Evening Star Newspaper, September 11, 1927, Page 118

B)ere are soME GREEX GIRLS anNp Bovs AT PL:AY. A G:-\ME OF "BLIND MANS BUFF 15 1N PROGRESS. — YMREC OTHER UTTLE PLAVERS ARE HIDING IN " IME PICTURE > BN ANCIENT GREECE THERE LIVED AMAN KNOWN AS MILO oF CROTON WHO WAS FAMOUS FOR HIS ALMOST SUPER-HUMAN STRENGTH, CROTON, IS BIRTHPLACE.,WAS ONE OF THE GREEK ONIES (N ITALY, — © : mno WAS NOT ONLY STRONG BUY SKILLED IN SPORTS, AND WON MANY OF THE EVENTS IN THE OLYMPIC GAMES . ONE OF HIS FEATS WAS To HOLD BACK A CHARIOT WITH ONE HAND WHILE A TEAM OF FOUR HORSES TRIED To POLL IT. ——* TO DISLODGE THE IMAGE OF HIS RIVAL FROM \TS PEDESTAL, BUT THE HEAVY PIECE OF MARBLE FELL UPON HIM AND CRUSHED MIM TQ DEATH, —— © mnswens’ To LAST WEEK'S Lixe Puzzig ESS ‘6 CHRIS‘]WHER Cota Chapter 44—~The Story of Milo, the Strong Man. By J. CARROLL MANSFIELD B m 1LO'S METHOD OF TRAINING, WE ARE TOLD, WAS MOST UNUSUAL . EVERY DAY HE WENT FOR A WALK ,CARRNING A CALF UPON HIS SHOULPERS. EACH PAY HE WOULD WALK A LITTLE FURTHER THAN [HE MAD THE DAY BEFORE, — © ENE DAY WHEN MILO WAS ANERY OLb MAN HE WANDERED ALONE INTO THE FOREST, CoMIGTO A CLEARING,HE FOUND A FALLEN | TREE TRUNK THAT SOME WOOD CUTTERS HAD BEGUN To SPLIT, THINKING MIMSELF As STRONG AS OF OLB,MILO TRIED To TEAR THE TRUNK APART WITH HIS BARE HANDS. 4 ! | B31z soby vas FOUND, AN OF TMEAGENES WAS BROUGHT T0 TRIAL FOR MURDER AS THOUGH IT WEREA REAL PERSON. THE IMAGE WAS CONVICTED OF THE CRIME, AND THE JUDGE ORDERED IT 0 BE s <ue car GREW LARGER AND HEAVIER,MILO'S MUSCLES BECAME STRONGER AND ACCUSTOMEDTO THE . INCREASED WEIGHT. AS A RESLLT, WHEN | E ANIMAL WAS FULLGROWN, MILG COULD CARRY. IT SEVERAL MILES WITH EASE. : " [NMIGHT CAME, THE UNLUCKY MILO WAS ATTACKED ANIs DEVOURED BY WiLh BEASTS. uomwmerem SENTENCE HAPD BEEN| ARRIED OUT,GREECE WAS VISITED BY A GREAT PLAGUE, THE ORACLE DECLARED- THAT THE EPIDEMIC WOLLD NOT/CEASE UNTIL THE STATUE WAS RESTORED, — © [DNE TIME INA TERRIFIC STORM, MILO AND SOME FRIENDS SOUGHT SHELTER IN A DESERTED FARMHOUSE, SUBDENLY THE ' FLIMSY STRUCTURE COLLAPSED . MILO CAUGHT: THE ROOF ASIT FELL AND HELD IT UP UNTIL - HIS COMPANIONS ESCAPED. THEN - HE EXTRICATED HIMSELIF FROM THE RUINS. BHE GREEKS ERECTED A MONUMENT IN MEMORY OF THE STRONG MAN .~NoT FAR - FROM THE STATUE OF MILO STooD THAT OF |AMOTHER FAMOUS ATHLETE NAMED THEAGENES .- EACH NIGHT A MAN WHOM ; © McClure Newspaper Syndicate . Rdue Groexs manc nasTe 15 1ocate THE IMAGE,; BRING IT 70 THE SURFACE WITH ROPES, AND PLACE IT AGAIN ON 'ITS PEDESTAL, BY THAT TIME THE PLAGUE HAD ' |CEASED, BUT THE SUPERSTITIOUS GREEKS WERE CONVINCED THAT THE STATLE o THEAGENES HAD SAVER THEM ,— @ If You Save This Page Each Week You Will Have a Complete History of Man. .