Evening Star Newspaper, October 8, 1935, Page 11

WOMEN’S FEATURES. Bedtime Stories Striped Chipmunk’s Mistake. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. TRIPED Chipmunk sat on the edge of a big flat stone at the end of the Old Stonewall on &the edge of Farmer Brown’s door-yard. Striped Chipmunk was gloating. Yes, sir; he was gloating. His eyes sparkled. He licked his lips. He sat up and looked. Then | he went around to the other side of the big flat stone and sat up and looked. He was gloating. You see, | he had made a wonderful find. In| the middle of that big flat rock were | a lot of matermelon seeds that had | been put there by Farmer Brown's | boy. They had been put there es- pecially for Striped Chipmunk, al- | though he did not know this. He ate one of the sceds. It tasted so good that he ate another. Then he began to think about storing | those seeds away. How rich he would | feel if he had a storeroom filed with | those shiny black seeds! The only trouble was they were not dry. You | see Farmer Brown's boy had put them | out there to dry in the sun, not ex- pecting Striped Chipmunk to find them so soon. It just happened that hardly had be disappeared in the | house when Striped Chipmunk hap- | pened over there. Now of course those seeds were all wet, for they had | just come from the melon. To keep | properly seeds should be thoroughly dried. Striped Chipmunk knows this, or should know it. “I suppose I ought to wait "l thought Striped Chipmunk. “I sup- pose I ought to wait until these seeds have become dry, but if I do that| some one else may find them. In| that case 1 might use them alto- gether. It would break my heart to do that. Yes, sir; it would break my heart to lose all these lovely seeds I just can't bear the thought of such | & thing.” | He picked up a seed and with his | tongue pushed it into one of his cheek | pockets. Then he hesitated. That | seed really was too wet to be put| away. He came pretty near slipping | it out of that cheek pocket and eat- | ing it, but he didn't. Instead he slipped another seed in. Then force | of habit became too strong and he | started filling both cheek pockets. | With the pockets filled he scampered | away along the Old Stonewall to his newest storeroom, which was down under ground. It was a very carefully | Nature’s Stellars Sea Lion. BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. HE closest relatives of the giants of the sea are the fur-seals. They have a life story that is practically the same and their haunts are in the same locality. But the fur-seals are not so large as these | sea-lions, and their fur is far more | valuable. The old bulls weigh 1.200 | to 1,500 pounds and they rule their harems with a rod of iron. All are extremely gregarious and polygamous. They belong to the North Pacific, | | cheeks and then he scampered back | made storeroom. It was deep enough in the ground to be dry. He had planned it for the beechnuts he hoped to have by and by. Right near it was another little storeroom filled with cherry pits. “It's a long time to beechnut time.” thought Striped Chipmunk, “so I'll | just put these seeds in this nice store- room that I have just finished. It| is too bad that they are not dry, but they are not, so I guess I'll take a | chance. Perhaps they'll keep down here where it is nice and dry in this send.” So he emptied the pockets in his HE SAT UP AND LOOKED. for more seeds. My, my, how he did run along that Old Stonewall! He just couldn't get over there soon enough. You see, he was dreadfully | afraid that those seeds would vanish while he was gone. He was dreadfully | afraid that some one else would find them and take them. It was with a little sigh of pure relief that he hopped over on that | flat stcne and at a glance saw that | no one had touched those seeds. Then he went to work with a will. He. stuffed those pockets in his cheeks | so full that his head seemed twice as big as it really is. When he couldn't get another seed in, he scampered back with this load for the storeroom. My, my, how Striped Chipmunk did | work! And how happy he was in | that work, for he is one who long ago | discovered that work is the key to | real happiness. | (Copyright 1935.) Children || | sea-lions arrive there will have been | many battles, but the real fighting be- | gins with their arrival. The con- testants are savage, cruel and willing | to stand any amount of punishment. | Their wives and sisters look on with | the most bored expression and do not seem to care what happens to the | struggling males. At one time there were hundreds of thousands of sea-lions that came to the islands to mate and here the young were born. Today the number THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, "G!:E, you looked perfectly stunning walking down F street this morning,” said the head milliner of Stone’s Department Store to her pretty young assistant | Linda West. “That new seal coat you ‘were wearing must have cost Yyou plenty.” “Thanks, Miss Martin,” replied Linda gratefully. “You know, it took me two years to