THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1959.
FEATURES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
The Divided Playhouse WITH THE
JANE
ANE and Sue met at the corner of the street, "I am going to Mr Green's shop for a big box,"Jang said. "I'm going to make a playhouse in my garden.
Sue's blue eyes widened. "Why, that is exactly what I am going to do," she cried. "I want a very large box 80 that I will have a big house." The two girls went along to- Peter, chatting happily of their Ali
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Mr Green listened carefully to what the girls had to teil R. Then he led them to the atoreroom behind the store. haven't muny lurge boxes right now." he said. "I have just cleaned out my storeroom, but you may take whatever you
564"
He left them and went back to venit on his customers, Jane and Sir looked carefully at the small stack of boxes in one corn ner of the room.
"Here is a nice clean box, Jone said. "But I did want a
much bigger one.”
Sue shook her head. “I think that all of these are inch loo small."
A Wonderful Playhouse
Suddenly Jane dashed to the the end of the TIRONA, "Oh, “Imre is a box nh!" she criest, that wil make a wonderful pinyhouse."
Sipe catre look. "Oh, yest She grabbed one side BE the box. "Help me carry it home, Jane,"
"Help you" Jang cried, "Bul It's sine. I saw it first."
Play
She grabbed the other side of A big smile lighted Suc's Isot, the box and gave it a pull. But "Os let's she cried, "I will be so much more fun to make Sue held tightly to her side.
Mr Green came back. He saw the playhouse together." me two girls tugging in oppo- alte directions,
"I saw it first," Jane told him, But I want ik too," Sue cried, This is the only box that's big rough for a playhouse.
Mr Green scratched his chin and frowned. "My, my! We do "But have a problem," he said, perimps I will get another big bux very soon,"
Sue let loose ber side, but she tooked ready to cry. Jane irled to lift the box by herself, but it Was heavy and very hard to had three long She carry. blocks to go to reach her yard, "Sue," stie sald quickly, "You will have to help me carry the box
"You
But Sue shook her head angrily. "No," she mid. should help nie take the box to my house.""
Mr Green looked very sad, Im sorry that the only box I have is itch too heavy for wither of you to carry alone," He pushed it back into the car- her and opened the door that led back into his shop. The Two girls followed him and walked slowly out,
They walked 1 minute with- man speaking.
Then Jane said, "Now neither one of us will have a play.
"No," Sue Fald. She kicked a mud pabble,
"It
box,
wonderful was such a
June sald unhapplly. We Could Go Back
Suddenly Sue stopped walk- int. "We could go back...."
"We....we could share 12," Jone cried.
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LOWERBALL ACROSS
ITIE ASTRING BETWEEN-
TWO CHAIRS... (ABOUT B FEET ACROSS.)
STRING... USING ONLY THE PAPER TO THROWAND CATCH THE BALL... THE BALL MUST NOT TOUCH THE FLOOR.
Z.CHOOSE SIDES WITH Z PLAYERS ON
EACH SIDE... EACH TEAM HOLDS
A FULLSHEET
OF NEWSPAPER
LIKE THIS...
FIRST TEAM
TO MISS THE CATCH
OR THROW LOOSES
THAT ROUND..FIRST TO WIN
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Back to the shop the girls ron. "We are going to share the Green bax," they told Mr breathlessly
*
"I am going to help Jane
box," Suc carry the happily.
zaid
to
We will take the box Sue's garden," Jabe said. "Her garden is closer, and there's a lg oak tree that is just righį to build a house under.
THE SEAL
I have a friend, Otto.“He is a
pant
has lives at the zoo and swims
a good deal.
He's made in a way that is
slithery and slick And down in the water he's
slippery and quick.
Be doesn't have feet, but fly,
pers instead.
And he has long whiskers that
grow from his head,
Mr Green seemed Just Sometimes he barks in a harsit,
happy as the two girls.. "Tell ine when
世 the house
Fil "I wont to finished," he said, cone sea It."
"ch, we will!" - they cried. "And thank you very much."
-Helon L. Renshaw
gruffy sound
And makes his brown eyes turn
around and around.
