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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1967.

FEATURES FOR BOYS

YOUR PUZZLE New Books for Young Readers

CORNER

DIAMOND

CROSSWORD

The

Puzzleman River you

Kome help with his Crossword

ERAL wealth, which

letter in Poland's name:

飯

M

ther

-with subjects ranging from exploration to mystery

London, 30th anniversary of the Wright pected.

forward,

AND

GIRLS

A STORY IN RHYMES

Sal Finds An Answer To End Silly Questions

So angry was Sal that, to save her soul,

She couldn't slow down to a comfortable stroll.

And the adventures

SAL. London streets,

THE GIRAFFE. ended hundreds of miles in the was all in a dither Poland posesses great MIN. PERHAPS because youth brown flight, is a long tiep begun in busy

a sense, a period Summing up at the end, Mr air above the city.

Pacing the jungle hither With this volume, the day-of- puzzle by having Cartoonist Cat Puzzleman uses us the centre of of exploration, children and Taylor looks to the future:

his word diamond. The syond

people invariably

the-week series, which started and thither. "Already," he writes, "de with "Saturday Adventure" in word is to perch": third "more young rational"; Afth "hea birds"; and welcome stories about ex- nell K-2 has been built to

1930, comes to an end. But sixth "a short-napped fabric." Iplorers their courage, challenge the heat barrier at John Pudney, in a postscript, Complete the dinmond.

their endurance, their ad- speeds over 2,000 miles per makes it clear that the young ventures and, Frequently, hour, and the X-15, ordered in reader is only saying farewell 1055, is being designed to fly to his friends not a final good- their sufferings.

st 0,900

miles per hour, at bye. heights to 100 miles above

up the earth....it will be only a

The hair's breadth escapes of brief step from the X-16 to the Bob Moran, ex-Spitfire ace, are spaceships which seem

Jeg thrills which await readers of to us today than did "Bob Aforan and the Pirates of fantastie

Alp by Henry

Verno the aeroplane in the days when the

grandfather our

by Phoenix House were at (published

Ltd-7/04). school!

ACROSS

1 Golf Leacher

4 View

7 King, in France

8 Sallor

9 Shoutem

11 Where the Irish come from

17 Boy's nickname

18 Cuckoo blackbird

20 Colour

18 Roof nut

DOWN

16 Accomplished

16 Compass point

14 Swiss river

N

MINERAL

R

L

POLAND REDUS

The four facts about Polond's products will selves for you if you words and pictures correctly.

I'M CALLED TEX!

Z

13 Biblicat high priest

THIS 10 MY

OWN PET

12 Knock

11

Frozen water

10 Girl's nickname

8 Bitter vetch

Organ of hearing

4 Femalo saint (ab.)

3 Lubricant

2 Fish exEN

1 Lever

HOW

THROW YOUR TO VOICE

FIRST MAKE A DUMMY

FIT 2 CLEAN MILK CARTONS TOGETHER LIKE THIS... LCUT OUT A WINDOW IN CENTER OFA QUART CARTON 30 A PINT CARTON WILL SLIPINTO IT SLIT BOTH SIDES OF

TOP OF PINT

ANDCUT

WINDOW

INSIDE.

PUT SIDE -WINDOW DOWN.

2.DECORATE WITH INK ANDSLIP YOUR

HAND INSIDE

THIS WAY...

SO YOU

CAN

WORK LIPS

WITH

THUMB

AND FIRST FINGER.

HERE ARE

A FEW TIPS!

1.KEEP LIPSA LITTLE APART AND LOOSE, 2.PUT TONGUE IN BACK AND TOP OF MOUTH

3.TRY SAYING WORDS WITHOUT

MOVING LIPS BEFORE

A MIRROR.

#MAKE

-YOUR

VOICE DIFFERENT

THAN

DUMMY'S

VOICE

In "Great Moments in Exploration," (pulished by Phoenis House Ltd, London -7/6d), Mr Kenneth Hop- kins tells the story of some of the greatest explorers in including: Henry them-history uncover

the Hudson who dedicated his life to the discovery of the North-West passage, Marco Polo; Captain Cook; and Sir Douglas Mawson, whose ordeal in Antarctica ia parti cularly topical at the present time with so many expedi- tions going there for the Geophysical Year beginning in July 1957. Each story is illustrated with line draw- inga.

