Evening Star Newspaper, June 4, 1937, Page 47

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGION, D. C. FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1937, C—-7 LIFE’S LIKE THAT. —By FRED NEHER. Sonnysayings THE MOUNTAIN BOYS. —By PAUL WEBB. T 2 v AH THOUGHT | AH WAS AIMIN TO - BUT | [ BESSIE'S WOKE | DANGNATION HO HUMM-M-M-m Y SHECKS- Youke) [ Quick PAW / You BETTER oo was s ) BESSIE GOT TIRED | |UP NOW, PAW--- | Al CANT/ NOW| | THAT WAS A RIGHT GOOD }Too LATE - PAW— | | LAY DowN AN TAKE yOORGELE A-PLOWIN' ¥ AN’ AH CAN'T GIT GOIN'|| You CAN GIT -, | AHM TiRED- - Now BESSIE'S, ANCTHER SNOOLE S0's TIL SHE WAKES UP. STARTED PLOWIN Arj:l ic-r 1;@ LAYIN' DOWN AG IN| | YOU'LL BOTH WAKE. LP AT ARE : SERT TIME. . SNOOLE., ‘Q_SLH?[_SE Drandpa says he'll gib a penny a | dozen for white butterflies, on ac- count they ruins the cabbages! I knowed & poem once about a butter- | fiv: nobody eber heard ob a poem about a cabbage! g b If this cheerfulness annoys you On the ‘days youre feeling blue Please forgive me, “HE'S AFRAID OF GETTING ATHLETE'S FOOT.” | gentk re‘dcr T - JUST LOOK HOW AM . YES, ANNIE- I'M : N b BUT DANGEROUS ONLY HE HAS THE EXPERIENC OUTMANEUVERED SIROB! 2 INCLINED TO AGREE ; TO THOSE WHO TRY TO [HE OF THE AGES -XHE KNO%\)S s AND HIS PALS! | TELL WITH YOU, TO A . % CROSS HIM=- AND HE'S THAT BRAINS BEAT FORCE, ‘I()DER\\— w\l /\IDEVS | CERTAIN EXTENT- ol & NOT CRUEL, EVEN TO 4 IF THE BRAINS ARE GOOD E ARE PLENTY . ON EARTH- ) NTY GOOP ENOU Bedtime Stories BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. "['ADDY, the little Toad who had | left the Smiling Pool to find a place for himself in the Great World, had found what he had started m“i 2 - Y . : i 3 i HAROLD | for. His long journey was over. He | g 1 4 ] z \ GRAN @ “_ It seemed to him | 2k : k L 3 ; 305 - 6-4-37 me a Toad could | ask for. It was under a big wide | | board in a shady corner of Farm Brown's garden. Farmer Brown's Boy | v | g o had put it there especia for Old | Y o Nl | ) ) ! Mr dwm and his friends w‘f:fifi%f{fagw . Z il - Bt WHAT V'HOLDIN' THESE TWO 3 M, ONLY ARSON, ASSAULT ol Old Mr. Toad was there when 3 il LADS FER 7 QUICK! LEMME AN' BATTERY AN’ REGISTIN' [WHAT #/1! Taddy found the place and had NOU TOGRTHER- T L i Pl [\ cruncHEm! LN > WNOW, THEY'RE MY NEPHEWS ! AN OFFICER - THAT'S ALL/ | somewhat gruffly invited Taddy to | 2 Ll make his home there. This he had | v AR il < P gladly done, having found the | perfect home there was no sense, no | | sense at all, in looking farther. Now | there was plenty of room under that! big, wide board, and one by one | other little Toads of Taddy's own | age who happened that way were | ‘:mued to stay, and did. | | | == .it says here in the rule book...."” ‘ BRIDGE y WEBSTER | SO (M THE WORST GRIDEE PLAYER YES, BOYS-- I'M GOING DO YOU MEAN AGREED ! soFT!! NO MOoRE CARTH Am 1 T WE-E-LL, WouLD - TO PUT YOU IN TH' BIG TO TELL ME | T g OPPOSITION FROM THAT et il e Ir NG YOUR EXPERT : : TWIN SHOW-- TLL MAKE ) vead! | | YOO ArRENT NSCDE A Do QUARTER --- T CAN FEEL You MIND CASTI \\ YOoOu FaMoOLS!! INTERESTED AT HERE'S YOUR | i EYE on THIS T READ IT CAREFULLY. ey THAT FIVE HUNDRED DOLLAR T || FIRST DAY'S LooT PRIZE JINGLING IN MY = EVIDENTLY YOUR OPINIOAN IS | > 4 g ¢ WANTS TO \ UNDER TH' NEW POCKET ALL READY! | NOT SHARED BY EVERYONE So presenily Old Mr Toad had| | s BE FAMOOUS,) s CONTRACT A, A half a dozen of his children living . oL B (e with him there in the corner of | Farmer Brown's garden. The funny WE SHOULD HAVE HELD N g thing about it is at he didn't 2 1 ¢ i o G s oY OUT FOR know they were his children, and : / K 3 =3 ¢ MORE ! | either did they. There was plenty \ / . ™~ of room and never the least trouble. | Wk e} ) B . 