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BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE

Batemelde hirë thongkongi Lida

CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

"SHENGKING"

"HUPEN"

**SOOCHOW"

"FENGTIEN"

"SHENGKING"

"PAKHOI"

"ANBHUN"

"HUNAN" "SINKIANG"

BAILINGS TO

...Keelunt

Tsingtao & Tientsin Bangkok

Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka & Kube ... Keelunk

Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka & Kobe Yakokaina, Nagoya, Osaka & Kobe .Tsingtao. & Tientsin Singapore & Djakarta

bp.m. 24th Feb.*

5 p.m. 24th Feb.

5 p.m. 27th Feb.

5 p.m. 2nd Mar:

6 p.m. 2nd Mor,

3 p.m.

3rd Mar,

5 p.m.

5th Mar.

3 p.m. 5th Mac."

5 pm, 0th Mar.

* Salle from Custodian Whart

ARRIVALS FROM

**TSINAN"

"SOOCHOW" "KWEIYANG"

Bangkok Oska

10 a.m. 24th Feb.

1 p.m. 25th Feb.

151 Mar.

1st Mar.

..Bangkok

8 aan. 28th Feb,

"SHENGKING"

...Krelang

7 m. int Mar

"PAKHOP""

.Bangkok

"HUNAN"

"PRODUCE”

Tientsin

Singapore Moji

& Tsingtao

"POYANG"

"ANSHUN"

„Tientsin

AUSTRALIAN-ORIENTAL LINE LTD.

CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

JOINT SERVICE

1/2nd Feb. 4th Mar,

5th Mar.

28th Mar.

SAILINGS TO

"TAIPING"

, Japan

"CHANGTE"

"TAIPING"

..Sydney & Melbourne Sydney & Melbourne

ARRIVALS FROM

7th Mar. 14th Mar.

"TAIPING"

..Australia &

Manila

3rd Mar.

"CHANGTE"

Japan

11th Mar.

*TAIPING"

Japan

BLUE FUNNEL LINE

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1951.

the BOYS and GIRLS PAGE

ZOO'S WHO

HOMING PIGEONS

BLACK BEARS, AFTER A WINTENS SLEEP, COME OUT OF THEIR DENS AS FAT AS WHEN THEY WENT IN...ANDARE

IN NO HURRY TO

BEGIN EATING.

HAVE BEEN USED IN WARS FOR MORE THÂN 2,000 YEARS.

DOGS OF WAL AREN'T JUST A FIGURE OF SPEECH...SEVERALTHOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO, DOGS CLAD IN ARMOR FOUGHT VALIANTLY IN BATTLE ALONG

SIDE THEIR MASTERS....

How Honest Are You? P&O B.I. E&A

HERE

ERE is a personal quiz school examination if you had

to help you find out the chance?

your rating as an honest and 0. If your school report strictly reliable up and showed a disappointing grading

would you invent aa.cxcus coming citizen. Because no- which you knew wasn't tho body need know the score real explanation? except yourself, don't be

7. Would

you trade off an afraid to lay the correct

article which you knew had a answers on the line. Check serious defect while giving the the questions to which you impression you thought it was can honestly answer "yes," in perfect shape?

8. IS you knew who had 1. If you accidentally broke braken

à school window and n window while no one was you were asked by the teacher around, would you own up to. If you knew, would you admit you could give the name of the ask not to be purse culprit but A sum of pressed to do so? money would you try to and... Would you pretend not to

It?

2. If containing

you found B large

the owner?

hear for a while when called

3. If a 'store clerk gave you in from outside if you wished too much change would you to have Illtle extra time at a hand it back?

4. Would you knock a year or two off your age to qualify yourself for a cheaper admis- sion ticket to a show?

Grass Good Friend and Ally

25th Mar. EVERY

Scheduled Bailings to Europe via Aden & Port Said

**CLYTONEUS"

"ASTYANAX"

"PELEUS"

"CALCHAS" "AGAPENOR"

.. Casoblanca, Dublin

28th Feb.

& Liverpool

Buoy A7

Genoa, Londen & Holland

4th Mar.

7th Mar.

25th Mar.

26th Mar..

Marocilles, Liverpool

& Cinsgow

Dublin & Liverpool

.Genon, London,

Holland & Humburg

Scheduled Sallinge from Europe

8. "CALCIAS"

G. "ANCHISEB"

8. "AGAPENOR"

G. "PATROCLUB"

8. "AENEAS".

S. "AUTOMEDON"

G. "PERSEUS"

Saita

Liverpool

21st Jan.

28th Jan,

21st Feb.

"PROMETHEUS" 17th Feb.

G. "BELLEROPHON" 28th Feb..

Bails

Rotterdam

Arrives

Lonr font

autumn

farmera

and gardeners will plant and replant grass seed. They

By Dan Murdoch

spade up the soll, spreading the soll together and keep

the seed, water it, feed it with special chemicals. All winter long, the seed well walt, soak. Ing up the water of the snows In the spring. tiny green shoots will poke up above the arth -the beginning of a low or a meudow.

is such

ing water from washing away good earth. We plant certain grasses purposely on beaches and wastelands, to hold the shifting sand dunes.

