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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17,

FEATURES FOR BOYS

YOUR PUZZLE The Mystery Of The

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TRIANGLE

The Puzzirman's word trinngle firmi grade PRIMER. The second word is short for 'transpote" ; third is "a silkworm": kurth " kird ef Caress"; and arth "to barter." Complete The triangle

hese cluck!

Shaking Wigwam

T is over 800 years since

* "shaking wigwam" was first seen by a white man. But, although various fmaolutions have been Bug- gested as to its cause, the magic rite remains as much of a mystery today us it did

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of the of four

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the top

f the letters

then.

The famous French (X- ptorer, Champlain tells how, in 1609, the medicine man

tribe called upon of a

the spirits to protect them from

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Entering this wigwam, he went into

trance. A variety of screaming voices issued forth and the tent hcok as if from a strong wind.

In his trance, the Indian teld of events that had not vet happened.

Sir Cecil Denny was one of the few white men to see a wigwam shake from the inside. He was sitting be side the medicine man, who was smoking, when he was started to hear a bell ring- Firsting over the top of the tent.

HARD Can you change SOFT in seven nuves, changing meter at me and having ag word each time, without

pt the cluck"

t.)

ge D to B. R. Presently the wigwam began E to T. A 1. to F; and 1

to shake so violently SOUND ALIKES It lifted off the ground

much

on foot ag u side.

The Puzzicman'a missing words sound &l ke, but they are plied difcently Can you Bish his serience?

The hunter stood awestricken as be enraged wild- toward him

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The white man went out- side to see if he could

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Hee the fent, but could see nobody. And an Indian tent is built of

Medicine Man's

Rite Was Weird

A

When

AND

GIRLS

EARTHQUAKES SIGN THEIR NAMES

WHETHER

you are an

ardent autopraph fan or net, you will want to know how scientista have made it possible for an earthquake to leave Its signature when it visits the earth.

It would be impossible to

sound of detect the

turthquake with

aided

an

the un-

car and judge its direction or intensity. So acientists have invented the Beismograph.

even

This is a solsmograph signa- ture of a quake in Japan

signed in Philadelphia.

It is an instrument that

the ecords

visit of an earthquake,

If it is thousands of miles away. We all know that Wat from a star are light waves, natrow at arst, then wider and but the waves from an sharper

the qirike "pui and intensifies, then earthquake

sound points"

tapering off again as it rúbaldus, The farther the seismograph is from the seems of the quake, the longer wit be the Interval between the two signatures.

that the other party was lost art. And those medicine then camping on a sandy men who were left did not take kindly 10 strangers observing knoll which Kane had pass their sacred riles. ed two days before.

The last ofcial record of a they caught up with him shaking wigwam was in British It still they admitted that they Columbia in the 1930's.

14- Vita One of the great had actually camped on that solved mysteries of early Indian knoll

that particular life on the American continent: xactly how they did nobody day.

has ever been able to find ouli

on

Greduntly.

The Indians Turned to the white man's ways. the shakin witwn beerme 42

-R. S. Craggs

What Makes

MOST people think that

.quicksand is a

special

kind of slippery, mysterious sund that has the power to

heavy poles covered with pull a person or thing down aking and could not possibly into its depths.

be blown over by a normal wind.

With the

Christianity the

☆

This is not true. Quick- (sand is simply the common garden variety (or in thla case, the common desort spread of variety) of sand found any.

Indians Where.

gave up the practice and

it was HOOTI necessary to

What

makes a weight sink down so easily is that

journey to the West to see the grains are not packed

a shaking wigwam.

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young artist

together tightly, so that the named sand does not remain firm

when water gels into it.

A

Paul Kane tells of asking the medicine man about his

When thoroughly satu- luggage, which he had left behind to be brought by rated with water, this loose- canoe. The Indian told himly packed sand becomes

soft, sticky muss, and can- not support 题 weight well.

PANIC CAUSES DEATH

WEST GERMAN STAMP WITH FUTURISTIC DESIGN

Sand

waves.

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Geologists know that this kind of pressure is gradually building up along the Stin Ati- drea fault line, site of the San Francisco quake of 1000.

Just when and where the quake will cecur they canno proddet, but they know that a inity big one is on its way. As most quakes occur under the oceatur, pertains this one will nas tho town' and cities.

that

If an earthquake is caused by fin upheaval, it means mountaing teno in

the process Just As St

building.

of neccessary for the surface the earth tt maku changes from time to time, to the centra Đi the earth makes readjust- nichts on a much larger scale hy Buddon movements of the earth's crust.

