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THE CHINA, MATT-

AT JANUARY

5

FEATURES FOR

BOYS

AND

YOUR PUZZLE He found a place in his heart for children and friendless animals,

CORNER

CROSSWORD

Cartoonist Calhas lettered in the page of ani to give you some help with the crossword puzzia

113

ACROSS

1 Female saini (ab.)

4 Youth

7 Swis river

6 Exist

9 Sen robbers

il Bartering

17 Decay

19 First number

19 Su

20 Born

DOWN

1 Tree fluid

(te tal pority

3 Make a mistake

4 ball sick

A Mineral rock

Say this Instead of "no"

10 Sum up

#1 Attempl

12 Flah eggs

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13 Attorney (ab.)

14 Charged atom

15 Compass point

10 Driving command

HOW MAKE A MAGIC TO WHEEL

1. CUT 2 B-INCH CIRCLES

FROM THIN CARDBOARD.

ZMARK 6 PIE SHAPES IN ONE CIRCLE AND CUT OUT ONE PIE... PUNCH A HOLE

1 INCH DOWN FROM THE

CENTER.

4.PRINT

RIDDLES

ON -5\

SECOND

CIRCLE.

TUME

3.MARK

6 PIE SHAPES IN SECOND CIRCLE. PUNCH HOLE IN CENTER

HHAT CAN

YOU KILL

AND STELLT

RAVE

PEPPER

S.NOTCH EDGE OF CIRCLE WITH RIDDLES ON IT SO YOU CAN REMEMBER WHICH RIDDLE IS BEING LOOKED AT

6.PUT CIRCLES TOGETHER WITH A PAPER FASTENER.

NEMORIZE RIPOLES ANDANSWERS

AND LEARN WHICH ACICHES ARE SLOW EACH RIDDLE... NOW FUT ON A BLINDFOLD

WHAT CAN NOU KILL AND STILL HAVE?

TIME!

HIDDEN FISH

The Puzzlemen has täiden a SENTENCES. ash in each of those Can you find them?

Gene's Menagerie

you had been living in Amherst, Massachu- Botte, about ninety years ago, you might have known The carpenter Ünished shea boy by the name of Job "early.

Eugona Field. In that old New England town everyone called him Gene. He lived happily there with his Aunt Mary, his cousin Mury, and hls younger brother Ros- well, whom he called "Rosy."

He's now halo and hearty, The last spike used In the Tailroad truck was made of gold,

In the ship's bow, a hooded figure could be seen.

MIXED-UP FISH

Ench of those strange lines is ash. Find them by rearrang- ing the letters:

DEN FLOUR

KALE SON GUM JAM BACKER

FISH REBUS

words and If

use the you pictures correctly, you'll have no trouble ending the fishes hidden in this Tebus:

+

four

MY NEW DRESS

THIS WEEDS A LONGER

TAIL

15 YELLOW!

(Solutions On Page 20)

Try These Brain

FUST

Teasers-

28

Genc was not very old when his love for pets first showed itself. Une day, while on a walk for wild, flowers with Cousin Mary, he came upon a small snap

Gene found it ping turua. Bu curious and fascinating home that he brought it with him.

In the afternoon, be turned found that the squirrol, hid run away without even waiting to say goodby,

About a week later a king. hearted gentleman presented Gene with a molo. The boy put

Και it in his bureau drawer. lked to watch it feel its way ile funny little around with

11090,

BY THIS TIME. Gene had so many pets that folks in the town began to call his collection "Gene'a menagerie."

addition Au important new was Dooley, a dog that looked as if it had never had a bath in is le. When Gene found him

wn by

Aunt Mary's bani, Loley was so dusty and dirty would that the boy know he have to be cicaned up thoroughly before he would be received in good society.

AMHERST

HAS A NICE 200

1-FAMA-

(BUBBNE FIELD

LATER Gene was sent away to school. He was a bright boy, always good-humoured and full of fin

T'AIN'T A

2001

IT'S GENE'S MENAGERIE-

of

"Sharps and Flole" in a Chica- go paper, Eugene Field told how lonely his home had be-

comu because

his le

GIRLS

Whaling A Hundred Years Ago

[ƒHALEMEN ́of a 'hun-

dred years ago would have marvelled at tho helicopters, radar-equipped bombing guna ships and

used by today's whalera.

