Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1935, Page 61

S ‘! | PUZZLES | W! OBSERVE St. Patrick’s day this week with a shamrock cross- word puzzle. Some of the words are very appropriate, to0. THE SHAMROCK. The definitions are: HORIZONTAL. Ireland’s color. . Musical instrument. . Mounted (abbr.). . Irish flowers. . Chopping tool. . Anger. . Racket. . Statute. VERTICAL. . Graduate in pharmacy (abbr). . Edge. . One who dines. . Extremity. . Negative. . Kind of fish. . Twisted to one side. . Line sbout which the earth re- volves. . Adults. . Lubricant. . Stuff. —3— Next comes a word Giamond that {s right in the spirit of the occasion. ‘The second line means to consume, the third is additional, the fifth is a group of Indians, and the sixth is a famous flyer. Can you finish the diamond? Each of the words below is a Middle Western city, with the letters jumbled up. Can you straighten them out? Take a feur-letter word for price, add H, rearrange the letters and form soil. Take a four-letter word for a girl, add H, rearrange the letters and form to cut viciously. ANSWERS. EieS] IAIMDIOICIRIS] [ENT1DE] ‘SUDDEN‘LY the yard was plunged tories—Sports— Games SECRET THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MARCH 17, 1935—PART FOUR. The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE MISSION Further Exciting Adventures of Ronnie and Hicky BY W. BOYCE MORGAN. INSTALLMENT VIIL VER his shoulder Ronnie saw the flashlight beams jumping crazily down the hall. Then it was flooded with light. Quickly he climbed on the narrow iron stairway. “Get going!” Hicky said hoarsely, close behind him. Then they were running awkwardly down the narrow fire escape. Ronnie banged his shin as he made a turn, and behind him he heard Hicky mut- ter under his breath. Below, the dim | form of Slne was stumbling down the last flight. | Suddenly from above & beam of light shot down. “There they go!” a voice cried. “Grab 'em!"” Aided by the light, théy made the THEY HESITATED A MINUTE, THEN JUMPED TOGETHER. Racing madly through the dark- ness, Ronnie and Hicky heard Slug’s voice ahead of them. “Come on! Here's the fence!” Then they had their hands on the cold bars and were pulling them- selves upward, struggling and pant- ing. Slug was hanging by his hands from the top of the fence on the other side. There was a soft thud as he dropped. Ronnie and Hicky, side by side, tugged themselves upward frantically. | Finally, after what seemed an age, they somehow pulled themselves over the sharp iron spikes. For a tense second they hung, then dropped in a tangled heap on the ground below. “Hurt?” gasped Hicky as he scrambled to his feet. last turn and half-tripped down the last flight. the yard was suddenly dazzling light, blinding him so he tripped and fell. He felt Hicky grab him by the belt and yank him to his feet, and ahead he saw Slug running, bent over, close to the wall of the building. Then 8lug stooped over, pulled something from the pocket, and hacked viciously at a heavy cable. in darkness, and they heard Slug's voice calling, “Come on!™ | Cries sounded in the yard. Con- fused shouts came from the building. Then Ronnie and Hicky were running | madly in the direction of the fence. Ahead of them, Slug's form was out- lined dimly in the dull moonlight. Behind them, the shouts were louder and more confused. As Ronnie hit the ground | flooded with | “Come on, Ronnie,” panted Hicky. “It's now or never!” “No!” grunted Ronnie. “Where's Slug? Hicky jerked his thumb toward the woods. “Come on!" N THE school yard the flashlights | blinked like eyes in the dark as the guards raced for the gates. As the two boys half ran and half stumbled down the steep slope toward the woods, Slug's voice came to them again “This way—down here!” Gasping, Ronnie and Hickey tried to run faster in the direction of Slug's voice. Suddenly they were at the bit- tom of the hill and ahead of them in | the ravine, crouched halfway behind a | bush, they dimly saw Slug. Slug motioned to them to follow. When they had run for three or four minutes, dodging swishing twigs and | limbs while briars and bushes grabbed at their legs, the boys saw Slug stop suddenly and turn sharply to his left. As they came up to him he was on his High Lights of History— - MAINLAND BY WHICH THE BESIEGERS WeRE ABLE TO COME Y0 CLOSE QUARTERS AND FINALLY TAKE THE- CITY Dsnus AT THE BATTLE OF 155uS(3338.C) ALEXANDER THE GREAT LED HIS MACEDONIAN PrQsiaN SEA - MEDITERQANBAN, hands and knees, digging frantically among the leaves. “Got a cave here,” he gasped. “Help me dig!” Tearing their hands on sharp stones and sticks, Ronnie and Hicky clawed into the earth viciously. In a minute they struck a damp board. “Lift it!” hissed Slug. Somehow they got their numb fingers under the edge and after a few straining tugs it came loose. Slug slipped quickly into the dark, damp hole and Ronnie and Hicky followed. They crouched while Slug pulled the heavy board back over the top of the hole. 