1955-09-24 — Page 18

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1955.

FEATURES FOR BOYS

AND GIRLS A

PRESIDENTIAL The School Comes To Her Daily CHANGE A DOLLAR

PUZZLES

CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Pasteboard

5 Minstrel

Brend expread

10 Great Lake

1 Year between 12 and 20

12 Eternity

13 Compass point

'14 Handled

17 Unit of weight

13 Rounded

21 Musical note

23 Native metal

24 Arabian gair

20 Flower

28 Sharp

20 Italian city

30 Withered

DOWN

1 Folding beds

2 On the sheltered side

3 Scottish sheepfold

4 Give

5 Exist

Ú Scope

7 Tumult

B Low sand hill

16. Negative word

18 Moves furtively

18 Ripped

19 God of love

20 Pause

21 Sidelong glance

22 Girl's name

25 English river

27 Early. English (nb.)

TRIANGLE

Today's triangle is based on PATTERN. The second word

Is "mother": third "ght touch"; fourth "endure"; ifth "sticky substance"; and sixth "subdue." Finish the frlangle from these clues:

P

N

PATTERN

VOWELL-LESS FLOWERS

. Can you ll in the vowels

which have been omitted from

these flowers?

-NM N-w

L

PNS Y

NRC - S S - $ PHL X

CITY SQUARE

The Puzzleman says you must

find the right starting point and then read each letter either up. down, back, or forth (but not diagonally) to Buc the six American cities he has bidden here:

SOBHI TONG|G|A

C

NALEOC.

DDE

EIL

IHTRO1 APLENT ADEWY TO

HPKR

(Solutions on Page 20)

Vanished Race In

A Desolate Land

O. LTD

ON A BEAUTIFUL Jonely plateau In New Zealand lives a girl' who walls for school to come to her every day. Kathryn rides out on her pony to meet the mall truck which brings her lessons for the day. Her "schoolroom" is her living room, where her mother often Joins her while she studies. Although her life is isolated, it's comfortable in a modern home. And although she has few playmates, there's lots of tobogganing to be done on the beautiful mountain slopes around her.

Glamourise

NSTEAD

INS

Your

Jewellery

pieces of metal contine paint, all you do is shield JEWEL BOX 3.fold cardboard into an

away

of throwing such to be covered by the

costume them with adhesive tape jewellery, try transforming first. them into glamour get-ups

For unusual effects, you with the help of ordinary enamel or

oil-base paint, might try cutting small dia- You'll be surprised at how monds, triangles or squares of such tupo too, and attach pretty they will look. What's more, you'll need them where desired before dipping the jewellery. Don't very small amounts of

remove the masks, of course,

colour.

Start by preparing the paint bath. This requires any

deep tin, such as one that used to contain family-size amounts of fruit puice. Fill it with water. Then pour a little paint on the surface. It will float.

until the paint is quite dry.

It's also a good idea to cover rhinestones and the like with

adhesive tape as well.

Don't be hesitant about applying paint to favourite picces because you're afraid that "mistakes" will be difficult to remove. For Next, tie your pieces of there's an easy

way to do jewellery-which might be this. Place such jewellery in

a simple earringto a an air-tight tin, such as one piece of string, and drop the that contained vacuum- ornament below the film of packed coffee. Add a few

ATO

1.GLUE PIECES OF COLORED PAPER OVER ALL SIDES

accordian fold.

...WITH SCISSORS, CUT AND TOP OF NOTCHES FOR RINGS, A WOODEN BEADS AND PINS.'

CIGAR BOX.

2. With point of SCISSORS and a RULER score a heavy piece of CARDBOARD

Into Zinch strips.

--TUNER LENGTH OF THE BOX

蔬

TURN OVER AND SCORE ON BACK

of paint. Bring it up through tablespoons of lacquer thin that the paint will be soft satisfied with your new the colour and enough will ner. Replace the lid. Seal enough to wipe off. painted accessories. For you cling to it to cover the piece it with Scotch tape. Twenty- This is a good trick to re can change the shade at will URING the recent war

completely. Then tie the four hours later you'll find member if you're completely to match different outfits. The Iplutak used a central string's other end to and DURI

one of the largest open fireplace for heating convenient horizontal bar- settlements ever found in while most modern Eskimos such as a towel rack or the the North American Arctic use stone lamps. No remains shower curtain ring, until it was excavated. It's on a of sleds have been found, is quite dry. sund bar 20 miles from the little pottery and little of

Other items, of course. mainland of Alaska and 200 the marine hunting gear-such as necklaces and ear- miles north of Bering such As the harpoon-rings, can be painted in this

generally associated

And if you don't present-day Eskimos.

want the catches, screws and

Strait.

with

manner.

