Evening Star Newspaper, July 14, 1935, Page 65

Stories—Sports— Games |Boys Add to Fun Puzzles HIS week's cross-word puzzle is inclosed in a hexagon, which is a six-sided figure. Get its | shape firmly in mind, for you'll | need this knowledge before you reach | the bottom of the column THE HEXAGON. | The definitions Horizontal. | . Bunal vase [ Drink slowly. To be in debt Measure of weight. Chopping tool. Cat Like. Caustic chemical. Toward . Narrow byway. Implement for working a lock. Female sheep. Adults. Consumed . Rude cabin Vertical, Toward the top . Negative. Therefore. . Writing fluid Method. Prefix meaning former . Express gratitude Fashion Wear away, weather. Sick Mound of earth used in golf Affirmative vote. Still. Printer's measure. 23. You and I . New England State (abbr.). In. | You learn about hexagons in geom- etry, so we'll now have a few geometri- cal word chains. They aren’t as easy as they look. Remember to change only one letter at a time, always form- ing a genuine word | Change base to side in three moves. Change line to arcs in six moves. And here’s a little problem in arith- metic: 13 duck + luck + 25 Smith = 1 city in Minnesota. e We told you to get the shape of a hexagon fixed firmly in your mind Now cut out the black pieces below | (first pasting the puzzle to cardboard to make it stiffer) and arrange them to form a perfect hexagon. S Curtail a manservant and get a valley. “Behead this and get a beverage. A ’ERS TO PUZZLES. 1. Crostword puzzle solution. 9. Base—bade—bide—side. Line— time—dime—dims—aims—arms—arcs. 3. Du-lu-th. 4. The perfect hexagon is arranged ke this: 8. V-ale-t. EASY FIGURING. A sugar planter in Hawaii took & triend from the States to the edge of a volcano. “That crater is 70,004 years old,” he explained. “How do you get the exact age?” asked the newcomer. “I can under- stand the 70,000, but how do you calculate the four?” “Well, I've been here in the islands for four years, and that crater was 50,000 years old when I arrived.” ANSWERS TO RIDDLES. 1. Because his is all net profit, 2. One misses the train and the other trains the misses. 3. It is never told Walking on Stilts Built by Method BY RAY J. MARRAN. The fun of stilt walking may be in- creased by providing your stilts with steps that may be adjusted for height. With steps of this kind, the uprights will have to be made extra strong, due to the number of holes bored along their length. A clear piece of yellow pine 2 inches wide should be sufficiently strong to carry any boy of average weight. The wood step is made by sawing & 5-inch block of 2 by 4 diagonally in two. Then !i-inch holes are bored | about 1':> inches from the point of the long angles; in which are fitted 14-inch wagon bolts, sufficiently long to pass through the step and through | the holes bored in the uprights of the | stilts. | The top part of the step is fitted with a strap iron clamp, the ends of which are nailed or screwed securely to the step; while the back part of the clamp holds the step to the up- right, yet allows the step to be moved up and down. Now bore ', -inch holes in the uprights, spacing them about 2 inches apart. The steps are adjusted for height by moving them up and down and placing the bolt through the hole in the step, through the hole in the upright. and then holding them in this position with a nut screwed on the bolt from the back of the stilt leg. Having stilts with adjustable steps allows younger children to walk safely with the steps at a low height: yet the stilts can be quickly raised when used by an experienced stilt walker. Pork Stocks Drop. DESPITE the shortage in pork prod- ucts, it is expected that hog- butcherinz this Summor will be the smallest In many years. The stocks of pork in cold storage at the present time ar2 the lowest in 20 years vhile lard is at the low point | May's slaughtering was | of 12 years. the lowest in 35 years. The advancing price of pork and the improved ratio to the price of | corn have resulted in heavier feeding | which has increased the size of the | animals finding their way to market. THE SUNDAY