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THE SUNt .SUNDAY JUNE. 28, 112. (jIRL$' pAG&- FOURTH OF JULY SHOWS MIKEY MONK BRIMMING OVER WITH PLUCK AND SPUNK 3 Al last the glorious Fourth had conic! The Monkey noglmont with drum And life marched up Fifth Avenue Before the .Mayor to review. Along tlio sidewalks wns arrayed A crowd to view the Mi: parade, And flags nml bunting floated free Above the valiant Company. The Monkeys nil lobked very fine As iirotidly they marched up the line, And little Teddy heat his drum. Dum, dlddle-dum, dlddle-dum, dtim-dum. Mow firmly Johnny held his Flair! And not n step was een to lap, Milt with a military tread Knch Monkey foot went straight ahead. "Yankee doodle, doodle-do," And "Marching through Georgia," too, And every other wartime pone. They played us they all marched along. Brownie, the Leader of the Band, His baton waved high In his hnnd, And everybody yelled "Hurray! That Monkey Hand knows how to play!" Of course they did, they'd practised haul "Most every day In (Joorglo's yard. And each one knew ho well hln part Without his notes he playi d by heart. And when each Mine was played com plete. Then little Drummer Teddy beat, Heat like everything his drum, Dum, dlddle-dum, didille-dum, dumdum! THE CLEVER CAT'S KITTEN COACH. 'Whore's my other roller skate? Where's my other roller skate'" shouted Freddy, ns ho ran up and flown stair, All over the hou-c. looking under the lieds under the couch, in tlio kitchen ly the cellar stairs. "Where's my other roller skate?" he cried out almost on the orgo of tears. You'd think, perhips, that a boy of Freddy's size would Ik; ashamed to cry: well, so he was, hut he came near doing it tills lime. And all became he couldn't llnd one of his roller skates. You may ask: Why didn't he take more tare and remember where ha put it? Unfortunately Freddy had never been broken of tho carolers habit of throwing his playthings, when he had finished with them, into any cor ner of the room. Ho was spoiled and that's all. If he couldn't llnd anything at first ho knew that hii little sifter C'l.ir.i would tell him where it was If among his numerous plaything ho had lo.-t some thing, his lA'A'Ikill for in-tance, ho only hud to express a wMi for it and a soft Jtttlo voice would como, say," from ono comer of the porch: "Fleddy, I link I saw your twill under tho washtubs in tho tichen," It was from Clara, who would b sitting thcro piming her comical looking rag doll. 2-it this time. Clara did not tell her brother whero ho could lind the missing skate. "Tint's funny,'' thought Freddy, "may be she has It, and doesn t want mo to know it " What ridiculous (ideas peoplo get into their heads when they urn angry! What uso would one of Freddy s roller skates be to little 1 Lira? I! was too big; her tiny foot would bn lo-t in it. During all this limo some members of the family Knew where Ihe rollorsknto was. Who do you think t liny were' Tabby Snatch, tin' cut, and her only child, Miss Kitty Hr,-.iti:!.. Now betoro wo go luither it Is only air that wo right a great wrong done to A' ' "V Tabby Scratch. It is in regard to this family name of "Scratch." 'I ho name did not lit her, she inherited it, but not the disposition from her father that old quarreller but good inouser, Mr. Tom Scratch. No, she wouldn't harm or scratch any one, not even Freddy, thu cat leaser there, it's out now "Freddy, the cat teaser." For that's what ho was. And the reuton ho couldn't llnd his skate was because in playful revenge for the many torments she hud been submitted I to in the past. Tabby had borrowed it to us,- as a kitten couch. It started, von see, something like this: little Clara used I to glvo Kitty Scratch rides in her doll's b.lbv coach. Tho cat enioved it verv much and got so accustomed to tho rides that whenever she didn't get ouo of an afternoon she'd set up a terrible meow ing. One day recently it happened that Freddy's ban' ball broke the. spokes in j the baby coach so that it could not I' ii'wh! and Kitty did not get her usual outing. My, what rat music she did make! Mamma was in despair at tlrst, sho didn't know what to do. Though she