The West News (West, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, November 13, 1931 Page: 6 of 8
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THE WEST NEWS
POP IS
ENJOYING
IT SO
m m
By FANNIE HURST $
(Q by UcClur* N«vapap«ir 8yofllc*i«.l
»W|*iL t*#rv»o*.>
y T WAS a satisfaction to have
I reached the age of flfiy-lwo and
X able to alTord that trip to Eu-
rope. Hm class, mind you, and
for a family of five. None of thoee
tourist trlpa, either. The Magnus
family, the three boys, Dora and Pop,
mere not going to be tied down to
schedule or belong to any traveling
teiegation with “touriat" labeled all
•rer them.
They departed Meyeravllle one per
feet June morning with what they
tailed an “elastic Itinerary" and. ex-
rapt for the Decennary precaution of
booking passage on one of the largest
linen for outgoing and returning dale,
mid plana to wander as the wind did
blow.
Whit with Dora, whose pretty
brown eyes all her life had been fixed
upon the vision of Paris shops In
which to wander; Steve, her eldest,
who dreamed of becoming a civil en-
gineer and must see the great engi-
neering feats of the Old world: Bob-
ble, the second boy, who was bound
be would collect hotel labels from ten
European metropolises; Leonard, ouly
eleven, who wanted to see the Alps
that had been crossed by Napoleon,
there were plenty of reasons for the
Magnus family to travel ad. lib. Even
Pop, who declared that with every-
thing so new to him it did not matter
much what he saw first, expressed
a great desire to visit Sheffield. Eng-
land, aa early as possible In the
Itinerary. It was not unnatural that
one In the retail hardware business
over a period of twenty-eight years
should harbor a desire to see Shef-
field.
It yea* worth It, all right, that trip.
Pop kept assuring himself every min-
ute end every Inch of the way. Why,
Just to be able to buy a map of the
city off one of those vendors perpet
ually haunting the sight-seeing busses
of practically every town visited, was
worth the price of the trip Itself.
Creat think for a mgn to be able to
afford hi* yonngsters the finest oppor-
tunities to sharpen their young minds.
Ho education like travel! And the
wife! To see her In Pari* was worth
every ache In every bone of his body.
‘ j. Just bloomed, that’s what Dora
e
Great thing, travel. A man got fed
up oa the being soaked part No use
denying that. Certainly I* the limit
the way they tried to put It over on
the Americana. And for his part. Pop
wasn't going te pretend anything
about the galleries! Pine thing for
Dora and the growing boys. Why,
travel made a conversationalist of
one. and Pop did not Intend to have
his boys Ignoramuses, like the embar-
rassed young men on the backs of
magazines, who had not purchased
certain seta of books.
Those advertisements on the backs
of magazines bid directed at Pop
.more than one secret Jibe Tou can-
not taach aa old horse new tricks, or
endouhtedly he, it his time of life,
would have set about to correct his
own deficiencies. Well, thank God,
Dora, sweet one. did not seem to
• mind his social short comings. But
the boys were going to have their
chance. Galleries might not be the
place for a man of fifty with cal-
louses and a bark of the neck that
seemed to be the nesting place of
cricks hut It was a pleasure Just to
loaf around tha streets and hotel lob-
bies waiting, white Dora and the boys
did the galleries or Napoleon's tomb
or that of the Unknown Soldier
* Something to remember for a life-
time Something worth hsving saved
up far during a lifetime.
There were, of coarse, minor catae-
troph e*. Tha second month out.
Steva developed a tendon In bis left
heal which made It difficult for him
ts walk tha miles iff galleries, and
half tha time ba napped In the hotel,
while Dora and the ether hoys made
the rounds.
Then. too. as luck would have It,
Marti*. Pop's most valued employee
at twenty yean' standing, fell from a
ladder and broke ble hip. end that
left the store practically la the hands
of young Ifowroe, a salesman of com-
paratively recent standing, la whom
Pop placed no groat confidence.
But na tha principle that this was
probably tha trip of a lifetime. Pop's
■ad Dora's lifetime at least, and cer-
tainly one which the hoyz could not
hope to repeat for many a year to
come, Pop wrote a fifty-page letter
of Instructions to Monroe, and pro-
ceeded to discipline himself te “for
gut business,"
. Vienna waa a fine town! Except
for tha fact that no one seemed ever
to have heard of “Wlennerwnrst !* It
•was a treat to ha able to alt aut In
front of a cafe and for a few pfeanlg
drink aa fine a rises of boar aa had
ever been browed hack home ta tha
wood old day* And Pop had ,-er-
- sit In the Hofbra* tou*.
