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THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, JULY 11, 1921. J SLEEPY -Tlvt TALES THE GUMPS THE TOILERS OF THE SEA Drawn for The Bee by Sidney Smith. Copyright, 1921. Chicago Tribune Company Do You Know the Bible? 8 .THE TALE OF I T V CHIRPY RICKET W ARTHUR .5C0TT BAILEY i CHAPTER II Quick and Easy. Of course Chirpy Cricket didn't spend all hit time merely . sitting quietly in his hole, in the day time and fiddling every night. Of course lie had to eat. And 'each night he was in the habit of creeping out of his hole and gathering spears of grass in Farmer Green's yard, which he carried home with him. He called that "doing his market ing." And it was lucky for him that he liked grass, there was so much of it to be had. All he had to do was to step outside his door and there it was,, all around him! It made housekeeping an easyxnattcr and left him plenty of time, every night, to nddle and frolic. Somehow Chirpy could never go from one place to another in a slow. sober walk. He always moved by MEUL- THE 0LX BACK USVt K OU fcrtOTTY 60 oire W1WE hDWiN& WfOW YOVtV UMF AHt ?EM? THE REST OP THt VWf TAKIN6 VME VCMQTT OUT Or it- !! E NET MAKER.- THAT'S WHAT 0U ARC- Vol) 0U6WT EINE Fofe FVH- Jvy CT ONCE A,t YOU'VE 0T A NET- NO VW CO)Vt ft. 6tT THRDVXbVA THAT- IF VOU ever, get A fish rr G0tN6 TO B TANGrLEP in Toue UNE I.T WOMT BE OH VOUR. HOOK- VMAT 15 TWAT ? A PUZZLE? V THAT A $AME SOU'R-E V0RKH6? TWE 0H0 WW A FKM WLL XVtK OFT OH YWR NL'lL WT6rfA LADDER--OU tONT GET ENOUGH UNE OUT Tb REACH Tttt VtKT- VWAT bo TOU GET vEN VOO GET AO. THE KNOTS OUY? WHAT'S THE" 5A6? I'LL. 0ET WWW TOP GET THAT ALL FVNISHEfc- GEY IT ALU TRAI6HT ANO NtCfc TOU LU THROW OULL TMIM6 '111 I L' flN. s- IT OUT AJAIN AHP i i. H calkd that marketing" "doing his Kaps, as if he felt too gay to plod along like Daddy Longlegs, for in stance. Chirpy himself often re marked that he hadn't time to move slowly. And almost before he had finished speaking, as likely as not he would jump into the air and alight some distance away. It was all done so quickly that a person could scarcely see how it happened. But Chirpy Cricket said it was as easy as anything. And having leaped like that, often he would be gin to shuffle his wings together the moment he landed on the ground, therebv makin his shrill music. Many of his neighbors declared that he believed a short life and a iherry one was the best kind. And when they thought of Timothy Tur tle, who was so old tnat noDoay cculd even guess his age, and was so disagreeable and snappish that every one kept out of his way, the neighbors decided that possibly Chir py Cricket's way was the better of the two. Anyhow, there was no doubt that Timothy Turtle believed in a long life and a grumpy one. All Chirpy's relations were of the nmf mind a he. Thev acted as if they would rather make the nights . .:u iliV mct than An anv- ung wnii wvii n.uo.w thing else. And Johnnie Green said one evening, when he heard Solomon Owl hooting over in the hemlock woods, that it was lucky there weren't as many Owls as there were Crickets in the valley. If there were hundreds or maybe thousands of Qwls, and they all hooted at the same time, there d be no sleeping for anybody. At least that was Johnnie Green's opinion. And it does seem a reasonable one. Chirpy Cricket's nearest -relations all locked exactly like him. Every body said that the Crickets' bore a strong family resemblance to one another. .But there were others more distant cousins that were quite tinlike Chirpy. ' T,here were the Mole Crickets, who stayed in the ground and never, never came to the sur face; and there were the Tree Crick ets, who lived in the trees and fid dled re-teat I re-teat re-teat t until cu nu'shtt have thought they would get tired of heir ditty. But they never did. They seemed to like their music as much as Chirpy Cricket liked his ca-r-il or-r-i-l cr-r-r-il (Copyright. Grosset Duq1P.) . Common Sense By J. J. MUNDY. Are You on'Time at Home? , "Here I have been waiting' half an hour for my husband to go out with me, and. now,-that he is ready he can hardly wait for me to get on my coat." Ever hear a complaint of this sort? There are a lot of husbands who think it does not matter how long they keep the wife waiting, but when conditions are reversed there is plenty of show of irritability and harsh words. The man who wants his meals ready when he comes in the door of the home, thinks nothing of standing on the corner half an hour, or in front of the home of a neighbor while his wife is trying to keep things hot for a meal he has made late. Men are unreasonable, unjust and inconsistent with their wives often. Too many demand too much and give too little. A man should be as particular to get home on time to his meals as if ' he were keeping a business en gagement which was important Most wives do their own work, have planty to do, and have to make the minutes count in order to get their work done. Too few men realize how much time it requires to keep the house up and the clothes made or mended, unless they see the actual work