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E L F I Raising Hair Honeymoon I OW this is an adventurers adventurer's column devoted to raising hair-raising I NOW N tales of danger and action So just hold fast to your chairs I while you hear of Abner honeymoon i This must be the first honeymoon that th t ever deserved to be classed with the the first ascent of ft It t. t Everest Lindbergh's flight to Paris Chris Columbus Columbus' expedition to America and other adventures adventures adventures tures tures of note Most people when they get married seem to think that trying to pay the bills is enough of an adventure for far anybody But Ab is the sort s rt of a guy who would find trouble in a million dollar legacy The old Jinx just rides around on his shoulder and on rainy days it crawls inside his shirt to keep dry Alongside of Ab Jonah was a luck good-luck charm And when Ab AbI got I married and started out on his h s wedding trip the Jinx began showing off to impress the bride i Ab lives in Brooklyn N. N Y He met a girl in 1931 and married her on September 16 1933 They sailed the next day dayon on the liner Virginia bound for California on a week six-week tour that a travel agency had mapped out for them and a few days later they were In the Caribbean sea It n was a cool breezy night with a brisk wind blowing Abs Ab's bride was sitting on deck enjoying the salt spray spra that dashed against her face Ab didn't like Hire the spray lie He stepped into the lounge and was about to settle himself into a comfortable chair when something when when when-BAnI BAM something hit the he ship and sent it over at a 32 degree angle A hurricane Shrieks Fill Air as Lights Go Out I Passengers pianos furniture furniture all all were catapulted to one side of the lounge Jounge Lights went out and shrieks filled the room Ab picked him him- himself himself desks potted palms and squirming self elf up from a mixture of chairs people and ran to the deck where he had left his wife wile She wasn't therel there I Nor was there any other living thing on that swept storm-swept deck It was impossible to stand stand much much less walk walk walk-on on the spot where he had last ast seen her Ab was frantic He fie hoped his wife of a few days was still alive but alive but at the same time he lie was forced to doubt it Water began to pour through the ship in a veritable Niagara The next thing he knew v he be was down in the doorway fighting for his own Passengers pianos furniture furniture all all were catapulted to one side of the lounge life life bracing bracing his feet against ag the door posts to keep from being washed away Then suddenly the lights went on and Ab saw his wife wedged in another doorway held by two ships officers They had taken her inside just a moment before the storm struck That was only the beginning of it I could tell you more about that hurricane but this yarn isn't about a storm Its It's about a honeymoon Ab says they'd seen the picture Cavalcade a few weeks before and they felt like the two lovers on the Titanic must have felt when the ship struck an iceberg Before it was over one man was killed one sailor lost an arm and others were injured But in the end they got through it the it-the the same storm which two days later destroyed the city of Tampico Mexico Earthquake Aids Exciting Honeymoon Finally the ship reached Los Angeles Ab and his wife were going to stay there a week and they settled down to a quiet time Thank the Lord they didn't have hurricanes on the West coast They found a hotel went out to see the sights spent a glorious day and retired about midnight happily exhausted from the strenuous time they'd had They were asleep for about one hour when Ab felt himself being tossed bodily from the bed He landed heavily on the floor scrambled to his feet and switched on the light The chandelier was swinging to and fro like a pendulum An earthquake 1 I IAb Ab looked looked- at his wife wile She was still in bed sound bed sound asleep How she could sleep through that quake is still a mystery to Ab He lie shook her told her told her to get up and get dressed that dressed that they were in an earthquake She replied sleepily that she hadn't been so tired in months and she didn't care what they were in Ab called the operator and asked her what to expect She told him the quake was pretty bad and he could expect three more shocks So SoAb SoAb SoAb Ab sat up all night in terror while the earth heaved and rumbled Finally about six me a. a a m. m the world gave a final weak convulsion and it was all over Ab had planned a weeks week's stay at Colorado Springs and as they left Los Angeles a week later he remarked that he wouldn't be at all sur sur- surprised surprised if the Colorado river overflowed Well it could have at that that that- but it wasn't exactly what happened Travel Agency Lets Ab Down With Thud Ab and his bride found Colorado Springs about as pleasant a place as they'd ever seen in their lives Pikes Pike's peak reared its huge bulk high above them The hotel was comfortable The golf goll course was good The sun shone all the time They passed a delightful week Ab with his supply of money running low and just enough to pay his way back to New York was ready to go home He lie began to think he had shaken the the Jinx at last when at the end of their stay he stopped at the cashiers cashier's window to pay his bill lie He didn't need money for that The travel agency had given him vouchers that would take care of all hotel bills lie He e got out the proper voucher and handed it to the cashier The man took it and told him to wait a minute as ashe ashe ashe he had something to check over A few minutes later the fellow was back again Im sorry he said putting Abs Ab's voucher back on the counter I cant can't accept this You see the agency went bankrupt yesterday No the No-the the Colorado river didn't overflow But Ab would have been been beena a lot less embarrassed embar assed if it had And I he says am the guy who was told by his elders that marriage was the beginning of a quiet settled type of life I Released by Western Newspaper Union |