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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1057.

FEATURES FOR

BOYS AND

GIRLS

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YOUR PUZZLE TRUE ADVENTURE-

CORNER

Try the Puzzleman's variety puzzlers:

CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Klud of tido

4 Decay

7 Meadow

8 Before

D Males

10 Body ut water

it Negative word

12 Dined

14 Boy's name

17 Vehicle

18 Negative prefix

19 Abstract being

20 Oblaln

1 Bhade tree

DOWN

2 Honey-maker

3 Fings

4 Not active

5 Mineral rock

6 Boycruce

12 Aviator

13 Light brown

16 Fish g

16 Busy insect

SOUND ALIKES

The Puzzleman's missing worda sound alike, but they are

DIAMOND

few of Since there are 20 them the world today. the Puzzleman picked an EMPEROR for the centre of his diamond. The second word la an ab- breviation for amount" third

king: Bfth "zea birds" and sixth an abbreviation for “oum- bern." Complete the diamond:

E

M P

EMPERON

籍

(Solutions on Page 19)

HOW AMUSE TO YOURSELF

IMARK A 2-INCH SQUARE ON A PIECE OF PAPER....MARK A TARGET IN THE SQUARE WITH ADOT

IN CENTER...

HOLDA PENCIL

ABOUT 10 INCHES ABOVE-TARGET.

CIRCLE TARGET WITH PENCIL. CLOSE YOUR

EYES AND

TRY TO HIT DOT WITH FOINT OF PENCIL.

2.

SEE HOW MANY TOOTHPICKS YOU CAN STACK ON THE MOUTH OF A SODA POP BOTTLE BEFORE THEY FALLOFF.

3.

apelled differently. Can you

DROP

finish his sentence?

BEANS

Did see the

with

IN A

her lamb?

MILK

BOTTLE

FROM EYE

LEVEL.

So

WORD SQUARE

After rearranging the letters

In each row to form a good word, rearrange

the rows

that your answer will read the same down GS DETOSS

AECRS

A AERS

A E PS S

APRTS

A A I R T

The thrill of

Once A Gold Mine

Across The USA In Box Kites' Now A Ghost Town

LYING a supersonic jet

FLYI

plane, the Boll X2 re- search rocket type, a flight test pilot set a new speed mark of 1,900 miles hour last summer. In 1909. a flyer won the Gordon Bennet races at Reims, France, with a speed of 46 miles an hour.

Between these two records lles a thrilling history of 'avia- tion. Take for instance, tho sensational air race of 1911...

All over America in August of 1911 people talked excitedly sbout the fantaalle, incredible fying-machine rooo which was soon to begin The New York American had offered a prize of $30,000 for the first person to cross the continent by air before October 10.

And it was reported that Ave crazy-headed flyers had actual ly entered the content, although in the end only three of them Kot very far,

Fowler gels set for take-off after one of his many forend landings. Pulling the plane along railroad tracks was often the only met hod of raising it from the ground again,

Man had only been Bying about seven years. Bleriot, the Frenchman, had just managed and an aulo to find him after to fly the English Channel-31 Aight landings. Aboard the miles. But this contest was train was a man to drive the from coast to coast-over the Western Desert, the Rockies, the auto, a docter, mechanics, and

the flier's family,

Each man's wife or mother cooked his meals in the Pull man kitchen,

Sierras,

Even Orville Wright said it was impossible, But ment were going to try it,

☆ ☆

ON SEPTEMBER 11, at 1.30,

•

Hora arizona there's

IDDEN behind a hill in

a little tumbled-down ghost town that played an im portant part in the state's carly history. It was once the living mining town of Weaverville, named for Pau- lino Weaver (Paulino Weaver, as he was known), an early prospector and trail-blazer.

The ghost town lies on the cast bank of Weaver Creek. Only one of its stone buildings remains standing. Loomlyg high west of the creek,slands Rich Hill, the famous mountain that gave birth to the little town,

THIS GRASS CERTAINLY.

HAS A MELLOW

FLAVOR!

