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FEATURES

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ACROSS

1 Body purt

4 Male sheep

7 Green vegetable

3 Afinnative reply

5 Weirdest

Father and mother

17 Boy's name

Consume food

10 Juke

20 Teat

1 Monkey

DOWN

2. Scotish streptok

3 : mish

1 Cereal grass

Ruman onze

1 Frozen

11 FOR

zeh waler

Constellation

13 Talter

A Seine

15 Salfor

18 Pigpen

SOUND ALIKES

Missing words in the folles- ing sentence sound ako, but they are spelled differently Can you complete the student for him?

A cat is an expert at the

of always landing on its

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WORD CHAIN

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If you have trouble,

chengine 1. to it. O to A. C to II, D to M, and I 10 W.

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WORD SQUARE

Rearrange the letters in ch row to form a good word; then rearrange the rows so they will ad the same down as acroba;

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FOR

BOYS

Below is a scene from a palaifwe found in the ruins on Crete. The girls' carry drink which they offer to the' god Zeni, whore sacred sign is the double axe (left), The Greek word for double axe is labrys, so some' scholars explain the labyrintlı as "the place of the double axo,"

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CAN YOUR CAT LEARN TRICKS?

ATS are supposed to be

stubborn when it comes

to learning tricks. That is because a cat is an indepen- dert animal, and can seldom be forced to do something It doesn't want to do. Gentle. nesa, patience, and praise do work wonders, however, and there is no reason why you cannot teach your household pet a trick or two.

Does your cat like to play with a celluloid ball? Gener- ally a cat will bat such a ball about in a lively manner, but whon the ball rolls under the sofa, he halts his play- ing,

to truth to ancient Greek myth-

A Monster

Lurk

The Labyrinth?

By

GENEVIEVE BRUNSON

In the Mediter concealing a sword and a ball

of thread. runean Sea.

The

AEDRT PERHAPS some day you Crete, ARTIT

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New this month!

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Bristol 173 Helicopter

The original of this fine model. Is a 14-scator. twin- engined helicopter with two 3-blade mein rotors in tandem, and has a range of about 280 miles at a speed of 85 m.p.h. The fuselage of the model measures 3 la in length, and is enamelled In light blue and red.

DINKY TOYS NO, 134 Connaught Racing Car This attractively streamlined all-British Racing Car has already made a name for itself in Grand Prix events. Here is an accurately-modelled miniature finished in green with driver in racing kit,

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will become an archaeo logist. And if you do, per- haps some day you will dis- caver a lost city.

That is what happened to Sir Arthur Evans in 1900, when he noticed a mound on a farm on the island of

HOW

MAKE A

After much hard digging he and his men discovered, to their amazement, a lost city in ruins.

It was the ancient city of Cnossus,

ruled by King 4,000 Minos

years ago. About 100,000 people lived there then.

Here

brave Greek prince kill'd the

Minotaur with the sword, Then they all found their way out of the labyrinth by following the thread that the princess had trailed guide,

told

as

You can teach kitty to find his ball, and bring it you. Keep repenting your command to find the bull. If there is no response, find the ball yourself, show it to the cat, and start it rolling again.

The first time the cat brings the bull to you, pet him Rnd prake ham, Kitty will soon be

This well-trained puss watts at fable for his milk to be

poured.

mleased; and retrieving as well as any dog, grasped gently,

Another trick is sitting

11. t( town,

Never use quick mayemenite, This is best done with a favour- ite bit of food held between the ur any undue pressure. If the Angers is an inducement, som?- cal protests, pat its head, stroke Its checks and try again until the like liver, kidney or fish, with your free bant until the

Bring the

gently puss trusis your molives,

ont is aliing, then present the unit.

up paws

Do the trick once every day for a week, and you will had your cat sing up unaided at the end of this time,

Shaking hands takes patience to teach. The paw must be

Other tricks a cat can learn are dfting on the shoulder, Jumping into outstretched arms, rolling over, leaping through a heep, and even dracing.

Catching a ball, sitting, UP, und shaking hands, are the-best starters. Try your cat or your latten on these.

MRS BLOOMER

AND

HER BLOOMERS

IT BLACK SAIL

his

TO DAWHORSE ONLY famous labyrinth with its Minotaur, their ship would end expecially

1.BORROW A WOODEN

SAWHORSE FROM DAD

2. DRAW A HEAD AND NECK

ON HEAVY CARDBOARD

AND CUT IT OUT.

3.TRACE THIS CUTOUT ON ANOTHER CARDBOARD AND CUT OUT AGAIN.

T

4GLUE THE TWO HEADS TOGETHER

BUT DON'T GLUE THE NECKS.

5.TACK THE NECKPIECES TO THE SIDES OF A

WOODEN SAWHORSE.

6. DRAW ON FACE WITH

CRAYON...GLUE ON HEAVY RUG YARN FOR MANE AND TAIL... TIE ON A PILLOW

FOR A SADDLE.

