Evening Star Newspaper, April 7, 1935, Page 67

Sl The BOYS and Stories—Sports— Crafts—Jokes— Games PUZZLES =y YOU shouldn’t have much trouble . with this week’s picture anagram. Now come 10 words which begin with the word “bun.” See how high a score you can make on guessing them. 1. The bun that comes on Easter. 2. The bun on the golf course. 3. The bun that's tied with string. 4. The bun of flowers. 5. The bun that always makes mis- es. 6. The bun of the base ball player. 7. The bun in the barrel 8. The bun where people live. 9. The bun that makes your foot sore. 10. The bun that's used to decorate, —n Remove the middle letter from in- fures and get salted meats. Remove the middle letter from two and get a duplicate. Behead a tenant and get to go in. EBehead to spot with color and get a fruit. =5 CROSS WORD PUZZLE. The definitions are: HORIZONTAL. . Burst, tear. . Command to a horse, . Organ of smell. . Army order (abbr.). . Unhappy. . Upon. . Fishing devices. . Finishes. . Word of greeting. Observed. . Unemployed. . Word used with “either.” . Idle talk, . Average (abbr.). . Large bundle. . Natural ore deposit. . Short. VERTICAL. . Graceful bird. . Therefore. . Rider on a train, . Kind of pencil. . Toward. . Writing implements. . Gardening tool. . Turf. . Definite article. . Bow slightly. . Weeps. Period of history. Small boy. . Regular 28. Pound (abbr.). 30. Belonging to. ANSWERS. 1. Sit, stir, wrist, twirls. 2. Bunny, bunker, bundle, bunch, bungler, bunt, bung, bungalow, bunion, bunting. 3. Ha(r)ms. Tw(a)in. 4. R-enter. D-apple. 8. Cross word puzzle solution, Spare the Horse. “Would you mind walking the other w'y and not passing the ‘orse?” said a london cabman with exaggerated po- liteness to a fat lady who had just paid a minimum fare. “Why?"” she inquired. “Because if 'e sees wot 'e's been earrying for a shilling ’ell 'ave a fit.” RIDDLE T'S still a little early for Spring fever, but it will be hitting you before long. However, you can al- ways keep your wits awake by guessing riddles. 1. What does a marble do when it stops rolling?—Virginia M. Kerr. 2. What falls but never gets hurt? ~Ellen Jane Shaw. 3. What table doesn't have a leg to stand on?—Fern Hager. 4. Why is A like a honeysuckle?— Raymcad Hummel. 5. What looks most like half an orange?—Fred Wade. ANSWERS. 1. Looks 'round. 2. Snow. 3. A time table. 4. Because a B follows 4 it. 5. The other half, Pink Rabbit | \Mosr litle rabbits, like most little | boys, hate to have their ears | washed. Mrs. Mollie Rabbit found | that out when she lined up her seven | | children for daily inspection. Six of | | them usually had to be spanked on their cottontails for being careless. The seventh one, Benny Rabbit, was her pride and joy, for he was always | spotless. The reason for Benny's keeping his ears neat and sweet was vanity.» They were the most beautiful ears one ever saw—not a faded pink like most rab- bits’ ears, but a deep carnation pink. Benny had a habit of keeping his beautiful ears cocked for compliments and he often heard the remark that | he was the handsomest little bunny ‘in the vicinity. It all went to his head a great deal, and after a while he got in the habit of sneaking away for a daily walk, just to show off those ears. One day, as he was making the rounds of the neighborhood, Benny's mply turned green with envy of a new rabbit sitting in- 1side a yard with fence around it. The newcomer not only had pink ears. but was pink all over. Face, fur, feet | —all were pink. Benny tried to hop the fence to get a better look at the | lovely creature. but the wire was too | high. But seeing him at a distance | made Benny suddcnly dissatisfied with t having only pink ears. He wanted | to be pink all over. | After watching a minute, Benny |had an idea. He hopped into the | garden nearby and returned carrying a bouquet of fresh new carrots with a ruffie of tender cabbage leaves around the edge. Making a bow, | Benny said, “Kindly accept a gift from me, and if you don't mind, I should like to know how you got your | delicious pink coat.” Then he hurled | his present over the fence right at the feet of the stranger. Without | evel so much as a “thank you” the receiver sat staring straight ahead. He cidn't even bat an eye. Bviny was furious. He doubled up his paw and shook it, shouting, “I'll teach you to high-hat me.” | “Fenny!” thundered a voice be- | hin¢ him. “Why are you yelling at that candy rabbit?” Benny turned to fi'1 his mother standing there with a big stick in her hand. “What kind?" gasped