Evening Star Newspaper, January 28, 1929, Page 32

THE EVENING D. C, MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1929. sy rrorntoy | | | THE CHEERFUL CHERUB W. BURGESS . No trovble that happens can rwb out my smile Nor eke my proud i Spirit can cow. I battle through each new STAR, WASHINGTON, AH! FOUR- FIVE = SiIX DOLIARS AND FiFTy CENTS, THAT'S (CORRECT ! TVE HAD A VERY ENJOYABLE EVENING MR NEGINIT - GOOD NIGHT® YES- YES- ITS AFTER €LEVEN MR.MSGINS, T THINK WE HAD BETTER STOP N TEN MINUTES' I FEEL QUITE LISTEN ALOYSIUS P MSGINIS YOU ARE POSITIVELY RUDE TO OUR PAYING GUEST MR.MUSHBY, AND TS GOoT TO STOP !!! FROM Now ON I WANT You To BE MORE MBJL AND FRIENDL To Hi. REMEMDBER. HES PayinG OS $25 A weex AND 1T COMES IN \ veRy Wy BEDTIME STORIE particular night, he had been out all | night. In fact, he returned to the barn just at daylight. Having been out all night, he was sleepy, and by the time Farmer Brown's Boy came out to do Spooky's Surprise. The wisest sometimes make mistakes: The shrewdest are deceived by fakes. = 8pooky the Sereech Owl. Spooky the Screech Owl had been having a very gool living in Farmer Brown'’s barn. Mice and Rats had been very plentiful there and Spooky had grown fat on them. He could always 80 outp'de when he felt like it, and he did go outside for a change once in a while. He went out by the way he had come in—through one of the little doorways that had been made for pig- eons when Farmer Brown's Boy had kept them in the barn. But if it had been fine for Spooky, it had been a terrible time for Nibbler the Mouse ;l:«;!‘ his relatives, and for the young Spooky, like his big cousin, Hooty the Great Horned Owl, depends on his ears and his eyes. He can hear the faintest of sounds. With those big eyes of his he can see the smallest of move- ments. So when he hears a faint squeak, or the rustle of leaves or grass, he in- stantly looks in that direction and the instant he sees the least movement of HAVING BEEN OUT ALL NIGHT, HE WAS SLEE'P}'. anything over there, hc is ready to swoop. He does not always wait to see just what it is. He has learned that it is sometimes wisest to strike first and look afterward, especially when trying to_catch mice. For several days the hunting in Farmer Brown's barn had not been so good. Spooky had been outside hunt- ing for two or three nights. On this his morning chores, Spooky was fast | asleep on one of the rafters high up in_the roof. Spooky slept until the middle of the afternoon. When he awakened, it was almost dark there inside the barn. The light was dim, just the kind of light that all members of the Owl family love to hunt in. They can see per- | fectly, while the ones whom they are ! hunting cannot see them so well. | Spooky opened his eyes, shook out his | feathers, stretched 'a bit and then leaned over and looked down. All was still in the barn. Neither Farmer Brown nor Farmer Brown's Boy was there. It was just the time for venturesome young Rats or Mice to be abroad. Al- most at once he caught sight of some- thing moving at a corner of the grain bin. He could just make out some- thing small and black moving just at the corner of that grain bin. Spooky never wastes time. What could be moving down there but a Mouse or a young Rat? It must be one or the other. So down Spooky went. You know, he flies without noise. He comes down as silently as a shadow. That is just the way he went down then. His eyes were fixed on that little black spot that every now and then moved. Just as soon as he was near enough he pounced. Things happened right then and there. Two people were very, very much surprised. It is a question which was the mest surprised. You see, the thing that Spooky had pounced on was the end of Black Pussy's tail. If he could have looked around the corner of that grain bin he wouldn't have made any such mistake. Black Pussy was crouch- ing behind the end of that bin, watch- ing for a Mouse. The end of her tail stuck out beyond the corner of the bin, and it was the twitching of the end of this tail that had caught Spooky’s attention. Now, when Spooky struck, one of his sharp little claws pricked that tail. It brought a yowl of both pain and fright from Black Pussy as she whirled to see what it all meant. That yowl fright- ened Spooky almost as much as he had frightened Black Pussy. He didn't stop to say “excuse me.” He just sailed right on up into the shadowy top of the barn, leaving Black Pussy a sorely puz- zled Cat. She hadn't even caught a glimpse of him and she didn’t know what had happened to the end of her il (Copyright, 1929.) R I TN IR l Easy Merit [ r— Jinx has an inborn love of saving, of hoarding all that he can raise, and so he does a lot of raving concerning spendthrifts and their ways. He takes much pride in having salted the pre- clous guilders, tier on tier; in his wise course he’s never halted, and so grew richer every year. He'd hate to liber- ". ate & nickel, to lose a dime in chancy style would make the sweat of anguish trickle, and banish from his face the smile. So he deserves but little credit, although his course is doubtless wise; to map a proper course and tread it is easy for some lucky guys. A lot of us are built for spending our coin as fast as it is earned; to bright bazars we'd fain be wending until our salaries are burned. Can we resist the foolish , the course that makes our wallets lank, and