Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-06
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genius Of the toymaker has devised
trains that are electrically propelled. !
Remove the top from one Of the
coaches and one will find q completely
equipped car. in reality a miniature
affair. resembling in every detail our
modern coach. Fire apparatus, includ-
ing water tower capable of throwing
. stream of water; derricks and ex-
cavators that dig are only a few Of
the things that small boys may enjoy.
Perhaps the old boys were born too
soon.
r. F. G. says: France had 81 Queens
and miserable lives they led. Eleven
were divorced, two executed, nine died
young, seven were widowed early, three
cruelty treated and three exiled. The
rest were either poisoned or broken
hearted" Well, they would be Queens!
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There's one a minute. A personable-
looking fellow accidentally slipped on
the ice and broke show window. One
OF the proprietors came out and de-
manded that the stranger pay for the
damage. At first the man denied that
he was responsible for the breakage and
insisted that the ice in front of the
store should have been removed. He
was getting nowhere rapidly with his
argument and finally drew hundred
dollar bill from his pocket, which he
presented to the proprietor. The owner
figured the damage to amount OF S25
and gave the stranger SIS change.
Later in the day the money was taken
to the bank for deposit. Yes, you've
guessed 1t. 1t was ''phoney" bill.
After reading this we are or water
for life. The following is taken from
an article called Microscopic REVEAL
ton: place a drop of water between
two clean squares of glass beneath the
microscope, and 10! what life is sud-
denly presented: We scarcely trust our
senses. The little drop has expanded
into q large plain; wonderful shapes
rush backward and forward, drawing
toward and repulsing each other, or
resting placidly and rocking themselves,
as If they were Graded on the waves
of an extensive sea. These are no de-
lusions; they are real, living creatures,
for they play with each other, they rush
violently upon one another, they free
ana propel themselves, and run from
one place in order to renew the same
game with some other little creature, or
nadly precipitate themselves upon one
another, combat and struggle Until one
cOnoQerS ana lne OtIler Is SuDQuSu, OF
carelessly thc9 swim side by side, until
playfulness or rapacity is awakened
anew.
"caA sees that these little creatures,
which the sharpeSt eye cannot detect
without the aid of a mic@o~cope, are
susceptible to enjoymert and pain; in
them lies an instinct which induces
them to find sustenal,ce, which points
out and leads them ID avoid and to
escape the stranger than themselves.
Here one tumbles about in mad career
and drunken lust; it stretches out its
feelers, beats about with Its tail, tears
its fellows. and is as frolicsome as II
perfectly happy. 1t is gay, cheerful
hops and dances, rocks and bends about
upon the little waves of the water drop.
There is another creature; 1t doe.
not swim about, but contracts Itself
convulsively, and then stretches itself
palpitatinRly out again. Who could not
detect In these motions the throes o.
agony; and so It is; for only Just nov
Il has freed itself from the Jaws Of q
stronger enemy. The utmost power ha'
d oxerted In order TO get away; but hs