San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-18

for the distance, or something of the
sort, for after having obtained:
Gets Partial Solution.
Now men you can buy your new
spring suits at Joske Brothers Co.,
and in the old engine begins TO
knock, and while we can get various
connected phrases below we cannot
get anything that preserves the con-
tinuity of the subject. Down in the
middle we find a combination of
vowels which brings forth 'BEAUT1-
Full followed by what might be
Light Weight Woolens' and then
she begins to knock again on all
two cylinders until we hit In every
detail and fashioned with care and
which in their-Qualities. and then
the engine died. What we want to
know is How Gomez We have
done what YOU expected us to DO and
read every doggone advertisement; not
once. but about six times without
finding anything that sounds like the
above
| However. the principal thing that
we started out to say when oyeftaken
| by this attack was, don't quit keep
EN- coming; stick TO the character.
form, say something that means
something. and vary and complicate
your physical formations as much as
you like and see how many you can
get away with"
Mr.. Homan's letter Is published as
was said above, TO show what thor
ough sportsmen and women the puzzle
contest entrants are. 1t follows:
Congratulates the Winners.
"Dear Puzzle Editor.
at would seem that / really
haven't any excuse for writing as
am one Of those that asked for some
thing harder and then got stuck when
l got it.
However, I want to express my
appreciation of the work of the two
ladies who did get last weeks cryp-
! togram and to congratulate them. In
reading the paper j noticed the little
article about Mr.. A. b. Sees state
ment about the inventive and reason
| ing faculties of women which seems
to be pretty well shot to pieces by
last weeks cryptograms results. j VIII
admit that i hate to be beaten by
the women at game which l ike
to play, but a defeat is better than
no battle.
II think that the reason more
answers were not sent in last week
was probably because most everybody
was looking for something Of a more
serious nature and not anywhere
near the line of the old King Tut
Jingle. l soon decided that the lines
read from top to bottom not from
looking at it but from the fact that
I could find no repetitions Of COM
binations in the lines from left to
was that / couldn't get it through
my dumb skull that the frequency
was upset so much as it was. / work
ed last week all my spare time until
the Sunday paper came out. This
week however, due to duties l have
had little time to work and what /
have had has not been satisfactory.
/ believe it is due to this puzzle not
being as interesting to me as the !
ciphers were. ! have worked out
four or five starts for line or two !
at the beginning and pieces here and ,
there and a line or two at the end !
and have been able TO make them |
along the same line all through and
on different subjects to make good |
sense as a sermon, medical lecture. |
an automobile add. or a second hand |
store add. / looked through the |
paper to see if | could find whether
any of my starts was along the right |
line but could find nothing that any |
of them would fit in. Nor in read
ing it through did / notice anything
at all that seemed to fit the puzzle
and to look through the paper line
BY line is a tedium which l do not
care for nor is there any fun in that.
Wants More Puzzles.
IL hope the Puzzle Editor does not
lose his job for j would like very
much to see the puzzle contests con-
tinued even If there is only one or
two correct solutions some weeks. To
me these puzzles are like game OF
checkers, j. e., there is no fun in
playing with a man that you can
beat every game.
"To conclude / wish to tell you
that because ] have missed out for
couple Of weeks doesn't mean that
I an out of the running. For / hope
to be in the race again next week.
81 think Miss Eldrige's letter is
the cleverest one that has been pub
lshed in connection with these
puzzles.
"This week. puzzle was not easier
for me possibly because never was
much Of hand at English or things
like that while mathematics and deal
ing with the unknown in an algebra
problem always held fascination for
me that even in my days in school
would keep me burning the midnight
oil for hard problem and often my
other lessons were sadly neglected in
favor of the mathematics.
Although this puzzle doesn't ap-
peal to me as much as last weeks
md the week before l sincerely hope
it does appeal to Others
To relieve the mind of Mr.. Homan
and others it is stated that the p. +.
hasn't lost his job but for this week
at least his activities will be along
,tber lines. He decided to hold the
T" tongue twister" contest, announced
on this page, so that others beside
the code fans could compete for the
,ash prizes. Then he has another
scheme or two and in the meantime
be is on the lookout for a cryptogram
hat will meet the requirements of
being difficult enough to give his fol-
overs plenty of work but not so diff
icult as to prevent all but a few
rom. getting the solution.