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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-27

white hair Grandmother called him
by name, but for the first time he
failed to answer her.
They carried Grandfather King
through the old orchard on his last
journey. 1t had been his wish. Chill
dren and grandchildren walked be-
hind him under boughs laden with
the mellow fruit of trees his hands
had planted. The next June Grand
mother King was carried to him over
the same way-the bride going once
more to her bridegroom under the
glory of their bridal trees.
l visited the orchard not lorg ago
on mellow afternoon. 1t did not
seem much changed. Most of the old
trees were standing; grandfather
and grandmother were gone, but
their places were filled with two
fiourishing young trees planted when
the homestead boy had brought his
bride home. Aunt Una's seat was
there and Uncle Stephens avenue;
the King Bubble was as clear and
sparkling as of yore-truly, it was
a fountain of youth, for it never grew
old. And at the big granite bowlder
children were playing "Ivanhoe" and
besieging it valiantly with arrows and
popguns. My best wish for them was
that in the years to come the old
orchard might hold for them as many
sweet and enduring memories as it
held for me.-From the Outing Mag
azine.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-27
WORDS OF WISDOM.

Cross bearing by proxy will not
win crowns.
In order to be humble one need
not be servile.
Infant hands can take firm hold
on heartstrings.
Time is money, but the landlord
will not accept it.
Tomorrow industry will not bal
ance to-day's Incidence.
Even if you can not toot horn
you can follow the reform band.
The pulpit would profit by looking
at it from the pewpoint once in
while.
The more men you lift up the
fewer there are left to drag you
down.
Heaven is a gift that must be ac-
cepted with clean hands and clean
heart.
False teeth do not ache, but that
is about the only good thing to be
said or them.
Widows weeds too carefully cul-
tivated are the soonest to go to seed
and disappear.
Have you ever noticed that when
man takes himself too seriously he
is generally joke?
There was something wrong about
the good time of yesterday that pro-
duced to-day's headache.
We don't think much of man
who has a large social correspon-
dence and keeps up with it.
1t will take something more than
the fear of microbes and germs to
put stop to the kissing habit.
We never worry about the spirit
ual welfare of the man who always
sprlnkles ashes on his icy sidewalk.
From Brain Leaks in the Com
moner.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-27

everywhere else was only sere brown
sod; the trees were in leaf and bud a
full week earlier there than in other
orchards. Summer brought ripe lux
uriance of growth, Long ago grand
mother had sown a little plot with
caraway just inside the gate and it
had spread half over the orchard.
In July, when it came into blossom,
the long arcades were white with its
billowy waves that swayed and
foamed in the moonshine of summer
ewes like seas of silver. One day a
three-year-old baby wandered into the
caraway thicket that met over her
head, lay down in it, and went to
sleep. When she was missed, great
was the CONSERVATION in the house of
King. Everybody turned out to
search, distracted by direful posi-
bilities of we'll and river. Search as
they might they could not find her.
1t was sunset, with mother in hys-
terics, before an answering gurgle
came from the caraway in response to
franctic calls. Father plunged over
the stone wall and into the caraway
where he came upon a rosy Sleep
warm baby curled up in a nest of her
own fasihoning and very loath to
leave it.
Autumn was, think, the time we
loved best, for then came the apple
picking. What fun it was! The boys
would climb the trees and shake the
apples down until we girls cried for
mercy. The days were crisp and mel
low, with warm sunshine and a tang
of frost in the air, mingled with the
woodsy odors of the whitening leaves.
The hens and turkeys prowled about
picking at windfalls, and our pet kit
tens made mad rushes at each other
among the leaves.
Then came winter, when the
orchard was heaped with drifts. 1t
was wonderful place on moonlit
nights, when the snowy arcades shone
like magic avenues of ivory and pearl
and the bare trees cast fairy-like trac-
cries over them. Uncle Stephen S
avenue was fine place for coasting,
and when thaw came, followed by a
frost, we held high carnival there.
Any history of the old south
orchard would be incomplete if it
failed to mention the King Bubble. "
This was spring of peculiarly sweet,
pure water which gurgled up in the
southwest corner at the foot of a
gentle slope. Grandfather had
trimmed it round with circle of hewn
stones, and in this basin the water
brimmed up like great amber bub-
BILE until it found its way through
ferns and MOSES to the brook below.
In our games the King Bubble played
the part of every famous fount in
song and story of which we had ever
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-27
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of awe and fear. This was aAunt
Una's seat" bench of messy stone
slabs arched over by a couple of
gnarled pear trees and grown thickly
about with grasses and violets. We
never cared to play there-it would
have seemed like dissertation, but in
our quiet moods we sought the old
stone bench to dream. Aunt Una
mingled in those dreams, but not
after the fashion of Uncle Stephen.
for there was no doubt concerning
her fate. She had died thirty years
before, on her twentieth birthday.
We children heard much of Aunt
Una, for she was one of those people
who are not soon forgotten, whose
personality seems to haunt the scenes
of their lives long after they have
gone hence. She had been very beau
tiful, with strange moonlight beau
ty of white skin and night-black eyes
and hair, foreign to the fair, rosy
King style of loneliness; dreamy,
spiritual girl, one of those souls who
have no real abiding place in this
world and only tarry for a brief
while. She had been gifted with the
power of expression, and a sort of
journal she had written was one of
grandmother's treasures. She some
times read portions of it to us, and
so we seemed to make very real ac-
quaintance with Aunt Una. The book
contained verses that appeared quite
wonderful to us-indeed, think even
yet that they were wonderful-and
bits descriptive of the orchard, blent
with girls dreams and longings.
Her phrases fingered in our memories
and the whole orchard seemed full of
her. Besides, there was a bit of her
romance connected with it.
Aunt Una had had a lover. This
man, was still living; he was little
more than fifty, but we thought him
very old because of his snow-white
hair. He had never married, and
lived some distance away. Every
June, on Aunt Una's birthday, he
made pilgrimage to the old orchard
to see her tree, all ALLOW with never
failing blossoms, and sit on her
bench. At such times we children
were not allowed to go into the
orchard, but we sometimes peeped
over the wall and saw him sitting
there, a melancholy, lonely figure. It
gave us, l think, deep and lasting
sense of the beauty and strength of
love which could thus outlive time
and death. We were too young then
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-27
His Steamer Chairs

