THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1959.
FEATURES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Lordly, Robust Moose An Impressive Creature YOUR PUZZLE
By JULIA W. WOLFE
The Mohawk Valley is no far south as they ever came. They could not Hve south of it. Zous below this line have tried to JE WISH every boy and were: (1) hig enormous tail and keep them, but they always die,
a grass enter, Chumps; (3) his huge but short-
He loves to eat running in the wilds na we coupled body; (4) his huge head mall wigs, bulbs and' great did in upper Ontario, and "bell; (5) his nbby, con quantities of mosh. Ho cats Canada, on the shore of voluted
the year around. It and for-overhanging mosS
In Georgian Bay. To
plentifully (0) his thatch of long rows those nose;
cool Conte and grass-like brown. who saw it this full-grown hair; (7) his great shovel-antler moose with full antlers was just described. just as odd and wonderful Under his big throat langs a as any prohistorie monster, rope-like airly of hair-covered This nature students call the skin, probably que foot long,
"hell."
No one could describe those antlers so that a man from Mars could imagine what they look like. Their wonderful "palmation" is an enormous búain-like expun- sion, studded with prongs along one age of solid bone.
In many museums are antlers weighing 2 pounds. They spread nt least 75 Behea, Thune grènt wide slabs of 20 and often mare rough bone projections are at least two inches thick, and often the palmations are so cuplike that they von hold a gallon of water.
The moose we saw minst have been seven feet high at the shoulders, and he had at least seven Interesting points, They
fio the world over and you wall find nowhere a land sairaal creatures, 70 outlandish in form. Seu yes; but even the ginue is not a competitor us u strange land nutrial,
THE ANCESTORS of the North American moose come to us derive the bridge of land that unce lay between Alnaku and Asia. From Alaska the In- grants spread eastward us far as the Mackenzie River, southward to Bristol Tay to the Kenal Peninsula. Then they carne down to the Rockies, Oregon, Idaho Montana and on to northern New York, Maine and Nova Scotia,
regions.
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In autumn when the new an- tera are fully grown and free from "velvet, the big bull modse begins to ulter long and resonung bawls that go pealing rising and falling in great waves and ending in low grunts, Hun- terg moke birch-bark_mega- phones and imitato this bawl, The big moose will answer. Ho may come within easy range of the hunter's rifle.
the
In the charming forests and Jukes of Maine and New Bruns wick the moose spends his cum- mer vacation. You would be BUT THE MOOSE sometimes delighted to water one wade for adopts genuine strategy that bo- pull up lily-bulbs, token, reasoning of a high order. Hirch trees are best liked for The mouse will swing off browsing, also the hemlock, trail, le down in concealment akter, willow and maple, They near his own trail in a position en soon drip" a tree and con- to get the pursuer down the Fun a whole bush. Naturalists winữ, He then steals away in n have watched them bring down new direction Clever work. saplings by Janrching extride then and riding them down" to earth.
In winter the moose travel in herds and they move into 1 small area, packing down the now; this is called "u mouse yard,"
THE WILD MOOSE displays much of what naturalsts call "character." The individual moose manifests more original. thought than any other member' of the deer family.
Hunters tell of serce battles among the herds; the biggest bull moose, with the mighty antlers, wins out and then is chosen leader. Often antlers became interlocked and cannot be separated by the Aghters, So the two animals die miserably. Many muscums have sets of lecked homa -
There are strict laws, in the United States and Canada lo save the lives of remaining moose, Even in Alaska the hunting season is very short, The moose must not become extincti
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Pete's Crossword something associated George Washington:
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Washington was a GENERAL puzzle on before becoming President and
with Puzzle Pete uses that fact
the centre of his word diamond. The accond word is "a group of metched pieces"; third Spanish for "mister": fifth "a precept" and sixth "a college cheer." Can you Anish the diamond?
