THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1958.
FEATURES FOR
DO
YOU
BOYS AND
THESE?
The names of the build- ings in the picture are in this list below. Mutch each one with its correct letter: A. Taj Mahal, B. Pantheon
of ancient Rome. C. U.N. Building. D. RCA Build- ing. E. Grant's Temb. F. London Tower. G. Eiffel Tower. 1, Thomas Jeffer-
RECOGNISE
son Memorial. I, Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Good News
News From A Green Sprig
[ISTORY has painted a
H
picture for us which we all love. It is Christo- pher Columbus, richly dressed in complete armour, going ashore at San Sai- vador to plant there a ban- ner embroidered with green cross and the initiale of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain and to give "Immense
2
thanks
to the Almighty God" for their safe landing.
But it is tradition that tells us that in his left hand he carried small, green branch covered with scarlet berrles.
£1
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When the
Christopher Columbus
GIRLS
sond. The wind always seemed to blow from the east and they kop: teiling Columbus that it probably blew that way all the time and they would never be eble to sail back home. When ever they thought that at lust they had sighted land, it always turned out to be caly low-lying clouds.
Then
tro
October 11, two month and eight days from the date on which they had set sail, they saw Boating towards them, in the glow of a golden sun- set, a live, green branch cover- ed with red berries, and they know that land was very near.
John Burroughs-fow have known more about plant life thar Jcha Burroughsfells us that the little branch was prob- irce ably the scarlet thorn, a belonging to the rose family, which grows along the coast
rudder for the Pinta which from Virginia to the Gulf,
she had lost.
The route
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atid
This is the family to which apple, pears, poaches o'rawberries belong.
Santa Maria,
had been the Nina and the l'inta set salt in 1492, very few of travelled before and they where they were The sailors were at all en- knew thusiastic over this voyage going. into uncharted seas. Poor
But from that time on, Columbus had almost us for two months, everything many difficulties in getting that happened seemed to crews for the three be an evil omen. Columbus ships together as he had in spent much of his time berries оп the branch that raising the money for the quieting their fears and floated out to meet the Santa voyage.
his
trying to breathe some But once they had Met his own magnificent courage sail he didn't have lou into them. much trouble with thein until they reached the
the de-
The southerners call one of their trees in this family apple-haw, and they make
from Ita clous jam and jelly truft.
In describing the bright red
of Marie, the Ninn and the Plata, bearing the good tidings. What land was near, one port says that to the sailors they were für dearer than the shining gems that were sewn into Columbus doublet
By JANE CATES
Their compass went wrong. They got caught in the heavy ra '6 '1 '8 "q '2 'a '9 u 'gy | Canary Islands. There they woods in the Sergasso Sea and
landed to pick up a
were sure they were in quick- ''PZ 4*Į :samsuy
new
IS THIS THE FOOD OF YOUR FUTURE?
YOUR PUZZLE
CORNER
Trip to Yemen;
YEMEN REBUS
Use the words and pictures to And the four facts about Yemen hidden here by Puzzle pele:
+
SAND a-D
COFFEE
G
JUMBLED SENTENCE
Puzzle Pete got twisted in his sentence about Yerman. Perhaps you can straighten him out:
25,000. population city Sanit, about with Yemen's of walled a capital,
a
a
word
YEMEN DIAMOND
HODEIDA is one of Yemen's principal ports and the centre for Puzzle Pete's word día-
The second mond. "Goddess of the down"; third "o place in Palestine": fifth "smudges" and sixth an abbre- viation for "roads." Can you complete the diamond?;
H
YEMEN CROSSWORD
To give you some help, Car toonist Cal has lettered" la Bie amo YEMEN on Puzzic Pele's crossword puzzle:
ACROSS
Dance step
4 Period
7 Organ of sight
• Before
9 Tiny
10 Body of water
11 Reams (ub.)
12 Reverential fear
14 Goddess of the dawn
17 Lester's nickname
16 Registered - muurses · (ab.)
10 Paid notices in newspapers
20 Golfer's mound.
DOWN
1 Church seat
2 Affirmative vote
3 Soothsayer
+ Ice cream or cale, for
instance
6 Mineral rock
1 Beverage
12 Winglike part
13 Marry
10 First number 10 Compass point
BACKWARD GLANCE
Read these facts about Yemen backward 1 you run into trouble:
HERMEM SHOITAN. DETINU
D HODEIDA
D
"MODGNIK, TREICNA FIAT FO YTAERT
A
(Solutions on Page 20)
1
HOW HAVE FUN AT TO APARTY MYSTERY PACKAGE
PUT
OBJECTS LIKE A TOOTHBRUSH ..COMB,
CORK, PENCIL, SPOON, BAR OF SOAR, ETC. IN A PAPER BAG. HANG IT UR BLINDFOLD EACH PLAYER LET HIM FEEL THE BAG AND NAME THE OBJECTS... ONE WHO GUESSES THE MOST CORRECT NAMES, WINS!
