HILDREN’S
SASTORY
THORNTON W. BURGESS
HOW NIMBLEHEELS GOT
AWAY
PErER RABBIT was all a-shake. It
was partly excitement, partly fear,
and partly hope. You remember how
he had gone back to the dear Old
Brier Patch without a doubt in his
mind that little Nimbleheels had been
caught and carried away to the Green
Forest by Hooty the Owl. You re
member how sad Peter was and how
he had sighed und sighed again, and
how a thin, high, squeaky had
asked if he was in pain,
That voice made Peter jump. It
sounded exactly like the volee of lit-
tle Nimbleheels, [If Peter hadn't been
absolutely sure that by this time Nim-
bleheels must be in the stomach of
Hooty the Owl he would have said
that this the volee of Nimble
heels. 3ut how could it be? It
couldn't. His ears must have fooled
him or else—*“Who are you?" whis
pered Peter. “Are you a ghost¥
“1 should say not!” exclaimed the
ame thin, high, squeaky voice Indig-
nantly. “There is no ghost about
me! For goodness sake, what is the
matter with you, Peter Rabbit? Out
in front of Peter hopped Nimbleheels, HE
Peter backed away hurriedly, down In
away.” sald he. “This Isn't you. It mander to
can't be. You were caught by Hooty
the Owl and carried away for his din
voice
was
lake about half a
her, The
Gatun
try to
“Go
beach
Just touch m
real enoagh”
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N
Very Cautiously Peter Reached Out
and Touched Nimbieheels.
ner, You
here, t
he began to
Peter frowned,
eo
he was q!
not be mysel
quite sure [I'm ne
for Hooty the
feels
willing to make |
a meal
him,
Owl,
any full
hird of
slow]
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“Early to bed and early to rise”
says stepping Stella, “and the neigh
bors would have nothing to talk
about.”
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Apricot Coconut,
Wash one cupful of dried apricols
boiling water to soften,
then run through a food chopper with
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from President Roosevelt and have been shipped to him, The wool was
carded and spun in Inverness mills,
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SOLDIER BOY!
By ANNE CAMP3ELL
&§ OL R Boy, are
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Is » sun too bright on
the days
your
the
is
fen years
ut ments and two
a ecupful of Add
: Mice
thirds of enennut.
fwo tal
ind
Mix
and roll In sugar,
ieanonnfuls of oran ge
one teaspoonful of orange rind
until well blended dates
Sty iY
Stall
Marshmallow Coconut,
fourth pound of marsh
uarters with wet scis
fT each date with a piece of
marshmallow, placing the cut side up
Dip the sticky surface of the marsh
tallow the shredded coconut,
Jumbo dates
ing the
and stufling
Cut
mallows
one
into q
sors. Stu
into
are prepared hy press
edges of Iwo dates together
a8 one
Parisian Sweets,
Take one package of
package of coconut, one fourt
each of figs and dried apricots, put
through a food chopper. Add a table
spoonful of orange juice and a tea
gpoonful of the grated rind. Mix well
and divide inte parts. For fruit cara
mels pack the portion into small pans
lightly oiled or buttered, erense into
squares, and place a nut meat on each
square. Chill, eut into cubes with a
sharp knife that has been dipped Into
water,
Dried fruita may be used for fruit
favors, turtiea animals; and various
attractive things like ginger bread
men may be made from figs, raisins,
dates and nuts,
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dates, ene
h pound
“Pop, what Is a mandolin?”
in the Pans She went
list that led her come
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actus] humorous
examination pa
chers.
BONERS are
id-bits found in
, CE8aYS, el,
“Stringed applesauce.”
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have
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The United Sta
from the Russ
They thought
for buying it
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ight Alaska
£7 500.003,
awful nut
ans for
We Were an
WN Rervice
Shorts for § Sports
Here, modeled by Miss Charlotte
Young, 18 a sports costume of shorts
ar! blouse that is characteristic of
the styles for the spring and coming
summer, It was shown at the spring
fashion promenade in New York spon
gored by the women's apparel division
of the National Retail Dry Goods as
sociation,
in Farm Machines
Committee Compares Outfits
of 20 Years Ago With
Those of Today.
