Evening Star Newspaper, August 13, 1935, Page 28

WOMEN Bedtime Stories Grandfather Frog Is Envied. BY THORTON W. BURGESS. B e o0 CRVeY S2T5id Mother Nature. “~\ RANDFATHXR FROG sat on his big green lily pad in the () Smiling Pool. On the Big Rock, just across from him, sat Jerry Muskrat. As long as he| could remember Jerry had known Grandfather Frog. Grandfather Frog was half dozing as he waited for a foolish green fly to come within reach. As Jerry sat watching him, he was envious. Yes, sir. Jerry Muskrat actu- | ally was envious of Grandfather Frog. | Now, if Grandfather Frog had been | envious of Jerry Muskrat, it might ~ have seemed more reasonable, but Grandfather Frog wasn't envious of Jerry Muskrat. It was exactly the other way around, and all because Grandfather Frog could do something | that Jerry couldn't do. He could | stay under water without ever com- | ing to the surface for just as long as he wanted to. Jerry couldn't do | this. He could swim under water, | but then he had to come to the sur- | face for air. If he didn't he would drown. | For a long time Jerry had not paid any attention to Grandfather Frog's habit of staying under water for a long time. He just hadn't thought | about it. Then one day he happened | to be sitting where he could look down in the water and see Grand- father Frog flattened on the bottom. Suddenly it popped into his head that Grandfather Frog had been down | there a long time. He began ot wonder if something had happened to him, | He was just trying to make up his mind if he should go down and find out when Grandfather Frog swam | away. After that Jerry had often been | filled with wonder at the length of time Grandfather Frog could stay down after having dived in. “I wonder how he does it,” said Jerry to himself as he sat there on the Big Rock watching Grandfather Frog. “I wonder if he would tell me if I should ask him. I would give anything to be able to stay under | water as long as he can. For the life | of me, I don't see how he does it. No, | &ir, I don't. I believe I'll ask him.” Jerry swam over close to the big green lily pad. Grandfather Frog opened his big goggly eyes. “Hello, Grandfather Frog, I hope you are feeling as fine as you look,” said Jerry. | “Chug-arum,” replied Grandfather | Frog. “Don't try to flatter me, Jerry | Muskrat. I'm too old to be flattered.” | “I'm not trying to flatter you,” re- Nature’s St ALL day long the night hawk to make himself less conspic- | homa he can settle down at dawn on | This Eastern member of the night ! BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. sleeps. He is perched length- wise on a limb, a'quirk he has uous in broad daylight. On the plains from Minnesota to Northeast Okla- the ground, as his colors blend per- | fectly with his surroundings. patrol has a cousin living in the South Atlantic and Gulf States and one | | | | established in the northern part of | the great plains. You have heard | their “pert, pert, pert” high up in the air as they dart back and forth for the high-flying insects. “Swifts,” they are called by many, who dismiss the gubject with no further thought. But in a way they are right. Night hawks, | also called bull bats, belong to the| swift family. Every night at sunset this insect chaser mounts high into the sky. Bat fashion, he changes his-course to over- | take the insect trying to evade him.| The chase becomes interesting and the | loud nasal “peent” floats earthward. | Watching the erratic fiyer, you notice several quick wing beats always follow | the cry. Late into the night we who | are fortunate and have woods and #ky can hear the busy patroler, for the night hawk is one of our few nocturnal birds It is great fun observing the antics of the night hawks—breath-taking dives, sky coasting and artful maneuv- ering, all so easily seen, etched against the sky on a Summer’s night. When an insect, also taking a nose dive, | comes hurtling toward the earth, the air, racing through the bird's pri maries, sounds like a swift wind, biow- | ing over the bunghole of a barrel. When the cool weather comes, hunt- ing in the North for the night hawks is over. They gather in great flocks. It is time for the journey South. You can see them flying lower now, for the few hardy insects that are left, and you can see the white mark on their primaries, an identifying sign to look for, as it has the appearance of being # hole in the hawk’s wing. The upper parts of the bird are black, with irregular markings of | white, buff or yellow buff. The pri- | maries are grayish brown, crossed in —_— Sonnysayings Me an’ Baby is goin’ t' hab plenty lemonegg fer once—Muvver let us take this big bucket, an’ I heped myself ¢’ quite a bunch ob sugar an' colorin’ an’ a whole lemon. [ > | that I can do it,” replied Jerry. | argent masoned of the first. 