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FEATURES

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1955.

FOR BOYS

AND

GIRLS

YOUR PUZZLE Zapotecs Left Mysterious New Stamp

CORNER

CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Golfer's ery

5 Bad in any sport

9 Geraint's wife in Arthurian

legend

10 Gaelle

11 Sunky Ash

12 Toward the sheltered side

13 Withdrew

10 Fish cas

17 Slim

21 Pen name of Charles Lamb

22 Wand

24 Pre-Enster season

25 Horseback game

26 Roman date

27 Small Island

DOWN

1 Service charge

2 Heavy blow

3 irritate

4 Diminutive of Edward

5 Drended

7

Shield bearing

Employed

8 Confederate general

14 Plays host

15 Electrified particle

17 Winter vehicle

18 Row

10 God of love

20 Roster

21 Biblical prophet

23 Female deer

25 Jumbled type

DIAMOND

A baseball

DIAMOND

pro-

vides a centre for the diamond point"; third "diadem" fifth "supports"; and sixth is an ab- breviation for a reply". Just complete the triangle from theso

this time. The second word is "a

clucs:

D

I

DIAMOND.

HIDDEN SPORTS

Two sports are hilden In these sentences, You can and them in rufation:

They were seated in the third row hi G section.

the made

The

heavy нев ship's bow linger in midair.

SWIMMERS, TRY THIS TEASER

By Julia W. Wolte

Of a number of boys who were swimming in a large tank, one did not know much about swimming. For a joke, his pals hid his clothes on a float that was anchored in one corner of the tank, ten feet from each edge, in fourteen feet of water.

The boy was in a hurry for

know his clothes, but did not

how to get them.

There were two stout planks lying near, cach nine feet six inches long and one foot wide. But he had no tools for bullding

bridge.

At length, however, without swimming, jumping or wading, he managed to get to the flont and back How did he do it?

The answer is on Page 20.

SPORTS MIX-UPS

By rearranging the letters in cach

strange lines, of these you'll uncover the four hidden sports:

AIA JAIL

ROSE LACS LOOP

TAKE SLAB LB

SPORTS REBUS

All you must do is

usc the words and pletures to full ad-

Records

By R. S. CRAGGS

TEAR the city of Oaxnen

NEAR

in southwestern Mexico stands an astronomical ob- servatory that is 2,500 years old. Built on A mountain top, it was part of the ancient city of Mount Alban and possessed no more powerful astronomical in- strument than the human eye.

Using nolbing but stone tools, vantage to find the four sports these ancient builders levelled concealed here by the Puzzle-the highest peak of the moun-

man:

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tuin and Its out-lying lesser peaks as a home for the gods, with palaces, tombs and severa} pyramids. The structures

of rock.

though hewn out of Ideal fortress, apparently only religious significance, he cause the people who bullt it lund been at peace for 1,000 yours before the Spanish con-

quest.

Today their descendunts walk and of Oaxaca in the streets some still call the mountain by the old Zaputec name, Danibaan (holy mountain).

forces

AT THE ANCIENT OBSERVATORY, THE PRIESTS WORKED OUT MATHEMATICALLY ONE OF THE MOST ACCURATE CALENDARS

000

Was

From East Germany

Why is it that, Germany more than any other nation has produced, so many good and great men and an equally numerous host of villains?

Look at this stamp, with the noble profile of a famous tho who enriched literature of his own

man

country, and through it, the thought of the world.

He isÍN

Johann

Schiller, poet, drama

tist and

hist

philosopher and death

0

150

years ago ist

com memo-

PLUNCHI

rated now by EN MISERATESSERT PURUK East Ger

the boy Was

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COITORS PRELU SERVICEŰ ING SHUEVA YORK'

"Only two hours for lunch today, Miss Robertson?

No need to bolt it down like that!"

YOUR BIRTHDAY....... By STELLA

SATURDAY, AUGUST 13

This intellectual centre of nature, such as the sun and the sea. This led to continuously inhabited for 2,000 the development of the Rrst years, longer than any other Schiller's father was an army BORN today, you are an excellent judge of human nature and

of sungcon and calendar (as far as we know city in the known history at present) ever used in North Mexico, and sunk into decadence educated in a school run by the

only a few centuries before the Duke Karl Eugen, of Wurtem Amuka. And this was years before Christ.

