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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
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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
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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
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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. Many still retained
sharp cutting edges and needle
tike points, which Is taken as evi
dence that prehistoric men and
women used glass knives and
tools of quarts.
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