Evening Star Newspaper, April 24, 1940, Page 37

THE EVENING 'STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1940, - FLYIN’ JENNY B-17 SITTING DOWN By Russell Keaton —By Gluyas Willigms (Follow Flylw' Jewny in the Colored Comic Scction Every Sunday.) 1 WAS filmsAlaflo.E[ FOR WS 2 HED KILL ME IF HE MTGQT QUT OF PRISON. HE'S AS TRICKY LANDING - REALIZES VAGUELY PILLOWS ARE FOR SITANG ON. PLACES If ON FLOOR AND SHTS DOWN HARD. LIKES DOING THAT 6ES A PILLOW OFF COUCH. WONDERS WHAT SORT OF FUN CAN BE HAD WITH IT TRIES T0 MOVE PILLOW. CAN'T UNDERSTAND Why 1T WONYT BUDGE WHEN HE IS SITfiNG ON IT § 065 AND TU65. PILOW FINALLY COMES L00SE AND 50 DOES HE, THUMPING HIS HEAD MILDLY ol lw. LT TR C RECOVERS, PLACES PILLOW WHERE HE WANTS 5115 DOWN SUDDENLY, MISSING PILLOW. DE= By 1T, AND GETS SET 10 SIT DOWN CIDES PILOWS AREN'YT MUCH FUN AFER ALL Rel The Bell Syndicate, Inc. Character Created by Earl Derr Biggers IT5 A POLICE CAR~ GMME TH'SHUTTERY TEN SHOTS/ IT MUST BE CHAN AND/J GUN AND ILL SHow A THEY COULDN'T/ SLowiN® Mmecoy! SEE IF You : COWN - Wow CAN HIT THEIR MOTOR, THERE THEY TOUGHIE! BOTH FRONT | TIRES ARE BLOWN' T CANT HOLD HER! SAY, ACCIDENT ALWAYS CHOOSES WRONG PLACE TO HAPPEN! AWAY -8UT TLL GET Points for Parents HIM YET! By EDYTH THOMAS WALLACE. Give a child something to do for @ guest whom he admires instead of calling attention to his undesirable way of exrpressing his liking. CROSS-WORD PUZZLE HORIZONTAL. . Journey. . Egytian diety. . Assented. . The east. . Musical syllable. . Churlish, . Moslem deity. . Worm. . Victim, . Mannerly. . To pack. . To catch. VERTICAL. . Conjunc- 27. Diminishes. tion. 28. To check. . Parent. 30. Egyptian . Ttalian river. length . Mulberry. measure. . French river. |33. ,To leak. . Colloquial: . Large air vehicle. 1. Former 18. Sped. ruler, * 20. Whlle.h P 22. Spanis| . Wind in- cooking strument,. vessel. . To jump on 24, Bulgarian one foot. coins. , . To engrave. |27. Philippine . Urn. savages. . Anglo-Saxon . To sow. money. . Coniferous . Teutonic tree. deity. . Regularly . Precious traversed stone. rounds. . Symbol for gold. . Sheltered. . Silkworm. . French article. . Medow. . Norse deity. . South Afri= can Dutch. . Rowing implement. . Bows. . Ireland. . Earth mound. . One skilled in military deception. . Symbol for | actinium. | . Greek letter. . Ellipses. . Colloquial: adventure stories. . Pronoun. . Mixed type. . Vast age. THE MOUNTAIN BOYS . WAML AH RECKOA MAYBE THET] POSITVELY | BATH DID US SOME GooD AT THET HoW DOES WE Look, MR- BUTLER & HEAR THET, LUKE ?|'Alow HoLo on” AH RECKOM THERE [ EF YOU 1S FixiN 1S SOMETHIA T To BRESH MAH TUET OLD SAYIN® HAWR THET'S JEST] THET CLOTHES MAKE | CARRYIN THINGS THE MAM. WAHL “J A geTLE BIT RELAXING , MR STUFFYTILL THEY'LL BE DOWAL g Mother: “Bill, will you go and | get Mrs. Jones and me each a glass | of water?” Mother: “Don’t hang on the arm( of Mrs. Jones' chair. Your hands may not be clean.” Don’t Take My Word for It By FRANK COLBY. Mend Your Speech Today let us discuss a curious phenomenon in the American vo- cabulary. It is noted that speakers often add extra and unwarranted syllables to many words that are in everyday “drown-ded” for drowned; “ath-a-let-ic” for athletic; “pre-ven-ta-tive” for preventi “at-tack-ted” for attacked; “um- ber-el-la” for umbrella; “mis-chee- vi-ous” for mischievous; and (gross- est error of all!) “bar-bair-i-ous” for barbarous. As one lexicographer remarked, “This is taking great pains to be wrong.” The right of free speech is one of our birthrights. No law tells us how we must pronounce. But, in justice to ourselves, we should choose the pronunciations that are established by good usage. “Mend your speech a little, lest you may mar your for- tunes.”—King Lear. Correct pronunciations: drowned—drownd. athletic—ath-LET-ik. preventive—pree-VEN-tive. attacked—a-TACKT. umbrella—um-BREL-1uh. mischievous—MISS-chi-vuss. barbarous—BAR-buh-russ. (Capitals indicate syllables to be accented.) For a personal answer to your questions about words, send a stamped 3-cent, self-addressed envelope to Frank Colby, care ‘The Evening Star. . Pantomimic dance. . Bone. . Poetic. always. . Sweet, viscid substance. . Mode of ex- pression in a particular locality. . To swaddle with a bandage. W N/ aan T o It e 1] furnace. . To move rapidly. . Lamb’s name. . Sea nymph . Pertaining to the sun. . Devoured. . Beverage. . Behold! . Babylonian. deity. . To accom- plish. pen~ ol ux 7l ST T T | e AREEEE L Wl aEEd aEEEE NG ANEd7 AR TPz P Modern Puzzles By GERALD L. KAUFMAN, Just Think 1. A girl dipped her handkerchief into some liquid in a basin. No part of the handkerchief got wet. Why? 2. How could you drop a lump of sugar into coffee without its, getting wet? 3. Here’s one to answer quickly; but think first! If three times five were\12, how much would four times five be? - 4. Guess how you could take a coin out of a plate without touch- ing either; but don’t try this in church. 