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Show ' 5 I i, foivt f- - - f'?'- - X ?t4 'yi tjf 1 7 ? LkL, BRENNON LONGED FOR A HOME II I ? ,' " years Is a long TWENTY-ED- lie heart, bone, and fiber a business, and then at tbe end of It feel frustration. That bonder was tbe case with Charles Iirennon, superintendent, proprietor, manager, and general manager of the Hotel Savoy, the first rate hotel of a eity of considerably over two hundred thousand Inhabitants. Iirennon had personally built up Ills hotel to Its Important proportions, dividing It successfully Into two sections: The Annex, or family wing, and the hotel proper, w hich Invited the patronage of transients and those who were availing themselves of the towns famous curative waters, which were renowned for their medicinal qualities. And so It huppened that the Savoy catered to three distinct groups. Families. Commercial men and women. Rheumatic patients. One might have thought that such variety of patronnge would have lent s Interest and even glamour to role of hotel man, and In a way It did, yet this same fuct In Itself was a factor In the ultlmnte sense of frustration that time and again, as he grew older and more deeply entrenched In his work, swept and depressed him. What struck most painfully Into the sense of loneliness which was more and more oppressing him In Ms dully life among the crowd, was the fact that of all the hundreds who dally milled In and out of his hostelry; lived there; entertained there; dined there; wined there, he alone seemed the homeless one. He alone, among all the coming and going, seemed to be the one who wag neither coming nor going. Even the families in the Annex were usually there on a temporary basis; awaiting the completion of a new home; pending a marriage; taking a year off between changes of permanent address. In fuct, It was the families In the Annex that contributed most of all to the growing unrest 'that was The unit of these little groups was so snug. Even silting around with them of an evening In the lobby and then seeing them troop off together to their rooms, their suites, their apartments, gave him that cold alien sense he was more than ever Husbands and beginning to d'ead. wires fruiting off together. Brothers and alsters bantering their wuy up to bed. Fairs of people shurlng the Intimacies of family life; of domestic life. Then, In the commercial and transient wings, men and women on their way to homes. Men and women eager for mall from homes, anxious, to get back to domestic groups; awaited at some remote point by eager loved ones. Then Brennon himself, doomed, as he was beginning to put it, to the Impersonal detached existence of the When Iirennon went to his hotel. rooms nights there was the paraphernalia of hotel. Bed turned down by Impersonal chambermaid hands. Night light turned on by those enme employed bands. Carafe of hotel water. Bowl of hotel flowers. Cold. Impersonal. And all under the same roof. E'amllles waiting to tuck themselves Into homes. Transients eager to return to homes. Twenty-fivyears of hotel life had made something of a selfpitler out of Brennon. He felt sorry over the cold detached quality of his existence. He felt left out Left over. Chilled. But It was not until after twenty-fiv- e years of It that consciously he began to set about doing something In worldly goods about It Well-of- f by now, content within hla own mind that he had proved himself capable of auccess, thought of retirement now began to grip him. Retirement and, a suddenly flourishing at hope and ambition for marriage. Into a life peculiarly unremarkable where women were concerned, this new phase entered, taking him by storm. In his success and maturity, Brennon wanted marriage and domesticity; domesticity as far removed as possible from the lobby, the grillroom, lup. At first the Idea was Ilren-non- Bren-non- e fifty-thre- or the thoroughfare. These elements might have entered more surely Into his reckoning except Bren-nofor the fact that at fell In love; fell in love to such an extent that had the widow Smeade stipulated that they live their lives out atop an omnibus, Brennon would have consented. Fortunately, however, the desires of the widow Smeade were simple. Intelligent ones that fitted In nicely with his scheme. A hotel dweller herself, for fourteen years past. It wns with a certain relief that she fell In with the plans of Brennon to divorce themselves as fast as possible from tbe more noisome unprivate existence of the public hosfifty-thre- telry. n The Savoy was offered for sale, and brought a price far handsomer than he hud anticipated. At fifty four, feeling jounger than ho had In twenty years, married to a lovely, well preserved woman of Ids passionate choice, he was In the Messed position of giving