Young Washington used
7 There many stories. about his exploits
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BACKWARD GLANCE
Read these backward it Puz zle Peic confuses you:
SITSUC WODIW THEDISERP TSRIF NONILEV TNUOM
WASHINGTON REBUS
Use the words and pictures right and you'll have little trou ble Anding the four facts con- nected with Washington that Puzzle Peto has hidden in his robus:***
THE FASTEST CREATURES Exotic American Indian Foods
FOUR OF THE
SPEED
AND MORE SPEED
...IS THE PASSION
OF OUR TIME.
BUT, UNTIL A FEW
GENERATIONS AGO. THE
FASTEST DEVICES" WERE LIVING CREATURES.
MAN, ON HIS OWN TWO LEGS,
IS AMONG THE SIOWEST. HIS BEST SPEED 15 ABOUT 22 MILES PER HOUR.
Ways
THE FASTEST RACE HORSES CAN HIT BETWEEN 45 and 50
MILES PER HOUR FOR SHORT DISTANCES,
BILLARTER
ANTELOPE
ANTELOPES DEPEND ON THEIR SPEED (UP TO GOMILES PER HOUR) FOR PROTECTION.
THE CHEETAH, FASTEST THING ON FEET, IS TRAINED TO HUNT-EVEN OUTRUNS ANTELOPES WITH HIS 75 M.PHLSPEED,
CHEFTAH
Of Telling Time
Be clocks people tof time in all sorts
EFORE the Invention of water. The dish gradually filled. aml watches, like a leaking beat, and the
time could be estimated by the
amount of water in it. A ser- vant emptied the dish when it sank and sut it floating
unce Whenever he did this, he
mo
down the bells fell into a metal joined by a narrow hollow neck, dish. "striking" the luur.
were alled with just enough
An unusual Greek timeplece sand to pass from one side to more than 2,000 years old WDs the other in the space of an really very modern because it huur. It's recorded thal Cherle- boosted gears. The passage of magne had a sand vins that the water through a spout ran for a 12-hour period. But actuated small water wheels usually an hour was the limit. which, via the gears, gradually moved 11 indicator which pointed to the time on a dial. of course, that This is the scene, general idea, Houn glasses were used
is used for
Colonial America to limit the of eerons, although
of odd ways.
The Chinese, long ago, used a dampened rope, struck a gorg. knotted at equal intervals, which was set on fire. As it burned slowly from knot to knot, the observer was able to estimate the time.
Another aneten! "lock" of the Chinese consisted of a metal dish with, a tiny hole, in it. It ny bell was attached to each Sand glasses, consisting of turned the glass over and went wan-floated, in a larger pan of pin and as the candle-bursed two pear-shaped glass clobes right-or mocaching.
tiled for estimating the time, A cundle has also been
by marking it off with notches mechanical clocks today, with length
in
of coloured tape. Plus stuck in a weight or spring as the motive ΠΙΣΣΑΤΑΝ a minister who felt he the candle also carked time. A power.
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Circus Time Arrives
-Everyone Pitches In To Put On A Grand Show-
By MAX TRELL
Wis decided to have
Tercus.
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Kuart And Hand, the Shadows with the Turned About place
Noines, sald the proper
for it was right in the room be-
tween the booltease and the window.
four corners to the legs of four chairs and, lo and behold, there was the tent!
simply
"They're all here right now- right in front of us" Mr Puch said. "Teddy, can you moll' and tumble?"
"Naw 1 niways seems to me," said General Tis, who had the "Yes, I can!" sald Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, I read about it habit of sounding gloomy about Stuffed Bear. In a book."
almost everything, **that эти "Then you're the acrobail" Mr Punch said: "Teddy is need more than a tent to put on said Mr Punch, right. A circus isn't a circus good circus, You need acrobats "Enari, can you throw three unless it's held under tent, and fuglers and clowns. You balls into the alr
I'll make a tent."
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Behold A Tont!