save enough money to buy that coat, | and only for the depression prices it would have taken two years more, I guess.” Linda's small salary could not 3 begin to buy all the pretty things shel longed for. Until recently she had been satisfied with “bargain counter” | dresses and cheap hose, but now it was different—she had a boy friend | and must look her best. | It took weeks and weeks to save enough money to buy a new hat or purse or gloves. It seemed that her | whole life was spent waiting for pay | days. | Linda, like all her companions at | Stone's, did her shopping in the base- | ment of one or another of the larger | ‘Washington stores. She wouldn't have | known just how to buy except in a crowded bargain basement, where one | could try on hats, dresses and shoes | without being rushed fnto a sale. Be- sides, one never felt self-conscious when lost in a crowd. Ak w i ONE lunch hour she hurried down to the basement to look for gloves. | Selecting & pair, she stood impatiently, | shifting from one foot to the other, waiting for a saleslady to ring up the sale. At last, fearing she might be| late, she thrust the gloves between her purse and magazine and left the store without paying for them. “Oh, boy!"” she sighed to herself when she reached the street above. “Why waste a perfectly good lunch hour waiting for someone to take your money when you can get things | for nothing?” She chuckled to her- self. “That gives me an idea—" | It was just as easy during another lunch hour to select a high-priced hat and leave the old one in its place on the bargain table. No one would be the wiser until closing time, then who would suspect Linda West, the little clerk in the hat department at Stone's? The attractively embroidered Bel- field tag that was sewed in the lining of the new hat was ripped out that evening and neatly sewed on the lining of the new fur coat, replacing the modest tag that read “Stone’s,” of which the owner had been a little ashamed. She proudly viewed the completed job. “Ah, that will make the girls sit up and take notice; noth- ing cheap about Linda West—no “Wait @ minute, please.” DAILY SHORT STORY: PRICE TAG By G. C. Coler. dragged out and put into the police patrol. Then she pletured herself en- acting such a scene; pictured her com- panions’ faces when they learned just why she was absent from work. She determined to be doubly careful in the future. “You must be working on a night shift some place, Linda,” teased one of the girls at her table. “A new hat, purse and - shoes. What do you do with your old clothes?” Lindablushed scarlet; her hands trembled. Those invisible pointing fingers were both- ering her again. “Oh, one can always have a charge account; and these days stores aren’t so particular about a per- son paying promptly,” she explained. “Have you noticed, Linda, that the new fur coats have belts now?” asked | Miss Martin. “Yes, I have,” sighed Linda. “That's another thing this de, “2ssion has done. The manufacturers keep changing the styles to force us poor working girls to buy; they don't even let fur coats stay in for a whole season.” “All your coat needs is a fur belt— you could have one made to match,” | suggested Miss Martin. “It would give your coat a very smart effect.” | That night on her way home, as she passed Belfield’s, Linda remem: bered Miss Martin's words: “It gives the coat a smart—" | X “()H WELL, I know how and where | to get a fur belt,” she said to| herself as she ran down the stair to Belfield’s bargain basement. | She noticed with regret that it was | not as thickly crowded as at the lunch hour, the salesladies were busy re-| placing the coats on the racks. She | tried on a raccoon coat and at the same time pulled off the belt of a seal coat hanging conveniently near. “May I assist you, Mjss?” asked & clerk. “No thanks, I'm just looking around,” she said, haughtily. The gong sounded for closing. There was rushing and scrambling everywhere; still the per- sistent saleslady stood by. “Oh, dear, guess I'll e to come back tomorrow at noon,” Linda said to herself. She cast aside the raccoon coat with the remark, “Too small,” and slipped into her own coat. She | viewed herself in the mirror "“hi delight as she fastened on the belt. “Wait & minute, please, Miss,” sald a middle-aged woman taking her by the arm as she left the front door. Linda blushed and trembled. “Yes, what is it?” she stammered, trying hard to smile. “Didn’t you accidentally slip into the wrong coat, dearie?” asked the | D. How It Started BY JEAN NEWTON. Have an Itch For. To have an itch for something is to be possessed of a great desire for it. Intrinsically, the object sought may be consequential or not; at the mo- ment, however, it looms imperatively in the inclination. It is intriguing to trace how this expression came into being. Itch is a good old English word which has always indicated that ticklish, uneasy sensation in the skin | which filled the person so affected with an overpowering longing to scratch the area involved. It is this sense of longing which has survived uppermost and emphati- cally in the metaphorical application of the word, which, by the way, dates back thousands of years. So we have, among figurative usages, the phrase to have itching ears, found TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1935. WOMEN'S .FEATURES, in the Bible in the sense of longing eagerly for news; to itch for gold or to have an itching palm, the latter being used by Shakespeare, with the significance of a great longing for money; and the simple general itch to do or possess any particular thing, which is just a great longing to ac- complish or own something. (Copyright 1935.) ) at your$kin G it Pionply Blotchy s it Red and If so, Use Cs.l_l'tieura and Qintment Soapsc. 