THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1958,
FEATURES
FOR BOYS
AND GIRLS
MOTHER'S LITTLE HELPERS
If you lived in Seoul, Korea, this is what you would be doing on wash day. And you would probably tlak It was lots of fun. The two lite girls in the foreground are teaming up to wring out a piece of clothing. This is a familiar scene on the banks of the Han River at Seoul.
Miss Honey Bee's Party
-Koorf Finds It Pays To Be Friendly...--
By MAX TRELL
"Now what have w
unt
"It's an invitation to a birth-
day party," Mr Merlin went un, "from Miss Honey Bee."
Knart said in a suprised
here?" asked Mr Merlin, voice: "Birthday invitation from
the Magnificent Magican, nes he
tore open an envelope,
a Bee! I wouldn't go if I were
Kaurt and Hanid, the Shad-you, My Merlin."
ows with the Turned-About Nonsense," replied Mr Merlin.
Names, watched him closely. "Becs are line people."
Hanid wow about to pay that it
"Sometimes they sting," Knort
looked like an invitation tax a tok him, birthday party.
"Bees don't sting when they invite you to their birthday par- Was in ties, my boy," Mr Merlin re-
lled.
"So it is!" exclaimed Mr Mer- Hà, guessing 'what
Danid's mind.
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Merlin, Huari and Manid had changed into, Becs.....
He looked at the invitation card again.
"It says here that I can bring my friends. I'd be delighted if you both would come along with nie."
1 did no good for Knarf to keep protesting that Beens were likely to sting. Mr Merlin in- sisted that they get ready.
What To Wear
"How can
we get ready?" asked Hanid. "I don't know what kind of a dress to wear for
a Bee's birthday party."
"And besides," added Knarf, "we're both too big."
"And, anyway." Hanid added, even if I knew what to wear, how would we be able to get to You where Honey Bee 1lves? thave to go through a little hole way up at the top of the tree."
While Kaarf and Hand were saying all these things, Mr Mer- in merely put the birthday in- vitation carefully back in its envelope and put the envelope coat pocket. carefully in his Then he mumbled some words
(I only wish I knew what they were!) and suddenly Knarf and fland and Mr Merlin all be came as small as Bees!
from
—Little_wings sprouted their shoulders. Hand had o yellow dress, Knarf and Mr Merlin had yellow suits.
"We'd better hurry," Mr Mer. lin told them.
Then he buzzed his wings and flew out of the window.
Knurf and Hank also buzzed their wings and the next mo- ment they were saliing out of the window, fon.
They had no trouble whatever Honey finding the tree where
more
П
Bee lived, nor squeezing through the holo that led into her room,
And what a crowded room was! There must have been hundred or
birthday guests, all wearing yellow dress- es or yellow sults with wings sproutong out of their shoulders. Everybody danced to the mu- sle of a Cricket and a Mayfly, playing a guitar and a violin.
A Gift. For All
AJ the birthday guests re- ceived Bitlo jars of honey.
"
Honey Bee was one week old. Her birthday present was beautiful basket, made of dainy petals and dandelion tufts which sho would use
for gathering sweetstulls from the Bowers."
**Well,” sold. Mr Merlin later to Knarf, "you'didn't get atung, did you? Bees never sling any- ene, whom they. Invite to their- parties,... don't ever forgel...thati. Bo friendly with Bos, and they'll be friendly with you.
Ike And Mike Teach Proper Diet
foods
TKE and Mike are success- rats. Ike, weighing 60 grams metal barrier between the two
fully teaching proper was put on a diet of nutritious rats.
Uke potatoes, carrots, Mike's first move was to rush cating habits to a special celery, cucumber and milks. over to Ike's food.and nibble class of children at the Mike, weighing 65 greens, was away at his lettuce. Ike auffed Cook School In New Bed- put on a diet of candy, cake, at Mike's grape soda and turned ford, Massachusetts.
Bread, and grope soda.
away to go back to his own side Three weeks Jaler, Ike of the cage and nibble at a plece Ike and Mike are two rats, weighed 121 grams, all brawn of hard-boiled egg, yes, rats.
