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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19,

FEATURES

FOR BOYS AND

GIRLS✰✰✰

YOUR PUZZLE A MIDGET'S FAME AND GLORY THE PAST WAS COLOURFUL

CORNER

CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Head covering

Rudent

7 Free nation (b.)

8 Note in Guido's scale

9 Sabor

10 l'int

11 Drink

12 Biblical High priest

14 Anger

17 Narrow Inlet

20 Body of water

TRIANGLE The Puzzleman has based his word iriangle on a DREAMER. The second werd la short "liansposo": third observe fourth volcano" Afth

vapour

for

IF you were living over

years ago, you could have ABON a real livo general who never grow any taller than 81 inches.

Charles Sherwood - Strat- is "toton was a midget, born in

Sleilion

Conn., Ari "Invisible Bridgeport,

and sixth "a bridge 1837. When he was

five

holding. Con you complete years old, Mr P. T. the triangle from the clues?

DREAMER

OLD WORDS

How many four-letter words can you make ending in OLD?

WACKY COMPASS

A

ONNO

WACKY

COMPASS

START AT SOUTH

„AND USE EVERY

FOURTH LETTERE U

FO

1

E

18 Negative word

ID Measure of cloth

E

w

DOWN

H

P

E

18

1 Sever

2 Mau's nome

3 incomplete

4 Keeps

3 Babu and the 40 thieves

8 Light knock

12 Before

13 Girl's nickname

10 Fish egga

10 Greek letter

HOW HAVE FUN AT A TO PARTY Play BURIED TREASURE

PUT A LARGE BOWL ON A NEWSPAPER... FILL IT HALF FULL OF FLOUR... BURY A RING INIT GIVE EACH PLAYER A THIN STICK...ONE WHO FIRST PULLS OUT RING WINS! DON'T USE HANDS!

PLEASE PASS THE

BEANS Play

EACH PLAYER IS GIVEN 2 BEANS.HE HOLDS THEM IN HIS FISTS... EACH PLAYER GUESSES IN WHICH OFHIS NEIGHBOR'S FISTS THE MOST BEANS ARE..GO AROUND 3 TIMES...EACH PLAYER ADDS THE BEANS HE GUESSES TO HIS OWN..BUT HENKUST KEEP THEM IN HIS FISTE..

YOU DECIDE

DIRECTION TO./K

FIND PUZZLE PETIS

PROVERB

BACK AND FORTH

When you complete this bit of wit work; you'll find your first answer will read backward to form your second nnawor cach line:

Uncooked

Conflict

in

River barrier Insone What teeth are In Drink- ing vessel

Num-

Used by fishermen

Opposite of

ber

Preposition

"yes"

(Solutions on Page 20)

Barnum visited him and his parents. The great show. man was 80 charmed by this well-mannered, intel- ligent little fellow that he engaged him to appear in his museum in New York.

Dressed in an elegant uniform, Charies was introduced to we

Tom Thumb. public as Gen.

Tom entertained with olever Fongs nou dances, In costume, he posed as Cupid, Alias, Na- poleon, and Grecian characters in mythology. The people fell in love with him, and ciamoured tor kis plature and his auto- graph.

Perfect in manner

By GENEVIEVE BRUNSON

This is an original old photo of Tom Thumb and Lavinia, with their wedding attendants.

ringe, rode through the gates of Buckingham Palace to be re- ceived by Her Majesty.

American and English dags, the New York society people to the caglo and the Hon, and the wedding in Grace Church. molto, "Go Ahead!" Two Lavinia's bridesmaid was her midget twins were the coach- midget sister and the best man man and the foolman,

Wis a midget friend. A plat Every day Gen. Tom Thumb form was erected so this bridal of woo folks could be would ride out the Boulevard party all under three years in this grand style, smiling and better seen. They were a hand- bowing to the cheering crowds, some happy couple Gen. Tom

Thumb, so dignified, and Lavi nie, besutiful in white satia and Society wedding

lace, carrying a bouquet in her thy hands.

Mr Bargnum took Tom abroad, taking 19 days to cross the Al- Janule Ocean. They were accom-

Both the Queen and Tom pumed by Tom's parents, valet, his agent and others.

were thrilled by this visit, as he sat on his own tiny couch Renting a mansion in London, talking to her and her three Mr Barnum sent engraved children, Vilations 10 the nobility and of age. wealthy persons to be enter tained by the tiny general. Later Tum appeared to pubile for others to see him.

Sitting in his gold chair, re- ceiving the life of London,

Icra

Also present were the Duko of Wellington and other court- The Queen's mother, Queen Adelaide, presented Tom with a tiny jewelled watch.