The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE The Secret of the Secretary \y A\ AW \ | Installment 1. ELEN CHANDLER sat in her | chair in the parlor car of the West-bound express and gazed through the window with unseeing eyes. Other passengers in the car occasionally glanced at her, noting the healthy tan of her cheeks the smartness of her clothes, and the calm, self-reliant expression on her | youthful face. There was admiration and friendliness in their glances, and they would have been very much sur- prised to know that, at that very moment. Helen Chandler was won- dering what was going to become of her. She had been wondering about that ever since early morning of the day | before, when a telegram had been de- | livered by the rural mail carrier to the fashionable New Hampshire girls’ camp where she had been spending the Summer. Ordinarily the telegram would have been telephoned to the camp office, but a bad storm had blown down the wires, and it had ar- rived by mall, a day late. The telegram was breath-taking in its curtness. It read. “Your grand- father died this morning stop Neces- | sary for you to leave camp immedi- | ately.” And it was signed by Tyson Peabody, her grandfather's secretary. Helen had gone at once to Miss Edgerton, the camp counselor, and STAR, WASHINGTOX, D. C, JULY 14, By W. Boyce Morgan. | arrangements had been made for her departure. One of the camp leaders had accompanied her to New York on the sleeper, and seen her safely aboard the West-bound train. She would reach Sheltonville, where her grand- father had lived, that afternoon. And she had no idea what would be wait- ing for her at the end of her journey. Helen settled more deeply into the green plush of her chair and watched | the telegraph poles race by the window | of the c She was terribly sorry about Grandfather, and wished she might have scen him before he died. | But he probably wouldn't have sent for her, even if he had known he would never see her again. Grand- father Chandler had been a strange, ' gruff old man, and Helen felt that she had never really got to know him. She had visited him occasionally while her mother and father were still living. but these visits were always brief and formal. Then, four vears | before, her parents had been killed in an automobile accident, and when her father's affairs were settled, Helen learned that there was very little money left to take care of her. But her grandfather had promised to look out for her, and he seemed to have plenty of money. | Helen smiled rather sadly. She gazed down at her neat gray luggage, remembering what those matched bags had cost. She thought of the expense of the camp where she spent her Summers. and of the tuition of the school where she spent her Win- ters. All of that had taken a lot of money, and her grandfather had pro- vided it all. But Helen thought, rather wistfully, that she would have preferred a little less money, and a little more affection. from her grand- father. But he quite evidently hadn't wished to be bothered with her. He had lived alcue in his big. old house in Sheltonville, with only Tyson Pea- body and Mrs. Peabody to look after him. During vacations Helen might spend a few days with him, but they were dreary days. and she was always glad to leave. She knew nobody in the little town, for she had never spent enough time there to get ac- quainted. For the past few weeks, huue\'Pr.! she had been wondering with vague | alarm if something could be wrong with Grandfather. His brief, formal | letters had stopped coming. Miss Ed- | gerton had told her that the last in- | stallment of her camp tuition had | not yet been received. She had had little spending money; in fact, Miss | Edgerton had advanced the price of | her railroad fare from camp to Shel- | tonville. | Helen opened her purse and glanced | | no use worrying High Lights of History— EVICTORY OF THE ROMAN l < ARMY OF 5CIPIO AT ZAMA., 202 B.C.VIRTUALLY ENDED THE SECOND PUNIC WAR, CARTHAGE, EXHAUSTED, WAS COMPELLED TO ACCEPT HUMILIATING TERMS OF PEACE WHICH DISARMED AND IMPOVERISHED HER wevccenw v — BN A GREAT BATTLE AT MAGNESIA IN 190B.C. THE SYRIANS WERE DE- CISIVELY DEFEATED AND ANTIOCHUS WAS PORCED To SUE FOR PEACE. ONE OF THE TERMS IMPOSED By THE ROMANS WAS THAT HANNIBAL BE ‘} ’mmrm ". L) CELEBES - A LARGE ISLAND IN THE DUTCH EAST INDIES --- MILES IN AREA AND HAS AN ESTIMATED POPULATION OF 3,100,000. THE NATIVES ARE 1 MaLaYs ON HiS RETURN TO ROME THE VICTORIOUS SCIPIO WAS GIVEN A MAGNIFICENT "TRIUMPH ™ AND THE TITLE OF "AFRICANUS ... .... HANNIBAL FLED AND,WHEN ABOUT TO BE TAKEN BY HIS ENEMIES, SWALLOWED A DEADLY POISON HE CARRIGD IN A FINGER RING. Hannibal (Conclusion.) 