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PUZZLES ik HAPPY NEW YEAR. 1. Device for measuring time. 7. Indefinite article. 21. Agricultural student (slang). 23. Avenue (abr.), . Strike lightly. . Greek letter. . Behold! . To make merry. VERTICAL. . Single thing or person, . Proceed. . Aid, encourage, 6. Matched group. 10. Ship. 11. Broad. 15. A Winter month. 17. Measure of duration. 18. Tidy. 20. Wicked. 22. Festive. 23. Chopping tool. 25. Cooking vessel. 27. College degree (abr.). E ‘This is the season for making new resolu- tions, so it is very fitting that we should have a diamond containing the word “resolve.” The second line is a vegetable, the third is glue, the fifth is volume of maps and the sixth isn’t much of anything except three letters! R E ] THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 28, 1930. PHIL LINDNER FOR WAv,COAL, BRICKS, LUMBER, z —> [rar Sik0 SOcks " T SouUwe TeEATEO [ 17 @ ARL MECKENSTOCK RiauT ATLEETN'S LOWS. PUMES, SIDER BARRELS, AND STONE JUGS Through the Rebel Lines. An Exciting Story of a Central American Revolution. BY W. BOYCE MORGAN. While Paul Pield is visiting his brother Leonard, who represents an American mining machinery company in the little Central American republic of 8an Miguel, they meet Isabella Guardia, the presi- dent’s daughter, an automobile col o She takes them in her car to visit the government the mountains near the city. When they mines in arrive they dead and INSTALLMENT V. ENORITA GUARDIA now proved that she could rise to an emergency. Her small hands gripped the steering wheel of the car firmly, and she drove the short remaining distance to the rifies and fired, but the shots were ineffective. AUL knew now that the greatest danger was past, but as they approached the center of came closer and closer to the fighting. The street on which riding was clear, but from the right t rattle of gunfire, and now caught a glimpse, down a side troops advancing at a run. enly they ran into a new peril. swung the car around a corner, ; for the hilly road that led up to the presidential palace, they saw ahead of them a barricade thrown across the street. Behind the a company of government troops, e “there protuded the ominous muz- car bore down upon the barricade a from behind it, and a moment later shots were whistling around the car. The soldiers, all unknowihg, were firing on their president’s daughter! Leonard jumped to the ning board, exposing himself further to the bullets, and jerked a white handkerchief from his pocket. As he waved it frantically, the soldiers stopped their fire. Then some of them recognized the official government car. MOMENT later a part of the barricade was pulled down, and as the soldiers cheered Senorita Guardia drove through. Now they were behind their own lines and really safe. Unless, as Paul suddenly thought, the revolution succeeded, and Pancho Torrez gained control of the city! The car swiftly climbed the hill, . passing government soldiers on guard everywhere, and finally swung into the drive in front of the presidential palace. As Senorita Guardia brought it to a stop at the door an excited man came running out, caught her in his arms, and began talking in excited Spanish. It was President Guardia, worried almost to distrac- tion by the absence of his daughter during this eventful day. At once the wounded Carter was removed from the car and rushed to a hospital. And then Senorita Guardia turned to Leonard and Paul. “You must spend the rest of the day with me here,” she said. “I won’t let you go until this trouble is over. Wait a moment—I'm not thinking of your safety, but of my own. I know when I have found the best possible body- guards!” AND 80 it happened that Paul and Leonard had “box seats” on-the roof of the presi- dential palace for the revolution. For two hours they sat there, gazing down and watching the tide of battle as it flowed back and forth through the streets at the lower end of the city. The result was not in doubt long. ‘The government troops were superior in numbers, training and equipment to the ragged revolu- tionists. By early eveping the battle was prac- tically over, with only the sound of occasional firing marking the pursuit of some of the rebels back into the hills. When Paul and Leonard were alone that night the boy suddenly realized that he had been in San Miguel for only a little more than 24 hours. So much had happened that it seemed like weeks. He commented on this to “Well, you seem none the worse for it,” said Leonard with an affectionate smile. “In fact, I'm proud of my fire-eating brother. The way you handled that gun in the rear seat was great. But I don’t mind admitting that I feel 10 years older than I did this morning. I did some tall worrying before we got out of that mess, I can tell you.” Several weeks later Paul again found him- self on the one-train-a-day that ran from San Miguel to the seacoast. His visit was over. “Well, nobody can say this wasn't an event- ful trip,” he mused. “It started with an auto accident, followed at once by a revolution, and ended with a wedding. I guess I'll have some- thing to tell the gang when I get home—having a brother married to the daughter of a presi- dent, even if it is the president of just a little place like San Miguel. And they certainly do serve dandy meals at the palasg.” THE END. RIDDLES Here's something to start the new year right—a group of riddles with very catchy answers. But they are not really difficult-— just sharpen ycur wits and we know you can answer them without any trouble. 1. How do we know that they had a tele- phone in the Garden of Eden? 2. Which are the most extensive letters? 3. Why can’t a cook swallow his apron? 4. What poet does everybody want? 5. What was the difference betw’n, the Duke of Wellington and Jonah? ANSWERS. 1. Their number was 281 (two ate ome) apple. 2. The seas (C’s). 3. Because it goes against his stomach. 4. Moore (more). 5. One was brought up at Eton; the other was eaten and brought up. Trick With Dominoes. If you have a complete set of dominoes you can perform a very interesting mind-reading trick with them. Lay all the dominoes out on a table and insist on shufling them. Then leave the room, asking the spectators to match up all the dominoes while you are gone. This is done just as though the game were being played — starting with any piece, then placing a four against another four, a six against a six, and 8o on. While you are out of the room you can submit to being blindfolded and guarded to make the trick more bafling. At the end, when all the dominoes have been matched, you are able to' announce to the spectators the end numbers on the line of matched dominoes. Nobody will guess how you do this, but it is really very simple. While shufiing the dominces at the beginning of the trick you secretly conceal one in your hand or @acket. Later you examine this domino, and the num- bers on it will be the same as the end num- bers on the line of dominoes which the others have matched. This is because, if all the dominces were used in the matching, they would form an endless chain ar eircle. Sentence With Five “Ands.” If you were asked to form a sensible sentence in which the word “and” occurred five times In succession, you would probably think that it was impossible. Yet such a sentence can be made without violating any of the laws of grammar. And here's a story to show you how. A man went into a restaurant, and noticed a sign which read as follows: “Ham, and, eggs today, 30 cents.” He called the proprietor and said to him, “That sign is wrong.” “It is?” said the proprietor in perplexity. “Well, what can I do to fix it?” “That's easy,” replied the man. “Just take out the commas between ham and and and and and eggs.” Do you get it? The man meant that the comma between the words “ham” and “and,” and the one between “and” and “eggs” should come out. And his sentence makes sense, as you wiil see when you say it over to yourself. Which brings to mind the story of the old lady who asked the railway ticket seller, “What time does the first train to the city leave this afternoon?” “Two minutes to two,” he replied. = “And what time does the first afternoon train g0 on Sundays?” she asked. “‘On Sundays it goes at two to two, t00,” he answered. e The old lady looked at him angrily. “Be you the whistle?” she demanded. Exterior Decorator. “It’s most essential that you should refrain from doing headwork during the next few Patient—"Yes, doctor, but it's my living!” Doctor—"Oh, are you a scholar?” Patient—“No, I'm a barber.” ANSWERS. 1. Cross-word puzzle solution. H[ojuIR|GL]AlS ]S oR 3 03 [ EER PIM®IX M08 m[of -] -] X |- [] [>[m{Z] [x]1 ] Llo] c[E[LielsR]Av]S] 2. The diamond is R, pea, paste, resolve, atlas, Evs, E. 3. Hobk holy, hid, had, hail, halo, hay, eh, old, ofl, lo, lid, la, laid, lay, lad, lady,.. , ldo‘ll. do, doily, dial, dally, day, ah, ail, aijlj o and ay. 4. The puar is 1648, .