1956-09-22 — Page 18

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1956.

FEATURES FOR

YOUR PUZZLE Seven-year-olds Hunt

CORNER

CROSSWORD

To give you a band with this crossword puzzle, Cartoonist Cal has lettered in the name of the country we are visiting:

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2

P

ID

E

R

门

18

U

37

ACROSS

1 Light touch

1 High mountain

Roof Ania)

B Scottish sheepfold

D C to Peru by this

11 Withdrows

17 First number

BB Extinct bird

1 Boy's mekanume

20 Attempt

DOWN

1 Polike purt

# chu}{]rt

3 Worn about the neck

4 Upper limit

5 American general

13

B Through

10 Baba and the 40 thieves

11 Steal

12 Compass point

13 Number

14 Large mouse

15 Europe (ab.)

16 The heavens

HOW MAKE A

TO MUSCLE BUILDER

1.CUT TWO, Z INCH WIDE COMPLETE CIRCLES FROM AN AUTOMOBILE TIRE TUBE.

2.LINK THEM TOGETHER IN

A RUBBER BAND

KNOT LIKE

THIS.

3. WRAP IT AROUND A BASEMENT POST AND PULL THE KNOT TIGHT. .CUT ANOTHER STRIP OF TIRE TUBE ABOUT Z IN. WIDE AND

IO IN. LONG AND NAIL IT

OVER THE KNOT TO HOLD STRIPS.

5 CUT A PIECE OF BROOM HANDLE ABOUT 20 IN LONG. SLIP IT THROUGH ENDS OF RUBBER STRIPS... BRACE YOURSELF AND PULL. WATCH YOUR MUSCLES GROW.

on

DIAMOND

This word diamond is central MINERAL Peri's

Kr wrulli. Thi send wor poetic for "H is", third "colours

lightly; nfth "a leather thong and sixth "teve duid" Finish

the diamond:

M

N

MINERAL

R

1.

PERU REBUS

Use The worda abit metures four

ght and you'll find the fus atinst Peru Puzzlątwin con. euled m this rebus)

WE'RE GOING

TO THE CIT)

TOMORROW

I'M STUDYING SPANISH

+ÍMADĀM CURIE) DISCOVERED

RADIUM R

MIXED-UP PRODUCTS

Fleece Thre products of Peru, bai the Pusdien

has mixed up the friters Can you rearrange them to Bud the pro- duels"

TOT CON

ARGUS

TOP SO EAT

BACKWARD LOOK

it you have trouble

reading

This wrudence about Peru, Try it backward

TROPAES rec S'URED SI DALLAC

(Solutions on Page 28)

Word

Charade

Time les

For Shirley Long When she and Dick

Can play

G&

(Answer on Page 20)

RIDDLES

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pretty

IN

Big Game "Abroad"

By RALPH MONCRIEF

"Na classroom in one ele- mentary school in Dallas, Texas, some 85 seven-year olds are preparing to take off by plane on a big game hut, in some far away land.

Of course it is only make believe artd imagination. youngsters fly many thousands of miles and never leave their seuts, and they une coloured pencils and notebooks instead of elephant guns. But they bag their game as surely as if they were on a real

Tho

hunt.

room.

game

BOYS

plains, "because we have so many countries to visit and so many animals to study that if we were to go by any

of transporta other mode tion we couldn't make them all in any one school year. Ant, too, it gives un an op- Portunity to learn some- how our air. thing about lines operate."

None of the trips is made school time and the on children plan and execute each trip - Miss Hughes unly guides and counsels, They love the excursions so much that they don't mind putting in the extra time.

★ ★

AND

Frankie Cusack, Jan Hullam and Bob Harría ohart the course.

Object of the hunt, how. NOT to slay the ever, is animals and acquire a Listen as second-grader bearskin rug or a mounted Jan Hullum describes a re pare to take off, and fasten deer head for the trophy cant expedition to Africa.

our safety belts und do whatever else is ordered. it is to study the "First," says the petite

in their native blonde with

1.he

"Then we take off and it isn't pony tail habitat. And some of the hairdo, "we elect our pilots, long before we are out over the

Atlante Ocean

route on things they learn on these navigators, engineers, stew.

