HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! {— “W hite Prairie Death” By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter H ELLO EVERYBODY: You know, boys and girls, this Adventurers’ Club of ours shows signs of spreading all over the cockeyed world. Just a few weeks ago we enrolled a native boy from Java, and today here comes one from Sweetwater, way up in British Columbia. Bill Simpson is his name, and he is a homesteader in a country where farmhouses are few and far between. But in 1908 Bill was doing his homesteading in Saskatchewan, and up there, at that time you were luck if you saw a farmhouse in ten miles of travel. That's the section Bill is going to tell us about today. He's going to tell us the story of the horse that knew more than a man. And Bill has the genuine eye-witness lowdown on that story, too. You see, Bill was the man. It was just a few days before Christmas. Bill and his closest neigh- bor—a fellow named Barney-—had driven into town, a distance of forty miles, to lay in a supply of groceries. It's hard to imagine a place that's forty miles away from the nearest grocery store. theless. And Bill and Barney drove that forty miles, not over roads, but on a rough trail over the virgin prairie—a winding route picked out by the horse himself, as he skirted around wet places and alkali spots, trying to find where the going was easiest, Caught in a Prairie Blizzard. It was over that sort of a road that Bill and Barney started back for home. They planned to drive twenty miles, spend the night at the home- stead of a man they knew along the way, and drive the other twenty miles on the following day. They had covered sixteen of those first twenty miles when a blizzard broke over their heads. The snow comes pelting down with such force that it is impossible te face and travel against it. You've just got to travel the direction in which the wind is blowing. The snbw comes down so thick that you can hardly see two feet ahead of you. And that's the sort of storm that Bill and Barney were up against. “The temperature dropped,” says Bill, “until the sleigh run- ners screamed as they passed over the cold snow. The wind rose, driving snow particles at us with stinging force. The cold pene- trated our bodies, and before we had gone balf a mile we were performing the craziest-looking acrobatics you ever saw in an ef- fort to keep warm. “For a mile or so after the storm broke we were able to keep the horse headed along the trail. But every vestige of the trail was soon obliterated and we had to trust to luck as we headed for our destination. It began to ~ Swiss The Horse Stopped at a Huge Mound of Snow, dawn on us then that, though it was only a few more miles to the home- stead of our friend, we would probably never find it in blizzard that we would drive on and on until we froze to death. “Even then we were not far from freezing. Barney, who was super- stitious, kept crying agai ‘Oh, me poor never see her again will get m the next couple hours I felt myself becoming numb wanted to take a s! sl That's myself. But I knew in my heart that if I ever lay wake up again 4 4 wnat over anc The s rt 1 ) ort nan 1] rt nap. Beat Barney to Save His Life. nself ir lf ei 4 i So Bill forced h snow to keep hims he turned to speak to Barney bottom of the sleigh box. He ha arms about and rub his face with After one of those sleepy attacks of his found peacefully asleep in the d to beat him yercifully with a black- snake whip before he could get | awake again. "And as I beat him," he says, ‘‘the exertion brought w it a feeling of warmth that may have saved my own life.” By that time Bill had lost his bearings He gave the horse to beat his awakxKke ~-and and even his sense of direc- \ instinct instead. On The by that time, was falling in such a dense curtain that it was impossible to see even as far as the horse's head. There isn't a man in world who wouldn't have been lost in such a storm. But the horse showed no hesitancy. He plodded on. Then, all at once he began to slow down. A few paces farther on he came to a stop before what looked like a huge mound of snow. Had he, too, lost his sense of direction? Bill shouted, "Get up’ at him. The horse didn’t budge. Bill was about to take the ship when the thought came to him to investigate that mound of snow. Luckily the Horse Kept His Bearings. He climbed down from the wagon. The mound was round and strangely shaped-—for a snow-pile. Bill thrust his hand into it—and then realized that the horse knew things that he didn’t. That mound was a snow-covered pile of straw that had been left there by threshers in the fall. “I pulled the wagon up into the shelter of the pile,” says Bill, “and was preparing to pull out some of the straw to make a fire, when I saw what looked like a star off toward the horizon. But I knew there was no possibility of seeing a star through such a storm and realized to my unbounded joy that it must be a light gleaming in the house of our friend with whom we planned to spend the night.” Bill headed the horse toward that light and drove him on. It was the house all right, but they were coming up to it from the opposite di- rection from which they should have approached it. “We had almost passed it,” says Bill, “and if we had, we would have gone on to our deaths in the howling wind and deepening snow. The only thing that saved us from doing so was—the horse.” Bill and Barney spent the night at that homestead, and went on home the next morning after the storm was over. In later years, Bill never passed that place without remembering his battle with the elements— and the horse that kept his bearings when Bill and Barney had both lost theirs. tion they went a free rein, trusting in his now, the ©—-WNU Service, Buttons on Men's Coats Buttons on the