Evening Star Newspaper, October 25, 1927, Page 31

WORLD FAMOUS STORIES THE KNIGHT AND THE SAGE (From the Gesta Romanorum) the title of a series ?1'« url reati ide whence the most celebrated eted their plota.” The collection the plots are very fAmous and In the reign of the Roman Em- Pperor Titus there lived a certain noble and devout knight, .who had & beautiful wife; but she dishonored herself, and persisted in ker dishonor. The knight, therefore, very sor- rowful, and resolved to visit the Holy Land. In this determination he said to his wife: “My beloved, I go to the Holy Land, and leave you to the guidance of your own discretion.” No sooner had her husband em- barked then the lady sent for a ce tain =killful necromancer, or magi cian, whom she loved. It to sav this that she sent for him: 1y husband goes to the Holy Land, and loves me little. Now, if by vour art you could destroy him, all possess is yours and I'll kecome your WH?" “I agree.” said the magician. And he fashioned an image like the knight and under his name, and fixed it before him on the wall. Now it happened that while the knight was passing through the main reet of Rome, a vise man met him and said: My friend, I have a secr to tell you.” Well, what is it asked the knight courtecously “This day,” replied the sage, “vou are one of death’s children, unless follow my advic Your wife is a harlot. and contrives vour death. The knight, hearing what was said ©f his spouse, put confldence in the wise man, and said: “Good man if ve my life 1 will amply reward answered the sage, vou do exactly as I shall tell The knight promised. and the sage took him to a bath, had him undress, and told him to bathe. “Look atten’ tively into this mirror,” he said to the knight, “and you will see wonders.” The knight did as he was told while the wise man read to him from ® book. “What do you see?” he ®sked presently. “I see,” man in my house, with an image of wax which resemble§ me, and which he has fastened on the wall." “Look again,” said the sage, * and what do you perceive? “He takes a bow and places in It | @& sharp arrow. And now he aims at “As you love vour life,” said the ‘wise man, “at the moment you see 1 arrow flving to its mark. place self enticely in the bath, and re- 1 tell you to come As soon, therefore, as the arrow quitted the string, the knight plunged his body into the water. This done, the sage said: “Raise your head and look into the mirror. What do you image was mnot struck, for the arrow is sticking in the wall by its side. The man appears much troubled.” g “Look in the mirror once more.” said the sage, “and watch what he does.” “He goes nearer to the effigy and Puts a'new arrow in the bow." “As you value your life, do as be- fore.” Again the knight immersed himself in the water as soon as he saw by the magic mirror, that the necromancer was bending the bow. At the com- mand of the sage he again looked in the mirror., “My would-be assassin makes great YOUR And How to that 1| said the knight, “‘a certain |- and deseri on, and commonly applled of poets and authors fror as ori in Latin, as the tit e found repeated throughout the we lamentation,” he said, “and he says to my wife: ‘If the third time I do not strike the effigy, 1 shall lose my life.’ Now he comes so near that I think he cannot miss again.” “Take care,” said the sage “that as soon as you see him let fly the arrow vou conceal yourself in the water as before.” The knight watched attentively and ax soon as he saw the man draw back the how to shoot he plunged below the surface of the water. “Rise quickly and look in the mir- ro | lnugh. “My friend,” said the sage, “why do vou laugh?” {"7*1 observe,” answered the knight, “very clearly that the man has missed the offigy and that the arrow, re- | bounding, has entered his abdomen and destroyed him. My wife con- Is the body under my bed.” Rise, then, dress yourself, and pray to God.” 1 The knight sincerely thanked the wise mun for saving his life, and gave |him a generous alms. Having per- formed his pilgrimage, he set out for s house. His wife met and received him with | much apparent pleasure. He did not let her know, for a few days, that he knew of her ‘attempt to have him de- stroyed by virtue-of her lover's magic. |Then he sent foy his wife's patents, for he had somethiing to say to them. | “My dear friends,” he said, “I want to tell yon at once why I have thus desired your presence in my house. | This woman, who is vour daughter P as sinned against me And what is worse, conspired to have me de- ed through the powers of