Evening Star Newspaper, March 5, 1929, Page 42

EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. ESDAY, MARCH 5. THE CHEERFUL CHERUB - —————————— If you Fail in your projects _dont cry. Be proud that I‘ov simed so high. v defly THATS TRUEY PERHAPS IT 13 THE WIND — BUT T DID SOUND LIKE SAY DAWGONIT ! THATS — T THouaHT I JUST HEARD THAT VICLIN MYSELF — Gee! WEVE GOT A CaUPLE OF NIFTY | IMAGINATIONS 1 GUESS® WELL SULE HERE Y YES — DO YOU KNOW OOFy AND JULIE HAVE LEASED THE OLD VAN VELTEN MANOR ON A LONELY ROAD A MILE OUT OF VELTENVILLS. THIS |S THER NIGHT IN JTHE OLD MANSION/ 228 W Gt 4 1T IS AGAIN GOOFY !! THIS OLD HOLSE * GINES ME THE CREEPS AT TIHES! when imagination? Perhaps! | | i i i AS A PROEESSIONAL ENTERTAINER, How MANY BLACK €YES DID MUTT GIWWE You IN 1928, AND HOW MUCH DD T CoST You ™ HAVE THEM TREATED ¢ THIS GXPENSE (S DEDUCTIBLE!. | HERE IT IS0 207 BLACK eyes. ™e Doc's BitL FING. NOW, How MANY oF YouR HATS DID MUTT SMASH IN THe BUSINGSS O0F ENTERTAINING THE ReADERS? THAT'S$ 294, Now, How ABouT DENTAL BILLS T How MANY TiMES DID MUTT KICK You IN Tre MOUTH?Z ALL THIS EXPENSE S DEDUCTIBLE AND WILL LoWeRk THE AMOUNT OF YOUR MY DeNTAL BiLL WAS $£600. DEAR OLD MUTT, JusT THINK oF THE MONEY HE'S SAUING MG IN TAXES! FORTY-TWO HATS,| GEEUEM! THEY SET MG BACK SEVEN BuckS APlece | JCFE I'M AN INCOME TAR EXPERT AND T'M GONNA PROVE MY FRIENDSHIP BY WHITTUNG YoUR TAXABLE INCOME DOWN T NOTHING. You'Re LITTLE JGEF OF THE TEAM OF MUTT AND JCGFF, FAMOUS comic STRIP® GANTERTAINERS, - AIN'T You? BY THORNTON ‘W. BURGESS BEDTIME STORIE Strangers Decide to Stay. Who knows he is well off is wise To be content—there comfort lies. —Old Mother Nature. Jeff Decides That Mutt | Was a FriendIndeed in 1928. “I'm pleased to meet you,” said the stranger politely. “People call me Wan- derer—Wanderer the Evening Grosbeak —and this is Mrs. Wanderer.” 3 “lltl Was tgltl;‘lny"; turn wdbe pfllif&e. “ " “Welcome e Old Orchard!” squeak- Ne¥mo are vou talking to?: asked|eq Danny. “You—you dont happen to . oW, Motisce, as e Doked ibe fond of Meadow Mice, do you?” He her head out of a little round hole in | gq4eq this somewhat anxiously. the mow in the OId Orchard just back | “Wanderer chuckled. “If you mean T e e ot aery | to eat, I should say not,” said he. “We sitting. Then she saw the two Strangers | are seeq eaters. Then we like a few overhead. “Oh!” she exclaimed in her |y06" a5 g change of fare now a funny, squeaky voice. “Who are these | then. “So, you see, we can almost al- | I-T sHouoNT MIND [ Aw-BY JovE, TvE AN 1DEA! ThL MOPPING LIP THE HALLS ||| DISGUISE MYSELFY THEN I o . A5 HE DEMANDS, IF SHAWNT BE RE@GN‘ZED EVEN ——+=e==—— N5 nO USE CEDRIC! PR SAYS THAT SINCE YOUAND I, BY STOCK-MORKET, ARE THE MADE THEM, MOTHAW! MADE THEM MYSELF ouT OF — folks?” ONLY OUR FRIENDS WHO “They are two strangers who have come down to the Old Orchard to stay tintil Winter is over,” said Danny. “That is, they are going to stay if they can find enough to eat. They'll do that, all ME TO THE OLD OR- CHARD!” SQUEAKED DANNY. right. Farmer Brown's Boy will see to that.” “Who is Farmer Brown's Boy?” asked ‘one of the strangers. “He lives over in that house,” rekplied ee] foll me,” Meadow squeaked Danny. Mouse and this suppir pop sent me around to store for a half a duzzen ways find something to eat wherever we | are, That makes it easy for people who | travel as much as we do. Hello! There | is a small cousin of mine over there.| It is Linnet the Purple Finch. He| probably can show us where that food is that you say Farmer Brown's Boy puts out. Come on, my dear.” ‘Without stopping to even say good-by, Wanderer and Mrs. Wanderer flew over | !nthe edge of the Old Orchard, where net the Purple Finch and Mrs. Lin- net were just joining a whole flock of | Purple Finches., They were gathering | around a shelf fastened to one of the | trees and they were very busy picking | up something that they seemed to rel- ish. Wanderer and Mrs. Wanderer were not at all bashful. “What have we here, Cousin Linnet?"” inquired Wamderer. Linnet the Purple Finch looked up and stared most impolitely. “Who are you?” he asked bluntly. “I am a sort of big cousin of yours,” replied Wanderer. “That is, I belong to the Grosbeak branch of the Finch family. People call me the Evening Grosbeak, May I join the party?” He didn’t wait for Linnet to reply, but flew down to the shelf and in- spected it with a critical eye. There were sunflower seeds there and hemp- seed and some smaller seeds. Linnet and his friends were breakfasting on | hempseed. He: tried some of these | hempseeds himself. He