Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 55, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 July 1921 — Page 4
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Jntoana Jjatlu SFimea INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. # Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 Solith Meridian Street. Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351 ' t MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. _ i Chicago, Detroit, St. Lout*, G. Logan Payne Cos. Advertising office* j y or t. Boatcn. Payne. Burn* & Smith. Inc. "* " # t BEING a tennis champion must be a strenuous existence this kind of weather. DINING CAR prices have dropped 25 per cent. The millenium is approaching. IF armaments are limited there can be little to worry about in Far v Eastern affairs. WE'LL BET that front porch campaign will come nearer being an auction room campaign. BUSINESS RUSH is thought due by next spring, says a headline. about that wave of confidence that was to sweep the country after ji® :vti *• FRANCE made Independence day a national holiday. How many perHbns knew yesterday was Bastille day. second only to the Fourth of July Bas a landmark of human freedom? r IF THOSE Johnson County elevator fires had occurred three years ago they would have been blamed on that efficient German spy system which has proved to be not nearly so efficient as some persons have thought OF COURSE, persons in the “jitney bus area” can ride the jitneys, except when it rains, or snows, or the flivver develops a flat tire, or engine trouble, or the driver takes a trip to the country, or moves out of town, or i becomes ill, or dies.
The Car Company's Ultimatum In what is apparently a determined effort to force an issue, the Btreet ear company has addressed an ultimatum to the city council demanding that jitney service in Indianapolis be abolished under pains and penalties of having fares raised to 8 or 10 cents or car service abandoned whenever the jitneys operate. The letter from the street car company is not diplomatic nor is it in any way conciliatory. The first impression it creates If. that it was framed by the claim agent along the same general lines as he has long utilized in attempting to bluff claimants who have good and sufficient, teasons for asking consideration. The second, and probably more likely. Impression Is that the company Is desperate and Ao longer cares to cajole or plead for relief. * . _ Undoubtedly, the company is entitled to some relief from the Inroads of Irresponsible jitney operators on its revenue, but the management of the company is taking an entirely erroneous course when it assumes that it has a sacred right to all the nickles spent by this community for transportation. The street car company will monopolize the transportation revenue in this city only when it provides service that makes it more satisfactory for Citizens to patronize its cars than any other method of transportation. Sad as It may seem to some of its legal lights, the people of Indianapolis cannot be compelled to ride on the company’s cars by any ordinance the council might enact. Only a proper service, properly designed and maintained will result in the collection of the nickles necessary to support the company. No stampede to comply with the company’s ultimatum can be expected *of the city -ouncil. The threat to remove street cars from every route used by the jitneys will not be taken seriously for the reason that there is grave doubts of the ability of the company so to do and considerable difference of opinion as to whether the company can afford to take such action. The menace of an 8 or 10-eent fare has been with us a long time — so long in fact that it has ceased to be disturbing. It is very, very certain, that the company will not succeed in abandoning the basic fare of 5 cents and eliminating jitneys at the same time. And, in the interests of the citizens of Indianapolis an effort ought to be made to draft a contract for a 5-cent fare that even Ferd Winter cannot break before any jitney regulation is attempted by the city council. The street car company has signified its entire willingness to abandon the E-cent fare and street car service on lines that are not profitable to it. The city council would be very- foolish indeed to destroy the only other method of transportation at a reasonable rate that is In sight at preseut.