Prepared by Agricultural Extension Bervice,
Ohle Biante University -~WNU Bervice
Although cultivators, walking plows,
harrows and other of the less com
machinery manufacture
A committee of agricultural college
comparing the farm ma
releases this information following
Prof. G.
department of agricultural en
of the committee,
! value of the ensllage cutter
and corn picker is more than twice
that of the machines sold to do
work 20 years
mprovements in
As reported by
of the
ing, one
Kame ago.
quality
the committee
for the grain binder
the cultivator. The grain
improved 40 per cent, farm
engines 100 per cent, disk harrows 0
per per cent, corn
pickers 100 per cent, corn planters 55
nt, tractor powy 90 per
1d two-horse
are 70 per
cent and 65 per
cent, mowers 70
cent
plows 00 per cent,
walking plows 35
Spravis
iD per
cent.
cent
f opnt
feed g
tors
rs,
Allowe d to s Seed Grasse
for Ei rosion Preven ) tion
no or see
mes for erosion 1
fil on acres 4
of wheat,
ent administr
program
stration’s
vie that growers {
hese contracted
aintain thel
the
Agricuit
Grazi ing Injures Pastures
ng in the spring and close
weriad of sum
digas
ng the dry
proved to be quite
nstures under observation
1. soils special 1
a, Such
Toot th
at
in south
grazing has had
an any other factor in
produced. The
rovement experiments car
the hill counties the past
potassinm is an
peed alone
return only when com
both nitrogen and phos
Pasture treatm OWN
nfluence in flood control, the
r « pastures allowing folly twice
wch runoff, and the water from
treated pastare earried more
silt away.
forage
ried on
SOA RON irate that
ie fertilizer If
shows n
with
ent has sl
Testing Dairy Feed
By adapting the “guinea pig” method
nal
disenses, the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture has discovered
that feeding dairy feeds to rabbits in
Use of
a rate nearly ten times that when cat
much faster. The department hegan
used for each type of feed
Cannot Abolish Fairs
County fairs cannot be abolished by
county commissioners refusing to make
appropriations, Attorney General John
W. Bricker has ruled in an opinion te
ihe prosecutor of Deflance county. He
points out that the Ohlo laws provide
for an appropriation to the county
commissioners in order to encourage
agricultural fairs, and that as long as
the agricultural society exists the com
missioners must provide some appro
priation~Ohlo Farmer,
Fears 1934 Grasshoppers
A new and worse outbreak of grass
hoppers in 1934 threatens the North.
west, A. G. Ruggles, Minnesota state
entomologist, has warned. He said
that recent surveys made in North Da.
kota, Montana and Saskatchewan have
shown the presence of large numbers
of ‘hoppers resembling the old “Rocky
Mountain” variety which devastated
farm crops in ploneer days. It has
not been grasshoppers of this variety
that have done the damage in the
Northwest in the past few yoars
FLYING AT 5
MILES AN HOUR
An airplane capable of flying 554
msiles an hour, using existing engines,
could be built today by applying
known aerodynamic principles to its
design and construction, according to
John Black of the national advisory
committee for aeronautics, This is
131 miles an hour faster than the
present speed record,
What such a
would be like is
firs
of the Aeronaut!
Literary
slightls
transport planes
lane
Mr,
high-speed pl
bed by
Lome
descr
The w
Inge would
The |
trac
ted
planes, ane
Inge,
pilot bel
indirectly by
would be cer
A model
tested In wind
Mr. Stack’'s
would have a
miles an hour
one whi
ill tell you that the
«tremor
Careg-
is taken so frequen
carry it with vou,
Its very
well
oh tful ts
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wherever ye
Dr. Cald-
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Is This Too Good
for Your Cough?
Creomulsion may be a better
help than you need. It combines
seven major helps in one—the
best helps known to science. It is
made for quick relief, for safety.
Mild coughs often yield to lesser
helps, No n tell, No one
knows which factor will do most
for any certain cough. So careful
more and more, are using
Creomulsion for any cough that
tarts,
The cost is a little more than a
gingle help. But your druggist
guarantees it, so it costs nothing if
it fails to bring you quick relief,
ww are danger signals, For
safety's sake, deal with them in
the best way known. (adv.)
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