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6 THE- SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, JANUARY 30, 1916. fiOLF .SWING WITHOUT CLUB, JDEAD EXERCISE FOR SCHOOL, CHILDREN. MISS MONICA DCNN ON GOLF. This Is what young Miss Mon ica Dunn ha to aay about golf, which tends to pjove that what she advocates is perfectly fea sible, especially as regards chil dren: "1 learned to play golf when I was I years old st Ht. Andrew's. In Scotland. "I had a little club of my own. I soon learned to play, as it is Tery easy. "I played on the beach when the tide was out. I am years old now. I like golf very much, "I wish more children played here. I have a set of clubs and a little caddy bag. "I once won a box of candles from a grown-up man. I beat him. He was very much sur prised, and he said. 'It is because you learned golf when you were young;.' " BY MRS. GOURLAY DUNN-WEBB. IT cannot be denied that physical exercise for growing children is extremely beneficial. Most of the principal schools have gymnasiums. The children go through various kinds of exercises. I would like to suggest a new ex ercise, and that la the movement of the golf swlns. In these articles I have shown that the golf swing can be dissected Into parts, and that each movement can be so well mastered that 4t becomes a mechanical habit. The piecing together of the movements produce the natural golf swing. As no club is required to begin with. It would be an excellent op portunity for children to copy the cor rect movements as exercises while at school. I mentioned In a previous article that the best players of the day are natural players. They hold the open championships. All children have not the same opportunities as others of copying the game while young. There rm . . tttt WW's -;'-" J f : J lit ' ' ' (mb ! ' j I' . ' . n - ; U - y' ,f - ' ' I '-y m ' " j y ' . . . M h I , , . i u -K ' X F i - - ,. V. - U S , -, 4 , WW f - - J - - 1 p. . -c-; I l-c 'yr-:;t7i, I ' i w ' n III 1 I . , . - '" ' i M ' : -'" " ' " Jfrn7s,?7 ofZrve. Good ii r K I s " 1 ! x , J - x I I X i x. x I " " ? !';(fAV-iv4 , iff t ? 4 v v - to try. We were skating on a private edge of the golf swing to others in S 3zy, ZS2 TSZZZmZj' Qwni POnd near a farm. Well. thinf?S. I the KimDle.St nOSftiblA Wn V. T am more lMunAct, Ifinv tvAm. siiTf fram this hrAMth In fa lib lrtnfr- HrniifrHta nf e 7- t'i- ?,-7 Sr'rT- ? lore, I suggest that the golf swing be must say. seemed very hopeless. There than content with tha manv lattsra I n nH what . zr- 7 r, " s taught In schools. This would nroduce . r h ,min ,nH h. v.3 1 T "- " "T.. "" l::" 7- - ... " """" " CV7. ... . j " " jr 3au ouh anymius laauer ii oae uaa no i . i rt inv t Ifvincr to vAnn it lnafi more natural players In the future and floundering about and expressions of that through my articles I have been health? living is yours at last, ao advance the game among amateurs. de,pair. , .uggested we try to skate to the means of starting so many women Artificial enlovment such as Blavin TU waken tn the morninS refreshed. A thing learned in childhood is very tne other aide of th Dond . ,enlar; to take ud Kolf. A woman, naturally. ' . "Eou feel that you have taken a new ""rt cMMreT wThh0iS ,l'Mn'rHl WhiCh w met W'lh a Very emphatic "nerstands a woman. relaxation. Both excite and unsettle no?r.back while young never forged" " '7 U Q " Suddenly: The first and principal thing you will tn. nervea, wherea8. at the end of a Tn. .an?. . rw.MnVJr n. my malement- friend creamed notice after taking up the game is the day's golf, there is a natural tired- L .7hV. . . 1 Vmm WrT. 'nd ekaUd aWay dOWD the Pnd- 1 im"-n- in - yo"-" health. Your ess which comes to body and brain, rf." iv L - Ll fowed and asked what on earth was body will become supple. The outdoor There is so much fascination in the "-"J K'""" wronc. iierrio whirk vn. nn nib... . j j time and (t it i j i mux il uuiua your uiuusiiia iu She gasped out. "Didn't you see that wise take will make you slender. Re- helps to crowd out worries. At the cow coming on to the pond?" member that nearly every muscle in end of the day you find yourself I make special appeal to parents to to learn 'WMI " I n wl 'T i n n ' r rfl about the bodv Is ujirH in cnlf T t le a nhvi. -j : t .. nri.: .i. . .. wn v.Atv l.nAn 1 . - . ... . ' ' . " uruwBujr iui!n.iiis5 ul uic iuiu jvt cuv.wua.s !. v.u . tj " 1 . ' any spori late in lire Tnere is lacn tn6 COWi DUt x neVer saw any one learn ical exercise taken under ideal condi- holed and missed, of the long drives not only the game, but the environ- v ii nC"' .".,, f lntlon to skate so quickly in all my life!" tions and beautiful surroundings; a you made. you promise yourself to ment There is a great deal more golf " ii .fc " app'ar 5 " . 