Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1929, Page 123

R ————— | S S T RPES SRR H H : i S RN N i 7 8 Bt e R e i B 2 .E‘) 4 ! & ¥ STORIES SPORTS & GAMES - WASHINGT - 20 ~ty 1929, ON, D. C. SEPTEMBER %e BOYS and GIRLS PAGE - PUEELED If you have studied geometry you will recog- nize this as an equilateral triangle, which means that all its angles and all its sides are equal. THE TRIANGLE. The definitions are: 'HORIZONTAL. . The spike of Indian corn. A species of deer, Cultivates land. Part of the verb “to be.” Once over (abr.). . Chopping tool. . The point of anything. A three-sided figure. VERTICAL. . A small body of water. . A peninsula in the Black Sea. To be the property of. . An automobile for rent. Top earth. . In the year of the reign (abr.). Exist. Roweman - —O DML N - = T We are using one-third of the triangle, or one angle, as the basis for a word diamond—an easy one. The second line is a number, and the fourth is a fairy. Ferm the diamond. A N ANGLE L E —g Each of the words below is a kind of eat, with the letters jumbled up. You ought t0 know enough about these pets to guess this without trouble, 1. BATBY. 2. SELMATE. 3. RANAGO. 4. PRANISE. J — . With the start we have given you om the word square below, you should be able to form it in record time. As an additional hint, we will tell you that the third word is the way a horse sometimes travels. ACTS —5— Cut out this whole puzzle and paste it %o a cardboard background. Then cut out the indi- vidual pleces. The object of the pussle is to arrange them so that they form an equilateral triangle, like the figure inclosing the cross-word puzzle. ANSWERS. 1. Cross-word puzsle solution. L Y[R [AINIG]L €] 2. The diamond is A, one, angle, elf, E. 3. The cats are tabby, Maltese, Angora and Persian, 4. The words in the square are acts, care, trot and sets. PP i o FTER an unusually dry season 75 years ago the various lakes of Switzerland fell to a very low level, lower than they had ever been, and so there were exposed for the first time many thousands of posts that had been stuck upright into the lake bottcms many years ago, long before any man could remember. The sight of these many posts, over 50,000 in one lake, led scientists to examine them and the mud at the bottom of the waters, and they discovered hundreds of bronze and stone imple- ments, pots, spears, arrowheads, household appliances, and even the rerfiains of clothes and baskets and nets made of crude ropes and twisted reeds. Much study on the part of scientists disclosed that these objects had sunk into the waters and the mud of the lakes many thousands of years ago in what is known as the Late Stone Age. And they had been made and used by the same people who drove down those thousands of posts, the supports of their homes built ever the surface of the water. The homes of these mysterious people have disappeared many cen- turies ago, as have the people who built them, but the log foundations, covered with water ever since those long-forgotten times, were per- fectly preserved. . We know very little about these people, whence they came and how they disappeared, Making Des L2 OU can obtain good sized blotters in dif- ferent colors at your stationer for usually 5 cents each. Four or five of these blotters will make an ideal pad for your desk or writing table, yet one, if placed by itself, is usually too thin. In time the corners tend to turn up, making it unsatisfactory in a general way. However, simply by making metal corners for each of the four corners of these blotters you can build up a pad of four or five blotters at one time. The metal corners will hold them securely in place and enhance the appearance RIDDLES 1. How does the Empress of Siam take her pills? 2. Which moves more rapidly, heat or cold? 3. Why is a bald man like a hunting dog? 4 Why is Philadelphia more subject to earth- quakes than any other city? 5. What is the difference between a hill and a pill? ANSWERS. 1. In cider (inside her). 