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( Beginning a New Serial, " Eyes In The Dark" For Young Readers Eyes For The Dark The Story Of A Dog Yesterdays By Frank, King " ' By Paula Chapter 1 (WAS one of a family of Ave sistera . all born on the same day, but nobody made any fuss about US! rhose first few weeks weren't very eventful. We just ate and slept and ate and argued. After awhile we wrestled a lot, and sometimes we were pretty rough about It When we started biting each other's ears and trying to leave our nail marks on noses, our mother cuffed us. Mother's cuttings weren't little love taps, either, she meant it. I nearly forgot to tell you that mother was a foreigner. She was bom In Brussels, but my sisters and I were born in New Jersey. Mother of ten spoke about the trip across the ocean. We were scared when she .told about how the waves tossed the big ship, but we always liked to hear about it Then we'd all huddle Into a corner and whine with fright. It was fun. The long days of play and sleep didn't last forever. We were kennel dogs, and we were started on a course of training pretty early in life. We weren't raised to be lap dogs, just cuddled and fed choco lates. There are two pretty good reasons why we couldn't be lap dogs. First, we were Belgian Shepherds and our kind grows pretty big for any lap. Second, we had a real job to fulfill In life We were to be Seelng-Eye dogs. I don't like to brag, but a Seelng-Eye dog has perhaps the most important of all jobs. The huskies that pull heavy loads through the cold northern countries do a heroic work, and everyone praises the brave deeds of the St. Ber- BACK in Oahkosh, Wisconsin, a little girl named Viola Pip pa took to bed with a case of the mumps. Now mumps aren't a very pleasant sickness, and Viola felt pretty lonely and sorry for herself having to stay In bed all day. Blng is Viola's little fox-terrier, and he missed his playmate. He couldn't understand why she stayed in bed Instead of romping with him. So Blng decided that if Viola stayed In bed he wnuld stay with her. But Blng paid for his love and loyalty. He caught the mumps, also. 8TRANGE HOME AFIELD mouse, in the state of Washington, was looking for a place to build a nest for nor family. She wanted a nice, warm place for her babies, and she came upon an Injured goat.. The goat was unable to protest or run away, and when the poor fellow was found and carried off to the animal hospital, tho mouse's nest went with him. MUSIC LOVER LOUIS WRIGHT, of Yarmouth, Maine, made the strange dis covery that woodchucks like music. Wright was playing his radio out of doors one day when he saw two little bright eyes looking at him from under a log The little woodchuck sat very still all the time the music was playing, but when It stopped he slipped back out of sight. The next day. Wright placed some little cookies on the log and waited for his new friend to re turn. He waited a long time, and CLASSIFIED MANUSCRIPTS WANTED WNTID! ORIGINAL POEMS. SONOV MMM Norton nards, too, but a Seeing-Eye dog is just what the name implies. She is the seeing eyes of the blind. The training didn't start In earnest right away. Mother ex plained that only certain dogs were fitted to lead the blind. (She was proud of the fact that she had had three pups from her other litter chosen for this impor tant work.) She gave us long talks about behavior and gentleness, alert ness and patience with our patient trainers. She made it very clear that, unless we gave the right response to the men who came to pick us for this work, we would not be chosen. Naturally enough, we all wanted to be Seelng-Eye dogs. We well knew from what she said just how splendid and useful a life it would be. We would go to good homes, where we would be loved and well cared for. We would be given the charge and responsibility of someone who would need our eyes to see the things their own eyes would never see again. Of course, there were warm days In the sunny kennels when we really didn't think a great deal about the serious work ahead and the Importance of our lives-to-be. Those days we just romped and had fun. After all, we were young and puppies can't be serious for very long at a time about much more than eating. At least, that Is the way I remem ber It, Then one day a new man came to look at us. He was serious and we tried to appear a credit to our mother. (Continued next week.) then he decided to play the radio agala At the very first sound of the music, out popped the wood chuck. Of course, he ate the cookies, but when the concert was over he was out of sight In a flash! The cookies alone couldn't bring the little wild woodchuck Into the open there