1 am afraid ou will think I ara fascinating, companionable game, genUe drive round the bunker next time and played among children in Scotland . V.....U uuco drifting away from golf, but little in- and not overexhausting. hol Slop IO ininn. I will Rive you an cidei,t lika thi maka ona think daaner I say exciting I mean it It was tb st oring that always caused the troubl No one ever really won a game. Bot: sides were far too certain of tha rlgh scoring for that. Children Become Good Players. We played round six times for an If hole match. It was great fun. ave if It did end in tears or a "free fight on the last green over who were th. winners. When we played in proper competl tions we had markers. There wer.' competitions given for children, man I aged by the club. Parents may think there is one draw4 back to golf for children, and that irf the space for them to play It In. I golf clubs have women's courses at tached, -children should be allowed t play on them. They very quickly be4 come good players. Children who live . i- . . j . a i luuiiu jr iico.tr intsauows can RISK of a few holes for themselves. Home ex erclses can be taken with a captive ball, such as 1 described in a previous article. I have seen a captive ball which reg isters the distance of the drive you make. This is more interesting. Every one likes to know how far she baa driven. i And now I hope I have shown what a simple, pleasurable pastime golf is.' Leave the theory to those who like Iti In my next article I will tell you of two beginners' first attempt on a golr course. It will give an idea of what) should or should not be done. This Is have tried It for the first found It very difficult It Is much more difficult insiance 01 wnat imag.nauon win ao. of tne wil, power of human beii-rs. It among the tew Tearhea Statins;. can be cultivated and used In are they encouraged in golf. such a mistake. The little girl In the pictures. Miss Monica Dunn, drives a ball 150 yards. She plays her mashie shots with quite a professional finish. She is as en thusiastic as any grown-up over a' game of golf. I asked her to write her ideas of golf for me, which are printed herewith: A child need only have three clubs for a start a driver, driving iron and mashie are best. They can use their driving iron to putt with. I have often, as a child, laid out a KOlf course in a meadow. The "course" not try to carry it, and w.ith all these than anywhere. Clubs can be made for usually consisted of three holes. To Golf is very popular In Great Britain thoughts you "doze off" Into dream- children, or discarded clubs of parents make the holes I used round, empty lease of life. There are many of us who would not think of walking three miles, and yet if you play 18 holes that '.a the distance you will have walked. Ybu do not notice it because the fascination of the game Is upon you. Members of Parliament land. You are still Jn the glorious, or friends can be easily shortened. I . cans, hduui uvc iU.im uoch .u every They know the relaxation to body and peaceful country, driving over hill and especially appeal for the girls. I like "ches across, i maoe a noie in X once persuaded a grown of friend action of our daily life. And now to brain which the game gives. Those dale, going through beautiful woods, to see good girl golfers. Let them j,, the flay to stick in the ground. M mine to go skating with me. She return to golf. women who are troubled with nervous the soft, restful green of the turf all learn while they are young. The fiacs were long canes with red aid she could not skate and "knew" I have given careful thought and ailments I advise to. take up golf. It around, ehe never would. However. I got her study on how to Impart the knowl- Is the best cure in the world for sleep- The pure. fresh air that you have They are shown how to ride and swim In their youth, but very seldom huntiner sewn on. We had many exciting matches. When Mortgnges on Folks Yet tJnborn. Philadelphia Ledger. 1 England's war bill has now reached $1,000,000 for every hour of the day, and night. By next March that nai tion's total debt will be $11. 