So Mr Punch took the white
and catch
need tightrope walkers. You them?" said Mr Punch. need a magician. You need Hons and tigers and elephants. "I can'try," sald Knarf. You need horses. You need dwarfs and giants
"Then you're the juggier," and a fal lady and a skinny man,
Now said Mr Punch. of those things?"
Knarf and Hanid looked clown?" asked Hanld.
"But a cireus is always held sheet off his bed and put a where are you going to get all under a tent" sald Teddy, the yardstick under it and tied the
Rupert and the Blunderpuss-24
The Conjurer tells Rupers, not to be impatient. "Me no finish explaining Now look close," Ar he picks up the tall bat the kitten disappears back inside it. Then be cover it with a cloth and speaks different Chinese words, prusing a long time between
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eath. Finally the cloth is flicked off and, to Rupert's astonishment. a bird scars out of the het. "Now does the little bear understand
what the strange creature was that he was chasing?" the man asks. "N-no, I can't imagine what it wan" says Rupert.
vorried.
Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, stood still and didn't say a word.
All Nodded
Enrico, the Cunary, and Whos, the Hobby Horse, and Hinwatha, the Small-Sized Wooden Indian, and Mary-Jane, the Rag Doll, and Miss China Doll and Jack- in-the-Box and the Big Pipstic Duck and the Wooden Turtle looked at General Tin and nodded. For none of them could help thinking that was right.
"But who's going to be the
"Who else but me?" said Mr Punch.
And he went and painted his cheeks while and his nose red
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SCRAMBLED SENTENCE
Can you figure out Puzzle Pete's confused sentence about Washington?
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-Nicest treat of all is a jelly linn enjoys can be found which desert Indian women flx only in the American South- every June from the ripe red west. And they certainly frult of the saguaro, It resem do Bound exotic! Take bles a pomegranate, and is called the "cactus apple." If you like, "pikl," which is a form of you can eat It"in the raw." Just Washington at to. bread, but doesn't look like borrow a native tool-a hook it. It's made from corn by attached to a long pole-and the Hopis, but it's as thin pull down as many as you think
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paper and its colour might range from a beau- tiful blue to vivid red or
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yellow. Squaws make it by PUZZLE ANSWERS baking finely ground meal on a flat stone by an open fire. Then it's rolled into a | Amwa scroll resembling & loose cigar. Although you'd like to take it home to show your friends, you have to eat it on the spot because piki is too fragile to travel.
A cake for which the Apache equaw of New Mexico und Arl- zona is famous comes from the fat leaves of the meguty or cen-
tury plan. A Jorge rock-lined pit is built, a fire made inside. When the rocks are very hot the ashcs are replaced by chopped maguey leaves, covered with rocks and earth and left to slemmer. Two days later, when the tiss of escaping steam is heard, accompanied by a spicy- with sweat fragrance which drift for miles, the pit is opened, revealing....D.. $Q00/ substance..
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Mr. Funch painted his nose red and wore enormous shoeR.
roodie, became the elephant.
very
and his eyes blue. And be put And Mary-Jane, the Rag Doll, on big shoes and he held two held herself together open umbrellas over his head. ter at his appearance.
Everyone shouted with laugh-
And so it went.
A Tightrope Walker
Hanid, in a short, fluffy dress, became the he
tightly and became the skinny man.
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Whoa, the Hobby Horac. galloped around in a circle and Blood on his hind legs and rocked in the air. He wanderful circus horsel.
The dwarfs wore the Plastic Ughtrope walker Duck and the Wooden Turtle. and walked on a string stretched The glant was Hiawatha stand- from the lamp stand to the Ing on a pair of stilts with a tall' But Mr Punch just laughed bottom shelf of the bookcase. feather in his hair. ` and said there wouldn't be any
When Mr Punch got through But the one who enjoyed the trouble at all getting serbints being a clown, he became a circus the most was gloomy. And Jugglers and clowns and maglelan. And when 'he gol General Tinho Tin `Boldier. Ughtrope
being a rongician, ho He was the audience. HO AL clans and llons and tigers and, atuffed pillows under bis coat on a wooden bench and laughed elephants and horseA and and became the fat man,
at the clown, ^marvelled at the dwarfs and giants and a fat lady The two Kittens became the magicians and applauded every" and a skinny man.
