New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-10-10
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as IN most human affairs. there was the element
OF humor amid all the suffering she tells US
that In the hospital Of which she was m charge
there was peculiar discipline-'General Lees
Socks"-Which recalcitrant could resist The
generals wife. who spent most of her time in
making gloves and socks for the soldiers, gave
her friend the matron several pairs OF her hus-
bands old socks darned 90 testify 70 per-
sistent wearing on his part
We kept these socks 10 apply 10 the feet II
those laEgard "old soldiers" who were suspected
= profeulug IN" luxury OF hospital lie 10 me
activity OF the neid. And such waS the erect
81 the application 81 these warlike socks that
even threat of IN had the result OF sendlng
man 10 his regiment who had fingered months
ip Inactivity m came 10 boz standing Joke IN
the hospital. Infinitely enjoyed 10y the men IL
poor wretch Was out OF his bed over Weeh'
he would ur Threatened with General Lee
socks: and through this means some most OBJ
Stinatc cases We're cured -Four II the most De
termned Rheumatic patients, who had resisted
scaIif2 of the limbs, and, what was worse
the smallest and thiunost Of diets, were SEM 10
their rcgiU outs. and did good service atterWalu.
With these men the socks had 10 ., IelS on
several hours, amid shouts OF laushteI LIoll
the Assistants" showing ihat though men may
withstand pain and starvation they suocumo
directly 10 ridlcule.
Does Mr.. Madison Cawein really think that
''sWink" is poetic word.
We strive and struggle ana swink and sweat
And the end for each rs one and the same
Thus ne sings in The Smart Set" in allitera-
alive bad taste ink" means 10 drudge. 10
be sure. though unusual word. II is wen
enough Ear the sense goes. But II IS go
grotesquely unpoetic that IL could never he used
by true poet Il shows forth with amusing
fnaiity one OF the reasons why Nj. Cawein can
never be pulled into a comfortable seat on Par
nassus.
M Epnng does not always IN these days
turn out the best work OF which he is capaole-
HIS South African military story in Every
bodys Magazine" is exceedingly poor, weak
formless. inflated and stale II is not 10 his
credit that he is willing TO send forth such
stun.
There is not a dull page IN the october "out-
ing''-tnoeed, il would be hard 10 frame more
fascinating collection OF outdoor papers. Par
ticularly exciting is an article by Norman Dun
can on hunting the seal from the stormy coast
Of New Foundland. II Is d record Of terrible
dangers and almost incredible courage and hard
iness. Seal hunting. he tells us, Is not sport
but q toll, attended by such perils and such
heart straining WEAKNESS and suffering that II Is
wonderful men md il worth while 10 earn thus
their soanty bread II is when the seal hunters
venture out into the treacherous icepack that
their fate hangs in the balance, Tor no man may
say what its movements viii be:
The whole pack may suddenly 60 abroad-dis-
perse and sweep out to sea, where the waves
break over the pans upon which the men have
taken refuge. In Exploits l met an old man
who, In his early manhood, had passed eighteen
hours on a thirty loot pan In a blizzard, and
over this pan the waves broke continuously,
some of them charged with broken Ice, uslns
over his head. the ice IN the waves laid open his
forehead and broke his collarbore before ne
had been six hours in the predicament, but SO
pienteous was his store OF strength and courage
that ne survived until the ice was carried back
10 the coast, though three men, among whom
was his brother. were swept away. Then. too,
the ice may rafter-which is to say that tie
pack being suddenly subjected 10 enormous
pressure elsewhere, rs crushed like an eggshell'
the pans overlap-Jhey lift themselves out OF the
press and fal back IN fraGWents-they are
the Newfoundlander has as much 70 do with his
own fate as ny in q cyclone.
The tragic, the quaint ano the comic phases OF
life among our newly arrived immigrants are
deftly presented In text and picture in The
Worlds Work" The records are sometimes
strange and sorroWful. indeed. Here is one Of
them:
There Is a man now honored IN d Western
state whom shall call Kari Ritter His older
brother emigTated from the Black Forest TO
Wisconsin, where, laboring and living frugally,
he acquired prairie farm. Al the age Of eight
Karl came over with his name stitched on a
square OF white cloth his breast Kindly
men cared for him ana on a dreary winter day
ne reached Black Earth. When the days work
was over the station agent drove him over the
oul prairie 70 us brothers place, and left him
81 the gate. He knocked, but getting no re
Spouse. pushed desperately IN. An old man and
older woman. with sinister. vicious faces sit
ting there within the little farmhouse told him
his brother had gone ON Journey. After a
fortnight. beaten down with terrurs Karl ran
away. and, tramping M country secured q
place a farm.
Arrived at manhood, and owner Of "A farm OF
his own, he was called one day 10 Black Earth.
20 learn that the man and woman he had met
the day Of his arrival had murdered his brother
the day before and hidden the body IN the eel
Tar.
Mr.. Eliot Gregory's paper IN The Century on
Americans who try 10 think they are happy In
foreign travel IL highly amusing and. for the
most part, the just reflection Of acute observa-
tion Alas for the man woman who. unable 10
feel the fascination OF history the glamour Of po-
otic association, and an appreciation. innate and
cultivated, 81 great art imagines that Europe Is
blissfu place 10 wander in Howe ellis" SAYS
Mr.. Gregory. describes somewhere the uunlike
existence LED 10y the inmates Of New England
boarding hOuses-shadowy beings who descend
from their overheated rooms at mealtimes and
then disappear upstairs again for the rest OF the
day
Asoetic as this life is the existence a rich
business man and his spouse lead abroad is even
more isolated. and would shame a well-to-do
hermit OF Mount Athos. Wherever one goes
couples OF this kind are 70 be met drifting IN q
golden solitude from the Riviera 10 the Rhine
enc back again with the changing sons hav-
ing rarely acquaintance 10 break the u1onot-
ony Of the long days OF fellow sufferer 20
shake by the hand.
One % these hermts, IN a burst OF confidence
tolc me that his first thought on waking was:
What IN thunder am ] going 10 do tin dinner
timeG You see" he added. All our life we
planned 10 live abroad as soon as / could afford
~ so. now We are here, We are ashamed 20 go
home, as all our friends would laugh az us Be
m W.T. flraSaf