Evening Star Newspaper, May 17, 1931, Page 95

STORIES SPORTS § ! GAMES THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MAY 17, 1931 e Sfie BOYS and | GIRLS PAGE CRAFTS JOKES 3} PUZZLES . PUZZLES 5 S week we start our puzzles out with a cross-word inclosed in a nice little mantel radio. We hope you don’t run into too much static on this one. STATION P-U-Z. The definitions are: HORIZONTAL. Owned. A wireless receiving set. Printer’s measure. Afternoon (abbr.). Indefinite article. 10. Ireland (abbr.). 12. Train, instruct. 15. To place, put. 16. Prozen water. 18. Point of the compass (abbr.). Ll R VERTICAL, Fommpups 19. Ocean. 21. Greek letter used as mathematical symbol. 2 You know what a radio antenna is, dont you? Well, it’s the aerial, and it forms the cen- ter ¢f our word diamond. The second line is a eenjunction, the third is a dramatic player, the fifth is a giver, and the sixth is an abbrevia- tion for Royz]l Naval Reserve. Can you form the diamond? A N T ANTENNA N N A 3. How many words can you form from the let- ters in STATIC? You should get at least 15. 4 This picture hides the name of a song often beard over the radio. GUESS THE TITLE OF THIS SONG INCOME $50 EXPENSE 40 PROFIT $ 10 5. And now for two radio word chains. Re- member that you must change only one letter st a time, and always for a real word. Change TUBE to WAVE in five moves. Change WIRE to DIAL in four moves, No Thanks Needed. Joan, aged 5, out to tea, was puzzled when she saw the family bow their heads for grace. “What are you doing?” she asked. “Giving thanks for our daily bread,” she was told. “Don’t you give thanks at home, Joan?” “No,” sald Joan, “we pay for our bread.” Man in the Drawing Room. Boy and Girl Mect Exciting Adventure on a Railroad Train. The man rougly jerked the porter's hand away. BY PERRY CLARK. INSTALLMENT L . UST think, Vic, we have these tvo l I whole seats all to ourselves all the way to California.” Helene Trowbridge’s voice was full of awed delight. It was the first time that either she or her brother had been in a sleeping car, and the thought that this train would be their “home” for the next two and a half days was thrilling in the But it was no more thrilling than all the wonders they expected see on their long trip across the prairies and the desert to California, where their aunt was Helene and Vic had been mystified Christmas when po package arrived from their Aunt Mar- something from Aunt Margaret, although it clothes were carefully packed in cases. Pnally their father had tickets, and given them money in travelers’ checks. N the night before they left home they were so excited that they could hardly sleep, although Vic pretended that veling several thousand miles really wasn't such an adventure for a fellow like him. Nevertheless, ] of his “gang,” knowing how much they envied him. But he felt that it was up to him to look after Helene on the trip, because Helene was almost 2 years younger than he. Helene frankly cried a little when she said good-by. Vic didn't cry, but for the first time he began to realize how very far away Cali- fornia was. But their father accompanied them as far as Chicago, and they had no time to get homesick while making the journey there and while spending the day in that huge city. At last in the early evening it was time to go to the station and board the train for Cali- fornia. Mr. Trowbridge saw them safely in their proper place in the sleeping car, had a lttle talk with the Pullman conductor and with the porter about looking after his two children, and then had to hurry away to catch his own train back home. Somehow both Helene and Vie had a very empty feeling in their stomachs after their father had left, but they could not remain in low spirits for long. Everything about this Juxurious ear and the whole train was just too wonderful. “What I'd like to know,” said Vic suddenly, “is how they make two beds out of these seats.” “I know that,” replied Helene proudly., “Gert Lauder told me—she has slept on a train lots of times. The two seats pull toward each other and make one bed, and that round part of the car roof up there comes down and makes the other one.” “I'm going to sleep in the upper berth!” said Vic. “It would be dangerous for you. You might fall eut.” “I dom’t care if you do,” replied Helene, “because you don't have any window up there and I'll have a window down below.” “Yes, but T got to climb a ladder and you don't,” Vic pointed out. HEY discussed the coming night, the next two days, and all the expected glories of the trip, while the time of the train's departure grew steadily nearer. Finally, when they had exhausted every subject of conversation for the moment, Vic jumped to his feet. “I'm going out and talk to Sam, the porter, for a while,” he said. “I'd like to ask him some things about this train.” “Where is he?” said Helene. “He’s out at the steps of the car,” replied Vie. “Well, don’t you let this train start without you,” warned Helene. “I'd go out, too, only I'd rather stay here.” Vic hurried down the aisle through the pas- sage at the end of the car and so out to the platform. He found Sam at the foot of the steps, spick-and-span in his white coat. “How soon do we start, Sam?” inquired Vic as he jumped down to the platform. “It won't be long now,” said Sam, showing white teeth in a wide, good-natured