Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-10-17

Ms Winnie IiUudcohell Is the VIE
of section hand ou the Santa Fe rail
road. near La Plata, Mo. The couple
live in a tent near the track. One
night Mrs urudcshcl was awakened
by a terrific crash. She tried to rouse
her husband. but he is Il sound sleeper,
and She couldn't. Then she went out
70 investigate the noise for herself.
SHE discovered that the bridge over
which the california limited must
Dass in Il feW minutes had fallen into
fleep raNine owing to the crumbling OF
one OF its aiTtmeuts. In the darkness
the engineer could not see that the
bridge was gone. There was no time
now to call help. and she decided to
build bonfire on the track, gathering
UP wood in the darkness and then
rush NJ home for matches. MIR. lloude-
shell was still sleeping peacefully. AS
She blaze began to crawl among the
tWigS the train came laundering
around The curve, and the engineer
pulled w just fifty feet from the
brink of the abyss. Train hands and
passrngers, numbering 30, sWarmed
from tie train 10 hear her story. "A
great cheer was sent up in her honor
and then grateful men and women,
bidding her hold out her apron, filled
It with coins and bank notes. When
she went home to her drOwsy lord
there was $500 in it, and the Santa Fee
railroad Will be asked by the passen-
gers to reward her more substantially.
Yet some people will babble on about
women being too nervous and eXcita-
Bile to be of use in an emergency and
ask us to admire the calm. serene mas
culine temperament which never loses
its head and. like Mr.. IIoudeshell, can
slumber peacefully on through the
crash of matter and wreck of worlds.
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The kaiser, who If all be true that
one hears plays somewhat the part Of
n domestic tyrant, has had something
Of setback In regard to the Princess
Sophia Charlotte Of Oldenburg, to
whom his favorite son, Prince Eitel
Frederick, was obedently married in
striking contrast to the conduct Of the
crown prince, who insisted on choos-
ing wife to suit himself. The Prin-
cess Sophia, who was poor before her
marriage, is said to have developed
the most eXtravagant tastes, delight
ing the shopkeepers of Berlin, but
scandalizing her royal papa-in-law,
who is said to have all the thrifty in
stincts CT his maternal grandmother,
the late Queen Victoria. One Of his
favorite maXlms in the family circle Is,
"Princes as we'll as peasants should
lay store for rainy seasons" The prin-
cess, far from prodting by this sage
counsel, goes on shopping unmOved by
warnings or admonitiOns. Thus the de-
mure little princess whom the kaiser
thought would make model wife for
his dutiful son is proving something
OF thorn in the imperial flesh. And
IN this experience of the kaiser there
Is for other parents who insist on
choosing partners for their children an
excellent object lesson.
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A certain well known manufacturer
OF good things to eat proudly says that
he owes all his success to his wife hav-
ing been a good cook. When they
were first married he delightedly con-
sumed all her da1nties himself, but
when he found that friends and neigh
bors were clamorous for the eatchup
which she put up 1t occurred to him
that this article might be marketable
He went into the business Of selling
catchup IN snall way and now man
ufactures not only that. but many 9TH
er table delicacieS. His wife cooks
for him no more, for his millions pro-
vide white t,lrbaned chef, whose con-
coctions are no more toothsOme If
somewhat more costly. There is a for
time In many simple household dish
Or device, but not every woman has
husband clever enough to see the COM
mercial value Of this.
The average young girl in factory or
shop does not usually work under con-
ditions which foster polished manners
or nicely OF speech, but when employ
ers realize that these mean increased
dividends and better prestige for the
establishment ore may confidently eX-
pect an improy ement in the young
women employed In such establish
ments. Many girls go to work at the
age of fourteen, fifteen or sixteen,
when their characters are in the FORM
alive state, and are ruined by coming
in contact with older young women
who, Ii not loose in morals, manners
or speech, are either rowdyish or silly
and sentimental.
The nuns 0C The convent Of the Sis
tiers Of the Holy child Jesus at Sharon
Hill, Delaware county, Pa, are said
TO do some O1 the most beautiful typo
graphical work in the country. Re
Gently they printed for private circu-
Iation a history Of their order. 1t is
Illuminated and bound in flexible
brown covers stamped with gold let
cit,