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n A 6 THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY,- APRIL 18, 1921. PY-TIME "TCA L E)S "ONWARD - OAB A" THE TALElQF J GRUMPY q U V-li W L Ab L u 1 i. J&WlfWaw CHAPTER IV. ' Hunting Hole. Usually Grumpy Weasel did not stray far from a certain corner of Farmer Green'a wood lot. He pre ferred to hunt where he knew the lay ( the land. And since he liked especially to hunt along old stoiv: walla, he picked out a long stretch of old tumble-down wall that reach ed through the woods toward Blue mountain. He picked it out as his very own hunting ground and never akcd permission of Farmer Green, either. Now, near the lower, cud of this -m- Mr. Meadow Mouse tfasped slightly wall the end toward the pasture a fat person known as Mr. Meadow Mouse sometimes wandered. "But he never visited that spot without first inquiring whether Grumpy Weasel had heen there the day before. Mr. Meadow Mouse had learned some how that Grumpy usually moved each day to a different part of his hunting ground. He was surprised, therefore to meet Grumpy Weasel face to face one time, when he felt sure that that surly rogue must be a good distance away. ' Mr. Meadow Mouse cast a quick glance around. But he could see no place to hide. So there was nothing for him to do but to put on a bold HOLDING A Adele Garrison's v Revelations The Question That Sorely Perplexed And Sadly Troubled Madge. We reached home, Lillian and I, to find Katie in tears of worry which changed to broad smiles when she taw me safe and sound. Luckily Lil lian had firmly impressed upon her the necessity of saying nothing be fore Mrs. Durkee or Marion of the hurried taxicab trip in search of me, jo there were no explanations to make. . i . ' "I hope you're satisfied, Katie, Lil lian said with a. grim :lile .smile. "Nothing would o this child she I . "hut tint I. should KO to hunt vou up. She figured that you had been decoyed to some emp ty house and murdered for your child." , . Li .. There was just the right note ot raillery in her voice. I knew that guilgles Katie would never suspect that Lillian had any other motive in her hurried taxicab trip than the calming of my little maid's hysterical tnovie-born fears, . "I no care," Katie retorted, a bit ot sullenness showing through her smiles. "Nothing happen dts time, but nobody know what coom 'an cder time." , . .... "That's very true,. Katie, Lillian said soberly, "and you keep on look xas out for Mrs. Graham. "You shooat jatch me!" Katie re plied earnestly, and though her ab surd ideas annoyed me, 1 could not but feel my heart warm at her de votion. -' . . - . I've Seen to Everything n "M l were in your place, Madge, Lilian suggested, "I would finish t'nat nap you say was interrupted by the telephone message. louve plenty of time before dinner,' . "I tlvnk you need one more than I" I, returned, looking at her pallid face. "You look as though you had experienced a hard day in town. "It wasn't any Sunday school pic nic,' ' she admitted wearily, then Wretched her arms luxuriously. But I've seen to everything and for the next week I'm simply going to revel in the outdoors. You may call tt . hunting homes, but for mc it s going Id be a reversion to savagery. 1 don't care what hard work our set tling involves, at least it's a change from 'the city. And I've warned everybody that they iKcdn t expect a" drawing' or an advertising jingle from me W a solid month.' "Oh, Lillian! I am glad!" I laid enthusiastically. "Now there'll be some chance of getting you back to yoiT old self again. But I think ought to begin by ordering you to take a nap, too." ,"You won't have to 'order,'" she returned. "I'm simply going to look up Marion, and then I'm coming back' and jump Into bed until dinner time. I fancy it won't be an espe--;.n rtv affair. Edith and Leila came back with me on the train, but they said Alfred and Dicky were in the midst of a big conference, and didn't know just when they could get awav." . nictr-tin Problems. : Akcrillv -iinn uli mv heart was singing a I went upstairs, all be cause of the news she had given me m.4 VAitU Fairfax's return from the cJty with her. My jealousy of her was becoming almost an obsession -;,k wi T know subconsciously that it was a -wrong, silly and unjus tified feeling which. 1 must ngiu ana . Wnt I felt that I lacked the strength of either. mind or body s to fight anything until I should have rA mm the shock of Grace Drawer's reappearance; in niy life, and have settled the immediate proo 4 lem before me, that of finding a . - home. ; ' nniUe-r wrrtMpm t-nt 1r from trc when I had loosened my cloth - . . . ... ,...., ing, dartenea tne room ana setuea down again1 for the nap which my manded. What should I tell Dicky t . - r t 3 , 01 my interview wun urate ui.ytii - The question kept buzzing in my brain, worried me, because although YARJHUR SCOTJi BAILEY.,, front. He howud pleasantly enough, though he was trembling a little, and remarked that it was a fine day and that he hoped Grumpy was feel ing happy all of which was quite true. Grumpy Weasel glowered at Mr. Meadow Mouse, for that was his way of replying to a kindly greeting. "You've not come here to hunt, I hope," he growled. "I'll have you know that this is my private hunting ground and I allow no poaching." . Mr. Meadow Mouse hastened to explain that he was merely out for a stroll. 