Evening Star Newspaper, October 4, 1936, Page 63

'HE squirrel is a wise animal. He gathers nuts during the Autumn and stores them away for his Winter food supply, thus giving us all a les- #on in foresight. And he also gives us @ cross-word puzzle for you to work. THE SQUIRREL. The definitions HORIZONTAL. . A food eaten by squirrels, You and I. Noise of laughter. . Therefore. 8. Border or margin. . Toward, . Notion. 3. A children's game. . Where squirrels live, VERTICAL, . Greek letter . Virtue of squirrels. . To court. . Help. . Male deer. . Personal pronoun. Consumed. . So. = Bach of the words below is a kind of nut, with the letters jumbled up. Can you straighten them out and get the words in their correct form? 1. LADOMN. 2. WULTAN. 3. NEPAC. 4. STACHIPIO. g Another kind of nut is hidden in the sentence below: Don't call him a hick or you will be sorry. Squirrels are thrifty, so we are giv ing you a picture puzzle which spells out two famous sayings regarding thrift. What are they? {2 Farmous Sayings About I'hrizt Below we have started a word square for you. The second word is a musical instrument and the fourth is a kind of meat, With those hints, you should solve it easily. ANSWERS. 1. Cross-word puzzle solution: 2. Almond, walnut, pecan and pis- tachio. 3. Hickory. 4. “Penny wise, pound foolish” and #Waste not, want not.” 5. The square is club, lyre, urge and beef, ‘Tumble Down Dick’ Is a Good Game if Chairs Are Strong “TUM‘BL!: DOWN DICK” is no | thin wood, 3 inches wide by 36 inches. ! short, to form the opening for the | box, and on the opposite side, cut an | | angular blocks of wood. Cut these THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. BUTC NS A OUN 3 CABBAGE S¢PER HEAD 2 FoR \0¢ 1) | REMEMBER THAT Two 7 f IS - ’ ’ HER SHOP HEADS ARE BETTER| WE'LL MEAT YoUL “THAN ONE {MORE THAN HALF WAY =5 N\ \~7 T \[ N With This Hd/l(/j/ Home By Ray J. Marran. ERISCOPES allow you to ses without being seen, and f that reason are mighty handy to have when playing hiding games, or war games. You can see | what the other fellow is doing, and | unless he spots the top of your periscope containing the object mirror, | he will not suspect you of watching | his every move, | Make the box from four pieces of or less, long. The sides of an old orange crate are suitable materials, and can be held together with brads. In one side of the box, cut the boaid | object mirror. At the other end of the | opening through which you look into | the eye mirror. Both mirrors are mounted on tri- blocks from soft wood, then moun® small squares of mirror glass to them | with gummed paper, pasted around ali | four edges, as shown in the sketch To hold these mirror blocks to the | box, you will need an end cap. cut| from thin wood and large eaough 1o | cover the ends of the box. Small brads hold the caps to the mlrror’ blocks and box. | The detail sketch shows how the ob- | ject mirror and the eye mirror are | arranged. You will notice that the | You Can Make Observations Secretly -made Periscope MIRROR MIRROR REST 2 OF EACH NEEDED WITH GUMMED PAPER ALONG EDGES AND 8LOCK TO CAP WITH BRADS ACCURATE PLACING OF MIRRORS FOR CORRECT VISION EYE ANGLE YO BE MirroR DETERMINED BY EXPERIMENT- NG BEFORE NAIUNG object mirror picks up the scene you | Wish 0 view and 1 reflected down .| ® corner of a bullding, and peek into side the box and onto the eye mirror, | the eye mirror. The mirrors will Place the mirrors accurately on the | eflect the scene and show you what triangular blocks and then experimen: | IS 80Ing on without your being seen. by adjusing the mirror blocks io — obtain the best view with both mir- rors. Do this before finally nailing Lucky the caps on the box ends. “Perhaps Edwin can give ‘When your periscope is ready, all you have to do is stick the object- mirror end above a wall or around ‘Teacher: Careful Mary Little Mary was left to fix lunch, and when the mother returned with a | friend she noticed Mary had the tea | strained. “Did you find the lost strainer?” mother asked. “No, mother, I couldn’t, so I used the fly-swatter,” Mary replied. Mother nearly swooned, so Mary hastily added, “Don’'t get excited, mother, I used the old one.” Royal Pawns—Part VI. | Riddles l TH! boys and girls have been run- ning & pretty even race in the matter of sending in riddies recently. But maybe the girls will go ahead during the next few weeks, because you boys will be pretty busy playing | foot ball. RIDDLES. 1. What three letters change a girl into & woman?—Teddy Hopper. 2. What has a bed but never tleeps, and a mouth but never eats?—Mary Ellen Miller. 3. What man do most men admire? —Edna Mann. ANSWERS, 2. A river. 