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Woman's Sense of HumOr
Upheld by Mrs. Rinehart

on its trivial errands. You have TO feel
the absurdity of being serious to he
really humorous"
when did you start writing. Mrs.
Rinehart?"
my first play was produced in 1908.
I had written short stories before, but
it was then that first appeared before
the public eye. Incidentally, that plav-
was farce, pure farce-but that was
before your time"
"You were married then?'
"Yes-and had three boys. My baby
was about two years old. Since then I
have written twentynine books"
How you must have worked during
those years." 1 marveled.
"Yes. I worked, but my family always
came first. I pursued my career when
my family didn't need me. I am sure
that is the only way woman can have
a family and career both. She must
satisfy her family first and then she can
turn to her own work.
When asked about the great American
novel, Mrs. Rinehart looked bored ana
declared there was no such animal
You can't have one great American
novel. A novel like Main Street. that
gives you a true picture of life in
small town. isn't true for the cities, nor
is the novel Of the north true OF the
south, while what is true of one city
isn't true of another. Any novel that
pictures truly and vividly one cross
section of American life belongs In the
Americana, but one book can't show 1t
all. Can you get picture of the great
war in one book? France is now max
ing collection of all books dealing with
the great war and from all those books
she hopes to get a partially complete
picture of the war. Some of my books
are being sent over for that collection.
''Then again you have at least hun
pred years perspective before you can
tell whether or not a book is great. A
book we think great now may be utter
ly forgotten In ten years"
She smiled at me brightly. $50 you
see / really cannot discuss the great
American novel;"
BETTE LARINfoRE.
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coming SO fast when news reached
him of a man who had been mauled
by an elephant. The chief medical
officer at Fall Hall. knowing better
what elephant mauling usually meant.
came. but he didn't hurry. 1 saw him
later and he apologized, but felt no
grievance. I understood the situa-
tion. Usually when an elephant gets
a man doctor can't do anything for
him. However, 1 did get entirely
over 1t all. although it took me three
months in bed.
But this isn't always so. Some
months later l sat down in the hotel
at Nairobi with three other men, who,
like myself. had been caught by
elephants and had lived to tell the
tale. An elephant caught Black in
his trunk and threw him into a bush
that broke his fall. The elephant fol-
lowed him and stepped on him. the
bush this time forming q cushion that
saved him. Although the elephant
returned two or three times to give
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cd in my mind. know only that !
picked up my gun and wheeled about.
tried to shove the safety catch for
ward. 1t refused to bulge. I remem-
Der the thought that perhaps / had
left the catch forward when I in
spected the guE and that IL not /
must pull the triggers hard enough
to fire the gun anyway. This is an
impossibility, but 1 remember dis
tinctly the determination to do It,
for the all-powerful impulse in my
mind was that must shoot instantly.
THEN something happened that
l. dazed me. i don't know whether
1 shot or not. My next mental record
is Of a tusk right at my chest. 1
grabbed it with my left hand, the
other one with my right hand and.
swinging in between them. went to
the ground on my back.
This swinging in between the tusks
was purely automatic. 1t was the re-
suit of many time on the trails i'm
agining myself caught by an ele-
plants rush and planning what I
would do, and a very profitable plan
ming, too, for am convinced that IL
man imagfnes such a crisis and
plans what he would do ne will, when
the occasion occurs, automatically do
what he planned. Anyway, firmly
believe that my ina ginings along the
trail saved my life.
He drove his tusks into the ground
on either side of me, his curled-up
trunk against my chest. had a real
izatton that 1 was being crushed, and
as looked into one wicked little eye
above me / knew I could expect no
mercy from 1t. This thought was per-
fectly clear and definite in my mind.
heard wheezy grunt as he plunged
down and then-oblivion.
The thing that dazed me was a blow
from the elephants trunk as he swung
1t down to curl 1t back out of harms
way. 1t broke my nose and tore my
cheek open to the teeth. Had II been
an intentional blow 1t would have
killed me instantly. The part of the
trunk that scraped off most of my
face was the heavy bristles on the
knuckle-like corrugations of the skin
of the under side.
When he surged down on me his
big tusks evidently struck something
in the ground that stopped them. OF
course my body offered practically no
resistance to his weight, and ! should
have been crushed as thin as a wafer
IL his tusks hadn't met that resistance
stone, root, or something-under-
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taneous. You have to think and think
to get just the word which shows up
the absurdity of the situation. There
are always at least three drafts of my
stories. I write out the first draft my
self, have it typed, then l go over the
typewriter copy, slashing off some
parts and adding on others. This second
draft Is typed and / revise 1t again. So
what it takes you half an hour to read
takes me two or three weeks hard work.
"I think II is a safe rule that the
easier thing is to read, the harder 1t
was to WRITE
mentioned to Mrs. Rinehart that the
reason I liked her detective stories so
well was because they are. so light, that
her horrors were mitigated by SO many
humorous incidents.
"Oh," she laughed, "I never could
write a detective story seriously. My
| first detective story, The Circular Stair
case was written as a satire on detec-
tive stories. but everybody took 1t seri-
| ously. so now I am ranked as a
detective story writer. But 1 do enjoy
| writing them-in fact. I think I'll write
another one soon, just for the fun Of it..
"You know" she went on, you have
to have good deal of humor in you to
enjoy anything humorous. The success
of anything humorous all depends on the
way people feel and on what they want.
'T will never forget one time when I
tried to give a funny speech at deadly
serious dinner. Being the only woman
speaker, I was the last on the program,
so sat through the dinner listening to
man after man give grave, serious
speeches, befitting the dignity of the
occasion and of their own positions. I
didn't see how I could ever get up and
make frivolous speech to that august
body, but I had to do it. 1t was the
