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FEATURES

YOUR PUZZLE

CORNER

CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Short sleep

4 Head covering.

1 Mineral mck

8 Aviator

Low huskeuts

11 Craft

12 Fixed kok

Indivichral

13 AURIS

17 Unwlotlarni

19 Papur garden

22 Bustle

23 Ang

24 NutT

25 Golf device

DOWN

Slight bow

2 EXINI

N

£3

3 WHLog implements

4 Solland.

5 Deed

Footlike prati

Shop

IF Rutgeri navuntain

13 Collection of sayings

15 Metal

10 Reduct

17 Buseball stick

18 Fruit dinik

20 Before-

21 Ikorn

TRIANGLE

Telay's triangle basest on a PARTNER, The second word Is

parent", third

courtesy

utle", fourth J vehicle", th

and sixth a frees booter." Complete the triangle:

p

E

PARTNER

COLD WORDS

Each of the Iobowuşi

word

Tran

ends in ICE. Fill them out

Le clues given.

ICE daw enforcers)

ICE U will)

ICE (ur)

ICE

tion)

ICE sia tutaerral j

ICE (information)

WORD

QUIZ

ADD-A-CRAM

FOR

THE "CHINA. MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1955.

BOYS

AND

GIRLS

CRITOUS PRZED SERVICE, INGIMUNKYA TOM

CALLING CAPTAIN & COOK A GREAT;

that's the name for YOU if you

ET your compasses, boys

Sand girls. For today

you are all Captain Cooks!

You remember Captain Add a letter to “a measure of Cook-and his voyages of for "oon-discovery in the South type and scramble clusion": repeat for "to cat";

Seas? again for "pronged"; once more for "coloured lightly"

nally for "a tooth doctor."

BOY SQUARE

and

YOU "Cooks" have all the seas to range over to- day.

1. FORELDRA

The new

2. NGIAJAR Prinski Margie? ・20 wish this island

'bag' an island

3. BUCYR

One at Biltale's major besen

17, COURLY Dephants and leadi

** TIRE MO TEF

En désert belang Pr

bo-

YOUR chart is on the right, m'hearties but it's and you a strange chart have a riddle to read rotation if you find the right fore you can discover any

then roud of the eight islands

has hidden The Puzzleman blue boys in this square and And them In will

my you

starting point

backward

and

or forward

Ол

[4. ILMADEN

The Imarski

BROEKELAN

The world's Largest faland

|_ the male zpecies THIS IS YOUR CHART--drawn by JOHN BODLE

eneh letter either up, down, it (оло is really two

The small islands are find the wrong! (but islands but it gote one too big-and the big islands are "Jumbled"

name).

by their too

never diagonally):

LALISI

APIH PU

NANC│A│O

The islands are drawn-but the scale

too small.

Try to spot them

name of each latend

beside It-with £

The answers are on Pago 20

PLAIN

MAN

PLAIN man, That

A was Thomas Jefferson,

third President of the United States and now honoured in this new stamp. Jefferson nover smoked, nover gambled, and WILD never party to a personal quarrel.

his

On the day of Inauguration

ho wore & plain suit

clue to help you and a compass

and instead

pro shape alone. If you can't you'll

of riding to

the Capitol

in

22 coach

and six he walked from his lodgings without

Do cattle get as homesick as dogs? This

old tale provides the answer.

RIPARL SANCHO-THE CALF-WALKED TWO

THOUSAND MILES TO GET HOME

DALUL L

PESOJE HSTMI

A UI

A

NİCİH

(Solutions on Page 20)

HOW TO

AT A

LEach girl chooses a boy partner and blindfolds him,

2.GROUP THE PLAYERS LIKE THIS... GIRLS FACE OUT. BOYS FACE IN...EACH GIRL HOLDS A BIG APPLE WITH A STRONG STEM.

1. If you found a MACAROON 3.AT A SIGNAL.BOYS MAKE

on the kitchen sink, would you wear it, eat it, or give it a drink?

bark,

2. When you hear a TERRIER whlic

at play, duen grunt, sing, or bray.

it

would

3. A DROMEDARY, you think, refers to a pig, al eamet, or mink?

4. An ACORN grows on a cET- Lain tree, elm, oak, hackberry,

which would it be?

5. If your dress is INDIGO, 18

it green or blue? Do you know?

(Answers on Page 20)

TWO TURNS AROUND GIRLS. THEN EACH BOY TRIES TO FIND HIS PARTNER...AND EAT HER APPLE GIRLS CAN'T MOVE BUT CAN MAKE NOISES TO GUIDE PARTNERS TO THEM.

