1957-03-16 — Page 18

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1967.

FEATURES

YOUR PUZZLE

the

CORNER

CROSSWORD

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MIX-UPS

Cartoonist Cal has lettered in Rearrange the letters in ench name of ROMANIA or these strange lines to find (Rumania) 10 give you some two facts about Rumania: help with the crossword puzzle; APART CHAIN UNIT MOANS AXE DIKE CHILL IN GEM

RO

MAN

ठ

AUROSB

1 Decay

4 Crafty

7 Pitch

B Pastry

# Ago

10 Even (poet.)

11 Male

12 Tree fuld

14 Small sment

17 Cloth measure

I A

18 Note in Guido's scale

19 Malt drink

20 Narrow Inlet

DOWN

Route (ab)

2 Rowing tool

3 Trend underfoot

User

Falsehood

Yearning (slang)

12 Ocean

13 Entire

13 Mohammedan name

10 Sheep's bleat

HOW TO

AMAZE

YOUR FRIENDS

{SURE, [CAN MAKE

THIS RED, YELLOW. AND BLUE CIRCLE

TURN WHITE.

HERE'S HOW

1.CUT OUT A CARDBOARD

CIRCLE ABOUT 3IN. ACROSS.

YELLOW

DIVIDE IT INTO

3 EQUAL PARTS

ON EACH SIDE.

2.PUNCH 2 SMALL

CODED MESSAGE

The Puzzleman has substitu!-

FOR

BOYS

AND GIRLS * * *

This story sounds fantastic, but it is purported to be TRUE

SHEIK RAFAI RABAI DELIVERS AN IMPORTANT LETTER

MATE sometimes

FA

plays peculiar tricks when it comes to timing, So it hap pened one day during World War I in 1915.

British forces, under the ed a simple code for The cor-leadership of the Egyptian rect Jetlers in his Bentenze Captain Čazal, were station? about Romania (Rumania). Aed them at an Isolated a clue, the fourth word 14 "population,"

fortress in the middle of the GP-jault pr Spabojb't Sinai Desert in Africa- qpqvmbulpo fohhh? Jo bhajde- scene of 1956 fighting. muysf boo tupdi-ab][joh,

RUMANIAN REBUS

I JUST HAVE ΤΟ

All that the soldiers could ree from every direction was hot, blistering sand which stretched to the horizon. The little garri- sen was also completely cut off from its supply depot. Food and water were almost gone.

from

the letter were true, the whole surtison would be saved!

The letter, though ancient, was plainly addressed to "Cap thin Cazul." It was written in

the meaning clear. It contained instructions hotes within safe distance of the fóri

French and

WIS

for Unding provisions and waist

Cazal Casoned that he hoa by testing the nothing to lose Recuracy of the information, Su he assigned a treep of men to obey the instructions of The letter and to follow the trail or a crude map.

They dug into the sands and

rocks under the

of the for where they found powder and water holes. They were saved! Captain Cazal summoned his "I want to talk with nider

the who brought his letter. Bring him here," he said. From a tent of a nearby tribe, the aldu brought a little wizened old man, as brown and wrin- kled as the letter. WRITTEN 116 YEARS

Use the words and pictures correctly and you'll have littla trouble Anding the

four facts

Behind the shekering dunes, About Rumania that the Puzzle-bogiile Arab chieftains met and man has hidden in his rebus;

planned. At some distance from the Arabs, German units awaited action.

Captain Cazal's stern order the British generala was to hold the dilapidated old for | of racks and stones at all cort,

The captain was proud of the record of his

Rol" courageou alers In battle. He also

Hla name had

Wan Sheik Rata an affection for them as men. Rabat, lic held out his hand in All of them were aware of the greeting, blinked his eye, and. their position, in a vofoe shaky with age, he hopelessness of but no one complained.

said, "I've been waning so may ka On that eventful day, while you for a long, long time."

is

ket HAY

EU

+

SUGAR

DIAMOND

REST:

The Puzzlemun hos centred his word diamond on ROMANIA (Rumania). The second word "a diamond-cutter's cup"; third "cupolas Afth "hoogs": and sixth

nickname for "sister." Finish the diamond;

R

O

M

ROMANIA

A

(Bolutions on Page 201

AGO BY AN EMPEROR

I'VE BEEN WAITING

A LONG TIME TO GIVE YOU

THAT MESSAGE!

HOW ROMANS DISCOVERED

SOAP

By LEE PRIESTLEY

WHEN the little group of WRoman housewives went

to the pool with their heaps of laundry that morning in the first century A.D., they clicked their tongues in dis- may. The goats had come to drink and the water was stirred and muddy.

