1958-03-15 — Page 18

* THE CHINA MAIL,

FEATURES FOR

SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1958.

BOYS

The Start

Cars Weren't Popular At

At The

A

T the turn of present century

and

the in the experimental stage

there were no partly because cars

smooth roads. When one broku

were just coming into down, as they often did, people use, and very few people posing would give the hateful thought well of the new cry, "Gel a horse." Those camo They to be considered fighting words. fangled machines.

Bo in 1005 the Glidden auto-

wore considered to be dirty, dangerous and unreliable. mobile people started a series of

Besides, they wont too fast.

One newspaper in Now Hampshire viewed with motor particular alarm

car that made the trip from

tours,

herteless carriages were here to designed to prove thas stay.

Drivers Concord to Manchester time dusters got behind the in goggles and ol1- distance to 18 miles in 60

wheels of Maxwells, Stanley Оло minutes.

old mam Steamers, Rolls Royces and claime to have been other early cars and joined in bounced out of hie wagon our through several eastern Most of them made it, staics. when his horse shied at the

but one unlucky driver got record-setting monster. looked up in the local goel aftor being clocked at nine miles an hour in a town with an eight- mile speed limit,

And in Dover, N.H., the town policemen hung up a big sign which read: "Speed Limit Elght Miles on Hour-and We Mean It."

Early cars wore unreliable, partly because they were still

of course,

Times changed, when cars breame common. Good roads were built, flling stations came into bebig, black

Old cars look quaint to us now-but looked zippy

back in those days.

smith shops became garages and repair shops,

However, contrary to popular one thing the car was belief, rat responsible for was the hitch- hiker. Hitch-hiking started th Two men often pioneer days,

IS HOW RADAR DOES

THIS IS

RADAR WAVES STRIKE

OBJECT AND BOUNCE BACK...

..PROVING OBJECT IS THERE.

BOUNCE TAKES TWICE

AS LONG TO RETURN PROM

'A' AS "B". DISTANCE TO

OBJECT THUS-INDICATED.

had to take a long journey with only one horse between them. And since riding double for long stretches wan uncomfortable, ene mail would ride while the other hiked.

At a specified time the rider would stop, hlich his horse to a rondisido free and walk on. The first man would arrive, mount the horse and ride until his time was up, then hitch the animal and proceed on foot again for a while, This was the origin of the term blich-hiking.

One thing definitely came in with cars, however. That was speed limit signs, something not needed with horses and oxen, Many motorists pay Kttle at- tention to them, and to say.

But one small town in Texas fing n sign at its edge which says: "20 Miles an Hour or $19.90." And like the policemers in that New England town, they mean itt

ROTATING PARABOLIC SCREEN LEARNS DIRECTION DISTANCE AND HEISHT.

-By M. G. Sholton

ITS JOB

"BUP” ON RADAR SCOPE

INDICATES POSITION AND PAIN OF OBJECT,

B

They Go Down To The Farm In Ships

THE

farmer who cul-

Tuvates the land is a

close cousin to the oyster farmer who cultivates the Rea:

One uses a harvester to gather hig crop. The other

uses a dredge to

catch aboard ship.

lift his

Both have an important

part in helping produce the nation's food supply.

By the time oysters reach

table they

your

have

become veteran travellers.

Before they are born, #

home is made for them by

DEWALD THE OYSTER TRAVELS {CONSIDERABLY, {DURASA HIG

| TROUBLED Í

CARBUR

smoothing tho bay bottom oyster a hard surface to and spreading it with cling to.

opened oyster shells. This Oyster eggs are so small the that a quart bottle Alled baby with them would supply the

covering, called "clutch," gives the

Test YourHOW MAKE A PAPER TO HANDCUFF

Brain Power

1.CUT A PIECE OF TYPEWRITER PAPER 11IN.LONG AND GIN.

LIKE THIS...

IN the list on the left side, WIDE...SLIT THE PAPER

you see the first parts

of some flower nantes. From the list on the right side, the correct ending for each name, and put the number in the space provided.

1. William 2, not

-Bachelor's

Jeck-in-the- -Lily of the -Sweet

-Forget-me- -Black-eyed

-Morning -Tiger

8. button

4. Susan

7. pulpit

.

entire annual Americna erop of 10,000,000 bushels of oystera

Within 24 hours after the baby oyster begins its existence, the egg grows bivalved shells.

The young oyster starts at once to search for a place to attach itself. That is when the opened shells on the bay bottom come into usc. They cement them selves to these shells.

*

In a very

short time they have developed gills and beer to eat by altering the sea water to obtain the tiny bits of food there.

Within six months the "spats" to the size of a human ETOW

thumball. By then they bo- come crowded, and unless they are separated and replanted they

2. NOW ROLL THE PAPER UP THE REST OF THE WAY AND PASTE THE EDGE.

FUT PASTE HERE

3.ASK A PAL TO PUSH THE FIRST FINGER OF EACH HAND INTO ENDS OF TUBE.

