Show SPOBTS? f STORIES Jl-Jtill If ' j " r it ' !j ' - - j j j " "J ' - BY il R HEGE1 A$ a little ttwerp do you remem- - RtAAfeMER TO fi VOLS AT bedside in the dimness of a night-lighShe would be waggling her fingers— but you never looked tit our mother's fingers Yopr wall on were the focused eyes I 'f t? f where a r f j MM shadow-rabb- it romping through all sorts of exciting turry antics Mighty bit ihatl bedtime show— forgotten to day in the comics the movies and Was! the great enter tainment thai we accept so un- thinkingly in OUtj" dafly lives to- movies and ji jail day CAM IF TMEV PUT dOOO OU TMCIR TMIWWW© CAP&" AUD Primitive man looked upon his shadow as his soul No other marj was allowed to stp upon it or even touch it As Civilization advanced and fear receded the ij! Chinese began using shadow for entertainmnt I'the idea originated from the Ori- ental's fascination in watching the priests las they performed their rites in lighted tents and H their shadows- darted nysterious- -j ly back and forth At any rate Ijl the shadow play goes back to 157 pup-J?liM- tsi color-scree- ns ! - B C In those early years slant-eye- d passed from village ho Village w$h screens that were I lighted by flickering camphor nburning in pieces of hollow bam-- i Joo Shadow actors beautifully jrf fjpainted decately jointed and l! pioved by rods of bone oc ivory jlj ?ent along fn' a chest together perhaps with a flute drum Or I cymbals for the shadow-pla- y in- y variably had musical accompani- jji istory-telle- rs These ancient Chinese shadow I actors may still be seen in the Field Museum of Chicago ttte sCleveland Museum of Art also the Brooklyn Museu rfauline Benton introduced the Chinese shadows to the attention tof American audiences Now this oldest form of entertainment in the world is being Revived by school groups church clubs and if idramatic organizatiomsi put-ojjji ji piper shadow plays are most he I popular and the cheap-est If anyone thinks they aren't ii Jrurjt to plan construct and act out p —well these doubters ought to try 1 ut -- pi White wrapping paper or even an old sheet pinned in a door will jlmaSke anxtellent screen' When !jthe height of the screen is on ilie bottom should have 1 a jsjrt arrangement of heavy de-ijcid- (sd paper in order that the puppet- - maniDulators will be hidden from e aucuence bcenery is pamted n ia paper Screen with the trees pj houses and other objects blocked with black waterproof ink fcj Sometimes as many as 10 screens if prill be used in even a simple sM !in : jrpiay- The size of the figures depends !:upoh the size of the screen every-""thi- ng should be in scale-mod- el proportions iFor the beginner the cardboard figure is best arms legs and lie ads cut separately thejn jointeo to the body with twd - pronged paper - fasteners nil After "the figure is done it is glued on two sticks Threads can be used to manipulate parts that M will not move through motion of I the sticks alone the threads being i brought through an opening cut the figure fw the play select a simple If one but be sure it has plenty f action! Anything from nursery to ihodern plays will go rhymes the action in incidents Arrange B Jjwa£ "you will find the play rolling smoothly- along jfi shadow play could be the big If Ijijji surprise for your next party :! weave a can some about story you ' popular event that has taken jjf§ 'place in high school with maybe M m few of your guests done in pleasant caricature you'll have a rreal hit on your hand a hearty :! laugh or two too B Shadow pictures often develop I lto i :l - - i Stunts (or That Entertainment ' 1 ' paper-fastene- ot - entertaining Stunt 1 Send out unique - FATHER TIME Don't let procrastination that old thief prevent Vou from tackling the 'list of posers You will find the correct answers elsewhere on this page 1 Motion that is dextroro atory is called what else? it Huygens invented the clock pendulum in the year 1657 In what country? 3 Who is the oldest lunatic on record? (Riddle) 4 What city inj Illinois is famous: tor the- - manufacture of watches? 5 In figuring standard time a difference of 15 degrees in longitude corresponds to what? 0 What famous bell is rung by a dock in a London tower? 7 Give the date of the beginning of the Christian era? a Deposits in savings banks are normally called what? 9 "Time rolls bis ceaseless coijurse" is found to what book by Sir Walter Scott? 