THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1959.
FEATURES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
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YOU ARE THE BIRDS' LANDLORDS
RE you a good landlord A landlord size and dep
Birds also desire different
of
nest
If the neating boxes you cavities as well as different put out for their use are sized entrances. They anoccupied, perhaps you cannot, of course, occupy aren't meeting their house. houses with too small keeping requirements.
Me and Mrs Woodpecker have different needs than
do the robin ar wren families. In fact, there is more to providing a good home for feathered neigh- bours then buying a house or making one yourself.
First of all, any bird
openings and, strangely, are equally fussy about eč- cupping ones with tou large
entrances,
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These hard-to-piense tenunta also want their homes to be at different heights from the ground. housts you erect should be Bluebirds like a height of, as nearly like their natural 5 to 10 feet: chickadees 6 homes as it is possible to to 15 feet; and purple mur- make them. uebirds like tins 15 to 20 feet. the privacy of ane-room,
DIFFERENT BIRDE REQUIRE DIFFERENT TYPEG OF BIRD HOUSES- FOR INSTANCE, THE SIZE
OF AN ENTRANCE SHOULD BE RIGHT- 6)
A LITTLE OMALE,
DON'T YOU
THINK
METAL SHIELDS PLACED AROUND
TREE TRUNKS "GERVE" TO KEEP AWAY CATS AND OTHER MARAUDERS-
PHOOGY You
BCCA
shaped, like a large in bearably hol); and verted funnel.
that his tenants have And while a porch may supplies of the right food look well on a birdhouse, it as well as fresh water for often serven 1115 a ledge drinking and bathing. where squirrels and other Landlorda should alsto animals rest while they clean out bird rental plifer the nest.
Birdhouses should also be watertight, RO that they
quarters after each occu- pancy, so that they are in readiness for now tenants. And be sure to stand by to give aid if bees, hornets, and other insects decide to same quarters
are a protection against bad occupy the weather. If made with you are leasing to a hird family. If boxca are made steeply slanted roof, water with a hinged back, they will not drain back into the box. The roof should also can be opened easily to re- move the Intruders without extend 2 or 3 inches over
the disturbing
nesting the box, to protect the en-
birds. trance hole from driving
In fact, if you are a good rain or half. one-door homes in orchurils Nests should also be
landlord your tenants will In addition, a good land- While song sparrows are made sufe from rats, and trees and other objects so shields may be just a wide ford uses wood rather than not only help you to keep partial to thickets. And other marauders. If possible, that these predators cannot place of "thin' mela! Çat metal nesting
down the weed crop in your purple martine who unjoy birdhouses should be placed jump across.
least a foot across) which they don't draw the heat: garden, protect your fruit chatting and squabbling or hung from a metal pole Another good safely de- is wrapped closely around places them so that they are trees from injurious Insects with their neighbours like or galvanised pipe suflicient vice is to place a metal the post or tree trunk at shaded during the middle but they will reward you multile dwellings in bright ly high from the ground shield around wooden poles somó distance from the of the day (being small, with continuous concerts. sunshine,
and far enough away from and tree trunks. These ground or they may be cone- birdhouses can become un.
SPEAKING OF CAMELS
CAMELS have always sinking as it walks across 7 been important in the the sand. Its nostrils are landa of the Bible Barrow alits which close especially the dromedary during a sand storm and its which hus only one hump, eyes are protected by heavy This Asian
African lashes; its small ears
animal is especially fitted to protected by hair. live in dry and desert re- gions where it has long been used as a beast of bur- sien. The camel can travel across the hot desert, eight to 10 miles an hour, for nny hours without stop. ping.
The camel reaches its full growth at the age of 18 or 17 years. It lives about 50 Broad cushioned feet keep the camel from
years..
pre
It can live on sparse, destri vegetation and for several days without water. Many people bellove the enmej stores water in its hump but this is not true. I has several stomachs for good supply, of water.