soon thought of something -mothers ' nro quick to think of the right thing to I do whero their children nro concerned, ! even cat mothers it was to use onn of , Freddy's roller skates ns a kitten conch, i So to quiet Kitty, sho simply took ono of tho skutns, put her child in it, fastened the strap so tliut sho wouldn't fall out and there you are. ' If it had leen anything of Clara's, tho mother cat wouldn't have borrowed it ' without permission. Clara was so good to her, it was a pleasure to feel those tiny pink paws Tabby called them paws -smooth her fur and tickle her tinder the forearm pits. Hut as for Fred's toys, such a good clianco to get even! Oh, those many, many tail pulling, and the fur rilblied the wrong way too. Ilaiuy days were trying one for Tabby. On thoso days Freddy couldn't go out to play and to pass his timeaway,.indagain boe.uiNo ho was vexed he'd torment tlio I poor cat. Hero was a lino day come, the I day wo are ho,ikiug of, when ho was 1 mint anxious to go out and skato on the newly paved asphalt street, and ho couldn't find his oilier skato. Needless to say ho wan furious. Clara couldn't J tell him whero his plaything was, cause she didn't know herself. Tho clever oat had gonn to tho other side of the house, trundlingKitty up and down on a liltlo used walk. And that's how Fred had to go out with but one roller skato. "If you don't bolievo this cat tale," Tabby says, "bo convinced: hero is a Picttiro of Freddy rolling along on ono foot." WHAT ARE CORK LEGS? One olten meets with n description, especially In some of the older novels, of men with cork legs, and upon reading lb" graphic accounts of some of these old na dogs, for most of them wuru (iiillnrs, one would naturally think they hail nrtlllclal legs made of cork. Hut iirtlliilnl legs nro never made of cork. They do not get their tinmo trnm the material of which, but from the place at which, they were made. This was not tl It y of Cork In Ireland, but Cork street, off Piccadilly, In Lon don, which was the headquarters for the iiiiillclul limb trade In the old davs. just as certain streets are known hh tho locality for certuln wholosalo businesses In our big cities to-day. FLIGHT OF SPEND-A-PENNY Brown Hen's chicks weie exactly two hours out of the shell when they lirst attracted Spend-a-lVnny's attention, Spend-a-IVnny he had been called for Just one-half of his life of six ad venturous years. An affectionate aunt had presented him with a gold pUvo on his third birthday, lie had purclriscJ a "penny's woif uv bonbons" from a passing vender, lie didn't wait for his change, and the vender didn't wait around either. So that's how he got his new name, and until he was quite a big little chap every coin ho got was rated as a pi nny. "Come, Mamma, come right here quick'" he shouted from his observa tion point near the barn. "What is it, Spend-a-l'enny," cried Mamma, running quickly from the house, thinking some harm had come to her little boy so excited was he. "Look here. Mamma, Brown lien's got a whole lot uv canary birds! Now I can have ono In a cage near my crib. I want one right away. 1 want one right away, Manimu. (Jet me one, please, Mamma. I tried to tret one from Brown Hen, but she's mail about something, 'cause she Hew nt me." "You can't have one of Brown Hen's cnnarlcs just now, dear little Fenny," said Mamma gravely. "After a time when Brown Hen Is In better temper we'll see about It. Let her alone now. She might peck nt my little son's eyes." After a moment or deep thought and serious contemplation of Brown Hen's ten little peeps, Spend-a-l'enny turned to Manuka with a perplexed look. "Mamma, where did those canaries come from?" "Now, little Fenny, since Mamma must explain It nil to you, she will tell you first they are not canaries. They are Ifrowu Hen's little children-chickens tho same as you are my little chicken." "But I ain't a chicken. Mamma. 