Evening Star Newspaper, September 15, 1935, Page 77

< Stdries—Sports— Games el OUR picture puzzle takes us on a little trip this week, and we'll stop in four cities of the United States before we get home again. A city in miniature forms the base of a word triangle. The second line means standards, the third is a real estate contract, the fourth means to continue and the fifth is a beverage. Can you finish the triangle? VILLAGE In the sentence below, the missing words are spelled differently, but pro- nounced alike. What are they? The for the race overgrown with grass. was Take 8 four-letter word for twist, add H, rearrange the letters and form | _ to roll or sway suddenly. Take a four-letter word for close, add V, rearrange the letters and get & bird. —5— CROSS-WORD PUZZLE. The definitions: HORIZONTAL. 1. Domestic employe. 7. Preposition of place. 8. Negative. 10. Distant. 12. Part of the foot. 13. Clamor, disagreeable sound. 16. Provided that. 17. In the past. 18. I 19. 21 22 23. 25. 26. Point of an antler. Atmosphere. Chopping tool. Word used with “either.” Printer's measure. ‘To walk pompously; strut. VERTICAL. . To acquire through effort. . Right (abbr.). . Indefinite article. . Short letter. . Native of the Dark Continent. . Merchant of precious stones. Strength, energy. Rowing implement. . Boy. . Front of a boat. . Sport. . The sun god. . For example (abbr.). ANSWERS. 1. Newark, Washington, Colum- bus and Augusta. 2. The triangle is village, ideals, lease, last, ale. 3. Course, coarse. 4. Curl, add H, form Lurch. Near, add V, form Raven. 8. Cross-word puzzle solution. [STETRAANTZ] AN AI7IVIO] FlA R VI 7IOZ i WEHEE 4]0 7|7 MIE] 4 EEErE A7 I P AIX|Z] VORI EIVINZ| [SWA|GIGIEIR) THE boys have been running just a little ahead of the girls in our rid- dle race recently, but this week the girls have an edge once more. Gener- ally, however, it's a pretty even battle! 1. What is round, yet has two sides? =—Dora M. Lightfoot. 2. What is the difference between 8 pretty girl and a clock?-—mch_ud Toombs. 3. What fish is most useful in a Jumber yard?—Paul Wright. ¢ In the church, but not in the steeple, In the priest, but not in the people; In the tapper, but not in the bell, In the oyster, but not in the shell. —Elizabeth Bowermaster. 5. Why is a horse like a letter O?— Ella Ray Weese and Mary Lena Hall. ANSWERS. 1. A barrel. 2. One makes you for- get time, the other makes you remem- ber it. 3. The saw fish. 4. The let- ter R. 5. Because “Gee!” (G) makes, it go. / THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. Secret of the Secretary By W. Boyce Morgan. INSTALLMENT X. R. WALL listened carefully while Helen outlined Ralph's plan to handle Tyson Pea- body. He could not hide a smile, but when Helen finished he shook his head. “Well,” he said doubtfully, “it’s hardly regular and as an attorney I can't approve of it. But I still think it's a pretty smart idea! If it doesn’t work, there’s no harm done.” “It will work, all right,” said Ralph confidently. “All Helen has to do is g him to search through that sec- retary.” “And I'll do that the minute I see him,” Helen promised. She and Ralph left the lawyer's of- fice a few moments later and hurried home. After leaving Ralph, Helen walked slowly back to her house, plan- ning carefully for her meeting with Tyson Peabody. He was in the front hall when she opened the door and he peered at her intently. She purposely tried to appear rather disconsolate. “Well,” he said sharply, “have you SHE FLUNG OPEN THE | note hastily on the secretary. During Iuncheon, Helen and Ralph discussed their plan excitedly, and immediately after it was over, Helen went back home. She entered quietly, but the Peabodys were nowhere in sight. Slowly she climbed the stairs to her room, wondering if the plan had been successful. Her hand was on the knob of the door when she suddenly heard a strange, gasping noise in the room. Startled, she was about to turn and flee, but suddenly a wave of courage flooded over her. She flung open the door and waiked in, to gaze with ac- cusing eyes at Tyson Peabody. SHE had caught the man in the very act of reading her note, and the noise she had heard was his gasp of baffled amazement at its contents. Now he swung around, dropping the His face was ashen, and his thin lips worked nervously. “Oh, Miss Helen!” he stammered. “I—that is, I came in here to—I DOOR AND WALKED IN. discovered any way to go on paying your board?” “I haven't found another job,” re- plied Helen, making her voice sound hopeless. Then she looked at him ap- ! pealingly. “Mr. Peabody, I've been ‘wundeflng if grandfather might not | have left some money somewhere in | the house here. Didn't he have any | place where he kept things of value— that?” “Nonsense!” snorted Tyson Peabody. “What gave you that idea?” “Well,” said