Show VVrfr T" C" THEOGDEN (UTAH) 63 Uncle Ray's Corner Burgess Bedtime Stories Kettledrums Supply Definite Musical Tones By THORNTON W BURGESS A Bit of Gossip Gossfp fattens on the bad Not Ion things to make one glad — Old Mother Nature Snapper the Turtle is friendless Not in all the Smiling Pool is there any one excepting Mrs nt In closing series bout music let me answer several questions concerning drums Q Is it true that the drum is the oldest musical instrument? A The drum is very old but we re without proof that it was the instrument Rattles or horns may have been used before drums Simple horns have been made from the hollow horns of cattle and other nimals Q What were the! first drums like? out-prese- first-music-al A Again we mus but we are helped the ways of savage tribes during modern times It is likely that the first drumlike object was a hollow log which was pounded with sticks or clubs Later a section of a hollow trunk with one closed end may have been covered with a piece of hide Such a drum would make music of a sort but most modern drums have hides or other material on ments to produce band music Q What Is a kettledrum? A It is a drum with a shape which suggests an kettle Only one side has parchment The parchment is fastened of brass or copto a per The sticks used on kettledrums Jiave padded heads The tones are definite It is common for an orchestra to have two three or four kettledrums Drums in general supply rhythm fpr bands and orchestras We hardly can call their sounds very musical but they do suggest old-fashion- half-spher- e movement For “History” section of scrapbook your UNCLE RAY Tomorrow: Letters from Read- ers South America! Many readers have asked for special articles about our neighbors to the south and Uncle Ray has prepared a new leaflet “Five South American Republics” which he will be glad to send without charge Enclose a stamped envelope bearing your own name and complete address Send your letter to Uncle 30 Ray Publishers Syndicate North LaSalle Chicago 111 two sides Q What is a Turkish drum? A It is a very wide drum with vellum on both sides Another and more common name for It is bass drum This drum is employed with many other instru- - FUNNY BUSINESS By HERSHBERGER J - FRIDAY EVENING STANDARD-EXAMINE- R MAY 20 1953 out there in the water?” squeaked Jerry Muskrat “Of course I do It is Snapper the Turtle But what has that to do with singing?” said Peter “They don’t like him They don’t feel like singing when he is around” squeaked Jerry “I guess they all hoped he wouldn’t wake up this year” he added “I haven’t seen him before this year but I suppose he slept all wdnter and perhaps has just wakened” said Peter Jerry nodded “He and Mrs Snapper spent the winter in the mud down at the bottom of the Smiling Pool That is where they always spend winter Look there is Mrs Snapper now Nobody is giving them a welcome I don’t suppose any other two people around here are hated as they ! Snapper so completely without friend No one has a good word for either Snapper or Mrs Snapper They have lived in the Smiling Pool a long long time Most of thp other folks there think they have lived there too long It was the lovely month of May and ip and around the Smiling Pool love and joy were finding expression in the chorus of many voices the voices of the Frog folk the Toad folk and the feathered folk who live around the Smiling Pool It was not yet dark as Peter Rabbit sat on the bank listening Suddenly the black head of Snapper the Turtle was thrust out of the water and al- are” said Jerry in his squeaky most instantly all the sweet voices were still It was the first voice He always squeaks when time that Snapper had been seen he talks “I don’t see why everybody this Spring hates them so” said Peter “I’ve Came Out of WTater Presently Jerry Muskrat came never seen either of them do any but Of the water near where harm to any one” Peter was sitting on the bank “It isn’t very often that any All was strangely quiet Not a one does see them harm any one single voice was to be heard but take it from me they are a “What is the matter with every- bad pair Ask Mrs Quack what body all of a sudden?” asked became of three of her ducklings Peter last year” squeaked Jerry “Don’t you see that black head “What do you mean?” asked Peter “I mean that either Snapper or Mrs Snapper ate them And two of them were nearly half grown” said Jerry “But a half grown Duck would be too big!” cried Peter “Not for either of them ” declared Jerry “I’ve even heard that they have been known to pull down a full grown Duck” “I don’t believe it” declared Peter flatly “I’ve never seen one of those tw’o ever eat a single aiisiis - yet never thing” rich or filling on f On Si MINUTES LATE OOTTA THINK UP AN AIRTIGHT alibi 'I By MERRILL BLOSSER DIXIE DUGAN By McEVOY all OUR CLOCKS father dropped Sir A HOT WAFFLE IRON ON HIS FOOT— SHERRY CftsllliU!!1 not his wife’s — regardless of appearances’’’ FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS my Bj The next story: Jerry Tells What He Has Seen (Copyright 1955 T W Burgess) ‘The opinions expressed by the speaker are his owi and Sir HOOK SLIDER nd STRIEBEL : UP TO STOPPED AT POUR THIS MORNING SO HELP ME da f RED RYDER By FRED HARMAN GET ON THESE clothes Willie AND TOUCAN' GO SEE N55 TERRtf POLO STiLl fetPZE FAT ENOUGH TO FOOL1HAT 1 tiOTjkr —37 — vTfYTV Frontier- Scout DAN’L HALE - By NORMAN MARSH DAHL I’LL VO IS UNAWARE THAT WE HAS SUDDENLY BEEN DISCOVERED BY AN INDIAN HUNTER ANYTHING TO BE WITH TERRY GUK5VAN ON WHlLl id J-Cm Srataate ISM I ALLEY OOP REX MORGAN M D By V T HAMLIN KERRY DRAKE By ALFRED AXDRIOLA By DAL CURTIS STEVE ROPER By SAUNDERS and WOGGON JACK— IM I NOT NOW— IP CAN ADJUST THIS CAMEEA-CONTZTHIS CONFERENCE ROOM 15 FOZ THE VIEWING UNIT SONNY— AND WITH THE CAMEZA CABLE HIDDEN IN THE TAILOZ-MAP- KNOB— E HUZZY STEVE OL ITS 7 A M — WE’VE WORKED ALL NIGHT HA ENTEZ THE HERO OP CtZ UTTLE DZAMA— GO ZUSTLEUP SOME CHOW FELLA ( I'M H£ POZ AN E1GWT-HCU-K SHIFT J DUCTS— A W r tt-- iiuiwutiA' A' MARY WORTH hERltOu5EMY ANC JJ'T D0WNwncTM DRAWING MATERIALS) DEN NIB! j By KEN ALLEN ssrSv give yon &IOOD-PRESSUR- GET OUT OF MY WAY MARVIN!--BEFOR- n E I REARRANGE — AS FOR I SAID I OF RIGHT YOUR PRETTY E YOU SEPTEMBER WAS GOING TO BE SMART ABOUT US IN THE FUTURE! 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