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i BEDTIME STORIES W. Burgess.
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t An Old Suit Makes Happiness.
Bfhold. that which you cast aside
t May bring to others Joy and pride.
—Old Mother Nature.
RESTY the Flycatcher flew
' M straight to the old board Dan
| ny Meadow Mouse had men
tioned and In his heart was
eager hope.
“So Bluffer the Adler has a new
*uit!” thought he exultanly. “Then
he must have left his old suit some
where. There is that board Danny
Meadow Mouse mentioned and If that
©Id suit isn’t under it I don’t know
enakes and their ways. I do hope it
Isn’t so far under that I can’t get hold
or it."
He alighted on the ground at the
end of the old board and at once his
bright eyes spied something that filled
him with great joy. He reached under
the end of the board with his bill and
got hold of somthing. Then he backed
off. pulling gently. Held firmly in his
bill was the tail of Bluffer’s old suit.
Cresty tugged and pulled until at last
the whole suit lay stretched out in the
grass. Then he seized it by the middle
and away he flew', Bluffer's old suit
trailing out behind him on either side.
He flew right over Danny Meadow
Mouse who looked up and for a minute
or two couldn't imagine what kind of
a queer-looking bird he saw. Then he
recognized that old suit.
“So that is what Cresty was looking
for!" he exclaimed. “Who would
imagine that a cast-off suit like that
would do anybody any good. Yet
Cresty seems as pleased with it as Bluf
fer is with his new one. It is a funny
world. It certainly is a funny world.”
Mrs. Cresty saw Cresty coming and
in great excitement flew to meet him.
“Where did you get it?” she cried.
Cresty, having his mouth full,
couldn't answer that and simply con
tinued on his wray toward their nest in
a hole in a tree on the edge of the Old
Orchard. Mrs. Cresty tried to get hold
of one end of that old suit, but couldn't
and so flew ahead to await his arrival.
As Cresty made his way among the
branches of the tree, that dangling
snakeskin caught and was pulled from
his bill. In an instant, Mrs. Cresty was
tugging and pulling at it to get it free.
Fortunately it was only lightly held
so that In a few minutes they had it
NATURE’S
CHILDREN
BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY.
POCKET GOPHER.
Geomys bursarius.
ON the sun-scorched desert,
lofty mountain slopes above
the timber lines or in rich
clover fields, the range of the
pocket gopher includes all the
States West of the Lower Mississippi
River, the Wabash River, and Lake
Michigan, also Alabama, Georgia and
Florida.
Nature has provided the sturdily
built subterrean engineer with strong
shoulders and arms, while his hands
are finished with long sharp claws
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POCKET GOPHER 1
for digging. The hind feet and
legs are not adapted for ex
cavating. The stubby tail is scantily
clothed with hair and is used as a
scnsative organ. His eyes are black and
beady, the front teeth are long and
prominent, practically outside of the
mouth cavity. The cheek pockets are
lined with soft hair or fur, much lighter
than that of the body and are outside
of the mouth. The fur coat is not soil
ed by contact with the damp earth.
Father Gopher is one third larger
than his spouse. The family is not a
sociable one and two bachlors or fathers
cannot abide the sight of each other.
The young gallant who seeks his mate,
must search for her in her own gallery
or tunnels or possibly find her in her
one room apartment. Because of their
deep burrows, little is known of their
courtship ways. This is an opportunity
for the young scientist to do research
work. The nursery is a very cozy round
room, well lined with soft grasses and
stubble. Here from cne to six little
naked, blind babies are born in the early
Spring. They have neither teeth or
cheek pockets, their mother nurses
them until they are three weeks old.
Green food is offered them which they
eagerly accept. At four weeks they are
quite independent and are weaned at
seven weeks, being given to understand
they must now shift for themselves.
From now on they make their own tun
nels and seek their own food. By
Spring they are full grown and seek
their mate.
Roots. rootstocKs. succulent grasses
and legumes as well as other edible
matter are sought by them at night
above ground. Where apples and po
tatoes have been stored bushels of them
have been carried away. More food
than is needed is cached and often the
plough reveals much spoiled food.
The long tunnels are deeper down
than the mole’s and not as compli
cated. When a gallery is not in use it
is closed, food, nest material and other
matter is sealed in old tunnels and left.
