1955-10-01 — Page 18

Pago 18

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1955,

FEATURES

FOR

BOYS

AND

GIRLS

YOUR PUZZLE Mountain-going Galleon Seeks Why

CORNER

GROSSWORD

Solicitude:

ACROSS

5 Challenge

10 Verbal

Soviet city

11 Number

12 Collection of sayings

13 Literary critic

17 Nightfall (poel)

18 is displeased

22 Fondic

23 Individual

25 City in Nevada

27 God of love

28 Harem reoms

29 Salamander

DOWN

Folding bed

2 Greek god of war

3 Lease

4 Measure of cloth

5 Accomplish

Brazilian macaws

7 Rave

8 Note in Guldo's scale

14 Affirmative reply

16 American general

16 Hostelry

18 Bamboolike grass

10 Volcano in Stelly

20 Ripped

21 Winter precipitation

22 Golf teacher

24 East (FT.)

20 Bonc

27 Half-T

WORD CHAIN

Can you convert LEAD into GOLD in only

three MOVCAT

Change only one letter

TRIANGLE

at n

Lofty Treasure

By BESS RITTER

NE DAY, not so very This is panned on board by

special ex-

time and have a good word on motor car screeched up to tracts the ore by screening it each changel

the sheriff's office in the little and running it through sluico town of Fairplay, Colo.

old, An boxes following the excited woman tumbled out, time-honoured method used and stuttered what she by the 49er prospector on Today's triangle hangs from thought was an incredible his lonely mountain stream.

bored

CRIMSON. The second word

statement

to the

la "speedsters"; third "stat- ter"; fourth "to'ropale"; 10th is deputy in chargo: "There's an abbreviation for

FANTASTIC ORIGIN Welders"; & great big ship—a real Next, the waste dirt and and sixth a bone." Finish the ocean liner right in the gravel go over the side,

triangle:

CRIMSON

R

I

M

ន

N

JUMBLEAYAH

middle of the straight ahead.

mountain, forming

"It's got all its lights on. I saw it with my own eyes while I was on the highway. You won't believe me. But I swear that it's the truth."

DIGS GOLD ORE

The official only yawned, Add a letter to "n pronoun" and have "strike; jumble with then said patiently, "Reinx, another letter and have "a rest-lady. That liner is a real Tera hankering": jumble

an ever-advancing shore line. In an average week, as much as three-fifths of an acre is "eaten" in this way by the 101 glant dredge buckets that are situated on deck.

A SHIP OPERATING

I'VE BEEN DRIVING TOO LONG - THERE GANT BE A SHIP UP IN THE MOUNTAINS!

AWAY UP IN THE MOUNTAINS WOULD MAKE ANYONE STOP AND WONDER; THE SHIP, HOWEVER IS USED FOR COLD Digging PURPOSE-S

GOLD DUST IG

BEAUTIFUL ATUFF... ANYWAY YOU

LOOK

AT IT

THIS IS NO

PLACE FOR

MB-

IM NO

SAILOR!

✩ ✩ ✩

Why He

He Was Called "Honest Abe”

COMMON nickname for He went to his creditors and Abraham Lincoln was the money he could beyond the told them that he would save all "Honest Abe." He gained bare expenses of living, and that name in the little town would pay everything. of New Salem, Ill., a town'

It took him almost 18 years which had only about & hundred people when Lincoln he paid about $300 in interest, to do it, and during that time lived thoro. He was a clerk There win so much to pay that

he in a store there.

Jokingly called it #Tho National Debt." But he paid it all,

One day he was greatly per- plexed to learn that a customer had puid him six cents too much. It had been done in making change

and Abe had not dis- He could havo declared bank- covered

d it until an hour after ruptcy, but he refused to do so. the customer had left. He It was an honest debt, he said, could not close the store, but and an honest mun would pay after dark

walked three it. miles and returned the, money

ho

On another occasion he found that ho had weighed some tea Incorrectly. A

had bought a half pound at closing Ume. When he looked at thë

women

In the store was a small post offico. Postal officials, did not como around very often to examine accounts and, collect money, but one finally came,

he presented a bill for $17. Abe As Lincoln way still in town,

the used in turning the huge drums mountain-high waves that break at he had given her a pack wok him to a small trunk and

Where does the ore come from?

geologists, According 10 answer to that one is as fantas the as everything else about the Galleon

which wind the wire rope.