1 got no bllt an' I gut no fuzzy tall, an' I got tlve toes. Hut where did Brown Hen's children come from?" "nut of the eggs, little Fenny. The same sort of eggs you like Mamma to have bulled for you." "Hut I never found a chicken In my boiled egg, Mamma, How can you make those little peepers como out of the egg?" "They mustn't be cooked, dear little Fenny, .lust kept warm for many days. Brown Hen sat on them, spreading out her wings to keep them warm, By and by 'crack-crack' went the shells and out walked the little chicks. Just had to be kept warm, little Spend-a-Fenny. Just had to be kept warm. If Brown lien had not kept them warm some other hen might, and If no hen, then some times they put tho eggs In a big glass case and hatch the little chicks out that way," "They Just have to bo kept warm," nodded Spend-a-Fenny sagely. Mamma kissed him and took him Indoors. Fully nn hour longer she lind to answer ques tions, and when Fa pa camn homo he took up tho task of explaining where Mamma had left off. But Spend-n-Fenny could not have ono of tho little chicks In his room near his crib. He begged hard, but Brown Hen would listen to none of his plead ings, and Mamma kindly hut firmly sided with Brown Hen. Day after day for a week Kpond-n-Fotiny followed Brown Hen and her brood about. He got up early, when Fupa went to town, In or der to bo awake when the little chicken family began the day's programme. It was po use. He found that Brown Hen hail been up long ahead of him and was away off In the fields clucking to her chicks and digging them worms. One day at noon he found the peeping family In the orchard. Ho threw somo corn to Brown Hen In hopes of getting her to lend him a chick to carry home until nightfall. Brown Hen took the corn, but Hew al him when ho at tempted to take one of her family. He followed tho chicks fur an hour, Ills Up quivering with disappointment. Then ho walked disconsolately to the kennel and told Hover all about It. Often he and l!oer talked on all topics, Spend-a-Fenny never usUed Hover questions In these talks, just told him !i!h views of Ufa u!" he lmd found life In Ids sticnuous six- years. And Hover, you may depend, fully understood, for By David M. Cory And every boy who looked nt Ted That night before ho went to bed, Begged his Papa to Ret ft drum Ho ho could ."dum, dlddle-dum, dum dum!" They hadn't marched so very far When, suddenly, they hear a Jar. A cannon cracker, biff and fat, Had knocked off Captain Mlkey's hat. A .boy behind a lnre tree trunk Had thrown tho thing at Mlkcy Monk. It was a naughty thing to do, And also very dangerous too. I s'pose he thought that Mlkcy Monk Would bo so scared he'd loso his spunk. But Mickey never winked on eye, "Halt!" everybody heard him cry. Away the boy began to run, It really Isn't quite such fun When you're found out; you wish you had Been well behaved instead of bad. A Tark rollccman on his beat Had heard this bad boy's scampering feet, And holding tight lib helmet's brim Ho ftnrted running after him. But Mtkey knew that Copper fat Could never run as fust us that, And so he called to Bill and Bob ! And quickly put them on the Job. onto In a while he would turn n sym pathetic gaze on little Fenny and rub his nose against the llttlo chap's cheek stuck close to his. And unless Mamma kept Hover chained near Ids kennel he followed Spend-n-Fenny nil over, bark ing and growling away any danger that threatened. When the chicks were two weeks old a great clucking was heard In the barn yard ono morning. Fapa and Mamma went out to see what was tho matter. There was Brown Hen running about with misery and anger blended In every move she made. Her chicks were gone! Spend-n-Fcnny wept for nearly an hour when he woke and heard the news. He searched and searched all over the. fields and through the orchard and through the garden and all over the barn. Finally the news came from Neighbor Applcgato that a fox had been run down and shot after he had depleted hulf a dozen hen roosts. Then Spend-a-Fenny wept anew. For several days he brooded, telling Hover all utxjut "ft. Mamma when she heard his prayers at night always had to give a promhe as to how soon there would be more chicks. Thus reas sured Spend-a-Fenny would doze off, but In the morning ho would mourn again, A sudden thought came to Spend-a-Fenny. He would gather eegs and get Brown Hen to set on them and "keep them