Evening Star Newspaper, September 27, 1935, Page 34

WOMEN Bedtime Stories Billy Mink Goes Roving. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. ILLY MINK is a rover. He is B like to stay put in one place. No, sir, none of that for Billy not one of those persons who Mink. He wants to be traveling. The result is you may meet him in the | Green Forest, you may meet him along the Big River, you may meet him anywhere along the Laughing Brook. You may even meet him up in Farmer Brown's dooryard, around the barn or the hen house. There is no knowing where or when Billy Mink will bob up. | It was a long time since Billy Mink had been up the Laughing Brook far enough to reach the ponds of Paddy the Beaver, deep in the Green For- est. He had been down the Laughing Brook to the Big River, and up and down the Big River for some distance each way. He had made many side trips. Getting a living was an easy matter. In the water there were al- ways fish or frogs. Sometimes he hunted Meadow Mice out there. At this season of the year Billy Mink lived easily and he lived high. Billy sat on the Big Rock in the Bmiling Pool. He often sits on the Big Rock. He had just had a good breakfast of a fine trout he had caught. He was trying to make up his mind where to go next. Jerry Musk- rat came swimming along. “Hello, Jerry,” said Billy. “What's the news?” “There is none that I know of, un- less it is news that yesterday I saw your big cousin, Little Joe Otter, on his way to the Big River. He sat on the Big Rock, just as you are doing now.” “That settles it,” said Billy. “What does it settle?” demanded Jerry. i “I'm not going down to the Big | River,” said Billy. “If Little Joe Otter has gone down there, there will be | no fishing for me, or hunting either. | Il go up the Laughing Brook. I'll go up and pay Paddy the Beaver a | visit.” “I don't see what you want to go and pay anybody a visit for,” said | Jerry Muskrat. “Why aren't you con- tent to stay in one place? What do you want to be roaming around for in such hot weather as this?” “I couldn't stay in one place,” de- clared Billy. “I don't see how any- body else can. I would be bored to death. I like to travel. I like change. | I like to see what's going on in the Great World. And it always is cool in the water.” “Well, that may do for you, but it wouldn’t do for me,” said Jerry. I like to know where the next meal is coming from.” “Pooh!” said Billy. “That is the Sonnysayings I'm practicin’ the jesters fer my piece in school t'morrow. It's “Breathes there a man with soles o' | bread—." I neber had a sole ob bread—I am berry fond ob heels. ! tarpaulin—always required to be worn {in bad weather by the sailor, 'S FEATURES. |least of my worries. I can always | find something. If the fishing is poor | Il go hunting. If the hunting is | poor, I'll go fishing. I like variety. I | like to be free to go when I please | and sleep when I please.” Jerry looked at Billy curiously. “Can | you always find a safe place to sleep?” | he asked. “Certainly,” replied Billy. “I never yet saw the time when I was sleepy that I couldn’t find a good place to sleep. Sometimes it is in a hollow log. Sometimes it is in a hole under the roots of a tree. Sometimes it is under a pile of brush. Sometimes it is in the middle of a mass of ferns. That’s half the fun of roving, not knowing where you are going to sleep next. You ought to try it some time,” said Billy. “No, thanks,” replied Jerry shortly. “I've had to make a long journey when my home was struck by way of the flood and I wanted to get back. ‘The Smiling Pool is good enough for me all the time and here I will stay.” | “Everybody to his liking,” replied Billy Mink carelessly and, diving smoothly into the Smiling Pool. he | swam across to where the Laughing Brook enters it and there disappeared. (Copyright. 1935.) How It étarted , BY JEAN NEWTON. Jack Tar. “QUBLIME tobacco!” enthused mad, bad Byron, “which from East to West cheers the tar's labour.” Tar or Jack Tar for seaman has been in common use for many hun- dreds of years. At first thought a puzzling nick- name, as in many other cases, when the mystery is explaiued, the solution is simple. Jack, of course, is a generic collo- quialism for man, originally applied to one in a low straium of society. And tar is just an abbreviation of and after which he was so-called. (Copyright 1935. COATS OF ARMS| beautifully emblajoned and framed to l-aufi | or enqraved for your stati or book labels. Moderate rates, Brew®D Erymvers & Fine Printers 611 TweLFTH STREET T\ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1935, Who Are You? The Romance of Your Name. BY RUBY HASKINS ELLIS. THE founder of this family in Amer- ica was Vincent Meigs (or Meggs), born 1583, who came over from Wey- mouth, in Dorsetshire, England, in 1637 and settled in Weymouth, Mass. He later moved to New Haven and | from there to Milford and eventually Guildford, Conn. His son, John Meigs, who was born in England, took the oath of fidelity in New Haven in 1644 and was admitted a freeman. In 1654 he was engaged in farming in Guild- ford. Descendants of this family were among the stanchest patriots and most distinguished soldiers during the War of the American Revolution. Col. Return Jonathan Meigs, born in | 1740, rendered brilliant service, com- manded a regiment at the Battle of Stony Point in 1779 and led an expe- dition at Sag Harbor, Long Island. Congress conferred high honors upon him for his valuable services. His son, Return Jonathan Meigs, became Gov- ernor of Ohio. served as Federal judge and as Postmaster General of the United States. Descendants of his family moved southward and became outstanding in | many of the Southern States. Jona- than