Dura aad tha boys saw the
tt you were no more
camaraderio among theaa seemingly
leisurely people.
Now with Italy—oh, fine, and all
that—It waa nevertheless different.
To begin with, German, especially aft*
er you had been In the hardware bual-
nem In Meyeravllle all three years,
waa something you hud picked up
from customers who lived In a part of
town vulgarly known aa “Saurkraut
Patch.” One felt at home with the
Germans, because there were so many
of them In Meyeravllle. Hut the
Eyetailans certainly were hard nut*
to crack. No getting next to those
fellows. Fine for Dora and the boys.
Steve hud a chance to see some of the
big things Mussolini was planning In
an engineering way. and Home and
Florence certainly were filled with
mighty old things. But funny, Just
next to Impossible to get a decent
UNh of spaghetti In Italy.
Watt, it was alt part of the phi-
losophy of “live and learn." There
was the whole thing in a nutshell.
Live and learn. Dora was living this
trip! To see her eyes shine over the
blue crepe dress from Pert* testified
to that. Boy* were too young to real-
ize It. but every single day was stor-
ing up In thoae young minds Impres-
sions of a lifetime. Days might drag
a bit for Pop, Monroe and his 111
equipment for running the bnslnese
might weigh more heavily than Pop
would have liked, but Just the same
the means Justified the end.
It was at the conclusion of the third
month that Pop came to whet, for
him, was a heroic conclusion. After
nil, trip of a lifetime; boys at the
formative period; Dora having the
time of her life—the thing to do,
even If he had to wire his brother In
Wichita for a loan of one thousand
dollars on collateral of Ills building
loan association stock, wts to stick It
out another month I
Two weeks In Paris was mighty lit-
tle for a woman who had looked for-
ward to It all her life. Why, as the
guide he had engaged to do the gal-
leries with them had remarked, “the
Louvre Itself waa worth two week*
of Intensive study.” to say nothing of
the fact that the Eiffel tower and
place* like that were worthy of
Steve's careful consideration. And
history! To stand at the top of the
Champs Elysees and look down that
fine street was to live all over'the
days of Napoleon who had planned
out that street. Yes sir, It might
mean long hour* of sitting around the
street cafes of the town, and Pop
certainly did not rare for the syrupy
drinks or the Inky coffee that seemed
the order of those terraces, but again
on the principle—only come to Eu-
rope once. Pop. as his surprise of the
voyage, sprang his news to the fam-
ily—after the money had been wired
for from Wichita. the original return
passage canceled, and the new lias-
sage for six weeks titer purchased.
It seemed to Dora that If ever her
Influence over her three sons had
reached Its triumphant peak It was
during Pop's release of his tidings one
evening In their narrow hotel sitting
room In the Hotel Griffon In Paris.
Leonard, whose nostalgia for his
swimming hole at Cracks creek back
home had Iieen something with which
his mother had secretly struggled the
summer through, began frankly to
cry, but then Lennle was the baby
and Pop never even noticed. But
Steve, who shonld have known bet-
ter, actually started to be rude to
father and explain that the tendon In
hia heel and all been a hoax to es-
cape one more day of the agony of
traipsing Europe, and except for the
heel of Dora's shoe, dug Into his In-
step. would have wounded his father
for life. The tame way with Bobbir.
There was a dreadful moment when It
seemed that the boy would explode
some of the secret nostalgia with
which Dora had been coping all these
tnpnth* had »he not Jumped quickly
Into the breach, tiding over the dis-
aster of letting Pop know the horrible
truth.
“Why. ded. thst's mighty darling
generous of you. But I declare,
honey. I think I and the boys hive
had about enough . .
“There yon go again, sacrificing
your own desires to what you Imagine
are mine. This time, though, Pv«
foreseen ell thst. This trip ain’t
over, honey—It's Just a tout to begin
for you and the boys—you're not go-
ing to say when you get home thst
you didn't see Europe. See that pack-
age then! Tint's guide books!”