5. How could you place a pencil under a book that is lying on a table without touching pencil or book? 6. A man and a girl, -walking togéther, step out with their left feet first. The man walks three paces while the girl walks two. ‘When will they both put their right feet forward together? 7.1f on a 10-day vacation you drank twice as much beer each.day as you drank the day before, and if you drank a gallon the 10th day, on what day would you have drunk half a gallon? 8. Guess how you can make a ring hanging by a thread inside of a bottle, drop to the bottom, with- out your touching either the ring, the thread or the bottle. 9. A postage stamp is hanging by a short cotton thread, when some- one sets fire %o the thread. When it has all burned, the stamp remains hanging as before. Why? 10. A barrel full of wine has a bunghole at the top. Fill a bottle with this wine without' using any apparatus except the bottle and without turning the barrel. Solution Tomorrow. (Copyright, 1940.) SOLUTION TO YESTERDAY’S PUZZLE. Six-handed game—The players were seated in the following order, clockwise, and held these hands: Edna, royal straight flush; Fred, full house; Ruth, four of a kind; Jack, straight; Bill, straight flush; Pete, flush, Few people in Scotland will con- sider taking out war-risk insurance. UNCLE RAY’S COR In a standard first aid book, there are 40 pages on broken bones, There is much to learn about how to care for a person with a broken bone before a doctor or an ambulance comes! In this short story, we can tell only a little about bandages and splints. One may learn a good deal about them in a first aid class of the Red Cross. If it is put on properly, a splint will save the victim from a part of his pain. It may also keep him from suffering further harm while he is on the way to a hospital. A piece of wood can serve as a splint for a broken leg. When the bandages are applied in the best way, the injured leg is stretched out to the full length. A newspaper or a magazine can be used as a splint if a piece of wood of the right size is not at hand. If bound properly, it will tend to hold the arm or leg firmly. If the skin is cut in a broken NER —Splint Sav Diagrams showing how a news-- paper can serve in making splint for broken bone in arm. sort, should be placed on the wound before the bandaging is done. Putting on a splint is not the same thing as setting a bone. The es Victim From Pain has broken his leg, he should not be told to “get up and walk on it.” In the first place, he couldn’t walk on it. In the second place, to try to walk is likely to add to the damage. There are times when it is worse to pick up a person and take him to the hospital than to let him lie at the place of injury until a doctor or ambulance reaches the scene. A person with a broken back should be left where he is until a doctor can be brought to the spot. City fire or police departments usually have well trained first aid men. The can be called if needed to attend to persons hurt on the highway. op Tor, General Interest or Batety section If you want a free copy of the illustrated leaflet, “Stamps and Stamp. Collecting,” send me a 3¢ stamped, self-addressed envelope in care of The Evening Star. setting of a. bone always should bone accident, rubbing alcohol or lodine, or something else of the be left for the doctor to do. If it seems likely that a person Unete Rasy Tomorrow: Poison Ivy. Boys and Girls, Read the Junior Star Every Sund V Iy e 24 HOURS A DAY- THAT'S CLANCY! FAIR WEATHER OR FOUL— YoU CAN BANK ON CLANCY! CERTAINLY BELIEVES IN ADVERTISING! BERTTING A GREAT HA/HA/HA! THAT'S THE FUNNIEST POEM T EVERREAD/ JEWISH, THE SECOND'S IRISH, AND M SPEEDISH! Trad A 11ed For O S ratent bles ==+ BECAUSE THE DUKE SAID HE'D KILLUS IF YOU DION‘T LIKE ms[