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Women as to Their /

TO the editor: The eyes Of the
athaletic world is centered Nhis
summer in la belle France
where ladies and gents from
all the countries that Is left are
participating in what is aptly termed
the Olympic games. These games
was began pretty near 500 years
B. c. for the purpose Of developing
and Strengthening the Greeks and
look at them now. those that amt
shining shoes is running restaurants
in partnership with flies
The first Olympic games was held
at a place called Olympia and con-
sisted Of one event which was a foot
race and the encyclopedia says it
was win by a athalete named Coroe-
bus in IT'S BIC but they's no way Of
telling II that was good time or not
as the distance amt stated. In later
years they kept adding other events
tin they had a long run, a. footrace
for men in armor, a four horse
chariot race and a contest for
trumpeters and heralds, to say moth
ing about a combination boxing and
wrestling match in which the con-
testants was allowed to tape their
hands with andirons. 1t was under
stood that after a guy had win the
all around championship he should
live at public expense.
This all around championship was
awarded to the party that got the
most points in what they called the
penthathlon flom the Greek words
pent meaning FIVE and athlon mean
pentathlon or fve-oof was running.
jumping, discus and javelin throwing
and wrestling.
Well finely people begun to realize
that the most of the contests was not
only silly but it was almost impos-
sible to stage them, like for inst
the four horse chariot race, even il
you did happen to have a chariot
around the house where was you
going to get a hold of four horses.
All the heralds was newspapers and
the trumpeters was charged with
professionalism on acct of holding
positions with George Olsen or Panl
Whiteman.
So one by one they weeded out
what they considered obsolete and
substituted contests which was con-
sidered up to date and are still
clinging to same. which is the reason
why I am writing this little article
namely to try and show that it is
high time for another general
reform. If the purpose of athaletics
and especially tho Olympic games is
to benefit the contestants and make
them more valuable citizens and
better boys and gals, and husbands
and wifes. then why not arrange a
program of events that will tend to
same instead of running OF a serious
of contests that don't get NOBODY
nowheres or prove nothing except
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WITH the disturbance abated, the
governor Joined me, his ordinary
merry self again, and we drank Ii
bation to Mars. My clothes were
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Exploding Eggs was cooking a
rasher of bacon on my improvised
stove on the paepae the next morn
ing, when Flag, the mutoi, brought
a note, he acting as general messen-
ger of the island. 1t was in a strange
hand and on dirty paper. I could not
make out the language except a few
French words, and the signature not
at all. and so after breakfast 1 took
it to lie Brunnec at his store.
LIE Brunnec glanced over it and
looked puzzled Then he spoke low,
in French. so that the natives in the
room might not CLEAN a word.
'Mais," he said, "it is from Peyral,
and it is written in Breton and abb
sinthe. I translate it for you into
your English:
Monsieur: You cannot eviter'-
what you say?-escape-'from your
insult to ma file. You have insulted
and struck me, too. I will not seek
the tribunal to make your apology.
The governor has told me you are
Irfshman. and so you are Of the sans
blood like the grandparent of my
child. In France what you have done
must be paid for in blood or by mar
riage. Even il you make intention to
return to your own country no mat
ter. You must marry my daughter
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path in meditation My feet took me
into the mission churchyard. and I
sat on the roots of q gigantic bantam
tree near the colossal crucifx brought
from France by the priests for the
jubilee of 1900. The mad note of
Peyral had stunned me, and, instead
Of thinking hard and clearly upon my
situation, 1 fell into fatuous reverie.
X
a GENTLE and lovely savage she
was unsoiled by civilization.
What a singular and perhaps en-
trancing task to teach her only the
best in it, to unfold through English
or French the music and literature
of the world. to take her. perhaps,
to the great cites? Or, il I myself
was done with civilizstion. as I
sometimes persuaded myself I was,
what more delightful companion than
this simple virgin of Atuona? To
fish. to swim. to roam the plateaus;
to have q library and to get tho re-
views and the new books by the
schooners, to create a living idyn!
All these ideas rushed through my
head as I returned to my house. I
had concluded not to pass Peyprars
house unarmed. SO 1 tied a string
over my pareu and fastened the re-
volver to it. With one pull the knot
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that the entrants has wasted a lot Of
time practicing?
FOR example suppose a man gets so
as he throw a javelin 189 It ~
inches, will somebody kindly tell me
how that is going to buy spare tires
for his first baby's go cart? And
did you ever hear Of a gals mother
saying to her suitor, why. certainly
you can have Kate. I know you will
make her a good husband because
you have did 81 II. 11h inches in
the running hop. step and jump"
And in these days Of the long dis
tance telephone to say nothing Of
motorcycles, how many men is going
to get job as a Western Union
messenger boy because they can run
&c miles in 2 hrs. SIS min. 20 sec
Even a man that can clear # S in
the running high jump amt going
to be no use hanging pictures be-
cause he don't stay up there long
enough to be sure he Is getting them
straight.
I will leave it to the Olympic COM
mittees to figure out decent substi-
tutes for the silly events now on
the regular program and will con-
tent myself with suggesting a new
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OLYMPICS SYSTEM WRONG
Womenas sto 7AerF Finessfo the Ma11mo Sea-