1935—PART FOUR. THE BOY STOPPED AT HER TABLE. HELEN GAZED AT HIM WITH COLD, LEVEL EYES. inside. There were $3 there. One of them would go for the lunch that she would have in & short time. that she would have just $2 to her name—and not a close relative in the world. And she didn't know what sort of situation she would find in Sheltonville, now that her grand- father was dead. Well, she told herself, there was about it now—she would know in a few hours more. She After | Crafté—.lokes—- Puzzles Riddles Act as Oil for Creaky Vacation Brains Brains are liable to get rusty and creaky during long, lazy days. now and then, it will have the same effect as applying oil to machinery, and you'll find your mental motor is running better for the treatment. 1. Why is a fisherman sure to be- come wealthy?—James Reynolds. 2. What is the difference befween a person late for & train and a school | mistress?-—Richard Toombs. 3. Why is a young lady’s age like a floral wedding bell>—Rose Efstathion 4. What did the spider do when he came out of the ark?>—Nancy Hollis- ter. old when Adam’s age was four; be- fore that thing was five weeks old. Adam was four score. gnes Watts. school showed strangers. toward presuming vacation | But if you guess a few riddles | 5. Something was just four “"Pks1 Odd Origins | LITTLE JACK HORNER. | UR nursery friend, Little Jack Horner who sat in a corner eating his Christmas Dpie, represents & real Jack Hor- lived in England during the ;remn of King Henry VIII. Jack lived in the Abbey of Glastenbury | at the time when there was a move- ment under way to take away property rights from the monasteries. The Abbot of Glastenbury decided that he would make an effort to save | | ner who The boy stopped at her table. Helen | gazed at him with cold, level eyes— giving him “the dead pan,” as the girls laughingly called it. Then she gasped a little. The boy smiled, and when he smiled, it was impossible not to smile also. | “I beg your pardon,” he said, “but aren’t you Helen Chandler, and isn't “Oh, you wouldn't remember me,” said the boy. “But I'm Ralph Wil- son, and I live in Sheltonville, on the same street as your grandfather. I've seen you there a couple of times.” “Oh.” Helen paused a moment, then remembered her manners. “Won't you sit down?” The boy thanked her and took the chair across from her. Helen gazed at him a moment, and said: “Evi- dently you don’'t know that my grandfather has just died.” Ralph Wilson's eyes widened with surprise. “No, I didn't know,” he said quickly. “'I've been away for two | weeks, visiting my aunt in Trenton. I'm just on my way back—I'm riding in one of the day coaches up ahead | But say, I'm awfully sorry about your | grandfather. He was one of dad’s patients, you know. tor.” | Somehow that seemed to make the boy a friend. In a moment Helen found herself telling him about the telegram that she had received and | about her hasty departure from camp. thumbed the pages of a magazine forq They talked while she finished her a while and then got up and walked | meal and then Ralph went back to forward to the dining car. While she was having her lunch her eyes were attracted to a boy sit- ting at the table near the end of the car. He was about her own age. and Helen liked his light brown hair, which was carefully brushed: his wide shoulders and his bronzed. features. But she didn't like the way he stared at her now and then, as though he were going to speak to her. She was sure she had never seen him before in her life. But when he paid his check and arose from the table she realized sud- denly that he was walking toward her purposely. She racked her brain quickly to make sure he was not a brother of some girl she knew, de- cided he was a complete stranger and prepared to treat him with the frigid politeness —By J. Carroll Mansfield N 192 B.C. THE SYRIAN KING WENT TO WAR (N AN ATTEMPT O LIBERATE THE GREEK CITIES OF THE AETOLIAN LEAGUE FROM THE DOMII OANNIBAL,THG THE ROMANS, 6SCAPED FRoM CARTHAGE AND FOUND REFUGE AT THE COURT OF ANTIOCHUS, KING OF SYRIA .. (YT LAST THE CHANCE NATION OF ROME . 