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FEATURES
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1958.
FOR
AND
BOYS
A Barrel
Long Ago-Mudbaths Used To Treat The Sick
MED
learning
how
nro
EDICAL men
always interested in doctors treated their patients in by- gone days. Therefore, the uncovering of a famous Roman health resort or spa was followed with interest throughout the world.
This was the Asklepfefon at Pergamon In Asia Minor.
Buik by the Greeks, i wan destroyed by invaders and inter rebuilt by the Romans. I was finally destroyed by earthquake In the third century of Chelsion era.
tlie
TEMPLE OF HEALING
CELLAR COLUMNS OF THE TEMPLE
CLAY DRAIN PIPE
tract Christian workshippers and
church was built there,
But when excavations began in 1920 all that could bo seen above the ground was part of the outer wall of one of the temples.
For hundreds of yeara Hime- buznets ha been using the materials in their lins. For- tunately, most of the ruina were
and deeply buried
till ine- trained for the scientist 10 study.
We do not have to depend
study upon the
of these re- malas, however, to learn how the Romans treated their sick.
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BATHING POOL
How the ROMANS kept well
There was also n theatre where
One of the most interesting things about this health centre was the drainage, system.
Hollows were carved in the Tuck to collect the water from the hills when it rained. Tois water was curried away by clay drain pipes. Many of these pipes are in an good condition today as when they were new,
The Alles were luld in pections Buildings of the heulch resort like our present-day "wooping" the patients might relax and included a library and several ties. Markings on sume of these forget their troubles,
temple. The theatre, which appear to be the trademark of word in Greek seated 3,500 persons, was built the maker,
which means "of the temple." of coloured marble.
-R. S. CRAGGS.
A writer of the period, as well who cloctors one of the warket there, left wrliten se- count of how things were done,
Few medicines were used and The Asklepiclon was a mile treatment consisted of baths, and a half from the city of mudbaths and exercises such Pergumou and connected with a running, hunting and riding. it by an arched rundway.
Even after its final destruc- tion, the ruins continued to at-
GIRLS Of Fun
Puzzle
Pete's
COLUMN
Trip to Venezuela:
VENEZUELAN REDUS
concealed 1h
Puzzle Pele has four focla about Venezuela his rebus. Using the words and pictures to full advantage will help you uncover them,
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Our World—The Banana Plant, An Old Friend
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Just as you and I use brend
de-
you know that the
The banana plant is as inter- banana is one of man's the people of warm
and potatoes na staple foods, esting and unusual as it is use- countries ful. What appears to be a solid oldest plant friends? It has where the banana grown find 11 trunk like a tree, is really the heen used for such a long exeredingly useful.
developed leaves rolled tightly They Hime in nearly all tropical
cook some varieties together. The new leaves when green. using them pa velop in the centre. Countries that scientists to-
vegetables. Others are calcu dried day are puzzled as to where ipe; and some are even its original home really like raisius or prunes for future
consumption.
WAR.
Although
in we
northern Countries are familiar with the
blow to rea
of
If the old plant of some They make Star, syrup, the types is cut off even with starch, dyes, vinegar, aeld for the ground, in 20 minutes a new tanning leather, alcohol, and shout will push itself out. In fe white flour from five hours, the shoot will be even a
nearly five feet high, and in 24 bananas,
These people skinned ones,
also find the hours It will be several feet tall This fruit may comu in almost plant itself exceedingly useful, and have a span of several feet. They use the big leaves for
Although the plant will have any imaginable colour and size.
hatching the roots of their attained its original size in a There are tiny three-inch ones,
und, erescent, melon-shaped houses, for wrapping paper, month, it will not · bear frull
They come in pink, par-
and even as umbrellas. They until it is three months old. ple, orange, spatted and striped and make rope and twine front combinations of colours.
ones.
its leaves und slaiks.
-Josephine M. Opsahl
The Space Age-Meet A Rocket Pioneer
TORE and more we heur
Mathew rockets and
guided missiles re be- coming important, both as weapons of war and instru- menta for exploring into outer space. But did you know that the idea of roc- kets for these uses is not new?
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In wat, rockets have 10:1 been used us weapons and flares Sir William Congreve, born 1772, In England, was pioneer. In this field. The "rocket's red glare" mentioned in our Hollanti Biem, The Star Spangled Banner, was un- doubtedly a Congrove rocket.