This

I'LL SHINE IN MY NEW ROLE

TONIGHT

UM

SCRAMBLED SENTENCE

Can you straighten out this

Polanc sentence about

nakes sense?

ተዲያ

Et

is a book for the children which will appeal

THE RUNAWAY CONVENT GIRL

And

From stories of exploration to history is but a step. most children also like history --if it is properly taught.

Two historical stories for the early teenager come from the

Bob Moran was in Paris when he read of the crash, after taking off from Aden, of the of Britain's now fourth Thunderwing jet aircraft.

instant, he most in the sume met, by chance, the designer of the aircraft and came to the conclusion that the disaster He set

was not an accident. American author. Machette off to Aden to investigate on the

**1 wish I could solve this

problem." said the,

“I wish that my friends would just fet me be.

But whether the skies are cloudy or fair.

They always inquire, Flow's the weather up there?"

"I know that my head is up high in the air.

I know that it looks quite absurd from down there,

Where the lions and monkeys come just to my knees,

And only the monkeys up in the trees

(No matter how much or how hard they try)

Cart manage to look me

Chute, who is already well- spot and found plenty of thrills straight in the eye." imown for such adult books as an adventure before he solved "Shakespeare of London and the puzzle. "Ben Jonson of

Westrainster.

Her two offerings (both

Phoenix published by Lid-10/8d) for the folk are:

"Adventure In

runs

to many a grown-up as well. England," in which a girl named MAN'S FLIGHT IN 50 YEARS

A sister book, by Mr John W. R. Taylor, entitled. "Great Moments in Flying,' imarks the milestones in the 50 years' history of man's flight.

we

of Here

meet airmen many nationalities whose cour- history was the seventeenth age and genius have helped the whose 966, from centuries, dates aeroplane to develop from a creat to Poland, a from four-frail contraption of stick and teenth power the

canvas to the latest jet turbo-jet airliners which have changed all our lives

MIRROR WORK

If you have trouble with this strange sentence, try holding It up to a mirror.

DNALOF FO LATIFAC EHT SI WASRAW

(Solutions on Page 20)

and

From the first fight of the Wright brothers in 1903 to the dam busters at the flight at 3% times the speed of sound, made by the United States Air | Force Captain Charles ("Chuck") Yeager, over the Californian desert only five days before the

Here's A Gift Girls Can Make

through the

piece bag and locate a pretty washable print with flower clusters. Buy towels to match the flower colours. Then decide which type of stitch you will use to ap- plique the flowers on the towels. Try those illus- trated:

Jonquilla (lop): Cut out flower

leaving clusters,

about 1/8 buch extra to turn under. Fold aver this edge and baste cluster In place on the towel will this edge tucket under. Sew on with u fine catch silich in the towel colours. A catch stitch is a tiny stitch with hardly any thread showing on top and not much showing on the under side.

This Rose Cluster (centre);

cretonne was b firm type of which won't ravel, so the clus.

ter was cut at the edge of the Towels above illustrate 'various flowers and basted in place with nothing turned under Then

stitches and flowers,

reptat al and

around the

Anno her

Sal trotted down to the lake for a drink,

And while she was drinking she happened to think

of a

wonderful plan to end her woes.

So she fatshed her drink,

I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE.

QOING

TO SAY!

"That may put an end to this awful drouth,

That is, if it grows to a reasonable dzc.

I'll let you know if is acema to viac."

The

looked about,

tiger

As it ho

way out.

squirmed

and

were trying to find

But Sai ignored this alto-

Fother

And vent on talking about the weather.

"Yesterday, if you recall,

all.

We had hardly any who at

Right tkow there's a 11:10 breeze from the west

That seems to be growing in Power and pest--"

Lyle, the uger walked away. But he passed on the lesson he'd learned that day,

And now, whether stormy, cloudy or fair,

No one asks Sal "How's the weather up there?!!

