1959-01-10 — Page 10

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1959.

FEATURES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

Jonathan's New Friend

ONATHAN picked

hia

JONA carefully along the

sleep path leading down, to the settlement. A thin snow was beginning to fall.

would The snow

warn

him if there were any In- dians about. He could easily distinguish the imprint of their moccasins

white ground.

*

ON

the

"Keep your eyes open, son," his father had warned that

"The morning.

rodskins arc restless Sure thieving trapper anist have stolen their furs,"

Jonathan speedily worked the Indian boy's foot free.

he turned a bend in the tr... he heard a low cry above the bowl of the wind. It was fuint and allstant, and Jonathon was unable to understand the words, but It was clearly cry.clump of bushes just below him. for help.

He quickly reached the spot,

ABOUT

I came from behind a thick

IS THIS THE MONEY

OF THE FUTURE ?

BALANCE -

Mr Jules Com

$100.00 65.00

AN ELECTRONIC POCKETBOOK"

A PLATE SIMILAR TO THE FAMILIAR CREDIT PLATE ISSUED BY DE

PARTMENT STORES. THAT'S

THE IDEA OF GUILBERT M. HUNT, CLEYELAND, OHIO INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER.

MONEY

and parting the bushes he saw braves hurried

toward them.

Big Rock Is Album

THE Indian reservation

THE

country of weat cen- a tiny Indian lad, huddled on Jonathai was frightened, re- the ground, shivering with cold inembering what his father had tral New Mexico has one of

As the pair of In- and crying pitifully. Jonathon told him.

country's most in- saw that the boy's foot had be- dlans come closer, Jonathan's this como caught in a huge tree root, young charge rushed forward to tercating natural landmarks. which held him fast.

greet one of the men, laughing It resembles a huge castle

Realling that no Imppily, words could be exchanged be towering over the surround- tween the Indians and himself, ing plateau. A closer in- Jonathan turned and plodded spection discloses a 200-foot toward the sandstone cliff, scarred by through the snow

weather and time. settlement.

Falling to his knees, Jonathan speedily worked the foot free, then briskly masenged it to re- 10re the circulation, The In- dan boy looked up at hin gratefully, his large brown eyes seeming to say "Thank you," ul- though he could speak no Eng-

lish,

"Poor little fellow." Jonathals thuttered. "You probably ate Just take you back to your prople,"

The Indian village was near- ly three miles west.

At last the two weary boys

reached the Indian village. Two

OF THE

HERE'S HOW IT MIGHT WORK:

INSTEAD OF BILLS AND

COINS, YOU WOULD CARRY THE ELECTRONIC PLATE, GETTING IT 'RECHARGED' FROM TIME TO TIME FROM YOUR ACCOUNT AT THE BANK.

OTHER SYSTEMS COULD BE DEVISED FOR PAYING SMALL BILLS AND TOLLS, SUCH AS CANDY DISPENSERS OR THIS PARKING METER.

BILL ARTESE,

TRAINS BEFORE

THERE were tracks be run by steam, on

land.

ם

Its base contains a fes- The following day three In-

of the dions came to his father's cabin,cinating history

Indians, They carried a wild turkey one old Southwest.

They gave Spaniards and, later, Ameri- ur them had killed. the turkey to Jonutean with broad smile.

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"Well," laughed Jonathan's father when the red men had departed, "when you rescued that Indian boy yesterday, you may have saved our scalps as well."

----Stuart Covington

FUTURE

STORES WOULD BE

EQUIPPED WITH ELECTRONIC CASH REGISTERS WHICH

WOULD DEDUCT THE AMOUNT OF YOUR BILL FROM THE CHARGE IN YOUR PLATE.

QUESTION HOW TO LOAN MONEY TOA FRIEND?

YOU COULDN'T GIVE HIM CASH, BUT PER- HAPS A "CHARGE"- ELECTRONIC, THAT 13.

2401

TRACKS

cans pushing West rested in its shade and quenched their thirst in the cool water of the pool nearby: All left their marks here.

GRAWIARDS, INDIANG, AND BARLY AMERICAR EXPLORERS CARVED

THEIR NAMES N THE WALLS, AND LEFT WORN PATHS AS THEY CONTINUED ON

THEIR WAYG -

THE FASCINATING

HISTORY BA THE OLD GOLSHWECT

16 PARTIALLY INSCRIBED IN THE SANDSTONE CLIFFC AND PUEBLOS OF

THE INDIAN

KAGERVATION COUNTRY OF WESTERN NEW MEXICO -

Pago

A trail, worn smooth by generations of footsteps, climbs up the mesa wall. High on its sides primitive Indians carved their messages in the form of rock El Morro, meaning "the In the 1800's, traders and human and animal dgures. Pic headland," They etched across trappers sought shelter here. tographs toll of their hunts and its face a rambling record of Pioneers, muving west with the betting. The remaina of two their terivels Bergss this wagon trains, found it good About 500 names place to rest. Before leaving, Indian pueblos crown the mesa, western land. where scattered pleces of and inscriptions. have been many carefully chiseled their brightly ornamented pottery and declphicred.

