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By THORNTON W. BURGESS |j|
JUMPER TELLS PETER WHO
THE STRANGER IS
DETER RABBIT could hardly be
* lieve what he had seen—the big
black stranger, with the great ter
rible claws, backing away from
Jimmy Skunk, and Jimmy acting
just as if he were in the habit of
meeting this stranger every day and
making him get out of his way. And
yet he knew that Jimmy never had
seen him before. Peter always had
had a great deal of respect for
Jimmy Skunk. He knew that Jim
my just laughed at Reddy Fox, al
though Reddy is ever so much big
ger than he, and he knew that Bow
ser the Hound always turned aside
if he happened to meet Jimmy. But
“Supposing You Tell Me Who
You’ve Seen," Said He, Quite as if
He Had No Particular Interest in
the Matter.
he really had not thought that Jim
my would dare to treat this great
stranger so, and if he hadn’t seen it
himself he wouldn’t have believed it
because—well, because he couldn’t
have believed it.
Peter was full of wonder and ex
citement as he hurried away to tell
all whom he should meet what he
had seen. He didn't know who the
stranger was. Never had he seen
anyone like him in the Green For
est. The very thought of him made
Peter shake with fright, even if
Jimmy Skunk should say that there
was nothing to be afraid of, and
Peter knew that this is just what
Jimmy would say when he met him.
Presently as he hurried, lipperty
lipperty-lip, through the Green For
est he met his cousin. Jumper the
Hare.
“Oh, Jumper! Cousin Jumper!
I've seen him!” cried Peter just
as soon as he was near enough to
make himself heard.
Jumper sat up and looked at Pe
ter curiously. “Supposing you tell
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Potential Bomber
Japan believes so firmly in the
airplane as a factor in modern war
fare that her children are taught
aeronautics in the primary military
training schools, and glider clubs
have been organized for the boys.
The lad pictured here is about to
start on a glider flight. One day he
may pilot a bomber and rain death
on the enemies of his country.
me whom you've seen,” said he
quite as if he had no particular in
terest in the matter.
“Why, the stranger! The great big
stranger who made those tracks in
the snow I told you about and whom
you tried to find and couldn’t. I
saw him just a few minutes ago!
Who do you suppose he is, and do
you suppose he has come to the
Green Forest to stay?” cried Pe
ter, talking so fast that the words
just tumbled out.
“How should I know?” replied
Jumper the Hare. “Suppose you
tell me something about him. What
does he look like?”
"Well, he’s big,” began Peter.
“He’s bigger than anyone else in
the Green Forest. Why, he’s as big
as Farmer Brown’s boy! He wears
a black fur coat. He stands on two
legs and he walks on four legs, and
he hasn’t any tail.”
Jumper yawned just as if he
weren’t the least bit interested. I’ve
heard all that before from Sammy
Jay,” said he.
“And don’t you believe it?” cried
Peter.
Jumper the Hare smiled at Peter,
and Peter knew right away by that
smile that his big cousin had been
teasing him. “Yes,” said he, “I be
lieve it because—well, because I
have seen him myself.”
“You have?” cried Peter, “and
do you really know who he is?”
Jumper nodded. "Yes,” said he,
“he’s an old acquaintance of mine.”
“Who?” demanded Peter, his
"Along with the breaks in life,*’
says erudite Emily, “we must take
the bumps.”
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eyes popping out with excitement.
“Tell me quick, who is he?”
"He’s someone I used to know
when I lived in the Great Woods be
fore I came to live in the Green
Forest on the edge of the Green
Meadows,” replied Jumper, speak
ing so slowly that Peter thought he
would never get it out.
“But what’s his name? Do tell
me his name, Cousin Jumper,” im
plored Peter.
“His name," replied Jumper
slowly, very slowly, while Peter
held his breath and leaned forward
with eyes and ears and mouth wide
open, “His name is—”
“Is what?” cried Peter.
“Is Buster Bear,” replied Jumper
the Hare.
© T. W. Burgess.—WNU Service.
Importance of Water to Body
Look to Source of Supply
When Choosing a Home.
By EDITH M. BARBER
‘T'HE most important material
which we take into our bodies
through the mouth is completely
lacking in food value! This sounds
like a contradictory statement. It
is, however, water which we are
describing in these terms. As has
been proven many times, man can
live much longer without food than
he can without drink, which he must
have, not only to satisfy his thirst
craving, but for use in every body
process.