Helen, “often old desks have secret drawers in them and I | thought grandfather might have kept his money in some place like that.” Tyson Peabody stared at her in- tently, but all he couid see in Helen's face was a look of forlorn hope. “You've been reading too many cheap novels,” he snapped. “Your grandfather kept his valuables at the bank, and you know there was practi- cally nothing in his safety deposit hox. some secret drawer, or anything like | “Yes, Mr. Peabody,” said Helen calmly. “That’s quite all right.” “You see,” Tyson Peabody blurted, | “my wife and I have been thinking it | over, and we have decided not to stay in Sheltonville any longer. The Win- ters here are very hard on my wife, you understand, and we'd like to find a milder climate. So I just wanted to tell you I've decided to ask the court to appoint another executor for your grandfather's estate, so that I may be relieved of my duties. My wife and I would like to leave very | soon—almost immediately, in fact.” | “I'm sure that can be arranged, Mr. Peabody,” said Helen gravely. “Any time you want to go will be quite | all right with me. I'll be able to {gel along very nicely now—as you | know!” Mr. Peabody almost choked at that. He hurried past her and rushed from | the room, while Helen dropped on the bed and tried to stifie her delighted laughter. “It worked!"” she gasped. perfectly!” “It worked HELEN nndded her head hopelessly. | She had secn the sudden crafty | look that had come into Tyson Pea- body's eyes at her mention of desks with secret drawers and she felt sure Ralph’s plan was working. She went up to her room, but came down almost immediately, explaining that she had | been invited to lunch by Mrs. Wilson. | “As for paying board,” she said | to Mr. Peabody, “unless I can make | body dropped it on the secretary and | some arrangements to pay you by to- night, I won't eat here any longer.” Helen noticed that Tyson Peabody hardly listened to her. He was obvi- ously impatient for her to leave the house, and Helen was sure she knew the reason. He had thought of the secretary in her room, and was going | to search it. And when he did, he | would find the note that Helen had | give up your duties as executor of my | left there for him. FEW hours later she was describ- ing the scene to Ralph Wilson and his mother. Already the Pea- bodys were making plans to leave town as quickly as possible. “But what in the world was in that note?” Mrs. Wilson demanded. “Here it is,” said Helen. “Mr. Pea- left it behind. Read it—and remem- ber, it was your son’s idea.” Mrs. Wilson unfolded the crumpled piece of paper. Ralph and Helen watched her while she read. “Dear Mr. Peabody,” the note be- gan, “this note will serve as a warn- ing that all the details of your plan to rob me are known, and unless you grandfather's estate and leave here High Lights of History— C., The BOYS an " GIRLS PAG SEPTEMBER 15, (In these articles Miss Woland, who has studied palmistry for many years, reveals the secrets of the age-old art. Belleve as much of it as you want—that's up to you. At any rate, you're sure to have fun telling your friends’ fortunes. An amateur fortune teller is always poplar at parties.) The Heart Line. 'HE line of heart rises on or near the mount of Jupiter—the little pad of flesh at the base of the first finger—and crosses the hand, usually parallel to the line of head. When it has its start on Jupiter (a, Fig. 1), the subject is a hero-worshiper with high ideals, who thinks those he loves are better than they really are, and is sometimes disappointed. however, the line rises between Jupi- ter and Saturn. or sends a branch to that mount (b, Fig. 1), there is more common sense in the affections, though the person is always anxious to do things for those he loves. Heart, head, and life lines tied at the start (a, Fig. 2), are a very unfor- tunate sign, indicating jealousy, which I, blinds the person so that he loses all judgment when his affections are con- cerned. When the heart line rises in the middle of Saturn (a, Fig. 3), the af- | fections are selfish and coarse. If the line rises well up on the mount (b, Fig. 3), ideals are low. If the heart line is longer and stronger than the head line, the heart rules the mind. Such a person will do | anything for love and is careless of consequences. If the heart line curves toward the head line (¢, Fig. 1), the judgment is too much influenced by the affections, but if the head line curves toward the heart line (d, Fig. | 3), reason governs. A chalned heart line (b, Pig. 2), shows fickleness and shallowness of affection, while breaks in the line forecast disappointments in love. | 1935—PART FOUR. Fun at Crafts—Jokes— Puzzles Home By Ray J. Marran IP' YOU like to sail toy boats but have no large body of water near your