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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1956.

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The Lone Travels

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PETER TOWNSEND

Group Captain Peter Townsend — who set out from Brussels last month on his one-man expedition round the world begins his excit- ing 'story.

IN THE BELGIAN CONGO, Hallowzenish hobgoblins periodically perform ritual dances. These Bapendo tribes- men are dressed like various gods and spirits from their Jungle tolklore.

At the left is a witch doctor, who calls for rain with a noisemaker full of dried sozds and an antelope horn full of

mysterious powder. In the centre is a tribesman portrayług Toma, a good-natured devil who proktets young prople, Hin stilts symbolbe the trees in which N'Tomo is supposed to live. On the right in a man dressed as a native god. The frenzied shake, rattle and roll of his danco have brought him to his knees.

ANIMAL AIR PASSENGERS ARE

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HANDLED WITH

NIMALS have become Many dogs adopted by GI's

grent

travellers by overseas have been flown to

air as well as by other the U.S. on the line. nicans. Flying livestock is

to

Monkeya, by the thousands, the specinity of the Sea- have been flown over for farms board and Western Airlines and laboratories werklag on the in America which

They takr were polio problem.

the higher alt udrs kindly-- founded by Air Force men and. Jike other animals, who flew the Himalayan less likely to be sick there than Hamp in World War II. on shipboard.

Travel by this outfit is pretty soft for dogs and other pets. Crates bear the lab 1. "Handle with love."

lis Include

Air passenger vipers, pythons, tigers, leopards. helters, hens, roosiers. frogs. salamanders. chinchillas, bears, guarnens, and adtaxes.

Some get special favours. Fer beda. in subpedar striches, warm air is pumped into the

of travellers urd the troples.

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handled

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it was time craze allowed to salute the get his head sun as u.val. examined, weultie't you?

Yet, it can be done.

Heav

Find a smeta, thin cake of ive that by rounded on each itde like reading glass. With this lee you can focus the rays of

On one trip 35.000 day-old American chicks-gifts from ohurches. behools and other groups were flown to help the Greek farmers. A college pro- lessor, no les, was their sponsor end adviser on the fight.

Even aler tban the chicks was a humming bird passenger.

the sun to stand a fire on scraps I had get lost from ita migrat-

of paper just as you can if you

use a magnifying gliss.

Try sometime-but be sure you have, pecinission and do it In a safe place.

If they like the elimele, they may be the founders of an f- du cy, her the musk ox has on undercooling of halt resem)-

bling the much-prized Indian cashmere. A herd of these anl- mela world also produce myk and, it is claimed, better meat then beef.

GIRAFFES THE CLUE?

Sefer's fee trying to selve a jet plane problem. and they pet Bad a clue In a study of Kreff A efrel has gene cul to Erst Transvart f`r them. You are, the Kiraffe can raise is head un'ekly and still remain normal. But jet pile's tord to black cut breatise of the effcot of gravity on their circulation.

of How does the heart

the giraffe manege to keep the blord Nowing up its long neck? Na telling what the experts will Tarve musk oxen have

discover.

Maybe been

jet pots -wn from the Theka Game should be salec'ed on length

BURHOE ~M.

Pererve, way up in Canada's neck.

Northwest, to Vermont,

From Tree -One

ind companions and was picked THE first paper makers

up exhausted

car Montreal,

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A kindly airport oficial gave were insects!

passage on a DC-4 for Wash-

The wasps were the first to learn the secret of paper making. Those round, grey nests you see hanging from the eaves of houses and more

Schubert's Music Appears in trees are nothing

Mistake For Schumann's

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O the wom loved, Robert Schumann said; "We will live ré poetry and blossoml will play and compose gether like angels and briig gindness to all mankind."

And so they married and did Just what Robert salch His wife, Ciara,, was his inspiration. In their first year together he whole 130 songs, thom his finest.

Soma

than rough paper.

