Show BOYS W Ol RLS ROE GAMES Q7w P PUZZLES HOBBIES How Tall You Grow Doesn't Depend on Food Household Rhymes given King Charles I many year ago a huge pie was brought in and when it was opened out stepped — not " lour and 20 blackbirds-b- Hudson Jef-fe- ry ut a midget only 18 : Inches tall Nearly ten years ago at Manistee Mich died a fellow who was probably the most gigantic giant the world has even seen His name was Robert Wad low and when he died he was a human skyscraper over eight feet 10 Inches tall and he weighed 481 pounds One of the most famous of mod-e- m midguts "Tom Thumb" a fellow when full grown measured only 31 Inches in his stocking feet Tom's real name was Charlie Si ration Apart from his size Charlie was normal in every way He was Just as good at school as the average young f"1 fellow: The tall chap Wadlow went through high school with high 'Standing and it was always his ambition to enter college to study law Instead he grew so fast be had to become a circus freak a e e THAT makes anyone a giant or a midget? Is there any chance that you may suddenly stop grow- ing or forget to stop growing? The answer is "No" Midgets end giants are suffering from seri- ©us glandular trouble which af- fects normal growth almost from birth If you in your early teens have already sprouted up higher than the table top or if you have no difficulty getting through the door you can set your mind on law school if you feel so inclined Tom Thumb as a teen-aglooked like a doll When 18 years old Robert Wadlow was over eight feet tall At birth the midget was a bit under par and the giant a trifle over par and as time went on it became apparent their attempts to doll-siz- &Stf£0 6 0£JtJOS AUG W SMSr AT A SPECIAL DIHM&P ©IVEW BV Kl W3 CHARLES I A PlE WAS BROUGHT 1W OOMTAINIMG A AftlD3ET OKiLV ia ( LAST ME OM THE OTHER J I is a city hke music? Why may carpenters reasonably believe there is no such thing as stone? S Why is a bad picture like :r'sWhy - PARDCI SI i n amusing table favor for a party Yon can a hatch of them in a jiffy Wf normally were beyond con- When 0 years old Wadlow lift his father without any trouble When full grown furniture and clothes had tp be made to order for uadlow midget can snuggle up in an ordinary bed but the giant had to have a 9 '4 -- foot cot Clothing Wadlow was also a problem Tom Thumb's shoes cost a bit more than an ordinary pair because they had to be specially made Robert" gW troL 150-pou- nd Wadlow's shoes size 36 cost anywhere from $90 to $200 according to quality His hands were so enormous he could hold a camera in his fist With only the lens showing between his index finger and thumb Tom Thumb standing on tip toe could just have reached up and touched the top of Wadlow's knee jyjEALS for Tom Thumb were no problem One egg and a piece of toast was plenty for On the other hand Wadlow devoured three or four courses ot everything His break-fast included a whole package of cereal a ouart of oranee iuice half a dozen eggs eight to 12 slices of toast a pint jar of apple jelly and five cups of coffee Once a lunch wagon proprietor offered to let the giant drink all the coffee he wanted for 25 cents It was a poor business offer be- cause Wadlow eaaerlv euloed is the difference be- For each guest you need one Ma A fe-- colored baking cv:ps Sftaaome raisins toothpicks and pieces of uncooked noodle will ppe faces and hats to all the fa l Bvs LKs JT- sJB J center ot the skull causes most of Scramble "a rodent" and have the growing trouble When it and have scramble "pitch" ddes to work overtime the circus "skill" reset ambleagain and have "a has another prospective coin" aiant No amount of Hietinv or Malayan exercising will do any good The Crossword Puzzle only help would be a new gland s I? and medical science has not yet ' KW — installation of with the caught up these tricky' items of human f anatomy But if your pituitary has worked satisfactorily so liar von can hm down 17 cups glad you are normal so get on with your chores voices have and z 122 m Midgets 18 119 I midget to like the sound --— — ogre great giants 55r Tom Thumb spoke with a delicate r voice pretty little and he delighted many an audi— — gs w ence with his clever talk and witty Bess Rirter By sayings On the other hand Rob? ACROSS ert Wadlow had a thick husk TTS easy to roast a whole hand- 1 Stout string voice He spoke as though he had ful of marshmallows at one 