Evening Star Newspaper, February 18, 1929, Page 28

BEDTIME STORIES Danny Meets His Family. Babies are an endless care, But there's never one to ‘sp —Nannie Meadow Danny Meadow Mouse had not been @llowed more than a peep at his chil- dren. Nanny had seen to that. She protested that there was no room in the house for Danny and she always blocked his way. Danny didn't like it @ bit. No, Sir, Danny didn't like it & bit. But there was nothing he could do about it. He had learned that by experience. His babies were eight or nine days ©ld before he had a real look at them. are. Mouse. DANNY DID HIS BEST TO COM- FORT THEM. By that time they had their eyes open, they had begun to use their little ears and all possessed little fur coats. In fact, they looked like real Mice, It was then that Danny was allowed to pay them a visit. Danny had given up ail thoughts of visiting them, so he was more than a little surprised when he met Nanny Meadow Mouse some dis- tance from the little home. Nanny was hurrying along and almost ran into Danny before she saw him. “Goodness!" she exclaimed. “How is it that you are always right in the! way?” | BY THORNTON W. BURGESS Danny looked a little foolish. “I'm sorry, my dear,” said he. “I'll get right out of the way. But first, tell me what you are doing here.” “Looking for something to eat,” re- plied Nanny. | _*You do look said Danny. rather thin,” “Why shouldn't 17" squeaked Nanny. “If you had eight hungry little mouths to feed you would be thin.” “Are the babies doing nicely?” in- quired Danny. “If they were doing any better they would eat me out of house and home,” squeaked Nanny. “Why don't you come and see them?" “But—but you never would let me in before,” squeaked Danny. “Beforé isn‘t now,” retorted Nanny. Danny looked at Nanny very hard. She seemed to be concerned with noth- ing but getting something to eat. Danny turned and started in the direction of their home. He kept looking over his shoulder to see if Nanny was following. But Nanny wasn't. And so he reached the snug little home out of whith he had been turned on the arrival of the babies. He paused outside for just a second. Then he went in. It was a lively family he found in there. Yes, sir, it was a lively family. “Hush, hush!” cried Panny, for he feared that those squeaky little cries might be heard by other ears than his. But the babies didn’t hush. They merely cried the more. Danny did his best to comfort them, but they refused to be comforted. So you can guess how glad he was when Nanny Meadow Mouse pushed her way in and sent him out. He was only too glad to get out. He was proud of those children, as a father Meadow Mouse should be, but he was quite satisfied to let their mother take care of them. “They're 2 great family,” said Danny to himself, swelling himself up and try- ing to look important. “They are a great family, but my goodness, what a lot of them! And how under the sun does Nanny expect to feed all of those? It will be a lively place here under the old haystack when those youngsters get | to running about. I suppose I shall have to teach them then. I they all lcok like me.” (Copyright, 1920.) wonder if LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Sunday morning ma was down in the | frunt room pushing crooked things strate and strate things crooked, and I sed, Hay ma, can I take a wawk out to the park before dinnir with Puds Sim- kins and Leroy Shooster? I dont know, you'd proberly be about ® mile late for dinner, ma sed,-and I sed, Why would I, ma, no I wouldent, ma, can I, cant I, ma? and she sed, ‘Well I dont know, if your father says #0 you can, but he’s still asleep. Not axually saying I couldent ask anyways, and I went up to his room and he had his face in his pillow all except one eye and that was shut, prov- ing he was proberly asleep, and I start- ed to pick up things and put them down heavy on account of not wunting to wake him up by asking him a question, and he terned over and terned back agen without waking all a way up, and | I sed, Hay pop, can I wawk out to the k, ma says if you say I can she says can. Heh? Can wat, wats all this, wat the dooce, cant a man get some sleep in his own house? pop sed. Go to bed, he sed, And he quick went back to sleep, and 1 sed, Well hay pop, Puds and Leroy are waiting, ma says I can if you say I can she says I can, can I, pop, ma says 1f you say so she says so, can I pop? Heh, yes, yee gods yes watever it is, blast it to blazes, pop sed. And he banged his face back in the pillow agen and I quick went down stairs, and went out, and me and Puds and Leroy wawked out to the park, and -T wasent hardly late for dinnir but it ‘was a sad time for