Evening Star Newspaper, July 5, 1936, Page 47

- < STORIES SPOM‘S! l GAMES (@ <] : Secret of the Summer House 8 . sosce Morean i ‘HIS week our crossword pr.zzle is 4 n the shape of a canteen. We hope it's as refreshing as a drink after ® long hike! THE CANTEEN. ! The definitions: HORIZONTAL. 3. To walk in military formation. 4. Therefore. 5. We. 7. Soldier's water container. 10. Proceed. 11. Utilize. 12. Within. 13. Hurried. 15. Part of the mouth. 17. For example (Abbr.). 19. Concerning. 20. Elude, avoid. VERTICAL. ‘Worries. Ostrich-like bird. Color. Twenty. To shoot from cover. 8. Sister of mercy. 9. Snake-like fish. 14. To grow old. 16. Anger. 18. Father. i 2. 3. 4. 6. o= “Canteen” also forms the center of our word diamond. The second line | {s something crows do, the third is a famous island, the fifth means wild Plants, and the sixth is an affirmative. Complete the diamond. Cc A N CANTEEN E E N =3 Soldiers use canteens, and soldiers fight battles. So we've taken the names of four famous battles and jumbled up the letters. What are they? 1. TEAR WOOL. 2. A MEAT TIN. 8. SHIN TAGS. 4. BULL HER KIN. —— PICTURE ANAGRAM. —5— In the sentence below, the missing Wwords are spelled differently but pro- bounced alike. The pompous colonel, covered with gold , sounded like a donkey as he his orders. ANSWERS. { 1. Crossword puzzle solution. * 2. The diamond is C, caw, Coney, eanteen, weeds, yes, N. 3. Waterloo, Antietam, Hastings and Bunker Hill. 4. Can, cane, dance and candle, 8. Braid, brayed. Riddles ’A CLEAN sweep for the girls this week! Every riddle picked for publication by the Riddle Man came from a girl. However, the boys are not downhearted, and they are still sending in some fine contributions. 1. When is a teakettle like & bird? =Arlyne Steinbaugh. 2.1 had something which was neither stick nor stone nor blood nor bone; I kept it three weeks and it could walk alone—Jeanne Ras- mussen. 3. Why is a foot like a fairy tale?— Howard Brunner. 4. When is donkey spelled with one lJetter?—Rosemary Drake. 5. Why does Uncle Sam wear red, white and bilue suspenders?—Ruth E. Bhuler, ANSWERS. 1. When it sings. 2. An egg. 3. Because it is & leg-end. 4. When it’s U. 5. To hold his pants up. Didn't Wait 'HERE was a fire at our school 1% last week.” “Get out!” *I did.” Fatal Thrift "Dm you hear about the Scotch gengster getting killed?” “No. How did it happen?” “He lit a bomb and hated to throw & away.” ; ¢ Chapter X The End of the Summer House. Y EARLY evening Bill and Tuck had completed their plan of escape. Betty, who had recov- ered from the effects of the drug as the day progressed, was feel- ing more nearly normal. She &till could not remember the events of the night before, but with the rain con- tinuing steadily she was sure that there would be a ceremony that night in the Summer house Tuck had reported that Uncle Joel's car was ready to go and he had located the keys. They had decided to retire early and Bill had resolved to conceal himself in the closet of Betty’s room, to make sure that no harm befell her before they could get away. They would wait until Capt. Gregg and ‘Wambi had gone to the Summer house. Then they would slip out to the ga- rage, get the car, push it from the garage, and coast it down across the back part of the lawn to the road. Only then would they run the risk of start- ing the motor. If the plan worked their disappearance would not be no- ticed until morning. Early that evening they went up to their rooms. Uncle Joel had not been out of his room all day and Capt. Gregg had also kept out of sight. Only ‘Wambi was in evidence, ever watchful and ever menacing. Tuck and Bill went to their room. ! Then quietly Bill stole out into the hall and made his way to Betty's room. The closet was large enough so that he could sit on the floor in some com- | fort. He left the door open, so that he | could watch the room. “You go to bed, as usual” he whis- pered to his sister, “and try to go to | sleep. Tuck is watching from our window. He'll come as soon as Capt. Gregg and Wambi take Uncle Joel to the Summer house.” Betty agreed, and a half hour later her regular breathing told Bill that she had fallen asleep. He sat in his | narrow quarters in the closet, eyes on | the darkened room, too keyed up and alert to be afraid of falling asleep. ROBABLY two hours had passed | when his keen ear caught a noise | in the hall outside. Then the door of | the room slowly opened. Bill tensed | his muscles, watching like a cat. He| saw Wambi enter stealthily and cross the room to the table near the bed. He dropped something into the glass of water on the table, turned, and stole back out of the room. Bill relaxed and let & long sigh of