For sports, 100, grass is nice to look at and easy to walk or simple, ride on. So we use it as ground Grass

for many everyday

games--golf, thing in our lives, cover

polo, croquet, and so We walk on it and play football,

#

all the time. We don't realise on. And It's perfect, of course, what an important thing

It

for picnics!

really is. There are "plant ex-

plorers" who keep hunting the world over for now

world

#trans.

kinds of

game?

10. Have you answered all theso questions

absolutely honestly?

5. Would you сору from Now for your seare Ques- another student's paper on a tions 1, 2, 3, 8 and 10 should have been answered YES. Ques- tions 4, 6, 6, 7 and 9 should have been answered NO. And, believe it or not, if you can score over six correct answers you are above average so far as your standard of honesty is concerned. But remember, as a even medicines-all can

rule, many honest people have made out of certain grasses. dishonest traits, which is quite So you see our plain, or surprising because there is no dinary grass is more important quality in a person more re- than It looks.

It's a hard apected. So to gain "honours" worker, and surrounds us with on the test your score should beauty too.

be for more.

bo

Knarf Went Roller Skating

--And He Had a Remarkable Adventure

By MAX TRELL

KNARF

the. shadow-boy

with the turned-about name, was

gone all afternoon.

E even eat grass ourselves, When he returned to the house

Scientists keep exper- WE

menting with it all she tige

and use it for furniture! his sister Hanid, who had been

to improve it and to and new Cern, wheat, rice, cats, barley, wondering where he was, aak-

use for it. They all agree that hay.

boo these

28th Feb.

4th Feb.

13 Feb.

17th Feb.

4th Mar.

13th Mar.

17th Mar,

4th Mar. 11th Mar. 18th Mar. 3rd Apr. 28th Mar.

4th Apr. 4th Apr. 15th Apr.

25th Apr.

2nd May

ww

over

S. "MARON" .... 21st Mar.

G. "MYRMIDON"

28th Mar,

G. Loading Glasgow before Liverpool.

B. Loading Swansea before Liverpool.

Unscheduled.

DE LA RAMA LINES

Arriving via MANILA from U.S. PACIFIC & ATLANTIC COAST PORTS.

"BATAAN"

19th May.

·

Sailing to NEW YORK, BALTIMORE, PHILADELPHIA, -BOSTON. NORFOLK, NEWPORT NEWS and CHARLESTON Vla JAPAN, SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES, CRISTOBAL and KINGSTON.

"ANDAMAN" "BATAAN"

4th Mar 7th Apr.

Lathay Pacific Airways Ltd.

Itoute

HK/Bangkok/Singapore

HK/Saigon/Singapore

HK/Manila/B.N..Borneo

HK/Mantin

Departs Hongkong

Artives IK (on return) 7.30 a.m. Tuod. Fri, 9.00 am. Wed. Sat. [Connects at Bangkok with U.B.A.

(DC-4)

(DC4)

Noon

(DC-3) (DC-3)

.4.30 am.

to Hangoon)

Wed. Mon. Wed. 10.00 m.

4.10 p.m. Thurs;

4.00 pm Tues.

1.18 pm, Thurs.

All the above subject to alteration without nollos, For passare and Freightp articulare please apply to

ICONNAUGHT RD C Tel.30331 8 BRANCH OFFICE: 50 Connaught Rd. West. 25875, 37144, 24878.

BEN LINE

sure

"DENVRACKIE” "BENVORLICH" "BENMACDHUT”

BENALDER"

'"BENAVON"

**BENVENUE"

"DENVOELICI"-

“BENALDER”- "DENVENUE"

"EENMACDHUT” "BENAVON"

ARRIVALS

FROM

V.K. vin Singapore

đo

do

da

do

do

SAILING

Liverpool & Rotterdam

Liverpool, Gizzow, Dublin, & Rotierdam.

London, Antwerp, Botterdam

W. R. LOXLEY

York Ballding,

Hall

DUE

In Port

on or abt. 15th Mar,

26th Mar,

tud Apr.

18th Apr, 7th Biay

Loading on or abt,

18th Mar,

8th Apri 12th May

Port-Baden, Aden ä fués.

kinds of grass,

I

you've had an adventure," she said. "You

look as if you've

an adventure."

From Knart smiled and nodded. "I

215

we

with had an

did

stems

have one." he said,

clover, sugar cane, bamed him to tell her. "I'm sure

pre Just special Js the most important plant-family we have. It's (21-

provides also tainly one of the largest--there

more than 4,000 different considerable equipment. are

sugarcane and bamboo, xinds of

gross! Grass is

the long, jointed for turn so important,

into canes, fishing-rods, pipes, one thing. because it's one of the toughest, strongest living and chairs. In tropical lands out with my roller skates."

get people

food, It grows all especially,

polar clothing and shelter from bam world--in

boo and other far beyond the point regions

grass-plants. Mats, ropes, baskets, paper, and where any other plant can live, and around water-holes in the hottest, barest deserts.

things in nature.

the

OR another

FOR

our good

is

thing, grass frlend

and ally. In one form or another, it caten by millions of animals, Half the land in the United States, for instance, is used for

pasturing ferm grazing and animals. In-South-America are..... Immense grassland mendowa, called "pampas" where huge_ herds of horses and cattle are raised.

