THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1959.
FEATURES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
ZOO'S
Give Mother Breakfast In Bed 200'S WHO YOUR PUZZLE
[AVE you ever thought
Hwhat a nice surprise it
would be for you to give mother breakfast in bed? It could be on her birthday, or Mother's Dayor any Saturday or Sunday. Or it need not be a special day to show mother how special ahe is to you.
Make something that you can
if mother enjoy with her, loo usuntly drinks coffee or tea, the might like hot chocolate for n chan:", If you are not allowed to use the slove you can still mix delleious glass of choco. Inte nilk. All you need do is put one teaspoon of chocolate syrup into a glass of milk and stir until it becomes nice and
Lonmy.
Don't put in too much syrup. Mother can add more, If she would like it darker,
Don't make anything fancy. It is what you do and how you do it that counts the most.
If you have a garden and sane Nowers' are in bicom, you Pin the can make a consape. flowery
cardboard,
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colour it, and the the stems with a pretty ribbon bow, or you can out a few flowers in a water glass just to make things look bright and cheerful.
food from
wobbling around when other is cating. You can put a paper dolly on the buttom of the pan so that it looky dressed up. And don't forge napking.
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DON'T CARRY In everything at once. It is easier to curry In a few things at a time. Bring in the things that go together.
If you think it would be cester, you can make the birth- day breakfast and cerve it to mother in the kitchen, or per- The haps in the dining room. special thing is that you made it-and you can. Here ore d few (dens for birthday break- fasts for mother;
Start off with a combination juice, Orange and pineapple make a good mixture.
Claninon toast is Melielous, as a change. While the toast b getting ready
in the Losster,
Cinnamon fonst has n won- derful smell and so doen hot chocolate. Take I leaspoon cocoa, 1⁄2 teaspoon sugar (mother can add more, if she likes it tweeter) and one cup milk. Pat the cocos, rugar and a little milk in a saucepan. Mix well Now put it on the stove, turn on the light,
low. keeping it Add the rest of the cup of milk. Stir ngin, Let the mixture coole for about Ave minutes. Watch out that it does not boil over. Pour into a cup and, if you like, add a marshmallow. Serve it while hint. Do not fil! the cup to the top or you will spill it.
Mother can then have ready- made stewed fruit or apple. stuce, or you might and some muis that you can serve with jelly or peanut butter. A Jelly doughnut would also be a nico trent. Mothers like sweet things, too
If mother likes dry cereal, you can dress it up by adding bauanas or berries on tay. Whatever you do, mother is sure to love 11-beenuse she
If your mother doesn't have tray on which you can carry In her breakfast, use a big routing pan or a square cake pan, This is even better than a nix 1 teaspoon cinnamon with iny sine the four sides all. 4 teaspoong magar. When the around will keep you from seast pops up, sprend with dropping things when you walk butter. Then sprinkle on the loves you.
n to say hello mother. Also, cinnamon-sugar mixture the four-sided pon will keep the a teaspoon,
with
—MIRIAM GILBERT
ABOUT MODERN SURVEYING
THE SURVEYOR'S TOUGH
BATTLE WITH NATURE 15 GOING TO BE EASED...
THE "TELLUROMETER", ARADAR-TYPE DEVICE, IS SAVING MONTHS OF WEARY CHAIN MEASURING. FERRIED FROM
HILLTOP TO HILLTOP BY HELICOPTER,
SURVEYORS CAN PLOT NEW HIGHWAYS THRU ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE COUNTRY INATENTI THE TIME IT USED TO TAKE.
OUTFIT CONSISTS OF TRANSMITTER WHICH SENDS MICROWAVES TO THE DISTANT RECEIVER TIME ELAPSED BEFORE WAVES RETURN, INDICATES DISTANCE, GREATEST POSSIBLE ERROR-INCHES IN 40 MILES.
RECEIVER OPERATOR, IN TOXICH WITH PARTNER BY RADIOPHONE
A Reward For Loving Animals
By LILLIACE M. MITCHELL
[MATHER
BEEM
Beem
and necessary. At last, Mother Beem Mother
Ter both had vallantly brought out
facial coup big bar of castille studied the dull grey sky. that had been the going-away Neither of them loviced to- gift of their neighbours back
have wards Richard who spooned home. As soap, it would his oatmeal hungrily. Oat- been sufficient for nearly a year. As grease, i greased the axles meal was a luxury here in just vice. the snowbound mountains, "Son," Father Beem said soči- Father Beem had built ty, "Are you all right? Can you,
bear me?" the fire in the little shelter
of their covered wagon. "I caw a fall over there Twigs, a log well rotted the stow bank," Richard said. with age, two rough stones rubbed vigorously until
in
His father gave a short laugh whittle humour In It. "It we nad four legs and a tall, son-
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spark ignited the twigs... something for you to ride, it had sounded easy back in could continue our journey. It the Middle West. High here night mean" he stopped. His in the Rocky Mountains blue eyes, darker than filchard's, squinted in the dim light. "I do
with snow falling, falling, beileve I saw a movement, too, falling constantly and more son. Can you get over there with promised in the leaden me? After all, it is your find!"
