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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY

1958.

FEATURES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

YOUR PUZZLE Start Your Sewing With A Graceful Skirt Of Denim

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CORNER

CROSSWORD

+

ACROSS

1 Miami Beach and Placid, for instance.

8. Beg.

จ

Grent (ab.),

10 Dined.

1

Internal Revenue (ab.).

13 Pint (ab.).

14 High card,

16 Ride New York's →

Loaners,

17

20 Declare disapprovingly,

DOWN

Regular (ab.).

1

2 Lurer.

3 Street (ab.),

4 Elther.

Harvest.

7 Female saint (ab.)

5

1

U

Bugs.

12 City in Nevada.

14. High mountain,

10 Type of boat,

18 Downtown (ab.),

19 Early English (üb.).

SOUND ALIKES

TRIANGLE

This work's triangle has been hung from a CARTOON. The second word is "embellishes"; third a girl nickname""; fourth

fith singing group"; "Brat number'; and x "a hone," Complete the triangle:

CARTOON

"

A R

WORD CHAIN

TODAY'S MODERN

LIVING calls for com- fortable, easy-to-get-into clothing. You'll like this casy-to-make wrap around skirt made of your choice of denim.

Whother you like stripes, plaids or solids or maybe you like the real rugged 8 oz. navy blue denim-you are

"sure to like this skirt.

It is so easy to slip into to run down to the store, to wear shopping or even to the beach over your bathing suit.

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As for a blouse, any tailored cotton or bandanna blouse protty with it

HERE ARE SIMPLE skirt Instructions. Buy enough denim to go around you (11⁄2 or 2 yds), First, chrink the material to get rid of the sizing.

Con you change WINTER to Lake SUMMER in just five moves by altering only one letter at a time and having a good word cach time? If you have trouble, Puzzle Pete did it by changing

to N, W to 9, 1 to U, first N ing the material around you, be

Puzzle Pele's inlasing words sound alike, but they are spelted differently.

Can you complete

his sentence correctly?

His volor grow — from shout-

ing after his runaway-a

Hold the denim around your- seif, working in the darts to t the waistline. As you are hold-

to M, and then the second Nsure it reaches from the right back to the left side: Then sew

to M

WORD SQUARE

Rearrange each row of letters

to form a good word, then re- arrange the rows so that your answer reads the same down a

AAOMR AESTT AECRT A E GRS

E

(Solutions on Paco 19)

1MAKEAN:

HOW TO INDIAN

PUPPET

1.FOLD A PIECE OF BRIGHT

COLORED CLOTHIN HALFAND

CUTOUT LIKE THIS...

SEWALONG

DOTTED LINES.

LEAVE HOLE

FOR NECK, FINGERS, AND ARM... 2.FASTEN A SMALL BUTTON

TO ENDS OF Z

PIPE CLEANERS.

3.PUT BUTTON BETWEEN TWO EMPTY HALVES OF A WALNUT SHELL.

Lesson

"O

H. mother, it's all spoiled. It won't fit

at all, and I can't ever wear it."

a

IMRT

4. GLUE HALVES OF SHELL TOGETHER AND PUT PIPE CLEANERS THROUGH NECK. 5.BRAID.3 STRANDS OF

BLACK YARH

HEAVY

INTO A

STRING

LONG...

ABOUT BIN.

GLUEIT ON FOR HAIR.

YAIN

6.STICK A NARROW BAND OF ADHESIVE TAPE "AROUND HEAD, COLOR IT WITH RED

INK OR PAINT.

DRAW ON

EYES,

NOSE,

MOUTH

WITH BLACK INK.

Of The

No one is perfect. Of course we try to do things can always

right the first time, but when something happens to show us they won't fit, we shouldn't Emily was knitting kesitate to do them over again

she to make them better, sweater, the first one had ever made. She had be that's why we have a New

"Do you know, I think may been working on it in her Year. It gives us a chance to spare time since autumn. take stock and make a new She wanicd it to wear start in case we haven't done a especially to the party on St Valentine's day. But now that

It was for enough along so that

mother had helped her sew the back and front together and try

it on, they found the sleeve holes had been made too small. Emily was broken-hearted:

It's

not

"Why no, dear. spolled. We'll have to ravel a little bit of the back out and

& hook and eye to the inside so It will hold this back dap, and will cover you completely the back

Work in four daris in the front, four. daris in the back and also four darts in the back

(right wraparound

to left). Fit the skirt to the waistline and sew the daris accordingly. Take an extra long dart on the left side so it serves as a side scam. Finish the top of the waistline by using a bins strip of denim facing and sewing it toward the inside of the skirt.