umes and the dates of their vacant stone-walled rooms are The earliest Spanish writing passing. mute evidence of a people who is the carefully curved signa- lived here some 100 years ago, ture of Governor Juan de Onate then vanished.

and the date "a 10 de Abril do 1805" (the 19th of April 1605), Others wrote "paso por aquy" (passed by here),

DURING THE Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries, the Spaniards, seeking the legen- dary "Seven Cities of Cibola," camped here and named the

Conquistadors added thel names and boasted of their con- quests.

The last discernible date cut by Spanish wanderers la 1774.

In order to preserve this in- teresting stone album of his

all Americans, "In- tory for scription Rock" (as it is some- tines called) was proclaimed a national monument in 1000, re- aining Its Spanish name of El

Morro.

-Anne Earlo

Everybody Loves Puppets

ARLY Christians used

E acting

Bible stories, They became so attached to them, that they had puppets carved on their tombs. Today the pup- pet is again being used to teach Bible stories,

Pupper Theatre

COMB PUPPETS WEIGHING AS

MUCH A I00 £99, HAVE: BEAN USED IN SHOWG-

which brows!

Puppets used by the Manten Larity in New York for their plays weighed over 100 pounds. To see the whole story person would have to go to this spe- uial theatre for 500 days. There were over 400 marionettes in the ploy.

can even lift their eye-

One dentist used to go overy day to the Pont Neur, the of the bridges in France. If no wanted his teeth fixed, he would enterials with a puppet performance and thus make the trip pay.

one

The famous artist. three place of a horse pulling coal young George liked steam en-

Michaelangelo, modelled over tracka,

gines better.

Stephenson was at the throt-heads for marionettes.. The story began in Eng- He first built the steam wagon This first locomotive ran on tle when the first railroad open- Lorenzo de Medici had a with the idea that It could pull ralis. "Catch-MeWho-Can", was ed in. England. A railroad was

built for heavy guns. It ran on reads but able to pull five wagons and coal built to carry not only coal, but puppet theatre

Florence. people as well.

his palace in

To make puppet shows seem not on tracks. Its boller was so after it.

Joseph Haydn, the great

real, many things were resorted small that it had to stop every

musician, wrote five toy

to. In a mystery play, blood was supplied by a small bag of octor's under an symphonies for marionettes.

quid dye Puppets were said to

clothes, which, when punctured hove originated in Naples, Italy, then cious stones. The Chinese at with a sharp dagger, broke and went on to France, England and one time used quicksliver to spread over the victim's chest. the shows aren't other countries.

They also Nowadays, make puppets move. used different types of elock- quite so gruesome. Oriental puppe's are made of work for

The this purpose. beautiful wood, ivory and pre- Japanese have made puppets

on

steam

At first horses dragged

In about 1829 a young Eng- People were afraid of this iron heavy carts of coal from the

quarter-hour to make more Jishman. George Stephenson, hurse on tracks. They thought English mines down to the scam,

became one of the first great the wheels might fly off. The seacoast. Wooden planks

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* locomotive builders. He knew farmers living near the railroad that the black smoke engines

because though! were lubl so that the wagons One day Curnet's steam about steam would not sink and rat the wagon upset in a Paris street, when he was a boy he worked would kill their animals. road. But the plank tracks and this gave people the Idea With his father

too pump to pull were quickly worn away by that steam wagons were

We cannot help but wonder, coal mine.

He bull a locomotive which since this ride of 1825 was very the heavy coal carts, and dangerous to use,

called "Rocket." It had a slow in comparison to the speed strips of iron were fastened A short time after Cugnot's he

upset in a Parts long boller and a tall chimney. we have today, what these early sleam wagon street, on English inventor built mede steam faster than any presengers would have thought If they had ridden on one of 'steam engine called "Catch- locomotive before this time. Me-Who-Can."

Stephenson was sent to school, our modern, streamlined trains!

-Evelyn Witter learni

But watchmaking.

to the planks to make the

wood last longer,

He was trying Cug-

A French army officer, not, in 1767 put a small engnie,

to make an engine to take the

The King Of Butterflies

He Brought Sunshine To The Ants All Winter-

By MAX TRELL

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water out of 1

And any

honey. We'vo plenty to ent. But

that han

Jazy good-for-nothing nothing. What a cold nasty day it is. B-r-r....makes me shiver just to look outside.

Crowded Around

"All the other Anis crowded arounded the window to look

were ruled over by a Queen, And often, the Queen of the Ants would look out of her OUTSIDE the rain was tall window at the bottom of the Ing. I was a cold, dreary' after dark and gloomy ant hill where noon. But inside the house, and she lived and see the beautiful out, too.

the Book King especially behind

of the Butterflies go

"And

said Mr suddenly," shelves, there was laughter and aftting by.

