1FLOYD GIBBONS
Adventurers' Club
“The Ghost of the Piano”
By FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter.
yen: know, boys ami girls, every time I make up my mind that
there are no such things as ghosts, somebody comes along
with a story that makes me a bit doubtful.
Now it's Richard Bouker who throws the monkey wrench
into my supernatural musings. Let’s go along with Dick and see
w hat happened to him that wet December night in 1932.
Dick was a member of the CCC—Civilian Conservation corps, camp
2t»7, located at Speedwell, Tenn., when he had the greatest thrill of his
life. He had been in town, 15 miles from camp, and had missed the camp
truck and was faced with the necessity of walking the long, weary miles
back to camp.
Now Dick says that taking a long hike with the stiff shoes
the government issues to the workers is not so hot. But he had
limped along about five miles of his way before things began to
get se< ious. It was long after sundown and he was hungry, tired
and sleepy and the dreary prospect of ten long, weary miles over
the doping hills of northeastern Tennessee was pretty discourag
ing.
Then It began to rain. Hig drops fell at ISrat, hut before Dick hnd
gone another half mile It came down In sheets. Tie looked around him
for shelter. So friendly lights glimmered through the rain in this deso
late stretch of country, hut a little off the road Dick stumbled onto a de
serted cabin and, pushing upon the sagging door, he went Inside.
The Storm Almost Came In With Dick.
Dick says he Just made the cahln In time because as he stepped In
side, the storm broke In all Its fury. A crash of thunder startled him
with it* ear-splitting suddenness and the Hash of lightning that followed
seemed to come right Into the dust ridden cahln after him.
6ut, at least, he had shelter and he started to look around
him as well ae he could. The cabin, though obviously deserted
for years, still held some signs of human habitation. As he groped
through the darkness, he bumped Into a large piece of furniture
that seemed to take up most of the room. He explored It with
hie hands and to hia surprise found it to be—of all things—a
grand pianol
In the Hashes of lightning, Dick could see that the Instrument was
in a sorry condition. The Ivory tops of the keys had long since disap
peared, but otherwise It stood there like a silent sentinel guarding the
iplrlt of that departed artistic soul who had brought such a tine Instru
ment into this desolate country.
A New Kind of Canopy for the Weary Traveler.
Hut Dick was not In a mood to conjecture about what happened to
the owner of the piano. His Ideas were more practical. The roof was
leaking steadily and tlft> wide spread of the grand piano made an excel
lent cover for his tired body. He climbed under It and, exhausted as he
was, was soon fast asleep.
Sleep! What a panacea for all our Ills! Outside the storm
howled, the rain beat a ceaseless tattoo against the grimy win
dow panes, the wind shrieked through the trees and the thunder
and lighting roared and flashed, as though furious at the loss of
their human victim.
How long Dick slept he does not know, but lie does know that the
thing that awakened him was not a part of the storm. He opened his
Strange, Eerie Mualc Came From the Old Piano.
eyes slowly to the sound of strange, eerie music coming from the old
piano!
Maybe If Was Pretty—but He Wasn’t in the Mood.
Well, there’s nothing that should frighten anyone In the sound of a
piano and yet, ns he lay there trying to pierce the darkness with his eyes,
Dick says he could feel the hair on the back of his neck actually rise In
horror. At first he thought he was dreaming, but the music—if you could
call It that—was real.
For the life of him, Dick can’t explain why he knew no liv
ing person was before that keyboard. But he says he did know
It. He wanted to reach out and feel the feet that should be near
the pedals. But he was afraid of what he might not find!
He lay there breathlessly Instead—waiting for a lightning flash to
prove—what he already knew. The lightning (lash came and Dick’s worst
fears were realized.
He was alone in the room.
Curiosity Conquers Over Ghostly Fear.
