Evening Star Newspaper, April 20, 1930, Page 95

STORIES SPORTS ' ‘GAMES PUZLLES sl The Easter rabbit is with us this week, and we know you'll enjoy solving the puzzles he brings you. THE EASTER RABBIT. The definitions are: HORIZONTAL. 2. An insect. 4. Something eaten on Easter morning. 6. What rabbits wiggle. . A church holiday. . Causes to run off the rails. . You. VERTICAL. Pet name for a rabbit. . Toward. . A literary composition. . Prominent part of rabbit's head. . To bind. . Right side (abbr.). Perform. s This is marble season, so we are giving you & word diamond with marbles as the chief word. The second line means a small portion, the third means ventured, the fifth is closer to the bottom and the sixth is moisture found on the glass in the morning. Form the diamond. M A R MARBLES L E s -— These word chains should remind you that thrift is a virtue and teach you what to do with your money. Remember to change only one letter at a time, forming a real word with each step. Change EARN to SAVE in four moves. Change CASH to BANK in four moves. i Behead a word for cost and get a grain. Be- head this grain and get something cold. Behead a word meaning checkered cloth and get placed; behead this and get help. g Girls should be good on solving this picture puzzle, THREE|ARTICLES FROM A ’I:A_D%S HANDBAG e (P )ud ;TICK \ TQ K a K4 1, Cross-word puzzle solution. 2. The diamond is M, dab, dared, marbles, below, dew, S. s. 4. P-r-ice. P-l-aid. 5. The words in the picture puzzle are hand-' kerchief, lipstick and powder puff. 6. Plot, love, over and term. ‘THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. T, APRIL 20, 1990. .l vl A PmHAPS you have not yet learned at school about the little town of Waterloo in Bel- gium, but you will before long, for, though it is but a small hamlet of no importance now, it was near here that was fought one of the greatest and one of the most decisive battles of the world. It was near this place that Napoleon, the Emperor of the French, and his great army met his enemies for the last time. Napoleon had been making war for over 20 years on every country in Europe. From Egypt in the east to Belgium and Holland in the west the French soldiers had conquered almost continuously, and the name of their great commander, Na- poleon Bonaparte, was feared by all. But on June 18, 1815, he met his enemies again and it was his last fight. For here were the Eng- lish under Lord Wellington, aided later on by Blucher and his Germans, victorious, and though the French tried all that day and far OYS and GIRLS PAGE . \ into the night to destroy these allies, they failed and were driven off the field. We call it a decisive battle because it ended over 20 years of continual warfare, drove Na- poleon into exile and remade most of the map of Europe. It gave Europe peace again after a series of wars that lasted as long as some men could remember. Because of the importance of this battle many monuments are placed all over the bat- tlefield, but the largest of them all is that called the Mound of the Lion. It was built of earth taken from the battlefields and carried in baskets. Two hundred feet high it is and on its very summit there stands an immense bronze lion weighing 24 tons. One can ascend to the very top of the mound and look for many miles over the old battle- field of Waterloo. It is quiet now, a scene of lovely farms and fruitful orchards, but it was 115 years ago a scene of death and fire and of human agony. Mind-Reading Is Simple. Thought-reading stunts are always fun and sometimes they are very mystifying. The one we are going to tell you about this week is simple as can be, but it may keep your audience guessing if it is cleverly done. Suppose that Tom and Edna are going to perform the stunt, Tom being the mind-reader and Edna his partner. Tom leaves the room and Edna tells the others to decide on any number of three figures. Let us say that 824 is chosen. The number is written on a piece of paper and handed to Edna, who must know what it is so that Tom can “read her mind.” Now, Tom returns to the room. Edna says to him, “All right, Tom, can you guess the number?” Tom gives evidence of great mental effort, with signs and puzzled frowns. Finally he - Arrows for 'A RROWS are made from round dowels— straight-grained wood about % of an inch in diameter and from 16 to 20 inches long. Cut a notch in the back end and then glue two or three bits of feathers to the rod three inches ahead of the back end. Any quill feather will do. Split off one side from the main stem with a razor blade and glue this in an upright posi- tion. Later trim off the edges to make each portion the same size. The heads of the arrows can be made in a number of ways. One excellent type consists of an inch-length of brass or copper tubing cut with a hack saw, then filed so that the four prongs are leaf and, when gradually brought together shaped, to meet, they will form & rough, conical point. - When the seams have been closed, the point is heated and solder put into the head from the vent overweight by and this will stick hit. m tip head next shown is manufactured for the purpose and can be obtained from any firm dealing in bows and arrows. It can be driven to a fit or set by pricking with a marking punch. The bottom answers, “The first figure is eight.” “Go ahead,” says Edna. “The second figure is two,” says Tom, after a great deal of more serious thinking. “And the last