Evening Star Newspaper, October 25, 1931, Page 93

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, OCTOBER 25, 1931. e HOY, mates! Here's a bold buccaneer for you, if there ever was one. Don’t let him frighten you away from the puzzle, because he isn't nearly as fierce as you might think. THE PIRATE. The definitions: norizonTal. 1. Pirate treasure. 5. A buccaneer, 7. Girl's nickname. 8. Where Pirates operate. 9. Pirates made prisoners walk this. That is (abbr.). 13. Playing card. 14. Kitchen police (abbr.). VERTICAL. A kind of monster. Either, Musical note. Delirium tremens (abbr.). Companion. Electrical engineer. Spanish (abbr.). To mnotch. Retain. ol il ot o8 d o ol el Next comes a puzzle that will keep you busy for many a minute. How many words can you make from the letters in “Pirate”? The puzzle editor got 53—can you do as well? Here’s & hint on how to proceed: Set the word down first. Then take the first letter, P, and try adding various letters to it. Thus you at once get PI. P-I-R doesn’t give you a word, but P-I-T does, and also P-I-E. After you have tried all combinations starting with PI, try PR, PA, etc. Then when you are done with all the P's, try starting words with I Thus proceed with each letter until you have done them all in the same way. In this man- ner you will get a lot of words you'd otherwise miss. i, Remove the middle letter from a kind of gum and get a part of a horse’s harness. Remove the middle letter from injures and get meat (Pl). We finish up these puzzles with some pirate word chains. Change one letter at a time and always form a real word. Change KILL to GOLD in four moves. Change LOOT to BURY in five moves. ANSWERS. 1. Cross Word Puzzle Solution. 2. Pi, pit, ple, pier, prate, pa, par, palr, part, pat, pate, pare, per, pert, pea, peat, pet, irate, ire, it, rip, ripe, rite, rap, rapt, rat, rate, rep, reap, ape, apt, air, are, art, at, ate, tip, tire, tie, tier, trip, trap, tap, tape, taper, tapir, tar, tare, tear, era, ear, eat and eta. 3. Re-s-in? Ha-r-ms, 4. Cutlass, buccaneers and booty. 5. Kill — tiil — toll — told — GOLD. BURY— ‘durn—born- -sga—Iloon—LOOT. il \ \ k l i"l \ \ Il \ Nmm“ m!' ] ) ,I | BY BEATRICE PLUMB. SN'T it fun to go prowling around at Hal- loween, wearing a funny-face mask and carrying another spooky “funny face” in your hand—a gleaming, grinning Jack-o’- lantern, which you made all ks yourself from a nice big pumpkin? Then why not give a funny-face pariy? PFrom invitations to refreshments, say it with funny faces! Decorate invitations with Jack-o’-lantern stickers, or draw a row of There are funny faces everywhere. funny pumpkin faces, and crayon them orange, with black features. Below write plainly or print: Halloween's the time for seeing Punny faces everywhere! Pumpkin faces, Jack-o’-lanterns Grinning at you here and there! Here’s an invitation hearty To a funny-faces party. * Add date, time and place of party, also the postscript, “Bring & homemade Jack-o’-lantern with you. Prises given for gladdest, saddest, and maddest.” If possible, hold party in some ‘“spooky” place, like the attic, cellar, garage or barn. You can block the front entrance to your home imitation road-maker’s trestle. Tack center a “detour” sign, with arrow to the place where the party is to be. end of trestle, place a lighted Jack-o'- . If red paper is pasted inside over ace openings,shis eyes, nose and wide, Soothy mouth will all yell “danger!” lighted Jack-o’-lanterns at street and along path to party place. You this “the Jack-o’-lantern,” and have shine out in fiery letters from the . This is easily done by cutting the sheets of black tissue paper and then these sheets on windows, the yellow tissue over the whole thing. Place a lighted Jack-o’lantern behind each, and turn out all other lights. e Inside there are funny faces everywhere! Big black umbrellas, opened their widest, stand in corners. Each has been given a funny face Almost anything—sofa pillows, telephone, reading lamp, mirrors, goldfish globe—can be made into a “funny-face” by simply pasting or sewing on it paper or cloth features. Paper sacks, on which faces have been crayoned, blown up and tied with string, are the funniest things imaginable. So are orange balloons on which features cut from black gummed paper bave been stuck. Toward the end of the evening, the balloons can be given as prizes, and the funny- face bags taken down, deflated, and each filled with a Junch for one—or two, if preferred. A funny-face parade gives a jolly start to the party. Stage it out-of-doors, When guests, with their lighted lanterns, have all arrived, they follow & peppy leader all around the grounds, weaving in and out among the trees, until finally they are halted before the “re- viewing stand”—front steps, perhaps— on which stand mother, dad and one other person, who choose the prime winners—the owners of the gladdest, saddest and maddest looking pump- kin faces. “Picked Pumpkins.”—Guests then give lan- I.lll" ’ I | | X I \ = N== i — || B\ i terns to the judges, who can use them to further decorate the house until they are handed back again to light the owner's hate. “The Pumpkin Patch.”—Guests are next in- vited to “pass across the pumpkin patch” to put their wraps aside. Fixed up to look like the real thing, who would suspect that beneath the carpet of burlap sacks, leaves and corn husks is a wobbly old bed spring? . “Funny Faces.”