Today there is not a single tree on the area and pratically no vegetation of

The most prized posses- any kind. There are stant gales at 80 degrees sions of these early Alaskans

can

con-

UNUSUAL INFORMATION

the battle with

TTIGH in the mountains has been no war. Perhaps Surk was the eventual loser in

on the boundary be the Christ of Andes has pre- able steam ships.

more depend tween Argentina and Chile vented it. is a huge statue called the Christ of the Andes. People from both countries can see

miles away;

**

*

*

Leonardo da Vinci' con-

A comet's tall always streams out from the comet head in a direction away from the sun, so

INTO FIVE

ET a largo envelope

G the long kind and cut

off a very thin strip around all the edges except the flap, where the glue is. The en- velope will now be in two. pieces.

Take the plece which has the flap attached and slip it into another long envelope of the same size, so that the flap of the first envelope lies night in front of the flap of the other. It should look like one envelope.

Now tell your Dad that you want to show Mother

| how you can change a $1 bill into a $5 bill. Ask him

to lend you $5.

Put the $5 bill in the space between the two flaps. Drop it all the way to the bottom.

Now seal the two flaps to gother by moistening the glue on the uncut envelope.

PUT FIVE DOLLAR 'Bibli

ON THIS GIDE OF

PARTITION

PUT ONE DOLLAR ON THIG SIDE":

PRESTO!

by making an with the knife where you would write the address. Do this in mich à way that you will not cut the $5 bill inside.

Now break open the cut and pull out the $5 bill

Mother will be surprised, butt don't tell her how the trick is done. She may want you to do it for her every day, but, of Now you and Dad call Mother course, you can't do that unless and ask her to lend you a 41 Dad will furnish you with a $5 bill. Tell her you

it into a $5 bill.

can change bill every day!

Put the $1 bill into that part

of the envelope that has not yet been sealed and then seal it.

**

Be sure you don't throw the Tell Mother that if she will envelope away after you have pass her hand over that part of taken the $5 bill out, because the envelope where the address the $1 bill is still inside. After would be placed if you were Mother has gone, you can then to mall it, the $1 bill will break the envelope open and be changed into a $5 Bill.

take out the $1 bill.

After Mother has passed her If Mother took the $3 bill hand over the envelope, take a Dad will probably want you to knife and cut the envelope open give him the $1 bill

Merlin's Up To Tricks

-He Makes a Car from an Old Alarm Clock-

By MAX TRELL

T's an oid alien clock. It

IT'S

doesn't go any TOTO," Knarf, the shadow-boy with the turned-ebout name, was saying to his sister Hanid.

"Are you going to take it apart?" Hauld asked.

"Sure," said Knorf. "It isn't good for anything any *more. it's just a lot of wheels,"

On the Tablo It was later. The old alarm clock was about ten minutes standing on the table. Knarf had just come back from tool closet with a screw driver, a haromer and a pair of

of pincers,

Hanid had

the

78

watch the walled up a chair to

wheels come out

Merlin, on hands and kners, "Oh dear," she sa

do was putting things together." wish there was something we could do with that old clock."

"It won't go,"

and rods and springs and Bald Knart strango little nuts "It's

only good for taking apart. went dying

and bolts around the room. I'm going to whack it

out. The face of the old clock looked Watch out!

"I still wish wo

as if it were smiling. Then the could do something with that old clock," numbers went whirling around.

A bell Hanld repeated.

started ringing. It rang all around the room, up at the Behind the Bookshelves celling, down on the floor.

SHIPS ON it from many the Christ, ceived the idea of the aero- when a comet is moving away he lived, but kir Merlin the like rain. were buried with them: flint barely find tools, needles and other ob

below zero. Where 250 Eskimos food today, an estimated 4,000 persons once lived.

THEIR STAMPS

Germans are

tion.

His hand raised in benedic plane nearly 500 years ago, from the sun, its tail precedes

It reminds them that getting his inspiration from its head. once their countries were watching the birds.- enemies, but that now they

*

At that very instant who Kaart and Hanid covered their should come hurrying out from heady with their hands, for the behind the bookshelves where wheels and things were falling Magnificent Magician, He was

The Air Cleared pushing an empty baby carriage. On seeing Knart and Hanld, *

When the air cleared they save Mr Merlin stopped. He smiled, Mr Merlin down on his hands In South America there are nodded good-morning, then sud and knees. Ho was putting some ants which carTY large denly his eyes lit up. "An old things together in the greatest leaves into their underground clock!" he exclaimed.

hurry. homes. In the dark, these leaves "It's broken," said Knarf. "It is the only soon form a mould which the won't go any more."

Merlin," sald Hanld. the "Isn't thero anything we can do the leaves along

are friends.

