Show Vfa BOYS W GAMES GIRLS PAGE PUZZLES of Strange Names and Funny Places" World 's GYMNASIUM MENTAL BENME BENGTSON QFI out the atlas on a rainy day and amuse yourself by looking over the names on the maps There's any number of names that look funny because we aren't used to them Of course if we should happen to live at one of these places the name wouldn't seem strange We'd be used to ft No country in the world has such unusual and picturesque names as the United States Many of our place names came from the Indians a large number were brought along by the colonists and settlers from their bomes acros the ocean and some like fopsy "Just growed" when some place desperately needed a name There's Tombstone Ariz for instance It all started when the man who later founded the town set off on a prospecting trip into the Apache country His friends told him that "all you'll find there is your tombstone" But he found a mine which he called "The Tombstone" Th mining town that later grew up around It took the same name In Arizona too is Flagstaff so called because a group of early settlers camped there one Fourth of July and raised a flag JOKES BY Quick wink Riddler Crossword Puzzle rjz 5 14 5 IS I 17 16V IB io ' n ii is tt strictly proper to the name of a girl? boat give When the boat is — by women Do the puzzle and find the missing word Wbeo a 17 2' 20 19 18 2 S 4 5 6 F F F F F F 22 so B 1 Read down: l — A sheet of fire 4— 3 — Girl's name S — Heat due to sickness Amusing 6— Quarrels Now read across the fourth row of letters for the missing word 2— Deadly ACROSS 1 5 9 10 11 Shelltisb Plant form Girl's name Garment worn in India Not closed Beret 12 13 Us 14 Wealthy men 17 Dutch city 18 ralking bird 21 Part of "to be" 23 Exist 24 flipped 26 Paper measure 28 Sea eagle 29 Descry 30 1 WORD SQUARE the letters to each row to form a good word then rearrange the rows to form a word square: ble R 5 E S O AA O E R O AA R A Revelry A DOWN Black bird M S E AA E E- E R - D WORD MARRIAGES word for augment word for conducted add a 2 Stout cord To a 3 Peer Gynt's mother 4 Flag 5 Electrical term 8 Roman philosopher 7 Arabian Marry the words and have muddled To a prickly covering add a French word for water Marry the two and have a chest of drawers 8 Becomes overcast 15 Bustle 16 More suited 18 Pee) WORD DIAMOND Here's a diamond centered 19 War god 29 Harvest 21 Italian river 22 Encounter 25 Boundary (comb form) 27 Mine on ATHLETE The second word is an abbreviation for "attorney" the third is "residue from a Are" the fifth "very small" and the sixth is a "pigpen": A SCRAMBLED SENTENCE Rearrange the words in the following jumble to form a clear sentence: highest England in Mount point la New the Washington T H ATHLETE E T DONT SAX IT SNEEZE IT Pa (folks pUNXSUTAWNEY around there usually say just "Punksey") gets its name from an Indian word meaning "place of the sand flies" Uwchland is antown that other Pennsylvania looks unpronounceable The name came from Wales and is pronounced "uke land" Akron Ohio's rubber city was laid out on an elevation and took the Greek word for "summit" Anaheim Calif was named for the first child born in the settlement Anna Fischer and "helm" the German word for home In California too is the little town of Batata which is Spanish for "sweet potato" Benhur was named for the character in General Lew Wallace's famous novel California also has the Golden Gate called that by Fremont on i ANSWERS If You Need Them CROSSWORD E C R A B O P E WE I P jA RE-- ANSWER: T A M S M kl IcIaId' A B O B ed"e jo J R R rl Ml lesp T Er y I A WORD SQUARE: DREAM ROMEO EMIRS AERIE AA MOSES — —— R JsJE oT QUICK WINK ANSWER 1 2 3 4 5 6 F L F F F A T U N F E A A N F E V U Y Y WORD MARRIAGES: Addled: SILENCE tS NECESSARY IP the ©WW fS TO Wr Bur-E- Add-Le- d Bureau au WORD DIAMOND: A MANNED L R S E SENTENCE: SCRAMBLED Mount Washington is the highest point in New England ATT ASHES ATHLETE TEENY STY E tsiMLsai Wre3N&: Grandma took her granddaughter Linda for aa auto ride It was Grandma's custom to bay Linda some Inexpensive toy before they returned home On the trip they passed one of those small traveling carnivals Thinking she could find something suitable on the grounds Grandma stopped Grandma banted and banted bat no sign of a rubber ball toy ear or anything Finally