1957-03-23 — Page 18

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1957.

FEATURES FOR BOYS

AND GIRLS *

YOUR PUZZLE Exciting And BLOODLESS DO YOU HAVE A WANDERLUST

CORNER

CROSSWORD

HIDDEN ANIMALS

Can

Cal Cartoonist

has placed An animal is concealed in today's crossword puzzle on the tach of these sentences, silhouette of an animal to dress you find them? It up a bit:

2

They tried to catch the bun at “ta"next stop.

Slam! Baagt The children raced through the house.

The Afab bit into the bread, Up, up, soared the balloon!

MIXED-UP ANIMALS

Each of these strange lines is on animal, as you will And when you rearrange the letters,

REAT POLE

ERN PATH JRED ERNE

SHORES

A

Bullfighting In Portugal

LOT of people find it hard to think kindly of the Spanish sport of bull- Aghting. Yet many visitors to Mexico or Spain any 'they enn see how even so cruel a sport gains 'devotees,

The prople of Portugal have loved bullfights since before the end of the 19th century and yet they are a notably humano race. So

they managed to have their ANIMAL REBUS cake and eat it, too, by in- By using the words and pic-venting absolutely bloodless tures to fullest advantage, you bullfights. Passage between sent rows soon will and the four anirisola

hidden in this rebus:

ACROSS

1 Another name

for

this

puzzle's silhouette,

11

7

Hear view (ab.)

#

Musleal note

At no time

Bravenly bodies

Farm bulldings

Sicker

DOWN

#

2

Fasting device

A

We

5

Aspoches

10

Virginia (ab.)

DIAMOND

31

The Puzzleman has

word

PANTHER,

diamond

centred

ол

A

The second word

I" Philippine peasant

third

"colours lightly: Afth "nddi- tional"; and alxth "an Indian

weight. Finish the diamond.

P

N

PANTHER

HAM

R

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+A+

++

(Bolations on l'ace 20)

+

T

DILL

New this month!

DINKY TOYE NO. 113

Bristol 173 Helicopter The original of this fine model is a 14-seater, twin- engined helicopter with two 3-blade main rotors in tandem, and hia a range of about 200 miles at a speed of 85 m.p.h. The fuselage of the model measures 34 in. in length, and is enamelled to light blue sad" 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 an accurately-modelled ministure finishedingreen with driver in racing kit

Overall length 34′′

Keep on collecting

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A young British embassy attache in the 1880's de- scribed one as "a delightful spectacle of horsemanship and skill,"

The bull's horns, he wrote, were padded and covered with Iather. The picadores rode nne, well-tuned horses, They them

in purple velvet and wore large white wigs

In Portugal, the bull is fought from horseback.

gathered up the change and cigarettes, there followest the most remarkable example of the

pudo's skill,

1

A

TOO, MR OPUSSUM?

NURSERYMAN who conducted his business

on the outskirts of a city in America was surprised one spring day when he saw a skunk digging energetically about his nursery grounds.

Being an animal lover, tho nurseryman did not run for his shotgun and take aim. He let the skunk continue with his digging.

THE GOOD skunk

Some weeks later, when other nearby grounds had been com- pletely destroyed by the Japanese beetle, this nurseryman's trees were growing splendidly,

A checkup with the State Agricultural Station proved that okunks are especially fond of quarters, quite fit to fight anecating the Japanese beetle grub.

Without any

doubt, it was this other day.

saved the Not every

bull test the ring skunk who had with honour, though. If he nurseryman's stock.

Mr Marling is a proved

lazy or lacking in the

nian who lives in will to fight, he was visited by orange-clad "men of strength" who hurled themselves upon the cowardly benet and hustled him

a commitice of eight searjet and

Taking up one of the hals, he glanced into the upper galleries from whence all the hats corne) until a hand was raised by its owner. With the skill of a card sailing magician the espada gave zelves were outlandishty dressed atual flick and the hat few ignominiously from the ring.

tmerringly to the owner's hand, This Portuguese style bull- The feat was repeated until night was and still is a colourful all the hats were gone; often a

and rewarding sport for specia hundred hats

returned tors were

and all participants-in- with unfailing necuracy.

cluding the bull And Spanish After his imaginary slaughter, contempt for such "sissy lights" the bull trotted off in state with doesn't bother the kind-hearted

escort of some twenty gaily Portuguese a bit.

Ho Caparisoned tamo bullocks, retired to

THE METADOR'S

"DEATH THRUST”

They performed all the usual dulles of picadores, but their fear of the buil was for ridicule rather than danger. If one of them allowed the bull's padded horns to so much as graze him or even his horse, he was loudly histed by the crowd.

The espadu

Armed

was

or matador only with n wooden sword with which he tund to nake a skilful "death thrust" to the nork of the bull. The Cager crowd could detect the

lest deviation from the fatal spot and wie quick to hiss the unsuccessful fighter out of the ring.

