The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

N PAGR' TWELVE 3 | Garis' Bedtime Stories ll ient, before they were as old as'you. ball UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE WINTERGREEN Copyright, 1921, by McClure News. paper Syndicate. (By Howamd R, Gavis,) * One morning in the hollgw stump bungalow, Unele Wiggily, the rabbit ro wi: came downstairs, with his red, white and hlue-striped bar: ber-pole crtuich going: Tap! Tap! Tap! At the same time Uncle, Wiggily cyied: { ' "Oueh! Wouch! Smouch!" "My goodpess gracious sakes alive A a basket of soap bubbles! What's o matter?' asked Nurse Jane, who was baking the cahhage pancakes. ° "It's my rheumatism 1 can hardly walk!" groaned Mr. Longears. "Oh, and going out in the snow yesterday to get itrailing arbutys flowers for me, when I had the head- wehe, gave you the rheumatism!" pald Nurse Jape. "I'm so sorry for you! Here, eat some hot cakes and mayhe you'll feel better." The hunny rabbit uncle was a little better after breakfast, but still the pain was too great to allow him to go adventuring. He was sitting by the fire in his easy shoes, wishing he, felt better, when there came a knock at the hangalow door, #It that's the 'Fuzzy Fox or the Waeozie Wolf, don't let either one | -N3 se Jane," said the hunny. "Certatnly not," answered | Miss Fuzzy, Wuzzy. But when she open- gd the door there on the step stood Sammie and Susie Littletail and Baby Bunty, "Can, Uncle Wiggily go out and play?" asked Baby Bunty. "There isn't any school today, Nurse Jane, and we ean play with him if he wants us to." "I am sorry, my dears," spoke the muskrat © lady housekeeper, "hut Unele Wiggily has the rheumatism 80 hadly that he can hardly walk, pvich less play, So you'll have to, skip along." #0Oh,.I know what's good for rheu- matism!"' cried Baby Bunty, *Win- tergreen!" "And I know where we can get some early spring wintergreen leaves!" exclaimed Sammie. "Don't you remember, Susie, when we were "gathering the trailing arbutus the other dpy, for the;lady mouse tea- char, we-saw wintergreen leaves un- der the:snow!" "So weé did!" -safd the little rabbit girl. "Come on; we'll go get winter- green for Uncle Wiggily's rheuma- tism pain!" "How kind the children ave," sdid the bunny gentleman when Sammie Susie and Baby Bunty had gone. "8till 1 don't helieve all the winter- green they cap bring back will make me forget my rheumatism!" "Qh, perhaps, maybe yes,' said Nurse Jane, hopeful like, Uncle Wiggily sat by the fire in hig easw shoes, the pain getting worse and wrrse all the while, and he was think: 3 he had better send for Dr, Possuta when, all of a sud- den, he and Nurse June heard a noise outside the hollow stump hun- galow, "Here come the rabbit children back with the wintergreen," said the muskrat lady. "I hope it helps you." Open flew the_door and in ran Bahy Bunty, ° "Here---here's your rheumatism -- I--mean the grinterween for your tumarism," said Baby Bunty. ** What makes you so out hreath?" asked Uncle Wiggily, as he took the fragrant, spicy, glossy, green leaves Baby Bunty held out. ria 3 dads were out in the wood earning their entire livelihood, getting an education or learning a business qr & trade, and 'laying the foundation of whatever they are er nave at pres- Do not plume yourselves, when you first try your premtice hand av buzzing the girls around, that your fathers are entirely ignorant of what you are up to, and never did such a thing in their lives until they met your very proper mothers. Your fathers had tried their hands at the same 'old game, and knew quite a hit about it, before you were even dreamed of, In fact there are very few things which you can try, which your fathers have not tried before you. They could give you lots of points on the game of life, if you only echummed up with them enough to get them to give you some lessons. But here is just where some hoys make another mistake, They think 'that their dads would not make geod chums, They wauld not mow nesrly so much of life as Bill Smith, aged seventeen, round the corner, Bill is up-to-date if he is anything, end there's nothing going which Bill is not on to. That's just where you are istaken. Your dads have seen a lot ore of life than Bill. They have learned a lot with the years, Boy, your dad knows more of life than {half-a-dozen Bill Smiths round-the- of (corner, "He can tell you and show |you heaps of things that Bill never !dreamed of. Just try your dad out, and see if he is not the hest chum, the most