SPORTS GAMES PUZZLES MAGIC FOR TRICKSTERS Two Stunts. to Mystify Your Friends VIBRATIONS When I tell you that by "strok- ing" a lead pencil with another pen- cil or stick of wood it will make a PIN ON (PROPELLER. (HOW IT WORKS. THE TOOTHPICK STAR Here's a dandy trick that "takes" well any place. It'll make you feel like a regular magician to work it. Tell your friends you can make a star for them out of five toothpicks. Get a plate and five toothpicks and a glass of water. Now "break" each toothpick in the middle as shown in the picture. Notice that they are not broken clear apart, but that the wood fiber is merely cracked. Now place your five bent toothpicks orb on the plate in the shape shown. To com- plete this stunt dip your finger in the glass of water and place a drop or two right in the center of the group of toothpicks. Immediately the "star" will grow and take shape. The reason for this is that the wood fiber absorbs the water, which causes it to swell. Sometimes this trick works equal- ly well with match sticks, if you can get some that will not break completely in two. third piece of wood spin around, A won't believe me probably. ell, fellows, it can be donel Simply cut a number of notches near the eraser end of a" pencil. Then get a very thin bit of wood about three-quarters of an inch to one inch in length and work a small hole into it with a pin (hole to be in center). Next, pin this "propel- ler" onto the eraser of your pencil as shown. Now all that you do is rub those netches briskly with another pencil or stick. In a moment or so the little propeller will commence to spin merrily around, due to the yibrations from the pencil to which it is fastened. The faster you "stroke" the pen- cil the faster the propeller will spin. --TOOTHPICK STAR -- C Fv ToT Ens a TOOTHPICK. ON Hoo oF WATER HERE --RESULT/ HOW TO MAKE YOUR SUMMER HATS -- A PAGE EO "Not one boy in a million gets to do what I'm going to do today," thought Sandy Halliday with-a little shiver of excitement as he lay in his tent with the bright rays of the African morning sun streaming into his eyes. He had been wakened by the jungle alarm clock, the chat tering of the monkeys in the trees nearby. "Not one of my friends, or any of their friends ever went or an elephant hunt," thought he "Gee! I never heard of anybody be- fore who went elephant hunting!" Just then the cook, a Masai, onc of the savage natives of the vicinity who had been tlattering tin break- fast pans outside thrust his head ir the door as a sign for the boy to get up. Sandy tossed off the hea blanket with which he had found it necessary to cover himself, for even Mt. Kenia, exactly on the equator, the nights were cold. Sandy's father, who was a taxider- mist for one of the great Americar museums of natural history, had re 3 A 'RADIATING WIRES |ARE CUT 5* LONG ED cently been sent to British East Af rica on a hunting trip to obtain specimens of big game. It was an honor for Mr. Halliday, proving that smaller collecting trips, on which he ad taken Sandy, to Western Canad: and once to the East Indies, hac been satisfactory, hen a journey to Africa witl leopards, tigers, lions, giraffes, rhi nos, buffalos and several hundrec other species of animals became : prospect, Sandy's father, who hac nobody with whom to leave the boy since the lad had no mother, planned to send him off to a military school The scene that Sandy had staged when he heard that news! He hac acted quite like a raging, woundec lion himself. He was angry to think that his father would' want to send him off to a school to learn to marck and hold a gun when he could now tramp thirty miles without being tired and could shoot every kind of gun invented with as true marks manship as his father himself Sandy had made up his mind that even if he was only fourteen, he was going on the African trip! That he had won out was proved by the fact that he was here. The boy and his father with three other members of the museum stafi had taken the long ocean vo age tc Naples and then transferred to ar. African boat that sailed througt Suez down over the Red Sea into the Indian Ocean to Mombasa, capi- tal of British East Africa. Then though the party was camping on . BOYSA»GIRLS A BOY AND A BIG GAME HUNT IN THE JUNGLES JOKES STORIES RIDDLES "Everybody is crazy about me" said the keeper as he locked up the asylum for the night. Wonders of Art First Art Student: "I painted a winter scene so true to nature that the thermometer in my room fell twenty degrees." Second Art Student: "That's nothing. Yesterday I drew the pic- ture of a hen so naturally that when I crumpled it up and threw it into the waste basket it LAID there." No Secret "A little bird tells me that the milk is sour." "What kind of a bird?" "A swallow." -- Snippy