The Ogden Standard-Examiner from Ogden, Utah • 18

1 53- 1 Story of 6 White Rose of Miamis' BY WILLIAM MURDOCH Checkers Reaches Players To 'Make Haste Slowly' -yss yM-rfckeoTHAM fffposwy i When a very small child pretty auburn-haired Frances Slocum had her finger accidentally CHECKERS A FAVORITE 3AME IH MEAR1Y EVERV AMERJCAK4 HOME HAG PLAYED WHAT HAS HAPPENED Things always happen at the home ole Osra family conslgtin yARIETY time finds! us smashed by her brother while the FOR AT LEAST 400O YEARS nu miu a act Ul HI ICS two were playing in a blacksmith shop 1 I to while away a few of your Affr: i I idle moments: It seemed a rather unimportant quiet her nerves jou BY KATHERINE HOUISON If you are going to have an Easter party you'll want a bunny fq a decoration Why not make one yourself? Here are simple directions which will permit you to do so First you'll need a round salt or cereal box depending on how large you want your bunny to be Now take a paper sack half fill it with scraps of paper and slip it ovr the box taping the edges to the bottom of the box This makes the body Now take another sack and half I VA 1 misfortune then for these were ck Osra her smaller VI hrother who collects bottles musb CROSSWORD PUZZLE! white doer dangerous daysL It was 1778 and there was revolution in the land SiK'ridn and suffers rom -nervous ailment come to visit Indians roaming the Wyoming Mrs yora and Valley of Pennsylvania were rest Todd to Hire Unci less yet they did not molest the better salary "7r Ves family of Quaker Jonathan Slo lnheronly Chuck is home-and finds HECrr-JncrTrddsss cum They respected the mild peaceable habits of Slocum who fill it with paper scraps Tie it to the middle open the top part and I 12 13 g- map tali- Abi 18 1 1 1 for nis with his wife and nine children ins to persuade him that role will do just as much Serve Meanwhile Joan discovers pull it down over the body for had recently moved from Rhode HAS BEEU FOUWD THAT THE PLAYED the head Tape it securely so It Island to establish a farm near the houses add to hiV collection and has dumped the medicine down the drain! will stay firm present site of Wilkes-Barre CHECKERS aOOO VEARS BEFORE THE fcMRTH OP CHRIST INSTALLMENT IV Then one day the death of an I Cut pointed ears from stiff wlite paper and line them with pink pepper Twist them into a 'Don't you know Indian in the valley was Charged TOAN groaned that Uncle Todd will get mad? against one of Slocum's oldest THAT THERE IS MUCH TO LEARW ABOUT THE TV4E FACT THAT IOOO BOOk HAVE BEEM NWRtTTEsU OM natural shape then glue or tape boys Muttering Delawares looked them to the head to the door of the rustic Slocum Hell never give Pa a ood job if he finds ofit you've poured his medicine down the dratoPj ACROSS 1 Male 4 Antic Polled newspaper makes good home for revengei THE: SUBJECT front feet or you can use small 6 One who furnishes food and And retaliation followed swiftly "Why would he get mad over sacks filled with paper scraps On a bleak November day of '78 medicine? II wouldn't get mad if Tape them firmly in place The ehndv noured my medicine three Delawares war-whooped hind feet are ovals of heavy white SUA WQLFE ways begin the game that is they into the slocum yard which was Ml ftJncle Todd forgot his aches "and staggered to the table paper or cardboard fastened to make the first move filled with laughing children Slo a visit to a con Recently on the bottom of the box antl ex glass he took Avoid eetting into that Old cum senior and bis older boys where without Raiting for a spoon or a valescent hospital for wounded tend in out in front Pad them J- i' "trap" where if white plays 28-24 were away working Jn the fields medicine with crumpled tissue paper down the drain" sMd Chuck "Besides thought forgot the "You dhWt think at all You Just picked up the bottles and made off with them Now we've got to keep Uncle Todd from finding out what This was the moment the In Ndw cover the whole body care instead of at the first move of the variation black can win by the same course of play 'That down on the floor in front of him could stand it np longer His usual nhfdience vanished and with a dians had waited for painted fully with separated sheets of Homer Unwrapped it and stood Delaware snatched up 5-year-old great leap he sprang! out of the cotton fiuzzy side out Glue it on "tran" has been known for 300 Todd's eyes While Uncle Frances and escaped with