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BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
PUZZLES
ABOUT GIRLS
Mineral Kingdom Boasts
Of Music
T
By IDA SMITH
HE minoral kingdom contains both, beauty and mystery. It la the home of the mysterious atom, and the nature-world where man discovered the sclence of crystallography. It is a world of beautiful and nimost unbelievable colours,
But do you know that it
contains 1180
delightful music?
One day a prospector, who had been searching for uranium
one, sat down on some dark- coloured boulders to rest, and discovered the musical
rocks.
It was in the hills of northern Arizona. The prospector's name was Guy Hazen,
Mr Hazen dotsn't just pro- Ho minerals ulant, pect for studica nature wherever
he goos and makes note of all that he secs. He studies plant life, and birds and animals that are active in the daytime. At night, when he makes his camp, he knows which wild flowers will close up at sundown, and what strange creatures prowl around and eat and play in the 1ght after the others have sli gone to bod,
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star-
If there is anything out
the
Long Silent
STONE CHIMES—Margaret McKay of Phoenix, Arizona, who has a rock collection of her own, examines the musical rocks. The slabs sound like cattle bells when they strike together in the wind.
of
Ho truck. carry in his could took them home to his shop in Kingman and sawed them Into slabs and made the slabs inlo chimes
the ordinary, Mr Hazen is sure tu discover it. So imagine his accidentally curiosity when he
Цроп boulders
h19 he was sitting with miner's pick, and they gave out musical tones. He tapped them again and again, and discovered that he could get drop tones from the large boulders
and higher tones from the smaller ones.
Before he left he pried out 145
boulders as many of the
he
two scales of tones, and they could play tunes upon them.
Nour the
Mr place where Hazen found the muslesi rock» he also discovered a new rare earth mineral. ainbe Some Dí the largest
bells, sounded liko locomotive the kind the old steam engines used to ring. Others sounded like beautiful church bells.
A great deal of Hazen's work has been in the field of palcon- tology. That is the science of fossile (petrified bones. Iti Wicklup, one fossil bed near Two other rock collectors, a man and his wife, once found Arizona, he found the
would ring
Hittle when remains rocks that struck
horses (the Eohippusi a They with a hammer. worked with them until they of small horse of the had stabs that ranged through Perlod), and
Magicians Can Be Good or Bad
-It Depends on the Kind of Tricks They Do-
By MAX TRELL
Mr Merlin the Magician was saying, "not
"Of course,"
all magicians are good magiclans, Some of thom are quite naughty."
Knarf and Hunid the shadow- children with the turned-about
nomes, were surprised to hear Mr Merlin say this about other magicians. Besides, they didn't quite know what he meant.
naughty," "I said
repeated Mr Merlin, "and naughty 18 what I meant.”
"You
Naughty Tricks
mean," Noid Hanid. magicians
"that those naughty do naughty things?"
Mr Merlin nodded, "What naughty things?" ask- ed Knart.
12-28 "Not all magicians are good,” Mr. Merlin told the Shadows.
don't know why but I can't stem to remember his
favourlie elther-whose
suld Mr Merlin, "there's a magician friend of mine- forget his name at the moment-whose favourite trick up shoe laces,"
is not to pul rubits mit of
is to entangle string and
"Oh, what a naughty At that is sold Hantd.
hat or change elephants Into canaries (which are perfectly respectable tricks, if you
сап
name trick knot
trick
t wish I knew It," said
do them) but whose favourite Knurf, "I'd love to be able to trick is to turn milk sour. Now that's a naughty trick."
"14 certainly 58," Hanid. **I'm sure I like that trick at all."
egreed
knot tip other people's shoe lacey."
prehistoric
of
Girl Square
Eight girls have been hidden in this square. You'll find them ail in rotation when you find the right starting point and then read onch letter oilher up, down, backward or forward but not diagonally:
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Hidden Girls
A girl is hidden in each of Con the following sentences. you find them?
The book was banned in Bos- ton.
Ho carried the heavy pail for her.
They found the woodan idol in the ruined temple.
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genus Eocene
renaine of the camels.
These
animals lived in Arizona about
$4 million years ago.
