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Show KERRY DRAKE ' ' n.A DID YOU HAVE A PLEASANT AFTER- - J HAVE A 6Q0P FLOOR iNO, I'M A LITTLE 1 SHOW IN OUR DINING ROOM J BUSHED AND It AT 9.. IF YOU CARE TO MAKE FACE A BUSY DAY w -- T A RESPRV TOMORROW... X WE PLEASANT BUT NOT VERY fetSIf? HfniCfl'f WwC PORTABLE.' Bv ALFRED I f f By THE jVA SIR.-- A RATHER.i UH.. UNUSUAL VISITOR; IS WAITING" J- -. FOR YOU ; mrTr ANDIOLA 1 JHtV "SO 1 Tell Me Why SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16) 1962 j Ss Wien Mos CoWon First Used? By A. LEOKUM Win the Britannica Junior V THE STORY v f v papA fM V :' ARTHA wot KUDE TO vou ACCEPTING J MOMEY R30M WS . NEWSPAPER, BUT "Y 7r-v( If ruzt&aXvoQmf.-we'r- I vfeftM J3t IMDlVlDUALtST -- J By WILSOI fX A - :. , e WAV.' I1 OU OUK A4VU I A JGGS dout H0OKAY3 1 YET. AWBE? WE 1 WOM'T LIKE THE PLACE WE'fcE" rrw4-WroC,PAl- i ! ' P CJotton is the white, stringy fiber of the cotton plant A field of cot ton ready for picking looks as though it were covered with fluffy snowballs.'TTiese "snowballs" are the cotton bolls, made-uof soft, white cotton fibers. Cotton fiber has a, natural twist which makes it easy to spin into thread. It needs no special treat ment before being manufactured, but it can be changed and combined with other fibers. p 1 - rT7 ' mv foot$T. J" T . 1 f uh ASLEEP rI HUH.. ) HUH... AS-WEL- VI ' V . V; KLURBERT 3Y the rest BETOD of me H f GOODNIGHT hmph MIGHT " : ' TTTL , , ,. ' . ; f Lk?;f,f., MARY: WORTH Wt Si ; st bidf a nice comfortable one and made two. The American East-We- st bidding is shown in the box. West's opening spade bid is reasonable although most top level bidders would open with one; club. East's two club response is an example of the' Drury convention which a few of our players! use. It asks partner to show if he has a full opening bid. A two diamond rebid denies this, any other bid shows it. So when West bid two no-- ; trump, East raised to three. Usually 14 points opposite nine are! not enough to make game and this hand was no exception. North opened a club. South took the ace and returned the suit. West won with king and played ace and jack of hearts. North went up with the AQ2 V K76 7K A5ER10U5 TSTF MR5.W0RTHJ I BELIEVE, PRI5CILIA'5 ) t i By KEN ALLEN klB WEST EAST 4AJ84 A1093 VQ10532 KQ Q63 10982 KJ8 SOUTH AK765 V984 J7 43 "FRANK 15 A VERY TALKER. AND HE MAN AGED TO REASSURE MAMA WITHOUT COMMITTING THE FOLLOWING NIGHTr HIMSELF, MR$.WQRTtf-BU- T, A5 MOTHERj .1 AM ENTITLED TO KNOW WHICH OF Mfl DAUGHTER5 YOU! ARE COURTING, YOUNG MAN Ytu l StT) AFTERNOONASK FRANK WASN'T In THE OFFICE ALL PRISSi... 15 HE ILL, (j Hl JS ToME PAPA? . A2 "Both vulnerable South West North East 1 A Pass Pass Ppss 2 N.T. Pass Pass 2 Pass 3 N.T. Pass Pass Pass Opening lead 4 4 knows the King Cobra is a poisonous snake. But did you know that one of these snakes was once captured which measured 18 feet 4 inches? This jwas the longest pois- onous snake ever seen by man! - 1STEVE ROPER Z?""3- - IT tOOKS TO ME LIKE ROPER HAD STOPPED TALKIn EL FOR TONIGHT, BOSS BABY PTT M JH4a5)l By SOUNDER AND OVERGARD AT CMCK STEELE'S BACHELOR W I SORRY FRIENDS PA W-- KIT'S PpR YOU, n THE BUY M AND MY BRIDE PHONE, Willi. ANOTHER PLACE SETTING A YOU. MIKE OF SILVER V rSsS&UJ THIS'LLV-GE- f -- ' - CHUCK THE PARKING LOT ATTENDANT AT SOMEi - 1 l- , . By DICK BROOKS -( III !! j king and cleared his club suit with another lead. He still had to Answer to yesterday's Puzzle get in with the ace of diamonds to Box: Leap, Plea, Peal, PaleJ cash the last two clubs and set Win the Britannica World Atlas the hand one trick. or Yearbook of Events. Send your riddles, jokes to: Riddles, Jokes, "Tell Me Why!" Today's winner Q The bidding has been: South West North East Peggy