Evening Star Newspaper, February 4, 1929, Page 28

P -l BEDTIME STORIES A Badly Frightened Squirrel. Avoid all dangers that are needles: And even then pray don’t be heedless. ~—Old Mother Nature. Spooky the Screech Owl is a little fellow, as you know. He does not look as if he could move with any rapidity. Some folks think him rather stupid, but they think that of all Owls in the daytime. That is their mistake. If they could watch Spooky and his relatives at shadow time, they would change thetr opinion. There is nothing stupid about the Owl family then. Nor is there anything slow about them. Spooky had been living for some time THEN HE H%%O%EI:SS;JN TO TEASE in Farmer Brown’s barn. His favorite perch was on a certain rafter high up in the roof. Timmy the Flying Squirrel was also living in the barn. Several times Spooky had tried to catch Tim- my, but Timmy had been too smart for him. The result was that Timmy had | j grown overconfident. He had reached the point of thinking that Spooky couldn’t catch him. Then h2 had be- gun to tease Spooky. He woul jump from a rafter and sail, 2s only he can sail, right across below Spooky, and he would do it in the most provoking way. But after a while Spooky refused to be teased in this way. This spoiled Timmy's fun. Timmy grew so bold that he began running out on ths FEBRUARY' 4%, 1929.' BY THORNTON W. BURGESS rafter where Spooky sat. nearer and nearer to where Spooky | scemed to be asleep. Spooky didn’t move. Timmy watched him sharpl: “He's asleep,” said Timmy to him- self. “I believe I could run right be- tween his legs. It would be fun to just nip him on the leg and then jump.” Timmy moved a little bit nearer. | He was very near Spooky now. And ' then, looking down, he saw a Mouse on the grain bin. For just a second he forgot where he was and leaned over to watch that Mouse. It was a bad | time and he was in a bad place to be You see, Spooky wasn't He had bcen watching ‘Timmy all the time. He had been watching and waiting. His eyes had been open just a crack, but that crack was enough. He had scen every move Timmy made. He saw Timmy lean forward to look at the Mouse away down below. He didn't know what Timmy was looking at and he didn't lean over to find out. He was inter- ested in Timmy and in nothing else. Now there was one thing that Tim- my hadn't noticed and this was that Spooky was facing him. Usually Spooky sat facing so that he could look down over the edge of the rafter. But now he was turned so that he was facing along the rafter instead of across it. Perhaps if Timmy had no- ticed this he would have been -a little more careful. Just as Timmy leaned over to watch that Mouse down below, Spooky struck quickly with one foot. My goodness, how quickly that foot did move! But, quickly as Spooky struck, Timmy was even quicker. Something must have told him that he suddenly was in great danger, for he shot off the rafter in a long leap. The result was -that all Spooky’s foot came down on was Tim- my flat tail and there was nothing to hold onto in this. It did spoil Timmy's jump, for it held him for "just long enough to make him fall rather than jump. But a fall was nothing serious with Timmy. He caught his balance and flattened himself out and finally land- ed on the barn floor, instead of over on the side of the barn as he had expected to. It shook him up a little, that was all. However, he was frightened. He was a badly frightened Squirrel and he was a wiser one. Never again would he try to tease Spooky the Owl. (Copyright, 1929.) forgetful. asleep at all. LI'1TLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. I was wawking along just