Evening star. [volume], May 11, 1936, Page B-13, Image 31

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, Bedtime Stories
Winsome Bluebird is Upset.
BT THORNTON W. BURGESS.
The things we do tod»y tomorrow we
_ forget.
But over yesterdays there Is no use to
fret, —Winsome Bluebird.
ERHAPS you remember that
Winsome Bluebird and Wel
come Robin did not go to the
Sunny South for the Winter.
They managed to live very comfort
ably on the berries of the cedar trees
In a certain swamp, and on the food
that Farmer Brown's Boy took care
to see was provided for them every
day through the Winter. When it was
almost time for Sweet Mistress Spring
to arrive both Winsome and Welcome
became very impatient. You know,
the Bluebird and Robin folk are
* among the very first to come back
lrom the Sunny South. Usually they
come just a little ahead of Mistress
Spring.
So it was that Winsome Bluebird
began to whistle. He began to whistle
earlier than he would have ordinarily.
This was because he was so lonesome
and so eager for the return of Mrs.
Winsome. Welcome Robin was just
as eager for the return of Mrs. Robin,
w "I suppose," said he, “that Mrs.
Robin is coming up with a lot of
other Robins. I suppose it is the wise
—1imi~v h i »*- # •
• “I FEEL THE SAME WAY,” SAID
WINSOME BLUEBIRD.
thing to do to come together, but
were she half as anxious to get here
as I am to have her get here she
wouldn’t wait for the rest of them.”
“I feel the same way,” said Win
some Bluebird. "Just the same, there
is no question but that it is the wise
» thing to travel in company rather
than alone. I do hope that nothing
has happened to Mrs. Winsome. I
don’t know what I’d do if she didn't
return. No, sir, I don’t know what
I'd do.”
“I’ve heard you whistling a lot
lately,” said Welcome Robin.
Winsome Bluebird nodded. “It is so
that she will be sure to hear me just
as soon as she gets near enough,” he
* explained. “Listen! I believe I hear
a Bluebird now! It must be that some
of my friends have arrived.”
Winsome whistled and then listened.
Oh, how eagerly he listened. Sure
enough, there was a reply. In fact
there were two or three replies. It
wasn’t easy to know just where they
came from, for, like his own soft
whistle, they seemed to come from
nowhere in particular. They were
mc»t elusive, which means hard to
place, were those soft notes. Anyway,
that is how it would have been with
us had we been in Winsome’s place, j
It was different with Winsome. He j
spread his blue wings and went away
across the Green Meadows. How beau
tiful he was! The sky at its bluest
was never a deeper or more beauti
ful blue than Winsome’s back and
wings.
Perhaps you can guess how eagerly
Winsome flew to join the little flock i
of Bluebirds that had arrived up in j
6 the Green Pasture. Would Mrs. Win- j
some be among them? How he did j
hope she would. As he approached
he could see a dozen Bluebirds, but
he had eyes for only one. At last he
saw her. With her was another Blue
bird, a handsome fellow. He was quite
as handsome as was Winsome him
self, and he was paying a lot of at-;
tention to Mrs. Winsome. In fact,
Mrs. Winsome didn't even notice Win
some's approach.
It was a shock to Winsome. He
stopped at a little distance and
watched. There was no doubt about
it. Mrs. Winsome was admiring that
stranger, and that stranger was show
ing off In order to win her admira
tion. Winsome whistled the old love
notes with which he had so often
wooed Mrs. Winsome. For Just an in
stant she turned her head as if to
listen, but it was only for an instant.
The stranger was whistling, too, and
she was listening to him. Winsome
felt a great anger growing and grow
ing within him. Had he got to win
Mrs. Winsome all over again? Had
he got to fight for her affections? It
looked that way. Yes, sir, it locked
that way very much. Winsome had
never dreamed of such a thing. Per
haps. after all, it was a mistake not
to have gone to the Sunny South
with Mrs. Winsome last Fall when she
had wanted him to. Do you wonder
that Winsome Bluebird was upset?
(Copyright, 1836.)
Sonnysayings
.— ■ —-=”i
I think maybe ya better hab Rag
Anna hab somethin' besides house
maid’s knee ... I don’t beliebe a real
doctor could tell where at her knee
was ...
Winning Contract
BY THE FOUR ACES.
(David Burnstine. Michael Gottlieb, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schenken. world's leadini
team-of-iour, inventors of the system that has beaten every
other system in existence.)
Overenthusiasm.
IT IS nice to hold 150 aces, and
we shouldn't mind having them
every fourth hand the rest of our
lives. However, there is one draw
back in possessing them, namely,
everybody, from the veriest tyro to the
greatest expert, overbids practically
every hand which includes them.
For example, consider the following
hand, taken from the recent masters’
team-of-our championship. At both
tables at which it was played, the
player with all four aces overbid his
hand, and as a result the final con
tract became six no trump. A fortu
nate break in cards resulted in its
being fulfilled, but as a matter of
strict mathematics it should not have
been bid.
South, dealer.
Both sides vulnerable.
