1955-10-08 — Page 18

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1955,

FEATURES FOR BOYS

YOUR PUZZLE Indian Chief Makes Peace

CORNER

CROSSWORD

ACROSS

Period of time

4 Doctrine

Writing Implement

7 Craft

Salver

10 lading peasant

12 Egyptian sun god

13 Preposition

14 Ledger entry

17 Borrowed amount

19 Compass point

20 Measure of cloth

21 Great fear

23 Bilter vetch

2 Any

DOWN

1 Disavow

3 Twelve months

4 Bevernga

5 Allempt

0 Prattle

8 Add up

Three times (comb. form)

11 Unit of weight

15 Conclusion

14 Simple

17 Meadows

18 Aged

22 Comparative suffix

SCRAMBLE 'EM

TRIANGLE

The Puzzlemun buses bis triangle on PARENTS. Tho

With Brave Little Boy

BADIAH,

are

you

"Boing to split that

wood today, or not?"

feel.

Mistress Prescott spoke a rreand wurd Is symbol for trifle sharply, and her son "calelum"; third "blemish";at opce roxe to his fourth minute skin opening":"Yes, Mother, I'll get at it Afth "to Inment"; and sixth "a right away!"* vegetable." Can you complete

the triangle?

PARENTS

BEHEADINGS

The Prescott cabin hud been built on the borders of tho Okle Bay Colony; and in those early days of the 18th century life was rough and dangerous.

to

Sounds from the inner

Obadiah room crused pause. "How you feeling 10-

Behead "mixtures and have day, While Doo?" he called

Jonns": behead this and have "eoncludes.**

(Solutions on Page 20).

out cheerfully.

"Me

better?

Paleface

medicine do lut good!" wan the reply.

White Doe was an Indian maid of the Wampanoag fell

UGH... ME TAKE GUN!

There Is A tribe, whom Obadiah and clearing.

Reason Teapot's

IN

For Cost Hungry and hurt, she could possessed

TN the old days there were!

not

many banks or other safe places

keeping money.

Instead

silver vessels.

for

sume

little

AND

GIRLS

CAN WILD ANIMALS MAKE GOOD HOUSEHOLD PETS?

PEOPLE Who

go vacu-

tioning in summer sometimes bring home four- footed souvenirs of the most extraordinary type, Georgo Hortler of Hamden, Conn., went vacationing in Min- nesota one May. At the Canadian border he camo

upon some hunters who had just killed a mother bear. Pleased with their prize and anxious to tote it off, the hunters insisted they had no time to look for the cubs.

Mr

Hertler spent six hours hunting the orphans. Finally, in a thickly wooded jaren, he found three bits of fur huddled together and shivering. The cubs

were

about three weeks old and weighed together about He pointed at the partially four and three-quarters

severed pine.

**How paletace boy want pounds.

11

help?"

Indian of the

iL easily rend

VACATIONERS OFTEN BRING HOMS STRANGE- SOUVENIRS-ONE MAN CAME BACK WITH

THREE BEAR CUBS-

HI, TINY!

A FARMER CAME HOME

WITH AN ELEPHANT-

of white

ZOO director in thetr home city was glad to identify the velvet-white benuties

ITG

LUNCH

TIME BABIES.

IF YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT ANIMALS, BE CAREFUL ABOUT WHAT”

YOU BRING

BACK.

Merlin Goes To Market

-For A Tin of Purr and Other Fancy Things-

the across

elderly couple derived a great albino Dying squirrels. This Glancing up, he beheld his father had rescued from

He gathered

deel of fun and entertainment squirrel does not change colour Berce-looking savage, who now

the tiny from their pet. "I'll show you!" Having taken flerce Mohegans

with the season as does the fox who had

between him and his firm grip on one stopped

section of animals in his arma, took Two boyn

in the and ptarmigan. The director. camping captured her

Silently the up-river. rife.

the trunk by gestures he in them to his ear, and all the northwest brought back a pair was pleased to give the boy: himself

vited the Indian to grasp to

white directions on feeding and care Between them long miles back to Connec- of small moniccy-Inced

had for their pets. only tell them she'd been precious weapon, then turned to the other half.

the ad saying: "Paleface have

they could

in ticut he bottle-fed the little and-ton rodents that they taken from

distant

plenty fresticks! I take um.

been feeding nightly on peanut fellows. When he entered a twain.

butter. The boys were sure they on and patience, make

Wild animals con, with affee- camp of the Wampanoags. Lose mine in big river. Ugh!"

