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FEATURES

FOR

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1955.

FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

YOUR PUZZLE INTRODUCING... JOHNNY RENGO,

CORNER

CROSSWORD

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WORD CHAIN

Change GILL to PINT in four maves, Change only une letter at a time and be sure you have a good word on euch-change.

WORD SQUARE.

CIVILISED LIZARD

By IDA SMITH

NE of the most gentle creatures of the south- western desert in the United " States is the chuckawalla lizard. It is the largest of R:arrange the letters. in the harmless American vach row to form a good, word lizards. Only one other is as ecrrectly: you will at your large-the Gila monster- answer reads the same down as but it is poisonous. It is the

and then "earranges the rows

across:

E-

ACROSS

A

1 Varnish ingredient

4 Youth

7 God of love.

9. Peel

10 Headstrong

11 Check

12 Postscript (ab,

13. Individual

15 Near

18 Damp

17 Exist

19 Female sheep

20 Walle

24 At all times

24 Fastidious

26 Food containers

21 Mend, as socks

28 Malt drink

29 Seine

DOWN

1 Sweet secretion

2 Brazilian macaws

3 Lettuce

4 New Guinea port

5 Operatie sola

6 Depression

8 Rains

/

9 Feign

14 Novel

17 Greck lege

18-Wicked

20 Measure of lan

21 Dispatched

23 Compass point

25 John (Gaelic) |

HOMONYM

Missing words in the following sentence sound alike, but they are spelled differently. Cag you complete the sentence correctly? deali- When they reached -- nation, they found another group

of hikers already ---

CHUCKLE BAG

Mamm: Eat your pach, dear, it makes strong feel.

Johnny: Then why don't you

leed it to grandpa?

Teacher: What is a volano, Marthat

only known poisonous lizard in the world, and looks very different from the chucka-

ENRT walla. OCLR

E ELRS

A

EERT

EORT T

TRIANGLE

An ADDRESS serves as a base for this triangle, The second word "a paid newspaper notice": third "conclusion": fourth "a German river": fifth "a Roman magistrate"; and sixth

"unoints". Complete the triangle:

ADDRESS

(Solutions on Pare 20)

HOW MAKE A COIN

unsuspected.

"Although Johnny's making like Ferdinand in a bull-ring, he's

about to gulp down that rose.

They learn

state

1988

"What good is, that thing? You can't hit girls with it."

YOUR BIRTHDAY......... By STELLA

·SATURDAY, JUNE 4

Little is kewn about chuck- awalias except that they are roses. He also likes

cocked Johnny, let's go for a ride," he he is with them.

Mr to handle him gondy." carrots if they Are

pressure will run and climb into vegetarians, Con blow them-

Rengo's hand cooked.

If he is asleep Some women scream and are -gelve up like balloons when

under a

cushion or magazine terribly rightened when they

"Johnny, scé

Fre Johnny sleeps in a cardboard and Mrs Rengo calls,

Johnny. These,

eyes frightened, and can dart into

winter he has ឌ

bc wonder. he always with

Perhaps where are you?" so box. In the rock crevices and hide

Bittle blanket. In the summer peeks out or jiggles the cushion knows that a wild chuckawalla BORN today, you have a happy kindly nature yet one which quickly that their presence 48 he kicks the blanket out. He let her know where he is. would be just as afraid of

loves to ride in the

back

them. He civilised window of their car and watch Johnny Rengo is a

loves to sleep en Mrs

Insect-eating lizards are dif- Fres an Rego's shoulder in the evening chu.kawala. He has lived with the traffic, but if he

wild Mr and Mrs Oscar Rengo of aeroplane or a big hird he will while she reads. He also loves cul: to keep as pets, but are

dart quickly down and hide, company and gets all excited valuable in the Phoenix, Ariz., for 15 years. Mrs He thinks they are hawks that when he hears children playing. because they help to control the Rengo ruiscs #1 variety of aught cat him.

Sometimes Mrs Rongo takes fly and ant population. him to eat,

His

children to school. The Johnny knows his name too

NEEDS ATTENTION flowers for favourites are dandelions and 1 Mr Rengo says, "Come on, are as fascinated with him as

Chuckawellas are hard to keep They alive in captivity too. need a variety of plants to eat

also and

friendly attention. Many have died because they were put in a cage and "feit alere," and with an unattractive diet.

him

CALCULATE YOUR FAME WITH TRICKS

By FRANCIS HOWARD

TO DISAPPEAR ARE you out for fame as

1.Borrow a COIN

...put it in a hat and let

each one feel it to be sure it is in the hat.

