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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1956.

FOR BOYS

FEATURES FOR

YOUR PUZZLE The Athletic Skill Of

CORNER

CROSSWORD

1 Pronoun

ACROSS

3 Musical note

5 Unit of weight

Chift

8 Sonk uĻ

Gustropak tandlusk

11 Pertaining to partes

13 Italian

ver

14 Mister (Spanister

14 We

18 Continek story

21 Nutsnices

23 Health MOT

M

24 Golf devlee

25 Encountered

26 Pull notice In the PIJAT

27 Preposition

DOWN

| Deaire

2 Half-om (printing i

3 Enmity

4 Акс

$ Also

7 Poin!

8 Spanish (2

P Trigonometrical functione

1

10 Behold

12 Tre

15 Grets

15 Upware

17 Harden, vermitt

## Qualifiest

20 State

22 Ocean

25 Mother

Strange Things

Can Happen In North Borneo

T

firs!

The

I though

This atanip, shown to the right of the Queen, was about to throw a spear. On closer inspec- tion found that the lady and is weird was playing wonderful musical mistry. ment.

After all, the from British

comes

stamp North BOTIN- land of the legendary wild m

and strange things can be ex-

pected to happen there

It is a very handsome stamp The girl in full nalive costume is pictured against a background

ORTH BORNEO

of thick jungle. And the picture

of the Queen, her crown glint-

Ing with diamonds, is skilfully muper-imposed.

North Borneo produces ber, timber and tobacco.

greater riches

Brunel,

TO

rub.

But វត

found British administered

neighbouring State. There oll

is the prize.

Another

neighbour in Sara-

wak, also British. There again

oil is money-spinner.

Yes, it is a wealthy and in

teresting part of the world. And

a very interesting stamp. costs only Id. in London, printed in photogravure end

perforated 131⁄2 by 14%.-J.Anë

TRIANGLE

This Triangle hangs from PERFECT

The second word s IS

for

wickeder": third fourth " doggy insect"'; afth in a contradiction for ever, and Nixth

abbreviation 24th mervekt." From these clues, enti vou finish the triangle?

PERFECT

F

HOMONYM

Polynesian Girls

WIFTLY the service came zooming ACTOBA the nef. It looked 48 though it would be an ice. But the receiver, racing into position, executer? quick twist of the wrist. met the ball perfectly with hør racquet. A neat 2't turn

21

This could have been 011 the courts of Summerfield, La., or those in Sacramento,

The Puzzleman says his miss- | Calif.

For that muller,

ng words sound nike, but are these girls might be pellet differently

24

Finish is couple of players anywhere

in the USA,

ventegen

The cut from the broken →→→→→ vained him severo

SCRAMBLER

Scramble "a fruit"

to harvest**.

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have to peet ·

and

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WACKY COMPASS

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N

N

WACKY

COMPASS

have

.wi

1010/01

START AT SOUTH (N AND UGE EVERY THIRD EW LETTER YOU DOODLE

DIRECTION) TO FIND

A PROVERB HIDDEN,

BY PUZZLE

Pete

E

A/F

H

(Solutions on Page 20)

HOW SUNNY DAY

FAN TO

1.CUT OUT 5 CIRCLES 4

INCHES ACROSS FROM DIFFER- ENT COLORS OF CONSTRUCTION

PAPER.

7.GLUE EACH CIRCLE TO A TONGUE

DEPRESSOR STICK LIKE

THIS...

3.CUT ALIN.SLIT IN CIRCLE ON BOTH SIDES OF TOP STICK...CUT ONE SLIT ON SAME. SIDE OF OTHER CIRCLES.

RUN A RIBBON

OR HEAVY CORD THANAGH HANDLES.

PUNCH

HOLE

AIN. FROH END

4.THREAD ALIN. RIBBON THROUGH SLITS... TWIST RIBBON AND GLUE IT TO ONE SIDE OF EACH SLIT

TIE ENDS

-GLUE

5.GLUE RIBBON TO BACK

OF EACH

END STICK.

ZOO'S WHO

THE ANGLER FISH REGULARLY DINES ON FISH BIGGER THAN ITSELF, ITSWALLOWS THESE WHOLE, ITS STOMACH MUSCLES

STRETCH-

ING TO

ACCOMMO~

DATE THE

ENORMOUS

MEAL UNTIL

It is DIGESTED.

Wusth

HOGS TRAMPLE AND EAT ANYSNAKE, THEY SEE THEIR THICK LAYER OF FAT PROTECTS THEM FROMBÅD

EFFECTS OF FOISONOUS BITES.

