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THE CHINA MAIL," SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1958-

FEATURES

FOR

BOYS

AND GIRLS ✩ ✩

Pencil Fun- Get Busy And Work These Out SECRET WRITING MAKES

THIS MAN IS GOING PLACES; CONNECT

DOTG IN ORDER TO

FIND OUT

STARF

HERB

IN WHAT-

THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY THIG HUNTER CAN RETURN TO HIC TEPPE WITHOUT TURNING BACK—CAN YOU PICK THE RIGHT TRAIL?

Short Story-Miss MacDougal's Bumbershoot

ISS MACDOUGAL

Maved mu litte tumble-

down house on the edge of lown. Some folks thought she was a bit queer but most people thought she wonderful. Timothy

was

certainly thought so.

Besides making super de- Helous popovers the could tell exciting stories.

of

She had sailed all around the world with her father who had been a se captain. She had personally met the- Singdal of Singapore and the Bagroo Bangkok

"It was in Italy that my father got the wonderful bum- bershoot," she told Timothy ane day. "At least, I think It was in Italy. You've seon the bum-

rshoot, of course?" Timothy nodded,

· Anyone

else would have called it an umbrella And no called it one else would have wonderful, it was large and old. and an ugly green colour.

"What is so wonderful about J' he couldn't help asking.

Timothy did, but thought, "no

"I'm very glad you asked that," she replied, Mor I might mare-it I want to ly. have forgotten to tell you." She Then he said, "I think that look a deep breath and sold, I had better be going." "It's magle. It can take anyone Aliss Macdougal helped him anywhere if the wind is right." to put tip the bumbershoot. "Have you ever gone ony- Thore was anlee stift wind trouble blowing no he had no whatever in rising from ground and flying home.

where on it?" he asked.

"Oh my, yes! Of course that was before I nie so many pop overs and became so plump,"

Timothy looked longingly at the bumbershoot.

"I know just what you are, thinking said Miss Macdougal ally, and the answer is 'yes,' The bumbershoot isn't doing me an earthly lt of good, n) you might as well have it."

"For my very own?" Timothy,

asked

"For your very own. I'm sure you very that it will carry nicely as long as you don't eat too many popovers. Have on- other one."

the

He put the bumbershoot in the front hall. But he worried a good bit about not being able to eat the popovers,

The next day when he came home from school his mother sold, "I hope you won't mind but I gave the horrid old um- brolia to the Junk man. I really couldn't have it in the house."

Timothy would have minded very much Indeed if I hadn't been for the popovers. Now he could eat all he wonted without being afraid of getting too plump to ity.

-MABEL HARMER

Adventure-HELICOPTER DOES THE IMPOSSIBLE

HARLES E. GREEN, ley Farwell, construction fore

ex-

JR., 36-year-old 'copter pilot, strung an eighth-of-an-inch wire cable across the Grand Canyon of the Colorado by means of a whirly bird.

man, discovered that it was snagged on a crag, 500 feet up on the rocky south side.

By walkie-talkie he contaaled the ground crew below and had a man come across the river a rubber host Green then picked him up in his hellcopter him to where the and lifted workman could free the cable.

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is estimated

Int below' 3 ihat over 100,000 or from a camp tons of this rich fertiliser have the north side of the river.

As Temperatures here have rang- been deposited here alone. plant food and as a source in rd from 130 degrees in summer

miracle to freezing in winter. gredient for certain

deposit is Workmen have had to com- drugs, this known valued at $10,000,000.

bot not only heat and cold but wild life as well, Rattlesnakes Bat Cave is located about 25 and mountain lions have visited miles upstream from Pierce's them but fortunately no one was Ferry, and was first discovered hurt,

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NOTES GREEK TO

OTHERS Puzzle

QECRET codes have been ago. He wrote it in a code or

used for hundreds of cipher, so he wrote very candidly A

of himself ond til Triends, Long after he died his cipher B. was unlocked and the diary published Today it tells us many things about that time long ago wo'might never have known.

years. They have provided fun for children and grown ups. And they have been used to keep secrets ta times of war.

Spies rend messages in code that is very hard to read with- out the "key" The key reveals the necret of the code and makes it possible to change the code message Into ordinary lone gunge. "Key" is a good word beerse it unlocks the secret,

Boys and girls can have a lol of fun with a secret code. Two friends or a small group can

The secret code shown here is easy to use. For every letter of the alphabet there is a secret symbol.

