BEDTIME STORY By THORNTON W. BURGESS HOW OL MIST AH BIZZARO WARMS HIS TOES rFTEN and often had Peter Rab bit wondered how Ol’ Mistah Buzzard and all his other feathered iriends who had flown away to the far away Couth at the first hint that Jack Frost was on his way to the Green Meadows spent the long win ter. It seemed to Peter that the South must be a very wonderful and very strange place. *Ie was not at all sure that he would like it. It must be very nice not to have to worry about finding enough to eat, and yet—well, Peter did have lots of fun in the snow. It seemed to him that all those little people •That Thing Out of Which the Smoke Comes Would Be One of Ol' Mistah Buzzard’s Toe Warm ers,” who went away certainly missed a great deal. Now, Winsome Blue bird had returned from that far away South with the good news that Mistress Spring was not far behind, and Winsome had promised to tell him all the news of Ol’ Mistah Buzzard and the other friends. "You see," began Winsome, ”01’ Mistah Buzzard was born and brought up in the South, where it is always warm, and he }ust can't stand cold weather. No, sir, he can't stand cold weather. Why, weather that you and 1 would call comfortable will make him shiver and shake. That is why he wasn’t ready to come up w'th me. Now, 1 come ahead of Mistress Spring, but 01' Mistah Buzzard won't start until he is sure that Mistress Spring has been here some time, and he will be sure not to have cold feet.” “Cold feet!" cried Peter. "Who ever heard of such a thing! Why, 1 run around on the snow and ice all winter long and I never have eold feet" "Well, Ol' Mistah Buzzard does," j replied Winsome Bluebird. “Yes, j sir, be is always complaining about eold feet You know, he hasn’t any ahoes or stockings like you, Peter, so between bis bare feet and his bald head he has. or thinks he has. a great deal to worry about every time there is a cool day. and they sometimes have cool days even way down South. Then you will al ways find Ol' Mistah Buzzard warming his toes. ’ Peter scratched his head in a fun ny way, “If you please. Winsome, how does he warm his toes?" asked Peter. "I never see him warming his toes when he is up here He’s always sailing round and round way up in the blue, blue sky or else sit MOPSY | / fll BET WERE '"'N, ",-—^~1 LATE. WHAT DOES \ ( TlNARY* k I WRISTS J ruLcy COCKED Largely sway WITH CLUfc lifted WITH RIGHT ARM - NOTE DISTANCE OF RIGHT ELBOW FROM BODY _ M BODY TURN AND MIS-TURN THERE is a wide difference be tween proper body turn and sway but the average player often has a hard time discerning the dif ference between the two. For in stance the player, at the left in the above illustration, is quite sure he is conforming to all the fundamentals that go with a correct body turn but actually the result is an obvious sway. Instead of turning the left hip to the right slowly in co-opera tion with the straight left arm, the player has lifted the club with his right hand and in doing so has raised the upper part of his body. Naturally the left arm has been ex tended in the process but the right arm is so far out from the body that it favors a downswing arc from the outside in. The actual downswing will be more of a lurch than a grad ual unturning of the bodily muscles because the weight is far off cen ter to the right and the left leg is not in a position to bear the start of the return weight shift with any smoothness. There is a woeful waste of energy too In the inaccu rate wrist cock which must depend, in this situation at least, for shoul der power to give any momentum to the downstroke. In direct con trast to this method is the swing of Jones in the right hand figure. Jones’ body has turned freely be neath the head as an anchor, the left is straight, the right arm in close and the full wrist cock plus the bodily windup insures a power ful dowmward blow. © Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. Summer Afternoon Full of dash is this gay ensemble for wear In town or at the country club on a summer afternoon. The shirred coat of emerald green silk crepe is worn over a field flower print dress. The smart straw sailor and calfskin belt match the dress. Composition buttons of the dress are in the shape of bumble-bees, making the whole outfit a ‘‘honey." Artists Feel Deeply Some hold that the great artist tn words or in paint should feel deep ly. Fra Angelico wept bitterly when painting the agony of his Savior; when Dickens was busy writing he would often splinter his nib In the paper with anger against the