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BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE

CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

SAILINGS TO

Semarang.

Sourabaya & Macassar

"YUNNAN" "FENGNING"

......Shanghai

.... Djakarta,

"FENGTIEN"

"BZECIUEN"

"SHENGKING".

"HUNAN"

"POYANG"

"SHENGKING"

*PAKHOP

Yokohama, Nagoya, Ogalen

Bangkok

Keciunt

Tientaln

&

Kobo

Singapore, Penang &

6 p.m. 11th Nov,

G-om. 12th Nov.

8 am, 13th Nov. 10 am, 18 Nov.

3 p.m. 18th Nov,

10 am, 17th Nov.

7 a.m. Din Nov.

Belawan

10 am, 10th Nov.

Keelung

Bangkok

• Sails from AERIVALS FROM

3 p.m. 22nd Nov. 10 am, 23rd Nov. Custodian Wharf

"SZECHUEN" "FENGNING"

Kobe

Kabe

"800CHOW”

Indonesia

"SHENGKING"

.coluag

"HUNAN"

Tientsin

"POYANG"

"FENGTIEN"

Singapore & Sibu

.Singapore

& Bintan

2 a.m: 9th Nov. 8 nm, 9th Nov.

11th Nov.. 7.m. 13th Nov. 13th Nov. 14/15th Nov.

A.O. LINE LTD./C.N. CO., LTD., JOINT SERVICE

"ANSHUN"

على

Sydney & Melbourno Kure, Kobe, Yokkaichi,

Nagoya & Yokohama Japan

ARRIVALS FROM Australia & Tarakan

SAILINGS TO Yokofninn, Nagoya, Yokkaichi, Kobe Kurc

“TAIYUAN"

"CHANGSHA"

Noon 8th Nov, 12th Nov.

12th Nov.

"ANKING"

3rd Der:

"ANSHUN"

"CHANGSHA”

Australia

Bi

Monila

"TAIYUAN"

Yokoliama

In Port In Part 7. 10th Nov,

"ANKING"

Australia & Tarakan

20th Nov,

BLUE FUNNEL LINE

Genoll,

"AUTOLYCUS"

Scheduled Ballings to Europe via Adon & Port Said.

London, Rotterdam & Hamburg

"ANTILOCHUS" Liverpool & Dublin

"PATROCLUS” ...Marseilles, Liverpool

"ASTYANAX“

"CLYTONEUS”

& Glasgow ....Genoa,

London,

Rotterdam & Hamburg

.. Dublin

& Liverpool

Scheduled Ballings from Europe

8. "PATROCLUS"

6. "ANCHISES"

G. "CLYTONEUS"

S. "ASTYANAX"

G. "PERSEUS”

8. "AENEA8"

G. "ASCANIUS""

8. "AGAPENOK"

Balls

Rotterdam

Salled

Balls

Liverpool

Salled

do

do

do

12th Nov.

10th Nov.

18th Nov.

25th Nov.

5th Dec.

G. Loading Glasgow, before Liverpool.

23rd Nov.

25th Nov,

6th Dec.

24th Dec,

25th Dec,

Arrives

Hong Hons

17th Nov.

23rd Nov.

1st Dec.

10th Doc.

18th Dec,

-24th Dec. 31st Dec.

10th Jan 1953

B. Loading Swansea, before Liverpool. Carriers' option to proceed via other ports to

fond & discharge cargo.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1952.

the BOYS and GIRLS PAGE

If you had been

་।

By James Bartlett

THE big adventuro that page-boys in tasselled, peak

morning of September ed caps:

it

27 was the promise of The train left at ten Excit- o'clock with Stephenson's a ride on a train. ing? Just imagine if you engine "Locomotion" puffing had been there for it was out clouds. of black smoke,

Behind it 127 years ago, in 1825 and

were black, nobody in the world had over rough-wheeled open trucks, before bought n railway packed with 450 top-hatted, ticket.

foppish men passengers and The booking office was at their wives. Stockton, in the North of

All along the line as England, and the new run through the meadows, single-line of railway track people were cheering, horse stretched for 25 miles to men were galloping ahead, the neighbouring town of children were run- Darlington.

ning alongside. For If you were a girl you the train was mov- might be wearing a frilly ing at six miles yellow frock with

an hour! length billowy skirts and long, ankle-longth pan-

tulettes,

calf-

of it a In front man on a white horse

red* kept waving

П

Your hair would perhaps hag to clear the track. be parted in the centre, in a quiet section of smoothly combed to

the the line, George sides and plaited, the ends Stephenson'usked him of the plaits being caught to get out of the way up to the sides, of the head so that he could test with small bows.

Boys would be in tight- fitting, high-waisted coats with frilled 'collars ankle-length something like

and trousers →→ -modern

Pointed HAND BAG

1. Cut 2 pieces of CLOTH

12 in. square.

I PLAIH

2.PATTERNED

LA RAMA LINES 2.Stitch together...leave

ARRIVING FROM US. ATLANTIC & PACIFIC COAST PORTS.,

"BATAAN".

"MENESTHEUS

SAILING for KINGSTON, NEW

15th Nov.