And yet the music went on. It sounded, Dick says, as though a little
child wpre practicing. Curiosity overcame his fear. He drew it lone
match out of his pocket and struck It. As the tiny flame lit up the dim
shadows the music suddenly ceased. The match flickered so in itis shak
ing hands that It was hard to see but, even in that poor light, he saw
Something that made him drop the match In sudden terror.
A pair of eyes—a few feet from his face—stared fixedly at
him!
Wham! Dick went out that rickety door like a bat out of
Hades! He forgot all about his sore feet and the rain and the
storm and everything. All he wanted was camp and the company
of something human.
Came the morning and a group of CCO workers to Investigate the
Ghost of the I’iano. They were hard boiled In the bright sunshine and,
by golly, they brought the ghost right back with them!
Yes. sir, that ghost me-owed when they found her so they brought
her back to camp and made her the mascot and you Just ought to see that
ghost punish a dish of cream.
And that, boys and girls, Is the story of how the “Ghost of the Piuno”
became another version of the “Kitten on the Keys."
©—WNU Service.
Graham Bread Named for
Lecturer on Temperance
Graham bread received its name
from Sylvester Graham (1794-1S51),
an American lecturer on temper
ance and food reform. lie was
born at Suflield, Conn. After study
ing at Amherst for a time lie en
tered the Presbyterian ministry in
3826. He maintained that a vegeta
ble diet was Incompatible with a de
sire for stimulants, and as part of
his temperance and food reform
campaign he not only advocated
total abstinence from meat but also
recommended the eating of bread
made of unsifted or uubolted wheat
flour; that is, flour in which all the
wheat kernel except the rusk is
used. In “A Defense of the Gra
llam System of Uving,” published
in 183T>, Graham urote:
“Of wheat bread, there are three
varieties; In the first, all the bran
is separated ; In the second, only the
coarse, and, in the third, none at
all. The bread made of flour from
which all the bran lias been sep
arated Is that most commonly used,
but bread made of flour from which
none of the bran has been separat
ed Is the most wholesome.”
Graham is often referred to as
the "inventor” or “Introducer” of
Graham bread. He was neither, for
whole-wheat bread was the first
wheat bread made. Graham's uame
became associated with it because
he Included the article In his die
tary regimen, which at one time had
many thousands of adherents
throughout the United States. The
system was called Graham and its
adherents Grahamites. — Indianap
olis News.
I BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
______
If Five Dictators Unite
England Is Feverish
Wealth for a Good Girl
Gen. Mitchell Finds Hest
Home hlnts%tlint Mussolini and
Hitler have arranged a protective
Arthur llrlulmnr
treaty with Aus
tria, Poland and
Hungary. Five
countries under
dictators, united
against England
and France, still
experim enting
with the o 1 d
“de moera cy,’’
would be inter
esting.
One dictator,
Stalin, supposed
to have an un
derstanding with
France, might
offset the other
combination.
Also, Hitler will remember that In
1914 Germany thought she had
Ituiy In a “triple alliance”—Italy
Auatria-Gerrnany, hut Italy did not
stay. Had she stayed, the war
might have ended otherwise. That
Increases Mussolini's bitterness,
with England trying to cause Italy's
defeat hy barbarous Ethiopia.
Mr. Eden, young foreign secre
tary, tells England modern condi
tions are ‘dreadfully” like condi
tions before 1914. England must
arm herself to the teeth and have,
for final objective, "a world wide
system of collective security which
embraces all nations In an author
ity which Is unchallenged and un
challengeable."
That might he done hy two or
three countries closely united, al
though the airplane makes every
thing in war uncertain. It might
destroy a capital city and an alli
ance in one morning, as a pistol
destroys the strongest man.
Countess Harhara Hutton Haug
wltzlteventlow bus a new baby hoy
weighing seven and a half pounds,
and twenty million dollars; that in
gold at the present price would
weigh more than thirty thousand
pounds. Ask Itarhara Hutton Ilaug
witz-Iteventlow, as she holds that
small baby, Its eyes not focused,
one small hand holding her finger,
whether she would rather have the
baby or the $”0,000,000, and she will
think your question silly. She
would not take a million millions
for the baby.
