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THE CHINA MAIL, ATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1958.
FEATURES
FOR
BOYS AND
GIRLS
JIMMY'S MODERN ELECTRIC MIRACLE
"None of my hens are set- THE mower stopped, and
Jimmy Nichols saw his ting now, san, and it wouldn't pay to run the incubator for just father get down and stoop a few duck eggs that may not on the hatch. You might as well throw over Something
"What's wrong, them away," she said. ground. Dad?" he called, "Old mower break again?!"
Jimmy,
Future  murdy Farmer of America, was rlek
g up the hay, and thinking how badly they needed a com- bine. But he went over when his father called to see what was wrong
Mr Nichola turned his lean, tanned face toward his son.
"Look, I've partly destroyed
a wild duck's next," he pald sadly. "The egg are still warm. will not mother duck but the come back to them agala."
The nest, made of leaves and dry, grans and lined with down, had been a comfortable place. There were slx eggs, all whole. Tou bad," Jimmy sympa-
Mother thised. "Maybe think of some way to save the take the eggs to ducklings if ! the house." He put them care- fully in his hut.
Can
Out on the back porch. Jim- my thought hard. He wanted to save the ducklings but how? He knew the eggs had to be kept warm and that they must cach dlay, 11e turned be recalled hearing about people a belt around wearing eggs in
till they hatched, their waists but for an aeliye farm boy, that was impossible.
"Somewhere that they can hot," he mised. be warm, not
Thought of just the Then he place.
In the Jiminy's
week that
QUICK
QUACK
"Looks as though my job is just beginning," he told himself. The eggs should hatch in three more weeks,"
Then followed,
happened. something mother remarked on "One of my prized possessions how often he went to the base is missing," Mra Nichols told morning. ment. But he only smiled. He them excitedly
house It's haunted, too. was reading about ducks in "and not only has the spare moments. He found that been robbed,
distinctly heard something the mother duck promptly leads
arm to water as soon as the peeping in the basement."
Ge and that "What?" Jimmy shouted ducklings can travel,
raced
But Mrs Nichoki, a bustling
was not much they sherry wornus. help.
can fly,
I
опе
stairs and slopped to listen. There was no doubt of it. The ducka had hatched out,
Mr and Mrs Nichols came hurrying down, asking, "What is it"
"A modern miracle." Jimmy told them in awed tones, paint." ing.
"My electric akillet," Mrs Nichols cried. "Then it wasn't stolen." She raised the lid to disclose three newly hatched ducklings and three very active CIES.
"And in just one week," Jim- my marveled "That's modern science for you,"
A
Mr Nichols laughed. "That's She mother duck for you. must have sat on those eggs for three weeks. But it does you credit, son. Did you remember to turn them?"
"Every single day, Dad Jimmy picked up a downy "And my work isn't duckling.
I'll have to over. Soon now
water. web-feet to lead these. And I still say it's a miracle that these Lables can swim.
kitchen, through the swim casily before they
plunged down the basement
HOW JET
WHEN YOU BLOW UP
A BALLOON AND LET
IT GO, IT ACTS
LIKE A JET
ENGINE,
-M. S. SHELTON
ENGINES OPERATE
A RAM-JET IS THE SIMPLEST JET ENGINE, SOMETIMES IT'S CALLED A "FLYING STOVEPIPE".
FUEL SPRAY
JET FUEL
AIR FORCED IN
BY HIGH SPEED
A REGULAR JET ENGINE HAS A COM- PRESSOR TO FEED AIR TO FLAME UNDER HIGH PRESSURE.
EXHAUST
AIR INTAKE
CLAMBUSTION CHAMBER
A RAM JET CAN BE STARTED BY TOWING AT HIGH SPEED THEN IGNITING THE JET FUEL WITH AN ELECTRIC SPARK.
FUEL SPRAY
COMBUSTION CHAMBER
COMPRESSOR
ÉXHAUSI
TURSINE-DRIVEN BY HOT GASES, IT DRIVES THE COMPRESSOR
EVEN REGULAR JET ENGINES ARE SIMPLE AND HAVE FAR FEWER MOVING PARTS THAN MOST OTHER ENGINES.
