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FEATURES
THE CHINA MAIL,“ SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1958,"
FOR BOYS
CRICKETS ARE
F nature has an orchestra, many people con- : AB tend, then the common field cricket la the fiddler.
And while many consider him to be a pest, the small
the creature with
long. black feelers is useful in many ways.
He tells temperature with surprising accuracy; he ents insects that are harmful to trees; he is a musical pet in both China and Japan; he is a prized item of food many places, and he brings A good price when sold
live bait to fishermen.
in
As
In getterai, criekels de not chirp when it is colder than 56
4 t degrees.
temperatures warmer than 100 degrees. But it has been noted that the chip- ing rate of this tiny insect risca anel falls with the temperature.
Aftee experimenting for long Chine, Scientista and
A
tho
naturalists decided that ericket is n pretty rollable temp- Just count the perature gauge,
number of chirps, he gives in 15 seconds, add 40 and you have the number of degrees Fahrenheit with surprising accuracy,
Tree crickets of the snowy variety have proved their worth by calling from 300 to 000 destructive scale inteels apiece In one night.
cages,
were kept in beautiful made usually from gourds and having covers of carved, Ivory and Jado. Many of these engea) are now preserved in museums.
An interesting 17th century Chinese cricket box of carved Porcelain displayed at the Governor's Palace. In restored Willlamburg, Va. The little chirpers aro still used as pets some Oriental countries, in
enges though nowadays their are usually made of bamboo or pinin coconut shells.
lettuce more
from a marshy field at twilight ore often mistaken for those of #frog, but the same experts say they are musle of a specio Of course their chirping can known as the mole cricket. be very monotonous, especially Maie,eritkets have powerful If one has found his way into front legs, four-pointed liko
But that same chirp pading forks, which the huune,
chable In Burma. crickets are sold, ing recorded on sound Bm them to dig Into the soil, and fried, on the markets of the shows that the notes of some
they are covered with chori, elftes. Strangely, the flavour is pprcles consist of beautifully hairg somewhat like a mole, said to resemble executed slurs like those of an
the cricket has than anything else.. been discovered as the matter of in the United States they are expert violinist
nolsen
live bait, and fresh! In contrast to the sawing of high-frequery sounds,
water sh strike eagerly at grosshoppers and the Hap of high for the human ear to used for Katydids, cricket music has a hear
them. Packed live in rereened good definite musical pitch, or so the
cricketa ure kept as musical boxes, they command n experts say.
In the days of the Chinese price by direct and mall order Entes. solemn Empire, the royal palace had fla Those deep toned,
--M. S. SHELTON notes frequently heard coming chorus of royal crickets,
Just of Inte
Pets
both China and Japan
They
How Modern Engines
GASOLINE ENGINE WEEDS MANY COMPLICATED PARIS
VALVES
LETAIR AND GASOLINE
IMIXED IN CARBURETOR]
INTO CYLINDER-
AND LET EXHAUST
GASES OUT
SPARK PLUG- IGNITES DAS MIXTURE
PISTON
IS DRIVEN DOWN INSIDE CYLINDER BY EXPLOSION
CRANKSHAFT- ►
IS TURNED BY CONNECTING RUD FROM FILTON
SPARK COIL BUILDS UP VOLTAGE 10 PRODUCE' EXTRA HOT SPARK
FIMER
TIMES SPARK TO COME AJ RIGHT MOMENT (WHEN BOTH VALVES ARE CLOSED, GAS IS IN CYLINDER AND PIS- TONIS AT TOP OF STROKE),
SHOWING ONE CYLINDER CUP THROUGH CENTER. THERE ARE USUALLY BEVERAL CYLINDERS.
DIESEL ENGINE--SIMPLER I
VALVES
OPEN TOLET EXHAUST
GASES OUT WHEN FRESH AIR IS FORCED IN THROUGHI PORTS
WHEN PISTON. MOVES UP, VALVES CLOSE THE AIR IS SQUEEZED SO HARD
IT GETS VERY HOT
PISTON TURNS CRANK- SHAFT, SAME ASIN GASOLINE ENGINE.