Dr Robert 11. Goddard
When he began his experi- Several former tests 'had there was no technical fated to get the rocket off the inents, information anywhere on the unching platform, and ever subject. But in the 35 years he though this one had only stayed worked at perfecting rockets the air for a few seconds, (1000 to 1944) Goddard brought that short flight proved thai
selence
being, uld propellants could secure launched a new industry, and unluad flight. undoubtedly changed the course
单
BLW
of human history.
into
This was the first big step. Now it would be possible to Hunch a rocket which could be simple in construction, and of mal weight' compared with the is first successful flight of a weight of the propellant. liquid-propellant rocket caused In that first successful test, great deal of excitement and the rocket weighed 32 lbs. There lots of noise. People living in was a tank of gasoline and one The vicinity of the launching of liquid oxygen, a ctunero, & station thought plane had thermometer, and a barometer cracked up and soon had a installed. All came through puller ambulance and reportera with little more than scorching speeding to the reene. News exeept the thermometer, which However, the first test of papers the next day reported was broken by heat higher than liquid-propelled rocket (the thu the terrinc detonation it could register. kind used today) was not made which shook houses was caused A puny flight compared with until March 10, 1026, in by Dr Goddard's experimenting today's rockets, but it would be Auburn, Mass.
hard to evaluate the significance Actually, there was nu of that short flight. Today, Dri though, even in his widest Goddard Is known 18 "the dreams, of reaching the moon. father of modern rocketry." He was happy Just to get une off the ground a few feet.
-M. S. SHELTON
But the history of rocketry goes back much farther than
It was launched, by Robert that. In the 13th century, 11. Goddard of Clark Univer- Marco Polo told how the sly, who had tried many times Chinese used rockets as dis- before to launch one of these plays during celebrations. rockets withmut success.
with M "moon rocket,
True__Adventure-In Memory Of A Forest Fire
N an
August day in ashes a foot thick
01933, the skies over countryside and on sway.
Oregon became
On
they
over the youngsters range over ti.. In a half-day feld trip not ships at special tracts set aside for them tong ago 410 junior high students northern
tree-planting days. They rom one county planted 18,000 Tillamook Burn has long been have been promised the use of trees. dark. Chickens went to known as the largest forest-fire these tracts for future plentes A typleat roost at noon. Schools in the desert in the Western
clam of eighth- Hemi and camping sites, but they say
utud is would do the planting graders arrives by bus were dismissed. An- sphere. But something is being
quickly turibed into platoons of And by anyway, xious parents gathered their done about it today.
12 members each. Each platoon the school children of that re- families indoors.
Many of them have lived m has a supervisor who may he gion.
the shadow of the Burn's dead a forester, a logger, or a 4-H ags and rotting.deadfalls all club forestry leader. their lives. They were not born
oren
A storm?
Armed with planting tools Bundles of Douglas fr
No, a forest fire which raged and aver five counties and spread seedings, platoons of coger at the time of the great are; yet
Rupert and the Early Bird-21°
So,
Podgy joins the two pala. into a temper and marched off.. you've seen Romiin,” he sigha. She lay have had a pair or she Well, don't blame pa for "het may have lost something or for ‚santrums, I've no idea what is gotten something. She never tells
· wrong. All I know is that we were anyone anything. Sho's too much ætuming, efter shopping when for me 1" He turns and trudges.. Che auklenly-- - started a walking after Rosalie, leaving. Rupert, and round in arcles. Then she flew, Algy to go back to their homes.
ALL RIGHTĂ, ABSERVED HAS vyna
they have heard the story of it many times from their parents end teachers.
Bundles of seedlings are hunded out to pairs of students, There are 311,000 seres in the
along with planting Implements.
Each youngsters, it lie is new. burned area and Oregon needs at the job, must learn how to those EB,
(150 the plauting tool, the The first big to left blacken- hedag, how to put the seestling. ca stumps to within 35 miles of into the soil, how to press the tortinnd's city limits, and since curth around them to prevent then. The Burn has caught fire atr pockets that would sterve many times. It is both an eye the young tree to death, wore and a challenge.
Plants furnished by the state forestry department and the local lumber Industry are sot out in rows eight feet apari.
estimate, that at
The state enlisted the support Timber mon of youth groups after World least 75 per cent of thein, will War II when it embarked on a live, 18-year programme to restore Residents say it's a grand the burned overland, arid the sight to see trees growing again response was overwholminngat in Tillamook Barn, and the job in Ave Seara' time, Portland's done by the youth groups has Youngsters had set out $350,000 inspired numerous youthful trea- seedling fir Arocs, and the pn- planting projects across the m- "vijal "irte-planting, expeditión” tovtire nation.' the Burn has become 'n tradisj
-M. S. SHELTON
American-playgrounds have their slide and Jungle gyms--All the children are famlilar with them. But have you ever seen a recresilon park device like this one? It is created in Ber- lin, Germany, playground. It consists of an old barrel--a king-sized one—with openings cut into it, Berlin children love to crawl in and out of it and climb on top,
doesn't it?
HOW
4
Looks like fun,
TO Bird Shelter Teddy And The Big Book
I.PRY ONE SIDE FROM ASMALL WOODEN FRUIT BOX.
2.
NAIL IT
OVER THE
JOINT ON THE TOP.
3. NAIL A PIECE
OF CLOTHES LINE ROPE 36 IN. LONG TO CENTER OF ONE END OF 80X.
4.NAIL THE BOX TO
A BOARD 1IN THICK
4 IN. WIDE AND 6 FEET LONG.
5.NAIL THE ROPE TO THE TOP OF THE BOARD... NAIL THE BOARD TO A FENCE
POST
PUT IN
JAR LIDS
FILLED WITH
SEED AND
-Hanid Tells Him What A Dictionary Is For-
By MAX TRELL
"I CAN'T understand tus
book at all," Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, was saying to Hand, the Shadow girl with the
Turned-About Name.
