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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1958.
FEATURES FOR
IT'S FUN TO MAKE YOUR
AG dolls can be much
Rmore than just a rag, a
bone, and a hanle of hair.
Give the dell a professios by dressing it like a ballet dancer, Roy Rogers, a spacemian, or a beloved story-book character.
Make soft, furry muls
little ant- dry-
discarded, from cleaned fur fabric coats. Small children love them. They also make nice bed dolls.
Equip a baby doll with diape
bag and diapers and dress In a Lunting.
Make rag animals out of stour plastic for easy cleaning. That
essential "difference" 90
p
by modern design can be had inaking ears and feet In cur- Study the toonish proportions Disney animals for design,
Mabea 32-inch doll that can wear the child's own clothing.
Dress à rag animal in a flow- ere apron, plaid overalls or
a
rakish felt hut
leftover pleces. least.
BOYS
Arma and lass slay on better if you sew through buttons on
the outside when putting them
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AND
GIRLS
OWN CHRISTMAS PRESENTS
SUPERSTITIONS
If the child "hero-worshIps" | then make a doll like the hero, Make bazuar dolls like cur- rent fade, for instance a' Moon TF traveller duli.
you saw
I scratching herself at The folly Irish also like to say One rag doll pattern can behind her ear, would you prapted to dozens of ekarnelers think anything of it? Well, by features, hair and clothes
If you lived in Finland, you might. According to an old superstition, it means that company would be coming from the direction in which her tall pointed.
Superstitions are old beliefs down that huve been handed
by sule at night, will be sure to wolks his sleep.
ina For many years Swedish Norwegian people thought that elves and trolls lived in their countries. They were mischiev- ous fairy folk, who delighted in paying tricks on the farmers. Atuny people put food out for the little fellows, hoping keep them contented and TQ ward off their pranks.
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DIE HARD
If a fresante kerson come to cult on a Mexican family, one uf, the members quietly put, a broom behind the kitchen door, This was a way of making, sure thut the bore would' leave shortly. Do you think it was effective?
Although we have pcken of there superstitions us though they existed in the past, they are still observed in mony coun- Mexican tries to some extent. inemas still warn their children to be good while they make the tamales,
German children still.
AI- follow the chimney sweep. though belief in elves and trolla 2105 fast disappeared; their An frisky spirit still lives on:
Quickie Dolls: Stamp your Futtern on unbleached mittalin and colour on hair, eyes, nose, mouth and even shoes and socks with wax eisyons, Then wring n cloth out of salt water and press this over the colours with a bot iron to set them, Much from one generation to another. On the stormy seas hardy sail.
A Yugoslavian motiuçe: pro- Bagle pieces ut quicker than embroidery. from at {cut
Stuffing for dozens of dolteurs often allowed their imagi
In some terred not to sweep her house at the nation to run wild. salvaging old one) with posy or feather
can be had by Bew Ing bells on the best of old mattress or bedquill countries they originated with night, because that would Indi- was trying to rim.
animal's feet above the Instep, cotton, washing soapy
water, farm tolk, who took great stock ente that she Make a tiny harneys for loy
menfolk from a big bow under his drying in the sun or a
Let us consider some sweep her
lier rellows. If they could touch the belis also on
dryer, in them.
supposedly new cheap
elf called a tomie animal and
Aweep, that was still better. crocheted chin.
Auditing tip or it, and have
and storing unui at the more cheerful and inter- threshold,
If you were to enter the home
Mexican housewives insisted brings the gifts to Swedish Washable rag dolls can by needed.
esting superstitions. leash to snap on.
heard of of _Hungurlan_family, they on harmony and price
while households on Christmas Eve; Perhaps you have from stout crean, Make Dolly wardrobe made
a
-GERTRUDE SPRINGER the
their in Norway he is called a nisse. leprechauns of Ireland. would urge you to be seated. If they were cooking exactly like hor Mistress's from coloured plastic.
would take tomates. If anyone
After all, what would the quarrelled They bobbed up at the most un- you did not, you expceled times and places. Ar- their dreams away.
during the process, white spots world be without leprechauns After all, what, is Lorcing to Irish belief, it one Germans loved their chimney might appear on the tasty and elves?. would follow 4 leprechaun aweeps and believed that it delicacy. So Mama would give so merry as a chuckle over a through the forest, the sprite brought them good luck to the stern order, "No argumen- superstition?