To write in this code, spell out your message In ordmary English: Then write it a second time, substituling the symbols for the regular letters.

Your friend, with the help of the key, can decode, your mes.

each have a copy of the key, race. He simply looks up each Then they can welle messges tymbol and writes the letter of which no one outside the group the alphabet that it stands for. I can read. Each person with a

key

however. cnn,

quickly change the code message folo regular English.

Soon he has the message back Into English,

As you use the code you will grow familiar with li and won't need to use the key so much,

And here's a surprise: Your say your secret friends may messages look like "Greek" to

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Clubs can keep secrets from non-members. Two people can correspond freely, and secrally, in code. Even one person, alone, may have a strictly private code to record secrets. A very famous them. diary was kept by an English-

alphabet. man, Samuel Pepys, 300 years will be. The symbols are nearly all letters

ΣΕΚΡΕΤ SECRET

Well, that's just what they

ΔΩΔΕ CODE

The Baron Munch Ocean

-He Started It By Collecting Raindrops--

By MAX TRELL

DARON Munch looked out of D the window at the rain that feli in a steady downpour.

"Rain, rain, rain," he siid to Kaurf, the Shadow Boy with the- Tamed-About Narne and Ted- dy, the Stuffed Bear, who were visiting him.

"Just look of all those drops," catd Knari. "Thore must be Imillions and millions of them.”

"No one has ever counted then" ald Baron Munich.

"Nobody ever does anything with all those raindrops," said Teddy, "They all just fall un the ground and no one pays ony attention to them."

Collected Raindrops

"Look at those raindrops," Knarf said to the Baren.

much more

"Sometimes I had as many as After the heavy wire had been

"I beg your pardon," said in the early thirties by young secured, Three successively

Baron Munch. "I'm one of the forty or fly rain puddles all put together in one big puddle. It man who sold his claim for $50.

few persons who have ever done would all the whole ineadow, It larger cabies were attached and by means of a

Legs of cota had to be placed anything with raindrops. The was such a big rain puddle that drawn acrosa

The trainway opens

After changing hands several IP A

of kerosene to keep fact of the matter is, I used to it really wasn't a ruin addic powerful holst drum, the last hitherto inaccessible store of bot. times because of the difficulties in cans

guano found in this cave, which encountered in its development, scorpions and ants out of the collect them." being a 15-inch track cable.

was finally acquired by a beds.

any mire. It was Knarf and Teddy looked at than that." Suspended from this an aerial naturally goes by the name of t

company. working But with the nerist cables It Baron Munich with astonish- tramway now runs over a two- Bat Cave, Scientists estimate Canadian

has been in through a subsidiary, the United place it will be pasalhle to movement. They knew that he had "What was it?" Knar! asked the mie span from the top of the that

Hero aften done extraordinary things. Baton Musich, south rim to a buge cave on the existence for over a million Stales Guano Corp, officers of up into the cave itselt. opposite side, 600 feet above the years, during which time vast which came up with the idea of there are rooms like buc sydl-But this was the rat time that

quantities und of the Colorado.

of guano have ac- exploiting this fertiliser treasure toriums, 300 feet wide, 300 feet they had ever heard that he had

by means of an uerial tramway. tong, and 100 feet high.

collected raindrops. Only one hitch, developed on cumulated.

Baron Only one thousand feet of the Most of the work so far has that first spectacular run. Test-

-MARK WILCOX Ing the heavy sleel wire, Stan- cave have been explored, but been done from the south rim

Cove

Crazy World-RIDING THE ROCKETS Brain Teaser

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WITH things going as they are. it seems quite possible that in the year 2000 a ton of coal will be shipped from New York to California in less than 15 minutes.

'The accepted "fast freight carriers of the national trans- pertallen rystem may well be radia-controlled rockets.

It may ba practical for the rockets to travel in under- ground tunnels through net. works of aulematically con-

trolled radar systems.

The rockets may be powered

with special nuclear fuel.

A special feature, of the

OUR PRESENT CONCEPTIONE

OF TIME, BRACE AND DISTANCE ARE EXPSGIRD

TO CHANGE CONGIDERABLY

BY 2000

4.Q

freight rockets would be their line as a modem freight truck two-part construction. They trailer, with the engine cab, and. would be made along the same the freight section separated.