2] CAME. OMAN AQMIES INVADED AFRICA . AFTER A DESPERATE SIEGE CARTHAGE WAS TAKEN. THE SURVIVING CARTHA - GINIANS WERE CARRIEDP OFF INTO SLAVERY, AND THE CITY ITSELF WA, //; i il Uiz ,‘,,h/r%//a- INTIME CARTHAGE RECOVERED A MEASURE OF HER PROSPERITY, ENOUGH TO REVIVE THE JEALOUSY OF ROME. THE ROMANS WAITED FOR AN EXCUSE TO POUNCE UPON THEIR ANCIENT ) RIVAL AND DESTROY HER s THE ISLAND IS MOUNTAINOUS AND DOTTED WITH EXTINCT VOLCANOES , THE VOLCANIC ASH MAKES THE SOIL VERY FERTILE-.... THOUGH LYING WITHIN THE TORRID ZONE, CELEBES, THANKS TO ITS HIGH ELEVATION, ENJOYS A FAIRLY MODERATE CLIMATE . PRIMITIVE INDUSTRIES, 7 Vg Yz al (tolled). 4. Took a fly and went home. 5. The moon. & FLOREY SEA THE TWO MOST IMPORTANT ARE MACASSAR AND MANADO, SITUATED AT THEE OPPO. SITE EXTREMITIES OF THE ISLAND. THENATIVES ARE RULED BY TRIBAL SULTANS WITHLITTLE INTERPERQ- ENCE FROM THE DuTeH , . RTH 1468. naGe N ONCE STOOP” . .. regular | | the chair car with her, and they con- tinued their conversation. Iph listened sympathetically. “It sort of leaves you all doesn't it?” he said finally. “Yes, it does,” Helen agreed eves were sober. “But I've got | used to being alone in the last few years.” Ralph leaned forward. “If there is anything I can do. or that Mother or Dad can do, we'll be only too glad,” he said earnestly. He paused for a moment, thoughtfully. “You know, somehow I never have liked that man | Tyson Peabody very much. I suppose I shouldn’t y that to you, but I | can’t help it.” “I don’t know him very well,” Helen alone, Her My dad’'s a doc- | | a portion of his property by sending the deed to the King. He concealed it 1n a great pie and sent it to King | Henry by e Jack Horner. Jack | was evidently a sly fellow, for he took the deed for himself and in this way gained a “plum,” for the deed was for the Manor of Mells, a very choice part of the estate. For hun- dreds of years the descendants of littie Jack Horner enjoyed this fine prop- erty. . s ® Caring for Pets. BY HORACE MITCHELL. | Did you know that the first “cat law” on record was enacted about 938 AD.? It is the earliest written rec- ord of the presence of cats in Great Britain and it was promulgated by Hywel Dda, Prince of South Wales How many of you can pronounce his name correctly? Most_people cats came from Probably the an: house cats wer hese regions arrived 1ink all domesticated Ezypt and Europse stors of our present the wildcats of both But even beiore in the a sort of “bantam weigh not over 3 pounds and are | about one-quarter the size of ordinary cats Then' there is the Mexican cat. It is almost, if not altogether. extinct. During the Summer this breed is hair less. but in the Winter it has a ridge of fuzz along the back and on the top of the tail which the girls at her | answered, “but I don't think I like b Cats Are Tough! | him, either. | L Cats have had very har: reatment They talked steadily. until the train | gy (ne hands of human beings, but the pulled into the station at Sheltonville. | promising to call her up soon, and ran | to greet his mother and younger sis- ter, who were waiting for him in a car. Helen turned to meet Tyson | Peabody, whom she had seen stand- ing on the platform as the train pulled in. Tyson Peabody was a tall, angular man of middle age, with a thin face and a straight, forbidding mouth. He did not smile as he stepped up and took Helen's bags from the porter. “How do you do, Miss Chandler,” he said in a curt voice. “I got your telegram, saying you would be on this train.” “Yes!" Helen hardly knew what to say. “Is—I mean—about