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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1925-03-26, Page 2rti For Boys and : Girls GRANNY'S BIRTHDAY PARTY. scampered to the hole to see what Was! "Rain, rain, go away—little Sammy wrong. One look and he clapped hist warts to play!" Sammy Slow had knee and shouted: "Why hello, Sain- chanted it two dozenmy and Quids glad to timeslo yet it y, g see you; , great loins, eh, ' on, rained.t . And in despair he Piattened,;i, g ? Yousee," he wen bis little nose 'gainst the window pang -ts Granny's birthday, but we can't1 I and watched the great drops splash— coax her to rent-il SPLASH! on the garden, path, pro' Rest?" interrupted Granny, "with tending they were farmers—dashing cloth to weave 'for 'Teenys and to market to se!! butter and .eggs. Weeny's best dresses, andoveralls to Suddenly he spied will make for Timmy and Tamm and p guilty (Sulu Y, laapitlg from branch to branch of the! baby's new quilt ready for the ,quilt big pine close to the nursery window,! me frame—no, indeed! No rest for and hegave a joyful shout and flue And alto res I like to spin better. 1 y flung! than I like to rest" And she beamed up the sash. Quilty sprang into the happilyon room, and made Quilty tracks all over her family, She tri ewe - room, y my and guilty tllaiishe was sorry they coudln't squeeze through the front "`Why-ee," exclaimed Sammy re-, door and hove dinner with then!. "See. proachfuliy,'"I do believe you're wear -1 the fine cake," she added, "fresh to- g your mother's red shawl, She'll 1 day—from the finest bakeshop in feel so sorry to have it spoiled," f Mousehtnd." .Small wonder that So, careful tittle. Sammy placed two Granny was proud of it, forthe small chairs near the open fireplace' candles were lavender and match and fastened an end of string to each, her best dress exactly. Ma Pinknose and hung the shawl to dry. had seen to that. "That's better," he .sighed, "now When Grandpa, attired in his we'll play," But hardly had 'they cont- gayly -flowered waistcoat, led Granny menced when: "Qhs look—Sanhmy.. to the table dressed in her LOOK!" whispered Quilty excitedly ;ls rh eh lavender - and Sammy looked, and saw a .fat cand'less blazed merrily and the levcake; gray mouse scurrying across the well! Samm�ythought 'was thetcake; et - hearthstone. Ile wore a white paper, tiest he had ever seen. itHe clapped 1 his cap and carried a cake almost cover- hands and told Peed led ed with birthday candles.would 1 that he hoped Y In a twink- her birthdays would always be happy ling he disappeared through a hole in ones, and oh!" he continued, "I do the chimney corner, and in another' wish we could conie, too." twinkling and. as out and away. 1 "Never you mind," called Grandpa, SammyQuilty rushed to the "stay right where you are and I'll f`ltplaces he nd peeped into the hole. pass some of the goodies ri Pinknose family! exclaimed through the doorway." ght Sammy softly, and he dug out bits "`Thank „ of phnster that they might see better.' first I'm yon, cried Sammy, "but Granny Pinkness sat on one sided going this n very minute to the fireplace working rapidly at • And pt a birthday the presenthfor used to spinning -wheel- "It keps ne pretty, beg from kitchen he rushed to busy to clothe as bigt a a gingerbread man „ a family as, and. a doughnut..• ours, she observed cheerfully. I The members of the Pinknose f11111 - And Grandpa Pinknose agreed. He, i1y were overcome--•dou h Was' pegging shoes on the other side' gin erbread g nits, and of the fireplace side:gingerbread men, whole ones, too, Little Mrs. Pinknose was preparing' adi t often come their way, ,"They'll for weeks," exclaimed Granny fer- e feast and she fairly flew from cup -1 vently. "'My, ob, my! I haven't seen board to table and back again; it was, a gingerbread man sin the meet parlor table, used only on i days." ce my young very special occasions. Well, Samna and Teeny and Weeny, in clean ging-. the PinknoseY guilty watched ham aprons, sant on stools at Granny's' listened to Granny's children at play and feet; she was giving them lessons in! until the bell t ns and guilty spinning, and sometimes in manners! said he'd leave rang; andfor • and obedience, "When your Ma calls' home. Have to make tracks for you," she admonished, "don't stand - So lie still and cry: out, "What do you want?' donned his shawl—perfectly dry—and Sammy hugged his little Say, 'Yes, Ma,' and run to her at once, • friend and then watched him leap as all good little mice should do," from the window sill to pine branch, Weil, Pa was tending the fire and then scamper filling the kettle and sniffing at the across down the sruhk and the yard and out of sight, goodies; and sometimes he rocked the Sammy sighed happily as he thought cradle, where baby PinP adventure with the Pinknose throughout the excitement. the floor. amity, and of the good times he would At that identical moment Sammy surely have with. Quilty on the mor - dropped a bit of plaster, and Pa row. Horses in His Night Bag. Nifty years ago when the nobility and landed• gentry of England were in the prime of their wealth and power to mind a phreee of Charles Ile not, because tho Merry Monarch was striv- ing for economy—that was a necessity be all too merrily avoided—but by rem amusing tales were told of the at- son of ate+ careless assumption of what tempted, economies of casae among properly befitted royalty. Charles tlhem who hal drawn too !hear ily upon their incomes in keeping up the lavish expenditure demanded by the life of their period and caste. One worthy squire aid his wife, re- lates a recent wailtter, found that they could not make both ends meet and seriously examined their budget with a view to retrenchment. What could be sacrificed? Shooting? No. Hunt- ing? A thousand times no! Finally they deeided that the family fortunes could only be retrieved If coffee after lumciteon were abandoned. A certain duke who had apparently 0 bottomless purse could not balance during a boresome council, suggested in a scribbled note to Lord Clarendon that when it was over they ride out together for an informal enemies visit t0 the Icing's sister and pass the night there, taking only their night bags, "Heavens, site, you will not even take a squadron of horse?" wrote Claredon on the margin and returned the note. Charles read, added another line and passed it back, He had written: "I 00unt'that port of my night bag." ' Presto Change. Not so many years ago if a fond bis accounts, or rather his steward mother followed her daughter to the °Quid not. What was the use of being front door and said "Now don't you go 0duke if you were to be bothered 0 step out of this house without your about money? Still it was thought ad- rubbers," there was an argument. It visable to send to London for the resulted in the daughter going several family man of business to overhaul the house hold ace0ints. After a week's work he submitted his report to the duke: "Begging Your Grace's pardon, 1 see Your Grace keeps both an Italian and a French cook in Your Grace's s2.illroom. Is not such a duplication a trifle superfluous?" "Hang it all!" exclaimed the duke. "Afellow nlatst have a biscuit!" Such airy ducal nlagnlfioeuce brings steps out of the house without her rubbers. She informed her mother 1 that nobody, absolutely nobody, who was anything socially would be caught dead, wearing overshoes. Now she wears them regularly because they are called galoshes. The Prinee of Wiles, still senining, shown at one of the many hunts in which be hoe taken part recently before leaving on his visite to South Afrece. and the Argentine; From Disciple to Master. My life is like a dream, • I do not 1111015 How it began, ,tor yet How it will Co. Out of the night a bird Has Welt r Mean Across the lighted room, And now is gone into the dark again Prom whence It mune— So the old Druids eaid, And I the saune: But we are not content; I, like them, too, Questioning all I meet, Seek Oomething new. Saying to each who comes, "So much is elear, 13ut, if you know of more, I wait to hear. "The dant, the lighted room, The bird which Mee Are not enough for elan Who one day dies. "Are not enough for man, That bird which cane Out of the dark and must Return again. "If you know more besides, Tell what you know, O wise and traveled souls, Before I go." —Moult Gibbon. Just An Old -Fashioned Girl. Debonair