Children's Digest - April 2006

Catchy
Quotes
■ Work spares us from three evils: boredom,
vice, and need.
- Voltaire
■ There are two tlrings to aim at in life; first
to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the
wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
■ It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of
respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
- Terence
■ By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world
that was not there before.
- Edwin Elliot
■ We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is
not an act but a habit.
-Aristotle
■ Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken
winged bird that cannot fly.
- Lanston Hughes
■ The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.
!he_ superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher
msprres.
- William Arthur Ward
If the going is real easy, beware, you may
be headed downhill.
-Anonymous
One machine can do the work of fifty
ordinary men. No machine can do the
work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
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Love Is,
There \
Beauty Is
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-Mahatma Gandhi
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Mrs. Rabbit claims Reeky Rat stole daisies from her garden. Reeky insists he bought the
sweet-smelling flowers from a florist. Slylock Fox says the flowers may be sweet-smelling,·
but Reeky Rat's story stinks. Why? . (See page 97)
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A youth arrived at a
small town and asked an old
man, "What kind of people live
in this place?"
"What kind of people live jn
the place where you come
from?" asked the old man in
Stories for reply.
Little Angels "Oh, a group of selfish and
-Anonymous wicked folks," replied the young
man. "I am happy I have left that
place."
To this, the old man
answered, "You will find the
same type of people here."
The same day another young
man reached the town and
seeing the old man, asked,
"What kind of people live here?"
The old man answered with
the same question:
"What kind of people liv� in
the place where you come
from?"
"A magnificent group of
people, honest, amicable, and
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hospitable. It hurts)r,e very much to have
left them."
"You will find the same type of people here
too," replied the old man with a·smile.
A man who had heard both the conversations asked the
old man:
"How could you have given the same answer to both these
people?"
To which the
old man answered:
"Each one carries in his heart the
environment where he lives. The one that found only friends
there, can also find friends here, because, to tell the truth,
your mental attitude is the only thing in your life over which
you can maintain absolute control." •
Rashtra Deepika Children's Digest April 2006 7
Towards Better Enelish
Denotation and Connotation
, If you were to look up the words house and home in a dictionary,
you would find that both words have approximately the same meaning
- 'a dwelling place.' However, home has an additional meaning.
Apart from the dictionary definition, or denotation, many people
associate such things as comfort, love, security, or privacy with a
home but do not necessarily make the same associations with a
house. The various feelings, images, and memories that surround
a word make up its connotation. Denotation is a literal meaning of
the word, whereas connotation is an association (emotional or
otherwise) which the word evokes.
For another example, consider the sentences, 'There are over
2,000 vagrants in the city", "There are over 2,000 people with no
fixed address in the city" and 'There are over 2,000 homeless in the
city". All three expressions refer to the same people, but they invoke
different associations in the reader's mind: a "vagrant" is a public
nuisance and so the first sentence carries a negative connotation,
w.hile a "homeless" person is worthy of pity and charity. Presumably,
someone writing an editorial in support of a new shelter would use
the positive form, while someone writing an editorial in support of
anti-loitering laws would use the negative form.
Fahr nh it
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686 - 1736), German physicist and
maker of scientific instruments, was born in Poland. In 1717 he set
himself up as an instrument-maker in Amsterdam. He devoted
himself to the study of physics and the manufacture of precision
instruments. He discovered that water can remain in liquid form
below its freezing point and that the boiling point of liquids varies
with the atmospheric pressure. He is best known for inventing the
alcohol thermometer (1709) and mercury thermometer (1714) and
for developing the Fahrenheit temperature scale. Until the 1970s
the Fahrenheit scale was in common use in English-speaking
countries.
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Mr.utterson the lawyer "S omething terrible

and his cousin and friend happened one night here,
Richard Enfield were on one and that door is part of the
of their usual Sunday walks. story," Enfield went on. Mr.
At the corner of a side Utterson was all ears.
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ugly building. winter morning," Enfield
"Did you ever notice that began his story. "Everyone
dirty and stained door?" was asleep and all was still. I
Enfield asked his friend the was returning home from a
lawyer, pointing to a shabby long journey. As I came
door at the back of that near thi s place,
building on level suddenly on the
OVi(K with the street. opposite side of the road I
saw a girl of about ten,
OVtZ running round the corner.
The "Cheshire Cat" figures Walking quickly towards her,
prominently in a story by from the other side, was a little
......? man. At the corner they
(See page 97) collided and the girl was
10 Rashtra Deepika Childrens Digesl April 2006
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I attended to."
.• e__ pot ,ca mg' ,,, "What is youf name?"
ettle black.'� asked the horr!ble looking
man.
In the seventeenth century, "Hyde," was his careless
both pots and kettles reply. The doctor and I had
turned black because they great difficuity in keeping the
were used over open fires. people who gathered there
Today, this idiom means from attacking the devilish
criticizing someone elsefor looking little man. However,
afault of one's own. they wanted him to pay
compensation.
knocked down. The man "How much money do you
calmly trampled over her and want?" he asked.
went on, leaving the child "A hundred pounds for the
screaming on the ground! child's family," said the doctor.
Shouting loudly, I ran after the As the group of people
man, caught him by his collar looked so violent, the man
and brought him back to the consented. But he seemed to
scene of t�e accident. He feel no guilt or shame. He only
came quietly, but he gave me wished to get away from them.
a very threatening look. "Come with me," he said,
Hearing the terrified screams and he led the doctor, the
of the girl, and my cries, a child's father, and me to the
group of people, including the shabby building.
girl's father, had gathered "Wait here," said Hyde,
round. They looked at the and unlocking that dirty door
man in horror and disgust. with a key he took
OViZ ·-·-
One look at the man and we
all turned sick and white. We
I<, quickly out of his
felt we could kill him.
The poor girl was not killed In "The Jungle Book", by
but badly hurt. Fortunately, a _Rudyard Kipling, Mowgli '
doctor who soon arrived on isra,se�by,afamilyof...?
the scene, examined her, and
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pocket, he went in, shutting
the door behind him. He tame
out within a few minutes, with
ten pounds in gold and a
cheque for ninety pounds,
drawn payable to bearer. We
were astonished to see that
the cheque was signed by a
distinguished man, respected
and well-known all over
London.
"The cheque is signed by
somebody else. Are you Poplar trees and red and
trying forgery with us now?" silver maples flip their leaves
the doctor asked. up when air pressure is low
"Set your mind at rest. I'll and rain is imminent
stay with you till you cash it in
the morning," sneered the chimney is smoking, so
man. So all of us waited in a somebody must live there. It
room in the child's house, is a puzzle, and the most
until the banks opened. Then puzzling part of it is the
some of us went to the bank connection between the
with the man, and had the honourable name with which
cheque cashed without any the cheque was signed, and
question. It was no forgery, the rascal who gave it to the
and the man went back into child's father," Enfield said.
that building, and was seen " Blackmail, I think.
no more. Blackmail for some
In the next few days I came thoughtless act in youth,
back again and again to that perhaps," Mr. Enfield added
dirty door in the stained wall as an afterthought.
and looked up and around, • "What did you say was the
and i.vondered ·who lived name of the man who walked
there. You see'·there_ is no over the child?" Mr. Utterson
other. door1 and no windows aske'd.'
· -"Hyde.'And he was
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Did You Know? neighbourhuod of that door in
that side-street. Morning and
evening, noon and night, he
The most dangerous ani
mal in the world 1s the com- haunted the place.
• mon housefly. Because of "If he is Mr. Hyde," he said
their habit ofvisiting animal to himself, "I am Mr. Seek."
waste, they transmit more
1rlrlrlrl,
diseases than any Mr. Utterson was a lawyer,

other animal. h o n est a n d carefu l i n h i s
H ouseflies work. Richard Enfield's story
have a l i fe . disturbed him greatly. He did
span of two not understand the peculiar
weeks. c o n n ecti o n between D r.
Jekyll, who was an old friend
very d iffi c u l t i n d ee d to of h i s , a n d the b ruta l M r.
descri b e . T h e re was Hyde.
someth i n g extraord i n a r i l y Dr. Jekyll had entrusted his
displeasing about him. There 'Will' with the lawyer. That 'Will'
was s o m et h i n g u n n a t u ra l h a d a lw a y s worried t h e
a b o u t h i s l o o k s , " E n fi e l d l a w y e r, and he had
explained . disapproved of its contents
Utterson said, "Richard, I so much that he had refused
know the name of the man to write it. So it was written in
who s i g n e d the cheq u e . I Dr. Jekyll's own handwriting.
recognise this wal l . It's the T h e ' W i l l ' stated t h a t
back of a somewhat run-down everyt h i n g that D r. H e n ry
building. Across the yard from Jekyl l , M . D . , D . C . L . , LLD . ,
it on the other side, there is F. R . S . , etc .
a big, fine house facing a
sq u a re . Yes , R i c h a r d , I
Vt( K possessed ,
know that the famous D r. OVil l

Jekyll lives there - the man The most famous sea crea- I
who signed the cheque!" ture in literature is "Moby
...........,. Dick". Who wrnte the
F ro m t h a t d a y o n , M r. novel?
Utterson spent hours itl the (See page 97)
14 Rashtra Deepilca Childre11 s 0ige.,t April 1 6
should pass to his friend and Mr. Utterson said, "I think you
benefacto r Edward Hyde and I, Lanyon, must be
Esq . on D r. Jekyll's death , Jekyll's oldest friends."
di sappearance , or D r. Lanyon laughed. "Yes,
unexplained absence for over oldest indeed. Oldest in
three months! every sense of the word," he
"Disappea rance , " said. "But I wish the friends
"unexplained absence" - the were younger," he added.
words had always worried the "Do you see him often
lawyer. Now t he queer now?" asked Mr. Utterson. At
wording of the 'Will', together this · question, D r. Lanyon's
with what he had now learnt cheerful face clouded over.
of Hyde f rom his f riend "No, not often. As a matter of
Enfield, made him very fact I see him very seldom
anxious. these days," he said. "The
"I fear now t hat it's a man has got t he most
dangerous, di sgraceful peculiar unscientific ideas,"
'Will'", he said to himself, and he went on angrily. "Quite
he too came to the conclusion unscientific. There's
t hat D r. Jekyll was being something w rong with his
blackmailed for some youthful mind!"
wrongdoing. Utterson said, "He has
"I'll ask Dr. Lanyon what got a new, young friend
he knows," he thought. now - name of Hyde.
Dr. Lanyon received

