Evening Star Newspaper, December 29, 1930, Page 25

MODEST MAIDENS THE EVENING Dreadful Thing. The wilitul and the careless pay, Sometimes in quite a dreadful way —old Mother Nature. | Living in the hole in the bank of the | Smiling Pool might be safer, butcer- | tainly it was not nearly so comforfable as living in the big house out in the Smiling Pool. When Jerry Muskrat an Mrs. Jerry and Stumpy and his sista were all in_ there that bed room was crowded. Even so small a_ person as Danny Meadow Mouse couldn't have, squeezed in. “It wasn't made for four, Jerrv. “It ‘was intended onl, mother and myself. However, we can make it do as long as Little Joe Otter is around. When we are sure that he | has left these parts we will move back | to the big house. explained for your BEDTIME STORIE This reminds me to|¥ STAR, WASHINGTON, D. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS eat, never for one single little minute forget to watch out for Little Joe Otter. If you suspect he is about you make straight for this house here in the bank. Here and here only will you be abso- lutely safe.” “Yes, sir,” said Stumpy, but his sister | made no reply. She was headstrong and willful, and she didn't like this crowded home at all. “It 1s nonsense,” she declared to| Stumpy. “That is what it is—all non- | That Otter may never come this and if he does he won't catch me. | I'm not afraid of him. There is that| big. comfortable house standing empty all because father and mother are nerv- | ous. I guess they are getting old and foolish. _What's the good of living if you can't live in comfort and do what experience. You know once he had been headstrong and willful and had thought he knew it all. As a result he had been caught in a trap and now had but three legs. One had been left in that dread- ful trap. His sister made no reply. She merely turned up her nose and swam away. Days passed with no sign of Little Joe Otter under the ice that covered the Smiling Pool. Jerry Muskrat and Mrs. Jerry and Stumpy continued to be cau- tious and watchful, but Stumpy’s willful | young sister scornfully refused to heed Jerry’s warnings and went and came as she pleased. She spent more and more | time sleeping in the big house that they had left when it became known that Little Joe Otter was in the neighbor- | hood and which Jerry and Mrs. Jerry didn't consider safe. Secretly she made | fun of her father and mother and Stumpy for being so timid, and over and over agaln she declared to Stumpy that it was all foolishness. Then came a morning when Stumpy and his sister went out for breakfast | ou_want to?” before thelr parents were awake. As| C., MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1930. SHE MERELY TURNED UP HER NOSE AND SWAM AWAY, of air beneath the ice, and there he re- mained while he tried to make ‘sure ight out into the middle of the| ling Pool on her way to the other | side, where grew the roots she liked | best. In the dim light Stumpy clulht{ a glimpse of a dark form shooting through the water from the direction of the Laughing Brook. Stumpy hadn't supposed that any one could swim so fast. He had a glimpse of his sister suddenly beginning to swim frantically for the entrance to their big house. The big, dark stranger shot down after her ‘There was a churning and boiling of the water down there, and then the stranger disappeared and with him disappeared Stumpy’s willful young sister. It all happened so quickly that Stumpy could hardly be sure that he | had seen it. He dived for the entrance to the hole in the bank and thankfully crept into the crowded little bed room ad the efid. He knew that he had seen Little Joe Otter. He wondered if h: ever would see his sister again, He never did. | (Copyright. 