Evening Star Newspaper, April 18, 1933, Page 27

! , Bedtime ‘#% Stories BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. Nane but Re Weasel e'er kills Just for fun 2 ffer who hunts with J\?I:.u:enn!“\o Tegsed Killer S ny Chuck. Johnny Becomes Bitter. OHNNY CHUCK sat up on the doorstep of the house that had been dug by the black Chuck who lived in the field adjoining the farm of Farmer Brown. Johnny had just fought that black Chuck and driven him into hiding in the stone wall on the edge of the fleld. Now that field was his by right of victory. So Johnny sat on the doorstep and emitted a sharp, clear whistle of triumph. The black Chuck in the stone wall heard it and ground his teeth. But there was noth- ing he could do about it. He had fought his best. It had been a good fight and he had nothing to be ashamed of. But, of course, his pride was hurt. Then, too, he had lost his home and would have to go dig one elsewhere. Johnny had never been in that field before. Every Spring since he was a youngster just starting out for himself in the Great World he had wandered “THIS 1S A GOOD-LOOKING FIELD,” SAID JOHNNY, TALKING TO HIMSELF. about before settling down for the Sum- mer, but never before as far as this. “This is a good-looking field,” said Johnny talking to himself. “There should be plenty of good grass and sweet clover here later on. good house all ready for me. It will save me the trouble of digging one. I'll look # over, and then when I have rested a bit I will have a look around this fleld.” o 80 Johnny went down inside the house. It didn't take him long to decide that it didn't wholly suit him. To begin with, the hall wasn't long enough; but that could easily be remedied with a Httle digging. The chief fault he had to find with it was_that there was no beax door. A back Yiall had been started bt not completed. ~T wonder if that fellow was lazy or & he hasn't yet found out the need of & back door,” said Johnny. “He is young and has much to learn. Yes, sir, he has much to learn. Otherwise he would have known better than to pick a fight with me. A house without a back door 18 nothing less than a trap. I wouldn't think of having a house without & back | door. No, sir, I wouldn't. In fact I| prefer two back doors. It is much safer. | ‘This not safe at all. It is a matter | which must be attended to at once.” | Ho went back outside and sat up on the doofstep, which was, as you know, | a mound of sand. It was not a high | mound. In fact it was much flattened, for snow and rain and wind had worked on it and no fresh sand had been add- ed. Johnny sat up for a general look around i Spang! Something hit the ground in front of him and threw sand up in his face. At the same time there was a sharp crack in the direction of the | stone wall. Johnny didn't take even | time to look over there. He knew what | that spang and that crack meant. He had heard those so s before. though | not often, for on Farmer Brown's farm | no hunting was alo Johnny al- | most turned a back somersault in his | haste to get below. | “One of those two-legged creatures | with a terrible gun!” exclaimed Johnny. | “Now, what did he try to kill me for? | I haven’t done him any harm. He | doesn’t need me for food. My coat is not handsome like those of Billy Mink and his cousins, and he doesn’t want | that. He must have tried to kill me for fun. Yes, sir, that must have been it. But what fun can there be in killing | folks? I don't understand that at all. | Shadow the Weasel and some other members of his family sometimes ap- pear to kill for fun, but they age the only ones I krow who do. excepting these two-legged creatures with terrible ns. Ku"lb fsn't fair. No, sir. it isn't fair. Shadow and the other Weasels are at | Jeast fair about it. They don't hide and kil from a long way off. It is only | those two-legged creatures that do that. | Gracious, that was a narrow escape! I didn’t see him at all. He must have been hiding behind that old stone wall. Now I will have to stay down here until be away, and goodness only knows how long that will be. This is when I need a back door. I don’t dare poke my nose outside the only doorway there 3s. I guess that black Chuck. hadn't been shot at or he would have had a doorway to peep out of without danger of being seen. It isn't fair. No sir, §t isn't fair.” Kidney Toast. Here is a | THE EVENING BTAK, WASHINGTON, D. O, TUESDAY, APRIU 18, 1933. Cadler 100 $25 & $29.75 COATS DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Girl Who Can’t Decide Between Marriage and Good Job Receives Advice. EAR MISS DIX—T am engaged to & young man and he expects me ‘to marry him before lopg. Before I had an office position I would have been glad to marry him, but now I am free and independent and much interested in my work. think that I would be unhappy if I quit. Also, my flance helps support his family, and 88 he makes a small salary it would be hard on them if he married. And I care a great deal for them. I want to walt until business conditions get better, but he is not willing to wait snd swears that if I put off the wed- ding it is off for good. I am between the devil and the deep blue ses and don’t know what to do. BOBBY. Answer—One of the new problems of women is having to decide be- tween a job and & wedding ring. In the past there were no such complica= tions to vex the souls of maidens and clutter up love’s young dream. THEN there was nothing for a girl to look forward to but getting married. Nothing to think about but romance. No good fortune coming down her street except a Fairy Prince. No Mterest in life except husband and children and home. Hence, marrjage became the one desfrable thing in a woman's life and getting a husband the goal.of her ambition. So when a mmlxd l':iappened along she grabbed him because it was the only thing she could do. It is a different story with the modern girl, who is out in the world doing work that keeps her on her tiptoes and who is reveling in the joy of being financially independent for the first time in her life. She fsn't locking for some man to come and rescue her from a dull and dreary and meaningless existence. She is in the thick of a life that is full of thrills and eycitement. SO many