Meigs (1801-91) was attorney general of Tennessee and a member of the State Senate. He moved to Nature’s Children Keeled Lizard (Gerrhonotus Multicarinatus). BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. HIS wise looking “sawback” is l the only species of keeled or plated lizard that has a wide distribution north of Mexico. He is to be found throughout the Pa- cific Coast region, from British Co- lumbia southward to lower California, inclusive. He also ranges eastward into Texas and from thete into Mex- ico and Central America. By his alert expression and tilted head you naturally infer this fellow is no dullard. Speeding is his usual rate of travel, though even he is left behind by the swifts and slinks, his relatives once removed. His life story is very similar to that of his cousins, who are to be found over our country at large. They oc- cupy such places as forests, »elts of chapparal, rocky situations, and even in elevations 7,000 to 9,000 .eet above sea level. In order to escape undue attention the color scheme blends perfectly with the scenery about him. The olive- brown back, with many dark, wavy cross bands bordered in white, the greenish white abdomen, and the soft folds of skin on the sides with their rounded patches of white, carry out | the idea to perfection. The scales of the upper surfaces and the tapering tail are strongly keeled. Those on the abdomen are oblong, highly polished and arranged in the same ringlike form, typical of this family. Without _doubt, the outstanding point of interest in these creatures is thelr universal practice of tossing away their tails! Just picture it, with the caudal appendage removed. At first, you would think the loss of it Washington, D. C., where he organ- ized the Supreme Court of the Dis- trict of Columbia. Today descendants of Vincent Meigs are found in almost every State, par- ticularly in those States south of the Mason and Dixon line. (Copyright. 1935.) ORANGE-PINEAPPLE \ ICE CREAM PRODUCED UNDER THE SEALTEST pretty good imitation at that. provocation. on to their “tailpieces” seize them there. But the keeled liz- ards, when danger threatens, non- and make a quick, though taflless exit. “Undeclared the important member would be a | calamity, but in a short time 1 new one begins to grow. True, the second one does not come up to the specifi- cations of the first one, but it is a As you perhaps know, many lizards part with their tails upon the least Yet most of them hold until foes chalantly toss theirs to their pursuers The discarded member dances vigor- ously over the dry leaves or ground upon touching it, and the lizard chaser turns back at once to inspect the jigging object. Should the opportunity present it- self for a close inspection of the crea- ture and his detached member, you will find the parting has been a pain- less and bloodless one. Although the two parts had fitted together like the petals of a flower, they can never be joined again, for the moment the swollen, protruding filaments of flesh left their pockets, they increased in size. “When these creatures are first de- prived of their liberty, they resent the insult bitterly. However, juicy house flies, plump mealworms and a few beetles win them over quickly. You should see how determinedly one wipes his lips with his stout, forked tongue, allowing not a vestige of his Confectioners XXXX | | For smooth uncooked icings War" has come 10 Everytown. What will happen to Mrs. John Cabal, a typical mother—a woman who well might be your wife . .. your mother . . . your daughter? She is one of the real people H. G. 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And clothes for a family like ours cost money . . . I can’t afford to have them fade gradually, or to “I like to keep my “T didn’t have to buy new baby clothes for David. have the threads weakened by soaking in harsh soap so that they split easily. “In my early housekeeping days I dis- covered that there was NO FADING when my clothes were washed with Chipso. I dis- covered that Chipso’s richer, softer suds would soak dirt loose without doing any harm to the fabric. And now that I have five children I'm certainly glad that I don’t have to experiment to find a quick-working OND YEAR for Anne’s dress.” soap which is SAFE. 4Chipso-washed ‘hand-me- downs’ still look new” “My children’s Chipso-washed clothes wear literally for years. Barbara inherits Anne’s dresses and my baby, David, is supplied from John’soutgrown wardrobe. Thepicture at the left shows how nice old clothes can look after washing, “My towels, sheets and table linens for years, too. They look really white . .. smell fresh. And Chipso works fast . .. hard rubbing! The suds are so rich soak dirt loose.” Test Chipso for dishes last CHIPSO makes clothes LONGER saves they MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE Find out for yourself how SUDSY and QUICK-WORKING Chipso is . . . and how SAFE! Use Chipso for dish-washing for two weeks. Compare it with harsh pow- dered soap. You will see that Chipso is WHITE, not yellow. It smells FRESH, not strong . . . feels SILKY, not harsh. And if your HANDS aren’t SMOOTHER after this change to Chipso for two weeks for washing your dishes, you can take your empty Chipso box to your dealer and get your money back! Chipso is SOAPIER, not harsh. . .it saves your hands. Think what sucksafety means to your clothes! WOMEN’S FEATURES. feast to remain on them. This flash- ing member is also used to test the surfaces upon which he treads. The youngsters of this family are a lively lot. In form, they resemble their parents, though they are paler in color and are smooth and glossy. 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