me to come in any- “ways on account of pop and ma was -still having a argewment weather or not ma had sent me upstairs to ask him useless questions wile he was still asleep. HECH Quiet Evening. I < < Reposing in my quiet nook I read & fine uplifting book while evening hours roll on; in strange and ancient tomes I delve until the village clocks strike .twelve, and sometimes until dawn. Outdoors, when evening hours begin, there is a tournament of sin, the wicked are abroad; the man who should be safe at home is roundly stricken on the dome, divested of his wad. Out- doors the cop pursues the thug, or drags him shrieking to the jug, for crimes that would amaze; and in the morning he will draw, from an incensed and outraged law, ten dollars or ten days. Outdoors the drinkers, all alight, are making havoc of the night with ribald jest and song; and in the morning ‘When they wake, all full of agony and ache, theyll know their course was wrong. Outdoors the foolish idly chase, in search of pleasures that debase, to divers joints and dives, and when to- morrow is a fact they’ll listen to the riot act as read by weary wives. Out- doors I know of no delight comparing with a book by night, beside a cheery fire; and here I sit till dawn appears, and read the sages and the seers, and masters of the lyre. I read the morn- ing paper now, the while my blithe and smiling frau is frying ham and eggs; and it is full of tales of wights who like to spend their noisy nights among the jugs and kegs. And they've been slugged with clubs and poles, and they've been robbed of hard-earned yolls, or bilked by some cheap crook; &h, how much better it would be if | they would but stay home like me, and | read a moral book! WALT MASON. (Copyright, 1929.) | ‘The Netherlands, Belgium, France and England are endeavoring to have a uniform date for starting daylight- Abe Martin Says: A A SE PAZ N, L ':';fff ;1»27”,,5,. 5 Artie Small, who's the chairman o the ticker tape committee, says the wel- come to be accorded Bootlegger Ike Lark, who never took his clothes off all durin’ th’ flu epidemic, is to be the greatest in our town'’s history. You kin git any married woman's ear by tellin’ her about some couple that haint pullin’ together. (Copyright, 1929.) WINTERTIME BY D. C. PEATTIE. Like a great jewel on black velvet cloth hangs, these clear wintry nights, the star that we call Jupiter—no star at all, to be exact, but the mightiest of our planet family, of which our own little mud ball is one of the less con- spicuous members. Of all the points of light suspended in the dome of darkm@ss, Jupiter is the brightest, so that you need be no astronomer to know it when you see it. Absolutely its only rival is the planet of Love, the amethystine Venus, which we see chiefly as the evening star at cer- t::n seasons, or sometimes the morning star. Once I beheld Venus and Mercury close together, and both of them close to the moon, of a Winter evening about 8 o'clock. So brilliant was the light they cast that almost every other star in their quarter of the sky was driven from the heavens, as completely put out as the stars are by the sun. The effect was so dazzling a phenomenon of light that I thought a new star system must be swimming into our ken, but the crisp, intelligent voice of the man who answers calls at the Naval Observatory assured me that I was merely gazing on Jupiter, Venus and our own satellite. The books tell us that Jupiter has a four-and-a-half-hour day, which is certainly short working hours. Yet its year is eleven of ours, so wide is its track in space, so madly does it go hurtling forward and dancing around. If you put all the other planets to- gether—Earth, Mars, Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus—good old Jupiter would still be five and a half times as large. Befitting its high sta- tion, it has been assigned seven moons, instead of a paltry one, as we have. Possibly when Jupiter has cooled down, for it is still intensely hot, it will not be such a great, fuming, blunder- buss of a thing in the sky. It will set- tle down to have rocks, and its clouds will fall into the hollows as oceans, and then we shall not see quite such a re- splendant jewel in the Ethiop's ear. But if Jupiter's atmosphere should clear, our telescopes might make out its lofty Himalayas, covered with snows glinting in the light of the sun as it sets on that great planet. We might even be able to make out the creamy saving time. STATIC. 5 GAY. TR CATS SAKE., HOW KIN A FELLA HoPE T’ PRACTICE. edges of its ocean's tides. —By GAAR WILLIAMS. Alow ¥ X-Y=2Z =15 EQUAL A o YA ANGLE. P.D. §. 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