Evening Star Newspaper, August 26, 1935, Page 25

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Bedtime Stories A Matter of Opinion. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. Each to his own opinion clings, Despite the proof another brings. | —Old Mother Nature. PINIONS once formed are difficult to change. Indeed, I know of nothing more difficult than to change the opinion of one who is, as they say, set in his mind. The funny thing is ful to be so big and strong and un- afraid, like Buster Bear,” said he. “I suppose he's the most independent fel- low in all the Great World.™ Jumper shook his head. “No,” said he. “I don't think he is.” “Of course he is,” said Peter. “He isn't afraid of anybody, and any one | who isn't afraid of anybody must be | independent.” Who Are You? The Romance of Your Name. BY RUBY HASKINS ELLIS. D. C, MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1935. Fresh Fruits & Vegetables Fancy Elberta - A Sale on ESTABLISHED 1889 WHERE ECONOMY RULES FINE QUALITY MEATS Genuine Spring LAMB “Who says Buster Bear isn't afraid | that two people may hold opposing opinions and both be perfectly honest in believing as they do. Among the little people of the Green Forest, the Green Meadows and the ©Old Pasture there has long been a difference of opinion as to which 2 (% il -7 “fi',[r‘ b P, TR *“WHO SAYS BUSTER BEAR ISN'T AFRAID OF ANYBODY?” DE- MANDED JUMPER. among them is the most independent. By this I mean the independence which permits them to do about as they please. Peter Rabbit was over in the Green Forest. He was sitting with | his cousin, Jumper the Hare. Of all the little people in the Green Forest none is more timid than are these two. As they sat there under the low-grow- | ing branches of the hemlock .tree, | which quite hid them, who should come shuffling along but great big Buster Bear. You may be sure they kept very quiet. They knew that he | couldn’t catch them if they should | run, but just the same the very sight | of him so near seng little chills of fear running all over them. Buster | shuffled along and disappeared. Peter sighed. “It must be wonder- Nature’s of anybody?” demanded Jumper. “I do,” sald Peter. “He isn't afraid of Yowler the Bobcat. He isn't afraid of Tufty the Lynx. He isn't afraid of Puma the Panther, and who else is there to be afraid of?” “Man,” replied Jumper. “You should see Buster Bear run if he hears or sees or smells & man.” “Well, they all do that" replied Peter. verybody runs from man.” Again Jumper shook his head. “Wrong, Cousin Peter. You are wrong,” said he. “Who is there that isn't afraid of man? Who is there that doesn’t run away from him?” demanded Peter. Jumper stopped chewing on nothing, & habit that both he and Peter have. “I can see one now,” said he. Peter peered out in all directions. “I don't see anybody,” said he. “Look up in that tree over there” replied Jumper. Peter looked. “I don't see anybody but Prickly Porky,” said he. “Isn't that enough?” asked Jumper. “Did you ever see Prickly Porky pun away from anybody? Did you ever see him run away from a man. Prickly Porky is my idea of an independent person. If you ask me. I think he is the most independent of all the people In the Green Forest and the Green | Meadows.” “What are you fellows talking about?” asked Chatterer the Red Squirrel, who happened to arrive in the tree above them. “Cousin Peter declares that Buster Bear is the most independent animal in the Green Forest or in the Green Meadows,” said Jumper. “And what do you say?” Chatterer. “I say that Prickly Porky is the most independent,” replied Jumper promptly. “And I say you are both wrong,” re- torted Chatterer. “There comes the most independent person down the Crooked Little Path this very minute.” (Copyright. 1935.) Children demanded Garden Spider (Miranda Aurantia). BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY, ‘l ERE are days in August and September when the fleld&i flower gardens and lawns are strewn with fairy-like laces. In the early morning especially, when the dew drops glisten like lustrous | pearls, your attention is attracted to, the decorative industry. Madam Miranda cannot travel her silken cables until the “pearls” evap- orate. So she sits in her parlor until all her telephone wires are cleared. Even when a burly bumble bee, early | rover of the clover fields, by a miscal- culation lands in her “booth,” she re- mains inactive. As soon as the cables are free of the heavy water the fa- mous trap setter comes out to truss up her victim or repair her net. You may watch the garden spider weave her trap or snare. Revisit the place where you saw the web earlier | in the day. If 1t has not been entirely demolished by wind, animal, insect, or in fact by any of the dozens of foes to spiders’ webs, all