wawking along, and I thawt, G. theres Puds Simkins leening over tying his shoe. Me reckonizing him by the back of his shape, and I thawt, Gosh heres a good chance to give him stoops. Meening to give him a fearse slap, being all rite to do according to law if you see anybody you know stooping all a ways over and sneck up in back of them before they see you, ony you haff to yell Stoops ferst. Wich 1 did, yelling Stoops and giv- ing him sutch ‘a fearse slap I almost hurt my hand, and he quick stood up strate and here who was it but some- body elts, being as fat as Puds but much tuffer looking, saying, Hay, wats the ideer? Good nite, G, I thawt you was a frend of mine, I sed. O you did, heh, he sed, and I sed, Yes, and he quick gave me a push in the frunt of the face, saying, Do you think Im a frend of yours now No, I sed, and he gave my face an- other push, saying, Do you think Im a frend of yours now No. I sed feeling kind of mad, and he gave it another push, terning up my nose and pritty neer sticking his finger in my eye, saying, Do you think Im & frend of yours now Yes, I sed feeling mad as the dooce. And I quick kicked him all my mite in one shin and ran to beet the band, him starting to run after me, ony he had to stop a cupple of times to rub his shin and by that time I was still ferther ahed of him each time. the result being I got in my house and slammed the door w!fle he was still 4 payments in back of me. Proving its often a good thing not to be too sispicious and have frunt doors unlocked in the daytime. Lessons in English BY W. L. GORDON. ‘Words often misused: Do not say. “I didn’t see no children.” This a double negative. Say, “I didn't see any.” Often mispronounced: Annex. Verb is accented on last syllable, noun on first or last. Often misspelled: Exceed; unlike ac- cede and recede. Synonyms: Acknowledge, admit, con- fess, avow, certify, concede, grant. ‘Word study: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Todey’s word: Unequivocal; un- derstandable in only one way: plain. “The facts are clear and unequivocal.” Cat Is Perfect Call Boy. That her cat never fails in waking her every morning is the claim of a woman of Kensington, England. For three years the pet has approached the bed at 6:50 o'clock. At first she stood on her hind legs and patted the cheek of her mistress, but recently she changed her method and pulls at the sheet repeatedly until the sleeper wakes. ' THE TIMID SOUL. —BY WEBSTER I ’LO,CA_;SAR‘ JoU RE TS poriniys o " | ! Silence Is Golden. . The gifted orator, uprearing, proceeds to tell us what is what; some abstruse problems he is clearing, his speech is full of gems of thought. I've paid four | bits to hear him telling the inwardness of cheese and chalk; and indignation’s in me swelling, when people near me laugh and talk. The lecturer is wise and famous, we brought him here to hear his rede; and these cheap talkers irk and shame us, with all their verbal chickenfeed. The chronic talkers spoil our pleasures wherever we may chance to go; they spoil for us the golden treasures of thought that gifted speak- ers throw. I go to church on Sabbath mcrning, to hear the hymns the choir may sing, to hear the earnest pastor scorning the sin which hath a barb and sting. And some one in the pew behind me is whispering while anthems rise, and all the whispers jar and grind me until the hot tears scald my eyes. And when the services are ended I should bz happy and serene, but I am sore, my nerves are rended, and I am full of bile and spleen. I go to see a neighbor planted, some friend whose earthly task is done, whose soul has flown to realms enchanted beyond the circle of the sun. < He ventured | | |Beneath PHE BEVERING SWAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, they dream about. i CHARGE AGAINST THIS MAN, OFFiceR? 