Evening Star Newspaper, April 27, 1930, Page 103

STORIES SPORTS GAMES’ U LLLES i Pour kinds of precious stones are concealed in this picture puzzle. Can you guess what they are. GUESS THESE 4 PRECIOUS STONES Now lets's work a diamond, built about the word jeweler. The second line is a boy’s nick- mame, the third is a cloth used for drying, the fifth is something found in the mouth of a river and the sixth is a meadow. RS A precious stone is concealed in each of these @entences: “The hostess probebly will appear later in the ” "You.lhould rub your hands briskly to warm i I am a three-letter word. By putting various first letters before me, I become a word used in golf, blood, knowledge and an additional quan- tity. What am I? —5— CROSS WORD PUZZLE. The definitions are: HORIZONTAL. 21. To make broader. 23. You. 24. Company (abbr.). 25. A small, sharp report. 28. To proceed. 27. Near. 28. Lawful. 30. Toward the top. 32. To invite, 33. Yonder. 35. A ditch around a castle. 88. One-fourth of a pint. 40 Snakelike fish. 41. Often. 43. Animal used as a pet. 44. Cheerless, 45. Follows orders. VERTICAL. . A lid. . Part of the verb “to be.” . A fruit. Rallroad (abbr.), . Agricultural student (abbr.). . To tie. . Covering for a pan. . To exalt the spirit. . Near. . Near the ground. . Male child. . A two-footed creature. . To pay back. . Deed. Animal used as a pet. . Second personal pronoun. . Equipped with weapons. 28. Lighted. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, APRIL 27, 1930. %e BOYS and ] GIRLS PAGE Things Made From Bamboo. BY DALE R. VAN HORN. 7%rs stow's Lrow legs orxd rrOlIrags ore rstvorec womple oF /e shrrgs you: oar moke frorr Sorrboo o ol bores WHAT boy hasn’t firmly believed at one time or another that bamboo poles were grown just for fishing? Yet all the bamboo which finally comes to dangling a line over the water is perhaps less than 10 per cent of the bamboo grown. Many things are made of it. And even bamboo which you can buy at the can do many things. Bamboo fur- 'ways novel, attractive and sturdy, gegE” S111H] i 29. Pelled tree. 31. Hides of animals. 32. A bundle. 34. Pastidious. 36. Over. 37. Preposition denoting possession. place. Bamboo S Flere 1s o o, mogozirre rock she fresloce and make with bamboo. A short pole of rather large diameter will provide enough material to make a whole fleet of small boats, one of which is shown. The length of the boat will be de- termined my the distance between joints, and the width by the diameter. Saw through the pole just beyond the two joints, then smooth off with sharp knife and sandpaper, rounding the ends as much as possible. Then saw in two lengthwise to make two boats. From two strips of bamboo fashion seats and press them in place as indicated. These boats will ride nicely on smooth water. They can be made more stable by driving a few short tacks in the bot- tom from the under side. The larger boats, made possible by large bamboo, will even carry a small mast and sail. A single section of bamboo, with one end closed by the joint and the other end open, will make a dandy pouch for your air rifle shot. Close the open end with a cork or rubber stop- inside to prevent any possible leaking. vase is ideal for small flowers such as violets, pansies. Long-stemmed flowers also can be used nicely. Cover the bottom with a piece of felt, glued fast. Attractive pieces of furniture, such as a fern- ery, can be made from bamboo entirely, with the exception of perhaps a single board for the sides like a picket fence. Diagonal can be used. Very Well. Once I heard a mother utter, “Daughter, go and shut the shutter.” “Shutter’s shut,” the daughter uttered; “I can’t shut it any shutter.” Easily Satisfied. Policeman—Yer can't go there, miss, it's & one-way street. Lady—But I only want to go one way. RIDDLES Get ready riddle fans! Here are five of the kind you like—hard enough to make you stop and think a minute if you have not already heard them. 1. Why are hogs like trees? 2. What black thing is red when it is green? 3. What is the difference between a cat and & comma? 4. When a man is in prison, what disease would he like to have? 5. What kind of a band has no buckle? ANSWERS. 1. Because they root for a living. 2. A black- berry. 3, A cat has paws at the end of its claws and a comma has a pause at the end of its clause. 