Evening Star Newspaper, March 16, 1930, Page 117

PUZZLES P, TR This week we have a puzzie in the map of Ireland, in honor of St. Patrick’s day. THE EMERALD ISLE. The definitions are: s HORIZONTAL. 1. A serpent. il You have all heard of the Blarney using it for our word diamond line Take a four-letter word meaning a kind of meat. Add the letter “U,” rearrange, and form & word for worth. ‘Take a four-letter word for a place to sit, add “P,” rearrange, and get glue. il Three Irish words are concealed in this IRISH WORDS s Each of these strange-looking words is the name of a British author, in jumbled order. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MARCH 16, &l 64e BOYS and GIRLS PAGE 1930. Flight From Skeleton Valley. An Air Mishap Leads to Further Adventure. BY W. BOYCE MORGAN. They were pulling him from beneath the overturned plane. and his Uncle George, returning ane flight to inspect some land which he: trouble town. They George tries ik ) 8 : g d to indicate the location of his wound, and then braced himself in the seat. The plane, safely above the mountains now, pointed toward the west, and the motor roared. the course—he must stick to it. The feel of the plane under his control inspired the boy with confidence. A triumphant smile came to his lips. He would get home safely yet! Many minutes passed, while they roared steadily onward. Then Harry became k What if their course was wrong and they missed the town and went out over the Pacific? He knew they did not have enough fuel to stay up until daylight. Anxiously he scanned the horizon for the powerful beacon at the airport. He could not suppress a cry of joy as he finally saw it ahead and to the left. That light meant safety, if he could get down. Then fear gripped him again. That bad wheel—they could never land without a crack-up. Now he was over the brightly lighted landing field. He began a cautious descent. He circled the field, turned, came back only a few hun- dred feet up. He Saw attendants running from the hangars. If they recognized the plane at all in the darkness, they thought, of course, that Uncle George was at the controls and had no fears about the landing. Harry took a deep breath, nosed the ship down gently and prepared for the inevitable smash. His Jack of skill really helped them, for the plane, slightly off an even keel, struck first on the good wheel. It bounced, came down on both wheels, wavered, listed, turned over and nosed into the ground. Harry, ready for the worst, had crouched low in his seat. He felt a sickening jar, heard a crash, and then all went black. He recovered consciousness as they were pull- i g fHH EgEE! . But all the including the pouches been recovered. “What are you going to of the reward, Harry?"” said i my other one plenty!” Harry grinned. “I think I'll sa I can get a pilot’s license, and there’s another plane in the f: ,” he said. “So you'll have one of your own Jeered his uncle. “Yes, and one to bring you home in faint from a little flesh wound in the retorted Harry. They both were silent. Their light covered very serious thoughts. They knew how close their escape had been. (The end.) BREIENEEER HLOEEa <12 2. The diamond is B, all, again, blarney, lined, Ned. Y. 3. Saddled, rifled, failed and crumbled. 4. Veal, value. Seat, paste. 5. The words in the picture puszzle are sham- rock, Cork and Erin. 6. The authors are Dickens, Thackeray, Keatls and Kipling. “My boy, you should think of the future.” “I can’t. T¢'s my sister's birthday, and I must think of the present.” ;s "and the moth went to sleep forever. 8 CRAFTS JOKES | PUZZLES POSERS Eight questions follcw. They will test your ingenuity in finding the right answers. 1. What musical instrument did Nero play? 2. What animal was associated with Dick Whittington? 3 v 3. On which side of a tree is moss usually found? s 4. What is the chief difference between traffic regulation' in England and the United States? 5. Where are the world's greatest diamond mines found? 6. . When did the “gold rush” to California take place? ! ANSWERS. 1. A violin. 2. A cat. 3. The north, or shady, side. 4. In England traffic keeps tc the left;. in the United States, to the right. 5. In South: Africa. 6. In 1848-9. - Easy Aircraft Construction. BY TERENCE VINCENT, ¥ United States Director for Miniature Aircraft Flyers, Flvtpieoesorwoodueneededhomvhleh to make a simple flying machine. They may be arranged in various ways to achieve various flights and each is different from the tain its lateral stability (its side-to-side bale easily. surface may be gently sandpapered and again doped with amyl acetate (banana oil). Again when dry sandpaper gently as before. This process may be repeated as many as seven Hmu.'ithnflnulmbflngwlthcflkhrlnit & glossy, rich finish. If you want this skycraft to fly very soon after it is started, then here is another way more rapid than this one. We might call this other method water waving, since it consists simply of dampening the wings, placing them in the desired dihedral form and letting them dry. This method gets flights just about as good as those that are banana olled, though the appearance is not as good. The propeller and the motor stick are not treated with water nor is there any rubbing or polishing by this method. Wings that have been banana oiled can be carved into many attractive shapes more easily than natural wood. While traveling in Pennsylvania, lecturing to @ different group of boys and girls every day last Summer, I stopped one night in the rather picturesque City of Canton. Arriving about 1 o’'clock in the morning, I went to my hotel room and found there a huge moth flut- tering about the electric light. It was brown, with some light markings on the lovely wings. Next morning when I awakened, there it was on the ceiling near the light fixture. The more I looked at it, the more flyable it appeared. Presently I “fed” it some nitrocellulose cement, used in my airplane construction work, Then I dyed some balsa wood sheets the same color " of brown as the moth, dried the pieces, banana oiled them liberally and several times, giving each a good curve, then carved the wing tips in about the same shape as the moth's wing tips. Needless to say that airplane flew mighty well. The boys and girls, when they hesrd this story, named it my moth airplane. It fiew much like a moth, too.