Spanish conquest in the 1500's.borg. Discipline was so strict that young Schiller turned into a rebel and his discontent found Inn ficod of pas- expression sionate lyrics.

La onki

March

The year began on

into divided PADS eighteen months of twenty days cach, with five days left over The priests were astronomers at the end of the year to make and worshipped the physical the total 305.

E WHY YOU OFTEN

(Solutions on Page 20)

HOW

SENDTELEGRAPH

MESSAGES D°

1.CUTA ZIN.WIDE AND 3IN. LONG PIECE FROM A CAN. BEND IT LIKE THIS...

2.PUNCH A HOLE IN ONE END AND SCREW IT TO A BLOCK OF WOOD

3.PUT A LONGER SCREW UNDER OPPOSITE END SO TIN WILL TOUCH SCREW WHEN PRESSED

4.NAIL 2. BLOCKS TOGETHER AND PUT SCREW CEYES, RUBBER

-BAND AND NAIL

LIKE THIS...

5.WIND 3 LAYERS OF INSULATED COPPER BELL WIRE AROUND A 2 IN, LONG NAIL

STOP COIL ABOUT

INCH

FROM POINT

+6.PUT NAIL

FEEL GUILTY

By LEE PRIESTLEY

much generosity is usually O you feel guilty? Come too

Because she on, step right up und overcompensation.

feels hostile toward her sister, a admit you do!

girl may feel guilty. So sho Guilty feelings stick to us gives the sister her favourite all like cockleburs to aswenter to show how good and

is. spaniel, so if you have an generous she really

Then you may rationalise" to uncomfortable, uneasy sense conceal guilt. You feel uncom that you have done wrong, fortable because you've let a pal you have worlds of company, down. So you go all noble and

It fort Lell yourself you did All boys and girls at some

A boy may be jealous awn good. time (and some unfortunate of his friend's backdeld starring Jones all the- time) have di football. So he doesn't tackle the opposing linesman as hard as gullty feelings.

his

n

no

These remarkable people did leave writton records behind

has He left school qualified to them, but so far nobody been able to read more than a practise in medicine and the Lew words-mostly. symbols, Duke had him attached to A proper names and numbers. We regiment which garrisoned the know for instance, that a dot town of Stuttgart. means "one" and an upright

offered bar But soldiering bar stands for "ve": and two dots would be seven. thrills to Schiller, He was more The Maya and other early excited by his first drama Mexicans adopted this system "Robbers"—and stole secretly

out of the barracks to see it per of numbering.

formed. The Duke had him The numbers, however, give rested and forbade him to write no clue as to the actual writing and until the language is deci-any more "comedies." The poet phered we can only assume that fled the army for ever. the Zapotecs had reached a The new stamp is perforated height In "literature" unsur 13 by 13% and a set of 3 costs k London, Very fine passed by any other race in the 17-

in photogravure. --. New World before Columbus' portraits J. A. A. arrival.

Frog's Landing Beach

-It Used to Be at the Bottom of the Pond

By MAX TRELL

What are some of the things he could and the backfield star young folks feel guilty about? gels-smeared. Then the first boyNARF, the shadow-boy with According to a recent survey of 4clis himself he did it to knock students in some of the swell-headedness Junior high school

out of his friend! about: friend toward

America, they

violating a trust;

the turned about name, anding it a pleasant afternoon, had gone down to the pond and was having o talk with Mr Bong, the Bull Frog.

Now that the weather

had

down; feeling hosilic brothers

others or sisters; being ashamed

You can do something more of parents; thinking about the opposite sex; lidng the wrong constructive about guilty feel-turned warm Mr Bong spent Ings than being an Alibi Ike or most of his time sitting on his people; losing tempers easily; not

He called the being loyal to principles; persist- Annie. Half the battle of over-priyate: bead.

To tell ing in bad habits; and falling to coming guilty feelings is know- beach Frog's Landing.

ing that you have them and, that you the truth, Frog's Landing make the most of

opportunities.

everyone else struggles with the was only a flat white stone Plenty there to make anyone

about half the size of a saucer, same problem. feel guilty, isn't there?

edge Try to understand yourself It rested at the Usually boys and girls with guilty

feelings use an alibi to and be a bit lenient with blam-water under the willow tree. cover up so they won't even ing yourself. Do the best you to themselves can at all times, but if your best w admit

Isn't good enough, remember that they do feel guilty. These that no one is perfeet.