warm." Kvery day for a week he hunted through tho barn and the 'barnyard listening eagerly for the cackle he had learned to know meant that some proud hen had Inld another i gg. Straight he would go to the nest and renin, e the egg. By and by he had ten of them hidden beneath the seat of the old runabout that had been out of commission for a year. He did nut tell Mamma about gather ing the eggs. No, he didn't say a word - although he should have done so even when Mamma said to Fap.i at the Sunday morning breakfast table: "I can't understand what the matter Is with our hens. I have been one and two eggs short of our average for the last few days. I wonder It there arc tramps about." Spend-a-Fenny meant to tell his mother when she said this, but when lie thought of how he would stirprlso her with ten llttlo chickens, he kept quiet as though he knew nothing about the matter. So he got some corn and called: "Here chick, chick, chick! Here, chick, chick, chick!" The first hen that came running up wns Brown, the very ono he 'wanted. She clucked and picked up tho corn. "Come with me. Brown Hon," said Spcnd-n-Fcnny, trying to seize her. "I want to put you on somo eggs so we will havo somo more chicks. Come right with me." But Brown Hen drew nway, only re turning when 'little Fenny throw her corn. Flnnlly Spend-n-Penny 'darted on her nnd seized her despite her strug gles and pecklngs. Ho bore her In tri umph to the old runabout and pressed her down on tho ten eggs ho had col Icetcd. "Now you stny there, Brown Hen, nnd ralso ten moro nice llttlo chicks that the fox won't get this time, I can tell you." But tho Instant ho released his hold on Brown Hen she flew off tho nest and scurried out to the yard. Spend-a-Fenny followed her about for nn hour until after several corn conxlngs ho was able to grab her again. This time ho pushed her down on tho eggs and placed nn empty peach basket over tho box nnd a stone on top of tho basket. In two mlnu'es tho stono and basket had been toppled over and Brown Hen was out In the ynrd again hunting worms. ,Hpond-n -Penny sorrowfully tried one, two, three other hens who might llko raising chicks bettor than Brown Uen, but with no better suc cess. In despnlr he chased Crimson Comb, tho big Jaunty rooster, who also Indignantly refused to emalii seated upon the eggs when pushed over them by Spend-a-Penny. That night when little Penny was tal. en to his crlh by Mamma nio saw ho was troubled, "What is It, little son?" she asked. "1 want some little chickens," ha sobbed until Mamma soothed him off to a doze. Next day at noon Mamma went to call Spcnd-a-Ponny for lunch, but sho heard no answering "OO-OO" from her llttlo boy. She went out on the road nnd called, then back to the barn to tho edge oi the wood and cried his name again and again. She ran to Neighbor Applegate's to see If he had strayed there, nut they had not seen him. Then other neighbors were culled on and Papa In thu city was telephoned so that he came In by the next train. All up and down the roads tho searchers went. Flnnlly Papa said: "Let Hover smell his shoe and he v, 111 soon trace htm up." So they Tin to the kennel to un chain Hover. But to tlnlr surprise and ahum the dog too was missing. No trace of him could be found anywhere. Then Manimu begun to cry und Papa looked very troubled nnd stern. "Men, we must find my little son. I'll give a thousand dollars for tidings of him. Search Irverywhcro and your trouble will not go unrewarded. We must find him, men. we must find him." But Neighbor Applegnto and tho others told Papa they would hunt Just as hard without tnklng a penny of his j money. And so I hey started through I the wood calling every llttlo while: I "Oh, Spend-n-Fenny, Spend-n-Penny, come right home to Mamma and Papa' Spend-a-Penny, Spend-a-Penny, como home to your dinner!" ' And they walked deeper and deeper . Into the wood, so that there was very I little sunlight and It was almost like . night. They walked nnd walked and walked, more anxious every step j At last what do you think? In a ' little glade near n purling stream they ' came upon Spend-a-Penny. There he i was sound asleep with his