Il have the woodwork of seventeen
steamer chairs in my garrett" grum-
bled the man who had crossed the
ocean seventeen times. Just as good
as new. Each chair cost me $3.50.
The canvas, duck. or webbing that
formed the seat wore out and never
was able to replace it. tried forty
stores for similar material, and gave
up tho job, Now, whenever | want
chair | buy new one complete; no
use looking for colored, or striped, or
checked duck to form seat" | had
a like experience. Plenty of white
duck can be found, but no subdue1
stripes or colors. All you want is
strip seventeen or eighteen inches
wide and two and half yards long
1t ought to cost about twenty-one
cents yard-New York Press.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-27
SORROWS of a Secretarv.

With the publication of any story
that increases Loeb's mail, Loeb de-
spairs. Once when the President
went off on trip he left Loeb lot
of slips containing his autograph.
stating that the slips were for those
who asked. Loeb mentioned the in
cident to reporter The reporter
rushed into print. Loebs mail few
days later was too big for the regular
White House mailbag. Loeb later
was seen whispering in the ear of
that print-rushing reporter, and it
was noticed that the reporters face
became slowly sicklied DER with the
pale cast of contrition.
The publication of this story will
increase Loeb's mail within a week
by hundreds of letters. It's always
so, when some one does Loeb the un-
Kindness to tell the people what it
means to be secretary to the Presi-
dent. There was Loeb article pub
lished by syndicate. some months
ago, in 500 different newspapers.
Poor Loeb! His friends and we'll
wishers, from the Rio Grande to
Alaska and from the Penobscot to
the Pacific, wrote him, either incloE-
ing copy of the article, or saying,
Did you see it," Courtesy required
an answer to every one of those zeal
Gus admirers. So don't think Loeb is
hankering for one line of publicity
more than is thrust upon him by his
official duties-for he has no such
hanker.-Leslie's Weekly.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-27
A Business Woman.

The woman ledger pays twice as
much in my house." said the land
lady, "as the man, for she is twice
the worry and trouble. Suspicious!
l had one woman lodger whose cook
ing l did. Well, she used to snap
shot the remnants of her chicken or
roast before it left her table for the
cupboard. l had another who had a
stove in her room. My charge for
coal was five cents a bucket. Cheap
enough, Ell? 1t didn't suit her,
though. She sneaked in her own
coal over night, on her return from
work, in a suitcase. Another lodger
She paid two and a half for her
room-brought home two or three
guests nearly every evening to sleep
with her. 1t turned out she worked
in an employment agency and her
guests were strangers whom she took
in temporarily at a quarter a night.
l think she must have made 81 or
30 week that way at my expense"
New York Press.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-27

