1953-01-10 — Page 14

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1953.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE the BOYS and GIRLS PAGE

CHINA MAVIGATION CO., LTD.

"SHENGKING" "FENGNING"

"FENGTIEN”

"POYANG"

"BOKOK"

"SZECHUEN" “ANKING**

"YUNNAN" "BIJENGKING" "TIANYANG

"HUNAN".

"FUNING"

"PAKDOI"

*FENGNING"

"POYANG"

"YUNNAN"

"ANKING"

"SZECHUEN”

"HHENGKING“

"HUNAN"

."FUNING"

SAILINGS TO

.Jeeling

Semarang,

Dubaya & Macassar

Kure, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka & Kobo Yokohama, Nagoya & Kobo

Saigon (accept cargo Jor Pnom Penh with transhipment)

Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka & Kubo Singapore, Penang & Belawan Shanghal

Bangkok

Tiens

Djakarta, Semarang. Sourabaya & Macassar Singapore, Penang & Belawan

• Balls from ARRIVALS FROM

Yokoltama

Singapore

Shanghai

Singapore

Bangkok

Kocun

Tienisin

Kobe

3 pan. 10th Jon."

3 p.m. 12th Jan.

3 p.m. 12th Jon.

10 am. 14th Jon.

8 a.m. 15th Jan.

10 nm. 10th Jan,

10 an. 17th Jan.

10a.m. 17th Jan.

3 p.m. 19th Jan,⚫

10 b.m. 24th Jan.

10 a.m. 24th Jan,

8 a.m. 26th Jan,

10 a.m. 30th Jan, Custodian Wharf

7.n. 11th Jan,

12th Jan.

13th Jan,

14th Jan, 14th Jan.

7 h.. 15th Jan, 21st Jan. 24th Jnia,

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

"CHANGTE"

"TAIYUAN"

*CHANGSHIA"

BAILINGS TO

Sydney & Melbourne

Sydney & Melbourne

Japan

16th Jan, 23rd Jan,

30th Jan,

ARRIVALS FROM

"CHANGTE" "TAIYUAN"

Kure,

14th Jan.

Yokohama

21st Jan.

"CHANGSHA"

Australia &

Manila

26th Jan,

"AGAPENOR"

"ASCANIUS"

"PYRRHÚS"

BLUE FUNNEL LINI

Scheduled Sailings to Europe via Aden & Port Bald.

"AUTOMEDON"

"ATREUS"

London, Rotterdam &

wwws Liverpool

BL Glasgow

..Dublin & Liverpool

"PELEUS"

& Dublin

25th Jan,

25th Jan,

6th Feb,

23rd Feb.

London, Rotterdam &

Hamburg

25th Feb,

..Margellice,

Liverpool

& Glasgow

Scheduled Ballings from Europe

S. "AGAPENOR"

G. "PYRRHUS"

8. "CALCILAS"

G. "AUTOMEDON"

8. "ATHEUS“

G. "PELEUS"

S. "MENTOR"

G. "ALCINOUS"

Sally Liverpool

Salted

Batta Rotterdaza

Salle

10th Jan. ... 25th Jan,

12th Jan..

G. Loading Glasgow, before Liverpool.

6th Mor.

Arrives Horr Kont 11th Jan. 17th Jan. 23rd Jan, -30th Jan. 9th Feb. 13th Feb.

9. Loading Swanses, before Liverpool. Carriers' option to proceed via oiber ports to load & discharge cargo.

22nd Feb.

4th Mar,

DE LA RAMA LINES

ARRIVING FROM US. ATLANTIC & PACIFIC COAST FORTS.

18th Jan. "AJAX"

31st Jan. "ANDAMAN”

SAILING for KINGSTON, NEW YORK; vin SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES & CRISTOBAL "MENESTHEUS"

"DONA NATI”

20th

4th Feb.