only speech I had prepared and 1
couldn't give any other. / thought that
II the first laugh didn't get over. 1
would just collapse in my chair.
when / got up and looked around at
the diners, the British ambassador
among them. was cold all over. But
the speech was the biggest success Of
the evening. It just happened that peo-
pie were tired Of listening to weighty
talks and wanted something funny, so
when my speech came along they liked
it. But I shall never forget the awful
feeling had when got UP to speak"
I asked her IL she could tell in Just
what her humor lay.
t'Well," she replied, "you know / am
not witty. I hope 1 have a sense Of
humor, but am not at all witty. There
+, is a difference-wit depends more on
the turn of a word. Nor am I satirist
satire is a cruel form of hun1or, this
! merciless ridiculing Of man. think
, good deal of what passes for humor
! today is satire-you can see it in our
| humorous weeklies.
| "My hunlor lies mostly In situation.
(. Something absurd, something incongru-
ous--it will always make you laugh.
You have to have that sense of the
pleasant, well meaning absurdity of the
human race as 1t fits about SO intentIy
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Continued from First Page.)
occupied by him when worshipfui
master of Alexandria Lodge. II was
in continuous use for III years, but
Vandals and relic fiends somehow
managed to rip the seat and arms,
and the passage of years has told
upon 1t SO that today IL is preserved
in glass case. Several notable visi-
tors, among them Gen. Lafayette in
1925 have occupied this chair since
Washington's day. At Washington's
death there were with him at his
bedside three physicians who had
been in attendance. One of these
was DR.. Elisha Cullen Dick, his life
long friend; the second was DIR. james
Craik, whose momentous career had
constantly brought him into associa-
tion with Washington. Both were
members of Washington's own lodge
at Alexandria The third physician
was DR.. Brown, fifth grand master of
Maryland. DR.. Dick had succeeded
Gen. Washington as master of Alex
andria Lodge, had assIted him at the
laying of the corner stone of the Ma
tional Capitol and performed the
masonic service at his funeral, De-
cember Is, 1899.
DR.. James Craik had been surgeon
In Washington's first command and
was with him in every battle he
fought, from Great Meadows to York
town. He married Washington's
cousin, Marianne, daughter of Charles
Elwood of Belle Air. Va. He dressed
Lafayette's wounds at Brandywine
and was at the deathbed of John Gus
tis. Mrs. Washington's son. at Eat
ham. When Martha Washington
passed away he soothed her dying
moments. DR.. Craik is buried in an
unmarked grave in an Alexandria
churchyard. but his Masonic apron
and the record of his devoted service
to the Father OF His Country are still
cherished by the lodge of Alexandria.
Alexandria is therefore, II is felt,
a peculiarly appropriate location for
the enduring memorial of solid
granite which will be erected by the
Masonic orders of the country as
lasting tribute to the great states
man and law giver. While it IS true
there are other collections Of heir
looms ana TellcS OF washington
career. it is probable there are none
which have so great a sentimental
worth nor which throw a greater
light upon his daily life.
To the great memorial in future
years on the anniversary of Wash
ington's birthday will come Pilgrim
ages of those who will learn anew
the lesson of his life and spread
abroad and translate into action the
teachings of the Father of His Country,
who laid the foundations of this
/ great republic
The maintenance of this great ma
tional shrine to Washington will br
| under the direction Of the Mas0ni-
| orders and an endowment necessary
: ito the patriotic purpose will be raised
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run out into the open space again
and charged all over 1t, so it is rea-
sonable to assume that they had scat
tered through 1t like covey of quail
and that he had trampled II down try
ing to find the men whose tracks and
wind filled the neighborhood.
Usually when an elephant kills a
man II will return to Its victim and
: gore him again, or trample him, or
pull his legs or arms off with its
trunk. l knew of one case where a
mans porters brought in his arm
which the elephant that had killed
him had pulled off his body and left
lying on the ground.
In my case happily, the elephant.
for some reason, did not come back. I
lay unconscious for four or five hours.
In the meanwhile, when they found
the coast was clear. the porters and
gun boys returned and made camp,
intending no doubt. to keep guard
over my body until Mrs. Akeley, to
whom they had sent word, could
reach me. They did not, however,
touch me, for they believed that / was
dead, and neither the Swahili Mo-
hammedans nor the Kikuyus will
touch a dead man. So they built a
fire and huddled around 1t and i lay
unconscious in the cold mountain
rain little distance away. with my
body crushed and my face torn open.
\ y + II
a BOUT o'clock I came to in a
"A dazed way and was vaguely con-
scious of seeing fire. I shouted, and
little later / felt myself being car
, ried by the shoulders and legs. After
a while I had lucid spell and real
ized that I was lying In one of the
porter's tents, and I got clarity of
mind enough to ask where my wife
was. The boys answered that she was
back in camp That brought the
events back to me, how had left her
at camp. found the trail of the three
old bulls. followed them and. finally,
how I was knocked out.
I was entirely helpless. could
move neither my arms nor legs and I
reached the conclusion that my back
was broken. / could not move, but l
felt no pain whatever. However, my
coldness and numbness brought to my
mind a bottle of cocktails. and l or
| dered one Of the boys to bring 1t to
me. My powers of resistance must
have been very low, for he poured all
there was In the bottle down my
throat. In the intervals of conscious
ness, also, I got them to give me hot
bovril-a British beef tea-and qui-
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at peace among themselves
1t is my friend the elephant that
hope to perpetuate in the central
group in African Hall as IL Is now
planned for the American Museum of
Natural History hall with groups
of African animal skins mounted on
sculptured bodies, with backgrounds
painted from the country itself. In
this, which we hope will be an ever
lasting monument to the Africa tnAt
was the Africa that is now fast dia-
appearing. hope to place the eIs-
phant group on a pedestal in the cen
ter Of the hall-the rightful place for
the first animal of them ALL
Copyright, 1929
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Hot Air as POIisher.

