Evening Star Newspaper, February 22, 1929, Page 36

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO D. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1929. Gee! MUSH WAS TELLING THE TRUTH APTeR] ALL ABCUT SELLING THE PERUVIAN GOVERNMENT ¥ 25,000 WORTH CF INSECT FOWDER ! 1 WONDER |F HE'S SORE AT HE FOR MAKING HIM WORK OUT TH' BOARD BILL HE OWED US? TWENTY “FivE THOU SAND ‘\\u‘r T BE SNEEZED /// AT — ID LIKE TO KEEP ON GOOD TERMI WITH NI‘H f : WONDER |F HES S .\ SoRE AT ME? WELL MUSH IVE GoT T© HAND IT TO You'! YOU'RE SITTIN PRETTY — YOURE A LUCKY GUY! WHEN DO WE CeLeBRATE 2 THE CHEERFUL CHERUB | | P TR Life is Foll of little beavties.” ¢ . In ithe street and house they throng. But we lose tie By B power to see them y ignoring thern too ¥ long. 4 Rpcene » Loysius R " MEGINIS HAS FELT RATHER ILL AT EASE EVER SINCE THE ARRNAL OF MORTIMER MUSHBY'S $25000| CHECK FROM THE | POP MOMAND | perunian Goveenttent, [[i | IT WiLL TE RE~ MEMBERED THAT | AL WORKED MU RATHER HARD FOR T™He #50 BoARd BILL HE owed- a@g l Something Ought to Be Done About This. ! 1 The Worm Turned. HAT ARE You DoOING? ANSWER ME THAT! T CAN'T BACK ouT, BECAUSE THE COP AT THE end oF THE STREET MAY ARREST MG, AND T CAN'T TURN THE BUS AROUND ON (TS OWN Power BEcAUSE THe | STREET'S Too NARROW! HENCE, X'M LIFTING JEFE DON'T YOU Know THIS \S A ONE-W?AY AND FOR NOTHING: You WGRE GOING IN e RIGHT DIRECTION IN THE FRST LACE | YOO PDQMB EISHL oH, For T™He Lbve ofF MIkE. OH, My Poor BACK! T STRAINGD T LIFTING S THEM BALL PIAYERY fm?K wiTiouT U5 FaNS T BARL EM our ~ o US~ THEY QUGHY o 2BA DOWN FOR WINTLE TRANIN, A Sorimn o e onkind 0 BEDTIME STORIES Why Danny Left the Barn. Who to avoid all danger tries. In this respect at least is wise. OLD MOTHER NATURE. — here. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS “You saw him!” exclaimed Nanny. | “Yes,” replied Danny. “I saw him and he saw me. It's a wonder that I'm It was all still there in the big “Danny Meadow Mouse, what under the sun is the matter with you? What does all this mean?” demanded Nanny Meadow Mouse when they had reached 8 place of safety under a haystack in Farmer Brown's barnyard. “It means that we can't live in the barn,” squeaked Danny. “It means that got to find a new home.” “Why?" demanded Nanny impatiently, “Because,” replied Danny, and his volce was almost a whisper, “because there is some one living in that big barn and I made sure that Black Pussy Cat was nowhere around. Then I ran over to the grain bin to get a bite to eat. There was a young Rat already there. I kept away from him, because I didn’t want to have any quarrel with him. I was busy eating when there was a sharp squeak from that young Rat. I looked up. There was Spooky the Screech Ow! with that young Rat gripped in his claws. He passed right over my head with it and he glared right down at me with those fierce eyes, A-AN' NOW,MA'S GONE DOWN T'STLPID'S BROKER'S, HERSELE, T SELL. TH' STOCK. AN' COLLECT TH PROFITS AND-SHE'S GOIN' T FIND OUT THAT THERE NEVER WAS NO STOO BOUGHT —AND WHY. 1-1 BETTER GET GON' N D (Copyright 1919 b7 W€ Fiher) _Grest Bt S Wer o~ Trice ik Rop V. 8. Put. Offcn v 7 v ) 1-Y 2AD =THE CASHIER OF BULLBEAR & COMPPNY - CEDRIC'S BROKERS ~ HAS ABSCONDED WITH ALL THEIR FUNDS, FORCING THEM O FAIL WITH NG ASSETS] W-WE CAN NEVER GET A cEm'?FOD'?- v barn that we don't want for a nelgh-| jus thinking of it gives me the cold HERE WHILE TH' GOIN'S POSSIBLE! M-MONEY ! -t on shivers, If he hadn't had that young Who?