1959-01-24 — Page 16

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, `1959,

FEATURES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

Buffalo Back-Scratcher SARAH, THE CLEANING LADY

HERE comes a time in

Tthe life of every person when there is a desire to scratch one's back. Years ngo a very enterprising in- dividual invented # back- scratcher, which, was a long stick with a tip made in the form of a human hand.

The buffalo also enjoyed acratching his back. Since there were but few trees on the plains, the buffalo would hend for the rivers where trees were found.

If you have a vivid imaglu- tion, you

cun peo the buffalo

mibbing his chaggy side against the tree unti it was completely barked and ruined.

These trees were called by the buffalo hunters, "rubbing

MANY A TELEGRAPH

POLE WAS PUSHED

OVER BY THE WEIGHT

OF THESE BEASTS SCRATCHING THEIR

BACKS -

poles once the buffalo

decided

-NO, ANIMAL LIKED

TO HAVE HIG

l

BACK SCRATCHED |

MORE THAN

A

BUFFALO

ROCKS AND

- TRES" WERE

**

LIGED TO RUB

AONING7-

SONICA OF

THE TELEGRAPH PROPLE TO SUPPLY THEGA SCRATCHING

PORTE!

Ins,"

QARAH was our cleaning saw a big unfinished patch cleaning lady all my ilfe. Now with dust. "My eyes have not

lady, Whenever sho in. the middle of the floor. 'm going to let other people stiven out." she said. came to our apartment, she "My eyes are giving would stop for a minute. Sarah sighed. She would always say, "My feet are giving out."

She would do the work. Her feet never seemed real. ly to give out.

A few months ago, after Sarah had finished. Mother

PICTURE BOOKS

OUTLINE pictures make

can

a

But what happened? Probably one buffalo cal to another, posts." Even big boulders were to scratch their backs on them.

would and Down they

go to the "Hey, this is something we have worn down by the buffain

pretty scrapbooks, and ground and with them the tele- been waiting for! Just what we

And graph wires. an operator need for our tough hides. Bet-this is something you

he ter the stone or a tree? 50 do to help entertain get angry because would

receive 1 message. the buffalo actually fought for couldn't

go out to a chance to Then a party would

get near those younger brother or sister spel the trouble and find all the spikes and down went the poles. on a rainy day or make for the poles drwn

n-sick-a-bed child.· given area.

in time were completely pol- ished as a result of meeting so many buffalo skins. In order to get close to the boulder the buf- falo would walk around the stone. In time a deep trench would stone.

around be worn

the

When the buffalo anw first telegraph poles that were erected on the plains one mar Well, have said to another, well, what do you know! fiere are nico young tall trees just built so that we can scratch our backs."

Now you can see what hap- pened to thoso nice telegraph

the plain

Omcials of the telegraph lines sind: "We will take heavy metal spikes and drive them into the bottom of the telegraph poles. That ought to keep the buffalo away from the poles."

Ou! went a party of men with and they spike and hammers drove the spikes into the poles.

Cloud Land Re-visited

-Baron Munch Tells Tall Tales to Krarf and Hanid-

By MAX TRELL

"DID I over tell you about

the ume 1 visited the

Land of the Clouds?"

It won Baron Munch. He was slung under the tree in his garden talking to Knarf and Hanid, the Shadown with the Tuned-About Names.

"Please tell us about your visit to the Land of the Clouds," Honid urged old Baron Munch.

Hare Munch nodded. "What

Knart? about you, Would you care to hear about of the my visit to the Land

Clouds?"

"Is it a true story?" asked Knart

"Of course, Of course, it is," replled Baron Munch. "Do I ever tell you stories that aren't true?"

You Decide

The little children sail boats in rain rivers and puddles.

*

With lougher and stronger telegraph poles and also with the fact that the buffalo beras were being wiped out, the prob lem of keeping those poles crect on the plains finally was solved.

-Harold Gluck

The Stars Say

COME SCIENTISTS Bay the shape of a galaxy

those (one of

strange groups of stars similar to our own) is a clue to its age that the round star clusters are the youngest and the pinwheel, or spiral shaped ones, are the oldest.

PASTE CUTOUTS ON "COLORED PAPER-

PASTE

CUT OUT AND TURN

The next morning, Baruh hood the whir and sum of the washing machine in the spari- ment below. "My ears have not given out," she,saja,

out," clean for me and take care of Sarah went away. She took a ilitis apartment. A glri camo in and cleaned Sarah's room.

"Every morning Sarah went to the beach and sunned herself. Every evening she came back to her room

and she felt tired thtuk over what to do. from doing nothing,

she knew it, she had walked

"My cars are

Sarah left the water running in the bathtub after she had scoured the tub, Kiving out," she said.