re- lief escape him. So Wambi was trying to drug Betty again! A good sign that the rites in the Summer house were about to start. Fifteen minutes later he again heard a noise in the hall. But this time it was Tuck, who entered with sup- pressed excitement. “Capt. Gregg and Wambi just went down to the Summer house,” he an- nounced. “But they didn't take your uncle.” Bill scrambled out of the closet. | “Maybe Uncle Joel is so sick he can't | go tonight,” he whispered. “But we can't stop for anything now. Do you have our grips ready? I'll wake Betty.” He hurried across the room and shook Betty. A moment later they were out of the room and creeping quietly down the stairs. They unlocked the side door and stole out on the lawn. THE rain had stopped an hour be- fore, and the moon ‘was out. As they moved silently across the lawn | toward the garage they could see a faint light issuing from the Summer house. They reached the garage in | safety, and were starting to push the car out, when Betty suddenly called a warning. “Wait!” she gasped. “Wambi has[ come out and is going back up to the | house!” “I'll be he’s going up to carry Uncle Joel down,” Bill suggested. “We'll get the car out to the edge of the slope, then wait. If he comes back out alone and in a hurry, we'll know he’s dis- covered our escape, and we can make & run for it.” As quickly as possible, the boys put their weight to the car and pushed it out of the garage. In a few moments they had it behind the building, at the very edge of the slope running down to the highway. At that very moment Betty cried out again. The BOYS ] D. ¢, JULY 5, 1936—PART FOUR. GIRLS PAGE They heard a rush and a roar, and then the entire Summer house disappeared. “There’s Wambi coming out of the house, and he's carrying Uncle Joel!” They watched from the shelter of the garage as the big African, with Uncle Joel in his arms, strode across the lawn. He had almost reached the Summer house when they saw him stop abruptly. At the same moment, Betty uttered a gasp of amazement. “Look! Look at the Summer house! It's falling!” THE events of the next few seconds left them stunned. They saw ‘Wambi, yielding to a blind instinct to save Capt. Gregg, drop Uncle Joel to the ground and rush toward the Summer house. An instant after he reached the sagging building, they heard a rush and a roar, and then | the entire Summer house, and the ground for 50 yards around it, dis- appeared! “What—what happened?” Betty gasped. The two boys mumbled dazed replies. They caught Betty's arms, and aith her raced down the slope. As they reached Uncle Joel, she pulled away from them and stooped to bend over him. Bill and Tuck raced the few remaining yards, and found them- selves on the brink of a yawning hole, where the Summer house had stood a few moments before. The moonlight glinted on water filling the hole to within a few feet of the surface. A couple of boards were floating on the water. There was no sign of Wambi or Capt. Gregg. Bill and Tuck stared at each other, hardly able to believe their eyes. Finally Bill found his tongue. “The underground stream!” he ex- claimed. it rushing, the night we were down here, and felt the Summer house trem- ble? away the ground here for a long time.” “And that heavy rain yesterday and today finished the jobl” Tuck broke in. TLL stood staring down into the water. The agitation caused by the sinking of the Summer house was gradually dying out in tiny ripples that lapped at the banks. He shook his head. “And that's the end of Capt. Gregg and Wambi.” - “Remember how we heard | Evidently it has been eating| | They turned back, to find Betty supporting Uncle Joel in her arms. Quickly they explained what had happened. Uncle Joel's face wore a horrified expression, but after a few moments he sighed, as though a great load had been lifted from his shoul- ders. “Will you help me back to the house, William?" he said slowly. “I'd like to sleep now. In the morning— well, I think I'll feel better than I've felt in a long time. A half hour later, Bill and Tuck were talking quietly in the darkness of their room. “We'll have to find the servants tomorrow, and bring them back to take care of Uncle Joel,” he said. “And I suppose this accident will have to be reported to the police. Maybe they'll want to drag that lake for the bodies.” Tuck's voice, replying from the darkness, contained a note of grim humor. “Well, I guess Betty won't have anything to worry about now,” he said. Instead, she'll have a private lake to swim in. But somehow, I don't think she will use it very oftenl” o Spring Founds Town. THB founding of ¢ities and towns often extends back into obscur- | ity and not always can the motivat- ing