FEATURES
On Reaching Point Of
A
PROMINENT feature
on the Instrument panels of planes making long flights across the ocean is a pluce marked, "Point of No Return,"
The exact point has to be dow cided and not for a particuler fight or trip will n knowledge of the number of miles to piaco where a forced landing can be made.
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A nice bit of calculation L involved. In occuracy is highly Important to the crew and par- nengers. A mistake in calculo- tlons night be fatal.
When the Indicator points directly to that point, the plot has his last chance to turn back. When It is past the point he has the plane to finish cmmitted the voyage There is no turning back afterward.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1058.
LIFE IS LIKE PILOTING A PLANE-FIRST WE PICK THE BEST COURSE AND
THEN PROCEED AHEAD- NO TURNING BACK!
FOR
No Return
Before that time if there is fake no craness. He has his troublé he can tum about and decision made before that cru-
clai point of no return is go back to land safely.
reached.
If he is a wise pilot he checks carefully all possibiltiles
Prospectors
NO, I'M NOT KIDDING: THERE ARE PROSPECTORS WHO SEARCH ONLY AT
NIGHT BY "BLACK
LIGHT"
The
and
In some ways, life is like that. There is no unerving needle
BOYS AND GIRLS
HOW POCAHONTAS WAS KIDNAPPED
the
THIS In a story of how chief Powhatan WAS their Many tolnicets tud boen pent Tu copper kettle once enemy.
from England for trading with In the voyage of life pointing
"Wie calonista were elarsing. Uho Inding. Among theo trong to the cxact ilmes when we saved
colonists of Pocahontas had been forbidden some copper kettles. The exp. murt decide whether to go
by her Jamestown.
father to being them fcin know the old uncle'w greed- ahead or turn back. But the
as she had been in the Iross for the precious copper. times come all the same, many
It was written originally by food,
Japazaws
egroot to the plan of them.
Ralph Hamor, secretary of the habit of doing. Jamestown Colony from 1011 to 1814, and published in London în 1015.
Often we are called upon to chocas the path we will take, and once we have chosen, we cannot coltace our stepa.
Like the pilot of the plane, our decisions affect the lives of ofters, a pecially enyang our family and friends,
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Hamor
It was the winter of 1813 that and got this lotto. Coptzón. Angeli, who had been sait, from England to replace Captain John Smith, had a bold idoa.
Atbor much bargaining. Pow- Japazas, not for from hatan agrood to the form and Pocahontas way released. Pow-
Tho Indian prinoceʊ, was Io learned that Powhatan's tulen, aboma Argall's boat and tells a story of how delight and darling, his daugh- bald in Jamcnbow.m the beautiful Indian princess, er Pocahonics, was to visit an Pocahontas, staunch friend of unele, the Jamestown colonists, won Jamestown, kidnappest, and held prisoner in o would kinap Focahontas haton klopt his kernis of the bar- Jamestown,
and hold hor until her father gain, and Jamestown was mye The colonists loved Pocalion agreed to a freely at peace und from destruction-by one cop- This does not mean that we
per kettle. should dodge the journey: was, but her father, the powerful returned the wille prisoners. cannot do that if we wish. It does mean that we should freed in the right direction and have overything in order,
To prepare an old raying. we should Arst be sure we are right, and then go ahead,
-J. A. RICHARD
Use Invisible Light
HE FARES FORTH AT DUSK, . LEADING A BURRO LOADED WITH BATTERIES,
HE SEEKS STONES THAT LOOK QUITE ORDINARY BY DAY, BUT WHICH FLUORESCE (GLOW) WHEN BLACK LIGHT
STRIKES THEM. THEY ARE USED FOR MANY PURPOSES. INCLUDING TV SCREENS.
STONES MAY GLOW IN AS MANY AS TEN COLORS AND COLLECTORS PAY WELL FOR
RARE SPECIMENS.
Spy With
OPYING is EL business
SIPYING
which makes use
of
many talents, both ordinary
and unusual.
Perhaps we
are inclined to think of sples as glamorous women wheedling state scerets
from prime ministers at gay athletle parties. Or handsome.
inen boldly outwitting a thou- sand counterapies and `escoping over the border in the nick of time.
Such exciting people are rare In the very serious business of spying. Often spies lead hum- drun it 'es with only the apice of danger, if they are caught.
his
Consider the real-life ense of one spy, whom we shall coil simply "Georg," because real name was never revealed.
A native of one of the Baltic recruited republies, Georg was
PROSPECTORS
LEARN TO BE CARE -
FUL ABOUT PICK-
ING UPERRUANT YELLOW-ORANGE, GLOWING OBJECTS.
-THEY COULD BE WANGEROUS SCORPIONS!
BILL ARTER
The Mirror Memory
reason that he was a memory expert.
In the carly 20s the danger of Communism in Russia was fore- seen. As a safety measure sur- rounding republies began smug- gling opics into Moscow.
