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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH We Fool Ourselves By DOUGLAS MALLOCH WE T.TTCF. to fool ourselves. We The clock ahead, and so we get Up evry morn at break of day We could have done it anyway. Sent by the clock we set ahead. We at eleven go td bed, But really go to bed at ten Although we could have done it then i i We like to fool ourselves, and so Say things we own for which we owe, A lot of little things we craved We might have owned them had we saved. Then, when a panic comes along. We say that speculatings wrong, To buy on margin is a shame Although, of course, we did the same. We like to fool ourselves. To tell The truth, we like to lie as well, I hear theres a Boston Girl in Deceive the others s& and thus But no one quite as much as us. We strut around, talk long and loud. And hope to hypnotize the crowd, But this is really why we boast We like to fool ourselves the most. town. I noticed that the thermometer had taken a sudden drop. - v ' v A. . THAT MYSTERIOUS KEY WNU Service. Douglas Malloch. Four Japanese children seem to get a big thrill from acting as to this prize rooster, held by the proud owner. This type of fowl is common in rural areas of Japan, where the hobby of the farm d folk is raising chickens. The longer the tail, the more valuable the bird. They take extraordinary care of their pets to preserve the luxuriant appendages. train-beare- PttWWW rs Bedtime Story for Children Visitor Im sure I have the key to your unfortunate position, my poor man. Prisoner I sure hope 'twill fit the lock to this cell, sir I CONTACT By THORNTON W. BURGESS PETER RABBIT WATCHES FOR SIGNS COME people never see things be-cause they never look for them. Peter Rabbit isnt that kind. My goodness, no! Peter is all the time looking and listening. You see, he is dreadfully afraid that he will miss something. So every minute that he is awake he is looking and listening. It was this way more than Shes the coolest proposition Ive ever met. Perhaps thats why you froze on to her so quick. TOUCHING, INDEED I hear your wife is a musician expert on anything with strings. Well, she performs on the pursestrings with great effect. ' THE HABIT He Would Carefully Cover Her Over Again With the Dead Leaves That She Might Not Catch Cold. ever' now. Sister South Wind had arrived and said that Mistress Spring was not far behind, and that she had come to waken all the sleepers so that they would be ready to greet Mistress Spring when she did arrive. What puzzled Peter was how gentle Sister South Wind, whose voice was hardly more than a whisper, waked all the sleepers. Rough Brother North Wind had roared and Shadow Effect Do you think our boy will leave footprints on the sands of time?" Hed leave em anywhere. Jus) look out in the hall. xssv'c" and bowled through the Green Forest and over the Green Meadows all the long winter without waking one. In fact, the louder he roared the farther into dreamland the sleepers seemed to go. But when the gentle Sister South Wind wandered through the Green Forest and over the Green Meadows calling in just the lowest, softest voice, whistled Wake up, wake up, you sleepers I Come open wide your peepers 1 why, one after another they did wake up. Peter couldnt understand it, and finally he gave up trying to. But it was great fun to go about watching for signs that the sleepers had heard gentle Sister South Wind. Peter would listen with one long ear against a maple tree. He would hear just the softest little sound under the bark, so soft that you and I couldnt hear it if we tried. Then Peter would kick up his heels for joy. It was the sap running up to all the branches and out to the tiniest twigs of the maple tree that Peter heard, and he knew that the maple tree was awake. Then he would go over to a swampy place where the ice had melted away and hold his nose while he. peeped into the brown hood of the skunk cabbage to see if there were any signs of flowers there. It had a dreadful smell, and yet it made Peter feel glad all over, because it meant that the queer little plant was awake. Then he would go up in the Green Forest to a warm, sunny place he knew of and there he would pull away the dead B B B B B IFirstt AM to the CLEANING A BOILER burning more coal than he had the previous winter. As the months went on he growled more and more about the quantity of coal that he was shoveling. I finally went to his house for a look at his steam boiler. My first move was to open one of the clean-odoors above the firing door. As I suspected, I found the interior so clogged with dust that I wondered that the fire was able even to smolder. I asked him why he had not kept the interior of his boiler cleaned out, and he said he had no idea it was necessary; that no one had ever told him anything about it. I found a brush in a corner of the cellar, and poked it in to show him that what seemed to be a solid wall of dust was actually a Garlands of white handkerchief passage. With a few explanations linen flowers are embroidered on of what to do, I left him to give the brown marquisette for the shadow boiler a thorough cleaning. He effect of this gown. It is made over called me up the next morning to a brown taffeta slip and has stiff- say that his fire was