1956-10-06 — Page 18

FEATURES

CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1956.0

FOR

BOYS AND

GIRLS

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ANNOY 'SWORDS' AND 'SAUSAGES'

YOUR PUZZLE LITTLE THINGS DON'T ANNOY 'SWORDS AL

CORNER

CROSSWORD:

1 Unusual

4 Apedi

12.

13

ACROSS

7 Benjamin Franklet was dese

9 Early England (ab.)

10 Remain

11 Near

13 Upon

14 PCTION prine

36 Two datanny

18 Trenched in church

20 Before

21 Agent (ab)

DOWN

1 Encloses (poet.)

21m

“

8 Dimeler (nb)

4 Man's na

6 Tendelky

0 Arkd

8 Nova Scotia (ab) 1

12 Weary

14 Chenpass point

15 Room {4})

37 Devou

10 On prevuni (ab)

BEHEADINGS

Behead "worrics" stic! have "Greek war god"; behead this and have "u legul point"; be- heart again

have an abbreviation for "East Side,"

and

DE-TAILED WORDS

THIS IRON-NERVED EXPERT

T home in the evening

A when Mrs Rita Schal-

ble starts her trusty sewing machine to "wow

Ane seam," she is enjoying her hobby after a day's work that few women would even attempt to do,

For she has a unique and Remove the tail fenen “u kind vital job doing "midget" Very few people of radio-TV show and trave" tasks. window glass"; de-tail this nock | have the kind of skill and have **M cooking utensil";

the amount of patience she the-tail

has acquired. "father."

oner

דkot

TRIANGLE

Puzzlean

And

have

*

The CARPET s the base for word triangle. 'The second word is "father": third, mongrel dog" fourth. "Ash": and sixth,

Colt pouch

Finish the triangle:

י

CARPET

WACKY COMPASS

E

N

WACKY

COMPASS

START AT SOUTH AND READ EVERY S

AW THIRD LETTER E

{ YOU DECIDE

DIRECTION)

TO FIND PUZZLE PETE'S PROVERB

SOTEA

(Solutions on Page 20)

ATE

RUBBER BAND PADDLE BOAT

SMALL SIPOOL...

- CABIN

It's Easy To Build A Fleet

Of Paddle Boats

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How would you begin making mirrors 10 small that kalf a dozen will not cover even the head of common pin?

..

Here is how Mrs Schaible gues about 1.

ጺ!

Taking a mirror that in the inch aquare and thickness of a paper pattern, in ivory-tipped forceps, she places the mirror in a fix- ture. Then she proceeds to mark where the borders of the tiny fragments must

come.

☆

If

Mrs Schaible snaps off a miniature mirror.

When next you squini, glower and make a pass by which you hope the thread will go through the eye of the confounded needle, think of Mrs Schaible. She a fine platinum coil...m threads

hair a humam

those in-

casi I Aud

GROW IN HAWAII

this

And now utou! how

up to its strang'o plant lives

AWO of the world's most Two

exceedingly rare plants name...the silver part of the grow on the Hawaiian name comes from the fact that Islands. One looks na If it whether you see silversword has a baso full of silver n sunlight or movolight, it is

brilliant silver. swords and the other looks as if it is growing delicious sausages!

The sword part of the name ennes from the size, shape and colour of its leaves. The leaves

Oddly enough, the silver-ton a base ascund the plant sword belongs to the same family us our rather or dinary daisy.

FEEDS ON CINDERS

Erch about two feel around, feat or sword le 18 to 18 inches long and is clothed with slivery- silk babe.

branches. They look so good at * distance that one Con easily Imagine aliing down to a feast of them.

