Evening Star Newspaper, December 31, 1931, Page 18

THE EVENING " B—6 : T | MODEST MAIDENS | THE CHEERFUL QHIRUB : Ive traveled Far,IVe traveled wide, But one same phrase I always hear encer the wn.tku: STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3], GOOFY, OLD DEAR, THAT BRILLIANT, HARD WORKI|ING UNCLE OF YoyRS DROPPED IN To-DAay ! YEH, WHAT WAS ON HIS MIND BESIDE HIS TOUPEE, JuL\E ? HE ASKED ME IF WE WouLD TAKE CARE OF LITTLE BINO FOR FOOR OR FIVE WEEKS. HE SAID HE MAY TAKE A LITTLE TRIP Soon ' I TaD HIM, Yes ! GREAT! WE'LL HAVE A LOT OF FOoN W™ PooR LITTLE Bino ! ITS Too BAD HIY DADDY IS SUCH A NuT! WELL, WE'LL Do oUR BEST TO MAKE HiM Happy ! TH\NGS LOOK NONE ToO GoaD FoR EDDIE BOWERJ, BESIEGED ON ALL SIDES BY BILL COLLECTORS, AND MAIL BRINGING NASTY LETTERS, THAT CHEERFUL Scul IS BEGINNING To WEAR A WORRIED LOOK ! WHAT 1S cuoR A Young HERO GOING T Do? Visitor? ‘ VLL TELL You WHAT, vi ! LETS DEVOTE ONE DAY To - WEARING OUR. WORST CHRISTMAS PRESENTS —AND GET (T OVER. ILL WEAR THIS BATH-ROBE e o AND [LL WEAR THESE EARRINGS AND UNCLE CHARLIE GAVE ME NECKLACE | GoT FROM AUNT LIZZIE A Practical Suggestion for Every Household. o o1 e & 7. 42 et Rt VE HEARD THAT FRED IS QUITE A LADY-KILLER.” “DON'T LET THAT RUMOR GET BACK TO HIM." “WHY, SILLY? FRED'S THE ONE WHO TOLD ME!" LETTER-OUT By Charles H. Joseph. WHAT A KID- | F MOR! COULD ONLY BE LIKE HER ~ SWMPLE-DIRECT-HONEST ~ EXCEPT FOR LESSONS LEARNED FROM PAST MISTARES, NEVER. LOOWS BACK- FAS\NG EVER FORWARD, WITH FRESH HOPE AND FaVTH, SWME FOLLOWS THE ONE COURSE § THE DEBR L\TTE TNKE - SOUND ASLEEY - WELL, SHE STANED AWAKE LONG AFTER. HER REGULAR. A5 BED-TIME - \T'S NEARLY ELEVEWN - ESTE BE CAREFUL AND PON T WAKE HER UP- SHE'S VERN TRED- | BETTER LET HER SLEEP TiLL NOUL TO SIT UP AND SEE THE OLD MEAR OUT, ANNIE - BUT MOU LOOK PRETTY SLEEPY TO MT - WELL, ANOTHER NERR NERARLY GONE ~ ALMOST TIME To PULL WP ONES BELT _£# AND TE INTO TH\S BATTLE CALWED L\FE, Letter-out and he certainly euts a dash. HERALDS Letter-out and when you think of him you think of Inferno. DONATE Letter-out and it's something women pay attention to. DOSSER Letter-out and it's just hit-and- miss. DORMANT Letter-out and use your less. The New Year Comes. Remove one letter from each word and rearrange to spell the word called for in the last column. Print the letter in center column opposite word you have removed it from. If you have “lettered-out” correctly a bandit does it Answer to Yesterday's LETTER-OUT. DORSAL | L| S o Letter-out and we find them fin school. ' | GRADES | R Letter-out and a trader does it. I DEALS * eterout and he clears his roat. | S l Letter-out and Indians are that Letter-out and you need them for trafic. YEs SR, JGFE 'S GOING TO GET MARRIED. FIRST Time T CUCR HEARD oF A MAN THREATENED How'S THIS 2 - WIDOW = MARRIED FIVE TIMES - VERY BEAUTIFLL- WOULD LIKE T© MeeT A HANDSOME MAN ! MONEY- MONEY-THAT'S ALL YOU MEN THINK oF = MONEY~ AND ALL Us PooR woMen WAAT 1S LOVE- Love - Love ¢ WIDOWAIN'T BEAUTIFUL- Loolk AT THAT PAN- [ LH A MAN MARRIED T2 A FACE LIKE THAT wouLd H HAVE ™ DRINK H RADIATOR MixTURE H ™ KeeP FRom FREc2ING! GoT Bocsh' T oT ANY | UTT KNow 1T M -BUT afldr He's Goine ™ GeT JEF MARRIED. By RS. BUD FISHER | muTT SAYS SO- D THATY THAT. GOADERS ALDERS DRAGGLES e BESTIR R e Comsrie. ) Daily Cross-Word Puzzle SRR Sl dEEEEREE JEREEER Learning About the Finer ag U.