1957-04-06 — Page 18

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1957.

FEATURES FOR

BOYS

AND GIRLS ***

YOUR PUZZLE CLEANSING POWDER HAS It Doesn't Cost Much To

CORNER A FASCINATING

1 Eneny

4 Raves

CROSSWORD

ACROSS

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7 Qualifter

9

Schools

study

TRIANGLE

have COURSES of

By IDA SMITH

and the Puzzleman has TEARLY every object By four-wheel-drive vehicles,

hd his word triangle on this fact. The reconci word La

NR we the

"thus": third "an Afrkean ente has a fascinating history if tope"; fourth "row"; fifth "de-wo could trace it back. naies": Fan! sixth "a sudden Take cleansing powder, for exhalation of wir trough the

instance, the white powder hase."

or cake that we use for cleaning windows, pans, sinks, etc.

was obtained

and laid out their claim, Later

Patent to it from the government.

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13

A ground crew was then sent in to blast the pegmatite open asressinent work re- and do quired by the government to hold the mining claim,

Eventually tho teldepar

to the company's fac- shippa! The base material used tory where it will be pulverised for making it was first and mixed with a special soup convert 11 to manufactured by nature ingredient to PICTURE WORD SQUARE deep down in the earth. It cleansing powder.

VALUABLE LITHIA is fine block feldspar, a mineral.

E

COURSES

Ua 14 four-letter wargi tn describe encli of the pictures. When finished, yo'li ŋnd Your

The only place this answer reads the same down as material can be found is in

pegmatites.

nero:

EIRE

10 Elber

11 Bom

13 Wor

14 Play host

1 Ingeet

I Distan

DOWN

2 Propovition

3 Grek letter

4 Set anew, as gem

Pastime

Wron long

B Alt

Attempt

12 Age

13 Féline animal

Half an em

ADD AND SCRAMBLE

Adiletter to "a přepted – trum" cramble or a body of water"; Add another

and wimble the "a chair"; re- peat and have

stance", repent and

deflente colour hate": ɑner inore and have "a stapling machino,“

(Solutions on Page 201

I'M GOING

TO READ

lelty sub-

have

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THIS TONIGHT

LIKE TO

SING

THIS ARIA

New this month!

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Overall length 31′′

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DINKY TOYS

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MINERALS

Some of the pegmatites in San Domingo Wash contain Thezo valuable lithia minerals, are used in the manufacture of and the hydrogen

A pegmatite was once a hla BAA Flow of hot, melted mugma bomb, Also fine bismuth min- ured in medicine are (rocks and minerals in the crals

found there. melled state) deep in the

In the pleacho View petma- earth. It pushed up toward tite, however, feldspar pre- earth's surface through a dominnies, fissure, or crack, and cooled the sur- before it reached face.

ACTION BY WIND

AND RAIN

Many of these hardened peg- matites have been uncovered by of wind the action

and rain. Ufhin they contain many kinds minerals and

4400-

til tent comclimes gemstones,

But those that contain les of fine bluck tidspar are the one that are valuable 10 the cleaning powder inanufac-

rers,

nome

Д

-030

Is the Feldspor

of

that large family of minerals together make up about CO% of the curth's crust. Through

grological movements and sion over millions of year, they been broken up and scat- tered over earth.

The particular kind of feld- spar used in making cleansing powder 13 called microcline-ar-

Avullable concentra- thuelase, tions of this are found only in pegmatites.

tive

You may SONTIC day study about these rocks in geology. LEADS TO A DIM

OLD TRAIL

There are ofter located first from the air, as their whitish

The

hard-to- rough and darker and colour stands out amid

road that leads to the Pl- in cacho surroundings.

View Claim follows Onu

the

finest deposit part a dim trail that once led San Domingo Wasli ira to un old stiver mine. And in Central Ariumi. IL is called places it follows an old, carly- the Pleacho View Claim, be day stage route from ivicken- cutuse mountain called the burg to Morristown. White Picacho Peak and un- ather called the Red Plcucho Peak loum bigh to the northeast

Lae claim,

THE OLD TIME

PROSPECTOR

About ten miles northeast of the Claim in Buckthorn Springs, an isointed and spectacular spot that was once a hideout for out- Jaws.

that the

Today it is only by tour- wheel-drive truck Claim can be reached, because pegmatite

some of the road follows the aeroplane middle of San Domingo Wash Whitney and Ben and is a candy creek bed,

Whitney waS

Along the banks

Palo

The Picacho View was located from an by Roscoe J. Humphreys. Mr

are chief prospector at the time for Verde and Mesquite Lees a New Hampshire mining com- mingled with cacti and other pany which does prospecting desert shrubs. One hears the for a soap company. Ben Hum- odd volcer of

of the cactus wren phreys is an old time Arizona and, wherever there is

u trickio prospector and gulde,

of water, the coll of the killdeer, After a wet winter the hillsides are covered with desert flowers beautiful mariposa including lulics,

A road to the big pegmatite was mapped from the air. Then a bulldozer was sent in to blaze the road through,

A Glance At Table

"Manners" Before Forks

IF

Were In General Use

TF we were to see someone eating with his fingers and wiping them on the tablecloth, we'd be shocked ut his bad table manners.

