Show ia TO AVOID A DULL DULE LIFE i boy who thought 14 could even commit murder for excitement cit cli ement I 1 used tu to think when han I 1 wa was a boy that we all had been born at about the tha least interesting period in the annals of man clarence day jr writes in metropolitan if I 1 I 1 had foreseen the war I 1 might have felt less depressed 1 I suppose but so far as I 1 could then see things were vere going to be dull all our lives according to 0 the history books this earth had been a good fierce exciting place to live in the past but it was my luck to land here I 1 thought in its stupidest epoch it if there were headlines la in the papers it was ivas only about the tariff takht or some old excursion steamer sinking or a shake up in the police it was the same way in our household things were dull to a degree we boys had good times on our games but nothing ever happened there IV even a burglar or a shooting affray in the parlor or a private detective across the street watching our door I 1 used to ti think ink that if one of the family would only die that would be something I 1 had nn an uncle a stout molly kindly man who used to have me sit on oil his knee and give me a nickel and ask me what books I 1 was reading he and I 1 liked each other and I 1 would stare ear earnestly netly at him feeling glad of the nickel and thinking it would be nice if I 1 might find him foully murdered on a saturday say there was no school on saturday so I 1 could have haie the whole day to ferret ou out the assassin in and wed have had some excitement |