THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, FEbKUAKY 5, lim.
SPY-TIME TALCS
THE TALE Of
MOLE
5 arthur mr baim
CHAPTER XII.
Mr. Blackbird's Advice.
Out of the pine woods beyond the
meadow Mr. Blackbird sometimes
came to breakfast in Farmer
!rcen't garden. He claimed that
lie came there to look for angle
worms. But those that knew him
best said that he wasn't above tak
ing an egg out of some small bird's
nest. And some whispered that lie
had even been known to devour a
nestling. V
Whenever lie visited the garden
he told everybody that he should
never come there again because
Grandfather Mole was too greedy.
Mr. Blackbird said that Grandfather
Mole didn't leave enough angle
worms to make it worth his while
to fly across the meadow. And one
day "When he chanced to meet
Grandfather Mole he told him that
it was a shame, the way he was
treating Farmer Green.
"Farmer Green is good, enough
to let you live underneath his gar
rlcn. But instead of showing him
that you are grateful you eat all of
his angleworms you can."
Grandfather Mole was thunder
struck'. After pondering over Mr.
I'.lackbird's speech for a few mo
ments he raised his head. "What
shall I do?" he asld in a plaintive
voice.
"I should think you'd turn over a
knd Grandfather Mole
promised that he would
lie leaf," ilr. Blackbird told him
severely. ,
And Grandfather Mole promised
that he would.
l ii turn one over touay, nc
said, "if you think - it will please
'Farmer Green."
"There's no doubt that it will,"
Mr. Blackbird assured him in a
slightly more amiable tone.
A hopeful look came into Grand
father Mole's face. And after thank
ing Mr. Blackbird for his advice,
he tupied away and burrowed out
of sight. i ,
Thqn Mr. Blackbird . selected , a
good jiiany choice tidbits here and
there, Which he. bolted with gusto.
And atte he had eates what Jolly
Robin; who had been watching him,
'declared afterward to have been a
hearty meal Jrid big enough for any
ri,A lr ' XmV'rvi .kitran fn rntH
.Till .'
He announced that tjiere wasu't any
use'of his looking for anything more
to 1 eat in that neighborhood, for
there wasn't enough there to keep a
mosquito' alive. And thereupon he
f.lew away. Nor was anybody sorry
to see him go.
Most of the feathered folk azreed
that Mr. -Blackbird ought not to
have jpoken as he did to Grand-
fahr -'Rut Tnllw Rohin' wifo
said that she was glad there was
somebody with, backbone enough to
tell Grandfather Mole the truth.
"If there were many, more like
Grandfather Mole in the garden
we'd all have to spend our summers
somewhere else," she said, "or
' starve.";
Jolly Robin fold her that she
would find things much the same,
no matter where she lived. "What's
a garden, without an old mole Or
two?" he asked the company in gen
eral. And since nobody answered.
Jolly Robin seemed to think he had
silenced Mrs. Robin for once.
But it was not so. '
"A garden without an old mole in
it would, be just what I'd like," she
erica. . '
"Well, anyhow, my dear." her
husband said, "please remember that
Grandfather Mole is going to turn
dver a new leaf."
.j (Copyright, Grosset A Dunlip.)
Dog Hill Paragrafs
By George Bingham'
VVH LS a vnv av w -
this week, and he started to running
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her 'and yelling at her, until he found
she belonged to the Calf Ribs
Widow; then he shewed her out
right gently.
Slim Pickens got in a jam while
coming- out of the picture show at
Tickville Saturday night, but cleared
the .way by stepping on everybody's
ffeti 4 . . . ;
After f reading where a girl she
knefc was gomg to get married. Miss
Hofetter Hocks said she could of
in art if (I 15 Years ago it she had of
waiitsd to. .
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More. Truth
By JAMES J.
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The Game
In the vulgar old days, when a couple of pugs
With only a rope for their tether, t
Slammed each others' faces with wallops and slugs ; 1
Or rolled in the sawdust together,
Some five hundred rough-necks were ranged round the ring
And hooted, or cheered or derided,
Applauding or hissing the punche? and swings
. Till the issue at last was decided.
