The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-12-16
TINES WORD CONTEST
RUNS THREE DAYS MORE
Last Solution Has as Good
Chance as First.
PRIZES GO TO THE BEST
Numerous Contestants Have Made Sew
eral Lists Each-WoTk Inspired
Some to Drop Into Poetry.

Saturday evening will be the last OPP
portunity to submit an answer In The
Times word contest This will still
afford ample time to prepare a list of
words for this popular competition if
you have not already commenced one
But 10 give the matter proper thought
you SHOULD not delay starting it. 1t
should be remembered that the nature
of this contest is such that the last
answer has the same chance to win as
any other. 1t makes no difference how
many solutions have been submitted
ahead Of yours; if yours is the best,
and is submitted at the last moment, it
will carry off the prize
Comments of Contestants.
The comments Of contestants. if pub
lished. would make an interesting
article. Scores of those who have sub
mitted solutions have told of their ex-
periences, and how. after making one
list Of words. they have gone over the
chart again, and found that their sec
ond effort produced an entirely differ
ent result from the first. One con-
testant writes that after making five
lists she found the first one the best.
so submitted It in preference to the
could not make the same result twice.
among the letters and comments
winch have been received the following
verses. by Mrs. Joanna Rushing Brown
are published TO demonstrate the in
terest the puzzle has created:
The Battle of the Letters.
Dear Sir: With our list" we send. a re-
OF the contest. the struggIe-the battle
we fought.
1t has been a tough tussIe; not any
We've been put 10 our mettle; but we've
relished the cost
Our report may be faulty-not accord
Alas. we ne'er vent TO military school.
be kind enough, though, TO examine
rance vile.
Every one in your squad, which num-
Dered nine hundred
Has been carefully, drilled; we hope
| The words twO-ninety. we have mar
shaded for you;
They are fresh from your ranks-rnen
good, brave, and true.
Dear Major, your squad has "qu's'' and
Four. ks with these were caught up
in trice.
To make words" OF these. was easy.
But our campus was swamped with
- g
To dispose OF these wisely Cprav mar
don US. please.
Well, We just doubled up and thus
marched with ease,
! With the rs saber-crossed. the rs
vizors high,
RS riding on horses rushing rapidly
For the the .q'sv tried to kiss kick and
kill in the race,
While the ms" and the ms" mumm
as nins walked apace.
i f-NH
Up hill and down, where it's hot. yes.
"C's.S Of course, charged the cannon.
With the Tvs" whistled and waItzed
the whole way
The DIS (sir. you know that some
times men swear.
| Those don t-care, dare-devil's danced
and drove everywhere.
Those ye5man the ''y's." young and
When deployed to the rear. calmly knelt
The VS." yirtuous virgins. both fool
ish and wise,
| Give you gave. why not moreg viewed
the scene with surprise
The is jolly, joyous. Ger this con-
Jubilantly cried bravo Times" in
| tones sibillant.
Young 20" at the head Of his company
With that quill in his cap ne looked
quite like swell.
Mind your ''p's' and your as" we
/ all learned at school.
/ The Chinaman, quaint, quiet with his
| queue is no fool
| In porcupines, precipices. and puzzles,
| ''p's' hide.
| In the Philippines and Panama our
! President takes pride.
Polygamy in Utah makes good women
| blush.
And Smoot and his followers in vain
| cry out hush
/ Soon in our possessions may sweet
| eyed Peace reign.
! Then our busy BIS" in Congress viii
have not served in vain.
| 70 pains us to close our report with a
| plant:
But you know by this time, a soldiers
! no saint.
Your as" alert, anxious TO aim first
| and asSail,
| Afraid (arrant asses), asked for armors
Of mail.
The Times Puzzle Editor we know is no
Trust our '1ist" will not shock him-it
| has but one volt"
Should il merit prize, we shall be very
The 1rst. be assured. will not make us
OF patience and lexicons. he should lay
In a store;
CFair warning we give)-also pistols
| galore
That his life may be spared, the lists
| all to read,
Christmas dinner enjoy. Major Fairplay,
godspeed,
FOR TARGET PRACTICE.