1958-04-26 — Page 18

✅ THE CHINA: MAIL,

FEATURES

FOR

SATURDAY, APRIE 26, 1958.

Liner' On A River

BOYS

AND

GIRLS

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Our World—A Curious, Dangerous Business

THEN snake charmers

WHE

pipe their tremulous

music to performing rep- tiles the only thing charmed! may be the audience..

14.

However entertaining showmanship, the tunes are lost on the snakes. Snakes are deaf, though they can receive vibra- tions from the ground just us a person may hear an approach. ing train by pleeing an ear to the, track,

The reptile's rhythmic sway- ing thus is not in appreciaílön of the charmer's music but in Imitation of his bodily move- ments, An ordinary "American black snake will behave simi« | widely favoured In the acts, Iarly.

Their deadly venom--one ma Snake charmers have persecreto enough poison to ki! formed in many lands since dozen person sometimes is uncient times, says the National milked before performing. The Geographic Society. Cobras ara handler makes his snake strike

repeatedly on a pleco of ubej czar, of Indian snake charmere.. sorbent materiat "until the ven- fila duties include the certify- om is exhausted.

Ing of qualified charmer, « Many charme.extract the signing areas where they tay fangs on saferuord,

work and settling quarrels.

:

Some use no précautions, and fatal bites have occurred.

cool

Brakes Have loft trails of false notions around the world. Among the estimato 40,000 Often regarded as slimy crea persons around the earth. who tures, they actually are Buccumb annually to snake and dry to the touch. blies (most of them in Asia), snake eharmers Tank high. No snake has a polsonous Primitive antidotos are trea-breath, despite a belief ex- Coured in the snako-charming pressed for thousands of years,

bušlucas.

A stricken snake doen not Wall unifi sundown to die. The often-noticeable quivering of a deud reptile is, muscular reflex, In India many chartners are

Shaker don't sting their prey. protectors of snakes. When cap with forked fongues. The tured the sunkes are assured of tongue la an organ unerul main- respectful treatment and of rely in smelling. Bites are in- lease an a certain day at the ficted with fangs, spot where they were taken. Equally falec is the notion The services are rewarded that some analtos tails beara' with ceremonial thanks,

polsonous epino. Not even tho A swami living near Jind in rattler can boast sucks equip. the munt. the Punjab reportedly Is

The 8.8. Admiral, largest boat on the Mississippi, tied up at im St. Louis dock. The Admiral can carry 4,400 people when

fully loaded.

·

moment you

cross one

The boat is 51 feel longe" It takes 308 people to stafl You'll see Wie Admiral the of the ahan the wilest building In the big boat. lis fact, it is on

towers 300 feet at St Louis,

It generate fealled "the king of alc man you can't miss to supply a river."

GROVER BRINKMAN

Sports-Ancient Sport Still A Body Builder

THE Mississippi River.

strange as

It seems. Louis, the Beli Telephone Ex-huge tirat It dominates the river bridges over the Mississippi boasts the largest pleasure change, which

That's why it is leading to St Louis. It's so big M Wrestling hont in Amerien. Is the above the street. 8.8. Admiral, built like a enough electricity skyscraper, 374 feet longly of 10,000 people. In cool- ing system has a cooling capag- and 90 feet wide. It is any equivalent to the melting of all-steel boat. with 74 600,000 pounds of ice; la Tow watertight

of the largest compartments, tourant la one

found flow. The steamer could stay aflost with 11 of thera

compartments completely flooded.

Modelled by an artki, the flowing lines of the big boat express beauty in every aspect of its appearance. From trage. ful Jackstaff to the stoopinly rounded stern, it is a joy to th *A, ~Jaalde, ils five fulf decks are just as gracious and spacious. In fact, a day this big boat is an experience most boys an girls won't forget. Their dad and mothers enjoy 11, too.

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The Admiral dofkn't have any of the gingerbread woodwork and towering smokestacks the old-time-river puckets. It sluck and trim, like a grey hound. Its air-conditioning plant is the largest aBoat. It is oil- fired, a giant of the river,

Over 5 million people have on the Admiral in Cinerama, and more than 3,000 people ride | the boat cach time it leaves the whart--and that is twice daily in season.

It is the largest luland river pan-enger steamer over Bulit in America-and what i KEE stranger to believe is the fact that it was built entirely in St Louis, which is an inland city.

