Evening Star Newspaper, November 14, 1936, Page 7

'DAILY SHORT STOR NO REGRETS By Stella Wuerffel. ’SAY. fellah, what's up?” Ted's roommate asked as he en- tered the room and saw the dejected expression on his friend’s usually cheerful face. “What on earth are you reading?” came the second inquiry, as Ted, Jeaning on his desk, covered his face with his hands and sat in rigid silence. Ted's eheekbones were working in and out under his strong hands. After a painful moment of hesita- tion, he jerked his head upward and in apparent des- peration pushed over a letter, saying in a muffled, hoarse whisper, “From Sally.” “Well, what's so terrible about that?” his friend exclaimed. “Isn't | she the sister who is such a good | sport and appreciates a joke, but who | always sends you a cheerful letter with an extra check when your finances run low?” “Read it,” Ted groaned. His pal read: “Dear Ted: Usually I try to ltcu-‘: mulate some wise cracks or jokes when writing and save the serious news for | somewhere the rest of the family, but this time | wouldn't be possible. T'm going to let off all steam on you. | I'm facing a grave situation, kid.” “Knowing me as you do, youl fealize that I couldn’t bear having the folks fret about me. So I'm giving you my full confidence and sending | you my last will, so to speak. * % ko1 “Read it,” Ted groaned. the Christmas va- cation to promise you an airplane when I'd be Amer- ica’s most famous novelist. “But lately it's been rather diffi- cult thinking up plots and I haven't enjoyed doing any- thing quite as much as sleeping. Two weeks ago, when Jack took me to the sym- phony, he asked me on the way home what emo- tional maladjust- ment my body was suffering. LI “WHEN 1 laughed him off he said rather gravely, ‘I wouldn't deserve my M. D. license if I couldn't see that you are sick.” I don’t know how it happened, but I told him all about the open pin. He promised absolute silence, exam- ined my chest and took X-rays with much less fussing than I thought a doctor ‘was capable of. I didn't let him go into detail about that pin, be- cause I don't want to spend my last days worrying about how my inside looks, but he did tell me that the pin had torn through the windpipe (when | coughing, no doubt) and was lodged where an operation (Imagine me being operated upon, anyway.) “Now don’t weep young man for I want you to get my piano when I die and all music. Gert may have my fur coat and all my clothes (they won't | fit any one else, anyway). Mother should have all the rest of my stuff to do with as she chooses and because “T)ON'T laugh, old man, it's actually | 1)) never buy you that airplane, you true. I'm going to die soon. I guess | I'm being punished for always insist- ing that 50 per cent of human ail- ments is imagination and 45 per cent the symbolical, physical reflection of emotional maladjustments. ‘Who are to get the $200 I have in the postal savings account. “Please assure the folks that I loved them very, very much, but I just couldn’t endure my last days in the world hearing every one talk about would have catalogued tiny, harmless | my insides ripped open with a pin, little lingerie pins into that remain- ing 5 per cent? * x * ¥ “Now, don't scold me for sticking “JT'S really funny to think that you an open pin in my mouth and don't and I spent a whole hour at chide me for sneezing. I plead guilty. | Christmas time discussing how we T'd sooner die a fool than a neurotic any day. You see, it went down my ‘windpipe, coughing like a furious bull terrier. The folks, Qf course, didn’t call & doc- tor as long as I submitted to home remedies. “So I was treated for bronchitis, or croup, or something. Will you hate funerals and little dreamed that you'd be at mine before many months stuck tight and set me woulq elapse. Don't conform to con- vention, whatever you do. As my ex- | ecutor, you will arrange everything. | Don't for goodness sakes, play Cho- | pin’s “Funeral March.” You might play “The Bull Has Been Conquered,” or whatever that toreador song from & A-71 —By EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1936. TARZAN AND THE MAYAN GODDESS. O TR Now Tarzan called down to Tohua, his interpreter: “Tell them if they do not let us all go in peace, I will kill their chief.” The ape man was by no means sure his ultimatum would be accepted, for he knew that the warriors were aroused to an un« reasoning bloodlust, Then an inspiration came to Tarzan. His right arm encircled the chief, and he sprang treeward with his burden. The warriors halted in amaze- ment at this incredible skyward flight of their chief. George shouted at them tauntingly: “Yah! What d'you think o' that?” Prom the trees the ape man dropped down before the furious chief. The Indian was surprised, but not too surprised to dash forward and aim a slash- ing blow at the tree man. Tarzan leaped agilely aside, then launched himself upon his foe and quicke ly disarmed him. ‘The warrior chief, well ahead of his comrades, was almost upon Ula and George, waving his machete frenziedly. Tarzan determined to stop him, though he knew that would give his friends only a brief respite before the other savages arrived and hacked them to pieces. A Record Investment believe me if ; tml o that | “Carmen” is called. I went through the torture of mus-| ;.. 144 tard foot baths, hot poultices, about | , 1t funRy, Iswt 12 How do people five bottles of cough sirup and 10 | e 9 ) 5 choke, or torpify? Well, I'm not packages of cough drops? All to sat- |, . " , 1t ~'s imagination! Curious- | [Ninking about that. Knowing my re- 'y somebody B 2 | ligious convictions, you realize I'm not 1y enough I stopped coughing. afraid to die. S i . : . So don't worry about So I decided to imagine I had| . "1y 0rive o¢ often as I can yet, in Progress only dreamed I had swallowed an open pin. I went about my daily tasks with unusual vigor. Somehow | it's quite overwhelming how much interesting work there is to do. Most | of all I've enjoyed my course in short- story writing. * k% % “OUR professor told us the first day that every one, sometime in life, hopes some day to write the | world's greatest mnovel! I had de-| cided not to be ashamed again thlt; I've had such hopes all my life. In fact, I felt the harder I'd wish and | work the closer I'd reach the goal. That's why I had the crust, during CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Dinner, Roosevelt High School, Mayflower Hotel, 7 p.m. Dance, Washington Chapter, Amer- | fcan Institute of Banking, Willard Hotel, 10 p.m. | = | Dance, Catholic University Alumni, Willard Hotel, 10 p.m. Dance, North Carolina Demqcratic | Club, Raleigh Hotel, 9 p.m. | Meeting, Biological Society of Washington, Cosmos Club, 8 p.m. Dinner-dance, Sun Life Insurance | ©o., Hamilton Hotel, 7 p.m. Dinner-dance, Theta Alpha Chi Borority, Wardman Park Hotel, 7:30 pm. TOMORROW. Dinner, Samla Temple No. 51, | Daughters of the Nile, 1821 Biltmore | street, 3 pm. HYPOCHONDRIA CURED SPOKANE, Wash. (#).—Dr. Henry H. Dixon told the Spokane Medical Boclety a young woman came to him ‘with stringy hailr, no facial make-up end in outmoded cotton clothing—a victim of hypochondria. He sent her to a beauty parlor and but Il never mention the open pin | again, | “Your loving sis, “SALLY.” “Gosh, that hits you pretty hard. doesn't it, old fellah?” Ted's friend extended his hand, but was interrupte | ed by a shout of “Telegram,” through the corridor and the loud knock of a messenger boy at the door. Ted’s pal tore open the door and the telegram as well and read to the frantic brother: - “Is my story convincing or not stop Was my course worth while stop “SISTER SALLY.” (Copyright, 1936, returned dressed up and fixed up, three men turned to look at her in the elevator. Her hypochondria dis- appeared at once.” Psychic Message Council 1100 Twelfth St. N.W. Corner of 12th and “L"” GROUP MEETINGS DAILY Accredited Message Bearers Personal interviews for spiritual help and guidance may be arranged by a visit to the Council House or Telephone Metropolitan 5234. 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