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FEATURES FOR

YOUR PUZZLE The

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1955,

BOYS AND

Sphinx Which

CORNER Asked A Riddle

Crossword

23

1 Conducts

6 Weird

'ACROSS

Jumbled Sentence

Looks like the Puzzleman had 2 little trouble getting his sentence about Spring straight, so he needs your help. Can you make it read correctly?

is to the of with awakening Nature, happy Everybody see beginning Spring its of

Spring Rebus Four facts about Spring have been concealed here by the Puzzleman who says you will find them easily by using the words and pictures w full advantage:

* Ring

9 Demolish

12 Sea eagles

13 Girl's name

14 Egyptian sun god

15 Bone

16 Small island

19 Uncommon

21 Jump

22 Writing fluids

23 Brown bread by heat

25 Domestic slaves

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DOWN

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1 Slant

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2 Lampreys

3

Mensure of area

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5 Chair

Dreadful

7 Hazard

8. Expunge

10 Long-legged bira

11 Facilitates

17 Tardy

18 Epic poetry

19 Get up

20

Social insects

24 Article

Diamond

Spring is NATURE'S awaken-

ing, which provides a centre for today's diamond. The second word is pillar"; third “a dezd language: fin "wearied"; and sixth "a boy's (nickname.“ you finish the diamond?

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NATURES

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If

By EVVA BRINKER

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anybody ever says you even gold and ivory. Some

ever you, even

Some

you can be sure he thinks a king had his slaves build you're a very quiet person. an avenue of sphinxes--a The sphinxes never say a street with sphinxes on word and never have. They both sides. Luxor, a town such an are statues with the body of in Egypt, had

a lion and the head of a avenue. It led up to a One thousand person. Usually the lion is temple. lying down with two paws sphinxes line the road-500 out in front of him. Some on each side. These are still have the head of a man, in existence. They are sit. some of a woman.

ting up facing each other. Once, all 1,000 were "com. There was one sphinx pletely covered by dirt and that was supposed to have sand, but now more RTC IN spoken. According to the being excavated each month.

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(Solutions on Page 20)

old myth, it asked a riddle.

GIRLS

One of the greatest sights to see in the world is the Great Sphinx, startling monument in the Egyptian Desert...

This was the Sphinx of Thebes, in Greece, with the

What is probably the head of a woman. This

made sphinx, says the old tale. largest sphinx ever asked a riddle of every man still exists in Egypt. This who passed by. If the man is the Great Sphinx at couldn't answer her riddle, Giza. It is carved in the he lost his life. But the first natural rock there. And it man who guessed it was to is one of the few which has

and the whole body. But the have had big loads of sand haul become ruler of the king. never been buried by sand.

head of the statue has never ed away from the Great Sphinx com, while the sphinx was For 5,000 years this great bee hidden from sight in the Once long ago men even bulit a since Khafre's men wall around it to keep the sand to destroy herself. Here is creature has looked out over carved his picture out of the

Oway. But as years went by, the riddle:

the Nile valley. To give you rock. If Mary and Joseph had the winds swept the sands over "What creature walks in an idea of its size, the face gone into this section on their the wall till finally the wall and of the sphinx were the morning on four feet, at on the Great Sphinx is over fight into Egypt, they might have mast

Infant Jesus might have, gazed on two feet, and at 13 feet across while the seen the Great Sphinx. The covered.

Now again, men have almost body is about one-third' as

up at it with wondering eyes freed the old sphinx from the evening on three feet?"

long as a city block. The for it was there then, and long sand. Today's visitors can get Can you guess it? The face, on the animal is before,

good view of the man-headed men of Thebes

Time and again Egyptians and animal. They can even see the couldn't thought to be the portrait' either, says the story. And of the man who had it built, scientists from other countries store, on which the lion lies. many of them lost their King Khafre. Though the'

noon

HOW TO MAKE because they couldn't. nose has been broken off, it

HERE ARE 3 QUICK- EASY BOATS TO MAKE.

1.

