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THRE T TIS
CREAM OF
THE NON-FRAT
MEN
(© by D. J. Walsh.)
LITTLE old lady in homespun
A clothing entered the great re-
f ception hall and looked nerv-
ousiy around. She seemed
itifully out of place with her loose-
tting dress, her frightened smile aud
ith the knitted bag hung from her
ght arm. She appeared to be lost.
She passed the receiving line as if
| a daZe and begun fo Scan the dance
por with eager eyes. She was the
aly person at the president's recep-
on not in evening dress.
Worthington Adams saw the little"
|d lady and took pity on her. He
oved to where she stood.
“Looking for some one?” he askea
urteously.
The old woman looked up at him
nd smiled in a motherly way. She
yuched him lightly on the arm.
“Sammy. [I'm looking for my Sam-
iy,” she said. “He wrote he was com-
1g here tonight.”
Adams was president of the junio
lass and one of the campus leaders.
he eyes of the entire party were on
im as he stood talking to the little
‘oman.
“I'm sure 1 don’t know who you
ean by Sammy,” he said. “If you'll
sll me his last name perhaps I can
nd him for you.” ;
“Sure, Sammy Smothers.” He's a
sllege boy like yourself,” she replied.
Been here two years. Thought every-
ody would know him. Folks at the
lend always told of how everybody
ot to know him so easy.”
“I'm sorry, but I don’t remember
im,” apologized Adams. “But if you'll
e seated I'll send a freshman to find
im.” He led her to a little rest room.
The little woman looked hurt at the
ast statement.
“] don’t see why you don’t knuw
jammy,” she said. “Why, the dean
nd all the professors know him by
he first name. But perhaps. you
aven’t been here long?” she added.
Adams called a freshman into the
pom and set him to look for Smoth-
rs. The fresh scowled and walked
ut, appearing to resent the orders
rom an upper classman. He winked
t Adams as he left, attempting to ap-
ear amused at the little woman,
“You see, my Sammy never had &
hance before he come to this college,”
he said. “That's why he has done
uch wonderful things here. Why, he
vas president of his class last year,
lected by an almost unanimous vote.
\nd the dean told him that he was
ne of the smartest boys they had ever
1ad here. Don’t you think [ have a
ight to be proud of my Sammy?” she
sked. “All the folks at the Bend tell
ne as how I ought to be proud of
im.”
Adams looked again at the little ola
voman. He liked her for her frank-
ess. He even thrilled at the slight
ouch of her hand on his arm. Here
vas something that he had missed in
ife—a mother whose one reason for
iving was her son, a confidence in
im that was overshadowed by noth-
ng. He smiled slightly as he replied:
“Yes, Mrs. Smothers, you have.”
Ihe little old lady touched his arm
1gain, and looked into his eyes with |
rank ‘confidence.
“Sammy is a writer, too,” she saia.
‘Some day, folks say, he will be fa-
mous. Why he wrote me that Pro-
fessor Bentley said that his work was
the best he had ever had from any
student in his whole college career.”
She waited for some word of praise
from Adams.
The campus leader looked again at
the little old woman. He allowed his
hand to touch her on the shoulder and
wondered why he had never heard of
the literary work of Sammy Smothers. !
“Does Sammy write under an as-
sumed name?” he asked.
“I don’t know,” she replied. “He Is
0 modest. He will hardly let me tell
anybody at home . about the great
things he does, especially to Mr. Sher-
wood. You see, Mr. Sherwood is. the
lumber man that come to the Bend
two years ago. He’s been to colleges
and everything. Why, he’s even stud-
led abroad, and seen as how Sammy
ought to come here, I wrote to the
college here and asked as how much
it would cost for educating my boy
and they wrote. back as how they
would be glad to have Sammy enter.
They sent pictures of the college and
a book that Sammy read to me about
the societies, fraternities and every-
thing. Do you know the fraternity he
belongs to?” 3
"%Pm afraid not, Mrs. Smothers,”
Adams replied. “You see, there are so
many of them.”
“It is Sigma Delta, or something like
that,” she offered.
Adams-gasped as he heard the name
of his own fraternity. But he caught
lis composure in time to reply before
the little old lady noticed anything
wrong.
“Yes, Mrs. Smothers. It ig a very
good fraternity.” The little old wom-
an smiled broadly at that, and pulled
again at Adams’ sleeve.
“Sammy didn’t expect me here to
night,” she said. “He told me in his
letter that he was a going to be here,
80 I came as soon as I got off the
train. I got three extra washings last
week, so I thought I'd come and sur-
prise him. Won't Sammy be glad,
though?’ The
beamed.
