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
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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.
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“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.
They not only compete with the tree
for food material but injure the
leaves In such a way that brown
spots appear and the leaves turn yel-
fow and finally drop, so that severe
defoliation may occur even as carly
as July L
sweet clover
does
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