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Address all communications pertaining to this
department, (but to no other) to
Lilla If. Sickler,
Paia, San Diego Co , Cal.
Correspondents should enclose a stamped en
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For Nutcrackers’ Corner.
OBSCURITIES’ REQUIEM.
“May Be.”
Mournfully through naked boughs
Os forest trees,
Stately trees.
Comes the wail of spirit lost
On the breeze,
Chilly breeze.
“Obscurities’’ bitter fate we wail,
Alas! bewail,
Sad the tale.
Short thy puzzleistic strife,
With the cons of Posers rife,
Out in glory goes thv life,
Farewell! Obscurities.
Many votaries of the Art,
Mystic Art,
Welcome Art,
Gathered at thy natal feast,
North and South,
We t and East
Now alas! in sorrow all,
Sad tears fall
O’er thy pall.
Pas’ed thy hours of brightest cheer
Gone thy presence with the year—
But bright memories linger here
of
For Nutcrackers’ Corner.
OUR MYSTIC SISTER.
“Swamp Angel.”
“Mystic Sister’’—with happy smile
We greet it—signed In graceful style
A t bottom of a letter gay
That Uncle Sam has brought to-day
From one who’s distant, mile on mile,
From one who lives where Nature guile
Has fairly cloaked one who the while
Puzzles, and writes herself alway
“Mystic Sister.”
She knows the Sphinx’s varied wile;
Departments, sheets, she has on file;
In fealty owns the Madam’s sway,
Is e’en an Editor, they say.
Pray send her of bright cons a pile—
Mystics, ’sist ’er.
KUTB TO CRA&K.
No. 141. Aspiro Compound Square.
(Diamond within four Half-squares.)
Diamond : 1. A. letter. 2. To place. 3.
ants (obs). 4. Fortifies (obs). 5. Tend
ing to advance. 6. Dove plants. 7. Af
fecting with herpes. 8. Crowds. 9.
Blesses. 10. To transport for crime. 11.
A letter.
Half-Square: Upper Right—Across: 1.
Commiserated. 2. Oyster catcher. 3 A
Seine. 4. Such. 5. French article. 6. A
letter.
Down: 1. A letter. 2. A pronoun. 3. It
Is. 4. Angers. 5. An art of floating
transparent glaze over designs. 6. Dan
dles.
Lower-right: 1. A letter. 2. Proceed.
3. A genus of swine. 4. Sapajos. 5. A
leader. 6. Lazy fellows (obs). Unper
left: 1. To entrap. 2. Addresse®, as “thou.”
3. Empty. 4. An ardent spirit. 5. A
verb. 6. A letter. Lower-left: Across—
1. A letter. 2. A note in Guido’s Scale.
3. A pace. 4. Grimaces. 5. Common. 6.
Bouts. Down: 1. A Latin name. 2.
Male falcon. 3. An annular re-enforce. 4
Perched. 5. Behold. 6. A letter.
Centralia, 111. Aspiro.
No. 142. Charade.
How like is a dream to waking?
Think you, vision of total reveals
Os the past or the present, or ever
The fate that the future conceals?
A dream is but thought out of final,
But play of a brain uncontrolled,
Prime the things that we would or we
wouldn’t,
We experience in Morpheus’ fold.
* * ft * «
Far— far—ah ! ’tis stealing nearer—
a glory of June sunshine.
Green meadows—cool, waving forests —
Song—flowers— gladness divine.
Phantoms of long-past being—
A blithe little child a-roving,
Cling close to the tangled clover,
With the fields and the skies a-moving.
Pale, golden glow of the sunset,i
Sweet odor of folding blooms,
Faint, wandering, twilight zephys,
Blue waters the west illumes.
A lover—th’ ideal of fancy—
He comes in the gloaming gray.
Dake, meadow and woodland darken—
All fades in the night away.
PRIZES.
For best list of solution* to above,a pho
to, about 6x9 inches, of a Pachango Indian
wood carrier. For second and third best
lists, each, six months subscription to Wo
man’s Work.
A splendid, illumined palace—
Glad murmur of mirth and song—
Music, soft—swelling—glorious—
A glittering, dancing throng.
Alone—in the midst of myriads—
Unnoticed —’neath countless eyes.
Such an aching, o’er-loaded heart—
Long—long—till the splendor dies,
Over the edge of the sea-cliff,
Down—down, to the frothing wave—
A dizzy glance—a forsaking earth—
No power to save—to save.
Downward—a flight in stillness,
Dumb sobs of a dying heart
Pain —oblivion—darkness —
From the world and the light apart.
Throuvh the blackness of midnight falling,
Soft rays of a woudrous light—
A thronging of radiant beings—
Bright flashing of chaste wings white.
