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Show oa er hi !oname, Author Warned Nickel a', lovels, Is Dead -4 p. Senarens Was the Creator of Fabulous Frank Rcade Jr. ft ELMO SCOTT WATSON uT- by WHttn HnnpipH Union.) riiniinT V U v. pers throughout the V country printed a brief association dispatch ch said: KEW YORK. Luis P. Sen- vens, severuy-sm yean oia, Cfi.n called the "American ' .. . Jules verne, wno wrote h 500 dime novels under 27 Wudonyms between 1876 and blS, died from heart trouble Uterday in Kings county ad toepital. Senarens, who he lps his extraoramary career 'it the age of fourteen, creat d the fabulous Frank Read gd forecast in fiction many podern mechanical developments. develop-ments. iEon of an immigrant Cuban cbacco merchant, Senarens tot his inspiration as a boy tam visiting the Philadelphia jCeotenmal exposition in 1870. it sixteen he was earning 010 a week and at thirty he became president of the Frank Tousey Publication company, which published all works. ftus was revealed, for the bt time perhaps, to thou- rtfWfc- AKD Or, pds of Americans the identity iden-tity of one of their favorite uthors back in the days of leir youth when they tasted if forbidden fruit be revelling i the adventures of Fred earnot, Young Wild West, ia King Brady and espe-iaHy espe-iaHy Frank Reade Jr. For his brief obituary item un-lasks, un-lasks, at last, the mysteries, mysteri-es, tantalizing "Noname" ose imagination conjured p for the use of the ingenious frank a host of mechanical 35arvels which seemed weird-f weird-f improbable then but are Jommonplace enough today. I we are greatly impressed when podern science and inventive Mill produces a "mechanical pan" who can speak and give the prect answer to problems pro-minded pro-minded to him when- the right futtons are pressed. But back in w f rank Keade Jr. naa an lectrical man" who could do ost of those things: If Henry I ord and the other motor car i akers had read more of "No- I hie's"' hiclcel novels. Inie course T J automobile design might have en far different. For Frank 1 fkade Jr. had a horse made of i ?el..with jointed legs, driven by team engine inside. This ani-i ani-i was attached to' a sdlid-tited hide in the same location where automakfra nttArhpd an en- covered with a "hood" "of itecl. Four years later Frank Reade s staging a race around the orld for a purse of ( 10.000. He as piloting his flying boat, which ' aniazingly hke a modern auto-S'ro, auto-S'ro, and his opponent. in the race as Jack Wright, diving through he seas in his submarine which 'ad a nent. class-enclosed con- nnc tower. In fact, Frank was I fimst versatile designer of fly-rK fly-rK machines. His "Monitor of . P. A W , . . . .A x; - 1 T. 7. s 1 IUUU JlUUUUt UI.i , rt.; . V - P. -f,J JWliiVk V f: ! H ' - W I FTTTTTTF HnTT V " : k 4v ,.'.- the Air" was a cigar-shaped balloon bal-loon that resembled a modern Zeppelin. Suspended below it by slings was the hull of a ship, complete with a rudder at the stern and a searchlight at the bow. Thus it was a combined ship of the air and ship of the sea, or in other words a sort of -r- 1Wf UIS NEW SXZAM HOES; ; TMB SetiUK FOA U U lt.t (tUfc- J forecast of our modern seaplanes. By the next year, 1895, Frank had had another idea for air travel. "Noname" called it "Frank Reade Jr.'s Greatest Flying Fly-ing Machine" in which he set out for a bit of "Fighting the Terror of the Coast." The picture on the front cover of this nickel thriller shows a large biplane. Frank Reade, Jr., and Or. Htylpinirn 1-rlcml f , .t V '- J.' V n .07. t "-""i vv".rrs.ii uces.w tab. - 1 Mi aajk3 vr.' . snunrst 9 - - .7 l i x m i - W.V;J fc"-w y OMMAUU. ' ', i driven by two propellers, below which is suspended a land-boat with a hull similar to that on the "Monitor of the Air" but equipped with four wheels on which it could "taxi" along the ground in landing land-ing or taking off. Perhaps the most extraordinary extraordi-nary invention of this ingenious youth was his "Clipper of the Prairie," which was a sort of a cross between a war tank and a trailer home on wheels and which Frank used for "Fighting the Apaches in the Far Southwest" Above the cabin, or living quarters, quar-ters, was an observation platform on which were built two turrets and in front of the cabin was mounted a good-sized cannon. If the "red devils" escaped de struction by the shots from this cannon, they could be impaled upon a