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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1957.

FEATURES

FOR

BOYS

YOUR PUZZLE THINGS NOT TO DO WHEN

CORNER

SYRIAN CROSSWORD

To give you some help with Tho

DIAMOND

LATAKIA is the chief sea- Puzzleman'a crossword port of Syria and the centre of puzzle, Cartoonist Cal has Iet- The Puzzleanan's word diamond.

I'

HOLIDAYING IN U.S.A.

YOU are under the im

pression that summer

sports have been neglected by lawyers, you're mis- taken.

One of the sports most

tered in the name of Syria: The second word is "a blem-popular in warm weather is

1 Crafty

A $9

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14

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A

ACROSS

7 You are with his

8 Mineral rock

ן י' מ

00:12:

11 Co-tistants

17. Help

10 d

Ron koome

20 Eucharist'e wine eup

DOWN

1 Haren, as er ni

2 Strong alkaline solution

3 Altimailve reply

4 Garden tool

Minka mittake

6 Residence (ab)

10 Altempl

11 Light touch

12 Falsehood

13 Annex

74 Greek letter

15 Edge

10 Body of water

The

MISSING VOWELS

Puzzlemaz

lite

vowels out of these linee things al out Syria, but he shows you how many letter e missing erch. Can you complete the

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-R-N T-S ~~P HRT-S D-M-S C-S

1:** third "ron or

LATAKIA

suit

alum!-inthing. But don't do it in "; dh "used a garrien

on Sunday in a tar and sixth

cover Georgin MA

stream 01" Fin the diamond: .

pond where people going to church can seo you. If you do, you may be tried for having committed a misdemeanour.

If you have an bathing

you "from neex covering knee," resist the urge to plunge Into water

Portland around Oregon. Otherwise you may And your bath quite expensive.

which Kentucky has a law prohibits you from appearing on the streets in a bathing suit unless you have a police guard. And in Piqua, Ohio, you take no bath before 10 pm, for -- you've guessed it they have

law "agin" it

SYRIA REBUS

You'll and The Puzzlemen's four facts about Syria, which he has hidden in this rebus, if you'll just use the words and pictures to your fullest od- vantage:

WE VISITBO HOOVER DAMON OUR TRIP

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SPLIT IT RIGHT

DOWN THE

MIDDLE)

DI

HEAST?

JUMBLEAYAH

Trouble is what The Puzzle- I had with his sentence atout Sri, so he needs your

Ip to tet 1 straightenes aut. Can you do 117

One world's lands. is the an- elent Syria 'most of

(Solutions on Page 19)

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ANOTHER SPORT closuly allied to bathing in hot weather for sou angle is chlog. H hout while on horseback nny- where in Colorado, nake ele Iain no pol ceman sees you. It Le dnes, he'll be obliged to do his duty and pull you in not into the stream but to say, "Good morning. Judge."

Idaho pous whole-hag or none and insists you mustn't do fish- ing of any kind while on the back of an animo),

and In Louisville, Ky.,

121 have Hazlehurst, Miss, they statutes derying you the right to shoot fish with a bow and arrow, oven though you night have sumetent skill to accom- plish the feat.

In Knoxville, Tenn., they go a step further and say you are never, never to Jasso a ŝish,

In Maine, if you use dyna mite, TNT or any other explo sive to fish you'll be likely to get a chance to correct your

term in error with a nice

prion, where you'll be unable even to bait a book. In Toltec, Colo., if you catch a fish with your hands, you have become a Jawbreaker.

ZOO'S WHO Line

CATE HAVE THE SHARPEST AND THE MOST PERFECT CLAWS, THEY ARE COMPRESSED ON EACH

SIDE AND HOOKED..

A HIPPOPOTAMOS IS SO HEAVY THAT HE CAN'T STAND ON DRY LAND FOR LONG WITHOUT GETTING EXHAUSTED IN WA- TER HIS BODY HALF FLOATS GIVING HIS

LEGS A REST.

PEKAN IS THE INDIAN NAME FOR THE MARTEN, A BROWN BUSIN-

TAILED FURBEARER THAT LIVES IN TREES OF NORTHERN FORESTS...

Just Arrived

New

EXPRESS ANNUAL

EXPRESS

KOYS SUPER CLOU

1957

from

If he did this in Kentucky, Cantinflas would get in trouble. Here the bull-ring comedian is shown tackling one in Mexico.

AND

GIRLS

Mary Had A Little Goat-Briefly

NERTIE, MY PET goat,

on

got involved with Judge Saunders, our neigh- bour, and was sentenced to Isolation

his farm. Funny thing. Judge Saun- dera had brought Gertie to me a pink-nosed, white and belge baby.