NO ONE CAN USE

HANDS...

FIRST COUPLE TO EAT APPLE WINS!

ZOO'S WHO

EARLIEST

JANIMALS TO 55. WALK ON TWO İLEGG WERE THE DINOSAURA BEING BALANCEDU BY THEIR LONG,

AVY TAI

MORE KINDS.

WINTER IN CAROLINA AW

cals

By LEE PRIESTLEY

TO one is surprised when In the early spring of 1880

dogs or

travel when Sancho was three years old, he was sold to the Shiner

their homes, but who ever deliver three herds of steers to heard of a homesick cov? Wyoming Subcho WHS road branded and put into the first Actually, cattle

home herd where he ploded at the bodies and will become attach-

end

of the line with his head el to their birthplace or a later often turned over his shoulder home and try persistently to re-

to look behind. turn there. One Lunghorn steer from Texas la mentioned in tales of the old West as an animal

arc

even t

servant or guard.

A foreign ambassador who put on gold lace and a dress sword to call on the new President found Jeffer- in negligent dress and slippers down at heel.

Bon

un-

But the plain man was In Wyoming Sancho received great-in philosophy his new brand and was turned statesmanship. It was

on the range.

The Shiner cow-

house

un

'

And

he

com-

were

No long distances to return to brothers who had a contruct to boys returned to Texas. When/Who bought a great slice of

the spring roundup was being his own country for made a year later they passeparatively little money from the the the ranch

who French Esperanza. There lay Sancho in

it, occupying

bargain #t the the shade of the tree

known 88 the Louisiana Kerr's gaboi

He had come home six weeks Purchase. And it was he who

his hoofs worn nearly sent before,

the explorers Lewis down but so glad to be there ho

across the con- came to the door and rattled it, and Clark

"If that steer loved his hometinent to the Pacific. enough to walk back all the way from Wyoming, we're not going The stamp in honour of to drive him gway,” said the this great man is perforated Shiner brothers So Suncho, the homesick Longhorn, lives there 10% by 11% and costs 2d.

In London-J. A. A. the rest of his days.

who walked two thousand miles

Ret home,

Creek in Frio

for

Esperanza

Before the first day was over, did it was plain that Sancho not want to go to Wyoming. So

сате

0

cowboy

when right threw a rope over her harms and staked him to

a bush

county, Texas, a rancher named keep him from walking off.

Kerr once found a week-old calf beside its dead mother in a bog bole. He pulled the starving creature out of the mud and carried it on his saddle home to his wife.

Marla washed the mud off the

*

Whenever the herd stopped to graze, Sancho was the only When one who grozed south. the hard moved Suncho plodided Just ahend

of the drag rider who kept the stragglers headed up the trail Gentle and - customed to people, the big sterr often walked beside the calf and fed it warm milk cowboys and gathered the little abolile. A tow with a calf of her own was persuaded to feed

fat the orphan, who soon grow

and vigorous.

Maria named the calf Suncho and petted him with bits

and mucli attention. Sancho developed a taste for hot tamales and soon learned the tiny to pick for himself

He

food

red-hot wild chili peppers,

ripe sand plums and "possum" grapes along with them.

In Mother Goose Land

-Knarf Gets a Big Umbrella for the Shoe House-

By MAX

TRELL

Hanid,

the

with

the

the

the pattering rain-

NARF But one day no one was look-shadow-children bng and Sancho dodged into the turned-about names, heard

of of brush. Two days later the point sound

man who rode at the head

dick Bab consider himself a member of the runch herds, but slept under a free near the gate.

steer in the trail.

of drops

But when they looked

wasn't

the second Shiner herd met the out of the window, the sun was Seeing his shining. There wasn't a cloud trail brand the point man add-in tha

sky. There ed him to the Shiner herd and raindrop anywhere. turned him north again. Again At that moment, Mr Merlin Sancho got uway only to meet the Magician came running out the third Shiver hend

and bo

from behind the bookcase where turned again.

he lived, dressed in a raincoat and carrying ◊ big, green

For Unusual Table Decorations

Make Edible Party

Turtles

F YOU WANT unusual table decorations at your next party, try setting the table with novelty turtles made from walnut half-shells that will act 48 for your place murkers guesta.

Start by selecting the largest shells that you can find. Make sure that they are not cracked or chipped. Next, colour each shell in

different bright shade, using nail polish, which you can buy in many different pastel tints. Or, if you Like, you can tint colourless nail polish any shade that you choose by mixing a little ordinary food colour. Ing with it.