interesting, well-informed, 3 Attracts Great Crowds in Toronto To Oshawa : An automonile," nothing.more, at- tracted so much- attention on: the downtown streets of Toronto. Tuos- day afternoon that the police denied' its driver the privilege of parking even for a moment at the side of the street, Harly.in the afternoon the driver drew up to the curb out- side the King Edward Hotel, At once a crowd collevted and. surged a view of it, Then came.the police. In a few moménts the car bad heen 'moved on"; the crowd dispersed as rapidly as it had farmed, and the street resumed itz' normal appear- ance, : A | i "oh oh t One of Vintage of 1900° {The machine'. whieh' "excited so |much attention was' not one of the {season's newest models. It was an old "one-lunger" of the vintage of 1900, which arrived in Toronto this week to take its part in the celebra- "We had to ran to get away from {up-to-date chum you ever had, If ir tion of '"'opep-house" week by the him," answered the little rabbit girl. ha true that the best way for a fath- automebhile dealers of "Sammie and Susie told me to run|ap to train a son is to chum with him, |°ity. the Queen Its present owner is the Olds on ahead while they-threw snow halls jt jg just as true that the best way (Motor Works of Canada, whose par- at him!" At whom?" asked Uncle Wiggily. "The Fuzzy Fox. He chased us" sald Baby Bunty, comes now, chasing Sammie and Susie!" ' With that in ran the bad Fox after {tor a son to "Bring Up Father' 1g also to chum with him, Fathers, chum with your hoys. ever you can. It will young and lively and add ito your lives. Boys, keep you chum with 'ent company turned it out all new 'and shining over 20 years ago. It has an interesting history. To "And here he | Go with them to their sports when-| call it a relic of the past would be to do it an injustice, for § 22-year tinuous service. Tuesday it ran Sammie and Susie. Then Uncle Wig your fathers, and take them with! around the city streets just as resd- gily forgot all about his rhenma- tism, and, catehing np his red, white pnd blue striped eruteh, the hunny gave the Fox such a hard hlow on his nose that the had chap cried "Wuffo!" and turned a back somer- sault out of the window | you to your fun and | whenever you can, the advantage of all their {lence and add to your own ment and pleasure of sharing | with them. Chum with each other, and when! Crepit age. amusements ily and just as assuredly as it has, It will give you covered the highways and byways the exper- of the Province since the heginning | horsepower, having a 'hore of four enjoy-'0f the century, and, though it is 20 and a balf inches and a stroke of | up very much out of date in point of six inches, dimensions, by the way, | appearance, it shows no signs of de- Rather does it seem as "Oh, your rheumatism is cured! | ne hoy grows to be a man, he whl though, like the brook, it will go on The wintergreen we hrought cured it; didn't it?" cried Susie as the bad even when he is old, will still he the | animal ran away. "Well, either that----or the Fox!" laughed the bunny as he rubbed some of the wintergreen on his sore paw. "Anyhow, | thank you." Then he felt so much better re went out to play with the rabbit children, And if the piano doesn't run off hy itself to the movies, and leave the stool to roll along with the phono- graph, I'll tell you next about Uncle Wiggily"s spmmg song. . SONS AND FATHERS There is a stage In most boys' lives; when they know more than thelr fathers ever knew . That is the silly period generally extending from fourteen to about seventeen years of age. It is the period when some boys | take any more education {they think that they know all they | need to know in this world, and are) | so smart that they can get along | without the education which other, | people not so clever as they, have to { get in order to make their way. It is | the i ded or expelled from school he- stop gojne to school and refuse to Roman Meal is a delicious cerepl--and more. It's the p value in nourish- ment you can buy -- re- lieves constipation and indigestion -- properly balanced in health-giving qualities -- and can be served in a variety of ways. . | cause they know more than their i teachers, and feel to big to obey. i Boys, don't fool yourselves. | dads, and quite a few of your teach- 'ers too, knew a uumber fo things | before you were born which you {haven't learned yet, and perhaps, {never will learh. Do not imagine, {for example, that you know all about |games, and that. your fathers kmow { nothing about ch things. There {may have heen different games when | they were boys, or the same games (called by different names; but you | may take this for true that most {of your fathers have played games {in their day, any 'many of them stood {just as high as athletes in their day |as the best of you stand today. | { Do not faney, | getting into mischief, that your dads {have no idea what you are up flo. {and are quite too slow and solemn ever to have done such i you some tricks that you mever | heard of before. Af your fathers are | very steady and well-behaved now, it |is not because they do not know how: because time when other boys get sus. Your! when you are out: things in | their lives. Your dads had their turn | at just such mischief in their day, and if you were just to get them out on a Hollowe'en they might show! {be Dad's Boy still; and the Dad, Boy's companion, counsellor and friend. At the Villa Rose | (Continued from page 10) look of pity. Suddenly he stretched out a forefinger. "You have, perhaps, a photograph of the young lady in that card-ease | in your breast pocket.' . Wethermill fushed red, and, draw-| ing out the card-case, | portrait to Hanaud. at it carefully for a few moments. "It was taken lately, here"? asked. "Yes: for me,' quietly. "And it is 2 good likeness?" "Very," "How long have you nown Lbhis Mile. Celie?' be asked Wethermill looked at Hanaud with' @ certain defiance. "For a fortpight."" Handud raised his eyebrows. "You met her here?" "Yes. "In the rooms, I suppose? "That is so," quietly. her at my request." Hanaud banded back the portrait; and drew forward his chair negrer| to Wethermill. His face had grown He spoke with a tone of friendly. respect. "Monsier. I know something you. when I saw you at his dinner are of those about are not a romantic boy, but appeal of beauty?" "I have seen women. ed for complicity in brutal foul-mouthed and hideous to sentence has been pronounced." Landed the! Hanaud looked | be! replied Wethermi!l Not at the house of one of your friends?" { said Wethermil) | "A friend of mine who had: met her in Paris introduced me io! of Your friend Mr. Ricardo told {me your history; 1 asked him for ft You i whom one does ask questions, and T know that you who shall say that he is safe from the ? monsieur, for whose purity of soul I would myself have stood security condemm- r crimes on evidence that could not he gain said; and I have known them turn look | upon the moment after their just "No doubt, monsier," said Wegh- | +is Sraupl around the machine, eagerly seeking' forever, for ii 4s 'hard .to concelve its end after all tuese years, Just How Jt" Works To: be ' technleal, the: machine is powered by _one-cylinder, four- cycle. gasoline shige, 48d the power 4d "to the rear wheels throu o-speed planetary gear- ing. and a formidable<ddoking chain running around 'an overgrown bi- eyele 'sprocket on the rear axle. The engine is horizontally mougited un- derneath. the. sedt on a sobf of rear deck, and, if the operator wants to get at it, he must elthér lift the deck or take out the front seat, The part removed depends upon the sec- tion ; of 'the enging which demands attention, . for. it : is: nearly half as long as the 'eh on which it is mounted... ee foks oe LY The;head points fo, the rear, and the crankcase ig directly mnder the driver's seat,.Sosi¥ the, transmistian, and the oytealling. lovers are some- what . cunningly" hidden at the end of the seat. LM : } . Primitive . ; Its. lubrication: isiof'the most primitive type. The modern. motoy- ist rarely gives a thought to his lubrication system 'beyond: the. nee- essary attention of 'replenishing his ofl supply.' Not so the driver of this car. Every little while he must stop his car and examine an. oil:dejp oup mounted on the side of the.cylinder to see {f-it still has enough qil end is feeding correctly. Then he myst screw. down a couple of long grease cups which 'deliver lubricaht to the main hearings of the enginp. Fin- engine is not getting~too hot by reason of the boiling of the cooling water, The days of the youth of the {ear were hefore the introduction of radiators. Cooling, therefore, is a matter of luck and the efficiency of a diminutive pump Which draws water from an enclosed tank and pe- years | record is one of unbroken and cop- turns it after it has passed through [the water-jacketed cylinder, Ho Vo ers The single cylinder which fprws power plaut develops seven which are unheard of in the average modern passenger-car engine. To {start it the driver lifts-up a papel ' Lis ally he must make aurg .that his hy its owner: in the left side and twirls a crank until the engine hegins to give signs of lite, The gigantic cylinder gives a hoarse cough, and then gradually hegins to function gradually, = Ft has not.a carburetor, - Its fuel Supply i» metered out through a valve, Which makes no pretense of mixing the gas and air in their proper propor- tions, and the ignition system is an early type of the .modern battery and coil system, ! The remarkable .thing about it is that 'it never seems to fail, It re- quires constant attention, but it #eems to thread . its. way through traffic just ax readily as its modern hrother, Has Long Service Record The car was purchased in 1800 by a resident of Owen Sound, and for over twenty years it was daily 'Thiuse Last year it came to the attention of its makers, and it was brought. to the factory. at Oshawa, It came from there to the city on a truck, though it was quite capable of making - the thirty-mile road journey under its own power. as of its driver, Mr. B, H. Judd, who was dressed in all the finery of the early motorist was the feature of Motor Show Week Tuesday. In- terest in the automobile' Was en- hanced by its appearance, and deal- ers reported increased attendance at their sdlesrooms. At the end of the week it will return'to Oshawa. The car is one of 3,990 of the same type which were built in the first year of the present century. While it ie not The appearance of the car, as well | bo "A remarkable aispla¥ of Mijlinery creations especially arranged for our d '. SPRING SEASON OPENING Friday & Saturday, Mar. 10 & 11 PEARSON'S 7-Simeoe St. N. the only one still in serviee, it is believed: to be the oldest car in this mart of the country still in daily use. FORESTRY, MOTTON PICTURES * The usual methbds for interest ing the public in the forests apa their protection 'have been comtipu- ed. These include illustrated lec- tures, talks to sdbools, and digiribu- tion of literature to school children and to homes pegr or in the forest. By the co-operation of the Puhlic- ity. Brapeh of the Department of Trade and Commerce, moving pic- tures' have been taken of fires and fire-fighting, and also of treeyplant- ing, so that hereafter Capadian moving; picture theatres, lecturers, and educational institutions will not have 'to' depend; op pictures of such scenes from other countries. It is hoped that the showing of these films throughout Canada will give Canadians some idea of the fact that their own coyntry is in the van of progress.--Annual Report, Direc- tor of Forestry, Ottawa. MATCHES AND FIRES There is a fageination about fire and especially about the burning of a match for the smallest child. A child uses matches carelessly be- cause they are placed where be or she can. readily get them, and he- cause children see m constan- tly 'handled in a chreless fashion by their parents.--Deputy Fire Marsha) Lewis, Ontario. N i il | i !ermill. with perfect quietude. "But' / Celia Harland i= not one of those! women." "I do not now say that she de"! 3 : cBlovses for tie New Jpring Suit 4 Secure in its prestige the little White Blouse of Voile is the established favori multitude ogeasionc~-1L is always durable and shows off the oh, Suits 'to Sarkis. Jor ¥ of elegance over Blouse o Georgette or The new slip-over Blouse with the favored prehensive showing in all these and feel sure of your What Gloves to Choose i. a ii (to misbehave. Your dads have haa |a good deal wider experience of life; ever tasted. {than you imagine, and can give ame to ask dor my assistance, and 1 . + pretty shrewd guess as to what you | refused. replied that I was just a ONE SERVING - ONE CENT {are doing when you think that Fou | £00 Aovrsapis enjoying eared 4 |are pulling the wool over their eyes. day. ill it is dificult quite to for-! Cet it at your grocers | Do mot think. when you earn a Sel one's profession. It was : N 2 few dollars and spend them again, | Commissaire of Police that your fathers never did anything We, and naturally I talked with Sim {like that when they were your age. for a little while. The case is dark |As 3 matter of fact many of your moansieur, I warn you." - | | (To be continued) Makes i said Hanaud. "But the Juge 4'In-! ry hs elightinl oe struction here. bas already sent 0 Try Our Delivery Service for rior. ; ; t ; | Phone your ; I g i JH i \ Our customers always receive courteous service, WM. ATKINSON _e y a £ i ¢ . fh i i Hl - ~ | i =< ER igs. TE ok, Si ti se pe