THE CHINA› MAIL,
SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1956.
FEATURES
FOR
BOYS
AND
GIRLS
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YEAR-ROUND CONDITIONER
ever you visit Scotland
and England you will see boys cross-country running HERBERT gave the Puzzlo at all times of the year; it is Inn bare for This Triungle. The serent word! is an abbre one of their main sports. viallon for "down East"; difro And if wisely practised this Indinn weight fourth to kind of running will develop pierer with a knife": "e in a boy a robust constitu-
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The somewhat common idden that a runner must train down" or lose weight in cross-country running is false. On the other hand, a boy who is underweight Ishould become heavier, if he will follow a moderate train- ing programme MAKE bo The letters in the first part of{reasonably careful of his these anagrams will give you diet. Briefly, a runner's diet word defined by the second part: is any wholesome food, with
SAVE LIFTS -- Gole evendes TEE SUP BAIT Hissid (ow sweets and no rich
desserts.
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(Solutions on Page 20)
IT COULD
year.
Cross-country running is sport that can be practised at almost any time of the If proper clothing is worn for protection from tolki, the running
may be continued until real winter sets in. In England, winter is the season when schools IFERE You are,
you have their yearly events in schoollmy collectors, this line of sports.
BE YOU! H
have A look at this. The l l summer the boys wenr boy on the stamp could be swimming suits; but light ZUPAN ofte of you,
He is weight underwear should be turning over the pages of worn when the air is frosty. a well Gilet album and the ln England the boys wear being caps and gloves; also a sheet featured on this new issue of paper is put across the simply that his govern- chest to keep out wind. The
is extremely stamp-[more ConsciouM,
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GUESS-WHO
THUMBNAIL SKETCH
every
CROSS COUNTRY RUNNING,
IN ENGLAND, 16 NOT CONFINED TO ANY ONE GEASON OF THE YEAR-
IN THE SUMMER, SCANTY CLOTHING 16 WORN;
IN COLDER WEATHER,
WARMER CLOTHING -
RIGHT
JOLLY WEATHER FOR RUNNING
BY JOVE!
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though they do not feel the cold so much, will be less apt to have sure muscles if they wear extru clothing. There is no danger of catch ing cold if one goes mediately into a warm place after finishing a ruce.
By J. R. HEGEL
ITE-BIRDS are flying
Kthis month. NecoRRATS
materials are brown wrap- ping paper. thrond, twine, glue, a knife for whittling down any wood ton thick for balance, "sticks made prefer- {ably of white pine, a pair of scissors, poster colour paints and waxed paper.
Follow the drawing while reading the instructions.
3 STICK KITE
Three-stick kite-bird: The main stick is 36 inches long and should be one-quarter inch thick. This 36-inch stick ļis "A" and should be placed vertically upon the work table. Eight inches from the top, lay n 80-inch stick of the same width in thickness. somewhat in order to accustom This is "B." Centre "B" the runners to a faster rate of correctly on "A," measuring rumin which will be needed in the anal races. Three days of When you have the exact an
led the distance accurately. ench week
im. the
might be used for
more than half a mile or, at the mast, one mile,
zontally
who
If y
D DOTTED LINES, PICTURE WIRE
wish, add
BRIDLE
dfffff
2 STICK
KITE
tail from the kite to the bridle. You Kite materials are reasonable and afford excellent prizes. Have one contest for the most originally-designed kite; another for duration or time aloft, a third for altitude, the amount of line put out is an accurate means for guring; a speed contest for the time taken to re the kite up
short runs at a fast pace, and centre, glue sparingly, then feathers or crepe paper, also a other three days for easy, bind with thread to hold in- crest of the same material. a fast running should not be bottom of "A," place hori- slow runs of three miles. The to place. Six inches from the
HAVE A KITE PARTY
DIRD-KITES can go fancy or a 12-inch stick, simple. There
are experts The best place to prac
that is "C." "C" should be
make kilen with double tise running is across fields
the same thicknes as "A" wings and a bly cleverly hinged and dirt roads; if only hurd
and "B." For the round head to the wings. One boy sent up a bird-kite and when it was aloft,
Much can be roads are available, light. Le
top of the wings. a camera-type fuse exploded and kites in addition to the fun of and the weight rubber-soled shoes pace that they will use in the use picture-wire, bending it releed a shower of small paper flying Urem. Accuracy in build- must be worn. An old pair races. One mile in five minutes into two curved peaks for 885, Quite a stuntt
ing, a knowledge of of running shoes be very for time; not many can the wings. The picture-wire
can
Ke flying is always more fun sistance and wind, oven cloud do this. Some boys will do well made into fine cross-country to un it in seven minutes after is "D." Wind "D" securely large group participates in conditions, all affect Byling. The the event. Plan the contests expert kife-builder is a good shoes
on both "A" and "B" watch- beforehand. by removing the several weeks of preparation.
