The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 27, 1925, Page 12

BEGIN HERE TODAY Now GOON with THE STORY r He atrange voice was sa BOOTS OW GOLLY AWFUL. PEST TONIGHT IVE GOT THAVE SOME EXCUSE THE SEATTLE STAR a? * - b] Wi DE ae | «+ Daily Doings of The Star’s Funny Folkks «. WA \ AVER'S Je ) JOE QUINCE Asbestos Uses His Head BY . KLING “by CAPTAIN A.€ DINGLE sm Peet aed eatlagen mean \ | DETECTIVE #5 Pe aca oe RRR lad MY TURK VALET! “e —®& eh x ct the i ~. MIAMI CAR CHING = j y AND HER BUDDIES On Second Thought “BY MARTIN NOW ANT HERE COMES THAT QUOUY JONES f FOR A DATE YOO DATED UP FOR THIS BVENING 2? JUST ON THE CHANCE THAT READY THAT JUGT My Luck? | | GOT TWO TICKETS YO THE FOLLIES 4 You'd | YOU DID 70H GoopyY-iLL 60 WITH YOU ! BILL 1S BEHIND IN HIG CLASSES AN’ OUGHT T’ STUD ANY WAY ~ FELT AWFUL \ EVEN HAD A TABLE ‘ a an hour, Th @ putty dude.” discordantly. Evic girl, thought L Miss Mary, you'd but you'll have to w od a 1 the forec and was | x ator, whether “Tried to dump the dude air. I hammered him weil.” * “Who's the dude?” q' ied the girl, sharply. o me, ips CHAPTER V Mag’s Fancy Bloke Crouched arrow steel shel “Hush, child! Let Mister Stevens adventure he get hru. Time's short,” cut in Capt. | 5 to Manning. sion Bega pee for the| The crimp,” said Stevens “T! Cicey Dey red lead dust tickled hi ‘would feel like a chilld beater if I Hit! tse and noste! Boss nara that double left-handed thing in silk Pinsked the stare there was tibody striped pants that—" - ar re was 1 a: }to hear. Then started to sneqze “Yes, yes.” said the captain im-| again, and fought desperate patiently. “Never mind the dude. You | the explosion; for voices s f get your ship warped out to the pier-! pallitigly near At the fore tle head whether you have a full com-| door plement or not. You'll lose the rest} “Won't be fit for a lad if you don’t." The trio were right at| Into once those hogs get s¢ the door. Drake simply had to peep.| here,” Capt. Stevens was saying “I have done all that's needed in| am rather proud of this ship's for change of masters, You'll take the | castle. It's the driest, roomiest, light- Orontes out to Batavia. Take f004) est forecastie I ever saw in a ‘sailing | Drake's first peep showed him the} (To Be Continued) thick gray-bearded, copper-bronzed | old gentleman of nautical aspect whose fat chaise horses he had start- Jed with his c ng gate. His next| was more than a peep, for he raised His head, and looked straight into the | Wide biue eyes of girl who had/ handled those frig! ed horses. He shuddered, | He wanted, as he had wanted no! @ther thing in life, to show lean, self-possessed young | that / story of innermost emotio: he belonged of a clean racr, too. He| LETTER FROM KARL WHITNEY wanted to tell her something. He| TO MRS. JOSEPH GRAVES gould still hear her voice. He could| HAMILTON hear the deep rumbling tones of her| Dear Mother: For a long time 1| father, if Capt: Manning were her| have been waiting to write you this Parent; hear too the blatant, confi-| letter. I could not write it while dent roar of Stevens. He hated | Leslie's health was precarious. It} Stevens more than ever. Stevens ap-| would seem too selfish Parently was to sail master of the Orontes clipper; with Mary Manning AB passenge: a brute would be am afraid, you are as I think you happy. old life an thru most Now that her new boy has made | his appearance in the household and| forget Stevens, peep outside again If he could just |to you ¢atch Mister Stevens alone for a mo-| and I have always gotten it Ment, with that girl out of the way,| Now that I am completely alone he would see, The big blond beast | and Leslie has her husband and two might batter a clumsy customer like| children to fill her life, don’t you the crimp, slow moving, slow think-| think that you can devote a little ing, a creature of one idea. But| time to me? Drake had known the day when he} could handle himself above a bit. He had licked the halfdeck bully on his first voyage to sea. for sympathy and