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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY,' JANUARY 17, 1959.

FEATURES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

THEY STILL HAVE TO GO TO SCHOOL

A real school, complete to bell and teacher, has been constructed for John Provost and Todd Ferrell, the little boys on the Lassie TV programme, California law requires that children attend school while appearing in films, so the producers built an actual "little red schoolhouse" on the set for the boys. Their teacher is Mrs Catherine Deeney. The picture shows Lassie, John Provost and Mrs Deeney watching two workmen (on ladders),

rey

FUN IN THE

THREE

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THE KITCHEN

mid,

HREE little girls wanted fald her mother, it's going to Flour who meaattred Jast; it so they kissed him goodnight;

batch of spice cookies. looked ke fresh snow, but it and went upalain to bed. something to do, Sara bon

when it is all dorie." The girls melted away, beaten into the "My mums are so tired," said and Molly and Lizabeth clapped their hands and cried, dough. The oven was hot, the Lizabeth Lou "So are mine,"

pans greasei Lou. They went to their "That will be fun!"

and ready; each replied Sara, Molly

Three weary cooks mother and said, "Mother

girl, in her turn, with a hand "Mine too." * * *

that was steady, dropped the were soon ready for bed. dear, we've put our dollies

from a spoon, so that They had to take turns; first dough to bed, we've sprinkled me Fhortening whe creamed, each one could say, "

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mado bake. 1 your flowers, the kittens are then the nugar mixed with it. " learning

"Making cookies is very hard It wan true, wark," Sara said. "ha next fed. Can you tell us what never dreained 1 could break cookies today."

we bake, I know what we can find to do now?" eg" said Molly, "without any from the very fast, each had a tine

Le Mother's trouble." She stirred them in share in the work: Mother said we'll do wo'll Their mother said, "Yes, I thr mixture. They att watched that was only air.

mixer," said Lizabeth Lou.

Mother camo, heard their can. I'll show you how." bubble. Raisins were chopped Just acht dinner time Daddy

Mother began to set out some to fill a large cup; the soda went came in. He carried a package, prayers, kisset each small cook Vanille goodnight. Then she opened the fleur, sume shortening, sugar, into the cream, was oürred up and wore a big grin.

and turned out the alno sour creamy then came until foamy and fluffy. (Now a ice cream, all they could cal; a window

As she went downstairs, esen, spices, and raisins, the this was done after reading a reward for their labours, it was light.

all the cooks heard her say, enda was next, then a big mix page of the cookbook; each one Daddy's treat.

the measure-

"Nine o'clock Time good "They are good little girls. They the basin. "It looks like a cake," must check exclaimed Melly, in glee. "No," ments, know they were right cooks were asleep," Daddy sold, worked hard today."

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Three-D Pictures You

Only

are simple to make and will have lots of fun.

to

newspaper or a magazine. You will next cut out a picture of a try road, some trees, and even a man walking.

*

stone

Can

to the back of your picture. It will support it on your desk. Or you can attach a hook and keep it on your wall. evia frame it.

Or you may

You can also use thick sheeis or clear plastić instead of glass.

RDINARY pictures have two dimensions, length and width. You do not see the depth. In stereoptic pictures you see

On the boltem lace of your length, width,'und depth.

first sheet of glass paste the Whichever is the cheaper, the, How would you like picture of the country road. glass or the plastic, is the one make 3-D pictures? They Then en the top face of the you should purchase.

you picture of the automobile and tetraphs

shert of glass paste the You can also make 3-D pho- of yourself. Cut out nun walking. Then cover with your picture from a snapshot You need two sheets of thick The other sheet of glass. Look and for the background use a Klass. They should be at least through it and at once you will scene in Africa. Make yourself one quarter of an inth thick; have a real 3-D pleture. Be an explorer, Ur you can have four inches wide; and about cause one picture is pasted yourself talking to your fa- seven inches in length. Gloss away from the other, you get yourite movie

Blur or sports shelving or glass trays will do the feelity of depth. Now to player. the trick.

hold the two sheels of glass to- I is possible to also paste a Start with a simple idea such gether, use scotch tape or any picture en tep of the surface of as an automobile along a coun- other similar binding and tape your second glass. Before you try highway. Cut out a picture around the sides. You can bend do this, practise using the bot- of an automobile from your a piece of cardboard and tape tom glass.

ABOUT

Monument To A Sea Gull

LARRY Hunt had over

seen the ocean until he came East to visit his Unele John at Nantucket and the days never seemed long enough to do the things he

wanted to. He loved to sit

on the shore and watch the gulis.