A few prizes will mathematician, en umatuur spikes and having rubber
the excitement, These muteorologist and on artist in soles and heels attached.
The sanding for the day after your winding for proper add to
balance weight.
need not involve much money, his class.
Few boys should attempt to run a distance on the ball of the foot.
The distance generally used in |Junior cross-country running is three miles. It is best to sturt
race the method of
Someone should hold a watch runners learn the
the free fast workout should be very light, because a short fast pace is much more ring than a kong iniurely pig. For example, If Monday is used for fust work, Wednesday may again be used for the same kind of work, with
Thursday and Friday for jogging and Saturday for the Justest work of the week.
severe.
suit the
cach
and got it dowel arned from
air ro-
Lay the completed frume upon your wrapping paper and trace your bird pattern. leaving แ good margin from the picture to fold over on the frame-Purr Purr Would Rather Be A Kitten Than A Cattail-
later.
one-inch The Ten Unlucky Cats
DOING THE FACE
hawk, having dark red eyes
By MAX TRELL
out through the kitchen on the back
Purr!'
raining by easy jogging for a A training schedule is a must short distance not more than for the entire season, of course, one me the first day or two. with variations
HIS particular kite-bird is a HANID, the shadow girl, came The distance may well be dividej strength and condition of into two or the
The door and stood sections of runner. It is necessary for every and a block hooked bill. alternate running and walking. buy to use bis own judgment head, nock and lower parts are steps, holding a saucer of nilk. Each day the length of the runs about his condition. It is unwise grey, the wings deep black, the She looked around. may be increased, so that by the to follow xed setredule, for legs scarlet, Use gaudier vous
the witi of a family
"Purt murallast of the second week of train-
she called. BORN of
cali sometimes
for thing if they sult you better. The eyes
"Where gentry at Horsham, Sussex, ng, provided no
are you? Come for re muscles work when one is
wit to par.
look niøre realistic if they up on August 4, 1792, this English develop, the boys should be able Mny beginners are inclined to are
waxed paper
your dinner?" cut out and poet was extucated al Brent to run the whole three miles at show their metal by running in circles pasted over the back. This
Then all at once, Hanld saw ford, Elon, and University an vasy pace without becoming spite of blister on the feel or waxed paper should be rod. Now the kitten. She was crouch- College. Oxford, being expelled exhisted.
painful
shins. That 19 not amx
waxed paper pupils colour- Ing along the garden path. Just from the tatter for anonymously
ezurageous nor wise, because ed black in the front. Let the few feet ahead stood a robits elreuiating a pamphlet, The From that time on until the such Trivial injuries may become paint dry thoroughly and then Necesully of Atheism," to
time for il
with his back toward Purr Pust. press the one-inch margin over with this well-degsgici picture fellow and dean in his college, practising should
He didn't even know she was —JULIA W. WOLFE |your frame and glue thin of the school-boy and his album. He married Hurriel Westbrook
there. evenly. If you are using liquid The left hand kop e, nur is the same year, 1811, and separ-
glue be sure to us it diluted with semption "Day theated from her after three years
warm water for the paper. This He Stanp, 1955
of unhappiness.
