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t McCORMICR MESSErfGElfc' McCORMIck. S. C . THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1940 Lillie Girl’s Blouse, Pinafore, Panlies OUSY mothers with lively little girls in the 2-to-8 size range can solve several important prob lems with this one clever, very complete pattern (8674). It in cludes a puff-sleeved blouse with drawstrings, panties, and a pina fore frock that can be used, with out the blouse, as a sunback out door fashion for summer play, too. The whole ensemble is adorable, with a touch of quaintness that adds much charm to its simplici ty. You’ll find it one of the best little-girl fashions you ever dis covered, and the source of many different daytime outfits for your small daughter. A linen or gingham pinafore, with mull or dimity blouse, will be pretty for general wear. Plaid •r striped seersucker will be prac tical for the pinafore when she wears it as a sunback frock—can be tubbed so easily, and needn’t be ironed. The step-by-step sew chart gives complete, detailed di rections. Pattern No. 8674 ig designed for sizes 2, 4, 6 and 8 years. Size 4 requires 2Ys yards of 35-inch ma terial for pinafore and panties; % yard for blouse, 2% yards rib bon. Send order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. Room 1324 211 W. Wacker Dr. Chicaeo Enclose 19 cents in coins for Pattern No Size Name Address Poll the Trigger on Constipation, and Pepsin-izeAcidStomachToo When constipation brings on add indi- , bloating, dizzy spells, gas, coated , sour taste, and bad breath, your you need both Pepsin to help break up fast that rich undigested food in the trigger on those lazy bowels. So be sure your laxative also contains Pepsin. Take Dr. Caldwell’s Laxative, because its Pepsin helps you gain that won- 1 stomach comfort^ while the Laxative Senna moves your bowels. Tests prove the power of Pepsin to dissolve those lumps of undigested protein food which may linger in your stomach, to cause belching, gastric acidity and nausea. This is how pepsin* Axing your stomach helps relieve it of such distress. At the same time this medicine wakes up lazy nerves and muscles in your bowels to relieve your constipation. So see bow much better you feel by taking the laxative that also puts Pepsin to work on that stomach discomfort, too. Even fin icky children love to taste this pleasant family laxative. Buy Dr. Caldwell’s Lax ative-Senna with Syrup Pepsin at your druggist today! Doubtful Living He who lives for no one does not necessarily live for himself.— Seneca. TAKE THE SPRING OUT OF SPRING COLDS- l/SE2DROPS OF NOSE DROPS PENETRO Error in Haste Too great haste leads us to er- gor.—Moliere. AT «OOD eiuo • TOMS Bamqs zk^gBCessedRelief. RHEUM ATISM lumbago By ATHELENE WATSON (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) ARE birds “people”? Why /A not? For they work like l real people and they fill almost as many profes sions. “The butcher, the baker, the candlestick-maker” of the world of men become “the butcher, the weaver, the busy street-cleaner” in the bird realm. Birdland is a verita ble Greenwich Village, for BLUE JAY butchers nest next to actors, carpenters, acrobats, divers and singers. But who are these butchers and street cleaners? Do they exist? Yes, there really are birds which are aptly called by these names. The northern shrike and the log gerhead shrike are called “butch er birds” because they impale their prey on thorns and barbed wire fences or hang them away in the cleft of a tree limb to be eaten later. The northern shrike looks like a masked bandit as it swoops down upon its victims, for it has a strip of black feathers extending from the eyes to the back of the head like a black mask. It flies low over the ground spotting its victims—grasshop pers, beetles, mice, snakes or even small birds. Then it turns, climbs upward before it hurtles down to the ground again in one last cruel pounce. You may be sure that little Jenny Wren does NOT sing, “O, ma-ma, it’s the butcher boy for me,” for all of the small birds are filled with fear and run for cover when they hear the heavy rapid flapping of the shrike’s wings. It is a curious fact that during the mating season the shrike is a very sweet singer, seemingly trying to whitewash the crueler side of its nature dur ing the period of wooing. And the street cleaner? Why, he’s the noisy urchin of the bird family who chatters and quarrels on your roof every day—the Eng lish sparrow. He’s a bold, selfish fellow with uncouth manners for he will crowd uninvited int.o a well-behaved robin’s or bluebird’s nest and drive away the real own er. He’ll take possession of the house you built for Sir Christo pher and Mistress Jenny Wren but in return he’ll do one good deed, at least. English sparrows are city scavengers and they’ll do a thorough job of street cleaning in front of your house or in an alley nearby. Baltimore Oriole, the Weaver. The weaver? That’s the Balti more oriole, a weaver by trade. Madame Oriole is a skillful arti san. She fashions a warp of strings fastened firmly around the forked branches of a tree. DOWNY