POUND IN AUSTRALIA THE BARKING" LIZARD GIVES A COUGHING BARKS WHEN DISTURBED.

Actually this was in one u! islands, out in the Polynesian the vast expanse of the Pacifle The girls were brown and healthy, their long, biark

Howing in the breeze. Your Pacifle friends, who are These native girls, have taken Dy tennis in many of the Poly- front nculan group, which are

the north to Now Zealanul

the south, from

W" + Sammon etic Tonga on the

Hawai

UI

to the Marquesas on the cast

OTHER SPORTS

+101

1

By EMMETT Maum

THEY'RE ALSO LEARNING TO PLAY TENNIC, AND

THE DAME NAO COME

» LONG

WAY

ARE DOING

WELL AT IT-

or pollion. shools - and

It's

14

Вор =P

PACIFIC GIRLS ** EXCEL IN GWIMMING AND DIVING, AND COULD COMPETE-

FAVORABLY AGAINST

THE BEST IN

THE WORLD-

AND NOT ONLY THAT - BASKET BALL HAS BEEN TAKEN | Up er OUR POLYNESHAN

FRIENDS -

ball into the forward's batis The forwardi tein's her guard out

dribbles and fel Ko

Yes, the The game is wen girls are playing basketball on Suve

Un

2

for long periods of time and are graceful divers.

Girls of Hawait and the Solo- inona aro

are more swimmers

AND GIRLS

Underwater Mikes

Pick Up

Shrimp "Conversations"

URING World War II, 'micro.

DURI

underwater phones work developed for the purpose of listening for enemy submarines in the the waters around American continent. And when using them, Navy engineers were surprised to hear an underwater clatter very much ilke the noise of a large cafeteria during the noon-hour rush.

causing it?

What Was The microphone had been lowered over a school of anapping shrimp.

Snapping shrimp are not good for eating. They seem their to exist just to snap single claw. And they are found over the oceans the world.

of

By M. G. SHELTON.

A grouper, four feet long, visita divers.

Chesapeake Bay to mouitor other end to your car, you will

hear ships at a great from you."

distance

So sound recordings of the sound of passing ships, these shrimp "conversa- One spring evening a noise tiona" had to be made and like a drill tearing up a pave- to training centres ment was heard, and this kept good sent particularly

Now, electronic

allow Hube swimmers. No girls, though, throughout the U.S.A. This op for several nights.

Navy men to hear ships and fearless and capable was to keep Navy listeners Then L WILN fours! thut it listen in

the chatter of than the Maoris,

moved marine life too, It is possible of from confusing them with school of croakers hack dark-complexioned natives

from their winter quarters in that some Ash product

sounds Zealand. Purile New

As young the sonic output of enemy

higher than the human car can the ocean into the bay. they are taught to

to ships.

The whole idea of listening to hear. Some stringe underwater children,

heard ut swia, using a side stroke that

fish can be traced to a man who wounds have quires a great deal of stamina.

Other marine creaturca

was the master of Invention in supersente frequencias which They are capablo at surf-riding

may prove to be "ish talk," and canoe racing, and treading have ways of making them- the 15th century, Leonixto da

of their

So far, Porpoises, Vincl. He wrote in his journal: heard. great selves

equipment When Maori 11

place the head of a long talk. Like much human sourud, treading, you think often called the "court jes "If you cause your ship to stop been devised to interpret he will surely sink, she stays ters of the sea," squeal and tube in the water, and place the it is probably only alle chatter.

animals as they

lands, the girl athletes run in eresting foot races. They have

and long runs short dashes Sometimes they have n three- leggeri

But the biggest fir༥ event: are obstacle ruces, which are extremely difficult

water is one achievements girl begins

QUT tenna is only otic of D mumber of games played by the girls in the Pucifle. If you go to one of the Pacific ales, you are likely to see girls playing hockey there The r Polynesian girls play it quite woll, tox They are taught to master anything they undertake,

Cricket

favourite stort Aastrabo, Bagiand, New Zealand And out iti the

of Samoa, Paçitle isiozid

the kurk like it as well as any guine Now take a Trip to Suva in the Fiji islands. You see them LL Wer the Pacific, girls

frolic in the waves or vul there. the Wo teams

Aexcel at one sport, in which The Maoris have had as wide

cavort around a passing Interest is running high And

they could favourably compete variety of games and sporte

school of lied against the best in the world.

shrimp. Their AS ARE. In the score is

for girls as any in the Pacific. only a few seconds remain

tree climbing great voices had to be recorded These young indica really lear: They find The crowd is cheering madly to swim when they are merely recreation and you will seldom also. A shot is messed The guld bubles IL M no surprise then ever sce one fall Hop, step grubs the rebound off the trick-

that the girls thrill to swimming and jump is among their more dribbles and

and puisers races of varying distances. Also interesting sports puss senica the thoy can stay below the surface soever.

