a town sprang up, and it, 1co, was called Nowhere. So now you can take a road enlled Nowhere and actually go to Nowhere.
Recently at Manchester, N.M..
a group of people protested the fact that a street called Birch
changed Was
to Kostlusko. "Ha!"
representatives
Enertext
of Polish clubs there.
It was
INCORPORATED VILLAGE
MUDDY
SLOW DOWN TO":
.20 MILES PER HOUR
No one knows why the Illinois town of Muddy was so named;
it is a dry prairio town in the southern part of the stale. But its name has given it a lot of publicity.
no more difficult to pronounce historie, but many are not. The in dur own Missouri you'll
Than Winnipesaukee, Pemige-
wenzet, Uncanonuc and other Black River,
ar Ozark stream, Ind a town named Peculiar,
the South you'll find Caress named Amally,
Devotion and
Indian names used in the state, decidedly is not black, But the and in
New Orleans, for instance, han Nile definitely is a street named Tchenpitoulas, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, whero Lovely. Darling. Strangers to Daldland, Calit.. the clear waters could well strangle trying to lands enter the stream. pronounce Ygnacio Ave., while yellow dust of Mongolia's desert Yellow River Toyawatha Terrace is typical sands colour the of the tongue-twling street until it is truly named. numes in Wisconsin cities,
our
Puzzle Pete's
COLUMN
RUSSIAN REBUS
The four facts about Russia hidden in Uis rebus by Puzzle Pole will unfold themselves for you it you use the words and pictures to your fullest advan- inge.
FA ROLLING STONE
GATHERS NO MOSS!
S
LET'S 20 DOWN THAT PAINTR TO THE RIVER DID A LOT
(OP AURALS!
BACKWARD LOOK
blue, in the towns
of the high- Romeo. But New Mexico got
The the most publicity of all when If you have Trouble with
il named a town Truth or Con-these three places in Russia, try requences.
reading them backward.
NILMERK DARGNINEL
-GROVER BRINKMAN
WE HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN the American Indian in pluch names, either. Memorials to the red man are found in such place names as Allegheny, Mohawk, Eric, Huron, Nipis- -Mr. Punch Shows The Others How To Make One- sing, Cherokee, Kansas, Ohio,
node and Natchez.
A Farm In A Jar
By MAX TRELL
And how we've borrowed from history! No less than 169 places within U.S. borders bear the name of Washington; 86 of NARE, the Shadow-Bay" with Jefferson, 132 of Jackson, 71 of the Turned-About Name Monroe and 62 of Harrison, and his two friends Teddy, the And later prezidents, Lincoln, Stuffed Bear, and Hiawatha the Grant and Hoover, are also well Small-Sized Wooden Indian, represented.
heard the tinkling of glass from But the odd place names the next room. at the pond which was not for really "win the tako" In from iho vilinge green, they Amerien. Subret, Calif., is a "Mr Punch is in there," said fund countian dead and caring combination of the words sugar Teddy to Knarf and Hiawatha, frogs, Something terrible had and beet, Californians named "Just peeked in through this happened to the frogs, but no town Yreka by reversing the door and saw him looking as a one seemed to know exactly word bakery, omilting the big, empty glass jar."
final "b."
what.
The people of Windhom were Beloit, Wis., is a coined name, amazed when the story spread, a take-off of Detroit. The town Generations later the story was of Fifty-eight, in South Caro told and retold as an example Ina, got its unusual name be
exactly 58 miles of the sickening fear that because it was, sieged our early settlers.
from Charleston.
a Roach.
CALIFORNIA BOASTS towns called Henpoeic City and Louse Village. Illnois has town, and Mississippi arks question with its town named Why Not.
The State of Conneelleat in- cluded the Battle of the Frog in its history. Today the pos! la identified by a tablet erected by the DAR. Tourists to Con- reticul who are driving on Routa 14 often stop at Wind- Many of our place names are lim Centre to see the opot accurate descripilors of thing where & frog massacre made history.
-EVELYN WITTER
Of Peter Rabbit'
Sitting beside his bed, and trying to cheer him up, she told him about her animals.
Joey liked best to hear about her rabbit, Peter, who was al- ways getting into trouble. Once he'd run away and was almost Jost,
Shortly after this, Miss Pat ter, with her parents, left en a trip through England and Scot-
So that many more children she went could hear her story, to several publishers and asked them to make It Into n book. They Mald It would cost loo much and refused.
Several years passed. In 1900, decided she would Miss Potter pay for publishing those books herself, and they'd have coloured plctures of Peter and his family,
She wondered if she were, do
land. She wrote many interesting the right thing. In letters to Jocy.
To her surprise, and also the Publisher's, these little books
Every
Once, when she seemed to be were a great success, out of news, she wrote "The child wanted the book about Tale of Peter Rabbit" and Peter.
This story was translated into malled it to her little friend.
Joey liked this story so well, foreign languages for children he had his mother read it over in fataway countries. and over la him. He even kept Because of Miss Beatrix Pot
ter's pet it after he was grown up.
rabbit, now
we all Miss Potter flustrated her know and love The Tale of story with pen and ink sketches Peter Rabbit." und told to other children who liked it.
—GENEVIEVE BRUNSON
Brain Teaser-Salt Story
CENTURIES ago, the
officera and men of the mighty Roman array Were given a ration or allowance of salt. But as time went on and salt was easler to Obtain, they were merely given money to buy the salt themselves. This money became known as their salarium or "ault money"
2. To put gold dust, etc. into
a mino to create impresalon of value,
a fake
3. To be a person's guest. 4. The capital of Utah.
5. Place where natural salt is
found,
0. A salty while mineral used
in making gunpowder; 7. The best people,
0. To be worth one's wages, 9. To consider with some
servation.