grand- father—when is the funeral?” Swimming Stunts PouPOlEE—lmiuuon of a porpoise is one of the greatest stunts you can do in the water. It consists merely of a series of surface dives, letting the feet rise high from the water, legs straight and toes pointed, as you go down. If the water is shallow—that is, about four feet deep— g0 to the bottom, crouch, and spring upward. Done over and over again it is very effective. OMERSAULTS—Tread water, with arms out to the sides, palms down. Bend head forward, take a hard stroke with both arms te force the body down, and keep it curved until you reach the surface again. Per- formed swiftly and cleanly, it is a pleasing trick. For a back somer- sault, start in the same manner, only throwing back the head, arching the spine and bending the knees. PINNING TOP—With the arms at the sides, lie on your back. Draw the knees up to the chin and by a movement of the hands, spin around either way. swimming with crawl stroke, using a short double kick, on the order of a fish-tail motion of each leg. Then begin revolving, taking alter- nately a forward and & back-hand stroke, Start slowly, then speed up. EVOLVING STATUTE— Also known as the rolling log. Straighten out to the floating position and clasp hands straight above the head. Take a deep breath and revolve rapidly by a slight movement of the head and waist. Keep the body as straight as possible. Fruit Prices High Here. JPRICES of fruit in Washington run the East. In the case of apples, Washington hits about an average, the 6.7 cents a pound charged here lying between the maximum of 8.7 at Scranton, Pa, and the minimum of 4.4 cents at Seattle. In the case of bananas, Washing- | ton pays 25.8 cents a dozen, being ex- ceeded only by New Haven where the charge 1s 246 cents. Jacksonville, Fla., with 14.3 cents is lowest on the list. ‘Washington pays 37.1 cents a dozen for oranges, only thrse cities ranking higher, these being New York, Port- land, Me., and Dallas, Tex. . Then Ralph said good-by hastily, | SPIRAL—’I‘hls is very effective. Start | higher than almost any eity in| animals still seem to be the same as they were hundreds of vears ago. Or- dinarily you'd tk that great abuse would change their dispositions During the Middle Ages, and even | CATS CAN ¢¥AND ILL-TREAT- MENT. including the era of colonization in | America, cats were subject to strenu- | ous persecution and torture, especially |so if they were the property of wiz- | ards or witches. Believed to be emis- saries of the devil and to be assist- ants of the people who worked charms |and weird cures, cats were sald to de- serve whatever rough treatment was | visited upon their owners, That's where the “nine lives” idea began. Cats, with their supple ab- dominal walls and ability to land on their feet, could stand punishment | that would nearly kill a human being. Our ancestors didn't stop to figure it | out reasonably. and when the witches' black cats withstood harsh handling without harm, the people were mare | certain than ever that cats were “in | league with the powers of darkness.”. | Have you some problem about your | pets or their care? Or an interesting story about a pet? If so, write to Horace Mitchell, the Boys and Girls | Page, in care of this newspapef. In- |close a stamped, self-addressed en- velope if you wish a personal reply. And the Daughter? ‘The teacher was instrucing the In- fant class in the story of Lot's flight, and said: “Lot was warned to take his wite and daughter and flee out of the city, which was about to be destroyed. Laqt and his wife got safely away. Now has any child a question to ask?” Tommy raised his hand and asked, “Please, teacher, what happened to the flea?” “Butter” Man Imprisoned. Rmn‘mm to the conspiracy sec- tion of the Federal food and drugs | act, Government agents obtained & prison sentence for the head of & group engaged in putting oleomar- gerine on the marked labeled as but- ter. Vincent Bruzzese, head of the company, was sentenced to Lewisburgh for 18 months as a result of his pagt in the conspiracy, while others escaped with fines running as high as $300