Evening Star Newspaper, December 8, 1936, Page 31

Bedtime Stories Flathorns and Honker. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. It seeme ot help somehow or other compare troubles with another. —Plathorns the Moose. wholly to themselves, or try to. Such people are likely to think that their troubles are worse than the troubles of any one else. They get the idea that no one else suffers as they do and that others do not or cannot understand their worries and fears, their aches and pains. Noth- ing could be farther from the truth. So it is sometimes well to compare troubles with another. Flathorns the Moose and Honker the Goose are old friends. The home of Flathorns is in the Vast Wilder- ness, beyond the Great Mountain. Twice every year, once in the Spring and again in the Fall, Honker, on his way to and from the nesting grounds in the Far North, passes over the Vast Wilderness where Flathorns lives and usually stops on a pond there. So they have been acquainted a long time and know each other very well. This year hunters had driven Flat- horns from his familiar haunts and he had wandered down to the Green Forest. He had found Honker and his fleck resting there on the pond of Paddy the Beaver. He had defeated Buster Bear in the greatest fight the Green Forest had ever known, and so won the admiration of all the little people living there and had boasted that he was afraid of no one. Then had come Farmer Brown's Boy, and at the first whiff of the man smell Flathorn had fled in terror. When Farmer Brown’s Boy had left Flat- horns had returned, to find his for- mer admirers now scornful. He had run, while they had not. He couldn’t understand it. He said so to Honker. “K'honk!” replied Honker, swim- ming in close to where Flathorns stood at the water’s edge. “K’honk! ‘There was no harm in that one. (He meant Farmer Brown's boy.) You ran without waiting to see. That one is a friend of all the people who wear feathers or fur.” “But I couldn't know that” pro- tested Flathorns. “I caught the man smell, and I long ago learned that the man smell means danger, the worst kind of danger. If you had been hunted as I have been you would trust none of those two-legged crea- tures.” “So you think I haven't been hunt- ed,” said Honker mildly. v SOME people keep their troubles “Have you? I've never seen hunters | with terrible guns trying to kill you,” replied Flathorns. “Probably not,” agreed Honker. “It is not up there in the Vast Wilder- ness where your home is that we Geese ere hunted. It is after we leave the Vast Wilderness, on our way to the Nature’s Sunny South, that we suffer most from the terrible guns. You think you have 8 hard time when the hunters are after you, but you can always get plenty to eat and can drink when you will. Isn't that so?” Flathorns nodded his great head. “Of course,” he replied. “Can’t you?” Instead of nodding, Honker shook his head. “No, we can't,” said he. Flathorns looked the surprise he felt. “Why not?” he demanded. “Because,” replied Honker, “it is at certain places only that there is food that we can eat, and often these places are surrounded with hunters, hidden where we cannot see them, waiting there for us to come down. And that isn't the worst of it. No, sir, that isn't the worst of it.” “What could be worse?” inquired Flathorns. Honker was silent for a moment or two. “I don't like to say,” said he. “I don’t like to think of it.” “What is it you don't like to think of?” ventured Flathorns after a little silence. “The treachery we so often find,” replied Honker in a low tone. “Treachery by whom?” asked Flat- horns, for he didn’t understana at all. “By some of our own people,” re- plied Honker. Then he hastened to explain that “K'HONK!” REPLIED HONKER, SWIMMING IN CLOSE TO WHERE FLATHORNS STOOD AT THE WA- TER'S EDGE. been made treacherous by the hunt- ers. “We see them swimming in safety on the water and they call to us to come down. Seeing them swimming there unafraid, it seems safe to go down and join them. Alas! If we do we are likely to leave most of the flock there, for the hunters with the terrible guns are hidden close by.” “Tell me about it,” said Honker. “Dreadful!” exclaimed Flathorns. “But I, too, know what treachery is.” (Copyrisht, 1936,) Children BAYBERRY. Myrica carolinensis. BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. MONG our common wild shrubs the bayberry or waxberry is one of the most beloved. It grows in great abundance in the sandy and open ground close to the seashore. Along many of the coasts it is the only green plant to be seen for miles. The compact, more or less rounded shrub of 3 to 8 feet high lends beauty and charm to the sandy beaches. It is altogether a very attractive plant. The leaves are numerous and & very dark shiny green. They have the added gift of remaining on the bush until very late in the season and even in the very cold, salty winds manage to hold fast to the stems. During the last part of their stay, they often take on a decidedly pur- plish-bronze hue. This color blends beautifully with the white sand tossed in drifts about the shrub’s base. The leaves are more or less oblong in shape, entire or with but a few teeth along ‘the margin. They are thickly cov- ered with very tiny resinous dots, es- pecially underneath. If you crush | them you will notice a very pleasant eromatic odor that is quite like bay Tum. The flowers are very inconspicuous. They are brownish and possess neither calyx nor corolla. The female flowers (pistillate) and male (staminate) are, as a rule, to be found on separate lants. The blossoms usually appear fore the leaves, but they may come slong at the same time. They do not attract your attention, as they are of such a somber color. What the flowers lack in attractive- ness the hard little berry, that is to be found on the female plants, redeems. ‘You will find them clustered on the —_— Buy yer Christmas seals! There is 80 much ‘citement, Baby, an’ noise, I don't see how we is going to get no- tice took of us! The Appreciation of "EL PATIO" | older part of the stems, and they are | so determined that they often remain on for a year or two. They are gray or whitish when mature, on account of a thin coating of wax. Birds love these berries. The “myrtle warbler” is the yellow- | rumped warbler who feasts upon them and aids greatly in the distribution of the bayberry. In the olden days these berries were | — Enjoy these delicious, in= separable companions — Turkey and Fresh Cran- berry Sauce. A meal is truly a feast when gay red cran- berries and rich luscious brown roasted turkey grace atmor Cranberries It undoubtedly is annoying to search for an identification card before entering a place of amusement, but “El Patio” guests have congenial place for willingly co-operated to assure a vconoenid people to gather—The Carlton appreciates their endorsement of the “El Patio” club-plan, SANDE WILLIAMS end his music also featured daily 4:30 to 6:30 pm. in the Cocktail Lounge A ———————————————————————————— ————ee——— > v THE 16th and K 4 THE "M ALL RIGHT NOW, UNCLE NAT- EVENING STAR, “WASHINGTO! HONEGT | AM- BEN, ('VE MADE A GORRY MEGS OF THINGG =1 MIGHT - D.” C;" TUESDAY, “DECEMBER 8, 1936, - The Confession. \'M ABGOLUTELY PENNILEGS, WY BOVY- | UGED THE LAGT FEW BUT (A A PAUPER,, | TELL YOU, AND Yoo gathered by the bushel. They were boiled, and when the liquid cooled the wax was skimmed off and made into’ candles. They were not only a beautiful light green in color, but were fragrant. When they are burn- ing the odor reminds you of the salt marshes, the roar of the sea, and the white of the sands. For a Winter bouquet they make most acceptable additions to more colorful berries, the soft, beautiful gray of the bark and the waxy ber- ries being a most artistic contrast. A branch laden with berries in a vase is also very lovely and has & Japanese effect. (Copyright, 1936,) Brain Twizzlers BY PROF. J. D. FLINT. A FEW years ago two explorers were afflicted with a fever in & South American jungle. could not be moved and a cer- tain serum was needed to save their lives. Rio de Janeiro was the closest place where the serum was available. By means of native runners and wireless the message was delivered to a Rio hospital and the serum was rushed to the men in a large con- tainer with 24 ounces of the serum in it. It was necessary for each man to have 12 ounces. 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