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    THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1921.
SLEtP.Y-TIME TALES
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THETALE of
GRUNTY
PIG
UR SCOTT BAIlPfl
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XX.
A New Kind of Pig.
"Stop grunting and squealing and
follow mel" Old Dog Spot growied.
And Grunty Pig, who had just
tumbled through a hole in the fence,
scrambled to his feet and trotted
after his guide.
Old Spot had promised to show
'These pitfg," h said, "won't vr
. hava tails."
Grunty a dozen pink and white pigs,
all without tails. He wanted Grunty
to see how handsome they looked.
"You'll like them," Spot told
, Grunty over his shoulder a. they
jogged across the farmyard. "You'll
ask Farmer Green this very day to
cut off your tail and nail it up on
the barn. I tell you, these pigs
look neat. There's style about
them."
"Umphl Umph!" said Grunty Pig
as he shuffled along behind.
"Now, I wonder what he means
by that 1" Spot mused. It was some
times hard to tell whether Grunty's
umphs stood for yes or no.
Around the corner of the farm
house, near the woodshed door, old
dog Spot came to a halt before a
wire cage.
Stopping beside Spot, Grunty Pig
peered inside the cage. He saw a
number of odd little creatures run
ning about inside the sawdust strewn
floor of the tiny house, one or an
other of the'in giving a faint .squeak
now and then as if ordering the two
unasked callers to move on.
WhoeVer they were, they were a
bright-eyed little family. But Grunty
Pig thought, as he stared at them,
that they had a most peculiar look.
There seemed to be something miss
ing about them. Yet he couldn't
1 tell just what it was.
Together Grunty and Spot stood
there, silent, for a time; until it last
Grunty said, "Come along 1 Let's not
stay here any longer. I want to see
those 12 pigs without tails."
Old dog Spot snorted.
"You want to see them!" he cried.
"Well, nobody's stopping you.
They're right here in front of you!"
Grunty Pig's mouth fell open he
was astonished, v He knew, i now,
What mai1 (h Lett 1 A a-telfv nUiin
viw 4 itiv.t yAi&y f . Willie
strangers look so queer. There
wasn't one of them that had even a
hint of a tail! !
Then all at once Grunty turned
angrily upon old dog Spot.
"These aren't pigs," he squealed
"You needn't think you can fool me.
1 hey re not pigs at all.
"Oh, yes they are!" Spot -tiststed.
"You didn't suppose that all the pigs
in the world were exactly like your
family did you?"
Grunty didn't know what to say.
He looked at the odd little creatures
again. And then at Spot once more,
s "If these really are pigs," he fal
tered, "they must be very, very
young. They're certainly smaller
than any day-old pigs I ever saw.
Maybe their tails haven't sprouted
.yet." i g
Old dog Spot seemed to choke
over something. He turned lU head
away for a moment or two before he
spoke.
"These pigs," he said, "won't ever
have tails. Not one. of them would
"know what to do with a tail if you
gave liim one. They don't want
tails. They have no use for them.
And now that you see for yourself
how happy they arc without tails,
you ought not to delay any longer
about having yours cut off. I hope,"
Spot added," "I'll see your tail nailed
up on the barn tomorrow, where
everybody can see it."
Then Grunty Pig said something
that surprised him.
"Why don't you have your own
tail cut off?" he asked Spot.
And before old Spot could think of
an answer, Johnnie Green came run
ning Out of the woodshed.
"Get away from my guinea pigs!"
he shouted.
Grunty and Spot both turned and
ran in opposite directions. Grunty
didn't see Spot again for more than
a week. When they did at last meet,
old Spot never mentioned tails at all.
To te! Ve truth, he seemed to feel
somewhat ashamed of himself for
having tried to play a trick on
Grunty Pig.
(Copyright. 19M, by the Metropolitan
Newspaper Service.)
Do You Know the Bible ?
(Cover up the answer read the ques
tion and see If you can 'answer them.
Then lock at the answers to see It you
are right) ,
Follow These Questions and Ans
wers As Arranged by
J. WILSON ROY.
1. Whose desire was it that his
adversary had written a book? .
2. On what occasion did a woman
give her visitor a bottle of milk?
3. Who was Sopater of Berea?
4. Where is the only Scriptural
reference to a road?
5. Who was Jehu's father?
6. Who wrote the 89th Psalm?
Answers.
1. Job xxxi. 35.
2. Judges iv. 19.
3. Acts, xx. A.
4. 1 Samuel, xxvii. 10.
5. 1 Kin's, xix. 16.