1. A-g-e. 3. Woman. Ball Appears in Magician’s Hand ‘ From Nowhere | By Thomas the Magician. | ERE is a nice effect in which a | small ball seemingly materializes | between the fingers of the magician’s | hand. When worked as an opening | effect, it will prove quite mystifying. | Effect: The performer shows the | palm of his hand to be quite empty, | and his fingers to be spread wide | apart. Then, with a slow easy motion, | he reaches into the air and seemingly catches a small wooden ball at his very fingertips! All this is done without the ma- gician's hands approaching his body in any way! Explanation: In this trick a finger | ring must be worn, preferably on the second finger of the right hand. To this is attached a thread about an lm(‘h and three-quarters in length. | | The other end of this thread is wound | | around and tied to a small tack, | | which is imbedded in the ball. When the hand is held with the | fingers pointing upward, and the palm | facing the audience, the ball will hang out of sight behind the hand | However, when the hand is swung | BALL ATTACHED TO RING upward and turned slightly forward, the ball will appear almost instantly at the fingertips. | (The length given for the thread | is about the length which I have found to be correct. However, this | will depend upon the size of your hand, etc. The only correct method | to find the exact length is to try it IMITATE TH bles. Now, those in the very thick of the fight! Dol don’t forget that thoughtfulness of manners. | are inexpensive. | nickel, | using two per person C, OCTOBER 4, 1936—PART FOUR. Comical Dolls Can Be Made From Father’s Pipe Cleaners Paper Clothes, Cut- Out Faces, Improve Appearance. By Montgomery Mulford. 1PE CLEANERS, which are used to clean father's pipe, may also be used to make toys! There are various ways of making these pipe-cleaner people. One of the easiest ways is as follows: Two pipe cleaners are used. Bend one in half, and the two ends, of equal length, become the feet. second pipe cleaner is then wound around the body, making the trunk, with each end sticking out a little way, to form the two arms. The cleaners, thus prepared, take the form of a person, The head is the top of the first pipe cleaner, which remains as a circle. Into this “head” may be placed a marble or a round button, to fill it out. Bend the bottom of the feet, to represent the shoes, and if you wish to make these figures stand up, stick the end of each foot into a large, flat button. If you wish, you may cut out dresses or trousers of crepe paper, to make these people even more realistic. You can have a lot of fun making these little people. I have made many of them of all sorts. One further idea, to add to the dolls' attractiveness, is to cut out small faces (as top of the figure. Then you have a real face, perhaps with a colored hat (if you use a comic strip character | Or you can | take a face from some advertisement. | from a Sunday paper) Making pipe-cleaner people is a good indoor pastime, either for a ralny day, or when you are sick. Make some of the people to represent duel- ists or knights, and bend the end of a hand at the end, cup it. and stick a toothpick into it, for a sword! All sorts of positions may be as- sumed by these people. Pipe cleaners About 25 sell for & which will make 12 people. So you need not worry if you spoil a few, experi- menting to get new and unusual shapes, Discouraging Tommy was just home after his first day at school. “Weil, dear,” asked his mother, | “what did they teach you?” “Not much,” replied Tommy. sadly, “I've got to go back tomorrow.” Right on the Button. “’T'IME brings great changes,” said the philosophical grocer, squint- ing at the scales as he removed some sugar from the sack. “For instance, only a few years ago I was a prize- fighter.” “But the past leaves its mark,” said the customer. “I see you were a light- weight champion.” E PLAYERS ators at most school foot ball games the members of the teams. Suppose that a man on your team fum- You'll see his fellow players slap him on the back, encourage him, assure him that it's “all right.” But often among the people on the sidelines you will hear half-suppressed groans and wails of disappointment. HE spect can learn lessons in sportsmanship from players want to win just as much as you want to see them win, and they feel defeat = even more keenly than you do. should certainly be as sportsmanlike as they. opposing team makes a good play, give him credit for it or “ride” the player that makes a misplay, no matter which team he is on. Remember that he is trying with all his might, and that he feels bad enough already because