5. illy

B. glory

MAKE SUITS TWO INCHES APART...

8. volley

WHEN HE

TAIESTO

ROLL UP

GET HIS

ANGERS

OUTINE

EXPERNILL

HOLD HIM

FIGHT!

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#SUELASNY

AROUND THE BORDER of this picture are the names of for. Select one of the letters on the top. Mave right, sitipping every olier letter.

It

will take you twice around to dind the flowern.

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EACH OF THE STRIPS

INTO INCH ROLLE

TRIST AND

Black Cloud Covers Europe

+

IN the year 1778, a veil of People flooded into churches to blue smoke covered the prey. They thought the end of

IN

sky over Europe. It wasn't the world had come.

This Great Haze listed for six

a,cloud or a fog: it didn't months. Selentists of that day

go away or ovan break up. It just stared silently at the dismal. barth In some places It was no thick that nearby landmarka couldn't aven be seen

couldn't and the answer to this mystery but Our balling modern scientists have found It

It seems that u tremendous volcano in Iceland, had erupted billions of ions of rock. Thiess rocke zware pulverlaod into 003 Izanite amount of tiny, dost :Tola base, bet an awful acrid particles. This tremendous cust Il- omared asidemics of cloud: then drifted over Europe, SAMODS.. ROS stayed there for six months,

THEIR

AND GIRLS

OWN JET

NINE-YEAR-OLD Clifford Tanner's eyes studied the cockpit of his jet aeroplane. Hundreds of Clifford's schoolmates pressed close to the real jet fighter's wings and tall,

This was their very own plane to keep. Every one of the 867 boys and girls at Glen City Elementary School at Santa Paula, Calif., owned this big jet, "It all started," said Clifford, a fifth grader, "when some of the children in the second grade asked their teacher if they could ask the government for a jet." The pupils had read of another school getting

one.

AIRCRAFT

told them to go ahead and write some lettern. So they did. Our principal wrote, too. It worked! The U.S. Air Force sent us one?"

Clifford went on to explain with pride, "Our jet is set up in the play yard. A ladder goes up to the cockpit and a slide comes down the other side,

"The Air Force man said our jet is an old one that would have been junked anyway. They polished it and it looks like new.

"It hasn't got any motor and it's stuck in "Now this might seem 篩 little silly," said cement," said Clifford, "but we can certainly learn, a Clifford, "but the children's teacher, Mrs Hamilton, lot about aircraft from it."

How Willy Caught Cold

-He Said He Got It From Being Good-Natured.........

By MAX TRELL

THERE was a faint knock on the cellar door. Fortunately, Knarf ind Hanid, the Shadows with the Turned-About numes, heard it, and opened the door.

1 don't know whe It was they expected but they both opened their eyes in surprise, and some alarm, to see their old friend, Willy Toad.

But what a change had came

may become deformed and re-over Willy! tarded in growth.

It is now that they are trans-

*from planted

the spawning ground to the cultivation bed, offen many miles away.

The oyster's travels have Just begun. It probably will 'bo transplanted to several different cultivation beds before he roes to market, usually in its third Year

When the oysters are large enough to harvest,

the oyster His boat is farmer takes over, equipped with a basketilke stret dredge which scoops the oysters frum

the bottom of the bay and empties them on deck.

Oysters are one of our oldest foods. They were caten more than 2,000 years ago, and their culture was practised before the days of Christ. The Greeks re- ferred to them as the "perfect prelude to a meal," and the Humans spoke of them, as "the dalaty munna of the sea."

By Violet M. Roberts

Some Party Pranks

Choorful Toad

The last time, they had seca him-the end of the summer, t was he was dressed in bright green trousers with yellow dots and a coat to match. He was £3 cheerful a toad as anyone could and from here to London and back.

They wrapped Willy in a blanket

and gave him soure soup.

the open and to find some kind of shelter for the winter.

Now, ao Willy stood in the

"Usually, I find a pleasant doorway, Kharf and Hanlid saw

Blinkie Mole. So I started out that the beautiful green trousers snug room with my old crony with yellow dots and the coat for Blinkle's place, which is were torn and dirty. They under the roots of the Apple! hung from Willy's arms and legs Tree at the end of the garden. in long rugs. Moreover, he was when who should I meet but a shivering with the cold.

Nevertheless, he tried for the friend of mine named Croker.

He's a Frog moment to be as he always lod Ho did a little dance, milled and said: "Good day, my dears. I've come to pay you a litle visit. I won't stay long."

Then he gave a little dance agalo. But, suddenly, his legs buckled under him.