™ Mauny Gemanded. Rat he would have caught me. He couldn't take both of us. I didn't any time getting away from ther “But how do_you ow that Spooky is living in the barn?” Nanny asked. “Because,” replied Danny, “I met Cousin Nibbler, I guess I looked as htened as I felt, for Nibbler wanted to know right away if I had seen Spooky the Screech Owl. I told him what I R 0 had seen and he didn’t seem the least eprieve. bit surprised. ““Tsn't it dreadful?’ said Cousin Nib- < s ( 218 ! JIITA , .ll!um. ) L WELLINGTON bler. ‘I don’t know what we are going to do about it. Spooky is living in the barn. He goes out once in a while for a little air, but he does most of his hunting right in here. He stays on one of those rafters away up high in the roof, where he can look down. I—I've lost a number of my family and a lot of the younger members of the Rat family have been caught by sEonkyA I used to think the barn was the safest gnlu:e in llll the Great World, but it IDN'T WASTE ANL TIME GET- | isn’t any longer.’” x qu AWAY FROM THERE.” “I never heard of such a thing!” de- v clared Nanny. “It's hard to believe. “Sooky the Screech Owl” said ck there if you want to,” Danny. 3 nothin, “Now who told you any such story to that barn. ! demanded Nanny. “You know | know when I'm well off.” very well that Spooky lives in the Old “But where shall we go now?” asked “No,” said Danny, “he doesn’t live “I don't know,” replied Danny, “we'll in the Old Orchard. He used to, but [ have to talk it over. Just now we are in the barn. | safe right here.” (Copyright, Abe Martin Says: /ROUGHHOUSE,, YOUR FIGHT COMES OFF \V'WANT ME T6IT A JoB RS DAT TOMORROW RND 1D LIKE T HAVE GUY'S SPARRIN' PARTNER, AN, A BET DOWN. TROUBLE 1S T DON'T DEN BRee€ZE OUT KNow WHAT ODDS To GWE (RUSE AN’ SLIP You Aw 1 NEVER SAW THIS OTHER KID DE DOPE — Box!=--- AN IDEA ! -~~~ 1 GOTCHA T SEND FOR MUGZY MUSHFACE-|| mo RiLEY He'LL DO ANY THING FOR ME PARDON ME, STRANGER 3 TM NoT A GRMBLING MAN BUT JUST 0 HAVE A LITTLE 4 INTEREST IN THE FIGHT T LAY $100* T FIFTY THAT AH! THATS THE TELEPHONE — = T THOUGHT MUGZY FORGOT ABOUT THAT MESSRGE S0 LATE BUT T WUZ UNCONSCIoUS FER TwWO HOURS ~=~= YEW=& TM TALKIN' FROM A Fhe HoSPITAL AND HURRY BACK AS SOON AS You (AN You'Re ON! T DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT FIGHTS LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Pop was smoking and thinking and I sed, Hay pop? e A BuT IN THE AFTeRNOON THEY SENT A SCORER-, N AROUND WITR ME AN 1 BLEW UP...va-=- P/ 1N e MorNiNG ROUND I ALMOST BuSTED THE QURSE RECORD WITH A MAKE OuT IN “THE. CADDIE T0URNAMENT! less than you expect, you may be fered more just to serprize you and re- ward your modesty. But still on the — m‘ ‘l‘l wfil"k {;‘ lm:hlnk '.{l‘:l: expect wi yroberly a man with such a opinion of him- they will wipe a te: eyes and have €0 after wa all the evidents I should be inclined to say that the safer plan in this more or less selfish werld is to ask for more than you expect, pop sed. ‘Well then Il ask you for a quarter but reely all I axually wunt is a_dime for something special tomorrow, I sed. ?o se-d dime is all I reely axually expect, Weil after handing out a thousand “What if you wuz so r you had eight or nine?” asked . Ike Soles, when Mrs, Lafe Bud complained of her little child keepin’ her at home. (Copy: ‘The Father of His Country seems too good and noble to be true, because of good old Parson Weems, who such & piggish figure drew. The parson faked that pleasant tale about the stricken cherry tree, how George's dollers werth of advice like that Id be a prize boob to spoil it all by trying to save a dime, pop sed. 8o here it is