Show at i Ifie Capture An Adventure of Two 'f of! Calla Boys with By CARROLL BRANCH :M "t SYNOPSIS Because theiy want to get Into town early to be able to help unload and run errands for the circus Bill Smailwood arid Ham Carter are picked up by tfe owner on the circus On tfte way to Daviston train twelve miles distant he introduces Mason the clown them to Wall-y- e who Informs Siniley the owner that the acrobats are about to quit Senor Don Jose def : Campos the lion trainer says the thinks they are leaving because they are afraid of his cats and if Calla his pet lion in particular When the train reaches the yards the pcrobats have a fight with the owner of the circus who flies into a rage and orders that no one Is to leave the railroad yards until he gives the order This In' cludes Bill andlillam NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY 51 - i I "4 1!! ri s 3 ji H 1 4 ii INSTALLMENT III the train an THROUGHOUT followed Smiley's announcement Then the activity of unloading started again The "led stock" horses elephants camels and yak5 were brought down mu uiuuicu jjiaijjc ti urn iucu tiirs ana Far firmly staked to the ground down the line I the canvasmen were unloading the "big top" The animal cages were carefully set on their wheels and lined up on a side street Smiley seemed l to be everywhere shouting orders! "Look!" exclaimed Don Jose pointing to a cage opposite their window "My Calla!" Behind the bars ±e boys saw an enormous cat which lay sprawled on the floor of the cage' with its eyes half shut Th$ keeper prodded it with a stick in an effort to get it to move nearer thj center of the cage but Calla merely blinked and refused f v to budge "He tired frm long treep"' explained Don Jose "He ain't tirej from no trip" said te in IT'-- A Neighborhood Track Meet ' BY JAMES B CRANE a Circus About this time of year when the are eighteen or nineteen years old tun is soft and springy and the grass the is young and Rreen and it's almost "Come on we'll Sneak off other side" Silently and warily as cats the boys crept through the door into the corridor and tiptoed to the end of the car Theyj quickly popped off the platform steps and almost bumped into bmiley His back was turned to them as he flailed two cowering "ra zorbacks" unloading tbb next car The boys backed away for a few steps and turned to run across the freight yards as fast as) they could "Hey you! Stop them brats! 'em back here to me I" Bring It was Smiley's voice booming lorth to one ot his men nearby Ham and Bill were seized roughly by their collars and dragged back across the railroad tracks to the spot where Smiley stood glowering and waiting ominously Hi stuck (his hands on uia nips aim stuai out ai mem: "Thought yqu'd get ' away with something eh? Search! 'em!" While their captor "frisked" kheir pockets oinucy urea a oarrage oi questions at them all of which he answered him self "Didn't you near me say nobody was to leave this yard until I eave the word? Sure you did! Trying to get smart and 1 sneak away after ! gave you a lift to tojwn! Maybe you don't remernber thait you told me you wanted to work? i Well youH work before you leave today and don't forget it! I got i this circus in hand and you or the Bjlaines or else can't get away with nothin' when Smiley's around!') "But mister— ?' becan Bill "Now none of your mouth! When I want you to talk I'll! tell you sol" nut we heard — " "No matter what 'you! heard it was none ot your business see?" "But it's about—" f V "Listen nere shouted the man time for school to be over and vaca tion to start do you ever come out of the house after breakfast and feel like running and jumping for all you're worth for no good reason at all? If you don't there's something wrong with you whether you're girl or a boy But if you do hen's one way to do your running and jumping with good reason and with a barrel of fun: Get up a track meet in your neignoornooa It will not only show who is the neighborhood track champion among both leliows and girls but who knows that this first track meet may not be the start for some boy or girl who later may develop into a scholastic or collegiate champion or even be selected to represent the United States in the International Olympic Games 1 m m r ! - : J 2TA"MEj SPRINT i ! it t j3 post Jim Back Yard Starts Stars Many an Olympic star eot a start in his own back yard And this isn't limited to boys either there are girls HS& J 1 3 B3TOY I 5' l 31 5 1 - I l 3 5 5 "j 3 3 5 3 ) I 1 1 A good score card In running the v meet scDarate classes should be established for fellows and girls That is boys should compete against boys and girls against girls Find all the younesters in the neighborhood who want to en ter the meet then get your eauib- ment ready and go to it! rot your SDnnt selsrt ' a flat straightaway about SO yards long You can measure this with your Every jumper gets three tries ruler or It shouldn't be hard to get a meet mother's sewing be sure you put it back in started All you need is a place and the basket after you've used sewing a little easily made equipment It's it! Of course a field is the best best to have an open field for your place but a sidewalk will do if there ground for competition but a back are no fields in your neighborhood will even do' or a sidewalk yard Start and Finish Lines In your meet it probably will be best to have only about five events— Draw a line on the ground for start a sprint a high jump a broad jump and finish At the start have one fela hurdle race and a low or girl to act as official starter Putting the shot pole vault- Line the contestants up in the usual ing distance runs and similar track starting position— both hands on the events are designed for older Dersons ground knees well up under! you and and might hurt your future as a track feet well braced the right slightly bestar if you practice them before you hind the left—then let the starter yell j THE J4 13! 