abuses he was exposing. THERE’S A GOOD ROAD By DOUGLAS MALLOCH (Suggested by the hotel barber at Uhrlchaville. Ohio.) THERE’S a good road north, and a good road south, And a good road east or west, Thera’s a train at noon that’ll leave here soon. If you like the railroad best. So when someone says that there’s somethin’ wrong With the town, the w£y It’s run, Then I don’t see why he don’t say good-by. And go hunt for a better one. If he says back home where he used to live That the town was simply great, Well, I’d go back there if I had the fare, And if not, I’d flip a freight. Or he’s heard some town is a right good town, That it’s got this whole place beat; Well, it can’t be far if he’s got a car, If he ain’t, he’s got two feet So if someone thinks that the town’s no good, I think he’s a fool to stay. If he don’t like what this here town has got. Then here’s all 1 got to say; ‘‘There ain’t a man that’ll hold you here If you like some new place best; North or south of town not a bridge is down, There’s a good road east or west.” (2) Douglas Malloch.—WNU Service. MANNERS OF THE MOMENT By JEAN \I7TNDOW shopping In mixed * ' company is tricky business. It usually ends in a fight. When a girl window shops the man some how gets a feeling she is trying to work him for things. Why he should we can’t imagine. But that’s the way men are. And when a man window shops, it’s even worse. He picks such hor rible looking displays. He’ll stop, sometimes for hours, in front of a Window shopping is likely to end in a fight. lease-has-expired sale of dirty look ing ties. It gets very tiresome. The most sensible thing for a couple to do is to agree before go ing out which windows they can both enjoy. They might be able to And common ground in travel bu reau windows and book stores, for instance. Or in bakeries and type writers. Once agreed, they must both promise faithfully not to linger in front of any irrelevant windows. But if they can’t agree on any windows at all, they’d better take their walk in the park or start a serious study of the skyline. WNU Service. .Mink Is Bloodthirsty Animal The mink often feigns death when captured. It is one of the most bloodthirsty, as well as courageous of small animals, hissing its de fiance. fighting to the last. It will k.ll for the sheer lust of blood, one mink massacremg up tc 50 unlucky chickens in a single night. Its chief hunting area, however, is the water The mink is a marvelous swimmer and diver, feeding on fish and frogs. 'JMlmhd about Comfort in Traveling. LATELY, on a cross-coun try prowl, two of us in vaded one of the remotest corners of the desert. Until our car broke down we ! crawled along some of the roughest backways in crea tion, then escaped on what by quaint irony was called an accommodation train over a side spur of a prehistoric railway line. When we hit con crete high roads and air- conditioned fliers, I caught my self saying our fore fathers put up with plenty of misery in Irvin S. Cobb order to move about. And then I realized that what we had endured did not date back to former genera tions. So soon have we grown ac customed to luxury with speed we forget that most of America, fifteen years ago, lacked what we now ac cept as common traveling comfort. Why, less than two decades ago, for my sins, I rode on a certain jerk water railroad in the deep South. The last work done on its tracks was in 1884 by General Sherman—he tore ’em up. I made the mistake of trying to shave while en route. When I got through, I looked like one of those German student duelists. But, nowadays, even those who use homemade trailers seem al most happy at times. • • • Diplomatic Busybodies. HO'LL be the next member of our diplomatic corps to open his mouth and put his foot in it clear up to his hip-joint? It has been nearly two months now since our ambassador to Ger many had a bad dream and before nursie could quiet him was pro claiming that a certain billionaire was willing to put up one of his loose billions to buy a dictatorship for this country. He failed to fur nish the name and address. Maybe they got left out of the nightmare. Hardly had paregoric wooed this distinguished sufferer back to hush a-bye-land when our new represen tative in the Philippines began de manding that, when it came to drinking official toasts, his name must come higher up on the wine list or he wouldn’t be responsible for the consequences. However, the excitement subsided before he could summon the Pacific fleet to bom bar Manila. There’s a rumor that Washington sent