THE BEE: OMAHA. MONDAY. MARCH 21, 1921.
SLEXPY-T1ME TALES
"OMvyflfcBio -Omaha!
- "THE TA L E OF
TOMMY FOX
.BY ARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY
CHAPTER I ,
Tommy Enjoys Hirase!
Tommy Fox was having a delight
ful time. If you could have come
upon him in the woods you would
have been astonished at his antics.
He leaped high off the ground, and
fruck out with hi paws. He opened
his moutk and thrust his nose out
and then clapped his jaws shut
irfain, with a snap. Tommy burrowed
his sharp face, into the dead leaves
at his feet and tossed his. head into
the air. And then he jumped up and
barked just like a puppy.
If you could have hid behind a
tree and watched Tommy l-'ox you
would have said that he was playing
with something. But you never could
have told 'what it was, because you
t.
lie grew suite excited, did Tomnui
Feat.
couldn't have seen it. And you may
have three guesses now, before 1 tell
you what it was. that Tommy Fos
was playing with. . . Jt was a
feather! Yes Tommy had found a
downy, browni.li feather in, the
wpods, which old Mother Grouse had
dropped in one of her flights. And
Tommy was having great sport w ith
it, tossing it up in the air, and slap
ping and snapping at it, as it drifted
slowly down to thc-grouftd again.'
He grew quite excited, did Tommy
Fox. For he just Couldn't help mak
ing believe that it was old Mother
(irouse herself and not merely one
of her smallest feathers that he had
found. And he leaped and bounded
;ind jumped and tumbled about and
made a great fuss over nothing but
that little, soft, brownish feather:
There was something about that
feather that, made Tommy's nose
twitch' and wrinkle and tremble.
Tommy sniffed and sniffed at the bit
ff down, for he Hked the 6mell of it.
t made him feel Very hungry. And
at last he felt so hungry that he de
cided he would go home and see if
his mother had brought him some
' Romance in
Of Superstitions
By H. IRVING KING
Jonahs.
Though it is not the custom today
to throw overboard people who are
suspected of being the cause of
storms and disasters at sea, yet the
belief " in Jonahs -still flourishes, -and
cicep water sailors still have a linger
:ng opinion that the weather condi
tton' would be vastly improved if
the suspected persons were jetti
soned. ' In less enlightened times
tney would have been even as was
the prophet son of Amittai.
The Jonah superstition is older
than Jonah. The prophet was mere-
-i iv me victim- oi a rnoenician super
(JL stition. ancient even before his day;
but being a celebrated case, his
name has clung to it everjincc. It
is the old idea of the appeasing of an
ai'gry god by a hu -an sacrifice.
Hitman sacviiic;,"o r.m1 was the
main feature of Phoenician worship.,
r.nd the Phoenicians were the great
seafaring people among the Sncien's
and took their religion to sea with
them. In - Jonah's day the victims
appears to have been chosen by lot,
but subsequently ' be came to be
designated by personal peculiarities
vr by coincidence. It is thus that a
"Jonah" is indicated' today."
The writer once knew. a. young
naval officer who because of the mis
haps which occurred to a scries of
, ships to fwhich he, was. successively
attached Ijecamc known- throughout
the -sen-ice as "Jonah" So-and-so.
Xot so long ago a sailor off. Roast
ing schooner caught in a storm cried
out that the tempest was because of
his wickedness and jumped over
board. The storm still continuing,
the sailors threw his dunnage after
'him and the" tempest ceased! Ot
such stories "the name is legion."
The fact that it is. getting on to
three thousand years now since
Phoenicia ceased to etcisjt affords an
other example of ;thc superiority, of
the vitality of a Superstiticm over
that of empires and races.
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paper Syndicate.) . .
Jewel, Flojver, Color
Symbols for Today
By MILDRED MARSHALL.
' Today's talismanic stone is the
agate, which according to Cardano.
brings refreshing sleep and pleasant
dreams to the one who wears it. It
also guards its wearer against acci
dent, and .warns of the approach oi
- The cat's-eve is the natal stone vol I
those born on an anniversary of this
day. and is especially potent in pro
tecting its wearer from harm arising
from the "evil thoughts of others. An
ancient legend tells us that the cat's
eye loses its power for good, how
ever, if its wearer engage in deceit
ful practices of.aaV kind. t
Green is the fortunate , color for
today. It is symbolic ot-vouth and
hooe. t
Today's' flower is the. pyilc Tosc;. if
worn.' it attracts admiration for its
wearer. ' . - "
by he wgeir Sjndi -
.Copyright,
1931.
rate,
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Opportonity knock g-ReadJKj;
thing to eat. So he started liomc
w ards.
I must -explain that Tommy lived
with his mother and that their house
was right iur the middle of one. of
Farmer Green's fields, not far from
the foot of Blue Mountain. When
Tommy was quite small his mother
had choseithat place for her house,
which was rdlly a den that she had
dug in the ground. By having her
house in the center of the fjeld she
knew that no one coutd creep up and
catch Tommy when he was playing
outside in the sunshine. Now Tommy
was older, and had begun to roam
ahwut in the woods and meadows
alone. But Mrs. Fox liked her home
; in the field, and so she continued to
live there. ,
Tommy was so hungry, now, and
in such a hurry to reach home, that
you might think that he would have
gone straight toward his mother's
house. i But he .didn't. He trotted
along a little way, and suddenly gave
a sidewise leap which carped him
several feet away from the straight
path he had been following. Again
he trotted ahead for a short distance.
And then he wheeled around and
ran in a circle. And after he "had
madc-thc circle he jumped to one
side once mote, and ran along on an
old tree which had fallen upon the
cround. He was nof playing. No!
