Evening Star Newspaper, October 20, 1935, Page 67

Scrub Quarterback By W. Boyce Morgan FTL IO X~ 1 il /' Qv N HIS VOICE MADE PAUL SWING AROUND WITH A SHARP INTAKE TiE SUNDAY BFAR, WAMMINGTON, p.” C, OCTOBER 20, 1935-PART FOUR. - MyStic'Art, Among Oldest Forms Of Entertainment, Still Popular|gom e o e e wo All Details Are Important in Mastering Even Easy Tricks. BY THOMAS, MAGICIAN. ITH the possible exception of music, there is no form of entertainment as old as magic. It was known in the days of ancient Egypt. The Jew- ish Kings, it is said, always called upon the soothsayers and magicians to interpret dreams and visions, and to foretell any events which might throw an ominous cloud of trouble over the kingdom. In fact, the Egyp- tians are the first people of whose proficiency in the art of magic we have any record. The mystic art was also known to the Chinese in the earliest periods of their history, and, although it was used throughout the Oriental empire before records were kept, we have no way of knowing what type of mysticism was employed. The magician was._once regarded as a sorcerer and conMdered to be a dangerous man, but magic increased in popularity at an ‘unusually rapid pace, and today we find that its charm is more widely appreciated than ever before. Consequently, since IT IS IMPORTANT TO MAINTAIN A PROFESSIONAL ATTITUDE. OF BREATH. After two vears of faithful performance on the Dorset High School scrub team Payl Shields is supremely happy because at last. in his_senior vear, he is playing he first game of star of the Med- quarterback, squad. Th la: cause they now feel sure of winning toe district championship. but Paul resents the coming of Gabby. which will put him back on the scrubs. In the first practice which Gabby attends. Paul reveals his feelings m a ‘savage tackle. and a few nights later bby retaliates with a tackle that puts Paul out of the game for a few days Meanwhile Dorset wins all its games, and Gabby's_stellar playing makes him hool. But the players start to hear persistent rumors that Gabby is breaking training rules regarding late hours and eating. snd_everybody knows Coach Travers won't stand for Gabby's conduct. INSTALLMENT IV. HE rumors of Gabby’s violation of training rules finally reached the coach’s ears a few days before the Medwick game. The team was being pointed for this game, | because Coach Travers felt sure that if Dorset got past Medwick an unde- feated season and a district title were really possible. Only Finlay High had to be met after Medwick and Pinlay did not appear to be any stronger than Gabby’s old school. The players knew that something was up when the coach summoned them for a talk just before practice one afternoon. His face was serious, and while he did not mention Gabby personally, every one knew to whom he was referring. “Fellows,” he said, “you all ought to know by now how I feel about . | immediately, but his mother was suf- | advance celebration and informal pa- rade. But Coach Travers sent the members of the team home to bed. It was almost 10 o'clock when Paul got home. He intended to go to bed | fering from a headache and asked | him if he would take the car and get | her some aspirin. "THERE was a drug store only a half | dozen blocks away. almost on the edge of town, so it was not necessary to go to the main business district. He hopped into the car and a few the beginning of the eighteenth cen- tusy a steady stream of books dealing with the performance and enjoyment of magic has poured from the print- ing presses of Europe and America. EVE.RY year, more and more people make the practice of magic their | hobby. We find grave judges, learned professors, doctors, lawyers, ministers, and even kings and princes capable of diverting and mystifying their friends with card, coin, cigar and cigarette tricks. For example, the Prince of | Wales is famous as an amateur ma- | gician, and a good one, too, according to all reports. minutes later was standing 2t a reagy | counter in the drug store, when the door was flung open and a hilarious | | group of Dorset students rushed in. | | There were six pf them, three boys and three girls, and as they pushed | up to the cigar counter they loudly | | argued over their plans for the rest | of the evening. They were going | dancing, and could not decide whether to visit a nearby roadside inn ori drive to a place near Medwick. i One boy was urging the Medwick | trip, and his voice made Paul swing | | around with a sharp intake of breath. It was Gabby Gabriel, starting out | on a dancing party at 10 o'clock on | the night before what might be the | most important game of Dorset's season! . | For a moment Paul was stunned. Pages might be written to explain why magic exercises such charm and fascination, but nothing will convince you so much as trying it yourself. Learn to do one trick! Do it for your friends! From that moment, you will find that you have entered a new field; a world of popularity, a world of en- | form an effect twice in succession. By joyment. My first bit of advice is to practice | and maintain a professional attitude. It is my object to teach you the road | to this professional attitude, even if | you don't intend to go on the stage. To be able to do tricks with the same | skill as a magician in the profession, one must study in real earnest. you read over each article, I want you to be just as sincere as if I were there by your side, giving you personal in- structiop, : | things to remember in magic. Nat- urally, after you have performed an effect successfully you will be deluged imI;:;‘ m‘”fi'"ymm'm’: extn;;::’e!z; with requests to disclose the secret. | trick. By that I never to per_;Never on any occasion comply with | # | these requests. Some professional | magic instructors even go so far as to :::“u“‘::: “":" only “;:‘L:;; ‘i‘;:: | urge their students to keep the magic TS & chance “‘d‘"w' from the | ® Secret from their immediate fami- o, e A e uar partic. | les: However, I think this little too m";? w m;‘l“’“’“" At pa | far-fetched, for many times your | =i ';’::’“’ im“'" 4 thig | TOther and father are excellent crit- | ow me impress upon yo! | ics, and if they know the method of | ooy Mo o I b B e o o - | gestions from the spectators’ stand- This is one of the most important | point. doing this you see yourself as your 'Thomas, Magician, Started Study of Magic as Boy JFRAZIER THOMAS, known profes- Sionally as “Thomas the Magi- cian,” has been interested in magic since early boyhood. As a lad of 9 he saw Howard Thurston, the magi- cian, pull & squirming white bunny from a black silk hat, and from that | | moment on he delved deeply into the | secrets of the mystic art. Starting as most magicians start, with all the information he could glean from newspaper and magazine | rticles, books on nragic, magic sup-1{ al ply house catalogues and similar training rules. I don’t care how good | He automatically paid for the aspirin, a player any man is, or how much the | then stood irresolute at the back of team needs him. If he doesn't care | the store. Suddenly -Gabby turned enough about foot ball and Dorset | away from the counter and sav Paul. High to observe our simple training | He started, frowned and stood for & | rules to the letter, I don't want him, moment in tense silence. Then & on my team.” | grin_spread over his face, and he| There was a pause. Two or three of | hurried back toward Paul the boys stole glances at Gabby, but| “Hi, Paul” Be cried jovially. “Want his face was blank. Paul, however, | tc join the party? We're celebrating noticed that the ghost of a smile was | our victory over Pinlay tomorrow!” playing around the corners of his Paul swallowed hard. “You'd better mouth. | not, Gabby,” he said anxiously. “Its | “All right, Temember that!” the a hard game and we've got to win it. | eoach concluded. “If I find out that If the coach hears you've been out | auy of you boys—any of you, nmem}; | dancing—" | ber!