sharp ram-like projection from the front of the "clipper." This ram was also useful in get ting a supply of fresh meat for Frank and his friends, for the picture on the cover of this par ticular volume indicates that it was used also for impaling buf falo! Incidentally the "clipper" was propelled by steam on cater pillar-tread wheels which indicates indi-cates that our "modern" cater pillar tractors are "old stuff." According to Edmund Pearson in his "Dime Novels ; or, Follow ing an Old Trail in Popular Liter ature" (published by Little, Brown and Company in 1929), the Frank Tousey firm of which Senarens was president in addi tion to the Frank Reade Weekly, also issued "Work and Win" with its hero, Fred Fearnot; the "Wild West Weekly" with Young Wild West and his sweetheart, Arietta; "Secret Service" with Old King Brady and Young King Brady; and "Pluck and Luck." The Old King Brady stories, he says, "are attributed to Francis Worcester Doughty, who, curiously, was the author of works on numismatics and archeology." Pearson does not give the authorship au-thorship of the other Frank Tou sey publications but it is not un likely that Senarens, who was the "Noname" of the Frank Reade Jr. yarns, also wrote most of the others under one of the 27 pseu donyms mentioned in the obituary story quoted at the beginning of this article. His MonitotbttliftAir; in Need By "loun" if: -- !- mv-j "J" -i J Ten years ago there died in Orlando, Fla., man whose writ ing career paralleled that of Luis P. Senarens and the other writers of the nickel libraries and boys' weeklies but whose literary product prod-uct differed greatly from theirs. He was Kirk Munro and during tie period from 1890 to 1910 one of the biggest events of the year for Young America- was the appearance ap-pearance of a new book which had come, from his industrious pen. Munroe was descendant of CoL William Munroe, who was an orderly sergeant in the Minute Men of Lexington, Mass., when they fired the opening guns of the Revolution. He was born on April IS, 1850, at Prairie du Chien. Wi., where his father and mother, both New Englanders, were living in a mission. He was educated in the common schools of Appleton, Wis., and later in the schools at Cambridge, Mass., where his parents par-ents returned for a brief time. To the Frontier. When he was sixteen he persuaded per-suaded his father to allow him to spend his vacation in Kansas City, Mo., which was then a frontier fron-tier town. He reached that place Just as a surveying party under Gen. W. J. Palmer was preparing to explore the vast region west of Kansas City. By making himself him-self useful about the camp of this exploring and surveying party, young Munroe secured a job as a "tape man." Thereafter, for nearly a year, the boy traveled and camped through the wilds. He saw much of Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and California. He was engaged in numerous skirmishes with hostile Indians, was wounded, frequently went hungry and thirsty and suffered in the biting cold of those western plains and mountains. Once he was the guest of Kit Carson at Fort Garland, Colo. He associated associ-ated with pioneers, soldiers, western west-ern bad men and Indians. He was well acquainted with Buffalo Bill Cody. In California he found a job as a transit man, and after he had saved sufficient money he took passage for South America, where he traveled extensively before be-fore returning to Cambridge. Once home he entered Harvard, taking an engineering course, but this proved rather slow and he left college at the end of his first year. He was then nineteen. Once more he went West to Kansas City, but this time he was not so successful in finding work, since the labor of surveying was tem porarily suspended, and he came back East. A Star Reporter. Then was to occur the incident that largely determined his future career. His familiarity with the Big Horn country, where Custer's force had just been killed, gave him a chance to land job as a reporter on the New York Sun Here he found a congenial field for his talents. He soon moved to the New York Times, and there he became a star reporter. A brilliant career in journalism was fairly opening before him when, again, he was diverted into another an-other field. Harper's started a magazine called Harper's Young People, designed for the youth of the nation, na-tion, and the editorship of this magazine was