Evening Star Newspaper, September 12, 1935, Page 38

WOMEN Bedtime Stories Mrs. Quack Tries Again. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. Who will not try doth then and there His failure to the world declare. -—Old Mother Nature. RS. QUACK the Mallerd Duck, whose nest Blacky the Crow had robbed, felt better after the visit of Mrs. Wood Duck. The latter hadn't said “I told you s0,” as she might have done. You know, they had had an argument as to where was the best place to build & nest. “I don't know but that she is right,” said Mrs. Quack. “It wouldn't hurt me to try again. I believe I'll look around a little, and if I find what looks like a good place perhaps I will build another nest.” “That's the right spirit,” said Mr. Quack. “That's what I call being sensible. other nest. It would be a shame to go South this coming Fall and admit that we had no children. I wouldn't lke that at all.” “That’s all very well for you to say when you don't have any of the wor- ries or cares of bringing up a family,” snapped Mrs. Quack. “However, I have no more desire than you have to tell folks I have no family. I don’t b — 1 722> T S0 MRS. QUACK STARTED OUT HOME HUNTING ONCE MORE. often wish any one harm, but I do wish that something would happen to | that robber, Blacky the Crow.” “That is too much to hope for,” said Mr. Quack. “That fellow is too clever. I don't know of any one his equal in getting into mischief and at the same time keeping out of trouble. Those sharp eves of his seem to see everything, but I guess you can fcol | him if you tr “Is that so?” retorted Mrs. Quack. “Well, I tried before and I failed. However, I am going to have a look around, anyway.” So Mrs. Quack started out home hunting once more. She went all around both ponds of Paddy the Beaver. She went up the Laughing Brook a little way, and she went down the Laughing Brook. She even went as far as the Big River. There wasn't a place suitable for a nest that Mrs. Quack didn't look at. She was very clever about it. She not only studied each place, to make sure that a nest would be well hidden there, but she also studied the pos- sible approaches. She knew that it was as necessary that she should be able to approach or leave a nest with- out likelihood of being seen as it was to have the nest securely hidden. .’VVhoiAre ?ou? The Romance of Your Name. BY RUBY HASKINS ELLIS. | is going to be a real secret, a secret By all means let's have an- | | carelessly. | And I never would think, as I braved 'S FEATURES. “I just mustn't be seen anywhere near the nest,” said she to herself. “I think probably that is the way Blacky found that other nest. He probably saw me on the way to or from it, and so found out about where to look.” As it happens, this was just ex- actly the truth. It is one of Blacky's methods of finding things that he is looking for. “I am not even going to tell Mr. Quack where the nest is this time,” said Mrs, Quack to herself. “It known by one, which is the only kind of a secret that can be kept.” Meanwhile Mr. Quack continued to loaf, preen his feathers, eat, sleep and have a good time generally. Mr. Wood Duck often joined him. Apparently they hadn’t a care in the world. They were just selfish, thinking only of their own comfort and convenience. When Mrs. Quack announced that she had found a suitable place for another nest Mr. Quack said he was glad to hear it. “Where is it this time?” he asked “Don't you wish you knew?” re- torted Mrs. Quack. “No, I can’t say I do,” said Mr. Quack quite honestly. “If it's in a sale place, that's all I care about. It is very sensible of you, my dear, to have another nest and try again. I| hope you'll have better luck this time, | If I don't know where the nest is neither Blacky the Crow nor any one else can find out from me, and that suits me.” “That's just the way I feel about | it.” replied Mrs. Quack. “What you | don’t know you can't tell. If I don't succeed in raising a family this time | it's the last time I'll ever try here.” | So Mrs. Quack made a new nest, | and presently she had four eggs. It| wasn't such a good nest as the first | one was, for she didn't have enough | down left on her breast to make such | a fine down blanket as the first one | had been. But it was a well-hidden | nest. (Copyright. 1035.) Talc:;;’_&—l?