These slips (or fault lines) te rarely visible on the sur- face of the earth, except in ca es of an upheavai.

One such upheaval occurred in the state of Idaho, some twenty ur so years ago, when a huge mountām suddenly appeared.

With the less scientifically perfect seismographs in use a few years ago there was danger of a spider entering the closely guarded vault that housed theso Instruments. A the spider strolled along the record sheet,

The first signature or wave, which that of the actual

So far scent tr have been quake, records the Inten ity of

unabic to find a method of the quake. The second algne testing the exact time and place

ture is called the "echo"

un earthquake will occur. At tes exactly in which direction

The fist sign of a quake, how- occurred, north or the quake

All over.

seisinographs for south, unt or

of ww 1

the thousand of miles around will an artificial semograpła,

start recording of 0 moving recorded.

photographic strip of

These signatures are in tue form of a zig-zag line which is

'Quick'?

Experiment shows that quicksand need not cause drowning. At left, toy rabbit (weighted to duplicate a human) is com- pletely submerged in water. At right, rabbit in tank of quick- Fand sinks only to watai. It is thrashing about that cansen people to sink in quicksand.

port a person much better than It la panie which water will, sometimes causes death in 11.

Quicksand usually forms on Brndbeck at

bottom the

of streams and on the sand fals along seacoasts. When dry, it

in 1878, a train fell into a creek in Colorado. Its looks like ordinary sand.

wound en n drwu,

An earthquake 1: way of releasing

quake would be Such "quakes* werɔ paper cually recognised, however, by

their irregularity,

Nature's By perfecting the SCISIO- dangerous graph, modern science has made trains that have accumulatext certain that the spurious signa- In the evolving earth, es a ture of a spider will never sulety valve relcase excess again be confused with the sig- prca ure from a boiler,

nature of a genuine quake,

The Trunk In The Attic

--Christopher Cricket Telix A Wonderful Story-

By MAX TRELL

16 YOU'D be surprised," sald

"Y Christopher Cricket to his

friends Knarf and Hanid, the shadow children with the Ince-aboul rames, "01 the wonderful things that are up in the attic."

Chris'opher Cricket was sitting on the edge of the Bre- place (there was no fre burn- Ing, of course) with three ΟΥ four of his legs comfortably Crassed.

"I was up

there myself last night," he said. "Have you ever been up in the attic at night?"

the United States along the sra-

Knurf and Hanld both en- shore in Massachusït.a, and in swered that they had not been the shifting mands Forth of up in the attle at night, Alamosa, Colo,

MUSICAL SANDS

Interesting Placo

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Cricket was surprised to And the trunk wide open.

"A wonderful thing," said Christopher. "I saw a beautiful wedding dress."

"A wedding dress!" exclaimed Hanid.

Satin Bows

"Well," said Christophor, "it There are several countries was very interesting. Tac that have musical

Bando, In moonlight came shining great weight carried it deep There is mother type of and, South Africa they are called through the one dusty window into the quicksand beneath 50 gentic i singa o lullaby. "crying sand." In Afghanistan away at the end of the attic. Called "singing sand," it makes they are called "drumming 1. sidn't light up the rest of toe the water of the creek.

an odd noise when walked on, Bands," and in Hawait the a.tic. It just mane the whole

"I think it used to belong to bed or when the wind blows across natives refer to Although the creek

this type of place shiny and mellow and

Grandmother, long long ago. It was later probed to a depths surface. Sometimes a cross sand as "barking sand."

she one thing that was shiniest was all made of white lace with Equcak,

and most mellow was the old little satin bows and bunches of over 50 feet, no trace was between a crunch and was when a ruck-ever found of the train

its "tune" often changes until But no matter what they are trunk" or it has a definite musical to:e, callod, scientists have so for sack and a shilling were its passengers.

as soft and sweet as a lullaby. failed to decide what causes Knarf said: "You mean one needed to all that

However, experiments

Although quite a rarity, this these sands to make such weird, oné tout is all covered pass a jolly evening with good company and secure a cosy bunk to sleep in after Hights-out.

