ABOUT THE LUCKY DUCK
quack-quack,”
ya, quack,
sald Mrs, Duck. “lI never knew
bow lucky I was until yesterday.
“1 always thought I was a busy
duck. But I'm not nearly so busy us
little Sadie is,
“One of Sadie's friends came aronnd
to soe her yesterday and she said:
“Come on, Sadie, come on out and
play.’
“But Saidle called back and sald:
“i can't for an hour, any-
: I've beds to make and |
promised to help wash the dishes.
“Well, 1 thought to myself, I'm a
lucky duck. I don’t have to make
beds and I don’t hava to wash dishes
“Of I would have a nice
place to wash them in, here in the
cone
he
course
“Then it Is Much Nicer to Live in a
Brook.”
hrook,
ns
bot all
“l agree with you, qulick,
uack-quack,” said Miss Duck.
.. sald Mrs. Duck, "it is
to have no dishes
1
weeds
I don't
and 1 could
but
use pleasant
I I'm glad
things.”
such .
¥
st
quack
ns one goes along
“Now, when a cow is taken to some
other place and
nnd
place,
mead nw,
as to go in a wagon
then on a train in a stupid small
after has lovely
armer's old
ky. You kn Bes
and to
aw
doesn't have
How It Started
By JEAN NEWTON
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“CUT-THROAT”
Te BE a cut-throat one need not nee-
essarily cut throats. Nowadays the
term is
any kind, whet!
any ii, Wi
used to describe treachery of
er not this is
by physi a! violence
the sense of
or ac-
It is
rather than the
which it
mean to express
when we refer to some one as a “cut
throat.” However, It Is in its literal
sense that the term had its origin.
Coined by that great master of
words, Wil Shakespeare, the word is
over three hundred years old Its
earliest recorded use is found in Mae.
beth, said to have been written in
1006, in the following context: The
murderer enters who has been com
missioned by Macbeth to put Banquo
wut of the way. Macbeth asks, “Is he
dispatch'd? to which the
“My lord, his throat is cut:
him.” Macbeth
art the best o the cut-
companied
treachery
is car.
particular medium by
ried out that we
nurderer
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that |
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GABBY GERTIE
“A girl sometimes does get credit
for looking smart, if her tailor isn't,"
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work any more. She has been retired
allowed wander any-
where she likes around the farm,
“She is a wonderful for she
goes down the paths and the walks,
but never steps on the lawn or the
grass anywhere exeept in the meadow,
‘The farmer adores her and ull the
members of the farmer's family adore
her,
“But, just the 1 think I'm
a very lucky duck. It gives de-
light to think how lucky | am.
“Now, | must go down to see Miss
White Duck at the end of the pond
“1 sald I'd have a drink of brook
water and a bite of bug with her this
afternoon. Were you Invited?”
“Yes, yes, indeed,” sald Miss Duck.
“I'd almost forgotten. 1 was so in
terested In what you saying.”
“Ah, you flatter me, but it is
delightful, too. Well, 1
must be ofl.”
So two ducks started for the
end of the pond and there Miss White
Duck was waiting for them.
“Quack, quack, good afternoon, Duck
she
“lessie Is to
horse,
T >
same,
nme
were
most
suppose we
the
ladies,” said.
“Good-afternoon,
sald Mrs. Duck.
“Good afternoon,
sald Miss Duck.
“Horrid weather we've t
lately, quack, quack,
said Miss White Duck.
“Terrible,” sald Mrs
quack, terrible.”
“Horrible, k Hack,
said Miss Duck.
“And yet, come to
hasn't
White
“No, think of it.
have been much worse, qua
sald Mrs. Duck.
“True,” sald Miss Duck.
quack, it might have really been bad.”
They had their brook water and
several Insects aplece, and after they
the
sald
think
very bad,”
of
been
Duck.
come to
A]
“Quack,
had chatered
water and
some more
about
the insects Mrs. Duck
to
1
(tin Weg
ing uvome to
she'd have be gett
family,
“Such na
thank
Duck.”
ton, have had a
Miss Duck,
il Miss White Duel
quack, | hin
lovely
you so mucl
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Why We Do
What We Do
by M. K. THOMSON, Ph. D,
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WHY WE ENJOY THE
COMICS
F WE do not enjoy the comi
in the daily newspapers
something wrong wit}
consult a
Serve =»
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thera is
us We should
Com
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doctor at once, ]
i the
very
lives of busy people.
useful purpose In
We like comics because they are so
deliciously absurd. A little shaver no
bigger than a minote Is forever mak-
ing wise cracks. Some poor devil is
in hot water all the time,
The comics reveal to us the absurd.
ity of taking life too seriously. We
recognize in them certain fundamen.
tal truths that apply to our own lives.
These comics are really carleatures.