reason in the selection of the site be traced. Industrious searchers after fact who are employed by the American Guide | project of the W. P. A. have uncov- ered what led to the founding of Monticello, the county seat of Put- | nam County, Tenn. The answer is water. particular water source has survived through the years to confound the | opponents of the site. When Putnam County needed a county seat, the elders of the section started to canvass the sources of water available. . No Weapons “IT'S going to be a real battle of wits, I tell you,” said the sopho- more member of the debating team. “How brave of you,” said his room- mate, “to go unarmed.” ETTER FROM HOME” used for something that is very pleasing. And if you have ever been away from home YOU have probably heard the above expression for any length of time, you realize what a great pleasure a letter from your family can be. But there’s also another side to the story. Do you realize how much pleasure your parents at home get from the letters which you write to them while you are away? Or how disappointed they are if they watch for the postman hopefully, and then fail to get an expected letter from you? That's something to remember if you go to camp this Summer, or are away on any other kind of vacation. effort to write, because you will be very busy having a good time. It will probably be quite an But this matter is so important that it should not be neglected. Don't forget the very real pleasure that your letters will give your family, who aren’t having as good a time as you are having on your vacation. It may be a small matter to you, but it will be a big matter to them. High Lights of History— FLAGS oF VENEZUELA AND COLOMBIA . THe SPANIARDS RALLIED TO OPPOSE| THE LIBERATOR - IN A GREAT BATTLE AT CURA NEAR CARACAS IN 1814 BOLIVAR'S AQMY WAS Simon Bolwar, Part 111, And this | Squirrel Proves That Brains Can Vanquish Brawn By Horace Mitohell. HAV! you ever watched gray squir- rels, sitting still long enough to get a little inkling here and there of what was going on in their minds? Hattie Billings did, and she told us what she saw. Here it is. I've never heard anything like it before, Have you? putting out food for the birds and squirrels for some time. There were slices of stale bread, and seeds, and so forth. The squirrels liked the bread better than anything. Almost as soon as it was thrown on the grass, they'd scamper down from the trees, and those that didn't get a piece would chase those that did. One squirrel was a little smaller than the rest. Almost always he was a loser. When he did get a nice big piece, some larger squirrel would take after him and chase through the trees until he dropped it in his hurry to get away. He tried staying close to the feed- ing spot and grabbing his bread the instant it touched the ground, but that system did not pan out so well. He couldn’t run and jump as fast or as far as some of the others. Then Hattie noticed one day that this little fellow (he wasn't so very little, either), was not in sight. She looked over all the trees, and at last she spotted him in a crotch where he could watch his relatives. The next day he stayed there, and the next. Hattie thought he was sick. How- i He fumbled with his fore paws and the bread. ever, he didn't seem ailing, for when‘! he wanted to, he could get about just as well as he ever could. = Then it happened. On that particu- lar day he was in his crotch as usual. Hattie threw out the bread and the seeds. Down came the little squirrel in a flash of gray. He took a whole | slice of bread in his mouth and went up the tree again as fast as his legs would carry him. At his old crotch he stopped and looked backward. Behind was coming one of the larg- est of the other squirrels. The latter had just jumped on to the trunk of | | that tree. Hattie saw the one higher up fumble with his fore paws and the bread. A piece of something white fell to the ground. The bigger squirrel saw it and had it | in his mouth in an instant. When Hattie looked up at the little fellow again he was gone. Off down the tree limbs was hurrying a slice of bread with one corner gone. Finally it dis- appeared. The following day Hattie was still watching. She kept her eyes on the | small squirrel this time, and she saw him deliberately chew off a piece of bread, drop it to the ground, and run away with the rest. He had used his head to save him- self trouble! He was getting all the bread he could use, and he wasn't be- ing chased. Pretty smart, eh? . Suspicious. MOTHER have I been a good boy lately?” “Yes, Bobby, you have been a very good boy.” “And do you trust me, mother?” “Why, of course, I trust you, son.” “Then why do you go on hiding | manufactured, will At Hattie’s house they had been .l. —1%— TOP ————— 4%"——————] MOTOR HOGD PAINTED LINES INDICATE RADIATOR Car Copies Best Points of Fastest Autos Ever Built Rounded Back and Front Provide Streamlined Appearance. By Ray J. Marran. 