Evening Star Newspaper, February 8, 1929, Page 40

BEDTIME STORIES Nanny Wiser Than Danny. . The wise know when to be afraid, And every warning is obeyed. —Old_Mother Nature. Danny Meadow Mouse hastened to tell Nanny Meadow Mouse that he suspected that Roughleg the Hawk was keeping special watch of the places where Reddy Fox had dug in the snow after Meadow Mice. “We know,” he explained to Nanny, “that when Reddy Fox or Mrs. Reddy or Old Man Coyote has dug down into the snow trying to catch one of us, that place has always been safe for some time afterward. None of them ‘wastes any time watching a place where they have already dug. I be- lieve old Roughleg has found that out and now he is watching all those laces dug in the snow. So we'll just p away from them. t is good sense, Danny,” said “THAT IS GOOD SENSE, DANNY,” SAID NANNY. Nanny, “but I can tell you something that is better sense still.” “What?” demanded Danny. “Keep away from the surface alto- gether,” replied Nanny. “We don't have to go up there. We can get plenty to eat underneath the snow where we cannot be seen.” “But just think of all those good seeds it is so easy to get from the sur- face of the snow,” retorted Danny. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS “It would be a shame not to get them while we can. We wouldn't be so fat now if it were not for those seeds.” “We are too fat,” declared Nanny. “Anyway, you are. If you get any fatter you won't be able to move quick- 1y enough to get out of the way of danger. You take my advice and keep down under the snow. That is what I am going to do.” Nanny was as good as her ‘word. Danny couldn't induce her to go up to the surface with him. “Pooh!” said Danny. “There’s no danger. All we have to do is to peep out and look all around before we climb out. I, for one, don't intend to miss those fine seeds.” ! So Danny continued to go up to the surface whenever he felt like it. He had one or two favorite weeds which he climbed. Sometimes he would go up in the daytime and sometimes he would go up at night, for Danny and Nanny are as active at night as in the day. You see, they believe in sleeping when you want to sleep, eating when you want to eat and going and coming when you feel like it. So Danny got in the habit of using the same weeds over and over for climbing up to the surface of the snow. And having formed the habit, he became careless in the manner of climbing. At first he would climb very cautiously. When he would reach the surface he would first stop for a while with only | his nose and eyes showing, and then he would look long and carefully to be sure that no enemy was about. But after a while Danny became careless. It often is that way. We become careless in matters with which we are very familiar. You know how it is yourself. If you cross a street every day you get so that you don't look out for danger nearly as sharply as you did when you first began to cross the street. So it was with Danny. He would scramble up the stalk of a weed, and do it so hurriedly that he would shake that weed, whereas at first he took the greatest care not to shake the weed. Then, having reached the surface, he would pop right out before looking around. Over and over again Nanny Meadow Mouse warned Danny that sooner or later something would happen if he were not more careful. She was wiser than he—much wiser. She meant to be safe, rather than sorry. (Copyright, 1929.) LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. I was playing with the fellows this afternoon and it kepp on getting darker and darker till all of a sudden it was pritty neer dark, and just then I re- membered I better not be late for suppir agen tonite on account of having been late about 3 times this week alreddy and something sad mite happen, and| some man was going pass and I asked him wct time it was and he sed, About 5 minnits to 7. Good nite G wizzickers holey smokes Im late alreddy, heck, gos shang the luck, I thawt. And I quick ran home like lightning ting, they aint through yet anyways. I went back in the dining room sat down like somebody that dident know they was late, pop and ma keeping_on tawking as if they know it either, and ma gave néz o §§n. i wont give me any. And T kepp on eating and thinking, after a wile T had a sudden ideer, | tas Wich she did, being coconut layer cake, pro special for after all. Stuffed Cherry Salad. Use very large canned red or white |long ago; in cherries. CI . Chill them thoroughly, from the juice and remove the pits by cutting a small slit in each and squeez- ing gently. Stuff each cherry with a salted filbert nut or a small piece of |ed, about eight cherries for each .serving on small crisp lettuce leaves and garnish with small balls of cream cheese that have been rolled in minced rsley, finely-chopped mint leaves or hat have been sprinkled liberally with paprika and garnished with a small slice of stuffed olive. Serve with a cream dressing flavored with grated orange rind. . Baked Eggs. Break the required number of eggs into a shallow glass baking dish. Sprinkle liberally with grated cheese, dot with butter and season with salt, pepper and paprika. Pour over them enough cream to nearly cover the eggs and place in a moderate oven until the eggs have become firm, or for about 15 minutes. celery stuffed with peanut ".butter. Arrange st i) -3 oi Giles. 1 we had something exter | to die. Abe Martin Says: An explanation’ll sometimes avert a mungm, but it never yit cured a bad Leslie Hanger, who has an estranged wife, talks some o’ locatin’ in Tibet. (Copyright, 1929 _— < In those long-vanished days of yore, when we old graybeards wrought and strove, we bought green coffee at the store and baked it in the kitchen stove. We never got it twice the same; one time it would be underdone, the next was a thing to shun. One cup of coffee would be weak, the next would be as strong as lye; and when man drank it for a week he thought it was high time . Good coffee was extremely rare, so rare that when one had a sip, he'd talk about it everywhere, nor let a chance of boosting slip. Bad coffee, with its tanbark smells, was universal H boarding houses and ho- by machines that work with more than human skill; no longer do we run the beans, half roast- , h the coffee mill. No longer do we fill the shack with smoke from coffee badly charred, and wreck the house from front to back, and hand out language by the yard. Good coffee has become the rule, it's served to us day after day, if perched upon a chophouse stool, or in a millionaire cafe. The workman in his humble cot has .coffee fit for any king, and as he drinks it, rich and hot, he pauses but to smile and sing. And_ where the moral boarders eat their luscious prunes and corned beef hash, the coffee is a daily treat that makes them glad to pay their cash. And so, in fifty-seven ways, the world grows better right along; and men who brag of olden days are dreaming dreams and wildly wrong. ‘WALT MASON. (Copyright, 1929 - Francis Fentiman, aged 84, was re- cently married at Hayton, England, for the fifth time. . POKER PORTRAITS. WHAT D' YA Krow ABOLT TwAT! I'D A MAGE 2 PAR )\ 7 10 A R Yean? LooK AT THAT ! 1D A MADE AN ACE HIGH FLUSH ! '™ A SUCKER: FoR STayin' our ! - -ttt DA FILLED A STRAIGHT FLUSH OPEN iN TR —BY WEBSTER (wew, ' es =— ! 1F I'D A DRAWN To MY PAIR OF TREYS DA CAUGHT TH THIRD Y Look AT IT! 1 HAENT T’ HEART To. 1 BET TS A D1 MoHD. | LAID Downt 4 oF'EMm wow! 1I'p A MiSSEP My STRAIGHT A MILE « GLAD | DION'T DRAW it from the oven came so charred it| THE THE CHEERFUL CHERUB 50 ‘they say, A f.hougl-‘(t fi\Zt’a me some . WOrTYin We'd rgcttgnr progress too We'll reach we_started from! By BuUD FISHER They Get Ready to Dodge the Rolling-Pin. KENKLING Watch for Tomorrow! The Conservative. EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 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