Adams turned his face away.
Mrs. Smothers. He should be very
glad.”
the son would not.
little old woman:
“Yes,
In his heart Adams knew that
The little old woman was fumbling
in her knitted bag. Presently she
pulled out a crumpled piece of paper
and began spreading it out.
“Here's a wonderful poem that Sam-
my wrote about me and our home at
the Bend,” she whispered.
“You mustn't tell him I let you see
it, cause he’d rave. Said in his letter
I shouldn’t show it to a soul, as he
didn’t want them to know how good
he could write until he was famous.”
Adams picked up the paper and be-
gan to read aloud:
“She lives in a house by the side of
the road,
Where the race of men go by.
The men who are good and the men
‘Who are bad,
As good and as bad as I—"
Adams read no further. The form
of a boy in loose-fitting evening dress
hurtled through the door and tore the
paper from his hand. The pimpled
face and wiry blonde hair Adams re-
membered as belonging 10 some one
called before the council for cheating
some weeks before.
The boy stood before his mother and
refused to receive her proffered ca-
resses. He raged at her:
“Mother! What has this sap been
saying to you? Tell me!” He pointed
threateningly at Adums.
“Why, Sammy. Mr. Adams has jus
oeen telling me about the college and
how good you have been getting along.
I told him about how I'd come here
to surprise you and I showed him your
wonderful poem. Why, Sammy—"
“Yeu ought to be shot,” Adams mut-
cered to the lad so that his mother
could not hear. “I haven't told her
i anything.”
The pimple-faced sophomore gazed
dolefully at the door. His mother put
her arms around him and kissed him
tenderly. “What's the matter, Sam-
my?” she asked, “what’s the matter?”
“Nothing, mother, I just thought—"
“He thought I had been telling you
chat he was not here, Mrs. Smothers.
He was afraid he would not get to
see you,” interrupted Adams, lying.
“Let’s show your mother the campus,
Smothers. Come on, my car is out-
side.”
Smothers looked at Adams in amaze
ment. Would this fellow who was the
campus leader socially, scholastically,
politically let his country jake mother
ride in his car when even her own son
would be ashamed to walk down the
street with her?
“What?” exclaimed the pimple-faced
noy, unable to understand the situa-
tion.
“I say, get your coat and let’s show
your mother the campus. I'll get Ger-
trude.”
In a daze Smothers led his little ola
mother to the hig car standing in
front of the building, and waited for
Adams and Gertrude Stein, reputed to
be the most beautiful girl on the
campus. To his still greater amaze-
ment, Adams insisted upon riding with
Mrs. Sinothers, while Gertrude climbed
into the rear seat with the son. Gra
ciously the young lady accepted the
situation. She understood Adams.
They showed the little. old woman
‘he college buildings. They told her
of the century-old traditions. They
rode far into the night and at last
stopped in front of Gertrude Stein's
sorority house. The coed leader in-
sisted that the little old woman share
her quarters for the night. Smothers
could not speak. He failed to under-
, stand these people.
“Good-night, Mrs. Smothers,” saia
Adams warmly. “Sammy and I will
call for you tomorrow. We: will have
dinner at the fraternity.” _
Adams took Smothers to the Sigma
Delta house. During the ride not a
word was spoken. The pimpied-faced
lad was living in a daze. Not until
they were within the great chapter
building was the silence broken.
“With a mother like that, you ought
to conquer the world, Smothers,” said
Adams. “But d—n you, you ought to
be shot.”
The eyes of the lad were filled with
i ears. Brokenly his voice attempted
to express his feelings.
“Until tonight I did not understand,’
ne wavered. “I could only please her
by lying to her. She seemed so com-
| mon in spite of ail she does for me.”
Adams introduced the pimpled-faced
boy to his’ brothers. He met them all
with a new determination. Adams
“noticed that he did not attempt to ap-
' pear other than he really was. Some-
| how he had changed.
“It was following the midterm ex
aminations that the Sigma Delta chap-
ter began discussing rushes.
“There is Smothers,” some one said.
“I hear nearly all the houses are rush-
ing h—Iil out of him. He's the cream
of the nonfrat men now. If we could
only rate him.”
“I hear he has sold a book of poems.
Oughta be good for a editorship of the
mag next year,” added another.
“Say, boy, you should know how
nard he worked on those poems. Why,
Professor Bentley said that he couldn't
write at all this fall, but that he
worked day and night with a determi-
nation such as Bentley had never seen
before.”
