Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1913 — DREAMS HE’S ON VOLCANO [ARTICLE]

DREAMS HE’S ON VOLCANO

Man Uses Warmer in Bed and the Illusion Is Shattered on Arrival of Firemen. Chicago.—All his life J. B. Greiner, 631 Lake avenue, Wilmette, has been troubled with cold feet Finally he purchased an electric pad foot warmer.' One night recently was the first time he bad occasion to use it Wrapping it carefully around his frigid feet, Greiner drifted off into pleasant dreams./ Warmth Suffused his whole system. He was in a bathing suit, dabbling in the tropical waters of the gulf. He walked barefoot on warm, white sand. He swam in warm water far out into the gulf to a tiny speck in the distance. It was an island, the peak of a volcano. The lava was warm and soothing to his former chilled feet. He sat on the edge of the crater and dabbled his feet in the water within. ’•Worn!" "Ob-h-h!” "Ouch!" A terrific shriek arose in the night and the echo reverberated. Flash! Just like that disappeared the warm vision. But some of it was real. Greiner could smell the crater's smoke. Outside a clanging announced a fire department answering a call. Scorched feet within told Grenier that heat somewhere was real. Then a halfclad volunteer fireman of the Wilmette department burst into the room. Ten minutes later that part of the bed and house that had caught fire from the foot warmer had been saved from further’ruin, and Grenier soothed his bums with oil. "Cold feet again," he mused disconsolately; "I might have known that dream of warmth was too good to be true.”