-MABEL HARMER

O'Cheer Hall Mystery

-O'Scowl Explains How A Loaf Disappeared-

By MAX TRELL

Any boy who wants to read House about more of Bob Moran's ad- younger ventures, this time in a very

setting, different

may also his pocket money on spend Chaucer's "Bob Morrn and the Faweelt

Mystery by the same author lifted her post, from away

published by

Poenix

And ambled back to the ban- ALL the Pixies were convent, Joins Nick,

In this young puck, and sets out from

cond

Bob Moran Surrey across country through and a rancher friend, Alexander Guildford and Dorking for Blas,

determine to find the legendary elty of Musus, or London; and

White Indians, in the remote province of Mallo Grosso, in Brazil,

"The

Wonderful Winter" which recounts the adventures of Sir Robert Wakefield in the winter of 1596-7 after he has

from his TRUN AWAY

three Suffolk-and sun aunts and a tutor-because

u

Puff

ADVENTURE IN THE home in NEW WORLD

maiden in bo

Adventure in the New World,

is forbidden to keep his spaniel this time in North America, is Making his way the subject of "Dale of the Pro Ipswich to Londort, he Mounted" from

by Joe Holiday finds himself tired and penniless (pubished by Evans Brothers, outside the great theatre where London 9/6d). Mr Shakespeare's company are performing.

o

From

Dale the moment Thompson first saw the Royal Canadian Mounted Police the well-known

"Mounties" - thoir bright red uniforms, he wanted to join their ranks.

yan trees,

Where the Bons and tigers about her knees

Were waiting to give her a silly stare

And spring the old quiz, "How's the weather up there?”

The first one she met was n tiger named Lyle,

Who peered up at Sai with an insipid smile

And said with a foolish, sim- Pering air,

"Good morning, Sal, How's the weather up there?"

*The weather?" asked Sal, looking around,

"TH tell you, my dear, 84- though I'll be bound

I can't quito decide on the spur of the minute

Whether there's good or bad news in it,

SQW

angry, but the angflest one of all was Pixło O'Scowl

Knarf, the shadow boy with the turned-about name, him pacing up and and

down, waving his arms and yelling. It was all laking place in front .or O'CHET Hall where the down under the Bixtes lived, roots of the Out Oak.

As Knatt

ho heard Pixto O'Scowl saying: "I

came closer,

didn't lose it at all, I tell you. It just disappeared."

That's impossible," crled Pixie McSauce,

Only A Magician

Pixie McMerrie anid (and his voice wasn't voy morty of this moment): "Nobody can make a whole loaf of bread disappear except a magicion."!

"And you're not a magician," said Pixie McSpoaze.

"You must have eaten that

loat

While neither book is meant

the be "serious,”

author herself, commenting on the ad- ventures of Anne and Nick in Chaucer's England, says that ***** meunt to be accurate. After a rigorous training, he "There is documentary evidence set himself to follow the

"The heat just at present, I'd for every detail in it, from the Mounties tradition that they actual name of the Mayor of "alwayo get their man"-and Gay

Is up Tather for successfully accomplished muy time of day.

high for this Guildford to the recipe

thrilling assignments which took face cream.

him all over Canada in search Early this morning, as I re-disappeared." of a

murderer, legal fur- cull, trappers and a solution to the

There was scarcely any heat mystery of a dead man found at all. under the pack-les of a northern

fact, the sun was fairly river.

high

On its daily journey through the sky

Before ita warmth reached a degree That/ makes you and me.

Both books are highly read able and as such will appeal to the imagination of the youthful reader while at the same time giving him an insight into life in the time of Chaucer and Shakespeare respectively.

DAY-OF-THE-WEEK THRILLER.

Mystery and thrills become more populer every year with the boys, and giris, of the atom age.

some

The monastery, of Mont St Michel, in Brittany, is the seme of the adventures of four boys and a girl in "The Forest of Quokclünde" by Miche Rouze (translated from the French by George Libane and published in England by Max Parrish Lit, London-8/6d).