THE marvels of friction are in
finite. The use of the sand-b blast
for polishing metals is an instance in
point, as is that of blast of simple
hot air. 1t Is the velocity that gives
the polishing power. The articles TO
be treated are placed in basket in
centrifugal machine driven at a very
high speed and heated air is blown
from a pipe through the basket A
high polish Is thus produced vHry
rapidly. Nickel-plated articles tnat
have become tarnished are made
bright In a few minutes. Wet metal,
fresh from the bath needs no pre-
liminary drying, for the current of
air dries and polishes at the same
moment. 1t is only necessary to pack
the articles so that the air reaches
them on all sides.
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this time the first gun boy was taking
the cartridges, one by one. from his
bandoleer and holding them up for
my inspection-the ordinary pre- au-
ton to insure that all the ammuni-
tion was the right kind. and an i'm
portant insurance. because only full
steel -jacketed bullet will penetrate an
elephants head.
While still warming my hands in
specting the cartridges and standing
with the gun leaning against my
stomach. I was suddenly conscious
that an elephant was almost on top
of me. ..,--.-. .,.
l have no knowledge OF how the
warning came. have no mental
record of hearing him, seeing him. or
of any warning from the gunboy who
faced me and who must have seen the
elephant as he came down on me from
behind. There must have been some
definite signal, but 1t was not record
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Hunter Mauled by Elephant Escapes Death Almost by

