| Show fable fabie of the hungry fame seeker sa M dy by GEORGE ADE ci bell service NOE tl there ere was a greenle who 0 barru borrowed ed some tackle and went fishing off catalina island hoping that he might get a nibble from it a tuna to those who never have seen a tuna it may nan be imparted that this marine monster to ta a minow two sizes smaller than a submarine it la Is fully as long ita as a freight car and if domesticated could be used for towing barges the yap who rode back and forth across the dancing waves trolling an attractive balt bait and begging the irish to give him some trade was playing in rare luck because he never got a strike if he had bad tile the poor roofus would not have hava remained in the luat boat on another occasion a cheerful imbecile polished up a dinky rifle niile such the merry makers at coney island use in shooting at sheet iron ducks and other movable targets lie ile put on a boy scout Uni uniform forni and wont went out into the hoping that lie could scare care up a grizzly bear all day he be around kicking at the underbrush der brush ind and milking making noises which were meant to insult the bear and induce him to come out and put up a bottle the guardian angola angela who ly fly over cars cara driven by women and protect the patriot who buys fireworks have been on the job that day because boc the dauntless nimrod namrod never saw caw hide or lair of a grizzly that to la why ho lived to got back home and cat a hearty supper it happened that a young man alan who thought he wad wae whereas he be really came into more sweet currency than you could shovel with a scoop shovel in three months one night in a select club which has since been padlocked no less than three times he found himself gazing at a hypnotic brunette even us its an english sparrow might gaze at the beautiful but deadly cobra re he never before had bad seen so much brunette packed into so BO few clothes and he know that life would not mean anything to him film unless he could be near her to inhale tile the 80 or 40 kinds of perfumery she alto was using and have all 01 the other johns chewing their wrist watches ta in envy this one made pola negri look like a Clergy mans daughter you could hear beat the current crackling the yearling child of fortune tried to semaphore a few signals to the dusky queen and get her interested but she had no line on the bank roll and did not like the soft shirt he wore with the dinner jacket so she throw threw him about 1500 feet into the air and rode roda away into the night with a bli big sausage man from the west for several days the sailors on his yacht had to watch him to keep him from going overboard with the anchor to in lite ills arms which would have been his only chance of sinking tie thought that lie he had find been given a dirty deal whereas he should have been singing nt at the top of his voice for it little rita dozeta the tha und undulant un dulat ins ing vamp had taken a real fancy to him it would have anto cost him over poor brakes break many a man two years ago a prominent member of the chamber of commerce of oklahoma city okla was waa in europe taking his first real rest alrice the syn dacate in which ho he was interested struck the ausher tie he watched the wheel nt at monte carlo and being q quick ulca at figures and able to see right through any proposition on the jump he felt almost sure that it would be it a cinch to win all tho the depre depreciated canted currency and close the dump ile he sat up tor for two nights and wore out two pencils doping a system which could not lose lom ile ho explained tho the modus Ope operands randt to his two traveling companions and said it was waa a pipe alpo it backed up by enough coln coin so BO BB as to keep on doubling ile he wanted and bud to put in apiece and let him go in and shoot up the place but they were leery and said that the suckers had already put up too many buildings and laid out more flower beds than were needed thoy they were cold around the ankles and dovold devold of sporting blood there was nothing stirring and consequently all of tho the boys are back home and living in comfortable circumstances these examples have been cited to prove that many a chump who thinks that the breaks are against him Is really tile the favored and pampered child of destiny fl herbert erbert J prangle of whom we tire are compelled to write was not so fortunate ue went fishing and the tuna got him while searching tor for the drizzly he had bad the tough rough luck to find dad one when he smiled at the beautiful remain female slie she ove gave him a quivering embrace and darn near smothered him ile he found a chance to ploy play hla film system find and after he got into the game he learned that he es I 1 ca cape pa all of the which are ara figures of speech the story ta Is that mr pran gle from the time he was in his teens had bad nursed an aching desire to he be ra fa moun notor notorious lous acclaimed celebrated and popular ho wanted anted hta his name on the scroll so bit flint ills mother would