expression to the desires that had so long rankled him. V '4 .. .. Jbj if ttt .V Af. ' - ; . .,w Asa, fi , Aj. " V tta lM . ('tj. It3ta Mcrir Nrwuruu r (WNU Servlt ) 8nllcaU Conn. Stamford, Huby" a pet dog of tbe late Mrs. Lizzie jj T. Smith, has been assured of a permanent grave in the Harts- dale, N. Y canine cemetery. Un- der the terms of her will, offered J for probate here, Mrs. Smith left $2,000 for the maintenance of the dog's final resting place. for Washington Snakes An elaborate new reptile house, embodying all the comforta of home" for snakes, has been formally opened nt the National Zoological park In Washington. There, In glass fronted cages, the public can observe reptiles of tbe world under the most favorable conditions. In each case the vcgctuUnn, temperature, humidity and light of Its occupants natural habitat has been carefully simulated. Tbe building Is of Spanish design, and Its opening brought fulfillment to Or. William Manns dreams of many years, according to the United I'ress. He has supervised personally every detail of Its construction In his capacity as xoo director. . The temperature In each cage will be controlled by Individual thermostats. Thus a ruttlesuake will be provided the mild warmth of summer In the north, a boa constrictor will delight In the humid heat of the tropics, ami lizard will have the 100 degree temperature of the sun baked Arizona desert. Not only will this safeguard the reptiles health (snakes are as subject to pneumonia as men), but they will be much more Interesting to watch. Most snakes In captivity are sluggish because the temperature is Heat mukes them lively. Another health measure is the Installation of special glass In many of the skylights over the cages, so the reptiles may have a dally quota of t Their diet Is rays. watched carefully, too, and In some of the second story rooms of the building a commissary department" has been arranged. Flies, baby chickens nnd guinea pigs will he raised, there to suit the taste of the most fastidious snake. The publics welfare has been as well taken care of as that of the reptiles. The ventilation systems of the cages and tbe rest of tbe building are distinctly separate. too low. ultra-viole- No Waiting girl gave me a surprise last night when 1 called to take her out to a dunce," said Simpson. . What was Hint?" asked his My fellow-clerk- Mie was all dressed evening him. up In a new gown," Simpson enlightened You say she was all dressed when you got there? asked the other. Yes, 1 said so," rame from the young lover. "Why do you ask In that tone of voice?" Well, Hint wasnt a surprise," retorted the other. That was a giddy miracle." Leisura The use of leisure is a difficult thing The majority of us, when freedom Is given into our hands fly to the excitement of some form of recreation. We must be doing" something preferably something physical; If we nre not, we are lost mid without lesource. This Is why holidays sometimes pall, and leave us ut a loss. j X X f jjj tragedy showed In his melancholy face. Whut did you do when the relief ship finally cume? lie was asked. I hardly he said. remember, Fifty people came ashore. They hi ought food, supplies and machinery nnd they are going to rebuild the canning factory. Huledut and Mme. Brunon are staying there." Flaw in Story Convicts Man as Wife Murderer Whitehall, N. Y. Convicted of murdering his pretty young wife while their baby daughter lay sleeping In her mother's arms, Thomas Marion, prominent young farmer, of near High Point, must serve twenty to thirty years In Hie No, the young ludy is not playing an organ or any other musical Instrument. She Is operating the controls for a reversing rolling mill In the steel Industry. This "piano" type control keyboard Is designed so that one person can easily control a large number of auxiliary mill drives. The foot pedals cuuse two large motors to reverse tlielr direction of rotation, from full speed to full speed, In less than two seconds. Tells Tale of an Ocean Tragedy ? Her baby, horn some prostrated. weeks later, had died quickly. One day the negro, Francois, collapsed on the rocks. Finally Quillezic, a fisher- Relates How Marooned Comrades Perished on Island. man, endeavoring to catch some meaty fish In un Improvised boat, was lost in sight of Ills comrades, his body, tortured w IHi scurvy and berl berl, having no resistance. Three were left Ilcrlcdun, Mine, Fails. The transport Clminbord of Hie Messagorles Maritlmes, plying between Islands of the South Seas and Indian ocean, und assigned to carry the Madagascar mail, slipped Into Marseilles recently with one of the most tragic stories of the sea, a story of seven marooned fisherfolk, one being it woman, who gave birth to an unnourished babe. Four slow and languishing deaths were caused by