go ing on. , Copyright, 121. Intonation! Service, Ine. Parents' Problems Can tact be taught to children? If to, how? i , Genuine tact is merely real cour-tesy-that is, the habit of thinking, saying and doing that: which is gentle, kind and considerate. Surely hit not only may, but must be taught to children. As to how, one can only say that it should be taught as other ethical lessons' are taught, by precept and example, HOLDING A HUSBAND A11 Garrison's New Phase of - "Revelations of a Wife" o The Request Marion Made of Her Anxious Mother. As Marion's weak little voice ut tered her mother's name, Lillian bent over her with the tender, spe cial understanding smile which lov ing mothers reserve for their chil dren. It seemed of itself to envelop the child in safety. "Yes, sweetheart. Mother's right here." "What's the matter? O-h-h " ' Her scream seemed to pierce the roof. For a terrorized instant I feared that some inadvertent move ment of her body had given her pain, and knew that the physician and nurse shade my apprehensions by the quick, concerted movement they made toward the child. But in another second the explanation had come. "The horses!" Marion shuddered, and we realized she was living over the awful moment when the mad dened animals had dashed over her. Lillian had dropped to her knels beside the cot at the cry, and had drawn the terrified child into her arms. ' "There, there, darling, she sob bed. "Mother's here, and nothing can get you." At her action I had seen Dr. I'ettit's hand gesture toward her with involuntary . though impotent protest, and realized that he' feared movement for the little body with its as yet undetermined injuries. But as the child, with no indication of pain, nestled close to her mother, I watching him narrowly, in the endeavor to ascertain his real opin ion concerning Marion's condition saw his face relax, though almost imperceptibly, and knew that the1 in cident had brought him distinct re assurance. Marion did not speak again for a long minute. With one hand cling ing to her mother's hand, and the pther caressing her face, she ap peared to be revelling in the assur ance of safety her mother's embrace gave her. Then her eyes roved to the rest of us. "Auntie Madge," she said with glad tecognition. "Dr. Pettit " there was wonderment in the clear tones. "And " her eyes rested on Miss Jones in her uniform, "Mother, where are we? This isn't one of the rooms at Ticer's." With characteristic caution Lillian glanced at Dr. Pettit for advice as to the answer he wished given to the child. - He nodded his head in permission to reveal the truth, and Lillian smiled gayly at her small daughter. "I'll give you three guesses," she said, and I saw that she was deftly trying to remove any uneasiness in the child's mind by her own uncon cerned manner. Marion's face lighted with answer ing gayety. "That's easy." she said, looking at Miss Jones' uniform. "It's a hospital. But" with a, startled look. "Did I break anything? Will I be able to walk?" " Dr. Pettit bent over her. "I am sure you will, Marion," he said calmly. "But I want you to keep very still for a little while and rest, will you?" "Oh, yesl" docilely, and her eyes went contentedly back ' to. her mothers' face. The ohvsician took her pulse and temperature, and made a brief, curJ sory examination of the little body. "Everything's all right so far " His voice no less than his words reas sured, for he had let the relief he felt show through his professional calm, "Now, I wonder if I can guess what you are thinking about." The child's eyes twinkled, and I Jewel, Flower, Color Symbols for Today recognized anew in her the same in domitable spirit which keeps her mother smiling no matter what ob stacles confront her. "I can't wait to have you guess," she said. "I'm hungry." x "That's splendid," Dr. Pettit re turned heartily. "Miss Jones is a regular Aladdin. Please go and rub your lamp, Miss Jones." The nurse hurried away, and Marion contentedly, snuggled closer to her mother. "Cuddle me tight, Mumsie," she commanded, as if she could not get enough of the enveloping, mother love. How gladly Lillian obeyed her, I knew only too well, for my arms were aching to hold my own little lad. And until Miss Jones came back with the tray none of us spoke. Marion drank the hot broth with relish. When she had finished, she crept into her mother's arms' again and lay there quietly for several con tented minutes. "Mumsie," she said at last thought fully. . . "Yes, my lamb." "I came pretty near dying, didn't I?" "Yes, sweetheart, but don't talk about it." "Only just this little bit." There was curious obstinancy in the child's respectful tone. "If I had died my Uncle Robert would never have seen me again. And I love him so, and want to see him so bad. Won't you ask him to come?" (Continued Tomorrow.) Dog Hill Paragrafs By George Bingham the Calf Ribs neighborhood, bring ing with him all of a saw mill that he could carry. It is believed he will go back and gradually get the other parts 'later. Atlas Peck reports that he has a good cistern for sale, or will swap it for a pond in good condition. All the honest people are not dead yet. lhe Hotel Proprietor at Tick villc says he has often heard that the traveling public had a habit of taking silverware from the table while nobody was looking, but that he has been in the business now for going on six years, and has the same set of pewter spoons he started with. Copyright. 