Eed muscles while Mike, flabby nnd undernourished, weighed Teacher Mra Churles w, only 81 grams.
unexpected
Deasy oblakted the two rals in
The wae lively cage to teach her special class Mike was lazy end the importance of proper diet. The children even learned
At the beginning of the de- monstration, both rate were 20 days old, which Mrs Deasy says Is the equal of 2%1⁄2 years of o human child's life.
A metal partition was pinced in the cage to sepraate the two
thkik
What did the children and friendly. of Ike and Mike's cating de-
irritable, monstration?
An "The children are 09 dedi- in fellow cated to this project as full- caught
Mra Ike Bedged scientists,"
Deasy feetlag when they trying to shove some of its car said. "As anticipated, each child rots and lettuce under the metal has improved his or her cating barrier to Mike.
habits and expressed a deter- to strive for more mination healthy bodies."
After the three-week's weigh in, the teacher removed the
Sunspots Still Are A
THE sun seems to be n
dazzling, teadily burning disc in the sky. But don't let that fool you. The sun's surface is always In violent turmoil, with gases whirling and gushing up on its white-hol surface,
many
unsolved
mysteries
of
ironomy. Sunspots are another vexing mystery. Some say they are created when gases deep inside the sun bubble outward, the sun's surface these gases whirl at great speeds elreutar motion, coal begin to grow dark,
TWHAT'S GOOD
FOR RATS SHOULD 180 G000 POR
Mystery
Puzzle
Pete's
COLUMN
GIRL REBUS
four
Puzzle Pole has hidden girls in his rebus and says you must use the words and ple lures to full advantage lo cover them:
ANNA!
LIKE TO LISTEN TO
CAROL
SINGERS 2
MMONT
HO
this Is
MY CLIENT WILL SUE FOR
DAMAGES
As the sun rotates on its axis, particles out into space, some the sunspots move slowly nerass arc altracted by The earth's
Since of magnetism. its face and Rually pass oul sight. By watching them, as alrongest at the North and South ronomers found it takes the Poles, the speedy, electrically- On wun 25 days to make one charged particles are attracted to
them complete turn.
There aren't always sunspots Sometimes there on the sun. won't be any for several weeks. Then there may be as many as u hundred or nfore at onge.
of
and
☆
Those particles can be trouble- makerk, interfering with radio
HIDDEN GIRLS
At Umes. glont streamers of glowing gases, leap hundreds of Thousands of miles above the
At first they are small, then reception and causing statle. Or sun's surface. These spiralling
Actually, sunspots aren't very grow in size before shrinking they can disturb compass needles, Li ribbons, called
promi dark,
It's just because the rest and finally disappearing alto-ending the pointers in false
directions.
Each of these sentences com- nences, shoot out of speeds ex of the ลนด Is so dazzingly gether. Men have discovered
Many people have tried 10 tains the name of a girl. Can eceding 100 miles # second, bright that they appear that that the number and size of connect weather, Wars and you find them? Sometimes the outer parts fway.
spols grow, then decrease, in business cycles to sunspots, but They met at the tending these fuming Angers break off and escape into space.
Sunspots possess powerful is difficult to find any proof ibrary.
Bhe hid to a hamper. Just what causes these dra-
magnetic fields, When flery for these speculations, maile outbursts in one of the
solar Bares fing these electrical
-William J. Weisor Jr.
GIRLISH CROSSWORD
These spots are so big that you could put a dozen cartha or indre on most of them.
11-year cycles,
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BILL ARTER
HOW RHYTHM Good Manners Are Valuable
TO
ISTICKS
1.FIND Z ROUNDSTICKS ONE ABOUT IZIN LONG AND ONE ABOUT 24 IN LONG.
IF YOU USE A VINE MAPLE OR WILLOW BRANCH... PEEL OFF THE BARK WITH A KNIFE
2.FLATTEN ONE SIDE OF THE
Owant
course most of us to have good manners. We realise they are important. But I think that very few people realise exactly how important man- ners are. Some authorities say that
manners play real part in helping a per- son attain greatness.