NOW WRAP from the right back over to the left back and catch the hook in the cyc on the left side.

Now, sew another hook and ye on the wrap that comes from the left to the right at the waistline. This will leave the

This project for beginners in sowing will result in a pretty skirt.

back free and easy for walking and the back is draped far enough over that you do not have to worry about the skirt feeling as if it were going to time you go unwrap every around the corner.

A NEW PET:

TEN

WES

This skirt is quick and only to make and yet has all the style of the new "onsy-look" fashions. You are sure to want several in your wardrobe.

By Marion Vinson Emerson

HERE ARE SOME NEW GAMES

DECAUSE PARTY FUN

B

usually depends on the games that are played and the tricks that are Intro- duced by the hostess, it's always a good idea to have a fow new ones up your sleeve when you entertain.

The Exasperating Rubber Band

excellent an breaker:

is

ice

Loop a rubber band under- ne your thumb and little fin- Eer, so that the band Itself is siretched in two parullel rows over the back of your hand, Make sure it is stretched below the large knuckle of the first finger.

cven

The problem consists of re- moving the band without using the other hand, and you may twist your fingers as much as you please. You may shake your hand as hard as you can. But you must not touch the rubber band with anything except the hand that is already holding it.

This sounds easy but just try it and you'll change your mind because it takes a very nimble set of logers to accomplish this in less than five minutes at minimum. Some people never succeed at all,

Another good party game may be set up by stretching two strings across the floor from one end of the room to the other. They should be approx- imately a foot or two apart,

Divide your players into two

Give

ench teams.

4 ordinary hand mirror. After the starting signal has been given, the first two competing players must walk backward, one on icoch string. They may upe

one

MR. PARAKEET

EN YEARS AGO, the are included in the repertoire

parakeet

almost of a Dayton, Ohio, bird,

A

parakeet owner in San unknown in US. homes. Francisco claims that his

pet Today boys and girls (and lins a 500-word vocabulary, in- men and women) treasure no eluding the Lord's Prayer, the less than 14 million of these pledge of allegiance to the fag, little pets from Australia. and several nursery rhymes. Why has America gone "all- out" for the parakect?

ly suggests that you get a para- keet and teach it to talk.” If ever you tire of it, all you need do is teach it to say, "Here, Kitty, Klity!"

For one reason, he is a A midwest bird lover jolding- colourful feathered clown, with a flair for mindery. Parakeets really talk not just single words, but long sentences. They have an uncanny memory.

Apparently there is no end to what they can say. A para keet in Miami Велеп has fabulous vocabulary of 400 words, which Includes both English and Yiddish phrases.

Complicated chemieni formu las and a condensed version of Einstein's theory of relativity

to Actually it is quite easy teach a parakeet to talk. The earlier you start training, the custer it will be. All it takes is, patience.

One in every Afth home in the U.S. today has a parakeet, Even the White House has one. A Chicago bird is listed in the

telephone book and has his own

privato linc. Chicago also boasic a school for parakeets,

First Sweater The

perfect job on our lives in the pick up stitches on the row to past year."

which she had ravelled. "That gives me an idea for a "I think that would be a good really good New Year's resolu- resolution for anyone to make. tion," said. Emily, "I think I'll In fact, I think I'll borrow it resolve to flod my mistakes as from you, if you don't mind, as possible and correct and put it at the top of my list," them while they are just little smiled mother as her busy ones. Don't You think that Angers went on putting the would be a good resolution?" knitting to rights,

Mother reached for a knitting needle and began carefully to

SCON

By Venus Inglish

MANY WONDERS FROM LUMP OF COAL

Y

OF

YOU'VE HEARD

"split

personalities," haven't you?. Of people who lend a double life?

They are strictly amateurs compared to a lump of coal!

there is to it. That's not a bad Consider sulin drugs,

make it longer, but that's all

mistake

for your vory

It's

tur

for

first example. Responsible good that we saving thousands of lives every year, in homes, in hospitals, ind

sweater. found it to soon,"

"But it will take so long! Ion battlefields in time of war,

never be ready for the party," walled Emily.

"We'll have it doue in time. FU help, and you can watch so

that if you ever mako another

Then think of the vicious,

murderous power of TNT.

Trace them back, and you'll misiske like this you'll know find that healing drugs and what to do. Most things can be killing explosives both begin put to rights if you know how." with chemicals derived from a

"It's something like life," she lump of coal.

