Evening Star Newspaper, June 21, 1931, Page 89

B - S TORIES SPORFS - GAMES PUZZLES s VI E start off this week with a picture : puzzle with a couple of laughs in it. THINGS YOU DON'T LIKE TO TAKE Here are some word chains concerned with robbers, detectives and such exciting people. By each change you must form a new word—a real one—and you can change only one letter on each move. Change SLAY to CLEW in four moves. Change LOOT to BANK in five moves. vl Behead a scream and get a bird. solid and get a tree. sl In the sentence below each of the missing words is pronounced the same, but spelled in a different way. Can you fill the blanks with the correct words? Blinded in the——, we—— the right road. s CROSS-WORD PUZZLE. Curtail The definitions are: HORIZONTAL. . Mother. . Kind of dog. . Morning (abbr.). . Fit. . Measure of land. . Retain. . Kind of fish. . And so forth (abbr.). . Boy’s nickname. . Musical part. . Large ostrich-like bird. . Craft. . Ventilates. . Thought. . Look for. . Close. . Half an em. . Wild ox of Asia. . Mount (abbr.). VERTICAL. . Construct. . Aid, encourage. . Enthusiasm. . Kind of fuel. . Native of Arabia. . A native of ancient Media. . A formal speech. . A verbal or acted puzzle. . A number. . Comfort. . Air, manner. . A quantity of paper. . Kind of pastry. . The heavens. . Writing fluid. Sl How many words can you form f.om the letters in DUBLIN, the Irish capital? There are not so many, but you should find at least 13, most of them quite easily. The Cat’s Method. A mother discovered her small daughter Betty, aged 3, busily engaged in washing the kittenn with soap and water. ‘Oh, “darling, I don’t think the kitty's mother would like the way you are washing her.” “Well,” Betty seriously replied, “I really can't lck it, mother.” '@HE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. JUNE' 21, 1931. B BOYS and_ GIRLS PAGE An Interview With a Famous Circus Clown. BY W. BOYCE MORGAN. VISIT behind the scenes of a I l circus between performances presents an interesting sight,” . said Pete Mardo, the famous clown. “You may see a clown in old clothes hoping that he can get away for a short time to go fishing. Beside him on a tub sits a great wire walker mending & rip in her costume. A short distance away are a couple of Japanese tumblers, playing cards with an animal trainer and a female impersonator. “The circus dressing rooms are in the big ‘pad tent,’ with the men at one end, the women at the other, and the horses between. Each performer has his waterproof trunk, and beside it stands an iron pole with hooks for his clothes and a four-by-six mirror. This is the performer’s private dressing room! And a bucket of water forms his shower bath. " VISIT to the dining tent also presents a colorful picture. Performers are eating in all sorts of costumes. You may recognize the colored waiters as those gorgeously attired Nubian slaves who follow the elephants during the grand parade at the start of the per- formance. “Every performer is responsible for his own clothes and equipment, and looks after them carefully. Seldom is anything left behind, although the circus is traveling almost every night during the Summer season. In fact, a circus train will travel from 13,000 to 17,000 miles in a season. “While tiaveling each member of the circus . has his own berth or section in the sleeping cars, and usually he has it decorated to suit his fancy. “Peeding and caring for all the members of a circus is a huge job. One show has 137 cooks, and at an ordinary breakfast they serve pan- cakes to 1,650 people. it takes 100 cars to carry the circus from one town to another.” NE of the most important persons con- nected with the circus is the “Twenty- four Hour Man,” who travels a day ahead of the show. It is his duty to make arrangements in each town for feed for the animals, bread, butter, water and other standard needs. He lays out the route for the wagons to take in getting to the circus grounds from the railroad, and generally makes sure that everything will wo:k smoothly when the big show arrives. The whole circus is a marvel of efliciency. Many years in the business have taught these men all the best ways of doing things. It is only because of this that they can give a show in one town tonight, tear down their tents, load all their equipment, travel quite a distance by train and be ready for another performance tomorrow afternoon. It takes a lot of planning and work to enable 2 show to run smoothly, and to bring us, with- out mishap or delay, the great entertainment provided by Pete Mardo and the men and women with whom he worked for many years. A Bird Cage Support. Cire hotf o 25 4" rins the ’ff"?