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A Story of Two Boys' Eventful PQJZEQJE By W BOYCE MORGAN INSTALLMENT V We journey clear down to the ether side of the world for our cross word puzzje this week A : the fence Ji irinTn7i r m were only some and KEITH yard$pillaway then they first saw Mary and Fred beside the fence Before the bull made ks second charge and Fred took to his heels they had started to run And they reached Mary lying helpless in the road1 just as the bull hit i The flimsy fence strained buckled but failed to break and the mad animal's ruh was temporarily halted As he paused snorting and pawing Bill and Keith jerked the white-face- d girl to her feet "Get over that other fence across the road I" Bill fried Together they ruhed Mary across the macadam toward the safety offered by a strong fence bordering the field on the other side The Definitions Are: HORIZONTAL They had reached it and were starting to help the girl over the wire when Keith glanced over his shoulder The enraged bull had backed off again and now he came at the fence in a third charge his head down his horns tossing anzrily This time when he hit the wire it broke He scrambled over the ditch 2 Measure of length sloth 4 Three-toe- d 5 Fish eggs f ( 8 12 13 City in Australia Regular eatine companion Left end (Ahbr) rope ran anx- "Are you kids hurt?" he deWhen they assured him manded that they were a bit upset but uninjured he turned and aided his companion in capturing the bull That worthy animal having evidently worked off his evil temper suddenly decided to behave himself and allowed the farmers to lead him away He left behind him two boys and a girl who were still breathless and shaken But Mary had still enough pres ence of "mind to realize that Keith From was acutely embarrassed somewhere she brought forth safety pin "Here Keith" she said laughing "This will hold you together until you get home" Then as Keith repaired the damage to his trousers she walked to the fence and gazed downthe road Bill following her gaze saw Fred Linke a hundred yards away walking slowly back toward them "I wonder what he wants?" said Mary her voice cold and contemptuous Fred could not possibly have heard her at that distance but evidently v 1 well-season- ed I i ' by laying it on the edge of a table with half of it projecting over the Hold the half resting on the edaje table very firmly in position with one hand and with the other bend the unsupported half down to about a Engineer (Abbr) — f The Bushmen who live la Australia are found in the center of this The second line is word diamond a roll the third is ft buffalo the fifth is a wandererj and the sixth is ft boy's name Form the diamond Nail two strips of wood on the side of your boomerang to hold it in place while it dries into its proper shape and when it is thoroughly dry remove them Now saw the curved hickory into six strips each one-ha- lf inch wide When you've finished youll have six boomerangs B S BUSHMEN M a yM-?- E N MAX-A-- E 2 MAX-S-R-P- 3 MAN-P-LA- -- A MAXD-L-- i T i I ! N Now comes another Picture Anagram It isn't too hard I one: LETTER ONE LETTER ONE f72$ 'letter IZT f K±r?§ - -s- Taie a -l cf meat add R rearrange the M' mm let- ters and get part cf a! house Take a foitr-lrtttvord for to lamrnl add S rearrange the letters and get a worker tn stent rr --o- POSERS now many' of these) questions can If yo? think hard you answer? enough maybe you caa get them all right Lets try anyway Here we I Name two pioneer brothers In aviation 2 What is a dinosaur? of the most 3 What is the nam prwrnmrnt political party in Germany today 4 Who was the nineteenth presi dent of the United States? 5 How is yellow fever spread? 6 To what country do the Bahama Islands belong? 7 How can you tell the approil j mate age of a tree? 8 Where is Catalinx Island? ) How to Trim Them - He was just charing the top of the barrier when the butftstruck and mshed across the road just as he knew only too well what she was For "now he paused Mary tumbled over the fence into thinking the field beyond J turned and with lowered head hurBill was after her like a Cash but ried back down the road toward the Keith was a second behind him lake Then Mary turned to Keith He was just clcafin the top of the and Bill and laughed rather selfbarrier when the bull struck For consciously one horrible second there flashed I— I'm not much good at this into his mind a vision of his gored gratitude business" she said "But and bleeding body being tossed into -- —well if it hadn't been for yoji the air He felts a shock heard a that bull — Honestly I was so ripping sound and then found him- scared I couldn't move and he would have got me in another self lying prostrate in the field be minute fence the yond Keith and Bill were Just as emMary her face ashen had scrambled to her feet) Now she rushed barrassed as she was They started over to Keith as