Evening Star Newspaper, November 3, 1928, Page 24

BEDTIME STORIE Rausty Barely Escapes. Be margin great or margin small, Be thankful_for escape at all —Rusty the Fox Squirrel. When Rusty the Fox Squirrel parted from his cousin, Happy Jack the Gray Squirrel, over in the Green Forest, he headed straight south. He intended 1o make a long journey. That is, intended to make what would be a long journey for a little fellow like him. YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN HIM RUN THEN. He intended to keep going until he ce where food was plendiul. came to the edge Before him strel the Green Meadows. Rusty didn't like the looks of the didn't like the idea of c You see, while he feels very much at home on the ground, he wants trees very near at hand, and on the Green Meadows there were no trees, save a g few widely scattered ones. “Oh, dear!” said Rusty. “I suppose there’s nothing for it but to go ahead. I haven't any wings, so I can't fly. To go around would t: hope that Reddy Fox and M: are nowhere around. Well, if to do it, I've got to do it, so here goe Away went Rusty the bounding along as a Squirre ‘When he started there was in sight, but he was only Abe Martin Says: >, “Men pay for more attention t' ther personal appearance than they used to.” said Druggist Artie Small t'day. as a customer walked out with five bottles o’ Thair tonic. *“I used t' have insominy, but now I Jest count calories till I lop off t' sleep.” remarksd Miss Germ Williams this mornin’. a'd U T Tiiskons Joker " || . G SO & G o Qs Who loves the too-persistent joker, who springs his quips throughout the day? Who would not smite him with a poker, or punish him some othsr way? There is a time for seemly jesting, it helps our spirits when they sag; but woe to him who's always questing through jokebooks for anoth-r gag. ‘When_earnest delegates foregather, fo talk about the income tax, what's more annoying than the blather of idly jest- ing jumping-jacks? When, some great issue I'm expounding, at evining, in the Blue Front store, I want to hear no Jokes resounding, then ribald comments make me sore. The chronic joker takes occasion to jest at an unseemly time and no rebuke, and no persuasion can keep him from that sort of crime. He'll try to get off something witty, or spring a funny anecdote, when statesmen, vis- iting our city, are telling us just how to vote. And while the coroner is holding an inquest on some worthy gent, you'll hear the humorist unfolding a joke that isn't worth a cent. And if we hold a Iynching party, rebuking some one steeped in sin, there’ll be on hand a clever smarty ambitious to create a grin. He's joking when our horseless carriage has dumped us in a muddy dell; we * ‘hear him joking at the marriage and at” the funeral, as well. He jokes on hearing tales of sorrdw, he jokes at efforts for relief; from old Joe Miller he will borrow an anecdote that fits all grief. And so he makes his long en- deavor to fill the town with laughter vain; and this sad humorist is never ‘beloved by people safe and sane. ‘WALT MASON. The Thrill That Comes Once in a Lifetime. —By WEBSTER. = A5 WALIING TARCUCH . ~FLAamEeSs BY THORNTON W. BURGESS ||We Ffool vurselves the thirds across when Redtail the Hawk came sailing over the Green Meadows. He saw Rusty at once. He saw Rusty long before Rusty saw him. When Fusty did see him, Redtail was coming | fast. Rusty’'s heart almost stopped | beating. What should he do? Juct | ahead of hum was an old fence. Some bushes were growing along that old fence. If he could only reach thos: ushes perhaps he could find a place of You should have seen him run And you should have seen Red- tail fly! He saw where Rusty was | heading and he meant to catch him before he could get there. The wind whistled through the feathers of his wings as he swooped for Rusty. But Rusty nad reached the bushes just mn | time. They didn’t give him a great | | deal of protection, but they gave him |enough. Try as he would, Redtail | n't catch him. After trying a few Redtail flew to the top of a tall ome distance away. From there | ha could watch Rusty and he doubted | | if Rusiy could m. | “If I can o him out on the | 2 T'll_have him!” | aid Redtail. “Yes, sir, I'll have him. | All T nced is to get him away from | | those bushes. And he’s got to cross | n meadow to get away. I be- was on his way South. He ng the Green Forest. [! v that nuts are scarce | must be it. He's going ce where nuts are more | perhaps he'il got there won't. He won't if 1 He was in a peck of trouble. as the saving is. His eyes were not_quite good enoush to see Redtail distant trz, but he had guessed Redtail had’ gone. & yet.” thought Rusty. ; r, he hasn't given me up yet. He's and - he'll come oon as 1 e bushes. 't stay_here forever. i for a'Squirrel, anyway. My, my, vhat am I going to do? Well, I can ¢ here as long as he can watch, I guess that’s what I'll have to do. fous, what would I do ould come aleng no it Rusty's heart Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Speculation. The human mind speculates—that is, | it reaches out beyond time and space and often ignores the veriest of all verities. Out of the better sort of speculation comes philosophy, out of philcsophy, science; out of science, the | myriad truths of nature which are di- i verted into the myriad needs of men. Speculation is indeed a human trait not to be despised. One should think twice before he laughs at the theorist. For something like eight centuries now, dreamers of various nationalities have been trying to produce a perpetual motion machine. Perpetual motion is a perpetual motion. Big prizes were sometimes offered as stimuli to inven- tive geniuses in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Between 1860 and 1870 109 patents for perpetual motion.; machines were taken out in England and France. | Of course, all the machines failed in | the end, but their inventors couldn't believe that they were failures. Enthu- siasts generally cannot see opposition to their hobbies. Some of them sup- posed that their machines would not only keep on running of their own ac- cord, but that they would generate more power as time went on. As % safeguard against the possible danger thus involved, one man kept a table- cloth on hand to throw into the works. Why have so many men gone to so much_trouble to altempt the creation of such a machine? The psychology that will answer that question will explain acing, the late Florida “mad- and such things. ~Mind is superior to matter only when it can rearrange the facts of matter to an advantage. Speculation has » charce if it is based on at least a few facts. 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