5 Contend with a sore throat time when nicnickinff if vou make Your growth glands are the for- - yourself a special fork Use eight '9 Era 10 Arabian gulf gotten regulators of your life The pieces of wire Each one should 11 Born pituitary gland situated in the be about a half yard long Twist 12 Hang together Leave the last five inches of wire free Shape them so that IS Rounded 18 Steamship (ab) they form a cup Now all you have to do is impale m ar shmallowa Gibbon on each prong 18 Southeast (ab) ' ' side-sho- w I 1 Teen Time high-pitch- ed it You can play "homemade badminton in the basement Chairs across the center of the floor serve as a net A cork with a feather stuck into it will do very nicely in f A couple place of a "bird light frying pans from the kitchen serve as paddles ' M: If "just plain soap" doesnt get ' all the grime from your hands add some ordinary kitchen baking soda T e e To keep snapshots free from a dust soiled or careless handling cut la window in a business-size- d envelope The opening should be Targe enough to expose the entire print Now cover it with a piece of cellophane Seal it into place on ihe inside with Scotch tape Slip jyour photo beneath Tape into place Now seal your envelope finger-juwrk- - THE next morning Neely awoke Jana ureaV nu neauacny icenng ever A strawberry rash covered - -- ic ana snaa "Measles declared 1— ow Mm- "L Doctor Wharton who was summoned to the cottage "Ten days quarantine tor you young man" "it's Mr Jinx Burn him tra!" it had looked before Then he varnished it all over Even Mom Doc Wharton todav The 6E A MSB t1&r SJ T £s Te pbar sjs WiUS -- CAUSE A loss of life lapj5 im all other africa than animals coisabined DAN MURDOCH POR hundreds of years football in England was played in the spring of the year What's more it was really football: players could kick the ball but were never allowed to run with it or throw it It was much like soccer as we know it today In 1823 Rugby College in England was playing a game Y'ilHsajtt e(mt R AS o m vd er G Soap 2— Candle 4— Book 5row JL alaas RIDDLES: 1— Because it is fuU of flats 2— Because they never saw it 3— Becausi it is not well drawn 4—One wears false hacks is first fabric city Trut I ioa y : ! v DOWN ype) of molding 4 Fas: 5 Anfrs 6 P-e- h) FOOTBALL Concludes H c:- -k beetle 18 Pace 19 Gaelic 21 22 23 25 cradled then thrashed and finally becomes the flower of the Ellis t: Ireland Church part Former Russian ruler Greek letter 28 Accomplish Ad ADD-A-LatTTR- at: lori Tar Art Sad Q to" vtrtT ? out-jinx- es red-and-w- Cm' eral kicks in a row In a fit of anger he seized the ball in his two hands and ran down the field toward the goal Abruptly the game stopped The air filled with angry argument Ellis was rebuked and punished But other teams heard ot the incident They thought "Rugby" football might be a good idea So they began to play a game where a player could kick or run the ball But in America colleges were still playing "soccer" football where only kicking was allowed Bf ' noticed Harvard-captai- n 5" j (3 A AMD A FEET LOC--- ALF game played one way the other half the other way The game ended in a scorelesa APPLE SI nfl tie The next time Harvard played they tried the new game again and liked it Other teams soon adopted it Football now meant kicking and running with the ball i -- JT turned out to be a rough game Fifteen men on a side and no substitutions unless a player was badly hurt! Then in 1906 a player tried THROWINGhe ball "Passing" became just as popular as running and football began to look like our swift skillful mod- that the Big Ideas One afternoon little Darts asked her mother for a large piece of clean paper Thinking It sizable eaeagh her mother produced a sheet of white typewriter paper "Beg it s getta be btgr little Deris advised Her mother then tare Off a huge "piece of brown wrapping paper and handed it Is D'riv But - hy do yo her toother sfesL Well see Mather I'm thinking big and I gotU draw big" m Dale Goss sev- r e ut rJa T UC 0 RC 0 E C J Diamond Strarid are —eoina to use Jin-- r tor Sand' stand Neely mother patiently- relayed doctors v m MINERAL is the center of this i di SflTJAREs Com the message a centerpiece in their medical diamond The second word is LMU Gab"Who" she asked her scarlet- - banquet at the cove this Saturday third the "an ocean "ignited" Tomto "What are you going to do with faced son "is Mr Jinx?" Potato And