Show t l. l Si r 1 i r f s Y i it ly i t J r II I II I U I i V t 1 r ry N Nu OJ O J y t tIt It 11 t J A ti t t 1 I w u c 1 w r c r yi yiu i P Ii t. t I u i tr tf i t d L J 2 r Tc V I t A r S 4 I TT he was teas the poet poet poet-it it was teas a poet fy WHOEVER if who it-who who first asked the tM question What i id Love had the germ perm of a fairly i Interesting thought Only he did not carry it itar far ar farenough enough Maybe it was wets all right enough for or tho fashioned eld fashioned day in which ho he lived but he ho c W was not trot a poet o of 0 f long vision He should have framed its his query to meet conditions ahead aMad Certain amatory adventures which recently helve ve forced their way into the news columns of papers paper all over the United States suggested that the thc tiling which needs answering is not flOt What Vhal is love but u What hat is ts the peak peal of ones one's ability to love lovel Or be to brief your loving limit Its It's sort of 0 like trying to find ou out what is 18 the seating capacity the tho going sea tonnage ton ton- tutee nage the passenger accommodations the mark stark of Love By Frank Dall Dallam WE E all aU have hn a pretty good idea of what love lovo loveis is from such authorities as Henry Drummond Drummond Drum Drum- mond on down to Lew Dockstader who used to touy toy eay in his uplifting lectures that love lovo is an itch ing that we cannot scratch The data dab desired now Is how many foo pounds foot hors horsepower power ohms watts or whatever it is one measures love lovo by can cana a medium healthy average man stand up under without being prostrated by overwork overwork overwork-or or Overplay overplay over Over- play as you will In other words What's your loving limit Are Arc you one of those fellows like that Colombia Comm Colum bia bla University senior of this year who confessed nay nay boasted that boasted that he not only had never loved but bat that he be had never kissed Or are aro you Lorenzo whose hearts heart's horizon goes no further than J Jessica a Jessica a Lorenzo who in time will be Darby numbed and blinded to adventure adventure ad ad- venture beyond Joan Are Arc you sure cock-sure complacent thick Jack lack Falstaff with elastic clastic affections who committed committed com com- the absurd blunder of making love lovo to two chums at the tho came same time King Henry VIII of England displayed played soma class with that roll call of wives of his revealing revealine speed besides endurance and with the two Lou Louis 3 and Quinze of France held Jointly th tho amateur loving lovins championship of Europe for or man many years The three set a n mark of conspicuous Gus ous durability but the tho championship eventually passed to America as is it has in in all nIl other lines of y in and outdoor sports However now the sport is under undergoing ing revival among amateurs The modest admissions of Mess Sergeant Larry Hogan nogan down at Kelly Flying Field in in Texas and tho ho unwilling confession of lACk Jack Roy Dew who tell fell into the tho clutches of or the law in Los Loa Angeles because he loved so co avidly BO so voraciously so facilely show these two YOUng young Americans to bo be running about neck neck and neck and in the Tender Hearts Derby It is interesting to note how their methods varied ed Hogan Bogan of a name to suggest fiery Irish b Impetuosity appears to have been a cynical blade Wade This Is J Jack ck Dew Whose t Wife fife Says Says' Ja Jack Jacc 1 Has Been in Love Loyc with More lore d Girls Girl rs s Than There Are Stones in the Washington Monument l 1 r i r a R 1 1 ya A s i r r r f a tt ki G. G 1 c j I co 1 a i 0 I. I e 1 Me Mess Less Sergeant La Larry H Hogan Mo 1 ry gan Modestly estly Admits Corresponding With Girls but tut j v 4 Here C Comes me Jack Dew Derv Described as the th I Greatest Love Dove Pirate of Modern Times k v l t fr ill 1 w 4 j. j f. f f fi i D. D rl well nigh cold blooded in his systematic nt c cJ J procedure 1 Mr i Roy Dew he Dew he should have ha his name namo and called himself Roi Doux seems Doux-seems seems to have been a self starting self starting automatic kind of a lover who just oozed affection wholesale bestowing it liberally upon every female who drifted or fluttered flut flut- fluttered within his three-mile three limit Either one of them would have made the dear dearold dearold dearold old Colonel in Hoyt's The Milk White Plug Flag a dawdling rd r I Colonel ask aste o t l The Widow in that delightful delight delight- ful farce as ns the bi mustached warrior was fabricating violent lo Ian do you think you you could be true to me Madame he replied with vibrating pride in his prowess I am nm certain of it why Ive I've been true to a hundred women Maybe it is such as Hogan Hog and Dew who have made the Hoyt farces old fashioned Now this here Larry Hogan may have been only a mess sergeant but there was nothing messy messy messy mes mes- sy or haphazard about bout his work He lie was a Foch when it came canje to prescience strategy and caution He had a card index of his damours that was fairly birly Prussian in thoroughness Exposure of Sergt Hogans Hogan's sweet duplicity came about oddly enough and as in other debacles through an entirely unexpected agency An orderly orderly orderly or or- derly whose duty it was vas