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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1950.

FEATURES

Games With Words

Mad short, begin with

ANY words, both long 23.

An extinel animal

relatert

to the elephant.

24.

Movemeuri,

M and end with N, for 25

MUSICIAN, example:

MAN, METROPOLITAN,

Here are the meanings of 26 such words. You are to figure out the letters between.

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Try to guess them all. Then, after finishing the puzzle, see how many other **M to N words write.

1 A meat.

2

you c

A Husarul thousand

A srull aweet vake

Seasonal wind of Southern Aslo.

ROMAN NUMBERS

Finish up the words below by mkiing one letter for each num- ber of letters given.

The only letters you can use are the Roonan nubra fur 1, 5, ID, 50, 100, 500, 1800 which are 1, V. X, L, C. Dunt M. For example, to complete word cone letter). A time lettera E you might add C (16) The test blank and V (3) the secara blond, making Word CAVE.

for

the

A number. 9 (we letters)

*

A small mivel visin tunee

Jཐཱ*ttཐཱ58,1.

1.

A girl.

3

5.

He wrote

J

SKATE

-a}i?za{

A girl toe letter A Two letters)

4

1' allow.

Not dead A (three letters)

U.

+

7

A fal, cone Jelters i { letter)

+

*

A length

5.WHO jul,

"

FOR

BOYS

AND

LET CRAYONS PLUCK SUMMER POSIES *

GIRLS

DRIVE YOURSELF BUGGY!

NTS

use baby sitters The honeybee moves its wings back and forth more than 400 times a second. There's ay that looks like bumblebee.

Afor their young.

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Don't these bugs sound fascinating? Why not study

insects and

learn

more

A VERY FRUITFUL TREE IN A BUDAY SORT OF WAY-

Worn on the hund.

Worn on the foul.

A president of The United

States

10. A colour.

ļ

He's crazy

11

Une who wonłupa Allah

12

A procves th arithmetic.

15.

A juley hull.

ง

To speak about.

15. A city in Italy.

10. A urge sintely dwelling.

17

A planet

IU. Wrong, in error.

19 One of the United States

20. Small-minded, contemplible,

22:

A kind of cotton cloth. Intribítané 好吧

L

certain

venustry neighbouring AUTICU,

HOW AMAZE YOUR

AMAZ TO

FRIENDS

1.Find a flat thin STICK (LIKE A TONGUE DEPRESSOR) about 1 inch wide and 6 in. long MARK Z X'S ON ONE SIDE WITH CRAYON

LIKE THIS.

X

X

TELL YOUR PALE YOU CAN MAKE THE X APPEAR ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STICK...THEN DISAPPEAR

COMPLETELY!

Z.HOLD THE

STICK THIS WAY.

3.NOW! FUP IT OVER QUICKLY ...BUT AS RW DO, ROLL IT IN YOUR FINGERS SO THE SAME SIDE SHOWN VE

"Millin's

FROM THIS - TO THIS

4. NOW FLIP IT BACK. BUT THIS TIME DON'T ROLL IT AND THE X WILL SEEM TO DISAPPEAR.

Three letters) E

A man who digs eval, ('wo

Intter N ER

A lange beast of

fone letter: A

E come letter)

6. Fog Hugh --- the a

10

tautien

Elwol

letters: $1 tune teller) A mountain Fre

whten

flares MINE KUM vane jegler 0 (wo letters) ANO.

CAnswers on Page 201

Symbol Of

A Gallant

Endeavour

[ME spreading sails of a

Tall stip are for ever a

symbol and call to adven- ture. When the ship is the Discovery, in which Captain. Scott explored the Antare. the adventure takes tic, clear shape. And when the

LOVITY 135~ pears on 41

Dla

stump from

the Far South

overprinted

T

Antarctic Expedition 1955-1958"

then we are

all

FRIKLAND ISLANDS. PREJ, DIPENDENTIES

linked LEX ETHETOR-1550-1818

with a sal-

10:11

#e

avour

Just begun.

This new stamp is issued by the Falkland Islands Depen

COLOR

BLUE-

PURPLE *** ARBEN .... RED

ORANGE

GUIDE

YELLOW

:: BROWN

NOTE:

KEEP COLORE LIGHT

THE GEOLOGIST HAS FUN

TAKING A

WHO has most fun when

W

he takes a walk?

The gracat who knows most The MALE 45 and flower;" ter who kubwa mtel about bags

ng birds"

1

What abonat the

Whe kiswa how these rocks ww boring, a what causent that valley over there?