In many cities of the world there is often a trademark, landmark, or some one thing which automatically recalls the rame of the city, In Paris it is the Eiffel Tower; In London the huge tower cluck, Big Ben; and in St Louis, the B.S.

Admiral. That's why folks from every state of the Union, and from many foreign countries, have ridden upon it.

ZOO'S WHO

"ACTUALLY A LIZARD

THE HORNED TOAD (4) INCLUDES IN ITS ARMOR A SPINY BACK AND PIN- POINTED SPIKES ON ITS

HEAD

AWID

THAT'S ME?

AVOGS NOSE-PAINT IS AS INFALLIBLE FORIDEN- TIFICATION PURPOSES AS A HUMAN BEING'S FINGER-PRINT.

JACKASS PENGUINS OF THE

· FALKLAND ISLANDS EARN THEIR NAME BY THEIR DOLEFUL BRAYING="

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Teddy Goes Hunting

--He Finds A Very Strange Animal-

By MAX TRELL

"T'S go or.

hunting ex- pedition," Teddy, the Stuffed Bear said to Knarf, the Shadow Boy with the Turned- About Name.

Knef shook his head. "It's too near dinner he said,

time,"

Teddy was disappointed. "All right," he said to Knarf.

10 11 ask someone else go hunting with me."

Sharpening His Arrows

He looked across the room. Huwaths, the Small-Sized Wooden Indian, was sharpening some wooden arrows as he sat on the Boor. Teddy bumbled over to him.

"Hi, I!" he said. "Would you The to go hurting with me?

Teddy was astonished by what he NEW.

it seemed quitó tame-at-they-

Ellawalha didn't even bother stood on the floor. He decided

to foak up. He simply shook they were not worth

bunting

| les leiti loomily and sald: far. Finally, he growled under

the-table. Re-uttored-a-sudden.

"Too near dinner time." said gasp of astonishmenti Howatha,

continued as he sharpening his arrows,

"If you're not going hunting, why are you sharpening your arrows" asked Teddy.

"I'll go hunting after dinner," sold 11lawatha,

There, under the tuble, Teddy saw such thing us be hou never seen before.

"What an animal!" he Ex- cluimed to himself, “Just look at all the legs it's got!"

Teddy

counted the legs. There were ten of them. They

He Was Disappointed all looked different. Two of

By this time, Teddy was quite disappointed that neither

them

were short, chubby legg of and wore white socks. Two of |them--were-long-and-thin-and

This two friends cared to wore bio jeans. Two of them

bunting with him.

"I'm pretty hungry, too," he Buttcred to himself as he walked out into the hall, "but 1 don't see why that should stop we from going hunting."

Tedity told himself that. H might be a very good idea to ko hunting in the kitchen. "I'll hunt for some bread and butter and jan," he thought, "or may- be I'll hunt for some roast chicken,"

of them wore sandals. Two

shoes. The wore high-heeled last two legs were big and strong and wore pants and big black shoot.

Teddy ran out of the dining room our and back into the where his two friends sat,

Remarkable Animal

"Hiawatha! Knarf! I've found the most remarkable ánimal to

Teddy stopped outside the hunt, fort, It's got ten legs. kitchen door and solffed

the You can see them under the aromas coming from the direc-dining room table. The legi

"ANY athletes consider jurted to the size and shape of

the best the other grappier, all-around sport known. Top men in the business say They claim it is the beat that wresting is like musle, you means of body development. have to keep learning all the time. Bo they recommend read- as it brings almost all ing booler on the profession, if muscles into play.

you are seriously interested in the fine points of the art.

In this sport everything about the body is a weapon-clbows, hands, foot, kerens and head.

It is also a means of educa-

One wrestler has more than a hundred such books, spanning In

flon in self-reliance, initiative from one printed in France and co-ordination of the "body",

Unless the sport la under-1870 to modern books on psy- stood, wrestling is considered chology. merely a fert of strength. Bat A prime requisite on the par

of a miressful mat expert is a power actually In of less (pt- portance than 'other nk ELLO.

which means The strong abdomen,

An- most important thing is balance, good physical condition.

Bal-other then leverage and apbed.

is a big strong neck, ance must be perfect in order to which shows body strength.

And stand up to an opponent.

One gladiator's measurements inch be ad- are these: a 19-inch neck, 48- He like leverage, fl must

Wrestling brings almost all

mascles into play.

chest, and 32-inch waist. cannot

buy ready-made

shirts, but he is very successful In the ring.

