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By R. II. WILKINSON
6, BU Sjmdio. WNU Stnrtoe,
T SA1H FLEMISH was but fifty.
I He was fat and bald and pros
1 parous. . . ,
He was accepted 'in the better
circle, waa. In fact, regarded as
somewhat of a social lion.
jae ,.. attended operas and -'an-
sicales. , . -
Occasionally be took In a stage
tit or went to the morlea. (
In short, Isalh Flemish waa not
unlike forty or fifty million other
Aujwmua nw st (web Uliy, DBlu
; and prosperous.
And, like all of the other forty
or fifty million, Isalh had a weak
ness. It lay In the realm of lit-
erature. .
- ..That la, If blood and thunder
stories can be called literature.
Isalh doted on stories of real be-
- men: men vhn rarrlul Iv.ahnntora
, and bandied them with 1 uncanny
t skill ; men who thought nothing of
running a knife between the ribs
of other men, men who 'lived by
the law of might and cunning.
It is said that all great men mix
blood and thunder reading with the
; classics. " ':'v!;v.;' " , ,-
Mot that Isalh, was great
He waa Uke great men only from
a literary standpoint. And prob
ably like the rest, Isalh'a weakness
was frowned upon by a socially am
bitious spouse.
There was no use explaining to
her that blood and thnnder, to
Isalh, .was meat and drink to a
soul that had been deprived of ad
venture. As far as Mrs. Flemish was con
cerned, It was all a silly and un
called for business.
Hence Isalh was forced to do his
reading In private, and was for
bidden to mention the extent of his
literary achievements In public.
He would, Mrs. Flemish stated,
ruin tbem socially.
He was told and he believed It,
too, that blood and thnnder stories
were for morons and nit-wits.
No one, he was given to under
stand, with an ounce of Intelligence,
would waste time and money buy
ing and reading blood and thunder
magazines.
As a 'result of this Isalh, through
fear of being ridiculed, never men-
Honed his weakness to any of his I
compatriots. -
His opinions and Ideas regard
ing the great open spaces and the
men who rode the range, were con
fined ' to bis thoughts and secret
dreams. - ..; ..'-''
This,, of course, was Before Isalh
met Buck Willard.
He was returning one day from a
business trip to New York and
chanced to glance over the shoul
der of the man occupying the seat
In front of him.
His heart leaped.
'T'hA man VI, nnpnatni t Ti r n
tents of Isaih's favorite blood and
thunder periodical.
Moreover, the particular story
then being perused was written by
none other than the great Buck
Willard, foremost of all blood and
thunder writers.
Isalh stood up and with apolo
gies seated himself beside the
stranger.
Here, he thought, was a kindred
spirit, an understanding soul.
One who would listen to and appre
ciate the prattle that he had for
years longed to pour Into ears
6t one who would know what he
was talking about.
"I noticed," said Isalh by. way
of an opening, "that you are read
ing a story by Buck Willard. A
great writer, Willard, I enjoy his
stuff Immensely."
"Glad to hear It," said the
stranger, 'smiling In friendly fash
Ion. '
"I'm one of his most ardent ad
mirers. In fact, my name Is Wil
lard. Buck Willard. I wrote this
story."
Isaih's Jaw sagged. He gulped.
Reddened. '
"Ton you don't mean It! You're
not Buck Willard, really?".
"None other. And no one en
Joys reading my stuff better than
myself. Great, I calls It -
"Say !" isaih's eyes filled. with ad
miration. By George, this ' is
pleasure. By George I You don't
know bow I've followed your sto
ries. '.This Is an honor I Can't im
agine anything I've Wanted more
, than tn meet a real he-man writer
like yonrself. You're good If ' j
Mr. Willard beamed. -."" '
"Sliirfl I'm o-nnH. nana tn ha haf.
ter some. day.... j 'ft '
"Look here, Mr. Willard," . said
Isalh earnestly, "mind telling ' me
how you get material for stories?
It must be interesting work." 3."'. ? .
, "It isn't," said Mr. Willard. If s '
drudgery. Forever plowing through
encyclopedias and . reading western
novels and going to movies. : If s
udgery, I'll tell a man." - '
,' Isalh was a little' nonplussed. "
He couldn't quite conceive bow
a writer of , blood-andttbunder
stories could call bis work drudg
ery. ' - ' ' s.
