1957-02-23 — Page 18

THE CHINA MAIL: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1957.

BOYS FEATURES FOR

AND GIRLS ***

YOUR PUZZLE THE EPIC TALE OF MAYBE CATS DO HAVE

CORNER

CROSSWORD

1 Wicked

4 formessed

ACROSS

7 Mineral k

I Age

91'iloted

1 Way some fah are caught

17 Charged alon

18 His last name was Baba

19 Sorrowful

20 Insane

DOWN

Kind of cattle

2 Boy's nickname

3 Scottish river

+ She

5 Exist

U

6 Father

10 Uncle Tom's friend

11 What brother calls sister

12 Kim of grasses

13 Finishi

14 Male sheep

15 Note in Guldo's scale

16 Accomplished

STAMP FROM THE LAND OF TOMORROW

IT is today in the land of

tomorrow. And the land

of tomorrow is the name given for many years to Brazil because of the vast undeveloped resources that abound there-gold, iron, diamonds. And of course coffee is the base of all Brazil's economica.

The young people of this vast and polemially wealthy State are-like the girl in this new Brazilion stamp-hurdling the

OLIVERA /

BHA:

difficulties which kept so many

of their parents poor and tied

to the coffee plantations,

Visitors who arrive for

the

first time in the southern metro.

polls of Sao Paulo (population America's 2,600,000). greatest

city, get @ industrin startling impression that the great

Brazilian tomorrow has already reached high noon in a

virtual explosion of civic energy. From downtown hotel win- dows, visitors can count a dozen office buildings or more new under

scrapers.

TRIANGLE

The Puzzleman

knows

A THINGUMAJIG

THINGUMAJIG

once

A lived in a hall closet

you with Susan's roller skates, mind your MANNERS, so he Robby's stamp collection has usexi that as a base for his book, Father's fishing rod, word triangle. The second word

best china La "other" third

huge and Mother's ensk": fourth "a sea bird"; fifth ten set. "taut"; and sixtti "an officer of an ocean liner," Can you com- plete the triangle from these clucs?

M A

MANNERS

BACK AND FORTH

When you solve the first part uf each of these puzzles, you will find you have the second rending part done by simply your answer backward:

Carpenter's tool Existed

Male sheep Blemish Droop

Acriform fuel

Rodent Pitch Sketcher

Prize

"C" ADDITION

Just add n C to each of these words to form a new word, Put the C anywhere you wish and mix up the letters if needed to make the change:

HUM

D

LAME

SPEAR

SOLD

HEAP

POTTER

WACKY COMPASS

AIS

E s

WACKY

COMPASS

GTART AT NORTH

SW.AND READ EVERY E

THIRD LETTER (YOU

H DECIDE DIRECTION) a

TO FIND THE HIDDLY E

PROVERB

A

a

G

(Bolutions on Page 20)

From time to time new things were put in the hall

Sometimes closet.

they were taken out for a while, and then returned.

was

The Thingamajig NEVER taken out of the closet. Naturally it came to feel bad when other articks were needed and it always remained in the closet.

At first it thought some

[JLIGT WHAT I'NEED! A THIMSUMAJIQ..

Busan said, "Maybe you could find it in the hall closet."

When the Thingamajig heard the hali cibset mentioned, it Jeaned against the door to try and find out what was needed, so it could hide it,

Bobby said, "Wo can never find ANYTHING in the hall closet. But maybe if you could Tell us what you need, we could tell you whether it's there or not.

to hear what tho Wailing

would BDY. tho neighbour Thingamajig leanod All weight against the door,

its

The neighbour suld "Well, I'll know it when I see it. It's sort of a Thingumajig."

The Thingurnajig was so sur- prised that it loaned too hard The door on the closet door.

day its turn would come to and as new objects were put flew open and out it tumbled.

so crowded be chosen, but as time went in. it became

by and NOBODY seemed that the Thingumajig didn't Interested in using a Thin- have to hide anything.

But habit is a strange gumajig, even for a short while, something terrible thing, and the Thingumajig still huddled close to the happened.

door to listen.

One day α neighbour came to call, and said, "I'm fixing something over at my house, and there's just one thing I need to make it as good as new."

The Thingumajig began listening at the closet door. One day Bobby asked, "Where's my stamp collec tion book?"

Father said, "Maybe we can help you.'

Mother said, "Yes, maybe we Mother said, "In the hall have just what you need," closet, Bobby."

