S STOR ABOUT ZOO ANIMALS 6“ HERE are certain months in the year 1 like,” said Mrs. Bison, otherwise known as Mrs. American Buffalo. “And what, pray tell, are asked Mrs. European Bison. * Mrs, European Bison is of the buf- falo family and Is a near relative of Mrs, American Buffalo. Her legs are longer, her body shorter, her halr on her head and back is not so thick, while the hair on the end of her tail is thicker. She is a good whole, Mr. and Mrs. European lived in a yard adjoining that of the Amer fcan Buffalo family. They were all quite friendly. “Tell me,” sald Mrs. European Jison, “why you are so fond of cer- tain months of the year.” “I will do that gladly,” sald Bison, or Mrs, American Buffalo, was usually known as Mrs. Bison while they?" deal shorter on the }ison Mrs, She “Here Is My Darling Bennie Buffalo” her neighbor was Hed Mrs, European Bison. “Also please tell me they are,” Mrs. ther requested. “That I will do gladly, Mrs. Bison. “The months I the late spring and months, 1 believe they July, June and May.” “They do,” sald Mrs. European Jison, “but you are speaking of them backwards. Folks them forwards." “Pooh !" care I { “Do Mrs. European Bison, “My tail is quite long enough,” always ca which months European Bison fur- " said are too, like them call usually speak of sald Mrs, Bison. She was a little bit angry. “1 didn't mean your tail—I meant your story. They are the same words when you pronounce them, but have different meaning, according to the way you spell them.” “But you didn't spell Mrs. Bilson, “1 thought you understand from the way I used the word. Well, don't let's argue. Go on with your story.” “I like the months I have men- tioned,” said Mrs. Bison, “because they are the months when the baby buf- faloes are born into the big world or this big zoo, “1 shed my them,” sald in the spring and am all ready to look my best. Bee? Here is my darling Bennie Buffalo,” she ended proudly, as she pointed to a buffalo calf not far away. She was certainly a very proud mamma, Not far away from these yards there was a tree in which was the Raccoon house. And in this tree Daddy Rac- coon was now talking with pride, The raccoons their bushy tails and nice, pleasant happy “We have ten Daddy and coon smiled, “It's a sized house and they wanted to coat little were twisting smiling such smiles, this house,” 1 Mrs. Rac- very rooms in sald Raccoon, 100, good show us the honor of giving us a fine home we're an addition smart, because they think to the zoo, and because They like our tricks and “The house is no trouble care of,” and Mrs. Raccoon, it Is kept clean and also sees that were ways." keeper sees that come in" us our have to think of what you will get thing like that, think of It!" “In other words,” said coon, “to live in th housekeeping for Nor Mrs, 200 Is to Rac- live where “No hal we shall get the : easy. worries, no where “Just sleeping joying our smooth » and each oth all the days Coon “These oon f 5 £3." And Daddy Rac little ra Race oon How It Started By JEAN NEWTON 0000000000000 000000000L “A BACK NUMBER” and his not be IS a back number need 6“ £ competition feared.” The reference here son whose ideas and out of date. And what a curiously eloquent ex- pression it is. For it can be applied to so many phases of activity, In so many fields, Almost anything can be a back number-—a style, a method, a fashion -what not. A good phrase it is, and it is to the newspaper world that we are in- debted for this journalistic metaphor —it being an allusion to a periodical long past current. (2), 1930. Bell Syndicate) was to n methods per- wore “Summer falls In winter and still are falls in spring.” mmemmnsnne Waste of Effort Foremost among the discouraging In- cldents to which a business man must accustom himself Is seeing a ste nographer yawn while writing one of fis snappy salesmanship letters, —Life. CTHE WHY of SUPERSTITIONS By H. IRV KING NG SHINGLING BY THE MOON M ANY people believe that you LY should shingle your roof when the moon is on the wane, The shingles put on at that time will lay flat—"go down” as they say--while singles laid when the moon is on the increase are liable to warp and curl up This superstition has been found existing in this country hy the American Folk- Lore society and is another ease of the survival into our own times of the primitive doctrine of Lunar Sympathy which considered both human acts and material things as sympathetical- ly affected by the waxing and waning of the moon. When the moon is wax- ing it gradually increases itself from line into a round ball—and will try to do the same, ‘hereas when it is. on the wane It goes through an opposite process and shingles laid on correspondingly influenced. It will be noted that by the doctrine of Lunar Sympathy that sympathy Is exerted upon material things in a determinate manner at some particular and crucial time of the object's existence-—when the tim- ber is cut, when the seed is planted, when the