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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1949
Page
9
An article argues a two sided Bill of Rights for youth, outlining duties to parents and society. It urges obedience, respect and love, plus rights to shelter, education, care, understanding, shared activities, personal interests, love, honest information, and growing independence.
In a frozen world, Manapis seeks fire for his people. He learns to strike two pine branches, coaxing a glowing coal into flame with wind and sun as the pine stores the fire for long-wasted warmth. The tale ends with gratitude to sun and wind for heat in tepees.
Across clues solve concealed, tree fluid, Hebrew month, simple, bristle, upper limbs, gratify, interest abbr, men who sell stocks and bends, thin, stout cord, dines, heavenly body, bitter vetch, collection of savings. Down clues include possesses, Roman date, information, slave, armed force, footlike part, allotted portions, subdues, writing fluid, brain, rodents, roster, bridge, sheltered side, age. The puzzle borders natural history questions and prompts guesses.
Missing words puzzle text asks readers to find nine flowers in a square, with clues linking an ant lers theme, social insect, caper, rows, and credits. It includes wordplay on adding letters to form a sun god, a male sheep, and a sloping way.
The article suggests cleaning attic and basement clutter for hospitals and welfare agencies. It also offers hobby tips for teens, from collecting screw-type earrings as clamps for model work to sewing belt linings and making a walnut shell turtle pin with simple craft steps.
A 10 year old child could live 550 years claims Prof H S Simms of Columbia University. He argues aging is a disease caused by the body's chemical system running down like a storage battery and suggests normal aging is premature aging. He asserts life expectancy loss could reach 8 percent per year and that extending to 125 or even 180 years may be possible with medical advances.
Create a glamorous serving apron without sewing skills. No machine needed as only light hand stitching is required, doable in under an hour. Use four inch squares to enlarge the pattern and sew a full ruffle from colored organdy or dotted Swiss with a two by thirty six inch band and long ties for a large back bow.
Willie defines a kitten as a ball of fur with four legs that runs after nothing and stops before it gets there. The article notes life expectancy rising toward 65 with advances in medicine, and cites Prof. Sherman’s finding that high vitamin A extends rat lifespans by about 10 percent, though applicability to humans is unproven.
Puzzle answers cover natural history quiz items with tiger abalone elephant Barbary ape and Indian hornbills. Riddles include din dinner profit club rain and pain. Flower square lists nine flowers Violet Carnation Lily Pansy Rose Lilac Poppy Tulip Daisy. Diamond and homonym wordplay and add a letter sequence shown.
This piece advises shy individuals to seek companionship by praising others virtues, remembering names, and using “YOU” more than “I.” It urges genuine enthusiasm, lively greetings, smiling, and personal interest to build friendships and reduce loneliness.
A dancing skeleton illusion uses a hidden black thread looped from wall to screen to move joints. The 6 to 8 inch figure is drawn on cardboard with hinged limbs, lit by a spotlight for a dramatic effect and synchronized to commands or music.
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