Evening Star Newspaper, March 30, 1930, Page 109

PUZZLES g Everybody must have his joke in the April fool season, and the puzzle editor is no ex- ception. Some of the definitions for this puzzle are pretty crazy, and you should have a lot of fun guessing them. 3. The definitions are: HORIZONTAL. 1. When you smell this, you'd better “cheese it.” 8. Where the light often is. 9. What the chicken often gets in the neck. 10. Admitted. 13. A pet name. 14. Boy’s nickname. 15. What a merchant puts in the paper. 16. A preposition. 17. Air going somewhere in a hurry. 19. What the doctor gets in the end. 21. With a verb, this makes a sentence. . Still. . If you're half this, you're crazy. VERTICAL. is out, it’'s pretty dark. do with a toothache. answer if you call the roll this, and you'll get butter. . A long, long time. . Eject. . This has more stars than Broadway. kind of clothes we all like. point of the compass. person I like very much. il I am a three-letter word meaning a lubri- cant. By adding various first letters to me, I become to seethe, a curl, a fencing sword, dirt and work. Can you guess me? And now we have a picture word square that should be easy for experienced puzzlers. PICTURE WORD SQUARE S 2 Starting Young. Ma—I want to speak to you about Junior, He doesn't like to work and gets that Jones boy to do everything for him. I don't want to have a lazy son. . i varl ok Pa—Lazy? My starsl. He shows execulive ability. &4e BOYS and | GIRLS PAGE The Great Animal Argument. A Story for Boys and Girls Who Like to Laugh. T iy < He raised his fist to his lips. BY EARL F. JENNINGS. ined t c president, discovers that the seniors e: bring to the debate some disreputable dog to prove uselessness imals, and he S po! will u d the afirmative side of the « X mml mly. and Bing thinks the juniors will win y. INSTALLMENT 1L wn.uz NILLY, after a little more hesita- . tion, recovered his wits somewhat, and went on to state his points. “My first point,” he said “is that horses have been very important in history, more im- portant than dogs. You don't ever read about dogs in history, but history books are full of horses.” Snickers arose from the assembled students. Miss Plintnose, who taught history, looked shocked. Bing Fraser chortled gleefully. Miss Flintnose was one of the judges, and Willie had intimated that her course was not to be taken seriously! Willie, however, seemed not to have noticed He was just getting warmed up. 50 warm that he had to mop th his handkerchief and run his finger around inside his collar. But he got a himself and continued: id King Richard say in the famous said, ‘A horse, a horse, my king- horse!’ Ross Jones, junior debater, hastily made a note on the paper before him. “I'll knock that point down on rebuttal,” he whispered to Bing. “King Richard was licked in the bat- tle, that’s why he wanted a horse! Therefore, he was a punk fighter, and his judgment isn't worth anything.” But Willie wasn’t done with horses in history. “Where would Paul Revere have been with- out his horse?” he thundered. “Can you him riding to Lexington on a dog? All great generals have used horses. And how about the cowboys, who fought the Indians and civilized the West? They all rode horses, didn't they? Horses have been one of the most im- portant things in the history of America.” Bing began to look a little worried. Willie was making a strong argument, after all. He glanced apprehensively at Harry was to speak first for the juniors. Harry caught his eye. “Gee,” Harry whispered in an awed voice, “jf he keeps that up he’ll be proving that Columbus discovered America on a horse.” Willie went on with his illustrations of the horse’s value in history, mentioning Sheridan’'s ride in the Civil War, the pony express, and “In the second place,” he went on, “horses are more useful than dogs because they work hard on farms and pull milk wagons and gar- bage wagons in the city.” “Dogs pull milk carts in Holland!” Bing “Yeh, and they empty garbage cans, too,” replied Ross disdainfully. “But I don’t think I'll mention that. I can knock out his farm argument, though. Tractors and automobiles are better 'I'M wps;’m nowadays.. . A Nevertheless,; Willie made, a, d W the value of the horse to ?.hg mem& argument as to their usefulness in the city was also strong. When he finally summed up his points and left the platform, the seniors broke into frenzied applause. They realized that their first speaker had done well “All right, Harry—your turn!” cried Bing encouragingly. “Get up there and give ’em everything you've got. Show them that they can’t horse around with us juniors!