Isalh- changed the subject "What
part of the West do you come from,
Mr. Willard? Arizona, I suppose?
Most of your stories are laid down
there. Must be a great country?"
- "Don't corns from the West" Mr.
. . - "iev- i.
,i state 1 1 my
t to. Like It here.
i the West if I was
"But but . ,u must know a lot
of westerne; a two-gun men J
f "Don't know any. ; Don't believe
there are ui.y. Far as I can make
out cowboys are a dirty, Ignorant
lot of nincompoops who cant find
anyuiiiis- better to do." '
Mr. WUiard picked Op his maga
zine and went on reading. - . "
Isalh hAsH-ntui! .
He was bitterly disappointed, sick
to his stomach, disillusioned, t
, He hesitated a minute, made as
If- to speak, changed his mind and
Stood up. He returned to bis seat
and his glance fell on a copy of
the latest Issue of Western TQruis,
his favorite magailne,
He had anticipated an enjoyable
Journey home, with two-gun artists
as his dream companions, , - v
- Sight of the magazine . angered
him. He picked It up, flung It on
the floor and slumped Into ' his
seat .. i. .,e:,:.l:';.&(it-
After all, he thought a man Is
foolish to read that sort of stuff.
Hereafter, he'd devote his time
to better literature. . ' '
Bead the classics, try to improve
himself so that be could talk in
telligently when Shakespeare or
Trollope and Dickens was being dis
cussed by his literary friends. . '
Isalh did not again, see Bucki Wil
lard. The writer left his seat short
ly after Isalh had returned to his
own compartment and disappeared.
At . Bridgeport, I Buck - WUiard
alighted, even though his ticket read
Boston. .- '"' i
"Easier than I thought" be told
himself as he hurried into the tele
graph office. "Old lady ought to be
satisfied." : ' . , . :
He grabbed a blank and scrib
bled the following message; "Mrs.
Letty Flemish, Boston, -Mass. ' Plan
worked fine. Your husband fell for
gag. Is thoroughly disgusted with
Buck Willard and all blood-and-thunder
stories. Will .expect check
by return wire. Signed, Paul
Jones." ' "
Angel Fairy Decorated'
Birds to Match Woods
. When the world was very young
and all the lovely things like trees
and flowers were being made, an an
gel fairy was sent to paint the
birds so that they should be as
beautiful as the woods where they
lived, observes a 4 writer ' In the
Montreal Herald.
So enror thpv nil. wam .Hint e
,ong qneue had to be formed for
the birds to wait their turn.; The
large ones came first, the little ones
stood at the end of the line,
f , Last of all, among the small
blrdC was ' the ' goIdfincV Such a
perky little- attractive fellow, , too.
Chirping Impatiently to attract the
fairy's attention, he hopped . rest
lessly, instead of keeping his place.
"What a lot there are to be paint
ed before my turn comes," he
thought. "I'll take a fly around
while I'm waiting."
Up and down he soared on his
little wings, - revelling In the clear
sunlight and' bright blue sky. Pres
ently he flew down again. What a
lovely world it was? fresh and young
and - glowing with color. He ,was
admiring the just opened flowers
and leafy trees when he suddenly
remembered bis own coat and flew
back to the meadow. But the long
queue of birds had gone. They had
all been decorated and the angel
fairy was just packing up bis paints
and palette.
The poor little goldfinch w'as.
left dowdy and plain In a beauti
ful world. Overcome with sorrow,
he sat weeping on a branch until
the fairy took pity on him.
"You were too late through your
own fault little bird," he said. "My
paints are nearly finished, hut I
will do what I can for you." .
- He still had some scraps of color
left- and set to work on the finch's
coat with these. There was a dab
of crimson for his face, a touch of
blue on bis head , and long wing
feathers, cream and yellow and
soft browns " for his body, " and
what luck a big splash of gold for
each wing. So that is so it Is
said, bow the little goldfinch came
by bis beautiful coat
Egg of Othar Nmtione ..
