Evening Star Newspaper, August 18, 1935, Page 57

s Hmu s good cross word for mechanically minded puzzlers. But be careful—it has teeth in it! THE GEAR WHEEL. BEEgE JE JAEE Wl EE The definitions: HORIZONTAL, . Toothed wheels, A gear wheel. Snake-like fish. . Toward. . Machine used on cotton. Boy's nickname., 2. Finishes. Motor cab. . Burial place. . To engage gears. . Hot water (abbr.). . Australian bird. . Eastern time (abbr.). . Ignited. . Stout. . To change gears. VERTICAL. . Proceed. . Farm products. . Fee for use of real estate. . Point of compass (abbr.). . To study. . Loose. . Projections on a gear wheel. . Not heavy. . Obstruction in a river, . Reverential fear. . Wise bird . Girl's nickname. . Fur piece. . Matched group of objects. 5. Exists. Near, by. —g— Pinions go with gear wheels, and are also handy for the centers of word diamonds. The second word is a pos- sessive pronoun, the third means from this place, the fifth is to nag, and the sixth is to stop, or finish. Complete the diamond. Now for some appropriate word chains. - Change one letter at a time, always forming a genuine word. Change GEAR to MESH in five moves. Change COGS to TURN in five moves. i This picture anagram should not slow you up for long. 5— Take a four-letter word for a busi- ness transaction, add E, rearrange the letters, and form a real estate con- tract. ‘Take a four-letter word for story, add R, rearrange the letters and form tardier, Caring for Pets BY HORACE MITCHELL. Jimbo’s Cows. 'LMAY ALCOTT lives on s farm. On the farm there is a dog. His name is Jimbo and his job is to drive the cows to the pasture every morning ged ; the dog didn't follow her. Always be- fore he had come leaping out to do his SHE SWITCHED JIMBO, WHILE HER HEART QUIVERED. scheduled duty. He enjoyed it. Now he remained flopped in a comfortable spot. Mrs. Alcott came up to him. She felt him all over for injuries. She noticed that his nose was cold, and | that is generally a good sign of a dog’s | health. A warm nose is a warning of | trouble somewhere in the animal’s | body. Nothing seemed to be the mat- | ter with Jimbo. He opened his eyes, | lapped her hands, and slapped the | floor with his tail. | His mistress started off again, calling | him sternly. Jimbo looked at her mys- tified and refused to budge. So, with | blandishments and severe orders gain- |ing nothing, Mrs. Alcott did the un- | heard-of thing, the thing never done | before on that farm. She took a switch | {and switched Jimbo while her heart | quivered in her throat at having to do it. Jimbo took it quietly. Prob- | 2bly it didn’t hurt him much. And he | stayed there on the porch until Mrs. Alcott had gone to the pasture and | back to the barn and found the cows jall in. Jimbo got an ocean of affection from Mrs. Alcott after that, you can be certain! PERHAPS you don't know that rid- dles have been asked almost since the dawn of history. And in the mid- | dle ages the court jester often amused | his sovereign with a catchy question and a clever answer. Perhaps some of our riddles this week were once asked of a king! | 1. What is the wickedest city in | America?—Joe Lucia. | 2. Which burns longer, a wax or a tallow candle?—Chester Bunnell. 3. What attitude woulc a bee take if it could sit on its hind legs?— Marjorie E. McHenry. 4. What insect lives on the least food?—Betty Armstrong. 5. What public officer comes near- est being in the canning business?— ‘Wava Minor. ANSWERS. 1. Cincinnati (sin, sin, naughty). 2. Neither; they both burn shorter. 3. A beatitude (bee attitude). 4. The moth, which eats holes. 5. The po- liceman, because he preserves order. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, DG, AUGUST 18, ¥ The BOYS and éecret of the Secreta After the death of her grandfather Efln Chandier. an orphan. returns to Jtfl“ and receives wel thi 3 TFies 35 get s Job In Granser's depart: nt store. and h:rmr mr‘l:'::;r:e:gfi s son she decides ther's in her m‘nnd!l Ey ARLY the next morning Helen went direct to Granger's de- partment store to see the manager. She was tense with anxiety as she was ushered into his office. If he only knew how much this job meant to her! Mr. Bickle, the manager, smiled at her and waved her to a chair. “Well, Miss Chandler, I find that we can take you on,” he said. “Oh!” Helen uttered & gasp of joyful relief. Then she thanked Mr. Bickle warmly, and leaned forward to listen intently while he explained her duties. She was to be a clerk in the jewelry department, on the first floor. Be- cause she had had no experience, the manager went into considerable detail about her work, and then turned her over to an experienced saleswoman for further instruction. As a result the hours flew by and it was quitting time before Helen realized it. But she held her head high as she walked home to her grandfather’s old house that evening. At least she now had a job, and there would be a little money coming in! She decided to make what ar- rangements she could with the Pea- bodys about taking her meals with them. And that was the first thing she talked about to Ralph Wilson | that evening when, shortly after din- ner, he came over with the sugges- tion that they go to the movies. “JEVERYTHING'S fixed up, Ra]ph"'; she cried excitedly as they} walked down the drive toward the| street. “I'm going to take my break- | fasts and dinners with the Peabodys at the house here. They'll use their | room and I'll use mine and well shut up all the other rooms, except | the kitchen, dining room and living room downstairs. We'll share the| payment of gas, electricity and things | like that, and Il pay Mrs. Peabody | $6 a week for my meals and for| looking after the downstairs rooms. T'll keep my own room clean and do| my own laundry.” “That’s not a bad deal” Ralph ac- knowledged, “as long as they feed you decently and don't slip rat poison into your soup or something.” Helen laughed gayly. “Oh, I guess I won't worry about that. I don’t | trust them, but they'd hardly go so far as to poison me.” “Don't be too sure” said Ralph darkly. “Theyre awfully anxious to get you out of the way.” | Helen nodded thoughfully. “That's | true,” she admitted. “And while they | agreed to this arrangement they didnt seem very happy about it.” But they soon forgot the Peabodys in their absorption in the picture, and during the days that followed | Helen was 80 busy that she had little time to worry about them. The ar- | rangement seemed to be working sat- | isfactorily; the food she got was ade- | uate, and she had little contact with Mr. and Mrs. Peabody outside the dining room. i AND at night she was so tired that she went to bed early, except on those evenings when she stopped in at the Wilson home or when Ralph took her out somewhere. She found that being on her feet all day behind the jewelry counter was very fatiguing, and the fact that she had a great deal to learn made the job all the harder. But when she got her first pay en- velope she experienced a real thrill. | She hurried home, paid Mrs. Peabody for her week's board and then sat down at the big secretary in her High Lights of History— IRLS PAGE By W. Boyce Morgan 935—PART FOUR. ry DON'T SKIMP THE EDGES. HE other evening I stopped in to see a friend which I “Carl is doi; first began to inclined to skimp the edges. He did a good job on the lawn itself, but he was careless about the So I shears, and now he finishes it up very nicely.” trimming. I couldn't done Carl a favor, and taught him a people in the world who do a good j forget the important trimming that makes all the difference between a neat and a sloppy result. If Carl, besides earning money from his lawn- mowing job, learns to be thorough and careful, it will be worth a great deal to him later in life. Of course, the fact that Carl was willing to learn shows he has the right stuff in him. Lots of boys would have continued to skimp the edges, even after being shown how t | room to budget her few remaining dollars. The essential things were lunches and carfare, but she had to allow for such miscellaneous items as tooth- paste, stamps and