BILL ARMOR
Run
FUEL INJECTOR
SHOOTS OIL INTO CYUNDER JUST AS PISTON REACHES 70. DL 19 IGNITED BY SUPER-HOT.COMPRESSED AIR. AS UIL BURNS
•ANISTON IS FORCED DOWNWARD.
DIESEL ENGINE WORK? WITHOUT CARBURETOK ORIGNITION SYSTEM (OMIR, SPARK COIL, WIKES
AND SPARK PLUGS)
IT IS HARDER TOSTART TRAN BASOLINE ENGINE BUT USES CHEAPER FLIEL AND GIVES MORE POWER.
MEET SATURN, QUEEN OF PLANETS
I jupiter, because of ur things in nature of the flattest Saviny. They believe the r
gravity. They believe the rings a little longer than Jupiter's-
size is the king of
As
It's a though gravily shatter
into countles the satellite Pleees, then continued to hold the fragments in their circular orbits.
AND
GIRLS
CHINESE?
Your Puzzle Column
Presidential. Visity
HARDING REBUS
CROSSWORD
allhouotto of President Puzzle Pete has hidden four Harding provides a background facts related to' President War- for this week'a cromword puz rhu G. Harding in his rebus; zle: Use the words and pictures in find them:
MICH
XPAN
KY.
ACROSS
1 Harding died in the far-
6 State
OPACCE
& Esch (alt.)
HOW MANY WORDS?
How many four-letter words can you make from the name HARDING? Puzzle Pete man- ages 18, but 15 is on excellent number to make.
7 Musical note 1 Gaelic
11 Fastener
DOWN
1 Our host's first name
2 English version (ab.) 3 Observa
4 Make a trip
8 Ago
10 Yes (Spanish)
DISJOINTED SENTENCE
How fast can you read disjointed sentence about Pres- ident Harding?
MAHE A
HOW
TO WHISTLE BIRD
HOLE:
ICUTA RECTANGLE FROM: CARDBOARD 10 INCHES LONG AND 3 IN, WIDE. MARK IT INTO 1INGHSQUARES!! AND DRAW - ON THE WHISTLE BIRD
COLOR ON
BOTH SIDES. CUTOUT AND
this
PUNCH A HOLE
IN THE BEAK.
23,0
CUTBSLITS
IN TAIL.
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DIAMOND
Harding attended Ohio CEN- TRAL Colleges in Iberia, Ohio, which fong the centre of Puzzle Pete's word diamond. bum- The second word is "a ber", third "a singing volce": ith a direction" and sixth “g collage cheer." Can yu finish the diamond?
If you'
C
15
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CONTRAL
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REVERSALS
havo
trouble with Abese three facis connected with President Woodrow Wilson, try them in reverse:
STNIOP NEETRUOF EZIRP ECAEP LEBON SNOITAN FO BUGAEL
(Solutions on Page 20)
2.TIE A 24-INCHLONG STRING THROUGH THE HOLE IN THE NOSE...TIE THE OTHER TO A RULER OR SHORT STICK.
WHIRL THE BIRDAROUND FAST. IT WILL WHISTLE!
Love Brain Teaser
Tie This On With Love
TERD'S a gift that the
H girls in your crowd can make for a favourite teacher 'now that school is open.
It's also ideal for any. body's birthday. or if you like, all the
members of your family can make it for your mother, for her wedding anniversary.
to
IRON BIRTHDAY MEFLAGE ON SCARF OR KERCHIEF
WAITY
CCIENCE is divided into Each may add a personal
80 many flelds, that message of his or her wishes, and each set of workers has its it's a good Idea it differently coloured crayons are used for own particular titles. What cach one, These messages would you be doing if you should be written helter-skel-were khown 05:
1. A dermatologistar Speaki
ter, to form a design of their OWN.
The crayon colours should bej applied with Q firm, even stroke, so that the wax will be worked well into the material.
To make these designs per- manent, all you do is spread the
two sheels at cloth at between
of damp paper or damp scrap cloth, Press the entire surface with a warm Ballron.
