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Ol STORIES Gfck B 0 YS and 1$ CRAFTS JO K E.s'|ft flu— GIRLS PAGE Sally Learns the Jackknife Thr Story of a Little Girl and a Big Boy. BY W. BOYCE MORGAN. Milk. s!*r swimmer in hi< high *cnoni. «pd the ob of life guard ior thr i'-otr; at Stlm Later during the Summer Hr makes friends with a tittle airi there rained Saiiv Faber. leaches her to dive b;hl swim, and so earns her earnest de vytion One da* into in the Summer Sally and Dick are on the diving platform and S«! ' is vainly trying to do a jack-knife d;\o She finally quits for the afternoon and goes m to shore, passing two new ar rivals. st the resort who are .lust going in swimming They are Francis Stanley, a vaunt man. and Mae Walpole, a girl Du re f-nrrJi ns Dicks waraing. Stanley, who is n • a good swimmer, goes out past the guard rope, where he is set red with a cramp Dick ai once dives In and goes to his as sistance. INSTALLMENT II Sally had paused on the beach as she heard Dick's first warning to Stanley, and when he disregarded it. she decided fit stay and see what happened. When Dick dived off the platform and swam Toward the young man’s assistance, therefore, she saw immediately that something was wrong. For a moment site watched Dick's j perfect crawl stroke carry him toward Stanley, who was floundering about in the water past the guard rope, and ut "THE FEAR-CRAZED MAX RROKE AWAY” 1 tering an occasional cry for help. She j saw Dick reach the distressed swimmer end she gasped with alarm as she real ized that Stanley, in the terror that always grips a drowning person, had wrapped his arms about his rescuer in a strangle hold. “Dick knows how to break that grip!” Sally breathed to herself reassuringly, but nevertheless she watched the strug- I gle with wildly beating heart She saw , Dick take the young man under the! water with him. and for an agonizing minute they were both out of sight. Then they appeared again, and Dick ! Was free. Now she could see the life guard maneuvering to get Stanley in carrying ’ position. He finally succeeded, and started to bring him toward* shore, but the fear-crazed man broke < away and again caught Dick in a strangle hold. That Was too much for Sally. Like a Cash she was down the beach to the life guard's boat. “I got ducked once for taking this cut." she said to herself as she pushed j it into the water and hopped in. "but ; 111 take another ducking this time and : be glad for it." Her back was toward the exciting drama being enacted in the water as she pulled toward the struggling pair, but now and then she stole a glance over her shoulder She could see that it was a fight to the death, with Dick battling for both their lives against the frenzied struggles of the mar he was trying to rescue On the diving plat form stood Mae Walpole, paralyzed with ’error, unable to even so much as open her mouth in a call for help Sally thought of screaming as she pulled on the oars with all her might, but she knew it would do no good. This thing was going to be decided before any one else could reach the scene. She passed the diving platform and reached the rope She could hear the gasps of the life guard a few feet fur rier on She glanced around, and saw that Dick had Anally won the battle, having exhausted Stanley whom he was now supporting in the water. But Dick was himself almcst exhausted by the terrific struggle. Good boy, Dick!” cried Sally, as she swung the little row boat within reach of the gasping life guard I won't try to get him in,’ said Dick "Just pull for shore and well hold on t to the boat He's done out right now, : but he's not hurt ” Sally bent to the oars again and a j few moments later they were all on the beach. Stanley stretched on the sand, was now recovering, both from his cramp and the effects of the struggle, and Dick, after a moment’s rest, was as good as new Dick squeezed Sally's arm to express more gratitude than he could put into j words. You're a little brick Sally!” he said warmly "If it hadn’t been for your quick trip with the boat I might not have gotten him in,” "Oh yes. you would,' said Sally, but her eyes were shining with pleasure | Dick turned to the rapidly recovering Stanley. “You see what happens when you play the tool," he aid sternly "These , rules about swimming at thus beach are : meant to be obeyed and since I’m the life guard I'm going to see that they j are After this, when I say to come j back, you're to corns; back, and that goes for anybody on the peach ” He paused for a moment, while Stan ley got to his feet sullenly I’m sorry if 1 was, rough with you,’’ ; went on Dick In a gentler tone But ; you were a tough one to handle When | some one is trying to rescue