Lifestyles

WORLD’S FIRST CROSSWORD PUZZLE

In 1913, Arthur Wynne created the world’s very first crossword puzzle for the puzzle page in Fun in the comic section of the New York World. Wynne came up with this idea for the Christmas edition of the New York World because he decided to create a new sort of puzzle to entertain readers. He came up with the idea of a diamond-shaped grid with the word FUN across the top squares. He then filled the rest of the grid with words, numbered the squares and wrote definition clues for the words he had filled in. This new puzzle has become extremely popular and has appeared in the newspaper every week. After a couple of weeks, the name was changed from “Word-Cross” to “Cross-Word.” Wynne experimented with a variety of different shapes for the puzzle and eventually chose the shape of a rectangle for the very popular puzzle. 

WOMEN’S FASHION!

At the extravagant parties thrown by Mr. Jay Gatsby, women are wearing their best clothes. They are often wearing very fancy dresses, elaborate hats, and their hair in the bob style. The dresses are very bright, colorful, and short. The dresses are often worn with stockings or tights. The hat that is worn the most is called the cloche. This is a very popular hat that fits very close to the skull and is worn over their eyes. With this hat, the women are wearing their hair shorter and flatter. The bob is a very popular hairstyle that is being seen at these huge parties. The women began to bob their hair because famous stars are bobbing their hair today.