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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1956.

FEATURES FOR

YOUR PUZZLE

CORNER

CROSSWORD

ACROSS

TRIANGLE

The Puzzleman has hung bis triangle from

the word

DONATE, The second word is what an orator does"; third is

what a thing

known

by

fourth is "what

you KU

food"; and fifth ́

is short

to for

Complete the clues; DONATE

total expenses." Iriangle from the

Recognise the silhouette of

this crossword puzzle?

MATCH THEM

Match the first group of WORLÊN with the correct words

1 This soon will close for sum- ~ in the second group:

mer vacation

✔ Something to drink

GLASS

LESSON

7 Myself

8 Article

9 Deep hole

10

ugain

In the Luter

summer

DOWN

Stations (b)

2 Penny

3 Laughter sound

+ Leave out

5 Permita

9 Pair (ab.)

SCRAMBLERS

Scrumble a four-letter

word

for "a Fruit” and

havo

*tur

vest"; scramble this and

home

"one who minties":

once more

and have "to peel."

MAKE AN

NOW TO INDIAN COSTUME

HEADPIECE

1.CUTA Z-INCH WIDE CIRCLE TO FIT AROUND YOUR HEAD. OVERLAP 1INCH AND PASTE.

PAPER

PUT ON DESIGNS

WITH CRAYON

Z.CUT &INCHLONG FEATHERS FROM COLORED PAPER....PASTE AROUND INSIDE OF BAND.

3BRAID THREE 36INCH LONG PIECES OF HEAVY

BLACK YARN AND

ROOM

PRISON

CHURCH

SCHOOL

WINDOW PICTURE

FRAME

WALL

CELL

PEW

"A" WORDS

See how many things you can And beginning with the letter "A" In Cartoonist Cal's sketch:

(Solutions on Page 20)

IN

BOYS

AND GIRLS

Can You Solve These Picture Puzzles ?

| TEN MIGTAkes Have BerN MADE IN THIS DRAWING..... (CHECK THOSE YOU FIND WITH LIGT IN LOWER RIGHT HAND CORNER)

MEOW

1

BOSSY IG LOST! SEE IF YOU CAN'T GET HER BACK THROUGH THE PASTURE TO THE BARN .....

MOO!

START H&RE

# POLE IN WATER 2. GAT IN WATER 3. WALKTHAG FIGH ~4. HOOP ON DOG

5. ELEPHANT

M. DIFFERENT LEAVES| KP IN TREE

B. SHIP ON HILLE.

9. WHEELS ON CAR 10. Bor's reST

THE BATTLE OF THE BATHTUBS WHICH

MEMENTOES FOR YOUR PALS

ON why not surprise each

N the last day of school

of your favourite school. chums with a forget-me-not pin as a "so-long" gift?

These pins are easy to make.

The only materials you will

soup

need wit be an old

spoon, Д jar top, pigster of paris, water, មកជួយ safety pins, and forget-me-not designs (cut from old greeting cards or gat wrapping paper).

★ ★ ★

The soup spoon serves na

a mould for the pin. Mea- Bure

PLASTER OF PARIG PIN

THIC SO-LONG

OFT 16 SHAPED LIKE THE BOWL OF

A GIOCH

FUT PAPER FLOWER INI. SPOON AND POUR “GH PLASTERİ

WHEN MIXTURE

IG ALMOST DRY, LAX C SMALL IN TO BACK

OF PARIS

Lot the plaster dry until of it is firm enough to hold a one tablespoon water into the jar top. Add small safety pin in position plaster of paris to the water for a fastener.

has the moisture

When the plaster is com- until absorbed all the plaster pletely dry, the brooch will possible. Stir the mixture, slip out of the mould. Giva adding enough extra plaster it plenty of time to dry powder so that the batter is thoroughly, then cover it not too wet. (Caution! Do with a protective cont a tax of $80 a year on each not throw any of the plaster colourless nail polish. bathtub in the state.

mixture down the sink--it

RAGED A FEW DECADES AGO

N the early 1800s, bath it on exhibition in the front tubs were just coming yard of his New York home into use in the United States for a time. and doctors all over the country said that they were a serious mence to public health.

the

They said it was a risky business to bathe the human body in winter, and that those who persisted in using the new-fangled bathtubs would be subject to rheu- matism, inflammation of the lungs and other diseases.

Eli Whitney, the man who invented the cotton gin, was the first man to own a bathtub in America, He had it brought from England in the year 1820, and when it arrived he kept

A Centaur Stamp

From Spain

WRAP IT OVER YOUR THE stamps of Spain drws on the legendary for de

HEAD.

SLIP

BAND

OVER

BRAID.

JACKET 1CUT 3 PARTS OF

PANTS

"JACKET FROM PAPER TWO FOR FRONT... ONE FOR BACK...

ILACE PARTS TOGETHER AT SHOULDER AND UNDER ARMS.

