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September 18th October

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CARTHAGE" zu August

Homewards

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1. Bomber

Due London

27th September

24th October

22nd

November

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Butwards

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Loading 24th and 25th Anguit.

FREIGHT SERVICE

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1954, ?

the BOYS and GIRLS PAGE

As Early As 2,000 Years Ago

The Day

Of

Marble Games Were Popular The Stamp

Among Egyptian Boys

"AYBE Egyptian boys

M 2,000 years ago didn't

yell: "Slips!" "No histing!" and "Knuckle down!" but there is no doubt that Egyptian boys played mar bles. Boys in old Rome played too. Their marbles

were little round balls much like ours except that they were made of marble.

Thin is the way ours got their name-the first ones were of real marble, the beautiful stone we often see in public buildings.

Marbles nowadays aren't made of anything so expen. isive. Most are of clay, stone, or glass. Clay marbles are cheapest. They are balls of clay, coloured and baked, Boys nually cali them "mbs" or "commys."

In Germany people make millions of marbles from stone. They break a hard stone into little square blocks

By EVA BRINKER

ARMOR CHAMP

200

MARBLE PLAYINO 15

NOT NEW-

FOR SOME 2,000 YEARS OR MORE,

BOYS HAVE BEEN KNEELING IN THE DUCT TO ENJOY THIS MOST

PLEASURABLE OF

PASTIMES -

THE PRETTIEST OF MARBLES ARE MADE OF

GLASS-

FIRST, A MORTAR LIKE MIXTURE IS PREPARED AND THEN EMKED IN

2300 DEGREES OF HEAT

THE ROMANS MADE THEIR MARBLES

OF REAL

STONE -

THEY CALLED

17 MAHOR"

with a hammer and put them headlights catch the rays in a mill. The mill has a flat reflected through the mar stone and a block of ouk that bles and the driver is warned fits over it. About 100 or to take care. 150 blocks are placed between the slab of stone and the oak top. The oak in Turned round and round us water flows over the stone.

The Prettiest

In just 15 minutes the stone blocks

are worn

to

How To Play

In hatcheries where baby sh are calsed, gings marbles are often used on the bottom of the pools. Fish seem to prefer this to a a smooth bottom. And the marble-covered bottom provides i # beiter surface for holding the

eggs.

nish

THIS

HIS stamp prompts 4 question. Why, do other countries get RO much

more variety

their stamps than doeg?

into Britain

end

The answer is partly British tradition for uniformity dislike of frequent change,

in Britain,

special

such are few. Tho pos tal authori

ties have turn ad down

STL-

for

gestions alampa to halp chart- the

thes

00

grounds that

If they told

In one caso

other deserving causes will flood them with appeals.

YOUR PUZZLE CORNER

פו

1 Youth

Crossword

Riddles

1. What letter of the alphabet,

If substituted, would make

dog act like a cat?

2. What word will, if you take away the first letter, make you sick?

3. Why should a ship's offlepe chronometer put his

never

under his pillow?

4. What is the Bifference- be- tween a bell and an organt

B. Why is a violin jike a bank of issue?

Triangle

ACROSS

Thin triangle

↑ Closed car

B Meadow

7 Decor

U Blow with open hand

10 Famous English school

12 Babylonian deity

13 Three-toed sloth

14 Exudo

17 Direction

of

19 High card

But look at France. She pro- duces an immenso variety stamps and nobody suffers.

Look at this one. It is issued to celebrate, of all things, The Day of the Stampl

M. Man in the picturo is Lavallette, Director of the Post In the Napoleonic years 1004-18. The face value is 12 francs and there is an extra charge the of 3 francs for an unnamed good

causo.

20 Huge tub

21 Compound ether

29 Unit of weight

DOWN

1 Jump

2 Fuld notice in a newspaper 3 Challenge

4 Body of water

5 Negative word

6 Andean beast of burden

is

discovered; National Champion.

летет The boys from Egypt

how far their games guessed

marbles with

would marble travel!

this In

The stamp is recess-printed; perforated 13 and costs 6d.

