Show Today T oday SAFE S PRAISE FRISE HEAVEN EN WHEN WilEN MONGOLS COME CO RID RID- ING TilE THE WISE ESKIMO ONLY O LY A GIRL By ARTHUR BRISBANE E CopyrIght 1927 by The Blar Co Ruth Elder courageous young Flor Thor Florida florIda Thorda ida da girl Is salo o on a II ship that picked her out of the ocean Ruths Ruth's mother who prayed con con- constantly while her daughter was fly- fly flyIng flyIng flyIng Ing and put the family Bible In the airship weeps for Joy soy Other mothers are arc weeping with her The nation will hope that Ruth Elder and other oth r girls will stay on the ground hereafter or do their thE flying over land and Md let men like Lindbergh If there arc are any like him do the ocean flying nY Columbus Columbus' f Job ob was for a man and so is the Job of ocean flying Tho The Greek philosopher Jumping In Into In- In Into into to the mouth of a fI volcano to attract attention was as brave but foolish It Is folly In anybody but a a. lion tamer to enter coter the lions lion's cage Peking where sleek mandarins live hive In silk gowns shivers at news of Mongolian horsemen approaching the capital From P ln west through Russia RussIl Germany down to the populations have h learned to fear the themen themen themen men with slanting eyes that murdered as they came ume Those Mongolians and Tartars of whom Genghis Khan Kl and Attila made conquering armies are no longer dan dan- dangerous dangerous dangerous to the cU civilized cl Hired races that can easily dispose of them with poison polson gases and bombs from rom the air as long longas as they the ride to war on shaggy ponies But what if the airplane spreads through the world as Fords Ford's car has spread and Mongols and Tartars come traveling through the clouds On that day prosperous Americans In their counting rooms will shiver with good leason season as sa the soft Mandarin shivers now novt In Peking Pc kIng Dollars wont won't protect them Professor Collins of Smithsonian Institute says eskImos leave their wives for five months each year jear to tomake tomake tomake make a good catch of seals certain At the end of the five months the bladders of all seals captured during the year ear are thrown 11 Into the water to please the seal tribe Separating from women for a pat part of each uch year Is often the rule In many savage tribes Many red Indians paid little attention to their wives except In spring This ga e gas e the squaws the rest of ot the year ear to look after the chil chil- children children dren then and was probably a relief If the plan were tried In this coun coun- country country country absence try making the husbands eleven months Instead of five the number of divorces might diminish Dull minds are easily bored King Albert of Belgium estimable gentleman but In the saying of the French one who did not Invent gun gun- gunpowder powder exclaimed Only a girl when he heard that his r wasn't a a. boy He lie wouldn't have said Only a girl bad he known some of the real queens queens Elizabeth Elizabeth Marie Theresa Semiramis and especially that African African African can queen whose son was killed by King Cyrus when the son foolishly got drunk on wines that Cyrus left as a trap who had warned Cyrus not notto notto notto to hurt her son caught the great king chopped off or his head put It In a goat goatskin goatskin skin full of human blood saying Now drink all you like Only a girl does docs not describe her or Bertha mother of Nancy Hanks Banks mother of Lincoln Letitia Letilia the broad brood hipped mother of or Olympian who made Alexander the Great Which Is sour jour our favorite fa mother moth r In fri history The breaking point comes at differ differ- places In different individuals Othello choked his lady because he was as suspicious She had done noth noh- no h- h ing Thedo hunchback mur mur- murdered murdered murdered dered his brother and his hla wife be because be- be because because cause they made eyes at each other Things like that would not disturb Frank of Chicago When she put poison polson In his wine he only re remonstrated re- re remonstrated with his wife gently When she tried to choke him he lock lock- locked ed d himself In his room and waited But when she killed his 30 canary birds he sued for tor divorce Marconi Macconi will be welcomed every every- everywhere everywhere where In America as one of the worlds world's great teachers and tors lie He Is 15 one of many living proofs that ancient genius Inherited from the th Romans still exists and works In our day No nation surpasses es Italy In Its contributions to civilization art science science so- so ence and the elevation of the human race generally No nation has contributed more to the building of this country than Italy through the thousands of good work work- workers ers era and able business men sent here |