‘" e HHH HA Mo/ SIEE8aRsmTeSERRRRRNREREY TR H 2 W17 161551211098 7 6354 3521 Smolies! spuores ore % wide arxdly fngl TPus chort stomw's dapcults for feer- ol broces ord Ihe &rred coge brockel \( oo/ cerrers ore BIRD cage support that is up to date, easily made and quite attractive, is shown in the accompanying illustration. It can be painted any color and the chances are you have all the materials needed on hand. The upright is a 1'%-inch square piece cut out by ripping a 2 by 4 inch piece in two. Likewise, the feet. These are also about 115 inches square. Two pieces each 18 inches long are needed. The upright can be any suitable length, but it should not be more than 515 feet high or less than 415 feet. In the upper right hand corner of the draw- ing is a layout of the feet pieces, the cage bracket and the four foot braces which, by the way, should be cut out of either five-ply ma- terial or a clear grain board about 1 inch thick. The pattern squares are !, inch high and wide and the heavier squaies are 1 inch high and wide. Thus you can easily transfer the designs from this pattern to a sheet of white paper, or to the wood itself. After cutting out the upright plane all sides smooth. A slight bevel, made by running the plane over each edge a few times, will add to its appearance. Notch each foot piece center, one piece on top, the other on the bottom, to such depths that the four feet will rest evenly upon a level floor. This fit should be snug. Coat all sides of the t with best quality liquid glue, tap the pieces er, and let the glue dry. Bore a small hole for a screw through each end of each foot brace, then coat the straight edges and the bottom of the upright with glue and fasten in place by turning the eight screws RIDDLES I wonder how many of your friends could answer these five riddles and rate 100 per cent? Why not give them a chance to show how clever they really are and ask them to solve these? Remember, 20 per cent off for each incorrect answer! 1. When is a man over head and ears in debt? 2. What is that which never uses its teeth for eating purposes? 3. When & shoemaker is about to make a boot, what is the first thing he uses? 4. When is 2 man immersed in his business? 5. When does & woman's tongue go quickest? ANSWERS. 1. When he wears a wig that is not paid for. 2.-A comb. 3. The last. 4. When he is giving a swimming lesson. 5. When it's on a railroad. home. These should be of brass and round headed for best results. Cut out the cage bracket and smooth up the cuts with sandpaper. Then cut a slot through the top of the upright just big enough to take the square end as shown. You can remove most of the wood from the slot with a brace and bit and finish the cutting with a hammer and sharp chisel. Be careful not to split the wood. Then coat the inside of the slot with glue, tap the support in place and quickly wipe off any glue which may remain on the protruding left end. You can hang up the cage by boring a small hole through the end of the support and in- serting a small wire hook to take the ring in the cage top as shown. Any suitable finish for the wood will do and two coats will be best. If this support is to rest upon polished floors one thing more should be done. Cut small pieces of felt to fit the four feet and then glue them in place underneath. By making the support twice as long and with each end alike you can make this support take care of two cages, or a bird cage and a small hanging flower or plant pot. What He Wanted, “Come, come, my man, you've been looking around here a long time without buying. What do you want?” “I guess I want another floor-walker—I'm the new owner.” ANSWERS. 1. The words are advice, castor oil and oattie: 2. SLAY—slaw-<flaw—claw—CLEW. LOOT—look—Jlock—lack—lank—BANK. . H-owl. Fir-m. . Mist, missed. . Cross-word puzzle solution. in, nib, Nu, nub. CRAFTS JOKE “PUZZLES - _ : POSERS We know several people who couldn’t get the correct answers to all these posers, but we Ehow youwll have better luck if you just think a little before trynig to answer each one. Why not try it now? 1. Where is the Taj Mahal? 