Once this has dried, write the SASKINE of each guest on * different shall, with red nail polish. Then try to make the

ball look like a real turtle.

The undersido of the body need be nothing more than a large gumdrop. Press it into the cavity, of the shell. Pierce a toothpick through, lạ length, making sure it, protrides both code. The pointed portion should remain bare, wo that it will resemble a tall, Impale * raisin un the blunt end--and the result will look like a head. Four, Klofes Willɔmerna sal toet £ you'll prow them into place

in the noth, guðidrog,

One Vely ních:

AL

the

Fortradeço "falkonaismek burtiós, ás Tar heyral. Lanostbed, is that #inking of them can be conde

"TERRY TERRAPIN,” THE WALNUT SHELL PLACE MARKER

Jane

PRECE

GUMDROP Card, INTO

WALNUT HALF-SHELL,

AND ATTACH RAISIN HEAD

AND CLOVE FEÉT-

umbrella.

A Shower

"It's raining!" he sich. Knarf and Hanid noticed that there were no raindrops on Mr Merlin's raincoat and aone ал his umbrella.

Just then there came EA rumble of thunder,

$3

Hanid Lella Mr Morlin she knows it's raining somewhere.

erled:

On spying Kaarf and Ranid "The sun is shining outside," and Mr Morlin, abe sald Hand to Mr Merlin. "But "We're getting all wet. It must be raining SOME- us!"

Help

WHERE

to

Then she dashed back "The sound of the rain seems the bousa

bo coming from in there,"

into

Mr

Knart and Hantd and Mr Merlin salch And he point- Merlin all ran into the Mother ed behind the bookcase.

Goose House after her. They Then they all crept in behind ran through a long hall, then the bookcase to investigate. out through the front door, and Now the back of the bookcase across the street and down an (THIS book

and extraordinary of a big, backyard, they Baw and unlike

back of

of any the rosy-checked woman stop other bookcase. For the backs ing in front of her own house

"When Martha's right she's the first one to admit it”

YOUR BIRTHDAY ....... By STELLA

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19

DORN today, you are fond of travel and want to be on the go ayery moment of the time. You feel that Ume is being lost going doing something or unless you are actively engaged in somewhere, all the time. In other words, unless you want to wear yourself out long before your time, you will need to learn the lesson of relaxation, Let down tensions occasionally or you will and that you will have temperamental explosions which will be detrimental to your success and welfare,

You are the type who can bs on the mountaintop one moment, and then fall into the valley of despair the next instant. The stars have given you exceptional talents in music, the arts, science or literature. It is up to you to make the most of them by begin- ning to develop these gifts early in life.

Your intuitions are exceptionally keon and you can usually outguess an opponent. This could mean an early success through what most will call a "hucký break," but which your star would

the have

gift of consider merely your right of birth You knowing that right and strategie moment to act. You are suscep- Able to frst Impressions. Heed your spontaneous thoughts when meeting a person, for usually you are right.

Copernicus, mathemall- Among those born on this date are: clun; Adelina Patti, opera star: Hope Hampton, actress: Jimmy and Kay Durante, comedian; Ernest Glendenning, physiologist; Boyle, author.

To find what the stars have in store for you tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20

do

than

PISCES' (Feb. 20-Mar. 20) plished and make plans to If you have gone through a batter. rugged week-the chances pre VIRGO (Aug. 24-8ept. 28)~ that you have-take time out if driving in heavy traffle today,

be a little more careful for recreation.

ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 20)- usual to avoid accident, Take stock toɖng. You may not have been utilising your talenta Indications are right for a good to their utmost. Plan to do so day. Do exactly what you wlah

end make important progress.

now.

TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)-

LIBRA (Sept 24-Oct. 83)---

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov. 22)- This not the time to worry If you can plan some recreation

Instead, about the past.

plan appropriate to the day, you will for your future. That is more find it very relaxing. important.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 28-Dec- GEMINI (May 22-June 21)— 22)--If you need spiritual en- You may and

attending couragement, why not listen to church will give you a much- a good sermon? You might find needed spiritual uplift at this what you need there. time. Try It

CAPRICORN CANCER (June 22-July 28)-20)-Cultural

tion

business

that

28-Jan. (Deo. and Intellectual to get in some rent relaxa- matters are often as important for a change. It will do as taking care of your physical

world of good to forget well-being. you a

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 10) LEO

find (July 24-ADE. 23) - You may

some real, will As winter starts to bow out, vigorous outdoor exercise take stock of what you accom- give you a fresh mental tone-up,

PORN on this first day of the incoming sign, Pisces, you are ruled by Jupiter, the god of wisdom and Neptune, the god of inspiration and idealism. You will definitely have creative talent in the arts, especially poetry, and should see that this gift is developed early in life. Although your success may not be an easy or swift one and fame may come a little more slowly to you Uran to some others, when it does arrive it will doubtedly long outlive you.

