1954-10-02 — Page 18

P&O B.I. E&A

COMPANIES

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL S.N. CO

PASSENGER/FREIGHT SERVICE

Outwarda "CANTON" "CHUSAN”

Leaves London

Das Hongkong 15th September 10th October ath October

"CARTHAGE" 13th October

"CORFU"

10th November

8th November

16th November

13th December

Via Bouthampton, Port Bald, Aden, Bambar, Columbo,

Penang & Aingapore

Homewazda

"CANTON"

"CHUSAN”

"CORFU"

"CARTHAGE"

VIA Bingaporo,

Leaves Hongkong Dre London

Juth October

0th November

19th November

6th December

19th November 20th December

17th December 17th Jan, 1033

Penang, Colombo, Bombay,

Port Bald London

Outwarda

Arriving TREVETHOE” in Port

Ador,

Balls For

FREIGHT SERVICE

From UK

Kure. Moji. Otaru, Yokohama & Kube

"SHILLONG"

"SUNDA"

23rd Oct.

U.K.

1.K.

Otary, Yakuhana & Kuba Japan

> 2111 Nov

Nous warde

Loading "BINGAPORE” in Port

"SURAT

141 Det.

Via

Por UK ond Continent

Strait Singapore, Port Swetten- bom, Pinang, Volenbo, Aden, Port Said. Gen247M, Majsetilen, Canalslanca, Havre, Lundin, Aal- vip. Toit lath Hamburg

With Bberty to call si Belawan before or aftor Straits Porta and at Bombay if inducement ogers.

Tanks available for carriage of Oil in Bulk, Space for refrigerated cargo. Limited Passenger

accommodation

****

BRITISH INDIA S.N. CO., LTD.

"WAKORA"

duc In t Kala BUY OCT

"FULTALA"

dier 10 Oct.

malin 10th Ort

"SIRDHANA" due 231d Get.

24th Oct.

fiDi Japan

for Singapore, Rangoon, Chittagon

Calcutta

From Calcutta, Citta- guay, Rangvon

Strate

tor Japan

from Calcutta, Rangcon

& Stralu for Japan

P. & O./B. I. JOINT SERVICE

"OLINDA"

dur 9th Ort walle 30th Det.

Irum Jupan For Sugapore, Columbo. Karaent, Baarak, Abodan, Khorramshahr & Kuwait

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

"EASTERN"

"NELLORE"

дне

Mih Oct.

from Japan

THA Out, TU

Sandakan, Rabaul,

Brisbane, Bydney Melbourne

De

dur 18th Oct.

from Australia Bails 2011, Oct. for Japan

All vessels have liberty to call at any porta on or off the route & the route & sailing are subject to change or amendment with or without notion.

For full particulars apply to:- MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.

OF HONG KONG LTD. Telephone: Nos. 27721-4,

EVERETT

LINES

EVERETT ORIENT LINE

Fast regular freight-refrigerator passenger service to Korea, Japan, Philippines, Indo-China, Slam, Malaya, Rangoon, Calcutta and Chittagong. "BRADEVERETT"

Arrives Salls

Oct. G from Manila. Oct. @

for Singapore, Penang, liangcon, Chittagong Calcutta,

"REBEVERETT"

Arrives Salls

Oct. 10 from Singapore.

Oct, 18 for Kobe & Yokohama. (Accepting cargo for transhipment Kabc/Pusan and Kobe/Okinawa)

EVERETT STAR LINE Fast regular freight-refrigerator- passenger service to Korea, Japan, Philippines, Indo-China, Slam, Malaya, Colombo, Bombay, Karachi and Persian Gulf.

"STAR ALCYONE“

Arrives Oct 6 from Japan. Snils

Oct. for Singapore, Port Swetten- ham, Colombo, Karachi, Basrah, Khorramshahr, Kuwalt & Babrein.

"STAR BETELGEUSE"

Arrives

Salls

Arrives Salia

Oct. 4 from Singapore. Oct, 'for Pusas,

Yokohama.

oét. 12 from Japan.

Kobo

Oct. 18 for Singapore, Port Swatten-

Ham,

Madras, Colombo, Bombay, Karachi, Basrah, Khorramshahr, Kuwait Bahrein.

(Accepting cargo for transhipment Kobe/Pusan and Kobe/Okinawa);

VERETT STEAMSHIP, CORPORATION: 5/A

(tueprporated in the Repable of Panama

Chinese

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATUR DAY OCTOBER 1854.

the BOYS and GIRLS PAGE

Interesting Experiments A WORD

With Sand

By IRMA HEGEL

LAST Und

of boys and girls buried and

a bottle in the sand rocks of a lonely strip of bench to mark a picnle site, Roturning to the same place this season they were surprised to find the bottle exactly where they hud buried it. Only the bottle was different. It was 21

beautiful frosty white, the work of the wind and the

Band.