Lathay Pacific Airways Ltd

Koats

Dehrt Heathr

Arrives KK. (on return) 6.43 am. Tues. Ini, U.B.A. to Rangoon)

4.45 pm. Tube,

KK/Bangkok/Singapore (DC-4) 1.30 am. Man, Thiers.

(Connect at Bangkok with

4.15 pm. Thurs.. 8.45 p.m. Wed. 4.45 p.m. Wed. Bal. All the above subject to Alteration without nation. For passage and Freight Particulars please apply to

SIX/Hanol HK/Hatphong

(DC-3) 8.45 aim. Thurs. 11/Saigon/Singapore (DC-4) 10,453 a.m. Tues. EK/Manus/BN. Borneo (DC-3) 735 am. Tues. Frt.

1 CONNAUGHT RD C. Tel 30331 8 BRANCH UFFICE 50 Connaught Rd. West, 25875, 32144 24878.

BEN LINE

ARRIVALS

FROM

U.K. Japan

"KING MALCOLM” „UE, vis Singapore

DUE

In Port

11th Jan,

12th Jan,

.UK. via Singapore on or abt, 17th Jan,

"BENALBANACH"

"DENVENUE"

"DENATTOW"

"BENREOCH"

Jaban

"BENMHIOR"

"BENCRUACHAN"

*BENALDER"

Japan ...U.K. via Blogapore SAILING 8

**BENALBANACI”

"BENVENUE".

"DENREOCH","

:

"BENATTOW"

"BENMOR"

“BENCRUACHAN"

"DENALDER”.

Avonmouth, Liverpool, Glasgow, and Antwerp. Direct to Singapore, thence Liverpool. Äntwerp, Rotieratm and Hamburg. Direçt to Blogapore, shence Ge 20 London, Hull and Hamburg. Kure, Koba and Yokohama.

Bandakan Bingapore. Havre, London, Rotterdam and Xuil.

¿Direct to Singapore, Thence Liverpool,

Dublin. Hamburg

Land Antwerp.

Kuro, Kobe, and *****Yokoham

મ

19th Jan,

2nd Feb.

10th Feb. 14th Feb.

Loading on or abt.

• Calla Manila & Bandakan.

K/Wharf

12th Jan.

20th Jan,

21st Jan

5th Feb.

11th Feb.

19th Wob.

All vessels accept Gargo for Aden, Suem and Fort Bald.

W. R. LOXLEY & CO., (CHINA) LTD.

Telephono: 84105..

York Building.

Agonts

ZOO'S WHO

"THE SMALLEST LAND MAMMAL IN THE US. IS THE COMMON SHREW YET, IN. SPITE OF ITS SMALLSIZE,ITHAS ATREMENDOUS AP-1 PETITE AND EATS ITS OWN WEIGHT IN FOOD EVERY

24 HOURS

BRING ME NIC WOOL JACKET

FOUR OF THE 2000 SPECIES OF MOTHS FOUND IN THE US. ARE GUILTY OF EATING WOOL OR CLOTH...THE REST LIVE ON PLANT AND TREE LEAVES...

RADAR IS NOW USED TO HUNT WHALES...

A Fine Way to Clean House

MR

-It's Easy If You Know the Right Magic Words!--

By MAX TRELL

MERLIN the magielen

lived behind the bookcase in the

playroom,

There was a little door, not much bigger than a mouse-hole, in the wall behind

the bookcase, but

have mighty

able to see it.

you had to

good eyes to be

Knart and Hanid, the shadow- children with the turned-about names, knew exactly where to find Mr Merlin's

magic door. They also knew where to find the little telephone that hung Just beside the frame of the door. When you wanted to visit Mr Merlin, you picked up this phone, pressed a little button and waited tintil you heard Mr

Merlin's volco saying: "Come Mir, Merlin wore an apron and

in" Then the door opened, all by itself, and you went in.

Lika To Visit

4

dust-cap and held a broom.

you if you're not too busy. Are you?"