home at $50. The winner is the one
that gets there on or before clock.
3. Immutabi1ity. The pseudo wife
appears in a new hat or new dress
The contestants all tell her II looks
great Tho winner is the one that
don't change his mind the second or
third time she wears it and tell her
it looks terrible.
4. Tolerance The contestants and
the mock wife go out on a drinking
party. The contestants drink 20
cocktails apiece and get pie-eyed
The winner is the contestant that
let's the wife finish her I'd. cocktail
without telling her she has had
enough.
5. Versatility. This event will re-
quire some time. Each contestant
in conjunction with the mock wife,
entertains different friends at din
ner every evening for a week. Dur
ing each evening the contestant must
tell three anecdotes personal ex
periencea- The winner is the oon-
testant that don't tell the same anec-
dote more than five times during the
week.
THE way they have got the Olympic
games now, why the women
folks amt entered in nothing but
swimming and tennis, and l amt
mover heard OF a woman that win
good homo because she was a human
fish, vile as far as tennis is con-
er that ever lived is still playing
singles IN life's game. So in place
Of these two useless sports I have
figured out the following pentathlon
for women:
1. Patience. Each contestant is
required to set at a table in
soofiaw cabaret with her pretended
don't say let's go home.
2. Endurance. The contestants is
required to spend an afternoon and
evening talking. The winner Is the
one that don't mention bobbed hair.
3. Poise. The contestants all sets
around a room and a telephone bell
rings Tho winner Is the one that
can keep from jumping out OF her
chair.
4. Penetration. Each contestant
is given a railroad time table and
required to hnd out what time
train leaves somewheres and gets
else. The winner Is the
one who finds out within two hours
without asking a man.
s. Expert accounting. Each con-
testant is given checking account
of 1900. The winner is the ones who
can tell how much Of it is left at
the end Of a week without calling
up the bank.
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Charge Of Wild Bull Faced by Traveller Thrown From
One of Strange Penk of Polynesia Develops Through Nole