3 All the little Toads looked up to Old Mr. Toad and tried to do just as he did. They were not in the least afraid of him, despite the fact that | {he was so very much bigger than (€107 by The A { ! < they. | Not for the world would he | = = hurt them, and they knew it. It was —By SOL HESS. fortunate for them that Old Mr. Toad was not like his cousin, Grand- ¥ 4 A . L ) S\ N Z L DONT ) ESE ~ou GoT || 4 R R B father Frog. Had he been, he soon 1 4 % |f HONEY-FACE - would have swallowed his children, 7\ 2 = S ROUND || €9 THRoLEH for that is what Grandfather Frog v = Z ALLEY FOR A does when he gets the chance, I am i/ sorry to say. Every evening, as soon as the Black Shadows had come out from the Purple Hills across the Green Mead- ows and wrapped Farmer Brown's garden in soft dusk, Old Mr. Toad led the garden patrol out from under that wide board. Old Mr. Toad would lead the way, hop, hop, hippety-hop, and one behind another six fat little | Toads would follow him, hop, hop, hippety-hop. Bright-eyed, alert, solemn, the gar- den patrol would set forth. Hop, hop, THE DIPLOMA FROM hippety-hop, they go down the garden ’ path, and had you met them you THE BRIDGE SCHooL would have known that they were on serious business. “It is cutworms tonight,” Old Mr. Toad would say. Then the six little . WHEN MY FRIEND, MUTT, COMES oUT Toads knew just what to look for. | |fyey miNsK, SUQE“]E;F’ IRDA%O 70 RELIEVE ME ON GUARD DUTY o Cutworms were despoilers of the DOME A {( ANYTHING Fol ND | | TONIGHT you SHoOT AT ME WITH MUTT WILL TH - garden, and unless they were de- |. FAVOR oLD FoRY%SaTEggET BLANK CARTRIDGES AND WHEN 1M A BRAVE GUY-~ stroyed the garden would be de- VAP PAL! / | T sHooT BACK AT You 77 ‘M HERE HE COMES stroyed. Fortunately, they were very wiLL YA? AnKs you FALL Nault good eating, as any Toad would teil WITH BL £D1. WA\ < you. Presently one little Toad would AS (F KILLED/ fall out of line and disappear among IN Letter-out and he did it before the plants. Then another would do DUNES | theSldses) the same thing, going in a different = direction. After a bit the patrol would SPINES l fetter-Out for what the barber be scattered all through the garden, each hunting cutworms and knowing just where to look for them. Big GLARE | e e ) ek cutworms sometimes were too big for a little Toad to manage, but there SHOVEL Letter-Out for perforations. Wex;:taltv;gs;ég;e :Iztr;o;r?s.the patrol wasn’t confined just to the destruc- R T T tion of cutworms. Goodness, no! The i tter-Out and thai S small Toads did splendid work in AVARICE ‘ feRE the lettuce bed, where the tiny plant lice were doing a lot of damage. Then Remove one letter from each word and rearrange to spell the word :t:lzreuv‘f:p:m:::t;e;dtg‘h:?rjx:::m:h;gz called for in the last column. Print the letter in center column opposite garden would be much better with- the word you have removed it from. If you have “Lettered-Out” correctly out. If they were small enough the z i : ot - you have an impulse conductor. little Toads snapped them up. As for I ADORE YOUR NEW , : ! %%u;m i ngfiNl ME Old Mr. Frog, none was too big or ADIO, BUMP. Z V . ALWAYS TRYIN' T0 too hairy or too hard shelled for / 2 X | i , “JAKE IT BACK? him. v Le -Out it is the 1 t PANES I S l S dasoy S RO SR TR So from the coming of dusk until NEAP after break of day the patrol was SWOPE | w l Leiter-Out and the model will do on duty in Farmer Brown's garden. — ) (©1937-M-9. ToBons e BY CHARLES H. JOSEPH. Answer to Yesterday’s LETTER-OUT. it for hire. And on rainy days the patrol did POSE extra duty. On bright days the 5 members dozed comfortably under COWERS ! 0 Bonten ot and 2ot :‘"d b the wide board. If there were many CREWS3 days with hot, dry weather, Farmer = Brown’s Boy would sometimes lift KEATON l 0 e T vl T N the board and sprinkle the patrol TAKEN and soak the ground, to their com- 5 fort and joy. He always says that FLAUNTED I N I e T e AL IOREAY anything he can do for the patrol DEFAULT is paid for many times over by what they do for him in his garden. (Copyright, 1037.) (Copyright, 1937.) &