Evening Star Newspaper, January 13, 1937, Page 29

Bedt_ime 7 Stories‘ Helplessness of Mrs. Reddy BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. Nor thinks of 514, 1a Mother Nature. EDDY FOX listened to the| story of Mrs. Reddy, and when ’ she had finished he asked a | question, “Have you had any- thing at all to eat?” Mrs. Reddy said nothing. She mere- | 1y shook her head. That was enough. | Reddy knew what that meant. She| must have food soon, and he must | get it for her. She had been shot, and she was wounded, weak and helpless. | She could not hunt. In fact, now | that her wounds had stiffened her she could not get about at all. The | most she could do was to drag herself out to the doorstep of her home and in again. It would have been bad enough at | any season, but it was far, far worse | now than it could have been at any | other season, for this was Winter, the | season of hard times at best, and | desperately hard now, because of the! deep snow, followed by an ice storm. “Did you have any luck?" Mrs. Reddy asked, after she had told her story. “A little,” said he, looking away. | He didn't want Mrs. Reddy to see that there was no longer the hungry | it would have been the same had he look in his eyes. “I got some scraps over at Farmer Brown’s, but nothing I could bring home.” He did not fell her how he had had a breakfast that had been intended for Flip the Ter- rier and Bowser the Hound. He touched noses with her, which was his way of saying good-by, and then left her. He must hunt for two now. Both had starved when both could and did hunt. What would happen, now that only one could hunt? It didn't once enter Reddy's head that he might hunt for himself alone. | No, sir, that didn’'t even enter his head. He didn't even think that he might hunt for himself first and Mrs. Reddy afterward. That isn't Reddy’'s way. Of course, at this par= ticular time he didn't need food, but been as hungry as was poor Mrs. Reddy. Under those conditions she would have come first, even as she did now. Poor Mrs. Reddy. Do you wonder | that in her heart was hate for all | mankind? She had known no reason why she should not catch a hen if She could. She was starving, and to her a hen was just a big bird, food to | be obtained if she could get it. She | felt that she had as much right to it | as had the man who kept those hens. | venues Of Fashion FOR THE GENTLEMAN FLYING LIGHT HE air-minded gentleman checking his accommondations is typical of the many men who are taking to the air in these days of the fast and efficient service that is synonomous with air travel. smart two-button peak lapel model suit that he wears is particularly | It is made of a bold herringbone cheviot, a fabric that is be- | coming more and more popular as it finds itself at home either in the country or at business, and it is ideally suitable for traveling. importance of contributions in the way of lightweight noteworthy. air travelers have learned the sketched below some of the latest luggage and appurtenances. Yor a week end or overnight trip, this completely fitted toilet case is sufficiently large to ac- commodate the required change of linen. It is no larger than & good size brief case. Here is a complete set of toilet- ries fitted into the back of a brush. (Copyright, 1937 Queries on men’s fashions will be answered by The Evening Star in co- operation with Esquire, Address Man’s Fashion Editor, The Evening Star, Washington. D. Q. ¥ s The very | Seasoned traveling light. We've Even shoe trees have gone light-weight, and we'd recome mend these in your extra pair of shoes, as the additional weight they add is hardly per- ceptible. The wood frame and resultant weight have been almost en- tirel; eliminated in this new luggage, and it depends upon the leather for its strength. [4 THE EVENING Had she known that he had plenty to eat himself she would, I suspect, have felt that she had more of a right to one of those hens than had he. So far as she was concerned, there was no wrong in trying to get one. It was a law of the Green Forest that what- ever one is smart enough to get he has a right to. Of course, that man would have claimed that he had a perfect right to shoot that Fox trying to get one of ‘his hens. He knew that with the weather what it was and had been, it must be desperately hard work for a Fox to keep from starving, but this made no difference to him. There was no pity in him. Mrs. Reddy was just a Fox, and Foxes were to be killed whenever and wherever possible. In his mind they liad no right to live. And this chiefly because they hunted for food some of the very ones he wanted to hunt, not from the need of them for food but for sport. Alas, there are all too many like him! He knew when he shot that the dis- tance was too great to be sure of kill- ing, but this made no