Wila an
is to guard against any excess The portraiture is extremely enthusiastic sallor although un-
weight. able to swim. While sailing with But I think the grond.
overall of this novel Issue A friend in the Bay of Spezia, Appearance would have been improved by
boat proved his little brighter coloury and heavier worthy in a storm and he was printing. And I'm
the drowned on July 8, 1822, being Swiss with their mastery of buried beside John Keats in detall could even have made the Rome. He is recognised as one lyric poets of the greatest of As is the stamp is recess. and his works included "Ode to printe perforated 13 by 14 the West Wind," "The Skylark," Juzit costs 8d. in London and The Cloud." Who was he?
(Awer un l'age 20)
of
Sure
stamps in the album legible.
J. A. A.
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE WIND?
unsea-
STRANGE question- Choose for trial a
A have you ever seen the windy day, when the air is
wind? Boy Scouts and other outdoor groups have "seen" the wind.
ZOO'S WHO
PELICANS FORM FRÅGNET |INASHING,SWOOPING DOWN IN FORCE ON [WHOLE SCHOOLS OF FISH.
• FULL GROWN CAMTI
·CAN CARRY A LOAD UP. TO 1500 POUNDS...
ACLEVER COYOTE MAY IGNOREAN UN ARMED MAN, BUT A HUNTER WITH GUN ERARELY GETS .:*
WITHIN RANGE,
free from rain.
Take a bright, clean saw, or any other polished metal object about two feet in length and having a straight edge. Hold the saw or metallic surface at right angles to the direction of the wind.
Inclina it about thirty-five or forly degrees to the horizon and with the back up, so that the moving air, in striking the sui- face, will, glance upward and flow over the edge of the metal,
as water flows over a dom.
of the metal you are holding at
you will see the wind-or olr- waves pouring over the edgo
In greccful curves.
changed
Braving Dangers Of The Sea
and
You will need two strings for the bridle, one string on the other string on "B"
"A" Bring
A Frightened Chirp
All at once, Purr Purr spring forward. The robin new off with a sharp, frightened chirp. He flew away just in time.
Honid set down the saucer of
She
bath strings together at the top milk ran down the steps and centre point of the kite. Take a took hold of the kitten. loop in the string so the distance sat down on the grass with tho trom the kite to the knot will ditten in her lap. be about 13 inches. The tail may
be
doubled
"Furr Purr," she said, "haven't
made of scraps of paper, I told you again and again bow
In narrow folds and tred to a strong string every 12ng it is of you to chase after birds? Do you know what will inches.
happen to you if you keep chasing them?"
Attach the
with glue and string. The
of the tall will depend upon the
air resistance so it is
is impossible
Purr Purr didn't know. She to say whether it should be 10 Just looked at Hanid with her
should great round green eyes,
feet or 12.
Extra tail
always be held in reserve in
case it is needed on the fickti.
Two-stick kile: Those who do
not
Unlucky Cats
"I tell you.
Purr Purr sprang forward but the robin flow away.
"So the next day," Honid con- tinued, "all the cats gathered together at the edge of the There were just ten of garden.
them.
"Look,
the there's now! aa the first cat,
robin
From Different Sides
"Then they all started to creep up on him from different sides just as they had planned." Hanid gave Purr Purr a le shake to malce sure she was still listening. Then she went on with the story of the ten Unlucky Cats.
"But the robin had a plan, too. Instead of waiting for the
want to bother with the Hanid said: extru effort in shaping the You're going to end up the cats to got close to him, he pleture-wire can make a simple same way that the Ten Unlucky kept darting up into the air. two-stick lite. You can use the Cafe chď?"
ftultering his wings and coping
sents one-quarter-inch width ir
down just a few yards away. the two-stick kite and you can in Hanid's lap, Hanld told the
While Purr Purr lay quietly The cats kept following him in make it smaller than the three story of the Ten Unlucky Cats. to trap him in the middle s0 sort of big circle, sull hoping stick, making your long stick 20 inches and the crasa stick. 12 Long ago, my darling Purr they could all creep up on him inches.