Rupert and the Jackdaw- -29

The little pale want to explain about how they got inte the hous and found the isckdaw. However the Constable rully, tells them thay, their 'stery - cannot be told until thay as to his office and, gripping them firmly, he marches them up the long inaw track.

over the ridges and down the There'll be somente village. else hers who wants to hear you,“

growls. As shey reach his affice Rupert stops in surprise' for who should be "atanding" in the doorway but Margaret "and het. Mummy B.

ALL RIGH13° 2EZENTKO'

The rocket freight sections could be loaded at factories, warehouses, and depois, then moved by cabler to the "fight 670."

'At

the the "ight area" freight section of the transpor- tation rocket would be joiner to the nuclear power section,

Meanwhile, eketronic control faixa mapping out the rocket's movements. In harmony with other rocket movements would be made.

j

By using duplicates of these

tapes, one could be inscried in

EACH OF THESE words con- tains an "Inch." By carefully inching down the list see how many of the words you can complete.

1 INCH, A bird, 2-INCH,

3- INCH.

the singers.

Part of a saddle. Squeeze between

4 INCH. To wince, (---.-- INCH. To hold fast. CIN CH. Leafy green

vegetable.

7- INCH

H

Pad, for holding pigs,

8 INCH ——

Smell fur-bearing animal,,·

Everything Was Covered"

Munich dat timself

"It was a pond," said BurTAL down in his comfortable chair, Munch. "And through the [dit his metrschaum pipe and bei

year. I went on collectfig.the gan his story! -

"Now when

raindrops in rain pukles until I was lying · In

dinally all the Acids and the country with slelds and meadows all around me, Tused meadow around my house wero to notice how often the rain (ell covered. I had much more than

the ground. So ane day I pond now." decided that it was very waste- ful to fet the drops just lie there, made up my mind to collect them."

"How were you able to that?" asked Khan,

Made Puddles

do

"What did you have?" Teddy wanted to know.

"I tud a lake. And will I kept on collecting the raindrops that came down all through the year. My lake grew bigger and bigger. I had to build myselť a bout to get from one end of it to "Well," eald Baron Munch, or the other. By and by. fish come used my eyes and saw that 05 came to syri in it."

live in my lake. Children

fo

soon as the raindrops fell on the ground, they began forming "And did you go on collecting little puddles,"

raindrops ever after you had so "Rain puddles?" asked Teddy, many?" Knart asked. Baron Mune nodded.

"I would put on my raincoat "Oh yes," said Baron Musch. antiqə) and 'rubtieri and go outside "I didn't want any raindrops to

SNY

spooleroo really, By.

and I put them into, my, lake. And prelly soon, my lake grew

the master control of all rocket gauja "pers where all the main puddles were go to waste. So I kept collect- to quit te wound ** "Roma e and start putting them together; ing them every Ume they fell mevements at the control depot, The duplicate would go in the Tucket self. The rocket move nunts wil then become. 52) entiro automalle part of the rocket transportation system.

Just walt until the year, 2000

und see,

Make A Spooleroo

To make a spoolerno, you will need a large emply spool, two used match sticks, a rubber bard and cardboard: ::

Now pult, iho rubber band Through the hole in one end of the spool. Fasten it there with ralf a kitchen match slipped through the rubber band.

Noxt cut, o eircle from heavy. cardboard large enough to cover the other opening In the pool, {Make'a small hole' in the centre of it and slip the rubber band throughNow, fasten the rubber band as before, but use a whole fused matēti slick this time/DAJ Now wind up the larger match |silek until the, rubber, banat: -ÎI. good and light, Place on the flog, Jet 19 arch watch your

[ ZOO'S WHO

THE HOME OFTHE RARE SUNAPEE GOLDEN TROUT IS IN LAKE SUNAPEE,N.H. A ...... CLOSE RELATIVE OF THE !": ARCTIC CHARR, THIS RARE FISH IS SAID TO HAVE SUR VIVED IN THE LAKE SINCE

POST-GLACIAL TIMES":

OF BIF

THE SAW WHIT OWL ISW GETS ITS NAME FROM ITS CALL WHICH

SOUNDS LIKE THE FILING OFA SAW...

TWO SPECIES IN INDIA HAVE BEEN CLOCKED :

AT 17O TO:ZOQ MILES.