Nigeria, West Africa. Jaunts would put many aards and hostesses. Theя

"After landing in Nigerht we adult to shame,

we travel out to Love Field decide what animal we should "We fly on the trips," and board our plane. We hunt.

the Say it's

elephant, Miss Hughes, the teacher pay attention to the orders First we take books and papers to and out all about him before in charge of the class, ex- of our hostess As we pre- beginning the hunt.

Hunters put finkhlug touches on the animals used for banquet decorations,

to

It's A Tramps' Party-So Don't Forget To Put On Old Clothes

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1

By IRMA HEGEL

goon са onc

Drinka tall-size

DAY. IT WAS SO HOT HE HAD TO TAKE OFF HIS HAT AND HIS COAT AND HIS SHOES. (Off go the shoes, coats, and hate of everyone who is wearing them,) IN THE YARD HE WAS APPROACHING HE HEARD A DOG BARKING. (Everyone starte berking and must keep it up.) WEARY WILLIE WAS SO FRIGHTENED THAT

"We niso studied and hunted the rhinoceros, the hippo, the Jungle and descri lions, and many species of the monkey.

"Did you know that a hippo has tusks

more valiable than the elephant's because he

Cur rics them in his mouth and therefore keeps them cleaner?"

oted The youngsters have hunted kangaroos

Australia, The tigers in Asia and India, the and Jaguars in South America, and polar bears reindeer in Greenland.

pumas

*

and

GIRLS

A True Story About Mozart

Why The Merry Guest

Overstayed..

By C. H. GRAMLING

THIS

IN A

Tabout a man who went

to a party and after staying much, much too long, created a masterpiece (that should have taken weeks to create) that same night.

It happened over 150 ytura

ago in a suburban village

Prague, Czechoslovakia,

a prominent family way

where

glving

a large party. The ladies were

the

get.demen wore satin brooches beautifully gowned and wige.

ONE MORE MINUET Among them was a little man from Vienna who was the mer- rkat of all. He was the most | coercetic on the dance floor and he proposed more tests than anyone elso

The

ນາກ

PLEASE KEEP TALKING.... AND THE COFFEB

BREWING--

He had to make that deadline.

Accordingly, he sat down at gay hours flew by and the glasi fismilly departed all he desk and worked feverishly excerpt the little

from until after 7 o'clock in the morn~ Then he heaved a heavy Vienna, who seamed pleasantly iny. pocupled and next at all aware sigh of relief und, interrupting his hoarse and exhausted wife of the hour.

who had talked incessantly all The tired host and hostess be-

worried becatise

they night,

ho

didn't know

w to get rid of "It is finishedy announced, han. So when he inquired rather ENTIRE OVERTURE

"Is this Oct auxiously,

287

He had composed the entire they seized the opportunity to overture to his opera that night. answer, "NO, IT IS NOW THE The inspiration had come from 20th,"

the ball that evening.

night.

He

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The guest paused a

He dushed out of the house for moment and then lingered to hear the a rehearsal with Herr Kucharz, orchestra play one more minuei director of the Prague orchestra, bolize he departed,

Its first brilliant pericomaće The knowledge of amunals

WHET he arrived home, he that night was a gale affair and ucclaimed the Com- the second graders have ac- was very fnügued. But he told everyone

wide that quired stood them in good stead bus sympathetic

he puser. when recently

But it was very difficult for inissionary must finish his opers immedi- J friend of Miss Hughes' returned

audience to understand why premiere was tho heduled home from Africa.

for the following his wife seemned so sleepy.

Who was the composer? Ho A religious organization, wish-

keep was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ing

the missionery honour

"Don Gio with an African banquet, called talking and to serve him coffee and the opora was on the teacher for help in creat-

so that he would not fall asleep. vanni." Ing animals for decoration. Miss Hugher cud the school's ort teacher made the cutouts and the children did the colouring. They did such an outstanding Jot that it was hard for the guests to believe that aeven- year-olds had donw the work.

to

A Symbol Of

Friendship

ter requested

{

Lady Changes Her Mind

-China Doll Finds Friends Are Necessary, Too-

By MAX TRELL

"ONCE UPON

time," said

Mr Punch to Knorf and Hank, the shadow-children with the furned-about names, "there was a lady who lived in She Our Town.

was a very lovely lady, a very beautiful Indy, and she had the lovellest and most beautiful house that anyone ever could havet

THIS stamp symbolises everyone

In Our Town Was

had it

Khart sold: "Why?"