TIME

Those were the days just before the

when the

war

youth hostels of Europe were opening up in a big way and providing a Mecca for the fresh-air youth of all countries.

have

chown tha; quicksand will sup- singing sand has been found in musical sounds,

TRUTH IS

THAN

TRUTH may be not only

TRUT

stranger than fiction, but more fun as well. If you. like "true" stories, then these books are for you.

"Capabaras, sakiwinkis, and that pimpla hogs What's again? Just the odd animals being captured for 2008 in. Three Tickets to Adventuro by When you Gerald M. Durrell." One of the pioneers of gnish this book, read the au- youth hostelling was Gerthor's earlier once, The Over many and I have the haploaded Ark and The plest memories of wandor-Beagles.

ing

through

Rhineland

The Bafui

John Jwitt's Adventure by Shannon Garst is based on the woods and spending happy diary of a young gunsmith cap evenings with flaxon-haired | tured by the Indians of Van-pi

STRANGER FICTION

TRUE!

STORIES

friends in the castles-turned-couver Island in 1891. Some retreat, that of the Greeks who hostels. Their names sound times horrible, this tale has crossed Asia Minor following

like legends Drachenfels, happy riding, for John escaped the defeat of the armies of

tix returned home safely. Bacharach and finally the

magic of Heidelberg unfold-

ed.me.

· Cyrus-In-the-Perulan War. This

is one of the great stories of the world.

Thrte Is a 'Family by Herthe Two good fact books, filled

operation.

* Saumge supper was the thing. Youll is a true story of a war with pictures, are whas Point, Then a slag-rong. Then bed..

The real names of the Life of a Cages and; Annap Now Wellern Germany pula out two straps to the glory of the people are not used, but the 'ells, the Elfs of 1* Midshipman troubles are: real enough when by Jack Engerman, Authentic, hostelling. They are futuristid in

Matthew's German moth} too." Killy

**That's the

the it."

of white rosebuds acwn all over

with

"How lovely," sald Honid,

"And what else was in the one," sald Christopher. "I was quite sur trunk?" asked Knart. prised 10

"Slippers," said Christopher. opened."

"What colour ?” asked Knorf. "White," said Christopher, "My goodness," said Hanid, "with blue buckles," "Who opened it?”

BOO

that 1 was

Wide Open

"That's what. I don't exactly know," said Christopher, "May-

"And wha! else11 nked Hanid.

"A vell," said Christopher. "What colour?" asked Knart. "Pure

while,"

Bald

be it was the moo.light, Maybe Christopher," whiter than snow, and spills of the famous speed- i was the Man la ine Moon. It was also made of lace. Then way; Caves of Mystery by John At any rate, here it was with there were white gloves, and a Scott Douglas,...the "spelunk the lid standing up. all wide white satin sneh," ura" who explore caves; Inside open."

the Atom by Isaac Asimov,... "And what did you do?" dak gory,

benents, and future of asked Knart. A-energy; Survival in the Sky

"What would anybody do?" by Charles Coombs....life steald Christopher, I looked in altitudes and speeds for which it."

The human body was no Eagerly, Knarf and Hand designed.

both asked Christopher what ho saw inside the trunk.

Yessir, it's a fact....

Rupert and the Fishing-rod-25

Nera- la- now - po, sign of life; haunt of amugglers bọt, they

ugg og sound the old, brickwork as Rupary

concept-in keeping when er dies and her American Indian Sign Lanreate by ya't majority of West German Gr

the Issues in recent years ang dler father in sent to

The stamp reproduced above is Don't be put on by the iltle/Robert Holands (Gra Woll) of Geoffrey h Household book

you how to say, "Mo, printed. In photogravure, ber- doratte 14 and the pair cost 104 | The Expialia, of Xanephot, igen! Viper, tells 1, the story of a Lemoyn

all thick

that bird'

· Constable Gremist sounds nhough

Chria.opher Cricket paused. "Was that all?" Hanid asked. "Just one thing more,"

said Christopher Cricket

Knart and Hanld asked him what that last thing was.

"Roses," said Christopher, "Whie?" naked Knart,

Beautiful Flowers.

**""Red," said ......... Christopher, They were all lying at Sho bottom of the, trunkmall: the petals quite

were

quise by beautiful. the flowers that carried Dr her wedding day so long long ago. And I [hought," sald Christopher, as I looked at the flowers; that 1 heard the round of organ” music,” /

And did this hil really happen, Christopher Crickal?” J. Hanid wild, sternly,

Well," said omdfully, tmero or fular logs Only when I

founds the trunk