Then a sceOBCÍ

DIVING EXPERTS

there so long

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If You Have A Garden, Why Not

Get A Tortoise For A Pet?

By J. W. WOLFE

It is best

1

and to keep the lower petals

withered Tlak turtles garden water in shallow

blossoms of many kinds are feit them in Zoos.

ÍÇ a matter.

now

pun,

In

bark like

A network phones was

of hydro-

set up in the

NOTHING LIKE A QOOL SHOWER "TO KREP A TORTOISE CONTENTED,

much

and

no

גן !!

Swimming Is Wonderful

-Especially If You Are Able to Swim Like a Fish---

K

By MAX TRELL

NARF and

Hand,

the

shadow children with the turned-about names, had gone down to the brook and were siting

on the big white stone (which belonged to

frog)

when they saw their friend, Mr the Magnificent

Merlin,

Magician

Ite

wus dressed in green sull and was wearing a pair of big goggles

n bright

"Good-morning. Mr Merin," seid Hanid.

"Good-morning." said Knarf. "Those gogies you're wearing make you look like a fish.”

Fish Gogglas

Mr Merlin, the Magnificent Magician, sinlied and

"They're ash goggles."

"Why art

you

them?' asked Hanid.

sald:

wearing

G-28;

has this

They saw shails climbing up the stems of water plants,

"Well," he said to them, in a

"Because I'm going in swim- kind of bubbly voice, "how do Mr Merlin, "and you like being fish? ming," said when I go in swimming, F

swim liko, a fish,"

pot 1

Kлrf

and Hanid both sald

Knart and Hanid said they

wonderfully happy,

felt

must be very interesting to . Then

me

let go for a swim!

sald Mr Merlin.

keep a tortoise, or

comparatively simple tilted so that the tortoise

One tortoise will keep your it.

And garden can easily get at

perfect order. At it really earns its Of course, we metan af weeds are scarce,

some work all day, such as apple board and keep. small specie, not the Glant green food.

Tortoises are "sleepy-heads" Tortoises that used to live parings, endive or spinach and do not get up at the crack stir of dawn as do birds, but in seas in Eastern Europe should be provided daily.

13 high. only when the The almost extinct,

They go to bed around four black-shelled tortoise shell

o'clock in the afternoon, was once used in making

winter hold. They say They burrow for the ornamental bucks for

and

sleep until the days get brings good luck.

What a pleasant, merry, mar- vegetable swim like a th 19 The pots aro fed

It was, gliding "It vellous trip said Mr Merlin, and native fruits. The isn't very much trouble for me through the water as easily as place olives, for winter. That is a good hay or straw above the

your tortoise has chosen for children often put this pet into to turn you into fish if you'd swallows glide through the airl How different the brook looked time to "fatten" up

care to have me do it," Tortoises find their own pet by giving it all

your winter quarters to give it extra the sink and let the water run

the warmth.

gently on it Every morning Knart and

Hanid said they from the way it did when they

saw it from above) food in gardens. If the gar bread soaked in milk that

the tortoise is fed broad and would liko very much to bo In very hot, dry weather use

At this, Mr They

sitting saw the frogs contains plenty of

it. can લા. This

will a watering pot on your tortoise milk the same as the boys and changed into finh

Merlin reached into his pocket high moist soil and plenty of

up on the banks, with thoroughly ho girls. sustain the creature

all and

and gave them both a pair of their heads pointed up toward enjoys it. weeds, the only Krass and

Then he snapped his the sky. They saw duck winter.

In some country districts of provide thing you need to

As torioises eat many kinds of Italy and Greeco you will see a is water.

inserts, fallen

rose petals, sun-

Like tonds and frogs, the

begins early in warm. tortoise

When the winter

that

brushes and combs, but to autumn to look for a home severe, it is a good plan to pack Geroos, from the table, fresh "Well,"

day it is almost a lost craft.

den

PCC

how

AFTER THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF MOUNT MAZAMA, THERE EMERGED

The Bluest Lake In The World

MANY, many hundreds

Vkof years ago a mighty chain of "fire mountains" flamed along the Pacific. Coast, forming the Cascallo Mountains with their erup- tions.

