Evening Star Newspaper, July 13, 1937, Page 33

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JULY 13, 1937. B—15 Sonnysayings POP. Pop Will Take It. —By J. MILLAR WATT. TS —— 1 ORDERED A SPECIAL MERINGUE GATEAU > ‘The billposter was goin' t' gib 12 tickets t' the circus if Daddy would let him paste up his pictures on the side of our new garage—and he said, “No!” THE CHEERFUL CHERUB - L Thoogh Im timid and Jl\rin“ng at heart, My modesty really excel.r.kn ) ne web e3s . - Life—The Chiseler. “YOU DON'T HEAR ME COMPLAINING, DEAR, EVEN THOUGH I HAVE }'\\VQ l GOHPQ” TO USE THE STREET CAR NOW THAT THE CAR IS A TOTAL WRECK » | |1 love to paged R / AS | SAID. ' DONT TO '™M NOT SO SURE OF THAT, SHE SEEMS SOUR, BUT GOOd LIFE IS NEVER ALL HAPPINESS GO AWAY - IN FACT THEY PLAN TO ANNIE = THIS MAN, BLABBLE - | ENOUG"' HE'S A WEAK ONE, AND AND LIGHT - ITS ROUGH EDGES | SHUT ME_UP IN AN _ASYLUM - BUT DON'T_LIKE HIM- WHY IS HE SO LAZY -~ LIFE WITH THEM MAY ARE_WHAT CHISEL THE CHARACTER ) SEEM TOO UPSETTING TO TOO INTERESTED 1IN HAVING YOU ADOPTED? NOT BE ALTOGETHER PLEASANT OF THOSE IT BUFFETS~ THE | HIS SORT ALWAYS HAVE A MOTIVE - FOR YOU, BUT YOULL BE ?fi- THAT, ANNIE - T E, IS THEIR MINDS RUN IN GROOVES - AND THIS COUPLE-- MR. AND MRS. I'M CERTAIN OF [ TS BETTER FOR EVERYONE THAT NELSON G. BRITTLEWIT = HM-M-M-- NOT BETTER FOR ME, MR = = sz AM- Bedtime Stories BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. Not much to lose. but much to gain, The time to take & chance is piain. ally Sly. SALLY SLY THE COWBIRD, de- &pised by all her neighbors for her laziness and her habit of imposing on others, thought herself very smm. when she left an egg in a nest on the porch of Farmer Brown's house. She | had come up o early this Spring that she was ahead of the smaller feath- | = - ered folk. on whom she preferred to ! OM, BRIARSIE -~ THANK, WHEW/! \'M eTiILL LISSEN, YOU L\TTLE FAKER [ YOU CLEAR. impose her duties as a mother. As| THANK GOODNE. ] = b i 1 yeU there were few nests, and most of s aaouas GROGEY, BUT I Ty OUT O’ HERE~ GET AWAY FROM HERE/ 4 THE LAST THING ! NEXT TUAE | WON'T BE 50 TENDER WITH these were of birds who nest in holes | 00 ML FIRE M b Nou in trees or in birdhouses. Sally some- | 5 ST i times goes into such places, but she | STRALE/ prefers nests in the open. So she was = greatly pleased with the discovery of | that nest on the porch. She knew 5 4 €101 The A P AT R Rt b @_fin “EVERY TIME FATHER STARTS TO TELL HOW HE BAGGED IT, IT WINKS!" LIFE'S DARKEST MOMENT. —By WEBSTER OwW!' OF ALL IT'S JUST YEAH! BUT IS THAT TH TWINS / YEAH *= TH' MUMPS TH TOOUGH LUCK AS TOUGH You DON'T so!' T DON'T SEEM IS RATWER BECOMING that the Phoebes had built it. She I =HAVE - ON TOP ON ME--I'M TO MIND IT v TO THEM--MAKES was disappointed to find no eggs in | OF ACHING ACHE JUST MUCH-- THEY'RE THEM LOOK it. but it seemed to be finished. S0/ | ELSE T HAVE TO |WiTH YOU AND | | Gaws Line O LOOwW ARG T ALMOST she left an egg there and hastily GET TH' MOMPS!! ™™ MUse UKE A COUPLE saNT ! departed. She didn’t want to be seen. TWING FOR \ OF SOLDIERS! But Mr. Phoebe did see her and ’ fl = chuckled, for he and Mrs. Phoebe were \ not using that nest. It was last year's nest, and they had a new one on & rafter higher up. Sally Sly had | missed it. After that the Phoebes never left their nest unwatched for an instant until after their eggs were hatched. Well satisfled with having found a nest for one egg, Sally Sly sneaked about, looking for other nests where- in she might leave more eggs. But, as . I have said, there were few nests as H i N [ L o et Llemneste e Mischief, Thou Art Afoot. suited to her needs. I 1 DID HE SAY THAT NOW SEE WHAT 1 DONT BLAME The first nest she had found was 1 7 WE MADE ME DOT [You _HeE'S AN that of Welcome Robin, and this she | | IVAML,FLA, || IVE GOT' GOOD NEWS FOR. ’ WELL, HE CAN PUT A 3 WRITES "BY ALL [[/NOU_MAX ACCEPTED YOUR | OF