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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 25, 1921)
12 thk ul:l;: umaiia, tuuksuax, auuum zo, rji'i. SLEEPY -TIME iTALES THETACE of, GRUNTY PIG WMHUR SCOTT BAILETl CHAPTER XVII. A Puzzle Solved. "Good morning, Grandfather Mole!" Jolly Robin called. "Whatl" cried Grandfather Mole. "Have I made the mistake again of coming up on top of Fanner Green's garden?" "You certainly have," Jolly told Win. "I must be getting old." said 'Nonsense!" Grandfather Mole snorted. Grandfather Mole. "I'm growing more careless every day. 1 didn't mean to dig my way above ground." And then, thrusting hi? long nose right into the dirt, he began to bur row out of sight. ' "Stop! Please stop!" Jolly Robin besought him. ."I want to ask you a question about digging." Grandfather Mole pulled his nose out of the ground. "What's your question?" he in quired. t "It's about Grunty Pig," Jolly Robin began. "I thought you said it was about digging." Grandfather Mole grum bled. And he started to burrow once more.' ' "So it te!" Jolly exclaimed. "I want to know how long it will take Grunty Pig to dig up the apple tree where I live." Again Grandfather Mole paused. ! "It all depends," he muttered. "It all depends on how much of his time he spends at digging." ' "He works every day," said Jolly Robin. "A good, long while every dayl" Grandfather Mole appeared to be thinking deeply. "He boasts -" Jolly Robin ex plained "he boasts that he will have the tree uprooted before fall. "Nonsense!" Grandfather Mole snorted. "If Grunty Pig says that, he doesn't know much about apple trees. He may be a fair digger; but he must be stupid." "That's what I've always thought," Jolly Robin exclaimed. "He can't go vcrv deep into things, , i . i i- OP J:e liEvcr nave indue sum t boast," Grandfather Mole declared. "When Grunty Pig digs, docs he dig right down out of sight?" "Oh, no! Never!" said Jolly Robin. "Ah! He merely scratches the sur face!" Grandfather Mole remarked with a wise nod of his head. "Well, it's no wonder that he made such a mistake." "Mistake!" Jolly Robin echoed. "Do you mean that Grunty Pig won't have our apple tree dowu by fall?" "I do," Grandfather Molie an swered. "The roots of a big. old ap ple tree spread out a good rod in every direction. And it would take hundred Grunty Pigs a whole summer to dig them free." A broad, smile spread over Jolly Robin's face. - , , '"Then " he ventured "then wouldn't it take Grunty Pig a hun dred summers to dig up our. tree; it he worked alone?" "No doubt t" Grandfather replied. "Or, to be on the safe side. I'll say lie could uproot your tree in 99 sum mers." "Hurrah!" Jolly Robin shouted. "Hurrah and thank you. Grand father Mole!" And leaving the old trentlcman to dig himself out of sight, roily Robin hurried home to his wife. Mrs. Robin was glad to see him. She knew, as soon as she caught a glimpse of his face, that he had good news for her. And she needed cheer ing, poor coult For Grunty Pig was beneath the tree ajrain, digging away in a most businesslike fashion. "Let him dig!" Jolly Robin whis pered to his wife. "Grandfather Mole fcays it will take him 99 summers to topple our tree over. And you know that Grandfather Mole is the greatest burrowcr in Pleasant Val ley." Mrs. Robin felt better at once. Looking down at Grunty Pig, she "this -son , f . ''Mrs. Pig's is! He has turned tip at least a dozen angle worms while you've been gone. And he has let every one of them get away from him!" - (Copyright. Hit. by th Metropolitan Newspaper Service). Jewel, Flower, Color Symbols for Today . By MILDRED MARSHALL. Especially fortunate on this day is the coral. It is both the talismanic and the natal stone assigned to this date by Oriental superstition. More than any other gem. this stone allies itself with the health of its vearer, changing in color with fluctuating vitality. ' 10 exercise au us power against evil or disease, the coral should be vorn where, its brilliant color makes it conspicuous. It should never be chipped or broken, as such an acci dent renders it powerless. Those who take long journeys will find the coral invaluable, . according to the ancients. ' Brown is a significant color today, vl hose who wear it will accomplish much through industry and persever ance." . The scarlet salvia is today's spe cial flower. ' ' ':Copyr!M.'l!l, Wheeler Fyndlcate, Inc.) Milliners in the United . States More Truth Than Poetry -By JAMES J. MONTAGUE it - ' Romance in Origin Of Superstitions CRUEL AND UNUSUAL The Bulgarian army is to be disbanded by order of the League) of Nations. The German, when told to .disarm, Though he made quite a bit of a row, Went back to the mill and farm. And is working there placidly now. Though his choice was to swashbuckle over the map, And stir up the various nations, The German is rather a versatile chap . Knowing plenty of peaceful vocations. ' When we say to the terrible Turk That he'll have to quit fighting and seek Some quieter