THE
(OME, LAD, we're off
tour of inspection lighthouses," Loula's father used to say to him.
of
The elder Stevenson was n builder of lighthouses and he wanted his son, Robert
The
the
Louis, to be a civil engineer when he grew up. But the boy's head was always filled with other things, tours of inspection to wildest coasts of his native Scotland only served to set- Louis dreaming of more and more stories to scribble of surf und storm and ship- wreck.
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He was a frail youth, and as a child he had to spend much Ume in bed. He spent Jony hours morching his toy soldiers andi sottors up and down the hills and valleys made by the bedclothes and he listened to the true tales of Scottish history told to him by "Cummie," le nurse.
In school, he wrote pages and pages of stories, and some very good ones, though his
English professors could not see beyond the misspelled words and told Mr Blevenson Jils boy could
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never be, an hope, an sulfior.
to
he presumed
Doctors examined Louts and sald his cough would turn into something worse If he stayed in cold, damp climate of Edin- burgh.
So off he went on a series of Journeys that was to lest for 20 years and carry him over more than 20,000 miles.
With a companion, he voyaged the canola of Europe. With a donkey he tramped alone the mountalis of France. He cromed the ocean to America,
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FOR
WHO
then took to the rond again to see how people Ilve there.
Back in Scotland, he wrote his book Kidnapped" which made him tamous. Then he wrote another which sent his name ringing round the world, This W43 "Treasure Island," which has been called the greatest adventure slory ever written for boy.
Aceling health, Robert Louis Stevenson's travels took him to a far-away sunny Island in the l'acific where he built the homo he called "my shining, windy house" and from there in his Awift rchooner, "Casco," he vis ited scores of other Islands.
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Danger he loved, because he had courage. So typhoons, sprung masts, and unfriendly natives only gave him ideas for more and more stories,
He remembered all the stories Cummie, his nurse, had teld it, and wrote them into <washbuckling talcu of kreat deeds.
He remembered the trips in a boat with his father, when he was supposed to learn about lighthouses, and wrote "Over the Sea to Skye."
As long as he lived, he firmly Belleved that "The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings." And he was,
HOW Play Was It A Beautiful Day?
TO BACKYARD"!
1.FIND 9 EMPTY TIN GANS
(ALL THE SAME SIZE) WHOSE
TOPS HAVE BEEN REMOVED
WITH A ROTARY
CAN OPENER.
Z.USE THE CANS
TO CUT 9 CIRCLES
IN THE SOD...
*REMOVE
SOD AND DIRT SO CAN WILL FIT INTO HOLE
LEVEL WITH GRASS.
SPACE MOLES ABOUT 12 TO 15 FEET APART
3.MARK HOLES WITH ASMALL *CARDBOARD TACKED TO A
STICK.
4.MAKE IT HARDER TO GET TO THE HOLES BY PLACING FLOWER POTS STICKS OR ROCKS NEAR BY
USE A GOLF PUTTER AND GOLF BALL.. SEE HOWMANT STROKES IT TAKES TO PUT THEBALL IN EACH CAN.
-Some People Were Sure It Would Roin-
By MAX TRELL
NARF, The Shadow Boy with
A the
Tummed-About Name, Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, and Hiawatha,
Small-Sized the Wooden Indian, were walking down the road.
"What a beautiful day!" ex- claimed Kno
"The sun is shining. The birds
are singing. The becs are hum- ming. It's a
agreed Teddy.
wonderful day,"
But Hiawatha just grunted: "It's going to rain.”
Patches of Flowors
Kerf and Teddy laughed and kopt on walking
All around them were little patches of violets anal anemones. In other places they saw dan delions, disler, buttercups und several other wild flowers whose names they couldn't remember. In the trees the robins were warbling. And high overhead te our kept shining in a cloud- less slry.
Just then, they met Chicken, "Good morning, my dear Lady Hog Beautiful day, isn't it?" Knart said.
It Wasn't Lost
The Chicken tied her head
to look at
the sky: "It's fair
won't last long.
17-9..
"It won't rain today," Gooza
told Knart and Teddy,
their faces once more und or they walked.
