THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1956.
AND
FEATURES
FOR
BOYS
GIRLS
YOUR PUZZLE Cameos Have A Long History Make Use Of Empty Tins
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CAMEO is a shall figure carved in
relief
on a plain surface of a stone or shell.
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ITALIAN SHELLS
were
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This emus eat has been carved by one of the few surviving On the left is an emu; on the right, aburiglers of Australla.
aly re-bird.
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with dust exi artificially coffeet them as a hobby to. neul
the Word so they will read the, Many
They were then The Greeks were
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rubbed chewn with emery and 13 the rust surressful art will ever be revived.
pilset with powdere | silica cams cutters
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Small
The famous for Talians we Many generations for their
camtes,
Taroughout the history of have beeta
Thollaipted from precious as vulat em parcious stones: amerall, garnet, beryl Jas
Bine fee and chrysoprno.
have den sculpture from hem. Jazola, Topix andj Pinquumpos However, OnyX an agate
chief The
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19th century. Thank who calls
The popularity of cameos
the Jagan to decrease :11
were most
with
TRAJAN
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Theres
Two of
repro-
the largest sented scenes in the life of Em- peror Tiberius, One of these measures 13 inches by 1 inches. This in the largest known gem cameo and is now at Paris. The other, 8 inches by 7% inches, ia
at Vienna,
When You Go Camping!
overlook
fulness of empty old tins if you're out camping For in the deep woods, instead of throwing them The most beautiful
after They are head is said to be of Emperar away, Augustus, This was ent from emptied of food and other
and supplies, they
nake measures 5 by 34 inches. This your holiday pleambler in
beautiful sardonyx
16 in the British Museum,
single
Most comcos have a raised design. Those that are cut down into the surface are called in- foglios
ABORIGINE ART
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A vette is one that has hollowed out background firm which the design is then sculp~ Tured in relief
Some carved ostrich ers are of very unsust
on
many easy ways.
For example, by pune- turing a large-sized one with holes all around its edge. near the top, you can have cleaner drinking water if il must be dipped from a lake For by spring. plunging the receptacle in. up t: its top, and letting through, The water strain
WILLAT
or
it.
Your
MAKE THE WATER A
LITTLE WARMER MY GOOD MAN?
SEMEN
Prob-via the holes, origin. nily the lenst known sheil will be clear of the leaves, the tin making sure that cach is spiralled so thin it sextptures are those carved
sticks and floating debris mond
gor not touch another portion, m vs by the oborigines
that would otherwise pollute The aput svlected should be Australia, king before the cons- H of the white man.
Blooded with strong sunlight, if Here's another ad- vnating lo such a sl-up. Since the tin will ride freely
wil rotate with case when you
wind.
A few of these are stil in xistence in private collections. The aborigines almost always carved the entire cust.
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design
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Tins 17171 be useful if on the outside of the stick, It you're cooking your dinner
Án emu egg with of two kangeroes was carved with forked sticks set aside atmut 75 yenes ngo
King into the ground at op- Billy. one of the lust surviving posite ads of a campfire Australian aborigines, It is
with the collection.
1. Arthur <st Pingg. of Phoenix, Ariz
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with
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five-gallon beam holding staked fish, game or apelly or more are good for They'll make lois of things: Fowl. The vertical supports excellent
chairs, when turned very nico won't be in danger of becom- upside down, ing burned themselves If washtuber and dust-bins when And if you you'll encase the sticks in right side up. tins. Puneture four to six of Mature the bottom of one with a myriad of small holes, you've out-of-doorB them with holes top and got an excellent
the Hook this over bottom. Then slip the sticks shower
with a rope hawh of a tree through the tins, and the had that you can make by heat will not harm them.
inserting the rope through two If you turn 833 emply to opposing holes punched near upside down, over a tek stick the top of the open side. Knot that you've wedged into
the rope-enis. Now stand un- the derneath the bough, and let an reel for drying a wel shine, obliging friend pour water into
IN wind it around the container.
glound, you
All you du
have a
the
HOW Play FIND THE
TO JACK ANOTHER MAYFLOWER
1.THE HOST
PICKS A PAL
AND ASKS
HIM TO LEAVE THE ROOM.
Z.THOSE LEFT DECIDE ON ONE PERSON TO BE
THE "JACK"
THEN ALL SIT DOWN AS IF
NOTHING HAS TAKEN PLACE.
YOU CAN COME
IN NOW!
3.THE PLAYER WHO IS "IT" COMES IN AND EVERYONE SAYS FIND THE JACK"...THEN"IT"MUST PICK OUT THE ONE WHO WAS CHOSEN TO BE THE JACK?
