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Show STOOTSTOPIf JOE MAHONEY IAMI5L ETON I AiV tMWii HAS ISOM HOYT. WHO GuitX'D PC&JH mahOVFK TO VCTORY, K INC f HOT AMAILIX tVt TO WIN TTC HAfONLt. FACING CLASSIC. CI1VPTLB l , softie going home make the old Tie old neighborhood, even the corner posts, f j ,e!ped set that comer post! tfluber the deadman" at the 1 ok It You can pretty well tell Lner by hu corner posts. If his Zft posts are firmly anchored, id otra.ght and are braced and paired, then you can know fWB it a good farmer. You aee !. wrner post there, leaning now wobbly in the knees? Well. I fed Newt Kennedy plant that It chokes me all up, when I of those days, me helping Newt It-i funny that looking at an old icorner post would ", person up, doesn't it? Newt I boihood hero! I wish I could L xenow so great Big, brawny. l-- ' pecker-eaten tousle-haire- Ijji.nf. d, Newt I was wonderfuL I still ; walk down the road I know so and look at the corner post and is there and i ic!e happens. Newt r. there. People don't set corner ts as well as they used to. Or j ; teems to me. We dug them jj then, stood them straight and them welL Here 1 am moon-- 1 t.t he days and getting But I don't care. of my tenderest memories aclt here on the old farm and my neighbor Newt Kennedy the best a boy ever had. ly certainly he was the best hay I er who ever bent a hickory Le. When Newtd set his three-- k fork into a mound of timothy I heave at that handle, the han-- I would bend up and the hay id go, as big at the top as a y tree as thrilling a sight as old si er the pose-eye- H! 'i stiptttfl res pm quick with the warm laugh Ida had. But she was the talented one In the faintly. She was taking No church social, Sunday school picnic, strawberry festival, or box supper was a success unless Lucy spoke a piece. I can see her now at the quilting bee, standing at the head of the room; the women stop work, a hush falls, then Lucy steps forward and makes a bow lower than the quilting frames, comes up slowly and gracefully, and says: I will endeavor to recite Bingen on the Rhine." It was considered polite to say, I will endeavor," instead of blurting out, "I'll recite." She makes one step forward and lifts her eyes above the heads of the people. In a few moments everybody is choked up over the soldier of the Legion dying away off in Algiers and wanting somebody to take a message back to his family. When she finishes such a hand clapping! Her mother sits there trying to pretend she isn't proud. Everybody knows Lucy is going far. Some day she may even win the state declamation contest. Harlan was a year older than I was; but much stronger, for I was peaked. Harlan never read a book in his life (except at achool, kind of) but that was all right; he knew things I didn't know and could do things I couldnt dream of doing. The Kennedy home was ten minutes down the road from ours. How many times I've paddled along that road, hurrying when getting near, taking my time coming back. For comine back meant work, endless want to see. sit up with the sick I ny Newt could. Mad look out I one could lick 1 of t be going t c '-- bos Bi' they'd sent for old Mr. tell us p a s C A - kinfolks. A hush now. Newt'd told the news and start, Pad say, Homer, rou want to help Newt chore? Cpect he's kind of tired, siftin' night" Pretty soon Newt and oild be walking down the road fd Newt's house, me carrying antern and, from time to time, f.en to fa-- 3g up te rest at Newt, of y ed nen. W Ac Fun as Kennedys Kennedys were about an sized Se family; two girls and f, then there was Grandpa who m the L and smoked dogleg. been a covered-wago- n pio-h- nd shot buffaloes and had ed them with his own hands, WaU in his room was a nth a hole. I loved to look . ihe skull and the hole and to say he had shot i,0 get be wouldnt quite Vi ' f Sometimes he would ask wanted to help him burn wins off the black walnut He woud take a shovel, fill it ) 1 I t I 1 tlen wet tbe ashes with no Then hed hold the blazing nder the nests; the worms egm to heave. Sometimes 051 made me sick. But I allied to go. ihere was Newt. . Everybody ,,im "Newt. Pa and Ma let at' but they made me tx. other Mr. neighbors Mr" Mr. Willhoyte, 0n- ven Mr. Shannon, on ,orty acres and worked Was called Mr Dday Lvph 1 ,, V, Ut v everybody called Kennedy." girl and rtu'Mrs. hi Lb6en a "towu -- 1 b0rn on Mar girl; she was g!r the neighbor$ n Ulere was a voting at ly s. suPPer, Ida always I si,. er, 3d big blue eyes and hairf laa ' and the heartiest, love- 4a,r'ybody ever had in arid Also she was the most t.c, h S, .etH- . w tbe neighborhood; drove their horses Went t0 see her and wnlthe hltch rack; there stand and gnaw the the boy was In b'T rivi top k J ln 6 Some Players Slew in Own Fal Bright and Versatile CMARTLY tailored and so ver- satile the perfect frock to see you handsomely through the winter. Crisp white piping fmishes the neckline, diagonal lines are accented with bright buttons. m base-burn- er trn 144 Daytime Dress well fitting daytime dress that buttons down the back, has cap or three quarter sleeves. 