A REAL SURPRISE
kies, the fire-building had not proved to be so easy.
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Suther
Ho
his cn The morning had been spent finding dry wood and getting the
heavily. Richard slumbled across the to clearing. fire ready. Now the pale sun peered down at them through took hold of the white tall and grey clouds and it was almost pulled gently. above them. Mid-day!
"Dad! It's a pony!" he "We're getting almost like gesped, folks of iclsure," Molbar Beem sold.
"I certainly do miss your help, ron, finding dry wood. Does the leg feel any better?"
un
a spot a
The object covered with snow was a ponyl Richard hobbled to the frightened animal and pulled him to his feet. Golly, how he'd like to keep this beautiful golden pony for his very own
Indians riding along silently, the snow bank where the markn Even the hooves made no sound sull showed traces of the pony. on the snow. The Indians seem- ed not to see the single covered The Indian grunted and sat but they rode directly very still. "Mine!" he said. "My towards it, halling in a mi con's. My con grieves for him. I circle within 20 feet. They take him." looked and made no sound. It
wagon
When they pulled him out, the pony was half-suffocated with the snow, his golden head and mane hanging down pileously, yells. The
ve
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Richard got to his feet. was more frightened than Indian
little golden pony food to him," he said. He tried to wish his white tail with the white tail sank to his frem side to side but he was knees but aichard sank
The Indian slared down at the with boy and then Richard's blue eyes were axed tired and frightened and
his eyes reved hundred yards cold. With Richard Yeading hind him, holding the bowl of hot over the semi-circle of mounted distant. His hoon was held in along, the pony followed to the catmeal close to the mouth of Indians. Selecting the ono with
and frightened the finest pony. the weakened mid-air while he looked, He covered wagon where Richard
the Indian animal. seemed not to hear his Father put his bowl of oatmeal to the
motioned the mon to ride closer, "Chico!" called one Indian who He said a sentenco or two and was taller than the others,
the man dismounted and handed the rein to Illiard.
speak. A week before, while pony's mouth. Richard had been walking along
Mother Beem stifled beside the covered wagon on
a cry. their way across the Rockies to "Oh, don't waste your oatmeal. find a new home, talling reeks don. No telling when we shall had braken his leg.
be able to cook more...”.
RECLAIMED AGAIN-
the
"For you." the Indian told Richard, "For a kind boy-and TLE pony lifted his head. But wear this necklace for safe par They had known the heavy "Ho'n hungrier than 1 2357),
the he could not move. The flu- age through
mountains, Richard said, patting Enows were coming. But what Mother," they did not know was that this the pony and holding the bowl dan rede closer and nat on his Friend"
down at pony staring blizzard of 1000 would go down close to the quivering lips. kneeling boy who did not even in history on the greatest blizzard
Faller Beem groaned. This is glance up as the shadow darken of them all. It had been imposte end" be moaned. "Endians" ed the pony. Richard murmured rible to continue the journey with Richard's leg in splints. The They had heard all the way oftly into the pony's car
the pony ate. axies of their covered wagon had plong, every place they saw and Inked with people, that the In- remmed to cut grens,
dians here in the Rockies were Passing through deep snows Merco.
the Now, riding up had mado frequent grearing narrow teall in single dlo came answered, one
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found
and
'As quickly do they had come, they.rode away, the Indlan on pony, now revived by a dim of foot leading the little golden
oatmeal that had been meant for Richard.
"Yours?" asked the Indian. Already, Richard was climbing to the pony's back and Mother im,"
Richard Bern picked up the cook kettle. arin indicating They could go on now.
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ALTHOUGH THEY PRE- FER MODERN FIREARMS WHEN THEY CAN GET THEM,
SARAWAK TRIBESMEN STILLHUNT WILD BOAR DEER AND MONKEYS WITH
POISONED DARTS.