™ complete disdain. Harry uttered an angry cry, but checked himself and mounted the platform. He ad- dressed the chairman and the others, announced was the first speaker for the negative, said importantly, “I am going to you that horses are not more im- than dogs, for three reasons. First, are more faithful to their masters than other animal, and are useful because they always be depended upon.” 4 At this point, Harry suddenly paused, look- very uncomfortable. His mouth opened, his nose twitched, he reached frantically for a handkerchief, and then a tremendous sneeze “Pepper!” he cried. “Subbudy blew pepper in my face!” Bing jumped to his feet. “Willie Nilly did it!” he cried. “I saw him. That’s a foul, Mr. Chairman! Willie Nilly blew pepper in Harry's face so he'd sneeze and couldn’t make & good speech!” In a moment the room was in an uproar. Meanwhile poor Harry had sunk into a seat on the platform and given himself up to just one hearty sneeze after another. (To Be Continued Next Sunday.) For How Much? Mother—You've been fighting with the boy next door again. I'll have to buy you a new suit now. Tommy—Gee, you oughta see him. His mamma will have to buy a new boy. ANSWERS, 1. Cross word puzzle solution. 2. Oil. Boil, coil, foil, soil and toil. 3. Pencil, council, steneil. 4. Ship, hare, iron and pens. B STRY TS R —— POSERS ] Here are eight new tests of your knowiedge. You should be able to answer at least a ma- jority of them, but if you can’t, read the an- swers. 1. At what time of year are the days an nights equal in length? : 2. Who wrote “The Children’s Hour?” . 3. What is the name of t.heuswsth-ns atlaxtic gcean liner? ' 4. What name is usuai; given to a kitehen on shipboard? 5. In what game is the term “stymie” used? 6. What part of an airplane is the fuselage? 7. Of what metals is bronze a combination? 8. Where is the Caspian Sea located? ANSWERS. 1. At the time of the equinox, either at the beginning of Spring, about March 21, or of Autumn, about September 22. 2. Henry Wads- worth Longfellow. 3. The Bremen. 4. The galley. 5. In golf. 6. The long body or frame to which the wings are attached. 7. Copper and tin, chiefly. 8. Between Southérn Europe and Asia. ks Falling Bodies. If you drop a feather and a stone out of the window at the same time, which falls to the ground first, the feather or the stone? That sounds like a cilly question, of ecurse, because you know that the stone will fall faster and that it will reach the ground long before the feather does; in fact, the feather may fly away on the winds. But, strange as it may seem, under certain conditions, the feather will fall as quickly as does the stone and both will reach the ground at the same time. Things fall to the ground because the force of gravity —of which we know very little as yet—pulls them down; and since the force of gravity acts with equal strength on all objects at the same point on earth, one would expect that all falling objects would reach the ground at :fi same speed. Yet we know that they do Here is a little experiment that may teach us something about this matter: A long glass bottle contains a feather and a small stone, the stone being, of course, heavier than the feather. The bottle is then suddenly tipped over so that both feather and stone are at the top of the container. They will fall im- mediately, of course, and the stonie will hit the bottom long before the feather does. Now, suppose we pump all the air out of this bot- tle and repeat the experiment. We shall see then that both the feather and the stone drop with the same speed and both will reach the bottom at the same time. It seems, there- fore, that the presence of the air had some- thing to do with this business; and that is cor- rect, for if there were no air earth, all bodies, no matter what their weight might be, would fall with equal speed. A ten-ton piece of stee or rock would fall no faster than a string or a thistle seed. Gue.rsing Game. GOOD guessing game for a party or n- formal gathering is called “How, When and o One of the players, the questioner, leaves the room, and the other players then decide on one word. It should be a noun, and the more different meanings it has, the better, Such words as “cord,” “pain” and “hand” are good examples. When the word is chosen the questioner comes into the room and begins by asking each of the others, “HOW do you like it?” Suppose the word “hand” has been chosen. One might ans';er “Full of money,” another “With lots of aces” (a hand of playing cards), and still an~ other, “Strong and willing” (a hired hand). ‘When he gets all the “how” answers the quess tioner then asks each player WHEN he likes it, andelehphmmubelm.lnnuy appropriate way. Thus, answers might be “All the time,” “During harvest season,” “When I have to reach,” “When my head itches,” “When I cut my finger nails,” and so on. Finally the WHERE question is asked, and the replies ;Il‘h&be, “In my hand” (the card hand again), In my pocket,” “In the cookie jar,” and so on. Usually the word is discovered long before all the questions are asked. The player whose answer leads to the discovery of the word be- comes the next . ‘Try this game at your next party— are sure to enjoy it. il W Handling Export Goods. Smflmoffl:e&mdommdhtndllng export shipments at New York Harbor is contained in the total figure for lighterage work, which runs around $50,000,000 a year. The necessity of loading from railroad piers to lght- ers and then to the steamers is the principal factor in making harbor costs in New York as high as they are. Only one railroad, the New York Central, has a direct line into New York Ctiy, and as a result freight coming into the city for export must be unloaded in Jersey and then, ed; 3ckess ;to the liner's piey. It is estimated (that;thig cmistem handles 9-09.0.00& . tins snnually.