THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1956.
FEATURES
FOR
BOYS AND
YOUR PUZZLE Diamonds May Well
CORNER
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CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Office of Prien
Administra -
tlon (ab.)
4 Permit
7 Temporary hobby
6 Silkworn
FINISH THEM
The Puzzleman hopes you'll be able to complete the similes be- low by putting the right word from the first set of words into: the blank spaces;
BRASS
GALL
HATTER
NUT
PIO
Mad; as a
Bitter
Brown
Fat
Bold as
WORD SQUARE
Rearratige the letters in each row to form a word and then
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rearrange the rown so they will read the same down as across 9 These bud in the springtime The Puzzlanan anys one of the words is SALAD, which is en- joyable in the spring as well as other searOUS;
11 Repairers
17 Busy sECT
18 Look at
10 They are in your newspaper
20 Greek letter
1 Not on
2 Chum
3 Bustle
4 Boy's nam
DOWN
A Make a mistake
6 "My Country,
11 Calf's ery
10 Marry
12 Finist
13 Nights (ab.)
14 Sailor's direction
10 Return (ab.)
10 Body of water
TRIANGLE
of Thee"
The Puzzleman has hung his irinnglo from SPRING. The second word is to make idle Jk": third "large mice": fourth belongs to " and fifth "u compass point". triangle:
SPRING
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Finish the
Make Cheer Tree
this
TO MAKE the tree, out
tree or bush. You paint the branches
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Be Called Miracle Stones
the
NENTURIES ago, banks of the Orange River U diamonds were believed in South Africa spied a to Possess mysterious shiny object lying on
According to an- bench. powers.
The object was so cient superstitution. the large and brilliant that the brilliant gems were partly fascinated youngster took human, and could hate a his find to a white trader person or sympathise with who happened to be camped him, necording to certain nearby. conditions.
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Was also whispered that diamonds coul cure inmanity in the person who obtained one. When dipped in poison, the stone Was supposed to make the dose more dendly.
All of these weird storles, of course, were only myths that had been handed down through the years.
How dian da ever.
are CX Tremely markable vol useful as well as being very valuable.
INDUSTRIAL USE
They are the hardest and most brilliant of ali minerals. Because of thair
fre
Awed by its lustre, the trader carried the object to Dr W. G. Alherstone, a British gcologist at Grahamstown.
immediately
A
Dr Atherstono recognised what he held as huge clamond. Tds alone later breame known as the "Star of Africa", and for masty years was considered the world's largest diamond,
The discovery of the glan "Star of Africa" brought hordes of eager fortune seekers to the banks of the Orange and nearby Vool river.
Soon, more than 10,000 persona were combing the area in search of more dia- moncis
Large diamond inines were established in this section and in other parts of Africa.
Today, South Africa produces a large share of the world's dia- mond supply.
Iri South
Africa diamonds unusual hardness they T
are found both in river diggings unexcelled as bearings for and dry diggings. Tho Tiver watches and various kinds diggings stretch along the Vaal of meters. Hundreds of River from Potchefstroom to
confluence with the Orange and small diamonds Are used yearly in the manufacture of fine watches.
(Solutions on Page 201
HOW MAKE AN ARMCHAIR ASH TRAY TO T.Cut a strip of OIL, CLOTH 2 inches wide and 12 inches long.
2. PUNCH'A SMALL HOLE
IN THE CENTER WITH A A NAIL.
3. Decorate
the cloth
at each
end by stitching
on a design:
with heavy
RUG YARN
and a heavy NEEDLE.
a
4.
WITH A NAILAND HAMMER
can
PUNCH A HOLE IN THE
CENTER OF A SMALL CAN
pretty colour and make it LID (ABOUT 2 OR 3 INCHES)
still more attractive.
If the branch is rather beavy, a light hole in put 11 through the top of a cardboard box. Nall the base of the branch to a flat board hidden by the box so tree will stand fly. The bux can
be painted or covered with gold
or silver paper.
Select small gifts to suit the occasion and the with pretty ribbons to the branches.
This tree makes a wonderful centrepiece for a birthday party. Buy an assortment of small gifts and the to the branches with gay coloured ribbons.