"Gord xrning, good Bectic!" greeted Knurf and Teddy.
Blackie Beetle was sitting co a rubble, twiddling three or four of his thumbs. "Isa't il a beautiful day?”
Blackle Doctle just rolled his eyes,
"Beautiful day
"But rain not far away." The Blackie -Beelle scurried under the pebble, with just the rad of his tail showing..
Hiawatha smiled, "See?" Kaar! and Teddy stared up at the sky as hard as they could. enough now," she sld," but it They looked to the north, to the south the cast and to the west. Then they looked all around the edges of the sky and jumped on a big pile of stones order to look over the edges, Du! Hiawatha didn't even
"Folr befere seven
"Rala before 'liven."
Then she walked off.
"Sce? Just what 1 said,"
claimed inwatha.
-Xil
But Knurf and Teddy shook bother to look. their heads as, they watched hor go. For is moment or two they seemed discouraged.
Just then a Goose came along, "What are you looking for Goose asked Kuart and Teddy. "We're looking for the main" "Bain!" cried the Goose. "Who} says its going to rain?"
But then they took another look at the sun and the blue sky, and listened to the robles. They walked on again, aniling.
Koort and Teddy remained "Good morning! Good morn- sheat ing!" Kharf sald the next mo- Hiawatha looked at the Goose ment to Squire Squirrel, whom and sald: "Met I said it's going
under the to rain." branches of a Maple tree. "Have Try this trick for yourself you over seen such a beautiful.
¡day?"
FUNNY NUMBERS they found sitting
and then try it on some of your "Sort of good. But I don't ex- friends, They're sure to agres with you that it is a really sileht pect it to dust," was the reply.
tricle.
Think of a number ta sinali number is easier to work with),
Double it.
Add nine.
Subtract three.
Divide by two.
the
you
Subtract
mumber thought of. What's
answer?. your threef It will always be three it you follow the above direc- tions carefully.
CUCKOO
My birdie alts and looks sil
iday-
I know he cannot fly away; He cannot sing one note at all; He's In a clock upon the wall.
I keep on haping-maybe soon He'll learn to chirp a different
itune.
Meartwhile he only has the
Hower
To spy, "Cuckoo"-every hour.
Wind-Blown Flower
Just below my window sill,
1 sed a yellow daffodil
Growing near a strange, new
plant;
How surprising that I can't
Remember putting seeds right
there
Guess they floated through the
air.
I have to ask my neighbour's
pardon,
Her flowers are blooming in our
garden.
"Sun la the sky.
"Rain bye and bye.".
No Rain Today
AND
BOYS WANTED
GIRLS
TO WRITE
HOW HE HUNTED WILD HONEY
Puzzle Pete's
COLUMN
CROSSWORD
1 Taxi
4 Decay
7 Poem
You had to know what you
In days gone by, one of the great adventures in the woods was hunting bee trees. were doing because it was dangerous work. It included cutting out the block which contained the comb, photo at left. But the rewards were pounds and pounds of delicious honey, photo at right.
OUR MODERN CITY DOYS should know about one of the great ad- ventures their grandfathers might have experienced.
A bottle of oil of anise, two jar is, a dab of flour and a pair of good eyes... those were the only essen- tinks to the beginning of one of the "sweetest" adven- tures you could have had in the woods.
re-
The resinous olour of pine is The taking of the honey
Bees aren't usually angry absorbed by the honey.Bees quired preparation, if grandded during the sawing of the tree. do not, as a rule, choose a tree didn't wish to keep the bees he But after it has fallen they be with a broken lop, because this was sure to cut the tree in the come violent, Rags were burned would allow moisture to reach spring or early summer so that so that the smoke would drive
the bees would have Ume to re- them away, the honey.
locute and store honey for winter.
were Palience and keen eyes what found bee trees for grand-
They were the necessities for dad, anding a wild bee tree.
Blocking was the next step. This was removing a section of the tree where the honey was Iregled, with a saw.
Then, with EL sharp laufe, granddad carefully cut the comb from the aides of the tree and placed it in buckets.
