THE CHINA MAIL," SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1958.
FEATURES
FOR
BOYS
AND
GIRLS
It Started With Emperor's Park Caves Used To Ripen Cheese
ACK in 1100 BC when wild beasts for their gladiatorial BAG W Weg, combats, Feudal enleriaing and
first Chinese Emperor of the Chou Dynasty, was in pever he founded a wonder- ful park full of all kinds of animals.
the
He called it "Intelligence Park" and this was very first zob of which we have any record.
centuries Down through the men have collected animals and birds of many kinda for various
priners of the Middle Ages kept birds and animals tes.
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two other 2009.
from the “This is a far cry olden Usxg when anipratis lan guished in mall, barged carei where they were kept for show
Of course millions of Ameri-
bo- 1804, in Paris, the first cans are familiar with the Lin: modern zoo was established, and coln Park Zoo in Chicago. It 1826 the world-famous Lon- became famous due to the TV don Zoo, was founded.
which
originated
игровск
To-
The loaves aro ground to a fino limestone caves along carried were badly rusted, he Department experimented. ground, is Bronx Zoo in New to live contented and healthy Do you know that the that he later which they University of Minnesota's Dairy selected types of mould growth. York City. This same city low lives
was told that this was caused the Mississippi
and
He knew that marry had a powder when the mould has by the dampness of the caves,
spread through thoroughly tempted this work in other thom. It is so fino it can be Minnesota Rivers near Min-
parts of the country but had sifted into the cheese with an neapolis, Minn, are
failed because they did not have ordinary sal sinker. coming world famous дв The professor's curiosity was the right working conditions.
were successf11), the home of tasty roquefort- awakened, Carefully
olocking But they programme there for many years.
type Minnesota Blu Cheese? the humidity and temperature, day chease ripene) there rivals
Today millions of dollars Nearly every large city in the
The unusual cheenz-ripening he found them to be approxd cheese formerly imported from United States can now boast a
It is a long, long
of delicious roquefort- way from properites, of these caves was mately the same as those of the France and Italy in flavour and worth Here the first modern methods bright, clean, modern zoological Emperor Wu Wang'a
texluro, famous discovered accidentally about French
like cheeses are being sold. eaves where roquefort
will make were devised, including radiant gerden where the animals
This cheesemaking is an exacy Undoubtedly they
where and given the greatest possible free- "Intelligende Park" to the beau-30 years ago by W. D. Coombs cheese was made.
they are heat, vilagines windows
(iful natural settings of the of the Dairy Department at the Being a checmaker. Coombs science. Even tho mould which the caves ortificial sunlight,
where zoological gardens
We University of Minnesota.
Immediately realised the possi- Is uned to oculate the cheese ripened as famous as are those see birds, animals and repilies He visited them with friends, bilitza, For a number of years, is made with great care. Loaves in France where this cheese has
wih been made for ocaturies, well cared for and living hop to plek mushrooms. Noticing he and his associates at the of dry bread are spread pily.
PA.
In 1074 the first 200 in Amer-
bom of movement.
orc
Here they can be observed playing and exercising in box icas enclosures with artificial crags and moals giving rocks, of nftum settings to enable them
len was opened in Philadelphia, renatis,
The anelent Romans and The largest one in the world,
caught and maintained covering about 300 Greeks
acres
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----ALETTA J. STREETER
Long Ago-A Great Forest Turns To Stone
the petrified Forest
Park of
IN National
whole
Arizona there is a forest of trees that have 'turned to stone. Most of these trees lie on the ground like fallen giants. But one of them forms natural ravine 20
bridge across a
feet deep.
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What made these trees,
once like any others, change
to stone?
Selentists
that szy
many
years ago Arizona was a ferille Jund with teresis and un inland, el . Then something turned the Jand upside down It may have
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been an earthquake,
land-
alide, or a yoleone.
sap
After the trees fell, the liquld their cells dried up. Water seepet down to the deep- ly buried logs. As it settled, the water dissolved quartz and other minerals found in the soil. This mineral-loaded water lodge inside the cells where sap hud been before.
they were hard, solid rock in- stead of wood. In colour they were blue, red, yellow, purple.
By
time the
Indians Arizona had found the logs they had become precious minerals like Jasper and ògate.
