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Show THE UTE SENTINEL Midvale, Utah, Friday, January 18, 1935 ! PAGE OF READING FOR THE FAMILY HOW====== t R BEDTIMEST FlolDG& ifJ d 1 ...__B_y_T_u_o_a_•_T_o_N_w_._u_v_R_G_E_s_s_., PETER DISCOVE~S SNOWFLAKE ·ROUGH BROTHER NORTH WlND hurried up one big cloud after another, and late in the after- noon white, feathery flakes came drifting out of the sky. Peter Rahblt sat tight in the dear Old Briar All night be remalnecl Patch. -squatting just inside the entrance tto an old hole Johnny Chuck's grandfather had dug a long tim(' ago in the middle of the dear Olrt Some time before Briar Patch. 4 PAGE FIVE 'Are You Going to Spend the Win- ter Here, Snowflake?" Cried Peter. morning the snow stop~ed falllng, .and then Rough Brother North Wind worked as hard to blow away the clouds as he had to bring them. When jolly, round, bright Mr. Sun 'began his daily climb up in the blue, blue sky he looked down on .a world of white. It seemd as If -every little snowflake twinkled back .at every Jolly Little Sunbeam. It was all very lively, and Peter Rabbit rejoiced as he scampered forth in quest of his breakfast. Be !ltarted first for the weedy tlelu where the day before he had found Dotty the Tree Sparrow und Slaty the Junco. They were there before him, not seeming to mind the snow in the least and having the very best of good times, us they picked seeds from the tops of the weeds which showed above the snow. At once Peter dlscovN'ed that they \vere not alone. Quite as busy seeking seeds as were Dotty an:l Slaty was a bird just a little big· ger. The top of his head and back were a rusty brown and on his back were streal{S of blacl;:. Back of each eye and on each shoulder was a little patch of this same rusty brown. The inner tail feathers were black, and the outer half of the long wing feathers were black. Otherwige he was dressed acld in white. It was Snowflake an·d Snow Bunting. Peter knew him instantly. He knew that there was OJ other small bird who is so largely white. Peter bad his usual question ready. "Are yon going to spend the winter here, Snowftake?" .he cried. Snowflake was so busy getting his breakfast that he did not reply at once. Peter noticed that Instead of hopping he walked or ran. Pres-. ently he 11aused long enough to re..If th~ ply to Peter's question. snow has come to stay all winter. r,erhaps I'll stay," said he. "1 can't understand bow folks can be con tented where there is no snow and ice. You don't catch me going war down South. 'Why. when the nesting season comes around I folio\\ Jack Frost clear up to where IH• spends the summer. I nest way up on the shore of the Polar Sea, hnt, of course, you don't know where that Is, Peter Rabbit." Peter confessed that he didn't. @, T. w. Burgess.-WNU Service. .. During an absence from New Yorlt I turned over my apartment to James Hopper. 1\lr. Hopper was wrathful, rather than grateful, for He the shelter of my apartment. had been made uncomfortable by the same visitation that I had experienced there. Moreover, he had bravely, in the dark, dared the ghost to an open encounter. The challenge bad not been accepted. By Famous People "Samuel Hopkins Adams heard the story ·of my weird experience Copyr-Ight by Publlc Ledger, Ina. and he wanted to investigate matWNU Service. ters under my troubled roof. Despite the fact that he was forewarned that he Is such an alert observand By WILL IRWIN er, be could only bear incoherent Author. witness to the visitation. .. Later, while I was on a holiday, 'Ghost of Washington Square' gaYe me many a night two elderly ladies who were former filled with clammy chills at No. 5!1 neighbors of mine in New England. ·washington Square,'' related Will asked to use my apartment during Irwin, who Is known to be such a their two weeks' visit to New Yorlr. shrewd and canny and skeptical re- A friend of mine was to call for porter that he was asked to tnves- them early the second day of their tlgate and expose the seances of visit to sl1ow them about town. He Signora Euspia Paladino, the no- found tbem standing on the doortorious psychic. "I might have at- step, with valises in hand. They tributed my nights ol' horror at No. wouldn't stay another minute ln Mr. · .59 to a disordered uigestion,'' con- Irwin's noisy, fearful apartment! "I could see only one thing to do. tinned Mr. Irwin, "had it not been that everyom: who occupied my I would give up No. 59 Washington apartment had a similar ghostly ex- Square. It only estranged me from myself and my friends. perlence. ..1 freed myself 'of the apartment "One