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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (March 18, 1923)
Jimmy Always Finds New Questions to Ask U YOU always think that something lovely is just about to I 1 happen? I lielievo you do." The boy who asked this question ■*—' is 10-year-old Jim, who comes to call once in a while just to ask questions, perhaps, for he always seems to have a fresh supply. "Whatever makes you ask that?” Happy wondered as she looked up from her desk just what he would reply. N “I have always noticed that you are expecting nice things to come to us, and they always seem to. If they don’t come today, then you think they are pretty sure to come tomorrow. I3o you like tomor rows?” "Of course, child! Only tomorrows never really wait for us, be cause they have to hurry and become the todays." Then Happy told Jim why she liked new days, and because he was interested, maybe j'ou will be, too. If anyone asked you if you like to have a new pair of shoes or a new hat you would all shout ‘ Yes!” There Is something even nicer about having a new day, all your very own. Perhaps your lessons did not go quite so well at school yesterday. Maybe, oh, when we begin to do anything In Maybe Land so many little Maybes come Impping out of the eorners, from under stunes and behind the trees that there are so many little Maybes about you that you can haydly think. Whatever the Maybes were that were not quite right today, it is such a wonderful thing to know a perfectly fresh new day is on the way toward you. This new little day is just like a new little baby with ail Its life to live. Nobody knows what that baby will become and nobody knows what tho new baby day will grow info. That new day will have 24 whole hours which are just ns much yours as anybody else's. In the - 14 hours are 1.440 minutes. Think of It! What a lot of minutes be long to you. If you make them happy minutes then that means there will be happy hours nnd happy hours make a happy day. Yesterday you thought maybe It would rain today and many other maybes that never happened frightened you. More oft'-n than other Witte when tho little new day opens tts eyes the sun Is shining. Of Course, sometimes it Is crying, and that is what most folks call rain ing. When it is raining today it is because so many children wire cross yasterd i.v. Sad or cross children, as every one of you know, make sail, and cross hours, nnd tin n the day drags and drags and nothing goes right and 'Tu wish and wish it would hurry and lie tomorrow. We air want the new day, and yet we are not half careful of how w- treat it. Whenever you have a new baby In your home you tell me how clad you are anil how much you love the new little boy or girl. Ix'arn to love new little days just ns much, and then when all the hours have gone skipping away and It is almost time b-r tom.-- nv th-n you can sav: "This has been such a good day and I made all the minutes and hours glad for every one about me." Jimmy said he would try to re member this. Will you, for UNCLE PETER HEATHEN H\ SOVHl*. T'rfi-le l*efer rmiif* to IP e at file home rtf tho Treyellyn twin*. Prudence uml Patience. Very lorn Iv ‘luce \unt Pru dence "went uwiiy," lie become* Imp j»|er in hi* net* *»rri»umllnr*. The twin* with three of their iclrl friend* form » ml**l«nj»ry lety un»l adopt • nrle Peter a* their "heathen." Each I* to look after wiim* part of hi* wel fare. Prurience choo**e* hi* li'-alth; Pa tience, hi* clothe*; Rachel hi* moral*; Ruth, hi* amiiM-ment*. and Jane, hi* education. Prudence take* a walk with him every mom Inc. gw* to hi* r<M>m when he I* ready for losl to have a little la*t talk nnd to kl** him foml nighf. sire tell* Patience *he Jil*t wh»h e* *lie had hi* moral* to look after, a* well a* hi* health, a* *he can think of *uch beautiful thing* to *ay. Now % U NOW GO ON WITH THE RTORT (Continued from Past Sunday ) *1 want to get started on his clothes tomorrow, the first thing. I can’t find any pictures of heathens’ clothes and I have looked ail through auntie’s fashion books. 1 will have to go ahead now and fix him lovely as I can. I want him to have some socks to match s necktie and a handkerchief." “And make them match his sus penders,” suggested Prudence. "Have them all lilac colored, be cause v\<* planned it all by the lilac bush.” "All light, and when I get him all fixed I know he'll he stylish.” Pa tience^ was Inclined to be com piacent, as though the dressing of heathens had long been her forte. "I will have to take him shopping In tbe afternoon,'* she concluded with sudden detornlriatlcn. "If It is not too hot fur I can't let him get ovtrheatn 1 were the < losing words of Prudence pi* she feel asleep. When Miss Sullle hud occasion the following morning to inter Uncle 1’<lcrs' room, to her surprise she found Patience. What wij inure, the child had taken all Ms clot lies, spread them on the bed and stairs anil was looking critically at them, She glanced at her aunt smilingly though there was nothing what ever unusual In the situation "What In the world are you do ing?" asked Miss H.ullle. "I am looking over the heathen's clothes," replied her niece, and how ever disrespectful the words msy have sounded, there was no truce of It In her manner. "Patience, I can't get used to hav ing you call