Evening Star Newspaper, June 7, 1931, Page 91

" #HE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JUNE 7, 1931 ° STORIES SPORTS B i GAMES ; PUZZLES e Lots of new houses are going up these days, and boys and girls love to play in them. So this puzzle should be easy. FOUR PARTS OF A NEW HOUSE Making a garden is fun, but it is also work, P8 these word chains show. Remember you ean change only one letter at a time, and that gou always must form a real word. Change WEED to PULL in five moves. Change SEED to HOES in three moves. a9 In the sentence below, the missing words bave the same pronunciation, but are spelled differently. What are they? She asked the — if the beds had been =, e © And now we have four different kinds of eows! Fill the blanks and spell the words. The first one is the hardest. 1. COW—R— —C—. 2. COWB— —L. 3. COW — L — — 4 COW—O—. —5—- CROSS WORD PUZZLE. HEs HEEE SEEE Wl dEE El The definitions are: HORIZONTAL. . Toward the top. . To scatter seed. . Advertisement (Abbr.). . Musical piece played by one person. . Skin of fruit. . Boy's name. . Division ef a drama. . Thought. . Nuisance. . Cows (Poetic). . Kill . Floor covering. Used with neither. . Saucerlike bell, . Upon. . Juice of a tree. . Near. R VERTICAL. We. Small lake. . A fountain beverage. To tie up, envelop. Insects. . Doctor of Divinity (Abbr.). 8. Place sheltered from the wind. 10. Solidified water, 13. Family, kind. 15. Plaything. 17. Common metal. . 18. Sister of mercy. 19. Food eaten for breakfast (Pl). 20. To cut off suddenly. 21. Parcel of real estate. 22. Sunken court of a bulilding. 25. Proceed. 4. Mount (Abbr.). Once Is Enough. Mose Melonwater went for a ride in an afr- plane. When he came down he said to the ilot : v “Thank yo’ boss, fo' dem two rides.” *“Two rides?” said the aviator. “You've only had one!” “No, sah,” exclaimed the Negro. *“Ah had $wo—mah fust and mah last!” [ ©%4eBOYS and GIRLS PAGE Man in the Drawing Room. A Boy and Girl Have Exciting Adventures on Railroad Train. Mr. Ryan fought to save himself, failed, and fell backward. BY PERRY CLARK. Vie and Helene Trowbridge are making s trans- contintental railway journey to California to visit their aunt. They make friends with Mr. Ryan, & detective, who is on the trail of a robber supposed to be on this train. The suspected man is traveling in the drawing room nearest the seats occupied by Vic and Helene, and never shows his face out- Detective Ryan wants to get in the He enlists the heip of Vic and Helene to watch the drawing room door, but during the first two nights and days of the trip they do not even et a glimpse of the culprit. As the children go to the last night, Mr. Ryan says that the suspect ke his escape that night if he intends . The train is passing through the to the Mexican border, and it is very INSTALLMENT 1V, HEN Vic had climbed Into his berth and drawn the curtains, the heat seemed even Wworse then before. He tossed rest- lessly about for some time, finally falling into fitful slum- It was several hours later that he sud- wide awake, staring into the dark- a second he did not know what had poused him; then he was conscious of a hand shaking him through the curtains, and & familiar voice saying, “Vic! Vic!” He hastily parted the curtains and gazed into the face of Mr. Ryan. “Sorry to wake you,” the detective whispered, *but I nmeed you. Can you throw on your clothes and get out here in a hurry?” “Sure,” sald Vic. “What's up?” *Hurry, commanded the detective. “Our man has finally left the drawing room and gone back through the train. I don't think he plans to get off, because he doesn’t have his bags, and it would be suicide to leave the train in the desert. But I want to seach his things, now, and want you to keep track of him while I'm doing it.” Vie had been pulling on his clothes as fast a8 he ecould, and now Mr. Ryan helped him down from the berth. Then, to their amaze- ment, the curtains of the lower berth parted, and Helene stuck out an arm and a foot, fol- Jowed by a body that was fully, if bastily, elothed. “I heard you,” she said to Mr. Ryan, “and I'm going with Vic.” The detective nooded, chuckled, and hustled them off toward the rear of the train. Then he turned and opened the door of the drawing yoom. Wmsrznmo excitedly, but cautioning . each other that they must act naturally, Vie and Helene made their way back through the hot, alrless train. Vic peered into every smoking room, but they saw no sign of any man. Everybody seemed to be in his berth. Pinally they reached the observation car, and as soon as they entered it, they could see that there was a man sitting out on the rear platforin, with his back to the railing, facing them and the car door. Vic barely was able to suppress an exclamation of excitement when he saw that the man was the rough-looking stranger who had boarded the train just be- fore the detective, two nights before. Vic re- called how he had acted when the porter tried to pick up his bag. Maybe that bag con- tained the stolen money! “Let’'s go out on the observation platform,” sald Vic in a voice that he tried hard to make casual. "We'll get a little air out there, any- way.” As they approached the door, the man on the platform watched them closely. Then seeing that they were just a young boy and girl, he leaned back in his chair, while they opened the dcor and took chairs facing him. #Oh, how much cooler it is out here,” said Helene in a surprisingly calm voice. “And see how big the stars look. glanced up at the sky, but one eye still remained on the man sitting so close to bim. Vic noticed that he kept one hand in his coat pocket as though he had a gun there, and his eyes never left the inside of the lighted observation car. Evidently he did not intend to be taken by suprise. “The heat was simply awful in that berth of mine,” Helene went on. *“I couldn’t sleep a