3 j 1 Do I HURDLE VOTA ZZZI 5' 3 MATEY who are Olympic champions V'- 7j 12 8 j 1 1 an 131 and raise it an inch at a time with each jump Every contestant should get three tries at each height and when he misses all three he is out of the jumping If you clear it the first try of course there is no need to jump the other two times don't jump until your turn comes around next time Eventually all but two jumpers will be eliminated and the winner between these two is the champion The Broad Jump your oroaa jump draw a starting mark six or eight feet in front of the edge of the pit The jumper's foot must not cross this starting line when he jumps and a fellow or girl should be placed at the line to watch carefully for if the foot r or crosses the mark the jumper is disqualified for that jump and must try again Another fellow or girl should stand beside the pit and mark the first place where each jumper's heel touches as he lands vv After each r TALKING' IT OVER r THE INTERESTING LIFE WALPOLE the great English author declares HUGH the secret of a successful life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in everything well Think about this statement a while and you will gradually come to realize what it means There are so many interesting exciting things going on all the time around every one of us that boredom is next to impossible— that is unless your eyes-- are blind to everything Boredom means merely that you yourself are not inter ested not that the things about you are not interesting In his statement Hugh IWalpole means that a successful life is a happy state of mind with a driving inl terest in one's chosen life work and a seething curiosity' about the great world of nature and of man i Fashion Hints - Here are information Perhaps clotjhes and some little bits of fashion ' for spring you have noticed that haircuts are designed this windseason to give you the blown look Hair is brushed back from the foreheads as though it had been blown that way and hats sweep back from the faces showing much more of them than they did last year Waists are generally pinched in tightly with a belt that is if they are slim Yours no doubt is and you can give an old coat a new air by fastening your belt good and tight An Alligator Story right in the middle of the front and bunching rthe extra fullness of your years ago alligators were still they find such food they swim up 1 forty coat under it This way of wearing numerous along the coastal rivers of it and take hold of it thejr a coat has a new and dashing look the Gulf of Mexico and inland for a can with their powerfulanywhere jaws Then Bright Blouses good many miles along the streams using their broad tails as propellersC Many girls will wear suits this and in the swamps and sluggish la- they start to whirl themselves over spring as they do every spring And goons and over in a spinning movement this year instead of dark blue or Some people are afraid of alligators which allows them to hang on with brown blouses which were worn so of almost any size yet if you know a mighty grip until they actually much last year they will have ex- "gators" as they are called in the twist a piece of flesh off the carcass tremely bright ones of taffeta crepes South they are about as harmless a They repeat this trick until they tear or cottons in plaids prints and creature as you can find Of course the dead animal to bits stripes Some will be tuck-i- n blouses if you know nothing of their habits After he has fed the alligator likes which look lovely on a very young you might easily get badly bitten jor to crawl out on the mud near the figure others will be worn over the even have a leg broken by the power- water and sleep skirt and will tie around the waist ful tail of a 'gator not over six feet Handling a 'Gator Greyish shades are extremely popu long If you are directly in front of one if he wants to can pick Any lar greyish blues and greens and him or directly behind him he cak't and do it safely if he any up well 'gator as from as bite or even strike you but you must pinks just plain grey dark' to light remember that this big creature is will catch the creature right acrosi Taffeta staff and rustly is a good also very quick on bis feet and moves the top of the hind legs where the tail joins the body and then "hold hin material for party dresses and such about rapidly for one of his bulk out away from