So the Thingumajig pushed and shoved until Bobby's stamp collection book was so far back in the closet that Bobby couldn't find it,

This happened to Susan's roller skates, Father's fish- ing rod, and Mother's best china tea set.

Soon nobody looked for anything in the hall closet,

How Spices

History

LOOK

on your mother's pantry

or cupboard shelf and you will see an item that changed the history of the world-a box of spice.

In ancient times, spices were more eagerly sought after than silver and gold. In fact, they

BO were were often precious they used as "coin of the realm" in many countries.

Made

LAND AHEAR.

AND SACLE

PEPPER

Want To

"PEARS"?

THE

The neighbour picked it up "This is just what I and sald, need!"

Father saidi, "You're wel- come to it."

So the neighbour happily went home with it.

Father looked

in the holi closet and said, "There's my fishing rod!" And then they found all the long-lost things,

From that day to this, every- happy-including the body is Thingumajig.

Try

These

Prickly pear cactus supplies man, beast.

game

Stuck fast, this puss was loo curious about goldfish. Vot appiled anaesthetfo, rescued it.

Aussie

ONE

NINE LIVES TIME and

again our feet up a palm tree, but it feline friends per- didn't jump. The Red Cross haps on adventure bound came to the rescue and the find themselves in very animal was dropped into a

blanket. precarious situations.

Such was the case with the unfortunate kitty who was marooned atop a telo graph pole for 24 hours and was laten rescued by a crane

crew.

SOME DROP {

On the other hand, a kitty named "Middy" had been in a palm troo for ave days, and helther milk nor fish offerings could coax her from her pereli, Eventually she felt her way to

1001 lavel-and "sa

Injuries were slight

that It seems

a Richmond, California, resident thought his

to

If it had jumped it might car was purring too smoothly. have landed on all four When he opened the hood, out

kittens.

paws without injury, for it jumped a af-and a trio la pstonishing what cats can Another car driver started. do in that line. A six-week- the machine and heard a mild old kitten fell from a win- squeak. He lifted the hood to dow ledge 76 feet up, but And a grey alley cat wedged between radiator and fan belt, showed no 11 effects from the drop.

CRATED FOR 41 DAYS Produce house employees in

A grey Tom-chased by

a dog-found himself, 60 Philadelphia started unloading

Talk Is Baffling

By Harold Gluck

turned

car filled with encked

potatoes and a

kitten

up. Evidently Tabby had got aboard while the car was being loaded in Shafer, California. That kitty now lives in the East.

still, a cat who was tally grated with Plesel engine in Detroit was a prisoner for 41 days. Yet reached an American base in the Middle East alive.

D

Lo

сп

The crate was opened ond out jumped the cat - not mention four kittens bom route. Probably the animal silvo

NE hundred fifty years Portuguese came the Spaniards had kept herself and famliy by licking protective ngo, Australia was an but none of them stayed.***

In 1770 Captain Cook ex-coating off the engine. empty land about the size plored the east coast and called Who will deny that cats have of the United States. It was it New South Wales. He landed nine livest

Botany

claimed Bay and Australia as a British possession. -CLARENCE LINDSAY

inhabited

a few at by 'only hundred thousand natives. The Australians called them "Abos" for Aborigines, and these natives were

living

about the same way they Simple Simon's Trick

did in the Stone Age.

In

and a half, a century Australla has become a land of fine modern clics. It's a land also of great plains, millions of sheep and cattle, gold mines, deserts and funny animals.

--He Wasn't Nearly an Simple an People Thought-

+

By MAX TRELL

THE magic telephone behind

the bookcase rong.

Mr

Knart and

How did it get its name? | Punch answered it. Actually Spanish explorer Hanid, the shadow children with who had never seen the great the turned-about names, walted south continent named it near him to hear who was call- "Austrialla Del Espiritu Santo" ing.

in honour of

Phillp III of

Austrian-born Spain.

Mr

"It's Mother Goose," Punch said, tuming to Knert translation it was misspelled and Hamid, "Why are you call-

Australia.

English

ing, dear?" Mr Punch said, the telephone, They speak

In turning back to Australia, but they have some

For several minutes Mr Punch expressions that would startle listened while Mother Goose

you If you wanted to find a spoke. candy shop, you would have to ask for a lolly shop. A wash cloth is called a face wash. If you wanted to go "Dutch Treat" with someone, you would have to use the word "whacks."

wo

"wowser"

ought to do!**

#

"No! It's a very foolish thing to do, Simon!" Hanid cried, "try" hla ing to puste him back on fect "Something

in the this road. You'll get hurtli, along

Then Mr Punch hung up.