6. Ethan, the Ezrahire.
(CopyrisM. 1M1. Wheeler Syndicate, lac.)
So many uses for paper yarn have
been discovered in Germany that it
is being made at a rate of about
88,000,000 pounds annually.
I Sr-enLiZSnVI
More Truth
-By JAMES J.
THE SAD TALE OF MICKEY THE MORON
When Mickey the Moron to Sing Sing was sent.
For seven consecutive terms.
The doctors averred that this criminal bird
Was a victim of larceny germs.
So they mugged him one day with, X-ray machine,
And when, undeniably plain,
The picture revealed where the germs were concealed,
, They took out a hunk of his brain.
The patient was cured of the habit of theft;
In a bank they could turn him adrift
Among screen-wire tills full of nice yellow bills
And never a one would he lift.
And yet a fresh criminal fancy he took
Which set the poor doctors aghast;
At night he'd go down to a dark part of town
And kill every person that passed.
This bothered the medical men quite a bit;
It bothered the sheriff still more, '
Though the man was bereft of the habit of theft
He did far more harm than before. '
So again was removed a small patch of his roof
To save, the poor chap from the halter.
And now he does time for a new kind ef crime
He's become a proficient defaulter.
The puzzle, we're happy to say has been solved;
The instruments used upon Mick
Had been used to take bugs from a number of thu
With criminal maladies sick.
And jn taking one sort of a microbe away
From the victim's felonious mind,
One crime to efface, why they left in its place
A germ of a different kind! V
'COOD ARGUMENT ANYWAY
Maybe when the delegates to the disarmament conference see how
many of use there are and how we conduct a subway jam, they will just
naturally want to disarm.
A DIFFERENCE
Beer still conies in schooners, but not beyond the three-mile limit.
THE REAL BELLIGERENTS
Maybe it will be possible to get the New York hold-up men to go
down to the disarmament conference.
(Coryrlfht. 1921. by The Bell SmdiMte, Inc.
HOLDING A
Adele Garrison's
"Revelations
The Way Dicky Greeted Grace
Draper and Masked His Chagrin.
Hush, Dicky! She'll hear you." '
Dicky abruptly stopped his ag
grieved mumbling over Grace
Draper's changed appearance, lifted
his hat and waved a greeting to her
as she caught sight of us. I also
waved to the girl whose hand I
never had thought to take in even
common courtesy again, and we
hurried swiftly to her side.
She had her suitcase in one hand,
fvr bag in the other, and Dicky took
them from her in as casual fashion
as if she had been a frequent week
end guest.
I reflected that I did not know
the circumstances of their last meet
ing and parting, and I wondered if
there was in Dicky's mind a re
membrance of that time. No need
to ask if Grace Draper remembered.
She could control her face and her
voice, but there was an expression
in her eyes as she glanced quickly
at Dicky and then as quickly away
again, that told me she had forgot
ten no slightest incident of their ac
quaintance. "Hello. Grace 1" Was it my fancy,
or did Dicky carefully avoid anything
but the most casual of glances.
"How was the trip warm?"
"No, thank you, very pleasant,"
she responded in as carefully indif
ferent a tone, taking my outstretched
hand in a firm grasp.
An Odd Experience.
"Thank you for letting me come.
Madge," she said simply, and if I
ever heard gratitude and sorrowful
remorse for the past in any human
being's voice I heard it in hers. If
I had wished I could not have helped
giving her an, answer in keeping
with her greeting.
"I am glad to have you." I re
turned. "Come this way. The car
is right over here."
I drove rapidly to the inn of
which Dicky had spoken, with her
by my side and Dicky with the lug
gage in the tonneau. Ii Was one
of the oddest experiences of my
Iifa, and I found myselt speculating
upon the mental processes of the
girl. There was not the slightest
remnant of the sparkling coquetry
which had made her so alluring in
the old days. She was simply dignity
itself to Dicky, charmingly 'friendly
to me, with j'ist the correct touch
of humility. Was she truly repent
ant, or was she playing a difficult
part extremely well?
"Oh, what a wonderfully pretty
place!'
I think the exclamation burst sim
ultaneously from both Grace Draper
and myself, as I turned a sharp cor
ner under Dicky's directions and
drew up in front of a rustic archway
twined with climbing rose bushes
covered with buds.
"I thought it would hit you be
tween the eyes, Madge, Dicky said
complacently, and for a long minute
we feasted our eyes upon the low,
rambling inn, set in a grove of won
derful old trees.
"How one can rest herel" Grace
Draper sighed.
Madge's Question.
"That's right," Dicky said eagerly.