+

While the smallest ONCE Much courage and resource.. follow eagerly each

new fulness are needed by the young episode of "Davy Crockett," or explorers to escape from the space travol serial, the cerle underground caverns into older child and the teenager which they had penetrated by avidly devour each new volume means of a tunnel, unknown for in John Pudney's thriller series centuries, leading to caves

after the days of the under the ancient Monastery. named Work

Adventure, amusement and drama for the 10-15 year olda are to be found in ""The Paradise Pullman" by

Andrew Wood (published by Max Parrish Li

9/04), a story of trains and early Flying Machines and ex-

folk, circus

China Mell Special.

This year's_offering (publish ed by Evans Brothers, London--- 9/60), is "Friday Adventure.” In it Uncle George takes Fred and I" to London to see the sights." What they actually did 200 were sights of quite a dif- ferent kind from those they ex-

A Quiz About "Relatives"

was put on with an appliqué or buttonhole stitch, Bring thread three-eighths Inch in from edge (embroidery floss is best) up at and come up at edge. Pull snug odge, swing a loop towards you cluster. You may use the nuw

THIS QUIZ is about various members of the family flower ncedio in

about

type sewing machine zigzagger of fact and fiction. A score of eight correct here instead, if you bate the should make you an authority on kinsfolk. edges very firmly before starting around.

put

ZOO'S WHO

"THE SMALL" EST BIRD IN THE LUNITED

STATES IS

THE CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRD

OF THE HIGH WESTERN

MOUNTAINS,IT MEASURES `ASCANT THREE. INCHES.

SCRAM)

"THE AUSTRALIAN DINGO. "THE SUMATRAN FARMER CLIMBS OR NATIVE DOG, DOES THE TOP OF A HIGH PLATFORM NOT BARIA,BLIT HOWLS ANDS WITH HOOTS AND YELLS..

MOURNFULLY IN THE FRIGHTENS THE BIRDS FROM HIS

„FIELDS OF GROWING GRAN.....

GELHOIN-

ly

Porn Lily (bottom): Cut out with one-fifth inch left at edge, turn under and-buste down. Then work the edges in outline stitch in black embroidery floss. Working on right akla of bring needle up through edge, mako

a siltats and come up halfway with neodle, make an other stitch and bring neodlo up at halfway and of last stitch and repeat clear around. lily centres were catch-stitched and the leaves were outline- stitched. This is a modernistic pond “Illy?

Tho

Towels like these would make fine gifts,

1. The famous "Uncle Remad stories were written by

n. Joel Chandler Harrin b. Mark Twain

c. Nathaniel Hawthorne

2. "Uncle Sam's Icebox" is a name given to

a. North Dakota

answers

In

Pixio

the O'Boowl osored hungry Spartow some orumbs,

"Fm_hungry, sald Sparrow.

'I haven't had a crumb to eat since yesterday."

"So I reached in my bag and thrów him a crumb from the big loaf of bread. Because, said as I said to myself, none of us

will miss a little crumb from this whole big lost.

continued Pixle

of bread yourself,” Pizle Ocap.

But Pixie Q'Scow! kept saying over and over again: "I didn't "Well,' eat it. didn't lose it. It just O'Scowi, "this Sparrow chirped so loud and so cheerfully when Then the Pixles ail noticed I threw hin the crumb that Knarf

When he asked what had another Sparrow came

along, happened, several of the Pics So I throw him a crumb and explained that Pixle O'scowl he was just as hungry as the had gone off to the balcer's to first one. buy bread for dinner and, when he returned, all that was left had was a

was a crumb or two in the bag, The rest of the loaf of bread discomfort for was gone.

"It just wasn't there," Pido McSpry.

said

"I think," said Knarf,

just what happened."

that

Had Vanished

"And as I walked along on my way homo-to this very place, as I mentioned before.... more and more hungry sparrows came flying out of all the bare trees

• "However I see a cloud to the Pixie O'Scowl ought to tell us and broken chimneys and

Stamp Issued

Ha Refused To Tell

At first, Pixie O'Scowl refused to do so, saying that it wasn't necessary.

from under loose-shingles. threw a crumb to each one of them, for it was a cold, blowy afternoon and all of them werɑ so very hungry.