'HEN Slug ducked low and squirmed through a narrow passage. They heard a match strike, then a dim candle spluttered protestingly as it cast flickering shadows about a crude, rough “room” about 6 feet square. “Come on in,” Slug said, panting. Ronnie and Hickey wormed their way through the rest of the passage- | way and came into the larger space. | “How you like this?" grinned Slug. | his uneven teeth looking more crooked | in the wavering light. Ronnie looked around. “By gosh. this is all right!” he breathed, uncon- | scious admiration in his volce. | “0. K., ain't 1t?” Slug agreed. “Be-| fore I was sent here I helped dig it for a fellow who used it to make his getaway. Never thought then that| I'd use it myself.” Suddenly Hicky put his finger to Ireland WE FIND the origin of .the name of Ireland in an old Celtic myth. According to this legend, the famous isle was once entirely covered by wa- ter, except for a short period once in seven years. During its times of ex- posure the island looked so green and inviting that many bold folk would go there and establish homes, only to be swallowed up by the sea. Long ago it was thought that iron | had tuck-giving qualities. So when a d| heavenly vision was announced which | said that the island might be saved |if a shaft of iron were placed in its | heart, it was believed. At the next appearance of the island a brave adventurer went upon its shores and drove an iron sword into the land. The island d:d not dis- appear again. but settled into a rest- ing place upon the surface of the sea. From this incident it became known as Iron-land or Ireland. his lips. “Listen!” he whispered. Sounding far away, faint voices an cries came to them. “Sshh!” warned Slug. Shivering with cold, not daring to talk, the boys sat still for what seemed hours. Above them they could | hear the guards as they ran through | the woods, shouting to each other. Ronnie prayed silently that they | would not notice the freshly upturned earth and the board. | 1aborious pull. F!NALLY they could hear no more voices. “I guess they're gone.” Slug breathed a sigh of relief. He looked at Hicky. “Well, ready to go?” Hickey shrugged. Ronnie nodded. “0. K..” he said, hitching up his belt. They crawled through the narrow | tunnel and out of the cave. For per-| haps half an hour they trotted through the woods. Finally Slug stopped. “There’s a railroad over there.” he panted, pointing. “We'll hop a freight | at the water stop.” | They crouched near the water tank | | nearly an hour before a freight chug- ged slowly up the track. As it came to a grinding stop Slug crept toward the | open door of a nearby car. Looking | quickly up and down along the side | of the train, Slug scrambled into the | car, motioning to Ronnie and Hicky | to follow. In a dark corner they dropped on a pile of hay. A few mo- ments later the train resumed its | The next thing Ronnie and Hicky knew, Slug was shaking them, calling | for them to get up. 1 THEY looked dazedly around. It was daylight. The train was coming to a halt, “Come on,” whispered Slug. Ronnie and Hicky got stiffly to their feet. Slug crouched at the door. When the wheels began to screech on the track he suddenly jumped. Ronnie and Hicky saw him land and tumble head bing & small tree. Ronnie followed Slug, however, and ended up in a heap at the bottom of the slope. Then they were up and running across other railroad tracks, all con- verging toward what looked like a huge round barn a mile or so away. Soon the tracks were behind them | and Slug stopped, pointing toward | smokestacks and buildings. “This is the town,” he said as they came up. “Here's where we'll work for a while. Slug led them through back alleys and side streets until he came to a stop in an alley behind an old red brick house. “Come on" he called over his shoulder, running up the rickety back stairs, Ronnie and Hicky close behind him. On a small porch he stopped and knocked sharply five times. He waited a minute, then did it again. In moment the door opened a small crack, then a coarse voice cried, “Slug!” and the door opened. Ronnie froze. ‘The man who stood in the doorway was the thug who had stolen Prof Shayne's car! (To be continued next Sunday.) OHNNY (to electrician hard at work in school house)—What are you doing? over heels down a short, grassy slope, | Electrician—I'm installing a new They hesitated a minute, then- jumped | electric switch. together. Hicky managed to keep his | Johnny—Gee, I'm glad I don't have balance and caught himself by grab- | to go to this school next year! Alexander the Great Pensian FLeeTs FROM THE PHOENICIAN PORTS OF T\RE AND SIDON MENACED HIS RIGHT FLANK . HIS FIRST TASK. was To CAPTURE THESE ENEMY NAVAL VENERABLE HIGH PRIEST, WITH A ALEXANDER MONED SOUTH- WARD AND CAME TO THE CITY OF JuDEA THEN TRIBUTARY 70 THE SOLEMN PROCESSION WENT OuT OF