1957-10-26 — Page 18

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1867,

FEATURES FOR

BOYS AND

GIRLS

Jungle Swallowed A

YOUR PUZZLE A MYSTERY STILL UNSOLVED

CORNER

The Puzzleman's varilettes,

CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Sorrowful

4 Fish

Light touch

7 Fisherman's apparatus

10 Correlative of either

11 Tus

12 Number

14 Honey-maker

15 Age

17 Molst

1 Pirch

DOWN

2 Ptid notice in a newspaper

3 Beast's home

6 Cooking utensil

6 Exist

Compass pandu

9 Part of your foot

13 Recent

14 Baseball stick

10 Musical note

WORD CHAIN

Can you change WHITE to BLACK in seven moves, chang- Ing only one letter at a time and being sure you have a good If you have word each time?

trouble, the Puzzleman says try changing to 1; W to T; T

to C: Elo K; to A: 13; and I to L.

SOUND ALIKES

TRIANGLE

COUNTRY provides

a

FOR OVER 500 years it stood there in its ruin- magnificence, hidden base ed

civilisation, known

for Puzzlemon's word triangle, from

The second word is thus"; and inhabited only by na- third" small shield"; fourth ture, untouched by the hand #men's _name" fifth of man. inside

sixth Can you finish the "frightener," telangle from these clues?.

out":

and

COUNTRY

WORD SQUARE

Rearrange the letters in each row to form - 1ood word, then tentung the rows so that your Dilewer

will read the SAMO down as nETOSE. As clares, the Brat word is "painful spots"; tirel "second "Pope's empo":

"update" fourthi "fragtent ufeoresin"; and Afth "a Anch of Europe."

E NRS

I

山山

ILM

SMRK S

AE CRR

AEO

L

E

ORS

(Solutions on Page 19)

Angkor, once the largest capital city of the glant world, slept like a shorn of his mighty power.

It was only by accident that this city in French Indo-China was discovered. A Frenchman stumbled upon it in 1861 while he was hunting for rare butter- flies.

..

This naturalist, Henri Mou- Al- hot, pushing through, un most impenetrable forest jun- gle, suddenly saw before him a stone temple with five carved towers 250 feet high. Was this true, or was he dreaming?

He ventured near. The wild follare twined in and out of the carved doors and windows and Across the terrnoon. Monkeys, panthers. bate and birds were the only inhabitants,

This was the Angkor Vat, the magnificent temple where wor- shipers had came to pay him- age to Brahma, later to Buddhu The ancient city of Angkor surrounding it was once inhab- ited in 1350 by 2,000,000 people, called Khymers.

Returning to France, Moubot fold of his discovery before he became victim of jungle ffyer. The French government. doubted his story but Anally

Take Steps To Good

I

Memory

WENT to school with a get her last name, and the girl named Mary natural association was 80 Nightingale, who used to strong that I always sang

every out; "Hi there, Florence!" The Puzzleman says his "miss-get angry with me Ing words sound alike, but they time she saw me.

Psychologists say that people are spelled differently. Can you

subconsciously make farget because all in the missing words and complete his sentence;

The Monarch began his-on play heavy with

I didn't mean to Mary angry, but I always forgot her first name. Un- fortunately I NEVER for

The Uaes. In this diagram conctal a silhouette of something you all know. Can you see what it is? If not black in with a pencil all those shapes that contain a deli

Bob's mobile crane was built with a No. 3 outfit

Young Robert lover cranes and he gets undiers pleasure building them in Maccano, along with scores of other fine working modala. Hạ No. 3 Meccano is a 'middle size' outfit, and he hopes it will become a No. 4'on' his birthday when he gets a No. Ja accessory outfit. That wil mean more elaborate modelst The Interchange=" able metal parts of Meccano make it the most fascinating of all hobbies for boys of Dvery age.

| Mobile Crone made

with Ateccan

Quißt No. 1.

MECCANO

PADI IN INGLÁND BY

LIVERPOOL-

they want to forget.

