The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-19

so many insects In the picturesque orient that oven tho forty-four languages in tho CaucaBus can't provide names for them all. Vizo. telly went on to India and thore he found the kuti. It had journeyed to the French front on Home sun. Bcorohed Tommy or PunJnbI cny- alry.rnnn. There was no elem bill of health for tho bug, but ho was cnught--and that, every veteran knows, is something.
 Handicapped in Youth by Having
 Weak Eyes.
 But kuti, nlins "cootie," is only one word. Vizotelly has handled sixty million words for the Ameri- can people, and so fnr as l can learn has mover tried to tell any body how many tImos they would go around ths globe If they were all laid end to end.
 Fate certainly lays handicapB on some people in cantnnkerouB fash ion. You'd think m infant who was doomed to edit thirty.nve editions of | dictionary and to write moro books about words than my hu. man who ever lived might at least be born with . class pair of eyes. Vizctelly's weren't any good at all. The odds against his being any kind of edito" were n million to ono. Until he was n big child the little he read and the less he saw of the world he got through tiny holes cut in tho middle of big black leather goggles. By and by tho surgeons fixed the eyes up. The boy began to read everything he nAuII fau hlu .anndu nm and ia afilI at 1t. But he hadn't much health, anyway.
 His father, who was n cores. poadent for "The London News" was sent to France, and took hls family along. The boy was put in the Brothers school at Passy at the age of four, later in q lyceeat at Nogentsur- Marne, near Paris. When nc was nine years old his mother died. The family went back to England. They put him in school at Brighton, tkf fin Arnold college in Eastbourne. He read and read. He was n good deal of Il boy at fifteen, but was mostly above the enrs. There were six other broth- CTS. He was tho youngest. To give him n chance of living to edit dic- tlonaries they sent him back to the land"
 A sturdy British yeoman named John Layton, who might have been baronet. if he'd spelled t another way, had sixty acres at Plrbright, neat Guilford. in Surrey. Every square inch Of it worked. So did It's boss. When spindling lit. tie Frank Vizctclly landed there he had to work hard too. It was tough, but it rladc him over. To- day he's six feet and husky. on that patch of merry England there were no uRioa hours for milking and minding cattle, chopping feed. cleaning stables, hoeing mangels, totine vegetables and driving pigs and geese anc fat cattle three or four miles into the ancient market of the Hish street in ouilford and dragging his weary legs back in time for chores and the night milk ing.
 Books for several hard working years had gone by the board. He was reading "eermons in stones" and building . good strong back picking them. He took it on to Chertsey and hsred it out in a saw mill. The own u worked him at the saw q while. then gave him an ax and set him Co chopping down trees.
 Frank vlzeteliy might have made To pasaable mechanic, or died try. Ing. The LoFd was snvlng him fO edit dictionaries, but it was q long way round. His father was taken iIi. Tho other fOns were ali in buas mess. The duty of nursing the "soy-