Hanid aald: "There

must

signs that our world will not, after all, blast itself have been rome reason Mr

out of existence in a push-Punch. button WET.

The sign given by he stamp is a link of friendship between Two towns-Rhelms, In France, and Florence in Italy. They

twinned" to

have been

Me Punch nodded silent for a moment while he ll his pipe. began again,

He wan or two Then he

Every morning she swept

the doorstep.

Doll House "It was called the Doll House, "But Miss Doll tossed her

address was Number 1, curls and said: 'I don't care.'

Window Sunny

Avenue, bo “And then one night," said ween Sofa Lare and Bookcuet Mr Punch, "comeibing happen- Boulevard. Miss Doll-which ed that Miss Doli never wits the lady's name-kept her expeceld.

mote an exchange of visitors The both cultural and athletic and mcans of rousing the alerts of the children in whal their opposites are doing.

ELY

More and more towns in dir-houre ferent countries are "Twinning" In the friendship chain-Taun-

REIMS FLORENCE

she

as clean and neat as a "She was buzily sweeping the Every scrubbed the floors and swept upstairs to her bedroom, when

moming

stairs that led from her parlour

the doorsteps and once a week all at once she slipped and fell. she shook out the rugs. She There she lay, at the foot of the also dusted and washed the windows,

"But she would never allow anyone to come in!"

"When her neighbours in Our

stairs, quite unable to get to her fect again. Her head ached

and her arms ant legs were bruised.

"She cried out weakly: "Hotpl

Town asked her why, she I'm hurt!

replied: My house won't stay "But no one in Our Town elean if you all come in.

for Mr

heard her,

VERYONE Bikes a the orange drops, that player is

"hobo" party because out. No hands in this game.

Of course, one of the group it means dressing in old

#ust be

Hobo and the one King clothes the older, the more way of gaining that distinction ragged they are, the better. is to fight for it. The palms of

one player's hands It is advisable. for proper adam, the palms of another. must push

because she had called

to out atmosphere, to

anyone have the As

Mary Jane has dirty hands, never push

The Tin Soldier has mud on his before, 1. Why

her "And no one came to young party outdoors. Your gar ed over, another takes his place

Hobo Kleal unil King den or rooftop is an ladies like hinges?

is ncclaimed GAN TO RUN. (The players | in France; Bristol and Bordeaux, shed hair

HE on, in England, with Lisieux, shoes. Teddy the Stuffed Bear,

As door, because she had neVEr 2. When toca ill-atting place.

victor.

unch his fur.

fo smokes a pípo invited anyone to come int pair of trousers remind you of

should be served in mist rock back and forth in the Crewe and Macon.

and drops bits of ashes on the manner of a runner.) Take it Then new stamp itself' is a two French ports?

Only Four Walls. floor. An his wife Judy pushes paper fan or hamburgers on bung Frank- cups.

from there. The more motions good pieco design work the curtains back to look out of

of

"And then, as she lay there, and sounds you can produce in Classical Rees

ces of French and make for good eating.

the window and doesn't she thought to herself how the telling of your story.

women smile at Cach the Italian

foolish she was to think more Wind up the party with the more fun.

them back again. other though pressing home The host is the

"come to tea" invitations.

"I'm afraid," she said finally, of her house than of her friends of the other. If one sits Tramp's Tale.

For she knew down, the other stands up. must furnish the motions. It goes handkerchief, Ned

story-teller, the rest of the party A 'porting

Between the smiling faces are that my house wouldn't look as and neighbours.

It does now if I now that a house is only four If one leans backwards, the like

tiny drawings of the architec pretty as

walls and a roof and a floor. this: WEARY WILLIE and filled with

tural treasures which Rheims invited you all in.

