The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 28, 1920, Page 11

ADVEN OF THE TURES TWINS Olive Roberts Barton |“! got tired of my long ne ,’ the giraffe explained, door to the polka-dot elephant @ creature with splashy spots & VERY short neck. When the twins came along after tea party, this creature was act- very queerty. [t was running around {ts house and jerking up tts Pohin and saying over and over, “It Wwen't stretch. [ can't stretch It. Ob, . shall I dor” “What is it?’ inquired Nick. “A ” “No, my neck,” said the creature : a giraffe.” ' “A giraffe! cried both twins. "Yes. I know I don’t lock !t, but | I got tired of my long neck kept wishing it were shart. I got my wish, and here | am Topsy-Turry Land, and | don't it at oll Trve lot_my cap on the roof and es Tee. Oh, my poor néck?* why didn’t you like it?" ask- I do need my neck | eck, and kept wishing it were ; “Because I was everybody's step: It was always, ‘Mr. Giraffe, you please run and peep into my nest and see if the babies are |eage?’ or, ‘Mr, Giraffe, I'd like that cocoanut there by your ear, {t's too high for me,” And at housecleaning I was completely worn out.” Jenly Nick thought or shoes, “I'll get your cap, Mr, * he eaid, wishing himeelf Up he shot, his jm | Gtraft jas high as the hause. got the cap, then came down again. | The gtraffe was so surpriged he |torgot to say, “Thank you.” | “How do you do it?’ he gasped ‘Then the twins told him about Jocko being lost and how they were searehing for him with the help of/ the Mngteal Mushroom and Green Shoes, | “Do you think I Gould get some shoes?” asked the giraffe. “They are better than a neck.” P But Nick wasn't sure about that. | (Copyright, 1920, N. F. A) The Digging Match ¥, round, red Mr. Sun leoked down from the biue sky and more broadly than ever at he saw on the Green Meadows. bere was great excitement there. ‘the little people who lived om the gen Meadows or around the S of In the Green Forest were Danny Meadow Mouse, Little Diter, Billy Mink, Jerry n Grandfather Frog, Spot the Happy Jack Squirrel, Old Mr. Striped Chipmunk, Chatterer A ve _ Presently Reddy Foz ap- 4 e fe Red Squirrel, Bobby Coon, Jim- Skunk, Sammy Jay, Blacky the Reddy Fox and Johnny Chuck on hand. ly Fox had been boasting, He fond of boasting, and he I!kes People think that he is a Wie smarter than anybody tlee, He been telling of how fast he could of how he had fooled Bowser Hloand, of what wonderfal jumps could make, Now, all the little people are rather afraid of Fox, so, while they laughed ly behind his back, no one dared ly contradict it, until sudden y Chuck #ald: "Pooh! You are not so much, Red- Fox. You may be able to run, you can't catch me.” wna turned and glared at John-| Johnny was sitting right in of an old house dug long ago Grandfather Chuck. “No,” repeated Johnny Chuck, can't catch me, Reddy Fox.” _ Reddy's eyes snapped. Like a flash he sprang at Johnny, but Johnny Uwasn't there. He had disappeared in old house of Grandfather Chuck door was too small for Reddy to , but Reddy had lost his temper, he straightway began to dig. Now, when Johnny Chuck heard Fox begin to dig, he started the back door, and then, to his found that some one gad stone over it. There was noth to do but to dig his way out, a new door, Behind him he hear Reddy Fox making the Gfiy. So straightway Johnny be to make the sand Oy® too, and it back straight into the face of dy Fox, was the most exciting dix: Match the Green Meadows had geen, for when Reddy Fox tries @ig, he certainly is hard to beat Johnny Chuck wag a natural PA digger, and he knew this time ‘that, with Reday's anger growing “with every minute, it would fare hard with him if he was caught All the little people gathered watched with eyes popping out ‘ with excitement Sudden Fight out of ‘the solid earth, popped & - m Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets Get ‘at the Cause and Remove It ive Tablets, the tute for calomel, act-gently.on the and poitively do the work. afflicted with had breath find relief oD taking them. ble compound m They act gently but firmly on the | Johnny Chuck. He had dug tle way | up and made a new @oor. Tie was 4 Mttle out of breath, but his eyes were twinkling as he scammpered over two) the front door to walt. Presently | Reddy Fox appeared, struggling out of the new hole that Johnny Chuck had made, Reddy was out of breath. Kk) There was «and in his eyes and in his nose and in his ears, and his | beautiful red coat was all soiled and | full of sand. All the little meadow | people backed off to a safe distance, and then they set up @ «teat shout and began to make fun of Reddy |Fox. For just a minute Reddy glared at them. Then he started off | home, with his tall dragging behind him, } And all the little meadow people | prociaimed Johnny Chuck the cham. | plon digger ofthe Green Meadows. Next story: Mr. Toad Changes His | Clothes. The average married woman would ‘doubtless spend more money if her |nusband had any more to spend. INFLUENZA GAINS FOOTHOLD WHEN RESISTANCE 1S LOW: = ‘The extent and virulence of the tn- fluenga epidemic is due to lowered resistance. 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WHY, WHEN MY POP GAVE A WETWS DIME HE SAID T COULD PAINT TH’ TOWN RED wett rr BUY SITES FOR HICH SCHOOLS $210,000 Voted to Install Heating Apparatus Prosperity has lifted many a man up for the purposes of dropping bim into the deep waters of oblivion, Ave, 11th ave, N., B, Roy and ¥. Algha sts, The IAncoin district site js bounded by Densmore and Wood. A mottern, first ing $1,500,000, to e @ health comm! A Disease Basit » lone A The committee Heating apparatus to be inatadied in grade gnd high schools at a cost of $219,000 was yoted hy the achool board Friday to replace worn-out equi pment. Boilers will be placed in the Brod@way and Lincoln high | schools, and the Caseade, Central, | Columbia, Salmon Bay, Benn Minor and the South Park grade schools, and the Ballard special school © purchase of two alites for in termediate bigh schools in the Lin efin high school and Gapttel hi dir trleta were authorized by the begri at a combined cont of $84,000. The Capitol hill site lies betweeh Wederal' lawn aves and N, 4ist and N.| A ae 42nd nts | Additional water facilities for the | #4 ” 8’ parental school on Mercer nd will be provided thru the pury of water springs from A —— Ganser at a cost of $17,090. Sprend ‘Theroweh ocintion MASONS WELL, D Ft NERAL| It passes in the form ef minute for Herman A. Guenther, 56, at tho) germs from the coughs or sneckos of Masonic temple, 8 p,m. Sunday. He|people who in the firet stages dieQ Friday. Vurial will be at Lake | Mingle with ethens \ ew com Therefere avoid exposure --this| present necesalty Vaw 99m NaF ad Imay be Mfficwit, almost tmporsi ble ‘The early to rise part of the motto | is all right for those who want to get |? up in the world, ATARRH For head or throat) Catarrh try the, vapor treatment VICKS YAP( 3 traiider on AmALITi= oth t tent possible value of fc od j1t aids digestion and “makes food | taste goat.” influenza or any ovher blood. ng, Prowtrating disease, it in varkable how it promokes canvas nee and brings perfgct restora= tion to health. A good eathartic Ike Hood's Pills helps greatly by heap- ing the bowels regulax, alth previous records \ TRY STAR $1,500,000 Hospital |War on Campus, Planned University of Washington campus, is tho project scusséd at a meeting of | ber of Commeres Saturday. , after lengthy in | veatigation, reported Friday phat the | joity hospital is totally inadequate for jthe needs of the ety and other laboratery equipment, tha committee declared Leap Year Record Is Made in Omaha OMAHA, Neb,, Feb, al deny domg the proposing, mmrriage leenses In the “first two months of jeap year have breken all when he celebrates his 17th birthday, _ Because he wag born February 29 he has but one birthday in four years, mBe Gas Victim Dies in Seattle! With lungs weakened by the rav-! ages of German gas on the battle- fields of France, Clarence Emmet paeee died at the home of his kt prather, Hugene HI, Beaupre, 716 ‘ttee of the Cham | Queen Anne ave, of auick tubargulo- |sis, Priday, The body is at the Bon pey*Watvon undertaking establish. ae ment, pending arrangements for the fungral, Pneumonia : often follows a Neglected Cold KILL THE COLD! $100,000.00 HILLS for Road Building CASCARA QUINI Asks $100,000,000 | WASHINGTON, Feb, 28.A bill) appropriating $60,000,000 4 yenr for the next four years, to be used in road building, was introduced yester- day by Senator Chansberlain, Oregon. ‘ears, Has Had 68 Years, Only 17 Birthdays Feb, 28-~—Parick ©, CHICAGO, McKay will be 68 years old tomorrow Class hospital, eoht, be erectéd on the There is a for Xray machines with Yy The brides but by 35 per cent, WANT ADS