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FOR
NATURE'S OWN SPECTACULAR
FAVE YOU EVER SEEN polar regions. It is even post-
Hthe Northern Lights
(Aurora Borealis)? If not,
blo
to read by them on occa- slan.
I am sure you must have. Perhaps they can best be de heard of them.
wcribed to you by comparing them with the brilliant shimmery curtain you have seen in your theatre with ila sofi graceful folds.
They
Neen in many changing shapes and colours in the night skier in the Northern Hemisphere.
Ovcantly they can be de- tected in the northern parts of the United Slates
they have been seen as far south as New Orleans and Florida,
TAMIL
I will never forget the thrills I experienced * a child in Wisconsin when my mother would waken me Rometime. around midnight, and direct my to the northeast. There, fazc Fear the horizon, I would wit- Bess a si elcuriul glow of lights. At tines It could almost be mistaken for the down.
the The net rer you get to Northern Lights, the more bril-
Burit they become. At times they are brighter than woon- light.
it is soft they furnish enough light for the hunter to pursue his seals und whales In
the
Although the basic colour is when they green, sometimes are brighter than usual, a red- dish low is apparent. Other colours ard yellow, orange, vio- let, pilt and grey, Seldom is any blue obrerved.
Often these colours take the or bands with shape of ares
shooting up flaming streaks through them. The streaks re- remble the searchlights which sometimes go shooting across
Lights have south ди
The Northern bren Florida,
拉线 neelt
far
SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1958.
BOYS
SIGHT
་
AND GIRLS
That Clever Dumpling YOUR PUZZLE
DUMPLING, Arthur's pot
to about them, we are sure they are not light rays like the
hamster, amused every- rainbow. Instead, they are esused by electrien1 particles one by racing around on his from the sun. Theso particles tread-wheel. Often he would appear to be forced out into the stop going around long aimosphere from sunspot enough to look up as if any. where they ogitate thin gasing, "Don't you think I'm and cause them to glow, i
Sometimes round accompare the amartest hamster ever?" nles the lghts. It has been
Arthur had put his pet in a wire
compared to the crushing of dryenge so that all the family could paper.
|
enjoy his antien, and Dumpling made it plain that he led an audienew" He liked to swing by
If you are interested in these front paws from the wires pross the top of his cage list a. Tarzan, crossing from one side
the other.
lights, perhaps you would en- Joy trying to put them into col- our for yourmelt. Unlined now paper 8 x 11 inches. (the kind you use in school) works very
colours men
from
your
It was amusing at feeding time to see his pouches over his Jaws swelled out with grain- an if he had a bi tase of mumpa
He stored most of the grain
well. Take the tloned previously crayon box. Break the crayon In half and peel off all paper.
Decide on the shape or pat-acner of the cage under a pile of shredded tern you wish to follow. Use this bed, Other displays tako on the Long, long aro, supersillious
and at mes people-feared this
the side of your crayon, keep paper.. Awesome forms of crowns
thinking it was an evil ng your work smooth and even. look like a clover lest. Serpent.
"Fuse" or "blend" your colours tines are commor.. Occasionally omen. That is because they
n you go from one to another. these lights appear in rainbow did not understand the origin of
You may want to try several effect. Then again, you may the lights.
different displays
sce them as just a formiess mass of radiance.
Today, although we still do not know as much as we would like
-By Carolyn M. Crane
How Our Energy Comes From
WATER
ENERGY
¿DERIVED FROM (SUNIN MARY)
PAISED BYSUA
YYATEK
DOWS FE
TREESE PLANTS. CREATED MOSTLY
BY SUN-ENERGY
OF FUEL & FOOD
NERGY IS
ONE SQYR ON SUN EWIS 70,000 II. P.
PER SECOND. ONLY 2
KP REACHES EARTH..
YET WE GET MORE ENERGY IN A DAY TRAN PRODUCED IN (AST MALION YEARS FRUTA MUSCLES, FUTLE WATER POWER.
ALL FUELS (ATOMIC 100)
ARE EXHAUSTIBLE....
- MINSTER TO UTILIZE SUNY UNUSID
ENERGY TUDO OUR WORK .......
MECHANICAL SUNS HEAT THIOSTRAM
SUN'S RAYS
SIENA BOILER
FOCUSED ON HIGH BONING SCHLAF LIQUO.