//mlc BY JAMES J. MONTAGUE. (On reading of one which after his | capture was found to be carrying about a bomb in his stomagh.) If I were a seafaring whale And rode through the turbulent tide, Unheeding the howl of the gale On the billows I'd happily ride; the great seas, ! Where my unfettered will might | direct me | While I shouldered the billows with freedom and ease, Of using & bomb to protect me. A creature so strong, with a bulk so immense, Would stand in no need of defense. A whale must be weak in the dome, ‘Which means that he’s not very bright, | To think, while he ploughs through the foam i That life is a dream of delight. With a lash of his tail he may shatter | a boat And drown all the mariners in it, To tuck them all easily down his great throat Would be less than the work of a minute. He would only more clumsily surge through the tide ‘With a bomb in his massive inside. I have lost all respect for the whale; He should have been fully aware That it was not a bit of avail To ferry that bomb here and there. Moreover, it might have gone off like a shot, As bombs often do accidentally, And no one would ever have mourned for his lot, | Or mourned o'er his fate senti- | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. Sonnysayings I don't mind playin’ I'm baby’s baby (her feeds me good), but I don't like bein’ put t’' bed with Rag-Anna. Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. OUGHT waves! That's a word to conjure with. Can you sit in an audience and stare at the back of some person’s head and cause that person to turn his head? Of course you must keep thinking: “The head will turn.” If you can do this, you may say that thought waves turned the trick of turning the head. Literally thousands believe this to be a fact, just as others believe that a snake will swallow the young ones when danger is imminent. The head-turning thought-wave proposition has been put to the test | many times. The answer from scien- | tific circles is that there is absolutely | nothing to it. There are no thought | waves and therefore the head does not turn for that reason. But heads do turn in any audience. They may turn because of some slight noise back of them. Or they may turn because the sitting posture is always attended by slight muscular tension. Heads will turn for many such rea- sons. Of course, if you happen to be experimenting at such times you might easily say that thought waves did it— providing you were disposed to be- lieve in the efficacy of thought waves. Human beings, it seems, are very likely to believe what they want to believe. If you still have your belief in the power of thought waves, try it out over a long period of time. Keep an account of successful and unsuccessful experiments. Then draw your own conclusions. (Copyright The Old Gardener Says: All evergreens need an abund- ance of water in the Autumn, and in sections where a long 1935.) drought has prevailed water should be given with the greatest freedom. Being evergreen, plants of this character throw off moist- ure all through the year, and for that reason must have an abund- ant supply for their roots to draw upon. It is especially necessary that rhododendrons and moun- tain laurel should have plenty of moisture at their roots when the ground freezes, because they transpire a great amount of moisture through their broad leaves. If they become weak- ened from lack of moisture, they will become an easy prey to the lace-winged fly, which often does much damage. Other ever- greens which lack for moisture become attacked by red spider in hot dry weather and can be badly damaged before the presence of this almost invisible insect is dis~ covered. {Copyright, 1935.) & Nature’s Children Paper Nautilus (Argonauta Argo). BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. OUR centuries before Christ Aristotle wrote about these strange creatures, But though there seemed to be ample op- portunity for finding out their ways, little was really known about them until 1850. Mme. Argonauta is the most fre- quently mentioned, though her cousin, the Chambered or Pearly Nautilus, has also become famous through the poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes, of that title. Here were two unique mollusks, the pearly and paper nautilus, roaming all the warm and tropical seas, yet the family history of the “little sailor” remained clouded in mystery. ‘The Roman and Greek writers gave to them the name nautilus and com- pared them with the mythical Argonauts who were supposed to sail under Jason in search of the Golden Fleece. The anclents knew the little boat was sometimes loosed from its moorings and that the creature to whom it belohged did not die. What they did not know was that the fairy 214 barque was the dainty porcelain cradle for the eggs. The argonautas walk the floors of the warm seas most of the year, bear- ing their cradle aloft in their two front arms. If a boisterous wind casts these mothers on the shores at spawn- ing time the sea gulls feast on the eggs and the empty shells are carried out to sea with the returning tide. ‘The mother is large, with a diameter of 6 to 12 inches, but her mate is only about 1 inch long. Argonaut has no shell. ‘The cradles are truly wonderful. While all other mollusks have shell glands in the mantle edges, the nau- tilus prefers to be different. The first two arms secrete a filmy substance, when the female is 10 or 12 days old. | The two little fluted, concave disks | are joined together and form the | Jolly Polly A Little Chat on English BY JOS. J. FRISCH. ALTHOUGH HE HAS PLENTY OF GET= UP-AND-GO, COUSIN JIM CAN'T HOLD A JOB. DAD SAYS HE NEEDS s— MORE SET-DOWN-AND-STAY, > A. H—"Sit down, and stay” is the correct form. Set means put, sit means rest. “Set (put) this plant on the radio.’ ‘The plant sits (rests) on the radio.” “I have set (put) Billy on the fence.” “Billy is sitting (rest- ing) on the fence.” “He is setting (putting) the hen on 10 eggs.” “The hen is sitting (resting) on 10 eggs.” “Who set (put) this here?” “Why is this sitting (resting) here?” 2 BLENDS—2 PRICES Papa | “boat” or cradle. It has a spiral, knobbed prow. In this tiny shell the body of the mother rests, although, as she grows, it finally projects far beyond it. Any breaks in the porcelain cradle are quickly mended, and this is the first record we have of the cementing of broken porcelain. True, the pleces are glued together wrong side out, but it is otherwise a very good job. ‘You may see her gleaming black eyes through the walls of the transparent boat. After the eggs have been deposited, the mother covers them with a sticky secretion that holds them together in a cluster, as well as protects them. The eggs are pushed back into the spiral, gradually unsetting the mother, as they increase in size. She carries them about still fastened to her body, until they hatch and swim off on their own. ‘They must be good sailors, for they are so widely distributed. You may see them on the coast of Florida, and they are abundant among the Pacific island coasts, in the Gulf of Cali- fornia and about the Cape of Good Hope. Empty shells are highly prized by collectors. Scottish Beach on Fire. ‘The “sea coal” on the beach at East Wemyss, Scotland, has been on fire twice within a week. Workmen dis- covered a huge mass of purning coal, about 10 feet deep, buried under a cov- ering which appeared to be normal. A large trench was cut around the out- break, and when the tide rose the water was used to quell the fire. The outbreak is attributed to children who, during the past few weeks, have been lighting fires on top of the sea coal to boil whelks. e Entire Village for Sale. ‘The entire village of Weierhof, Ger- many, is to be placed on sale by v.he" A few years ago the | public receiver. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1935. How It Started BY JEAN NEWTON. Scruples. EREMY TAYLOR'S definition of a scruple as “a great trouble of mind proceeding from a little motive” is still as-much in order as it was in the days of Cicero, who also used it figuratively in the sense of a cause of anxiety or uneasiness. Piguratively, scruple, intrinsically, is from; the Latin scrupulous, meaning & little rough stone or pebble. The analogy, of course, is between the sharp, pointed stone that hurts the foot, for instance, in walking, and the inner prickings that assail the conscience. In passing it is interesting to note that one of the first etymological de- velopments was the acquisition by the word scruple of the significance of weight—that is, 1-24 of an ounce apothecary’s measure—presumably the weight of a small pebble. Thus in Barroughs’ book, “Physick,” published in 1596, we fin is twentie barley cornes. recently as 1843, in Watson’s “Lectures on Physic,” “It consists of iodide of mercury mixed with lard, in the pro- portion of two scruples to the ounce.” Richest Man Builds Palace. The Nizam of Hyderabad, the rich- est man in the world, will adopt West- ern ideas in the new palace which he is building in India. He has engaged a European interior decorator. Most of the 50 apartments will represent different periods of Western culture, and the bath rooms will be the last word in modernity. The palace will probably be used not more than once in two years. 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He appears to have been one of the early settlers of Charles County, Md., as we find records of him there as early as 1676. We also find that he purchased land near Port Tobacco, in Charles County, in 1692. He married | [NSRIIINL Elizabeth Brandt, daughter of Capt. LECTURE B o imm— % Randolph Brandt. YES, LADIES, SALADS s Descendants of Joseph scattered into ««-YES, g WONDERFUI various Southern States and some ARE HIGHLY NECESSARY HELLMANNS IS L, HELEN. SUCH FLAVOR! AND went North into Pennsylvania and Ne York. Among the Keyryltv:clll(y lpx;one:rvé FOR THE GROWING CHILD. SO RICH AND CREAMYI STEVEY LOVES SALADS NOW. of this family was Col. Alexander Bcott Bullitt, who contributed a bril- liant chapter to the State’s history. He assisted in drafting the State con- sitution and served as one of the 11 of Kentucky's Senators in the first Legislature, as well as filling many other offices of trust and importance. (Copyright. 1935.) 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