himself so he can't materials as tulle and net which are Must Sidewise Bite reach sidewise with his head A 'gai teen-age nice for are popular with When a bites he has tor in this position off the ground is bite to 'gator also the twenties —rMargery Rtce sidewise as the hard horny scales that about the most helpless creature in cover his body bend very little up or the world ANSWERS TO RIDDLES down but are more or less flexible I have caught many 'gators in th$ 1 A don key' 2 Neither can be used until It la when he wants to bend his body side-wi- se South most of them under six feet t broken long and have had no difficulty in 3 feed on carcass They any floating handling them 'When they had qui 4 Because it la verr rtnrhtr such as a cow horse or that (nought-y- ) may eted down a bit I used to slip a rub pig 6 Tne word find its way into their waters When ber band about an inch wide cut on wholesome" so-call- ed Tke boys could not catch aU that was said WaH-ey- e dryly j'he's just naturally purple with rage "you two little tired from old age" bums has got too much gab to suit The boys decided that if Calla was me When I let you on the train a ferocious lion then a house cat was you said you wanted toj work Well a dangerous manjeater you'll get it — and plenty of it 1 And When the ordef came for the per- you won't be given a chance to formers ' to get off Wall-ey- e turned sneak away from it either ! Slick to the boys you put them to! work-4akeep 'em "You better stay on here for a at it That'll give 'eml a chance to while kids" he said "Smiley's mad cool off a bit!" j "At least we tried to warn him" and there ain't ni use your taking a chance There ain't nothing you can muttered Bill to Ham as Slick bullied them up toward the circus do now anyway 'He's right" said Don Jose" "voii grounds To Be Continued Next Week better stay here fjor ze present until ze show clear from ze yards Smiley he fonnyjj man" He shook WE'RE OFF ON A his head seriously) the boys finally Disappointed RIDDfJERS' REVEL agreed and remained behind in the After you've guessed these riddles car Wall-ey- e had told them that in why not make a contest of fifteen or twenty minutes they could yourself ask them to several of your and it slip off and com up to the circus friends ? See which of them is the grounds and notfody would be the smartest ! And don't forget to send wiser your riddles to lithe Riddle Man for So engrossed were they in the spechim to print in the paper tacle of unloading outside the car 1 What is the hardest to turn? window that they turned around —Marion key Luthgren with a start when they heard light 2 Why is an egg like! a colt? — BiS footfalls in the corridor The footHarmon rl Justbefore they steps stopped 3 What fiveletter word if dereached the compartment in which prived of two letters has one left? the boys were waiting and two men — Eileen Bossidy spoke in muffled jtones 4 Why is 9 million a very bad "Naw" said qne disgruntled "I number? — Leonard Carboneau 5 What is that from which you don't see any use in try in' that on him Thing to d is go to law" can take away j the whole and still "Yeah and what are we goin' to have some remaining cat on till then? j I'd like to get even r with that dirty jtramp even if we don't get our payf out of him though Throwin' us out like that! I'd like to see him sweat bipod 1" The other wasl becoming incensed by his partner's talk "Maybe you're right The low-li- fe double-crosse- r! When we came with this outfit he said we could have a spot place on the bill Here he puts us after that cat! act!" The speaker paused a moment then continued in a lower tone so the boys could not catch all that was said "That's a good idea I guess the parade would be! the time to do it A couple of bullets will do the trick" "Yeah The cits win be in plain view then" Bill and Ham looked at each other wide-eye- d If the men discovered them and realize they had been listening — ! BDl eased over j to Ham and whispered" "Let's get out of here" "OK Except—" Ham pointed We are In the Dream Clouds watch-in- s out the window to Smiley who was a dream At last one of cloud the at furiously gesticulating has cleared and we canthesee drivers not fifteen feet away dream It is Loa's dream and the It's - he car Just like watching a picture enow is or her childhood: La dreaming pondered a moment as if a on I'm sure Here Liook torhappy weighing the Jwo eviis yourself ' nd i i j v- £E1 Comancho's Campf ire Stories - -- ! i - -- - St-o- ne itM Ze-lew- ski THE ADVENTURES OF PETER PEN ! j ! screen to confuse its enemies The squid itself is silvery with golden eyes — and he can bebright seen with fatal clearness in the sunny waters near the top of the sea But as soon as an enemy c6mes into View— ©Uff A black HaiiH baffles the hostile one where once a luscious silvery fish darted— and before the enemy can blink his eyes off the bright fellow is behind his inky ' B-JU- : If jumper has had five tries— going in i Fishy Tricks rotation — the one who has jumped Swish gleam puff flop Now the farthest is winner Both running you and standing jumps may be con- see it now you don't I No it's not a magician It's a deep-s-ea