Troubles of the Rich The fact tiiat,ricbes do not bring happiness is illustrated in the family history, all too public, of Madam Balsan, formerly the Dutchess of Marlborough. She was the daughter of William K. Vanderbilt and his divorced wife, who is now widow of Oliver 11. P. Belmont She married the scion of an illustrious and wealthy aristocratic family very young and after a divorce, was wedded to a Frenchman and lives near Paris. The father and mother were divorced; the daughter had been unhappily married for years, and everybody has scads of money and mansions too numerous to mention. They were among the very rich. A dollar meant no more to them than a cent to the average citizen. There was nothing money could purchase which they wanted and did not possess. But all this did not bring happiness. In America particularly, and generally in all countries of the AngloSaxon and Latin races, the supreme romance of life is the love of husband and wife. All the other things of life are built about this condition. When human Interest books are written or plays given, they always end, that the hero married the heroine and lived happily forever ifter. But some cruel fate seems to have denied this to these rich people It was thought years ago that when Consuelo Vanderbilt married the young Duke of Marlborough, both were so youthful, that at least one international marriage would be a success. No English royalty stood higher in history than that of the old warrier whose victory' in arms at Blenheim gave him renown and wealth. Then the Vanderbilts of America were rich, leaders of smart society in New York and cultured. Now the Duke has married somebody else and the Dutchess is the bride of a Frenchman. The mother of the dutchess obtained a divorce from Vanderbilt and became Mrs. Belmont Mr. Belmont was' agent In New York for the famous house of Rothschild, financiers. To the American nothing is more beautiful than the graceful assumption of age, by a man and woman who love and trust each other. And nothing Is sadder than lonesome old age. The former may be had without great riches, indeed, without money at all. But money alone cannot buy happiness or contentment. Otherwise the family of Vanderbilt on this side of the ocean and of Marlborough In England would have been happy. The Wooden Shingle The honest builder advises that it is good-by wooden shingle In Indianapolis. The board of safety, common council, building officers and fire department have so decreed and now the worthy successor of our forefathers' clapboard is to go. The wooden shingle offers too much fire risk, In fact almost all of the fires in dwellings originate on the combustible roofs, so they depart, and new roofs are other than wooden; tile, slate, asbestos, asphalt, tin or steel will all do the work excepting to make paddles, or to serve as the foundation of boys' boats in a pond. The passing Is In a sense tragic. To one who is set in his ways, who has felt the shingles between himself and the elements for years, and who earlier felt its bodily application as a correction, the idea of the retirement is not welcome. Heretofore shingles were made of native woods, then forests contributed in great abundance; now the days are over, and with them must also depart the superstitions concerning them. The new shingle need not aw-ait the right phase of the moon, for it is guaranteed not to curl up, even if put on when the moon was growing. The covering is now made of asbestos or asphalt, unless tile or slate is osed, and all are either fireproof or fireresistipg, so that a spark from a chimney may not ignite them and generally the wear is as long as nature’s product of the same price. From the picturesque straw thatched roofs of Europe to the wholly artificial shingle of Indianapolis is not a great distance, by cable, or even by airplane. The passing of the wooden shingle seems to indicate a great travel o£ time, for it measures the span ot-a generation who wrested a living from woods about. ' 4 '
Ye TOWNE GOSSIP Copyright 1921. by Star Company. By K. C. B. Dear K. C. B.—Our family is very much interested in you and "Bugs" Baer and Damon Runyon. We think we know what you look like, but what we want to know is, does ‘‘Bugs" Baer look like the stuff he writes and is Damon Runyon a sad looking or a jolly looking person. Mother says you won't answer this letter. "BETTY AND THE BOYS.” MY DEAR Betty. ONCE ON a time. e e * THERE WAS a man. * • * SEEKING ITIS wif*. • * * IN A big store. * * * AND KE couldn’t find her. • * * AND A clerk said. • • • “WHAT DOES she look like?” . . . AND THE man winced. AND DIDN'T tell him. • • * AND WHYEVER it is * * • I TELE this story. • • • I DON’T know. * * • BECAUSE REALLY and truly. • * • BOTH “BUGS” and Damon. •• • ARE KINDLY men. • • • AND BOTH are easy. • • • TO LOOK upon. • • • AND AS for "Bugs.” ... WHEN WE first met. • • AND FRIENDSHIP came. I CALLED him Arthur. * • • FOR HE looks like Arthur. • • • AND NOT like “Bugs.” • * • AND DOESN'T look. . . . LIKE THE stuff he writes. THOUGH HE talks that way. . * AND DAMON Runyon IS A perfeet IS. • • • WHICH IS half the size. • • • OF A 36. . . . .AND niS clothes are faultless. . . . AND HE’S always shaved. AND HIS tie’s Just so AND HIS shoes are shined. AND HE'S very quiet. * • • AND I Imagine, . . . IF HE didn't like yon. • • • HE WOriDS T smile * * ‘ AND IN spite of that. • • • I CALLED him Pi men THE FIRST time I met him. AND HE called me Ken. * • • AND SMILED when he spoke. SO WE are friends • • • AND I’VE answered your letter. AND MOTHER was wrong. * * * I THANK you. Fair Board Not Under Printing Contract The State hoard of agriculture Is not j required to have its printing done by the State printer, according to an opinion "f l'. P. Lesh, attorney general. The board wlil be the only public department, with the exception of educational institutions, which is not required to come under the printing contract with the Ft. Wayne Printing Company. The opinion was the cause of some surprise as the board is now a State department. While it was a quasi public institution it was required to come under the rtate printing eontract. The board requires a large amount of printing during the fnir season.
