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THE CHINA : MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20,

FEATURES

FOR

TRY NATURE THEME FOR CROWS CAN

AUTUMN PICNICS

NATURE party is

A always good fun and

louds itself nicely to ધ bicycle trip, a hike, or even Send your a backyard. Invitations out in the form of a paper leaf, naming the time and place, with jeans, old shirts and old h

must. If you do not want to provide all the refresh- each guest to ments, usk

bring along

sandwich or two

Gatues shradd

Invourite

Aren

La f With of Mesher Natur collelang tilake. the Vater If you are publie park struct your pinyers not to purk any lepves except these band me em the ground

TO TELL FORTUNE

The item is to collect as 19pay different typen of Irakes Its pebe sible M the end minutes, all scrubs petit

Iny before them tee

Sty

have gathered Anyone was be selected two

143 2.3 5

out of the Radner

If you can ret

thistle-down

wall

eri

a full- W dandel, u, ako dare youu huetras

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to the }

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circle wad

blows at the bit of Buff To Reg

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the globe.

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341:1 ures, tell the playces' is use.

Burpeans the mathe jeet ke lus. Hower, a berset admirer, feather, a deter

1 : է

Glider

1.Cut a piece of heavy PAPER 8in. long and 4in.

wide.

- - FBLA 14 CENTER -

·MALF FOLD = ·

FOLD IN HALF

DOWN THE CENTER

AND

THEN FOLD EACHSIDE IN HALF

LIKE

THIS...

2.Cut a piece of the same paper for the tail and wing this

way....

SIN.

MNG

TAIL

3.PIN wings and tail to body (AXB)

about 5

and put

PAPER CLIPS on the front (8)

A

BEND TAIL UP

SLIGHTLY

P

PINS

CENTER-

THROW IT HIGH AND

GLIDE!.

IT WILL LOOP AND

CENTER THE PING SOLIDER

WILL BALANCE.

LBAR COLLECTING 19 A QOOD GAME BUT WATCH OUT FOR POISON IVY-

IT

BOYS AND

GIRLS

BE CLEVER PETS Glamour Gloves For Those

was 21 strange, to see what he would do. frightening world to Jocko grabbed the coin, the little black crow when and the mail. man hud to he fell from his warm nost chase him for five blocks to and got lost. A small boy get his coin back. friend of ours found him that harm and, fearing might come to him, him home.

took

told

HOARD OF TREASURES

For several mornings, money that had been left under

bottles, the milk

disappear. One began to

A

BAW

The boy's mother him that he must take full care of the baby crow, morning the family because she was much too Jocko tip the bottles over dollar busy to bother with him, and fly away with The boy made him a warm bill. Following him, they dia. bed in a box, and named covered secret hiding him Jocko.

place a large crack under the caves, where he had stored a hoard of treasures and where he now lovingly tucked the dollar bill.

-

GRABBED THE COIN When Jocko grew up he was full of mischief. He would "dive-bomb" at the children, scooting across their heads and screeching a wild "Caw!" One day he extraordi-divid at the mail man, who nary: Kra early marriage:

flashed a shiny coin at him move, luzinas; Horry. beauty,

way, ok ival, good fuck; maple leaf, god health; sticks, suc

... a warning to be more ..ty, pebble, are determina- 20, 1ek,

You can go on from there, and

angin

AD Y In

Ted In at 2:11e of Deer Stalk makes for Tvdy spriating. All you need for this game is a Anlyle. Every tree is a deer, and when the while blows the first time, everyant leaps to- ward the nearest tree

QUIET GAME

1. by the second whistle, the Hunter hasn't stalked a deer, he as "on" Keep moving the play-

I award in order that 4 '5 same frees cannot be enu.et 23

Je,

::

the

"How Many Nature Sour de

Have You Heari Today?" is

Rame to ply before TH.D Aarge the players in ercle, the first one start- yanating a bird coil The scccfid player must repeat the

deal and maybe

imilate The drone of a bee. The third playce repeals bolh

sounds, Adding the croak of 'a frog, and

8:00.

As the list grows longer, some-

Whenever the little boy's father went for a walk, Jocko always went along. He would fly ahead and until he perform stunts grew tired and then would

Popular Myths Exploded

By PAUL CARTER

【ATER doesn't purify

W

HO

many

f Hyelf by running long distances over pebbles, us think. reople Flowing water may be st 15 germ-filled and other- wise contaminated AN the most stagnant pool,

Jairo.

Nor does the fact that a husz drinks it mean that water ង

While horses will some- imes rebel at stagnant, moss- covered water, they do not balk at water that is full of Alth.

