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Show THE BULLETIN Ten years sgo there died in Orlando, Fla., a man whose writing career paralleled that of Luis P. Senarens and the other writers of the nickel libraries and boys' weeklies but whose literary product differed greatly from theirs. He was Kirk Munroe and during tSe period from 1890 to 1910 one of the biggest events of the year JAMES W. BARTON for Young America was the ap- By DR. THESE days when the pearance of a new book which had come from his industrious is becoming more pen. and a continent Munroe was a descendant of or an ocean can be spanned Col. William Munroe, who was an a half in about orderly sergeant in the Minute Men of Lexington, Mass., when day, more and TODAY'S they fired the opening guns of the more of our HEALTH Revolution. He was born on April boys and young 15, 1850, at Prairie du Chien, Wis., where his father and mother, both men are consid- COLUMN New Englanders, were living in a ering aviation mission. He was educated in the as a career. They feel that common schools of Appleton, the professions are crowded Wis., and later in the schools at and that aviation offers an exCambridge, Mass., where his parcellent opportunity for fame ents returned for a brief time. and fortune. To the Frontier. When he was sixteen he perDuring the last war I examsuaded his father to allow him ined many recruits for the air to spend his vacation in Kansas service, an examination that City, Mo., which was then a fron- differed to some extent from tier town. He reached that place just as a surveying party under that of the other branches of Gen. W. J. Palmer was preparing the service as to eyesight, to explore the vast region west of sense of balance and Kansas City. By making him- hearing, of heart and lungs. condition self useful about the camp of this the and physician examinsurveying party, Today exploring young Munroe secured a job as a ing recruits for the air serv"tape man." Thereafter, for ice or commercial service nearly a year, the boy traveled gives an even more searching examand camped through the wilds. He ination. saw much of Colorado, Arizona, Dr. Samuel E. Brown, M. C, in New Mexico and California. Rocky Mountain Medical Journal, He was engaged in numerous skirmishes with hostile Indians, says: an aviation candi"In was wounded, frequently went date aexamining complete hiitory should be Pattern Z372 hungry and thirsty and suffered obtained. Regard in the biting cold of those western less of physical findHpHESE slippers are in easy chet with angora popcorn trim plains and mountains. Once he ings s history of the was the guest of Kit Carson at the bed socks in star stitch with following should be Fort Garland, Colo. He associconsidered as dis- loop stitch trim. Pattern 2372 conated with pioneers, soldiers, westqualifications for tains directions for making dipern bad men and Indians. He waa pers and bed socks in any deflying training. well acquainted with Buffalo Bill "L Encephalitis sired size; illustrations of them Cody. letharica sleeping and stitches; materials required; In California he found a job as sickness or any photograph of pattern stitches. a transit man, and after he had Send 15 cents in coins for this accompanied aaved sufficient money he took by diplobia (seeing pattern to The Sewing Circle, passage for South America, double) and sleepiNeedlecraft Dept., 82 Eighth Ave., where he traveled extensively beness because of the New York, N. Y. Dr. Barton fore returning to Cambridge. chances of the re Please write your name, adturn of the symptoms. dress and pattern number plainly. "2. Syphilis, due to the possibility of latent or late effects. "3. Repeated attacks of asthma or hay fever. "4. Recent attacks of malaria, on I account of lower resistance, the unPlowing the Sea certainty of a cure, and the sudden I Real R7f Ri'n.or.F I I and extreme changes in temperature encountered in flying. Benign Deajneu "5. Organie heart disease. To eliminate the annual damage "6. Recurrent (occurring from time to time) sttacks of any form of $500,000 to submarine cables by fishing trawlers off the coast of of rheumatism, due to its likelihood Ireland, the lines are now buried of heart complications. "7. Paroxysmal tacchycardia (at- in the ocean bed by means of a tacks of very rapid beating of the new sea plow that automatically heart) owing to the probability of makes a deep furrow, inserts and covers the cable, even at a depth having an attack while flying. Student Pilots Need Thorough Health Check 'Noname; Author Of Famed Nickel Novels, Is Dead Luis P. Senarens Was the Creator of Fabulous Frank Reade Jr. iiptK 4V wnwmi ifn 11 IN nvihPf m tu Tw rni nur iUaVUtflU souhxsni Uluilltd.lv rtt.l air-mind- rV Storfaf a Sim kmmi it WwM Mr By ELMO SCOTT WATSON (Beleaaed by Western Newspaper Union.) the RECENTLY country association which said: press NEW the a brief dispatch P. YORK.-L- uis seventy-si- x Sen-aren- years a, old, often called the "American Jules Verne' who wrote 1,500 dime novels under 27 pseudonyms between 1876 and 1910, died from heart trouble yesterday in Kings county hospital. Senarens, who began his extraordinary career at the age of fourteen, created the fabulous Frank Reade and forecast in fiction many modern mechanical developments. Son of an immigrant Cuban tobacco merchant, Senarens got his inspiration as a boy from visiting the Philadelphia Centennial exposition in 1876. At sixteen he was earning $200 a week and at thirty he became president of the Frank Tousey Publication company, which published all his works. bald the Air" was a 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 Thus was revealed, for the of the air and ship of the ship first time perhaps, to thou-- sea, or in other words a sort of cigar-shape- driven by two propellers, below which is suspended a land-bowith 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 or taking off. Perhaps the most extraordinary 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, was an observation platform on which were built two turrets and in front of the cabin was d cannon. mounted a If the "red devils" escaped destruction by the shots from this cannon, they could be impaled upon a sharp ram-lik- e projection from the front of the "clipper." This ram was also useful in getting a supply of fresh meat for Frank and his friends, for the picture on the cover of this particular volume indicates that it was used also for impaling buffalo! Incidentally the "clipper" was propelled by steam on caterpillar-tread wheels which