Evening Star Newspaper, July 22, 1937, Page 49

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1937. Sonnysayings THE MOUNTAIN BOYS. DANGNATION! JEST SHECKS CHIDDY — HUK = YOU DANG IDTET./ Now DON'T = 5 WHERE. SQUIRREL LISTEN TO THAT BOY WHAT MAKES YOU THINK. || TELL ME HE'S A-GOIN' TO GIT THE- 25 ’ ’ S ARE YA, HUNTIN LIE TO ME , TOOMER.. HE’S A-LYIN? MAYBE SQUIRREL. TO SMELL POSIES —THEN AN 5 A-GOIN'_ GRAN'MAW. THERE'S SOMETHIN' HE 1§ A-GOIN' SMACK HIM WITH THE. GUITAR — — Z 7 WILLIE ? POWERFUL WRONG SQUIRREL HUNTIN'. FOLLER ME-/ AH AlM$ TO N AH TELL YoU ! GIT TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS 7/{ Bor sy SSSNSSNON NN —By TIM. think I heers a lion under the bed, Baby! I likes 'em in cages bet- ter! THE CHEERFUL CHERVI 1 love the little cheerful bugs That chirp and sing all summer long: The summer days are " strung ‘mu. bexd s AL T e s ks Upon their Fine LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE. : “By GRAY “WHAT'LL YOU TAKE TO LOAN HIM OUT FOR THE REST OF THE unbroken song. i ™ ArTecann 9 v DAY? SHUX! JUST A OREAM, . MRS BRITTLEWIT-- | LIKE EH? WHAT? ll O COURSE- BUT | SAW MR. HER FINE - BUT MR. GEE! | WAS SOUND AM, JUST AS CLEAR! HE BRITTLEWIT- HES SO ASLEEP--- I'D | WAS SMILIN' RIGHT AT ME SURLY ---AND---SORTA LOOKS HAVE SWORN-=--- Bl AND HE SAID, "DONT YOU AT _ME-- FUNNY--- BUT i j5| WORRY, ANNIE= EVERYTHING \_SPOSE --- IT'S == ONLY- . : WILL BE ALL RIGHT’ - GEE! ---M;rsz_c‘_w;gz'no?-z--z ] DREAMS SURE CAN SEEM Ty REAL, SOME TIMES - Bedtime Stories BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. In innocence mistakes are made But just as high the price that's naid. “Mother Bear. MOTHER BEAR'S cubs, two of them, had spent the first three months of their lives in the den in which they were born, in the middle / of Winter. Very small and helpless = were those twins then. It was over 40 B O T oo SR days before they even got their eyes open. Even then there was little BEN WEBSTER’S CAREER enough use for them. You see, there - 2 Ny wasn't much light in that den. All| through the rematnder of the Winter and the early Spring the cubs did WHO'6 THE CHICK JusT A TOURIST, | BEN WEBGTER ? VEP, HE'S . | UM JULIET JORDAN, TRADD GRANDDAD WROTE “{ a4 WO nothing but eat, sleep and grow. | [L AN WHAT'D SHE WANT?| GUESS, MR. GTRALE - IN Hi® ROOM, M55 ~I'LL SEND JORDAN'G GRANDDAUGHTER - ME ALL ABOLT YOU-| JULIE Came & time when the cubs were | 5 | TOLD MER THE GRANDDAD WANTED ME TO HE THINKS YOU'RE h restless, no longer content to do noth- | . , WAY TO THE = 5 STOP BY TO MEET YoU- \ L wonpeRFLL- ing but eat, sleep and grow. Mother | = HOTEL- = 5 % it - s i Bear used to leave them in the den | / 7 - while she went out to look for food. | Before leaving she always warned them to remain inside. They mustn't put so much as a claw outside, she | told them. At first they didn't mind this, but as they grew older and be- came more restless they did mind it. | “If you can go out why can't we?"” asked one. “Because here you are safe, while | outside is the Great World, where | © 189 T AP AT g, Rt you would not be safe at all. You = ol are too innocent,” replied Mother | = /1( i (R1801 1 Jur ) ey *I GOTTA DANCING DATE WITH CLAUDE HEAVYFOOT. BUT I'M |Bear. “The Great World is no place | f ' PREPARED.” for innocent babies without their | mothers,” she added. “If you please, what is innocent?” HOW TO TORTURE YOUR HUSBAND. VINEBSTERGI s st o e Great World and its way is innocent,” | Eddie’s Both Pained and Puzzled. growled Mother Bear. WOW ! THESE SHOOTING AND IT'S TIME T WAS AL! YOU HAVE NO | KNOW ITS NOT RAINING, BUT THE “But if we don't go out in the Great PAINS I HAVE HAD IN GETTING OVBR TH' MUMPS- ] ; INSTEAD I F " IDEA -- MY JAW PAPER SAID IT WOULD, AND You LEFT World how are we to learn about it?" | M:T;T,f,\s’ ;TI\.%A&L fi—'f_"%emrés M’C\J,QEEN o&cfifi?fifi HAS BEEN THROB- IS MORNING WITHOUT YOUR RAINCOAT, the first cub asked. | ' T CUT LIKE A KNIFE ! BING LIKE SIXTY UMBRELLA AND RUBBERS. You kaow, “You'll go out with me when the | FOR TH' PAST OARL IAIG, HOW SUSCEPTIBLE You ARE | time comes, and not before. You've ] » U LB To €oLDS. (T WAS JUST Two YEARS got a lot to learn, and the first and AGO, REMEMBERT WHEN YOU CAUGHT most important lesson is to obey. If AT TERRIBLE CoLD — TUST THIS KIND 7 % you do not learn this in the beginning oF WEATHER To0. NOwW, | WANT You 3 you never will be anything but jnno_-] To PROMISE ME THAT You'lL WEAR ;:;::z I%tn!