to fetch mail to and from irom the camp post office and the outfit to which nogan Hogan Hogan Ho Ho- gan belonged became miffed because the postbags were so heavy He ne watched the ou outgoing tide of Af correspondence and discovered that more than three-fifths three of the daily letters were to girls andall and andall andall all addressed in in the flowing hand band writing of tho the energetic mess sergeant Card Indexed Love Affairs Next he took to tc hanging around when the incoming incoming in coming mail sacks were being emptied An Alpino of notes for the sergeant Then ho lio cunningly commented upon the doings in front of 01 ofa a n second lieutenant which eventually didn't make it any easier for the humble bumble mess sergeant Really Real Real- ly Jy lya Jya a a poisonous thing to tc do A few nights later this hearted black orderly was on leave in San Antonio and meeting up with a girl at a nut sundae counter was asked by y her casually if he knew a mess sergeant named Hogan Did he het hetHe He told all about Hogans Hogan's strong pen arm and hb bo bottomless inkpot I r carry the mail he said and de rued if I dont don't think he writes all an his love lave letters in sate cate like they ao do everything in the army theres there's so many of or m fm Good night said id the lady I must mast be bo getting getting get get- ting on home hom now That next afternoon Sunday the young woman woman wom worn an was a visitor at nt Kelly Field So was a second victim from another Texas city a n fact which denoted de do noted retribution closing around the reprehensible d ble Hogan There was a right smart argument when the pair met and it required two firm but gentle M. M Ps P.'s to escort escort tho the girls out of camp Hogan as the cause of it all aU was haled before his c. c o. o and the whole amazing story was bared This shameless mess sergeant with no more moro blushes than a marble cupid told all Ho He got t out his records his bis diary his day books and ledgers It was a job for the company auditor The Tho total of his feminine correspondents for the duration of the war was the startling sum of Just think of it I More than eight times that number of love Jove letters written and never missing a der Some system I r II With the aid of his trusty card index and his cautiously compiled secret code and carbon copies of all letters the mess sergeant was able to avoid the ordinary pitfalls spread for easy letter write writ writ- e ers Never once did he confuse Nancy with Nanon Nanon Na Na- non he kept Lucy and Lucille far apart in their epistolary paths he did not mix Nell who liked chocolate eclairs with Eleanor who liked chocolate chocolate choco choco- late nougats Betty who sent him the handkerchief handkerchief chief chie was not confounded with Bessie Bessle who sent the khaki socks He lie never ne forgot that it was Mary whom he called honey bug and that it whom he called lady mine was Marie Mazic The man was nothing short of a methodical marvel His ledger even en showed what he spent for postage Of course courso Sergt Hogan had committed no military breach in his career of smashing heart-smashing and there was nothing to punish him for after alter ho had told his story It is understood that the sec sec- second second ond and lieutenant tried to have Article of War No 96 under whose expansive terms tenus a soldier ma may be bo tried for most anything from arson to having his overcoat unbuttoned applied in this case but tho the effort failed The ser sergeant promised to see to it that no more more lady boxing bouts were staged in camp accepted the advice to be careful saluted saInted and went out Ho Iio whipped the orderly next day in a private scrap which was not reported u under undera der dern a n gentlemen's agreement and the incident was closed A love brigand of entirely different calibre was Jack Roy Dew This youth of one hundred affairs of the tho heart was was or or rather is i for he cant can't make his bis eyes behave and he expects always to bo be boa bea a Lothario for the simple reason that he cant can't help it what it-what what is technically known as a n hum din dinner dincer cr At least that is what he was officially Nr N F Feature tur v 1920 n t tr R r 4 4 l' l p l J 1 w ry Hr rt E r Y k t t tI th 1 r w h I n h t a A 1 4 I. I Miss 1 Mildre Mildred June Hunter of Los Angeles b Who Vho Said When He Dew Deis the Love Lose I q Pirate Looked at You with Kith His is Wonderful Eyes You Lo Loved Loed ed Him Hun i 1 i designated in jn Long Beach Cal Cat where the limelight lime light tight first was turned upon the wizardry of his Information being sought as to just what constituted a humdinger the Long Beach ch chief of police said a humdinger was one of those fellows who could make a n deaf dumb and blind girl g gaze ze into his eyes and say sweet If Personally Mr Dew is about 26 years old fragile as to form regular as to features dark darkas as to hair hair carefully carefully cut and pomp pompadour jour of fetching fetching fetching fetch fetch- ing gloss good gloss good teeth and eyes that have been described by various victims as wonderful wonder ul irresistible irresistible ir ir resistible and hypnotic He is the son of a railroad engineer living in Belleville III Ill a trans-Mississippi trans suburb of St. St Louis and