Story 4 Mary: "Why are you mailing all those empty envelopes?" Marion: "I am cutting classes in a correspondence scheel." Misunderstood Visitor: "Can you tell me if Bill Jones is up in his room?" Frosh: "Sorry. There's nobody in _the top story." Visitor: "Oh, excuse me. I'll ask some one else." Peaceful in Heaven "Say, mamma, was baby sent down from heaven?" "Why, yes." "Um. They like to have it quiet up there, don't they?" Pressing g Business "I passed Ching Loo's laundry last night at 3 o'clock." "What was he doing up so late?" "Shirts." Where He Saved T-Bone: "I ran all the way down- town to the fire last night." Buzzy: "Did you save any- thing?" ; T-Bone: "Yeh, carfare." He Came Out on Top "Have any of your childhood hopes been realized?" "Yes. When mother used to comb my hair I wished that I didn't have any." His Job Sam: "What am you doin' now?" Bo: "I'se an exporter." Sam: "An exporter?" Bo: "Yep, de Pullman company fired me." -- A Hard Time "That fellow gets the cold shoul- der every time he comes in here." "Who's that?" "The ice man." Not Particular udge: "How do you earn your FOUR WIRES ALL JOININGS ARE [on the Uganda Railroad, the party; take back to the elephant exhibit.elephants whose hearing and sense of jor cows and young elephants resting ARE USED TO START Sate diy (MADE WITH TIE WIRE of i Busters had gone into the Some of the natives report that there smell, unlike their dull eyesight, is|under the hot rays of the sun. THE CROWN Fopica be Selor, the nakaid nel lere fresh tracks in the shambas a [very acute. Sandy was creeping forward n central 3 Tica, the safari, as the few miles over after the rain last Any sign of the approach of men |siowl when he heard a strange Caravan ia .& led, is pat drawn by (night. : would have caused a stampede|rumbling sound that almost terrified Cathe Sor Oxon, 35 hi » ROTNErn| Sandy's eyes grew big. The sham- among the elephants, for they are him. Then he realized it must be an ou og Landa biit ie Saftiers bas, he knew, were the cultivated|the wisest of all wild animals, bar-|the curione noise known to every big|.. J an are guong i Natives wise to the |fields of the inhabitants of the coun-|ring only a few of the highest apes;|game hunter that comes from the|living ® J Pick packets them h reas we In ae Wie lot try and frequently the 'elephantsiand are capable of reasoning that elephants' stomachs! In'a moment] Prisoner: 'No, sir e gers o 2row Ing anima de ic} made raids on them. Just at that|their pursuit by hunters means their (he saw the trunk and ear of a big|as they come. on t on on every side. A moment, two runners came panting [extermination. A charging elephant|beast loom up. against a tree-top, Small army o porters, tent-beys, into camp uttering words and ges-|is the last thing a person chooses to cracking off the branches as he a These Radios . gun-bearers and horse-boys with tyres that Sandy's father interpreted encounter in the jungle, for the Af-| moved forward, and soon the boy| Bill: "How is your radio working, ploads of provisions, tents and all thes," mean that elephants had been rican elephant, which has never been [caught sight of the bull's long, heavy . The On Wi Fi Hoasaary equipment which made up spotted in the distance. tamed, is far more brutal than his|tusks. Sandy knew it was just the| John: "Say, I got Italy so loud Lace Hat a wire I'rame alliday's safari, had progressed a'| Inside three minutes, there was|smaller Indian cousins, the kind |kind of beast his father wanted to|last night that I could pick spaghetti Making the wire hat frame is not difficult if you measure carefully their journey as far as t Ken "not a person in camp. All were on|seen in circuses. take back and that in a moment he|off the aerial." each wire. You will probably need ten yards of hat wire. It mia be | When he had finished dressing, | their way to the bamboo forest] At an open place, after almost/would shoot. Sandy cocked his 4 TE whe bought at any millinery store at the rate of two yards for a nickel. Buy [Sandy joined Allan Smith, the along thé volcanic crater of Mt. [three hours of tramping, in dense|rifle in readiness for the second San y wal pimg gam, Waa / also a spool of tie wire, which is very tiny binding wire for fastening [Youngest member of the party, a Kenia. The elephants had been|matted jungle, the hunters saw elephant which he had not seen, but [cy re bic faeces together your heavier wires. 'Use black wires for a black lace hat and | Scientist only two or three years out|seen about three miles away by the/some bamboo shoots broken off and hich he knew would probably come oun Poe : in rd fro ley white for a lighter color. : of Soles, in the, Meas Se His sentries whom Mr. Halliday had branches Joen off She studios trees, charging after his hunted com- a, a hy at E e Ay JO Des : » : : . 