THE PIGS’ PICNIC
“(3 RUNT, grunt,” said Brother Ba-
J con,
“Squeal, squeal,” said Miss Ham,
“Grunt, grunt,” said Sammy Sau-
and Grandfather Porky Pig
out his throat and sald,
“Grunt, grunt.”
“Grunt, grunt,” sald Mrs. Pink Pig
and Master Pink Pig shouted, "Grunt,
grunt.”
“Squeal, squeal,” said
Pig, and Pinky Pig cried
shrill voice, “Squeal, squeal.”
“Grunt, grunt,” sald Sir
Pork.
“Squeal,
mother.
“Grunt, grunt,” said Sir Benjamin
Bacon, and then the new little pigs
sage
cleared
Mrs.
in
Percival
squeal,” said Pinky Pig's
i
wit /
WH res
“What a Picnic It Will
Brother Bacon.
Be,”
Martha I Martin
“I'm surprised at’it,” said Mrs. Pink
Pig
“So am 1,” sald Master Pink Pig. “I
see it coming!”
“Still” said Mrs, Pinky Pig, “it will
be a good thing if their eyesight re-
mains like that and then the rest of
us Will have more to eat and they will
not get in our way."
“True,” said Pinky Pig.
“A wise thought,” sald Pinky Pig's
mother, “My son, Pluky,
like that, though”
“We're all letting each other know
sald Sir Percival Pork,
| “We're being very good to each other.”
“The reason we're letting each other
know,”
because
Was never
I it's coming,”
we can't let each
other know,
“We all saw the farmer start
ward the pen with an extra
None of us could pretend we
seen It,
“Then
help but
meal.
hadn't
we saw him stop and
about It.
“Oh, we
it Isn't because are
eager to share it with each other, We
simply couldn't
all grunting
expected meal,
help all seeing it and
with at an un
"
delight
| “Grunt, grunt, what a picnle
{ be,” sald Brother Bacon
| hasn't changed his mind.”
| “Oh, It will be
| sald Miss Ham, “I,
hope he hasn't changed his mind.”
“If will be
Sausage “Oh,
a indeed.”
too, most certainly
ple nic
5 t
Sai
nie,
us
a ple
let
is mind.”
not think
he has change
“1
« h
$
t
be
Gr
disappoir t
india
AT us
: in
Jal 1S ,
“That would 1
“We're
| said
plenle,
iet
lisap
online”
pening?
“What's hag
“Don't
Bacon.
“Haven't you good pig eyes?”
Miss Ham.
“It's coming,
Sammy Sausage
you see?’ asked Brother
“Your pl
usually poor,”
oor
is.
g eyesight must be un
”
Ta)
spid Sir Perely:
¥ Pork
* sald Sir Benjamin Bacon
we squealed the little pl
pigs
» needn't !
aald Miss Ham.
But then came
worry over their eye
now.”
the farmer with the
pigs had their pi
i meal and the
1 te!
and loyf
ryright.)
dhe Hotel §
Roe Fulkerson
«we Y/ ELLY, see that dame over there |
on the divan?' asked the Ho-
tel Stenographer ’
“Which one? asked the House De-
tective
“The who she had |
been poured Into and ran
over because there was no one around
to say ‘when.’
“That dame is a living demonstra-
tion of the fact that you cannot have
curly hair and everything
sides, If vou get a rich husband and
a limousine like she has you've got
take the fat that goes along with that
kind of a life and git around and |
munch caramels and worry for fear
like
dress
one looks
her
else be-
{o
some slim girl and left you In
lurch.
“If you marry a poor man and spend
your time over the wash board, the
froning board and the dough board
the |
husband, but what
price you pay for It,
a
ing thing in life, Kelly, There ought
to be some way to avold It, but
body ever does, [I ought to know he
cause I have loved a lot of people In
to marry a poor one. When I see the
wife of a poor man without any auto-
mobile or even a little white Kitty
skin fur coat with a monkey fur trim
I know I couldn't stand that kind of
a life.
“When the right bird lights on my
shoulder I will marry. If be is rich I
will determine not to look like that
dame there, and if he Is poor I will be-
lieve that my superior intelligence can
show him how to get rich, [I guess,
after all, 1 better get married the
same as the rest of them.”
(@®. by the MeNaught Syndicate, Ine.)
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(® by MeClure Newspaper Syndicate)
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seen
CTHE WHY of
SUPERSTITIONS
By H. IRVING KING
Reet ——————————n—————
TOADS AND RAIN
” 11.1. a toad and it
row is a st
will rain tomor
is
sud Can
same
frog bs
stepping upon it, and the cattle-herd
ers of Texas and the farmers of east
Massachusetts also that
digs a and inte It
there is sure to be rain the
nerstit hict
iperstition wich
general in the United States
} In
aaa
sald with
¥
most sections the ju
o-
regard to killing a
saj if a
hole crawls
following
In this superstitution, as in va
rious others, the frog and the toad are
regarded as practically the
creature—in fact the ar cients,
most city dwellers of the present day.
