BILLIE AND THE KIWI
ILLIE BROWNIE
citeds
He was going to eall upon a hird-
creature he had never seen before,
JI course he always enjoyed calling
on his old friends. He liked to hear
more of thelr news.
Sometimes he liked to have them
tell him the same things about them-
selves for then he could tell others
who hadn't heard all the news, and
he could freshen up his own memory
about their ways,
But it was an event to eall on a
new creature he had never seen at all.
He put on his best brown suit and
his best brown stocking cap with the
brown tassel at the end, and started
an his Journey.
The new creature upon
was to call'was the Kiwi.
He didn’t quite know how to pro-
nounce the creature's name but he did
tils best, in his own guesswork fashion
and knew that would do.
“One comfort always Is,” Billle
Brownie said to himself, “that animals
was much ex.
whom he
“Gracious, No,” Said Billie Brownie.
won't glare at you If you don’t pro-
nounce their family names correctly.”
He followed the directions Mother
Nature had given him. And then he
came before the Kiwi,
“I'm Billle Brownie,” he sald, Intro-
ducing himself. “Mother Nature has
given me the power to understand her
children and the way they speak.
“You will find, too, that you can un-
dersthind me. Mother Nature attended
to that, for, ns she said, a one-sided
conversation wouldn't be of much
use.”
a
Kiwi.
“It's a fine day,” said Billie Brownie,
for the Kiwi didn't seem to be doing
any talking, though he looked friendly
do understand you,” sald the
enough. He didn’t look particularly
lively though.
“Is 11?" said the Kiwl.
ticed.”
“Yes,” sald Billle Brownie, “or at
least, I think it Is. Some might say
it was a bit too windy, or others might
say it was a bit too sharp, but to my
way of thinking It Is very pleasant.”
“What is your way of thinking?
asked the Kiwl suddenly.
“Well, well,” said Billie Brownlie,
“It's just a Brownle's way of think-
Ing.” .
“Oh,” sald the Kiwl, “then It doesn't
mean that only along one certain road
or way you ean think? You are able
to think anywhere?" :
“Dear me, yes, | should hope so,”
said Billie Brownie,
“I wonder,” he went on after anoth-
er. pause, “if you wouldn't tell me
something about yourself?
“I don’t mind doing that,” sald the
Kiwi,
“You can see what I look like with
your own eyes—for [ notice you have
your own or at least 1 suppose they
are your own, You didn't borrow
them, did you?
“Gracious, no,” sald Billie Brownlie.
“Then.” said the Kiwl, “you can no.
tice with: your own eyes that 1 look
something lke a small ostrich and
something like a white leghorn hen,
“In fact, I'm somewliere between the
two In the animal! world. I'm from
Australia—a country in which many
curious and Interesting animals lve
and I'm like a mixture of a small Augs-
tralian ostrich and a white leghorn
hen, as I sald, and as you ean see,
“I have down Instead of feathers.
The eggs I lay are not so large as
those of a hen.
“I can’t fly at all worth mentioning.
In fact, I'm just an odd creature.
“But I'm odd enough not to mind
being odd. That's the only way to be
if yon are odd.
“If you are odd and are sorry you
are odd, It Is a great pity and Is apt
to cause you unhappiness,
“But if you're odd and don't mind,
then no harm is done, and everyone Is
more or less satisfied.
“You came to see me because I was
odd, possibly?”
“1 hadn't no-
word,
hecnuse you were a new creature I'd
never seen before, and | wanted to
teil my friends about you."
“Ah” said the Kiwi, “so the friends
of Billle Brownie will know ahout me!
That's not so bad, not so bad” the
Kiwl ended, looking at Billle Brownlie
in rather a foolish way,
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How It Started
By JEAN NEWTON
IT “RINGS TRUE”
E SPEAK of a story or an ac-
count of something “ringing
true” when we mean it bears every
semblance of truth and sincerity. Usu-
ally it doesn’t “ring” at all. The story
may come to us without even the
sound of the human voice. We may
read of it and yet use the expression
“it rings true.” The words however
are a survival of a time when It was
by literal “ringing” that certain truth
or falsity was established.