'I never' hunt," he declared. "Of course, if I happen to see a tiny seed I may stop to eat it. But that s all." "You'd better be careful what yon rav!" Grumpy Weasel snapped. "C'nlesR I'm mistaken, you were timitiiior enmrthiner the moment VOU saw me. You were hunting a hole." Mr. Meadow Mouse gasped slight ly. He hardly knew what to say. "Be very careful where you go around here!" Grumpy Weasel warn ed him. "The holes in this stone wall are all mine. I shouldn't want you to use a single one of them without mv permission. , "Mr. Meadow Mouse assured him that he wouldn't dream of trespass ing. "And these holes among the roots of the trees they are mine, too," Grumpy Weasel snarled. "Oh, certainly 1 Certainly 1" Mr. Meadow Mouse cried. He was so quick to agree that for once Grum py Weasel couldn't think of any thing more to find fault about." ' "I'll let you crawl into a few of the smaller holes in the stone wall, if you'll be careful not to hurt them," he offered grudgingly. Mr. Meadow Mouse made haste to thank him. He said, however, that he thought he would wait till some other time. "There's no time like the present," Grumpy Weasel - grumbled. "To tell the truth. I want, to see if you can squeeze through as small a hole as I can." ' Copyright, Cosset & Dunlap. HUSBAND New Phase of of a Wife Lillian had said nothing about it, I was practically sure that she would rather I did not discuss Grace Draper with Dicky, But in the re adjustment of my attitude toward my husband which had come to me upon that memorable day among the long-leaf pines of North Carolina, I had resolved never again to keep from him anything which he was entitled as my husband to know. For a half hour I tossed, weighing the pros and cons of the matter, Lil lian's wishes against Dicky's rights. And only when with a sort of des peration I decided upon telling my husband everything as soon as I had the opportunity, did sleep come to me. . But the opportunity for such a confidence seemed a thing impossible of achievement, even though I tried faithfully to make one. Dicky and Alfred did not get home until after 8 o'clock, and as a consequence the dinner the last one of the three. families together as neighbors was as nearly spoiled as anything engi neered by Mrs. Durkee and Katie could be. I knew that mv little neighbor had soent much time and thought upon the meal, so was not surprised that she was "huffy, almost teartui, at the. spoiling ot her plans, ner mood struck the keynote for the evening, and soon after dinner, quiet and jaded, we separated and went to our rooms. In order to get as many things packed as possible we had planned that Dicky should share my room on this last night in the old house. I made - several tentative attempts while he was rushing through his preparations for bed to speak of the thing so heavily on my mind. But Dicky was distinctly unresponsive to anytalk. "For the love of Mike!" he blurt ed cut at last "Won't whatever you've got to say keep until tomor rom? I'm too tired to breathe, let alone listen to a line of chatter.'' (Continued Tomorrow.) Romance in Origin Of Superstitions By H. I. KING. Hair and Storms. There came into New York the other day a Norwegian steamer sev eral days overdue because of heavy weather. Dunne the first half of her voyage she encountered gales and tremendous seas which threat ened to engulf her. Then, when things were at their worst, the cap tain mustered all hands and had their hair cut. The storm ceased and the ship had good weather for the rest ot the trip. J he captain said he had ordered the hair-cutting because he had heard that his viking ancestors had performed the same lite in similar straits. .Here is a most interesting case of "reversion to type. it was true his Aorse ancestors had done that same thing in- the days when Odin gloried and drank deep in Valhalla. Among the an cicnts the hair, being considered as a peculiarly intimate part of a man sometimes as the seat of strength was frequently cut and offered up as a sacrifice to the gods. Juvenal tays tnat the hair should only be cut at sea in times of danger and as a final offering to the sods: as it would offend them to cut it at other times. In the Norse sagas Odin is rep resented as the great storm-god, sweeping the seas with warriors pushing his train. So the vikings eased his wrath by the propitiatory offering of their hair even as did their descendants the other day cn the storm-tossed Norwegiau steamer. A shorn crew at a Brook iyn pier who have just sacrificed to Odin makes "the persistence of the primitive" something more than a theory. Copyright, 1111. by The McClur Kewi paper Syndicate, Don't De Without a Car Vhil Yours is Beinf Repaired We make a (pedal rate of 10c per mile, plus (a and oil, if you allow our expert to do your wotk. Your aatief action, is our guarantee. 