"Come in, Hanld! Come I, "I'm never too, busy to see my Knart!" Mr Merlin called up on friends!" Then the door swung the door-telephone one morning open. as the two shadow children stood before the door. Hanid called down to Mr Merlin on the in. telephone" "We'd like to visit

Cattle Brands Tell A Story

By JULIA WOLFE

on horses and BRANDS put on for

romance

identification purposes, but there is still considerable cattle about brands in the Southwest territory of the USA. One authority tells us there are· more than 8,000 registered brands in Texas alone, and by these brands one may find a clue to the character of the

two owner. No brands are alike, and usual- ly each represents a ranch.

When Cortez conquered

Mexico in the early part of the 10th century, he established a the Island or ranchi upon.

The Isthmus of Tehuantepec. catlie bare his brand. Although that was 450 years ago, the cattle upon the ranch today bear the original Cortez brand.

THE origin of the cattle brand dates back to the dim dawn

HO

HUM

BUCKS FROM, THE "LAZY S

WALKING

ROCKING CHAIR

DOLLBABY

RUNNING W

CATTLE BRANDS

HAVE BEEN used. FOR MANY YEARS

IN THIS COUNTRY

TO ESTABLISH

OWNERSHIPS.-

SOME OF

THEGE BRANDS ARE WORKS

OF ART-

Knarf and Hanid walked right And the curious (and was this that magical thing though the door was no bigger than a mouse-hole, It widened and heightened itself to exactly the right size as they walked in, Jast as if it were made of smoke, which perhaps it was.

Once inside, Knarf and Hanld found themsolves in a wide hall- way. They walked quickly to the end of it, and there was an The door to the elevator. elevator slid open as they came to it. They went inside tho elevator, pressed a button which

up

read: Then

ALL THE WAY DOWN. down went the elevator, falling vory gently, like feather, until finally it reached the bottom and Knorf and Hanid stopped out.

To their surprise, they found Mr Merlin wearing an afron over his regular clothes. He bad a dust-com cleaning house, my on and was holding a broom.

he said smiling. dears,'

Ho waved his hand around the room. "Everything topsy-turvy. But come in and watch. You'll sea how a magician cleans his house."

All Out of Place

Everything was topsy-turvy, The chairs and tables were all pushed together in one corner of the room. The curtains were pulled aside. The pictures were hanging this way And that, Nothing whatever

was in its

some against any fraud of any kind | proper place, said Knart, "hati

of history.. In the days of free grass and operi range the brand

an absolute necessity in The cattle brands of Was

intangible are token. might ranches the owners order that Identity

value. These the asset of great cattle in their

brands have come to stand for unaual round-ups,

аге оп

B

mean,

You cleans his house dif-i

In the record of brands every ferently from other people?"

"Certainly," said Mr Merlin.

With the coming uf wire honesty in breeding, honesty in letter of the alphabet is re fences

this necessity was largely weight and honesty in dealing, presented, and most letters are "Since when are magicians like vinted, but the brand served just as the heraldry of knight- found in three or more positions. other people? They do every

Among the peculiar brands is thing differently. Now take this stilt to convict wild men who hood stood for honour, bravery

The an- pigpen, which means a square rug on my floor. Ordinary drove off other people's herds, and noble deeds. This purpose is still served, and nouncement that cattle of a with its sides extending to form people would have to roll it up, are offered for the exterior angles. Crescents take it out of the house, put it the fact accounts largely for the certain brand retention of the brands by all of sale is often-so-much-of-a-are common. Only one ranch on a line and beat it. Or else. that no precautions man has a hatchet for his brand. they'd have to vacuum-clean it guaranty the ranchmen.

A bow and arrow glves a name or sweep it with a broom." to one big ranch. One ranch "And what do you have to has a coffee pot on the side. The {do?" coffee design is not so intricate

Stamp Of The Week

[OST of us think of

MOST

memorials to famous

men in terms of a statue from atono OT hown carved in bronze. A life- size Agure, or

maybe one.

Iwo

or three times as

large.

But that was /nearly big enough to please

not

sculptor born a with the unusual name of Gutzon Borglum In America's Wesl- ern state of Idaho in the roaring 80%

of last century.

