Evening star., 1931-12-26

The jump seemed impossible, but OF
course he made 1t, being q squirrel
They are canny little bodies and never
attempt the impossible.
To a human being their leaps often
seem impossible, but not to them.
Before they leap they measure the
distance with their little beady eyes
Then sort of instinct tells them
whether to do it or not.
1t Is this instinct, as we call it, for
lack OF better name, which Is al
ways OF interest to those who love the
ANIMALS. What makes a cat decide to
lick It's face, In preference to its right
hind foot?
Or. after 1t has washed its face for
while, why does it transfer its at
tentlons to the left rear leg, in prefer
ence to the right?
Wnat mysterious guide is 1t which
tne oog uses as he walks along an alley
ana enters In at one gate, but not al
the very next, which Is equally and
nyltingly open?
Ihey go about all these actions with
Sucn major air of sagacity that the
human spectator would swear that
Giiey nso thought the whole matter out
peIorenand. and were now but carry
ing lilelr campaign into execution.
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Inc warm weather has not noticea
oly increased the number or variety
OF bird visitors. From the dining room
WINDOWS we see occasionally a cardinal
!oveHeSt OF our common birds. At rare
tn.;.I n,Ietvals there are strange tweets and
we DO not know. They stay only a few,
nours and are gone.
NOR nave they gone out into the rea
countryside, out where one might i'm.
aglne himself in Arkansas, so few are
tIe eVldences of civilization to be seen
altnough the observer knows that inst
area. D0poi"'eo
Inls Is the real countryside which
would be beautiful in a snowstorm Ever
now, on cloudy day in a warm Winter
IL Is very interesting.
Ihe road winds slightly, a road which
would not stand up any too well in wet
Weatner, evidently. A field of Ornamental
grasses, now quite white, stretches avay
to the west. ""S
through the woods are to be seen
parts OF the front elevation of a fine
plck oWellng. No doubt the owner
Quilt 1t there to secure peace and quiet
| "AAA ofcl lake IllIll, however, 1t is
only matter of years before they will
be building in his backyard WAL
And what Is that yonder?
A log cabin!
wen, did we not tell you that this
Is the real countryside? Pigeon Greek
where Abraham Lincoln spent mart q,
MS boyhood, must have looked a great
deal like this.
Beyond it the road swoops down O
hundred feet or more, and meanders
through the valley, and up again. dis
appearing over the ridge.
rake out the map, and look at the
countours Yes just what we thought
500 feet elevation up here, $50 feet
down there. Exactly lis feet difference
1t looks it.
This Is the countryside. which would
De beautiful in deep snow, lovely blt
treacherous going.
AND to think, that 25 years from now
| oo years. from now, all this will 81
changed that no one would recognize it,
Where there are fields there will he
MONIES, and where this unfinished road
dips downward so swiftly there will be
a gentle grade for concrete boulevard
The kinks will be taken out of the
thoroughfare, and electric lights will
make their appearance But It will be
countryside still, though countryside of
the civilized variety, much more so than
that strange thing known as the city
proper