Evening Star Newspaper, July 17, 1937, Page 19

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, S‘A“;I‘[TRDAY; JULY 17, 1937. j : B-7 . Sonnysayings THE MOUNTAIN BOYS. —By PAUL WEBB. OH, HOWDY, WILLIE — AH WAS NOW THAT WE HAS KNOWED WAHL — ALL YOU GOTTA DO 1$ HOPIN' YOU'D COME BACK. EACH OTHER FER A SPELL TREAT ME REAL NICE ALL THE AH WAS LOOKIN * HOW'D YoU LIKE To TIME — HELP ME PLOW THE CORN, BE MY FEE-ANCY ? PLANT THE TATERS AN’ SUCH LIKE. NOW DOES YO KNOW WHAT 1$ A FEE-ANCY? Baby got four tickets to the show fer leadin' the clown's donkey! She in lettin’ us walk on the same side ob the street’ with her! Yfi\ b’siss things_on Little Minds, What Now ? the way. = — . ; e | Ho! HO! READING AND HIS W YOUR CLAIMS YOU wiL THESE, YOUR SO-CALLED KNOWLELGE TO HAVING KNOWN | | HAVE THE SECRET OfF ANSWER THe "ANCIENT" INSCRIPTIONS, OF ANCIENT ® MEN WHO LIVED ETERNAL LIFE? ABS%RD. QUESTIONS - NOT R 'S AS EASY AS READING HISTORY 1S THOUSANDS OF YOU SAY- WHY? N ASK THEM- A POST-CARD - EASIER ¥ ASTOUNDING! [ YEARS AGO - YOUR ‘/JHAT ‘s L'FE? —_— THAN MOST POST-CARDS. CLAIM THAT YOU —_— S L= “IN FACT- He\é; u\fgs Sgg ER?LIFET? SEENTIS FoF coumses WHY--ER- YEARS L oo THAT S--- DECIPHERING 4 Bedtime Stories BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. On xomip acandals thrive and grow: The truth the gossips seldom know. Old Mother Nature, ’[HERE was scandal in the Old | Orchard. Yes, sir, things were | being whispered about that were noth- | . Ton T New. | ing less than scandal. And of all peo- | WEBSTER’S (.AREER. ple, Mr. and Mrs. Chippy the Chip- | ping Sparrows were the victims oli 5 J} it. It had leaked out that they were | bringing up one of the babies of THE DOCTOR GAYS BEN'S E AN WITH THE WeBSTER =\ THINK 1T'S AFE TO TELL GRABBER PRETTY ROCKY FROM WHAT ) XD 6CARED OFF, AN'A THAT 6ETH STRALE'LL MAND OVER THE NUGGET Sally Sly the Cowbird, and gossip | | 1y BULLYIN' BRUTE STRALE ; (OUPLE O' OTHER. " had it that they were neglecting| | DOME To WIAA, BUT— HAMAM, N FAST ONES | their own babies. Of course. it Was | b JUt 16 CAR'S STILL THERE~ |- AR | 6ot up v no one's business but their own. | 4 > — e || sLeeve Certainly not. But the Old Orchard = 2 is like any other neighborhood, and | the neighbors did talk. “They say that their own babies | [y are not half fed, but that that voungster of Sally Sly's is as fat as | & baby well can be,” sald Mrs. Orlole = to Mrs. Robin. | = “It is & shame and a disgrace to | Y W the Old Orchard.” replied Mrs. Robin. “Her own children should come first. | Mine would. I can tell you that” i | ! ) Mrs. Catbird happened along in “MAYRE HE8 AFRAID OF GFETTING WATFR IN HIS FARS. Tt e e - “I suppose you are talking about Mrs. e Chippy,” said she. “Have you heard The Thrill That Comes Once in a Lifetime.—By Wel the latest?” “What is the latest?” demandsd Mrs. Oriole. “They say one of the Chippy babies DocToRrR “%] | fell from the nest” replied Mrs. sTon Mol Catbird. & " Lte =0 “More likely it was kicked out of | { <L CAN'T UNDER svicenTLy | [ S EDDE! WENVE ALL ) STAND IT! T s WHAT'S TH GOT TH I PRESUME A the nest by that Cowbird young- TS OE T e ey NoT ! TS MATTER? " f ster,” declared Mrs. Robin. “If Mra. AS BIG A ? MUMPS!! 2 1joNnE HAD MUMPS TOOTHACHET | Chippy had any sense at all she SORPRISE | would refuse to feed him. I would | | WHEN THEY TOME! T OR ARE YOU St WERE KIDS ==+ G TRYING TO starve him to death were I in her place. Anyway, I would see that my | SEE™MS LIKE I'D HAD DLE‘.?FOEKQL\’::%B|T7 own got all they wanted before feed- | THEM ONCE > ing him.” Mrs. Catbird nodded in agree- ment. “So would 1,” said she. I al- | Ways say that our own should come first, It i all Tight to be tender- hearted when your own are not suf- fering, but when one who has no rght to it takes the food from the | very mouths of one's children it is a different matter. I thought better of Mr. and Mrs. Chippy. The whole Affair is a disgrace to the neighbor- hood.” Two days later another of ‘the| r—————————) 7 = 5 = ! Chippy babies had been found on WEW, WHATIS 1T MEW MY UNCLE THE MAOR 2 m_k:o'g‘DAYE,AT:g‘F‘s CAxw‘;rAPUY o the ground dead, and the tongues in | |09 ANGELES,CAL, NOUR BUSINESS | IS RILLARA T e j =< < e e 5 PICKE AMBY _SiE| C-URCH AND HE WONYT L the Old Orchard flew faster than B . ever. It was outrageous that such| |WRTES WHAT S A STAND FOR WO FIGHTIN'L COULD BE MORE. WHERE. 