THE BEE: OMAHA WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 19121.
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.WIDOW ZANDER AGAIN
SLEEPY-TIME TALES
Drawn for The Bee by Sidney Smith.
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THE TALE OF
TOMMY
FOX
ARTHUR.SCOTT BAILEY
CHAPTER XXI.
The Biggest Surprise of AIL
It was a pretty big surprise for
Tommy Fox, when Mr. Grouse
sprang out of the snow, right be
neath his feet. But it was nothing
it all, compared with the surprise
Tommy had when he reached "home.
Very late at night Tommy stole
into his mother': house. "In fact, it
was nearly morning. And Tommy
crept in very quietly, for he hardly
expected that his mother would be
awake and he did not want to dis
turb her.
Tommy had just curled up on his
bed and was all ready to go to
sleep, when to his great astonish
ment he heard his mother talking.
She was not talking to him, but to
someone near her, for she spoke so
low that lommy could not hear
what she was saving.
He thought right away that some
body had come to pay them a visit.
And he called out
"Who's here, Mother? Is it a visi
tor?" "Yes, Tommy," Mrs. Fox answer
ed. "Come here and see who if is."
Tommy jumped out of hed and
hopped across tho room. At first he
cou t'see anybody but his mother.
''It's just a joke!" Tommy ex
claimed. "You're only fooling 1"
"Look sharp!" said Mrs. Fox. "It's
a surprise. What do you call this?"
She moved aside a bit, and pointed
to a little, soft, wooly thing which
lay close beside her. Tommy had to
look two or three times to see what
Tommy certainly was surprised
it was. And even then he wasn't
! ... ...... ...
"is it is it a babyf lie asked,
''Iliat's jOst what it is," his mother i
said.
lommy certainly was surprised.
And Defore he could find his voice
again Mrs. .Fox showed him another
baby fox, and another and another
and another.
Yes there they were five of
them all together, small and soft
and woolly. They weren't nearly
so brightly colored as Tommy and
his mother just a pale, brownish
red. Tommy Fox could hardly be
lieve it. As he stared at them he
suddenly noticed something strange
about the baby foxes. "Why
they're all blind every one of
them." he cried. "Hadn't we better
send them back and get some good
ones?" he asked.
Mrs. Fox laughed.
"Of course they're blind," she
said. "You were blind when you
were their age. Their eyes will be
open in a few da'ys. . . Well
what do you think of them, Tom
my?" she asked; for Tommy Fox
seemed to be lost in thought.
"I was wondering how they would
ever be able to hunt they're so
small."
"Oh I I'll have to hunt far them,
for a long time." his mother ex
plained. "When they get big enough
I shall teach them to hunt for them-
selves, just as I taught you.
"Now you see why I showed y
ou
how to catch mice and rabbits and
woodchucks." Mrs. Fox said, "You'lf
have to look out for yourself now,
Tommy. For I shall have all I can
lo to' find enough for myself and
five children., to eat, without feeding
a big. fellow like you." . . ;
That made Tommy Fox feel very
proud. He felt bigger, and stronger,
and wiser than ever before. .
"I shall get along all right,"
Tommy said. "I almost caught Mr.
Grouse tonight. But he got away."
Tommy yawned, for he was very
sleepy. And pretty soon he was
curled urv on his little bed again,
dreaming 'of a wonderful bird that
he had-caught, which was so bis
that he and his mother and his five
little brothers and sisters made a fine
meal off it.
But of course it was only a dream.
THE END.
Common Sense
By J.J. MUNDY.
Learn to Swim.- '
Every child should know how to
- swim, i .
It should be a necessary part of
every child's education to learn to
swim.
It would be well for every High
school to have a swimming pool.
"Swimming lessons should be com
pulsory for every student:
Not many boys who, do not learn
to swim and take care of themselves
in the water, but comparatively few
girls know how to float or swim.
If a child is timid about going into
the lake or at the ocean beach, that
child should be given private in
struction in a tank, under care of a
person who will handle the child
right in a way to cause that fear
to riianpear,
'Children -who become frightened
n the water should not be comnelled
to wade out neck high, nor should
the child be told to lie down and
paddle.
Once frightened it is almost im
possible to conquer, anfl the thought
of giving up and letting the feet
off the ground becomes unbearable.
- It may take some, time to teach
a child to navigate in the water, but
patience and understanding will do
it, and parents should feel it a duty
they owe) to their children to safe
guard them as well as possible by
teaching them to swim at as early
an age as possible.
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' New York dances are considered unfit for places of amusement in Paris and
Vienna.
When Fifi, who in gay Paree, -Kicks
up her pretty feet,
' -Is counselled that she ought to be
s A little more discreet, ',.
She cries "La! La!" in accents that
Defy the Yankee pen,
' . And, aiming at a diner's hat
She kicks 'era up again.
' - But if a looker on should say,
"It's very wrong of you. . '
To kick your heels up in the way ' '
Those bad New Yorkers do," ' ,
, Remorse will fill her heaving breast
Her lovely cheeks will flame
And on her dancing partner's vest
. She'll sob away her shame.
When Gretch?n shakes ff om head to toe -'
With undulatihg ease, -
While dancing in a music show
To please the Viennese.
And some old prudish bird says, "Gosh!
That ain't no way to do!" ...
. . She'll merely answer with the Boche '.'.'
Equivalent for, "Pooh!"
But if some stern' old party cries
With a reproving glance, .
