Evening Star Newspaper, March 6, 1929, Page 36

BEDTIME STORIE Make Themselves at Home. ighborly. and you will find ate in_kind. Peter Rabit. It wasn't long before all the feathered | folk who were wintering in the Old Orchard made the acquaintance of Wanderer the Evening Grosbeak and Mrs. Wanderer, At first they were re- garded with suspicion, but this was for only a little while, for the Wanderers were very quiet people and attended strictly to their own business. They didn’t interfere with others, so they made no enemies. Of course, Farmer Brown’s Boy soon discovered their presence and he was “I HOPE YOU'LL LIKE THE OLD ORCHARD AND THE GREEN FOR- EST,” SAID TOMMY TIT THE CHICKADEE. delighted. It was surprising to some of the other feathered folk to see how fearless Mr. and Mrs. Wanderer were. ‘They seemed not at all afraid of Farmer Brown's Boy and would allow him to come within a very short distance of them as they fed. “I hope you'll like the ‘Old Orchard and the Green Forest,” sald Tommy Tit the Chickadee. “We do,” replied Wanderer. “We like it very much, indeed. Already we feel very much at home here. It is one of the pleasantest places we have found in all our travels.” “Then I suppose you will stay,” said YAKE A NOTION T0 200K AFTER. THE ASH TROBLEM WITAOUT TAKNG NOYE OF THE (WND3 DIRECTION OR. | VeLoary, e ot e e BY THORNTON W. BURGESS Tomy Tit, his little black eyes twin- king. “Of course we will,” replied Wan- derer. “Didn't I say that we feel very much at home here? We will stay until it is time for us to go back to our nesting home.” 3 “Is that very far away?” inquired Tommy Tit. “It is quite a distance, quite a dis- tance,” replied Wanderer, and he chuckled to himself. “I suppose,” said Tommy, “it is away up North.” 5 “Yes,” replied Wanderer, “it is away up North. Also, it is away out beyond the Purple Hills.” “But that is where jolly, round, red Mr. Sun goes to bed every night,” ex- claimed Tommy Tit. “You mean,” said Wanderer, “it is where it looks as if jolly, round, red Mr. Sun goes to _bed. If you should go beyond those Purple Hills that you see from here, you would see jolly, round, red Mr. Sun appearing to go to bed each night just as far away in the distance as you see him here.” Tommy Tit thought this over for a few minutes. Then he looked down. There sat Peter Rabbit with his eyes very wide open and his ears standing straight up. And such a funny look on his face! It was the first time Peter had been up in the Old Orchard since the Wanderers had arrived. “Did you hear that, Peter Rabbit?” cried Tommy Tit. Peter nodded. “Yes, but I don’t be- lieve it,” replied Peter, most impolitely. ‘Wanderer chuckled. He wasn’t in the least bit offended. “People who do not travel have a great deal to learn,” said he. “You could go for days and days and days straight over beyond the Pur- ple Hills and never be any nearer to where jolly, round, red Mr. Sun goes to bed each night. You should travel. There is nothing like travel as a means of gaining knowledge.” Peter once more nodded. Then he sighed. “That's what I've heard,” said he, “from some of the feathered folk who go away down South to spend the Winter., But you are the first people I have ever met who have come from beyond the Purple Hills, excepting Old Man_Coyote.” “Oh,” exclaimed Wanderer, “does Old Man Coyote live here?” “Yes,” replied Peter, “he lives in the Old Pasture. But he doesn’t really be- long here. Do you know Old Man Coyote?” “I know a lot of his relatives,” re- plied Wanderer. (Copyright, 1929.) Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Back-Seat Driving. ‘The only fellow who is entirely free from the anxieties incident to automo- bile driving is the one who has not yet learned to drive a car. Back-seat drivers are always those who have had some experience at the wheel. Teach some one to drive a car and you have | created a new back-seat driver. ‘There are two psychological reasons for all this back-seat driving, and for all the complaints about it on the part of the fellow doing the driving. Start with the individual who has not learned to drive. He knows noth- ing about the dangers likely to be con- fronted at any moment. Traffic seems to him just to take care of itself. He doesn’'t know that traffic jams and col- lisions are usually the culmination of a series of traffic situations over which the driver may have no control. He doesn’t know what & moving automo- bile feels like—that is, he doesn’t know from experience what inertia is, what momentum means. To a driver one or more tons of moving machinery has & meaning all its own. And that mean- ing changes from what it is to some- thing else the moment you increase or decrease the speed of the car. And then there is the matter of road to- pography, which has no significance ‘whatever to the inexperienced driver. ‘When all these meanings become in- corporated in the nervous system of an experienced driver he tends to drive even when he is in the back seat as a passenger. His whole system of habits is put into play the moment the car begins to move. He is continually thinking about how he would do it. From the habit point of view he is at the wheel. The fellow at the wheel has every reason to complain when some one begins to offer suggestions. When driv- ing he feels powerful, whether or not he will admit it, whether or not he| even consciously thinks about it. For the time being his ego is enhanced. So when some one in the back seat gives expression to his habits in terms | of advice or caution the man at the| wheel suffers from a deflatlon of his | feeling of superiority. His complaint | is well founded, natural. (Copyright, 1929.) AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN. Abe Martin Says: “Oh, she’s rather purty when she gits through with herself, but I wouldn’ want her when she's off the job,” sald Artie Lark, speakin’ o' Miss Tawney pple. I kin allus tell a feller who has mar- ried a good manager by the way he g‘l‘;‘l‘hwl‘s up when I speak kindly to (Copsright, 1929.) L_Re;'ected Wisdom. S il e T “If we could live our lives again,” re- flect a lot of ancient men, “we would avoid the gin and snare and all the pitfalls of despair. Experience has taught us much; with wisdom we're at last in touch; we see the path young men should tread if they would safely forge ahead the winding way that le: r eager feet astray, and we would shun sin’s noisome fen, it we could live our lives again. But since we can’t we may expound the truth to all the young men ’round, and warn them of the deadly traps that lie in wait for youthful chaps, who would lascend life’s mountainside with no ex- perience to guide.” And so we old boys talk a lot, and hand out wisdom smok- ing hot; we talk an hour before each meal, and through the evening hours we spiel, we talk indoors and out of doors, until we threaten to be hores, and if the young would only list there'd be less grief on earth, I wist. But we can see the young men yawn as prosily we ramble on; theyll go ahead and bark their shins against the pitfalls and the gins; they'll go ahead and unawares they'll mix things with the traps and snares; for it's the privilege of youth to find if old men tell the truth. Per- haps the wisdom we impart inspires the young and ardent heart to strange ad- ventures, and to scorn the pitfalls dire of which we warn. But they'll be old boys in their turn, and in their dotage they will yearn to tell the young how they may dodge the tempter’s lure, the siren’s lodge. ‘WALT MASON. (Copyright, 1920.) “Cheerio” to Have Successor. 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