starvation and scurvy. The three survivors helplessly awaited the next to go when the relief ship arrived. The In-- , font that perished counted the In tho ltrunon and lhileliit. Mine. ltrunon seemed only to wait to Join her husband and child In llie grave. The rabbits Jumped ahoiSt, penguins stood mournfully on the rocks and the three survivors moved about nnd talked like ghosts, fearing to eat that same awful The food which brought scurvy. youth of young llerledan probably kept him the strongest, though the d fatalities. state penitentiary. Murion's conviction, which came despite his protestations that a negro bandit shot Mrs. Marlon to death during a holdup, wq attributed by defense attorneys and court attendants to one flaw in the young planter's story. Marlon claimed he had a firm grip on the bandits pistol when the shot fatal to Mrs. Marlon was fired. This part of Marion's story, the prosecution averred, proved the falsity of his entire account of the tragedy. The state Introduced expert testimony to show that had Marlons hands been gripping the negros pistol, powder marks would have been visible to those who talked to him a few minutes later. Job. He hulls did chase all over the state, Im telling ya. An we had em foxed, see? Y'ou're lookin at a guy who knows how to crack a hank, savvy?" Neighbors Suspicious. Their plot did almost work. If neighbors bad been a little less prone to suspicion, the entire gang might now be free. As It Is, Big Jim, the leader, will probably go to prison for a long term. II. s confederates, Jimmy Creighton and Brazo Bill, will probably Join him. The woman was the wife of Creigh What hit the turtles Washington. oaa of the things Smithsonian Institution excavators hope to discover to future examination of fossil fields of the Brldger Basin, Wyoming. In Its report recently published, th Institutions fossil party describes a vast turtle death spot where one outcrop 50 feet long was composed almost exclusively of turtle shells side by side. What enused this wholesale aud obviously sudden annihilation could not be learned. Charles W. Gilmore, leader of the party, thought it might have been noxious gas, volcanic ash or perhaps a sudden flow of boiling water all Milting at prehistoric upheavals in the Wyoming bad lands. Crocodile skulls and an almost complete skeleton of the long extinct which Is similar to a rhinoceros, were among the expeditions finds In Wyoming. SATISFACTORY "So you ter. What tion?" wl.-- h Is to marry my daughyour financial condi- Well, sir, I've figured out every exemption possible; Ive had the best legal advice that money could secure; to dodge I've done everything I it nnd 1 still find that I cannot escape nn Income tax." Take her, my boy. Shes yours. NO BRAINS She Pad said yon bnd more money than brains. He Good Joke. Im broke, ha, ha. She Oh, yes, he added that, too. Law of Compensation He who contrives by eunnin stealth To grab a bunch of sudden wealth May have to labor hard unme day Explaining how It came hla way Most Important Lovesick Swain Can you cook? Girl Now, Just a minute, George I.ets take these questions In their proper order. The mutter of cooking Is of secondary Importance. Boy Oh! What is first? Girl Can you provide the things to be cooked? After the Apple Episode So glad to see you, dear. ton, and the child was their son. The fate of mother and son Is still unde elded. A month before the actual robberj Big Bill and Mrs. Creighton arrived In Hastings. They rented a trim little bungalow on a quiet residential street. Two young men were seen to visit the eonple several times. Everyone believed them Just an ordinary family. That was Bib Bills Intention. Threaten Officers With Death. Then one morning the three broke Into the bank and overpowered the As the clerks came to watchmen. work, they were tied up one by one and herded In the cellar. Then the cashier was forced to open the safe. The trio fled. As Big Bill had planed, the authorities were on the alert all over the state. No one thought that the gang would he living within a mile of the crime, but the suspicions of neighbors were aroused. A crew of eleven policemen surrounded the house. Three who entered the house were made captive and threatened with death unless the others outside came In and surrendered. In that way the gang escaped. but they were Inter caught. How are yen getting on now that you are married? Its Just like the Garden of Eden." Im glad to hear that" "Yes, we have nothing to wear and are in daily fear of being turned out." Van Hem, Stockholm. Flattering The waiter was taking the o. der of a pretty girl who was accompanied man. by a florid, podgy, middle-ageAnd how about the lobster?" the waiter inquired. oh, he can order whatever he likes, came the startling reply. d Courage Returned