—is breaking training, I'll benc! pr | him in a minute. I want an unde- | u(‘}:b:ybo‘ll:u;l"l'le‘dhe Thec”,cm;ll;:os;: feated season. but I don’t want it| e = r badly enough to stand for that.” face darkened. “Unless you tell him. Paul said nothing. Gabby stared at him for a long moment. Then A S HE ran out to the field for prac- | he shrugged his shoulders, wheeled, A NOTHER important item: Inread- | sources, Mr. Thomas advanced until ing these exposes of magic, don't at present he tours the country with overiook the smaliest detail. Remem- a.show advertised as “Thomas the | ber that many of the details of magic | Magieian & Co., presenting the mys- | are so simple that you may niake the tic revue, a full evening of magic, | mmn: ;‘m :hm!dnc mmmur::; | mirth, music, mystery.” portant very mistake | But this success did not come sud- fatal to many a magic begihner. When | qor)v 1t followed years of work iy oo Mfi:‘fl [manY | putting on small acta befare lodges mmysul "‘Wmm Ly e, Yot BOW | and civic clubs and giving local school ’Imhen et st il entertainments. During this time Mr. dience 0! Thomas had the opportunity and | FRAZIER THOMAS. The amateur very often has the idea | privilege of meeting a number of the | that is rarely done by a professional that a trick or illusion must be very | world’s most famous magicians. elaborate. He thinks that the method | Mr. Thomas, of operation and the apparatus used must necessarily be extremely com- plicated. If there are any such be- | lievers among my readers, they should | discard the idea immediately. Of course “flash” or color is necessary in a vaudeville or stage act, but re- member that in the simplicity of your | magician. in his articles on | more interest in a little known art magic, will present material within and to put good, wholesome entertain- 1rcnch of young readers—something ment into the hands of young people. ADVANCE PLANNING FOR CHRISTMAS LONG about December 15, a lot of boys and girls begin to worry about what they are going to get their mothers and fathers and His object is to create| tice, a glimmer of hope began to burn in Paul's heart. Somehow he felt that Gabby Gabriel hadn't taken Coach Travers' words very seriously. and joined the other fellows and girls | who were piling out of the store. As Paul climbed into his car a moment later he saw Gabby and his com- panions speeding out the road toward tricks lies their great power to mystify the other fellow. Another important element is naturalness in performing. If you at- A other relatives for Christmas. They don't )| have much money to spend, but they can think of dozens of nice, inexpensive gifts which they could make themselves—if they had the time. That if is the catch, of course, because Christmas Gabby was the independent, strong- | willed type of fellow who is impa- | tient of all rules and regulations. His | impudent, care-free spirit was one of his chief assets on the gridiron, but it might be a fault that would keep | him out of the line-up. And if the coach benched him, Paul would be back in there at quarterback. | But Gabby was calling signals when Dorset took the field against Med- wick the following Saturday. The game was played at Medwick, and| long before the first quarter ended it was evident that the home team had been primed to do just one thing: stop their Tormer teammate. | As a result, Gabby hardly was able to get past the line of scrimmage. ‘There were two Medwick men cover- Ing him on every play. But Gabby met the situation with etrategy that once more proved his right to his job as quarterback. He quit calling his own signal entirely and sent the Dorset fullback banging into the Medwick line until the de- fensive backs closed in to support it. ‘Then he looped passes over the heads of the secondary to pull them back 8gain, or shot Tommy Plumber and Eggs Will's outside the tackles. Medwick. (To be concluded next Sunday.) —_— Sure Sign. “JJOW can you tell how old a partridge is?” | “By the teeth.” “Don't be silly. Partridge’s haven't any teeth.” “T know—but I have.” HE LATTER HALF o= 19T CENTURY WAS OF FOREIGN COLON! LJEDWICK was strong, even with- out Gabby, and, although Dor- set’s plan of offense got them a touchdown, Medwick matched it, and the score was tied, 7-7, at the end of the half. In the third quarter Gabby continued his same strategy FOR THE FIRST TIME High Lights of History— MARKED BY AN IMPERIAL- 1STIC RUSH OF EUROPEAN NATIONS YO ACQUIRE- COLONIAL POSSESSIONS N AFQICA THAT LEFT THE MAP OF THE "DARK. CONTINENT “A PATCHWORK tempt to put any magic over with stiff hands—for example, in palming a small ball—it would take your audi- ence but a few seconds to expose the trick. You can't expect to fool an in- telligent audience’ unless you do the trick with the most natural move- ments possible. N!VER try to perform a trick with- out first practicing it. Always practice an effect before a mirror. By can make. QANCE HAD ACQUIREP ALGERIA. 