GOLD!

It is said that the Title Wild Wesl town was so located bo One night in 1803 Paulino bind the hills that outlaws used Weaver and a party of prod- to hide there and offleure did pectora pitched their camp near not dare to go in after them. the post. During the night a But there were good people donkey wandered away from too, of course respectable their camp and

families whose men worked prospecting trip of its own. Ho hard mining gold to provide a was looking for something to living. eat.

went

1 on

Early the next 'moming one chicken coop. or the men went to find him. his machine Ho tralled him to the top of the

big mountain.

And there he found him

Diter

many

After a time, the surfaco cold that could be scratched or panned loose gave out. The people moved away,

But Weaverville had *OA Iribsted greatly to the growin and progress of the Southwest, for people who found gold there" moved to ather localities estabilahed businesses, schools and churches, ·

by the Cole Motor Company Fowler took off before a crowd cause of 2,000 paid admissions the Cole Flyer completely cast of old grass in a patch and

the

But he got his railroad tracks Coming down for his Bral mixed up. Although he flew 200 siop, he boaslud that he had miles that day, he was only 22 flown 105 miles in 104 minutes. miles from New York when he

Next day on iha take-off he landed. He walked away from clipped a tree and the plane a crash just 300 miles from New plunged into York and quit the race

But he repaired Rodgers tried to get the vin and flew on. Fis off at two o'clock on Sep- Meanwhile,

ember 17, But he couldn't be wrecks, Fowler anally wrecked nib

nibbling wild ONE FLTER was sponsored

Kusreta. swarmed

of El Paso and quit. and his plunc

Excitement filled the camp was named the of 10,000 in Golden Gate Park, which

and the hurried to the top Cole Flyer.

mery Another machine San Francisco. "I plan to dy at Sheepshead Bay race track and

of the mountain. It is said that RODGERS HAD was named after the new soft a height of 800 feet and make his acroplane. drink and Its backers-dh

day," he told them, Vin 400 miles a

Finally

Today the Uttlo after two hours of

Romany they eventually scratched out

town lies Another contestant named plcnding and threats from the wrecks that his plane had been over a million dollars worth of abandoned. Wild grasses Fiz.

and the ground,

And Derby racehorses were never Ward took off on Septemb 3 police, he started his engine, the was virtually not und there sold there with klethon knives. Olarve nover

over more hotly then from Governors Island in New crowd flod, and he became

left of

strawberry-red cactus blossoms They named the big moun one when he neared inin Rich Hill. first aeronaut to fly over Man- original

make gay, splashes of colour

} were those flying machines. Yet York harbour, wearing a foots

hattan os he headed west,

Pasadena, the end of the race.

The newa spread, they were no

other against the grey rocks, more than box ball helmet and headed west.

If you should talk with most He had been attacked by a prospectors came and the town giant eagle that for 20 miles of Weaverville was bulit. Most any old-timer, he will tell you, of the houses and even burro "There's still a milion dollars kept diving at the plane, dam corrals were built with cobble worth of rold in that old aging the rudder wires.

He had stones lost 15 pounds. On November

from the creek. There mountain, but i'll take some-

than the kitchen knife to dig it out.”

-Ida Smith

kitus with engine and pro- peller,

Frames wero of splintery spruce; slays, of bamboo, Pro- pellers wore chain driven, ke

a bleycle. The landing gear had ski skida out ahead, bike wheels underneath.

You turned the plane with a balancing rope that went over your shoulders Ike a high- wire walker. And 120 parn- chutes, of courts.

How many of today's test pilots would like to take up one of those planes?

The men were proud of them, though, C. Rodgers, flying the Vin Fis, bragged that his propellers were covered with linen to make them extra strong.

Bob Fowler, piloting the Cole Flyer, shot back, "I have a rub. ber hood to protect my legs from the rushing alt." The pilot sat out in the open in thoke days.

Each flier planned to follow railroad tracks cross-country.

Below, a special train carṛled

spare parts, a machine shop Mra Mary Fowler wishes her son luck at the start of the face.