This, in te turn, raises and lowers the never-ending belt of patient dredge buckets. Auxiliary winches are also used, to pull the boat along in measured five

foot steps.

A prehistoric Ice Age glacier this one. It's called the Golden mayed down from the north, with another letter and have "Galleon, and it's owned by a culling away the mountains as character in a fairy tale"; add

grinding up I went, and man out here named Web mother lode (or main streak) of a letter and have "a losh."

Skinner. The whole town of gold while it was at it. This with mixed, then, Fairplay is mighty proud of was well it."

particles of gravel. The free goid that it left is what Eventually the glacier melted. the Golden Galleon is engaged in panning.

WORD. SQUARE

The Puzzleman says that

The sight of a 2,500-ton when you rearrange the letters vessel moving slowly across a in each row correctly and then range of peaks in a glacial Tarrange the rows right, you'll basin 70 feet deep and a half find your answer reads the acre in area, at an elevation same across us it does down:

of 11,000 feet is mighty un- believable..

AERS

But even more unbeliev- Jable is its purpose for being there: the digging of gold

CREW OF PROSPECTORS What's the crew like? The 25

Instead, they're members aren't sca-going callors, gold prospectors,

ultra-modern

But each can simulate the most experienced old salt, when It comes to experience. For all are

and even seasickness.

How much power is required More to operate the dredges?

kilowatt than a half million hours, every month, for the 800- familiar with goles, high waves, horsepower generator which is

EGG HOLDER:

FLY-IN

over the bow.

RUGGED SAILING

All kinds of clamnge result, such

as smashed windows on the navigating bridge that's a full 20

The ship

feet above the deck. is also

and thrown backward rocks violently, which causes good old-fashioned seasickness two miles above sea level.

Other troubles are caused by tremendous chunks of ice that form on the deck like miniature icebergs. The only way to re- move them is with dynamite,

In the away-back-when days, But gold was difficult to find. once you did, you owned your fortune

Today' contrariwise, the price

scates the next morning he saw age of tea that was four ounces too light. I was daytime, with other

customers to look after, but as soon as possible he took the tea to her, making another long walk.

*

opened its lid. He took out a cloth bag, opened it, and counted out the exact change.

"I've had it here waiting," he told the metal.

never 1180 anybody's money but my own."

Is it any

wonder that tho. people called him "Honest

These examples of his honesty Abe"? were not as strongly testing as W03 yet another instance. Abo and a man named Berry bought

д

storo in New Salem, giving their notes promising to pay for the goods in the store. Business was not good, so after a year OF two

out they sold

two brothers, who in turn gave their notes; instead of

them money.

The brothers disappeared soon afterward without having paid anything on their notes.

This is contructed in sub-zero wintertime weather who

a is pegged at a pas $35 per ounce. heavy sea results from the freez Consequently, despite all her ing of the top layer of earth. modern efficiency, there are many When this happens, the dredge weeks year when the gallant to make matters worse, Berry must undercut the frozen bank, Golden Gollcon doesn't recover died. Abe was left with the

to show for it.

Then,

AINPTore, right out of the water. The "voyage" the vessel EERST takes is a never-ending one.

which makes it break off, fall enough of this so-called precious whole debt, and with nothing For it works its way through 1Punch a hole in each into the water, and create metal to pay her expensen, AERRS year in and year out.

its "sea" around the clock, end of a PLASTIC EGG

As it moves, it scoops up HOLDER.... use the point

AECPR gold-bearing glacial deposit. of a small pair of SCISSORS FEARLESS GENERAL TIN

(Solations on Page 20)

Sharpen Up

PERUVIANS WERE Your Wits

MASTER WEAVERS

THE

THE natives of Peru were not faded appreciably in over

expert weavers, not only 20 centuries.

