ABOUT THE OTTERS
Ses NTOW, now,” sald Mother Otter,
+ “we must all pay attention.”
“Mother means,” said one of the
Httle Otters, “that we children must
pay attention to her, She doesn't
mean that she must pay attention to
what we say.”
“That is what
mean, I think)”
little Otter.
3ut they could not talk any more
now. Lessons had begun,
mothers always
sald another wise
First of all there was the lesson of
diving without splashing.
“Of course,” sald Mother Otter,
“when it Is playtime you may dive
“Eat the Eels From the Tail,” Mother
Otter Said.
and splash all you like. But you
must also know how to dive without
splashing so you can fool your enemy.”
So Mother Otter taught her chil
dren the diving-without-splashing les
son, which Is as important a lesson
in Otter school as spelling is in reg-
ular schools.
After they knew their lesson pretty
well for the day Mother Otter taught
them how to catch frogs and how to
get off the frogs’ skins after they
were caught,
In Otter school that was as Im-
portant as it is for people to learn
how to use a fork and how bad it is
to eat with a knife!
The next lesson was in eel eating
That was just as important a lesson
in Otter school ns reading or arith-
metic is in regular schools.
“Children, Otter children,”
Mother Otter, “do this right. Eat tha
eels from the tall just as the trom
must always be eaten from the head.”
At first they found it as hard to do
as you might find it to get an arith.
metic sum right. But the lesson had
to be learned,
Mother Otter was n strict teacher,
She didn't allow any fooling.
Then they had a lesson in how to
wander far from home and come back
another way so as to deceive thelr
enemies who might be trying to trace
them home the way they had gone out.
They had a busy time with lessons,
and then they took trips and learned
to explore, to find out where the best
rivers and banks were to be found,
and how they could travel and what
they could eat along the way.
They learned not to be too fussy
about their food. “If you only eat a
few things,” sald Mother Otter, “and
those few things give out you will
have trouble. So learn to eal many
kinds of food and you will live long
and get strength.”
They learned all their lessons well
—these smart young Otters, but every
evening when lesson time was over—
for Mother Otter was quite strong for
night school—they played.
Such a-scrambling and a-tumbling
and a-playing and a-scampering and
a-frolic as there was, and Mother Otter
Joined in their play, too,
She didn't sit off and read and knit
and say:
“Children, don't make such a noise.
You tire my poor head.”
No, she was Just as fond of playing
with them as was of teaching
them. And before they went to sleep
Mother Otter sang them the Otters’
Bedtime Story-Song which goes like
this to the accompaniment of a splash.
ing sound:
sald
she
Go to sleep, little Otters, my dears,
Drive away all your fears, fears, fears
It you learn the Otters’ wise ways,
You'll live for days and days,
And nights and nights and nights,
80 drive away your {rights
Go to sleep, little Otters, my dears,
Play when you can, play drives away
tears;
And playing makes you cheery,
Keeps you from being weary,
And when all is sald and done,
There's nothing Just like fun!
Go to sleep, little Otters, my dears,
Go to sleep, little Otters, my dears.
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How It Started
By JEAN NEWTON
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“POET LAUREATE”
ROM our school days most of us
have sensed romance in the title
of “Poet Laureate,” which Is con-
ferred upon only one poet in England
to be held by him until his death,
when the next Poet Laureate Is
chosen,
The term “Laureate” comes from
“laurel” and the reference is to the
old custom at the English universities
of presenting those receiving degrees
in poetry and rhetoric with a wreath
of laurel, This was originally an an-
cient custom, the Greeks being known
to have so crowned their popular
poets,
The title was first conferred in 1670.
The early Poet Laureate was an officer
in the greatly beloved king's house.
hold, whose business it was to com.
pose an ode for the king's birthday
and other important occasions, The
modern title however is purely hon-
orary.
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“What one hears on the air may be
hectic rather than static”
sme}
Something to Whisper About
Fable—Once upon a time two ears
collided on a highway and the drivers
conferred thereafter In whispers,
New Castle News,
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By LEONARD A. BARRETT
DOG
THE GRAF ZEPPELIN
HE successful flight of the Graf
Zeppelin from the Statue of Lib-
erty to Friedrichshafen, to Tokyo, to
Los Angeles and back to New York
records a new departure in air craft,
It is too early to inquire about prac-
tical results from experiments of this
nature, Suffice that such accomplish.
ments are possible. The knowl
edge essential to driving the hugh
ship is all the
more
when we
that air craft is a
comparatively new
venture. The
globe circling tour
undoubtedly ranks
first among scien
tific achievements
of our age.