“He has a good scholastic record
this semester,” said a member of the
rushing committee. “And he’s so close
to Adams that he'd d—n near give old
Worthington his shoes and walk bare-
footed down the midway. Adams Is
the man to bid him.”
Adams smiled and thought of a lit
tle old woman that had taken dinner
at the house several months before.
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Put Him on Short Time
“Doesn’t Jack call pretty often?”
“He's called every night since I met
him a ‘fortnight age, but what can TI
do?” 1
‘ I guppose you could at least put
him on a five-day week.”
LIGHTS OF
Cont
NEW YORK oixon
Cotadideine
New York.—Several months ago an
author of my acquaintance completed
a novel, which has been appearing as
a serial in a magazine but is not yet
out in book form, in which the hero
is the inventor of a machine which
enables motorists to serve themselves
with gasoline by dropping quarters in
a slot. A few weeks ago it was an-
nounced that a California inventor
had perrenial such an apparatus.
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City Museum
New York, which already may iay
claim to being the city of museums,
will have a museum of its own next
year, wherein will be displayed the
municipal waxworks. Unlike the wax-
works at Coney Island, which pictures
such civic events as the murder of
Arnold Rothstein. this museum will
depict the more serious and important
moments in the history of the munic-
ipality. The first scene will show
Henry Hudson on the deck of the Halt
Moon, approaching the island of Man-
hattan on his search for a route to the
Indies. Other scenes will show [Peter
Minuit making his famous $24 deal
with the Indians, and Washington's
inauguration at Federal hall. Also
pictured will be a draft riot in Union
Square during the Civil war, and the
waterfront in the days of clipper
ships. No plans have been laid for
picturing more modern events. but i,
for one, vote for the inclusion of a
scene depicting the returning of Lind.
bergh from Paris. There was some:
thing that for sheer magnificence may
never be duplicated.
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Floating Hotel
Several years uago an imaginative
reporter got himself and his newspa-
per into all sorts of trouble with a
highly colored story about a floating
palace on Rum Row, where the elite
of the fast set were enjoying gam-
bling and drinking orgies. The vessel
was pure imagination on the reports
er’s part, and every one agreed. &
very superior grade of imagination.
But now the real thing has appeared
off the coast of Long island. It is a
luxurious boat, operated as a hotel
where stage and society folk spend
their week-ends. It is no gambling
hell or floating liquor dispensary, and
it operates within the law.
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Foolish Squirrels
Columbia university, where men and
women are equipped in a superior
fashion for their battle with life. has
proved the undoing of a community of
squirrels. These animals have been
broken down mentally to such an ex:
tent that they have forgotten the in-
born squirrél Tnstinet to bury’ nits "Mm
summer so that they may eat in win-
ter. The students are at fault.” Ap-
parently all of the thousands that at-
tend the university in the winter ses-
sion have been willing to provide nuts
for the campus squirrels, and the squir-
rels have developed a devil-may-care
philosophy. And the strange part of
it is that early summer is the leanest
period of the year for these improvi-
dents. for the winter students have
departed and the summer session at-
tendants have not yet arrived.
(©, 1929. Bell Syndicate.)
Army Studies Airplane
Equipment for Camping
Washington. — Airplane camping
equipment to provide for field ex-
peditions by air is being devised by
the army air corps. Secretary of
War Good has directed Maj. Gen.
James E. Fechet to initiate a study
of the equipment question, with a par-
ticular view to lightweight sleeping
bags, camping stoves using gasoline
fuel, and “tents” to fit over the low-
er wings of an airplane to provide
shelter. All these must be light and
most compact, for storage in the
plane. ,
Mayor Tyson Busy Man
With All His Positions
Denmark, Tenn.—Mayor T. H. Ty-
son is a busy man. He serves as
notary, justice of the peace, road su-
pervisor of this section, farmer, miller,
substitute rural mail carrier, a physi-
cian of sorts; and as a sideline sells
tombstones: He is also chairman of
the Sons of Rest.
First Fag Starts Fire
Philadelphia. — Smoking his first
cigarette at the age of fifty-four, W.
W. Cole set fire to his home and was
nearly overcome before he rescued
his four-year-old niece. Mr. Cole's
first smoke was a bigger one than he
inteuded.
Claims Place Shakes
Dishes Off Her Shelf
Syracuse, N. Y.—That a low-
flying airplane keeps her awake
and “shakes dishes off the
shelves” In the wee hours of
the morning’ was the complaint
made to the police here recent-
ly by one housewife.
