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listurbed the quiet in the Bos tur dental offer that Demerako day back 10 M4

The patient nude lats! shove | more of the new gas Di Jobe Riggs graspert a tooth and pulled The patient cilin seile. 11921 clung to the od M. Bestal chair. Doctor Riggs an Gardena Colton, who had given the new

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up at them

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The patient who had allowed one of his own sound toth to be pulled to prove his point was 1} Horace

Wells.

Young Poston dentist who could and bear cause pain in the practice of his profess.or Dr Wells tried every- thing that might rche. the pain that was a part of nenustry 1836 First he dabbled with Then hear i about hypnose the

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GIRLS PAGE

Buttercup's Curious Appetite

--She Was a Bear. But Acted More Like a Pig!-

By MAX TRELL 6R PUNCH,"

"M

sald Hand

the shadow-girl with the turned-about name, as she and her brother Knarf came up

the

10

chair in which Mr Punch was sitting, "didn't you once have a pot bear!"

"Named Buttercup?" Knart.

said

Mr Punch, who had his spec- tacles pusher up over bis - head, his hands folded over his stomach and his eyes closed, suddenly sat up and smiled.

"Why, yes," he said, " cer- tainly did have a pet bear and It's her name was Buttercup. been many, many years since I last saw her. I do hope she's well. But," he added with 21 sigh, "she ate so many curious things that I don't see how she can be well.

"What curious things?" asked Kaart

Plate of Soup

-i

The first day at school, Butter- cup ate several spelling books.

all

all, he said. "The first day she went to school, she ate several and nibbled spelling books

blackboard. quite a bit of the "Well,"

Punch 10 She also ate all the chalk, said Mr Knarf. "if you

were hungry the pencils, all the paper and and asked for a plate of soup, drank a gallon of ink." you'd eat the soup, wouldn't your"

"Yes," said Knarf.

"Now, if little Buttercup asz- ed for plate of soup," said Mr Punch, she'd really mean exactly what she said. She'd

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She

"My, she certainly naughty!" said Harrid.

Several Desks

what little Butter- "That's cup's leader thought," said Mr In Punch. "The second day school she ate several desks, all and she finished the whole plate of soup the pictures, the soup and the plate. She nibbling the blackboard. might also eal the spenn,

the accidentally pushed against the haplain, the tableckih and any from of the school on her way such out to lunch and she pushed thing else lying around, as the salt and pepper, the cups

the school over. After that she and savers, the bowl of sugar didn't go to school any more."

ECT bet she was glad." and perhaps Of they stayed

of Knart. long enough) all the rest the peuple at the table. She was said Mr Punch. "She stayed in "No, I wouldn't say that,"

il

Although many of -

very hungry bear." wrole patients

tervent testi- Was she always mvonals, praising his new pain-Hanid asked. less dentistry, Dr Wells grew 50 discouraged that his mind began

fart

S he continued his Experiments against pain, now

the Tag

newly discovered hloroform

He Krew invreasingly confused Then he ran away to New York When 3 anysterious dark cloaked prowler was captured there by pollee he

identified as the dentist from Boston. Ite was locked inrell in Tombs Prison for the night

was

b

Next morning the world's funt super.- painless dentist was dead, a suicide Warm And for the first thine anesthesis had served Dr Horace Wells. He had used Volunteered a lest he new chloroform to cause his uen death

with hypo

one

On

"Only between meals," said Mr Punch.

hier "I ance saw eating a picket fence. And

very cold day in winter, I saw her lung all the snow off the top of a hill. Naturally, she caught a cold. I had to put her to bed at once und call doctor."

said

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hungry the house for a long time after that, just moping around. She almost lost her whole appetite, wg. In a whole month, I don't think she ate any more than a thin geography book and one of iny overcoats. Finally, when came down one morning, found that she had gone away. ****

Mr Punch looked very sad "In spite of everything," he said after a few minutes of silence,

wus sorry to lose little But tercup. It's true she almost ate me out of house and home but there never was such a friend- ty, lovable bear. She ate lots of things.

