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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1957.

FEATURES FOR

It

PUZZLE Pays To Tell Mother

ORNER

ROSSWORD

you with the Puzzle- Jesword puzzle, Car- Cal has letterd in the „ót Switzerland's capital:

BACKWARD GLANCE

A BROKEN PLATE

MOTHER, we're

atarved," oxclaimed Mary, following her sister,

Learn these three facts about Sue, into the living room Switzerland by backward:

reading

BERAL SUOMAF SNIATNUOM GNISOPMI YRTNUOC LARTUEN

Trip to Switzerland:

them after school.

JUMBLED SENTENCE

12

B

E

R

Straighten out the

115:

try of our visit:

N

the Umes, 22. Helvetis

E

Wicked

ACROSS

4 Long, long

7 Encouraged

Woody plant

10 Total expenses (ab,

11 South America (ub.)

13 To cut

17 Dregard fenthers, as a bird

19 Say this instead of "no"

20 Elevated railways

DOWN

1 Baseball stick

2 Abridged (¤ù.)

3 Scottish river

4 Near

5 Obtain

6 Poem

& Short

11 Foreign agent

12 Exist

14 Compass point

16 Long Ash

16 Editors (nds.)

it East side (ub,)

HOW MAKE A EVE TO PIRATE FLEET

LFIND 3 LARGE (THERMOS-BOTTLESIZE) CORKS.....AND SLIT AWAY ONE SIDE TO FLATTEN.

USE

2.NOTCH

SHARP

FOR

KNIFE

THE

DECK.

3.PUNCH SUITS IN CORKS AND

PUSH IN

COCKTAIL

TOOTHPICKS

FOR

MASTS.

4CUTOUT SAILS FROM WHITE TYPING PAPER ABOUT 1 IN.WIDE AND IN. HIGH... DRAW ON DESIGNS WITH CRAYONS AND SLIP SAILS ONTO MASTS.

MARK ON

PORT

HOLES

WITH CRAYON

CUTASLIT IN BOTTOM AND PUSHIN A PENNY.

Puzzic

there to cat?"

"What is

There was no answer; and the girls went into the kitchen,

"Where's mother?" asked

Sue.

"Probably at a

neigh-

man's sentence about the coun-bour's," sald Mary, opening

cox-

the refrigerator door, "Let's have milk

federation anodont cantons, a of cookies," said Sue. of is Switzerland,

SWISS REBUS

Four facts about Switzerland have been hidden in the Puzzle

words the man's rebus. Upo

und pletures to uncover them;

WHAT'S THE

MATTER WITH

YOU NOW?

+

ТАКС YOUR BASE

19f+

I WANT A SPIECE OF VELVET

DIAMOND

A

LUCERNE is a beautiful luke

and

Mary took the bolile of mallk out of the refrigeratőr and over to the table. "Oh! It slipped out of my hand!" she explained,

• plate as it banged against

Utilo "It knocked there. plece out of this plate. Thank goodness I didn't spill the milk, though."

been us "It wouldn't have

to bad to spill the milk as break this plate," replied Sue.

"Why?" asked Mary.

special "It's mother's extra favourite plate the one with rose buds on it,” said Sue, "She kald she hoped it would never get broken."

"Oh, dear. That's terrible," sald Mary. "Now what will mother say? Guess I'll put it on that stack of plates mother doesn't use very often and furn the broken part to the back of the cupboard. Then it won't show."

THAT'S DISHONEST

"YOU MEAN you aren't go ng to tell mother you broke {117" asked Sue.

ures

"No. I'm afraid to tell her." Bald Mary. "She hardly ever she these pints--maybe won't find out for a long time that this one is broken. Then she'll think something in the cupboard jarred and broke i

in Switzerland and the Puzzle stand on this chair, then man uses it as the centre for his word diamond. The second you hand the plate to me," word is "to place": third. " kind of race horse": fifth, "geSue, birds" and sixth, an abbreviate mother how it happened.

tion for "registrred nurses."

C LUCERNE

(Solutions on Page 19)

They

"But that's dishonest," said "I think you should just

Maybe it can be glued."

"No," sald Mary. "Now please hand the plate to me, also the pleve that broke off.”

"I don't want to," said Suc,

"but here it is."

Mary put the broken plate on the stack of plates, then shoved the little plece back of the stack.

Thought Twins Meant Evil Spirits

TTELEN and Frances Here twins in my les

n

They had lot of fun dressing and even acting the

same.

་

And 3 must admit it was rather difficult to tell them apart. Once I scolded Helen for not having done her work and I got the re- I'm ply, "Pm not Helen. Frances."