offered to Munroe at a salary of $30 a week, about one-third of the pay he had been receiving. Nevertheless, he accepted ac-cepted this offer and began his duties. The magazine was immediately im-mediately successful. Munroe, two years after he had been made editor, began to write stories for boys. His first book. "Walkulla," was published in 1886. From that time on his books multiplied with amazing rapidity, until in all he had- published 35 I volumes. After .publishing the first few of these books Munroe gave up his editorial duties to devote de-vote himself entirely to writing. He had married Miss Mary Barr, 4 daughter ot Amelia Barr, the nov-- nov-- elist, tind a .contributor to the magazine, and together they traveled trav-eled extensively, both for pleasure and to collect the "material for itories. After the death of his "ife, he moved to Coconut Grove, Fla., a suburb of Miami, a place vhich he had visited as a youth n a canoe und had 'become one-of i he pioneers end founders of thai .'ommunity before Miami was a :own. He lived in seclusion in Coconut Grove for many year and in 1024 married again, this time to Miss Mabel Stearns daughter of William F. Steams of Amherst, Mass. Kathleen Norris Says: Some Women Need a Charm School's Course (Ban Syndlcat Tin tragedy of many marriage She become lillle told preoccupied with By KATHLEEN NORRIS WHATEVER else you lose In your married life, try to bold on to charm. Or if you never had any particular charm, try to culUvate it Charm Isn't entirely a natural thing, although ft comes much more naturally to some women wom-en than to others. Schoolgirls often have charm, especially es-pecially if they happen to be first In the class, good dancers, prominent promi-nent in theatricals. Brides almost always have charm, although it anay last only for a few weeks or days, or even hours. But this sort of charm doesn't count To be charming in times of success, flattery or importance, means very little. A really charming charm-ing woman is always charming, whatever the circumstances, and whether she be 16 or 76. The tragedy of many marriages Is that the wife loses her charm. She becomes a little hard, a little cold and calculaUng, a little too much preoccupied with her household house-hold cares and the family finances. She can't relax. If Invited to take things a trifle more easily she says nervously that with two children to manage and the house and the meals she'd like to see anyone relax! . She Is capable; she is just; she Is anxious that the family shall be comfortable com-fortable and well fed; she keeps her hair dressed and her stockings free of runs. But graciousness, easiness, laughter, laugh-ter, sympathy know her no more. If her husband comes home in an amiably conversational mood she has small time or interest to spare for him. "If you're going to sit out here. Jack, I'll bring out an ashtray." she says dispiritedly. "Please don't put your feet up there. Doctor says Jean's teeth will take three years to straighten; dear knows what his bill will be I I'm going to let my filling fill-ing go; it means I can't chew on that side of my face, but that doesn't matter. Ma had one of her bilious headaches today and I was sitting with her, so I've just got a pick-up dinner." She then sits staring vaguely into space, the expression on her face not so much sad as dissatisfied and bored. This is the sort of wife who loses her husband. Wives write me pages and pages about the situation. They tell me all that they do. They are models of faithfulness and Industry; they "never look at another man." That they can be subjected to the humiliation humili-ation of having their husbands' affections af-fections waver amazes as much as it angers them. "What. are. men made of?" demands de-mands one such wife, a certain Isabel Baker, who lives in a luxurious luxu-rious suburban district outside of Chicago. "Dick and I have been married-10 years, without., a quarrel.. We" have a'W fihTa girt df "efgW and five. He makes good money; we own our home and car and belong be-long to a nice little social group. Now, .quite-suddenly. Jie. bas fallen In love with S woman seven years older than he is, a djvorced woman who worked in his office years ago and has now come back;- She has broken up two homes already and now is after mine. She puts flattery on with a spade, Is always laughing, laugh-ing, and Dick has gotten the habit of dropping in