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blind fr.o· early . childhood, maintain that blindness was no handicap. And he meant it, too. It · s r Need honest, st ng c:oilraa~ners viction that in the race for success her blindness d i d n o t and would not hinder her. When ·asked if she did not miss seeing the beauties of nature, like flower~, sky, and landscape, she said that .she dtd not. Her point was that she did not know. w~a! One blustery zero day not many weeks . she was missing; so how could she mass at· Very much like a man who. has never a well-built man was walking down a tasted a ripe banana p!cked ·ragh~ off the street breasting the biting wind. Strug- tree. Not having an tdea how tt would gling along behind taste he natura11y should not be expected t's ·The Way him, half running to really regret never having tasted one. and h a 1 f dragged He hears what the traveler · says who has Shmdd ~ along \vas a little had the experience, but why should he be . g i r I holding onto expected to appreciate a naturally ripened he belt on the man's overcoat. Had she banana? t been thus helped awng it was very This blind girl of whom we are speaking ubtful whether she could have made apsaid she felt no need of eyesight. She knew reciable headway against the wind. But ith the help of ;the husky chap, probably that the table was just behind her, tha! er father, she was getting to her destina- the piano was only a few feet away, that her friends were seated ar.ound her. Her ion .in pretty goOd time. ears heiped her to know where she was, · That's just the . way it ought to be ; the and what was going on around. She said tronger sex should be willing and glad to that she often crossed railroad tracks alone, elp the weaker. The husband should take knowing very well that there was no o himself all the heavier blows of fortune, danger because she heard DD warning ar the brunt of the storm, and be a tower sounds. of strength where his wife can find refuge She made very plain the fact that blind ' adversity. people want no sympathy, that they. were The great dramatist, Ibsen, tells of ·a insulted by those who called them the "poor ·fe who having made a misstep, N:>ped blind." She made it clear that the blind hat her husband would stand by her and wanted to be treated just as the sighted t least share the consequences with her. are treated. · ut her hope was vain. He did not stand y her, but instead joined forces with her The following directions as to how to opponents. Surely he was a traitor to one salute properly the National Flag were of the most sacred causes in life. He for- drawn up by a conference called by and sook one for whom he should have willingconducted under the auly laid down his life. spices of the N a t ·i o n a 1 Salute to Americanism Com,mission of the American Legion. They the Flag Only a few days ago there passed away represent the authoritative one of the North Shore's pioneer citizens; opinion of Army and Navy experts. tAndrew MacLeish. He belonged to that "During the ceremony of hoisting or small group of people lowering the Flag or when the Flag is North Shore characterized in Bibli- passing in a parade or in a review, all percal language as "the sons present should face the Flag, stand salt of the earth." at attention and salute. Those present in Although A n d r e w u~iform should render the right hand acLeish was in the strict sense a Glencoe salute. When not in uniform, men should citizen, still he was so well known to remove the headdress with the right hand wellers in all the neighboring towns that and hold it at the left shoulder, the hand e might well be called a North Shore citi- being over the heart. Women should n. As one of the owners .of Carson, Pirie, salute by placing the right hand over the ott, &: Co., arid a well-known figure .in heart.