YOUR SPECIAL PAL FEELS IT LAS7.....

2.NOW...DO A LITTLE

HOCUS POCUS AND

SAY THE COIN 15 GONE!

Marthe; A mountain with the 3.ASK THEM TO LOOK FOR

hiccups.

Teacher: Please define the word spine.

Boy: The spine is a long lim- ber bone. Your head sits on one end, and you sit on the other

end.

A woman went 13 buy a drinking Lowl for her dog and the hopkeeper asked if she would like ene with the inscrip- tion, "For the daz”

matter,"

"I really doesn't

whe replice. "My husband never drinks water, ond the dog can't read."

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<:

Decor: Well, young man, your cough is a little buiter this marning.

Patient:

It oughta be I've

been practising all night.

Wittic: What

while it dries?

❤

gets

wetter

Billie: Beats me. What? Willie: A towel,

Waitress:

We have almost everything ca the menu today

Diner: So I see, Bring me a

* clean one so I can read it. -

THEMSELVEST

THEN...

SAY "YOU'LL

MAKE THE COIN

tor

a "lighting calcula-

If you want to make your friends sit up and take notice, try one of these numerical stunts on them.

Have them write down in a

row all of the figures except the number &like this:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9

any

Now have them choose one of these Agures and multi- ply it by 9. Suppose they choose 3. When multiplied by 9, the result is 27. Then, Dave them multiply the TOW of figures by this number.

Before they have found their answer, you will be able to tell them what it is-333,333,333.

If they had chosen 2 in the first place, the answer would have been all 2's, or if 5, all 5's, and so on.

11-

*

12345679

X 27

you the figures. It can be in hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands.

Then have him add the figures composing this number, and subtract what he gets from the original number,

Next ask him to strike outl one figure (but never a cipher),, and add the remaining figures for his answer.

Here is another stunt. Sup- pose you have your inends write down any sum of three . When he gives you the result, figures. Then have them you can tell him the figure he verse the gures and subtract struck out. the lesser amcunt from the greater. When they have found the answer (the middle figure will always be 9), have them reverse again and add these last two figures. Again you will be able to give the answer advance-1089.

in

because, when your friend makes

The reason you can do this is the subtraction in the first place, the figures in the remainder always add up to 9 or a multi- "ple of 9.

from When subtracted

The

GO INTO SOMEONE'S POCKET!

For illustration, suppose your 4. ASK EACH IF HE HAS THE There is only one rare in friend picks the number 7869.

COIN... AND SAY

stance when the answer would Added together, these figures be different, and that is when ictal 30. *I KNOW IF

of the YOU ARE TELLhe first two figures

iginal sum are alike, and the criginal number, the remainder ING THE

last figure is next in regular is 7830. order, like 665,443, and 998. In If your friend strikes out the that case the answer will be 198. 8. the sum of the three remain-

The third stunu the ing figures is 10. trickiest, Ask someone to write When he tells you this num-

YOU'LL FIND IT IT JACK'S.

POCKET

TRUTH. WHEN YOU COME TO YOUR PAL YOU SAY...

IT WILL BE THERE TOO. IF JACK WAS YOUR PARTNER IN THE TRICK AND TOOK IT FROM THE HAT!

ZOO'S WHO

THE ARMADILLO

IS EDIBLE...

WHO IS

COLD?

ITET ME

DHALES HAVE A THICK LAYER OF FAT UNDERNEATH THEIR SKIN

*TO KEEP

THEM WARM

·SPIDERS SELDOM BITE UNLESS THEY ARE DISTURBED, AND ONLY A FEW KINDS, SUCH AS THE BLACK

WIDOW, HAVE A DANGEROUS BITE

is

that the next highest multiple All you have to do of 9 is 27. is to subtract 19 from 27 and you are able to tell him the missing number is 8. Tricky?

a

The Renges never forget or While mest Reglect Johaný. lizards would welcome chance to escape from captivity, it is doubtful that he would md want to exchange his

me and care for a freedom. would Scon destroy

tends to drift along with the tide rather than strike out against it. You may do a lot of daydreaming and build castles in the air. But, when it comes to instrumenting those dreams, you are slow to get moving! Learn to be a little more decisive and then, once you have made up your mind, stick to your guns until you have reached your objective. Only in this fashion will you achieve the heights to which your talents should entitle you.