Few men, II any, besides Mr.. Akeley,
have survived an adventure with an
elephant such as that described in this
article. Vet that Is but one OF the
breath taking experiences OF the author
among the wild beasts of Africa. These
are recountsd in a narrative OF five In
staiiments, Of which the following Is
ske second. Mr.. Akeley Is one OF the
most distinguished of American big.
game hunters, natural scientists and
explorers. He Is also noted as taxi
dermist, an inventor, sculptor and
painter.
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ground, He seemed to have thought
me dead, for he left me-by some
good fortune not stepping on me-aRd
charged after the boys.
] never got much information out
of the boys of what did happen, for
they were not proud of their part in
the adventure. However, there were
plenty of signs that the elephant had
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Tu Are Driven Ground Side
Other
LElph
AmongM Members of a 1erd-Stry Of Slaughter O Prince
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these internal injuries took a long
time to heal. AS matter of fact, !
don't suppose ! would have pulled
through even with Mrs. Akeley's care.
If it hadn't been for a Scotch medical
missionary who nearly ran himself
to death coming to my rescue. He
had been In the country only little
while and perhaps this explains his
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WASHINGTON MEMORIAL.

Continued from First Page.)
Evening star., 1923-10-14
BY CARL e. AKELEY.

VI r you hunt elephants in the for
est, you are quite likely TO find
that two can play the hunting
game, and find yourself pretty
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-10

exhibition, the local club has been
painstaking and elaborate in its
month-long work to make the customs
airy confusion at dog show conspii
cuous by its absence this weekend.
Cleanliness and woodworking
schedules will go hand in hand. Great
care has been taken in arranging the
exhibits also.
Every effort TO make a visit to the
show as pleasant and instructive as
possible will be made. Officials will
be in the show in numbers ut all times
wearing white badges marked TASK
me- in red, and will be prepared to
answer any and all questions. from
why bloodhounds are so ugly TO why
police dogs will knock down a pris.
oner but never bite him. Technical
language has been avoided in the com.
rrehensive programs so that the
yeriest "tyro" may acquaint himself
intelligently With the dog game" in
all its phases.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-10
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
LUNCHEON THURSDAY
TO BE WELL ATTENDED
Well Known Men Guests of
Honor and Four Hundred
Members to Be Present.

T.. An elaborate turkey dinner will be
served to the knights of Columbus and
their guests at noon Thursday at the
| st. Anthony, Hotel wh, !. they. will
meet in annual public celebration of
Columbus Day.. Fred p. Goodman,
chairman auiieunees. Columbus Day
is Friday, October II. but Mr.. Good
man announces the Knights will hold
their dinner on Thursday and other
festivities on Friday.
All Knights of Columbus and their
ladies are invited to be present, Mr..
Goodman says and they also may in
i wife any of their friends. The dinner
Twill be served promptly at II ID and
will be preceded by brief reception in
|the parlors beginning at u o'clock.
Among the guests of honor will be
Bishop Johnston. formerly of the West
Texas diocese of the Episcopal Church
Judge W. S. Fly. chief justice of the
Civil Court of Appeals Of Texas
Claude V. Birkhead, president chamber
of commerce; Brig. Gen. Paul b. Ma
lone, U. S. A.; Enrico Charracio, ar
|tist-sculptor John w. Tobin, mayor /;
A. NJ. Michael, commissioner Boy
Scouts of America: Frank Bushick,
commissioner of taxation; Congress
man Harry NJ. Wurzbach, Lorne Bar
clay. director of education of the Boy
Scouts of America. and others.
Bishou Arthur J. Drossaerts of San
Antonio will deliver the invocation and
Father NJ. S. Garriga, chaplain of the
San Antonio council, will give the
|benediction.
Members of the Knights of Columbus
have been holding MONDAY luncheons
on Thursdays for several years and
| this event is but an application of
this custom in honor of Columbus Day.
| All members are asked TO attend, Mr..
Goodman states, and to bring along
any of their friends. Reservations can
be made through the secretary of the
council but this is not necessary as
accommodations will be arranged for
all who come.
''These are get-together meetings
said Mr.. Goodman, "and We will make
them just as informal as possible, our
main desire being for the Knights and
their friends to have good time and
|get better acquainted. Our noon lunch
|eon club has been growing rapidly and
has proven very entertaining and in-
|structive as we'll as giving us a social
hour once week and we expect this
|event to be the best we have ever
|b6ld."
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-10
FARM PROBLEMS UP
|Interna tional Congress to Discuss Mat
tiers Vital to Agriculture.