Art and Burt were also twins and they had a story

which showed how exactly alike they looked and acted.

"If I am too busy to keep a

HELEN NEEDS A SCOLOBIS. BUT WHICH

OF YOU

HELEN?

BOYS

AND

GIRLS

BECOMES A PICTURE

I'LL HIDE THE CHIPPED PLATE UP THERE WHERE MOTHER WON'T FIND IT

"Now," said Mary, stepping talk. And abe avoided looking off the choir, "promise you at her mother, won't tell."

*+I'm

ΠΟ

tattle-tale,"

★

The Highway Robber Was A Bear

P

"I didn't Intend to," said DETE · and . Gary had Mary, "but I'll never feet right begged so hard to be allowed to go into town for

until 'I do."

THEN MARY told bor

mother what she had done and the supplies that Uncle Jim odded, "I didn't intend to had finally given in. "That break your rose bud plate and pick-up truck isn't

tall

I'm sorry. I was afraid to

you."

"You didn't have to be afraid

any

cinch to drive on theso

mountain roads," he warn- and

to tell me, dear," said her ed. "so take it easy mother. "The only thing wrong make sure that you get back was that you teled to hide it before dark." Let's get the plate and look at It."

̈“This is just a clean break,” said her mother as she fitted the pifce in, "Not even a chip It I can glow this so guno. won't show at all.”

LOOKS SO PRETTY "Can you, really, mother?" Baked Mary. "Oh, I'm so glad!" "I've had this plate in the cupboard all these years where no could see it," said her

one mother. "Now I'm going to fix it and hang it and some other the dining pretty plates on room wall. Then we'll all get Her mother noticed and asked some enjoyment out of them" The next day when the girls said her. "Mary, what's happened to

home from

Mary school you? You're always laughing, came talking and teasing, but you've looked at the dining room wall

scarcely mid

word all "Oh, mother!" she exclaimed "You've hung the plates on the Didn't eat much evening.

Are you sick? wall and they look so pretty! I told you I dinner, either.

so glad now i I'll take your temperature and

broke the plate." find out

"Instead of a calamity I think Sue looked at Mary, and Mary looked at Sue. Then Mary it was a good thing you broke I thought I left that plate here said, "Mother, I'm not really it," said her mother.

the inside plates hanging on musi have sick. I just feel sick on the table, but

make the dining room so much something I did." pul it away--I don't see it,"

After dinner while the girls "Want to tell me about it?" moro cheerful" were wiping dishes, Mary didn't asked her mother.

Sue,

"I SEE you found something to eat, atris," their mother said when she came in. "Mrs Jones was here and I showed her my pretty rose bud plate, Then she home with wanted me to go ner to see some of her dishes.

Sea Monster

W

By D. S. ROMNEY

【7OULDN'T.you be sur

prised if one day while you were wa...ing down the street you should taxicab draw up, see dinosaur step out and into his office?

see

go

Not any more surprised than

Miss... M. Courtenay-Latimer n few years ago. This inquisitive curator of the local museum at East London, in South- cast Africa, was one day examining some sharks brought in by a trawler.

There was one very strange lah among them. In fact, Miss Courtenay-Latimer had never ten such a strange fish in all her experience as curator."

The boys promised and were soon jotting down the dkt road towards town. After they had bought the wock's supply of food for the men back at the stone quarry they ate lunch and took A walks around town.

As they stopped in front of a motion picture show house Gary We sald, "Couldn't we go in? haven't been to a movie ull summer?"

"I guess so,”, ngreed Pete. "I

we leave by four we'll still have time to get back by daylight."

been safer for the younger boy, there in the truck.

A moment later he changed A rustling in the his mind, bushes was followed by a in bering bear. headed towards the food

Fapply.

They were both surprised to

Pete figured he would be mata when they came out ngalet. "If discover that it was almost five we don't get back before dark if he sat still and let the bear It, Seiring the will be the inat trip for us help himself to a ham, but ha up the rough road that flashlight he turned it into the his summer," said Pete and he just couldn't do it. caused the cans and boxes to bear's face, at the same timo went

the hora. rattle around in the back of the pressing on

ment the moment

truck.

For

bear up angrily, but ho They were about half way to backed camp when Pete ran the truck wasn't going to lose his dinner He started forward off the road in trying to avoid dial easily. "Those a big chuck hole.

again. Once more Pete played do?" the Bashlight and honked the "Now what will we asked

"Stay here until born with all his energy. Gary. Uncle

wall

the sad

and break up -FERN F. FOGEL While comes looking for un or

INOWE?"

Comes To Life

This model of the coelacanth shows its armlike fins.