1TALY, SEEKING TO EXPAND ACROSS THE MEDITERRANEAN, CONSIDERED ANNEXING TUNIS, ADJACENT TO ALGERIA.. BUT WHILE 1TALY HESITATER FRANCE STEPPED IN AND SEIZED ™~E ES. LTALY, HAVING BECOME A UNIFIED NATION IN 1870 INCE THE DAYS OF THE CAESARS, WISHED TO HAVE A FINGER History Behind the Headlines il is so close that they don't have time to make any- ) thing. So they resolve to think about Christmas earlier the next year. 5 And that’s the reason for this reminder. Girls who can sew or paint and boys who are handy with tools, can make many fine presents at very little cost in money. you plan to do anything like that this year, now is the time to start. ‘Your manual training or sewing teacher can make suggestions. Many magazines have good ideas. Probably you already know some things you But it does take time, and if l Puzzles I — fhagic, and what is more sym- bolic of the magician’s art than a bunny peeking out of a hat? THE MAGIC HAT. The definitions: HORIZONTAL. 1. The sorcerer’s art., 6. Civil War boat. 8. Toward the top. 9. Father. 10. Shade tree. 11. Printer’s measure. 13. Exist. 14. Calmed. 17. A beginning. VERTICAL. 1. Cleaning tool. 2. Indefinite article. 3. A chicken’s heart, liver, ‘h-rd. ete. Indefinite article. Policeman (slang). Beast of burden. Ran, hurried. Noise made by a cow. ‘Wager. 5. Upon. 16. Masculine pronoun. —3— ‘Two magical word chains are next. Change only one letter at a time and be sure that each word you form is a genuine dictionary word. Change WAND to PASS in four moves. Change CARD to PALM in four moves. 4. 5. 6. i 3 2. 3. 1 1 1 =3 In this tricky word diamond the | second line is cushion, the third means court attendants, the fifth is a lure | and the sixth is to state. complete the diamond? Can you PICTURE ANAGRAM. —— Behead a stunt and get a haystack. ‘The main point is, don’t put it off too long! —By J. ORCED TO LOOK ELSEWHERE IN AFRICA FOR COLONIAL ACQUI- SITIONS, ITALY TURNED TO THE SHORE OF THE RED SEA, AND IN 1885 OCCUPIED THE PORT OP ARABIA Behead something a magician uses and get a conjunction. Carroll Mansfield BEGAN TO EXTEND THE ZONE OF | stone, looked quite uncomfortable, Crafts—J os— Puzzles Roany, an Ugly Proved BY HORACE MITCHELL. RS. CAROLINE B. KING, editor of the Country Gentlewoman department of the Country Gentle- man, and & most delightful person, provides the story for this week. In her home near Philadelphia she told a story of a brave cow on the King | ranch in the West some years ago. “Roany was her name,” said Mrs. King. “She was an ugly old cow and I didn’t like her because she was al- ways trying to kick people or to butt them with her horns. She was well treated, too, s0 there was no reason for her bad behavior. Nobody on the ranch liked Roany very well until the day she proved herself a real heroine. After that we didn’t think she was | quite 50 mean. “On that day I happened to be watching the cows. I saw one with s little calf near a thicket of brush and around the thicket a coyote was slinking along, with his eyes on the | calf. He crawled around where the | mother cow couldn’t see him and he came closer and closer to the calf. | Closer and closer, with his eyes glistening and his mouth watering as he thought of the dinner he would have in just one moment. “As soon as he was close enough, he leaped for the baby and ‘almost | had it by the throat when Roany suddenly smelled the marauder. Roany whirled about in a flash. The mother cow was standing by, bawling in ter- | ror and doing nothing. Roany charged in, her horns down for a stabbing | | Old Cow, Her HeroiAsm SHE CAUGHT HIM ON HER HORNt AND TOSSED HIM HIGH IN THa AIR., thrust, and her clumsy big hoofs just flying. “The coyote was so surprised that he hesitated for the split second nec- essary for Roany to reach him. She caught him on her horns and tossed him high in the air. She ran under- neath him to catch him and toss him again. And in five minutes a bruised and badly