Subscribers enjoy higher page view limit, downloads, and exclusive features.
THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1932. “HER HUSBAND RAN AWAY WITH THE MAID!" “THAT'S TOO BAD—A GOOD MAID IS HARD. TO FIND.” LETTER-OUT By Charles H. Joseph Letter-out and it's profound in- dignation WARMTH i b Letter-out and you do it with ENDEARS the letier that has a wrong ad- PATCHER | Letter-out and ministers do it. PARCH Letter-out and it's good for & play. U1 B W N e Letter-out and put things there you don't need. SHORTAGE 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 it's something that needs a strike. Answer to Yesterday’s LETTER-OUT. L The Perfect System— (ne Umbrella at Home, Another at the AH ! CHOCOLITA, THE CHEERFUL CHERUB - ————— I feel so smug whes Ive been good I ‘sSoon btgomu % I'm really pleasanter to know When I have just been terrible ! Eddie Starts | Something. SEEN ANYTHING OF THAT SPARE UMBRELLA OF MINE, MISS PEARSON ¥ You Took. IT HOME. LAST NIGHT, MR. GREEN, DONT You REMEMBER 2 FUNNY aBOUT "DADDN™ NOT BE\NG HOME “To DINNER LAST NIGHWT- AND WE DIDNT GET HOME TILL REAL LATE - } KNOW, ‘CAUSE | SKT LP TILL BRFTER Tem WAITN FOR HIM - HE PROBASLY HAD SoME GOTD REASON - Z = Z Pa A mnoTe? ol NUFFIN' FO' M€, MISTAH bO\dER-J; BUT nissus HAMBURGER %Y WILL Yo' PLEASE OH, EDWARD, T HATE TO TROUBLE You, BUT ONE OF MY BOARDERS OWES ME ¥ 35. I WONDER (F YOU WOULLD ' MIND GOINE TO HR. DUMPKINS ROOHM, AND TELLING HIM T WANT THAT ¥ 3, AT ONGE. HE DoESNT PAY ANY ATTENTION To Me ! ITAIRS . Fo' % umBReLLAS! Tio-DoLLAR. [V} *ABRELLAS FIFTY CENTS' WHATS THAY, i LNNIE‘QSOH = AN APPOINTMENT, NOL KNOW = HAD To KEEP \T- MEBNT TO TELL NOUu- FORGOT- YOU'RE DBIE AND STRONG; HE WiILL LSTEN TO You ! IF HE GETS FRESH, JUST GRAB Hirt BY TH' NECK AND Lock HiM ouT ofF HIS Room ' Now DO THAT For HE, LIKE A GOCD BOY': WONDER WHAT IT WAS ALl ABOUT - HE DIDN'T SEEM TO WANT TO TELL ME - NE | ACTED X\ND O FUNN‘§ ’ ABOUT \T, DIDN'T HE, SANDNTE MANBE \T'S JUST MN | i IMAGINATION- "DADDN'§ Y AWFLL BUSN-CAN'T S'PECT HIM TO S'PLAIN A EVER THING TO ME - (Copyright, 1932.) Daily Cross-Word Puzzle BUD FISHER All the Qualifications Insomnia Forever! Necessary |ecoquenT WIN SISTER. ARK TO HIS PLeA. You LOOK BAD,DOC _ WRILE [/ YOU'RE UNABLE To SLEER Y YOu SROULD REST | DURING THE DAY INSTEAD OF PLAYING GOLF RAVE You NOTICED 1 I'M SO FATIGUED FROM LOSS OF 7 JSLEEP MY BACKSWING 1S SLOWER TRAN CONCRESS AND I M SO DQOWSy[ 1 CAN'T LOOK ur THE RESULT 15 1 NEVER WIT ThE BALL BETTER 'N MY LIFE ) Lm,., o 5 T0AD [lenad 1 RESTACK I C | st e he peets dee v 1y YoU CAN'T Do THIS THING TG A = NPV SKATER MAN SHOULD HAUE THe PRIVILEGE % i sy Ao [ ol T levss Hwn Anvorpar. § 1| ane Sice 1o i e || [MEME o St UN NEMPLOYED! o > : D WHeN You : § 2 TRAINED I A ' good burm. - DER 2 1‘ T Rises To BRIDE YOU GOTTA ENCLosE A A% SH ::KGR :e\tis\rou £ ‘.‘.fi‘&é‘?‘.‘z ?:R:R“ by i &M U DEFEND TwWo cent (Y AT 1S TWeNTY-o0NE S 3 5 R P T p] STAMP FoR D) WITH A BLZZ S ans PROWLS Prows 3 F zcs‘_flgmmr RETURN .» AND - AND - T Letter-out and it's a good thing PRoPoSED to listen to 4 G 4 MODERNS | D ' SERMON JEF MARRIAG & Letter-out and it's good for & cut. To MRS, 5| THATCHES |S | S 5 & MoTT'S RECOVER FRom THIS HEAVEN- SENT INSOMNIA Across. 