head rest Bug on Hover's side. The good dog piad lain down nt his llttlo master's i oiiioiitnu, cooieiii iu mane a pinow oi himself and stand guard nt the same time. Mamma rushed to her little son nnd caught him tip to her breast. Papa grabbed him to hug too. Neighbor Ap plegate rubbed little Penny's bnre legs and arms to see If he was hurt. Spend-a-Fenny rubbed tils eyes In n dazed way. When he got wide nwako he said to Mamma: "Mamma, don't make Hover come back to his kennel to-night. I want him to stay where ho Is." "Why, little Penny! Why do you wish to be so cruel when Hover has been so good nnd faithful to you? Besides, he must be hungry," "But I wnnt him to stay where he Is so he can keep them warm," sobbed Spend-a-Penny. "Keep what warm, llttlo Penny?" asked tho astonished Mamma. I "Tho ten eggs so we can hnvp ten llttlo chicks," tho llttlo boy walled. "Ho can keep them warm and hatch them out. That's what I brought him for. Do let him hatch them out. Mamma. They ure underneath him now." Sure enough, they found tho eggs under Hover. And when Spend-n-Penny grew up to be a man and had a little son of his own he used. to tell him the story. But his llttlo boy used to wnnt to know why Hover wasn't allowed to stay In tho woods and hatch out tho chickens, nnd whether Hpend-a-Ponny-Pnpa ever did havo ten llttlo chicks ngnln, nnd what they were llko und what becnino of Brown Hen nnd many moro questions. And Hpend-a-Penny-Papa would have to tell about how Hover lived to be a very old dog, and how Brown Hen had twelvo other rtilcks, ono of which grew up exnetly like her, nnd how finally they must go visit ( J rami ma nnd Grandpa soon so as to sea it there were any new llttlo peepers around such ns little Spend-a-Fenny liked so much and thought at first were canaries. AN OLD ENIGMA. Cut off my head and singular I act: Cut off my tall and plural I appear: Cut off both head nnd tall and, wondrous fart, My middle's left, yet nothing doth ap pear. What Is my tall cut off? A sounding sen. What Is my head cut off? A "roaring river, Amid whtise mingled depths 1 wander free, Parent of well known sound, the mule forever. PATSEY'S PUZZLES. When Pat soy went to the studio the next afternoon nnd Mr. Pantoor handed him thu card with his answer to the last question written on the back of It, Put soy had to scratch his head for a min ute before he saw through the catch. The question was: "Which can walk faster n man with a sack of flour under his arm or a man with two sacks on his back?" The answer that Mr. Pantoor wrote was that two sucks would not weigh moro than two or three pnunds, whereas a sack full of flour would weigh about a hundred pounds. When Putsey ex plained this to the Idlers that evening, he knew hytht look on their faces that they had held high hopes of downing him on that one. "Well, Pat soy," remarked Billy, "you seem able to explain most anything. Perhaps you can read this one for us," and he handed Fatsey another of their little, puzzle cards, which was duly placed In position on Mr. Pantoor's desk next morning. CAN YOU READ THIS? After a moment's thought, Mr. Pan toor felt sure that he had seen this be fore somewhere, and presently he recol lected It and wroto the solution on the back as usual. What wus It? SOME OLD CONUNDRUMS. The solution to the enigma beginning "I counterfeit all bodies, yet hnve none," Is A mirror. Tho answer to tho charade begin ning: "My first Is ploughed for various reasons und grain Is frequently burled In It to llttlo purpose," Is Tho Sea-sons. Tho first of the conundrums was: "If a tiiugh beefsteak could speak, what Kngllsh poet' would It name?" Chaucer, tChuw sir! ) The second was: "If a pair of spec tacles could epuk what ancient hls torlun would they name?" Euscblus. (You see by us.) Here Is u little enigma which some persons can see through almost ns soon as they read It, but to others It Is very puzzling: We are airy little creatures, AH of different voice and features. One of us In glass Is set, Ono of us you'll find In Jet. Ono of us Is met In tin. And the fourth a box within. If tho last you should pursue, It can never fly from you. Somo of