the baffled bull to stammer something but she inroaring and snorting buffeted the terrupted them fence on the other side I wonder if you hoys would let "Keith!" gasped Mary "Are you me play tennis with you once in a while" she suggested diffidently Burt?" Dazed Keith got to his feet He "You're a lot better than I am but and get felt himself all over No the I'd like to play with wicked horns of the bull had not got some pointers And I have an extra him Then his face flushed scarlet racket that Bill can use if he and he knew what had caused that wants it" Bill breathed a sigh of relief One of the bull's ripping sound horns had just caught his trousers That solved the problem of the and there was a long jagged rip in broken racket! the back of one leg "Why sure Mary" he said "That would be great! And "I'm all right" he stuttered you're plenty good You won't get "Only my pants are torn" Bill and Mary both uttered gasps many pointers from us" 'Tell you what well do" sug of relief Then Bill glanced nervKeith with a grin "We'll gested furithe bull still trying ously at on we tennis give any pointers to fence the 'you ously get through II show us how if cad "Give me that red sweater handle a canoe Mary" Bill cried "We won't be "That's a bargain !" cried Marv in safe until we get rid of that" delight' Then she smiled mis Mary hastily pulled off the chievously "I guess I acted sweater Bill grabbed it and ran a awful that day we collided andpretty few yards along the fence followed set" she said "But it did make upme on the other side bv the bull Then mad when you tried to rescue me he tossed the flaming garment into when I didn't need rescuing" j the road Keith laughed "You made me With a bellow the bull turned and feel like a sap" he admitted rushed He caught the sweater on had climbed over the fence They his horns and tossed" it viciously now and picked "p their rackets into the air while 'on the other side where had been dropped when of the fence two boys and a girl the bullthey charged sank trembling to the ground to rest "Well" said Mary soberly "Your At that moment fhey heard shouts first attempt at a rescue didn't from across the way and from the amount to much but the second one other field ran the two farmers who was certainly real" had been workinf with the bull Walking a short distance down the earlier in the day One of them aproad she picked up her torn red proached the animal cautiously with sweater L yard for a cut four-lette- r fit W&f w w' ' V: Here are four words beginning with the fame three jotters Fill the blanks and form the jwords angle ee U u u u ( Now trim them into shape with a pocketknife One side should be left flat while the other should be rounded carefully Bring the convex or outside curve to a bluntish edge Lastly round off the edges and use sandpaper on the whole thing to smooth it off t Now to throw it: Take the boomerang firmly at one end and keep the hollow side away from you Then throw it as if you wished to hit a spot about thirty yards away Give it a slight downward twist with your wrtt as it leaves your hand This should give it a spinning motion and instead of traveling straight forward the' weapon will gradually go into the air whirling round and round and then sweep back toward you finally landing at your feet: One caution: Don't throw the near your friends or anybody else until you've mastered the art Until you have practiced a bit you won't be able to guide the boomerang and there's a chance you might hit somebody ( Over this frame was tacked wire If you make such a cage screening the screening need not be new but it must be in good condition' with abThe solutely no breaks anywhere smaller the screening the smaller the size of the creatures you can keep inside the cage A little door was fixed in the upd corner and the inside per was furnished with damp earth bark and other similar things It is very important that' this earth and bark be kept damp and that the lizards or snakes have plenty of fresh drinking water or they will die The glass snakes are fed on ant larvae worms and other insect larvae Do not by any means allow the earth to become dry And unless you are sure you will be able to take good care of these pets do not attempt to capture them and keep them Let us know (Thanks Hernd'on how the eggs hatched — II M) f rii-Jn"- n 3 4 5 t 'tvoioi 11 : RUBBER BAND The diamond Is T bin tlson roniatf N1 IN Mandate manuifeHpt mnipu- - Paw' bowt Chor Ifcan add S dt MowfJ Jl fnrm form Majcn Porch : ' ' " tinder water a t M sweet-tastin- AS SCIENCE SEES IT 3- Tropical Weather According to Mark Twain the dif ference between summer and winter in trie tropics is simply this: In sum mer pt is hot enough to melt a brass ¥ NOTCH knobf only mushy Tlias isn't of course door knob Winter makes the door very accurate about there being little difference WIRE enough to glide easily through the hole in the spool