"Can I keep her?" I had ask-

ed my parents,

"Asaume Full

responsibility

for her belavlour," Dad had said.

"Feed and care for her," Mother'd ruled.

" feed her every hour on the hour," I promised,

And Gertle was mine,

For a whole week I kept my word. But thra

got. Jax about Gertie's feeding time, Gertie reminded me of it by bumping me,

I thought that was cule and clever, and encouraged her,

"It's unsocial, Mary.

Better

nip that habit of hers," Dad said,

+

"I will later," I glibly re- plied. "I'm building her pen,

I made one mistake on Ger-

KENTUCKY WILL make it be. striving to do is your now."

you, exercises in the sbade, lougher than tough on should you take to bullighting there. And no man in the Dis- Irict of Columbia may legally ! In for a nst fight with bull.

Boys and girls can't go to a parring match in Sacramento, Calif. There, too, a state law make wrestlers to forbids all faces at each other.

never

THAT GOAT HAS GOT TO GO!

Saunders and warned: "Don't EVER wear that robe in Gur- tle's sight, please."

He laughed, "Funmical story I ever heard. But listen, Mary Make her pen goatproof!"

I tled a rope around the gate, Sunday morning Judgo Sun- ders, wearing his clean bath- robe, stepped out to get his paper.

ber

Gertle, having chewed rope in two, was at liberty.

She spied that hateful bath- robe. Plunging ACTOSE the yards, she connected with it- and Judge Saunders,

Luckily, he wasn't hurt, But he exiled Gertle and hauled her away. I felt just awful.

וזי

Latch!"

ONLY I'd Axed

"You're

Mother said.

that

0 procrastinator,"

"A putter-offer!"

"You can change, Mary. Want to try with a new pot?"

"Mother A dog? Maybo?" "A dog ... maybe,”

Right then and there I fixed that gate-latch.

-By Beatrice Chescbrough

The Pixie Story Fest

-McSnooza Gives Everybody A Surprise-

By MAX TRELL

LL the Pixles in O'Cheer

If you should walk across the street on your hands in Hart- ford, Conn, or gallop acrosatie's do-it-yourself fence. I put A Holl, which is at the bottom down Oak, deep any thoroughfare in Hanunond, the gate-latch Inside instead of of the Old

will outside the

K

among the roots, were gathered pen. Ind, on a lightrope, you

Gertie'd learn to faround the big table and telling

slorics. that latch and get out, likely be made to pay for your dreamed proficiency in exercising,

Khart The New Orleans statutes' Gertie's Arst unconducted

and Harid, The you to lick a tour brought her face-to-face About Names, had been invited Shadows With The Turned- with her own reflection in Dad's

They had been told by new, shiny car. Not liking her own' looks, she banged a fendere O'Scowi nei to Interrupt

tfor

likes to out of shape.

no Pixle

be Interrupted while he is telling a VETY so they just sat warned: Blory)

quielly, munching poppy

serd cookies and listening.

In Philadelphia, if a wrestler will not allow throws his opponent out of the dust bin.

ring, it will cost him money. Suppose you are a baseball And no women gan give public fan who can emulate Babe Ruth wrestling matches in Glovers or Lou Gehrig and knock the ville, NY.

cover off the ball any time you like, Don't let yourself go in Muskogee, Okla, for if you hit the ball over the fence you'll! have broken a local ordinance. room in Huntsville, Al, or for anyone to perform on a musical instrument of any kind in the

✩ EVEN YOUR exercising can you in police toils very get easily. You may not stand, sit, roll upon, walk or run down any slope in any park in Balti more, Md., though all you may

Up Games For Playtime Fun

Numes for playtime

FOW is the time to think

fun. Here are several that cost practically nothing yet they will give you much entertainment.

.

Bowling: Save 10 milk car- tons ard paint etch carton u different colour. The cartons cap be set in bowling-pin terma- tion on the drivewry. Add one rubber ly and you have a irst-rate bowling game.

Rope-Snap: Take a long rope tad fasten Full 16 to

Land clothes pole. All playes stand in etrels, holling the rope with belt binds. Cintre stands In the middle of the chele and tries to snap the hands of the players.

..

MILK

CARTONS MAKE SUITABLE BOWLING PING

For a female to enter a pool-

Unamlingly Dad "Mary! Fix that latch!" /

"On Sunday afternoon, Dad," I promised.

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Pixie McSpry told about how he had jumped from the top of the Old Oak 'to the moon and back with a bucket of moon-milk.

catne

- Pixio Prank

McSnoora was opening the Arst flowers of spring.

