Evening Star Newspaper, October 26, 1936, Page 29

WASHINGTO MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1936. G_STAR Nature’s Children Common Porpoise. BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. the other do is a singnal for all the o et o et g S LETS 8OTH ENTER THIS CONTEST HONEY-WERE 80TH COFFEE LOVERS- WHAT DO race together, and in a short time you They seem tc enjoy leaping, |may observe them going into & fishing, and so deporting them- “huddle.” selves as to convey the idea to the be- Cape Hatteras is the only place in holder that they lead a happy-go- North America where there is a por- lucky life. poise fishery. Here these animals are They do not seem to take much |taken close to shore and brought in time off for sleep or rest. They swim with drag seines. day and night, coming to the surface For about 200 years this fishery to blow once in a while. They love to | has been conducted. There is little swim under the water, as seals do.|capital invested. The greatest num- But they never have been known to|ber of porpoises taken in any given lie on the bottom. Play seems to be year is about 1,500. the one idea possessed by each and| The porpoise is rich in blubber and every one. = _-’_‘;,-_'7.---- PPN - A T jaw oil and the hides are also valuable. Porpoises are warm-blooded mam- | However, the jaw oil is the most mals and are air breathers. They must come up often to breathe. They give birth to a single baby each year, which is nourished in its youth on milk. Porpoises are so blubber-coated that they give off lots of heat. That is why they must have cold water in which to swim. It is also why it is #o difficult to keep them in tanks, un- less cold water can be pumped in. They are such restless, nervous crea- tures that you can never drain their tanks to clean them, for in their ex- citement of having the water lowered they would beat themselves against the sides of their tank homes. In the ocean they love to speed the high waves. As they rush through | the water they often kill many fish, | and they have been seen playing some | sort of game of throwing a dead fish | high into the air. They are ex- perts at leaping and slapping the water with their tails, What one sees Bedtime valuable part of the porpoise and is worth about $20 a gallon when refined. This oil is needed to lubricate the machinery of delicate mechanisms. For all you know, your fine clock or valuable watch is running today for the reason that it was given a few drops of porpoise oil. Along about 1887 a catch of over 6,000 porpoises was made off the coast of North Carolina. The hides of the animals were tanned and about 10,460 gallons of body oil were secured. Fewer porpoises were taken as the years passed by. The oil is pale yellow, sometimes shading to brown, and it has a fishy odor which soon disappears. The Passamaquoddy Indians on the Maine coast at one time made their living catching porpoises, Some of the porpoises were 7 feet long and very fat. The blubber was stripped and cut into short pieces and then placed in a pot over a fire. The hot oil was skimmed as it rose to the surface. It makes a clear light when used for that purpose. The making of this oil was known as “porpusia” and, as there are so few of these In- dians now, the making of this oil, that once was sold for high prices to the watchmakers, has been abandoned. (Copyright, 1936, Stories Old Friends Meet. BY THORNTON W. BlRGE%S. ‘There's spice in just A brief exchange of this & —Peter Rabbit. There was no doubt about this. The days were bright and cool. The air was| crisp. The nights were really The leaves of many | lT WAS Autumn, cold sometimes. of the trees were no longer green, | but appeared to have stored up all | the sunshine of the Summer days, for they were the color of sunshine. It was & lovely time of year. It was. & happy time of year, or at least it | should have been. It would have been had it not been for the terrible guns. You see, it was the hunting season. Peter Rabbit was over in Farmer Brown's garden. He had no business there. Of course not. He never had eny rightful business there. But that o amgae ¢DID YOU COME AFTER CAB- BAGES, TOO?” ASKED PETER. [ is one place where Peter cannot keep‘ eway from. Temptation is too great to be resisted. With the best inten- tions in the world Peter will start out from the dear Old Briar-patch, re- #olved not to go near Farmer Brown’s | garden, and the first thing he knows | there he is, right in the middle of it. | Bometimes he actually is surprised to | Bnd himself there. You see, there are | many delicious things growing in| Farmer Brown's garden, things he | cannot get anywhere else. Sometimes | in the Spring Peter does a lot of harm there. He doesn’t mean to, but he | does do a lot of mischief. In the Fall | be doesn’t do mluch harm because, | you know, the crops are grown then end such leaves as Peter eats are not wanted, anyway. Peter was over among the cabbages. He wasn't, I am sorry to say, looking | where he was stepping or, should I | say, hopping? His eyes were all !or; the cabbages. He was feeling