"We shall have to do our washing in the creek that flows past the foot of Sapo

Bald Fill,"

one of the women. "There the water is clean and clear."

Another woman looked uncertainly at the nearby hill. On Its summit the | Roman priests offered sacri-

fices to the gods.

HOLY PLACE

THE does HAVE GIVEN

US A DIRT THAT MAKES CLOTHES WARTE}

Her friend, who Way of curious turn of mind, could not stop wondering why the strangu mey-grensy of

earth at the edga the cretk whitened the linens, She walked slowly up the hill, tracing the strange earth. It stemed to have wash- ed down the hill when rain fell on the altars at the top.

After a while she understood of the grey-greasy The sheik said he

was 131 was plain and legible. Sud-

"Perhaps we should not that more

earth was formed take our years old! When he was just a denly he remembered.

work Bo near a

afteringa 110 years boy,

ago, be

Captain had cestor of his, another

In that very holy place," she said doubt gods. When the bodies of the eived under a great Europeau Cazal, had served

erificiai animals were con- general who had held the Sinu! same are in an army under a fully.

sumed In the Names of tho Desert and defended i from foreign general.

uitars, melted fata mixed with via mies. One hundred sixteen

the wood ashes of the fires, of the years ago, the captain fortress had been low on sup-

Cazul paced the floor of his The captain base him beplies and that general had or

room trying to think of a sotu- tion to his grave problem, there came three quick taps at his door, "Come in," he Fold quietly,

THE GARRISON

WOULD BE SAVED!

The door opened and his aide, young Egyptian offer, a luted him ank handed him letter.

"Thla was brought to the fort This morning by an extremoly old native of a pro-British tribe. The insisted it is very im- portant," sald the alde as he deported.

Captain Cazal sat down at his utsk to read. He realised that getting a wrinkleft, brown lei. ter from a native tribesman

was definitely out of the ord nary pattern of desert routine,

When he had read the pas- sage, he sat for 10 minutes try- ing to digest the contents.

It seemed like a dream, for Information contained

the

mated and asked him about the dered young Sheik Rutul Rabál letter, He wanted to know the to deliver a letter to that cap- source of the information about lain. the hidden provisions, ammiant→ But he had been tion and wüler holes,

And therefore could not deliver the letter.

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AN Cazal Jeaned forward tensely. the old man told fantanilo and unbelievable htory. But fantaalla or not, he HAD to believe it. There was no other explanation for their good fortune.

SNOW

captured

An -

Her

the signatur "The gods

It couldn't be! Or could it? He examined on the letter more carefully. Then he looked at the face of

confused by age.

the old man whose mind was

But there could be no ques- tion about the had been tell- ing the truth.

That

The letter

British soldiers been

written

In In

saved the 1916 had

1700-and

However, he managed to kes, it all the rest of his life, hoping that some day he could put signed by NAPOLEON BONA-| into the rightful owner's hand. Captain Cazzl examined the letter again. His name

on L

PARTE!

-CLARA GRAMLING

WAS PRODUCED IN

LABORATORY

HIS

-twenty years after he got curious about his ice fishing hole

FINCENT J. Schaefer Buddenly decided he had to

getting see

for himself how ice fish through the crystals were formed.

ago when he

was simply ready to mice 30 years

HOLES INCH FROGS

FROGS MAKE FINE PETS

APART IN CENTER.

3.COLOR PARTS

WITH CRAYON OR PAINT.

4.CUT 2 STRINGS EACH 24 INCHES LONG... PUT ONE THROUGH EACH HOLE IN THE CIRCLE AND TIE THE ENDS

IN LOOPS.

LOOP

5.PUT INDEX FINGERS

THROUGH LOOPS...

TIGHTEN AND

LOOSEN TENSION ON STRINGS AND

MAKE CIRCLE WHIRL

FAST

THERE IT LAS TURNED "WHITE!

By IRMA HEGEL

FROGS ARE used for jumping contests are held,

and frogs are and exciting competitions Perhaps are, too. certainly welcomed in the thoy garden in the summer be these contests, more than cause they help keep down anyting else, have aroused the insects. But boys who boys' interest in acquiring find frogs during the vaca- a jumper of their own. tion days find another use for them-pets.

REQUIRES LITTLE CARE

Frog - jumping contests ure nothing new. Colonial records show that the red Indians held such contests,

the red ▲ However,

men

Surprisingly enough, frog makes an ideal pet. He staged them more as a race can be fed fish food and in- between a man and a frog. sects. Outside of fresh water in his aquarium. a rock to sun himself on, and occasional exercise, he re quires little care.

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One record describes special race between a brave and a bullfrog. A 40-yard distance was marked be- tween a starting point and a pond. The bullfrog was frog to have three jumps in ad- vance, the brave to follow.