1S THIS FIGHT things should happen and nothing be ! | sppeopriaTe FOR HERE < S done about it. Poor Mr. and Mrs. | |crma THanT GO 3 SON' TO Bee 7 Chippy. They had to bear the blame for it all. They were accused of being hard of heart, of caring more for the child of another than for their own children. How the neighbors talked! They all seemed to know exactly what they would do were they ever placed in such a situation as Mr. and Mrs. Chippy, and you may be sure it was very different from what they were doing. The only ones who were not critical were Mr. and Mrs. Red- start and Mr. and Mrs. Veery.' They said nothing. You see, they really knew what the situation of Mr. and Mrs. Chippy was. They knew, be- .’BY GE L E T T E R O U T cause they were going through much - TNRD R - the same experience. They, too, Were g M SORRY Y0 HEAR =~ WMAT T g & foster parents to young Gowbirds, POOR PINHEAD MUST FEEL I'M SORRY T0 MEAR Ims p m:n.’ ; 01 T 4P AR Ry Rt .19 ' ” TERRIBLE / TLL SEE IF OF THE DEATH OF. ? YOUR KITTIE 15 OEAD/ DID Poor Chippy and Mrs. Chippy. || 1 CAN CHEER HIM UP/ YOUR KITTEN/ SAY? BY CHARLES H. JOSEPH. While they were being 5o talked about by their neighbors they were doing the best they could. They were not intentionally neglecting their own ba- Letter-Out for the root of the bies. The trouble was that fre Fol tongues. : om the TALION I | b very start the young Cowbird was %0 much bigger than the baby Spar- REEDS Leter Out and *ihere Hulimibny. Tows that he managed to snatch food that was meant for the others. Of course, getting the most food, he BYRIA | | etmoia s L Rl Brew the fastest, and the bigger and stronger he grew . the easier it was for him to get the food intended PASTURING | Letter-Out and wWomen weep at for the others. When Chippy or Mrs. Chippy would bring food and Z - o try to tuck it into the mouth of one UMBERS | | ebtersOnl tor Shieks) of their own bables the young Cow- 3 : bird would snatch it right out of < : o — j their bils They were not feeding ou’ve Got to Hire a Guy Before You Can Fire Him.—By BUD FISHER. him intentionally but because they Remove one letter from each word and rearrange to spell the word ‘couldn’t help themselves. Their bables . 1 ealled for in the Iast column. Print the. letter in center column opposite ¢ NO BUT HE wiLL LOAFING, EH you have removed it from... If you have “Lettered-Out” correctly | ¥eTé hAlf starved in spite of all they ) ‘YM‘ e Thatred. could no, and they worked from dawn BE! HE JUST = you have a Il dark to get food. . And then they returned to find DOLLAR DEAL f HERE! T JUST that one of their ‘babies had fallen y AND HES FIT me CAME HERE from the nest during their abeence. 5 To BE TIED! LOOKING FOR A Later the same dreadful accident ) g WAFERS l W l happened again. What they didn't FEARS. know was that those little birds had HAMES | A I Tatter-Out for an openime be- deliberately been kicked out of the Answer {o Yesterday’s LETTER-OUT. tween threads. nest by the young Cowbird, but so MESH it was. It happened a third time, “Out for frult drinks. and then there was only the Cow- IDEAS I | | P e bird left. He got all the food now ADES and constantly demanded more. PESTLER | S | Letter-Out and he throws stones. (Coprright, 1937.) PELTER GG = Twizzler Answer. WHIST l T | ot S ‘The area of a 2-inch pipe is twice WISH a8 great as the combined argas of two. 1-inch pipes; therefore 2-inch (Coprright, 1937.) pipe would fill the tank mdje 'rapidly.