THE C\TYTO MEET THE INVADERS . —By J. Caring for Pets BY HORACE MITCHELL. Fire. YOUR old Pet Editor came fear- fully close to losing all his pets just a little while ago. So close that it makes a chill run up and down his spine when he realizes just how close it was! On a Saturday afternoon, when the mercury was down almost to zero, & load of coal was to be delivered at the place. When it had been ordered that morning, the coal man had promised to have it over here by two-thirty. And the Pet Editor's mother plan- | ned to go with him to the city and be gone until late that night. | Well, the coal didn't come at two- | thirty. It didn’t come at three-thirty. The coal company was called, and it | was found that the manager was gone for the week end, and that he had forgotten to write on the order slip “Deliver by two-thirty.” By his forgetting to do that, our house, barns, furniture and pets were saved from complete destruction. Just by the | manager’s forgetting! The coal came at 5. The Pet Editor told the two men on the truck that he'd help unload it as soon as he changed his clothes. He ran upstairs to do it. He opened the door of a bath room in the west end of the | house and smoke belched out at him. He slammed that door as quickly as | he ever slammed anything in his life | and ran outdoors to look at the west | wall. Flames were roaring out, about 20 feet from the ground. Roaring on a northwest wind! Sparks were being | carried away from the barns, which was lucky. | : The local volunteer fire depart- | | ment was called. The two coal men | | helped to save things. { tor’s mother was sent out of the way. The three men carried furniture and pictures, and the very typewriter on which this story is being written. Up the drive howled the fire trucks, sirens screaming. It wasn't more than three | minutes after the call went in when | the whole force was on the job, and | the assistant chief was crawling up the front stairs on his stomach with a hose. He lay at the bed room door, playing the water into the smoky darkness while his soaking clothes froze to him. | With the firemen on the job and most of the valuables taken from the | house, we got everything ready to take | the birds and animals out of their coops if the need developed. In two hours the fire was under control, and not even the cat's tail was singed.' { But this room where the Pet Editor is ‘ writing smells smoky. There is melted ice on the floor, and the bed rooms on the west side are wrecks. But the | column must be written just the same. 1. What letter will set one of the heavenly bodies in motion? — Mae Colby. 2. What food represents what the | patient has and what the doctor gets? —Dorothy Sloane. | 3. Why didn't the ancients use pen- cil and paper to do their arithmetic?— David Mendelsohn. 4. When is a clock cruel?>—William Sherman. | 5. At what time was Adam married? | —Kate Cassell. Carroll Mansfield €YoonvieLoer AT THE APPROACH I oFThE * " MACEDONIANS, BUT TYRE RESISTED STUBBORNL/ AND WAS TAKEN ONLY | AFTER A SEVEN MONTHS' . Lysec— (Gn28C). Crafts—Jokes— Puzzle "Fun at BY RAY J. Roller-Ska Side Vrew o S Home . MARRAN. te Coaster. ~~ Bed caster wheel 1n end 0% 7" 2" =36 long WHEN skating down a long hill, or down a steep driveway, the coaster will allow you to assume a sitting position and to coast in com- fort and safety. To make such a coaster, you will need a long 1 by 2, a short piece of broomstick for a handle, a wooden seat and a large-size bed caster for an | end wheel. when you assume a sitting position your legs will come under the broom- stick handle and the handle will rest on or just back of your knees. You will find that your weight, pressing against the coaster seat, will force the handle bar down on your knees and allow you to brace yourself with your legs. When coasting, get a good start, then place the coaster between the | one who can draw, much less etch, a i'| RIDDLES | Cut the 1 by 2 about 36 inches long. Drill & hole in one end, into which place the broomstick handle. | At the other end of the 1 by 2 drill a small hole and insert the shank of the ' stick. It is a light weight to carry and bed caster. Nail the seat board on the | a great deal of fun can be had with it top of the 1 by 2, placing it so that | even on level stretches of sidewalk. Art and Artists (Continued From Fourth Page.) legs and sit on it. You will be able to coast down real step hills witheut any danger of falling. When wnot riding the coaster, carry it as a ski- and pays a fee less than one would cost. The etchings issued are made wife with its typical Charleston gar-| especially for the society and hence den. This lovely Southern city has are unique as well as fine. These furnished Mr. Hutty with many | prints are chosen by a committee of themes, but wher all is said and done | experts and are not for sale. However, it is Hutty's etchings of trees which | until the full quota