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most astonishing single fac
-1 tor connected with Joe Louis and
, career has received only scant
I Mention. It concerns his weight.
When Louis came to the top of
♦Jolateau a few years ago he was
tl,e F fighting around 202
pounds. The point
wr was made then, by
| this writer and
S many others, that
F ij the man to beat
i 4 Louis would be a
* fellow named Louis.
It was well known
■r at the time that the
r IpR'S Bomber’s deep in-
W ward yearning con-
PL- ,1 sisted largely of two
lirantland Rice elemental details
One was food—and
t ie other was sleep.
Steak, chicken or both together
filled par* of his daydreams. After
that came the deep desire for sleep
or repose. This combination seemed
t 0 be pointing directly at increasing
weight. Many believed that within
five years’ time Louis would be in
the puffy neighborhood of 225 pounds
or more.
Yet when Louis faced Buddy Baer
in Washington there he was again
within a few ounces of 202.
In his 17 title defenses—in prac
tically every fight he has known
from the start— Louis hasn’t varied
his weight scale by as much as two
pounds. In most instances he hasn’t
been a pound away from his start
ing displacement.
The Weight Battle
Dempsey weighed 183 pounds
when he slaughtered Jess Willard.
Against Gene Tunney seven years
later Jack was up to 193 pounds.
Tunney, starting as a light heavy
weight, was always working to pack
on a few pounds until he came to
a mark between 185 and 190.
Jess Willard weighed 240 pounds
against Jack Johnson in Havana
-265 when he met Dempsey at Toledo.
The greatest weight shift I’ve
known belonged to Ace Budkins,
who fought at 135 and then sky
rocketed after his ring career to 225
when he went in for horse racing.
But Louis goes marching along at
202, a number that is now his official
landmark. There isn’t the slightest
change in his physical makeup after
seven years.
The answer to this is fairly sim
ple. Mike Jacobs and the Bomber’s
managers have kept him too busy
for any accumulation to make any
headway.
In the last three years Louis has
spent the greater part of his time
in some training camp. There is
no other champion in ring history,
with the money Louis has collect
ed, who would have faced such a
long grind.
Most fighters hate training—the
drudgery of camp life. Louis has
accepted the same without a
squawk. And this has been the
main reason that he has kept his
weight in full control.
A Training Angle
A few days ago I was talking with
one of our best known trainers and
condition builders.
“The biggest mistake any athlete
makes,” he told me, “is getting out
of condition. By that I mean well
out of condition. You can get so
far out of condition in two weeks
that it might easily take two months
to repair the damage. It is so easy
to get out of shape and so difficult
to get back in again.”
This is one mistake Joe Louis has
never made. I doubt if he has been
far away from first-class condition
since he first came along the road.
Against this method there was the
oase of Jack Dempsey who was out
of the ring and away from action
three years between the Firpo and
the Tunney campaigns. Dempsey,
hghting once or twice a year during
that period, at least would have
been in far better physical shape
later on.
The Measure of Health
One of the greatest combined
coaches and trainers I ever knew
w as Keene Fitzpatrick who gave
nearly 50 years of his life to condi
tioning before he retired.
After leaving Michigan, Keene
Ocime to Princeton, where he trained
*ger entries in football, track and
c ’ He never missed a day’s
m 44 consecutive years,
when I was over 60 years old,”
itzpatrick told me, “I was in much
otter physical shape than many of
l‘ e y°ung athletes returning to col
ege after a summer’s vacation. I
oouid actually outrun them. I tired
ar less than they did. Some of
e . m returned to college far over
sight, facing a long struggle to get
r ‘ght again.”
1 am a great believer in watch
add h° U * we ‘ gh * carefully,” Keene
thi Bd ‘ Ive seen too many serious
ngs happen to those putting on 10,
uiiw 40 Pounds. Diet and exercise
WIU tak e care of this.”
tv <. ne was jqq p ef r ight_ One
V i er t° s i s the case of
Louis who might easily have put
r 20 pounds, but who has nev
j.. ’ arie d more than two pounds in
t ‘ S^ lng Car eer. Any athlete who has
f putting on and taking off
> L is facing a heavy handicap,
how good he may be.
Kathleen Norris Says:
mien Your Husband Falls in Love
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
Also working there is a woman,! Daughter’s attitude is that as nobody's happy
Very beautiful and unscrupulous.'under the present arrangement why not break it
She has my husband completely be- all up and try the new one?
witched. I
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
WHEN a man, after twen
ty years of marriage,
gets tired of his wife,
neglects her, hurts and insults
her, and openly admits that he
wants to be freed to marry an
other woman, what is the wife
to do?
This isn’t a new problem,
but the shock and helpless
ness of it make it seem eter
nally new to every woman to
whom it comes. Sometimes this
shock, coming to her at a bad phys
ical moment, almost upsets her rea
son for a time.