The memory expect Georg was by his government to spy upon one such secret agenta spy the Red regime of Russia back working not for money, but for
1920's-for the early
the patriotism.
In
New
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He contrived to set himself up as a taximan in that city.
Georg was always waiting near some oficial building when the small fry of the Red regime finished their day's work and Jaded home. For many weeks Georg carried them in his droshky (carriage), sizing them
up.
thought He
he had found what he was seeking in a cer- tain young man who clerked in the Red Army headquarters. A friendship sprang up. Finally Georg wounded him out,
If he could arrange to let
Some Strange Yarns About Wise Animals
[AYBE you've heard the hauled it in hand over hand. water. When the mother netted ate the cheese out of the it, it was discovered the thirty mousetrap and then waited pound pike had ignored the bait above the hole with and was holding fast to the line
itself. balted" breath..
But here are
YET, READ ON, If this samo boy had a fractured leg, you some know he would have to have it strango true stories of fish, ret by a physician and keep it fowl and animals that will in a cast for weeks.
show you strategy cam- paigns are not solely for the human raec.
We have
some wild ducks which have made their home in n small wester Pennsylvania river for yeZIE.
The birds are village pets and everyone, young and old, feeds them.
Once a boy tossed the bread from a sandwich and the ducks gobbled away. But cech duck saved a portion. Marching down to the edge of the river, they cast their bread into the water.
I watched a fox set its own broken leg, build a cast for it and sweat it out for 80 days.
Hidden away, I watched the animal pick out a spot of clay soll well washed by water. The animal dug a holo with its front feet, then gingerly placed the fractured back leg into the "clay east" and packed the wet day back around the injured leg.
Each day I went back mon- ing and evening, to check on bin. The animal was geiting a little water by leking the wet ground but definitely no food.
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ENVELOPES.
"ECHOOL"
The Well-Mannered Hen
-Her One Big Mistake Was To Criticiac Pig-
By MAX TRELL
"ONCE upon a ume," said Mr
This went day after day. When the "ball" allracted At last month had passed. small ish, the ducks each The fox was weird-looking, thin grobbed a bill full of fish for and plainly in torrent. their dessert, -
NOW HERE IS another story concerning the pelican,
When pellean captures n fish he snaps it into the air and The secret information Armly
Teentches his meal on the fly, locked la his
The memory, spy
gulls have long spotted Georg dropped into a barbershop this manoeuvre and have capital- to clean up before attempting to Ised on it. They swoop down sneak back over the border. at the same time the pelleen
The fox limped to the water Henrietta," tosses his catch and many times for a long drink. Then camo the gulls get there first.
WOO the test. The injured leg was Witnesses claim they have put down earth, Hfted, put perch down again and again to restore actually, wolched a gull on a pelican's back and when circulation and gain strength. the big bird made his catch and I hung around most of the popped it up into the air, the day, watching the animal try to nonchalantly gulf moved in fast and beat the strengthen and even stretch the
I was lucky enough to be pre-
Punch to Knarf, the sent when it decided it was Shadow Boy with the Tumed- time, to test, the leg. On the About Name, and Teddy, the thirtieth day, the dirt was dug Stuffed Bear, and Hiawatha, the away, the "bad" leg emerged Small Size Wooden Indian, shriveled and shaking.
"hero was a Hen who lived in Unless I'm mis- a farmyard. Laken, and I don't think I am, the name of this Hon WES
But then came a slip-up. After he had finished shaving Georg, the barber asked: "What will you have on the face, com- rader"
"Camphor ice," replied Georg.
pollcan to the nedul.
A
at
In a flash, another man who was waiting his turn, was Georg's side.
"You are under arrest," the man growled. "Come along."-
His fate was sealed. He died
Georg see certain papers-just before a firing squad. for an hour, Georg would pay the young man a large sum of rubles.
The trivial slip ot asking for Social camphor lee, a common tonic in the Ballic states and in The clerk hesitated, but greed Russia, too, before the Revolu- overcome his patriotism.
on had tripped up Georg. The
went off Ironically, he had arrangement
falled to hitch. The clerk memorise the vital fact that "borrowed" the documents the camphor ice had completely dis- spy with the amazing memory appeared from Russia with the studied them for an hour and passing of the last of the Czars. then they were returned to the
without a
proper place.
--CLEMENS KIRCHNER
The name of thò cat is “Camber Döarent.??" Blie", is a blue kitten owned by Mrs. B. ML Denton of Denmark Hul. London ...and was shown at the Hertfordshire and Redfordshire Championships Dat Show held at the Diniral HAI VYGvtminster
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"she
"Maybe," said Teddy,
a Chicken and her name was Chickie?"
"Or maybe," said Hiawatha, this Chicken was a Rooster and his name was Henry,"
Mr Punch paid no attention to these two interrupilons.
Clean And Neat
"You scratch for food,” Pig told Henrietta,
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Ja
Injured leg by giving it a good was workout without netually walk- seven-year-old boy Ashing from a boat in Canadian ing.