ALICE REEL would lead him to a pot of gold, meet one of the tall, colourful tot No disputo"
About Storage Batteries
BOY, THIS STORAGE BATTERY ISHEAVY AS LEAD!
7'SURE. IT'S LADE LARGELY
OF LEAD. DON'T SPILL THE
ACID THAT'S IN IT
Mystery
think explosions from in- Bide the moon, like volcanic eruptions on Earth, created them.
HOW CAN LEAD AND ACID STORE UP ELECTRICITY ?
SULPHU-
7% ACID
AND
WALER
(EAD)
SPONDE PLATE
PEROXIDE
- PLATE
FULLY CHARGED. SOLUTION (ELECTROLYTE) CONSISTS OF MAXIMUM ACID AND MINIMUM WATER-READY TO MAKE ELECTRICITY BY CHEMICAL ACTION.
000
AÇID COMBINES WITH QAYDEN-FORMS WATER
WHEN DISCHARSING, ACIO DECREASES AND WATER INCREASES. PLATES GET COATING OF LEAD SULPHATE WHILE ELECTRICITY 15 BEING PRODUCED.
DISCHARGED
ACID IS AT MINIMALIM AND WATER AT MAXI- MUM. PLATES ALMOST ENTIRELY COMPOSED OF LEAD SULPHATE,
WHEN CHARGING, THE LEAD SULPHATE IS RE- CONVERTED TO LEAD SPONGE AND LEAD PER OXIDE: ACID CONTENT RISES.
BILL ARTER
Of The Moon Money
of the STRONOMERS have side
moon which two theories as to what faces Earth.
Some We really see more than caused moon craters,
one-half of the moon. Even though it keeps the same
toward
(be Earth face
it revolves around Earth at the same rate it Others believe they were turns on its axis), it has a made when different sized slight wobble.
bombarded
many years
meteors moon's crust
the
cause
This motion lets us see first around one edge of the moun, end later around the other of edge. In
this way we even- tually see 59 per cent surface
ago. Other scientists think it was & combination both.
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them
of
While it's likely the hidden to the one we alde is similug can see, astronomers are anxious to explore it. But they
set up a
more eager to
ofe large
called eclipses.
When the
A Brain Teaser
FROM THE letters of cachi word, can you make another word that fits the deßaltion?
1.Late story.
2. Shoe -
what you put on
| before you put on the shoe.
something
3. Mug
chow.
4. Untied
to
first part
of
rising and falling
the name of our country.
6. Die
of the ocean surface.
0. Lame, a. 7. Life
8. Charm
months.
9. Last vad,
tool of hard steel.
one of the
seasoning
for
(Answers on Page 20)
Wouldn't Buy
NCE there was n
a doll- two inches square. Finally it
of a dollhouse, completa in From time to tline the moon the ezar of Russia, Peter every detail. puts on special actrial displays the Great, wanted it very Brandt sent word to the
He hadn't money dered was ready.
that the dollhouse he had OT- directly much. moon Letween the earth and the sun enough to buy it however, Peter the Great wrote back posses Texass the sun's believe it or not! This is Inquiring how much he would end lace, there is a solar eclipse.
the story of that dollhouse. have to pay for it.
Allhouse maker Was In the town of Utrecht, Hol hart and angry at the bi and there lived a man named Brandt, who for his own pleas- question and sent back word lure and amusement made mor-
even the Czar of Russia could not pay for 28 years of o velously real dollhouses. They man's life. He informed hlm were exact copies of the Dutch that the dollhouse was not for homes of that time.
AL
the moon's such times
shadow, 232,000 cone-shaped miles long but only a few miles wide at the tip, falls across the
earth.
At the beginning of a sola eclipse, the moon takes only a small bite out of the sun's bril-
DA
The
that
sale.
Brandt decided that this lit- when Peter llant disc. Then,
One ny seconds
the lie masterpiece should always the
a young man, was stry in Holland and he gave it. pass,
continues to Great, then moen
be to the Dutch people. The doll- cover a larger und larger oren travelling through Holland until almost all of the sun is visited the town of Utrecht and house was placed in the Royal where saw a dollhouse that Brandt had Museum at Amsterdam hidden.
Anished making. just
Brandt everyone can enjoy Its beauty. never sold his dollhouses, but it is a perfect and lovely ax- had given some to fortunate amplo of beauty that money
can not buy,
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friends or museums,
-FERN-SIMS
Your Puzzle Corner
Try Puzzle Pete's variety puzzles:
CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Either
3 Disorder
7 Pronoun
8 Poker stake
Compass point
11 Make lace edging 12 Beginning
18 "Blue Eagle" (ab.)
