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YOUTH UNDERSTANDS By Jay Burns G. by UcClur? Newspapri Syndicate. WNU l?rv(M FOUR eyes rather warily watched Mary Boyd as she lay relaxed lr the long garden chair under tin trees *dd the beach country clut la wo. Mary was unaware of their gaze. "That was a swell game of tennis Tony," she said, yawning and stretch fng as she dropped her racquet-to the ground beside her. "VVhaflJ we do now? How about a 8 Willi'/" "By chance are yon speaking tfl me 7* Tony's resonant voice held a hint of amusement. "My dear girl, I'm finished for the day. Such tennis as yours is as much exercise as I need in twenty-Tout hours. A hook, a long cold drink and a comfortable chair in the shade?and that's all I ask of life." Mary laughed Joyously, showing sparkling white teeth, and a little crinkle of wrinkles about her round gray eyes. "Tony, darling," she said, "did 1 kill you? I'm sorry. But you'll he at the dance tonight?" "If 1 can dance mostly with you? and stop early. Remember, I've got to go back to town tomorrow on the seven-fifty-six." Tony I.awton was forty-five; Marj was twentv. His deen brown eves, h trifle grave as the.v watched the lovely girl before him, lighted with a smile as she laughed at him. "Here, give me a hand.** She pulled herself?with his help up from her low choir with a light spring. "Come on. Bob, let's have a swim." Bob Kldridge's blue eyes lighted tc their normal color from the sombei darkness that had veiled them as he listened to the banter between the other two. "tiood." he said. "I'm your man for a swim. Those doubles Just wanned me up for the day." lie grinned at Tony quite without malice. But Tony's eyes became grave again. "And as for tonight?I'll he ready to dance till morning. But say. Law ton, why don't you get into your swim ming suit and come along. Just sun yourself, old man. If you're too tired for a swim. It's a swell day." Tony considered. Then he jumped briskly to his feet. "All right," he said, And the three started across the grass toward the clubhouse that stood out white against tbf? blue sea be yotul. Tony was forty-five; Bob was twen ty two. Both men were In love with Mary and at the moment Mary was in love only with life?a gay and happy and safe life, as she found It at Bradley's bench. Until Bob's coming. Tony bad loved life . t Bradley's as much as Mary had. He had been spending a three weeks' vacation there at the hotel?spending It there because he had met Mary, fallen head over heels in love with her, and followed her to her summer home. He had found It hard to bridge the trap in their ages In the city where they both lived a rather prominent life aociaH.v. His work as an Important lawyer was engrossing. He was Just old enough to find the busy, modern young whirl a little baf fling. Ihit here at Bradley** It hadn't been ao hard. Tony was good looking, always fit physically. Motoring, walking, swim ming, tennis, dancing?all. be realized now. In moderation?had given hltr and Mary a common meeting ground where both were at home. And she had aeemed as unconscious of the twenty five years that separated them as he was. He had said nothing to Mary of Ids feeling for her. He had planned to ask her to marry him Just before he went hack to town and then, whether she accepted or re fused him, he would have the tin spoiled memory of their happy hoi! day together. Hut five days before time for Tony"! vacation to end Hob had appeared a! Bradley's. He was. It seemed, a childhood friend of Mary's, and their cottages adjoined This alone gave Rob an advantage Tony was staying at the hotel and h< and Mary had a common background of only a few months; Hob lived nevi door to Mnry and the two had knowr each other forever. Now. after an hour on the tennli courts?there had been another girl Bob's partner hut she had faded fron the picture to keep another date. Tony suddenly realized that Bob wns In love with M#ry, too. And somethin; In the way Mary looked at Hob?som< exchange of youthful life and under standing?made Tony feel old and on of step. Youth belonged to youth, he argue< to himself?and Mary belonged to Hob He was Just another old fool to bavt dreamed she might care for him. As the thn* walked m-ross the sll very sands after getting Into theii bathing things at the clubhouse. Tonj Lsaid. "Mary. I've decided Td better g< back to town this afternoon. Instead .1 waiting until morning. Ml t>e hette for a bard day If .1 get hack to my ow? apartment tonight and get a goo< rest." "What's got Into you, Tony 7" she asked. "You act a hundred!