The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 3, 1906, Page 12

LLUSTRATED BY * i RHKCULVER ___ THE ROOSEVELT BEARS (Copyright, 1908, by Beymour Bmtom. All rights reserved.) BY PAUL PIPER XX. THE BEARS SEE THE WAX MUSEE rEDDY-B v spent a day ey .came through, Pete. FEDDY-B Wax Muses said TEDDY-G, electricity. floor below ne &t work ere vou feed in letters and let it go. 4 (TIGE GAVE BUSTER A KNOWING WINK, WHICH PUT HIM WISE AND MADE HIM THINK “YOU'RE THE JOLLIEST BEARS I EVER SAW”; AND BUSTER SHOOK EACH BY THE PAW, "As he picked up thte letters the type to see ) “*At least the language is new to me: Chicago is spelled without a C, And Boston has neither S nor T; And Priscilla Alden would make you sick, She’s like a problem in arithmetic; And that Kansas teacher is doing some tricks BUT TEDDY-G WENT STRAIGHT AHEAD, WHILE THE MACHINE BY TEDDY-B WAS FED UNTIL EVERY LETTER THAT BOTH BEARS HAD WAS ANSWERED SOME WAY, GOOD OR BAD, I’ve seen the writing of this machine Like & printed page in blue and green; the girl who owns it said that she onld give a type g lesson free.’’- \ faid TEDDY-B, “I'm = F aid you’re wrong veu want to try I'll go aleng.”’ eir luck g letters like a book. they went to try was out; the machine waa there; -G sat down on the little chair n with all his might e keys and make them write} d EDDY-B at every call in & letter envelope and all. machine writes Greek,’” said TEDDY-B, With question marks and the figure 6; And that farmer man, no one will blame If he shoots us both when he sees his name. You wrote this lawyer about the old balloon In dollar signs, enough to buy the moon.”’ But TEDDY-G. went straight ahead ‘While the machine by TEDDY-B was fed Until every letter that both Bears had Was answered some way, good or bad. *Twas three o’clock when they left to ses The mysteries of the Wax Musee. They found Buster Brown in the entrance hall And a cat climbing up the building wall With Tige below looking up at puss And Buster’s mother trying to stop the fuss, * THE FOUR TOOK HANDS TO SKIP AND SING AND T0 DANCE AROUND IN A JOLLY RING.. ““Good afternoon,”” said TEDDY-B, “‘Is this Buster Brown and Tige I see?’’ (Tige gave Buster a knowing wink Which put him wise and made him think). “‘The Roosevelt Bears! I've heard of you; TEDDY-B and G! How do you do? You’re the jolliest bears I ever saw.’* SATD TEDDY-G, “SEE IF' YOU OAN PLAY Shouldn’t live at all in wax or elay. Then on they went up stairs to guess How Ajab played his game of chess. Said TEDDY-G, ‘‘See if you ean Play checkers with this wooden man} And while you play I'll take off the lid And find out where the man is hid.”” Three games were played and TEDDY-B Won every one so fast that he Made the wooden eyes flow free with tears, The first time in a hundred years. TEDDY-G looked at him from head to heels, And his side door opened to see the wheels, And the man’s mainspring and his wooden heart He examined with care and teok apart, But he couldn’t find out high or low How this man of wood made the checkers go, TEDDY-B was polite and said ‘‘Good-bye’’j And the man got up and wiped his eye, And held out hig hand as well’s he could, (It had several pieces all made of wood) And said, ‘“Your playing was pretty good.’® As the bears passed out of the Wax Muses " paper was handed to TEDDY-G Which read like this in printing bold: “RESOLVED, That mothers should never seold For boys are wax and scoldings stick And impressions can’t be rubbed out quick. ¢“RESOLVED, That mothers should newer seold, And that boys and bears should have thejsr way, When fun is needed the blues to down,!* Signed by Tige and Buster Brown. The four took hands to skip and sing, And dance around in a jolly ring. Folks crowded near inside and out * To see what the fun was all about. ‘A thousand shoppers on the street Paused as they passed the Bears to meet. A speech was asked from TEDDY-B As he stepped to the door the erowd to see: “‘The U. S. Boys and Girls are ours; They 're made of sunshine, love and flowers, We’re bound with them to seatter blues ‘And we’re here today to spread the news.”” When TEDDY-B these things had said CHECKERS WITH THIS WOODEN MAN AND WHILE YOU PLAY -PLL TAKE OFF THE LID AND FIND OUT WHERE THE MAN IS HID.» ‘And Buster shook each by the paw While Tige seemed glad that he was near And put on & smile from ear to ear. ““You come with us,’’ said Buster Brown, ‘‘We know this place upstairs and down; There are people here in smiles and teays Who haven’t changed for a hundred years, We’ll make those laugh who look so sad 'And the merry ones we’ll make them mad.”” But Buster’s mother made him stay Right where he was in wax and clay; ‘And Tige looked round for a place to hide As ‘the Roosevelt Bears passed on inside. They saw the eagle which stole the child 'And ecarried it up in the mountains wild. They stopped for a moment to see the King ‘And to ask Madame Patti if she would sing. They saw Emperor William in a soldier suit, But to all their questions he was deaf and mufe; So TEDDY-G to make. him look gay Turned the tails of his moustache the other way. ‘At the Roman Forum, TEDDY-B spoke out And asked Mark Antony what ’twas all about; This Roman erowd and Caesar slain And why they were doing the thing again. And thus they went from place to place Looking at people of every race And-crimes committed and prisoners hung And no complaint from any tongue. ‘At-the lions’ den TEDDY-G was wild} ‘A lion had killed a little child: «171] go right in and smash his face,”” But a man who was there to guard the place Spoke up and said: ‘“That lion in there Is not afraid of a Roosevelt Bear; He's made of wax and that savage look He wears all the time like a picture book.’’ But TEDDY-G replied that he, If he owned the place would let folks see That lions who did such things as they He Buster’s Resolution read, While Tige and Buster inside the doer, Became wax again as they were before. (Continned Next Sunday.} | VED THAT THE WORLD fip?rci%uym‘in‘r% s | WAY WHEN \THE BLUES TO ”Dg‘“