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ADVENTURERS’ CLUB
headlines from the lives
OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF!
“Fingers of Flame”
By FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter
Hello everybody:
Arthur A. Guinan of Brooklyn, N. Y., is today’s Dis
tinguished Adventurer. Art says that although he is a vet
eran of the World war and saw plenty of service in France,
he had to come back home to get in a mess of trouble.
And that, boys and girls, is the way a lot of these adventure yarns
start out. They start with a peaceful family scene like the one Art
describes in his own home on an evening early in November, 1923. It
was a cold, rainy Friday night outside, but indoors, in the Guinan
dining room, it was cheerful and bright.
It was a little early to be lighting the furnace. That’s why the
Gulnans were all gathered in the dining room. They had a kero
sene oil stove burning in there to—well—to sort of take the edge
off the dampness.
Art's mother and dad and brother were there. His dad, who had
recently been discharged from the hospital where he’d spent ten months
with a badly broken leg, was sitting in an easy chair with his hum leg
stretched out stiffly in front of him. He couldn't walk on that leg yet,
and was practically an invalid.
Their Oil Stove Exploded.
Mother was peeling potatoes. Art’s brother had stirred up a mess
of plaster and was patching a crack in the ceiling. Art had gone out
to the kitchen to grab a bite to eat. He was just finishing up when his
dad said he didn’t like the way the oil stove smelled. Mother said she'd
noticed it too. It was warm enough in the room by that time, anyway.
She looked up and saw Art, who had just finished eating and returned to
the dining room, and asked him to put the stove out.
Art says he had a special way of putting out that stove. “We
used to turn it down as low as it would go," he says, “and then pick it
Ills Dad Was Helpless In the Flaming Room,
up by the handle and give it a jerk to put out the last flicker of flame.'
But nowadays, Art realizes that that’s no way to put out an oil stove.
On this particular night, though, he didn’t realize it. He
turned the wick down to the bottom, picked the stove up and
gave it a jerk. It didn’t go out, so Art gave it another Jerk—
harder, this time, than the first. The next thing he knew, he was
holding onto something that looked and sounded like Vesuvius on
a rampage.
That st< ve gave out a roar that could be heard a block away. A
burst of flame six feet long shot across the room. Art’s mother was
sitting right in the path of it. In a split second she was flaming like
a HUMAN TORCH!
Saved Mother but Forgot About Dad.
Art dropped the stove and ran to her. Her clothes were blazing in
a dozen places. With his bare hands, he started tearing at her dress.
*’I was pulling that flame apart," he says. "Lord only knows how, but
I kept pulling handfuls of burning cloth from her body. My brother
started coming down from the ladder he was standing on. In the mean
time my mother and I had worked our way into the kitchen ancj my
brother Joined me there."
Art and his brother were both pulling at those flames now, and they
were making headway. At length they had torn away the last bit of
burning cloth—beaten out the last spark. Then, suddenly, they thought
of their dad!
Art says that right there he got the worst fright of his life.
They had forgotten about dad in the rush to take care of mother,
but now they realised that he was the one who really needed
their assistance most. Dad was helpless—practically an invalid.
He couldn’t move out of his chair, and back there in the dining
room, the whole place was blazing.
Art turned to run into the dining room. The door leading to it
was a raging furnace. A curtain of flame covered its whole length and
oreadth. Art hesitated just a fraction of a second. Then he plunged
right through the door, flames and all.
Flames Couldn’t Stop Art.
There was a smoke-filled space in the center of the room where the
flames had not yet spread. His dad was over at the other side of it. Art
plunged across that space in nothing flat and gathered his father
in his arms.
"His right shoe,” Art says, "was almost burned from his
foot. I started to carry him toward the back door, but about half
way across the room I stumbled. Dad fell on top of me and
knocked the wind out of me. I thought I’d never get it back
again. Before I did. the flames had crept up on us."
It was about that time that Art felt a terrible pain in his right leg.
When he looked at it he saw that the legs of his trousers were afire. 1
But there was no time to lose. They had to get out of that room right
away. Art picked his dad up again and dragged him toward the door
with one arm while he was beating out the flames in his pants legs with
the other.
It was a hectic five minutes. At last he was through the door. He set
his dad dowm in a chair in the yard back of the house and ran to turn in the
fire alarm. "It wasn’t until I reached for the alarm box," he says, "that
I realized how badly I was burnt. My hands looked like a couple of
beefsteaks, and my legs were worse. That peaceful little home of ours
looked like a hospital for the next six months.”