Sarah said to Mother: rest. going to

I'vo been

"I'm

a

.

She went for a long walk to,

Befoto

One evening when Baralı une mile, two miles, three, carne back from the beach, the "My feet have not given out," found her window still streaked she said.

About These

"PERPETUAL MOTION"

...HAS BEEN THE DREAM OF THOUSANDS OF INVENTORS.

'FREE POWER”, SURE TO BRING

RICH REWARD, SPURRED THE DESIGN OF DOZENS OF MACHINES LIKE THESE

NOT ONE HAS EVER WORKED

Many

E and

Odd

IRON BALLS ROLLIN SUCH A WAY THAT THERE IS MORE WEIGHT ON THE LEFTSIDE, SO WHEELTURNS CONSTANTLY. TOO BAD BUT IT DOESN'T WORK. BALLS DON'T BEHAVE EXACTIT AS THEY SHOULD AND FRICTION STOPS WHEEL.

PUMP

That night Sarah packed her suitcase and come back to her old home. She stoned Mother. "I can bo back at work on Mol- day morning,"

And Sarah came back. Sho puffed up the stairs as always, but this time she said, “My Liet may be giving out, but I'm not giving up."

Baroh, is still coming to our bouse once a week and sho doesn't seem to feel tired at all.

-Miriam Gilbert

Experiments

WATER

FALLING WATER FROM UPPER TANK DRIVES WATER WHEEL WHICH OPERATES PUMP TO BRING WATER FROM LOWER TO UPPER TANK.

BUT FRICTION LOSS KEEPS IT FROM RUNNING PERPETUALLY.

Things Make

¿VERYBODY ́ is . talking thinking about Look through magazines for science these days; science pictures with a definite shape, and exploring other planets. As Cow, cat, house, or star. People who know about such Cut out the picture and paste on a sheet of coloured construction things say it will take five Others believe that all gal-

Press under a heavy years, 10 years, perhaps 20 axles were

the born about same time and their different book until dry. Cut out follow-years before we can do that,

New tura and it

seems like a long, shapes were determined by the Ing outside lines..

paper over and you have a sil-

paper,

uro

speed of their spinning and the houette pleture made from con-long time, but there

nount of gas and dust withinstruction paper. Paste this in many bits of information.

thern,

the scrapbook with the con- struction side up.

A car outline may be made from red paper, then you'll Brown paper have a red car. for. a cow. Green paper for a tree. Why not have fun and make a "green pig" or a "purple caw?"

For throughout out own Milky Way system, and other galaxies, too, there fout vant oceans of interstellar dust and diffused pas. This gas is made up mostly of hydrogen, tha of which the "What kind of clothes do they basic stuff out wear, Baron Munch?" asked universe was created. Harid.

Most astronomers think that

started fo

as "They wear raincoats," saldal galaxie

now rotating, flattened discs of gas

You can make a puzzle book Baron Munch. "Though

for the sick child by numbering and then they wear rubbers and and cosmic dust. This gar and

broke up into

the cut-outs and puting the boots. But they have a lot of

answers for their identity in the fun just the same. The file upon billions of huge clouds.

These began contracting as back of the book. children sall their boats in rain

The gravity pulled their tiny parti rivers, in rain puddles. "Let me tell you this story grown-ups busy themselves cles together. and you can decide for yourself catching the clouds and taming whether it is really true or not.”- them.””

Kant was about to say that rrost of Baron Munch's stories sounded as though they never could have happened. But be fore he could begin, he was in- terrupted by Baron Munch who

mited and sold:

So Knarf and Hanid made When they heard this, Kaart

comfortable. The

next moment,

Munch

in

dust

billions

THEY ROTATE

As

-VIOLET ROBERTS

that go to make up what we call "science" that have served as a background for it over the centuries.

For instance, how long ago do you suppose the first the- uries or bits of knowledge on The following sugjects became of interest to man? They are all subjects that had to be ex~ plored before we could have an "atomie" or "spaco" age.

1, Firemaking 2. The Wheel 3. Astronomy

IT TAKES

TIME

4. The Telescope 5. Gunpowder 6. Writing

SEEMS AS THOUGH ITOUGHT TO WORK, WITH THE LEVERAGE OF THOSE IRON BALLS ON THE RIGHT. BUT THERS ARE SO MANY MORE BALLS ON THE LEFT THAT THE WHEEL 15 REALLY IN BALANCE.

THE DREAM OF "PERPETUAL. MOTION SEEMS HOPELESS (

TEILLARTER

Science

6. Writing is known to have been used 2,600 years beloro

the dreg wherever they have found the remains of prehis- toric man, so it was probably Christ in Asia Minor. It there many thousands of years balore anyone made a record of it.