A really nice one- London, JAA

in

8 Brown bread with heat

B Observe

A WILD "HORSE”

FOR KNARF

By MAX TRELL

WELL,"

Marble players Use certain round marbles. At one town terms that nobody else uses. To in Germany there are three "knuckle down is to have ono of these mills, and they pro- or more knuckles on the ground

Bald Knari the duce over 60,000 alone mar- when shooting. "Silps" is said hy a player when he accidentally bles in one week.

before ho is

the with shadow-boy ready. To

(pronounce { turned-about name, to his sister. shooting hand from the ground. again, I think I'll go hunting for like "lord") means to raise the Hanld, "now that spring is here to "hunch" is to shove the hand forward in shooting.

The

AS A

prettiest

marbles of all are made of glass. Just housewife mixes up eggs and flour and butter to make a cake, that is the way a glass maker mixes up his recipe for marbles. He weighs Get the right amounts of a special kind of sand and

other severni materials, and puts them in a furnace.

When the mixture in the

lets go of a

4

Most players

that agree shooter should not be over inch in diameter, while a play- Ingt marble is ordinarily Inch through.

Like Golf

wild horse."

"A wild what?" asked Hanld. Knart repeated: "A wild horse."

A Fuller Explanation

I

melts and the holes are made in degrees, it whole thing becomes like The players try to toss or bowl horse molasses. Now the men run marbles into each hole in suc-smaller."

cession. The game of golf which

come

Away want Knurf on the back of a grasshopper-horse.

Then, seeing that Henid looked puzzled, Knart explained. "I don't really menn a wild Though Ringer is the game horse.

don't even mean a most often played by boys now, horse, at all. I mean I'm going marble to make myself as small as $ some boys play other

Опе 13 called "Nine Kames. furnace gets W 2,800 Hales." In this, nine cup-shaped pin, and go riding on something

will be just as good as not that the ground.

except a great deal

whila the grasshopper jumped "Something liko

the air and grasshop- straight up into #

wasn't caught at all. Knart nodded, “A grasshopper

spied another Finally, they ought to be all right. Would you grasshopper sitting on a blade of Hit and Span is a

like to come along and help me grass, as it chewed a plug of to- game in

catch one? Maybe we could hacco. Knarf sald "Sb-sh-h-h" which опе boy tasses his

to Hanid, and crept up behind marbles to a distance and the catch two." other tosses his as close to the Hould said she didn't much the grasshopper with absolutely no also at all. Then with a whether Knarf caught a first boy's as he can. If he hits care

for If he grasshopper marble, he keeps it.

her or not. sudden shout, he sprang on the comes within A handsbreadth (a "Grasshoppers bump around too grasshopper's back.

Then they much," she said. "If I make Away went the grasshopper span), he scores one. start again with the second myself as smail as a pin and with Knarfi player tossing first

want something to ride on, I'll In

pick something tamer than grasshopper."

it into a forming machine is a popular sport in many parts per?" said Hanid.

into of the world, may have where it is moulded little balls. Their colours 1:em Nine Holes depend on the particular recipe the glass maker used for this batch.

Many Uses

Havo

you ever scen a highway sign with raised glass letters? Those letters are formed of marbles set deep into the iron frame. Behind each marble is tiny reflector. A

n

games of marbles In most other games, it is practice that makes perfect. In America every year there is a marblo tournament in which the best car's players in the whole country

Try These Water Games At

"Such as?" asked Knart. "Such as a daddy longlegs."

A Hunt in the Garden

ຕ

Hanid

Hanid watched her brother going

up and down, up and down, over the garden wall, into the next-door-neighbour's gar- den, then over the goldfish pond, then over the picket fence, theri across the road. "Whoopee! So Knart and Hanid went out

heard inta the garden behind the Knarf shouting.

Knart didn't get back until a house and started to hunt for

By that time, a full hour later. two "horses" to ride on grasshopper-horse and daddy the grasshopper was so tired, it longlegs-horse. But before they could hardly pull itself along the began hunting for these animals ground. It was much too weary bit of (or insects, if you like). Kaart to hop. Knarf had put and Hand made themselves as the spider web around His neck small as pins.

as a balter and was leading it. They used a spider web as a He tied it to a daisy stem. SEAWEED TAG: A long strip | Insso.