The barn owl. long eared owl and the
great horned owl, wacth at night with
alert eyes for the little prowler. Thou
sands of these pocket gophers who
make life miserable for the farmer, go
to baby owlets as choice tid bits. Indeed,
the farmer has a true friend in the
owls, weasels, king snakes and ground
squirrels.
There was a time when the soil had
not been worked, that the pocket
gopher with his burrowing habits was
beneficial. The gropher will tunnel
miles and lift much soil as he searches
acres of ground for food. Tire sub
soil is brought to the surface and mel
lows, the soils are mixed and become
more usable. At the present time, he
is not wanted and a price is on his
head.
Freshlv piled dirt betrays his presence.
His burrows do not show. The pockets
are deep, horses and machines often
get stuck in them. Fortunately it is
not dfficult to rid a farm of these pests
because they walk into traps and eat
poisoined food set for them .
Farm Women’s
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East of Wisconsin Avenue
Bethesda, Maryland
Products Direct From Montgomery
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Open 8:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M.
Wednesday and Saturday
Eggs . .dozen 25c; 2 doz. 45c I
Comb Honey .25c
Homemade Rolls... .doz. 20c
Homemade Cookies, 2 doz. 25c
Homemade Ice Cream qt. 60c
Whipping Cream.pt. 40c
Cottage Cheese.pt. 15c
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free and down to the hole where their j
nest was
"A whole suit?" exulted Mrs. Cresty.
"My dear, I didn't dream that you
would find a whole suit or be able to
get all of It If you did find one. A
whole suit! And there Is hardly a tear
I in it anywhere. Whose suit was it? It
i doesn’t look Just like one of Mr. Black
HELD FIRMLY IN HIS BILL WAS
THE TAIL OF BLUFFER’S OLD
SUIT.
snake’s old suits and it is too big for
one of Mr. Gartersnake’s.”
"It belonged to Bluffer the Adder,"
replied Cresty. “I found it under an
old board on the Green Meadows and I j
judge that Bluffer hadn't been out of
it very long."
Meanwhile Mrs. Cresty was busily
at. work pulling that old suit into the
hole in the tree and working it in to
the nest. There was so much of it, so
I much more than she had expected,
that it meant pretty near making the
nest over. But that didn't bother her.
She was willing to do that for the sake
of having this snakeskin. She was
perfectly happy.
Now were it possible for feathered
folk to turn up their noses, which, of
course, it isn’t, I suspect that all of
Mrs. Cresty's neighbors would have
turned up their noses. As it was, they
could and did, make remarks.
"Can you imagine using such a thing
as that In a nest!” said Mrs. Robin
scornfully, whose own nest was largely
built of mud.
"Just seeing It gives me a creepy
feeling!" declared Mrs. Bluebird.
"Imagine her babies having to have
that old skin for a bed!” exclaimed
Mrs. Morning Dove.
"Isn’t it awful?” responded Mrs.
Whip-poor-will.
Now this was amusing when you
come to think of it, for Mrs. Dove’s
babies would have nothing but sticks
for a bed and Mrs. Whip-poor-will’s
! children have only bare ground, where
as that old suit of Bluffer’s was soft
and really very nice.
(Copyright. 1932.)
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Steamed Cornbread.
Beat one egg until quite light. Add j
three cupfuls of buttermilk, in which
one teaspoonful of baking soda has been
dissolved. Then add one teaspoonful
of salt, four cupfuls of cornmeal. one
cupful of white flour, half a cupful of
sugar and one teaspoonful of melted
lard. Put into a round, greased pan
and set the pan over a kettle of hot
water, letting the pan go down as far
as possible into the kettle. Steam for
two hours. Place in a hot oven and
bake until brown.
Canned Pears.
An excellent way to use canned pears
that are rather tasteless is to drain off
all the juice from the can. put the
pears in a serving dish, and pour over
them the juice of two oranges mixed
with half a cupful of sugar. This adds
a good flavor.
—
SUMMERTIME
BT D. C. PEATTII.
WHEN we were children those
among us who felt superior
knew that bats were not
birds. In other languages
this fact is made plainer.
“Flying mouse” Is the meaning of the
German word, and “bald mouse" of the
French for bat. No other mammals
have really taken completely to the
air except these web-footed mice. And
of a warm Summer evening you may
see, even In the heart of the city, a few
bats flitting drunkenly about over the
tops of the park trees and the houses
and buildings. In search of their din
ners. Though their flight seems ab
surd and whimsical, I'm convinced that
every airy veering, each inebriate dip
and salutation is perfectly directed. No
human being has a finer or swifter con
trol over his muscles than has the ba't
as he engulfs the midges and mosqui
toes, and all those crepuscular insects
like the mayflies and lacewings that
constitute their meager supper.