was joined by | Mrs. Wanderer. Together they tried the sunflower seeds. Then they settled down to eat. When they had finished their breakfast they flew back to the tree beneath which Danny Meadow Mouse had his home. Danny was still there. Wanderer looked down at Danny and his eyes twinkled. “We’ve decided to stay,” said Wan- derer. “Yes, sir, we've decided to stay. This is the very place we have been looking for.” (Copyright, 1929.) Abe Martin Says: WELLINGTON Yes, the Kid Is o s [ KENKLING CPUSE OF HIS HAVING TO TAKE THIS JOB OF JANTOR OF THIS APARTMENT HOUSE WE Wi HAVE TO HELP HIM LIVE HEAH DIONT SEE ME AT Y ROUGHHOUSE, 1 MAY CALL OFF YOUR FIGHT WITH “LOUISVILLE LUKE ! DUE To THE POOR TICKET SALE PROMOTER WANTED TCUT YOUR PURSE DOWN To $2000, THEN HE WENT UP To$3000 BUT T INSIST UPON FIVE THE “THO ‘THEY DO SEE ME? WELL, HE SAID THREE THOUSAND WAS THE BEST HE'D Do— BUT T HAVE A HUNCH He'lL CHANCGE HIS MIND THE TELEPHONE ! AH == THRT MUST BE HM ! N SPIKE, PRESTON SEDGWICK IS AN THE WIG AND FALSE \NH?SHEBS?V“—J THOUSAND =--T SRID FINE THousAND ! LISTEN DUMBBELL-= YOU WANT “MAIN, FOUR THOUSAND' AN' TM TELLING You THIS sMAIN FINE THOUSAND * = RING OFF-.YoU HAVE A WRONG NUMBER FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE, HONEST AND HONORAGLE CITIZEN UNTIL HE GETS A NIBLICK IN RIS HANDS, AND AS WE'RE PRESTON, BE REASON= I DIoN'T “TELL :HIM 70 COUNT *EM Evil Report A i < was young, a giddy-head, I a village slot machine by feeding it coins of lead, which act, of course, | as base and mean. I meant no harm; 1! ht it smart, for I was but a thought scout. Alas, it broke my ndsire’s heart when he came 'round and balled me out. When I beheld the old man’s grief I vowed I'd quit all sin- ful plays; of righteous youths I'd be! the chief and walk in virtue all my days. | ‘That was a long, long time ago, and ' I've been truly good since then; I'd| have a record white as snow and I ‘would walk with saintly men. I thought I'd lived my error down by 30 years of blameless work, when I, opposing Green | B. Brown, was candidate for county| clerk. I thought no person would recall the error of that bygone time or from the dust of dead years haul the record of my youthful crime. But scarcely had | 15 I sprung my name as one who wished a public trust than men dug up that deed of shame from out the cobwebs and |insects lodging in beds and on the the (person, while the aromatic odor the the dust. Loudspeakers to voters said, “What think you of a can- didate who worked off coins of zinc or lead? Will you support so vile a skate?” And there were posters on the walls which made the statement grim and clear that I had stood in justice halls long since for shoving of the queer. ‘There's no such thing as living down the erimes attempted or designed. Jones, Johnson, Robinson or Brown will bear the ghastly facts in mind, and when we we have erased the records from the minds of men we are disgusted and amazed to find the truth dug up again. WALT MASON. (Copyright, 1929.) I BRAIN TESTS | 1 never remember whether a pleasant woman wuz purty or not. (Copyright, 1929.) Here are some questions that require careful consideration. You are allowed two minutes for each one. There is a logical, simple answer in each case: (1) Two men were fishing. They were approached by a third man, who said to | them, “Don’t fish here.” Instead of following his advice, they entered into an argument. One man said that fish do. The other man said that fish do not. What caused this discussion—what was the subject upon which they were arguing? (2) Two sentinels were guarding a road. They were stationed 30 yards apart and the road was straight. One sentinel was looking up the road, the other was looking down the road. A man tried to cross the -road between them, but both the sentinels saw him. How did they do it? Ability to solve these tests indicates more than average intelligence and is a sign of rapid reasoning. Answers to the above tests: (1) The men thought that the third man had said, “Don’t fish hear?” (2) The sentinels were facing each other—not stationed back to back. Wool of the Pine Tree. Pine tree wool, a filamentous ma- | terial from the pine tree, .has been | made use of some time in Germany, | but since the war it has come into more general use than ever before. It | used as a substitute for wadding in | quilted counterpanes—hospitals much favoring it, as it is a bane on parasitic wool gives forth has been found to be as_beneficial as it is agreeable. Pine tree wool also can be spun and woven. 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