The skilful thrust to the exact spot, however, brought thunder-

ous applause and a perfect ruin

i

the comfort of his

-BILL ARTER

A 105-day Hike To Celebrate His

Seventieth Birthday!

great walkers

of small change, cigarettes and Englishmen.

hats into the ring. The espada

They excelled

at

This opossum did some nighttime shopping at an Ohlo dime viore, Owner found him cuudjes in the plasties department,

But when the story of the Ohlo suburb. He and his wife wore eating breakfast one late horses appeared in the local

when autumn morning

they newspaper, It brought a prompt call from a farmer who lived a looked out of their window and two horses moving com-

mile from the Martings. The saw tentedly about their grounds. horses belonged to him and they had simply wandered through In unrepaired an opening in fence and gone rourning.

The grandparents of 11-year- old Jay Campau of Saginaw, Mich., received the shock of their lives when Jay returned from a walk in the woods with

300-pound

bear trotting placidly behind him.

Frantic telephone calls to real estate nearby riding schools revealed * pleasant no lost horats.

Books That Solve

Boys' Problems In Lively Action

B solve

EL

OOKS for boys must Mission to the Moon, by Lester Del Ray... from the first boy's

the I plan space station, problems in lively action. frst trip to the moon; The AD This ItsL should appeal paloosa Curec, by James Robert mostly to the menfolks but Richard adventure with the if they put the books down, rare spotted horses bred by Nuz

Paroc Indians; and just

for sisters and girl friends will laughs, Captain Kidd's Cat, by be sure to pick them up and Robert Lawson ... "My master start reading.

a pirate? Nonsense!"

dog

Operation ABC, by James 5. Summers concems Tom Roer- don, who stars in football and sweats in English. Tom

could RIGINALLY al} the marathon- of continuous barely read, so how could be were walking. This was during ever graduate from high school? Engine Company 21, two the 1880-1870 period when young toughs, a boy who wants road professional walking and to

And a be a fireman

excitement in Midnight Alarm. Rechnitzer. Where's F.E. the fire?

Wonderful Good Neighbours, But then an

by Ruth Helm, tells how a city named Edward Payson boy finally aces some good in Weston became the greatest country life afd learns to like long-distance walker of the

registered exquisite pleasure 28 walking, and the best hikers foot racing were in vogue named Smokey make plenty of

he took how after bow.

Then as

two lads, replicas averaged more than fifty on both sides of the Atlan-excitem dressed exactly like the espada, miles a day in a two-week tic.

HANGERS HAVE

ARTISTIC POSSIBILITIES

COAT HANGERS CAN BE USED TO HANG OTHER THINGS BESIDES CLOTHES – TRY

THESE

3,

2.

era

American

and outdid the Bri- tishers at their own game.

His first hike was to see Lincoln inaugurated. walked from Boston

He

to

Washington-a distance of 478 miles in ten consecu- tive days.

**

On the open road, at dis- tances of four or five hun- dred miles and upwards, he had no equal. In 1867 ha walked from Portland, Maine, to Chicago in twenty-six days.

by

ness

BOOKS

for

BOYS

nese occupatio keep any res of his chair.

It is difficult now to belleve that heel-and-toe walking races were once so popular in the states that crowds jummed Gll- mor's Garden (the forerunner of Madison Square Garden) to watch then plod along for hours LG In this unnatural galt,

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"Don't be afraid," Jay called out happily, "this bear's tame she dances."

THE DANCING BEAR

And indeed she did, for she was a bear who had run away from a nearby game ranch.

One winter night Virginia

Hives Edwards, who

in New

Haven, Conn, found a beady- eyed, tull-grown opossum in the dog house of her back yard. She took the animal to the live- animal zoo of the local muscum where the roving opossum found

good home,

Animals, like people, ofter feel the need of a change, 60 they wander from their native

habitats to new surroundings. Keep a sharp lookout. You never know when a four-footed visitor -LEE PRIESTLEY may come your way.

Old-Fashioned Town

-There Was Nothing New About It At Alla

By MAX TRELL

ENERAL Tin, the tin soldier, U climbed on the back of Whoa, the hobby horse. Then he lifted Knarf and Hanld, the shadow children with the turned-about

the names, on saddle behind him. The next minute they started off.

Whoa galloped straight through the little door behind

the book-case (which no one else in the house know about) and there they were, racing down a lovely, treelined road

in a faraway land, It was night, but the sun was still shining.

"General Tin," said Hanid, after they had ridden about u mile or so, "where aro going?"

Old-Fashioned Town

We

"Quite far," replied General Tin. "But," he added wh smile, "it won't take us long to

"Five o'clock and all is weli,"

wald the Town Orler.

"There aren't any motor care here either, my dear, This la o very old-fashioned town. But look at this old man coming toward us!"

It was an old man with a

"plain got there, We're going to a bell. He stopped in the square

place

called, Old-Fashioned and rang it several times.

"Five o'clock Five o'clock.......... Knatf and Hanid had never and all is weill"

Town

His most remarkable feat and respect the Amish was his 105-day hike from people."

