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THE CHINA" MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1957.
FEATURES
YOUR
PUZZLE CORNER
CROSSWORD
QUICKIE DIAMOND
CHARM is the centre of this quickle
The word diamond. second word is "an article" and the fourth "a unit of work." See how fast you are in solving
192
i Food a
ACROSS
4 Ice cream containers
(Hudent
7 Shane tree
U Any
10 nuen. (ab.)
11 Oppcane út “a”
1J You step in 65
14 Putipoola
in Sull
DOWN
Folding bea
2 2011
3 beutush river
4 Wulking sticks
5 Siemet
Boy cănalbe
insanu
12 Pigpen
13 Wager
15 Early English (ab.)
HOW AMAZE YOUR TO FRIENDS ICUT A CARDBOARD TUBE ABOUT BIN. LONG INTO A 6IN. AND A ZIN-LONG PIECE.
it:
CHARM
R M
WORD CHAIN
Change LIEGE 10 SLAVE in five moves, changing one letter Um and having a good word each Ume. See If you en de It without these elues: Change L to S; G to V; I to E E to A; T 10 I
WORD SQUARE
Puzzleman says that if
you rearrange the letters in each row to form a good word and then rearrange the TOWN cor-
read rectly, your answer will the same down as across,
AOCLR
AEDLN
FOR
BOYS
GIRLS✰✰✰
AND
A
WANT BABY KODIAKS FOR PETS?
THESE are the third and fourth kodiak bears ever to be raised in captivity. Because kodlak parents are notoriously Turnauckas' father, 201 careiras with their babies, Terry official of the Cleveland Zoo, took the newborn cubs home for safekeeping. Cubs looked liko this (1) when they arrived.
Weight: 1 pound. (Grown ones weigh nearly a ton.) At six weeks (2), cubs could manage own feeding. (3) Who are you? (4) Scrapping already? All the better to ileo us, so (5) we can get to bed.
ANCIENT CLOCKS RAN ON WATER,
AOMNR ANCIENT
A│A│OMR
AECRS
SOUND ALIKES
》EOPLE in ancient times
PEO
And
there was the sun-
had many devices for dial, which is mentioned in telling time. There was one the Bible.
called a "water clock," in
which one container drained
Sundials told time very
into another and dripped it well in the sunny countries self dry of a given amount of Egypt, Greece and Baby
sen of water in a given time lonia, but in countries where
Missing words la this tence sound alike, but they ace the owner hoped. spelled differently. Can you complete it?
They cared little for the --- of speech used by the lord of
the
(Solutions on Page 20)
Then there was the sand- glass, or hourglass, which had to be turned every hour, or as soon as the sand ran out.
CUTA CIRCLE OF Have You Solved Any
PAPER AND PASTE
IT OVER END OF ZIN. TUBE.
Mystery Lately?
3. HINGE SECTIONS WITH TAPE. Do you like a book that
PUT CLOSED END ON INSIDE
AND DECORATE SO YOU HIDE HINGE AND JOINT,
4. STUFF SHORT SECTION WITH
AS MANY COLORED SILK HANDKERCHIEFS AS YOU CAN GET IN.
SHOLD THE TUBE LIKE THIS... POINT IT TOWARD YOUR PALS...SHOW
YOUR THUMB
SO TUBE WILL LOOK EMPTY.
6.PUT TUBE ON A TABLE... SHORT PIECE UP
SAYA FEW
MAGIC WORDS
AND PULL OUT
HANDKERCHIEFS
keeps you on the edge
of your chair? One that keeps your eyes racing over the pages? One that keepa you guessing? Then you'll
like this new mysteries.
crop
of
The Mystery of Mont Saint- Michel by Michel Rouze Ratutes the "Baboons," a "gang" of French children, who get lost inside the famous old French abbey. There are underground passages That will be wlader water at high tide!
There's
*
SH-H! IT'S A MYSTERY...
dreamy, hooky-
ers in Florida coast hotel and playing hero in Tony of the Ghost Towns by Marie Holan hunt a sunken treasure.