tested fish that can throw out a smoke 1 " smoke cloud But at the - bottom of the sea where everything is sunk in murky darkness a smoke screen would be lost in the blackness and so the scarlet nrawn a mhhvlnnt The hurdle race fish dazzles the eyes of ing deep-se- a For the draw nis enemies wnich are accustomed to your starting mark about twice as far looking only into darkness with from the edge of the pit! The con- bright shower of glowing dust that testant may stand or run then hop as snines lute stars and quite blinds far as he can from one foot landing even the fiercest pursuers on the same foot then skip as far as Strange Creatures The fishes at the bottom of the sea he can in one step landing on the other foot then jump asl far as he have queerer bodies and stranger col- can in one jump landing in the pit ors ana weiraer tricks than one can on both feet A starter and marker dream Some have eyes at the top of should be placed just as they are for tneir neaos and others have mirrors f in their bellies Some are blind and the high jump soot-color- 1 :'Jryr-- any-bod- y "On your marks— get ready— go If at the same tune wavmg a handkerchief your site then fix your equip- downward at arm's length At) the ment This is a simple matter For finish line should be two judges to your sprint all you need is a hand- decide who crosses the line first J If kerchief and a piece of string For you're a judge be fair in selecting your high jump two upright objects the winner without prejudice If be they trees or poles of your own you're a runner don't kick when you For your broad jump a lose design "pit" made by digging in the earth For your high jump stretch the and loosening it in an area about six between the two trees selected string feet square The same pit may be or the uprights you've made and used for your and jump from a position such that lifter your high jump For your hurdle jumped over the string you'll race six objects like sawhorses are you've land in the soft dirt dug up in vour ?i required ri i ii Equipment Is Simple Pick AS SCIENCE SEES IT I 29 9 99 9 Some of the most beautiful! scenery in the world is found in the country whose map forms the cross word puzzle for this week Can you work the puzzle and discover the name of the country? IN THE ALPS ed 1 : Sr 7 mi j City in Switzerland 8 Negative 9 Soon 12 13 - European country Regarding 14 Suffix VERTICAL 1 Dry (French) 2 Artificial waterways 3 Circular space for sports SO-ya- rd f HORIZONTAL Calcium (Abbr) 4 Alms seeker 2 " all-arou- nd J — The Definitions Are: The Hurdle Race For your hurdle race use the sprint course and place thS hurdles about 20 yards apart in two lanes Only two can run this race at a time as each runner has to have his own lane of hurdles1 Each runner should have three hurdles to cleat over the stretch and if one of the hurdles is knocked down that runner Hurdles should automatically loses be about one and one-ha- lf feet or two feett high and should be built so they will turn over easily t if a runner's foot hits them Starter and finish judge should be placed as in the sprint If you have tot run your sprint on the sidewalk you'd better not try the hurdles for a fall on the cement might hurt someone badly Count points for all contestants who yplace" in any contest — five for first three for second and one for third At the end of the jmeet add up each contestant's points and the one with the largest total ' is the have to stretch their arms after fnnrl as they go darting around in the neighborhood champion Some look like aeptns 01 the sea flowers — Dale and beautiful a nH n ft CTAMPS AS A 'HOBBY —but others like the little sea devil & By WILDS DUBOSE have flaming teeth and horns and smokestacks and tails Some have Member PhUatetto Journalists of America stripes and some have triggers and Just off the coast of Newfoundland some have moustaches and golden But however they look and which as everyone knows is on the tails eastern coast of Canada j lie two whatever stunts they have are "all small barren islands— St Pierre and the results of the difficulties of living Miquelon They are all that are left at tne bottom 01 the sea We are onlv iust be?innin? tn learn to France of once vast possessions in this part of the world The stamp in how exdtihg and terrible and gay life the illustration shows a map of these at tne bottom ot the sea really is So islands The inhabitants are entirely far: not manv DeoDle have been brave fishermen or at least seamen Would enough to dive down with nets and it surprise you to know that at least stuay the many kinds iof creatures which live in the silent ocean ISO years before Columbus jwas born some hardy and daring fishermen from France came over and settled Caring For Your Pets on these' islands and named one for Saint Peter the By HORACE MITCHELL patron saint of fishermen? In the Creek France lost fine letter —an extra fine Here's a her political letter 1 It's from Esther Warren hold on Canada "I am a girl 13 years old and live but not her inin Florida" she writes MWe had a fluence The pony and a donkey Billy and Jenny Canadian stamps of today have They were geat pals so much so