Space Adventure

Oh, how I wish that I could find

A strange and secret place;

| Up between the stars, I know,

There is a lot of space.

But, I have read that space is

cold

Colder than you'd think, ・・

And if I were suspended there,

I'd spin like a liddly-wlak. And if I shot like a Bash through

space

And landed on n.star, The star would be so hot that I Would burn sa black as tor.

And so, for now, I'll be content With common earth and air, And wonder what the secret is

Ol living way out there,

-Helan Sua Lealy.

I

for

her nerve.

The "healthy"

repetition, this term was n gradually changed to simply "bloomers."

Fears after Mrs Bloomer had "made a spectacle of herself," bloomers began to be worn for

our

Mrs Amelia Jenks everywhere talk"d about Mrs women's sports. They were the immodesty and king that came below the knee Bloomer wished to be Bloomer-her

and wcro worn with thick remembered for anything, it

Mockings. They were the fore-

our. costume she runners, of

present day REFORE teaving on this haz-was for her fight for the

wore came to be known as the women's sports clothes, Prou..dventure, r.nce Taseus women's votes or her talks

"Bloomer costums." With much father.

Toasy the word "bloomer" is King were the homes, had

against liquor.

established word in theatres, palaces, and the Aegeus, that if he was victori

ou over the labyrinth and the But dear Mrs Bloomer is not

language, thanks to the woman remembered

who wanted comfort and sand- try clothing for all womets, tragic mazes all from turn with a white sull, instead elther of these

worthwhile another civilisation.

D the black mourning sal, osures, She remembered be.

--EVELYN WITTER flown on the ships which took cause she once wore a pair of Works of art still decorated the victims to Crete, the walls; the paint was ill

But in his excitement Theseus clear. There were vases taller forgot to have the sall changed Mrs Bloomer decided that the

It all sorted Chau

man, and beautiful

to white statues.

| "rweeping" women's fashiong of The anxious father watched the day were unhealthy, The paved streets were only for the ship. Sceing a black four feet wide, because in those sal, he naturally thought his son

She claimed that days there were no horses on and companions were dead, In could be cut down by wearing;

2

Dantal

the Island,

grief, he threw himself into the clothes Wars and the sands of time sea which is now known as the had brought this once-great Acgean Sea, In his memory. city to

endt, And what caused the wars?

נן

SECRET SORROW

ACCORDING

ELMU

AND WHAT of King Minos? Beause the Greekt prisoners had escaped frem the labyrinth, he imprisoned the architect who built it and his son,

то legend

FO

But this clever architect, from Greek mythology, it all Daedalus, made wings of wax King for numself and his son, Icarus, about because Minu son was fine athlete and they escaped their fate, aug others were jealous of his honoura,

top

however, Icarus,

ficw near the sun, a wings melted and he fell into the sea.

Daedalus

landed safely in

On this throne made of solid plene at King Minos, who loved his wife and children; his son, Androgcas, and his beau- Sicily. litul daughter, Adriadne. Hv King Minos, hearing this. ruled well, and was loved by came to Sicily to claim his pri his people.

sener But the king of that

But King Minos and his wife country had King Minos put to had a secret sorrow, Into this death in a belling cauldron.

family had been born a crea- ture with a human body but a head resembling a buli's and an animal-like appetite,

SINCE

מס

myth,

^

in 1849, when

disease:

that could not collect

WHAT IS THE WORLD

COMING

TO?

dir, mud, pieces of paper, and even small dead animals as the women's trailing dresses CLT~ | tally did in those days,

Jack Straw's Friends

-It Wasn't Odd for a Scarecrow to Know Them

By MAX TRELL

PICKI POO, the Brown Poodle,

to the shadow children with the turned-about nor.19: "I've been invited to go visiting

friend with a good

of mine.. We're going tonight as soon as everyone in the house is asleep. If you'd like to come along with us, you're invited."

asked.

19 your friend?" Knarf

Jack Straw,".

"His name is

cald Picki.

He's only

a

"Jaciz Strawi scarecrow!"

"That's right" agreed Picki Poo.

Stuffed With Straw

“Scarecrows can't go visiting,** said Knarf. "He's stuck on a pole. He's just a vult et old clothes stuffed with straw."

The Shadows and Picki naw Jack Straw through the window.

We'll

"My friend Chief Moonbeam "Never mind about what he's livce in front of a cigar store," stuffed with," Bald Pleki. "Jack

suid Jack. "It's right at the end Strew can walk as well as of this street. Come

along body. Just you wait and see!" midnight when Knart. Hand eiger store at the end of the

Sure enough, in and Picki Poo beard a tap-top-street, they found Chief Moon- tap on the window pane.

beam. It was Jack, Straw tepping on feathers in his hair and a torna- He was standing with

1

must have been a little past be thero in a rant of the

the glass with a. small piece of

stick.

hawk in his hand.