In her ichthyological (pertain av

mon-

He was making so much noise "I guess that one of us had imself that he didn't hear his better walk up to camp and the uncle's truck until it was almost other stay here and guard the upon him. But the bear did. stuff. Which do you choose to The headlights and additional noise had made him decide to da?"

"1'11 go," said Gary. "I don't move on.

to wait around."

off and started climbed glumly back to the bear. He wanted our ham,

somewhat

He

Pcie

scat.

Не was worried es darkness came on,

not so much for himself as for Gary.

Maybe it would have

"Why all the racket?” asked Uncle Jim

"I was trying to scare off a

"Well, looks like he won't get

It this time," grinned Uncle Jim. MABEL HARMER

Long Before Yesterday

-Things Ware Different But People Still Had Fun--

By MAX TRELL.

GTT isn't like it used to be in

"IT

the old days," Policeman

"How long pro was that?"

the ancestor of all land was saying to Knart and Hanic, ing to ash) references. A sketch animala. He is almost in the the Shadows with the turned- abant names. "I mean the days of the creature was sent to the direct line of man's ancestry." of long, long ago-long before 1 curator of the Rhodes Univer

was a policeman. Since reports of "gen alty at Grahamstown, South Africa, who was an expert on sters" had been coming in for strange fish.

some time from fishermen who asked Knarf. Indian Ocean, the, The professor at Grahams fished the

were town got quite a shock as he museumes

confident of sald studied the sketch. Fals. Nah, finding a better specimen. without the least doubt, was on These monsters were said to can't remember what happened the casually list of animals that had died out with the dinosaurs have eyes that "darted fire at

It was known

to scientists

yesterday, You" The professor verided than yesterday?"

phosphorescent eyes.

Although the fish was badly mauled, she could tell that it was about five feet long and would weigh approximately 127 pounds. This in itself was not from

fossil impressions laid this, explaining that they had surprising

down millions of years ago-at But its heavy, stre! blue least 60 million..

A nice reward was offered "Incrodible!" scales, powerful protruding jaw

declared

the for a coelacanth in good con- al packled fins were

and then positively dition peculiar she had to

(pronounced while species further.

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"I can't rightly remember," Policeman. "That's how long ago it was."

"Sometimes," sald Hanid, "I

Was it longer ngo "It was much longer ago than yesterday," nodded Policeman.

The Lamplighter used a stick "I can remember when there

to fight the lamps. weren't any electric lights."

Surprising News

Knarf and Hanid had This scened like a surprising

heard of horseCars.

Hyes.

went on After a vigorous battle, one piece of news. Houmadi, fishing off Anjouran electric lights," said Knart.

"I thought there were always

*horsecars looked In brought he stated, "is the Island,

another

Policeman shook his head. like trolley cars except the coelacanth. She could find nothing that closest living relative of

Although

"That's what everybody who they were smaller. And hitched even slightly resembled the fish long-extinct fish that is accepted coales were brown with white isn't old thinks. But long ago, to each car was a

spots (they later turned steel- before I was a polleeman, there horses. The horses pulled the blue) it did have phosphorescent was only gaslight. All the lamp cars along tracks all through eyes, and was identified as an posts were lit by gas."

80

looking that she fell me the Bah os acoela

preserve the fish canth

its komth) she investigated

"Here,"

SEAL-N-

IT MAY SOUND

FISHY colanth FISHY

W

BUT IT ISN'T

date," said Art, "then my West Coast of Africa, when \X7OULD you like to have brother keeps it for me and twins were born they were put the girls don't know difference."

Among some people the birth

and

a group of pictures carthenware the into

jars

hang over flung into the bush to

your chest of Derish And the unfortunate mother drawers or on either side of a mirror in your bedroom? was driven from her home,

Mary Slessor was inspired by Here is a plan by which you the example of David Living can have a new-looking wall, stone in East Africa. 1876 she went out to the West probably without Its cost- Coast, to stay for more than 30 ing you a penny.

Her work lay near the years. Cross River in Nigeria.

of twins was looked on with

sence of evil spirits.

horror, as evidence of the pro- On the

ZOO'S WHO

ค

A BULL SEA ELEPHANT, BY FAR THE LARGEST OF THE SEALS, MAY GROW TO A LENGTH OF 10 FEET AND

WEIGH AS MUCH AS 3 TONS.

THE JOHN SHEDD AQUARIUIM

IN CHICAGO IS THE LARGEST

AQUARTUM IN THE UNITED STATES. WORT HOG, WERT BOGS ARE A PRIMITIVE TYPE OF WILD SWINE INHABITING THE AFRICAN CONTINENT THE NAMS IS TAKEN FROM THE COM ICAL WARTS WHICH ADORM THE ANIMAL'S FACE ENORMOUS. “TUSKO CURVE HIGH OVER THE HOBE, AND THE LARGER PAKA

SOMETIMES GROW TO A LENGTH OF TWO FEET..

