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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1958.
FEATURES PAIR
FOR OF
Here are a pair of natural clowns which have n'ee big mouths to smile with. The one on the lefi is just about the biggest stuffed toy in the lores-blx enough to ride on, as you dar ner, It is a tuned version of a brontosaurus; one of the reptiles which lived ages and ages ago. In the toy version it is seven feet int. You'll find almost the same expression on the face of the porpoise at right, Flippy, who does his marine act wearing a bow ife, was photographed at Marineland, Fla.
HOW AMAZE YOUR
TO
PA
敬
DO REY ME DO!)
GROW PENCIL GROW.
YIPES ITS LONGER
THAN THE BOX?
HOW COME?
HERE'S
HOW COME!
MAKE A
HOLE IN
BOTH ENDS OF A
SMALL MATCH BOX
JUST BIG ENOUGH
BOYS
AND
GIRLS
FUNNY-FACES
Handicraft Hobby
TARIENDS who come and
'gasp with delight over the rich shoen of the golden native scene, pictured at right, would be astonished If they knew it was mado with dried flower pods, an old meat platter, воло cement and sawdust, some wallpaper nate and rug yarn or heavy twine. Yes, that is exactly what went into the making of this gorgeous decoration which adorns an antique chest and which brightens up the whole room. You сли део
them in the photo on the but it took nearly a week la right.
We pleked the dry pods and let them dry out in the house. We got the sawdust in home workshop and got the 3 cups of cement from a neighbour who was building a house.
Any heavy twlac or rug yarn will do. The sawdust hut was made in less than five minutes
X-15
SPEAKING OF SPEED--
dry,
We arranged the pods in a gloss frog to get the eleme cut off, discarded th glass frog and made one right in one end of platter by making the mixture very firm, piling it up and put
ng the slents in when it was fairly set at just the right angles and taking them out until the cement set firm.
To
THE NEW X-15 ROCKET PLANE WILL STREAK AT A MILE-A SECOND! THAT'S 3600 MILES-AN HOUR - A PAGE THAT WOULD CIRCLE EARTH IN 7 HOURS!
You can use any pods and any type of pagoda or hut, A ceramic one is best, We have u little pagoda that we use de- unzionally but the nailve hut we made from sawdust and gilled we love best and it carries out the Oriental richness and effect perfectly
To make the native hut, mix up about a pint of wallpaper
Lor paste
papering, Mix
Bawdust with it until, you hava 體 pliable moes that can be moutded Into any chape with the hands, Mould a small hut with peaked roof, then punch in a door and windows,
Meusure a stout plece of cloth for overhanging roof and lay heavy twine or rug yarn length- wie und sew every inch or so on the sewing machine.
-GERTRUDE SPRINGER
Go Mile A Second
NICK NAMED THE "FLYING FUEL TANK" AND THE 'MISSILE WITH A COCKPIT", IT IS EXPECTED TO CLIMB TO AT LEAST 100 MILES AND POSSIBLY 300 MILES ABOVE EARTH. X45 15 BEING BUILT IN LOS ANGELES BY NORTH
AMERICAN AVIATION.
MORE THAN HALF THE BODY WILL CONTAIN FUEL TANKS OF ANHYDROUS AMMONIA AND LIQUID
OXYGEN. ATURBOPUMP WILL FEED THE POWERFUL ROCKET ENGINE.
THERE WILL BE TWO SETS OF CONTROLS:- (1) REGULAR AILERONS, FLEVATORS AND RUDDER FORUSE NEAR THE EARTH INDENCE AIR, AND (2) STEAM JET CONTROLS FOR USE IN EXTREMELY THIN AIR.
BILL ARTER,
Puzzle Pete's
4
COLUMN
CROSSWORD
ACROSS
អ
1 This is a month
Glver 6 Head covering
7 Favourite animal
Either
9
10 Father
11 Animal's home
Number
13
14 Calyx lent
Point
13
DOWN
1 Jump on one foot
2 Preposition
3 Spinning loy
4 Ventures
5 Drive off
Food fa
8 Light brown
12 Used to catch fish
13
Faucet
15 Mixed type
FERRIS WHEEL
Can you put the first 11 - beza in the 11 circles in this ferris wheel so that every three mumbers in a straight line aids up to 187 Puzzle Pele has put a number in to start you on:
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Chris And The Spiders
"I
They Gave Him A Beautiful Gift—
By MAX TRELL
DONT suppose any of vo
will befieve this," Christo- pler Cricket remarked as he val hmself down.
Knart and Hanid, the Shad- *WN with the Turned-About Names, Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, und Hawatha, the Small-Sized Wooden indian, all gathered around.
"Christopher Cricket had an adventure! exclulined Hanid.
Mr Punch heard this ant caine over 100.
Teddy, the Stuffed . Bear, called cat: "Christopher's got a wonderful story to tell.
over, everybody!"
