Evening Star Newspaper, March 4, 1928, Page 89

STORIES SPORTS “Eduflcati#n_g Patricia” EL1A M. MILLER. Patricia Hollingshead is secretary of her slase at Mise Ntanhope's school at Hovins- ou-the-Hudson . her roommate. Louse Davis I8 vice president of the Republic, governing body. - Pa members of a Niners,_ all of whom have been invited to wvend Thankscivine with El S aoe of the group. R Yinded a fot ball came ehaperoned. throush the mischievousness one of her friends from home, was covered by, Misy Overwood. the 1. teacher. and now faces trial for her m.e- demeanor _befor2 the supreme court of the =hool. She 1e in doubt as 1o whether she he allowed to attend the house Darty. The trial is sl for the Jav on which they sre 10 leave. nse T the schoal ht fr a and o s uh’ dubbed the Niftv CHAPTER XVIL Patricia on Trial. There waf that tense excitement in air which always precedes a boarding school holiday. ~ Every onc was full of anticipation for her own special plans Patricia’s friends had all gathered in her room the evening before to talk over the house party. Louise promising to exert all her influence as vice pres dent toward mitigating the punishme to be meted out to Patricia. The day seemed to drag intermin- ably. _ Patricia hoped that the per- fect transiation of Cicoro's affairs foir WHENEVER THERE WAS A ¥V .=—AT THE COUNTRY CLUB. SIONAL HOUSES. the day would aid her cause in the | eyes of Miss Overwood, who commended her for her recitation, ‘When 3 o'clock. the hour set for the | triz], finally arrived Patricia summoned | an air of bravado, washed her face and | took herself to the room designated for | gourt proccedings. Louise was with her. | r.\my to bolster her courage, partly to end her presence as vice president of the Republic. Miss Graves, or “Horsey,” as she had | nicknamed by Mary Harris, occu- | led the chzir of chief justice, looking | out inguiringly over her spectacle< at the arrival of each of the 12 judg who appeared with a conspicuous al gence of the dignity usually ascribed | persons of such station. There was | noticeable giggling among the judges in place of that desirable sobriety of | mien. there were many whispered ! remarks in the.course, of which the word Thanksgiving might be frequently distinguished. The judges, as a whole, | seemed preoccupled with other business | and were apparently eager to put the trial quickly into the limbo of event: t. p‘ltoulu squeezed Patricia’s hand re- ly and Patricia glanced hope- ! - fully from the face of one judge o another. The aspect of the tribunal was not one of severity, but rather of leniency and the desire for a hasty procedure. In fact, the judges were | fidgety during the presentation of the facts of the case by Miss Overwood, as prosecutor. Their attention scemed not wholly on the matter in hand. At the close of Miss Overwood's speech Patricia was called for question “You-a are accused u!»n‘ having left our-a school without a chaperone. ‘What might you have t0-a say W this-a accusation?” { Anything that Miss Grzves had w say was always sccomplished with the maximum of effort, Mary Harris had AT THE UNIVERSITY, AT OCCA. GAMES ing settled herself comfortably in her | chair and smoothed her skirts carefully, | destroyed the neatness of the effect by | immediately rising again, { . The-a-court has decided, ahem, that-a in view of the-a fact the accused did not-a deliberately arrange to leave-a the school without-a chaperon, she need not-a be expelled. Instead, she-a is to remain on the-a grounds until the-a Christmas holidays, with the-a exception of the-a Thanksigiving hol- {1iday, and-a she must forfeit her-a place {as-a forward of her-a basket ball tcam. | The-a court is dismissed.” ! Patricia looked blankly at Louise. {“Did you hear that? I can't play on the team { "It is just the limit, but cheer up, ou can at least go to the house party. | You may as well be a stoic and make the Ibost of it. Besides, something may turn up later. Keep up your practice | to the top notch and if you are one of |our bost subs there is always a slim | chance of your getting into one of the ! match games. Some one may break a log." “Yes, I suppose so0." Patricia replied | that | in disconsolate tones. “Darn Anne, anyway!