There's probably nobody who enjoys himself more on a walk

on a trip than the geologist He knows how the ocean waves

iht: sand sort out

why the Rocky Mountais are

7341 rocky

There why fossila dinosaur

111 National Park He knows why The Potomac has no delta and why the Mississippi has such a huge one

The geologist not only enjoys heure, but he isundly - joys his work.

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And I probably pleases him 100 to know that he's a valuable T to his country. He is valuable because he ads the things that make his country

បុរ ី (i

Usually it te oll and feel that make a country important. 1 is these things that provide most busmess, and the most coin- fortable living for a people. Comfortable Ilving depends lo u Houd extent on the amount of fend there is, the number of hotises and refrigerators and so furth The geologist Ands the tive to make the machines and the land water to run Ther.

MUCH IN DEMAND

SUPPOSE A CTY needs new bridge. One of the Arst persons they will have to consult is a geologist.

3

dencies -a number of widely Why? Because they must find

scattered

istuneis meldingut if the ground in the location

South Georgia

islanis

Thx i opet portimit pencer

the most 122)+

an the De- because It 19

chosen wil!

support the heavy piers the bridge requires.

WALK...

In the rugged MacKenzie River Basin of northern Canada, a geologist and a prospector pulverise rock samples with mortar and pestle before pauning them for tungsten,

where wiler was They found nyailable. Since

businesses need him, the geologist usually hasin't much trouble in finding a

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Many work

for government hunting for oil, or companies, gold, copper, enal, and so forth. Some make maps, some plot well Ings and examine well cuttings

(samples) with a inleroscope.

about their amazing lives and habits.

to

Of course you'll have find bugs before you can study them, 30 look on bushes, weeds, and trees, for that's where bugs like You'll also find to linger. them in dead trees, on the undersides of leaves,

in

Don't Jumble them all to- gether in one container because

piles of dead leaves, under Lugs have a bad habit of eating stones, in decayed fruit. each other. Separate the varie

Put the little bugs in the The most interesting ties.

jars, and the larger Inseels varieties will be found away the boxes. from houses roads.

travelled nd

For bug-hunting equipment you'll need an umbrella, an old white sheet or white cloth, small

with Bottles

holes in their There are women as well as screw tops, and the boxes with

holes in their covETU. men in the Beld.

Others, the

paleontologists,

hunt and classify fossils. Fossils ure planis and animals that

To collect the insecls, beat the lived in former ages and whose bushes and branches of trees. remains are found in rocks.

Hold your open umbrella, upsidy It was through the paleontolo-down, beneath the branches and gists that we learned that the the bugs will go tumbling irst horses had four toes In-side. You can place your cul- stead of une as now, at the lection on the white cloth and earliest elephants were Ittle study them right on the spot. more than three feet high.

LIFE NOT ALL ROSY

MOST

GEOLOGISTS enjoy ta outdoors working

und unusual places, but as in most professions, He isn't all rosy to

either.

Some of them

Hiem

have to live a wandering life

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settled onc in a

Cable spot.

freeze

They may

in Alaska or burn in Eypt if their company sends them

to

And at these places. Limes they have to do some hard straight thinking--a task fairly uncomfortable for most of us.

To most

geologists, the pay at the main thing What they ikke best in the interesting work, the outdoors, and the people they work with,

HOW A RAILWAY WAS BUILT THROUGH

E

THE HEART OF JUNGLELAND

By VINCENT EDWARDS

ALEPHANTS trumpeted and liens roared in From the vine-

If a raffroad needs a tunnel, | anger.

I calls a geologist to and firm wrapped trees pygmies

supply and refuelling station for and where the ground will not peered wide-eyed. It was no

ships such as the Theron which has landed an advance party for the attempt Jo Cross the Antarctic

Via the South

The Antarctic is the last of The untamed continents, Some 12 Nations have +æpeditions nibbling at its fringes. They include Hussian and American teams, as well as the British.

Why the rush? Simply be- cause scientists believe a wealth

cave in.

When a state bullds a dam, 11 must bak its geologists to locate a spot where a dam will hold

waler and not be washed away, Nowadays the inanufacturer

needs thousands of gallons of water. Both the manufacturer

that wonder

the whole jungle was aroused, Curious trespassers were about. The white men had started to the a railway into build very heart of Africa.