The material used was cotton during the period of Inen (both brown and white varieties domination (from 1100 to

were grown in the coastal re 1532), but long before, glons) and lama wool. Four raised, Mummies dating back to the varieties of llama were beginning of the Christian the wool of the vicuna provid-

era have been found wrapped in the most brilliant of tex- tiles and showing a long association with the weaving urt.

Scientists generally agree that the high standard of these tex- tiles, very many of which sur- vive, has never been surpassed anywhere in the world at any time,

ing the

the finest yarn. Very primitive indeed were the tools of their craft, The spindle was simply o slender

wood weighted shaft of

near the middle with a whorl of clay, stove or metal. The resulting cotton and woollen threads and yarns compare favourably with those spun by modern methods.

★

The loom was slightly more

Of course the Peruvians wore complicated. It consisted of two many of their clothes in life but bars. The upper bar was at some of those of the highest tached to a free

THESE ANIMALS of fuct and fiction have helped

make famous the places in the second column. Can you match the animals with the geographical locations?

1. Rats

a. Swiss Alps 2. Mrs O'Leary's b. Egypt

c. Hamelin

cow

3. Wooden Horse d. Rome 4. Swallows

e. Kentucky 1. Troy

5. St. Bernards

6. Babe, the

Blue Ox

7. Manx Cate 8. A mother

wolf

D. Thoroughbred

horses

g. Chicago

HOLA

2.Make a frame by lashing two 16in. and two 9in.sticks together like this

TIE WITH STRING

-It's Bravery Even If The Lion Is Really A Cat-

By MAX TRELL

>

TOW everyone knew that General Tin, the Tin Soldier, was one of the bravest hunters

that ever lived. So when Knarf,

the shadow-boy

with

the

turned-about name, and Teddy

the Stuffed Bear went up to Gentral Tin to ask him if he had ever been frightened by a lion they weren't surprised at all to hear him say: "Frightened by a Hon? My dear chape, I'm not frightened by anything at all."

Namo It

3.Put a short piece of STRING through each hole Teddy.

h. Capistrano and tie the egg holder

to the frame.

1. Isle of Man

1. Pacifie

Northwest U.S.

or post or a would like to visit. Fill in the

10. The Sphinx

FAVOURITE COUNTRIES EACH OF THESE boys and girls has a favourite country he quality were reserved for burial similar object and the lower blanks and find the names of garments. In 1949 in a valley end was fastened to a belt these countries. To help you, car Pisco on the coast of encircling the weaver's back the capital of each country is southern Poru, a grave was dis- Warp threads were stretched given. covered which contained one of between the two bars and the the very largest pieces of cloth weft threads were inserted ever woven without a machine. · (ovtr and under) across the It is le feet wide and 87 feet warps.

of

1.--- ADA *-

2. FRAN

**

3. -----TINA

4.POLA -

5.- OLIVIA

6. PHILIP

Ottawa Port Buenos Aires Warsaw La Paz Quezon City Peking

Copenhagen Jerusalem Karaohl

long. (Owing to the primitive On this device, material of narrow loom used, Feruvian the plainest weaves could be woven pieces are rarely over 30 produced without a great deal 7. --INA inches wide.)

of practice,

8. MARK More com

requir-19.- RAE - complex designs ed considemblo skill in 10.STAN The dry climate many manipulation, however. It is to parts of Peru is, of courec, a the Peruvian great credit that

(Answers on Pago 20) chief factor in preserving the they perfected their art to such textiles intact. But the natives a degree that they mastered, in were also master dyers. They a variety of designs, practically used all vegemble dyes and the every weaving technique known brilliant colours of their to us today, including gingham, tapestries and garments have embroideries and lace work.

4.TIE STRINGS TOTHE ENDS OF THE FRAME AND HANG OUT OF DOORS AWAY FROM CATS.

FILL THE FLY-IN WITH BREAD CRUMBS, WILD BIRD MEAL AND WATER!

| ZOO'S WHO

WIF

ས་ bet I know something

frightened you're

of," sald

“Name it, sir," said General Tin.