HOW DOES
HE KNOW?
HERE'S
HOW
YOU'RE THE JACK?
BEFORE THE PARTY, THE HOST TELLS A PAL HE WILL BE PICKED D BETT. AND THAT THE HOST WILL GITEXACTLY LIKE THE "JACKSO IT WILL KNOW THE JACK AT ONCE.
WILL SAIL NEXT SPRING
WIND
Mak weather
Feral Dom Sex Authentie
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trouble so will have a
Cuzurun farly. Akaytown It will be berthest I del Plantatie, where the sepals, That of the arst
Father
settlement, 1st Exten binlt,
clothes do ew and jan enger have liet dold
The
Ful new of 24 wall lar chiraeth fran da ha od volunteers Ceturting mogul murmes, vachis
murals
Prestare 411 Laser fasabath whi Southampton
willing, infer May we deter flower will ail from Plymouth HUNT A port
fu cross the Atlantic Oron on at two mont
AAAHŞA To land on the "stern and rock- begund
New Enyland
first ved a
Then the May Bower 11 wit forth at the dark at! teamy deep,"
Conditions for the crow al panengers will be is match like 1820 as modern cutety require.
this will allow tut if the is very 11 present day Mayflower gets into friendship
Mayflower brought the Pi}. will auzar a park for the ship. grims.
the
As a gesture of Angio- American friendship, mer- chants of the Cle of London let by
bordd mayor himself are raising nearly US$3,000 to build an exact replica of the May- flower.
A
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year ago the keel was laid after the most exten sive research into the first Mayflower's design. In Devon shipyard, the ship is How being lifted Tack supplied. Launching date is Sept. 6.
From Upham's in Brixhami, the Mayflower will rail under the command of Captain Alan John Villlers, от Australian. She will call at Harwich, Duri. mouth, and Southampton, then have the Ationike its tha Spring
Half of Englund oppeins anxious to get in on the trip
trade
A Brush peer, Viscount St Davids, who is an expert on antique ships, joined a union in order to work on the Mayflower's rigging.
ZOO'S WHO
BATS DO NOT BUILD NESTS, THEY MERELY HOOK.THE CLAWS OF THEIR HIND FEET IN- % TO A WALL ORCELING
·AND HANG LIPSIDE DOWNA
OYSTERS EAT
PLANT AND ANIMAL ORGANISMS OF THE SEA.
THE CHINESE DISCOVERED
THE ART OF MAKING AN OYSTER PRODUCE A PEARL – DURING THE 134 CENTURY, THE JAPANESE, HOWEVER, BE CAN COMMERCIALIZATION OF THE!. IDEA IN 1990-*
1 that the Fred of the yuyage for 1 Mayflower [{"
No, for with the surplus funds from her bankding
LICE had caught the it is planned to eslabirḥ vschange scholarships
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"So, you
Picky The Traveller
By
The Childres Made Room for Him After All --
MAX TRELL
PICKY POO, the brusen poodle,
fell unhappier Thea h
ever fell before.
All morning long, he had been begging the children: "Take ine #long! Please take me alongi Let me Ko
Don't with you. see, Alice, if leave me alone
wanderhost. Anybody you run away you'll belong But the children were bury Ne boys and girls from England can catch the wanderlust. to no one. No one will be- rating, warhing. dressing anci and the United States can start Anybody can want to run long to you. The people, helping pack the valises, No
STEL
and.vidhand voyages of CL
Angin-American away from home, alone.
Workmen use tools z long ago to fashion Mayflower II.
Are French Penguins Bohemian?
So Alice went to visit the cireus lion. If anyone had travelled, the circus linn had travelled, hadn't he?
Alice had a way of talking to animals. Animals had a way of talking to Alice,
"Lion," Alice said, "I'd like to run away from home, alone."
Then I must tell you what happened to me," said the lion.
"Do you think you ought
to tell me? Aren't there some things llons don't tell Httle girla?" said Alice.
"Liston," said the lion.
"Then I'll listen," Allce,"
There
the sun, the sky, and the one bad any time to pay alter-
wasn't any room for him. lars, are the saine every tion to poor Picky Pon. where.
"You'd better wait out in the garden, they tok hun. And "Look out of your bed- they opened the door and put room window, think to him out. yourself, This is my world!' Maybe, when you're older, you'll go travelling, with happy than ever. He didn't someone you love. Certain like to stay home watching the ing and whining and not wag-
house, He would much rather ging my tail' ly, you won't go off by your go with the children. And now self, alone."