18th Dec: YORK,

via

"AGAMEMNON"

"DONA AURORA”

"DONA ALICIA"

Sail. 3 p.m. 8th Nov. 20th Nov, 6th Dec.

SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES & CRISTOBAL.

Tathay Pacific Airways Ltd:

Route

JK/Bangkok/Singapore

HK/1fanul

Jrk/atphong

BK/Saigon/Stagojore

་

Departs Hongkong

(DC-4) 7.30 am. Man, Thurs, (Connect at Bangkok with

(DC-3) 4.43 am, Tuce, (DC-3)~8.45-a.m-Thurs." (DCA) 10,45 am. Tues,

Artires II.K.____ (on returny

1.45 am. Tues. Fri. U.B.A. to Rangoon)

4.45 pan. Tues.

4.15 pm Thurs, -6.48. Da. Wed,

HK/Manila/B.N. Horneo (DCG) 7.15 a.m. Tuen. Fri., 4.55 pm. Wed. Sat.

All the above subject to Alteration without notice. For passage and Freight Particolars please apply to

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BEND LINE

"BENMACDHUI”

"BENVORLICH" "BENWYVLS” "BENLAWERS” “BENAVON" "BENREQCH". "BENVORLICH"

"BENMAUDHUI"

"BENVORLICH"

"BENLAWERS"

.**BENWYVIS”

"BENAVON"

-DENVORLICE"

*DENREOCH"

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FAR FAST

ARRIVALS

FROM

Japan

U.K. via Bingapore

DUE

11th Nov.

12th Nov.

U.K. via Singapore on or aut, 23rd Nov.

Japan

U.K.

UK Japan

SAILINGS

Direct to Singapore, thence London, Antwerp, Rotterdam and Hamburg. Kurt, Kobe Yokohama,

and

Direct to Bingapore, theBoo

Liverpool. Rotterdam and Hamburg.

· Direct to Singapore, thenco Gener Havre, London and Hall

·Dirvet to Singapore, thence London. Antwerp, Rotterdam and Hull. "Direct to Singapore, thenico - Liverpool, Glasgow, Rolferðam

and Hamburg.

Kure, Koba

Yokohama.

and

24th Nov,

6th Dec, 14th Dec. 15th Dec.

Fording on or abt.

Calla Port Sudangan

12th Nov.

10th Nov.

24th Nov.

25th Nov.

9th Deo.

18th. Deo,

20th Des.

All Vessela nocópi Cargo' for Aden, Bues and Port Bald..

W. R. LOXLEY & CO., (CHINA) LTD. Telephone: 84185,

York Building.

Agents

a Zin.section open on 1side for tuming. 3. TURN RIGHT SIDE OUT..SEW UP OPEN PART AND FOLD LIKE THIS...AN

SODE OUT

4. Blind stitch 3 in.

from corners... TURN PRINTED SIDE OUT.

X

5.Sew on. CURTAIN RINGS like this

6. Cut 2 CORDS about 14 in.long.

RUN THEM THROUGH CURTAIN RIVES IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS.

Make A Card Calling Trip

By Ida M. Parduc

TAKE this game to take with MAKE

your the next time you go

on a car trip.

All you

will need is an empty paper bag, ten small cards, and a pencil or crayon.

the

To make the cards, just rule back of a tablet off into one inch squares. Cut off ten of the squares, write the name of a different make of car on Put the sqURDOS each square.

in the sack..

tuma

To play, players Lake "calling one of the ten car names. Then the player reaches into

the sack and takes out a card. If he has called the car name correctly, he may keep the card and call again. It not, the card is put back into the sack and it is the next player's turn. The game con-

nues until alt the cards have

been wan: The player with the most cards is the champion

Caller

the train's real speed.

The passengers held on to their hats, the women shrieked-and the train, with its 00- ton load (it was pull- ing coal wagons, too) rumbled ahead at 15 miles an hour,

there...

When the train, arrived Darlington at noon,"

nt

STAMP CLUB: SOMETHING

"Locomo IN THE AIR

tlon" wheezed and clanked to a

the Jerky aloy,

passengers

MONG the most interesting

They

bumped and sprawled in heaps A stamps you can collect are

but nobody minded.

reckoned it thos Not everybody

used for airmail,” was a success. Ono man said: are usually easy to identify-by This journey shows that a plane and words like Aero, people will always want to go Avion, and Luftpost.

Many

countries issue special by horse and carriage."

airmail stampe. For the first eight years he WAS

Let us look at the threepenny might have imagined he

coloured here, right because after that nd- oho shown venturous September morning chocolate and put out by New It ran for passengers were | Zealand in 1931. no more carried on the Stockton to Dar about four years, was replaced Rington

unill 1833. railway

and today its catalogue price. Bul, today, tion" stands idle as a muscum on Darlington station. picce nearly 20,000 other locomotives are on the move.

while "Locomo-

YOU WOULD HAVE FRILLS DRESSED N

FOR A BOY: 'tassels and frills. FOR A GIRL: pantaletics.

In 103.

unused (or mint, to quote the technical term) and Us. used.