shingle is laid. (@® by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) are Dear Editor: ITTLE ROCK, Ark. had a good idea recently. They wanted a booster booklet, to be sponsored by the real estate men. So they held a contest among school children to get all sorts of odd formation about the city. The resultant data makes breezy reading. Taxes, length of streets, the number of taxicabs in town, 230 miles of natural gas pipes used in the city, 008 fire hydrants, 14 theaters in town, $1,202 average per capita wealth-—the kids routed out these facts and many others, I imagine the contest resulted first of all in a new pride In those young- sters’ hearts, If the real estate men of any town ean just get the youngsters to loving thelr city, the rest of the world will hear about it, too,~Fred Barton, (@ by the Bell Syndicate, Ine.) 00 000000CO0CO00D000e0T0000 Claudette Colbert COOOL 000C00000000000000000 This charming featured player whose motion picture work has been confined to a studio at Long Island soon ls to start work on a new picture yet untitied. On the screen Mics Colbert's latest pictures are “The Big Pond” and “Young Man of Manhattan” mmf Jomsibomm— SOLON NGOUOON US UND ORONO T For Meditation : 000000 g : By LEONARD A. BARRETT COOOOOCOGINOO0TO0GNNN0000 A SYNTHETIC WORLD v ALMOST a HIARe L383 is FOU A drug green comparaiiy ive as the g It to hetween ference d an ar real egg an ne ese 1 used in L. A. Barrett, thetie gasoline and when fully properly subtracted from t controlled for jis sation, ’ the problem of heating an Th d lighting as well as horse power for the world’s machinery will be The las ing thet ¢ used in such a variety much simplified t and perhaps most Interest. the field ubber, contribution to of syn- products ls tubber is cles that it has been years mand will exceed 800.000 tons of the raw Among the ticles from rubber, tires the larger portion of the available supply. Rubber 1s Im- ported to this country and tire com panies for some time have desired to dependent upon a foreign product. They had little hopes of syn- thetic rubber ever coming into the market, especially, since a noted Ger man chemist in an address before the Carnegie Institute of Technology stat- ed that extensive researches had con- vinced him product ion of estimated th de material, made consume many ar- automobile ha less that the obstacles to the rubber were this in- that “De synthetic almost insuperable, Prior to cident, fore the war 5X0 patents relating to synthetic rubber were issued in many, which led to the duction of a single ton of rubber.” It is interesting to note that Thomas A has undertaken the task of manufacturing this article. He claims it to be the toughest problem he has ever attempted, Bat, he says, “Give me five more years and the United States will have a rubber crop.” it was announced, (sor. none of pro Edison (@, 1930, Western Newapaper Union.) 0) (@ by McClure Newspaper Syndicates.) “There's a difference between an ex- You can find plenty one bloomin' reason but not bein’ careless, {Dy MARCUS A. DOW.) If there's any one kind of a hick bird who alibl at you whenever he gets In dutch and has an necident, A party of my more or less remote acquaintance parked his speed buggy at the curb and went into a house, While he was gone it rolled away and collided with a sedan. In the sedan was a lady about thirty years old. She was a good lookin' dame, fair complected, brown hair and a cheery smilin' sort of face that spread sun- shine wherever she went. Her sedan got a nasty rap and a plece of jagged glass cut a deep ugly gash on her pretty cheek, disfigurin’' her for life, I wonder how does that thoughtless lunatic that left his car parked In an unsafe manner feel about it down In his heart? ; In his Insurance report he wrote, “While I was In the house the brakes on my car let go, which was the cause of the aceldent.” Don't his alibi vou a laugh? As If that tin can of his had power to let go and start up of its own free will and ram another car. Now you know and I know his brakes didn’t just let go. The fact is this guy parked forgot to left his of the waves give some ghostly enabling It wheels run engine on a grade, cut his to s curb, and vibration engine } loose ag 1 that i A IrpKes old fled down } the end of the finger spit tobacco juice down a s throat.” In answer to the for blame for “The rattle was to auto careless like {tiesnake bites you of folks Occasional Change of il Saves Efficiency tO serions ally worth £aso with the and contain tal par hard have polluted the oll in considerable quantities, its further use will cause very rapid wear of engine parts. caused it free acid. ticies, pieces o and abrasive REPT AUTOMOBILE HINTS FHAHFFHRFFFRRFRRRRHAR RR Valve newed cores in tires should be re. about once each year. “ o » light oll wanipulation A little stubborn button. will relieve the of the choke Over 08 per cent of the new cars bought last year were on the install. ment