3
1 believe there is a lot of truth is that theory, for I've 24 INCHSTICK.known some people who have THEN NOTCH IT LIKE THIS... attained greatness and they
were well-mannered people.
MAKE NOTCHES, ABOUT
INCH APART
3. DECORATE BOTH STICKS WITH WATER COLOR PAINTS.
4. TO PLAY...
HOLD TIP OF NOTCHED STICK AGAINST THE BOTTOM OF A METAL DISH PAN OR BUCKET... THEN RUB SHORT STICK RAPIDLY ACROSS NOTCHES
MOST GREAT
PEOPLE ARE WELL- MANNERED
she enjoyed the privileges we
gave her.
Puzzle Pete's To dress up crossword puzzle, Cartoonist Col put it on the silhouette of а girl's head:
12
3
B
ACROSS
1 Girl's amo
# Cross
• Singing voice
7 Foretcher
Broential being
DOWN
1 Rub out -
2 Distributes
3 Memoranda
4 Idolise
VOWEL-LESS GIRLS
June's good marinera set her
In these four gl's names, apart from the rest; they, at Puzzle Pele has left out that early time in her lite, be- vowels, but you should be able
gan to flow out to colour her fu- ture success,
Not
to name them quickly:
R-S-M- 1 mart ta
-DILI CH-RL- TT
GIRL DIAMOND
the
And I can recall the good manners of Herbert Levy, now nationally known dress monu- facturer. When we were school, a group of boyn 'andi girls used to meet after classes, la one of the coke shops "Hear
-LILLIAN. provides.n.cezire for campus. The boye were the Puzzle. Pete's word diamond. usual sprawling, lounging typ this time. The second word in a When the girls approached they familier word for "ister" third made no effort to move.
"en.sona": Aith "an ensigned Herb. He ALWAYS 1030, of
tal" ~ and sixth "anchest fered chairs, handed over the menus, He was different from Complate the diamond from the
above clues: Kim a kindly, respectful per- sonality which profiled in in leave, his relations with people of the every- the other children piled in the business world to this day.
Yes, I do agree, that one of thing as anyone who had ever car without a backward glance. bean to the form, and lovéd to Not Junie. Sho ALWAYS made the keys to success la courtesyl investigate the nookca
Mrs Evelyn Witter
For example: When June ·
Havor was about thirteen years from her neighbourhood who the rest. His good mannera gave old she used to come to our drove out with her. farm with her mother and
grandmother. She was as curl- When it was time to ous and eager to
Sco
and it a point to come to the houISE cranules with the other children and say "good-bye", and that
DON'T
GO
BERSERK
VOU'VE often beird the say- violent dury and love of fight-
ing, "the guy's gone bêr- ing.
The
serit,"
Tanto "Berserker" Do you know how the express amongst the carly. Nommen slon came into being?
came to be applied to a com- It all started with Bemerk. batant whose love of war and or Berserker, a famous hero of fighting induced a treazled sinto | Scandinaylan mythology or called the "berserk's COLTRO,"
folklore.
in which he was dangerous to According to the old legend, friend and foe olika. Berserk was the grandson of
But in later times the nama Starkaster, hơ of the eight banda, and of Alihiide, the most Berserker was given to com- beautiful of all Scandinavian penies of hard fighters retained goddess.cs.
as bodyguards or special cham- Berk, as the saying goes, pions of Norse leaders. The real toughie, he despised tem ona bermark".* Indicates sumour band, helmet and always wild fury similar to that sup went into battle unamnesed or posed to have been expressed alnost, unarmed, sava dor his by ancient Norse warriors.
"LELLIAN"
(Solutions on Pago 20)
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Rupert and Floppity-
Pong Ping gratefully takca - direction and "Floppity will be Rupert's advice, and, after talking ₫ tracking him. I must find some to the Chinese boy for, a few place with a wide view," So he' moments, be, leads hirn gently clambers; to higher spound, mood away. *** Now it's up to me." looks around,” He goles a man murmats Rupert: Which way walking along a road, but apart 2sad 8" better go ? : That monkey · from Kíni, nothing stems; t may have jumped away in any moving anywhere."
DOMANTARL Bianta neskavab
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