to prove my point, so I gess you'll know after this the correct person to come to | let the culprit stand, and b for advice, he sed. Meening himself. Wich he is. Quick Parker House i!.olll. 2 Mix and sift two cupfuls of flour with four teaspoonfuls of baking powder, half a teaspoonful of salt and one tablespoonful of sugar., Work in two tablespoonfuls of shortening and mix to a soft dough with three-fourths cup- ful of milk. Roll out on a floured board to one-third inch in thickness. Cut in rounds and spread with melted but- ter. Foid one-half over onto the other half and bake in a hot oven. Banana Fritters, Peel three bananas, which should be very ripe, and press them through & sieve. Make a batter with one egg, half a cupful of flour, one teaspoonful of brown sugar and one-fourth teaspoon- ful of cinnamon, and add the bananas. Beat well. Drop by spoonfuls into hot fat. Fry on both sides until brown. Eat hot Wwith fine sugar, My Neighbor Says: ‘To remove gum that has stuck to a suit put a piece of ice on the wrong side of the suit right under the gum. The ice will ireeze the gum and make it possible to pick it off. Two-toned rugs that are slight- ly soiled may be cleaned with corn meal and a stiff broom. Always remove wrappers from soap before storing it away. It will dry out better, ‘When washing the ticking covers on feather pillows, empty the feathers into a cotton cloth bag, put the bag into hot suds, rinse and hang in the bag on the line. Shake frequently until thoroughly dried. father, stern and pale, asked, “Who has played this trick on me? Who had the nerve to chop it down? Before me King George's pewter crown I'll make him wish he'd held his hand.” He wrung his hands, he rent his beard, he brushed a salt tear from his eye; then from the woodshed George appeared and said, “I cannot tell a“lie. I did it with my THINK GAWDGE WASHINTON WAS Safety First! little ax, my hatchet from the hard- ware store; I gave the tree some thoughtless whacks, but will not do, it any more.” This answer did the parent lease; he said, “I'm gratified, in sooth; ’d rather lose nine hundred trees thap have my offspring wreck the truth.” Then he took George behind the barn and talked of truth for half a day; the parson faked this cheerful yarn that can’t be killed or shooed away. And somehow, though we love the truth and think of liars as a pest, that tale of George's shining youth has made him seem tly jest. It puts him in a place , remote from growing, happy lads, and bars him from the humen hearts of all but lecture-loving dads. The parson wrote his little book { with loving thoughts, in language | quaint, and made his splendid hero saint, MASON. (Copyright, 1020.) Lessons in English BY W. L. GORDON. Words often misused: Do not say, “Did you ever meet her?” Say, “Have you ever met her?” | * Often mispronounced: Distraught; au | as in “haul,” accent last syllable. Often misspelled: Jackal; only one 1, look too blamed much like a .plaster | ALT =DIDNT Yoy TELL ME Nov HAD Some or ThaT “UniTep SEPARATOR" 7 —BeTter GETOUT, ITS Due For A RIDE. - \ | From it All jwsts~ ) cetiqun~ Synonyms: Put, place, set, deposit, commit, entrust. ‘Word study: “Use a word three times and it 1s yours.” Let us increase our voclbm:? by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: Emphatic; spoken with foree, or stress; impressive; posi- tive. “Her emphatic reply was final,” ) N i detfin( Away / / 7 A SEVENTY-ONE WAS SO HONEST — 1 \WOULDNT HANG on Teo ¢ o THAT Lon STUFF —=Tare Nour PRoRT Doou THINK OUGHTA STAY HOME. RIGUT Now PeTEY —