Copyright.—WNU Service.
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Tracing the White Indians i
Definite indications that the mys
terious “White Indians” of Panama
are descendants of white men who
came to America before Columbus
are reported by an archeologist.
Many scientists have held these peo
ple were albinos. But albinos usual
ly are childless, and when they do
have children they also are always
albinos. But there were instances
where the .“White Indians” gave
birth to brown-skinned children.
Petrarch Visited France
Petrarch is often honored as the
Writer of the first sonnet, but
France also honors him as her first
tourist. He made a pleasure trip
to Provence from Italy over 600
years ago.
Doorstep of Heaven
On Blue Mountain peak, a 7,388
foot mountain in Jamaica, there is
a hotel, Whitfield Hall, 4.000 feet
above sea level, which was built two
centuries ago by a man named
Heaven.
Birds Plague City
Bird of good luck to many native
tribes, the hammerkop, has become
an ill omen to people of Johannes
burg, South Africa, who have gold
fish ponds. Many ponds have been
denuded of fish by the feathered
fishermen. Haunting small creeks,
they feed on frogs. Recently a
Johannesburg resident put a frog
pond near his pools of goldfish. Both
frogs and goldfish began disappear
ing and soon all were gone.
Upper Peninsula Forests
Two fifths of the upper peninsula
of Michigan is devoted to state and
national forests. The area of the
peninsula is 10,500 square miles, of
which at least two-thirds is covered
with hardwood and other timber.
Shaker Style of Furniture
The Shaker style of furniture has
a classic simplicity inspired by the
sect’s abhorrence of ornamentation.
The Shakers, disdaining paints, ap
plied only light stains and varnishes
for protection of the wood.
Gown of Airy-Fairy Thin Weave
By CHER IE NICHOLAS
^TOW that the season has come
to exchange lover’s knots for
marital ties, the fancy of brides-to
be turns happily to a glamorous
picture of billowy tulle and lovely
Sowers and wedding array for her
self and her attendants that shall be
fashioned of fabrics which needs
must tune to the romance and beau
ty of the occasion.
A highly important style mes
sage for brides-prospective is the
wide use being made this season of
airy-fairy diaphanous silk sheers
for the making of the wedding gown
as well as for the bridesmaid frocks
and the dresses of the little flower
girls. There is an ethereal elusive
beauty about the wedding scene that
is carried out in terms of these love
ly silk transparencies such as silk
marquisette, fllmy-as-cobweb nets,
tulles and chiffons and silk organzas
and mousseline de soies that blend
Ideally into the setting of a perfect
day in June or in later summertime.
The bride in the illustration
makes an entrancing picture in her
gown of lovely summery silk mar
quisette. Its youthful princess lines,
its enhancement of decorative lace
appliques and its heart-shaped de
colletage are in the quaintly beauti
ful “Gone With the Wind” tradi
tion. The train is a spectacular
part of the dress that reveals
through a full length silk filmy net
veil with lace coronet to match the
gown. The bride carries a seed
pearl prayer book.
Silk sheers are also favored for
attendant frocks as they are smart
for many summer evenings as well
as the wedding itself.
Even the little flowergirl's dress,
also of silk sheer, is selected so
that it can be worn later on for
birthday or dancing school parties.
The cunning child pictured in the
inset is clad in peach silk mar
quisette, the surplice front of which
presents a new line for children's
frocks that is both charming and
youthful. This forms a ruffla that
is tied in at the high waistline with
a mauve velvet ribbon matching
the ribbon on the large puffed
sleeves.
Traditional white satin is seen
in many new versions. In Paris,
Molyneux shows a sensational wed
ding gown in broche silk satin with
a lily design. It is of Second Em
pire crinoline silhouette with posies
and sprays of lily-of-the-valley hold
ing the period-draped skirt. In
America, many women are choos
ing the long, fitted bodice for their
wedding dress as well as for their
street spectator sports and evening
dresses. One smart version in
white duchess silk satin features
this moyen age waistline with a full
gathered skirt and train. Many
brides prefer a gown on princess
lines for its slim reed-like grace.
In silk marquisette as pictured it
is really fit for a princess.
Silk net wedding veils are equally
smart in the long or hip length
versions. Often they have caps tc
match the dress or the bridal cor
sage. A simple and out of the
ordinary cap worn by a recent bride
had a peaked crown, the entire
headpiece made of closely allover
shirred tulle same as the veil.