I sold four more hunks of vessel' the fifth "brief" and the a nunx or orinwooai- - Al oe "A piece of driftwood in my driftwood to Mrs Herman the gift DIAMOND: aixtK "a girl's name" eBanid closet" Neely answered "Haul shop lady Who was it called that X M Neely smiled "I sort of like this him out now will you Mom? Let driftwood a jinx?" LIT I old boy"! be admitted "I'm go- - me see how he's Eddie sighed and glanced side- drying" LINER to him take home him reIn the following days rf h:s ing wise at AL "What do you think of dry MINERAL) MINERAL out then paint him mH make a cuperation Neely smoothed the a fellow who a jinx?" TERSE R wow of a door stop driftwood with his jack knife Al scratched his head and eyed BAR A "You'll be sorry Eddie warned making the face more real than the beach bTi L — a Rugby player missed rival team picked up the hall and ran with it He called an imme-di- te conference with the referee Harvard it turned out was playing soccer football McGill So they com'Playing Rugby promised The first half of the B O k TONGOE TWO DO-I-T TTAR YARD'S team of 1874 challenged McGill University of Montreal to a football game The two teams met and began to warm up In great surprise the A N A C ng JL T Nine vegetables are hidden in this square Discover them by finding the right starting point then reading each letter either up down backward or forward (but never diagonally): family SCRAMBLERS: Rat Tra THRr WAS V&KV 7 Writing implsiaeatt r:--l- IK1 fO'S WAS SOCC4eR' AMD RUGBY MIXED — i aw " In 1876 the American Intercollegiate Football Association was organized by Columbia Harvard Princeton Rutgers and Yale They decided the game was too rough for playing jn the spring The players unable to practice all winter were untrained and easily hurL Summer was too hot for such a game But autumn was just right and the players would have all spring and summer to get into shape 28 Opera smger 3' aaaa - Place an apple stem end up era N table Break si teothpiek Into three pieces and sko three raisins into place for eyea and nose piece of noodle into the Pp askin under Si's nose and Mpit takre's bis mouth! Apple Si can have a variety of Mtdgear The easiest hat Is just a fluted bake cup perched on Si's MM upside down To keep thai hit from slipping off pin it down asm a toothpick To vary this style turn up Jtprtton of tbe bake cup over Si's face to form a brim Two hats— a tight-fittifez and a golden crown can be cut taKa one liner Cut an inch strip off the top of a yellow liner Ihe cup part fits on Si as a fee The fluted rim top side up becomes golden crown Baby Si is charming To Btatw h s bonnet cut the fluted rim oil HAT 'PAP-Y-S- ern game 24 Weight deduction 26 Short-nappe- d 27 IteUan Tj f jl Football Once a Spring Sport B¥ was prcr-fn- t Vegetable Square K W A TR 6 D i£ w P E MD bTt e L A ""VEELY NeJv winkori r hr1£t Al telephoned upon hearing the us You see I sold Mr Jinx to news CROS8WOSO: "Mr Jinx is quite a boy" she declared later T put him in the window to dry today and Mrs Herman who has the gift shop hurried over and asked me if you'd bring her tome of your smaller pieces of wood — when you're better of course" t Add a Letter Add a j letter to "a paid notice" and have "sorrowful" another and have "grit" another and have still another and "o endure" -ha-to run aground1 PUZZLE ANSWERS was impressed began working on the omer tuts or crmwood ay whittling here and filing there turtles dogs cats and bhrds began emerging from his fingers The noooy grew more fascinating Even staying indoors in August wasn't the ordeal he had first mm imagined u would be On the Ilth day the quarantine over the gang trooped in to find Nee! v inflating s white beach baB "Hey At demanded "where'd you get that beauty? -- GROUND 1 - 2'i N "He's bad luck" Neely pulled his bath towel over his tanned wet shoulders and grinned "I'm not superstitious" he re torted O Later walking back to his cot- tage across the long stretch of white beach Neely noticed other of driftwood la fantastic shares I'p to this time he had never noticed the strange forms driftwood took He gathered sev- eral choice pieces putting them in his towel Then together with the towering Mr Jinx he lugged them to the cottage and stored them in the closet of his bedroom- - Mn h out eveiL - " Suddenly his attention was riveted to an odd ebony statue LAND AWlMAJI rTwNY TMBM LIVE THEIR jfP de-co- uld — — On the