Evening Star Newspaper, May 24, 1937, Page 33

WOMEN’ S FEATURES. Bedtime Stories Taddy th BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. Experience does knowledge give To find the surest way to live. —Old Mother Nature. ADDY THE TADPOLE was liv- ing in the Smiling Pool. He had been born there. To him there was no other place but the Smiling Pool. It was his world. There were many other Tadpoles liv- ing there. Taddy was but one of very many. He had a lot of brothers and sisters and hundreds and hundreds of cousins of all sizes and ages. Of course, he had a father and a mother, but he didn't know them and they didn't know him. Seems funny, doesn’t it? - But it is that way among ¢ the Frog and Toad folk and among AFTER THAT HE KEPT MORE CLOSELY TO THE WEEDS AND AWAY FROM OPEN WATER. #ome other people of the Smiling Pool. ‘They don't know their fathers and mothers, and are unknown by them. Taddy was a baby. Of course. All Tadpoles are babies. Some are baby Frogs, and some are baby Toads. ‘Taddy was a baby Toad. Perhaps you would have called him a Pollywog. ‘Tadpoles and Pollywogs are the same, Just Frog and Toad babies. Who takes care of these babies? No one but Old Mother Nature. From the time they give their funny little tails the first wiggle and begin to swim they must look out for themselves, for there is no one else to do it for them. Taddy was tiny and black. One who knew nothing about Frogs and Toads, seeing him for the first time, never would have guessed that he was even related to Frogs or Toads. There wasn't & thing about him to suggest such relationship. He looked as if he might be a queer little fish of some sort. You see, he had a long tail and he used it to swim with, after the manner of a fish. mother have no tails. Then Taddy breathed in the water as a fish does, having gills for that purpose. Father His father and | e Tadpole. and Mother Toad have no gills, but lungs, even as you and I. Taddy couldn't breathe out of water, and his parents couldn’t breathe under water. In other ways all the Tadpoles were just as much unlike their parents. Perhape it is no wonder that they were not recognized by the latter. At first Taddy lived through luck more than anything else. It just happened that none of the hungry folk looking for tiny Tedpoles hap- ‘pened to find him as they did ever 50 many of the multitude of brothers and sisters who had come from the thousands of tiny eggs their mother had deposited in the Smiling Pool. At first .they had been hard to dis- cover, for they had clung fast to weeds, but when they had begun to use those little tails to wiggle about in search of food they were easily seen, and their number grew smaller each day. For the first few days after leaving the egg Taddy just clung to a weed. He didn't have a mouth then. But in a few days he developed a little round mouth and a wiggle in his tail, and found a use for both. Of course, & mouth was to eat with and a tail was to swim with, to hunt for the choicest bits of food for a never-sat- isfied appetite. It was then that ‘Taddy began to take notice of what went on around him and to profit by what he saw. He saw several of his companions swallowed by & fish. After that he kept more closely to the ‘weeds and away from open water. He discovered that a shadow on the water might mean danger from above. After that he was suspicious of all shadows. A terrible creature, with wicked jaws, came up from behind and seized the Tadpole next to him. The terrible creature was a water beetle. After this Taddy tried to watch below as well as above and on all sides. It just couldn’t be done all at once, for while he was looking one way he couldn't be looking another way. The result was that one of those ugly-looking water beetles did catch him and bit off half his tail. A funny-looking Tadpole was Taddy, .with only half a tail. It was most inconvenient, too, for he couldn't swim half so well. He couldn't get about so readily and quickly. Yes, sir, it was most inconvenient. But it could have been worse. It could have been a lot worse. Yau see, that tall was only a temporary loss, not a per- manent loss, as would have been the loss of a tail by any of the folks who wear fur. Jerry Muskrat, for in- stance. It wasn't long before Taddy had practically as good a tail as before. So Taddy the Tadpole lived in the Smiling Pool and thought of nothing but eating and keeping out of the clutches of his enemies. (Copyright, 1937.) Winning Contract BY THE FOUR ACES. (David Burnstine. Merwin D. Majer, Oswal d Jacoby, Howard Schenken. world's leading team-of-four, inventors of the system that has beaten every other system PTIMISTIC bidding not in- frequently obtains better re- sults than sound, conserva- tive bidding. 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He chose first the thirteenth diamond, then the jack of clubs and finally let g0 of the queen, since it was neces- | sary to hold four hearts. Declarer, who had carefully noted all the discards, then simply played the three of clubs from his hand, dropping West’s ace, and claimed the balance. YAK S5 4 4A K 6 »6 2 N W+E 8 410 9842 Q3 QT2 SK 43 Mr. Von Zedtwitz. The bidding: North. East. 1e Pass 3v Pass 64 Pass Pass Pass. Pass Pass West's foolish double enabled Mr. Von Zedtwitz to place him with both the missing high cards, the king of spades and the ace of clubs. After the diamond opening declarer saw but one chance to make his con- tract—Afirst, to capture the king of spades, then to execute a backward squeeze on the doubler. He won the diamond in his hand and led the 10 of spades. When West played low, overtook with the jack and played the A7 6 M098TS South. 1e 3NT West. Pass Pass Dbl (Copyright, 1937.) 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The snout is pointed, the eye large and the large mouth is filled with very sharp teeth. The teeth on the tongue and palatines are arranged in prominent bands. The caudal fin is decidedly forked. There 18 a single species known to inhabit Chesapeake Bay. The lizard fish range from 9 to 13 inches in length and this one is & brownish or greenish-brown above, with lower sides and below of pure silvery white. The chin is white, the dorsal is pale yellow. The pectoral fins are green or yellow. ‘The young fry have more or less lark crossbars on their backs, Even at this age they can be identifiied as lizard fish, for the form is suggestive enough to place them for you at once. The lizard fish is easily found, once you know its habits. It lies in wait for the very small fish that swim about the sandy bottoms, also looking for their dinner. Most of the fish taken by the lizard fish are young “CERTIFIED” ‘weakfish. 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