Moss does not always grow

the aun

one usually forgets a sound and on the north side of trees. The muxt be dropped. Anyone who theory is that because

Indeed a) is

the has less

remembers winner.

force on the north side

REMEMBER: runninG

WATER IS NOT NECESSARILY PURE WATER-

-IRMA

HEGEL

of objects. there is more mols- ture and hence mos‹, even in

For the dryest seasons.

years

people fable.

EVER HEARD OF THE UGARIT ALPHABET ?

Clay Tablets Reveal Culture

I"

Of A Lost Kingdom

now

an

TT is more than 25 years

that go expedition headed by Prof. C. F. A. Schaeffer first din- covered ovidence of the kingdom of Ugarit.

It

Ugarit no longer exists. vanished about 3,000 years ago. Hui this unclent elty-state once stued on modern Syria's Mediterranean shore, and ex- cavation has shown that it was nee a rich and powerful centre ef cemmerce.

Statues in Ivory and gold, ul- lors, idols, Vases and Inscrip-

הזויים?

in the hieroglyphics used Egypilans show by the early That

the

old pharaohs Fent many gifts to the king of Ugarit and erd the city as a port. And more recently the ivory thrune of Ugaril's kings unearthed.

CUNEIFORM SCRIPT

was

2,000 B.C.

un-

tablets dug from A palace Ubrary were hailed as a Kreat But the most recent impor- and. tam discovery of all is one

Most scholars had considered which enables scholars to learn the alphabet to be much more more about the world's earliest

recent They thought it was ABC's. Graven clay tablets probably an accomplishment of have been found, written in the the Phoenicians. wedge-shaped от cunciform Yet here was a totally script by the Ugorita In their known language of a time, cen- own language. They date back turies earlier It was used

the same time as scme of the The world of science.

hieroglyphics and Ideographs, stirred

when it was revealed whic

mostly picture- That, the people of that

ancient writing lost city know how to write contained only 30 different lef- with an alphabet, and the first ters, as we would call them

true alphabet-instead of thou- nands of pleture-words.

to

ZOO'S WHO

THE CRICKADEE, ATINY BIRD NO

LARGER THAN

MAN'S THUMB, IS ABLE TO KEEP

IT'S BODY ATA TEMPERATURE OF 105 DEGREES F. EVEN WHEN THE

OUTSIDE TEMPERATURE DROPS TO MINUS 40 WWIDEGREES R

Was

which

are

at

But Ugarity wellings

POETRY, MYTHOLOGIES

Translated by experts on an clent writings, the "tabiqlə TO-

have belleved this old

the slightest

Krows On

But mosa often every other side of a tree except the north! So don't reply on it io orient yourself if you are lost, A rattlesnake will definitely. crawl over

hair rope without hesitation. Cow- boys used to stretch such a rope around their camp before guing to bcd. feeling sure thal no reptile would cross it. Experi- menta have shown conclusively, however, that a hair rope offers no protection whatsoever.

Liquor is worse than worth- legs in the treatment of poison- ous snake bite. Il speeds up the circulation of the blood, thus accelerating absorption of the

venom

One of the better-known educated crown was Ron-Ko, pictured above in her favourite cigarette-smoking act,

ride on shoulders.

Jocko Ono sulum

disap- poured and was gone all winter. he came home. in the :pring They lend that he had spent the water all snug and warm in a lncy's basement, She had taken good care of him and loved hiin, even though he had ipped over and broken 10 jars of her best tinned peaches.

from

Who Like Jokes

TEED A present for

someone who likes a joke? Then make Rome glamour gloves.

Start with ordinary canvas work gloves. The glamour comes with your decorations, You'l need crayons, a bit of narrow gold braid, several rhinestone buttons or largo fake pearls and some colourful scraps of felt or woollen fabric.

For a lady who likes a joke, put red fingernails on the backs of her gloves, Cut a pointed oval, fingernall size, from card- board. Draw around the pat- tern on the glove's fingers and thumbs.

Then carefully lin the "Ingernails" with red cray- on. Cover the "Ongernails" with a piece of paper and press. with a warm iron to act the colour.

Sew

the gold braid around

PQ.3

FIQ.Z

Put:

FIQ.4

They are not loo places, the ring, linger of the glove and of thumbs a good gardener has

ngain, colour both thumbs green. Everyone knows that's the kind

A wrist posey made of flower and leat shapes cul from the fell or fabric would be nice on these gloves, too. (Figure 3.)

who's always

one For the

Crows are very master's and ravens, his

intelligent, They know how to cinck nuts by

dropping them crito rocks

much afraid sew on a rhinestone button or

a pearl to finish the ring. of warmod

Leraans, but cun

For additional glamour cut Immediately and gun spot a

cut flower end leef shop:s from out of the way in a will get hurry. A cancrow to them is the felt or frbele and arrange a big joke and doesn't geare poscy. Sew 11 to the back of

They make very the glove just above the wrist. poking up the fire, make a pair them at all.

