Evening Star Newspaper, October 11, 1936, Page 59

THE puzzles this week are in honor of Columbus day. Remember the story about how Columbus stood the )gg on end? Well, this is the egg! COLUMBUS DAY. The definition: HORIZONTAL. . What Columbus stood on end. . One of Columbus’ ships. . To bind. . Fruit preserve. . Certain, . Eyes. . To leave out . Red vegetable. . Hobo. . Place (abbr.). Boy's name. A waterinz place. . A vegetable . What Columbus crossed. A snakelike fish. VERTICAL. . The act of going out. . An entry. . Associated Press (abbr.). . Mother. . Another of Columbus’ ships. . The man who discovered America. . A woman who helped Columbus. . Black amber. . A disorderly crowd. . Therefore. . River (Spanish) . Reputation (slang). 9. Street (abbr.), B . A fine fabric. . Semi-precious stone. . A river in Italy. Half of em. Electrical engineer (abbr.). g Now come two word chains that remind us of Columbus’ famous voy- ze. Change one letter at a time, al- ways forming a genuine word Change SHIP to LAND in five moves. Ohsnge WIND to SAIL nnves, in four Three other famous explorers’can be found below, but each of the names :5 jumbled up. Straighten out the tters. 1. DO SHUN. 2. LAY NETS. 3. LEGAL MAN. —t— Three Ainds oF Amezican Colonists In the sentence below, the missing words are spelled differently but pro- nounced the same. After the els, Columbus set ANSWERS. 4. Crossword puzzle solution, of Isabella’s jew- 9. SHIP - slip - slid - said - laid = LAND. WIND - wand = s°d = said = SAIL. 8. Hudson, Stanley and Magellan. 4. Portuguese, Huguenots and Pil- ms. b. Sale, sail. AR Woodchuck Aids Farmer. 'OR years, farmers have killed one of their friends, .although they were unaware that it was a friend they were killing. The woodchuck, which seems to have no particular purpose in nature, actually is an -excellent cultivator. It has been estimated that a wood- chuck will bring about 100 pounds of subsoil and rock to the surface each year, thus aiding in the building of \ 7 DA N (7 X\ Xy {7 The Story of a Boy Who Thought for Himself By W. Boyce Morgan. “GET OFF THE FIELD!” ROARED COACH CURTIS. Installment I. ARRY NORTH'S mother opened the door of his room. paused 4 «Lan in a sharp voice. Larry was sitting at his study table, but he was not studying. The green- shaded light, casting a bright circle over his broad shoulders and brown hair, revealed the fact that Larry was fast asleep, with his head pillowed on his folded arms. Slowly he stirred, grunted and straightened up. Turning, he stretched, rubbed his eyes with his hands and then suddenly snapped into wakeful- ness “Hello, Mom.” he sleeping. What time is it “Just 11.” An expression of chagrin crossed Larry’s lean face. “Darn!” he ex- | claimed in exasperation. “I've slept almost two hours.” He gazed ruefully “I was down at the book open on the table. | | “And no studying done again!” Mrs. North gazed at her son with concern in her eyes. stand what's the matter with you, Larry,” she said. “You fall asleep over your books every night. I sup- pose you're tired from foot ball prac- tice. but you never got that tired last year.” Larry grunted. “Well, we didn't | have ‘Samson’ Curtis coaching us last ! year.” he said wryly | * Mrs. North hesitated for a moment, | evidently about to make som2 com- “I can’t under- | vealed his ideas on the game very | plained why—I'm sensitive to them, or clearly. something. They make me deathly “Poot ball is work—hard work,” he | sick whenever I eat them.” | said in his deep voice. “And any fel- | as well get off this squad right now. | never made anybody sick,” he snorted { I'll not stand for any loafing on my | “That's just a notion you have. Eggs team.” are one of the best foods there are. ‘Well, there was nothing wrong with | You eat two a day, like I said.” | that, Larry told himself as he listened. ut I just—" | But there was something about the | “No ‘buts’ about it!” Coach Curtis’s coach’s tone that he didn't quite like. | yojce was almost & roar. “Those train- | And Mr. Curtis was by no means ing rules are meant to be followed, finished. and you'll follow them or get off the “Also, you might as well get it squad!” through your heads right now that ! we're going to have discipline in this | outfit,” he went on, banging a