10 Machine - made watches weire invented in the United States by whom? —Hesiier L Alletson I ft KITCHENETTE AUNT PEGGY Here's a recipe for syrup cake from Joy D Weideman 1012 South Newton St Sioux City Iowa cup shortening Y4 cup sugar cup syrup J2 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla 1"4 teaspoon cake flour 2 eggs cup milk 2 teaspoons baking powder Grated rind of 1 orange Cream shortening sugar and vanilla Add syrup gradually then add dry ingredients a little at a time Add the eggs one at a time beaten well Add hulk alternately with flour and put in layer cake pans Bake at 350 degrees 30 or 35 minutes t'or frosting use 2 egg whites cup syrup cup sugar Put boiler double in and beat seven WHO'S AFRAID? or until it stands in minutes Afraid of your shadow? Well peaks happens to a boy m let's see what and a girl Who lose their shadow POSER ANSWERS If you don't think it can be done 1 Clockwise 2 Netherlands 3 read the new serial which starts Thine out of mind 4 Elgin 5 Difand Girls the on Bbs next week Shadference in time of exactly one Page The story "Carabel's 6 Big Ben 7 Jan 1 1 A D master hoUr of writtenthat Is by ow" 8 Carr Time humor fanciful Farraday deposits 9 Lady of the to 10 could Hi This adventure Lake Dennison and Howard happen (1050) you! : not an uncommon sight injj Yukon Territory to se a sourdough of a mere 75 or 80 summers trapmjushing out on ah his all with ping expedition equipjneht and food supplies packed on himself and one dog Aj total cif 150 pounds )The food supply will NOT coffee sugar flour butter lard nor potatoes items which a I 'great many people consider necessary to living IThM reason these can life on so few groceries is the abundance of game and the fact that a large number of flowers and plants growing in Yukon can be usd for food Among these is the water arum sometimes called Wild Call It is 'found in stagnant pools The roots are ground up and used for flour Wild sage grows profusely on stfnny rocky hillsides Gathered and dried it ii better seasoning than sage you buy in packages Yellow pond lily is common in muddy pools and slow streams Tjbe roots have a strong iastringent quality Which is removed by frequent washings before being used 'il for foodj v Wild rhubarb grows in great quantity and when the stems and ps rd j i u into a real hobby because thef more one studies about the field the more artistic he becomes with New M § In and lightpuppets hermit-hobby ing It is by no means a Everyone wants to see a BY WALTER KING shadow-pictu- re artist and his art Of course you want to keep Good books on shadow plays on aire and how to produce them your party from being a flop And the shelves of your public library when you send out invitations Lr-waRead about these returning shadfriends w$l looking ows Then get busy with some your to something fmbre modern rs ink and scissors cardboard You'll give a ljot of and more exciting than the an-gfun to others and youll have a cient "Whistle whittle who's lot! of fun yourself! the whistle? Well here yofit arkjShick these ideas over and see if you &mi feel like having othor g4 at 1 - 1 - ) jj j ruyi 1 j d ! selve-servi- ng -- j -- lout-date- stiff-neck- ed ifisJtL leave! aire stewed it is s medicine I to ward off scurvy I Then there are wild berries that can be picked and dried or frozen Some of these (include the Arctic roseberry bearing a fruit much like the raspberry The dwarf 2 f sal-m- the northern berry on blue- berry Which can be used for jam The bilberry ripens In f early fall J Wild black cunrents make a good preserve to serve with lamb and mutton The Alpine cranberries scarlet in color 'are made falito jelly or sauce to ward off scurvy L Strawberry blite is much the skme as ripe strawberries and Yukon Indians also use the juice front the fruit for dyeing purposes Ud! strawberries grow abund-ajn-tl all over the Yukori The blue juniper which berry grows on dry rocky hillsides has a bite of turpentine to the taste It is used for medicinal purposes Thus does an old sourdough live oft the land fhin-leaf- ed 1 QUICKWINK RIDDLERC 9y GARRET 6EERLIN6S Why Should you keep the comics fjrom the man you want to go straight? Because he might read the comics and up witti laughtef Do the puzzle and find the Ii word' 1 2 ing ii D !p miss- 3 4 5 6 D D D D t I fellow 3 5 1 father 2 a lazy hesitancy 4 money playthings for girls 6 I garb Audre Ave ' M C") f-- ' - 1 JOKES ' 1 i - FLOWERS GET AROUMOJ AT LEAST THEIR SEEDS BY BENN1E BENGTSON Plants may not have legs but CORNER they get around anyway The way some of them