"Thunder and lightning," said Teddy.

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Knart and Teddy listened to the General's story.

"Not at

ali," said General Tin. "I'm no more

here nor

"He looked right in my eye!" | sald General Tin. "I suppose we might have stayed in that garden oli afternoon looiding cach other in the eye but, fortunately, little poodio-dog

came along at that moment and gave a loud bark and the lion

scampered off. So you see, I wasn't afraid of that lion at all."

"General Tin," said Teddy

1

Flag Stamps Commemorate Historic Date

THE

on an

THE yellow cross

azure field, floats guily wherever the flags of the nations are raised. Sweden is to the fore in sports, social welfare, science and the art of living at peace with her neighbours and powerful countries 'further afield.

SVERIG

DENGJUIN

Today the Swedish fing goog on Sweden'o stampe བ་ལ་

com

to

mernorate an im nor tant date to these peace- loving people.

The

data is

is June

1800

after a moment or two of silence, when the country's Constitution "are you sure that Bon was a was drawn up and the basis of ral lion?"

ther present-day prosperity was Iloid.

is

"Well," said. General

Tim.

In these days of fast-moving "como to think of it. He atom-powered politics it wasn't as big as Bons usually interesting to look back and aro,"

recall that the founder of the "Was he as big as a cat?" asked present Swedish dynasty was

one of Napolcon's Teddy.

brilliant leaders, Marshal Jean Berna- "Just about that size," said dotte, prince of Ponte Corvo, General Tin.

Swedish Reason is that the "Was he a cat?" asked Teddy, heir to the throne died childless afraid of But that's neither

"I never asked him," anorted and parlament decided to look thunder and lightning than I there. Let me continue with my General Tin. "Anyway, 'It to the dynamic men around am of dragons, Indians or Head story, Woll, we were walking makes no difference, Lions are Napoleon for a new monarch. Hunters"

down the garden path, Florabello Uke cats and eats are like Hons. The flag stamp which inspired Knarf aald: "There aren't any and I, when all n't once Now don't bother me any more!" this dip into history is perforated aren't any Head Hunters, either, arm. dragons, General Tin. There Florabelle began tugging at my And that's all that General Tin 12 and a set of two costs 7d.

would say:

in London—JA‚Â And the Indians aren't wild any

more."

* 'General Tin,' she squeaked,

That's got nothing to do with don't look now, but there's a It," said General Tin. "I'm just lion behind that tree!""" not afraid of them. And about

those Hons: I never was afraid

of them! I remember as though

Ho's Still Here

"Did you look, General Tin?"

it happened yesterday, how I Teddy asked.

mok

met my first Lion"

As Knart and Teddy were

"Certainly," sald General Tin,

very eager to hear about how "It was lurking behind a pine General Tin met his first Hon, tree. I saw It plainly. It was they begged him to tell them the a lon." whole story.

1

Twitching Noso Then General Tin began as follows;

"It was

ago.

Teddy gasped. "Weren't you eaten up alive?"

Knart broke in. "Ot, courECİ he wasn't eaten up alive, Teddy! | He's here now, isn't he?"

many, many years

General Tin nodded and con- I was wallding down the tinued. "I told. Florabello tol garden path with Florabelle wait where she was for when

Here Knort "Who was Florabelle?"

"Florabelle,"

moment. I said: 'I'll teach that interrupted: Hon to hide behind trees and

scare people! So I walked up to said General that on and looked him in the Tin. "was a Lady mouse of my eye,"

acquaintanco! She had a twitch- "What did the llon do?" asked Ing nose and lovely whiskers. Knarf

Rupert and Dinkie-34

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DEE FULLGROWN.„... HUM ESQUEAK

ZOOKEEPERS SAY THAT LIIPHANTS PAY NO ATTENTION TO

MICE AND THIS DOUBTLESS ISTRUE OF WILD ELES

At length the contrer prepares

the

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to `alart, work." You AWD... 20 further aff. he says, "waving them away."Me no "can" t'ink. "I didn'tom mye" Rupert, in some proper when you, so close,th, So excitement.

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