grin. “Jus’ about two minutes. What's the mattah, you gettin’ impatient?” o " sald Vie. “I'm anxious to be mov- AM turned his head to look at a tall, heavy- set man who was hurrying down the plat- form, carrying a grip in each hand, and Vic’s eyes followed the porter's. As the man ap- proached Vic saw that he had a heavy, rather evel-looking face, which was disfigured by a scar running from one corner of the mouth almost to the ear. Although he was moving rapidly along the platform, he turned now and then to glance back. Just as he reached them Sam said inquiringly, “Which car, suh? Car e The man stopped abruptly, dropped ome of his grips and pulled his ticket from his poeket. “Yes,” he said in & hard voice. “I got & drawing room in 17.” “Yes, suh. Right here, suh,” said Sam, motioning the man into the car and reaching for the two grips. “I1l bring your bags in.” But the man roughly jerked the porter’s hand away from the smaller of the two bags. “Leave that alonme!” he eried roughly. “Im ‘tend to that. You bring the other one.” And with a final glance back down the platform, he vaulted up the steps and disappeared into the car. “Huh!” snorted Sam, when the man was out of earshot. “He certainly is touchy this evenin’. I wasn't goin’ to hurt his bag.” From far down the platform came the long cry of “All a-bo-o-0-oard!” Sam gave a last look toward the station, and then uttered a chuckle. “Run, boy, run!” he said. “Here comes a fellow that's going to be left if he don't hurry.” IC had clambered up the steps of ihe ear, but now he leaned out to see a tall, athletic- looking man sprinting down the platform. Just as the train started to move he reached the door of their car and Sam helped him in. “Well,” exclaimed the man breathlessly, let- ting his bag drop to the vestibule platform and mopping his brow with a handkerchief, “that was certainly close.” “I'll say it was,” agreed Sam with a grin. “Are you in car 17, suh?” The man frowned. “I don't know yet where T'll be,” he admitted. “I haven't even got & ticket. T'll have to see the Pullman conductor.” “yes, suh. You'll find him up ahead,” said Sam. Then, when the stranger with a word of thanks passed into the car, Sam turned to Vie with a puzzled frown and scratched his head. “Now, that’s a funny one!” he said. “Man gettin’ on a California train without any Pull- men reservation or even a ticket. He must have made up his mind to come mighty sudden. But I'll be dawg-goned if I se= how he got through the gate without a ticket.” Vie said nothing, but hurried up te his sister, sitting in the end seat of the car with her face pressed against the window pane. “Helene!” he cried excitedly, but in a low voice. “There’s a detective on this train, and nobody knows it but me. He just barely caught the train, and I saw the star under his coa as he ran down the platform.” “A detective?” cried H=lene, jerking her head away from the window. ‘“What's he on the train for?” “I don't know,” said Vic tersely. “But believe me, I'm going ta find out.” (To Be Continued Next Sunday.) '@ Caring for Your Pets. DL‘CKS give their cwners endless howrs of cnjo.ment, watching them splash abou§ th: 1 y with their broods, have n from your hand with Izlkiing yeur palm as th'y eat fas: Lo t frod before another ducik ‘can reach it. The.e is much pleasure in that.- Tame dcmestic ducks are nice, but. I think wild ‘ducks are kL:tter, for these birds can fly, They will circle around and arcund the place where they were raised. You can call them down out of the air, or brigg them home from their foraging expeditions some distance away, if you train them to come when you whistle, By always making the same noise when you feed them, the birds will usually scamper for home with driving wings when they hesr it. The Gray Mallard Duck is generally classed as a wild bird, even though many of this specleg in captivity are tamer than the regular barn- yard birds. Mallards are game birds, proe tected by law by both State and national Gov- ernments. The Bureau of Biological Survey in Washington has charge e¢f the administration of the international migratory bird treaty act, This is an agreement with Canada to help save those wild birds that spend their Winters 3§ the southern part of this country and nest across the line in the Dominion. Under the bureau’s regulations, such birds cannot be pose sessed in closed season without & permit. Malw lards which are the result of captivity breed= ing for three generations or more are exempt from this rule. So if you get your stoek of eggs from an established breeder and specify that you want birds three generations removed from wild-trapped stock, you need not bother about a permit to keep them. RIDDLES is the brain working today? Pretty well, , because it will need to be to get the answers to the five baffling riddles given Hi . When is a banknote like jron? ¥ Why is an island like the letter T? Why is a false friend like the letter PP Why are the Dover cliffs like the letter DB What food represents a Fourth of Julg accompaniment? ‘ ANSWERS. | 1. When it is forged. 2. Because it is in thé midst of water? 3. Because, although always first in pity, he is always last in help? 4°Bgw cause they are next the sea (C). 5. Crackergh .5 apww 1. Cross-word puzzle solution: . TUBE, cube, cure, cére, cama WAVE. WIRE, wile, will, dill, DIAJ.