The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 16, 1925, Page 8

ft IN PRICE ALES of t skins sold in the rket $1.98 apiece says t One dollar and ninety-eight cents! There was a time, centuries ago, it setms, back in Northern Ohio, when you took your newly acquired pup, Tiger, out to make a great muskrat hunter of him ; Say, man! The muskrat skin market was "way up to 18 cents, cash, or 15 cents ? credit on a new pair of skates, and a boy simply had to have a dog to lend a hand, , ora leg, rather, in pursuit of the crafty “musky,” who could swim like a_ blue + Streak, dive like a cormorant and find a > hole where there wasn’t any Tiger sure looked unusually promising ? Ears and tail clearly hound, the rest of him pretty much miscellaneous, and wit! ? paws built for well-digging. A foot of ; Snow. Lake and creek still ice-bound and the mercury struggling to bid zero good + bye. But, now and then, the sun bursting forth from banks of downy clouds, to set fields, roofs and the bare trees afire with * silvery flames. The big drifts along the creek’s bank are +a good place to induct Tiger into first grade primary in the school of ratting. * Musky has dug long tunnels in the ; Snow. He has made and colored brown * @ straight runway to the creek. He has ; @ven trod solid a place upon the top of a f snow dune, where, maybe, his folks dance ; in the moonlight and from which he can * be on the lookout for boys with Tiger dogs. There, he has just dodged into t ¢ hole over yonder! Dig for him, Tiger, dig! Orders to dig ‘ are what a pup’s ears are made for, Tiger + shoots snow out between his hind legs ¢ +a busted fire horse sprays water. Ha! _ now Tiger is to him! Fact. Musky puts ¢ four front teeth, sort of narrow safety- + razor blades, into Tiger's nose. Tiger tak a circuit of about a half-mile, yelling every jump, and finally seeks surce s under ma’s kitchen stove. , you : ‘ get ? the muskrat, at a bare spot in the snow - half way back to the creek. * Muskrat skin at $ From 18 cents ; to $1.98. How the prices have piled up! * How the years have piled up! © Bostonians now eat 25 pounds o! ; Almost as much as beans or codfis * to tt, onions! Hs per eapita, bh. Hurrah! Ga Pee: SYMPATHY ~fX YOUNGSTER violates the rules and regulations of the household, is * Caught at it, threatened with panking, ¢ Says “I’m sorry”—and likely escapes pun- ; ishment. ~ “We all kind of sympathize with the tot. A grown-up man does a parallel thing. Violates rules and regulations. He gets his dues, flies off the handle—and then comes down to earth and apologizes. _ Some people never grow up. ' Maybe that’s why the general public - sort of sympathizes with Babe Ruth s CONVERTING ’EM L. CHARLIE SWEENEY, heroic American aviator, has bombed Chel- ‘chaouen and blown Riff warriors, women _and children to fragments. General * Rivera is to use poison gas at the Span- ish front. » Hurrah! Our Christian heroes will have those contrary Riffs in christianity sae cone yet! 7.09 Seventh Ave HITTING BACK Lh ABBIT” rises to his own defens lhe president of the New York Ro tary club comes back at Sinclair Lewi who, in his novel, has pictured Rotariar as “bumptious, small-town boosters” and worse, and at H, L. Mencken and his a sociated smart-Alev who never tire of sneering at Rotarians as the suprer examples of everything which their “su perior” intellects most It is well. In the first place. “Rotary” is a good thing. It and its related club organize business for good fellowship, and for And, in the second place, it is a good thing for business and boost ing to be put on the defensiv.e There i no danger of their losing their good qual service, ities. But sometimes they have funny ones, too, Let the funny men laugh at them for them, and they will themselves learn where the joke is on them, That is about the best lesson any of us can learn HOW TO KEEP COOL Wn @ car, or ever ri in a $s Will interest you Between now and next spring 39,000, 000 trees will be planted in Great Britain as part of the government's program for restoring the rapidly disappearing: forest of England, Scotland and Wale “Good for Britain!” you say But what's that to do with me?” This: There are some 251,610 miles of highways in country. Last y miles of new were added. thi 000 a of graded or surfaced, For some years to come we a roads, will probably add new roads at about that rate. Recently we made rather a long jour ney over some of these roads. For the most part they ran thru a treeless coun- tr At any rate the roads themselve: were seldom shaded and when we to fix a puncture, as we to do, the summer of our neck like a house Even in motion, the sun was blistering, peeling the paint off our car. Now badly a ernment, gard to forest con gi topped sometimes had ll on the back sun afire. we need trees do ir almost in our Brita ] rvation, or country as Our gov- y with re 00 nig dly to spend enough money to protect we have, has allowed lumbermen to cut down any and every tree they wanted and hundreds of thousands of other es have been burned or otherwise wasted Suppose, therefore, planted along our highways? Suppose we planted a tree every fifty-odd of our roads? This would give 1 200 trees per mile, or more than 50,000,- 000 shade-producer our state sys- tem, not counting the | r road The new roads would add some 2,000,000 more trees every 5 Not only would this be the equivalent of whole new forests but you'd b! em time you went touring—with a double blessing at each stop for repairs. Think this over. Get behind the idea The federal government pays part of the expenses of roadbuilding: Suggest to your congressman that one of the conditions of this help should be a tree every 50 feet along both sides of the road. without we trees feet on both side about alon ar every ? ? Answers to Your Questions ? = Q. What ts a good w Move wax polish from an hile body that one wishe finish? A. To remove war from auton- ¥ bile bodies, use spirits of turpentine Sand a cloth, first S aurface several dissolve i the wax, then rubbing briskly with the cloth ened with the turpentine also. 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