3, at 4,000 feet, a cylinder ex-waa u generat store, a stage thing a heap bigger ploded near the Salton Sea in station, a dance hall and California, Alling his arm with usual trappings of a western steel splinters.

mining town in the 1800's. The plane sprung a radiator an the jast lap; the magneto worked loose. Rodgers held it with one hand, and with his other and his knees, an November 5 at four o'clock, he spiralled down to the white “shoot that marked the end of

the Journey.

bad made the United States air-conscious from const

Christopher's New Song

-It Was All About A Pixie Race He Saw---

By MAX TRELL

to coast for the first time.

"Some day, if a way can be CHRISTOPHER Cricket WEB found to box the plia in, I ex- sitting against the fence, pect we'll fly 100 miles

an strumming his guitar-he Was hour," he said. And now, only the best guitar player in the 40 years later, man has flown neighbourhood when Knart, 1,000 miles in an hour. We may the Shadow Boy with tho just be able to take that trip to tumed-about name, came over. the moon yet.

Make Your Own Modelling

ONE of the oldest arts Is

known

to

Inani

permanently hard. This is wonderful

mud is commonly called clay.

playing in clean mud. Clean The purest form of clay is mud is an earthy material whic. But most native clay wilch has a soupy feel. It is is coloured either brown, red, sticky and solls the fingers. yellow, blue or grey, depending But when wot, it is easily, upon the type of other material moulded, and when baked It found in i

'Build it yourself”

How much better it to to make your own toys! Make them as you want them, and make them work. Make them with Maccano. When you've made and played with one modal, you can táka is to pieces and build another with the same parts. Maccano grows in interest as you keep adding to your stock of gears, wheels, girders and strips as time goes on- It the Toy that grows with the

Boy."

MECCANO

ANO LETTIS," SHENI ADAD, LYRAPQat

If you want to find .native clay, find the mud near your home. The colour is not important for your purpose, but the clay must be sticky and slippery when wel,

To prepare native elny for modelling, you must first break the eloy into small pieces and allow it to dry thoroughly. Most clay is easy to reduce to powder or dust when it is thoroughly dry:

Put the dry clay Into à sack

or cloth bag. With a hammer

or' rolling pin pound or grind

the clay to powder.

M. S. SHELTON

Clay

A patient pot, this Norwegian elkhound'sits for frienda sa they sculpt him with homemade elay.

"Hello, Chris," said Khatf. Chris stopped playing bala guitar and nodded: "Hello, Knart."

heard you singing a sODN Just now," said Knart, "What was the name of it? I've never heard you aing that song be- fore."

A New Song

It's

called,

Christopher was sitting on the fance, strumming a guitar,

.

a

"No, you never heard that song before," agreed Christops. her Cricket, "because I've never

"He's a grumbler," said Chris- sung it before. I just made it topher Cricket. "He thought if he didn't go into the rRCO, he up this morning.

never could lose it." "The Pixie Race

couldn't "But he Knart wanted to know more either," said Knarf

win it about this song Christopher

"Pixie O'scowl finally thought explained that he had visited of that, too," said Christopher. the Pixies last night in O'Cheer "But the only thing left for him Hall down at the Old Oak. ! to ride on was a Daddy Long- "They were holding A big legs. He climbed way on top race and saw it. The song is of the Daddy Longlegs back. It was like sitting on an elephant Was with eight leg or perhaps it was only slx; I couldn't count them,

all about it,"

sat

"it

"What kind of u Tuce 117 Kaart asiked, as ho down baldo Christopher.

"Well," said Christopher, was the strangest race that any one ever sawl It was held under the light of the moon. The race started at the Old Oak and end- od at the Huckleberry Bush on the other side of the Frog Pond."

"Wero all the Pixies in it?" asked Knarf.

1.

"Everyone of them was in " "Who won? Who ran the fast- est?" said Knarf.