lo tee hur late tn the afternoon, to have a .cocktail and a chat. Sometimes he gets home late fur dinner, chuckling over something Kve has told him. I'm not afraid if his wanting a divorce or anything any-thing serious; it Just mal'.cs me mad to have a woman of 40, ten WNU Sarykw.l is that the tvife loses her charm, and calculating, too muck household cares. LAUGHTER IS CHARM C Laughter i$ a natural thing to associate with charm. H Men do not leave laughing wives. C The "other women" always have one characteristic in common. com-mon. They are good natured. C. A man sometimes gets tired of the impersonal efficiency of the cold little woman at home, and is flattered by interested in-terested eyes, even though he knows he is fooling himself. C. The danger point in the relations of man and wife is when they begin taking each other for granted. When they no longer sense a need or a wish' to interest each other, that's when the "other woman" finds easy sailing. years older than I am, wrecking my home." There are thousands of cases like this. The wife has been too sure of herself and her husband. Life has been going on the way she likes to have It and so she feels that it ought to satisfy him, too. Why make herself pretty when he gels home, why be amused, laughing, en thusiastlc about what she Is doing, or Interested In what he isT Why give him an unexpected kiss, or pick him up at the office and take him to lunch, or ask him to tell again, for the benefit of friends, the story that amused her? Lose Charm to Rigidity. He's her husband, isn't he? He owes her fidelity and devotion, doesn't he, without any silly sent! mental fuss? Hasn't she borne him two children and given him the best years of her life? Let him walk a chalk line now, or he'll be sorry I And so, in self-righteousness and rigidity, she loses all charm, not only as a wife, but as a woman. There Is no more gaiety in his house Just cleanliness and meals and civ ility, and a woman opposite him who will do her duty by him, and yielo not an inch more. Laughter is a natural thing to a soclate with charm, and I see that I have used the word more than once In describing it Perhaps wise question for certain wives to ask themselves is whether there Is enough laughter in the house. Laughter over the small pleasures and the small upsets of every day. Laughter out at the garage when dad is cleaning tse car on Sunday morning, and laughter at the telephone tele-phone when he asks if he may bring horn -a. .man..-for. .dinnjer. Men.. .d.Q not leave laughing wives. And when ' good husbands and fathers begin those office flirtations that often end so disastrously, the other-women- - Involved almost always al-ways have one characteristic in common. They are good-natured. Mrs. Brooks at the office may be 40 or more. She may have had all her teeth replaced. Her domestic history may be unfortunate, to aajr the least: The wreckage- of several marriages may clutter her past But She's learned to be' sweet. To flatter with her Interested eyes; to be terribly Sorry for Dick; even to And kindly, understanding things to say of Dick's wife. It may be all on the surface, -but - it is charm, and Dick, tired of the impersonal efficiency ef-ficiency of the cold little woman at home, reaches hungrily fur it, even though he knows he is fooling him self. To out charm a charmer is a game worth any woman's mettle. 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The record for bell ringing is held by the men who rang, from memory, 21,000 changes of eight bells each in a little more than 12 hours in All Saints' church in Loughborough, England, on Easter Sunday, 1909. In several British munitions plants, only deaf men are employed' em-ployed' in the shot-blasting departments depart-ments because the roaring, clanging clang-ing noise would soon make physical phys-ical wrecks of those with normal hexring. Collier's. FIGHT COLDS by Mplng naiura bOU ap your coldlghilng rtlttoncm TV nw msBrn aa raid richt after aaotfcar, Mr. Elizabeth VidcKT writes: 7 wW to catch tUt eery eetttf. Dr. Pimii CoUtn Utdkd Dttterery kilpti te sfrmffAm wmfutt tptm. dully. I eti bain, kod man Hamine, end wi trtubUi etty little with eoldt," this treat BMdkia, formulated by a practicing prac-ticing phyaiciaa, helps combat colda this wayi il) It itimalates tha appetite. (2) It proaaotea ow of faatrie Jnkaa. 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