cab- | bage hungry, and he was looking for | cabbages whose outer leaves were not oo coarse and tough. So it was that, to his startled surprise, he felt some- thing squirm at his feet. He made a hasty little hop forward and then turned to see what he had stepped on. There, just beginning to puff himself up, was an old friend of Peter’s. It was Old Mr. Toad. Yes, sir, it was Old Mr. Toad. He puffed himself up and kept right on puffing himself up, a way he has of doing when he is angry. He was angry now. He had lost his dignity. Of course. Wo one can be stepped on and retain his dignity. “I—I beg your pardon. I didn’t see gou,” cried Peter, hastily. “That's no excuse. No excuse at ADVERTISEMENT. Mrs.Callahan has changed to KRISPY CRACKERS L e all,” protested Old Mr. Toad, and his | eyes, had they not been so beautiful, would have been angry looking. “Why don’t you look where you're going?” Peter couldn’t say that he was look- ing. All he could do was to repeat that he was sorry. “You know, Mr. Toad,” said he, “that I wouldn't know- | ingly hurt you or your feelings for the world. Certainly I didn’t expect to find any one else in the cabbage patch. Certainly I didn't expect to find you here. It's a long time since I've seen you. I've been over here many times this Fall, but haven't seen you here.” “Of course you haven't” Old Mr. Toad. replied “I haven't been here. I arrived only just a little while ago.” | “Did you come after cabbages, too?” asked Peter. At that question Old Mr, Toad for- got his anger. He chuckled, and when he chuckled he let out the air with which he had puffed himself up, so that he was no longer swelled, but was back to his proper shape. “That question sounds just like you, Peter Rabbit. What under the sun would I want with cabbages? Did you think that I could swallow one?” “Don’t be silly,” replied Peter. “Of course I didn’t think you could swal- low one. I can't swallow one myself, but I can, and do, eat the leaves, and I didn't know but that you might have & liking for cabbage also.” (Copyright, 1936,) Cat Bears Big Family. WATERFORD, Calif. (P).—A cat owned by Mrs. Ludwig Shima is 26 vears old and has produced a litter of kittens every year for the past 25. The exact number of the offspring is unknown, Sonnysayings Ty P S T S —— What do these make me think ob? ‘Why, Hallereen, ob course! ————e————— The smile of success is clear on the face of Joan Kerr, §, who is shown at home training her Spitz dog Bingo. Joat, the daughter of H. B. Kerr, 514 Twelfth street northeast, is a kinder- arten pupil at Pierce School. Winning Tomorrow: er of Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Petrey, at the Peab: gfal Petrey. daugh- y School. —Star Staff Photo. Contract BY THE FOUR ACES. team-of-four, inventors of t| Natural Bidding. DVOCATES of artificial slam A bidding methods are contin- ually making up hands in which their brilliant artificial bids enable them to locate exactly the right cards in partner’s hand. In practically every case in actual practice, however, the control cards take care of themselves, and the real | problem is to find out whether the 1pm-mershlp holds sufficient actual playing tricks to make the contract. The hand shown below is a case in point. David Burnstine had no worries about aces and kings—his problem was concerned with queens and jacks. North dealer. Both sides vulnerable. Mr. Burnstine. AAT2 WAK10653 ®AK4 N AB65 +E ¥vQT4¢ s €952 10843 AK9 vJj9e 4KQ86 SAKQOTS ‘The bidding: 1v (1) Pass 3v Pass |50 @) Pass 6 (5) INT Pass Pass (1) Not quite strong enough for an opening two-bid. (2) An exploratory response. (3) South, who sees distinct slam possibilities, is neverthless not certain that his club suit is absolutely solid. (4) A control-showing bid. (5) Showing his substantial suit. The queen of spades was opened. Declarer won with the ace in dummy, led the jack of clubs, entered his own hand with the queen of diamonds and | now, when both opponents followed to the second club lead, .spread his hand, since he had 13 tricks in top cards. 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Incidentally, if I held a low club and not the jack, we could not have made the grand slam.” (Copyright, 1936.) e Four Aces will be pleased to swer letters from readers if a stamped (3-cent), 'self-addressed envelope is in- closed with each communication. If you desire the pocket outline of the Four Aces' system of contract bridge. send, with ‘your request.a stamped (3-cent)_ self-addressed. large-size envelope to the Four Aces. Inc. 130 West Forty-second Street. New York City _and you will receive an outline with- out any charge. The next article in this series will appear Wednesday. Virginians to Meet. The Society of Virginia of the Dis- trict of Columbia will hold a busi- ness meeting Tuesday at the Willard Hotel at 8 p.m. Officers and council will be announced. Gov. John Garland Pollard is presi- dent of the society and George P. Grove, secretary. Seems that all Washington s thrilled with the good clean fun offered by this contest of skill. 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