Hanid, who had just coné Into the room, asited in sur- prise: "What book do you mean, Theodore?"
"This book," explained Teddy, holding up. big thick book. It was the dictionary.
Hanid sat down next Teddy.
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"Now, my dear," she asked; "what can't you understand about this book?"
Filled With Words.
"It's filled with words, "Teddy replied, "But there's no story to them."
"That's Very Bweet of You,
Teddy,”” Hänid Told Him.
"Cowboy," said Hanid, "should mean a cow, who's a boy or per-
"A dietionary isn't a ators haps a boy who's n cow. Now book," Hanid told him.
Ict's look it up in the dleton-
What is it then?" asked ary." Teddy..
Hand looked up the word "It's a word book," Hanld ex cowboy in the dictionary. plained. "If you don't know
what a word means, you look
you
"There, you see" she "bx~
It up in the dictionary. That claimed. "Cowboy means a man tells
whunt the word who works on a cattle rancli."
sald:
means."
Teddy
"Everybody knows what words menn, They mean what they say. What else can they mean?”
Hanld shook her head. "You're wrong, Teddy," she sald. "Lots of times words seem to say one thing but mean something quite different."
"For instance, wint word doesn't mean what it says?" asked Teddy.
Hanld thought for a second; then the answered; "Now tale the word cowboy."
What's A Cowboy?
"All right," sold Teddy. "Wint about cowboy?"
ZOO'S WHO
BARN OWLS ARE VALLIABLE RAT CATCHERS, THEY ARE SELDOM SEEN BECAUSE THEY CARRY ON THEIR. ACTIVITIES NOCTURNAL LY........
ANCIENT SCULPTURES AND WRITTEN ACCOUNTS SHOW, THAT HAWKING WAS A . . POPULAR SPORT IN GREECE, ROME,PERSIA, AND EGYPTË
PULSE RATE OF THE WOOD- CHUCK DROPS FROM AN. AVERAGE OF BO BEATS PER MINUTE TO4 OR 5 BEATS IN HIBERNATION;
A BARN OWL ABOUT THREE | WEEKS OLD
"What's thot got to do with cows?" asked Teddy,
"Cattle are the same as cows," replied. Hanid. "And take the word woodman," she continued.
"What about the word wood- man?" asked Teddy.
"Let's see what the dietlanary saya," Hanid replied,
She looked up the word wood- man.
"It means man who works in the woods or who takes care of the woods or who chops down trees," she said.
Delivers Ice
BACKWARD LOOK
If you have trouble with Puzzle Pete's pentence about this country, try reading il word. for word backward;
feat. 3,812 of height overall an willi waterfall, highest world's the in Venezuelay in Falls, Angel
this
VENEZUELAN CROSSWORD
To give you a little help with crossword puzzic, Car» toonist Cal has lettered in the name of Venezuela's capital, " CARACAS:
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ACROSS
1 Policeman
4 Conclusion
7 Scotilsh sallyard
6 New. (cemb. form) ▷ Steiner (ab.)
10 Number
11 Oriental porgy
12 Beverage
14 Folding bed
17 Cuckoo blackbird
18 Organ of hearing
10 Writing tool 20 Doclura (ob.)
DOWN
1 Credits (ab.)
2 Cereal grain
Be about
4 Lured
5 Born
Put on
12 Light knock
13 Compass point 15 Rowing tool id Transposes (ab). VOWEL-LESS MINERALS
Vowels are missing from these minerals, which are found in Venezuela. Can you -Com- plete their names?
C-PP-R
-SB-ST-S DIAMOND
Venezuela
Sta
LJ in South Honld looked up many more AMERICA, which gives Puzzle words. Teddy learned that an Pete a centre for his word Iceman was a man who deliver- diamond. The second word ed ice and not a man who was "a wine cup; third "sphere of made of ice.
action"; th "arm and Teddy found out that a mon sixth "a high cord." Complete las wrench had nothing to do the diamond from the clues: with monkey,
And a crowbar had nothing to
do with a crowl
And a buttercup wasn't a cup of butter!
And a crab apple wasn't a
crabl
"I guess you're righť” Teddy finally said to Hanid. "Tats of words don't mean what they sty."
That's why we have delion- aries, Teddy," explained Hanid. "The dictionary" "gives you the correct moaning of every word.” "But I know a word that menns exactly what it y sold Teddy.
"What word?" asked Haald. "Lovely," Teddy replied. "Lávoly? naked' Hanid, "What does that mesa?!?;
"You," said Teddy shyly. Hanid smiled;
"That's very sweet of you, Teddy" she said.
And sho Kavo him a kiss,
A
M
E
AMERICA
(Solutions on Page 203
NANCY
I'm glad: that Nancy Lives next door, a
• For her father works At the færniture store, And hồ gives her boxon So big and variches It's easy for children. To play inside; And that's what we do, We have such-fun- That we're always'sorry. When playtime le, dans. -Solveig Paulson - Runneli