1930.) L | According to the census of 1930, New | “Nobody minds Amy tellin’ all she ot young folks. When you are| "It is better to be safe than sorry,” |usual, Stumpy first went up under the | that all was safe. Not s0 his willful | Jersey ranks second among the States |knows. The trouble is she teils all she €10 T A B A0 R et 10 WAS WONDERING ABOUT HIS INCOME.” N'T WORRY ABOUT A LITTLE THING LIKE THAT.” AND MOVIE PEOPLE BY MOLLIE MERRICK. December 29 Cook had a huge success in it on the Hollywood will start off its | stage, and this year it was made into a h a splendid record on the | picture. old Doc Stork is| In each case the play has been a ofessional colony. | complete surprise. | are expecting by daffodil time. They his guests are all merrily set about the have just permanently established the | bridge tables or trying a bit of poker. little adopted beauty about three weeks| Russell Gleason and his mother gave ago, when final papers were signed.|James in return a portable house, his makes for a chold of three which will be made into a garden study. kiddies whers last year there was but | Jimmie Gleason’s hobby outside of play- E | writing is carpentering. So he's in his George Fitzmaurices will | clement fitting the odd bits together. new visitor also. Mrs. Fitz-| Rud Russell Gleason found a tennis Kianan Kane, sister of | court and a badminton court in his sock and their home is a center | after Santa Claus had dropped down of muc tertaining in the rellulold‘thu Beverly Hills chimney. group. When the heir to the Bernie Pine-| Irene Rich’s mother worried so much mans arrives William De Mille will be | about the weight she lost last year that its grandfather, because Mrs. Fineman |she presented her with some shiny new | is Margaret De Mille, and Cecil De |bath scales, with the admonition that Mille will be a granduncle is very thrilling and domestic in a pro- | certain figure. 2 fessional life which is said to have no| Now mother’s out of it. You can't interest whatsoever outside of the grind- | get too thin to please a movie producer. ing of cameras and choosing of casts. |So Irene Rich will use those new scales H T to her advantage, and every one will be Christmas was the quietest ever heard | of hereabouts, but one hears tales of | TPY: et things S Claus brought which are| Young Billy Janney has so many & bit out of the ordinary. | sweaters that you never seem to see him On Christmas morning Buster Keaton | twice in the same garment. Yet six drove up to Lew Cody's-door in_his|elaborate ones in his Christmas collec- midget car. A huge package, which | tion of packages will make 1931 all the entirely filled the tonneau (and bulged |more confusing. in all directions as well), bore & sign: | This being Hollywood, some of his| mas, Lew. Do not open |chums will now begin the borrowing| 2 Another gift received |racket. It's one way to thin out a con-| 3 was a 20-pound box of choco- | gested wardrobe. & Jates, and the fellow who brought them | (Copyright, 1930. :»y AN‘lla‘l:rr:uA‘rr,!m'_ln News- had as much of a sweet tooth as Lew, | it €0 he stayed and helped wreck the top | layer. He was Bill Boyd, by the way— | Dorothy Sebastian's new bridegroom. Lucile Gleason received what is most valuable gift made Origin of Names Revealed. The origin of the names Canterbury, Kent and similar names was explained this Christmas, It is a brand-new play, | by Dr. I. Dragases, the expert in eth- written for her by her husband, and [nography, in a recent lecture in called “The Strong Woman.” ~One|Athens. Greece. They were started by Christmes Bucile Gleason found 10| the pelasgic tribes, hie said, which in- shares of “Is Zat So?" in her stocking— | habited the Byzantine district in pre- and if that didn’t turn out to be a gift! | historic days, and from whom the! Four y ‘ago Lucile Gleason found | legend of the centauss is derived. They Shannons of Breadway” in her | migrated to every corner of Europe. Tt ran for a year in New | Their horsemen were known as Ken- another year on the road, and |tavri, and this word survived in such! then was sold for a picture. Two years | places as Cantabria in Spain, Kentbry ago the musical comedy “Rain or.Shine” | in Denmark, and both Canterbury and was the Christmas contribution. Joe|Kent in Britain. At that time Bulgarian coin. Technical suffix. Beaches. 