Society then hadn't learned of the game;
The rep of the prize ring was shady
And the scene where the !ugger won dollars and fame
Was hardly a place for A lady.
While low brows alone shrieked their plaudits aloud,
Full many an optic was pasted;
On the commonest kind of a red-vested crowd '
Full many a knockout was wasted. '
But now there are dozens of fair debutantes
i Their pretty-approval bestowing
When a husky young bruiser a haymaker plants -
That starts the bright claret to flowing.
They' joyfully whisper their radiant hopes
That the gent who came out of the flurry, 1 '
To hang for a space doubled up on the ropes,
Won't get back jn the game in a hurry.
It is not for a dance orythe theater now. , ,
That a girl gets her prettiest frock out, t.
She only dolls up to attend a good row
Where the chance all favor a knock put. , '
. Real ladies no longer to follies resort,
Like operas, teas and first-nighting,
They all are too keen for the red-blooded sport
We used to refer to as fighting. ,
EVERYTHING ELSE ;; 1 ;
It must irritate Miss Mary Garden to feel that she can't also be' the
audience at the Chicago Opera company's productions.
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' The news about Belteguese must have jolted some of the movie stars
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(Copyright, 1921, By the Bell Syndicate, Ine.j
HOLDING A
Adele Garrison's
Revelations
What Her Fluffiness Planned for the
Returning Bride.
Little Mrs. Durkee and Marion
greeted Lillian and me and the
bonbons with,, joy. Edjth Fairfax
was nowhere to be seen, and in ai
swer to our involuntary look of in
quiry our hostess explained her ab
sence pettishly.
, "She's gone down to the florist's 'to
see about flowers for Leila's room
when she and Alfred come back. As
if I couldnt attend to those things!
I tell you, girls, I can see the be
ginning of the end. I'm just going
to be nobody in my own house after
those girls get to running things
their way."
The tears, which are always near
the eyes of Her Fluffiness, began to
course down , her' cheeks. Lillian
gave Marion a signal and the child,
with one distressed glance at Mrs.
Durkee, went quietly and obediently
out of the room.
"Is Edith going to live here, too?"
Lillian asked, when the child was
out of earshot.
All for Alfred.
I listened eagerly for Mrs. Dur
kee's reply, although I had learned
of this arrangement before.
"Oh, of course I" Mrs. Durkee re
plied wearily. "We're going to be
a complete happy family."
"Wherever are you going to stow
them all. away?" Lillian asked. I
stole a furtive look of astonishment
at her, for she is never hi the least
inquisitive, before I -fathomed the
purpose of her question. She knetf
that if she could get Mrs. Durkec's
mir.d switched to her household re
gime our little hostess would forget
her grievances in the delight of ex
hibiting her new arrangements to us.
"Come upstairs and I'll show you,"
Her Fluffiness responded promptly,
drying her tears hurriedly and be
coming cheerful. immediately. "You
won't know the rooms. I've been
busy as a bee getting them ready
and yet I'll bet there'll be something
she'll want to change." .
I reflected as I followed her up
stairs that Leila, would be an un
usual bride if she did not wish to
have some arrangement of her own
choosing in the rooms in which so
much of her Jife would be spent. But
I saw when little Mrs. Durkee proud
ly threw open the doors of the rooms
shehad set apart for them that she
had arranged every last detail, even
to the shades covering the electric
torches which simulated candles in
the wall sconces. ;
Wasn't it lucky that we never fur
nished this room adjoining Alf's?"
Mrs. Durkee . ?.skcd, when we had
finished exclaiming over the beauty
and daintiness of the appointment
of the room inl ended for the bride
Her .Fluffiness is a housekeeper pari
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f GCTS A PLASH A?C WtS HW )L HERE KNOW ) j tlM 5: S-?1-'-
J HAIR CESS - KNOW . M .VRE VERt- . pONT WOCCVj -' .
I WnUct Hfc PKINCX THAT I V.rrT? ,V,r'""-"t JU ' v S I HKOPTNEVS OF THE WAVES
RCH VJHCLE OP OURS TWKWT. f HXMfr -TEAeoW PAPACE " J&C A,BOVNt COAST- f '
Than Poetry
MONTAGUE-
HUSBAND
New Phase of i
of a Wife
excellence, and she had eyidently
put her whole heart into the furnish
nig and arrangement ot the rooms.