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IJNDIANA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1921.
Do You Know Indianapolis?
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This picture was taken in your home city. Are you familiar enough with St to locate the scene? Yesterday’s picture was a bit of South New Jersey street, looking north from Lincoln street.
KEEPING HOUSE WITH THE HOOPERS
(The Hoopers, an average American family of Uve, living in a suburban town, on a limited income, will tell the readers of the Daily Times how the many preseut (lay problems of the home are solved by working on the budget that Mrs. Hooper has , evolved and fouud practical. Follow them dally In an Interesting review of their home life and learn to meet the conditions of tne high coat of living with them.) FRIDAY. Although the regular meetings of the Woman's Club were over for one year, a special session had been called so that all of the members who were Interested enough to come might hear what a representative of the Homemakers Association who had been invited to speak, had to say on the subject of dried fruits and vegetables.” "Mr. Hooper just hoots at dried things," said Mrs. Hooper as she and Mrs. Campbell and the Bride started for the lecture. "Says he cap always tell them but I believe they are very good and I'd like to convince him that he Is wrong." "Well, it does seem kind of unnatural — treating vegetables that way—and then expecting th"m to taste like anything fresh next winter," added Mrs. Campbell. "I'm like Mr. Hooper, I don't believe in It. but I'd like to see how It's done." "Well, I'm really anxious to taste them." said the Bride, "so I hope they will give us a real demonstration." According to the stieskers, who claimed that every fruit and vegetable grown in the United States as welt ns fish and meat bad been successfully dehydrated, the dried pens ana beans, as they were once prepared, are as out of date as long trained skirts. The new dehydrated process takes out the water but leaves in the original color and flavor aud when the vegetable or fruit is placed in clear water the cells simply take back what was removed from them. Very little heat is needed for the proeess," said the speaker, "and one beauty of this plan is that jams and jellies aud preserves may be made in the winter from fruits that are dried in the summer, thus postponing the hot work of filling the preserve closet until cold weather comes." She explained that in the old method of drying vegetables, the cells cracked, and the valuable properties escaped or underwent a chemical change, but that true dehydration draws the water from the wells w ithout rupturing them so that all the nutritive quality and flavor ure retained. "Well, it's a narrow-minded woman who won't change her opinion.” said ths Bride as she sampled some of the food served by the demonstrator. “And if dried fruit really tastes like this when its soaked out I'm certainly converted." Even Mrs. Campbell, who had been so skeptleal, agreed that it was impossible to believe that what she was tasting was not a fresh vegetable.
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“Well, I shall take some of these dried peas, that the demonstrator has given me," said Mrs. Hooper, "and I’ll cook them for Henry. I don’t see how he can help being convinced that they are every bit as good as the canned ones, and then they are so much less bother to prepare.” VI believe we will slVk to our old way of canning our vegetables," however, insisted Mrs. Campbell, "but what this demonstration does prove is that we aro perfectly safe in buying any of the new dehydrated foods that are in the market, because we know that they will j tasto exnstl.v like fresh products when I they are cooked.” "Yes, I believe that.” agreed the Bride. "It would be a good plan for Instance to have some packages of savory soup vegetable mixture, pumkin flour, dehydrated carrots, spinach, apples, peaches, plums, cherries, logan berries and prunes on the emergency shelf la the pantry, don't you think so?" “1 believe I'd rather do that too,” said Mrs. Hooper, “than actually sub stitute this new process for our old one of canning. And an old fashioned preserve closet is so lovely to look at with Us rows of gorgeous colored fru't and Vegetables shining like Jewels undergtass that I’d hate to see theso withered looking things taking their place no matter how efficient they are. The three meal* for Saturday are: BREAKFAST. Sliced Pineapple Cereal 1 Fish Hash French Toast Coffee LUNCHEON. Poached Egg on Spinach Rhubarb Conserve Radishes Bread and Butter Sandwiches Fruit Juice Dinner. Cream of Spinach Soup Stuffed Green Peppers Sliced Tomatoes and Lettuce Salad Gingerbread Pudding GINGERBREAD PUDDING. ! Thla is made from left over gingerI bread Cover one cupful of crumbled j gingerbread with one and one-half cup : fula of hot milk add a acant eighth of s ! cupful of brow n sugar, on* quarter of a j teaapoonful of salt, two lightly beaten egga. half a teaspoonful of mixed ground splcea and half a cupful of chopped seeded ralslna Turn into a buttered pudding dish set In a pan of hot water and ! buko like custard. Serve hot with a sauce.—Copyright, 1921 AT 71 WEDS WIFE’S NURSE. LONDON, July 13. —James Bailey. 71. I was married at Oxford to the village ' nurse, who Is 61. and who nursed Bailey's ! first wife before her death somo months i ago. Tha couple entertained all the oldj aero pensioners of the village after the j ceremony.