morning at three o'cloek I was awakened out of a sound sleep and beard no ·further reports of It l:ly a consciousness ot' some one • vntil one day a friend of mine who bending over me. Three mornings rkeeps a shop on the south side of fn succession-always at the sam~e th~ square told me that an old genhour and always without sound o tleman who wandered into her sight of anyone, I was thus awa · place had become reminiscent about -cned. My nerves became unstrunf. the early days when Washington Square bad been the potter's field, ( moved to a hotel. Then ashanle\1 I .at my submission, I moved back to and when the gallows had stood my flat. But I sl~pt with ever~ gas upon the place of the present arch. .. Then dolefully pointing to my The phenome~n rejet burning. ~urred, but each tlme with ;ess in· former abode, No. 59, she remarked, •and that used to be the morgue.' " • tensity. 1 TRUE GHOST STORIES ••• ''THE •t#}t)"+(~~~ "-•-~"'· lff••·~~...-.*.:.-.lt·~ 1 : r t J Sidewalk Solarium at St. Petersburg. Prer,nr·f:tl by National Geographic ~oc1etY. 'Vas hiugton, D. C.-WNU Service. T ilE southern trek of winter vacationists of eastern Amer· lea to Florlda is on. As nortb· ern resorts close their portals. tour· ist agencies are besiege(] with queries about Florida resorts; and railroads, and steamship lines spend their annual advertising appropriatlons, boasting the merits of cities on their routes. North Florida ts as different from south Florida as lower Alabama is from Cuba. Colonists had settlert and dcvelopetl an ante-bellum cotton and tobacco aristocracy at Tallahassee and thereabout when lower Florida was still a howling wilderness. Even today, we are told, one-fifth of all Florida's population was horn in Georgia and Alaoama; but that will not be true a decade hence. Long ago, when benrs fattened on crabs and turtles' eggs \Vhere Miami Beach and Palm Beach now biossom, Spaniards bunt St. Augustine and' Pensacola and connected them with a 400-rnile military hlghwuy. You motor over much of this same old line now when you drive from Jacksonville west to Mobile and New Orleans. In the Catlt~dral at St. Augustine are to be seen crumbling, parchment-hound records of marriages and baptisms among Spaniards and Indians dating back to 1600. Yet Florida-but for that settled strip along her upper edge -stood stlll for generations, while the rest of America was in the mak. ing. The reason, of course, was the trend of migration to the Great \~est. 'l'ilJ recent years, when better communication came nnd America's food habits began to change intensive distribution methods, refrigerator cars, and high-power ad\'ertising, there was no great con· sumer market for . the golden winter fruits and green vegetables which tbe statA today grows. ''Remember the Maine," cried girls at wayside stations, as troops rolled south to Tampa. Old men rang church bells; boys ran to enlist for the war in ''Cuby.'' Uncle Sam's first armed racket overseas since 1815. Far down the then empty east coast pushed yet another spearhead of twin steel, a ••seagoing" railway. "Flagler's Folly,'' critics said of the one man with vision who built and pald for it. ••A railroad and a string of railroad-owned, millionaire hotels way down In that empty wilderness! There's no freight to haul, no passengers, no customers for all those palatial hotels." But Flagler looked across at Cuba; be looked up, saw the sun, and felt the trade wind's ldss. Then, in his mind's eye, be probably saw what critics with sensory eyes alone could not see--he saw the earth tracking in space, tilting first one end and then the other. mnl<· ing the play of seasons, but leaving J:l'lorlda more sun than any other place in the eastern United States! On down the coast he \Vent with bfs horse and buggy. Back in New York, where many calamity bowlers lived, It was below zero; yet all about the warm sunshine bathed this Land of Flowers that lured Pone~ de Leon centuri~s before. ..The people will come," li'lagler said. And they came. Hotels built decades ago-and flocks of newer hotels-at times turn real dol1ars away m droves, so great ls the mass demand for bed and board • ·'l'hen freight came--an amazing traffic with Cuba-even as Fla~lcr dreamed. Cuba is onr second best customer In all Latin-America, trade statisticians tell us. Sliding down the sunbeams, Ulte giant roller coasters of the sky, come now the planes. Into greater 1\llaml, with its many airports, flying fields, and seaplane docln~. from Cuba. Haiti, Puerto Rtco, Nassan. Panama, and South America come and go the big three-motoreu cabin ships. Customs