Conte
At this, Mr Cuckoo flew down from the clock and joined the *prout
Everyone Was Shouting
By this time, everyone was shouting about the wonderful was rtory Christopher Cricket
The group, wis about to tell. Joined by Mary Jane, the Rag Dott. Who, the Hobby Horse, Thunder and Lightning, the 1wo Salamanders, Pleki Pou, the J'oodle, General Tin. the Soldier, and the Cat,
Tin
6-3
Chris saw a Spider disappear down the cellar steps.
"I didn't
1
waste any time. wen! right down the cellar sleps after her. And what a sight 1 saw! There, under the steps, was an Old Lady Spider with a dozen young Spiders around her--just the sing way you are all sitting around
ine now.
"The Old Lady Spider WOS horn-rimmed typ- wearing glasses. She was teaching the young Spiders how to knit. All of them had knitting needles."
"What were they knitting?" asked Knart.
In addition, the two Goldfish
against crowded
the glass of
They were knitting every; Their quarium and
listen thing that spiders wear," said The Canary good with his head Christopher Crickel, such as pushed against the bars of his socks and sweaters and shirts enge, listening. And a couple of
and dresses-bui especially Sparrows, who lived in a hole net." under the roof of the garage, flew over in the window sill and listened.
Better Bo Good
"This had
better be a good Glory." Mr Punch said to Chris- toptier Cricket.
Christopher
sat and just alled. "Go ahead and tell us," urged Knarf
"Everybody's listening," said Christopher Crickel, as he look
friends ed at the faces of his around him, "I hope the story I'm going to tell is as good as I think it is."
Then Christopher Cricket be-
411:
Now last night, just after the moen erme up, I took my banjo. I was starting out of the back door of the house when I heard someone saying: 'Oh, if we could only have musle while we work!'
"Well," Christopher went on, "there's nothing that pleases me more than to hear someone to hear say that he wants music. There is nothing that l'u rather do than bring music to folks who want to hear it.
Down The Stops
"So I looked around to see who was talking. All I could noe was a spider disappearing dawn the cellar steps."!
"Ugh, I hate spiders," said Hank.
"So do I," sald Mary Jane.
Christopher "I know," said Cricket.. "Lole of people bate spiders. But they're not nearly an bad so you think,
At any rate, I was sure that it was the spider who had wanted to hear my music.
"What did they need neis for?" asked Teddy, the Stuffed Bear.
To Catch Flies
sald "To catch Files with,"
sat down Christopher. "Sp among them and played songs for them until the moon went And down and the sun rose. the Old Lady Spider thanked me and gave me this."
Cricket reached Christopher Info his pocket and look out a
socks, beautiful pair
"They're for wearing on very cold nights when I si under a fence and make music.
Te Everyone agreed that Christo- pher Cricket's story was worth listening to. And they all leved it
be-
FIND A PENCIL
STUB THAT
WILL FIT IN THE
BOK.
FOR A PENCIL,
2. LOAD YOUR BOX WITH THE PENCIL STUB AND A FULL LENGTH PENCIL LIKE THIS... (BOTH PENCILS SHOULD BE THE SAME SHAPE.COLOR AND BE SHARPENED THE SAME WAY,
STUB PENCIL
3.PUT THE
BOX TOP BACK
ON AND HOLD THE
BOX LIKE THIS WITH
END OF LONG PENCIL UP YOUR SLEEVE...
LONG- PENCIL
LETA PAL PULL OUT STUB YO SEE IT. THEN RETURN IT ALL THE WAY INTO THE BOX-- NOW! YOU PUSH THE LONG PENCIL POT THROUGH HOLE... ASK YOUR AIL TO PULLIT ALL THE WAY OUT.
DIFFERENCE
Verse To Brighten
WHY?
A bright eyed little mouse Hos come to live in my house.
Now why should she Wish to live with me When 'm afraid of her And she's afraid of me?
-GRACE SHAVER WORD DISCORD
Why, when words look alike Won't they rhyme when
read them:
I'
Games
WL
And why aren't, there rules
To help out when you need
them?
Look at flower and mower, And great, heat and sweat, And just try to thyme treat With its sister word threat, There are blood hood and
mood,
Stew and sew, to confuse us, Just guess old Noah Webster Thought them up to amuse ule.
-ETTA F. GILBERT
To
Your Day
LITTLE CAT BUTCH
Little cat Butch
Is a tiger kliten,
His front foot looks Like a yellow mitten,
And his tail la long,
And he's sleek as can be,
And oh, how 1 wish
He belonged to me!
But he just belongs
To himself and his mother
1
And he doem't care For any other.
Solveig Paulson Russell BEST FRIENDS You'll have the truest friends
indeed,
If you have books you like to
read:
For books will last, and long
remain
Good friends who teach-and
entertain.