In 1850 the whale, a crea- ture bigger than a house, was attacked and captured by six men in a 30-foot"," rowboat.

Four men rowed the boat, the boat'officer steered it with a long (18-foot) oar, and the harpooner stood in the bow of the boat.

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The eight-foot harpoon was an iron spear, sharper than a razor, fastened to a wooden pole. The Iron from fox which the harpoon spear Was so perfect When he grew up, he worked terrier, Jessie, had run away. He was made for some Bo Gene rushed

nowspapers in St Louis, was sure Jessie was an educat- that "it could be tied in 00 the dog and gave

ed dog, for, he wrote, "We have knot and He be

untied without This was his first animal and water

harder scrubbing than he had Denver, and. Chicago,

his wit tried our poems on Jessie, ana the

celebrated for and it was to become

To make came

she always liked them-cast-damage." ever given himself.

and brillant writing. start of a very large collec Dooley more attractive to Aunt

But wherever he lived, he he sprinkled plenty of The next was a stray Mary,

had pels

It about. nuni's perfume over the always felt sorry his that Gene

went seemed his heart always dog's clean, furry coat.

forlorn stray AOTIC lie was sure it was

When Aunt Mary discovered out to looking

a comfortable 10r

much her how

nephew loved animal place to stay, so he gave it Dooley, she hadn't the heart to

ugings in the haysoft of send him away. Aunt Mary's barn.

Liori.

Cal

fur.

have

That cat must known how fond Gene was

of animals, for it long

bei ore

L

wasn't presented

tum with three Lively kil Gene's menagerie

teis.

bad started to grow.

When Aunt Mary's good friend, the Deacon, gave

baby the boys six

chucks,

Gene gave each one a name

"kinnikon," "Minniken," "Winniken," "Dump," "Poog," and "Boog."

taught Ho answer

.

One time, when he was run- ing his popular column

How People Hide Their Money-

Only

To Lose It

PEOPLE do queer things

with money. Some stuff it in the rafters in the attic. where it is chewed by it Some tuck termites. them to away in cupboard or dresser whistles, drawers for the mice to and each learned to make nibble on a special noise when it was called.

certain

And some people would

trust their bank Gone was etill hunting rather

animais. In anotes in the furnace in the for more

one of summertime than to put hollow oak stump together his friends showed him two them in a bank, never think- tiny or-ing that someone is apt to It's

without the baby squirrels —

to start a fire there wanted Gene phans.

peuple tend to associate with those of their own age and interests, animals with their kind. herd instinct.

group

There's a speelui nume

most herds of animals. For in

alance, known

a group

a5

of

bring them home, but Cou-knowing of the precious con. sin Mary put her foot down tents.

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for

Huns

边

and said "NOP" quite de- cisively.

a "pride" of lions, Lusied below In scrambled order are a number of animals and their group (or herd) name. How many can you match cor- rectly?

4. covey A

b. burren

1. whates 3. partridges

2. foxe

4, mulcs 5. larka

a. turtles

7. storks 8. elka

c. sulk

d. brood

e. mustering.

1. pod

g. gang

h. crash

9. rhinoceroacs 1 bevy

1. bale

10. grouse

NOW TRY your hand at these

riddles, Con you guess them?

1. What is it that stays hot

In the refrigerator?

2. On which side does П chicken have the mean feathers?

3. What kind of a doctor

would a duck make?

4. What does a tooth that a tree has?

3. What key in music

make a good oflcer?

have

4. Why is an old coat like an iron kettle?

• (Answers On Page 20.)

ZOO'S WHO

A GOOD TEAM OF ARCTIC,

SLED DOGS PUSHED

BY AN EXPERT DRI-

VER CAN COVER 100 MILES IN A DAY WITH Å LIGHT LOAD...

BEES MUST FOLLINS ATE ABOUT 75,000- CLOVER BLOSSOMS FOR EVERY FOUND OF CLOVERSEED PRODUCED.

such

reuve

GOOD FOOD

I'M GETTING

THESE DAYS!

wise approvingly."