Bluek. He gets into trouble naturally. Adventure in a flood leads to the solving of a good
mystery.
The suspense won't let you put aside Doorway in the Dark by T. Morris Longstreth uniti you hnish it. The young herʊ
·
muny of the days are cloudy, they did not work at
all.
And of course they only told the time of day.
As
soon as the sun went down, a sundial was just à plece of Blone.
Clocks were invented in the thirteenth century, but they were not the kind we know today.
For many years, they had to be regulated by sundials, and were superior to them in only two ways: they could be kept inside, and they told the time ot night.
As late as 1800, the German people were still using "fre clocks," which told time by the amount of oil burned in the column, which was the base of the clock.
When watches were first in- troduced they took many
In
the lack of this 1715 century water elook, a float is lowered as water drips out. The float pulls the chalD, which moves the hour marker around.
strange and varied shapes, but none was small enough to be carried in a pockel,
A Good Formula For
Yo
FIRE
Co
Petticoat That Made History
COMPARATIVELY fow people know about the part woman's flannel petticoat played in tho history of the United States of America.
It happened in Boston in the spring of 1775 at the beginning of the Revolution. The grass in the common was green, though it was only April, but fires still burned in the living grate each ovening.
room
DAUGHTER LECTURED
It was in such
room that a
father in nightcap and a rather
stout mother were conversing
with ther young lady daughter,
THIS PETTICOAT
MAY PLAY PART IN
"" HIGTORY!
The tassel on the nightcap darkness with the flannel polli- waved back and forth as the coal. father lectured his daughter The
young lady returned to about the worthlessness of a her hed and, almost at that very young muller whom the other moment, the father came rash. considered to be FL "Boston ing inte his daughter's room. Radical." The young man
and demanded to know who about-builder by trade.
was toliting,
Lalo that night after family bad retired, the heard
WILK
the
HIS
Jow and famtiar whistle in the darkness outside, 50 Ehe went to the window and signalled
Nimbly the boat-builder climbed up to where she was and surprised her by requesting her anuset petticoati
He suid It was for something very important, that there was not a minute to be lost and that he would explain later.
TALK IN SLEEP?
daughter yawed and zaid that maybe she was talking in her story, This explanation satisfied her father and ho left the room.
Why would boat-builder want a Bannel petticoat in the middle of the night?
Ho waned to mußo the pare so that his friend, Paul Htevere, could cross in Charles river in suiety and were the His request was granted and patriots of the comlag of the
One style, made in Nurem- | the suitor disappeared into the British
berg, Germany, was big and round, and was worn on a cord
around the waist
watches were
remborg eggs."
Thesa
known as "Nu-
Most of these early watches were key-winders, When they began to be made in smaller pizes, they were worn around the neck on a cord, or pinned medal-like on coat lapels. But one had to be sure to keep track
of the key which wound them. Many novel clocks were put In and on tail buildings in Europe and in England,
In Venice and Nuremberg, huge bronze figures would come out of the clock on the Bour and strike the time on a song shaped ilke an anvil.
Mouse And His Friends
-They Changed a Great Deal While He Was Sick--
By MAX TRELL
ONCE upon a time," General
Knarf, was saying the
with the shadow boy turned-about name, and Teddy, the Stufted Bear, "there were three friends,"
Knart and Teddy both asked at once, "Who were they, Gen- erat Ta?"
General Tin nodded.
was just coming to that," he said. These these friends.
were as unlike as three friend,
Other clocks had mechanical could possibly bc. Yet they figures which went though the liked each other very much. motions of a stately dance on the hour.
Two of the curliest clocks known are the one on West- munster Abbey, which dates back to 1280, and the clock on Canterbury Cathedral, which was placed there in 1202.
The largest clock ever made was put on a bullaing in Siras- bourg, France.
-M. S. SKELTON
Doubting Toms
comes
One was a Mouse. The owner was a Teapole And the third was a Caterpillar."
"Oh, they were different, weren't they?" Teddy exclaim- c
sald
"Indeed they were," General Tin.