you, the worst thing you can do is to grab him like you did me " Stanley lurried and without a word of thank; walked toward the hotel But the girl, who had come in from the platform, waited for a moment tie- , fore accompanying him It was very brave of you,” she said to Dick “I'm sure Mr Stanley u» j gratoful * He should be grateful to Sally here j at least replied Dick, with a smile \ It s my business to pull people out but. tills girl is an amateur and she did the ‘ r»*al rescuing this time. Mae smiled at Sally, and left Wha» a fine fellow he is, blurted out Sally indignantly "Didn’t even thank you Dick smiled “Some people forget! them manners now and then ” he said 1 • Well, we’d better hurry if we want any 1 oinner Dick and Hallv hastily entered the • hotel through the entrant used by bathers Sally's room was on the yr ond floor but Dick was staying at the rod of the winy on the third flow ; warn he could overlook the Ixach and ; watch.it even when off duty. As he j went down the hall to his room he saw ; Stanley go into a door a few rooms ! from liis own. while the girl was also on j this floor, but at the other end of the ; hall near the elevator. 1 Dick hastily donned white flannels j and a blue coat and hurried to tire din ing room. Usually he ate at a table by himself, but as he entered the din ing room he saw Sally and her parents at a nearby table. They beckoned to him. and when he walked over they asked him to join them Sally had told her parents of the res cue. and Dick was warmly congratu lated. When dinner was over he re tired to his room to write some letters, i promising to see the Fabers in the ball room later, where there was to be danc ing that evening. When Dick came downstairs some time later, the music had already start l'd. He enjoyed several dances with girls whom he knew at the hotel and talked to Sally and Mr and Mrs. Faber Sally seemed to have developed a great interest in Francis Stanley and Mae j Walpole, the two new arrivals at the ; hotel and when they left the ballroom ; and walked down toward the lake later j , in the evening, she stole away from her parents and followed them. She saw them stand for a while on the beach, gazing over the water.' Then the young man pointed to Dick’s j boat, lying on the b-ach nearby, and they walked over to it. Sally watched i them until she saw that he was about •; to push it into the water and then she ran up to them "You mustn’t take that boat out," j she said earnestly "That's Dick's, and he doesn't allow you to. I got ducked j for taking it out.” The young man turned and regarded j her mockingly "Well, well.” he said , j "Wasn’t that nice!" Then they clambered into the boat and rowed out into the lake. j (To Be Continued Next Sunday.! WITH THK PUZZLE EDITOR. Let’s start off this week with a pic ■ ture puzzle, in which you will find a ; famous saying hidden. CAN YOU GUESS THIS I j FAMOUS QUOTATION? m ' - . — 2 — The first and third words in a four | word square are the names of States, i {the second word is a circular band of metal, and the fourth is a semi-pre- | cious stone. Form the square. — 3 — Here are two word chains that will j keep you busy for a few minutes. Change WOOD to FIRE in four j moves. Change FARM to CITY in six f moves. | __4__ Cross-Word Puzzle. The definitions are Horizontal 1, Shell of a pea. 3. Color. 6 Bone of the chest. I H Open (Poetic,). 9, One of the five senses 11. Fragrant flowers 13. Toward | 15. Kitchen police (Abb > ) 16 Yale 17. Trouble 19. Unusual 21. Fresh 22. Catholic sister f 23 Baglike part of a plant 24 Before | 2(5 To bring suit against !27 Note ol the musical stall ■ 25 Greek letter 30 Backbone 32 A small house. 34 A watering place. 36 A .small, sharp metal fastener. 37 Measure of weight. ’3B Finish. .•* ; THE SUNDAY STAB, WASHINGTON. D. f?.. AYOtTST til. 1028-PART 7. Nation’s Gardener an Enthusiast Provision for Expansion of Botanic Area Here Promises New Successes for George W. Hess, Who Has Studied World s Plants. BY BARBARA FENN GILES. IF FLOWERS had souls and could talk, there is a man in Washing ton who would understand them. That man is George W. Hess, di rector of the Botanic Garden. In December Congress granted an appro priation for the extension and improve ment of the garden To this larger area for work Mr. Hess will bring a wealth of knowledge and understand ing that only a sympathetic mind and intensive experience can produce. At the foot of the Capitol, only a stone’s throw* from the busy, worried atmosphere that is a part of this legislative city of the Nation, lies a bit ! of countryside. It. has been worked , over with meticulous care, yet holds a wild heart of natural beauty within. | Horticultural discoveiies from scientific | laboratories have been reset here, neat ! iy labeled and exactly catalogued. Still, i it is a countryside that gives no hint of being anything but a peculiarly , j blessed and favored piece of ground, j i exquisite with flowering plants. There ; is peace in its atmosphere, generosity j !in its lavishness, instruction in its, order For 16 years Mr. Hess has worked i with the Botanic Garden. His small, neat, white house ts built on the grounds. His office ts just across the street, sandwiched somewhere between the shipping rooms, drying rooms and various other appurtenances of bo tanical work. It is a most unpreten tious office, containing, besides the usual office furniture, an old, very large and comfortable leather armchair. This chair he politely moves forward for i visitors and seats himself uncomforta- j blv in the swivel chair before his desk. It does not fit him well. Moreover, there is something incongruous about | Mr Hess in an office. He is more at j case among his plants, moving slowly j down the rows between the tables in the room of just the correct tempera- ! ture for small pots of growing things. His large hands gently touch the j tiny, green shoots and leaves. He stops ; everv few moments to explain how ] such-and-such a flower was produced through patient crossing and recross ing of mother plants. He exhibits with pride the sansevieria, which grows from j ! a mere clipping of the leaf. He pauses j to speak of that plant's dependence j on the mother shoot until maturity j j is reached, when the parent plant dies j ; off. He philosophically details the [ similar dependence of the human child i on its mother until the age of responsi- j i bility. Near his plants he flowers into ! ispeech. ■ However, in the office, away from j I his plant pets, his thoughts do not j ' flow so easily. He tilts uncomfortably I in the hard chair and reveals himself | ; reluctantly when the subject is him self. He will converse for hours on | the Garden that, under his years of I management, has become a showplace ! of the Nation. He discourses earnestly, and enthusiastically on the appropria- i j tion granted by Congress to extend j and beautify the place. There is no end to the interesting j j explanations wtth which he will favor ! one concerning the plants and their j characteristics. And from these mat- > ters one is able to construct the char i acter of the gardener. His surround- j in~s have permeated his life, so that he reflects whatever characteristics may t i be translated into the human You ask. "Where were you bom, Mr. ; Hess?’’ 1 Vertical. 1. Hole. 2. Difference, 3. Gardening tool. 4. Toward the top. 5. Ever (Abb.). 6. Reliable 1. A vehicle. 10 Toward. 12. Correct »Abb). 14. Doctor of Divinity. (Abb.), 16. Printer’s measures. 17. Respectful fear. 18. A unit. 20. A female deer. 25. The smallest State. < Abb.), 28 Inside 29. Father 30. To dine. 31 Established. (Abb). 32. Be able • 33. Drowse 35. Italian river. Answers. 1. The famous saying is, ‘All is not i gold that glitters.” 2. The words in the square are | Ohio, hoop. lowa and opal. 3 WOOD—food- ford—fore—FlßE, j ; FARM fare mare mire—mite— I cite—ClTY 4 Cross-Word Puzzle Solution. fplojo | Ihlo e1 Rhisl l T iaJs s phjN| hwq |gMQ| Rhymed Riddle. Here is a rhymed riddle that came all j the way from England, where the boys j arid girls also like to guess these teasers, j j You'll find the answer elsewhere on this j page Hey, diddle diddle, such an easy riddle. What, can 1 possibly be? i I am round, but 1 am not the shape of a ball. r do not resemble my mother at all It sounds rather strange, but do not mistake me. Before you can use me it’s better to break me! j Before you can drink me, alas, you must beat me, : Before you can bite me, you always must heat me ‘ And, it you would make an “example” of me, : Just cut off my tall and there it will be Hey diddle diddle, there ends the riddle ! The answer la easy to see Answer to Rhymed Riddle, An egg. • - ’ The Oriftimtl Model. David came back from the circus in great excitement "Oh. mammal" he exclaimed. ”1 threw some ot mv peanuts down on the ground by th • elephant and he sucked them up with fits big vacuum cleaner • New York University is to give a course in compressed au and refriger ation next term. i “Here,” he replies, laconically. Driven to another source, one learns 1 that he is a "member of an old and ' honorable Georgetown family." • How long have you been doing botanical work?" you may venture, and 1 B et: "Oh.” vaguely, “always. At the age of 13. when most boys are dreaming and playing through grammar school, George Hess began working m ! a minor position in the John Saul Floral & Nursery Co. He did this for four or five years and