WOODPECKER Through this she weaves plant fibers, horsehair, string and strips of bark to make a nest shaped like a pocket-like bag. Baby ori oles are lulled to sleep by each gentle breeze in their hammock in the tree-tops. Orioles are very fond of bright colors and they are not always too scrupulous about property rights in their eagerness to gather material for a nest. A neighbor of mine was seated on the porch sorting scraps of yarn left over from a crocheted afghan. Noon came and she left the yarn in a box while she prepared lunch. When she returned the yarn had disappeared as if by magic. A month later her small son discov ered the thief. High in the branches of an elm tree a mother oriole sat proudly on a colorful nest decorated with the stolen yarn! The humming bird is an artist as well as a weaver for its nest is a thing of delicacy and beauty. The entire nest is about the size of a walnut. It is made of plant down and dried flower petals and held together by silvery spider’s web covered with bits of moss. This dainty creation resembles a baby’s silver-lined thimble. There’s an industrious fellow among birds who is an excellent carpenter. Nature has given the woodpecker family the tools of the carpenter’s trade. Their strong beaks are shaped like chisels so they can easily bore into a tree trunk. Their long cylinder shaped tongues end in a hard tip, barbed on both sides which can be pushed out underneath the bark of trees. Their legs are short and stout, their claws strong and sharp. Their stiff tail feath ers end in sharp spines which can be pushed against the bark of trees to hold them upright as they hammer away at the trunk. Equipped with these tools it is no trick at all to drill a neat, round hole in a tree and make a ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK * snug warm nest. In digging out these retreats, the woodpeckers go in horizontally to the center and then turn downward in an en larged tunnel until the finished nest is the shape of a long, deep pear. The sawdust which falls while the drilling is going on makes a soft lining for the nest. The Missus Dissents. The woodpecker is a meticulous worker. It selects the site of its home with care. If the first at tempt at excavation proves un satisfactory, the bird abandons it and tries again. I watched a red-headed woodpecker hammer ing away one day at the dry limb of an apple tree. His mate, who was perched on a limb nearby, surveyed the work of her bril- MEADOWLARK liant-headed spouse with a criti cal eye. Suddenly she darted near with a loud whining “char-r-r-” and for a few seconds the air was filled with their angry cries. He evidently had the better of the argument for she flicked away with her brown feathers ruffled indignantly. I cannot vouch for the fact that she had pointed out a flaw in his work, but I do know that an hour later the red-head was chiseling away a few inches down the limb. After drilling in for two inches he seemed to change his mind and flew away in the same direc tion his mate had taken. When I examined the holes, I discovered that the limb was too badly de cayed and a chip had come out, making a hole in the outer wall. In the second cavity the work man had again come too near the surface and scarcely more than the bark remained as protection from the weather. No doubt, the woodpecker’s flaming head drooped with shame when his tri umphant wife had her chance to chirp “I told you so!” He’s a ‘Swing’ Addict. Singing is, of course, the most popular profession among birds. The song sparrow is a “swing” addict. Their usual song opens with three high-pitched notes fol lowed by complicated warbling trills but no two song sparrows sing exactly the same song. AMERICAN CROW The meadowlark thrills you. with a clear, sweet “spring-o-the- year, spring-o-the-year” until he notices that he has a human lis tener. Then he will impolitely turn his back upon you to hide his conspicuous yellow breast from your prying eyes. The rose-breasted grosbeak is the Beau Brummell of the song birds but he is the soul of chiv alry to his mate for he uses his rich whistling carol to entertain her during the nesting season. He is an example of what the well-dressed young bird is wear ing for he has a handsome sum mer coat of black and rose. In winter he favors a duller suit of brown and rose. Just as human singers special ize in certain fields of entertaii^ ment, such, as radio, opera or vaudeville, so do the bird musi cians develop their talents along one line. The mocking bird is the king of mimics. He not only imi tates the voice of other songsters but improves upon the sound which he imitates. Charlie McCarthy of Birdland. The scarlet tanager and the wood thrush are both ventrilo quists for they can “throw” their voices. I discovered this trick once when a sleepy-looking little owl in a mulberry tree apparently greeted me with a sharp “chip- churr, chip-churr.” Then there was a flash of scarlet in a tree nearby and I found that a saucy tanager had used the owl as his Charlie McCarthy. The blue jay has a cruder sense of humor and uses his pow er of mimicking to frighten small