JIMMY
THE
TIMMY was spending a week at Aunt Bertha's and Uncle Carl's farm. Now he'd have a chance to do some real farming him self. He was not allowed to 'dig even one scoopful of dirt in the smooth, green lawn around the big apart ment building where he. lived.
"What farming can I do'10- day day Jimmy asked the after he arrived.
"You can start on the gat den." Unele Carl said. "I have to go to town for some tractor parts and so you'll have the whole project to yourself."
Jimmy ran to the tool shed for the implemento. He got out a spade, and a rake, and took tho basket of seeds.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1959,"
FEATURES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
TEACHER
When he got to the house gar- den he stopped short. Hic wasn't sure how to begin!
•
Just then Aunt Bertho- came
the dog.
out of the house to feed Shag,
"Hurry up, hurry up, Plough. li up, pleugh it up,
WHAT
SEE BIRD
Harrow it, harrow 11, Drop it, drop it, Cover up; cover i.up, Il pali it up!" "Yeal" Jimmy cried. ""Now, I "Aunt Bertha," Jimmy sald know. I plough up the land by hesitatingly, "Would you mind turning it over; then I'll ruke teaching me a little about falm- it; then I drop in the seeds in a treat row: then I cover them up ing?"
with some loose dirt....when the plants are grown I pull up the harvest"
a
Aunt Bertha put her strong from-work hands on her lips and chuckled, "You have good teacher right here the fence posti"
on
"Oh, that's a brown thrasher, m' 17" Jimmy recognised the bird from the picture in his bird book.
"Formers like
to call him this planter bird. He can teach you all about planting. If you listen carefully you will hear the words in his song:
Aunt Bertha nodded. "He not only leaches farming but he cats insects that are harmful to growing plants."
"I never forget how to farm now," he told Aunt Bertha as he began spuding the ground. The planter bird le a good teacher."
Evelyn Witter
"You have a good teacher right tiers on the fence."
The Origin Of Words
10
JÁVE you ever wondered adhesive, then glued end to end This writing form sheets. HAV certain word
material, olso, was called popy The word us and it is this papyrus that originated?
the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romons used for all of
"Bible," for instance?
It all goes back to more than 1,000 years before the birth of Christ when the Phoenicians lived on the enstern shores of the Mediterranean Sea in the orea now known as Lebanon.
At that time paper was un- known. Writing material was the tall reed-like made from
Slice of this papyrus ploni. plant were laid side by side, in İnyers at right angles, and
together
with pressed
their manuscripts.
one books, it became known as the Bible, meaning The Book. From this one word-biblos we have what might be called "family" of English words, For instance
declives we use in connection with the history of books.
The love of books is called
there is "bibliophism" but difference
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A
contents
between
one who loves books for their
bibliophile) and one who "Biblical," pertaining to the loves them for their handsome
bindings (a bibliopege.or bibilopegist.)
At that time the port of "Bible." Byblos (near the Mediterranean.
above Sea just
Beirut, the -present capital of Lebanon) was quantity of famous for the
iL exportal. The papyrus Greeks, who imported i, grad- ually began referring to all "bibles" and this papyrus was the source of their word for book.
Much later on, when the an scriptures were assembled into
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Mr. Punch's Roundup
-Knarf And Hanld Get Their Wish The Easy Way
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HOW
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ZIN ACROSS
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WITH- INK.
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A Giraffe Is Strong
15
His most glamorous feature
[F YOU WANT to gaze A person who has an exceed- ingly great desire to buy and into the eyes of a giraffe, A person who is an expert in collect rare books is sometimes you will have to crane your
who known as a bibliomaniac." If neck way up. the making of books, knows the history as well as he cleals
A library may be called "Bibitogra the value of bocks, is known as "biblioklept." a "bibliographer." phy" is the history of descrip- "bibliotheen."
One of the newest words of tion of books, or a list of writ- ings relating to a certain sub- this group is "bibliofilm," which jeel or author. "Bibliographic" is a microfilm used especially
ud- for photographing, books. and bibliographical" are
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Knart and Hanid walted for
Mr Punch to tell them his better Idea than going to Oklahoma.
Mr Pulich stood up and put on his hat and coat. He waited until Kharf and Hanid had done
BY MAX TRELL On bearing, this Mr Punch.. the male
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NARF, the Shadow Boy with Ke Turned About Name, and his sister Hanid, entered the
room.
Under the window, his eyes ahut, was their old friend Mr Punch.
Knart gave Mr
Instantly shake. opened his eyes.
Punch a Mr Punch
"Good morning, Mr Punch," sold Knart and Hanld.
My Punch frowned.
"It isn't morning," he said. It's the afternoon. But what is it you want?"
"We wanted to know If you'd go somewhere with us," Hanid explained.
Go Where?