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When the next customer looked around in the same searching way the girl noticed that at the end of her inspection the woman glanced at her watch. ' It was enougti; the girl got the idea. Today there is a big clock, centrally placed on the main floor of that store. . Eventually the management might have discov ered the lack of a convenience that many customers expected and looked for it might have thought in time of the need of a clack but it was the employe down on the floor who did think of it and had enough self-confidence to carry her suggestion to the office. In the old days boilermakers had a lot of trouble with the. bolts used in securing the plates together. Often the ends of bolts would get battered in the proc ess of handling and it was impossible to start the nuts on the smashed threads. Then one of the men in the shops suggested that the bolts be made with tapering ends, thus allowing a tolerance for rough handling. That simple suggestion of a worker has saved years of labor in the numerous plants where the idea is now used. In a foreman's office in one Akron factory frequent use vas required of a certain gauge. Invariably the gauge was out of sight, stuck in some pigeon-hole or drawer, or buried under a pile of papers, or nestling in the pocket of the foreman, assistant foreman, or who ever had used it last. Many valuable minutes were lost daily in searching for the gauge, until one day a work man suggested that the little instrument be attached to - a chain and the chain fastened to the foreman's desk. This suggestion has worked like a charm in saving time and temper, yet it isn't anything but plain common sense, the sort of idea that any brain in the shop was capable of originating. Capable of it? Yes. But managers know that in the rank and file of industry and even in the upper ranks original ideas seldom materialize voluntarily and spontaneously, like a spring sonnet or a fairy god mother. Like the fabled geni of the lamp, they require some assurance and encouragement. The average em ploye in the 'average, business house has a natural hesitancy, a timidity, about going to the boss with a suggestion that involves changing an established method, a customary process or a proved piece of equip ment. There is a traditional feeling that suggestions from below, are not welcomed by the men higher up ; that they may, in fact, be resented as implied criticism of some superior, or, worst of all, that they may be ob jects of ridicule. Management is not altogether blame less for this attitude. - "I remember a case that occurred in a certain factory about 28 years ago," said an industrial manager, now an important executive in a New England plant. "There was a young mechanic taken on whp was a very genius for poking his nose into things, restless and eager about inventing. Inside of the first month he went to his foreman with an idea for a new foot control for the machine he was operating. It was a " revolutionary thing; it meant an increase of speed and output. But did the. young mechanic put it across? He did not. The foreman looked at the design with ' a suspicious eye, grunted, told the youth to leave it with him a few days, and promptly laid the thing away and' apparently forgot it. v v VTwo weeks later the employe ventured to ask his foreman if hejiad had a chance to look into the matter. 'Too damn expensive,' said the foreman, shaking his head. ' don't say it mightn't work, but we can't go and scrap a whole shop full of high-priced machinery just to try out some smart notion of yours.' I know this ex perience because I was that boy," continued the execu tive. "I quit, and I've never been back. I don't know what was done with my design, but I do know that the idea is very generally applied in machines of that type today. I've often wondered whether that foreman stole my poor little brain-child." ' . "To get anywhere worth going," said the New Eng land manager just quoted, "a suggestion system has to come out in the open and actively bid for suggestions." Where the suggestion system is on a basis of money awards many companies have found it helpful to classify their awards according to arbitrary groupings. The Na tional Safety Council cites one company as having this schedule: .$2.50 for suggestions that are neither original nor have any appreciable money value, yet that should be adopted, perhaps wjth modification. $5.00 for suggestions that are not original, but have appreciable money value. $10.00 for suggestions that are hot original, but have considerable money value. $10.00 for suggestions that are original, but have no appreciable moasy value. $50.00 for suggestions that are original and have considerable money value. , $50.00 or more for particularly valuable sugges tions. 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