PROTOSYNTHESIS,//
TOGLEAM
PHOTOELECTRICITY SUNLIGHTON CERTAIN CRYSTALS MAKES ELECTRICITY... ...NOW USED TO POWER
FROUES AND
RADIOS,
POSSIBLE
WAYS
SCEKEHORMOUR DEŞEU UP OF NATURAL PROCESS - GROWTELDE FOOD GUIEL IN FORA DE ALGAE.
ALGAE
„CINGULADING
PUMP
Sun
PHOTOCHEMISTRY
WE SŁĘKA LIQUIDABLE TO ABSCHU, GLONG & RELEAGE SUN'S
ENERGY AS NEEDED,//
ABOUT EARTH'S 'CRUST' OF AIR
EARTH IS WRAPPED IN ITS ATMOSPHERE
(AIR) WHICH IS NOT AS THICK, BY COMPAR-
ISON, AS A SHEET OF CELLOPHANE
WRAPPED AROUND AN ORANGE.
YET ALL LIFE ON EARTH DEPENDS ON THIS
1500
THIN LAYER FOR OXYGEN TO BREATHE, TO CONSERVE SUR'S HEAT AND PROTECT US FROM DEF HARMFUL RAYS...
BUT DON'T WORRY... THE AIR COLUMN OVER EACH OF US WEIGHS A TON. EVERY PERSON ON EARTH HAS 21⁄2 MILLION-TONS OF AIR TO BREATHE, SO WE AREN'T LIKELY TO BE "SHORT OF BREATH."
1000
HOW MAKE
TO
Bill Arter
99% OF AIR IS WITHIN 19 MILES
OF EARTH SURFACE
ATMOSPHERE IS THICKEST (MOST DENSE)
AT EARTH: GROWS THINNER AS HEIGHT MICREASES.
ROCKETS MUST GO SLOWLY THROUGH ATMOSPHERE -OR FRICTION WILL BURN THEM UP.
NEARLY ALL PEOPLE LIVE WITHIN FIRST VERTICAL MILE ABOVE SEALSVEL
HALE THE AIR 15JN.....
THE FIRST 32
MILES ABOVE EARTH'S SURFACE. OXYGEN NEEDED ABOVE THIS HEIGHT.
SURFACE OF EARTH
BOOKENDS Glass More Valuable Than
L.FIND TWO SQUARE Z POUND TOBACCO CANS. REMOVE THE
LABEL BUT
LEAVE THE LID ON.
2.CUT A PIECE
OF COLORED CONSTRUCTION PAPER TO
FIT ALL. AROUND SIDES OF CAN..LEAVE
A1INCH OVERLAP.
STICK PAPER TO THE CAN WITH QUICK DRYING CEMENT.
3.CUT OUT SMALL FIGURES
OR ASCENE FROM A
MAGAZINE AND PASTE
THEM AROUND
SIDES OF CAN.
4. REMOVE THE LID AND
FILL THE CAN WITH CLEAN
DRY SAND.
„ŠIE572 5. GLUE A LARGE -
CORK TO CENTER
OF UID..
I
IN THE SPRING of 1957 from representatives countries all over the world met in Acera, capital of the Gold Coast, to welcome a new nation into the British Commonwealth. For the first time in hundreds of years there was a country called Ghana,
To find the origin of the am- pire of Ghana we must go back Bearly 2,000 years.
This unclent Ghana was fur- ther north than the Ghana. of today. And its capital of Koum-
bi Saleh was not discovered un-
t
after World War II.
#
In the French colony of Mau- retania scientists came upon htt Over half a mile in diameter, As it was the only
hill in the area they began to
dig. Beneath the surface they
found store bulldings where,
GLASS COINS
IRON SCISSORS
IRON CHAIN
THE EMPIRE OF
GHANA
Gold
POTTERY
even today, most of the homes Ghana of jong ago glass was Ghana was gradually taken are bullt of mud bricke
The people
ARTHUR HAD LEARNED that hamsters like to prepare. their own beds. After cleaning out the enge every few days, he would Lear wide strips of newspaper for the cage and en- tertain himself by peeping at Dumpling as he held the paper between his tiny pink paws and busily toru it into bits with his teeth.
When Dumpling had chewed up enough paper lo hide under, he backed into the plle, pulling pieces of paper with his teeth to cover his head.
When he awakened from sleep late in the afternoon, he opened his pink mouth in a wide yawn and peered around with half-closed eyes.
"Toy bears" is another name for hamsters, and Dumpling's for was soft, thick and golden brown.