Punch, "the Queen of the Ants cheerfulness.

* *le's

lazy good-for- and all the other Ants saw a gathered nothing she would tell all the wonderful sight,

other Ants in the ant hill. "He does nothing all The summer long but sit from flower to beams and moonbeams in front of the window. It was the to himself

Everyone

was

around Mr Punch,

who

telling a story.

was

"They saw a fash of sun-

like the

of the Butterflies Ho

brightness

of in the middle ol

"It makes me shiver to look outside," said the Queen.

helping There were Knurf and Band, flower, the Shadow Children with the honey. But just wait until the King

'He was Turned-About Names, and winter comes,' she said.

get summer Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, and won't and it so easy to

So Hiawatha,

come, my winter. the Small-Sized honey then. Wooden Indian. They sat at deary, let's all get back to work!" Mr. Punch's foot. Mary Jane,

Looking For Food the Rag Doll, sat en Mr Punch's lop, Mr Canary sat on Mr

"And what else could they was woll fed on honey, because do but open the door and let nowhere else could they and him in? For even Ants, Hving in all the long winter Buch at the bottom of a dark Ant beautiful summer cheerkil-

When be Anished the story,

Punch's shoulder. And Christo- "Then," said Mr Punch, all loved summer sunshine. ness

And all winter long, the King Ants would go scurrying of the Butterflies lived with everyone listening to Mr Punch pher Cricket sat on Mr Punch's head

the Queen of the Ants and clapped their hands.

On Guard Duty

General Tin, the Tin Soldier, the odgo stood at

of the Bookshelves with his musket

He was o

over his shoulder.

the

out of the ant hill to look for food to store up in the ant collars. For they all wanted to be sure to have plenty of. food when

the col winter

came,

"And so, all through the re- guard duty, but he listened to maining days of the summer Mr Punch just the same.

and autumn, the busy

Anta morning Mr Punch was telling the kept working from story about The King of the t night while the King of Butterflies Biited from Blower Butterfiles.

"Now the King of the to lower, enjoying himself and Butterfies," said Mr Punch, as sucking up all the boney he he began his story, "was the pould find in the flowers that most beautiful butterdy in the grow in the field.

whole world, its wings were "And then, Anally," said Mr speckled, with gold and silver and red and black, and folks Punch, "the winter came. The used to say that he painted Queen of the Ants and all hot himself with sunbeams and 8stor Ante crept into their moonbeams. All summer long, mug ant hill and locked all the King of the Butterflies the doors. The Queen of the Gitted from lower to Lower Ants sat by her, window and gray, cold Bucking up honey. That was looked out at the

day. m11; the (arock he ever did.

ewet.living in the same field Now, she said, "let's see if Butterfles were "U tardilly of Anis. They that Hing of the

Rupert and the Secret Boat-2

The strong, little may grina at milk." No, I'm not leaving my itapert's expression. "Please, why. Maxter, and I munn's answer you Are you dreaed like that?" asks until he gives me perstition. Rupert. "Have you left the Look, there he is. Let go down. Professor ? Ars you going to be to him.” He begins to; move A sailor ?” For a while the other suuln and down below him, wacker doen, not enOWEL, [You: Are", "ing near the, river, Ruperi (wES Inquisitiva, aren't you ??6; be: mother familiis équet.

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Trouble In Fur Coats

IN Inho, where the wild

Salmon,

of

Winter brought bordes

Hailey

wildlife creatures inte

in southern Idaho a few winters

ago. An elk wandered onto the roof of a house and broke it in. Jackrabbits pillaged garbage pails,

Bobcats and cougar

ceeds the human population, no one is surprised when beasts hit the headlines,

Power failure la frequent-

followed ly due to "fur coats." A beaver, near

the hundreds of deer into town chewed down a tree. It fell and cltizens killed or trapped

several. across a power line and

motorist In north Idaho, a disrupted service for hours.

zaw a fawn running along the A bobcat, near Kimberly, road. He stopped to investigate climbed a line pole to aur- and the fawn bounced into the vey the world—and car, settling down in the back scratches, managed to electrocute him- seat! It had severe

apparently, caused by a bobcat self-and disrupt service. or cougar.

During a bad winter near And near Salmon, a family of

others Riggins, several beavor-were be-

attackod several boya frlanded by rancher who fed when they entered a river cave. them apples. The beaver found One boy was severely bitten. the apple box, gnawed it apart,

Forris Waddle and ate all the apples.

1 Z00'S WHO

BLIZZARDS MAKE

LIFE EASIER

FOR THE PTARMIGAN

OF THE FAR NORTH BY KEEPING

THE FEED- · ̧

ING GROUNDS

FREE FROM",

SNOW.

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