NURSE FOG’S STORY
$¢Y T'S a splendid life,” said Nurse
Fog, “as it's so exciting.
“Maybe you wouldn't think It ex-
citing, but I do, at any rate.”
“I should think at times,” said Billie
Brownie, “you'd become tired of hang-
ing so heavily over the water and over
places.”
“Oh, no,” said Nurse Fog, “I love
it. You see, I have friends and rela-
tives and there are my raindrop
charges.”
“Have you
Brownie asked.
“To be sure,” said Nurse Fog.
“I shall tell you about them if you
would like to hear,” she added,
“1 would indeed,” sald
Brownie,
“In the first place,” sald Nurse
Fog, “I always come around when
warmer air begins trying to play with
many friends?" Billie
billie
“Not in the Least. | Am Not Sensi.
tive,” Said Nurse Fog.
the cold sen. That mixing of the two
never fails to bring me about. So I
call the warm air together with the
cold sea both great friends of mine,
“Then when my sister Valley-Mist
is about, the same thing is happening,
only it is the cooling of the land mix-
ing with the air that causes the dew
mists in the country.
“In the winter hoar frosts take the
places of the dew mists of the sum-
mer time, but they are all my friends
wearing winter costumes.
“They're my foggy friends and rela.
tives,
“In the winter instead of having
rain you have snow, but when the
raindrops freeze and let themselves
be covered with rain again and then
freeze still more, you say you have
hailstones.”
“I think you and your familly are
most interesting, Nurse Fog" Billie
Brownie sald, “but 1 do love the sun-
ghine almost best of all, 1 do believe,
I hope you won't think I'm rude.”
“Not in the least,” said Nurse Fog.
“I am not sensitive, anyway.
“But, Billle Brownie, maybe you
give the Sun too much credit, If it
weren't for all the particles of spray
from the ocean and dust from the
ground and all the parts from flow-
ers, and the countryside and even
city dust that go flying through the
alr, the sun would not beau-
tiful.
“It is because of all these that the
sun is able to cast his blue rays and
lights about the nnd make the
beautiful blue sky. He can't do it all
by himself.
“Every one and everything need
help. No one can act all alone, you
see, Billie Brownlie.”
“I am sure this is all news to me,”
he added.
“And 1 shall tell them this as soon
a8 I get back to Fairyland and
Brownleland.”
“And you'll tell them that
Nurse Fog told you?’ she asked.
“Yes,” promised Billie Brownlie,
“Give them my love,” she sald after
a moment, “Now [I must put my great
shaw! about me and see my friends
Warm Air and Cold Ocean.”
So Billie Brownie sald good-by and
went back to Brownieland and Fairy-
land thinking of how the particles that
fly about in the air scattered the beau-
tiful lights and rays from old Mr. Sun,
go that people could have a beautiful
sky and colors of such beauty to gaze
upon.
“Certainly,” he said to himself, “we
all need some help.
“Even old Mr. Sun has to have It."
He arrived home and gathered all
the Brownies and the Fairies and the
Elves and the Gnomes and the mem.
bers of the Bogey family and the
members of the Oaf family, old Mr,
Giant, Witty Witch and all of the
others, and told of his remarkable talk
with Nurse Fog.
And all in Fairyland thought It was
one of the most Interesting tales he
had ever heard, which he had brought
back to them this time,
They sent the Breeze Brothers about
with messages to tell others about
this, too,
For the news was
keep to themselves.
derful for that!
For the Brownies and the Fairies
and the Elves and the Gnomes. and
all of the rest of thelr great families
are never selfish.
(Copyright)
be so
sky
old
too wonderful to
Much .too won-
How It Started
By JEAN NEWTON
“THE BATTLE OF THE
GIANTS”
O KIND reader, this is not a story
of any of the Dempsey-Tunney
contests, even though these as well as
many others have been referred to as
the “Battle of the Giants.”
There is no doubt that many of us
reading this expression, possibly for
the first time, in connection with pugi-
listic encounters, thought it a particu-
larly apt, clever and original metaphor.
However, apt and clever though it
may have been, it was not original.
For the phrase “Battle of the Giants”
was first used about four hundred
years ago. At that time it was an al-
lusion to the Battle of Marignano
(1515), between Francis I of France
and the Swiss under the Duke of
Milan,
Both armies were distinguished be.
cause of the great height, strength and
valor of their soldiers. So much so,
that the phrase “Battle of the Glants”
became classic for its apt application
to these circumstances,
(Copyright.)
GABBY GERTIE
Mr
“All is not old that titters.”
i ———————————"
CTHE WHY of
SUPERSTITIONS
By H. IRVING KING
BLACK CATS AND LOVERS
Wherever
The iassies of
the cat of the
jovers will
house I» black
have not lsck
ND again to the same effect: “In
a house where a black cat is kept,
the spinster portion of the population
will never lack sweethearts.” The con-
nection between the cat and Isis and
the moon in Egyptian mythology been
explained; also the reason why the
black cat was especially significant
because of its coat like the night and
its eyes like the moon.
The idea that Egyptian mythology
was a "straight out” religion Is er.
roneous, There appear to have been
as many cults and sects differing In
the conception of the proper elabora-
tion of fundamentals in Egypt under
the pharaohs as there are existing In
the world today.
