1955-10-22 — Page 18

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1955.

BOYS FEATURES FOR

YOUR PUZZLE How Silk Hats Brought

CORNER

CROSSWORD

The Puzzleman has hidden

Low vehleles in

his cressword

this time:

ACROSS

Popular vehicle

3 Carrying vehicle

9 Nealed boxca

10 Hodgepodge

11 Expire

12 City In The Netherlanda

13 Bridge holdings

17 Bustie

18 Makes amends

22 Torrid

23 Fish egys

25 Gal's name

27 Merk

28 Perusa

29 Danish counties

DOWN

I Assist

2 Distinct puri

3 Large plant

4 Hawaiian bird

5 Company (ub.)

On tl sheltered side

7 Disoncumberg

Pedal digit

14 Snooze

15 Fruit drink

10 Against

18 Was borne

19 Hating device.

20 British streetcar

21 Kind

22 Pronoun

24 Abstract being

20 Pald newspaper notice

27 Each (ab.)

DIAMOND

The Puzzleman USCS KOLLEY

as a centre for his

AND

GIRL'S

Archaeologist Unravels The Mystery of

Inca Gateway Designs-

Fame To This Trapper THE

By RUSS WINTERBOTHAM

TZIT CARSON was a great

and hunter

frontier

K

word diamond. The second scout, but his fame in these word is an abbreviation for Transposes"; third, " group of lines might never have been Boy Scouts: fifth, "per.aining known had it not been for a At that to The sun"; and sixth, pompous silk hat. "this.ugh." Can you complete time, Kit thought silk hats the diacond?

were the worst bils of ap- added to maUA'S purel over attire.

T

R

O

TROLLEY

SCRAMBLED VEHICLES

Rearrange the letters in each the three vehicles w to find hadden in these strange lines by she luzzi.man;

DEVELOP ICE JAR HIS KIN LEGAL NO

HIDDEN VEHICLES

Each of these sentences con- talna a vhicle for you to find: Carl and August reached the swimming hole Arat,

Buch riot of colour. Sam, pan that gold?

CONVEYANCE REBUS

Use the words and pictures correctly and you'll have little trouble finding the four con-

Kit, still under 30 years old, had been in the west 12 years when he organised "Carson's Men," a closely knit group of half a dozen trappers who worked in the mountains and plains of New Mexico and Colorado.

They trapped all kinds of game, but mainly they were skins, mterested in beaver

brought which

the best prices and were actually used in place of money in the west in those days.

A single beaver skin was known as a "plew," from the Canadian word French

"pelu," meaning hair.

A good beaver skin could! purchase goods and supplies worth from $6 to $8, and Kit Carson could bring in as many as 50 or 60 beaver One skins in a few days, group of 18 trappera brought

veyances concealed in this rebus: $2,400 worth of skins in

a period of six weeks.

MY FEET ARE SO SORE THEY MAKE ME LIMPI

STATI

GL-SP

(Solutions on Page 20)

What

WHY

Then one day in 1838, Kit

and his men brought a big

for them.

the up

oll

and

bundle of skins into the afterwards-even today--men's are other things to hunt besides

beaver," he said. trading post at Taos, N. M. hats were called "beavers."

out that Ho pointed The trader shook his head But it was found that a silk

prettier and

setting much government was and offered KIL $1 per hat was

better for formal wear. So no small feria and gorrisons "plew."

ene bought beaver skin hata, along the Santa Fe Trail "Robber!" said Kit, with least of all paid fancy prices there were many wagon trains от the route. Hunting for understandable anger.

provisions took time and KI The trader quickly ex-

and his men emild Kit and his men decided they Carson plained: "I can't pay you couldn't risk their sculps among probably make

a fair Ilving uny more. There's no de savage Indians trupping beavers shooting buffalo and antelope.

So they at only $1 per peil mand for beaver skins."

started off to Westpork, And the reason was the Kansas City, Mo., to get jobs invention of the high silk driving wagons on the Santa

bat.

Before that time mon Word hats made of beaver skin. those days and for many years

Fe Trail.