The unusual story recounted
here, with it's pathos as well as
its hazards. both characteristic
of the South Seas, is the last of
a series Of four exceptional
articles by Frederick O'Brien.
Mr. O'Brien. notable as a writer
and interpreter in this field, is
also a world traveller and ad-
venturer of the first rank.
Mr.. OBrien had returned to
the Marouesas after a journey
TO the Paumotu Archipelago,
where he had encountered some
extraordinary experiences. He
had been penned under a coral
reef and all but drowned; his
schooner had escaped a water
spout at sea by less than 100
feet; he had helped in killing a
gigantic devilfish, and he had
seen Nohea, a native friend,
perform feats of pearl diving
which equaled the best that a
Caucasian could achieve in
diving suit He had also be-
come acquainted with some of
the monsters of the ocean in
that mysterious and-in many
respects to an American-un-
real corner of the world.
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My muscles squirmed. my heart
leaped, my knees bent, and my chin
touched my bosom. Exploding Eggs
laughed.
"Peyrale publ kuku," he said re-
gretfully; "Peyral has shot a kuku'
-as if I should have shot it.
laughed heartily with him. The joke
was on me, but 1 enjoyed it to the
echo. I recalled that often OF an
| evening my enemy replenished his
larder with an expenditure of No. 4
| shot. 1t was funny, and when I
reached the palace I was trembling
| with the reverberations of the absurd
climax to my fears.
'HERMIER DES PLANTEs was
dancing opposite Many Daugh-
ters, and Song OF the Nightingale
was fetching cold water from the
brook to water the wine, in the
temperate French way.
"Hola" called out the governor.
Come in. mon anil Sit down and
have a goutte de Pernod. You are
jolly. What? You met Peyral. and
he shot not you but a kuku? o lalaIa
You give me back the Browning?
All right. You could not have done
much harm with it. See, the cart
ridges are blanks for firing a salute
on the fall of the Bastile fete.
o sapristi. 1t is droll! will die"
He held his stomach while he
laughed and laughed. 1 grinned with
fury.
What the devil is the drolerier'
questioned. earnestly.
The governor wiped his eyes, and
emptied his glass.
"Attendez," he answered you
were not in any great danger or 7
would have come to your rescue.
You know 1 have here a dossier of
every one in these islands who has
been complained against. or has com
planned. The first week 1 was here
Peyral declared that Commissaire
Bauda had insulted his daughter, and
that he must marry her or he would
kill him. Bauda denied the charge,
and Peyral did nothing.
Then I opened his dossier. and in
two years he had made three such
SiiS&I Q Cos OhC against d pIolcSSoI
was here a month, and one against
LIE Brunnec. Cest curieux.
The man is mad with alcohol, but
more so with determination to
marry that stark daughter of his to
white man who might take her
away. Others have been eliminated
after such foolishness as this. See,
there was no one but you. Lutz is
after higher game, and besides he is
German. and Peyral hates him.
VOLTA, mon garcon. You were the
partf inevitable. 1t Is strange the
way he goes about getting a son-in-
law. One might expect a dot. or a
little hospitality, but no, he runs
true to type, and he is not a chic
type. But, c'est fni. He has tried
and failed You have met him, and
knocked him down, and now you
know his gun is for kuku. Well, we
will drink to the health of the
pauvre diable, and good husband for
the girl. But not you. eh?"
I drank with as much grace as
could. but when I walked in the
upper valley at dusk. and was alone
by the paepae tapu. the shattered and
grown-over temple of the old Mar
quesan gods. I could have cried with
pity for that girl
Copyright 1924
Evening star., 1924-06-22

