BEDTIME STORY FOR CHILDREN
By THORMTON W. BURGESS
PETER AND NIMBLEHEELS
COMPARE TAILS
OETEIt RABBIT always has been
* Interested in tails. He Just can’t
help It. Vou see, he hasn't much of a
tall himself, so when he meets anyone
whose tail is short he always has a
friendly feeling. And when he meets
one with a long tail he always is a
wee bit envious. Peter Is like a great
many people In that he always wants
what he hasn't got.
For the life of him Peter couldn’t
keep his eyes away from the tall of
It Was the Longest Tail for the Size
of Its Owner Peter Had Ever Seen.
Nimbleheels the Jumping Mouse. It
was the longest tail for the size of its
owner that I’eter ever had seen. It
was more than twice as long as the
body of Nimbleheels, and it was slim
and tapering. As he looked ut it i’eter
couldn’t help wondering how .. was
possible for Nlmbleheels to make such
very big Jumps when lie had to take
such‘.i long tail as that with him. It
was this which led him at last to ask
Nlmbleheels if that tail didn't bother
him when he jumped.
''Certainly not,’ declared Nimble
heels very emphatically. "If I didn’t
have such a long tail ) wouldn’t be
able to make such long jumps.”
Peter looked as surprised as lie felt.
■‘For goodness sake!” he exclaimed.
“What has your tail got to do with
your Jumping? I'm a pretty good
jumper myself, or thought I was until
I met you, but my tail doesn't havp
anything to do with my Jumping.”
Nimbleheels laughed. It was a
funny, thin, high, squeaky, little laugh.
“No," said lie, “I shouldn’t think I!
could have much to do with your
Jumping.”
Peter grinned and looked over his
shoulder nt the funny little bunch of
cotton he calls a tall. “No,” lie agreed
“it isn't much as tails go, and it Isn’t
of any use in Jumping. All the same
It Is very useful and I don't know how
I would get along without it."
Nimldelieels pricked up his ears and
looked interested. “Is that really so?”
You Are My Music
By ANNE CAMPBELL
OU are my music, bringing liar
many.
With your sweet self, to me;
Ringing clear bells above my busy
days.
Sounding a note of praise.
Tou are my music. When I cease to
hear
The song of you, so dear,
Then 1 shall know the time has come
for me
To heed God's melody.
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lie asked. "1 never for a minute Im
agined that such a tail could be use
ful. Of what use la It, pray?”
“As a guide when l am showing my
youngsters the way about outside the
dear Old Brier Patch,’’ replied Peter
promptly. "They can see that white
tail of mine when they can't see any
thing else, and so they keep from get
ting lost. It really Is very useful In
tills respect. I don't know what 1
would do without it. But you haven't
told me yet how you use that long
t&il of yours in Jumping."
Nlmbleheels chuckled. “Oh," snid
he, “I Just carry It along behind me.‘
Peter looked at Nlmbleheels sharply
He suspected that he was being mnde
fun of. “Where else would you carry
It, I'd like to know?” said lie.
“And thnt," continued Nlmbleheels
snapping his bright little eye, "Is why
I can jump straight. It Is my tail
that gives me my balance in the air.
If anything should happen to It 1
would never know where I was going
to land or how. I once saw one of my
family who lost his tall. It really was
dreadful to see the poor fellow try to
Jump. He would turn over and over
In the air, sometimes land right on his
back. I wouldn’t have anything hap
pen to my tnll for the world."
“It Is rather Important, Isn’t It?’
said Peter, staring at thnt long tall
with great respect. "I should think
you would take the very greatest care
of it.”
“I do," replied ...mblelieels.
©, T. W. Burgess.—WNU Sorvlce.
THROUGH A
Oman's Eyes
By JEAN NEWTON
MARITAL BRAKES
A CHICAGO judge who Ims had 40,
000 cases of marital disputes be
fore him and reconciled 2,000 of the
couples, feels that he knows something
about why people go to the divorce
courts and—more Important—limv they
can be kept out of them.
