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Show THE LEHI SUN, LEW, UTAH 'Honame! Author 0( Famed Nickel iMovelsJsDead tuisP. Scnarcns Was the t Creator of Fabulous Frank Reade Jr. L ELMO SCOTT WATSON , .i if WrterB Newipaper Onion.) " -rMTT V iho npwsna- the U nprs throughout J country printed a brief ress association dispatch which said: , ' . vpw YORK. Luis P. Sen- .rens, seventy-six years old, called the "American Jules verne, , S 1 500 dime novels under 27 Ludonyms between 1876 and 191U, aieu .... h yesterday in Kings county I hospital Senarens, who be-I be-I .ran his extraordinary career i at the age of fourteen, creat-S? creat-S? ed the fabulous Frank Reade I and forecast in fiction many modern mechanical developments, develop-ments, p Son of an immigrant Cuban I; tobacco merchant, Senarens I got his inspiration as a boy I from visiting the Philadelphia I Centennial exposition in ia76. At sixteen he was earning $200 a week and at thirty he I became president of the i Frank Tousey Publication ''i company, which published all I his works. Thus was revealed, for the frst time perhaps, to thou- "J ifi? far:d hnoOTMil in iha Next tetaof Wis .."'IKf v .....: i . 1 -r l , it- . t )iAm.i;i,Ii1)1K,';m ' ': - i mm j; ...... if , x. i Tb Two Tint bmtoni , A Tarllllne Mry f t Race ArwoJ ike Wrtd for 18,400. ' J J If K TOIIIT, ,11 Flt.tXK REIDF, JR 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 H' f. T.,.1 mt' ""'"J iinirnrrrr-"rr " "" ' '"- """ "' "" -r hi n mi 1 1 innmirin j i i flttltt AND HIS NEW STEAM HORSE; Or, TUt, Sr VKt H lOU V 111) Ut JHUA U!. :: i i tt M Ml " P-i "S?! irH5 Str1 i' ''JTEZ i lds of Americans the iden-i iden-i of one of their favorite uthors back in the days of .eir youth when they tasted ef forbidden fruit be revelling a the adventures of Fred arnot, Young Wild West, fa &ng Brady and espe-'.Uy espe-'.Uy Frank Reade Jr. For brief obituary item un-fsks; un-fsks; last, the mysteri-'f mysteri-'f talizing "Noname" rse imagination conjured j;P for the use of the ingenious t?n ia 1ost of mechanical ; "uiv-useemea weird- g improbable then but are Fmonplace enough today. we are pronto ; . . J ornrt,,;;. mvenuve nan;nr" a mechanical 0 carJ speak and Ked nteT 10 Pems pre! l-My hlm when the right Frank PRSS!d- But back m of thn""' wno 5.0UW ao p ord .nd 7k . gs- 11 Henry t-2.an.d other mr,tn, iSblfc18' course !ea far Hifr CSIgn mieht have ead. T. dlfferent. For Frank horse made of C&Jn where coverp - .""wiiea an en-erea en-erea with i j.. uuoa oi r-i with - "Ul!e maae or l V!As' d"ven by Fe La!dt.0 a solid-tired v oi tin KetL U5K . ,r Frank Reade rjr::lfor a6Duarcrac! arund the !g?h;g boat, which ajldhisoamodeni auto-5s auto-5s J.L PPonent in tv 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, 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 destruction 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 getting get-ting a supply of fresh meat for Frank and his friends, for the picture on the cover of this particular par-ticular volume indicates that it was used also for impaling buffalo! buf-falo! Incidentally the "clipper" was propelled by steam on caterpillar-tread wheels which indicates indi-cates that our "modern" caterpillar cater-pillar tractors are "old stuff." According to Edmund Pearson in his "Dime Novels; or, Following Follow-ing an Old Trail in Popular Literature" Liter-ature" (published by Little, Brown and Company in 1929), the Frank Tousey firm of which Senarens was president in addition 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 Tousey Tou-sey publications but it is not unlikely 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 pseudonyms pseu-donyms mentioned in the obituary story quoted at the beginning of this article. t tweiw MwMMV' V,,!! ! . i unr timiiui jr , iFranl Reade, Jr., and His Monitor of the Air; -Or. I lelph n I 'ricui i io con- - neat """ume "'m versa;,' j 'Tan was m. . MM . " HUW'iHAiftlM 111,1, , tmifTi,. 3aKjstsrJ ' tt . .ai..S-S5'. .AS; AMU-fc. T3n years ago there died in Orlando, Fla., a man whose writing 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. Fe was Kirk Munroe and during t.e 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 a 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 15, 1850, at Prairie du Chien, Wis., 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. ran 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 temporarily 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 a 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 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 Marjr Barr, daughter of Amelia Barr, the novelist, nov-elist, and a contributor to the magazine, and together they traveled trav-eled extensively, both for pleasure and to collect the material for stories. After the death of his wife, he moved to Coconut Grove, Fla., a suburb of Miami, a place .vhich he had visited as a youth in a canoe and had become one of 'he pioneers and founders of that community before Miami was a ;own. He lived in seclusion in Coconut Grove for many years and in 1924 married again, this time to Miss Mabel Stearns, daughter of William F. Stearns of Amherst, Mass. Kathleen Norris Says: Some Women Need a Charm School9 s Course Bn Syndicate WNU Servtc.! The tragedy of many marriages it that th wife loses her charm. She becomes little cold and calculating, too much preoccupied with household care. By KATHLEEN NORRIS WHATEVER else you lose In your married life, try to hold on to charm. Or If you never had any particular charm, try to cultivate it Charm Isn't entirely a natural thing, although it comes much more naturally to tome 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 iray 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, little cold and calculating, 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; 6he 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'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 pick-up dinner." She then sits staring vaguely into space, the expression on her face Dot 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 mar-ried 10 years, without a quarrel. We have a boy and a girl of eight 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, he has fallen in love with a woman seven years older than he is, a divorced 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 to see her late in the afternoon, to have a cocktail and a chat Sometimes he gets home late for dinner, chuckling over something Eve has told him. I'm not afraid cf his wanting a divorce or anything any-thing serious; it just makes me mad to have a woman of 40, ten LAUGHTER IS CHARM (I Laughter i$ a natural thing to associate with charm. C Aen do not leave laughing wives. C. The "other women" always have one characteristic in corn-mon. corn-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 bf ira-terested ira-terested eyes, even though he knows he is fooling himself. C The danger point in the relations of man ami 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 gets home, why be amused, laughing, enthusiastic en-thusiastic about what she Is doing, or Interested in what he Is? 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? Loses Charm in Rigidity. He's her husband. Isn't he? He owes her fidelity and devotion, doesn't he, without any silly senti-mental senti-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! 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 civility, 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 sociate with charm, and I see that I have used the word more than once in describing it Perhaps a 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 tte car on Sunday morning, and laughter at the telephone tele-phone when he asks if he may bring home a man for dinner. Men do 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 say the least The wreckage of severa. 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 find kindly, understanding things to say of Dick's wile. 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 for it even though he knows he is fooling himself. him-self. To out-charm a charmer is a game worth any woman's mettle. Slippers, Bed Socks Quickly Crocheted .T V , I t .Ii t tv V Pattern 2372 "pIIESE slippers are in easy cro- chet with angora popcorn trim the bed socks in star stitch with loop stitch trim. Pattern 2372 contains con-tains directions for making slippers slip-pers and bed socks in any desired de-sired size; illustrations of them and stitches; materials required; photograph of pattern stitches. 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