Evening Star Newspaper, April 2, 1937, Page 40

Bedtime Stories Peter Stops a Chorus. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. Toull find there's much on every hand 3 t understan, The wisest do mot g Mother Nature. HE Smiling Pool might be out of its banks, but that didn’t lessen in the smallest degree the joy of Peeper the Hyla. Sweet Mistress Spring had arrived, and | no matter what happened the joy in | her arrival couldn’t be lessened in the héart of that little Tree Frog, for tRat is what Peeper is, you know, one of the smallest of the Tree Frog | family. Of course, Peeper wasn't in a | tree, even if he was a Tree Frog. No, | \ndeed. When Mistress Spring arrives there is only one place to look for Peeper and that is in the water. His “I STOPPED THEM! I DID NOTH- ING OF THE KIND,” RETORTED PETER. heart is so filled with the joy of love and living that he must sing, and his singing is mostly done while he is wholly or partly in water. So Peeper sang, and with him sang all the other Hylas, and the chorus of their many voices carried far, and people would stop to listen and say: “Spring is surely here.” Peter Rabbit had heard it before ever he left the dear Old Briar-patch. He had heard it when he had been back in the Green Forest with his cousin, Jumper the Hare. That chorus had been very loud, indeed, when he had come down to the edge of the water and there had met his old friend, Jerry Muskrat. Then a Hawk had appeared and Peter had stamped a danger signal that had saved Jerry's life. In the excitement Peter hadn't noticed tha something was different from what | it had been. Now that the excite- ment was over, he had an odd feel- ing that something was missing. For a few minutes he couldn’t think what it was. Suddenly it "came to him. There was a strange stillness. His ears were no longer filled with sound, the sound of the mighty ehorus of Peeper and his friends, the chorus of the little Tree Frogs called Hylas. ‘What's happened?” Peter asked. “Nothing’s happened since that Hawk failed to catch me, thanks to your warning,” squeaked Jerry Musk- rat. “Peeper and his friends have stopped singing. That's what has happened. Now what did they do that for?” Peter replied. “You stopped them,” replied Jerry. “I stopped them? I did nothing of the kind,” retorted Peter. “How could I have stopped them? Why, I didn’t see even one of them. What's the idea in saying that I stopped them?” “Thumped a warning to me, didn’t you?” replied Jerry. “Certainly. What of Peter. “Do you think I am the only one that hearc that signal and under- stood it? Peeper and his friends have ears, you know. They heard it and knew what it meant. They may not have known what particular danger it meant, but it was enough for them to know that danger of any kind was near. So they stopped singing, which was very sensible of them,” explained Jerry. “But that whole chorus stopped, and it couldn’t be that all those singers, those way over on the other side, heard me thump,” Peter argued. “I don’t suppose all of them did. It wasn’t necessary. The one nearest to you certainly heard you thump. That was enough. That was as good as if all of them had heard you,” re- plied Jerry in a matter-of-fact man- ner, as if there was nothing unusual, nothing to explain about this. Peter scratched a long ear with a long hind foot. Then he scratched the other long ear with the other long hind foot. But he scratched in vain. Yes, sir, he scratched in vain. It didn’t help him a bit to under- stand Jerry Muskrat's statement. “I don’t know what you are talk- ing about,” declared Peter at last. “You, and how you stopped the singing of Peeper and his friends, of course,” replied Jerry impatiently. “Hark! There's Peeper beginning to sing again now!” cried Peter. (Copyright, 1937.) it?” said Might Have Been Worse. PARSONS, Kans. (A).—In a room at headquarters, Police Detective Blanchard Bolander questioned a man | and a woman suspected of shoplifting, then released them for lack of evi- dence. Returning to the room he discovered his gloves, glasses and to- bacco pouch were missing. Other officers swore Bolander was wearing his glasses when they were stolen, but, he said: “Anyhow, they didn't get my gun.” THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 2, Winning Contract BY THE FOUR ACES. (David Burnstine. Merwin D. Mater. Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schenken, world’s leading eam-of-four. inventors of the aystem that hag beaten every other system in existence.) " Control Showing. HE natural slam-bidding meth- all his remaifiing losers on dummy’s club suit, which was now established. (Cobyright, 1937.) ods of The Four Aces System (. make it a very easy matter to show not only first but second round control whenevet a partnership 50 desires, as is well illustrated in the following hand recently played by Mr. and Mrs. Oswald Jacoby. South, dealer. Both sides vulnerable. Mrs. Jacoby. A A9E63 91017 Mr. Jacoby. ‘The bidding started out quite simply with a heart by Mr. Jacoby, a two- club response by Mrs. Jacoby and three hearts by Mr. Jacoby. Now came the first key-bid of the hand— Mrs, Jacoby bid three spades. At this point Mr. Jacoby could not tell| whether her spade bid showed first- | round control for the purpose of a slam or a genuine spade suit. How- ever, he proceeded to find out quickly by bidding four diamonds. At this point West inserted a double to show his diamond holding, at the same time hoping to scare his opponents away from the right contract. In order to determine whether her husband had a solid heart suit or strong club sup- port to warrant his bid, Mrs. Jacoby decided to pass to see what he would do next. When he bid four hearts, she knew there was a solid heart suit, and accordingly now made the bril- liant bid of five diamonds, showing her second-round control in that suit and at the same time inferentially in- dicating that she held the aces in both spades and clubs as the basis for her bids. Jacoby now bid five spades, showing that