Memory experts agree with say the psychologists. They that the first step in giving yourself u good memory is "a 1step of desire and decision."

good

Step 1. You want A memory and you decide to fot

In good memory.-

A

MAKE YOUR OWN

Giant Capital PUPPET THEATRE

An adventurer Inspects the ruins of Angkor Vai, seemingly held up by giant tree roots.

sent out nied it.

we have today for building. took years of pallent toil

It

YOU CAN make these Cutout a sit 1⁄2 inch high

You

. puppets and theatre across the bottom of the back; this enables you to move your for yourself.

Draw a face on a wooden puppets across the singe.

Cut out three sides of a door ice cream spoon.

at the side back. It will swing Then cut out a two-inch open to let the puppets on and square of coloured cloth or off stage. arepa paper for the hair. Fold in half. Cut narrow, elita to 4 inch of the fold.

•

at the back.

·Sut the top There you can slip in any ze, Hold scene you draw to

Glue around the head. Cut place with tape at the top.

Now you need a theatre the hair short if this is a front Cut off the long side of boy puppet.

a suit box bottom. Set the box top to stand on the long

the front side. Slp it under

Stip the end of the spoon, edge of the boltom box. Slaple with a bit of glue on it, into a at the cornera and zapa In marshmallow. Twist pipa pince. cleaner around the top of the body for the arms. Turn ends to look like hands.

Fash a pencil, with a bli of alue at the point, Into the back of the marshmallow,

the

Cut the far end of the bottom box at the ostners. Fold down the flap on the lable you will use to give the show. Tuck or tapp to the table.

-

Now you are ready to dress your puppet. Fold a plece of Now trace the stage box (the gay material for a blouse. Cut shoe box) opening on the front. out a semicirele at the fold and Crayon small curtains one inch slip it over the head,

out the stage opening. Inside the traced opening. Cut

You cut the sleeves to it the

puppet. Tape, folded on inside, will hold the seams to rother. A

The

strip of tape around the explorers, who veri- beauty, regardless of time and

waist will hold a skirt or trou-, the elements.

pers in place. Be sure they are The city is protected by Why was this city deserted | long enough to cover It was true. Here was a city, stone wall 60 feet high. There and left to the jungle and the marshmallow,

were pal are live victory hates in Besides the temple

this wild animals? That is still a Now for the stage. Bet the aces, llbraries, monuments and wall, each

with a god-head mystery; no one can give a bottom half of a shoe box on Domes - silji standing. Garing facing the four points of the definite answer.

the long side with the opening in amazement, the explorers compass.

Some think u plague may facing you. asked why this once thriving Approaching one gate on ench have obliterated the inhabitants. metropolla was deserted and a side of the walkway are 54 Others think on enemy carried hidden mystery for so many glant statues, eight feet high," them off to another country, centuries?

supporting a huge stone cobra with Its seven heads.

The temple is about the size of u city block, Built with witte terracry, it has a huge tower topping the centre of the structure and a Lower on each

corner.

The zione balustrades are made in the form of a cobra with seven heads. This take was considered sacred by those people.

Every stone in the building is carved in intricate designs di Inside, one sees walls images, carved with images of kings, pobras, and dancers — all real works of art that aplain their

This Is True

In the pavements can be scen the ruts made by the charlots, long ago.

It is no wonder the guides are proud to show the tourists the marvels of a lost city. I you ask who built the lemple, they answer, "The gods."

But we know that the urchi teet who planned it must have been a man of a great and ar- title mind. So were the artists who decorated it with the beau tiful carvings and paintings,

Ani

think of the thousands of slaves who cut the stones, carried them from the quarries and set them in place, without the mechanical implements that

Sull

*

ΟΙ

the stage in place bes the opening. Decide on a name for your theatre. Put i over the singe,

Tack wrapping paper around the bottom of the table. Keep behind the theatre your head front when

working you are your puppets,

-By Ann Muni

The Walking Goldfish

--Strange Doings On Bookland Boulevard-

another version is thal the slaves tireil of their lot. killed their masters arid families. And that in time the

By MAX TRELL slaves, without ព masler leader, turned their backg on Teddy the Stuffed Bear, the clly of their labours and and Hiawatha, the Wooden wandered into the jungle to Indian Boy, and Knarf, the live an easier and more priml-Shadow with the turned-about tive life.

nome, walked down Bookland What a story these slatues Boulevard. This is a delightful could tell of the long gone in-street which nuns behind

ย habitants. If they could talk, bookshelves from one ena they could reveal the mystery the world, to the other. of the lost city and the magni- ficent temple of Angkor Vat.