2. What biblical character was turned into & pillar of salt when she looked back? 3. What are the Everglades? 4. What was the name of the village which was the home of Evangeline in the pdém of that name? 5. What body of water lies north of Germany and east of Sweden? 6. Who first introduced tobacco in England? 7. What was the name of the ancient Italian city which was buried by an earthquake and volcanic eruption? $ 8. What is the name of the rubber disk used in playing hockey? ANSWERS. 1. India. 2. Sara, Lot's wife. 3. Swampy region in Southern Florida. 4. Grand Pre. 5. Baltic Sea. 6. Sir Walter Raleigh. 7. Pompeil, 8. Puck. R A Fast One. " OW fast can you run?” the humorously inclined bellboy of a New York hotel asked the country lad who was on his first visit to the city. “Well,” replied the lad bashfully, “not very fast, I guess.” “How fast is that?” asked the bellhop, winke ing at some of his friends who had gathered to see the fun. “Well, now seeing as you've asked me, the fastest I ever run was one time last Ssmmer. You sce, fellows, 'twas like this. I took my gun one morning and started out to get some game. I hadn't any more than stepped out of the house before I saw a woodchuck sitting by his hole on a hillside. So I fired at him. “But I'd heard tell that a woodchuck might drop back into his hole when you hit him. So, having that in mind, I threw down the gun as soon as I'd shot and started for the wood- chuck. Well, fellows, I'd have got him, but just as I stooped over to grab him by the hind legs the shot I'd fired hit me in the back.” IWhittling in Earliest Times: O you like to whittle? It isn't strange if you do, for cutting and carving wood is one of the oldest arts known. As far back as 400 B.C. we know that people liked to cut designs in wood with a sharp in- strument, and excavations in Egypt have shown that people of that ancient time were skillful at the ait. From that date on in almost every land carving has been a widespread and popular art. Today in most parts of the world wood- carving exists only in the hobby or pastime of whittling. The hand working of wood is too slow for this rapid machine age. Only in Switzerland, France and, to a lesser extent, England does the art hold its place among occupations, and even in these countrigg there is little demand except for the work of the most famous carvers. Being Chairman at the Neck, Continued from Eighteenth Page had any effect on me at all if I hadn't some- how let my importance get so distended that it projected from inside of me clear out to where even a 9-year-old child could have the time of his life sticking pins into it. -How in the world had such a disastrous expansion ever happened to me? Since I hadn't ever been & victim to it before I came to Mary's Neck, the swelling must have begun there, and, reasone ing it out, I saw how the thing had occurred. What had produced my own importance was the importance exhibited by the other families, It’s contagious, and once it gets hold of a per- son—well, I felt pretty mortified over what it had been deing to me. Yet I almost laughed out loud thinking how astonished and deprived little Paulie was going to be when he found he couldn’t have any more trouble with me. It was Mrs. Massey who made me tender my resignation as chairman of the house commit- tee a little later, because she said she couldn’ stand hearing any more talk about how the club was running down. Old Mrs. Abercrombie told her this talk had been going on for 2§ years, always the same; but Mrs. Massey said it ‘'was getting too personal. v Only the other day I was out on our front porch and saw the mew chairman of the house committee of the Rocky Meadow Club going by on the board sidewalk. He’s a very nice man-- not a cottager, just at one of the hotels for his first season at the Neck—but I noticed he was wearing an expression that made hinj look a little like the Emperor Augustus, maybe, “Oh, my goodness!” I said, just whispering from the hammock, and of course he couldn’$ hear me. “Oh, misery me!” I said. “Little Paulie Timberlake must be having the tigne of his life again!” 2 (Copyright, 1981, by Booth Tarkington) = . |