her to tuh drfoDinc soaD and water and in small uneven pieces being Ob years trveled over the unfamiliar the hills in what was one of the started off But he did not get careful the joints don't show Pu soldiers we saw dozens of them playing checkers and we remembered our childhood days when this old favorite was played in nearly all American homes on winter nights Of all the quiet games hone offers more efijoyment to those who are willing to study it Checkers is a game that man be ject most dramatic kidnapings in at pufT of cotton at the back for fir Ginger vmp just coming from entertainment 8 Greater quantity 9 Above 11 Amount (ab) 12 Compass point 13 Abound 15 Satiate 16 Journey ings 18 Breaks 19 Entomology (ab) DOWN 1 Companion 2 Animal 3 Roman emperor 4 Draymen 5 Exposes 6 Heavenly body 7 Leases 8 Entangle 10 Scottish sheep fold 14 Horse's neck hairs 15 September (ab) 17 Mover's truck WORD CHAIN American history What is it?" askea uncie ioaa the tail Cut pink paper eyes nose A music box" Homer said "It Into the woods across prairies She picked up one of the bottles A few drops of medicine clung to the bottom It was a bluish color and she took it to her chemistry lab table Using a beaker half lull of water she patched the color with Easter Egg dye Then she added salt sulphur water and a dash of alumWoan smelled the pftys the 'Blue Danube'! into Indian camps into the years a patient search was made for the rfffiutil havO ho uste for? a music corner of tbjaf woodshed when Muggsy reachedltoeldoor Muggsy Was angry and Ginger offerd an opportunity to vent his Wrath Ginger realized thai Muggsy was a creature of ntoodjsjand the cat immediately sprang for a tree Chuck sighed jand Went into the a box I have a radio: and went Dhonoeranh Music boxes gan to play long ago History tells FIT TOUR FLYING the of oit of style at the turn us that in England and Scotland Sally and Sue were both) at Utft-vtnr and made a face She century! the game was called draughts in tracted to flying while they were A MAKE VDUR OWN SCUMMY held it under Chuck's nose Illomer looked downcast for a house i to phone for the nre ae- taly dama in Egypt dameh in missing child The Slocum brothers trekked to surrounding Indian camps searching and inquiring They learned nothing Years passed The Siocums traveled farther west grasping for any straw which might point to the whereabouts of their stolen sister They were still searching as late as 1797 trying to find some in their teens "Kmii like medicine" Chuck I partment moment and then his face "Maybe they'll come back Sue took an expensive flying France les dames in China "the game of circumvention" It is said carried a tray InThe house Joan course that flattened her bank ac Joan corked the bottle and then into style again" he suggested known that Egyptians played this count Came the war and Sue tried of bottles into the front room- As she spied the music box sh gave selected another repeating the ahead lof the times Uncle game 2000 years before the Chris to get into the she did get process but giving i a different Look!" tian era as far as Sweetwater and then her crank the Change LOSE to HIDE in four moves changing one letter at a time and making sure you have a good word each time Horner turned On the wall? of the old city of CEREAL BOX BUWNV taste by using a little vinegar in stead of alum orders were canceled and she had a little squeal i Of dehght and set the bjottles dfn jci the table "Oh ifs lovely!" she said 1 "My medicine!" exclaimed sound faintly side A tinny borrow the money to come home definite clue concerning the fate of Frances But the girl seemed swallowed up by the wilderness Three-score years after the child was stolen news came of Frances famous Vien- reminiscent Of the Thebes King Rameses II is depicted playing checkers with a woman The players of that time on 1 nese waltz came forth in booming Uncle Todd 'Where did you find WORD SQUARE A little bitter after this experi yoIumeL used pieces of ivory somewhat ence and realizing she had a small Slocum' A western Indian trader hill of debts On her hands Sue ac IfnclO Todd forgot his aches and staggered to he table Without waiting for a spoon or a glass of CARD "You ain't puttin' poison in 'em are you?" Chuck asked nervously "I don't have any real poisons in my lab" Joan explained "Of course some of the acids are poison but they're very diluted and they taste so sour that nobody