Brown Hid you hear about Jones? He left Ills girl as they stood before the altar. Smith Pid his courage leave him at the last moment? Brown No; it returned! HIS MONEYS WORTH Jail Raffles; His Cell Is His Base N. F. Activities of a Jail inmate who used his cell as an operations base for a series of robberies were disclosed here. The hoy, named Callahan, has been serving three months fora daylight rob He removed one bery at Cornerbrook. bar from his cell window, which a! lowed him to go and return nt will. A new necktie dangling from Callahans pocket as he moved about his cell attracted an officers attention. Then a considerable sum of money was found under the mattress. The hoy confessed to a series of burglaries He said he was in the habit of leaving his cell after midnight and returning before daylight. sixteen- -year-old The Now Yoik public got Its first conception of the $250,hki,IHX "Radio City" when plans for the project, which Is to occupy three blocks facing Fifth avenue, between and Fifty-firs- t streets, were shown in the offices of the engineers for the enterprise. The skjsernper group, which will he established through the Interest of Jolm D. Rockefeller, Jr., is expected to la completed by 1934. Forty-eight- ? b-- e tbe St, Johns, WESTERN BAD MEN LIKED ICE CREAM FRUIT DRINK New York. Who Invented the cream soda? Well, one of the pioneers In Its development was a pioneer druggist of the gold-rusdays. He served a mixture of heavy cream and fruit who had Hocked Juice to the to California In search of the bright metal. And the forty niners, who could swallow tumhlersful of whisky without winking, liked It. Justin Gates, Jr., was the druggist, lie was the first graduate chemist to arrive in California, lus grandson. Gates Heldiard, writes In the American After the gold rush hid Hrugg.-- t. abated U little Gates sold his fruit sirup and vri.tu mixture at the state It ereatej a sen fair lit Sacramento. sat. on. Years later the Ue cream soda Thirteen clerks Hastings, Neb. were tied up, eleven policemen ambushed, and a large amount of cash stolen by a gang of three men, one woman, and a baby that figured In a near perfect bunk .holdup here. In a Hastings hospital the other day, where he Is recovering from the effects of a policemans bullet, Janies C. (Big Jim) Thomas, who halls from Amarillo, Texas, expressed satisfaction with B&y Is Dies ss Comrades Watch. ' Bulloch, the machinist, died first, from scurvy, and was buried in a Food of rabbit meat shallow grave. and penguins eggs soon caused the end of M, ltrunon, whose wife vvus De- Gang Ties Up 13 Clerks, 11 Policemen and Escapes With Money. Is craters. Geld Rush Druggist Pioneered In velopment of Soda Concoctions. -- Wyoming Turtle Death Puzzles U. S. Scientists Model of Radio City for New York Youth Tells Story. The story wns told by I,e Merdy Ilerdelan, nineteen, a Breton youth from Font Aven. Three yenrs ago a a lobster Furlslan firm established cannery on the tiny Island of St. laul, one of those Isolated, lost Islands in the middle of the Indian ocean between Australia nnd Africa. Sturdy fishermen were brought from Font Aven and Concarneau In Brittany. At the beginning of 1930 hard times hit the cunnery and three months later the company decided to withdraw Its workmen, leaving seven volunteers to look after the material and to he taken off later by a relief ship. The hand Included young Ilerdelan Fullocli, a machinist ; !. and Mine, ltrunon; QuIlUzle uil lliilcdut, fisherman, and a negro, Francois. Life on the island was good enough until spring, when the necessary food was lacking. Fire had destroyed or soured most of the tinned goods. The water condensing apparatus was out of order and scurvy attacked the party, which wns existing on penguins eggs, rabbits, birds, shellfish and rnlnvvater caught in the volcanic Current BANK HOLDUP NEARLY PERFECT CRIME X - Boy 5 Pet Dog Provided a Grave by Will J V ) All Comforts of Home ' 'V? 1 preposterous and both he and his wife turned willing backs upon tbe entire Idea. But atrangely, In the rase of both of them, the Idea simply would not he downed After all, the new Mrs. Brennon had lived fourteen years In the light and glamour of hotel life and there was something about It something about It A for Brennon, he was the old racehorse pawing the turf. Time and time again he turned his fuce away, only to scent back again, hypnotised. The Inevitable happened. For seven year Brennon and his wdfe have occupied a six room suite In their hotel, the Grand. Burlng that time the institution tma more than tripled Its patronage uml Its success redounds to the credit of Brennon. Meanwhile, he and his wife promise themselves, with optimism, that one of these days they will turn their hacks on the shallowness of hotel life, and really