™ ACANT MOMENT THEY DANCED THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., MARCH 4, 1928—PART i 64e BOYS and GIRLS PAGE INSTALLMENT L 1 If you don't like this story blame it on Miss Meloy. and not on me. Maybe I'd better tell you that Miss Meloy teaches me Engl! in high school and that it's all because of ‘her that I'm writing this account of my adventures. ‘You see, Miss Meloy is always having | us write themes for her. and in one I told about what happened the Summer I spent with on his island. She called me up to her desk the day after I i “Well, come on. Let's go and get our things packed and tell Sliz that you | are going. She will be delighted. N-‘ get about the basket ball until after| ‘Thanksgiving, anyway.” Already there was a motley assort-| ment of suit cases piled in the down- | stairs hall awaiting the station wagon, which was always pressed into service for such occasions. Those who could cqueeze in with the plles of baggage turned in the story. “Paul,” “is this a truet " she story? Did it really happen to you?" 1 told her that it did. “Then you ought to write up the whole thing. I think it would make a | very fine story.” Well, T liked the compliment all| right, but writing the whole story | struck me as a lot of work, so I told her that T didn't think I'd better. She insisted, though, and what could T do? uzually tried to do so, enjoying the ele- ment of suspense involved in the at-| tempt to proceed to the station with | the lumbering wagon still intact. Its| ancient creakings, like the premonitory ! grumblings of a volcano, afforded a| thrilling air of imminent disaster. i Thoughts of basket ball were mo-| mentarily banished from Patricia's | mind in the laughing scramble for.| places in the wagon, and when the group of nine girls found themselves | ensconced in a body, with the inevitable chaperon, there was a victorious cheer, accompanied by shouts of derision for those who were left to travel In the | little street car. | In fact, there was little opportunity to dwell on depressing thoughts during the entire holiday. The hilarious group was met at the station in Hart- ford by Elizabeth’s parents, who bun- dled them all into a car whose capacity | was taxed to ils utmost. | Mrs. Stanton was a round little per- She promised to help me with it, and I'd rather do a little extra work than take a chance on flunking English and not being ablc to play base ball this Spring. So that'’s how it was, and you ean | easily see that Miss Meloy i3 to blame’ Maybe I'd better go back a ways and tell you how it all started. I guess I've been interested in pirates all my life. I can remember Uncle Ed reading “Treasure Island” to me when 1 couldn't understand more than about half the words. After that I got hold of all the pirate stories I could lay my | hands on and simply ate them up. | If 1 had had a brother I think we'd have run away and become pirates our- selves when we were little, but the| only other child in our family is my sister Beth. Of course, Beth is a lot of fun, but she's a girl, and she’s almost two years younger than I am. 50 you can casily see that I couldn't run away and be a pirate with her. But we did have a lot of fun playing son, a humorous contrast to her tall, serfous husband who preserved a per-| manent air of bewilderment during the | cyclone which descended upon his| otherwise peaceful home. When he | safely on his doorstep and watched his | wife stow them efficiently away in th capacious reglons of the third floor, | he inguired vaguely how many others there were of them, having tried at o0dd moments to count them, without | success. She laughingly assured him once remarked that if some gne were!that there would be no further doubt ¥ shake her violently the words would | come 50 fast that she would die from | e shock, Mary, of course, was always | saying just such things | Patricia rose and cleared her throat.