A K 10 6 3
¥ 9 7
♦ K J 10 5 3 2
A 5
A J 7 4 N. A Q 8 5
¥ Q J 6 2 W. + E. ¥543
♦ Q 9 6 S. ♦ 7 4
A J 7 3 A K 10 6
4 2
A A 9 2
¥ A K 10 8
♦ A 8
A A Q 9 8
The bidding at both tables:
South West North East
2 N. T. Pass 3 ♦ Pass
3 N. T. Pass 4 N. T. Pass
6 N. T. Pass Pass Pass
North’s bidding is absolutely correct.
With a workable six-card suit, a high
card value of four and one half, and
two tens, he knows that four no trump
will be absolutely safe, and is inter
| ested in playing a slam, in the event
| that his partner's opening bid should
| be a maximum. However. South’s
opening two no trump, with a high
card vaue of 15 and only seven honors,
was a minimum, and therefore he
should liave passed to four no trump.
But at each table he was carried away
by the 150 aces, and jumped to the
slam.
With both the diamond and club
finesses right. 12 tricks are, of course,
! cold tor North and South. However,
j strange as it may seem, the club
| finesse was not taken at either table.
At table No. 1. West opened the four
I of spades. East played the queen, and
declarer won with the ace, and was
j later able to finesse for the jack,
thereby making four spade tricks, two
heart tricks, six diamond tricks and
one club, for a grand slam.
At table No. 2, West opened the
queen of hearts. Declarer won with
the king, successfully finessed the dia
monds, and now, rather than gamble
with any play in clubs or spades,
simply conceded a trick to the jack of
hearts, thereby making two spades,
three hearts, six diamonds and one
: club for a total of 12.
(Copyright. 1836.)
The Four Aces will be pleased to answer
letters from readers if a stamped <3-cent>
self-addressed envelope la inclosed with
each communication.
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Dogwood (Comus florida)’.
BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY.
PLANTING dogwood trees u
ornaments Is an ancient cus
tom. We are Just beginning
to see what a good one it is.
To the people of those days, however,
these trees meant commercial value
also. The wood was used wherever
hard, tough wood was needed, hence
its name, cornua from cornu, a horn.
So engravers’ blocks, tool handles and
wherever wood was a part of machin
ery, used up muoh of It. The bark
had properties something like quinine
and red dye was also made of it. But
a decoction was brewed that was
claimed to de-mange Fido, hence tts
unlovely popular name.
We have 18 species in this genus.
The tiny member 1s a wee cousin we
have met in the woods, the bunch
berry. Ours is the only country where
dogwoods grow wild At present steps
are being taken to protect this lovely
outdoor child from those who forget
that in order really to enjoy nature's
children, they must leave them in
their natural haunts. It is true that
it helps rather than harms to prune a
dogwood. It is best to let an expert
do the pruning.
There is no time in the year that
this tree is not lovely. The time to
study it is the day you discover it for
yourself. Just now there are ample
opportunities to see what a very clever
tree it is. For, what to many are
petals of white, are really bracts that
protected the true flowers all Winter.
And, being a true nurse, they have
stayed to see that all goes well with
their baby.
The range of this tree is a wide
one—from Massachusetts to Florida,
west to Michigan, Missouri and Texas.
Cousins continue the march. We will
meet them here later. The flowering
time is in April and May. That gives
us an opportunity to enjoy the tree
longer.
At this time of the year, when she is
arrayed in her bridal gown, she at
tracts the attention of all who see
her. In the States where she has
chosen the redbuds as her brides
maids, that Is one sight you can never
forget.
The flaring white or pink bracts are
to attract the attention of the flying
hosts. The notches in them are the
spots too dry to grow when they folded
back to let the small, inconspicuous
flowers face the sun. The true flowers
are tubular and of greenish hue. You
And them in clusters at the ends of
the branches. Here you find the
scarlet berries in the Autumn. There
are two seeds, covered with a crimson
ooat, that catch the eye of the ml*
grating bird.
The leaves are lovely too. They ar
rive after the flowers, opposite oval,
and about 3 to 5 inches long. They
have unusual veining, and In the Au
tumn turn a beautiful red. When the
seed children are fully matured, the
brilliant leaves make their departure,
thus exposing the seeds to the world.
The distribution is through the assist
ance ot the travelers of the air.
In the Winter, the bare, gray trees,
set with thousands of buds, tell the
nature lover there will be an abun
dance of leaves, flowers and fruit.
The bark is a dark gray or brown,
broken Into squarish plates resembling
alligator skin. In February or March
the tree is fully awake and looks it.
See for yourself next Winter.
(Copyright. 1938.)
A Visiting Elk.
OKLAHOMA CITY UP).—A bull elk
jumped a 7-foot roo fence, swam a
lake and menaced Twin Hills golfers,
but when he reached a dairy a mile
or so down the road he lo6t all his
desperate ideals. He stopped to visit
the cows.
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Singapore. Malaya, has rounded up
19 Chinese druggists for illegally gell
ing a Chinese powder containing a
large amount of arsenic.
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