girls who in former times would have been eager to marry are loath to marry now. Many who in the past would rather have died than be old maids deliberately choose spinsterhood, arguing that a good job is better than a poor husband and there is more solid satisfaction in your own pay envelope than in having nickels doled out to you by & tight- wad. Many others halt and can’t decide which they love the more—the boy friend or the work that they find both profitable and fascinating. Of course, no one can tell a girl whether it is better to espouse a man or a carcer. That depends upon whether the man is worth the price. | Some men are worth any sacrifice. Sometimes a man can give & girl so much love and tenderness that it doesn't matter whether he has anything else to give or not. Sometimes he is a go-getter who is & good financial speculation. But not infrequently the man is a ne'er-do-well or lazy and shiftless or a drunkard or grouchy and ill-tempered, and he is a mistake for any girl who marries him. ‘Whether a girl should give up a good position to marry depends upon her individual taste and whether she prefers a gas range to a mahogany desk. Not every woman is born domestic any more than she is born an opera singer. FPlenty of girls loathe office work and like cooking. Plenty of others are perfectly happy behind a counter and utterly miserable in a kitchen. So there you are, and you have to decide the matter according to your own set-up. n your particular case, Bobby, I should think the wise thing is to ‘wait, censidering that in the first place the young man is not in a position financially to support two families and that you are not in a marrying mood. So put off the wedding until you know better where you stand. Any girl who dreads her wedding day is sure of one thing, and that is that she isd't sufficiently in love to marry. She is only in love with love and not with the individual man. DOROTHY DIX. * kK % EAR MISS DIX—I have a son 19 years old who since he left school has done nothing but write. He will work hard at that for a while and then when his story is rejected he will go into a fit of despondency and ~ be idle for a while, then return to his writing full of enthusiasm. In the meantime I have to support h'm. and I do not make much. So far all he has ever sold amounts to $10, and although I am his mother I see no signs of genius in him. Should he go to work or continue his writing? A. C, Answer—TI think he should get a job and support himself instead of being a parasite on his poor old mother. Let genius burn at night. If he has the sacred flame, it will flare up. There are no mute inglorious Miltons nowadays. It will not hurt the boy to come to grips with life before he writes, because it is only those who have lived and suffered and had ex- periences who have anything to say to the world. Mark Twain once said to a young man: “Write for two yvears. Give what you write to any paper that will publish it. If by the end of that time you have not at- tracted attention and nobody is willing to pay you for what you write, you may be sure you have chosen the wrong career.” DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1933.) UNCLE RAY’S CORNER Postmen and Stamps. ’ instrument known as a stylus. A person who received a letter could rub out the heat nor gloom of night|gwax for writing his reply. stays these couriers in s, o Byt e, Sow i “N EITHER snow nor rain NOr| words on the tablet and then use the the swift_completion of their | appointed rounds.” Those words, translated from the, Greek, have come down to us from writings of the Greek historian Herod- | otus. They may be seen, carved in large letters, above the entrance to a great post office in New York City. Herodotus lived 2,500 years ago. He |to Constantinople, a_distance of 665 | miles, in six days. STAMP-PRINTING MACHINE OF MODERN TIMES. 5“ writing about the postmen of his | ime. ‘The first postal service of which we have good record was carried on in Persia a century before Herodotus was born. Persian postmen carried “letters” scratched on pieces of bronze or slabs | of clay. They rode horseback or on. camels. Along main roads were sta- | to emperors and public officlals. What Skin four large sheep kidneys, cut|tions where a postman would hand the into long slices. season with pepper and | mail to another man to take farther salt thinly sprea hot dip in egg and bread crumbs and along the journey. Have ready scme buttered toast Greeks and Romans often used wax with curry paste and serve | tablets or slates for their letters. Words | were written on the wax with a poigted AMAZE A MINUTE SCIENTIFACTS—BY ARNOLD. with grilled bacon. | | “80 much smoother and clearer since 2, WoRrLD'S GoLp - WORLD'S TOTAL GOLD STOCK EQUALS 22 BILLION DOLLARS, BUT SLIGHTLY MORE THAN NEw York CiTY'’s ASSESSED PROPERTY VALUE. Tawress Dog- ONLY NATURALLY TAILLESS DOG (S THE SCHIPPERKE_PQODLE. OVER 33,000,000 ACRES 1N U.S. HAVE REVERTED ™ FOREST LAND FROM employed in ancient Greece and Rome. Black ink was used for most of the writing, purple ink was supposed t0 be used only by kings. Roman postmen sometimes rode in chariots drawn by swift horses. There were postal stations along the routes! which they traveled, and at these sta-| tions they obtained fresh horses. We have record of an ancient post-| man who carried a letter from Annoch{ That was & grept record in olden times, but an ordinary letter mailed this morning in our land may be delivered at a point just as distant tomorrow afternoon. With the help of an air mail stamp a letter can be sent 2,500 miles within the same space of time. Sending letters in ancient times was very costly. For the most part the right to use the postal system was reserved would a Roman emperor say if he could watch a modern stamp-printing ma- chine turn out in a single day a! quartcr of a mil ion stamps for the use of ordinary folk? H (For “history” or “general interest” section of your scrapbook.) A diagram of the sun and planets appears in the leaflet, “Marvels of the Sky,” which is sent without charge to mafl a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Uncle Ray in care of this news- paper. 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