5. Indians. 1. Prodigal 6. Japanese coin 8. Pertaining to the council. 1. Condition. . 15. Narrates 8 Pertaining to & region of North AN THE TEACHER L D A sge? SAYS IF 1 PRACTICE 18. Clever hwomfin? in Shakespeare’s | 10. Pools. G HERE IT 1S° HARD “Merchant of Venice.” 11. Silkworm. & b 5 19. Pigeons. 12. A dyestuff. RE THE JOLLY LIL FOR ONE HOUR EVERY 2 e et N CuennoRzoRates: LESSON AN’ THE 2 DAY ILL GET ALL THE 2. Eusebius; abbr. ees 23. Bird; Latin. 21. Conjunctions. NAME OF THE WAY THROUGH THIS 24. A boss. k. 24. 2‘ Colasu]ck cavalry squadron. PIECE-WAS, THE BOOK AN %E ABLE 25, Viscous mud. 6. Lies lazily about. : To PLAY 27. Make tawny 28. Mottled. JOLLY LiL s = WIS 28. Pertaining to poetry. 29. Native of Crete. . > 30 ing: collog 32, Fastens with adhesive fluid 31 34. Pastries. 33, Large bales of wool 36. Acaulescent. 35, Plece of glass used in optical in- |33, A bill or poster. ; struments. 39. Consisting of layers. 37. Masculine name. | Learned_soclety. . 35 Acclamations 41. A large knife, the Animals. 42. Refined in & cupel 43 Lingers. 46, Streak with stripes. 44. Caustic. 47, Trojan prince: Greek myth. 45. Leaves. 49 Measure of area. 48, Church festival. 50. Nephew of David. 51. Ascended. 52. Average 53. Animal of Nepal resembling rac- 53 A support. coon. 5¢. Spanish chief. 56 Singles, or units. —————— 55, Assumed characters. §7. To clip off euddeny. 83, 9. Human beings. P | 61. Salutation RTIITE - 60 yari, . = Ll HE CHARGES 2 3 5 : HOWDY, DOC . pr iams ot EARE¥ AN SousE. Healthiest City in Asia. S TWO BUCKS FER A M BACK / 6¢. Aridity. ‘Through the sanitary measures that €5. Meals. have been inaugurated in Manila, the city is now rated as the healthiest in Asia. The work is still in progress and these new operations will probably bring it up to the sanitation level of American cities. Besides the abandon- ment of many of the canals which were not much more than sewers, the entire city is gradually being raised, through filling operations. so that it can be drained by nTgmper sewerage system | throughout. e public works appro- priations of the city of Manila for the last three years have carried items | emounting to more than one-fourth of | the total for filling operations alone. | This work was begun over 10 years a | when the historic moat around the | Walled City was filled and turned into a public playground. The new govern- | ment center is to be erected entirely upon filled land, as is the development [o( the port area. Increased harbor | dredging will provide an abundant sup- | ply of shell and coral base which is | ideal as a constructed il, and has been used with enormous yjccess by the United States Army and Navy engineers in Panama, Down. 1. To antedate. 2 .Change of place. 3. Green garnet. 4. Temples. ANSWER TO YESTERDAY' PUZZLE. By €.L HUNTLEY An Old Customer, TH FIRST VISIT AN’ A DOLLAR FER EVERY VISIT FIRST VISIT ) HTS OEST A, A DOLLAR, HUM | THE MAN WHO MARRIES MY