An Old Farmhouso
"The Mouse lived in the cellar of an old farmhouse. The Cater pillar lived in a tros-Lomelimes was one tree and sometimes
"I don't know you,” Mouse said to Frog.
"Alas," said Gencrai Tin, "one day the Mouse, whlie rummag- ing about in the pantry of the old farmhouse -for- 0 blt of cheese, tripped against a broken
and teacup
himself scratched To
matters make severely. worse, as he was limping back to his hole in the cellar, the cat
It was another. And the Tadpole spied him and chased him lived in a dich at the side of hard that he rolled down
how
the road. Yet these three friends met each other every day."
"Where did they mcel?" Knart asked, wondering three such different Erlends could ever get together.
"Well, they all had to meet Welcome to the lodge, Self-confidence
from at the edge of the diich. It was and sister. You mastering self-doubt. And that all on account of the Tadpole.
project.
"The Moure could go almost You master
self-doubt and
for ho feelings of interiority
was very anywhere, by for brave and nimble. The Cater getting about yourselfi
pillar, though he wasn't a bit It's that easy. Then you be brave and anything but nimble, come self-confident and at ease could manage to go almost any- by thinking about someone where, (00.
sometimes doubt In Island Secret by Mildred ¦ OU Lawrence, Bonnie Bishop keeps I that you're great? You brother the family going after Pop is feel so shy and awkward you
just from Ius ship. mysterious when wants the old winery,
it's very neighbour
Other readable mysteries are
fall
over your
own feat? You're dumb, and tongue- tied, and maybe even a little
Fair Prize by Velma Grimin stupid?
....excitement in a 4-H Club; Obor at Kimball Hill by Macle
at schuci in present day Berlin Bilzard,
ed... strange goings - on
is in great danger because he ut a
Conncelleut eslate; Janta by Elizabeth Ladd.
lost
has written an article critics cat and a shot in the dark; The ing the Soviet, regime,
Fun gues with mystery in Secret of the Old Salem Desk Spanish Gold and Casey McKto by Anne Malloy....a boy who desk that disop- by Electra Clark. Casey and draws and a Uncle Bounce cope with prowl pears; and The Tower in the Sky by Joy De Weese Wehen ....hidden treasure and danger on a ski trail in Switzerland.
OOOHHH! Look behind you
ZOO'S WHO
BROTHER RAT!!
ARODENT ISA
GNAWING MAM-
PORPOISES KILL SHARKS... THEIR WEAPONS ARE THEIR TOUGH SNOUTS, WITH WHICH' THEY BUTT THE TENDER
GILL SLITS OF THEIR
OFTEN LARGER
ADVERSARIES..
MAL....BEAVERS, PORCUPINES, RABBITS AND. SQUIRRELS, AS. WELLAS MICE AND PRATS ARE ALL RODENTOM
ONLY HARMFUL SPIDER IN THE UNITED STATES IS
THE BLACK WIDOW,
Hetr
-LEE PRIESTLEY
belong to the human race. is a do-it-yourself
Those very same doubts have come at one time and another to everyone... even the boys and girls who seem to you to be supremely self-confident,
SOVIET STAMP CLAIMS MAN
TO BE 148 YEARS OLD
F you want to live to a
ripo oki plenty of fresh air say the age, take
doctors. And when those who reach the century mark are interviewed they usual
PLATE BASKETS ARE ly add to the recommended
EASY-TO-MAKE
fresh air a hearty word or two for porridge, tea, an oc casional beer and various other popular items that you wish to make an at-brace and brighton' life.
tractive plate basket, all you need is a paper plate, glue and some heavy (wine.
To start, glue the end of the string to the centre of the plate. Then spiral it around and around, gluing as you go, until
Now, for the first time,
that I can remember, one of the of the stamp is garnished with world's oldest men makes his Lourish of maize, oats and appearance on a stamp. He has torn on the cob.
curtainly had his quota of treat The velatan, it would ap- air because he is a farmer from pour, has also been a soldier be Soviot Azerbaijan, the part of caute he was two modals, Or
the entire surface of the plate Russia that borders Persia, were they awarded for other
is covered with the string.