You seem to have the gift for attracting material wealth and it is likely that you will make money whatever you do. Sull, You will scrutinise you are not one to be adventuresome, either. all your investments most carefully and will only back a "sure thing". No wildent schemes for you! When you have wealth,

share it with those who are in'nced, however, you want

internkcnsel) was odd and alley and there in the middle you

of all the books, which is what The house was shaped like an you see when you creep behind enor

enormous shoef

You have a great deal of determination and willpower. Once, have made up your mind to sofnething, you will follow through, until you have accomplished what you went after, even if it taker months or years to do it. The more opposition you have, the harder you work to overcome it and achieve your goal.

Your magnetle personality will make friends easily for you

a bookcase, were like the backt From all parts of tho shoe and it is likely that you will have several important romanices of houses, with litle fences, and (and you mustn't forget that it in your life. Whether or not you wed at all, will depend upon gardens, and flowers, and climb was sull raining), tile

boys whether or not you can make a selection of one froin many)

ing vines, and doors leading and girls were looking out. All into little houses. They were of thern

the doors that led inside the getting we shouting "We're

books.

Raining in Bookland

-

and

This

By ume Knarf and Hanid Mr Merlin, had reached the woman's side. They saw that Inside the garden of the the

big shoe was standing In Mother Goose Book, it was the middle of a great rain too, however, not only because pouring.

puddle. Suddenly they're odible, but because the

from out of tho "Just look!" she said. empty shells will serve as Mother Goose House, came the water is leaking up. souvenirs of your party,

rosy-cheeked woman, holding a children are getting souked. =BÉSS "RITTER |thin plo-plate over her head.

What can we do?"

Rupert and the Broken Plate-1

lt, is a quiet day in the -Bear household.......... Mr. Bear is pottsting inv:pise guardian while „Rupert Ja playing with his bricks and, won darina" # "thare-la anything, Glow: he ought to be dology All A pany, he bears mothething: falle

amal have

ropped somethalit g :ADIE WAL - Hurrying through,

finde Mrs. Bear Kitting in; ́and-looking, try dasid, the bacher Mummy 17oč, but KAZA ** Amin'ɛ you feeling whil 10 STU 1. pita vai thon: plants ? JAKET

doen. Kapra me a

19

KAU

My

It was Knart who thought of the exactly right thing to do and it was Mr Merlin the Maglelan who was able to do it. "I know what our children do to keep their shops from getting wat. They put on their bert!"

Everyone thought this was a wonderful idea.

rub

Among those born on this date are: Mary Garden, opera star: Angela Weld, reformer; Theodore Lyman and Henry F.. Durant, philanthropists; William Rimmer, sculptor; Joseph Jeffer- son, actor; and Charles Erskine Beott Wood, poet,

To find what the stars have in store for you tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21

PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar, 201 *VIRGO (ASE. 24-Sept. 23)—. This could be a banner day at If routine is dull, use your Think up' DOW the office for you. You may be imagination. offered a new and more im- and interesting way to do a job. portant job.

ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 20)- LIBRA (Sept. El-Det. 231- If you need advice, be sure that. If you must correct someone, be You seok it from an authorlin ne plematic oible Be Live cours

se. Don't make a bad constructive, or don't jeriadiso.

S0Q2PEO (OU£ 28«N«¥} #2) --- guess.

(ADT TAURUS

1)Don't be too quick to take up You may receive an invitation with #airbrained scheme. which offers rewarding social Dook at a

allthe details carefully,

A Gigantic Umbrella Thon the rosy-checked woman stopped smiling, “My goodisesa but where do we get a rubber big enough to it THIS shoot"

Rat war Mr Merlin who got the Work for with bride what shond much Last very rubber the enormous

CANCHE (June 22-July 21)-* "sticks in-the-mud Hooded. He ran to the next Perhaps you can give a "bout TAPRICORN IN 1900 in

Hellenbod up a beanstalks, up to 6 friend who need your and chow down the next minute help. Offer it. Don't want to be a With the Chant's "rubbor

contacts. Be sure to accept Bret

· GEMINI · (May - 29-JuİM" * BAGITTARIUS (NDY. 23.Dec. The beginnings of spring fever are progressive, in kay, thought und Zelien, you will get besome, apparantz 1bday,

Don't b

to Jack, thi DELRO

your!