** "Well, my child,' he said lightly, "so I urn. nearly." And he smiled as gully as he could at the flushed, warm young face beside him. "And now you youngsters run along. I'll sun myself here, and perhaps not wait for you. Hut I'll drop around for I a good by before I go." , "1 was going to ask you to come over , to our place for lunch?both of you. t Hut perhaps you'd rather not?" "Well," Wild Tony, still with an ef fort at lightness, "perhaps I'd better not. I've some things to get together before I go." , Hob looked searchlngly at the older man. Then he put out his hand. ( "If you get away before I see you again, I want to say good by now." ( The two men shook hands. "It's been great knowing you. j I'm?" . "That's ml right," said Tony, look- ! lng smillnglyfltnto Hob's troubled young ( eyes. "You're a good fellow. Hob. All . Mods of 111. k." I And he turned and walked slowly I down the beach. Mary took Hub's hand. "Come on," she said, running Into the breakers. | "Whose funeral was It, anyway? I What on earth were you and Tony talking about?" I Hob didn't answer. } Darned fine fellow Tony was. Hob's pulses raced, as he felt Mary's hand in his. He wasn't afraid of any body else. J He'd win Mary surely, now, Fine man. Tony. r They dove Into the oncoming break { ers, swam hardly for a few minutes, and then floated and paddled along , uncii uiey reached me noar. There they were alone?alone In a ! world of hi tie sky and sparkling water. Mary filing herself down In the sun , shine. Boh sat heside her. Then It happened. t fine of those quick, treacherous storms that sometimes seem to come , out of a brooding summer sky. , It rose behind the two on the float. Mary looking shoreward. Boh looking at Mary. I And before they knew it the float was rocking and jumping with the chopping waves. "Come on." said Mary, "let's swim i In." "We can't," said Boh quietly. "It's too rough?too late!" Blackness and thunder and lightning, | and a rocking, swaying world. And then, out of the gloom, a voice ?Tony's. I "Here, you two. Jump off the float and climb aboard. I don't dare bring It any closer." lie maneuvered his commandeered | I motor boat as near them as he could. ; Boh Jumped In the water first. Mhry ; followed him. And that was all Mary j knew. That afternoon she and Boh were j sitting on the terrace of her cottage that overlooked the sea?a sea again I sparkling and calm under a blue sky. ( "But I can't see why Tony didn't come to say good-by," she said. I "He told us he would." She was still a little wan and weak 1 from her morning's experience. For a moment Boh was silent. Then: "Mary," lie said, "he told , ' me not to tell you, but I've got to. j You passed out, you know, when you i struck the water?and I couldn't get j you In, so I climbed In his boat and , hold It while he went In for you. And when he was getting hack in the boat with you he gave his leg an awful whack against the side of the boat. Tie's laid up at the hotel?can't go , hack to town for a couple of days." Mary Jumped to her feet. "I must go to him?this minute, , Boh." Bob took her roughly by the shoul ? dors. M\Vhy, Mary? Why?" I Mary stood there pale and shaking 4 ?utterly lovely and desirable In Bob's I eyes. Suddenly she smiled at him, a I brave smile. "Bob," she whispered. "I love him. , But he'll never know?I Just realized myself." j Boh tufned miserable eyes awnv from Mary. He patted her shoulder gently. ?'Mary, I'll take yon over?If you're sure. But tell him, Mary. He's crazy about you. too. Guess he thought he was too old?hut that doesn't matter, does it?" j Mary caught a glimpse of Bob's mis ^ ery. "Oh, Boh," she said, "I'm sorry. Take me to Tony." I Pewter Sacrificed to Make Patriot Bullet* 1 Pewter vessels, the use of which Is t being extensively revive*?, have an In i terestlng historical background. Pew ter sets of Importance, which were In ? the homes of the American Colonists, were melted during the War of the i American Revolution to make patriot bullets. s The "lend" statue of George 111. ; which formerly stood In fowling ? Green, New York city, seems to have been made of coarse commercial pew f ter, writes John W. Harrington, in the American Druggist. It was torn from 1 Its pedestal by the Sons of IJberty and sent to Connecticut for conversion 9 into ammunition. The rarity of Co lonial pewter Is largely due to Its hnv Ing served the cause of lnde|iendcnce. r Many silver services were incite*! down f to help pay the expense* of the rev? > lution In the form of currency, f In Colonial times sideboards or P dressers were fitted out with "gar . 