Show WARNING W G 0 OF F THE I aaa I LOOKOUT I aaa I Those Who Disregard Advice of Parents in Same J Danger as Careless Ships Ship's Captain Captain By ADA PATTERSON lOll 1011 above aboc the sand of the beach stands what resembles a H HIGH cabin on oil stilts Within this cabin open at every si side e for oi unobstructed view in every direction a man sits as a Turk during his smoking hour Brown faced stalwart red legged keen eye eyed is this tins man You might think him a bather resting up lip aloft while he watches the antics of or other bathers unless you ou happen to note the in ing tenseness of his of his far bronze features and the straining strain strain- I out at eyes sea The rue anxious eyes ees sweep the beach from enl end to end note the crowded hundreds of bathers and rest lon longest cst on the dark lark spots farthest out lf t at sea bobbing as corks on the tile waves At la last L a hoarse warning cry breaks from him hun The rhe lifeboat he calls and m men n slip 44 r the long wIllIe white craft that has been resting on L c l r S t the 11 beach into the p water ater One of the bronzed i 1 v men lounging in bathing costume on the beach springs into the thc watchers watcher's place and the man you have been watching is is down with a bound He leaps into the lifeboat and is off to the tIle spot where a second before he had seen three spots appear where on one had been Two arms had been flung upward and they and the head nead had sunk It may be ten minutes It ma may be a half hour before th the man comes back Water ater drips drip from his bro brown bron n arms Theres There's a a. gash cash on his powerful powe-ful red leG where It had been brushed by the boat as aa he went down Into the tho mystery of the green preen wa waves v s But there there's something resting In the bottom of or the boat It leans against his knee It Is very pale Pille and Its eyes eyS are arc closed He lie lifts It from the boat bont and carries It to the lie little hospital where a nurse waits alts to complete the work ho he has begun beg You see ee tho the figure a a. little later flushed now and frightened and a bit ashamed Still wearing her bathing suit she makes her way with ft L curious crowd following to the tho figure up aloft In the little cabin on stilts stills I 1 thank you she called caned up to him Mm for tor saving 83 my life Ufe He looks down at her bar composedly and I answers all aU right fight Better Botter not I go tio out so far taro His IDa eyes strain out eat agaIn r tn to sea The lookout says Mys the crowd and disperses dis ds- ds perses again breaking Into little groups and Quickly forgetting that It has hoa wit witnessed I. I seed nc-seed a a. rescue that a a. life Ute has been saved While WhiTe we rest and doze dose on our deck chairs on a a. trans Atlantic steamer a n. man stands as ae far at the front of or tho the boat as aa ashe ho he can go and he strains his eyes to sea He ue Is looking for tor derelicts wreckage that drifting aimlessly and valueless can yet Injure a a. vessel flowing It Its determined wa way through the sea If It ho la is near the shore he looks for tor rocks The trained straining eyes may see lee the jagged edges of or these rocks cutting the tho water or they may see them beneath tho the surface where we e see seo only the lapping laughing waves In a fog tog he ma may see a a. far tar wraithlike shape that in a few rew minutes minute will re resolve ol e itself into a 11 steamer or an nn Iceberg where he ho had discerned a L gray enveloping en mist b bHe He too is a lookout His face taco Is tanned b by the wind His eyes are arc used to lookIng looking looking look look- ing long Ions distances and seeing what others untrained and careless do not and the I shin ship would not h be he safe te for n a sixtieth I of ot an hour were It not for tor or him and such as da lie he How grave are aro their fcc aces how bow thou thoughtful the eyes how lios' wal warning the lie hands of the lookouts who sit alt at tho thu edge edgo of th the sea SM or who cross It with UP us Thc They are those who wiio ho know and who would save us from rom dangers that Impend a and at which we Wr being I Ignorant lau laugh h. h The mother over whose face taco once pretty prett and youthful gravity hangs always as a veil the father who says Sty to Ms lila 1 son Ron On M My boy I may be bo a bit old fashioned but the tho teacher who knows when the lesson must roust be bo learned the clergyman clergy clergy- man who seeing our feet ble bleedIng bleeding bleed bleed- tI Ing on material paths tries to lead us to the spiritual the tho doctor o who tells tell us ua wo eat cat too much or too fast fact or we sleep too little arc are lifes life's lookouts nil of them and If It we laugh at them We wo ar arft ara liable to meet tho the same me fate tate as aa th the cap cap- tam tain tain who ho feasting refused to listen to the words of his lookout Wo We o aro are approaching approaching approaching ap ap- ap- ap an nn Iceberg We may be lost and nJ liku the captain others may bo ho lost because of us us There are lookouts sitting on th the shore of ot humanity's sea straining their eyes eye for the bobbing heads far tar out on ozi the waves aves Wo We 0 call thorn them reformers and we weare aro are liable to smile at their earnestness e s But there thero Is a a. great deal for them to do and the man man or woman with a great deal dealto to do has hM little time for tor lest jeet and sees tragedy where we with careless vision see tee only gayety They see bathers cresting creating the little tittle small waves laughing carefree heedless but tho the lookout sees what the bath bather r doe does not a great engulfing wave rearing UK its black head bead towering mountainous above the swimmer Tho Tim little waves have been casual Interests ts passing faults but that great towering engulfing wave Is a 11 sui su au su supreme i preme emotion a dominant passion a purpose that will sweep us from our feet will carry us IS far tar out to sea sel will p drown us in its black embrace That Is what the lookout sees That Is 18 why his hoarse cry rings out Tho lifeboat I Th The lifeboat |