Johnny Flynn had just beeu presentee! to demure Mary Anne. t After a few minutes' conversation they found themselves to be of a most con- b aI uatr The Silly Frog. A slily young frog, mtacous'temetl to thane went hopping one clay quite a distance frons home, but beholding an ox ou g neighboring farm he turned in his tracks and hopped back In alarm. "'Oh, father!" he.cries; "very frighten- ed ant I: I saw a great creature es tall as the sky and broad as the hill its was trying to eat; he had horn on his forehead and Moots on his feet," "Pooh, pooh!" said the big frog who sat on the rocks, "that creature was nothing but Farmer White's ox; he is tall,I concede, but take notice of me; I'bink I could make myself broader than I.ue." Then he blew Himself out till he looked very fat; "There, son," he exclaimed, "was be broader than the'?" "Oh, broader!" the little frog answered,.and then the foolish frog began blowing again. He blew and 11e blew, but; his son, tatting heed, cried, "Bigger than that, ,father, bigger in- deed!" Then he blew end he puffed and he puffed' and he blew till he burst in mall pieces ---a million or two. "The frogs got together and croaked a fine dirge; then the master frog cautioned: "'Ono thing I would urge: Size lip your opponent before yon compete; self• desitruotion may -come of too lunch self-conceit." `;Belle was e !tired- glee the seven tee(itit since ilio •baby 'came, : abou thirtoei'e menthe' before. 13`tlt we real Med that at hist w^e had found a tree S/11 was inventive. The'kelel doseoptc repei•toise of amusement welch ,hp fin'nished Stir ons• tootay woutsy was 'soinelblug. to command the Mime -atoll of..tlie meet cadlovs- brttilied 'meanest of the never-sultles. This 'agar egation• of inventive genius bail been phrecbased at a weekly in stalutent of four ,doltlane, Cheerfully, we should have made it five on ae- mated, within at week after bee arrival But Sally, seemed to be ddvoll of th graft oontaminalion Mee,. indeed, she •sDont her mousy like a lord lore than halt of her•.weelay pay goipg for grim - cracks of one !chid or au -other fur the snmeeilent of our little One, A ear ride to the park each clay for the plea- sure of our baby'formed Otte of !ler peesoival 'extravagances, Baby soon became so much attached to her that "Mama" was no longer interesting, ex- cept at certain portods during the (ley, an] these periods Saila managed so cleverly that no disturbances came to the household ,,eerenity through Baby's laivutient demands,. One thing soon became uppareut. Sally heal. the going habit. She wanted to be away frcm the house more than halt of the time, but, so our little one always cause back from "these little ex- cnrsioua in excelleut spirits, ante bar- ring the bat -ening fears that baby might cont, tet sonic ref the mens con legions or infectious (nemeses. of child- hood—ouch as measles, chicken -pox, whooping -cough or some other horrify- ing thing--th,ls habit oP Sally's, was Lott all in•colhvenient to the !louse• Stoll. Alio( her thing which recommended Sally was the habitual neatness of her person, and what became an Interest- ing inys'tely tows was the matter of !tow abe could spend from two to -three dollars per week solely and nosolftshly for 1110 21 111111$0111'8111 of -our little one, and dress herself with such taste on the remainder, Finally, we decided that Sttlly meet be getting eresiit eomenktere, and that we should raise her wages, 10 05(]01' that she might be enabled to meet ter obligations. - 13ut about this three t saw' Stilly emerging font a bask one day. I had been some distance away and enob- set•ved by her. "'Ab," I el:delnlee miller my breath,. ",she is borrowing of the bank," The (-ashler of this• baulk was a par•. tinder friend of mine, and 1 deter- mined to learn sciiuething of Sally's financial 0peratione, This 1 heti no trouble )1t dolug, and s00n learued to ny amazement that Sally was not a horh'owen, bet.a lepoettcr, to elle e - ent of forty or fifty' dollars a week. Aly wife and. 1' held a. consultation . e'er the natter, for the mystery hall. leepenell, 'Why one who could indulge lie daily extravagances of Sally, and' vet deposit forty dollars per week,; hould lane