it was a St St. Louis woman who first came under the spell of those eyes and thoughtlessly thoughtlessly thought thought- lessly gave Mr Dew some idea of their power That part of tho the story will come in its proper place later Dew has lived and loved from Philadelphia to San Diego and from Florida to British Colum Colum- bia He has been called the greatest love pirate of modern times and it is said he numbers his victims victims victims vic vic- tims by the score One of them them the the St. St Louis one one gave him more than of her husbands husband's husbands husband's hus hus- bands band's money Other women paid the luxury tax in jewels and silken raiment Everything was going all well for Mr Dew until the day last spring when he decided to go goto goto goto to California He reached Los Angeles on May 6 6 On the same train were Mrs J. J V. V Redmond wife of a n lawyer in Sterling Col her sister Miss Margaret McCormick and her sister law Miss Mary Redmond He made their acquaintance acquaintance tance one day out from Sterling and by the timo time timothey timothey they had hit the California line he was calling them blithely by their first tint names and he was Jack J Mountains fountains of Love Letters It has been said that he was a speedy worker Doesn't this prove it Before they got off the tho train Mr Dew had borrowed a diamond ring Ho said he needed it to Impress tho the lawyer who was looking up an estate to which he was heir in m Van Van- couver He did not return the gaud and then Mr Dew learned something which even he never knew v before that before that you cant can't always tell what a woman woman wom worn an will do The one whose whoso ring he ho had borrowed had him rum pinched Whilo While detectives were looking around for him they opened hi his hig trunk at the hotel otel o. o end and thus was vas revealed the bales of love lct letters ers which told their own story of Dew the Love Pirate The police found Jack at nt San Bernardino as as ever and wearing the ring Ho lIo quickly made restitution He displayed some in indignation indignation in- in too I merely took the diamond down downto to San Bernardino to have bave it reset in platinum as j a n present for the lady in return for landsea t b 1 I me he e told the po police ce as ns he gave up tho the gem f fIt It is IS another story and unimportant hero here that tha j t he was not pr prosecuted nor is it of moment that I l sundry other brought against wa big r charges were for some of which he suffered incarceration e We Weare n f are arc rc concerned only with his rapid fire love rc n mak ing mg When the police searched his room t 7 t fo found nd a veritable love bower There was as a n moat moan i r famous mass of letters telegrams and photo photo- i t graphs One particular trunk trank had a kiss toss in ever evert a r that i is to toke corner of it It was so full of girls that girls Pi pie pie- e i ens of girls that girls that to describe tho the contents pic pictures tures telegrams and letters it would take a foIl fan iou 3 P page age of or this newspaper Such letters tool too emotions Some ww ae ranged up and down all nIl the delightfully written sho rs t poetic Some Somo were and ed wa of ref refinement w the authors to have ha been girls o oa 8 I especiallY i education Others were pathetic J Ind Ini who ho told holl hoa I if from a little girl in Evansville statue of St St. w wand Bits Rits 1 I she knelt before a night f every safe safo iraa roA and prayed that Jack might be bo kept L loved him M IQ harm and brought back to her who s. s deeply Dew and His Wonderful Eyes rOne r- r Pal haf I One girl who signed her letters pretty fancy and a fairish m gilt gift it of J I IThe ote y she Wr The reason I couldn't sleep last z night occasion was because I was out oat it on one occasion J Mix Diu ta star dust and the falling moonbeams two well add a n morning kiss from my my HeArt s 01 to Ticket have bave a Love and behold you in the to Kit again sin tt Im ag She said in m another letter the De asa j tI o And I am believing house memo memory fire bra iS 11 dream that makes me feel eel I Imy have liquid pa paIes car veins rather than blood Oh Dh k my love my x gesso soa song bore my soul away your lips my I blood hands wp Take I clay in your me am of Los s And a Little Miss Mildred June Hunter Lj L h word rd he di didn't nt MT have hare Jack and on her w Ics Ies met looked cd rf at 1 He He Just tr of making love Jove unusual way le Mildr Mildred d. d His voice was Mi MM Miss s you says When he loo ll loos e r ht a charming 1 ful and his manners him loved at st you with his s wonderful eyes you waS SO b 1 I J records show that a Dew The police did he lie take en ento till making love lo that The only solitary once Mrs D De DV V tv Was f to get married where she sho ho lives w Wi WIth n baby bet ba by a n reporter in Chicago that so r She w sail mother at Ellis avenue th though gb she st only wife w she knows s she Is the I far as love loc with no in does docs know that J Jack ck has stones been in the thc It girls than there are arc and bo She wants him bim arrested r rt ry Ill as asto monument n be y b cm California charges C i f. f t that hat sonic some of those v 14 to stick fot or i Pk has bas s some erne she Womanlike however ed d was 3 mar marne She soya that Ij |