Do the same thing on the back of the plate.
start a different colour,
His namo ÍB Machmud Aivazov, and the stamp claims
rentons?
is
that this, the oldest Russian, This Interesting Soviet stamp
perforated 11%, If you wish to have several has achieved the age of 148. To
by E; different colours, Just snip the grasp what that incans, think printed in photogravure; face- cord wherever you wish and that when Machmud was valued at 40 kopecks and stile
little boy, Napoleon was still at 1/08 in London,
1 gallivanting arOLE
Ал * rooibnotar Javeira
older than Machmud also places feliance on Alvazov of Azerbaijan. He says portingų bécéūra U20 JRIT BONGO, bu is 107,--Jallie
You could mako several
these plates now. to use
of
SU
To
Judge by this Pop Pereira, of Colombia, claims to
birthday gifia. They are useful, muḍ-like so thány centénarians bb
and ornamental and you will enjoy making them.
else.
Nobody's watching
all you the time. The other fellow is loo busy trying to keep from knowing
you
how awkward
He was slow and patient and a great climber.
Muddy Ditch
"But the poor Tadpole had to and tongue-tied and stupid he stay in the water of his little thinks he is.
muddy ditch, If he stuck his head outside he soon began to gap and choke, so he knew he couldn't leave the water,
"Nevertheless," General Tin three friends spend
So relax. Then
your feet come untangled and you think of a real side-splitter of a whe crack or do something kind that helps to lift that fog of went on,
the doubt the other fellow is wan continued to meet and dering through.
long pleasant afternoons to So get your mind off yourself gether. But one day a sad ing and focus it on other people, happened." Instead of a doubling Thomas
or Thomasina, become confident Sam or Bally.
Knarf and Toddy looked
at
a self- General Tin and waited for him
to finish the story.
Rupert and the Windy Day-4
Moving through the bushes light that sometimes fishes from it. Rupert a startled by hearing his Have you men in??. ?? Yêu, I'v nare called by"someone close at been watching, IF: 196," *YO hand. It is the Scout Geoffrey at Geoffrey, “There's something" ting quietly not many yards away. queer about it, I know Morse, bui *My how you made usa jump i**: thom fashes don't make sense., Lt - the little bear laughu, **I was " thane's anyone in that tree be polna mo that big sne, Than's must be using sew other code." ALL RIGHTA, BİBERKEP.
09
the
cellar steps und hurt two of his other legs.
"He barely reached safety in time but he was a very sick mouse for many weeks there-
after.
"In fact," sald General Tin, "most of the summer hud pass-
ed before Mouse was able to sit outside the dusty cellar window and take a bit of fresh air and sunshine."
"And didn't he see his other two friends in ali that time?" teddy asked.
"No," said General Tin. "But this is the most curious part of the whole story.
"One afternoon, Just before the sun went down, Д Frog came hopping up to the cellar window where the Mouse was sitting and sald: 'Hello, Mouse, all summer I've missed you long. You never come down to the ditch, so I Anally decided to come hopping up here,”
"I don't know you,' said the Mouse, in surprise. The only one I know who lives dich is the Tadpole."
in the
"Why, my dear friend! 1 used to be the Tadpolet" said the Frog.
The Mouse WIS overcome with joy at meatang his old friend again even though ho nover would have recognised
him.
Greater Surprisa
"But he had an even greater surprise waiting for him. For the next moment, as beautiful black and gold butterfly came fuller- ing up.
"And to the Mouse's smaze- ment,
this was his old friend Caterpillar!
"And though two of the three friends were changed so much, they all remained as friendly as ever, For," sald, Genòrál vin with a smile, the change whe only on the outside. Neither the Caterpillar, who was now a Butterfly, nor the Tadpole, who Was now, a Frog, had resil abangisi? Inside - at nila a zhuốc Blendship for Mouse was ́exRGt-
the same as QUIC”.
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