Evening Star Newspaper, January 9, 1929, Page 25

THE EVENING . STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1929. YES JULIE, AD MR. HUSHBY & You \ [ Swee! TiL (I = = NO PAYIN' GUEST 1S QUARMING — SO C(LTURQ)Y‘ So ||NICELY TvE Fixep uP T TAKE A SQUINT GONNA HAVE MY peET ¥ BY THORNTON | | o D SPARE ROOM FOR OUR AT \T LITTLE [ ] g - REFINED- HES IN THE POWDER - o ! | ROCKER — 1 SHOULD BEDTIME STORIE W. BURGESS my ¥ BUSINESS; T DO HOPE HE WiLL PAYING GUEST — GO TAKE i | say NOT ' HAKE ME A PRESENT OF SONE { » FACE POWDER AFTER HES HERE A i Brown's house. Hooty flew over on 5 Hooty Makes a Mistake. silent wings, to perch on a fence post T'"'Wih ? WHIE! 1 NUST GET BUSY Now E'en the wise will often make of the henyard, which was very near = An Inexcusable S Mother Nature. {hat part of e barn where was, the : | . G fresibles Bl fela) i 5 ttle swinging door, oug] V] | ) gu“ | y Hooty the Owl had not forgotten how ht before. and where Peter Rabbit had slipped out | r 00 disappeared e N . very long | Pop MOMAND from under his very claws. He knew | ke 4 part of the post. It looked simply Peter so well that he knew that if Peter | »®if Riiat particular post was taller found plenty to eat in Farmer BrOWN'S | thayn the others. Patience is one thing | f\ 5 barn, not even possible danger would | that Hooty the Owl has plenty of. Much | . Al Claims be able to keep him away from there. | of his hunting is done by sitting still, His Ow: So Hooty planned to keep watch of that | instead of fiying about. Hooty sat per- is Own. litlle door—that little swinging door— | feetly still for a long, long time. The by means of which Peter had escaped | v movement he hade was to turn his into the barn. So the next night Hooty | head now and again, and he did this so perched where he could watch Farmer | gu;ckly that unless you had happened | to be Iooking right at him, you wouldn't now he had turned it. But mosf the time his great fierce eyes were fixed e : — - = IR ey ne Mo MUTT'S BROTHER, MUTT, YOUR BRETHER TMA'S T JusT PcePed last his patience was rewarded. IMA, IS UISITING i CERTAINLY AN ASH-CAN! THROUGH THE KEY-HoLE Il-i‘-lsawlthzln ltilttlehdoor pu‘-;hlguh Just-t US AND HE'S IN Tl OF ALL THe INQUISITIVE, T® SE How HE WAS ittle. Instantly he sprea ose grea G ke % noiseless wings of his and sailed over THE NEXT Room: | ILL-BRED FAT- HEADS, GETTING ONJ, AND until he was right above that little door I'M GONNA Peer / He's THe = THERE WAS THE BUM, Just as he got there the little door was THROUGH f € pushed way up and some one came out. Keve “"ED ] ONTHE OTHER SIDE, Hooty didn't wait to see who that some HoLe AN B it SBYING o ME! one was. He dropped with those great S€e WHAT THe il e claws of his reaching for what he was SAP1S DOING.! . (MAGINE! confident was Peter Rabbit. It was . | . only as he struck that he realized he had made a mistake. He was too late to fully withdraw_those claws. They s!rucl‘(( ang struck hard, andhwhex?i "tlfy | struck, there was a screech and the| {hiie e et causnt twisted snd turned | DUO FISHER and began to claw him. He had caught L HCaoy Black Pussy the Cat, and Black Pussy was too big and too strong for even big, IT WAS MOONLIGHT AND HOOTY | fierce Hooty the Owl. COULD SEE FOR A CONSIDERABLE My, such a racket as there was for a DISTANCE. fow 'minutes! It brought Farmer| Two of a 2 Brown's Boy to the window. It set ¢ Brown's dooryard from the time Far- | Bowser the Hound, who was spending Kind. mer Brown's Boy finished his evening | the night in the house, to barking. chores and went into the house. It Was | Hooty the Owl was trying_his best o moonlight and Hooty could see for a|let go. He was beating Black Pussy considerable distance. .