% v Ofer JuST Look AT THE SNOW AND -THERE WASN'T ANY IN THE 7Y WASTE OF -TIME MY EYE. IVEL SOLVED THE UNEMPLOYMENT { PROBLEM /I pyT THE UN-— IT WAS A WASTE OF TIME COMING OUT HERE. WE CAN'T PLAY GOLF TODAY AS FAST AS = A S A GRAND v T FELLIN IDEA GUT who EMPLOYED 10 worK REMOVING WiLL PAY Them | THE SNOW FROM -THE GoLF FOR DOING 1T 7 | COURSES. THAT wiLL keeP [ | 7 | 'EM BUSY ALL winTER — L - ‘ I NEVER THOUGRKT OF | E” EX Sl IR Arabian sleeveless garment. Pigeon house. Digits. Rots. Raise Puff up. 7. Reduce to ashes. . Festival Supplied and served food. . A salutation. 9. Periods of time Small open carriage. Property in general Without end. Wrath . Recover. Thus: Latin. . Scrutinize. Sound. . Vend Native metals. Oriental salutation: var. Postponed. 33 The fury list On _the ocean. Thin Genus of the dog family. One who injures District in British Columbia. = ~ BAGGY SCANLON KETCHES A BASEBALL ON HIS NOSE AN’ HE GETS TWO BLACK JOEY MCGEE GOT INTO A FIGHT AN GETS TWO BLACK EYES AN’ GOES HOME AN’ KETCHES eiiea ) BLACK EYES Gl b AN’ KETCHES 5. Pertaining to tan . The Steppes of South America. . Court cry. . Fast Indian plant. . Mining district in France and Ger- many . A continent. . Wooden pins. Guided. A drawing instrument. . A great country. . Wise men of the Bast. . One who directs. Low spirits 1. Group of islands in the Pacific. Ti-bred fellows. Felines. Beverages. Pragment of cloth. 7. Hard-shelled fruit. A cone-bearing tree. Most unusual. A congregation Mahometan_judge 3. One devoted to luxury of the table. | An elemert which forms saline com- | : pounds. 7. Makes fast. Obvious. Merchants. Abandons. Down. Means of sdmission. Stayed behind English term for molasses. Borders. ANSWER TO YESTERDAY' PUZZLE. | Chaste. Cast off To possess. System of signals. Ruminant's second chew. Fleur de lis: her. AL By Crushing Eggshells. Table etiquette of some countries, particularly Prance, requires the crush- | 198 of the shells of the eggs to be eaten &t breakfast. After the meat has been removed from the boiled eggs, the shells are deliberately and carefully crushed, and the origin of the custom is some- what in doubt. Investigation reveals | superstition, and a survival of the belief |in magic. ‘M. Solomon Reinach in a paper prepared by him says: “At the | ime when this custom originated snakes 'moved about unmolested, and even in- | vaded the tables of householders. It is [EM| | recorded in an ancient document that |once a young man, seeing a familiar snake approaching the table, offered it an empty shell. The repiile was furious |at the deception, and the boy's father | declared that this insult to a sacred |creature had brought a curse upon his | health. He ordered all members of his | family henceforward ’t‘o crush thel.rw - n ALL RI6GHT, EVERYBULODY | GET SET! UEST As SOON AS TH CLOCK STRIKES