in desperation she spied a paper bat bought tt and clamped It on little Linda's head They climbed back In the ear and headed homewards For a long time Linda was very quiet Finally Grandma broke the alienee "Welt how do yon like your pretty new hat?" She heard no answer so she turned and looked at her granddaughter Linda wore the most woebegone expression Imaginable Suddenly her little bands shot oat palms opward as she said 'Vat I haven't anything in theser —Hester L AUetaon IN CATCWNG P&£YANPtT ALONE OF ALL CAN FLY NOISELESSLY DUE TO THE SOFT DOWNY FRINGE Along ITS WING FEATHERS— Qiu$ on JU&& fatherly ARE PROTECTED IN THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK WWW A JACKtVASWT CAN COVER OF TWENTY FEET IN A SI NGLE A DISTANCE LEAP AAALSASG 7 Deduct the last letter of this kind of tree and get a beverage 8 This tree should be very much in demand 9 You might wear this type on your feet 10 Perhaps the "Swedish nightingale" sat under this tree? I Wire Puzzle for You to Make BY JOYCE HUNTER JF your budget can't stand today's high cost of clothing you habit girls can get the ribbon-dar- n WIRE PUZZLE and save money now and throughout your life Those rips tears and puiled-apa- rt MAAAE: places that apA TOWH4 too soon in your everyday pear IV4 SOUTW KJ A slips and other garments should n be fixed at once Darn them with WHO matching ribbon from bolts and WCH of white pink and blue -g lengths kept in your sewing box It's easier than bunting up matching silk z i cutting tt the right length and having to hem the edges The ribPUZZLE AC&EMBLED bon has finished edges and can be basted down with tiny running and back stitches (Wicked bint: it can go unbasted if your darn's good and strong) Of course you'll want to do a more professional BY WALTER KING darning job on your best under-thinFor cotton and muslin 15 inches of wire and a underwear keep cotton tape on pLIERS of pinch patience are all the hand in the various colors materials needed for this homemade puzzle that will provide Most clatter boxes In basehours of fun and entertainment QUIEW ment or workroom have an old for you and your friends PL ACE: A door handle— the horizontal KMOWS) This particular ring puzzle is IW kind a few Inches long-rat- tling easy to solve when you know bow around Inside Bring but if you haven't the secret comit oat to the tight and fasten bination it may be baffling for It over as a work bench the AMD THE hours holder for Mother tools may A&BREVIATIOKJS find It handy In the kitchen The wire chosen to make the DEATHLY UNUSUAL over the stove or sink for puzzle should be stiff enough that KJAM&5 it cannot be too easily sprung or holding some of her utensils forced and yet pliable enough to CTAAJ YOU Give tt a coat of paint of 1 be bent into the shapes required coarse Or try it In a clothes on closet perhaps the back of Stovepipe wire will do very nicely Tin-cuas a door inside the account of the brilliant effect of a place in the neighboring state of sleep" Once upon a time p First a closed ring one inch in diameter Is made (Figure 1) This Colo was a booming mining the setting sun on the nearby hills of South Carolina or Difficult is linked to a hairpin -- shaped and cliffs Then there is the post-offi- over in Tennessee In Montana town where gold was so plentiful we off ring watched fishermen Once couna of Bronco term often ap- there's a lake a river and a it was measured in a tincup hence piece of wire that has two 1 ch Azores Islands the and harpoon half-wiwas term name to small called The the Flathead the horses ty legs plied an open ring is made If you think some of those shoot a whale Now this same of the plains but in Spanish mean- given to a tribe of Indians who Next thrill can be enjoyed by young names look a flattenMono custom are And had the same size as the what unusual the of hap2) county (Figure funny ing "rough" fishclosed ring and fastened to a and also a lake which derives ing the heads of their papooses by pens when you abbreviate the fishermen who don't know a from the Spanish word for "mon- fastening a piece of board or a state names after some towns ing hole that has a whale Bow haped wire like the one in is gaining favor and arrow L The final connecting Figure key" We may wonder why that hard pad of grass to their fore- There's Shapeless