Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1935, Page 48

WOMEN 'S FEATURES. Bedtime Stories . The Foolish Mouse. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. . IC —Old Mother Nature. up in his comfortable nest, which was in a hollow in a tree, a hollow cut out by Drummer the Woodpecker and long ago given up by him. The young Mouse watched Whitefoot depart, and there was something of scorn in his small cyes. “The idea,” said he to HITEFOOT the Wood Mouse lives in the Gregn Forest. | ! He has many relatives V- | o1e "t hiding when Hooty 1s 5o | ing there. You- know,| wherever you find one member of the | Mouse family you are almost certain to find others. Whitefoot himself was | wise in the ways that the timid folk | must be wise in, if they would live oo oyahout Hooty. long. He had had more narrow escapes than he could even remember. In fact, it sometimes seemed to Whitefoot that life was just one THIS SMART YOUNG WOOD MOUSE. escape after another. is the way it seemed. Now, recently there had come to live in Whitefoot's neighborhood a distant relative, a fourth or fifth or sixth cousin, he didn't know which. This Wood Mouse was much younger that Whitefoot. In fact, he was quite young and, like 50 many young peo- ple, he was inclined to think he knew it all. He was inclined to look down on those older than himself and to think of them somewhat scornfully as timid and somewhat behind the time, Now, when this young Wood Mouse had moved into the neighborhood, Whitefoot had tried to be friendly. He had offered to advise his young Yes, sir, that neighbor whenever the latter might | be in need of advice. The young Wood Mouse had turned his head aside to hide a grin, when Whitefoot made this offer. . “The idea!” said he to his mate, who was of his own age. “The very idea of that old fogey thinking he can advise me. It is a wonder to me that he has lived as long as he has. Why, even while we were talking together, he ducked out of sight just because he heard a leaf rustle. He didn't stop to see what made the leaf rustle. It was a Merry Little Breeze, one of ©Old Mother Westwind's children, and #0, of course, perfectly harmless. didn't run. I waited to find out if there was any need of running.” One evening Whitefoot met this smart young Wood Mouse and, as usual, they stopped for a few minutes of chat. While they were talking they heard the flerce hunting call of Hooty the Great Horned Owl. It came from far away in the Green Forest. White- foot looked anxious. “Hooty has be- gun hunting early tonight,” said he. “I hope he won't come this way. Any- way, I'm going home and stay inside until T am certain that he isn’t about in this neighborhood.” “He isn't here now, as you can tell by the sound of his voice, so why worry?” replied the young Mouse. “I'm not worrying,” replied White- foot, “and I don’t intend to worry. There I won’t have cause to worry, no matter how near he comes.” So Whitefoot went home and curled Contract BY P. HAL SIMS. Playing Too Fast. OR once, we have no fault to find | with the bidding on a hand. The| bidding was perfect. We wish that| | young Mouse. | far away. I would hide quickly enough if Hooty were near, but he isn’t. Any= | way, he couldn't catch me if he tried.” 8o the foolish young Mouse boldly n this way and that. and quite for- Suddenly that | terrible hunting call rang out trom} a tree almost over that foolish young | Mouse. Hooty had arrived on silent | wings. Now, in spite of all he could do, that foolish young Mouse jumped, he was so startled. It was only a very little jump, a very little jump indeed. Most people would have jumped from such a fright. But, little as that jump was, it caused a couple of dead leaves that were brown and dry to rustle. A moment later that foolish young Mouse was clutched in Hooty's great curved claws. Those wonderful | ears of Hooty's had heard that faint | rustle and guided him to where his | night-seeing eyes had discovered the | Meanwhile, Whitefoot | was safe at home. (Covyright. 