the prince of darkness.” The woman's parents seemed much astonighed. As for the knight's sin- ful wife, she denied all of his accusa- tions upon her oath. “I shall soon convince you,” said ‘the knight. “No sooner had I ieft my house to go on a pilgrimage than she sent for her lover. He was a necro- mancer, and she called upon him to use his powers to destroy me. He made an effigy of me and put it upon | the wall for a target. Three times he put an arrow in the bow, and three times he shot at me in effigy, and three times, due to the intervention of a zood man #nd Providence, he missed.” Again the parents were astonished, but the knight's wife said nothing. “And,” said the knight, “if you do not believe this, come and see where the wicked man is concealed as he lies dead.” & He then led them to his bedcham- ber and dragged the body from its hiding. place. There was the wound that the arrow had made rebounding from the effigy of the knight. The case came before the judge and he sentenced the false wife to burned at the stake, and her ashos to be scattered in the air to all points of the compass. As for the good and noble knight, whom the sage had so generously saved, -he lived for some time in soli- tude and then he met a beautiful damsel whom he came to'love. Some time afterward they were happily married, and it is said that they were blessed with many children. Together these two finished their days on earth in blissful peace. MIND Keep It Fit BY PROF. JOSEPH JASTROW ‘Why You Are a Mixer. This ia-the day of get-together clubs, the ‘lunch-hour of joiners and mixers. It's deep down in human nature to be rious. Humans, like birds, go in b , and birds of a feather flock together. The city man gets to feel Jost and lonely out of a crowd. But it takes something more to make it your crowd, your bunch of good fel- lows. We organize for pleasure with even greater zest than for business. Much of our best work we must do alotie; but we play best together. This fine. streak in human nature is responsible for Rotarians and Kiwanis, for executives and advertising and city clubs, and the tribes of Shriners and Boosters, and for Knights, and Lions, Elks, Buffaloes, Moose and many an- other order of the human menagerie. . They bring together congenial spirits. They form the grand army of “Gre- garians”—millions strong. ‘Whatever a Gregarian thay be in his office, he is most human at his club. Buyling or selling, making or distribut- ing. serving or directing, we are all held together by the ties of supply and demand. Business is industry and competition. In all that we are under ®ome pressure and .the strain of look- ing out for No. 1 and the one-lets. ‘We have to remember that husiness 4= business, or we put it that a man 4sn’t in business for his health: and that, in a way, is a pity. be far better if more people could find joy_and health in their.work. Big corporations provide welfare as well as employment. They establish bonds among their employ in recreation and in getting together for mutual : aid. The more human relations you can inject into business the better for both. The Gregarian in every man craves an outlet. People will work better to- gether if they eat together and sing together and get enthusiastic and humane together. We can do things »ther that we can't do separately. In union there is the strength of fel lowship. Gregarians arouse public They make their common in- of value to themselves and to rommunity. Gregarians pool their interests. Gregarians are democratic. ! find a place for all sori They T_Toms and It would | Dicks 'and Harrys. They meet on the best side of Main street. A good many of them are wise birds, and many not wise. One of the wisest democrats e ever had was James Russell Lowell, who played a fine part in American literature and American politics. He said that the test of democracy is in the leadership it will accept. Gre- garians pave the way for the best leadership. A Gregarian is expressing his social nature in sound democratic fashion. If you expect him always to be wise, you are not very wise in human nature. One of the advantages of being with a bunch of good fellows is that you can bhe a little foolish without being conspicuous, The Gregarian wants a place to unbend, to lose the restraint of business, and feel the touch of humanit And when it's time for action, he’'s all there. He's ready to cheer when the gang’s all here; and he's -eady to do his share. because a _Gregarian is a shareholder in the public welfare as well as in the special interests of his clan. He