· The salute to the Flag in the movthat store for many years, he was also ing column is rendered at the moment the mong the best known· men in Chicago. He Flag passes." as especially active in work ,carried on ry the Baptist denomination. We met yesterday a lad who having shown the doctor an infected finger was He was a canny sturdy Scotchman, a odel of honesty, thrift, industry, and of told by the medical man to dissolve three red pills in a basin of hot water and then I the admirable habits of his race. Many . ill miss his familiar face and figure, and soak the affected finger in the hot solution. any will send a sympathetic thought to The lad, being a little above the average in intelligence, examined the red pills and ose whom he has left behind. found them to be little red candies. Returning to the doc, the patient made inquiries A new branch of Sanitary Engineering as to the therapeutic efficacy of the little s just been called to our attention. This red candies. Whereupon the astute M.D. w branch is Skeeter Engineering. It told him that most people would not regarl~ ms likely that the North Shore, for anere hot water as having any healing value. Hence he often prescribed the addition of veral years to come, will offer a fertile these little red pills. The boy learned Jlll!l~j~~tUIM.~ ... PIIrtl.taiJI&r: occupation. ·. much. from this aperieoce. ----·~ emM ULY .... lttit , , ifllo jm&' i.,.. As ia o -""or ciHr. Afld stt rt/lecltd iff its dtltlu . Tile tla. iags .I #told MD.It dttw; Cott1t1 I ht loot wo ,o·r sotil Au ftu ttrtbetltktl '""' Tlat tlaiags ill life I 'liiJiw t110st, If yn WOflltl let "" sluJrt · The IO'lltly tlangllts I know are )'Otlrl, And y011 ifl f·rn with tnt, W0t1ld sluwe tile blessings I tossess. I'd 11~,1 ··~IIY be. '· ·..· ... .. . -OLIVIA KINGSUY FIL, WHO IS "SOME PUNKINS'" WHEN IT COMES TO MATTERS OF PSYCHOLOG¥, WAS CONSIDERABLY WROUGHT UP THIS WEEK OVER SOME WISEACRE'S ASSERTION THAT GRAYING LOCKS ARE ATTRIBUTABLE LARGELY TO ENERVATED :MENTAL PROCESSES AND INDOLENT ATTITUDES. YOU GUESSED IT. FIL'S THINNING THATCH IS ALSO SILVERING. Claicol Boyish CMntl /4 tailtgfd I· 1M llttJSat~t thoughts Of TluJt ;,. tne rise J'Uittlfttss, Low, .Afld drttJtll.l of Heavn 011 earlh. DiMe/ /ftltOCtfltt E~ttwi~tts itself Amo·g my tlao·glats Of greatest grit/, You·g lwe. And "'"" of s011l.-KAY ]AN2 Er.r.. -:U. Note: Yes, Kay Jane Ell, we understand perfectly. APia-iN- D...._. A .a..We colleclioa of PJ'~ ........_. boDe8 aw.ib 0111' "CUU," tile . .t.ial c··ine, who dais week . . . .........,. ....... awa~ to d.e .-nat tloa ·oepital to .... a ~ ....... ..,. patcW . . .... ............ ncollditioaed. Senral tlaeoliM laaYe .._ ....._. co·c·.U.. tile ca... of tM diaahiliQ·. Soaae ·oW a mal caaiDe re.,auiW.. Otlaen, 110 . . . . . . n ......, ..... ...._. to ...... tile ~ cat wlao .......... atealtla~ wa~ aWt tlae ...._. t.acla Ha..U.. oec...W.·~ ....................... plqhl ..... witla ... , .... apeciea, we an iBcli ·· to tile...._ tlaeoly. .-ter. Dieccw·· ..._. oa P"'c··rtJ" Well, well. We've just about decided to give up writin' and take to seUin' news. Here comes Shorty, major domo of the '.'L" Terminal news stand, with the information that he'll pick. up baggage this week and hie himself to Florida, mebbe even Havana-to while away the balance of · the frigid season. Last year, you'll remember, he took time oft for a sojourn at Hot Springs. What'!' he gonna do down there? Oh, a bit of golfing, then a dip in the surf, a snooze on the hotel ver· anda, and such evening entertainment as may suggest itself to our resourceful Shorty. And over in Ha_!ana? Ah, ha, the bangtails are runnin', don't you know! This ceaalea talk about Gene Tunnera allepd bicycle ride upon the occasion of the moat recent ··battle of tlae century... baa broucbt this ratber ama~ ~meback from an adherent of the erudlte Gene: "From the looks of Jack DempaeJ' aftel' that aftalr, one would IIWJI)eCt he bad caucbt up w.lth 11M sprlntlnc pnlua." ...... TMF s.._.. And, ao, we must hasten to vlslt the Invalid. ........,..·, ..