—Girls and boys are directed to different “retiring rooms,” which can be simply corners of the room screened off with sheets. Here are mirrors, colored crayons, scissors, balls of string and paper sacks big enough to pull easily over the ldrgest head. Guests are asked to make themselves a “funny face” mask out of a paper sack. Sample cat, owl, rabbit and Jack-o’-lantern faces are on display, just to show what an amazing affair a paper sack can become, with its upper cor- ners tied with string to form ears, funny fea- tures, whiskers, etc., marked in with crayon, and eye, nose and mouth spaces cut out with sharp-pointed scissors. When masks are com- pleted, each guest slips his disguise over his head and ties it loosely around the neck. “Who's Who?"—Girls and boys line up oun opposite sides of the room behind shoulder-high, down-to-the-floor sheet screens, and try to guess who'’s who! “Seeding the Patch.”—Each guest is given a threaded needle and a saucer of wet pumpkin seeds, and all try to thread most in a given time. “Natural Funny Paces.”—Guests stand in a eircle and and on the word “Now!” all “pull @& face.” The funniest receives a prize. “Pumpkin Contests.”—All flukes! Guests are asked to guess the weight of a monster pump- kin set on a high shelf; also a tiny one heside it. The first has all its “innards” and as much meat as possible removed; the second has been hollowed out and a weight inserted. “Pumpkin Eaters.”—If refreshments are to M What an amazing affair a paper sack can become! be eaten in couples, partners can be found by matching number of pumpkin seeds drawn from & hollow pumpkin. Packets containing various numbers of seeds can be prepared for this pur- pose. The girls draw one set of packets, the boys another, and those getting the same num- ber of seeds are partners. Drinks Only Hot Sunshine, OW would you like to live in one of the hottest deserts in the world, where you never got anything to drink, but sunshine? This is the fate of the chuckwalla, a lizard found in the southwestern part of the United States and in Western Mexico. The chuck- walla is one of the fescest Jooking creatures imaginable, but he is really a harmless and defenseless little fellow. He is timid, gentle, and easily handled, and makes a good pet when captured, provided he has comfortable quarters and proper food. The chuckwalla, like other reptiles, is cold- blooded, rather than warm-blooded, as we are. That is why he can bask in the sun on a rock so hot that we could not touch it. And how he does love his sun baths! It's a good thing that he does, too, for that's the only kind he ever gets! RIDDILES If your next party seems to be lagging a bit, try this bunch of riddles on your guests, and see how many are smart enough to solve them. These riddles are so intriguing that your friends won't rest a minute until they’'ve answered all of them. 1. What table articles are chips from the old block? 2. When are you not yourself? 3. Why should soldiers be rather tired on the first of April? - 4. What food is cause for a display of grief? 5. Why is a dog's tail like the heart of a tree? ANSWERS. 1. Toothpicks. 2. When you are a little pale (pail). 3. Because they have just had a March of 31 days. 4. Onions. 5. It is farthest from the bark. A Reader’s Crow S. tory ILLIAM FREEMYER of Portland, Ind, sent me the following true crow story a short time ago. It's so interesting that I am passing it along to you. “I found the crow back in the woods when he was fully feathered out but not old enough to fly. I brought him up to the house and fed him bread and milk, keeping him in a box at night till he was old enough not to need the extra shelter. “He was the smartest bird I ever saw. One of his ways of getting food when we were gone was to fly to all the neighbors’ houses and caw until they gave him something to eat. “His tricks included sitting in a tree by the road and watching for me to come home in the school hack. He would also follow our automobile. “The wild crows hated him. One time when a neighbor’s house and lit in a tree where they did not dare to come after him. “He talked. Not in human language, but in the biggest variety of sound you could think of. I never heard a wild crow use more three sounds. Jim must have had three “He hated to have any one put him and would peck anybody that him up. He was not afraid of very and would not peck them unless pick him up. “He hated chickens the most of anything. H would go in the henhouse and chase chicken off the nest and out of the door. & hen stole her nest and hatched five ones. Jim was there when we pul and he would have pecked them to deat had not watched him. In fact, he one that died. “He disappeared on Thanksgiving going to the neighbors and getting when we were gone. But perhaps it as well, for he would have been mean little chickens the next Spring.” Pig-Back Wi restling. Smow‘ntcrkmuhd(orthhm sport, chest deep preferred. Any number olte.mn:lyputmtwombenwnc i T4 e cui} §;§g team. the battle commences at whistle. The riders endeavor to unseat other. The rider unseated takes a The game may be one fall, or two falls three for the decision. In a tournament the teams are numbered. Suppose 16 teams compete, requiring 32 play- ers., Each team=is given a number from 1 to 16. Odd numbers line up facing the even, thus: One faces two, three faces four, etc. The winners of the first joust, eight in number, now oppose each other in teams. The winners of the second reduced to four, again go into line. The survivors of this match then oppose emch other to settle which team shall be champions of the wrestling tournament. Guess This One What is the difference between the passing - away of & hair dresser and that of a sculpto#e Well, the hair dresser curls up and dpes, while the sculptor makes faces and busts.