Evening Star Newspaper, September 13, 1931, Page 91

% sONDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. 1931, \1 STORIES SPORTS" PUZZLES SO T How would you like a word square to starg this week's group of puszles? Very well, here it is. JUMBLED WORD SQUARE- Behead to mock or insult and get a clumsy Jellow. Behead again and get absent. Curtail alarm and get a blemish. Behead this end get a vehicle. . And now we have four different kinds of pans—words beginning with the same three Jetters. Can you fill the blanks and form the words? 1. PAN-H-R. 2. PAN--M--E. 3. PAN--Y. 4. PANT-L-O-S. S Reverse creatures of the night and get a jab, Reverse marbles and get a slap. = CROSS WORD PUZZLE. ‘The definitions are: HORIZONTAL. A number. ‘To dress up for show. . Kind of paving stone. . Electrical engineer (abbr.). Exist. Hotel. Boy's nickname. Possession having value. . Toward. . Athletic club (abbr.). . A game of cards. . Left halfback (abbr.). Kind of deer. . Toward the top. . Southern State (abbr.). Deer’s horn. To eat away. Sweet potato. VERTICAL. Musical composition for eight singers. Negative. . . To flow back, decline. . Place (abbr.). . Real estate (abbr.). Pertaining to the mind. ‘Writing implement. . Animal. . That is (abbr.). U. 8. coin. To throw out forcibly. . Spell, enchantment. . Correct (abbr.). Evening. To wield diligently, Advertisement. . Point of the compass. . Each (abbr.). . Curtail to check and get a mongrel. Behead silent and get @ money drawer; behead again and get sick. By the Clock Mistress—Why did you place the alarm clock beside the pan of dough, Malinda? Malinda—So it would know what time to Tise, ma’am. %e BOYS and ) GIRLS PAGE The Beach Girl “Look at that girl under the big beach 1. Doesn’t she make you sick?” “Yeah! These girls that come down here and sit around all dressed up In bathing suits that they're afraid might get wet ought to be thrown in, that’s what.” The two boys, who had just come out from 8 Jong swim in the sparkling waters of the ocean at the fashionable Summer resort, shook the water from their hair and looked again at the girl sitting so primly under the parasol. She was a rather pretty girl with curly red bobbed hair and light brown freckles and a little dimple in one cormer of her mouth. She bad dancing brown eyes. Somehow the very dainty ruffied bathing suit didn't seem quite right for her. “Come here a minute. I've got a plan!” ‘The taller boy motioned to the shorter one. Then a whispered conversation took place, with many glances at the prim girl in the fancy suit. “All right, I'm on,” grinned the shorter boy. Together they went up the beach to a little boy who was digging sand and filling a fair-sized tin pail. They talked to him a while and then got the pail, which they promptly filled with water. Back down the beach they ran, the one with the pail of water pretending to chase the other, the shorter one. Just as they came up to the girl by the parasol, the short boy dodged behind her, and the other boy threw the water at him, aiming in such a way that it all spilled down the front of the girl's pretty, dry suit. “Oh, excuse me!” exclaimed the tall boy. “Awfully sorry!” “Oh, you terrible boys!” A stout woman came running up, before the girl could say anything. “Poor dear, your suit's all wet!” The boys made a dive for the water. As they did so, the girl said, “Now I'm so wet I guess I might as well go in the water a minute before I go to the hotel.” Three minutes later the astonished boys found the red-haired girl beside them in the water. They got on the defensive, expecting to be ducked. “Gee!” she grinned at them. “I'm sure glad you came along. I was dying to go in, but my aunt, who's trying to make me fashionable, was afraid I'd spoil the suit she got me. This is great! Bet I can beat you to the pier!” ANSWERS. 1. The square is bomb, odor, mole and brew. 2. FP-l-out. S-car-e. 3. Panther, pantomime, pantry and panta- loons. 