Wrestling dates back to pro- historic

times. Mon first

I walked, next rat, then wrestled. It was ha only means of de- | fence against wild animals.

Wrestling in mentioned in the Old Testament, and the 23rd book of The Iliad tells of tha grappling match in which Odya- seus besied Ajax.

It was the favourite sport of the ancient Greeks and Romans. for a thousand years it was la- cluded in the Olymple guines held in Greece's Olympia valey In honour of Zeus. Prizes were kurei wreaths from a sacred greve near a temple dedicated to the god.

--M. S. SHELTON

Scientists-From Torches To Fluorescents

FLUORESCENT LIGHT |} improved electric light

FIRST LIGHT- TORCHES OF 'BURNING WOOD

FOR CENTURIES "ANIMALS FISHE

“GREEK CAMP. CELLAMPS OR CANDLES

SUPPLIED ALL LIGHT

WAJALE OIL

LAMP

SPERMA CANDLE

CANQUE LANTERN

THEN, WITHIN 70 YEARS, CAME GAG, "KEROSENE "AND ELECTRIC LIGHT!.

GAS LIGHTED BODI ? HOMES & STREETS

....

CILDOON CAUSED BY DEMAND FOR KEROSENG

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Brain Testers Your Puzzle Column DUCKS

WHAT KIND OF cats arg these? Fill in the missing letters and see,

1. This cat lista things for sale.

CAT———

HIDDEN CATS

CATT"" CROSSWORD Each of Puzzle. Féto's sen Cartoonist Col made Puzzle tences contains a concealed cat.Pete's crossword puzzle look Can you pick them out?

real nice by drawing it on the Tom. Catherine

Anita silhouette of a cat's head:

SIR

2. This cat is a fuzzy animal. | went to the party.

CAT ----

Efther a bell rang or * KOEK sounded at their knock,

3. This cat is found on the

o CAT ———

4. This cat is ranch.

CAT

found on

tion of the glove. He distinctly lore all sizes and shapes. Come table, smelled roast chicken. He went with me and I'll show them to into the kitchen to see exactly you" where he should begin hunting. "You're a very foolish Bear,"

suid

Knarf to Teddy, "That Platter Of Chicken

ten-legged animal under the However, just as Teddy en- dining room table tered the kilehen, he saw Katy-animal at all."

"Isn't It? Belle, the cook, just walking out

"What is 117"

of the kitchen with a big plot

isn't

АП

asked Teddy.

8. This cot is a waterfall.

CAT-

This cat is loved by

CAT —— Answer:

ter 01 roast chicken in her "It's Mother and Father and cats. hands.

the three children," said Knar. "Dinner's really, folks," he "What you saw were thotr legs. heard Kaly-Belle saying.

They were all sitting around the

Teddy followed Katy-Belle | dining room tubla eating their

into the dining room.

"Now I'll begin my hunting." said Teddy. So he got down on

dinner."

Teddy shook his head sadly and wont and sat down next to Hiawatha.

not

| bl hands tind knoes and

started crawling around the "You're

a very good room without a sound,

hunter," Hiawatha antd.

"How Teddy found nothing worth can you hunt animals when you hunting. Ho met some Chairs don't even know an onfinal cud a Lamp or two, "but they when you see one?"

Rupert and the Silent Land—17.

The strange, new craft answers o easily to its switches that Rupert by now, has it completely under control and lowering it slightly, he makes it settle in the tre exactly beside the Bag, Who look, there's a loops of sope here too, he murmure. ** I

wonder if that's. for mooring the hillon ? ” Vastrapping himsel and dinging to a bar be slips intq the tren, fixes the loop firmly eqund one of the spring issing mad begins i tot inb Suddenly in banna thi Yu woich kokyu hinwei

‚ 1. “Calplogue;

z. Caterpillar;

8. Catsup; 4. Cattle, 5. Cataract;] o. Catnip.

FINISH THIS poem so that all words rhyme with pleases.

This goofy boy does as pleases,

of

'He runs around in the

Without a cost until he.:

Flo dosen't cure as he

Thai maybe when he

CAT REBUS

Puzzle Pete' has hidden · four- eats (wild or tame) in his rebus. Use the words and pictures to fullest advantage to find them:

I'D LIKE TO VISIT SIAM!

TLO

LI ESS

THAT

HER

He is spreading all kinds

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TEEN-TIME TRICKS

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Finish the diamond from the given clues:

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BUTS IN THE CORKS

MALTESE

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