Evening Star Newspaper, June 17, 1929, Page 25

D. C..' MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1929, W BEDTIME STORIE Jenny Finds a Queer Insect. ay brings something new; o me, perhaps to you. Jeniy Wrenn. Hungry babies require a great deal of food and this is especially true of hungry bird bables. You see, bird babies have to grow very fast. They sometimes eat more than their own BY THORNTON W. BURGESS long legs and there were 15 pairs of them! Jenny hadn't the slightest idea who this cueer fellow was, or what family he belonged to. Actually, he was a Centipede, one known as the House | Centipede, because he is often found | in houses. But Jenny's only interest in | him was as & supply of food for hungry | bables. So she darted at him just as | he was disappearing in a crack Sey CLARICE son comes smiling round the earth d hands vs exch * day P W ) The Way Al Sees It. '/AND Did ‘roy 35;\ WHERE A LOT QF HIs WOMEN VICTIMS ARE GOWeE To TESTIFY (A HIs FAVOR AT T /| TRIAL 7 PAPERS THETVE GeT BowzZo THE Bi& SWINDLER: ‘ YES, Ceevem, T JUST HEARD oWCR| AT THE LIoN TAMERS® CLUB THAT NF_EDLESS To AND ALOYSILS RETURNED TO MY HUSBAND'S 1 CANT UNDERSTAAND WHY THEY SHOULD WAL To_HELP Him AFTER HE SWINDLED “THEM ! YES ALOYSIUS MUCH HAS HAPPENED INCE T \AST i SAW You. AFTER MARRYING Ivew PEFOVITOH In CHICAGO, HE SOON TOOK ME TO MOSCOW RUSSIA AS| You KNOW. WE WERE MISERABLY POOR, AND LVAN WAS NOT A GOOD BUSINESS MAN, BUT Luck CAME WITH THE REVOLLUTION, AMD \WHEN T \WAY | OVER, NAST SALT MINET WHICH HAD BEEN CONFIS YEARS AGO UNDER THE ROYAL REGINE, WERE OH, THATS BECAUSE ‘OU DONT UNDERSTAND US wWomen- F Yo WANT Us To BE CRAZY ABOUT You MEN TOU” GoT Tp TREAT US ROUGH , ¢ b/ BUT POOR IVAM BID NOT ENJoy OUR Suppen || THINK OF IT! RISE TO WEALTH FOR LONG. TWO YEARS LATER HE DIED AND I WHERITED THE MINET AND HIS OTHER INTERESTS! N RUSSIA 1 AM KNOWN AT THE SALT Quea (|l oF RUSIIA! BUT WK IT ALL HAS COME GREAT TRAUBLE! I HAVE MUCH T WORRY ABCUT — BuT WE WILL SPEAK OF THAT IATER - YOUR ‘AUNT ODDIE 18 THE To-DAy LITTLE SWINDLER " RIGHT AWAY He WANTS TO REDUCE MY SALARY To MAKE ME /= LB I, ¢ YEP'1T's A CINCH WE WON'T HAVE To Buy Any MORE SALT FRoM now o' JEFF, GUS AND T'D LKke ™ see THe You Bozos ARG FOOLL THAT'S A SCRIOUS OFEENSEL GENTLGE READER , Don'T ! T0 LATG.: T SENT IT T LINDY FOR A WEDDING Q,T-' WHEN MRS, CLUTTS RETURAS IN THE AUTUMN AND LGARNS THAT You GAvE AWAY HER 57000 BIRD, SHe'LL HAVE You SENT T JAIL! WELL, WHAT'S DONE welghts in food in Much to Jenny’s disgust, she was just | means that while they are tiny and |g trifie too late, All she got was one ! helpless, mother and father must Work | of the Centipede's legs—one of those | very hard to get food enough for them. | jong’ legs. | Did you eve WORRY ABouT McE: |, THAT BIRD wilL Come BACK: TS A | HOMING PIGEON . s 1 i THE WEALTHY MRS, CLUTTS LEFT A UGRY VALUABLE BIRD IN JEFE'S CARE JUST BeFoRE SHe SAILED FOR €UROPE. WE'LL DRoP IN FOR A Me AT T s i) S RS < VALWABLE BIRD MRS. i ! CLUTTS LEFT IN course, a leg was of no| You! 4 to think how Simple | yse to her, so she dropped it. She | R_CARE. ctting food is for us|,eered into the crack where the Centi- | v out and buy it.| pede had disappeared. She hoped she | e to go for it. But|mignt be able to get her bill in there | y different with the bird people | ang pull him out. But the Centipede | and the animal people. They not only | had disappeared and Jenny knew that | Dhave got to go get it and bring it home | it was g waste of time for her to wait | to their babies, but they have got 10 |around for him to come out again. | hunt for it before they can get it. Now, | " “T'll brobably have @ chance to catch | jn Jenny Wren's nest in the clothes- | pim some other day. she said, “T1| pin bag hanging in the shed back of | just keep an eye on this crack over By BUD FisHER Farmer Brown's house where six hungry mouths. So there were three aplece for Jenny and Mr. Wren. It is well that the Wrens have sharp eyes. If they didnt have, T am afraid 1t would be impossible for them to find food enough to feed the big families they raise every year. Jenny Wren long ago learned that bugs and worms and insects are found in all sorts of places, 50 she looks in all sorts of places. This is how it happened that she was search- ing inskde the shed where her nest was. She had discovered that there were spiders in there, and spiders are very good eating for those who like them. Bo every day she made a thorough search of the woodshed, hopping about oter the neatly piled stovewood, peer- ! 4ng and poking into every corner and erevice. So it was that one morning she hap- poned to discover a queer insect. At ast, he was queer o Jenny. His body was made up of many little parts joined together called segments. He had {here. Ill get more than a leg next time or my name isn't Jenny Wren! | Hello, what’s that? It sounds to me as | if there is an insect of some sort chirp- | ing around here.” She cocked her head on one side to | listen. She could hear a faint squeak, | like the sound of some small insect. | There was no question about it. Her bright_eyes ran over everything about her. | living thing was to be seen anywhere, | not even a little red ant. Nothing moved excepting that leg from the Centipede. That lay just where she had | thrown it, and it kept twitching. Jenny had seen too many legs twitch to be in- | terested by that. All she was interested |in was getting something quickly to | feed those hungry bables over in the | nest. But though she quickly hunted all around, she couldn't find that chirp- ing insect. (Copyright, 1929.) ACROSS. | Flower. God of love, Quote from. County in Ireland. Theater box. Dedlare openly. Dialect of the Greek Janguage. i Place of public traffic. ll Weather indicator, Placed anew, Advance fee. Ends. Cloth measure. Poison by fumes. Organ of hearing. Soak. Away from. ‘Adds a second lining. Street, urchin, Small bottle. Beak. Auction. Feminine name, Dance step. Juttipg rock. River in France, | Permit. River in Siberis, | Poisonous gaseous element. . Prepared for publication. | Prevaricator, Raise. Poetic name for Edinburgh. | Greedy, Relieve, Hires. Writes. Pace. . Satisfies. ANSWERS TO CROSSWORD PUZZLES “IN SUNDAY MAGAZINE. . 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By GENE DYRNES The Duplicate. YUH KNOW, MESCAL, APPLES 15 FUNNY THINGS . LOOKIT ALL TH' RUCKUS THEY KICKED UP IN TH' By S.LHUNTLEY Another One on the Pedestrians. [=[ofz]» (|1 |~ ric) QERE QEER [w[o]w) WINDY RILEY RETURNED HOME GOING TO BE MHDE A SUCKER COLLECT THE MONEY 1 LOANED HIM OF COURSE 1 HAD NO WAY OF KNOWING TuAT THE NEWSPAPER STORY ABOUT WIS FEBULOUS o WEALTH WRAS THE_BUNIK Yo' BEND SHARPLY AT THE WAIST | DRAW YouR | AND HEAPD -ToWARD J YouR KNEES- ¥ PRETTY GOOD. WHY THAS PERFECT! ACCOUNIT OF A APPLE THET IKE IR 1 MET HIM STRANDED IN DETROIT WITH NOTHING IN HIS POCKETS BUT HOLES ! 1 FED HIM - CAVE HiM RAILROARD FARE HOME AND THEN YOU (AN IMACINE MY FEELINGS WHEN 1 PICKED UP A SCRAMSBURG PAPER AND READ HEADULINES HBOUT THE Ble .F‘&STUNE WITH ! OF 'S0 (AME HERE To 1 WASN" \ it =22 EXPOSED ! WINDY'S BLUFF WOULD HANE GONE OVER wWiTH THE e I e T - VIR HOME TOWNERS WERE (T NOT FoR The FACT THAT ONE OF HIS OUT OF TowN CREDITORS HAPPENED To READ A S(RAMSBURE NEWSPAPER 1 SEE. Now LET ME TRY 1T — TH' LAW OF GRAVITY THET FOLKS STAY ON TH EARTH . "WHY TS ‘CAUSE OF WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA,DOC T - WHEN WAL, WHAT WOULDUA SAY [KEPT 'EM HERE 'FORE. TH' DURN LAW WAS HE'S TEACHING ME To BEND THE CRAB SO’ HAVE. To DROP A BALL /N