A charming suggestion for the
bridesmaids is that of cunning little
boleros fashioned entirely of flat
sewed flowers. These may either
match the color of the silk organ
die gowns they top or ‘hey may be
in contrasting color. Very effective
also is the bolero that is made of
pastel colored lace worn with the
gown of silk marquisette in match
| ing or contrasting color.
© Western Newspaper Union.
NEW COTTON KNITS
By CHER IE NICHOLAS
Here are two stunning Sea Island
er knit sports costumes made of
the famous sea island cotton grown
on Georgia island plantations remi
niscent of the days when Spanish
conquistadores took these golden
Isles. The jacket idea as interpret
ed in the model showm at top is
high fashion. Women are not only
wearing the knitted jacket with its
companion knitted skirt but they are
very smart with the cloth tailored
I *>urt.
TWO-PURPOSE GOWN
FINDS MUCH FAVOR
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
The tendency these days is to I
have a foundation dress with end
less accessory ensembles in reserve
so as to change the character of the
costume to tune to occasion. The
newest entrant into the interchange
able costume realm is the dress of j
black or navy crepe which is sold
with a full length detachable front :
panel of pleated crepe in white or
some contrasting color. For the
practical hours of the day the dress
is worn without the panel and you
can run about town looking trim and
tailored. Or in the office you will
appear “neat as a pin” dressed ap
propriately for business hours.
To keep the bridge date or accept
an informal dinner engagement, you
can don the white or colorful pleat
ed panel in a jiffy. It fastens up
over the shoulders and there are
ribbon straps and bows to adjust
to make it look like an integral part
of the dress, for it extends from
neck to hem.
Vogue for Pleats Feature
of the Current Fashion
The vogue of pleats, which is a
feature of the current fashion trend,
is not confined to skirts. A frock
which has its own matching bolero
has a pleated section below a plain
square yoke. A skirt-waist dress
with an all-around pleated skirt also
has a pleated blouse, the sleeves
being the only part of the frock to
be left severely plain.
The pleated fashion In millinery
Is reflected by pleated sashes which
adorn many of the new broad
brimmed straw models and also the
fabric hats which have wide pleated
brims.
Leather Fashionable
Leather is used for everything this
year from entire dressy afternoon
suits in pastel shades to trimming
on evening gowns.
l/ncle T^kit
Say5: C’^J
Have a Farm ?
A slump in the stock market
doesn’t take a man’s farm away
from him.
Love of money may be the root
of some evil; but sour envy of it,
is the root of a great deal.
We worry about the future; yet,
in its essentials, it will be much
like the past.
The Greater Mission
Happiness may not consist in
making others happy. It may make
unhappiness less painful.
We accept flattery for the sake
of the goodwill that inspires most
of it.
Does anyone know his parents
well enough to be sure that hered
ity is what is the matter with him?
Too Bad It's Impractical
If we didn’t have factories, and
workmen made everything by
hand, what pride individuals
would take in their work, and it
is possible thousands would be fa
mous for their handiwork.
Deny yourself and you grow
strong enough to deny the foolish
demands of other people.
Unfortunately a man doesn’t
confine himself to laughing in his
sleeve. He laughs out loud and
makes an enemy.
HCWJq SEW
4*''” Ruth Wyeth Spears
'T'HE diagram shows how the
* contrasting squares are ar
ranged to give the rug its inter
esting design. Whatever color
scheme you use, black will be
most effective for joining the
squares and for an edging of sin
1GREEN
2 MIXED
COLORS ,
3 YELLOW
A y'
gle crochet around the outside of
the rug. If the materials you have
are not the colors you want, don’t
forget there is always the dye pot.
Producing your own colors may
be the most exciting part of rug
making.
A crocheted rag rug like the
one shown here uses odds and
ends. Wool rags make a nicer
rug than cotton, or rug yarn may
Dutiful Mourner
“A penny’s worth of licorice,
please,” said the little girl.
“I’m afraid I have no licorice,
dear,” said the sweetshop propri
etress. “Must it be licorice?”
“Yes, I’m afraid it must,” re
plied the child. “You see, our
canary is dead and I’m in mourn
ing.”
“Is that you, Mother?” asked the
excited new father over the
phone. “Oh! Mother! Mother!
—it’s—it’s—a—a—baby!”
EQUALLY DANGEROUS
"Mrs. Brown is always running
down the neighbors.”
‘‘Didn’t know she was a gossip.”
‘‘Isn’t—operates a machine.”