HERE'S FIND A PAL
CHOOSE PARTNERS FOR PARTY SNACK TIME.
HIDE THE BOYS... TIE A LONG STRING AROUND EACH AND GIVE THE END TO A GIRL. GIRLS FOLLOW THE STRINGS! TO FIND THEIR SWACK PALS!
FLOATING ARMS
I HAVE GUESTS PRESS THEIR HANDS HARD AGAINST A DOOR
FRAME FOR ABOUT
A
ATRE MINUTE! ・THEN STEP OUT OF AMAZING!
THE DOORWAY... AND THEIR
ARMS WILL
RISE!
IT STARTED WITH "BUS BOMBS",
INSECTICIDE.
THE AEROSOLSPRAY CANS OF
PUSH BUTTON MEALS MAY BE ON THE WAY!
DUPONT HAS JUST PATENTED A METHOD FOR PACKASING MANY KINDS OF FOODS - PANCAKES AND EGSS INCLUDED - IN THE HANDY SPRAY CANS.
SOMEDAY!
TODAY & VARIETY OF SPRAY CAN PRODUCTS
MAY BE ONLY THE BEGINNING.......
SPRAY HAMBURGER
SPRAY SERAT STEAKS HAM แบบบ
KITCHEN SHELVES OF THE FUTURE MAY LOOK LIKE THIS..
SHAVE HAIR WHIFFCO KOR ICNEAM SET CREAM PASTE
PAINT
Pickie And His Friends
-Nobody Could Stay Lost With Them Around-
By MAX TRELL
KNARF, the Shadow Boy with
the
Turned-About Name,
He thinks she went inside on
of the atores.
Kharf and Hand went down the street. They passed several stores; grocery store, a dry hardware store goods store, He looked very sharp and alert. and a drug store,
"Last?" he asked.
Knari and Hanid nodded.
And his sister, Honid,
"Nobody can get lost when I'm walking back and forth in frat around," declared Pickle. "PIA
were
of the house. They didn't say
Buything to each other but i
find her for you."
was easy to see from the ex- A few mittes iter. Knort pression on their faces that and Hanid and Pickie Puu were something was wrong.
walking rapidly down the street.
Il
"But which one of the stores can she be in?" Hunld wondered. "Let's look in all of thern,"
said Knort.
In The Window
Meanwhile, Pickie had been
I was at this moment that "There's friend of alee talking to a Canary In a coge
Pickle Poo, the Poodle, came up standing on The Street wagging his tali.
Set fak Knart and
slartert
Jumping
01
Hank,
the corner," said On Pleke. "I'll ask him if he's sect,
no the little girl."
Spotted Terrier
around then. To his surprise and dis- appointment, they made
no
vlert to pet him or even to look n him.
What's Wrong?
קט
to
Pickle asked Canary about the little laat girl.
nunging in the window of the house just above the drug store. Pickle came running Knary and Hanld,
"I'm sorry I'm late," she cald. "She's In the drug store!
"I hope you weren't worried." Kught in there!" he barked.
"Plcide Poo and his friends oul found you," Hanid said. And A1 that moment,
Pickle's friend was a Terrier came the little girl. She was cut- Knart and Hand and the with black and white spots, jug un fee cream cone and in attle girl walked happily up
le package, she had two more, the street eating their ice cream "I say, old chap," began ice cream cones, one for Knart cones, while Pickle walked after.
And one for Hand,
them, wagging his tall.
Pickle ron right up to him.
"Here now, what's the mai- ter?" Pickie naked, sitting down Prckie. on bin tall to keep it from wag- sting.
"We're [ little Plelle," replied Hanid.
worried,
Knarf and Hand didn't hear the rest but, when Pickle camt back to them a few seconds "Worried?" sald Pickie. "I'm had seen the little girl crossing inter, he said that the Terrier
sorry to hear that,"
"That's all right, Pielde," Knorf said to the Poodle".
"I'd like to help you," Pickie offered..
the street.
So Knarf and Hoold and Pickle all crossed the street.
"Ah," said Pickie, there's unother friend of mine. He's not
but I think he won't mind teil- ing me a thing or two,"
"We're waiting for someone," as good friend as the Terrier answered Hand
"It's the air who lives in the House around the corner," Kharf explained,
Pickle's second friend wat
"She was hupposed Brick Cat. The lack Cat arched
to be here by how."
h back when Pickle came up. "That's why we're worried," Kharf and Hand watched 02 rald Hanid, "We're afraid shin Pickle aid a few words to the Jy be lost."
Sharp And Alert
At this. Pickle Jumped up. IIIs taff wasn't wagging any more,
Cat.