The expression “it rings true” had
its origin in the days when a large
quantity of counterfeit money was be
ing unloaded. in the country and it was
a common sight to see people drop «
coin they had received in change to
the counter in order to hear the ring
by which they could distinguish the
genuine from the imitation. The term
took hold and came into popular ysage
in the figurative sense in which it is
familiar today. y
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GABBY GERTIE
Why We Do
What | We Do
by M. K. THOMSON, Ph. D.
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WHY WE GET DOWN IN
THE MOUTH
I” IS a very unususl person who ean
keep sweet and even-tempered un
der all circumstances, The great ma-
Jority of us have our ups and downs.
And perhaps down more often than up.
The behavior of a ship on the ocean
depends considerably on the weather
conditions and the mond of the ocean
as well as on the mechanism of the
ship itself, Yet there are those who
somehow expect to sail the seven seas
of life in a perfect calm and under
Ideal conditions, In the first place the
thing Is impossible and In the sccond
place It is undesirable,
We ger down in the mouth when we
are Jost and cannot see our way out
of the fog. The blows of adversity,
the stings of failure play havoc with
us, There are disappointing experi.
ences that dry up the Juices In a man
and leave him shrivelled up like a
dried prune.
It isn't so much the physical blows
that floor us as It is the more subtle
forces, mental and spiritual, A man
can stand a lot of physical punish.
ment and pain because he knows what
hit him and where It hurts most. But
when we deal with disillusionment an
outraged sense of Justice and fair play,
Jealousy, envy and hate it Is like try-
ing to eapture a ghost,
Life is a series of adventures, We
are constintly meeting up with new
problems which necessitate new ad-
Justments. If these problems crowd
in upon us faster than we are able to
meet them we become temporarily dis.
organized. unadjusted and consequent.
ly, down in the mouth,
We get down In the mouth because
the mental and spiritugl apparatus
that constitutes our particular person.
ality is temporarily out of gear and
needs to be adjusted. We make the
adjustment In time to avert the dis.
aster of complete demoralization,
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Silent Violin Invented
A violin that can be heard distinctly
by the player but cannot be heard out.
side the apartment has been devised
by Emilio Colombo, a popular violin.
ist In London. He has not revealed
the secret of his invention, but says
he ean hear every note of his muted
instrument clearly,
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Alan Birmingham has the honor of
playing the first dual talkie role in
his first Movietone production, “Mas.
querade.” Birmingham is a good look.
ing chap, six feet tall, weighs 160
pounds, dresses modestly, plays golf,
and dabbles in playwriting, He has
been an actor since the age of four.
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By LEONARD A. BARRETT
A MOUNTAIN
OF VIEW
on one of
in the
HIS article Is written
highest elevations’
Allegheny mountal s,
of view three states and seven coun
ties are The wast
the
visible,
silence,
ture seems to teach valuable
She seems to
"Come along
real
and beauty.
ter Into the
lence with me and
I will point the
way
and
You power
Fine
to
cathedral songs of
birds and rustle of
free tops
are
notes. My
is a grand
of progress
onward and
ward which
tuned to major chords”
no
musie
eser
L. A. Barrett.
the perplexities life
which we have
while, seem very
of every day
left behind
unimportant.
incight because we have been
point of view of calm detachment.
The beauty of an oll painting Is
picture for us. AMlily lifted too near
the sun will wither to white ashes,
but when allowed to grow in earth's
its beauty.
into the mountains.
best investments one can make. [It
pays big dividends in terms of those
life values which enable a man to
by it,
that we need a vacation. Rest Is nae
and reserve force,
to the mountains!