second-round control; Mrs. Jacoby six clubs, show- ing that king also and at the same time inviting seven, whereupon Mr. Jacoby contracted for the grand slam in hearts. West made his best opening of a trump. Jacoby won with the eight- spot in his own hand, played a club to dummy'’s ace, ruffed a low club in his own hand, played the ace of dia- monds, ruffed a diamond with dummy’s 10 of trumps, and led an- other low club, trumping in his own hand. He then drew the opponents’ | remaining trumps, entered dummy withr the ace of spades and discarded ! Four Aces will be lettefs from ~rea ped (3-gent), self-addressed en- velope is inclesed ‘with each communi- cation, If you desire the pocket out- line of The Four Aces’ system of con- tract bridge, send, with your request, & stamped (3-cent), self-addressed, large size envelope to The Four Aces, Inc, 130 West Forty-second sireet, New York City, and you will receive an outline without any charge. The next article in this series will appear Sunday. leased to rs il & he. er Brain Twizzlers BY PROF. J. D. FLINT. T A jewelers' convention in Chi- cago an Iimportant robbery oc- curred. The convention was held at a hotel and the man accused of the robbery was supposedly & member of the jewelers’ association. When taken into custody he denied the theft, claim- ing that at 1:30 a.m., the time the crime was committed, he was making the rounds of parties in friends’ rooms. His own room was on the fourteenth floor, and he brought in another jeweler who testified that he had stopped first on the thirteenth Aeihas floor, then had lingered on the eleventh floor from about midnight until 2 am,, always within sight. At the conclusion of this party he had gone to his room and remained there the rest of the night. The prosecuting attorney pounced upon the testimony and established a case which convicted the man and also the testifying jeweler as an ac- complice. What was the evidence? (Answer on Page C-7.) (Copyright, 1937.) Mother Cat Thoughtful. DENVER (#)—The cat yowled so Joud while getting her five Kkittens | out of the house that Mrs. L. M. Alexander investigated. She dis. covered a disconnected furnace pipe and called the fire department. Five fume-affected Alexander children were given first aid. Nature’s 1937. Children Canada Jay i (Perisoreus canadensis). BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. OON from the trces wilj be heard the call of “thief, thief.” Tt matters not whether it is our local jay or the onme in the Northern part of our country. These birds have lots of fun tormenting sleepy screech owls. Truth to tell, they get inordinate pleasure fooling their neighbors. That cry, sent out on the air, has the power of torment- ing the little neighbors, who are hon- est folk and dislike to be called such a name, Jays are relatives of crows. Would you have guessed it? They are large birds, as a rule, with long sharp bills, and their nostrils are always hidden under a tuft of soft feathers. Among some members of the tribe the tail will vary in length and form, but it is | never forked or notched. Perhaps the best known of them all is the blue His reputation is not of the best. The little Canadian jay loves the | conifer forests of the Morth, south to | Novia Scotia, New Brunswick, North- | {ern Maine, the higher mountains of | New Hampshire, Vermont and North- | | ern New York. «He is also known in | Northern Ontario, Northern Michigan | Sometimes | | and Northern Minnesota. | he decides to spend the Winter in Massachusetts or New York City and suburbs, or Pennsylvania, Ontario, Southern Michigan, southeastern part of Wisconsin and South Dakota. Jack.” Whether he is a hard drinker or not we cannot say, but he is noisy, cheeky, a bird-nest robber and a few | other things. Naturally, this makes him an outlaw among his more peace- | loving fellows. He has little regard for his appear- ance, which is so unlike his American kinsman, the blue jay, a dandy in jay has a uniform of black and white and gray. When you first see him you are shocked. your gentle little neighbor of the Winter, the chickadee, fallen into bad ways, so disheveled and mussed, and the expression from the black beady i eyes is so blank. What a rellef it is to find you are mistaken, though it | breaks your heart to see the Canada | ' jay so unambitious. | feathers. Perhaps you have known this saucy | little jay by the name of “Whisky | every sense of the word. The Canada | For you think it is | Don't let his pose fool you. This is just one of his stunts. He is mere- 1y walling to carry out one of his | schemes and is not attracting any undue attention to himself. What he | is going to do, when your back is turned, is not according to Hoyle, even among his tribe. All is not too bad. There is always something good to be found in all of Nature's children, so we find that the Canada jay has a flne singing voice. True, he sometimes squawks, screams, chuckles and whistles, but he is not profane, and that is saying much. He is a natural-born announcer. How. he loves to tell his bird neighbors who is coming, and there are little gossipy notes that sound like side re- marks about the guests. | His wife builds the nursery along | the side of the trunk of a conifer | tree. She constructs 4 bulky affair, | rather high-walled and made of twigs interlaced with pine needles, bark strips and soft grasses. | In March or Aprfl she lays three to five pearl-gray eggs, well freckled with brown and lavender. Though the temperature is very low, she has up- holstered the cradle with down and The babies never feel the cold in such a high-walled room, and | when you see them they will be wear- | ing slate-colored plumage, with chin, | throat and chest of brownish-slate | gray. jay, & handsome fellow with a crest. | Their little dark-i aps are worn with their Sonnysayings y, jaunty t_nuptial R P L — Ya know, Tom: Baby's bank | rattles like about 50 cents, an’ the little girl next door is made ob money! 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