Evening Star Newspaper, October 2, 1928, Page 38

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. .C.. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2 BEDTIME STORIES BY THORNTON W. BURGESS Jerry Muskrat Is Worried. Worry never helps you win; 1t will, however, make you thin. —Old Mother Nature. till ra and raining hard. The Jerry Muskrat's new house was about ;' ghing was no longer laugh- | By half completed when the great rain m’g‘fbh!{‘figa,ff, has o angis WIEh 1 |Lieola shower bat! | Pop MomaND fell. It began raining early in the rqther than a laugh. Jerry climbed 1 morning. Jerry didn't mind it. He Only half of likes rain. It didn’t interfere with his . Only 1 work at all. He could work just as n A Tough /7, “I CAN'T STAY HERE MUCH LONG: ER,” SAID JERRY. well i the rain as if jolly, round, bright Mr. Bun was shinning. It rained an it -rained and it rained. It rained a that day. The water in the Laughing Brook began to rise and, of course, it rose in the Smiling Pool. At first Jerr; didn’t mind this. Of course, there is always more water in the Laughing Brook when it rains. Jerry didn't pay any attention to it. Jerry worked hard that day and he was tired. He went to bed in his new house, and because he was tired he soon went to sleep. He was awakened by water. Yes, sir, he found that he was sleeping in water. There was water all over the floor of his new house. | see. ra . Instantly Jerry was very wide awake.| “Oh, dear!” thought Jerry. “I hope HEY, MESCAL, YUH $GOINS Hcl d"gled ldg\vn th;oughhtxlgehlmle tun‘; | g?y nfw Ihr?use won't b% swept avtvne’e. uP BY 9'\').4‘ GENERAL ST ME A Bkes nel that led out from ouse, and | Yes, sir, I hope my new house won' STORE 7_1 WANTCHA TO PIECE OF ROPE E vl =2 : " - 4 HEt the minute he was outside he knew swept away. This is dreadfull BUY ME TH PURCHASE/ SURE. AN' THROW 1T A PIECE OF IEOD?E DO YUH WANT [ that something was wrong. There was a strong current in the Smiling Pool. There should have been hardly any eur- rent a® all. When Jerry poked his head sbove the water he found that it was | ion’t do any H , but if it should get much higher | I wouldn't like |~ But Jerry wasn't very much worried. ! This wasn't the e of year for floods. 1” it should stop raining, the water | would soon go down. Jerry knew this. iSo he sat on top of his house and ched. Little by little, little by Yittle, owly but steadily, the water crept 1arther up the roof. By the time day- 1.yht came and Jerry could see around i he top of his roof, like a little |is.and, was above water. Now Jerry did bein to worry earnest. '1 can't stay here much longer,” said | Jerry. f the water keeps on coming {up it will soon be ove: this house, and |I gon't know what will happen. It | looks bad. It looks very bad.” | It did look bad. Both the Smiling 0ol and the Laughing Brook were over | their banks. The Green Meadows wer | being flooded. just as so often happen: arly in the Spring. And still it rained ow that the water was flowing ovel t didn’t rise quite | But it was still rising, just the Jerr, house. There was now only a few inches around him that the water had not covered. Jerry began to wonder should d Little by little, ¢ little, the water crept up. His feet were wet now. He was sitting in | water. His splendid new house was entirely covered by water. There was no use in sitting there any longer. | s0 fast. ame. headed toward the nearest land he could | (Copyright. 1928) LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Pop was smoking to himself with a wnsattisfied ixpression and ma sed, | Why so pensive, Willyum, a penny for | Cril“e her jgy and peace, the air rr:,nll I} ? will use. For good news cannot go B S, e of the cast fron merve | 190 fast. T always do maintain; 5o let How Long s suinking the airships cleave the blast and split | ¢ a Pjece of that young Parkins cub, pop sed. A young fellow has no bizniss marry- ing at all until he's in a position to | || THE AIR MAIL. | ———— T use the air mail for such notes as friends may like to read; I don’t be- grudge the extra groats, to get increase | of speed. If I am sending to my niece a letter with such news as will in- the clouds in twain. Oh, let their busy motors pant as through the air they | trek, when I am writing to my aunt and sending her a check. Yea, let the clung to the top of his| Jerry pushed off and began to swin. He | '| THE CHEERFUL CHERUB | o com—— i|The frost is in the air again, The leaves \rehhright Ar;-d\ those who t\l:e. | o % CAN'T HAVE Gran’ma! M of Rope? Preak fcr o) WATCH ER NO GUN Wi Goofy. N OH BOY! TVE GoTTA LAUGH WELL MR, FLOP \HEW OUT 10UD WHEN T THINK WHAT ||ARE WE GoING TO A COUPLE OF SAPS NR.FLIP || GET STARTED ON D tR.FLOP WERE TO SIGN || MY FIRST PicTURE?, ME UP AS A MONIE CONEDAN AT FIVE HUNDRED BUCKS A WeEEK! T KNOW AS MUCH ABOUT ACTIN' A3 & GOLDFISH DOES ABouT| EINSTEIN'S THEORY ! HER ! AW RAN' MA— MY _LAND, AMN'T GONNA GIVE You NO GUN YO SHOOT YOURSELE,, WITR MY LANDY, s, AW -\ WOULDN'T SHOOT MY