"ONE YEAR DID THIG" THINK WHAT A MILLION

WOULD DO!

And they have, in addition Dakota they are A to their colour, pearly lustre.

Sand is a

milky white. America, particularly South nnd Colorado,

B certain tourists look for the rocka

that Sand is a painter. That

resemble figures, is why hobbyists often bury

towers, castles and faces. sculptor too.

The wind and sand that glass pieces in their yards, The continued blowing of leave them in the soil for sand against rocks wears carves these nature freaks Beveral months and, when portions of them away.

also helps make the interest- the glass pieces are dug out, some western states

in ing bits of driftwood.

MAKING UNIQUE

WOODEN VASES

WOODEN

By M. L. Hopcraft

vases are nt. tractive novelties and very easy to make. They can be used anywhere, in the living room, the rumpus room if you have one, or in your own room. They make nice gifts too.

The next time you go for

a ride into the country, take

a small hatchet along and look around for a fallen tree

or a dead branch that is at

least five inches in diameter.

If it hus knobs or knota on

it, so much the better, and with or without bark, but the wood must be old and dry. If you live near the seashore, you may find some odd pieces of drift wood that have been worn smooth by the tides. These make excellent wooden Vuses.

Chop off a piece ก couple of feet or so and take it home.

In

GAME

WANY

M spelled backward, white

another good word.. Ex- amples are: NO and ON, TRAP and PART, REWARD and DRAWER.

Hano

are

definitions of 15 such pairs. All of them contain three letters. Read the de faltions, and see how many of these word palms you know. | Get your clue from either the

first or the. second definition,

1. Conflict;

cooked.

2.

fighting -- not

A number-used in tennis. 3. Measure of weight-nega-

Live word.

4. Road material—a rodent,

Short sleep-dish for cook- ing.

Demented wall to hold back water.

Cutting tool-form of verb

YOUR PUZZLE CORNER

CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Rowing implement

4 Drunkard

7 Palm leaf

6 Paving material

9 Utter

10 Greek letter

11 Madame (nb.) 13 Also

14 Hawaiian food

17 Sea eaglo 18 Cover

19 Boy's nickname

1.

7.

"to be"

9.

8. Male sheep-to scratch.

Bucket common conjunc- tion.

10.

11.

Houd covering-floor cover ing of small size. Spinning toy-used to trap lobsters.

20 Note in Guido's scale

DOWN

12.

13.

Do you like to construct sand pictures? A bag of beach sand can be divided into small piles, vegetable- coloured pink, blue, green, tan and brown, mixed with 14. liquid glue and brushed upon an outline picture of your choice. Frame. You 15. will be delighted at the result.

At the present time --

the victory. kelike fish famous Drinking cup with a handle American general.

something to chew Which is not a food Fuel for your car — bend down in the mladic.

(Answers on Page 20)

Giddap Had a Vacation

He Went to the Country to Visit Friends-

By MAX TRELL

KNARF, the shadow-boy with

the turned-about name, brard the familiar clump-clump-clump of horses' boots coming down the street. It was very early in the morning. He hurried down- stairs just in time to see Gidday, the Milk Wagon Horse, coming around the corner.

Equine Courtasios

A fow minutes later Kmart and Giddap were exchanging good-mornings. Giddap's master, the Milkman, was off putting bottles of milk at the doors of various houses along the street "I haven't seen you for several weeks," Knart said to Giddap. "That's right," said Giddap. "Where were you?" asked

מסיי

"I've been on my vacation," Bald Gidday to Knarf,

green grass. There were quite a number of horses there when I got to the farm. having their vacation, too. Ent They were as much as you like, they told

There's nothing to me.

couple conts of shellac. Knarf This will help to preserve

my vacation," said Gid- the vase and also bring out;

dop.

Knarf was just about to say the natural grain of the comething for he was surprised wood.

that # horse should have a With a glass jar inserted vacation when Giddap Inter- this farm except cat, and filled with, water, the what you were going to say. You rupted him. "Yes, I know just

"And did you, Giddap?" sald

Decide whether you want a fat, squat vase or a tall, thin one. Your length of wood will probably help you wooden vase decide. Now, saw off the hold a spray length you need, making leaves, flowers and grasses, a vacation" sure that the bottom is per a bunch of chrysanthemums "How did you guess?" fectly level so your vase almost anything. will stand up squarely. A growing plant may be With a pocket knife dig out preferred. If so, use a slip a hole in the top that is large of geranium or something enough for a tin or a small that will be easy to grow glass jar.

and let a bit of ivy or Wan- Clean the outside tho- dering Jew trail over the roughly and then apply A side!

is ready to were going to tell me that you Knart,

of autumn never heard of a horse having.