1935.) BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Unconscious Observation. WE NOTICE thousands of things unconsciously every day. We notice far more things unconsciously | than consciously. This is one of the 1 strangest of all the known facts about mental processes. This all comes about because it is impossible to attend to more than a few things at one moment. Probably | not more than half a dozen under the | very best of observational conditions. In other words, we do more attending from our world of events than attend- ing to them. Or to put it still an- | other way, attention is limited while inattention seems to be unlimited. In everyday life, we attend only to those aspects of experience which be- long to the day's work. But when night comes on and we pay attention | to nothing in particular, the uncon- | sciously observed happenings of the day come trooping into consciousness | for recognition. That's where we get our dream stuff. That's also where we get our hunches. Some persons, living largely in the dream-world even while they are awake, translate their hunches into | visions which they take to be some- | thing more real than dreams. It ap- | pears that one must be slightly ab- normal to do this. That's the way | prophets are made. Perhaps those I| geniuses going under the name of inventors get a lot of their ideas in | the same way. Poets, too, have now |and then admitted this ability to manufacture verse out of the un- conscious. As one said, “I sang in numbers, for the numbers came.” (Copyright. 1935.) Barn Dance BY GEORGE ELLISTON. The moon comes in on the aged floor, An uninvited guest, The moon comes in and dances here— And dances with the best. Dance up yourself, dance, dance and sway, | Forget tomorrow’s cold And dance with youth, dance while THE EVENING ST Sonnysayings TS K e Srodan o G Bras nghts vl Baby has decided t’be a good sporter. ‘We is goin’ t'do our Christmas shop- pin’ out ob her bank! e Friendfless Versus Rigid Conventions BY EMILY POST. DEAR MRS. POST: A friend moved to this town about six months. ago and immediately I gave a party to have my friends meet her. Every one has been very kind to her, although every one is very casual about paying visits. Most of these ladies have invited her to parties and the newcomer is turning every one down because, as she explained to me, no one has called. I am sure that she will be very miserable in the new year if she insists upon following the conventional precepts of etiquette as rigidly as this. What would you say was best for her to do? 4 Answer—While it is true that strict formality does exact that a hostess leave her card with a first invitation to a stranger, there are so few people in this present day who follow formal card-leaving exactions that it |is doubtful if the youngest hostesses even stop to realize its existence. In any case, your friend is in the wrong, since she should have been aware of the hospitality that prompted her neighbors’ invitatioss, and she should have accepted them in the same spirit. I don't know what she can do now except send friendly notes of invita- tion to a party of her own, which you can perhaps persuade her neigh- bors to accept by explaining her ap- parent lack of appreMation for what- ever reason you can give that is most plausible. e Dear Mrs. Post: What am I sup- posed to say to a debutante at her | coming-out party? I have known the family for years. Answer—People usually tell the debutante that they hope she will have a very happy Winter. Personal friends also tell her how lovely she looks, and only if there is no queue waiting do they stop to say very much else. What this is would be difficult to outline, since such conversations are the result of impulse and not preparation. \'_Vitty Kitty you may, Forgetting to grow old. Forgetting you and the year will go The way of time and death, Dance up while still the month is fair, And holds late Summer’s breath. Dance, dance in the moon’s white light, dance up ‘While dreams hold still their gold, we could say as much for the play. South Dealer, a3 v 6-5 4 J-10-7-6-5-4-3 »J-4-2 ¥ K-J-4-3 *9 \ & K-Q-J-4-2 ¥ A-Q-10-8-7-2 4 K-8 a3 Neither side vulnerable. The bidding: bop ¥ A By Bass Pass (1) We do not even criticize West’s double. He had a number of sound reasons. The bidding did not indicate | that either North or South would be able to redouble, and he wished to| misplace the strength—to make North ! afraid of any heart finesses. Nort the king of diamonds, so there were| two birds in the hand. And North went down one trick. What better | Justification could West have? | The opening lead was she king of | elubs. North took with the ace and | trumped a club on the board. He led the ace of spades and a small spade, rufing in his own hand. He then trumped his third and last club with the king of diamonds. Up to this point the play was like the rattle of machine-gun bullets. We like to see players slap down cards rapidly, if they don’t inadvertently ruin themselves. The king of spades was played and a heart discarded. The ace of hearts was led and another heart. At this point West made what might be con- sidered a strange play. He trumped with the queen of diamonds. North ‘was baffled for a second, but he under- trumped and bravely went up with the jack of diamonds when West returned & spade. 