Tom remembered what b.la Там was so well liked that mother had told him: "Son, re- he was invited three times to The little Princess member to be kind, and always the Palace, be a gentleman,”

would clap her hands hearully when Tom, like a wee creature from her falry books, would sing "Yankee Doodle."

This is what his audience saw

little man perfect in monner as well as in his wee form.

Young Queen Victoria batame curious to see Gen. Tom Thumb. So one day Tom and Mr Bur- num, in the Queen's awn car-

HORSES And HUMANS

ANIMALS,

By IDA SMITH

like people, can be spoiled-some- times for good, sometimes for bad.

Blackle was R year-old colt when Chet, his 13-year-old master, bought him.

He was said to be the son of Flying Ebony, the horse that won the Kentucky Derby in 1925, and a western cow pony. From his alre he Inherited the artist's temperament; from his mother, his delight in being a bucking broneo,

up

Chet and Blackie grew together and became fast friends, Riding bareback, Chet would take off with the colt

prancing and kicking up his heels-not hard enough to buck

IS THAT

HORSE CRAZY?

Chet off, but in the high gice coming, he thought it was his pal and, in a burst of joy

of piny.

When Chet joined the Navy began to put on his wild show. it was evident That Blackie missed him sorely.

CRAZY OR SPOILT?

When

horgo

.

Charles Stratton in the

After touring Asia and President and Zim Lincoln America Tom decided he should received the famous Mr And have a home of his own. Now M he und Mr Barnum were very White House, and were de wealthy. A magnificent home lighted with these charming was built in Bridgeport, Conn., young persons, and managed by ble mother with many servants,

Part of this mansion was fur- miniature for Tom's nished in comfort. It was like a doll

On a pedestal

AND EXCITING

LIBRARIANS And that

many young readers like what they call "old- fashioned" stories. If you are one of the boys and girls who like books with historical backgrounds, there are many good new

onea,

Begin with Pepy's Boy by Rachael M. Varble. Toby served 1.9 D pago to Samuel Pepys (the one who wrole famous diary) in London long ago. Toby experiences

bitter poverty and a terrible prison, inects young Willam Penn and a highwayman, and seeks his fortune in the New World, This is a fine book.

Cowboy of the Ramapos by Marjorie S. Green is, surpris- ingly, not a western story. In its pages a young scout for Gen. George Washington tracks down and, helps capture a gang which is preventing food from reach- Continental ing the hungry army.

LONG

AGO STORIES

wound heals and hope returns. Trail From Taos by Loring excitement in New Mexico Ter- Mackaye mixes Apaches and ritory. You'll Menio.

love Squitrei

Ensign Roman by Leon E.

when the

Burgoyne... Fort Dearborn In 1811 with great "Chief Tocum- sch on the wurpath; Day of Glory by Philip Spencer Uniquel A chapter for esch hour of the day battles of Lexington and Con- Ford were fought, Candio in the Sun by Elizabeth Hamilton Friermood

An Diling father and a general store in sunny New

Mexico; Lanterns Aloft by Mary Evans Andrews

Young Man With a Sword by Jane Oliver tells how Scotland was freed by Robert the Bruce. Young Gavin Maitland joins the Bruce when he had only seven followers and tights by his side unill Scotland is an indepen- dent country.

In 1855 the hero of The ... false alarms and funny Wound of Feler Wayne by adventures in the War of 1012.

"Nothing exciting ever hap- Leonard Wibberly had lost the war, his home, and his hope. pens nowadays,

to respect the As he comes

men, tho once-hated Lincoln

»

-LEE PRIESTLEY

A Fight With A Monkey

-General Tin Tells the Shadows All About It-

By MAX TRELL

This tiny general lived "DID

years. He and his wife'enjoyed

I ever tell you," cald General Tin the Tin

In France Tom was received by King Philippe, whe was charmed to hear him sing in house with e real live doll in 1 most salling on his own yacht. † Soldier, "about the terrible fight French,

Thrilled

Tom loved to entertain his He was very hɛppy, baying bla) I once had with a monkey?” friends here and display his darling Lavinia beside him Knarf and Hanid, the shadow thousands of gifts from all over sharing in all these luxuries, the world.

Today, in Bridgeport, Conn., IN PARIS Tom had the thrill WHEN TOM WAS 24 years there is a statue of this beloved of his young lite. His greatest old, he married Lavinio, ape midget. High on a pedestal, be wish was to have a pony. One other midget, whom he loved, looks out on a world that was day Mr Barnum Baid, Toin, Invitations ware scht to the a kind to him as he himself coing out to the back driveway; president, congressinen and was

I have a surprise for you. But

first close your eyes."