men are at the airt.orts to inspect bags and ask for duties, while Immigration officials examine passports. America l absorbing Restless, Land of magic economic change that fathered l1~lorida! You sense its fine aggressive spirit when, ridinp: in from sea, you watch Miami and l\Iiam1 Beach silhouette their towering ar·chitectural masses against a sunset sky. Amazing they ar~.. in their effect of stark sim· plicity and power, lifted by puny men from the sand pits and mangrove swamps of yesterday. Life here has a different tempo, a sort of tropic rhythm. Sun, sand, the blue sparkling waters of the Gulf Stream, blossoms of every hue, and waving palms bring a sense of luxury even to the masses. They are among the state's intangible assets and qnicl\:en man's int~rest in cosmic things. West of Tallahassee one rides past many tobacco fields where plants are grown under "shnues." These shades are made by stretch· ing thin cotton cloth over frames of poles and wire, for farme1·s have found they may best grow certain vegetables under the same properly tempered conditions In all seasons. Tobacco seed, for plnnting in Virginia and elsewhere, is often grvwn In Florida, since better seed develops where plants enjoy the longest periods of daily sunshine. Of course, sharp clashes of Ideas, to mal{e conversation an adventure, are rare among tourist groups here. They have too much in · common. One intellectual oasis, however, is the •'open forum" at St. Petersburg. In a park there, after the band concerts. crowds of many bundreds remain for organized debate and good-natured harangue. Argument is rife on any theme from egg, lnyin~ <'ontPc::t~ tn whPthPr thE:' ln- OASIS HOLDS \VATIHt TO PALMS.COOL SUSTAIN desert the Travelers crossing sometimes suffer so acutely from the dry shadowless heat ot the sun that they imagine they see the cool palms of an oasis on the burning horizon. For an oasis tn the desert means rest and shade and water sometimes comfort-and and even life, to the parched and weary traveler. And it Ia for such things as this, that his eyes scan the dusty distant horizon. says a writer In the St. Louts Globe-Democrat. No desert Is whollr without rain. Indeed, deserts are soma. times swept by very severe storms. Some of this rain collects In basins and nourishes the scant and; scattered desert pastures. Great quantities of It are evaporated into the dry air. However, 1t is these heavy, though Infrequent torrents of rain which furnish the desert with lts llml ted supply of moisture. ThPre may be months after such n downpour without a drop of rain, and the rainfall for a whole year is generally not more than 4 or 5 inches. Sometimes wells drilled Into the porous rock, where tt ts not too far from the surface. form artesian pools or springs in thP desert, and these. too, soon grow Into green oases. Wherever oases are fed by underground rockborne waters, they occur In long lines in the desert, for they must follow the veins of porous ro<"k below. fluence of Ibsen ls permanent or evanescent. Life among the idle well-to-do at east coast resorts, as pictured ln Sunday rotogravures. is a fttmillar tbeme. Sunburned beauties sprawJ.:. ing under beach umbrellas; selfanointed social queens in raiment that would discount .Joseph's coat of many colors, being trundled along under the palms in an ..afr()mobil-e"; fleets of private yachts and comfortable houseboats at anchor; gay race crowds or dancing groups under moonlit palms-all these are well-advertised aspects of Florida winter-visitor life among those who, with many ser\o·ants and mountains of baggage, move leisurely north each year, following the march of spring from resort to re· sort, up and down the Atlantic coast. Just the same, one Hnds at the .principal resort centers like .Miami and Palm Beach the finest sort of concerts and lecture series made up of world-famous artists and cultural speakers. and there is an overflowing attendance. But ln all America there 1s prob· ably no groui> just like the 150,000 or 200,UOO fine type of farmers antJ small-town folk who visit St. Petersburg. It Is an amazing sociological phenomenon, peculiar to this unusual state. It ts worth contem· plating. UH,HU ' •'DP.ar, do yon love me yet?" .. Yes, Henri, 1 love you; but your ~rammar ls simply rotten." •• •••• •• •• c~.....:+x~~!t·X..)!K~+l++tt~:.+ot~... ,."~.c~+ttK~....,.~,.,.,.H.J~t-t...t_t_.u••••-•-•••••••+-H Watch · Space Next Week 'iiii' . ·~ - -·- . ~- 1i. i ·~····· ' ' . ............................... ~ ......4.............................. ................................ ..... ( I i |