gravel bed he bounced ' l x $$hMj gft- Vouv &i ' rarefS- i Si Scramblers breakfast -- — like wheat? Why is a baby B IP"' actress and a made-u- p M Hdi 2 5 es sea-gogg- les FEET- tween a burglar? es sea-gogg- les "THREE Weak tea? 4 What the gang offered him that 'Neely pair of was ready to dive from the jiier and the three boys were snickering as Eddie extended the goggles Neely had never The glasses worn looked sharp so he took them from Eddie strapped them on and doge into the blue Water of the bay lightly weaving his arms and glancing eagerly about him It was like seeing a new world in a strange green light Suddenly then his attention was riveted to an odd ebony statue caught between two rocks nearby The face was the puckish laughing face of an old man Neely swam toward it He gave the statue a mighty tug and It loosened The thing clasped firmly in his arm Neely rose The gang was waiting on the pier for him and they were laugh ing like mad £ddie bent over the railing took" he roared pointing Neclys got old Mr Jinx!" "Shove him back in the water you dope" Charlie shouted "That thing's bad luck" U'S a statue" Neely stub- bornly affirmed mounting the lad der "It's only a hunk of driftwood" Al Cunningham explained "Early one boy stuck the this sumrr wood dotsm there as a joke and everyone who puts on for 4he first time bobs up with the Vrord that they've found a valuable statue But you're the first goon who's actually brought the thing up" a removed his PXXLT handing them to Eddie He glanced down at Mr Jinx who appeared even more pucXisn In the August sunlight than he had wader water "If it's all the same to you" said Neely Til hang on to my Riddles BEEM HAVE TALL- -' INCH&6 HOWARD should have been warned when sea-goggl- THESE MAK1D saSai 7 IJVTEELY sea-goggl- BY IDA 1 ' " a I ed er 'Apple Si' Is Party Favor From the versified dues find five household articles: L Mixed with water X work fine Give your home a nice clean shine S Ornamental I am today I helped Grandma find her way 1 I connect you here and there In dire need I'm like a "spare" 4 In a case but pull me out p of things to know about I Some are pleased to look at me sec and say "Oh ? TALL 1 CRAFTS PUZZLES BY WALTER KING AT s special dinner Bp — one side of the a cup Site the cup est cut side dopv If It doesn't fit the apple snugly cut away a little more paper Cut a half -- inch strip from around the top of another liner Cut it in halt Skewer each half into place on either side ef Sia face to serve as ribbon streamers T once and crease w t:i your fingers to make a bow Whenever necessary hold the hats down with toothpkfea apple- - Habit and Rope JupTEY bad fallen into an abandoned quarry and his chums were trying to pull him up on a rope Petey clung frantically to thp rescue rope digging the toes of his boots Into the spaces the rocks arid trying to 1 Cut out a circle of CARDBGftfD hasten ilia ascent up the steep incline Just as he reached the 3 inches across top of the quarry Petey saw a : 2 Decorate strand of the stout rope that CRAYONS was supporting him break on the sharp edge of the rock He screamed' and £4ued for all he was worth Another strand Fasten a PLASTIC BUTTON fames At that very moment hit chums hauled him over the abyss) about 1 inch across to center to safety Jfcfcth tewHJ H0USIHOU) Anyone grows panicky when he CEMENT Mis the first strand in a support Cut a STRING 40 inches fene ing rope break But a strong' rope rips apart all at once be 'Iyer MSse it is made up of many twist-M- m strands First one strand then another then still Spps fmber until the frayed rope is completely severed and I are like ropes w SmakigtWU feo stronger than the strands throveh threaol strirsj 'ftp '4rsMsabits we have woven into our holes in the buttons lives Good habits make people 7k ttids of string together- - MBSig in small moments ai weU as in a big crisis By the SWING BUTTON IN A token weak habits make CIRCLE to wind VV-such an insignificant s'sc-e- x dmti lings aaEven ttfhirtht scowl a can grow upon 1 kj wyw wjyw- - v- " you unUl sourness becomes part BatKMsaUty To be sure Itl Q the may not you today or tomorrow Rut jjptlt it could spoil the big chance in a distant tomorrow A Spanish proverb says: " H ab-i- ts are at first cobwebs then cables" BuJM yourself rahta ilisnglsi nabits for your lifetime of to--- be-tif- een t 3 4 !Tu 4 ? -- jrmww- tkt ju Mm mooner-expressio- St aj messuis' - |