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Still the hunt- | toward the North, where they will | ing has been so great that there are again take possession of & favorite |few left, indeed, compared with the siree!” The Belfield tag gave the fur coat an added value, she thought. * X X x AT TIMES when she walked proudly down the street dressed in various woman, quietly. | “Why no, this is my coat. I've had | it for two months,” answered Linda, sl " el 4-Piece Rich Neo-Classic Bedroom Suite site and fight all who try fo contest | their right to it. By the time the w i | Who Are \70171:;" The Romance of Your Name. BY RUBY HASKINS ELLIS. THls surname is derived from the | ' residence of some person near the gate of some fortified town or forest. In North Britain and Scotland the ancient term for way was “gate” a favorite expression being “Gang your gate,” meaning “go your way.” Variations of spelling the name have become numerous, the most fre- quently found being Northgate, South- gate, Gater, Agate (from at gate), Le «Gate and De la Gate. This coat of arms was brought to America by Stephen Gates of County Norfolk, England. Stephen was the son of Thomas Gates, tenth generation from Thomas Gates of High Easter and Thurstebic, Essex County, England, who lived in the fourteenth century. Stephen, the founder of the family in‘ America, came over in 1638, gettling in Hingham, Mass. He later moved his residence to Cambridge, Mass. There were other settlers bearing this name in New England and else- where in America during the period of colonization, but all cannot be traced to a common origin. The arms we show are blazoned: “Per pale gules and azure, three lions rampant guardant, or. Crest—A de- million rampant guardant or.” (Copyright. 1935.) . Sonnysayings Muvver killed all them poor flies, one way or another, and in the * ment I got a lickin’. Baby didn’t Bothin'—her is just synthetic, is all. |a group of males get together and | decide to have a roaring contest the | great herds of long ago. To the Aleutian Islanders these animals were of great importance. They meant food and clothes to them, as well as shelter. For the flesh of the animal provided them with mea the blubber with oil, the tough hide with material to cover their boats and tents, the fur with warm overcoats | and clothing, the flippers for the soles | of their boots, the whiskers and | bristles for irimming and the thread | for sewing is obtained from the sinews. The sea-lions are animals that love the most rugged shore lines and stormiest swimmers and have great powers of endurance. It seems to be more fun than effort for them to swim through lashing waves in order to reach a favorite rock on which to loll. When din they raise, added to the noise of | the sea, can be heard for miles. | It is said the old sea-lions are very fond of their children and love to play | with them. A youngster, riding upon the back of grandfather or father as he takes a swim, gives an impression of family affection. With but one exception. these | creatures are given wide berth by all who know of their approach. There | is one who is not afraid of them, but hunts them whenever he knows of their presence in the vicinity, and | that one is the dreaded killer whale, | who takes a heavy toll from their number every time he enters their midst. seas. They are tireless | [ appropriate accessories she felt in- visible fingers pointing to her; she | almost heard voices hiss “Sneak thief! sneak thief!” Then she would recall the times at the store when she had seen young girls led up to the office to be ques- tioned for stealing. She remembered | how they had looked when they were | tive—for it was none other—turning | back the fur belt. Then pointing to | the price tag, “I'm afraid you'll have a hard time convincing the police. | Come along with me.” With a pang Linda suddenly re- membered that Stone’s trademark was no longer in her coat lining. (Copyright 1935 (Copyright 1935.) | “Sold at All Good Paint and Hardware Stores” l SILVER DUST DEEPER SUDS make dishwashing quick and easy HE two pictures at the. right give dramatic proof that Silver Dust does make deeper suds. The first jar shows the amount of suds you get with ordinary soap. The second jar shows the amount of suds you get from the same quantity of Silver Dust. 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