have traveled CAMS around the world "riding the WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Of PlOMeX W was born W7 TH£ COtOAJ&TS rods" so to speak earns them April 23 1564 this set and of the title of the world's greatest puzzles honors the famous bard of Avo vagabonds The most notorious hitch-hikCROSSWORD PUZZLE of them all is doubtless the common dandelion — altogether too 1 Z "5 common for some of us each spring A native of Europe it : arrived in America with the first 5 3 7 16 BURS AUD BeddAR colonists and has since been long TlCVCS ARE TRAVELERS at home in every corner of the 9 S Also ru&y usually and It is probably the best 1Z ± 13 S known plant on earth for it is to day found nearly everywhere And small wonder! Long before THERE Ate VARIOUS OTHER MEAWS OP nations ever thought of equipping TRAWSPOPTATIOW TOO" parachute troops the dandelion provided a 'chute for each of its ACROSS seeds And many a small boy or Head covering "M Winglike part giri has helped along the good work by picking the puffball seed- m Our puzzle today deals with head of a mature plant and blow Shakespeare ing the seeds into the air! Away 9 Symbol for iridium they go ready to colonize new 10 Egyptian sun god areas to polka-d- ot other lawns 11 Played for stakes fcY ROY L WARRENwith their golden globes 15 Fish eggs fijow fast do birds fly? In an Another naturalized citizen 16 Perched swer to urns question may a which now waves its blue flowers DOWN Cooke of the Bureau of Biologi over much of eastern United TRY THIS HOBBY 1 Nickname fer Harold If you are bored or lonely here! cal Survey compiled a brief sum States and Canada is the chicory Whole 2 s a hobby guaranteed jto keP you mary of some of the more reliable Away back in the early days 3 Japanese porgy reports of flight speeds Here is ships carried earthen ballast both interested and happy 5 Toupee When the ship took on cargo in You start out by doing some what she found: 6 Boy's name Speeds of 50 to 60 miles an hour eastern ports the ballast was thing for someone 7 Exist Maybe you will be like Berry have been recorded for mallard dumped and this ballast con8 Insane who never Wkes the Old! Trail ducks Faster speeds for pintails tained seeds of many a plant 12 Written form of Mistress and 72 miles beachcomber The but what she brings back bunches and canvasbacks — 65 — knows chicory 13 Snake a bt catnip to be dried out and pre-- ? an hour respectively have been a trick or two when it Comes to 14 Permit reported by ornithologists using maturing its seeds too— for it sented in small bundles to —2— Although the wing sur blooms on the installment plan Sometimes airplanes friends Berry MIX-UP- S face of the mallard is about 20 If one period isn't favorable for gives bunches of tins aromatic You will learn three things herb to the humane shelter for per cent greater than that of the fertilizing the flowers and ripen- about Shakespeare if you reswifter canvasback the latter ing the seeds another is alm5st its homeless cats arrange the following scrambled Paul who lives acrOss the street makes up for its small wings by sure to do better correctly: Plants who thumb their way words from Berry recently ivent fo the beating them faster In additionis VAN DOOR TORN FATS resistance wind its probably from any passerby are the burs hospital for suspected appendix AWE HAY FAN MR MORO trouble He saw the boredom of less because it is more stream- and beggar ticks Provided with SOU FED RUNT MARE lined prongs or hooked teeth they recuperating patients in his ward — 3— X fU fasten and cling to either the fur and returned to the hospital the SHAKESPEARE REBUS of animals or the clothing of hufollowing week his motion pic Four facts about Shakespeare mans Certain weeds such as ture projection machine tucked hiddeil in the words and pic are wild mustard make sure of their under his arm what films he had tures: 4 existence by setting such an on hand tucked under the other enormous a he hit were amount such of seed that His movies some cannot help but reach a Went to the hospital the following favorable location week to give another show and A globe-trott- er of renown is the next and the next paying for the hedge bindweed For many the rented films out of his own centuries now it has been on the pocket Finally the company from go beating its way about the whom Paul was renting his films world Most farmers who have al heard what he was doing and WHAT AREfoujH6 To ovm nniH — lowed all films to fee released