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occasiona Mr
On numerous Hazen has guided groups
of scientists and students on field trips in carch of other pre- historic fossils, This is interest-
because he did not study paleontology or nineralogy
in college. He has nequired most of his knowledge of toose selences first hand from actual experience.
The government has employ- ed Mr Hazen a number of times
to guldo such expeditions, be
is in the rocks and cause fossils that the history of the earth's ages is written.
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It is curious to think that the beautiful tones of the musicut rocks had lain silent in mo earth for millions of years,
before there
were any humans. Then by accident they and their discovered music released so that people could hear and enjoy it.
were
These musical rocks have not been completely analysed as yet but they are a vtry dense and crystalline type of rock and contain a number of different kinds of minerais,
RIDDLES
1. When is a
piece of wood?
queen like
2. What are one's last teeth
8. What soup?
"And then," said Mr Merlin, without paying any attention to this,
"there's tho magician whose favourite trick is to pull
called? wouldn't
pins are
We
4. What pain do didn't
buttons off coats. And there's light 017 the other magician
But Knarf smiled. He think it was a bad trick at all. "I wish I knew how to do that trick," he said.
Magical Sour Milk
A
Crossword
ST
ACROSS
1 Contrary misa
5 English princess.
10 Encounter.
D Great Lake,
12
Short
Jacket.
11 Scatter.
13 Church festival.
10 North America (ab.). | 27
17 Chele part
10 Electrical term,
20
20 Jeers.
24 Petty quarrel.
26 Old card game.
27 Fork prong.
28 Greek mountain.
20 Wife of Geraint.
30 Equal.
DOWN
1 Apportion. 2 Range.
Disencumbers.
4 Biblical pronoun,
Mulet. Seine
7 Gaseous element. 8 Heating device. 14 Sipped.
18 Sen ongle. 18 Italian city.
10 Whirl.
21 Otherwise.
22 She's named for a flower.
|23 Fly aloft.
26 Blackbird of cockoo family.
28 Opera (ab.).
Girl Mix-Up
When you rearrange the le- used in ters in each of these įmes, you'li
find the name of a girl: make
weliost 5. How do you spell a good favourite trick is to make coins needle? and other things roll-under beds 6. If I were born in the fifth where it's hard to And then month of the year why would again. And then there's all be like President Eisenhower's "What!" exclaimed Mr Mer- another magician whose
wife? lin, "You want to be able to favourite trick is to make water turn milk
sour? It's good run down people's arms when thing you're not n magician they wash their hands," You'd be one of those naughty ories."
A Pencil Trick
"Maybe I
would," mid
"I think a naughty trick," Knarf. "But what other trieka sald Knart, "would be for a do some of those naughty magician to break points off magiciana do?"
penells,"
"Well," anid Mr Merlin' "I know a magician who "there's allother magician does that" said Mr Morlin friend of mine--I don't remem- promptly.
extremely
"He's
ber his name either whose naughty. And that same magi- favourite trick is to make the clan makes it rain on days lee cream in ice cream conco when you plan to go on a pic- drip over the side. Ho takes hic. He also makes loo melt. one look at an ice cream cone, when you want to go lee skot- Enys some magic words and ing. Ho makes you forget your prestofthe ice cream, instead hat in school. He makes
you of winding meatly into the mid- lose your place when you're dle of the over the edge, goes sliding reading a book Yes, they ar
generally into all very naughty tricks and I'm somebody's inp.”
them." glad I don't know.
I'm sorry. you don't" What certainly is a naughty trick" said Hanid.,
Knart
said
da
re to know how to do
"Norusónae," said Mr Morlin that one, too" said Kharf, "Nobody should do naughty "Not a chanen," said Mr things, and especially not magi- Merlin: Even if I knew how to clans. Magielane should do it (but
thank goodness pleasant things, helpful, things don't), I wouldn't teach it to like picking up milk when you. It's much too naughty. apilled, and finding pins wha
what are some other tricka?" they lost, and putting big, sald Knarf, still hoping to and julcy stasia, on empty" dinnor one that he would be able to the wink of an eye. Now, those plates, and washing dishes in
mou ate now," said Mr are good tricks.”. Merlin "Yes, there's a third But Kasrt still proferrod the" | magical friend of minemand-I. naughty puez....
3. Why would Richard make good detective?
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(Answers on Page 29)
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