14 Narrow inlet
10 Engrave
18 Preposition
19 Italian city
20 North Dakota (ab.)
DOWN
1 Be Indebted
2 Pleasure spots
3 Parent
4 Penetrate
5 Depot
6 Group of matched pieces
10 Make into law
13 Born
15 In addition 17 Him
How Kitten Got Lost
WORD CHAIN
SOUND ALIKES
though they
Missing words in Puzzle Change SLAVE to LIEGE in Aye moves, but be sure you Pete's scatence are spelled dit- change only one letter at a time ferently, even und have a good word on each sound alike; change.
TRIANGLE
Puzzlo Pete has hung hie word triangle from
2.
ROMANCE. The second word is
"a lecturer"; third "a demone
The race-TAB with a——groSI.
Overgrown
(Solutions on Pago (20)
estate"; fourth "above" 11th AN EASY PUZZLE
"neither" and sixth an abbre- viation for "credit" Compinte the triangle from these clues;
HOMANCE
WORD SQUARE
First rearrange the letters In each row to form a good word, then rearrange the row's 50 your answer is the same down as across;
EAODR EDL NS AOCLR AAERW AENRV
"She met more and more Cats and went to more and more stores," Mr Punch said, "and found them all locked! Suddenly, the looked atomd and saw that she was miles and miles away "You do?" Hanid exclaimed, from home and it was nearly "Just bring that Kitten over had her glass of milk: She was morning. And she still hadn't Hanld brought Purr Purr over thirsty and she was lost.
Whatever caused has stopped, at least ten
No changes on
In a total cellpat, the moon porarily.
Peter was determined to have the moon's surface have telescope on the moon's surfucu completely covers the sun. The
where, unhampered by atmos- only light you can see is the оре of the beautiful little occurred since astronomers pheric haze, they will get 2
houses and would not take no haży light from the sun's co- began studying it closely clearer view of our universe.
Finally Brandi While the moon's diameter to rena, or hate. The sky becomes for an answer.
agreed to bulid for him a little with telescopes 350 years
une-fourth of Earth's, it would dark, the air cools off and a
palace few stars blink in the sky.
completely furnished ngo.
inke 82 moons to equal the
and more tenuiful than spy- The pock-marked moon Earth's
--It All Happened Because She Was Thirsty- weight, Because it The moon appears block be-thing he had ever done before.
los also contains vast plains, contains
material, its cause its sunlit side is toward The dollhouse maker of Et- which
But the spectacle is recht worked for 25 years on early astronomers gravity pull is only one-sixth the sun.
soon over. Seven minutes is the car's dollhouse. He mode By MAX TRELL thought were oceaNA and a strong.
This means that if you could she longest a solar eclipse may moulds and cast the table silver TANID, the Shadow-Girl with here," said Mr Punch, sens but which are probuft 50 pounds on Earth, you'd Last. Most are much shorter.
the and
copper and silver the Turned-About Name, ably hardened lava beds. he able to lift 300 pounds on the You're more likely to see on dishes. In Flanders he had in- These "seus," as they are moon. Not only that, you could celipse of the moon, A lunar towels, sheets, pillowcases tookt Purr Furr, the Kitten, on to Mr Punch. He put his car to didn't know what to do. She sat woven to her lap. For a minute or two Purr Purr's stomach and con- down on the steps of a strange wondered whether still called, are relatively break the high jumping and celipse occurs when the Earth and tablecloths
Kitten and Honid sat looking at centrated very carefully lite house and smooth, dark areas
broad jumping records of Olym- is in a direct line between the the tiny closets. which
The shelves of the miniature each other. ple champions without half try sun and the moon. The Earth's
someone listening to the ticking she'd ever get home again." of a watch. This continued for
"And how did she?" asked cover about one-half of the ing.
shindow, cone-shaped like the library were filled with books, Finally, Hanid said in a very several minutes.
Hanid. moon's but 850,000 miles long, cach Tastened with a tiny gold
At length, smile appeared 'creeps across the moon and cleap. These books were so tin-Kentle tone of volce:
**Purr Purr, my dear, you had on Mr Punch's face. makes the shaded part look that any one of them could be
us very, worried last night. We enclosed in a walnut, | coppery.
Ell 'thought you were lost samething. We were very, very worried."
