| Show I L Dancing New York Diana on Thrilling Honeymoon II I I By Dy MARGUERITE MOOERS WOOERS MARSHALL Sitting all alone beside a II huge campfire with a shotgun across her knees while a band of hungry lions roamed d and roared oa and hunted fl jib zebra In arh the b bush about her crouching behind a a. thorn fence while a 0 huge male lion walked up within ln four feet et of It from ro a a. tree tte platform watching hl lionesses e and d their cubs play In tho the moonlight as a cat plays plas with her kittens In a single evening eve eve- ning killing with Just two shots two full tull grown lions one lions one of them the third largest largest larg larg- est ext ever shot by anybody that that Is Mrs Jeanette Heals Healys Idea of the way to spend a happy honeymoon o Mrs aH Healy i rs Is a New oY York rk girl pretty and brown eyed and 23 who married Augustine Healy head of a big Chicago music house Two years and eight months ago they started on a a. honeymoon honeymoon honeymoon honey honey- moon which should be different It was Eschewing conventional Europe the Healys followed Kipling's poetic In Injunction Injunction jn- jn junction and took themselves somewhere somewhere somewhere some where east of Suez where the best Is like the worst where there aint no ten I commandments and a a. man can raise a athirst thirst They lived In China a. a They h lived i I In a h ve o j h houseboat moored In F Far Ba tern wa a They hunted bear in Th bet They hunted tiger In India To put the crowning finish Oi on their adventurous newly wedded life they went last t July to Africa to hunt lions leopards r efe elephants a and rhino hl o They have Just returned to New few eW York en route to th Ir lr Chicago home horne and It was In front of a II daintily appointed dressing table at the e Plaza z that I found o Mrs Healy looking o I tf not a particle l the worse for lor all her hardships B She Is a afrank afrank afrank frank faced young wom woman n of ot medium height with a supple charmingly modeled modeled mod mod- u ha af Wf r reyes I figure a pair of big beautiful e brown browneyes browneyes eyes and the simplest possible manner of describing her e hair r raising f. f adventures v eTt In view of tt her ner record C d dr bag of lions i It was the African expedition which I asked her to talk about We set out the first of last July she began My l husband myself William Judd a most remarkable guide he went out with Roosevelt our gun bearers about twenty-five twenty Masai Masal porters mules an ox wagon and a Ford Ve Ye were go goin going going go- go in ing Into British East Africa We had no horses for there had been a a. good deal of horse sickness about the time we started And you get so dreadfully tired of riding or riding or rather walking on walking on a mule Its regular gait is a walk So So whenever we could we slipped Into the Ford We Ye could use It except In the roughest countr county coun coun- tr ty- ty Our luck b began gan when we we reached the edge of ot the game reserve south of ot Nairobi Nai Nal- robi In British East We AVe had heard lions roaring around the campfire for several nights It Is la the most eerie sound like Ilke nothing else In the world No mat mat- I I i ui- ui ter how often orten you ou C Chear hear It you you never cease to get a thrill One morning my g husband i Mr i. i Judd and nd myself with 11 our bearers were advancing on ahead of or the porters Mr Judds Judd's gun bearer was ten feet In front of ot the rest of us Suddenly he turned and whispered lion Ve We slipped from our mules and took the best cover we could In the tall tan grass Brass BrassI grassI rass I I was half dead with excitement We Ve waited a minute or two and then we I II saw siw the lion a lion a male with a heavy mane But he was too far and c he e stood O on r the et edge of t tOt thorn t bush Into which U it I w would not have paid to follow him bin So Sowe Sowe I we had our first look at and nd that was all We kept on through the grass country and finally made our camp on the opposite opposite opposite site side of a rl river er which we crossed That night Mr Heal Healy and Mr l Judd deI decided de do- elded to try to get a shot t at the lions i g gT ai from a machan macban That Is a wooden o plat plat- form built In a II tree on which the hunters hunters hunt hunt- ers lie with their guns To attract the lion a dead zebra is dragged along the ground and left leU about thirty feet away The machan macban Is big enough for lor only two at a time timO so I sta stayed ed in camp You OU have nave a bl bit big fire they told me and you'll be all right The fire was built and the themen themen themen men started off oft taking with them of course o the heavy guns I was left t with witha ehl t g idIn In ah b a shotgun ig which would id not have been e more than five rIve feet away from a lion Hon The dead zebra had been dragged from the camp to the machan It was pretty high high It It had been killed some time he before and fore and the lions promptly smelled It As soon as It was waa dark they began circling the camp roaring loudly loudl The native h boys ol were nearly darr frightened djU to death and all n climbed I b trees I wax was Just Justas justa a as scared but of course as a 3 white person person per per- son I couldn't afford to show it Presently I heard hearl a loud splashing and knew that a a. herd of zebra were crossing the river rl 1 I knew too from their movements that they were being hunted by lions I sat eat as close dose as 35 I 1 could to the big fire with the shotgun across roy ray lap Every now and then I could see the gleam of ot a lions lion's e eyes ees es In Inthe Inthe inthe the darkness beyond the fire tire 1 I L stayed that way tm till after 11 o'clock By that time all an the lions apparently had d found the trail of the zebra dragged to the I