Arthur kept his pet's cago in on unanished room at the rear of the house, out of the winter weather and protected from Lo dogs. In the evenings, he usual- ly let Dumpling out to scurry around the room while he kept on eye on his every move.
-
✩
Like little bears, hamsters make oute, friendly pels as Philip Blacdow of Oconomowac, Wis.. demonstrates,
COLUMN
HARRISON REBUS.
Use, the words and pictures To your best advantage to fad the four facts about Benjamin Harrison that have been hidden heto by Puzzle Peto;
LET'S TAKE
A SWIM IN
THE CREEK
YOU CAN'T BAR
ME- I'M A MEMBER!
INDIANAPOLIS,
JUMBLEAYAH
f
Puzzle Peto got bafuddled with his sentence about Přesl
Benjamin Harrison and make any
needs your help
sense:
As she crawled about on the sink, and there was Dumpling dent floor, poering under everything, as robust as ever-gnawing on she heard the old familiar a potato. rustle in the potato sack under Happiness reigned in Arthur's the sink.
She quickly called Arthur. He
Roberta E, Allen opened the cabinet under the
home again!
--
Baron Munch Is Packing
-le's Going To Visit Friends In Bungle Land-
By MAX TRELL
KNARF, the Shadow Boy with the Turned About Name. with his sister, Hank and H HAD LEARNED ALSO Hiawatha, the Small-Sized that hamstera are very restless Wooden Indian. rang the door- after sleeping during the day bell of their friend, Baron They
Booot out of sight funch, whlic you turn your bead, gad
сап
are so small and supple they ·Baron "Munch-llyed in a very can squeeze through very small pretty house at the end of Book cracks or holes. When Dun-Boulevard which run behind the pling sometimes squeezed him-bookcase between Canary Coge self behind a cabinet, Arthur Comer and Curtain Lane. | enticed him out by leaving food A few minutes later, they
inside Baron where Dumpling could smell it, were
Munch's When Dumpling managed to room. They found him packing
- push ap-the-door-of-his-enge-his-trunk,-
to escape, ut' might this normal
play and feeding time), Arthur
always found him the bext
A Long Trip
| morning sleeping in the sack of "I'm about to go on a long potatoes under the sink, with trip," he said, "I'm going to half-eaten pofasóes around him. visit my friends who live in He could not find out how Eungle Lond.” Dumpling rot Into the zink
Bungiers plant their gardens
at the bottom of the pond.
"Why do they do that?" asked Hanld.
Bungling Reasons They plant their gardens at the bottom of, a pond for very sald Baron "It's on the other side of the Munch, They think that if a
bungling reasons,""
compartment. The metal doors "Bungle and?" asked Hand were kept tightly closed, and in a puzzled volcé. the ventilators were high and kad small tits.
"half-way
Элгод
between
garden is planted at the bottom
presidential between termas Glover Harrison's came two by
Cleveland, term, the servod.
CROSSWORD
Cartoonist Cal placed Puzzle Pele's cromword puzzle on the klihoucite of President Benjamin' Harrison's head;
ACROSS
1 Harrison was born in North
-- Oblo
6 Toward the sheltered side D-Farndtso
9 Male children.
DOWN
1 Bundles, as of cotton 2 Its tracks are above the
Atreet
3 Compass point
* College viliciais
Accomplish
8 Half an em
MISSING WORDS
Vowels have beco · amitied
Sometimes, Arthur
Ocean," said kept Atlantle Dumpling quiet enough to pet Munch, by holding him in front of a Europe and Africa and just of a pood, they'll never have the trouble of watering it. -And mirror to snift at his own Image. around the corner from Asia."
Diso they think that if their Knart asked if Baron Munch gardens are at the bottom of a from these facts about President could show them where Bungle pond, no one will be able to Harrison, Can you fill them in Land was on the map,
pick their Blowers without And something about his ONE COLD WINTER NIGHT
jumping in and getting all wet," marriages and the names of his
wives? Arthur and his father went to **I'm terribly sorry,"* Baron "Very amazing stupid people,"
M-KRD TW-C- the bock room, and found Munch said. "They usually muttered Hiawatha Dumpling stretched out cold forget to put Bungle
Haron Munch chuckled again. and stiff in spite of his paper down on most of the maps, but "I suppose you might say that hideout. The family gathered's there just the same. I'd the Bunglers Te very foolish around and agreed that the pet better get on with my packing, but, just the same, they're very was tune for good.