of his error. Sometimes it is hard to remember courtesy in the excitement of & close game, but think how much harder it is for the fellows who are Therefore you When a player on an Don't “boo” n't forget your good manners and others is the real basis of good —By J. Carroll Mansfield The | from the | comic strips), and glue a face to the | By Joseph Raymore. ERY often an amateur pho- tographer can add interest- ing pictures to his coliection by taking pictures indoors. To | take such pictures the exposure must be given “time,” because indoors ‘here is not sufficient light for a snapshot The first requirement for :ndoor time exposure is a firm support for the camera. Many photographers use a tripod, a three-legged stand made especially for camera work. But if your camera is placed on a table, chair or pedestial sufficiently high and sufficiently firm. and so the sec- tion of the room being photographed may be clearly seen in the finder, these supports for the camera will answer. Be sure to piace the camera so the lens will not be pointed at a window Better indoor pictures are made by having the windows in back or to one side of the camera. If you must point the camera at a window, pull down | the shade of this window to shut out the light. Now, set the camera shutter lever to take a time exposure. Then locate the object being photographed in the |Care in Making Time Exposures Will Produce Good Indoor Photos finder and place books or magazine under the camera to raise it to thc correct height. ‘When the object being photographed is centered in the finder, prass the shutter lever to open the lens, eount off the seconds necessary for the ex- posure, using the second hand of a watch, then press the shutter lever again to close the lens. Wind up the film roll and another picture is read) to be taken. The instructions given offer vou idea of how long to expose a film for an indoor picture when the sun is shining brightly outdoors. Use the small size opening on box cameras and the opening market, {16 on folding cameras. In rooms with light-colored walls with two windows back of the camera expose the picture about 10 seconds In rooms with dark-colorsd walls with two windows back of the camera expose the picture about 20 seconds On first attempts at taking p! indoors amateurs should not | take pictures on dark, cloudy davs Wait for a real bright, sunny day and your indoor pictures will be good ones. (Continued from Page One.) ing; they can be cracks or simi- | lar faults. Their detection, if there are any, is accomplished by the use of a small electric light, a periscope and smail magnifying glass. The periscope and light are pushed inch by inch up the gun barrel while the operator glues his eye to the small magnifying glass at the muzzle. In this manner there is brought to his vision, greatly en- larged, any flaw in the barrel | interior caused by forging, bor- ing or rifling. | At this time the gun is meas- | ured also for specified diameter. | This inside measurement is an | extremely precise operation and is performed with what is known as a “star gauge.” This gauge is mounted in the center of a three-pointed star, the tips of barrel. It is moved the length of ‘lnce between shell and cylinder. This tolerance or “play” runs as | fine as .0003 of an inch in some guns. Shaping and peeling steel logs which rest on the inside of the| the barrel, picking up the toler- G | butt up, by a great crane over a | 100-foot well. This well, abou 10 feet in diameter, is lined with semi-circular electric heating units. Into the well slowly disappears |the gun and the top is sealed. Now the heat is turned on. In the meantime, water is circu- lated through the gun length by special screw-pipe connections. Heat from the outside and water within cause the gun in time to pull away from its liner. It is the same old expansion-contrac- tion' method by which the liner was originally placed in the gun. When everything is “ripe” the | electric hoist pulls gently, slowly, | but with tens of power, at the | liner. Slowly it slips out of its jackets and is held dangling aloft in the air by the mammoth crane. A new liner is now made ready to put in the gun as soon as it is taken from the pit. Quite a smart money-saving trick of | Uncle Sam’s! UN mounts have their incep- tion in the drafting room of the gun factory. First the rough sketch, then the finished, | then the blue print. ‘ When the blué print is fin- game to play with an expensive ehair, or a frail chair, but, given a strong old high-back chair, it is lots of sport. Place the chair on the floor back upwards. At the end of the back place a coin or piece of