Women Are More Careful Than Men in Driving Car Captain Johnson , Traffic Officer , and Some of His ‘Coppers’ Disagree on Relative Merits .
By MABEL WHEELER, "Women motorists are subjects of innumerable Jokes by the men nowadays, but frankly speaking, I find that they are more careful than the average man driver," said Captain Johnson, traffic officer, in discussing feminine drivers and trafic laws of the city. ‘•Feminine drivers do not take the chances that men do as a rule. They may be negligent about smaller details of driving but when It comes to serious accidents, in almost all cases a man Is behind the wheel. We have had but one woman slated for manslaughter, since 1 have been here. Os course there are not as many women drivers as men, but there are a whole lot of them and some mighty good ones too. * Os course women do not have the physical strength that men do In applying their brakes and they find it necessary to slow up sooner than the men. which isn't a bad fault at all. A man will dash up behind a machine as close as possible and step on the brake suddenly, but a woman will slow up her speed gradually and apply her brake more easily. Probably that is the reason women do not speed as much as the men. They realize that they cannot stop as quickly as the men and do not taka chances. “Why just look at the Sunday accidents, read the papers, and you will see who are the most careful drivers. The men may scoff at the woman driver, but she has it on ’em when it comes to a showdown concerning fatalities and unasbups.” After such a cheerful little chat with the captain 1 felt encouraged enough to ask a rather formidable looking upholder of the law, who, on a spirited steed, brings sorrow into the lives of many machine owners who park Indefinitely in the vicinity of Washington and Meridian streets, about the ladles who motor. He threw up his hands and backed away. “They drive me nuts,” he groaned. "Why, when I see a woman driving an electric 1 Just throw up my hands There's no telling what may happen. I don't think woman were ever meant to
INDIANAPOLIS PL A Y-GOERS TO SEE World Premiere of Lewis* ‘Main Street*
Stuart Walker's produceion of "Main Street,” the dramatization of the most talked of novel of the decade, by Harvey O'Higgins and Harriet Ford, which will tie seen for the first time on any stage next Monday night at the Murat, adheres very closely to the story of Sinclair Lewis. Mr. Lewis has some very definite ideas regarding Main Street, which he uses to express al! that a small town typifies. In the preface of the novel one finds the following explanation of just what Main street is: "This is America—a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies, and little groves. "The town Is, in our tale, called Gopher Prairie, Mlnesota.’ Bat its Main street is the continuation of Main street* everywhere. The story would lie the same .n Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois and not very differently would it be told up York State or in the Carolina hills. "Main street is the climax of civilization. That this Ford car might stand in front of the Bon Ton store, Hannibal Invaded It une and Erasmus wrote in Oxford cloisters. What Ole Jenson, the grocer, says to Ezra Stowbodv, the banker. Is the new law for London. Prague, and the unprofitable isles of the sea; whatever Ezra dees not know and sanction. that thing is heresy, worthless for knowing and wicked to consider "Our railway station is the final aspiration of architecture. Sam Clarks annual hardwnrd turnover 1< the envy of the four countries which constitute God's country. In the sensitive art of the Rosebud Movie Palace, there is a message, and humor strictly moral. "Such is our comfortable tradition and sure faith. Would he not betray himself an alien cynic who should otherwise por-
MOVIELANO Lillian Gish MILLIONS LOVE HER
A Word About the Vidors I wish that all the people who think life In the motion picture world consists of one orgy after another could know King Vidor and his wife. Florence—to say nothing of their darling little daughter. Suzanne! They are the nicest, homiest people imaginable. He is big and broad-shoul-dered and slow spoken, a true Texan, and she is small and dark and sweetfaced and very beautiful. They are devoted to each other, and to their work, and not at all backward about telling what a time they had getting started at it. You see, King Vidor wanted to make pictures, so he just went at it and made them, lie began back home. In Houston. and sometimes he acted in his own pictures. He had to—it was hard to get any one else to do it. Ho made pictures of school children, and all that sort of thing. Then later, he began making pictures and selling them to the big companies. He wrote scenarios, too. and sometimes he sold them That was after he had married Florence Arto—she was a Houstonite. too—and they were living In New York. But tilings didn't go very well, so they went to California -went in their flivver And they arrived in a state of financial