"'i sure am,' grunted the Ple: waters with his parents. The At last it seemed satisfied the
its good to be hungry? said "Well," he said, "this Hen boy cast his line into the water leg could take it. The animal named Henrietta was as clean Henrietta. Everybody gels hon many, many times. The line had walked eagerly toward the deep and as nest and as nice and as gry now and then, the usual bobbers on, Suddenly woods,
I'm hungry all the time Truly, the world of nature is polite as ever a Hen could be. there was a cast and a boyish
"Whenever she walked about said the Pig. shout. "I've got bitel"
the barnyard, she would speak
Seeing the Une going out, the father grabbed the lino and
a wonderful world.
-HERB WADDELL
ZOO'S WHO
OHIO RANKS SECOND TO CALIFORNIA IN
NUMBER OF
BEE COLONIES.... MICOUGANE
BIRDS ARE DESCEND- ED FROM REPTILES AND STILL HAVE MANY CHARACTERIS-
·TICS OF REPTILES.
THE PORCUPINE IS
CALLED THE FOREST GANGSTER, BY TIMBERMEN. WHEREVER THIS VEGETARIAN TRÅVELS ON ITS NOC TURNAL HUNTS, DEAD OR DYING TREETOPS
MARK ITS PATH..
Rupert and the Early Bird-15
Rupert in almost annoyed. "There, d'you see? It's a jack- "Stop teasing," be says. 5? What day ** she says. “He's mine, nonsense is this? Birde don't ria fell down my chiquey and i spaal Anyway, crown don'c. tented him and taught him to.
isa't a crow," saya Margaret, talk. You're my pet, aren't you, *** Wait, f'll show you. She calls... – Jack ? *** S'right, maya the fuck to the bird and to Rupert's furflær daw, bus murule om. -I'm buit
· astonishment ...ir swerven, and I must be off." bargures" muiles elights obediently before, bet, at Rupert'e surpeler,
ALL RIGHTS ARGENESIS.
"Now, sald Henrietta, Behk
to the young Ducks and the hungry is all right. What I don't young Grese. She would remind like is the way you root around them to keep themselves nent in the ground with your nose,
""That's how I and 'food;": and clean. They all latened to
her carefully and did their best said the Pig. to obey her.
**Then one day," continued
Mr Punch, "Henrietta came on
Not Good Manners
a sight which led her with Folks with good natavers,' surprise and consternallon. For sald Henrietta, 'don't root-In-the- a moment or two, she couldn't ground with their noses." even open her mouth to speak.”. "Is that so said the- Fiske
"What caused that?" asked "You scratch in the ground with Knarf.
your beak. I saw you myself!" "Henrietto didn't say any thing?
She simply tossed he head indignantly and strutted away.
"What did she sce?"
Muddy Puddlo
D
Teddy sald: "She must have Ecen Duck standing In puddle of muddy water,"
Mr. Punch shook his head Hiawatha said: "I bet she saw 19 Goose spinshing in a pond
Again Mr Punch shook his head.
"I bet she saw a Ég said Knart.
This time, Mr Punch smllcd and nodded,
"A Fig," he said, "is exactly what Henrietta Baw! To tell you
But a little Duck who was standing fear her heard her say: "Suppose I do scratch in the ground for my food. What of it? I do, of course, but that little Pig: didn't have to remind me, did he? Plga have awful man
cra" "
When Mr Punch finished his? lale, Knart said: "Henrietta, the Hen, shouldn't have crilicfred that Ple, Mr Punch
Hiawatha said: "Pig haven't
the truth, she saw that Pig-he got bad manners" Al-Fita disin" was a small fat Pigooting root around In the m
around in the mudr
their noses, they trollt
bel
act
What's rooting around?" Pigs. And what's they use at Teddy asked,
being a Pig, if he doesn
Toddy said: "Plza
"Rooling around," said Mr Lilou a Pl Punch, "means digging in the Ground, for roots with your They can be dirty the
minds except the Ch
nose."
Unpleasant Idea-
BRAIN TEASERS
Knarf and Teddy and Hia- watha all lob out sounds' which meant they didn't like the ideaTMN THE MIDDLE AGES, cach of rooting around in the mud occupation or croftihad its with their noses,
While "I didn't think you would," all of us might at times use
own guild and insignia. Bald Mr Punch, "Nobody Ukes some of these wols, what work- Tooting in the mud-excoptors would be likely to use them Pigs."
the molt: "What did Hertelts say to 1. Shuille, 1; Typewriter. that Pig?" Teddy wanted to tronome. 4. A Com know.
pass. 6. Bevel squared 1 Stinko. well, she watched that Fig 8. Trowel. 9, Nankopatwrench. for a minute or two," ANSWEred 10. Needle,
Mr Punch, "then she went up to
him and waid! How do you do, .....
my Mille Pig?y not?
I've been watching: JOU! " "UMMERJEWELE said Henrietta. "You're hungry, guapuja "ögunjuk aren't
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