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Some transport camels are capable of carrying half a lan 25 miles a day. Having camels
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easily cover 100 miles in the same Unie. An unsuccessful
attempt was once made by the
Tin Goose®
The Story of the Old "Tin Goose"
boxes, as
-JOSEPHINE M. OPSAHL
Catching Moonbeams
--Mr. Merlin Shows the Shadows How It's Done-
By MAX TRELL
throwing or bling its rider at every opportunity. It will travel only if it must, and it will not lift a loud which it conviders ] [ NARF and Hanid, too heavy.
KShadow-Children with the
Camel flesh and milik are used by the Arabs and the hair of the camel has long been used for clothing, tents and other coarse fabrics, The Inantifac- ture, of camel bair wis TC- stricted to Germany before the World War but it is now carried United on in England and the States. The coarse hair is used for carpets and beiting, and the wool tor light; warth, durable cloths for alrmen's US. Army to use camels in clothing, polar sleeping boys Arizona and New Mexico.
and linings. Owing to its pleas Though it serves man, the ing brown colour it is seldom camet never yields to kindness, dyed
Still Soars
"I'M ANCIENT, AS AIRPLANES GO ~~ 30 YEARS OLD THEY CALL ME THE TIN GOOSE NOW. BUT, IN 1928, I WAS THE GRANDEST IN THE AIR. WE FORD TRI-MOTORS FLEW CELEBRITIES COAST-TO-COAST WHILE THOUSANDS CAME TO WATCH US TAKE OFF OR LAND. BUT I'M NOT LIVING IN THE PAST. MY TWIN SISTER AND I STILL FLY EVERY DAY.
Three Magic Words
EOPLE who buy their world, so that all the pains, and groceries at Frank Al the troubles that threaten me
PEOP
Ford, Mass., often ask,
really important,"
"WE FLY A REGULAR ROUTE TO A GROUP OF ISLANDS IN LAKE ERIE. WE CARRY 13 PASSENGERS IN ALL SORTS OF WEATHER. WE ARE IDEAL FOR THIS SERVICE,SO WE ARE BEAUTIFULLY CARED FOR.
OUR PILOTS ARE NEVER OUT OF SIGHT OF THEIR OWN HOMES. WE HAUL KIDS POSCHOOL AND FLY THE MAIL. THE ISLAND FOLKS LOVE US.”
NORTH LABS
KELLEY'S
ISLAND
FIRST FACTORY
DID
Glass
The
Turned-About Names, were surprised to see Mr Merlin, the Magnificent Magician, coming out from behind the bookense, carrying what appeared to bẹ n long metal tube on his shoulder. Nalleing Knurf and Hanid, Mir Merlin stopped to bld. them good-evening. It was just abou! beginning to get dark and the moon was coming up over the horizon,
"Good evening. Mr Merlin," said Hankt.
Knarf Asked A Question
"Good evening," said Knnet. What's that big tube you're | carrying over your shoulder?"
Mr Merlin smiled and said:
"Come along with me and I'll explalu it to you."
Knarf and Hanid followed Mr Merlin out into the garden. He | took the big foot off his shoulder and set it up on a tripod. He pointed
one end of the directly al the moon,
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“It's a magle moonbeara catcher," said Mr. Merlin,
catching any moonbeams either, Mr Merlin."
Mr Morlin's face clouded
over.
"Why do
you say that?" he "Well," sold Knart, "I've been tube watching this bottle and I don't which see any of them falling into it, WUBS now standing full and it's as imply as it was when
bright, just over the top of the tl at the end of the road.
"You said you were going to tell us what that tube was," said Honid.
"It's 1 magic moonbeam.
catcher." said Mr Merlin.
"Really?" sald Honid. **Does it catch moonbeams?”
Mr Merlin nodded.
Bottle Full Of Moonbeams
They drop into this tube, slide down to the bottom. Then
you started."
Mr Merlin went over and picked up the bottle and peered
sharply.