.CUT OUT A PIECE OF HEAVY PAPER FOR A SAIL.. POKE THE·· PENCIL

THROUGH

IT AND OUT

man

com-

is still a handsome face. Khafre also built one of the pyramids which are nearby. Then along came a young

This section of Egypt is a. named Oedipus. He fistened to the riddle. He sandy desert with steady unfail- PUNCH HOLES thought a long time, and ing winds. Year after year the winds heaped sand around the ON

this is what he said: "The statue till they hid the stone on to the riddle is which the sphinx lies. At times OPPOSITE answer SIDES OF MAN. And this is the ex- the sands swept up and A CHEESE planation: As a baby, man letely covered the lion's paws,

CARTON crawls on four feet, that is,

on hands and knees. WITH A SHARP PENCIL. full-grown man, he walks on two feet. And when he is did, he walks with a cane! -that makes three feet. This is the answer to your riddle."

As a

Now the sphinx was very

upset, for Oedipus had

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Games With Words

Are you a first-class

5,000 years

Where Can A Bear Go?

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-Teddy's Not Even Safe Under the Sofa-

By MAX TRELL

NARF, the shadow-boy-

with the turned-about name, looked under various pieces of furniture in the room until finally he looked under the sofa. Then he said quite joyfully: "Ah, there you are!"

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the

as

A voice from under sofa replied not quite happily: "Yes, my friend, here I am! I've been look.

guessed correctly. She would word scout? ing all over for you,"

have liked to back down on;

THROUGH OTHER SIDE OF CARTON her bargain, but she had

CUT A LARGE CORKIN HALF

Sol STICK IN

too fine violin's spring from COCKTAIL.

the lowly match.

This is accomplished by the expert craftsmanship of Karl Kohlbeck of Graz, Austria,

He Icurid that dry matchsticks are highly suitable for making string instruments. He does all the work by hand. The match- sticks are joined together by his CAVTZ special glue and then fitted to the desired form.

The handle, with its wind- ings, is the most" difficult part to malce requiring one hurtired matches.

HA uses 5,000 maiches to build a violin and 15,000 for a guitar. Kohlbeck's product is durable and the finished violin saft, clear and mellow gives a sound comparable to ickstera- ments many years old.

.

TOOTHPICKS

FOR MASTS: PUNCH ON

THIN PAPER FOR SAILS:

CUTA SLIT

CORK

IN THE BOTTOM AND STICK IN A PENNY TO GIVE BALANCE.

3.

HAVE FUN

STICK A TOOTHPICK IN HALFA WALNUT SHELL WITH

GUM.. CUT

.OUT AND

Hard to Find

over

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"Can't you sit somewhere else?" Miss Gloria said.

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are words in "You have?" Knarf said, made the agreement long BELOW

three columns. And showing his surprise. "I've before, and there was

for "Well," said Teddy, "I've nothing to do but keep it. here's the game. Take each been looking all

Finding it difficult tried sitting in other places but strange things always happen. She slew herself, the story word in the first or num-you." goes, and young Oedipus bered column. Put a word in to hold a conversation with One day I sat on a chair."

Column Two and another the voice under the sofa, became king of Thebes.

word in Column Three with Knarf said:

Other countries beside Greece built sphinxes. Some were of wood, of pottery.

it to make two longer words, in."

We'll help you on the first

"I don't see what could have "I'm coming happened to you on

a chair, "Everyone sits on said Knari. a chair."

Then he crawled under the

"Yes," said Teddy "everyone

one. The two words to put sofa and sat down beside the with FOR are BID from voice.

does. And that's what kept me Column Two to make

from sitting on a chair. Some- It was quite dark under the one came along and saw me and FORBID, and GET from sofa.

However, Knart had no said: 'What's this stuffed bear Column Three make trouble making out the shaggy doing sitting on the chair!' so I

shape of Teddy the Stuffed Bear was pushed off." to whom, of course, he had been talking all the while.

ATTRACTIVE FORGET.

EGYPTIAN

STAM

to

Pronunciation may change a bit for some words but

never the spelling.

Any one who gets all the words right is a first-class

word scout.

have GYPT'S stamps

STICK ON AE Improved

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3. SIDE immensely 4. NO since the new regime de- 5. CAR Goposed Farouk and set out on 8. BAND

7. SIR the long road of social re-

8. END the

а latest

9. HAM form. In strong-faced man shoulders 10. SEA his, hoe and sets out to cul-1. SUP 12. PAT tivate the good earth. He 13. SAT

the 14. MASS looks confidently, to

15. CAP future.

THE HAMMERHEAD, A BIRD OF AFRICA BUILDS A NEST-WHICH REQUIRES SIX

· MONTHS TO CONSTRUCT.. THE NEST HAS THREE CHAMBERS

....SENTERED FROM THE OUT- SIPE BY A COMMON POOR WAY. ONE

• ROOM IS A SLEEPING CHAMBER... ONE IS A NURSERYLONE IS

FOR OSSERVATION.....