BEAR FLESH IS FAIRLY GOOD
EATING, THOUGH IT IS LIKELY TO BE STRONG-FLA- YORED AND TOUGH..BLACK BEAR IS SAID TO BE VERY GOOD WHEN THE ANIMAL
HAS BEEN LIVING ON ACORNS FOR SOME TIME
THE WHITE ANTS OF AUSTRALIA BUILD TERMITARIES THAT ARE SOMETIMES
20 FEET HIGH...
Mr. Rat Plays A Trick
—O'Scow! Feels More Like A Goose Than The Goose-
By MAX TRELL
"ITS bard
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enough having your own work to do." grumbled Pixle O'Scow) to Knart and Hanid, the Shadows with the Turned-About Names, "but when you have to do other peuple's work as well--!"
Fixe O'Scowl was too angry to finish his own sentence, He got up and stamped around the Old Oak where all the Pixies live.
Finally, Manld peized him by the legs and Knart grabbed him by the arm, and they both made him sit down.
Tell Us The Story
"Now sit quietly and tell us the whole story," Hanid sternly.
"Wait till I tell you how funny It was," Rat told Pixie.
"And at this very moment, Rat Bald jumped up and ran away, be- cause out of the corner of hi
coming up, eye he saw Goose sticking her head in every bush mul hedge to try to find her
"Lemma co! I'm too tired to tell any stories!" Pixie O'Scowl
sald.
"You're not too tired to stomp up and down,” replied Knorr,
stolen fall.
"Well," said Plxle O'Soowl te Knart and Hanid, "I dropped all my work and spent the rest of the day, up until this very minute, hunting all over with Pixle the Goose trying to find her
"Whose work did you have to da? Hanld asited.
"All right," sald [O'Scowl, grumpy, " tell you, tall."
But I'm not going to enjoy it.
Coolidge Visit:
CORNER
COOLIDGE REBUS
COOLIDGE CROSSWORD
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Cartoonist Chi placed Puzzle Pete's crossword puzzle on You can find the four facts silhouette of President Coolidge about President Calvin Coolidge to dress it up:
that Puzzle Pete hos hidden here if you use the words and pictures properly.
APPLY INGIDE
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SCRAMBLED SENTENCE
Help Puzzle Pele make sense out of this sentence about President Coolidge:
Coolidge presidency of Calvin the Warren the to G. on Hard- Ing. succeeded death.
BACKWARD LOOKS
Try these tiels about Pres- dent Coolidge backward if you run into trouble with them:
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2 Constellation
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President
COOLIDGE DIAMOND
Coolidge was born in VER- MONT, which is the centre of uzzle Pete's word diamond. The second word in "a body of water"; third "to wait upon"; Birth "avouches; and aixth "hak-ems" to a printer. How quickly ean you complete tho dicmond from the elues"
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THE BIRDS AND THE BEES
SOFT BREEZE blew however, that they had to im- A across the field and port bumblebees too for cross- pollination, or their red clover And I don't care whether you all?" Hanid asked.
"And did you find the Govce's gently waved the blossoms would not produce seeds,
of red clover. A mother
* believe it or not."
Hot Daisy Tea
Xixie O'Scowl said he ho riven quite early in the morning, After he hixt dressed and brushed his teeth and had a cup of hot daisy tea and buttercup biscuits, he had taken fils basket and gone out into the yard to gather mushrooms.
"I must have been working on hour or so when I heard some- body cackling behind my back." "Chickens cackle, cald Hanid. "Was it a chicken?"
"No, it wasn't a chickon," re- plied Pixie O'Scowl. "It was that next-door neighbour of ours, Mr Rat,"
"A real Rat?" asked Kaart.
"Certainly it was a real Ra1,"
Ho Was Embarrassed
bumblebee, resting from her THE MOTHER BUMBLE pollen gathering, anuggled BEE is one of the few insects her black and gold body that broods her eggs and young. Pixie O'Scowl grew red in the carefully over her nest of Bumblebee eggs hatch within face with embarrassment. "We
days. Some species of did," he said.
precious eggs. It wouldn't ve
bumblebeen feed both pollen do to leave them uncovered and nectar to the baby larvNO "Where was It?" asked Hanid. Itoo long for if they got (worm-like grubs), while others At this, Pixie's D'Scowl grow even redder in the face.
chilled they would not feed only pollen. hatch.
The pollen feeding mother, shortly after provides pollen pockets in the
cells containing the larvae. from her long
The nectar she had dis-
feeding mother abandoned
provides these pockets of pol- Leid had furnished the larvae of males and queens len for her young workers caly,
to
"It was pinned on behind In the spring, me," saki Pixie O'Scowl. "I felt she awakened more like + Goose than a
winter sleep, Goose"
"Poor Pixie O'Scowl," said covered an
mouse nest and Hanid to her brother Knarf, as it with wax cells in which they both walked home later. store honey and pollen and lay the queen larvao receiving a are fed nectar by regurgitation, her eggs. She had manufactured the wax by a curious method. The mother mixes and liquidcs special food called royal jelly. To be different, she built each the food in her stomach and tiny cell long and rounded, in mouth and pours it back into stead of hexagonal like the cells the cell ot the honeybee.