"Why" he said, aniling again, it's absolutely full of moon- beams!"
"It looks empty," sald Knart,
Empty Or Not?
"I think it's emply, too," said Hanld. "I's just an empty mitk bottle,"
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YOUR PUZZLE
CORNER
PRIL showers bring Puzzle
Pete's variety puzzles
CROSSWORD
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Dutch city
Through
TRIANGLE
ADORED serves as a baca tot Puzzle Polo's wond triangle. The second word is "paid notice in a newspaper:" third "bustle;" fourth three-banded armadil- l" and fifth "a saying." Can- plete the triangle from Puzzle Pota's clues:
ACROSS
Cleopatra's snake Sical Boy's name
17 Obtain
19 Editors (ab.) 20 Pigpen
DOWN
1 High Mountain
ADORED
BEHEADINGS
Dehead "a bridgo" and have "a cooking utensil" behead this and have **on indefinite. article."
Behead "to lose colour" and have a fruit drink;" behend this and have an abbreviation for "Down East"
PICTURE WORD SQUARE
Describe ench picture with a four-letter word and when you write them down, you'll find your Answer read the same down as across:
10 Fruit drink
11 Insane
12
--Boba
14
Ave
CROHN DEER
Thieves
It Roced
2 Observo
3
Lets
+
School books
5
Unusual
6 Honey-naktør
and
the
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12 How old you aro
13 Conducted
15 Rodent
10
Adjective
"NET" WORDŠ
Each of these worda enda in "net" and missint, letters show
you how many are to be added
to complete them, Can you, from the clues given?
NET (kind of poem?
NET (young peer). -NET (Mars) -NET (young swan)
WRIT
Bee Col. 4 For Answers
ZOO'S WHO
THE MALE FOURSPINE STICKLEBACK FISH WEAVES PORTIONS OF WATER PLANTS INTO A SORT OF BAS KET, USING GROWING, STALKS AS THE FRAMEWORK. AFTER THE
FEMALE OF
HIS CHOICE
"You two children couldn't be
HAS LAID
HER EGGS
IN THE NEST.
HE ROOFS
I collect then In this bottle," moro wrong." sald Mr Merlin.
overflowing
with
As he said this, Mr Merlin Just let me show you that this placed a milk bottle under the bottle is lower end of the long metal moonbeams," tubes They all went back into the "Now you just watch and see House. My Merlin took the what happens," said Mr Merlin, magic moonbeam catcher with
That bottle will fill up
with him. moonbeams. It's the only way to How are you going to prove catch them. I Invented this that that bottle is full-of-moon method myself.”
beams?" said Knarf.
Kaart and Hand kept watch- ing the bottle as Mr continued talking.
Merlin
Magicians' Mothods
off."
Merlin. "I just have to put this "It's very simple," said Mr
bottle of moonbeans in the ice box for a minute for cooling
That's what Mr Merlin' did. He put the bottle in the ice "Some magicians have tried to box, shut the door, waited a it again and catch moonbeams by fishing in a minute, opened fried standing on top of a hill on a moonlight night with their
nem.
ID YOU KNOW that the
moking in América very first factory built prospered and by 1805 there was meida's store in New Bed during the corning day are not in America, was a glass fac. manufactured, in the vicinity of pond with a silk net. Some have took out a botlle full of white-
Boston, glass that was almost tory? This is a startling the equal of the best dint glass "Yes, but what's your secret?" fact because when we think manufactured in England.
of those early colonies we think of such products na
"How do you always manage to start the day off with such a cheerful face, Frank?"
"I say three magle words." "What are they?"
"That's because I feel them. cheerful.
"Thero's your bottlo of mouths open,"
moonbeams," he said. "Didn't those methods work?"
"It's a bottle of milk!" crled asked Hanid.
Knaf and Hanid "Not a bit of it," said Air
But Mr Morlin wouldn't
moonbeam.”
