Show SWAIN WAS ALSO ATHLETE youth s knowledge of sports saves him at cr sis they were mere sitting together on the big sofa in the drawing room she with her head on his shoulder and he with mith bis big left arm around her waist and his other hand fondly holding both of hers for over half halt an hour says the philadelphia press he had been frank ly telling her the story of his past life and resolving with mith her influence to make a better man mart of himself while she encouraged him m telling him over and over again that he was far better than the average man she knew mother was upstairs supposedly deep in a book and the occupants of the drawing room trusted to mother mothers s footsteps to warn them when they should move to a more platonic tion but the young people were so deep ly interested in each other that they did not hear mother come down the stairs and the first intimation of dan ger was when they headd the knob on the drawing room door turn frantically the youth leaped from the sofa and while 4 was in mid air mother strode majestically into the room and saw him to the average auth there would bave been no escape bit this youth with the skill of a veteran landed lightly on his feet and turning to the mother said in the most conven dional tones why how do you do mrs 9 I 1 was just explaining to miss how I 1 won the broad jump on franklin field and then to carry out the gal lant lie he demonstrated high jump ing sprinting throwing the weight hammer throwing and even showed the mother and daughter how the various P position on the football team are played and the best part of the whole af at fair was that mother really believed all he said |