Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-03-28
!: THE ROSARY OF A RAMBLER.


]. THE ROSARY OF A RAMBLER. j.
Some one has made the discovery
that Miss Mary Johnstone, whose nov
els TO Have and to Hold" and "Pris-
oners of Hope are the succeeders in
popularity to David Harum." jan
ice Meredith, Richard Carver and
When knighthood Was in Flower
always chooses the titles for her books
the fact is announced as something SO
rare as To be of more than passing in
terest. But there have been writer's
many who have looked to the scrip
lures for more than the titles of their
literary endeayors. Hall Caine, when
his series of brilliant novels of quaint
Mainland We're published and made
such a sensation in the reading world
was chiefly praised for his originality.
Vet he said himself that he was not
original at all and for proof of the fact
pointed out III the Bible the incidents
which formed the ground work of his
various stories. Elaborated they We're
| aud put in q very different setting, but
the real stories We're those which We're
icolectad centuries ago into the book
| which more than all others holds a
power over mankind. III is difficult for
| a lover of Byron to speak in an unim-
questioned way of him whose poetry
Was so full Of life and passion. But
even those Who do not love that man,
pathetic in his sorrows and majestic in.
the power OF his intellect, must ac-
knowledge the charm of his Imagery
and the force of his dictpn. His poetic
style. he himself says. he formed from
poring over the old Testament, which
he considered the most perfect library
| in the world and the power of which
never ceased to thrill him. There may
be living even yet some puritan who
believes the prince of darkness himself
lis the originator Of all fiction II might
| be We'll for such an one o know that
the genius of the World has oftentiness
fdiawn its inspiration from the Bible
land been glad to acknowledge the
source.
There are few people who have not
laughed and criea over that pretty little
story by Mark Twain, The Prince and
| the Paupei.. Its charm for older peo-
| pie lay perhaps i'll the fact that it is
not only the children who must learn,
l5by experience that some things they
have coveted are not nearly SO precious
when possessed as had been supposed
when fate had kept them at safe dis
tance Every day the theme with
variations is to be seen by those who
f.,pe. oh yi,1rr
turns and the children begin 10 beg to
so ba.efooted a little incident is re-
called which has this same old theme.
only ii MAS Il little princess and the
lpaurer WAS Il girl. They Mere neigh
hors albeit the difference in their rank
and possessions was SO great and many
shaisly hours they spent together IN
.luy. the free masonry of children.
Each Sad a. ambition and thru 1t en-
We'd ,ln oiilar. For the greatest de-
sirc Of the tiny princess was 10 go bare
Footed all The time. While the little
paup,r. whose one pair OF shoes must
be saved for sundays and special DC
icasions. had a fierce longing to wear
them all the time. one day in the con-
! fidence engendered by hours of cod
ding their dolls and fashioning of
imud pies, each one made known her
wish. The intricacy of the problem was.
not such that they had not soon mas
tered il and the result was that the
little pauper went prancing around in.
the pretty red shoes OF the princess.
whose delight was unbounded ali me
freedom of her feet. OF course the
tquestionings Of their mothers followed
and perhaps 1t was not to be Wondered
al that the women did not see what
WAS - pain To the chiliren--that the
sane Who had what She did not want
should give to the one who wanted and
had not Tho they did not see that
ipoint dearly, their actions showed them
Flo be Wiser thar some women are for
not 4 word of reproof was said. and
4 shoed and unshoed each little dainsei
! had her Way. The first day was very
! nice. the second not quite 50 much So
land al he end of the third, two little
4 girls We're crying and Begging their
mothers To set il straight again. Which
lis something that those who have not
been children for many years have a
! Nay of doing Each ones feet We're
I blistered and sore. for the one had
tslun. as had been her Won't. over peb-
1 bies and briars and the tender flesh
had suffered, and the one who was not
accustomed 10 the stiff boots, which
We're trifie too small, had suffered as
i we'll. So on the fourth day an en-
3 change was made again, and the LITTLE
princess Wore her pretty shoes and the
little pauper romped with bare feet
The mothers made no audible COM
nlentary which proves again their
wisdom.
A number of the women of the city
who have gone on record, as it We're
of being ardent believers in women's
suffrage became vehement if not posi-
& lively angry when Questioned as IL
iwhathc. u. net hes. Nnted ~, the mar
| project Monday. Their refusal to vote
/ was caused on the ground that they
81 would vote on no such measure wher
8 they We're not allowed to ON others oil
, equal or more Importance. Now. il
Esseems strange that those who hav,
! been 50 DESTROYS Of casting a ballo
Should disdain TO do so when the privi
, l8lege was theirs. II shows one OF two
!, Things either that the women do no
! believe the old adage about a half loa
hsing better than none or that taxa
4 ton without representation" is no
/, their leading grievance.
I Cleanses the system, makes new. rich