5. To brave. More spiraled Across. . Game fowls. . Women's mantles, . Rested. . Cup handles. Oral Metal n favor. Sacred Hindu literature, . Coarse. 25. Broken English. Mend . Goddess of discontent. . Follow. 2. Gumbo soup; var. . Lairs. . Clumsil . Theatrical light. . Lampreys. . Eagle's nest, Small areas. 2. Wanderings . Account books. . Unwavering. Down. . A constituent of fats. . Mighty hunters. . Urchins. . Place. Football team. . Took parts. Border of a sidewalk. Space. ‘The head. . Room in a harem. Quality of fiber. £ Substance found in the skin. . Glool Ru: n plain, Knavery. A mental survey. 4. Changes the color. Protects. Goss astray. A little mass. An American geologist. New Zealand parrot. B@;\!‘fl‘;wry interest of one holding , land. RDAY'S PUZZLE | 53 Indifferent to pain. Infliction of pain. . Changed. Akin, . Indolently. . Personal traveling kits, Haveé recourse to. . Red deer. . Heap. . Shakespearean king. . War god. . Hindu deity. Piece of lumber. . So (Scot.). re e Jimmie Gleason has | There's the baby the Harold Lloyds | a way of slipping up to his study when | All of which | she watch carefully not to go under a | Cluster of ribbons resembling a rese. | out for e s o get something to | replied Stumpy out of the wisdom of | edge of the bank where there was plenty headstrong s'ster. She boldly swam | in density of population. | suspects.” umbrel i That traveled all around with me. It's been in Paris and in Rome — It seems too it cannot see. » Pop YOUR UNCLE EDDIE HAD AN AWFOL NERVE BOUNCING INON US THIS WAY ! HOW LONG ARE HE AND LITTLE BAMBING GOING To STAY? olP G By MOMAND Providence. COUNTRY T SPEND A GREAT IDEA. A MooSE oF LEAD BURY (T AT SGA! 24 | Buo Fisuss Sophie’s Husband Married Her for Her Money. A MILE SPIN. 1L SIGNAL KENKLING Who Said Business Before Pleasure? { By | GENE BYRNES A Bit Thrifty. C'MON, SANDN - SPIKE MARLN B B TieRE BT TWE A DOWN PIER- LOOKS L\KE HE'S TK \F T EVER _S€e€ ‘WL FILL AT So FuLL €Y WILL HAVE TO I WANT To TEST OUR MECHRNICAL HORSE'S SPEED, SO TAKE HIM FoR HIM RAROUND THAT TREE WHILE T T:ME HIM — AN _TO < kNTR\v- GEE! DONT BLAME || YES, UNCLE, ME,JOLIE! HOW DID I KNOW HE WAS A WIDOWER WITH A KID? ILL TALK IT OVER WITH HiM; HES OUT IN TH' KITCHEN PRESSING HLS AND LITTLE" Y\ HEWLD, CaP'N - - WHEAT'S GovW' ON HERE? ARE Mou M QW D YO Nou -, oMme NEW YEAR'S WAS oty ~— A LITTLE JUST RUN WHEN You've COVERED R MILE! WEVE GOTTA SET A NEW DOG LICENSE! [ No,No,No! T CAN'T vot: I CAN'T GLAD TO SEE You BUT THINGS ARE VERY BAD WITH US — IM OUT OF A JoB AND - WE'RE HA-HAT SO YOU'RE ouT OF A Jop, EH? wWeLL- BINO, BE LIKE ME. WHEN THINGS GO WRONG 1 SAY TO MYSELF, EpDIE BOWERS, FEAR NOT, KIND PROVIDENCE WILL PROVIDE — AND IT ALWAYS DOES! INEVER WORRY — T LEAVE EVERY THING To PROVIDENCE, 'YEH? WELL, PROVIDENCE AND THAT THERE IRON HAVE JUST BURNT A HOLE IN THE ONLY PAIR OF PANTS YOU HAVE, UNCLE EDDIE!! SEA ROVER, ANNIE - \T'S IN MM BLOOD - WE'LL BT HAING HEANN FROM NOW TiLL SPRING - SO, SENS |, WHN NOY WERTHER TO WARM € - BND CLERR SKIES - [ MOTT, DID You SEE ANY 5 MOOSE TeDAY? THE RICH BUGS ARE PULLING OUT WITH THE\R BIG MACHTS - 'Mm BETTER OFF THAN ANY OF ‘Em- BME - THIT \ AM- 1 AND WHEN SUMMER. £ COMES BACK \'L\. SAIL 1T LOOKED TBO MUCH LIKE MY WIFE'S AUNT FASTER, KID= CNE HIM Tue GAsS! KEEP A DOG CAUSE WE DON'T NEED ONE! ER-=- UM-- Goop MORNING - - THEY COME IN HANDY IN CASE OF B80IGLARS' NEAH, IMAGINE SEEIN' ONE OF TH DADGUMMED THINGS THIS TIME OF o WE THINK WE HEAR BOIGLARS WE BARK OURSELVES ! o Aw Heek! He WONT KNOW WHICH ONE OF U HIT HIM