She

wagged her

Almost all hayo become Ficid's poems.

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A

officer, who replaced the hars pooner in the bow,

The weapon used to kill the whale was the lance a four fool, gouble-edged iron shatper The than a surgeon's knife. tanco was and to the boat by a rope; this enabled the officer to pull it back out of the whale after every thrust.

The offiper's strategy was to keep plunging the lance into the whale until the big fish's "lixo" was reached,

the

blood the fance

The whale's "life" was reservoir In was stored.

The harpoon was tied to

which his tup full of the finest rope made,

Once The harpooner kept about 200 plerced it, the blood rushed into boys and giris

feet of this rope at his fees, our his lungs, or elsewiære, and he fond of Eugene of the tub. After spearing the soon died.

In his wring, whale, the harpooner Lore- Field seemed to know just how diately threw thie slack rupe 10 please children. "Wynket, overboard. This güve the Blyrken and Nod," "The Sugar whalemen a chance to prepare Plum Tree," "The Night Wind,"

and "Little Boy Blue" these for the next step in catching the

Blant fish and many more of his poems are popular with young folka and grown-ups allko

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By the time the whale's first rush had used up the 200-foot

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✰✰

Many a whale boat was taken for a Nantucket sleigh ride and mortal never again seen by

A Nantucket aleigh ride eyest

old was the term given by

boat by

A

A

FUNWAY

Today a statue of this beloved lack of rope in the water, the whalers to the towing of

officer steering the boat and whale writer stands in

Chicago the

harpooner had changed while. park. The pennies of thousands

places of children helped to erect it. It 18 a very Impressive In the attack oa the whale, memorial to the man

the harpooner's job was merely found a place in his heart for to tie the boat to the whale by Bo many children and friendless

means of the harpoon, animals

who

-VINCENT EDWARDS

The actual killing of the whole was the job of the boat

it is cry to understand the who went motio of the men down to the sea ina ships catch the world's biggest animal: "A Dead Whale or a S-ove Boal.”

--MANUEL ALMADA

JACK'S PREDICAMENT

-Getting Into His House Was A Tight Squeeze-

By MAX TRELL

LAVE.got all kinds of strange

people," said Christopher Cricket to Kaart and Hanid, the

with shadow children furned-about names.

the

"I meet them late at night

the

when everyone in the house is gar- fast asleep."

of the

Others have put their have bills go through wash-

In machines faith and

a fat roll of ing Gieno should have listened, bills in an old shoe and pocket of someone's

Christopher was sitting com- but he loved those squirrels se

that he couldn't bear to, buried the shoe in the back ment,

. They've been sur- One farmer had the misfortably on a brick at the edge them belund. He suppea yard.

fireplace with four or after six

to lose a sizable ave of his legs crossed over. He fortune prised to find wem in his pock-in, took them hus bem in and hid

months that the money was bankroll by letting it fall felt very comfortable with his Mary completely decayed.

into a bucket of mash given legs crossed, Cousin

And then there are the to the family cow, who ate "For instance," he went on, told Aunt Mary she was bule

my friend Jonny purely accidental ways of it in good faith. Only the "there's sue heard mice in the house.

was worth Squeak" Gene lost no time. He ran up

losing one's cash. It is not fact that she his room

wind room

Une morning

tu

and opened to window. Later, when

be an uncommon occurrence to much more than the $70 Knart and Hanid looked at

sha swallowed kept her Christopher with surprise. from being slaughtered for the contents of her stomach,

"SKY DIVING” ILLUSTRATED

IN RUSSIAN STAMP

THEN you are flying

Whalf a mile up in a plane,

a circle 180 ft in diameter will looks small enough marked out in white on the ground. But such A circle is the target for the parachutists who excel at their sport, And this breath-taking hobby is the subject of a new stamp issued by Bussin. is Soviet Union The credited with introducing mass paradrops as part of

And just last summer a Pennsylvania farmer had to open 406 bales of hay before he recovered his wallet containing $490, lost while baling the hay.