Seven sorts of bats are listed from
the District and its environs. But the
silver-haired bat is a Winter migrant;
the hoary bat and the Say’s bat are
rare. Everybody agrees that the Geor
gia Pipistrelle 1s the comon spe
cies around Washington. It frequents
Rock Creek Park, is small, yellowish,
and very active in the green twilights of
the zoological grounds. A bigger bat
is the large brown bat, which comes
right into the city and performs its
somersaults above the rooftops. It
often enters houses through opened
windows, atracted by the light. When a
bird gets into a house it obeys its in
stinct to fly upward, and hence beats
frantically on the ceiling. An open
window does a captive bird little good
for it has not the sense to fly down in
order to get out. A bat in the house
will fly downstairs, sometimes, and out
the front door, if one leaves the screen
open for him.
The little brown bat is also common.
He has been known to nest under the
timbers of the Potomac bridges. Com
moner still is the red bat, which fre
quents the city almost as much as th«
country lanes.
The horror of bats is something I’ve
never been able to feel, not, at least,
since childhood. Women shriek and
cover their hair. But did you ever see
a bat try to make a nest in a woman's
hair, or even momentarily alight there,
or look as if he were going to? Tales
of vampire bats are many and horrific,
but we have no vampire bats except in
tropical Florida. Contrary to common
belief, bats do not feel slimv. cold, nor
leathery when touched. What I did
feel when I tried to pick up a wounded
bat that lay on the ground was his
sharp little jaws. I remember visiting
a cave in the Blue Ridge that was cov
ered on its ceiling with brown bats.
Everyone shrieked and shuddered. How
disgusting! But though I tried (I was
10 years old) to feel disgust I couldn't
work up the emotion. The people who
write those mawkish little books for
children, about goblins are the same
maiden ladies who shudder at bats. A
bat when you see him closely is a
goblin to the life, pyxy of face, elvish
of nature!
Coffee Jelly.
The whites of two eggs beaten until
stiff and whippd into coffee jelly Just;
as it begins to thicken will add a great
deal to its delicacy. When made in this
way. it is better served with plain
sweetened cream. This allows for a
quantity of the jelly made to serve six
persons.
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Strawberry B anc Mange.
Stew some strawberries, strain them,
and sweeten to taste. Turn into a
saucepan and let come to the boiling
point, then add one tablespoonful of
cornstarch dissolved in cold sweet milk,
allowing this amount to each pint of
juice. Stir until thick, then pour into
wet moids, and when cold serve with
sugar and cream.
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Tomato Soup, delicious Pea soup, Beans with
Pork, Spaghetti richly seasoned, and a dozen
other choice vegetables are yours, when you
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Phillips Delicious are Eastern Shore of
Maryland vegetables, famous for their
flavor and for their richness in the essential
mineral salts, wholesome, nourishing, deli
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UNCLE • RAY’S CORNER
Indian Legends.
IV—THE CORN PLANT.
INDIANS owed much to their crops
of com. Ears of the yellow grain
ripened and were stored away to be
used during long Winter months.
When game was scarce there was
still the corn to keep them from hun
ger.
How came this blessing among men?
The red folks made up more than one
story m their efforts to explain.
Old men of the Iroquois Tribe used
to tell children this tale:
There was once a young brave who
fell In love with a maiden; and the
maiden seemed to him the fairest of the
fair. He loved her with all his heart.
After a time the maiden agreed to
marry the suitor, and went with him
to his wigwam. The days passed hap
pily—except for the fear of the young
brave that his bride might be stolen
from him by other warriors who ad
mired her.
The husband':; sleep was troubled and
he was easily awakened. One night
he heard a iight footstep and sprang
from his bed. In the dim light he
caught sight of his wife leaving the
wigwam. She was walking in her sleep.
When she heard footsteps behind her
she broke Into a run. After her went
the warrior, speeding as fast as he
could. In the hope of saving her from
danger.
Par, far the race continued. The
maiden was fleet, but at last her mate
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THE MAIDEN WENT WITH HIM TO
HIS WIGWAM.
came within reach of her. Springing
forward he seized her in his arms. He
was happy now, but his joy was shprt.
By the light of the moon, he >t
he had clasped not a woman bn* w «all,
strange plant.