1 MY J¥f BuUD FISHER 13 The Little Fellow Is Dragged Into the TrafficCourt. Clowers sleep — wonder what [Wi‘w‘s ™E MORTIM No Check on That Boat. YOUR HONOR, THIS BoZ.o AND ANGTHGR MAN AND TWO DAMES WERE IN A CAR GOING UP HAMPTON - ROADS BUSIEST STRECTs THE CAR 216-2ZAGGED FROM ONE SIDE To THE 6THER AND FINALLY SHoT OUER THE CURB AND THROUGH A WINDOW ¢ THe OTHER OCCUPANTS OF THE CAR ARCG IN e HoSPITAL: WHAT ! AT MUSHBY DIONT (| PERUVIAN GOVERNMENT ! HE NG, BUT DONT WORRy! er || SO 825000 WORTH OF ™AL \S % || iNsecT ‘Povmer To THe, NERY S SAYS THE CHECK 15 ON THE TWENTY - Fve T THINK I'LL WELL, ME AND MUTT BORROWED A CAR AT THe NAVAL TRAINING STATION AND WERE TAKING MISS SCRULT2-A ZIEGFELD BEAUTY, AND MISS CLUTTS-ANIFTY MoDeL, FOR A Ride! AND HeRE T T WONDER WHEN TH' PERU P WE NEED THAT THE NEXT SHIP FRON PerU? WMy onE IS DuE LATE TO MORROW ! DUE FROM Bueks — I WONDER WHEN MUSH WILL GET HIS CHeck ? DRoP 1N THE STEAM SHIP CoMPaNy AND ASK ABoUT TH' WHo WAS BRIWING WHEN THE CAR RAN UP OVER THE CURB AND CRASHED THROUGH THe WiINDow? ANSWER ME ™ATY ROUSHHOUSE, THIS | A LoCAL PUG WHO IVE ENGACED To GET YOU NES, DIRECTORS HAVE YOTED TO BLY YOUR BUSINESS AT YOLR PRICT AND WE'RE READY TO C.OSE “THE DEAL AND GIVE YOU A CHECK AT ONCE. S IN TRIM FOR YOUR SCRAP =~ And even at that solemn function the talkers give their ribald show; no rev- erence and no compunction, no decent feelings do they know. There is no law designed for curbing the raw out- pourings of such guys, and so they go their way disturbing the sweet devo- tions of the wise. Oh, there are divers times and seasons when talking is a base offense, that rank- with stratagems and treasons, outragin® every proper sense. 'ALT MASON. (Copyright, 1929.) Abe Martin Says: Mrs. Gip Licklider, whose husband wuz indicted fer murder yisterday, is hustlin’ to git her downstairs repapered an’ the floors gone over before his acquittal. (Copyright, 920.) KENKLING Lucky R ouse Didn’t Feel Like It! FREEMAN Just a Minate, Oswald. T Sorirs Ay YOO TH 5O £005\ Cormoneo A LONG TiME AGO By C.A.VoieHT Have a Good Time. FeEL LiE FIGHTIN® ¢ WON THE CONTEST IN SCHOOL To-DAY (ONCRATULATE. MEe, LEAVING FOR THe SouTH ED, I'M ; 5PLmEQFusSTEh§17 STNEWALL SWEENEY on-on. BOY! EEE, I CAN HARDLY V. BLIEVE T BUT 1 TOLD You T DON'T FEEL Like FIGHTIN' You'lL NENER BE IN CONDITION IF Y'DON'T &\ A FewW STIFF WORKOUTS \SN'T MY GOLF HOUND "," SMART, OSWALD ? SEE |/ HIM GET UP THERE- | ON THE BUNKER. SO NE CAM FOLLOW -THE, FLIGNT OF My BALL / LET ME SEE IF T HAVEN'T A N\CK FOR THAT! 1 JusT 60T Back — AND JUST GoT BACte 1S RIGHT~ AND How— SAY, THEFIRST FIveE DAY DowN THERE | SPENT IMBED DARN NEAR DEAD FROM SUNTBURK - MONEY ENUFF T LIVE ON A GOOD REST AN’ LOTS O' GOLF! You'RE JeST LRTY = SNAP OUT OF IT AN' COME RIGHT -DOWN To TH GYM (D ~THEN | GOT A SMASH On THE BEEZER \WITH A GOLF BALL- RIGHT AFTERTHAT A SHARIC (HASED ME WHILE. | WAS IN SWIMMING FOR ‘TH' REST OF OUR LIVES WITHOUT ME EVER HAVIN' 1% T'WORK ANY MORE! GOSH - ME 7/ BRINGING THE MAIL T NONE OF US! WE WERE ALL IN THe BACK FOR wWHEN T SAY I DON'T FEEL -UKe Y= O\ Rewnn T LEAVE ME AloNE witL YA HEY, \>oc.r’r 1 cym*rz PLS\/ c‘rms ROT WITH Youl oG~ gneu.md MY LEG AND IF You DON'T CALL HIM 'Ll TURMN ARQUND AND KICK. HIM OM => NO MAME WE MEAS AN'T HAD THE LONGEST ~— AND ) LosT MY RolL ON The PONIES Aup THE FRESH FRUIT GAVE ME A STOMACHE ACHE —IM CLAD IM BACK WHERE THE ICE MAN KNows HI'S STUFF I3 RIGH OFF THE PoND 2 OH WELL, 1M oNLY GOING DOWN © NYTRIBUME e,