I

"My goodness," said Hamid, "was she sick for long?"

Big Jar of Pills

Mr Punch stock bis head. "Not for very long. I called the

big

ONE

doctor and he gave her a jar of pills to be taken every hour. She swallowed them all at once, jar and all She almost ate the doctor. Then she ate the bed. From then on she felt well again

"How could she eat so much?” asked Knard,

Mr Punch replied: "I don't

"But," said Mr Punch,

and he smiled, "she never ate me!"

CROSSWORD

To help you with this cross- word puzzle. Our artist has lettered the name of Czecho

know. I aften wondered myself | slovakia's capital;

I decided to send her to school.

I thought if she went to school, she would learn to have some manners and, although she was a bear, learn not to act like such a pig." Mr Punch sighed. **R I did no good."

Knurf and Hanid wanted to know what happened after little Buttercup went to school. "She didn't behave herself at

Treasure Of

Of Sultans

JOT long ago members of the

N

Turkish Kovernment in-

spected a real treasure,

more

minus and breath-taking than

seme of the Arabien

Nights and Al Hab the mas

collection

By JAY HOLDING

stolen

from the ruling Sultan by one of his wives.

In 1674 a beggar found it in a heap of trash, and took it to a merchant who gave him three wooden Spoone in exchange,

called "Kaonikoji,” which, if you can pronounce it, is

is Turkish for "spoon." The merchant

carats, Ca

precious well-known “Spoon" diamond- Since then the diamond has been jewellery which formerly belong- beautiful stone of 84 eet to the Sultans of the old Tur kish Empire.

Following the Turkish revolu- en during the First World War. the Sultan was deposed by Mus- fa Kemal Pasha--who is look- ed upon as Turkey's George Washington and most of the minense properties were taken ver by the new government.

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Turkish law requires that the leasure be inspected from time time, to make certain that none of it is missing. It is kept under constant guard in the strong-rooms of the Ministry of Finance, in the capital city of Ankara.

✡

STRANGE as it may seem, the recent inspection was delay.

el for some time becouse one of the most important keys had

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22

1 Seater 7 Ran

Across

9 Indian weight

10 Compass point

Symbol for tantalum

12 English princess 14 Circlet

resold the gem for 10 cents to a

it Reprint (ab.) jeweller, who later yielded it to 18 Conducted the Sultan's Grand Vizier. That 19 Shoshonean Indian worthy probably had

been 20 Railroad bridges

23 Seasoned

searching high and low for it

for a long time!

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你

*

DROMINENTLY displayed was

PRO

tan

WILS

the famous ring of the Sul-

Abdul Aziz, which flched from him by his assassin when he was killed.

Down

1 Lancers

2 Through

4 Each (ab.)

5 Solar disk

6 Abandoned

3 Railroad (ab.)

Also revealed were two large, solid gold candlesticks, each en-

8 kiln erusted with 1,264 precious 12

12 Picle stones one for each verse in the Koran, the bible of the Moham-13 No good (ab.)

15 Notion medan religion and extimated 15 to be a give-away at a cool mil-17 Footlike part

18 Lieutenant ab.) lion US dollars apiece.

19 Rubber tree Apparently, the only really re-21 Suo loco (ab.) markable object lacking from 22 Size of shot

(Solution an Page 10)

heen mistrid. However, all was well, for

the key was soon which has a curlous history. the collection was the lamp of found, and the treasure was Several centuries ago it was Aladdin. opened to view - ang what a trenfuret

The most impressive single jewel was a famous emerald, an unbelieveably нег

precious weighing seven pounds.

gem

How

or when it was obtained by the Sultan is not known-nor is known from where the mon strous stone was mined.

It ha hön zertißed on a true emerald by expert Jewellers and, in the opinion of the Turkish govern- ment, it is a bargain at 125 million US dollars.

Also in the collection are two other encralds, which are no much smaller in comparison that It seems hardly worthwhile mentioning them, as one weighs ONLY two and a half pounds, and the other being an absurd

„Regarded as one of the show-

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