Experiments in
the field of ab
siract science calls
for technical
knowledge of the
highest order, but
the element of risk
is comparatively
L. A Barrett. .oht. In the won
derful achievement of Commander
Eckener something more than a scien.
tific spirit was needed. He possessed
that, but of equal Importance was his
spirit of heroism which made him
willing to risk even life itself in his
efforts to realize a burning purpose.
The successful flight of the Graf Zep-
pelin in her round the world cruise
was due in no small part to that noble
quality ; the willingness to play a
rendezvous with death in the effort to
realize an ideal,
Lack of safety was for many years
the chief hindrance to the develop.
ment of air craft. Commander Ecke-
ner has demonstrated that hazards
due to storms and a'r currents can be
overcome. The only impediment which
at present needs to be overcome Is
the very high expense of fiving. The
average plane costs about seven thou.
sand dollars. Before one can operate
a plane he must become a licensed
pilot, This requires a course of in.
struction continuing uainterrupted for
about eight months, at the conclusion
of which a license i= granted which
costs from four to five thousand dol.
lars. When the cost of fiying Is reduced
#0 that a man of moderate means
enn own a plane, it will become more
popular and more extensively used
for both business and pleasure, As
the automobile succeeded the horse
and wagon, so airplanes are destined
to succeed automobiles,
(@. 1929, Western Newspaper Union.)
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Helen Chandler
He We dee 2S Re Ue He Ue He HH HN NU Ye HR
Blue eyes, blonde hair, five.feet.three,
and a bit of fragile beauty weighing
102 pounds-——that is Helen Chandler,
new recruit to the “talkies” from stage
fame. Miss Chandler was born in
Charleston, 8. C.,, and she was edu-
institu.
Her first stage appearance was
Heart, and other educational
tions,
featured before she was thirteen, She
lives at Santa Monica,
ial J iesm——
CTHE WHY
SUPERSTITIONS
By H. IRVING KING
HORSE CHESTNUTS
W LE N you carry a horse chestnut
your pocket to cure or ward
off rheumatism, It only shows that
you have not quite outgrown the tree
worship of your ancestors. That trees
were the abode of supernatural beings,
if not gods themselves, was a belief
common to all our European progeni-
tors and the lingering remnants of It
are frequently found in modern su-
perstitions, It existed In such strength
even down to classical days that sn-
cient Jupiter of the Roman
was nothing more nor less than an
ocak trep,
In those old days certain trees were
supposed to exert a beneficent influ.
ence upon certain diseases. Thus the
ash as a tree-god cured hernia and its
leaves were a specific against the bite
of serpents. In some parts of Eng.
land today there is a custom of pass
ing & child afflicted congentia;
hernia through the growing ash in ex.
pectation of a cure; and there is a
New England superstition that =a
will not crawl under an ash
capitol
with
snake
tree,
‘he chustnut tree god apparently
inlized in rheu for It
true chestnut that was originally
carried as a rheumatic antidote, and
according to the American Folk
that custom iz still “some
what general in the United States™
jut in New England and the Middle
West the horse chestnut is the thing:
probably because it Is called a chest
nut, looks like a chestnut—especially
like the chestnut of southern Europe—
and being
nut (Castanea) ought to be a
Rv matism,
the
society,
more
god.
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of the country.
“Our trouble Is all
prosperity,” he sald.
got into business who hadn't any right
to be, and they've kept themselves
going with forced sales
war, but many business men are still
feeling the pinch.”
I hope to live long enough to hear
A politician make a speech about how
all of us can make money. But may.
be the business men will get along
better if politicians just leave them
alone, FRED BARTON.
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A valuable collection of orlental
rugs, which entalled adventurous
Journeys around the world for the
collector, Is In the St. Louis Art mu-
seum. They were a gift from a mil
Hlonaire sod are valued at $250,000,
ASSO T CETTE
MOLLY'S
WONDERFUL
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LL day long Molly Lathrop had
worked, cleaning her already
immaculate house. It was
now coly six o'clock and her
train left for Chicago at ten-thirty—
four long hours before she could go
to the station. Her bag was packed,
the square black bag that had not
been used since she had made that
trip to Chicago seven years before.
