Evening Star Newspaper, February 15, 1929, Page 43

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1929.” z——‘—"—_—_____—-——————'_—__—-'—" e BEDTIME STORIE e et My life slurs over me Now you must admit that eight babies Li at times. arow you must admit that elg rpest | | Like some. family that Nanny Meadow Mouse had ever had. Once she had had six bables and had thought that she had all that any mother could do in looking after those. But now she had two more than that. Such a load of responsibility! All those babies must be fed. She must make sure that each one had its full share. And now that they had no little fur coats, she must make very, very AH-HH- THANK. BY THORNTON You HR. Heamas! W. BURGESS THATS ' VERY Nice SUPPORTERS; SLIPEN * IN YOUR. BOOTS AN’ GET Nanny Has Troubles Enough. In all this world there is no other That knows the troubles of a mother. —Nanny Meadow Mouse. My real self completaly lost mong miy worh and clothes and meals. Danny Meadow Mouse awoke from his nap. He yawned and stretched and wondered how it was that he wasn't sleeping in his own home. Then he remembered that Nanny had refused to allow him to enter that home and had sent him away, saying that she had troubles enough without being bothered by him. What those troubles were he ocouldn’t imagine. “I wonder if she is feeling any better natured now,” thought Danny. “I'll run over and see.” & So Danny scampered over to his home and stopped just outside. He remem- bered the reception he had received be- fore and he felt a little timid about venturing in now. While he was try- ing to make up his mind whether he would or not, Nanny Meadow Mouse peeped out. “Oh, it's you!” said she. “well, keep away. As I told you before, I have troubles enough.” “But I don't understand what thoss MY DEAR LANDLADY, THAT'S A MECHANICAL ROBoTs IT'LL SHINE MY SHOES oR PLAY PINOCHLE WITH ME& JUST LIKE A HUMAN BEING. ‘You'lu EXCUSE ME ADWAS T HAVE AN APPOINT MENT ow PERFECTLY, WONDERPUL L A | MECHANICAL MAN . STAND STite My FLUTTERING HeArT. YOUR SHOES, T'LL DO ANYTHING FOR You T PUT OUER THIS MECHAN'CAL PAL 1DEA, BUT = DRAWS THe WNE WHEN TW'S oLD BUZZARD TRiES ™ MAKE LOVE troubles are,” protested Dariny. Nanny looked at him very hard. She gaw that he really meant what he said, “So you don't know what they are! she exclaimed. “Well, it's time for you to learn. You can come in for just & minute.” So Danny came in for just a minute. To his great surprise he found that there really wasn't room for him. Quite filling the comfortable bed was a squirming mass of naked little Mouse babies. They didn't even have their eyes open. They had no little fur coats. Nanny allowed him just one look. ‘Then she pushed him out and went back to her_family. “How manv are there?” Danny. from the doorway. “Eight,” replied Nann; Danny would have whistled if a Mouse could whistle. “You are quite right, my dear, you are quite right,” he | squeaked. “Quite right about what?” asked Nanny. “Having troubles enough,” replied “T shall keep out of your way, squeaked Danny. ueaked Nanny. «I will,” said Danny. And, suiting the vt el NANNY ALLOWED HIM JUST ONE LOOK. sure that they did not get chilled. She couldn’t leave them uncovered. That wouldn't do at-all “Trouble, trouble, trouble!” she mut- tered to herself. “I wonder if any other mother ever had so many troubles.” But all the time Nanny was very, very proud of that big family. Not for the world would she have hed anything happen to even one of them. All her muttering and scolding didn’t mean a thing. It was just her way. You know, mothers are that way sometimes. As for Danny Meadow Mouse, he was very well satisfled to leavc the care of that big family entirely to Nanny. While they were so little there was nothing he could do to help, so he was quite satis- fled simply to look in once in a while action to the word, he scampered off to get something to eat. The Sidewalks and leave it at that. (Copyright, 1929.) of Washington BY THORNTON FISHER. Searching for valentines the other day