would take enough to hurt before noticing it Some of this resembling small- nine pins Archaeologists in making excavations have found ivory checker pieces "You shouldn't have done this for me Homer Uncle Todd said SUjjeasily He remjembered the hgrt lopk in Mr Osra's eyes when cepted- a war-job far removed from flying Today debt-free and water he put a bottle to pis lips and m0uth and glue them in place 4nd drink def ply fie tried an- shellac string or thread for whis- beautifully carved with small heads at the top In the Metropoli with a little money to her credit Sue is once more piling up flying hours at a price she cannot afford to pay first told him he had no use fi a njusic box He hated to say hjat the music box annoyed and irritated him other and then a third before he ker8 dd a big crepe paper bow noticed anything wrong Then he Le an( jr Easter Bunny is com- li tan Museum of Art there are several specimens of ancient checker boards and beautifully carved stuff will make you sick though sent- word east that he had discovered a white woman living with Miami Indians on the Wabash River in Indiana In his letter he stated that the woman whose features were those of a white woman although her skin had been sun-and wind-burned as bronze as any Indian's had told him a strange story She spoke no English but the trader was fluent in the Miami tongue Her name was now Ma-con-a-qua "Young Bear" but realized that his wocfte mouth naa piete been drawn into sj pronounced pye colorful vegetables around Sally on the Other hand kept ifNow Uncle Todd!" said Mrs i(mo" iyvrty her bank account intact accepting medicine had and youll have an unusual "We want to give you some pucker as if toe More than 1000 books on check contained alum ifcenterpiece for the Easter dinner ers have been written The mod 1 position as clerk and general 'handy woman" at a small airport thing and you have almost every-Iffing so a music box is just what Rearrange the letters in eacl "Strange!" he thought table anjd the place cards can be row to form a good word thei ern literature jof the game began With a Spanish book published in so I'd better not use too much" She matched the colors of the bottles which had) contained liquid and then began making pills This was a- hit tie difficult since she! had no mold but she! found that fey' ma king a dough of flour salt and alum and rolling the dough into a long rod she like that qu need!" medicine has never acted small scrubbed vegetables fas When money at the airport was scarce Sally took part of her pay rearrange the rows to forrh a per In the woodshed where Chuck Ottle of hefore!" He opened a tened tot white cards on which 1547 A little more than 100 years feet word square em cine Ifts finishing Muggsy 's i ath the pills and began taking th later came the first French book you've lettered the names of fam ily or friends 4 SCRAMBLERS with rules and regulations that lains jof the "Blue Danube" came tfishing from the house Muggsy after another! Outside Muggsy Was unwilling Scramble to conduct apd hav are not greatly unlike those in our modern books The first English could slice sections off so that Stirred uneasily Then he put hisj but the they would pass a transaction scramble again anc have a small valley any book that describes the game as iipad back and emitted a howl I The sound i echoed in the front closest inspection "We don't have to Scramble a rodent and! have to lesfwfe his lost beside the tree where Ginger! was: The din of the music box caused him to howl Faintly from acrpaS toe tracks rose the sound of a fire siren (To Be Continued) we now ply it -was William Payne's "Introduction to the Game worry about paving material scramble agair once it had been Slocum she said She remembered being taken from her home while very young: she remembered her father a kindly man in a Wide-brimmed hat The letter was published in a newspaper and! a copy finally reached Isaac Slocum one of the older bqys With a brother and a sister Isaac made the journey to the Miami settlement on the Wabash There he confronted the woman who claimed to be his sister Isaac can be forgiven if he did of Draughts" which was printed and haye skill fOOm Muggsy doesn't like the mu- fi' Mr Osra said li After all Homer" replied Mrs in 1756 Theri in 1800 the work of have Scramble a beach and Joshua Sturges j-a book beast of burden Some are old some are new but anyway they're