Stamps Issued To Help Poor Children

ONO

in the summertimë

19

do on

"I certainly did," sald Giddag. That's right," said Knart. "It was like being put on top of a dining-room table. I walked sald Giddap, "there along, eating. When night-time aren't very meny people who cause I stretched myself out in now that horses get vacations the grass and nibbled in my everyone else. Don't you think And I met some very interesting Just like sleep. It was simply wonderful. we deserve a vacation?" Giddap old horses. on that farm." asked with a kind of a horse- chuckle.

"Oh, yes, indeed," said Knarf. "I don't know of anyone who works harder than you, Giddap. Where did you go on your vaca- tion?"

A

A Country Vacation

"Old horses? What kind of old horses, Giddop?"

"Well," said

Gidday, "there Was my friend Corporal. He was a wonderful old follow. Do you know how he got his name?".

Knary said he would very much

like to know how Corporal gol

"To the country," said Giddap, his name. "I really wanted to go to the

Becshore and do a little swim- Giddap. "The General used to "He was in the Army," said ming, but everyone thought it ride on his back. And then thefo odd that a horzo should want to

go

also

NCE a year the Swiss Many poor children are

'postal authorities sent to sunshine holidays in the brighten up the grey winter mountains.

days with ono of the The stamp shown here, one છે. technically best sets of the set of ave, is perforated furm,"

11%, and recess-printed. stamps issued by

country.

This

known as the Pro Juventute

-For Youth

det. It is

Issued ina variety of face-values, besides

And paying the face-value for

poslogo, the

to the seashore. So I was

was another

old horse named

"Was he in the Army, too?". asked. Knart.

Anally persuaded to go to the Sergeant." country horses, along with all the other "Was it a farm?" Knart wantal to know.

Giddap shook his head. "Ser. "I suppose you'd call it a geant was in the Polico Deport- said Giddap. "Thero ment. A policeman rodo an 'his The were lots of fields and meadows back. any set costa 48.00. in Londonota of brooks and streams very, very old.

And then there was n J.A.A.

horze named and no end of beautiful fresh Blaze."

What was he, Giddup?" " Horse-Drawn Fire Trucks

said

Giddap, he was a fire horse, He used to pull a fire engine, But that was many many years ago.

There aren' very many fire engines left that are drawn by horses. Blaze fold

purchaser pays a little extra, as mikid án ních stump, to help BWBS

need it, 100 For though

appeara ·avüre; prosperous to the tourist, many llye on only a tiny people

wage life mid-tough particularly for the Brogruppo

+ These Youth stampa, then, are meat pronto young peopla

of poor families who are strivifN

to get whoad. The rayonus from the extra charges halps to sand

does'

Rupert and Niagara-21

min lots of exciting stories of the

with

days when he used

go to Ards. He used to gallop through Uld streets

fire bells clanging behind him. - But all that's gotie

Клат

sorty, that there aren't 24 ronny hoses as there used to be. It really ag hamenta

Glödap was fint about to agree that be thought 'too when the Mellemary refurbed,vclimbed back Urad sald:

1 Kowallan birds

2 Winglike part

3 Boy's name 4 Spiro

5 Cereal grain

1 Pewter colti of Malaya 12 Number

13 Native metal

15 Lubricant

18 Girl's name

WASHINGTON DIAMOND

Mount RAINIER is Washing- ton's highest peak and provides a centre of this diamond. The

second word is "a light touch": third, "couples"; Afth, "stale"

HODGEPODGE

The Puzzleman had some trouble making up A sentence About Washington and would like your help in straightening It' out:

....

rainfall Statem Wynooche, Olymplo 141' in is Washington, mountains, inches, the registered in and Heaviest averages at

MIX-UPS

Here are three Washington.

Just

Untied the

facts about

rearrange the Jetters in the strange lines following and you'll find them:

LASSO SHIN FIRE ME DO CUT FORT PRESS DUPE GUN OST

WASHINGTON REBUS

Four facts about Washington are hidden in this rebus. You can find them by using the words and pictures correctly:

+

THIS MEAT, TERRIBLE!

MY: NAME-G

JOSEPH

WORD CHAIN

Change BEAT to LOSE in six

and sixth, "to observe." Can moves, Change one letter at a the diamond from time and have a good word cach

you finish

this?

RAINIER

འ་ཡང

time.

BEHEADINGS

Behead "an asterisk" and have "a sailor." Behead this and have "a iŋeasure of area.”

(Solutions on Page 20)

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