Fighting hunger, homeless-Town." New York to San Francisco

and constant danger, 16 ia celebration of his

refugee boys unite To Beat the been to. Old-Fashioned seventieth birthday.

Tirer. by Elizabeth Forman betere and they were very "I know who ho fal" Hanld what tools said to General Tin. "He's the Lewis. Based on true Incidents curious to know

Shanghai during the Japa place there.

But General Tin Town Crict!"

when this book will simply said: "You'll see

"Yes," sald General Tin. "Ho on the edge you get there,"

They rodo little longer, calls out the time, That's Ever see a rhinosaur? Or an Finally they went around a turn because there aren't very many In Venus Boy, by in the road and there they persons in Old-Fashioned Town Johnny and his were, in front of Old-Fashioned who have clocks or watches, It friend,

it weren't for the Town Crier Baba,

tangle with fear-Town! Walking events are still on ful Venusian jungle animals to It was just turning evening they wouldn't know the time."

and the first thing they noticed Fasten your "coat-hanger de the Olympic programme, but save the Earth colony.

Quaintly Dressad have long since

Other adventure books boys was a man going around light- sign securely to the wall with they

ilko include Where the ing the street lamps, picture hangers, using more dropped as an intercollegiate

Then General Tin brought Condor Nesta, by Charles Mi- "There aren't any gera?

electric at the top. Pleture event,

Here they chael Daugherty...Inen troos lights in Old-Fashioned Town, them into a house.

met some of the children, of Try a little experiment- hangers come in different sizes,

ure and photography in Peru; explained General Tin.

Old-Fashioned Town, who were Cold Hazard, by Richard

"Look at all the horses and dressed very quaintly, like the ing with them. You will and used at points where wire.

crosses, they prevent wobbil-

Runners soon see how many possi- ness.

era were Armstrong

in the carriages!" Hanid cried the next children in very old pictures. bilition they have for hang-

called pedestrians, or "pedis," North Atlantic in a jifd boat; moment. What will you suspend from | One of America's' fleotest peds ing amall objecta.

your new wall gadget?

in tho 1840' was -William Jackson, who was known as the American Door. Ho fessionally rated as a "ton- millor," and enjoyed great popu- arity both in the United States and in Englaniji,

HAY

AVE you a collection of black wire coat han

than on

It depends on where it is used informal living room, hall, As an ivy trainer (Figure dos, bedroom, kitchen or bath. 2) these hangers can be It's even artistic on a wall back paired in B number of of a patio.

of that

been

will

was pro-

The pods were a colourful lot.

attractive arrangements. Tie Ferns and trolling vines are them firmly together with well adapted to these dainty with each one wearing his own fine wire at any point neces- wire hangers. Your favourite

steins pr sary to hold the design in collections of cups,

pitchers can be shown off upon position.

them.

In some cases you may decide to keep them firmly

bound by winding them If they are not hung on the. tightly with coloured raffin handle of the hanger, tie them (Figrao 8).

Or perhaps on dryly with ribbon, velvet or you'd prefer guy woollen a

yarn.

Perhaps you'll decide to hang It is effective to siames them holders, towels or neckties upon while, or a colour" to match your oów gadget, Howor, pots, or to contrast with Whatayer you want to die the wall upon which they phe play, dream up a design to a bung.

colours as jockeys do today.

One pad always wore a green shirt, blue broechos and white stockings. Another wore a mult of white silk with red belt and pink slippers.

Deprfoot, the Boneco Indian, was always cind in bepochalput and moccasins, with a colourd feather in his hair.

Fun-

Besides these distance news, there were also sprinters. But other organleod matur sports came into being in largo cition attor 1870. And soon pros. fost goal foot racing became a thing at the past.

adrift

Rupert and the Rock Pool-4

Rupert gets more and more excited as the sea comes in sight, and for about half a mile the train rung near the shore.. As he is watching the waves and magulls soothing Stahes past the window and is gone before he can get a proper sabe of k, Thai waka't

à seagull,” hi crise. ** It wasn't a bird at all, it was 'a' greenish- colour. I say. Mummy,, do you think it could have bośñ' a flying 6517**** Tam. Le not very likely," alea Mes, Bear**Bot you never know whne, you may 1998 kt khu mentida. Lake Manda fi

Instead of listening to a radio, they listened to a tiny""musle box which made sounds like Bttle tinkling bells.

Instead of writing with pens ruch as we have, they wrolo with quilla or feathers with sharperiod ends,

They had never heard of amp- planes, television, motor cars or telephones.

But they went to school and (they - rend books. The little girls had dolls to play with and the boys had tops to spin. And above all, they scenes quite happy.

Knarf and Hanid: enjoyed their trip to Old-Fashioned Town very much. They invited the children to come and visit them some day de

"We live in Now-Fashioned Town' sold Hanid, "You'j'bo surprised at some of the thing we have!".

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