CUT OUT SHAPE LIKE THIS FROM PAPER... FRINGE

EDGES,

W

ANT AROUND

AND

WAST

MOUND

KNEES

DECORADH

have always had $ peculiar fascination for me. Perhaps it is the adventure which stirs in the salls of her stately postage galleons, or the up-whiskered grandees over ready in their boldness for another match at the treasure of the Spanish Main.

But timo

marches and

Spain

A

now

ISSUED

two extreme-

ly

bonstitut

stmawper for

letters which

demard

pres delivery. One of these

shows airplane

of

the gill dis-

tant

future,

Shaped Bico &

highly streamlinedi

„ESPANA

paper dort

powered by erginen in

under-body.

The other stamp, illustrated

here, is the more Interesting of

the, two. It is

man,

師 Egure half half horse. Ho rears

in the air and draws his bow to

launch an arrow at an ermy or other quarry far in front.

Skimming through an illusta ted catalogue, I see that Spain

[ ZOO'S WHO

SO SUPPLE AND SKILLFJE-

THE FINGERLIKE TIROF THS ELEPHANTS MANY-. MUSCLED TRUNK THAT THIS BIG AWAWARD- LODING ANIMAL CAN!! EVEN UNTIE KNOTS

sign only-it would appear.—for her express delivery issues,

The centaur hans

1 savage

repulation in Greek mythology Ets a hunter of bulls.

Homer

describes it as savage, gigantic and covered with hair. As a result of this, the Mexicans, who had no native horses, fled when they first saw the Spanish cavalry because they thought

He had used such a tub while visiting friends LI London and thought it was a wonderful thing. But if he expected people in New York to be excited about his tub, he must have been dis appointed. Many looked at it, and it is said that small boy could pass Whit- ney's yard without chunking a rock at the long tin tub with its wide moulding of

the top,

but wood around nobody wanted him to order one for them.

4

no

BARLY SLIPPER BATH' USED IN PHILADELPHIA

son' invited a number of prominent men to his home and bold them they weTB welcome to try out this new device for bathing.

started

PROS AND CONS

Then

Mon named Adam Thompson, a grain dealer in Cincinnati, Ohio, Thompson's tub had a tub installed in his a lot of excitement and home that made of people began to take sides fine mahogany and

bathtubs. lined for and against

against with sheet lead, exactly like Most of them were

it, the one used by Lord John Russell, the Prime Minister of England.

was

The "Battle of the Bath-can stop up the pipes.)

tubs" raged for years with neither side willing to

yield.

When

Andrew Jackson became President

Get busy right away

of

од

friendship all

Cut out the forget-me- not designs. Dip one of these tower cutouts in these forget-me-not pins for will want your of the water, being careful not to you

to have United States in 1829 he wet it too much. Press the favourite pals had the one bathtub in the picture face down into the something to remind them

your Take of

summer White House torn out. Dollybowl of the spoon. Madison had caused it to care to place it evenly and during the

tion. be sure it has no wrinkles. be installed there when

The brooch will be nice she

to wear pinned to a dress.

floral Some other small design will do if you cannot locate forget-me-nots.

-ERMA REYNOLDS

was First Lady of the land. This tub was of steel and weighed almost 600 pounds.

HARD TO KEEP CLEAN

After It was removed, the White House was without a bathtube for 22 years. Thesi President Millard Fillmore had another ono put in.

Now fill in the plaster of paris mixture on top of the design, using enough of the batter so that the spoon is level full.

Where Was Mrs. Cuckoo?

Early tubs were made of zinc, copper, or tin. They all staineder Friends Were Worried When She Didn't Appeaṛ- very easily and were hard to keep clean which may have been

one reason why housewives dis- liked them. However, with our modern porcelain tubs and

that well-

By MAX TRELL

Many cities increased the sweet-scented soaps, we should TEDDY, the Stuffed Bear, was

enjoy getting water rate of persons who all And when his tub

was had one in their home, and scrubbed kook, ready for use, Mr Thomp the state of Virginia placed ----GERTRUDE

SLACK.

The Jade Treasure Unearthed

In Mexico Is A Mystery

that horse and man made but X7HEN the soldiers of

one beast.

Our centaur stamp is

WH

Spain invaded Mexico pthey found manufactured

forated 13, pitnied in photogr1 objects in such quanti- gravure and the pair cost 2/8d

in London.-—LAA.

thes as to stagger the imagination. When the Mexican emperor, Monter- ma, sent a tribute in gold

Get a few pieces of coaf and from his province as a gift

to

the Spanish king, the

Make A Colourful value of this metal collected

Garden Of Crystals

DID

ID you know that com mon, ordinary coal with

a little help. from you will Krow a lovely garden of coloured crystals?

Here's how: Chet a few, (two or thres) small piece of cool. The pieces should be about the aire of a pium or scot. You must une godt coal for this ex- periment.

