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THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, JUNE 8,1957.

FEATURES

FOR

BOYS AND GIRLS ***

YOUR PUZZLE The Loveliest Rose In The World JUST LISTEN TO THE

CORNER

CROSSWORD

To dress it up, Cartoonist Cal has placed today's crossword unizzla

on about Spain silhouette rasp of that country.

ACROSS

1 Country we're visiting

American revolutionary writer

7 Boy's 'nickname

Compass point

Removed

11 Gets ready for publication

DOWN.

1 Garden too!

2 Grew pallid

3 Three-toed slothi

4 Insert

5 Requires

10 Long Island (ab.)

SPANISH MIX-UPS

Rearrange the letters in each

of these strange lines 10 And

the name of a Spanish posses- Lon:

ACUTE

RACE BALI IN AGUE COMO COR

HOW MANAGING BOOMER

ICUT Z THIN STRIPS OF WOOD FROM THE SIDE OF A FRUIT BOX,

BIN. MARKA JIN. SQUARE IN THE CENTER.

3.WHITTLE ENDS TO

TAPER.

2.

WHITTLE THE BLADE OF EACH STRIP DOWN LIKE THIS... WHITTLE THE 'B BLADE

BEND NAILS OVER ON OTHERSIDE IF THEY STICK OUT

DOWN IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION.

4. GLUE AND NAIL THE STRIPS

TOGETHER.

USE

SQUARE CRA TRIANGLE TO BE SURE- BLADES ARE AT RIGHT ANGLES TO EACHOTHER.

THROW IT FLAT AND

WILL RETURN

TO YOU!

DIAMOND

-As adapted from a story by Hans Christian Andersen

NOE there reigned a

Queen, in whose pardes

wore found the most flowers Spain is part of the 1BERIAN glorious

at all peninsula, which the Puzzle- ainan has picked as the centre of seasons and from all the

his word diamont. The second lands in the world. word "mn Arabian cloak": Especially she loved roses, third "mountain spur: fifth "elanted"; and dixth "to con- suma Complete the diamond from these clucr

I

IBERIAN

N

SPANISH REBUS

Use the words and pictures to Tulicst

advantage and you't have Httle trouble finding four concealect facts about Spain:

BOY, HE'S

REALLY MAD!

GET RID OF THAT

DOG!

HE'S A CAD

FRANC

IZ

I'M GOING TO

THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS/

SCRAMBLED SENTÈNCE

The Puzzleman had his usual trouble in making up a sentence about Spain and needs your help to straighlon it out. Can you help him?

and therefore she possessed the most various kinds of this flower, from the wild dog-rose with the apple- scented green leaves, to the most splendid Provence rose. They grew Bgainst the earth walls, wound them- selves round pillars and window frames, into the passages, and all along the ceiling in all the halla.

But care and Borrow dwelt in these halls. The Queen lay upon a sickbed, and the doctors declared that she must dic.

"There is still one thing that can save her," said the wisest of them. "Bring her the loveliest rose in the world, the one which is the expression of the brightest and purest love. If that is brought before her oyos ere they close, she will not dio."

GARDEN OF LOVE

their

MOCKING-BIRD

INSTEAD' of tuning in

your radio for that morning musical pro- gramme, try tuming In on .. your mocking-bird. This versatile song-bird will sometimes give repertoire of 82 different Itunes in the space of ton

minutes.

A

means

Ha Latin name is nimua polyglottus, which "many-tongued mimic," and ho moro than Ilves up to his name.

Although his very own. song is the only American bird song that closely re- sembles the beautiful nightingale's, the mocker can imitate from 80 to 100 different bird songs and cails.

SOAP-OPERA

This young mocking-bird pet

bread takes

from

Jals owner's mouth.