For a shut-in, it will be
cheering surprise;
A
ACROSS)
5FASTEN
THE LID
TO THE
CLOTH
WITH A PAPER FASTENER.
BEND OVER ON
THE UNDE
GIVE
DAD
HIS
CHAIR,
tle on some IT TO
toys, books and little games.
You will find that you will FOR
this contreplece over and
usky
over to celebrate
happenings.
many special
ZOO'S WHO
FOUND ALONG THE ATLANTIC
·SEABOARD,
HORSESHOE
CRASS
ARE MORE CLOSE-
LY RELATED TO
SCORPIONS AND SPIDERS
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THẦN
THEIR
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"THE SOLUND OFABIE'S HUIM 19 CALLSED BY THE WW VERY RAPID SPIDURDIEKS ONE OF THE FINEST VIBRATION OF THE AND BANKERST MATERIALG KHOWN, BEBISWINGS,
up this stream as far as Hope
D
town. Here,
ere. diamonds Bre
K
ABOVE: Diamond mine in South
Africa. mond-studded core bit (left) can gougo out
solid rock.
BELOW: Dia-
"cookies"
of
is a relentless pursuit that blue roll stabbing hundreds of by the washing
feet into the carui.
GIRLS
Is This A Mere
washed out of the river sand in From the crusher, the dia- surface of the earth for every the same way gold is sifted out mond-studded soil is Their
plunged one-carat gem. durability und of stream beda In our own into a sticky "mud bath." It is The diamond is one of man- sharp edges make diamonds country.
mixed with a thin coating of kind's greatest treasures. It universally preferred for
and fed mui
into a rotating might well be called the stone The mines are found in Gri- washing pan. There are heavier of miracles even though it cutting glass and porcelain, qualand West, on the borders of minerals in the soil, Including does not permit the owner to Today industry consumes a the Orange River Colony, 840 the diamonds, sink to the pan's perform miracles as early people large portion of the world's These are called "pipe mines
miles northeast of Capetown. diamond production.
bottom.
onco believed. because the diamonds are found After the mud bath comes a
-By Stuart Covington The search for diamonda in circular or oval areas of dark dip in grease, The makeria) left process flows across long tables coated with has occupied men for count-
RTcast The diamonds, which less centuries. The world's
are heavier than any other ob- first great diamond mines these mines, native work- bedded in this grease. Every- jects in this residue, become im- were those of India and mi blast loose chunks of "lue thing else is carried along by Borneo, opened during the "with charges of dyna- 17th Century. In 1727 dia- hoies. The loose earth is tossed To free the
mite placed in specially drilled the water. monds were discovered in into slender, four-wheeled cars grease is scraped off the table diamonds, the Brazil.
for a swift journey to the mine's tops and boiled. The precious The Brazilian mines runk- surface.
gems are then washed again and ed as the world's largest Then the blue ground is then sorted by hand according unili 1867. In that year a dumped into the steel jaws of to their size and quality.
a glant crusher. Here, it 13
More native child playing on the smashed into a powdery mass.
thon 10 tons of blue ground must be carried to the
MUD BATH
BELIEVE IT OR NOT -ANCIENTS WERE STUDYING ANCIENTS AS EARLY AS 2,500 YEARS AGO.
The
CHORTLY
Second
Museum Of Museums
before the World. War
scientists were excavating the city of Ur, in the country now called Iraq, when they made a discovery that puzzled them siderably.
The room
con-
which they
uncovered had already been identified as part of a con- vent belonging to Princes Bel Shalti Nannar, high priestess of the moon. She was known to have lived at about 500 B.C.
However, many of the science
items in the room much more ancient.
were
There was a stone con- taining inscriptions which. the scientists knew dated back to Dungi, a king who had ruled 1,800 years pre- viously. A stone war club manufactured centuries be fore 500 B.C. was among the other items in that amazing room. Other an
clent objects included a sur veyor's boundary. murk and many clay tablets.
Ur
into
PRINCESS
BEL SHALTI NANNAR, FOREMOST EDUCATOR
OF UR
STONE WAR CLUB FOUND IN THE MUSEUM
CLAY TABLET OF THE BOYS' SCHOOL
Coincidence?
announces
TRUE ADVENTURE
K
Case
B
Of The Cloth Imprint
ECAUSE the number of
vertical and horizontal threads is never the same in two different pieces of cloth, Lt Leo Jones of the Los Angales polica suc- ceeded in apprehending the culprit in a recent hit-and- | ran automobile accident.