We see ourselves and our neighbors,
We get a kick out of picturing
some awkward friend of ours In the
predicament of the comic actor. We
enjoy sympathizing with ourselves in
the perpetoal hard-lock The
very exagperations bring these
traits all the more forcibly,
Most of the comics Involve a story,
The story part Is In itself fascinating
It arouses our curiosity. We are anx-
ious to know what happens next in
the love episodes of our mock hero,
the extent of hard luck he may have
or how he Is coming out with his rl
diculons business adventure,
The great celebrities of the more
popula. comics are better known than
many historical characters. If we
should run inte any of them on the
street we would recognize them at
once,
The comles furnish a real outlet
for what they are—a lot of nonsense
mixed up with a great deal of homely
truth, a caricature of our mistrented
selves and our ridiculous neighbors, a
little relaxation In the midst of a
busy day with lis eares and worries,
and all the too sober realitios,
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Tea Drinking
In Russia it is customary to place
a lump of sugar in the mouth and let
tea trickle through it. A newly mar
ried couple in Burma exchange a mix-
ture of tea leaves steeped In oll on
their wedding day as an owen of
matrimonial bliss, In Japan every
artisan or laborer going to work
takes his rice box of lacquered wood,
a keitle, a tea eaddy, a teapot, a
cup snd uls chop sticks.
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Davey Lee
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Cute little Davey Lee, now four
years of age, and starring in “Sunny
Boy,” his third appearancs in the
“movies,” soon is to appear in another
in which he will play opposite Al
Jolson. His other pictures were, first,
“The Singing Fool;"” second, “Frozen
River,” with Rin.Tin.Tin. Davey has
fine scal-brown hair, perfect teeth,
biue eyes shaded by long brown
lashes.
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| For Meditation
By LEONARD A. BARRETT
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RESPECT FOR LAW
the street light
red color instinctively the
is set nt the
oO.
shes It
and in
absence of
pnyerage
torist w
green
any
mirent danger of
jehit Rome
the
This
regarded
may
as
a sli
L. A Barrett
persons
wrong constitutes
until discovered” |
e appli i
iis principle unfortunately
than
¥
when applied to
cent
uiding principle. TT
other persons them.
the social
ny community, it is danger
ie extreme,
never a
present,
unpunished
are
was Inwless
The crimes
and even un
too numerous to men
Everywhere evidences
disrespect for law,
Against such a state of public opin-
ion have gone forth, from both pen
and press, many strong protests; but
none more vigorous and denunciatory
than the words of President Hoover
in an address to the Associated Press,
President Hoover said that the pres
ent disrespect for law Ia “the domi
nant issue¢ before the American peo
ple”: that “obedience to law is vital
the preservation of our institu.
tions and that the real problem is to
awaken the moral sense.” In other
words, President Hoover recognizes
that obedience to law is fundamental
ly a moral problem and no citizen
has the moral right to refuse this |
regpect and obedience. Mr. Hoov.
er nlso emphasized the point that
it law can only be upheld by po
lice enforcement the future of our
democracy is in serious peril. Obedi-
ence to law then becomes a duly as
well as a privilege of citizenship, for
it is true of society as it is true of
an Individual--obedience is liberty,
disobedience Is slavery.
(@. 1029, Western Newspaper L'nion.)
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age than the
which go
discovered
tion,
of a
we gee
deliberate
to
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ow
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ARTIE
His Adventures
in Love, Life and the Pursuit
of Happiness
By GEORGE ADE
ull
Artie Goes Calling on Her
66 ET'S walk «pit a little whi
and let the breeze blow on
us,” sald Artie, when the con
versation had begun
He had found Mamie front
stoop with her father and mother, It
the first warm of early
spring, and tired people all along the
street had come into the open, the old-
er ones to sit around the doorways and
to droop,
on he
was night
the children to romp on the sldewnliks,
There was a carnation In Artie's
buttonhole and clicked a walking
stick on the sidewalk, The
stiell of pipe smoke, the balm of the
awakened
which
he
unesen
cheerfulness of the street, he
hud never before found so lively, har
monized with Lis own feelings. There
wus a spring song going in his heart,
and when be come te ie Carroll
ft strove to find
“Ain't
asked, re
stoop
utterance in words,
this = slo-order
he moving
you good people
Mamie
something In a loy
Artie knew what
“Stay where
sald he. “I'll
the end.”
“Father was
arose to
cont nnd
rather
“Well,
“Sure th
0 that one it's
it. llow are you
roll ¥
- §
I'm all
noon } thoug!
It warm?”
“It was all
Then
mon-place
of that.”
there followed
remarks ashoyt
“Well, 1 s'pose—you may be glad
hear It”
“What Is t?”
“1 got a boost In my pay.”
*Oh, that's lovely.”
“I'm gettin’ thirty-five a week now.”
I'm All 1 get is
10
“Now
eighteen”
“Suy, Mame,
workin’ at all”
“1 had to do something when | got
out of school, and they didn’t need me
I wouldn't mind it
nicer man to work for,”
the main guy up at your
bad news 1 spoke to the
up to you?”
that's him.”
