Evening star., 1932-03-15

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around the PROSTATE Martin, mans
feet and a girls feet.
only to look at the man to see he was
starving AT my invitation, Herr Mar
tin I said, seeing my old woman was
SO keen on finesse, and so the three OF
use went to the Schwoisshackel. Well.
then, when that lass Vesi came to take
the order, I say to her, 'Vesi, my lass,
I say, this is the new swimming in
structor Bring him good helping,
for he's had nothing in his belly these
three days past say, and I'm paying
for him. Up jumps my Herr Martin
at that and clears right out OF 1t,
though he's eaten nothing that eve
ming So you see how dificult 1t Is to
handle a sportsman. And SO my old
woman, she cooked him sorne eggs and
took them out to him in his hut, and
i he ate them up without word and left
clean plate.
But now we'll have better weather
by the looks Of it. You could see the
Iron Tooth in the mountains through
the clouds for quarter Of an hour to-
day, and that always means change.
And, now I think Of it, you'd better
hang up a placard. Eggenhofer, in your
vestibule here with picture post card
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ming slip, standing beside Rademacher; ;
for even though Rademacher beat him,
it was a great honor, as he says, to
swim against him; and any one who
takes any interest in swimming knows
that, he says. And then on the bill
there must be instruction in Swimming,
Diving etc, of Every Description, Even
for Experienced Swimmers, by Noted
Champion Swimmer And something,
too, about the gymnasium and physical
training and the newly appointed place
for sun bathing.
"'And after that says he, well post
UP false temperature near the en-
trance-a comfortable 18-degree Cent?
grade or SO, and then we shall soon
have a few come along, says he. I'm
a born optimist, Herr Birndl. says he,
and well he may be, for let the ladies
once catch sight of him and they'll
come bathing quick enough, even If it
SHOWS and halls.
Hell be along here, then, in half
an hour, TO have talk with you
about this placard He's out in the
lake now, as a matter Of fact, on &C
count of his training. I'm going to
swim across to the other side today,
says he, and that's more than fifteen
hundred meters. Matz can row the
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follows him about all day long and has
from the moment he got out of the
train. I'm not too sure, though, that
a 6-year old boy like Matz has the
strength to row boat across, now that
a bit of west winds getting up.
Now, when he comes along to you,
don't you say anything about having
nothing to eat, or he might refuse then
and there to have his name appear
at all He's so full of the fact, you
see, that he's sportsman and not a
professional. Oh, to blazes with it, and
Just look at the beastly weather"
So ran Herr Birndl's discourse,
punctuated at appropriate points by
from the hall porter. For some minutes,
too, young girl, in a drenched rain
coat, who had wandered into the hall
from outside, had been listening. She
had brown eyes and wore a round cap
| like those worn by French Alpine
troops, and from beneath the cap her
light brown hair, ruffled by the wind,
blew across her face.
who is it who's out there on the
lake? Who is 1t who wants to get
across?" she asked in a deep boyish
voice, pleasantly broken in the middle
notes.
why, new III
structor, miss" replied Herr Birndl at
once.
with this wind from the west?
Just look at the lake!" said the girl.
He must be mad. However, he's sure
to turn back if he can't get on"
Him turn back! You don't know
him, miss. He's in training. That's
what he's doing it for"
The girl snatched her cap from her
head and shook glistening shower Of
drops from her short bronze -colored
hair. Then she walked away and
passed through the reading room and
breakfast room out onto the covered
terrace beside the lake. At this hour
of deepening twilight it was silent and
deserted and the tables where coffee
had been served in the afternoon were
all forsaken. The girl went to the
telescope which-as in front of most
of the Frauensee houses-was mounted
on a revolving stand. 1t was pointing
upward as If to discern the white peak
Of the Iron Tooth behind the rain
clouds. With an impatient movement,
the girl directed the lens onto the
lake, whose surface was now lashed
by the squaH into turbulence of dark
water and white crests of foam. There
she stood motionless, with one eye to
the telescope, until everything was lost
to sight in darkness and storm.
CTo Be Continued.)