1959-02-21 — Page 16

JIMMY

THE

TIMMY was spending a week at Aunt Bertha's and Uncle Carl's farm. Now he'd have a chance to do some real farming him self. He was not allowed to 'dig even one scoopful of dirt in the smooth, green lawn around the big apart ment building where he. lived.

"What farming can I do'10- day day Jimmy asked the after he arrived.

"You can start on the gat den." Unele Carl said. "I have to go to town for some tractor parts and so you'll have the whole project to yourself."

Jimmy ran to the tool shed for the implemento. He got out a spade, and a rake, and took tho basket of seeds.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1959,"

FEATURES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

TEACHER

When he got to the house gar- den he stopped short. Hic wasn't sure how to begin!

•

Just then Aunt Bertho- came

the dog.

out of the house to feed Shag,

"Hurry up, hurry up, Plough. li up, pleugh it up,

WHAT

SEE BIRD

Harrow it, harrow 11, Drop it, drop it, Cover up; cover i.up, Il pali it up!" "Yeal" Jimmy cried. ""Now, I "Aunt Bertha," Jimmy sald know. I plough up the land by hesitatingly, "Would you mind turning it over; then I'll ruke teaching me a little about falm- it; then I drop in the seeds in a treat row: then I cover them up ing?"

with some loose dirt....when the plants are grown I pull up the harvest"

a

Aunt Bertha put her strong from-work hands on her lips and chuckled, "You have good teacher right here the fence posti"

on

"Oh, that's a brown thrasher, m' 17" Jimmy recognised the bird from the picture in his bird book.

"Formers like

to call him this planter bird. He can teach you all about planting. If you listen carefully you will hear the words in his song:

Aunt Bertha nodded. "He not only leaches farming but he cats insects that are harmful to growing plants."

"I never forget how to farm now," he told Aunt Bertha as he began spuding the ground. The planter bird le a good teacher."

Evelyn Witter

"You have a good teacher right tiers on the fence."

The Origin Of Words

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JÁVE you ever wondered adhesive, then glued end to end This writing form sheets. HAV certain word

material, olso, was called popy The word us and it is this papyrus that originated?

the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romons used for all of

"Bible," for instance?

It all goes back to more than 1,000 years before the birth of Christ when the Phoenicians lived on the enstern shores of the Mediterranean Sea in the orea now known as Lebanon.

At that time paper was un- known. Writing material was the tall reed-like made from

Slice of this papyrus ploni. plant were laid side by side, in İnyers at right angles, and

together

with pressed

their manuscripts.

one books, it became known as the Bible, meaning The Book. From this one word-biblos we have what might be called "family" of English words, For instance

declives we use in connection with the history of books.

The love of books is called

there is "bibliophism" but difference

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contents

between

one who loves books for their

bibliophile) and one who "Biblical," pertaining to the loves them for their handsome

bindings (a bibliopege.or bibilopegist.)

At that time the port of "Bible." Byblos (near the Mediterranean.

above Sea just

Beirut, the -present capital of Lebanon) was quantity of famous for the

iL exportal. The papyrus Greeks, who imported i, grad- ually began referring to all "bibles" and this papyrus was the source of their word for book.

Much later on, when the an scriptures were assembled into

ABOUT SEA

A GREAT, NEW SOURCE OF NEEDED METALS MAY BE "NODULES" LYING ON THE

FLOOR OF THE OCEANS. ASQUARE MILE CAN YIELD 1/2 MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF IRON, MANGANESE NICKEL COPPER ANDCOBALT, PLUS RARE EARTH METALS,

Mr. Punch's Roundup

-Knarf And Hanld Get Their Wish The Easy Way

"

books he

n:

YOU CAN DO

HOW

TO

MAKE A

5.THEN GLUE A BLOCK TO

PERISCOPE EACH END OF TUBE.

