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Burgess Bedtime _Stories_ Br THORNTON W. BURGESS. Farmer Brown Discover* (he Home of (he Chucks. AU unforeseen disaster may Ba lurking just across the —Johnny Chuck. Johnny Chuck and Polly Chuck Were enjoying their new home. Polly Chuch had proved to be right in re gard to Bowser the Hound. Never from that day when he had discover ed their new home and tried to dig it open had Btfwsor coine near it. Perhaps it was because he had real ized that it was useless to try to dig it open with the roots of that young tree in the way. Perhaps it was be cause his master had made him un derstand that he was to keep away from there.* Anyway, he did keep away. Whenever he passed along the Bong Bane, as he did almost rfwery day. he would do no more than glance over at the home of the Chucks. Now that the work of digging that new home was over, Johnny had lit tle to do and little to think about but his stomach. On the other side of the Long Lane was plenty of ten der grass and clover. It was such a short distance that Johnny didn't mind running over there at all. When he wasn't eating he spent a great deal of his time sunning him self on his doorstep. This is what he was doing when Farmer Brown and Farmer Brown's Boy started to plow the cornfield, which was on the side of the Long Lane where the Chuck's home was. At first Johnny kept out of sight, but after awhile he didn't bother to dive down into his home when Farmer Brown and his fiov were fat work at that end of the field. So it happened that he was sitting up very-straight and watching with a (treat deal of interest when Farmea Brown looked over there for the first time. Before that he had heen too busy with the plow lo pay any attention to anything else. He saw Johnny Chuck. "Son,” said he, "do you see that Chuck over there?” Fanner Brown's Boy nodded, and there wan a twinkle in his eyes, as he replied, "I saw him wheat we first began work this morning. He seems to be taking a great deal of interest in what we are doing.” “There is no doubt about that," -replied Farmer Brown. “He* prole "Son,” said lie, "do you see that Chuck over there?" ably thinks we are going to plant this field specially for him. I think de had better bring a' barrel of water down here this afternoon, and drown the rascal out. He is alto gether too near our cornfield.'’ The face of Farmer Brown's Boy clouded. "1 don't want to do that," said he. “Why not?" asked Farmer Brown. "That fellow probably will have a family, and / you know a family of Chucks can do a lot of damage. If he had made his home where he wouldn't l>e tempted to get In mis -A chief, I would say leave him alone. As it is. I think it will be best to bring down that barrel xif water and drown him out. * Probably he has a mate down in there with him. “.Supposing we wait awhile," saiil Farmer Brow n's Boy. "Those Chucks won't do any harm until the corn has begun to grow, it will he time enough then. I dou't_ like the Idea of drowning them out. Perhaps I can catch them In a box trap ami take them off and let them go some where else." “All right, son.” replied Farmer Brown. "But remember if those Chucks make trouble here some thing is going to happen to them." Copyright. 11* 23. The next story: "Farmer Brown’s Boy Plifns for the Chucks." Our Children By ANGELO PVT III. The English Language. “The great need of our high school students is the use of the English tongue. They ought to be able to read English, to talk English and to write English. And they cannot.'' So said the high school man. Nobody will disagree with him. Then why should he have to tell us that? What is the matter with the children's use of the English lan guage? Much. They have not the faculty nor the grace nor the taste we would wish them tj> have. Worse. They have not even the acquaintance with it that is neeessacy for its sim plest usage. • Why? Many reasons. To many of ouq school children the English lan guage is a foreign language and its used comes slowly, fit their homes fhey hear ^another tongue. They think in its terms, they speak in its terms. English Is s^ ed for the school room. The school room offers little oppor tunity for the use of the tongue in .When a Feller Needs a Friend By Briggs « _ I Jr a-'* ~TtnT ~ - Iminkci^ - C—jr\&\. nil, H. V TrUMM ItN. any language/ and usage is what brings the facility and th" grace and ; the taste we covet. With little or no chance to talk In School or home, with poor standards of speech con , tinually in their ears while they play ' upon the streets, where are they to1 get their practice? , • drummer lessons are given them to hell) them talk and write, when we know that (trammer never helped any body to talk a language or write it. either. The tlrst thing to do is to talk it and write'it and think It. After that, when speech is fluent and natural, grammer may serve a pur pose. I am not sure. To be of any real service language must, express the actual thought in the mind of tlie person using it. To force a set speech upon anyone, par i tlcularly a child, is to do nothing to , ward enriching tys speaking vocabu- , ; lary. That must grow out of t eal , conditions. Something must happen I to the child and he must desire to i 1 express it. He will