Simple Simon was standing On His Hond

on his head.

"Mother Goose wants to see us the air I can't trip over them, right away," Mr Punch said to So you see that it's just what. Kharf and Hanid Simple Simon is standing on his head in the middle of the road." When we don't like a perBON

often refer to him as छ Knart and Hanid Exclaimed stuffed shirt or a cour puss in astonishment: "Simple Simon

HERE is

desert and one

animals, cat the "Down under they call him as standing on his head

At that moment there was a middle of the road!" can be stems, or so-called "icaves."

So Knart and Hanid and Mr rumble of wheels, and the Ple- plant which

came along, pushing Now try to figure this one Punch all went along the back man came In the drug department, the called a "storehouse," or a

prickly pear offers tea for kid-out: We call a person with red of the

the back of the Melhor pice for me!" he called out "general store."

Commonly known as the bitter,

The tea very hair by the nickname of Red.e bookcase until they reach cart. Fies for sale! Homemade ney ailments.

Goose Book. It looked just like Then he stopped to look at is made by bolling the They call him Bluty.

the door to 4 house They Simon's feet, waving in the air. So caravans made dangerous prickly-pear cactus, it grows rools. It was a favourite medi- Instead of hearing a person

Would you care for BOITIC journeys overland to meet the in the hottest deserts right cine of the Indians and pioneers say goodby, you will hear the knocked and went inside,

les, sirs?" he said to the feet. merchant ships bringing their

The stems, slit open, are sald

Mother Googe look- There

so he rubbed his eyes and for expression "ta-ta."

ing very worried.

exclaimed: "Bab! I, won't sell wounds and sores.

Simon is right outside," she If you want lunch in Austra-i

pate of shocal llo,

you ask for dinner. If you said, pointing out through the ples to n

"It's Simple Simon" a lata Window. Yes, it was trup. There are hungry and want snack, then you ask for supper, was Simon, standing on his Punch explained to the Pleman. In the middle of the "He's standing on his head so But how do you ask for sup-hud, he went outside to that he can see where he's go- port. Just ask for ten.

talk to him.

And before they ceased to worthy of a be considered king's ransom, they had aided

the spread of civilisation and other spices were grown,

they let the world believe that he discovery of continents.

bot

120

and

grow in, the Arab country.

You may have heard the ex- pression "Anzac referring to

Simon "Hi, friends," sald

Apple Trees

his

Mr

to fragrant cargoes from the Spice up to the slopes of northern have healing power construction amid what Only the rich people could Islands Often they returned elevation in America. There in already one of the world's afford the

real Eastem splees, emply-handed. Bandits lay in are several species and sub-

Town

Fuol? Dried prickly-pears in wall in the mountain passes most impressive arrays of sky Some herbe were

Europa, but they

species, did not and robbed the caravans of their

will suffice if no other fuck is the biting,

In the food department, pungent precious freight. And the capital of Brazil, Rio Possess

we available. The coral-like skele of- fons of the dried plant are used find that the prickly-pear de Janeiro (population 2,800,000) flavour of those grown in

to be is undergoing

caten fresh, for making novcitics. It was not until the thirteenth fers fruit, an apartment countries, house boom only less startling The main reason that the century that Columbus was able jellied, or dried. Colours range

The juice of the fruits is used than Sao Paulo's office-building Eastern spices were so scarce to persuade King Ferdinand from pale red to deep purple. booth

and expensive was a secret and Queen laabelia to help him The Indians dried these pears for dyes as well as for prepar- an Australian soldier. The word pleasantly, talking to them with

Anzac la made ing hides for terning.

from

the his head on the ground. Yes, the gui In the

that India's of the desert. which Arabia enjoyed prove his theory stamp treaty

initials The thorn-decorated

"Lote of things stems,

Australian and 13« q

The florist department? Yes New Zealand hurdling into the future sets the with the Spice Islands. For spices could be resched

if they were may be by calling west-į like oversized cars,"

Army Corps, fantastically paco for things Brazilian today.five centuries the Arabs got all shorter time

beautiful, which fought as a unit in World

he upside down instead of right- when

Knart asked Simon why young either The The stamp is perforated 11, the spice output of the islands, ward When he set out in 1492 eaten

hot a new world, baked, roasted, or cooked like velvet-like blossoms make War I and established for them was doing such a foolish thing, sido up. Take apple trees, for printed by litho process and where the finest pepper, aut he sought,

usual dosert bouquets.