Yet in earlier times, even kings ate that way. It was the cualom.

In primitive times there was no table. At mealtime, 1hc family sat on the ground and ate from the one large bowl or cook- ing pot.

civilisation As

progressed, plain board tables were made. Sometimes

these tables had grooves cut into them at ench

the person's place, so wooden plate would not slide about.

square

Later, tablecloths were used, but even then, there werO TKO forks or rapidne. Fingers were used and then wiped on tho o'oth.

TRULY OUR COOK DOTH DISH

LIP A TASTY

MEAL!

was

later. They were not in general the 17th century, The quality of the cloth made use until

time America about the no difference. This was, the fate of ven a royal damask settled. cloth, made in Damascus, Sysia, the finest linens weTÓ

IN VOGUE

where made.

And

HISTORY Be An Amateur Aquarist

To break up the feldspar rock into transportable picoes, hotes are drilled into it; then the holes are packed with dynamite,

This worker is hoeing feldspar from a storage bin onto a mechanical conveyor which will take it to a weigh car hopper.

Dig This Pasture...

A

It's A Real Mine

BOUT 60 MILES south-

west of Hot Springs, Ark., is the richest cow You U.S. pasture in the won't find any cattle there, not even a herd of Ozark goats.

But you might find some- thing else. The very utter- ance of the word is magic. Diamonds!

No, we're not kidding. For on this 60-acre tract near the sleepy litle Arkansas town of Murfreesboro, is the only true alamond mine this side

of. Africa. Some of the finest dla- monds in the world has been taken from the black, shy gumbo of this cow pasture,

DIAMONDS WERE A RIGHT EXPENSIVE DIET

FOR US

cons

One of them, for instance, a foreign countries have hunted cow rich mocha-coloured stone, is a diamonds in this famous treasured possession of ex-pasture. President Trumman.

THERE

HERE'S nothing flahy about the fact that amateur aquarists have doubled in the last ton years. Today it is common for a home to bonst a tropical fish population of two dozen or more colourful members.

If you are interested in a pet that will not chow up your comic boolus or claw the 11p- holstery meet. Mrs Guppy.

This my little mother is a favourite among newcomers 10 the hobby- because she is Tugged She asks little more than a sprinkle of tropical fish road once a day, a tank of "nged water" ond 2 warm location,

In return, she will teach you a great deal about underwater She will produce from 12 itte

to 40 babies every 35 days, She will omuse you endlessly by darting across her home in great hurry to get nowhere.

Cupples enjoy each company, so it is best to pur- chato a pair. The malo fish is much more colourful than his drab little mate,

other'a

IM MR. G. THE GLAMOROUS MEMBER OF THE

QUPPY FAMILY-

she must be removed from the tanic, If not, she will cat her own bables. (This is a habit most species of common to tropical fish.)

of

To launch upon the sens tropical fish keeping, it is wise

to get a book on this subject first; it will give you a lot of valuable information.

You will need the following supplies to set up and maintain your aquarium:

No two males are exactly One tank (five gallons is a

allice.

Some have black spots

you to add to your collection).

on the tall, others on the body. Practical size and will permit The shape of the tail vorice from a little wisp of transparent membrane to graceful fan.

almost 1008

Five gravel,

pounds of aquarium

Several plants; Vallesneria,

Al maturity, the malo is about a rapid growing water plant, Is inexpensive and hardy, This an inch long. The temalo muy provides cover for young fish LTOW to a length of nearly 11⁄2 and adds beauty to your tank. inches.

Net. New born babies are so tiny and move her to another jar. To catch Mrs Guppy that they appear as a longth o The other jar may be a galion thread with two large round dots

for eyes.

But these amazing jug with a wide mouth. Bittle LACHİLLETİS reach

You may want to enlarge the

full

maturity in only three months hobby later, but you can keep

and soon begin to broast.

Immediately after EL mother guppy has produced her young,

a very interesting aquarium at a modest investment,

-GLORIA WHORTON

A Talented Cricket

-He Never Had to Take a Music Lesson

By MAX TRELL

HANID, the shadow girl with the bone, suit

to

down next

Christopher Cricket under the fence in the garden.

Christopher was tuning up his guitar and getting ready to sing. After watching him for a moment of two, Hardd asked him what song he was going to sing.

"Well," said Christopher, Jay- ing his guitar across his knee, "I don't rightly know which one It will be. It's always been hard in know which song to sing Arst."

"What songs have you got?" asked Hanid "Maybe I can de- elde for you."

"I've got a song 'Patter-Patler Raindrops."'

Nico Song

called,

"That's a nice song," said Hanid. "Why don't you begh with 11p"

"What songs have you got?" Habid asked Christopher.

Christopher shook his head. "Robins sing their own songs. I couldn't sing any song nearly as nice as the ones they can sing themselves. I can't sing songs about Frogs, either, or about Whippoorwille or about Katy- dids or Katy-didn'ts because they all sing their own songs, too. So I guess the only song I can sing firet is the tuning-up song." Hanid, "What's that?"