| With his great wings and striking with “As soon as all is quiet in the house,” | his hooked bill, and Black Pussy was thought Hooty, “I'll move over where | digaing in with claws of her hindfeet I can drop on Peter Rabbit if he comes | anq tearing_the feathers out of Hooty out OL u;fl'. i Sy be ne!l"mdflouds. Black Pussy was both hurt 3 enough 1o give him no chance. " |and angry. Hooty saw Reddy Fox come stealing | That fight lasted only a few minutes. @ WOE -5IN CATCHEE LIL Bt PLACT = 2 around the corner of Farmer Brown's [ Hooty got a chance to take to the air " CE. NOW, DONT ARGUEY 1F vou'eE Barn. 'Ho saf him move along with his | and went fapping away in a heavy | Se ALL SAME GO SLERUMNADE MISSY GREAT 5COTTY AN YOU | GOIN' T STAND LNDER AN APART- nose to the snow. He saw him stop be- | manner, as if he had hardly strength == 5UM TOY TONIGHT - STANDEE TOLD ME YOUR SWEETIE MENT HOLSE WINDER AN PLAY side that little door and finally move | enough to move those big wings. Black S g BELOW-SIDE WINDA PLAY PLITTY LIVES IN AN APARTMENT THAT THING, YOU'VE - on down along the Old Stonewall be- | Pussy scampered straight across for the . TUNE ! VELLY LOMANTIC —MEBBE ODSE. DIDNTCHA? > GOT' side the Old Orchard, disappearing|house, entering through another little HEves 1Y Siit i H &A%r ADN 1;"_‘ \% ,"IOIJ PROMISE ME YOLILL. WEAR : = b ir M ! THIS HERE TRENCH-HAT Y finally in the Green Forest. “Good rid- | door over there in the back shed. There 3 dance!” muttered Hooty to himself. “I|=armer Brown's Boy found her and WOE-SIN VELLY MUCHY am glad he is out of the way. I have|pathed her wounds. She wasn't seri- 4 & a feeling 1 am going to catch something | ously hurt. As for Hooty, he had no ap- tonight. I don’t want to have to fight | petite for the rest of that night. He | for it after I get it.” had lost it when he made that mistake. At last all was quiet in Farmer (Copyright, 1929.) WELL\NGTON I Thus It Goes. ?| Abe Martin Says: - (S . e So ' ighbor sald R Pa Antici- " : /N L yme years ago my neighbor said, . . ) “Go, buy some shares in Tar and Pitch; | pates Heavy ‘ } . 2 the price will soar up overhead, and| ”fg‘l Applause. LA I ‘ ’ those who buy now will be rich.” “If % ; Dy am a boob,” I made reply, “in all things | touching stocks and shares; no specula- tion stunts I'll try, I will not romp with bulls or bears. Ill buy a bond from time to time, and clip the coupons when they" , th j ace > o suifimfe.r?xfa ;Ey my 1y and dmoke Vi, TAAT FAINT L PULED YESTERDAY WAS THE RESULT fooons NIX! TE FOLKS WARNED ME TETEER e T N Eiic BV Apine By (s e il F MY FIRST PLUNGE INTO WHLL ST. CLEAR OF THOSE WALL ST SLICKERS- MY BROKER ASKINY/ § safe, he names the bonds I ought to o WRITE HOME S0 1 WOULDN'T DARE TELL'EM T 1Y FOR YOV, FO/R MORE buy, and so I do not fret or chafe when '\ 2 W neighbor his own advice, in Tar THEY'D PROBRBLY HAVE | YouRSELF IN IN FACT JTHHT s and Pitch he placed his. mon; and soon = he built a palace nice, that gleamed R HAD To CALL THE 3) DOWG = and glittered in the sun. He often R UNDERTAKER ' joshed me when we met, he muttered, 2 7 \_GRERAT - with a scornful glance, “You lack the - 2 S H nerve to make a bet, you are afraid to c 2 take a_chance. If you had followed 2 = where I led, when Tar and Pitch was sizzling hot, you might be painting Europe red, or sailing in your private yacht.” “I do not yearn to cross the ponds in priyate yachts, you kindly :(l,ok;a: 1"111 hl:eepmon !mylngh good safe nds and have the price when you are| Father may be out o' work, or cuttin’ o he.