soon iind a way. , j How' many school cxerclse^allovv this i opportunity? How many times dur | ing a school day may a child actually | apeak out loud the thought that Is In ! him? The day. Is too crowded and^the1 I class Is too big for that. Then' isn’t i the thing to do plain? Lessen the | load of work and the number of | pupils for each teacher and give these children a chance to u4<e their : tongues. Besides aU that, the high school 1 people are Inclined to expect a bit ' ; too much from the elementary school , children. Eight years of schooling { in 'the use of a tongue doesn't mean so very many hours after all. It 1 , doesn't mount tip to the years of prac tice thal are necessary for the proper, the fluent.1 the easy use of any lan guage, much less pur«. And children haven't time to read ; enough of the better books They ought to be turned”loose In a sea of I fine literature that the favor of it-may soak their minds through and ; through. We know that their read ing Is very limited and that it never g*ts as far as it might because there is no chance to talk It over. Talking it over is the thing Talk ing is what clears up the {ongue: niak*es It neat, precise, clear, lovely, for It must tharm the ear or the audience is lost, and the audience is dear to the speaker. Else why any j language? Is there any way we can help the children to talk more in School? A little more time? A little more toleration of youthful chatter? 1 A sincere love for otir tongue and a longing Nto pass It on to our chil dren? Copyright, 1»: J. • Adele Garrison ‘■.\ly Husband's Love"’ Why Madge Swiftly “Took Stock" of Her Newls anil Dicky's. What the deuce is the matter with you now'.'" Dicky demanded as he un locked the third and last door of tlie series from the street to our little apartment and switched on the living room lights. 'Why! Here! Madge, dmling' What's the matter? You're like a ghost!'1 Ills strung arms went round me, and I citing to him, convulsively, rngry at myself fur my whimpering cowartyiice. yet realizing that after an almost tragic experience, such as mine had been at the hands of the evil con spirators aVainat the government, I could scarcely be Illumed for Shattered nerves. ''Didn’t you see, Dicky? Didn't you hear it?” I whispered, my face close against his. my throbbing nerves quieting with t(je realization of his nearness. “Why, I believe I did hear some thing like a door-closing, but what of It?” some one was watching us, I whispered, with a fearful glance over my shoulder at the door. "I felt the eyes before we had come more than a quarter of the way up the stuir*—" "The old psychic getting hack on the job again!" Dicky gibed, and then he tenderly said: "Of course, they were watching you. you little goose. It’s part of the penally you're going to pay for pick ing out it dump like this to live in." I winced in sudden resentment at the stricture, but Dicky did not notice it. and went on didactically: ' ‘111 bet that an even half of the people In this building would leave In their pajamas and their chewing gum. if they should suddenly hear on the broadcasting ‘phone that famous old message. 'Everything is discov ered. Fly at one!' They're taking no chances on detectives or process servers coming up the front stairs un less they're wised in time to make a quick getaway down the back. And the rest of the lot are plain inquisi tive. Of course, you can't tell in which category this booh in the hack apartment belongs." “That's Just the Point.” "1 thought New York apartment dwellers were noted for their lack of curiosity." I said, detaching myself from hi* arms under the rietense of . removing my quaintly-carved beads and my Spanish comb—Dicky’s gifts and the pride of my heart, which I had worn at our little ‘'party.” ''That * the most common piece of bunk in the world.” Dicky retorted "but counting on three-seventh* «f it being the truth, you must rememtier, my dear, that there .are apartment houses and there are—tenements — and the word came out witherinjfly. "This comes pretty nearly lining up in the latter category. I don't think you'd lie troubled with peering* through cracks from uptown apart incut dwellers." ' I’m sure this apartment costs enough,” I said, and I am afraid theie was distinct siillenncss in my tone. 'That's just the point," Dicky's voice held tlie irritating patronage with which the dominant male ex plains obscure notloiTs to Iris women folk. ' We re paying a really exorbit ant sum, and we are getting practical ly nothing in return." I turned away abruptly to hide the tears which welled into my eyes. Dicky was absolutely unfair, 1 said to myself with passionate resentment. When we had decided to take an apartment in the city for a while, that Dicky might have a settled home wliile working at his profession, we had decided upon a certain, sum as the maximum of expenditure for lent. An Unexpected Interruption. Full well I knew that if my Peter Pan had had only himarlf and me to consider, lie would have thrown prudence to the wins, housed him self and me luxuriously, and worked like mad to make up the difference. But the thought of Junior's future needs. Junior's college education—the thousand and one demands that our boy would make upon us—had steadied even hi* volatile whims, and he h id agreed to my budget scheme. With characteristics enthusiasm Dicky had rushed around madly on two or three brief and disastrous apartment hunting expedition. Then with equally characteristic non chalance, he had shtugged the whole business of home hunting from his shoulders to mine, and had left it there. How vividly I remembered the toil some weary hours that followed, when in my search I explored almost every quarter of the city. The rebuffs I re ceived, the holes—there Is no other word to describe some of tbe places to which my search for a home took me—no, never can I forget some of the experiences I underwent in those days! And then, at last, I saw the modestly-worded advertisement which hart led me to this house. 