While his friends played cowboys,

young Borghum studied books on art and finally came to study in London, where he lved in St John's Wood.

He loved blg things and one of his favourite exhibits

head of Abraham WEB a

which he carved from a stone block weighing six tons.

Lincoln

But oven that was not big

for enough

him-so

tackled

he

a mountain.' And there on Mount Rushmore, in

the Black Hills of South Dakota, he carved a giant memorial to four great Americo-n Presidents-

Jefferson, Washington, Lincoln and Theodore Rooseveli, He called it a

Shrine of mocracy and Con- gress granted him £150,000 to speed the job.

DC-

The figures aro all scaled to

'man 405 ft. ton. The faces pre

60. from top

of head to chin and the eyes men¬ sure nine feet You have across. to stand at least a quarter mile away to take in this awesome masterpiece.

200

Trained sculptors do not abound in the Black Hills, s0 Borglum

his and recruited miners to help. The

ork took 14 years. work

You see the result on this handsome American stamp, newly issued. It shows the men in ine four great

perspective.

Perforation 11 by 10%; face value 3 cents; price in London &d.

Rupert and the Diamond Leaf-22

Up in the ky Rupert and Lily you hold my ceps and I try to Ats, wondering how they can get by down." She works as hard se „bach zo moeth. **I can't move in the ca in po purpo They only see higher and drift over any direction," myp dhe, little : Farwood. Where kits, Bear spots, bear, i can't even turn over." them. There are sogne, quber she" krys "But I can.", save Lily, "My. things gp there, wing are not very girong, but 31. They lock jike Rupen and Lily:" cap eu llong Howly Support But surely they ten't bel

lines.

Glasses

"Just this" said Mr Merlin.

as one might imagine; it consists with that he took off his apron of only eight

the broom. He drinking glasses, we mean-are and tied it on

put the dust-cap on of the

top not uncommon, and another u

broom. Then he muttered some ranch uses the gourd. A rock-words and instantly the broom ing chair is the brand of another turned into a lady large ranch.

Years ago one ranchman used the graceful fleur-de-lis. Anchors are common, . Only one is listed as using the swastika.

A

ady with straw. feet who went

ent dancing round and round the rug, faster and faster, sweeping up a great cloud of dust and pushing it all into a dustpan. Then Mr Merlin whistled. The next second the lady became a broom again and stood quietly in a comer.

HASH knife, a hat, the Ma-

Muttered Moro Words sonic square, a key, a turkey track, a boil, walking sticks, a

"What about the chairs and treg, a boot, a slipper, a spade, tables and pletures and cur-

Bish

hook, rako, а

lains?" said Hanid. "How do bridle blt, trying pan, you clean them?"

bo pitchfork, even a comet may seen in the long list of brands.

д

The

监

Mr Merlin muttered other words, and the chairs and sign of a scruple indicates tables began kicking their legs that the ranch owner was a and jumping up and down until druggist before be

becoming athey shook out

all their dust. cattleman. Hearts, diamonds and Then the pictures swung around ere found among- the on their hooks and the curtains record of brands, but the spades shook and shivered.

clubs

ouh

Then the

are those of agriculture design.windows flew open and the dust

The tendency these days is W OIL toward smaller brands. Brand- happened was that all the chairs

The last thing tha ing causes cattle and horses to lose in weight, and the larger and tables ran back to their places on their legs, while the the brand the greater the suffer-

80

Mr

ing of the beats and the greater pictures and the curtains all set the loss of weight, therefore the same possible was

themselves to

In the old-time custom of great brands,

And covering the whole

Merlin the side of Magician cleaned his house from creature has passed away. Then again, hides are more valuable cellar to attic, with the dishes today and the big brands injure and glasses washing themselves, the leather.

silver polishing itself, the clothes washing and ironing themselves, the doors scrubbing themselves....and Knart and Haald and Mr Merlin all stand- ing and watching and enjoying themselves.

