Evening Star Newspaper, April 23, 1933, Page 80

- , xn : STORIES SPORTS' E / GAMES A PUZZLES e A picture puzzle is our first offering to you Chis week. Be careful with that third word. Now come a couple of word chains connected :::h government. They are rather difficult, you can get them if you try. Change PASS to BILL in five moves. Change READ to VOTE in seven moves. —3— i Are you ready for a couple of problems in word addition? Add agitate to bashful and get # cheap laywer. Add endeavor to a cooking wtensil and gt a room for provisions. e Teke a four-letter word for household ani- @sls, add K, rearrange the letters and get a ‘Take a four-letter name of a famous river, R, rearrange the letters and form an ocean hip. —— CROSS-WORD PUZZLE. ®he definitions are: HORIZONTAL. An agreement. In the midst of. Exists. Kind of tree. Greek letter N. Parent-Teacher Association (Abbr.). Device for carrying bricks. Sick. A flictitious tale. A wooden nail. Organ of hearing. In the past. . A thoroughfare (Abbr.). . Moisture. . Belonging to. Related. Knowledge. VERTICAL. Marrow, kernel. Like. A light blow. Exclamation. Within. Not sharp. Unfamiliar. Native metal. A pet. . Frozen water. Meadow. Separate. Prevalent. Sum up. Wise bird. Perform. Word used with “eithee.” FERESNRR R Nuaonanp TARARRERAUNTOuann - Ready for More The small boy had just got over a severe Omse of indigestion, and lusclous odors lured bim into the kitchen where the cook was pre- paring a pie. “How you feelin’, Honey?” she asked him. ®How your stomach?” “I'm feeling very much better, Rosie,” he geplied. “In fact,” he added, looking signifi- gantly at the open oven door, “I should say $hat my stomach was in apple-pie order.” THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, B. e e C., APRIL 123, 98, -%e B OY§ and GIRLS PAGE | The Other Betty Story of Little Girl Whose Ref/m'liofl Step/)ed Out of Mirror BY E. D. KEILMANN. RYING her eyes, Betty was whisking down the stairway just as Bob en- tered the library. Then she stopped. She would see what happened. Two of her in that room would compli- cate matters too much and make too many explanations necessary. “Here you are. You didnt say which kind of sandwich to bring, but I brought the whole plate,” said Bob as he hurried forward toward the other Betty, the sandwich plate extended toward her. Behind the hangings near the door, Betty caught her breath. Bob had stumbled in the thick rug and was about to dump the whole plate of sandwiches into the other Betty's lap. The other Betty saw the impending disaster, too, and quickly reached out, taking the plate from Bob’s hand, laughing in glee as Bob sat down heavily onsthe rug, nursing the ankle he had turned in his haste. “But—but—I never! Why, you're—" and her cousin’s face seemed bianketed with astonishment. “What's the matter, didn't you want me to have the sandwiches? I thought you brought them for me.” It was Betty's voice all right, and Bob, recovering some of his mental balance, rose to take the plate from her, placing it on a small table near by. “But, Betty, I didn't remember that you were left-handed. You took that plate with your left hand.” other Betty giggled softly, and cuddling down with the sandwich in the big chair, mused, “But you know, Bob, it's been years and years since you saw me last. Maybe there are lots of things about me you don't re- member."” v “Guess you are right,” grumbiled Bob. Boys never like to have a girl prove them wrong. “Well, what'll be the first thing we'll do?” “Oh, you're the guest. You say what you want to do! But first, tell me all about your- self. That suit you have on makes you look so handsome.” Boys like to say what to do, and whether theyll admit it or not, they like to be told they are appearing at their best. Bob had a diffi- cult time in concealing his satisfaction, but he certainly was mollified. “It’s & good enough suit, I guess, but this old tie! It just won't stay right.” Bob’s hand went to the offending bow under his chin. “Here, let me fix it,” said the other Betty. Quickly she had pulled one end, completely untying it. “Here, stand up and I'll tie it for you. “But I want to see how you do it,” grumbled the boy. “All right, then, come over here in front of the mirror. See, first you measure the two ends so that one side is about an inch longer than the other. Then you double up the short end, this way—" OB was watching the mirror, but it wasn't the tying operation that he was watching. His eyes were getting wider and wider. In that mirror were two Bettys. Omne seemed to be coming toward him from behind, the other was tying his tie. “But—but—er, how—er!” He could only Betty, and a flash of disappointment came over her face. She reached up with the unengaged hand and slapped Bob on the cheek. The slap was enough to bring Bob out of his trance. He grabbed the other Betty by the shoulders, intending to shake her, but some- thing made him stop. Instead, he shoved backward toward the mirror, as he tu ward Betty, who had advanced from of concealment from behind him. Betty was smiling—a bit wickedly to be —and Bob saw, as he glanoced over his shou! - that she had a glint of triumph in her 3 Then he saw amazement and unbelief one another in her countenance. HIRLING about again, he saw the other Betty, but she was smiling out of the mirror at him beside his own reflection there, Then he noticed that his tie was still untied. “Aw, come on, Betty, aren't you ever going to tie this for me?” In bed that night, Bob was sleepily saying to himself, “Say, now, I guess I was dippy. It must have been Betty’s reflection in the mirror all the time—or did I fall asleep and dream it al?” Across the hall in her room, Betty had not yet retired. She was so happy, she feit she could never go to sleep again. “Bob did exactly the right thing without knowing it! I was so excited I'd never have thought of it. The other Betty can stay in that old mirror from now on, I'll be careful how I make wishes in the future!” THE END. Wanted t0 Be Right Mother—You naughty girl! You have eatem every cookie there was on that plate snd told you you might have only three. Small daughter—Yes, mother, but didn't tell me which three, 30 I had to eat to be sure to get the right ones. ANSWERS. 