'HIS model of an automobile, de- signed by copying the outstanding features of the fastest motor cars ever show you how easily young model makers may whit- tle realistic miniatures of racing type sutos, to add to their collection of model boats and airplanes. Where not designed to the scale of any par- ticular car, the proportions are accu- rate enough to give you a model with a streamlined and racy appearance. The body of the car is whittled from a soft pine block, 1's inches thick, 17, inches wide, and 8% inches long. The front end and the back end are rounded off and shaped as shown with a pocket knife. A dep notch, repre- senting the driver’s pit, is cut in the | top of the body near the rear end. Directly in front of this pit, starting at the base of the windshield, make a long, curving and slightly sloping cut clear to the front end. Round off this cut where it curves downward at the radiator line. This long cut is made so a narrow block ‘of ‘wood may be shaped to fit the cut and to repre- sent the motor hood. After making the body cuts, sandpaper the surface and edges very smoothly. Whittle the motor hood from a block of pine % inch thick, 7% inch wide, and 4!z inches long, so it will fit perfectly in the curving cut on the body. This motor hood piece is shown in the sketch; also, how it is fitted to the body. Four wheels are needed. The easiest way to get them is to take them from some discarded toy. They should be about 1'; inches in diameter. If you wish, the wheels may be cut from softy thin wood with a scroll saw, and the tires outlined with a knife mark. Attach the wheels to the body at the positions shown, with large-headed nails. The fenders are cut from pine % inch thick and shaped to the sizes in- dicated. You will need a scroll saw in making these curved cuts. Attach the fenders to the body with small brads. For a windshield attach a narrow strip of celluloid in a knife cut made the jam?” —By J. ROUTED WITH HEAVY LOSS. in the motor hood as shown. Carroll Mansfield WITH AN INADEQUATE FORCE BOLIVAR RENEWED THE STRUBGLE INVENEZUELA, BUT WAS OBLIGED YO RETIRE TO BARCELONA . HEQE HE SET LS *1{\. Vew UP A PROVISIONAL EZUELA oo NEW//GRANADA } O 1813 Simon BoLvaR, HAVING DRIVEN THE SPANIARDS FROM WESTERN VENEZUELA AND OCCUPIED THE CITY OF CARACAS, DECLAQED HIMSELF DICTATOR . BuT BOLIVAR'S CAMPAIGN TO FREE HIS COLINTRY WAS SOON T A SET-BACK A b e @& ForTUNES OF THE Soutd AMERICAN PATRIOTS WERE AT A LOW EBB, BUT FOR TWO YEARS BOLIVAR WAGED RELENTLESS REMNANTS OF BOLIVAR'S SCATTERED ARMY ESCAPED Across THE CARIBBEAN SEA TO HAITI, WHERE LATER (1816) | THEIR LEADER JOINED THEM. HAVING GATHERED ANOTHER ARMY, BOLIVAR MADE A REMARQKABLE MARCH TO THE WEST, CROSSED THE RUGGED Conmus% TROOPS ON THE PACIFIC o Aj»-:‘ (Coromsria) @\ TWO SMASHING VICTORIES HE WRESTED THE CONTROL OF NEW GRANADA FROM THE HANDS OF ITS SPANISH O AND MADE THE COUNTRY A REPUBLIC WITH THE NAME OF N TS JOKES PUZZLES STREAMLINE FENDERS %’ FRONT T' REAR MAKE Two OF EACH FENDER WHWEEL DIAMETER -ru 4 i ¥ gy so = At Sandpaper the model smoothly, then give it two or more coats of quick-drying enamel for a glossy fin- ish. As a color suggestion, you may paint the tires aluminum, the wheel | disks red, the fenders black, the body !light blue, and the motor hood dark blue. Tiny crossed lines made with black enamel represent the radiator netting. Black enamel is also used to CELLULOID WINDSHIELD 1 mark the hood covering openings and the exhaust pipe. It will not take very long to make a model of a racing car, as the parts are few and all are easy to cut from soft wood. After making this model, | you may try making models of racing | ears of your own design. all of which will add to the number in your model collection. By Bessie E. Earle. ETTY tucked Dinah under her B arm and skipped down the lane through the meadows. “The child is out for an adventure,” chuckled Dinah. “Here’s a big patch of clover. Let's see if we can find one with four leaves.” After a few minutes of careful searching Betty gave up in disap- | pointment. She picked Dinah up and started to walk away. | “Look! Look! See what | found,” Betty cried excitedly. There before them, nestled in the coarse field grass, was a bird’s nest. And in it were four little eggs. “What kind is it?” Betty asked. “Bobolink’s. And don't touch it” | Dinah commanded. “It would break the mamma bird’s heart if we dis- turbed her precious nest.” “No, I won't,” whispered