Benny, taken abacl:. “That silly candy rabbit that some child left in the yard. Now I must | say, «f all my children, you may be {the nwst beautiful, but you're also the dimbest " exclaimed Mrs. Rabbit. |“Now you march your pink ears straight home, young man, and don't you ever take a walk again without | your mother's permission | Close Enough. The scene was a backwoods school. The teacher was a young and raw- | boned mountaineer who was not at all sure of himself. As a matter of fact, the teacher showed real signs of con- | fusion when a small boy held up his hand and asked: | | “What's B. C. mesua when its| | hitched after them dates in Greek | history?2” Teacher: “Well, T'll tell you. You | see, them old Greeks were queer kind | of critters and they weren't sure about | their numbers, but they went as far as they could and they hitched the B. C. on because B. C. meant *'bout | correct.”” IN 325 B.C. DESCENDED THE INDUS RIVERTO TH INDIAN OCEAN... =] GIRLS PAGE HEAT EDGE TO REDNESS IN GAS FINISHED FLASK AND STAND GOUGE OUT RECESS IN BLOCK BY EUGENE GEORGE RICHTER. ANY boy amateur chemists, when wishing to perform ! some experiment picked up in some magazine or other, generally are stopped because of lack of proper apparatus. In this article I wish to describe, for the ben- efit of these young chemists, a few pieces of apparatus which can be made at home very easily. First, I will describe how to make | some very efficient test tube stands or | holders out of scrap pieces of wood. First cut and square the wood into | blocks 2 inches square by 1 inch high. Next, take a dril with a pit the size of the test tube for which the holder is Iheing ‘made and drill the holes one- half an inch deep into the blocks. Then take sandpaper and smooth up the blocks, and they will be ready for painting. The color of the paint will be left for you to decided, but white is preferable. Improvised flasks that will stand heating can be made as follows: Get some old electric light bulbs that have been burnt out, but not broken, and file a little groove around the neck and just above the screw base. A small three-cornered file is the best to use. After the groove is made, tap the metal base gently with the file and the glass globe will separate from the metal base where the groove has been made. If the edge is a little rough it can be smoothed up with the file. TEST TUBE HOLDER Next, heat the edge of the neck to redness in a gas flame and press it with & piece of wood to flange the edge. | After the flange has been finished, | & holder must be provided for this | homemade flask, as it can not stand | steadily by itself, on account of its | round bottom. To make a holder, get a block of wood 3 inches square by 1 | inch high and hollow it out, as shown in the diagram. When in use, set the flask in this little hollow in the block and it will stand upright very nicely. I will gladly answer any letters | which are sent to me concerning microscopy, chemistry and botany. All | letters must be sent to this address: Eugene George Richter, 108 Brown | avenue, Holyoke, Mass. Rich Gold Strikes Were Lost Again LMOST every part of the West or the Southwest has its own par- ticular story of a buried treasure or a lost gold or silver mine of fabulous richness. Some of these stories are mere legend:; others are founded on fact. ‘And in some places in Arizona and Texas people have been looking for these treasures and mines for generations—and others are still look- ing for them today. In many stories, gold deposits of amazing value have been discovered, only to be lost again by their finders. A typical case is that of a man named | of rusted spikes beside & curve in the wipers. High Lights of History— HAUNG A MUTINY OF HIS HOME-SICK. SOLDIERS ALEXANDER THE GREAT GAVE UP HIS DESIGN OF CONQUERING INDIA AND E Hughes, an engineer on the Southern Pacific Railroad. He operated a train bringing up supplies to build the new iine, and spent his spare time picking up samples of rock along the right of way. After three years of this collecting he spent a vacation in Denver, and had his rock samples assayed. One of them was so rich in gold that he knew his fortune was made. And, al- though he has never kept any record | of where he had found the ous | samples, Hughes had a marvelous | to go to get back to his marvelous | find. He hurried back to the spot. He could see it in his mind'e eyve—a pile | memory, and he knew exactly where | track, a black ledge above a ravine, with a gnarled tree nearby. He found the curve, the pile of spikes and the tree. But the ledge was not there! For years he hunted for it. He went over all the ground that he had covered in picking up his samples. He | got the help of experienced pros- | pectors. Yet when he died, almost 40 | years ago, the engineer had still been unable to locate the ledge that would | have made him rich. Not Particular. Tailor—When your father sent you for samples of cloth, didn't he say what color and material he wanted? Small boy—I don't think it mat- He wants them for pen- } ters, sir, The End of Alexander 323 ALEXANDER RETURNED HE HAP LEFT IT TO EMBARK ON HIS CAMPAIGN AGAINST INDIA. CHISTAN | season. Caring for Pets BY HORACE MITCHELL. 