"You must get a good long rest and
pick up a bit before you begin work
He was plainly embarrassed, and I
think Grace Draper's sharpened wits
caught the troth then from his
manner.
"I suppose I'm too thin, and and
changed," she said with a gallant
attempt at a smile.
"Rot!" Dicky rejoined sharply. I
thought too promptly. It was as if
he had anticipated her question. "You
look tired, of course, but that will
only be a matter of a few days. And
I can't possibly begin work for over
a week yet. . Then , we'll talk things
over.
"Very well." The words were
quiet enough, but there was a world
of disappointed mortification in her
Than Poetry
MONTAGUE
HUSBAND
NewPhaie of
of a Wife"
voice, l knew she must have real
ized, perhaps for the first time, that
not only her exquisite beauty but her
power over Dicky was gone, and the
knowledge must have been misery it
self to her. Her voice haunted me
as we drove away, and I knew it
troubled Dicky also, although his
reaction to it took the form of irrita
ted criticism.
"Why. she's positively haggard!"
he exploded, as we drove away. "She
won't do at all. " Of course, she still
is lissome, and she'd be graceful even
cranking a flivver, and I think rest
and good food will bring back her
lines in a week or two. But herfacel
It's as hard as nails, all the youth
and expression gone out of it. What
the devil am I going to do
I made no reply, knowing from
long experience that Dicky wished
none when He was fighting something
out with himself.
"I've got it!" he exclaimed, after
a minute s silence. Didn t 1 tell
you Miss Foster's profile was like
Grace's. She doesn t know how to
pose, but I can use her for the flesh
curves of the face, and then with
Grace for the postures I can do. I
say, old dear, manage it for me. will
you? Ask Miss Foster, and, yes
of course you 11 have to include Saw
bones' to dinner out here to meet
Grade. Then we'll fix it up."
I could not forbear one astonished
question.
(Continued Tomorrow.)
THE CHARM OF A
CLEAR, SMOOTH SKIN
And How To Attain It
. Every one knows the added charm
or a clear, smooth skin a complexion
with the tint of youthfulness. Just
how to successfully clear tha skin oi
unsightly blemishes has been tha
erreatest desire of women for ages.
Black and White Beauty Bleach is
a delightfully perfumed cream that
will remove pimples, tan, sua and
wind freckles and similar complexion
blemishes make the skin clear, soft
and youthful.
Black and White Soap will aid
Beauty Bleach in removing skin
Flemishes and its regular use will
keep the skin in perfect condition.
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Dog Hill Paragrafs
Washington Hocks says much of
the interest taken in the daily
weather is not to find out how the
weather is going to be, but how far
the forecaster missed it.
Everbody gets out of the way of
a blind man, still blind men are not
as a rule considered bad men.
The Depity Constable has a new
pair of patent magnifying spectacles,
which he wears when he goes out
on a case. The specs enlarge every-
thing so much that on day before
yesterday, when a man on Gander
creek stole a calf, the Depity arrested
him for stealing a cow.
Copyrifht. 1921, George Matthew Adams.
Common Sense
By J. J. MUNDY.
Being a Guest.
Women who will visit at homes
where there is no maid to do the
work, or a part of it, should insist
upon doing a gocd share of the
work. 1 -
Most hostesses will object, but it
will be found that the helpful guest
is given a more genuine welcome
than the one who has to be waited
upon all the time.
Your friends who come to. visit
you want to sr.e you, and those
whom you visit want to see you lor
a visit, but as a guest you must rea
lize that your presence makes a
change in the daily schedule or rou
tine, not only because you are there
and are bound to make extra work,
but even the regular work in hot
weather is exhausting.
Even the best friend you have
eventually will resent it when you
come down late in the morning
dressed in cool garb and sit on the
porch or elswhere in the coolest
places while she toils over the kitcn
en stove preparing meals.
Usually this is one ol the best
tests of strong friendship.
But don t try it instead, work
right along with your hostess and
help her get done in half the time.
and vou can visit as you work, and
you are doubly welcome. Be respon
sible for your own room, put in
order early, and keep your own
things in your room, not scattered
all over the house and you will give
pleasure as a guest.
Copyright, 1921, international Feature
Service, Inc.
'
It. J. REYNOLDS Tobacco Co.
Wiastoa-SeUm,N.C
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Romance in Origin
Of superstitions
By H. IRVING KING.
Love and the Peach Tree.
Among the various survivals of
tree-worship existing in this coun
try is a superstition mentioned by
Mrs. Bergen in a memoir of the
American Folk Lore society, which
superstition is as follows: Go out at
midnight and walk around a peach
tree repeating
"Low for a foreigner,
Bark for a near one,
Crow for a farmer
Screek, tree, screek, if I'm to die
first."