In Honour of houting and arguing, he con- of

Thomas Mann

"And when I got home to this very place, as I think I "It just disappeared," he said, said before I looked in the But Anally, after much more bag where I had put the loaf

bread and

it was

gone, sented to tell the whole story. vanished,

And disappeared. I gone the baker's I

I didn't

nor drop and bought the fonti ho ul. 1, noo eat, 10 myself." "Now it was a cold day, as you When they heard this story all know,

with a chill wind all the other Pixies smiled and blowing straight down from the told Pixie O'Bcowl that they K7OU may

or may not north where all the snow and weren't a bit angry with him any more. They were quite Mann, a German who was

"Get on with your story, got sure he hadn't eaten. the on with your story!" cried himself. They were quite sure born at Lubeck in 1876. He several of the Pixies. "We know it had just disappeared in was one of those remarkable all about the Ico and the snow exactly the way he had told, people who live to attack and the wind. What's that got And Knarf whispered in Pixie

car: from outside the country in to do with the missing loaf of O'Scowl's

"How many which they were born,

crumbs make a whole "foaf of

Mann was

one at the greatest In figures · Gorma: literary life when he Bottled in the US in

1933. That Was when began

b. Alaska c. New England Stalow | ho

8. Aunt Polly was a relative of

Huckleberry Finn

c. Tom Sawyer

b. Becky Thatcher

4. "Mother of Presidents'"' is a name often given to

a. Pennsylvania

b. Now York

c. Virginia

5. "Uncle Tom's Cabin” was an anti-slavery story by

a. Louisa May Alcott b. Molly, Pitcher

e. Harriet Beecher Stowe

0. Tather of Waters" in a name given to the

'a. Missouri River b. Mississippi River

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...

7 A "Mother Hubbard'' is a name often given to a

Tall hat b. Tight Jacket Grandma Mooca is a noted a. Writer

You might mako a set of:8, guest towels, with simple flower repeated an enoh,

Or you might create a set of abstract designs for matching

to make his attacks

on his homeland-or at least on the Nazis who were strangling the liberties in Germany which Mann championed.

He wrote a slieam of flory pamphlets against Hitler abcked the Dictator over

radio,

and

.the

And when Hitler svar

crushed Mann refused to return

to

Germany, though he revisited

Tio Grande Barope in 1947 and rouflrmed

his bellor in democracy and, in ternational co-operation.

c. Loose-fitting gown;

b. Musician · o Painter

b. Sargent

9. A painting of his mother brought great fame to

a. Reynolds

e. Wildiler

towels or place mats Squares 10. The two prosidents who were father and son were the

a. Roosavolla

airalen - and mother illapar, 115) varying sizes, can be arranged

| in striking patterna,

b. Harrison

d. Adamech (Anawoże on Page' 20).

Mann,

bodoured

Now Thomda died last year

by the land of his birth, but the sand wisch he would not re- turks to "This stamp""" its his honour is issued by Eastoris Germany. I la perforated 19, printed by the litho method, and dells for ad in London.

brend

bread?" "I'

got everything to do brad?" with it grumbled Pixio But Pixto O'Scowi didn't an- O'Scowl

awer. He just gave the Lindest "As I was heading back for lo chuckle which, of course, home, to this very place, I saw was most unusual for Pizle with the He was sitting O'Scowl, who lived

other Pixies in this very place, several times

Sparrow.

on a fence,

"'Sparrow"

I suich "You as he mentioned don't look choerful today, * before.

Rupert and the Old Chimney–28

"Laughing with relief Rupert

been?" he shouta," "How vaz

scramblas "thieugh the psoal, and y did you guy here? – Why didn'e

dasha sway to find the boy, and Spot, when he has got over his

· fright,, gder" with him. Hearing ?

you .coms, back down the chindi. ney?'-'ye been terribly scared": and was just going to send somāj

them coming Petee runs forward on to look for you an the rpofita

from the empty room, ***Why, Bupart, whien un north have yuna

Hay, Men me a chance," laughe Reperselinn Thin 15 ml pour slak,