"The tuning-up song?" asked

"I just sit over my knco

Christopher Little Sunbeams Dancing In The Band I keep plucking the strings Air Only it's evening now and there aren't any sunbeams. So plik, plik, plik, It isn't that's not the right song to start really a song and yet it is. Be

cause by and by I start put- with, either.".

ting words to the "The moon is shining," said plük, This is what Hanid. "Haven't you got a song about the moon?"

"I would," said Christopher, "only it's rot raining. I usually save that song to sing first on a rainy night. I've got an

Watch Tho other song called.

Why is this one spot in the entire U.S. producing diamonds? The U.S. Geological Survey

“Oh, yes," said Christopher Largest stone taken from this states the site is a kimberlite

"I've got

The cow pasture

a song called, to date welghed. roll of volcanic origin. Kim- 40.23 carats in the rough. Cut beriile crumbles when exposed Moon is Like a Ball of Honey and polished down to 14.34 car- to light and air. Diamonds are Only there isn't a full moon to ats, it has a value of US$75,000. found here in this kimberlite, night. It's only half a moon. I a black, ashy soll very much haven't got any song about the More than 10,000 stones have unlike the reddists clay found moon being like half a ball of been registered with the Ar- nearby.

honey. That would be silly."

"Sing a song about a fobin," kansas Department of Revenue,

GROVER BRINKMAN suggested Hanid,

all taken from this same field.

what about napkins? They were finally Invented to

It was back in 1000 that a preserve the tablecloths.

hill-man named John Wesloy The first type of napkin Huddleston Ued his mule to a called

This was milchrack at Murfreesboro and "Burnap." 0.23 extra large piece of fing As now, it was customary for

two odd-looking stones ho a lady to sit beside a gentlemannen which a servant brought went into a bank there to soll But then each to the jellig at the end of the called "di-minta

Another servant held a couple shared the same plate. silver bowl of water in which

The man generally carried the king would dip his eticky hunting knife in his belt,

Tesis fingers: before wiping them oo was used at the table for cutting the "surnap. the meat. He shared his knife,

nt the table.

or cut the lady's meat for här.

meal.

PRIDE "OF MONARCH

The bankers weren't con vinced, but agreed to send the stones on to New York for ap praisal. Imagine the "xxxplo

don" whom word came back that they were real, diamonds. It was impossible, folks mold there simply weren't any dit-

For ocnturica, there mannerR The guests were given small were in voguo.

towo's and a bowl of Walte was Then in the 11th century, - passed, Englishmory travelling through By the time of King Henry and found in the U.S.

Q

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Constantinoplo (now Istanbul VIII, everyone at the table bad Nevertheless, there WILE

brought bome the Turkey)

invřividual napicin and finger | mad rush for the cow pasture; newя that forka were being bowl.

Since then, this famous fold used at the tablo there. Uni This ruler, and his daughter, has been sold,” mortgaged, "ople this time, focks were used only Queen Elizabet

prided | toned, claimed and, asized, not In the flokh as working imple themetivos

modo ones but dozens of troos. There menis, or in the kitchen for grammid forks, with game or have been tolda over it, even handling the large meats.

Ivory handles. They also The English ridiculed this and monogrammed their nepicina,

avery state in did not nee, fork until msich

“T. BRUNSON the Uniów and from various

on their

People from

Rupert and the Rock Pool-16

Rupert has not lona, usatamine, cries "Stuffing the medal into his his beautiful, find before he neatly Jonait. Another Bylpi fish -Bashar part and matches the chain, **ku le passes him,, buy the links near his hand snap and he is left holding only the shining medsl What, la all this about 2,*, the

pocket be lonka, rostych izi zime› LG- see the flying, fishy, disappear over the last roell by the fing. Forget ting all about his ner he determinés.. to follow as fair, de he can though some of the rocks are wet sod.only lust out of the seas ́ ́

with

да

my guitar I'm doing explained,

puk,

Nover Learned

And Hanid listened. This is what she heard a Christopher played the tuning-up song his guitar.

Pilk. plik, pilic The lion says he's sick. Plik, plik, pūk,

¥

Get a doctor quick, Puk, pilk, plik,

The doctor takes a stick, And gives the Hon & lick Pük, plak, pilk."

on

"Tell me," said Hanid, when Christopher Cricket had fimia... ed, "how did you learn how to play the guitar?""

Christopher Cricket am

smiled "I JULL

taught myself," › said: """That's" one of the

things about being a cricket. You never have to tako musić) lessons. You just know, that's | #EL,"

"I wish I were a cricket,” sald Hanid, "and could play the guitar!

"I wish I were a little girl," akt Christopher Cricket,

Hand could listen to somebody playing, the guitar”

Than Hamid and Christophie Cricket both smiled at each other for they konw that they couldn't do any more chahring no matter how michi, they MEN ed. Christopher would balwKYÜ be a cricket andTMTM Haald would Falways be a. HUANG MITING

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