"Go with you?" sald
Punch. "Where?"
"To Oklahomo," said Knart.
ay silent for a mintite or two;" Then he sinilta,
Good Idea
"Oh, so you want to go out West to Oklahoma, do you? Oh, But that's a very good idea, what makes you so sure that you want to be cowboys?"!
This time it was Knart and Banid who were surprised.
"Everybody wants to be cowboy," sald Kaart.
"Yes, I suppose that's right," "When I was sald Mr Punch,
Then hỏ
The portant thing→→ for a cowboy to huve is a horse. Now I'm going to take you to a place where each of you can have a horse,"
Is it a corral?" asked Knarf. Mr Punch nodded.
"Come along!" he said. "It's Just a very short walk."
sald Mr
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Mr. Punch motioned to the forse behind him.
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is his wonderful eyes. They re- flect his gentleness and good nature, but in self-defence he
Puzzle Answers
Kuwapparen
will fight hard, using his head
blows." like a hammer, to deal heavy
YOUR PUZZLE CORNER
CROSSWORD
Cartoonist Cal placed Puzzlo Pele's crossword puzzle on a boy's toy to dress it up a biti
ACROSS
1 This puzzle's silhouette 4 Antic
6 Dress fold
1 Stray
3 "My Gal-"
I Stories
DOWN
2 Musical dromas
3 Oyster product
4 Candlepower (ab.)
5 Right (ab)
DIAMOND
Puzzle Pete's word diamond
His body is smaller than that. of an average horse. His amaz- ing height is mostly from the
fah long, smaky neck and lego, the forelegs be- support his odd shaped body at word is " ing longer than the back ones, is a MEDICAL one. The second an incline. He moves both legs third "to enrich"; fifth "canni side gimultaneously parts"; end sixth "has existed." diamond from when walking or running. is Complete the long neck is about the size of these clues:
on one
a tail mati, although it has. only seven vertebrae. Each bone
oscary topong13 so long that
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The giraffe is a plant eater, He stands beneath a tree, and with his long upper lip, and tongue that is about a foot and n half long, he pulls loose great
tenderi mouthfuls of leaves high in the trees.
His hide is covered with short hair, mottled with yellow and short mane brown. He has a
Il bony skin-covered horns between his ears. Between the harnais A. rounded elevation
third hot.
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MEDICAL
WORD CHAIN
Change TANS to HIDE, in four movca by changing only ono letter at a time and having
good word with each change. Puzzle Pote did it by changing A to I, S to E, N to D nai T to II.
SOUND ALIKES
In
Puzzlo
Missing words Peto's sentence sound alike, but they are spelled differenty.
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LEATHER REBUS
Puzzle Foto has hidden three kinds of leather in his rebus, but says you'll find them easily if you use the words and plc- lures correctly:
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Bring Spring Inside
RE you impatient for
that looks like an undeveloped can have a preview of spring by bringing in The giraffe's sight and hear-f branches and twigs fron Ing are exceptionally keen. They shrubs and trees and fore- run in a fast gallop; sometimes
as fost as 30 miles an hour, ing them to open their They control their nostrils like blossoms or leaves ahead of a camel, opening and closing their usual schedule. them at will.
Choose a day around the middle of February. There's a Aletta J. Stroeter quantity of varieties that you eau choose for this programme: pussywillow, forsythin, mingno- lla, peach, pear, plum, apple, beech, birch, horse chest- Spiraea. nut, Japanese quince, In making your selection how- ever, remember that you will from the get quicker results
Mexico City Is Old
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in the season.
Stro
crab-
and
Make a preview of spring early stroufa blossoms.
with
URROUNDED by snow- another 10 feet below the see-shrubs or frees, that bloom carly
capped volcanoes stands ond elly, and found a third an- "mild and a half high" lent city. These ruins
Perhaps thousands and then-
Cut branches or twigs that Meyico City, a place of sands of years old
After the 24-hour baking This city, on a city, on a elty have many well-formed buds, great chart and interest.
Jars and keep them in a cool, A meeting place of the old - Juilt on a plateau 7,440 feet and use a sharp knife or prun- period arrange the branches in above sea level It is hait thenes so that they will be
By sure thing that and The Huw, from shining high-randoMila severe with a good clean cutright room
De carciu got to
have plenty of ghibli modern skyscrapers to the High City of Denver, Colorado many branches from any she not directly in the sun. It
alandyimble fa, placa, a small remains come: BlacÁZICC The climate of Mexico City
ploce of charcoal «like, bila saker. brilliant sunshine the
entire Temple, it has a mysterious makes it a topless because p
regular spring blossoming.
it fresh. beep year around, yet never too hot
Bring thus samples into the
You'll be anxious for your never too cold,
warm water for at least 24
past.