0dd Mention. L!:TI‘ERS lately received ask for “Odd Mentions.” Spring is seeping up the country and Spring jobs are “on the docket.” They must be done promptly or your pets will not be so healthy nor will their quarters be so attractive. Dur- ing the Winter months we haven't been able to clean things as thoroughly as they should have been. And as soon as thp weather grows warmer, the lhouses and coops may have a bad odor about them. On our place we'll be beginning the scraping, the washing and the dis- infecting any day now. And once a good job is done, we will not have to bother with it again for some months. If your hens go broody and you do not intend to set them on eggs, you'd better “reak them up quickly. | Some people say that for every day | a hen is broody it takes seven days to bring her back to laying. As soon as we find a broody bird we do not | wish to “set,” we pop her into a slat- | bottomed coop. In a day or two she is usually over her broodiness and | | him for three years, Puzzles Comancho Campfire Stories A Trout and HIS incident happened when | Seattle was still in its baby stage, instead of the fine city it s now. At that time a small creek ran from Lake Union to Salmon Bay, now. It was full of fine, lusty trout, and I fished there many times. One day I met an Irishman who was also fishing. His father had been a gamekeeper on a large estate in England, and had taught him all the kinks of trout fishing as it is done mn England. He was a fine sportsman, and in time we got well acquainted from frequent meetings on our fishing trips. We soon learned that a huge old trout lived in a washed-out clay hole, where the stream had cut through a hard blue glacial clay bank, making a deep, narrow cleft through which the water rushed like a mill race. FTHIS big old trout would flash up and take our fly whenever we came along there, but almost always he'd snap the hook clear off because of the great strain of the rushing water. We both fished diligently for and while we each hooked him many times, neithér of us could land him in that rush of water. Finally we centered our fishing trips on getting that big trout, and the competition between us was very keen. Then one brilliant June day I reached the steep-banked cut to find that my fly was a little worn. I laid my rod down with half its length | out over the bank, end got out my KILL THE OLD FLEAS BEFORE‘ THE WARM WEATHER STARTS! ready to readjust her body for egg laying again. Be sure to rub your dogs and cats | with plenty of flea powder at this Kill the old fleas before the warm weather starts them to laying, too. and produces a brand-new crop of millions of little biters. Look out for Cpring dampness and | chills for your pets. These two things give human beings colds in the head and they also give various diseases to pets. Dry quarters are the best in- surance against these troubles. Lately friends have talked with me about the care of puppies. I guess there'll be a large number of young | dogs in new homes this Spring. When ‘ you acquire yours, be sure to get, too, a package of good worm medicine and ‘ keep it on hand for emergencies. | During the fire at our house, a bundle of letters from you readers | was burned. I don't know who wrote | them, nor what they contained. The bundle was left in the library and | could not have been saved. So if you are awaiting a reply from me and have not received one yet, please write again, Carroll Mansfield | fiy book, intending to put on a new fly. A gust of wind came along and blew the fly on my rod into the stream. Suddenly my reel began: an Irishman, to sing, and the rod was jumping around on the short grass as though alive! I dropped everything, grab- bed the rod, and found I had the big fish fast! The fish rushed into e big, deep | just where the great ship canal is pool just below a fallen alder