The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-06-30

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Then add a princess of some land
That's never mentioned on a map;
Where medietsl customs hold
And no one minds the law rap.
Mix in a rival claimant for
The throne that is the princess right,
And every single time you can
Just let somebody start a fight
Take motor cars and cipher codes.
AbdUCtiuns. dungeons. papers" too.
Those papers, Failing papers. what
Would n0Telists aud playwrisbts don
Let blood in rivers flow. and let
But why take time to tell the restf
That's all you need 70 make a book.
One Of the six that sell the best.
One Of the very prettiest Of all the June
crop Of brides had her wedding gown
hooked up for her by an old family serv-
ant, who performed the same service FOR
her mother q quarter Of century ago.
Aunt Cely lives at Rockville, and there
was considerable doubt as 20 whether
she'd be able 10 come in for the great
occasion, but she did come, and she was
a little vexed that any one should have
dreamed she wouldn't.
Law. me" she said. Couldn't nothin'
keep me from comm to hep Miss Lucy
dress; no. indeed Couldn't nothin' keep
me away but a funeral in my family.
an she added. proudly, even with a
funeral in my family I'd "a come If the
corpse would keep tell I got back"
Speaking Of brides and their gowns, one
Washington girl set out on her wedding
journey without a single dress of her
favorite color in her trousseau. She IS a
brunette, with that colorless, magnolia
leaf skin which is never at its lOveliest
except with a golden yellow frOck- Prim-
rose and buff and corn color she has worn
ever since she was grown. but not even
deep cream color is TO be found in her
wedding outfit.
"Of course, I meant 10 have several
yellow gowns" she told me. yellow IS
nay color-but I didn't dare. I have a
cousin who is on the stage. and she wrote
to me not to have anything yellow. It's
the unluckiest color in the world, she
says, and 10 prove il she told me ever so
many things that have happened to peple
she knows who wore It. Just last season
a girl in her company who wore n yellow
evening gown went crazy. She says no
body on the stage ever wears the color
without disaster. It's more unlucky than
breaking a looking glass or having ones
makeup box nearest the door in a dress
ing-room. Silly2 OF course. I'm silly I
really don't believe destiny has a finger
stirring dye pots. but when It comes TO
getting married, one doesn't want TO run
any risks. 1 shan't have courage enough
10 wear yellow till I've been married at
least a year"
There's another stage superstition that
I heard Of yesterday for the first time.
An actress who is visiting friends here
told me about Il.
Last season was my first year on the
stage" she said, "and when I started on
my travels 1 took with me a trunk
happened TO have. 1t was a big trunk
with a sort Of camel-back curve to the
top First week out. the leading lady
had grip. and when she got well again
she was cold as ice to me. a little
later the leading man lost his wallet
with weeks salary in it, and took to
snubbing me. / wasn't especially sur
prised at the way I was treated, because
knew stage people are prejudiced
agaist what they call amateurs, but by
and by Il seemed to me that had 4 cold
shoulder frcm everybody In the company.
Finally the thing became unbearable, and
1 asked the stage manager what on earth
Ia done to make myself SO unpopular.
Your trunk has ho0dooed the COM
pany.' he said. Everybody hates a curved
top trunk They are all blaming your
trunk for everything that has happened
TO us
7 stood out for my trunk two weeks,
Common sense wouldn't Let me DO any
thing else. Then one Of the men in the
company had word that his wife was
seriously III, and I caught everybOdy's
suspicious eye on me. I hadn't the
heart 10 go on being sensible, so 1 bought
a trunk with a fiat top and sent my old
one home. Maybe it was a hoodoo. Any
way, the mans wife recovered and the
very train my curved trunk went home
on was wrecked"
It was just last week that the druggist
on our corner called my attention TO a
little girl who was selecting books from
the circulating library station in his store.
u want you to notice that child" he
said "She can't be more than twelve.
and she's the greatest reader ever saw.
There IS scarcely a day that she doesn't
come in TO exchange two books for two
others. She reads everything and any
thing-she's omniv0roUs. can't under
stand how she manages to read so much
without running her health"
Perhaps she takes the books for mem
bers of her family" l suggested.
NO he said. I've asked her. She's
a shy little thing. but she told me the
books were for herself She says her
mother doesn't mind how many she takes
out. She never buys candy nor soda
77ater Books are the only things she
cares FOR"
Naturally. my curiosity was excited.
No normal child wastes all its spending
money on books. Here might be a Chat
terton in petticJats, or George Eliot IN
a piuafore, I thought. This week. finding
the youngster at the book shelves again.
l veuJured to speak 70 her.
You read a great many books, don't
you?" ! said.
She shook her head.
I've never read but six" she said. Il
don't like 10 read
But why do you take so many books,
then? ! asked.
She looked around 10 see that nobody
was listening, and then she took me into
her confidence
j get names out Of them she said
You get lovely names that way. I'm
trying 10 get all my paper dolls named
before we 60 away for the summer
Jim and I have been looking forward
TO this summer for years" says 4 Column
bia Heights woman. Every year since
cur little girl was born I've had 10 take
her out Of town for two or three months,
OF course. and Jim has never been able b
get awq- Tho summer is his buSy time