Show TALL TALES 88 J As told to FRANK E HAGAN anid and ELMO SCOTT WATSON A tribute to the master I 1 TT T MAY bo be news to some that baron 1 munchausen Mun chaugen champion liar of au all times was a real person who really did exist no fo boolin fool olin ln i the real baron munchausen was born in 1720 in the little town ot of bodenwerder Boden werder on the weser river germany like other german youths 0 of his day he served as an officer of the russian army against the turks retiring at the age ot of thirty he returned home to live and to talk the barons delightful conception of a talk was to seat himself at a generously supplied table and relate his fabulous adventures to a charmed circle all his tall tales were about himself most ot of them concerned also his famous horse once he almost lost the horse riding over snow at night the baron so he sold said hitched to what seemed to be a post lie ile went to sleep and on awakening found the snow melted and ills his steed hanging by the bridle from a church steeple the old home town of bodenwerder Boden Doden werder has erected a monument monument in memory of its most distinguished son the monument shows baron munchausen seated on his famous halt half a horse the tha latter laefer drinking at a fountain but unable to quench its thirst because all the water ran away the baron know it but the tha sturdy horse had been cut in two by a falling portcullis as his master rode hastily into a besieged town relatively cing i ORDON C LYNCH of wilmette Wll mette GORDON G ill III Is a gentleman farmer forced by economic conditions into the path of self preservation when I 1 started production of superior eggs west of 0 waukegan wauregan kegan ill says lynch imy my setup consisted of laying hens but within eight days the establishment increased by exactly nineteen of 0 my own and my cifes relatives these volunteer devotees of drum sticks and white meat made serious inroads on my supply of hens something must be done at great trouble and expense I 1 obtained two fla and three threes swans which I 1 permitted to intermingle with some ChIC chickens keDS in a special pen soon we began to hatch batch a peculiar species of fowl featuring a neck which stretched from one rooms end to another one reck neck indifferently cooked and laid out on a special table provided food for all my visiting relatives two TITO of them pretty near satisfied the kinsfolk kinfolk of mrs lynch our food problem was solved but other hazards arose relatives continued in such numbers I 1 was afraid the laying hens would become excited the relatives were jolly carefree distinctly informal so I 1 added a penguin to the special pen and his correct black and white attire soon contributed a quite formal flavor to the necks which discouraged guests relatively sp speaking eakin we are now free of 0 all problems hat fit for a queen GALLAGHER GALLAG IIER says that SHERIDAN S its his annual income Is the highest in chicago because he manages the board 0 of trade observatory more than one ninth ot of a mile above abiva the pavements Gall Galla ashers ghers office Is directly below a statue of ceres pagan goddess of grains and harvests whose featureless face and aluminum form serve also as a smokestack for its own and an aa adjacent building some folks are difficult to please gallagher philosophizes squinting up tit nt the statue that building next door Is so much lower a terrific draft Is created by our smokestack its necessary for shovels and other articles to be fastened in the engine room else come flying out around tile the feet of ceres one sparkling day a woman visitor arrived in the tower the wind was right and even the sand dunes across lake 1 michigan were visible but the marvelous sight failed to impress the lady As she turned her back on it a handful of womans comans apparel came scooting I 1 out of the smokestack a small hat actually whirling until finally it rested at a t a rakish r a angle across tha row ki seres smooth brow b of 0 r ceres actuaries tell me the chances are ara tol ag against such a remark remarkable able performance but the woman visitor merely sli shrugged rugged li her e r s shoulders h 0 allers and departed par ted the hat flat she remarked 1 e d coldly was a last year years s n model i od e remor 1 i a western newspaper T union n lo 10 n |