‘he gr:}: Xufi?'.g(fi?:;fflfi B o i 3 THESE WHEN You LEAVE To-NIGHT Now, I'm going out, and don't you so much as put a nose outside. Remem- ber what I have said. that the most | important lesson is obedience. Little | Bears who disobey are mot likely to | grow up to be big Bears. Remember that.” “Yes'm,” replied the cubs, and they meant it. I suppose that if Mother e Bear had ever heard of the bogey- Busan KarTUS, Z 2lasise N man she would have told the cubs that asaviie,Nic, [If SPRISS THE BOEE. ATRAINING MO CAN ffif \Z%OD&—\K v o = VOTES FOR. MAX. . LDISH _CHILDREN DO _ IT'S FINE EXERC THAT WITH . the k.mge)man would get them if they DO IT ON THE B GURGLIN' 7 TM TRYIN didn’t watch out and obey. Perhaps| |WRTES SHE'S STREET — UITTLE FORIEE GRS aNe) IO TAKE. v MIND she told them that a bogeybear would | [RELATED T© HiM. = LEGS AND IT'LL KARD ! ¢ catch them. I never have heard of a| |HOWARD 8. POTTS, UP THAT STOMACH YoU bogeybear, but why not a bogeybear BYESVILLEOHIO, || 7 as well as a bogeyman? Mother Jeft the den. The cubs took a nap. There was nothing else to do. It was what they were in the habit of doing when Mother Bear left them alone. Usually they slept until her return. This time they slept a shorter time than usual, or Mother Bear was gone longer than usual. Anyway, when they awoke she was not there. They couldn't go to sleep again. They tried, but they were not sleepy. They played with each other as you have seen puppies play. They wandered about in the den. They wondered what was keeping Mother Bear. What 1&,&?&;2‘;’“&2‘?“;fi’,‘:?w’::fl‘é'nk!i‘:‘zf WNNEAD-’FUDPINHEAD.’TME I'M ALL SET, MOM/ALL €eex/ Good Gracious/ IT'S PINHEAD'S FAULT, MomM/ L E T T E R O U T AT EHe T reat Watld ‘where \sho T0 g?cr UP/ COME ON, , 7 I GOTTA DO IS BRUSH WHAT’S THAT ALL HE LEFT ONE OF THE TUBES - Fed gone? DONT SLEEP ALL DAY MY TEETH, AN'TLL, OYER YOUR MOUTH FROM THE PAINT SET AUNT S BEE. e e Finally they went to the entrance Z fl |— BE_RIGHT DOWN/ P ESA';QR(E)?!LE V':,EHO?T;:S/ | and there for the longest time they v/ BY CHARLES H. JOSEPH. stood, looking out. They couldn’t see - 3 v/ much but the trunks of trees and 4 / ferns, but these simple things were WARNED Letter-Out and he was holsted wonderful. How they longed to go from the well. ] | out where they could see more! What possible harm could there be in just EXERTS Letter-Out and there is many a stepping outside where they could see eRonithelpiaior, better? What possible harm could come to them there? None. They STRIFE | l’.;g(,::r-out and a guitar has were sure of that. But Mother Bear had warned them not to put so much as & nose outside. How silly that was, Letter-Out_anq Th ELDER SPGBt MEE T |4 | at e mere thought of such Tomtine ness. Then they remembered what she had said about obedience. They looked at each other. They looked Remove one letter from each word and resrrange to s outside. Then they looked at each AND NOW, ealled for in the last column. Print the letter in ce?mr wfin‘h:w::t: osleTsgaIn faghediiand flay fdown YOUR ATTENTION, ' P 3 o i the word you have removed it from. If you have “Lettered-Out” correctly (UEELCIr Moces st s closo as ipos THE C \ cotisin sued ~ you get ons Who has been banished, sible to being outside without ac-| [PLEASETO : [P = PR 3 tually: being so. And, being such ToP OF THE Answer to Yesterday's LETTER-OUT. whcll}l{n lnnoce:.td little cubs, not as yet TENT! OUR even having a single fright, they T TREADS T Letter-Out and he risks. Just couldn’t understand at all what MIDGETTel DARES : possible harm there couid be in the Great World or why Mother should REACH R Letter-Out and it is painful. keep them there in the dark, when ACHE outside looked to be so much nicer. (Copyright, 1937.) Letter-Out for tam-like hats, D n REBATES I A | BERETS Twizzler Answer. Letter-Out for scum. Richards had been gone from his RIDGES | l I DREGS cabin seven and a half hours. TENSOR | Letter-Out for a blowing noise. 5 REVOLTS l L I et mosr of inem e Ceast Ban on Flying. VOTERS Foreign 'aircraft have been forbid- den to fly over Manchuria without b ] government permission.