Our Forest Tress

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Part of The Young Citizen: The Magazine for Young People

Title: Our Forest Tress
Year: 1935
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Fulltext: 72 THE YOUNG CITIZEN April 19:15 KIKO'S ADVENTURES-Egg-Planting What Do You Know About Nature? OUR FOREST TREES The Tmigile Thei-e are big forests in the mountains of our country. In these forests we find many kinds of trees. Some of them are tall and large; while others are very tall but slender. One of these large trees is the tangile tree. The trunk of this tree sometimes g1·ows so big that if you make a hole through it, you can drive a carriage drawn by horses right through that hole from one side to the other &ide of the Uee. Do you know the length of one meter? If your father stretches his arm, the distance from the tip of his fingers to his opposite shoulder is about one meter. The desk on which you do your writing in your school is about one meter long. The distance around the trunk of a large tangile tree ts about 18 meters. Imagine how large that tree is! Let us cut a tangile tree and see the inside of the wood. Let us first see the part near the outside of the wood. The color is light and whitish. This part of any wood is called the sapwood. The inside part of the wood, about one inch o·r more under the sapwood, is red in color. Sometimes i~ is brownish red. The inside part of a wood is called the heartwood. You can tell the place where a certain piece of tangile lumber comes from by looking at the heartwood. If this is light red, we may be sure that it was cut from the forests in Southern Mindanao. If the color of the heartwood is dark red or brownish red, that piece of tangile lumber must have been taken from Mindanao or from the forests in the Visayan Islands o·r in Luzon. Tangile is the most popular lumber used in building houses in the Philippines. Although it is not a very hard wood, it is strong. If it is (Please tw·n to pnge 77) by Gilmo Baldovino BUT qoMe DAY<;? LATCR., CHICKS' APR~A"R.C'D NOT £GGPLAN'TS. Learning To Use New Expressions (Drive, drive away, drive into) Junior likes to drive his little automobile in the back yard. He likes to see the chickens running away from him. With his car, he can drive away the chickens from the vegetable plots. Driving away pigs· and chickens from the garden was his work. He does it fast when he drives his car. With it he can also drive the ·chickens into the coops. He can drive the pigs into the pens and the dog into the kennel. Answer these questions in complete sentences. Repeat the words of the story. What does Junior like to do? What does he do when he sees pigs and chickens in the garden? · What does he do when it is time for pigs and u..,gs to rest? More questions to answer. Do not answer with "Yes" or "No" only. Can you drive a ca:rromata? Can your father drive a car? Do you have to drive away animals from the garden? Does your dog have a kennel? Do you have to drive him into it at night? Fill the blanks with drive, drive wway, or drive into. A blank stands for a whole expression. Juan has to - - - the pig - - - the pig pen every evening. His dog can - - - the pigs from the vegetable garden. The child can - - - his kiddy car. Juan can - - - a carromata but his mother would not let him. Juliana C. Pineda (See answers at page 77") April 19J5 At once he ran to the door towards the guards, slapping each one as he passed by. Each guard, thinking that the fellow near him did the mischief, lost no time in returning the blow. Thus started a free-for-all and the garden was in commotion while Felipe sped his way towards Menia's castle. Nobody saw him. He was invisible. He ran up the steps and was soon in Menia's 1·oom. On the table Jay the tiny box. He snatched it - and ran back to his room. Then he got the stone from his mouth and put it in his pocket. He was visible again. Then he went to the Count's room and gave him the box. The Count smiled and said. "I have been waiting for a long time and now you are here. I am very happy." "Cosco," he said addressing the queer-looking servant, "send for my daughter and tell all the THE YOUNG CITIZEN people to assemble in the gar .. den." When Menia came, the Count look her and Felipe to the garden. There he told his people that he was already old and could no longer carry on the work of a ruler. "Here is my successor," he added presenting Felipe. "He has proven himself to be brave, strong, honest, and trustworthy. Love him as you love me for he will make you happy." Then and there Felipe and Menia were married amidst the shouts of joy of all their subjects. Not long after that, the Count died and Felipe became the ruler of the city. However, he had not forgotten to send for his foster father and mother; and when they came, he gave them a house and furnished them with everything that they needed. What Do You Know About Nature? (Cont. from pffge 72) not always wet with w8.ter, kind of lumber. It is easy to tangile lumber lasts for a long work with ordinary tools, such time. But when this wood is as knife, saw, plane, and chisel. placed outdoors 01· is pnt on the It is easy to carve. Its grain ground it does not last long:. shows the figure of a ribbon Tangile is a kind of timber which we can see clearly when very often us1~d for making we divide the lumber. The holes tables, chairs, and other pieces or pores of the wood are quite of furniture. It is easily colored fine. Tangile is quite shiny with any kind of stain. Do you when made into boards. It is know what stain is? Stain is not heavy. the color ca1·penters put in a piece of wood. It is different from paint because paint covers the surface of the wood. Stain ·does not cover the surface at all. ·It simply sinks into the wood and gives it a natural color. For instance, if we want tangile chairs to look yellow, we put a yellow stain on the tangile. In the United States there is a kind of timber called mahogany. Tangile looks like mahogany. This is the reason that tangile is called Philippine mahogany. Tangile luml>er is usually large and long. You do not find many cracks and other defects in this The Philippines has exported to the United States much tangilc timber. Many American makers of furniture use it instead of mahogany. For this reason, in many places in the United States merchants are not allowed to call tangile by .the name of Philippine mahogany. Leaming To Use New Expressions (Continued froni page 72) (Answers) drive into drive away drive drive Awog (Continued from page 62) 77 Some old people today are fond of telling the strange story of the man who bravely tried to steal eggs from a back yard. 'When he started to run away with the eggs, he was surprised to find that he could not even reach the fence. Every time he would move a few steps forward, he found himself back to the place where he stole the eggs. Soon he became hungry. 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