Brought Him Inside

ZOO'S WHO

THE GOLDEN HAMSTERS ARE AMONG THE MOST PRO- LIFIC OF MAMMALS, MILLIONS IN CAPTIVITY TODAY ARE DE-

SCENDED FROM A SINGLE LITTER OF 12 FOUND IN A

BURROW NEAR ALEPPO:

SYRIA, IN 1930.

',

THE CECROPIA IS THE

LARGEST MOTH IN THE US. THE LARGEST SPECIMENS HAVE A WINGSPREAD OF SEVEN INCHES...

THE LIMPOPO RIVER IN AFRI- CA, OFTEN IS CALLED THE CROCODILE RIVER, BECAUSE SO MANY CROCODILES

LIVE THERƐ au

Your Puzzle Column

DIAMOND

CROSSWORD

Not A Bad Fellow

MOSLEMS form the bulk of Cartoonist Cal gives you a "Croker's not a bad fellow," Turkey's population und Puzzle bint in Puzzle Pete's crosswurd continued Willy. "We've had Pete uses them as the centre of puzzle by lettering in the name

The second of TURKEY: some fairly good times together, his word diamond, especially during the summer word is an abbreviation for nights. Wo used to all cing hospital"; third "hu"; afth songs down at the edge of the "paces"; and sixth "printer's measures," Con you complete pond.

"Look here, said Croker to the diamond from these hints Knarf and Hand caught him me, you just come along with

M before he fell and brought him

me, Willy, and we'll find a place inside. They shut the cellar to spend the winter. We can door to keep out the wind.

We'll sing "Oh dear, you're freezing cold, have lots of fun.

we did during songs just as Willy!" said Handd

those summer nights. Besides, you'll be doing me a great favour. I'm supposed to spend

"N-n-not at all," said Willy "I'm as warm as least"

Knari hurriedly wrapped a more good while, Hanld set about warming without me willy to Knarf and blanket around Willy. Mean the winter with some friends of mine, but they all went off Here dre party gaps Tell a guest that you a bowl of hot soup. About an

"So," said can write any colour, he names hour later, after Willy had the Hanid instead of going to with any kind of pencil. Then, soup down and was feeling

some

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MOSLEMS E

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SCRAMBLED SENTENCE

Puzzle Pete had his usual

snug and about Turkey and needs your the NAM god to do so, write much more like himself again, Blinkie Mele's place where trouble in makes up a sentence

of the that is Koart and Hand asked him would have been

parily partly in in is Turkey chsend Tell another boy or girl how he had come to get so cold. Warm, I went with Old Croker help to straighten him out.

Asia, Europe and

that he can't take off his cont by himself. Then when he inalete that this is not true, and starts to prove it, take off your own coat at the self same instant. A third corny-but-funny gug con- slata of announcing that you can tay under water for more than a minute." To prove it, all you do is fold a glass of water over your head. Anyone who wants to can not as timekeeper.

"Well," said Willy, "it all down to the pond.

"We crept into a hole in the fames from my being so good mud and covered ourselves with Batured."

leaves. It wasn't bad at gret. Knart and Hanid asked Willy But when night came and the to explain what he meant by wind started to blow-there

wasn't much ainging of songs.

this

"I'll tell you," said Willy, "Lnet week, when it first started turning really sharp, I decided to stop spending my days and nights living out" in

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· The Batin Carlos bend

režiiver medicine to (TABA: Away to make-

He Didn't Mind

"Croker didn't seem to mind It too much. Ho just fell asleep. He's alceping now, right in that mud With the leaves over his head. But I all I can say is that I'm mighty glad to be in this warm cellar with a warm blanket on the outside of ma and a warm bowl of soup inside of zom. And if nobody minds," sald Willy Toad, "I'm going to spend the whole winter right bére in this collar, singing songs la myself."

"Of course you can stay dear,” said Hanid.

Väverybody. Ilkon to have a cheerful, Tosd in the 'calar” suldi: Khart.

BOOK QUOTATION

and the Unicor

TURKISH REBUS

Four facts about Turkey have been hidden in this rebus by Puzzle Pete, but you can and them easily if you use the words and pictures correctly;

SHE SURE

OUR CHIP BAILED

THROUGH THE

HELLESPONS

of

R

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ACROSS

1 Unit of weight 4 Pedal digit

7 Girl's nickname

u Colour

9 Make a mistake 10 Anger

11 Sea eagle 12Baba and the 40 Thlaves.

11 New Zealand parrot 17 Waiken, Blinken and---- 16 Evening (poetic)

19 Belongs to that thing 20 Attempt

DOWN

1 African By (var.) 4 Pronoun

* Bea nymphis •

4 Small ornament

1 Above (postio)

6 Dutch city.

· 1á Cudioo blackfind

13 His wife turned to salt

15 Always (poetic).

16 Bome.

MIRROR WORK

If you liavo irouble, with those inree facts about Durkey,, try using a mirror (or read thems Backward)MAN

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