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ar * * * STREET CARS j Page GGY sat on Uncle Ned's knee} and watched him blow emoke rings. Nobody else coukt ake quite such heavy circly rings as Uncle N’ b else had = quite » Mes as B folks feel at home thru lc H Nesses_ Presently he chuckled, a low, | throaty chuckle, which made Pegsy fect like laughing, too,! altho she saw nothing funny tn his saying, "So the city has bought the street oar system Well, sir, when I was a little kid I used to come up here with my @ad, and I can remember mighty well when Seattle was proud of her street cars, because they were the only ones in Washington.” Uncle Ned blew a whole air fleet of rings and watched them | gail off before he wenton. “Funny | Httle old cars they were, too,| @rawn by horses. Pretty soon! they found that it was hard work for horses to pull street cars up| ‘Those hills, and a young man, only Cwenty-six years old, suggested that they ought to have many more cars and longer lines of tracks, and that the cars could be run by electricity. People thought he was crazy because there were! MO successfully run electric street ears in the world at that ti j “I heard Dad talk about it, and I read everything I could lay my hands on about those new electric street cars. And, as luck would have it, I was here the very first @ay a car traveled over the tracks. “I tell you, that was one great @ay. Prople were lined up on! both sides of Second Avenue, like! nae put away the green paint and Nancy! hunted up the white pillow Mr. Frog had been sleeping on behind the door. ‘Yes, indeed! He had had a pillow—a lovely, white silk one, for his head. It was no wonder he wished to be let alone, so he could dream on till fly- time. Nancy looked ft over carefully and brushed off some muddy specks that had come off Mr. Frog’s head. “1 think,” said she critically, “that I'l! hang you up on the line, little pil-| low, and jet Mr. Jolly Sun throw fome bright beams on you. That's the only way to make pillows nice, | Mother says. Besides that, she takes @ Bittle stick and beats them, for that wakes the insides up.” It was very queer, but Nancy had an idea that when she said “4 a the tiny «ilk pillow gave a li Siz- x gle. But she wasn’t at al! sure. And at the same time the M | loaded car up from Jaines Street ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS by Olive Roberts Barton Qoattle 62 a cireus parade, Lots of people felt sure it wouldn't work, Some people thought the rain would wash the power off the wires: me t t wouldn't be pos Ue wire iike that to have enough power tn it to pull a on Second Avenue “1 got edged tn by a boy about my age, and we got to arguing, an will, about how the car would get power to run. I mid I knew {t came from on top (I'd read « lot, as I told you), and he said that the power woul! have to be In the wheels. “Well, when the street car final ly started up the street, you never saw such excitement. Old China. man George Lee was tn the crowd, boys and he yelled, ‘Look! See! No pushes, no pullee, all samee go like hellee’ I've read that in funny papera, Bat that’s where it was really said. * “When the car reached our cor ner, we rushed out, and tf we hadn't been fore! pulled back by the heels, we woul! have crawled clear under that car to try and see where the power came from.” Peggy said pele ‘Ned? “Oh! H would be “How old were you, t he chuckled, “that Ming, but I'll tell you it was, It was March And Seattle was the fourth city in the United States to have an electric railway. Think of that—21 years ago we had four cara, and today the city owns 535 cars, with miles and miles of tracks.” eae “You're queer onesj* declared Nancy. “I don't see any) joke at all about hanging a pillow on the line.” When Mr. Frog was gone, Nick; Mushroom beside her gave a fttle| But she wan't sure of that, | ciggie either. “Come on, little pillow,” she maid, | “after | starting for the clothes line, you're nicely sunned and property beaten, I'll let Mr. Redbird carry you to the Land- Where-Spring-Is-Coming. so that all the other birdies can make mattresses for their babies. They are always looking for bits of soft down and cotton and wool, and I know how pleased they'll be to get some lovely, white silk.” It was certainly very when Nancy said this, about the birds, the tiny pillow gave a little | flicker, and the Magical Mushroom gave a little mnicker. ‘This time Nancy was a Mttle more | sure that something “You're queer ones!” with a pont. was wrong. she the line.” (Copyright, 1920, N. FB. A.) BY THORNTON W. BURGESS ANDFATHER FROG sat on his ; G PE big green Mlypad in the Smiling i” Pool, Grandfather Frog was out of ; sorts, In fact, he had the very worst | 14 kind of a grouch. Now, a grouch ; @ very bad thing to have; it makes ; every one uncomfortable, and no one i likes to come anywhere near one who : is grouchy 4 80 Grandfather Frog sat on his ; big green liypad and couldn't see that jolly, round, red Mr. Sun smiling, nor that