They sock a tree with a hole In I wilch can be touched by the sun, The hole may be any-
In order to protect himself, where from the ground up. the hunter had to be properly by dressed. Abee vell was made, Sometimes they even enter
sometimes by sewing a piece of the way of a hollaw ilmb.
screen wire all the way around the brim of a man's hut. Cloth was attached to the lower edge of the wire so that it could be tucked into the collar of a coat or jacket buttoned tightly at the
Back at home, he removed heck. It was dangerous business After Anding the
tree, he and he made sure no bee could any stray bees or nieces of bark, examined it to see if there was enter the vell,
Any bee bread-the comb filled with an orange, powderly look- an X mark on it. An X would
He tucked his jacket cleeves ing substance was discarded.. mean Komeone else had pre-
the
into heavy gloves and Bed a vlously located
cord tightly around the wrists, He either sliced the sealed
or He wore two pairs of trousers, cemb strained the honey claimed 11, ed up and headed fur home.
If there was no X, the next fucked into boots and corded at through a while cloth sack, You would then walk step was to obtain permission the boot tops. A belt was worn Either way, it was a "sweet" about four hundred yards at an to . the tree. Bee trees are on the outside of the con or ending to a great adventure. the usually hollow and worthlesa Jucket and he was suro hia angle and put out bult other Ild.
The anise was placed in a jar ld and set on a stump in open field."
The
attracted bers
un
were
watched carefully as they load
for lumber.
MERCURY
GOSH, THIS IS HEAVY! WHAT'S IN IT?
MERCURY
tree and
clothing was thick enough.
By LOLA AUTRY
IS A STRANGE METAL
MERCURY IS A METAL YET LIQUID. ITS ATOMIC WEIGHT IS OVER 200. IRON'S IS LESS THAN 56.
"THIS HEAVY, IRON BOLT ACTUALLY FLOATS LIKE A CORK IN MERCURY.
MONEY-MAKING
The Gacse -oked up at the sky with all her might. "Yes," she finally said. "It is going to rain. But not today. It's going to rain tomorrow!"
CANDA RITTER, who al- she operates in conjunction nodded.
SCPA de Washington with after-class train Hiawatha
"That's what I meant," he said. "Nice} gloco-icday. Temorrow rain!"
Irving High School in New sitting work. Kaart and Teddy put their York City, has an interest-
With that the Squirrel ran up the tree and disappeared, See?" said Hiawatha fly. "It's going to rain."
Clear Blue Sky
"IF YOU TRY TO PUT YOUR FINGER ON A DROP OF MERCURY IT DARTS AWAY. THAT IS PROB- ABLY WHY IT HAS OFTEN BEEN CALLED 'QUICKSILVER.
"PEOPLE ASK, "WHERE'S THE MERCURY ?' WHEN IT'S HOT OR COLD BECAUSE D ́S MERCURY THATS IN THE THERMOMETER A "MERCURY IS THE 'SILVER' ON THE BACKS OF MIRRORS.
IT HAS MANY USES IN CHEMISTRY,
*MERCURY PRICE ROSE NOT LONG AGO FROM LESS THAN A DOLLAR TO$5.00A POUND.
*THIS SPEEDED UP MINING OF THE ORE, CINNABAR WHICH
IS DUO FAR BELOW THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH.
*CINNABAR ROCK IS ROASTED TO DRIVE OFF MERCURY VAPOR. WE 'ROAST' WHEN THE MERCURY BOES TO- A HUNDRED*
BILL ARTER
PHOTO IDEA
children that she takes care of.
She starts by taking a picture of the child, standing ngalust the wall in a bathing BİLLİ.
In't a Although she
cameri This consists of making per enthusiast, she doesnt have to dolls of the be, since the pose is always the same, und is snapped at a uni- forin distance from the camera. She has this print developed, to a 9 x 12 size.
arms around Hiawatha's ing, profitable hobby which sonalised paper
shoulders. Down the road they went, hopping, skipping and jumping, unilkig up at the blue sky and the dancing sunbeams that locked for all the world
e a' gelden stairway,
Knari and Teddy paused for on instant. They looked up.
Through the branches of the tree, they could see the clear blue sky willi the sunbeatns For it wain't going to rain dancing down like a golden that day. No, not until tomor stairway. The smile came le row!