The relation between a black eat
and lovers would appear to arise from
the conception of the attributes of the
cat-headed goddess Pasht, who was
not only identified with Isis but nlse
with Hathor, a goddess who had many
local names and forms and can with
difficulty be distinguished from Isis
herself if she can be at all Now
Pasht equals Hathor and the Greeks
identified Hathor with their Aphro-
dite, the goddess of love who, In later
times, hecame the Roman Venus,
Thus we have Pasht's black cat trav.
eling by a devious route, through
some few thousands of years, to be.
come the love inducer In a house of
marriageable maidens,
(E by MeClure Newspaper 8yndioate.)
snr)
Goofy Golfer
A British golf enthusiast who evi.
upon his mind has directed that when
he dies he desires to have hig ashes
scattered on a certain golf course In
the Midland country. He needn't
worry about the provisions of his re.
quest being carried out so far as the
scattering part of It goes. The novices
who tear up the turf with their nib.
licks will attend to that.
CP mime
Cautious
“Bay, mamma” queried five-year.
old Johnny, “are you going to give
me another plece of ple?”
“Why do you ask that, dear?” In.
“*Cause,” he explained, “if you
don’t, I'll eat this plece real slow,"
Chicago Dally News.
PPP PePPtPdPbdobd BO did iddd
Tom Mix
Qld P lB PDL b Pll DP leet
IT WOULD HELP
The small cur had balked again, and
under it to work,
the other sat and chatted. "You know,
I don’t think 44 hours such a short
Look at the American nuto fae-
“Yeos,"
with a
put in
gald the mechuni«
might
pines and the Boxer rebellion;
He
has
tion pictures.
height; he
eyes,
a
For Meditation
OO0000
By LEONARD A. BARRETT
a
THE BOY WHO STAYED AT
HOME
TE parable of the Prodigal Son Is
a very interesting story about a
boy who asked his rich and indulgent
father for hig Inheritance. The fa.
ther foolishly granted his son's re-
quest, with the that the Inher
itance was rapidly wasted In self in-
dulgence, When the all
spent the boy decided home
where he could have ple
result
money was
to
nty to eat and
not m to
do, nr
home he was
go
uch work
Upon his
rival
greeted with the
same indulgent pa-
fully
ternal love,
forgiven and
mediately restored
to his former place
in the family cir.
cle Whatever we
think
resolutions
mny of the
of this
runaway boy to re.
turn home, the fact
remaing that he
would have
pealed to nus much
of
L. A. Barrete. more an man had
he earnestly endeavored to earn back
some of the money he spent, so that
he could have reimbursed his father
upon arrival thus giving a
sncrificial evidence of the sincerity of
his répentance.
The brother who rémained
much, If
hoy
his home,
at home
interests us aR not
than he ran
Of the two brothers he ig the
He furnishes us an example
quite
mere, does who
away
stronger,
i
convictions
the very highest order. It
The ensy way is often times the
way. dt takes real courage to do the
right thing, especially
and difficult conditions,
at home possessed far
real courage than did his
Let talk more of the
stayed at home,
power which his brother did not have,
He commends himself to us as the
stayed mors
us hoy
plex life of our modern age.
not fascinated hy the passing pleas.
man who stays at home, be he scien
tizt, business man,
real hero of the day.
we can with the materials nearest at
hand, is a sure road to victory in any
undertaking. Conserved strength and
the power of deep and time tested
convictions guarantee a successful
career, Upon the strength both of
who stay at home rest the future prog.
rese of our Christian civilization,
(E1920, Western Newspaper Union.)
mnssabinin msi Jin dass
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On the Wrong Track
“How's your wife coming along with
her driving?”
“She took a turn for the worst last
week."—Border Cities Star.
WHEN HIT HARD
“a
love,
“That's only when
man's often hurt by falling In
"
he's hard hit”
Pathway of Greatness
He rises to an office high
And to one loftier, by and by
Fach promotion bids him fret
With troubles growing greater yet
End Men Take Notice
Rastus—Here telegram
de boss in Africy.
sendin’ us some lions' talls
Circus Owner's Wife—Liong'
Rastus? What on earth are you talk-
inz sbout?
Rastus— Well,
gram yo'self. It
“Just captured two Hons,
talis by mail”
new
BID A
Jos rend dis
says Jest
Sending de
ns
East and West
*1 went out West In
New Yorker,
“How fur #'yu
miner,
‘Buffalo.” sald the
“I went East
the miner. “Went as
tana, Nearly ran
didn’t we?" New
bo
git? queried the
New
&AIe
Yorker.
th’ sear.” said
fu'r Butte. Mon-
inte each
York Times.
The Helpmate
spends all his evenings at home
“Yes;
when 1 know he's there with the chil
dren.” —Chicago Dally News,
Facing Death
Returned Explorer (boastfully)—
a hundred forms.
Little Perkins— Really!
undertaker?
HEELS OVER HEAD
Poor Sualtor—Darling, I'm heels
¥
She--Well, as soon sg you're on
your feet 1 may consider your suit.
Cramp Is an Asset
She asked me for an autograph;
Clinging around my neck,
I felt quite flattered till 1 found
I'd autographed a check!
Wore a “Spiritual” Dress
Claude—Hasn't Mona got on a spir-
ftual dress?
Brian—What do you mean, spiritual?
Claude~Well, there isn't much ma-
terial about it.—Royal Arcanum Bulle:
tin,
Hard What Is
“Big boy,” sald Sambo, “Ah’s hawd
as nails”
“Yeah,” yawned Rastus. “Well, ef
ah diamond hit muh it would splatter,
dat’'s how hawd Ah iz.”
Less Time for Cooking
“But If your wife is so unmusical,”
sald the sympathetic friend, “why en-
courage her to take singing lessons?”
“Well, you see, old chap,” replied
the sufferer, “I figure it out that the
singing leaves her less time for cook.
ing.” +
Distinguished Conduct
“I hear Izzy got a big raise from the
fur company be's working for.”
“Yes, he invented five new names for
rabbit.”
rp
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