A wasp chews a mouthful of dry wood until it becomes # He ball of paper pulp, Then he flattens out into tiny sheets of paper--just as truly piper as the material upon which those words are printed,

Man mado paper as far back as 3500 B.C. But it has not bern until recent times that he, too, has learned to make paper from wood

AMAZING SPEED

Another amazing

about was 21 and Robert 30. Life-and Paper is the spood with which

man can now manufacture i music began anew. There were There is a story told eight children. And so we commen

lumber- by 10 Schumann's great years when tree can be made into paper.

to illustrate how fast a flood of works for the plana

They say In the history of music, in came from his pen. They were

that one morning which Schumann plays a noble followed by his most important at 7.65, three trees were felled. part, the years 1810 and 1811 symphonica, notably the Sym-cy were taken to the near- est mill and made into paper were remarkable. In that period phony in B fat. were born Chopin, Liszt, Heller

and delivered to

newspaper Thalberg and Henselt.

Then his imemory began to office by

1 o'clock. Robert The man who travels alone. Schumann himself was born on blbud över. Melancholy led to Immediately the presses bec In Zwickau, sleeplessness, and strange, haunt- gan to roll and by 10 o'clock tie journeyed through Yugoslavia June 8, 1810,

Saxony, a town which had ed fights, He fancled Schubert newsboys wero seling the and on to Turkey.

little From gabled, fairy-tale housts and was begging him to match the papers on the siroet. A Tehoran he reported: The wide grass-vargod streets,

Unfinaled Symphony. At the more than two hours from the age of 46 Behumann died, do-forest to the printed pago! crisis has forced me to alteri His father, a bodicseller, and möhted, in his wife's arme... The amount of wood used in my plans but the journey goes on.

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You can read the story of Péter Townsend's first lap. the personal adventure story of the year in next TUESDAY'S

CHINA MAIL

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mother set their hearts on

the mumtafaciuro of payer is making hihi, à lawyer, But

enormous. On Sunday odillion Robert wald No in those gently- choseli words: The law frozest is a strange fact that in this of a big elly newspaper requires

forest. Fancy would nay longer yearn by Blast Germany, Schubert's appears in mistake; for. for, the Hagime of the world," mann' That caused the treas music

Thora cre only, a tow, speclei of that are used for: thát So, music It had to be.

stamp to be withdrawal, but purpose: the aprlice, fr and

on Hemlock hort period of friend Yound Schumann studiéd “

sent me this one from under Prototson. Wieck, top Bwitzerland, IL is perforated],[" planb tutor in talpils. There 18, by 13%, printed in photo paper: Ha como to be so li he fell in love with: the pro- gravure and finely deemed. sortent that won cannot even fessor kidoughters Clare, and Kilung, for a man whoje, mutic incrine, what. It would be. they were married when the resched rich hölkäKTALKER JE live in a papires: worlde

devotees and no follower of stamp issued now in his memory the timber from 80 acres

To Paper Hour

THE SUNDAY MORNING EDITION OF A BIG CITY PAPER TAKES ALL THE WOOD IN AN AREA OF FOREST LAND

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PAPER

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of

GIRLS

The Perm Was An Ordeal

Half A Century Ágo

MAGINE getting several

IMA

permanents a year if they each cost US$250! Or suppose you decided you needed u hair-cut and per- manent the afternoon before a dunce. Could you all still for eight hours after the cutting before you made your other party preparn- tions?

When we think of inven- tions that are particularly useful to girls and women. we usually think of better cooking equipment. new kinds of cloth, or better el aning equipment. Bul consider, teo, the easier and cheaper beauty materials.

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IT TOON A LOT TO BE A LADY IN THOSE DAYS!

1 bay well presumed, beutiful Eight hours and U.S.$250 Pal ps

ulit, pettine in art then were two of the requires 7th wing # down with a net ments, along with much will By 1916 the daring Were By 1930 power. to get a 1905 per- wearing bobbed hair.

The cold wave mede permanents manent in Amerien.

Common and cheap. Almost pil wole short, At that time, of course a ris an women

waved hair, woman's hair was waist. long, and left in many cork- screws, To do something with these one could make Bome sort of buns, rolls, or head. puffs on top of the over the ears, or in the back of the neck.

These hair styles were vory fashionable. Most people hai to sleep with part of their hale rolled up in rags or wires to have a few bumpy curls.