Then down in the water he
Ripa and away,
"Why
don' you come me?" he seems to say.
Join
One mude of stone, another of steel, and a third from wood-these are three bridges with interesting stories to tell.
The one at the left is 750 years old, and still carries people and vehicles into the old city of Parthenay, France. The stone bridge and lower are
so well constructed that they have needed almost no repairs Hince they were built in the year 1204.
Invading armies have crossed this bridge many
GREATEST
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NOW WE MAY ASSUMESUCH A MIRACLE WILL BE ACTUALITY.
ACCORDING TO POPULAR SCIENCE "JUNPROCKETS" ARE ALREADY
BEING TESTED THAT WILL ENABLE A SOLDIER TO JUMP A SOFT. RIVER OR LEAP UP
TO A SECOND-STORY WINDOW.
STRANGE BRIDGES
times in an attempt to conquer the city, and were fought by soldiers atop the parapets.
The high railroad bridge, In the centre, spans & deep, white canyon in Colorado. The train was carrying sightseeing passengers when this picture was taken
OF EASE
NEWER, SIMPLER MODEL USES PROPELLANT CANISTERS THAT CAN BE TOUCHED OFF SINGLY OR ALL AT ONCE, 'CANISTERS CAN BE REPLACED IN LESS THAN A MINUTE,
LEFT ANEARLY
MODEL (A)IN FLYING POSITION AND (0) FOLDED. ANGLE OF THRUST VARIED BY MOV- INO CONTROL.
BILLARTER
in 1889. Excursion trains, as they were called, were very popular in the last century, and would run through tunnels in the mountains and high above the valleys.
The wooden bridge, at the right, is used by the people of Giethoorn, Holland.
There are no streets in the village, only canals, and *everyone must cross the water over little bridges like this one. It to wide enough for only one person at a time!
Silly Sayings Who Is The Man In
GIRAFFE
:
HAVE you ever seen the swabimilar story is told in to entice the st
Question: What does the long-wondered who he is? necked giraffe do when he is hungry?
Answer: He cats!
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There are stories which are supposed to date back to a period earlier than the time of Moses, telling of the man who was put to death
The
The Moon? The
A similar story is told in to entice the sheep with cral days. On his return he eats BO much that he again 'grows Germany, only in this case Still farther North, the into a full moon.
Russinus have several the punishment was for people talk about a giant accounts to give of the moon in having stolen the wood, who lives in the moon and the sky, rather than for breaking the who is supposed to cause the One is that a man was look- Sabbath.
ebb and flow of the tide. ing for a lend where there is When the giant stoops the no death. He took up his abode A Dutch myth relates that water flows and when he in the moon but after he had Ilved there a hundred years, for gathering sticks on the the fellow was guilty of stands erect the water ebbs death found him out and came Sabbath and was sent to the stealing enbbages on Christ. again. moon to stay there ever mas evening. His neighbour. after. People used to think caught him, just as he was the "man in the making off with the plunder. He was sent to the moon for punishment along with the stolen cabbages,
ho was
moon."
A
there after him. A furious struggle between the moon and death took place. While it was going on, the man was caught In Greenland the sun is 4 up in the sky and now shines female goddess and the moon as a sine, near the moon.
s her brother. During their mortal lives upon the earth, the The variety of these stories is brother tensed his sister. She by no means exhausted, but
In the moon · is
so of the man the sun. He could not dy
DOZON
LOOK MEAN
✰✰✰ German story tells In some of the provinces lew up in the air and became you can tell that the character about a man who cut sticks along the North Sea the man high, so he became the moon judged to be bad. He is thought on the Sabbathand who in the moon was a sheep but he still pursues his sister, of as a coward or a very bad was transported to the was caught up in the moon. stealer and the fact of his hoping some day to catch her fellow for Hit reason: Others think When he is tired and hungry, In a few instances he is Iden- he is Coln, carrying a bundlo Some persons believed he being loaded down as he is, in his last quarter, he leaves tiñed .with some historical of thorns on his shoulder in could be seen, bearing his with cabbages, is accounted his house on a sledge harnessed scoundrel. The French hivo a punishment for offering to God burden of sticks.
for by saying that he used to four dogs and hunts for sev- theory that he is a who the cheapest gift from his field.