"You see," she went on, "this room
has an alcove, so I could put the
dressing table and chiffonier in there
out of the way. And by getting a
day bed instead, of a regular one,
Leila and Alfred can use this room
for a little sitting room. . Alf has
always wanted an' upstairs sitting
room, but I 'never got around to fix
him one before.
Perfunctory Admiration.
The real beauty of the room faded
for me at her words. There wras not
a thought in it for the gentle, beauti
ful girl whose home it was hence
forth to be. Alfred was to have the
upstairs sitting room he had always
wanted, and his bride was to have
her belongings shunted into out-of-the-way
corners in order tp accom
plish that object.
How do you like the color
scheme?" Mrs. Durkee asked, with
all the confidence of 'a child who
knows that it has done something
clever, and only waits for the praise.
"It's lovely!" Lillian said heartily.
"I suppose it is Leila's ' favorite
color?" . . ,
For a fleeting second little Mrs.
Durkee looked embarrassed, a sec
ond in which I wondered if Lillian
knew, as I did, that the room, ex
quisite as it was, in pale corn color
and gold with just a touch of. olive
for contrast, was yet directly . op
posed to Leila's passionate admira
tion for anything pink.
The colors of the roses, from the
lightest to the darkest tints 1 welJ
knew her love for them, and yet her
husband's mother had furnished her
room with a color background
against which even Leila's favorite
blossoms, pink sweet peas, and kil
larney roses, would jar.
"It ought to be if it isn't," Mrs.
Durkee answered Lillian's question
with an . obstinate setting of her
pretty lips. "She's just the coloring-
to look well against that back
ground. And, besides, I didn't
want to do over Alf's room; he fixed
it all up in his favorite browns not
very long ago, and this harmonizes
wonderfully with it. . See "
She threw open the connecting
doors between the bedrooms and we
saw that the color scheme of one
did, indeed, blend charmingly -with
that of the other.
"You certainly have accomplished
wonders," Lillian said.
There was only perfunctory ad
miration in her tones, and I knew
that she resented with me the selfish
ness unconscious though it tini
doubtedly was which had led little
Mrs. Durkee to prepare her daughter-in-law's
room with no thought
for the girl's tastes or Comfort.
(Continued Monday.)
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To those porn on an anniversary
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Common Sense
Paying For a Home.,
By J. J. MUNDY.
If you are buying a home, are you
satisfied that you can save merely
enough to make the periodic pay!
ments when due? . ' .
You feel pretty good that you can
do this, and is it not true that you
think it unnecessary to try to get
any more money ahead than will pay
your obligations, ' and you; do not
realize the mistake you make in not
having a savings account also upon
which you can draw if you should
have sudden illness or some misfor
tune? ,
Then if you should become ill
how could you keep up the monthly
payments if you have no extra funds
ahead?
It would necessitate some sacrifice
and much "self-denial for several
weeks to catch up with your in
debtedness at some time, wouldn't
it? . i
How much better it would be if
you were more careful right along
with your expenditures in order to,
have something ahead for emergen
cies. .; .
The man who is buying a home
witb- little thought for the next pay
ment is very;much like the man who
is renting hut never has two months
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I'M THE GUY
I'll THE GUY who always gives
you an argument.
No matter what you tell me to do,
or what correction you ask me to
make, or what suggestion or plan
you propose, I've always got some
comeback.
I can't let 3ou think I do a thing
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ing it your way, all well and good.
I'll do just as you say. But that
doesn't mean that you are right. By
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I try to show 'you that the other
way is just as good. And it's easier
for me.
Besides it hurts my pride to have
you tell me. I like to do things
my way, and I don't like to follow
advice. So whether you like it or
not, I'm going to try to make you
see things my way. .
No. I'm not stubborn, or anything
like that." I only want to make sure
that the thing is right.
Jf you don't like-it, and think I'm
pig-headed, I should . worry. I'm
built that. way,-and. I don't intend to
change.
-I don't think' much of people, any
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