But another trader,

Mexico, halted them

now

"There

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THE

★ ✰

CLUE LIES IN CATERPILLAR

TT stands at Tiahuanaco

near the southern end of Lake Titicaca, in the high- lands of Bolivia—a gateway consisting of two uprights and A carved crosspiece weighing an estimated 12

tone.

Over this area the great Inca empire once held away, but the door is a remnant of a civilisation long vanished when the first Inca set out on his career of conquest..

Some scientists have estimated the age of the gateway at "over 1,000 ycars. Other experts state that that the civilisation built it was destroyed about 4,000 years ago. We don't really know.

THE GATEWAY STANDS HEAR

THE SOUTHERN END OF. LAKE TITICACA IN BOLIVIA.

GATEWAY OF THE SUN

Recently Dr Leo Pucher, it was regarded so highly. cipbar many of the designs.

the

One day his cook refured to

from un According to Spanish his- running down his face. One

Indian. When the scientist examined torians, when the Inca king design appears to refer to a buy benng conquered the people of poisonous plant, the taruy one, he found inside a enter- The present-day Indians boil pillar marked with seven tri- Tihuanaco, he asked the

it and then wash it to make angles. meaning of the designs on it safe to eat. The plant is ile then realised that the door. But, the meaning had long since been for immune to insect damage, galeway bore a similar triangle and, upon further ex- which helps to explain why digu

amination, he was able to de- gotten.

an Austrian-born archaeo- The greatest mystery of logist, has made a study of the gateway's designs was the designs and now thinks unravelled after the archaco- They tell of a coterpillar de- he knows what most of them logist heard an old legend trying crops. Then lae eater- pillar pacces through the stage about an Indian couple who

which

transforms it into 1 The central figure is that were childless. They were bulttray which is,

tuer, of a ruler or god with tears told by their god to search eaten by a bird.

Other figures on the door for a beautiful caterpillar, show

a striking similarity to which would be their child, star formations in the Milky They found it and took it Way. This

sucresta home. When it grew large it unknown began to kill humans and the god destroyed it.

mean.

Stamp With Sentimental Theme

ME was when the post-

M

Dr Pucher began, then, to

search for caterpillars.

huangco

selgus,

time.

that tho buikers of Tla-. were astronomy-con-

that even at

carly

R. S. Craggs

Punch's Favourite Toy

It Was Too Big To Wear, So Ho Lined Under It

By MAX TRELL

man used to cover the

his longest of

rougher stretches on horseback. In a short time Kit Carson had 40 "Carson's Men" workingThen he graduated to

an adobe-bone-shaker coach. And Charley out of Fort Bent,

walled outpost en the upper

there are "You mustn't think," said, la Beat, later a governor of New Arkansas River. It was near the now, of course,

Mr Punch, to Knart and motorcycles, streamlined

the present Fort

Colo.. Lyon,

Honid,

shadow-children where Kit Carson is buried. buscs, aeroplanes and with the turned-about names, Kit's fame as a hunter end helicopters to help him on "that I was always as big as

that he soon was hired by a his way. young Army officer *9 # SCOLN. This officer, Captain (later General) John C.

Fremont, postal opened the trail to California. Kit accompanied Fremont on scnut. strange part of, the in-three expeditions

interpreter. cident was that the other robins talde and, Indian

He distinguished himself tested the dazed bird without that he became famous. mercy. They pounced upon it,

But the cause of it all knocked 1 over, pecked at It the invention of the silk hat. and all but killed it. Both male

Becomes Of Aged Birds?

do we seldom see old and feeble birds? The storks have long en-

HOW AMAZEjoyed the reputation

TO YOUR FRIENDS 1.PUT 5 TOOTHPICKSON A TABLE IN A ROW.

2. SEAT A PAL AT THE TABLE FACING TOOTHPICKS AND YOUR FRIENDS... BLINDFOLD YOUR PAL AND PRETEND

70 * HYPNOTIZE

HIM!

*

3.NOW...SAY TO YOUR

AUDIENCE THAT IF THEY WILL WHISPER A NUMBER TO YOU FROM 1 TOS. YOUR PAL WILL

of

caring for their aged. But actually, among adult birds the law seems to be the sur- vival of the fittest. Hero is a true incident.