be proud of tit 10 inele jason had always ci claimed tl ti I 1 wo rt had it ft broken yolk and was nil all messed up inside of the dome ele da wanted to prove that he herb belonged in the hall flail of nine fame instead of a home for collapsed mentalities looking the part to look at mr prangle about tile the time he ha was eased out of college end and began to rumble ramble in a the daisy dotted field of literature it never would h have ve been suspected that he had bad this lurking determination to prove to the whole world that he was waa a roller he was skinny and wore powerful gla glasses sea end and had bad a bulging blead I 1 ilka ike the large end of a gourd ile he was bashful in company strangers often asked if lie he had passed through any serious illness when quite young if an attractive gave film aim a couple of roguish boks and began to ask him pert questions be yam hammered yammered yammer eil for a little while and then bank below the fl horizon orizon who would have dared to predict that herbert J prangle was planning to write love stories so sizzling that tie he would have to use asbestos paper to look at him he be was just as passionate as a rubber glove even as the bloody historical R romances are written by slender maidens just out of smith college and all that free verse about nymphs dancing in the shadowy wildwood Is turned out by hard faced old grouches wearing overshoes hoes and advice to the lo 10 lovelorn ve comes from a police reporter so it was waa inevitable that this clam would write about heaving bosoms and clinging kisses for a long time the immediate friends and relatives little suspected his intentions ile he kept on producing manuscripts that were rejected with thanks they put up with his delusions and kept him hidden bidden away la in a cheerful room where they 7 would id not have to took look at him very often en and consoled themselves with the ito ite that there hero Is one jinx in every large family then there came a day when tho the dook book reviewers all began to gibber and say that a new light had appeared in the 11 heavenia cavens and it was waa some light about 2000 candle power they agreed that herbert 1 prangle author of seared souls soule was indecent audacious and salacious b but u t a master blaster analyst of all the Fuu fundamental damen emotions and a genius with a large 0 all at once lite hla apologetic kin bei gan run running ning up and down the streets asking everyone have you read herberto herberta new book soon after the volume bad been barred from many libraries and do bounced from the pulpit and hollywood was demanding the picture rights and the tremolo sisters were camped on the front porch to interview the daring und and devilish author it in claimed that herbert received in one day no less lesa than requests for photographs and autographs the glare of the tha limelight for a matter of years fears he be had waited and hoped for this day to come all through the toilsome nights be had bad been sustained by an intrepid belief that some day the world would elm aim ply havo have to recognize him ile he felt within himself the tha pulsations of true greatness and he knew that eventually the universe would vibrate in sympathy well he began to get the tha vibrations and they nearly ruined him ile he suddenly discovered that one may not acquire one portion of fame F nine without taking on about three Port portions tons of cheap lowdown low down notoriety herbert Iler berL the shrinking violet suddenly found himself in a class with tho the ford joke the radio the statue of liberty and follies all the farm hands in iowa were fully informed regarding his peculiarities and eccentricities tri cities and blighted love affairs ile ho found that he could not stir out of doors without being trailed by a brazen hussy in shameless attire and sticky rouge known as publicity ile he learned in a hurry that the laurel wreath had a lot of thorne in it strangers crawled up tip the fire escape to get a look at him in hla his own room loom the public prints were full of veiled references to his hia checkered Checler ed ca reer and it was waa whispered about under cover that hla his tough novel was really a story of his bis own lite life which was fairly hard on a harmless doob boob who was just as aa pure as rainwater if a distant relation whom he never erhan had seen got into a jam anywhere it lt always came out in the dispatches that the accused party was waa a cousin of the well known novelist this Is in known as advertising mr prangle reec ived countless in to address the women and the Ro Rot arlaus and the free thinkers but he could not generate clent vocal energy to make himself heard to flim himself solf in fact he do anything except sit in a back room loom and write on paper when the fierce glare smote him he was scorched to a cinder at present his unmarried sister has him up in the woods feeding him gluten IlIs biscuits cults and milk MORAL HORAL it la Is almost impossible for a drum major to pass along main street reet without being noticed |