4, The measles, for then. he would break out. 5, A band of robbers., . . ‘ CRAFTS JOKES 3} PUZZLES : POSERS Let’s see how “smart” we are this week, try- ing to answer the eight questions below. These have been chosen, not to fool you, but to teach you a few facts which you may not already know. 1. What gas makes up the greatest part of the atmosphere? a 2. How many sides has a hexagon? .~ 3. Is the Gulf of Mexico fresh water or salt water? 4. What famous inventor sold magazines om a railroad train when he was a boy? 5. What nationality are the Fascisti? 6. What kind of angles are there in a square? 7. When it is 6 o’clock in New York, what time is it in San Prancisco? 8. What is the chief language spoken in South America? ANSWERS. 1. Nitrogen. 2. Six. 3. Salt water, as it is part of the ocean. 4. Thomas A. Edison. 5. Italian. 6. A square has four right angles (90 degrees). 7. Three o'clock. 8. Spanish. The Gods of Greece. WHEN the ancient Greeks looked northward from their beautiful cities of over 2,000 years ago, they saw in the distance the high peaks of a great and majestic mountain range, and they saw in particular the highest of them all, called Mount Olympus; and when they be- held -this mountain they looked long and with great respect. For this mountain was not only the largest within their view, many believed it to be the very highest in the world. It was more than a mighty mountain; it was, 80 thought the ancient Greeks, the home .of the gods. For the Greeks, you see, believed in the existence of many gods. They had a god or goddess for almost every object, for every fear, for every happiness. There was Apollo, the sun god. And there were Zeus, the god of the sky; Olympia, the goddess of wisdom and protec- tress of peace and indusiry; Hermes, the mes- senger of the gods; Artemis, goddess of the moon; the goddess of love, called Aphrodite, and many others. All these gods and goddesses were supposed to live happily in their splendid homes atop the mountain called Olympus. No wonder the Greeks loved that mountain; no wonder they looked at it with awe, wondering at the activi- ties of the gods who dwelt there. Mount Olympus is still in Greece and it looks very much as it did so many years ago, but now no one believes in the beautiful stories about the gods who were supposed to dwell on its heights and we hear of them only in.history lessons. You'll learn all about them and about many other wonderful things connected with the Greeks and their splendid civilization which flourished when most of Europe and all of America were still a wilderness full of savage tribes. y Germany’s Big Guns. Continued from Fourth Page tember 12 and 13 the St. Mihiel salient was pinched off. Although a million people had left the city of Paris, the morale-breaking campaign had failed. Beginning Setember 26 the Americans con- ducted their successful but expensive Argonne campaign. While the Americans were consum- ing the remaining reserve divisions of the Ger- man army in the Argonne, the French and British armies hammered them ceaselessly from there to the Belgian coast. On November 1 the German line was broken. Between October 27 and November 11. the American and French long-range guns had succeeded in virtually smashing every railway line used as an artery of supply by the German army. And one of the German emissaries is reported to have sald when signing the armi- stice agreement in the car of Marshal Foch at Compiegne early in the morning of November 11 that: “We do not regard ourselves defeated, but since our main railway line has been broken almost eontinuously by long-range shell fire for nearly two weeks, nearly a half million of our men are starving, having had nothing to eat for the past four days; we must therefore cease ” How clearly the truth of a philosophy of Mar- shal Foch had been demonstrated by the events of the Summer and Autumn! He had been persistent in saying to his students while he was an instructor and later the director of the Ecole de Guerre: “Gentlemen, a defeat is a situation in which one of the opponents acknowledges himself beaten.” Paris had been #hipped, but refused to admit it. Perhaps the allied armies were defeated in June, Hut they refused to accept it. o 3 (Copyright, 1930.) *