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Bedtime Stories Mrs. Blacky Listens. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. Those folk who dearly love to talk At listening ^th^Nature. ((j tow do you do, my dear,’ I_I said Blacky the Crow tc | 1 Mrs. Blacky, who had just A A returned to the Greer Forest after spending some weeks ir the South. Mrs. Blacky looked at him sharply *1 do very well,” said she, “but what Is the matter with you? What are you hanging your head for? Whj don’t you appear glad to see me2 What trouble have you been getting Into?” ”1 am glad to see you,” replied Blacky. He was, and he wasn’t, you know. “I am glad to see you," he re peated. “Of course I am. I’ve beer r / •“WHAT'S HAPPENED TO YOUF TAIL?” DEMANDED MRS BLACKY. waiting and waiting for you to re turn." Without thinking. Blackj spread his tail just for an instant. "What’s happened to your tail?’ demanded Mrs. Blacky, whose sharp eyes had not missed the gap made bj the missing feathers. Blacky hung his head a little lower •‘I—I met with an accident,” said he "So I judge,” remarked Mrs. Blackj tartly. “Who was the accident? Tai feathers are not lost unless they ar< pulled out. Who did it? Who was 6mart enough to get near enough t< you to pull out your tail feathers?” "Hooty the Owl,” confessed Blacky snd hung his head a little more. Mrs. Blacky opened her mouth t( express her opinion of Blacky for noi being smart enough to keep out o: reach of Hooty the Owl, but seeing how ashamed and unhappy Blacky looked she contented herself with demandini that he tell her the whole story. So Blacky did. He told her how h< had discovered that Hooty and Mrs. Hooty had taken for their own the nest that he and Mrs. Blaeky had built the year before. Mrs. Blacky's eyes snapped when she heard this, but she said nothing. Then Blacky told how he had perched nearby and waited for an opportunity to see the eggs of Mr. and Mrs. Hooty, and how he had hoped that he might be able to steal those eggs. He told her how Mrs. Hooty had left the nest and how it had appeared that Mr. Hooty was not near. "That was my mistake," said Blacky. "I simply didn’t see him, but he saw me. I flew over that nest, looking down at the eggs, and before I realized what was happening Hooty was strik ing at me. You know how he can fly without making a sound." Mrs. Blacky nodded and Blacky continued. “I guess I am lucky to be here at all,” said he. “That was one of the narrowest escapes that I ever had. I was fortunate to escape with just the loss of a few feathers. I wouldn’t mind so much if it hadn’t been my own fault. The'reason I didn’t answer you when you began to call, my dear, was because I was ashamed to have you see me.” "Were a couple of tail feathers and some of the feathers out of your coat all you lost?” asked Mrs. Blacky. Blacky didn’t reply to this. He simply spread one wing. It was a sorry looking wing. Two big flight feathers were missing. Blacky hung his head again. Mrs. Blacky made no comment. Instead, she began to talk briskly, as if nothing at all had happened. "That nest of ours was a good nest,” said she, “but I had made up my mind that we wouldn’t use it this year. So Hooty the Owl and Mrs. Hooty are welcome to it. I have another place in mind for our nest this year. We’ll go over and have a look at it, and while we are doing that you can tell me about the way you have spent the Winter.” So Blacky did. He told how he had been forced to leave the Green Forest for a while because of Whitey the Snowy Owl and Terror the Goshawk. He told how he had spent seme time 1 near the mouth of the Big River with his cousin. Fish Crow. In telling her about it he quite forgot his trouble, and Mrs. Blacky didn’t remind him 1 of it. She was a good listener, was : Mrs. Blacky. She just listened and said nothing. And so Blacky quite forgot to hang his head. In fact, he became quite himself again, and ol : course that is the way it should have been. 1 (Copyright, 1030.) Winning Contract BY THE FOUR ACES. (David Burnstine. Michael Gottlieb* Oswald Jacoby. Howard Schenken* world’s leading team-of-four. inventors of the system that has beaten every other system in existence.) Trapping an expert. IN A recent rubber bridge game, Samuel Fry, jr., was East and Oswald Jacoby, West. South was an average good player and North an expert of the so-called "brilliant” school. The following hand, in which Jacoby also got fancy, produced con siderable fireworks, with North finally receiving the ax. North, dealer. Neither side vulnerable. A Q ¥ 10-9-6-5-2 ♦ Q-10-9 < A 10-7-5-3 Mr. Jaeoby Mr. Fry. A A-K-J-10- N A 6-5-4 9-8-3-2 W + E V K-Q-J-8 ¥7 S ♦ A-8-4 ♦ 7-6-3 A Q-6-2 A 4 A 7 * A-4-3 ♦ K-J-5-2 A A-K-J-9-8 me Diacnng: North. East. South. West. Pass Pass 1A IV Pass 2 V 3 A 3 A 4 A 4 V 5 A Pass Pass Dbl. Pass Pass Kedbl. Pass Pass Pass Mr. Jacoby’s heart overcall was one of the old-fashioned shift bids. While normally such a bid is dangerous, Mr. Jacoby felt that he could return to spades with safety, irrespective of how high the bidding went. In the sub sequent bidding, North and South reached a five , _, club contract and HIGH OAR© Mr. jacoby de VALUK8 cided to pass, •f th* since he felt that syStej?* he wouId hav€ a arw • good chance of .