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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C. ? ASK MB ANOTHER • A General Quiz B \ K ^ c-<v <w c^> cw <w CW A-<w Ik. 1. Who threw the first curved ball in a baseball game? 2. The Basques are a very an- jient people inhabiting what /noun tains? 3. How much does it take to jeed a circus elephant every day? 4. What was the name of the witch in the Bible who was con sulted by Saul? 5. The familiar cross used by ihe Red Cross is sometimes called What? * 6. What is the dividing-line age of the population of this country? 7. Does the human eye ever stop growing? 8. How many Americans were Injured last year? 8. Which is the longest river in the world? 10. Why is the sentence “A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” used as a typewriting exer- rise? The Answer a 1. Arthur “Candy” Cummings, pitcher for the “Stars” of Brook lyn, in 1867. 2. Pyrenees. 3. 125 pounds of hay and 7 pounds of bran. It drinks 50 gal lons of water. 4. Endor. 5. A Geneva cross. 6. Thirty. Half are older, half are younger than 30. 7. Yes, the eye stops growing, but the lens of the eye continues to grow throughout life. 8. One person in every 13 in the country. Accidents killed 100,000 Americans, a 4 per cent increase over 1945. 9. Counted together, the Mis souri and Mississippi rivers. From the source of the Missouri to the mouth of the Mississippi, they’re 4,221 miles long. Otherwise it’s the Nile, which is 4,194 miles long. 10. It contains all the letters oi he alphabet. WHAT MAKES YOUR EYES WATER? Anawer: Congestion of tear ducts. Just 2 drops of Penetro Nose Drops in each nostril ease watery flow, sniffles and sneezes. You feel relief, breathe easier right away. Comes in 3 generous sizes. PENETRO DRCJPS i CROSS TOWN Bv Roland Coe ‘Bet you didn’t know we had a horse trader in the fam ily, Mom! I traded a man our power lawnmower for this swell pony!” “Remember when you were so anxious to hear the patter of little feet around the house?” NANCY NANCY YOU MUST TAKE THIS MEDICINE By Ernie Bushmiller WAIT'LL TH' GANG SEES MY MUTT AND JEFF JEFF, HOW OLD ARE ^25*? YOU?. & W* OH, I DUNNO! BUT I’M TWO Years older THAN JULIUS, MY TWIN By Bud Fisher TWO YEARS OLDER? YOU CAN’T BE TWINS IF YOU’RE TWO YEARS OLDER! By Arthur Pointer By Gene Byrne* HEH-HEH-rrS TOO BAD YOU’RE NOT BIO ENOLK3H TO PUNISH ME By Len Kleis Nothing Unusual A MAN and his dog went into a restaurant and sat down at the counter. The man ordered a cup of coffee with cream and sugar. The waiter said to the dog: "And what will you have?" “The same, only no cream or sug ar/” answered the dog. They received their order, drank the coffee and walked out A customer, who had watched the performance, said to the waiter: “Isn’t that the strangest thing you ever saw?” “No,” replied the waiter, “a lot of customers like their coffee without cream or sugar.” Persuasive Letters A hardware supply house found one dealer particularly backward about settling his accounts. Letter after letter, first polite, then threat ening, was dispatched to no avail. At last a representative went to see him and asked: “Why haven’t you sent us any money? Things going badly?” v, “Oh, no,” was the cheerful reply. "Everything’s fine. But those letters of yours were so good I copied them and sent them out to my own de linquent customers, and they’ve brought in nearly everything that’s owing me. I felt sure there must be another letter or two, so I was hold ing back until I had your complete series.” • INCENTIVE Two buzzards were lazily soaring over the desert when a jet-propelled plane zipped by them, its exhaust throwing flame and smoke. As it whizzed out of sight, one of the buz zards remarked: "That bird was really in a hurry.” “You’d be in a hurry, too,” said the other, "if your tail was on fire.” A New Lingo "Miss Jones, may I present Mr. Smith?” “Hello, Miss Jones.” “How dyu you dyu. . . .” “You go to school?” “Uh huh. Ah shuah dyu.” “Where?” ‘ “Ah go to Miss J ’s in Chawlston." "How long you been going there?” “Oh, this is mah first ye-ah.” “Where’d ya go before that?" “Oh, Ah went to public school and graduated from high school in the Bronx.” A Practical Way “What are you doing, darling?” asked the man. “Balancing my check book,” re plied the industrious wife. “How do you do that, when you don’t even number your checks?” asked the dubious husband. “Well,” replied the cheerful mate, "I try to remember the different checks I wrote while shopping, then I add $40 and call it present bal ance." The Easy Life They tell this story about a politi cally appointed worker in one of our larger cities. He had just finished a leisurely meal and was perusing the newspaper when his wife ex claimed: “Hadn’t you better be get ting back to the offioe?” “You’re right,” he replied, “you know, for a minute, I thought I was at the office.” Partly Right When the lecturer returned to England after a tour of the United States, a friend asked him what the Americans thought of him. “Well, some members of the press told me that my clothes didn’t fit so well and that I was conceited. “Tsk, tsk,” comforted the friend, ‘Tm sure they were mistaken about your clothes.” Fortunate Absence A neighbor who t was passing Meezy Moots’ ramshackled little cottage called out to the indefatig able hook, line and sinker man: “Hear tell you went fishing today, Meezy. Have any luck?” Meezy laughed. “I shore did,” he replied. "Three bill collectors called while I was away." Out of Date Clara — Any fashions in the paper. Papa? Father—Yes, but they are of no use to you, dear. It’s yester day’s paper. Needed It Probably nowhere in the world do women have sharper claws or sharper tongues than in movievllle. Witness the remark of two filmites overheard as they discussed a mu tual “friend.” Said the first: “She certainly has developed a big head.” Said the other: “She needs it to support her two faces!” Labor-Saving Customer — What do these ma chines do? Storekeeper—They will do half of the work for you. Customer—I’ll take twol SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS ^Jfouie ^tde C^loAuicj f-^ert 'l/JoLecl ^drocL flor juniors 8242 34-48 Practical House Dress. A CRISP fresh looking house 4* dress that buttons all down one side with narrow ruffling to the waist and as a pocket trim. Pattern also provides comfortable wing sleeves, making it nice for warm weather. • * • Pattern No. 8242 comes in sizes 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48. Size 36, 5 yards of 35 or 39-inch; 1 yard purchased ruffling. If a small amount of vaseline is rubbed on the hinge of a new umbrella before using, it helps prevent rusting. —•— Dip hooks to be used on walls or doors in paint. This helps to prevent rusting and gives a more finished appearance to the room. —•— A piece of fine sandpaper damp ened, will help remove lint from mohair or felt. Rub lightly. —•— Turn the broom from time to time when sweeping so the bris tles wear evenly. —•— Do not wash the bag of your vacuum cleaner. Washing re moves the special finish that makes the bag dustproof. Brush the bag instead. —•— Wax the clothes chute and clothes will slide down easily. —•— . Improvise a sleeve board by taking the kitchen rolling pin and wrap it with several clean tow els. This forms a firm padded sur face to slip into the sleeve and iron over. —•— When using scotch tape, fold over the end on the spool. Then the next time the tape is to be used, cut off the folded part, and it’s ready for use. —•— When baking bread and the crust becomes burnt, use a small grater and rub it lightly over the burnt crust. You’ll be surprised with how easily it is removed. Adorable Frock. T UST the style the teen-ager* adore — the clever yoked dress that is so young and attractive. This version has a demure tun* over collar and the popular push, up sleeves. Simple sewing, too! • • » Pattern No. 8233 is for sizes 11, 12, 13, 1* 16 and 18. Size 12, 4 yards of 35 or 39-lncb/ short sleeve, 3Va yards. Send your order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 530 South Wells St. Chicago T, 111. Enclose 25 cents in coins for each pattern desired. Pattern No Name Address Beware Coughs from common coMs That Hang On Creomulslan relieves cause It goes right to the ; goes n_ trouble to help loosen and expel of the germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender. In flamed bronchial mucous men* branes. Tell your druggist to sell \ a bottle of Creomulsion with the un derstanding you must like the wagr tk quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. CREOMULSION for Coughs, Chest Colds, BroncMtit AU-VBCETABLB LAXATIVE • In NR (Nature’s Remedy) Tablet* there are no chemicals, no mineral* no phenol derivatives. NR Tablets are different—act different Purely vege table—a combination of 10 vegetable ingredients formulated over 50 years ago. Uncoated or candy coated, tbei^ action is dependable, thorough, yet! gentle, as millions of NR’s have proved. Get a 25* box. Use as directed! c • Rub in Ben-Gay, quick! Gently warming Ben-Gay brings speedy, welcome relief from chest-cold discom fort. You see, Ben-Gay contains up to 2 Vi times more methyl salicylate and menthol — two pain-relieving agents known to all doctors — than five other widely offered rub-ins. Insist on genuine Ben-Gay, the orig inal Baume Analgesique. Also for Pain doe to RHEUMATISM, MUSCLE ACHE, ud STRAINS. Ask for Mild Ben-Cay for Children. ms/a/ tten-Gay