home, you can rig up this sail- boat windmill and derive lots of fun watching the tiny boats cruise around and around in a circle. The boat hulls—four will be needed —are whittled from a thin piece of soft wood, making them about 3 inches wide by 8 inches long. The masts and the spars are whittled from pleces of kite sticks and are cut about 8 inches long. These are shaped round. The spars are then cut into a 3-inch and a 5-inch length. These short pleces are then fastened to the masts with wire and string. A hole is drilled in the hull, in which the [ L7 When there is little or no heart line | | there is scanty affection, particularly | 1f the hand is thin and white, an addi- | tional sign of coldness and selfishness. | ‘The heart line usually ends in a tas- | sel (c, Fig. 3), predicting the gradual weakening of the heart action at the close of life. | at once, T will start prosecution im- | mediately. “Luckily for me, was aware of your true nature, and left me information as to where I drawer where you found this note. So all your activities in tearing up his room, and destroying property which now belongs to me, were wasted. “If you attempt to enforce the pro- vision of the will that allows you to |live here, I'll do everything possible to have you put in jail. As for the | thousand dollar bequests, I am quite willing for you and your wife to have | them, provided that you leave this house as soon as possible and never | return. Very truly yours, “HELEN CHANDLER.” 1\ RS. WILSON looked up and | smiled. “So that was it!" she ;exclaimed. “You beat him at his own game, and made him actually hunt | for and find this note! Well, T guess you'll have no more trouble with him!” “I always knew I'd get back at him for keeping that base ball of mine!” Ralph exclaimed. |, Mrs. Wilson looked at Helen affec- tionately. “Well, I suppose you'll be ! leaving soon now, and going back to 207 - 1p8 S worth while. purpose in your recreation. new zest. i Caractacus my grandfather l could find his fortune—in the very| HOBBIES HARNESS THE STEAM TEAM dscaping from the spout of a tea- kettle is mere wasted energy. But steam harnessed in the boiler of a locomotive is power strong enough to pull a train weigh- ing many tons. Boys and girls are full of “s‘eam.”™ 1 I it just spouts out like the steam from a teakettle, | causing a lot of hissing but accomplishing nothing the steam in a locomotive. That's one of the good things about having a hobby. It uses some of your energy to a profitable end. Instead of playing aimlessly, you direct your attention toward some one subject, and as a result, you not only learn a great deal, but you have more fun than the person whose forces are unharnessed. It doesn't make a great deal of difference what hobby you pick— there are dozens of them to choose from. The main idea is to have a When you get interested in one thing— be it raising pets, collecting stamps, making things with tools, sewing, aviation, or anything else—youw’ll find that your play hours have a And you'll never be without a hcbby again. school,” she said. “I hate to see you go. We'll miss you.” | “I'm not going back to school.” said Helen firmly. “I've got enough money | to get along on for a few years, but | not enough to spend on expensive schools and camps. That house over | there is mine, and it's the only home | I have. I'm going to stay there, fix | it up a little, and either rent part of it or get scmebody to come in and look after it for me. And if Ralph will help me get acquainted, I'll enter high school here this Fall. Will you, Ralph?” “Boy, will I!” exclaimed Ralph. THE END. So Are Ours. “TOMMY,"” asked the teacher, “what can you tell me of America’s foreign relations at the present time?” “They're all broke,” answered the brightest boy in the class. He Was “Getting On.” RANDPA—Well, Willie, what class are you in at school? Willie—I've got one more kid to| lick and then I'll be in a class by my- | self. Sometimes In other cases, it is harnessed like mast is placed and braced with a| plece of string. Paper or light cloth may be used for the sails. The arms of the mill are 48 inches long, tacked securely together at right angles and at the exact center. Use brads for the tacking. The pivot de- tail in the sketch shows an easy oper- ating axis at this point, consisting of a long nail driven through a base- board, through two small iron wash- ers for bearings, then through the center of the cross arms. This pivot allows the arms ‘o turn easily in a very light breeze. The boats are then nailed to the ends of the arms with only one shingle nail each, so they may be adjusted to allow the sails to gatch' the wind. Head all boats in the same direction. Place the baseboard on top of a tall post set in an open yard and nail se- curely. The breeze will catch in