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Club member's slant on the new U.S. President

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"Look, it's the new President! What do you fancy, Sir? Something more vigorous than

golf perhaps?” ·

Credit card to Casey Sung, Hongkong.

world's Finding the

largest diamond

SPARKLING beauty of more than four pounds! This description fits only the It came from one of the world's Cullinan, the world's largest .diamond.

greatest diamond producing areas, the Great Premier Mine of South Africa.

And strange as it may seem, the Cullinan was not turned up in the regular work at the mine. It was accidentally found one morning about 50 years ago when the mine manager and his assistant were making their daily inspection.

They noticed a bright``spar- kle in the clay wall ahead of them. Following the ray of re- flected light for a distance of over three hundred feet, the men quickly dug out the shining stone and carried it to the mine office. Here it was

thoroughly

cleaned,

carefully

admired. in

and named the "Callinan”

honour of Sir Thomas Cullinan,

the president of the mine.

Experts were then called in

IMPERIAL STATE CROWN OF

ENGLAND WITH PART OF CULLINN

DIAMOND MOUNTED IN FRONT

to appraise the big sparkler. They found it to be a high experts found it difficult to give quality stone. It was both it a value. They had no basis transparent and colourless and for comparison because no diamond even equalling had but one small flaw near the surface.

But the diamond was so big

that its owners and the diamond

RAIN TIME

•

When it rains in the country Water runs down

To make muddy puddles All over the ground.

The trees are all drippy; Streams overflow- Seeds under the earth Awaken and grow.

Rain in the city Washes the street;

Pavements and rooftops Are sparkling and neat.

Wheels of the buses

Make a loud splashing|

sound;

The whole world is different When rain comes around.

other

one-half of its weight had ever

been found.

of diamonds

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MAGIC IN YOUR

FINGERS

The magic in your finger-tips-the ability to

how did it all come about?

Man's Lost important inven- American Declaration of Inde tion, the written word, needs no pendence, all helped to. found wheels or gears; neither can it the tradition of good peamis be put into a package or poured ship.........

into a bottle, Yet writing-the. When the youngsi: ability

∙ of self-expression-has to put down been a boon to civilisation for letters of our over: 6,000 years....

· proper - siznt Primitive man's first desire every stroke'

to scratch a mark in the sand him down a pała

forged

or on the wall of a cave finally by generations : led to the creation of an alpha- pen-wielding persassges, bet.

of them great men of history,

A HABIT

Almost every nation which devised a system of writing has

a legend or story to explain its Writing might be classed as a origin. The Chinese tell now a habit. Some habits are good, dragon-faced four-eyed creature others are bad. So it is with named Trang Chien invented writing.

the Chinese alphabet.

Decide today to write well. He locked up one night and it is an art that is a priceless saw the patterns of the stars in heritage. Don't scribble; don't the sky. He turned his gaze to be sloppy with a pen. Your the earth and saw the marks on writing is part of your charac the back of the turtle and the ter.

footprints of the birds in his Good handwriting habits": garden, These patterns in na practiced now in your teenage ture, the Chinese say, gave years, will pay big dividends in Tsang-the characters. all of later life.

China still uses to write wita

today.

The Hindus claimed their god, Brahma, devised their system of writing so that he could have a way of recording His

-GROVER BRINKMAN

the things he taught. H CLUB MEMBERS

letters, they said, came mainly from the patterns of the seams in the human skull; and they were first traced by him with his finger on precious leaves of gold.

EGYPTIANS

The ancient Egyptians cred- lied the weird-looking god, Thoth, with the invention of their alphabet a system of

hieroglyphics, and always pic tured him with an ink palette and reed brush in his hands.

Greek legend, less fanciful and extravagant than the others, admitted to having bor rowed the Greek alphabet from

"Did you know that you can earn cash payments for sending us news pictures which we publish?

Plenty of life or action is necessary.

picture writing known 25 If you see a fire, a car accident, or a good human subject, send in your photo- graph and a full caption ex- plaining where it happened, what time, and what your picture is about, to

the Phoenicians.

Summed up, the world has This biggest

scen some 200 alphabets come was so big there would not and go. At least 50 of them have been enough money in the have survived and are still in world to pay for it. After time it was purchased by South African government presented to King Edward of England as a gift.

THE EDITOR,

The China Mail,⠀ ause today. Our own alphabet 1.3 Wyndham St, Hongkong

the stemming from the old Greek, and is the most widely used of any VII of them.

With it, people write English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portu- Here another problem arose.

and German guese, Dutch, This biggest of diamonds was Polish. Millions of people use

ordinary it to write 100 big to set in an

millions of words ring ст even а tiara. The

every day, yet all too few of king's jewellers thoroughly them realise that when they

studied the big stone and de cided to cut it into more serviceable pieces. They first cut it into two pieces, and then

cut these in turn into a number of smaller ones. The largest of these are today set in the royal crown and sceptre.

-Josephine M. Opsahl

pick up a pen or pencil they ere about to engage in a form

MEET THE

MEMBERS!

MARGARET E. FU, 19, 18 Pak Kung- street, third floor, Kowloon.

of art that is an old and price-student, less heritage.

The royal scribes of ancient

the four million letters of the

times, medieval monks copying WALLY FU, 17, student, Bible on parchment; Thomas 18 Pak Kung-street, third Jefferson setting

the floor, Kowloon.

down

SHORT-CUT TO ELECTRIC HEAT

SHORT CUTS COMING!

TO MAKE ELECTRICITY FROM HEAT, WE'VE HAD TO HEAT WATER TO MAKE STEAM TO DRIVE TURBINE. THAT DRIVES GENERATOR.

́NOW THERE'S A

SHORT CUT...

SCIENTISTS HAVE PRODUCED

ELECTRICITY DIRECTLY FROM -HEAT-A TREMENDOUS

BREAKTHROUGH!

THIS SMALL GAS FURNACE IS LINED WITH CERAMIC MATERIALS (CALLED THERMO - ELECTRIC COMPOUNDS)- WHICH PRODUCE AN ELECTRIC CURRENT,

A VANGUARD SATELLITE IS TO BE EQUIPPED WITH A SIMILAR SYSTEM.

ANOTHER SHORTCUT BEING DEV- ELOPED IS THIS NEW REFRIGERATOR THAT PRODUGES COLD DIRECTLY FROM ELECTRICITY-WITHOUT MOVING PARTS. BILL ARTER