Very Unhappy
That made
they
Picky moro
even
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"Why are you whining?" Cricket anked Ploky.
un-
"Why won't they take you?" wouldn't
let him asked Crickel, watch them getting ready.
"I don't know," replied Picky, Take me along, please!" ho "My children always tako mo sald Cricket. on train trips," moaned. Alice understood. Any- He sat down very discon "They corry me in a box,” body can understand how solately under the back steps. "In a box? What kind of a the world can stretch, and He even sat on his tall, for it box?" asked Picky.
quite dark under the steps. stretch, far to the horizon, wasn't wagging at all. It was just by looking out of the window. Anybody can understand how lonesome it would be, going away from home, alone,
Anybody can learn from a waid Hon.
Alice did.
the
It
Quick as anything, she "One day," said the lion, lost
wanderlust. "the keeper forgot to lock flow away on a little breeze. my cage door. I walked out, Be careful you don't catch out, and into the street. it. But if you do, just re- "I saw a man with red member the lion and Alice. It's a lesson to remember. hat. I wanted to talk to him. "He climbed-to the roof of a telephone booth. crouched on the sidewalk
HE French, of course, do cul-Anianctic zone of the South things differently from Indian Ocean. Whereas ordinary penguins wear their the rest of us. That is at head feathers Flicked down, the cepted. But I never thought French penguins have adopted near him.
their penguins were any different from other pen- guins until I saw this new stamp. In this year. with a strong em- phasis on Antarc tle exploration and
a Fronch team
digging in with
12 others, a new.
set of stamps.
TZONES AKINGLES ȘI AUDRILIS METABES
7
I
new and dashing
"I looked at everybody. I style and their head feathers shoot up didn't move. I just looked wards and outwards and looked. Everybody look- In a Bohemlan proat me. They didn't know me. fusion
The main French They thought I was made of Antarctic territory is stone.
in Adelie Land.
There the 14-mai "The people I saw were *xpedition taking just like all the people I'd part in the ectcntific over acon. The same sun was investigations of the International Geo-
in the same sky. Nobody physical Year have cared about me. I was SO built their camp lonely 1
"I went back, back, to my cage. All my friends in the
la lasued to put France's among penguins, which have a Antarctic possessions on the normal hair-do,
The penguin stamp is per- philatelle map.'.'s p fornted 13. printed in LOGARI
The stamp ilustrated above and a set of six "(deu llons and circus were god `to` soa me,
shows the penguins which live neala ng well as penguina) costs in the Crowet Island, in the 2/0d, in London-JAA
I baloned to them. They bo- longed to me,
"A cardboard box," Cricket explained, "just like the one There were few cardboard you're leaning against now. boxes there, which the children They make little windows in It were keeping to carry things in. tie it up with cord and put a
handle on
it. It's just like a Picky Poo sat among them.
But he still kept whining in a little house." low voice: "Take me along, take me along, please,"
He was only there A minutes when he heard a sound.
Picky looked surprinod
notlood
leaning
Then suddenly his tail began few wagging again, faster and faster.
Ho had all at once It was Cricket, the next-door- that the box he was neighbour's dog. "What's the matter?" Cricket asked against had little windows in ille "Why are
moaning and going to take him along! That's whining, and not wagging your why they had asked him to wait tail? What's wrong?"
you
Of course! The children were
outside until they were ready Moaning And Whining to go!
Sure enough, that is just what **The children are all going way on a train and they won't the children planned. talco me. That's why I'm monn-
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Rupert and the Fire Bird-27
Rupert "tries to explain to you it,”, says Pong Ping, Suddenly Ponging
"You told me to, he gives a giap, and points. Some
·watch (to? ha pstygg “but did you distance away, is another crée and notion how quickly that bird, want van they watchi's wisp of autols growing?... [followed it up the rises from the top of it and then tree and it breached fire at mandar, thick, cloud. Whatever's "Then you called, "l_don't know? (happening over there 7** Rapert
'it*a/ mill- up there," / "I can'
Train Box
"Picky Poo," they called, "Picky Poo! We're ready to go now! Where are you? Olt, there ho is, sitting right next to his train box?".
They put him in the box, closed up the top, put the cord around it and carried him on the train.
had a fine time. Ho Pleky looked out of his four windown (one on each side of the box) and saw everything. And ‘ha was so busy looking, he forgot all about barking.
"Ho's a very good travelling dog," the conductor told the children, when ha caine for the tickets. "He can ride on my
uma ha
train any
"Arid Just to ald
Picks to himself, "that I thought
the children didn't ¦ want me along! I think they can't love me as much as I love theNAS U without taking them, along. WATE
know I wouldn't 'go danywhere
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