had to be music, too. ;EAST MEETS WEST WHEN Hindus visit London they wish to worship In ac cordance with the traditions of their orthodoxy. So religion tra vels West Instead of East and the Maharajah of Tlpperah will defray the cost of a Hindu Temple In London town. It will nse beside a Hindu Hall and a Hindu Home, where subjects from India will find a welcome LONDON EELS OFF thejeaten track in Lon don takes the visitor to what the cockney still knows by a fifty-year-old name the "Bloo," In full. Blue Anchor Lane. Here people with a taste for such things, may buy stewed eels and jellied eels. The purchaser watches a skilled operator pick a wrig gling eel from a tank, cut It into small slices, and place the still wriggling pieces Into a paper bag. It takes a special sort of appetite to appreciate the delicacy. 5000 ATHLETES THE first Olympic Games were held in Greece in 776 B.C., at tended by a small group of athletes. This summer 5000 men land women will take part In the I Berlin Olympics, representing 80 ! nations . . . the youth of the 1 world competing for athletic supremacy. Europe" travel this year will Ir.rlude a visit to the Games by thousands of sports-loving Americans. ONLY ENGLISHI EVER hear of George Oren ville? Well, he was the Eng lish gentleman who took over the task of collecting money to help England pay off the debt she had run up to pay her fleets and armies. (Oh, yes, there were na tional debts In those days, too. ) George Orcnvlllo was officially Chancellor of the Exchequer, and It was up to him to get the money somehow. Naturally, It occurcd to George that there would be less hard feeling among his English neighbors If be got the money somewhere outside his homeland. America was growing rapidly In the hands of English subjects (the French were there, tool and those subjects (according to George Qrenvllle) had much to thank their dear homeland for. . So laws were passed In Eng land that the colonists must not buy supplies from any country but England; sell their produce to any country but England; allow any ships to land on their shores that were not English ships carrying English cargo and run by English seamen. There were other countries that would have purchased the prod ucts of the colonies and paid more for them, but England made the laws for her colonial subjects. How did the colonists feel about this? They didn't like It. Further more they were perfectly willing to do a little plain and fancy smuggling for a while. When the French and English border fights cooled off, the colonies came in for plenty of forced taxation from the mother country. All move ment westward was stopped until England surveyed and mapped the country she won from the French. TAX stamps were the gay deco ration on many and many of the necessities used by English subjects In America. Remember the tea party? Well, long before the tea episode, taxes were placed on all legal papers, newspapers, playing cards and even molasses and sugar. Now. In their fury at these taxes, the colonies raised the cry. "No taxation without representa- WORLD FAIRS WHEN business men travel they like to combine pleas ure with their work. To answer this need, the huge potential market of South Africa will be emphasised with a long-planned exhibition at Johannesburg this yesr. An Oriental fatr Is sched uled for Damascus, and will be attended by many American and European buyers. Another will be held In Hong Kong late In tbe year, to develop trade In South China. World fairs bring new business and Increased tourist travel. tion." Of course, tney couiunt hope to have representation in England It wasn't done but It was the principle of the thing I Sugar and molasses were used in great quantities In the colonics, and they had to Import them from England. They coat very dearly. They could be purchased from tho Indies, but that was mostly French and Dutch prop erty and England said, "No." However, as Is so often the case, the laws did not stop the tradesmen. A nice little business was can-led on by the colonial sea captains, and they purchased sugar and molasses where they pleased. .This was the beginning of tbe demand for Independence by the colonies. Then George Grenvllle resigned as England's tax collector. MANY people believe that termites (those tiny fellows that eat the wooden foundations of houses) are a part of the ant family. This is quite untrue. Termites are really members of the cockroach gang. Of course, the termites have their soldiers and workers. The male and female termites mate for life. Instead of a queen ruling alone, as In the ant world, the termites have a king and a queen. Termites live In the dark and most species die when