1957-08-03 — Page 18

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1957.

FEATURES FOR BOYS

YOUR PUZZLE THESE TIPS WILL MAKE

CORNER

CROSSWORD

18

ウ

13

12.

ACROSS

1 lead covering

4 Musient qualities

G Behold!!

7 Golfer's mounds

9 Possessive pronoun

¡¡ Rodent

12 Story

14 Lone Scout (ab.)

15 Hindles of water

17 Writing tool

DOWN

1 Compnay (ab.)

2 Busy insect

3 Equal

4 Summ

5 Fur-bearing sea animals

6 Ignited

# Streets (ab,)

10 Blow with open hand

13 Piece out

18 Half an em

SUDAN DIAMOND

'The an

Part of the Sudan's populver are NUBIANS, which fact the Puzzleman pleked as the centre for his word diamted.

Is to take Recond word evening meal": .hird "a kind of a fur tharpener's tool"; und sixti: "a compass point," Try to complete the diamond from these clues:

B NUBIANS

S

BEHEADINGS

CAMERA TALK.

YOUR CAMERA "talks," but does it always eay

YOUR

Behend "to sound a buglo" und have "not high" behead (or show) what you want "winter precipitation" and have it to? Here are seven tips "present Ume": stare"

behead "a

and have a knock": to help you control your behead "an Oriental food" and picture-making "speech." have "frozen water behead 1. LIGHT in the picture cich milk and have "a paper is not enough. You need light on the subject: De- tails talk in a picture, and light is what reveals do talls,

measure."

WACKY COMPASS

WACKY COMPASS

START AT WEST AND READ EVARY, THIRD LETTER YOU DECIDE DIRECTION

TO FIND TWO HIDDEN PROVERBS

CHANDE

(Solutions on Page 19)

HOW MAKE A

HEAD SCARE

1.FIND A PIECE OF THIN RAYON OR COTTONCLOTH ABOUT 24 INCHES SQUARE.

3. FIND TWO LEAVES THAT WILL FIT INTO THE SQUARES.

4. PUT A LEAF

UNDER CORNER SQUARE..WITH VEIN SIDE

2.FOLD CLOTH INHALF TWICE (BOTH WAYS) TO MAKE LINES

FOR YOUR

DESIGN.

NEXT TO CLOTH.

5.HOLD CLOTH TIGHTLYOVER LEAF AND RUB CRAYON OVER SQUARE...LINES OF LEAVES WILL SHOW THROUGH.

2 DISTANCE changes the whole picture. Unless you have a portrait lens, don't shoot pic- tures closer than inches, You will get beller results shooting farther away and enlarging the plece of photo you want to closeup.

D

3. BHADOWS can say ugly

about things

your rubicol Lights held high are better than lights at the cainers. Two floods an apposite sides of the subject should give you good resuita,

Do all your full length subjects look as it, they bad tumpy legs? Try getting on the picture one knee to snap iristead of standing for an eye- level shot.

6. Are you getting fuzzy pictures without any reasonable explanation for the fuzziness? Sudden emperature changes cause moisture condensation on the lens. This should be wiped before plcture taking. If you take your camera out of a

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Light Talks: Sunlight altering through the window brings out the details that make this excellent study by Johannes Scholten, of Haarlem, the Netherlands,

warin house in cold weather, Then you ary xòt getting enough

wab ftat keep it under your overcoat contrast between

between pletures,

background.

SELLI

6. Do your subjects sorem & Example: If you sto snapping little lost in the background? a blond or someone dressed in

AND

GIRLS +

YOUR Come Into My Parlour

YOUR

light clothes, hang up a red or

-Says A Plant

AWATER-PLEA, using

its feathery antennae

other dark-coloured blanket to 1 oars, skipped·· nidifully use as contrasting background through the swampy water. (Red photographs as black). It was on the everlasting

shots, quest for food,

7. In making time

the stand your camera nent front edge of the table or box

you use as support. Otherwise you may show more of the up- port than your subject in the picture.

THE SECRET of making your camera "talk" effectively lies in knowing four things and using your camera accordingly.

1. Know your camera's limitations

care-

It pushed its way lossly against some vegeta- tion. That was a fatal mistake. For the vegetation was waiting for just such an occurrence.

Under the faint touch of the water-fica, a door in the vegetation opened and the water flea strolled in. Immediately the door closed Examples: Most fixed-focus tight behind the micro- cameras shoot good pictures from

The fleu

ulten-sensitive film, Also senstscopic animal.

tive cameras ennnot give you was hopelessly trapped.. satisfactory pictures Η you Jgnore their delicato adjusting

mechanisms.

2. Know how to LIBO YOUT camera according to the amount of natural or artificial light

available.

3. Know how distance affects your picture.

4. Know your camera ad- Justments and how they aro affected by distance and light. If your camera has no adjust monte, learn how to make your- self the adjusting factor by your movements and control of subject and stage,

But the water-fea would not

be missed. There were hundreds of thousands more of them in that pool in the marsh.