This proves that any good young
woman who marries a kind young
man may be richer thuu uny “live
and ten” heiress.
Gen. William E. Mitchell was
buried in the family plot In Mil
waukee, not In Arlington cemetery.
Having fought all Ids life against
the enemies of his country and the
stupidity of his superiors, he want
ed peace at last.
lie lies besldfe Ids father, a United
States senator from Wisconsin.
General Mitchell has gone wher
ever patriotic, brave men go; some
that opposed him will not follow
ldm there.
At Greenwood Lake, N. Y„ a mail
carrying rocket went 2,000 feet
from New York to New Jersey over
Greenwood lake, while spectators
smiled in derision.
Other spectators smiled when
Fulton tried his ilrst steamboat.
In Madison, Wls., death masks of
Indians, more than 3,000 years old,
found In burlul grounds, lead back
to savages of the Eskimo type that
hunted mammoths near the beauti
ful Wisconsin lakes 15,000 years
ago. Those ancient savages, In
stead of burying the dead, cleaned
the skeletons neatly, covered the
skulls with lifelike masks of clay,
kept their relatives with them for
years.
The human race has done queer
things always. Russia has Lenin,
embalmed, exhibited In the grenl
Red square of Moscow.
The world becomes gradually
democratic. In King George's fu
neral procession everybody walked.
At Ids father’s funeral, the great
nil went on horseback, Including
King George’s cousin, the former
kaiser, on a prancing white horse,
Now King Edward VIII orders
simpler uniforms, less fancy dress
ing In llucklnghnm palace.
President Lewis, fifty, head of the
miners’ union, plenty of cash on
hand, offers William Green, Ameri
can Federation of Labor head, $f>00,
000 for a campaign to organize
500,000 men In the steel industry
Mr. Green, a long-time union man
lias not accepted the offer. He
knows how easy it Is for one man
to become a tall for the other man’s
kite.
Mrs. Watson Davis, for Science
Service, says the world needs just
now: A remedy for the two great
est “killers of men,” cuncer and or
ganlc heart disease; a substitute
for power, developed In primitive
fashion from oil, coal, etc. Thai
means harnessing the sun to on<
end of the scale, the atom at tin
other.
C Kin* Feature* Syndicate, Ino.
WNU Service.
Spring Hat Bright Spot on Horizon
Bv CHERIE NICHOLAS
DUY yourself a new spring hat
" and turn the dirge of winter
Into a joyous spring song. Bright
spots on the horizon are the fash
ion “firsts” now showing in mil
linery previews. Which is not fig
uratively speaking hut literally
true, for the new iuits are going
in for color in a big way.
It is to smile at the wee size of
many of them. Not much larger than
your hand, are early arrivals from
Paris. Oo hat hunting and prove
it for yourself. The less the hat
tlie more the cldc, so designers are
telling us. Ilow to anchor these
diminutive yet eye-filling hits of
millinery on the head at just the
most fetching tilt, and tilt, aye.
that’s the trick. Ask your mil
liner. It takes experience to ac
quire tlie knack, we admit.
But cheer up. Come veils, to the
rescue! They tone up a hat no
matter how diminutive and make
it look “fit." Veils in countless
number adorn tlie new hats. It is
a frolicsome mood they are In, fly
ing every which way, sometimes
pretending they are veils when
they are really trimming. They
mnke pretty headgear look pret
tier to the point of fascination.
Flowers, too! Which is important
news. To be sure there have been
rumors and rumors of flowers, hut
this time milliners declare they
are a sure thing. It is not
only that “flowers Is flowers" on
the new hats, but really and
truly news about them is that
novel positioning — perky bouquets
dropped atop crowns or slanted
athwart forehead lines at dashing
incline or posing on bandeaux or
standing at attention at the front,
thus the new flower treatments re
peat and repeat.