4. Bats, stab. Taws, swat. 5. Cross Word Puzzle Solution. [OINEP (R M P EBBE EE] an [E|R[O[D]F] 6. Cur-b. S-t-ill. AINITIL IE[R)] X]A[M) Something to Do A LAP DESK. How many times have you wished for a simple, compact piece to write upon while sitting in a chair? This handy, good-looking lap desk was made for just this purpose, and you, too, can make it in a jiffy. Five pieces of wood are needed. The top and bottom, of the same width, but different lengths, should be three-ply veneer, about 3 inch thick. Cut A Cooc Lap Desk one 10 inches wide and 11 inches long. This becomes the top. Cut the bottom 10 inches wide and 14 inches long. The two side pieces are square at one end and Japered at the other. Each is 14 inches long and about 2% inches wide and % inch thick. ‘The fifth piece is 21, inches wide, 1% inch thick and 9 inches long. This fits between the ends of the side pieces at the bottom. Now for the assembly. Use small brads and best quality liquid glue spread over all joints. The brads alone would not permit constant use without gradual loosening of the joints. The glue will make it as rigid as if made from one piece of wood. Now paint or stain the desk and on the top paint a border around the edges and, if you wish, add a simple design in the center. The drawing shows one type. This lap desk will hold up to 500 sheets of 81;x11 paper (the kind used in a typewriter) which is about as inexpensive as any paper available. You can use the desk to store any kind you wish, however. When in the posi- tion shown, the paper lies firmly inside. To withdraw a sheet, flop it over and the pages protrude slightly. You can also glue green Ielt to the inside of the desk if you wish, Reassurance Patient—Doctor, are you sure this is pneu- monia? Sometimes doctors prescribe for pneumonia and patients die of something else. Doctor (with dignity)—When I prescribe for pneumonia, you die of pneumonia. RIDDLES Perhaps you know a riddle that is new and tricky and original. If so, send it to the Riddle Man, in care eof ‘this newspaper, and one of these days you may see it in print with your name. De it now! 1. Why are all duels very short affairs? 2. What kind of ears does an engine have? 3 What is a ‘put-up job? 4. Why does a railway official punch a Bl in your ticket? 5. What fruit is on a penny? ANSWERS TO RIDDLES. 1. Because it only requires two seconds to arrange them. 2. Engineers. 3. The paper on the wall. 4. To let you through. 5. A date. Caring for Pets Guinea Pigs. These little South American fellows are generally called Cavies, for they do not be- long to the pig family at all. Because their internal organs so closely resemble those of human beings, guinea pigs are used in large numbers for laboratory experiments. Doctors and scientists learn from guinea pigs thousands of things that make our lives easier and hap- pier. but the animals alto make most desirable pets. They are clean, easily cared for, and do not make much noise—hardly more than a squeak. They come in all sorts of colors and one breed is called angora because of its long, silky bair. Guinea pigs are kept in just about the same kind of cages as rabbits, but, of course, for these smaller animals, you do not need to have their enclosures so high nor so large. A big packing box with a smaller one turned up-side-down for den will make a splendid place for them. Better fix this den so that it has a removable cover in order that you may look inside of it occasionally. Guinea pigs do not have young in as great numbers nor as often as most people think. They are not such diggers as are rabbits and so you can put their cage on the lawn without much danger of their digging out. Feed them just the same food as you do your rabbi grain, fresh greens and vegetables. I have found that, like rabbits, they like to gnaw the bark from freshly-cut tree limbs, so if you Mve on a farm you can feed them twigs broken from the boughs that are pruned from the fruit trees. Guinea pigs are born with their eyes open and fur on their bodies. They can run around within a few days after birth and in a short time will be eating the same rations as their parents. The guinea pig is the only rodent, so far as I know, that has four toes on the front feet and only three on the hind feet. POSERS Do Posers really pose you? In other words, do you stop and wonder and ponder and guess at the answers, or do you know them right off? We’'ll bet you can’t answer all these without wrinkling your brow a bit! 1. What was the name of the garment worn by Roman citizens when they appeared in public? - 2. Where is the Strait of Magellan located? 3. How do frogs manage to live through the cold Winter months? 4. Who said “Give me liberty or give v death?” 5. Why is aluminum a valuable metal in building airplanes? 6. Who wrote “The Charge of the Light Brigade”? 7. What is a scarab? 8. How many quarts are there in a peck? ANSWERS TO POSERS. 1. The toga. @ At the southern end of South America. 3. They bury themselves in mud at the bottom of streams or ponds/ 4. Patrick Henry. 5. Because it com p great strength with lightness of weight. 6. Tennyson. 7. A kind of beetle. 8. Eight.