Without

the grass, WC wouldn't have the food, the clothing, the thousands of use- get from

fut objects animals.

The long, tough roots of the grass go deep and wide, hold-

WITHOUT GRASG TO HOLD THE BOIL TOGETHER, WATER,

WOULD WASH THE GOOD

BARTH AWAY

Matchbox Sketch Aid

I of every

By VIOLET M. ROBERTS

ва

12-9

"It all happened when I went Hanid demanded to know at So, about Knarts adventure. after

making himself comfort- able at Hand's side, he finally

Knarf put on his roller skates. began.

was quite early in

ful skates, right in front of me. morning, right after breakfast, you

the I took a good look at thern. Hanid. I looked

know what they were out of the window and saw that it was

like? beautiful day, clear and cool.

"No." said Hanid. "What Thou

Were they like?" and there I decided 10

"They were exactly like two put on my roller skates, and go for a ride. I could hear the

tiny jeepal" "Jeeps,

Knart? Did you say other children shouting and laughing. I knew they

Jeeps? Automobiles?"

That's

right.

WETE

on their roller skatea, too. With

were

And they

no bigger than roller

the whole crowd of us skating, skateal I strapped them on at

I was sure that we would mil have a wonderful-time

י

once.

one

my

Then I pressed a little button wilk Roller Skatos

and the motors started up. "So-out-I-went-with-my Away I went! I was standing roller skates in my hand. And up in two little moving jeepst when I got outside, I sat down The children at the end of the on the back steps to strap them street saw me coming. They on my shoes. Well, just y I couldn't understand Irow was strapping them on, sud could be skating without mov- denly I noticed that the wheels ing my feet. But I shot on both skates

them. I went up hills. ates were broken." My goodness What 0 when anyone got in my way, I

past

And

shame!" Hanid exclaimed, just pressed another button

"What did you do, Knart"

"At

with my toes and the hors first I didn't know what went peep-peep, peep-peep. to do. You can imagine how disappointed I was! And down

the

street children зусте

the rest of the

wishes he could draw, take picture to be. Lightly draw on the hill, without

you wish your Inishỏd "And thero' he wasg coming up

event

were

Wanted Thom

"They isughing and

roller motor But then a wonderful skates!" Knarf continued. “Oh, playing. thing happened! I happened to how wonderful they were! How children wanted see our friend Mr Merlin the all the other F you doubt, that one out the paper the same shape as the Magician. It was a very strange to have themi How I wanted

four people box cover opening, and as large thing. He had roller skates on, to have them myself!"

"But where are they?" Hanid corresponding his feel! The skates seemed to asked eagerly, "I'd like to see Knari! I'd like to take a of your friends got together. to the strings on the box.

In them! Motor roller Why by themselvest

exclaimed Hanid, skates oh my!" You'll probably be able to.

"that's the most wonderful thing Kaart was silent for a mo- organise a sketching class

you wish to I ever heard of! What made ment. "I haven't got them any right on the apot, and your ACE the scene.

draw and hold the box close don't know.

807

more, "he said sadly. "All at teacher will be a safety to one squinted

I mean,

R$ Σ 1 once, just eye, the other didn't know. Just then. But

was coming a home for lunch, I tripped and matchbox cover.

eye closed. The open end of the

Lew minutes inter I found out fell. When box should be nearer your eye;

I got up on my

a poll the next time a dozen the guide lines,

ple as it is interesting.

penny matchbox cover

MATCH BOX

THREADS

and

be

them

this feet in the log and winking, and wear

Matchbox sketching is as in the threaded end away, from 11. You see, I shouted to Mr Mer- feet again, the skates were

Take a Look through the box at the lln, and he came rolling right gone.

I Just had my old the garden path, brolten

skates. And going sceno and sketch what you see over." up

sections on around all the curves, and stin down the street, without more in one of the four

of cast.

without moving.

his feet, was Mr Merin, the corresponding section

"What? he said. Aren't your paper.

with the ing the going skaling

wonderful roller Then proceed to the next you

Then I explained to skates!" quarter section and so on untill others?" four sections are filled in broken.

him that my skates were And Knart sighed because he One advantage of this method I think you'll like them.

Take mine, he said. didn't have them any more.

And Hanld-she sighed, too,! that it enables you to draw only

"The next instant he vanish because she couldn't even hope ane-fourth of your picture at a

cd, but there were his wonder to see them! time,

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9th March

5th Apru

Jrd May

12th March

9th Aprit

4th May

7th June

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Homewards

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24th February

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Leaves Honkong

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endly 19th Mar,

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