join the people who are Y.hmnglnuc.wuh snvi.x:sgs to the vil- lage bank' n we resist the might; yearning' for high old times at nns}; cost, temptation’s snares and pitfalls spurning, though all such efforts may exhaust? Can we resist the lure of buying a thousand things, when buy- ing’s and our righteous course den the habits we have held 80 long? Then there is merit in our action; our conduct’s truly high and fine, when we with moral satisfaction, put down the sesterces in brine. —WALT MASON. (Copyright, 1929.) Abe\Mar'tin Says: BRING 9E Hlineey AMELOOEON RAaLL A movie actress’ weddin’ is nothin’ more or less'n a change o' venue. (Copyright, 1929.) e ‘Women of the United States are using a half-million dollars worth of imported perfumes each month. LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Pop came home for luntch Thersday on account of being in the nayberhood, and ma sed, My goodness Willyum I dont know wat Im going to do, Nora asked me if she could have Sundey afternoon off insted of today, so I asked Mr. and Mrs, Hews around for dinnir tonite insted of Sunday as I intended, and low and behold wat does that awful Nora do but change her mind agen and inform me that she’s going to take this afternoon after all, and I argewed with her and pleeded with her like a Dutch lawyer but all the kings horses couldent make her change her mind and I dont know wat on erth Im going to do about the Hewes. Leeve the gerl to me, Il fix it, pop And after luntch he went back in the kitchin saying to Nora, Ah Nora I see your still here. 1 am, but 11l not be much longer, Im tidying up me kitchen as fast as I can to get out, Nora sed, and pop sed, Good, the sooner I have it to myself the more pleased IIl be, its not often that I get an itching to make muffins. ; To make wat? Nora sed, and pof: sed, Muffins, I happens to have . afternoon off and nuthing will do me ] except to make a big batch of muffins, and wen I herd the kitchin would be free I was delighted. 3 ‘Well its not free and it wont be freg, because here I am and here I stay the livelong afternoon and Il take Sunday off as I intended all along and I don’t care who knows it. Muffins, is it? Nora sed. Id be coming home to find me nice cleen kitchin a wilderness of paste and dough and I dont know wat all after me redding it up as brite and neet as a new pin like I always do before I lave it and not like some of these gerls that you wouldent know weather they was use to pig pens or decent fokes houses, muffins is it? Well I gess not, Im working today and its my kitchin, she sed. Weli Im certeny disapointed, I may never have the itch to make muffins agen, pop sed, and Nora sed, Heaven be praised for that envway. And pop put on his hat and overcoat and went out wisseling as if he thawt he was grate. —_————— Cranberry in Orange Shells. Wash four cupfuls of perfect cran- berries, bring to a boil with two cup- fuis of hot water and simmer for 20 minutes. Put through a sieve, add to the puree two cupfuls of sugar and cook until the sugar is dissolved. Turn out into molds formed by scooping the pulp from the halves of small oranges. By setting each orange shell in a gem pan they can be held upright until the Jelly has become cold and firm.. In order to make the molds stand straight on the individual serving dishes, it may be necessary to trim off a little at the bottom of the orange shells. Be- fore serving, garnish each portion with a little whipped cream. |THE TIMID SOUL. —BY WEBSTER | OH, MR, MILQUETDAST! IT'S SIM-PLY WONOERFL OF You D LET ME GO HOME AT NOON ToDAY! YOU'RE TUST A M “To DO \T AND YOU OESERVE AMNICE, B1G Kiss! misfortune with ease — Tve hed so much practise by now . Mt “d g5 BY BUD FISHER Jeff Is Going After a New Endurance Flight Record. MUTT, T SOLD MY THISET GOVERNMENT BONDS AND INVESTED IN THIS LITTLE PLANE WHICH I HAVC CHRISTENED THe “EXCLAMATION MARK'. THe QUESTION MARK' PLANE STAYED ALOFT ALMOST SEVEN DAYS= A WORLDS RCCORDe WITH YoUR AID IN REFUELING MY BUs, & EXPECT To SET AN ENDURANCE RECORD THAT WILL STAND FORY ALL TIMmE! He DON'T LooK Like LINDBERGH GENTLEMEN), You ARE NOW WITACSSING THE START oF AN CNDURANCE FLGHT THAT witL END SOMCETIME IN APRILS ALL SET,MUTT. CONTACT ! SOMETHING MUST BE WRONG: I'VE Been WRESTLING WITH THIS PROPELLER FOR HALE AN HouR: WHEW, TRY \T ONCE MORE » (oMi NO WONDER: £ FORGOT TO Playing Safe. ' Iub KENKLING FREEMAN Injudicious et e s Bv GENE BYRNES Jimmie’s Yard, HERE'S A PACKAGE FOR THAT HOUSE -GUESYT OF A FIGHT MANAGER'S LIFE ISN'T ALL WRFFLES AND HONEY — 1 WoN'T BE ABLE To SEE YoU AIN ToDAY, ROUGHHOVSE — IRM\JS\’ JumP 0UT To BUFFALO To ARRANGE A MATCH ForR You! TAKE A WALK OVER TO THE HARDWARE 5TORE WITH ME! I GOTTA GET TWELVE YARDS OF CLOTHES LINE FOR MY MOTHER! AW-YES, H-HE'S BEEN EXPECTING 1! H-HE'D HIKE FoAH You Yo OPEN 1T FOAH HIM IF You wu.\_!zj\/.;_ ‘ATS OK — TWL TAKE THE PUP DOWN To TH' GYM WID ME FER Oh~WaIT D-DONT OPEN IN HEAH, OL-D &NK CERTAINLY, WANTS SERVICE L/ How AN A FELLER N FeeL LKE WORKIN GOSH, WAAT RAPPENE D ~Recuiar- \ OLD FASHIONED SNow SToRrM— -IT's upTo & THE &ARAGE AND OPEN T =THAT'S A GOOD cHap? JTATERRI MeNaught Syndicate, Tne., N Y. HE WAS ADDRESSING A CONVENTION OF SUBWAY GUARDS ON " HOW To ESCAPE THE FLU"” Y-You SEE —MR. PLMP-GUN PETE “THINKS [T MIGHT BE AN INFERNAL. MACHINE SENT HIM BY SOME RIVAL GANGSTAW ¥ AND HE ToLo Them To AVOID CROWDS ~Ou HADDA MowW THE GRASS IN