| Her words came decisively, in contras v the hesitancy of Miss Graves. I is true, Miss Graves, that we did go W the foot bull game unchaperoned, but 1 nad been wid that we were 1 be met by Mrs, Benson in New Haven and that sie was 10 be with us” ‘But-s I understand thst-u your nd had-e werned you that-a she var-8 er-a contemplating this-u move” “Yer, she did vell me that she wanted | ¥ 0 without a chaperon, but I never thought she would actually do it “Under the-a clireumstances, a-hem, €0 you not-s think that-a you should have been more-n sure of whst you-a were dowg { “Yes s 1 should and another “Lhere may e no other Lmet” said noth- g their faces showed nesrly Graves peverity. d the effect of fe and sane ed the fioor. “Miss Graver, £nd eourt” she com et that Ui ae midemeanor without premeditated eftort on ber own pert end through un- »ioiduble I recommend Lt her nunishmes as possible 1038 her on other oussions has compiied with e rules of thie school ! Afier Surther aeliin culpnt v Jenient ies, the tullowed form court Lot the room penee of Oveiviann, n, hey part in the tris) Lot wud Patrici s of i period, n w10 vl her mind riefest poss b fuct that they o0 offense ang her behavior | in his mind when the moment arrived for carving the turkey. It Elizabeth's father was somewhat overcome by the sudden enormous pro- ortions of his family, her mother was holly equal to the occasion. The mechanism of her household was im- pervious o such onslaughts as late breakfasts in bed for nine, other meals equally delayed because of outside ex- peditions which Involved more time than ever was allotted. She genially officiated st a Thanksgiving tea party which extended on Into un evening dance and supper at midnight, all quite mpromptu. The only incident which | ruftied her complete composure was a sear on her cherished Heppelwhite sece retary where some incautious young mele had Jeft & clgarette o burn itself out There was # drive o for of those delectable one oyster hot from the | oven, are placed in sizzing plates of meited butler before the guests. Nor wias there n guest who falled to de- vour tremenaous numbers. Those from inlend towns, o whom such 1 Utles which opened Mr. Btanton's eyes wider thsn ever Whenever ment they here was & vacant mo- gancedul the Country Club, at fhe university, at occasional bouses L never rewlly mattered if there was & redio or talking machine 1 e pressed oo service. Even Louise dunced. Her strong-minded persever- (ance 1o the schedule mapped out for the seashore ! | bons, sts were novelly consumed quan- | her by Patricis had indeed heiped her more than a little, Bhe rarely stepped on sn unsuspecting instep, W her own inward gratification 1 war wn dnteriude of blissfulness for e girls, however strenuous for fhe | eider Brantons, and Sunday urrved with sonoying puncluslity. Once more the gicls were bustled Into the cur and takien 1o the stution where Mr. Stanton cnittea un audible sigh of relief as the [rain pulled out und hits wite stood | waving hey handkerchlef 1o the group v were nov wedged onto the plat- furn: of the ohservution ear Haven't we had 8 rip-snorting exctuimed Mary HHarris tin ~our mother wid fathy wre perfect together when we were little, and Beth was awfully good at fixing up fancy costumes. Even after I got to be a freshman in high school I still was interested in bugcaneers and sea robbers, even |had deposited his daughter's friends| though I didn’t play I was one any ore. Uncle Ed knew about this, and sed to write me the most wonderful | letters from his island. all about the irates that used to be there, the burled reasure, and all that. How I loved to get those lett ! But maybe I'd better tell yon more about Uncle Ed and his island. It | really wasn’t his island at all, but| it did belong to a rich friend of his whom he met In college. You see, ‘Uncle Ed was a doctor, and at the time of the war something happened to his throat and lungs so he can't live in a northern climate any more, He had to go_away somewhere where it was warm. This friend of his, whose name is Harold Parsons, had a lot of money, and had bought a little island of his very own off the coast of Florida. B0 hs invited Uncle Ed to come there und live with him. The islund was deserted except for the Parsons and their servants, and, since Mrs, Par- rons wasn't very well, Harold thought It would be a good idea to have a doctor living with them. The whole | thing worked out beautifully, and it was mighty Jucky for Uncle Ed, Well, he went down there to lve with the Parsons a few months after he returned from France, and has been there ever since. 