Mass for one It's legal infishing most states although Oola La and Goodness Me Inname was chosen especially as heads point is left open until the puzzle Oshkosh is a familiar name to come Tex is another and over fishing with a gun isn't Bow and is assembled wild monkeys aren't at home The third piece is a smaller ring around there An answer of sorts a lot of folks in Wisconsin and In Pennsylvania we come to Poi- arrow fishing takes a special kind an line and and of reel aluminum rs anson Pa Pa too Others and name matter of for in be about elsewhere found that the of an inch in Grandpa may other California town Quien Sabe especially since it is a manufac- from here and there are Deathly arrow also special Even after a diameter fish is hit it's a real battle to Coco Colo Hittor Miss Now link the three parts of the for "who turing center It's name doesn't 111 which is Spanish land him If we were a fish we'd puzzle together by Del Ore sneeze Farmerina knows?" but honors Either originate from a sliding the an Indian chief Still another place Proan Conn Don't miss this one: feel less humiliated if we got har- small ring over the point of piece WHY NOT "WHY NOT?" pooned instead of caught on a 1 and locking pieces 1 and 2 towhose name was that of an Indian Bee O hook but we don't suppose a real gether as shown The open town more was a In these where lots North Carolina Minn There's Is the chief Sleepy Eye JN ring named Why Not It's as good original it was Ishanumbak "man came from Next time it rains fish cares Either way he would of piece 2 is then closed and its rather not play a name as Due West to pick out whose eyes have the appearance just dig out the atlas and see ends locked with pliers The loops where the wire is joined must be large enough to allow the ring to swing freely on the hairpin To remove the small ring looks impossible But if you bold the puzzle so that both large rings are to the left of their hairpin points (see the diagram) and then swing the open ring over to the right you will have no difficulty in removing the small ring if you follow the path marked in the illusBY WILLIAM J MURDOCH be some day they'd wish he had tration ARTY -- LINE Peeping Tom listened in on one of their calls In fact so easy Is this puzzle to to have his they'd be glad solve —that's what the old fo- Maybe when you know the trick wait! help Just can do it behind your that you in town Snubs called gies back before anyone has a chance him Blackburn and it fried Snubs couldnt The tempto finish saying: "I don't believe jgUT to a sizzled crisp tation was too great He cauit can be done at alt" "I'm not trying to snoop" he tiously lifted the receiver to his told his Aunt Etta as he sat in ear just as Mrs Marten rightfully the kitchen watching her whip answered the call "Mother? Mother?" It was a up a batch of cookies for the church bazaar that afternoon woman's voice high and excited "Doggone it I'm just interested "Mother the worst thing Just BY KATHERINE HOUISON in what s gain' on" happened!" COMPETITION is not "beating "We've got a good weekly news"Janet child!" exclaimed Mrs the other fellow It is doing paper here in Websville Read it Marten "What on earth la the to the best of your ability things if you're so interested But stay matter?" so that your effort will challenge away from that telephone unless Snubs gulped His bands shook otners to do you know it's our ring" said his "Oh mother!" walled Mrs Marbest Aunt Etta primly "You're not to ten's daughter "I — oh that dirty Whatever o start trouble" beast!" The connection was abyou may A scowl darkened Snubs's face ruptly broken j be trying t u telHe glared at the Snubs's head whirled reach you receive incentive Here now was really someephone mounted on the kitchen 'Never mind your old cookies! Come on I from everyone wall So what if a guy did listen thing! Peeping Tom was he? Hat to who is in on someone's call once tn a He guessed now they'd be glad and made a fool of me as well as mother" Janet replied in a grieved reach trying that while? What else was there to do enough he heard that telephone goal — " voice and Snubs nudged bis peryourself and you give inspiration and enon lonesome days? call because be was going to rush plexed aunt "I know 1 was silly couragement to them by your efright out and