Therefore, get ye
Rest is not quitting the busy career
Rest Is fitting one’s self to his spheres
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Roman Forts Preserved
Four Roman forts and a section of
Hadrian's wall were Included in the
sale of the Cheaters, a historle Nore
thumberiand (England) estate. Much
of the property was bought by tenant
farmers, The forts and the wall, once
outposts of the Roman empire, are
well preserved,
| Limestone Pays
on Sweet Clover
Liberal Applications Result
in Larger Yields of Bet-
ter Quality.
To change the yield of sweet clover
hay by the use of ground limestone
nothing to an average of over
Ing result reported hy John W. Artz
“Mr. different
Haulr, ex-
Artz conducted six
olina State college. “The results ob
tained show conclusively that it is not
worth while to attempt the growing
of sweet clover unless the land has
been limed. Liberal applications of
limestone result In Iarger yields of
bay than do small applications, Each
of the six demonstrations consisted of
four one-acre plots.”
Applied in Fall,
The first plot, in each test, was un-
Hmed., Mr. Blair reports. The second
plot received at the rate of 1.000
pounds of finely ground limestone per
fourth, 3.000 pounds. This limestone
was applied in the fall of 1027 at the
time the small grain was planted,
Sweet clover seed was sown on the
grain In March, 1928, The hay was
cut and cured In June, 1026,
The average result of the six dem
onstrations shows that the hay on the
wins used, 2.758 pounds of hay was
harvested; where 2000 pounds of
lime was used, 4017 pounds of hay
was secured, and where 3,000 pounds
of limestone was used, the yield was
5420 pounds of hay per acre. Mr.
Blalr says that this last yleld was about
double the amount secured where
Of Better Quality,
The sweet clover grew to about the
much thicker and of better
quality where the heavier applications
made. Mr. Artz reported that
be
grown in his county next
Is Not Advantageous
Although farmers have been tramp
Ing down the silage to pack it evenly
into their silos for fifty years, recent
tests made at several experiment sia
that the practice doesn’t
help to preserve the feedstuff, report
ed the Farm Journal, At the United
States dairy burean farm in Mary
land, and again st Pennsylvanian State
uted silnge,
ng the
vious years.
According to E. J. Delwiche,
Intendent of two Wisconsin
practice of tramping is
He says:
tramping
results
untramped, kept as well
closely pre
packed silage of
super
stations,
even
harmful,
“Since
and
is generally an
in many pockets
The
silo is
be
arrangement when
without tramping
the distributor
ideal
filled
fo have
witheut walking on the corn. To seal
leveled
is not
should always be carefully
when tramping
done.”
Useful as Silage Crops
Clover and alfalfa are not usually
In some In
in a grod many others
they have not proved satisfactory.
Professor Eckles, tormerly of the
University of Missouri, was success
faifa and clover hay by allowing It
If the hay becomes
overdry, it should bave some water
Likely you would be better satis.
filed with your clover if you conld put
of losing some or all of it in the silo.
Mowing Successful in
Eradicating Many Weeds
Where more than one-fourth of the
stand of vegetation in a pasture is
comprised of weeds, it usually Indi
cntes that the land is either over
grazed, prematurely grazed, or a com
bination of the two, In planning to
improve the pasture, consideration
should be given to correcting the
causes responsible for the weedy
growth, On smooth pastures, most
weeds may be successfully eradicated
by mowing. If such a method is used.
the weeds should be cut about the
time they are in flower~before any
seed Is matured.
Dairy Products Demand
To increase the demand for dairy
products seems to be one of the most
feasible methods of advancing the
dairy business, It Is believed by doc.
tors and nutrition specialists that, on
the average, the American peoplg do
not consume more than about 14
the fluid whole milk necessary to the
maintenance of the highest degree of
health, If organized dairymen could
educate the public to the values of the
greater quantity of milk In the diet
It would open up a large field for
dairy expansion,
Grow Silage Yearly
Ohio Experiment Station
Shows Practice Possible,
Halling green corn from the fleld
to the silo Is an expensive part of the
storage of silage, nnd the distance
whith the corn must be transported
has much to do with the cost of the
silage, especially in hilly country.