000,000. 000f Imposition of taxes unmatched for size in these times will still leave the Brit ish people borrowing two-thirds of the money needed to carry on the struggle. An extra and heavy tax Is to be laid upon the dinner table, while the in come tax is to reach down to all who earn $650 a year. Profits on business, more postage on letters, big ger death taxes on estates and heavy Import duties on nearly all commodi ties are some of the details of the British plan to meet the largest dally expenditure ever made by any country. Other warring nations do not let the outside world know so fully what they are suffering, but their debts are mounting with almost equal swiftness. When the war began estimates of $50, 000,000 for daily expenses of all coun tries seemed excessive, bu: the actual figures today must be nearly double that All business in Germany1 and Austria is done on a paper-money baBis. Gold everywhere Is at a big premium. Taxes all over Europe will increase enormously, while productivity is dwindling at a startling rate. All the belligerents are eating up their fu ture and mortgaging every available resource. This generation must bear the blood and bone burden of the war. To living people come the deaths, the sorrows and the pain; but per sons who will not be born for another full generation will go through life with these war debts on their backs. JOE'S GREAT ADVENTURE high pine tops and the panting of yet, strange to say, his nerves steadied the dog squatting near him. As long and his head cleared. Rising to his as he did not move the pain in his knees, he lifted the gun and watched ankle was eased and, as the bleeding his chance. The fiercely struggling and u.-n,, n .i nM . v. - -1 .i M i. : . . a . v, i i snarlinir beasts came nearer still, now -rjlOCRTEEN-YEAR-OLD Joe Mead- miles, or even more. And so. when they hlm mil. h mwdnwir M the panther and now the dog turning a H owe happened upon a remarkable toiled up one side and down another. .., V' ' e drowsy and Tw f lUr' rh! JLu h"U"f ?rlVlng W"in Pf:haJ.' ' m"e 0t,Camf- wi. awakened some time later " t'i, ... lt was Hearing mia-anernoon anu 1 1 l lie more ouumciu ucvitn. hi uu mo mia jim was very urea, as well as raven- (nan uiuiuei, iiiii, urn otcn uowoa m u ously hungry-. Joe suffered in tne A Methuselah Doll excursions to the high and dry area of the Immediate neighborhood. back to Joe. Suddenly, with a coolness that he afterward wondered at, the boy leaned forward and, seizing the opportunity as it came, put the very muzzle of his gun against the neck of his enemy and pulled the trigger. As the report reverberated through the wood's, the panther leaped high in the air, wresting herself away at last by a warning sense of danger by certain slightly disturbing as far as the first island, reached by eame way. but proudly declined to ad- ' 1 J" " " ' T i. i , . . ,., , , , tne dog standing- close to him, the hair a narrow atrip of land from th main- mjt it He consented, however, to n ,ta . anA w , . land, and was understood that they give up the hunt .-cut across.. tha n re, ' ndf were to remain In care of the cook at lsland t0 camp. It was then that an . th low "owl ing tlt the permanent camp, confining their accident befell him. . .,, , . K,.. ,jLk, .,, He tripped and fell over a log, strik- jnto the rustling foliage of a water-oak from the grip of the dog's strong teeth. Ing the side of his head against a anm in It looked to Joe as if she would de- But Joe was an adventurous boy. sharp snag.' He was at first slightly At first Joe saw nothing to alarm scend directly upon him, and as he nd one day he determined to make stunned and his wound bled' freely, him. but soon he caught sight of & tail shrank away, giving" himself up for a circuit of the entire island in the "What was much more serious, he ike that of an enormous cat beating ost his senses failed him once more hope of getting a ehot at a deer. He sprained his ankle as he fell and found back and forth among the leaves in a and oblivion followed, relunctantly consented for little Tim to it impossible to walk without unbear- manner startllngly suggestive of ex- When he revived and looked around accompany him and. unknown to the able pain. After trying repeatedly, plosive anger. The boy remembered the panther lay still on one side of cook, set forth on the extensive ex- he