drive automobiles. They’re too nervous, and along with their nervousness, they have a sneaking feeling that they can do what they please because they are women. They figure, and mighty near right, too, that they can get around the policeman. No, no, I'd rather deal with a million men motorists than one woman.” “How. do yon figure that?” I said. “Why do you condemn the women in such a wholesale manner?” But with a parting “No women for me,” he fled through the doorway. Sergeant McClain, of motorcycle fame, however, says that he "likes the ladles all right,” but of course, he said reluctantly, “the women drivers have an awful habit of changing their minds. "You know," he continued, in explanation of his statement, "women are changeable in their nature, they’re built that way, driving an automobile doesn't change them. They’ll hold out their arm with the firm intention of turning the corner and then they’ll change their mind and go straight ahead. Then there's the social driver among women, the woman who chats with her friend as she goes down town and their suggestions as to where she should turn and where she might stop often Impair the steadiness of her driving and smash up her code of motor ethics. "Women are not as careful of their signals as the men. They forget. I do not think women have a single tracked mind like most men for when they drive they plan a lot of other things at the same time. When a man drives, he concentrates on driving, being capable of only doing one thing at a time. The women are not as reckless in their driving as the men although there are some speeders among the ladies too, but if the woman would only concentrate, learn her signals and use them, break herself of thS mind-changing habit and rid her sex of the electric evil she would be even better than the men. However, there ar< several expert drivers in the city among the women. One In particular, wbc drives a big car, I’d back against any
tray Main street, or distress the citizens by speculating whether there may not be other faiths?” so reads the introduction. Movie fans on attending the Ohio this week to see the movie version of "The ____ Bronze Bell.” have been iuterB land.and was educated at Oxford. He appeared with Beerbohm Tree England, lie has had an extensive stage career in tills country. He has been seen in numerous photoplays. His latest vehicle. <>f couwe, is "The Bronze Bell." Mr. Foote. Doris May, who was for yea-s leading woman with Douglas Mac-Lean, is chief in the support of Mr. Foote. Other attractions on view today are: “A Pair of Silk Stockings" at the Murat; popular vaudeville, at the Lyric: "The Golden Snare,” at the Circle: "His Greatest Sacrifice." at Loews State: "Tile Silver Car," at the Alhambra: "Dream Street.” at Mister Smith's; "A Perfect Crime.” at the Isis; “Lying Lips.” at the Regent, and "The Girl From Nowhere,” at the Colonial.
embarrassment that most of us prefer to avoid, if possible. They didn't mind It, thought; they were young, and were having a lot of fun, and the fact that they only had 20 cents when they got to San Francisco didn't worry them especially—although they both had everything they wanted hack home. That was six'yenrs ago. K!ng Vidor went to work for Vitagraph, when they got to I.os Angeles, as a scenario writer, and his wife went to work for the same company, for $lO a week. Hater he was property man lor one of the other companiefe, then assistant director and later director for I’niversal. And then, finally, he struck out for himself, and made ' The Turn In the Road." a picture that was what he thought a picture ought to be. and on the strength of it, got offers from just about every producer in the motion picture business—four years after he and his wife went to California ! tie's known as ono of the best makers of pictures in the business now, and she has won fame as one of the loveliest and most capable actresses. They're still just as simple and delightful as they were back In the beginning. So. if you think the motion picture world isn't the best place in the world for a young married couple—look at the Vidors!—Copyright. 1021.