wink.” “It was pretty bad in mine, too,” answered Vic. “But I think maybe you get more air in an upper.” The man was evidently disarmed by their conversation. Vic decided that the suspect must have finally found his little drawing room simply unbearable in the heat, and left it fcr a breath of air, feeling safe on the very end of the train, sitting in such a way that any enemy must approach him from the front. Vic then became conscious that the train had stopped. He noticed a few buildings be- side the tracks, and decided that they must be getting water or switching a car. o FTER some five minutes the train began to move again. It had picked up very little speed when Vic, glancing over the shoulder of the robber suspect, almost jumped from his chair in surprise. Over the rear railing of the platform there appeared first the hand, then the arm, and finally the head of a man. It was Mr. Ryan, who had evidently come down the track while the train was stopped and was taking his quarry by surprise from the rear! For the few seconds necessary, Vic man- aged to keep his face a mask. Then with a quick motion, Mr. Ryan poked a gun into the back of the unsuspecting robber, and said sharply, “Don’t move! I'm a police officer, and you are under arrest.” Vic saw & look of shocked bewilderment cross the evil face of the man, but it was quickly followed by one of hate and cunning. Mr. Ryan slowly and carefully began to climb over the railing to the platform, keeping his re- volver leveled at his prisoner’s back. But the robber could see the detective's re- flection in the glass door of the car. As Mr. Ryan threw his leg over the railing, be had to Jower the gun for the fraction of a second to grip the rail. That gave the robber his chance. With a quick leap, he swung around, struck the gun upward, and knocked the de- tective backward. Mr. Ryan fought to save himself, failed, and fell backward to the track, as Helene screamed in alarm. Then, as the train slowly gathered speed, the robber turned, opened the door, and dashed intp the train. (To be concluded next Sunday.) POSERS Here we go for another test of your knowl- edge. For each of the posers answered cor- rectly, give yourself 123 points, and see ho closé you come to 100. Five correct answers give you a passing grade in this examination. 1. What famous statue is on Bedloes Island in New York Harbor? 2. What is a wildebeest? 3. Where is the City of Buenos Alres located? 4. In what English city is Trafalgar Square located? i 5. What color is aquamarine? 6. How many hands are there on & watch? 7. In what Southern city is the Mardi Gras held every year? 8. In what ocean is the Island of Hawall located? ANSWERS, 1. Statue of Liberty. 2. A kind of African antelope. 3. Argentina. 4. London. 6. Bluish- green. 6. Three—hour, minute and second bands. 7. New Orleans. 8. Pacific. CRAFTS_ JOKES : PUZZLES % RIDDLES Not every one will be smart enough to get the answers to all five of these riddles, but see if you gan't be one of the first. Put on the old thinking cap, and start right in! 1. When a horse speaks, why does he always do so in the negative? 2. When can yocu carry water in a sieve? 3. What islands are good to eat? 4. When are two friends half-witted? ; 5. What fish is most valued by a loving wife? 1. Because he neighs (nays). 2. When it ia frozen. 8. The Sandwich Islands. 4. When they have an understanding between them. 5, Her-ring. Bamboo Slinger. Young Indian braves, desiring to imitate their fathers with the bow and arrow, used to select dried hollow weed stalks, plug one end with mud, and use this device to send small stones, round nuts and pebbles great dis- tances. Although tbe device easily permitted them to drive a missile with great force, there was never any particularly accuracy involved. Yet it contented them until the time came when they, too, could use the bow. And some of the more persevering were able to bring down small game. One of their favorite stunts was to fill the stalk for abcut 4 inches with hard gravel and then discharge it into a flock of birds. Quite often they would bring down more than one bird with a single shot. An up-to-date imitation of this slinger can be made from a 30-inch piece of bamboo. You can have a lot of fun with it, for the projece tiles are sent great distances, and the device makes an ideal camp stunt, or it can be used for practice purposes back of the house. And with practice you can become skilled. Select the bamboo stalk and get a rewnd Barnboo Slrger - spri Showing JOIrhS 17 dbornboo whial? ore o be burred owt ifron rod of about the same diameter as thq hoHow portions of the bamboo between joints. Heat one end of the rod red hot and burn out the joint segments. Use the red until the in< side is quite smooth. Then draw a rope back and forth through it to polish the inside. Get a cork, coat it with good liquid glue and insert it in the lower end. Sandpaper the lower end for 12 inches to remove the shine, apply more glue and wrap with cloth, to make g firm hand grip that won't slip. Now put a loose« fitting stone inside, draw your arm back when using a whip, and send it quickly f ward. The stone will whiz from the mussie! Generous Father. Bobbie (in presence of visitors)—Daddy, gtvg me & dime? Daddy (with forced smile)—Certainly, Bob= bie, here you are. Bobbie—This time you won't make me give it back after the company’s gone, will you, daddy? i Lines From Life. “Bredern,” said the preacher, “you have eomé to pray for rain. Bredern, de foundation of religion am faith. Whar is yo’ faith? . You come to pray foh rain and not one of you brings his umbrella.” ANSWERS. The parts of the house are cellar, ceiling, window and rafter. 3. WEED — weld — well — fell — full = " PULL. ' SEED — heed — hoed — HOES. 3. Maid, made. 4. Cowardice, cowbell, cowslip and cowboy. 8. Cross word puzzle solution. \