SAND ABOUT ZOO ANIMALS V HEN all the people have gone ‘VY home the animals in the zoo talk to each other, sometimes they talk about the times they were free, some- times they talk of what they like best about the zoo and about their own family ways—and sometimes they talk about the people who come to visit them, and laugh at the different ways people have, “People say,” remarked the Rocky mountain bear, “that we don’t get any chance to do as we please when we're in the zoo, They say we aren't free. But I fooled them yesterday.” “You did, Indeed,” said Muff and Ruff in chorus, Muff and Ruff were Cla wMfrins “| Don’t Believe You Will,” Said Mr. Red Fox. two Russian bears who were nelgh- bors of the Rocky mountain bear. “And you gave me away,” sald the Rocky mountain bear. “But no mat- ter, I had my little outing.” “1 couldn't bear it when I saw bend your wires and cape,” said Muff, “And so as we could,” “Tha you manage to es we both growled as hard sald Ruff, was what made see what had happened,” sald Rocky mountain bear. “He didn't know whether I was down In my cave or not.” “But we kept on growling sald Muft, “and he came back once more to see what had happened. My, we were envious.™ “Oh, yes, I had a fine walk stroll around the park” said Rocky mountain bear, "and they came to catch me and bring me back they said that they were so the keeper the " and the when frightened when heard I had escaped. “For they said my temper wasn't always as perfect as it might be and so they were afraid! Ha, ha, growl, growl, 1 frightened them when I had my walk! “I didn't do any harm, but 1 did what 1 pleased. 1 walked where I wanted to walk, [I enjoyed myself. I fooled them yesterday, all right, “It took eight of the creatures they call men to bring me back again, That was something for a Rocky mountain hear to boast about—eight men to bring him home! “And so, Muff and Ruff, though you were so envious you made my walk shorter yesterday by letting the keep- er know something was up, or rather out: still I had a fine, free time, and I fooled the keeper.” “You frightened them, lucky bear,” said Muff and Ruff. “Oh,” sald Mr. Gray Fox, “I with 1 had got out of the I'm to try. I'm going to climb up the side of my cage, and I'll escape. I will.” “I don't you Mr. Red Fox. keepers weren't on the lookout for the bear this, ut they are on their guard about you. gray fox will try to get away by climbing and climbing ever the anything he can, a tree, a fence or anything.” “Now would try to through one of the entrances to home. We always have three trances so can get out of doorway in our hole-home If we are attacked from one of You don't care about digging and hur- v they too, you 200, going believe will,” sald “The doing hey know that a top of we escape our en- we one the other two. mb, You rowing ou would rather ¢l You're not As we not nearly so foxy.” as clever are, re said Mr, Gray Fo “I know you fare 38 lever and tricky “Oh." that and deserve that t 1 am worse I were free 1 myself. Here 1 “I don't think the little self. 1 family. “No, I'm treacherous don’t believe I am sleepy. “But if ever 1 do can think of me as out in the great world, per haps back in old h -being ns cross and selfish as | was here in the zoo, and not feeling sorry about it in the least.” fox, Just escape the the array I will gray sly, fox. now | try to for you ne my (Copyright) CTHE WHY of SUPERSTITIONS By H. IRVING KING THUMBS UP HERE Is a common New England superstition that if, when a person closes his fist, his thumb sticks up he is a capable or an honest man, where- as thieves and rascals, they say, al- ways double their thumbs in when closing the hand. Theru is here a clear echo from the days of the giadi- ators—the “pollicies verto” and the “pollicies premo” of the Romans. When in a gladitorial combat the van- quished was not killed but lay at the mercy of his antagonist the decided his fate. If they decreed his death they extended their hands with the thumbs bent under and concealed; if his life they reach forth with the thumb extended outward and up. With the humane and the just among the spectators it was thumbs up; with the hlood-thirsty and the criminally inclined it was thumbs concealed, The Roman legions lift their eagles high no and the stars glimmer through loops of time In the Flavian amphitheater. Dut when we cousider that out of the ruins of that Old Roman world the world of today was built up, and that for over four hundred years Old England was Roman it Is not surprising that among the superstitions of New England still linger echoes from the days of the Caesars, (@ by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) atisall, Pansies How It Started By JEAN NEWTON peopie more the THE “BANSHEE” SSO SH! QUIET, or the banshee will surely get you!” It is with these cautionary words that many a mother sends her little child off to sleep. For the banshee is believed to be a dreadful creature that does harm to people and frequently kidnaps chil dren, In Ireland particulary, which Is presumed to be the native habitat of the banshee, Is It believed to be a spectre which warns of the approach of death, ; The word itself is a .orruption of the Gaelle “Beau sidbe,” weaning woman-fairy. i (Copyright) “Many a motor trip is just a buss ride.” wisi, Pos “Dear Editor: V HEN I was a boy we read Dia. mond Dick In secret. It was reprehensible because the books were supposed in some mysterious way to upset our morals, What they prob. ably did was to weaken our eyesight and ruin our digestion, Those were the books wherein the hero went night and day without eat- ing or sleeping or paying attention to routine physiological matters. It seemed heroic and smart to skip a menl, Nowadays such a hero would be