**And
said; Anyway," ho Hore Knart suddenly spoke moonbeams taste just like
don't think you're milk! Here, try some!" up: "
wood and clothing and im- Puzzle Answers Meyer cought & change his mind.
... not glass.'
Before The Pilgrims
"Good""morning, God." -Try |plements
Say those three magle words immediately on opening your eyes in the morning and
"Yes, but how are you see if you don't start smiling always so cheerful? When right away.
"You'll be surprised at the
I get up in the morning I always feel terrible, dis difference those three magic gusted. My body aches, words make in your mental out there's a bad taste in my look when you start getting out mouth. I have to be called two or three times, and even then I have to force
myself to get up.”
A SECRET WAY
"I never have to force my- self," Frank'said, smiling. lave keerel way of preparing my and so that I automatically start feeling well. Even when I am quilo tired and' my body. uches when I got up, I use my #cores and start smilling.
"I get the feeling that every- thing is still "all"right in- the-
of bed."
that
But history points out glass was in America even be- fore the Pilgrims ret foot on Plymouth Rock. In 1003, with- in a mile of the English settle- ment of Jamestown, Virginia, a glass house was built in the woods. This factory began with the manufacture of bottles, And botiles were the first manufac→ Frank says those three magio | tured articles to be exported words do “work." They mem from North America.
THEY WORK
to get the whole new day start-
ed on the right, track.
When you ppen your eyes In bed and immediately.
say.
Glass Beads Popular
• In those early days glass beads were in great demand. In-
lood coming. God," you get dians were eager to trade items the exhilarating feeling at the settlers were eager to have, God, Himself smiles at you.
And you can't help but arailé back at Him.
if beads were part of the deal. 50, when the first glass house fell to ploces a areond took its place for the purpose of supply- *. --MAÑUEL ALMADA Ing Indians with beads,
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Bill and Alay look on terrified, he says. "Your fur is like silk, while their pal faces the weird" and your eyes are lovely and big. ... stranger. wonder how I get and what Ene whiskers you've hold of the thing,”? Rupert thinks got 1” The Blunderpuis aita up ** Dare 1 pick it up?". Still not - and starea intently så if it can't feeling very brava be goes on believe it 'ern Then, with a talang soothingly to it. You're grin, la hapa straight at the lilitis
beautiful, pezas, meen's, you ? “ bear
ALL RIGHT, REIJAYOK
IT OVER
ABOUT 150 TO 200.. LIKE ARCHERY, FALCONRY GOES HORSEHAIRS ARE BACK FAR INTO ANTIQUITY THE USED IN MAKING OF CHINESE APPEAR TO HAVE PRÁC –
AVIOUN BOW.. TICED THE SPORT 2,000 YEARS AGO
Try These Wit Sharpeners.
RE YOUR wits sharp? you need to come up with this
A Can you thbut quickly? are
If you can this little puzzle
Sul como Aght loft in you? will be as easy as pie for Try this, then, Thls, la simple you, or will it?
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and right to the point, a direct question. You answer it, if you con What is the difference be- tween-twice -20, and, twice.5.and Suppose you have 39 yarda ut 207 What's your answer?' No bunting. You are going to eat difference? Botter check your it in yard lengths to decorate answer! While you are about it, the school gym. If you cut one check the other answers,, too! yard a minute, how many min-
utes will it take? Quickly now, what's your answer?
Ready for anothert Alt right, try this one' for sixe:
Answers:
1. The answer is not 30 minutes as most say." Only ̈ze cuts are necessary, so 20 min- Suppose you and a felend are utes is correct, sitting in a room, talking, Your friend tells you that he, without
2. If your friend sila in your leaving the room, can scat him lap, he lëˇsitting, in^ch;_placa. self in a place where you can't where you can never Altı......... possibly sit. Can he? 1,30, 1. Twice 26 la 50, and 'twice where? Hurry up, now! Half 5 and 20-in-30. (Twice 8.10, | minute should be all the time-plus. 20 is. 20.)