On the back of puzzle gloves. mischievous pola; (Figure 1) clever but

make of the left glove sew a big capl- can learn to talk nearly as well as a parrot and can leam to a pair of gloves to be used at tal B made of contrasting cloth

the barbeqüe pit.

Use crayon to add an Copy the or feli perform tricks.

little bear (Figure 2) and trace "m" and a "" and a question It on a scrap of felt or fabric, mark. Pin It In place on the back of the left glove.

There was one family in the neighbourhood, however, who uld not like pets. For some strange reason Jocko would get up a 4 o'clock in the morning and tap on their window. Soon after this, Jocko's family built hi a large cage so that would not bother the neigh- Ducis ag because they Icared

Lisafety.

་་་་

SCAVENGERS

Jocko beierged to the Ameri- This crow is Pan w family. Jurger to the bickbird

the

He maller than

raven. likes to travel in a flock, while the raven Is nore often seen alone.

REAR THE YOUNG Crows build their nests in high

For the outdoor chef,

Using a contrasting colour of On the back of the right evergreen trees far back in the forests,

thread The mother lays from embroidery

Bew the glove, write "Put" followed by three to eight greenich czRS. "bar" to the glove with the a colon, made of two small teht The babies are börn naled and

stitches that make his features. dots one above the other. Add less. When Krown they Choose a crayon coitur that con- A crayon period. (Figure 4.) Incasure about 14 fort in

trests with the colour of the Now the puzzle gloves tell. inc Ingth.

"bar"

It is said that crows mate for Bo'h raren's work le. life. Bether to rear their young and will light to defend them.

The white-necked raven is It often mistaken for a crow. is larger than the crow, how- and its call is a coarse

"Krank!" while the crow's call is a citar "Caw!"

ever, Farmer generally do not like crows because they eat their grain. But crows also eat large quantities of grasshoppers, lecusla, etc., hot damage crops, and they are really a help to the farmers, 100, They are also scavengers.

B Q,"

and on the right glove Arc-poker-upper just what 10 draw a caplial B and a capital do. "Grate be empty?" Put coal

"B'ar on." Now the gloven say

The nicest thing about glam- For the gardener, made red our gloves, la, tho they are not Angernails on another pair of only fun to give, but fun to gloves. Then using the crayons make.

Funch, The Climber

You can distinguish the crow from the raven when they are Boen in flight. The raven Oles -There Was Something He Couldn't Climb After 'All-

alternatoly scaring hawk-like, and fapping, and soars on hori zontal (straight out from side) wings. The crow, like the turkey vulture, soars into the blue sky with the wings bent choughs, rooks upward.

The crow belongs to the most bighly developed family of birds. This family includes the magples, Jays,

A REMINDER OF

POSTAL HISTORY

THE French, unlike the

British, are ever ready

in their stamps to glorify the work of the post office Years ago, even doctors used and proclaim how its roots to prescribe Intoxicating bever- go back into antiquity. ages in the case of snake bite.France also issues ап They were, of course, acting in annual stamp purely for good faith, but medical science

later discovered that.

alcohol the glory of stamps-they

By MAX TRELL

TOW, na I've told you many times befobe," said Mr Punch to Knari and Hanid, tire shadow children with the turned-about names, "one of the worst things you can ever do is to boast."

Hanid said she supposed that was right. But Knari shook his head and sald, he didn't see the harm in boasting,

Talling A Lio

"It's like telling a le,” said Mr Punch. "You go around tell- ing people

you can do things when you really can't do them at all

9-1

"You mustn't ever boss),“ Mr.Punch told the Shadows,

09

"It reminds me of the time. Long

long ago, when I was small as you are, when I boasted

"I can climb up walls, tele-

to everyone that I was the most wonderful climber that ever graph poles and Ughtning roda Ilved."

and amokestacks, and church steeples-'

Knart and Hanld sat them- solves down very quietly and walled for Mr Punch lo tell them ja story, for they were sure it was

story.

fcw

A Wonderful Climber. "Grandfather kept nodding his head the whole time. You cor- was the worst thide that could say it celebrates The Day of how to wield a sword on horse- a be given a pailent.

Journeys the Stamp-this year's is back. Cross-country

He 11t his pipe, took

tainly are a wonderful climber. Punch. were a major adventure in puffs and then began:

*I can reproduced here,

those days.

"Now, as I mentioned before, I boasted to boasted about what a wonderful

"Thore isn't anything in the letters climber I was. I ran around tell whole world that you can

Raccoons do not wash

first.

private In England,

climb anything."- I my Grandfather,

their food before eating it as has long been believed by many, Observ-

It reveals two interesting ers sometimes ree this clever

facts of postal history: animal go through motions that that there was a Grand Master wwwe conveyed for centuries by ing my mother and father, and of that I can't climb

the idea give

he is washing his food. But expert naturalists say he really doesn't wash it at all.