Foelers splay out around väges of bladderwort's trap-door,

But the bladderwort is not interested in the water-co's valua except as a food. The bladderwort floats in the pool in the marsh. It has no roots. It absorbs everything through its shools and green legyes.

gets.Its name

Many more of them would It push their little heads against water-filled bladders the same type of swinging door stems and leaves. and be trapped and devoured by The vegetation, plant called the bladderwort,

The water-fca, a very

crustacean, fresh-water

from the the

On

hos

hun-

Each

The bladderwart tiny is of dreds of those bladders, some value to man. It devours is equipped with a valve-like massca of minute vegetable door through which water-fless growths and purifies the water and other small fry are able to of decaying crknal matter.

onter

These valves are Geway The body of the water-lea is doors and only open inwardly, ancased in a hinged, defensive trapping sny invader. The double-shell. The head is pro- prisoner becomes food, for the vided with feelers and there are hungry bladderwort as its other ave pairs of appendages which traps wait for more victims, move continually, helping the tiny animal to breathe.

ERNEST JOHNSON

.

TRIANGLE

The Fuzzieman has hung his word triangle from CAREERS. word! The second

in "amphi

theatres"; third "to pot again": fourth son of Seth"; Arth "to consume"; al sixth an abbre viation for "right vide." you complete the triangle?

CAREERS

R

Can

SCRAMBLEGRAMS

Scramble "row" and have "ceremonies"; repeat and have "wearies"; again and have "o perch anew.ance mure and have "attempts." •

&

ALTERNATE

LEAVES IN

EACH SQUARE UNTIL ALL SQUARES ARE FILLED.

FOLD EDGES

AROUND

BACK SIDE

AND HEM WITH A

Camers Ampulation: Even the subject winore as the camera cuts off the top of his head, crops his hands awkwardly.

Shadow Patterns; This picture by Tatsuo Hondo of Tokyo won first prize over 3,000 enletea Light And shadows playing on rafiers and walls make faecloating abstract do- zigi Look for shadow patterns the next time you tako pictures.

Knuckle Down To

RUNNING THINK

STITCH.

PUT

DAMP

CLOTH

OVER

DESIGN

AND PRESSI

"WITH A WARM IRON.

New

this month ↑

DINKY SUPERTOYS No. sa Pressure Refuellòr

New

The origins of this Dinky Supercoy is sbewheel Royal Air Force' vahido, used on aerodromes for refuelling and defuelling aircraft. The model is enamelled in RAF blus with a rounds on the front. Towing hook at rear and driver in cab..

colour finish ———

Length 54".

DINKY TOYS No, K33. Trojan Van -- “Brooke-Bond Tea”:

A new version of the Trojan (5-cwt. Van is now KallaBla attractively finished in bright red with the Bam Brooke Bond Tea" in white on the sides.

Length Sp.

Keep on collecting DINKY TOYS DINKY SUPERTOYS

MADE IN ENGLAND BY MECCANO LTD., BINNS ROAD, LIVERPOOL 18"

To Marble

marbles are a marble contributions. The in his closed hand.

He asks this another player to guess how modern toy? That's game continues in where you're wrong, fashion, with the players many marbles are hidden.

If the player guesses correctly turns Children way back in the taking

with the he receives the marbles, if in- correctly, he must hand over difference between ไปป and the

Correct

ancient days were playing bounce. games with nuts or pebbles

of a the BRIDGE TASS: Out in much the same way as plece of wood or cliff cardboard, wrong gues

fashion a bridge with aise number, you use your own marbles.

Number each arch as some marble arches

Here are

games to test your skill:

shown.

list to Fori; Upward shots aro hard to make without wide- angle lens. Get malo subject In line to avoid angles like

this

Games

"TRY THESE DIFFERENT".

MARBLE SAMES=

"BRIDGE PASS*

HAND HIDE

"PICKING" PLUMS

Cricket's Adventure

-He Rode With The Ol' Clothes Man'a Ol' DogTM--

By MAX TRELL

HRISTOPHER Cricket came

ou!

from under a clover where he was resting from the un and sat down next to his frienda Knarf und Hanid, the Shadows with the turned-about

mames.

"I had an adventure today," Christopher said.

*Was it fun?" asked Knarf.

"It wasn't fun, but it funny," said Christopher.

was

4

"Ol' Klothes!* the man was shouting.

Knart and Hanid walled for Christopher to tell then the atory of his adventure. He did that as soon ne he had crossed five or six of his legs and maɖo. himself comfortable on the back furniture; old shoes, old bottles, steps of the house where, as it old pots and pans, old books, happened, they were all sitting old magazines, old newspapery

Tinkling Of Bolls

and old dishes. He bought that old horse who's pulling the wagon. And the wagon is also "Well," started Christopher, old.