Such a danger seems to me very
close to Emily Baker, who writes
me from a big Massachusetts man
ufacturing town. Emily will be
fortunate if she can hold to her rea
son and keep her balance in the
months ahead. IF she can, I think
I can promise her happiness and
serenity when this time has gone by.
A Quarter Century of Work.
Emily is 50; she has been mar
ried 27 years. She has a married
daughter living in the West; a mar
ried son living near her, and a
young daughter and son still at
home. She married for love, worked
hard as a young wife and mother,
never had a servant until a few
years ago. For a whole quarter
'century she washed, cooked, dusted,
made beds, dressed babies, served
meals, helped school-children with
their lessons, packed picnic bas
kets, trimmed Christmas trees.
“Tom always came first with me,”
says her tear-stained letter. “Din
ner every night included something
that ‘Daddy’ especially liked, the
children must be respectful, consid
erate of him when he was tired,
they must remember his birthday.
They all love him dearly, as indeed
I do—or did.
“My younger son, now called by
the draft, is closely devoted to his
mother. But my unmarried daugh
ter, Alida, thinks her father can do
no wrong. And he is doing wrong
now, my good, patient, generous
husband of a few years ago. Alida
works in his office, and also working
there is a woman some 10 years
older than she, divorced, with a boy
of five, very beautiful and unscrupu
lous. She has my husband com
pletely bewitched.
Feels Old—Useless.
“He began*by being irritable and
unreasonable with me, and im
patient because I was so often nerv
ous, tired, and sensitive. I feel my
self’ to be old, gray, useless and
homely these days, and what I see
in my mirror only confirms the im
pressions. But I need tenderness so,
and the security of my home! And
those are just the things he proposes
to take away. He is handsome, rosy,
strong and young at 53, and seems
years younger than I.
“Tom wants a divorce. He wants
to bring his young wife here and
have her keep house for him and
Alida when Don goes to camp in
June and I go west to visit my
daughter when her baby comes. He
says I am to go to Reno, stay with
Betty as long as I like, visit
anywhere I choose. I cannot ex- ;
press to you the forlornness of this ,
prospect without him and without ;
any one of the children, who have ;
been all my world for so many;
years' I am not a baby, I am not !
pitying myself, but under no cir
cumstances could I compete in j
ty and charm with a fresh girl o
28 who is flattering Tom to the point :
when he is a complete fool over j
,
“Alida is the sensible, Practical !
outspoken type. Her attitude is that
HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, PERRY, GEORGIA
LOST AFFECTION
What would you do if your husband
fell in love with another woman?
Would you %ive him up, or would you
live a heart-breaking existence, know
ing he no longer cared for you? Kath
leen ISorris offers a far happier solu
tion to a woman who has to face this
problem after 27 years of married life.
she loves both parents, but that as
Joan is madly in love with Daddy
and Daddy with Joan, and as no
body’s happy under the present ar
rangement why not break it all up
and try the new one? When I cry
about this, and I can’t help crying,
she says, ‘Oh, now, Mother, men
hate women to cry! Brace up. It’ll
all come out right. You wouldn’t
want to hold Daddy if he wanted to
be free, would you?’
“I don’t know what I want.
Shame and pain and memories of
the days when my babies and hus
band loved and needed me are so
mixed up in my heart that I seem
half-crazy. Will you tell me what
to do? Must I surrender everything
these years have meant to me to
‘play the game’?”
The Path to Follow.
My dear Emily, playing the game
in this case means continuing in
your own home and your own life,
ignoring what you can of insult or
hurt, enduring the rest, keeping your
self as calm and friendly as if none
of these storms was raging over
you, and showing to an ungrateful
man the patience and kindness that
may be obtained in only one way:
the way of constant prayer.
What Tom is doing, thinking, ask
ing and planning is not your imme
diate concern. What YOU do, think
and plan most emphatically is. See
that you make the most of yourself
in every way. Even a middle-aged
woman can be a pleasant sight, if
she is freshly and appropriately
dressed; even gray hair is charming
if it is brushed to silky brightness
and trimly braided or curled. Your
interest in books, current events,
radio programs, gardens and flower
arrangements, the supervision of
meals, the details of club or hos
pital, prison or charity or orphan
age responsibilities, will reflect it
self in a brighter outlook on your
own fortunate life. Brush aside the
absurdity of a man of 53 embarking
upon a new love adventure, tell
Alida you will not discuss it, and
assume once and for all the dignity
to which your useful and beloved
years entitle you.
Years of Harvest Time Ahead.
By all means visit the married
daughter and welcome the grand
child. Make it a long visit. Make
much of Tom’s grandfatherhood;
perhaps they will name the baby
for Tom. Write Tom reports, ask
Alida for news of the household —
in short, proceed as nearly as you
can along normal lines. Another
few months or a year at most will
see your physical and mental crisis
ended, and you will be in for years
of health and activity and high
spirits. The fifties are wonderful
years; to a woman like yourself,
who has earned the right to spend
her leisure in the ways she likes
best, they are a golden harvest time.