1 guess he'll never | leave now, except for short trips, he- cause he went and married Loutse Par- Harold's sister. She s awfully nlce, though, so it was all right with me Uncle Ed and T had always been good chums, and he wrote me the nleest letters, and kept saying thut he was going to have Beth and me down | to visit him some time, That seemed almost too good to he true, but 1 always dreamed about 1t happentng And then one day {uul hefore school closed last Bpring this Jetter came. | sull have 1t and I'll never throw it away 50 1 can tell you exactly what ! It said. “Dear Paul: “Right now Rocky Island 15 & busy lnce. Loulsc's young nephew, Willlam Drake, who s shout your age and lves fn New York, had a wevere wick spell last Winter and fs down here {‘m‘uvrnhl He's having & wonderful ine “I'm wondering 3t your_Dad _won't praches,” udded Peggy there was & chorus of assent, “And now what am 1 golng to do aboul this basket bl buniness?” sighed Patiicla. "1 hud forgotten about It for & time, hut here It 18 hanging uver me again,” {as school is out and THE PIRATE OF ROCKY ISLAND BY W. BOYCE MORGAN. Author of “Conquerors Club™ Stories, let you and Beth coine down as soon pend the Sum- We've been wanting you and it would be nice mer with us. for a long tim: for you to bz here while Bill is here | . 1 have written to your Dad about it, and told him to let me know at nce. “Here’s hoping you can come. Love to_you all— UNCLE ED." Well. maybe you think I thrilled by that letter! I couldn’t walt until T got to Dad to ask him about it, with Beth right on my heels. For a minute I was afrald Dad would re- fuse, but finally he sald: “Well, vou worked hard last Summer and I guess you have a vacation coming to you. think we can lst you go." . Th> last weeks of school were a total loss as far as Beth and I were concerned. Finally the great day came, and Dad put us on the train for the long ride to Fiorida. ‘The trip was uneventful until we had almost reached our destination. Then in the middle of the night the train was stopped and I woke up to find several detectives s~arching it - body was excited for a while, for we earned that there had been a big rob- bery in St. Augustine and they thought the robber was trying to escape to the West Indles. But they didn't find him on the traln, and after a while we went on again. | i : the next morning we reached press City, and Uncle Ed met us ai the train Ycu can imagine how htod our g gs were, and how the three of us chattered through breakfast I at once began asking about pirates, and Uncle Ed laughed., “I guess we had them a Jong time ). but you won't find any on our island now,” he said. *“However, there’s wasn't ;"cave on the fsland that 1 like to |speed and skimmed over the water, | belleve may have been used by buc- caneers once. I'll take you theres Speaking of pirates made Beth think of the incident of the preceding night, and we told Uncle Ed of the train being searched “Yes, 1 read about the robbery in papers.” he said. “It was & big About y thousand dollars rth of jewelry was taken. But if the robber tries to get a train either north or south they'll get him. I'm afraid he's in a bad predicament.” Breakfast finished, Uncle Ed led us toward the harbor. “The sea was calm today, o I came for you in ths speed boat,” he an- nounced. “That m-ans you're going o have a mighty tide over to Rocky Island “Will you let me run it?” I asked breathlessly. g if you're good." I couldn’t wait until we got down HOW TO MAKE TREASURE CHEST. cloth lined and cowred a treasure che Buch a box can be easily made. When lined and covered with cloth, with a staple and hasp and a padlock to keep the contents safe from prying hands, you will have a chest to be proud of. Get a packing box if potsible of the following dimensions: Length, 24 inches; depth, 16 inches; width, 20 inches, If the top boards are pulled apart, care- fully nafl them back i line with cleats | on the underside. Get two small bru:-n‘ hinges and fasten the top to the buck | edge, Attach the hasp to the drive the staple i place so thal the 1§ top snug es and | the staple project | with w rather hot fron ront edge and | g will be Inc hasp can be pushed over it to hold the this may be best THE ADVENTURES OF lid with hasp - faslener .