ones coming. Better to tell the fact
and make a. stand there and then
said common sense. But no one an
minutes I left, with the coat, and re-
turned 10 my own cabin.
x X x
THE next afternoon as l passed the
governors garden on the road to
the beach. saw Peyral on the veran-
da with the official. I thought of the
rent in my raincoat, and entered the
grounds to speak to him about it
AS 1 approached the steps 1 heard the
tailor speaking loudly and vehe-
mently to Monsieur rHermier, the
governor, and spilling the absinthe
in the glass in his hand.
"Kaoha" / said, and Peyral turned
and saw me. His face purpled. and
he shouted in French something I did
not understand, and appealed to the
governor for corroboration. A
twinge of privity with his emotion
swept over me, and 1 am sure I
flushed and looked the culprit. I
hadn't much time for analysis, for
Peyral stood up and flung his glass
at my head. 1t went wide. I took
a step toward him and asked:
What's the matter with him, Mon
sieur administrator? Is he drunk
er than usual?'
"Je ne sails pas" replied the gov
ernor. with a shrug of his shoulder.
He has come here to lodge a COM
plant against you of maltreating
his daughter. He wants you tried
and sent to prison, and he wants to
institute suit against you for dam
ages l have told him to return
when he is sober. He is bitter Mon
sieur. and he is, after all, French
man."
Peyral got up from his chair, un-
steadily. The governor discreetly
left the veranda and entered his
study. 1 sat down in sheer weari-
ness, when suddenly the frenzied
drunkard confronted me.
"Sacre Americain" he yelled. You
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| will insult the daughter Of French
patriot. Cochon! I will show you
| what do to such people as you"
He flung himself upon me and
struck me in the face. Peyral was
fifty pounds heavier than /, but he
was very drunk. 1 drove my fist
into his chin, and, following the blow
with another, sent him sprawling.
regretted my violence as I saw the
poor devil staggering to his feet un-
steadily, but when. with the most
blasphemous profanity and the basest
epithets in the dialect of Brest he
lurched at me again with his two
hundred pounds of rank bulk, charity
fed from my painting heart and I
realized that L must fight or retreat.
Years of addiction to alcohol had
rot made my assailant anything but
tough and strong physically. and i
was no match for him if he was not
reeling. He plunged toward me as a
drunken elephant might go to COM
bat. 1 decided not to run, because i
wanted to continue to live in Atuona
underided, and so I sprang to meet
him, hitting fun tilt in the chin and
chest, carried him hard to the boards.
where we grappled and exchanged pow
erful blows.
We knocked over table, bottle,
glasses, and chairs, and the uproar
was immense. Song of the Nightin-
gale, Eploding Eggs, Ghost Girl and
Many Daughters, the little leper lass
had come scurrying from the kitchen.
Maybe the governor had a plan, or
his dignity was offended. for, without
appearing. he gave an order to Song.
and the quartet of natives threw
themselves. on us, and disentan-
gled US.
Peyrals last words were a threat
to kill me the next time we met.
WITH the disturbance abated, the
governor Joined me, his ordinary
merry self again, and we drank a Ii
baton to Mars. My clothes were
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| undid and the gun came loose in.
to my hand. I wore a light linen
| coat over my bare body, and no one
was the wiser.
| Thus ready for my would-be muir.
derer or father-in-law. whistied tc
Exploding Eggs the next day, and
he with towels in hand, we walked
toward the sands.
| Tho sun was dropping down the
western sky when, after a long bath
we dressed to leave the beach, Ex-
ploding Eggs in his loin-cloth and
| in mine, with my coat over the
| Browning. Tho hours in the salt
water, with the exercise and the
laughter had cleared the cobwebi
Of blame from my brain. My in.
nocent blood would be on the guilty
head Of Peyral did he kill me. Thai
was comforting. However. I made
sure tho knot slipped easily, and
with my valet beside me made the
start
I had gained halfway when I saw
Peyral coming toward me, a thousand
feet away. with a shotgun over his
shoulder. He was sflh ouetted against
the setting sun and could not be mis-
taken. His buriy form. his beard
mistakabie, as was also the outline
of the weapon.
There was no stopping. The swamp
was on either side of the ten-foot
| road, the beach behind me. Fleeing
was out of the question. I might
have taken a side road had there
been one, but just such conditions
as presented themselves must be met
daily. I kept on. and. as we came
nearer, our eyes Joined and remained
steadily fixed.
do not know how Peyral felt, but
1 was as fascinated as the proverbial
bird by the snake. I moved as il by
magnetic power toward my probable
slayer, and he toward me. Neither of
US made. movement except that of
our legs and stir bodies.
There came a second when we
were about four feet apart, each
hugging the edge of the road Our
eyes were held straight ahead, and
mine remained SO. We appeared to
| hesitate as il we might whirl and
seize each other or draw our weap-
ons. Tho shotgun was on his shoul-
der. but In the fash of an eye might
| be brought down to the level Of my
vitals.
But the eye did not fash. The gun
| swayed only with his footballs, and
we continued our mechanical advance
away from each other
Prudence whispered to me to turn
and protect myself from a rear at
| tack. but the message did not affect
my legs I WINGED momentari1y for
the expected load Of shot in my back,
but I walked stif1y as If a great ray
of light were penetrating my cerebel-
lum. Exploding Eggs, who knew
only about our fight upon the palace
balcony and nothing of my having
the Browning. was chanting about
the god Of night, Po, and paid no
attention to PeyraL except to say
quite audibly. "Peyrale aoe metal
Peyral is no good!'
That did not add to my surety, and
the imagined missile or missiles from
behind did not become less vivid
until was beyond shooting distance.
Just as calculated with incredible
relief that the crisis was past, Peyrars
gun roared out
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ugh Violent Attempts of rquean Parent Find Hsba nd for

or you will be buried in Calvaire
cimetiere' What you grave
yard?-Tt, is necessary that you send
me word by tomorrow or I will make
justice on you He says he is yours
respectful Well, by gar, it is a stu
ton. my friend, but say to you one
thing: do not be afraid. He slip back
already. You have a revolver? Yes?
Keep it in the hand or the pocket"
The merchant took up his sugar
scoop to begin business. My whole
ness or health seemed not to interest
him seriously. I sauntered up the
Evening star., 1924-06-22

torn. my Jaw ached, and my body was
bruised from the clutches of the
tailor.
do not molest YOURSELF" said the
executive II do not entertain any
evil of you. When the allegation is
formally made, I, as magistrate, will
hear the evidence. But we must take
precautions. He has said he will kill
you, so you must be on guard You
have no pistol? Eth bien! will lend
you my Browning automatic 1 had in
Senegal. 1t is loaded. Defend your
self, but do not step on his property.
Nous Yerronsi"
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Returns.

Nmse-It's triplets, sir!
Politican-What! I demand a re-
count
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