Evening Star Newspaper, July 24, 1932, Page 70

PUZZLES =gl Just to avoid any chance of error, we will gnform you that this is an automobile radiator, Btep on the gas! THE RADIATOR. The Definitions Are: HORIZONTAL. . Center of an auto wheel. . A pear-shaped fruit. . To run an automcbile, . Shade of brown. . Greek letter. . Used with “cither.” . To change gears. . Dine. . Part of a wheel. 2. Section of a cirlce. VERTICAL. . Warning device. . Toward the top. Wager. . Part of an auto’s cooling system. . Neuter pronoun. . Toothed wheel. . Where water in a car is cooled. - We. . Old Testament (Abbr.). . Masculine pronoun. . Feet (Abbr.). . Exists. a8 & Father. . King’s counsel (Abbr.). el Automobile words make up our word chains. Change one letter at a time, always forming a real word. Change PUMP to TIRE in five moves. Change LAMP to PARK in five moves. oy In the sentence below, the missing words are pronounced alike but spelled differently. Can you guess them? 8he began to —— her hands when she dis- eovered the loss of her —. RN NN FOUR PARTS OF AN AUTO ‘Two parts of an automobile are hidden in the sentznce below. Low heels are stylish, after all. ANSWERS. 1. Cross Word Puzzle Solution. 2. PUMP—lump—limp—lime—time—TIRE. LAMP—lame—lane—pane—pare—PARK. 3. Wring, ring. 4. Wheel, windshield, gears and brakes. §. Wheel, shaft. . THE SUNDAY %4e BOYS and ) STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JULY 24, 1932 GIRLS PAGE Amazing Prof. Arzah Story of T'wo Bovs and a Fortune Teller “Oh, professor!” exclaimed Miss W alters. BY W. BOYCE MORG AN. 8pooky Green and Ken Davis are greatly disap- pointed When the show they had expected to be a circus arrives in town and proves to be only a carnival. But while they are watching it unload Mr. Oliver, one of the owners. asks them if they would like to earn a little money. They assure lh.m that they would. and he introduces them to Prof. Arzah, fortune teller. The professor needs a couple of assistants, and the boys are hired at 50 cents & day. It is their duty to conceal themseives in an upstairs room overlooking the professor's tent. watching whoever visits him. Then, by means of & telephone, they tell the professor all they know about the visitor, which is naturally of great as- sistance to the fortune teller in plying his trade. The boys take their posts on the first night of the carnival. and are fllled with excitement when_the first visitor to the fortune teller's tent is Miss Wal- ters, a school teacher. INSTALLMENT III. ET it be understood at once that Spooky and Ken had nothing personal against Miss Walters. Of ccurse, there had been that episode when she kept them in one afternoon when they wished to play base ball, because of a paper-wad- shooting episode for which they were not to blame. Also, she had a rather acid disposition, and was prone to make cutting remarks when the boys did not get their lessons quite as rapidly as she might have wished. In fact, of all the teachers they had had, they probably liked Miss Walters the least. But that does not mean that they had any- thing really against her. She just was not one of their real close friends, so to speak. And so there was a strange light in Spooky's eyes as he began to speak into the telephone. “That woman who is just coming in is Miss Tillle Walters,” he announced, in the quiet, even voice that the professor had asked him to use. “She’s an old maid. I guess the only reason she never got married was because no man would be a big enough goof to marry her. 8She lives with the Higgins family on Opal street, and nobody likes her much. She saves her money and is supposed to have quite a lot.” “Tell him about her false teeth,” whispered Ken. “Oh, yes. She has false teeth,” said Spooky. “Sometimes when she gets mad they slip a little and make a sort of clicking noise, and you'd swear they were going to jump out and bite you. If you want to make a hit with her, tell her some man thinks she’s wonderful which is far from the truth, but it's what she'd like. And tell her she's going to take a long journey, and maybe that will make her start thinking about it, and she’ll really go away and all the kids in town wlil think that's great.” LITTLE breathless, Spooky peused. The telephone set worked only one way, so they had no knowledge of what was going on in the tent below. But had they heard the use the professor made of their information, their amasement would have been boundless. Attired in his impressive robes, Prof. Arzah faced Miss Walters across a table on which there rested a crystal ball. The tent was draped in heavy hangings, and & pot of in- cense filled the air with its overpowering scent. Excited and in the condition described as “all of a-twitter,” Miss Walters looked at the for- tune teller, whose plercing eyes sought elusive secrets in the crystal globe. “I see,” began the professor in a far-away voice, “I see you in a position of great responsi- bility. It has fallen to your lot to exert a most important influence on others. Every day you draw upon your boundless wisdom and energy to impart knowledge to those who are hardly worthy of such good fortune. “I see success in this work. I see honor for you, and perhaps a measure of riches—but no more than you deserve.” “Oh, Professor!” exclaimed Miss Walters, clasping her hands in high excitement. “And, farther away, I see somoghing else,” the professor continued. “I see—a man, a tall, dark, handsome man who admires you greatly.” “Oh!” Miss Walters' gasp was laden with ecstasy. “You do not know it now, but this man will mean a great deal to you,” Prof. Arzah prophe- sied. “He may make you very happy. And through him, or perhaps on your own account, you are going to make a journey to far places.” HERE was more in the same manner, but the professor, with creditable tact, made no mention of Miss Walters’ false teeth, nor of the fact that she had never, succeeded in landing a husband. But he did his work so well that, a few minutes later, the teacher