create themselves a home. f NEBRASKA Shes Controlling a Rolling Mill sense of the word. And the new Mrs. Brennon had a knack. Under her firm and authentic touch, tbe home took on life, ao to speak. In alt his previous frustrated dreams, Brennon admitted to himself, he had never quite succeeded In visualising the kind of perfection this woman brought to the creating of a home. Privacy, lovely furnishings, small personal touches of flowers In bowls arranged by her; color schemes worked out aecurd.ng to her knowledge of his taste; the bed folded back by her loving hands beeause she knew the way he liked his pillows died. Sentimental, If you will, but where his new happiness was concerned, Brennon was unashamedly that. It was not until after live years of their cloudless marriage that Iirennon and his wife took their first trip out Into the world whl. li flowed about this home. They went to a city some four hundred ndles removed from theirs there to enjoy the theaters and concerts of the larger metropolis. It was while they were at the Grand hotel there arid enjoying what they were pleased to cull their second honeymoon, that tie opportunity to purchase the hostelry at an uhsurdly low price literally fell Into Brennons By FANNIE HURST MVVVfVAVAVMAy'MAyWVAy K W'-XXX-- I asl i The Brennon chose a honse on one of the private, restricted, residential streets of the town, furulshed It to the Queen's and their own tastes, creuted a garden about It, stocked their garage with cars, hired servant, and set about the delightful business of making their house a home In every $?4 ! i - ft a somewhat came along similar concoction Gatis veg (n t)ie ,jn lug camps h tiring out traveling drug stores and semi.ng them Into the gold HJOO 0 00 Both Jaws Broken By Kicks of Mules Court land, K m J. C. Smith. Jewell cnuiuv firmer, had both Ins lews or like1, py the kicks of p difleient mule-- . Fin th upon pud to remove a 3 uad from a m he's hoof. The mule ki.ked. the blow breaking fit H e j.iw nd tt lowing him back- ward in' the rnge of the other p nu.'.. ulo Pkevv.-- p let his hind r" t cut, u 4 king Smith's other j , u , ? , I 1 rs regh ns--, his grand-o- n writes. The traveling drug stores were vvaguns filled with drags nnd medicinos. There were four of them and a capable apothecary was in charge of each. The wagons covered hundreds of miles of territory. Few doctors in the gold regions wore able to compound their own medicines nnd they came to rely upon the traveling drug stores. Some of the mining camps were so Inaccessible that doctors rarely visited them. Gates therefore made up a number of family medicine chests which contained remedies for common complaints and directions for use. These the apothecaries left in the camps. Ilundrtds of sick men thus got medical aid which they would never have received had it not been for Gates' wagons. Pullet Lays Huge Egg Ore. breakfast Family egg was laid here by a pullet owned by Otto I.ebeck. The egg measured 9's indies by T'i inches. More people are disappointed In their dinners than In anything else. New Midget Auto to Speed 60 Miles an Hour Washington. Another foreign hull) midget automobile is due to invade the United States shortly, according to reports from its German maker. It is considerably smaller Hum any enr In the United States at present. It Is powered by a two cylinder. 15 horse povvei motor and will do CO ntles an hour. It is very inexpensive to operate. Midget Driver Gives Traffic Officer Chase Norwalk, Conn. Motorcycle I'ollce-nmJohn Tootliills eves popped out when lie saw a small automobile over the Boston Fost road with no driver In sijit. He sied after it. overlook it, an.l ordered the t.nj driver to halt. "Mow old are volt." lie Icuiatided. "I m tvven tj hve a Oil mime.i,' replied the 7U who id a o.ir with spe I oiind moLet cial I. rake liuu'.i aid gi . r denies to trnv-elin- til It is e "Hovvd you get Into the show the other evening? Fassrd a counterfeit dollar at the door." How was the show?" "Well, I got my moneys worth." A Signs ring around the moon means rain. As many of us know. One round the finger of a girl Ah. that means reign also. Makes a Difference Doctor What kind of a nurse do you want? Victim Did you wire for my wife? Doctor Y'es. we did. Victim Then a homely nurse will do. Fulhfinder Magazine. Truthful Enough Mistress 1 hope you are truthful, Jane. New 'Maid I am on my own account, nm'nm. I only tell lies to call-er- s for the family. Answers. Not Practicing Patrick And whose funeral is that? Michael O'Reilly s. Patrick What ? You dont mean to say that O'Reilly Is dead? Michael You dont suppose theyre practicing on him, do you? The Pathfinder. Gracious Cook How do you like your new cook?" She's been very nice to us she let us come Into the kitchen the other evening." |