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Show ! LAUGHED AT REAL HEROISM I Soldier Intltts Authorltlea Conferred Decoration for Deed That Wat Merely G-eond Rate. Ilu hid to He tin', with the crcJx da uerri hut lie would not talk almul hovv he won It. Of course his fiimlly and friends kurvr the formal citation but they wauled him to tell them thf detnIN, and ho modestly nnd persistently persist-ently evaded thciii. "I tlilnL It's simply silly," declared an Irtite coiiln In her teens. "What's the use of ducking nnd dodging, and pretending you're not a hero, when you know perfectly well you nro?" 'J he worm turned, "l'cs, of course 1 know I am," he assented coolly. "The trouble Is, they didn't glvo mo my croi-s for the right thing. Do you expect ex-pect a fellow to talk about Ids heroism when he gels a decoration for doing what lots of other fellows did who weren't lucky enough to bo noticed, and then II mis tti bravest thing he over did, or ever expects to do, treated lightly or Ignored altogether? At least, I was n hero oncu. Before we weru ordered abroad, I was Invited to lunch-con lunch-con by my colonel's daughter. Now, you know t am a country boy from an Inland state. It was the first luncheon I'd ever attended anil the first tloie I'd ever been served raw oysters. I hate shellflalir and when I, Uiosa six, soft, sllluy, illthry horrors se before be-fore me I niharly fainted. Bnt t didn't know whether anything much was to follow or rlnt; and I couldn't decllin n main dish under tha ejo ol my hostex's. I shuddered with disgust. I wasn't sure, they would to down; I feared thoy might come up. Bat I ate Chose' oysters, all six, and smiled as I ate thninl Sh told me so two years afterward, when I confessed. Now, I call that true heroism., But I wasn't what I got the cross for." ".Ma j he," said tho saucy young thing In her teens, "It's that you'ro going go-ing to got tho girl for." "No," sighed tho unappreciated hero, "she agrees with tho rest of ou and General Mtingln. She ouly laughs at my real claim to glory 1" Youth's Companion. |