One by one these volcarmes gradually cooled, off and became extinct with the exception of Lasson Peak, which was last known to have erupted around the year 1700!

B

| THE VANDEIRING AMERICANAS

out wre

In winter the tortoise has

E

and kitchen

range hibernates during

here It

tho

ŽUR

And

Hanta

astonishment.

هامي

and

several

linegers

saw only her moving legs and tortoise in almost every house- box of dirt and hay back of the magical words (which I wish I paddling across the brooks and could remember) and instantly her white fenthers until sud-- Khart and

found

them denly she tipped over-and they cold salves turning

1coping aw only her snapping black. months. Of course the soil is through the water of the brook, eyes and her yellow beak. sprinkled occasionally, It They stopped for a moment

ent in drice out.

where the water a deep pool

They met malls climbing up When the tortoise begins to fell, all froth and bubbles, from the stems of water plants. They. knock around in spring the the high rocks just overhead, gaw water bugs and water

scurrying owner know it is time to let it They looked at each other in bootjes,

along the out of the box

mud and sană at the boltam, In homes where there are

They looked up through the Scafes And Fins large palms, cactures and such

water and raw · a

little boy vanished into a huge cavern in

the tortolest is

fishing. houseplants, the earth.

allowed to-burrow at the roots They had talle and scales and When the lava hod cooled,

for

Italian ins.

Crowds of Fish At this moment, another autuma months. water began to flow into the familiee often keep three or four fish came swimming up to them, immense hole left

the

tortolees and trent them as wo They at once recognised their But the best fun of all was mountain > disappeared, and

do cats and dogs.

friend, Mr Merin,

racing through the water with formed 粒 beautiful body of

alf the other fish--- great crowd water now called "Crater Lakce,"

of them, jumping and laughing It is said to be the bluest and

and splashing. The brook deepest fresh water lako in the

wound across the posture where world,

the cows came to drink, and moved slowly around the foot of the hill among the dark pines. They saw rabbit drinking water at the edge and ilgbaning with its ears cocked for a fox They ́saw a robin" taking a bath and a little · girl- miling a wooden boat with her brother.

when

Two tiny islands are visible in the unbelievable blue of Crater Lake. Ono is called Phantom Ship,' because it hod sharp pinnacles of lava rock which rosethble o ship's mast, The other one in Wizard Island, and is the peak of one of the three' volstoon› which formed when Mount Mazima disapporod.

1016 Lasson Park Fer been quiet again, the only sign

Rupert and the Dog-roses-13

Then, suddenly on June 1, 1914, Laisser Peak wha seen to belch out

huge made of smoke. This was followed by a great ex

so hot every living of activity being a small jos of plosion of superheated gas plant and animal within its path, steam now and then, and a few which burst from the crater was destroyed. At other times shos, quickly scattered by the of the volcan, Lava rushed the rocks and ashes thrown out winch · Kuch small disturbances

pay mid he thinks. not considered eruptions by down the mountain gaides were lulooverin, or even cold.

For two years, the, volcans the geologists and acleaykatur V whene Marson has done for man 1 » Yasy and live done even better and out into the valley continued to pour forth smoke Pescope this last, great - "Are (will try + 10, find her, some of thanh tăng 1** Rupert chuckles. surrounding it

and stegn, rocks and lava, aga mountain? lng gone to; sleep Nự, nhưng zuri roses. It only I could * Tvs brought something to show, Basaglider golfioreneringslot, * Che of this famous chair

mywberiou Sometimes the lays that dowed Mount Mazama,

DINO.

Afore Jeaving the little girl's, dit with the others in the gardeni." how Rupert Roke very carefully ‹-Men, Bear-check all the things and low home with the new that Rupert has brought. "You'vn **

* don't care what they done. Very well, als miler. Bi 3* After){ “Everything's ', exactly right."

CALL RIGHTS ABLESYSD

And dinally, when they reached the spot where the brook, Joined the river on its way down to the sea, all at once Mr Merlirt Jumped out of the water and Knart and Fanid Allcked · their 'fails and followed; hun. They were all sitting on tho

· bank again, no longer JUST

themselves,

17 hope you liked your trip, enid" "Mr Merun). [Berimanting wordartial when you can swin

Knart and Hanid, both with that,