When crows pitch And restlessly in the sky, it doesn't mean a high wind will rise, da

is commonly thought. Frequent ly the big black birds are only chasing insects when they through such manoeuvres,

Then I waited for my Grand-

or personal grandmother and grandfather- of the Post in France as long common couriers

long servante. In the reign of Ed-all my uncles and aunts and father to answer but I was quilo

age as 16th nama

His the full contrry,rls ward II (1284-1327) the stem cousins all the neighbours on sure he wouldn't. He just stood

to both sides of the street-the

there, looking up at the sky with (1450-1517) and he is the fat of post houses established

provide the king's messengers policeman, the greengrocer, the character on the left hand sido ***

his eyes half-closed. I guess ho was muilin-man, the plumbér-every- was thinking, think of anything of the stamp; secondly that the with a change of steed

extended to help the private body that there wasn't any "And did. postmen he employed were

thing, anything that I couldn't finally?" Hanid asked Mr Punch. couriers. go husky fellows who know not

climb.

Mr Punch took a few more [:jonly how to ride a horse, but

Д of 1848 fixed

Now just laten to me,' I charge of a penny a mile as the said to my grandfather, 'You see Rufts on his pipe before he an maximum rate for hire of post that tree over there? I could swered, "Yes, he thought of something anally, all rigg asked, horses,

climb that tree in a minute,"

What dizi ho think Knart Nodded His Hand of

FUN WITH WORDS

NO

add, ER to a word usually means either Trouble; worry. more of the same (like FAST-FASTER) or "One who" (like WORK WORKER).

7. The two.

8.

Came face to face with

A measure of length,

9.

Floating logs tastened to

golher, Planting beam of a roof.

But sometimes to add ER to u 10. "A small body of water.

To consider carefully,

vealed poetry rich in meaning, word entirely changes its-mean-

NUMB

Correct; fitting

and many mythologies remarking for example: ADD-ADDER, 11. A support, ably similar to atories in the Old Testament. So, the tablois of Ugarit are recasting study of the Bible as well as the source of Western language. Vi

What became of this dog

12. Assure.

thin, crisp biscuit.

CENT -NUMBER

and, MIST-MISTER. CENTER

Twenty pair of such words added to the first word in each 13. In the company of, are defined below. Eft must be pair to change its meaning for. the second word. Read the de

dom? Ugarit, was at the Gnitions, then write as many of the strongest city of ancient Egypt's Middle Kingdom (or

thero pairs of words as you can.

To fade; dry up.

14. Clear soup.

mid-hidery), But it inally fell Sometimes the pronunciation 15.

is changed, never the spelling.

to the Hillies, thosa Herco war

rlors who broke ancient Egypt's 1. A grain

power. In the Near East.

The city was wrecked by

an

earthquake, and sacked by the 2. A direction

conquering Hitities "in "the mid-

Place where

mcot,"

siroots

A religious holiday,

IN:A

die 1300 BC. A century and hall Tier It cessed to exist.

8

An Insect

A female, parent.

Not on

run

to present or tender.

A male farm, birds

ZOON

ÁREA HOLDS 7000

ACTS AND FISHG

LIVE IN THE OCEAN... NES, ARE ONLY FROM ONE-

GROWN

and switht one of man's; ear- llest known, almhabets was 3016)

And how many thangban

my mother's son.

Fairy character in Midsum→

mer Night', -- (Shapespeare).

A wrinke. 16. A Tairy's staff.- #5 To stray ENER

To point out or expl A short ralzi. (

18. Inainoore talle

Opposite of bought,

Dream

A statuto

So there it lathe start the post office we all know to

I

"It was a very simple. thing."

"My grandfather, nodded his said Mr Funch. "Grandfather `said to me; “Well, Punch, my boy, I've just thought of something

"I bet you could' he said.

day. Next time you stickhead." stamp on a latter think how excling the sending of such

And see that flagpole at the that I don't think you can climb missive was in the old days, and of the street? I can climb And yet it's something that right up to the top and sit on almost anybody else can climb... ...that golden ball!'

everybody but you, 20 Got Angry

but how very simple it is now

The French stamp is par forated 13, engraved, and costa Gd in London-AA

“Again my grandfather nodded this head. I bat, you could,

Punch," he said,

Rupert and the Fishing-rod-

ܠܵܐ

this I got quito angry; What is this thing? 1. gaked

a loud voice that everybody clso can climb. but I can't b

"Grandfather said “Punph," my: boy, let me see you climb on

14.0

| your_awn-backed

On my own, brokerhoj Bueyes on your own harkald Grandfather. Ailments, everybody I can think of,ca), ölmö on vaur cana dos cans a

1377, cant and reti you :

didn't do.

Ike my own, back and