Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1929, Page 50

50 THE EVENING BEDTIME STORIES Safe at Last. !Tis only when all dangers cease That safety brings a sense of peace. —Danny Meadow Mouse. Danny Meadow Mouse could not SPP; where he was going. It was dark—pitch dark—down there underground in one | of the tunnels of Miner the Mole. But | it really made no difference to Danny. | He could run just as fast down there in the dark as he could had it been light. You see, there wasn't any danger of bumping into anything. Behind him | " = —— “WELL, ANYWAY.” SAID DANNY, “I'M SAFE NOW, AND I'VE FOUND OUT WHAT 1 WANTED TO| KNOW.” came Miner the Mole. Miner knew that some one was in his tunnel and he was | in a great rage. He couldn't see, either. But then he couldn't have seen had his | tunnel been flooded with light. His eyes merely tell him the differeace between light and dark. He cannot distinguish objects. He doesn’t need to. He spends practically all of his time underground, Where eyes really are of no use at all, | Danny came to where the tunnel branche: ‘'Oh. dear,” thought Danny, “which way shall I go now? Shall I go to the right or shall I go to the left?” He stopped, undecided. But he couldn’t stop for more than a second. In that second he used his nose and he caught {and this time he did not dare stop | see, that really was the tunnel he had '] vsed to act eccentric For I tlhought an artist ‘ B‘ut habit has such BY THORNTON W. BURGESS had come in. He hesitated no longer, but started along the left branch. Again he came to where the tunnel branched, to use his nose. As luck would have it, he took the wrong turn. He realized it’ after a while, for he knew that by this time he should have reached the surface, and here he was still running and running quite deep underground. “Oh, dear!” thought Danny. “Oh, dear! ' Probably this tunnel will end suddenly and then Miner will catch me. Why did I come down here? Why couldn't I have been contented above ground? Oh. dear! I wonder where this leads to?” But there was nothing to do but to keep right on running. The passage took a sudden turn and began to go up. This was better. Danny began to be more hopeful. And then it suddenly joined another tunnel. Should he turn right or should he turn left? He turned | right. That was his good fortune. You | been running along in before he had turned off at the fork. That branch had simply swung around and joined the main tunnel again. “Anyway, this tunnel is up near the surface now,” thought Danny. “If I keep on, I guess I'll be all right.” Danny kept on and he was all right. It was only a minute or two later that he knew just where he was and that it was only a little way to the opening under the snow by which he had en- tered. When he popped out of that opening, Danny drew a long breath. He had no fear of Miner the Mole up there. Miner couldn’t follow him along in his own little tunnels, because Danny's tunnels are smaller than Miner’s. Danny darted into one of these tunnels and then waited. A moment later Miner the Mole peeped out. But once above ground Miner seemed to have lost all interest. Yes, sir, he seemed to have| lost all interest. He didn't seem to like | the snow, and after a moment or two | he disappeared down in his hole again. | “Well, anyway,” said Danny, “I'm| safe now and found out what I| wanted to know.' “What was that?” inquired Nanny | Meadow Mouse, coming up just then. “I wanted to know whether or not | Miner the Mole sleeps all Winter,” said Danny. “I know now that he doesn’t.” “And I hope you know enough to keep out of his tunnels,” spoke up | just a faint whiff of Mouse scent. He knew then that that was the way he Nanny. (Copyright. 1920.) LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Department Stores. shovld er Im eccentric now Use a Little Elbow Grease. 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WELL, |F YOU COME ACROSS JIANYONE ON THiS TRAIN MISTAH RUEY— A COUPLR CUSTOMERS WHO THINKS ROUGHHOUSE WON'T WIN = T'LL LRY HRTol For ANYTHING A THEY'VE 60T ." You MEAN To SAY | THAT OLD BoY | HE'S THE DEAN AT A FOREIGN LANGUAGE SCHOOL AND HE. CAN CUSS IN EIGHTEEN DIFFERENT TONGUES/ ‘Your mother can wawk around a de- partment store all afternoon and still look naturel and not feel as if she had did anything special, but if you have had to wawk around with her all that time you havent hardly got any feelings left, and if your father had to he wouldnt start in the ferst place. Prov- ing the value of experients. It also proves if ladies are weeker than men, then they both must be pritty strong. If ladies only stopped at the rite places, such as candy counters and jelly demonstrations and things, it would be much more restful going with them, ony they stop at all the wrong places insted, such as bargain counters where too many peeple are alreddy, and nuth- ing is more tiring than stopping and stancing at a lot of places where you would rather not be. The elevater men in department stores hafl to have perfeck memories to call out all the diffrent things on all the diffrent floors without having time to look in a little book orhanythln%b!- fore the elevater gets to the next floor. 1f you owned a department store and | IR the memory contest at Apple got mad at the elevater men, a cinchy | Grove School yisterday it wuz almost re;'er:‘dse v;;ouldhji be to kfieph th;fl nl: dark before little Lizzie Lark, who won mixed up by changing all the diffrent | g departments all over the store all the | (N® Prize, got through naming all o’ the time, the main trubble being that the | t00th pastes. . My wife had jest turned the radio customers mite not like it either. i Floorwawkers are men wawking |On. an’ I wuz startin’ down cellar to around without hats waiting for |Tead. when I heard what I took to be | strangers to ask them questions | tire bustin',” testified Elmer Means in | The funniest thing in a department | the Tharp-Kite shootin’ case today. store is peeple running up the moving | stairway insted of just standing there and getting up free. N n Proving that peeple think they are | AL\T H]:r BY ROBERT QU YES, AND PLENTY, Too Tremendous Advantage. YOUR NAME, LI'L FELLER? WHILE MY MOM DOES BUT WHEN SHE SAYS “JAMES!’ 1 KNOW THAT MEANS CASTOROIL! BUT EVERYBODY CALLS ME waisting time unless they are always | feeling they are in a hurry. Lessons in English BY W. L. GORDON. Words often misused—Do not say. “He sustained an injury.” “Sustain” means to bear up from: uphold. 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They will then | |rection of securing a film made of ""‘A hp’:: o n‘;h{:';“““;‘\“‘:pm" | paper, but it was never properly worked sauce, cereal and prunes cooks | |Out and it was discovered that cellu- well and evenly over a gas burn- | |loid could be made to answer the pur- | er. turned low, thus saving gas. | | pose and it was adopted and generally Fur garments mav be bright- | land generously made use of to the| ened by sponging them with gas- | | end that miles of film were filled with oline and then rubbing corn meal | bathing beauties, babbling brooks and | into the fur while it is still damp | | bubbling babies. The paper film idea to take up the particles of dirt | 'has been revived and perfected by a that have been loosened. Gaso- Berlin inventor who claims to have line should never be used, of | | made a film of paper which is much safer, more economical and just as course, where its fumes can come | | in eontact with fire. \good for the purpose as the celluloid ribbon. (2]