And in

Start, collecting' your materials. With this plan When Mary Slessor heard of you could.start with one or the terrible way that twins two pictures and continue were treated, she set herself to your collection for months break up this horrible custom. for years, depending on your Whenever she heard that twins wall space and the kind of were born she at once hurried to the scene in an attempt to collection you are making.. rescue them. She would take

For the framo, use a sardine

which you have the babies to her own house can from

out the top. Exatol and even false them for a time. eatly

Her main idea was to find the the four oulakde odara and sides mother and father and get them black, red, blue, or

la take the twing home.

colour

It's

| honest-to-goodness, pre-historic Since that time several have been found and captured.

never

Policeman, something that

team

mott

the town.

SARDINE CAN PICTURE

FOAME

"I bet they didn't "Who Ilt them?" asked Honid "Lamplighters lit them," sald fast," said Knart.

"No," said Policeman, Policeman. "Every day just about dusk, the lamplighter would didn't go fast at all. But come down the street with a body seemed to mind too much. long sort of sick. Ile would People didn't seem to be in as stop at a lamp post, reach up much a hurry in thore days as. The professor is now hoping with the stick, touch something they do now."

Policeman was silent to find a baby coelacanth and and the whole lamp, wouki-

go

very

"they

for

ENAMEL

OUTSIDE

KATHOVE

BACK

She was remarkably success thiore are many ful. Firully cure her greatest You could cut coloured pictures triumph, when a chief of one from magazines, wallpaper, or lise

FRAMÉS

MADE MI EMPFERENT SHAPES

Whatever You may wish to make your mafohes your | room's grouping of snapshots. | colour shame, Leave the gold Perhaps you are studying Uning on the four Inside walls. trees and leaves. In each. frame treo leat For the pictures themselves you could mount a

possibilities and its name under cellophane. For hangers for your pictures, gummed labels that have perhaps of the tribes was converted to birthday or Christmas cards, an eyelet in each. Or Christianity and was told. Just the size of the Inside of you could use Sextch.or would have to give up all of the can bottom.

ing tape, for your pictures are |his wives, except one. -

To find the size, put a piece 'very light weight, thing of tissue paper larger than tho. As your collection * grown, can inalda (Tom croose it all, bangino plotorne groups around the edges, Thain, whos": that, neu tétangollke" routantulat, At la teken, out of the own, will we frangular. In sËRING PAG give you a cuiling lige, --- Deve⠀ If you have trouble collecung The pattern, for full your future cham

Then he made a very impor- tut announcement. "E""""will keep as my wife the woman who gave birth to twista,"

AROLD GLUCK

DUS The this collections nelabboure;tó help you.

maak

other things were different in the old

to capture it alive. He thinks light up. It was a nice bright several minutes as he stood the study of such a fish may be light too, almost as bright as remembering the

that a miniature history of evolu-the electric lights in the lamp

days. tion.

posts now."

"There weren't many Auto- "What else WAO different The finding of the coelacanth about things In the old

mobles," he said. "There were days, has been described as the "most Policemen?” Hanid asked.

wagons and carriages. There telephones талу "There weren't any amazing event of the century In

buses," weren't either." the realm of natural history." said Policeman.

"Then how did people call So when you meet that dine-

each other up?" asked Hanid, saur, give him a casual nod and say, "Sorry, old ́inan, you're too

They Sent Letters iate to cause any excitement, The coelacanth got here ahead of you."

Just Trolley Cars "I know," said Knart,. "There were trolley cazat.”

"No," cald Policeman, "there weren't any trolley cars. There were horsocars.”?

Rupert and the Fiddle-33

tips weird noises from, gallery, 29, wotač King Cole,

sara and in

"They didn't," said Policeman. They sent letters and thirs weren't phy 'movies... There wom't any television. There wan't any radio,”

Knarf and Hanid said they wondered what people did when there were so many things that weren't!

"Oh, there, was plenty to do!" wald Policeman. "People want to work. Children went to school. In the mummer time, you weat swimming. In the winter time, you went ice skating and sleigh riding. The girls,made, taffy and fudges The... boys Made popcorn and lemonade; You could play hide-and-week. You could roll marbles and spin tops and about Dft firecrackers --YOU could est rock candy and m

Pelloeman stopped set sigbid. “Well," he map lame wwe the old days. But there'a plodty of fun to be had th thean:pow