And young and old came from every side with roses,

"Mother!" cried the boy, "only alining on "No one has pointed out the roses were place where it bloomed in its fresh cheeks, A young girl stood hear what I have read?” splendour. It is not a rose from there; she looked with all the And the child eat by the bed- the graves of Romeo and Juliet, purity and love of her young side, and read from the book of

He also imitates other

Choosy, also, about his din- though these roses will be ever spirit up to heaven. That was Him who suffered death on the

and of the highest cross to save men,

which he even sounds

heare, permeaus, this extraordinary. fragrant in song. Nor is it the the expression roso that sprouted forth from and the purest love."

those who were not yet born. sometimes so clearly that bird lives on a cheerfully bal- the blood-stained lance which "May she be blessed!" nald "Greater love there is not he fools people. He "whoos" snced diet of 45 percent wild trulla, 45 percent insects (pro- killed a hero who died for

And a roseate huo spread over like a locomotive, squeaks tein), seven percent other plant a the wise doclor; "but not one of sacred cause; though no death you has yet named to me the the cheeks

her eyes gleamed, for she saw like a pump handle, and life, and the remaining three is sweeter than this, and no rose loveliest rose of the world." redder than the blood that dows Then there came into the that from the leaves of the book whistles like a traffic police- percent other proteins, then. Nor is it that wondrous room a child, the Queen's little there bloomed the loveliest rose, man. Or he cheerfully A mocker is remantle as well.. flower, to chorish which man son. Tears stood in his eyes and which sprang from the blood of imitates the highly paid as choosy, and likes to sing his devotes many a sleepless night, glistened on hla cheeks. He Christ shed on the cross,

"I see it!" she said, "He who singer on the soap-opora heart out on a warm, moon-It and much of his fresh life-the carried a great open book, and

of selence," magle Dower

the binding was of velvet, with beholde this, the lovellest roat programme.

on earth, shall never die." great sliver clasps.

"I

know where it blooms" sold a happy mother, who came with her pretty child to the bed- "I know

side of the Queen,

And young and old came from every side with roses, the loveliest that bloomed in ench garden. But they were not the right sort. The where the loveliest rose of the flower was to be brought world is found! The rose that out of the garden of Love; is the expression of the highest but what rose was it there and purest love springs from the that expressed the highest and purest love?

child when, blooming checks of my sweet

strengthened by sleep, It opens ita eyes

and mics at me with all its affec-

And the poets sang of the loveliest rose in the world, ton!" and each one named his Own, And word was sent productive nearly about cent far round the land to every total only seres cultivation, had heart that beat with love, to 114,000,000 90 of area, about are every class and condition, Spain's comprises seres, per its and to every age. but 50,000,000 under

(Salutions on Page 20)

*

the Queen, Anch

YOU CAN MAKE

A SARI SKIRT

IT SHINES

IF you want your sari skirt that "from "Lovely is this rose; but there to have

look, follow this is still a lovelier," said the wise Indin"

plan. Choose three yards of yes, a far loveler one" said a border print. If you have

inan.

one of the women,

have seen

"No one bas yet named the it, and a lottter, purer rose does made other clothes, plan to the make this akirt in about two flower," catd the wise doctor, not bloom. I saw it on

checks of the Queen. She had hours. If you are losa ex- taken off her golden crown, and perienced, it is still easy to In the long dreary tight she was make. carrying her sick child in her arms; sie wept, kissed it, and prayed for her child as a mother

in prays

the hour of her anguish."

WHAT KEPT THE

KEEN HUNTER

FROM SHOOTING?

TN the pioneer days of the

IN

an

New World, there was

ardent young hunter

who spent much of his life

in the dense forests shoot-

ing native animals.

was.

One day when he especially keen for the hunt, he took his

gun and am-

munition, and went for inte the woods where even the sun,did not penetrate; It He was as dark as night. wandered around silently, alert, but there was BO animal in sight.

He was about leave the scene when suddenly he heard a very faint sound and felt that he was not alone. He scarcely. dared to breathe, even.

Than a twig gently and behind it the two beautiful eyes,

moved

hunter saw

He thought it was a deer and ordinarily he would have ebot

ZOO'S WHO

HUMMING BIRDS ARE FOUND ONLY IN THE NEW

WORLD AND ARE

MOST ABUNDANT

NEAR THE

EQUATORTM

THERE ARE MORE THAN BOO KINDS OF HUMMING BIRDS. THE COMMON HUMARNG BIRD "OF THE BASTERN UNITED

· STATES IS THE RUBY THROAT. THE MALE HUMMING, HAD NEV- EL COMES NEAR ITS NEST AFTER THE EGGS ARE LAID.

HAVE A CIGARI

USUALLY ONE TO

THREE BABY KANGAROOS ARE BORN IN A LITTER

THE AFRICAN ELEPHANT GROWS TO A HEIGHT OF 11 FEET AND ATTAINS A WEIGHT OF AS MUCH.