1. President, cabinet, mayor (mare), and postmaster. 2. PASS—bass—base—bale—ball—BILL. READ—lead—load—lord—lore— more — moée —VOTE. 3. Shy-ster. Pan-try. 4. Cats, add K, form stack. Nile, add R, form liner. 5. Cross-word puzzle solutior ElEJ2i k<E| wkde) 0|0 *CRAFTS_JOKES: PUZZLES RIDDLES Arlene Rumple sent us all of this week's riddles, and they are mighty clever. I know all our friends will thank her for her trouble. 1. If a man tries to jump a ditch and falls, why is he liable to miss the beauties of Sum-~ mer? 2. What is the difference between a man and a banana peel? 3. When is a Scotchman like a donkey? 4. What three words, which read the same backward or forward, did Adam say when he met Eve? 5. When are two apples alike? ANSWERS. 1. Because the fall follows right after the spring, unless he makes & summer-set between them. 2. A man throws a banana peel into the gutter and a banana peel throws a man into the gutter. 3. When he walks along the banks and braes. 4. “Madam, I'm Adam®” 5. When they are pared (paired). Ancient Pet Dogs and Cats ONG before men knew how to write, they had tame dogs % help them hunt and fight, and tame cats to amuse their children —animals which were plainly related to the beasts of the forest. The earliest records men have left—picture records in caves and omn stones—all show that every family had its tame animals. Originally, of course, all these animals were wild, and they still show much similarity to their forest relatives. We do not definitely know whether types like the ancestors of our modern dogs are no longer living, or whether they are still running about in various coun- tries. ¥ Whatever the fact is, there are certain strik- ing resemtlances between particular breeds of dogs and various wild animals. The dogs owned by the American Indians of the Middle West are very much like the coyotes of the prairies. And the Eskimo “huskies” look strik- ingly like the gray wolf. The German shep- herd, too, is very much like & wolf, and when it is mated with a wolf & has puppies which can be brought up like ordinary dogs. The dingo, a wild animal of Australia, looks more like a tame dog than any other wild creature does. It, too. can be successfully mated with the tame dogs. This has been done so much in Australia that the Australian dog has come to look like the dingo. All kinds of cats, from expensive blooded Persian and Angora fluffs to the ragged calico prowlers that collect in alleys for uninvited serenades at night, are probably descendants of two kinds of wild cats which are still in existence. Although the European wildcat is somewhat larger, both kinds of wildcats show every re- semblance to our modern varieties, though the stripes and spots and shades of these later ones have been bred helter-skelter according $0 our fancy. Cats, like dogs, have been the pets of human beings for thousands of years, as the mummy- cats found in ancient Egypt tombs prove. For the Egyptians sent their dead into the tomb with all the luxuries to which they were ac- customed in life. Among these were cats. About Antlers MAGINE carrying 70 pounds of horn an your head, just for trimming! And imagine catch- ing the spreading branches of that horn on the limbs of all the trees in the woods in which you live. That is the fate of the hand- some buck deer. For, excepting omly the reindeer, it is the male that has the bother and the splendor of a crown of velvety horns, and not the female. Among deer at least, the female of the species seems to have escaped one of the difficulties of living. The female reindeer is the only female that shares the burden of the horns, and hers are much smaller than her mate’s. As far as we know, the antlers of deer are wholly without any advantage to the animals. Some men hold that they were originally ab- normal growths, which buck after buck in- herited from his father until, through the centuries, the growth came to be normal. The horns are heavy and awkward, often growing so large that they weigh 70 pounds. And in battle they are much more trouble than help, for they often become hopelessly . entangled in the enemy’s antlers—and that means death, painful and inglorious. After their horns are shed, the bucks can fight powerfully and effectively with their feet and their strong teeth. But the imprudent creatures do not to wait to shed their antlers before engaging in battle; the outcome of their recklessness is usually silently told when the bucks are found dead, their horns interlocked, During the first year of their lives the bucks develop a bony base upon their skulls, but nothing more. It is in the second year that their antlers begin to grow and thereafter branch after branch is added until mafurity. The velvet of the antlers when they are growing is the skin of the deer which keeps stretching to cover the bone as the branch sprouts out. This skin i warm and fed by blood vessels and it is very sensitive because it contains many nerves. The antlers are shed each year by all but the Sambar deer, which sheds his horns only once in ceveral years.