it was observed that there still ‘remained unsold valentines for “My ‘Brother.” Those for mother and sister and sweetheart apparently fournd a ready sale. It must be whispered that not a few “To My Wife” waited for purchasers. ‘Why are brothers forgotten so often? Sentimental verse to a brother is dif- fieult to compose. Of all the unsung heroes, the card verse writer is in a class by himself. He belongs to the unseen fraternity that names race horses and Pull- man cars. To write 4 sentiment that 10,000 - people will send to 10,000 others is deserving «of more than the THE VALENTINE, VERSE | obscurity of which | b he is usually the victim. The illustrator, author, playwright, actor and sculptor are compensated by the privilege of at- taching their names to their composi- tions or . prod - . tlons, .Not so with the writer of card verse. Given the gift of expression, it is easy to comprehend one writing verse to Betty or Helen or Grace,.but 50 .to write that the verse will appeal to girls of every name is & large sized order. Among the valentine sentiments was one in a frame. The author was dis- tinguished by having his name en- wved in the lower right hand corner. We were amazed to note that the versi; fier of the honeyed phrases was none other than one of America’s most pro- lific humorists, whose work' has ap- peared in mdtion pictures. T ok % The. post card and film flourish in Washington. Which is ho to be wondered at. How many times our public buildings have furnished \backgrounds for'all sorts of: faces is beyond computing. Itinerant photog- raphers were quick to seize upon this idea and lay in wait at Union Station for the tourist who wanted his picture taken in Washington. J % %k %8 % The open season for base ball and conventions in the city will begin very shortly. The lure of Spring in Wash- ington is irresistible. More children are brought to the city during the {Summer, as it is the vacation season. ‘One national organization of clubs is iconsidering holding a convention next Summer, the argument being ad- vanced that parents are unable to come while the youngsters are at school. * i 4 The Lindbergh romance has appealed to the American public. “What do you think of it?” one asks another, just as though it made any difference to the youthful colonel and Miss Morrow. Basking in the spotlight is the pen- alty of fame. The Land- | lady Thought She Had Found Romance at Last Two friends of ours, each well known in his chosen profession, were married. One of them was a popular radio ar- tist. The wedding ceremony was held before a tell-tale microphone and mil- lions of people heard him promise to be true until death should part him and his wife. ‘The late Lloyd Bertaud, who lost his life in his attempt to fly to Rome, was married in an airplane. Lieut. May- nard, known as the “Flying Parson,” rformed the ceremony. Fate decreed that the “Flying Parson” should lose his life in the crack-up shortly after- ward. ‘We are not superstitious, but there seems to be something about 3s, unless they are dollars, that is perturbing. Ormer Locklear came out of the South one day to thrill the public. He was the first of the cir- cus flyers. It was shortly -after - the war when Locklear caused spectators to shudder as he leaped from plane to plane, hung by his knees from the landing gear and crawled along the fuselage. The writer posed for a picture with the young dare devil. The photographer, while preparing his camera, remarked that he would “take his" on the ground. “You don't catch me up there,” said he, “foolin’ around the clouds. I want to live a while.” A few months later that photographer passed away with influenza, Three per- sons were concerned with the taking of the picture, two of whom are gone. mk!ear plunged to his death a year ater, * ok ok ok Some folks are sticklers for accuracy. An acquaintance was writing a biog- raphy of a certain well known man and mentioned that a photograph of the noted one’s mother was in a gold frame. The man about whom the story