"Young lady, don't you realize
That that's a New York dancer"
She'll pause, and tremble and turn pale
And sinking on the mat,
The wretched little thing will wail,
"No! No! Not that! Not that!"
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CRIBBING FROM AUGUSTUS THOMAS
Mr. H. G. Wells says thathe nations 'ought to get together and. take
measures to saveycivilization. As for instance?
A LUXURY
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Dog Hill.Paragrafs
"By George Bingham
Yam Sims's mule is getting so used
to every day things of life that he
can pass Columbus Allsop's h.ouse
while the family washing is hanging
out on the line without even raising
his ears. ,
A large number of friends took
dinner with Washington Hocks last
Sunday. It was an informal affair,
as all came without being invited.
.
Miss Gondola Henstep is again
back into social prominence after a
lapse of several weeks, during which
time she stayed at home and looked
natural
(Copyright, 1121, Georgs Matthew Adams.)
Romance in Origin
Of Superstitions
By H. IRVING KING.
Luck-Eggs.
In Canada and in most of the rural
section of the United States ; the
small eggs dropped by hens at the
end of the laying season arc called
"luck-eggs" and it is customary to
tell children in a half-laughing way
that they are "rooster's eggs." Some
of the more ignorant actually be
lievethat they are roosters' eggs. In
most sections it is believed that these
small eggs should be kept in the
house "for luck." But in parts of
Pennsylvania and Ohio it is believed
that in order to avert evil the cock's
egg when found should be thrown
over the house or barn, the thrower
standing so as to throw it over his
right shoulder. . i
The belief that these small eggs
were cock's is exceedingly ancient.
It was from such an egg that the
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tabled cockatrice was hatcnea a
monster which had the power of
killing by a glance of the eye: which
explains why, in some sections, the
luck-egg is thrown over the roof and
destroyed. The more seneral prac
tice of keeping them in the house
tor luck comes front the high posi
tion held by the cock in ancient
mythologies wherein he typified
Mercury, and was also an attribute
of Abraxas, the Gnostic sun-god, the
later form of Osiris and of Jupiter,
according to Jilworthy.
The cocks connection with the
stin-god came originally, undoubted
IjV from ; his custom of hailing the
uauy rising ot the sun with his
crow. As to his lavinsr eirsrs primi
tive man knew his hens had stopped
laying and when he found a small,
round egg m the nest he in his
childish logic, attributed it , to the
cock, the sun-god's bird, and con
sidered it an amulet powerful for
good. Keeping luck-eggs is merely
a ves.uge or sun-worsnip. . -
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WHY
Does . a Lump 'Come , Into Our I
Throats When We Cry?
Like the eye and the ear and
many other portions of the body.
the throat is a most delicate struc-!
ture designed with the triple function
of a channel conectine the mouth
with the stomach, the space through
which air is carried down toward the
lungs and the holding of the vocal
chords which control speech. For
this reason, when the brain is 'not
sufficiently developed, or when it
is not acting as it should as in the j
case of young children or persons
who are mentally defective we us
ually find a consequent difficulty in
speech and a constant , swallowing,
as if to renfove some obstruction
in the throat.
Practically the same thing applies
when' persons are so overwrought
that they have to seek refusre in
tears. Grief, and sometimes, anger,
causes an upset condition which may
be any one of a number of different
phases of hysteria. They person
loses control, for the- brain is not
functioning properly with respect to
the different action of the body, and
one of the effects is the feeling which
we Call a "lump in the throat" This
lump is nothing more -than a wave
like motion, precisely the reverse of
swallowing, caused by, a movement
in the walls of muscles which form
the throat, only the wave . moves
upward instead of downward, as is
the case when we swallow,, and we
get tne impression that there is some
obstruction, which leads persons who
are on the verge of tears to "clear
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(Cover up the answers, read the ques
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Follow These Questions and An
swers As Arranged By
J. WILSON ROY.
l. Why is our Saviour called
Alpha and Omega the beginning
and the end?
2. Who were the Nicolaitines men
tioned in Revelation ii. 6? r
'. 3.' Why is the word "Amen" ap
plied as a name or title to the Al
mighty? 4. What is meant by "a book writ
ten within and on the backside"
(Revelation v. 1)?
5. Why was the book sealed with
seven seals?
6. Why is such frequent reference
made to Babylon in the Revelation.
Answers.
1. Because the two Greek words
"alpha" and "omega" signify first
and last.
2. They formed an infamous sect
who disturbed the rising church by
the superstitions and impurities of
paganism.
3. Because in Hebrew it signifies
"true," "faithful," certain." Christ
here takes the title of "The Amen"
as if he said "I am the truth."
4. Books were then skins or parch
ments, and when written on both
sides part of the writing appeared,
though they were rolled up.
5. To signify that it contained mys
teries and secrets of the utmost im
portance. 6. Because under that term was
implied the united power of opposi
tion to Christ's church.
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the railways of Egypt and Palestine
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Jewel, Flower. Color
Symbols for Today
By MILDRED MARSHALL.
Today's talismanic stone and natal
gem, the crystal, is a very potent
talisman. The ancients believed that
it could direct the future action of
the wearer, since by looking into its
clear depths he could see coming
events. It is said, to be especially
lucky for lovers, who can see future
happenings in it more easily than can
other-people.
Whether this be true or not, many
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persons today believe that when they
wear a crystal they are more, com
petent to judge the advisability of
taking action concerning the future
that when they are without. Given
to a loved one when the moon is
full, it is said to promise the joys of
lasting love to both giver and recip
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