hairy | | fist into the palm of his other hand. “When I give an order, I want it to | be obeved, and no questions asked. That’s the only way to build a win- ning foot ball team, and I'm going t. have a winning team here at Hartley, or know the reason why.” | | Larry frowned a little at that. Dis-| | cipline was all right, and Larry knew | it was essential. But his parents had | always encouraged Larry to decide | things for himself. They had tried to | toward foot ball. cultivate his judgment and make him There was a little grumbling among think things out. They almost never | the players at first, but Coach Cur- gave a command without explaining | tis' reputation as a player was so out= the reason for it, and Larry had|standing that they were inclined to learned to obey, not through fear, but | obey his orders without question. And through a realization that obeying was | their loyalty to the school, their de- the logical and sensible course to sire to have a winning team, and their follow. | natural respect for their coach over- 4 |came any feeling of rebellion which ND now, when the new coach an- | they might otherwise have felt at his nounced that he was going to ex- harsh measures. ARRY gazed at the man for & mo- ment in sheer amazement. Then he turned and walked away, marveling that a trivial matter like a couple of eggs could make anybody so unrea- sonable. But from that moment on Larry was a little skeptical about the new coach. The matter of the ezgs was never mentioned again, and Larry simply didn't eat them. But he soon discovered that this incident was typi- cal of the coach’s whole attitude But Larry was less impressed than Coach Curtis glowered, and his short | on the threshold, and called, | Jow who isn’t willing to work might | hair actually seemed to bristle. “Eggs | Personal Initials Can Be Stamped With a Big Cork By Ray J. Marran. BY CUTTING your initials back- ward on the bottom of a large cork, you can make a stamp to initial your books, school papers, drawings and other personal articles. The easlest way to draw your ini- tials backward is to place a piece of | carbon paper, face up, under a sheet | of writing paper, then draw your ini- | tials correctly on the paper. When you turn the paper over, your initials will be in reverse on the back of the | peper. | Now trace these reverse initials on the cork. Then with a sharp knife, cut away the cork to make the initials stand out in relief. When inked on a stamp pad, these initials will be printed like type. If you have cut them out neatly, the print will be as sharp as one made from & regular rubber stamp. field beyond the secondary defense. However, the play didn’t work out | that way. Larry called it four times within a few minutes. and in every | case the ends were unable to get past {the defending backs. Coach Curlis criticized them sharply, and called for the play again. Larry barked the signal, took the ball, and faded back, watching the ends as they sped down the field. | Neither of them got clear. Then sud- denly he saw that Bill Winters. left halfback, had broken through. With a yell to Bill, Larry shot a hard, low pass to him. Bill took it. cut toward the sideline, and was going for a sure touchdown when Coach Curtis stopped the play with a shrill blast of his whistle. } “North!” he roared at Larry as the players gathered around him. “What's | the idea of feeding Winters that pass? You know one of the ends is to re- ceive on that play.” | ARRY was excited with what he ~ thought was an important discov- | ery. “But look, Coach,” he cried. “The play’s better if Bill gets the pass. Neither of the ends has been able to get clear—the defensive backs are right on top of them every time. But Bill has got loose each time we've tried it. Haven't you, Bill?" | Bill Winters nodded eagerly, and | started to speak, but Coach Curtis | stopped him with a furious gesture. | “Who's running this team, you or me?” he cried. “The ends are sup- |Sleight-of-Hand CRAFTS CTOBER 12 is unquestionably one of the most important dates in all history, mark- ing the discovery of a new continent that completely chariged the course of world And, naturally, we honor Christopher Columbus for the vision and the courage and the ) F‘ ’ Yet, Fh «-g N inappreciated. Contrast