Evening Star Newspaper, November 30, 1930, Page 111

PUZZLES 1. The first puzzle this week is a word square in pictures. Only the second word should be at all difficult. i 2. These are good nights for sleeping, so we are giving you a word diamond suggesting sleep. The second line is a piece of cloth, the third is a ruler of India, the fiftth means sports, and the sixth is owns. Can you form the diamond? 3. Below are four words all starting with the same three letters. To find out what the words are, you must fill the blank spaces with the correct letters. COR——R COR —& — COR —U——NT COR—A—R 4. The words in the chains below deal with cold weather. » Remember that by each change you must form a real word and only one letter ot a time can be c 3 Change COLD to NOSE in four moves. Change BITE to EARS in four moves. We warn you that there are some difficult words in this cross-word puzzle, A HARD CROSS. The definitions are: HODLIZONTAL. . Large. . A kind of tree. . A tramper. . Blood vessel. . The back of the neck. . Rowing implement. . Wager. . A detall, . Grime. . Gave medicine, . Noise, clamor. . Deepness. VERTICAL. 2. To stop, control. . A large deer. . Verily, so be it. . To shun. . Engaged labor. . Furious, raging. . Unimportant, trivial. . Consume. . Through, by. . Style, fashion. . Depression. . Drink slowly. ANSWERS.. . The square is bowl, ogre, wren and lens. The diamond is P, rag, Rajah, pajamas, games, has and S. . Corner, corpse, corpulent and coirsair, . COLD, hold, hole, hose, NOSE. BITE, bate, bats, bars, EARS, 6. Cross word puzzle solution: THE SUNDRY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, NOVEMBER 30, 1930 e BOYS and GIRLS PAGE s Through the Rebel Lines. An Exciting Story of a Central American Revolution, The girl ssamped her foot in rage. BY W. BOYCE MORGAN. INSTALLMENT I HE whole country of San Miguel, one of the smallest of the Central Amer- ; jcan republics, boasts of only one railroad, and that is the single-track line running from the coast to the City of San Miguel, capital of the country. Over this line, which climbs painfully upward the high plateau on which the city stands, train runs each way every day. Of occasional freight trains as train on which a pas- platform is always ngine brought its burden particular day the “Central America certainly seems to agree with you,” he finished. LAUGHB!G and talking excitedly, Paul was led by his brother through the station. They picked up his baggage and deposited it the rear of Leonard’s little coupe, and as slcwly up the narrow street toward city itself they talked of all the things that said when two brothers bhave not other for almost two years. Leonard Field had come to San Miguel many months before as representative of an Ameri- can company dealing in mining machinery. After almos$ two years of absence he had plan- ned a trip home, but unsettled political con- ditions in the turbulent republic had made it impossible for him to get away. Instead, he had asked Paul if he would like to come to San Miguel to visit him, and Paul had leaped at chance. gave him all the news of home as they slong, with Leonard interrupting mnow point out some spot of interest in city. Paul was having a hard time, talking to absorb all the sights so t0o & boy who had never before been country. He looked in wonder old church, largest building in the a marvel of Spanish architecture, and with interest at the government build- . Pinally they drove up to the which housed the tiny office that Leonard maintained for his company. After a brief stop there they continued on toward Leonard’s home, “JUBT wait until you see my house,” said Leonard with a grin. “I've got just about the finest location in the city—up there on that hill, overlooking the whole town. The big building you see on the very top of the hill is the President’s palace, and my house is a lttle place, just below it. In fact, the Presi- dent’s place is really in my back yard.” Paul laughed. “You must have found a mine of your own, for you certainly sound prosper- ous,” he said. “Nothing like that,” retorted Leonard. “But few good American dollars go a long way in country and I can have almost anything within reason. I have this fine little and an old ledy, Maria, who takes care of it and cocks some of the best food you ever ate. Just wait and see.” A few minutes later, however, Leonard’s gay mood wore off and he became more serious. “I'll tell you, Paul,” he said, “I almost cabled you at the last minute not to come. Things are pretty unsettled here now and there’s dan- ger of a revolution. President Guardia is friendly to Americans and to my company and generally quite popular with the people. But there is a rebel leader, Pancho Torrez, who is rumored to be gathering about him a large army of desperadoes back in the mountains. If he feels he has a chance of overthrowing the present government and makes an attack, you can never tell what may happen.” “Scunds exciting,” said Paul eagerly. Leonard shook his head scberly. “Oh, it would be exciting, all right. But these Central American revolutions are no joke. I'lt admit they have funny-looking soldiers, but this Pancho Torrez is a cruel and bold outlaw and some of the stories of things he has done would turn your blood cold.” Leonard