The perforations-thoco little holes

punched along the edges are 14 to 14. This means .that 14 of those on top and bottom or 14% of those on each side. would fit into a space of two centimetres.

Some of

the

threepenny

stamps in this series had a perforation of 14 by 18.

They

not run for long and, are

uncommon.

Their catalogue

price is 953, mint, So you see how Empire stamps increase in and value as the years pass, how a detail of perforation can put their price higher still.- J. A. A.

TING-A-LING TELLS A STORY

- It's About the Pig With a Curly Tail --

By MAX TRELL

FNARF and

Flanid, the shadow-children, with the

turned about names (your shadow has your name turned. about, too!), had made them-

as small

and selves

as pens down inside the blue slipped China Plate which always stood on the long table in the dining roon. They went down to visit their good friend Ting-a-Ling, who lived inside the plate. They wanted him to tell them a story. They found Ting-a-Ling sit- ting under the shade of his favourite cherry tree.

Sat Down Bàside Him

"A story? Well...let me see. Oh, yes! Do you know the story of the Pig with the Curly Tali?" fie, asked them after they had ant-down beside him--

8-24

The tile pig was sad because his tall wasn't straight.

little piggy was about to give up hope of ever having

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31 October

13th November

17th November

28th November

18th December

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21st November

2nd December

2nd December

31st December

19th December 19th Jan. 1993

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FREIGHT SERVICE

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"SANTHA"

duo 18th Nov.

the 29th Nov.

"SANGOLA"

due 18th Nov,

"WARLA"

salla 29th Nov..

due 5th Dec. sails 10th Deo.

from Japan

for, Singapore, Penang, Hangoon & Celcutta from Calcutta, Rangoon, Penang & Bingapore for Japan

from Japan for Singapore &

Chittagong

P. & Q./B. 1. JOINT SERVICE

"PALAMCOTTA"

due 8th Nov,

"ORDIA"

anila sih Nov. dun 13th Nov. enile 14th Nov.

貘

"OLINDA"

due 21st Nov,

aalis 23rd Nov,

straight tall, all the other little from

piggies received a visit Owl late one night.

Best Kind of Tails "'Piggles,' said Owl, 'straight tails are only good on rabbits. You should all have curly tails. These are the best kind of talls to have. None of you wants to a-rabbit, do be mistaken for you?' 'No' cried all the little piggies,

thei

"And straightaway they set about putting curls in tails," Ting-a-Ling sold.

"And did they all stop making shadow- fun of Curly?" the children asked,

"Of course! They envied him.

their They all wished

talls were as curly as his. He was very proud to be called Curly "The little piggy took Owl's from then on. And when any- advice. He tied his tail 10 one called him Wiggly-Tall he straight twig-then-dipped-it In-was the proudest of all. water. But when he took the

"He was

very thankful to Hanid shook her head. So di stick off

again, dear me, the Owl, too. But Owl sald: H'mm, Knart.

tall was as curly as over-and don't mention it. Only don't

"ever lose your tail. I couldn't "Then I'll tell it to you. It's so was the twig!

"But the story has a quite a sad story-and for the

happy ever make a new one grow or Ting-a-Ling added make the rest of the pigs want

when quickly. "For Just

our to lose their tails, too!"

little pig with the curly tall. ending."

This is what happened.

"It was quite long ago," Ting- a-Ling said as the two shadows moved a litle closer to him, "long before you and me, and long before our grandmothers and grandfathers.

It seemet that in those days Huile piggies were born with straight table

straight as the

tail of a rabbit. Now all the little piggies had these very straight toils ex- cept one little piggy who hat the very great misfortune to inve the curliest kind of toil imaginable.

F1:

no

Called Him "Curly".

"Oli, how his brothers and sisters and cousins made fun, of him! They called him 'Curly' and 'Wiggly-Tail and laughed at him from morning till night."

"And was he sad?"

Hanid asked.

"Indeed he was! He was as sad us a little piggy could be.

"So," Ting-a-Ling went (K), "he went to Owl and said: Owl, how can I get my tail to hang straight down?". And Owl, who was very wise and knew

ZOO'S WHO

something about everything. THE AFRICAN WART:HOG answered: "Tie it to a straight 15 MOTHER-NATURE'S .. twig, then dip it in the waler HOMELIEST CREATION... and by-and-by, you'll have ITS ENORMOUS TUSKS GROW tall just like your brothers and TO A LENGTH OF TWO FEET. sisters and cousins."

tand the b

Rupert and the Windwhistle-11

Rupert crouches nest "thatree, wind crashes ;@gainit › the bank. and waits, for the others to zjaîn For instant. Rupert' thinks he him, but Bill Badger, and Willie, 'can' see two fornia swept away in stem lo, be so terrified that they the cloud above" him, but next cannot move. The sky główa tabidly,, minute it is "dil 'ovec, and he is darker, the "distant noue swells to meatly blinded, and buried by the 4 gevat roar and the sir fills white, mas of snow, that” followe the lumps of snow and ice as a giant wind, i

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EQUIPMENT...

HUMMINGBINOS

CAN FEED THEIR YOUNG WHILE ON THE WING...

Don't forget

your

Rupert

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& Adelaide

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