" THE CHINA MAH, SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1957.
FEATURES
YOUR PUZZLE
CORNER
CROSSWORDS
14
ACROSS
Feline creature
4 Fir number
Betty residen
High cardi
10 Ea ver (ab.)
11 Army Reserve (ob.)
12 Lion's home
14 Foreign agent
I nee
17 American writer
DOWN
Fokiing bed
3 Article
3 Milk, coffee,
5 Sleeping place
G Exist:
Used on the head
Attempt
13 Short sleep
14 Her
10 Thos
The
SOUND ALIKES
Puzzleman's
words sound alike, but
differently.
are spelled good are you at finishing awilence?
TRIANGLE
FOR BOYS
A SCENE FROM THE PAST
AND
AMBER RIVALS SLAVE MARKET
661X7 AIT, Claudius!"
W Calus, the son of
Tiberius the tax collector, hihurried to catch up. "Why jaro you about so early in
the morning?"
The Puzziemian has used MARKET as the base for word triangle. The second word in "a musical noto": third vehicle"; fourth a bottle stop per"; and arth is "big." low rood are you at figuring out the trinngle from these clues
M
IL
K
E
MARKET
WORD' SQUARE
the same down as acTOSS:
"Augustus, he who sailed to trade with the yellow- haired mon of the north, has returned," Claudiua re- plied. "Today at the mar ket place he offers the finest of amber for sale."
"I doubt that he has any
When you rearrange the letto match the piece that ters each uy tu form Uncle Julius brought back Kond word and then rearrange) the rows of words correctly, on his last voyage. My you'll find your answer road uncle was in great need of one of those foreign slavca who can figure and write. But with the money he had set aside for purchasing the slave, he purchased the amber charm.
S
EENSS
Y
AES AELL Y
AOL NR
WORD CHAIN
Can you change a SICK per
LUCKY CHARM
"He swears
it was well worth the price, because it brought him home safely from Cairo, although the death-sickness claimed many of the men on board the ship." Cafus paused to tie his sandal more tightly.
"Yes, those number charms mburg en into a WELL perron in just
they six noves? Aller only one letter bring luck and protect one Horor at a time and make sure you from sorcery," agreed Clau-...
he have a good word each change.
If you're stumped, try chang-dius. "Father has gone to We liked to through the in: S to W. C to N, K to the market place. I believe
10 L. E to L, and then I to E.
he means to purchase one Solutions on Page 20)
to take with him when he
stricts of
JOHNNIE HOLDS ON TO THE SNAKE
TO PREVENT A TRAIN
8.4
engineer
A Johnnie Clark lived, he
never forgot the unwe-
that visitor
come
onco
Row-
got into his focomotive cab. A number of years ago he was bringing No. 11 down from Paris to land over the old Kentucky Central. Between Lancaster and Paint Lick there are tunnels in the remotest sec- tion of the mountains, and at their entrances amid tho high ledges and crags, there are snake dens a-plenty.
Tho swept into Jolonic longest of these tunnels, and then a the train flashed out again into the sunlight, ho saw u sight than would have made many men freeze in horror.
PRESENCE OF MIND
There, wriggling up there verse lever in the cub, wat a large rattlesnake!
Somehow the
Clark Jooked for his fireman, who was back in the tender. When he caught right of the rattler called around the ea gineer's arm, hơ turned white
a sheet and froze to the spot. The train was rolling down
CRASH
Now Juhande was ready to square accounts with his un welcome visitor. Quickly, with his left hand, ke opened a stop- cock. With his right hand he. . brought the rattlesnake's head into the scalding steam that poured forth.
Clark's hand was slightly bored, but he didn't mind.
The snake's body was taken to Cincinnati, where it was mounted and hung in the super- intendent's office. Haro Jotunde kept a souvenir, thougfight rattles, for a watch charm.
DO YOU KNOW
goes to Athens in a month's tions time.
A
new
Man gave this new produce the name of amber, because ho thought it resembled ambergʻik.
Ac always when product appears, it embarked
OUTLET, Our upen in exelting ancestors, generations ago, be- iloved amber had
to powers protect the wearer from danger of porcery or witchcraft, and to insure his good luck and good health.
A piece of amber in which n tiny insect was imbedded would bring an enormous price, much as a good-healthy slave," sald Pilny. So it is quite pos- sible that the story of Calus' uncle may have been true, and that man of wealth, like the father of Claudius, tlid carry araber charms for protoction from danger and intrigue when they travelled in foreign lands.
