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FEATURES
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1958.
FOR
BOYS AND
Want To
To Know
OHNNY BLOCK'S other scarlet-jerseyed play-
J thoughts whirled in or, "Might hurt the team,
with
two good
panic, as he saw Bim too. Let's ask for a sub- Sleeger's mouth twisting in stitute pain. Sim was holding his hands!" right wrist.
"Goodbye,
football
game thought Johnny.
"Walt--I"
ON THE SPOT
[OHNNY was on the spot. As quarterback, he must decide what was best for the team.
Then he recalled Marylin Carr's question: "What will you do if something Could he do it happens to Elm?"
come.
Langrove was losing to River- view High, last year's champions. The moment had
But Johnny's team had singed a Simeon Steeger's throwing determined drive to the thirty- the final quarter. arm, or hand, was hurt. yard line
pussing And without Sim's for Sim Steeger's brillant ward passes, Langrove High hod brought the biggest gains, could not hope to win, Local and led to two earlier sports fans seemed united In this opinion.
downs.
touch-
"Sim makes you look Ike good quarterback." Johnny's clansmates had been kidding Scarlet won gumo
"Time" called Johnny, him, as the
to the referee.
Nobody
to else seemed have noticed the accident. Johnny Block thrust his body between Sim Steeger and the eyes of the rival team. He ushered Sim into the Langrove huddle.
"What's the Sim?"
matter,
G
"Don't know gasped the halfback. "May be broken bone. May be only c. sprain."
"You can't throw a pass, can you?"
werc
"Don't know !" Sim's eyea pleading. This was his last game in a Langrove uniform. "Don't tell Coach -yet!"
A
"He can't play with broken bone," growled an-
IT'S
after game.
"Anybody could call signals, with Sim throwing passes]"
"Ignore those grandstand crt- tes" scolded Maryiln, "You de- cide when Sim should paso, don't
you?"
GIRLS
Know How To Play?
Simeon Steeger's throwing arm was hurt and Johnny knew he must make a quick decision. ·
His thoughts be-
Johnny nodded gloomily. "Yes, ponie faded. bat we couldn't have won those came more orderly. If we beat games without Sim. Riverview, I'll never know if it's true-as everybody says that I dn't have anything to do with
14."
came
Then
Marylin's ques tion: "What will you do if some- thing happens to Sim?"
UP TO JOHNNY
NOW Johnny knew what
he
meant, as be stared at the LANGROVE-13. scoreboard. RIVERVIEW 18. Three minutoi to play. Fourth down, and six yards to gain for a first down.
As Johnny looked around the etrele of his desperate exhausted teammates,
remembered
he
Marylin's calm assurance.
EASY
3.CUT OUT YOUR FAVORITE CHARACTERS FROM THE
HOW MAKE A PRIVATE
ΤΟ
COAT HANGER SUNDAY COMICS AND
1.CUTA PIECE OF HEAVY WRAPPING PAPER IN.LONG AND IO IN. WIDE.
2.FOLD IT
6
AROUND THE
A WIRE
COAT
HANGER
AND PASTE OR GLUEIT
IN BACK.
BACK
FASTE
FRONT
PASTE
PASTE THEM ONTO THE FRONT OF THE PAPER.
NOW...YOU HAVE A COAT HANGER OF
YOUR VERY
OWN...HOW
ABOUT HANGING UP YOUR
COAT FOR
A CHANGE.
MAKE SEVERAL WITH A DIFFERENT COMIC FOR EACH HANGER.
Us
"They expect Sim to pass," be said. "Everybody expects Sim to pass. Nobody else knows his hand is hurt. But if we let Sim go to the buich, everybody will kouw we can't throw 0 good
pass."
"Pass!" shouted defenders confidently.
Riverview's
JUST A FAKE
ANGROVE'S ends and wing- back raced forward as if to receive a pass. Johnny straight- ened, as if watching the play and then jogged casually around The players blinked. Sim left end. Sim was fading back, Steeger nodded, eagerly.
roared.
