Evening star., 1932-09-02

Templeton Jones has great faith in
his ability to control the weather
II he carries an umbrella to work
there will be no rain.
The magnificent. impersonal at" will
refuse to operate in that event.
If Jones does not take his umbrella
storm clouds almost surely will blow up
in the late afternoon.
At least this is what our everyday
hero says. and he is an honorable man,
as Brutus was before him.
Wherefore it is all the easier to be-
lieve him when he saws that he did
not realize Just how high the ther-
mometer had gone as he started out on
the afternoon walk which he had pri-
vately decreed for himself
At various times Jones had deter
mined upon a like course, but at nc
period had his heroics lasted longer
than a week.
He could remember only one time
that ran as long. as matter OF fact
and two others which we're extended to
as much as three for four days.
1t seemed to Templeton Jones, as II
has to many another, that he invari-
ably selected the wrong sort Of weather
for constitutionals.
Once he chose March and faced O
blizzard on his second day out.
Walking home through real snow
storm is not exactly fun, as any one
knows who has tried 1t.
A good dose of blizzard is guaranteed
to cure the most determined of a de-
sire to walk abroad for the sake OF
ones health and the peace Of mind oi
ones friends.
Yes. such walks are almost always
undertaken to set at rest the fretful
mind Of friends.
You are getting fat" they say, as II
they were not fat themselves. or as il
fatness were new thing under the
sun, or as If they were not lean and
did not need little fat on them
You are fat" they aSert, without
equivocation, as If nothing else mat
tered.
You look at yourself very critically
Surely that small paunch is not
enough to disturb ones friends. since
1t has not upset ones own digestion.
They wag their heads disparingly.
Statistics prove, they say, that SC
many per cent Of those bearing around
fatty tissue fall heir to kidney troubles
SO many more per cent succumb to
heart diseases. very alarming number
bow low before liver complaints and
bildL IlO ldI pctSOll IlSS ever pccIl kIlOWIl
to recover from pneumonia.
This is all rather alarming
If you are, as Jones was a victim oi
the prevailing belief that figures never
lie. you probably will begin to think
you should do something about it.
Take up golf" one friend says.
Nothing to that" replies another
What you need is bowling. Take up
Guckpins."
! Duckpins!
Memory does one Of her queer tricks
and you are standing at the end Of q
bowling alley by the sea.
Windows at the far end. placed high
looked out toward the ocean, the great
| Atlantic. Shimmering in the sun of q
perfect September morning.
Windows along one side ran close tc
, the sand. marked here and there with
tufts of coarse sea grass.
In all the windows came the salt air
vitalized by wave and wind. pure as il
left the breakers but few hundred
yards to the east.
Along the far stretching alley the
small round balls swept to crash tht
small pins. while on improvised safe
seats sat small ebony pinsetters, quick
to dart down and pN the men back
| in their places.
One had no idea Of science" in re.
gard to the. duckpin game. nor did ont
roll 1t because 1t was the" game, fol
| 1t wasn't, then.
One rolled 1t, II the truth wer,
known. because one did not possess tht
necessary heft to handle the mon
strous balls used in old-fashioned ten.
| pins.
And, besides, one was in the fore.
| front OF the times, although perhaps
one didn't know it. The smaller ball!
and pins properly belonged to youth
| 1t was youths game.