This is to be tried by a young
lady who desires information as to
whom she is likely to marry, or to
know whether she is to die unmar
ried. If, after she has invoked the
tree, she hears a cow low, a cock
crow or a dog bark, or instead, the
tree "screeks," she has her answer.
Mrs. Bergen gives the invocation
merely, but adds in a note that pre
sumably the tree is to be circled
"sunwise" that is. in the direction
of the hands of a watch.
This presumption is hardly war
ranted, as direct tree worship sel
dom, if ever, involves the ritual of
sun worship. The peach tree su
perstition is analogous to several
Other forms of tree worship surviv
ing in Europe. For instance, before
dawn on Good Friday the Bavarian
peasant goes out to his orchard and
prays to the trees, saying, "I pray,
oh, green tree! that God may make
thee good," a formula evidently
changed from a prayer to the tree
to one for it, and at night thev run
about among the trees crying, "Bud,
oh, trees! or I will flog you." When
prayers failed with their gods the
Be one who smiles
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order to keep the home comfortable.
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ancients used to try intimidation. In
Devonshire the farmers take a bar
rel of cider into the ( orchard and
throw cups of it at the most fruitful
trees chanting:
"Health to thee, good apple tree,
well to bear pocketsful, hatsful."
Old Tusser in his "Hundred Points
of Good Husbandry" says that in
order to be fruitful all trees must be
"wassilcd" that is, treated as the
Devonshire farmers treat their apple
trees.
(Copyright, 1921. by the McClure News
paper Syndicate.)
WHY-
Does a Cow Give Milk?
The primary answer to this ques
tion is, of course, "to nourish her
young" the milk being intended for
the sustenance of the calves before
they are able to partake of more solid
food. But, in tracing the milk
through the body of the cow, we
find that its production is due to the
existence of what are called "glands"
certain parts of the body which
produce substances which the body
needs in order to function properly.
Some of the glands in the human
body are used in the production of
saliva, others in the making of the
gastric juice which enable us to di
gest our food and still others in fil
tering from the blood certain things
which It cannot use to advantage.
In the case of the cow, parts of the
blood produced from the grass which
the animal eats are transformed by
means of a certain set of these
glands into the white liquid we call
"milk" and this then flows into the
udder, where it may be extracted
either by the calf or by human
agencies, its high nutritive property
being due to the large percentage
of butter fat which it contains. Milk,
l4
Inut 0300
therefore, has passed through at
least two stages before becoming the
liquid as we know it: First, the
grass or fodder which the cow eats
and secondly the blood of the cow it
self, from which the udder glands
extract the easily digestible portions
and transform them into milk for the
calves or for human babies.
(Copyright, mi. Wheeler Syndlcete, Inc.)
Jewel, Flower, Color
Symbols for Today
By MILDRED MARSHALL.
Again the onyx crops up a. a talis
manic stone in the oriental supersti
tions regarding this day. It is
particularly lucky when it is worn in
conjunction with the carnelian,
which is the gem assigned to those
who were born on some anniversary
oi this day, according to the quaint
legend which follows:
"Carnelian is a talisman.
It brings good luck to child and man,
If resting on an onyx ground.
A sacred kiss imprint when found.
l drives away all evil things;
To thee and thine protection brings.
The name of Allah, King of Kings,
If graven on this stone, indeed,
Will move to :ove and doughty
deed."
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OMAHA vs. ; TULSA
Gam Called at 3:30 P. M.
Box Seat on Sala at Barkalow Broa.
green predominates are prescribed
by the orient for wear oi4his day,
This combination is particularly rec
ommended for artists, and others
whose success depends upon chang
ing temperament.
The passion llower is a fortunate
flower on this day, since it is a sym
bol of faith and constancy, which
works against the capricious influ
ence of olor and gem.
(Copyright, 1131. Wheoler Byndlcntr, Inn.)
Where It Started
The Finger Alphabet.
This system of communication, so
useful to the deaf and dumb, was
originated in 1680, when Dalgarno
published his system for communicat
ing without spoken or written words.
A curious instance of its use ap-:
peared at the trial of Mary Sayer
for the murder of her husband in
1713, when It appeared that the hus
band had been infuriated by conver
sations held between his wife and
her fellow-prisoner by means of their
fingers.
(Copyright. 1S1. Wheeler Syriairits, Tnc.)
An. inventor has patented a rub
ber cud to be slipped on the ferrule
of an umbrella to catch its drippings
when taken mdoors. '
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