By Our Presidents
—*—
Let us have faith that right
makes might; and in that faith
let us dare to do our duty as
we understand it.—Abraham
Lincoln.
We are swinging around the
circle.—Andrew Johnson.
Let us have peace.—U. S.
Grant.
The great want of industry is
a staple policy; and it is a
significant comment on the
character of our legislation that
congress has become a terror
to the business men of this
country.—James A. Garfield.
No personal consideration
should stand in the way of per
forming a duty.—U. S. Grant.
To Be Sure!
Visitor—I’m collecting for the
suffering poor and shall be glad
of your help.
Housewife—Suffering poor? Are
you sure that they really do suf
fer?
Visitor—I’m quite sure. Why, I
go into their homes and talk to
them for hours on end!
Dashing His Hopes ,
“Cloudy day, sir,” said the
porter with “tip” written all over
his face.
“Yes,” was the reply, “and
there’s no change coming, either.”
Cause for Complaint
“Those garage people certainly
ruin a car.”
“What’s the trouble?”
“Why, my car used to do sev
enty miles an hour. Then I let
them put in a new speedometer,
and now I can get only fifty-eight
out of her.”
Practical Reply
“When the barometer falls, what
does that tell us? Come, Tommy,
surely you know?”
“Nail’s come out of the wall,
miss.”
Forgotten Place
A commercial traveler began to
turn the room upside down.
“What have you lost, dear?”
asked his wife.
“I’ve taken an order today, and
I’ve mislaid the address of my
firm.”
Fair Warning
“Martha,” said her mistress, “I
want you to polish that table until
I can see my face in it.”
But Martha had already given
notice. “If I was you, ma\am,”
she replied, “I wouldn’t look.”
be substituted if desired. Either
a wood or large steel crochet hook
is used.* The rug shown here
measures 36 by 21 inches. The
5-inch squares are made separate
ly in single crochet stitch and
then joined with crochet slip
stitch. If rags are used, tear or
cut the strips not more than iy*
inches wide, and work with the raw
edges turned in as shown here at
A. Measure each square carefully
so they will all be exactly the
same size. Full instructions for
slip covers for side chairs like the I
one shown are in the book offered
below.
NOTE: Every Homemaker
should have a copy of Mrs. Spears'
book SEWING, for the Home Dec
orator. Forty-eight pages of illus
trated directions for making slip
covers and curtains; also dressing
tables; lampshades and other use
ful articles for the home. Price
25 cents postpaid (coin preferred).
Address Mrs. Spears, 210 S. Des
plaines St., Chicago, 111.
Strange Facts
| Tiny Sailfish |
• Puzzles Beebe • *
J~)R. WILLIAM BEEBE returned
recently from a tropical ex
pedition. He had collected 20,000
different specimens of marine life.
He brought back a fish not as
long as his little finger. This was
his most valuable specimen, a sail
fish lxk inches long.
The familiar sailfish caught by
anglers in California or Florida
weighs from 30 to more than 100
pounds. Their length measures
the height of a man or a giant.
Some are even ten feet long. The
“baby” sailfish measuring lVt
inches may not be a “baby” at all.
The tiny fish exactly like the ten
foot sailfish puzzles Doctor Beebe.
In an interview on landing, the
well known scientist says the tiny
sailfish might be the first young y
sailfish ever captured, or may be
a new miniature species. There
is much doubt of the l1^ inch sail
fish being the young of the or
dinary sailfish because the little
fish seems fully formed.
The sailfish derives its name
from the huge dorsal fin that ex
tends a foot or two above the body
and resembles a sail. These fish
feed on the surface of the water
and they are caught by trolling in
the daytime. The miniature sail
fish secured by Doctor Beebe was
caught at night under search
lights, on a voyage that took Doc
tor Beebe and his companions
2,000 miles down the west coast
from Cape Lucas to Panama.
© Brltannlca Junior.
Perhaps Forgetful Chap
Could Use Sharp Reply
A young man wrote to a busi
ness firm, ordering a razor:
“Dear Sirs: Please find en
closed a dollar for one of your ra
zors as advertised and oblige.
John Jones.”
“P.S.—I forgot to enclose the dol
lar, but no doubt a firm of your
standing will send the razor any
way.”
The firm replied as follows:
“Dear Sir: Your order received.
Sending the razor as requested and
hope it will prove satisfactory.”
“P.S.—We forgot to enclose the*
razor, but no doubt a man with
your cheek will have no need of
it.”
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