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(we esjoyed OUR TRIP UP
THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY
Porpoises Play Basketball
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THE REFEREE blows his tually grins, Now the onlookers
whistle and one of the son why he is called Smiley, world's strangest games be- miles from Los Angeles, Calif, Porpoiser at Marineland-30 gins. Zippy, a playful por- have been taught to play bas your poise, grabs a basketball in ketball. They love it. Thele
(and referea) his mouth, and swims down trainer GuνAXOYя
neda the watery court.
only drop the ball into the out- door pool and the game is 05 Smiley, another porpoise, Both hoop and ball are regu guards the basket at ono Intion sizó. end of the pool. Smiley The playful mammala (por-
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rushes at Zippy. He knocks poises are not fish) play basket- the ball from Zippy. The ball flies into the air.
a prop to the water, Smiley leaps high
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Before it can splash back in-
out of the pool. Ho snatches the ball in his mouth.
Now it's Smiley's turn to try for a basket. Swimming just below the surface ho streaks for the goal.
Smiley, Zippy and thels icanmates would be happy to play your basketball team. ments. 1.
There are only two require. Your team must be good swimmers, 2. The winners of the game to get all the raw fish they can eat!
Brain Teaser
A twist of his powerful tail and he ducka past Zippy, Glid- ingin close to the basket Smilley shoots. The ball swishes through the mesh. Two points together so well that they are MANY TIMES things go for Smiley!
Smiley sticks his head far out said in the same breath, and one of the pool to receive the seems Incomplete without the applause of the crowd watch-other, like cups and saucers of ing the game at Marineland of
hooks and eyes. Can you malch The Pacific. The porpoise ac-
the person or item in the top paragraph with the one It belongs with in the lowes paragraph?
What Do You Know About Starfish? ZOO'S WHO
LARGEST LIVING STAR FISH IS THE SUNFLOWER STAR- FISH OF THE NORTH PACIFIC COAST, WHICH REACHES A DIAMETER OF2FEET OR MORE.
TROUT HAVE BEEN CAUGHT ON „WORMS, FLIES,SALMON EGGS, SPINNING TACKLE AND ASSORTED ARTIFICIAL LURES...
WHEN READY. FOR THE DIVE AFTER A. LUCKLESS FISH, THE KINGFISHER HALF CLOSES HIS WINGS AND SHOOTS DOWNWARD INTO THE WATER -LIKE A BLUE METEORJÁ VERITABLE LIVING
WITH SPEARHEAD..
1. Stanley. 2. Gilbert, 3. David, 4. James Whitcomb Riley, 5, Washington. .0. Johnson. 7. Eugene Field. 8. Tom Sawyer. a. Gollath. b. Stuart. c. Bos well. d. Huck Finn. e. Living- slone, f. Little Boy Blue. Sullivan,
Littlo Orphan Annie,
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Party Pralines
this recipe;
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ASK mother if you can try In a heavy sauce pan combina one-half box of brown mugan with 2 tablespoons water and 1 teaspoons butler. Place over medium heat and stir until mix- ture boils. And I cup coarsoly choppede pecubs, or leave them in halves if you prefer, Sin Decnsionally and continue to cook until a fow drops in cold water form a soft ball (230' grees F. if you have a candy. thermometer). Remove candy from heat and cool five minute Drop by spoonfuls on a well- buttered cookie sheet to mad round; Bet pralines fuew inches In diameter. When cool, rimtoya) with spatula and wrap,: 30m dividually, in waxed paper.