discovered brand-new

good Obadiah understood that the The Indian understood. "Pale- restaurant, armed with six bad

household pets. But unless you chipmunk.

are willing to give time to their DROVE A WEDGE red man had lost him own gun thee tazy dog" he grunted, but nursing bottles, waitresses species

special feeding and supply "Fine!" said Obadiah, and and was toking his to replace it. having put the rifle cown beyendid look startled but Mr The wide flat talls and the hints

Well he'd not let him get away the Jad's reach, he did

of flanges on their sides puzzled ns Ilertler quickly announced them, however.

sultablo quarters, best leave hurried out to the shed with it. Making menacing Obadiah had asked.

them in their natural state, of having money,

The that he had "triplets" in his therefore, people had thelafter an ax. He found his motion with his ax he said de-

It's But no sooner had his fingers car. family: "Put that down! wealth in silverware, Nut only father at work there.

Irma Hegel miue and you'd better leave it taken a Arm grip, then Obadiah did they have knives and forks, "Better take your rifle, where you found

withdrew his own and knocked. but they had bowls, cups.

his parent. It was bold speech, and the out the wedge. At once the two beakers, tumblers, goblets, salt too!" advised

made sections *closed In a vlec-like

The three bears now run and pepper shakers, and other "One never knows when the savage, scowling darkly,

Mohegans may come growl- as though to aim the rifle at the clutch. The Indian was caught.

around the Hertler garage lad, "When me shoot, me kll!"

Quickly the lnd took the The wealthy people oftening around!"

the and yard in Connecticut. DARING PLAN

Indian's tomahawk, and measured their riches in terms

Bearing his double bur-

rifte too. Then, putting two When they grow older he of gold or silverware,

den, Obadiah started off, Obadiah had to think fast. fingers to his lips, he blew an intends to give them to the

Park having He was certain the Indian was ear-piercing signal which soon Lincoln and

Zoo in Scramble "a spare" for "en-

If they had to move suddenly whistling,

his father bursting thralled and scramble th' for to escape from an enemy they plunged into the forest, not a Mohegan-probably from brought

By MAX TRELL some 1ribu up-river. As he through the brush, musket in Chicago, where bears "separate"; scrumble "a cruci-either buried their wore or took Ax" for "a smell and scramble it with them. There is many a came upon a pine tree trunk stood facing the stranger a plan hand. Two to one now, they not behind bars but in large

mont-aurrounded areas. W7NARF and Honid, about he'd felled the day before, popped into his mind whereby released the unlucky red man. "trengare trove" story

While they dehater what to

shadow-children with the such buried treasures and a few He started to strip it of its he might save both his life and

his rifle. Worth trying, any do. with him, White Dee comme Mr and Mrs Orrel Parker of turned-about names, were sitting been branches, after leaning his

into view. how!

Sho had left the Clevelang visited Arizona and on the edgo of the bookshelf rifle against a huge oak.

returned with seven ittle ler-(the lower "Huh. You got me in a tight cabin in search of berries.

edge on the shelf The modiaeval

bons, known as kangaroo rats, church had Soon it was necessary to spot. And maybe you do need

PEACE SIGN

"The jerbons make ideal pets," Merlin the Magnificent Maglelan the floor) when Mr much of this precious ware, and drive a wedge between the that gun more than I do!" he merchants and crafts guilds

At sight of the tall savage she the Parkers say.

came along. Mr Merlin lived (organisallons somewhat like two sections of the partly said evenly.

toward him, arms out- Have you ever heard of any somewhere behind the bookshelf. our labour unions today) also severed log, and having ed the Indian.

stretched, and he clasped the one bringing home an elephanty tie was carrying a shopping bag. fashioned one he drove it in

former (and former ZOO Obadiah and his attendant) did. The elephant's addressing giving me a lift here," went on father? allverware in its city hall, Even very firmly. That done, he gun, maybe you won't mind little one to his breast, Then, "Me Long Fox, Wam-

when namo was Temple, and iversities had raised his ax in air, but Obadiah. "Help aplit pine trunk, panong chief This my daughter she began fighting the colleges

"Good morning, my dears," he and

other large quantities of it.

paused as a sinister shadow hun?"

In the Swope Park said to Knart and Hanid. "Would Mohegans steal many moons elephants since."