tho boys nnd girls that are studying French may bo able to give tho answer to this llttlo riddle, which has always been a great favorite with French children: Je suls co quo Jo sills Ft Je no suls pas co que Je suls; SI J'etnls co quo Jo suls Jo ne serais pas co quo Jo Bills, The following llttlo charade should be easily guessed, as tho second syllable Is very clour: When frost and mow o'ersprcad the ground, And chilly blows Hih nlr My first Is felt upon the check Of every tady fair, Away went Billy, Bobble, too, Like lightning both those Monkeys nVtv, Across tho stone fence round the Park They vaulted lightly like npark, And o'er the gross nml far away Brave Captain Mlkcy to obey. And when the naughty boy looked haiK And saw tho monkeys on the track, I guess tie wished again that he A better boy had tried to be! Not for a moment did they stop And soon they left behind tho Cop, Who felt he'd run about enough, And now sat down to pant and puff, While every leap brought nearer still That naughty boy to Bob and Bill. Just one more step the boy Is caught, And now a lesson will bo taught Back to tho Ileglmcnt they bring Tho culprit, scared llko everything1, j "Lock him up!" the people cry, ' "Ho might have put out Mlkey's eyel'i "Call tho Patrol!" some others shout, "He is a. nuisance without doubt!" But MIkey said, "Bring him to me, I want to ask him quietly If he Is not ashamed to And An Animal Is much more kind Than he Is; I will let htm go Because his mother dear, I know, Would cry and weep till she was pale If I should have him Kent to Jail." "Oh, thank you," the Bad Boy replied, "I'll go back to my mother's side, And promlso her, as well I should, Hereafter to be very good." In earth's cold bosom lies my next. An object most forlorn, For often cruelly 'tis used. And trampled on with scorn. Amid the dismal shades of night, My whole Is bright and gay. Though dark und gloomy It appear;, Kxposed to open day. Tho three conundrums that follow are very old, but they may be new to you Just as those you hear now will be old somo day, but still now to somo persons: 1. When Is a man truly head ever ears In debt? 2. When Is n man thinner than a lath? 3. When Is a chicken's neck like bell? NONSENSE RHYMES. Hero Is the correct reading of th last Nonsense Ithyme, the parts that were Indicated by a device of any Mnl being placed In brackets: In a house on the top of a lilllj Lived a doc tor who cured with i Pill But one day It was said That the doctor was dead Although nobody knew he was 111. Some of the youngsters tried to work In ""4 hours" as part of the rhyme, but It would not fit the metre. Twenty-four hours Is one day. The pill did not lmtlicr them much, apparently, perhaps becausa It rhymed with hill. The chief sticking place seems tnhais been the part that was "all arms nnd legs," although It should have been ea-y to guess that If a thing Is all arms anil legs It has no body. Some made the curious mistake of getting the last 1 1 mi f i, J theherr came c c late, 4 bvm the the y, R.FF as It It read, "nobody knew he w.i. la pain," which docs not rhynui and H J1"' metre. Tho panes In the part of window that Is shown are not as promi nent as the sill. SINGULAR SURNAMES, An examination of any city direc tory will disclose tho fact that ma" persons havo very peculiar surname Often, tho combination of C!ir!Mlai numes and surnames will have a dis'iny meaning In Kngllsh. It Is " '""', mon for citizens to nsk pe. .nH-sl" 1 " the courts to chango or shorten i" names for this very reason. l''art. Dickens nnd many other ""'"'irf, .' Itehted In giving their '"'";.u.c," names which welo suggtstlie nt i typo of mail or woman fi'Prt,!,,,!',1l'.,1l.,1-, Many of these peculiar ""'" come from the Kngllsh. "h. " oddities in numes are quite ' ."'! Llttlcpago, Pettcrknlghl. '"'""J Sweetapple. Thlckpellliy. Bestpltch, Walklate. urn sugacsti c many others, which may !' 'i1.' from a very long list of names. Hi names made up of two names haiuuj Just the opposltn meanings nro , striking, in New York tliero Is nv the name of Bearup lil 'V'le' while Late !i Karly. nnd nav nlng have also conducted bumu8 -Kether. sp As the