"Jenny Squeak?" said Kari. "Who is she?" asked Hanid.

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Cricket by Jack surprised

Jumping out of his box.

"What's he like?" asked

Kort

"He's like a burnt-out match- Thin And Jumpy stick," said Christopher, "but hardly anyone ever sees him. *Ob I don't suppose you've He lives in pois and pans and ever seen her," said Christopher; loose shutters and broken gates. smiling. "She's sort of thin and Jumpy with short black hair. "You always hear him when She Lives in different places the dinner la being cooked and around the house.”

late at night when the wind is Knart and Hanld wanted to blowing" know what different places around the house Jenny Squeak

"Most of the time," said

But however spreless people may be with their money in lived. the States, the U. S. Treasury is ready and willing to hel them restore it, If they are Christopher, "he lives in door lucky enough to find the pieces, but the alte lees in new Eighteen young women, trained aboca and table drawers.

"I'm sure you're often heard experts in their field, work in

"A box?" said Knart, "What kind of a box?”

Christopher replied that this friend of his lived

amall box.

In a very "I's all he can do

to squeeze himself into it.

name is Jack."

HLA

"Oh, I know," said Hanid. "Jack-in-the-bood"

Christopher Cricket locked up and smiled.

"Yes, that's the one I mean. "All day long he stays in that little box of his, squeezed up like an accordion. But at night, when everyone is asleep, I do him a great favour.

I open the top of the box. You should ace how he springs lap, throw- -

hands out ing his

before him as though he were the happlest hoy in the world.

I guess I'd thel happy, too, if I had to stay squeezed up in a little box all day long.”

Knarf sold he felt very sorry, for Jack-in-the-Box.

He Doesn't Mind

"Oh he doesn't mind it too much," said Christopher. But he does enjoy stretching hira». self' now and them,

Kouff and Kanid said they "I once asked him if he didn't had both heard Jerry Bang Jote want to leave his box and go to of times.

scene place that was bigɛte, like an egg box or a soap box. "Has-ho got a cousin named And one night, when I opened Siam Bung?", Hauld asked. the top of his box for him be surprised me by springing out· "Why, yes," said Christopher, altogether. He sprung" right up.

did you know? Blam to the celling and fall down in Redemption her. She's got a very squeaky "how Currency Division of the Treasury, using voice."

Bang lives indoors,

en empty candy box.".

"Did he ke· 1/2” · · 'Hejd #wanted to know.

the

pias, tweezer magnifying "Oh yes, we've heard her all glasses, anything that can help right," sald Hanid them identify money which haq

"And then," said Christopher, been destroyed by bank treat"| atbere's my friend Jorry Bang”

The "sky divo Rusalan stampment. regular army training. But perforated 12, printed by the the contests heid at 11tho process and cost-1/64; in Moscow last August were London]‚Ä‚Ä‚

more

highly specialised

events in which the 180 ft.

circle was the target for

be

Enough fragments must sembled to identify a 'bill by-

fore the Treasury pays off, and

"But one

people

box.*

of the strangest I ever met Kyes in

after, these have been denied Rupert and the Old Chimney 22

and recorded, they are. com» pletely destroyed and a new

only one set of jumpers. Know Your Face? bill fired.

Ning countries_Book – Dart---

America, Russle, France, Israel, WANT to know

Bulgaria, Rumania, Hungary,

Poland

and

Czechoslovakia, have?

There were made from 3,800 ft,

what

These woman plzopa together

bills which another

$2800 out of 5,000 worth

of face you lost out of his pocket

4,500 It and a delayed drop in Got a ruler the

.down. front

which the jumper soos dov

for 30 seconds balone opening head

the parachute ROVER D

the

But, most thrilling: "dit » WAS

mp from 6,000 = 12;

At ploughing, and which for

months stag" | bur

had

Christopher Cricket shoole bead

"At first ho did but s when Kiscovered

childre alldn't even know where he was and that he was about to be thrown out, be quickly changed bis: mind about staring out of

* PRN DER." But be costl quite a job getting him of Vick wgain. i had to squeeze julm

Mon

in Kharf, wondered

bra thinking, about:

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