then went West to Chicago with S. Muir & Co. raid spent three or four years there learning how to grow decorative plants. Fol i lowing this, he went further West to . lay out a place for T W. Harvey, a lumber merchant in Chicago. He spent six years in the public gardens of Boston. There he went into ; I the work of carpet bedding. He tells ! ; about it now with some spirit. The j remembrance of that delightful artistry < | kindled Mr Hess into a flow of remi niscence. He described sun dials and calendars, made for utility as well as beauty, by planting flowers in the soil !, poured into a wire frame made into the | shape of the object to be represented. His interest deepened into chuckling amusement when he recalled the climax of his achievements along this line by the laying out of growing flowers in such away that they represented a presi-1 dential race. The two candidates, j Democratic and Republican, were pic tured rowing their boats toward a stump on which sat an owl and under- j neath it the word “Who?" After his stay in Boston Mr. Hess, ! returned to Chicago for a short while, j ! working for a floral company. Then he came to Washington and received a position in the Agriculture Department. I the charge of an orange and pineapple house. He left Washington onfe more, i this time for Florida, and spent a few j years raising ornamental and other | kinds of plants. He returned to Wash j ington to stay as director of the i Botanic Garden, which position he ! holds today. Mr. Hess, obviously an educated man, explains that he received his j schooling at night. "Everywhr everywhere that I j j worked." he adds. "And I read and | ! studied by myself a great deal.” He has traveled in China. Hawaii, j ; the Philippine Islands and South j America on congressional parties, studying the plant life in these coun- I i tries. He scored 100 per cent in an > examination for a position of teacher j iof gardening. This position he gave j up in favor of improving some land | in Florida, land worth $8 an acre ! when he took it over. It sold for $75 | 1 an acre when he left. Mr Hess, as a wise father toward ! his plant children, plays no favorites, j He made an honest attempt to oblige j ! with a definite answer concerning the | , plants which had an especial appeal I I for him He finally gave up the j j struggle with the general statement j j that he loved them all. He did pick | out a few of the more interesting ones j j for explanation. From a group of large photographs | he selected pictures of the "pelican flower." so named because of its like : ness to that distorted-appearing bird. | The broad part of the leaf forms the back, and the end turns up and twists | into the odd neck and beak of the j ; pelican When open the flower has j l an entirely different appearance. The i What to Hike For. UiaaMiMiaM liNirrrriinsi iTiirrrwasJ Aside from the prune purpose of en joying an afternoon in the out-of-doors, you should have some definite purpose in mind when hiking There are so many good reasons and objects that you should have no trouble in making your own selections. Yet, if you wish, you can choose a different subject each time. This will, in itself, be a con densed education and a lot of fun. For instance, one hike can be made solely to obtain good pictures. For that | matter, you can profitably carry your camera every time I A hike made on the first day of May can be used to see how many flowers are in bloom on that date. Any Sum mer day hike can be used to see how many different kinds of trees and shrubs grow in your vicinity I when tiie birds have arrived you i can take your bird book along and learn | the number and variety of birds then present. | Other objectives are To learn how THE ADVENTURE OF PETER PEN. By Nick Nichols. SNAQL I CEORGE W. HESS, DIRECTOR OF THE BOTANIC CARDEN. odor. Mr. Hess says. Is very offensive He is at all times painstakingly de tailed In his explanations, eager for his listener to see what he is describ ing. If the subject of his talk is out of season, he hopes you will visit the j garden, when there will be an op portunity for you to see these marvels for yourself The papaya tree he takes pleasure in describing. It is distinctive among plants in its method of reproduction. There arc entirely separate male and female plants which must be in close juxtaposition before fertilisation can l take place. The flower of the female i is shaped like a cup, while that of the male resembles a star. It Is on the subject of Chinese vege tables that Mr Hess grows most ex j pansive. If he has a hobby outside of 1 his beloved garden, it is this. From a ! Chinese gardener he acquired his first i interest in the subject, an interest that ' has grown until