I don't want to miss my plane." nice and very kind.
As Mother left the room she saw Arthur holding Dumpling In cloth, like a baby, and looking.very sad.
No Such Place
Here
Land
SC-TT
C-B-L-NL-V-Ne
M-RY SC-TT L-RD D- MM-CK
"When someone comes to di- HARRISON DIAMOND ner, they not only give him lol to eat, they also give him
WILLIAM Henry Harrison vas Benjamin's grandfather and Puzzle and Hia-provides a centre
Hiawathu muttered the plates, the knives, the forks She took Duming from him, under his breath to Knart and and the spoons."
Knarf and Hanid saying that she would attemp! Hanld: "There's no such place to revive him by leaving him wrapped warmly in the cloth and lying in a little box next to the hot water heater in the kitchen.
Tho as Bungle Land. "He's making watha suld good-by to Baron Pete's word diamond.
Munch And wished him a second word is "lear:"" third all up."
fifth "worked very pleasant time on his visit "streamlets": "Sh-sh...." sald Honid fo to the Bunglers of Dungle Land, steadily" and sixth "sorrowful** Hiawatha. She didn't want to Eu! all the way home, Hla-
wala hurt Baron Munch's fellings.
kopt on smullering: Why is it called Bunglo "Very stupid people to plant Land?" Knarf asked.
their gardens at the bottom of " tell you," zaid NEXT MORNING,
Baron a pond and to give away knives THE thinking she would find Dum-Munch, as he went on with his and forks and spoons when you pling still out cold. Mother packing. "It's because the Bun- come to dinner." rushed to the kitchen to remove glen who live in Bungletown him before Arthur awakened.which is the principal elty of are always what I
had bungling things. By
Curious Things
considered to be worth far more over by the Musiems who came The box was empty! She was Bungle Land
sure that poor Dumpling of this ancient than gold. This was probably south to trade. And one of city were postera and their because it was rare and hard to Africa's first kingdoms came to struggled out of the box during mean they are always mixing work was of better quality than obtain. Small glass dises have an end after a life of over 1,000 the night to expire under the thing up." that of today.
been found which the people years.
refrigerator or washing ma- chine.. They were traders. They ex- used as coli. changed their gold and ivory with, the people to the north-for textiles and other prodticla Utey needed.
Ohana was not a stone age civilisation. Iron Belisors un- covered were almost exactly like those in use today, Hoes, hammers and door hinges, also made of iron, appeĚRE little different than our own.
Diggers also unearthed ornaments of copper. And the iron chains they foundi were as carefully formed as shy you might buy in a hardware store, A lamp of stone probably dated back to the very beginning of the epire.
But the principal product of Gharin was gold. This they washed from the rivers throughout their land, going va for south as the prevent-day Gold Coast,
Oddly enough, however, gold was not used sa money. In this
By R. S. Craggs
Rupert and the Silent Land-29
"As the balloon bumps gently chance, for the balloon appa underneath something that looks bumping and 'la drawn by, mozne, like a cloud Rupert thinks quickly, Migranga fores, tight, up laia the *This must be the thing that the middle of a sort of ewlehing fog, solitary man pointed to," he There it becassée firmly dspd, mutters. isn'e a cloud at all. bouncing-slightly du lomapting I'd better. By round and look at buffaen ́an
But he le not given the
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED"
sound,
Crocodile Oddity
Baron Munch chuckled as he remembered some of the dona by tašk curious things friends, the Bunglers. Crocodiles can't chew. Small
"For example," ho Bald, animals are swallowed whole, "when the Bunglets" write a Large · game là · buried in - the letter with pen and ink, they river bottom unill it starts to often stick the letter in the lak ret, at which time it is cally swallowed. (Alexander Lake- Killors in Africa,).
Telephones
There are more telephones in the elty of Chicago than there are on the whole continent of After...
An Advantago
À thy persón fonts in water better:ilian 'a. thiä porwanN.
and mail the pen."
"Vory foolish people,” mui- | bered Hiawatha,
"And they bulld their houSÉS in a curious way" continued : Baron Munch.
*They build the floors on the ecllings and the cellings on the floor which makes them walk. upside down like files, And do you know where they plant ||tholic garden?”
Knarf and Hanid asked Baron- blunch where his friends the Bunglers planted their gardens. Finney plant, their, gardens,” Haron; Muschi said, that the bolm | {tons of a good?"."
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