AS 6 TONS

he

it immediately. But that day, for some unknown reason, stood perfectly still, as though a. silent power kept him from moving.

The eyes disappeared, but soon there was a Cairst rustic of leaves at a distance.

"Hols and wonderful in li might is the white rose of grief; but it is not the one we seek."

"No, the loveliest rose of the world I saw at the altar of the Lord," said the good old Bishop.

Sew up the centre back seam. Turn up the hem Gather the top evenly all around to equal your waist measure.

night. So entertaining is his programme of songs that bird An American bird, the scientists are making recordings mociding-bind lves in

the of them United southern half of the States. However, single birds sometimes y as far north ns Massachusetts.

He dresses nattily in an ash- grey coat with darker wings

On one 90-minute recording the mocking-bir imitated D. goldfinch, wood thrush, flicker, chickadee and some thirty other without once repeating a song

as well as a trou frog, birds,

and tail. While markings and So remember, if your radio an ashy-white breast completo fails, you can always tune in...... his modish costume. The female on your mocking-bird. has a title less white in ber plumage, 1

-D. S. ROMNEY

A Circus In Herself

and mark it.

Fold the waist band in halt On either side, if your weist is 20 Inchca meature 13 Inches and mark-Spider Hung From High Places On Just A Thread— those places.

THE

By MAX TRELL

phus was coming to

опе

•

when

town. For a week no

Place the centre of the waist- band on the centre front of the gathered skirt top and pin so The width around will be that the right sides are together. three yards minus one scam. Siltch the skirt and waist band Measure. your skirt length together. Fold over the waist talked of anything else,

Finally the day came band and hand-silich inside of up and down. It may be it to the skirt so that no stich-Kart and Hundd, ie shadow about 30 inches plus two

ing shows on the outside. Put children with the turned-about inches for a hem plus one-a placket in the back of the names, got ready to go. half inch at the waist. skirt.

If your material is 30 inches

Hom

it around

the ends and older of "I saw it shine us an angel's wide, cut off the waist band the remaining belt. Cross it in face had appeared. The young strip (about three and one-half the back and bring maidens went to the Lord's Inches by three yards), leaving to tie in a big bow on the side Table, and renewed the promise the border print next to the Put a large gold pin in the bow made at their baptism, and pale | hem,

Woman Scissors

IF.

IF you

theatre

were invited to n

to see Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Com→ mandments" just as it cama from the camera, no doubt you would be there for an entire day.

Several hundred thousand feet of film were shot to tell this Biblical story. But when you. ncc it in its com- pleted form, the running time is 219 minutos.

Movies, like newspapers The and magazines, must be hunter wont in pursuit of edited. A movie editor in

Hollywood is known Alm cutter.

whatever had caused t

It is his or her business to

With

to give it n sari look.

Powerful

Anne Bauchens, solocis footage of the Exodus soquénon..

mants"

Years ago, DeMille uredit line: "Edited by Anna His spoed was impeded as the take the sequences as they made the same picture. He Bauthens.". That aredit means fcacat engulfed him in a tangle are shot and edit thom into wound up with 100,000 feet of four years of work and a low of spreading bushes, twisting a smooth, continuous story, in which was edited down to time of skill, vines and trees pushing their It is a very technical job, 12,000 feet.

the thick trunits up out of

and only a handful of people In those days, this

we a shadows into the sun. But

Today, eventually he found himself at have over attained the skill "call" aftruction.

programme woederna run longer

---GRÖVER BRINKMAN

"Have a good time," said Mr Punch as heat in his - wasy

chair sufoking his pipe.

"Aren't you coming to see the

circus, dear?" asked Hanid

Mr Punch shook his head, so Kart and Hand went by them- selves.

The clowns were the funniest, The prancing horses were the most beautiful.

"But the most exciting per- dormer of all,” sak Knarf to Mr Punch later, was the Indy on the high swing"

a

"Ab, yos," said Mr Punch, he, high swing is called trapopo."

Going To Fall Off?

"Aren't you coming to the afrous?" Hank asked Funch,

ceiling, a cellar celling, an attic ceiling-any old ceiling.

"But sometimes it's attached to the tip of a branch, or the top of a fence, or the top of a gate, or the edge of a shrub. Önce she witnched her rope do the thorn of a rosebush in the garden and let the wind swing her.