What's A Kangaropper?
Finally, he reached the cor- ner and there stood his friend, tall and straight, wearing u blue uniform with a silver badge.
"Good morning, Policemam," the corner and meet my friend said Knorf, Policeman."
-Only Policeman And Kuorf Knew What It Was
By MAX TRELL
KNARF, the Shadow Boy with the Turned-About Name, looked out of the window and saw that the sun was shining, So he put on his hat and ha put on his coal and he put on his gloves and went out,
Knárf said to, the Cat who was sitting near the kitchen door: "I'm going down the street to
•
man
"What was the other half of the Kongaropper?" asked Knarf. "The other halt of the Kangaropper," said Policemao, "was like a Grasshopper,"
"Oh, I see," said Knart. "Your Kangaropper was half like a "Good morning, Boy," said Kangaroo and half like a Gross-
'hopper." The Cat lurt nodded and Pollcemun, stroked her whiskers,
"I used to go down the street, "I was just pretending." said Kharf ran down the sunny Keart, that I was different haping and leaping and hap street.
ping," said the Polleeman. “All 13 things. First he pretended he was a
the neighbours used to wonder *What different things?" fire engine.
what I was, Tilly knew I asked the Policeman. Then he pretended, he was o
wam't a Cat. They were sure train,
Was pretending," said I wasn't a Dog" Then he pretended he was a Kharf, "that I was a tre en- Mississippi steamboat.
zine, a train and a Mississippi
Rupert and the Blunderpuss-42
Inside The coltage Uncle Drovo is still in his chair feeling very unhappy and worried, and Mer. Sheep is fussing around biar. “Did you fetch Dr. Láon ?" she asks,
maily did gọn that thing on the window sill. Look, here it is Jen't it lovely 1" Unde Bruto and the Blunderpass gaas at such other in the steatest amenidunent.
“No, but it's all right. Uncle “Well, but what is it?” tupa.. dosan't need a doctor," exclaims Unde Brune. “And did you (taly Rupert, **He fa't il at all. Fia call is lovely ??!
ALL' NIZHER MERKATAR
steamboat.
"Those are very good things the Bald to pretend to be," Folkemon. "When I was a bor I used to prolend things, too," "What things?" Knori asked
the Policeman.
Smiling And Thinking
The Policeman pushed back
"They must have been sure,"
sald Kharf, "that you weren't a fire-engine or a train, or a Morlisippi steamboat,"
"Yes," said the Policeman, "they were quite ture I wan't any of those things, either. Some of them thought I was a rabbit"
"But they were wrong, weren't they?" said Kharf,
Yes, they were wrong," sald the Policeman, "and como of them thought I was a Bullfrog."
They wero wrong
his hat and for a moment, or two, he looked up at the sun, weren't they?" asked Kaar!, smiling and thinking. "Once,"
moon
"I'm going to meet Foliceman," Knarf told Cat.
"I'm the only one who knows what you were," said Knart.
"You and 1," said the. Police- man, "We're the only ones who know that when I went Jump ing and leaping and hopping too, down the street, I wam't a Cat
"They were absolutely and or a Dog or a re-engine or a train or a Mississippi" sicam- ho fically said, "I pretended to positively wrong" said the Po- bost or a Rabbit or a Bullfrog.
be a Kangaropper."
Kaart repented the "Kangaropper?
word. Kangarop per? What's a Kangaropper?!!
"IVA on animal I invealed,” said the Polleeman.
"It sounds like. a. Kangaroo,"
asid Knari.
What I really was WOW a
"You were really a Kanga-
weren't you?" said Kangaropper,” Topper, Knari.
Didn't Tell Anyone
"I'm glad you told me,” salá Knart.
And away Knart went, hop- ping and leaping and jumping,
"That's right," mid the Pos pretending to be not a. Konya-
The Polleeman nodded, "Hoit leeman, "But I didn't
tell rapper but · d) Hopperkengs,
of it was a Kangaroo, Kaart,” anybody. They naver knew which is almost the some thing ho said.
what I was,”***
but not quite.
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