your dear Uncle Peter a heathen, and has he asked you to emmlns his wardrobe?" "Oh, no, he never exactly asked me to took after Ids clothes; 1 could hardly expect him to. lie hasn’t been a heathen very long, hut hea thens ought to pay some nttenlion to their dress. You can't ever know, auntie dear, how much I want him to be stylish and match up all over. You see. t am the clothes missionary and It's my life work. Poor Uncle Peter, he’s In the same fix we are. He hasn’t any mother to darn him up and so we thought we'd treat him like our own child, the way you do us" Miss Bailie smiled at ths artful manner in which the child rambled on to gain her point. "When you have finished looking over his clothes then do not fall to return every article you found It," she Instructed and left the room. After careful deliberation Patience concluded that Uncle Peter's Sunday trousers were shiny, that he had belter wear them every day and buy some new ones. Bhe found that he had but three pairs of socks and they were not pretty. She discov ered that he had no hat except the one he was wearing, whl- h she did not admire. His ties were ail black and ths majority were dingy and worn. After putting everything rare fully away she went In search of Uncle Peter. She took him to a far corner of the veranda and seated h»r*clf on n low stool at his fert. "You can never guess whnt I’ve bean doing." she began mys toriously. “I expect It is something nice for someone," gallantly replied the hea then. (Continued Next Sunday ) (Cnpyrlsht, n;i ) POLLY’S COOKIE BOOK I believe the Of Hawk* really Uo Uke my rook book Kroin New Hampshire, whore they had such fur, th.a winter with all sort of win ter sports, cun',re e irr p*. It Is for MUFFINS One cup of sifted flour, one and 011c half teaspoon* of 1 iklnn pow der, one-half teaspoon salt, two tablespoons of auniir. on< ■ .-it. one half cup cf milk, two tablespoon* of moiled butter. Sift and mix dry IniirodU nls, then add enic. milk and melted but ter. I’ut In in eased muffin tins anil bake in a liot oven for 20 minutes. Another ft ay to Be a Good Go-Hawk A good Go-Hawk is always clean and neat when he goes to call on someone who Is ill. When he enters the room he walks to the bed, but d<4es not jar it, for that might disturb his friend. He does not sit down on the side of the bed and thus per haps rumple or soil the clean white spread. So, remember a Good Go-Hawk is both clean and neat and thoughtful when call ing on a friend who is ill. In Field and Forest. How many of you know that there are almost always an equal number of feathers in pairs In the tall of a bird and If you were to count them you would usually find 12? When they are closed they He over each other with the middle pair on top. hut when open they spread out like a fan.% Perhaps you think that all the tails of birds are shaped alike, but they are not. Sometime* they are even, and again the middle feathers are a little longer than those outside, and then the tail is pointed or rounded. The tall is forked w hen the outside ft others are longest. A bird uses his tall not only to steer his course when he is flying but also as a brake to check his speed when alighting. Woclpeik t i s and swifts do not have soft tails feathers at the end as do other birds, hut they have a stiff little shaft staking out, and they find this most helpfuT'to use as a prop to hold them against a wall or tree to help tin in In climbing. Have you ever noticed how some people keep using their hands when talking? In jo*? the same way do certain birds seem to try to express their feelings by tossing their tails about. Watch a thrasher or a cat bird and you will tin .r tails jerk ing this way or that. It will make you laugh, perhaps, and then you will wonder what It Is all about and what they are trying to express. Good by till next Sunday. Tour t’NCI.i: JOHN ~ peters! V RKSHOJ It Is time for us to begin making our bird houses, for it will not b* a great while before our bird fri Qds are returning from their winter Journeys to other land" In making the little house that you find In our workshop, the sides and roof should be of thinner wood than the bottom and the md plm i. You will flnj this nn easy house to make and one that birds really like. Your friend. % BTjfS if® /' What 1h tin* differ* nco between n mother and a Imrber? Answer The latter has rarors to "have and the fi rmer shavers to raise Why Is a thief culled a jail bird? Answer Hm .him' ho has hi n a robin (robbln*). What inlands iwo the in ( pro** perous? Answer—The Fortunate Islands Why are good husbands like loaves •f bread? Answ*i - Mn aijs# women need knead) them FAlR^GRO|TOi By EM I LIE BLACKMOKE KTAPP and ELEANOR CAMEBOlf Selfish little Fairy Wilful, who was banished from Fairyland, is learning many lessons as she roams about the Earth wo rid. She had be lieved that the boys and girls did nothing but have a good time and she finds instead they, too, have something else to do. In our March play she runs across a boy crying in the woods and today you will read what was troubling him. The name of the play is "SURPRISED PETER." (Continued from East Sunday.) (Her face suddenly grows serious. She shakes her head.) Anil nut * thing to eat after ail my hard work, and. oh. hut I was Just starved that day! 1 felt as if X could eat up the whole tree! (She looks over the hedge with a change of manner ) Now X wonder—Maylte Tiiiiy Squjrral la hungry, too, poor little fellow ! (She runs about booking eagerly under the leaves, throws away sev eral nuts she. finds, and at last tosses one to the waiting squirrel 1 WIEFUE. There, there, old f.