By Thornton A NOTE or CHEER

h days of gloom, distrust ancii tear, How blessed is a note of cheer! -Old Mother Nature.

It was hard tor Peter Rabbit to nelieve iils own ears and eyes. He llilu iouiiu Welcome Room in a small cedar swamp in the Green; korest. rirsi reter hau neai-ti. him, men he had seen him. and! now he was talking with niiii. Lxen so it was hard to ueliexcf too. see, this was mid-winter. aim welcome Robin was suppos- ed to be where it was much vi&il'mel'. l

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gthe Owl." said Welcome Robin.

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plied Welcome Robin. "I mean. I haven't been outside these cedar trees. And, this is the first time l've seen you over here. So ol where around," said Peter.

"I haven't been around." re- course you haven't seen me. It probably is just as well you have not.

Peter pricked up his long cars at that ”Why'!" he demanded.

”Bccaiise probably you would have told some one else, and that someone would have told another. And pretty soon every one would have known that I was spending the winter here." said Welcome Robin.

"Well, what if they did?" cried Peter. Tlien he added, ”A lot of folks uoulu hate tell a lot better lor knowing you were hi:-rc.'

"And some iolks would hate come looking for me. and then I wouldn't have been here," re- plied Welctiiiie Robin.

Peter thought this over. "1 don't know who," said he. "You would be out of reach of Reddy Fox, and all the other hunters I know of."

"You must have forgotten Hooty

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pr” no-.&4ou-4.1 g "I didn't go South at all." said Welcome Robin.

”lIuvc you been here all the tiniei" asked Peter. "Vihat do you mean by all the ytuiie?" Welcoiiie Rubin asked. "I mean, have you been here lull winter, or did you go south and conic back?” asked Peter. ”I rtidiit go south at all," said Welcome Robin." "When cold - - weather came on, I moved right over here. and I've been here , ever since." "But, I havent seen you any-

. Contract Bridge 81 Joeephtne Culbertson AN ELEMENTARY ERROR

West's defensive error in the hllowinj hand was of the sort hat is made very frequently - but that does not mean that it In enoueble.

- South would have had a lay-

.down at three iiotriimp but he .. 'could scarcely know that. and hie actual Jump to (our hearts was entirely logical.

West opened a low spade and

South took Elistts king. Two rounds of trumps were 't:aslied. Joiloweti by the club ace; then South led to the club king and ruffed a club. He returned to dummy iiitli a trump to rufi auiiy lhey last club. then he simply exnetl with the Nptltic Jack. ' Viest. in with the spade qiltTIL realized that he could not afford to return a spade, hut in shifting in ui:-iiiionds he made a very bad Chttt('F oi rnrtis. Pi'csuiiial)ly, he felt that ho noilld have in find his parliier with excellent din- monds; at any rate. he laid down thc acc. liicii led the ten. This sctiiit-iicr cstalilislicd (ieclai'cr's diziiiiolirl queen and lil(' ('()Ilil':'lCl Wits hoinc.

West was corrt-ct in lliitiking tlizit ho hail to load a tililnltllld out-ii ho was iliroirn in iiith the solids fliibflll, but he olnioiisly should not how lcd the arc. Southlt liniid liiiti hi-on sliown its

too spii(Itw ll lic did not lime three dianioiids. it would he ini- ' possible to tlcfeat the contract. Moreover. it he had tlic ilianionli kjng. he would be sale. The one hope from West: point of HPW was that East hold at lcast the lcingflind jack of diamonds. and

the six so that East could

by West's acc-it-n.

Obviously. this low diamond bad by West would have given the defenders four tricks.

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Shrike; I understand he has been around. He didn't come over

suspected I was here."

"How did you h8PP0I1 W lihy instead of going down where it is warmer with the rest of the birds?" Peter asked.

"1 found that these trees were loaded with berries. That meant that I would have food enough all winter if I should stay. I really didn't mean to stay in the beginning, but somehow I didn't feel like a long journeY- Y0" know, I'm not as young as I used to be. So I kept putting it off, and putting it off, and then it became too late. So here I am." explained Welcome Robin.

”Are you feeling good?" asked Peter. "I'm feeling wonderful." re- plied Welcome Robin. To prove it. he flew to the very top of the tree he was in. and began to sing. ”Cheer up. cheer up, cheer!" he sang. "Cheer. up. cheer up.

Strange But True By F. H. MacArthur

We say. we are skating on ice when we ought to say we are slid- ing along on water. Why? Be- cause when the sharp edge of the skate strikes the ice and slides along it. the friction causes a lit- tic licat. just enough to melt the ice under the skate. 'l'nc skate actu.-iliy slides along on this tiny sheet of water. Just as if you put oil on the top of the ice.

Is there any difference between the weight of warm air and cold air? Yes. warm air is the lighter of the two. Generally speaking the air weighs about 15 pounds on every square inch of the surface of the earth, and on every inch "of our bodies. There is I weight of 150 pounds on a person's hand as he holds it out. We do not feel that weight because the samc weight is pressing up.

Did you know that winds have several names such as breeze, gale. hurricane. cyclone. tornado. A breeze travels at the rate of 3 to 10 miles per hour; a gale travels 30 to 40 miles per hour. a hurri- cane 75 miles per hour. A cyclone about 100 miles per hour and a tornado may reach 120 miles per hour. And strange but true, the prevailing winds that sweep over our continent come from the west or southwest. In India there is a wind that blows from the south in summer and from the north in winter. This is called the mon- soon wind. In China they have ii wind that goes by the name of typhoon and strange as it may seem these always blow from the east.

In Italy and Greece they have the so called sirocco. It always blow: from the south and is very warm. In the deserts of Africa and Arabia we find the simoon. a fierce wind that sweeps all before it. In the Rocky Mountains and in Canada there is the chinook wind. so called by the Indians. The most terrible of all the winds is the dreaded tornado which often carries away houses. livestock. automobiles, and what have you. Fortunately. these are of short duration but in 19 minutes it may do millions of dollars worth of damage.

Tornadoes come only in hot weather and always in the daytime. One can hear their coming by the

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