him warmly. They h.ad Oscar Wilde
known each other and was once asked
Dr. Jekyll since the three to make various
of t hem had been
changes to one
of his plays. He
students together, and declined.
long association ha_d "Who am I,"
made the th ree good he asked, "to
friends. tamper with a
After t hey h.ad masterpiece?"
exchanged greetin_g s,
Rashtra Deepika Children s Digest April 1006 15
P.erhaps they agree on scientific theories."
"Hyde? Never heard of him," said Dr. Lanyon.
Utterson coul? 9.att;ie,r no information that threw any light
on the Jekyll an·d Hyde relationship. But he had no doubt ttiat
Hyde had' some power over the d<i>Gtor. � hy else "SMould the
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latter w rite s u ch a of Dr. Jekyll. Since you have
'Will'? a key, I thought you might let
me in too. I came to visit him."
" M r. Seek" "Dr. Jekyll is not at home,"
contin ued his search said Hyde, "and how did you
for "Mr. Hyde". At recognize me?"
last one night, at "Let me see you r face,"
abo u t ten said the lawyer simply.
o'clock, his search Hyde hesitated for a
was ended. It was a moment, then turned so that
clear and still night, the street lamp fell on his face
and the street was and Mr. Utterson could see
deserted. Mr. Utterson him clearly.
was standing in a dark "Now I'll know you again,"
doorway. He heard he said. "It may be useful."
quick, light footsteps. "Yes ," said Hyde. "And
They came closer this is my address , " he
and closer, and he adde d , as he gave M r.
saw a small, plainly U tterson the n u mber of a
dressed m a n m ake house on a street in Soho.
straight for that And with a quick movement
mysterious door. Even he u nlocked the door and
from where he stood, went in, locking it behind him.
Utterson felt a dislike U tterson thought to
for the small figure. As himself, "There's something
the little man drew a unnatural about the man. I've
key from his pocket, never felt � uch a q u eer
the lawyer stepped mixture of disgust
o u t of the shadow ().Vi(J<. a n d fear for
OVil
and touched him on
the shoulder.
"Mr. Hyde?" the lawyer
asked. An a l batross fig ures
prorrinently in a poem by
"Yes:" said the man. "What which author?
do you want?"
"I'm Utterson , an bid friend (See page 97)
Rashtra Deepika Children s Digest April 1006 1 7,·

anyone before. He seems in this part of the house. He
somehow subhuman and never dines here."
quite evil. Poor Jekyll! How in "It must be blackmail,"
the world did Hyde come to decided Mr. Utterson as he
have a hold over him?" walked home. "Perhaps that
Walking slowly round the young villain Hyde made my
corner, he came to the front poor friend write that awful
entrance of Dr. Jekyll's house. 'Will'. He must have found out
"Is D r. Jeky ll at home, some disgraceful secret in
Poole?" he asked the butler Jekyll's past and is holding it
who answered his ring. over him."
"Dr. Jekyl l i s out , Mr.
Utterson," said Poole. A fortnight later Mr.
"Is Mr. Hyde allowed to go Utterson was invited to dinner
in and out through the door at Dr. Henry Jekyll's house.
to the laboratory at the . Th ere were some other
back?" guests too and it was a very
"Oh yes, sir," said Poole. enjoyable evening . After
"The master is very fond of dinner, left alone in the
him and has complete trust in company of the docto r,
him, but we seldom see him Uttersori wanted to know more
about Mr. Hyde. But the
Did You Know? doctor flatly refused to
talk about Hyde or his
Tree crickets are called the strange 'Will'.
poor man's thermometer be " Really th i s
cause temperature di- bus ine ss between
rectly affects their rate
ofactivity. Count the young Hyde and myself
number of chirps a isn't as bad as you
cricket makes in think. It isn't blackmail at
1 5 seconds, then all. And I swear to you,
add 37. The sum that if I should really
will be very close wish it, I could get rid of
to the outside the young man
temperature! immediately," the doctor
added.
her room at the top of the
house where she worked.
Did It was eleven in the night,
You.Know? a beautiful full-moon night.
The longest living "I was enjoying the moonlit
the body are brat night," she told the police,
which can live an "when I saw an old gentleman
lifetime. walking along the lane._ He
had.silvery white hair and was
well dressed. Presently a
Months passed. In small man came towards him
October of the following year, from the other end of the lane.
a dreadful crime shocked all A s he came closer, I
London. It seemed to be an recognized him as Mr. Hyde,
act of mad cruelty without any a small, thin man, and wicked
reason behind it. The whole looking, who had once called
of London shook w ith the on my master. When the two
horror of it. It was the murder gentlemen were oppo site
of a gentleman in h i gh each other," she went on, "the
position. old gentleman spoke to Mr.
A young servant girl had H yde, who l istened
witnessed the terrible deed impatiently, shifting aro und
as she sat at the window of the heavy cane in his hand."
"S uddenly," said the maid,
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Rashtra Deepika Children s Digest April 2006

rhe police found half of
t h e m u rd e r weapon - the
heavy cane - i n the g utter
nearby. They found out that
the murdered man was Sir
Danvers Carew. As he was a
Rain clouds are grey be
cause they are so thick with c l i e n t of t h e lawyer M r.
large drops of water that Utterson, the latter offered to
they block out the sunlight. assist the police in the hunt
Dark c l ouds are storm for the m urderer. When he
clouds. Because they have saw the broken cane, the
high ice crystal content, light lawyer realized that it was a
has trouble passing through half of one he hi mself had
them and m akes them ap given Dr. Jekyll long ago.
pear dark. Mr. Utterson went with the
police to the house in Soho
"his impatience seemed to get (to the address which Hyde
the better of h i m , and he had given the lawyer outside
waved the cane about and that door almost a year ago).
sta m pe d h i s foot a n d It w a s a p a rt i c u l a rl y b a d
s h o u te d . W h e n t h e o l d locality, shabby and dirty. An
gentleman moved back a step old woman admitted them into
in surprise, it seemed as if Mr. Hyde's rooms.
Hyde lost all control of himself. "Mr. Hyde is not at home,"
He struck the old gentleman she told them. "His comings
down to g rou n d , then beat and goings are very irregular.
him again and again with his I don't know when he'll be
ca n e , j um ped o n h i m a n d back."
k icked h i m . The horrible T h e y
sight was too .much for .me iCKI searched Hyde"s
to bear, and I fainted. It was � ,
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two o'clock when I recovered
conscio u� n e � s a n � ca ! le�
for the pohce, the girl finished
An orang-utan plays a key
role in which short. story?
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her story. "The murderer had , ·
fled by then." ,/See page <17)
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;f True or False �
t ) Rhinos give birth to one cal fevery two to four years.
2) The rhino horn is made of enamel, the same substance
that forms teeth.
3) Rhinos live up to 50 years.
4) Rhinos sweat more than 20 gallons of water (See
per day. page 97)
rooms. They were in a mess. there was something evil

Cupboards stood open, about him.
drawers were pulled out,
clothes lay around. In the But Hyde never did turn up
fireplace they found the burnt anywhere. H e seemed to
remains of a cheque book, have no friends or relations.
and behind the door the other At last the police offered
half of the broken cane. a reward of a thousand
"We'll soon catch him," pounds for the finder. But
said the Inspector. "He'll turn nobody was able to find Mr'.
up sooner or later, . H yde. People only heard
somewher:e or the other." stories of Hyde's cruelty and
E verybody agreed that his wild life.
Hyde was deformed in an
indescribable way, and that Mr. Utterson called on Dr.
Ra�h'tra Deepika Children s' Digest April 1ffOd 21·
Jekyll. Poole, the butler, led new spaper boys were
the lawyer through the house shouting of the murderer as
and across the yard to the they sold their eve n i n g
dingy windowless laboratory papers. )
at the back. There the lawyer "Where's Hyde? Are you
saw a strange sight. Boxes lay concealing him?"
everywhere, tables were "No," cried the doctor, "no,
laden with apparatus, and the no, I've done with him. I swear
shelves were ful l of it. I'll never set eyes on him
chemicals. Going up a short again. He doesn't need my
flight of steps i n the help. He's safe. You'll never
laboratory, Mr. Utterson went hear of him again. But I've
through a door i nto the had a letter from him. Here it
doctor's study. There was a is."
fire in the grate, and Dr. Jekyll
sat huddled over it miserably. The letter read:
He looked ill and worn. "/ thank you, Dr. Jekyll, for
"You've heard the news?" all your kindness andyour
Utterson asked. The doctor generosity, and I assure you
shuddered. "Yes, I heard them that you need not worry about
shouting it in the square," was my safety. I have a sure means
the whispered answer. of escape, and I will use it to
(In the streets of the town avoid arrest and be out ofyour
life for eve,: "
Lavatory paper was a Edward Hyde
Chinese invention. It
was first described "Where' s the
around AD 5 80. envelope?" asked Mr.
Modern lavatory paper Utterson.
was invented by the "I bur nt
American Joseph thinking," was the answer,
Gayetty in 1 857. "but it came by hand. It
Another American, had no post mark."
Seth Wheeler, invented "You realize, don '! you,
the lavatory paper roll
in 1 87 1 . that you've had a very -narrow
escape? Hyde dictated the
Rashlra Deepilca Children s Digest April 2006
terms of your 'Will", didn't he?" asked the lawyer.
The doctor nodded.
"He meant to murder you, Henry. It's been a very narrow
escape, indeed."
Rmlftra Deepilca Children s Digest April 2006
"I have had a terri ble That same evening Mr.
lesson," moaned Dr. Jekyll, G uest , the lawyer 's head
covering his face with his clerk, a shrewd, sensible man
hands. "A terrible lesson and and very trustworthy, also a
a narrow escape." student of handw r i ting,
examined Hyde's letter and
On his way out the lawyer remarked,
asked the butler if any hand "This i s a very peculiar
delivered letter had come that writing, sir."
day. J u st then Mr. Utterson's
" N o , " said Poole, · "no servant brought in a note
letter s by hand - only from Dr. Jekyll inviting the
circulars by post." lawyer to dinner.
"Did the letter come by the "It's from Dr. Jekyll, isn't it?"
, laboratory door?" wondered Mr. Guest asked. "I thought I
the lawyer, "or was it written recognized the handwriting."
in the doctor's study?" Mr. Guest compared both
When it rains, some water flows into streams, some is

absorbed by plants, some evaporates and some seeps into
the ground. Some rocks are permeable - that is, they contain
tiny pores or fissures (cracks) thrQttgh \\.'.hi<;h water can flow,
Permeable rock layers 'containiQg Wflteq1.re,called aquifers,
and if you dig down to one oftq��, yo� cr�ate a well. _ . _ .
24 Rashtra 15eepilco Children s Digest April 1006