he himself says that the information that he has accumu lated through study and observation would easily All a book He knows the I names in the Cantonese dialect of all | the specimens. Excitement glowed | through his placid enthusiasm when he ; told about the length of the Chinese , melon, the shape of the beans that arc j cut and sold in bunches like asparagus, j and the beauty of the prosaic cabbage. One wonders at first whether, dwelling in this place of which he has become so essentially a part, he ever really sees the ugly, almost squalid row of dingy buildings on Pennsylvania and Mary land avenues, which extend on both side's of the garden. He has. but his feeling : toward them now is one of almost com plete indifference, for they are to be i tom down soon to make room for the CHINOOK BY EL COMANCHO. MAMA —Exactly the same as the English word MAHKOOK.—P ronounce MAH i KUCK, w ith the second syllable stressed. It stands for Buy, Sell. Exchange. Market KAH YAHKA MAHKOOK HOUSE Is Where Is the trading house 0 ” or. literally, "Where is the 1 buy-and-sell-things house?" MAS A HCHE.—Pronounce MEE-SAH TSCHEE, with the accent on the SAH, This word means Wicked. Evil. Sinful, j Vicious CULTAS is plain Bad. or "not j good" in Chinook, but MASAHCHE Is j much worse, being about as bad as you can make it! MITLITE —-Accent the first syllable. Live, Stay. Dwell. Camp. Also Home. Place -where-you-live. etc. MITLITE! is "Stop!" in the sense of a command. Diseases of Metals. i \yfETALS suffer from contagious dls eases analogous to those of living things. Among these diseases one of the most striking Is that called the “tin pest.” Sometimes a block, a plate or medal of tin attacked by this disease crumbles and falls into dust, and some times warty proturbances appear on the surface of the metal. Various other metals suffer from a disease that manifests itself by a spon taneous recrystallization. The most re markable cases occur with lead and hard-drawn brass. These diseases are not due. as has been thought, simply to moisture. Tem perature plays a part In producing them. The most extraordinary fact, perhaps, is that the "tin pest” is capa ble of spreading by contagion to build a camp fire and cook in the open; to gather moss; to make a col lection of odd stones and small rocks; or, if the hike to along the seashore, to gather a collection of shells extension of the garden. Then won derful plans are to be realized, plans that have been nourished for years. The garden will compare with, even surpass, the most beautiful ones of the j world. For a long time national botanical matters have been delayed by the inde cision regarding the future location of the garden. It was thought for a while that a place at Mount Hamilton would offer the best advantages. Mr Hess steadily opposed the idea of placing the garden so far out of the city at a spot not easily reached by sightseers. His logic finally won. The place over which Oen. Grant, on a charger, keeps guard will not have to be uprooted. There is to be an arboretum on Bladensburg road and an important extension of the original garden here. One of Mr. Hess' most cherished dreams, to come true when the extension is made, is that of creating a typical old-fashioned flower bed with the blossoms that are found j in every grandmother’s garden. Other city children may wfll envy the good fortune of the small boy. Mr. Hess' younger son, who has such a fortunate | playground. The other son is a grown 1 man. Fear a departing guest he. opens the j door of the huge icebox in which the | cut blooms are kept, and the icy fra grance of roses, carnations and peonies rises in a breath-taking gust. He care | fully lines a large box and puts In lay j ers of the brilliant Spring blossoms. Profuse thanks are dismissed as briefly as nossible. Then "You'll come again?” he asks "Oh, yes!" "To see the flowers," he specifies politely. Weight of “Limited.” /"GENERALLY speaking, the heaviest ” of the cars comprising a "limited”, ! train is the diner, which exceeds the others in weight by about 10,000 pounds, or even 15,000 pounds. Such a car, with full equipment, usually weighs some*- thing like 140,000 pounds when ready to make its customary division run. A 16-sectlon sleeper may weigh from 110.000 pounds to 125.000 pounds, while i the buffet-library car of the transconti nental type comes next at 107.000 pounds The baggage car. weighing 85.000 pounds, may be the lightest in a train. . but the postal car next to it weighs, on an average. 