In
The Indians used rainbow- coloured stone chips from the logs for money. They pla fashioned them inio arrow- hends, knives, drills, hammers. Gradually cell by cell wood With the fosell logs the Indians tissue.
for built houses. exchanged was
Finally white man found the minerals that the water bud doposed. The shape of the petrified forest, They look tons cells stayed the same, so did the of the wood to use for table bark, but they turned stone, tops, paper weights, Jewellery. Much the same thing bap- For a while it looked us if the pened to the trees that fell into whole forest would be carried The Se Years and years later away.
The earth To keep this from happening. the pea dried up. were blue, red, yellow and Congress placed the forest under the protection of the govern- purple.
These logs had bark and rings ment.
Just ke ordinary trees. Bul
The result was that hundreds covered with tons of rock, sand, showing their annual growth of trees were pughed over and or volcanic asher,
-AYLESA FORSEE
How It Happened-Those 'Lucky' Horseshoes
SUPERSTITOUS? "Not Nelson had one nailed to the exactly, you will say, yet must of his flagship; and Pliny, few today will entirely deny that horseshoes don't have a certain charm for them.
Even many of our public eft cials as well as the world's great live held similar opinions,
Fidered il
a lucky omen
days drove iron nails into the the seven nails used to fasten it walls of their homes as an an- to the horse's hoof and that it the Elder, in the second century, ticute to the plague. They con- was only a cast-oft shop found. when in the road which could be con- A.D., s sald to have recom-
ended a horseshoe as a pro- they found any object made of sidered a good luck churm tective zbirm and healing agent, iron,
And during the Middle Ages, - people in gederal regarded the horseshoe DS having power
Mony argue against witchcraft,
that the horse People today differ in their thor's reputation is due to its opinions as to just why there thape. Being crescent-shaped magical powers were attributed like the moot, it nequired the to the horseshoe. Some say it is moon's supernatural power to due to the Iron (considered ward off the evil eye. sacred
A former president, Derry 5. Truman, had one put up over the main entrance to his White
in ancient times). We Others contend that House office; the great lord are told that Romans of those horseshoe's powers were due to
the
But just belleving that horse- Phoes bring good luck is not) enough for some people. They must hang them in certain ways 10 bring the best of luck. Some hang the shoe with the too Cown "so the luck won't run out." Others point the heels downward in imitation of the sucred halo.
-By Josophine M. Opsahl
Fun Project-Some Games For Swimming Fun
W
WHEN your friends got cut of the game and the
they left off.
nex!
tired of swimming player must take over where practice and Huntan
The first team whose players your swimming have all piloted the ball back pool fun isn't over. This is and forth wing the game. the time to have more fun
lounging.
with swimming games.
The first one is Pilot Ping-
Is called Dive and Seek.
Pong.
The second swimming game This for both shallow
This is a good game for shal- game is fun
low water bathers, Two sides water and deep water swim- line up behind a captain in mers.
shallow
water. A ping-pong
ball is floated in front of each
Dive and Seek will remind
captain. At the count of three you of Hide and Seek. All the the two captains begin the game players except the leader line hy trying to pilot the balls up on one side of the pool and across the water by blowing on cover their eyes, The leader bas them. They have to blow their on object, preferably shiny for ball across the pool and back rasy seeing, Ike а stone again for the next player.
THE OBJECT OF "PILOT PING-PONG IS
TO BLOW THE BALL ACROSS
THE POOL AND BACK
Then the lender calls out:: "Dive and Seek!" All playets begin the watery search and the 'first one to And the object is the Icader who hides It the next
time,
The third
HOW MAKE A WASTEBASKET 1.PAINT A 21 GALLON ICE CREAM
CONTAINER ALLOVER WITH RUBBER BASE PAINT.
3.PUNCH
TWO HOLES 3 INCHES APART AND 2IN.DOWN FROM THE TOP EDGE
C
CONTAINER.
2.CUT OUT PICTURES OF YOUR FAVORITE COMIC CHARACTERS FROM THE
SUNDAY COMIC SECTION OF YOUR NEWSPAPER. GLUETHEM IN A BORDER AROUND CARTON,
4.CUT. TWO
12 INCH PIECES OF COTTON CLOTHESLINE ROPE AND TIE THEM THROUGH THE HOLES FOR HANDLES.
USE IT TO KEEP
YOUR ROOM CLEAN!
(pop)
About Columbus
An Odd Pair Of Pixies
They Had One Job That Was Oddest of All—
By MAX TRELL
IT was always fun when Khart
and Hanld, the
Shadova with the Turned-About Numes, were lucky enough ot meet Pixie O'Yarn. For of all the Pixies who lived in O'Cheer Hall, down in the roots of the Old Oak, Pixie 'Yarn had the best stories to
tell.