® defeating it. Mr. , "Fry’s double de lAtv *"iZ lighted him, and dAOJk .... V2 whgn North re. °* doubled, Mr. Ja rirk 26 Average Hand coby was quite «V4 content to let the .. hand play. Mr. Jacoby opened the king of spades, and as he laid down the dummy, North explained to his part ner, “I have a singleton spade. Ob viously, you have one or no hearts. This ought to be a laydown.” The reasoning was fairly good, ex Psychology Admiration. BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Vf ANY persons spend a good deal ■LVA of time and energy trying to get the world to like them. Perla ps psychologists should study this human endeavor and make out a prescription which the majority might follow with success. It occurs to me that the following suggestions represent a step In that direction. 1. Make up your mind that It is Just as impossible as it is unprofitable to have every one like you. Don’t overexert yourself on first acquaint ance. People who are worth having as friends are generally a little slow In forming friendships. 2. When you meet a person for the second, third, or twentieth time, begin talking about something that person said to you the last time you met him. We all like people who help us feel that what we say is Important. 3. Avoid all references to yourself, your possessions, other acquaintances, and so on. The moment you call at tention to your possessions you attract all the attention to yourself. Most people are sensitive about being left out of the picture. Their reaction is bound to be negative. 4. Avoid finding fault with others. The moment you do this you have demonstrated that you are not the sort of person who is willing to take human nature as you find it. More lasting friendships have been formed on the basis of known and acknowl edged weaknesses than on known or c.ifiumed strengths. ' 1 tCjJli uiab o at-uwj nau vsiv usug vu»j heart, not South. After the king of spades held the first trick, Jacoby shifted to his sin gleton heart, whereupon South laid down the ace-king of clubs, hoping tc break the suit. When this failed, he was forced to lose a club, a diamond and tw’o hearts, which, with the spade trick already won by bis opponents, meant a three-trick set or a thousand point penalty on a hand where East and West could have been set at their four-spade contract. the Pour Aces will be pleased to answei letters fiom readers if a stamped i-'l-centl self-addressed envelope is inclosed will each communication. Onion Juice to Season. When it conies to seasoning, there’! no substitute for the juice of & raw onion. To extract this juice, cut e slice from the root end of a peelec onion. Rub back and forth on a fine grater. Drain off the pulp and us< only the liquid. The pulp can be usee when recipes call for grated onion. Plenty of recipes call for only hall an onion—and there's no need to tosi away the other half or let it curl Uf at the edges. Simply wrap it in waxec paper and store in a cool, dry place and it will be full of the good old flavor when you are ready for “hall an onion.” Salad for Fish or Game. The perfect salad for fish or game is easily created. Simply arrange al ternate slices of peeled oranges and onions, cut wafer thin, on lettuce French dressing adds the final touch Sonnysayings «1?!*. I«« lam IpkK lac. Ohm Mi .'ll It’s so near Spring I guess I kir let my ears out. Smart Style IVREN Spring comes to the city, ” one of the first signs visible Is the change in the masculine ward robe. Robins may serve to Indicate the arrival of warmer weather for country folk, hut in the city It U the new necktie and the flowers in the buttonholes that herald the Spring. One of the smartest innovations Is the polychromatic striped suit. This suit has a solid background or one of a herringbone pattern. The one here has a solid background and carries stripes of red and white on a brown background. Polychromatic stripes are a pronounced variation from the ordinary chalk or pencil stripes and provide an additional bit of color. The gentleman In the polychromatic striped suit is wearing a brown Hom burg hat. The Homburg hat got its original Impetus among the young gentlemen of the British foreign office, who wore them constantly. The for eign office young men were addicted to the black Homburg and while these are very smart, indeed, and quite suit able for wear with either a business suit or dinner jacket, the brown Hom burgs or the grey ones also make a desirable combination with suits of those colors. The bold hound’s tooth checked necktie is also a new trend. While checks are not so prominent as stripes in this season’s suitings they have one of the most important positions in neckwear. Especially smart with this type of tie is the solid color shirt and white starched collar. As Spring days are notoriously un certain, the umbrella is practical as well as good-looking. When carefully rolled it makes an attractive accessory and its utilitarian advantages are well known. , (Copyrisht. 