By C. Brunsort

BLED 2. Pay attention, con- NOW-FAMOUS NEWSBOY MET

centrate on what you want to remember. Make sure you are sceing or hearing correctly the name or statement you wish to remember.

SUCCESS ON A TRAIN

·

r

WAS IN the summer

and ask for the name to be re- peater.

the

of

On both sides of Booldand Boulevard were the house of All the famous Book People such 11.9 Jim Hawidins of Treasure Island, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, Simple Simon, Mother Goose, Alice of Wonder- land and Baron Munch.

Extraordinary House

Out came the goldfish, ..flipping and flopping.

7-15

Baron Munch lived in on extra-ordinary house. It had interrupted and said in a loud round windows like eyes, a door voice to the Baron: "Is big ike a mouth and chimneys like Her" cars,

"What taphil asced Baron "Let's go in and see the Munch, offering Hiawatha a Baron," said Kaart to his two second

glass

of moonbeam friends.

mujk "That's a good idea," said "That story you say about Teddy. "Moy" be he'll tell us taking goldfish" for a wolk,"

of

bla said Hiawathu. story

of опе

"My dear fellow," said the Hluwalha grunted Baron, "I know it sounds I really was

usually done there, he sold 93. it was that way all along the adventures."

from the train when it stopped

the

But

am Tom Edison," he of 1862 that a boy in began. "I live in Fort Huron, If someone is introduced to his early teens appeared at and I sell newspapers, candy, line. At one place he jumped gloomy and saki; "Hlai always remarkable but

things on the train and other you and you do not hear the a Detroit building bearing between home and Detroit, name correctly, how can you

I at a tank to take water and tell lies. Never belleve atories about to take roy goldish out train & noWB- hope to remember that person's the sign FREE PRESS. He publish on the

for a walk. ran a quarter of milo to the Baron Munch tell."

"Oh that's all right," said *I have been training them for name the next time you meet? entered and timidly walked paper called the Weekly Herald. main station with his arms full

have been printing threa an office marked up to

of papers. He sold all of them. Knarf, as he rang the door bdi, several years to come out of Apologine for not hearingEditorial."

hundred copies, but I could When his trip was ended. he "Even if Baren Munch's stories the water. At first they were sell a thousand if I could get had sold every copy of his aren't true, they're always lots only able to stay out for a the paper

Recond or two but, little by on which to print paper, and he had made more of fun to listen to." them."

monov than he had ever made

Just then the door opened tile, they learned how to And

Munch smilingly stay Baron

autside for a⚫ longer want us "You

to supply

invited them inside. He was period." you?" one of the men asked,

Д dressed. In "Yes sir, and I will pay you

brown hunting He promptly paid his friends jacket, tall bools and us boon as I all the"

at the FREE PRESS for the feathered cap. He was smoking One of the

mon said, "No suppiles they had sold him on a long clay pipe. credit," but the other one

credit, and because of blo spoke up.

promptness be had no trouble "Come on, let's lot him have getting credit later when he the stuff," he urged. “At least wanted it.

something.

Step 3. Repeat out loud three times what you want re- If it is practical to member. do so, write down three times. Step 4. Associate what you want to remember with some thing that will automatically make you remember it,

I rally stopped making my with Nightingale friend angry. me by a novel sort of associa- tion. 1 told myself that the next time I saw her I would picture a nurse erasing the name "Florence" with an

It worked. marked "Mary."

Florence hasn't been angry with me once since then.

eraser

"I want to

see the edi- tor," he told the young man who answered his knock.

"He's busy," was the re- ply.

"But I have important business with him," the visitor insisted.

★

the

new-

Something about comer cause the doorkeeper he's trying to do to heed his words. He disap- peared in the room and after a short stay was back.

"The editor will so you now he said, as he held open the door for the boy to citer,

Two men were seated at a tabla, and without waiting for them to rise, he explained his

--MANUEL ALMADA | mission.