So it was with joy that Kauri and Hand found Pixie O'Yarn under sitting on a mossy twig the shade of the Old Oak. He was just getting ready to pull his ouk-leaf i over his eyes and take a nap.
"Tell us a story, please!" Han- Id begged.
"Come back later," Pixie O'Yarn told them.
Kaart kept him from ing ils eyes with the
hat.
cover oak-leaf
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The Shadows asked Plale O'Warn to fell them a story.
the ones lo scatter around and make sure that each of the little fluffs landed in the proper place for more Dandelions to grow, They also had to help Grase- huppers hop over high fences.
"They had to treat Mice for "All right, all right," Pile toothache when they gnawed
They! O'Yam said at last, guiling, "I through too, many walls.
No Rest for Him
see that I'll get no rest until I do had to treat Earthworms who tell you one. Have you heard were pinched by the sharp bills the story of Pixie O'Broad and of Robius. But the hardest Job Pixie McLong?".
The two Shadows shook their heads,
of all wasn"".
Puzzle Pete's
COLUMN
TEDDY ROOSEVELT REBUS
lise the words and pictures to full advantage to find the four facts about Teddy Roosevelt that Puzzle Pete has hidden in this rebus:
THIS WAY 16
PRATTY
ROUGH FOR ANY RIDER
I'M LOOKING FOR BIG GAME,
Pixie 'Yarn stopped stretched himself and once more tried to over his
SCRAMBLED SENTENCE
"Well," began Pixie O'Yarn, pull his oak-lent hat "Pixie O'Broad and Pixle Me- eyes
"No! Tell us! Tell us!" crled
Help Puzzle Pete out by straightening out his sentonos "What was their hardest job?" | about President Theodore begged Hanid.
Long got up enllest, went to bed latest and worked the hardest of any of the Pixies. While the other Pixies
were out in the meadow attending to the mush room patch, Pixie O'Broed and Pixle McLong were doing all Burts odd jobs.
"They were given these odd jobs because they were odd themselves.
"Pixie O'Broad was so round,
Knarf
o'Yarn.
Just try to guess," cald Pixie
Knarf said: "It's to light up the Fireflies."
"No," replied Pixia O'Yarn, "that's not "
Dry The Gross
Innid said it was to dry off
head.
Again Pixie O'Yarn shook his
It was hard to tell whether be all the blades 1 grass after a was standing, or sitting Pixie rain. McLong was so tall and thin that if it weren't for pls am which always ewung loosely at hiks sides, you would have surely mistaken him for a blade of
Worked Together
"I guess you'll never guess he said. "'t have to tell you." "The hardest job tit Pixlo O'Broad and Pixie McLong ever had was to walk. down à-rond with their aims around each other's shoulderi
For you "And although Pixie O'Broad mustn't forget that Pixie Mc-
towored over only came up to Pixie McLong's Long
Pixie and knees, and Pixle McLong took O'Broad
Pixio O'Bibad опс Мер overy time Pixie came up only to Pixie McLong's
Roosevelt:
Boosovell youngest kielory. President President Buffalo, president became U.B. the 'of in upon Theodore in death the Mc- Kinley.
CHILDREN MIX-UPS
President Roosevelt had four sons and two daughters. Find their names by rearranging the letters in these strange, lines:
EEL CELIA
DOOR THEE MERIT K
HEAD IT CROW En QUINT
BALI CHARD
CROSSWORD
Puzzle Pete haul Cartoonist
HISTORIANS often call very dead of each other and al- anything harder than for conoscial dyes up his crosswand Pal-
the of dond by drawing it on the
body tall and for somebody America, "The World's Most ways worked together.
short to walk down a road with houette of President Roosevelt's
hend: "Now, I suppose you're curious their arms around each other's because game is not only Mysterious Man" fun to play but Improves your there are so many things about the kind of odd jobs they shoulder, I don't know what it
did," Pixle O'Yam went on. 19," leg work too. It's called Paddle that they don't know about They were very odd indeed. Boat Race. All the swimmers him.
With that, Pixie OʻYom final- you correctly line up against the side of the
"For example, if a Beetle fell ly pulled the oak-leaf hat, over answer the following of a rock and landed on his, his eyes and went to sleep. pool with arms outstretched.
questions?
back and couldn't turn
McLong were the ones
Can
over
to run
At a whistle from the person who acts as steamboat captain 1. Did Queen Isabella actual-again, Pixie O'Broad and Pixie, they all push off, and with faces ly sell her jewels to Anance is out and put it back on its teet in the water, arms out stiff, first voyage? they paddle across the pool.