LFIND A CARD- BOARD MAILING

TUBE ABOUT

ZIN ACROSS

AND 20 IN LONG

2.SAWA ZIN. PIECE FROM EACH END AT A45 DEGREE ANGLE.

a.CUT A Z INCH SQUARE PIECE OF BOARD CORNER

TO CORNER.

4 GLUE A SMALL MIRROR TO EACH BLOCK.

6.

FIX ENDS TO TUBE

WITH ADHESIVE TAPE.

PAINT INSIDE OF ENDS

WITH- INK.

USE IT TO SPY ON

YOUR PALS!

A Giraffe Is Strong

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His most glamorous feature

[F YOU WANT to gaze A person who has an exceed- ingly great desire to buy and into the eyes of a giraffe, A person who is an expert in collect rare books is sometimes you will have to crane your

who known as a bibliomaniac." If neck way up. the making of books, knows the history as well as he cleals

A library may be called "Bibitogra the value of bocks, is known as "biblioklept." a "bibliographer." phy" is the history of descrip- "bibliotheen."

One of the newest words of tion of books, or a list of writ- ings relating to a certain sub- this group is "bibliofilm," which jeel or author. "Bibliographic" is a microfilm used especially

ud- for photographing, books. and bibliographical" are

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A GIANT, SEA-GOING VACUUM CLEANER, GUIDED BY AN UNDER-WATER TELEVISION CAMERA AND STRONG LIGHTS, MAY BE USED TO "MINS" 40 MILLION SQUARE MILES OF OCEAN FLOOR DOTTED WITH NODULES.

.

Knart and Hanid walted for

Mr Punch to tell them his better Idea than going to Oklahoma.

Mr Pulich stood up and put on his hat and coat. He waited until Kharf and Hanid had done

BY MAX TRELL On bearing, this Mr Punch.. the male

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NARF, the Shadow Boy with Ke Turned About Name, and his sister Hanid, entered the

room.

Under the window, his eyes ahut, was their old friend Mr Punch.

Knart gave Mr

Instantly shake. opened his eyes.

Punch a Mr Punch

"Good morning, Mr Punch," sold Knart and Hanld.

My Punch frowned.

"It isn't morning," he said. It's the afternoon. But what is it you want?"

"We wanted to know If you'd go somewhere with us," Hanid explained.

Go Where?

"Go with you?" sald

Punch. "Where?"

"To Oklahomo," said Knart.

ay silent for a mintite or two;" Then he sinilta,

Good Idea

"Oh, so you want to go out West to Oklahoma, do you? Oh, But that's a very good idea, what makes you so sure that you want to be cowboys?"!

This time it was Knart and Banid who were surprised.

"Everybody wants to be cowboy," sald Kaart.

"Yes, I suppose that's right," "When I was sald Mr Punch,

Then hỏ

The portant thing→→ for a cowboy to huve is a horse. Now I'm going to take you to a place where each of you can have a horse,"

Is it a corral?" asked Knarf. Mr Punch nodded.

"Come along!" he said. "It's Just a very short walk."

sald Mr

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Mr. Punch motioned to the forse behind him.

П

is his wonderful eyes. They re- flect his gentleness and good nature, but in self-defence he

Puzzle Answers

Kuwapparen

will fight hard, using his head

blows." like a hammer, to deal heavy

YOUR PUZZLE CORNER

CROSSWORD

Cartoonist Cal placed Puzzlo Pele's crossword puzzle on a boy's toy to dress it up a biti

ACROSS

1 This puzzle's silhouette 4 Antic

6 Dress fold

1 Stray

3 "My Gal-"

I Stories

DOWN

2 Musical dromas

3 Oyster product

4 Candlepower (ab.)

5 Right (ab)

DIAMOND

Puzzle Pete's word diamond

His body is smaller than that. of an average horse. His amaz- ing height is mostly from the

fah long, smaky neck and lego, the forelegs be- support his odd shaped body at word is " ing longer than the back ones, is a MEDICAL one. The second an incline. He moves both legs third "to enrich"; fifth "canni side gimultaneously parts"; end sixth "has existed." diamond from when walking or running. is Complete the long neck is about the size of these clues:

on one

a tail mati, although it has. only seven vertebrae. Each bone

oscary topong13 so long that

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The giraffe is a plant eater, He stands beneath a tree, and with his long upper lip, and tongue that is about a foot and n half long, he pulls loose great

tenderi mouthfuls of leaves high in the trees.