fought it in corn wheat and po 1 x n r tato fields wish that it had gratis withstayed at home! Curiously enough Other things can be done this "wild morning glory" cannot out stirring from your own fire a exist of cover side anywhere unless its particuMounting the about can travel Duck hawks lar insect friends go along These magazine cutting it out fashion and sending jit to neigh- three times as fast as most ducks "iraveung companions" are cerborhood small fry who aire get and fliers One of these hawks tain moths which po Denize the ting over a cold or measles Dress diving on its victim was clocked flowers If the moths are plentia doll Clip something from the at 165 to 180 miles an houfc with ful so are the bindweeds if o scarce the same is true of the paper that might intereslt your a stop watch Diving at a flock175 a of at ducks col bindweeds if there are no moths nearly velocity minister or your brother in an hour an miles aviator reports the plant will not thrive or your lege a duck that hawk a Able allies of the plants when Oshkosh presumably out in family aunt the as hawk him though it comes to distribution are birds passed Organizations like the Girl still To be sure they end the career MISSING VOWELS Spouts Boy Scouts the Junior plane wasofstanding are 20 an miles hour a Speeds of seed but it if many you prefer by eating Redace the vowels in their Red Cross will help mar-ti- n recorded for both the a off also others purple great many proper places and break up the to share the hobby with carry they the and the blue store for use line to form a sentence about seeds which they jay although But whether you exercise the to former be the faster j itreturn appears never them Shakespeare: for later then hobby socially or alonettry flier on Two records the rubya HWSFVRTF QNLZBTH Many huge oak has been plantonce a day once a week You'll —5— find it pays big dividends in living throated hummingbird list its ve ed by a blue jay when he buried locity in easy flight at 45 and 55 an acorn Some plants like the WORD DIAMOND miles an hour A Georgia orni- mistletoe have berries covered QUICKWINK ANSWER Shakespeare's plays were 6 in the 5 which speed substance 4 thologist with a sticky recording 3 1 2 on the early English stage of bobwhites in all types of wind clings to the feet and feathers of so THEATER forms the center of D )D D D D found them flying 28 to 38 miles a bird and is carried for miles our word diamond The second E O R O an hour Another record of the through the air to another tree word is her the third place E I B U O D bobwhite shows that it flew 49 where they take root and grow S L D N B T fifth consumed and the sixth a an hour when frightened miles S and trees S the E T S Y Aquatic plants low haunt flowers bordering streams make pr use of the water as a means of IMP Downstream like transportation '"'!: v KR Yi sort a some It talent has of )NE V so many tiny rafts drift the seeds THEATER came with you into the world and your job T perhaps to take root miles away is to express it In a way which will make from where they grew to maturpv others as well as yourself happy R ity Even the ocean plays its part —it carries the coconuts from What Is your talent? Is there some one TO PUZZLES which grow the coconut palms 1 ANSWERS thing you would rather do than anything else? answer: Crossword puzzle from one island to another Heav Something you can do better than most of the ier than air gliders are the seeds crowd? The chances are your answer will h of the maples winged travelers show you what your talent is You must a- — who waft through the air like talent — yvO' r — know vou have U Ik t10 nrt " ' " onnnirh to out blades to a want useful person be if whirling it propeller of you use happy make good A aA W over wood and field when the No matter how small orj insignificant it may seem to you there I is R A breezes blow Is a place in the world for your particular talent Perhaps it scienas like vetches the Some plants needed somewhere to complete someone else's talent 6 I A M 6 L E: D done weed their the has and each an work the explode jewel of many people tists use the talents seedpods throwing the seeds a on his special sift in orier to create such blessings as wireless which short distance through the air of things steam engines penicillin and the thousands wen being of the Others spread by means of suckhave added to the joy the health and the ers and runners Deserving of 1 Stratford-on-Avo- n Ran away