Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1935, Page 27

MAGAZINE FEATURES Bedtime Stories The Secret Passage. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. he wise prepare » ot quite so fair Old Mother Nature. When he had dug that hole he had known that Reddy Fox would surely vis't him there and try to catch him. So while he had the chance to work und turbed he had prepared for that visit. “Reddy will try to dig me out.” he had said to himself. “I know that fel- Jow. He will try to catch me outaide. and when he finds he cannot do that = | J OHNNY Chuck had looked ahead. he will try to dig me out. I must fool | him, for in this easy digging he can dig as fast as I can and perhaps faster.” So after Johnny had dug his hole as deep as he wanted it he started a branch off to one side a little more than half way down. It was a passage just big enough to admit Johnny, and not very long. At the end of it he left a lot of loose sand. “I may not have to use it; then again I may,” thought he. Of courve he did not have to use it. When the time came that Reddy chased him into his hole Johnny wasied no time. He didn't go to the bottom of that hole, as Reddy sup- posed. He went Into that secret pas- sage and alL once began to kick back that loose sand that he had left there. He kicked it behind him out into the main hall which it soon completely filled at that point. It was this sand that Reddy supposed was being kicked back from the end of the hole. So while Reddy was so busy digging the hole larger and digging through that pile of sand, Johnny was just as busy. He was digging that secret pas- sage longer and pushing the sand back of him and packing it there as firmly as he could. He was closing the door, as it were. Thus 1* happened that when Reddy reached the place where that secret passage had opened there was no opening and nothing to show that there had been an opening. In forc- ing his way through the main hole | Reddy just closeq that door all the tighter.” So when he reached the end and failed to find Johnny Chuck. then backed out, carefully looking for a side tunnel, he failed to find one. And Johnny wisely had stopped dig- ging so that there was no sound to guide Reddy. “If he does find the entrance to this passage I'll have plenty of time to keep digging and dig my way up | having to dig. This won't do for me. No. sir, it wont do at all. I'll have to | | dig a new burrow, for if I don't he | O NOT be fooled by the size may come back while I am asleep and and beauty of this snake, be- | P cause it resembles the harm- | P — — less ones, but give it all the room it wishes and do not attempt to handle it. The harlequin | or coral snake belongs to & subfamily that contains some of the most deadly species of snakes. | All the members of this family | are famous for their resemblance to the brightly colored harmless ones. ‘Though the harlequin possesses small fangs, they are provided with a deadly venom, that is more effective than | that of the thick-bodied vipers. 'his gayly-marked creature ranges from Northern North Carolina to the Gult of Mexico and westward to Tex: from Texas southward into Central America, and gradually work- | i ing its range up the Mississippl Val- | ley, as far North as Southern Ohio. | fiacnis "t \s a slender-bodied anake, about | all he will have to do will be to walk | One yard long, with a black, blunt | right In. I can't have that. No, sir, I |head, and no distinct neck. The| can't have that.” color pattern is formed of broad rlngs‘ S0 Johnny moved on a short dis- | ©f deep scarlet and blue‘-&llsl. These | tance and dug a new hole, and when |1ings are in turn separated by narrow 1 he ug this he mide a secret patsage | Iibbons of yellow. The snout s black. ju;:] lshhe hlddbr‘(ore‘. -nd;-d:rmned; 5 (i e sk J P | | while he was doing it. “Reddy may | | | not try 1t again.” thought he, “but | \Vho Arc Xrou> i | I'll be ready for him if he does. He - | isn't going to find me unprepared. ‘There is nothing like being ready for l‘t;;;\(’ler:'l;)' hmew;."m o | The Romance of Your Name. | y return to the old house, SKIN| | of course. And all he had to do was| BY RUBY HASKINS ELLIS, | to walk right in, for, as you know, he | had already dug it big enough for | that. And when he walked right in he discovered the entrance to the secret passage and knew exactly what had | happened when he failed to find | Johnny Chuck. (Copyright. 