method of work Than shooting off guns at the Greek. He will munch his pilaff in his happy harecm, With calm and contented enjoyment. No longer of bloodshed and conquest he'll dream But get busy with useful employment. But take from the Bulgar the blade . And the rifle he used on his foes. And you rob the poor chap of his trade, For fighting is all that he knows. Bulgarian babies are born midst alarms Of cannon and musketry rattle, As soon as they're weaned they're provided with arms . And hurried away to a battle. Some peoples could live without war And battle and murder and death, But to Bulbars the shedding of gore Is essential as drawing their breath. Deprive their brave men of the only career ' They ever can follow and cherish. Debar them from war, and inside of a year, T ! ! . :ti 1. f x lie umiay jidiiuii will Liciiau: - CAN'T BE DONE Watermelons, if left long enough in' the sun, will produce a fermented liquor, but how are you going to leave watermelons long' enough in the sun when they only grow m the midst of a colored population? "THRIFT . ; - As soon as we learned that bv savins six hundred million dollars Uncle Sam would save six dollars to ' every man, woman ana child in America, we immediately invested our six dollars 'in ' six golf balls. Copyright, 1921. The Bell Syndicate Co. ,ommon jense By J. J. MUNDY. Have You Forgotten? How can the "next door on both sides of j-ou" as a statement mean anything so far as your progress in school counts for an A result. When you were in the lower grades you learned the simplest rules for marking the vowels and the con sonants, and the rules were very definite. The first letter in the alphabet with a short horizontal line over the top meant "A just as you would say it in naming the letters of the alphabet. Two dots over this vowel gave it another sound, etc. Yet you will find persons who arc graduates of high school who can look in the dictionary for the pro nunciation of a word who hce all the signs and yet. says it is wrong and stick to it that it came from the dictionary,, "what more can you want?" . . In the maze . of later knowledge they lost sight of first principles. The person who has not the sense of first principles loses out. Go to the bottom of things if you want to build a house that will with stand time and the elements. If your foundaibn is off in any particular, do not expect progress till you have made a right start. Present and future arc affected by the past. Copyright, 1921. International Foatura Service, Inc. The British House of Commons has passed a resolution admitting women to the civil service of the United Kingdom under the same conditions that govern men. By H. IRVING KING. Transformation of Plants. That plants are able to transform themselves not only into other species but into forms of animal life is firm ly believed by many persons in this country and Canada people, too, who in their communities are esteem ed for their good, hard common sense." Chess, or cheat, is quite common ly regarded as wheat which has un dergone a transformation. "Wheat turns into cheat" the farmers say, and not very long ago some agri cultural papers gravely discussed the matter. Now chess, or cheat, is the Bromus Secalinus and wheat is Tri tieum Sativum, and such they remain however much they may deteriorate or however much they may be im proved. y A superstition found in some sec tions is that mosquitoes arc the prod ucts of young alder buds. Mrs.' Bergen mentions "an intelligent lady" who told her of -"a certain marsh plant which from being a plant in the early part of its existence chang ed into a snake." Various supersti tions of the sort arc scattered about the country. The idea of the transformation of plants is not new it is ' as old as the hills, almost literally so. Theo phrastus, the learned Greek, writing in the dawn of the Christian era, says that wheat turns into darnel and gives a long list of plants which, if they are not watched, will change into entirely different species. And primitive man accepted as a fact be yond dispute that plants and trees could change into forms of animal life even human beings as is tes tified to by many an ancient myth. Three and plants had life; to the primitive man they were also the abode of souls or spirits. From them 'why should not human beings be born? Jt is stated by some learned men that the Norse folk believed all the human race to be derived from the sacred ash. Juvenal speaks of the "new race" which "sprung from the oak" and Homer alludes to the same origin for mankind. The idea of the transformation of vegetables can be traced .far back and appears to have been once universal. Luther Bur bank has nothing on primitive man. Copyright, 1SS1, by The McClure Kews paper Syndicate. r Dog Hill Paragrafs By George Bingham During the livery stable days of the dim past suspicion rested on the ADVERTISEMENT Exhausted Nerve Force If from overwork, late hours, constant nervous strain or excesses of any kind your nerve force has become depleted and you are suffering from the awful tortures and great devitalizing weakness caused by exhaustion of the nervo-vital fluid you will find Nuxated Iron will often most sur prisingly increase your strength, energy und endurance in two weeks time. 