was here | statement, saying briefly, “No, it is in a silver frame.” LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Last nite I was thinking about start- 4ng to do my homework, and I sed, Hay ma, hay pop, I dont think a cold is any- wares neer as contagious as wat people say it is. ell then your radically wrong, ma sed, and pop sed, To wat do we owe ithis valuble contribution to the scien- tific nollege of the world? ‘Well, me and Puds Simkins was mak- ing some experiments, I sed. O my goodness, ma sed, and pop sed, Some wat, for Peet sake? and I sed, Some experiments, you see our teacher sends anybody home if they have & cold 50 they wont contract it to the rest of. the class, and me and Puds thawt if we could just get enough of a cold to make us sneeze a little, why we would get sent home and have a good days rest without being axually sick, and yestid- day at recess some kid that dont go to our skool was stan outside the rail- ings and he was sneezing like anything, and me and Puds stood there aWile and left him sneeze through the railings at us rite in our face to see If we could contract a few germs. Yee gods, pop sed, and ma sed, Well of all things how terrible, and I sed, And then just to be on the safe side we went around to Shorty Judges houso after skool, and he has such a fearse cold he has to stay in bed, and me and Puds stayed there about a hour and stuck our noses rite in his pillow and everything, and this morning I felt all rite and so did Puds, so I bet we dident contract & single germ. No, I supose you brawt them all home and spred them around the house 80 the innocent would haff to suffer as usual, pop sed. Bleeve me, young fello, {if I sneeze in the next few minnits or the next few hours Ill know who is jresponsible and you wont get a cent or & kind werd out of me wile my cold /1asts, he sed, and ma sed, And if T feel ‘the faintest ghoast of a sispicion of a cold you can put all ideers of recess money and all ideers of movies out of yous hed for weeks and weeks. Being why 1 hope they both stay well even more than I usually hope so. Abe Martin Says: A - ‘Who remembers when they'd pull you in if you hesitated in front of n.pclotgin' store? Lester Kite lost a valuable wife B FREEMAN Never Safe through flu this week. (Copyright, 1929.) Lessons in English BY W. L. GORDON. Words often misused: Do not say, “She is more learned than him.” Say “than he” (is learned). Often mispronounced: Disinterested; accent after the n, not after the sec- ond s. Often misspelled: Scrimmage; dou- ble m. ynonyms: Act, accomplishment, 8; achievement, deed, exploit, feat, trans- action, performance. A U8 BT Pocket Size Dynamo. For use where it is inconvenient to obtain dry cells, an_electric flashlight has been devised which has a small spring-driven dynamo in the handle, and this being properly wound supplies icurrent for a considerable lerm?h of time, When it is run down.s few winds barts ¢ae wparation ever ageity ‘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: Tribute; a con- tribution of any kind, as of praise, service, etc. “It was a beautiful tribute to her memory.” By C.A:NoiGHT Something to This WITH TN YER HE THINKS HE'S A BIG- BEAR AND BuLL MAN BUCKIN' K BT WITH Now KeeP CooL — \F You BEAT THE "PROVIDENCE BBARCAT ', YTONIGHT T'LL BE QUR SECOND VICTORY IN A« -MY Goopwess ! ~\WE'RE Down .+ FiNE wore PeTeY — N' SEE, HE OPENED AN WITH OLR WHOLE BANK-ROLL., MA ME GIVE HIM, 50'S HE COULD DO HIS TRADIN' TELEPHONE § YESTERDAY HE THOUGNT HE BOUGHT 2,000 SHARES OF AMALGAMATED PRETZEL BY 'PHONE, BUT~HE DIDNT} I'VE HAD HI5 'PHONE DISCONNECTED FRROM ALl OUTSIDE LINES AN' HOOKED LIP ONLY WITH TH EXTENSION IN MY DENY e -~ DON'T MIND A UTTLE SOCK, , TROUGHHGUSE — = .UY'”GE.’\' # THe "QUR KeeP YouR CHIN BEHIND YourR 1 DOM'T LIKE (ENG THe— ONLY PERSON OM -TWE WHOLE BLOOMING COURSE. . o « v o« « HOWEVER, THERE'S ONE ADVANTAGE IN IT-- THERE'S AMOT A CHANCE.'] OF ME BEING BEANED TopAY NoT A souc., MISTAR, DoC. 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