All ladies and girls pride themselves on their long hair Imagine how much time it took

Buying an kare of perma- at wavliet miterlal for a me job I qufle a contrast to all night burony

of hair wound up on cather, rag or netz: curlers hidden under a ruffly night en

Colitures with hair one and half inches long instead of e and a half yards long. too. quile 11 cond ast. Holr thu molag, curling end comb- rol Look longer when mandmother en grat grand- mother were girls,

No Rest For McSnooze

-His Long Nep Was a Short One After All-

By MAX TRELL

*

VEN from the top of the hill,

He Plxic

Kna f, the adow bay with the turned-chout name, could hear the deep gruff volee, knew it was his frieni, Q'Scowl.

"You're lazy," Pixie O'Scow! was saying. You're the laziest

was." pixie that

that ever

"Tin nut," suld another voice. Knarf re ognised the voice of

Pixle MeSnooz.

"You're lazier than a cater- pillar," growled Pixie O'Scowl. DY this ume, Knart hat retched the foot of the 01.1 Onk.

O'Chear Hall

This is where the Pixier lived. for the door to O'Cheer Hali was

The Pixles argued as they washed and dried the disher,

at the back of the trunk. A Bight of stairs led down, deep pilars to sleep of winter, why under the roots. The door was thould it be silly for me?" орел. Knart walked down the "Because," answered all the ight of stairs and, a moment others, "you're a pixie and not later, found himself in O'Cheer a caterpillar." Hall.

"If the caterpillors can do it,

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Then,

McSnooze Pixie

having rushing the teacups at

Pixie O'Scowl and Pixie Mr- Snooze were washing and dry- kept

in the klichen and as inished ing dishes they worked

lust, he went outside to see how they argued. "ilut you are lazy," Pixie his friends the caterpillars were O'Scowl repented as though for making out.

He the hundredth time. "You cact. co washing those teacups early branches of

them found

ta the the tree, spinning

this morning and here it is well themselves sleeping bags which after dinner and

you're stil they hooked onto the twigs. washing them."

Now, as it

of happened, one caterpillars, having spun Pixie McSnooze yawned

himself a fine sleeping bag, sud- rubbed his eyes with his wet renly decided not to go to sleep hand.

Storing Food

"Anyway," he said.

and the

Just then, So what did Pixie MeSnpozo do but crawl inside, the caterpillar sleeping bag

te the sense of storing up a lot. A mo Ave

"I don't and pull it closed about him. ment later he was sleep-

of food for the winter. It's hard ing work, too, hard work. The best

gold' Pixie

He

spent the to da is to sleep until whole winter thing

siceping anugly except that the other Plaxies spring comes again."

"Nonsense," growled Pixie had played a trick on him. The coming of cheap and O'Sowl.

Kaart saw it all. plentiful paper has brought **That silly,"

He saw Pixie about

In Treat chances

and Pixle MeMerrie take the caterpillar's "With abundant paper the in- licctual life of the world en-

sleeping bag carefully down. They carried it down the fight tered into a new phase."

of stairs to O'Cheer Hall where ----EVELYN ~WITTER

they laid it next to the fireplace. The fro danced and crackled,

civilisation. As H. G. Well maid O'Bean, Pixie McBoy and Pixie O'Bean, Pixie Oscow; Pixie

McMertle.

"Only caterpillars steep all winter said Fixie O'Bcowl.

At this, Pixio McSnooze said: If it isn't slily. for the cater

Pixie

Springle Here

McSnooze, Inside the

Rupert and the Fishing-rod-31 sleeping bag, felt himself grow-

Rupert

through the undergrowth... H few" &f the branches als GIORNA

kriedy of trou - that Has been afd. (by a 'chainsson That, mus: Usually be the door, he thinks s. When his

entrance, ha DzUME.

Bintang them, with bondthing that, tinike, ne his

RIGHED, ALSLAVIN,

ing warmer and whemere until suddenly, he prarie; but crying: The winter is over! Bbring is here nga I've stopt all through the

Now, I fed month

wide awake again

next

And for

Pixia

"Weary Lazy

Come out inta him and rather dalry!

thi