Notch the ends of the
cat who al- at the same time from different cross stick and long stick. Place W tried to catch a certain sides, yond cross stick 74 Inches from leverer than she was. He ni-
the
The light has flashed from dangerous Tillamook Rock since 1881.
Tla
the
there was
*****ways
robin. But the
robin WB6
top,
"Oh," said Hanid, he was centring accurately. Glue and thread into
and on, Ways flew away just in time.. clever robin all right: Ho jed the sticks
the By and by the eat became so those cats little by little down string taut. Slip the string into angry that sho complained to to a small deep pool by the
all the other notches starting at the
cats who lived marsh, top.
Ha protended he didn't If your picture bird ready, and nearby that she never could even know the cats were near
and catch that silly bird. painted, place it on the frame
Closer and closer they. VILLAMOOK Rock Light panes Thouse, one of the most were broken by tremendous strings, one atlechat to the to creep up on him from different: robin! Down went the cate and paste. The bridle hos two We'll help you catch him, came to him. Then suddenly
long the other cats mitd. We'll all
cots, BUTANE.
Up went the
inarshy pool with their tails alicking straight up and their heads in the mud).
of this lighthouse exposed lighthouses on the waves and flying rocks.
Ότι
Sight carefully along the edge Pacific coast, is thought by Workmen, who become t many lighthouse keepers to from exposure while trying to a sharply defined object, and be the most
repair the lighthouse after, dis dangerous
astrous, storms have found assignment a lighthouse impossible to get off the rock keoper could get.
- by boat and had to rely The reasons for this idea risky feaving apparatus, like a short pair of breeches, mov- are many. In the first place ing on a rope stratched from a, tender knows when he the lighthouse to the shore, to gets Tillamook as an assign- get them of Tilkmook Hock The great Mark Twain ment that he is running for medical aid.
During the building of Tilla- WENT UVET to 11 neighbour's chances of being. marooned mook lighthouse
lighthouse hour and asked if he could; there for weeks and weeks, engineer lost his life during on borrow a certain bookt. The Another reason is that attempted landing on the rock, neghbour told him that he could, Tillamook' is known for Though Tillamook Rook but that he made it rule nover
Lighthouse in a dangerous (18+
TURN ABOUT
once
to let any of his books out of having taken many violent signment for the keeper, it is a the library and that he would | battorings from storms. blessing for ships di sen. From have to read the book there. The light itself is 188 feet this house,ituated one
A dew days later, the same. man eine over to the thumous above the sea which in most mile of whore at Tillamook Tend, Oregon divera, shines on writer ale house and aplood for cases would be considered a 1ge of 76,000 pendlepower, and ure pt his lawn mower,
safe hoight, but even at a comprasad aizsapmatic "airen. * "Of_sound," BORvered: Mark this height Tillamook is not jwhich function "Paloud, ship-| use it here, na Z make it a rule free of dangen There have eving foy never to let 11 quit of the game? been times when the storm
Turning "but I must, auk you to
Him,
Attach your string 12 inches sides. He'll never get away.'
Rupert and the Black Circle--2
:
the beling pup, going to
wajta 'to-haar; what blaz we
You're fonda
aptakin
In The Mud
"And that," said Hanid, " how those Ten Unlucky Cote. stayed forever and forever, their heads in the mud, their tails sticking up out of the water. And when people came down to the marah, they said: look at. thosp cattails growing in
in that manh!" ?!).
Oh
SAN
Hanid hold up Purr Purr and looked straight in her big green eyes. "It could happen to you, Purr Purs. Do you want o stop being a kitten, and beadine
cattall. Just like those Untucky Cater Kart bester give up chi and have your
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