The heads of the darts should be heavy so they will fly point first Old brass rifle cartridge cases and small flat stones shaped like Indian arrowheads make excellent The darts are sfiot in the weights same manner as with a bow and arrow only ah aim can be obtained by sighting at the mark over the top ofj the spool and along the shaft of which wooden darts can be' shot with a fair degrc ?of accuracy First a medium heavy rubber band isitied to thelspoolwith a cord Then the gun is made Its shape is of no importance but on the top of the (gun a small notch should be cut to hold the spool in place This notch should be just deep enough so the hole through the spool is exactly level with the top of the gun Wire the dart - be- -i tweei the seasons Tropical weather like temperate weather is different in different Teople living on the beauti- place? i1 "" ""'V LJ'" 'V '— - -- C e weapon-anywher- HERE'S A QUIET PASTIME FOR A Put on vour thinking cap! Here are more riddles! They will give you some nice quiet moments on a hot summer day ' 1 What goes upstairs on its head? —Lorraine Berkeland 2 What is the difference between a fisherman and a lazy schoolboy?— Anonymous 3 What's worse than raining cats and dogs ?Marian Jepson 4 What is the best sea for a sailor to be in w'yn there is a gale? — Kathleen Torson 5 Why is the letter B like a hot fire? — Anonxmous " CUTTING REMARK Mrs Washington: You'd better watch the cherry! trees this morning Mr Washington: Why so? Mrs Washington: Little George has a hacking cough - "I'm going to keep this as a souvenir of the narrowest escape of my life" she said "And I think I'll decorate it with a wide streak of yellow on which will be written Tni End O 1 I Bv WILDS DUBOSE It is reported that 50000000 of the Maryland Tercentenary stamps are being printed That will not make thtfm as plentiful as you" might think at first The Mother's Day stamp will - most probably run into much larger figures Several sharp- eyed collectors have reported plate aneties on the Byrd stamp to the philatelic magazines and one reader Avrote me recently that he had found some Well guess it won't be long until they will be ' reporting them on the Maryland stamp The 1934 printing pf the three-ceLincolns (type of 1922-2is a deeper and richer purple than the other three-cestamps At least the ones "Living Fossils" I have seen are though I haven't That's why you can now see in seen any official "report on them yet the tropical forests of this country They do not seem to have attracted such huge tree-feras are found only mucn aucnuon li as 'fossils in the rest of the world The block of six imperforate and There are lilies and tulips as big as of the Little America ungummed trees' And while there are no native (Byrd) stamps make a rather attrac cats horses cattle sheep lions or tiIn spite" of that I tive appearance gers there are such strange creatures cannot help but believe that it is only as the kangaroo the duckbill and the a of time until collectors will question anteater Some of these are connect bring pressure to bear on the govern ing links between the animals 'of to ment against issuing stamps which day and the huge reDtiles that 'inhab are obviously designed for the col ited the earth in prehistoric times lector alone I fail to see And Australia still has Dlentv of where it will do personally the hobby any good reptiles— 100v varieties of snakes three o fourths of 'which (The United States has onlv three or NO MODEL four kinds of poisonous snakes1 "What model is your car?" :i There are also several hundred kinds "It's not a model: it's a horrible of lizards some of which erow to be six feet long example Australia has more strange plants and animals than any other country in the world And for a very good reason In Australia today you can see plants and animals very much like those which existed in the rest of the world millions of years ago At some far distant time Australia was connected by land with Asia and perhaps with South America as well Then the bridge of land disappeared beneath the sea leaving this island continent completely isolated And while higher forms of flora and fauna developed in Europe Asia and the Americas life in Australia went its own way changing little nt 6) nt I - ns THE CHIMNEY CORNER Member Philatelic Journalists of America f HOT JULY DAY 'Fred Linke'" CTAMPS AS A HOBBV Prehistoric Plants and Animals Still Live in Australia 1 j - By NICK NICHOLS Improving Your Room If you are staying at home when you would rather be going away for1 the summer why not redecorate your room? It will give you something and you exciting to do at little-co- st f' will not mind staying at home if your room looks so fresh and attractive that you will enjoy being in it and ' having your friends there The walls and floors are the first consideration and they are the part of the work you cannot do yourself However if your