herself out at 5. wage of 2051 dollars per week wan amltzingly, (1)sterio)15--snit yet, Sally wa1 not. a litef. Not the ema'leet 1101)1 or any -I Ring of value lead been nrlssed Cron ate bowie, 0151 no 001113 or hills aver were kept about the 1111108. - 1 So Ilia mystery of Sally deepened,: ! But, notwItlistauding this, Sales was: v inemenlable odds the bout nurse w'e, ver diad po :dosed, or over could hope O bane, and we. determined that mati- ng shop:lel dielmete,'s ee 0f her see': Ices—no, 1101 if it bepame nese nary' 0 raise her w'agee to ten dtollar,• per I 'eek..lrhtcll extravagance I eonl•:t 111 )T'oe'd. 1 $o Slily remained. keeping up her seal Deo en In e, 0111,)• invenking now'' mans of allu ement each flay, liow' i . 1C : Mystcr, 'lay Cltpa'los Sioraii Re]d1: ,1• ,bon any�tlttitg; •(1111 Cao 1) .st Silo was t noted ror rte aftraotion'tor. Palters 111111 sdtnwln3n of ane Valet or auotluer, hello, . okl moo!" rnlilecT' Jenkins 2.1;0111 across tie •street, watt a 1110- 1IDont." 1150110ti, and len'lcius..piula eves, "Do you Reay, be !regal, "1-110110. Mead one of the smoothest artists 111 1he,5)1ow lino clown here that 1've 'demi in a 1011g 1591!70 '"What's hili cl e ?" T mated, W!ld animal tamer, and he hZ been playing to crowded hloarses:ll y• for the pltst six weeks. You .watt tc 8. 000 11111, eipecia1ly Lhe •aftet•11oon per temente), at wheel, 'time he. gh'es n. oxtivuord}nary feature." He was leading, and' we seen came to 'the entl'a11ee way 01. 0 large tea which occupied a portion of the area (meetly taken up by the showmen. O 1t side were 0 number of big posters 2111 n0lmcieg, both, by word and fldtlstra- t)on, the x01110rr01 feats performed Tiy the loon inside, among. tkeni being 0103 which wa,9, eepeet01ly horrifying-- this being annonncecl in big letters as 1 the special afternoon feature, J'enkin•s ' hatlseeured ticlrots and was lrltrreeng the 1011110. Our seats proved to be in a good po- sition, and we had not long to wait for the beginning of the show. The Dor- if forme' 1_ a h ohne soon_ Appeaael in the caged arena, ape] file various: features of the programme soon were passing before us,. Tigers, leopards and !tone, ohne af- ter another, lead been introdeteod, and a1. last Ming Leo, a tremendous lion, atnod: beside his master in. the arena. "Now .we get the star performance," 'Alai -tepee Jenkins'. The showinau advanced to the front Of the cage, where be opened a small deicer window, "Now," be began, "If some mother in the hndience will bring lee her baby Por a few moments, I will show you that Leo wild hold the little one in his great mouth ae tenderly as Its mother can hold 1t in her arms. Trust ole, solve mother—your little one. alio! re- eeive-no 11ei'm whatever." "We have only to wait a moment," declared ,lenldnst "There Is a young woman in the' audience who furnishes 'the baby each afternoon; and Torrent, the showines pays her ten dollars on the side after each peiformanee." "Honore!" I exclaimed. ;and just at this moment the young woman arose from somewhere near the faont anal advanced with the baby.' In 1131 riche, I got, one glimpse of tIsem.. anti Che next Mama I was on myfeet, though almost transfixed in my indignation. The woman was our, Sally—and the baby was our boy. I stunmOned strength enough to draw my revolver; and the titan who was not afraid of the whole African jingle eowereJ before ley ahn, In the uteautime 1 somehow reached the side of Sally' and seized the boy in my arms, allowing Stilly 10 nuke a preoipitate exit. No doubt she is now working her scheme to wine other city where TOT - le showing. And we—well, we ale 1101 1•oquiring the services of a 1111050 any more, Also, we are serious- • ly th)nki05 of calling our boy Daniel, the little one Having been delivered from (ho lion's mouth, you know, A PRION` IN 'MID - OCEAN' ;As if en enormous plant bed pat itis ' ''t111500liato the sea' and:slih•1-ed'it round, 10 entire North Atlantic Ocean slowly 1evolvea in the direction of the clook'l1 hands. In bhe centre Mello:`6arass0. Seat a glgan•tic collection of -floating -1a- lands, m02)1 010,eawood and inhabited by 00un!leul 1tvhrg:tllinga. Nobody knows 110111 Herodotes, 111 aucieut times, came by