A neighbour's house has a large plate-glass window, against which birds frequently fly. A male robin recently dashed into this a force that window with seemed sufficient to break every bone in its body.

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kind-

In jiffy,

4 hearted member of the

oven

THAT BIRD's

GOTTA GO..... HE JUST DON'T LOOK.

RIGHT

TO

ME

The

and female birds attacked it.

The evident Intention of the robins of the neighbourhood was to destroy this sick bird, be cause its conduct had become abnormal.

Is this one reason why we so seldom see Iceble birds? And is it a reason why birds keep

true their descendants GO type?

to

The

pursue

have been known also to pounce upon

аге Crows

known to and drive out of the Geld an albino. They

a tane erow and drive him to

with

09 J

TRY THESE FOR

LAUGHS

Britain takes the march

progress calmly.

20

was

+

a

Question: Why should coelor never be sea-slek?

Answer: Because he is accus- tomed to sea sickness,

um now. When I wis a baby, I was so small that my mother of used to rock me to sicep in a No thimble,"

"I often slid down the handle of a spoon," said Punch.

Hanki said: "You certainly must have been small. Mr Punch. What did you cat?"

A Drop of Orange Juico

"Well," said Mr Punch, "my mother used to give me a drop of orange juice for breakfast, a brikked kernel of corn and a bar- ley seed for dinner, And for sup- per, she would give me a sand- wich made of two breadcrumbs some of the many happy hours special issues celebrate the fact and a splinter of cheese." he had enjoyed when he wa that the postman's life is now a | "That wasn't very much," kald small. "One day, my mother happy one.

always gave me a spool of thread. You But other nations are a little hungry?" more sentimental

their "Well," said Mr. Punch, “if I philatelic thinking and here is was hungry, I could taways get Enst Germany Issuing a stamp an in-between-snack

old shows one of the

which

Knart.,

"Weren't you

can't imagine the fun I had."

Mary: What is the best way bong-shaker tabs which used to/from the milk-bottle drops spoo) of thread?" asked Hanid.

Knarf and Hand

"What did you do with the I remember rolling it from room to the thought one side of tho to keep water from coming speed deliveries in that part of about all this for several min- other just as though it were into the house?

Then Hanid siid: “But wagon on wheels," Mr Punch Ruth: Don't pay the water

did you And to

play repiled. buil

Weren't all your play-

•

*

the world.

with?

"Then I took sume of the

I made myself a little kite mu

Fifty years ago the mallbags utes. and the passengers bumped and whom

this banged over the roads in Bill: What does 'a long-necked vehicle. The seats, rose in tiers mates much bigger than you thread and made a jumping rope. giraffe do when he is hungry? towards the back and the roof were, Mr Punch?"

suspended by alim polcs Ed; I don't know.

like the entrance to a fortune Bill: He cats,

teller's tent at a vlear's garden party.

·

Mother (hearing a crash kitchen): More

in

distics,

Jess

family had the bird in hand it hopped about the yard in shelter in some building. for resuscitation, Cold water a dazed condition, taking

Observe whether birds was thrown on its head, a only a short flight to low peculiarities fight with others drop or two on its tongue, branches now and then. It more often than those with the and manners. colcurs and

the

to remain upon usual ammonia preferred bottle was placed at its the ground. So docile Watch, too, to see whether the the.

other birds "gang up" on them. Junior? nostrils.

the. was

bird that Also study the females' After a while the robin when it wandered out of haviour towards misfits. revived, but it Was so sight it could be called back stunned that for a few days again."

CATCH THE THOUGHT WAVE READ THIS BEFORE YOU SAY

AND BE ABLE TO PICK UP THE RIGHT NUMBEROF TOOTHPICKS!

HERE'S

GARFARR

O.K.?

OWB BEFORE YOU

WITH YOUR A YOU ANSWER TRANK KIGENITY FORUKOK

SNALS

CHICE

'FISHING'S NOT FOR GIRLS'!