ONLY CLUES
GIRLS♫
ODD ANIMAL HAS INTERESTING CHARACTERISTICS
The Baby Platypus Is Like A Ball
Ilsby platypus barely covers a human hand.
ȚATURE has a collection minent characteriallo of the
the
Instead of using his money to buy a slavề, Julias brought a small piece of amber, which he carried as a charin.
rare that they are seldom As soon as the young are hatch-
ed they roll themselves into NOW, OUR kentists watch scen inside a zoo. One is the ball and sleep for a month thy knowledge?" asked for those bits of amber for a duckbilled platypus; there more,
other reason. We have little his father laughingly,
WELL MIGHT
The body of a the above knowledge of the plants of the are only a few of these odd
full-grown the great up-mammals in captivity. duckbill ja around twenty inches conversation have taken place world before
heaval.
Naturalista cay the duckbill long and is flat and oval; during Rome's early days, when
There are no written records is prized commercial
a survivor of the curliest hair is coarse and thick. umber, product, first appeared in the to help the scientists, no plc- types of animals on this earth. tures carved upon rocks for It is virtually a water animal market place.
them to transcribe: A tiny in-and makes its home in burrows What is amber?
oret, the lines of a body or a long wall streams in Austra wing, the pattern of a leaf or alia and New Guinea. One en- twig, hidden in the heart of a trance to the home of the duck
only clues. piece of amber-these are their bill is always under water; the other, on grassy land, if possible.
my
"He may even secure one for me, since soon I go to Athens to abady under the same Athenian who taught father. For myself, I should like one that holds the outline of a leaf. It would remind me of our vineyards that I hope father will let me manage on my return."
PRIZED PRODUCT
LL
'EXCITING HISTORY
no
trees was
the egg,
Other interesting character- istles of this cad animal ore its well-developed bill, its webbed feet, and a spear of horn cin önd hind foot,
Many thousands of years ago,
took great upheavals
place.
A polson gland grows on this When Rome was in her glory, New lands rose out of the sea.
*
spear and Ja
a part of the amber Was greatly coveted. Other lands sank beneath the
means of defence. Far back in the burrow is a animal's Wavсs, carrying with them Barbarians of the north must
attacked the duckbill have chuckled with glee at the nest carefully bedded with wild When trees that have strange
prices they received for those grass where the duckbill lays drives the horn into an enemy living descendants today.
and infects poison. blts of amber from the depths ita egEN
It is believed that of the Baltle Sea. Ships from
Webbed foroteat make the "Your books and your vine- The sap of those
The yard! I shall go into the army exceedingly rich in oll Ages the Mediterranean made regular which are less than one inch animal a good' ewtimener.
five powertul claws on the toon- as soon as my father consents, passed and the sap of the trees voyages to the Baltic to secure long, require no incubation or
The wood decayed. this prized commercial product. "getline" as the eggs of fowls are good for burrowing. They speak of another expedi- burdened.
They hatch almost imp The ducibili, like many other tion to the East. That, surely, Years after, fishermen of later
Today great quantities are do.
wild Cresturca, has cheek will mean rich spolis.
generations brought up pieces used in the oriental countries, mediately after being laid
hardened pop "Lock! Augustus is showing of the
In their especially in the Mohammedan The young re
born blind, pouches in which to store food some object to those men. Think nets,
worship at Mecca. Our modern The long bill, which is a pro- that it gathers after dark. you that we can get close
society uses it in jewellery. Amber burned to a fine ush i enough to 500 the araber, Cinudius"
the major element in the finest of black varnish.
These pieces are mostly pale yellow in colour, though some "When my father inspects are reddish or brownish in hue, the pieces üre either plece, we can see it." Claudius Most of
What history there to in zi translucent or opaque, and jed the way to the side of one
Thousands of They have a plece of amber. who had just received a dece slightly brite,
years ago it was the reblood pleasant odour. of amber from the dealer,
of a living tree. Now hardened, "Claudius, 'tis well you are Most of the pieces found are it is an ornament, a coating of
This charm would it small, although some weighing varnish, a whiff of incenso. here. have sufficient power to sharp- 10 pounds have been brought
-FLORENCE J. JOHNSON en thy wits when Zeno ques- up.