SAN HOUR.in

Do big that you couldn't sée from one end to the other

Great Waves:

W-H

Y-U

2:4

of the

ACROSS

1 Periód 4 Sea cagles 6 Some

7 Not old

9 Thai thing

10 Northeast (ab.)

11 Beast's loir

13 Put to

14 Erects

Greek 10 Compass point

A few of the symbols had to be invented beenuse the Greeka had no such letters. (They are: C, H, J, Q, V, W, and Y). THE rest are really Greek and you'l

of "Queer be writing a sort Greek" when you use the code.

HOW MAKE

To Batometer 1.FIND A BOTTLE (LIKE A SYRUP BOTTLE) WITH A SCREW CAP. 12.PUNCH A HOLE

IN THE CENTER OF THE CAP WITH

A HAMMER AND SMALL NAIL..THEN WORK A LARGE NAIL THROUGH IT TO MAKE IT BIGGER.

3.THE HEAVYSTRING

AROUND BOTTLE LIKE THIS LEAVE 24 INCH: -ENDS OF STRING SO YOU CAN HANG BOTTLE

UPSIDE DOWN.

4.FILL BOTTLE HALF FULL OF COLOREDWATER (USE FOOD COLORING) 5.BEND A PLASTICSTRAW INTO A SHAPE

LIKE THIS...

(PUT IT IN REAL HOT WATER TO BENDIT) 6.SCREW ON TOP.

SEAL AROUNDIT WITH WAX.

WHEN

WATER

IN TUBE

GOES

DOWN.

PRESS

SGOING

TIT MEANS

FAIR

WEATHER

AHEAD.

ELEPHANT FEET

ARE NON-SKID

THE foot of the elephant

THE

1 Arfd

DOWN

2 Preposition 3 Number 4 Come in

5 Dispatches 6 Kelp

Marry

12 Born

13 Exist

15 While

:

DROP OUTS

Drop out one letter from each of these words and when you rearrange the letters correctly you'll find a part of your body:

HEIGHT NICKS VENEER

FLEET

SHEAR

WACKY COMPASS

W

OA

U/T

WACKY COMPASS

START AT WEST

AND READ EVERY THIRD LETTER

(YOU DECIDE DIRECTION) TO FIND THE

HIDDEN PROVERB

•

WHAT'S WRONG?

Cartoonist

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semo Col made mistakes when he drew this picture for Puzzle Pele, you And them?

TRIANGLE

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Puzztą Peto hung his word ia similar to non-skid diamond from CAPTURE,

The "reluctant": tyres on trucks and cars. It second word Is

valčano on Marti is wrapped in loose akin third a that is covered with folds,nique" fourth a large plan!", Afth "to employ and sixth “a "Hingo'stenrships went sati-These are the non-skidders, musical note." · Finish the tag Borse Great www.eg

... CAPTURE

moved back and forth. Ture for they keep the elephant triangle from these clues: were mnly beaches along the from slipping. Ahtes where people cano (in) The elephant's feet help him their bathing suite. It wasn't a walk through deep mud. When lake any more,"

he pula his weight, on them, "What was 17" Kpart and they grow larger. When he life Tedily zsked Baron Munich. his feet they grow smaller. This Baron Munch puffed content is the reason he can get out of edly on his pipo for a minute or mud mere easily than many no before he smiled and another animals, ewcred.

The elephant's feel keep him from being clumsy: The saying was an occan People "clumsy as an elephant", la not called It Borờn Munch Oceân, accurate because he easi' travel It was almost as big as the very rapidly throught even in Atlantia. Octark”

thick Jungle. Of course a horse

(Bolutions on, Page 29).

GOOD - REASON.

Teacher: Fred, ** you

mus

*! "Well, that shown whing you could bons him on a race track, can do with raindrops · If you but a horse could never beat di just set your minit to IRA

elephant 'in a jungle. Teddy was, about tonife Although the elephant is largo, Ekrem bundia-what-- had finally he is ®: good, traveller becauso practise 'peningship.; 1 figi R Cifpponed to: Dhichi Munch Ocean he does not skid, he can get out | almost impossible to read you. when Baron Munch. suddenty of mad easily, and lie can got | writing: 205 Up and announced "he and over the toughest testain very „ather work to do,

"I wonder #r l'a really true," Toddy said badly to Kozef Inter,

quickdy.

—EVELYN:WITTER

Fred: "If my writing/km.

proved, your "could see what 'a'

üma't have with my