months went by and still
Schizophrenia there was no news of the
(Greek: schizein = cleave, murderer. T h.e ea rth
split ( cut into two), phren = seemed to have
mind) = a mental disease (first swallowed him up. ·
described by Kraepelin in 1 896 One day Mr. Utterson
as dementia p raecox). went to see Dr. Jekyll.
Schizophrenia is a group of · "The doctor is confined
mental illnesses characterized by to the house and can
disorganization ofthe patient's see no _o ne," said the
personality, often resulting in
chronic life-long ill health - a butler at the door.
psychos is marked · by When the same
introvers ion, delusions , experience was repeated
dissociation, etc. three times, the lawyer
became quite worried.
letters ca refu l l y, and • "What's the matter now?"
remarked, "I'd have said both he wondered. "Even if he's ill,
letters were written by the why can't he see me? Why
same hand, the characters does he have to hide himself
are identical , only differently to such an extent? I'm sure
sloped." it's more than ill health."
"Curious , " said Mr. Now the lawyer thought of
Utterson. visiting Dr. Lanyon. "Lanyon
When Mr. Guest was gone, at least w i l l see me," he
Mr. Utterson wondered, thought. He was right. The
"Does Henry Jekyll now forge butler took him in immediately,
for a murderer?" but D r. Lanyon
was very much
. As more and more tales
of Hyde's c ruelties a nd
villainies were unearthed,
Mr. Utterson feared that one "Old Major" is a charac
morning the man h imself ter in George Orwell's
"Animal Fann". What
should be found , a nd' ·his kind ofanimal is it? · ·
connections with Or. Jekfll
revea l ed . H ow·e ver, twd , ' ' (Seepage 97)
RashJra
1'••
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,- -- -- complained the lawyer.
"I'm not surprised," was the
1 Did You Know?
answer. "When I'm dead ,
Until 1 896, India was which won't be long
I the only source for
diamonds to the
now, my friend ,
you'll know the
world. whole story."
L__ _ Lanyon would
changed. He looked not reveal the
ill and wasted-away. It cause of the shock
seemed he was dying. which had left him a dying
There was obvious terror in man, and Jekyll's connection
his eyes. with it. So the lawyer soon
Utterson said, "I'm sorry to rose to leave.
see you ill." "Goodbye, Utter son,
"I've had a shock," was the goodbye," said the doctor as
rejoinder. "I saw something Mr. Utterson took both the
terrible. I'm shaken to my very hands Lanyon held out to
roots. I'll never be the same him. "Goo dbye, my dear
again. I've had a terri ble friend, I fear you won't see me
shock and I'm dying. What I've alive again."
learned is more than flesh "Goodbye," sai d the
and blood can bear." lawyer sadly. Back home, Mr.
"Jekyll is ill too," said the Utterson wrote asking Dr.
lawyer. At the mention of Jekyll the reason for the
'Jekyll', Dr. Lanyon said in a quarrel between
loud trembling voice, "Don't him and . Dr.
speak to me of Jekyll. I've ◊Vi( K
quite done with him." He OVtZ !l
held up his hand as Mr.
Utterson attempted to say The term 'Shylock' has
something. comelo have an everyday
"No, no, Utterson. Nothing usage. I n which of
Shakespeare's plays does
can be done even by a mutual this character appear?
friend like you."
"Jek y l l won't see me," r (See page 97)
26 Rashtra Deepika Children �- Digest April 2006
Did You Know? envelope marked, "Not to be
opened till the death or
The African fiinge-toed disappearance of Henry
lizard dances to keep cool, Jekyll"
lifting each foot in tum off Mr. Utterson was utterly
the hot sand. b e w i l d e r e d .
"Disappearance!" Here was
the same crazy word again as
in Dr. Jekyll's 'Will' (which he
had long before returned to
the d octor ). Thereafter,
whenever the lawyer called at
Dr. Jekyll's house, the butler
said the doctor remained all
Lanyon, and asking too why the time in his study and did
Dr. Jekyll would not see him. not even come out for his
The answer he received · meals.
was both pathetic and
puzzling: "The quarrel with Months later, one Sunday
Lanyon is incurable. From afternoon, on one of their
now onwards, I mean to be usual walks, Utterson and his
alone. Yo11 must let me go my friend Enf ield pa ssed Dr.
own dark way. I have brought Jekyll's house. As they looked
on myself a punishment and up, they saw the doctor sitting
a danger I cannot name... " at one of the windows of his
Three w eeks later Dr. study on the first floor. He
Lanyon died, leaving a letter looked like a sad, hopeless
for Mr. Utterson, marked:
"Private: To be read
by G. J. Utterson alone,
and in the case of his To find out if a
predecease to be watermelon i s
destroyed unread." ripe, knock it, and
Inside the · if it sounds hollow
envelope there then it is ripe.
was another
prisoner. Utterson addressed s o fri g h t e n e d , I 've b e e n
him, asking him to come down. frig htened for a l o n g time.
The -doctor smiled sadly and Come with me, sir, and see for
was about to say somethin � yourself."
when a n expression of sh�er When M r. Utte rso n
terror and despair came over entered Dr. Jekyll's house, he
his face. It was an expression was surprised to see all the
which filled the two men below servants h uddled together
with a n ameless fear. They before the fire i n the h a l l .
had only a glimpse, for the They looked so frightened.
doctor instantly withdrew his 'There's something very
head and shut the window. wrong, and I'm afraid there's
The two friends were pale 9 nd been foul play," Poole said.
both had a haunted look in A s t h e y a p proached t h e
their eyes. The mortal fear doctor's study, they heard a
· they had seen on Or. Jekyll's complaining voice.
fa ce d i d n ot bea r ta l ki n g " I can't see a n y o n e , " it
about. "God help usr" said Mr. said.
Utterson. And they wal ked " I s t h a t my master's
home in silence. v o i ce ?" P o o l e a sk ed the
lawyer.
Wee ks l ater, on a cold , " I t s o u n d e d rath e r
w i n d y M a rch n ig h t , Poole changed," Utterson replied.
came to see the doctor. " C h a n g e d ? N o , s i r,
"Hello, Poole, what brings m aster's been murdered , I
you h e re ? " t h e l a w y e r fear. He was murdered eight
exclaimed. "You look i l l and days ago when we heard him
scared." cry out i n terror. What we
"Oh, sir," cried Poole, "I am h e a rd j ust n ow, i s t h e
murderer's voice. Why does
Dld Yoa Know?

The patent number ofthe telephone is
1 74465.
Rashtra Deepilca Children s Digest April 2006

r order ended, "f ind me
some of the old stuff you
sent."
The hot "I've seen him," added
test planet in '----- -' Poole.
the solar sys � . "S een whom , for
tem is Venus, with an esti Heaven's sake?" asked the
mated surface temperature lawyer in a fever of
of 864 F (462 C). impatience.
"I went into the laboratory
he stay in there?" Poole · unexpectedly one night,"
as�ed. Poole replied, "and whoever
Mr. Utterson was utterly it is had slipped out from the
puzzled. study and- was searching
Poole continued, "All last fever i shly among the· old
week, whoever, or whatever, boxes. When I came in, he
is in the study, has been gave a cry, and rushed up the
moaning and crying out for steps into the study. S ir, it
some drug that he can't wasn't my master I saw, I'll take
remember. The doctor, sir, my oath on that," Poole
used to write his orders for continued. "My master is a
chemicals and drugs on tall, well-built man, and the
sheets of paper and throw figure I saw was more of a
them on the steps for us to dwarf."
pick up. The orders have "I didn't see the face
gone up this last week; sheet clearly, sir, but I'm sure that it
after sheet has been thrown was Mr. Hyde - a small, slight
on the steps. No chemist in figure, the same
town seems to be able to
satisfy the person in the
OVt(K quick movements.
study. I've had to return stuff

OViZ
time and again on the 1 ' Li l l iputian ' refers to
grounds that it wasn't pure." something quite small.
Mr. Utterson picked up one What author wrote about
of the orders on the steps and Lilliput?
read it. "For God's sake," the (See pgge 97)

✓--- Poole added, "Once I
�Did heard weeping - like that of a
:/ Yau Know? , woman or lost soul."
j . Now Mr. Utterson cried in
Tue doorbel l was in- a
vented i n 1 83 1 . / loud voice, "Open the door,
/ Jekyll, or I'll break it down."
"Have mercy, Utterson.
When I saw h im I had that F o r Heaven's sake, have
same feeling of horror and mercy," said a vo ice f rom
disgust, w hich I always felt within.
when I saw Mr. Hyde." "That's not Jekyll's voice,
(Utterson recalled that he Poole. Down with the door!"
too had had the same feeling shouted the lawyer.
when he had met Mr. Hyde in As they swung at the door
front of that dirty door.) with the axe and poked at the
At last Poole and Utterson lock fiercely again and again,
were left with no choice but to a terrified scream came from
break down the door of the inside. Finally the door gave
study. Armed with an axe and way and they stumbled into
a heavy kitchen poker, they the study.
addressed themselves to the A body lay on its back in
task , the other servants the middle of the floor. It was
waiting outside armed with Edward Hyde. The bitter smell
heavy sticks. of cyanide convinced them
As they went up the steps that the wretch had committed
to the study door, they could suicide.
hea r l i g h t quick steps "Now let's search for Jekyll
inside. • or his body," said
"Listen, sir," whispered OVt(K. Utte rson. After
Poole. "Up and down, up Q VtZ
and down. W hoever is in
there, paces up and down all A 'misanthrope' is a sour
day and nearly all night." type o f person . Who
The footsteps fell lightly wrote the work of the
and oddly, very different from same name?
the heavy step of Dr. Jekyll. (See page 97)

about two hours of thorough Poole, and read all the
search, they saw that nothing documents I have. Then I'll
was hidden. return, and we'll send for the
Looking· through the police."
papers on the des k, · the
lawyer came upon an Back home, Mr. Utterson
envelope with his name on it. locked himself inside his
There were several study. First he opened Dr.
enclosures in it. One of them Lanyon's envelope with
was Dr. Jekyll's 'Will' rewritten trembling fingers and read it.
to the effect that all the doctor One of its contents was a
possessed was to pass on his letter to Dr. Lanyon from Dr.
death or disappearance to Jekyll. It had been written and
Mr. Utterson. The next one posted somewhere away
was a letter in the doctor's
handwriting addressed to Mr. Did You Know?
Utterson. The letter said: Ostriches do not need to
drink - they can make their
My dear Otterson, own water internally and
When this falls into your get the rest from vegeta
hands, I shall have disappeared. tion. They are the largest
My end is near. First you must living birds, and are flight
read the account which Lanyon less, two-toed, with long,
told me he would surely place powerful
into your hands. Then ifyou care neck and legs.
to know more, you can read my
story which I enclose with this
ietter and my ' Will '.
Your unworthy
and unhappy friend,
Henry Jekyll
The third enclosure was a

bulky packet of papers
sealed in many places. The
lawyer said, "I'll go home now,
from Jekyll's house. The letter
earnestly begged Lanyon to
go to Jekyll's laboratory and
ta k e a d rawer co n ta i n i n g "The Adventures of I
1
some chemicals, and bring it Pinocchio" was first 1
to Lanyon's house. Jekyll said published as a serial in the I
his life was in dange[ and only
'Giornale dei Bambini'. i
The story is about a
L a n y o n co u l d save i t . At wooden puppet carved
midnight a man would call at by a friendly 019 man
Lanyon's house in Jekyll's Gepetto. Suddenly one
name. He should be admitted night the puppet comes to
a n d g i v e n the d rawer life. Alas the puppet is
containing the chemicals. given to telling hes.
M r. U tterson read · t h i s Fortunately for
letter twice and then went o n Pinocchio's education
t o w h a t D r. L a n yo n h a d every time he tells a lie,
written. M r. Utterson was in his nose begins to
for the greatest shock
grow longer. So
he has a good
and surprise of his life. reason to start
H e read t h e stra n g e reforming his
story of a very strange behaviour. The
experiment. , author C. Collodi was
D r. L a n yon born in Florence in
acted according to 1 826, the son of
Jekyll's instructions and \ a cook and a
waited a n xiously. O.n v , servant. Collodi
the stroke of midnight u died in his home
there was a knock on
town in 1 890.
the door. Opening it , -•-- - -
La n yon fou n d a sma l l man, Lanyon felt cold a n d his
m a n cro u c h i n g in t h e pulse became irregular. The
shadows. He said he h a d m a n was g lad to see t h e
com e from D r. Jekyl l , a n d d ra w e r conta i n i n g t h e
entered Lanyon's consulting chemicals. With a d readfu l
roo m w i t h a f u rt i ve l o o k smile he sobbed aloud with
a roun d . At the sight of the relief. He measured out some
32 Rashtra Deepi/ca Children s Digest April 1006
of the red liquid contained in feeling blindly before him with
a phial in t he drawer and his hands, like a man come
added one of the powders to from death, stood Dr. Jekyll!"
it. The mixture bubbled and (It was the mo.st wonderful
hissed. When it became still, and incredi ble
it was purple, w hich faded metamorphosis!)
slowly to a watery green. Now Lanyon was shaken to the
the man said to Lanyon, "If I core. He could not sleep
drink it in your presence, new thereaf ter. He knew t hat
horizons will unfold before death was very near.
you. You've always ridiculed "It is too awful , " Lanyon
transcendental medicine . says. "I shall never recover
You've laughed at the idea from the shock of what I saw
that a drug could act on the and learnt t hat night. The
spirit as well as the body of creature w ho came into my
man." house that night, I believe,
"Drink it," said Lanyon. was Edward Hyde - wanted by
The man 1added, "Now I hold the police for the murder of
you to your oath as a doctor Sir Danver s Carew. And,
to regard what you'll see as a Utterson, in front of my eyes,
professional secret. Watch!" he changed into Henry
He drank t he mixture at Jekyll!"
one gulp. H e reeled and
staggered and gasped. His Although unable to recover
eyes went red and he from the shock and surprise
breathed heavily. "And as I caused by Lanyon's letter, Mr.
loo ked, t here came a Utter son was
'
change. S lowly the features
altered," Lanyon wrote. "I
OVi<K forced to read Dr.
tried to cover my face from OVtl

that horrible sight, my mind
sinking in fear. 'O God!'
We often speak ofpeogle I
who are 'quixotic' or tilt
screamed, and 'O God ! ' at windmills'. Who is the
again and again, for t here author involved?
before my eyes - his face
grown white, shivering and ---- (&epage 97)