became quite faint and was forced to have heard the hunters say that the hlm and the do' cruelly wounded, curslon. to lie down. tail of a panther was wont to move in struggled feebly with a low whining To follow the rim of " the island, as "Tim. you'd better run (o camp and that way when the beast was crouching on tn other. A large section of the proposed, was no easy task, the course tell them." be said breathlessly. for a spring. panther's neck had been literally torn fceina- extremelv difficult It was often "I will If 1 don't tret loaf 'said the "Kh m.lt mv hlniwi I. out by the discharge of the gun at close necessary to advance higher up the little fellow, fright Irj hl eyes. me." thought Joe. elope or descend almost Into the flooded "I'll show you bow to go and you Forgetting his sprained ankle, the swamp In order to avoid tangled ?an't miss it." boy clutched his gun and sprang up. masses of brambles, dense clumps of Joe raised himself on bis arm. gave but staggered across only a few feet fan-palmettos and boge or marshes. directions, and then, as his brother of ground before he dropped to his The island was about two miles long started of, he fell back exhausted, clos- knees in an agony of pain. On seeing iby about one mile wide, the distance Ing his eyes. All was quiet except his master stir, the dog showed more 11 the way around being fully six for the sighing of the. breeze in the spirit, putting on a bold front and barking wildly. This seemed to put an end to the suspense, for almost at once the great sat snarling fiercely, tore through the branches surrounding her and descend ed toward her prey, striking the earth within a few feet of the dog. Joe managed to ralso his gun and take aim. but before he pulled the trigger the panther had leaped again and engaged the dog at close quarters. To shoot then was to endanger friend as well as foe. and the boy hesitated. Fearing that buckshot would not serve anyhow and that the faithful dog was his only protection, the .boy crawled further away, looking back over his shoulder to watch the fierce struggle between the two beasts, with never a moment's let-up in such harsh growl ing and snarling as he had never heard in all his life. The contending animals, fast in each other's grip, rapidly drew nearer, tear ing up grass and brush aa they came. The panther was much the stronger of quarters and there could be no ques tion that life was extinct Assured of this and fearing that the dog could not survive, Joe pot an arm aroynd his faithful savior's neck and wept, long ing to hear the welcome sound of friends coming across the island to his aid. It was thus that boy and dog were found when little Tim led three, of the returned hunters and the cook to the spot A brush stretcher was hastily con structed and Joe was placed upon It. but he refused to be borne to camp until the wounded dog had been laid on it also at his side. "We'd better hunt around this island tomorrow." said one of the astonished hunters aside. "That boy gets more sport right here, than we do on our long trips." t It pleased Joe gioatly to overhear this, but his satisfaction was not com plete until, after a carefnl examina tion of the torn dog at camp, he was assured that his faitliful friend would recover. belonged to a little Egyptian princess, and I dare say, she loved it as much as you love that "old thing." One day the .dear little princess was taken ill, and while the best doctors in the kingdom were called in, the poor child died. Great was the grief of the King and Queen, but she was dead and there was nothing to do but to bury her. Now the style in those far-off days was to wrap the bodies of royal per sonages in soft cloths, and they used some medicine to preserve the bodies. This little Princess was treated in this way, and her doll was wrapped up with her. Not so very long ago some of our travelers came across the tomb of the little Princess and her family, and they opened the box In which the child had been burled. There they found the little wooden doll still nest ling in its little mistress' arms. "I guess maybe my doll Isn't so old, after all," said Polly, picking the dilap idated doll from the floor and strain ing lt to her breast "and even if she is I love her yes almost as much as the Princess in Egypt loved hers." on the world and give the signal for Spring to begin. Hundreds of years ago the people actually believed In