His hide is covered with short hair, mottled with yellow and short mane brown. He has a

Il bony skin-covered horns between his ears. Between the harnais A. rounded elevation

third hot.

M

MEDICAL

WORD CHAIN

Change TANS to HIDE, in four movca by changing only ono letter at a time and having

good word with each change. Puzzle Pote did it by changing A to I, S to E, N to D nai T to II.

SOUND ALIKES

In

Puzzlo

Missing words Peto's sentence sound alike, but they are spelled differenty.

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as sleep as through this magazine.”

LEATHER REBUS

Puzzle Foto has hidden three kinds of leather in his rebus, but says you'll find them easily if you use the words and plc- lures correctly:

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Bring Spring Inside

RE you impatient for

that looks like an undeveloped can have a preview of spring by bringing in The giraffe's sight and hear-f branches and twigs fron Ing are exceptionally keen. They shrubs and trees and fore- run in a fast gallop; sometimes

as fost as 30 miles an hour, ing them to open their They control their nostrils like blossoms or leaves ahead of a camel, opening and closing their usual schedule. them at will.

Choose a day around the middle of February. There's a Aletta J. Stroeter quantity of varieties that you eau choose for this programme: pussywillow, forsythin, mingno- lla, peach, pear, plum, apple, beech, birch, horse chest- Spiraea. nut, Japanese quince, In making your selection how- ever, remember that you will from the get quicker results

Mexico City Is Old

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in the season.

Stro

crab-

and

Make a preview of spring early stroufa blossoms.

with

URROUNDED by snow- another 10 feet below the see-shrubs or frees, that bloom carly

capped volcanoes stands ond elly, and found a third an- "mild and a half high" lent city. These ruins

Perhaps thousands and then-

Cut branches or twigs that Meyico City, a place of sands of years old

After the 24-hour baking This city, on a city, on a elty have many well-formed buds, great chart and interest.

Jars and keep them in a cool, A meeting place of the old - Juilt on a plateau 7,440 feet and use a sharp knife or prun- period arrange the branches in above sea level It is hait thenes so that they will be

By sure thing that and The Huw, from shining high-randoMila severe with a good clean cutright room

De carciu got to

have plenty of ghibli modern skyscrapers to the High City of Denver, Colorado many branches from any she not directly in the sun. It

alandyimble fa, placa, a small remains come: BlacÁZICC The climate of Mexico City

ploce of charcoal «like, bila saker. brilliant sunshine the

entire Temple, it has a mysterious makes it a topless because p

regular spring blossoming.

it fresh. beep year around, yet never too hot

Bring thus samples into the

You'll be anxious for your never too cold,

warm water for at least 24

past.

Carly the

At this

to

Near here are huge pyramids house and place them in luke branches to blossom, but be

ago. the cly built by the Aztecs more than hours, The large specimena patient for this isn't a fort

Forsythia and pussy- entirely submerged Process.

willows will open in about 10 in a large tub, and the small

The.. days.

more -woody sprays and twigs in a large branches and shrubs will tako pall. Smash the stem ends of

three to four ·weeks, and

Several years

400 years ago. Some of these should bo fathers learned that their spec-

are larger at the base than the tacular city was slowly sinking. Various reasons were offered for Egyptian pyramids,

Then, this strange phenomena.

a hammer before they go into sometimes even longer, up with the someone came

that thereThe beautiful floating gardens the more woody branches with startling evidence Pünch

some 40 of Xochimilco are just outside the water so that they will feet below the present Mexico the capital. These were started absorb plenty of moisture. were snelont ruina City.. The beautiful "mile and several hundred years before

But Mr Punch had already jumped on a gold-coloured horse with a bright yellow saddle, He a red horse in front, of and be- motioned to a silver horse and hind him,

So out went Mr Punch with Knorf and Henid. Down the they street they walked until reached the park. Then they walked into the pork and stopped at last in front of an open place,

"There," pointing, "are plenty of horses, There's one for Hanid and one for Knart and even one for me."