}?cmw“{':'_,g;';:“:ou{*: up, or on his back, but th’ thing that FB'd ':l“" mad ambition fills his breast, the lust|really upsets & home is mother gittin’ | £TOM Flome. of conquest stirs his soul. “My neigh- | sick. > bor’s on his uppers now, he is no more {(Copyright, 1920.) a plutocrat; he has a mortgage on his cow, he bhafl to soak }:’lshsmv‘e’pl‘%e h:;t. L 2 E l' l] He gambled much an Jope: seize a mighty fortune in a-day, while I Gl T s acquired, by slow degrees, the wad that S e keeps the wolf away. BY W. L. GORDON. ‘WALT MASON. (Copyright, 1920.) 7 HurRAR! Ive PARDON MY ECSTASY, FILBERT B e e e, GoT TS INFERNAL, i BuT IT ISN'T Every DAY one | | EASY] Look ou “Shall 1" 5 2 POND LICIKED CAN DANCE ON HIS WATERLOO YOU'RE CRACKING It L o172 11 Wlllle Wlllls Often mispronounced: Gila monster. “TopAY- IT'S “The ICE /2 DRNE Géll is proxlnguncekd he-la, first sylable FQOZEN/ °, / EACK és_o M PR S “he” & as in “ask” : (OTRER. , BY ROBERT QUILLEN. gflen xfu»snell:kd: lnsutll: ttwo I's. % b i GETIING . Cot-gg ynonyms: make, construct, compose, . ; produce, create, fashion, -effect. N 1 STANOING NE Word study: “Use a word three times - and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: Candid; sincere: frank; fair; impartial. “I shall appreci- ate your candid opinion.” Turns Tables on Kidnapers, How tables were turned on political kidnapers in the recent campaign to elect a rector for Glasgow, Scotland, University, has leaked out. A Liberal high official was kidnaped by his op- ponents and imprisoned on an island in Loch Ard. While his four guards were asleep he crawled out of the hut and, clad only in pajamas, scurried to the mainland on the only boat at the 7 island, thus leaving his captors ma- “T like to stay with grandma because | rooned. He trudged 3 miles, and by v she don’t know it ain't sanitary to stick | taking a bus for the rest of the journey LooOK Z WHAT’S WE CAN'T HE AINT your gum on the head of the bed.” created a sensation when he made an AT THAT : “THE MATTER N‘Y (Copyright, 1920.) unexpected appearance at headquarters. POOR 2 PINHEAD, DID YOUR FIND OUT WHAT . CRY! u THER YOUR LiL BROTHER HE'S ONEY PRACTICIN: LITTLE 8OY poceo 1s CRYING ABouT? TO BE A VUGGLER WITH CRYING! ns wont TEBLL SOME OF Mor'/«'s ONIONS! VW RIINIT The Events Leading Up to the Tragedy. —By WEBSTER. PERSOMAL AND FARWATE DEARRINERD, i BE WTERESTED ¥4 THE WERK WE ATE, I BEHALY OF THE E5KIMOS. OGNS Prepoed ourseve s GENE BYRNES oD LA Enaid Caemit, T RAS0 Sev woriee i) The Melancholy Juggler. NESSIR, THIS \S JUST THE THING Fore A MAN 1N NouTR PREDICAMENT— QUTR OWN INVENTION—THE SMOKELESS ClcaR — NO SMOKE AND N0 0DOR —Y QU GET AINT SCiENce \WONDERFLL — SAY- CAnNov — SMELL NEVER GET WISE MAKETHAT CléaR. | To MY SMoKIMG IF | KEEP ASHLESS AS WELL * TTHIS CICAR HIPDEN — DEAR S1RY 5 PLEASE FiLL CUTTHE FoRM PRINTED GELow . —— “THE ALTR U LIFE INSURAMCE CO., PIARRFLRO CoR, GENTLEMERS o0 OBUGATING ME W4 Arey WA S et R TP cic. \ Gy B Ly T W, Rt o% Ve