exposed to the ifght or heat. There is an old saying that termites are called "white ants" because they are neither white nor are they ants! (Figure that out.) FLEA TRICKS The first trained fleas to per form before the public were ex hibited by Prof. Ruhl In 1821. It Is amazing that these tiny creatures can be trained to do many stunts. Fleas are trained to draw little carts, dance, and even throw objects about that are many times the flea's own weight SPINACH, TOO! The pest that Is called, the corn borer does not live entirely on corn. The villain was brought to this country from Europe, or possibly Asia, and he will eat any one of 167 varieties of plants. NO CHARM AT ALL We often say that a snake charms birds. Such is not the SEA MONSTERS NO WORD has come recently about the famed Loch Ness Monster, which last year drew thousands into the Highlands of Scotland. The lake where it ap peared, according to eye-witnesses, Is a body of water about 24 mllqp long and two miles wide. ' Its one exit is the River Ness, running six miles to the sea. Although there are more who doubt than those who believe, scientists insist that "the sea serpent should not be hastily dis missed, because he has not been actually hooked." Vast parts of the ocean' are still unexplored, and many strange discoveries of unexpected sea life still remain. Because the Loch Ness' serpent is good for tourist trade, he will appear before long or at least he announced by the Inn keepers RADIO PHONE FROM Telegraph Hill In San Francisco, a radio amateur talks to a friend in the Berkeley hills. He sits in his car, takes down the receiver of his radio telephone, and holds a conver sation which comes through as clear as that over any wire. It works on 56,000 kilocycles, can be used in an automobile or In a home. The farthest distance at tained so far is about B0 miles. Any car carrying a short steel mast on Its front bumper prob ably boasts a radio-telephone attachment SOVIET BORDERS OPEN FOR the first time since ttfc revolution, Russia's borders will be opened to motorists. Tours can be made over new highways where all the usual tourist services will be provided. Travelers in their own cars may enter or leave over three In ternational routes. The first Is from Helsingfora, Finland, to Leningrad. The second route Is from Riga through Estonia. The third Is through Poland from Warsaw. Extensive highway Improve ment IS reported, with routes touching ancient cities with his torical associations with the Czaiist rule. case. When a rabbit or a bird seems to be charmed by the alow 'waving motion of a snake. It Is not that he Is hypnotised The thing that makes the rabbit or bird an easy victim of the snake Is fear. Fear paralyzes the ani mals and there they are! 8PEEOI There are some birds that are Indeed very fast fliers. The Can vasback duck can fly from 1.10 to 160 feet In a second. The Green wing Teal and the Blue-wing Teal are not slow either, but the Canvasback Is the fastest. '. ALBINOS Once In a while a pure white or albino bird la found In a family of otherwise dark birds. Among others are white backblrris, whIU robins, white crows, white wild ducks. In the watery world, there has even been a white frog. WE have alb read fiction yarns of ships ashore on uncharted isles, but usually such yarns do not have the comforts of home awaiting them. Take the S'ni, for instance, on the Aleu tian run to Seward, Alaska, that bimipoe to a stop on a surpris ing reef somewhere In the dark ness of night. Dawn . . . field glasses . . . and a tempestuous ride ashore in a spray drenched life boat to safety in a home some unknown had built and aban doned years before. ONE NEVER KNOWS what Incongruity may pop up when a writer deals with fact. The old adage of "stranger than fiction" Is what' makes the re counting of facts so fascinating. Take Harold Gatty, for Immedi ate example. World known for his daring feats in the air above land and sea, it remained for him to have his most thrilling escape In the limpid waters off a south sea isle, when every factor was In his favor and no engine threat ened failure. , HE WANTED TO SEE Howland Island, where the only landing is by surfboat, "surfing" ashore much as do the islanders and visitors of Hawaii off the fa mous American play beach of Walklki. But at Howland the sys tem failed to work, and Gatty came up with sundry quantities of Pacific down his throat. He bought, so the story goes, a ticket home on the biggest liner he could find, since he didn't have an airplane handy for a safe aer ial Journey. SO EXPERIENCE COMES in the most unlikely places. Jack Widmer has just dropped in. Slicked up with a swanky gray hat, ho looks quite different