No matter how pretty it looked, other leans forward. The WENT FOR A WALK ONE bubble-gum.

and Florence offer to sightseers

Surprised Look

it still couldn't help her get to from oll over the world "Her friends and neighbours her feet, stunts are done rapidly. If

Rheims cathedral and the in Our Town gave Miss China Palazzo Vecchio, one of the Doll a look of great surprise. glories of Italy.

What good is a pretty The stamp is perforated 18 house if none of your friends Brid reccss-printed. It costs can come int' one of them Md, in London, Lovely.-:A·A. Jaskod her.

3. Why is a naval outfitter a great bully?

4. What is the difference be- tween a bottle of medicine and a troublesome boy?

(Answers on Page 20)

ZOO'S WHO

THE KILLDEER

DOES NOT GO TO:

A GREAT DEAL OF

TROUBLE IN BUILDING A NEST.FOUR

EGGS ARE LAID

IN A SLIGHT

DEPRESSION AMONG PEBBLES,

BITS OF WOOD AND

OLD SHELLS

OYSTAL

ARE GOOD TO LAT.

· ANY TIKE OF THE YEAR,BUT THEY ARG FATTER AND MORE "PALATABLE DURING THE SO

קין

RATHER STARVER

BIRDS, DESPITE THEIRZ, GOOD. APPETITE FOR INSECTS, KARELY SEVER FAT FIREFLIES,

A good ice-breaker is the game of hobo meets hobo, Get two players together. One does the exact opposite

there is a mistake in con-

trasts, two players jump in

to take their places.

Try the old clothespin game next. And because this is a hobo party,, call it "stealing the chic- kena Fasten all the clothespins you, can on the line, spaced far enough apart so that everyone hands ean get to them. anspat, securely behind their

ks, the players maist un- en the clothespins from the line with their teeth, such coo carrying the pin to his special paper pie piste and dropping it thero. Then back for the next '.

At a given time, a whistle blows, averyone hats end the player who haa the. most Colherpins on his pie plate Is the winner

Space your players about threo foot apart for the third game. Wrap an orange in a red band- kerchief, pince it on the shoulder of the first player who rout push.. It under the chin of thíé next" blayer: Shoulder-chingħa, 'It'

stick,

favour la

on

a red

candy

IN THE GAME OF HOBO

MEETS HOBOONE

PLAYER HAG TO DO

THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF THE OTHER-

"IT NEVER TAGTED

THIG DOOD BEFORE

SERVE POP INTALLSIZE PAPER CUPS. SAVES WASHING AN

DISHES

THE KING HOBO 16 THE

and

до

Rupert and the Dog-roses-19

Ropeerexplains how very much trouble!" "Rither unwillingly 'he. he wants to gather dog posts for given directions to the little beat, Margot,At that Rollo looks su calling, soodbye, Rupert frots worried; 44 No, hd, he exclaims.. iuppily awry. He has not far to *** 1: and (you could see them. Chimi Ji t'part of the wood he does po, accolane muat you pick thenle pot know by poér lómabad v Wareh "pantabiakshow.per nicked, thin-dtg on a flick ånd, Anistán Velme, wher now "Without, wetting into. Bowers on a larga basherstel

put

heard

and Judy Fortunately, Teddy and I came her sobbing. Then we shouted

along and to everyone in Our Town.

"And" Mary Jane zan; in. and helped

Her to her feat Miss Doll didn't seem to mind Mary Jane's dirty handal General Tin an Toddy, the Stuffed Bear carried

Her, to her bed and General Tin's And.

[the didn't mind "Teddy'

muddy

When I ent

shedding für down

at the bedelde with my pipo and told her, a riory and Judy pushed the curtains aside to let in the cheerful suit, Biss Chian Doll 'didn't mitkäh! that olther!

"In fact,

wild Me

"from then she the noise and laughter and the sound of friendly

rang

through ber house d

sho, found that 11 was maler, to, koop her

house

„than it was to be settled

no friendly company to

wid

comes to Mig house, now, Jebells Big Mhart: You win your bet, Thay dottumuks. Pie Punch, smiling,

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