BILL ARTER
For In A Career
What To Look For In A
ECAUSE SO many fel-
Boss and girls I know
are thinking about journal- ism as a career, I wrote to a top analyst, editor and au
what he thor to find out
could advise young people about such a career.
* ✩ ✩
I chose IIV. Kaltenborn be- cause he bas vceived so many top-fight awards in journalism, They include the Gold Plaque for both foreign radio reporting (1936) and cliniluns from the Medill School of Journalism al Northwestern University (1933). a Ceruleaty of Merli from the Federation of Press National Wonten (1939) and many ciri- lar awards from other big and famous organisations.
He was very gracious.In an-
aweling my inquiry. What
he sold should, I think, be pass- ed along to others. So here it is, quoted exactly from his let
101:
-"I have been interested in Journalism from the time I was
I be able to read and write. Kan reporting local items for the Merrill, Wis.,. News when I was 12 years old. Not long after warda i became a reporter on the Merrill Advocate and this was the real beginning of my Journalistle career.
thould not attempt It. It is a calling where the reward con sists chiefly in the pleasure of the occupation."
In that respect, II. V. Kal- concurs with many lenborn
fields when it people in other comes to career clivosing. They agree that you must like what much RO very are doing you
pleasure that you consider the
Important work more of the than what money you might be able to make at that Job.
If you like your chosen ca- reer in that way, it usually fol "While I was a soldier in the
lows that you are successful. wad Sinish-American War
And if you are successful the Milwau- cotospondent for the ke Journal, the Merrill Advo- money angle usually takes care
German weekly of itself. cale and called the Lincoln County An- zeiger.
unless a b:lleve that youngster has a keen interest In doing newspaper work, he
One more word of advice... start on your carter as early As possible.
--EVELYN WITTER
Just The Type
Come on men, get with it This thing has to work somehow... It's just
a case of finding the right button to push. ERE'S a five-member
Har of writers getting
busy on a strange contrap-A Visit To Baghdad
tion that they've never seen before. But they are slowly tiring. out. The pup on the left suddenly finds he's dog-tired. The one on the right has already given up and gone to sleep.
--Aladdin's Magic Even Surprises Mr. Merlin-
By MAX TRELL
AVING mode themselves small (for they could make themselves any size they pleased), Knart and Hand, the Giraffes must like to stand up Shadows with the Turned-About
all And look way down below At creatures far away and small, To see them come and ago. Sometimes I think I'd like to be A tall giraffe, and stand
་
And reich my head up in a tree, But, on the other hand,
If he must wash his neck each
day.
That seems too much to ask. And so, in truth, I have to say I wouldn't want his task.
-FLORENCE PEDIGO JANSSON
HAVE FUN ATA
HOW TOPARTY
PLAY SOCK-O!
STUFF A LONG STOCKING WITH CRUMPLED NEWSPAPER BLINDFOLD IT... PUT 3 PLAYERS AND'IT" IN AS FOOT STRING CIRCLE.. PLAYERS EACH WEAR A HAT "IT"TRIES TOKNOCK THE HATS OFF.
Jumbo Dominoes Are Fun To Make And Use PERSONS G
THEY
are very simple to vegetable store. I asked him easily. It doesn't affect the final make and you don't to save some fruit boxes for product, have to have any special me. He gave me a number skills to turn out a first-rate and all I needed were the in
aides. job.
Then cut out blocks of wood- the following dimensions
with a small saw:
First, 1 went down to
If I scraped the labels, off visit the owner of the you wet the labels you will fad neighbourhood fruit and they can be scraped off very
ZOO'S WHO
HISTORIANS SAY THAT AMERICA'S FIRST PIGS [13 SOWS AND. 2 BOABS)
WERE LANDED BY
HERNANDO DE SOTO, AT GASPARILLA ISLAND,
NEAR TAMPA, FLORIDA;
GOTTA SEWA HOUSE
THE TAILOR BIAD OF INDIA GETS ITS NAME FROM ITS
·HÄBIT OF ENCLOSING ITS NEST WITHIN
A LARGE LEAF,
WHICH ITSENS
TOGETHER AT
THE EDGE..