the Merry Li Breezes were playing in the me: grass; nor could he hear the singing, or the bees humming. In fact, he wae so grouchy that he let three foolish green files go right past his nose. And what do you think it was all about? low birds Stops Halr Coming Out; Doubles Its Beauty. | bu: ye “Danderine.” fallen hair or any ag oN every hair shows | suv and thiacnees, leng Old 3 Grandfather Frog Has a Grouch Mr. Toad, had beat him in a race the day be- because his cousin, Old fore, It had been a funny race—the fun. | niest race that the Green Meadows Grandfather Frog's | had ever neen legs are longer than those of his cousin, Old Mr. Toad, and Grand-| father Frog had been so sure that he would win that race that even now it was hard work for him to believe The reason that | that he had lost. he had lost was because Peter Rab- bit had hopped up behind O14 Mr Toad and shouted in his ear that Mr. Blacksnake was coming, Now, @here “It wasn’t fair, it wasn’t fair at all,” grumbled Grand- father Frog to himself. is nothing he world that so fright Toad @8 the thought that Mr. Blacksnake is somewhere near, and when he heard Peter shout that he hopped #o fast that he passed Grandfather Frog and won the race. Of course, all the Ilttle meadow of “Danderine” | and forest people teased Grandfather Frog almost to death. They teased him so much that Grandfather Frog MOF | quite lont his temper, and this is the ‘ reason that he sat on his big green odd, but! declared “I don't nee any joke! at all about hanging a pillow on} THE SEATTLE STAR DOINGS OF THE DUFF. re an yee anes: DADDY, Give Me A NICKEL, PLEASE PAoDY P i, Zip! and It’s Gone! THANKS paooy! KIN | SPEND Ww? Nes. You CAN SPEND IT BUT 1 PONT WANT You To GO AWM FURTHER THAN The CORNE! DRUG STuRE- You GET WHAT You WANT AND COME STRAKG Home AGAIN | [r Nes -] Guess VCAN STAKE YOU To A NICKEL OLD Waar, You BACK ALEADY? wu Nou HAVENT Be Goue. minvrest! Aw, IT port ii 1 Take LONG TO SP A NICKEL, Now IT Hao" OUGHT To Take Him Moree THAN FIFTEEN MiNvTES “w GO DOWN “THERE AND BACK ~ VLL JoST KEEP TIMe ON Hi AND See HOW WELL HE MINDS — WEDLOCKED— A Quick Cure HELP ME, HOUSE | THOUGHT you ASKED ME FOR TH’ DAY OFF BECAUSE YOu WERE Sit ? KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES— WHAT A TEMPER My FiRST WIFE HAD! {OU KNOW SHE MARRIED NE For tty MONEY! BUT THEN |BECAUSE Mitty DID SHE! LEAVE seuti e GOT IT! HAS THIS ONE 46 NORE EVEN? WORE EVEN TEMPER || ‘No, EVEN THAN YouR First MORE! | | GAY OFTO~ I JUST BOUGHT THiS MD WAND MOTORCYCLE™ WALL. YOU LEMME OFF FOR AWHILE To SE How IT Judge, “but advise you to sleep wit cotton in your ears,” Ireland has learned to eat ostmeal \in larger quantities than ever Rheumatism No Pestiferous Neighbors Here CAPETOWN y “Our near est neighbors are 60 miles away and the railway station is 400 mil dis. tant.” writes a Lutheran miasio ary recently arrived in Central Africa to friends here, shouted Grandfather Frog, and held on to his sides. You see, he had just realized for the first time what @ joke it all was, and it tickled him so that he nearly split his sides laughing. And that was the end of Grand. father Frog's grouch, Mlypad and was #0 grouchy that even the Merry Little Breozes kept away from the Smiling Pool “It wasn't fair; it wasn't fair at grumbled Grandfather Frog to! himaelf. “L can beat Old Mr. Toad) ry day in the week, and he knows Break Jail With Spoons as Guns DUBLIN, May 28.—Patrick Ma geo was charged with breaking jail here and, with other prisoners, hold- ing up the wardens with automatic pistols, “Shure,” pleaded Patrick. Harmony Has the Opposite Effect LONDON, May 28.—"She means to play me * declared a tenant of his landlady before a magistrate here, ‘The tenant complained his landlady played a phonograph in the Just then he saw his cousin, Old | Mr. ‘Toad, coming down to the edge| Next story: Reddy For Invites ? ; ° hallway Outside his door day and 1 } 7 = “Its a dummed He! We held ‘em | night “It's an old dodge and of the Smiling Pool. Grandfather| Peter Rabbit to Take a Walk. : Pipe . . Id dodgy nc Frog shook his fist. Yes, sir; he ac- New Maid Steals up with spoons." When he proved | there's nothing we can do,” said the A Home Cure Given by Om Who Had It it, there was a rush of prosecutor's ead Be agers assistants to change the ch And when Old Mr. ‘Toad just grinned at him, Grandfa- ther Frog hopped up and shaok both fists, Old Mr. Toad #aid nothing; he just grinned and grinned. The more he grinned the angrier Grandfather Kangaroo farming 1s an important industry in Australia, The tendons are the best material known to sur geons for sewing up wounds. $40,000 Jewelry id a few days ago. The maid left, taking with her $40,000 worth of jewelry beldnging to her A FRIEND OF MAN your favorite presidential Stiff Joints Sore Muscles After you eat—always use He sold our surplus gold Frog became. mistress fish to Europe.”—Homo Sector. Limber Up Quickly Under the Sooth. || P*t=!s. 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