DON'T allbis fall into three classes and BROOD ABOUT IT! Resolve to

don't have

to be a Dick try harder next time and forget Tracy to catch j'ourself using them all.

you

One method of abili-ing is called "projection:" It's espe- eially easy, for you blama some- else for your misfortunes.

your mistakes.

Then you won't be, an Allbi Ike or Annie, but a boy or girl who is honest with himself and with the world.

Ever see a chlid spank the bad DO YOU KNOW

IN BLOCK SO IT

Goor that came up and hit him? AMOST TOUCHES That's projection. Tatliciales

HEAD OF OTHER

# NAIL... HOOK

WIRES TO A NO.6. DRY CELL LIKE THIS... PRESS KEY AND NAIL WILL STRIKE COL AND CLICK...USE

THE MORSE CODE TO CLICK

YOUR MESSAGE

ZOO'S WHO

THIS RARE PRIMATE, KNOWN AS THE TARSIER,

A NATIVE OF

THE

PHILIPPINES,

CAN LEAP A DISTANCE OF TEN FEET ADHESIVE DISCS ON THE FINGERS AND TOES GIVE THIS FELLOW A GOOD GRIP ON A BOUGH BEFORE

LEAPING

report the fulls of others THE ANSWERS?

and hope to make their own faults look smaller by compari-

Tmixed

zon are using projection, too. THE picture labels are all

Another method of concealing

up. Can you guilt is called "overcompensa-

them? untangle

Answers lion." Too much self-sacrifice,

on Page 20.

Counting Birthdays

Can Be Fun

Going to take a long car ridó? Here is a game that Its fun to play while riding,

Called Birthday Count, "this; game is played by watching cense plates. First, the players watch for a leense plate whose numbers show the year of their birth.

The numbers must be rend from left to right, in (sequence, starting with the first number. When a rider finally socs a pinte with the year of his birth (and this stop, lan't chay) he next Watchon for the number of his birth

Again, theo must be the

be the Art

Humbors on the plate. For ex ample"-11 - de were borer JIS December, he would Ionic for 12-

Best two numbers

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|(C)CRAIMEA{d} ANICH

of the

"A fat worm just crawled off.

the hook," Mr. Bong sald.

Strange Place For "But of course," Mr Bong was saying to Knart,

"I didn't this

Mr beautiful always have private beach,"

4

"You didn't, Mr Bong!" "No, my boy! The first time I saw Frog's Landing. I was in the mud at the bottom of the pond: Seel.

It was fust be- low I used

never dive into the pond

from under this willow tree.”-

Knart seemed very surprised. "How did you ever get it up here?" he asked Mr Bong.

A Glever Idea

Bong sprang into the water, then sprang back again on Frog's Landing. He had just caught and swallowed a water beetle.

She Was Not Friendly

"Now as I was saying," he

continued, "I thought of Mrs

Quack as being the one to help me lift the stone out of the mud set it

"Well,

In her strong bill and down on the edge of the bank, But I

I knew that if I asked her to do it, she wouldn' She's not too friendly, you know. So I decided not to, nak her, at all. Mr. Bong smiled in remem-

I would get her to do it without brance of all that had happened. asking her, "Ah, that's a story in itself,” he finally said. "It Just shows you

i waited tantil she how, clover you've got to be It came along. Then I said: 'Good you want to have your own morning, Mrs Quack. Isn't it

shame private bathing beach.

you weren't here. moment ago? A big fat worm "You see," he went on, after just crawled off, the bank and pausing for a moment to catch fell into the pond-right about a passing fly, "I wasn't strong, herof enough to lift the stone out of the pond and place it here the bank where you see it now,

on

Under the Stong

your perceptions are keen. You have what is called a "long hend" when it comes to a business deal, and are able to get just about what you want from any contract or agreement. Your determination is decidedly one-track and once you get your teeth into something, you hang like the traditional" bulldog until you get what you go after.

It is likely that you have a tremendous store of nervous energy but that your physique is not as strong as you would like it to be. You work so hard, and relax so infrequently, that. the strain

Learn to let is bound to show eventually.

down tensions ocensionally and you will last longer!

You are original and inventive and may become a leader in the fleld of action or ideas. It is possible that your theories may not be accepted at first, but even if they do not become common- place in your lifetime the chances are that they will, later on, and that your fame will long outlive you. It is probable that you will have talent in literature and music, but if you do not follow either one as a profession you will pursue it as a hobby or an avocation. Learn not to scatter your interesis too widely, but concentrate on one objective for the best possible success.