"I've got it tamed now," he I like water garnes.

HIL So of seaweed for this one.

"Look," shouted Khart, paint told Honid.

Lame the must lasso another

Just to show how swimmering excitedly, "there's a grass- will your friends. Round with it, alther his arm, foot or

Was Kharf hopper hiding behind that grasshopper-horo

The them up for a swimming head. The tagged swimmer be daisy."

held out a bit of grass. party and a picnic lunch comes "It"

Knart ran around one way, grasshopper nibbled it right out afterwards. Everyone is BALLOON BALL: Balloon is Hanid ran around the ather. of Knaif's hand.

"Now, I'll help you and 2 passed among a team of thred. They both throw their lassos at sure to enjoy that.

A

Swimming

TF you can swim, you will

15

BALLOON RACE: Have many balloons ns you have swimmers. Infate each balloon to capacity and toes into the water. Swimmers must push the balloon shead with their

heads and advance to a given line in the water, then return. The first swimmer whoso balloon reaches the finish-goal is the winner,

RHINOCEROS RELAY: Swin- mers float for this one and, since their they have no hom on

they snoute like a rhinoceros, must hold one leg up. Any hand stroke may be used to paddla the swimmer forward. I tho "shout" drops, the rhinoceros La "out" Firat one to the goal is the winner.

FOLLOW THE LEADER: A kindergarten game that makes for ordictreme Thi thể TT. Swimmer, must follow anything the leader, 190gi==wall:"

Tours, in stralloros water, subw kerge, somaceault, awim, "Jump, Дов

Party

The other three-member team the same time. But Knarr's daddy longlegs," Knart said.

try to snatch the balloon sway- lasso

Hanid's, caught -IRMA HEGEL | Hanid's lasso caught Koart's,

Rupert and the Spring Chicken–25

When the big bird hu got lengw fast what i'm supposed to, over ją jatanishawnt- it tells a do with you,” saya" fía guida, penguin to guide Rupert to, that you've asked for the Spring pala Then mover solemnlý Chicks, so you'd better it. forward to pet to the case. Only don't blame me for what while the file bear is led for the ma, Aszpen the penguin tus other direction, up many Ripa tá - 14" thick ball 'rops that, in hoog?

11 insect egg

15 Frozen water

16 Trial

17 Level

18 River in Switzerland

22 Toward

Word Chain

Change an animal SKIN to a PELT. Make only nine moves and change only one letter at a time, but be sure you have a good word with each change.

hangs

ESTEEM. The second word

from

"ripped":

rago": third, fourth, "n sen eagle'; and "ngth. How the

measure of type." quickly can you complete triangle from these clues?

ESTEEM

Add-Anagrammatic

Add a letter to "an Egyptian

kun god" and have

Now

"a0

add another letter scramble for "genuine."

are,"

and

Repeat

procedure and have "to change," again

for "greater in stature,' and once more for " kind of football pass."

Word Square

If you rearrange the letters in each row of this square correctly and then rearrange

the rows, you'll find you can read your answer the same down as ncross:

AEINS

AINPT

EERST

AERRS

AEC PR

(Solutions on Pago 20)

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Sports attractions

and

"Oh, you don't have to," said Hanid.

"I don't?" said Knart in sur- priso. I thought you wanted

Social activity

Hanid's Mount "Look closely," sald Hanld, I've got anof!!.

Harle

Knart looked, closely. Sure slanding right beside was the sweetest and goulidit and best-natured daddy Is the whole garden. longlegs

Its logs were so long and thin and is hood and body were no arnail that Kriart hadn't oven naffced it.

Later that afternoon, «Knarf and Hanid both rode on their "horses" Knart went dying and leaping und bumping, jual though he were riding on 4 Hand went marching slowly and steadily and smoothly, just as though she

Idaßɓía" who loved everybody,

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