Evening journal., 1897-12-11


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WAYFARER' NOTE BOOK |
Things, Pleasant and Unpleas-
ant, Caught on the Way.
sKITs ON PERSONS AND THINGS
If YOU READ THEN BEFORE SUP
PER THEY WILL AID YOUR DI-
GEsTIoN, BUT THERE is MOTH
ING PUT IN THEM TO LULL YOU
TO SLEEP.
RANK TREASON.
The man who believes Santa Claus is
myth,
And breathes the rank treason in
Childhood's young ear,
Betrays a great trust he should sacred
ly keep, -
For the pleasure it brings to the little
ones here.
'Tis a harmless religion, with happi-
ness stored;
Then why throw a doubt on the creed
of the young
And shatter the idol of Juvenile faith,
In moment of time with slip Of the
tongue?
Harry Max.
AND NOW 1T IS THE FULTON"
The wearing of the names OF ships of
war upon hat-bands seems to be on the
increase among Wilmington girls, and
the fad includes National Guard, Grand
Army and U. S. A. hatplns. In some
instances large brass U. S. regulation
beI-buckles are affected but they arc
few and far between. A day or two
ago an Evening Journal reporter was
on a Delaware avenue car bound down.
town. It stopped at the crossing il
front Of the Grand Opera House, ant
several women, young and old, got of
to go to The matinee. One Of the for
mer class, rather small pretty anS
well-dressed, wore a black felt walking
hat and emblazoned on its front in bil
letters of living light was the wore
Fulton" She and her hat went int
the Opera House, and the golden in
scription must certainly have caugh
the cyo and distracted the thoughts O
The actors, so pronounced were the let
ters in size and golden brilliancy.
While this fad is going the rounds
is strange that some of the enterprisin
milliners have not had gunbOat band
printed The word Wilmington" wOul
not only honor the boat, but also i'm
part TO all comers the name Of tn
city of the girls nativity.
THE CADDY'S UNION.
Golf is growing in favor in thi
neighborhood and there are severs
clubs in this city. There are links 3
Elsmere and also on an estate near th
Kennett turnpike, not far beyond th
city limits The present story deai
with the links on Kennett turnpike.
To play the game scientifically an
successfully n large assortment
sticks is required The player mu
have wagon or a boy to carry ther
AS he works his weary way from lin
10 link, the position of the ball dete
mines him in the use of this or tn
particular style of stick, and he selec
It from the assortment on hand. Mo
players find it convenient to employ
''caddy," who is a man or boy who fo
lows the player over the field and ca
ries his weapons of warfare for hin
The compensation is usually a dime p
game.
On the Kenne5t links five or six bo
have the run OF the "caddy" trade, al
they propose to maintain It, Tn
have formed an alliance, offensi
and defensive, and If any other boy e
deavors to work his way into {
good graces of the players he rende
himself liable to most severe castig
ton. Again and again have the OF
side boys endeavored to work tn,
way in, but the "Caddy's Union" h
invariably held its own, to the profit
itself and to the amusement of t
players, who admire the pluck of [
boys in fostering a good thing VIII
they have it.
THE TREE-pWELLERS.
Several boys of romantic and ent
prising turn of mind, and who have