Zoo, the director sold her to the you children care to accampany White Doc poured out her farmer for $200. Temple moved me to Superduper Market? My tale of rescue and how the in with the cows, horses, mules pantry is almost bare. I haven't whites had restored

her to and chickens to become a peť, been "shopping for months." health. Then Long Fox made Neighbours of mine brought

A fow minutes later, Knarf the peace sign, and shook hands home a bright-eyed fox from

Pennsylvania.

This fox had and Hanid were both walking screened-in quarters in the half side by side with Mr Merlin on to the Superduper of a double garage. When Foxy their way

Market. was brought into the house, as he was on occasion, he proved

Merlin,"

this for "a portal."

WACKY COMPASS

H

N

WACKY

COMPASS

1/4/

START AT WEST AND USE THIRD LETTER WÍYOU DECIDE DIRECTION= AND YOU'LL HAVE NO TROUBLE FINDING

0

N

MESSAGE

CARRIER

1. Cut 2 six inch long

pieces from a CLOTHES HANGAR.

2 Slip a wooden SPOOL in the

.

center of

each wire and

bend it like this...

3.TACK THE WIRE TO

A WINDOW LEDGE OF EACH HOUSE

UPHOLSTERING TACKS.

4. Runa STRING between

of these hoards have found.

had it.

Almost

3

every city displayed

This change of front astonish-

got "As long as you've

ran

the

Try These For Gloom Chasers

(USIE: “Daddy.

IS

my

teacher is really dumb." Daddy: "Why do you say that?"

Susie: "Well, today she kept asking me silly ques tions. Why, she didn't even

Teacher "Yes, Jerry." Jerry: "Calves.",

UP IN THE AIR

Jake: "Were you ever up in the air, Bill7"

BI: "1 went up once." Jake: "What airline?" Bill: "I didn't go up in

my order

you can't send over of groceries now?"

Grocery Clerk: "Certainly, It's your Inst Mrs Bigmouth. month's blli."

́KILLS HIMSELF

First Moron: "I was telling amyself jokes the other day and

with her rescuers.

"Long Fox no forget! Heap big "friend! Wampanoag keep the peace!"

And they did, for many year!

are

nearest

"You

Pantry Is Bare

the

The Magician had a long Ust of things to buy.

Sho said this last because at that moment Mr Merlin took a great sheet of paper out of his pocket. It was soribbled with

to be quite destructive, yet this Flanid said, as they turned the names of things he had to buy.

know the capital of our plane. It was the time I stood almost killed myself laughing at The Man Who Invented

country and I had to tell behind that stubborn mule." her."

REASON ENOUGH

one of them."

Second Moron: "How is that?" First Moron: "I told myself one that I had never heard bo- fore."

A DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIFIC AUTHOR

KIGHT ANSWER Teacher: "What does cow have that no animal has?"

Mra Bigmouth: "Just give me one good reason as to why

2

other

Jerry: "I know answer, Miss Groen."

tho

MEET THE

FAMILY!

a life.

Air-conditioning

In an effort to save the President's life, it was im-

Washington

Naval Depart-

09.

astronomer.

know,

Mr

comer, "we don't know where The Superduper Market is,”

"We never even heard of it," sald Knarf.

Tiny Alley

"We don't have to walk at all," Mr Merlin said. "Here, step Into this auto-basket, picaso."

What a wonderful thing this auto-basket was! It went by Mr Merlin raised his eyebrows Itself ke a motor car. Mr in surprise. "I'm surprised at Merlin steered it up and down you two," he said, "The Super- the aisles between the tall duper Market is on Nowhere airolves. Then he let Knarf and Street."

Hand drive it while he took the ting and boxes that ho "Where's that?" asked Knarf. needed off the shelves. "About a block away from

A Tin of Puer

*Mr

IR-CONDITIONING was ving the doctor, Newcomb A first used to try to save gave leg ball and even

Salem Mass., by shipping Everywhere Avenuo," replied Mr on a lumber schooner at Merlin, as he suddenly crossed James A. Garfield, 20th Saint John, New Brunswick, the strect and hurried down

Merlin bought a great Jules Verne Honoured

President of the United

tiny alley which Knarf and meny strange and unusual gro-

ceries In States, who was inaugurated He obtained work with a Hanld had never noticed before.

this. Superdüycr 1881, was printer and later daught school. "We're coming to it now ho Market. These are some of the has very Famous French is Jules Vernejon March 4,

14

He struggled through Harvard cald.

groceries that Knarf and Hanid FRANCE

saw him buy: pleasant and instructive and what a character he was assassinated in Washington Scientifle School and became at

Verne must share with tho

on July 2, the same year, tached to the custom of featuring her late H. G. Wells the honour of by Charles J. Guiteau.