seeing his friends, reading, walking,
playing his part in human affairs. 1
know man of seventy who is old,
very old. l met him yesterday,
swathed in furs and flannels, as If it
were midwinter. He told me in a
quavering voice that he had heard of
a new food and was on his way to get
some-a food warranted to put more
lime in the bones, or else-I forget
which-to take the lime out; anyhow,
1t would enable any one to live to be
a hundred at least. You should have
seen the CLEAN in his old eyes as he
talked of it. But why does that man
wish to live so long? He is feeble,
he is constant anxiety to those
about him, there is hardly anything
he can enjoy. No, cannot under
stand this striving to put off what is
as natural, when the time comes, as
birth.
yet every now and then some
body who ought to know better
throws fresh faggot on the craze for
centenarianism, and every one seems
to have vague idea that it's PEE
culiarly virtuous to live a great many
years-no matter what use is made
of said years. I'm glad to observe,
though, that some very we'll known
doctors are throwing cold water on
the craze of late"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-27

read-especially the we'll of Urda and
Ponce de Icons fountain of youth.
On summer days, tired and warm,
we would fling ourselves down on its
fern-fringed brink and drink deep
draughts from an old blue china cup
which always sat on a little stone
shelf below the brim and never
CHANGED to be broken despite the doz-
ems OF careless little hands that seized
1t. To-day weary men and women
all over the world think often of that
spring and long for a cup of it's
matchless water.
Near the spring was huge granite
bowlder as high as a mans head,
straight and smooth in front, but hol-
lowed out into natural steps behind.
1t also played an important part in all
our games, being fortified castle, In
dian ambush, throne, pulpit or con-
cert platform as occasion required. A
certain gray-haired minister, famous
in two continents for eloquence and
scholarly attachments, preached his
first sermon at the age of ten from
that old gray bowlder, and a woman
whose voice has delighted thousands
sang her earliest madrigals there.
IF you're King, you sing" was a
countryside proverb in those days,
and certainly it was true of all the
descendants of grandfather and
grandmother. We all sang more or
less, although none could equal
Laure, and among the dearest mem
cries of the old south orchard are
those of the long, mellow twilights OF
summer Sundays, when old and young
assembled in the orchard and sang
hymns, grandfather beating time
How clearly the whole scene comes
out on the wall of memory's picture
gallery - grandfather and grand.
mother, father and mother, sitting or
Aunt Una's bench, while We children
with all Uncle Georges brood from
the next farm, sat on the grass
around them. Two voices sound out
for me above all the others-Laure'
glorious and silvery, grandmother
sweet, quavering, tremulous. Dear
old Grandmother King! How much
she enjoyed those summer evenings
of song!
Grandmother and grandfather used
to walk much in the orchard on fine
evenings, hand in hand, lovers still
lingering in Uncle Stephens arcade
or at Aunt Una's seat. Their devo
ton to each other was beautiful te
see. we children never thought it {
sad or unlovely thing to grow ole
with so fair an example before us
One summer grandmother grew very
frail and could not walk in the
orchard. Yet grandfather was the
first to go; they found him sitting il
his armchair on one summer after
noon, smile on hts fine old face and
the sunshine making Q glory of his
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-27
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Rajahs are out in border edges.
Bordered batistes are one of the
good things of the season.
Braided and corded net is being
used for tunic and bodice guimpe
waists.
The fiat, round turban with deep
brim is one of the seasons new
shapes.
The latest petticoat outdoes all
others ia the sheath-fitting effect of
the hips.
Those new Louis coats and pele-
rines of cretonne are going to be
worn with the white frocks.
Bordered materials of all kinds are
the opportunity for the dressmaker
who is gifted with originality.
Venetian and French point laces
seem to be leading the heavier laces
which have been some time in
vogue. a&
A use for your old Powered rib
bons is to cut out the flowers and
applique them on your white net
gowns.
Light colors are being extensively
selected for afternoon gowns for i'm
mediate wear, and white is also very
popular.
The priscess front Il as we'll liked
for the lingerie frock of sheerest ma
terial as 1t is for the frock of linen
tailor finished.
One of the seasons new hat shapes
turns up sharply at the side. This
means soft arrangement of the hair
to get the best results.
Shoes were never so dressy as they
are on account of the extensive use of
high ~hoes with fancy tops. They
are also more extensive than ever be-
fore.
Braits continue to trim every
thing, and unless the braid manuiac-
turers have Uade fatal mistake they
will be Ss much used as ever for
summer
I line of feather stitchiigs in col
or about the edges of white linen
collar and cuff set is change from
the more familiar embroidery. A
jabot Of lace finishes the collar
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-27
Knitting as a Recreation.