family does not want to have your room repapcred now forget it and concentrate your time and money on the "gadgets that go into the room Curtains for instance can do wonders and you can make them ydurself The curtain materials in the drapery departments of the stores may be expensive but in the yard-goosections you will find all sorts of thin summer fabrics in prints and plaids as well as plain colors which cost very little You can make a spread for your bed out of the same mate rial as the curtains Or if you have a straight chair that you do not like the looks of make a thin flat pillow to fit the seat of it and cover it with the curtain material adding a short ruffled flounce around the bottom Any kind of a small table that has room under it "for your knees can be made into a dressing table Paint it in one of the colors of the print you are using in the room You can buy a cheap mirror and paint the frame the same color as the' table If you can get a little stool or bench to use in front of it that can be painted too If you do not have such a piece of furniture however you can make one out ©fan ordinary wooden pack ing box of the right height You do it by making a flat pillow for the top and a "skirt" out of the material you are using elsewhere in the room The skirt comes all the way to the floor you see and hides the humble origin of your bench — Margery Rice I All ' of a sudden a dark object Hans seems to have lost his gens© flashes past a shark ! ! ! 1 All of of 'direction Although he' does not realize It he is going: the us make a mad scramble iom wrong- way! With the glass helducking Into sea grass others behind coral reefs But the shark Is mets on it Is impossible for our voices to carry very far What is pone as quickly as be appeared We continue that dark object over there? It our Journey still looks dangerous rather frightened (Copyright 1934 Associated Editors) Jfaekerel ' ds pet his bearings He doe3 not re- alize a preater danger Is banging right over his head Closer and closer comes this demon of the deep I J ANSWERS TO POSERS It's an octopus! IToly Hans now realizes that tohe has" lost the gansr" He stops try to ful srjores of the island on which Honolblu is located may be dazzled by hojt bright sunshine through the day but long before dusk they are fanned by the cool - breezes which come Iown from the mountains In certain parts of Brazil however! the hckt is hemmed in by the moun-- 1 tains and day after day there is little or ho relief And Singapore sizzles' under Bhe equatorial sun without the comfort even of the usual tropical rainy jeason Nights Are Cooler : sr well-know- sjwcct-taslin- GUN TOP ANSWERS TO RIDDLES 1 The nail In vonr Rhn 2 Th fisherman baits tha hook r and the 3 Jfall-inschoolboy hatea the book 5 Because taxts 4 ' tt make$ oil boil Davie Jones who is tued to walking tinder the sea Is soon far In the lead: In fact he pets Impatient bcauK we can't keep tip with him Rut there are po many beautiful things to see! Such wonderful colors Ptrantr" bright colored fish and beautiful sea shells When the shake insisted upon feeding his blood family Si King Lion appointed the mos- quitb to fly through the world to trv to find an animal whose blood was g as as man's She tried but found none She was not dis pleased for the snake washer friend But the swallow who was man's frierjd pecked out her tongue before she had a chance to report Then the pird spoke for the insect saying that frogs were as g as mens itie snake was anirrv and dart 'd his tongue at the swallow He miss'd its body but tore a! mouthful of feathers from its tail and that is why the swallow has a forked tail WITM left-han- THE AD VENTURES OF PETER PEN Did you know w baa turned deep wa dlvra? Te?r Hr and tod by none ofhr than1 that n salt Old Davie Jones lie has prtsTrtlxM xi some rea! advertur In the hidden depths of the Myjilo Sa Tho£ Klas helmeta we hav on enable us to ee and brca-th- ') but Mark Twain was quite rteht 3 7 " X Solution ti " " ANSWERS TO PUZZLES MiEiUBpUiRiEh: 1 Covers with Screening i ' By Ray J Matron "snake" about two feet the work-the stuff and a long crawled out-oman' nearby who saw it instantly i killed itDart Shooter I examined the creature arid found that it was a lizard--no- t a An ordinary spool wired to the top wrapped entirely around the spool snake But a lizard with no legs A of a stick which has been whittled to and the gun holds the spool securely glass snake ! makes or a a in a pistol position gun After digging a little deeper I came represent holder or barrel through The darts should be made thin splendid light brown upon six medium-size- d eggs These proved to be glass snake eggs which are hardly ever foupd The snake or legless lizard lays them in damp places where vegetable matter is in the process of decomposition BRASS You know that when thi3 happens CARTRIDGE there is a good deal of heat and this CASE