But to weather this particular
! time, you must steel yourself to
bear your husband’s selfish incon
: siderateness. He will come back,
| and you will forgive him. And if
the crystal vase of those early years
: of trust and devotion has been bro
! ken, it is for you to show the world
that the cracks weren’t very sen
i ous, that they could be mended, and
| that you meant it when you said,
j ’way back in 1914, “for better oi
; for worse.”
by
Wm iMVtN VMMMMM9
_ Roosevelt
A CHRISTENING
Our drive to Hyde Park one day
was very pleasant and we stopped
in Saratoga, N. Y., long enough to
ass st at the christening of a very
sweet baby girl. She never cried
at all when the water was poured
over her head, which I am sure
means that some day she is going
to give her father and mother, Mr.
and Mrs. A1 William Kresse, a very
hectic time. You see, I was brought
up on the old superstition that
babies must cry the “devil” out of
them at their christening, and if
they don’t it will surely come out
later on!
We spent the night with a friend
and arrived home to face the usual
mountains of mail which greet one
after two days without any contact
with the postman.
SAD LETTER
I found a rather sad letter from
an old friend of the President’s, who
has always been very fond of the
sea. Like many other people, this
friend adopted an orphan during the
last World war. But I think he
must have taken it more seriously
than the rest of us, for he has kept
in touch with him and really helped
him and known him well.
The other day, the Daily Mail in
London carried the story of this boy,
now grown to manhood and follow
ing the sea, meeting his death, as
have so many other gallant English
officers, on his ship, the HMS
Patria. He was a first lieutenant
and, when someone had to go below
to free a hundred or more men who
were trapped, instead of ordering a
junior officer to do the job, he went
himself and was never seen again,
but nearly all the men on board
were saved.
The story in itself will be one
more tradition told on British ships
on the seven seas to educate the
young. It is the quotation in a letter
from his wife to my husband’s old
friend which I want to give you. She
writes:
“I am convinced that when he met
this last trial, he maintained that
quiet confidence, that unbreakable
courage, and that smile of his that
indicated peace of mind and soul.
Danger at sea, he had always met
without flinching, and this is as we
must remember him. For my part,
I am proud to have been his wife,
even if for only eight years, and if
his sons (there are two, five and
two years old) grow up as straight
and as fine and clean as daddy, I
shall be satisfied.”
This is a courageous attitude to
take, but it must be hard to attain
such fortitude of soul. If that is the
spirit, however, in which the British
face all defeats and still keep such
high courage then we may be sure
that in the end, right must tri
umph over might. If our own cour
age and determination can be at
the same level, perhaps, before
long, might will be on the side of
right.
♦ ♦ *
As I write we are having our sec
ond day of steady rain. It is the
kind of June weather when a fire
on the hearth is pleasant. Yester
day I discovered that last year’s
robins, or their progeny, have re
turned, not to the same bathroom
window, but to the one next to it.
Two blue eggs lie in the nest, from
which the mother flies away when
ever she hears a noise. I really
wonder whether they are wet and
miserable when the rain beats upon
the window and all the protection
they have is the ivy vine which
grows thick around them.
CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES
The news that Chief Justice
Hughes is retiring on July 1 comes
as a shock. He always seemed to
be such a vigorous person that I
do not associate him with any par
ticular age. It must be a great
satisfaction, however, to reach the
point where you feel you can lay
aside your work and do only the
things you want to do the rest of
your life.
To be able to look back, as Justice
Hughes can, on a successful per
sonal career, a good name achieved
pi ofessionally, a happy home in
which children have grown to ma
turity and started out on their own
lives with a satisfactory back
ground, a public life which has
brought posts of honor as recog
nition of his high ability and integ
rity, all this must give the Chief
Justice happiness. His countrymen
will rejoice with him and do him
honor, both in the present and the
future.
I cannot close these few words
about him without saying how much
I have always admired Mrs. Hughes.
It seems to me, she has contributed i
greatly to the success of his career '
and that some honor and affec
tion from her countrymen are due
her as well.
• * •
VALUABLE LIFE
Several days ago I noticed the
report in the papers of the death
of a woman I have known for a long
while. Miss Julia K. Jaffray was
associated with the National Com
mittee on Prisons and Prison Labor
for 33 years. She came to the United
States from Galt, Canada, as stenog
rapher to Miss Helen Varick Bos
well, who was secretary of that com
mittee. Miss Jaffray, herself, served
as secretary for 25 years. This
Canadian woman became a leader
and wielded great influence here.
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Cruel Conqueror
The conqueror is not so muefl,
pleased by entering into open
gates as by forcing his way. He
desires not the fields to be culti
vated by the patient husbandman;
he would have them laid waste by
sword and fire. It would be his
shame to go by away already
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