He was experiencing a great deal of difficulty with this particular case for the usual reasons. The rapidly disappearing shape of
THE EVIDENCE. 16 CONCLUSIVE HE'S THE GUILTY
MAN!
stock model car is 50 sideration.
Eventually only
difficult to remember or three remained, and two werO
camera,
.
Identify that the hit-and- put out of running after care- ful Inspection with the help of a run driver is considered to be harder to bring to jus- tico than the average mur- derer.
There are just too many autos that seem to be exactly like it, But no two cars really aro true twins, Inslated Jones, resolved he would find a dif- Terence.
He
He started the investigation along conventional lines.
The lone car that was left was scrutinised with the lens also und would have been discarded if it hadn't been for one picture of a dusty Dender. The design on its surface seemed rather unusual. Was it the pattern of cloth weave? Lieut. Jones won- dored.
a
He studied it very carefully and then said to an assistant, "Let me are dhe trousers of the victim of the accident.”
First, he questioned all wit- nesses. Then he used the de- Thon Jones closed the case by scriptions that resulted in order having the imprinted weave on to build up on approximate plc- the fender and the weave of the ture of the auto. It was search- fabric of the garment photo- ed for by canvassing all likely micrographed and compared, areas where it just might hap-
exactly, and They matched pen to be found,
since the number of vertical Dozens of cars were picked and horizontal threads is iden- up, and stop three began, This tical in samples that are taken was an eliminating process from the same plece of cloth where all the less likely can- only, it was this bit of evidence didates were taken out of con- that led to a conviction,
Some Rainy Day Magic
--The Shadows Are Able to Walk Between Raindrops →→
By MAX TRELL
INARF
KNA
the and Hanid, shadow-children with the turned-about names, were look- Ing out of the window wonder- ng when the rain was going to stop when they heard a cheerful voice behind them,
"Good morning. 'my
jolly dears," caid Mr Merlin the TN the very week that Magnificent Magician,
America Tokyo Rose is to be freed
Not Jolly from prison, the post office authorities in Tokyo put out "I beg your pardon,
Merlin," said Hanld, new stamp showing anot jolly at all." prim doll-like little lady with face.
a
Mr "We're
round, innocent Mr Merlin. "Don't tell me the "And why not, pray?" asked
rain la bothering you."
It may be only Japan's way of wishing all her friends abroad a very bright and prosperous New Year--the stamp is marked 1958.
But it seema to me to be more than a coin- cidence that the
Prim little lady on the stamp bears
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close resem-
blonce to Tokyo Rose in hor bey- day.
day
well known character was Rose, American troops sloshing Through
the Philippino jungles or stacking Jap-held Praille re- doubts would hear the volcs of Rose every time they turned on
the radio.
Knarf looked Merlin straight in the eye..
"It's keeping us from going rain without wearing a raincoat out," said Hand.
or carrying on umbrella with. cut getting wet
"Dear me,' said Mr Merlin. "And are you going to let a little thing like voin keep you and Knart from going out? Haven't, you ever heard of the umbrella and the raincont?"
Knart said that It wasn't much fun going out wearing a raincoat ond carrying an umbrella. Hanid agreed with
him,
Black Book
"Easy as pie," said Mr Merlin. He took a little black book out of his pocket, thumbed through a few pages, stopped and read comething, put the book away, mumbled some strange words and clapped his hands,
Instantly. Knarf and Hanid became smaller than the head "And besides," she said to Mr of a pin, smaller than the dot. Merlin, who stood listening with
over an, maller than tho a smile on his lips, even with period at the end a raincoat and an umbrella, you sentence.
of this still get wet."
"I wish," said Knarf, looking Mr Merlin straight in the eye, "that you were a really wonder ful magician,"
She would urge them to give up the fight and return home quickly before their wives and, A Little Astonished
waiting. sweethearts got tired Occasionally, Rose would "How's that?" said Mr Merlin, sing in an effort to make her the most magnificent magicion Icoking a little astonished, "I'm morale-busting propaganda still of Ur's more seductive,
It was all in vain.