this and other su perstitions equally foolish, but we know better. When the 2d of February comes we cay, lt the sun should be shining, "the groundhog will see bis shadow today, so prepare for six more weeks of Winter weather," and then we laugh at our foolishness and forget all about the hog and the weather. But in olden times the farmer would put his confidence tn the little animal and plant his seed according to his staying or hiding. Your Style ef English. Exchange. Neither are you likely to fool any one by calling your bush league Eng lish an idiom. Our Puzzle Corner Groundhog Day "I Home From Celleare. London Standard. Fond Mother: "Bobbie, come here. I have something awfully nice to tell you." Bobbie (aged 6): "Aw I don't care. What would yon say If I told you that I maw a doll that was over two thou sand years oldf" malted the aunt. LOVE my dolly even if It Is old," said Polly to her aunt to whom she was showing off. "You see my grandmother gave It to me ages and ages ago. when I was hardly born, and I have played wlf h It ever since." "And bow old are you now?" asked her aunt "Seven on my next birthday. Then mamma is going to get me a new one that is made of bisque, and can open and shut its eyes." "Let me look at your dolly again," said the aunt "I would not call tt very old. Six years Is a short time. Don't you think so, dear?" "Laura Stokes had her doll just a week when she broke it and Mary, her cousin's doll, lost an eye and a leg be- con-said WEDNESDAY, February 2, is Groundhog day. The tory of the groundhog seeing bis shadow on February 2 comes to us from a very old superstition. It is be lieved the Scandinavians first gave thought to it on their church holiday Candlemas, when the hedgehog was supposed to wake up from his long Winter's nap. He would crawl out of his hiding, place and look around. If the sun cast his shadow on the ground he would get scared and run back to his hole and sleep on for six . more weeks, but if he did not see his shadow he would smile right then and there PUNCTCATIOX PtiZ.t,K. READ this properly: There is a lady In the land With twenty nails on each hand. Five and twenty on hands and feet; This Is true without deceit (Now place a comma after the words Nails and Five and read again). - A HIDDfc.V KIXG. First in the path of Duty. First in the field of Art. Foremost in every virtue. Leading In Immortality. Apd ever ready for Devotion. PIED SENTENCE. LAL HTTA TILGTERS SI TON DGLO. Auwcrs, A Hidden King: David. . Pied sentence: All is not gold that glitters. GROUND HO O FIZZLE. fore the month was over. I'm sidered a careful little mother, i'olly, with pride in her voice. "What would you say If I told you that I saw a doll that was over 2000. years old?" asked the aunt Polly didn't say anything, she just T lrnnnr wh"it ia Rio- hratlicr'n hnma the two as well as armed with great t . gasped. w..Bo. Tha aunt went on Fond juouier Tae C a tesd. as- Aatmala, Fast la Each Other's Grip, Baaldlr Drew Nearer. knifelike claws. Apparently her object was to shake off the dog In order to reach the boy, her real intended prey, and the chances were that she could not be held back and would succeed. Realizing this, Joe again sprang to his feet but again the pain was un bearable. He tottered, fell in a faint and lay still. When consciousness re turned, which was almost at once, the horrid din bombarded, his ears as be fore. As he opened his eyes the panther made a resistless rush in his direction, arriving within perhaps five feet of him, together with the persistent dog," which still refused to be shaken off. Joe thought his days were numbered. could you guess? Bobble: "My bank don't rattle any mora." Solution for Ground Hog Pnaxlej "Yea. it was at Why, Bobbie, how leaat a, old and It came all the way from Egypt" "Where did you see it?" asked Polly. "In the British Museum in London. The last time I visited that wonderful place I saw It nestling in one of the glass cases. It was made of wood, and was a cute little piece of carv ing." "Tell me more about it please," begged Polly, always eager for a real story. "I asked the guide all about it" said the aunt smiling, "for I knew a certain little lady would want to know all about this Methuselah, dolly. It - I tin 9. 1 2 f-Jf & Jyji- The ground hog is coming out of his hole to view his shadow. See if you can find his shadow by cutting out the black, spot and fitting them together.