The first qualifications in choosing
a place of residence is a liberal and
sure water supply. Those of us who
live in cities and suburbs take this
for granted. This is not the case,
however, in the country. It was
brought to my attention in Maine
when a new well was necessary.
Captain Sinnott was called upon to
locate the well on one of the veins
of water which run at intervals
through the region. He came armed
with a crotched willow twig, which,
believe it or not, turned toward the
ground when it found running water.
Of course, it would not be so oblig
ing for everyone, although we were
ah allowed to try our hand at divin
ing. One or two of us actually
found that we had the power, al
though we were scientific scoflers.
To go back to the importance of
water which too often we neglect to
drink in the proper quantity. At
least eight glasses should be taken
daily if our body machinery is to
be supplied with amounts which will
enable it to run efficiently. Some of
this may be taken at meals if it
is drunk after food has been chewed
and swallowed. The rest may be
taken between meals. Part of the
supply may of course be in the form
of any sort of liquid beverage.
Chocolate Sauce.
lVi ounces chocolate
Vi cup cold water
Vi cup sugar
1 tablespoon cornstarch
Salt
1 Vi cups hot water
Vi teaspoon vanilla
Cut the chocolate in pieces, add
the cold water and cook over low
fire until smooth. Mix the sugar,
cornstarch and salt together and
add to the chocolate. Stir in the hot
water and cook until smooth. Add
the vanilla.
Cottage Cheese Salad.
Vi pound cottage cheese
1 tablespoon minced onion or
chives
1 teaspoon paprika
Lettuce or romaine
1 pimiento
Mix the cheese, onion or chives
and paprika well and pack in a
small bowl to set in the refrigerator
to chill. Cut the pimiento into slices.
When ready to serve place the mold
of cheese in the center of a platter
or chop plate. Arrange the lettuce
or romaine around the edge in six
bundles and hold together lightly
with strips of pimiento. Pass spicy
dressing with this salad.
Fruit Punch.
3/4 cup orange juice.
% cup lemon juice
1 cup pineapple juice
1 cup strong tea.
1 pint ginger ale or charged wa
ter.
Sugar syrup
Slices of orange and lemon
Mix fruit juices and tea. Chill in
the refrigerator, and just before
serving add ginger ale, sugar syrup
to taste and slices of orange and
lemon. Serve with ice cubes in
each glass.
© Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
FIRST AID
TO THE
AILING HOUSE
By Roger B. Whitman
DOUBLE WINDOWS FOR
CASEMENTS
p\URING the warm times of year,
casement windows that swing
outward are certainly attractive.
This is not only for appearance, but
for the full ventilation that comes
with the opening of an entire win
dow space. In winter, however, the
situation is reversed. Out-swinging
casement windows are more likely
to leak than is the case with win
dows of other kinds. Also, the ordi
nary form of double window cannot
be used.
When there are two or more case
ment windows in a room, it is un
Love, Honor and Obey
MANNERS OF
THE MOMENT
By JEAN
_O Hr The Associated N»wnp^«fi
YOUNG wives are always telling
us that they can’t drag their
Bens and Bills out of the house of
an evening. They are sure that they
have married drips, after all.
If we are in a romantic mood
when one of these confidences
comes along, we are always horri
fied. Don’t the poor girls know
how lucky they are to have hus
bands who love their hearths? Don’t
they realize that they are envied
the length and breadth of Maple
When Your Husband Refuses to Go
Places, Use Your Head and Not
Your Temper.
avenue? Don’t they remember that
two people sitting under the same
lamp was always their picture of
marital bliss before they were mar
ried?
But sometimes our modern mood
is upon us, and we tell our fretting
friends to act their age. To use
their brains. A temper, we tell
them, is just a sign of an empty
head. If you really want your hus
band to go places with you, try to
think up places that he might really
like to go. Don’t be unimaginative
and suggest the movies every, night,
or a bridge party at the Simpsons.
By mere repetition he gets bored.
Think up thirty-one different places
you might go, and spring a new one
every night in the month. Suggest
ferry rides and moonlight swims
and country fairs. Ten to one, by
the end of the month your Ben or
Bill will catch fire. If he doesn't,
maybe he is a drip.
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usual for more than one to be
opened during bitter weather. This
being so, all of the windows but one
can be kept closed, and ordinary
double windows put on outside. For
the one window that is to be opened,
a removable double window can be
attached inside. If the casement is
provided with inside insect screens
on hinges, the screens can be re
placed with glass. Another possibil
ity is a sheet of plate glass cover
ing the entire opening, set in a
frame of wood molding, fitted to the
inside of the window frame. The
molding should have good-sized han
dles attached to it, so that it can
be easily moved, and when in place,
it is held by simple bolts or turn
buttons.