As the plant grows, a single ises to the height But it does not grow in ufy stem

of invand six feet. The upper almost every type of good portion is about an inch around soll as does its daisy re with 10 10 30 purplish ray This forettes surrounding 100 or more lative. No indeed!

florettes. rare plant likes the cinders from a volcano such as one There is one last strange fact

But if a person tried to eat one. It boura finds on the crater slopes of about the sliversword,

of these sausages he would cer narrow. black, half-inch-long the House of

Sun fruits Upped with a few short tainly be disappointed, because

with small, . (Haleakala) volcano on the scales. Then, after fruiting, the they are covered

terd-shelled brown scales en- silversword dies. The seeds of island of.Maui and on the the frult are left to carry on the taining hard pulp and

matly high mountains of Orchid production of more words. seeds.

leland.

the

The livers Word grows also In offer non-fertile places among rocks er in dry woll.

.BLOOMS AT NIGHT

The other exceedingly rare plant is the sausage træë, large, Postage-shaped trults Some people, it is said, have dangle for months from tis led to en the sausages, but

Why Not Form An Archery Club?

A

club.

your

no one has found them odible. However,

IHUNDRE

in Afrko, where the the tree originated, people use the fruits (sation (OS) for external medicine.

You would not want to go too to the sausago tree at

night.

flowers,

strings

blooms at night and

which hang on three to six feet long, There w

unpleasant odour.

The most famous sausage tree

In Hawail is on the campus of RCHERY is a growing a meeting place for your archery the University of Hawail In

sport In all parts of the

Honolulu's "Rainbow Valley," On the wall you have

Even though the sausage trea world. On a pleasant day quivers, arm guards, Onger tabs ème e useful purpose it

13 arrows and old targets. Cut outs from famous because it is one of the you can shoot your

On a magazines and enlarged

photo-botanical oddities of the world. on an outdoor range.

graphs will brighten up the rainy or wintery day you place

---EVELYN WITTER can enjoy archery Indoors in your school gymnasium.

The simplest way to start Mrs Schaible confesses, "Be-club in your neighbourhood

this sport is to form at archery

cause the light bothers my eyes,

your equip- I wear tinted eyeglasses at work school. Buy all

ment. Only when you have

1 "If i have luck. get about 400, but that will Shr cannot touch the take me at least two days," mirror with her fingers be she replied. cause such handling results

wondering smaller than are you in a blemished product of

where anyone would use through a best U-shaped glass no use to anyone. The ivory has proved to be softer than such tiny mirrors, here's the tube with on inside diameter of anything else she has tried, answer: in very delicate in- 60-thousandths of an inch

struments called galvano-

Here, Next she uses those ivory meters.

the finitesimal mirrors forceps to snap off all

Lo nake everything slivers of glass outside the beam of light on a scale no "easter, wo single turn of that touch the next turn lines which limit the size. further than 15 feet away coil must

she to record current or voltage turns can scarcely be soon.

although the distance between With n microscope. examines her work to see if measurements as fine as one ragged edges or chips mar part in 10 milion! it. If the result of her in- She has made mirrors as spection satisfies her, Mrs small as 15-thousandths of Schaible carefully transfers an inch square.

Her regu-

What she DOES need is an the mirror to a small glass lar output measures 15-

iron nerve and much muscular thousandths of an inch wide control und patience that per- capsule.

"How many mirrors can and from 30-thousandths to haps one in a million may have you get from a square luch 90-thousandths of an inch it. of glass?"

long.

but I don't really need them." learned to handie A bow

E. M. MARSHALL

The Rock

Rock Cony Makes Hay

While The Sun Shines

NE of the cleverest

Olitetnimals

the overgreen hills in America is the rock cony, a tiny creature about the size of an ordinary chipmunk,

This brown-coated bundle of bone, flesh and muscle

TAKE yourself a paddle inches from the end. Now take makes his home in the shule

Mant. Take a flat plece a three-eighths-incang is three

seen

piece of rock hillsides found in His wee of wood five inches wide, inches wide. Take rubber bands mountain areas,

often be the board in form can ten to twelve inches long and put around and about one-half inch the "A" notches,

whisking about among the thick.