THE HOUSSFLY S FOUNDÎWHE BEVER MAN HAS ESTABLISHED

HUSE!

The postal department- perhaps with

a sharp eye

on the money to be earned from collec

·tors⋅ every- where is concentrating

on truly Egyptian themes and pictures which re- flect the life of the people.

The new process of photo- gravure-using the camera to make slamps more attractive.... is playing important part in the campaign to make Egypt's stamps ever better.

This one of the man with the hoe is a fine example of how a good photograph aids stamp design.

It is perforated 13 by 33 (and costa 24. in Londori, Colour- ing purple with a clear back- ground. Amost attractive blend) A A

"Sit down and make yourself comfortable," said Teddy.

"Oh, that was a shame," said Knar

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"After that," said Teddy. didn't sit in chairs any more. able place," Knart said as

"It certainly isn't a comfort-

gave the matter some thought. he Finally I decided to sit in the rat himself down on the Boor. corner of the room right on the His head hit against the bottom floor.

You can't be pushed off of the sofa. "I don't know way

the corner of the floor. There's you like it under here," he re- no place to fall when you're on marked to Teddy.

Not His Preference

"I don't like it," said Teddy. "Then why do you sit here?" asked Knari.

"Because," said Teddy, and he hesitated a long time before he "because said, the next words, no one else sits here."

That's not a very good reason," said Knart.

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Rupert doesn't know whether to it home and try to return it to him leave the strange engine behind or

র

later i can find the way to his -not. Then be looks ne¬the front ---- house------- Using Snuffy's lead

of th

"Why, it's got a square like the one the badge" juar inventor was wearing," he ex claims, This mum be what he was searching for. I'd bener take

again, he pulls it away, but though he is going down. hill be soon has to pause for breach, "What's wrong now?" he breathes. The thing gearing heavier !" "ALL"RIGHTS REAKRYEN"

the bottom to begin with."

**That was sensible," said Knarf. "Didn't you like it?"

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Teddy, shook his head. forgot que thing. You can't fall breom off the floor....but a came along and swept me off."

Toddy sighet. He told how he had tried sitting on the desk and been pushed off, and had tried sitting on a shelf in the boolocast and been moved away, and had tried sitting on the top of the lamp and been made to move,

"So here I am, under the eofa, where co one can bother me at all I only hope my friends will come and visit me now and then.”

Unwelcome Guest

EDITORS PREM SERVICE, ING-QUEVA YORK

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The main thing is not to let ourselves be fooled by the evidence,"

YOUR BIRTHDAY-

SATURDAY, APRIL 16

QORN today, you possess a forceful personality.

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By STELLA

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You may not"

"always be right about what you think or duo, but you' will always be positive about it! You know exactly what you want out of life and intend to get it or know the reason why. You are highly self-sufficient and from earliest youth will strive to depend upon no one but yourself. This may tend to make you a little bitter and something of a cynic, but it will also help you to achieve your ambitions at an early age. Only then will you warit to take time out to learn to play and then it may be too late. You may have forgotten how!

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You could and life happier, if you learn to be lesy tento about your ambitions and conform a little maré, Think of others more and you will have less time to think of self. You are rather restless and ewing by nature and want something new and exciting to be going on all the time. You have a keen sense of humour, although it is not always as kind as it might be. You have a biting satire in your ability to depict the faibles of mankind which "you could put to great use.

Emotional and tempestuous in your romantic altachments, you can hate as desperately as you cari love. In the realm of romance, you are not one to make any compromist. "Learn to curb a tendency toward jealously it you want to And any hap- piness in marriage.

Among those born on this date are! Anatole France, author;" Charles J. Folder, politician; Sir John Franklin, explorer, Herbert Ę. Adama, educator; Fin D'Orsay, actress; and Frederick W. Putnam, scientist.