1939 » Town Hall BY JOHN BLAKE. IN NEW YORK’S Town Hall, and in many other places, people have begun to gather ^nd talk. It is not idle talk. It consists of dis cussions about present-day problems which exist all over the country. And it is just about the best tonic you can find. When the people are interested in their country, their country is safe. Demagogues will rail vainly, self-seek ing politicians will cease from trou bling. Don’t get it into your head that Congress is composed of a lot of people who have jobs and are trying to get better ones. If you have ever spent a few days listening to the proceedings of Congress, you will find that there are some foolish people among legis lators, but that the majority of the members think' and work, and try as hard as they can to Improve matters. The Government, is no better than me men ana women wno are in it. These people are proud of their jobs— the majority of them. They don’t spend their time in log rolling. I think the majority of them are sincere and desirous to help needful legislation on its way. 1 was a con gressional reporter from time to time, and it is my conviction, from what I saw in the committee rooms, that the greatest number of the members were proud of their jobs, and eager to do as well as they could. There are still political bosses, it is true. There are still play-boys in Con gress, and there is still a sprinkling ol dumb-bells. That cannot be helped. But, by and large, the country gets about what it ought to have in the way of Representatives and Senators, and with every term there is noticeable improvement. Write often to your lawmakers, Through you they find out what the country needs. And most of them are more than willing to do what you want them to do, if they can only find out ’ what that is. Don’t worry about bosses. The pub lic ought to be the boss. And it can be. Above all read the congressional proceedings in the newspapers. Read them every day. tnAnvrtffhf. 1Q3R t Nature’s Children Moon Jellyfish <Compass Medusa)’. BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. YtfATCH for these famous jellyfish TT this Bummer as they go drift ing past your boat. They are the commonest from the coast of Maine to Florida and are beautiful to look at w they move gracefully through the water without seeming to make much effort to do so. The sun, strik ing them, causes them to sparkle like diamonds, but at night they are more •exquisite, for then they glow from their own light, an eery, greenish gold illumination. No wonder they are often called “moonjelly." When you slip your band into the water where they are, the light seems to break up Into Jewels that elude your grasp. The umbrella-shaped jellyfish is one of the most wonderful residents of the warm seas. Only about 10 inches of the fish show above the water's surface. This part is called the umbrella or bell, and is a yellow ish white, with radiating streaks of a rieh reddish brown. From the center of the umbrella hang exquisite, fringed portiere-like tentacles. They act as arms and are well equipped with bat teries. It is these that sting like fire when you touch them. These nettle-cells are used in self defense, and also for stunning the food needed by the medusa or Jelly fish. They work with the 24 hollow tentacles fringing the margin of the umbrella. They may appear short when you first see your jellyfish, then extend several times their length when "fishing.” Between these ten tacle* there are I] marginal lappets The mouth is centrally located. an< there are four long trailing Ups cov ered with a sticky accretion. .The.. fertUised . eggs of the free .swimming mooni-JeUyfish soon de velop Into hairy ttttle active larvae They settle down in some spot t grow into small plantlike organlsmi When they are mature they look Uk a small stack of tiny jellyfish fitter together Uke saucers. Further growtl takes place in a remarkable fas hi or Each little saucer Is squeezed off b: the plantlike organism. The saueer swim gayly away in this undevelopei form and later mature Into free swimming medusas or jellyfish. But this is not all. One generatioi 1 -- is a free-swimming group, tbs other generation is called the sessile scypls toma and look like transparent sea anemones. They shrink to half their else if disturbed, but when feeling secure they can double their girth and encompass prey twice as large at they are. Like the anemones, they are stationary and must get their food as It floats by. It is the dead jellyfish cast up b] 1 the tide that make us shudder Though they are offensive to the sight and smell, they are not able to inflict ■ pain. In spite of the fact that jellyfish ■ are about M per cent water, the Japk > nese and others who dry these crefi • tures cut them into stripe, and whei ■ needed, soak them in water, flavoi 1 them and use them for food. i The name Medusa comes from . Greek mythology. A daughter o: r Phorcys and Ceto was beheaded bl s Perseus. It was fixed upon the mrgii l of Athena. Her hair, it is said, wtu - composed of serpents and her faci had the power of changing to atom i any one looking upon it. The lonf feelers muter the umbrella of the moon-jelly' Inspired its name—Com pose Medusa. (Copyright. 1938.) • How It Started BY JEAN NEWTON. Bonus. rPHE boys are not getting a bonus A after all—at least, that la what the New York City Board of Taxes and Assessments has discovered. Before the deluge of protests be gins to pour, let all concerned be hurrjedly assured that here, as else where, the Chinese proverb still holds good—nothing Is as bad as it seems. It appears that the board, fearing ■ that advantage would be taken of a ’ local law which provides that prop i erty purchased with the “proceeds of i a bonus granted by the United States i for military or naval service” is to > that extent exempt from taxation, de : dared, Congress notwithstanding, that the recent enactment was “adjusted compensation”—and not a bonus, r The board apparently counted with*!, out its hosts who have suddenly be come etymologically interested, point ing out: We have "bonus” from the identical' Latin word meaning "good”—and , lit that apropos. 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During the day, too, before you renew your make-up—use this soap to keep skin flawless. k 4 p 0 II .. 1 ■" .. . ■ ■' . i \ i i j * I