"Sometimes people.

some

common

and New York City has a hotel

for them,

Parakeets are

lovable,

like to be the centre

tion.

and

Give them a fow simple

toys, and they will develop many tricks of their own.

Parakeets were

Arst Intro duced in Europe over a century ago, when the nated English arnithologist, John Gould brought back a pair after visit to their original home in the grasslands of Australia, Even sailors love them. cently, when an inspection was made aboard a large aircraft carrier, it was -found that the ship carried ten times as many

Re-

A RUBBER BAND CAN GET YOUR PARTY CHE ID A GOOD START-

hc

Players who have the hand- bags, open them. They remove the contents, one at a time, and pass cuch man to the player alt- ting alongside. When the bag is completely empty. it passed on to the next player alco. He has to put each fiem back in the brg, une at a time,, close it and turn it over to the next player. He opens the bag, takes out every item, etc. The point of the game is, of course to see which side is first to get ite bag to the end of the line.

THE ROUND UP

This round up doesn't need borsca. You play it sitting down at a table.

You will need

Di

their mirrors as their guides. Whenever a player steps off his

a length string, Is Denalised

by stout string about two feet long. having to start all over. When

Make a loop in one end of the he is successful, the next person

This

should Loop on his team must follow in his lariat, step. The Arst team to finish measure about six inches acros. Twist the other end of the is the one that wins.

lariat two or more times around In "butteringors" there isn't your hand, so you have a good

of grip on it, much butter, "but plenty fingers:

Materials required are a pair

Hold the string so the loop

of heavy winter gloves for each les flat on the table. All the player, and two large ladies players put their forefingers on the loop, The handbags Alled with no less the table in than 10 tiny items each, such as forefingers are the "dogies." buttons, pennies, safety pink, stamps, keys and screws.

When you say "Roundup."

Nothing should have a sharp you jerk on the larial. Dolt, and as object should be more than one inch square.

Arrange the players into two Icams. They may sit oppostle to each other at a long table, or cross-logged on the floor. Give one handbag to each player at opposite ends of the opposing sides. All players must wear their gloves.

All the other players try to Eet the "dogies" away by pull- ing their fingers away.

Each "dogle" caught in the lariat counts five for you. You have three trios. Each of the other players have three tries la turn. The one with the highest score is the champlon cowboy.

ZOO'S WHO

SCIENTIFIC TESTS HAVE SHOWN I SHAKES TO BE ENTIRELY DEAF. THUS, THE RATTLER-CANNOT HEAR HIS OWN RATTLE, AND THE COBRA CANNOT TAKE HIS RHYTHM FROM THE SHAKES CHARMER'S MUSIC, „BUT FROM THE SWAYING OF THE PERFORMER'S BODY.

parakeets as planes a total of | OTRO MIGRATIONS WERE OBSERVED AS 476 birds.

-By Grover Brinkmon

FAR BACK AS 3500 YEARS AGO.-

TIGERS ARE EXCELLENT SWIMMERS,

IT IS REPORTED THAT TIGERS WILLEVEN GRIM FROM ONE ISLAND TO AN= OTHER IN SEARCH OF

FOOD...

Mouse - Messenger

He Keeps Bringing Telegrams From Teddy-

By MAX TRELL

ani Hanid, NARE

the Shadows with the Turried- About Names, were talking to their friend, Mr Punch, when all at once a Mouse came dashing out of a crack in the well of the room.

He was wearing a messenger's uniform. "Mr

called Punch" Mouse out, "Which one of you is Mr Punch, please?”

"I'm "Mr Punch," mald Mr Punch.

for Mr Punch. It's for Knari and Hanid. Which one of you is Knant and which one of you is

They hurried down to report Hanid?" to Mr Punca.

Where to Ho?

can

Hanid said who was Hanki and Knarf said he was Kaart. The Mouse-Messenger was about to tear the message in two and But cach a halt. he Crack and Hanld slapped him

Just in time.

The message read:

"So he's not behind the trunk any more, eh?" said Mr Punch give them thoughtfully. "Where bet"

At that moment, the Mouse- Messenger camo dashing out of the same crack in the wall.

Mr Punch," he called out. "Which

of you on

is Mr Punch?"

Mix

"Am now in room. Fat gentle- man is sitting on ma. Need help. Come.quick, Teddy the Bear."

Knart and Hanld rushed into tho

room, This Limo they They found "I am," said Mr Punch. "Can't weren't too late.

Mr Punch sitting on Teddy, you recognise me?"