Jekyll's confession too (which leading a double life.
was written at great length). As my fame as a doctor
He read: grew, it seemed more and
" I , H enry Jekyll , have more important to me that I
alwa.y s had two distinct should conceal my pleasure
aspects to my personality : loving nature. My scientific
one side of me was a serious studies and my knowledge of
person with high ideals, both my own nature, convinced me
personally and professionally; that Man's body houses not
the other side of me was one personality, not one
inclined not to innocent gaiety spirit, but two personalities
but to a certain wildness. I liked and two spirits - equally
frequenting taverns, and. the strong. And I began to day
company of boisterous , dream of separating these
disreputable men and two natures - one good and
women. I enjoyed these the other ev il. Thi s idea
pleasures too much to wish to dominated my thoughts and I
give them up, but as a doctor wanted to separate my evil
I was ashamed of them, so I nature and make it another
kep t them hidden. I was individual. After much
• The deepest-diving bird is the emperor penguin which

reaches depths of up to 265m.
• The deepest-diving turtle is __,""""" "�
the leatherback turtle
which dives down to
1 200m.
• The deepest-diving
mammal is the sperm
whale which dives �
down to 1 200m .
• Rat-tails are some ofthe
deepest-living fish in the_
oceans.

if the drug would restore
Amnesty In me to my former self as
ternational was Dr. J ekyll. Nervously I
founded in 196 1
to campaign for drank another dose of the
the release of drug. Again the terrible
' pri soners of pains, and I came to
conscience'. By myself as Dr. Jekyll!
this they mean Now the better part of
anyone who is imprisoned be- my nature, having been
cause of their religious or po given greater scope, was
litical beliefs. Amnesty Interna more fully developed
tional also fights against capital while my meaner nature,
punishment, the use oftorture, with only occasional
and abuses of basic human outlets, was
rights. . comp aratively
insignificant. That is why,
research and experiments in as you have seen, Hyde, the
chemistry, I succeeded in personification of my baser
completing the formula for a self, was a little man. And
"wonder drug" that would being purely evil, the very
effect that miracle. (I need not sight of him excited disgust
explain the details.) I ordered and fear in others. If, however,
a large quantity of a certain I had truly wished my be_tter
salt. It was the last thing I nature to dominate, the drug
required for my drug. would have
At last one day I put it to OVi(K. separated the
the test. I drank the drug
and waited for the result. OViZ I
Dreadful pains gripped me. ,The term 'Micawber' is
I gasped and groaned and . often used�to describe a
struggiea.�Slowly I recovereq p_edon with a certain type
My body haa pecome smaller , '.• of attitude. In which book
I
younger, and-lighter. I felt that, ·_· by Charles -Dickens does

I wa� now a wicked being. I - the character appear?
saw myself in a mirror as . ( (See page 97) I
Edward Hyde. I wanted to test
good instead of the evil, and already known to you, Mr.
there would have been an Utterson. But as time passed,
angel in the place of Hyde. it became increasingly easy
As Hyde I enjoyed my evil for me to become Hyde, and
life, and I could any time my existence as Dr. Jekyll
become Jekyll again by was at risk. One night I went
drinking another dose of the to bed as Dr. Jekyll, and woke
drug. My double life delighted as Hyde without taking the
me. I will not go into further drug!
details, f or most of them are The murder of S ir Danvers
About the A uthor Wherever he went he carried two

books, "one to read, and one to
write in." By continuous practice,
Robert Louis he slowly perfected his style and
Stevenson (1 850-1 894) became a master oflanguage.
A n Inland Voyage, an
account of a canoe trip through
A charming personality and Belgium and France, started him
a beautiful style of writing are the on his literary career. This was
outstanding characteristics of his fol l owed by Travels with a
life and work. He won fame as a Donkey in the Cevennes, a
writer of short stories, novels of charming sketch of a journey on
adventure, essays, and poetry. foot with a little gray donkey for
Stevenson was born i n a companion.
Edinburgh, Scotland, the only The fi rst book to w i n
c h i l d of wea'lthy parents. popularity a n d g i v e h i m
Although i ll ness i n chi ldhood distinction a s a writer was
prevented him from attending Treasure Island. It is the story
school regularly, he entered the ofa boy's exciting adventures on
university at 1 7. His father, a the mysterious island Captain
famous engineer and builder of Flint had buried his pirate gold.
lighthouses, wanted him to follow The Strange Case ofDr. Jekyll
that profession. and Mr. Hyde, his most famous
H i s early ambition was tt> sh·ort story, was a still greater
become a writer. All through his success. In this story the author
boyhood and youth he wrnte takes up the problem o f the
constantly, not for publication, struggle between the good and
but to l earn h ow to write. evil in man.
36 Rashlra Deepika Children :s Digesl April 2006

was an act of "motiveless rem ain a s Dr. J ekyll
malignity". The devil in me thereafter.
came out roaring. I had shut However, one day, sitting
it up for long, and it came with on a bench in the park, evil
a tenfold force. With devilish thoughts tempted me. And
joy I beat him, tasting delight Lo! I felt those drec;1dful pains
from every blow. Hyde and I was Hyde again! Jekyll's
enjoyed the thrill. But soon he clothes hung loose a bout
realized that his life was in Hyde's small body ("like a
danger. S o I decided to giant's robe on a dwarfish
Stevenson was a master of was a n exciting adventure in

the novel of adventure. The spite of the fact that he was an
finest examples of this type are invalid for more than 20 years,
his three S cotch. novels, wandering from place to place in
Kidnapped, The Master of search of health. His last four
Ba/lantrae, and David Balfour. years were spent in Samoa, at his
Kidnapped was written for beautiful estate, Vailima. Here he
boys but adul ts are j ust as wrote the famous Vailima
fascinated with the story, which Letters, describing Samoan life.
is based on a historical incident, At the time of his death he was
the Appin murder. David Balfour working on a novel, Weir of
is a sequel to Kidnapped. Hermiston, which promised to be
Happy memories of his own his greatest work.
childhood led Stevenson to write Stevenson i s buried on a
A Child's Garden of Verses, lonely mountain , peak,
which won him recognition as a overlooking the ocean. On the
poet. Many of these charming monument over his grave are the
poems tell about his last three lines of his
own p leasures and famous poem
adventures as a child. "Requiem":
He never lost his love
ofmake-believe, which Here he lies where
he pictures so he longed to be;
del ightfu l l y i n The
Land of Counterpane Home is the sailor.
and other poems in the homefrom the sea,
collection. And the hunter
Life for Stevenson · home from the hill.

thief!). I, as Hyde, wa·s ,in-dire . :shock. would kill him · so
danger. I went into hid}t19.· ti1L - soon.
rn.e.� I'} , _-
a•
dark, then went to' �- Back in my own home ��

hotel· and engaged ·tfr,oom : _Ur._ }ekyl l , I fett safe a r,t-d
there. From there I ·wrotE io� �· comfortable,. , 13uJ not fck
f
Dr. Lanyon begging hjm to : J ong. Th�: syr:nplbms of pain·

help me in my tiour of aa'nger. ' :and treni/bl fng seized me
The rest of the story i's- a·1ready · every Fl'?� a_nd th-en, ancr,1
known to you - how Lanyon . would be jHyde again, andf I
got the fatal shock 0J his life had to take even douf le
watching Hyde metamorphose doses of the drug to be Jekyll
into Dr. Jekyll! Poor fellow, again.
Lanyon, I never thought that Hyde, Jekyll, Hyde, Jekyll.
From that day onwards,
� Find six differences be I had to take the drug
lDIII tween these two panels. almost continuously in
order to remain Jekyll. .
Finally I ran. out of my
stock of that salt so
essential for preparing
the drug. I shall soon
be Hyde again, to
remain as Hyde. This,
my friend, is the end of
D r . Henry Jeky l l ,
destined to die as Hyde,
perhaps on the
gallows! Who knows?
Nemesis! I s it
'Nemesis' at work? - the
deserving punishment
for having indulged my
evil self so long?"
- Adapted by Prof.
(See page 97)
James Joseph
Monuments oflndia .,
. St. Angelo's Fort

A massive triangular, laterit� fort,
replete with a moat and fla nking
bastions, St. Angelo's Fort, also called
Kannur Fort, completed 500 years of
existence in 2005. This historic fort,
which witnessed many a bloody battle,
stands a� a m o n u ment to man's
overweening ambition and bestial cruelty.
It was constructed by the first Portuguese Viceroy, Don
Francisco de Almeida in 1 505. The construction began on October
23, 1 505.
The fort was spread over an area of 1 1 acres. It was built out of
red sandstone, with a mixture of lime, jaggery, and egg used for
binding. The enormous wooden doors were studded with nails to
prevent the enemy's elephants from battering them down. Evidences
exist of several buildings inside the fortress. Apart from an armoury,
a chapel and capacious barracks for a thousand soldiers, there
were three dungeons, 1 5 ft. by 1 0 ft. wide, each having only a small
hole as the vent for passing food and for ventilation. There were
also seven gallows. The fort was surrounded bY a crocodile-infested
moat fitted with a drawbridge. Eight cannons, five of which bear the
British seal, and cannonballs believed to be $00 years old, h�ve;
been found at the fort. � 0 • -
In 1 663, the Dutch captured the fort from tne- Portuguese and
sold it to Ali Raja of Kannur (Cannanore, on the west coast of ·
Kerala). In 1 790 the British who seized control over the fort renovated
and equipped it to be their most important military station in Malabar.
Today, St.. Angelo's Fort is a protected monument under the
Archaeological Survey of India. It has been declared a heritage site
by UNESCO.
The fort offers a fascinating view of the Moppila Bay, a natural
fishing bay, and the five acre Ohannadom Island situated 1 00m
away from the mainland in the Arabian Sea.
� :ittE A�B IAN NIGHiS .rHE �v,o_u:� AND THE GRACl�US' · 2
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That evening, his disciples came running
to announce the arrival of the Sultan.
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the princess inhale the smoke.
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Suddenly, she
grew calm
and quiet.