other incidental expenses and her share of the gas and electric bills. Fortunately, she was well supplied with clothes and, after a lot of careful figuring, Helen decided that she could put aside a dollar each week to repay the money that Miss Edgerton had lent her for the railroad fare from camp to Shel- tonville. Late that night she sat down at the secretary again to write to Miss Edgerton. Then she decided to drop notes to a couple of her school friends, and so the time passed rapidly with- out her knowledge. At last, beginning to feel very sieepy, she looked at her wrist watch and was amazed to see that it was past midnight. 'HE house had seemed very quiet while she was writing, but as she was undressing, she was startled by| an odd tapping noise. At first she thought it might be one of the squir- | rels that occasionally scampered along the window ledges of the old house, but after listening more care- fully, she realized that it was coming from inside the house, and from up- stairs, “I'll bet Tyson Peabody is search- year-old boy. My friend looked closely at the edges of the walks and around the flower becs Then he smiled with satisfaction. who was just examining his lawn, had been mowed that day by a 10- ng better now,” he said. “When he cut my grass this Summer, he was showed him how to use the help thinking that my friend had valuable lesson. There are too many job out in the center of the lawn, but 0 trim them. during the day, when I'm working." She puzzled over that for a long | time before she went to sleep, and the next morning she resolved to have | & look in her grandfather’s room. She |arose a little earlier than usual, and after listening carefully to make sure that the coast was clear, she tiptoed around the hall and turned the knob | | of the door to her grandfather’s room. | The door was locked. Helen uttered | a little gasp of indignant surprise. How | | dare they lock her out of a room in | her own house? She was about to | rush downstairs and demand an ex- | planation, when she paused. She had a better idea! Often all the doors to the bedrooms of a house like this could be opened with the same key. Helen hurried quietly back to her (room and got the key to that door. In & moment she had tiptoed back to her grandfather's door, and inserted | the key in the lock. T WORKED! Slowly, carefully, she | pressed the door inward. The drawn shades made the room dark, and for a moment in was difficult for her to| | see. Then, as her eyes became ac-| customed to the gloom, she leaned forward, and her mouth opened wide | in sheer incredulous amazement. | The room that her grandfather had | | occupied looked as though & tornado | had raged through it. In a dozen places, the plaster was chipped from the walls, revealing the bare laths be- the baseboard had been pulled away from the wall. To Be Continued Next Sunday Kitchen Treasures BY BESSIE E. EARLE. "OH' It's too hot to eat,” grumbled Betty. “Then don't eat,” teased Dinah. “But I'm hung “And nothing tastes good.” “How about a nice, cool, salad?” Dinah suggested. “I'm sick of tomatoes, crisp Dinah's eyes twinkled. cream taste good?” “Umm, I guess it would,” laughed Betty. “I know of a salad that will taste as good as ice cream, and you can | make it.” “Rezlly-what-kind-tell-me-how!” ex- | claimed Betty in one breath. PINEAPPLE AND CREAM CHEESE SALAD. teaspoon gelatin tablespoons cold water packages cream cheese tablespoons salad dressing teaspoon salt teaspoon paprika cup crushed pineapple 14 cup whipping cream Put gelatin and cold water in meas- uring cup, let soak five minutes. Set cup in pan of boiling water until gela- tin is dissolved. In mixing bowl, mash cheese until creamy, add salad dress- ing, salt, paprika and dissolved gela- tin. Open can of crushed pineapple and drain off its juice. Add pine- apple to cheese, mix thoroughly. Whip cream until stiff and fold gently into pineapple mixture. To mold: Dip molds into cold water, fill with salad, set on ice or in cold place for one hour or more. To unmold: Slip knife