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Show Wednesday, January 19,1972 THE BORN LOSER By Art Sansom o -/ ook IM PLING) oxer our!) +7 “ = = eae ] Baan 2 + HOW COULD > S ae we 2 JR WN BACK WS < Teli Me Why WhatAre Marbles Made Of? Win The New Book of Knowledge (20 volumes). Send your questions, name, age, address to “Tell Me Why!”care of this paper. Include Zip Code. In case of duplicate questions, the author will decide the to shoot at other marbles. Play marbles or “taibs”, as they are sometimes called, are the marbles at which the player aims his shooter Play marbles are made of HOPE WE ALL PASS! / British Museum.In addition to marbles, the Romans used pebbles and nuts for their games. cae In China boys marbles. One is called “shooters” and thc other “play marbles”. In some sections of the country shooters are also called “taws.” A shooter or taw is made of either glass, baked clay, agate, or plastic. It is the marble used named after the material they are made of, such as: glassies, clayies, and agates. Or the way they look gives them their names: ringers. cloudies,flints. Most of the ordinary baked clay marbles and those of onyx come from Ohio. marbles are usually made make it go in a certain direction. FUN TIME The Riddle Box !.How do you keep a skunk from smelling’2 2. What is the dif- Answer to yesterday's Puzzle ference between a lazy Box: 30 years old. schoolboy and a fisherman? 3. by melting the glass and while it Why is your nose not twelve Win The New Book of is hot, it between the inches long? Knowledge Yearbook. Send two halves of polished metal ANSWERS your riddles, jokes, to: molds. Me In ancient Egypt snd Rome, 1, Hold his nose shut. 2. One ’ ‘Riddles, Jol ; Tell Why!” Give Zip Code. children played with marbles, hates his books while the other UU and these marbles have been baits his hook. 3, Becausethen it Today’s winner is: LUCY HOOVER,Leola, Ps. found and can be seen at the would be a foot. REDEYE By GordonBess Pane eee HOW DID REDEYE TAKEIT? WE WERE 66TTII MARRIED WHETHER UKED ITOR NOT! — (© 19M Wy MOA, fc, Tak Bag US. Pt. OF. LANCELOT He SWHEW!= IT WAS A TOUGH 3oe, \| BUT WY DRIVEWAY IG FINALLY _/ THE BERRYS YOUR COFFEE IS ALWAYS GREAT, PAT/ I THINK TLL HAVE ANOTHER CUP CLEARED! By Carl Grubert BUT YOU'VE HAD THREE CUPS] ALREADY? AREN'T YOU AFRAID IT WILL KEEP Lo a YOU AWAKETONIGHT ? a game kicking marbles. baked y, Blass, stone, onyx, marble, alabaster, and plastic. player Sometimes the play marbles are that it will hit the other one and TEACHER! :--50 Leis nile | THE HERALD, Provo, Utah--Page 27 <. By Coker And Penn +: Que * 7 If LEVER GET OUT OF \ a co ; . . ( HERE I'M GOING TO CLOBBER THAT (NICE TIMING, a, 1 sioweLow DRWER,! |LAST TIME YOU DRANK TOO MUCH COFFEE AT BEDTIME rE iD IN YOUR SLEEP ALL NIGHT! [LITT/A wUNT FRITZI---YOU WERE RIGHT WHEN BUGS BUNNY HIYA, FUDDSY! 4 "NEVER TRUST. A BLONDE”, STEVE ROPER & MIKE NOMAD LLB WAO!~-NO, SENHOR/ HE ONLY SMILED + WITH GREAT Nee“ 4 BY CHANCE, YES/--HE WAS GIVING HIS LUGGAGE CHECK TO A--A-~ COMO SE WHAT'S THE GOOD OF BEING HAPPY IF IT IAKES YOU By Marcia Course AMANDA PANDA WHEN I COUNT TO FIVE, EVERYONE “to DIVE! ONE,TWO,THREE, FOUR... FOSITINE. Look AT THE BILL We SuST SENT ME. |