Among those born on this date are: Mrs Lucy Stone, feminist and reformer; Admiral Richard Byrd, explorer; Felix Adler, psychologist; Georgo William Bogby, editor and author; Emma Eames, singer: Regis Toomy, actor.

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.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 14-

LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 10)

If you can get to some pooler If you take full advantage of spot for a couple of days it will all the restful and relaxing do you a world of good. Try It activities, you will improve your

health. VIRGO (Ang. 24-Sept. 23) ----- Sometimes a change of avoch- tion and relaxing mental stresses will do as much for you us a physical rest.

PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20).-—-—- The stars say that this should be a fine day for a family outing. File the family into the cari

LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23)— ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 20)- If at all practical get away from Attendance at the church of your regular scene of activities. your choice might give you A change will be most welcome much needed inspiration today. just now.

Hear a good sermon.”

driving on

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)— TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)- The opportunity to make a new If you have been away for the friend can bring you special week-end, get an early start happiness and joy just now. home, Hurrying too much could * SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. dissipate all the good... 22)-11 you are

GEMINI (May 22-Juno 21)- routes that are heavy with

Church and civic activities are traffe, keep your eyes and ears in the limelight as far as you open. Take care!

aro concerned today. Gala CAPRICORN,(Dèc. 23-Jan. 20) spiritual inspiration.. -The store say that this, will be CANCER (June 22-July 23)- new hope and one of your good days, rain or You can gain shine! The weather won't confidence by seeking spiritual

guidance at this time, matter.

PORN today, you will find more enjoyment in the cultivation of cultural and intellectual activities than you will in acquiring great wealth through business enterprise. Although you do have executive ability and considerable natural talent in commercial enterprises, they must always be connected with some cultural effort if you are to enjoy life. You can get very bored with hum- drum routine and when boredom arrives, your energy and interest in any productive effort flags.

You are interested in children and would make a fine teacher or adviser for adolescents. You are kindly and understanding and know how to inspire the younger generation. You are in- clined to be a little critical but usually, when you find fault, you discover something good to praise so as to even the balance,

You are socially adaptable especially you of the feminine wak and make exceptional, hostesses. Fond of smart clothes and with a liking for sweets, you will need to watch the latter if you are always to be able to wear the former. In other words, watch your weight when you arrive at middle agel...

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Among those bom on this date are: John Galsworthy, poet, author and playwright; Henry Clews, banker: Thompson Seton,.

Nash, author-artist; Robert Woolsey, actor; Georgo

early governor of Ohio,

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.

I thought and I thought

"Mes Quack thanked me and until Anally I thought of some jumped "Into the water. 'I'm one who was strong enough to sure I can find it, she said. help me. It was Mrs Quack, With that, she stuck her head in the Duck. Pardon

LEO me the pond and poked around at moment........"

the bottom. A moment later, the lifted her head and said:, *Í don't see any worm down there, Bong

Rupert & the Distant Music-36

It must have crawled under that stone in the mud, I said.

I don't suposo you can find Any Morek

5. Konsense, maid Mra Quack. 'T'i get that stono out of the way with no trouble at all. Saying that, she lifted it out of the water and, set it right down beralitzar

Mr

Bong chuckled. tha's How got my beach the

MONDAY, AUGUST 15

(July 24-Aug-23) AQUARIUS“ (Jan. 21-Feb. 19) Don't permit pleasure to Inter. A good merchandising day. fero with business. There are fi la likely that you can make important things that must be an excellent profit If you are actute, U taken care of now.';

PISCES” (Feb., 20-Mar. VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 21)-- Don't let yourself be well Strict attention to the job is of

ARIES

of the utmost importance this Keep your mind

? morning. Get in, belght and at hand.

21-Apr 29) early,

foo.

off friend

appears LIBRA (Sèpt: 24-Oct. 33)-- about mamelling of Be prepared to take full advante do not, approve, tad age of any opportunity that diplomacy in dealing comes your way. A

Act on it at TAUBUR (Apr. 1 TheThere:zbig, be ancie CORPIO (Oct. 4.Nov. 28) old problems just how And trane will only fadke waste to mert to each private, day, ma, lake, your time, chiraciais

handling important, det