burning more ened puff sleeves. Emeralds and briskly than it had been all winter, diamonds are worn with it and and that steam had come up . in the bag is emerald green. what was an incredibly short time. . ut - flue-cleani- ng Lawyer Smart Necessity know! no law. Judge Keen Well, hed be right at home among practitioners in mj court. By-Ro- WNU Service. B. ger Whitman B B B B B B OF TOUR IIAND A By Leicester K. Davis j J Public Ledger, Inc. ' A The Scheming Finder of Saturn method and manner of ones play important parts in making life a success or failure. A life that is filled with the contentment which comes only from complete expression of the inner self, or one that is restless and dissatisfied through lack of it. To the experienced palmist, the indication of the outlets through which both conscious and subconscious thought are striving to function are clearly indicated by the characteristics of the finger of Saturn. The Scheming Finger of Saturn. The predominant characteristics of this type are: (1) straightness, (3) the manner in which the finger, with hand extended, clings to the side of the forefinger. As a rule, such a finger of Saturn seems extremely long when compared with the length of the forefinger. Its knuckles are full, with somewhat pronounced slenderness in the spaces between the joints. The entire finger, despite its length and prominence of the knuckles, is pleasing in contour. And while decidedly not overfleshed, neither is it what might be termed skinny. The nail tip is inclined to taper, and the nail is usually of oval shape, well set. Under backward pressure the entire finger mght be considered stiff were it not for just a hint of THE flexibility. A Saturnian finger of this kind, without unfavorable indications in the palm or elsewhere, denotes a ambitious mind that plans its purposes with care and somewhat selfishly and keeps them His was an extreme case, for to very much a' secret until the time all appearances the boiler had been for action arrives. WNU Service. running for years with no cleaning out of the dust that had collected within it. The cleaning of the inside of a boiler is of much more importance than home owners in general believe it to be. In burning, coal develops a fine dust that settles in the upper part of the boiler. When the inside surfaces of a boiler are clean, the metal absorbs a maximum amount of heat from the gases and flames that pass over them. There is little waste of heat up the chimney. When dust is allowed to collect on the inside passages, it has the effect of insulation. Less of the available heat is absorbed by the metal, and the waste of heat up the chimney becomes greater. Consumption of fuel naturally goes up. For economy of fuel, and for quick response to the opening of the draft dampers, a boiler should be frequently cleaned during the heatTheres no telling just how far ing season. The common practice of a cleaning only at the beginning women will care to progress Into of a heating season is not enough; the world of mens sports, says for efficiency, the inside passages ironic Irene, but it will be a long should be cleaned at least once a time before we find one who would gloat over being ,the worlds heavymonth. weight champion. By Roger B. Whitman WNU AnDnimfn a neighbor of mine LAST winter to complain about his coal consumption. He said that he was AT THE BAR T. W. Burgess. B PROMOTED You say hes no longer an apart ment house janitor? No, hes a full engineer now whc gives advice on how to save coal.'1 leaves of last summer until he found a tiny, furry cap peeping up above the ground. Then he knew that dainty little Hepatica was awake. He would carefully cover her up again with the dead leaves that she might not catch cold, after which he would kick up his heels in the funniest way, just because it made him feel so good. Everywhere there were signs, if you had eyes to see and ears to hear them. And Peter had both. The Laughing Brook, which had been silent all winter because Jack Frost had bound it with ice, was laughing a great roar of a laugh, for its banks were very full, and that was a sign. The brown buds on the willows, which all winter long Jack Frost had pinched his hardest and failed to open, had split their little brown jackets at the first touch of the soft fingers of gentle Sister South Wind, and out of them had popped little gray pussies, and that was a sign Farmer Brown had begun to clean up his cornfield, and that was a sign. There were signs everywhere, and every one of them made Peter feel happier. But most of all Peter listened for something that he longed to hear. Every little while he would sit up and listen and listen, with his long ears standing straight up. Sometimes he would think he heard it, but he couldnt be sure. Then he would hold his breath and listen and listen and listen. What was he listening for? Why, for the loveliest sound he knows of the voice of Winsome Bluebird. If I could only hear that, sighed Peter, then I would know for sure that Mistress Spring is almost here, for Winsome Bluebird is her herald and she is never far behind. And this is how Peter Rabbit happened to forget all about those strange tracks he had found deep ip the Green Forest. ( ( long-taile- Manse Service. clear-thinkin- g, Bell Syndicate. WNU Service. |