HOROSCOPE “The stars Incline, bat do not compdl*
SATURDAY, JULY 16. The early hours of today are favorably for most activities, according to astrology. Mercury and Neptune are in beneflo aspect. After 3 p. m. Jupiter is adverse. It is an auspicious rule under which to dispatch written terms of agreement or to enter into important negotiation*. The signing of leases is subject to the best influences at this time, whiefy promises freindly relations for the parties In the contact. Persons whose birthdate 1* is should not speculate or take any risks. Removals will not be fortnnate this year Children born on this day may be restless and careless by nature, but these subjects of Gemini are usually gifted in at least two directions. —Copyright, 1921. man. She never neglects her signals, she drives at a good rate of speed, doesn’t drag at crossings when the "go sign's on. If all women drove as she’ does there’d be no squealing from the nolice department concerning women drivers. But ? like 'em ail just the same, they takA your callings pleasantly even if they do repeat the offense Uefore you are out or sight.” It's odd how the mat© characteristics will crop out in the conversation of even the should-be-just views of the preservers and upholders of the law. But there is one big blondo traffic man who has plenty of good to say for ths woman motorist He stands at ths corn >r of Meridian and Washington, ths corner of corners for women motorists. "I haven’t any complaints to make oa the ladies,” he said, "and I don't bellevs there is any policeman in town that comes in contact with more of them than Ida. They are keenly observant of the traffic signals, they are careful to stop behind the white lines, more so than the men in fact. If they do slip now and then and I ‘call them down’ they are apologetic and take everything I tell them in good faith. They are a lot more reasonable than the men In many things. They ara not slow in getting over the crossings. They drive briskly and steadily as a rule. Why the men persist In kicking about the woman driver is a mystery to me. As to the number of women drivers, I should say that about two-fifths of tha drivers are women. I have little trouble with the women concerning the traffia rules and regulations but now and then I have my personal troubles. My expression has got to be just so, for if I smile too broadly at the feminine drivers I am accused of flirting and If I don't smile enough they call me a crab.” IT. Paul Robinson, county coroner, states that it is very unusual to find in a serious accident that a woman was at the wheel. In looking over his records he reported but one woman driver involved in a fatal accident, in the past year. And.” he added, "I only recall one other in all my experiences in the coroner a office as deputy and coroner.” M hich all goes to prove that the woman motorist is a much maligned being, that she is made the target for a world series of sarcastic, slanderous shots by the male motoring public just because she happens to be a woman and not because she is a poor driver!
PUSS IN BOOTS JR.
Hi' DaTid Cory."
Now. let me see where we left off in the last story. Oh, yes, now I remember, vaptaiu Noah had just asked one of his sons what he had given the pigs to eat, for they weren't feeling very well, you know. 'I gave them some green apples,” said Ham. "We 11,." replied Captain Noah, “don't know as that should make them ill.” “1 chased them 'round the deck." "What in thunder d.d you do that for?” asked his father. "I wanted to see them slide when they turned the corners," said Ham, sheepishly. “Perhaps they were seasick,” interposed Mrs. Noah, who began to feel sorry for Ham. "Perhaps they weren't,” said Captain ah sternly. “I think young man, you had better be locked up in the brig for the rest of the day and fed on bread and water. t\ e can t afford to have any passenger abused by the crew," and then he turned to Puss and smiled, “even if one of the crew happens to be the captain's son.” And after that poor Ham was solemnly marched up to the brig and locked in. much to Puss Junior's regret, for ha liked Ham very much, although he wa* the most mischievous of the captain's sons. It was 1 still r.-ifning heavily, and as tha wind was blowing quite a gale, the sea became rough aDd the Ark began to roll flom side to side. Pretty soon the animals became uneasy and strange noise* came from many parts of the boat. Tha roar of the tiger mingled with tha trumpeting of the eephant, and the howl ing of the wolf made a dreadful dis-. cord with the bellowing of the buffalo, 1 hen the monkeys started to chatter and the parrots to screech, the horses to neigh and the pigs to squeak, the cows to moo and the donkeys to bray, the wild hyena to laugh and the little lambs to bleat. But. lueki'y, toward evening tha storm went down. But if it hadn't I guess Mrs. Noah would have gone crazy. After supper, when they were all pealed on deck. Captain Noah said: “Wa ought to give an entertainment. There's plenty of material for a circus.” “I'll make a ring tomorrow,” said Japbet. •‘l've already trained one of the llttla pigs to walk on its hind legs," said Ham. "It's the white one with the pink nose.” "The elephant and I are great friends,” said Shern. “He'll do anything for me. Tonight when I rolled up bis bale of hay he said: ‘lley, young man, look out for my toes.’ And then he climbed upon the bale and stood up on his hind legs as they do in the circus. I guess I could put him through a lot of tricks.” “Just you wait until you see my wrestling monkeys," cried Ham “I've taught two of them already. They'll ba better than a moving picture show." And in the next story I'll tell you what happened after that.—Copyright. 1921. (To Be Continued.)
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