Our word salary is derived 10. Experienced sailor. from that old Roman word..
Today we have a great
many words and phrases which contain the word salt.
What are the following:
To store away
ID
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One Gen 2
of a to
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Kharf and Hiawatha were allent for several moments.
"I wonder what Mr Punch wants with an empty jar," said Knart.
lowatha shook his hend gloomily.
Why Break It?
AEMIRC
CROSSWORD
in by
RUSSIA was lettered Cartoonist Cal to give you some help with Puzzle Pete's crom~ word puzzle:
R
2-5
Inaldo the Jar, Enarf and Teddy saw a little farm.
put a jar in a form, but you can't put a farm in a jar. Bahl Bah!"
Punch burst out
ACROSS
1 King (Fr.)
4 River in Russla
7 Huge cask
8 Compass point
Bliter velch
10 Boy's nickname
11 Frozen water
12 Belongs to him 14 Foreign agent 17 Table scrap 10 Bind
19 Footlike part 20 The Black---
DOWN
1 Route (ab.)
2 Belonging to us
At this Mr at empty jar? if it's empty, it laughing.
"What does anyone want with means he's going to fill it up. "Just watch," he said. What olse can you do with an empty Jar-except break it?
This is what Mr Punch did. And what's the good of breaking. He put the earth in the jar, pt The pebbles and stones here and there form little hills and was still shaking ridges,
Then he made holes in 12 Jump on one foot
Hiawatha
HOW MAKE A TO KITE Mr Punch looked out.
1.FIND 2 STICKSABOUT -INCH SQUARE...ISTICK 2.2 IN. LONG AND ISTICK 26 IN LONG... NOTCH ENDS-gr Z.GLUE STICKS TOGETHER.
BE SURE STICKS CROSSAT
RIGHT
3 Persista
4 Hates
5 First mumber"
Another boy's nickname
13 Pastry
hi hend and mumbling to him- self when suddenly, the door to the earth and one by one planted 13 Anger
the little plants. Mr Punch's room opened and
**There, take a look at my farm now! Mr Punch sald with pride.
"Come on in here, you three, I'm putting a farn in a glass jor. You might like to see me do it."
. Couldn't Understand
Pretty Little Form
16 'Affirmative vote-
JUMBLED SENTENCE
Poor Puzzle Pote got off the track with his sentence about There was no doubt about it. Russia and calls for your help Kharf and Teddy had to admit to straighten it out.
area Soviet the every the vast that the scene inside the glass
Kuart and Teddy and Hia- ja obiced exactly like a pretty of of conlains except The of of watha looked at each other a little form. The Uny plants the tropical one-sixth land Re- and bushes. Publics, phase Union distinctly surprise, then they all went Ialo looked like trees
Socialist earth'a Mr Punch's room, Not for the The pebbles and stones looked
climate, if of them could they under more like hills and ridges than stand what he meant by saying they ever did before.
"The plants are herbs," sald,
7INCHES
LzZIM.
26.IN.
that he was going to "pur a farm in a glass jar."
→
surface,
WORD DIAMOND
Decand
Mr Punch, wlator green, pop- Russia launched a couple of
uperamini, And oven when they got in- permint
cines, SPUTNIKS last year, giving Punch's room ride Mr
and pureley and caraway. I'll water Puzzle Pete a certo for › hi′′
Tho looked at the jar on the table, them all with a lille spray word diamond. they didn't understand any bet once a week. And Fil keep my word is a health resort"; thira this "an athletic feat's fifth “a girl's ter than before what Mr Punch whole farm-in-a-far on
inble near the window where it dame"; and sixth “to bind.” “ meant.
will get plenty of good, bright Mr Punch came over, rubbing winter sunshine." his hands and smiling. He was Kharf and Teddy told Mr dressed, they noticed, in over- Punch they were sorry they had Falls.
ANGLES
3.
RUN ASTRING
AROUND ENDS
OF
STICKS.
WRAP
AROUND 4
ENDS?
4.LAY FRAME ON A LARGE PIECE OF THIN PAPER.
They also other things.
noticed
CUT AROUND STRING LEAVING A
9. IN EDGE
5.FOLDEDGE OVERSTRING AND GLUE ALL AROUND
6 MAKE ABRIDLE LIKE THIS 20
LONG STRING SHOULD BE SILING
DE WHEN TIED. BAŞ
NEWBPAPER
IZIN APART
Small Plants
not believed him in the begin- several ning
They noticed that on the table Just beside the jar was a bag of earth, a little pile of stones and pebbles and a bundle of green Plants of various shapes,. The plants were quite small,
<ry
**"Now," said Mr Punch, know you don't believe that I really mean what I said about putting a farm inside a glany Jar."
farm G Teddy sold: A enormous,
You can't put an enormous form in a zmoli jar.”
Me Punch kept smiling.
"And," sald Khort, "how can you keep a form Inside the houser Farms have to be. out- side in the open air."
My Punch Kopt rigtit on aimll-
Ban grunted. Hiawatha. Fowany. I think is this; sơu cào
"Bah!" said Hiawatha, "I don't believe it's a real farm. Where's the cow?"
S
SPUTNIK
(Bolnilor on Page 20)
Rupert and the Jackdaw-11
Bork Rupert and Bill have gone to it.1. wandae: It Poday.
very Ear they Are joined by Alky forgot it top. As he speake Dil PUR and Loether they struggle holds up a finger..." Hush, there's up the slope to the common. " someone calling, ba shennace jolly good at you two to remember They listen, and the cry commer our arrangement to meet here.guin mit, walking over ( skope, aafu Rupert, *Fm afraid thi they we their pal Podry Boundcle. huge fall of now tsade me torget - loh and unable to get. Helen
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