2. Heat, because you can catch cold. 3. Because he makes a lttle hare go a long way. 4. Because it is the Quaker City. 5. One is hard to get up, the other hard to get down. Right Either Way Employer—Really, Tompkins, your figures are disgraceful. Just look at that three; any one would take it for a five. - Clerk—It is a five, sir. Employer—Well, I should have sworn it was A three. p 3 2 f AE by A L) =3 but frem an examination of what they have left behind we know at least a few things regarding them and the times in which they lived. Since they built their homes over the water, we know that dangers surrounded them and that they were intelligent enough to know that homes out over the lakes were safe from attack. They were an industrious people, too, for they made bows and arrows, bone fishhooks, spears and knives, which teaches us also that they knew how to secure food. The large pots, pans and the remains of fires, flints and even cooked meats and cakes tell us that they were skilled in pottery, that they knew how to cook their ' food, and the remains of seeds and agricultural implements inform us that they were skilled in agriculture. R seems, therefore, that these lake dwellers lived a life of peace and prosperity. Their k Blotter Pad of your desk materially. Obtain a strip of copper of good weight two inches wide and four inches long. Make two bends in each piece and bring the edges close together on the other side. The space within these corners should be thick enough to admit three or four blotters at one time. You can go even farther and stamp pretty ornamental monograms upon the solid side by means of a blunt nail or nail set. A set of four of these will, when wrapped in tissue paper in a nice gift box, make an ideal present at Christmas time. Sin ging Insects, Singing i'Sects are the favorite pets of the boys and gitls of Japan. They buy new ones every Summer to enliven their homes with quaint little chirps. No canary bird is more loved and looked after, or more highly prised for its song, than one of these tiny insects, During the long Summer months the singing insects are offered for sale in all the small shops and department stores. They are even bought and sold in the public markets. In Tokio there are many merchants whose whole business is the selling of these household pets. The inects are kept in tiny cages. Boys and girls like to make their own little “insect homes™ to suit their fancy. The cages are made of copper wire or small twigs of bamboo. They are of many different shapes. Some are like houseboats, some are like dainty lanterns, and some are just small houses of bamboo twigs, In the residence districts of Japan, on a Summer evening, there is a regular chorus of these singing insects, their thin little songé pouring from every house along the street, Banking Facts Fog Boys and Girls By John Y. Beaty, Editor, The Bankers’ Monthly. ESIDES bonds, stocks and mortgages there is one other kind of security for loans and this is known as chattel security. If you bore row money to buy an automabile you could clvq‘l‘_, a mortgage on the automobile. In other words, you can arrange it so that in case you do not pay your note to the bank the bank can take the automobile in payment. In the same way you might give a chattel mortgage on cattle or other live stock or on the furniture in yowr house, or in fact on anything valuable, with the exception of real estate. When you give 8 mortgage on real estate that is known as a real estate mortgage. A chattel mortgage has somewhat the same a5 the real estate meortgage, but characteristics lsususflynoteomideredquitenul:uhh i X g 3 i 31 i Esk : 3 s g : : s § as well as on real estate mortgages or on steeks or bonds. Mounting Pictures bled fortheir first Fall meeting. “Oh, how simply perfect,” was about all they were able to gasp as Miss Brown held up for their inspection a fair-sised picture in a frame, The title of the picture was “Water Baby.” I§ was an enlarged snapshot of a lovely and happy youngster in a bathing suit playing at the edgewii of foamy breakers on the beach, and the backe ground of the mount was entirely surrounded with gorgeously colored seaweed. “Now for my simple trade secret,” said the proud teacher. “One lovely morning I caught that perfect snap of the adorable youngster. Later I strolled along the beach and collected & bunch of all the most gorgeous colored sea- weed. I pressed small pieces of #t between blotting paper in a heavy book. The result was Just like pressed flowers or leaves. I had the snapshot enlarged. I then bought a photo frazse, N aaS— TRt N { ’ 7 O A Ty a2 quibeneheupm.tookwttheelrdboul. pasted the snapshot in the middle, and then pasted the seaweed all around in the fashion you see. Another time I will tell you how to make a frame youzselves. “For the benefit of those who were not for- tunate enough to spend their vacations by the briny, pressed leaves and flowers are almost equally effective for decorating yeur Summer snapshots,” added the teacher. SHEILA McIVOR. . < o