Railway building has had many curious chapters, but Africa's unique. Railway is Upanda

and the farmer must depend on the geologist to find for them all the water they must have.

the last Work War geolo- Nearly every boy or girl, at isth advised the military

some time or other, has visited a 200. But how many ever rode on a train where, from the car windows, they could sco lions and elephants and zebras roaming beside the tracks? Not one, probably.

of minerals, including uranium. | services where heavy truck and possibly all be beneath the snow and ice.

recess-

There are four stamps in the new adventure set. They are perforated 12% by 13, printed and cost 1/7d in Lon don One is reproduced here.--

J. A. A.

ZOO'S WHO

AFEARLESS

KILLER, THE

WEASEL

TACKLES

ANYTHING

FROM

CHICKENS TO

GIANT EAGLES.

JUMPING MICE ARC'

A LITTLE MORE THAN HALFA FOOT IN LENGTH

BUT HAVE BEEN KNOWN

N'IN ONE LEAP...

roads

could be made. They apotted camp sites on dry land.

BELIEVE IT OR NOT

OYSTERS GROW!

ON TREES

We think

☆

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Belleve it or not, that was the sort of country through which the British government bulls the Uganda Railway more than years ago. It went straight from Mombasa, on the eastern coast of Africa, to Port Florence, on Lake Victoria, more than 600 miles in the interior.

cars was left standing on the tracks when one of the beats came steaming onto the scene, It hurled itself at the rear car with such force that the brake was freed and the whole string was sent rolling down the grade. The cars went crashing into. I station at the foot of the hill.

ward.

The parts for each individual bridge were painted a different

and colour,

cach part Wus lattered and numbered.

The work went rapidly for

One gang of coolic Jabourers sorted the steel, while the Americans fitted the parts together with the help of the natives. The riveting was done by the coolles and the natives. It took only a week to erect the first bridge, while the biggest viaduct of all--880 feet long and 76 feet high-was completed in 89 days. In less than a year all the bridges were in place, ready for the jungle-land rail- road.

There was plenty of excite- ment, too, along with the hard work. One day, the American engineer in charge was work- ing on a bridge when he heard that some lons were bothering the workem of another section, Jumping on a hand-car, he and an English engineer rushed to the rescue.

When the two men arrived at their destination, no liong wero

Be sure to carry home some of their favourite food. Try them

of the various with a sample plants that grow where you found the bugs. This will let you know just what each buy netda for

particular dict. Some may be very choosy.

جار

Winged Insects such as butter- files, wasps, bees, and moths can only be collected with a butter- dy net. These winged bugs soon die in captivity so study them in their natural hauls rather then trying to take them home. your equipment, visit woodlands and meadows to collect your bug zoo, and before interesting long you'll be a bugology and place them in the boxes and pert. Jars,

However,

Assemble if you take them home you can learn even more about them. Choose the insects that look the most

ex-

-Erma Reynolds

Through Teddy's Window

-It Was A Boring Day, Until A Poodle Came Along-

By MAX TRELL

Bear

Stuffed the TEDDY 1 didn't have much to do. So he sat himself down good anu of the window solid in front

to sco out

what art looked

was happening.

wind

All he could BCC happening Were samne trees chaking in the

and some ivy climbing a wall and some grase growing. But none of this was very exciting.

3-2

was chasing my tall," the Poodle told Teddy.

"I wish something else would happen," said Teddy to himself. So he watched and waited in the while the trees shook wind and the ivy grow over the But wall and the grass grÓW, by and by a rubber ball went

chocolate-coloured bouncing and rolling down the street

began turning round and round, "Here 1 go! Nobody can catch faster and faster. me!"

the

the

poodle

"Hey, Poodle! What are you doing?" Teddy yelled at the top of his voice.

It Disappeared

Toddy

distinctly heard

The poodie kept turning rubber ball saying or perhaps

around more and more, But Anyway, he just imagined it.

he he stopped. Then hit Anally the rubber ball suddenly

of the trees noticed Teddy the Stuffed Bear the trunk of one

He barked up. and shot across the street

and in the window.

"Hollo there, Stuffed Beer-In- disappeared in the middle of a

The-Window!" he barked, thick bush.

"Oh! He's losti" Toddy said.

"Hello, Chocolate-Poodle-In- "This is pretty exciting. Here The Street!" Teddy called back. comes a boy looking for him. Why were you turning round Ho's b that bush!" Teddy and round?" shouted to the boy.

T

"Why?" said the poodle. Did

the boy hear Teddy? Maybo

was chasing my tall; that's ho did,

he maybe didn't.

he why! But just the same

That's foolish, to chase your ran over to the bush and pull- ed out the ball.