"He's a wooden Indian!" said

"Here I am. folks," ho ald Knarf. "Let's go visiuna!"

to

MERELY A MYTH?

THE discovery of Ashamed of this wild of Cnousus, with its labyrinth, this In those days it was to poor spring, the king had the loby- story is

som laste to even admit that women credited with rinth built to hide this Mino- measure of truth, instead of had legs. To display legs un tour, as the monster was called. being

merely regarded as

the street was as shocking then as it would be for a dignified The labyrinth was a sort of

woman of today to do cart maze, a system of corridors go-- Some day, when you visit | wheels and back flys at a busy Ing in different directions and these ruins, you can sit on the intersection.

different. levels. The oldest known existing throne. entrance was closely guarded. There you can thinit of that But Mrs Bloomer wanted to

'It réelly wasn't so odd, when time, long ago, when Chossus prove her point.

Knart and Pick! Poo both But the king was proud of his was an important city, ruled by Don, Androgents, who excellet King Minos from this very

So she went out in the street hurried outside. Hanid decided you come to think about it, that a Scarcerow ́ like "Jacle. Straw in athletics. This young Prince throne.

stay at home. wearing a costume consisting of Jack seemed to have no should have a Wooden. Indian went Athens to compete in the athicle contest,

Meanwhile, you can discover a short jacko, a short skirt and trouble walking. In fact, he like Chier Moonbeam or a He ceived the highest honours.

like underneath the skirt, a pair of danced along and now and then many fascinating stories this by asking your librarian Turkish trousers gathered at the (when the wind blew hard) he

Wooden Face onkle by an elastic.

just Boated in the air, over This Q

enraged the Jealous for a book of Green mythology.

bad Many, like this one, have been Cortainly this costume allow feneco and high garden walls, King of Athens that lin

didn't say brooks found to contain an element ofed for more frotdom than the cross

and Prince Androgēns assassinated.

In fi, he didn't say truth, as archaeologists, continue whale-isone coracis and sweep- Knarf and Picki Poo had quite anything! He just grunted: But His heartbroken father, King to dig into the past and ing skirts of 1849. But the a job keeping up with him.. Minos, made war on the Greeks scrutinise their. Andings..

public was shocked. People in revenge, And 15 further punishment, every year (OF every three or nine years, ac- cording to same versions of the send to Minos seven youths and ||story), Athenians had to

seven maldens, They were im- prisoned ' in 'tha. · labyrinth, where they were, devoured by the Minotaur.

the

ROYAL VICTIM

wak

AFTER Tins tribute paid several times, Thesous, the sort of the king who had killed Prineo Androgens, offered: `bim» self as a victim,

When ho was brought before King Minos, he fell in love with that" ruler's, doughter, Adriadno Together, the young couple ploited how they could JMAYA the helpless Greekrivenery from the Minotaur.qdnerally the princess accompanied UN prisoners into the Labyrinth,

Rupert and the Windy Day-38

Willima ngabeh with 5 hús eyes? Before Ruper can answer Almost starting our of his head an him Willie gazed past him with A Hupert, drags Himself jour on to scared expression. Her who's the arkisto, how glad I'ma that you're talking to 2-0, Where, bata bes you l: he exclaimes, I'vatoare we ?”, a, voice from under the been lost, and shouted to help ground sounds near. Then, the it and now yoused.come popping out lead and shoulders of the man: of the ground. How did you do appaat coming from the passage,,

MELD KIGHTS (ZIRAVED

friend.

Chief Moonbeam

ditches:. much.

he was pleased to have visitors Just the same. He Had o anilo on his bronzed wooden face and

he waved his wooden tomahawk, Defore the night was over,

Main Stroot "Whom are we going to visit?" Knart finally asked as they crossed the railroad tracks (Jack Kmart and Pleki viited more of just leaped across them!) and Jack Straw's friends

The began walking up, the main Horses were severat Wooded

street of the town.

Wooden

And

Wooden

Zebra.

No one else was about, for by: Elephant and a now it was really lato and not a They were all Merry-Go-Round single light was burning in any animals, of the houses,

Just before the sun came up, they visited a lady pouring Jack asid: "We're going to water into a fountain. Slib was visit my friend, Chief Moon made of stone. She was a beam"

statucuma plug

*ur don't

know her name" said Chlef Mooreumi, That's an Indian name!" Knart exclaimed sök Straw as they afted back home, but I like her very much. In astonishment.

She likes me, too. She always walls for me at the doulour

"I hope you'll let us friends will your braing Khart

t

coutre It law sald Jack, "My friend Chief Moonbeam. Įs carlainly an Indiar. He's never been shything elte. He's on in gold to Jack, "We're very Lönd dian through and throughi" of Chief Morbium lates But where does the live?. "Certainly¦dlá fecis There aren't any more-Indiana, «And he went biling "In this town,” mid Pickt Poo, ** bien, on his long