"I wish we had sen gulls back home," he said one morning to his Uncle as they sat on the end of the wharf fishing, "but I sup- pose they have to live near the ocean."

of{et

North. Aretic explorers write about them. The rosy gulls. they are colled. Ther entire body is a soft, blush plik,

dainty and they wear a cular around their necks."

"Do you suppose I'll ever see

a rosy ull, Uncle John?" Larry

asked rather wistfully.

"I can't say ns to that, boy," said Uncle John, reeling in his line and getting ready 16 leave, but if you do, you'll have to go a lot farther from home than you are now."

-JANE GATES

THIS SEAT

PROVIDES A SUBSTITUTE FORMISSING GRAVITY-

SWITCH

TO TURN OFF MAGNETS

THY

Make

THREE -D_PICTURES

FOR EXAMPLE,

PAGTE

MAN AND CAR ON UFFER SIDE OF GLASS

PASTE PICTURE OF

ROAD ON UNDER GIDE OF CLASS

LAY SECOND SHEET OF GLASS

ON FIRST SHEET TO GET

THREE-D PICTURE

ARTIFICIAL GRAVITY

THE UNPLEASANT SENSATION OF WEIGHTLESSNESS IN SPACE TRAVEL MAY BE RELIEVED BY WEARING SUITS OF METALLIC CLOTH AND SITTING IN SEATS EQUIPPED WITH

ELECTRO MAGNETS TO HOLD ONE FIRMLY IN PLACE.

PRESSING A SWITCH WOULD RELEASE MAGNETS AND PERMIT FLOATING AROUND FREELY.

YOUR PUZZLE CORNER

Match wils with Puzzle Pete:

CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Light touch

+ Her

7 Courtesy title

Important melal Anger

10 Culour 11 Animal 12 Qualified 14 Deed 17 Falschoed 18 Cow's cry 11 Craducted. 20 Pigpen

I

DOWN

Greek letter

2 Atmosphere

3 Played host to

4 Rivers

5 listen

6 Conclusion

12 Every one

13 Pastry

15 Folding bed

10 Plaything

BEHEADINGS

and

Echead by oncecll" have "solitary" behead this and have "first member”; repeat and have "a compass point,"

WACKY COMPASS

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ERNA

WACKY

COMBASS

START AT SOUTH E

AND READ OVERD

- THIRD LETTER {YOU DECIDE DIRECTION, TO FIND PUZZLE PETE'S HIDDEN AXIOM

Lake Game Refuge in South

Uncle John the Dakota,"

sald.

W

10 be near "They have water," Uncle John told him, “There are 300,000 Franklin "but not the ocean, There are gail: out there. They saved the 53 different kinds, varying in crop one year by eating up nize frur pigeon to, a guerre. plague of locusts, and the One is the Franklin gull, that fariners but this menument t lives along the lake shores and them. And whenever one marshes of the upper Missis rives today, he gets a wann

welcome from everyone, as you sippi valley,"

dght expect,"

"What makes them to inter- esting?" Larry asked.

"Well for one thing, they have had a monument yrected

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"Goodness whatever could a

ar-

"They certainly are pretty hards, aren't they?" Larry sund, ex one of them swooped downi over thels heads so near that he could see the snowy breast and feathers the soft, pearl-grey

gull do ta Art a monument?" along its back. " don't believe

I've

ever

acen

anything

Larry laughed at the very idea white as a gull's breast." "I thought no one but protse

"The baby bird: are dark like George Washington and Lincoln ever had monuments," coleur." Uncle John said. "They

he said.

"You'd see a guli

if you went out to

don't um white unili they are

year old. The about a

most the monument beautiful gull, as well as the Sandraret, is found only in the Far

■ ZOO'S WHO

A FULL-GROWN BULL

GIRAFFE WILL MEASURE

AS MUCH AS 19FEET.

IN HEIGHT...

THE KODIAK AND THE ALASKAN BROWN BEARS ARE THE LARGEST OF ALL FLESH-EATING MAMMALS SEAT LIVING ON LAND.::

CAPE COD GOT 175 NAME 18 YEARS BEFORE THE PILGRIMS LANDED AT PLYMOUTH ROCK.AN ENGLISH EXPLORER, WHO SAILED

AROUND THE AREA IN 1602. CHRISTENED IT CAPE COD BECAUSE

IT ABOUNDED IN FISH...

HOW MAKE A

TO CLAY DOG

1.ROLL

A LARGE CHUNK

OF WATER

CLAY INTO A SLAB WITH A

ROLLING PIN.

2.ROLL OUT A SLAB ABOUT BINCHES SQUARE AND 24 INCH THICK... THEN WITH A PARING KNIFE DRAW THE DOG TO LOOK AS IF HE IS COMPLETELY FLATTENED OUT!