Betty. “Isn't it sweet? I wonder where the mamma is?"” I've Dolls for Younger Sisters Are Made From Lowly Spuds By Mary Lu Smith. ID you know that potatoes can be made into really attractive-look- ing dolls for your younger sisters? Use a small round one for the head and a small oval-shaped one for the A \ Two POTATOES AND MATCHES body. Hold them together with a matchstick, pointed at both ends with a pocket knife. Matchsticks, or fiber- covered pipe cleaners are used for the arms and the legs. One side of the potato, used for the head, should be sliced off for the face, with tiny beads attached with small wooden pegs for the eyes, and the nose and the mouth indicated with dots and a line of biack ink. The dolls can now be dressed with skirt, waist, jacket and hat made from scraps of cloth, or brightly col- ored crepe paper. Many clever looking dolls can be made in this manner. Care in de- signing the different costumes will create dolls of novel and attractive appearance. Potato dolls are lots of fun and can be used for party gifts or for place favors on a party table. Skeptical Porkers. Judge. Do you consider this defend- ant a reliable man? Has he a good reputation for truth and veracity? ‘Witness. Well, to be honest with honor, that man has to get else to call his hogs at feed- ing time, They won't believe Betty Finds a Bobolink’s Nest, Dinah Suggests a New Salad “Close by. We probably frightened her away.” “I guess we'd better go” Betty sighed. “I wish mother could see it.” “Well, we can’t take it home, but I can give you a recipe for bird's nest salad which I know will please your mother.” “Your dear dolly!" cried Betty, hugging Dinah tightly. “Always ready with a recipe!” Bird’s Nest Salad. 1 small cabbage (1 pound) 4 stalks celery 1 small onion 12 cup salad dressing 1 package cream cheese Paprika Remove outler leaves of cabbage, shred cabbage finely. Chop celery, grate onions, and add to cabbage. Combine with salad dressing. Arrange on individual plates in shapes of nests. With finger tips form eggs of cream cheese, place four in each nest, sprinkle with paprika. Chill before serving. Science Now Can Guard Us Against Dread Poison Ivy ‘HERE was 8 time, not so many Summers ago, when “sensitive skinned” persons dreaded a walk across flelds or through woods where the harmiless-looking three-leaved poison ivy grew, and dreaded it with good reason. Some people were infected so badly that the fiery, itching rash spread over their faces and nearly blinded them for weeks at a time. But they insisted solemnly that they hadn't touched a single plant, and that the poison must have been carried to them on the very wind. Poison ivy is here again, but the old fear is lessened, though the plant, | which is really not an ivy at all, but a | relative of the more poisonous sumac, | is still as virulent as ever. We have learned how to protect even delicate skin from the poison of the weed. A 5 per cent solution of iron chlo- ride, which any druggist can easily mix, or the same proportion of iron chloride mixed with alcohol and glycerine, is a splendid protection if all the exposed skin of one’s body is washed with it before any possible contact with the plant. The iron so- lution must be left to dry on the skin without being wiped off, however, if it is to be an effective safeguard, -for it s the thin coating of iron which neutralizes the “ivy” poison. But the iron solution is a preventa- tive only. If by chance one is poi- soned before one realizes the danger, the United States Department of Agri- culture recommends an excellent treat- ment—a 3 per cent solution of potas- sium permanganate. When this chem- ical is applied as a wash it stains one's skin, but it cures the trouble. Another of the common plant poi- sons which beset Summer campers is poison sumac. Woe to the group that sits around & picnic fire built of su- mac branches, for the poison has been known to be carried in the smoke, and is infinitely more serious than poison ivy, causing tremendous swellings which last longer and make the victim sicker, Poison sumac ordinarily grows only in swampy country, where its light gray bark and clusters of white ber- ries give fair warning of its virulence to those wHo have made its acquaint~ ance, Failure 'WARDS the end of last semester an English professor decided to spring a character quiz on his chaucer class. Among the questions was one asking, “Whq. > “ed and sang all day?” After much gling one studen! little pig,” and It came back a as follows: “Triple credit will b\ .aken off be= cause the answer is g, your at- titude is too flippant, besides, it wes the first little pigl” t wg and strug- “The secénd 7 his paper. ‘er marked