birds by imitating the scream of the red-shouldered hawk. This is in keeping with his role as the bad boy of birdland, a rogue and a bully who steals from other nests and “picks on” smaller birds. Not all bird musicians choose a vocal career. The downy wood pecker prefers instrumental mu sic. He’s the drummer boy, the Gene Krupa of the bird world. For a drum he may use the stub of a dry limb about the size of one’s wrist. The ideal “drum” has an outer shell that is hard and resonant with a heart de cayed and gone. The clumsy crow turns buffoon to entertain his fellow birds. He tumbles, hops, skips and turns somersaults as skillfully as any circus clown. High-Diving Champion. The belted kingfisher chooses water instead of land to exercise his athletic skill. He lives alorig ponds, lakes, rivers and small creeks for he depends entirely? upon fish for food. He hovers over the water until he spies a flash of fins beneath the surface, then plunges after his prey with the accuracy of the butcher bird. It is one of the fundamental in stincts, mother love, which makes the bob white turn actress. If an intruder comes too close to her LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE nest this clever bird pretends to be lame until she has lured her sympathetic follower far from her young. Are birds people? I was never quite convinced until I found a catbird’s nest in our orchard one spring. Held fast to the outside wall by interwoven twigs was a scrap of newspaper containing part of a poem. The title of the poem was a mute appeal “Don’t Kill the Birds!” Speaking of Sports Fiction Pales Before Career Of Kid McCoy By ROBERT McSHANE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) ORMAN SELBY was the “real McCoy.” And Norman Selby took his own life recently in a De troit (Mich.) hotel. It was under the name of “Kid McCoy” that Selby became one of the best and most glamorous box ing champions of half a century ago. The “real McCoy” was originated when the Kid billed himself that way in opposition to a rival who also called himself McCoy. There were no tears shed at the Kid’s funeral. He had caused too much trouble during his lifetime, had pulled too many mean tricks and was never too particular about how he fought as long as he was victorious. But Kid McCoy was a great fight er. Boxing old timers remember him as a paralyzing puncher—one of the hardest hitters the fight game has ever known. His skill was so great he could oit successfully his 160 pounds against the best heavy weights of his day. His cunning was almost diabolical, and it was his cunning which made so many ene mies for him. Lesson in Cunning McCoy reveled in victimizing his opponents. The old shoe lace gag was one of his best. In the midst of combat he would pause, point down, and tell his opponent to “hur ry up, tie your shoe laces.” When the victim looked, McCoy struck. Sailor Tom Sharkey, now living ih San Francisco, recalls the Kid with no fond memories. He tells about their fight in New York back in 1899. The Kid came into the ring that KID (THE REAL) McCOY night with his gloves on. Sharkey’s manager. Tommy Rourke, ordered the gloves removed. They were full of plaster. One good punch could have brought a permanent close to Sharkey’s career. That’s a fight Sharkey will never forget. Odds were 10 to 6 McCoy would beat him. When the Kid knocked him down in the first round the ringside odds went to 10 to 3. But the Sailor weathered the storm. He started working on his opponent’s stomach; and the referee counted 10 over the Kid in the tenth round. Sharkey couldn’t forget the matter of the loaded gloves. The most lurid fiction is tame when compared to McCoy’s life story. At various stages in his ca reer he was a millionaire and a hobo. He was a world’s boxing champion and a jailbird. He mar ried nine times—three times to the same woman. He served eight of a 20-year sentence for murder. Once he was proprietor of a jewelry store, and once he swamped out saloons. It’s almost impossible not to be melodramatic when writing of Mc Coy. He was a melodramatic per son. His life was a series of fan tastic adventures. Unpleasant Memory Tom Sharkey recalls another un pleasant incident in the Kid’s life. “I remember,” Tom says, “how he met Tommy Ryan, in 1896, after working as Ryan’s sparring partner and learning all his tricks, still hid ing his own skill. He wrote Ryan he was dead broke and sick and wouldn’t Ryan give him a chance to make some money? It would be just a workout for Ryan, but it meant a change for the Kid. He told Ryan he wouldn’t even have to train. Ryan took him at his word and gave him the fight. McCoy beat him unmercifully—and laughed about it.” The tables were once turned on McCoy, however. He was the. vic tim of an upset that ranks with the game’s most inexplicable. Meeting Jack McCormick in 1899 in Chicago, the Kid was rated a 100 to 1 shot to win. One second after the bell the Kid was stretched on the floor senseless. McCormick had knocked him out with the first punch. Rugged Individualist A note was found beside McCoy’s body. 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