2. An Ichthyologist
3. An ornithologist
4. A geologist
5. A paleontologist
U. An entomologist
7. An horologist
8. A mycologist
D. A psychologist,
ANSWERS
Jun
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You will find that the way peop
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Karpuze @gas duch''8
of The length of Saturn's day is moon when slighty more than 10 hours. Saturn changes its are the debris of
a second, planets, then Saturn, the
years to - Start with a square of next outer planet, is easily position each year, the rings stayed too close to the planet's Travelling six miles Immense pulling force and was Saturn takes 2014
muke one complete trip around fabric, large enough the queen.
it is the next appear to till when viewed torn to bits.
the sun.
serve us FL scarf or EL · It's an easily made memento, largest and most beautiful from earth. When they are
It may be any Satum, a yellowish-coloured kerchief. Lipped toward us, they ap- of the planets.
broad and bright.
planet, is very cold because light colour. Saturn's beauty lies in its pear
the name of the person who will from the crayons will be ab sorbed by the material, leaving using ordinary wax receive, the present. is so far from the sun-almost
Now,
the colour, and the sentimental) qires ou mais ou quo It receiveA 000 mililon miles, show-piece of rings that When they are edgewise to
crayons, write "Our Favourite" about one-eightieth of the
Birthday," "Happy
"Happy spin around her equator like us. they appear only as
The second step consister of mesangen, permanently adhered spaq mi SHIUM OUM SZÓ E
छ thin line.
Another thing that sets amount of sunlight Earth gets Wedding Anniversary," a flattened halo,
or uny Alling in the rest of the free to the cloth.
Hem the edges and there, myzom pus majonzi oqa ang from its fellow and its temperature is about
other sultable message in the area on the cloth with the sg-
we are par ups og It's the 300 degrees below zero.
centre of the fabric. Use your natures of all the others who you are.. very best handwriting, and add ore giving the keepsake to her. There
* ☆
These three rings are made of trillions of tiny moons probably bits of rock or lee
about the size of pebbles-each of which travels in its own orhit.
Walle the rings have a diameter of 170,000 miles, they ure only 10 miles thick. This
NEW!
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When Galileo discovered ne furn apart rings in 1610, he was puzzlest planets is Ils weight. by them because they were lightest of the nine planets for edgewise to the earth and up- its size,
nino moong clr-
peared to be long, thin wing- Saturn is so light that it eling Saturn. The largest and fe affairs. Then they seemed weighs no more than a glant- brightest is Titan. It's about the to disappear before returning sized cork, and could flost u size of our moon and, scientista soy, Is the only satellite dis- water without any trouble. view main,
It wasn't until 1655 that an Selentists, explaining why it covered so far that has an at- astronomer with a better bele weighs so little, say it is made mosphere. It contains poisonous Ecopo explained the mystery of up much like Jupiter, with a methane gas, so it's unlikely the tilting rings.
small rocky core surrounded by any animals could live on it. Most astronomers think the a thick layer of lee and a deep three rings may be the result, of utmosphere.
-WILLIAM J. WEISER JR.
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MAKE A RAINBOW!
"The Shadows' Riddle
-The Answer Makes General Tin Very Happy-
By MAX TRELL
66% TOW опо of my best friends," General Tin was saying to Knart and Hand, the
Children
the Shindow
with Turned About Names, "is a man PAINBOWS ure seen when the fact you can easily make your who drops down from the sky, during the own beautiful rainbow suo is shining behind you
On a bright sunny day, turn coldest days of the year and ite and rain is failing in front of
on the lawn sprinkler. Stand stays here all through the you. Baindrop act as prisms with the sun behind you, to that winter."
R
He
comes here
"
and the arch of colour we coll you can see the sunlight reflect- Knart looked at General Tin, n rainbow is caused by the ring through the spray of water, who had suddenly stopped talk- fection and bending of the sun's Watch n minute and you will
ing rays as they pass through the see a lovely arch of colour ap- raindrops. Knowing that little pear almost like magic,
"ZOO'S WHO
A GREYHOUND HUNTS BY SIGHT INSTEAD OF SCENT BECAUSE IT IS FAST ENOUGH TO VEEP. THE GAMEIN VIEW....