Ashley, Lebanon, Tenn. 1 Pass Pass IV 3 Pass 3 Pass 3 A 4 Pass Pass On this day in history: 4 4 V Pass Pass In 1630, a village in Massachu 6 V Pass GN.T. Pass setts changed its name from ? You, South, hold: Shawmut to Boston. . A2 VA32 AKQ1075AQ2 In 1893, the Cherokee. strip In wnat ao you do? was opened to home Oklahoma A I wouldn't know myself, -. steaders. except that I definitely would not bid seven hearts. I would .In 1920, a bomb exploded either pass or bid Wall Street killing 30 persons diaon seven monds, depending-- on what I and injuring at least 100. knew of my partner's bfddinr In 1945, the Japanese surrend-- , style. ered Hong Kong. . TODAY'S QUESTION . Mark A thought for the day What is your operffcig bid, Twain said: "There are several holding: good protections against temptaAZ TKJ2 AQ J 4 KQ87C tions, but the surest is coward Answer Monday ice. . THEY'RE NOT T. EVEN LYIIM' THAT MUST BE AN sr POMNf NO FOOD I OR BOOkS pi? RADIO I IMPORTANT CALL bin no-tru- j THE JACKSON TWINS TO FAKE ' session of the world title match' Written for just as they started! with a disNewspaper Enterprise Assn. astrous hand. It only post six InMatch Points, and it America wound up the fourth ternational put, them seven IMPs behind. It was; a needless loss. 9 with the East-Wecards Italy NORTH 15 VAJ ; you nothing. DID YOU KNOW? U.S. La as i n the Fo u rth Round (O) TALK.A5 SHE CALLED WITH FRANK IT THAT NIGHT" WHEN A FRIEND TOLD HER SHE! HAD SEEN FRANK AND PAMELA TOGETHER. PARKED BE51DE. THE LAKE ONE EVENING Am MAMA WA5 FURIOUS, UNCONSCIOUS- cot-to- cotton growing in the West Indies when he discovered those islands in 1492. Later explorers, such as Cortes in Mexico arid Pizarro in Peru, found the people of those countries spinning and weaving cotton. Today cotton is made into a "the vegetable lamb." For many great variety, of cloth. It may be years after the useof cotton be as 'flimsy "as gauze for bandages, came common in Europe, it was or as strong as fabrics that cover called "cotton wool." airplanes and balloons! -- zttizss. 5HE-H- AD ' . first By OSWALD JACOBY KlOW WHAT DID. r DO.? g prg U stve CONTINUES ' Practically! everybody A6 5 10 9 75 4 k . ' J.-- ' sV , -- I Jacoby On Bridge TbLrYS 'M,r PETERr . UPi kuow...m just Ti dow't mind ALMOST BAKMES. Hff WAS OWLVTKYWOTO L. encyclopedia for school and home. Send your questions; lame, age, address to ''Tell Me Why!" care of this paper. In case of duplicate Questions, the author will decide the winner. Today's winner is: Vincent Lue, 12, Jamaica, West Indies. Even after Europeans learned - FUN TIME of this new textile fabric, not Chuckle Box The wear able to were of them many Have cotton. Janet: of The cloth made you heard the joke clothing was too expensive. Only the weal- about the bed? Mary: No. thy could afford to wear this cool, Janet: No wonder. It hasn't comfortable material. ' been made up yet. When ColUmbus tried to reach '. n India by sailing westward, Teacher: What is a "deficit was one of the treasures he Johnny? Johnny: That's what you've got hoped to find, along with gold and when got as much as was to Jind when you haven't overjoyed spices. He had Cotton has been used for thous- ands of years. As early as 3000 B.C., people in India raised cotton and spun the fiber. Cotton Icloth was used in Peru before the Jncas arrived there. At that time cotton was unknown in Europe. Wool wasj the common textile fiber there. When Europeans learned of cotton, they described it by comparing it to wool. In the 5th century B.C., a Greek! historian wrote about a land in! Asia (possibly China) where "the trees bor wool." It seemed impossible for he Europeans as think of cotton as being completely different from wool! 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