2. The wheel, too, his up parently been used for many of thousands of years, but no- body knows just when it was invented.

☆ ☆ ☆

had been no method of passing knowledge from one generation to another, all inventions and theories might have been lost and we would never have had any "science"

7. In 1450 Johann Gutenberg invented movable type and made it possible to produce many copies of what was writ-

thereby giving Informa tion to many people.

8 Euclid developed a, system of geometry 300 B, C.

3. Six hundred years before ten, the birth of Christ, men devel-

about oped theories

the un- verse and wrote them down. During the century frem' 600- 500 BC., men like Pythagoras, Thales and Anaximander gave us a basis for the astronomy we have today.

4. It was not mtl 1808 that anyone could take a really good look at the sky. In that year a

man in Holland named Hans telo- Lippershey invented scope.

Moveable printing type

5. The Chinese invented gun B. Geometry

know 1. Nobody

when power in 1300, but for a long mankind first learned to control time it was used only to scare in which and use Aro. Archaeologists away the "devils" have found evidence of domes- they believed.

9. The invention of the spa writer in 1868 made it easier to keep records of whatovica“ knowledge was acquired,

10. The telephone was in- vented, in 1870 by Alexander Graham Bell

Now we are advancing to space travel swiftly, but none of it would have been possible except for centuries of study and experiment by many dif- ferent persons.

"

-Venus Inglish

themes from and farten Mures, and land both, couted out as these clouds condensed A BRAIN TEASER SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

started the story about his visit

to the Land of the Clouds.

"Now the Land of the Clouds," he said, "es in a valley between Lightning Mountain and Thun- der Hill. The people who live in this valley live in very strange- looking houses."

"What's strange about them?" osked Kaart.

Unusual Shape "This is what is strange about the houses in the Land of the Clouds," said Baron Munch. "The

their roots of

houses of aren't like the roofs

our houses. The roots of their houses ere: shaped like umbrellas.

that's fuct,

what they are; umbrellas huge, black, red and pink and yellow umbrellas."

In

astonishment,

they began to grow Warmer

Just Small Onos jand rotate, until at lest, doep within their interiors, their Baron nuclear furnace started up, and "Yes, indeed,“ · sald Munch, smiling at the excite-they began sending out energy,

and light. ment of Kaart and Hanid. "The heat

These stars good folks of Cloud Valley often were held loosely together by the countless climb to the top of Lightning gravity to foru Mountain or Thunder Hill and laxies. catch the small clouds in sky- nets. The clouds are quite wile and frisky at first. They bounce around like young horses but by and by, they become tame."

"Do the people who live in Cloud Volley ride on the clouds, Baton Munch?" Knurf asked.

the

Not quite 30 years ago Edwin F. Hubble, an astronomer, kada an eyeopening discovery: dls- tant galaxies are lying away from us and each other at ter- rife speeds.

the

You too can be a disc jockey! Just spin cach "disc" into the word described,

Bthe

1. DISC

Circular plate for distance throwing.

Throw aside.

2. DISC v p

3. DISC

4. DISC — v par st

5. DISC -

6. DISC — — me an

1. DISC --- new mum

E. DISO — dan dan me

0. DISC — pride tables, kad

10. DISC

Lack of harmony.

To find.

Stain.

Reveal.

To fire.

Debate.

To cense. Lampolite.

This means, of course, that universe is expanding rap- "Of course they do," said taly. And the farther a galaxy Baron Munch. "They sit on the is," the faster it seems to be clouds and sail all over

Ono remote galaxy travelling. has been clockod at 75,000 miles country."

Knart and Hanie found it second, almost half of the After Kaart and Hanit, bad hard to decide, when Baron speed of light Itself, expressed their surprise at the Munich's

finished, atory wan

This doesn't mean, however, not: Bouses with umbrella-roots, whether It was true or

that the galaxies are fleeing

" 'or *anupudost Baron Munch nodded and went They wondered where Cloud

from our solar system moyenax 9 Land really was. They couldn't find either Lightning Mountain alone. They are moving away -sa"

trem each other at speeds based

on.

"As for the good people who live in the Land of the Clouds, they wear only one kind of clothes."

or Thunder Hill in any of the on their distance from each geography books. But it was other. wonderful story just the same.

Rupert and the Secret Boat-14

Rupertisecented. In the

· strange-little-- endề "Why is it a very small 3 he asks. “Have you managed to into it? it

comfortable Why is

Catch in quick!?! For the little bost has certainly chaved from the rock, not deilting but heading out to me at great speed. To his astonialiment, the dwarf oneVERT standa quita "still and only anijes.

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