The Plight of
Being a
Teenager - Siddharth Tandon. Lucknow
It was my thirteenth birthday on
1 5th April 2005. Unlike previous years,
it was a special year for me. For the
last two years I was coming across the
word 'teenager'. I did not know what it
exactly meant but still I was excited as
I had heard from many people that it
was an age of changes in human
beings. But my excitement was short
lived and was overshadowed by
misery w hen I entered the 'mirage' of
thirteen. I had anticipated it to be a
glorious period of my life. On the
contrary it was proving to be a
nightmare.
After entering into my thirteenth
year I have found a distinct change in
the attitude of people around me.
Firstly, whenever I try to play with my
younger coµsins, they complain that I
�, <Jm ,lQttJ,jg for them.' They �enerally
· , , /# tt¢f�r.. tl1tf,company of my yduhger
·1• • :tt , c • • ♦-41\ · ' '
44 • • • - Rashtra Deepika Chr�d� :S Digest April 2006
I
brother and I feel i solated. you n ge r b ro ther as he i s
The elders, on the other hand smal l . But h e takes ful l
do not allow me in their talks adva n ta ge of me a n d
saying I am too you n g . punches me whenever he
Sometimes, when I cannot do wants and I am left helpless.
something, my mother says, Thi s 'teenager' age i s
"You have grown so big, you proving t o b e a testing age
are 1 3 years old, a class ath for me in my life. Alas, I have
boy, and still you are not able to undergo so much trauma
to do lhis work." at the tender age of 1 3. No
On the other hand,
when I try to intervene Beautiful
to give my views to the Flowers
elders, I am rebuked. Teachers are -beautiful flowers,
"You are just 1 3. You . That bloom in the garden oflove
don't need to indulge in They are fairies ofknowledge,
the talks of elders. Just Who advise and guide us.
get out of the room." Teachers are wiser than us
When I am with boys of They love, scold and cajole
my age group, I am told, Because they always love us
"Just watch your They are the lovely flowers,
In the banquet of our lives.
company. You a re And these flowers are the ones
getti ng spoilt . " S o We can never forget.
finally, I feel like a
- Anu Anna Abi, 7F,
neglected person who is The Emirates National
not fit in any company. School, Sharjah..
My i n telligent
arguments are always
co ntradicted. No o ne
listens to my views even
if they. :are correct M }l
paren ts f.orb�d, me. to
beat . m y. _ ·_ 'rowdy .. '
• I t. • •
I •
' '. . . ' . . . \ . .. \ ' . '

1
of my close friends, "they also
dittoed my views and said ,
wo�der th�y;�'call numbe� 1 3 t h a t t h e y had undergone ·
anfuhlugky number. And the ·· similar experiences. ·· ·· ·
day I came to know that the To add to my wo.es, when I
teen period goes up to the asked my grandfather what a
age - of 1 9, I felt more teenager is supposed to do, �
miserable. But the only solace he smiled and gave a more .
in my misery is that I am not confusing statement. "Since .
alone in the cesspool. When teenagers are too old to do
I narrated my woes to some the things that little children
Behold, I'm the monarch of perils,

Some call me devil, others term me as evil;
As I invade your world and yourselves
Like a parasite,
spreading my cancerous tentacles.
Choking your lungs, suffocating you,
Seeping through water, poisoning you;
Smothering you, annihilating you,
But, you prove to.be gui lty, only you.
Who have begetted me Pollution
by your greed for success, Speaks
And brought me up
by your nature heinous;
Over the earth, establishing your supremacy,
Without showing any regret or mercy.
By cutting down trees, exploiting every breeze;
Preferring machines over mnocent animals that graze;
And not being grateful to your patrons, air and water;
Committing grave treachery against Mother Nature.
-Ku/sum J. Sayyad, Std IX A, Holy Family Convent High School,
Vidyanagar, Karad - I/ 15•J J 0., Maharashtra.
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� Young Talents
Oh fire! You are so beautiful

Oh fire! You have many colours
Oh fire! You help us in making water hot
Oh fire! You help us in cooking food
Oh fire! You give us light
Oh fire! You keep us warm
But sometimes you are so naughty
Killing many animals and humans.
-Govind U, Std Vlf D, Kendriya Vidyalaya, Thrissur.
do and not old enough to do form of Teenager is

things that adults do, they do T - Trackless
things nobody else does." E - Erratic
Finally, when I asked my E - Eager
ever-busy mother to tell me N - Nagging
the meaning of teenager, she A - Argumentative
quipped, " It's just an G - Grudging
abbreviation."
According to he� the full
E - Excited
R - Rash •
I Assure You
If you read less and write more
If you talk less and study more
Ifyou play less and think more
No doubt you will succeed for sure.
If you eat less and chew more
If you waste less and save more
If you ride less and walk more
Believe me you will be healthy for sure. �
If you hate less and love more _ G. Harsha,
If you order less and obey more Std v. Ryan International
People then will love you for sure. sdhool, Bangalore.
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Kerala - 6 7 1 542. H&I: Collecting stamps and coins, reading and
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0., Perintalmanna, Malappuram, Kerala - 679322. H&I: Singing,
acting and playing chess.
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Gallery of Scientists
.�-
- P. Gopa/akrishnan
Elizab_eth
Lee Hazen (left)
and Rachel Fuller Brown ·
Elizabeth Lee Hazen (1 885-1975)

and Rachel Fuller Brown (1898 -1980)
(Discqverers ofNystatin)
Nystatin is an antibiotic started the research to find a
which is also an anti-fungal. d ru g t h a t destroyed the
Scientists had to search for a bacteria as also the fungi.
drug t h a t worked a s both Two remarkable women
becau se many antibiotics scien tists undertook this
caused side effects sueh as research jointly and
sore m o u th , itchin g , _su cce�ded . T h ey were
inflammation and sometimes Elizabeth Lee Hazen and
more serious ailments. s'o Rachel Fuller Brown , both
60 Rashtra Deepiko Children s Digest April 2006
from the USA. from her studies to serve in
Elizabeth was born in Rich, a rmy diagn ostic labs i n
a city i n the southern state of A l a b a m a and New York.
Mississippi in 1 885 as one of ' When the war was over she
three children. She was worked as Assistant Director
orphaned at the age of three. of the clinical lab of a hospital
The children first lived with in Western Virginia.
their maternal grandmother In 1 923 she returned to
and then with their paternal the College of Physicians &
uncle who had three of his S u rgeons to res u m e her
own children.
After a ttending a one
room school Elizabeth joined
the college which is known
now a s the Mississippi What is black when you
buy it, red when you use
University for Women. On it, and gray when you
completing her study there throw it away?
she taught high school
physics and biology for a time (Sirepage 97)
in J ac kson, Mississippi. studies. She took her Ph.D.
During her teaching days she in microbiology four years
enrolled in summer studies at later. Afte r ta king her
the University of Tennessee doctorate she worked in both
and the University of Virginia. clinica l and teaching
Later she moved to New York positions at Columbia's
City to attend the Columbia P resbyterian Hospital and
University and took her M.Sc. the College of Physicians &
in Biology from there. Surgeons.
She enrolled at the In 1 931 Dr. Hazen
Columbia College of was offered a position
Physicians & Surgeons by the New York State
to study medical Department of Public
bacteriology. Meanwhile Health, as the Head of
World War I started with its Bacterial Diagnostic
America joining the war. Laboratory. She
She took a long break �-• accepted the offer and
shifted to New York. tn 1 934 successful, requ ired the
she was chosen to lead a participation of a talented
research about fungi. chemist along with Dr. Hazen,
S he felt she required a the talented microbiologist.
deeper k n o w ledge i n the G i l bert Daldorf, the new
subject o n which she was head of the division in the
chosen to lead the research. Department of Health, chose
S o she took a course o n Dr. Rachel Fu ller Bro w n
mycology (study of fungi that working i n a lab in Albany.
cause disease) at her old Rachel Fuller Brown was
college, the College of bor n in S p r i n gf ie l d ,
Phys icia n s & Surgeo ns Massachusetts i n 1 8 98 .
before com menci n g the When she was in school the
research. fam i l y left S p r i n gf ield for
She set up a collection of Webster Groves , Missouri.
disease-causing fungi sent to When she was twelve the
her by physicians from all parents separated and her
over New York State, to begin mother moved back to
the search for an antibiotic Springfield taking Rachel and
which was also an antifungal. her brother with her.
The research , to be O n complet i n g school
Rachel attended Mount
Did You Know?

W hen Mark Twain was
born on November 30, 1 835
- Halley's comet was visible
i n the sky over Florida,
Missouri. Aware that he was
born when Halley's comet
was visible, Mark Twain
predicted in 1 909 that he would die when it returned. He
was right When Mark Twain died on April 2 1 , 1 9 1 0, Halley's
comet was once again visible in the sky.