tree, which lay with its under side just level with the water and its branches resting on the bottom. There he fought to rid his jaw of the hook, and I knew I could not drag him out past that fallen tree. O IN I went head first, clothes, bas- ket, rod and all. I made a mighty dive for the bottom, knowing I hed to g0 deep to miss the tangle of broken branches. Getting caught there would mean drowning, for no man could buck that wild current. In 10 seconds I was under the tree and into the deep, quiet pool where it was easy to swim. As soon as I could stand on the gravel, 1 found my fish was still hooked! Then began a fight that lasted 20 minutes before I recled the big fellow in, his gasping nose out of water, and slipped the landing net under him. I was victor in as fine a fight as I've ever had with a fish. I lifted him to the sandbar where I stood, looking proudly at his 24 inches of stocky length, and feeling like the owner of the world. Just then a voice from across the pool cried: “Bully, boy! That was the prettiest fight I've ever seen! I'm glad ye got him—I am that!" It was the Irishman. He'd seen the whole play, and although he had tried as hard as I had to get that particuler fish, he was not envi- ous. He was fine, square-shooting sportsman enough to congratulate me sincerely on my luck. FUN AT HOME Swinging Hurdle. )O YOU want to make the school | track team? Then practice! hurdle jumping at home with the aid | of ~ne ‘or more of these easily con- | structed swinging hurdles that revolve if touched by the jumper's foot. You can make one in a few hours, | | | using short lengths of scrap lumber. | Material necessary: Two 36-inch round sticks, knov at lumber yards as “dowel sticks”; two 36-inch 1 by 3 board for uprights: two 30-inch 1 by 2's for feet: two 18-inch 1 by 2's for braces; two 24-inch 1 by for the bar swing; two 10-inch 1 by 2's for bar swing weights, and one 30-inch 1 by 2 for a bottom cross brace. Start making the hurdle by boring a number of holes in the two uprights, spacing them one or two inches apart. Then bore the necessary holes in the bar swing pieces. Nail the 10-inch bar swing weights to the ends of the bar swing. Nail the feet and braces to the uprights as illustrated. Attach the bottom cross brace to the bottom ends of the uprights with long wood screws, so the hurdle can easily be taken apart and stored when not in use. Now, saw one of the 36-inch round sticks to 30 inches and force it into the top holes of the bar swing. Then push the center pivot, the other 36- inch round stick, through one of the holes in an upright, into the center WHILE ALEXANDER LED PART OF HIS ARMY WESTWARD ACROSS THE BURN ING DESERTS OF BALUCHISTAN, HIS /A [/ 7 SusA HE ANNOUNCED HIS GREAT PLAN OF WELDING HIS EUROPEAN AND ASIATIC SUB- ADMIRAL NEARCHUS,WITH A FLEET 7/ Voo lololeirh BUILT ONTHE INDUS, TO STRENGTHEN THIS UNION OF WESTAND EAST ALEXANDER - Téok ANOTHER PERSIAN WIFE, BARSINA, DAUGHTER OF DARIUS. AT THE SAME TIME 10000 OF HIS —=— WATER ROUTE VIATHE PERSIAN GULF. EXPLORED THE INJUNE 323 BC.ALEXANDER WAS JECTS INTO ONE MIGHTY NATION ENLIGHTENER BY GREEK CULTURE. IN'THE MIDST OF MAKING PLANS TO ATTACK CARTHAGE AND ROME, WHEN HE WAS STRICKEN WITH A FEVER AS THE RESULT OF A DRUNKEN DEBAUCH, ANPD DIED. MACEDONIANS MARRIED PERSIAN ,,‘ y PS5 NATIONS ALEXANDER PROMOTED .TRADE AND (COMMERCE. DURING HIS CAMPAIGN INTHE EAST HE HAD PLANTED GREEK CITIES ALONG 7. [ Hap conquERED MANY NATIONS,BUT DIEDAT 33 THE VICTIM OF HIS OWN VICES .« WITH ALEXANDER'S DEATH HIS COLOSSAL SCHEMES OF UNIFYING THE CIVILIZED WORLD COLLAPSED.UNDER HIS SUCCESSORS HIS VAST EMPIRE SPLIT INTO THREE | i f BovYs anp GIRLS R THE WORLD (EYLON --- AN ISLAND IN THE Sl IMPORTANT TRADE ROUTES N z -~ PARTS -~ MACEDONIA, EGYPT ANDASIA. i efa. (58] HE CEYLONESE ELEPHANT HAS NO TUSKS,BUT IS HIGHLY PRIZED AS AWORK ANIMAL ------= THERE ARE 3,000 KINDS OF BIRDS IN CEYLON CEYLON PRODUCES TEA RICE,COCONUTS, CINNAMON, FRUITS, PLUMBAGO, GEMS, TORTOISESHELL * AND LACQUER. holes in the bar swing. then into a corresponding hole in the other up- right | This hurdle will stand erect on level ground. On uneven ground it may be necessary to hold the hurdle level with side pegs driven into the ground alongside of both feet. The numerous holes in the uprights allow the hurdle bar to be raised or lowered easily These holes should be 1arge enough to allow the pivot bar to fit loosely, so the bar swing will revolve easily if touched by a jumper’s foot | in order not to trip him. Following the plan illustrated will