1d Larter, placed at vantage points to watch|which indicated that the elephants (panion. Et Bua A First on Jour wites 1414 long for. the Hows. Bind ghem 2 in the other men, were cleaning their during the night. The party crept had been feeding there during the| At that instant thd explosion of And ree in jae ol iught to the crown would fit and of your wire that size with ¥ short lap over. [© wns he " Han' forward in the woods, going slowly night, but had retreated back to the Mr. Halliday's big gun, as he fired, | 7. perceived that the native hunt- It will probably measure about 21 inches QUE 'Crown wires over J: Well Sandy," was Allan's greet- $0 as not to make unnecessary noise, dense places to stand in herds for the almost deafened Sandy. The aim | oO the background were scrame base one a thei iti a > y ith ti \ ing, "you may have a chance today(and in a direction so that the wind|day. Since it was almost noon, they which had been directed at the brain bling up into nearby trees with agil- ¢ir proper positions and fasten with tie wire. at that bull you said you were going|would not carry their scent to the were likely to find a party of bulls|a little above the eye, had missed a Eg okey Be her te Cut your outside brim wire 34" long. The middle wire is 31" and by an inch, and though the fellows worst thing that could ha was ire Erb he ade of sh pe ore, Si the, radiating EDDIE COLLINS ANSWERS QUESTIONS Tetmvered wa mad Slmost fell, be eppening. now. 'A herd of ele recovered and came stumbling for- : 134" to turn up for the crown base. Remember to fasten every single ward to avenge himself, Mr. Sats. nid od he 34 not know, joinia with tie wire securely. When the frame is done, cover it with : Svery : : man day fired again, while Sandy, with . ce 8" wide and finish with a bright ribbon around the crown. BOYS ASK ABOUT PLAYING BASEBAI I Mr. Dale afan behind him, ieaped ey. Sah jor Haft be trampled . to fire at a second elephant, which, 3 (Written Exclusively by Eddie Collins for This Page) sure enough, came breaking through Oth specimens of jungle violence. the underbrush. Both shots struck| (Watch for more of Sandy's ad. the giant, but not in vital places. - |ventures in the jungle next week). WHERE NOTHING SEEMS QUEER ~ CONSTRUCTION OF THE LACE HAT oN A FRAME $53 A Tragedy : A Popular Breed A. peafut lay on a railroad track,| Society Dame: "And what kind Its heart was all a-flutter; of a dog is that, my little man?" tf The 8:15 came thundering past, Yrchin; "Please, ya, he's 3 FE J Toot! Toot! cross between a cur and a mongrel." i Peanut butter! -- | IN SNOPPYQUOP LAND Fuller: "You didn't know who I|, Mike: "Is your brother a mu-| Miss Laundry Quop : was this morning, did you?" Go "Is he? Why, at the age of This washlady is of the 61d school and still does all her work by Fisher: "No, who were you?" t hand. She is a beautiful but dumb belle. Just now the Village Bells three he played on the linoleum." is slowly wringing. She has just wrung out her Snoppypup. " CUT OUT AND PASTE THIS BIRD TOY x , what a tight squeeze," yelped Fido. "First you drown me, This bird won't fly and it can't|paste together. The small pictureiin EfiEs ind then you reduce me to a flat tire." or "Never mind, little one, t hay no doubt broadened your mind," re« torted Mi le YY ike a new now, sing, but it stands up, which is really the corner shows you how it should| | "Yeh 2a out oh old, in i the new'," whined Bow-wow, more than you usually expect of a|look. Fold on the dotted lines, and "who said reducing by rolling wasn't effective!" paper bird, ne folise you jave i paste | the flaps ingle. . The feet and| | "Now, I'll hang you out to dry," suickered the la lad A she flicked 3 moun on lightweight card-|the beak on the side pieces come to-| |! | here--Eddie b "The line's busy," bar ido, wi board first, but it is tay to mark gether. Fold the standards on the . * S baschall questions 2 bul i Co er nee. , and had ora been switched. "See those around it for a pattern. Before you/|sides out flat. clored. Sind * : bes vi hanging on it, and flapping so musically in the breeze? What olor irds make cut, it would pethaps be best to color| These gail tune do they Temind you of?" You can trace "Search me," said the la yy iol yp hats hat his Pther Birds font d books and 'Shirt tales Fi which the poor working i everywhere that he|other birds from, bir an H * Shi f Hoffman'," at isn't black. A ter you have colored make them stand by following this | usually adjusts these differences. girl turned a little pail and then Kicked the b bucket. i | The club, ver, has the right it carefully, cut on the outline and pattern. to sell or trade a player whether the 5 zi s 5d fe a nial