riddles If you Ggra "Muggsy is just a dog and RIDDLE ANSWERS making them different tasting' Joan explained "Hill swallow the pills without tasting them" TToi better put something bad tasting- in just in case" Chuck suggested cautiously Joan was almost finished when she remembered about Muggsy Todd $hOuld be considered can't figure out the answers look WORD DIAMOND Jt knows all of its children 1 mmt Uncle Todd likes the music that is still regarded as authoritative In 1860 was published an excellent American book written by Henry Spayth and entitled "The American Draught Player" elsewhere on this page 1 Why is a flea's life tragic? CARAMEL forms the cjenter ol this word diamond The second word is a dance step thej third a French city the fifth a genus ol Jid Muggsy will just have to get aong" i pUncle Todd groaned to himself will go to the dogs 2 The barber has razors to shave and the woman has shavers raise 3 Your age 4 It has a Holyoke Sji "All aboard" 6 "I'll be of interest to not believe at first that this What is the difference a barber and a woman with and the fleas "You'd better give that dog bath with flea soap bronzed wrinkled enfeebled It was a "best seller" and was printed to be sold for 10 cents a would have liked to join the seven children? apes and the sixth an ocean fcg in howling and for the first right now" she said "We don't woman before him was the pretty auburn-haired little girl he had copy 3 What goes up but never VOU" JUSv-lue v-js jreeu I want Upcle Todd to catch fleas I We since he had i met the huge Perhans the greatest benefit comes down? oiaer ast seen more than 60 years be CARAMEL again i -creature he felt that perhaps derived from playing checkers is 4 Why is Massachusetts like an fore Todd went upstairs and out to was the sanest person in egg? He reached for her hand One of QUICKWINK ANSWER the woodshed to obey As he pfce family Uncle Todd's aching that it exercises the quality of mind called concentration A good player can shut out for the time being all other thoughts and to her fingers was mis-shapen 1 2 4 I 5 What would the train conductor say if he found Charlie McCarthy as his only passenger 'How did this come about?" be muscles and tired respiratory organs made the sound seem worse Muggsy howled louder and asked through an interpreter A in "flying lessons" You'd be surprised at the number of flying hours Sally had to her credit at the end of the month During the first war year the small airport that had beep situated on the coast moved inland and Sally moved along with it still working and piling up her flying hours Close to the new location was a college and somehow negotiations were rigged up be on a streamliner? Ma-con-a-qua replied that the A consider the result of every move he makes That practice cultivates struggled in Chuck's arms "Hold ANSWERS TO PUZZLES 1 Crossword puzzle answer: 6 What does 'a War Bond say passed through the kitchen he saw Uncle Todd sweating and exhausted trying to jump the rope Mrs Osra was coaching him "Don't you feel better already?" she askeid "I I feel ready jto collapse" said Uncle Todd panting Chuck said But Muggsy Still!" to you? hi finger had been injured by her brother in an accident long years before AA 7 What great virtue does frozen forethought memory and calculation all of which are extremely useful possessions And the first rule is "to make haste slowly" it Now GOOD A CITIZEN ARE YOU? water represent? Thus was Frances Slocum v4 8 What can you pe sure to ge "The White Rose7 of the is 4 prfvilege to be a citizen of your covin "Well then you go into the says in Spayth's book Master one finally found Through toe inter tryj to enjoy the protection of the laws es on your birthday? Manning tween the college and the airport for instructing students jn flying point before you proceed to the prefer she told her brothers and next front room and rest on the davenport" said Mrs Osra "After lunch we can try it again" Uncle Todd settled down to re sister she had lived a full happy and ground aviation i A standard checker board is no QUICKWINK life with the Indians Adopted by Sally invested her savings in im a kindly chief and'his wife after provements demanded by the col lax His rhuscles were aching andi RIDDLE CCL tablished by government and the rights given us under them Bnt the privilege carries with it an obligation and according to our acceptance of this obligation you and I