1835.) Psychology | BY DR. ;;;l W. SPROWLS | | OST people are in some re- \[‘ spects like the old family ' horse—they will shy at plece of paper along & miliar road. In other words. | | they will unexpectedly stampede on Ashton approaching some empty prospect of i NHIS coat of arms is ascribed to James Ashton, a Virginia colon- It appears, however, anxiety or prejudice. | A rather fruitful theory has been | proposed as an explanation for use- | ist. in 1680. and out,” thought Johnny. "Of || 1 5 ess anxieties. It seems that they course I don’t want to do that, but it |y e “their beginnings back in the that his brother, Col. Peter Ashton, was in the Southern Colony at an THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, MARCH_27, 1 Nature’s Children By Lillian Cox Athey—Harlequin Snake Elasps Fulvius. There is & broad band of yellow, which crosses the middle of the head, and behind this band the first one of black appears. The black and red rings of the body e separated by 7 to 12 scales. The yellow rings are from one W two scales wide. On the back, the rings usually have pstches of black. The underparts are red with the excep- tion of » large patch of black in the center of the abdomen. The tail is about two and s half inches long with yellow and black ‘rings. All members of this subfamily have the burrowing habit. You rarely see them abroad during the daytime. You may expose them by prying loose bark on logs. or even turn over several of them if ploughing a fleld. Rainy weather, under cover of the night, is the choice time of these hunters. They seek the small snakes | nearby, and the blue-lisards who in-| habit the under bark of logs and| fallen timber that is well rotted. If| you could see the flerce action of the harlequin, it snaps its poor enemy tight and left, as it tries its best to escape. Having subdued it, the hunter proceeds to swallow it head first. During the latter part of June, the e laid in damp soll or decaying hey are elongate and will hatch | in Beptember, the latter part, as a rule. The youngsters resemble their parents, and from the moment they leave the egg, they are snappish. They are about 7 inches long and one- eighth of an inch thick. | Harlequin snakes soon die in cap- tivity. Even when the right tempera- ture is given them and material in which to burrow, they resent being' held prisoner, and often refuse food until they starve to death. | (Copyright. 1935 ) Grid Men Tackle Teammates. | When players on the Sutherland | and North Durham foot ball teamns began to tackle their own mud-be- spattered players at Sutherland, Eng- land, the referee called off the con- will be one way of escape. I hope he ;)1 forgotten years of childhood. earlier date. It is recorded that Col.| test ' The gridiron resembled & quag- won't find the passare’ | P s 1 " o N ‘or example, a child may be fright- Reddy didn’t as you know. He sus- | .4 by an adult. The appearance pected what Johnny had done, but|oe g aquit is forgotten, so far as | served in the House for Northumber- | not be recognized. couldn't find the place. 80 at last he | gave up. where he was until he was sure that Reddy had become discouraged and given up. Then cautiously, very cau- tiously, he opened that door. That is, he dug his way back to the main tun- nel. All was safe and when at last he [ ;¢ ¢ provokes the old childish an- ;"‘_"'l‘"'_d "E = mfy“""“"p Reddy was | yipathy. And so an unexplainable owhere about. Johnny grinned. | anxiety or fear is aroused. Almost . Fooled him 'F‘“ time,” he said to all those persons we “don’t like the himself. “And I'll do the same thing | |, oue of may be accounted for in over again if he returns and tries to | 10\ 0 dig me out again. He has made this | "1, s similar way we may explain hole too big. I don't like it. I i8 30 o)1 gijice for names, thunderstorms, big now that he can get in without and so forth. Some persons are — = = = afraid of small inclosures, such as leeping compaitments in & train. 8Such anxieties may hark back to a day when they were punished for some misdemeanor by being locked in a closet, conscious recollection is concerned. in the unconscious, where we tend to | relegate all unpleasant experiences. Then, years later, we meet some per- son whose aprearance is so similar 10 the Image now in the unconscious Sonnysayings H ow_I:. Started BY JEAN NEWTON. 