his fate with the immediate glory and renown that came to Charles A. Lindbergh after his epochal airplane flight to Paris. Or with the glory and respect tendered Admiral Byrd for his great achieve- It’s & different world today from what it was in Columbus’ time, and a man who performs some great deed is not likely d confinement. ments in the Antarctic. to spend his Jast days in poverty We should all be giad that we We know that if we do something fine for the world today, our work is almost sure to be appreciated and our efforts rewarded. And that surely should inspire all of us. Produces Result In Spinning Egg By Thamas the Magician. FIERE. boys and girls, is a short trick, but an extremely effective one. It is really eggs-trordinary! Effect—Two or three eggs are placed upon a table by the performer, with the invitation that some member of the audience spin one of them. Upon perseverance that led him across the trackless ocean to unknown America. as you know from reading your his- tory books, Columbus died in jail, penniless and are living in 1936 and not in 1492. Flicker Couple Has an Unusual Home Setting | By Horace Mitchell. 'HIS story was contributed by Philippa Howland. It is the his- tory of a pair of flickers, and their unusual home and family. | “We had noticed the pair in the Spring, hunting for a dead tree in the woods by our fence. We hoped they would nest close by us, so we could | watch them, and also because they would do good to our garden. And to our delight, they did. “While they were making their home I would wake up early in the | morning and hear them squawking | their heads off. | the inside of the hole. About 10 in the morning they would settle down and start to pound. In about 10 days | they had the carpenter work com- | pleted and then they started to line They used dead roots and a few feathers. “Several days later I noticed that | the eggs were laid. About three weeks later I went out to watch them, and to my amazement I saw four baby | flickers sticking their heads out of | before had I seen such a home. trial, the spectators will find the task next to impossible, as the eggs will start to spin, but will always fall on thetr sides in a second or two. Having seen the impossibility of the feat, the audience watches closely e the magician takes one of the eges and twirls it as easily as a top. ! Explanation—One of the eggs is hard-boiled. This one is. of course, kept out of sight until the different members of the audience who are assisting in the trick are busy spin- ning eggs. Then the performer picks up one of the eggs and puts it in his pocket, putting in its place the hard- boiled one. This is the one that the magician picks up and iwirls with ease. (It may seem to the reader that the audience will see the magician change the eggs—but if one is careful, not making the change too evident, the spectators will be so intent upon watching the others spinning the eggs that this move will be unnoticed.) Posers | ment. But she thought better of it, | hoot hlind, unreasoning obedience to | | said good night and closed the door ¢ every command, it rubbed Larry of the room behind her. the wrong way. | Larry gazed down at his books, “Well,” he told himself hopefully, | made a helpless gesture and started | wp avhe his bark is worse than his to prepare for bed. He was annoved | yiie; Maybe he's just trying to im- | at himself for falling asleep again, but | ress us at the beginning.” | | he understood the reason perfectly,| gyt a few days later, Coach Curtis | and he knew the same thing was hap- | proved that he meant just what he pening to every man on the Hartley had said. He laid down a rigid set | | High School squad. They were sim- | of training rules for members of the | ply being overworked by Coach Curtis. | (eqm ~including strict regulations as ! |to what they should eat, and how “'SAMSON" CURTIS had made a!much. | great record as a college fullback,| After the session that night, Larry and had even been mentioned for the ' stepped up to the coach in the locker | all-America team. Therefore every- | room. | body in Hartley High School rejoiced | *“Mr. Curtis.” he said, “I just wanted | when he was hired to coach the foot to tell you that I can't eat eggs. Your | the