Insert the thin plece of wood stones If one keeps very point one Saw one end to a

and one-half Inches be-quiet and hides behind a and cut out the other end tween the

and tree or bush. wind it up. as illustrated.

The point or prow, вм

Hold the paddle until the bout they say when speaking of is placed in the water so that bonts may be as sharp as the unwinding

bands rubber

This wee cony sat stil) long enough for a rare poviralti

וס

and

Young archer squints at target,

tournaments

An Unexpected Visitor

-Picky Pooh Drops A Bo ne

By MAX TRELL

"DID I ever tell

the

you story," said Christopher Cricket to Knarf and Honid, the ahadow children with the turn-

ed-about names. **nbout the noise in Blinky Mole's house?"

As Knart and Hanld both tooked puzzled, Christopher Cricket understood at once that they never heard the story. So he eat himselt down De com- fortably as he could on a blade of grass, crossed several of his legs (he had six or seven of them) and began.

damp.

Unusual House

bit

In Blinkur Parlour-

Blinky and Cricket scrambled out of the way.

.'

Falling Ceiling

+1

"Now Blinky always liked to be complimented on his house, It wasn't the ordinary kind of house that most folks lved in. It was underground. Now and arrow and know the fine points then,

at the ceiling 'It's nervously especially after of the sport, should you try to some of the rooms got a

u rain,

never happened before, There, make your bows and beroWS,

it's stopped. Now, as I was say- Your archery club can have "But Blinky wore rubber boots unexpectedly

ing, no one ever drops in on me with other clube. instead of bedroom slippers and anyone knows the address

because hardly You can have a deplay of your a rolncoat instead of a bathrobe. my house. Of course,' he added bows and arrows. Most of the The dining room table had bows used today are made either large mushroom-umbrella over I never mind when my friends quickly, all my frienda do. But of yew, lemonwood, or Osage it-Like a picnic table!' I

al- drop orange.

I have seen bows made ways used to tell him. from Abreglass and from

from metal. When you hear people talking and daisy cools, and buttercup "And usually the grass roots

In the hills, about three feet in diameter cony when I am

about the "weight" of a bow, roots and several other kinds of "Suddenly the scraping and

mcan Often I have allayed his fear of they

the number of and one, to two feet high.

roots come poking down through stratching started again. This come very pounds it takes to pull

the the ceiling. But Blinky didn't time there couldn't be any doubt The grass in these stacks human beings and

arrow its full length,

seem to mind them, either. He'd that someone on the roof was ripens in the warm Bun-

At present there is a tendency Just climb

up on a stepladder trying to come in, for the cell- shine. When it becomes hay

to use lighter bows for begin ond nibble them away.

ing began falling downl Perhaps the oddest thing the cony carries it into his

ners. This combles you to lear Yes, Blinky sald to me. wish. Maybe you move

But his natural shyness makes you

tho all

"'Look out!" I shouted. about the cony is the way den among the rocks.

techniques No matter what anyone necessary want sleek yacht

him reluctant to perch on any without getting tired.

about my house, it certainly in Blinky the next second as a big You may pul a cabin and he stores wild grass for

one's knee. The sight of a hawk

and quiet and peaceful. You never him. It came down with a crash. chunk of the coiling nearly hit maybe a tugboat. Be sure, sincke stacks on the boat, but food.

He always makes sure he has

Could a group of boys Q1 other predator sends him enough in the autumn to last scurrying for shelter,

girls

a hear any noise. learn archery without though, that

And no one the point is be sure that the cabin is placed

He stays

But but I can't under that All during the long hot unul new grass grows again. He there for hours after being badly competent instructor? If you exnetly in the middle of the directly in the centre so

Blinky #animered. your boat

of will not be lopsided months

find a teacher in the school summer, he doesn't want to go hungry during frightened.