A mist that rolls onward—upward,
Clouding—enfolding the beam—
Deep sleeps the soul of the sleeper
In the silence and hush oi the dr am.
Santa Rosa, Cal. Senokita.
No. 143. Diamond.
1. A letter. 2. An edge. 3. Demands.
4. Dilu ed. 5. Substances obtained in thin
scale of silky lustre from the bark of cer
tain willows (U-nab.) 6. The broad-billed
singing birds. 7. Discontented (Unab.)
8. A variety of Albite. 9. Sentries (obs.)
10. Final. 11. Sets. 12. A diocese. 13.
A letter.
Irwin, Pa. Dan D. Lyon.
No. 144. Diamond.
1. A letter. 2. To make a murmuring
sound. 3. A Burmese public shed. 4; A.
kind of Rhenish wine. 5. A South Afri
can Antelope. 6. Connubial. 7 Progres
sive emaciation, with hectic fever. 8. An
object of supreme regard. 9. A letter.
Worcester, Masi. Doc.
No. 145. Enigma.
Phantom of Life’s delusion,
Wrapt in mystic seclusion,
Hiding thy face full of snare and deceit;
By thy false endeavor,
Guiding our steps wherever
Mocking despair smiles in calm conceit.
Sailing on ying* of fancy,
Beaming with Love’s bright glance, we
Wait unsuspecting what Fate has in store;
Care uot for worldly opinion.
Total our only dominion,
Fit as an idol for gods to adore.
Sweet are the thoughts oi thy making;
Life seems of thee only partaking
Dread sprite, so artful thy wiles to allure;
SmiHng upon us we grasp thee,
In our belief we clasp thee,
Finding deception is hard to endure.
San Francisco, Cal. CEdipus.
No. 146. Enigma.
Through shady groves we like to roam
Though often make the fields our home—
And when reduced to pressing straite
(By blow or thrust—from fear or hate)
Using what we only carry
Fitting as if made in “Parry”
Strong garments which so well suffice,
We value them beyond all price.
One letter from each line, to your surprise,
Names the strongest animal for its size.
San Francisco, Cal. Scott.
No. 147. Square.
1. More deadly {Rare.} 2. A piece of
furniture. 3. Folded down collars of
shirts (065.) 4 An unmarried person. 5.
A female name. 6. The act of eating
away. 7. Persistent.
Philadelphia, Pa. O. Range.
No. 148. Inverted Pyramid.
Across— l. The person who presides
over a meeting to preserve order, declare
the votes, etc. 2. A certain Pap of a
frorse. 3. A specie of wild ox 4. A large
mass c f floating ice. 5. Having been wove.
6 A bone of the arm. 7. To obtain. 8. A
prep. 9. A letter.
Down— l-2. Letters. 3. A Lat. prep.
4. The three-toed Sloth. 5. Are able
(Scotch). 6. A German artist, 1819. 7.
Plural of enough (obs.) 8 An olio. 9.
Ravenous (obs.) 10. A sma'l spider. 11.
A quadmped (Arm ) 12. A termination.
13. A drunkard (burlesque). 14. An ab
brev. 15. A bone. 16-17. Letters
Femwood, Chicago, 111. Arkate,
WOMAN’S WORK.
No. 149. Transposition.
Beneath a rose tree on the grass
Lies a maiden, young and fair;
Her cheeks like blushing ro«es are,
Her eyes the light of stars surpass
No one has marred the placid brow
That arches o’er those starry eyes,
Within whose depths contentment lies—
A sweet content that few can know.
Oh. who can tell what years may bring
To this young heart, so fond and true.
Shall sorrow’s minions claim the two
Or all her years with gladness ring.
Portland, Ore. Rubra.
No. 150. Anagram.
HE DOTH SUCCOR-SON RISETH TO FATHER.
On the great hilltop’s central space,
They stand -a surging crowd
There stand with hate on each grim face
Wise Priests and soldiers proud;
While bcoffers vie with comrades near
In hurling taunts at One they fear.
The dying martyr’s ’earful eyes
Are raised to Heav’n above;
And there in agony He dies
To save us by His love.
His spirit passes from earth’s pain,
To Heavenly mansions there to reign.
Dark o’ercast is day by night
Shutting out this awful sight!
Hushed is Nature—stilled is song,
Naught but sadness here among
Those still trusting Jesus dear;
Tender, living, hov’ring near.
Near to Jesus may we stand
Till we join His loyal band.
Saginaw, Mich. Sweet Lilac.
Kernels. (Jan.)
Sapient rhetorical writers seldom prac
tise prolix verbosity; employing instead,
pithy, gnomical apothegms.