103,000 pounds. A chair car is full weight at 87.000 j i pounds, while the ordinary passenger coach tips the scales at 93.000 pounds. With a locomotive and diner weighing, say. 260 000 pounds, it is easy to esti mate the enormous weight of some of the modern through trains of seven or i more cars I — - • Decay of (ilass. IT Is generally supposed that glass is virtually everlasting, aside from the question of breakage, but it has been demonstrated that glass exposed to the elements will decay and in time become so rotten that it Is worthless. Window glass exposed to the heat and cold and varying winds will after a number of years become so brittle that it can be cut with a pair of shears. It is said that light and darkness have dif ferent effects on glass and that this alternation alone will cause it to be come fragile and in time worthless. It is almost impossible to remove old windows from a building without break ing many of the panes of glass. New glass can be handled with much more carelessness Street takers who travel throughout the country selling scissors will secure a lot of old window glass and show the crowds how wonderfully their shears will cut by clipping off strips of the glass just as a person would cut paper, when, in fact, the feat is due to the fact that 1 the glass is actually rotten. Young Reporter's Scoop Interviewing Peter Pen! '■Comp here!” barked the editor, wig- j j gling his eyebrows in a most terrifying ' ( fashion. . , 1 The young reporter jumped as though ; ! he had been shot. Then, with a fright- j j ened look on his face, he hurried to the i editor’s desk and stood waiting. “I want you to get an interview with ; Peter Pen,” said the editor. For a mo-, j ment the young reporter gazed at him j 1 blankly. „ , .i 1 "With—with whom?” he finally asked., “With Peter Pen!” repeated the edi- j 1 tor, scowling. “Don’t tell me you don’t, j ! know who Peter Pen is.” “I—l’m afraid I don’t,” admitted the | ! young reporter. j “Well, you are a green one,” said the j editor, but now his voice was more I ! kindly. “However. I’ll tell you that Peter Pen is a mighty fine little fellow, ! and you’ll like him. He’s a friend of all ! young people—and you’re not very old.” “No, sir,” said the reporter, “but I'll get older later on. Where do I find this ! fellow Peter Pen?" The editor scowled again. “Young man,” he said sternly, “a good j newspaper reporter doesn't ask ques ! tions like that. When he’s told to do I something, he goes and does it. I don’t know myself just where you can find Peter Pen. But you might go to this place and see Nick Nichols. He’d prob ably be able to tell you.” With that the editor handed the re porter a slip of paper bearing an ad dress. and turned away. The young reporter looked at the ad dress, turned, and hurried from the office as though he knew just where i he was going, but once out of the edi ! tor’s sight, he stopped and sadly con sidered what to do. ! Finally he decided to ask a police man about the problem, and an officer j whom he saw nearby told him how to j get to the address which the editor had given him. After a half hour’s ride and a long climb up a dark stairway, the ! young reporter finally found himself be fore a door marked “Nick Nichols, i Artist.” “Ah. this is the place,” said the young • reporter to himself. He knocked on the ) door, and a cheery voice called to him j to enter, so he opened the door and I stepped into a little room where a young man with a pleasant smile was sitting ' at a desk piled high with letters. “Are you Mr. Nichols?” inquired the reporter. “Right!” replied the man at the desk. lllraHr it# W m ms^ M WHM^y**<iWß^^-MaßK£?fa?!ai*3m3gi^-»yj!iß. .- IWzlgBK/f -5 '- ■ ■ .'i % '_ - ||QlsiS^9M^^Bl %- : ,iji%F* "<-- r-' * ' ; -iv ' *j3i ■• '• ’: •'•• ?;*| -•: > THIS IS THE PICTI RE TH \f THE YOl YC REPORTER TOOK OF PETER PEN \ND NICK NICHOLS. I "And what can I do for you?” "I’m a newspaper reporter, and per haps you can give me what I want. Does Mr. Pen live here?" "Who?’’ asked Mr. Nichols. Then, ; after a moment, “Oh. you mean Peter j 1 Pen. Why. I suppose you might say j i that he does. He realty lives in the ! I.and of Just S'posin'. but when he's in | this country he usually stops right i here." With that the artist pointed to a little bottle of ink that stood on his desk. “You don’t mean that he lives in that bottle of ink?" said the young re porter wonderingly. "I mean just that," said Mr. Nichols "At least, he always comes out of there when he tells me about his adventures Jin the Land of Just S'posin’. You see, I’m really a sort of secretary to Peter 5 Pen. I get all his mail—just see the i ! stacks of it on the desk here that his | friends ail over the country send in— I S and I write and draw all of his ad * ventures for boys and girls to read in i I the newspaper." I MANY KINDS OF JELLYFISH. This name is given to many sorts of fish that inhabit the harbors and bays in many