"Let's try Number Fifty- Five," said Johnny.
His teammates looked blank for another moment. Number 55 was almost a stranger, seldoin used. Then they grinned.
"Thanks, Johnny," murmurod Sim, as the Scarlet eleven bounced Into formation, "for letting me stay for this play. I'll make it look good."
The referen tooted his whistle. Johnny snapped signals. He took
bail the
from centre, In He Langrove's T-formation. whirled, taked a hand-off to the plunging fullback.
Then Johnny appeared to slip the ball to Sim Steeger, Sim faded back, right hand at his right hip as if hiding the ball.
back.
Suddenly the crowd The ball had remained in John- ny's left hand, at his left hip, concealed from rival players!
"Fake!" screamed a Riverview back.
But he was too late...Johnny was sprinting across empty terri tory, racing across the goal line as green-jerscyed Agures hurled themselves frantically after him. Johnny kicited the extra point, and the final score read: LANGROVE 20, RIVERVIEW- 18. Riverview could not recover from the shattering surprise.
"Good thinking, Johnny!" his coach greeted him.
The headline on the
sports proclaimed: QUARTER- page
FAKE
WINS FOR BACK LANGROVE!
An Indian Legend
ÔNG, LONG
AGO, a left the wounded bird to dle in bold young Indian call- the thicket. ed Scarface came to a land that abounded with all kinds of game and food.
There were squirrels, rabbits, ducks, fish, Indian maize, squash, and pump- kins. Soon he gathered all the produce that he wanted and filled his game bags to overflowing.
Soon the dying bird was vi ited by another bird. The blood from the wounded one dripped en the ground and stained the woodpecker's head a bright red.
Later
*
the Indians used ils bright feathers to decorate their sacred pipes This decoration
and to decorate
their clothing. served as a symbol for the hunt and also as a reminder of the As he was about to leave for evil of wastefulness, For Indians home, he shot
arrow at a never killed animals unless they bird but only wounded it. Since needed them for food or their Scarface hed plenty of game, he skins for clothing.
A Scene For You To Colour
MILER IS OUT TO GET A WILD TURKEY FOR CHRISTMAS
HERE'S A SCHEME FOR COLOURING:THIS: SEETCHE
KED
Fit Fitnes
• ORANGS
A. YELLOW
NEWED!
1 BROWN
According to the
Chippewas,
is
the redheaded woodpecker never attacked by other birds of prey or animals in the woods. They have a kindly feeling for this beautiful bird.
By Louise Jean Walker
This Is For Parents
TF you penetrate a school,!
IF
you will see why there
is little to be unhappy about. Most teachers agree that they are not just there to "learn" the child.
They cre interested in his
point of view, keen to bring out his personality.
They no longer believe that the ideat pupli is one who is reen but never heard. Indeed, they encourage children to talks.
This practice starts in kinder- garten with hows. fairly recent innovation which allows the children to stand up in turn and tell the torcher and the rest of the class, anything they con- skler of interest.
This is a constant source of worry to parents, whó, › are afraid that last niglil'd row may be recorded to a gaping là.
But It is considered good for the chlidren They learn to express themselves and n
positive delight 16 the teachers.
Most Shooting Stars Are Small
outer
the moet
Like planets and comote, mo- away.
