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DAILY, CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This crossword puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional. phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)
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HORIZONTAL
1-Mineral used in
stove window. B-0111y
-Unit of weight for
toms
10-Lifeless
12-Yield 18-Guides
15-la in a passion 16-Little devll.
18-Crtup cakes
20-imitatea
21-Famous ganera!
**22-Clock face
23-Secluded apartment
24-Dip up with deep
spoon
28-Three (Italia)
27-Celoniza
30-Treated wrongfully 33-Fury
34 Indian (pl.) 35-N. Amerless country
30-Makes into lavi
43-8kliful aviator
44-Doad language
47-Clamor
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©THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE
HORIZONTAL (Cont) | VERTICAL (Cont.) 60-Blokly
17-Combining farm
31-Ford 52-Not divided 84–Buffix forming
nouns from adjestivaz
|68–Perforatione 56–Observation 88-Pastoral poeme
60-0tain again
61-Assistants
62-Observed 63+Exigency
VERTICAL
1-Men 2-Irritates
To be able
4-King of the Huns
6-Disperea
6-Industrious Invest
meaning middle
| 19-Vehicle
24-Portalging to law 25-Worn way 28-Batween (stallars) (29-Boy
31-Masculins name,
shortened 82-A nation (abbr) 30-Huri
86-Ons who plays a
part
87-Mora trim
38-Heavenly body
40-Coola
41-melodien
|42-Parcelvas
45-Arousa
146-American
Aborigine
7-Charges for service|42-Diversions
8-incline
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firmly
11-Peculiar features
12-East Indian cola 14-LeAn
48-Malo of the red dear] 15-Hobbles
81-Delt out sparingly 65-Lord BB-Dr. Jakyll'a
opposite
67-Ceres! 169-Expire
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LORD LAMBOURNE
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HUMOUR AND TRAGEDY IN A STRANGE WORLD
AN AMAZON RACE****
Lord Lambourne whose death was Ants recognise each other by announced recently, could best be their sense of smell, according to described as being in every way "a an article by Dr. Auguste Forel, In fine old English gentleman."He Putnam's Magazine. Their anten- had a great love for animals, a pas-nae, he anys, are their sense organs. alon for flowers, an immense en. He has cut off these, and proved thusiasm for out-of-door life and that anta lose the sense of dires. sports, and a vigorous hatred of all tion; and, more algnificantly, that forms of meanness underhanded-with the loss of the sense of smell ness and dishonesty.
ants of species with blood-feuds
He was president from 1919 of feed and lie down together like Then by the Royal Horticultural Society, Blake's lion and lamb, president of the Bribery and Secret varnishing their eyes (which he de Commissions League, and vice-pre-clares a cruel experiment) and sident of the Royal Society for the watching them falter, lose direction, Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. and finally cower in misery, and In these offices, as well as in that bewilderment, he has proved, ap- of Lord Lieutenant of Essex he dis-parently, that some ants cannot find played his charakteristic energy of their way home without sight,
He was always a burning There is humour, as well as trage. mind.
life of the ant apostle of fairness. To accuse ady, in the Briton of cheating," he once said, Perhaps the most amusing fact "Is to wound his honour in its most about ants is that some patriotic sensitive spot," and added, "As a individuals of a species living in race we have always prided our-deserts transform themselves into selves on our absolute sporting in- immense barrals, swelling any times the size of their fellows, and tegrity."
le up in cellars, side by side, minis
Bad manners and slackness were almost fiercely detested by him.
Women's Place
When the subject of his dislike of women in politics was raised a few months ago, he explained, "I like women to stay at home and make jam as they did in my day!" But he was quite prepared to belleve that much good might come of women's entry into new spheres of |work.
He had a sense of humour, the kenness of which age never blunt- ed.
It was his unquenchable cheerful. ness and his ready wit which gain- ed him his great popularity, and his warmness of heart won for him a host of friends in many and varied walks of life.
when King
On one occasion Edward, between whom and himself there was a longstanding friend- ship, was his guest at Bishop's Hall, near Romford, Esex, King Edward brought down a woodcock.