plan. - - * The fouling of spark plugs or ex- cessive oll consumption will cause the engine to smoke, A * - A new car sometimes turns out to be a “lemon” simply because the own- er has not given it the proper care, - * - lower when getting lower and the time will come can jump over them. - * * Cars are and maybe pedestrians A hit-and-run motor driver may be hard to catch. The penalty should be the more severe on that account. Sealed a THE MOTOR QUIZ (How Many Can You Answer?) Cp palin pp pp pr pp ply lp lr rl QQ. Why does an old car use more oll than a new one? Ans, Primarily because differ- ent joints in old ears are looser, permitting the oll to leak out, Algo pistons and rings which have been worn will pass oll in- to the combustion chamber where it Is burned. Q. If after parking one finds oll has leaked from the engine of his car, what should he do? Ans, The ear should be In- spected and parts tight- ened In order to conserve oll This will make a big difference in oil consumption, Q. What is the most Important oll saving device bile? Ang. The oll filter. It removes the foreign matter from the oll, thus making it possible to use the oll much longer. Every 10,- 000 miles the oll filter cartridge should be renewed as it becomes filled at this mileage, Q. If the oil filter is newed when it becomes with foreign matter, what pens? Ans, change oil Seifert al -, Seer eed », 0) . loose nm the automo- are ere re red not re filled hap- a) Deere deeded fede eee Cobre PY », " Ded >. o! wave It will be more not necessary to frequently as filtered. AR the oll Is RE a rp rp rr rp pp pr pp rp ring Attain High Speed With Self-Propelling Rockets The latest adaption of their use In propelling cyclists, taken iers rockets has been The picture shown above is one on & Berlin track In which the ric f Cerman Cyclists Use Rockets. igh speed * exact nd wiil Pointers on Proper Care of Expensive Automobile d chassis lubrication, bat are the Im- for the effi- ator and tires things to consider nt operation of a car. The and radiator d be at. tended to according to the particular needs of the ear, but batteries should be watered at least two weeks and tires gauged and checked at least once a week, Water and oll are two of the worst enemies of tire fabric, and. for this reason small stone cuts In the casing should be kept filled with some good tire filler. Oil will ruin an inner tube in a week. Never throw the extra inner tubes In promiscuously with the greasy rags and oil can. Wrap them carefully in cloth, or, better still, get a couple of good, strong cloth bags for them. engine, ) 1 chassis shoul once every Protecting Automobile Engine Against Wear The thin oil film between moving parts is really what protects the auto- mobile engine against wear, This oll film is six times thinner than the page of this newspaper. It is kept clean by the oil filter—~the device through which the oll passes and is filtered. After 10,000 miles of driving it is important to service the oil fiiter be- cause after this mileage it becomes filled with as much as two pints of dirt, sludge and other foreign matter taken from the oll, and ceases to func- tion at highest efficiency In keeping the oll film clean. INAUGURATE FIRST MOTORBUS SLEEPER ACHES There's scarcely an ache or that Bayer Aspirin won't re romply. It can't remove the cguse, ut it will relieve the pain! Héad- aches. Backaches. Neuritis and neuralgia. Yes, and rheumatism, Read proven directions for many important uses. Genuine Aspirin can’t depress the heart, Look for the Bayer cross: Nothing Doing MceCankle of for S tomach ond LIVER TROUBLES or bad bre: mn, bili th, constipatic i Coated Tue « n i at a1 3 swerlens st Clezrs out wilh AUGUST FLOWER Freak Addresses Barred The Post Office dena &1 Handicapped azn 5 ‘ Taking It on Trust She here did you get tl} breil He ft from sis She wi told me you glisters He but raved on the know that's wha handle. Or a Press Agent A fourteen-year-old school boy has been expelled claim that he is incapable of telling the truth. If .iis young man doesn’t mend his ways he will likely end up in the weather bureau.—Life. because his teachers -~Where's that flaming youth who was creating all the dis- turbance up here? Landlady—He just went down the fire escape. Cincinnati Enquirer. EADACHE ? Insteai of dangerous heart de- pressants take safe, mild, purely vegetable NATURE'S RENEDY and get rid of the bowel poisons that cause the trouble. Noth- ing like NR for bilicusness, sick headache and constipation. Acts pleasantly. Never gripes, Mild, safe, purely vegetable At druggists—only 25¢. Make the test tonight, FEEL LIKE A MILLION, TAKE lel: 31 TOMORROW ALRIGHT Policeman- GLENN'S SULPHUR SOAP Bkin eruptions, excess! Contains perspimtion, Insect bites 33% Pure relieved at once by this red, ur freshing, beautifying tolles and bath soap. Best for Soft, Clear Skin Rohiand 's By pic Cotsen. She
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