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To me it was a haven after a storm, but Dicky evidently— clear, startling, there sounded a knock upon our living-room door. Beatrice Fairfax Problemg That Perplex \ Man’s Age. Dear Miss Fairfax: How old should a man be for a girl to love him? J couldn’t love a man under 35. What do you think? I,TLY. A man may not be mature and sta- ! ble when lb* is 60. And a hoy may be stable and dependable and understand ing when he is half that age it is all a matter of what a man has brought to life and what he has learned from it. Character forms lowly in some men —Hand ip others it never becomes a defined thing. Kxperlence teaches some men nothing, and others climb upon one thing frhat come* to them in life—climb in^ mind and soul as well a* in achievement. I know n man of 55 who i> account'd a great financier. But he has not formed one fine ideal. He has not learned one bit of sympathy and kind ness from the years. He is not a big sou!—nor yet a generous one. In terms of his achievement he is reckoned— and he reckons himself—a great man. But none of this has made him kind or tolerant of others. Age has nothing to do with this man s viewpoint. He was arrogant and self-centered at 30. Unless some great change comes into his life, he will be seif-centered and arrogant at TO And I know a young lad at Tale who is so kindly in his attitude, so generous in his sympathy. so con structiva in his friendship that he en riches all who come across his path. Age has nothing to do with the formation of such character. It ha« bee)^growing from childhood And so the girl who vcouicl pass by this youth as too young for love might miss a great opportunity to know the best. While the women who seizes with avid hands t^le gifts the other man lias to offer—will get dust and ashes even though the world s»e« pearls. All extremes (,f style ale in bad i.aste and have nothing to recommend them to thinking folks. But for vears—even for ecntur.es—women have let style edicts enslave them, liven when women vent into the world of business they did not at first leave behind their sheephke following of any avowed leader, no matter where his style edicts led. Rut ne w we a»-e making a stand for sanity and practicality in dress. This does not mean that feminism is changing womanliness and giving women a told and curt Indifference to their appearance It means, however, that they have developed a sense of ' slues in re gard to what makes for c harm in costume And one of the first requisites of real smartness is practicality and common sense. • itfice w'ork calls for sensible petire c'hiffon blouses were undesirable as much because they did not look as if ; hey could stand the wear and tear of everyday usage as because they were not modest and trim. But whether In the office or in the home, there Is r.o reason why wo men should permit a fashion whim tr. enslave them. There is always the opportunity for self-expression through clothes, and when the Anteri an woman learns that the hall mark of Paris is not the mark of *-m»rtnes« our ow n manufacturers and designers will come into their own and feel free to develop stales suited to our meth ods of living. Worried: I ihtak >*#u have ! jmough advance* and 1 would advise you to go no farther if you wish to ; retain thi* boy * rt*n*ct. Two Pib: You **em *..» have pretty good idea* of your own ar J do not need my advice. I w i«h there were more girl* like you. \ era N.: If you will *» nd n,» your name and address I will reply per sonally. * Uncle Sam Says . riant inc Schedule. ^tost gardeners are interested in knowing the earliest date crops can be planted bemuse earliness is much desired m gathering and marketing the crop. The l*nited States Depart* ment of Agriculture has found that the earliest safe data for planting garden crops can be best determined from the average dates of the last killing frost in the spring. Accord ingly. they hn\c prepared a table based on the tinid of the average last killing fiost shotting the time of planting all of the common garden vegetables. Headers of The Omaha Dee may obtain a copy of this table by send ing an addressed envelope and four loose 1-ceiil stamps to The Omaha Hce Information Hurra u. 4035 New Hampshire avenue, Washington, D CASTORIA For Infants and Children In Use for Over 30 Years Alwavabear* , - Signature No One Need Buy Cuticura Before He. Tries Free Samples asking for the ‘•Plan1 g Sched ule." 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