are good citizens' I I 1 i I I i I I A good citizen realizes he is part of a group and that the good of the whole must come 1 lege for this increased activity She became a partner in the air By 4 he was out of breath Then the' front door opened and Mr Osra entered staggering under the LOSE rose rise ride HIDE 2 I GARRET port Today part airport-owner instructor and pilot Sally's! future less than 14 inches across nor more than 16 inches square Standard pieces must not be less than one and one-quarter inches or more than one and one-half inches in diameter The 32 squares upon which you move are numbered in the way they have been numbered for 2000 years It is al TKAra REVEL AVENA FENDS SLASH weight of a bulky object he car- ried in his arms Mrs Osra came is assured A moral is here of course It's tar ar Lead deal dale Rat bouncing in from the kitchen this- fWinsr is expensive Before "Why Homer!" she exclaimed you start map out your plans to Why does a chicken cross the road? It crosses the road because Of an inner urge that it on Do the puzzle and find the missing word 12 3 4 Shore Horse PAS PARIS CARAMEL SIMIA SEA 1 suit your pocketbook or you might crack up Some do I being kidnaped she had gradually lost her early background to the roving ways of the Indian She had learned to love the outdoor life: she wished to spend the remainder of her life with the people she had learned to love So Frances remained with the Indians By act of Congress Frances Slocum Ma-con-a-qua was granted a square mile of land in Indiana to be hers for life from which she could not be evicted when the Miamis were moved to a reservation farther west and to revert to her heirs forever Here at the confluence of the Wabash and Mississinewa Rivers the "White Rose of the Miamis" died and was given Christian bursal on March 9 1847 I Do you know how to get a fly "What is it?" "A present for Uncle Todd" said Homer "I thought it might entertain him during his leisure time while he's visiting us Mr Jackson was in a generous mood today this is Saturday and business is good so he let me have it ins education to suit your purse? ways an advantage to memorize the numbers on the squares if you wish to "win" for when numbers are used to designate moves you will instantly identify the position of the men At the beginning of any game place the men so that the black first He is courteous in the exercise of his rights and tolerant of those limits which must! be set np to protect 'the group Above all he is law-abiding II respects his government and its Jaws He obeys! the seemingly unimportant laws because he has confidence in those higher up to enact laws which will prove best for the covmtry as a whole He does not trv to get away with infringements because he thinks he won't get caught at id Do yon' Obey toe traffic lights as carefully as the law against stealing? When you ride your bicycle do you remember that pedestrians and motorists have rights too? Do you extend full consideration to the person foreign birth In your neighborhood because our government accepted him and gives him equal rights with yovs and me? If yen can say "yes" to these questions you are a good citizen If you can't you had better do something about changing your ways for our government needs GOOD citizens to keep us a free democratic country I PENNY OF OLD Write Hegel The Boys and The first American coin to por Girls Page care of this paper En rinse a stamped self-addressed tray an eagle was the Massachusetts penny issued in 1778 envelope please for $298 instead of $35 which is pieces occupy the first 12 squares and the white pieces occupy the last 12 Always make sure that the board is placed with the double What's your favorite game or hobby? Write a letter to the Boys a tlA nirls Pae in care: ot this Read down: 1 to cry 2 payment for work 3 fotiOn of a contented dog's tail 4 rnuch of it hangs on the line on Monday Vv Now read across the third row of letters for the missing word The answer is on this page its retail price" I Uncle Todd struggled to a sitting position on the davenport "Here Uncle Todd" Homer nowsDaner telling about li If your PANTS Trousers began with the Assyri ans who found long skirts a han dicap to their cavalry troops letter is printed you'll receive a 11 rnrnpr nt voiir rieht as VOU sit prize said proudly putting the object" ready to play The black men al (Copyright 1946 NEA Service Inc Printed in i A).