around edges of mold, carefully turn upside down and drop salad on lettuce leaf on plate. To garnish: Place maraschino cher- ries, cut crosswise and opened to rep- 1 2 2 3 la le 1 resent flowers, around salad. Sprinkle | finely chopped nuts over salad. One Way Out E COULDN'T get there on account of an accident, so he sent this telegram: “Cannot come, washout on ing Grandfather’s room again!” she| neath. Half the boards of the floor line.” told herself. “But why does he do it i had been torn up, and in one place, He received this answer: “Borrow at night? He has plenty of chance!close by the bed, a whole section of 'a shirt and come anyway" Arminius—Part 11 —By J. Carroll Mansfield Betty wailed. | cucumbers | |and so forth,” Betty muttered. | “Would ice “But I can't make ice cream.” | What's the Answer? OW'S your bump of knowledge you cen make on the statements be- low: 1. Water boils at a Fahrenheit tem- perature of (1) 100 degrees, (2) 32 degrees, (3) 212 degrees, (4) 180 de- grees. 2. The most nearly perfect single food is (1) bread, (2) meat, (3) orange juice, (4) milk. 3. Paul Revere saw his signal light in the (1) Old North Church, (2) Old South Church, (3) Boston State House, (4) City Hall, 4. Canada’s national emblem is the (1) Hon, (2) bald-headed eagle, (3) maple leaf, (4) shamrock. 5. When water freezes, it (1) ex- pands, (2) contracts, (3) vaporizes, (4) becomes heavier. 6. Philadelphia was founded by (1) George Washington, (2) Benjamin Pranklin, (3) John Wanamaker, (4) William Penn. 7. Helen Wills Moody's home is in (1) Los Angeles, Calif.; (2) Hartford, | Conn.; (3) Berkeley, Calif.; (4) Forest Hills, Long Island. 8. The highest mountains in the | world are the (1) Canadian Rockies, | (2) Alps, (3) Andes, (4) Himalayas. | THE ANSWER. 1. Two hundred and twelve degrees. 2. Milkk. 3.0ld North Church. 4. Maple leaf. 5. Expands. 6. William Penn. 7. Berkeley, Calif. 8. Hima- layas, FUN AT HOME BY RAY J. MARRAN A Wind Vane Pivot ‘AIIND vanes are easily made and can be ornamented in dozens of ways. One popular kind is the pro- | peller style, which turns continuously | in & breeze. Cut-out ornaments of Campfire Stories BY EL COMANCHO. Jungles and Snakes A WAY down on the lower Mississippl River, near the Gulf of Mexico, there is a good deal of land that is as wild a jungle as any spot in the world —or used to be 40 years ago. Cypress swamps, canebrakes and thick timber with vines and underbrush make places about as impassable as a barbed-wire entanglement. In many places a growth of saw palmetto or saw grass presents & jungle as mysterious as anything in Africa. Every little open place where the sun can get through, and especially along the slow coffee-colored drainage streams, is usually pretty well fes- tooned and decorated with snakes of several colors and many sizes, from as big as a slate pencil to six or eight feet long. Just what their names are I don’t know, for I never could find sny man, black or white, who seemed to know more than two or three names, such as copperhead, cotton- mouth or racer. The rest were just “snakes.” Once I was working in this locality, making a survey of a body of cypress timber that grew in water from ankle- deep to waist-deep over several hun- dred acres of ground. To do my work I had to wade in this swamp, carrying a rather large camera. Rubber boots were of no value, for the water went 1ight over the tops of them in many places, and one sank down to his knees in soft, mucky, black mud in other places, so we just waded in and changed clothes when we got out! I had a number of Negro men along to carry my instruments—on their heads to keep them dry!—So all I carried was a .22-caliber rifle just to shoot snakes. The cypress trees were 50 large that the tops overhead formed a thick, moss-hung canopy of green which shut out most of the sun. Here and there a hummock stood just above dogs, horses, cows, boats and comical | characters are other popuiar styles. | In making a wind vane the greatest difficulty is to secure a center pivot | which will respond to the lightest | breeze. A common nail pivot oflersf too much friction and is not satis-| factory. But by using an old bed | caster you will have an excellent free- | moving ball-bearing pivot for any wind vane you care to make. The wheel of the caster is removed ANSWERS. 