“It flies so low it wakes us
il up and the vibration from
" the engine shakes dishes off
my shelves,” said the woman,
adding that she wanted “some:
thing done about it.” The ser-
géant promised to do his best,
¢ though ds yet there are no “gir
‘cops” on the force.
Stonehenge Mystery to
‘Students of the Past
Ancient and mysterious Stonehenge
bury, and near the little town of
Amesbury, in Wiltshire, England. This
circular formation of stones encioses
what is commonly called the Altar
stone. What its orizin or purpose is
time or research has not revealed, but
it is obviously connected with some
form of observation of the sun, pos
sibly sun worship. It is generally be-'
lfeved to have been erected some 4,000
years ago, possibly by the tribe from
the Continent which brought the idea
of cultivation of land to England in
the Bronze age. To the east of the
Stone circle is the Hele stone or
Friars heel, over which at dawn on
June 21—namely, at the summer sol-
stice—the sun rises when viewed from
the Altar stone. Other pointed stones
mark the rise of the sun at the win-
ter solstice and sunset at midsummer.
At few places in England can the
thoughts run riot to such an extent as
in this circle of immense stones stand-
ing in sofitude overlooking Salisbury
plain. Pictures of human sacrifice and
heathen rites spring readily to the
imagination.
Baboon Formidable Foe
When Incited to Fury
At night the South African baboon
is a timorous creature, and as its sight
in the dusk is far inferior to that of
the leopard, the latter sometimes
steals up to where the troop is sleep-
ing, makes its pounce, and escapes
with a shrieking victim. But the
leopard does not invariably have the
best of it. There are several well
authenticated instances of such a night
marauder being surrounded and torn
to pieces. Another enemy much dread-
ed by baboons inhabiting the warmer
localities is the rock-python. But there
are instances of even the python being
destroyed by the combined fury of a
troop. All snakes, whether poisonous
or not, are equally feared by baboons.
This is somewhat strange in view of
the circumstances that the latter can
at once distinguish between berries
that are wholesome and those that are
poisonous, even though they may never
have seen them before. The hiss of
a snake will reduce the most enraged
paboon to a state of abject terror, and
a dead snake placed in the vicinity eof
ane will drive it almost distracted.
“Spoiled” Child Handicapped
Many parents feel that the first few
years of a child's life are an unim-
portant twilight before the real dawn
of personality and utterly ignore the
importance of those early years for
development, observes Clara Bassett
in Hygeia Magazine.
Careful study of the spoiled chila
problem shows that such children do
pot outgrow their early habits as
parents -often think they will. Many
of them go through life with these
bravely the vicissitudes and respon:
sibilities of adult existence.
New Invention
A small boy had watched a tele
phone repairman climb a pole, connect
a test set and try to obtain connec-
tion with the testboard. There was
some trouble obtaining the connection.
The youngster listened a few minutes
and rushed into the house, exclaim-
tng, “Mamma, come out here quick.
There's a man up a telephone pole
talking to heaven.”
“What makes you think he is talk-
mg to heaven?”
“Cause he hollered ‘Hello! hello:
there; can’t anyone hear? "—Forbes
Magazine.
Echo Measures Distance
By means of a new device to be ins
stalled upon airplanes, the aviator will
be enabled to judge the distance to the
ground very accurately. This device
makes use of the echo of the exhaust
explosions from the engine and even
though the earth may be obscured by
a thick fog the echo of the explosions,
reflected from the surface of the
ground, will tell the airman his exact
value when the view of the earth is
cut off and it is said to be very.ac-
curate even when quite close to the
ground.
So Simple
Mrs. Suburbs, who was absorbed in
a romance of the Seventeenth century,
suddenly looked up at her husband.
“George,” she remarked, “listen to
this: ‘By my halidom,’ exclaimed Sir
Percival, ‘it is past the hour of 120
Now, what is:a halidom, George?"
- “What do you suppose it 18?” he re
sponded. “Doesn't the context tell
you? Sir What’s-his-name said it was
past 12 by his halidom, didn’t he?
Well, I should have thought anybody
could have seen that halidom was the
make of his watch.”
Sight Influences Handwriting
If the average handwriting ef a
person with normal vision is taken as
a standard, that of the individual suf-
fering from nearsightedness will be
found to be much smaller and that
of. the farsighted individual much
larger.
The nearsighted person does Da
realize that his writing is small, for
he sees it enlarged, and the farsighted
person does not know that he writes
large, for his eyes reduce the {mage
for him.
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