-!!ow! Eat your dinner in pea e If I had th- ugh' about It I wouldn't have teased you To make up with you 1 11 hunt your din ner. (She starts searching again. I stops as she bears the sound of steps.) WILFUIy. Now look at that! (Pointing) There's a hoy coming I hate boys— great tig. notay cruel things! Every tune they catch the least - sight uf me they begin to throw atones X must go tight now anil huiry. tao! (She runs behind the hedge, and Piter comps dragging in from the right. Ills head is down, his shoul ib rs humped forward, and after looking all around he hastily wipes Ills eyei with his right coat sleeve. Wilful peeps from t»ehind the shrubs, watching him with growing curiosity until she can' stand it no longer. Hhe creeps out and slyly approaches Peter. He does not see her until-she Is standing right in front of him Then he jumps to hie feet in surprise ) WILFUL. (Staring Impudently into Peter s face.) Why don’t you bawl right out ar.d to done with It? PKTF.R. (Tossing his head angrily its hF winks bark some tears » Aw, *ay" Who's bawling * j WILFUL • Tou are, and you know It! PICT HR Well what If l err." Wh. e Puente** Iw It T I rues* you'd bawl, too! So there, roles! tile stops to eye Wilful In a threatening my) WILFUL. Whale th* matter. anyhow? Did your mother hit you? tiny ^ TAD - 0TALE S(f -B Jack and David were looking at *,im» rtitiie pictures. They discover ed one of the two men dressed in flowing robes. One man was very short and the other tall. They l*>th studied the picture, then Jack said: "Who are they. David?" "Mutt and Jeff." was the brief reply. Tlie children were very fond of a game of Scripture cards. In which one reads the questions and the others find the ahswrrs. Dale had the one containing ' Who gave David hi* sword and girdle?" With great < mphnsls lie read: ' Who gave David his word and IP IddleT” Our \ isit. Dear Happy: I am sorry 1 did not writ*’ soi m r. hut 1 did not know you were my fiend. I was at Omaha, but 1 did net know where you lived. We stayed at the Hotel Rome. We were In the room 314 on the third story. We )md a good time there We got home Finlay night on th<* !> o'clt k train. One afternoon 1 Stayed alone In the hotel. Please write soon. Yours very truly. William Thomas Denser, Ito* 11 ft. Tilden, Neb. PETER. My moth.-r's not that kind. 1t'*— (swallowing hard—It's my k-kits! WILFUL. (Looking all about in the air and then turning to Peter again ) " t.it k■ te? Whose kite'’ 1 don't se* an; kite. PETER. Course you d*don’t! Cau-e I lost it! (He i ium s to wiiie his eyes igain.) WILFUL (Her eyes softening as she be comes more and more interested in Peter* T.ost ' I.r,„t where? L.4 t j lore H —or somebody else? PETER. When It was all done I tame out her® to try it where none of the others could see, and—and the very first tone up. it caught on a tree and I c-cao't g fl it b-back] (He stops as his voice fails him suddenly.( winruL. Filly l.o> • That'* what i '1 get -for trying to fly a kite in the tall wood*! I'm only a girl but I know better than that. PETER. (Angry again I I fyi - you would, tor ' At piaro els-1 the boy* would see It. WILFUL. (Puzzled.* What toys would see It PETER. (Impatient with het.i Why, 'he ether boys who made ri.tn^ — you foolish’ WILFUL. Why ! a'ways thought hey* h*d lot* of fun flying their kite* together. PETER. They ,lo‘ They do! Hut tins* are ki’-s t 'ay with Not '- o'est kites! WILFUL (More puzzled still .«> Peter speaks* Contest ei-.s.t ", a - W..| • are these? PETER. (As he begins to understand * • ton ITS • lid and wouldn t know anything about tt. Well—a man Is going to he'e a prise— tomorrow morning if the word i* good. WILFUL. AVhat k nd of a prise? PETER. (Sadly.) Five doi.ars for tb.a best kite mad* by S M-hooiboy. anl I—I worked so hard to make my kilo g't It Hie rovers his eyes with his arm so that she won't see him cry ing ) (Continued Next Sunday.) V - - - THE GUIDE POST Good Hooks for Children Choose one of these books to read each week. Perhaps you had better out out the list each time and take it with you to your city library. It is prepared for the Happy land boj s and girls by Miss Alive M Jordan, supervisor of childr- n's work. Pos ton public library. This week sha suggests: Altsheler. J. A , “young Travel ers." Grimm Brothers, Household Stories ” living Washington, Uip Van Winkle Iaimb. Charles and Mary, Tales from Shakespeare.” Muir. John. "Story °f My Boy hood and Youth.” Wlggin, Kate Douglas, ‘ Rebec ca of Sunnybrook Farm.” Coupon for llappy Tribe. Kvirv bov and girl_reiider of 111 s paper who w.shra 10 Join — the Clo-Hawks Ilapt v Tribe, f wh oh James Wh teomb Riley was tile f.rst Big Cha f. ean secure Ins of , fic.al button by send ng a J cent stamp with your name, age and address w.th Ills eoupon Address your l«'tt• " to “Happy." enro th s pat ft Oi or 90,000 members! Motto "Tn Mato U>o W. rid a Hap p or I'laee " fledge ' 1 promise to help some one «\ery day I will try to protect the b rds ami all dumb an mala "