So much was fair,

MODERN CONTESTS

That frogs give warts is superstitious, and no owner ever worries warts,

over

In many places during the warm months, frog-

[Z00'S WHO

THE ALLIGATOR PROG

LIVES IN SOUTHERN

GEORGIA AND

NORTHERN FLORIDA WHERE

IT IS

DIS- TINCTLY A SPECIES OF THE RIVERS AND CREEKS.IT NOT'

ONLY LIVES IN

FAIRLY CLOSE

ASSOCIATION WITH

THE ALLIGATOR, BUT IT HAS A

VOICE STRANGELY SIMILAR TO THAT HUGE REPTILE'S,

stockis

Fun

AVEECANSTING ONLY ONCE BE- CAUSE IT LOSES ITS STINGER, BUT WASPS, HORNETS AND YELLOW JACHETS

CAN GIVE REPCATED STINGS..

Confe

THE SMUNK AIDS MAN" BY DEVOURING VAST HORDES OF CUTWORMS, BEETLES, GRUBS AND OTHER CROP

RAYAGERS...

But one of the tribe struck the back of the frog with a hot stick. The frog leap ed 10 feet in the air, kept on leaping and completely vanquished, his human op- ponent.

MAD MIXUP

Boy admires champion Jumper,

Modern

contests are mor humane and sportsmanlike.

The frog you select will do- pend on where you live. Dif ferent varieiles of frogs are found all over the world.

No one, for instance, would want a plekerel frog, a three- Inch brown species which emits a disagreeablc odour.

The green frog would be a better choice because he is a handsome fellow, bright green spotted with black, They are found anywhere near water east of the Rockies,

The

TO CAPTURE IT-

.

bullfrog is the best jumper, if you are going in for contests. "He is green about)

mottled with black,

TROUBLE and Mind Your the head, with a brown body,

Town Business were good friends. One day Trouble got lost. Mind Your Own Business went to the police station for help in search of his friend.

Polleeman: What is your name?:

motywund six inches long,

though some boys have found bullfrogs measuring a good 10 inches.

Frogs are captured with a flashlight and a covered pall partially filled with water, fight is focussed on the frog. walle hoe blinded by the sude den illumination, he can be Answer: Mind Your Own seized and dropped Into the

pail

Busines

Policeman: What kind of bnswer is that? Are you look ing for trouble?

Answer: Yes

I you profor nature-study, try capturing a tadpole and watch him dovolop into a' frog in your own sequarium.

Today, with a handful of dry ice, he can "seed" an ordinary winter's cloud and cause a snowstorm.

It was not all as simple as it sounds, however,

Schaefer studied snow and ice formations for years before be found the answer in his laboratory at Schenectady, Now York. Snowflakes bad always fascinated him, but it took 20 years of experimenting to And the answer to how to make a snowstorm.

Firet he tried to "grow" ice a layer of crystals by coating plass with carbon molecules and placing this glass inside a deep freeze it. At minus 12 an grees Centigrade, he was able to produce a few crystals,

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friends shrugged. know that we must cleanse the linen. They really should help us with a very hard task " So they went to the creek.

when burnt were made to the

OTHER WAYS

Rains turned the ashes to lye, Then the tye mixed with the fats to form crude soaps thui wero carried down the hill by waler. The strange grey-greasy

the

creek that earth beside

Inundry so strangely garm his whitened

way

was the Arst crude soap..

There, as was their custom, they picked up handfuls of try soll from the creek bank and rubbed the solled briskly, It was the only they knew to scour off th** siains and grime.

After the discovery of soap by the women, other enterpris- But this soil did not Hot as

Romans worked out waya

seemed to foam a little, And the clothes rubbed with it grew, low and wood ashes

cleanser, They used gool tal- to make whiter and whiter,

other soll did. Surangely, I ing

10 manufacture this magical

The woman who had been

Боар.

*

up,

fearful said with awe in her Crudo factories grew voice, "The clothes grow while Soon Rome became a city noted s snow! The gods have (2- for its baths and cleanliness youred us!"

where soap was first common..

Blinky's Lost Kitchen

-Hunting For It Gave Three Friends An Appetite--

By MAX TRELL

“DLINKY MOLE'S д funny

"BLINKY

one." Knari, the shadow

boy with the turned-about name, remarked to his friend

Willy

Toad, who was sitting on toadstool, lazily snapping at Ales,

"Is he?" said Willy, "What's

so funny about him?

"Well,"

said Knar, as he leaned his elbows on the eige

pilot y un they located nice, pulty cloud.