hygiene-minded., Here's a sample, per. haps. “Rudolph rose, stretched, sipped three glasses of water, brushed his teeth with a downward motion, and started his morning exercises, Fifteen minutes later he sat down to a heap ing bow! of oatmeal with one spoon ful of sugar.” No reader of auch a healthful book would grow up a dyspeptic. I wonder that some one does not reprint the old dime novels with new dietetic health hints written in, If we're go ing to give our bables pre-chewed ear rots we ought also to sterilize their reading, Fred Barton, (@, 1930, Bell Byndicata.) SPPIIPIVI0PPE L POPOIPIPIPe Joan | eers PPOPIPPPIPPPPUPPIPOOODDPO A Columbia picture star. Chicago sent her to Hollywood. After her lat. ect picture, “Around the Corner™ with Charlie Murray and Ge:orgs Sid- ney, Hollywood sent her to stardom, It took three pictures to bring her from obscurity to fame. amma J CONDO OOSGOOON ORONO THONG For Meditation| By LEONARD A. BARRETT g SOo0 SILENCES HARLES LAME, In Coleridge, writes about ~ his letter to “The silent thoughts arising in a good man's mind The top 3 place bt its silence plendid for a werson to “Retire in the sanctuldry of fa lonely mountain may be a affords a opportunity t i his own heart” When high « may the be above ton of i the smwougn fo ® majestic Above us cerulean OW are ments In Vilness we maoil fight. ying and hear the peals of thunder The storm has no effect upon the per son above it except to incite wonder and i Peace and securi ahove t admiration, ty abides he storm Life's storms are quite like ragie occasions in thunder crashes and lightning flashes, Storms of sorrow and failures are likely to master us if we permit ourselves to become vie tims of their depressing influence. If we can, however, climb these L. A. Barrett. nature when into the moun- tain top of a strong mental and spirit- ual faith and witness these storms from above, we rise above them. We are thus able to master the storm rather than be mastered by it. This silence of mastery is a rare but most worthy attitude of mind and heart to acquire, In the silence only the lesson of but that much gelf-control. There about ability to heap coals of fire upon another. Many a battle has been won by silence. Occasionally we witness a person becoming famous by what he did not say. The silent look is the most severe rebuke. The silent attitude of mind an#l heart wing many a battle in which war for supremacy. In the rush need hours of to go into “a awhile.” In one not only but acquires a new vision and fresh courdge work. It bla to one's rest. Longfellow ing “for an one learn not mastery trait of is something fine Can self very needed one's conflicting forces of our modern retirement, age we We need place and the silence of retirement desert rot recovers his lost energy for life's recapture in possi. throuzh ghout labor. inward stiliness, an In- ward healing, a perfect silence where lips and heart are still, and we no longer entertain imperfect and vain opinions.” soul writes the whispers of the gods.”-—<Emerson. (8, 1930, Western Newapapor Union.) (@®. 1930, MeClure Newspaver Syndicated Strawberry Has Made Progress sion of So-Called Lux- ury Crops. (Prepared by the United States Departmont of Arriculture.) growth of the strawberry In- striking example of the of the so-called lux- recent years, says the agricultural economics, The ury crops in Time was when the strawberry locally grown berries, this enjoy until now strawberries consumers practically Within ten years the commercial acreage of strawberries Increased from 93,420 acres In 1020 to 202,180 acres in 1920, and a projected area of 183,680 acres this Descendant of Wild Meadow Berry. “The strawberry.” says J. W. Strowbridge in a techni¢al bul- letin on the and distribution of the commercial strawberry crop, issued by the United De partment of Agriculture, “is believed to be a descendant straw crossi this wild strawberry of the « part of the U with the cultivated var Chill resulted in the strawberry grown at time developed. “Market production 1800, but, because of nature of the only sn quantities commercial origin States of the wild meadow native to the country, The Histern nited States from which present letios from the hybrids began about the perishable then iil were and those In localities near points of The of the a8 a commercis proposition arieties grown, produced consumption. expansion Industry began about has been en- couraged by lmprovement In uo and pment of w hid are adapted to mee growing yor wot ig sections of cul the develo ture rieties uriety of conditions and give a reasonable ry In good condi. Refrigera- Best Markets. York. Bastion, Phila and Detroit are the Ch CREO, leading six, hut the consumption i | markets is considerably great than is indicated by carioand receipts, as sugmented by increasing motor truck transportation, Indica- tive of the greater use of motor trans- Pelaware last year trucked a8 far as Montreal, portation stranberries Canada, Mr. Strowhridge has written a com- prehensive publication on the various phases of the strawberry industry in- cluding discussion of areas of produc- trends, produc shipments, varieties, the in- costs of transporta- tion, it has heen Department of Agriculture as Technical julletin 180-T under the title “Origin and Dis- tribution of the Commercial Straw- berry Crop” Inoculate Alfalfa to Secure High Returns It Is not sdvisable to inofulate al- faifa much as six weeks ahead of The best time is to inoculate it just a day or so be fore sowing. Or If it could be inocu. inated In the forenoon and sown in the afternoon, it is just that much the better. The inoculating bacteria are easily killed in the sunshine and seed treated with inoculating bacteria ghould be kept