him word he needn’t worry about being appro priately saluted—there’d be a na tionwide Bronx cheer awaiting him on his return home. Since then there’s been a lull and the American public is getting im patient. We do so love a free show and especially when itls amateur night. Hard-Bitten Females. TOURING about over certain Western states where open gam bling either is by law permitted, or by custom winked at, I noticed this: Generally speaking, the feminine patrbns are the steadiest drinkers, the most persistent gamesters, the most reckless betters of all. And frequently their manners are the rudest and their faces the grimmest —determined seemingly to disavow the theory that their sex is the gentler sex. On the other hand, the men pa trons—descended, many of them, from old gun fighters, old prospec tors, old path-finders—grow increas ingly docile and subdued, absorbing less than their share of the hard i liquor—maybe because they fear there won’t be enough left for mama and the girls—and risking their dimes where the gallant ladies plunge with dollars. Sometimes a fellow, watching the modern processional from the pro tection of the sidelines, gets to long ing for the bygone days when, as ! Kipling might have put it and, in j fact, almost did, a woman was only a woman, but a good cigar was ten ) cents. ' • • • B These Candid Cameras. NCE a citizen had a right to ob ject to the publication of a | flashlight view showing him beat ing his wife or exhibiting his appen dicitis scar or taking out his up fters or something. That was before they began print ing magazines for those who’ve abandoned the old-fashioned habit of reading and writing. And it’s doing glamorous movie queens no ; real good when these betraying j close-ups prove that maybe the j glamor is only paint-deep. Thus the last strongholds of our one-time personal liberty crumble. I i used to think a passport picture was about the frankest thing we had ! in the line of intimate likenesses, excepting, of course, the x-ray. But this candid camera business which catches you unawares—and often without your underwears eith er—is the most fiendish attack of all against our practically vanished privacy. IRVIN S. COBB. ©—WNU Service. Smart and Comfortable A -----A 19*6 1301 // L yOU can stay on the cool side * this summer and still bask in the sunshine of flattery if you’ll look to Sew-Your-Own for your in spiration. Witness today’s trio of smart fashions: do they not fair ly take you by the hand? For Sheer Comfort The model portraying the cool poise of a well groomed cosmo politan, above center, can be yours, Milady, with very little ta doo: Choose a beauteous dark ground sheer for this stylish frock. Personal Item No. 1. This cleverly designed slip is, in a way, like the lovely flower born to blush unseen for it knows its place and keeps it. Because of superb styling, this slip offers new chic to the meticulous wom an. It has a wide shadow proof panel, and smooth fashionable lines that make for a well turned out appearance. Sweet ’n’ Tart. As wholesome and becoming as her suntan, is this exciting new dress for Miss Junior Deb or her kid sis. It is young enough to please its youthful client, and pretty enough to satisfy the most fastidious mother. Noteworthy is the button-all-the-way front. This means easy laundering. The Patterns. Pattern 1946 comes in sizes 14 to 20 (32 to 44 bust). Size 16 re quires 3y4 yards of 39 inch ma terial plus 1 yard of ribbon for shoulder straps. Pattern 1325 is designed for sizes 36 to 52. Size 38 requires 4% yards of 39 inch material plus 1M yard trimming as pictured. Pattern 1301 is designed for sizes 6, 8, 10, 12, and 14 years. Size 8 years requires 2% yards of 35 or 39 inch material plus 5 yards of trimming to finish as pictured. Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., Room 1020, 211 W. Wacker Dr., Chicago, 111. Price of patterns, 15 cents (in coins) each. t © Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. -4 PE-KO EDGE JAR RUBBERS If your dealer cannot supply you, send 20c } with your dealer'* name for a Trial Package of 48 genu ine Pe-Ko Jar Rings; sent prepaid. yl United States Rubber Company ""7 Rubber Products. Inc., Room 608, 1790 Broadway^Ne*^orl^^^5SB*Bi*k Man’s Morals Intellectually man has pro gressed and his intellect Has taught him morals. Criticism Is as Rain t No orte can grow who does not f profit by the criticisms of his friends. LIFE’S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher e o emiiM "You’re sure this guy is batting .926?!”