Rose
even
SOM
They found themselves stand- ing on the top step of the porch outside the front door. They lid down the steps until they reached the sidewalk.
"Just look at those raindrops!"* said Hand to her brother,
a balloon. They were dropping Each raindrop was the size of.
as, long ago. D 2,500 scientilc knowledge
the world has ever known. It down from the sky and splash- further study earller history considerably. years. However,
there's any trick that I can't do, ing as they hit the ground. revealed that the people of
When I'd like to know about it." And a few of the oldest ob- Japan surrendereck, had been doing research
Knarf jects in the princess' collection captured and sentenced to long-
and Hanld looked at their ancient history at least 400 were found to be actually 8000 terra Imprisonment. But at the
This time Knarf smiled.
each other and nodded, Thest years before that time,
years old, or 5,500 years older Now Year she was
they walked down the street, They didn't walk, exactly; The finds in these ancient than the museum itself.
per- Mrhaps zigzagging increased
better word. When they anw any of the balloon-sized rain- coming down, they dodged aside. It was wonder-
museums
our own
If you're really such
magician, gnificent
pardoned and released. And she was still By R. S. Craggs wide-eyed and
round faced. Merlin, why can't you tell us Just the sort of girl many.
how to walk between the rain soldier would think about.
drups?" But
KNOW MORE ABOUT
CHOCOLATE
ECAUSE chocolate con--
Spaniards conquered
Btains men hoc, to caly Mexico in 1921 they found the
who
Soldiers of the everyone.
to
mildly stimulating, and is roasted cacao beans mixed with Aztecs using a drink of ground made with milk, it is con- water which they called choco In an adjoining room the aidered a good drink for into. They took it to Europe, seeming puzzle
where it became popular, and diggers found a clue to the march long distances often other parts of the world, in-
from there its use spread jumbled dates. It was a take along some chocolate, cluding the United Statoe clay tablet on which had for it has much food in been stamped "Property of small bulk. the Boys' School" schoolboy's exercise book of that far-off day.,
The tren
grows in Mexico, Bouth America, the Best and Worst Africa, and Indies, and in allier plaers near the
equator. It comes from a busty or tree The trule is in clusters of pods, grown, in the New World, It each pod containing from 50 to produces raw bear that are 100 seeds, in a sweet pulp. The At once this scientists knees called onoad. When these been pod is opened and the insidos that the princesali hnd estabs, ato made into naher or bars they dried in the sun. The goeds aro Fishodi: a antasetinin her own any called chocalato. When the then ready for roasting and for private convent to do anche fatty part is moved and the manufacturing into powder o bostory to her charges and beans are pulverised and put liquid form Then it comes to Ramnay rank oda to think of into hoades be draw we call it up in calces, on candy, and In ancient frisiery and MattSTING | food, sovor, often ful
ofter delicious forma
a
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not US. soldiers fighting a war to the death against Japan. Thattle Indy" stamp perforated 18, printed photogravure and costa Od London--J. A. A.
would be a
to see what wide spaces
For an instant, Mr Merlin ful looked surprised, Knatt went there were between the rain-
on to say that it Mr. Merlin drops and how really easy it
in could show them how to walk was to skitter between them
in between the raindrops, they without getting wet.
would be able to go out into the
Rupert and the Black Circle-13
Mr. Anteater looks quite furious. I was just going to find Conmable Growler he storme,
·Rúpárt
be up to mischief?. stares On" your front gata ??!!! he queries. Ve just co002; 'a'.
but perhaps you can tell me a black, diecie on ymie? Back Lates what I want to know. Somebody as But we haven't made them. has put a dirty black ring on the middle of my front gate and quite
May I see the other one resAnd
they turn bicg and find All yalipy.
A Great Raindrop
Finally, after roaching the end of the street and turning backt, Kort grow careless,Ãa great raindrop funded square on his head. He wng)drenched from head to too, a
But there they were inside the bowse again, Mr Morilni made them their regular alza ju "Well," old the Mamibent Magician to his two "friends, 1owere you able to walk bolweśn
No I do all
Knarf, "Ish soaked from houd, 10 too. Just look at
"Soaked from! hood said Mr Meeting in Why milk, I can see. little drop on öde hair top:of, "@you
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