candy. ‘Then, when all present have drawn lots for turns, let the one who has first turn kneel on the hind legs of t{:e chair and place both hands at the point of the chair where the seat Joins the back. Thus poised, he must lean over and take up the coin or candy in his mouth, and do it without tilting the chair over as far as the floor, or falling himself. If he gets the coin without the back of the chair touching the floor, it is his. “Tumble Down Dick” is an exciting game. There is great suspense and much laughing when Dick really tumbies down. ‘ muu.s THE BODY OF THE BOY KING, EDWARD YL LAY AT GREENWICH, JOHN DUDLEY, DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND AND LORD PROTECTOR. OF ENGLAND, RODE TO HUNSDON TO SEIZE PRINCESS MARY SO THAT HE COULD PLACE HIS DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, LADY JANE] GQEY, ON THE THRONE WiTH DREAD FOREBODINGS OF DISASTER, THE GENTLE, LOVELY GIRL, ATRAGIC PAWN IN A GAME OF POLI- TICAL INTRIGUE,,LEFT THE SERENITY| OF HER RESIDENCE, S1ON HOUSE, AND WAS CONDUCTED TO LONDON Bur Many HAD SECRET, WATCHFUL FRIENDS AT COURT -~THE BOY KING HAD BEEN DEAD SCARCELY AN ING M. U HER DANGER CONSIDERING MARY THE RIGHTFUL HEIR TO THE THRONE, THE PEOPLE WERE STUNNED BY THE UNEXPECTED CHANGE: IN THE SUCCESSION ‘AND SHE MADE WER PUBLIC ENTRY' q THE PRINCESS FLED TO FRAMUING-| , | HAM CASTLE, A STRONGHOLD ON THE COAST OF SUFFOLK, WHENCE SHE MIGHT ESCAPE TO FLANDERS IF NECESSAQY. HERE HER FRIENDS RALLIED TOH,'EQ SUPPORT TROUBLE WAS IN THE AIR~AS A PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE THE NEW QUEEN WAS LODGED IN THE SHELTER OF THE GRIM,OLD AND HER FATHER,SIR HENRY GREY, GIVEN COMMAND OF THAT ANCIENT FORTIFICATION h Y i DUDLEY SAW THAT HE MUST ACT QUICKLY - FOUR DAYS AFTER EDWARDS DEATH HE PROCLAIMED| JANE GREY QUEEN - THE GIRL WAS RELUCTANT TO WEAR THE CROWN, BUT WAS ASSURED ITWAS HER DUTY, DuDLEY WAS UNPOPULAR WITH THE NOBILITY AND COMMON FOLK ALIKE = MANY POWERFLIL NOBLE S, ANGERED 8Y THE LORD PROTECTOR'S TRICKERY. JOINED on lathes is play compared to ished it goes to the pattern shop, forging 20,000-pound steel train- | where a sand mold is made for |ing circles for gun mounts. | the casting of the mount. Into These circles permit a gun to | this mold is poured the molten be trained in any direction from | metal, heated in great firebrick a battleship. Their forging takes|furnaces, from moving ladles. | place in the forge shop, where a| These ladles of fiery lava tilt | 2,000-ton hydraulic press is in downward. There is a ;swlsh- |ing” sound and the red river ”éfffi'&’l; with, these mxnxng‘disgnppears in the maw of the circles are nothing more than mold. gigantic blocks of steel of the, When the casting has cooled weight mentioned. But heated |the sand mold is cut away and in a flery furnace of almost 3.000: an acetylene torch used to cut degrees Fahrenheit temperature, | away its excrescences. This done, they soon become a cherry red | the casting goes to an annealing and can be hammered by a spe- furnace, where, under a prede- cial process and with special termined temperature, all parts tools under the giant hydraulic of it are heated alike. This press into the ring desired. It|takes away all strains and takes many days to make one of | stresses of the casting. Cooled | these rings, as the steel cools in|again, the casting is now scaled | time and has to be reheated. And | by blasts of steel shot, after 10 tons of red-hot metal can’t which it goes to the machine Ibe tossed about like cork. |shon for finishing. The making of giant guns for JN THE same forge shop breech | the United States Navy calls for blocks and screw boxes are|the finest engineering and most u the same| - hlmme;“:e 0'; by he sag €| perfect accuracy. Though ti press. Later these are 0- | tanic forces are dealt with, they gether, after threading and tool- | must be handled 50.1‘5 to pro- ing, to form the breech mechan- | quce the utmost precision in the ism of a gun. The snugness of | pjeces manufactured. The thou- '-hflfl" of "’;“ “;0 P:"-s ‘Smm sandth part of inches is dealt perfect as make the entire|with, perfect lines, angles, breech mechanism gas tight. curves. Nothing is left to guess Constant firing of a big gun in | or rough specifications. Even the battle practice or otherwise|temperature of furnaces is wears down the inside of the|gauged by optical pyrometers, barrel, so that, from time to|though the experts in charge can time, it becomes Moeuu:.y to re-|tell by the naked eye almost to D;mn‘:! n::fl‘- n:m‘uc ‘Pulling | the degree the heat of the mets of a liner” is a gigantic opera-|within. tion. First, the gun is hoisted, @oprriont, 1088, #