other boys, and his training made him examine all the coach’s orders with a critical eye. He soon was con- vinced that Coach Curtis had made his reputation as a player solely be- cause of his physical power and dogged courage, and not because of his brains. But he kept that opinion to himself, obeyed orders on the field, and soon had clinched his place at quarterback. HOWEVER. on the day following the night on which this story opens, Larry and the coach had an- | other disagreement. The team was | running plays against the scrubs in preparation for Saturday's game against Mount Cairn, and Coach Cur- posed to receive the pass on that play, | and you'll pass to the ends!” “But Coach,” Larry protested, “the EACH of the things listed in the play's wrong! The ends just can't column to the left is closely con- get loose if the other team is using a nected with one of the countries to | 6-2-2-1 defense, like Mount Cairn | the right, but they are not in proper | uses. And Bill can. The half- order. Can you make the correct back——" connections | “Get off the field!” roared Coach ' 1. Roast beef | curtis. ~ “You, North—go on! Get | 2. Pyramids oft! If vou won't call the plays the | Yodeling way I tell you to, you can try sitting | 4. Heather on the bench.” | Fakirs Larry gazed at the coach in shocked | Tangoing amazement. Then he pulled off his| Leis | headguard and walked toward the | 8. Dikes | sideline. Coach Curtis called Jasper Toreadors | from the second team to play first- | 10. Junks ! string quarter, and waved one of the Scotland Argentina China Holland England Hawaii Switzerland Spain Egypt India 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 0. | ing. four different holes. Never in my life “Sometimes two of the babies would try to get their heads into one of the holes, and there would be a fight. One day I saw the mother woodpecker get into the home with the young, and I wondered how she was going to stay there and not suffocate. Presently I looked up and there was the mother with her head sticking out of the top of the tree! “I was flabbergasted. The hole must have been knocked out by the young | “I saw four baby flickers sticking their heads out of four different holes.” ones, trying out their beaks or fight- Since I found out about the hole in the top of the tree I never | have been able to understand why the young birds didn't get wet when it rained. Perhaps the holes were far | enough to one side so the water ran down inside the tree, which was fairy rotten. | “The mother and father had a very busy time feeding their four children. | Many times there woud be a grand Tow over the worms which they JOKES PUZZLES . L) Foot Ball Lineman Should Vary His Defensive Charge By Horace Webber Davis, 2d. 1KE a base ball pitcher, a foot ball lineman must vary his charge on the defense, but he must have his ability seasoned by experience to make his judgment sound. It is one thing to understand and be able to carry ou® & coach’s instructions in practice, and qute another to carry out the same instructions in an actual game. If & lineman is to perform his joby' effectively on the defense, his eve must be on the hall. The split second lost when the ball is snapped back can< not easily be made up. It is surprising but true that many college plavers have difficulty in watching the ball, But they get over this fault, or get out! It is fundamental and highly important. The same charge may be used both offensively and defensively, but the defense offers the opportun 'or more variation. At times a hand charge and recovery is more effective, but the beginner should be careful about using' t. No good player will try to get inta the offensive backfield by going around in back of his own line, but some try it when they have not yet learned better. It is difficult to get through a good li.e very often, but piling it up with a low, fast, and hard charge |1s A, effective when it is done con< sistently. Until one has learned to size up plays through experience. he should never leave his position. Only the keenest observation and experience give license to do this. After a good charge is developed, “bull-pen,” or two against one, is the best practice for offensive and defen- sive scrimmage. The coudle try tg take the single