Evening Star Newspaper, July 7, 1936, Page 26

Bedtime Stories The Poison People. ¢ BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. Rot cantion elw et matters ¥4 Mother Nature. Pasture a half-grown Rattlesnake was coiled and the sound of his rattle, a sound that was half whir and half hum, filled the air. Sitting » few feet away from him was the old One, the young Fox who had tarted out for himself in the Great orld. “I wouldn’t come any nearer, if I were you,” hissed the Snake. “Why not?” asked the young Fox. ‘“Why shouldn’t I jump on you and kill you, as I have killed other Bnakes?” “Because,” replied the other, “I am not like other Snakes. My bite is tleadly.” * The young Fox studied the other. He didn’t look dangerous. No, sir, he didn’t look dangerous. His nead didn’t ook big enough for that mouth to ;] N A SUNNY spot far up in the Old 1 contain teeth that could hurt much. | p) “How could his bite be deadly? But Yor one thing the young Fox would not have given any heed to that statement. He would have considered it Just idle boasting. However, there was ‘one thing that mage him thoughtful. It was plain to spe that that half- grown Snake was rot afraid. Yes, sir, that was very plain to see. There was Nature’s Children CUCUMBER TREE. (Magnolia acuminata). BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. AY I introduce you to this handsome shade tree, a mag- nolia with many virtues, few faults, and a willingness to live in the cities of the Northern States, even though it is of tropical origin. At present, it flourishes in Western New York and Southern Ontario, from Ontarlo to Nlincis, Kentucky and Arkansas, on the mountain slopes of Pennsylvania, south to Tennessee, Ala- bama and Mississippi. Its mission in life is to furnish shade and, of course, beauty. Its wood is used to some extent for floor- ing and other purposes. It is of greater importance as good stock on which to graft the less sturdy cousins. Sixty to one hundred feet, with a trunk 3 to 4 feet in diameter, makes a sizeable shade tree. The yellow green leaves are heart-shaped at the base, longer than wide, and from 6 to 10 inches long. In the Spring they are slightly covered with hair on the under surface, but by Autumn, when they are in their yellow garments, these have disappeared. The flowers do not attract your at- tention, because they are not only in- conspicuous, but they do not possess the delightful magnolia fragrance. They are bell-shaped and a yellowish green. Mingling with the shades of the new leaves, you are hardly aware of their presence. What the flower lacks in advertis- ing value, the fruits make up in the elongated shapes that so strangely re- semble small, palc-green cucumbers. - They soon become distorted and mis- shapen, for the reason that many of the carpels do not develop seed. In the spring, the seed cluster is green, gradually becoming pink, and finally in autumn scarlet. By September, when the leaves are quite yellow, each mature carpel splits open, and from this exit two crimson | seeds will swing out on their elastic rope. | The rough, strong winds of the fall | toss the seed children back and forth, with no regard for the slender thread from which they dangle. At last it has stood all the buffeting it can and is| worn through by its many encounters with near-by twigs. The twin seeds tumble to the ground, and soon moist leaves form a blanket over them. If the eree stands where the leaves are left to protect them, the young seeds soon spring up about their mother. Here is & chance to have a cucum- ber tree of your own. Gather the ripe seeds from the ground or even trans- plant some of the youthful ones, being | careful, of course, to take them up ‘with a large ball of their own soil about their toes. If this is impossible, help the tree mother to extend her range by | planting some of her children for her in favorable spots that would be greatly :ml:roved by a handsome cucumber ree, (Copyright, 1936,) Sonnysayings s I hasn't got the generetics t’ swing myself, a day like this. I wist Baby ‘would come along an’ give me a push! no fear in those unblinking eyes. There wasn't the least shadow of fear, “He believes what he says,” thought the Bold One. “There is no doubt about it. He believes what he says. There is something here I do not un- derstand. It will be well to be cau- tious.” Aloud he said, “Pray, tell me how your bite can be deadly? You don’t look to me as if you could have teeth that would hurt much.” “I belong to the Poison Peopl the Snake simply. “The Poison People!” exclaimed the | young Fox, and scratched his head in perplexity. “I never have heard of the Poison People.” “There are not many families of us,” explained the Rattlesnake. “There is my family, the Rattlesnake fam- ily; there is the family of my cousin, Copperhead, whom you are likely to meet sooner or later, and I am told that down South Cottonmouth the Moccasin, who lives largely in the water, also Is one of the Poison Peo- o “But I don't understand what poison is,” said the young Fox. “No more do I1,” replied the Rattle- snake. “All I know is that it is some- thing which I have so that those I bite die. You don't want to be bitten by me, Mr. Fox.” “Not if what you say is true, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGT plied the young Fox. “But how am I to know it is true?” “Just watch me when I am hunt- you'll just step aside, I'll be going on my way.” 8o the young Fox stepped aside. The queer sound made by that tail ceased. The Snake glided away through the | that the R L e P27 7 1 WOULDN'T COME ANY NEARER, IF I WERE YOU,” HISSED THE SNAKE. grass. The Bold One hesitated a mo- ment or two, and then followed. His curiosity was aroused. Presently the Snake stopped. Then he half coiled and settled down. His tail was still. There was no movement. It was very, very quiet. The young Fox sat down and kept just as still. Was that Snake taking a sun bath? Somehow there was something about him that gave the Bold One the feeling that that Snake was watching for some one or something. For a long time nothing happened. Then out of a little runway in the grass came & Mouse. The Mouse was running. 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