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And that was what every-wantto be a good farmer. u were not a good farmer, you it as well move to town and the jury paneL That's the looked at things. But if owned land and had money in bank, then everything else was 6 g all-tim- back dangling the lantern. Pa would say, holler him in. Sitting at able, he'd have a cup of coffee atsedti it? Theres a Lra coming down the road." 1 3e Newt going to sit up with a I neighbor. The next morning U0E1 djT, and say, ruidow ch ? t-- I Curved Lines Make Smart Trim Tailored and Neat for Winter Del-sart- e. Tody'd i Inches was the width of a spade But the ground was laid open like a wound; and the ground began to wash" erode we later learned to call it That little five-inditch ia now a monstrous, ngry gully; the black loam is going steadily every day, every rain into the Gulf of Mexico. And the geographical location, for those who may wish to know. Is northwest Missouri. It is in the great section the black loam belt and It is almost the exact geographical center of the United States excluding Alaska. I turn out, cars whiz by me, and I think of the first car I ever saw pound along the road; and I think of the horses it scared till they shook and I think of what the farmers SPORTUGHT said which was enough to make the drivers shake. There is the house. Yes, the Kennedy mansion; for their house was bigger and finer than ours. It had two stories; ours one. And theirs had two porches; one in front and By GRANTLAND RICE one behind How many hours I've sat on that front porch and turned YEARS AGO I ran across trifle to be in better shape when the freezer. That yellow SOME old friend. His nan footballs practice opened. When trim that used to look so nice . . . Keene Fitzpatrick of Yale, Mich- you have to spend most of your well, some of its loose; certainly and Princeton. One of the great time lopping off 10 or 20 pounds the igan all of It is dingy; up yonder in the Keene punishment more than fits the trainers, eaves, is a woodpecker hole. One be crime. F i t z patrick of the lightning rods Is out of with Mike But it is twice as tough 20 or 30 longed kilter. Newt would never have alMurphy o f Yale years later. lowed that And the picket fence is and Pennsylvania. shot 1 go in. There is the exact spot I would also like Tack Hardwicks Exampli where the stood. But to add Mike Sweennow it is a crude-o- il burner with who Those feel Tack Hardwicks School Hill of ey not a square inch of isinglass in its recent death more than anyone and Yale. ghastly body. How many times I've else are the Boston kids. F11 Murphy, lain on the floor and gazed. into I have just had a letter from one and Sween- the mysteries of the glowing coals of of the head men of one of Bostons tbree wtere and gone to sleep and been carried GrantUnd Rice the best. So was leading boys clubs. upstairs and put to bed. Johnny Mack. The Irish have it I only wish, he said, that Unconsciously I glance up at the Mike Murphy has been dead every athletic star In this counceiling and my mind flies back to a long time. What a coach, try could only follow Hardthe quiet Sunday afternoon when trainer and Mike philosopher wicks example. Here was one the Kennedy family was gone and was. Not too remember e of Harvards greats, when Harlan and I crept into the him. He was many one of the all- when he cared to. In a living, room to off the musket get sitting time greats. Keene Fitzpatrick wealthy, exclusive society. Yet the wall on Sunday when no gun was another. Keene reported he had been the most active was allowed to be fired. Whang! it at Yale weighing 164 pounds. member of our club for the last went off, tearing a hole in the ceilHe weighed around 164 pounds 28 years. No one had worked ing as big as a sausage cake. I can't at Michigan. He was around 164 harder. Tack came to almost think of that moment yet without pounds at Princeton. every meeting to talk and mix my soul shriveling to the size of a with the kids. They loved him forty-fou- r In look no I God! years Fitzpatrick up. Thank peanut and he loved them. Not long ago hole now. People have come and was never two pounds away from we bad to have 27,000 folders gone in that house since that heart- 164 pounds. I couldnt tell you the were badly needed. Tack that of number times met I Keene and but breaking Sunday afternoon; paid for them all. With Tack it none, I'm sure, ever suffered as and talked over this matter of was all a work of love. Only much as did a couple of boys I weight and age. It is only in the two days before his sudden could put my finger on. later years I appreciated the logic death, he dropped into the ofThere is the table where the old and philosophy of Keenes longfice. stereoscope lay and beside it the time knowledge. box of views. How many times Keene could coach and train Ive had a lot of lucky breaks, I have jiggled the back football, track, rowing and the art he said. But I can tell you this and forth and gazed at Niagara of living. Ive gotten a bigger kick out of the Our Falls in the Winter Time, little Ive been able to do for these Ive never missed a days kids than all the honors Ive ever Martyr President's Funeral Proceswork in 44 years, be said sion President William McKinley, known wearing that big H on my once. never out been of Ive and at The Buffalo Horse Fair. crimson sweater. I wish a lot of condition. There are times other former athletes would do all Yes, this is the room the very when I get upset by watching room that my heart goes flying they could for this younger generaback to, for once I lived and died some of these young fellows tion. We have never given them 19 to 22 years old reportin this room. And Newt did too, from break. I think. I would like to say this was ing for football practice. Too This comes from the Hardof them are many overweight the first time I remember my neighwick that I knew so long. If and soft from a summer that bor, but I cant, for I can no more former athletes, former stars, to wasnt devoted certainly I remember the first time saw Newt cant help the kids no one else