The Detroit times., 1909-05-10
Or. COOKS WIFE
IS NOT DISTURBED
Explorers Dash for Pole No Drawer
Than Wife and Children-Sure
of His Safe Return.

BROOKLYN. May 10.-On the walls
OF pretty Brooklyn naI hangs the
picture Of DR.. Frederick a. Cook. now
on his way to the north pole. The
wire that holds II Is long. so that
little Helen. years old. can look at
the picture. Helen was only / year
old when her father started.
DR.. Cooks expedition. single-handed,
except for few Esquimos, depending
Tor food on the game they XIII, Is prob
ably the most daring OF 4 jong line OF
expeditions. Mrs. Cook. at home.
keeps up her own courage by keeping
fresh In her children's minds the meni-
DRY and character OF their father.
Little Helen often looks at the pic
ture. then runs To the telephone.
Hello. papa" she says.
Hello" says the telephone girl.
The telephone girl knows all about II.
When you coming home, papa?"
asks little Helen.
'Oh, after a while" says the tele-
phone girl Little Helen always thinks
the telephone girls voice Is that OF
her father.
There's Ruth, too. who Is years
old.
I'm studying awfully hard in school.
SO when papa comes home he'll hnd
me very smart" she says.
Meme. Peary's famous little Eskimo
boy. who recently disappeared from
New York. was always welcome
l;uest In the Cook home.
With little Helen on his knee
And with Ruth sitting on a stool
pefore him, he has often Told them Of
0he wonders OF the ice and snow OF
y is cold land and OF the long winter
nights In the snow huts during the
six months OF darkness.
Helen's favorite story, invented by
Meme and often repeated by him at
her request, was about little white
Iolar bear whose mamma HID IL In the
snow and went away TO get something
to eat for II and never came back.
viii Win High Honors.
And SO the bear looked up through
the hole In the snow at the tiny bright
stars" Meme would say, and kept
looking and looking, until II forgot 1t
was hungry. Then IL felt warmer and
warmer and warmer until II went 10
sleep. And IL never woke up again.
DIR. Cook, IL he Is not ALREADY frozen
10 death In the snow fields Of the
/. Northland. should be leaving his win
ter quarters by now for his last dash
TO the pole. II he wins. his heroism
will gain for him a high place in the
list OF the immortals.
His friends. alarmed at his long
absence, are fitting out relief
expedition. Dillon Wallace. the con-
querer Of Labrador, will start in July
unless word Is received before that
time.
In HIS last letter, Or. Cook said, Il
...kf 10 m hn a f.
tempt"
Knowing the indomitable character
of the man. his friends fear the worst.
Strangely enough. Or. Cooks best
friend does not worry. Is not afraid.
qhis friend is his wife. who lives with
her two children In Brooklyn. she
has supreme confidence In her intrepid
husband. She treasures the last let
tel she got from the frozen north. In
il was the sentence:
III find the pole the honor will be-
long 10 you and me alone. No one else
will be connected with IT.
Dr. Cook Is a typical Ice lighter. Ills
record with Peary and his mastery or
Mt. Mckinley are we'll known. But
the heroism Of wife who patiently
ordures, as has Mrs. Cook, years or
waiting Is almost incomprehensible.
''Oh, miss him OF course she said.
but he Is such real. genuine man
that delight tn his conquest ef-tha t
pole. I'd rather have him for nus
band and see him only half the lime
than have a husband with me all the
time who doesn't want to do anything
I'm the world but keep his family COM
Portable.
Words Thrill Her.
.ue'a always ouiet and self con- |
trolled. He never gets excited. why,
no walked hundreds OF miles one time
TO send me a letter. And there WASH /
any lovey-dovey stun In II at all. but
when he wrote in II All my world, |
wife. moves about you and the two
children Il thrilled me more than all
the love letters | had ever heard of
because I knew II was true. So wher
he says. III find the pole or die,
know he means It." /
Mrs. Cook isn't a woman TO be pitied |
nv any means Many husbands would |
DO delighted to have their wives as
proud OF them as Mrs. Cook is OF her
husband.
Dillon Wallace, who will head the
relief expedition. was with Leonidas
Hubbard. Jr.. in Labrador. when the
latter starved to death. Mr.. Wallace
barely escaped with his life. This
was in 1904, but In 1905 Mr.. Wallace
again covered the Labrador territory
and gained a lasting reputation as a
brave but careful Polar investigator.
Poetical Perkins (quoting): II
know where my .Krischna tarries
in these early days OF spring"
Solid Smith: yep, and | guess