Lor Thereupon the

"Telegram Mome

you, Messenger handed Mr Punch an Punch, said the Mouse,

Aftar tanding Mr Punch the envelope.

delegram, the Mouse-Messenger "Telegram for you, sic”

Thank you very much," said dappeared through the crick Mr Punch, us he took the in the wail.

Mr Punch glanced quickly at "Any message, sir?" said the the telegram. Mouse-Messenger."

sedatives and many important vitamins.

Some other uses for materials derived from coal are: the production of aircraft propellers,

couplings, plston rings,

the of roofing and manufacture

water- paving materials, the proofing of all kinds of bulld-telegram. ings

They have been found useful in almost every field you could name from transportation to agriculture, from plastics to printing..

Read le First

"Just a moment, pinare,” said Mr Punch. "I'd better read the talegram Brst."

Kaarf and Hand watched esgirly as Mir Punch opmed the

Coal, found deep in the earth, is the remains of trees sand | telegram and read it. vegetable matter that Hived and You'll be Interested in this grew thousands of years ago, said Mr Punch to Kaart and Buried under layers at soll, Hanld. without access to air but with

He read the telegram aloud. much moisture, and sometimes This is the memo

"I'm stuck behind under pressure, it has Iain there

trunk in

"Just sten to this," he sald to Kaart and Hanid.

***Minnaged to get out from behind the trunk. Am now stuck under barrel in ecller. Send help quick. Toddy, the Bear.”

Knart and Hanid maced down the stairs into the cellar but when they moved the barrel away, they could find no sign of Toddy, the Bear.

"He's not here any, mone," said Hanid.

"Now where do you suppose le can be?" said Kharf

Once more they went back to

report to Mr Punch.

went on.

And so do literally hundreds dream dreams and make plans of other things in use every day. that just won't di, no matter You can name many of them

and all these years. And now tattle. Come at once. Need help. how hard they try. The only for yourself: plastics, fertilisers, ugainst fungus growths thing to do in that case is to perfumes, dyes, insecticides and preserves all kinds of wood serves us in so many ways. It Teddy, the Bear

The instant they heard the · Waving A Telogram uninake them

much AB

as cosmetics, to manlion a few. against termites. It koens them heater our homes, it gives us oil, and then go on to necessary

A sort of modern "Fountain young. Through chemistry, a and is the beginning of our life- message, art and Hand raced

up the stairs to the attic. But Just os they were about to to the sito we of Youth le also found in fountain of youth has been dis- saving medicines. complete them

when they looked behind the open the door and go into the Jump of common coal, covered for wood,

Coal, the blackest substanco

the | Mouse-Messenger can use."

When had dried her tepes Crepsole, obtained from coul Emily

mother puls known, and diamonds, then, they could and no sign of room,

Teddy, the Boar.

OWIED running up to them now, and was watching closely, profects and prevents decay in Mercurochrome

Your clearest, have the mama "begin.

That's certainly strange," - waving á telegram. A "Doey everyone mako mie, pilling, railroad tier, materials scratches, a lump of coal has nings. They are both carbon. Hand said to Knar.

"Mr Punch. Sa 'kindo," Khart lakes?" she asked,

used in the building of homes, come to your ald also. For it. But of the two, coal porTES US SCHO, ma have manged to said to the Moura-Menonocer, "Yes, dear, I'm afraid syoty-and many other products. heulus with chemicals from battar.

get filmmelt unstuck,” said Knarf CHOO BOP wald the Mouse- one nometimes niakes mistakes. Creosote

to Kand

Memonger. "Thi telegram, dan.

your

oa

protecte timber coal. So does sepirin, novocain, -By Mabel Slack Shelton

"I thought he was a cushion." wild Me Punch, as he got up from sitting on Teddy.

"I don't care much for that Mouse-Messenger,"

sald Punch. "He never sos recognise ma,"

Mr to

"I think he ought to wear eye-glasses," said Hanid.

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Telegram for you, sir,” Mouse-

Messenger sald to Punol.

"He's a wonderful Mouso," said Toddy. "I grabbed on to his tail and he pulled me out from behind the trunk and from under the barrel.“

Rupert and the Lost List-

-6.

The Brtje strangers are delighted – thana,” he exclaims. " Tall me. ! : ta ba spolen, so You're the first my Rupert, ramambering bia people we've met here," anya tha myMary * Have you heard, game bazi-My name's Brian and this noites that you can't explain! mulig. Margaret? We've just come to those cottagea 7.Wave Bil

„them new factapis down in the them in our bucoes while we "wanda."--Edward mares.*t I'd no talking but none of us ca fied Vidha people werk building anything what hide them.

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