Holyoke College. The
expenses were met
through a loan and the
aid given by a wealthy
frien d of her
gran d m other, a
generous lady who saw
to it that Rachel had
everything a student of
the col lege sho u l d Avian influenza(also fcnowrias
normally have. bird flu, avian flu, is a flu due to a
She took history as type of influenza virus that is
her major subject at first. hosted by birds, but may infect
But under the influence several species of mammals. It
of Dr. Emma Perry Carr,
was first identified in Serbia
Montenegro in the early 1 900s
Head of the Department and is now known toexist world
of Chemistry, and known wide. A strain ofthe HSN I -type
for the excellence of her of avian influenza virus that
tea ch i n g , she took emerged in 1 997 has been iden
chemistry and h istory. tified as the most likely source of
On completing M ount a future influenza pandemic.
Holyoke, she joined the
University of Chicago for
hig her stu d ies, as
advised by Dr. Carr. returned to the university to
H ere too her generous take her Ph.D. in Chemistry.
patroness aided her. She also She worked hard for her
worked to pay her way d octorate d uring the two
thro u g h the college, by years necessary to complete
assisting in a laboratory. She the study and submitted her
took her M .Sc. in chemistry thesis. But for some reason
and found a job as teacher at un known to her its
a school for g irls near acceptance was delayed. To
Chicago. S he worked three receive the Ph.D. the thesis
years at the school and with had to be accepted, followed
the money she saved
Rashtra Deepilca Children s Digest April 1006 63
by a report on her work, and Seven y e a rs later she
an oral test. received the Ph.D. She was
There was little time to wait a t C h i c a g o , to attend a
for the P h . D . Rachel had meeting of scientists. The
spent all her money and soon professor who had delayed
the acceptance of her thesis
Did You Know? was also there and they met.
He suggested that she stay
'Great God! This is an in Chicago for a week and
awful place,' wrote the take t h e test. S h e
British explorer .,_....,......,,__
stayed, h e r thesis
Captain Scott at
the South Pole was accepted and
on January 1 7, t h e o r a l test
1 9 1 2. The av g iven . Thus
erage tempera Rachel B rown
tu re at the g o t her P h . D .
South Pole is seven years after
5 0 °C and the the study a n d
low temperatures w h e n s h e l ea st
in Antarctica are expected it!
made worse by blizzards - It was in late 1 940 that Dr.
high winds that whip up Brown joined Dr. Hazen in the
powdery snow and re
duce visibility to zero. search for a n a n ti-fu ng a l
anti biotic. D r. H azen h a d
a l ready m a d e a study of
she would have to take care a ctinomycetes w h i c h a re
of her mother a n d m i cro-org a n isms fou n d in
grandmother. At this critical certa i n s o i l s , fro m w h i c h
juncture she received an offer several antibiotics have been
of a job as chemist from the obtained. The two doctors
New York State Department of worked as a tea m , though
Health for their lab in Albany. stationed at places distant
She accepted it, and at least from one another, one in New
for the time being gave up all York and the other in Albany.
t h o u g h t of P h . D . a n d left It was a unique teamwork, a
Chicago for Albany. long-distance collaboration in·
64 Rashtra Deepika Children s Digest April 19" ,
scientific research through Did You Know?
the mail.
From soil sa mples D r. In 1 888, 246 people died
Hazen would remove the because of a hailstorm in
actinomycete and send it to Moradabad, India.
Dr. Brown to see if the latter
could isolate the antibiotic fungal infections and could
from it. The antibiotic had to be c o m b i ned with a nti
be tested for a nti-fu n g a l bacterial drugs to balance
property a s well . It wasn't their effects. Nystatin was
enough that it was just anti a l so fou n d u sefu l i n
fungal. It should not lose its preserving works of art from
potency d uring processing. molds.
So a sam ple went through Dr. Hazen and Dr. Brown
several tests, analyses and donated all nystatin royalties
processes, travelling through to academic science through
post across long distances, the non-profit Brown-Hazen
from one lab to the other, Research Fund. The royalties
from one scientist to her co amounted to more than 1 3
researcher. Finally the two million dollars by the time the
researchers d i scovered a patent expired.
chemical that passed all the B rown and Hazen
tests. They n a med it continued their collaboration
Nystatin. It was the world's i n research u ntil Hazen
first useful anti-fungal d ied on January 24,
antibiotic. It was 1 975. They received
found to cure many the Chemical Pioneer
d isfiguring, d isabling Award fro m the
American I nstitute of
Did You Know? Chemistry in 1 975.
Brown was active in
Letter boxes were chemical research until
invented by the J a n uary 1 4 , 1 980,
Frenchman Francois when she d ied i n
Velayer in 1 653. Albany.
•
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Kali, the Being of Falsehood,
had been another participant
at the swayamvara. He was
jealous of Nala and decided
to punish him. Nala became
possessed of him. He lost his
kingdom in a game of dice.
He took refuge in the forest.
Under Kali's influence, Nala
deserted Damayanti while
she was asleep.
Wandering in the forest, Nala
saw a snake trapped in a fire.
He rescued the half-dead
snake, only to be bitten by it!
The poison caused h i m to
a s s u m e a new h i d e o u s ,
unrecognisable form. But the
snake assured h i m , "Don't
worry - m y p o i s o n w i l l
torment Kali , who i s withi n
you, a n d force him out."
After many ordeals, Damayanti
m a n a g ed to ret u r n to h e r
father. S h e y e a r n e d t o b e
reunited with her beloved Nala.
She came to know that he was
worki ng under an assu med
n a m e , Baa h u k a , as K i n g ·
Rituparna's c h a r i oteer. ·
Damayanti thought of a plan to_
bring him back to her.
As per her instructions, her
father sent a messenger to
Ritupama, informing him that
a swayamvara would be held
for his daughter's
remarriage. Ritupama knew
that his new charioteer was
extremely skilled with horses.
He asked him to drive fast so
as to reach Vidarbha in time
•-----• for the swayamvara.
The
just reached
Vidarbha when,
tormented by the
poison in Nala, Kali
suddenly left his
body. N ala was
now transformed
back into his noble
self once more. His
ordeals were at an
end.
They proceeded to
the palace, where
Nala was reunited
with Damayanti, to
the great joy of
everybody. Later,
Nata won back his
kingdom and fortune.
He and Damayanti
l ived happily ever
after.
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Science Update
- P. G.
Research conducted at pressure than those who ate

the Imperial College, London less vegetable protein. The
shows that people who eat reason may be the presence
more protein from vegetables of more am ino acids in
tend to have lower blood vegetable protein than in
pressure. The researchers animal protein.
made a study of 4680 people Amino acids have been
aged between 40 to 59 years shown to influence blood
from fo ur countries. Judging press ure. Other dietary
from their food records and components such as
urine samples it was found magnesi um fo und in
that those who ate more vegetables may also be
vegetable protein were likely interacting with amino acids
to have a lower blood to lower blood pressure.
Obesity Should be Treated
in pre-teen Years
A study made at the
Children's Hospital Medical
Center, Ohio, USA, indicates
that early treatment of pre
teen obesity could reduce the
risk of developing excess
body weight, h i gh blood
pressure, high blood sugar
and high cholesterol levels
which are risk factors leading
Rashtra Deepilca Children s Digest April 1006
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to � heart d i seases a n d small a scale.
diabetes. T h e findings are
based on a study of 1 000 gins Using Chemistry
for ten years starting at ages to Bait Fish
9 and 1 0. An American p hysician
The study focused on high called Milan Jeckle has used
wa ist circumference, h i g h Chemistry to invent a new -
glucose, h i g h triglycerides, produ ct to catch fish. It is
low level of 'good' cholesterol, called Fool-a-Fish and comes
and high blood pressure. High in a bottle that sprays titanium
waist circumference and high d ioxide on fishing lures and
trig lycer ides emerged a s bails.
significant factors pointing at The chemical lights up the
the possibility of developing watery depths luring fish from
the ail ments. "Thus taking a s d i stan t a saoo· meters
action in adolescence could away. Dr. Jeckle, w h o
provide m aj or health c o m bined h i s love of
benefi ts, " conclude the C he m i stry and l ove of
researchers. o u td oors into ·a b u siness
ven ture, says a b o u t h i s
Nano Bacteria invention: "You catch three or
Scientists at the Kuopio four times more fish and the
University in Finland report biggest fish."
the existence of Nano-sized The product has already
(very m in u te) bacter i a . ca u g h t market
Accor d ing t o them n a n o a ttention and i ts
bacter ia are t h e cause of sale is growing from
many diseases and their Alaska to Flor i d a .
presence has been detected That it might
in the process of the contr i b u te to t h e
formation of kidney stones. d e pletion o f fish
But scientists at the University species in America's
of Copenhagen in Denmark waterways doesn't
d i sp u te the existen ce of seem to trouble the
nano-bacteria. They argue inventor.
that life cannot exist in so
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T e go irac e
a magic mantra by which he
could g at h e r a h u n d red
mangoes every day from any
mango tree, a nd irrespective of
the season. The parents rejoiced
at their son's good fortune.
That day, Sasank and his
fam i ly feasted o n a s m a n y
mangoes a s they could eat, and
gave away the rest to their
relatives and neighbours. All of
them heaped praise on Sasank.
But Sasank was already thinking
of how best he could capitalise
Pundit Viswanath and his wife on his talent. The next morning,
were surprised to see their son he col lected m a n g oes in a
back so soon from his stay in basket and took them to the
the guruku/a. "Have you finished market to sell. People were
your studies already, son?" he delig hted to see the out-of
asked. season fruit and in less than an
"Yes, Father!" a n swered hour, all the mangoes were sold
Sasa nk, his eyes g leam i n g . out.
"Just wait till you find out what I The next m o rn i n g ,
have l e a r n t ! " To t h e i r
astonishment, h e then produced
a bag of mangoes and pressed
a mango each into their hands.
"Just eat, and tell me how you
like the taste!" he urged.
The parents did so, and were
en tra n ced by t h e d i v i n e
sweetness of the fruit. Sasank
informed them that he had learnt
Rashtra Deepika Children :s Digest April 1006

72
immediately on entering the shifted to a mansion, where an
..
market, Sasank was mobbed by army of servants ministered to
eager buyers who had tasted his every comfort.
the previous day's mangoes, He basked in the adulation
and wanted more at any price. of the people. But more was still
As days went by, Sasank did to come. One day, two richly
attired men met him and said,
"We're messengers from the
king's court. The king has heard
that you can perform a great
miracle. He desires to meet you.
We've brought a chariot to take
you back to the palace; please
come with us."
Sasank was overwhelmed
with joy. What a great honour! If
he managed to impress the king,
not have to go to the market to the sky would be the limit as far
sell mangoes - buyers crowded as his fame and wealth were
aro u n d h i s · h o u se, p a y i n g concerned. Under the king's
fabulous sums for them. Sasank patronage, he would become the
g loated over h i s fort u n e , most respected figure in the
thinking, ' I ' m rich beyond m y land!
wildest dreams! Would I have Still day-dreaming of the
been able to earn even a fraction glorious future that awaited him,
of this amount if I had devoted Sasank dressed himself in his
myself to studies and become best clothes a n d • p r o u d l y
a scholar?' stepped into the carriage that
As days passed, the news awaited him. He ..._..
of Sasank's m i ra c u l o u s
achievement spread far and
·i
wide. People took him to be a
yogi with magical powers, and
he did nothing to disabuse
the m . They bowed to h i m
respectfully and made offerings
in cash and kind to him. He
accepted everything as his due. '·
Within a few months, he had oc� .,,._ u.ilild. Al "lhts �

d i d not forget to i nform demonstrating your miracle
everyone he saw that he had now?" asked the king politely.
been summoned by no less a "You can choose any mango
perso n a g e t h a n the k i n g tree in the royal garden."
himself. "By a l l m e a n s , Yo ur
Maj esty ! " s a i d S a s a n k ,
elated. Here was his chance
to i m p ress the k i n g a n d
secure his patronage!
The king and h is
entourage escorted Sasank
to the garden. Servants held
s i l k sheets to catch the
mangoes befo re· they fell to
the ground.
Sasank then walked up to
At the court, the k i n g the tree a n d recited the
welcomed him cordially and mantra. Everyone present
said, "Young man.tell me, how l ooked up to the fo l ia g e ,
did you acquire this wonderful expecting any moment to see
power at such a young age?" the mangoes falling down.
For a moment, S a s a n k Alas! Nothing happened.
hesitated. H o w c o u l d h e
possibly tell the king the truth
- that he had learnt the secret
mantra from a h u m b l e
villager? His hesitation lasted
for only a moment. Then, he
decided on his strategy. "Your
Maj esty, I went to the
H i malayas a n d performed
i ntense pen a n ce for five
years, before my guru taught
it to me!" With i ncre a s i n g p a n ic,
"Oh, I see!" said the king. Sasank repeated the mantra
Sasank swelled up in pride as once, twice, several times,
he saw the awe and respect until he was hoarse. But the
in the eyes of the courtiers. tree did not yield even one
"Sasankji, would you mind fruit! Sweating profusely, he
looked a round in despair, nowr said the king. "This is
muttering, "My God! Why isn't your divine punishment for
the mantra working today?• having violated both the rules
"H mmm!" ·said the king your teacher enjoined upon
sternly, glaring at him . "I you. When you broke the first
suspected something fishy at rule, you were forgiven but
the very outset. You don't when you violated the second,
have the noble bearing or the too, by telling a lie , your
humility of a true ascetic. Tell power was forfeited. As I see
me the truth - did you really it, the only way out for you now
acq uire the power by is to go back to your teacher
a n d seek his pardon.
Perhaps, the mantra may work
again."
Sasank sought out
. Ramdas, fell at his feet, and
begged him to restore his lost
power. But the old man said,
"I'm helpless; only God can do
that. Let's pray to him."
His p rayers
meditating in the Himalayas, n otwithstanding, S a s a n k
or have you been performing never regained his power to
some black magic to fool the produce mangoes. He could
people? Beware - if I find that only rue his own avarice and
you've lied, I shall have you pettiness which had brought
beheaded!" him to disgrace. "Never shall I
At this threat, the last be so greedy a g a i n ! " he
vestiges of Sasank's courage vowed.
came crumbling down . He - Retold by Rajee Raman
threw himself at the king's feet
and cried, "Forgive me, my
lord! I lied to you. It was no
yogi from the Himalayas who .
taught me the mantra, but a
poor, low-born villager!" He
__ ..___
then stammered out the whole
story.
"I understand everything .
..._..
Rll3htra Deepilco Children s Digest April 2006 75
Tales Behind Sayings
- R. K. Murthi, New Delhi
It was the Raja's birthday. The capital of the State wore a

festive look. Colourful flags fluttered from flagposts set up all
along the route. Guards·· stood on the roads, controlling
the crowds.
Around ten in the morning, the Raja set out from the
palace. He rode through the town in a chariot drawn by
six majestic horses. Thousands of people lined up
the route to hail their ruler. They cheered him loudly.
They repeated the words, "Jaya Vijayi Bhava." The Raja
waved to them. He was happy to note that the people loved
him.
He knew how to earn their love. He was kind and
generous, and he always helped those in need. He met
one and all. Nobody was turned away from his palace
without a hearing. And he always did what was right.
The procession ended at the temple. The Raja prayed to
the deity for long life and prosperity. He sought divine help to
rule the land justly. Then he rode back in the chariot to the
palace.
The people now headed for
Did You Know? the fair grounds. Shops were
Dalai Lama is a Mongo set up all around the ground.
lian word meaning "great There wera also merry-go
ocean." foun'd s and ' swings · and
seesaws fbr ciiildren . to play. 1
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76 . Rashtra Deepi/uz <;h[l4ren.! Dig.est 1Pril 1006