A* Dora afterward explained, tear-
fully. prayerfully, to her three insur-
gent sons. “Stick It out. darlings—
for my sakel If I can make the beet
of it. auroly you young ones can.
Well be home again In eight week*
darlings I know It seems awful long
now—but mother will do her tost to
let you out of the traipsing. Stlrk It
out. darlings, for Pop's sake. Pop It
enjoying It so!”
STAGE COACH
• kff' TALES ,
By E. C. TAYLOR
Golf-Arckery Game e Hit
Bonarro, a game combining golf and
archery, has made a hit ta Canada, tt
is played with bow and arrows Instead
of golf club* over a course similar to
golf. Tha equipment const*t« of one
or more bows, arrow* of various kind*
for target practice, distance shooting
and hunting, quiver, bow cate end
other accessories. The game requires
the technique of target practice and
hunting, and ecorlng ta along the lines
of that In golf.
Rabbit. Spread Bl...
Rabbits have been added to Ne-
vada's fire menace. Fire fighter* who
battled a 3CXmil ■> blaze on Peartne
that much of tha
The Gun Girl
'T'HK Gun Girl, a little more daring,
A perhaps, but not so quick on the
trigger a* the gun glrla of the large
cities today, made her appearance
along the National pike as early as
18.T4. She was accompanied by four
men, and It was only the courageous
conduct of Samuel Luman, stage
conch driver, that this highway girl
and her highwaymen aides were re-
pulsed.
Samuel Luman was one of the best
known and best equipped driver* on
the old National road. He was a
giant In stature, and reputed to be
fearless. He beguu driving a stage
coach In 1832.
On August 12, 1884, his coach waa
waylaid in the mountains between
Pluey Grove and Froatburg, Ud. It
waa night, and Lnman'a tram* almost
ran Into a rude obstruction of logs,
stumps and brush that had been
placed across the road.
The spot waa lonely, and surround
ed by a thick growth of pine trees.
Luman waa unarmed, ami the only
gun among the passengers In the stage
roach was an old brass pistol, which,
however, was not brought Into play.
As the stage coach reached the bar-
rier across the road, one highwayman
stepped forward, seized the bridle and
ordered Luman to descend from his
seat and surrender the mall and
money the coach eatried. Luman re-
futed.
"What do you wantT" he temporized.
“We are traders,” the highwayman
answered.
“I have nothing to trade," said
Luman. “I am satisfied with my trap-
pings and not desirous of exchanging
them."
The highwayman holding the lead
team thereupon called out to one ot
his companions hidden In the trees bj
the roadside to shoot Lnman.
The robber leveled his pistol at the
stage coach driver and pulled the trig-
ger. There was a snap, and Luman
owed his life to the fact that the
night air was damp and the powder
would not explode.
While the highwayman holding the
horses was turning the lead team
around so that It faced the opposite
direction from the stage coach, the
girl called out from the darkness of
the roadside, and ordered another
highwayman tu bind the driver.
One of the robbers mounted part
way to the driver's seat, and wrapped
the relna tightly aronnd Luman's arm.
Luman saw an advantage, and started
violently lashing tha highwayman
with the ends of -the relna The
beaten robber backed off. and as he
did so, tha horse* still attached to
the stage coach leaped forward, broke
from the lead team, and leaped over
the barricade on the road. The conch
came within an ace of capaltlng, but
Luman'a skill with the reini kept It
on It* wheels, and the coach and Its
passengers flew Into Frostburg.
Luman told the authorities that the
bandit* he saw were all heavily dis-
guised. He did not get a took at the
gun girl or two of the highwaymen
with her who had remained In the
dark shadows of the pine tree*. The
robber who held tho bridle* of the
lead team, he said, wore a long dress
like a Mother Hubbard, and the one
who Bound the rein* around his arm
wore a white seat, dark pantaloons
and a black mask. They were never
captured.
When the attack waa Brat made on
the stage coach, Luman told the pas-
sengers of the Impending danger and
asked their svsltdso’e, but they
crouched In their seats and made no
effort to help him or defend them-
selves.
They were all western merchants
traveling east to buy goods, and be-
tween them they carried $00,000 in
cash.
When they reached the Highland
house In Frostburg, of which Georg*
Evans waa proprietor, the grateful
passengers took up a collection with
which to reward the brave stage
coach driver. It was so ludicrously
small, though, Luman said later, that
he Indignantly refused It
“They were a mean set," was his
comment.