number,” says Edna hope- fully. “Four,” replies the great mind-reader at last. “The whole number is 824.” Can you guess how this is done? If not, just notice that there are eight words in Edna's first remark to Tom. This told him the first number was eight. In the same way, her second remark had two words and her third four. If one of the numbers had been zero she would have coughed or given some other signal. With a little practice this stunt can be done so well that the partner will never pick the wrong number of words. Your Bow. head is an ordinary red rubber eraser made for pencils, It is ideal for close-range shooting or indoor practice. The rubber will stretch enough to fit almost any arrow. One hardly needs a quiver, but you can make one easily from some corrugated card- board cut to form a box apout 2 inches square and 12 inches long. Put a square of the card- board in the bottom and fasten the pieces st St | Bross rifte skei/ Trrongulor sheel stee/ oo Bross shell and ra/ porn’ Soecio/ meto/ fip Rovror/ rubber jo AIve gooo’ /jps /or yowr @rroms together with adhesive paper strips. Then paint. Fasten a leather strap to the outside, four inches from the top, long enough to reach over your head to your right shoulder and the top of the quiver about to your waist. This size will accommodate a dozen arrows easily. Allow for Windage. “I see you have a notice, ‘We Aim to Please,’” remarked the irritated customer to the store manager. “Yes,” replied the manager, “that is our motto.” “Well,” said the customer, “you ought to Sake a little time off for target practice.” B RIDDLES If you can gusass three out of these five rid- dles without looking at the answers you qualify as a veteran fan. Let’s see how you rate. 1. What is the difference between a jeweler and a jailer? 2. What bird can’t help being in low spirits? 3. What was the first scene at the Chicago fire? 4. Why is education like a tailor? 5. When is a piece of string like a clock? ANSWERS. 1. One sells watches, the other watches cells. 2. The blue bird. 3. Kerosene. 4. Because it forms our habits. 5. When it is wound up. Fan Draws Admiration. Murmurs of admiration went around among the girls of the Hobby Club as Miss Brown showed them a fairly large fan made out of bamboo, yet so beautifully decorated that it looked like a real object of art. “I have a friend,” said Miss Brown, “who makes a hobby of collecting all the oddest things you could dream of. It is almost like going into a museum when one visits her room. Last time I was there a fan like this appealed to me and I thought I would try to make one. “First, from any department store you can get a fan of bamboo or straw for a few cents; l then get either a few very artistic picture pcst cards or a picture from some magazine. Paste then very neatly all over the fan ’till you have one side entirely covered by the pictures. “Next get some very narrow gold or silver braid, tack it with a needle all over the face of the pictures about an inch apart, then get some ribbon and wind on to the handle of the fan in puttee fashion. The finished result will astonish you,” concluded the teacher. “That’s a great idea and really will make a most decorative novelty to hang on the wall, almost like a picture,” said one of the members, Fairy Fidget at Work. Fairy fidget crawled out from behind the school room clock where he had been taking a nap. He yawned and looked around the room. The pupils all sat quietly listening to the teacher’s voice as it ran on and on. She was reading what seemed to Fairy Fidget a very dry story. “How tiresome!” Pidget grumbled. “I should think the teacher would like a little excitemenfit. I know I would. No one here looks as if he had ever heard of me before. I'll show”them who I am.” He jumped up on the clock and danced a lively jig to see if he couldn't stir up some excitement. Two of the students shifted their positions and looked up at the clock. Immediately they began shuffling their feet and moving their hands, unconsciously keeping time to the rhythm of Fairy Fidget’s dance. But don't think for a moment that Fairy Fidget was satisfied with this. He was a very spoiled fairy and would not be satisfied until he had the whole school following every move, He quickly hopped down from the clock and set to work in earnest. First he jumped up on teacher’s desk. Right under her nose he did the Highland Fling and then went through his setting-up exercises. Then from desk to desk he hopped. He stood on his head on one desk, turned all sorts of flipflops on the next and bounced up and down after that. There wasn’t anything in the world that Fairy Fidget couldn’'t do. He was never still a minute. Now after Fairy Fidget had danced all over the room there wasn't a boy or girl who was sitting still. Such a racket as there was in that school room! Even the teacher could scarcely hear herself read. Fairy Fidget chuckled to himself. “This is more like it,” he laughed. “I surely do like excitement.” At last the teacher closed her book with a sigh. “My, but you children do have the fidgets badly today,” she said. Fairy PFidget did a fancy dive behind the clock. His work was done in that room; he'd move on to the next one. E fliciency Dewvice. Willie, observing a workman in the corridor of his school building, asked him what he was doing. “Putting in an electric switch,” replied the workman., “Huh!” said Willie, “I don’t care—I'm leaving this school anyhow!”