Once he bought en ald "I was just setting out with my cat who used to live in the guitar this morning to play back yard of an old house. Now myself a song or two before the cat lives in the Of Clothes breakfast when I heard the Man's shop and minds it while tinkling of bells and the shout he's away. ing of a man's voice.

"Did he ever buy an old Ol' clothesl the man was dog?" I asked.

shouting. Ol' clothes to sell!

"It was the Of Clothes Man. He was coming up the street in

cried.

Wagged His Tall

"Instead of getting angry."

For example, eight had both hidden and the player guessert eleven he would have BOUNCE OUT: Each

to forfekt hrco marbles, marble player deposits a

PICKING PLUMS: Ench One player is chosen to act as within a small circle that bridge keeper and a toll of one player places a marble on a long drawn upon the

his horse and wagon with the said Christopher, the old day has been drawn on the marble is paid to him every straight line

tinkly bella, The Of Clothes just wagged his tufl. Yes, he ground. The first player me a boy attempte to shoot a ground, with a one or two-inch

Man kept looking up at the once did buy an old dog, sald standa upright over the marble through the arches

act play between etch marble. player in turn shoots at

windows of the houses along the dog. He bought me. And If the marble goes clear marbles and drops his

the marble, from a point shout

the street,

I'm happy he dla Fa rather through an arch is owner re eight feet away. "bounce" (a large marble) eelves from

The marbles the bridge keeper knocked off the line become the hit the struck marble becomes,

If he succeeds in making a

be an old dog with the Or "Any ol' clothes to sell?' be Clothes Man than with anyone upon the heap. Any as many marbles as indicated prizes of the marksman,

clse!' his property. The marble he marbles that are forced out by the number marked over the

KNOCK OUT: Two players threw against the wall must be "So," said Christopher, "I However, if the marblo

Finally I said to the dog of the ring belong to him: arch

stand opposite wall The arat left on the ground where strapped my guitar to my back "Tell me, O Dog, what does but if he drives out none should touch the side of

starts the game arch' It becomes the

by

and jumped on the wagon. It the Of Clothes Man' do with all and his bounce remains in keeper's property.

throwing a marble against the When all of the marbles of was piled with all suris of odds the old clothes and all the other wall. tho circle, he has

When it has rebounded to HAND HIDE: Ora let it stay with the other concents a number of marbles and landed on the ground the tach player have been thrown, and ends. I rummaged around old thing, that he bure

marbles that are lying and looked them over. second player huria bis marble farthest from the wall may be

Ho cleans them up, sald against the wall, trying to throw picked up in turn

"The first thing I saw was a the dog. and thrown

'He mends the 'cipa and tears in the old clothes. IIe fixes the broken old furniture. He fixes the broken down old shoes. He makes the old and pans shining and bright. Then he sells Because, you see, sald the dog, them again. what

ZOO'S WHO

·THE LAST HEAD OF BUFFALO TO BE SEEN ON THE RANGE IN OKLAHOMA WAS IN 1STT NEAR WOOTZARI,

IN EAST PAKISTAN A STRONG, YOUNG MALE ELEPHANT 15 WORTH FROMB00

TO $1,400,

the bridga

OXILE APPARENTLY. HÄVI ACHIEVED THEIR GUILE BY MATCHING WITS WITH MAN, THEİR ONLY ENEMY,ACCORD-

WO TOTHE ENCYCLOPEDIA "BILITA

player

Jander

it in such a way that in the against the wall again. rebound it will strike the first marble

—ERMA REYNOLDS

Rupert and the Old Hat-31

Rape ruta forward, and i onos 2018, the sorred face of '2} puil cucino preping out; of-the What's wrong with 'swybody today ? " crica the 'bird..

-huine "find a limit for her to pyr

body"Mas'

oxys Rupert.

whelm

anting: many, angry birds ich: hè curtis do the clock;

dogi

**I thought you were a piece of old clothes, a bundle of rug!' I said to the dog

"The dog just growled at ina.

Koop Him Company

some people think is old, other people think is quité now*

"I'm not á piece of old clothea I ride along with my "Just then," sald Christopher, master, the Ol' Clothes Man, to the O Clothes Man noticed a keep him company'

lady looking out of the window

Ske called down. had his old.

vidlica:

“Do you mind,” I said to the of one of the houses at the end

the street of dog, at I ride along, too? I dod sald shu krop, you commpany."

to sell

""The dog didn't answer, no I "So the Of Clothion huko, who decided he didn't mind, I looked really liked old vialing murchy around the wagom more closely. better thats now violins, wint

petal to buy fé and- f/ Tec lotex other things back to my stay olorate wi borides old clothes in this my little old gift NE ME Wagons, Dog" I said,

dld dig all Alone with the

Sách Phong sale the Học Hoa là kem binh dinh do

*Buch" an old piano stool.

an old fable.^.5- tonken said the đồg, the GLY

And that was the Churlaphor Cricket