A favorite article oa the menu of
Peruvians is the egg of the cormo
rant e bird which inhabits the is
lands off the coast of Peru. In Nic
aragua the natives 'dig in the sands
for , alligator, eggs' , whlcbv -contain'
large yolks and are' said to taste
like duck eggs, s Sea bird eggs form
a delicacy for the Eskimos. , ; Appar
ently tne tate or man vanes wiiu
different - countries' for in Mexico
tha ecres of certain soecles of flies
are used in making; a tnd of food
paste considered Dy tne Mexicans
as a great treat-Pathflnder Maga-
D ;y--'i;--y";
, Swd Keep 'Relics 'of Put',
In preserving relics . of . its past
Sweden keeps not only examples of
costumes and handicrafts, but whole
houses, barns and mills from every
part of the country. At Skansen in.
a 70-acre . outdoor mtisenm are build
ings representing almost every de
velopment In Sweden's national life
and giving one a full picture, of life
In former times. To preserve the Il
lusion completely the curators have
furnished the dwellings with kltch
enware, furniture, hanging and
wall pMntlngs typical of each pe
riod. '
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' ' AFTHIt 43
In
of f
Tlllnoia In the last 5 years,
y T") pei sous who uiea oi
heart disease, 88
were over forty
r ve ' years old.
This makes it
clear that , peo
ple over ; forty-1
five years - of
age constitute
the 1 heart.1 dis
ease group. '
The same proe
esseS t hat
cause the hair
. to turn gray, the
skin to becoitie
flabby and wrinkled, also cauBe the
heart to grow old. The heart of
the individual around sitfy years of
age l. probably his, most ' lipo4.52?-lt?S
tant. vital organ. The sudden seiz
ure of pain In the left chest IrradL
ating through the left shoulder down
the arm and on the inner side with
a sense of constriction- as If the
chest were held In a vise, and along
with this a sense of suffocation and
a feeling of Impending death these
are the cardinal symptoms of angina
pectoris. ' , . 4
: Increased muscular effort usually
is the exciting cause f these at
tacks, although sudden changes in
weather may bring them on. The
attacks are many times brought
about ' by spasms of Jhe arteries
which supply the heart muscle with
blood, x The primary cause is -exhaustion
of the heart muscle.
la previous articles, I have dis
cussed heart disease In relation to
various age groups, beginning with
birth and extending to the middle
age - period. ' Deformities- of -the
heart at birth are responsible for
the deaths chargeable to the heart
during the flrtt year of life- Them
bacterial. Infections .begin, to play
an Important part as causes of heart
disease. ' During the second decade
of life, or adolescence, we find a
continuation of these infections, but-
during the first twenty years there
are relatively few deaths from
heart disease' as compared' to the
total span of life. Of every 100 per
sons' who die of heart disease In Illi
nois, only, onS is in the first -decade
of life, and only two are in the
second decade. Between the ages
of twenty and thirty-five, the death
rate Is four, and during the next
ten- years, that Is, thirty-five to
forty-flve. years, we find .approxi
mately six deaths. As we said be
fore, 86 per cent of the deaths from
cardiac - causes are Tn ' the, age
group, past forty-five, - The same
figures would "geherally bold true-f
tor tne otner states.
' This does not mean fnat -infection
of the heart is so much more preva
lent among persons over forty-five
years.:: But It does mean that the
wear and tear on the heart, due to
previous Infections, . has exceeded
the limit compatible with the' or
dinary duties of life, ! "
- A -heart attack should - not lead
one to be pessimistic. It should be
regarded rather as a red signal and
a , request fl-om a tired wornont
heart . muscle for a much needed
rest. . . One should not become un
duly excited, but should consult a
physician to determine just what
the heart can endure, so tltat It
will not be overtaxed, to the point
where It stops beating. Under in
telligent and proper " supervision.
this right way of living may mean
only a slight change In the dally rou
tine, such as avoiding strenuous ex
ercise or reducing the weight, or
abstaining from tobacco, alcohol or
such Irritants. ' - -
It may be that complete rest in
bed is the only solution, but this
is seldom the case. An active, bard
working man or woman of fifty-five
or sixty may actually be damaged
by :; forced -Idleness' In bed.. The
worry and sleeplessness WW offset
the value of sucbrest-'W-'?"