1 nlshes" or sets of pewter consisting i ?f polished plates plated on edge, pots, j measures, cups and tankards. i * - ? ' ? ! Howe About: German Husbands Value of Routine Lack of Intelligence By ED HOWE GHUMANS ore more ashamed than say other men if they do not boss their wives. Americans and French men rarely expect to. but Germans al ways vigorously attempt to. Bismarck was one of the greatest of statesmen, and devoted his life to the business, but was more determined to boss his wife than to boss Hurope. Before their marriage he began train lug her; he had her complete subtnls slon In writing before the ceremony, and ruled at home as long as he lived. The diplomacy he exercised in manag ing his mother in law, also was as con stunt and successful as his manage ment of the French. 11 is biographers say his wife Johanna worshiped him. She gave that Impression as part of her training; probably she despised hi in. The weakness of American men. now the wonder of International politics, may be due to their being universally henpecked; our easy submission due to long training by our wives and daughters. The fact that the Germans control their women at least has not Injured rhom no Bnldlora Thp honnooked French who attacked the Germans In 1870 were overcome In a few weeks; perhaps this was the best exhibition of soldiering since Napoleon and Fred erick. Possibly historians of the fu ture ?will say a still better exhibition of soldiering was given by the Ger mans in the World war, when they al most whipped all the other men in the world; might have done so had not the German women been temporarily out i of control and clamored for peace. . i ? ? ? . When the panic of 1S37 occurred the j people regarded it as a passing Jolt and expected the same prompt recov- [ cry that followed the panic in 1810. t But by 1830 It was evident that con- \ valescence was going to be slow. So ltaiph Waldo Emerson, the wisest Americans then, was appealed to. In ? series of talks on "Human Life" he said ridiculous tilings. "There is hope in extravagance; there is pone in rou tine," Emerson said. Later Emerson completely reversed himself. . . . The real hope in liurnah life is In rou tine; in patiently learning the lessons of experience, and patiently following them. The ruts, the beaten paths, have been followed by a vast multi tude, and for a good reason. * ? ? In previous centuries of world his tory there have been enormous ex hibitions of human sensuality, cruelty, religious fanaticism, famine, mean- ' ness, rioting, destruction, poverty, | plagues. In all these respects the an cients established records I do not believe moderns will ever equal. Fu ture historians probably will not have another horror like the Inquisition to make their writing Interesting; nor will they have another war lasting thirty years, a Black Blague sweeping unhindered over the world, a reign of terror like that In Frimce, a wom an as noted, powerful and bad as Cath erine the Great, a king as magnificent and cruel as I.ouis XIV, But It remained for the present age to set a high water mark in lack of intelligence. We have more food and easier produce It than any other race, and more comforts, but 1 look for future historians to record that from 1020 to 1033 mankind at last acknowledged its entire lack of in telligence; every citizen put a fool's cap on his head and widely proclaimed t himself an ass. ? ? . A man of eighty-seven who has par- | tlcipated In a good deal of honorable j activity In the world, writes: *'1/ I were nn old gentleman?that Is, If 1 were a hundred and forty or so In stead of only a little over eighty-seven ?I should be filled with uncontrol lable Joy and merriment. I'd be cack ling loudly and harsly with a sense of triumph and vindication. As I sat In my chimney corner eating my gruel I'd stop'often and knock