The Stroller's weekly and Douglas Island news., 1922-03-18
BEDTIME STORY FOR
 ALASKA CHILDREN
By YOUR UNCLE

Why is it that some children vino are loud and noisy at home arc Quict
 and umid when away from home3 s1mo boyH who make trains out of chaIra at home and yell and snort uko locomotives arc as meek as mice when they get away from homo and win stand around with their fingers in their mouths and lean against
 their mothers. dig thoir toes Into Che carpet and aQuim. look down and refuse to speak when spoken Co,
 and oven refuse cookies and candy when offered thom when at Che mmc time thcir mouths are fairly watering for them?
 And then there arc children who arc afraid in tho dark lf they hap pen to bo away from home when dark comes on, they slip along to- ward home as silently as possible. but as soon as they get where they con see lights shining from tho wine dows of their homes an fear leaves them and they march in os big as ufo and would douy having been afraid 1T charged with it. And. really d8rkucss is one of thc most harmless things in existence. Tho dark never hurts anyone unless it causes thcm to fall over something or stub their toes. In foct darkness is one of Che most friendly things thcro .H. although some children arc afraid to oven eo to bed In che dark or hayc Che light put out after they get In bed unless thcre is some other person in Che room with them.
 n the matter of foar there is not must difference between children, es- pecaly boys and dogs A boy never huba of foar when hc is around his own home. but lot him get away some place else and he is wholly di- lereut A dog Is very much Che
 same When he Is in his own yard ho win bark loud and storm around If another dog comes along but when hc is away from home and uoopIue around a strange yard. he is In four an Che time and 1T some person see and yells at him. ho gets out 0f that yard oud moah on aa quickly as possible.
 You may never have given Che matter any thought but both boy and dog win run faster through Ie1r chan for any other reason. You may have noticed that when two boys quarrel and one wants to fight and Che other docsn't Che one that doesn't runs away and tho one that wants to light runs after him but rarely ever catches him2 This is because fear win cause a boy Co run
 faster thau anger lt is Che same way witch dogs A dog chat wants to feht rarely ever catches a dog chat is afraid Of being licked and that knows hc win bc licked if caught
 And tbis reminds Your Uncle Of two dogs ho know when he was a boy. one Of them being his dog and tho other belonging Co a uo.ghbor who lived balf mile away. The uamc of Your Uuclcs dog was "Bmuly' and Che other does name uos "Colouoi." They were both biz.
 strong dogs. good fighters and about evenly matched Alao they were b.f- ter enemies But their hatred ot oacb other did not prevent chem
 from calling at each others homes almost every day. I'm iact each dog was just a uttlc bIt afraid of the other but not s0 much so but chat oloh delighted I'm teasing and nag e.ue Che other. For example.
 Brandy would wander out Che road Go Coloncl's home and when ho would get t0 Che corner of Colonois yard be would stop and begin to crow. Colonel would hear him and make a dash for am open gate in Che back Of Che yard but by Che time ho would get around to the front where Brandy was. Che latter would he oyortakou by fear and would
 urt for homo with Colonel at his heels almost close enough to nip che end of his taL but never quite gct- uur it. Brludv's folr keeping him just one jump ahoad. And thus they would fairly ny over Che road to Bandys home. But ou reaching hc laUtor Brandy's courage would return and. being by his own gate. hc would immediately turn on Col- oucL confident Of being able to lick him. But being away from home caused Colonels courage to oozo and by Che time Brandy turned on him. he started to run and on Che trip back Go his home he was Che pur- sued and Brandy was Che pursuer