"Hurry up! Jump on, cowboys! Knart and Hanid stared at

The roundup is about to begin the horses in astonishment.

At that moment the music Mr Punch shook his head,

"Mr Punch!" they shouted. started. The horses started ra "I'm afraid I'm getting too

not real horses ing round and round and the old to be a cowboy. I might They're

merry-go’- round three cowboys went on their

merry-go-round-up!

your age, I wanted to be a cow boy, too."

"Don't you want to be a cow- boy now?" asked Knart.

fall off a horse and hurt myself. They're And anyway," he added, "Okla. horses!"

Mr koma is much too far away.

Mr Punch looked very sur-

prised,

"How far away is 117" asked Hanid.

hig Mr Punch looked at watch. "If we started now for ho salth +wc

We want to go to Oklahoma," Oklahoma"

zald Hanid, "because Knort wouldn't get there until. Jong wants to be a cowboy and I after dinner. But I've got a want to be a cowgirl."

better idea."

Pretend You're In The Country

OG cables are fun to build. Cut it so that the notch will

Now you

need logs for a fit nicely over another, log..

start", buliding your log cabin. Here's how to make Now

cabin. Try making the walls tham. Your will need some four or five logs high. A plece brown paper. For each log you of brown paper, folded in two, "will neph a pinco two inches by will makto your roof. Bulid = around a coerul for your"- horica, too. six-Incher.", Boll it pencil, to make a log. Tapo it Make it two logs high, square

x-sided There's „Together" ****"A", short distance, or

from each end, cut a notch, cabinį,

your

Rupert and the Secret Boat-37

The youps es serpent is so in through the wipers: Baloja, Jong- terened in the first boat› it--hay - they aen-joitind-by-d aver so that Rupert undies its serpent, wild kada norse **It's angina, mens to hava -ays on the kiibili chat, „atopped," he says, but you can are rost' enjoying: ghar ny found if you like. The

other thinks that is a god idén you've found another friend and soon they “are slowly moving », la the little fat oca i

ALL RIGHTS REISSYEDENİN K

a half, high" city was settling the Spaniards came to Mexico, down" along with the ruins of and are America's oldest gore.

dens. the one below it.

This in Helf was amazing enough, but workmen dug down

2

Erma Reynolds

Dorothy Romney O'S WHO

BRAIN TEASERS

IN EACH WORD below, there, go on' and' seo if you.

the

two empty spaces are the definitions are given. same as those in the last 1 ROLL remember two spaces. If you were 2 TASU hidden loot, given a PA, a fruit, IOL, common to-the

whole people. It would be a BANANA by: 1. D-N TN, when you live adding two AN's. From in the suburbs, and go to the

elly, your ro bere

DID YOU KNOW?

A camel's bump tells how healthy hole. If it is firm, he

BEBA DR-INE, a new modielne

•for car and air. alekngs, 28/

6. PCH DR-K, è often gete this way...

:.7. PERS-IFICATI-, an em bodiment.

to

is in good health. If it fa tónda," ugun, 297 ZUENDOZAICINA UMO

ho may be neglected or work- UMDLY BY THROTTEN TRIDESE ing too hard an

THE WOOD IBIS IS THE ONLY STORK FOUND IN NORTH AMERICA... THE NAME "WOOD IBIS ISA MIS-

•NOMER, AS THE BIRD

iS. A

TRUE STORKS

WOODCHUCKS GORGE. THEMSELVES WITH...

FOOD BEFORE HIBERNATING THEN LIVE OFF THEIR OWN FAT UNTIL

BING

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