Evening Star Newspaper, January 12, 1930, Page 98

1930. THE SUNDAY STAR, \VASHING'EOVN,NP. (' VIANUARY 12, Sunday Morning Among the Cross-Words Across, Supports. Sword. Floating in the water. Rib: corabining form. Soiree, Kind of fig. The people. Rabbit, in French. Musical drama. Measures of paper. Man’s name. Allowed to fall. Strife. Walk again. Turns aside. Suffix denoting “one of.” Apparition. Restrained. Greek letter. Pertaining to footrace course. Grave. Ascertained bearings of. Electric poles. Greek letter. Placed in even TOW. Recede. Perfumed. Perceived. Wooden pin. South African. More strange. Help up. Small room. Wandered. Self-esteem. Pocketbook. Left out. Prohibit. One of a society. Love, in French. Measure of length. Scolds violently. Pertaining to a tailor. Observe. Ineffaceable. Foreign. Greek hero. Fillet. Hiatuses. Herded. Granite or quartz porphyry. Yawn. Roman bronze. Female writer. Clarified. X Famous Greek geometer. Chinese shrub. Dreary. Squalls, Taut. Poorest. Lyric poems. Lecturers. More offensive. dididd JA88 Deed. Value. Vertical shaft in glacier. Perish. Article of virtue. Make a speech. Annexed. Unfolds. Hindu demon. One who fixes values. Hector. Rabbits. Cut of meat. Boxes. Slaves. Untidy. Down. Tilled. Mend. Overtax one’s strength. Through. Ocean. Sung to others. Beverages. Throbs. Ants. Reprieved. Native of French province. Relinquished. Was indisposed. Heavenly body. Nervous paroxysms. Freed from obligation: abbr. Propeller. Ruined. Walk quietly. To purpose. Florid ornamentation. Old-fashioned piano. Suffix of medical words meaning morbid condition. Waterfalls. Burmese demon. Germ. One of the United States: abbr. Grant use of. Medley. Horse. Particles. Masculine name. Gimlet. Mass of ice. Unit of work. Out of use: abbr. Persian fairy. Noted operatic character. Dale. Tells. Swearing. Devil. Fat. Stories. 70 Bay. 71 Becomes boring. 73 Hebrew measure. 74 The parson bird. 86 Tears open. 87 Regarded with affection. 89 Encircled. 90 Vessel. 91 Easy galt. 92 Perfect place. 95 A thing: Latin. 96 Fish. 99 Amenable. 100 Those who liberate. rr AN JdNEN aEm %%fi o - dENE & Across. 1 Italian house. 5 Inhabitant of an Asiatic country. 9 Away. 12 Money given to charity. 13 Was carried. %/ /. Charge for servioe. Garner. City in Iowa. Brown. Muscular twitching. Plant yielding a condiment. 22 Regular customer. 25 Principal conduits. 26 Scoffed. 28 Symbol for tellurium, 29 Sailor. 30 Respond to a stimulus. 32 Old expression. of disgust. 35 Pronoun. 36 Treatise on the art of poetry. 38 Fleshy. 41 Copies over the original. 101 Man’s name. 103 Conceited. 104 Compounds of arsenic. 105 Pertaining to a valley in Argolis where games were anciently played. 108 Unadulterated. 109 Liners. 110 Bomb-proof chamber. 111 Belonging to father. 113 Land: Scotch. 115 Termination, 117 Illuminated. 118 Uproar. 129 Part of Africa. 133 Snare. 135 Treason against: French. 138 Man’s name. 139 Free. 142 Electrical unit. 143 French watering place. 120 False. 121 Seesaw. 122 Eats away. 124 Sea ducks. 125 Nets. 126 Abounding in curls. 128 Lariat. Sundezv Preys on Insects. THE sundew is a plant any way it can get it. that takes its nitrogen If the ground doesn’t provide it, it reaches up into the air and helps itself through the medium of flies and other insects which are unfortunate enough to come in contact with its leaves. The leaves are covered with tiny, hairlike processes, each of which is capped with a drop of honeylike substance that glistens in the sun- light—hence the name, sundew. Insects are lured and retained by this sticky substance, and while the victim struggles to free himself, other “honey-dew” laden *“hairs” bend over, clasp, completely envelop and soon smother it to death. Certain juices are secreted by ihose hairs, which digest the prey so that it can be used by the plant. When the digestion is completed, the ensnaring hairs bend back and permit the remains to be blown away. The question in most people’s minds at this point is: “Does the plant have voluntary con- trol over these ensnaring hairs?” Some scien- tists credit the plant with a highly developed nervous system, but most believe the process is a mechanical one. Plants bend toward the sun. One of the fac- Turned the front wheels. Take a seat. Possesses. Verbal. Having life. Siamese coin. Three times three. Baking compartment. Golf term. Legal paper. Vibrating part of a clarinet. Down. Automobile. Liquor. Talk superficially. Desire eagerly. Southern constellation. Frolic. Revoke a legacy. Sprinkles with dirty watazr, 9 Frequently. 10 Is afraid of. Moors. Agree. Dessert. Sound to call attention secretly. Collection of facts. Born. Drop bait gently on the water. 31 Portable bed. Capable of imag- inative creation. 33 Frozen water. 34 Feminine ending. 35 Edge of a garment. 37 Makers of men’s clothes. 38 Speechify. 39 Sew loosely. 40 Uncanny. 42 Informal conversation. 43 Scandinavian. 47 Guided. 49 Five-dollar bill: colloq. 50 Finis. tors causing this movement is the loss of water from the cells on the exposed side, causing those cells to shrink and allowing the plant to bend in that direction. Possibly a chemical substance given off by the insect causes a shrinkage of the cells closest to the insect, thus making the hairs bend in that direction. The sundew is a very small plant, with long- stemmed, round leaves, lying close to or upon the ground. Not only the leaves, but also the leaf stems, are covered with the long, fine, red filaments or “hairs.” The red flower stem is erect, smooth, and bears a one-sided cluster of four to six tiny white flowers that open one at a time in the sunlight. Sundew sap stains paper a ruddy, madder purple. The sundew is extensively distributed over the Northern temperate zone in bogs and marshes, Darwin and other famous naturalists speng many hours of study over this interesting, inno- cent-looking plant, which has developed such unplantlike, bloodthirsty habits. It has even been suggested that it might be cultivated as a house or garden plant to capture flies and mos- quitoes. Misbranded Dog Remedies ’l‘HE cure-all for dogs has been found to be no more effective than the cure-all for man, and the Department of Agriculture is out, through its food, drug and insecticide adminis< tration, to see that the misbranding of medi- cines shall be stopped, just as the misbranding of human medicines has been largely elimi- nated. There is no drug or combination of drugs, according to the department experts, which can be offered for sale as a cure for distemper, run- ning or barking fits, black tongue, demodectic or follicular mange or for all types of worms. Any medicines so labedel are misbranded, ac- cording to the department. While there are medicines known to b2 effec- tive in ridding dogs of certain types of intes- tinal worms, these drugs are more or less spe= cific and cannot be recommended for all types of worms. Mange remedies, similarly, cannot be properly termed mange remedies without specifying the type to be treated, for follicular mange so far has evaded any known remedy.