player to the right or | left. and open a hole for the imaginary back, while the latter tries to break through his opponents. It is a natural reaction to close your eyes or lower your head when something is about to hit you around | the shoulders. but this must be over= come. The head must be carried well back on the shoulders, with the eves always open. It is easier to duck a knee and make a correct, hard tackle when one can see what he is doing. A w.ustler's bridge is the most ef- fective neck strengthener. The weight is supported on the balls of the feet and the head in this bridging exercise, and the weight should be rolled back and forth to work the neck muscles, The best linemen are always alert on the ball, down the field to block for a runner when they can, or ready to make a tackle when their opponents have the ball. A lineman cannot be lazy or stupid, for a team is as good as its eleventh man. A brilliant back can get nowhere without blockers to protect his passes or start him on his way to the open field. Parlor M agic Is Important Form Of Deceptive Art ‘ By Thomas the Magician, PARLOR magic is an important form of our interesting art. Most | of the tricks which I have described have been of the parlor variety. A | trick is a “parlor trick” when it can be performed right in one’s living room and in close quarters with the spectators. In reality, this is the kind of magic to learn first, then when you get to the stage (if you care to go as far as the stage) you will find it quite easy to work. Today our trick “Acrobatic Magic,” | ball team. Nobody doubted that he | would prove to be as capable a coach as he had been a player. But Larry North, for one, began to change his opinion at the very start of the season. On the first day of practice, Coach Curtis made a talk to the assembled candidates which re- IN-LAW, LADY JANE GREY,ON THE ENGLISH THRONE, JOHN DUDLEY, DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, MARCHED WITH 10,000 MEN TO FIGHT PRINCESS MARY WHO HAD GATHERED AN ARMY AT FRAMLINGHAM. fertility in the subsoil and also pro-.| viding better entrance of rain water to the lower reaches to which- plant roats extend in their search Jfor mois- ture. 4 PUSNES 3 True Enough. .+ HAVE a sult for every day o 4 the week® “You have?”" 4 “Yes, this is it WHILE HER FORMER OPPONENTS HASTENED TO ACCLAIM HER,, MARY ENTERED LONDON IN TME DAUGHTER OF Hengy YL WAS NOW MISTRESS TRIUMPH OF ENGLAND ., training rules specify two eggs eve day, so I thought I'd better tell yoi tis was drilling them on & new for- ward pass. | substitutes into the scrub line-up. ANSWERS. Roast beef with England, pyramids | brought. The parents pushed the food down into their throats. When the High Lights of History— Coach Curtis stuck out & belligerent | The play started as an end run, chin. “What do you mean, you can't | with Larry carrying the ball, but he | eat eggs?” he demanded. “That's & | quickly faded back to his right, with silly idea.” the right halfback protecting him, and foiey just can’t eat them, that's all.” | shot a long pass to either of the ends, | Larry explained. “The doctor has ex- | who were supposed to be down the ‘BUT THERE WAS NO FIGHT -:-- NORTHUMBERLAND ADVANCED AS FAR AS BURY ST. EDMUNDS BUT, LEARNING THAT MARYS FORCES OUTNUMBERED HIM THREE TO ONE, AND DOUBTING THE LOYALTY OF HIS OWN SOLDIERS, HASTILY FELL BACK TO CAMBRIDGE- . MEANWHILE (N LONDON THE LORDS OF THE COUNCIL HAD HAD A CHANGE OF HEART - THEY KNEW THAT MARY WOULD WIN AND THEY WANTEP 10 BE WHEN DUDLEY SAW THE GAME WAS LOST,HE SWORE ALLEGIANCE 70 MARY......BUT TOO LATE .., HIS DOOM WAS SEALED ~ ARRESTED BY MARYS PARTISANS HE WAS SENT TO THE TOWER TO AWAIT HIS FATE . (T BE BUT IN Royal Pawns—Part VII. AS A RESULT THEY REPUDIATED JANE GREY AND ON JULY 19,1553, PROCLAIMEY MARY QUEEN... | Several of the players gazed nrur}‘.m‘ Egypt, yodeling with Switzer- | | Larry. Others kept their eyes on the | jang, heather with Scotland, fakirs ground. Nobody lgoked at the coach, ! with India, tangoing with Argentina, | “th;m face was still drawn into lines | jeis with Hawaii, dikes with Holland, of fury. l (To be continued next Sunday.) toreadors with Spain and junks with | China, —By J. Carroll Mansfield JANE HAD BEEN A QUEEN ONLY NINE DAYS ! THE GENTLE, MODEST, YOUNG GIRL HAD NEVER CHERISHED| A DESIRE TO RULE AND WAS GLAD 70 RELINQUISH THE CROWN AND RETIRE QUIETLY TO THE SECLUSION OF SION K. JSE .. 