the sail of one of the boats, and no mat- ter from what direction the wind may | be blowing, it causes the mill to re- | volve sufficiently for the following | boat to come into the wind. Once! started, with all boats and sails set at | correct angles on the arms, this wind- mill will revolve indefinitely. ODD ORIGINS “Seven Years of Bad Luck” HAVE you ever been warned against breaking a mirror? In ancient Greece the mirror was used with water as a means of reading the fu- ture. It was believed that one could read the will of the gods in the mirror. Therefore, if a mirror were accident- ally broken, it was supposed to mean that the gods were attempting to keep & person from foreseeing the ill for- tune which was in store for him. ‘The idea that a broken mirror fore- told seven years of bad luck had its origin among the Romans before the Christian era. These people believed that a person’s health changed every seven years and as the mirror re- flected one’s health or appearance, its breaking was thought to mean that the next span of seven years of one's life would be unfortunate. —By J. Carroll Mansfield —— Caring for Pets BY HORACE MITCHELL. Gasoline Gusty. 'HIS story is partially imaginative. It has to be! Nobody on earth can look inside another man's mind | and be able to tell exactly wiat the | other is thinking. But—well, fellows {and girls, you read it and see what your opigion is. Gusty—Augusta—is a German shep- berd dog that stays with her master | in a gasoline station on a main high- way. She is a dignified dog, very re- served, and very ladylike with strang- ers. A newcomer to the little house on the road brings Gusty out from | under a bench in a corner. Gusty surveys the stranger calmly for a| moment, and then returns to her bed. One night during a heavy rain storm a car pulled up beside the gaso- line pumps and two men entered the little house. They wore coats and their right hands were deep inside their pockets and their eyes were hard. They glanced out of the window. No other cars were to be seen. They bought cigarettes, and as Gusty's; owner reached into the case for them, the men edged nearer the counter. Gusty silently came from beneath her benck. and looked at them. Stiff | she stood. gazing at their faces. Their right hands moved in their pockets. Gusty's throat gave off a low, steady sound that might have been a growl, or & whimper. The men looked at | her. She held her eyes on them with- | out & waver. Her master passed over the cig-| erettes. The men were still looking at the dog. Gusty had not moved. Her eyes had not changed expression. “Fine dog you have there,” grunted Qneu THE LEGIONS OF THE ROMAN EMPEROR CLALDILIS BEGAN THEIR INTENSIVE DRIVE TO SUBJUGATE THE BARBARIANS OF THE ISLAND OF BRITAIN (43 A.DY), THEY WERE FIERCELY OPPOSED BY CARACTACUS, GALLANT CHIEFTAIN ©OF ATRIBE OF BRITONS LIVING ° NORTH OF THE THAMES ..........oom @HE BRITISH CHIEF WAS LED IN CHAINS INTO THE PRESENCE OF THE EMPEROR .CARACTACUS, A STRIKING FIGURE EVEN IN HIS SHACKLES,UNBOWED IN DEFEAT, STRODE FORWARD AND BOLDLY ADDRESSED CLAUDIUS IN A SPEECH REMARKABLE FOR ITS BREVITY \WITH HIS NAKED WARRIORS ARMED ONLY WITH WICKER SHIELDS ANP WEAPONS OF FLINT AND TIN, CARACTACUS BOLDLY DEFIED THE MIGHT OF ROME- F?QJ& MY MISFORTUNE TO YOU 1S GLORIOUS, TO ME HUMILIATING. " BUT,CONSIDER / HAD I NOT RESISTED YOU VALIANTLY, YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN ROBBED OF AT LAST THE BARBARIANS WERE DECISIVELY DEFEATED, AND THE BRAVE CHIEF AND KIS WIFE AND CHILDREN FELL INTO THE HANDS OF THE CONQUERORS (51 A D). THE CAPTIVES EXPECTED 1 AM NOW IN YOUR POWER / KILL ME, IF YOU WISH REVENGE, BUT SUCH A DEED WOULD SULLY YOUR HONOR-~SPARE MY LIFE., AND I SHALL REMAIN A LIVING MONUMENT TO YOUR CLEMENCY, i b LAUDILS, CURIOLIS TO SEE TRIS MAN WHO HAD BEEN SUCH A THORN IN HIS SIDE, ORDERED THAT CARACTACUS AND HIS FAMILY BE BROUGHT To ROME : Q)ovED BY THE BRITONS WORDS AND HEROIC BEARING,CLAUDIUS COMMANDED THE FETTERS TO BE STRUCK OFF AND CARACTACLIS AND HIS FAMILY SET FREE .../ SHE HELD HER EYES ON THEM WITHOUT A WAVER. one of the strangers. He took his right hand out of his pocket and paid for the smokes. o gas,” said the man. They stood in the rain beside the| pump while the fuel was put into the tank. Gusty sat in the open door of the house watching them. The spokesman fumbled in his right pocket again. Gusty whimpered again, or was it & growl? The men looked at the dog once more, paid for the gaso- line and drove off. The next morning Gusty's owner read in the newspaper of the hold-up of the next gasoline station down the road, by two men in an automobile. Cotton Crop Near ‘Parity.’ GRICU . experts antici- pate a rather lively cotton mar- k-’ for the production this year is expected to approach pari' with con- sumption. Estimates indicate a crop this year of 11,798,060 bales. Domestic and foreign mills are expected to require 11,570,000 bales. A carryover of 1,000,000 bales will have some effect | on the market, naturally, but first- grade cotton is expected to be in good demand. Stecks of cotton held by signers of the 1934-35 cotton loan contracts cannot sell until the price hits 13 cents. & “Gimme 5 gallons | AS SCIENCE SEES IT The Toad THE homely, warty toad is one of our most common friends of lawn and garden. It isn't much to look at, but since it does no harm whatever, and a considerable amount of good in the bargain, it is an animal worth having around. If you have ever sat on your porch on a Sutmer evening, with a light burning to attract insects, and had a toad come along and make a meal while you watched, you know that it can be just about as much fun as & movie. Like its cousin, the frog, the toad lays its eggs in & pond in the Spring. The little round black eggs are placed in a line in the middle of » long rope of gelatin-like Material, and when they hatch they are tadpoles, very much like frog tadpoles, only smaller and blacker When the tadpoles change into little toads they are still very small, and it takes them a long while to grow. Even by August they are so small that three of them could sit on a copper cent. In the Winter the toads, both young and old, find a hole in the groond or in a tree where they stay until Spring. Handling a toad does not give you warts. If your skin is very tender i may be irritated a little, but that is all. When the young toads change from being tadpoles they start off on a long Jjourney away from the pond where they were born. In dry weather they hide during the daytime, so you don't see them very often, but when it rains all the little toads come out in the open. This is why a lot of people think they fall from the clouds along with the raindrops during a Summer storm. Indoor Possum Hunt Is Exciting Game N INDOOR possum hunt is almost as exciting as a real outdoor one. Each hunter has a pack of well-trained “dogs,” and, though the possum is & clever animal, the crafty hunter cap- tures him before very long. Pieces of candy or large-sized beans are hidden in the room. Then teams of about four each are formed to carry on the hunt, each team consist- ing of three dogs and a hunter. As in a real possum hunt the dogs are silent until they tree a possum, 50 in the indoor hunt the hunting dogs must also be quiet until they find a bean. As soon as they find one they bark until their leader comes and bags the “possum.” In order that the leader can always find his own dogs, each team should have a sep- arrte mark. Those on one team might | tie a handkerchief around their right arms and thase on another team could tie them on the left. The leader holds the beans until the hunt is over, when the one having the most of these “possums” wins, | The more you try to make it like the real thing, imitating the barking of the dogs, the calls of the hunters and the banging of guns, the funnier and more exciting it will be. Right—or Wrong? DO YOU like to take the “true-or- false” tests? Here is one on street manners. Mark each stotement either “T" for true or “F” for false. Play fair, and don't look up the answers until you have finished? These tests may also be used for a game at a party. For that. you should make enough copies so that there will be one for each couple. 1. A boy always walks between two girls when accompanying them. 2. A boy does not raise his cap to a girl—only to elderly ladies. 3. One should talk very loudly in order to be heard easily. 4. If a girl does not notice a boy when passing, he should not shout or whistle at her. 5. If a boy wishes to talk with a girl when meeting her, he does not stop her, but turns and walks down the street with her. 6. One should always be alert to recognize acquaintances. 7. A girl takes the arm of a boy | when walking with him to show that | she likes him. 8. One keeps to the right when passing people. 9. One may turn and look back at interesting people. { 10. One throws all refuse into the gutter. ANSWERS. True—4, 5. 6. 8. False—1, 2, 3, 7, 9, 10. National Forest Purchases. A RECENT buying order placed | more than a million and a quar= ter acres of forest land in the na- tional forests. The total cost of the land acquired was $4,500,000. ‘The Superior National Forest in | Minnesota received thc la=zest addi- tion, nearly a quarter of a million acres having been included within its | boundaries. | TheT .tfain Lake National Forest | Purchase unit of 101,000 acres in Vir- | ginia ranked second. No Donations Here. ALVATION ARMY COLLECTOR— | —What do you do with your old clothes? Dum—Well, I hang them on coat hangers in the closet, and in the morning I get up and remove them and put them on.