Where only a single field is located
near the silo, the question arises ns
to whether sliage corn can be grown
upon it each year,
On the Belmont county experiment
farm a block of land near the silo
hus been growing xllage corn cintinug-
ously since 1917. Walter Mahan, su-
perintendent of the farm, and J. 8,
Cutler, assistant In agronomy at the
Ohlo agricultural experiment station,
have reported on results of the prac.
tice,
Their conclusion is that where si-
on one field, the fertility
Stomach
In the same time It takes a dose of
soda to bring a little temporary relief
of gas and sour stomach, Philiips
Milk of Magnesia has acidity complete
sume time maintain the supply of or
gnanle matter in the soil. Such a pro
gram should include the liheral appli-
eation of well-cared-for manure, to-
gether with both broadeast and hill
or row fertilizer applications for corn
nnd the growing of some sort of cover
crop on the land over winter,
A fertilizer treatment of eight to ten
tons of manure and a broadcast appli-
“we
cation of 200 to 250 pounds per acre
row application of 100 or 200 pounds of
complete fertilizer with a formula of
+108, Is suggested,
satisfactory.
Fruit Orchard Demands
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Speaking recently hefore the Quebec
Horticultural society in Montreal
Prof. J. H. Gourley, chief horticul-
attention to
mand that orchards make for nitrogen,
particularly sod or mulched orchards.
In discussing practical fertilizer
practices, based on Ohlo
Professor Gourley sald:
called
worry about your diet and experience
This pleasant preparation is just as
good for children, too. Use it when-
ever coated tongue or fetid breath
signals need of a sweetener, Physi.
cians will tell you that every spoon-
ful of Phillips Milk of Magnesia neg-
tralizes many times its volume in acid
Get the genuine, the name Phillips is
important, Imitations do not act the
PHILLIPS
To Avoid infection
Use Hanford's
Balsam of Myrrh
All dealers are authorized to refund your money
for the first bettie {1 not suited
A woman isn't ne
because she says things
each year of a tree's age, so that a
outer branches.”
He called attention to
periments In which
nitrogen only. “The evidence In favor
of the former.” he sald, “is so meager
and unconvincing In most
to have led horticulturists
to confine
nitrogen beneath the trees and to
phosphorus between the tree rows for
generally
As regards quality,
which show that “fruit
as that
treatment.”
ns well
normal
has kept
receiving
Two Types of Insects
tables has been partially
destroyed by atlacks of
been controlled. Roughly speaking,
the Insect enemies unre divided
two groups,
the juices For the first named,
spray which penetrates their hides.
Often when both are present a com
bination of poison and something that
senate gives the best results,
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Agricultural Notes
SOON OOBOOOOOONONOO NOOO ONT
To produce economically, a cow
must make a large flow of milk,
* » *
Practically the same methods fol.
lowed for Sudan grass will do for
millet.
* * =»
A shelterbelt saves fuel and pre.
vents the overworking of a home heat
ing plant,
* * »
Many farmers leave alfalfa too long
in the windrow, and the leaves dry
and drop off. Some leave it too long
in cocks,
. » =»
It is estimated that the effect of
phosphate and potash fertilizers may
be seen four or five years after the
first application.
. * =»
In average seasons alfalfa is hetter
sown In the fall. Good stands “ih
tained in early fall are usually «nfe
from winter killing.
. "0
The newly-born calf should have the
milk for the first few days. This le
the colostrum milk. and alds in putting
the digestive system of the calf in good
working order. .
sn
Bag storage is a safe method only
If the potatoes can he kept dry. One
disadvantage of this type of storage
is that in the event of any of the po
tatoes developing rot it will be neces
sary to resack the entire lot to ascer
taln the amount of damage present,
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