is a better business man for being a better citizen. A Gregarian is a man who grows. Watch him grow! fects for floors. money. Farbosl. Paints are made in one grade only—they are the finest money can buy. l'l'hn knight did so, and began to| T, Al and your light, beautiful fl about $3.10 to convert an ordinary room. THE EVENING STAR, \VASHINGO D. WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND. 147 WHEN LOT oF 1 c, —By BRIGGS. t ".sl’rgwmc v | You DD A “HOMeE WORK CAME a by a series of “strokes." Rule 2. in a current dictiona 1f you can beat Some wise word-goifer may some day This is the word-golfer's heaven and rarest of all birds. Get out your pencils, word-golfers, and three is plenty. Go from FELT to SEEN. for par. Go from BONUS to MONEY. A enough. And four par is plenty. RID. BY WILLIAM The Heart Muscle. ‘The heart is a muscle, a hollow muscle, involuntary, about he size of one's fist. Race horses, greyhounds, athletes, soldiers, mountain climbers and persons with valvular leakage must necessarily have enlarged hearts, for the heart muscle Yust increase in size (hypertrophy) to do the greater work. A youth of high school age who, as 1 consequence of neglected ‘“sore throat”or tonsilitis or infected tonsils, develops valvular leakage, makes the same demand upon the capacity of his heart to do more work than a nor- mal heart has to, as does the youth of the same age who trains for foot ball er other severe endurance test. The same sort of knowledge ang skill that the physician must use iit managing the recovery of compensa- tion of efficiency in a case of valvular |disease where heart efficiency has been lost, is necessary for the coach or trainer who undertakes the respon- sibility of developing cardiac hyper- trophy (ovirgrowth) In a group of vouths who aspire to become foot ball stars. The phvsician trains his pa- tient for ordinary activity or perhaps something less than normal activity, the foot ball coach trains his boys for extraordinary or perhaps violent strains. Unfortunately- this direction or guid- ance is commonly intrusted to un- qualified individuals, even in public high schools where a qualified phys- ical instructor is employed. The sporting crowd that assumes control of high school foot ball calmly thrusts the proper instructor aside and im- / A word-golfer who can score a ‘“pterodactyl” to start his mouth going and let it rave for days while the gallery applauds. If you had place. yvou wouldn't have fallen over that chair. PRINT your * FELT. WORD GOLF—Everybody’s Playing It BY JOHN KNOX. Rule 1. The object of this game is to change one word to another word | Only one letter can he changed in each “stroke.” Rule 3. Each “stroke’ must result in a new word which can be found or in another tense or the plural of a dictionary word. ‘par’’ one stroke you score a “birdie.” If you are unusually good and knock two strokes off Old Man Par, credit yourself with . “eagle.” crack out three strokes less than par. he hands himself—"pterodactyl”—the entitled assault Old Man Par. Go from BID to SET. This happens to the best of us. And a par of rned on the light in the first Can’t allow more than four soldier has a gay life—if he lives long trokes” here: AULRIG ol Solutions on this page in today's Star. (Copyright. 1927.1 PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BRADY, M. . ports some touted quack to serve as “coach,” and his presumptuous trainer's knowledge of physlology of the heart, could be printed in brevier on the head.of a pin. It seems that a certain number of promising boys must be sacrificed annually to the in- competence -of these interlopers who take over the physical edueation of our youth, and it seems that most parents whose ho; are vitally con. cerned are sheep and dare not dis- approve of the scandalous system lest some one accuse them of inculcating mollycoddle ideas in the son’s mind. Just the same, this vicious profession- alism that -has infected high school athletics is proving disastrous to the immature hoys who are exposed to it, both physically and morally. Of course, most parents, like most high school teachers and principals, have had lit- tle or no physical eduéation them- selves and hence they do not undes stand the seriousness of this evil. But they ought to heed the many warn- ng given by physicians and by the best authorities on physical training: |and they ought to recognize the un- desirable influence of professionalism in school athletics. Solutions of Today’s Word Golf Problems. 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