ABC DEG FT IL M NOPRSTV WX Y
OFRALZUPNBETMQCXKSH I.
(Crypt, by Lorraine).
Ni. 121. (By Phil Down.)
ACCUSAL
CYANITE
CAPH J R A
UNHI V E D
A T R E S I A
L E A D M A N
No. 122. (By Turute.)
JACA M A R
ANA DEME
CAREXES
A D F L I N E
MEXICAN
AMEN A GE
R E S E NE R
No. 123. Site-ties (By Frantz.)
No. 124. Friend-fiend (By Marshall.)
No. 125. (By Pallas.)
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No. 126. Palliation (By G. Race.)
No. 127. W-omen ( Ry Solon.)
No 128. (By Ideal.)
RAGMANSROLL
AL I E N A T O R Y
GIGA NTEAN
MEAG E R E R
A N N E L ID
NAT R I X
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No. 129. (By Parus )
Potsdam
opaline
T A LE N T s
SLEDGES
DING A N E
ANTE N O R
MESSERS
No. 130. (By Sweet Lilac.)
Prime-all- S-oft. First-whole-B-one.
En Passant.
We are gratified to learn that the-
Nutcrackers are so well satisfied in their
new home. From many letters re
ceived. the following from Meteor,
St. Albans, Vt., voices the sentiment
of all:
“I am pleased with your new house,
and it is my earnest wish that you
may be spared many years to enjoy
its surroundings, and to conduct the
many duties pertaining to the same.
I need not hesitate to say that lam
sure the Jatcn-string to the door of
your new home will always be out to
all members of the puzzle fraternity.
I certainly thhik Woman’s Work is
very attractive throughout, and lin
tend to renew my subscription on re
ceiving notice that my present term
has expired.”
The gifted authoress, Julia A. Sa
bine, writes: “Your department in
Woman’s Work is admirably con
ducted. The literary tone is excel
lent, and the puzzles good as puzzles,
also.” A compliment to all of us,
which has our appreciative thanks.
We have the honor of introducing a
second new form by Aspiro, and hope
to see some of our big form builders
enlarge from the model.
Puzzledom was pained to learn cf
the accident that befell our sister Dor
othy D., and hope for her speedy re
covery.
Ide A., of Sanselito, is taking advan
tage of her school’s vacation to visit
her parents at Berkeley.
CEdipus, Attorney at Law, 8. F.,
finds recreation in but O, we
promised not to tell. Any way,he said:
“Law was not the most interesting
thing in the world.” We bear him a
grudge because he attended the wed
ding of our mystic sister “Gloria,”
while we, forsooth, were denied the
privilege. A dainty lace-be-trimmed
box found its way to our sanctum,
however, and—well, you know wed
ding cake tastes a great deal better
than any other kind. Mr. and Mrs.
T. J. Henderson have our congratula
tions and best wishes.
Fred Prosser (Bachelor) has institu
ted a department in the Delaware Co.
Record, Sunbury, O. It has good puz
zles, with a maximum prize of $5 00
cash. May success crown your efforts,
brother Poser.
Mystic Record, Davenport, lowa,
comes regularly to our table, and is
certainly worthy Thedom’s best sup
port. It is always newsy.
Lucubratoris at hand. Its editorial
comment is well termed Gossip. When
even an angel is designated a“scamp,”
what can poor mortals expect?
New Nuts.
Acknowledged from: Dan D. Lyon,
May Be, Senorita, (Edipus, Swamp An
gel, Incognito, Arkate, G. Whizz, Scott,
Sparkle, Marshall, and Rubra.
Nutcrackers. (Dec.)
Idea), Silvia Reed, R. E. C., Calvin,Dor
othy Doolittle, Aspiro, Frantz, Bour
geois, Mercedes, Hattie Heath, Phonog,
Delian, Castranova, Hums, Sparkle, Me
teor, Alexander, G. Whizz, and H. En
nis.
Pbize Winners. (Dec.)
Ideal, Springfield, O. Oil painting.
Silvia Reed, Palo Alta, Cal. A year’s
subscription to Woman’s Work.
R. E C., Fa’lbrook, Cal., and Calvin,
White House, N. J., each 6 mos. sub. to
same.
Greatest r Award
GHJOS
—AT THE —
Werld’s Gelambian Expesitton,
1893—Ghicaga 1895.
For the unimpeachable truth of the
above statement we respectfully refer to
the Judges comprising the
Jury of Awards.
For the equally unimpeachable truth
that th* award only complies with the
facts, we refer the public to a person*. "I
and critical examination of our present
productions in styles and cases.
OHIOKERING& SON.
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