“Shi swung from a rope at tached to the top of the circus font," Knart said. "She climbed up the rope and down again

"Unfortunately, someone came She turned upside down. She and cut the rosebush down and bung by her feel"

aho had to move. She wasnt She hung by her teeth, too," too happy about this, though. Hanid idi.

She simply went inside the #Any minute we thought she house and attached a new rope was going fall of, but she in a corner of the celling. She's didn't," said Knort.

always putting up meyr ropes in Mr Punch med and said, "I different places." know a lady just; Jiico that. Only the doesn't work da a circus. You've never seen anyone elimb up nind dowI) rope as dust as she does. In tact, it isn't even 4. rope. It's more lice a thread." The two shadows were aston- ished.

"Why is that, Mr Punch?”

- Never Complains "Well, people come along with. brooms and sweep her ropes dowa She doesn't like that, but "no one has ever heard her come plain, And she never seems to got discouraged. She always puld

"Mr-Punch pointed overhead

"Is it attached to the top of the tent?" Knget naked.. -

"I could be," replied. Me up a new one," Punchy, hough it usually isn't,

I to the corner, of the celling, But that's only because

"Thora she low. paid before she don't work in a circon. As a rule, her rope ip attached to the ceiling a room.

the edge of the forcat where he needed to hold this im- than 12,000 doet, or 50 alnut Rupert and the Rolling Ball—27

saw a log cabin.

Hía curlony led him to it and

portant post. *...

OnShA REDEKİ,

+

Saw It 106 Timos-`

Ona 'of the major, sochies in Commandments"

·today's “Ten

he soon met the family that Uyed there--the - father and

is of course the parting of tho The ONE - PERSON DeMille Ted Ben by Moss (Charlson mother, who latroduced him to trusts with his dim is a gentle Heaton). DoMille shot it for all their daughter.

Jittle woman by the nome of.

he When the hunder looked at Ammo Bauchons. She has worked was worth. But when

viewed the moquenoon, be..... do- the young maidens the gard into at her job for years and har cided they should be 'cut,

But Map Bauchons thought the magt glorious eyes i haddell is amazing. She is one of

With a shock, he eight people in the States who differently. She maintained the realised that thom eyes were hold such a job,

SOGNER were terrife. And

the mame that he and goen'in To balt The Ten Command- finally she won her point. In the dense woods. He knew thom ments" Anne, Bauchens saw the the picture as you son it the how gear be had come to shoot-picture no less than 100 timest score is all there, without may ing this beautiful girl,

Fin four years who trully dalellung. Diet

Itvedt with the picture, checking It was 3.200 years old when Ho fall in love with her and und rechocking it, scena by the Ten Commandmentale, verd they work moon' married.

scene. Then her famous ecíproca Enaraved - on stone at Mount Bag Bing Baroday thay nhe orgDHVNÍ Who we toe you

went to work

This is the second time than on kiika Nefes Hauchens has send bac

hater

It was DANIEL BOONE,

IRA "BAMLING

feki bora on “The Ten Commands Ehikachumol La má van manda

Rupert's made haya sten ihm. I. hopa le won't no off, bang 1 mysterious round abiget disappear Poor Rupert is thornighty, suured. into the cloud.. Let's go and tell The moment he touches one of the Courabla") Growler tegemata chandiga the great glass ball changes- WILL has held paidery deferation and › beginsono, ilang copos antin. Look!!

Down and down lit, agen gest of the Killedropping, straight: cowards "casaty maille endapanLER A MOTORE

Do you scè her climbing up and down? She hange on by her feet. I'm sure she could hang on by 'her tecta, only she has no teeth,”

Knort and Hanid were star- ing up..

In the corner of the celling, a' thin' glistening thread hung. down. At the end of it, hang- ing on by het legs was spider, It's windy skier," said Mr Punch, Miss Snider, She's a whole circus in herself and sho hardly over minda If your watch ther

It fund never occurred to either Knart 'or Hamid before that an Insect Jfice a apiden could gomir bly be us good as ni olcar pers farmer

"I guass," and Hand, Phot there mat ba olhar madele" and enimals who can gat án à cheva Mice, can, tumble, ales-o

fence and mute cao: PLANTEN

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