While we started out telling ol
the tininess of some of the new
hats, please do not conclude that
every new spring model has been
reduced to postage stamp size
On the contrary some of the smart
est numbers on the style program
have brims. Shallow-crowned sail
ors are all the go, especially the
Breton types which arc shown in
felt or stitched silk, and the latest
swagger note is the Breton made
of gay patent leather. Then, too,
the hat with a visor made of silk,
quilted or stitched, Is very popular
Young girls are charmed with the
idea of the new “Rose of the
Ranch” hat with its wide round
rolled-up brim and that which cap
tures fancy most of all, its chin
strap of fancy cord. Also in thfs
class Is the new Argentine type
which likewise boasts a ehln strap.
As to the new swagger soft man
nish felts, their vogue is assured.
We are following up our state
nient about hats of Liliputian size
by including two such in the ac
companying illustration. To the
right in group is a Paris model
which goes to verify this new trend.
It is a toque of dotted grosgraln
trimmed at the back with a feather
and a veil which is not a veil. How
ever, this bow of open mesh con
veys an important message of veil
ing tied in hows and we might add
matching hows at the throat are
cited in fashion reports. To the
left Is another wee toque as fashion
decrees for spring. A flange of ge
raniums and the inevitable little
veil do the trimming act.
The off-the-face tint above pro
claims the existing flair of gay
color. It is a bright Chinese red
straw. Band and bow are of black
belting ribbon. The print gown is
black and white.
A very smart shallow navy straw
Breton concludes the group. The
bouquet atop the crown and the
inset about llie headline are made
of multi-colored leather.
© Western Newspaper Union.
DINNER JACKET
By CHLRIE NICHOLAS
Wear a dinner jacket with your
slim-sklrted formal frock if you
would look up-to-the-instnnt good
style. White cotton pique Is con
1 sldered ever so smart fqr the dtn
: ner Jacket. Indeed, ttiese white
washable jackets are proving quite
! the fad of the immediate moment.
A white cotton pique dinner Jacket,
flared at the hips, adds a tailored
note to a printed silk crepe frock
as here shown. The dress has
splashy flowers of red and blue on
white with n decolletage cut high
in front and low in back.
Blouse* Feminise Suit*
Soft blouses, frilly scarfs and
other extremely feminine looking
accessories are important with the
new strictly tailored suits. If you
have chosen a severe suit of men's
wear flannel or worsted, do dress
it up with a ruffled blouse, chiffon
scarf and gay boutonniere of loose,
feathery flowers.
CHINESE MODE SEEN
IN PARIS FASHIONS
China put an oriental sign on
the new spring mode shown In tfl.'KJ
fashion displays.
Chinese lacquer red appeared In
trimmings, Chinese motifs marked
belt buckles and Chinese figures
were stamped on prints.
Many black afternoon frocks
were designed along simple, high
necked lines, suggestive of oriental
suavity. Some black dinner frocks
were topped by knee-length coats of
flower printed black cire silk, whose
cut showed Chinese inspiration.
A slender silhouette, high neck
line and accented shoulderline,
marked by big topped sleeves gath
ered into the armhole, distinguish
the Paris profile shown so far.
Waists are normal and busts are
definitely outlined.
Smartest Black Costumes
Touched With Vivid Colors
Bright touches either as trim
mlng or in the way of accessories
are dramatizing the season’s smart
est black costumes. Perhaps It will
be embroidery done in vivid colored
yarn or a row of striking red hut
tons or inset of red patent leather.
As to accessories the most striking
Item is tlie new gloves which are
being shown in high colors Includ
Ing red, green, dubonnet and the
natural chamois shade is especially
sponsored by smart Parisiennes
New Trend Is Exhibited
in Double-Date Fashions
A simple gown with a broken
sleeve line and a draped scarf which
can be arranged to cover a low-cut
hack expresses the latest trend In
double-date fashions. It is becom
ing more popular than the sleeve
ingless gown and coatee.