1. Cross word puzzle solution. O ™6 vEAR 9 AP, ARMINILS, YOUTHFUL GERMAN LEADER, CONSPIRED WITH OTHER TEU - TONIC CHIEFTAINS TO DESTROY THE ROMAN ARMY OF OCCUPATION AND FRQEE THEIR LAND AND PEOPLE FROM THE YOKE OF THE CAESARS. gs ARMINIUS HAD HOPED, THE OMANS, ON RECEIVING THE PALSE REPORT, SPRANG TO ARMS.VARUS GATHERED THREE FULL LEGIONS AND,LEAVING SMALL GARRISONS O GUARD THE BORDER MILITARY POSTS, CROSSED THE RHINEG-.. ORNAMENT VANE TAlL | and the base rod of the vane is m-é serted and bolted in :ts place. A hole drilled in the top of a long pole holds | the shank of the caster. After install- | ing the shank of the caster in this| hole, level and centerbalance the base rod, using wooden plugs for| wedges. The weight of the vane rests on the ball bearings and the vane will respond to the lightest breeze. The pole should be placed on a roof top where it will be in a direct current of wind. Brace the pole with wire stays. A wide tail on your vane makes the ornament point in the direction from which the wind is blowing. Farm Incomes Swelled Greatly. 'HE farmers of the country received | a materially higher cash return| for the first six months of this year coming in part from better prices for the principal agricultural com- modities and partly from increased benefit payments. The actual sale value of the products was up about $250,000,000, while the benefit pay- ments increased approximately $140,- 000,000. The total benefit and rental payments were $285,000,000, making the benefit to the farmer from the A. A. A. program about s half a million dollars. The drought-caused shortages also aided in boosting prices. —_— Frost Forecasting Planned. Tfll Department of Agriculture, through use of a special $15,000 fund, is planning on an extensive frost warning system for Filorida citrus growers, which will start dur- ing the middle of November and | basket, water, cane-edged and supporting tup- elo gum trees, which were often cov- ered partly with green rattan vines, a swamp creeper wearing glossy green leaves and armed with plenty of cut- claw thorns. In one place a straight beam of sun- shine came down through the treetops and hit the brown water, to make a patch of light there as big as a bushel When I came to this I stop- ped, for I could see a queer pile of something under water that looked Like a big copper cable all coiled up I looked at it steadily for a few mo- ments, and finally made out the pat- terned back of a huge water moccasin coiled on a big cypress “knee” just under water. His big. flat, triangular Lead was pointed straight at my knees —only 2 feet or so aw I stood very still and slowly I | brought the little rifie down until the end of the gun barrel was within 6 | inches of that big fellow's head—and let go! Instantly there was a big commotion of heaving, splashing. threshing, writhing snake churning the water to brown foam as I got back away from there! In about five minutes the water was quiet and I went up to find I'd killed | the biggest water moccasin I've ever seen. Just one more step would have | put me within a foot of his deadly fangs—and then this would have been another story! AS SCIENCE SEES IT Bears. TORIES have it that the mother bear licks her lumpy little cub into a proper shape after it is born. Bug this, of course, is pure nonsense, and the only explanation of the tale lies in the fact that bear cubs are very small and unbearlike when they are born. The cubs of the immense Polar bear weigh less than a pound when they are born, and they are blind and help- less for 40 days after their birth. It is not until March that they emerge from the icy cave in which their mother bore them, and where she spent the Winter hibernating. ‘The male bear, however, keeps active all Winter long, and has won for the Polar the reputation of being the flercest of all bears. Indeed, Polar bears are among the few wild crea- tures who stalk and attack human beings. In spite of their tremendous weight 2. The diamond is P, his, hence, @257, HE CAUSED WoRD To BE T pinions, scold, end, 8. 