HiS STRENGTH AND HOE 1M EA kept in mind. There were four 883 | |igans HAVE || CHALLENGE AND WILL FIGHT HE DOESUT WANT TO M QUoE 16 ComeTo | ASAINST HiM, in it, four blue eggs. She knew, be- EMMA MARRY TOO cause she had slipped over and peeped POTTS. into it while the nest was unguarded EDWARD = \ N for a few minutes. She had been KEWA“;:;‘& 5 i = WORITRIG tempted to leave an egg there then,| |yores FOR ERNIE| h : q NOTHIN' BU but she preferred, very much pre- ferred, to find a nest of smaller folk, n;-;gw..wmr folk whose children would be smaller NOU THINK. ? thari her baby from the time they oo came from the eggs. It wouldn't be| |FLMICAUGHEY, 20 in the case of the Robins, as she| |OESMOINES, A very well knew. It was shortly after [ | ALSO_PICKS this peep into the nest of Welcome | | ERNIE,FANNY Robin that she discovered that the Phoebes were living on that porch, THE BOY In THE C.C.C. CAMP and she made the mistake about their WHOSE oTHeR: Seomitum o & 9 ne&;t..‘“ 's search for other nests was ~ g e AT y's searc s Mews SHIBTON S BIRTHOANY, : discouraging. Finally she decided that she would take a chance. She would leave an egg in the nest of the Robins L E T T E R - O l T and thke the chance that when it hatched her baby would be able to Z | caN You (t’.snsne HAVE hold its own against the Robin babies. S0 = SII:R.SOSN‘:KSYm 8o Sally Sly hung around near the BY CHARLES H. JOSEPH. nest of Welcome and Mrs. Robin, ~ keeping out of sight. She knew that if she were seen she would be sus- Letter-Out for t ) pected. Waiting and watching re- g MORSEL I SrEositivenstilearning, quired & lot of patience. Sally Sly = ICE COLE had plenty. People on mischief bent e T S SE usually do have a lot of patience. At | HADES | 7 last her opportunity came. Welcome | < ~ 3 Z ey Acg Robin was off, hunting worms. Mrs. . LASS Robin left the nest for a few min- Letter-Ou BAWLERS | (ZEerl Lol IAEL U LT utes, just long enough to get a drink, for she was very thirsty. When she re- = turned there were five eggs, instead of SNIFFER [ eemm four, in the nest, and one of them | wasn't blue. : ¢ ; X : - —_——— s Mrs. Robin knew instantly who 3 ; Q PIQUES | SR et had been there and anger filied her _amm S Jenico s S e s heart. She called excitedly and soon o . ] 7 Welcome Robin came hurrying up. Jeff Must Be a Silvérware Collector. Bv BUD FISHER. Remove one letter from each word and rearrange to spell the word | oAt 18 it, my dear? What is the 2 ' 2alled for in the last column. Print the letter in center column opposite | MAtter?” he asked anxiously. WEATEARE A FORK? WHAT sy ’g‘)"s";}:?,gfiy the word you have removed it from. If you have “Lettered-Out” correctly ‘That good-for-nothing Sally Sly You LOOKING DO YoU WANT AT THE i your word means intermediate. has been here, and just see what she FOoR? WITH A FORK? WHOTOLD ME HOW TO S left!” cried Mrs. Robin indignantly. ? C;EJEEE:E ESSAI% Y:::g ; o Y “If she thinks we are going to take T ILES U! (Anawerito X estecday)s LETTER OUT: care of and bring up her child she can : o \ A FORK IN THE ROAD! just think again. We'll have four B L > N Letter-Out and you injure. babies of our own, and I shall simply MARSH l S l AT refuse to feed another. I would kick - this egg out now, only I might acci- TEEMS l E | u“g,"“'o“' and it holds the plant dentally kick one of our own eggs out. “You don't need to,” replied Wel- STEM come Robin cheerfully, g “Wh 't I need to?” MANGES i N | Letter 9:‘:‘;: some of ours are Mr:V R:ng:n need to?” snapped “Because,” replied Welcome Robin, Letter-Out and it is named afte “T'll throw it out with my bill,” and CHARMS l s | the God of ‘M"A H 5 promptly did so. “There's an egg RC she's wasted,” he added, wiping his Letter-Out and they = bill on a twig. MAPLES l | ][ e e “I hadn’t thought of doing that.” LAMPS said Mrs. Robin as she settled herself comfortably on the eggs. (Copyright, 1837.) (Coprright, 1987.) A )8