Don't forget

your

Rupert

Annual

the

"Nothing liko being a magician when you want your house _cleaned," said Mr_Merlin.· ́ “I'm

fun!"

Same Thing!

While Joe and his Dail were out driving they saw many hords of cattle. His. Dad. ex- plained that the block and, white, cattle

stoing.

are called Hol-

Next day 4-year-old Joo re- market, “Thioso, propio în - the house next door have a Hol | ilein-dog""

P&O B.I. E&A

COMPANIES

8th February

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL S.N. CO.

PASSENGER/Freight serviCE

Outwards "CARTHAGE” "CORFU" "CHUSAN”

"CANTON"

Leaves London Duo Hongkong'

11th December

6th January

Jatkı January

17th February

Sth February D: March

Via Southampton, Port Baid, Aden, Bombay, Colombo,

Penang à Singapore

10th January

Homewarda

"CARTHAGE"

"CORFU"

"CHIUSAN"

"CANTON"

20th January

- Leaves Hoajkong

Due London....

10th February

14th March

Roth March

13th Apri

11th February

11th February.

13th March

Accepting carge for singapore, Penang, Colombo, Bombay,

Aden, Port Bald & London

FREIGHT SERVICE

Outwards "SHILLONG"

From U.K.

11th January

14th February

Balla

"SURAT"

Homewarde "SHILLONG"

3rd February

For

Japan

Japan

For Singapore, Port

Sweltenham, Penang, Colombo Aden. Port Said, Genoa, Marbella London, Antwerp, Halterdam & Hamburg

With liberty to call at Bombay it inducement offers Tanks, available for carriage of Off in Bulk. Space for refrigerated cargo. Limited Passenger accommodation..

BRITISH INDIA S.N. CO., LTD.

̈"SANTHIA"

"SIRDHANA".

due 15th Jan.

Balls 16th Jan.

duo 18th Jan, walls 20th Jan.

+

from Calcutta,

Rangoon & Siraits

for Japan

from Japan

for Stralis

Han

goon & Calcutta

P. & 0./B. 1, JOINT SERVICE

"ORMARA"

"OKHLA"

due 19th Jan.

salle 20th Jan. due 23rd Jan. tails 24th Jan.

"OBRA”

due 20th Jan.

Balls 25th Jan.

from P. Gutt Karachi, Bombay Colombo, & B'pori for Japan from Japan

for Singapore Colombo, Bombay, Karachi,

Chorramshahr Basrah & P. dull Port via Bombay. from P: Gulf Karachi, Bombay. Colombo & S'pore for Japan

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN S.S. CO., LTD.

"EASTERN"

"EASTERN"

saila 240 Jon.

from Sydney & Melbourne

for Brisbane, Syd- ney, Melbourne & Adelaide

All vèmols have liberty to call at any ports on or of the route & the route &: sailing are subject to`change or amendment with or without notice.

For full particulars apply ta MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO. OF HONG KONG LTD: Telephone Nos: 27721-4.

FLY TO FASCINATING ...

New Zealand

-via AUSTRALIA

It jy so easy to reach New Zealand in only three days, if you wish-by QANTAS Skymaster Services to Sydney and TEAL Bervices from Austrália to Auckland, Wellington or Christchurch.

See this wonderful boll- day land, New Zealand is

..

"a world in miniature," with

Its amazing variety of attrac

tions-Maari life, thermal reglans, snow-capped mountains, glaciers and fjords, deep sea ⠀⠀'fishing and beautiful lakes.

There is so much to see and so much more time to see it when you go by QANTAS,

Pacific Islands too

QANTAS SERVICES provide quick" connections with New Guinea, New Britain, Solomons, New Caledonia, New Habridas, Fill and Norfolk Island.

Plan now for a South Sea holiday

QANTAS

QANTAS EMPIRE AJAWAYS: LTD. In gripciation with 8.0.A.C. & TEAL

Agenti i Jardine Natheson & Co. Ltd.

Манк