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Copyright, 1921, Gcorgu Matthew Adams. native city without special accusa tion, trial or defense. The process was carried out ly writing on an oyster shell (os-trca) or potshord the name of the citizen whom it was thought prudent to banish lor a time. A day was appointed for the ceremony and the polling place was fenced in, with 10 entrances lift for the citizens of each tribe and 10 separate casks or vessels in which the primativc ballots were to be placed. If, at the end of the day, tha num ber of votes against any one per son totaled 6,000, that person was "ostracized" or temporarily ban ished. If not. the ceremony was con sidered to have vindicated the ac cused. In the event that the ballot ing demanded his departure, 10 days were allowed for settling his affairs and he was then required to leave for 10 years, though he retained ti tle to his property and suffered no other penalty. A similar institution at Syracuse was called "pctalism" because, in taking the votes, the name of the citizen was written upon the leaf of an olive, instead of upon an oyster shell or potsherd. (Copyright, 19l'l, Wheeler (Sjnillostc. Inc.) WHY Do We Speak of "Ostracizing Someone? This word, used in its significance of "banning" or "shunning," dates directly bac,k to the ancient Greek ceremony of ostracism, bv which a citizen might be banished fri.rn his HOW MILLIONS NOW END CORNS They Firtt Stop thm Pain httantly Thit Ea$y Some years ago a famous expert found a new way to end corns. A laboratory of world-wide fame adopted and produced it. Thousands of people tonight will stop the pain of throbbing corns and then bid farewell to corns. Corn troubles everywhere have largely disappeared. The way is Blue-jay the liquid or the plaster. Apply it by a touch. The pain stops instantly. The whole corn soon loosens and comes out. The way is gentle, easy, quick and sure. It is scientific. Quit old ways and try this one now. Watch what it does to one corn. 1 Join your friends, who never let a corn pain twice. Begin tonight, Your druggist has Liquid or Platter Bluejay Stop Pain Instantly ' Enda Corns Quickly Parents' Problems How can bovs be broken of the habit of jumping on and off moving street cats.' Hovs should be told how exceed ingly dangerous this habit is. Should this fail to deter them, the eldest of a group of boys might be asked to protect the younger boys from forming the habit. In order to do this the older boy must first set the Big Reduction in Sewing Machine Rent $4.00 a Month $1.50 a Single Week Come in and rent a famous Bail-Bearing WHITE and do your fall tewing - now Make the kiddies tome new tchool drettes. . M1CKEUS H: 15th and Harney A Dashing Young Fireman- A Piquant Society Belle- "Mad. Heav And a Marriage em em Featuring Tom Moore and Helene Chad wick and Rene Adoree (Mrs. Tom Moore) The luck and the pluck of the Irish were with the handsome Bill. He went through smoke and flames to win the prettiest mem ber of society's inner circle and he won her in a way that nobody but a nervy young Irishman could ever get away with. fefUP II ' VM 7-t This sparkling comedy opens for a three day engagement, starting today rm,'m,nnnMinmJr rrrwirrrwrtrrn Sunday, Mammoth Anniversary Show If ' STARTS TODAY Thurs. Fri. Sat. The Story of Your Neighbor and Mine 4f. Sit V,V SUFG WORTH UVIEOQ ? The serio-comic photoplay a mingling of laughs and tears with a story so real, so human, so close home that it draws sympathetic response from everyone. POSSIBLY YOU'VE ASKED THE QUESTION COME SEE THE ANSWER! Mack Sennett Comedy "My Goodness" with Louise Fazenda Xinograms Scenic Rialto Symphony Players Julius K. Johnson at the Organ example. Though parents and teachers should do their best to deal adequately with this matter, street ear conductors and policemen are perhaps the persons best able to'pr vent hoys from jumping on and olf moving .trcct cars. Miss Bcrtiirc C. Shidelskv is mak ing a tour of the United States for the purpose of studying divorce. : 1 lXmn III ..,-1 I 3 DAYS MORE SUNDAY VIOLA DANA and Larry Semon liiiipll' last Times 'What Every Woman Knows" TOMORROW Matinee Sat. Wm. S.Hart AMCSEMKNT9. Mat. Daily. 2:19; Night. :IS n, n , BILLY ARLINGTON: Blossom Seeley browning: bi ' Byron , Wm. Halt: Mat Malvllla a Gaoras Bennie Fild. Day: Anop't Fatilaa; Palha Wsakly. Matlneti I Jo to 60o, soma 75o aad $1.00 Sat. and Sun. Nights lis ta 11.00, soma 11.25 Sat. and Sua. Peony Park Harvest Time Ball Thursday Eve., Aug. 25 BASE BALL TODAY OMAHA v. WICHITA Game Called at 3:30 P. M. Box Seats on Sale at Barkalow Bros. EATTY'S Co-Operative Cafeterias We Appreciate Yaur Patronage. 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