Kansas City, Mo-, Oct. 10.-Matters
vital to agriculture are scheduled for
discussion by eminent authorities be-
fore the representatives of virtually all
| the larger agricultural organizations
assembled here today for the opening
session of the international farm con-
|gress.
Among those who will address the
congress today is Henry c. Wallace,
secretary of agriculture, a program of
Whose department for meeting prob
|lems of the wehat farmers has ex-
Gifted speculation although it has not
WHOLLY been revealed.
The schedule for the congress, which
will adjourn Friday. includes discus
sion of the plight fthe wheat farmer.
marketing, international relations.
production, transportation. legislation.
reclamation and dry farming.
In explaining the significance and
magnitude of the congress, w. j.
|Drummond, chairman, asserted in a
|n1Atement here that its delegates COM
/ BED prominent farmers. stockmen
and agricultural expert appointed by
governors of more than half the states.
The federal and state departments
|of agriculture and many agricultural
colleges also are represented.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-10
DRY AGENTS.
RESIDENCE.
DYNAM|TED
Blast Damages Score Of
Houses and Injuries
Several.
RESCUED FROM RUINS
Suspicious Strangers Seen
Fleeing Before Ex-
plosion.
RESCUED FROM RUINS

Stesibenville, Ohio, Oct. 1O.-The
home OF Charles Pearce, sc, prohibit
ton enforcement officer at Smithfield,
Ohio, west of here, was blown up to-
day by dynamite. Pearce, his wife
and baby escaped serious injury.
The blast partially wrecked the
city hall, opposite the Pearce home,
the Spragg restaurant, the home of
Mrs. Mary Merriman and broke win
dows. in three score of residences.
The dynamite, placed under the
front of Pearce's house, wrecked the
structure, which collapsed inward.
Pearce, his wife and 17-months-old
baby, were thrown into the cellar with
the debris.
Pearce extricated himself, rescued
his baby and wife from the ruins.
The baby was cut and bruised; Mrs.
Pearce had her back injured.
, Mrs. Merryman's home, adjoining
was so badly wrecked that the aged
woman, who had been seriously ill,
had to be removed from the structure
with ladders to the second floor.
Miners en- route to work claim to
have seen four strangers standing on
a corner near the Pearce home. 9th
crs report that they saw an automo-
bile with several men passengers leav-
ing the town at high rate of speed
shortly before the blast.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-10
Value ofDogs in Weekend
Show Will Exceed $50, 900

years old and his entry at the Austin
show was his first.
Boost for Stanley Miller.
The other of the Austin winners
to be entered at San Antonio is Helen
of Troy, champion female police dog
at the show. She is three years old
and has won ribbons at two other
shows in former years. She is owned
by Cheatham Parke of Kyle. Texas.
This years show, the first to be
held in connection with the Austin
fair, was highly successful in every
respect, according TO Alfred Wilkie,
the manager. There were 100 entries
in ten different classes. Stanley j.
Miller of San Antonio was the judge
at the show. The management was
so pleased with the way in which he
handled his work that they want him
back again for the next show.
I'VE cannot say enough in praise OF
his work and If it is possible We GER
tainly want him TO judge next years
show" Willie said.
Getting back 10 the San Antonio
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-10

infinity of combinations that have ex-
listed i'll time EAST, not once but many
times, and that will be repeated in the
future, indefinitely. everything that
could possibly take place has al
ready done so and will continue TO
do so. world without end in eternal re-
currence.
against this theory of recurrence
in all things, which must move in an
sequence. there is placed the
laws of chance. and Nietzsche's own
disbelief in any inherent nationality
in the world process of Development
Basing our deductions on Nietzsche's