Why answered Simon, "ta Instance solves a reputation for bravery. cost 8d in London-JAA.

of a spherical world, asparagus, or proof

insects Alco Birds and but a direct sea-route to the The prickly-pear is a food

The Australians are often not poolish at all.

"That's right!”. Knart said, Everyone tells I don't store for cattle, sheep, burros, prickly pears, too. In fact, the Spice Islands.

ho for both called Diggers. and other animals, too. During plant is a dorehouse

Who

discovered Australia? know where I'm going when I suddenly wondering why

hadn't thought of that himself. times of food shortage, stock, mpokind and wildlife.

Guns from a Portuguese man walk on my feet. By standing on if they were upside down you'd of-war of the 15th or 18th cen- my head I can see exactly where be able to pick the apples v

with tury have been found in north- I'm going. And besides," he

mez, ginger, cinnamon

ZOO'S WHO

THE ANTELOPE - JACKRABBIT GETS NIS NAME FROM MTS HÁBIT OF *FLASHING "THE WHITE WAIRS ON ITS RUMP IN THE MANNER OF

THE PRONGHORN ANTELOPE...

and

VNOODCHUCKS OR GROUNDHOGS KARE PRIMARILY VEGETARIANS.

THE MOOSE IS THE LARGEST MEM

•BER OF THE PEER FAMILY:

Spico figured again in man's first cireult of the earth. The King of Spain sent Magellan with five alips to try to claim the Spice Telande by Papal odict.

1.

Only one ship, the Vittoris, was able to reach the Islands. Loaded with spice, sho mailed 2. on westward until she reached Spain, thus completing in three

voyage around the 3.

years world.

In 1600, England's Queen 4. Elizabeth Jald the foundation of the British Empiro by grant- ing a charter to the East India 5. Company to deal in spice. And in 1785, Captain Jonothan Carnes put America into the. spice trade by bringing pepper do Salem com Sumaire.

From 2000 #, C. to the press 7. ent era, sploes played an im portant role in the history of the world by nipiring explorat elop up bouding to discovery.

----M. S. SHELTON

HOW'S YOUR MOUNTAINEERING?

SELECT the right mountain in each group of three.

In what mountains did Rip Van Winkle take his long nap?

a. White Mountainą - D. Catskills c. Ozarks

On what mountain did Noah's ark come to real?

a Mt. Olive b. Mit, Hormone. Mt. Ararat

What is the highest peak in the world? a. Kilimanjaro

b. Everest

c. Matterhorn

On what mountain did Moecy receive the 10 Commandent # MC Chirmel

Mt. Zion e. Mt. Sinai

What is the highest mountain in North America?

B. Mt. McKinley b. Mt. Whitney

Bit. Rainier

What mountain was known as the mythical dwelling, place of the Greek Gloda

a. Mt. Athon b. Mt. Olymppuj

e. Mi. Lingon

What famous volcanic peak is considered sacred in Japan?

A. Hluchidake b. Mit: Askmay mina

What volcanio peak erupted po ɖer the

B, ML Vesuvius]

e. Bujiyarim

Corpo

the

A Foolish Thing

me

"Well, maybe he's right,” the Pleman said.

might be better

western Australia. After the added, when my foot are up in out climbing up the treel"

Rupert and the Windy Day-26

"stys Rupert."'** Mors Uk

"pusaige "with", walls of

· didn't wake.

Cleourey

Certainly," said the Pieman. Just then Simon said to the "Your cart would be Pioman: batter if it were upside down.

you

Then

on the

ork

wouldn't have to plisit They'd spin just

by DE» ·

"He's right!"

man. So,

shouted the Ple ibent, and there, be tipped the cart over. down. That instant all, the plès fell out of the carti

upside

And at that second, Simon selted one of the ples and wee dashing off down the road with lt oop où his "bend" but "on-bls.

back with my ple thePieman eried.

Come

But Simple Simon was gone „end ́so, was the "ots. However, Mr Punch gave him a penny and the Plemen', was" well" rating The" Pieman chucke