Evening Star Newspaper, April 4, 1935, Page 44

WOMEN Nature’s S FEATURE Children Horned Lark. BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. i HE bill of fare of these birds | endears them at once to the | farmer. Horned larks love the | open spaces and they travel | in great flocks, except at nest- | season. There are 16 species of | horned larks in America. All of them | are ground birds—Ilook at their feet. They. are given to dust baths rather | than wet ones, and you will always ' find they dress in colors to harmonize | with their surroundings. | If they should find it necessary to | fly to get out of the way of foes, their | flight is rather hesitating and irregu- lar. There is an exception at court- [ : S ing time. Then the males go high into the air, singing as they go, and | coming down in a breath-taking nose | dive, which you are confident will end in a sudden death, but never does. The nest is built on the ground, always, and fashioned of the dry grasses to be found close by. Feathers and, when possible, hair are used for | Bedtime Flip Gets a BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. | Courage often is un The impossible it tr —Old Mother Nature. LIP THE TERRIER was excited. | F He had been torn between two | e desires, one to go look for that Fox he had seen disappear be- hind some bushes and the other | to get hold of and shake that Chuck he had seen disappear in a hole. He had decided on the latter. There was no certainty of finding that Fox, but he knew just where that Chuck was. He was done in this hole right in front of him. | Flip barked just to relieve himself of some of his excitement and then poked his head in that hole. It was bigger than any Chuck hole he ever had seen before. This was because Reddy Fox had been trying to dig that Chuck out. With just a little more work it could be made big enough for him to get into it com- fortably. He went to work. The sand flew. Now and then he would back | out, shake the sand out of his hair, give two or three excited yelps, then g0 back to work. Johnny Chuck, watching from the doorstep of his burrow some distance away, wondered if that other Chuck would try to outdig Flip or if he would fight. “I would fight,” thought Johnny “Yes, sir, if I was in that fellow place, I would fight. I would give that HE WENT TO WORK, THE SAND | FLEW. | Dog something to remember me by. He isn't big enough to kill me, and | that other Chuck is as big as me; he ought to be just as strong, and he 1s younger. If he isn't a coward, he will fight. He'll teach that Dog a lesson.” | There was a muffied sharp velp, and | Flip hastily backed out of the hole, | shaking his head. Johnny grinned. | He knew what that meant. He knew that Flip had felt sgme sharp Chuck teeth and didn’t like the feeling. Flip barked as if he were trying to bark his head off. Then he plunged back into that hole. For two or three minutes Johnny saw nothing of him. | Then out he came again, yelping and | shaking his head as before. Flip is no coward. There isn't a cowardly hair on him. The teeth of | Flowering Almond BY D. C. PEATTIE. (QNE of the most charming of old | American customs. observed | chiefly south of the Potomac, is the | planting of the flowering almond. It was usually set out around graves, but it was quite unlike most of the | old grave plants like cypress, cypress | spurge and periwinkle, intended to suggest grief or at least sentiment. | Flowering almond, with its low, slender wythes, laden with blossoms | in early Spring, suggests only resur- | rection joy. It is as if the sleepers | were to be reminded that Spring and | beauty had returned to the world. | The flowering almond is the first of the great clan of prunus (cherries, plums. pesches, almonds and apri- cots) to awake in Spring. In all this world, there is nothing | quite so lovely as a little peach orchard in Spring, and there is an especial charm about it in the Blue Ridge country. I can remember once caming down in a& neavy mist on the wrong (the south) side of a mountain and seeing, in a cleft in the soft mist, a whole valley floor covered with a sheet of pink from the peach trees in bloom. The unexpectedness of get- ting into the wrong valley was enough to give me the feeling of foreign travel; the sudden vision through the mist completed my sensation that I had somehow got to Japan! ~Add equal quantity of milk or water. PHILLlPs DELICIOUS |a time. | after a flirtation. PEA SOUP the matiress. There are from three to four eggs, bluish or greenish-white, well bespeckled with grayish brown. The nest is built before the snow is .out of sight and the young birds are soon capable of taking care of them- selves. By Winter, they have the same plumage as their parents, and almost as large. The tuft of feathers on either side of the head may be erect and is found only on the males. There is a patch of black on the breast and a horn- shaped one under the eye. The fore- head, eye and ear region are yellow, as is the throat. The back of the head, rump and back are a grayish brown. Tips of tail feathers are black. The under parts are a soiled white, with dusky spots. As soon as domestic duties are over the horned larks gather and with a thoroughness hard to surpass they clear the area of weed seeds, waste grain and insects. Vegetable food is preferred, about 80 per cent. The 20 per cent is a meat diet that consists of May beetles and *heir plump larvae (juicy white grubs), leaf beetles, chinch bugs, clgver-root weevils, pill bugs, cutworms and grasshoppers. Glancing | over this list you can see what an asset these horned larks are and they should have protection (Covyright. 1935.) Stories Sore Nose. that Chuck hurt. They hurt a lot. But this didn't stop Flip. No. sir, it didn’t stop him. Back he went, deter- mined to get that Chuck, drag him out and shake him to death. He| didn't stop to consider that the ad- | vantage was all with the Chuck, but | [ it wouldn't have made any difference | if he had. Failure just made him all | the more anxious to succeed. It seemed to Flip just then that there was nothing in all the Great World he wanted so much as to triumph over that Chuck. | Now, as I have told you before, that | Chuck was big, strong and young. Moreover, he was no more of a coward | than was Flip. At first he merely re- sented being attacked by Flip and was content to be on the defensive, 8! nipping Flip sharply when he could. But as Flip persisted the Chuck grew angrier and angrier. What business had this fellow to be trying to kill him? It wasn't for food, as was the case with Reddy Fox. That he could understand, but not killing just for the sake of killing. He would teach this Dog a lesson. Yes, sir, he would so. He would teach him that he couldn't go about annoying other people without paying for it. | So the next time Flip entered he was met halfway, and that Chuck | didn’t retreat one step. Instead he began to force Flip back a wee bit at | Such a snarling and growling | and snapping together of teeth as there was in that hole! And some- how, it was Flip who seemed to be getting the worst of it. You see, that Chuck had a thick skin, and now that he was so thin it was very loose. It | afforded Flip very little chance to get hold where it really hurt. On the other hand, his own skin was some- what tender and not at all thick. Finally the Chuck got him by the nose and held on. Flip hurriedly backed out, yelping. The Chuck held on and was dragged to the very en- trance. There he let go. Flip backed away several feet, barking, and in between barks whining. He had a sore nose, a very sore nose. (Copyright. 1935.) Wife Seen 3 Times in 31 Years. NEWARK. N. J. 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In 1665 he removed to Stam- ford, Conn. ‘We find trace of this family in Eng- land only under the spellings of Des- borough and Desbrowe. Consegently, the spelling Disbrow is an American | innovation. The coat-of-arms here il- lustrated has been used in the family | since the first immigrant’s time. The | color description rgent, a fesse between three bears’ heads and necks erased sable, muzzled or. Crest—A bear’s head couped sable, muzzled or.” BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS, Imagination. MAGINATION makes the mind. In| other words, the situations you are | able to see by mental pictures very | largely determine what you are and | what you yet may be. Some minds work on the past. The | best of these turn out to be historians | and biographers. Try this one: What would the world be like today if America had not been discovered until | 1892? Or what would life be like to- day with all our modern inventions except the internal combustion en- ine? 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