“l got it in good and hard for them
Do you know, Mame, this
town's full of a lot 0° two-by-four dubs
that's got into purty fair jobs and it's
made ‘em so swelled up that you want
to take a crack ot one of "em the min-
ute you see him, [I'll bet that guy up
in your place don't know nothin’
earth how to hold down
measly job, snd he got that doin’ all
the mean work around the place. It
does me good to call one o
If | ever go up there
ugalin he makes any play at
I'l hack at him so strong
he won't know wha landed on him
, m fellows Is unterfeits, They
hem
Jealous,
I'm sore (o sec you
around the house,
if I had a
“Who Is
oflice—the
come
wi0
“Yes,
fellows,
on
except his
lots © p
them lads down.
and
come
that
front 80 as
n't know.”
“You've
" con
i used
and cold
to the front
ckle ;
but
There's Mil
it. He
than
Mor.
Mil
I've got
malier what
lay It as if
8 bosom
CRS
% but
Cause
and at the first opportunity Artie sug
gested taking a walk.
While Mamie was in the house put
ting on her hat, Artie said: “You've
got lots of kids up this way”
“The German family in
house has nine,” replied Mrs
“Do you want to get by
Look at the new hat on her
Artie laughed and Mamie gave her
father a playful slap on the arm.
“It's a hun,” remarked Artie
As followed Mamie down the
steps and away toward the corner he
of the
the next
Carroll
Mamie?
.
me,
he
because gllence
Carroll were
watching him and asking themselves
whether he was what he pretended to
be. On more than one occagion they
had shown a liking for him. Certain
He realized
first time, that
to him beyond
and with this
keenly, and for the
they had been kind
anything he deserved,
realization came the resolve that he
would never do anything fo cause
them to change thelr opinions,
“I'm afraid the old folks ‘II think
we're givin' ‘em the shake,” sald he,
as Mamie slipped her erm within his
“No, no. They don’t mind”
“1 guess they're wise enough to tum
ble to it that | don’t come rubberin
around this neighborhood every two or
three nights just to see hem”
Mamie laughed and put an added
pressure on his arm. The streetlights
leaped into balls of flume and Artie
felt himself rising Into the air. What
more could he ask? And yet, as they
passed the corner, he was beaming
foolishly and had lost his volce,
He nad something to tell Mamie
something which would be significant ;
something to warn her of the supreme
question and prepare her for WL
They had come into the business
street, where the trolley cars ran and
the light was plentiful.
“A little more wenther like this and
we'll be hittin' the park,” he observed.
“I'l be glad,” she replied,
They walked In sllence for a few
moments and then he said, “Mame,
I've got some good news.’
“For me?"
1
i
1
:
holdout
If they w
the whole shootin’ m
I weaken on no proposition.
anted me to be president 0
atch, I'd Jump in,
as fall a con game as that old stiff
we've got down there now. [lis office
hours is from 11:00 to 11:30, and he
ain't nothin’ but a ham-rester when
he is there”
Artie had become warmed up, and
was walking fast. They stopped at
a corner to allow a drove of motors
to pass by, and Artie saw the red
globes of a drug store across the
gireet,
“Let's have some 0’ the cold stuff,
Mame,” said be, and he led her over
to the place.
“Give the Iady some strawberry be
canse it's red.” said he to the clerk.
“No, you'll not,” gaid she. “I want
chocolate ice cream.”
“Well, professor, yon can make mine
the same. De a good fellow, too, when
it comes to droppin’ in the ice cream.”
(@ by Conrge Ade.)
Memory Data
A recent study made by the psy-
cology cinsses of
California has yielded some Interest.
the average age at wkich the stu.
nnd 83.30 for boys, some of the sub
jects were able to recall incidents that
befell them as enriy as 6 months, 1
year and GC months and 2 years.” The
majority of the early memories wore
of unpleasant events. The women
recorded 42.0 per cent unpleasant and
302 per cent pleasant,
for the men were 53.2 per cent and
25 per cent, respectively. The remain
us doubtful or mixed.
Advancement in Fiji
The Fiji Islanders are forsaking
their spears and war clubs for auto
mobiles, of which they have nearly
L1G, according to the Commerce de
partment. Automobile registrations In
this far-off island have (ncrensed. from
100 in 1018 to 1,074 nt the end of 1028
Tots of folks who think
“Indigestion” have only an acid condi
tion which could be corrected in five
or ten minutes, An elective
like Phillips Milk of Mags
restores digestion to noru
Phillips does away with
sourness and gas right after mea
prevents the distress so to occ
two hours after eating, What
ant preps to take!
good it is for the sj
burning
temporary
Milk
times |
they have
apt
sten
Irons in Africa
Mosquito Bites
Balsam of Myrrh
Money back for Bret bottle If not sulted, A
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Practical Progress
Pertinent Question
re Every
If a cl
some
get him to tal
It May Be
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one is
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for Castoria is a baby remedy, meant
for babies. Perfectly safe to give the
youngest infant; you have the doctors
word for that! It is a vegetable pro
duct and you could use it every day
But it's in an emergency that Castorls
means most, Some night when consti
pation must be relieved-—or colic pains
~or other suffering. Never be without
It; some mothers keep an extra‘bottle
unopened, to make sure there tvill al
ways be Castoria In the house. It is
effective for older children, too; read
the book that comes with it
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