‘a})le and ; PATOCK j i AT Every girl wants which she can keep her keey; treasures. It posstble have the points of lghtly through the woad 50 they can 12 clinched. e pad- lock to be used need not be large—in fact, one costing about 25 cents will be | adaquate, Line the fnside with colored cretonne pasted to the wood. for smaller articles which might become | misplaced the outstde you esn uss more | cloth, ghied n | Thin the glue out | w little with water and press © Another ¢ In fact, because of | 1ty easy appileation and brilllang effeets, After giving the box | PETER Pl @\ LAST/ AFTER TRAVELING, THESE MANV WEEKS, WE ARE ABOUT TO ENTER THIS STRANGE. AND WONDERFUL LAND OF JUST SPOSIM! SURELY NOTHRING CAN PREVENT US NOW. -5 WA T./ ooNiT BE TOO SURE., MY LITTLE FRIENDS - LISTEN TC WHAT KING SKARL 15 SAVING TO"BO-BLOW BLOW PETER. HIS MORTALS THE WIND GIANT ? The edges can be | tacked also to prevent its peeling off. | Sew u set of pockets tn the back wall | g March was named for Mars, the mythological god of wa*, and is sup- | posed to be the month of struggle be- | iween Winter and Summer for mastery. 1 In other word:, it is the war month, |and therefore this week we have a cross-word puzzle inside the helmet of Mars and containing a lot of war words. The Helmet. The d>finitions are: Horizontal. . Era. 5. Masculine pronoun. . An_untruth. . Remove. . Military contests. . A warlike beast. 14. A musical instrument used in | armies. | 16. An escape. | . A rude house. . A number. | . Upan. | | . Employ. . Thercfore. Vertical. . Belonging to. . Bone in the chest. . Member of ‘an ancient warlike . Belonging to him. . Boy's nickname. . Sword attached to a rifle. . To fall back. . The whole. . Type measures. God of war. A weapon. . Affirmative. 18. An exclamation. 20. Negative. £ In a battle there is a great difference “YOU CAN'T IMAGINE THE THRILL I GOT AS WE GLIDED OVER THE WATER." to the dock, where a beautiful, long. | low speed boat was pointed out to us as the Louise. We piled our baggage {into it, and then, with Beth and me :slllmimbeslde him, Uncle Ed pointed ' | the sharp bow of the speeder out of | the_harbor. |, “Why, it's just like driving a car,” I said to him as the boat picked up AN OLD HINDU TRICK- THE GROWING FLOWER WIRES TOUCH SIDES KEEPING | € FLOWER ERECT | CORK-POUR - IN WATER AND FLOWER RISES |leaving a great path of churned-up spray behind her. “Won't you let me | take it?" | “Go ahead,” agreed Uncle Ed. “Steer Just as I have been. Rocky Island lies right over there.” He pointed with his | hand. ! T climbed into the seat and took the ' ! steering wheel. He showed me how | to feed the &u. and it was really sim- | | pler than iving a car. You 'can't | imagine the thrill I got as we glided jover the water, going about 40 miles an_hour. | Beth took her turn at running the | boat, and it scemed only a few min- utes until Uncle Ed again took the wheel and pointed out a tiny island with a rocky coast that lay just ahead | The Hindus are notad for the many “Rocky Island! There it is at last!" 'marvelous tricks they perform. Here is | exclaimed Beth, and from a low dock |one that is very spectacular—and very that lay under the shelter of a spur easy to work. {of land we saw waving handkerchiefs | Take any jar which yon cannot see {reeting us. through. Now get a good-sized lump (To be continusd of cork and stick a straight piece of — wire in it. Put the two cross wires (s) in place so that the affair will not fall |over against the side of the jar and at- 3 | tach the flower in place. Put this con- | color to heighten the effect. The hasp |traption in the jar and fill with water l.Ind staple should also be lacquered to |slowly. | prevent rusting. | _The water makes the cork float and | = . the flower rises or “grows” out of the Riddles. | March Is supposed to be the month of battles between Winter and Summer, you know, so a battle between you and |some riddles is very timely. Here's | | hoping you don't take a licking from | these! 1. Who was the wickedest man men- ‘oned in.the Bible? 