Show i Burgess Bedtime Stories By THORNTON W BURGESS Billy Blink Think Twice Be sure you know each circumstance Before you ever take a ' chaneei —Old Mother Nature The water In Laughing Brook and the Smiling Pool had gone down almost: a fast as it had risen after the long heavy rain Jerry Muskrat and Mrs Jerry waited only long enough for it to drop a little in the Smiling Pool before they started work digging a new home in one bank where it was highest This was to be a sort of safety home They already had a fine new house of rushes near the Smiling Pool the head However the sudden flood had filled it with water and had they had to stay in it they would have drowned The snug bedroom they would have in this new bank house would be set high that the water would never reach it even in a heavy floodJ They took turns digging and resting The bedroom was just under the grass roots They made a small opening up through the grass roots this was for fresh air No one knows better than do Jerry and Mrs Jerry how necessary fresh air is When the bedroom was finished they went outside and climbed up on the bank They went over to the hole they had made for air “This won’t do the way it is” j said Jerry “Someone might findi it and dig open our — V -r THS OGDEN (UTAH) STANDARD-EXAMINE- R THURSDAY EVENING OCTOBER 23 1953 AC Uncle Ray's Corner Can Make Hair Stand on End & Z Electricity People sometimes say their hair or the hair of He visited the new house of rushes No one was at home in the Smiling Pool and down at the bottom of the steepest bank he found the entrance to the new home in the bank He started to enter and go up the long hall then changed his mind He thought twice That long hall was no place in which to fight If he Jerry shouldieet Jerry or Mrs be no in that hall there would no liking getting'past and hetohadface Billy for a fight face decided that he would go fishing instead of going where he knew he wasn’t wanted and having a fight that he himself didn’t wantis The next story: Young Jerry Warned (Copyright 1953 T W Burgess) Aunt Het bedroom” “True” said Mrs Jerry “We must cover it so that it will not be found” So they went to work to collect some sticks and grass and with these they! covered the air hole It didn’t prevent the fresh air from entering their new home but it did hide the opening Those sticks and! grasses were piled in such a way that no one would take any notice of them At the same time the sharpest eyes would not be able to see the hole For j the time being the bouse was finished It was a very simple house just a long slanting tunnel or hall from the entrance at the bottom of the Smiling Pool up to the bedroom just under the roots of the grass Connecting with it was another short hall j leading out to an entrance part way up the bank This gave) a second way out in case of need This door was kept closed by plugging it lightly with grass and sticks In some ways this was a’ safer home than their new house out in the rushes at the head t of the Smiling Pool They couldn’t be drowned out 'of this house and it would be less easy for an enemy to get at them Billy Blink coming down Laughing Brook to the Smiling Pool during the flood discovered the new house under water and wondered where Jerry and Mrs Jerry might be He didn’t find them and wondered if they had been swept away It was a week later that he visited the Smiling Pool again He visited the new house of rushes No one was at home Then he went exploring ! thatf some- one else “stands on end” This is supposed to happen in time of fright If hair really does stand on end electrical action seems to offer the ‘best way to explain what takes place The human brain gives off electric waves and these can be measured with a scientific instrument Scientists have made hair stand on end by using electricity In one case a young woman was placed on a platform and was told to touch an electric generator The generator sent static electricity into her and her hair stood up (or wit) in several diT rections It may be suggested that the young woman’s hair stood out because she was afraid of the electricity! Actually she felt safe enough because the professor had made sure that all would r be well A test of that kind goes along properly if every danger is guarded Otherwise the “play’ with electricity could turn into tragedy In early times there seems to have been only play with electricity People knew nothing about employing it for useful work Bits of amber (a material composed of hardened gum from certain trees) existed in ancient Greece After the amber was rubbed it would pick up feathers This took place because of the action of static electricity In modern times we have substance — rubber — vhich the i STRICTLY BUSINESS - rrpowio with : directions Greeks knew nothing about If the back of a hard rubber comb is rubbed against wool the comb will pick up bits of paper If a glass rod is rubbed with silk there will be static electricity iij the glass Then the rod can be employed to draw toward itself a light celluloid ball on a level surface For Science section of your scrapbook UNCLE RAY Tomorrow: Cause of Lightning Facts about Mexico’s people and their strange customs also about the ancient Aztecs appeal in the leaflet called Mexico and the Mexicans This leaflet will be sent to you without charge if you enclosed a stamped envelope Send your letter to Uncle Ray Publishers Syndicate 30 North LaSalle Chi‘ - By Merrill Blosser FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS self-address- cago Before a TtEN — Wh 111 dayman FAMILY By McFeatters That would eliminate SUCH AS MESSY A6ER CAN STEP INTO THE BOOTS OP MATURITY JUNE SHE MUST" PROVE SUE HAS A FULL GROWTH OF JUDGMENT"— WISH-JIN- KS ROOMS — LEAVING CLOTHES WHERE YOU CUMB OP THEM SULK I NO WHEN YOU FAIL To GET YOUR OWN WA-Y- our BEEP melting Continues - Folks say Ben is too good - puts up with him By Alfred Andrlola KERRY DRAKE BEST IN YOUR CLASS FRANKLY I IN POLICE SCHOOL WAS VERY DISAPPOINTED WHEN YOU DECIDED TO GO WITH THE P A— INSTEAD OF JOINING I LL GO RIGHT TO THE POINT YOU WERE THE G OOP DIFFERENT 51 NOW rM OFFERING YOU WILL ANOTHER CHANCE you TRADE THE TITLE OF ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTOR HEY FOR A POLICE DETEC- TIVES BADGE? 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