Evening Star Newspaper, August 16, 1928, Page 37

STAR, WASHINGTON, AUGUST 16, 1928. D. C, THURSDAY, Gee! HE's GOT an AWFUL NERVE — ° OFF PLAYIN' GOLF WITH AN IMPORTANT MATTER Lige THIS TO DECIDE- RIDICULOUS! weux‘;’ M{ SHOULD A BEAUTIFUL ITS & VERY IHPORT/ Mugun OF ART LIKE THAT | MATTER ! THE MAYOR HAVE TO BE PASSED IS HARD fl‘!: WORK UPON ? \T SPEAKS CHOOSING TH CONMITTEE FOR ITSELF You MEAN TO SAY THAT BEFORE MY STATUE CAN BE PLACED IN GRANT PARK, IT MUST BE PASSED UPON BY AN ART COMMITTEE NAMED BY THE MAYOR ? BY THORNTON W. BURGESS THATS WHAT THE MAYOR'S SECRETARY ToLd ME' TLL HOP DOMN 80 vox ARCUND HIS O PiT! ID LIKE TO KNOW WHO'S GONNA BE | ON TH' COMMITTEE: A Frivolous AN’ 1 HOPE TO LY OUT THET WINOOW IF TH' WAGON TONGUE DIONT SWELL LP 50 &G HE SPICD M AN’ TAKIN' HIS TAIL IN HIS MOUTH, HE STARTED ROLLIN' DOWN RIGHT AT ME = WAL, 1 GEE'D ONE HOSS AN’ HAWD TH’ FRIGHT Tt ver poked his head | a little way from | didn't see Redtail | thought Chatterer was | NING BEDTIME STORIES . - My sorrow comes [rom ovtside things time v Little Breeses were : 4 Swoop and & Jump. R e T s a5 ] iewn aanwd it 0P T e S sending that old log along faster | : B P e Chatterer could swim. So he remained with care "8 Vother N right where he was and kept his tail ) o “Blow, Merry Breezes, blow!" spread for a sail 4 | |But guinFns :pnnhgs Chatterer, “Blow with ail your migh! earer drew the shore and neater i | The Merry Little Breezes did blow. | drew Redtail the Hawk. He was more | straight from “‘Y.t. eart They blew with all their might. They | than a speck now. He was very much | JAnd 30 you see its | blew =0 hard that Chatterer had to dig|more than a speck. Poor Chatterer! | | o) ,avs thera. his claws into the log on which he was | It scemed to him that that little log | Y- Heeth riding in order to hold on. Chatterers | didn't move at all. Actually it was B tail was his sail | moving quite fast. Time and again High in the sky back of Chattercr a | Chatterer was tempted to make a run speck was growing larger and larger. the length of the log. jump into the That speck was a person. That person | Water and swim. But very wisely I was Redtail the Howk - Ghatteres knew | did not do this. He kept his place with Who it was. That was why he kept|Dis tail spread. And the Merry Little | ? | Breezes blew and blew and blew. And | | the little log sailed and sailed and a0 & salled. And Redtail flew and flew and | - : flew Paddy the Bea out of water jus Chatterer. Pa e Hawk DRIVIN' A WAGON AN' TEAM UP TH' HILL | (TO YALLER ROCK WHEN OADGUHM\T‘. 1 STILLCLAIM 1 e THESE sailing just for fun. The spirit of | ” . HEQE MODERM |\ | mischief promped Paddy to swim uite | M {ALL OF A SUDDEN-UIKE OTHER 50 AS HE WOULDNIT HIT & Foss . C°U"=DF 6:]’1_7"‘ HIT'S POSHIBLE | close and suddenly slap the water hard | % L ps il i 7 , HARN with that big tail of his. It startle “{E ‘\ EEN A LIOOP SNAKE EM AN’ SHOR ENOUGH HE gpg.<§55 OT”/ S | Chatterer so that he almost fell off UP TO TH’ TOP OF LANDED RIGHT SMACK ¥ L= HO3SE'S! BACKS. i it made a er off. | B at| S.LHU | And it more than that; wave tha most w d CI But despite his fright Chatte that Paddy had helped him he log a little BETWEEN ‘EM AN STARTED BITIN' TH WAGON TONGUE 357 ) \ TR OHILL v 3 TLEY — t ad pushed the shore was looking at. Then Paddy un Out the ood what was happening. He go nd_ Chatt and began swimming | Window You : s with his nose against that old log. He | CHATTERED | was pushing that log Must Go R | moving g fast 3 i stood and he was ve e was dr Hawk was And now it Chatterer u grateful Breezes to - enough to n . .