TENNIS WAS ONCE A
MONASTERY GAME
No other
game has spread so rapidly in such a short time as lawn tennis. Today it is the most popular court game ever devised.
It began as an
indoor
HOW TO SPIN gume, called "court tennis."
- A YARN?
make must
a wreck was certain. With ond
MA
have been dislodged from the overhead rocks
and landed directly in the locomotive.
Johnnie did not it fall. In fact, he knew nothing about
Monks played it in the cement-walled, roofed inner courtyard of a monastery in France.
of
to
the mountain at such a speed ANY of our everyday Court tennis is an ex- that if Clark over quit his post,
expressions were first tremely complicated game, hand he held the make, with used by the men who sailed but lawn tennis, . _our_com- the other he held the lever,
the seas long ago,
mon outdoor
game "tennis," requires enough. Sailors made lines for agility and accuracy their ships' rigging from make it popular with good He knew that if he could only untwisted yarns of rope. athletes 28 well the not attempt to strike. If it bad, get to Rowland, he would be To pass the time, while average player.
right. He would bring the train With lightning presence of lo a stop and then take care of twisting or spinning thei
yarn together, they told Juhanic reached over Mr Railer.
TO SQUARE ACCOUNTS
It until it crawled up the lever.
It Was B lucky break Johnnie that the big make dia
for
well
ixxi.
with his free hand and managed At lost the Kentucky town stories, usually 'tall ones,
to grip the enake behind the rolled into sight, und Johnnie But with his left hand breathod with relief. No, 11
and the he still had to attend to his job, slackened speed
hecd.
Co
The train was begining to ginoer brought it to a stop at
gather speed, for there was a the station. down grade which was one of
The terrified fetmana lengod the roughest parts of the road, from the cab and disappeared.
ZOO'S WHO
THE WORLD'S LARGEST, TARANTULA LIVES IN THE GULANAS (S.AMERICA) AND HAS A BODY OVER
THAGE INCHES LONG SUCHSPIDERS SOME- RMES CATCH SWAM. BROS.
ÅSHARK SUFFERS
NO PERMANENT LOSS IF HIS FRONT TEETH PALL OUT. SEVERAL SMALLER ROWS IN '
· BACK CONSTANTLYÄKE MOVING FORWARDTD REPLACE FRONT: TEETH SHED OR LOST
EXPERIMENTS PROVE THAT THEN RAYS OF THE SOUTHERN ÇAREFOR- MASON ON KILLASDEWINDER BATTLESNAKE IN
Today, when we “spin a yam" we're usually telling tall tale that's hard to be lieve.
Tenkia pizyer of grandma's day wore middy blowsŐ MA billowing
10
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The game was at first domi. nated by cartern mon, most of them being from Harvard. They came up to the not, used the Passing shot, the twist service; the drop shot and the lob.
Sy Dumbell's Problem
----The Solution Was Simple to Engrf and.TeddyTM
By MAX TRELL
PEHIND the bookense was the Decret 2OOT. Kamart, the shadow boy with the turned about name, took the key off the book and opened the door, then walked through. A moment Izter he was followed by Teddy, The Stuffed Bear.
The two friends found them-" selves in the pleasant country called the Other-Side-Of-The- Wall,
The sun was shining brightly. A robin was singing. The bees were buzzing up and down with Jars es honey in shopping bags,
It was not the slashing, ag-
Knart took Teddy's arm, and gressive game it is today. Un- Teddy took Kmart's arm. They derband "srvice was used by ran down the road singing at all players until the '80's, when the top of their voices. Finally, ab English
dazzled they crossed a bridge over player Staten Islanders by introducing small river and came to a town. the overhead service.
An Old Friend
A
In 1900, the British sent a team of three of their ranking players to America.
To
At the corber of a street they ̧· surprise of all, a trio of Harvard met their old acquaintance, Sy men, the
the
original Davis Cup Dumbil. team, blanked them, 5 to 0.
"Hello, 8y," said Knart "Hello, Dumbell," said Teddyr. "Hi," said Sy Dumbell.
Knarf and Tøddy asked 8y why he was drying his shoes.
I don't think I'I have to dx,”
"Really?" sald Sy Dumbell in surprise, "what is that?"