"Why should anyone drop, in on board.

in the water.

or a member of a local adult You can make a laboriously gathers mouth- the cold mountain winters during

me unexpectedly and why On the two sides where the fleet of boats including yachts, fuls of sweet, tender grass which the now lies dorp, cover- A curious but lovable creature archery club to coach you, that

"No sooner had Blinky said should anyone come in through would be fine. However, you unit is to be, cut two barges, freightors and warships | growing near his home. He ing oil plants and bushes,

of the ever can learn by the Is this inhabitant

this than there was 6 loud scrap- the mot? And just listen to the L150 of self- Being a Nature lover and green wilderness. piles it a bit at a time into student of wild life, I spend

instruction books which contain and scratching. The noise noise!

[seched to come from the roof "Suddenly, I looked up and mounds that are usually considerable time studying the —HENRY H. GRAHAM helpful plotures to correct your of Bilaky's house. I looked at saw two large paws sticking

งา

or

of the rubber bands will turn the paddle and;

bout forward. your

power notches, av-shown in "A," one Race them with your friends.

| ZOO'S WHO

UZAR |

1C NEAR-SIGHTED ELEPHANT USES HIS SENSE OF SMELL

AND HEARING TO GIVE WARNING OF POTENTIAL ENEMIES.WHEN HE FEELS THE PRESENCE OF DAN- GER, HIS FLAPPING EARS BECOME STIFF AS BOARDS AND FAN OUT.

KNOWN

close to him.

Russian Stamp Honours Lenin

Fcourse, you will say, Latin in history now And, of course, you would bo "absolutely right. But, with the Russians, the little bald-headed man, who res m sembled 'facially Britain's Earl Attlee, never falls to dern w an awestruck response, a deep intaking of breath..

Small wonder, then, that this now Russian stamp · is'

soon

third child of an inspector of schools. His elder brother, Alexander, was hanged for taking part. in. a students' plot against the life of the Czar.

That -- and a hunger for revenge--- stirred the revolutionary fire within Vladimir."

can

H100!

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ever drops in unexpectedly." stand it!"

Loud Scraping

Blinky.

down through the ceiling. Then

You will also find articles on archery in the various

your roof, I think, magazines.

pasaki to Blinky. You can fix up your study Er, quite impossible,' room, den, or the basement as Blinky, glancing up a

sport/"Someone's trying to come in an enormous, soup bone at all

dedicated to the man whose, Viadimir Ilyitch. He took London, Pain, Zurion and dromtheand“ “lëáðèrship the name of Lonin 35aunched nation now 200 after his first taste of re

Evolutionary work;

Vladimir Ilyitch was borti

He graduated as a lawyry 'at St Petersburg, the town that was later to be renamed after him. But B como ogile anES years of plotting in Siberia, finally the homecoming to guide min of Beauny, nach arsívek, v 4se revolutions of 1917) Fušau

The atomb- bis honour, la What was he like, thisj

perforated 12, printed šis photo Lenin? Wally to start with in the Volga town of Douwerade costas: 1/des in jo chia mamm was not Labin but Ulyanovsk in 1870, the London ARANYERTAI

MT. JUSK HER POUNDS AND WAS

VIFERTULO

HICY

millón strong,

Rupert and the Dog-roses-31

„The King of the' jiona la 'aimseat tóð Kaduty, to, Jople at Rapsīti....... milik, "Sekiching off his nightang ke poN this verbien- kasi). Mridius klu

Inte brings hip hope and anoušỆ his sceptre, and at length the little sat morarchy la madrisht ko

I things-camo, clattering, down! Blinky and I scrambled out of said the way. Finally a head looked little down and two eyes stared right

at us! +

"It was Picky Pooh, the brown

| poodlef

Burying A Bone

"Oh, I beg yous pártion,!'iàld Picky. I didn't know this wron your house, Blinky, I was just burying a bono, dam

"Picky Pooh took the bone away and burled it in another hole. But it took Blinky. Moje quite a long time to repair the celling

***Nothing like this evề hàp- ponot do me before gir bei kept tering Such a thing]: Bury, ing.