Unfortunately he found that of the toadstool and looked up the cloud was 14,000 feet high, at Willy, for one thing Blinky and the plane could only go to is always losing things."

12,000.

But he doelded to throw some dry ice out anyway. When he did, the vapour changed to snow immediately.

He had made portant discovery,

1

another Im-

Pencils And Pins

They found the kettle bolling on the stove.

do you keep making new rooms?" Knart, asked. "Haven't you got enoguh al- ready?"

"You don't say," said Willy. "You mean he's always losing things like pencils and pins and I get more new rooms, I keep butions and handkerchiefs?"

forgetting where I left the old Knarf shook his head, "No, he ones. It's very confusing." Then he decided to drop the temperature lower with dry 100.

doesn't lose things like that at

Why all, Willy. He loses things like tastantly the moisture changed to cloud and at minus 35*

When dry fee is dropped into dining rooms and bedrooms and degrees,

formed the crystals

cloud of super-cooled drop-cellars. readily.

Willy suddenly stopped snap- "My rooms are more like un- lets--or even under ita chain Schaefer must have been very reaction occurs and in a twin- ping at flies and looked sharply derground gardens than regular

he just said kiing the vapour is condensed at Knarf,

rooms, sald Blinky, "Potatoes excited, though

of "I don't believe it," he said. and onions and the roots casually to some friends, "New Into billions of mow crystals.

know how to make it snow."

He found that rain could also Just then they heard loud grass and clover grow down he They watched as

leaned

and they're shout, Blinky Mole came run- be produced under speelal

from my celling over his deep-freeze unit and ennatatoes, but that is required|ning over. He was wearing quite plentant to nibble on.

gently. exhaled

There

was a clent whose top was below his dark glasses

And when I finish nibbling on Rothing to be seen.

freezing

I've lost it! I can't And them. I make myself other temperature. Precipi Then be look a rod which iation would start as snow and Have you seen it?"

rooms with upside down gardens had been dipped in liquid al turn to rain as it came down He started scampering all in the calling. and waved it through the box, through

lower around, poking his head in the "But I. know left that instantly a cloud bcgau to loveis

bushes and peering behind all kitchen of miric somewhere. form, and a shower- of thim- Some day it may be possible the trees,

Come, we'll all look for it mering crystals dropped to the to produce rain cheaply wher- "Here," said Willy, hopping together. Dear me! And I left ever it is needed. And it will off the toadstool "What have the kettle boiling on the stovel" bottom.

The next step was to try his all be because ond man. was you lost, Blinky?" method in the open in cold curious about his ice fishing "My kitchen," sold Blinky,

Dark Corridam weather. Taking off in a plane hole.

"I just started making my

Down one corridor and up an- from a local airport, he had his

when the doorbell --M. 5. SHELTON breakfast

rang. I ran to see who was other went Knarf and Willy and at the door. It was the mallman Blinky. The corridors, wound round, and crisa- with a letter, Then I went to round and

And they crossed each other, go back to My kitchen I

were pitch dark: Knart hold couldn't find it. It's lost!"

to Blinky's tail, and Willy held

to Kaart's band.

the

WRITEK,

Rupert and the Windy Day-44

no doubt we've found the very apot I've searched for." he smiles, "And to think it was found by

a baby elephant Ï...Î must meet him one day. But now we toda

At length Geoffrey sits down while the other explain, First Willie tells how his kitę dranked him across the water and dropped him on the irland before it Jon. Then Rupert described the. thrilling adventure, through the Ret out of hard.” He sees Quolleey, underground passages, and finally Rupert, and Willie into the boat, the big stranger chips in. "There's then rows them all to the časinidad. ÅLL ́BIGHTS ́SUMERVED

Blinky began running up and down again."

"But Blinky," said Kaart, "no one ever loses a kitchen!".

Blinky smiled, "Yes, yes, of course. No one over Jones kitchen-do one but me."

New Rooms

I

on

The real trouble was that Binky was

was terribly nearsighted and hardly knew where he was going himself.

But, though it didn't dem so at first, it was a lucky thing that Blinky had left the kettle

Blinky explained what usually boiling on the stove. For

once, they heard a faint whistle," happened.,

far, far off. So they followed "My house is different from the Bound, which grow louder other folks houses. My house and louder until at length, there is all underground."

It was the lost · Rlichen Wich "I know," said Knart, "but the kettle whistling mortily a what's that got to do with losing. It hubbled and boiled on tho

stova, your klich?"

"Well," said Blinky, "I'm al- They all enjoyed their break- ways, building new rooms in my fast, Hunting for Dilnky's Tout house. Or rather, I koop digging kitchen has given thờm in won- out now roome, And every time detful appetite,