2. How long did his first voy- (The paddle should be some age to the West Indies take? special type of klek for good Two weeks, eight weeks, 32 When all eyes are covered very careful to place it quietly practice...the flutter kick, or weeks, 50 weeks? to touch the ball or move the the lender hides the object so that the splash won't give the selstors, elc.) The first 3. How many trips did he water. Using hands counts them somewhere in the pool, being away the hiding place,
swimmer to touch wins,
make?
They may not use their hands.
wrapped in aluminium foll.
Our World Tidal Waves Are Really Seaquakes'
IN 1942 a "tidal wave"
struck an
area near..
of
Mr Smith piso explains that The ocean-bottom upheaval water particles providing the "tidal waves are not tidal acts as the "rock" motion with "rell."
Billiona and Bengal, India, and drowned waves," because they are NOT the billions
-MANUEL ALMADA caused by the tides. The moon's gravity pull which creates "high tides and low tides" every day has nothing to do with the cause of "tidal waves,"
10,000 people. *
The world began to ask questions about "tidal waves" and scientists have
been busy answering them. The proper name for what we know as a "lidal wave" is the
A "Udal wave" can rise as oceanographer's term, "the scis-
bigh as 15 feet and be as long mic sea wave,"
as 30 miles.
This two miles of length for foot of height gives a All weve" a flat tool. In the distanto, it merely looks like a fast-approaching dark line.
вед
"Tidal" от "seirmic waves" start with earthquakes tom of the ocean floor. and glont landslides at the bot-
A tidal wave is full of dun ger, not only because of its fan- tastic Bize and Irresistiblo When a top-heavy "moun weight. Depending on the depth tain" at the ocean-bottom top- of the ocean where it starts, a ples luto an ocean valley,"·"n "idal waye" can travel at "tremendous amount of energy speeds up to 400 and 500 miles ix reloased,” per hour.
Thie same thing happens
The autifority for these figures when an oocan-bottom earth- is Waldo Smith of the Americans quake occury, a sort of gigantic. Geophysical Union.
rock 'n' roll" movement,
Rupert and Floppity—13
After paying for his, shopping exact line to take, going faster Alupert starts bonicward towards and faster until he lunges between
• Nutwood." Floppity's "bahaving two bushes so strongly that the very nicely now," he thinks leash is dragged from Rupert'a: "He's not trying to go off on wria Trying to grab it the any side track at all.* And little bear goes sprawking and his indeed the dog nema tó know the purchases are scattered.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
again. Or if a Snall came to the edge of a brook and wanted to get to the other side, Pixie McLong Pixle O'Broad and would get it across,
QUICK ANSWER
Science Teacher: "Class, here is a map of the world. Can any- ong tell me what turns without "Or if Dandelions all turned moving?"
O'Broad and Pixie Malong were sour."
4. What did he call the peo-white and blew away, Pixie Entire class: "Milk. It turns
ple he found in the New World! 6. Was Columbus trying to prove that the world was round?! 6. Can you name the ships: used on the first voyage?
the
7. Did Columbus establish a colony in the New World? 8. Did Columbus reach mainland of the American con- Unents?
P. Is Columbus burled in the land he discovered?
Answers;
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MINERALS
THE LOGGERHEAD TURTLE WILL LAY AS MANY AS ONE T THOUSAND EGGS AT ONE TIME
THE ADULT LIFE OF THE AWAY FLY ENDS WITHIN A FEW HOURS BECAUSE THIS INSECT CANNOT DIGEST FOOD.
MOST FELT HATS ARE MADE FROM RABBIT FUR. THE FINEST HATS ARE MADE FROM BEAVER FUR AND OTHER FURS USED INCLUDE HARE, NUTRIA
AND MUSKRA
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5 Revise
'ACROSS
6 Completed 9 Period of lime
DOWN
1- President Roosevelt's
nickname.
2 Paid notice in a newspaper
3 Rhode Island (ab.)
Pilot
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à North America ·(ab.)"
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DIAMOND
President Roosevelt ·WAB │** graduate of HARVARD, which gives Puzzle Pote a centre for his word diamond: The second word la (0 dibble": third- "challenged Afth "frulia" and sixth an abbreviation for "doc=" tom." Can you finish the dige mond?
HARVARD
(Balutions on Pare