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,

ARIES

-SUNDAY, APRIL 17

{Mar, 21-Apr. 20)— ✅:LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23)— Make this a happy day. Listen-Hold fast to spiritual idealisa Ing to on

want inspiring sermon today, if you

the best might bring you spiritual re- possible aspects for this Sun- juvenation.

day.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)— If you include all members the family in your plans, from

Of

TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)— If perplexed over some personal problem, you might advant- the oldest to the youngest, there ageously seek spiritual advice on will be peace and harmony. the matter..

SAGITTARIUS. (Nov. 23-Dec, 22)-One of those old-fashioned family gatherings around the dinner table can bring happiness to all,"

CAPRICORN

".

(Dec. 23-Jan.

ĠEMINI (May 22-June 21)-- If at all possible, get out into the country for some fresh air and to admire the spring!

CANCER (June 22-July 23) 20)--A fine day, but don't go off Build up your energies today, the deep end following an im- Like electric batteries, your pulse which could prove dis- system may need recharging! astrous.

LEO (July 24-Aug- 23)-

AQUARIUS (Jan, 21-Feb. 19) This is a fine day for your am--Guard against hasty actlen bitions. Things you have dream- and. you can avoid accident, ed of may come to pass at this Look before you leap into any-. time

thing! VIRGO__ (Aug,^26»Sept. 23)—- PISCES (Feb, 20-Mar, 20)— Foeding the soul and the mind Show that you are adaptable to is of the utmost importance change If unexpected. just as necessary, as food for the make switch of body.

necessary!

...

a

events schedule

BORN today, you have a rather commanding personality and

usually people pay attention to what you say. You may not speak often, but when you do, it is to give advice which can well be followed. You would make a fine teacher, for you know how to impart knowledge as well as acquire it. You also know how to inspire-loyalty to an ideal and would do well at the head of any important enterprise. In fact, even a small objective can be enlarged into a major enterprise merely by your contact with it and your interest in its success.

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You have a restless, acquisitive mind and are always busy about something. Your education never stops. The end of formal, schooling, foc you, is merely the beginning of a continual education for living. You want to loow something about every- thing Be careful that this wide breadth of interest does not result in a scattering of forcefulness, so that you become a Jack- of-all-trades, yet a real master of nope.

You of the feminine sex are fine home makers and are more interested in your own home and family then in anything else. You make fine parents and will be happiest if you have a large family of children to care for.

Among those born on this date are: Charles H. Pankhurst, noted churchman; Ray Stannard Baker, writer, J. P. Morgen, financier Vance Thompson and Thornton Wilder, authors, and Artur Schnabel, pianist,

Let

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

MONDAY, APRIL 18

ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 20)- LIBRA (Scaf, 24-Oct, 23)am Avoid getting into any dispute, „A good day, for business. You no matter how minor it may can forge ahead and probably seem at first. It could become make a real profit any un- serious.

dertaking

positive,

24-Nov. 22)

optimistic

SCORPIO TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)——; Take Make full use of your artistic attitude and you will and that talents today. You may have a you make excellent progress. De really worthwhile inspiration,

GEMINI (May 22-June 21) Utilice fully your social gifts for they could advance your position materially, just now...

CANCER (June 22-July 33) Too much activity on the social

tire you

SAGITTARIUS (Nav. 23-Dec. 28)A good start to the week, so make the most of propitious aspects and accomplish wonders! CAPRICORN (Doç. 25-Jan. 20)--Social affairs may to be assets to your businese 500 progress

as well. Combine both interests.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19)

Alas, no sooner id Taldy say this than his friend the broen came in, againor - Was his friend?-at any rate, Teddy was swept into the front could middle of the room and then much. Better to rest up for the placed very carefully on the week thead porch of Miss Glotla China- LED (July 24-Aug. 22)Do your part and you will doll's private residence, with his Begin the new working week find that all goes well. big broad shaggy back. Jeaning with rewed vigour. Actions evado your duty and nothing

rather than words, are agakest her parlour windows. Y

FIBOES, (Feb, 20-Mar. 20) itsmewhere VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 25)- It today,proves one of those 'you else, you clumsy bear said Better to take a ecengrenise" hujipdingers at the office, plan to Mina - Gloria,

and keep the peace than to let get needed relaxation this even a disagreement get out of hand. ing.

Poor Teddy

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