2. What has two backbones and mil- lions and millions of spare ribs? 3. If you throw a man from a win- dow, what does he fall against? | 4. Why are soldlers tired on the 1st of April 5. If eggs wer dozen, how man: and a quarter? | t Sunday.) | a thick coat of the lacquer paint on a suitable design in a preity, contrasting CHEE—Pronounce as spelled. This word means new, lately, recently, not long ago. CHEE CHACO is a newcom- er, a tenderfoot, & new arrival. CHEE NIKA OPITSAH is “New my knife is." CHEE MAMUKE OKEOKE means “make it new" (do it over). CHETWOOT—The CH ts pronounced as in Church, E as in Bet, OO as in ]C\Ei. with the accent on the first syl- able. Indian word for Brown Bear, as distine ished from the Black Bear or ITS- OOT. Both are name words with no other meanings. although common ex- pressions in Chinook are SKOOKUM KAHKWAH CHETWOOT, or “Strong selling for 52 cents a can you get for a cent Answers. Moses, because he broke all 10 commandments at once. 2. A raflroad track. 3. Against his wishes. 4. Bo- cause they had Just had & March of 31 | | days. 5. Half w dozen.. . Extrawd'nary. “Father, 1 eawn't eat this soup.” “Waiter, bring the young gentleman another dish of soup.” “Futher, T cawn't eat this soup.” “Walter, bring the young man some other soup.” 1 UL T cawn't eat this soup “Well, why, my son, cawn't you 10 KUM KAHKWAH ITSWOOT, or “\ lit- tle strong lke the black bear. COLE—~A corruption of the English | word Cold and having the same mean- ing. It is pronounced as written, The degree of cold 18 indicated by the words d With it Thus COLE alone merely s Quld as distinguished from Heat A Little Cold, HIYU “Father; T have no spoon.” ‘This 1s the Stawash, or Chincok | 1ike & brown bear,” and TENAS S00- | THE PUZZLE COLUMN between a gain and a loss. In this word chain the difference is five words, through which you must pass to get { from one word to the other. Remem- | ber_to change just one letter at a time. Change GAIN to LOSS in six moves. g | Here's a simple little word pyramid built on the word March. The second (line horizontally means also, while the | vertical words are, left to right, a word for close to, steal, and an abbreviation | for a business firm. March. —= CAN YOU GUESS THESE FOUR ISLANDS OR GROUPS OF ISLANDS? — In the following sentence the miss- ‘| ing words have similar sounds but dif- ferent meanings. “When the zero sald the captain, will attack.” . Answers. ‘The words in the cross Horizontal, 1, al 3, ..troops 21, on; 22, 7 23, so. Vertical, 1, of: 2, "nb’ 4, Goth': 5, his; 6, Ed; 8, bayo- it g ratvaats LOSS. 3. The horizontal word is too, ani the vertical words are at, rob and Co. 4. The islands are Canary, Sandwich, Cuba and Shetland. 5. Hour, our. | | COLE is Very Cold and DELATE HIYU | COLE is Very, Very Cold, or about as cold as you can get in Chinook. WAKE COLE is Not Very Cold and HALO COLE is No Cold. ICT COLE is One Cold, or one Winter season. ICT COLE \HNCUTTIE is One Year Ago (One Winter of the Time Passed). CHIN J Every boy and gir freckles look like, for most every child has a few of them at some time or other, and some children have many of them all of the time. But what are 1hose brown spots that appear on hands and neck and face and what makes them come? The skin contains small cells which are capable of producing yellow pig- ments under certain conditions. When these cells are stimulated they produce more of this pigment than usual and the coloring matter she¥s up as small |spots, the sort that Wesley Barry and 1A lot of other boys have with more or |less frequency. { In some people the pigments are always active enough to produce freckles, {but in most of us they appear only when the skin has been exposed to strong sunlight. This is the reason they appear usually on the neck. face and hands, since the other rts of the body are protected by clothing. Some people are much more lable than others to have this freckling. In some. too, it disappears quickly: in others it remains a long time. o3 How D'Ye Feel? “Corkin'” said the bottle. * said the postmaster said the plano. id the Knife said the trousers, “Juley.’ sald the orange Al done up.” satd the shirt. By Nick Nichols. THERE. IS KING GUFFAWS OBSERWATORY . | HOPE. HE SEES US AND HAS THE LANDING FIELD' | COMMAND YOL TO PEN AND INTO QLR HANDS /