This greatly pleased Lord Lam- bourne who was proud that it should be known that good shooting could be had so near to London. There
was another interesting incident at the shoot which Lord Lambourne used to tell with a hearty laugh. The Inte Lord Chaplin shot a phea. sant, which to his great astonish- ment and temporary discomfort fell straight on to his head.
In Stage Collapse
Lord Lambourne was always fond of gardens and flowers, and the gardens at Bishop's Hall were his delight in an evor greater degree. as his years increased. He was an ideal praider of the Royal Horti-
Beautiful Billle Cortex (above) New cultural Society. Several notable
York actress, who collapsed during a new flowers were named after him, specialty dance in musical show and and one a brilliant type of the pink caused curtain to be rung down while a malinaison that was always a but-physician administered restoratives. tonhole favourite.
Later she was-removed to a hospital, where her condition is reported to be Berioux.
F
Lord Lambourne was
great! friend of the King and Queen, and when he became ill with bronchitis the Queen was the first to send him a kind messagė.
25 Year An M.P..
tering during the long months of idle rotundity to the lean, and thirsty workers.
A sudden fall in temperature, a apeli of wet bleak days, these are trying tests to the stamina of all, and especially dangerous to those afflicted with constipation, liver imperfect weakness,
digestion, such people being particularly susceptible to chills and colds.
Fortify yourself against auch- weather changes. Sustain your general health by keeping your digestive tract in good steady working order, Pinkettes, the dainty little laxatives, liver regula- tora, give just the aid you need, and they do it without causing the slightest pain, discomfort, or in- convenience. In brief, "Pinkettes
Of keep you well."
chemists everywhere at 60 cents per vial.
On leaving Eton, Lord Lambourne.
Fearful Amazon Ants'' entered in 1886, the Coldstream
Amazon ants, a swift and terrible Guards, then commanded by his race, organise for raids by sending father, the late General Mark Wood. out, scouts to reconnoltre neigh- He served for more than 18 years bouring nests of farming ants. The and then, as Lt.-Cal Amelius scouts returning with information Richard Mark Lockwood (the sur-that, transmitted along antennae, name being his grandfather's to excites and vitalizes the assembly which he reverted), entered Parlia-columns; which then advance and ment. He was Conservative M.P. surround the attacked nest, forming for the Epping division of Essex "customs barriers," through which from 1892 to 1917, when he was their porters, laden with the nymphs Iraised to the Peerago. For many to become their alaves together with years he was chairman of the Kit the unresisting farmers, are allow chen Committee of the House of ed to pass. Those which realat Commons, He was a Freemason, are killed, plensed through the and was at one time Provincial head by a single bite of the Amazo- Grand Master of Essex.
[nian jaws.
Lady Lambourne died in 1928. There is no heir.
The columns return, and the Amazonė are fed by their slaves, which are economically their mas tera, for the feeding instinct of the Amazon is corrupt after so many A Russian Carnival Ball, under generations of disuse! These ants the auspices of the Russian Relief are never cowed or dispirited, as are Association and the Russian Con- the "Inferior or peace-loving anta fraternity, la to be held at the in adversity. With them it is cer Majestic Hotel, Shanghai, on March tainly death or glory; they appear 15.
to be more stupid than any other kind of ant, often slaying friend and foe alike in the excitement of battle.
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In the sun to prevent germination liar to children. These parasitis creep into underground streets, and after rainy weather,
Then there are the ghastly visit-when accosted by the nearest polite ing ants (0 euphemism!) which ants they ra se certain bairs, which hunt in tropical forests, while all possess a fascinating ôdour, and things from caterpillars to tigers while caressing the antennas of the fles before them, more terrified than ants, Induce them lick their by fire. They breed their soldiers "dope." When the police are sooth with many times the weight, in arm-jed, the beetle creeps away to cor lour, of the butchers and porrupt the honour of the workers. ters; they build roads like the saling from their mouths tha Romans, which are lined by the honeydew, which is to nourish the blind warrior cohorts, their great growing ants, er nymphs. It lays paws held out to menace any marts ogge in the nursery, and its off auders. Their queens are gigan- spring feeds on the egge of the tie egg-laying machines thou- ants. Colonies where these beetleg sands of times the weight of are numerous ard
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One could continue with the the ants lathargic diversities of ants for ever. What destroys them.
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