The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-19
Weeks Contest Ends
With One Grand Rush

SOLUTIONS or me MyslLC menu Saiil6 III
by the hundreds all day yesterday as
the time for closing approached Every
mail brought them Dozens were left
at The Times business office, and when
il yet remained but half hour 10 3
O'Clock they came by special delivery
messengers. The knowledge of the Mys-
tic Menu Contest spread all over the
country this week and solutions came
from every point of the compass
There has never been a prize contest
on the woman's page that excited such
excitement. One contestant wrote me
that she had puzzled so over the an
swers th2t she had dreamed several Of
them IN her dream she knew that the
solutions that came to her were right.
but alas, she could not remember them
when morning came.
The other day Mrs. Rearick decided
that AN unruly member was not
Tongue at all, but "Damson." AS
soon as her solution of this number was
published. other contestants became
very unsettled on the subject A good
many who had already sent Tongue"
as their solution asked to have it
changed TO ''Damson,' which only
proves how foolish it is to follow a lead
Damson" IS any nearer the correct So
luton than "Tongue?n I told you the
beginning OF the week that il would be
exceedingly foolish to allow your an
swers to be governed by those OF any,
one else. and am telling you again now
because you are going TO have some
thing even more exciting than the Mys-
tic Menu next week.
Mrs. Lacy
Sends Solution.
Mrs. Agnes Lacy, Occoquan, Va, sent
the following solution to Mrs. Coving-
toms Menu:
public notice and a Christian name
Ssle-Erastus (sslarastus)
An unruly member-Tongue.
An iron vessel and eight ciphers-Po-
tatoes.
A shoe and relative-Pumpkin
Winters harvest and the bovine's best
ice Cream.
a nneasure-Pe(a)rch
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Part of a head, part OF a stove, and
part OF fsh-Herring roe.
Part or calf, necessity-Br8ins.
Mother earth and a little thing much
used. hut little Valued-TeTTapin-
Lilies DO not Penelope did, mature
ag@Spinach.
A tree. weapon and a sobriquet-
GumOo soup.
a vegetable and a bevera ge-Wa ter-
melon
prefix and to go under-Strawber7.y
Two rivers and a beast-DandeIion
a celebrated singer and sweet
Psttycake.
Part OF an eminence-Base CBass)
a shOemakeT's tOol-Punch
Part OF a boat, part of the anatomy,
an egg layer-Canvass-back duck
y delicious bird minus one letter
would mako countryman OF a foreign
land-Pheasant.
A break and human failing-Cracker.
vegetable and social functions
Potatoe balls
4 perfume and a nuisance-AIusk rat
Running streamS-CuTrants
a Iruit and name-Apple jack
Adds a
Postscript to Guess.
AT the bottom Of her solutions Mrs.
Lacy wrote:
a menu. indeed, both modest and
digeSLible. appealing 10 the carnjverOus
the granivOrOuss and the graminivOrous;
the bibulOns and the dTys."
Here is a solution which says that
an unruly member is Heart" which
IS a truth ii many instances, whether
IL happens to be Mrs. COvington's So
luton or not The remainder of this
solution Is as follows.
a public notice and a~Christfan name
Banana.
An uaruly member-Heart
An iron vessel and eight ciphers-Po-
tatoes.
A shoe and a relative-Pumpkin
Winter harvest and the bovine's best
ice cream.
A fneas7I re-C5auge.
experimentation
Part OF Z head. part OF stove. part
q 6sh-Herring roe.
Fart Of a calf, q eCeSsltV-SWeetbrea
Mother 2arth and tiny thing much
used. but Of little value-TeTrapin.
Lilies do not, Penelope did, mature
sge-Spina n.
4 tree. a weapon, and sobriquet-
Gumbo coup.
a beverage and a vegetable-water
cress
Two rivers and beast-Dandelion
prefix and 10 go under-Endive.
A celebrated singer and a sweet
Patti cake.
Part Of an eminence-partridce
shoemakeT's tOOl-Punch
TART OF z boat part OF the anatomy,
ana an egg layeT-CanVas -Da ck-ducE
delicious bird minus one letter
would make countryman OF a foreign
land-Pheasant.
ers.
\ vegetable and social functions-Po-
tsto balls.
A perfume and nuisance-Muskrat.