Tommy Fox was'just trying to obey
his mother. ' Ever, since vhe had been
big enough to wander off b'y himself
she had told him that he must never
go anvwhere without making jumr$
and circles. "It takes longer," she
said; "but it is better to do that way.
because it mSkes it hard for a dog
to follow you. If you ran straight
ahead, Farmer, Green's dog could go
smelling along in your footsteps, and
if he didn't actually catch you he.
could follow you right home and
then we would have to move, to say
the least."
Tommy was so afraid of dogs that
he almost never forgot to do just as
his mother told him. He was half
way home and passing through a
clump of evergreens, when he sud
denly stopped. The wind was blow
ing in his face, and brought to his
nostrils a smell that made him
tremble. It was not a frightened sort
of tremble, but a delicious, joyful
shiver that Tommy felt. For he
sir.elled something that reminded
him at once of that feather with
which he, had been playing. And
Tommy stood- as still as a statue
and his sharp eyes looked all
around. " At first he could see noth
ing. m But in a minute of two he no
ticed something on the ground, be
neath one of the evergreen trees. He
had looked at it carefully several
times; and each time he had decided
that it was only an old tree-root. But
now he saw that he had been mis
taken. Yes! It was old Mother Grouse
herself!
(Coprrisht, Grosset Dunlap.)
WHY-
Docs a Cat Arch Its Back When It
Meets a Dog?
Practically all the instinctive ac-
tions of domesticated animals may
be traced back to what they did in
the days when they roamed wild in
the forests and were forced -to de
fend themselves at a moment's no
tice. - For example, even a pomer
anian, probably the -most petted of
dogs, will turn round and round
on its down-filled pillow before cur
ling up to go to sleep a revision
to the days when its ancestors had
to trample down the grass in order
to make a bed for themselves.
Jn like manner, the instinctive
arching of the back, noted whenever
a. cat meets a- dog with which it is
not on friendly terms, is at once an
indication that the cat has recog
nized its traditional enemy and an
involuntary, position of defense
against the expected attack. The fact
that the cat is terrified, is apparent
by the bristling of fhe fur, while
arching the back brings the feet close
together and gives the claws a firm
er grip, on the ground, thus permit
ting exceptionally rapid movements
in any direction, "if orcover, the cat
knows instinctively that the dog will
seek ttnsink its teeth in the back of i
its neck, so it withdraws its head
as far as possible, and thus accen
tuates the arched back through an
additional posture of defense.
(Copyright? 1931 . by The Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.)
There'd be more
spring poetry, if
more words
rhymed
with
Post.
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Doctor Tells How to
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By the
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uit of
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ays Dr.
IV.
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in a week's .
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brought to inflamed, aching, itching,
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The 'Dignity of ' Business
By PAUL QREER.
Just as in older and more aristocratic lands, there
has been a class which looks down on what it calls
"trade," so there are in our own country some who
speak of business with contempt. Yet it is by business
that each of us makes his living. The influences of
economics, sociology and ethics are at work to human
ize what once waa nothing more than a struggle for ex
istence ;v to distribute the burdens and rewards more
equitably, and to make it a matter of co-operative
effort. ' " .
A great industrial magnate, asked which was the
most important factor in his business labor, capital or
management- replied with the question: "Which is
the' most important leg on a three-legged stool?" Such
is the modern theory that is coming more and more into
practice. "
Little can be accomplished unless men work to
gether with a common purpose. Self-interest, of course,
will bring about disagreements, but these more and
more will come to be settled by arbitration and in mu
tual good will. Destructive criticism of business, criti
Ccism that does not see the gradual rise of commercial
ethics nor view the possibility of the growing under
standing that, the relations of employer and employe
are more than economic, but are ethical and personal as
well, is not helpful toward a solution.
Men of vision today d6 not join in the condemna
tion of business, but see in it possibilities for the future
that are not generally recognized. The modern in:
dustry, if properly managed, considers its community
relationship as one of its vital problems. The business
man who thinks of his employes as so many tools or
machines to be worked to the utmost and then scrapped,
is not favorably regarded either by the public or his
associates.
The dignity of labor has been a phrase frequently
heard, ifnd the dignity of business may well be listed as
a companion term. Years ago, the good, gray poet,
Walt Whitman, in "Democratic Vistas," glorified the
spirit of business, the industrial and mercantile activity
of his race as one of the necessary and splendid qualities
of humanity. He said :
"I perceive clearly that the extreme business
energy and this almost maniacal appetite for wealth in
the United States are part of amelioration and progress,
indispensably needed to prepare the very results I de
mand. My theory includes riches and the getting of
riches, and the amplest products, power, activity, in
ventions, movements."
In a note among his manuscripts, this further word
'was found:
"In modern times the new word, business, has been
brought to the front and now dominates individuals
and nations (always of account in all ages, but never be-.
fore confessedly leading the rest as in our nineteenth
century). Business not the mere sordid prodding,
( muck-and-money-raking mania, but an immense and
noble attribute of man, the occupation of nations and
individuals (without which there is no-happiness), the
progress of the masses, the tie and interchange of all
the peoples of the earth. Ruthless war and arrogant
dominion-conquest were the ideals of the antique and
medieval hero. Business shall be, nay is, the word of
the modern hero."
Here is the thought of the' poet of democracy,
whose joy it was to sing the new continent. Ahead
of his time, he glimpsed a devlopment under which; as
Harrington Emerson, the famous- efficiency engineer
has declared, "The employer no longer exists merely
to aggrandize and extend the personality of the em
ployer, but the' latter exists solely to make effective the
totally different function of the emyloye." " '
I Business, indeed, with the years is taking on a
dignity of its own. It is not
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these tendencies toward democratization and co-ordination
of interests are discerned they should be encouraged.
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