loudly with my siK?on and call all the people to observe with me the sad remains of ; the Young Man's empire that came to Its clamorous end with the smash of the sacred Hull market in 1929. Seen j In retrospect that empire seems to j have been run by. children. And I 1 could tell great and resounding tales : of what Its Juvenile bosses did first , to me nnd then to the country in gen eral. In those gay days forty-five was j the age of senility, and nothing mat- j tered but pep, whatever that jnay be; | 1 have never met anyone who knew. And what fills me with mingled feel ings of Joy and distress these days is the manner in which these amateurs in life took their beatings in the Days of Judgment. They collapsed in helpless ness und flight. On the downward way they put tip no decent resistance at all and many of them Jumped froui windows.** ? ? ? From the necessity of loving, none are exempt; and none exempt from the old necessity of handling love* badly. ? ? ? No mau can handle life to best ad vantage until he becomes a conserve live. 'Everyone is born a radical, and hns to be spanked, whipped and yelled at until be ; learns the necessity of conservatism. If he never learns It he Is locked up or hanged. The best evi dence that a man has achieved a lit tie common sense is that he Is referred ' lo' as an old fogy by fools. A itM. DndiMtc -wtoj / WORDS OF LOVE I COME EASY NOW Modern Youth Writes Its Onn Ardent Missives. It Is hardly surprising that Gen eral Pershing's men fighting in France should have used letters that were not strictly of their own com position. That is what the fathers' of many of them had done In their own youth. In the' year 1880 there was copy righted in the United States a large volume entitled "Gaskell's Compen dium of Forms.** It was Just that. aiming to tell anybody bow to do I anything that could be put on paper, j A section of the work Is devoted to I letters of love and courtship. The | forms presented would scarcely be 1 called ardent by the sob-sister of to- I day assigned to cover divorce pro- I ceedlngs. "Bear Sir" is frequently used in the salutation of a love let- t ter from a lady. A gentleman who j declares his love begins right off with t "Miss Carrie White." There Is not , even "To" or "For" in front of the , "Miss." i There comes to mind a scene In the I back room of a tavern in a college I town. At the table is seated a cal- t low freshman, who has decided that 1 the light of his young life must be < addressed in verse. Opposite him Is id upper class editor of the college 1 magazine. He Is reputed to be able I to find words that thyme. For a I l>riee tiled at three mugs of ale he < turns out a poem. The freshmaD I thrills at being a party to a literary ] tourtship. I Those days are vanishing. Boys ' ind girls are not as far removed From one another as they used to be 4nd parents, who have found them selves obliged to give In on "dates"? < single, double and blind, are much < ?elieved when their offspring devote s lours to writing letters. To be sure t the stamps cost something, but the ixpense is trilling when compared t irlth some of the outlays that youth s 'X poets. : Those who rummage in the attics 1 50 years from now will And love let. :era tbat are really worthy of the name. Every postman lugs them laily In his pack. The young people have much to talk over and the su [>erlor training given by the modem school encourages real setf-expres lion.?Boston Globe. The Back Seat Driver Mr. G. bought a new sedan after Irivlng a coupe. He was In the habit >f taking his mother along. After she had taken her place in the back seat of the new car she said: "Now you will have to drjve care ully because I'm back here now vhere I can't see the road good." iVNU?4 37?33 PAINTING REVIVAL GRIPS NATION I "SHERWIN-WILLIAMS FOR ME" IS SLOGAN a I NEWS PHOTO FLASHES FROM EVERY WALK OF LIFE H RA. BRISTLE WITH INTEREST. Unpainted?neglected for years?America has finally awakened to the need of paint In every section of the country?in every walk of life?painting is the order of this new day. ^3(6"* And Sherwin-Williams Paints,famous for quality and low cost, lead the way in the nation's biggest painting w? do our past . revival. Renovize?protect?save?with Sherwin Williams quality paint this Fall. 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