Evening Star Newspaper, February 9, 1930, Page 105

STORIES 'SPORTS ‘B GAMES - PUZZLES sl A heart is the traditional symbol of Valen- tine’s day and is therefore the theme of our cross-word puzzle this week. This should not be a hard puzzle for you to work. X A VALENTINE. ‘The definitions are: HORIZONTAL. 1. Near. 3. Each (abbr.). 5. Intricate. 8. A grain. 9. Measure formerly used for cloth. 10. Part of the foot. 12. Valentine's day symbol. 14. A rod for stirring the fire. 15. A color. VERTICAL. 1. Measure of land area. Spindle about which a wheel revolves. . A falling star. . Looked with a leer. . Made of oak. . Eorsepower (abbr.). . Trustee (abbr.). SR Valentine terms form our word chains this week. Remember, that you must go from one word to the other, changing only one letter &t a time and always forming a real word. Change MEET to MATE in four moves. Change DART to LOVE in five moves. e Here's a diamond built about a good Valen- tine’s day word.. The second word is a pro- hibition, the third is a minor noble, the fifth is a harsh sound and the sixth means “by birth.” Form the diamond. M A R MARRIES I E 8 ST, A Valentine message is concéaled in this picture puzzle. Can you find it? A VALENTINE Behead a word for rascal and get a place to spend an outing. Behead a word meaning to insult and get a ciumsy fellow; behead this and you will have not in. —6— Take a four-letter word for a petition. Add P, rearrange the letters, and get a common fruit. Closed Season for Birds. F water fowl ever heave a sigh of relief, the sigh has been heaved for this year, as the hunting season for the birds is now closed in most of the larger hunting areas, 'J:muary | was the deadline for Ilinois, Missouri and New York with the exception of Long Island, and in 20 States it became illegal to shoof the birds after the last day of 1929 until the season ye- opens in the Fall. ‘ THE . SUNDAY .STAR, WASHINGTON, D. "9;,_]?EBRU_AFY ? 1930 =~ %e BOYS and IRLS PAGE Home Puppet Shows. BY PAUL McPHARLIN. Director of the Marionette Fellowship. A puppet stage has no fioor, because the worker's hands have to come up where it should be. Therefore, its scenery must hang from above, the way it used to in big theaters. The back drop is the main part of the scenery. It is at the back of the stage and keeps the audi- ence from seeing whatever is beyond. A four- foot piece of pole, like a broom handle, is rested across the top of the booth, going from side to side. Slots can be cut to hold it there, or else nails are driven in to keep it from slipping off. This is at the very back. Cloth as long as the pole and about two feet high, with a wide hem at the top for the pole to slip through, makes the back drop. It can be & plain color if it must serve for all kinds of scenes, or it can be painted like woods or a street or the wall of a room. These scenes, however, can be made by sewing patches of cloth on to make up the picture. While the front curtains are drawn shut between acts, the back drop is changed by slipping the cloth off the pole and slipping another one on. A string of Christmas-tree lights in all colors hung behind the top of the stage opening will light up the stage nicely when all the other lights in the room are turned out. By having only white lamps in the string, the stage will be brightest. Only blue will give night effect, red looks like fire and yellow like sunshine. If there aren’'t any Christmas-tres lights handy, one bright bulb on a long wire can be hung in the center of the stage opening behind the top bar. It must not shine out into the eyes of the audience. Because there isn’'t any stage floor, there often isn't any furniture on a puppet stage. Of course, a puppet can't sit down very well, because the worker's hand is in its bodv. But . sometimes a table or a bed is needed 10r the story of the play. A little shelf then has to be built; coming cut where the stage floor should be, inside the booth. It can’t be very large, or else the puppets won't have enough acting space. On this the furniture can rest. If you can get no doll's furniture the right size to fit the puppets, you must make it your- self. That's usually best, anyway. There are lots of interesting cffects you can get on your puppet stage. For thunder and lightning, rattle a large tin tray and flash the light quickly on and off. For wind, tie a light, flat piece of wood securcly on a string and whirl it. For the moon, hold the lens of a flashlight against a blue cloth back diop. You can invent effects by trying different things in different ways. Lincoln’s Earlj/ Manhood. Continued from N.netecnih Page ing. For a time things looked mighty rosy and encouraging. Then came a dark cloud. One of the old Berry and Lincoln notes, for which Lincoln had assumed responsibility, had fallen into the hands of a nickel-skinning old Shylock