How To Make Toys
HOW PLAY HOLE IN
TO THE HEAD
1.CUT BOTTOM OF A
SHOE BOX LIKE THIS..
CUT
AWAY
SHADED
PARTS.
2.TURN TOP
UPSIDE....
DOWN AND TAPE IT TO BOTTOM
3.PAINT ON A CLOWN FACE:
(curour MOUTHAND
"AHOLE FOREHEAL
4. CUT A MOUSE HOLE
IN RIGHT FRONT CORNER
OF BOTTOM
SO MARBLES WILL TOSS MARBLES INTO THE HOLES.
ROLLOUT.
ch
1,
In the picture gallery the --WILLIAM J. WEISER JR. | walls were hung with paintings
ZOO'S WHO
BEARS HAVE A VERY KEEN SENSE OF SMELL AND ARE ABLE TO HEAR FAIRLY WELL, BUT THEY SEE POORLY WITH THEIR SÆLL EYES.
THE COWBIRD RECEIVES ITS NAME FROM THE FACT THAT ITIS GENERALEY SEEN
IN PASTURES NEAR.
THE FEET OF GRAZING CATTLE WHERE IT FEEDS
ON INSECTS FRIGHTENED: FROM THE GRASS.
MOSQUITOES CAN BREED IN ANY WATER THAT : STANDS FOR FOUR OR
FIVE DAYS 10
or
Thirsty And Lost
She
Told Him Everything
"A wonderful thing happened," cald Mr Punch;
"She found "Purr Pur Just told me every somebody who not only gave Purr Purr didn't, answer this, thing that happened to her not her a glass of milk but took her After a moment or two, Haald night," Mr Punch cald. Would home as well." acked, "Now Purr Purr, where were you inat night? Why didn't you like to hear about
"I certainly would," Hanid answered.
you came home?"
Long Silance
"
"Well," said Mr Punch, "this
is what happened.
Again there was a long silence, It seemed to Hanid tint Purr "Last night just after every Purr was about to say porcello went to, bed, Purr Purr felt thing. In fact, she was sure she thirsty. She wanted a glass of heard several little "meows" milk. She looked all around the coming from the liliten. But house, but all the milk was what they meant, Hand couldn't get at it..
the refrigerator. She couldn't
(01.
It was at tile that
in
"Then shownoticed that the Mr Punch, who was sitting on kitchen window was open so sho the other side of the room in his squeezed out med landed Bahtiy rocking chair, looked up from
his book.
in the garden,"
"Where was she going?" Hanid neked.
"I see," he sat to Hanid, "that you are trying to find out that she was going to the store "She told me," anid Mr Punch, something from Pure Pure,"
Hand replied: "Purr Purr is to get a glass of milk. But when trying
she got to the store, she found it
tell me something.
He Understandı.
wish I widerstood Cat language," shut. Then she met another Cat who told her there was another store noveral blocks away, Blo went to the second story and "Ah," exclaimed Me Punch, found that one locked, too. it's very fortunate that I am"Oh dear," said Benld, "What here. I understand Cat longungo did Purr Purr do, then, poor. very wall,"
Xatter?!?
"Who?" asked Hand.
H just for fun.
FERE'S a lttle puzzler that's
1. What number becomes even by subtracting one? (Here's the Arat answer just to start you off-Seven. Take away 5 and have Even.
2. What number by subtract- ing one becomes a.form of plant life?
...
3. What number by adding cre become sound?
4 What number by sub- tracting one becomes an ex- cleznation?
B. What number by liserting becomes a finely ground
one meal?
8. What number by subtract- ing one becomes a preposition?
*OL 15 par M pangng- one 19 anos e pr
not the 309 PUU A 1ɔrnqng Ao01 158 pue L PPV - penangan 12 S I-SUASNY.
Parr Purr couldn't open
the refrigerator door.
Kanid could tell that r Punch had really told the true story because Furr Furr kept "The Milkman," Mr Punch nodding her head and purrlis
with the greatest delight, replied,
Rupert and the Carved Stick-25
The curious thing that lai bap: bened to the carved stick seems to. set the gentleman's thoughts in A new direction and he ally down waring at it intently.. At the long
politely. Yes, and I must go and” e how my kitsla brother Pompey is getting on,” adds Edwarda: 'They say goodizye, but the 'gentle- man doen't appear to hear, thetrs " alance the two pale grow restives, and is too sorbed to notice. . "If the stick's all right fought they hurry back through the ruine
to be going now,” says Rupeft of the castle,
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