frightened coyote was leg- ging it away from that ranch as fast as he could run. “Prom that time on Roany was for- given for her bad disposition.” Indians (Continued Prom Pifth Page.) whole-hearted co-operation of Indian and white alike. Basic in the Indian political phil- Benefit hardly any need of any executive authority to enforce it. The tribes were composed of rela- tively small, closely knit kinship units. It was not so hard, after all, to ob- - |tain the unanimous consent of such ary, soldier and statesman alike have failed utterly to grasp its significance. | ‘This failure probably has been re- sponsible for nine-tenths of '.hel charges of bad faith which have been | made against the North American aboriginals. They have solemnly af- | fixed their signatures to treaties and then, it is charged, broken ‘these treaties without compunction. | Here arises a curious paradox. On the one hand, in the reports of eth-| the Indian is described as| the soul of honor. On the other hand, | by those having political and military dealings with him, he is sometimes | described as being crafty and per- fidious. It isn't so much of a para- dox after all when this subtle prin- ciple of unanimity is taken into con- sideration. In brief, in the past there could be no community act to which every member of the community had not | agreed. | This is & principle which never has been applied among any Cau- casian peoples. White races have ex- perimented with about every form of government except government by the whole. e It has been difficult for the white man to conceive of government ex- cept by some form of representation, with selected individuals authorized to speak for the many. But in any political order of the North American Indians the repre- sentative—if there was one—had ab- solutely no right to bind his con- stituents in any way unless every last one of them consented to be so bound. ONB might ask how the Indian ever accomplished anything in the way of law-making. In a sense, he didn't. It required an interminably long time for any unwritten law—and there were no others—to come into effect. But once it was established it was the next thing to eternal and so| firmly established that there was Betty Gets Ribbon Sandwich Secret BY BESSIE E. EARLE. ETTY and Dinah sat under a wil- low tree down by the brook. Betty | closed her book slowly and sighed. She was lost in an imaginary world of enchantment, of knights and fair | ladies. Dinah, propped up by a large “About time we went home, isn't it, honey?” Dinah asked. “Yes, yes,” Betty answered.” "Course it is. I promised to get supper. Oh, dear!” she sighed, bringing her mind | back to practical matters. “What| shall I make?” “Would you like to make ribbon sandwiches?” “I'd love to. They sound pretty.” “And they are as good as they are pretty,” Dinah answered. “Will they be hearty enough for daddy? He's playing golf this after- noon and will come home as hungry as a bear.” “Oh, yes; I promise they will fill| him up! We’ll use hard-cooked eggs and ham. Before we go pick & few stems of watercress for decoration,” Dinah suggested. | Ribben Sandwiches. Trim off the six crusts from a loaf & unit to something which was ob- viously for the good of all. And the same applied to the union of the kin- ship units—the tribe. The two basic political philosophies clashed on the reservations. The projected Utopias didn't develop— even aside from the sculduggery which marked their history. Where deliberative bodies were established they often showed little faculty for deliberation. Sadly the Indian's well- wishers, clerical and otherwise, began to turn their backs on him. The red man, they said, wasn't capable of self- government. He lacked the politi instinct of the Anglo-Saxon. ways would stand in need of benevo- lent paternalism. What he didn't understand was rep- resentative government — especially when it was not representative of anv realities. He understood government by wholes. That, originally, was the tioshpaiya system—or something very closely ap- proaching it. NOW it is to be made a unit for representation. So this is the pic- ture as contemplated by the new Sioux constitutions: Government by 8 body of representatives