The Silent Readers Part 42

3. Look at group two. HEN and CHICKS are words that have a certain relation, and similarly, of the five words that follow, CAT and KITTENS are the only two that are connected in the same way. Write these four words after figure 2:

2. HEN CHICKS cat kittens

4. Complete the exercise by selecting the two words in each remaining group that are related in meaning in the same way that the given words are related in meaning. When finished, wait quietly for the others.

1. CARPENTER, SAW (farmer, sky, plough, trees, field).

2. HEN, CHICKS (corn, feed, cat, milk, kittens).

3. AUTOMOBILE, GARAGE (wheel, horse, owner, stable, door).

4. COW, MILK (sheep, pasture, gra.s.s, fence, wool).

5. AEROPLANE, AIR (sail, pilot, s.h.i.+p, sea, wind).

6. RAIL, STEEL (locomotive, window, house, door, gla.s.s).

7. SPOOL, THREAD (shelf, librarian, books, picture, print).

8. POET, POEM (verse, rhyme, brush, artist, picture).

9. WOOL, SWEATER (knit, silk, dress, seamstress, scissors).

10. SUMMER, RAIN (winter, sled, December, snow, overcoat).

CHARADES

Did you ever play charades? Here is a brief statement about charades taken from a cyclopedia. See if you can read it through in a half-minute so as to give the substance of it.

A charade is a popular form of riddle, the answer to which is a word of several syllables, each of which alone is in itself a word. Each syllable, taken as a word, is described, and finally a puzzling definition of the whole word is given. The following is an example: "Some one threw my first and second at me, and it hit my third. It did not hurt me, for it was only a branch of my whole." The answer is _Mistletoe_. A girl, sitting under a high table, would suggest the word _misunderstand_.

A pleasing charade requiring more thought is in the form of a rhyme, as--

"My first is a circle, my second a cross; If you meet with my whole, look out for a toss."

The answer is _Ox_. Then, too, charades are often presented in the form of little plays, each syllable representing a scene. They are then called _acting_ charades. This form of amus.e.m.e.nt is much in vogue on social occasions. It is thought the name was derived from a French word meaning _idle talk_, which in its turn was derived from Spanish words meaning _speech and actions of a clown_.

--_From "The World Book".

Courtesy of W. F. Quarrie & Co._

GENERAL PERs.h.i.+NG'S WELCOME HOME

More people, perhaps, read a newspaper every day than read any other form of print. At the breakfast table, in the trolley car, or in the railroad train, morning and evening you see readers buried in their newspapers. Many people read at least two papers a day, and many people read very little else. But unfortunately a great many of these people read the newspapers very hastily, and sometimes they fail to grasp the real sense of the column beneath the catchy headlines. They need practice in the rapid and intelligent reading of a news article.

You may begin to have that sort of practice now, if you will read rapidly the following newspaper account of the homecoming, in September, 1919, of one of America's greatest soldiers, and be able to answer the following questions. Your teacher may ask each row of pupils to be responsible for two or three of the questions.

1. When and where and from what s.h.i.+p did General Pers.h.i.+ng land?

2. Who else came home on that s.h.i.+p?

3. How often and where did General Pers.h.i.+ng reply to addresses of welcome?

4. What important person made the chief address of welcome?

5. What proof of the nation's grat.i.tude was given to General Pers.h.i.+ng?

6. Where would you like best to have been among the crowd of onlookers?

7. Do you think you would like General Pers.h.i.+ng if you were one of his officers or soldiers? Why?

8. What was the most important thing that General Pers.h.i.+ng said?

9. On whom was the joke, General March or the sentry?

PERs.h.i.+NG TAKES HONORS IN NAME OF HERO DEAD

Tribute Belongs to Men Who Fell, General Tells Cheering Throng in New York

WELCOME ECLIPSES ANY EVER STAGED IN CITY

Thousands Await Through the Night to Greet America's "Jack"

on Return Home

WILSON SENDS MESSAGE

New York, Sept. 8.--General John J. Pers.h.i.+ng, commander-in-chief of the A. E. F., came home from France today and was welcomed in a manner which fully conveyed to him the grat.i.tude and pride with which the American people estimate his services in leading the nation's greatest army to victory in the world's greatest war.

From early morning, when the sea monster Leviathan arrived in the Hudson--a shadowy giant in a misty sunrise--until the middle of the afternoon, when the general insisted upon an intermission for a much-needed nap, he was the central figure of a demonstration which for brilliancy and gayety has rarely been equaled in the history of New York City.

The presentation of his permanent commission as a full general in the regular army, accomplished by the secretary of war ten minutes after the general had stepped upon American soil, while perhaps the most important tribute, was merely an auspicious beginning of what was to follow. A river pageant on the Hudson from Hoboken to the Battery, a triumphal march through surging crowds on Broadway and Fifth Avenue, exercises at the City Hall, during which he was given the freedom of the city for four days; a reception, a luncheon, and in the evening a dinner and a theatre party in his honor--all this was part of the crowded and colorful program. None was surprised, therefore, when the distinguished guest good-naturedly remarked that if this continued long he would "almost wish that the war had gone on."

PLEASED TO BE BACK HOME

The general accepted it all quietly and simply. He was pleased to be home. He could not conceal that, but neither could he conceal the fact that he would have preferred to come home without so much fuss being stirred up about it. He bowed, nodded, waved, or smiled acknowledgment of the cheering. The Pers.h.i.+ng smile, incidentally, will without doubt take its place among the famous smiles of America. All great Americans seem to have a characteristic smile. There was the Roosevelt smile, and there are the Taft and Wilson smiles, and now there is the Pers.h.i.+ng smile, quite as striking as any of the others. The people liked it immensely; but more than that they liked the brief responses made by the general to the eulogies delivered by the secretary of war, the governor of New York, and the mayor of the city. He accepted all of them--with a reservation, that reservation being that he accepted them not for himself but for the boys who went over and fought and died for the flag. It was this that convinced the people that Pers.h.i.+ng was truly a great man.

The Leviathan, bringing, besides General Pers.h.i.+ng, his picked "composite regiment" and what is left of the first division, "the first to go over and the last to come back," tied up at Hoboken at 9:55 o'clock, with the commander-in-chief of the overseas forces on top of its pilot house. a.s.sembled on the pier were nearly 1000 welfare workers, soldiers and guests.