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Show ADVENTURERS' CLUB f HEADLINES FROM THE LVEs f OF PEOPLE LIKE YQURsnj "The EndlesSlee By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Buate, pt HELLO EVERYBODY: Over in China some funny things r-tor r-tor there, so I'm told, has to be careful ! guarantees to cure a patient, and the rv'L the doctor out and cut his head off. Xh t' es ' ?ui Doggone few doctors over there ever oUa patient of anything, and when they do l- !ji antee they charge a young fortune for it jou If I told you such a thing could happen ov Bla I was crazy. But just the same that's ,,., herf,p or to tell you. Ili: vrell Don't be too fast about hopping on me thouEh B firsl Ing me names, listen to this story from Distino,,, v c If !: W Kaplan of Brooklyn, N. Y. tUBMshed Afc spra Saul isn't a doctor, but fa the summer of imi v ' one out in Arverne, on Long Island. He wag with ti B' adventure happened and Saul managed to have Dtc- flori before it was all over. For a while there, lives M adve--;i the little ivory ball on a roulette wheel. And n b'" ond he was going to see his own life drop fato th? iti1t- fft going to watch the Great Croupier, Fate, lean Oslo':' J in all his chips. ' 0Ver the Called to a Dying Baby ) It was a hot night in July, and along about '1 was awakened by a loud pounding on the front d which he and the Doc were summering. He "'k:. fi there before him stood an excited little Italian -i- ; tically and clamored for the doctor. His baby '$ was going to die. He wanted the doctor to come VJu 6 & . Saul woke the Doc. and together they wenTtn f 2S' The Italian had been right. His bambino was K diphtheria, and it had been neglected so long that th I a chance. Eut the Doc went to work with his .w5-what .w5-what he could. He sent Saul to a drug store for The Italian Brandished a Bread Kiife. ' ' ' the little white pills to the child. Then, while Saul w-some w-some sleep, he continued his almost hopeless ba'tV -7' life from between the grinding jaws of death. ' D Got Back Just in Time. treat But when he got heme. Saul couldn't sleep. Ee tc-' rich bed. a prey to a strange hunch that .omethirg te- " happen to the Doc. Finally at 6 a. m.. he got over to the Italian's house to see how Do -rll H,f didn't get there one second too soon! '''' M the Mrk"" WCnf' " Pircine Shriek "me & h "K ;i buthcwa,in Prepared for what followri. S- w 1Vm DC s,ood ln lh center .f !i- v & face blanched white, while, facing him. the little lulxh:' new a bread knife and wildly accused him of killmr hi - nll . poisonous" pills. j.j 1 cont?uedl!;',lian l0WCrCd Ihe kr"''c whea S3J ree j .. Sai' Had a Bright Idea. LI How many pills did he pive the babyT" he sskoi TRE the Italian replied ; o. hiS'"k0 aU u,f5C" H pup;:. itsnev -re po son , ,d ? d ,WaUowd L'f:r' " 1 .n and k.l.od ycur baby," he said, "thenmii: BipMs j was T, ' ,m:lu'd-v hut s"l and the Doc knew how clw: lnrn ",onu"nl' single one of those pills si i A . kill oi5Si'i Sa"' ,,ad t:,krn n ovcrdose-enoBft : 1 v' lM U'"rSS '""'" n applird. : Kali "n If hi i T'M,0n f how 'vincing Saul's .ctfcsofe" "A- then tlu-re- ?" P'"S ut of his s-vs!cm' Ba,iJi' A' drop oT in,r " nM,ch ns or fi"oen minuter '-Plnce '-Plnce i , ' A ,0.n,;; CndIcss and the Italian's I . Half n , : U "1 drorrcd Ote knife :- "'-r own coUai!!:.'r- ?'U" and ,he P " .., TIll I 'io Hattlo With Sleep. . .tlniE "K,Csm? ;",0!hfr "" ih s f OR $ "'"v tin If 7 dnSi-r. and in that hour S;ul L worked o T " I, l":h- ,h0 rflJ t most of ft.- . - nlKht l ad com '? ' bd' tIu'n- a Vt'r-V ,wr.T msn' " I " '-ul come ,.. diinuM cKi;p ( i mak.ns h.ml ,, A . -"'-lvrltl,t.vNU Scrvk-. 1 |