Put the pieces in a da about the side of a cereal bowl.

exceeded 600,000 pesos.

Yet added to this treasure, as a special favour, were a few jade carvings which were, according to Montelu- ma, each worth "two loads of gold."

The reason that the in- dians valued jade so highly may have been partly due to the fact that it was hard to come by.

LARGEST COLLECTION None of their jade mines has been discovered. As für we know, most of the. jade treasures were' carved. from stones found in stream bedo.

Next in a clean tin dan mix together 2 tablespoons of blu- Ing, 2 tablespoons be plain sak Modern scientists classify (nok, loceed 1,2 blipoons of jade according to its chemi water, orse line inblespoon, re-cal content, but the Indians rular household ammonia before Columbus know nothing of this and szraded KAVE TESOURORA it only according to quality, Now pour this mixture ver if they graded it at all, alowly over time plects of coNÉ: Now Douro Baw-drops out med ng: 1941; expedition un

food onlosaria in poor, and

melted in the side of Vere dribble curetulty of the section of fade over discovered criz, Mucion, the largest cole Now West your spots and do The same thing with two more in the New World. colours. Was the post-cura, sisiod of no less than 782 sps fully dicky: Kind?

arato

Place your dish on a half of unged from while to down blue

or The colors of those curve out of the swot of mail dilldren or your and: Included surori, nendes OH GOD KRUPway to watch your

glov so were all

TERRING THE YEAR 1947, MY CERRO DE LAS MESAS, VERACRUZ, 782 PIECES

* GE VAADE KORS DELETREED, THE GROUP CONSISTED OF SKARBEN MAMY, ODD-SKAPER ORMANENTS"

Bus Two probable thoorles, bave

as the carvings them boo suggested. It might have selves can't talk we will never those ob- been, selontists say,

know. However; -It un offering

foets had not been gathered to in a religious or similar core gether in one place, most of them mony. Or it might have been would have remained lost for- buried to hide it from an in- ever.

vade

-R. 5. ' CRAGGS,

Rupert and the Winter Woolly-19

the Art one to notice it. He told Kmart and Hanid, the sbactows with the turned-about names, who told it to. General Tin, the Tin Soldier, who told it to Mr Punch.

Mr Punch said: "A thing like this could happen to anybody.".. "I'm not sure that Teddy is (right,” said Hanid. "Let's just

sce for oumdives.”

Under The Clock

So they all waited under the cuckoo clock, because this is what Teddy, the Stafred Bear, had said. He said that Mrs Cueleno had à cold in the head. "At least sho sounded"

that

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i

Dr Merlin climbed up the ladder to Mrs Cuckoo's house.

So that's how matters, stood until Mr Merlin. the Magnificent It was just a few minutes Magician came along. He was before eight o'clock.

Now, what usually happened, punctually at every hour, wits that Min Cuckoo opened the door of her clock, came out, looked around the room, made. a little bow and then salied out the time. If It was one o'clock sho carico.sace,

twice, and so on.

two clock,

The hands of the clock now stood at exactly eight o'clock.

Everyone in the room waifod for the door to open. But the door didn't

Mrs open. No. Cuckoo came to call out the. hour:

Sad Nows "Thero! I told you so," said Teddy, "She's got a cold la the hosdl"

"She's got more than that," mid Mr Punch She's got a cold in bed. I mean she's sick in bed"

A

General Tin ngrica in melarscholy:'(which is, the sana. ne sad) voice: "I'ma straid you're right, Punch":

2. “She might rident a doctor, ania Hania in'n worried, válce.

We ought to go and soo her saki Knart. Wood

4 Toddy, wadh: "Et hour can mibody got inaleta tisa 'clockc? - Jenowe

the "Punch wi

wearing, along black cost und tall black hat anthe W13 carrying a little black bag with the lottors M.D. printed nerves the frent.

"I hear Mrs Cuckoo le sick and needs a doctor," he said.

That's right,' wald Hamid. **But how did you know?"

Mr Merlin mlled: "A magni- floent magician like me knows. everything."

Teddy "But, interrupted "where are you going to find a doctor-thin enough to get insido the clock?".

"My dear, bear," said Mr Merlin: "Pm the doctor. 'Mak- ing myself thin enough to get inside the clock is no trouble at all."

Magic Ladder

With that, Mr Merlin took. ladder out of his pocket, stood it against the clock, climbed up the ladder and when he

Die reached 100

top of it, he did a remark» able thing. He mattered some magical words (I with knew what they were) and instantly "Beciano, a thin as smoke) · The next second, che disappeared : inside, lie clock, sliding: Bright

through the

The crack under

An hour later Mr Merun rea turned This fimo hè carse, out through the Al doon / And, to veryoney delight, he was hold Ang Mr Cuckoo by thes Handi