of units themselves governed, at least tradi- tionally, by the rule of unanimity. There will have to be some departures from both to enable the two systems to fit together. But both Commis- sioner Collier and Dr. Strong feel that the only practical starting point is the one that has been selected—repre- sentative government by natural units Thus unanimity and representation may be welded into a kind of govern- mental system foreign to the cogita- tions of political philosophers. But this is only the starting point as contemplated by Mr. Collier. He wants the ethnologists to delve deeper and deeper into the structure of In- dian thinking in order that the politi- cal ahd social systems may be more and more closely molded to realities. Right Or Wrong? HOW good are your manners ir public? This true-false test wii tell you. Mark each question eithd “T” for true or “F” for false, thet consult the correct answers elsewhe.t on this page. 1. If one likes a show a great den one should applaud by whistling & { stamping. 3. It looks stingy when a boy dc not bring candy to eat with his “dat.’ at a show. 3. If a program isn't interestinn one should entertain one'’s friends by talking to them. 4. It shows one’s cleverness to imi- tate the performers on the stage. 5. When halted by a traffic tie-up, it is useless to honk the car horn. 6. When one is in a hurry, it is not necessary to wait one’s turn in line. 7. It is all right to bump into peo- ple, if one says, “I'm sorry.” 8. The true base of politeness is thoughtfulness for others. 9. It is poor taste to call any one over the telephone, and say, “Guess who this is.” 10. One should never stand and talk to friends who are eating in & res- taurant. Answers. IN THE AFRICAN PIE, BUT WAS LATE ENTERING THE of sandwich bread. Cut loaf length- wise into four slices. Spread with but- ter. Use three fillings 'to form three layers, piling slices on top of one an- ‘True—S5, 8, 9, 10. False—1,2,3,4,6, 7. ——— OCCUPATION AROUND MASSAWA THIS ENCROACHMENT AROUSED THE IRE OF THE NEGUS OF ABYSSINIA until the Medwick players uncon- sciously decided that they had little to fear from their former teammate. ‘Whereupon Gabby promptly executed a trick play he had been saving for this precise moment, caught Medwick flat-footed and scampered 40 yards for another touchdown. Then, while Medwick was still dis- organized, he returned their kickoff to midfield, shot a long pass to Tommy Plumber for a 20-yard gain, sent Eggs Willis around end for another first down on the 18-yard line, and then got a third touchdown with a mixture of power plays and desperately, the best it could get was one more touchdown, and Dorset went home with a 20-13 victory and the district title closer than ever be- @TALY SENT AN ARMY OF 20000 MEN TO ABYSSINIA. THE NEGUS OPPOSED THE INVADERS WITH CAMPAIGN THE ITALIANS GAINED AND THE RAS OF TIGRE +wv:+ent @71 THE\DEATH OF THE NEGUS l IN 1889 A WAQ OF SICCESSION BROKE OUT IN ABYSSINIA AS RIVAL ETHIOPIAN RASES (KINGS) SUPREMALCY. 00 AFOOTHOLD 1N ERITREA AND SoutH 1 SOMALI (Now IVALIAN SOMALILAND) - €anuany 26,1887, AN TTALIAN DETACHMENT OF 500 MEN WAS CUT OFF AND MASSACRED BY A HORDE OF ABYSSINIANS AT DOGAL = THiS DISASTEQ CALLED POR VENGGANCE. other. Press together firmly, cover with & damp cloth and put in icebox for an hour. When ready to serve, cut crosswise with a sharp knife. Fillings. - Egg filling—Mash two hard-boiled eggs; combine with one-half teaspoon salt and four tablespoons salad dress- ing. Mix well. Cream cheese filling—Mash one package cream cheese, add two table- spoons cream, one-half cup pimientog olives, finely chopped. Mix well. Chopped ham filling—To one cup finely chopped ham add one-quarter cup pickle relish and one-half cup salad dressing. Mix well. “Home” Cotton Exempt. CO'HON planters are permitted un- der a regulation issued by the Ag- ricultural Adjustment Administration to set aside 110 pounds of their lint eotton for their own domestic use with- out paying the ginning tax on the product, ANSWERS. 1. Cross-word puzzle solution. 2. WAND — wane — Dane — pans— PASS. CARD—care—pare—pale--PALM. 3. The dlamond is M, pad, pages, magical decoy, say, L. 4. Van, vane, raven and tavern. 5, T-rick, W-and,