than I can my own father. He was keeping in condition. At my age, The boys certainly get litcan. over 60, I could outrun many of always, just as my father waa. And tle help from the politicians, them. seen to Ive them come as he would always be, just my whose main interest is a govfather would. . . . But certainly the early practice at least 25 pounds ernment pay check. incident I am preparing to relate overweight. One man reported The kids today get their thrills was almost the first to make a 15 pounds above his best weight. from the stars of football, baseHe was of little value most of vivid impression on me. ball, boxing, golf, tennis, track, etc. Ihe year. It isnt hard to put on It has already been proved that a excess weight. In fact it is A Body Is Found; big part of juvenile delinquency is to But off take it quite easy. try due to senior stupidity. and see what happens. Its Epidemic Strikes Close Sport has done a fair share in Ill call It the Vaccinating. For hard, slow work. the juvenile tangle. It has helping that is what we call it. And here A man of 50 or 60 should try to done a share than any other it is. as it comes winging back to Keep his weight close to what it was form ofbigger our social organization. me through the years. Yes, getting at 25 or 30. He might be a few But the raw fact is that the old. But not in memory. That is very pounds heavier, but the difference civilization we know today new and bright, indeed. And pre- should be slight. has never approached the dream cious. There were more than a few of Tack Hardwick and others who I am shocked, as I look back fellows this past September understood the problem of young todays across the valley of years, to re- who would have given more than a youth in the big cities. member how crude were our medibut it never cal accommodations occurred to us they were crude; in fact, we were thankful we were so fortunate and got along so well. Smallpox was what we dreaded most. When it struck, there were stories of people being buried at night; and of a father carrying a child in a coffin on his shoulder because no one would go near; then burying the child alone. One day smallpox struck close and terrifyingly. A farmer climbed the ladder into his mow to hay the KEEP HOGS FREE OF horses anu there was a dead man. LICE INEXPENSIVELY. The coroner was sent for; the neighSUITABLE LENGTHS bors stood around waiting and talkOF PIPE CONTAINING ing. The coroner made an examination, then went away as fast as he y6" HOLES ARE could and brought back the county FITTED WITH POINTED doctor. The body was got out of, WOODEN STAKES AND WRAPPED WITH BURLAP haymow and taken to the paupers SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS r second girl, not so Ida and not so Ida was the older girl; she was the prettiest girl in the neighborhood; when there was a voting at a cove oyster supper, Ida always won. work it seemed to me. I would help work at the Kennedys, but it never seemed like work. But ah! at that age nobody wants to work at home. It was hard to work at home; but it was fun to work at Newts. How many nights Ive stayed at the Kennedy home and never did I stay there when it wasnt fun. Summer that and winter Ive plodded stretch of road; in winter I got out and helped scoop. For I didn't want a road block between us and the Kennedys. Sometimes it seemed I was there as much as I was at home. There was always something going on at the Kennedy house; it made ours seem dull. I was not allowed to have a firearm, but Harlan had musket that would a muzzle-loadin- g off a mule. But shoulder the kick that didnt keep us from firing the Sometimes at school shoulder-kille- r. we would peel off our shirts and show the other boys the black and blue marks. It made us heroes. And never never did Newt tell us we couldnt go out and bang away . . . yet Pa wouldnt let me keep a gun on the place. More Memories Not All Pleasant No girls at our house, so, in a way, Ida and Lucy were my sisters. were both older and to me. They tremendously glamorous. Especialbeaus. ly Ida, who had so many in this Softie, indeed. Sometimes harsh world it doesnt hurt a person to lean a little to the sentimental. So now I am at home; for that is what the old farm, the old neighborhood and the old neighbors are. I like to walk down the road by myself walk between the osage cornfields and hedgerows and the the lespedeza and look in reality at the things burned so deep in my memory. But it is not all pleasant. For instance, there is a sight that takes my heart and squeezes till my heart hurts For this is the slojgh where Newt dug a ditch to help water The carry off the surface a plow had grass; was slough grass much wasn't It it. in set never been the of a ditch; really just a slit in wide and a inches five ground, That five quarter of a mile long .ej plot And now, ln no time at all, everybody had to be vaccinated. But this had been done before, so our pec-pie knew how to go about it A man was chosen from every neighborhood to go to town, get the antitoxin and have the county doctor show him how to vaccinate. Usually the same person in a neighborhood did the vaccinating each time, but our man had moved away, so Newt was chosen. I can imagine (now that I am older and possibly a little wiser) how he dreaded to go and yet how much he wantec to go. (TO BE CONTINUEm BOOT LACES BY TWO PIECES Of INNR.1U8E. PERFORATE THE EDGES SO THEY MAY BE SLIPPED OVER THE HOOKS OF BOOT TOPS. , nidi Mi n J,r3Packa8es , ' ; i n S at a time. When you wan it there it is! times as many 01 3 women prefer tt FIEISCHMAIIII'S YEAST |
