Evening star., 1925-03-28
1 dreamed had taken up golf and

/ dreamed I had taken up golf and
was using fresh eggs as golf balls
Even seasoned golfers will have to
admit that 1 was going some"
So terrific was my drive, and SC
hot the day, that the eggs flattened
and were fried by the heat as they
sailed through the air.
My course around the links was
marked by these yellow -centered
discs, flying along at tremendous
speed. At each stroke, of course, IL
was necessary to use a new egg.
l cannot recall just what was done
with the fried ones, but undoubtedly
they were used as food along the way
Eighteen holes on ones first attempt
at playing the ancient game would
make any one hungry.
This horrible nightmare was caused
undoubtedly. by the insistent advice
of several of my friends that / ought
to take up golf" One even went sc
far as to poke me in the abdominal
region and declare that / ought to
get rid of That"
Now. willingly would / get rid of
That. That is beginning to become
considerable of a nuisance. Little did
l ever dream, a few years ago, that
! would ever have That. To be frank
that is the bane of my young exis-
tence. ....
How to get rid of That is another
story. The more you garden, the
more you take bending exercises"
the more That persists. Intensive
walking reduces every part Of the
anatomy except-That.
1t was because / took the golfing
advice seriously, l suppose, that / had
my terrible dream about the golf
eggs.
My plan Of walking SO many miles
a day has fallen fatter than my egg
golf balls. that Is the. reason why /
am being driven into golf. Readers
of this column will remember that
twice I told OF the progress Of the
walking, but that recently no men
ton of It has been made here.
There is reason. There al
H W. D. pulls the truth out of me.
In letter as bright as these Sprin z
days he queries: by the way, have
you given up walking? There has
been no recent report"
This is my report. eggs golf.
walking and all. The walking, which
was elaborately argued to be almost
as good as golf, has proved to be
insufficient. 1t lacks interest.
Interest is what the world must
have. You remember the men of
Athens, who did nothing but hear or
tell some new thing? That was be-
cause the new thing is interesting.
Interest is to life what salt is TO
baked potatoes. 1t is possible to eat
baked potatoes without salt, OF
course, but not as well.
Modern education has seen the
having been made In the last 20
years or so to really make the chill
dren interested in what they are
doing.
Interest is the primary factor In
attention. Touch the electric button
of interest, the front door of atten-
tion Is opened by the servants of the
mind and knowledge will come down
the big staircase to greet you.
Where walking. as exercise, falls
down, and falls down hard. is in it's
lack of interest. Maybe there are
those lucky folk who can get a
kick" out of a set walk, but 1 have
found out that I am not one of them.
Even with the best of walking
comrades the set walk soon becomes
a set task. Set tasks, looked for
ward to each day. have decided
tendency to become monotonous, and
.monotony is the little brother of
boredom.
The daily walk remains pleasant
for about two weeks. Then it begins
to get tiresome. With sorrow 1 ad-