Evening Star Newspaper, October 5, 1929, Page 23

FRoM 1O DAY ON THESE FRENTHMEN ARE GOW' 1O HAVE A LOT OF ComPeTITioN, A4 THS Ly o I WARRRY > T HOP T3 Bus' To THE Rue Royale! DAMGONIT! \T'S E HE CHEERFUL CHERUB love the gentle distant shy. t's friendly though its so high vp. k some water from 2 well — |The sky smiled at me rom the cup. Gee’ THAT _ Funny - ESvERyBODYS l Something Ought to Be Done About This HERE 1 PARIT ARE AL i PERFUMED UP? THEy KNOW Woren My Boy | THE SUREST WAy TO A WOMAN'S HEART 13 THROUGH. A& DELICATE * HE CouLD HAVE N-AND OAE WITH A ONE WITH A LARGE [| TEENY-WEEAY LITTLE HEAD SIZE FoR HEAD SIZE To WEAR IMORMILGS HOME AFTER I'VE =4 CORRECTED HI§ “THe's A PIECE IN “THE PAPER TObAr ABOUT FAsHIONS 14 MEAS HATS IN STrLE WHO AIAT GoT AT BEDTIME STORIE Thalessa Tells Whole Story. Yore humble folk than you're aware your well being have a share. —Old Mother Nature. ‘Thalessa, the curious insect whose ac- quaintance Peter Rabbit had just made, was very obliging. She didnt mind Peter's curiosity at all. When Peter asked her to tell him the whole story of the life of one of her children, she settled herself comfortably, for she was rather tired from the drilling she had been doing. “You see, it is this way, Peter Rah- X \ . “THAT'S MY BUSINESS,” SAID SHE, “TO PROTECT TREES.” bit,” she began. people in the world who do a great deal of harm. There are others who do a great deal of good. I flatter myself that the members of my family are in the Iatter class. Now, ‘take the Horntail, for instance. What does Mrs. Horntail do? She drills a hole in a tree and in it lays an egg. The egg hatches. The baby begins to eat wood. It gnaws and grows, and grows and gnaws. It gets to be quite a godd size and in doing =0 it makes a tunnel in the tree. When it has reached its full growth it changes into an insect like its mother—a Horn- tail. Then it gnaws its way out and flies away, b . “There are a lot of BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. “Now, if there are a lot of these Horntall children in a tree, it means a lot of trouble. That means that that tree is weakened. It also means that molsture gets in and decay follows. What I am trying to make you under- stand, Peter Raubit, is that these borers are really tree destroyers and that there is nothing that the tree can do about it. + “Now, this is where I come in. I hunt until T find one of these Horntail tunnels. Then I bore down into it with my little drill. When I have reached it I leave an egg in it. The egg hatches. My baby promptly goes crawling along that tunnel until he finds the maker of the tunnel. My baby attacks the borer and lives on it. Of course, it kills the borer. “Then, when my baby has attained full size, it makes a cocoon inside that tunnel, just as some cater- pillars that you know make a cocoon. Inside that cocoon my baby changes and by and by becomes just like me. Then it gnaws its way out of that tun- nel and flles away to keep on with the good work I am doing. That is the whole stdry. Is it clear to you nmow?” Peter nodded. “Yes,” said he, “it is clear enough now. But it isn’t any less wonderful than it was before I fully understood it. You really are a sort of tree protector, aren’t you?” ‘Thalessa nodded. “That's my busi- ness.” sald she, “to protect trees. I don't know what would happen were it not for my family. It's a big family with a long name. They call us Ich- neumon Flies.” “I like Thalessa better,” said Peter. “Some of the family are very tiny. I am the biggest of the family,” said Thalessa. - “Do the tiny ones bore into trees, too?” inquired Peter. “No, indeed!” explained Thalessa. “But they all do a lot of good in the world. Some of them place their eggs under the skins of caterpiliars and the same thing happens. It is the end of the caterpillar. But I can't tell you any more now. I must find out if there is another Horntall borer someéwhere in this tree. It is too fine & tree to have ruined by borers.” v “That's right,” sald Peter. “That's right. If you don't mind, Tl watch you." “I don't mind,” said Thalessa. (Copyright. 1820.0-" ~ = Daily Cross-Word Puzzle 1 Peral. 5 Hibernian. 10 Light crimson, . 14 City in Pennsylvania, 15 Italian poet. 16 5 17 g“l‘\l of trifiing value. 18 Record. 26 Trim. 27 Marks for bad behavior. 31 Ploats. 35 Roman fur sock. 36 Vapor, 38 Style of architecture. 39 Russian local communities. 3 couna in New York. \ Reputation. 44 Pragrant wood of the agalloch. 51 Deeply 53 Son of Seth. 56 Emiporigged war vessels 60 Nmf-luhometln Turks. 64 Tibetan priest. 73 Umbrageous, -~ ol us. 73 Food for hogs. 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