The lacca, said Heelsole,
Over His Shoulder
With that, he thot the two shots together and fung them over his shoulder on to one of the shelves. "Come back the day after tomorrow," he said.
one good thing left which
In 1912 a red-headed young
Sy Dumbell didn't look very man named Maurice M. Mc-
Then Khart and Teddy noticed comfortable in his bare feet. It Loughlin, the California Comet, that Sy Dumbell was carrying was the only pair of shoes he went to the cast to win the ts shoes in his hands. _$ national championship at New- port,
now
Kod
wearing
"Why aren't you
"You shouldn't have giv your shoes on your feet instead them to that shoemaker,” said of carrying them in your hands?" Khart. "I don't think they really joald Knack
nocded to be fixed."
He introduced a style of playing.
What had been a cautious fame of serve, stry back and lob, with an occasional venture
"I'm taking them to the shoe- into the forecourt, soon bectime, man,” said Sy. "Come along." a game of power serves' with dashes to the net, (ollering und So Kharf and Toddy went passing shots down the alde with Sy Dumbell to the shee lines. Nothing comparable toʻjmaker.
ever been m hla style had
"Neither do I," ngrood. Teddy. Sy looked a Knart and Teddy. "You really don't think '237” "You don't need any heads," said Knint. You can walk on flat shoek"..
་ ་
The shoemaker. whose nume
"And it doom't mattan -' chat was Heelensole, was anting the soles are full of bott," wald paint, his shop. There were shoes all Teddy, because it never ba
A girl brought the game to the States, Mary E. Outerbridge of Staton Island, vacationing in Ber- muda in 1874, was intro- To "cheer the fat" nowadays duced to the new sport by IDADI to work your Jawa aan English army officer.
before. long time talking about unim-She liked it so well that she portant things. But sailors in
By speeling up the the old days had to do a lot of brought a set home with
a girlish pastime. But they McLoughlin, awakened the over the shop-black shoce, here in the country, abytkow, li chewing befary they
could her.
spon took it up. In a short country to tonals as we know ||'white' shoes, groen shoes awallow their tation of tough
pink shook, long shooy time coutis were being laid out it today.
short She had some trouble getting all over the east, and the sport. usually salt, beef, which was
shock, wide shoes, narrow strode. more fut then ment. To them it through cuts because the quickdy spread westward.
- They Need Fixing officials had never noen "chewing the tat"
any- meant just that.
thing like it before, A week later the first court; în' America
*y show need fixing," sold was laid out at the Staten
By Dumbell Lalond Cricket and Chuts
Another expression we have borrowed from the men of the
:
M. S. SHELTON
Bachal Rupert and the Rolling Ball-15
The young men of Staten
sea is “pouring oil on troubled Island frst considered this game
waters."". In bad weather they
offlan poured oll around their
dblp to quiet the waves. Used
on short, it means to soothe of calm a person in Д situation,
troubled COWBOY'S DREAM
"Hand over, fat was thelf' way of, describing the way they hauled in a hope,
And when a big wave at sos. swipt everything off the deck, the sailors ankh it "mundo clear, sweep."
How many other expressions can you think of that bæve the mwall of the són about "them? |
-M; S. SHELTON
Kitst night | I had a
droum}
Inood lighty Mars,
I whdoped it up and had mach
And scattered all the stars. This morning when I woke I
fourd
Some daisies gold and white, I know they, oro the little' mineu I fighted in the night
GENEVIEVE BRUNSON.
Report is now an excited by thì, milit, novel behavioke of the hele ball ihsiz he
Follows it are the grounds at the big bànse, Aà, he “piane” the. - entsation thers in a hood, insien. „De -the heavy fema savus dick withɛ
J
and
"What's wrong with them?** asked Hodowcole, the Shoo malcem,
"I don't know,” said By Dum Bell.
"And It's nice," "win Kadet, the fronds You o have holes in the curs wiggle your toda”,
And it don't ut: ell bië.” Teddy added, "for the back do be Broken down. baven's 204 aby nothing is that “allppéig, wore mine, I wouldnt get laten fixod at all. På just keep khazia. for slippery."
imore
By Dumbell smiled,
backb# "ehd edirditable
11 nover thought of start,” Here, let me take a look at said. Then ho landed off to get them and Til tell you zoon the shoty back. He célunked with enough."
"Thorn, «"""Ken/ ritrýnche datar,
⠀ By Dombeli gavo die adries to
taking them back?
dochter, sad wolce, as to urină the shades förand and round. "The trona wis dl worn down and ho
Shh. HopÀ,- thičpite kiti kartu. sides that, "there'aná holku Ji Mháky-
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