3.CUTAWAY SHADED PARTS AND PRESS END OF HAIR PIN INTO CLAY TO MAKE HAIR...MAKE EYES WITH A PENCIL POINT... LET IT DRY UNTIL CLAY IS FIRM BUT NOT STIFEL

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· 4. PICK UP CLAY AND SHAPE LIKE THIS...LET IT HARDEN.

Noises At Midnight

-Things-In-The-House Hold A Meeting-

By MAX TRELL

"Then the old Door spoke: "I don't think any of you fel- lows ought to do my complain- ing. You're all kept nest and clean. You're swept and you're polished. You're all good and "All right, chums, they've all strong. A little jumping-on muy gone to sleep now. You can shake you up a bit but it's not And as going to hurt too much. Stretch yourselves 45 much

Even if you get a little broken, in this house last night," "The next second." Christo- the carpenter can always f Christopher Cricket was saying pher continued, "I heard to Knart and Hanid, the Board in the Floor start creak- Shadows with the Turned-About ing." Numea,

"It took place after "Oh," sald Hanid. "Board was everybody in the house was stretching itself." fast asleep."

HERE was a big meeting you please,

Puzzled Expressions

a you.'

What About Me?

But what about me? called "That's what it was," sald the Shutter from outside. The Christopher. "But there was wind is making me bang against more to it than that. Righi after the House." Board storted creaking. I heard start Door Hinges also

"Just hook yourself back,' two creaking and the Stairs start said the old Door, 'And you'li Sindow's as they heard these squeaking. And while all this be as firm as a rock.' words from Christopher Cricket, was going on, I heard.

There were puzzled expres- the slong on the faces of the

:

“BILL ARTER

WHAT'S WRONG?

Cartoonist Cal has made sev oral mistakes in Puzzle Pete's. picture. Can you find them all?

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Chris heard Door speaking, to his friends.

finally woke up Father who had As usual he was spending the noises coming from outside the CrickeL

"But of course," Christoplife to come down and fix the book winter months in his favourite Window. It was

aid to Knari ond himself. the Shutter Hanid, "the Shutter couldn't winter quarters.

Where were Christopher Crickel's winter quarters? They were behind a loose brick in the fireplace.

banging.

Regular Mooting

pome

"And that," said Christopher book himselt back at all. So Cricket as he went back to his He kept banging against the place behind the, loose brick, "Is House all night long. I don't what happened last night when

the really think he minded making ell

Things-in-the-House | "Yes," Christopher Cricket all that nokse except that it held a menting. Every morning Christopher Cricket came out from behind went on, it was a regular meet- ing OE Things-in-the-House, None of the Things pali nay at. to me at all. I don't ven think they knew I WA there. I heard Door speaking "But, Christopher," Hanid raid, "If everyone in the house to the rest of his friends.

"You might as well go ahead, was asleep, how could they hold make all the noise you like,

meeting?"

his loose brick. Seeing Knorf

and Hanid sitting in the room tention he had come over to talk with them.

"I didn't say they held a meet-Door said. ing," Christopher Cricket sald. “I said there was a big meet ing."

"But who held the meeting"

Kaart askedi

Christopher Cricket crossed four or five of his legs

Watching.The. Moonlight,

rd like to complain about something,' said the Stairs. "The children run up and down me. a hundred times a day. I don't mind being stopped on but it hurts when they jump on me. I wish they'd slop.!

"Then the Boards in the Floor all started speaking...at onco; .. "I'll tell you,” he said. "It wa

You've got nothing to com- about twelve o'clock. I was si- plain about, Stairs. We're the Ono ting in the middle of this room onts that got Jumped on. watching the moonlight coming of va got broken last week and In Drough the window when the carpenter had to come and all at once, right. In the middle dx us. You should have seen of all the qulėtness, I heard a the way he hit us with a voice saying:

bammer.

Rupert and the Secret Boat-8

Rupert calls to Granny Gainza. answers, ¿tit, doesn't exactly low" be hesitalen.. " It sort of Pig not to worry about Gregory'z sudden, dash and be catches up got up and down and ....':"' Up Bitle with his pai on a rock above the and down?" crits the ***. Where doce all, that, water quines" - pik.. *** Nonsense 1, I соли from?" gasps Gregory. don't believe you know: arty: mora **Where's the other bank? than 1 do. You're making it sep Which why is it flowing Let's go and ask thar man over Rupert tries to think our all the there,"

́ÁLK ́MIGVIER NEFARVED

TRIANGLE

Puzzle Pete has hung hia word" iriangle from a PART- NER. The second word is "Idol- ised"; third "Juliet's lover'; fourth a woody plant": fin "a beginner"; and sixth "a" boy's nickname." Can you finish the triangle from these cives?

PARTNER

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