Show DR HALES LOVE OF FUN Boston Herald An old friend of the late Dr Edward Everett Hale contributes several charac characteristic characteristic stories of ot the flood of reminiscence cence which has followed the great preachers death One of them has to do with a practical joke which he played while still sUll comparatively a youngster on some girls who were members of the party with whom he was summering on the Massachusetts coast All these girls were reading the same sam exciting novel and one day at dinner It was a leading topic Knowing that none mma of them had finished it Hale Halo unknown to them carried it away with him the next morning when wIlen he lie went to the city On the train he wrote an absurd conclusion conclusion conclusion sion to the novel laying the final scone scene at the summer resort Carrying this bogus conclusion to a pub publisher publisher lisher usher a friend of ot his he had It put In type and then carefully removing the bona bonafide bonafide fide tide conclusion he pasted in his own On his return he placed the book on the piazza and waited The look which spread over a girls face as she read tho last chapter was Dr Hale declared worth going far to see Dr Hale Halo was preeminently pro a man who practiced what he preached his friend writes In the Womans Home Com Companion Companion panion He lIe was constantly following the thelast thelast thelast last of his four famous admonitions and lending a hand himself his own hand Once on a time his Ills travels brought him to a 3 town where a friend of his was edit fritt editing ing a dally daily newspaper When lv hI called on In him lIim this fr tr fren er 1 r folded a 11 tale of woo His wife was ten sen DUSty Ill she had gone Into the country believing that a change of air would do doher dober doher her ber good She was pining for her hus husband husband band and be he was pinIng for her but he had no assistant so If he took a vaca vacation vacation vacation tion the paper must mu t stop Hale listened ed and returning to his hotel sat eat down at athis athis athis his desk Before he got up lp he ha had written with that ready pen of or his enough articles on topics of or contemporaneous us interest to fill flU his friends editorial columns for a week Returning to the sanctum he threw his copy on the editors desk with the remark re remark I mark There now you can go and visit your wife |