world Or your talent may be an individual matter something Returned famous hom are from of "tumbleweeds" name their out yourself by London 3 you must work Othello England: them the Russian thistle and the Hamlet Most talents seem unimportant to the people who possess Globular in shape 4 He was a favorite of Queen meals operating a streetcar or a Running a machine cooking Elizabeth off at the break a ground of making they living through T ' f typewriter are just everyday ways are when and seeds the No matter when SHE talent ripe the expression of some phase of your special of it which makes STEAD comes wind a away they along make use you THEATER what your talent Is it is the EATBSi: roll bounding over the fields and '11 of use to the world and individual successful DEN you a happy scattering seeds to right and left DO — THE DAJJDELOU MOST er - Science Measures Speeds of Birds - er Jr m M I jfig-sa- vf £iM mm ei' Jsolated-from-th- j perl-form- :mmmkyt a talent— use iti Read down: owed: " Oa cat-own- invi- tations that will challenge curiosity "If you riajjrai of the dark do not attend: my blindfold party at 8 o'clock Friday night" Then as each guest arrives blinds-folhim turn off the lights in the sitting room and having relieved him of his wraps let him And out who the party by the sound of their voices in the dark A "dark horse" at the party will be the means of a great deai of fun Stunt 2 Run a pnystery party Just say "Come on lover' "What's On?" "That's a mystery" "Who's invited?" "Hard to say!' Ge the idea? Well keep it lap all evening Stunt 3 Break up your games program with a bit of wizardry or magic A new card trick will do or a puzzle that will challenge the ingenuity of jth0 nes who iancy memseives Stunt 4 Set upia games room equipped with playing cards checkers dart boards ring games or arfy such amuse ments and give the folks a chance to pair off and pky their faVorite game for a lunifed time At a given signal change games Offer a prize for the player who twins the greatest number ojf founds Stunt 5 Call itaujarmy medi cal examination to) test the keenness of your guestl' sense of tastings feeling smelling! seeing and hearing Blindfold each candidate for the first three and up a screen for the hearing test For the taste tryout u e such stems as lard dry bread sponge cake and jelly For the toucl test: spaghetti a piece of wool a piece of silk or a school eraserf For the smell examination: an ojbion ointment perfume (guess scent) andl tea leaves For the sight test: a comical homemade chart using letters that spell words printed smaller and smaller Fo healing test: pouring water folding a newspaper brushing clothes and turning the pages of a book Thisj is a riot of fun and you will be able to think up no end of fresh stunts to do each time Stunt 6 A treasure hunt Finders keepers Guests art not allowed to touch anytoiing but are advised as to what is hidden: coins candy funny Jokes to be read etc Stunt-- 7 Boys p repare the lunch and the girls serve it (and what a lunch) Start 8 A serving buffet Eats lunch tastily arranged pn a convenient table and guests help themselves Saves fuss and embarrassment Notice that in all these stunts newness and variety are the Chief d features Throw out alt the and Use games your imagination! M8ike newness and liveliness the keynotes of your party and the success of your indoor entertainment Is tssurad fcRATS g' old-tim- ers flow television Yet shadow pictures are really the forerunners of our plays our ''!' ' i l j: Plants Have No Legs but They Get Around in Many Different Ways By 'Hitch-Hikin- j ! " k t in-clide- jtea ) i j low tt - e j giant-siz- see AMI j BY A G ARMSTRONG 1 BEDTIME:?: ? p Sourdoughs Lffe pn Berries ff I MADE SHADOW PICTURES ber your mother sitting at your I I "5 VsWfcU YOUR AOTHE:R r i 1 Offered Primitive of Peoples Plays iCartoon Entertainment Like That of Today I CUTCL GIRLS PAGE ja f i-- "S JU jfuSL Cibranic Trenton 10 N m 148 Andrew J does odd jobs to make spare cash "I get some of my spare money for going to the store for people I alio Watch babies X watch babies about three times a week and go to the store every other day My earnings amount to about $2 a week land that's enough for me" This is a very common way for joupgsters to earn money— running errands and minding babies A reliable youngster can always find people in bis neighborhood who are anxious for his services IaTt ALA 1 JL — — m — — — t- LT rfMi H 1 I ROB ±K IJ rose-of-Jeric- ho — ed |