TINK’S CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1929, Page 20

TINK’S CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Last week we drew a quai! for you, ami hid hi: n.’ime in the puzzle. I hope you all found it! This i.< the n<»lfif.ion of the puzzle. A< !:*«:/■> 1, Vehicle (Cal>). 5, Title (Sir). H, To begin (Originate). 11, Compass point (N.E.). 12, Number (One). 13, H-a going vessel (abbreviated) (S.S.). IG, A low (Tier). 18, Something that nootheu (Balm). 19, Hidden name (Quail). 29, A colour (Blue). 22. An implement (Tool). 24, Rests (Lice). 25, Certain (Sure). 2G. Slippery fi->h (Eel). 21, Another colour (Red). DOWN. 1, Policeman (Constable). 2, Part of verb “to (Are). 3, Prefix, meaning “double” (Bi). 4, Metal (Tin). 5, British Dominion (abbreviated) (S.A.). 6, Possessive pronoun (Its). 7, Was similar to (Resembled). 9, Depart (Go). 10, Compass point (N.E.). 14, Continuation (of a story) (Sequel). 15, Courage and bravery (Valour). 17, Regrets (Rues). 18, Small pieces (Bits), 21, Untruth (Lie). * 23, Metallic substance (Orc). Now we are. going to have a simple puzzle, so that my Tinies may try it. Of course, the older boys and girls must do it as well, but I am particularly anxious to know how the littlest ones get on with it. You see a picture beside the puzzle, which may suggest to you the name of an English town. The town name is also hidden in the puzzle, so you ought to manage it quite well. Clues: ACROSS. 1, Make glossy. 5, Tree. 6, Not in. 7, Conjunction. 10, Exclamation of sorrow. 13, Hidden name. IG, Pronoun. 17, Sorrow. 18,' Pronoun. 20, Answers, ) DOWN. 1, Deep hole. 2,-Same as 7 across. 3, Therefore. 4, The Wendy—. 7, Not young. 8 Tatter. 9, A flower. 10, Some. 11, A cutting tool. 12, Scoff-. 14, Exclamation. 15, Preposition. 13, Not down. 19, Same as 3. down.

A MODERN WINTER RESCUE.

An instance of the value of flying, at all seasons and in any climate, comes from North-western Canada,

At Edmonton, the . capital of Alberta, a flying club and a broadcasting station aro run by the local paper, On the last day of 1928 news came to the outbreak of diphtheria in a dangerous form 850 miles away to tho north, at Little Red River. The messenger dispatched by dog team on December 18, had taken 13 days to make the journey. The call was for tho serum that in such an outbreak makes all tho difference between life and death. The Aero Club provided a ’plane, which took off from tlie Edmonton Flying Field for tho town of Peace River, where the ice of tho river provided a landing place. Meantime the broadcasting station was getting in touch with Ford Vermilion,

farther north, and telling them to prepare a landing place. Next day tho ’plane rose from the ice of Peace River and flow over uninhabitable regions, through a heavy snowstorm and 61 degrees of frost, and landed safely at Fort Vermilion, whence a dog team at once started with the serum for tifo stricken settlement at Little Red River. GTOKAR BERZINA. Czecho-Slovakia has just lust the greatest Czech poet of our day. Vaclay Jebavy was his real name, and ho was the son of a poor shoemaker in Southern Bohemia. Hating leather and loving books, tho youth became a school teacher. Most of his life he was teaching in Moravia. Some of his pupils, no doubt, were lazy, and would, have preferred play to work, but now they look back on their schooldays with pride and say “Otokar Berzina taught me!” . Under that pen-name he published a book of poems in 1895. The beauty of his verse and his philosophy brought him fame, and several times his countrymen wished to nominate him as a candidate for the Nobel Prize, but he always refused. Now at 61 this modest man has gone on. He leaves his country five books of lovely verse and a volume of essays, treasures greater than a millionaire’s.

What -makes a pair of boots? —Two, of course.

TIME AND LABOUR.

Manager —I thought you said you could do that job in an hour? Cassidy—Bedf-d, PH do that jib in an hour if it takes me all day. *#a * ' BETWEEN TWO FIRES. “Your Worship,” said the prisoner. “I admit that I was exceeding the speed limit, but I was afraid of being late at Court.” “What was your business at court ?” asked tho magistrate.

“I had to answer a charge of exceeding the speed limit.”

Ullltf.'illllllllUHlillHHllHlHlHlUfllKllllUlOHltinillillUlllllllf Hi TACT. A policeman on point duty had held up a large louring car for nearly five minutes when there was no need. Tho driver, a middle-aged woman, was indignant. “Good gracious me, officer!” she ‘said. “Do you realise you have delayed me?) Have you never been on point duty be-1 fore? I want to know why you held me up ?” ) “I beg your pardon, madame,” said the , young policeman, “but at first I thought| you were too young to be driving a car.” ’ I