t110 alarmitig stories be hold of tel mystes'i0tee 06- t,1 tot l't. Is my dn1'lllg rodent yeeis.: rliat it 110,1 been proporly,ckarted, !When Colunrbue and Ms men were drawn into tbbe oval-Wale& vortex, his elite remained out of control for fifteen dare, and to crew thought they were coudetmlech to..perlsll in ,a a matey minis, c105o1y guarded by sea- ' weed barriers for 260,000 square miles: I3t1i ,1 strong irinel !archils parried the n 51115 t" nelety, Animal, Fish, or Bird? t `--uplp0rted h1 the water bysmlall atr ti ii iloansShe feathaty weeds of Sar- gas:;o :Ire !novae- ollve-brown in color, with blotches. of w:hlte- The chiet sor,rces of s,1Pply ,have been proved to be the Gulf of Mexico and the Carib- bean S. Sailors -do not Like thin strange tract which Stoats,. minuet Iike land, on the boson! of the Atlantic. Itis reputed to be the home of barbarous fish and the hiding -place of mysterious monsters. Animals drifting about on the surface of the sea, with only the scattered cover of proving seaweed; are exposed to many dangers, -not only from the birds always hovering above, but from 1luegry fiat lurking in elle pavtrlhes of uncovered sea, which is the bluest in the world. To protect tllem'sa1yea•, all the hy- ing creatures imitate, in a remarkable Ivey, the color of their floating home, One grotesque little animal is con- spicuolus Tv/Mg to the displ•operlionate size of its head and jawat and resemb- les the frog Ilse, eometinvas seen near British coaets, Iolalcing its nest of seaweed bound togetib.er by long :cords 01 Re own manufacture,. this. singular creature animal, all the oheraototistice oif 1111. animal, a fish, and a bind, A short -taller! crab of the n�hell-ledrs tSPo-ewanms.,on the. Hargasso weed and Is blotetted w1•th white to match !and light patohes on its surl'olhnd)nge. ! These and many mare pe0aI1ar crea- tuies will -be examined by Professor Beebe, of New York, who recently set out to explore this little known region. A secret ambition of the expedition is to capture a monster wink}, a terri- fying fish of the cuttlefish family, with black eyes at least twelve inches in dOameter and. a body eighty feet' in length. So fate the only authentle in- formation about these living Dread- noughts has bean obtained from the stomachs of the great merino animals, . Currie blocks of illudigeseed cattle - fish, five feet square, helm been thrown up by sperm w1iis!es when harpooned, And claws as powerful as those of a tiger were found on another deepsea 11111915' Waded. from a wbatle'e etenl- soh. The body of these giants, one or which the explorers 'tope to rapture, is wrapped• in a loose mantle, Froin an opening I0 which emerges the evil - lacking head width its sharp, parrot- like beak. This Sargasso mer,,.tet• is the tiger of the ocean, and, like •' its striped counterpart an land, le said to ki•1l. even when not lmugry--for the ulcer pleasure of !tilling. Bees Born in Brick Wall. Sometimes es you are looking at an aid wall yott will notice that the mor- tar botwen the bricks contains a num` ber of deep pits. If you probe tato variois holes you will be startled s eventually by the exit from ono of bent of a smali, but vary angry Ree. You 111Lve, in fact, disturbed the meson t ee in his home. The hole in wh1511 11u 1 was lurking was made by hie powerful I awe. The female lays eggs in little re- epta.e1es at the bottom of the hole and ;laces a store of food beside each egg. b he hole is then sealed up with a mil- e ore of clay end mortar, softened with 1 • e bees' valve, The eggs are lett to I themselves, and when hatched the 1. seting bees eventually eat their way 1 out into the open. The cousin of the mason bee is call- a d the carpenter bee. He burrows le - o woodwork, drooling generally the 11 underside of the beans to protect the n ]lose from rain At the bottom of the hole an 05g is id. Then comes a partition of mud 5001 u e, so 50nnny suggested that they stroll out and view the 010011 j from the veranda. The soft radiance of the night thrill c ,The them; in fnct, thrilled them deeply, 1 so they sank with one accord to a T modestly chummy position on the t steps. th Sweet and low, Johnny- told of his business and leis ideals. Demure Mary Anne, drinking all in, leaned closer toward hint. Batt Just as her eyes came to a sweet -.level with Johnny's, e something snapped- "What was that?" Johnny Mel dred. Mary Anne blueshed, "What was that?" ddemanded John- ny'. ! 