McSnooze

I

"And, of course, wanted Jain in the work. was one of those days when ha was determined not to be lazy.

"At first we offered to give

Saturday Gertie slipped off to Saunders yard. There she en- countered on their clothes- Une the Judga's zarints- poolrooms in Birmingham, Als, coloured bathrobeflapping in is against two more laws.

the breeze. When I caught up Pixle McMerry told how he But the last "nay" is this: In with her, Gertle was fighting a had played a prank on ก Compton, Calif., if you dance | losing batile as she'd butt the chicken and a reose by taking himm sume strawberry buds to | chcek-to-check, be sure you robe which, with the help of the webbed feet from the goose open but he cald, no,' that was enjoy it so much that you will the wind, imacked constantly and giving them to the chicken too easy. So Anally, we said he not mind paying a fine next back at her.

so that the chicken paddled could have the job. of opening day.

She was an infulated little across the pond while the the buds in the big old chestnut goat as I tugged her back to her goose ran about the delid peek- tree that stood all by itself far

to tell Judge Ing in the grass for barley seed down at the end of the road.

Finally, Pixie O'Scowl, having Thanks, said McSnooze. been asked to tell a story, looked up and asked in E grumbling voice if Knart and Hanid had ever heard the story of how Pixie McSnooze opened the spring buds,

-By E. M, Marshall pen. I rushed

Space Ships Next?

FIFTY YEARS OF POWERED

FLIGHT

F

And to everyone's surprise, we saw his dashing down the road; as fast as he could go, heading straight for the tree.

"But when he got there," said Pixie O'Scowl, The found he Knart and Hand shook their was tired from running. So he beads, No, they had never heard decided to take a bit of a rest the story Di how Pixle before starling his work of McSnooze had opened the climbing up the tree and going spring buds.

from branch to branch, and toward space. William Bridge- "I was hoping you had heard twig, to twig, opening all the

has climbed 15 miles the story," grumbled Pixie Mc- bude. above the earth in a rocket Scowl. "In that case, I wouldn't "So he lay down to rest for or reacheden speed of have had to tell it to you. But just a moment or two. However, 1,238 miles per hour. Test guess there's nothing I can do when he opened his eyes again, rlines are being developed to about it now."

the sun was just beginning to carry men higher still. There la

set behind the hills. McSnocze much talk about going to the

sprang to his feet.

M

rb

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"Oh, what a terrible thing! How lazy I've beent' Too Late

Ho

By Margaret O. Hyda

Pixio Bogan you had visited the minon. Wright Brothers Dicyclo

Then Pixie O'Scowl cleared Perhaps you will go to the his throat and began as follows: shop 50 years ago on Dec. moon in your lifetime. Your "Now As I often mentioned 17 you might have seen this spaes thip will be a rockot before, my brother, Pixlo Me- sign on the door: CLOSED, propelled craft which

the laziest will not Snooze,

Pixie

"And just then," continued GONE TO KITTY HAWK, no air in space, aircraft can anything except his

nec streamlining. Since there alive. He no sooner starts Pixie O'Scowl, "the rest of us dinner came down the road. MeSnooze N. C.

not fly there for there is than he falls asleep and some- didn't know, what to do. chain large enough for a head The chain On hahd must always be 1 lip through.

nothing to lift their wings, one else has to finish the job. glanced around him. It was too The Wright brothers WETE busy preparing their fragilo There will be nothing to hold Naturally, he's very ashamed of late to climb up into the tree. kept on the rope or the player should be tossed over the head

Again and again, I Then, he spied some tiny atoms. be the unstreamiined parts himself watchful player, aircraft for a the lenst is out. The trick is to change of hands quickly to avoid being and he or she must try to get bitter wind whipped sand from of 1,075 miles above the earth, have heard alm resolve to be growing around the foot of the tree. They were hardly an inch carry man on their journeys less lary. |ent pred. Should Centre netually rid of the chaln. by tussing the dunes and seagulls soared into this unknown.

11 Isn't that I'm lazy, I high, but they were buds. He as Orville Wright

have often heard him say, it's Instantly dropped to his knees over the head of another player. overhead

lay flat on his stomach on the Before you go to the moon. Just that I don't get enough and began opening them aa Ring Toss: Any stick stuck in bottom wing of the plane.

you will see a second moon in | aleep.* *

Last as he could. the ground is good for the oiti-

"And when we camo up, we fashioned game of ring toss. Cut

hours.

It's true This breath, then continued: "Well, it stopped and smiled. out your own cardboard hoops.

snap a hand, the person caught must take Centro's place.