Sure enough, a few stops fur- ment,

Robin Seed, to make you brought them on fiber

to the world's famous men on stamps. The being tho

most

warble like a robin: dils-

entrance of a large store. A scientific author choice ranges from charac- tinguished

sign sald: Superduper Market. Toad Pudding, to make you showed the

They all went inside. ters who shone hundreds of whose writingu

hopi shape of things to come. years ago to the heroes of

But Verne is, perhaps, worthyperative to relieve the hot, Honorary degrees were con- It was an enormous stare, The A Pound of Bumble Steak, to World War II.

of even Greater praise than

midsummer temperature, ferred upon him by 17 univer-leives filled with tins and boxes make. Into hamburgers; One of the most fascinating Wells. For Verzie was born Ordinary devices failed and skies in Canada, United States, seemed to go on and on.

of 1828 and therefore, "H, G."

and Russia. Holland, Germany was 30 years nearer to the age outside help was sought. Ho died in Washington In 1909, of marvels about which both of

and was given a full military' them wrote.

Professor Simon Now funeral. A bust of him is now comb, a Canadian astrono- in the New York University mer who migrated to the Hall of Fame. United States at the age of 18, was called in. He per- fected a formula whereby the air in the room and the body temperature of the sick man were lowered to al safer degree. His good friend, Alexander Graham Probably the most famous of Bell, located the bullet that all Verno's works is Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The had evaded many doctors. Sca." It isntung, therefore,

men chosen for a new set

the windows and loop ZOO'S WHO

it around the spools,

5. PUNCH TWO

HOLES OPPOSITE EACH OTHER LIN FROM TOP RIM OF A REFRIGERATOR CARTON... TIE STRINGS :

THROUGH THE

CARRIER

HOLES AND

THEN THE CARTON

TO BOTTOM STRAND

DE CARRIER.

AIHA

LUNCH

COMEN SNA LES FIÉST, SEPÄE "THEIR PREY THEY

POMERANIAN

IS A MEMBER OF THE LUPINE FAMILY WHOSE ¿NIMBERS ARE CLOSER “RELATIVES OF (OFTHE WOLF. THAN OTHER,

VOGS.

APRK!

DO NOT KNOW THE OFWORDS THEY' AND THEIR INTELLAM?

that the stamp which Hondur

his namo should show the

marine" from the book with "Although Garfield died, gallant Captain Nemo on deck. Professor Newcomb wad

Verne's other well-known hailed as a genius.

books are "Five Works in a

Batloon"**** "The English at the Simon Newcomb started North Pole

the life at Wallace, Nova Scotia.

World In, BG F "Around *

The novels of this far-sighted The son of poor parents, he man are now dreams come true. walked barefooted to village They look forward, not back- schools. At 14, hê was bound ward. Therefore they are ill out to a farmers for board the books of youth.

The stamps is perforated -18 Theit. at 16, he was appears TOKMONKEYE, İnnú costs 17- in London AMAticed na a doctor, After ser-

in

Out of His Pocket

Merlin, how are we going to be Hantu said: "My goodness, Mr

able to walk that far? And look at how many things you have

ERNEST S. KELLY to buy!"

Rupert and Dinkie-

The conjurer doesn't answer at

- prere? Going down, an çon knew

-40.

their amazement the rope begins

to rise, firat in a tother wobbly. ha begina 2là (wave bla (wand) way then more, firmly until found" and -round, over his ropes, rising nearly mralph), “This "non Chinese magic" ht - Rupert must climb, my field foding but we objurar betere magic powdere Pit cam, slo: 50 Ruperty, and” Payling... fosse, urungths and hi see, heavy.

as tünde base and watdy" and strain, to

A Box of Polly Finkes, to make you talk like a parrot;

Syrup, to make you dance;

A Jar of Genuine Mayfly

A Bottle of Ticks-and-Tocks, to pour inside Mr. Merlin's clocks;

A Package of Bounce, to give to the dog.

A Tin of

cat;

urr, to give to the

A Bag of Squeaks, to give to the mouse.

Knart and Haold would have been glad to spend the rest of the day riding up and down the aisles in that wonderful Super- duper Market. However, they had to go home.

But the next day they tried to and it again for they wanted very much to give their cat:A

tin of Purr. It was no use! They couldn't. And it

when

they went into an ordinary wo and asked for it, the man just Ahool

Hoad. The only ont

who seemed to know what they

H