10 ""W -w -well. if you m -m -must ]snow," Mary Anne stammered, "mammy mg - gar -ter broke!" "Honey," pieadel Johnny fervently, sinking to itis knees, "will you mea-t•e me? I've heesi looking for an old-fash- ioned girl 11110 you." t' No old man should ever play the clown; and no woman, either old or young. REG'LAR FELLERS Luck. Luck ectem't float around the air and light on Tom or Dick or Harry Met anyliory and anywhere. Thewit to know the tiling you want, the will to work, Idle faith to tight, the strength to use hut tempered tools, and only weapons honor -bright; the spirit and the _spunk to dare, the heart to hope, the grit to hear, and, when dlsastter falls, rho plunk to Grin and start again -tiiat'a luck! Good Reason. know, l;ttt evident Ney lh large part, in the human affairs, and it: was, au ac-( i and wood chips; then another egg, and client wlech led to the separation of 1 ! so on till the bole is filled. The oar- our Sally from us. 1 b pettier then seals it securely and An emptloye1 Crum cur mills had Meares, the egg's to look after- them- been seriously 1.511511511 In a dray col- t solve,;, and When hatched tate bees eat Medan I - through each partition until they get' t oven on the least aide, and I heli 11 Out. gone over India at present is raising cotton ♦ i heitig omen 0011•httled, I wan- returning o Look for the best' 10 mankind, not to the nMee, when 1 !net , e1 on nearly 22,000,000 acres of land as1 Huns, a, p compared with less than 1.8,000,000 the worst. One usually gets what one: friend of !cline. ,fethkina likes a fatter 1 s it f which acres a yeas ago. looks for. ;01 t stales haw pet roiman ce better suceessi'trl painting. th SOMETHING LIKE THAT SI-IO1 .,�A r CONCORD --By Gene Byrnes. me the cheesy, sir." And without s,topp)ng to glance' at he figures he Wrote brig. mane norms be.beclh As bite teller counted out the money betty for the acncident This matter' "why do you dislike mo so, Johnny?" s1.ed rho girl's suitor of her kid, rent or, '?Vell, when you call on sis you put he clock hack an hour. That makes no late for school and' I get 1ieked "or il." - 1 Who Is My Neighbor? The person who I think came near- est to answering the above1111•ery, writes a correspondent, was a small unassuming lean named X—, a brit- Iiaut author and journalist, and he did it by means of a single ant. One day T 1,0110' standing in a long line of de- positors in a city bank, and X— was Just in front of me. An aged man in mechanic's .garb lens havtug trouble at the teller's window, "We do net knee, yon," said the teller. "We cannot ceth the checkma t11 seine one indorses it. Do you know anyone here?" The old man seemed to take the words ae an imputation on his honesty. I•Iie face flushed, "No," 'he said help - este, '"I don't anyomo." _ Tile journalist . before Ile gave a start. The next moment 11e was be- ide the man at the window with .a. 1 !hand on his shoulder. "Why, is is Mr. Abbott, my neighbor et Pee back!" said he "I'd• say his note was good for ten thousand' dollars- Give Sandpaper the woodwork befo;•e're- ranting it. YOtt will thus secure a inoo-t surface, w is is essential to EUS (i 5 • t» GEttOUS THE WAY '1001111 Memetie 1 &WAN. ' TAt 1'r DANfeeteoue TO 8:1861.- • WA)! VEM•.BOED! - `{OU! " 005..6T 1 112055(1 \ [ A 00I1> LIKE THAT Ari THE SHOT WONT 11 ALL Bored S' TWE WOOIL.D AIS. 5401'04E is THC BACw.,��1 t it: was a 101100ure to see the look; ee greetitude, almost worship;, that the old man gave his 'Primal 'Peat little act ad -restored alit his self-respect, Sentence Sermons. Nothing can eontpoltsate— For the honor that Ilan been flung away. Por the health that has been squat— For diered. the ingratitude slio1n a loving parent. For 1:he heart that is, broken through neglect, • For the betrayal of a friend in the hoarof need... ' For the selling of oee'e principles for poll!. Far the loss of one's geed 05111100. of ane'•s self. (Copyright. 1914, by The Bell Synalea,q e —telex 5