A CLUMSY RHINOCEROSHAS BEEN CLOCKED AT A SPEED
OF 10 MILES.
← PER HOUR.
MORE THAN 750VINDS OF
*FISH ARE
·FOUND IN THE AMAZON
ABOUT 3:00 SPECIES OF WOODPECKERS
ARE KNOWN..
THEY ARE FOUND AROUND THE WORLD EXCEPT IN "AUSTRALIA ÄND
MADAGASCAR,,·
"What in your friend's name, General?" he asked.
"That," replied General Tin, Is what I want you to guesa? - "Oh, I didn't know you were playing a garae," said Knerf.
"L'A
Like A Riddle
a guess-his-name game
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"But you said he flies down from the sky," and Kaart.
Drops Down
"No, I said he drops down from the sky. Drops, not alles,
"What I can't uriderstand," said Hauld, is why your friend, whoever he is, should only com on the coldest days of the year. And why does he only stay b the winter?"
General Tin smiled. He said nothing...
-BESS RITTER
that's how it was with riddles, she said to herself, Sometimes they were easy and they were hard.
sometimes
Khart was saying to General Tin, "I've got someone for you to guess, General!".
"Fine," replied General Tin. "Give me a hint, please."
Before Knart gave General Tin a hint, he leaned over and whispered a name to his sister. "Hell never guess it," she Hanid's face broke into a smile.
said.
Ho Always Stands
parkbang 40O
a pris ogi suo 0 o apply on
10 Apnje u toquat equ'oni 1
"What Is Your Friend's Name?" : the Shadows Asked Tini,
Then Knart said to General Tin, Sir, the person we're thinking about is one of our best friends, our усту vest friend. He never sits down. He always stands up. He's tall one who could be so kind, so and he's liandsome and he'd give handsome anil so good.”
in. sun is life to protect everyone
the house, Who is he?”
felend like "Doesn't your warto weather?" Hanld asked.
"He hates it," sald General Tin. "He runs when the shines."
Knarf and Hanld finally gave Hanid said.
up.
"Now, now,"
eald General
"Who to he, General, Tin?"
General Tin said in a very
"It's you" shouted Knarf and Hanid;
And Knorf shook the Gen- eral's hand, audi Hanld threw her amma around his neck and
Tin, "you mustn't give up so gentle voice, "I don't know any klased him. ensity, I'll give you another hint or two.
"This friend of mine, who drops down from the sky and said General Tin, "It's like a time, is an white as mow and who only visits in the winter- riddle. Now, what about this very good friend of mine who a cold te lee. He has a round bengl. He keeps in' corncob pipe drops from the sky whenever he comes to visit? Can either you tell me his nemo?"
"He's Mr Pilot. Ho fica An neroplane," cald Xania,
of
"My dear child," said General Tin, you're absolutely wrong.” This reintrie from tho' Gen eral disappointed Hanld. She had been almost aure she wris right.
Meanwhile, Khart had just thought of someone else.
He said in a loud voice: "It's a Bird It's a Bird!"
in his mouth, though he never smokes It. His eyes' are made of two black pebbles and ho icans on a cane."
Utterly Silent
For the next moment or two- Knack and Innid were utterly milent, Thon suddenly iKey both shouted out at the enmo time.
"It's the Snowmani"
"Right you arel" smiled Clen- Bat General Tin abook his eral Tin. "That's exactly who t hend, .! ྃ་
{A)" "You're as wrong no withst Thinking back over what can be, Kir. The felend. I Clenent. Tin' had, sald Hand mean, the one who drops down worslered, why it had taken her from the sky, in Ho Bled out so long to: gụces the pane," "But
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Rupert and the Carved Stick-7
Mr. Bear in even mare doubtful (pod and the Buls éléphant can than Rupert about taking so many it on his brothers, knee, Soon on his hess drip in the ancient care, they am all fitted in, the engine. byt at tengas e egrees, "I will gives one or two pope sad sesenta, give the machine a good trial and⋅ Then it staffs, and soule îndry: af must go slowly," he says. Rupert'a país turn up to cheer them. Pompey's folding chair can go as they rattle, Kway into the under your fent, with this, case of ・ country for their "pienie,”
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