Because of her fright when she was
awakened and captured, the bride had
turned Into a ooro plant—the tint
which had ever grown. Her hands had
become ears of corn and her hair had
become the silken threads which we
may seo when we gather the crop.
Thus the red men wove a story to
explain how the earth came to be
blessed with crops of com.
• This story may be placed In "Indian”
section of your scrapbook.)
UNCLE RAY.
(Copyright, 1932.)
DAILY DIET RECIPE
TOMATOES NELLIS SALAD.
Tomatoes. 4.
Cottage cheese, % pound.
Orated onion, 1 teaspoonful.
Minced parsley, 1 tablespoonful.
Salt, !4 teaspoonful.
Mayonnaise, 4 teaspoonfuls.
Lettuce leaves, 4.
SERVES 4 PORTIONS.
Select medium size fine toma
toes. Wash but do not peel un
less skin is discolored. Cut to
matoes In eighths down to the
bottom, leaving them connected
at base so they will open like
the petals of a flower. Season
cheese with onion, parsley, salt.
Divide cheese In four portions
and mound this In centers of the
tomato petals. Place on crisp
tender lettuce leaf and garnish
with mayonnaise.
LITTLE BEMVYl
B1 LEE PAPE.
Werk and Exercize.
Exercize is werk that you wouident
haff to do if you dident want to. A
man chopping down a tree for a living
and perspiring against his will is werk
lng, but if he was doing it just to
prove how good he could swing a ax
he would be having exercize and prob
erly fun.
People start exercizing when they
are babies, exercizing their lungs when
they laugh and exercizing their legs
when they kick off their covers Just
because they feel active and there’s
nothing elts to do, and when their
nerse has to put the covers back again
it’s werk because that’s what she’s
payed for.
It’s exercize to run around the block
about 6 times with a trend for no
useful reason, but it’s werk to run a
errand for a duzzen useful eggs.
2 expressmen carrying a heavy trunk
up your front stairs never look happy,
and if you tried to cheer them up by
telling them what good exercise they
was having they would proberly ony
look about 10 times madder if such a
thing wasent almost Impossible for a
expressman.
8wlmmlng for pleasure Is one of the
swellest forms of exercise and If some
body calls you to come in out of the
ocean It’s the worst news you could
hear, but swimming to keep from
drowndlng Is something you’re (lad to
stop as soon as possible and sorry you
ever had to start.
One of the best forms of exercise la
horseback riding because It's Just as
good for the horse as what It Is for
you and thus gives you a chance to be
kind to dum anirr.aU and lnjoy yourself
at the same time.
Dogs are always reddy for exercise
the second you wake them up out of a
sound sleep, being one of the principal
differences between people and dogs.
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While digging In a rhubarb field near
York. England, recently, a boy found a
Roman coffin containing a skeleton.
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IILY DAMITA weighs exactly 114 pounds. She is five I
j feet three inches tall. And a glance at the measure* I
ments shown at the right will prove to you her perfect ■
proportions. 1
Now how does provocative Mile. Damita keep her figure }
so slender? How does she protea her ravishing bodily
grace? By violent physical exercise? By starvation diets?
Not a bit of it! Lily Damita can not afford to ruin her
health ... even to maintain her figure!
All she does is EAT SENSIBLY. She cuts out heavy, fat
tening foods. And in their place, substitutes two inex
pensive salads daily . . . one at lunch, another at dinner
;.. covered with Hellmann’s Mayonnaise. So simple .;:
yet so efifeaive!
Indeed, as Mile. Damita says in her fascinating broken
English, "That Hellmann Plan, it is so easy! It takes the
weight off in just the right places;;; and in two months*
time you will look and feel just wonderful!’’
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Why don’t you start this slenderizing plan at once? Two
salads daily . ; ; a minimum of fattening foods. Follow
this plan faithfully, and you can regain much of the slen
derness and health that you may so envy in others.
But always insist on Hellmann’s, the quality mayonnaise;
It is made of only the finest vinegars, oils, eggs, and spices;
Then, double-whipped for extra creamy smoothness.
But we warn you! Recently certain mayonnaise makers
have started using inferior fillers in a frantic effort to
lower their prices and thus fool the public. This the
makers of Hellmann’s flatly refused to do. Hellmann’s
Mayonnaise remains absolutely uncheapened, absolutely
unchanged; At your grocer’s then, tomorrow.
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