Her neat little black hat, purse and
gloves were on the hall table. “Gray
Puss” had been taken over to Lettie
Desmond's by Lettie's small freckle-
faced son who was extraordinarily
fond of Molly's pet. Four long hours
and not a thing to do.
She wandered from room to room.
The Fremont Chronicle was on the
table and she tried to Interest herself
in its pages, but it was futile She
wished she might lle down and sleep
for she knew there would be no sleep
for her on the train that night. Had
the telegram come last night instead
of this morning she would have taken
the day train over. But it had come
at six o'clock this morning and the
day train went through Fremont at
7:07 a. m,
The kitchen was shining In Its clean.
There was a roaring fire in
the big kitchen range and Molly sud-
denly bent and pushed the damper
over the oven. A moment later she
from the pantry with a
For the next two hours she worked
It was strange
her pocket crackled, the
advising her of the death
Lathrop, her hushand. [It
wns very brief, very noncommital. A
was
signed Dandron & Eaton, attorneys,
Mrs. Lathrop had been killed In Eng
land. Papers in his possession and
also In the office of the Chicago at
torneys, had requested that she be
That was strange, too, be
him In
Chicago and told him he could have
years of married life; since
The telegram also requested that
she appear in the office of Dandron
Chicago, on a certain day
tter which could oniy
be settled with her assistance, Inas-
much as the late Mr. and Mra Lath-
had no relstives with whom to
communicate,
Making cookies—sour cream, spices.
brown sugar-—-Weston's favorites—and
he was dead! It was hard to believe
hat the man she had loved, still
loved, was dead. And there was so
little by which to remember him, ex-
cept memories. They had lived In
her old hame, inherited from her par
ents. He had brought little Into It
but had taken much when he took
himself ont of It. She lifted her hand
to her lips—the hand that bore the
narrow, gold band placed there on a
It was nearly eight o'clock when she
placed the last cookie in the big crock
which stood on the lower shelf in
the pantry. It was nine when she fin.
ished her light supper and washed
the dishes. Only Mrs. Desmond knew
she was going away--on a business
trip that could not be postponed, but
she could return the day after tomor-
row, It was dark when she locked
the door and hung the key behind
the right pillar of the porch. The sta-
tion was almost deserted and she
the few townsfolk who loitered on the
platform,
All through the long hours of the
night Molly Lathrop lay thinking of
the days that stretched behind her:
of the days to come. The last seven
years had been very lonely, but the
years ahead seemed interminable.
There had always been the sweet un-
certainty that perhaps some day Wes
would come back to her, and although
the heart In her was crushed, she
knew she would welcome him back.
Now he was dead. She raised herself
on her elbow many times and watched
the countryside slip past, Sickly street
lamps threw out a murky glow In the
strange little towns that slumbered
in the night stillness, How many of
those little homes contained the hap-
piness that had once been hers?! How
many knew the heartaches that she
knew? And If only she had something
definite, something tangible by which
to remember those happy days before
he went away-—there was plenty to
bring back the long days and the cruel
hours of the night after, but so little,
80 little—and then they were rumbling
into South Chicago and Molly Lathrop
was the first off the train, a neat,
timid little figure in the great bus-
tiling railroad station.
At ten o'clock she appeared In the
offices of Dandron & Eaton and was
ushered in almost immediately to the
presence of Mr. Dandron. He read
her a statement that Weston had pre-
pared before leaving for England, ad.
vising that In the event of his death
Molly Lathrop of Fremont should be
notified,
i ow -
Mr, Dnndron folded it enrefully and
then from his safe he took 8 sealed
envelope, This he handed to Molly,
“It wes to be given to you—in the
event anything happened, It will prob
ably tell you something. Unfortu.
nately there i8 no money left as he
was very unfortunate in his Invests
ments. This trip to England was one
last effort to establish a footing there
-had lost everything, his wife's for.
tune Included, The child is alone In
the world-—penniless.”
Molly leaned forward In her chair
and brushed a hand over her eyes.
“Did you—did you-—say—a child?