She had made many trips to farvae pin silken cocoons in At the end of seven daya the the red clover blossoms; bad
Brain Teaser
1. The Lady with a lamp.
said Pixin O'Scowl. "And there ALL of the following have to
do with light. Do you know gathered nectar and pollen into
which they pupate, or change ho was behind me, cackling what each one is?
the queer little baskets on her then into
from grubs into chrysalide and away for all he was worth,
been. The mother hind legs, and had stored it in
broode them for 12 or 14 days, the wax cells for the numerous finally broods
helping each trans- which she formed silvery would raise during the spring a cocoon. It crawis
grey bee from to a and cummer.
honey pot for its Arab meal as an adult,
"Now what's the joke?' I asked, turning around and look- |2. The statue holding a torch. ing him straight in the eye.
2: The Light of the World.
***Take it easy, Pixle O'Scow), Rat said to me. Just wait til I4. The inventor of the electric tell you and you'll see how funny it '
light,
|5. A bug which flashes off and
on,
"So Rat sat himself down on a pebble, made himself comfort. Five of able and said he had just played a terribly funny trick Gloese.
hin.
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ten foolish virgina left the light go out in their lamps because they had no
of bables
But the best Jald plans of mice, and becs as well, some.. times go astray. A dreadful noise disturbed the quiet of the clover Beld,
What funny trick?' I asked 7. Light travels at 188,000 miles of fright and anxiety.
"While Goore's back was turned, I stole her wagging tail.'
What did you do with it, not? "You stole her tail! I cried.
"I hid it, replied Bat "Where did you hide it?" I
asked."
"I'm not telling, sald Rat
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REMONY
Rupert and the Secret Boat-26
At length, when he feels much refreshed, Rupen sleet and aretches himself. "Coine on, we'd better explore the island to pen if we can find anything to drink,” Then we must think out some way of getting back home and,
No, don't wan
drink. Fruit was lovely and juicy," Gregory mumbles. "I'in so comfy, I'm going to sleep in. Goo night.** it isn't night. It' muching, you old lazybones, exclaime Rupert. But Gregory won't budge, so Rupert hat to stert exploring on his own.
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The queen mother then en- larges the abandoned cocoon and tgts it to store moré pollen and honey.
kill
her
A pair of horses and a mow- Young worker bees are soon ing machine had turned the ready to begin collecting nectar peaceful summer day into one and pollen for the growing family, and before long the Would her liny home be colony may number a hundred mown dowi-her nest of eggs or more, depending upon the destroyed, and the baby grubs safely of the locallon of the that had hatched out carlier nest. kilind? No. No! Not if she could Sometimes a stranga queen help it Nature had given her will come and try to steal the an "improved weapon over that colony. I the mother queen is of the honeybee who sacrifices killed the new queen takes life when it atings once. She over. However, a strong mother hed a singer which she could queen may encounter several use several times if necessary falding antagonists and and sull keep on living.
them all then continuing The older children of her work in peace, family, children who had Some parasite invaders Are hatched and matured in the promptly stung Others are spring, heard the racket and treated to came buzzing-cach with a per- process by Ruasive weapon ready for use. smeared with honay unti they Tho driver of tho team are forced to make an undig- paused to examine the altua nifed réireat, Hop, and then made a respect- Dumbichro workers have ful circlo around the next, It Hie span of only a few weeks. wouldn't do to have the horses Barring accidents, a queen atung nor himself.. But moet bumblebee may live for several important of all it would not years, hibernating each winter. | be"good business to destroy the According to early scientiño
bunzbleder. You see the red
calculations, a bumblebee should
much
WAS
"gumming-up”
which they are
A
Clover" depends upon the bum- nut Kly. Illa duaqlago"(body) blebee to cross-pollinato It
said to have too Only the bumblebee can reach voluma for his wing-spread. to the noctar in the red clover
The bumblebee, however, didn't Honeybees cin- flower cups.
know a thing about apródy- it and so have to mamice, so he went on his way not reach confing themselves to the wille nying about the folds of red clover In blissful- ignorance, 25 18 A tow years aga Australia he ever reads it, he'll have to introduced red clover into the Increase his wing-spread."-- continent as a hay crop. The farmers thore soon diecoyttad,
elover.
--BY PAUL VANDERBIKE
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