machan and hard luid drawn off ott I I told the m men about t It when they came hack back lh Ih the morning and they I said they had ha an ati even more exciting time added Mrs Healy Two lionesses lion lion- lionesses esses eases and their cubs were feeding on I the dead zebra near the machan macban waco a young male came up Uv and drove droye of off I. I the cubs This resulted at once olce In ma a vicious tight light between the lion Lad Sud nd tb the mother lionesses lionesses-a a very unusual sight Mrs l Healys Healy's r. r experience with lions came the following night when she and I her husband went vent to he machan Only lionesses and their cubs cube visited the zebra bait that night and Mrs Sirs Healy told I me with soft enthusiasm they were the I sweetest things In the world The They leaped and played in the moonlight and the cubs would pull mothers' mothers tails talis I wouldn't have havo shot one for tor anything anything- it would have been too cruel A few days later they they went Int into the elephant t country and there Mr MI r Healy got one of the beasts Then M Mr Judd said sald Well We'll ell build a a. boma near the dead elephant and see If It we can get a a. lion Mrs Healy re re- re called A boma i ia Is a heavy thorn fence about six or eight feet high built in a circle It is usually perfect protection to t the hunter who crouches c behind It and d puts t his I rifle through the I e Lions have been to leap It but seldom do soWe soWe so We e made the bona boma and got Inside with our guns After we had waited ft a for some o t time a lioness s appeared D ed We didn't want her Then came a a. big male lion Hon He walked calmly up to the boma until he came to the thorns strewn on the ground outside It for tor about four tour or five feet teet from the tho wall I shifted my rifle to aim at him and arid he must have caught a gleam In the moonlight for tor he bounded away Mr Hr Judd said that lions rarely approached so BO near and that if he came close again I must shoot In a afeW afew afew few minutes s he was back once more making straight a toward my end of the boma o i He stopped about t five feet etO away from me although all I r could see was the blur of ot his white chest I shot at him and him and missed confessed the huntress huntress huntress hunt hunt- ress ruefully You wouldn't think anybody any any- body fg could miss at that distance but I Idid Idid did In the meantime she had achieved an another another another an- an other of the desires of her heart the shooting of a leopard and a a. few tew days later came her great moment The party was moving Into a country where the natives said lions were plentiful On the route there was an old machan macban built some time before by Mr Judd where he said he had always had good luck He Re sU suggested that they s spend e a night lg there My husband st d thild and I settled ourselves r rs on the wooden platform about 6 Ii o'clock one evening said Mrs Healy We Ve waited perhaps s an hour before we saw a a. alion lion although we heard them all about us First there came a young male lion We Ve could see him through tho the moonlit hAze laze and when he be seemed to be In a 0 position to shoot we wo turned the tho electric Flashlight full on him I brought him down clown with one shot from tho big I used It was quiet for tor a a. while after that and then we heard a II very loud roaring which came carde nearer and nearer Suddenly It stepped stopped and for twenty minutes there wasn't n II sound The lion had paused pause the tho out ground of o sight eight before In r the proceeding cover n to Ot further Investigate f g gl At l length he came Into view and my husband husband hus hue band said at once a II huge fellow tellow you'd better take him I aimed carefully carefully care care- fully tully when he was about thirty feet teet away and I got ot him with one shot through the head l Ir Mrs Healy narrated with justifiable though quiet tion What do you suppose os happened n next J Yg rf g The pair of blase I admitted I to each other that they didn't think they could keep awake till morning and they were dreadfully afraid the h hyenas enas would I spoil the tho two lions lions' MrS MrS' Healy had shot So they rigged a a. lighted lantern on a apiece apiece apiece piece of ot rope and hung It down from he hemachan hemachan hemachan machan where It would sway In the wind to scare off oft marauding brutes brute Mr Healy pr promptly IY dropped P o off to 1 gm slumber Mrs T Healy H f Kept e t awake a long enough to see a few lionesses strollIng strollIng stroll- stroll Ing log around quite Indifferent to the corpses of or the lions and finally to behold behold behold be be- hold a young male lion In tho very act of ot cannibalism He had actually sprung on the e eC back C of the big lion lo she had s shot when 1 es s she made eth a noise and n scared gd gds him himoff r roW of off oW We found the bruise of ot his teeth In Inthe Inthe inthe the morning she told me roe although Mr Judd said he be had never heard heat of ot such a a. athing athing thing before He also told me when my lion was skinned that it was the third largest ever killed 1 in Africa Did you enjoy your trip I asked It was perfectly wonderful declared this Diana of ot today The worst thing was wax the water you felt all the time that you were drinking liquid mud But I Iwas Iwas Iwas was never seriously Ill The boys all aU be behaved behaved behaved be- be haved beautifully and 1 I never enjoyed anything so 80 muc much in my life Ufe With I l Mrs Healy a the champion lady 1080 II lion hunter n a and Mrs Alfred lf 3 Y Gowan Cowan 1 the e only woman to s sail around u the world In a foot 98 motor yacht c America aW this jear nar seems to be hanging up the sportswoman's sportswoman's sportswoman's sports sports- womans woman's record |