'O GET off scot-free is the fervent hope of every persons under in- dictment for a violation of any of our laws, but this use of the phrase in the sense of unhurt or safe is & | modification of that which it orig- inally conveyed. | Directly, scot comes to us from the Anglo-Saxon word of the same spell- ing. meaning & contribution or tax, and which in the course of time took on the significance of & fine or mulct. 8o it was that if & man who got into trouble got out of it without it | having cost him any money it would | Me an’' Tommy has gone partners— | be said of him that he had gotten he does my proglems an’ I draws his off scot-free. | maps—— It was only & natural development of language for this expression to Contract broaden its connotation to Include not | only the non-loss of money, but escape BY P. HAL SIMS. The Forcing Bid. from penaity of any kind. | HE fact that we used the bid | of more than one in a suit | — Alcohol From Sugar. for an opening force was not | original with us. Most of the Brasil is contemplating the manu- facture of alcohol from surplus sugar. | early experts devised some | method of handling the two and the three bid. The two most populer sys- | tems were diametrically opposed. In one, the two bid indieated a three- | and-a-half to four-and-a-h#lf pri- | mary trick hand, and the three bid was forcing. In the other the two| bid was forcing, the three bid a suit pre-emptive. No one used both the two bid and the three bid es forces to fit differ- | ent type hands. All original forces | were made on primary tricks and game exceptions. Ace showing was used occasionally, but only above the | game level. The following, for ex- | ample, was not considered an original | two bid, despite the fact that the| holder of this hand has game all by himaelf: | 3. %-Q-3-10-xx DiNone . % Cl. K-Q-J-10-%-x ‘This, however, was a very fine two- spade bid. : L A-K-x-3 (Axx After hearing the opening ery, | “Wolf! Wolf!” a half dozen times in the course of an evening by open- ing with a two bid on a short-suited five quick trick hand, the responder got pretty disgusted. He would occa- | sionally drop a two bid at the three| level. His partner, shocked beyond | all measure, would pley the hand besutifully and go down only one trick. | There can be no halfway meas- ures about an original forcing bid. Either it's foreing or it isn't. If you 1ail t6 make game on it three times in a row, your partner should be allowed to drop you when he has a bust. You are misleading him and laying him open for a large set. You have told him thst you can make game no matter what he holds in his hand. You hope he has a fit, and an ace and s king. Then you might have a play for four odd.| Such tactics are ridiculous. The only way forcing bids can be meas- ured is to count your losing tricks. When you definitely have game in| your own hand~no more than three | Josers—you may force, not before. (Copyright. 1938.) “JEN WIEL FEEL NURT WE DION'T ASK HER TO COME ALONS,T00 REMEMBER, JEN, OUR REGULAR DATE AT THE MOVIES TOMORROW A will answer all inguiries on ~on- .‘“E_!’:Emn“.mw} Yo this newsaper self-addressed. stamped en! . N . BUT, MAY, WY IS SHE SO CARELESS ? > | YOU AND | 807K NOTICED B.OTLAST TIME ... AND JEN WAS SITTING - RIONT-BEHIND THEM — “B.OGONE — she5 snvited everywhere now. YES, AND ILL SEE YOU AT MAY' THE DAY AFTER Peter was a Burgess from Charles City County. in 1656, and that he also land County in 1650. His will, in Lincolnshire, England. his estate. Chatterton, on the Potomac, and to his brother John 200 acres of land adjoining Chatterton. These broth- ers came to Virginia to take posses- sion of their property in 1670. The name Ashton is traceable to Edmund Ashton of Assheton, who was the second son of Sir John Ash- ton, lord of the estate of Chadder- | ton (afterward spelled Chatterton), in Lancashire, through his marriage to Joan Radcliffe. Edward Ashton of Chadderton was a member of the landed gentry in 1673. Sir Ralph Ashton of Middleton, Lancashire, was 2 member of the nobility of that shire in 1673, The Ashton estate. Chatterton. on the Potomac River, in Virginia, was named for the ancestral home in Lancashire. (Copyright 1935 FREED BY FAMILIARITY Prisoner Hails Judge as “Joe” and Wins Release. COVINGTON, Ky. (#).—“Morning. Joe,” said 62-ycar-old Joe Hall of Louisville, Ky, with a smile, as he walked before Police Judge Joseph P. Goodenough to face a charge of drunkenness, “Well,” returned the judge. “if you know me well enough to call me bv my first name, I guess I won't put you in jail.” A fine was suspended. 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