Evening Star Newspaper, January 11, 1937, Page 25

Bedtime Stories Mrs. Reddy’s BY THRONTON W. BURGESS. While Fortune smiles on one, alas Unseeing she Will others pass. =~ o Reddy Fox was well pleased with himself. Yes, sir, Reddy was well pleased with himself. He had secured & good meal through his own daring. He had seen Flip the Terrier a.nd‘ Bowser the Hound called into the | house just after their breakfast had | been put out for them, and he had | had the daring to go over there, close to the back doorstep of Farmer | Brown’s house, in broad daylight and gobble that breakfast. He felt that that was a very daring thing to do, and so it was. He wasn't in the least danger. Farmer Brown's Boy had pur- | posely called those dogs into the house, so that Reddy might have that break- fast, and all the time was watching Reddy from a window. Those dogs would not be let out again until Reddy was well on his way to his home in the old pasture. So in real- {ty Reddy was running no risk at all. REDDY RACED TO HER. But, not knowing this, he was just as | daring as if there had been the danger | he thought there was. | Across the snow-crusted Green Meadows ran Reddy, headed straight for the Old Pasture. He felt like a new Fox. He did so. Nover had food tasted better than had that stolen breakfast. This was because never | had Reddy been in greater need of food. Not since the ice storm several days before had Reddy had a mouth- ful to eat. He thought of Mrs. Reddy. “I hope she has had as good luck as I have had,” said he to himself. “I would have brought some food home with me, instead of eating all of it if it could have been carried. It | couldn't, so I ate all of it.” ‘When he reached home there was 10 sign of Mrs. Reddy. Evidently she had not returned. Reddy was not sur- prised at that. He himself had re- turned sooner than he had expected to, due to the fact that he had ob- tained that breakfast much sooner than he dared hope when he had started out. It was hardly likely that Mrs. Reddy would have had such luck. | Reddy curled up on the snow just outside his doorway. He often curls up on the snow. That red fur coat of his is s0o warm that he doesn't get chilled from lying on the snow. Jolly, round, bright Mr. Sun was shining and added to Reddy’s comfort. From where he was he could see in several | directions. He was watching for Mrs. Reddy. Once he abruptly lifted his head, with his ears cocked sharply. He had heard a faint sound so far away that he wasn't quite sure that he had | heard it. “Was that a gun?” muttered Reddy. “It sounded like it, but it was so faint that I am not sure. Anyway, even if it was, there is nothing for me to worry about, for it was in the wrong | direction. She didn't go that way.” Of course, it was Mrs. Reddy of whom he was thinking. It was true that she hadn't started out in the direction from which that sound had | come. She had started in a direction almost opposite to that, but she might | have swung around that way. He doubted it, however, and gave the mat- | ter no further thought. He lay there for a long time. Finally he began to | get uneasy. He got up and walked | back and forth. He stood motionless, | looking and listening for several min- ! utes at a time. Mrs. Reddy often had | been gone longer, much longe! |F Homecoming. this, and he hadn't given the matter so | &' much as a thought. But this time he was uneasy, and he didn't know why. At last he heard a sound that made him instantly alert. It wasn’t the sound of a gun this time. It was a faint bark. He answered it, and started swiftly in the direction from which it had come. Presently he saw Mrs. Reddy, and he saw, too, that something was wrong. Something was very wrong. Se wasn't moving toward him. She wasn't coming to meet him. She was lying down. Reddy raced to her. Mrs. Reddy was hurt. She had been shot. Reddy remembered the sound of the gun he had heard. She had traveled a long way since then. Slowly and painfully she had been trying ever since to make her way home. From lack of food she was not at her best, anyway, and her wounds had weak- ened her greatly. Tenderly Reddy licked those wounds. Mrs. Reddy strug- gled to her feet and slowly, with many stops to rest, she made her way home, Reddy by her side, wishing there was something he could do for her beside licking her wounds. (Copyright, 1934.) Nature’s Children THE EVENING Brain Twizzlers BY PROF. J. D. FLINT. THERE is a story about a problem which a hotel manager faced one night when business was almost too ood. The hotel had only 11 rooms end on this particular night the manager was bemoaning the fact that busi- ness was in such bad shape that he had no occupants for his rooms. Great was his pleasant surprise when three cars pulled up in front of his hotel and discharged 12 passengers in all. The group walked into the hotel and each requested a room. The manager, stunned for the moment, racked his brain for a solution to his problem; he disliked the thought of losing & customer. Suddenly a thought struck him and he said to one man, “If you will wait until I have given the others their rooms I will have a room for you.” He then put the second man in the first room, the third man in the second room, and so on until the eleventh man was in the tenth room. Then the manager sald to the twelfth man who was still waiting, “Now you can have room 11.” Yes, it does sound wrong. What's the answer? Saturday’s Answer. It is easy to get “one word” by reforming the letters in “new door.” January. BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. OR the nature lover January is a month of glorious adventure. Even the name of the month is from Janus, the god of begin- ning, who was a double-headed deity, with one face looking back upon the accomplishments of the past and one locking eagerly forward to the future. January is a month filled to the brim with lively folks, willing to share with | the trailer secrets and valuable infor- mation. It is the month in which the bear twins are born. In the South the weasel retains his coat of brown, in the North it is ermine. The little deer mouse in his cozy house, established in a reconditioned catbird's nest, an- chored in tall weed stems, may be | tracked by his footprints on the soft be found | snow. Small tunnels may by other mice bound for orchard trees. | January is the courting month for wolves, The smallest animals in the world, the shrews, are actively engaged in digging into the soil for sleeping grubs. It is a grand month to study the form and the bark of trees. The silver maple’s