Next, aur the powdered clay through a samali mesta aleve or wire screen. This will remove moulded into any desired form, it left out in the open, cover it • Clay pieces must be fired, if nodded Christopher.

as or rolled into thin sheets for with a wet any foreign material such

cloth to prevent they are to hold water. They grass, twigs, or gravel

cutting.

quick drying.

may the be glazed. Fill a container halt full of When clay is not being usedă

Unfred clay ploves may bej water. Sprinkle the sifted clay it should be kept in an earthen When the clay place is ther- into the water until small vare jer, with a light cover, or sughly dry it may be smoothed finished with tempera paint and

rough shellac, or enamel, amount of clay rises to the sur- kept in a plastic bag in an air with matapor, or

cloth. face. Skim off any foreign tight tn.

matter that rises.

Allow soak for

NOW THAT the clay is ready the clay mixture to to be used, you should keep in

an hour, mind some guiding principles. more than

Then stir ll.

This mixture is known as

"slip." Pour the slip through a The clay le cizily worked sure that only the fine clay is when it has the texture of

fine slove two more times to be

left in the spot.

stånd over- anhlon. The alp to night, Biphan the clear water eff. Pour the slip again through the slovo. Allow li to send |until cikar water' can sgsins, bo

siphoned off. ·

putty.

Do simple objects before ate tempting dificult ones. Get the Weneral shape desired and then add small details,

Over the unāniskiej. pitous with a damp slalh to keep them moist from day to day:no

Any excess moisture will be nheurbed when the thick ally is. All Joining piton of clay musi placed in a plaster bowl. Ahir be welded and worked together. reduces the slip, to clay, since The, whole, object must be pinater in a poroda material and moistened to mond a broko moisture in laboury up, quickly. pleco Wot clay, will not stick

Knead the day to you would to dry clay. knoad dough. Whêm để tàn the, Lei the finished product dry right consistocicy -- it - will be slowly to keep it from tracking, molat and platio noough to be: Place it inside" a jar DE PED, OFF

---Velma ZimmE TIDEN.

Rupert, and the Fiddle-45:

Hello sinoD, SO YOU'ST Ruger cells295 Did Old King Cole - let yửa, bưng, the fiddle away, 75%

• 299,, thle la'azother one, am, vlak. “

| peaction feed and pr cleven at 30.

còn go and play at the Cància for

"Finally the race started and away they all went, Jumping. und hopping, and crawling.

"Pixie Meginooze, riding on the Grasshopper, gat ahead of

All the rest

Kept Stumbling "Pizle O'Scowl, sitiing on the back of the Daddy Longlegs was the lost in the race because the Daddy Longlegs kest stumbling and tripping ord falling all over his long legs.

I never should have gone into this asco at all, grumbled Pizia O'Scowl.

Caterpilla

A Riding Race "Oh.just a

minute!” said Christopher, “I should have told "And then they ali ronchod you. Nòng of them did any run- the edge of the Frog Food. The Beatle, Ant, the Gnail, the ning. It was a riding race." "On horses?" said Koarf.

al refused to go Christopher Cricket shook his any further. head, "Oh no, then woron't "Pixis Masnooze mado Grass- any horses to ride on,"

hopper jump—and he landed, în ***What did they use?" asked the zaiddia of the pondi

Knart.

That," said Christopher" is his Daddy Longlam

"Pixie O'Scowi triod to make

turn back what made it such a strange but Daddy Longlegs tripped and race. Pixle, Medpez, zode on the zeil on a fear that was Boating back of a Small Pizle road in a pond and they both went rode on a Beetle, Pixie O'speck sailing across to the other sidel rode on an Ant Pixie McMerric

Hoard clapped his hands with Frodo ou « Caterpillar."

Joy. 18o. Plie O'Boyl won the

I wish I could have seen sacal

them," said Knati,

You haven't heard it all yet aid Christopher, Cricket), "Pizia Mafktiooze rade je on. Grasstopper. Pizio Mochekhaw the cook rode on a Doodlebug And that latt Pixie O'Skow who had decided he didn't want atmetall

to lie bothered sucion at all!

-“yybg" not?” asked "iziert.

the final dise" in "