Usually the older- Individual with .
heart disease lias in addition bardv
enlng of the arteries' and often a
deficiency in kidney- function.'. Now
that . medical: T knowledge and an
easier way of living have Increased
our life expectancy to a span of six
ty : years, the first forty years 'are
"proving, the healthy; years,' After
that we are likely to show wear and
tear, and the degenerative diseases,
such -as heart -disease, kidney dis
ease and .cancer hecome real has
ardsl The bldbd vessels of the
brain may become so (diseased and
weakened that they break and ap
oplexy follows. , , .,
Jf'-we have damaged any of our
important' organs in our. younger,
years, we are pretty -apt to reap the
results in our older years w!(A this
organ has reached the limits of its
power of adapting itself to the needs
of the body. . ( v
The heart normally beats 72 times
a minute, with a rest period in be
tween each beat' If it beats more
often, then' the rest period Is cor
respondingly curtailed, anT to keep
going the heart has to call on its
reserved strength. We are born
with just so much reserve force.
The person who uses bis reserve
before forty-five, may expect to
watch his I step afterward. - .
Q. Western Newapaptr Union. . .
ai.il U i 1: -i
the ccntucy ; up to o i ;
slon used during the cl
ot the Nineteenth centu y i
which was most progresuiv,
In fashion, or advanced lu i
The phrase Is pronounced f
sye'kl-first a as In fat, n as i
French word bon, second a i
final, e as in prey. tlterary 1
Avsrat Hwght of Hum s
The average ftdult American i
Is about 6 feet 8 Inches tall, aud t
average adult woman about 8 f
inches. " Records show that o
one man out of 200 is, six eot
more talL May Walsh, who C ;
In Chicago in 1922, was 7 feet ;
Inches in height and was regard 1
as the tallest woman in the worl l
at the time of her death..', ;" - j
. , " .'The Indian Rivr v
" The Indian rlverialong the coa .L
of Florida Is really ah arm of tlia
sea enclosed by a string of lon.r,
narrow islands and a long, narro
noninmila. It stretches along the
.ritD. nf Brevard county, to
north Martin county, a distance of
110 or 115 miles.
w -y 1,000 Mile to LnaJ
. The point In the Pacific that I
farther fromv land than any other
on earth Is near where the one hun
dred and fiftieth meridian meets the
fortieth latitudinal parallel. -, It is v
a thousand miles from any' land,
being equidistant from ; Ban Fran
cisco, Honolulu and the western
tip of 'Alaska. - , , , i
S' Novel Suicide Cure J .
'VTTp to the beginning of the Nine
teenth century, England hanged
anyone found guilty of attempting
suicide.- Thus it tried to stop Its
citizens from taking their Jives
by guaranteeing death to those .
who sought It. Collier's Weekly. , v
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In the days of our forefathers
sausage ; meat, - 'chopped . together
with spices In a big handmade bowl,
waa put In-a. sausage gun which ,
required two men to operate.-! One
man held the sausage casing,: and
the-other pressed the plunger.
' "Oldest University '
At Lima, Peru, may be seen the
Unlversldad Mayor de San Marcos,
oldest university In the western
world, , founded In ,1351 already
more than a half century old when
the first - permanent settlement . In
North America was made. ,'
' Chewing U Up Energy
- Gum chewing consumes five-more
calories per hour- than are neces
sary to provide . energy for the
worker not so exercising his jaws,
according toJDr. Thome M. Carpen
ter of the Carnegie Institute lab-,
oratory. . v
. ' - WHAT HE LIKED
.i'j.'Shv:. ':- - .".' .- ..i.V?'f,ir.!.'i'
- Proud Author So glad yon like
my new play. Was It better than
you expectedt . r
j Frank " Friend No shorter.
Stray" Stories. ' i '
' - Colony Supplies
' BuraJ Druggist (reading customer's
order) Two pints of tincture of
quinine, ' four thermometers, two
dozen temperature charts, six pneu
monia Jackets J.jwty Where's all this
forT m . ,
lokel Them there nudists np In
the woods. Philadelphia Bulletin.
Prom Exam Papers 1
"(Skyscrapers are the' men
who
study the stars."
,"If the British Isles were sub-
inerged 100 fathdms, trade might be
belped in England, as the sandbanks
at the estuaries of the Important
rivers "would . be submerged." .
' VAn antiquarian la one who does
not 'Arlnk .water." . '
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