You have rear artistic and dramatic ability and probably would be happiest in the arts or the professions where you could express your individuality freely. The one lesson you will need to learn is that success is apt to be nine parts perspiration-and one part inspiration! Although you have a magnetic personality and attract many friends who may be able and willing to give you excellent advice you are disinclined to listen to them. Be a little more open-minded in this regard and you will get along » set faster.

"

Among those born on this date are: King George III of England; Walter L. Deane, painter; Fontaine Fox, cartoonist: Harry Greb, Frances Starr and Rosalind Russell, actresses; pugilist; Wendell P. Garrison, editor.

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. He

Ecomics him the wild pUW.

in would not know how to protect trust aimself because of his fulness born of long captivity.

A Busy Waterway

A Tiny River Ran Along the Curb→→→

By MAX TRELL

I had been raining all

night but now with the morning came the bright sun, glistening in a million points of light where the raindrops still clung to the ends of leaves and along the edges of roofs and win- dow sills.

A Rushing River

Knarf and Hanid, the shadow- children with the turned-about names, went outside to look at the rushing river that ran along at the edge of the

the curb road..

MATPLUS

3-

A grasshopper was sailing on a matchbox schooner

stone. "It's the Mississippi!" said sailing,

They sat down on the curb- Hanid.

"No, it's the Amazon!” Khari

over the bounding main!"

This time it was three aals aid riding on a raft made of two twigs. The raft turned slowly as it floated down the river the corner. until it, tob, disappeared around

Neither Knarf Bar Hanis had ever seen, either the Mississippi or the Amazon! However, they sounded Hike very important names, just right for a rushing raindrop-river that ran along the curbstone down to the end of the street.

down a number without telling ber, you immediately reckon how many other neighbourhood

Famous Festival Honoured

TT happens three or four timea în every hundred years and this summer is one of these occasions. It is the famous Wine-growers Festival at Vevey,' on the azure-blue Lake of Geneva in Switzerland.

IT TE DES HISTRÜKSI

10

HELVETIA

This special stamp which gravure process. Perforation is the Swiss have issued for 111⁄2 and the stamp costs 1/8d. the occasion catches the in London--3. A. Á. spirit of it all-a bunch of - grapes pinned to a-girl's straw summer hat.

Wine-growing is one

of the oldest and most traditional in this part of Western Switzer- land And those who have wandered the picturesque streets of Vevey and looked across the lake to the snow-capped moun- tains opposite will appreciate what a beautiful setting nature has designed for the Festival.

It is going to cost over 3.500,- 600 Swiss franes (about £300,- 000). Taking part will be 120. musicians 450 singers, 950 children and 3,500 men women in national costume and 300 horses, cows and sheep..

and

It is indeed a proud Festival that the new stamp honours. It 1s' printed gaily in red, yellow, white and green in the photo-

As they watched. Knarf and Hanid were surprised to sce

folk had discovered the Mississippi - Amazon.- raindrop river as well.

"Ahoy, there!

cried a voice.

Make way!"

Nautical Grasshopper.

Клаг!

the

"The little things have all the fun," said Knart in an envious voice. "They can go sailing on

raindrop-river while we only sit and watch."

The next sight they saw was a small sitting in the middle of a leaf. He nodded gravely to them as be swept by.

SUNDAY, JUNE 5

GEMINI (May 22-June 21)— SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec, You can become the peacemaker 22)-Even if skies in your part for everyone if you will only of the country are not as fair exert yourself."

wished, as you had

follow through with your plans.

(Dec. 23-Jan. to be depressing, you can con- 20)Family from near and far quer problems with tenacity and may be gathering for a gala optimism.

CANCER (June 22-July 23)— Even if exterior matters

CAPRICORN prove

LEO (July 24-Aug. 23).-. Plan to do something that you have been postponing for a long

time.

VIRGO

occasion. Enjoy yourself thoroughly.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19) If you have been able to enjoy a week-end out of town, get an early start home to avoid

(Aur. 24-Sept. 23)- the rush, Make calls or invite close FISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20)-- friends to pay you a visit. You Enjoy this late spring day to will find pleasre and enjoy its fullest. Plan an all-day ment.

affair with your family outdoors. ARIES (Mar. 21-Ápr. 20)— Even if things at home become to a sudden confused, due change in plans, adapt yourself tactfully.

LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct, 23)-- This is a second day for well- favoured activities. Make plans for a happy, pleasant time.

TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)-

SCORPIO (Oct, 24-Nov. 22). You have an inspirational day. Church attendance today might Your spiritual life could be bring you the faith, hope and enhanced by church attendance. consolation that you need now.

BORN today, you have a life that is more exciting than many others' and it can never be said that you have a dull moment at any time. You are happiest when in the midst of great activity. It is likely that your cycles of success and decline will alternate with mystifying rapidity and it is good that you have a high degree of adaptability in your nature. You can switch from cre thing to another with such great speed that often your closest friends may not fully understand your change in mood or tempo.

The stars have given you special talent in music and the arts,

will have the artistic temperament that goes with a touch of which should be developed from earliest childhood. You probably genius. How far you carry your native talent toward material success will depend in large degree upon how careful you are to take instant advantage of opportunities offered you.

In addition to your sense for the dramatic in the arts, you also have a gift for getting at the basic facts” of a problem with great speed. You would make a good investigator, attorney for the defence, or promoter for some worthy cause.

"I've never seen a suali move that fast," sald Hanid to Knart. they During the next hour.

Emotional and affectionate, you are happiest when surrounded Saw lots of their friends go by members of your own family who give you their unstinted love sailing down the river. They and devotion saw Blackle Beetle sitting CD top of an empty bottle as

it

Among those born on this date are: George T. Angell, reformer; Stravinsky, composer: Roger Batchelor, author; and Harid looked floated past. They saw a spider Velasquez. painter; William Tyler, noted churchman; Columbus 'down and saw a grasshopper sailing down СП a

postage Delano, statesman. sailing on a matchbox-schooner. stamp. They saw a moth flos It shot down the river in a ing down, with her flash and disappeared around spread out.

the corner

the street.

at the bottom of

**I wish 1 were on that schooner" said Knatt to Honid.

·wings -

"She's shouting for help!" said. Hanid.

So Knarf shed her out. The "You have to be as small as moth shook the water off her a grasshopper," said Hanid. wings. "I fell in I almost The next minute, they heard drowned," she said. "Thank a chorus of voices: "Sailing, you for saving my life." Then she uttered off to find a dark place to sleep until the mcon came out.

Rupert and the Cold-cure-10

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Kervanı

The old Professor agrees to invention and the missing paper. Rupert'a request and – gives him... that would complete itam says the. an extra tablet for Bill. Thinking" dwarf. * So: B. you and your him again the little bear takes his friend take those tablets w1l1, leave and the

you'd come back some, timte, and "accompania "him gart col the fell him they work well. way. My master is very course will | Ruperi worried about his wonderful. cheerfully as he wives eon-Thur ALL RIGHTS BGSERVED

The Snail Was Last

came

A daddy-long-legs sailing down last of all, stand-

on a bit of bark.

で

To and 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, JUNE 6

17

GEMINI (May 22-June 21)- SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. You may have to suffer a dis- 22)Schedule your work care- and distribute your appointment today, but don't be fully discouraged.

energies evenly and you will SUCCEED.

CANCER (June 22-July 23)—

CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan This is not the day to be too 20)Don't permit yourself to be adventuresome, especially when

it ccines to business or finance. imposed upon by someone ratali- ing a hard-luck story! Investi- vute, frst.. LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)-~- If you have been too extra- vagant lately, now is the time to And sure enough, he was make a sensible budget and right. Even as Knarf and Hand follow it. sat on the curbstone, they saw

"Last trip!" be was shouting. “The river's drying up!"

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 193.. The sun is shining on your affairs at the office. Take ad vantage of an offered oppor Lunity,

PISCES (Feb.

20-Mar. 20)---

Be content with what you have, for even a little envy can

the Mississippi-Amazon-rain- VIRGO (Aur. 26-Sept. 23) drop-river dwindlein size, It may be a temptation to spend growing narrower and narrow-more than you should Save for er, until finally it was just a your vacation later on destroy your happiness just now. Hiny trickle. Then, when it had stopped altogether, they saw

ARIES (MAY, 21-Apr. 20)μm.

may not be favestla

LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23)--- all the sailors come trudging Someone may be on the point of All

Offering some excellent advice. Pure- back from around the corner, you might do well to listen, gate everything. the grasshopper, the ants,

TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)- beetle, the spider, the daddy- SCORPIO (Ost, 24-Nov. 22)-- You may be able to avail your- long-legs and, last of all Get an early and energetic self of an unexpectedly good this very last of all the start this morning, for there is opportunity for advancement.

the

a lot to be done this dayle

Be alert