Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-02-22
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES Z. TRACEWELL.

puzzles to take home) will feel that
the jig-saw is increasingly responsible
for both pain and provocation.
No respectable jig-saw ever could see
the day when 1t would be worked the
"a hours around in turning out millions
upon millions OF scrambled pictures.
The greatest MASTERPIECES, in repro
duction, are being ruthlessly torn into
bits, to enable thousands of human
beings to enjoy the sport Of putting
them together again.
Hundreds Of .little-known pictures
mostly in Autograph, or whatever the
modern process is called, are turning
up for the edification of mankind.
Lions, Dutch scenes, and what not
these and a thousand more come to the
light; they do, that is, If any one In
the family has enough patience to put
them together.
But it is both pain and provocation
to many, especially the men folk.
A woman can sit down with a Jig
saw puzzle, and sort out the border,
then turn to the main ingredients Of
the plot, carefully save up bits Of sky
and flowers, wait until the right mo-
ment comes, never be bothered a bit
because this queer piece here, like moth
ing so much as little dancing bear,
does not seem to fit in anywhere.
A. woman can take her time, keep
right at 1t, wait without murmur when
not a single remaining piece seems to
belong to the rest, or ever to have
been designed to fit in with the re-
mainder.
She has patience. and patience Is
what does it, when the survey of left
over jigs fails utterly to reveal single
fragment with a dogs ear in it.
Perseverance!
That is the secondary meaning OF
patience" and it is the primary one
in regard to these jig-saw businesses.
II you can stick to 1t until $50 sepa-
rate pieces have been put together
without once losing your temper
If you can be interested when all
the interest goes out of the thing, be-
cause it doesen't move fast enough to
suit you
If you can be willing to devote a
solid hour to finding what in the
thunder became of that lions tail
If you somehow manage to think
that the completed picture Is going
to be more interesting than the one
the dealer showed you, without any
cuts In it
If you like to do crossword puzzles,
ana honestly 1eel LIlaL Lney are real
revealer of intelligence
II you do not mind the lure Of the
great outdoors, can let the dinner wait,
and are needless of the passing hours
If you have the endurance of a saint
and the perseverance Of dog after
bone
Then you will enjoy doing jigsaw
puzzles, no doubt of it at all
The mentality Of a puzzle builder
must be interesting First, you take
a nice picture, without crease or mar
Then you paste it ON a board. SO
that it could be framed or hung up
nicely.
Then-honest-you begin to cut the
beauty all to pieces, because millions
Of people have developed a fondness
for their pictures in pieces.
You saw this way, and you saw that
way. You turn out fancy Fights. anc
figures like dancing bears, and roses
and stars and the like.
You cut that picture into $50 pieces
more or less; tumble them up, seal then
into a box, and send it-and a million
more like it-out to the women o.
America.
They like jig-saw puzzles, they do
because they have patience. Patience
no longer sits on a monument. She
does jig-saw puzzles.