of subscribing set him apart and give greatest rea- colleges is complete a few art ore son for remembrance. It is not every | ganizations and individuals have been ! | given the privilege of associate mem- tree—a living thing, with roots down bership. This year the American Col- in the ground and branches tossed sky- | lege Society of Print Collectors has ward. But Alfred Hutty can and does. | contracted for prints by Charles His Southern pines are charming, but | Woodbury, recently issued, and by no less typical than his Northern|John Taylor Arms. An additional birches. and each has its own char- | plate by Martin Lewis may also be acter. Some years ago Mr. Hutty made | published. Woodbury's print, “The an etching of the Capitol as seen from | Sea Is Asking,” is one of this distine the foot of the steps back of the Peace | guished etcher's best, a delightful and Monument. a very carefully cendered | very characteristic plate. The society study of a great architectural work,|was organized and is conducted by but the beauty o’ this etching is to a | Prof. Marques E. Reitzel of Rockford great extent derived from the exquisite | College, Rockford, Ill, and has the manner in which he has delineated the | enthusiastic endorsement of etchers, | ate foreground. | buildings and Negroes have, as already k leafless sycamore trees in the immedi- Charleston streets, said, furnished him with congenial and excellent material, and especially well | has he portrayed familiar figures in | this environment — invariably with | sympathetic understanding of their hu- | man quality. Mr. Hutty has also made L some distinguished dry point portraits. | This announced exhibition of his! prints may be anticipated with un- usual pleasure. Opening March 24, it will continue four weeks. THE program of exhibitions of art and lectures put on by the Art Department of Howard University, in co-operation with the Friends of Art, during the current season, has been noteworthy and deserving of more at- tention than perhaps it has received The lecturers have included Philip McMahon, professor of the history of art. New York University; Edward Rowan of the section of painting and | sculpture in the Procurement Division of the Treasury and formerly director of the Little Gallery in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Dr. Shio Sakanishi of the | Oriental Division of the Library of Congress. The exhibitions set forth | in the University Art Gallery includes ‘ a collection of Chinese art, textiles and sculpture; paintings in oil and gouache by Herman Maril; Negro paintings and paintings of Negro sub- Jects, and now fine prints from the famous Rosenwald collection and ’ paintings by Emil Jacques, previously | shown in the National Museum under | the auspices of the National Gallery | of Art. Certainly a very varied se- lection! | print connoisseurs and educators. It has already done much to create in- terest in the student bodies in prints and print collecting. AN EXHIBITION of paintings in water color and gouache by Aleke sandr Aleksandrowich Deyneka, a Rus- sian Soviet painter, opened at Studio House, 1614 Twenty-first street, yes- terday. to continue for three weeks. A few months ago. as winner of ar honorable mention in the Carnegie Institute’s international exhibition at Pittsburgh. this artist's name was first heard in this country. Then. as one of the leading artists represented in the exhibition of the art of Soviet Russia assembled by the Society for | Cultural Relations with Foreign Coun- tries in Moscow and shown in thiy country under the auspices of th American Russian Institute, the Penn-} sylvania Museum of Art, where it had| its first showing. and the College Art | Association, it became better krown. Finally a little over 10 days ago it was learned that the young painter hime self was in Washington. A lunch was given by the Ambassador of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Mrs. Troyanovsky at the embassy in his honor and a private showing of his works given. Deyneka, we are told, is one of a group of young painters grown up since the revolution who are consciously striving for a more realistic approach to the life of their own day, its political, social and industrial phases. He has done illustration, posters, lithographs. His manner is simple and strong. He has studied under capable masters. He is an out- X| N W %N E%U The prints and paintings will re- | 8¥oWth of the new order. Whether we main on view for another week and | like it or not. we should give it thought will be found well worth seeing. Mr. and attention, remembering that here, Jacques' works are figure studies, por- | t00. “the old order changeth” and that traits. outdoor scenes, especially on N€W adventures lie ahead. Five of the the ocean front in California, and | nineteen paintings by Deyneka now on studies for mural decorations in exhibition are impressions of things BY STORM 2+ PERSIANS. WelL peasen 1. Cross-word puzzle solution. ALEXANDER. HE WAS SHOWN 2. The diamond is P, eat, extra, Patrick, tribe, ace, K. 3. Detroit, Cleveland, Toledo and Milwaukee. 