At the bottom of most marital un
happiness. tills Judge Sabatli of Chi
cago finds, are trivialities. “Such a
simple thing as a wife waving good-by
to her husband when he goes to work
in the morning would avert a good
many divorces,” he says.
And most Important among all his
conclusions, is the conviction that
“most people want to do the right
tiling." Therefore the usual, trivial
causes of trouble can lie defeated by
just observing a few simple rules:
Here they are:
1. Have patience with each other.
2. Work together, play together,
grow up together.
3. In all disputes avoid excited
talk.
4. uo not concern nine ouierences
until tliey accumulate to the breaking
point; discuss them calmly.
5. Be frank with each other.
6. Sympathy and mutual understand
ing are the pillars of the home.
7. Share responsibilities.
8. Establish a home of your own.
9. ■ Make your bedtime prayers a
review of the day and never go to
sleep without a clean slate.
Certninly these are all very simple
things, and none of the rules Is start
lingly new. If they are the answer
to marital peace and happiness, and
most of us will readily agree, why are
they Individually not more frequently
observed ?
Doubtless because they are simple I
Here’s Your Chance to See a Ghost
CKL.MB1.INU to ruin, this thirty-live-room mansion on the estate of the late
Harlow Higginbotham near Joliet, 111., is haunted, according to many. Some
who do not believe in spooks assert nevertheless that there are strange goings
on at night In the nbandoned old house. Built at a cost of $200,000, the man
sion was deserted seven months after it was completed.
enough and seem easy enough while
everything is going smoothly. It Is
when they are most needed, however
when there is resentment and disseu
tlon nnd hotheadedness, that these
simple remedies are not so easy to
observe. It is like telling a vehicle
that is rolling rapidly down hill to be
reasonable in turning the corner.
That, you may say, Is what we have
brakes tor. And that Is exactly how
married people should use such a set
of rules—ns brakes, when they feel
things going down hill. Once they
stop yon, the rest is simple enough.
What they tell you to do Is really
what yon want to do. It’s the stop
ping to think about it that Is the big
thing.
©. Boll Syndicate.—WNU Service.
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For Business Wear
Here Is a mighty attractive business
suit in black rabbit's hair wool with o
golden yellow print blouse. The same
print faces the revers and cuffs.
How Welsh Quarry Workers Return to the Village
« IXTOKKEUS at the Craig-Dhu slate
■ » ' quarries near Merioneth, Wales,
P return to the village after their day’s
B labor on ingenious trolleys. These con
B sist of an axle, seat, small wheel, and
B roller, and the Invention, known ns
2| the “cnrgwyllt" (the car that goes),
2 saves the men a long walk down the
1 mountain side.
JSQNErs
Ii i .-—'.i , , i. i .. - .7.
The soil of Prussia was so poor that
the people had to work hard to stay
on top.
Bi'NERS are actual humorous
tid-bits found in examination pa
pers, essays, etc., by teachers.
L'ncle Tom's cabin was a station on
the underground railway,
* * •
Three metals we have just studied
are:
Arsenic, Antimony and Bismarck.
• * *
Shelley unfortunately died while
drowning In the Gulf of Leghorn.
• » • *
There are people who see red at the
thought of cruelty to animate life, yet
do not feel the slightest twinge In
viewing a wholesale slaughter of In
animate life.
• • «
Anglo-Saxon poetry was mostly illit
erate.
©. 1933. Bell Syndicate.— WNU Service.
SOME CANAPES
T'HE canape has been popular for
*■ many years as an appetizer for tbe
beginning of a meal. Usually the
foundation,is a bit of toast cut in some
form and covered with zippy mixtures
that not only please the eye but sharp
en the appetite.
Caviar Canapes.
Season caviar with a dash of lemon
Juice and a few drops of onion juice,
or rub the toasted circle with a cut
garlic for flavor. Spread the caviar
over toasted rounds of bread and
sprinkle with chopped hard-cooked
eggs. Garnish with a little fresh cress.
