Evening Star Newspaper, February 9, 1929, Page 23

BEDTIME STORIES | weedtops. I think I'll wait a while anc Danny Is Taught a Lesson. Iopowledse may be dearly bought en by experience 'tis taught. —Old Mother Nature. Danny Meadow Mouse was growing more and more heedless. He thought it great fun to go up on the surface of the snow and scamper about there. ‘When the snow was soft he left little tracks. He forgot that sharp eyes would see these and would know what ;“hey meant. Now this is just what did appen. There had been a light crust over the snow that covered the Green Meadows. Then there had been a very light fall of snow. It was just after this stopped in the night that Danny took it into his head to go up and look ®AHA!” SAID HE TO HIMSELF. ;{AERIE‘?USE HAS BEEN FEEDING around. He climbed his favorite weed stalk and popped out. Then for a while he had a good time scampering from one weed to another and helping him- self to seeds from each. Finally he went down below again. Of course, he had left behind him little footprints all about in the snow. Very early the next morning Blacky the Crow visited the Green Meadows in quest of some- thing to eat. Now Blacky is not only keen-eyed but he is quick-witted. He understands what he sees. Blacky saw those little tracks in the snow. You see, he was flying low and as he looked down he could see all those little tracks of Danny Meadow Mouse. They inter- ested Blacky right away. “Aha!” said he to himself. “A Mouse ‘has been feeding here. If he has come once, he is very likely to come again. 1 see there are still some seeds on these BY THORNTON W. BURGESS see what happens.” short distance away. Then, in that stately manner of his, he walked over until he was among the weeds where Danny Meadow Mouse had been feed- ing and had left his tracks. He looked sharply at all the weeds about him. In a moment or two he discovered what he was looking for. He discovered that close to the stalk of one of those weeds was a hole in the snow. It was just about big enough for a plump eyes twinkled when he saw it. He moved over within striking distance of the hole, Then he prepared to be patient and wait. As he waited he studied the things about him. He soon discovered that there were two or three holes in the snow close by the weed stalks. This was rather disappointing. There was no way of telling which one of those holes the Mouse he was wait- ing for might use. For a long time nothing happened. Blacky was beginning to lose patience. His feet were getting cold. He was just about to give it up for that day when he saw one of those weedtops a short distance away begin to shake. Blacky knew instantly that a Mouse was climb- ing that stalk. He knew, too, that that Mouse was heedless and careless. Otherwise, he would not have shaken that weed so. Blacky hurried to get over there. He wanted to be there to grab that Mouse the instant he should poke his head out of that little hole close beside the weed. But Blacky was just too late. He was almost there when out popped Danny Meadow Mouse. Danny hadn’t stopped to poke his head out and look around. He had grown so heedless that he had climbed right out. The instant he was out he saw his mistake. There was Blacky the Crow. With a fright- ened squeak Danny started for the next hole. You see, Blacky was too ncar for him to turn and dart down_ the hole he had just come out of. Half flying, half running, Blacky started after him. It was only a short distance to that next hole, but it seemed to Danny that he never would get there. You see, he was very fat and running even that little distance was hard work. Just as he dived down head first through that little opening in the snow Blacky made a frantic lunge at him. He caught Danny by the very tip of his tail. Danny squeaked with fright and pain. He felt himself beinf lifted. He dug his claws into the snowy wal of his_ little tunnel and pulled. Was he to be caught at last by Blacky the Crow?. (Copyright, 1929) ‘ Well Fixed. | How fortunate the ancient man who's followed up the prudent plan, who ut his coin in brine, who placed some pecks in a cask that in his old age e might bask in comfort truly fine. Now he is honored everywhere, for him is kept the easy chair, the best place by the fire; we rub his weary limbs with salve, and take great pains that ,he may have whate’er he may desire. His sons are glad should he arrive to visit for three weeks or five, or haply for a year; they hand him rich and that are a treat for ailing and in style. His nephews and his nieces strive to make him glad he is alive, they hu- mor every whim; on kindly errands they all chase, and there's a smile on ihis old face, they are so good to him. d all, that Abe Martin Says: Nobuddy has ever been able to Y | describe a play without makin’ me too blamed they brush them from his dome. then the ancient gent .who saved a groat or cent, who has f blunt; for him there is no loor, he’s an incumbrance and his presence an affront. | ‘WALT MASON. (Copyright, 1929.) | LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. o HILS i Anybody can make a house look neet they have enough closets, but it takes nt to make a closet at the same time. @ boys room looks neet a sine that he's a sissey or his mother fixes it up after tired. “I guess he don’t amount to very much fer he couldn’ git out o' payin’ a sticker fine,” said Lafe Bud today, | speakin’ o' some feller. (Copyright, 1929.) R o et e e Before and After “Lifting.” Serving as a living demonstration of the effects of a face-lifting operation, a woman is moving about London whose right cheek reveals her as a woman of 50 and whose left cheek is that of a ‘woman of 30. She visits race meetings, smart res- taurants and hotels with the object card which explains that a little quar- ter moon of skin was cut in front of her ear and another in her scalp, and then a doctor lifted up that side of her face. The stitches healed in 10 days and the operation was painless. The cost of the whole process is about No matter how many times you | $300. mre told how important it is too keep mr closet neet, it still stays one of | easiest things to forget. A boy has just as much respect for fthe floor of his closet as wat he has for the hooks. On the other hand a ger! is sippose to be able to leeve the ‘door of her closet open weather there 1s company in the house or not, the re- sult being that a lot of gerls haff to ‘hurry up fix up thelr closets wen com- pany is coming. Most boys grow up to be men with- out feeling much diffrent about closets. ‘Wen a man takes his shoes off his ferst ambition is to throw them some place, ‘but wen a lady takes hers off she feels mmore like putting them next to some ———— For this reason if your father has to use part of one of your mothers closets on account of her not having enough of them to spare him a whole one, you can genrelly always tell wich are his shoes and wich are hers without even having to know the diffrents in size. A ladys favorite house is one with plenty of closets, wile a man prefers more ash trays. Wen boys are young and bad they often haff to stay in a closet until they are left cut, maybe being the reason why all the rest of their life they never wunt to stay near a closet long enough to make it look neet. This proves you cant be too careful other shoes like part of a shoe store. of childrens feelings. The Thrill That Comes Once.in a Lifetime. RIGHT HERE'S WHERE F—= T LADY FELL OFF'™M T’ HORSE 1t TH™ HIP PEROROME RACE. SHE WA S TEST Rouron Tris HERE CURVE T “TRACK. AN HER HoR: SULIPPED AN — THeE CIRCLT LOT 1M WINTER TIME So Blacky alighted on the snow a i Snflifl THE EVENING STAR. WASTINGTOX, THE CHEERFUL CHERUB . 1 Impatience is a foolish il fault — To evltivate perceful soul Pll try to telephone evch day — Its training for my /| self-contral. | | Meadow Mouse to pass through. 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