I'M PROM
ADUTH DAKOTA
DUCKS BANDED IN SOUTH DAKOTA HAVE BEEN SHOT AS FAR AWAY AS ONTARIO, VENEZUELA, BRITISH WEST INDIES,
ON MAY 25,1559«. : COLUMBIA AND PANAMA..
614 inches in length
3 Inches wide
Thickness of wood about $4 luch.
Sandpaper came next and every rough edge and surface
of these blocks was noothed
JUMBO DOMINOS MADE FROM FRUIT
BOXES
off. Wrap piece of sandpaper UPHOLSTERY around a block of wood and you will and it very easy to use.
There are two ways of mak→ ing the dots that appear on the surface of a domino.. You must draw galde lines for them.. So divide the block in half. (I
TACKE
A regulation set of dominoca
cut fine lines to show the two will serve as a pattern to halves of cach domino).
With
that
you'll know how to number No. 8 drill you can them. Get all your friends to This can even he- drill out the holes, You do not help you.
go through the wood but deep come a family project, enough so that the hole is vis- ible..
If you have a cellar recrea-
tion room in your house, you Now for the other way to can use these dominoes the next. make the dots: I bought 'n box time you havo a party. If you of upholstery tacks, Then with haven't enough tables,
Don't
an awl I made the guide holes, warty. The players just sit on An upholstory tack was placed the floor.
into position and hammunted “If you go
on a plenir, iako
down. When you are finished. them with you, Bit down on this you thas have the numbers on grouund and spread out a large the fate of cach dominio,
cloth of the ground so that you
If you want to finish them off will not get them solled,
with varnish you can do so. Or
you can paint them black.
HAROLD GLUCK
PLAYERS CAN'T FROM RING
HOLD HATS. PLAYER WHO
LOOSES HAT BECOMES IT
MARSHMALLOW WRESTLE:
TWO PLAYERS LIE ON FLOOR AND CLASP HANDS IN AN INDIAN WRESTLE GRIP. PUTA MARSHMALLOW BESIDE THE RIGHT. ELBOW OF EACH PLAYER.
EACH PLAYER TRIES TO KEEP THE OTHER FROM EATING HIS" MARSHMALLOW. THIMBLE FULL
SEE WHO CAN
BE FIRST TO
FILLA CUP WITH WATER
USING ONLY ATHIMBLE
Names, and Mr Merlin, the Magnificent Magician, err'wled Inside the big book that was lying on the top of the desk.
It was a Geography Book, alled with maps and pictures of cilles and mountains and rivers and oceans and people wearing strange
clothes and speaking strange languages,
They
It was dark inside the book ther Knart nor Hanid knew. and for several minutes, nel- where they were going.
floating through seemed to be the r. Tar, far off they caught a glimpse of the sun just rising above the horizon.
Old, Old City
But Mr Merlin cald: "We're going to an old, old city and we're going to meet some people heard who I'm sure you've about."
Aladdin made the Elephant appest and disappear.
Puzzle
Pete's
COLUMN
Variety Time on Puzzle Lane:
CROSSWORD
17
ACROSS
1 Baseball stick
4 First number
5 Body of water
? Not old
10 Boy's nickname
11 Musical note
12 Used by a golfer
14 Colour
15 Bustle
17 Part of your foot
1 Lad
DOWN
2 American Navy (ab.)
3 Number
5 Wager
0 Lemon-stand
* Before
9 Married
13 De this to your food
14 Fish eggs
10 Accomplish
SOUND ALIKES
Missing words In Puzzle Pete's sentence sound alike, but they are spelled differently. Can you fill them in?
The
carpenter
through the
WORD SQUARE
a
hole
When you rearrange the lel- ters in each row to form a good ' word, then rearrange the rows correctly, you'll find your an- awer reads the same down as
across;
AOL
E
R│V
OPRS AERT V
ERS ST
EEO
"We've read all about you and your wonderful lamp, Kharf HARD fald Aladdin."
P
1
WORD CHAIN.