Mushroom Canapes.
Saute mushrooms In butter until
nicely cooked, season with salt and a
dash of cayenne and place oa thin
rounds of toasted and buttered bread
Cover with chopped hard-cooked eggs
Garnish with curls of lettuce or sprigs
of water cress.
Anchovy Canapes.
Toast rounds of white bread a
golden brown. Spread with butter and
lay on each round two boneless an
chovies. Sprinkle with chopped hard
cooked eggs and dust with pepper
Garnish with crescents of lemon sprln
kled with chopped parsley.
Tomato and Cucumber Canapes.
Saute rounds of white bread in but
ter on one side. Fry slices of tomato
in butter until well cooked, place on
the round of bread, season with salt
anl pepper, spread with a thin coat
ing of mayonnaise and top with a thin
slice of cucumber. Sprinkle the top
with chopped cooked egg.
Crab Meat Canapes.
Toast slices of bread and cut info
circles, then Into crescents. Cover with
crab n.eat seasoned with lemon Juice,
salt, cayenne and moisten with a little
thick white sauce. Cover the cres
cents rounding over the top. Spread
with two tnblesponnfuls of butter und
one teaspoonful of egg white. Sprin
kle with cheese and bro,vn In a quick
oven. I.nbster meut may he used in
Hie same way.
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NOTHING IN RETURN
An Abenlonlon had been Invited to
attend the funeral of a neighbor’s
third wife, nnd as he had attended the
funerals of the first two, his own wife
was surprised when he informed her
that he had declined the Invitation.
She continued to press for a reason,
so at Inst after a great deal of hesita
tion he told her:
“Well, Mary,” he said, “1 feel a bit
awkward to be accepting anything of
the sort I am unable to ask him back
to.”—Everybody’s Magazine.
Never Again
Two women were waiting for a bus,
which was nearly full when it came
along.
“ltoom for one inside and one on
top," said tlie conductor.
‘‘Hut surely you wouldn’t separate
mother and daughter?"
“I did once,” replied the conductor,
as lie rang the hell, “but never again.”
Epithets
“Have you ever been accused of be
ing a grafter?"
“Frequently,” answered Senator
Sorghum.
“Do you resent the charge?”
“Not seriously. As an assertion of
fact I can disprove It. And as an
epithet it is comparatively mild.”
GET GOING
Klrst Suburbanite—Are you making
i gnrden?
Second Suburbanite—That’s what 1
■all It. My wife and daughter call it
merely mussing up the yard.
improved English
"1 can say all my entrails,” small
lane announced proudly on coming
home from school.
"You what," echoed her mother.
"A, 10, 1, O, and U," answered Jane.
"1 think it sounds much nicer to say
entrails than bowels."—Capper's Week
ly.
Saving Her Gum
Teacher—Mary Elizabeth, take that
wad of gum out of your mouth and
out It In the waste basket.
Mary Elizabeth—1 don't want to.
Mother would be mad. It belongs to
tier.—Pathfinder Magazine.
And Be a Lot Happier
Wife—No, I didn't sew u button on
your trousers; I was too tired. Which
:s the more important, anyway—your
wife or your trousers?
Husband—Well, there are places l
•an go to without a wife.
DE-LIGHTED
-7-^
Kid you enjoy tie concert?’'
’It was wonderful. 1 can’t tell you
now impressed I was listening to so
much glorious music that 1 couldn’t
understand.”
Carefree Weddings
I hijack - Are the divorce laws in
wiiir slate as liberal as I have heard?
filllpiek Liberal! 1 should say so.
l'liey are so liberal that nobody »ver
Heard of a woman crying ut a wedding
nit there.—1’atbfinder Magazine.
Charges Denied
Sluldoon — And when your wife left
mu, did you have anything to say to
ter charges?
Muldrew — Did 1? 1 told the stores
i wouldn't pay them.
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