When the little fellow opened his eyes,

did he ace a pony? No, not one pony, but FOUR

Shetland ponies!

These little animals bliched to a mintakufa

The Interior

wate blus

and gold carriage, with silver jastips.

Was of brocade silk and silver lace. When Tom sat in it bla feat could touch the floor,

On this elegant curriage was

Ships Which Vanished

In Mystery

NHIRTY - FIVE

TH

YEARS

AGO an American fuel

a coat-of-arms which bore the ship, the Cyclops, left the

A

Manifestation

Of Independence

harbour of Bridgetown on the island of Barbados, for a voyage to Baltimore. She

had a load of coal and a crew

of more than 300 men.

exchanged

Good will greetings were between the sailors and officers of the THE star and crescent steamer and their scores of

of

Chet came home on his first furlough, the went wild with joy. Ile raced Blackie had talent for herding stands at the crossroads

around him, he

H

the

MIGE-

The lion hunter was horrified, over one of balancing points the steamer moved out to- "That horse," he said, "is ci.her in the onward march

wards the opening in the crazy or

too spoiled for any mankind.

coral reef, which forms the Situated where sensible kind of work!"

the Middle East merges into gateway to the ocean for Later

years disclosed that the

Far East, Pakistan that harbour. bucked, he callie

could have been

Since that spring morning, South Australia, under_ very, swaggered. He 1:00 up on his trained for a cut-out pony (for where the great contro-when vessel disappeared favourable conditions.

Every- successful med legs and reached his front separating certain animals from versies of this century below the horizon, nothing bar thing pointed to a fret toward him, Then he ran a herd).

born heard of the Cyclops of cruise. up and fald his head on Chat's

nationalism, Communismis crew. Did they meet dis- shoulder.

Today, in his old age, though and independence eddy aster so suddenly that no Six months after Chet had still without "formal educa- and flow. gone back, man vamo to tion," he is very gentle and is

So far, borrow Blacklo for a Bon hunt, helping to train

Chel's little Pakistan's boy to ride,

of spirit Berce indo DLUEBELL was a white ander bluish-grey pinto mare.

pendence and She

the Burg was Blacklo's friend. She, too,

that Bots had been potted and

young nation

She carried a crew of 17 sail on

Ita way

Lora, and there were 43 codols have provod toe strong for any attractions board, 1 feeling Ane when they embarkced. It was mid- Isolated one winter with her dangled by Moscow. But the mistress, she had managed to star and crescent slag faces

neaker and more direct chal- quater, though the calendar

ONE WITH

GAME WINS!

Chel,

The man

looked a bit like When Blackie saw him

ZOO'S WHO

THE PANDA IS ONE OF

THE RAREST OF MAMMALS...IT HAS THE FACE OF A RACCOON, FEET LIKE A CAT'S AND A BODY SIMILAR TO THAT OF A BEAR...

NICH

ACAMEL CAN DRINK 25 GALLONS OF WATER IN

HALFAN HOUR...

FIRST KNOWN ZOO IN HISTORY.

WAS COLLECTED BY THE CHINESE ~

KỈNG WẾN IN THE GARLY PART OF

THE 12% CENTURY BO..ANIMALS WERE CAPTURED FROM ALL PARTS. OF CHINA.

apolled,..

U

HORSE LANGUAGE

convey

blt

趁

But the fate of this vessol is hidden behind the fog curtains sage could be sent?

of the Antarelle Ocean, where Ten years after the Cyclops it is supposed that it struck - an left harbour for the last time, iceberg and went to the bottam the Danish training ship, of the sea in a few minutes. | Kobɩnhavan, aniled out of the harbour of Montevideo, Uru guay, bound for Australía.

| summer in this city south of the

in horse Itnguage that | jengo on the northern frontier month was December.

it was 100 much trouble to make drinking water run uphill from

a bucket on the ground. So her

where is illes facing Afghanistan,

comes This challenge

from raiding

Thousands of roving,

mistress obligingly lifted the tribesmen who want to set up a

Seven weeks later, off the bucket for her when giving bir country of their own. This new rest of the barren and rocky [drink outside the corral,

Slate, they say, should be land, of Tristan Da Cunha out between Bouth carved out of Pakistan's northern in mid-ocean One spring day her master territories. Their claim is up- America

and Africa, the saddled · her to go for ride. ported by Afghanistan-ord of Kobenhaven was, sighted once Before leaving, he placed the "untamed Lands of inter-mure. bucket of water" before her on, most Asia. the ground. Bistbeli promptly

began to bhw the ground, wat

The tribesmen say their state which may have been

She had u mingle wit ́-mes, if and when it is ever estab

ing for Him to, lift the bucket lished-will be called Paklooni-r" help.