3 We charitably assume that North thought about his next play; that he realized the only way he could make his contract was to find East with either the blank ace or the blank nine of diamonds; and that despite West's play of the queen of diamonds and his double, East'’s holding was probably the former—for he led a small dia- mond instead of the ten spot. If West does not P queen of diamonds, and bait under the declarer's will ruff the heart low and Jaek of diamonds, dropping East's ter that, East and West can give up. (Copyright. 1935.) More- | over, he had a hunch that South held | | And laugh while you may, laugh merrily At the thought of growing old. (Copyright. 1935.) ‘The girl chum says she hopes all her friends’ financial troubles will be copper ones. (Copyright. 1935.) WHAT DELICIOUS, | SWEET, RICH - | ORANGE JUICE! 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In less than 50 years, since their introduc- tion into the United States, these animals have become a flourishing industry. From the original 10, im- ported in 1891 from Eastern Siberia, | the 171, brought in a year later, and up to 1902, about 1,280, we have today something like 250,000, besides the 100,000 killed for food and clothing. Expert Laplanders taught how to rear and use the reindeer. Companies have been formed, of late years, to raise these animals for their meat. Refrigerating cars are used, in which to carry the meat to all the large cities in the United States. There is one thing you can remem- ber about the caribou and reindeer ladies. They have horns, something ¥ SPANISH OLIVES Our select Queen ol- ives are famous for firm meat and de- i il The dainty Manzanillas are stuffed with sweet and deliciously pungent pimiento. A truly ap- petizing relish for your Christmas meal. PICKLED ONIONS Small white onion: mild and delic flavored. Two kinds: sweet and sour. Both carefully selected and preserved in a richly spiced liquor. Superb appetizers. H Royal finale to a’ feast — the hallowed Christmas pudding! Heinz makes a plum chuck-full of luscious fruits and other y things. with reverent ceremony) according to an thentic English recipe It’s concocted old, auf ~and is it good! You need HEINZ S INZ 57 and pickl chopped and richly spiced. ACCESSORIES to the FEAST Tarandus. no other female members of the deer family have. The males use their head gear for fighting rivals, but the ladies never seem to think of using theirs for this purpose. As far as records go, these animals are friendly and lave no vices. They are good mixers and have very good memories. Once having learned a lesson, it is theirs for keeps. They flock together like sheep, graze like cattle, and have the average horse's intelligence and his speed. They live to be about 14 years old. Generally they have worn their teeth down to mere stumps by now, and very soon starve to death. The fawns are born about the middle of April, and when they are 15 months old ‘their horns are fully grown. The little creatures resemble their mother. When the baby is 10 days old the mother sheds her horns. The food problem is not a serious x * #* * INDIA RELISH Here's a sweet pickle relish that goes w.ll with fowl and other meat, Heinz makes it wvegetables 1l finely THURSDAY, DECEMBER .12, 1935, .. one with these animals. Like the goat they can get along nicely on so little, In the Winter they paw the snow and hunt for the lichen or rein- deer moss. They never forget where to look for a patch of it, either. If left tb themselves, they will revisit old haunts where food may be found. In the Summer the vegetation on the tundra is luxuriant. Along the larger river valleys they find cran- berry, crowberry and salmonberry, besides the tender alder, willow and birches. Summer is the time they have to S| *§ Aquiver with Flavor and Goodness WOMEN'’S FEATURES. contend with the warble fly and mosquitoes. An abbreviated tail leaves them quiuw:elplul to meet such « (Copyright, 1935.) e HovTI_t Started BY JEAN NEWTON. Somnolent. 7T© BE somndlent is to be drowsy, wleepy. As a straight etymologicai derivation, we have this adjective from the Latin “somnus,” sleep, akin to what are probably Greek and | Sanskrit cognates of the same mean- ing. ‘The word is after the Greek mythi- cal deity Somnus, “gentlest of the gods,” and father of Morpheus, the god of dreams, who was his son and servant, (Copyright. 1935.) o Canaries to Be Taxed. The world's first bird tax has been imposed by the Moravian town of Za- breh. All birds kept in cages are to be taxed, some more heavily than | others.® Canaries and nightingales | will cost their owners $5 a year in tax. | Sunshine Imprisqriéd; He Jolly Polly A Little Chat on English. BY JOS. J. FRISCH. 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