the weaver has to do is to mend the broken stands. Cautiously the garden spider inspects her snare and begins in a most me- thodical fashion to weld together broken ends or make new spokes and cross wires. The first thing a spider has to do when beginning & new web is to lay down the foundation lines. She has beforehand selected the space she in- tends to fill, and it is very cannily placed in the path of hurrying in- sects—her sole form of food. A line is attached at the point of departure. She crawls along, spinning a silk thread as she goes, holding the new silk in the claw of her hind leg until she reaches her objective. Then this thread is carefully anchored. She tests its strength and tightens it carefully and rgturns on it, even doubling it if there is to be & strain upon it. Where lines cross, they are securely glued together. ‘When a spider wishes to threw a line across an opening, it is flung to the breeze to dry and to stick to some object. Now the weaver can walk the tightrope and send more lines out. This is how great webs are swung across the spaces between two tall trees or buildings. Garden spiders build geometrical ‘webs that are almost vertical in po- sition and may be 2 feet across. Here the huntress walts patiently in the center for the unwary insect to come her way. She is a buxom lass, more MALE FEMALE @&g the web is ornamented with a con- spicuous zigzag ribbon of silk. Is it | her name, in spider language, she has written there? All spiders lay their eggs in masses and inclose them in silken cocoons. You may have a chance to see the weaver construct one, either in the open or in confinement. She always makes a large, pear- shaped cocoon,-in September, which | she hangs by flimy thread to plant stems. The outside is a strong silk of parchment texture. Inside the vase is a beautiful mass of brown silk cover- ing the egg sac, which is in the center of still another kind of silkk. To dis- sect one of the beautifully made vases and look at it under a magnifying glass is an interesting experience. (Copyright. 1935.) | reports indicate that the pest is being | i Touted. |'T'HI8 surname occupied & promi- | nent place in the history of Eng- land even prior to the reign of Henry VIII. The Hooker family was one of | | high social standing and considerable | ‘lweulth and was noted for the scholar- ' |ly attainments of its sons and daugh- | ters. | "The Hooker family in America, which was early established in the| New England States, is traced to| | Thomas Hooker of County Leicester, England. He is referred to in old rec- ords as Thomas Hooker, gentleman, | indicating his social rank. He was representative in County Leicester for | | the powerful Digby family, which held | | vast possessions there. | The Rev. Thomas Hooker, the| ploneer of the family to the New World, was a great-grandson of lhe' Thomas above mentioned. The Rev.| Mr. Hooker was born in 1586, in Coun- | ty Leicester, and upon attaining man- | hood attended Emmanuel College, Cambridge. In 1620-1625 he served | | as rector of the parish of Esher, in | County Surry. He also filled various | | other pulpits in different parts of England. During the period of re- ligious upheaval he was persecuted for nonconformity to the established | church, and in 1629 left the church | to conduct a private school. To escape further persecution he | went to Holland, where he preached | |at Delfthaven and Rotterdam. He | | acquired a large following, and in 1633, | | with a little band of faithful adher- | ents, crossed the Atlantic to found homes in America. | Arriving in Boston, the group pro- | ceeded to Cambridge, which was their first settlement. In 1636 this brave group was headed by the Rev. Thomas Hooker, who, “with a Bible in one | hand and a musket in the other,” led | them into the wilderness to found the | | New Haven Colony, on the Connecti- | cut River. Thomas Hooker sponsored | the confederation of the American | Colonies in 1637 and has been called | the “Father of American Democracy.” (Copyright, 1935.) How It St;rted BY JEAN NEWTON. Bird of Ill-Omen. "‘HIS constant presence in Berlin | is a bird of ill-omen. as concerns | the prospects for a continuation of | European peace.” So ran a current newspaper dis- patch which attempted to interpret | the repeated visiting of an Eastern | | diplomat to the German capitol. Bird of ill-omen is a colorful meta- phor for a sign of bad luck. | In the incident quoted as well as in ' similar instances, the allusion is to the | | ancient practice by Roman priests of augury. ‘The office of these Roman priests | was to foretell coming events. | This they professed to do through | rarious phenomena. chief of which was | the observation of the flight of birds. 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