Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-06-01

Mr.. GAM looped himself farther
across the back Of Miss Meyers chair.
"From what, Miss Meyer"
"Sciatic pleurisy, Mr.. CAM. I'm a
great sufferer from it."
81 wonder, Miss Meyer, If that
could be what 1 sometimes feel ia my
left hip"
| Certainly it is, Mr.. CAM. It's a
condition of the sockets"
"That's it then. Sciatic-what?"
"Pleurisy."
"Pleurisy. I can tell you, Miss
Meyer, in the three days you've been
here at the Springs, you've told me
more about myself than the doctors in
six diagnoses could. 1t was worth the
twenty-five hundred, Miss Meyer, just
toto have you come here. The min
ute I'm out in the night air like now,
right away in my left thigh l get such
a twinge that"
"Could it be his valves are hinder
ing his flight, Mlnna? Could it?'
II don't know, Della. You're getting
me all worked up, too. Chills and
fever In my legs-limbs, all at once"
"Now, now, Miss Minna, just don't
you let our little fire-cracker Miss
Della, get you all worked up"
Fright this minute I'm in terrible
chill, Mr.. CAM, please excuse how I'm
trembling. / wonder, Della, if-if
anything's wrongl Oh-oh"
81 tell you, Kessler," said Mr..
CAM, leaning across the dim SILVER
ing silhouette of Miss Meyer, "you
got a daughter that is born to be
general In the army. Some girls are
born to run people and to run homes
and some to be generals in armies.
She's a general, tell you. Just look
how she got the whole hotel Of us
out here In the night air where we
don't belong"
'How she engineered 1t all, thought
Eth, Ganz7 Fifteen thousand dollars
she raised like 1t was fifteen cents
Over night she makes rich man out
of poor boy. Like Tom Riley says
himself, Napoleon couldn't do so well.
My little girl she's good one. eh,
Ganzr Better as her old papa"
"a general In the army, tell you,
Kessler."
With her full back turned to the
patter of conversation and oblivious
to Ii Miss Kessler swayed suddenly
farther from the group.
'Look, papa, there's new batch Of
people coming in from the station.
There's fourteen thousand here to-
night. If there's soul, not counting
the Louisville Tech. school. Fourteen
thousand, If there's SOUL"
"Oh, my poor hands, how cold
Whenever my brother flies, it's just
like all my circulation had slowed
down. Needle prick In my arms and
-"
Needle pricks, did you say, Miss
Meyer? Right this minute my left
side feels like lea kettle singing.
1t amt the circulation worries me.
Miss Minna, only the doctor says
-"
We'll, let me tell you, Mr.. GAM,
that poor circulation should worry
you. Any book on health hints will
tell you that poor circulation Is first
cousin to paralysis"
Papa Minna! Mommy! Look,
they're pulling out the machine. Sect"
The roped-off crowd swayed sud
denly forward, scattering calculations.
us that It? Is that him? Is that
he? Raugh Raugh! Cut it out That
amt him. There he isl Raugh"
Miss Kessier's hand reached out to
close tightly over her parents.
"Oh, Pa, that's Arch. See! The
tall thin fellow pulling down his cap"
'Yes, that's brother. See, Mr.. GAM.
That's him. oh, my poor hands!"
"Poor little handsv
They're strapping him inn
ITS the fireworks I'm afraid of.
Suppose 1t should catch He's never
used them In trial flights. Oh, my
poor hands ~
Into the flare of three arc-lights,
huge winged skeleton ran forward on
wheels, pushed by three lunglng at
PENDANTS, head first. Then she stood
with her beetle-like wings flung wide
and the inners of her drumming to
be OF
"Oh, my brother! Oh-h-h"
snow, now, Miss Mlnna"
II tell you, Mr.. sGanz, I'D rather
we had to live in tenement all our
lives than to see him risk his life like
that. What's flfteen-thousand-dol
purse, tiff he don't win 1t and gets
killed trying to do the double loop
four times? A helpless girl like me
that's never been strong"
Now, now. Miss Minnal"
~ never wanted him TO fly, Mrs.
CAM. Let the other boys take the
risks, Arch l always said, but"
II guess you're little like me, Miss
Minna. AS l tell Miss Della, where
my two feet belong is right on the
ground where the Almighty put EN-"
That's me every time. Mr.. CAM,
just so II amt damp"