This dress is cozy for dlnnei
when the scarf Is looped at the
neck and hangs behind. For danc
ing the scarf Is rearranged and
draped about the waist to reveal
die low-cut back.
Little Gray La mb
Gray Is an extremely smart fui
this year. Gray Persian lamb, gray
kll and gray caracul lamb have
been used in many of the most ele
gant coats.
A Matter of
Business
By DAPHNE A. McVICKER
© McClure Newspaper Syndicate.
WNU Service.
«1ITUEW," Lenore panted as
VV tier high heels came to rest
from clattering down the stairs. She
smiled up at the tail hroad shoul
dered youth who was leaning impa
tiently against the letters. Em
ployees' Entrance. “Wotta life. If
I didn’t have a new red coat to
look forward to and that house
party Saturday night, I think I’d try
out our new front fourth story win
dow.”
She pushed a coaxing hand
against the man's shoulder. “I know
you hate window shopping, Garyj
Itut just one more look at iheeoat?’^
It was red. The deep, soft erim->
son of the Inside of a flame In i
burning log. It had a tall upstand
ing collar of gray fur that lappet
back into a series of attractive
curves. Gary could see the effec
of a small head nestled into tha
fur. A head as sleek and black
as the wing of a bird. The very
bead, in fact, that was pressing
its forehead against the pane.
“I can just do it Saturday with
my discount,” Lenore gloated. “And
then you’ll have the most heu-cheous
girl at the house party, my lad.”
“I always have the most beu
cheous girl anywhere,” Gary said
absently. Lenore’s lips parted and
she looked up at him. Was he—
was he at last going to say words
that she had waited overlong to
hear?
“What a Job! Word bad gone out
about our big sale and I had to in
terview the prize class graduated
from the imbecile asylum. Who
would be an employment manager?
I asked one old man the regular
question: Mow far did you go in
school? And he said ‘Five miles.’”
Gary’s laugh was troubled. "But
doesn’t it get you?” he asked. “Don’t
yon fall for their hard luck stories?”
She laughed. “Old Sir Soft
Heart,” she said. "I honestly be
lieve you worry about my willing
ness to turn people down for Jobs,
Gary. As if I could help it. It’s
the store’s doing, not mine.”
Gary thought for a long time.
Then he reached for the telephone
and presently his Cousin Anne was
answering. “I think it would be
great sport, Gary. Of course I'll
'try it for you.”
On Friday evening two people,
miles apart across the city, sat writ
ing letters. One chewed on the
stem of a pipe and scowled as he
set down sentences. One ruffled
sleek black hair into criss-cross
points and wiped angrily at a tear
blotch or two that fell.
Gary got his mail early at his
office. He looked unbelievingly at
the letter from Lenore. So sorry.
Some unexpected visitors from out
of town. She must spend the week
end with them. She wouldn’t be
able to go to the house party.
Then the telephone rang. Anne’s
voice walled in his ear.
“Such a mess!” she scolded.
“Mother’s furious. You see I gave
the right address, r couldn’t think
of any other. T never can think
tilings up offhand.”
Gary raced down the steps four
at a time. The mall wouldn’t have
been delivered yet at Lenore’s
apartment. He could wait outside
for the letter carrier. And he had
an errand to do first.
He was carrying a large paste
board box when he encountered
Lenore’s postman and assured him
that he would carry up Lenore’s
mall. The postman was glad to
avoid a climb up steep steps. He
handed it to Gary, and Gary with a
sigh of relief was tearing up a let
ter—
“May I ask,” an ley voice said, “If
you know that that’s a penitentiary
offense?”
“Oh, hello, Lenore,” he stam
mered. And then feebly, "It wasn’t
a nice letter. You wouldn’t want
that old letter.”