in until It is important also to have it the of the sun's rays yields, tion, acreage tion and stales, market receipts the and issued by goed] As the sowing. the shade sown, ncorporated with soil immediate- Iy so ag to get it out at the earliest possible moment, farm Cleaning up the garden this fall will gave a great deal of trouble with in- sects and diseases next spring. - - - Bees not having good quality or be fed sugar sirup before cold weather Comes, - - » Despite the dry weather there will be many vegetables to store for winter use, There are different requirements for storage which should be ohserved if the vegetables are to keep well, . . *. Land that Is to be used for a row crop next spring and wheat or oat stubble land that is to be used for a small grain crop may be put In better shape for spring planting If plowed or listed this fall, . » - This Is just the time to lay plans for woodlot thinning during the winter, Let that riot of autumn colors hence- forth cover tall, straight, well-crowned, sound trees of good growth and useful binds Instead of “just trees” * - » In storing winter squash and pump. kins, harvest them before they have been exposed to frost, vegetable spe. ciallsts urge. Handle carefully to pre- vent bruising. Do not remove the stem, Store In a warm, dry place, and try to keep the temperature from fluctuating much, The same require ments hold true for sweet potatoes, s Easy to Extend Garden Usefulness With Little Work One Can Prolong Season. With just a little work one can pro- long the season of a few vegetables — Just enough to supply the family table—for several weeks beyond the first killing frost, if action is taken quickly, suggests the home economics department of the state college of agriculture at New Brunswick, Tomato vines may be pulled up by the roots and hung to the rafters in the cellar. Select vines which have a number of well-developed green fruits, These will ripen slowly and prolong the of fresh tomatoes, Some people have served tomatoes for Thanksgiving dinner by storing them in this way. All vegetables to be stored must be sound and dry, for bruised, diseased, or frosted products will soon rot. The root vegetables like carrots, beets, turnips and parsnips should be dug and allowed to dry in the sun a few hours before placing them in storage, loxes of clean are the best for these vegetables, Onions and cabbage season sand and allow a f slatted racks, bins that keep best on open potatoes In slatted circulation of air. Not many lens supply the vegetables hicl ne may store for winter the bles the one might growers are digging for order the rots, heets, cabbage, celery, ele ed for the family, sometimes saved by vinter storage, Cur. amounts of potatoes, « Need Many dollars are the thrifty house vife who orders her supply of vege- tables directly from the producer in- stead of buying them In small amounts A generous supply of in the ie housewife to ench week, these foods cellar also encour i serve more bles pier realise ar » { Make Silo Walls Tight for Filling in Fall ' 2 soon be Wy BOON season will Oo go over the iat they are in sl t ape to The glave age prope riy. be pointed up, and hoops 3 tightened, and made tight against passage water. Iowa State col- In experiments : 8 number of dividing a treatments silo that has been gi B tions. The materials wash, a waterproof solution of soap and alum, a i i lege were tried by into five sed giving trouble, used were cement asphalt and paint and cement plaster, The fifth was untreated. In another silo a number of commercial waterproofing materials, most of which had an asphalt base, were tried out section The experiments have shown that a cement wash and asphalt paint when properly applied are satisfactory and economical, Te apply a cement wash successfully, the walls must be clean and damp, and the cement wash care- fully brushed on to the surface. New Year for Poultry Begins November First The new year for poultrymen be. gins November 1. On that date the pring pullets should be In permanent winter quarters and well started on the year's production. If flock records have not been kept in the past, now is an excellent time to begi Are your birds returning good interest on the money you have invested in stock and equipment or are you keeping them at a Throughout the year strict should be noted of every feed, repairs, stock purchased, etc. Credit the flock with market eggs sold, hatching eggs sold, eggs used on the table, chickens eaten and all market poultry and breeding stock sold, distinct loss? account expense ; Use of Sweet Clover for Green Manure Is Urged Allowing to stand the second year ordinarily not pay, according to C. M. Linsley, University of Illinois, A seed crop or pasture may justify keeping the second year growth but not otherwise, Sweet clover If thick and vigorous will yield 150 pounds of nitrogen per acre, enough for 100 bushels corn crop. There is no point to allowing clover to stand late in the second year for plowing it under. It contains prac. tically as much nitrogen early, as late, and it is better to plant corn as early as possible, Linsley says, The nitro- gen in the early spring growth is ail moved up from the roots and not gath- ered from the atmosphere, Pear Psylla Is Cause of Harm and Poor Fruit Pear psylla Is a serious limiting factor In the production of pears In many districts, It causes injury and unpleasant results in several ways The nymphs of this insect feed on the tender growth, sucking out the plant Julces and in that way using up elab- orated foods that are needed by the pear tree for wood and leaf growth, the formation of fruit bude and the production of fruit of good quality. 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