[ANY OF THE 600 see only a handful because travelling. Those with big pita, known as "melcor M own meteor swarms our fold of vision is limited, bluish-gacion light are its cratere. that swish through
destructive of flaming visitors fastest; those with yellow known meteorites fell 50 years These space may be the remains that flash momentarily in trails are slower, while ago in a thickly wooded area of broken-up comets. the dark skies are only bits meteors with a reddish glow in Siberia, The blast shredded 'thousands of acres trees over About a dozen or so times of stone or iron-some no are the slowest.
and · broise - windows 60° milés a year these swarms of bigger than an apple seed-
There are more than a dozen meteors strike the earth's that are pulled to Earth by scors travel around the sun in
eroters, or orbits, either alone or in groups,
groups of craters, air and produce brilliant gravity. showers of "shooting stars." When they plunge into We see them when their trails around the world which have created by the impact of our atmosphere at several bogin glowing at a height of been
about
60 to 75 miles. They meteorites. miles a
second, the air's usually die out about 40 miles The largest is the Chubb friction causes them to above earth.
crater in northern Quebeß which 19 1W0 These fireworks usually vaporise.
miles across arid: 1,300 feet deep, occur after midnight, when
For a brief moment
A crater in nontheast Arizona a meteor swarm sprays the envelope of glowing gas Larger meteors, however, dois three-quarters of a mile in heavens with a rain of fiery forms around the speeding not burn up altogether, but diameter and almost 600 feet sparks. However these die meteor. Then the meteor crash to Earth often creating deep.
Not all meteorites explode plays don't occur very often. is consumed and its flame- terrifle explosions, When a 100- shatter when they strike
On most nights you're like trail disappears almost 17, it is call a meteorite.
teor doem' burn up complete- and
Earth, The largest one discover- lucky to see 10 meteors flare before you have a chance to
ed by man, wolghing 50 .20 GD southwest up in an hour. Actually, see it.
A few large ones have struck tons, was found in millions of meteors bombard The colour of a meteor's the earth with such speed that Africa.
they exploded and vaporized the Earth every day, but we trail tells you how fast it is like glant bombs, blasting out -William J. Walter Jr.
About
YOU KNOW YOUR CARS ENGINE "RUNS" WHEN THE SPARK PLUG SPARKS AND IG- NITES GASOLINE VAPOR IN THE CYLINDER.
Spare Par
A
on
* *
Car's Ignition
...BUT DO YOU KNOW WHAT'S BEHIND THAT BRIEF BPARK? HERE IS THE ELECTRICAL SYSTEM OF A DIMPLE, FOUR-
CYLINDER CAR. IT HAS BEEN LIKENED TO THE HUMAN NERVOUS SYSTEM WITH ITS COMPLICATED CIRCUIT.....
DISTRIBUTOR
WITH A ROTOR INSIDE THAT MAKES ROLLING
ELECTRICAL CONTACTS AND DIRECTS CURRENT
TO PROPER SPARK PLUS.
IGNITION SWITCH
BATTERY - IT IS KEPT CHARGED BY THE GENERATOR (NOT SHOWN)
SPARK FLUGS
ONE FOR EACH CYL- INDER-WITH A GAP IN IT FOR SPARK TO JUMP.
IGNITION COIL
APULSE TRANSTORMER THAT STEPS UP THE O OR IZ-VOLT CURRENT OF THE BATTERY TO THE 4,000 TO 25,000 VOLTS NEEDED TO FORCE A SPARK ACROSS THE GAP.
BILLARTER
The Hen And Her Chicks
-Henrietta Tella-Tham About Their Relatives
fence at the side of the garden, By MAX TRELL
along came Henrietta with her family of Chicks. I said good- I tell you about morning to them and they all and her politely returned my greeting. "Henriett Chicks?" asked Chimple Spar- Then they started scratching
row.
eat.
Chirpie had come to the win- about in the grass for things to dow sill for his breakfast bread which Knart and
Listened To Them crumba Hanid, the Shadows with the Turned-About Names, left for him every morning.
Who Is She?
"Henriotta?"
asked Knart.
"Who's Henrletta?”
Before Chirple had a chance to explain, Hanid said to her
brother:
"Of course you know who Henrlotta is! She's a Hen. And the Chicks we her children." Clairple Sparrow nodded, "The Chicks are all named Henrietta and Henry."
to
Ape.
ne.
That's smart enough for
What other Birds belong to our family? a third Chick asked.