buds are swelling. The birch is scattering millions of seed children on the breeze, They are carried swiftly over the snow and look like tiny black bugs. The acacia trees are | in bloom in California and the lower hills and fields are a velvety green. | Arbor day is celebrated in Florida this month. In the woods are lichens, gray and beautiful, on old tree trunks and rocks. Nearby the partridge berries, in their crimson coats, beckon to the hungry birds. Ferns and mosses are growing lustily under their fleecy snow blanket, | will grow in your garden for you. | Try it and see. and the evergreens have handsome | cones from which the seeds dropped. In the Southwest the three-toads are calling to their neighbors, “It is time we started on our journey to the old pond.” In the South, the pickerel are mov- ing into shallow water to lay their eggs. The wily tarpon outwits the eager angler in Florida waters, and in the North, the pike may be caught through & hole in the ice. The cod moves into fresh water to spawn. Birds are willing to become friendly at this time of the year. Many of them have learned to trust have 11, IOTE | | g s o YW accept the food placed in trays for them. ‘The grouse has donned his snow | shoes. The wren-tits of the far West | are beginning to sing in the beautiful canyons. Inthe East, the juncos, tree- sparrows with their modest little pals, the snow-buntings, will gather about the weeds and shake them free of all seeds. The nuthatches are busily en- gaged in policing tree trunks, and the golden-crowned kinglets are hidden in the evergreens. The bob-whites are | found in family groups, each member of the covy facing out, in order to do sentinel duty and also to keep warm. You will need a new, large scrapbook to keep your clippings in, for there | are many new members of the out- door tribe you will meet in their col- umn the coming year. The snowdrop is January's flower. It is a modest little white blossom, tucked away under crinkly brown leaf | comforts or a fleecy snow blanket. It Ban on Chinese Hit. Planters of Samoa, group of islands STAR, WASHI Winning D, G, Contract BY THE FOUR ACES. (David Burnstine. Merwin D. Maler. Oswald Jacoby and Howard Schenken, world's leading team-of-four, inventors of the system that has beaten every other system in existence.) Alert Defense. ACK Moos of Philadelphia has been a leading player in that city for many years. A few weeks ago he visited the Caven- dish Club in New York City for the first time. Mr. Moos so0 well liked the games and the spirit of keen, but friendly competition that he immedi- ately decided to join the club and spend the Winter in New York. On defense the other day Mr. Moos made a shift just in time to defeat a game contract. South, dealer. North-South vulnerable. 4AB2 vi098 *Q6 & A10643 Mr. Moos “~J YAQ642 41087 53 & KJ 9 J5 J 872 ‘The bidding: . South West Nerth 18 16 24 2NT Pass 3NT Pass Pass East 2v Pass OLD-IN-THE-HEAD SOMETHING NEW FOR IT THAT'S BETTER No matter what you’ve used be- fore, do yourself this favor: Go out and get yourself a tube of that new and remarkable relief for head colds—REL Head-Cold Jelly. Putalittle up just oneside of your nose. Wait a few seconds — and see what happens. First you'll note a delightful, refreshing “pine woods” odor. Then you'll feel that side of the nostril open — clearly —all the way up. That“stuffed up” feeling is gone! It's really wonder- ful how quickly REL Head-Cold Jelly starts relief! off New Zealand, are protesting against the ban on Chinese laborers. | The new Labor government of New Zealand, which holds a mandate from the League of Nations to look after Samoa, has announced that it will permit no more Chinese laborers to enter Samoa and those now there will be sent back to their native land. | $5,000,000 for Honolulu Building. Total cost of new construction in Honolulu last year was more than $5,000,000. Sonnysayings I don't like ¢’ be faulted all the than | their human brothers, and joyfully'time—I just like t' be admired! When West opened the seven of hearts, Mr. Moos won with the ace and declarer dropped the jack. Here was food for thought. If declarer were not false-carding, the heart re- turn was undoubtedly correct. But 1t seemed unlikely that declarer would have bid two no-trump with only one sure stopper. Now Mr. Moos might have played the jack of spades, his partner’s suit, but he reasoned: If his partner held only two hearts and in all probability no more than two | clubs, he had nine cards in the re- maining two suits. These might con- sist of six spades and three diamonds, but it was also quite possible that they were five spades and four dia- monds, in which event if partner held either the ace or king of diamonds, the suit could be cleared up in one lead as declarer would have only two. On this reasoning Mr. Moos led & diamond. Declarer finessed and the suit was returned. Then when Mr. Moos got in with his king of clubs, he ran three more diamonds to set the declarer two tricks. (Copyright, 1937.) The Pour Aces will be pleased to answer ~letters from readers if a stamped (i-cent) self-addressed en- velope is_inclosed with each communi- cation, 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 42nd St.. New York City. and you will_receive an_outline without any charge. The next article in this series will appear Wedi#sday. If you don’t like REL better than anything you’ve ever used for a head-cold, you can have your money back. Two sizes now—30c and 50c. 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Chenay, chairan of the Public Utilities Committee, made a motion that the fiscal report be referred to the Execu- tive Committee for study and that the committee, when ready, should be em- powered to act for the assoclation and to instruct the delegates to the federation. The resolution was adopted. The group went on record extending its sympathies to the family of M. S, bers of the Mount Pleasant Citizens’ Associaivion at their meeting Baturday Murray, long-time member of the association, who recently died. It also SHOPPING CENTER&. ONE OF AMERICA’S LARGEST FOOD MARKETS followed the suggestion of its Execu- tive Committee by voting to become an associate member of the Criminal Justice Association. Dr. Charles B. Campbell, chairman of the Committee on Public Health, outlined in his report the program which the District Medical Soctety intends to work for this year, the most important item of which he feit was the passage of a pure food, drug snd cosmetic act here. 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