parts of the world They are generally rdhnd when seen from above, and give the appearance of an inserted bowl or saucer, from several inches to i . tu i several feet In diameter, almost trans parent, and containing various fringes or feelers on their outer circumference. In the Western Hemisphere they may be seen along the entire eastern coast of North America, from the Bay of PundV-wisr .Canada to the Gulf Coast and down along the shores of Mexico. At that the reporter pulled a piece of paper from his pockets and hastily wrote some notes. He wanted to make sure About that ink bottle business! “The editor told me to get an inter view with Peter Pen.” he then said Do you suppose there’s any chance of my seeing him?” “Well, I don’t know,” replied Mr. Nichols dubiously. “But suppose I tap on the ink bottle and see il by any chance he’s in there.” With that the artist knocked gently on the ink bottle with a pen. The young reporter, watching hopefully, suddenly was amazed to see the top .wiggle violently. And then a tiny lit tle fellow dressed all in black and wear ing a hat shaped like the top of the ink bottle, hopped out and stood smiling at them from the desk. Sure enough, it was Peter Pen! “Good morning!’* cried Peter Pen in a very small voice. “And how is every body in the Land of Mortals today?” “We’re fine, Peter Pen,” said Mr. Nichols, while the reporter gazed, speechless, at the tiny visitor. “And how are you?” “A little tired, right now,” answered Peter Pen. “I just made a lightning trip here from Just S'posin Land so that I wouldn’t disappoint this young man who came to see me.” “Do you mean to tell me.” gasped the young reporter, “that you knew I wanted to see you?” "Certainly,” said Peter Pen, with a queer little smile. “I know things like that as soon as you do.” “Well!” cried the reporter, and again he wrote hastily on his note paper. Then he said, “I have a little camera in my pocket. Would you mind if I took a picture of you and Mr. Nichols, just to prove that I really saw you?” “Not at all,” said Peter Pen. “Go right ahead. And Nick can hold a bunch of the letters that my friends send to me.” So the young reporter hastily got out his camera and took the picture that you see here. When he had put it away again, Peter Pen jumped up on the edge of the ink bottle. “I’ve.got to hurry back to the Land of Just S'posin’ now,” he said, “for we are having some very interesting ex periences there in the court of Good King Guffaw. But please tell all your readers for me that I hope that they are having a wonderful Summer vaca tion, and that they are enjoying the i adventures of my little band in Just S’posin’ Land.” S With that Peter Pen waved his hand and disappeared into the ink bottle As suddenly as he had appeared, leaving ! the young reporter fairly gasping with , surprise. Immediately he recovered , himself, however, and thanking Mr Nichols hastily but heartilv, he dashed | from the studio and rushed at once to the newspaper office. T saw Peter Pen!" he cried, as he ran up to the editor’s desk a few min utes later. ”1 talked to him and got a picture of him.” "What?" cried the editor in surprise. "Why, I never thought you could. Hurry and write the story for this weeks Boys’ and Girls’ page’ Why. young fellow, this is the biggest scoop we’ve had in years. I’ll see' that you get a nice little raise for this." The young reporter almost whooped with joy as he dashed for a typewriter "Peter Pen certainly did me a food I turn!" he cried gleefully. "He surelv is a wonderful little fellow!" There are many kinds of jellyfish, the one shown above being a hydrazoan and having the name Gonionemus. It j is one of the smaller sort, measuring only about half an inch in diameter, without including the fringe of tenta cles around its margin This fish takes in water from below. It passes through the small circular opening of the ani mal and fills the entire body The body ; then contracts and forces the water out | just like you would force water out of a rubber ball, and the fish thus moves in the opposite direction This water also supplies the food of the jellyfish, which consists of micro scopic products of the sea. and these are absorbed by the four digestive canals leading into the small stomach at the center. The so-called tentacles or "feelers” vary in number from 16 to more than 80. They are the nerves of the fish and enable it to determine something of its surroundings Jellyfish is a good name for these animals, for they have a jelly-like feel when touched When taken out of the water, however, they lose their beautiful forms at once, and if left exposed to the air for only a few minutes they die. leaving hardly a trace of their gelati nous bodies. 7