allow you to make a swinging hurdle that can be assembled or taken apart in a few minutes. Kitchen Lore “VWHAT am I going to cook this aft- ernoon, Dinah? Please don't suggest anything sweet or fancy. I'm so tired of cakes, cookies, puddings and candies I don't care if I never | have them again!” Betty declared. “I don’t wonder,” agreed Dinah. “In the Winter we do eat richer foods. Now that Spring is on the way we think more of fresh, green things.” ‘Vegetables!” cried Betty. “Teach | me to cook vegetables, Dinah, please. Oh, I wish I could go out to the garden right now and pick a mess of green peas or pull a bunch of carrots.” “Well, as long as you can't, let's begin with the old favorite, potatoes,” suggested Dinah. “Potatoes!” wailed Betty. ‘I know how to boil and mash potatoes.” “Yes, honey. I know you do,” Dinah laughed at Betty’s disappointment. “But let's make escalloped potatoes this time. I know your grandfather will like them, for we will use onfons, too. And your grandfather will be pleased to have them for supper with the cold baked ham all ready in the ice box.” “That does sound nice,” Betty ad- mitted. “Please give me the recipe and I'll get right to work.” Escalloped Potatoes—Four cups sliced potatoes, one-third cup sliced onions, one-half cup chopped pepper, flour, two tablespoons butter, one teaspoon salt, two tablespoons chopped parsley. Wash, pare and slice potatoes and onions in thick slices. Wash green pepper and parsley and chop in small pieces. Arrange a layer of mixed vege- tables in buttered casserole or baking dish and sprinkle with two tablespoons flour. Do this until all vegetables are used. Dot with butter. Mix milk and salt and pour over all. Cover baking dish and set in oven of 350 degrees for two hours. ‘ | kitchen. POSERS 1. What is an enigma? 2. In what State does the Missis- sippi River rise? 3. When did the French revolu- tion begin? 4. In what large city of the United States are the residents not allowed to vote? 5. What town in Arizona was among the most famous of the “Wild West" settlements? 6. How many United States Sena- tors has each State? 7. What is an building? 8. What scientist is famous for his stratosphere flights? ANSWERS. 1. A puzzle or riddle. 3. In 1789. 4. Washington, D. C. 5. Tombstone. 6. Two. 7. One in which the temperature and humidity of the air are artifically regulated. 8. Au- guste Piccard. ODD ORIGIN “air-conditioned” 2. Minnesota. Wallpaper. N THE olden days of the feudal lords, the walls of their castles were hung with rich embroideries and handsomely woven tapestries. These served a double purpose, to decorate the walls and to make the huge, drafty rooms less cold and bleak. For many centuries walls were deco- rated only with hangings, until finally some clever person thought of imi- tating these hangings in heavy paper and of using this paper for wall deco- rations. This was a very successful idea, and in 1790 a wallpaper factory was established in the United States. The first wallpapers were quite ex- pensive, but they were also very durable. After a great deal of experiment- ing there were developed cheaper types of wallpaper, and since the beginning of the nineteenth century paper has been in general use for decoration of \\'alll‘:‘l in many countries of the civilized world. e Kitchen Treasures "HELLO! Hello!” Betty called, as she came running into the “I had to stay after school this afternoca to help my teacher, and T'm late. Have you thought of something good to make?" “Still like vegetables?” Dinah ques- tioned. “Yes, why?" “Well, I happen to know there is cooked spinach in the ice box, just enough for a recipe I have in mind.” “Spinach!” wailed Betty. “We had that last night. Besides, that is one vegetable I don't like so well.” “But you will, my dear, if you make a spinach ring. It will look pretty and taste good and go very well with the fish your grandmother is having for supper tonight.” Betty agreed to try anything once, but she wasn't very happy about Dinah’s choice of vegetable. However, after she had made the spinach ring she had to admit it was very good, indeed. SPINACH RING. 2 cups chooked 7,08 % spinac easpoon salt. % cup soft bread i teaspoon pepper. o crumbs. cup_milk. 1 teaspoon chopped 2 hard boiled egss. onion, Chop spinach very fine, add crumbs, slightly beaten eggs, onion, season- ings, and milk. Mix thoroughly and turn into buttered ring mold and set in pan of water. Bake 45 minutes in a 350-degree oven. Unmold on serve ing plate and gamish with slices of hard botled 1:.