The crowd milled all around. It was hard for people to hold
on to children. A few children got separated from their
P.�rents, Tbe gu_ar�s C?�rl:1� �o thefr' help. They succeeded in
r��,O(ing ,m�!lr c�i!dre'? tq \heir families .
• � lbree-year-o/q
... child.gpt separated .from his mother. The
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R��h,;a Deepika Childre�� Di�e�t ·A�;il 2006 77

guard on duty found
the boy w a i l i n g
l o u d l y, s h o ut i n g ,
"Ma, Ma." IM 60ftJ6 TO BE A
.-------
UFE6LW?P AT THE B/j2P
"Don't cry. I will BATI-1, BQJrJIE
take y o u to y o u r
m ot h e r, " s a i d t h e
guard a s h e held the
b o y g e n tl y by t h e
a r m . "What i s y o u r
name?"
"Star of My Eyes."
"That ca n 't b e
your name." child to his mother. But he
"It is. My Ma always calls could not find a way out. He
me, Star of My Eyes." decided, then, to take the boy
"Every mother does that to the Raja. · He would know
when she fondles her baby." what needed to be done.
"My Ma is special. She is The guard soon reached
very beautiful. No woman is the royal palace. He sent in
as beautiful as her." word saying that he wanted
"What is her name?' to meet the Raja o n a n
"Ma." urgent business.
"Where do you live?" The Raja came out. The
"With my Ma." guard bowed. Then he stood
The g uard scratched his up, . waiting for the royal nod
head. It was very confusing. to speak.
He had no clue about the "What brings you here?"
boy's identity. How then could the Raja asked.
he lead t h e boy to h i s The g u a rd gave t h e
mother? N o l" d id he k n ow deta i l s . The Raja came
where she lived. How could he forward, lifted the boy in his
t h e n take t h e boy to h i s arms and asked , "Tell me,
. mother? The guard was at his what's your name?"
wits end. He thought out ways "Star of My Eyes," said the
and means to restore the boy, repeating what he had
Rashtra Deepilw Children s Digest April 1006
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...
�
.
. .
. message to every
part of the city.
Some time later,
a very c harming
woman a rrived at
t h e royal palace.
She was led to the
presence of t h e
Raja. H e made her
wail Then he went
behind a c u rta i n .
The boy was sitting
on a chair. He was
told the guard. looking out through a small
The Raja asked the boy hole in the curtain.
w h e re he l ived , w h o h i s "Is that your mother?'" the
m oth e r w a s . The boy Raja asked.
answered read i l y. But the ·she is not as beautiful as
answers did not provide any m y mother; the boy said.
hint as to where his mother The Raja sent the woman
cou l d be found . The Raja back. --rhe boy says you are
then asked the guard to leave not his mother; he said.
the boy with him. The guard A dozen women came.
bowed and walked off. Each one was attractive. One
The Raja sent for a palace had lovely curly hair, another
official. was fair and beautiful, a third
"Send the drum beaters all had velvety smooth skin, while
round the town. Tell them to yet another was tall and lithe.
announce that we have found Yet the boy always said, •she
a th ree-year-old boy. The is not as beautiful as my
mother may come to t h e m other.•
palace. I f the boy recognizes Dusk was falling fast Still
her as his mother, he goes there was no sign of ttie boy's
with her." mother. Finally a woman in
T h e d r u m m e rs went rags walked in. She was far
ro u n d , taking the Raj a's from beautiful. Her face was
Rashtra Deepilca Childre.n :S Digest April 2006
·e u i z - Prof. N. G.J.
1 . I slept and dreamt that life was joy,
I awoke and saw that life was service
I acted and behold, service was joy. "
Who was the poet who wrote these immortal lines?
2. What is a group of owls called ?
3. Who commanded the Allied forces during the World War II
Normandy campaign in 1 944?
4. In Greek mythology, who taught medicine to Achilles,
Heracles and Jason? _.
5. Where is the Jurong Bird Park, an aviary of more than 600
species ofbirds?
6. What is the theme ofthe book, "The Gulag Archipelago" by
the N<lbel Laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn?
rough and creased. She had · mother ! She has come to

a scar on her forehead. Her take me."
front teeth were like those of The Raja let the boy rush
a buck. She waddled like a into the outstretched arms of
duck. his mother. She hugged him
"She can't be the boy's t i ght. Her eyes f i l led w ith
mother," the Raja thought, tears. She mumbled again
while he went back to check and again, "How happy am I!
with the boy. Then he bumped
into the boy, running at break
neck speed.
The Raja held him and The name 'devil' comes
from the Greek word
asked him, "Why are you in diabolos, meaning 'slan
such a hurry?" derer'; Thj&. is wher€ the-
The boy struggJ� to free , word 'diabolical' comes
Q_imself. t!le 'ke.pt repeating,
" My m_�ttl�r. My beautifu l
porn.. ) - • t L

7
7. What is the National Emblem of the Ivory Coast?
8. Where is the terminal station ofNational Highway NH I ,
which starts from New Delhi?
9. What was the purpose ofMahatma Gandhi's last "fast unto
death" which started on January 1 3, 1 948?
1 0. Where is the headquarters of' Doctors Without Borders"
the international organization which was awarded the Nobel
Prize for Peace in 1 999?
1 1 . What method is used by bats
to fly through the night and to
locate obstacles?
1 2. What is the largest organ of the ,
human body?
1 3 . The p i cture shows the
endangered species, the Olive
Ridley Turtle at Rushikulya
beach. Where is Rushikulya
beach?
Star of my Eyes, how much I glad the boy found the one
worried about you! You are woman who matters to him. In
my life. You are all that I his eyes, she -� s the o nly
. have." She kissed him on the beautiful woman in the world.
head, o n the cheeks, the I now know one truth. Where
eyes and the hands. love is, there beauty is. No
"Is this your mother?" the love can match the love a
Raja asked the boy. mother shows her children,
"Yes. She i s very No wonder your child thinks
beautiful. No woman is as you are the best in the world
beautiful as her." in beauty, love, grace . . . "
"You said it. I should have "Maharaj, I am indeed his
looked at this woman through world. And he, mine," said the
.
your eyes. Then I would have woman, as she thanked the
seen· how beautiful she is." Raja. a.nd walked away,
The Raja then turned to holding the child by ' the arm.
the woman and said, "I am
. .
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.
T h e Tastee B i s c u i t Company has ,
advertised a promotional off er - a ·
surprise gift inside each of their cream
b i s c u i t packets. On t h e day the .
advertisement is released, five children
from the same colony - Vivek, Siddharth,
Tina, Priya, and Oiitra - visit the nearby shop
at different times. Each buys a packet of cream
biscuits, in his or her favourite flavour. One of
them likes pineapple cream biscuits.
D
Each of them finds a different item inside the biscuit packet
as surprise gift. One gets an eraser.
Using the clues given below, find out the order in which the
children visited the shop, the flavour each one bought, and the
gift each received.
1. The buyer of chocolate cream biscuits was the third to visit
the shop. Her gift was not a sharpener or a whistle. She is
not Oiitra.
2. Vivek's predecessor was a boy. He was not fifth in the l ine.
3. Chocolate and mango are not Priya's favourite flavours.
4. Priya's and Oiitra's gifts were neither the sharpener nor the
whistle. Siddharth didn't get the whistle.
5. The preferred flavour of the child who came fourth is mango.
She did not receive the ring as a gift.
6. The one who received the pencil as gift loves strawberry
cream.
7. Vivek hates orange cream biscuits.
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Philately
- Prof. George John Nidliiry
Salvador Dali for its Easter

stamps.
Salvador Dali was born in
S pain at Figueras in 1 904
and died in 1 989. He was one
of the principal figures of the
S urrealist movement. During
his early days, .Freud's study
of Abnormal Psychology and
Dream Sym bolisrn and his
Theory of the S ubconscious
influenced his paintings.
Later he switched to paintings
of a more academic style.
G uyana's Easter stamps
depict Dali ' s two fam o u s
paintings: "The Sacrament of
the Last S upper" and the
D ur i n g Easter season, "Christ of S t. John of the
many countries issue postal Cross."
stamps to commemorate the
Passion, Death and Himalayan Peaks
Resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Himalayas constitute
The Postal Departments use an important part of the
thi s o ccasion to hono u r Asian land mass. In "Kumara
renowned artists, by selecting Sambhavam" Kalidasa writes:
their paintings as the theme "In the North is situated in its
of these stamps. For the divinity the king of mountains
Easter of 1 968 and 1 969, #}e named Himalaya, ,which, by
S o uth American co untry' entering "into the wafers, into
Guyana, selected two very the East as well as 'the West,
beautifu l p�intings <?f stands 0ke" .. the pivot of� the
.. ,
84 R!ZShtra Deepika ,Children s DigifS!·AJ1ril ��6
Nepal
Nepal is an
i ndependent kingdom
lying along the southern
slopes of the Himalayas.
I t i s the o nly off icial
Hindu kingdom in the
world. This country is
blessed �ith a variety of
beautiful wild animals
earth." The four great rivers and plants. The forested area
of the subco n t i nent - the of Tarai is the abode of tigers,
Ganges, Brahmaputra, Sutlej leopards, elephants, buffalo
and Indus - have their source and deer.
in these mountains. Its divinity In 1 960, measures were
lies in the Hindu belief that it taken to protect the
is the abode of Lord Siva and endangered I n dian
his consort Parvathy. rhi noceros. For the
Himalaya is the ki ng of protectio n of e ndan gered
mountai ns because of the species, S ir Peter M S cott
presence of the peaks Mount ( 1 909 - 8 9 ) started a n
Everest , K2 (Mt. Godwin organization , which was
Austi n ) , Kanche nju n ga , later named as the World
Nanda Devi, etc. which are Wide Fund for N ature
among the principal peaks of (WW F ). Many cou n tries
the world. I n 1 98 8 , the · i s sue stamps to h o nour
Department of Posts issued WWF and to collect funds for
four stamps o n Himalayan W W F through the sale of
peaks. stamps.
Rashtra Deepik.a Children s Digest April :1006 85