difference. He knew that he had wounded Mrs. Reddy, and he followed her, not from any sense of mercy but in the hope that he might get that red coat of hers. merely sorry that he had missed get- ting that coat. He gave no thought to the suffering that Mrs. Reddy must endure in her helpless condition. She was only a Fox. Poor Mrs. Reddy. She was in some- thing very like despair after Reddy left her. It was dreadful to be so helpless. Her wound no longer hurt | so much, but her legs had stiffened so that she wondered if she ever again would be able to use them. And she was so weak. She must depend wholly on Reddy. Would he be able to feed her? That is just what Reddy was asking himself? (Copyright, 1937.) TO PRESENT OPERETTA The Estelle Wentworth Opera Group under auspices of the Community Center Department will present “H. M. S. Piafore” in February at the Roosevelt High School, it was an- nounced today. Flotow's “Martha” will be presented by the group in March and “The Mikado™ in April. Choral Club to Meet. The Armstrong High School Alumni Choral Club will meet tonight at 8 o'clock in the Armstrong Auditorium. January Sale of STAR, And when he failed he was| Nature’s WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY Children ABOVE the drifted snow or the foil or Nosebleed, is seen sway- you will see the industrious weed. It seeks roadsides, dry fields, banks BY LILLIAN COX ATHEX. frozen earth this weed, often called Old Man's Pepper, Mil- ing with the Winter winds. Everywhere you look in the Summer is a native of Europe and Asia and has spread over all of North Ameriea. and abandoned field. In the Win- ter the plant always looks dusty. It ! has earned a place in folklore and mythology as well as in medicine and literature. Much, indeed, is claimed for it and | its healing virtures have been extolled in verse and prose. Chiron, the cen- taur, was among the first to boast of its virtues to Achilles, who desired, above all else, an ointment to heal his beloved Myrmidons, wounded in the | siege of Troy. Thus the name of the flower was after the favorite pupil of a Centaurian teacher. | lovers, and, if worn, will work wonders | for the lovelorn. Ailments listed healed by this plant are too long to mention here. But loss of hair and nosebleed are among them. The Swedish people are said to make a very intoxicating beer from the plant. | To us the plant is interesting be- cause of its beautiful, feathery foliage and masses of flower-heads. Of course, if the flower were very hard to grow and rarely seen, it would have | an honored place in our garden. Be- |ing a weed, and a very common one 'at that, the dustv roadside is good enough for it. But Emerson says, “A weed is & plant whose virtues are as yet unknown.” So who knows but Fur Coats¢ Features Reg. $225 Value (and from present in- dications you’ll pay much more than $225 later, as fur prices are rising steadily.) 3 Y& Just 18 at 188 These g this price. You'll agree black lustrous pelts . . . and the exquisite workm: uality Hudson Seal Coats are real values at when you see their rich the attractive styles . . . anship. Buy one to wear the rest of this Winter and for next year . ..youwll save considerable! Swaggers, Princess and Fitted Styles with new sleeves and effective collars. Sizes for Women and Misses Fur Salon, Third Floor 4 Ways to Pay . . . 1—Deferred payments may bé arranged, with small interest charge. 2—A deposit will hold your coat in our payments. 3—Charge it. Will Call with convenient 4—Pay cash. It Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) we will be cultivating the yarrow be- fore long. We could do worse. The flowers may be seen from June until November. They are a grayish- white, with a pink tint, and in a close, flat-topped compound cluster. The leaves are very finely dissected (mille- folium, which means thousand leaf) and they are rather oblong in shape. The stem usually shows how rich the soil is upon which the plant has thrived. For the stalk may be 2 feet high, sometimes hairy and abundantly or scantily leafed. The flowers have a spicy, nutty fragrance in the Autumn. The plant depends upon the hordes of nectar seekers to carry the pollen from one floret to another. They feast with a one-track mind, and here the young entomologist may find some rare ine sects for his collection. By Autumn there will be millions of black or brownish-black seeds for dead-looking flowers and shake the tiny seeds free. swaying weed. Well they know she has seeds for them. So, after all, the yarrow has a special plan in the great scheme. (Copyright, 193 Sonnysayings Our teacher ast us, “What is your | favorite line ob, indevor?” an’ I said, | “Hot cakes, wif plenty butter an’ the birds. Watch our little Winter | guests and see how they hop upon the | Perhaps you will see | |birds