Double windows raise the temper
ature of a room by many degrees.
There is far less chilling of the
space near a window, and drafts in
the room are greatly cut down.
Double windows are well worth
whatever they may cost.
© By Roger B. Whitman
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Redskins Inhabited Cave
Archeologists state definitely thai
red men had inhabited the Mam
moth cave in Kentucky centuries
before Columbus discovered Amer
ica, reports a Department of the In
terior bulletin.
Way Back When
e
By JEANNE
BETTE DAVIS WAS AN
USHERETTE
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LIFE has a strange way, some
times, of repeating a circum
stance from our previous struggles,
as if to remind us that what may
have once seemed a difficult trial
was actually preparation for a later
triumph. I am thinking, particular
ly, of Bette Davis and the marvel
ous performance she gave as the
waitress, Mildred, in “Of Human
Bondage."
Bette Davis was born in Lowell,
Mass., in 1908. Her mother had
only a small alimony with which to
support Bette and her sister, so she
became a professional photogra
pher. After attending the Mary Ar
den school of Peterboro, N. H.,
Bette went to Cushing academy of
Boston. There, she waited on ta
bles to earn her tuition. To the six
teen-year-old little girl, whose dra
matic ambitions made her super
sensitive to her role In life, her oc
cupation as waitress was humiliat
ing in contrast to the advantages
enjoyed by her fellow students. Mis
erable though her school days were,
that occupation was to be the role
of one of her greatest triumphs.
Would Bette Day's have played such
a convincing “Mildred” if circum
stances had never forced her to be
a waitress at school?
Recognition came to Bette Davis
soon after school. She had always
wanted to be an actress and her
mother encouraged her, although
her father thought she should take
a business course in New York and
prepare to be a stenog-apher. She
attended a dramatic school in New
York instead, and then obtained a
job as an usherette in the Cape
Playhouse of Cape Cod, Mass. Fi
nally she was given a small part,
and rose rapidly in the theater, go
ing on to Hollywood where she rose
to stellar heights in “Of Human
Bondage." For her performance in
“Dangerous” she rece.ved the Mo
tion Picture award in 1935.
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RADIO STAR RAN A CONCESSION
FORTUNE’S favorites do not al
ways bear marks to distinguish
them from her failures. Bob Burns,
who with his “bazooka” has be
come nationally known for his radio
broadcasts and motion picture
work, for many years looked like a
failure. He was born in Van Buren,
Ark., in 1896, and was always fond
of music. His first “bazooka” was
a horn made from a piece of pipe
welded to a funnel, because he had
nothing else to play. After two
years in college, he joined some
friends in Oklahoma raising pea
nuts. Bob gave that up to go back
to Van Buren where he joined a
minstrel troupe at three dollars a
week. He tried to get a theatrical
job in New Orleans, next he tried
New York, with no luck, and went
to Little Rock, Ark. There, he failed
at trying to sell advertising on com
mission.
During the World war. Bob Burns
was in the marines, was a crack
rifle shot, and entertained the sol
diers with his “bazooka." After the
war, he started a concession on the
boardwalk at Atlantic City, running
a game of chance. He married a
girl who worked in another conces*
sion and, together, they started a
dance hall; but It failed. Failure
after failure. And in the midst of
his troubles, his son was born.
But then Bob Burns got a job in
vaudeville, and in a few short years
he was at the top of the entertain
ment world, with contracts for
stage, motion pictures, and radio.
His “bazooka” in which he had
such faith, but which seemed such
hopeless comedy to many people,
is with him today and known all
over the country.
©—WNU Service.
IIAREM-SCAREM
No. 1: Syria is under French
mandate, but Paris has had noth
ing to do with this classic, native
dance featured at a recent Syrian
American Mahrajan (picnic, to
you).
No. 2: The caper is called “Dance
of the Harem,” better termed “A
Gambol of the Imagination.”
No. 3: Sonami, the native dancer
was tireless in her effort to please
and whenever her—er—feet became
weary, she danced with her neck.
No. 4: The music gains intensity
—Sonami plies her wavy powers—
the merrymakers lay aside their
lamb chops and sugared dates, to
observe the skillful whirl of a flimsy
skirt around what appears to be &
motionless torso.