comfort “Well Peg Legt’ w I neea you, need you perhaps more than you realize, dear mother. You know I am a queer, solitary sort of a There was noth-) man. ake friends easily Nick and fine tleman was saying. ¥, my girl,| make friends,for me. | MOM’N jow to the big, e nt that to be frosty, or le A . c s had. He wr ste SRLS ia ee was having fun with Stevens too tho , (SS = \ (Say rere = eager deep for his understanding. Now they and 3 BUT MR, HORNBLOWER me Ryde R HORNE BOWER % Business 1S By SASS.) ast the door again SAO Yor & TO 4 c NG were coming past the door ag oe traces SAID You WERE To TAKE “Reg aL US OT FoR A Two MILE You should get away from all your think we should have each other to Come on over al e is rey Go ealt nt Sanhandler who set himself.up «| *2* 's Teealning her health, I war agape her ditpepegabe © ask you, mother mine, i¢ you will | ——___ : not come over here and travel with He says I'm not even worth| me for a while. You know, ded shanghaling! Caesar! Y'd Uke to|that you are the only mother 1 hav argue that with him Jever known. You know that ever| But how? ke took steps to| since I was a little boy I have come} chuck hospitat , Jand tho grass is growing faster | declared Mister Wood: | ironing things with an fren, as long | than sh: ‘s wool, I z to Mrs. | i Ptigs ives saat as there are olectric ironing ma-|Woodchuck, I sex, sex I, ‘Let it ay ape chines, and sweeping the floor with |#l0ne—IU's good grass and besides it man knocked at his front door one sort of hides our house from all a broom as long as there are | spring morning I don't jt ii c eee _ 3 ing like confidence. land yet no one would like friends Don't we count for anything bay . ; Waste good grass, | “go you'll get on board, Capt.| more than I. 1 confess I am selfish |4#ked Nick. Sh!" warned Mister Woodchuck| “But Mrs, Woodchuck sho sez, | Stevens, and haul out to the plerhead| enough to hope that you, with your Yes, yes, indeed,” said Mister|looking again toward the kitchen|sez she, ‘Why, Wally—when all our | before your crew jump,” the old gen-| sweetness and understanding, will|Woodchuck, “but I'm always extralqoor uneasily. “Those are all things |2¢ighbors keep their places in such | |rlad to see have ‘ary > a minute = this; but time is short, and you mu awyer, After wh emer = Sac Wo pias DONT YOO = “son, pl afeaay haa tteen tha dene wt ene cuunrmey MOM, DO CATS ) EAR TIE MINISTER SAY We, were = . e. don’t we » ne 2 " the le WOAY SCHOOL ATER = 2 a : z Be. tin wieeen Goss warty abet « had sean the long aN Sere eee ) 60 TO HEANEN _) LAST SUNDAY “HAT ts Do THEY GET TH & I wanted to s ( sight alk € THAT SWELL PICTURE CF hr; \ ANIMALS: DIDNT KAY STRINGS FoR TL i dropped to a st Ther A ANGEL DLAY Ne ON LHe HARPS THEN 2 a man in th seve iteaartacl sea ah on. aban SS Drake gr } ted » ABARP? AIN'T THAT & to take a » the owner ong" road | & purty, As? of that v quid hauled w | happy { take his arms f: Ht w thet mht hy the next ¥ hey ad alled « | passed on. k ge of 3 rangement. j “All the m He b a no fear being ¢ | Capt. Ma: a c ¢e h me | speaking. {ranger H “ wa n POP Covering Up His Troubles MUGS LIKE TH WHAT IF 15 Le I Gare of Mary, and see her safely to} ship. Wonder you never saw it ve} her brother's place. I'll get the busi-/ fore. | F; Ress that's keeping me ashore all) “Oh, Daddy never let me come for. | 1 >, Beer ene hts fou out tack | wade ges ery asotng” 7| Cats ore one of the tow snail) may mabe ail te pune and itl wy ApoE PANNY sepa. THE OLD HOME TOWN ‘Then we'll talk about what's to bel is’ a nice big place, isn’t it? How/that cannot throw off water easily. | out 4 done. many men live here? O-o-h" lphey always * wet to the skin.”