4. Erin, Cork and Killarney. 5. Rate, add H, form earth. add H, form slash. Tell Fortunes '‘ELLING fortunes with invisible ink will provide loads of fun at your next party. The ink used is just plain lemon Juice. Get a number of slips of paper, a lemon and a clean steel pen. Squeeze juice from the lemon and write & number of different fortunes on the slips of paper with the juice. They will be entirely invisible. At the party pass around the slips of paper and have your guests write their names and their birth dates on the top. Then put all the slips in the oven, or hold them over a candle flame one by one. The heat will bring out the invisible writing.in a dark brown color, so that the fortunes are easily read. The guests are sure to be mystified and considerably amused if your fortunes are cleverly written. Riddle Answers 1. T, because it will make a star start. 2. Cof-fee. 3. Because the Lord told them to multiply upon the face of the earth. 4. When it strikes its 1ittlé one. 8. Upon his wedding Eve. 7 [Jovs anp GIRLS THE: WORLD Qv BOQN EO DIGNITY, THE YOUTHFUL CONQUEROR NOT ONLY SPARED THE CITY BUT MADE OFFERINGS TOo JEHOVAH. +ees INTHE DUTCH EAST INDIES... THE THIRD LAQGEST ISLAND INTHE WORLP .- -~ AREA,289,000 SQUARE MILES. CHINA SEA o < 33N - PSSyl MQ. gy ~y /-’w / OhE GREATER PART OF THE ISLAND IS COVERED WITH DENSE, TROPICAL JUNGLES, THE CLIMATE IS HOT AND HUMID AND MARCHED DOWN INTO EGYPT, RULE, QUICKLY SUBMITTED TO HIM. ©.1935. £9HE BULK OF THE INHABITANTS ARE FORMERLY SAVAGE HEAD-HUNTERS. THEQE ARE ALSO MANY MALAYS AND PEANS. i } ARE 5AGO, RICE, BENZINE, TIMBER, TAPIOCA, COCONUTS, RATTAN, CAMPHOR, SPICES, GUTTA UNHEALTHY FOR WHITE MEN *-+*** THE POPULATION NUMBERS - DUTCH BR.N.BORNEO, 257,804, AND BRUNEY, 25,454 4 churches. One of the most interast- ing of these canvases is of an elderly workingman seated dozing before a | sunny window filled with potted. blooming plants. RUEL P. TOLMAN, acting director of the National Gallery of Art, paid a flying trip to Detroit in Fel ruary to see the magnificent exhibi tion of Frans Hals’ paintings, as- sembled by Dr. Valentiner in the De- troit Institute of Art, and another, early in March. to Charleston, S. C., to view and study a great collection of miniatures on exhibition in the Gibbes Memorial Gallery, where, about a year ago, the notable exhibition of Fraser miniatures was shown. The current exhibition was limited to miniatures painted before 1860 and excluded the work of Fraser. It com- prised over 500 miniatures, 70 from the Gibbes Memorial’s permanent col- lection, 100 lent by Herbert Lawton of Boston and 337 assembled from private owners in Charleston and the South. A remarkable showing. In- cidentally, in this connection, it is rumored that J. P. Morgan of New York is considering disbursing by sale the marvelous collection of miniatures assembled by his father and long shown in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. IFTY-TWO colleges and univer- sities are subscribing members of the American College Society of Print Collectors, organized in 1929, with the purpose of bringing fine prints to the attention of such students and making them available to them. Each or- ganization taking up membership in this society received two etchings a year by the leading contemporary stchers of this and other countries ) seen in the United States—the sky- scrapers of New York and wide con- crete roadways stretching in every direction across our country. Those who find interest in this group of Soviet paintings will perhaps like | to visit the exhibition of the art of | Soviet Russia which is now on view in the Baltimore Museum, continuing un- til March 24. This exhibition com- prises 50 paintings by Deyneka and his confreres as well as a large collec- tion of prints. | N ADDITION to the Deyneka paintings there are now to be seen at Studio House color reproductions of | mural paintings by Giega Rivera, etch- | ings of Mexican bull fights by Henrle etta Hoopes and a group of etchings of Yankee whaling ships by Clifford Ashley. [EDITH McCARTNEY, who has just held a successful exhibition of her pastel portraits of children in Wine chester, Mass., announces an exhibi- tion of the work of her students in her Tuesday and Thursday morning classes at her studio, 1830 I street, next Friday afternoon. While in the | North Miss McCartney executed two portrait orders, one of the small son of Mr. and Mrs. Patch of Framing- | ham, the other of the son of Dr. and Mrs. Albert Aldridge of New York. i ] THE club rooms of the District of Columbla League of American Pen Women, ‘he Burlington Hotel, there will be on view from today until the end of the month a collection of prize contest pictures—works by members.,