ARE YOU ALERT?

great event. A

Rurners somewhat like those earth every two

the sky sweeping around the Pixie O'Scowl drew a deep

carried the

wooden of a sled plane down the track while the artificial moon will be the space so happened that it was the that none of the buds in the

station which scientists whirred,

are spring of the year and we Pixies chestnut tree had been opened, two propeller's

hoping to bulid at a distanco were about to start on one of but still we smiled. plane rose from the

round, of 1,074 miles above the earth. our biggest jobs of the season- "For there was McSnooze, the again. It flew forward 120 feet ship that will dipped in the

wind and rose Here they will build the moon opening all the buds on the laziest and sleepingest Pixie in

In 12 seconds al

distanco of

10 feet above the ground.

carry

them bushes, vines and trees. through the thousands of miles to the barron land of the real Perhaps you think this was moon.

and

The Flag Files ; The sand-ple set likes this game. Fa flower not of ralt full of stad. Stick a small dig in the top. If you haven't kol a fog. you can make one from an leg- cream stick to which you con tape a small short of paper.

not much of a flight but it was Much work is needed The Super-colour

Using D Toy shovel, each

the beginning of a brand-now much money must bo spent single scoop

age. It was the first powered before the, dreams of space Book for Bays player removes a

of sand without upsetting the

|night.

travellers come true. But think back 50 years. Mun has CONO Containing flag. The game gets exciting

Fifty years later we live in when several scoops of 'send

long way

Arat sinco the powered flight. No one known Picture-strip stories have been taken from the pot. to find an error of some the Air Age. You can pion kind in each of the follow-round-the-world tour for

what will happen in the future Adventure stories Clock Golf: Save 12 of those ing statements. Look out, Some iftite as 30 cents a mile and in the world of fight but what cover the whole distanco seems impossible today Hay aluminum foll pie plates that of them are tricky.

roven days. You can True-life Features ples come in. Arrange them in

choose be commonplace tomarcow. 1. It is a true fact that from thousands of routes for a large circle like the numerals aluminum and aluminium are the networks of airliners' cover Colour Pages on a clock and have a golf different spellings of the sumo the globe. Bach man has be

game. If you haven't got a golf substance.

$10.

By JAY WORTHINGTON.

come your neighbour in Là and club, a stick and a small bali

world that Is shrinking under 5. 2. The U. will do. One hit from the centre

government Humour on every plats la a

perfect sells post-cardy bearing printed the wings of aircraft.

postage stamps. rcore is this game.

SOUTH CHINA MORNING-POST LTD. HONGKONG

KOWLOON

BEYOND EARTH

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WHAT AM I?

By Claudia M. Adamıs

3 Use a rubber,cork to de- See the Birdle: Take Д

lay evaporation of any quld COME of these wings are Mother takes the iron to me, elathes peg and hide it in the you with to keep in a flask, open, upright on a branch, on

4. Chocolate and cocoa are long and sicck. Now shapes If you abush, or even on the Everyone starts looking. Who made from & South American and new engines for

ver stes the bird first, caplures shrub named coca. it and places it for the second hunt

SON

short and stubby, others are When pressing neat your clothes;

planes sitting

squintor sacczo-I'm

carry men faster and farther. On your eyelid, or your nose.. The clattering scream of fat Should you help to make the

boels 6. You can swim more easily engines is becoming faralliar lo

salt water than in from those who watch planes avar-You smoothe me quite away. Chala Ta: Dandelion chains water.

bend.

One thing: auro, where "I have can be made by knotting stemme 0. I stapped at the mosquito. With speeds faster than been around the blossoms. Make the I that bit me, but be few away, i sound, planes are carrying mon" I shall be back 'snother day.

,',

Plenty of Buds

"You can't have spring, JOU know, without plenty of buds being opened amil, lots of green

caves showing.

the world, kneeling down in a bed of brand-new violets, opening the first flowers of springt

And that's the story that Pixie O'Scowl told Knarf and Honld at the

story feat in O'Cheer Hall,

Rupert and Rusty—29 ·

"The two "pala find themselves." It's a pity you and your friend. pushed roughly into the citit în ¦ have discovered this way, horse foc The cliff that "they recantly left. you'll never as? put again. Look In

• Then the gring wrongst. jooka ki. Rasching up be mines, an, inay them clowly, stillf with the twisted handle, them lead cash lo Famils, on" hifi facsi I know you!?, machinery, and to "Rupert'e young Rusty though you don't emmererpent'a alich of rock" "esting know: 19%," he says unpleasantly, acrum and bucke the presega.

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