indicates that our "modern" caterpillar tractors are "old stuff." According to Edmund Pearson in his "Dime Novels; or, Following an Old Trail in Popular Literature" (published by Little, Brown and Company in 1929), the Frank Tousey firm of which Senarens was president in addition 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 of the other Frank Tousey publications but it is not unlikely that Senarens, who was the "Noname" of the Frank Reade Jr. yarns, also wrote most of the others under one of the 27 pseudonyms mentioned in the obituary story quoted at the beginning of this article. at We are greatly forecast of our modern seaplanes. By the next year, 1895, Frank had had another idea for air "Noname" called it travel. "Frank Reade Jr.'s Greatest Flying 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. is modern science and inventive skill produces a "mechanical man" who can speak and give the correct answer to problems propounded to him when the right buttons are pressed. But back in 1890 Frank Reade Jr. had an "electrical man" who could do most of those things. If Henry Ford and the other motor car makers had read more of nickel novels, the course of automobile design might have been far different. For Frank Reade Jr. had a horse made of steel with jointed legs, driven by a steam engine inside. This anid mal was attached to a vehicle in the same location where the automakers attached an engine covered with a "hood" of steel. Four years later Frank Reade was staging a race around the world for a purse of $10,000. He was piloting his flying boat, which is amazingly like a modern auto-girand his opponent in the race was Jack Wright, diving through the seas in his submarine which had a neat, conning tower. In fact, Frank was a must versatile designer of flying machines. His "Monitor of Strange Facts 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. 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 aa 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 an- A ; :; frtxf0'm a? ft. av kMH mm aifcv kill I HVHUV WllUUU aalU AlAVll.tVl tt?lfelpit tir;li IVieml VA VMVAMiJ - "No-name'- ' solid-tire- o, glass-enclose- designed for the youth of the nation, and the editorship of this magazine was offered to Munroe at a salary of $30 a week, about of the pay he had been receiving. Nevertheless, he accepted this offer and began his duties. The magazine was immediately 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 After publishing the volumes. first few of these books Munroe gave up his editorial duties to devote himself entirely to writing. He had married Miss Msry Barr, daughter of Amelia Barr, the novelist, and a contributor to the magazine, and together they traveled extensively, both for pleasure and to collect the material for tories. After the death of his Me, he moved to Coconut Grove, Fla., a suburb of Miami, a place ,'hich he had visited as a youth n a canoe and had become one of .he pioneers snd founders of that jommunity before Miami was a own. He lived in seclusion in Coconut Grove for many years and in 1921 married again, this time to Miss Mabel Slearnp daughter of William F. Steam of Amherst, Mars. one-thi- rd .)( Once "8. Stone in the kidney. "8. A history of an operation on the mastoid bone behind the ear, or a definite history of chronic inflammation of the middle ear. unless there have been no symptoms for a period of six months." The fact that the boy or young adult has a history of any of the above condiUons does not mean that he should give up the Idea of trying to fly; some of the above condiUons can be corrected by regular and more he went West to Kansas treatment There are City, but this time he was not so persistent successful in finding work, since some of the above conditions which the labor of surveying was tem- cannot be corrected in sufficiently to which treatpermit flying but porarily suspended, and he came ment can be of considerable benefit back East a A Star Reporter. other field. Harper's started a magazine called Harper's Young People, a I t .vwm impressed when ed mm good-size- sands of Americans the identity of one of their favorite authors back in the days of their youth when they tasted of forbidden fruit be revelling in the adventures of Fred Fearnot, Young Wild West, Old King Brady and especially Frank Reade Jr. For this brief obituary item unmasks, at last, the mysterious, tantalizing "Noname" whose imagination conjured up for the use of the ingenious Frank a host of mechanical marvels which seemed weirdly improbable then but are commonplace enough today. Slippers, Bed Socks Quickly Crocheted d , , of 2,400 feet 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 in the departments because the roaring, clanging noise would soon make physical wrecks of those with normal hearing. Collier's. shot-blasti- Apoplexy Patient Must Live Normally FIGHT COLDS situations for ONE of the difficult patient his family, and bis physician is when s patient regains consciousness after his first stroke of This is understandable apoplexy. because the patient family and physician all have the same question in mind, "Will there be another stroke and when will it occur?" A second stroke may never occur and yet it may occur within a few days, or not perhaps for years. What should be the attitude of all concerned after a stroke occurs? While no one should close his eyes and thoughts entirely to the possibility of another stroke, the best way to prevent another stroke or delay it as long as possible is not to allow the patient to consider himself an invalid or a very sick individual. When it is considered safe for him to be up and around he should get back into his regular routine of life gradually but rapidly, so that the "fear" of another stroke will not get so many chances to occupy his mind. Anxiety Begeta Fear. Or. O. C Perkins in New York State Journal of Medicine, says: "When the patient regains consciousness snd realizes that he has had a "stroke," anxiety begets fears and there is the element of worry to treat These patients should not be kept in bed too long. The physician should take the patient into his confidence and explain what has Tf yw tote eoa eU fight afitr aaethar. awrsiwHBwl nml Mn. B&abtth Victory WitWi "I Uttd If caM wMf Nty euily. Dr. PimJt GtUn Utdicml Dixny htlpti tu happened." A tiny blood vessel is broken. Rest will heal it and that rest of mind and body, and eating, small meals will prevent a rise in blood pressure snd so prevent s stroke. 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