---KAY CAMMER
Play While Swimming
you and your gang 1. Walk along the beach and bat counts 10 points. Bathing to towel until they reach the
watch for men
bathers, The trunks, hat and shoes, 16 points, goal line, then back in the same want to have a good hit player to pee a man wear- A mas in bathing trunks and fashion to the starting line, The time at a popular swimming ing bathing trunks and amoking cmoking a cigar, 25 points, player falshing first, wins the beach try
these stunts a cigarette gele five pointa, A Bathing SUIT, shoes and socks,, prize. they're fun.
and 100 points. man with bathing trunks
CLOCK LORE
MERICANS
Teacher! "Alfred, what is the Aconselaus.
difference between a dog and a
ch?"
Alfred: "Guess it's that a log can-bave fleas, but a flea cont have dogs.
Rupert and Floppity-25
Deciding to try Rupert's new the others."1 say, that's clever idea. Pong-Ping turns towards his of him cries the little Pck home. Floppity needs no urging to, when they God him. He must go in the right direction and have found the trail made when soon pulling hard that he again started out and followed it back drags the lead out of Rupert'i there 1" "Yes, that's it," Rupert hand and dashes forward, arriving laughs. He did the same with #Pont-Ping's house far ahead of me
ALL RIGHTS RESERVEÅ
are clock- Even in colonial days there won a clockmaker in every good-sized community.
SCRAMBLEGRAMS
Scramble
"a weight allow ance" and have “a scute," 'again and have "a drop of eye fluid,”
Scramble "to cloy” and have "dines", rescramble and have "afternoon social events"; _ze= scramble and have a chair; ance more and have "a bristle."
(Solutions on Page 20),
PARTY FUN TRY this for a good laugh at
your next party. Get your friende, to talking
p.sk about swimming and then what is the longest timo euch of them has been able to keep his or her head under water. When they have finished talk- ing, announce calmly that you can keep your own head under water three minutes longer than any of them!
challenge you,
When they
don't back down. Prove your statement! Here's how! Get a pall of water from the kitchen, Bring it in and bet it on a tabla. Huț in all cases, be ponald- Now climb under the table and erate when you play games afsit with your head under the Don't point or make loud re-
swimming place. Don't be too water, marks about the bathers when loud or interfere with the fun Maybe you'd better have the you play this gamo – kẹẹp the or relaxation others are enjoy-back door open and ready for | un within your own
FLAT. 105.
a quick exit When the walk is finlabed, the
On the sky, he would see a person who has the most points fire line which was П hair wins the prize, stretched across the centre of the telescope's end. As the earth revolved, the designated star But it was not un 1883 that would appear and slowly move the United States and Canada across hit fold of vision. When
stones are started
adopted the four time-zone it was directly on the ling, he 2. Players git in a circle with known as Eastern, Central, pushed a buttons which recorded their hands behind their backs, Mountain and Pacific, and do the exact time. Then this was one person la "j" and stands ir cided to get together once and repeated the fellowing night. the centre of the circle. Five. for all on the matter of telling time. Until then, many cor- human eye.
Today' a camera replaces the shells or munities in a single area often D.C., 'astronomers at the United "tried to locate one of the In Washington, moving around the circle white had their clocks set at different States Naval Observatory, com shella. When he poin's to a times.
But who was to say just what average time of the seven mas- must hold out bo'h his hands. the star time with the player whom he believes to be holding an object, that person accurate time is7
ter-clocks at the observatory. Scientists have known for a
Should the player be caught long time that the turning of atar at 45 seconds and 15 sec fortelt named by "it" and then
They take photography of the with one he has to perform the earth is the most accurate onds before the clocks way the take his place in the centre of means of measuring time that atar is due to cross the Eine, and the circle.
man knows.ol. If they fixed on
a. certain,star and noted the
pare
at 15 and 45 seconds after.
each
1
on of difference, they correct player must have a bathing cap
If there is the slightest: frac-i
3. For a beach race, time their radio tige signals, which towel, (boys will probably
time when they passed directly under it each night, the would mark the pasigo of 24-hour day.
a
At feat. This slomgazing was done with
any want out every two hour, - Clocks and watches are numerpus. today. that we are
this contest). Al the starting havo' to bartow a cap to enter
o telecopo, portico scaredly over out of earshot of signal, coch. person places his straight into the sky, Just bow their ticking, but the`; càrth Cupshead of him and hops on
fere time for observation, the astronomer would lie on his
7
back and peer through the tele
at our largest and most
is placed ahead and the player It with one foot, then the towel
MABEL SLACK SHELTON me hopping from bathing cap hops on to it", The racers.comTM
gjate Umekeeper. ---
ZOO'S WHO
A WHITE ELEPHANT (S NOT WHITE, BUT GEN- ERALLY A PALE YEL- LOWISHGRAY? WITH
PINK SPOTS..
WHERE DO YOU GET
·ITHAT CUINAMON BEAR ****
· NAME ·
THE TITMOUSE FAMILY INCLUDES: THE TITMICE THE CHICKADEES, S THE BUSHTITS AND THE S
VERDING.
THE CINNAMON BEAR IS NOT A SEPARATE SPECIES OF BEAR IT IS MERELY A DARK CHESTNUT: COLORED PHASE OF THE COMMON" BLACK BEARU
26.