«P\Annp dow hatterer up. d al that erhaps yo 5 vith ite lone passenger. So Ohats iChatterer was that Redtail can s e 0 him to be Tight | a5 fast s r two other members cemed to be chok- | the Hawk family can. But Redtail was ! doing his best. Chatterer more hurried look over his shoulder. | Then he lowered his tail, ran the length | of that little log. and from the other end made a fiying leap for the shore. | And just as he leaped Redtail swooped took one AT'S DIS WAY: MY GANG /MADG A BIG HAUL AND T DePOSITED DE CoiN IN A BANK AND NOW X Don'T KANOW HOw TO GET De MoNeY OUT. I'M WORRIED: K\D, I'M WORRIED, AND AS we'Re BROTHEGR LioN TAMERS T f ( THOUGHT Youse /, Y CouLd Glve ME Some ADvICE! IF THe Pouce SCe M& \\ CALLING oA SCARFACE CHARLIE ) THEY'LL THROw M€ IN THe / ™ YouR PHone / JUG oN GENERAL — CALL. WHAT PRINCIPLES. 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[ o DeAR June: - sed, and he sed, Well ac- > tless generations of | e RE THEATER MARRY A ts, & the country should not | PrCTV: sSTRecT CAR edorn the feet that nature gave him as | ?’“-’*T"‘M S Erites Dreenr: e nada et bl 10| oLics FRodic], CONDUCTOR. ‘/euks UNTIL ELEPHANTS RoOST 6N RoSG BUSHES, #m - ideer in sed. | hats the a nutshell, pop | sed | G wizz all rite, T sed, and I quick| took them off and gave them to pop to | carry and started to wawk without | them, saying, Owtch, wait a minnit, | owtch. G. owtch. Youll get use to it in a minnit, just step out boldly, pop sed LARKS. lo‘r’ %I//‘ BEAVTIES. YEST FILM S TWE CHNGE PR WG GIRLS IIREE DON'T LEAVE ME FLAT JUST CAUSE You LOST YouR WAY — IF 1 DON'T REACH DENVER ToDAY I'LL LOSE MY CHANCE To JoiN THEIR BASE BALL TEAM 0K WiTH ME, PAL - BU1 T2 MILES IN A TAx\ CAB WiLL PUT A CRIMP, YOU'LL HAVE To BACK UP A Few MiLEs T'VE ONLY 60T & TWELVE BUCKS: HERE WE ARE! THE METER. SAYS THAT METER CUCKS OFF DIMES FASTER Wich I did, making it werse insted of better, me saying, Hay, owtch, some of this grass is sharp and theres stones | and things. | You imagine it, your a soft city cuss, pop sed. Ill show you a real son of Dature in action, he sed. And he took off his own shoes and | socks and starged to wawk, putting his TIMES PER WEEK A feller used t' be praised fer havin’ th' courage t' say “No,” but t'day he never gits a hand fer sayin’ “Yes,” an’ th’ chances he takes are ten times ferst foot down hard and the rest down | greater. By easy and making paneful faces to him-| If ther'’s anything in exercise a hen- gelf, saying, Theres a lot of stubble in|pecked husband ought t' outlive an| KENKLING this grass, why dident you tell me? elephant. i 1 dident know the x;mae o{ it, T sed. (Copyright. 1928, Anyways Im getting kind of use to it i ——— R - | Tiow, wat do sou say if we wawk all a| : : 2! Whatever ways back this way, pop? 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The airmen to the earth de- By scended without a symptom of a smash, | H | and to the boarding houses wended and| HOWARD | called for plates of corned beef hash.! FREEMAN | The motors ceased their raucous meg! without a jar, without a wreck. “This fiying game’s no longer deadly,” I mur- mured as 1 washed my neck. “The alr's as safe as is the gravel, the high | Doc {roads and the country lanes on which | mean to be w ed_in|we diligently travei in our high-class| Reforms. was just tryin’ to 8 toad I had in my pocket loose ow Pug | but mortgaged wains.” It's hard to A" it gOt | realize that fiyers may live to reach a |green old age, but once we know it we'll be buyers of nice tin airships, I'll | |engage. 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