bounded forth from the tent with shining eyes, to spread the praises of the fortune teller to all who would listen. As a result, business began to boom. In a few minutes there was a line before the pro- fessor’s tent, composed mainly of women. Sp-oky and Ken were put to it to supply inter- estin, “3talls about all of these people,- but they had not overstated their knowledge of the town and its inhabitants, and the informa- tion they gave the professor was intimate, ac- curate and interesting. It was late when the carnival closed, and when the boys has collected their money they ran all the way home, expecting to hear from their parents about the late hour. But when Spooky reached home, he found the house agog with excitement. His father, his mother and his elder sister were all discussing the merits of Prof. Arzah with such interest that they never noticed the time of his arrival. R. GREEN was Inclined to be somewhat skeptical about the professor, but Spooky’'s mother was championing him violently. “I don’t care what you say, Will Green!” she announced in determined fashion. “He's simply marvelous, and I'm going to him the first thing tomorrow afternoon.” “Oh, all right,” said Mr. Green. “But I think you could find something better to do with your money, with business as it is.” Spooky stole quietly up to bed, his heart troubled within him. It was one thing to earn money by heiping to fool other people in the town, and something quite different when your own mother was one of these fooled. He did not go to sleep for a long time, trying to decide if it wouldn't be better to resign his position. Then came fear. He dimly realized that if his part in the fraud were found out he might get into trouble. What had he heard about people being arrested for obtaining money under false pretenses, or something like that? Wasn’t this fortune-telling business a swindle? And weren't he and Ken as guilty as the pro- fessor and Mr. Oliver. He worried about that for a long time, and finally decided that, now they were into it, the only thing possible was to stick it out. Then he began to think of his mother’s proposed visit on the following day, and a great idea came to him. After all, if he was going to go on with this business, he might as well make the most of it. (To be continued next Sunday.) Old Partners Messenger: .“Who's the swell ye wuz talkin’ to, Jimmie?” Newsboy: “Aw! Him an’ me’s worked to- gether for years. He’s been editor o’ one o' my papers.” CRAFTS JOKES, PUZZLES : POSERS Try these eight questions on your storehouse of knowledge. Perhaps you will find some empty spots that need to be filled. . Who wrote the “Tarzan” stories? . What is a dynamo? . Who was the chief of the gods of Olympus? . Who invented the electric light? . Near what river are the pyramids located? . What is the difference between a frater- nity and a sorority? 7. To what island was Napoleon exiled? 8. In what famous poem is an albatross an important figure? ANSWERS. 1. Edgar Rice Burroughs. generating an electric current. 3. Zeus. 4. Thomas Ediscn. 5. The Nile. 6. A fraternity is an organization of boys or men; a sorority of girls or women. 7. St Helena. 8. “Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” 2. A machine for Stlhouettes During the reign of Louis XV of Prance, Etienne de Silhouette held the pcst of minister of finance. At this time some one started in Paris an exhibition which was known by the name of “Chinese Shadows.” This exhibition oconsisted of projecting upon a sheet the black sutlines of objects or men and making them take part in a play. Silhouette was a very unpopular man, for his financial policies did not meet with the approval of the French people. He had once written & book entitled “A General Idea for the Govern- ment of the Chinese,” in which he expounded his theories. The popularity of the Chinese shadows provoked the taunt that M. de Sil- houette had published his book as an advance notice for the show. Hence the shadows were called “silhouettes™ and the name was naturally extended to the portraits then in vogue, which presented omly the outlines of faces and figures filled in with black. Weeds Survive Plow HIRTY years ago scientists of the Depart- ment of Agriculture conducted, or rather started, an experiment to determine the effect on seeds of ploughing them under. Primarily, the idea back of the test was to find out if farmers could get rid of weeds by this process. Laying the groundwork for the test in 1902, 112 sets of seeds were buried at the Arlington Experimental Farm. Most of them were weeds gathered near the farm. The seeds were placed in pots of earth and buried at three different levels, 8 inches, 22 inches and 42 inches. Some of the seeds were dug and planted this year and of the 112 varieties planted, 35 sprouted and in the case of wild morning glory, so amazing was the vitality of the seeds they had sprouted within two days of being brought to the surface and started. Seeds of domesticated plants did not have the vitality of the weeds, due no doubt to the fact that the seeds of domestic plants year after year are coddled while the weeds, left to their own devices for self-preservation, have built up a resistance to unhappy conditions which permit them to survive. It is Nature’s way to guard against a bad season when no seeds at all might be formed. It is her way of preserving the species. The tests and the results so far obtained indicate that those who wish to rid them- selves of any self-sowing plant, whether weed or domesticated plant, must cut the plants off or plough them under before they go to seed and perhaps continue the process for a num- ber of years to finally be rid of the undesirable. The Other Kind Customer (in drug store): “I want a little pink tablet.” Druggist: “What’s your trouble?” Customer: “I want to write a letter.” Deceptive Young Wife: “If this is an all-wool rug, why is it labeled ‘cotton’?” Shop Assistant (confidentially): “That, madam, is to deceive the moths.”