1921, George Matthew Adami. Romance in Origin g Of Superstitions By H. I. KING. Birds and Hair Combings. It is a general superstition in the United States and Canada that if you throw away your hair combings the birds will carry them off to line their nests and you will have the head ache. In some sections they go so far as to say that you will , "go crazy" and ih" others the penalty as signed for carlessness- with regard to hair combings is baldness. The vital connection existing be tween a man and his hair, even after it has been separated from him, and various . superstitions arising from this conception of the ancients, have already been noticed in this series. It is the process of cutting the hair and the fragments severed by the knife or shears which are mostly considered in ancient myth and mag ic; but the dead hair, or loose hairs, which comes out in the form of "combings" are only of slightly less importance. They also affect the man by sympathetic magic and what is done to them reacts upon their former possessor. Hair combings, woven into a bird's nest, are twisted into many shapes strange and un natural compared with their original forms of arrangement, and are also subjected to more or less strata Therefore it is natural that they should make the head from which they came ache or "drive it crazy" sympathetic magic of the homeo pathic sort Also, on the same prin ciple of sympathetic magic, there may be any number of reasons worked out why the unfortunate per son who has had his hair combing appropriated by the birds for build ing purposes should grow bald. Copyright, mi. ly the McClure 1 Newspaper Syndicate. WHY Does Ligthning Strike Trees? If, for purposes of experiment, we were to take a small motor and gen erate a mud. electrical current, we would find that this current passes without any apparent diminution in force through rubber or substances of a finely woven though flexible nature. The latter are called "non conductors" ' of electricity, just as asbestos is a nonconductor of heat and wood is a nonconductor of light As a general rule, wood will not carry electricity and does not there fore attract it, but a tree projects a number of feet above the ground and the lightning (merely another form of electricity) follows the line of least resistance in reaching the earth, sometimes striking with a force sufficient to tear a huge trunk asunder. In cases of this kind the tree is the lightning rod of the earth, pointing upwards and literally pull ing the lightning down, though with out having the same attraction for the electricity possessed by the metal rods on houses. For this reason, it is dangerous to stand under a large tree during a thunder storm, for the electricity in the air is seeking to reach the ground and will take in stant advantage of anything which wilT be of resistance to it in accom plishing this purpose. (Copyright, 121, Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.) Nearly all of the 10,000 diamond workers in Amsterdam are unem ployed. (Cover up the anaweii. read the qutil tlona and it you can answer thm.5 Then look at the answer to It you' are right.) Follow -These Questions and Aa swers As Arranged by J. WILSON ROY. 1. Who besides Tilate believed ioj the innocency of Christ at his cruci fixion? ' 2. What were the last words uu tered by Jesus? 3. Who was Joseph of Arimathea, and what did he ask of Pilate? 4. What was the birthplace of Go liath? 5. What was the "handwriting on the wall." 6. What was the interpretation of the "handwriting on the wall? . Answers. M. See Matthew, xxvii. 3-5: Luke- xxiii. 47; John, xviii. 39. 2. See Luke xxiii. 46. 3. See Matthew, xxvii. 57-60. 4. Gath. 5. Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin. ; 6. See Daniel, v, 25-28. (Copyright, mi. 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Significant of purity and the beauty of youth, it is especially desig nated for weddings and all festivi ties given for young people. (Copyrifht, 1621, Wheeler Syndicate. Inc.) Where It Started " Paper Knives. Just who discovered that a blunt knife cut naner evenlv at rrasi .while a sharo knife often (tlinnerl tr one side and disfigured the paper, is noi Known; out tne earliest men tion of such instruments attributes their use to the clerk in th nffir of Lord Bolinebroke. about 1750: The allusion is made by Jonathan Swift. . (Copyright, mi. Wheeler Sjndicatt, Jno.) Low Stammes0 Tourist Iftops from Omaha 9 fin to Denver, Colorado Springs, t Pueblo and return. 3Q to Rocky Mountain National (Estes) Park and return. to West Yellowstone (Yellowstone National Park) and return. Four and one-half days' motor-trip, within the park, with accommodations at hotels $54.00, at camp $45.00. 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