Evening Star Newspaper, September 14, 1936, Page 28

THE EVENING 'STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 1936 TARZAN AND THE MAYAN GODDESS. Nature’s Children Blue-Gray Gnateatcher (Polioptila caerulea). BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. HILE in’your woods listen for the characteristic call note of the dainty little blue-gray gnatcatcher; it has & sound much like that of a banjo string and can be heard for some distance away. He resembles the cat- bird and looks like a small edition. This tree policeman is of the East, but he has an industrious cousin in the West, who does his duty to the trees during the Summer months. In the South he is one of the sweetest singers, but his voice is too faint to be heard for any distance. Some bird Jovers say the efforts of the ardent one in Spring sound strangely like the squeak of & mouse. I will leave it to you to describe the true sound of this woods creature. There is always just the right word to describe a sound and you may hit on the one that fits it exactly. During migration, the blue-grays are not so timid or self-effacing. Then you can see the trim visitors who are ever on the go and unconcerned as to who sees them. That is why you may catch a sight of them in city parks as they are en route to or from their vacation or honeymoon. Bedtime Stories BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. or idie folk was never meant he happiness that brings content. —Old Mother Nature. HATTERER THE RED SQUIRREL was busy. He always is busy at this time of the year. Being busy, he was happy. Busy people are rwre likely to be happy than those with nothing to do. Chatterer had plenty to do. It was harvest time. Acorns were ready to be harvested. Nuts were rattling down and must be gathered and stored away for the Winter. Pine| cones had to be cut before they should | open and scatter their seeds. So Chatterer the Red Squirrel was a very | busy small person. There was none busier in all the Green Forest. The acorns and the nuts were stowed away in storehouses very near the tree in which he had made his| new home. You know that was the tree formerly occupied by Spcoky the Screech Owl. Few of Chatterer's neighbors had yet discovered tha. he had changed his home. Most of them took it for granted that Spooky still lved there. This suited Chatterer. So far as he was concerned it would have suited him to continue to live there unknown. Sometimes as he worked he chuckled. Those werc times when he was thinking of Spooky the Bcreech Owl. “I certainly am going to be nice and comfortable here. Yes, sir, I'm going to be nice and comfortable. Everything is exactly as I would like to have it,” he would say to himself. Then, thinking of what he felt sure would happen, he would chuckle egain. “I suppose Spooky think: he outsmarted me. I wonder what he’ll think when they begin to cut down that tree. I certainly was smart to trade with him before it was harvest time. Had I awaited until after harvest time, my supplies would have been too far away. Now everything is right here and I can see where J am going to have a very comfortable and happy Winter.” Now when he has nothing to do Chatterer may be a very mischievous and meddlesome fellow, but when he has work that must be done hc tends strictly to business, and there is no better worker anywhere. He was up at break of day, and he worked until the Black Shadows started to creep through the Green Forest. He was especially happy this year becau: his big cousin, Happy Jack the Gray Squirrel, was busy elsewhere, and 5o Chatterer had not had to share with him the acorns and the nuts. In fact, Chatterer had practically all of these in the neighborhood for himself, and that added to his happiness. He did miss his usual quarrels with Happy Jack. You know there are some peo- ple who seem to get real pleasure out of quarrels, and Chatterer is one of these. But, altogether, he had never been happier in the Fall than he now was, As the pile of pine cones increased under a certain tree and as his secret storehouses became filled with nuts and acorns, Chatterer became more and more contented. He had more tha.. enough to take him through the Winter, no matter if the Winter should be long and hard. It is a splen- did feeling to be certain that you will never go hungry, no matter what the weather. But even though he had enough, Chatterer didn't stop work- ing. No, sir, he didn't stop work- ing. He would have told you that he had the habit and couldn’t stop. How=— ever, this wasn't it. He was working because of the happiness he found in work. He was doing work that he loved to do, and as long as there was work of that kind to do, he would do it. Meanwhile, occupying Chatterer's old home was Spooky the Screech Owl. Spooky had no work to do. You see, the food he lives on cannot be stored up, as can the food that Chat- terer lives on. pend on finding perhaps I should say and then he would fly ov home, but as it was always at night, he never saw Chatterer. The latter doesn’t like the dark. Spooky would sit just outside the doorway and chuckle, “He thinks he outsmarted he would chuckle to himself. “I wonder what he’ll think by and by. He'll probably come around and want his old house back, but he won't get it. He has the name of being smart, but by and by folks will know who is the smartest.” (learnisg dey Dethol When the trees are deep in foliage and when insects are numerous, the gnatcatchers are very busy, indeed. They are courting and flitting from twig to twig, as they feast, and take time off to sing their sweetest love songs. Each is not sociably inclined, as his charming cousins, the kinglets, are, but he has their way of nervously flitting about as if he could not make up his mind what was the right thing to do. ‘There is one thing that is most in- teresting to his friends, and that is the way he tackles his family responsi- bilities. He helps to collect the build- ing material for the nursery. He naturally permits his bride to select the building site, which, according to family traditions, is anchored on a horizontal limb of some deciduous tree. There is & lot of work put into the dainty cradle. No slipshod affair or any pains spared to make it cozy. ‘The interior is about 1!; inches deep and about that in width, It is cup-shaped and beautifully contracted at the edge. The outside walls are composed of grasses, old stem leaves, withered flowers and horsehair. To add charm and beauty to the walls lichens are caught here and there with fairy threads of spider's silk. Inside the walls are covered with the down of milkweed and cattail. Can you imagine anything more fairylike? On this dainty mattress are laid four or five greenish or bluish white eggs, speckled with brown, umber and lavender. Father takes his turn keeping the precious eggs warm, and when his little mate is sitting on them he sings joyfully to her. This is a little un- usual among birds, for at this time they keep quiet in order not to betray the location of the nest. And believe it or not, he carols in glee when he is keeping the tryst. However, he does not give in easily to an enemy and turns upon him o4 Tarzan turned quickly to the aid of Maj. Martling, who staggered dazedly as the result of Farnol's Slowly the explorer returned to his full senses. Then he put out his hand to Tarzan. Another second and that devil blow. “You saved my life. ‘would've killed me.” with all the wrath in his make-up. 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