Beautiful Relativo
"Well,' said Henrietta, four most beautiful relative is the Pheasant.'
*None of the Chicks had ever heard of a Pheasant."
"They live in the woods,* Henrictia continued. They have that fenthers that are so long they curl over the ground. They
from walk proudly
place to place.'
"Don't they live in houses like we do?' the fourth Chick asked. ***Indeed they do not!' replied Henrietta. 'Cousin Pheasant is a wild Bird. He lives out in the "Yes, repiled Hearietta, he's open like the Eagles and the a very distant cousin. All Birds are our relatives."
the fence "I kept sitting on listening to them talk," sald of the Chirple, "I heard one Chicks
Henrietta: saying to Mother dear, Isn't Chirple Spar- row one of our family?
8.5
They Started Beratching About for Things to Eat.
Here! What are we all Larks and the Nightingales. But standing around for and dream- now and then, Cousin Pheasant Ing? What's wrong with being conies out of the woods to see Chickens? We have this wonder ""Even a Goose, said one of how things are getting along fut garden and all there. Helds the other Chicks.
"Yes," answered Henrietta. "Even 'n Gouse:
with Chickens like us,
to walk in. We have a Chicken. "And why, asked the first house to live in. The children Chick again, 'don't we live in feed us every day. What's wrong the woods like Cousin Pheas with being lame?" ant?
"And without walling for the Chicks to say anything, Henriet- a pushed them all forward with her wings.
"But, Mother dear,' said an- **But what happened other of the Chicks, 'a goose them?" Knart asked Chirple. Isn't supposed to be very smart, Henrietta shook her head,
Chirple help himself to a "A Goose, Henrietta told tha 'We're not wild any more,' she few more crumbs. Then he said: Httle Boy-Chick, may not be said. "We're used to living with "Early this morning, as I was very amart. But s smart people. Wo lay eggs for them.
"Let's get busy!' cha sud running myself on the wooden enough not to be a Donkey or an We can't live in the woods any.
more. Cousin Pheasant is wild. "We've got plenty to do, Como We're tame.
along, now! Follow me! Woro I wish we were wild,' said going past the house where the several of the Chicks. 'I wish wo people live. "Del's, hold up, our could live in the woods?
heads and cluck and acido. Let's show everyone in the world that we're proud to be Chick-
ZOO'S WHO
HEMALE HORNBILL SEES TO IT THAT HIS WIFESTAYS ON THE JOB OF RAISING THE FAMILY... HE CEMENTS HER INTO THE HOLLOW NESTING TREE, LEAVING HER ON- LYATINY OPENING, " THROUGH WHICH, HE FEEDS HER
MONKEY MOTHERS CARRY THEIR. LITTLE ONES JOCKEY BASHION
"You would be amazed what. A HIPPO'S BABY RIDES ON THE BACK OF ITS MOTHER'S NECK. wo learn about the parent WHEN THE MOTHER IS UNDERNEATH THE SURFACE OF THE WAY saich Lady Timothy Eden, hende
xndatres of a Kanaligion school, TER, THE BABY ON HER NECK IS QUITE DRY....
Sharp Cocklo
"Sometimes 1 do, too, rletla started to say.
Hen-
cus.'
"And," said Chirple to Kaart and Hand, "It znado: ane (cal Then, suddenly, the checked good to see Henrietta ·· and her horself. Sha. uttered a sharp little ones go marching by, us proud as a family of Pheniants."
cpckle.
Rupert and the Carved Stick-31
Rupert and Edward are thrilled at travelling in auch a fast, smooth car. Fancy being in our rickety aid.car yesterday and now in auch wonderful one," laughs Rupert, Riding in this one is like being in bed, no bumps at all."
more exciting," says Edward; When they. Enally stop and pet? out they spend a long surpiring the glossy car that the gentleman, has to call them and they follow him into his large, hous wandering what has made him so excited and
lovely, though I think yours was. what be bar to show them.
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