shrugged his lhoulck" Ts. “But it may be just another false had started to climb in the little car some time ago and now they were driving up a steep, winding but well paved road above the picturesque roofs of the city. Paul was gazing down at the novel scene below him, but Leonard was keeping his eyes on the winding road. Suddenly he uttered an exclamation and Paul jerked his eyes back to see a huge roadster careening toward them around a sharp bend. His gasp was unheard in the squealing of brakes from both cars as Leonard swung perilously close to the edge of the road to avoid a col- lision. ‘The careless driver of the other car, which was racing down the very middle of the narrow road, also made a valiant effort to turn aside, but in vain. Paul felt a sharp bump, there was the crash of metal against metal and then the two cars stopped, with their left front fenders hooked into ‘each other. ‘They jumped out, to be met by the driver of the other car. And here Paul received a real surprise. It was a girl, and one of the most beautiful girls he had ever seen. She had black hair and black eyes, that now blazed in fury, and her lovely olive face was flushed hotly. She faced Leonard and Paul and began to speak rapidly and emphatically in Spanish. Leonard, of course, could speak Spanish fluently, but that language was a good deal of a mystery to Paul. Even to him it was apparent that the girl was saying some very uncompli- mentary things to his brother in spite of the fact that the accident had been her fault. EONARD listened with a slight smile on his face, finally making some polite reply in Spanish. But he could not keep himself from adding, in English, “Nevertheless, my dear young lady, you're a rotten driver and deserve to be spanked for talking like that.” Leonard thought that this little speech was entirely safe. But its effect was electric. The girl stamped her foot in rage. “Oh, is that so, you smart American?” she burst out in English. “Well, I'll teach you not to talk like that to me. Do you know who I am? I am Isabella Guardia and you'll hear more of this.” With that she turned on her heel, jumped back into her car and threw it furiously into reverse. There was a ripping and a banging as she applied the power, but she tore hersel free, ripping the fender of Lecnard’s car en- the President’s éaughter—and I told her she ought to be spanked.” “Well, she ought to be,” said Paul emphati= cally. “I know,” replied Leonard seriously. “Buf that's a poor thing to say to a president'g daughter in this part of the world! I didn§ know her. She has been in Europe and thd United States for several years &nd returned just recently. I should have recognized he# from her pictures, but didn't. She's probably right—we will hear more of this!” (To be continued pext Sunday.) Home Made Cards. Miss Brown, by special request of the memie bers of the Hobby Club, had agreed to tell theng how to make home-made Christmas cards. “During my roamings in many parts of thd world I was fortunate enough to make a wone derful collection of snapshots. I took most of them myself, the others I bought at the souve= nir stores. From these I made several lovely Christmas cards. The first one that I am going to tell you how to make was inspired by a sight which I saw while holidaying in g fishing village in the North of Scotland. “One morning on my way for an early swim, I stopped thrilled by the sheer beauty of the scene in front of me. Through a pearly mist gleamed the first golden and crimson glory of dawn. A fleet of about 50 fishing boats with flapping sails of brown was slowly and majestia cally gliding out of the small harbor, head for the open sea. Limed along the sea were all the families of the fishermen, waving & cheery farewell to their men. “In the village store I bought a beautifully colored picture post card of this scene. I pasted the card on the dark paper (the kind Wwhich is used for scrap albums). I took a piece ©of pearly-hued georgette, cut it just a littlg larger than the card, mountsd it on gold snape shot corners (you can get these at any drug store for a few cents) and pasted it over the picture post card. . “The finished card was a most realistie pice ture of a fishing fleet at dawn with the mist effect created by the georgette,” concluded Miss Brown. The members cheered with delight at the novelty of this idea presented to them by their teacher. Economical, She (no good at riddles): “Oh no, I could never guess.” He: “Good! Then we’ll take a trolley.” Something New. “What are all these women doing areund here?” inquired the small boy. “I guess they came to see our new baby,” res plied the equally small girl. “But why do they want to see the baby?d persisted the boy, “Babies are common enoughy aren’t they?” “Oh, yes,” replied the little girl. “But this ¥ @ new one and I guess they want to see thd latest fashion.” | i 1 RIDDLES Here is a baflling set of riddles to try on your friends. If they can guess these right away, without a lot of deep thinking, they are clever. 1. What is the difference between a chesse player and a habitual toper? 2. How did the whale that swallowed Jonah obey one of the dizine commandments? 3. How does an auctioneer look when cone ducting a sale? 4. Why should an artist never be short of