save the girl! CNUBS wasn't listening He fair- to call you but I had such hopes forts Ooof! He bumped into bis Aunt UNT ETTA stowed the cookies ly dragged bis Aunt Etta up of winning the cake contest at the at Etta the There Is a place for everyone "Snubs! My doorway in the oven "I've got to run the steps of the house He was church bazaar this afternoon and somewhere Your land trouble?" the what's job is to find down to the store" she said "You about to thrust open the front door mother — my cake fell!" own We "Where shouted don't he your have to com"Plenty!" can watch cookies Don't let them At that moment Mrs Martens when his aunt halted him They with Mrs Yea We simdoes else Marten's live? pete everyone girl burn I haven missed a prize and her daughter rushed to the could hear voices from inside have to concentrate on preWell in that's her she's ply Janet at a church bazaar in 29 years "But what a thing to get so ex- back door There was a terrible paring for and finding our goaL peck of trouble!" I'll be right back" commotion outside If one door seems to close you "Snubs" his aunt said severely cited about!" they heard Mrs wonsaid Snubs sighed heavily slumped "if "Goodness" "I Janet a Marten with exclaim can push another open But If we hearty you've been listening—" In his chair propped his head "An accident!" he told her pull- laugh "He's such a cute little der what Snubs has done to de- are concentrating on some one against his fist and wished some- ing her by the elbow "Come on puppy You can train him not to serve such a licking from his particular job we may not see the thing would happen other opportunity offered Aunt Etta Never mind your old chew up any more sofa pillows A aunt!" It did The telephone rang cookies Lead the way and 111 dirty beast Indeed!" There la a thrill and a lift In Tree Quiz Answers three longs and a short Snubs tell you about it" Aunt Etta bent her gray eyecompeting in the right spirit If rolled his black eyes towards the 1 — Ash 2 — Myrtle 8 — Redwood you lose — it's because toe other Which he did as they trotted brows hard upon Snubs "See!" — tt was There 4 "And this Oak (acorn) S— Hawthorn(e) fellow tried harder or gave more telephone again through back yards Aunt Etta she whispered fiercely For all be knew that might be stumbling and teetering and tot- Is what I let my cookies burn to 6 — Pa paw 7— Tea(k) 8— Poplar and therefore deserves to win But — Sandalwood 10— you can be sure there are other someone calling for help (popular) tering in her struggles to keep up cinders for I ought to—" was Linden He pop-eySnubs ring! goals which your very failure at "Wait" with her (Jenny Lind) pleaded nephew one task has opened for you "There must be "I don't know what to make of dumbfounded Snubs sidled up to the phone THEN BOOM! Your best efforts challenge and and peered at the little chart it" she gasped "But here's Janet s more to it than just a doggone Figuring air resistance and all Inspire the other fellow That is pasted near the queer old contrap- house And there's her mother's sofa pillow!" And there was "It wouldn't other factors it takes about 19 true enmnotlHnn inri it la the one tion Three longs and a short was car She didn't waste any time getParty-lin- e Mrs Marten's ring ting over here But mind you have upset me so If this other aw- seconds for a bomb to reach the sure way to both happiness and Peeping Tom was he? Welt may Snubs Blackburn if you've gone ful thing hadn't happened ground from a plane a mile nigh success due weer Of the CAROM Y irssrr i gs SAB Ei" IS CALIFORNIA - OF III MAK6 JK 1 - TJAJjhl UK tle-han- ser ce Vi-in- ld hairpin-s- three-quarte- Jung flopping Jvnt (pwdy Just Couldn't Snubs Keep His Nose Out of Affairs of Others D Good Competitors Are Good Winners a their old-fashio- Answers to this set of questions are names of trees There is no danger of you being "treed" If you think carefully Elsewhere on this page are the correct answers L You'll find this tree in most used fireplaces 2 "Olive" isn't her name what Is tt? 3 This tree is not a blue spruce 4 It doesn't have feet but grows a corn 5 The American novelist Nathaniel — — is your clue here 8 The name of this tree is very SUCCESSFUL birds No Bird in the Hand AAME:& CAM—S£r m cm 9dm Hot-zig-ge- t -ng -ng Rin-n-n-- ng ed tyl |