heat is what hatches the eggs I took the eggs home and made a menagerie cage to put them in so that I could keep the baby glass snakes I took two clean boards 6 inches by x FLAT i 27 inches for the sides and for the STONE front and back boards 6 by 23 inches rt were used HOLE IN Mrs Brown cried Mr Smith to fcLs neighbor "have you spoken to your boy about mimicking me?" "Yes I have" replied Mrs Brown Tve told him not to act like a fooL" Crcrs TTerd Iuzil King Lion ruled all the beasts ©i the Orient and even man acknowledged his kingship Yearly he assembled his subjects and asked for their complaints One year it seemed that eveqy beast had a complaint FUN AT HOME " GOOD IMITATION X - it was man's turn he complained that " - 1 light : - 6 7 -2- medium-she- d brown eggs f 4 Bcverasre ) came upon six i Pertaining to the mouth To go in 9 Printer's measure The Swallow's Forked Tail -- j 10 Bone 11 Electrical DON'T BE SILLY! other night it was my misfortune to sit in a thea- npHE JL tre behind three young girls who can best be described by that very expressive word "silly" The picture was a good one and all around other boys and girls were enjoying it thoroughly as their absorbed attention and hearty laughter proved But these three "sillies' weren't satisfied to laugh heartily They squirmed and they squealed they giggled and they wiggled they grabbed each other hysterically they talked loudly and they generally made nuisances of themselves Everybody around them was thoroughly disgusted by the time the show was over including many other boys and girls According to the dictionary silly means "weak in intellect fbolish witless simple" That definition described the conduct of those three girls to perfection! Everybody wants you to have a good time at the movies and everywhere else Nobody wants to make you keep quiet constantly or to avoid laughing when you feel like it But it isn't necessary to make people think you are "weak in intellect"! Try to avoid acting silly ODD ORIGINS - Negative 2 Bones of the! chest 3 Tart of the ear y" By HORACE MITCHELL You've all heard of boomerangs — Legless Lizards" those weapons that the Australian naThat's a good title for a story t tives skillfully throw so that they'll Jbver hear of a legless lizardt Hern return to them How would you like to make one yourself? You can do don Russell sent in the article and it easily if you follow the directions lve cut it down to fit this column) Not long ago I was clearing away below an old dump where there was a good First get a piece of ot rotting vegetation deal Durm hickory about one foot long three inches wide and one inch thick Scald it thoroughly by pouring two or three kettlefuls of boiling water over it This will make the hickory pliWhile it is in this condition able you can bend it into the proper shape VERTICAL 1 TALKING' IT OYER Caring For Your Pets - while the other iously across the road ft I "DOWN UNDER" It 's Easy to Make a Boomerang Like Australians Throw Just a Doggoned Girl! Vacation Wilbur and Orville Wright 2 3 Nazi 4 prehistoric animal 5 Rutherford B Hayes the By bite of a certain mosquito 6 Great Britain 7 By counting tha rings through the bole 8 Off the California coast 1 A But there is one common characteristic about real tropical clVaiate in all of these countries The nights are cooler han the days — and this chanste7 of tern )crature is greater than the difference between summer and winter — or the rainy and the' dry reason as their si mmcr and winter are called Ever the rainy and dry seasons are different in different places There are desert places near the equator whrr there i scarcely any rain at all and there aile places in Brazil where the sky" is overjiung with heavy dark clouds for wecjks at a time Singapore has no definite rainy season but Guiana has The sun shines nearly every two mornin r even during the rainy scaon in the Philippine Islands In some places plants die from too much sun andlo9 little rain during the dry season aqd in other places there is always enough rain to keep green things growing rankly The (sunshine in the tropics Is stronger than in northern countries The rays are more direct and contain from three to twenty times as much ultra-viol- et light as the northern sunshine does This invisible and powerful ultra-viollight does not particularly affect plants! although the warmth of the sunshine does but it is very important fort animals- In northern countries we regard ultra-violbut light as many people believe that it is this particular quality of tropical sunshine that makes life for northern people somewhat difficult in the tropics is too much of These people the tonic invisible light in tropic sun- ight for us to bear— and they say ike an overdose of any tonic it is harmful in its effect - et life-givi- et ng say-ther- o "Looit that guy!" cried Nero at a gladiator entered ths arena "Dressed fit to kill" J - |