Carly the
At this
to
Near here are huge pyramids house and place them in luke branches to blossom, but be
ago. the cly built by the Aztecs more than hours, The large specimena patient for this isn't a fort
Forsythia and pussy- entirely submerged Process.
willows will open in about 10 in a large tub, and the small
The.. days.
more -woody sprays and twigs in a large branches and shrubs will tako pall. Smash the stem ends of
three to four ·weeks, and
Several years
400 years ago. Some of these should bo fathers learned that their spec-
are larger at the base than the tacular city was slowly sinking. Various reasons were offered for Egyptian pyramids,
Then, this strange phenomena.
a hammer before they go into sometimes even longer, up with the someone came
that thereThe beautiful floating gardens the more woody branches with startling evidence Pünch
some 40 of Xochimilco are just outside the water so that they will feet below the present Mexico the capital. These were started absorb plenty of moisture. were snelont ruina City.. The beautiful "mile and several hundred years before
But Mr Punch had already jumped on a gold-coloured horse with a bright yellow saddle, He a red horse in front, of and be- motioned to a silver horse and hind him,
So out went Mr Punch with Knorf and Henid. Down the they street they walked until reached the park. Then they walked into the pork and stopped at last in front of an open place,
"There," pointing, "are plenty of horses, There's one for Hanid and one for Knart and even one for me."
"Hurry up! Jump on, cowboys! Knart and Hanid stared at
The roundup is about to begin the horses in astonishment.
At that moment the music Mr Punch shook his head,
"Mr Punch!" they shouted. started. The horses started ra "I'm afraid I'm getting too
not real horses ing round and round and the old to be a cowboy. I might They're
merry-go’- round three cowboys went on their
merry-go-round-up!
your age, I wanted to be a cow boy, too."
"Don't you want to be a cow- boy now?" asked Knart.
fall off a horse and hurt myself. They're And anyway," he added, "Okla. horses!"
Mr koma is much too far away.
Mr Punch looked very sur-
prised,
"How far away is 117" asked Hanid.
hig Mr Punch looked at watch. "If we started now for ho salth +wc
We want to go to Oklahoma," Oklahoma"
zald Hanid, "because Knort wouldn't get there until. Jong wants to be a cowboy and I after dinner. But I've got a want to be a cowgirl."
better idea."
Pretend You're In The Country
OG cables are fun to build. Cut it so that the notch will
Now you
need logs for a fit nicely over another, log..
start", buliding your log cabin. Here's how to make Now
cabin. Try making the walls tham. Your will need some four or five logs high. A plece brown paper. For each log you of brown paper, folded in two, "will neph a pinco two inches by will makto your roof. Bulid = around a coerul for your"- horica, too. six-Incher.", Boll it pencil, to make a log. Tapo it Make it two logs high, square
x-sided There's „Together" ****"A", short distance, or
from each end, cut a notch, cabinį,
your
Rupert and the Secret Boat-37
The youps es serpent is so in through the wipers: Baloja, Jong- terened in the first boat› it--hay - they aen-joitind-by-d aver so that Rupert undies its serpent, wild kada norse **It's angina, mens to hava -ays on the kiibili chat, „atopped," he says, but you can are rost' enjoying: ghar ny found if you like. The
other thinks that is a god idén you've found another friend and soon they “are slowly moving », la the little fat oca i
ALL RIGHTS REISSYEDENİN K
a half, high" city was settling the Spaniards came to Mexico, down" along with the ruins of and are America's oldest gore.
dens. the one below it.
This in Helf was amazing enough, but workmen dug down
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Dorothy Romney O'S WHO
BRAIN TEASERS
IN EACH WORD below, there, go on' and' seo if you.
the
two empty spaces are the definitions are given. same as those in the last 1 ROLL remember two spaces. If you were 2 TASU hidden loot, given a PA, a fruit, IOL, common to-the
whole people. It would be a BANANA by: 1. D-N TN, when you live adding two AN's. From in the suburbs, and go to the
elly, your ro bere
DID YOU KNOW?
A camel's bump tells how healthy hole. If it is firm, he
BEBA DR-INE, a new modielne
•for car and air. alekngs, 28/
6. PCH DR-K, è often gete this way...
:.7. PERS-IFICATI-, an em bodiment.
to
is in good health. If it fa tónda," ugun, 297 ZUENDOZAICINA UMO
ho may be neglected or work- UMDLY BY THROTTEN TRIDESE ing too hard an
THE WOOD IBIS IS THE ONLY STORK FOUND IN NORTH AMERICA... THE NAME "WOOD IBIS ISA MIS-
•NOMER, AS THE BIRD
iS. A
TRUE STORKS
WOODCHUCKS GORGE. THEMSELVES WITH...
FOOD BEFORE HIBERNATING THEN LIVE OFF THEIR OWN FAT UNTIL
BING
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