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But when Mandoo

g,t:s r,ady ta paint
Ka/ca, he makls a
dfscov,ry, • •
After finishing
the painting. . .
Congratulations,
l<aka, you look
really good in
my painting!
Just wait
u ntll yc,u can
see ft!
..,. Here
t:, A t last, all the
�- portraits ore
� done, and it is
the great day
when the
:::: animals will
"' see them!
�
First to be
unveiled is Hippy's
Ok, now I am going portrait•..
� to unveil the Ho, ho,
� portraits. Get ready ho! You
� to feast your What! look lovely,
eyes on v,sions of Is this Hippy!
� great beauty! supposed
Q to be my
portrait?
�
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t,
OQ'
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atures to enha
your good looks!
Not one ofhis Sandhu, I wanted to make you look

friends is happy! extra smart and brave. That's why
I drew
This is the you with
first time I'm tiger
seeing a stripes
snub-nosed and a
elephant! sword!
Mandoo's I hope
co really a you like
..., genius! Ha ha! it!
A m u s i n g and trivial his girl friend, across a lake.
incidents, when they happen It was a bright summer day
to creative perso n s , often when Evinrude and his
lead to i nventi o n s. The sweetheart, Bessie, decided
invention of the motor-driven
boat is one such example. It
was the brainchild of a young
man of Wisconsin, USA who
invented it back in 1 907. His
name was Ole Evinrude. By
profession Evinrude was a Which two
mechanic and a good one at scenes are
that_ . Afld he made ttie exacily �)ke?
inventionjost so that he coald
bring a cup of ice-cream to - - - . - - - -. .
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to go on a picnic. They chose
a quiet, lovely island in a big Did
lake nearby, packed a lunch, You Know?
got into a row boat and went Submarines are also
to the island. called U-boats, which is
They had a nice l un ch . _ short for Unterseeboot,
When i t was over Bessie the German word for
wanted an ice-cream. But the undersea boat.
isl a nd had no restaurants,
s na c k b a rs or ice-cre a m i n to s l u rry by t h e t i m e it
par1ours. It was a lonely, silent reached Bessie.
piece of land far away from Evinrude, depressed over
civilization. his love's labour lost, thought
But Evinrude,· who was how it would be possible to
deeply in love would have s peed up row i n g . A
done anything to please the resou rcefu l mech a n i c , he
g i rl of h i s d reams. So he attached a motor to the back
jumped into the boat, rowed of the boat. The motor boat
to the mainland, got the ice was a grand success. H e
cream and rowed back to the married Bessie. They called
island with it. t h e mech a n ized boat,
But the trip across the lake ' Ev i n rude ' , a n d started a
was too long on that warm b u s i n ess of m a k i n g a n d
summer day for the ice-cream
to keep fresh and it melted
selling motor boats.
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.· Crossword
- K. S. Geethavani, Coimbatore
2 . U nder o ne's --

1 . A musical sound or tone (4) U n der the co n trol of
3. Remain, don't go (4) someone (5)
7. Chemical element - Symbol 4. Prefix meaning 'three' (3)
: Pu ; Atomic number : 94 5. An edible root (3)
(9) 6. One who travel s for
8. Maze (9) pleasure (7)
1 1 . Highly valued, cherished
9. A direction (5)
(9)
1 3. Microscopic organism that 1 0. Conceals, keeps from
causes illness (4) view (5)
1 4. Hence, therefore (4) 1 1 . Pull with force (3)
1 2. Hearing organ (3)
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1 . Kathmandu is here (5) (Seepage 97)
·The adventures of
Robin Hood - 6
H earing his comrade's We shall counter the Sheriff's
well-meant advice, Robin guile with our own. Each of
said, "Now, you're a wise lad you must assume some
to keep your eyes and ears disguise or the other - as
open, as behoves a clever friars, peasants, beggars and
outlaw. But if we stay away the like - but remember to
from the contest, people will carry your weapons, in case
say that Robin Hood and his you need them. As for myself,
men are cowards who did not I shall compete. If I win the
dare face the Sheriff of golden arrow, we shall hang
Nottingham! Can we allow that it on the branch of this very
to happen? No, my good tree, where all of us can see
David - I must compete, and it. What do you say, my merry
win the prize, too!" men?"
He paused to look at his A hearty cheer went up, as
band, and continued, " But all the outlaws eagerly
don't worry; I know what to do. endorsed their leader's plan.
N ottingham Town
presented a grand
spectacle on the day
of the shooting contest.
Benches, meant for the
rich and titled
spectators, were laid
out all a round the
green meadow that
, was to be the
venue of the
competition. At the
,... end of the range,
near the target ,
was a raised seat
91
arrows for probable defects
that might rob them of the
great prize.
All the benches had
been filled with guests
when the Sheriff and his
wife, riding their gaily
deco rated ho rses
• .. and splendidly
� dressed in velvet
---..... robes and gold
o rnaments
arrived. They
. presented an
bedecked with ribbons and ' imposing spectacle as
garlands, for the Sheriff and they rode along side by side
his wife. The range was fo rty and dismo unted by their
paces wide. At one end stood allotted seats, where armed
the target, and at the other, a guards were waiting for them.
canvas tent with casks of ale The spectators raised a
- refreshment for the archers. rousing cheer fo r them.
Long before the contest After the Sheriff and his
commenced, the benches wife had taken their seats, a
were being occupied by herald stepped out and blew
wealthy people;. who w�re three resounding blasts on his
arriving in carts o r on silver horn. This was the
horseback. Poorer spectators signal for the archers to take
sat on the grass. A railing had up positions, to the
been put up to keep them off accompaniment of loud
the range. cheering from the public.
I n the great tent, the The herald then
archers - all the very best in announced the rules of the
England - were gathering by game - "Each archer has to
twos and threes. Some were shoot from yonder mark,
boasting their earlier which is -a hundred and fifty
triumphs; others were yards from the target. Each
checking their bows and may first shoot one arrow.
92 Rashtra Deepika Children's Digest April 1006
After the first round, the ten archers, famous t h roughout
men who shot the best will be Nottinghamshire. These were
chosen for the next rou n d . Gilbert o' the Red Cap, Ada m
Here, each o f the ten m a y o' the Del l , D iccon
shoot two arrows. The three Cruikshank, William o' Leslie,
best archers of the ten will go Hubert o' Cloud, and Swithin
on to the final round, where o' Hertford. Two others were
they shall shoot three arrows Yorkshire men, another was a
each, to determine the one t a l l stra n g e r i n b l u e , who
who will win the golden arrow." claimed to be from London,
Then the Sheriff leaned and the last was a ragged
forward, looking keenly among stranger in scarlet, who wore
the a rchers to find whether a patch over one eye.
Robin Hood was among them. "Do you see Robin Hood
But he saw no one in Lincoln among those te n ? "
green, as was worn by Robin demanded the Sheriff o f a
and his band. guard who stood by him.
" Bu t he may be th e re " N o , Yo ur Wors h i p , "
nevertheless, unseen by me a n swered the man.
in the crowd , "
mused the Sheriff. "I
shall watch out for
h i m i n the second
rou n d , fo r, he w i l l
definitely b e among
the ten semi-finalists,
if I know anything at
all about him!"
The contest
beg a n . N ever had t h e
people of Notti n g h a m
witnessed such a fi n e
display of archery a s they
saw that day. At length, the
competition was narrowed
down to just ten men - of
w h o m six were renowned
"Six of them, of course, I know a rogue, and dares not show
by sight. Of those Yorkshire his face among good men."
men, one is too tall, and the After a brief interval for the
other, too short to be Robin archers to rest, the semi-final
Hood. The London fellow is round began. The ten
much thinner than Robin. As contestants stepped forward
for that tattered beggar, he's to shoot again. There was
blind of one eye and has a pin-drop silence as each man
brown beard, whereas shot his two arrows. But when
Robin's beard is as yellow as the last had shot his arrow, the
gold!" waiting crowd exploded in a
" H mph! " snorted the great frenzy of cheering,
Sheriff angrily. "Then the throwing their hats into the air
outlaw is a coward as well as - for, they were overwhelmed
with joy at such marvellous
shooting.
Now only three men -
/
the cream of the
. archers - were left in
the contest. They
were Gill o' the
Red Cap, Adam o'
the Dell, and the
unknown archer in
ragged scarlet.
N ow, the
spectators started
cheering on their
.. ...... favourite archers -
··· some rooting for
Gilbert o' the Red
. Cap, others for
Adam o' the Dell. But
curiously, not a single
man in the crowd raised a
cheer for the stranger in
scarlet. (To continue)
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,t\nswers and sun.
Page 88
QUICKQUIZ Numbers 4 and 5.
Page 1 0 SLYLOCK FOX
Lewis Carro l l . C arro l l de These daisy stems still have
scribed the cat in "Alice in Won their roots attached. A florist
derland'.'. would have clipped the stems
Page 12 above the roots. Reeky yanked
Wolves. them out of Mrs. Rabbit's
Page 14 garden soil.
Herman Melville
Page 1 7 RIDDLES
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. "The Charcoal
Rime of the Ancient Mariner".
QUIZ OF THE MONTH
Page 20
Murders in the Rue Morgue. 1 . Rabindranath Tagore
Poe's short story. 2. A Parliament
Page 25 3. General Dwight D.
Pig. Eisenhower
Page 26 4. Chiron
Merchant of Venice. 5. Singapore
Page 29 6. The Stalinist terror in the
J o nathan Sw ift. ' G u l l i ver's USSR.
Travels' 7. The elephant
Page 30 8. Pakistan border near
Moliere. Amritsar.
Page 33 9. Hindu - Muslim unity
Cervantes. "Don Quixote". 1 0 . Brussels, Belgium
Page 35 1 1 . Echolocation
David Copperfield. 1 2. Skin
1 3. Gokharkuda village,
TRUE OR FALSE Ganjam district, Orissa.
1 ) True. 2) False. The rhino
horn is tightly matted hair, a form lAcross:CROSSWORD
1 . Note 3. Stay 7.
of keratin like human hair and
fingernails. Plutonium 8. Labyrinth 1 1 .
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Rashtra Deepika Children s Digest April 10fM 97

A Leafout of Literature
The Little Lame Pri nce

The infant son of the King and the chape l , causing h i m to
Queen of Nomansland, born to become lame for life (although
them after a ten year wait, is the this is known only much later).
most beautiful prince anyone has Then, soon after his christening,
ever seen. Everyone is happy at his gentle, sweet-natured mother
his birth - everyone, that is, dies. An uninvited guest to the
except the King's brother, the christening is an old woman -
Crown Prince, who would have his fairy godmother.
been king one day if the baby had More misfortune is in store
not been born. for the prince as time passes.
The infant prince's christening His father dies, and his scheming
is to be a grand affair, where 24 uncle - the Regent - usurps the
godfathers and godmothers, throne and has him secretly
specially chosen for their ranks taken away to a lonely tower on
and status, will each give him a a barren plain.
name. But two unforeseen With only a female convict as
tragedies befall the baby on his his nanny, the little lame prince
christening day. First, a careless grows to boyhood i n utter
nurse drops him on the way to loneli ness, until his fairy
godmother gives him a magic
cloak w h i ch he uses for
travelling on the sly - to see
the world , and the kingdom
which should be his. But will
the cloak help him become
king? More importantly, does
he want to become king?
To know, read The Little
Lame Prince by Dinah Maria
M u lock. I t i s a deeply
touching children's classic
that was originally published
in 1 874.
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