} John cabled me of the birth of the} an and I sent him a little present, as y$u probably know. | 1 sometimes wonder what would! have been my life if I had had a boy | to work for—a boy who would carry | on my name | | John wanted to call that baby} | Sydney Karl, but 1 wrote him I} | wished he would not; that my name| | was that of too unhappy a man to} hiteh it to an unsuspecting nild | | without its knowledge and consent. | ate letters) | 1 will awalt your reply with the} NO-NO -1! SAY appier. If I am not, Ij greatest impatience, mother dear. | WE SHODLD dear mother, that unless much Interested in me as Will you cable it to me? Tell Lesile my need of you ts greater than hers, | 4 are, I can not make you| Teil her anything that will make her | Jadvine you to come to your loving] son, KARL. 4 griefs. We havo been | (Copyright, NEA Service, Inc.} of them together and Ij) TOMORROW—Long distance call | from Lestie Prescott to John Alden You fuk rescott. mother dear CHAVURES OF TALES PUNY” & Olive Roberts Barton NO. 15—THE MAGIC LAWN MOWER © 1928 wy wea semvict, mel Garters have a “kneesy” time. take an order? You seo it's this way | “It's getting along in the spring | ell! .If here isn’t Mister there are sewing machines, and} sorts of prowlers. It's a shame to| Mister Peg Leg bucause 0. r 4 ® bucau wits wants, fine shape, shame on you for b my but I sez to: her I THE DASHING NEW TRIMMER AT BIRDIE CROWES | SHOW THESE Comic NALENTINES SOME HATS WITH VEILS! beer aera AEE Sl 1M THE BAGGAGE MAN | GUESS! UGHTER SAY HOS GOING. take care of yourself. ave a good| As it is, 7 wander about these Old|ho always has something that “ ing #0 lazy! It looks so sort of! holiday with Jgek, and he'll bring | word ini and I wonder w 1|makes life easy for me." sez, sez I—'Mra, Woodchuck, what/shiftless when we don’t keep the | MILLINERY SHOP HAD PLENTY OF HELP WHEN you home when he comes. I'l) write! , ng for, anwway. I only see| “I'm afraid you are lazy,” Inugh-|are hands made for? I ez, woz I.) place in order, so it does. 1 do my | SKE MOVED HER LUGGAGE UPTO HANNAH you at Cape Town.” | the madness and the futility that is |¢4 ney ‘Fingers were made bef forks | part, keoping the children all wash HENSHAWS BOARDING Ho: ae Drake followed stealthily. His| always present in the gayest crowds Mebbe—mebbe!" admitted Mister|#nd hands were made before elec-jed and ironed and the house clean, USE = hopes wer hed, for the three left| which TI sometimes frequent in the|Woodchuck looking un at the|trie washing machines and what/and the meals cooked—it's as little | the place together and walked toward | hotels and restau ts, The glorious | kitchen door Pat's what my wife |not.’ Say—Mister Peg Leg.” 18 you ean do to keep the grass os 4 <7 the docks. He stood on the sun-| paintings and the art of yesterday | say But just the same I believe| “Wh: said Peg Leg Jeut.’ | m bathed pavement, staring after them.| make me feel that those artists who|in saving oneself all one can. ¥h,| Mister Woodchuck leaned quite] “So you see, Mister Peg Leg, i'n | WU er but he said right off, “Why, | TY Sort of have to get used to/“I guess I'm getting too fat, and Then he hurried down the auteter| lived and loved and wrote out their|Mister Peg Leg? Sode. lup ta me And as T have the mi [yes, Mister Woodchuck, -I can got |e kind of a lawn you have, After|even if I do haye to coax it a side street. The sight of three gilded| tives in great music, great paintings) “I'm sure you aro right,” agreed) “Have you—do you have auch alery in my back so, why I thought {you a mngic lawn mower. But the|that they work simply fine. ri{ittle at first, it may be ood for tails over a grimy window full of|or great poetry, were; after all, only|the ttle peddier man pleasantly. |thing as a magic lawn mower, No,|mebbe you could tell me where tolonly trouble about (ach got yous ore me. When may I have it, Mister knives, pistols, sextants, ship models shadows of thelr dreams. ‘ “There is no use in sewing things|I know you couldn't carry ono | got a magic lawn mower.” Serer is “ena they ee "i ite Mister Woodchuck sighed with Mehl ; nA curios from all the Seven Seas 1 think {f you would come over I'by hand, for instance, as long as'around with you, but could you Mister Peg Leg looked sort of hard to work the first fow times, ‘icf, “That's Just fine,” he declared, (anpteniacswara neve taed”