Mr, Dandron did not try to conceal
his astonishment,
He is
placed
Weston, Jr.
now, They
due here
him
cipal to have him
o'clock, Do you want to read
letter while we are waiting? We will
have to discuss what will be done
about the child. Poor little chap!”
the envelope, She started to
but tears In her eyes blinded her.
brushed them away and walked to a
window back of Mr. Dandron's chalr,
Then she read the letter, pitifully
brief, pitifully precious, in which
Weston told he loved ber, had always
loved her, nsked her forgiveness
that It had been a terrible mistake
and that was all
And then the door opened and a
woman came In leading a fair-halred
boy by the hand. Molly took a step |
forward, caught the back of Mr. Dan.
dron’s chalr and stopped. The boy |
was watching her, She held out her
hand to him and he smiled. She held |
out both hands and went to her knees
and the boy, his big brown eyes—
Weston's eyes—happily nlight, came
toward her. As her arms went about
him Mr. Dandron und the woman left
the room,
“and a big yard, Weston dear
and a dog, which shall it be—a colile
or an alredale? And we have a cat—
sou and I, 1 call her Gray Puss, a
great big fluffy cat. You will love
her. And there is 8 hill to slide down
on in the winter and a pond—and
just before I came away I made a
big crock of cookies, crispy, spicy ones
that all—-boys--like. Oh, we gre go-
ing to be so happy, you and [—and
I am going to start right now calling
you ‘Sonny'.”
The door opened again
Dandron was looking down
smiling.
“That Is fine!
would turn out,
as I told yon,
inheritance.”
read,
and Mr.
at them,
Just as 1 hoped ft
Mrs. Lathrop. But,
sheveled blond hair of
her knee and laughed. She held up
a letter that was crushed in her hand.
Her other arm encircled the boy's
shoulders
“No inheritance,
Who—could—wish
more wonderful
these?”
you say?
for =a
inheritance—tha
Childhood Delighted in
Mystery of the Stars
Children naturally love the stars.
They feel the mystery and beauty of
them long before they become aware
of the mystery of the things on earth,
But unless your child is able to pick
out a few of them and call them by
pame they remain to him simply
pricks of light in the dark dome of
heaven.
know about light years,
potheses or the revolutions of the
earth about the sun. But If you go
walking with him In the warm eve
ning of spring be will be charmed to
follow your pointing finger as it
traces for him the biggest,
constellations.
Show him the Big Dipper,
crooked W that is Cassiopea, the Lady
of the Chair,
the two.
en Sisters, the Little Dipper, all these
you can readily teach him to recog
nize.
Later on he will
more,
are so faint,
the Milky Way is made of; how big
are stars and how far away.
If you yourself know little about the
stars to begin with, so much the bet.
ter. You will be less likely to over
whelm him with your information on
a subject so vast as to be rather ter
rifylng. You can buy a little star
finder at smail expense and from it
find the constellations if you have for.
gotten them. It will pay you in terms
of pleasure and companionship with
your child to familiarize yourself with
one of the many books about stars
which have been written especially for
children. Kansas City Times,
Bell's Dire Prophecy
The church bell of Keitum, on the
Isle of Silt ir the North sen, writes
Satis N. Coleman in his book, “Bells”
distinctly says “Ing Dung” which are
the names of two plous spinsters at
whose expense the old bell tower of
the church was erected long ago.
There exists an old prophecy in the
place that, after the bell shall have
fallen down and killed the finest youth
of the island, the tower will likewise
fall, and will kill the most beautiful
girl of Silt,
A fine youth actually was killed
by the fall of the bell In 1730: and
gince that time the young girls of
Silt are generally very timid in ap
proaching the tower, for each one
thinks she may be the destined victim,
Y.ots of folks who think they have
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Next time a hearty meal, or too rich
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Norway Ce! cbrates in 1930
will celebrate the
the coming of
3 with the anni-
th of King Olav II,
inst the
Celebra
1 parts of
incipal cere
Trondihem, an
i the seat of an
pric before the Lutheran
reformation, of restoring
the
a long
tomb.
will
nine centuries of
way. —Tran
Star from
be held
residence and
The work
cathedral has been proceeding for
time. It was built on Olav's
the
the celeb
The completion of work
with ration of
Christianity in Nor-
slated for the Kansas City
the Journal de Geneve.
urs
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Hen Paid for Trip
} laid an egg
air sounds
like Mays
Landi id i hough it can-
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lane. The hen belongs to young Jack
i to whom the op-
He wanted
his hen along and it went In
and soon a fresh-laid white
sg found in the improvised nest,
one at
the
was given
£2 basket
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The boy was more ple ased with “the
record egglaying than he was with
his first ride in an airplane,
“take its course,
have had apples
By letting nature
man would never
bigger than walnuts.
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