Evening Star Newspaper, December 29, 1929, Page 91

W AQHI\'("TON D. 1929 C., T)TCT,MRFR 20 THE _ SUNDAY STAR, SY4e BOYS and GIRLS PAGE CRAFTS JOKES j PUZZLES ’ POSERS Each of the words in the column to the left is related in some way to a word in the column to th> right. If you are well informed, it will be easy for you to establish the connections. 1. Battalion Cooking 2. Keel Literature 3. Wing-cver Surgery 4. Preface - Warfare 5. Lesion Carp:ntry 6. Placer Aviation 7. Puck 5 Photography 8. Shutter Sailing w 9. Simmer Mining 10. Mortise Hockey ANSWERS. Battalion and warfare, keel and sailing, wing- over and aviation, preface and literature, lesion and surgery, placer and mining, puck and hockey, shutter and photography, simmer and cooking, mortise and carpentry. RIDDIES We'll hope that none of you are like the boy in the first of these riddles! 1. Why is a dirty boy like flannel? 2. What is the difference between a young maid of 16 and an old maid of 60? 3. What is most like a hen stealing? 4. If tough besfsteak could speak, what Eng- lish poet would it name? 5. Why can't fishermen be generous? ANSWERS. 1, Because he shrinks from washing. 2, One is happy and careless, the other cappy and hairless. 3, A cock robin. 4, Chaucer- (Chaw, sir). 5, Because their business makes them sell fish (selfish). Old Promise to Pay IN the museum of the University of Pennsyl- vania is a rather curious object, a small clay brick, hard as the hardest stone, and con- tainifig some curious inscriptions carved into its hard surface. The writing is in the lan- guage of ancient Babylon and was done with a stick on soft clay. The tablet was then heated and baked so as to harden and preserve the letters, for the ancient Babylonians had no paper such as we have today. But this tablet with the quaint inscription is over 2,300 years old, and the message is easily read by those who understand the writing; and so, in spite of lack of paper, the ancient Babylonians managed to make their important documents permanent. The message on this brick reads as follows: - “Thirty bushels of daies are due to Bel Nadin Shun, son of Marashu, by Bel Bullitso end Sha Nabu Shu, sons of Kirebti, and their tenants. In the month Tashri (month of harvest) of the 34th year of King Artarerzes I, they shall pay the dates, thirty bushels, according to the measure of Bel Nadin Shun, in the town of Bit Balatsu. Their field, cultli- vated and uncultivated, their fief estate, - is held as a pledge for the dates, namely, thirty bushels, by Bel Nadin Shun. An- other creditor shall nmot have power over it.” This writing is therefore what is known as a mortgage; that is, a promise to pay a certain amount and pledging a certain security to guarantee payment. The date mentioned, “the thirty-fourth year of King Artaxerxes,” corre- sponds to the year 430 B. C. Barrel Stave Skis. Here's something to do with barrel staves— make a pair of skis. Trim the forward end to shape just a little bit, put the blocks on, get a couple of straps, wax the runer side of the staves and you are ready to start. Don't try to take any jumps or any very difficult hills the first time you wear these skis, or you’ll get some bumps. You'll get a few anyhow, I guess. Take a pole along to help you when you are ski-walking. Lots of Attention. “Helen,” said father to his little daughter who had just returned from a children’s party, “did you have any attention paid you?” “Ch, yes,” answered Helen. “One little boy made faces to me.” Neither Do I1e. “My father says that he thought nothing of studying five hours a night.” “Well, I don't think so much of it myself.” ! BENJAMIN FRANKLIN | CICERO 1 JOAN OF ARC 1930 JANUARY 1930 Sun MoN Tut W0 T FRi b e s o i 4 5 7 3 9 10 11 12 14 15 16 17 18 19 21 22 23 24 25 25 29 30 31 A FAMOUS Bl RTH S ,JAN17,1706 ROBERT BURNS JAN 3,106B,C, CHARLES DICKENS , JAN 6 1412 ABRAHAN LIN(OLN , FEB 12 1609 , JAN.25,1759 FEB. 7,1812 31.VALENT|HES DAY FEBRUARY 14 1930 MARCH 1930 Sun MoN Tue weo Twu Fri Sar b ) @ < [ J 1 234 S sy al 13 14 15 9 10 11 12 16 17 13 19 20 21 22§ 27 28 29 »so Pu 25 Banking Facts for Boys and Girls. By John Y. Beaty, Editor The Bankers’ Monthly. ADDY, who owns our bank?” asked Clara Ecnson as she and her father drove away from the First National one day after making a deposit in Clara's savings account. “Our bank was started by a number of busi- ness men ip this town,” answered her father, “because they needed a place where they might stcre their money safely, and because they nejded an arrangement whercby they might make use of the surplus funds of thz people of the town. “Let us suppose, for example, that Mr, Shelley, the hardware man, needs more money than he has on hand to purchase his stock of hardware for the coming season. If there were no banks here, he might have difficulty in securing the nccessary money. II= might be able to borrow a little from one man and a little from another until he had accumulated enough, but you will realize that this would be a lot of bother and take a lot.of time, where- as with the bank, he simply goes to the cashier or the president and borrows whatever amount he may