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Show LAUGHED AT REAL HEROISM .! Soldier Ineltts Authorities Conferred jj Decoration for Deed That Was Merely Ceoond Rat. Ho had come back with the croIx de ! guerre, but ho would not talk nbout 'i how ho won It. Of course his family and friends knew the formal citation, but they wanted 111 in to tell (hem Mis detnlls, and he modestly and persistently persist-ently cvndcd them. "I jtttlnk It's simply Billy," declared an Irate cousin In her teens. "What'n the use of ducking and dodging, ana pretending you're not n hero, wliea A you know perfectly well you arc7" m The worm turned. "Yes, of course I W know I am," he assented coolly. "The " trouble la, they didn't give tne my cross for the right thing. Do you expect ex-pect a fellow to talk nbout Ids heroism when he gets a decoration for doing ' what lots of other fellows did whl weren't lucky enough to be noticed, and then flmN (he bravest thing he ever did, or ever expccln lo do, treuledt lightly or Ignored altogether? At lousl, I whs ii hero once, llefore we were ordered abroad, I was Invited to lunch- I eon by my colonel's daughter. Now. jj I you know I am n country boy from an I I Inland state. It was tbe first luncheon I I'd ever attended nnd the first time I I'd ever, bc-en served rnw oysters. 1 I bate slipllll.li, ui.il when I saw tkosu B six. soft, slimy, Jdlthery horroi-s set bit- fi fore me I nearly fulnted. lint I didn't know whether uuythlng much wus to , follow or not : ani I conldu't decrlne I n mnla dl&h untfer the eye ot my j hostess., t shuddered with dlsgwt. I wasn't sure thuy would go down ; I feared they fii'sht come. up. Hat I nte thoiM oys.tcr.. 'nil six, and mulled ii h I nte them'! She told me so two A .cnrs afterward, when I onfewed. 'lytt.j Now, I call that true heroism. Hut " jtj wumi'l what I got the cross for." vB "Maybe," wild the saucy youoK PJjf thing In her teens, "It's that you're go- WJ; Ing to get the girl for." En "No," sighed (hu unappreciated 1 hero, "she ngrces with the rest f ye" Ii und (encrnl Manqtn. Sho only hinghs If at my real claim to gUryl" Youth's If Companion. 1 1 |