'S FEATURES. plied Jerry. “I came over her espe- cially to ask you something.” “Well, what is it you wanted to ask?” inquired Grandfather Frog. “I wanted to ask how you do it?” replied Jerry. “Do what?” snapped Grandfather | Frog rather gruffly. “Stay under water such a long time,” replied Jerry. “Oh, that's easy,” replied Grand- father Frog. “If it's so easy, just tell me how, so “All you have to do is to stop breath- ing,” said Grandfather Frog. “I do stop breathing when I go un- der water,” replied Jerry, “but when I can't hold my breath any longer I have to come up and get some air.” “I don’t use air when I'm down THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1935. Psychology BY DR. JESSIE W. SPROWLS. Controversy. F LOGIC were as fool proof as the logicians claim, there would be ab- solutely no controversial questions in all the world. Problems of every kind would fall into two classes—settled and unsolvable. Controversy would be out of the question. Logical reason- ers would not quarrel over unsolvable problems; they couldn't over the set- tled ones. But in everyday life logic has a small place, in a certain sense, de- servedly so. A life of pure logic would be uninteresting. The spice of life is due to prevalence of personal opin- ion, the allurements of presumptions, the excitement of hearsay, the marvels of suspicions, the balm of rationaliza- tions. Take the emotional factors out of mental operations and the whole psychology would be about as tire- some as the multiplication table or the rigmarole of a Latin paradigm. The only trouble that can possibly come from the {llogical controversies of everyday life is the refusal of some people to take them for what they are. In other words, a person gets into real trouble with his thinking when he makes or tries to make logic- tight compartments for things that just will not stay put, since they fig- ure here and there in the varied ex- periences of still more varied minds. (Copyright. 35.) How It Started | BY JEAN NEWTON. Queen’s Weather. “I have counted,” remarked Mark | Twain, during a speech at & din- ner of the New England Society, “136 different kinds of weather inside the 24 hours.” “There 3 & sumptuous variety about the New England weather,” he elabo- rated, “that compels the stranger’s WOMEN’S FEATURES. admiration—and regret. The weather | queen's or splendid weather of which is always * * * getting up new| New England boasts, designs and trying them on people to| The phrase itself—queen’s weather see how they will go. | —we have after the especially fine W* “Probable nor'east to sou'west winds, | conditions which almost invariably fa- varying to the southard and westard | Vored the appearances in public of and eastard and points between; high | Queen Victoria. and low barometer, sweeping 'round (Copyrisht, 1935.) from place to place; probable areas of | T eyes rain, snow, hall, and dought, suc- ceeded or preceded by earthquakes with thunder and lightning.” cizing his wife's cherry canning, said All this and more was of course|she was using too much sugar, He sald by Mark Twain in fun,-and on | went to the hospital severe] scalded, that account we find no mention of | His wife was jailed Now He's Burned Up. ERIE, Pa. (/) —Felix Salyszyk, critle AS JERRY SAT WATCHING HIM ! HE WAS ENVIOUS. there,” replied Grandfather Frog. “Air is just what I don't want down there, so I get rid of all the air in my lungs | as I'm going down. Then I close my nostrils, and there I am. I can stay down there a month if I want to.” “I still don't see how you do it.” retorted Jarry Muskrat. “You seem to be just as much at home under water as a fish.” “I am,” replied Grandfather Frog. “A fish breathes through his gills. | I've watched one lots of times. You haven't any gills,” said Jerry Musk- rat. “I don't need any.” replied Grand- father Frog. “I breathe through my skin under water, if you know what I mean.” “No, I don't,” replied Jerry Musk- rat shortly. | (Copyright. 1935.) Children ight Hawk (Chordeiles Minor). the center by a white bar, which is very conspicuous when flying. The tail is also grayish brown and has broken bars of buff and a white band near the end on all but the middle feathers. The throat has a white band. The chin and upper breast are black. | The choice spots for the eggs are on the bare ground or a flat rock in the open field. Sometimes, in a great emergency, they have been laid on the roof of a house. There are rarely more than two dull white and evenly marked eggs, with small specklings | of grayish brown. 3 The blazing sun helps to incubate | them. The mother apparently suffers | little from the direct rays of the sun, | as she calmly sits on her eggs—fast asleep! | | (Copyright 1935.) Who Are You? The Romance of Your Name. BY RUBY HASKINS ELLIS. T S coat of arms is blazoned: yronny of eight sable and er- mine, over all a tower triple towered Crest: | A tower as in the arms.” | These armorial devices were borne | by John Hopper, who came from | England to Flushing, Long Island, | prior to 1675. He was born in County Durham, England, about 1660. It ap- pears that he moved from Long Island before 1711 to Woodbury, in Glouces- ter County, N. J., where in 1750 he died. His wife is believed to have been Margaret Tindall, daughter of Richard Tindall, of Flushing, Long Island. His will, on file in Treutcn, N. J, mentions children, John, jr; Samuel, Elizabeth and Rachel. From them a goodly number of descendants sprang, and many of them are found living today in New Jersey, Pennsyl- vania, Maryland, New York and many other States. (Copyright. 1935.) ———— Ice Boxes Still Used. Even though the mechanical re- frigerator is increasing in sales, the old-time ice refrigerators and boxes are still popular, for each year many hundreds of thousands are sold. My Neighbor Says: A pinch of salt added to egg whites before they are beaten helps stiffen them. ‘Two tablespoons of vinegar added to one cup of sweet milk will turn it into sour milk. Let stand for three minutes before using. When pouring hot jelly into glasses set glasses on a damp cloth and they will not crack. 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