scratching the soil under the : | sirup!” | It is said to possess a power for | now, up North these Red Cross * prints. JANUARY 13, 1937. Winning Contract BY THE FOUR ACI (David Burnstine. Merwin D. Maier, Oswald Jacoby and Howard Schenken. world's leading team-of-four. inventors of the system that has beaten every other system in existence.) Clever Cue Bid. HILE Mrs. Ivan Stengel of Larchmont, N. Y. has been playing contract and before that auction for the past 15 years, she admits that her bridge education really commenced only about seven years ago. At that time various experts, such as Theo- dore Lightner and Oswald Jacoby, used to gather at the home of P. Hal Sims in Deal, N. J., for long week ends of bridge. Mrs. Stengel first watched the games and afterward started to play in them. After a reasonable period of education she has now become one of the best woman players in the country, East, dealer. North-South vulnerable. AKB81T5 v10854 ¢ K S ATBE W+ E 3 v . 8 & 9 L] The bidding: East South Pass 2¢ 48 Pass Pass The bidding proceeded quite nor- | mally to the point where North gave | a jump raise to three spades. Mrs. | Stengel then bid four clubs, which | actually constituted a cue-bid in her West, 24 Pass Dbl North Dbl 3s Pass next Summer— ‘casuals” are the shoes you'll live in!-Smart and re- strained styles that fit in with:your sport and spectator clothes. Color combinations that are equally good with white—with pastels—with (The Hecht Co.. Main Ploor. Women's Shoe Department.) W Sheer nockinq.s that wear and wear and wear—what a boon to the budgeteer!- The long mileage foot . . . the comfort top, are life-giving qual colors add fo theirlooks. flattering the partner’s suit. While this bid ordi- narily would have been impossible to read, remember that Mrs. Stengel had previously rescued her partner when he was doubled at two clubs. Hence, her bid could mean but one thing— that she was void in that suit. South should have realized this and passed, but instead continued to game, and West, very much on the alert, doubled and opened the ten of clubs. Mrs. Stengel ruffed, and then, since her partner had led a high club, she returned a heart, the higher eof the two off suits. West won with the ace and led another club, which Mrs. Stengel also ruffed. Now she played the king and another heart, which West in turn ruffed. This fine defense resulted in setting the four-spade contract 800 points, whereas without ruffs it would have been & lay-down. (Copyright, 1937.) The Pour Aces will be answer letters from stamped ~(3-cent). se re velope 15 inclosed ‘with each communi- ation, 1t you desire the pockef line of The Four Aces' system o Intract bridge, send with your reauest, s stamped (3-cent). self-addressed, large size envelope to the Four Aces. Inc. 130 Forty-Second street New York City. and you will receive an gutline’ without, any ~charge. = The next article in this series will appear Friday. leased to Love's Little Helper. BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (#)—Cou- ples who want to be married here can have the service free of charge. The newly appointed justice of the peace, Kenneth D. Harris, 70, announced: “Since I don't have anything else to do I might just as well give them a free start in life.” Follow the Sun in . . . RED CROSS | CRUISE SHOES .20 On deck or on shore—down South. B—9 Brain Twizzlers BY PROF. J. D. FLINT. ’I‘ODA‘! we have an old legend about Achilles and the turtle. You may have heard it before, but did you rea- son it out? The story deals with the classic race between fleet-footed Achilles, the world sprint cnampion of his time, and Drag, the sticky-footed turtle. A race was proposed to see how long it would take Adchilles to pass the turtle if the turtle had a hundred-yard start, Achilles could travel 10 times as fast as Drag, so while Drag was traveling |10 yards, Achilles traveled 100 yards. }Then while Achilles traveled the next |10 yards Drag covered 1 yard. The | next step follows that Achilles traveled 1 yard and Drag traveled 1-10 of a yard, still a little ahead of Achilles. Well, it looks as if with these proceed- ings, Achilles could never actually catch the turtle, although the distance between them would soon be down to & very fine point. Where is the mis- take in the reasoning? YESTERDAY'S ANSWER. WILL MEET FRIDAY The Absentee Voters’ Unit, the Re- porter Plan Group and the Legisla- tive Committee of the Democratic Women's National Council will meet jointly at 8 p.m. Friday at the club | house, 1325 New Hampshire avenue. | Chairmen of the three groups, re- | spectively, Mrs. S. J. Asbury, Mrs. | Daniel Hefferman and Mrs. Clara | Wright, will all preside. THE CHEVERON: Semi step-in pump of beige buck with brown colf trim_6.50 THE DELAND: Brood strap shoe in white buck with brown calf trim- g e 6.50