by the name of Van Bergen. He sued Lincoln, got judgment and forced the sale of his surveying instruments and the old horse on which he made his long surveying trips about the county. But things brightened up the moment the auctioneer started the sale. “Uncle Jimmy” Short, who “liked Abe Lin- coln,” was present, and he manifested his friendship by buying Abe's horse and instru- ments for $120 and turned them back to the boy. Years later, when Lincoln was living at the White House in Washington, he heard that his old friend “Uncle Jimmy” had lost every- thing and was up against it out in California, where he had gone to make a fresh start. He appointed him Indian agent, which made his last years comfortable and happy. Lincoln’s big-heartedness was shown on an- other interesting occasion. Dr. Charles Chand- ler, a country doctor, who looked after the ail- ments of the people in a section some distance from New Salem, learned that a land shark from the East was about to file on his farm. He was hastening to Springfield, 40 miles away, when his horse played out, and he was obliged to walk and lead the animal behind him. A stranger came galloping along on a spirited horse and in neighborly fashion reined up to inquire what was wrong. When Chandler ex- plained his trouble and of his eagerness to reach the capital ahead of the shark, the stranger leaped from his horse and turned it over to the doctor and told him to hurry on and to leave it at the livery stable, where they would swap back. Imagine Chandler's sur- prise when this same stranger came to his place some months later to do some surveying. They became lifelong friends. WHILE going about the country on surveying ¢ trips or working in the post office Lin- coln was never without a book. He would read while on horseback or walking along the streets, One evening, after finishing a wood-chopping Job, he stretched out beneath a tree, in his shirt sleeves and bare feet, and began reading a book. His employer, who happened along, asked him what he was reading. “I'm not reading; I'm studying law,” was the reply. This strange picture was too much for the em- ployer. “Good God Almighty!” he exclaimed and walked on down the street. In the Spring of 1834 Lincoln announced for the Legislature. He made a thorough cam- paign and was elected. In order to make a presentable appearance at the State Capitol and to settle some pressing debts, he was obliged to borrow $200. The day he said good-by to his sweetheart, Ann Rutledge, he was becom- ingly arrayed in a new suit of butternut jeans. It was a happy day for him. He was a mem- ber of the Legislature and engaged to the sweetest girl in the world. In the Spring of 1835 Lincoln returned from the legislative session and resumed his survey- ing and postmastering and happy courting of the charming Ann. For several months all the world was bright and happy. But all of a sudden, so far as Lincoln was concerned, the sun stopped shining, the birds no longer sang and the flowers and trees withered and died. Ann Rutledge was stricken with fever. She sent for Abe. When he came, those in the sick room quietly tiptoed out and left them alone together. That was their final leave- taking. When Lincoln left the room, he was bowed with grief and tears were streaming down his rugged features. This was the saddest day of his life. On August 25, 1835, Ann Rutledge passed to the great beyond. & S Poor Lincoln was disconsolgle. Never was he so lonesome and heart-weary in all his days. He wanted to be alone with his grief. With bowed head and tear-dimmed eyes he roamed day after day over the hills and through the woods seeking peace. He could neither eat nor sleep. Many trips were made to the little grave that held the remains of his dear one. Kindly friends took him to their home and slowly nursed him back to his former self, and he became somewhat reconeciled to the wonder= ful thing that had gone out of his life. Lincoln, of course, was possessed of too much mentality to permit his loss permanently to affect his life. He dug into his work harder than ever before—always a mighty good plan. One Sunday morning, during this period, while stretched out on Green’s cellar floor studying a law book, he was introduced to Richard Yates, who during his presidency was the great war Governor of Illinois. They became great friends. Lincoln did considerable legal work long before he was admitted to the bar, such as drawing up legal papers and trying cases bzfore justices of the peace. Not being licensed, he, of course, could not charge any fees. But he appreciated the practice that it gave him. In 1836 Lincoln was again elected to the Legislature. He received the largest number of votes of any of the nine men elected from his county. At this session he was in charge of the bill removing the State capital from Van- dalia