Can you change SOFT to In just five moves by changing only one letter of a a good word them some time and having Aladdin showed
Puzzle Peto wonderful tricks with his magic on each change? lamp which amazed even Mr says he changed F to R, S to P, Meriln, the Magnificent Magi-Oto A, T-to D, and P to H.-
TRIANGLE elan,
He made an elephant appear und disappear Just by rubbing
the lamp. He made tree grow Before they had a chance to ask Mr Merlin any more, Knef out of the ground and sink back and Hanid landed with a gentlo again in the twinkling of
eye. bump on the ground
"tiere we are?" sakt Mr Mer-
EAGLETS provide a baso for word triangle. Puzzle Pete's an The second word, is "on Egyp
tion sun god"; third "a glci's fourth "to relate; Later Kaart and Hanld met nickname iin, as he helped them to their Sinbad, the Sallor, who told 11th a skirmish"; and, sixth "to feet. "We're in Baghdad!"
his amazing soften in temper." bil about What a noisy place, it was! voyages.
the triangle from these clues: The narrow streets were filled "I hope some day you with merchants shouting out come and so us," said Honid.
their wares,
"Buy
one.
my oranges!" shouted "Buy my dates and shouted another one.
them
win
But Sinbad said he never could come out of the book whore he, lived, "though" he added, "I figs!" hope you will often come to see me and all our friends in Bagh- dad."
"Euy shoes!" cried a third. Peddlers moved about with
big casks of lemonade on their backs, calling out: "Lemonade! Buy my lemonade!"
Wore Funny Clothes
"What funny clothes every- one is wearing." Hanid said Mr Merlin.
to
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EAGLETS
Complete'
(Solutions on Page 20)
BRAIN TEASER
AT FIRST
GLANCE, the metal, e. Crisp rind of roasted words below seem a noisy lot. pork. f. Father's nickname. 6. closer examination you Wind pumping Instrument: h. The clothes were indeed much But on different from the clothes that will find cach word can be Kind of coolele. Payment for people wear nowadays. The men identified as one of the objects passing over a bridge. 1. Bread wore sandals and blat wide pants in the second group, How many bun. k. Heavy. Hiden tabric. 1. Part of a mallboat, an. Hair cut and cloaks across their shoul-can you match?
1. Ring. 2. Pop. 3. Snap. 4. short across the front. n. A ders. Instead of hats, they were
0. Boom. 7. black bird. o. Covering of a tree. turbans or little red hats called Crash. 5. Tap. Feyes.
Bang. 8. Bark. 9. Roll. 10. Some of the men rode on Crow. 11. Crackling 12. Tick. donkeys which looked like bis 13. Gruni. 14, Poll. 16. Bel-
dogs. And some of the men rode towI.
on camels which looked enor- . Mitelike Insect. b. Kind of mous in the narrow streely.
sh. e. A fouest. d. Circlei of
"I'm sure," Knart sald to Mr Merlin," that we don't know anyone Ju this town of Baghdad.
here be We've never been
fone in our lives."
Mr
"Now let's see," replied Merlin. "I'm sure you know this friend."
As he sold this, Mr Merlin sounded a bell. A servant opm- ed a door and they found them- selves in a magnificent garden where birds were singing and the fish were swimming in fountain. A young man was greeting them.
They Meet Aladdin
"This is Knart and Hamsick,” sald Mr Merlin to the smiling "And this young young man. man," Mr Merlin said to Knart and Hanid, "s Aladdin."
Knart and Hanid exclaimed in amazement: how delighted they were to meet Aladdin,ka
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Rupert and the Jackdaw-17
Rupset and Bal try to follow mutters. The place looks awfully the instructions, though it isn't still and quiet.** tasy to keep always on a ridge bothers main that we haven't and in places they, haya to take passed a single foorstep kallox. care "as the snow gets desper.". At Away Loom "stre "cottages,
There aren't any, bepe length they reach one of the Rupert. cottages and they pause nervously, either, hope it doesn't mea ** I don't know if it; le Brian or that everybody" is “ill," "and". Margaret who lives here Bcan't get hap",
ALLARDAYS BELLAYER.