Then Pickle them.
came back to
"The Cai sald he saw the little. girl running down the sidewalk,
Rupert and the Carved Stick-19 ·
The gentleman besitater. Yes, it important to get that old walking stick back as quickly we can." he says. **You may try if you like, and if you don't find at once i fetch my nephews.. Hi, come nway from the edge, you know how dangerous if
is, "There's a much better way down over here." For Rupert and Edward are peering down the clifi typing, to see the missing stick. Now they follow the way that in pointed out, and it leads them down a very rough boulder-strewn pathway. ALL RIGHTS ALAKNYAD
SEP
KAN
MORE WONDERS OF
MEN
THE HEAVENS
Zas,
Astronomers have
HAVE BEEN
These blazing balls of studying the stars for parading across the night sides trillions of miles from earth, thousands of years trying took deceptively alike. But they to unwrap the secrets they are as varied as pictures in án hold. But because the on- art grillery.
differ greatly in cients were handicapped by found they superstition and little or no perature.
colour, size, brilliance and fem- equipment, they didn't rel very far.
It has only been within
way
in
unlocking
the grees.
.sun,
*
of
ZOOKS WHON
VIPER!!
THE EUROPEAN
VIPER IS THE ONLY POISONOUS SNAKE
IN GREAT BRITAIN
SEE You
EYES OF A GIRAFFE ALLOW
ITTO SEE BEHIND, IN FRONT AND TO THE SIDES
WITHOUT TURNING ITS HEAD.”
Kaito
AN ARMY HOMING PIGEON NAMED CHER AMI SAVED THE LOST BATTALION IN THE ARGONNE FOREST BY CAR RYING A MESSAGE FOR HELP EVEN THOUGH
SERIOUSLY WOUNDER..
A
VENUS
HIDES BEHIND THICK CLOUDS
Astronomers tell us there is no evidence of oxygen: iu Ye- nus's atmosphere, and no signa
of water vapour. But, they say, there is about 23 times as much clicbon dioxide as in the earth's atmosphere,
Because of this lack of oxy- on and the surplus of carbon aloxide, it seems unlikely there
is any antinat Bfe on the "pisnat. Too, carbon dioxido tends to heat, just to a green-
FTER A ROCKET SHIP touches down on the moon, experts think the last few decades that The steel-blue stars are the
Venus may be the next port astronomers, with giant hottest, sorc having surface
more then of call. and scientists, temperatures telescopes,
Lwo 60,000 degrees. Next are white
There are
reasons in laboratories, working
whose surface heat is in why Venus may be picked stars have made any real head- the neighbourhood of 20,000 de- 118 the first planet to be
explored: mysteries.
Yellow stars, such as our own When it is between the retain
hava temperatures of about 11,000 degrees, while the Earth and the sun, it is the house docs, so the temperature closest planet to Earth, on Venus on the sunlit side is surface heat of red stars is
The Interior about 26 million milca about 150 degrees, 8 many queKilons have yet about half that. to be awered. Perhaps you or temperatures of stars, however, away.
And Venus, brightest pianet someone you know will one day run into milions of degrees.
Atars, like people, come in in the sky, remains an astro- find the answers,
Because Venua furtis ko slow- assorted sizes.
nomical mystery that aclence ly on its axit takes at least Let's take a look at the way
The biggest, called super-detectives would like to solve, one mouth to make one, com- stars move across the heavens, Alants, are the largest single No one, even those with the plote turn-temperatures Even though storn race through things in the universe. One moal bowerful telescopes, has the dotis side drop lo well be- space at unbelievable speeds, "It
**
*
takes them years to inch thiele per-glant, called Betelgeuse ever seen the surface,
(pronounced "beello Juice') way across the heavens,
has a diameter estimated at 400 Why, then, do stars seem to million miles. The next largest change positions in the skies stars are called giants, and their are from 10 to 40 almost tourly? This is becauso dinmoters our Earth rotates each day. times greater than our min's, Just as the Earth's revolving (motion maken the sun appear to tho skles, so it awing across makes the stars seem to change.
we enn
according to the season,
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low freezing.
on
Scientists have thren theories about what is underneath the That's becauso
It's always clouds,
One is that Venus is a dry, wrapped in a thick layer of opaque clouds. This thick, terron dust bowl similar to a denne atmosplicre makes Venus, desert. blaze pure white at night,
The second is that it's com- Only the sun and moon are pletely covered with a watery brighter than Venus, which is fiquid that contains so much six times as bright on Jupiter carbon dioxide it must fizz ilke are and 10 Umes a bright as Sirius a bottle of pop.
Too, that part of the heavens
The most common stars
and the brightest star. At Umes JE see each night varies about the size of the sun
The hawest carry the uninteresting notne of is no brilliant In liq night sky
theory, la that Venue contains main sequence stars. The small-¦ that is 'goste shadows on Earth.
oceans of oil, Why? Well, our viewing pint» est. mars aro eslied, rullably All clentils ens do la cues some of which has Vaporized to form, the Earth, is constantly enough, dwarfs,
what..ls- underneath this manile form clotida. ... moving in In yearly flight
ot clouds,' It's like trying to A around the sun.
-WILLIAM J. WEISER, JR. | peer through a frosted window,
By William J. Welder Jr.