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Rupert and Floppity—37 ·
When things have calmed down Rupert smiles a the excited gentleman. That isn't, any Champion Whatsait," he laughs, "It' Floppity | Norven 1 This is my Champion Hildebrand of Natchesree (*. injista the max. Didn't you see him recognise
me? . Pie's of a new breed and I'm irsining him to be the finest police dog in the world." "My, that's "wonderful," "eries - Rupert. "He certainly can track people. He trailed my friend Rastus ind when he wouldn't go away Rastia found him that old collar anst lead.” ALL RIGHTS KISSATER
| ZOO'S WHO
TROUT ARE FOUND IN ALL BUT SEVEN
STATES OF THE UNION...
EARLIEST DWELLERS IN NEW MEXICO ADOPT POP!! NOMADS WHO LIVED THERE FROM 10000
TO 15,000 YEARS AGO, HUNTED SUCH ANIMALS AS THE GIANT GROUND SLOTH, MUSK OX,THREE-TOED HORSE, CAMEL, ∙FOUR-PRONGED ANTELOPE AND THE:
JENJI MAMMOTH,
LEGS OF THE FENGUIN ARE ENCLOSED IN THE SKIN. OF THE BODYSTHUS MAKING ITS WALK SLOW AND CLUMSY."
Her next step consists of cut- ting out the picture and mount- ing it on light cardboard with a small wooden pedestal so that It will stand. Sometimes she colours the photograph as well, tising the standard colours..
photo ofí
To make dresses for the dalis, ¦
pho uses, papër, that she gots for
PAPER DOLL DOUBLES
WOODEN erup
PHOTO, 'X 12′′ CUT OUT AND -MOUNTED.
WALL PAPER COSTUMES
18
ACROSS
# Compass point
Through
10 Body of water
1. Social insect
12 Strike
14 Aged
-17 Fish
18 Grande River
1 Dance slep
20 Even (port,)
DOWN
1 Pollcoman
2 Fruit drink 3 Scolds
4 Put back into condition
First number
4 Beverage
12 Body part 13 Girl's name 15 Falsehood 10 t on
TRUE OR FALSE?
Decide which, if any, of these statements in true
The Star-Spangled Banner became U.S. national anthem more than 50 years ago.
Uranium is the heaviest of afl metala.
New York City has the Jargent area of any U.B. dity.
BEHEADINGS
Behead 365 days" and have "part of your body."
Behead "a pleasant: look" and " have "a meuzure of distance.", t
Behead "a banquet" and have... "a direction,"
PICTURE WORD SQUARE
Use each plcture of its ward- ing to form a four-letter word,... and you'l And your answer. reads the come down as across when you put them down in: order.
E
· TRIANGLE.
'CANDLES provide a base for Puzzle. Pete's word triangle, The second word Is "a baby'a thanks" third "males"; fourth "strong string; Ath a motor- sist's ino"; and sixth "round- ed." Can you complefs? the triangle?
(Botuliona ou"-Pago
FUN QUIZ
...
Tab creature, listed on each
nothing, by asking the local with face paper dollies. The paint shop. propriete to give fancy edges fold over the dolls, her wallpaper samples of dis-- The paper dolls, theirselves continued models... The actual are good advertisements for her of the groups has something making of the clothing doesn't hcbby Almast úvery child who that the obiget listed with has. sees such a doll want one! deg)]| No.: L. for eximple,AUTTAIL. require much ́altill.
herelt. Little boys, it is in What are the others She ands, that, she can get as teresting to note, like to play much as $2.00 for a toy of this with them too kind, which is zopily made up. ", very quickly. It' the doll is Sometimes the paper doll coloured, the price is $2.30, hobby results in additional, baby APOLLO AZALTERNATE silting work, rather than the Of course Business Bobens at revered, for now customers, who Hollday seasons. Her product is aro generally on the lookout for neatly put up in fint handler a competent "Modber's Helper," phief boxes, which aro. Ined are quick to hire her..
"¡No. 3: Giraffe - Bottle Fair
No. 4 El Banc
5 FIN
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(Auswers on Page 20)