to Springfield. He also opposed a resolu~ tion disapproving the formation of abolition societies. It will thus be seen that Lincoln had occasion to be interested in the question of slavery many years prior to the Civil War, While attending the session of the Legisla- ture Lincoln was admitted to the bar and made arrangements to enter into partnership at Springfield with his old friend, John T. Stuart, his companion of Black Hawk War days and from whom he had borrowed law books. At the end of the session he returned to New Salem to say good-by to the dear friends he had made during his six years there. He had arrived at this village, as he expressed it years later, “a strange, friendless, uneducated, penni- less boy, working on a flatboat at $10 per month.” He was leaving New Salem a man— one of the leading men of the State. What & remarkable change had been wrought in six short years! Saying good-by to these friends was no easy task. Leaving the familiar scenes of his lost Ann Rutledge was a still more diffi- cult task. That farewell trip from New Salem to Springfield must have been filled with a strange mixture of thoughts—sad ones of the past and hopeful ones of the future. He was giving up old and tried friends for new and untried ones. ANSWERS. 1. Cross-word puzzle solution: 2. MEET—méelt—malt—i.. ie—MATE. DART—dare—care—core—cove—LOVE. 3. The diamond is M, ban, baron, marries, noise, nee, S. 4. The message is: “My heart for you will always pine, .So can’t you be my Valentine?” ,.5. S-camp. , F-1-out. = 6. Plea., Add P rearrange, and, form apple. .St. Lawrence. Hidden Toothpick. Any old handkerchief will .do for this iriek, but whatever kind you use have it ¢lean. The preparation for the trick is simple—before per- forming it you must introduce a toothpick into the hem of the handkerchief. - This will, of course, be enlirely invisible. » Now, with things prepared, show -your audi- ence that you have nothing in the handkerchief HANDKERCHIEF N TOOTHPICK IN SEAM 2 /§ BREAW TOOTHPICK IN SEAM FREE “TOOTH PICK UNBROKEN by shaking it. Allow one of the audience to put a regular tvothpick in the handkerchief and fold up the cloth. Ask some one to break the tooth- pick, which he feels, into small pieces. With this done, make a pass and allow the handker- chief to come open. The toothpick will ro&’ouc whole. ; Of course, you must manipulate the hand- kerchief so that the toothpick which is really broken up is the one concealed in the hem. Kewpic Penwiper. ‘To the delight of the Hobby Club, Miss Brown decided that the next few meetings were to be held in the Teacherage, for there were so many things in her parlor that she wanted to show the girls how to make. The writing desk accessories were very at- tractive and the girls were most anxious ‘to know how to make them all. The first item on the list was a penwiper. Picking up the object of their admiration, Miss Brown told them all about it. “From the 5 and 10 cent store I obtained this cute and rather impish- looking kewpie. Prom my scrap box I took a colorful piece of taffeta, with which I dressed her in that frilly fashion. “I always keep the unfaded felt pieces of my old hats, for one can make so much out of that material. I took four different colors— purple, orange, green and black—cut them into neat round shapes, then sewed them together in the middle, just as if I were sewing on a but- ton. In order to make the top tier more ¢plor- ful, I sewed beads all around them, I finally glued pretty little friend kewpie in the middle by its feet, so it stood on the felt pads. “You know how one's pens always seem to get clogged up with ink, so it is very “nice to have a penwiper,” concluded Miss Brown. “It’s certainly a great idea, and they would also make very attractive presents for friends’ birthdays and so on,” remarked one of the members. SHEILA MCcIVOR. Grown Up. Deliberate Old Lady (who has been taking a ot of time in selecting her purchase)—But I don’t think this is lamb. It looks to me like mutton. Exasperated Butcher—It was lamb when I first showed it to you, ma'am. POSERS + It's strange how many miscellaneous facts we come to know in & few short years, isn't it? Most boys and girls should be able to answer a majority of these questions: 1. How many dozen are there in a gross? 2. What is H20? 3. What States of the United States border on Mexico? . 4. To what nation does the Graf Zeppelin belong? 5. On what river is the City of Quebec Jo- cated? ¥ A 6. Who wrote: “Twenty Thousand. Leagues Under the Sea”? s 7. What comedian is famous for -his Scoteh songs? 8. Who is supposed to have been the first Englishman who smoked tobacco? - ANSWERS. . 1. Twelve. 2. Water. 3. Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California. 4. Germany. . .5. The 6. Jules Verne., 7. Sir Hgwry Lauger. | 8. Sir Walter Raleigh. . , .