Luman gav« up driving stage
coaches in 188B. and for several year*
after that Interested himself In de-
tective work and punishing robber*
of the mall coachee that rattled along
the National road.
Hit life was threatened so frequent-
ly, however, that finally Lucius W.
Stockton, president of the Natlooal
Hoad Stag* company, feared for Lu-
man’s safety. Luman then moved
east of Cumberland, where he con-
tinued hi* activities, and until r»
really lived In Dnlontown, Pa.
<ek H»l. Wnrt.ro N.e.MMT Union.l
Good Advice
President lawrence Lowell of
Harvard, who recently declared
that there le too much of the bar
baric Roman and too little of the
simple Greek spirit In modern
sport, was being r“l«*d by a
group of writer* at the Algonquin.
“In my undergraduate days," a suc-
cessful playwright laid, "I wrote a
great deal of poetry. Ton* of tt got
in the vanity magazines, aad aome
of tt even got in the Century and
Harper's.
“When President towel! bad* me
farewell on my graduation bl* last
t* nut wtftr**
» t irxMi-by nod r(rtnf-ipNw thlv
—yaw to« friend la PM waste
Astrologer's Game at
Old aa Science Itself
Signs of the zodiac hare always
Impressed the general pnblle more
than new developments In the field
of relativity, which, according to
Dr. Dirk Brouwer, of Yale univer-
sity, la one of the reasons why early
astronomers were forced to deal In
hocus pocu* In order to gain enough
money for honest scientific Investi-
gations
Astrologers battening on the public
casting horosco|>ea supposedly based
on aclentlflc astronomical data, he
said, are as old as science Itself.
"Then, as now, the public was will-
ing to give money to some one to
l»eer Into the future, hut was ies* In-
clined to contribute to an earnest,
scholarly study." he continued. "Kep-
ler. one of the famous astronomer*
of the Seventeenth century, was alao
known as an astrologer, bat we hare
strong reason to believe he Imd no
petlence with the role he whs forced
to play In order to obtain fund* for
astronomy.”
Astronomer* of today know that
for the most part, tho so-called a*
trologlcnl table* are entirely Inac-
curate. Doctor Brouwer declared.
And even If they were correct there
never had been any evidence to show
* connection between phenomena In
tha heaven* and the live* of men.
“What has happened," he said, “l*
this: Astrologer* take some specific
Instance or several Instances of
events which have occurred when
the stare were In a certain position
They then generalise on this basis
It would be Just a* Inaccurate to try
to reach a conclusion based on sta-
tistic* by using only a part of the
flguree provided, except that the fig-
ure* used would at least have some
foundation In fact.”
Dog ReveaU Death of Master
How a dog revealed the suicide,
by hanging, of hi* master was told
at the Inquest at Lewisham, Eng
land, over Sidney A. Phlppen. Wil-
liam Shacklcton of East Dulwich,
said that he was walking over waste
ground when a little while dog ran
up and Jumped around him. “I tried
to send It away," he said, "but It
would not go, I said. 'Where la
your master!' and Hie dog began to
hark furlonsly It led me to a man
leaning against a tree uinl hanging
from a nqie."
Are you
RUN DOWN?
lr too find you're catching cold too easily this winter, take
Scott’s Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil. it will build you up,' in-
crease your resistance to colds through its weslth of Vitsmin
A. Doctors also recommend it for to valuable Vitamin D,
and mineral salts, thst promota strong bones sod meth. Es-
pectant mothers us* Scott’s Emulsion. Children grow sturdy
oa it. Us* it every winter diy. The pleasant flavor males
it easy to tale. Scott A Bonne, Bloomfield, N. J. Sales
Representatives, Harold F. Ritchie A Co., lac., New York.
Lamm n mart StoWroH “tensam y «*• »m” mm Snula* at
S-SDW.W w*r I*, CVS* I ■« Sxw Nthem* use Utmlmma
Ki>niM*lmlMCimm*tUI Dmmm
Scott’s Emulsion
or \or n i<,( iv (.00 i.ivir. im
How Disfiguring!