SELR! — 'S\DES , VD _snooT BLANK CARTRIDGES — WO T WOULDN'Y G \T e YOU NO «UN L OFF WHEN YUH comME BACK Y HERE AHH — JuST THE MAN I WANT To See! JUNE ROSE YOUR LEADING WONAN, IS IN THE NEXT ROOM NOW. You MUST MEET MR. BOWERS PERMIT HE TO INTRODUCE MISS. JUNE ROSE WHO Wil PLAY OPPOSITE You IN YOUR. \WHAT TS CRacke HUH | THIS Hovn PICTURE GAME AINT UP To Be ' WHY, \'D RUTHER GIT YOU TH' WATLH —| el baalabaht keep up a home of his own. The ideer | airchips graze the moon and teeter down | of those 2 calmly planning to wawk in | the wind; she cannot get her mail too plant themselves on us here, he Soan when it's the joyous kind. But b when I send a message dour, that's Mecning Gladdls and Mr. Parkins, | pound to cause some pain, “To hit up and ma sed, Now Willyum dont carry | seven miles an hour is plenty,” I main- on, after all Harvey Parkins is a nice and youwll have a man around the to tawk to. Wat about? pop sed. That berd never tawks about anybody but him-| self, and wen you figure that theres very little about himself werth tawk- tain. The message bearing tidings tough, that's freighted down with woes will reach its victim soon enough, how- ever slow it goes. But people use the air mail's spced to make me sad and | blue, to send me ththgs I hate to read, concerning bills long due. And if I lose |ttt —— WRAP UP A FLOCK OF SANDWKHES, LENA— | GOOD BYE, BOSS- Tie NEWSPAPER SAYS YOU'LL HAVE A NICE LONG THE BALL PARK EATES IT'LL BE IMPOSSIBLE T0 GET A SEAT AT THE WORLDS' SERIES OPENING TOMORROW S0 1M GOING To GET MYSELE ANTED A DAY W ADVANCE) § ing about, your calling forth a Very |some hard earned cash, through stocks, plezzant prospect I must say. ‘Wen |and have to pay, the news comes to young_berds are pushed out of the nest | me like a flash from brokers far away. they hafi to fly for themselves, and | But if my stocks should haply rise in thats a_way it awt to be with young | any small degree, no busy airships skim peeple just marrying, he sed. the skies to bring the news to me. So | You cant compare your own dawter | far the pleasant letters come as brought | ind son in law to berds out of naturel | to me by snails; but when the news is istry, we've got beyond that stage I on the bum the greatest haste prevails. hope, ma sed. And personly I must say | Now I reverse this sort of thing; I use Im very glad their coming with us.|the air mail route for news that makes | 0 still have my dawter insted of los- anen smile and sing, and in their glad- | ing her though marfed, thats theiness shout. But when the news will | dream of every mothers life, and I give some pain to any human jay, I | consider Im a very lucky woman, she |send it by the slowest train upon the | WHO CARES MORNING OF ANYTHING "BOUT THE GAME sed. 1 Wich just then Gladdis and Mr. Par- | kins came running upstairs, Gladdis | saying, O wat do you think, good news, Harvey has got his raise in salary alreddy and now we can go to house- keeping for ourselves rite from the start. O how lovely, ma sad, and pop s2d, Aw, wats the grand rush, you can come here for a month or so and see how you like it, do you wunt to leave this place like a morgue, come on, thats en ideer, try it for a couple of months, he sed, and Mr. Parkins sed, Nuthing deing, Mr. Potts, thanks just the same, every man for himself and paddle your own canoe, thats my motto. Weli izzent that just perfeckly love- ly? ma sed. I was never more de- lighted and pleased and genrelly over- joved in my life, she s2d. Proving if you could always tell how peeple axually feel, there wouldent be 80 many things to serprise you. Lessons in English BY W. L. GORDON. Words often misused: Do not say “He had a right to tell me.” Say “He should have told me.” Often mispronounced: Rameses. Pro- Rmounce ram-e-sez, a as in “am,” both | e's as in “me,” accent first syllable, not the second. Often misspelled: Glacier; no s in the right of way. ‘WALT MASON. (Copyright, 1928.) AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN. “Me an' Amy was goin’ to call on that Jones woman this afternoon, but nobody close to her has got a 'phone an’ I don't know how to make sure she ain’t at home.” (Copyright. 1928 No Pacifier. From the Boston Transcript. onyms: Impcrfection, flaw, defect, Mother—Why is baby crying? freilty, foiling, weakn: Nurse (in the next room)—He wants— Word stu word three times Mother—Well, give him what he; and is yours. t us increase our | wants. R —" vocabulary mastering one word each ‘The baby howls lowder. fbny‘ Today 'ofd' Pa{wmm_?k;] a scene gdnl)t:er—wny didn’t you give him hat passes continuously. “The pai what he wanted? \ Yama of life was unroll:d before hor.” | Nurse—I cid. It was a bee! THE ONLY ;‘g;;.s TeEvEs 1ERE HNE IF I KEEP o ™ TIRED THING AR gTO?TNko T;’D T:g\‘f THIS UR HELL LIFE’S DARKEST N I - . AR “TRATLL KEEP ONTCH| NEVER BE FIT / MOMENT By Webster. ROCKIN 1ML CA AAGETY \ THINK? T BETTER FOR ANYTHING Tl Boy Wi, HieH 5¢C KEN KLING ;? 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