3 ON THE WINNING SIDE. BuT MARY AND HER PARTY, NOW FIRMLY SEATED IN POWER, WERE BENT ON VENGEANCE - THE FALLEN DUDLEY WAS CONVICTEPR OF TREASON ANDON AUGUST 22, 1553, PAID THE PRICE OF HIS RUTHLESS AMBITION ON THE- HEADSMAN'S BLOCK ! (CONTINUER), THE ONCE-PROUD AND INSOLENT DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND WAS A CRAVEN AT HEAQT .~ HE BEGGED FOR MERCY, SAYING, ALAS, LET ME LIVE A LITTLE LONGER , THOUGH A MOUSE -HOLE "+~ ©.1936, 7 CanROU MANSEIELD - 1Y father did the feeding they were much quieter. I guess they were afraid he might spank them if they were too naughty. “Finaly the parents began to teach them to fly. There were many trees near their home, and the older birds made them fly and jump from tree to tree. Soon they had learned to fly good distances, and shortly after that, they all left their home. “A storm during the Summer broke the tree in the middle, and the fall shattered their home. I don’t know what has become of them since their home was wrecked.” Down of Milkweed Plant Is Attractive Picture Background L!.'l"s make one of those attractive pictures with a milkweed down background this week. You can find the milkweed along the roadside now, so collect plenty, because you'll want to make a number of them when you see how pretty and easy they are. The dime store will supply the necessary glass and frame in any size you wish. Clean the glass and-then fasten a silhouette from your favorite maga- zine underneath with small pieces of gummed paper. Take a fine paint brush and transfer the silhouette to the glass, using black enamel. Some- times a second coat of enamel will be necessary to get the black solid. Always keep the glass flat so the | enamel won't run, and lay it in a safe place to dry. Now take a piece of cardboard to fit your glass, coat it with whtie shel- lac and scatter the fluffy milkweed “down” over it, thickly but unevenly. Remove the brown seeds first. When the enamelel design is quite | dry place the glass, painted side down, on the cardboard and see what a lovely effect the white silky down gives through the spaces in your design and | at the top and bottom of your picture. For & colored effect, use the trans- parent oil paints that are on the mar- ket now, for those parts where you want the down.-to show through. For solid colors, mix enamel. Transferring the design to the glass with & pen and India ink and flling in the colors'gives . very fine effect, too. » /3 them with white | is another parlor trick. | like it immensely! Effect—The magician | cigar or cigarette from one of the members of his audience. Borrowing a hat from another (preferably & | derby) he proceeds to balance the cigarette or cigar upon the very crown of the hat. Explanation—If you know the ses cret, balancing a cigar upon a hat isn't at all difficult. All you need to do is to secure a straight pin. When you borrow the cigarette or cigar and the hat, you have the pin concealed in your palm. Having placed the hat | over one hand, just push the pin through the crown from the inside. Now set the end of the object on the pin and, believe it or not, it will re- main balanced. In getting this effect, make it ap= pear as difficult as possible, just as if it required genuine skill. By reaching | up inside the hat. the pin can be re- moved, which will, of course, release the cigar. Riddles : OUR first riddle this week is a good one for Columbus day. Perhaps you don’t see the connection now-— but you will after you read the an- swer. 1. What's round as a ball, and has & pole at each end?—Eugene Boeke, jr. 2. What does the “D. C.” stand | for’ in Washington, D. C.>—Wava Minor. 3. How did Adam and Eve feel | when they left the Garden of Eden?— | Clair Westphal. 4. What gives a cold, cures a cold and pays the doctor's bill?—Pearl Lackey. 5. Why are doctors the meanest men on earth?—Helen Lois Mag- nuson. | ANSWERS. 1. The earth. 2. Daddy of his | Country. 3. Put out. 4. A draft. (A draft of air causes it, & draft of medicine cures it and a bank draf! pays the bill.) 5. Because they treaj you and then make you pay for-it.. b I hope you borrows &