“Give me my letter.”
“No," he said as they entered the
hall. “B—hut—” He ripped at
the strings of the box and took out
something red as the embers of
a dying lire, edged by the gray of
its ashes.
“My coat—”
“Oh, Lenore, darling! I’ve been
wondering what on eurth to tell you
—and I have an inspiration. I’ll tell
you the truth. You remember the
blond nitwit who Interviewed you
for a job yesterday? The one with
the hard luck story. She was my
Cousin Anne—and 1 thought if you
turned her down after that story,
you had a heart of flint and 1
couldn’t take you to the house party
—and marry you—and everything.
And you did turn her down and I
wrote to break the date.”
“You did—”
“But (lien Anne (old me you sent
a big basket and a check out to
her bouse. My aunt was furious.
And you went without the coat.
And I’m Sir Soft Head, darling, not
Soft Heart, because I just began to
realize that softness in business
with your employer’s money and
softness outside are two entirely
different tilings. Button the coat,
will you. dear?"
Lenore's dimples were enchant
ing. After all, lie had never known
Hint almost all tier money went for
charity. Hence no coat for so
long. She slipped into the red en
chantment.
“Ulse, Sir Soft Heart," she said.
“Bise—and he forgiven."
SHEEP-SHEARING OAK
The historical sheep-shearing oak
Is one of the most famous trees In
Arlington National cemetery, Vir
ginia. Estimated to be 300 years
old, this tree was the scene of the
shearings on the Arlington plants
tlon of a valuable flock of imported
merino sheep owned by George
Washington Parke Custis.
Find
Out
From Your Doctor
if the “Pain” Remedy
You Take Is Safe.
Don’t Entrust Your
Own or Your Family’s
Well - Being to Unknown
Preparations
BEFORE you take any prepara
tion you don’t know all about,
for the relief of headaches; or the
pains of rheumatism, neuritis or
neuralgia, ask your doctor what he
thinks about it — in comparison
with Genuine Bayer Aspirin.
We say this because, before the
discovery of Bayer Aspirin, most
so-called “pain” remedies were ad
vised against by physicians as being
bad for the stomacn; or, often, for
the heart. And the discovery of
Bayer Aspirin largely changed
medical practice.
Countless thousands of people
who have taken Bayer Aspirin year
in and out without ill effect, have
proved that the medical findings
about its safety were correct.
Remember this: Genuine Bayer
Aspirin is rated among the fastest
methods yet discovered for the relief
of headaches and all common pains
... and safe for the average person
to take regularly.
You can get real Bayer Aspirin at
any drug store — simply by never
asking for it by the name “aspirin”
alone, but always saying BAYER
ASPIRIN when you buy.
Bayer Aspirin
--
No Time to Fail
In the opinion of the rulers of
states, marriage is never a failure If
there are plenty of children.
Kindly Feeling
Where there Is kindly feeling, ln«
justices are easily put right.
CONSTIPATED
30 TEARS
"For thirty years I hacj
chronio constipation.
Sometimes 1 did not go
tor four or five days. I
also had awful gas bloat
ing, headaches and pain
in the back. Adlerika
helped right away. Now
1 eat sausage, bananas,
pie, anything I want and
never telt Detier, i Bleep eaunaiy mu ntgnc
end enjoy lite.”— Mrs. Mabel Schott.
If you are suffering from constipation,
sleeplessness, sour stomach, and gaa
bloating, there is quick relief for you
in Adlerika. Many report action in
30 minutes after taking just one dose.
Adlerika gives complete action, clean
ing your bowel tract where ordinary
laxatives do not even reach.
Dr. H. L. Shoub, New York, reporta:
“In addition to intestinal cleansing,
Adlerika checks the growth of in
testinal bacteria and colon bacilli."
Give your stomach and bowels a real
cleansing with Adlerika and see how
good you feel. Just one spoonful relieves
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all druggists and drug departments.
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