sleeves of men's coats are a matter of style. But how the style originated isn’t known. Tradition puts the respon- sibility on Frederick the Great. This Prussian king was very particular about the appearance of the uni- forms of his soldiers, and he had a Sense of Humor Dr. A. A. Roback, psychologist, of Harvard university, after much study of the sense of humor, says: “Certainly the sense of humor is not to be gauged by the intensity or frequency of laughter. In fact, from observation one might come to the conclusion that he who laughs loud- row of buttons put on the upper side of their coat sleeves to break them of the habit of using their coat sleeves to wipe the perspiration from their faces, which gave the uniforms an untidy appearance. The buttons were generally adopted and became the accepted style of coats, and as the styles varied, the posi- tion of the buttons shifted until they were finally put on the lower side of the sleeve. est and oftenest has a sense of hu- mor not unlike that of the laughin hyena or braying ass.” Dr. Robac says intelligence is an important factor in humor, and that the sense of humor is an ability to perceive possible incongruities in situations, even where we ourselves are in- volved. He says subjective people have less humor than objective peo- ple, who are more able to laugh even at themselves, autun JLAIDS Ww style program? W on ope to tell you! act the c¢ { piege "ing oa mn) school-going wdergarten to into the campus, great outdoor schen ply perfect. n All sorts « mn fabric ie dressy plaids of silk velvet and handsome wool we 1, Pt th t d a most utilitariar wctical, washat out *“‘fresh tubbing Jicycling nowadays « must los create sport. The plaids outfits “bike trated is fa yably an frocked in a dependable compl shrunk hable plaid that washabl s rider are pr of this the nother plaid rag every phas a true clan chief with shown to the your new FASHION STRESSES By CHERIE NICHOLAS Fabrics play a most important part this year, and by their rich- ness explain the apparent simplicity of the styles which are the great- est challenge to the dressmaker. Velvets, lames, brocades, laces, tulles are all in the picture. Lace becomes a happy medium for day dresses, almost severe in their simplicity. These may be re- lieved by rich belts, patent trim- mings, etc. Lighter laces in silk or rayon are combined with a colored fabric lining for day dresses or two tones used in combination as Worth has done. Lelong takes a heavy white wool lace for a hip-length top of a dress which ends in a sim- ple black velvet skirt, with four rows of the velvet used at the side front from the high waistline to the hip. Patou offers rosepoint collars, cuff or bodice trim with severe dresses—but real rose point. Schiap- arelli makes lace of gold cord for three huge medallions on the top- per of a two-piece effect black maro- cain. While dresses are simple in effect, fantasy goes into the head- gear. Style Sobriety Stressed for Chic Daytime Costume At the height of the vogue for ro- mantic fashions, mutinous mur- murs are echoing from the ranks of style leaders who favor simple gar- ments for wear before the sun goes down. “Sobriety of the best quality” is the formula advanced by a leading French couturiere as the prime reqg- uisite of daytime chic. . “Wear tailored suits and little sweaters,” she advises, "but have them fitted by a good tailor and made of the finest wool. See that each accessory is equally first grade, for one inappropriate gadget can spoil the entire costume.” and a La down the dress veteen 1" all sorts Phere are sets to be |} BE PENCIL-SLIM By CHERIE NICHOLAS This afternoon frock of purple silk jacquard was worn in a fashion pre- view for the silk parade held in New York which presented out- standing advance fashions created by the foremost designers of the world. To be right up to the mark your new frock must feature the pencil-slim silhouette that fashion demands this season, such as this gown so correctly defines. The hand- some firm silks of quality kind that are so characteristically a product of this season's looms have been found ideal for achieving the new pencil-slim styling. ‘Way Back When By JEANNE WRITER our family and it was necessary My father repeated so often, “Children are to be seen and not heard’ or ‘‘Silence old adages brings back the echo of his voice. 1 can’t agree with the principle of those sayings. Chil- dren who are encouraged to join in the conversation are likely tc have more self-confidence and to be more social minded. In some cases, their very talkativeness may be golden. Take Jimmy Walker for instance: James John Walker, who later be- was one of the most popular men ever to hold that office, was born in New York's Greenwich Village in 1881. When still a very small boy, he was nick-named “Jimmy Talker’ because he could not be INVENTOR RAN BICYCLE REPAIR SHOP I HE seed of success is ambition, and rville Wright was ambi- boyhood. Ohio, in He was 1871, the and as rille and one of his 8, ibur, became in- A highly respectable sstern family, the father was of the United Brethren church and later publisher of a re- ligious newspaper; but the family never had a lot of money. Or- ville Wright started to make money lp ANI _s- a ( | “i ld ran children, When he paper with a toy printing press. Lat- er he made a press of his own and Wilbur improved it. Next he invent- father's print shop. He quit school in the third year of high school and, with Wilbur, started a weekly news. paper which lasted only three months. They then turned to job printing and later started a bicycle repair shop. At about this time, they became interested in aviation and to construct the first heavier than air machine large enough to carry a man. 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