Evening Star Newspaper, December 21, 1932, Page 30

MAGAZINE PAGE. By Thornton W. Burgess. BEDTIME STORIE Little Joe and his family were hav- ing fun and a lot of it. There was| no doubt about that. At first the slide they had made down the steepest part | of the bank had not been slippery | / l \HERE are many people who AgIce | enough for good sliding, For one thing. | Disgust of Jerry Muskrat. Who spend their time in foolish pla; WHP o7 Shelr time.1n Lokl v __—Jerry Muskrat With Jerry Muskrat on this mat- | there had been too much grass. But ter and “never do learn hOW | now the grass had been largely worn | much of the joy of living they | ayay down to the clay, of which that | have missed. When Little Joe| pank was largely composed. It had | Otter and his family arrived at the|peen worn away by constant sliding. | Smiling Pool they brought no joy 1| Now clay is slippery when wet and Jerry Muskrat. In other words. they the water from their coats as one after | were not welcome. It was late and|the other of those Otters climbed out of Jerry was busy getting ready for the tne Smiling Pool hurried to the top m;;‘e;“ e didnt want, to be inter-|of the slide and Sid don again, had D Furthermore, he likes quiet and | ney ouat €12y until now it was a “Whee!” cried Little Joe Otter as| splen- | NATURE’S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. MOURNING CLOAK Vanessa Antiopa. the sap of a maple tree, and if the sap is flowing_ freely, with several warm days in succession, u will be agrecably surprised to see many of these truly Winter butterflies on what appears to be a grand spree. The mourning cloak is a gay mas- querader, and when alighting upon the bark of a tree or leaves, she mimics the surroundings and escapes notice. VEN with snow on the ground, this butterfly will be feasting on THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., \\'EDNI.‘ISDAY. DECEMBER 21, 1932, | SCREEN ODDITIES BY CAPT. ROSCOE FAWCETT. cratic leadership nearly everybody is watching him and speculating. He is James Francis Byrnes of South Carolina, the short, slender | very earnest man | who sits in the seat | formerly occupied A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK BY HERBERT PLUMMER. UIETLY and without show, in' the short space of a year, a newcomer to the Senaje has forged ahead to such a place of prominence among the Demo- “‘on the Hill” nd | for larger place in the Democratic scheme of things “on the Hill” in the future remains to be seen. Some are inclined to believe that Robinson may rely on Byrnes heavily from now on: that, while he will re- main titular head of the party in the Senate, much of the actual work will be shifted to the South Carolinian. The Republicans have an_arrange- ment_like that now. Jim Watson is the floor leader, but Charles McNary of Oregon is the man to whom many turn for the “lowdown” on what is going on. Watson leaves the greater part of the detail of procedure to the Oregonian. RESIDENT HOOVER'’S desire to re- ward Walter Newton, a member of | his secretariat. with a Federal judgeship | is another example of how this position | has be:n a stepping stone in the careers of many who have held it | Newton, however, | doesn’t stand much that | WOMEN’S FEATURES., McKinley’s administration _Cortelyou was a stenographer at the Post Office Department. He was brought into the White House to do stenographic work. | ‘Theodore Roosevelt made him his | secretary when he became President. } In 1902 he was made Secretary of Commerce and Labor. From 1905 to ‘ 1907 he served as Postmaster General. And from 1907 to 1909 he was Secre- | tary of the Treasury. - . | Lady Baltimore Cake. | Make a rich white cake. Bake in | three layers. Put between each layer | the following filling: Boli three cup- | fuls of sugar with one cupful of water until it threads. Beat the whites of three eggs and pour over them the cooked sirup. Beat until almost ready to use, then add one cupful of chopped nuts, one cupful of chopped raisins and two or three tablespoonfuls of chopped | by the colorful and with his hind legs straight out behind | she will alight on a pile of rubbish, | chance of getting |him and his arms back at his sides!clgse her wings above the back, and picturesque “Coley” | crystallized cherri | )t 2 S 2l r TYS! herries a B }he shot down flat on his stomach plop | the under surface of the wings is so A Blease. \g:nclr?e Pl;:x::clm.z: > Fltmh g8 il nd k?,,"e'”l" into the water. | mottled and colored that you will have WON THE LEAD IN “TWENTY ‘While Byrnes is e Banete haee | ling a se quickly. Frost | ~“Whee!” cried Mrs. Otter as she fol- | 3 hard time finding her. ~She remains THOUSAND YEARS IN SING SING et il 2 thes , | the cake with pink icing, both top and lowed. her nose almost at the tip of motionless when she alights, and at BECAUSE WARDEN LEWIS €. LAWES Senate, he is not 3’3’&?&‘"?