which he did cheerfully after

his wife explained the situs

Lion,

stan. Paklitan's answer, is that She never reached her desi

will not be established her land,

son

And to manifest her indo

On his return ho gave his pendence-granted when Bri wife a curious grin and said, lain divided India in 1947--this

tination, The events of her final' voyage fre à Maled book. An other ship had gone, to join the feet of the imaginary - Flying Dutchman,

the

"I don't mind thing the bucket, new damp fired Late in 1933, Germ

but that mare la downright uns recpas-printed," perforatod. 1572 training vessel, - Adialral Karisa rendonable, she expected me to and sells for öd. in London, fanger, withứ 60 persons on lift up the crook!”.

board, left the part of Germėla

So mysterious things happen on the high seas, and only the occan know the secret of how those shipa" went down,

children with the turned-about names, who had come into the playroom to ask General Tin to tell them a story.

shook their heads.

"No, dear," said Hanid. "You never told us the story about the time you had a fight with a mobkey."

Fierce Fight

"It was a terrible, Bight," said General Tin. never forget it for the rest my life,"

flerze

***H

of

"We'd like very much to hear about that fight,” said Knarf.

"You would?" asked General

Tin.

Knarf and Hanld both nodded, "In that case,"

General Tin punched the Monkey right back.

General Tin nodded. "They lived in costs, but they always k-pl the doors open excop' when they went to sleep. Bu the mea. beaudful sight of all said General w.re the jungle rabbits. You'vd

never sten such colour!"

"What colours were they, Gloral Tiny" Hanid wened

Tin, "I'll start from the begin- ning which, as I think you know, is the best way to start

a story,"

General

After agreeing with Tin that starting a story from the beginning certainly seemed like the way to do it, Knart · and Hanid sa themselves down comfortably at his foot and waited for him to begin.

o know.

"They

wore biccn-coicurc .bright bleen."

At this both Knarf Hand looked tha.

General Tin

and

30 surprised decided it would be beiter to explain.

"Well," said the General, "It happened in the Jungle of Lo- "Been," he

said, is halt Co-Mo-Co."

bluc and half-green. I made

word "Where's that?" Krarf Inter- up, the

myself I' rupted to ask.

quicker to say bieen than to The Jungle of Lo-Co-Mo-Co zay blue-and-green, And sud- is, right close to Lake Zum- donly," he said in an exclied brella.

A Beautiful Day Neither Knarf nor Hanld knew where Lake Zumbrella was. However, they did not want to interrupt General Tin again.

voice, there was the monkey righ: in front of me! He looked at me, and I locked at him, And ifi.her of us liked eacú o.her. The next minulo - he punched me in the nose."

"What did you do?" Knarf and Hand asked,

Punched Him

He continued: "It had been raining for a month or more.

"I punched him back,” said But finally the sun came out. It was a beautiful day. As I walk Central Tin. "Then he aprang od through the jungle of Lo-Co- into the air and I sprang Into Mo-Co I heard the Look-Looki the air and we kept right da birds singing the curly-talled fighting."

and the "In the middle of the alt chattering monkeya onaries twittering in their cried Hanid.

tops,"

General Tin nodded, cages in the tree

"No one would have beloved. ***Were the canaries in their cagds even in the Jungle?”. If. But : there we both were--- Khart exclaimed in astonish- that monkey und. I-fighting right in the middle of the airi He grabbed my foet and I grabbed his tall, and round.

round wo went, spinuin

-----M. S. SHELTON ment.

and Bike

a hoop. We rolled ali

through the jungle of Lo-Co--

Rupert and the Old Chimney-34 Mo-co-1 mean over 1 of

When home of the excitement,old - Rad Indian)(aude.)

the boy

hat died down, the old sabremsanarias, los 10, shake of the dust startą wondering how harens · get- himself; through the serve worth dors, Then he' zeils-Peter to thr

his shoes, and have a thorough wash. *** My, I'm glad I kept this.

Soon

(do

candy for the next time i shayhew'saying goodbye,

could have. Man thịt Toy far": mys: Peter, je

You had ai the fuck soday!”

bourne. Wo

rolled.. and wa rolled and "wa: rollad "

"And what happened?" asked Knarf.

all said Central Tid, wopped rolling. Wo wire still in the air. When I looked

down. I

that

en renco

saw to my surprise we were right over the to the Zoo SOT dropped down (with him/ydad. put him in a cage. And there where ho is to this very dayc

"Kharf, and Hanid' “thought this was a very curious' story. But the things that, sattu more remarkablecidvan Stra the fight in the middle of the air between General print and the monkey were his epblaas odloured rabbita. und är Lake

note far from