from the bronzed individual who called some months back, following a year on Bora Bora of the Society group. Jack is a "scribbler" as he calls himself, finding his name TAKE CADE rsV mowp-plt LET'S pretend you haven't se lected your new dog yet. We'll talk about the different types and breeds. First the Black and Tan. The toy Black and Tan Is a grand little pet, but not so often seen any more. He Is a quick fellow and ever alert. These dogs have no love for strangers and so make very good watchdogs. (However, you may prefer a dog that loves everyone.) Little Black and Tan Is really a small variety of the Manchester terrier. JAPANESE SPANIEL Here is a lovable dog If there ever was one. He la beautiful to look upon and a playful com panion. And he Is just as gentle as his great loving eyes. The Japanese Spaniel Is one of the oldest known breeds. Author ities believe that long, long ago this dog came from China and was, possibly, originally a mem ber of the same tribe as the Pekingese. Even in the Orient these aro not very common dogs. They are nearly always found In the homes of royalty and the very rich. It la Interesting to note that (hey were Introduced to this country by Commodore Perry. He brought several of them to the President of'the United States as a gift from the Emperor of Japan. Do not confuse this dog with the English Toy 8panlel. FOX-TERRIER The Vox-terrier of the smooth hair variety Is one little dog that la bound to make a grand pet. He Is brave and loyal to his master, and he la a playmate any child would love. Of course Foxy la a noisy dng by nature, but this characteristic may be controlled by proper training when he It young. The history back of this dog Is little known, but It Is believed that he la a mixture of several breeds. He may easily be a dis from time to time in various pub lications. "How's tricks?" I asked. "Swell," he said, "five thousand head of cattle, a thousand acres of my own and half the state for my punchers to roam." It seems the sunlit isles didn't take; he had to come back home to find adventure. And it must have been a success; he dictates to a steno as he rides the plains, and he bought my lunch! HIS DISAPPOINTMENT he said, was the discovery that he couldn't buy a steamer coast wise. "Stick around a day or so and you can," I suggested, but he's ono of those busy fellows now. "You know," he said, "one of tho most delightful remem brances I have is of a moonlight ride down California's waters, with the shore off to the east and the moon path . . . but what's thp use? Maybe it's the hangover of the tropics; maybe it's the mem ory of tiights on still waters when soft music breathed back from the fore-deck. Ah, heck; come on; let's cat!" IT'S BEEN A DAY of visits. Tom Gill, Cosmo's ad venture writer, talked for an hour about the landed areas off to the sunset. He's Just back, too, from voyaging. Some day he'll write a book about it, maybe. But mean while he's just basking In the memory of the West. His next work will take the reader through the redwoods, with action laid around a forest ranger (whereof he speaks from experience ten years in that type of life.) But like his other yarns, it wfll un doubtedly create tho desire to SEE THE WHEELS go round; to hear the metallic voice of some form of transpor tation, carrying the holiday-bound .to beauty spots of the West be they In the hills or along the shore, aboard a palatial ship or on the deck of some tramp freighter In the air, on shore, or tant relative of the bull-terrier and the hound. Tho Fox-terrier was developed to rout out the fox for the benefit of the English hunters. This work he .can do very well, for he Is quick and fearless. WIRE-HAIRED FOX-TERRIER The Wlre-Halr Is very like the smooth terrior In many ways, but his hair Is longer and rougher. Ho Is a rather superior dog In carriage and manners. It would seem he feels a bit more proud of himself than other dogs and only "lets down" In a chum my way with the people to whom he belongs. There was a time when thesi dogs wore not preferred by dog fanciers. They felt they were only a rough-haired variety of the smooth fox-terrier. However, through the years this fellow hat come into great popularity. He is one of the expensive dogs now, and Is preferred by many to the original smooth-haired terrier. (More dogs later.) PREHISTORIC GLASS A PARTY belonging to the , Desert Survey of Egypt came across a large area of tho Libyan Desert covered with great lumps of glass. They found quart zite implements, knives and dag gers and thousands of flakes and chips lying where they were made and abandoned thousands' of years ago. 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