that when Billy went out without Jenny at least part of she! brayed until he came back their inscrip10 "One time after we got them both tions in French new bridles my brother and I went notably postage and postes In riding In the forest back of our house the county was building a road 1908 the Quebec had to make it cross two creeks J They set Tercentenary was issued and the major inscription one1 of which was a mire "Well John and I thought (we on each stamp js in French! This set was issued to commemorate j the 300th would go there and see how they anniversary of the founding of Que- werfe getting along We got across the first creek safely enough even if bec and consists of the following values: Kciflc 2c 5c 7c 10c 15c and there was no bridge r "When we came to the second one 20c This set is known to exist imwe found it was deeper than we is but not thought to have perforate been regularly issued in that condithought so we could not ford it with the animals There was a foot plank tion across it We tried to take Billy over this plank but he would not move on an old auto inner tube over both to the Then we tried with plank jaws and then I wouldn't have to the donkey worry about their biting Jenny Falls in The side slash of that big horny are much more sure"Donkeys tail is worse than the bite sol one must footed or horses Jenny than ponies be on the lookout not to get tio close started over all right Before she got to it she missed her It takes three days of patient work halfway andhowever fell into the mud footing right four-foto tame a three- or 'gator so he will follow one about like a Before we got her out she had sunk her thighs It was a hard job puppy They are curious although above to her clear But we finally did get of pets that do a lot then we went home and it queer things in their queer way 4 Dairy product 5 Boy's nickname 6 Grand (Abbr) 7 River in France 8 Northwest 10 Upon 11 Western state (Abbr) —2— : The Swiss are noted for their vn deling and they can make their voices echo and reecho through the Aim Our word diamond has "yodeler" for its central word The second word is cry the third is a retrion in North Africa the fifth is packed for ship ping the sixth is a boy's nickname Now finish the diamond Y o D YODELER L V E R - There are lots of roat in 'Swftwi land This "coat" is chanced inta' 'milk"! Chance onlv "one letter at a 'time and be sure all the words are real ones Change GOAT to MILK in four moves Each Sentence Mnw rnnra1 th name of one of the heautiful lat t Switzerland If you look carefully perhaps you can discover them i tie locomotive waits on the tracks The deacon's tnn redar hnt kthl ' the church papers Roentgen evaded tin itxutt in kit work tn physics ODD ORIGINS Tobacco The folklore of the Indians elves us this story of the origin of tobacco One day a good spirit was roaminz the forest in search of game but none could he find Weary and discouraged" he kindled a hre and lay down to An evil spirit who was his sleep enemy saw the gleam of his fire and approaching found the good spirit - asleep j " i j I ot slow-witt- ed f By NICK NICHOLS Silently the evil snfrit rfrw h near the flame and heaping tvrl twigs and embers UDon him away leaving him to die When the good spirit felt the heat of the fire he rose and ran screaming through the forest" searinir and sineeinir all the trees and flowers and grasses As he ran the charred ends of his burning hair dropped to the ground and took root The plants which sprang up aiterwara were tooacco sleeper nmifinniir- i - mw r a She missed her footing and fell right into the mud "We must have been a funny sight covered with mud ourselves and with mud dripping from Jenny's tail and feet Many people stopped to look ANSWERS TO PUZZLES 1 Cross word puzzlo solution at us we still now is dead but "Jenny - See? This is Loa as a little baby back In Hawaii That Is her home in the background And I think that the man who is sitting so quietly over there Is her father He is watching: her so closely that I'm sure no harm will come to her - picture changes to a few years later and we find Loa quite a younsr girL With the skill that seems natural with these gentle people of Hawaii Loa gracefully elides over the water on her surfboard as the sea rolls to the shore and washes the sandy beach The (Copyright What gorgeous scenery! What a! place to spend one's childhood See the magnificent palm trees tops to the gracefully bow their sun and the deep blue sea lazily the sandy beach Nothing washing to do all day but enjoy the beauties' of nature and bask in the sun! 1934 Associated Editors) Alas now the dream Is ended Here comes Loa What's the matter Loa? She still seems to be in a daze I guess that she isn't fully awake yet Now who's next? Tou know each of us has a chance to pick a dream Wonder what Hans will pick? have Billy Sometimes he plows and does real well for being so small" IH bet every one of you would have liked to have been along with Esther and John that trip I know I wouldL We want another story from you young lady I yl We) J an The diamond : T yodeler baled Ned R mo1 — 3M?LKT " ln0at 4 Como Constance Geneva 2 sob-Sud- " milt Hi |