DOYS usually think of them on their next trip, give

fishing as A rugged,

them another barrel for this Dame Bernera was quito a girl.

he-man sport, and one too In addition to her, book on fly

masculine for girls.

ashing, aho also wrote ernall books on hunting and hawking. It le not so, girls. Next me

When. the boys go fishing and want to

Sir Izaak Walion, Ashing leave you at home, toss this famous" authority » on bombshell at them. Tell them wrote his great book "Tha about Dame Juliana Berners, Compleat Angler," he drow on prioress of a convent in Eng data from Dame Bernera book land. In 1500 she published the for his own. first book in English on dy fahing, the type of angling that So no matter what the boys say about fishing the girl not requires more skill and is more mixing, it just fen't so. For. It sporting, than any other means was awman and a nun, to of catching the finny tribe.

baat--who payed, the way for

boys enjo

Cortebe

If that doesn't deflate the big fishing as the gest male, ega and bring an in- today. vitation for you, to accompany,

be- Junior: No, mother,

dishon

ZOO'S WHO

PIZARRO, IN (534), LOOTED THE ÎNCĂ

SILVER MINES, ANG ABOLIT THE

SAME TINE

JACQUES CARTIER.

"FOUND THE

BEAVER IN

STLAWRENCE

• REGION

M OF NORTH

AMERICÀ.../.

THE FUR OF TRIS ANIMAL WAS THE GREATEST SOURCE OF IMMEDIATE : "WEALTH THE NEW WORLD APFORDERU

MONEY WAS SCARCE IN THE EARLY DAYS DE NOR THE TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT HAD OFFERED A THRE BOUNTY ON GOPHERS, SOⱭT WAS THE PRACTIC GOPHER TAIL IN THE CHURCH COLLECTION PLAT

CASH.

wao

Plenty of Friends

of t used postage stamp, whichi I folded in the form of a triangle. Mr Punch shook his head, Then I ued my thread to it and "No" he said, "I found plenty of flew the postage-stamp-kite high Sill faults, the Germans are genuine friends my own size. For in- in the air!"

whatever

their other

"How high did that kite fly.

stance, there was Mike the sentimentalists where old things Mosquito. He used to let me Mr Punch?" Knarf wanted to

are concerned-whether they bo

And

know.

guns, cars song or Rhine wines.cide on his back. Then there German was Sam Bre.le. 8 m lived un-

Mr Punch answered. "It flew certainly the stamps of today bring an ever-der a rock at the bottom of the as high as the tops of the dande changing variety of themes to garden. He often took me home lens. I found lots and lots of with him. But lots of times I things to use in my games, i the world's philatelle market.

14

The coach stamp is perforated ond costa. 7a. in London, Very pleasant to browse over.

~J. A, A. [50

played all by myself."

made a per-shooter out of a "Doing what?" asked Knarf,

hollow straw and blew mustar.1 Mr Punch smiled to himself reads through. My father he lot himself remember gave me the rubber at the chil of a penell. Do you know what

Rupert's Deep Sea Adventure-6

Before Rupert can sik many more *** “questions, the Professor leaves the shop and takes him to another doorway. Thủ It 'I' coltage: 1 "havé, taken for the summer.", lie says, and leida tha

think you?" interested in my, lateat

13333331/

Invention. But Girer let me show you something else that "W Bxplains why, jay" "beryard”JUI have come to the quii biol the way place. Then turning to" shall, ba': 'pieką, upijas toi! brownish, paket, which – hey karne fully spreads out on the tabla,,

I did with that?!/

Like A Rubbat Ball

Knert and Hanid asked Mi Punch to tell them what he did. with the little rubber af the end of the pencil.

"ż bouneva. It like 'n rubber

Mr Punch. I used ball," said Mr

to

to cap-frogging over the phys In the pin-cushion. I often allt down the handle of a spoon. 1 went swimming in a saucer an i a drum out of a hollow

mado a

rorn. But my best toy of in was a red froman's hote

BUL

that

to wear

Mr Punch," cried Hand,

too big kam pas much

"Weary I didn't woar, the 1 lved, under it Uke Mileht, But | all that happened long, Jilong.

Stakeholm too big for

of that kind of solitar" fun". I nowadaya”.