do not seem to have distinguished be
tween them
L.. D. Burdick, the author of “Magic
and Husbandry,” thinks that
game
“the In
with springs and wet places first led
to the idea that they could control
In savage tribes, when ao
drought Is threatened, a frog or a toad
is beaten until he brings on the de
showers, It was not unusual
fOMme
thelr gods when sacrifices and prayers
had falled to move them. Probably
the killing of the frog or toad to in
“Suar-
we find this same belief in frogs and
toads as rain-makers. The Peruvian
Indians set up little Images of them
on mountain tops to bring on rain and
in India they hang one on a tree for
a few days “in order,” says Burdick,
“that the rain god may take pity and
gend a shower.” The Indians of
British Columbia kill one to bring on
rain and the natives of southeastern
Australia fear to kill one lest It bring
on a flood. In short, this primitive
superstition, existing from remotest
ages, prevalls today all over the
world, more lasting and more widely
belleved In than fll the systems of
philosophy devised by the greatest
human intellects,
(® by MeClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
Dollars Tint Flowers
Plenty of money has always gone in-
to floral exhibitions, and this is liter
ally true in England, where a florist
has succeeded In getting delicate tints
with the ald of silver dollars,
He drops silver coins in water In
which the flowers are standing. Sliver
hydroxide is formed and the action of
the chemical changes the natural col-
or of the blossoms, says Popular Me.
chanics, giving them shadings not pos-
gible under natural conditions, After
the coloring has proceeded to a satis
factory degree, the coins are removed
and a few crumbs of slaked lime or
mortar are added to fix the tint,
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This is the latest portrait of lovely
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As Told by
[rvin S. Cobb
OCF A CARELESS NATURE
COLORED man owned a
himself, he desl
red
vesight had s«
to sell.
Possibly |
her defective «
1
lo with his desire to dispose of her.
that a the
was in
heard neighbor down
the market for 14 mule
a halter on the animal
to ti
he | and led
her ¢ cabin of the other negro
At once
The
.
logy touc
entered |
meelf |
on the strength, |
and
ition of his beast, when the pros
broke In with »
negotiations were
owner had delivered h
ing
work
or hard
amiable |
tive purchaser
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“Is dis yere mule fast ™ |
“Fast? he snorted,
; guve mile a
whereupon she
, tore down a strip of |
headlong through a
butting against the
ind them caroming
garden putch and
beyond the
tt proprietor
He the
the ribs
in
bucked sidewny
toot
KICK
woods
said the owner
“dat mule
LERer,
nronerty
5 perty,
id the
dent
owner |
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By Viola Brothers Shore
FACING EAST
BW
NEW YOUTH, RISE UP!
RISE UP FROM PLAY!
By Ernest L. Heltkamp.
(Boom of gun! Boom of gun!)
g
days.
(Tick of clock. Tick, tick, tock)
(Toll of belll Toll of bell!)
that all grim, gray wars had
ceased
in dawn's first flush, released.
(Sound of taps! Sound of taps!)
crosses bear their withered
wreaths
Amid the war's dead leaves.
New ybuth,
play!
(Boom of gun! Distant gun!)
Oh, turn your faces East today;
rise up! Rise up from
Chicage American.
HEALING THE SCARS
LEFT BY CONFLICT
Some Good Accomplished
in Years of Peace.
IGHT years have now passed
since the last shot was in
the World war, Today the anni.
versary of Armistice day is celebrated
in those lands where the victory of
1718 was halled with rejoicing.
Those eight years have been
with great ns
world has readjusted to peace
have witnessed of the
representatives of the nations, nego
tistions for ‘adiustments, reactions, res
bellions within the boundaries of late.
iy warring powers, the of
an international association nas
tons aimipg at the establishmem of
peace and its functioning In the sel
tlement of differences between the
a 1
area
then
replete
war-torn
They
events, the
conferences
Ld vy
formation
of
In these eight years that have passed
armistice was signed and
been made toward a
A settlement of the war
that you should
children ia the
the people next deer, the
world and
worst?
When kids are little you think how |
they'll when they |
when they're big you
were when
comfort he
up And
think how much fun they
they were little,
much
grow
It don't pay to go ‘round with bad
comp'ny. A hunk of charcoal if it's
hot'll burh, and 8 coldll black
your hand. :
is
i
it
FOR THE GANDER
A man Is too old to learn,
to fall in love, or to expect to live an.
other year,
never
When you're bringin’ up children It
ain't to be right and It
ain't always right to be easy
always easy
Stones that you throw at
higher up have a way of fallin’ back |
and hittin’ you.
people
Self-deception seems to be the first |
law of human nature
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“If leking rouge lips will do It,”
says Patriotic Patricia, “there Is no
blooded Americans.”
fected upon terms finally acceptable
to both sides. The new states created
by the treaty of Versailles have
toward stability,
Today, as the occasion Is marked
of
it
silence millions at an
significant
cost, have been gained by
were slain and more were
countleas
race itself. and that remains with its
horror as a guide to better conduct
Armistice day should be observed In
n spirit of gratitude for the sacrifices
those who now sleep In heroes’
They went forth upon com-
Some
went eagerly, some reluctantly, some
But
all who went, under whatever flag or
with whatever motive or feelings, con-
tributed to the result that is today
being celebrated. That soldier whose
body lles beneath a marble slab at
Arlington, unidentified, unknown, Is
a symbol of the Impersonal service
graves
To him, as the type of American duty
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