3. GEAR — lear — leas — less — mess—MESH. COGS — cows — tows —town — torn — TURN. 4. Hoe, hose, horse, and shower, 5. Sale, add E, form Lease. Tale, add R, form Later. Thoughtful. JOHN came to his mother the other day, crying and complaining that his sister had been teasing him. “Mamma,” he said between sobs, #I wish you would punish Elizabeth.” “Now, John,” his mother replied; “you would not want to see your lit- tle sister punished, would you?” “No, ma'am! But you can take her upstairs where I can’t see you.” Benefit Payments $30 an Acre. PU'ERTO RICAN tobacco raisers who participate in the acreage-con- trol program under the agricultural adjustment act are being paid at the rate of $30 per cuerda for the land they take out of production. A cuerda is slightly more than one acre in size. The benefit payments are ex- pected to total $1,113,000, LY @)avinG BEENTRAINED IN THE Roman AQMY HIMSELE ARMINIUS KNEW THAT HIS ENEMIES COULD NOT BE BEATEN ™N OPEN WARFARE OR IN THEIR FORI- FIED CAMPS - - INSTEAD HE PLANNED TO LURE THEM INTO A DEADLY AMBUSH. CONVEYED TO VARUS, THE ROMAN GENERAL, THAT A CERTAIN GERMAN TRIBE LIVING FAR EAST OF THE RHINE HAD REVOLTED. To REACH THE SCENE THE ROMANS WOULD HAVE TO MARCH THROLIGH THE TERRITORY OF THE BRUCTERI AND CHERUSCI [@ AQEFULLY SCREENING HIS MOVEMENTS, ARMINIUS ASSEMBLED A HORDE OF GERMAN WARRIORS AND LAID A TRAP FOR THE ROMANS IN THE LEAFY THICKETS JaRus, A HEADSTRONG AND ARROGANT ROMAN, CONFIDENT OF THE INVINCIBILITY OF HIS WELLTRAINED LEGIONARIES, FOOLISHLY DISREGARDED THE WARNING7&=====TO BE CONTINUED), Y HIS COURTSHIP OF THE FAIR USNELDA AGAINST HER PARENTS WISHES ARMINIUS HAD INCURRED THE ENMITY OF THE MAIDEN'S FATHER., EGESTES, EAGER TO BRING ARMINIUS' DOWNFALL, STOLE INTO THE ROMAN CAMP, WARNED VARUS OF HIS PERIL AND OFFERED TO SEIZE THE- GERMAN LEADGR BY TREACHERY. ) [ “‘I last until April. In addition to giving frost warn- ings, the department will aid in cir- culating information on the proper placement and use of smudge pots and other protective devices should » frost come. Cotton Crop Short. Tl-m competition of Manchurian cot- ton growers with the American grower is not expected to be as serious as at first had been anticipated. Dry weather in the growing season served to prevent general germination of the seed and during June rains were too heavy to permit replanting. As a result, it is anticipated that the| acreage in cotton will yield only about two-thirds of the cotton which had been forecast. Grass Seed Restored. TBl effects of the drought which were reflected in a short crop of grass seed last year are almost entire- ly wiped out this year if not entirely s0. According to a survey by the Department of Agriculture, there will be an ample crop this year. in particular, will be 700 or 800 ceat up from last year's €rop, ) and shaggy fur, the long, lean Polar bears are good swimmers. Their white coloring, which merges into the snowy landscape, makes it comparatively easy for them to win a living from seals, sea birds, eggs, arctic foxes and any fish or whales washed ashore. Although visitors in zoological gar- dens are apt to pity the Polar bej which they believe to be suff warm Summer days, the fact preciates the warmth, and has known to flourish in heat which gave leopards apoplexy. Eskimos get oil, food, clothes and sewing materials from the Polar bear. The village law generally permits the man who first saw the bear to have half for himself, but the village claims the other half. Largest of all bears is the Kadiak or brown bear, an inhabitant of Ka- diak Island, off the coast of Alaska. These bears grow to be taller than a man and weigh half a ton apiece, They are relatives of the grizzlies, once common in the Western United States. Versatile.