ZOO'S WHO

THOLIGH SOMEWHAT

POGLIKE IN APPEARANCE HYENAS DO NOT BELONG TO POG TREEL THEY ARE IN- TERMEDIATE BETWEEN DOES AND GAYS AND ACTUALLY ARE INCLUDED IN THE CAT FAMILYGU

SOME

· THE PHILIPPIES

PONCE COMMON IN

THE UNITED STATES THE LAST OMALLFOCK OF CAROLINA PREANERTS WAS SERU IN THE FLEBURA

EVERGLADES

and boys of that kind ought to be encouraged. If he falls to pay. I'll pay myself."

the

So they let him have paper. Young Tom secured the aid of another boy, and the two the lugged the material to train.

*

Д

befor

In time he became one of the world's greatest inventors and scientists. It was he who gave us the phonograph, the electric light, and many other useful inventions. Feb. 11 is known

"I'm

Walking Goldish

a

glad you've come," he said. "I was about to take my

goldish out for a walk."

"Big lie," Hiawatha repeated. Baron Munch merely smiled. He turned to Kart and Teddy. "Hiawatha doesn't bellevo me," he said, "about my walk- goldfish. But I hope you

Oh yea" said Teddy, "I be lleve anything you say, Baron

LO

do."

Munch

So do I," said Kharf, "only Knart and Teddy looked at Baron Munch in astonishment.

I'd believe you more about Hiawatha, however, merely those walking goldfish if I could grunted and sald under his see them walk."

"You mean right now?" sald the Baron,

Can't

walk"

as Edison Poy, in commemoras breath: "That big lle. Goldfish tion of his birth date."

By this time, the three He laid the basis for his puc friends were Inside Barum Hiawatha nodded their heads. ceases while he was a newsboy Munch's house. Ho Invited

Knati Was about to ant Baron Munch to explain want

Knart and "Teddy and even

Little Collars

"Yes, right now," said Hiawatha, a train. "I learned a

very

sald well

Baton train Tom had On the

Mundt. "The Ash aro In the second-hand press and mene valuable lesson on that train them all to sit down and have

something to eat, with there type, and

he had bo said to have told a friend,

"Here," he said, "a pitcher aquarium right by the window, "for I

Jeamed that success

walk Но been printing his paper.

of mocbeem milk with snow I'll take them out for a had thus become the reporter, awalls him who plans ahead calces."

right now." pressman, editor, publisher, and and works hard to make his newsdealer of too fast. nawa- plans come true." paper in the world that was printed on a train while it was In motion Tors sold oppies for three conta cach, or more, jumping off at each stopping place and selling his papers while the truin walked for

passengers to ect

get on.

But he realised that if his males were to increase greatly he would have to hustle all the harder. Ho persuade the telegraph operator at Hurpe to wire fired to the other stations the handlings of bils

Most

teresting "nuwe" stories. Ther bendlines

were posted bulantin boende so that pouple could' was then. This pide them ear to buy when Tom ala Rizky Ela spoliantly printed 1,000 copies and wilted "la" 200: Hoor ho would come put

with his venture

Amelling two papers," as 'ho ad

bo. meant by inponbeam milk

And this is what happened.

J. A. RICKARD and snow cakes when Hiawatha Baron Munch went over to the

Rupert and Rusty-11

Before Rupert can "think "over. For some minutes they hardly dare Rusty's strange discovery the two- to benathe. Then as all is silent, frienda" are ""yigitlode so heaT LA they push on gently' shrough the cracking of twigs sa, somebody bushes, wrizzle patergh. ¿ bedgi. comics "through" the nearby wood. and now: Rusty ineada no1 second' and they dart into the babta test bidding, to lead khe way home. in us to vobi bàing won by f** Whew, that was a post slav) i

aquarium and whistled, Out came the two goldfish, hipping and fapping through the air like bright red birds. Then the Baron carefully put ide couers around them

with

straps.

attached-bye" he said to Knark, Teddy, and Hiawatha,

you later when I came back from our wallc."!

And away he went with the two goldfah bouncing after. him, waving their golden fins

Knarr, Teddy and Hiawatha walked home in alience, all the way down Bookland Boulevard, The only one who spoke WALK- Hlawntha

KOLE *le," he kept saying. They want goldfish at all They were rubber fish, Baron Munch fool us all, en

But Khart 1 and 4 Tade worm's mum that Hjawalha waa