Pimples and blotches will mar tho
beauty of any complexion, no matter
bow lovely it may be otherwise. They
air to unnecessary, too, when regular
daily war of f'atlcarfli S**»p, assisted
by 4'Ntlrara Ointment will keep
(be akin clear and healthy.
■am Me. Otntnwnt He, tad Me. Tstetan Be
Piageteuas: Potter Drwe * Chaoriaal Carp,
Maldon, Mass.
■ ■ -I- I !. f I. II. ...........
lt*s Not Our Slogan
Dr. laador Falk of Hi* linlveralty
of Chicago, who discovered the ht-
fluenae germ, said at a dinner party:
"America carries on more research,
dlftlnlereated and unselfish, than any
other country In the world, yet wa
are continually being abused for our
materialism.
“Yea Europe Is continually de-
claring that our American philos-
ophy Is summed up In the saw;
“‘Don't go gapin' around wonder-
in' why a black hen lays a while egg.
Git the egg.'”
Grandstand Hidsawny
Kinkier - Do you enjoy baseball,
Mr Hukker?
Rakker—No, I only go to get away j
from the bill collectors.
Little Girl
Cried Out
in her sleep
Was Irrltoktj, rsittnss, trass
and bod no appetite. A
aelqkber suggested worms
aad recaaHBMdad Dr. Joyaa's Viralfqa
Afsw sol lag ana totttv Nw lint* girt was •
new child. Only tea often chtldroe, as wo*
as adults, are sofi lotted te draslk treat-
Vonorsblr. Anyway
The oldest firm In England, ao far
as known, has been In the hosiery
business since 1ST).
A widow should to satisfied with *
consolation prise In the matrimonial
lottery.
The Array of Jan!
“You can study chemistry V
“No, this I* my wife’s dressing
Inble."—v'orhenshau (Kaaen).
"A DIME buys 30 to 40
REAL cigarette SMOKES!"
’'/'NET this straight, men—the number
VJ of swell cigarette* you can make
from one package of TARGET it just
nobody’* business but your*—and what
smokes!
"Real professional smokes—a* good a*
ready-made*, is what / mean! TARGET**
a blend of fine Virginia, Burley, and
Turkifih tobaccos, prepared just like the
tailor-made variety. Only difference ta,
you roll ’em either by hand or machine.
"And the paper*—you get free with
each package! Forty of ’em, all nicely
gummed. They roll easier and stay rolled.
Take • real tip from me—switch to
TARGET, the real cigarette tobacco,
today—and aave money!”
AND GET THIS!’
The l ulled Staten Government lax on 20 ciga-
rette* emanate Its 6«. On SO cigarette* you roil
franc Target tobacco the tax la just about If.
And where there ta a slew tax on cigarette*, yon
■are just that saurh more! No wonder yon get
awl itht far a dime!
MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE
Boy ■ package of TARGET right now. Roll IS or 20
cigarette*. If yon don't any they 're the beet smokes yon
ever roiled, return the half-empty park age te your
dealer and b« will return your dime.
BROWN A WILLIAMSON TOBACCO CORP, LOUISV1LI
■*te «.*.*- etr ttevar *ri \
Doesn't Knew It
“My wife taika to herself, does
yours?”
“Yes. but she doesn't realise it—
she thinks I'm listening."
Serious Trouble
Mr. Biliks whs busily engaged
with n spade In the mud beshle bl*
cur when a stranger hailed lilm. troobte Is mss*. Be alert ter tte symptom
"Stuck In (he mod?" be asked. aad tool promptly with Or. Jayne's Vnrad
"Oh. no!” replied Mr Rink* cheer- fug* at H>« *rsl suggnsfloa that wore* n*y
By. "Mr engine died here nnd I’m te present Vow dregglst will teM ym teat
.llvclne a erave fur it * ■*”? *» r*av neighbors ate nting Ml
digging a grave for It pnmd remtoy. Oat* tellte tester DAD.
I JAYNf A SON, PMMalplila.
TO KILL <*«* '• m,LLj0/ •orTL"
Screw Worms \ni*^Vermjfuqe
Your money beck if you don't Ilk*
SETTING MARRIED?
flte* away. AA your dealer. (Adv.) Will you have MUO for expenses
' when you do? l et us band yon that
sum as a wedding gift. Agents want-
ed. Ask for particulars.
HAPPY HONEY MOON AMO.
8t. Petersburg - . • Florida.
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