&..5. m’;{’ v, sides. AUTHOR, THOUGHT HIM TME new in Congress, for he had served ¢4 | his_tail. this time you can pick her up and she “Whee!" cried a young Otter, shoot- | will not make any effort to get away. ! | Armation of all “NO, THANKS REPLIED JERRY. “I'VE SOMETHING ELSE TO DO.” ce and he knew that there would little of either with that lively fam- ily about “I don't see what they had to come jus: now for.” he grumbled to Mrs. Muskrat. “One would have been bad encugh. but here are four! They'll just upset everything. Alreacy they've scared all the fish out of the Smiling Pool. ing down behind his mother. | |1 | “Whee!" cried the other young Otter, | and has become paralyzed with fear, 1 plopping into the water right after her| ™ The mourning pflm{“ which survive m’u’“}’m“&g VEAR. ‘b('éctll]!mtge }g"fi;s' g"ld “}"1‘; !r:“' the Winter look for the early buds of - resteore aallalss ooy Teglatative: ot Seo e after BY DICK MANSPIELD | brother. “Come on and try the slippery slide. | called Little Jo= as he Jerry Muskrat!” good-naturedly. “Time spent in good. t is believed she has been frightened or_elm to open the willow, poplar, {3 lace They place their eggs like & no habits, jand when the food about them ESTABLISHED A THE MOST mA:ecrr.n\snc ACTOR FOR | 14 years as a mem- | befcre he began his Senate duties in December, 1931. A place was found for Last session during the battle in Con- ‘Hoover's appoint- | ments, leaving the Some of the sec- retaries to Presi- WHO REMEMBERS? Rezistered U. S. Patent Office | svam back to climb the bank again. |gpout the twig, and two weeks later, s | 3 | > thanks,” replied Jerry. “I've! o b s b many| him immediately on the Appropriations 'dents, however, AT mT elaaito dg Tve no time to| 8olden brown “W‘”_’m“"s'd “";‘, livin | Cemmittee, because he had served on have had their Qv;:mcl 1ngpl ) ":2",‘;’;:;“;’,,’1“{,,‘31‘;‘,‘:‘ ;‘,.(::ms':n:i,r thE that committee as a member of the careers dated from \ HOPE “Neither have L replied Liftle Joe.|jat Tney ‘are. businesslike in their i""“m }l{k;(;)seume they served at the White v%%"‘l’%%\?(s | healthful play when there is nothing | | more important to do is never wasted. Who plays a little every day will get more work done than he who works all the time and never plays.” | Up the bank he scrambled and after | him scrambled Mrs. Otter and the two children. Then down the slide they shot again, one after another. Plop, Plop.. plop. plop they hit the water, disappeared for a moment and then | papped their heads out. their eye ing with excitement and pleasu “It is great fun,” called Mrs. to M ou really Otter ought shin- s is confumed, they move on. As they move from place to place they have the habit of leaving a silken thread trailing behind them. After a while the threads are so many that the young crawlers have fine elastic suspension bridges over which they travel. When fully matured, the caterpillar will be two and one half inches long, with a black body frosted with white, and with a dorsal row of eight red pots and red prolegs. Besides all this decorative attire, they have spines which are branched. They have few cnemies, as spines are a wonderful pro- HIS RANCH. EDMUND LOWE WAS THIRTY DOGS ON. LT T ‘During s . Tracy, a chum Dramatic Art. Johnson. “Is Zat So.” Classmates were William Povwell, After the war he sang in “Adrienne, He was th» managing editor in the stage versicn of “The Front (Copright, 192, by The Bel Bymtios. e} aily youu of his boyhood, O'Brien left Marquette Academy, Milwaukee where he was a student, to join Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show served for awhile in the Navy and then he went to New York with Spencer | and entered the American Aacdemy Monroe Owslev and appeared in the and ~Kay leason’s grees over salary cuts for Federal em- ployes, Byrnes was out in front carry- ing the brunt of the fight for the Demo- | crats. He impressed the Senate, particu- larly the members of his own party. They came to see him es an expert in effecting compromises on legislation ring factions into line. When the short session began po- litical observers began to notice that Byrnes was always eround when im- portant conferences on policy and pro- cedure were being discussed by the Democrats. ‘They noticed that when he of and recognized his ability to bring war-‘ | _For example, there’s the case of | Everett Sanders, secretary to Calvin | Coolidge. While he had been a member | of Congress before going with Coolidge, | the contacts that he made at the White House had much to do with his being chosen chairman of the Republican | National Committee. Outstanding leaders of the country !in the past got their starts in this manner. John Hay was one. He served as as- sistant private secretary to President Lincoln from 1861 to 1863. Then fol- lowed a long and brilliant career in the They seem to think of nothing but] tection to the helpless. Page” but the film prod ’ i g L ucers t! ht he was Hildy Johnson, the reporter, and Y having 8 good time. ; It is all right for “Fun! again in a dis-| When ready to weave a cocoon the | qoBe, Db tae S Broctc Ut sEE Y L Joe Robinson, the Democratic leader, GIRIOMALC service. @ @@ ac children to play, but grown-ups should gusted tor 1 hope I have & caterpillar begins to fast. Making a ita La Ror wos ant 44 when she ran away from a Canadian orphanage | F3ve a conference to newspaper .men | sociecary of State O e o have something more important to do. It is ridiculous for people as old as Little Joe Otter and Mrs. Otter to act as if they were half-grown. They ap- pear to take no more thought for the coming Winter than does Peter Rabbit. Look at the silly things going down that foolish slippery slide!” “They seem to be getting a lot of fun out of it.” ventured Mrs. Muskrat & bit wistfully. “Fun!” snorted Jerry. “All they think about is fun.” Certainly those little sense of dignity. : 1t is ridicu- two grown Otters haven't. lous, if you ask me.” “I didn't k you.” snapped Mrs. Muskrat, who. truth to tell. was a bit envious of the Otter family h(‘(‘:\u:c‘ of the good time they were having. “Whee!" cried Little Joe. “Wh “Whec!” cricd each of Otte: as one a rooal plopyed into the w (Copyrig! the young other ~ they l UNCLE RAY'S CORNER 11 SN N— know some one in Winnipeg named Ar- little rosctte of silk. he fastens his last pair of prolegs into the meshes and hangs head down for 24 hours. Then vou begin to see the limp helpless body twitch, and soon the skin breaks at the head and wrinkles back and off from MOURNING CLORR- When an entertainer became ill one night, Rita took her place and her singing | eventually brought her a job in a stcck company from which she progressed to Hollywood. les. Cross,” when it was_disco in the dead of Winter and headed for the United tSates in overalls and rubber soled sneakers and lived on raw eggs and milk during the three months 1t took her to reach Spokane. pneumonia, but upon her recovery obtained a job as waitress in a restaurant. | Dice are called “bones” because the first dice were made from lamb knuck- | This_informatior. was uncovered during research work for “The Sign of the red that Romans of the first century originated dice games anr also participated in wrestling. prize-fighting and other modern games. Zita Johann is Zeeta YO-hahn. Elissa Landi is E-LISS-a LAND. Marion Davies is Marion DAV-ies, She was clad only ‘There she collapsed from he was there sitting alongside Rdbin- son. They heard rumors that when the Democrats held their caucus early in the session. Byrnes sat at the head | of the table with Robinson. They saw Gov. Roosevelt’s adviser, | Prof. ‘Moley, seek him out when the , President-elect’s train stopped here en route to Albany from Warm Springs and confer with him for a long time. And they remembered that Byrnes him- self had been to Roosevelt's Georgia retreat to confer with the Governor. Whether the Senator is being groomed McKinley made him his Secretary of State. | When Grover Cleveland was Governor | of New York had as his secretary | Daniel S. Lamont. When he was elect- ed President he brought Lamont to Washington as his secretary. In Cleve- land’s second administration this same Lamont was given the post of Secre- tary of War. Perhaps the most outstanding e: ple. with the exception of Johr is that of Geo 1 e e lor—perhaps a 0a the school= L LD (IR Ithur Nichols, and I am wondering | the emerging chrysalis. Once in & { BETTY WONDERS. Wwhether there is any chance that it | Wwhile something goes wrong and the a ETTY SOUTHWORTH was. for ' eould be the Old Hermit's son. Grandpa. ' poor little fellow cgmmt exmca:\c his |, the most part. a quiet little do you think tb is any hope that the head from its mask-like case. gain, . . . girl; but she kept her ears cpen i s om0 anver” he has not been thorough ecnough in enera ect"c adio ‘/{'\“ and knew a great deal of what | “While there's life, there’s hope, Betty, | fastening his mooring in the begin- ~ was going on in her part of the world. Sometimes her parents said things to each other which were not especially intended for her; but even if she was curled up by the fireside. read- ing a book. it was likely that she would hear most of the words spoken in the room. The cvening of the day on which Betty had heard her mother ask to be connected with Winnipeg by telephonc, Betty was peading while Mr. and Mrs Southworth were spéaking. Their voices were pitched rather low, but at one point Mrs. Southworth said something about “his son” which was loud enough | for any one to hear. if w2 may believe the old saying: but from the story, as I heard here does i Betty wondered whose son they were talking about, but she was not destined | ning and he falls to the ground, where he_perishes 1 becn successful through hing and is free from his blac spiny suit and headgear, vou will find that he has a most beautiful shell of violet-brown. in which he now hangs e marvelous place while the fs taking e from harm, tranformation These butt~rflies are double-brooded, vou may have the privilege of watching the whole miracle from the stage to the cxquisite butterfly. butterfly max kept _indoors rough the Winter, sips sweetened water. and enjoys the drink from de- | caying fruit (Copyright. 1032 The GIFT SUPREME . 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