need whenever he needs it. The trans- action occupies only a few minutes and the money is borrowed just acrocs the street from his store. “In the same way, Mr. Andrews, the furniture man, needs to borrow money at certain times of the year to purchase furniture. “And so the grocer and the butcher, the dry goods merchant, and the blacksmith and the garage man all need money at times when they do not have ready cash of their own. “These men, therefore, need a bank in order to conduct their business. On the other hand, there ar: people in town, including these very men, who at times have more money than they need for immediate use. Naturally, they want a safe place to put their money so that th:-y will not nezd to worry about its being stolen from them. Farmers Need Funds. “Then, too, there are the farmers. You will rememb-r last year that I wanted a new binder to harvest the wh-at. The binder cost a good deal more than I had on hand at that time, but I knew that in the bank there was a sur- plus of money that I could borow and so I purchased the binder at the time I neceded it and paid for it after I had sold my wheat. “L:t me give you another example. Uncle Bob received a check for $10,000 when his father's estate was settled. He had no im- mediate use for that money, but of course he didn’t want to lose it, so he took it to the bank, deposi‘ed it there, and any time he needs it or any part of it, he can go there and get it without any delay. But that surplus of his can be loaned to some one else who hap- pens to need money right now. The fact is that the surplus of som: p-ople is made avail- able for the use of others who need more than they have. “Because of this condition, the business men of the town all were in favor of having a bank and as soon as the town was big ¢nough to af- ford one, the business men took the lead in organizing it.” Handling Outdoor Fires. IP you start a fire in the woods or in dry grass and it gets away from you and goes to “burning wild,” it becomes a terrible thing, for it is like some ravenous monster that consumes everything it finds, One cf the first things you should learn, it you go to the woods, is how to handle fire, and also how not to handle it, which is often even more important. First, if you light a match for any purpose out-doors and don’t throw it into a fire where it will burn harmlessly, you should break it into two pieces before throwing it away. This may sound foolish, but just gry lighting a few matches, blowing them out, and then break- CHARLES DARWIN GEORGE WASHINGTON FEB.22,1732 ALEXANDERGRAHAM BELL MAR. 31847 ,FEB.12,1800 1930 FEBRUARY 1930 Suv. Mon Tue wio Tw FRi AT b J = L3 [ J 1 3 S ¢ S 078 13 14 15 9 10 11 12 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 27 28 - 23 24 25 26 ing them in two before you throw them away, The first thing you will find out is that you can't break a match if it is still hot, and that is just the reason for breaking it. If a ma cool enough to break, it is never hot eno start a fire after it is thrown down. This works every time, and by means of this simple pre- caution you can be sure that you will never accidentally start a blaze by tossing away a hot match. For the same reason, no man would ever stlrt a fire with a cigarette stub if he would take the trouble to tear it all apart, throw it down, step on it and then stand there while he counted 10. Fire cannot burn without air, and if it gets no air while you count 10 it will be dead. Cigarette stubs start more fires than any other one thing, so always watch a smoker and see that he puts his fire out in the manner I have described. If you build a campfire, never under any cir- cumstances huild it against a tree trunk or & fallen log or on the windward side of dry grass, leaves, twigs or anything that catches fire easily. The right way is to cut two small green logs about 6 feet long and about 12 inches, or less, in tnickness.. Place these on the ground so they lie about a foot apart and with one end pointing toward the direction from which the wind is coming, and then build your fire bee tween the logs about a foot from the end toward which the wind is blowing. Thus, if the wind is from the south, your fire should be near the north end of the logs. This makes the fire burn against the wind, so that it will take & long time to burn your logs up. If you build i¢ at the other end the fire burns rapidly with the wind and burns your logs up as it goes. Always either bury your fire under a foot 1 dirt when you finally go away, or else drench it with several buckets of water so you know positively that it is entirely out before you leave. Never build a big fire anywhere. There is much more cheer in a small, cozy fire that *you can get close to, than in a big bonfire that drives you back from it and sends burning sparks for a long way, perhaps to start a wild fire somewhere else. Alw-ys use dry wood ex- cept for your two side logs, and remember that the dead limbs on a live, growing tree are al- ways dry. Don't use wood that snaps and throws sparks, and always remember that a fire must be watched as you would watch a wild animal. Ny