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80

In 1904 the women of the

The Cutty Saric

jects. Many of these were so different from Eskimo things that the Eskimos in- habiting the region didn't know what they were.

NHC Ivory animal Excavation began in 1989

carvings

new two countries took the lead remaining clipper ship of their by American and Danish were uncovered. There were proud of

the in erecting the statue. Pieces great sailing ship days. Built ants use for food. As the ants "Mr

carry spiral-shaped museums. The town, com- prising about 800 houses, carvings which the natives effort that is going into of old cannon and other in 1870, the giant sea clipper is ground to the doorways of their with all the wheels and things

a pretzel-type building it that they are guns that had been used in now a museum in England. The homes, they look as if they were inside that old clock?" turned out to be nearly a mile long and a quarter of biscuit which Eskimos eat. putting one of their crack the fighting were melted ship, once averaged 15 knots on carrying parasols; hence, their

liners on their stamps..

also

many

likened to

a mile wide.

The Dimes came from Asia and have been here at

Icast This civilisation has been 2,000 years. Where did the called "Ipiutak," after the Iplutaks come from? Presum Eskimo name for the place. migrated to Alaska from farther ably these mysterious people Though they may have been south, perhapo across the Ber- Eskimo in origin, there ing Seo or Arctic Ocean, were many marked dif- more unlikely, from somewhere

on the Pacific coast, ferences in their living habits.

-R, 5. CRAGGS

THE SETTLEMENTS WERE DISEDVERED ON

BUZZARD SWEPT BAND BAR, 200 MILES. NORTH DE THE BERING STRAIT.) -

RYED POLAR BEAR”-

CARVINGS" WERK

"BSTEEL-LIKE:

Ancient CULTURE/ALASKA

HE

merchant navy and

This is the motorship Berlin. Stio is carrying the black, red and gold ng of Western Germany across the North Atlantic and challenging the rest of the world's passenger shipping with a service second to none and comfort on the super-luxury level. German shipyards are working day and night to build up the merchant fleet to many times its prosent strength and send new and bigger: Berlin-type liners to the far corners of the sarther

Meanwhile, the fraw Interrupa' are göing rihưng; fruf ge-a-when- ing to all rivals what to expost

* voyage

the

name, the parasol ants.

8%

down to make the statue.

from England to Australia, a record speed. ira

* There have been other dis- spite of an accident which dam- putes between the two count-aged two of her masts. Although the states in value of minerals Michigan ranks 12th among tries since 1904, but there she set sailing records, the Cutty produced.

| ZOO'S WHO

In competition WA FICH WILDO NARIES CANNOT Chatod lip is SING AS WELL AS TAMED'

BIRDS BRIS

QUALI

BEVICHICIAGO,

SMALLEST MEM- BER OF THE ARMADILLO FAMILY IS FIVE INCHES LONG AND LIVES IN ARGENTINA

THE SHIELD ON THE TOP OF HIS BODY IS PINK AND THE LONG FUR UNDERNEATH IG -SHOW-WHITE...IT LEAVES - ITS BURROW AT NIGHT TO HUAT ANTS AND TERMITES-

મો.

“I'll have everything ready, in a minute!'!, he saidi

"What are you going to do?" Hanid aske

"I'm making an Rutomobile, sald Mr Merlin. "Don't bother Wheels and Things me, please, "Certainly," said Mr Merlin. Knart and Hanid just gasped:

ho

turning to "An automobile, Mr Merlin? Knori, me have the wheels and things inside that old clock?"

Fitted Them Together

"My Do women if you'd let An automobile?”......

"I was going to take it apart,” said Knari.

"Go ahead" said Mr Merle, "Give it a whack!"

Mr Merlin didn't answer.... Ho cooped up handfuls pt machinery, from ... thời | broken clock and fitted them together. There is still plenty of in- It Seemed to Explode

It was amazing what he did. the vestigating to be done in

Knart gave the old clock an a field of insect study. It has been happy whack with the hammer,

minuto, în a mimita... estimated there are 10,000,000 || A. "wonderful thing

kept sayi happened he

Then

ho species, of which only 475,000 The whole clock seemed to BX- species are known to science, plode like a soap-bubble. Wheels

Rupert and Dinkie-28.

all the put-together wheels and under the baby carriage with

oftached it underneath. When he prawled out again ho was smiling.

"It's done," he said, "We now have "an automobile. Step into the carriage, please!"

Knart and Harsid, looking guita doubtful; stepped into the: baby carriage: MF Merila, stopped:fa after them." There woo'l konts ing wheel. There was Brakom

brid a starter.

Over the Fields "Here we go!" said Mr Merlin. Instantly, all the winele berors whirring and

the