"The faster tail," said Teddy. "Play ball with me!

Hey, you

go the faster your tail play bali with me!"

Teddy goes. You never can catch shouted. The boy just ran off That's why it's foolish.” with the ball. So Toddy kept looking at the trees shaking in the wind and the grass slowly and silently growing.

Scratched His Ears

"That's

right,"

suidh

the

and

up

Then a big poodle cama walk- poodle. And he sat down THEN we think of trees, we

in sight. But when they started ing down the street. The poodle scratched his chocolate-coloured of jeaves and

coloured like chocolate ears, ono at a time, very slow- to patrol the region in the hand-was branches growing on them. But these are not the only things

Probably the most amazed of car, a huge beast suddenly ap- fudge. He had a long nove, big ly and carefully. Then all of a

The llou eyes and droopy ears.

sudden bo sprang to his feat that grow on trees.

all the Uganda workers were peared in a rock cut,

All at once, right in the again and started dashing of the Carri- When the big job was started, the American bridge-builders. ran off as both men jumped to

the ground.

middle of a patch of sunshine, and down. grow on

20,000 coolics como by steamer Twenty-three men had come trees. And what's more, to the no- from the eastern part of India from the United States to set up tives this strange fact is con- to work under tho English the 27 steel viaducts in the sidered very common.

A engineers. largo

body of

of mountain area, The trees grow in lagoons and African natives wero awampy along the coasta ot Cuba and other islands.

employed.

In the islands bean, oysters

When white mon

nico 1150 With the latter the Used the strange

the tide rises, the oysters attach dialect called Kiswahili. THE

As the train carried them out

4 TOCOVER & TOBFEET themselves to the lower branches was a combination of many ion to their work, these follows felt

of mangrove trees, When the tide goes out, the trees, which use that had been in use among like rubbing their eyes in sur- the scattered tribes over since prise. Beside the track grazed ¡Bourish in salt water, present a tho first Europeate

strange appearance with their

CATTLE AND

Joyster clup.

Africn.

to hundreds of antelopes and zebras, Almost keeping pace with the snorting engine ran The English engineers met long-logged ostrioles. More than with many surpriąca. In some

once they glimpsed Hons closo places the lions were so fierce During the

But oysters are not the only peculiarities that grow on trees, There are shirts that grow trees, too.

These shirt trees, which dwell that once they dragged a man to broad-bed.

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aff a work car.

The enginoon in charge of the on the slopes of Cerra Daida, first year of the construction at bridge construction found he had are about sitty feet high.

The Indians cut off cylindricast 22 natives were killed by a real job on bis hands, Over these animals; so the engineers 13,000,000 pounds of steel in the cal pieces of the tree. From this, always went about with their form of airders, angle irons and they peel off the red, fibrous high-powered rifles handy. other parts had been shipped from New York, along with

bork.

The bark is like a port of The rhinoceroses, wore aven 600,000 feet of southern pine for Abrous garment. The Indiana bolder, If anything. They the bridge flooring, To Besemble cut holes in it, through which did not hesitate to charge a the separate piecas properly they lip their arms, and then

when they felt the American Bridge Company the Indiores have a natural shirt, locomotive

armoyed. One day wind of had resorted to a clever pelaninë,

A Beane" rency to wear.

Rupert and the Winter Woolly–7

Rupert calls to his pale, but everything medita qulát" and they do not seem to hear him. undamaged. Mrs. Best mökin filời

That awful, wind seepjed to "ba, and Milena ia aurprise to bù coming straight frem Nutwood."*. story." An you withi 210 thinks.

dearing 'E. wonder. I. ogg cottage is all right. It was enough liat beno, mps Wind" Loeng

para home and to bila velik ránky.

This way ho, went! That way he went! This way, that way, back and forth, here, there.

Teddy watched in amazement and wonder.

"Hey, Poodle! What are you chasing after now?" he shouted

down.

The poodle stopped and came over to the window.

couldn't catch It,, Bear-In- The Window," the poodle aald. "Couldn't catch it! Couldn't catch what?" demanded Teddy "I thought you weren't going to try to catch your tall any. moro,"

ai wastik trong tối batch may tail eld the poodle, "I was frying 40 catch my window, Look here it is-right in front of inet”. Anch away, quaised the

poodles.

Teddy the Stuffed Bear BITLLENCE

"Well, - mordottring' had y habiberec ufyok, „mil, Heitet, thiru ›