A prominent physician near Boston
advocates knitting as an occupation
especially suited to persons who, for
a time, are equal to little exertion,
mental or physical, and who find it
truly hard work to sit in absolute
fdleness, says writer in Good House
keeping. Moreover, he himself tried
the prescription before giving it to
his patients. Recovering from long
and severe attack of typhoid fever,
he found that merely to "live out of
doors and keep cheerful" was much
more difficult than 1t had seemed
when he prescribed it for other peo-
pie. Even listening to reading proved
fatiguing, and one day, in despera-
tion, he began to cut out paper dolls
and then to color pictures in maya
zine, as he had seen his children do.
Another day he demanded silver to
clean, and finally he polished up some
OF the family jewelry. All this, how
ever, although providing the neces-
sary occupation, was unsatisfactory
because of its comparative useless
ness. 1t was not necessary that the
silver should be polished daily, and
there were already more paper dolls
in the house than the children could
dress in month. 1t was then he
learned from his mother the plain
knitting, which has comforted. so
many women who always want
something in their hands" There
was no counting of stitches neces-
sary, and the monotony proved rest
full while the occupation was divert
ing. With hands busy on something
to be used by his wife, daughter, or
even the little girls doll, he could
soon listen to reading without weari-
ness or impatience. Even now, fully
recovered and busy with large and
varied practice, he occasionally takes
up knitting to rest, thus literally
working out in action his theory,
that real recreation seldom comes to
naturally active man through abb
solute idleness. One of his patients
a boy nineteen years old, who was
stricken with paralysis several
months ago-now knits with much
interest, and finds the prescription
of cheerfulness more easily taken
when his fingers are doing something
worth while and his mind is free
either to work or rest.-McCall's
Magazine.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-27
Keep Busy.

The young woman accepting her
first position, finds that results are
what count the most in the world of
wage-earners, and that the young
woman who makes ready promises
and does not keep them will not be
apt to be favored with an increase of
salary when the personnel of the
working-force is gone over to see
which of the women in the employ
of the firm are giving efficient service
and deserving of recognition.
She must make up her mind to ac-
cept her first position with one point
in view-that she will work all of the
time while on duty during business
hours, and that she will not allow
any portion of the work to lie ne
elected. The small tasks accumu-
late rapidly, which will make work
outside of regular hours a necessity.
When you see woman working over
time you can generally surmise with
accuracy that she wasted her time
during the day. The young woman
who does not keep her work strictly
up to the notch will not hold a posi-
ton very long.
The young woman must learn to
so divide her work that it will last
all through the day, for she must re-
member one important point-keep
busy all the time! Too much leisure
time during business hours leads to
the belief that there is not enough
work to justify keeping young wom-
an on the pay-roll.-New Haven
Register.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-27
Alice Rix's Play.

1t was with regret that 1 read of
the failure of Alice Rix's play at the
Folies Bergere in Paris. Of all the
California women writer's Alice Rix
displayed the most brilliant quail
ties. l use the past tense in refer
ring to her brilliancy, because while
less gifted women have added to the
fame of California literature and
gained fortunes for themselves by
their works, Mrs. Rix as yet has pro-
duced nothing permanently valuable.
There once was story current of
great novel upon which Mrs. Rix
was then at work and which when
published would satisfy the critics
and the claims of her creditors, but
when her cottage in Belvedere was
destroyed by fire the manuscript went
with her other belongings. There is
no doubt whatever that Alice Rix
could write strong novel if she
would. Her three matrimonial ex-
periences, respectively with MacDon-
aid, Rix and O'Leary, and her in
innate knowledge of Paris, gained in
her sojourn there with her first hus-
band and in these later days, must
afford fine material for a novel. Her
versatility is remarkable. She can
dash off verses, short stories, essays
or critiques on any subject without
stopping to think, and she has the
gift of sympathetic comprehension in
which SO many better known writers
are lacking.-San Francisco Call.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-27

to understand its full beauty. The
romance of it appealed more strongly
to us; we girls had our favorite
dream of dying young and having our
lovers come to visit our trees thirty
years after.
But the orchard had happier mem
cries. There had been a wedding in
1t for one thing-long before we were
born. 1t was that of Aunt Iris, who
had been. a celebrated beauty. She
was married in the orchard under the
apple blossoms Of June. We never
tired of hearing grandmother tell of
it. We had heard the story so often
that we could picture it almost as
plainly as grandmother herself-the
lanes of white, fragrant trees, the gay
dresses of the guests, the beautiful
bride in her white silk dress and old
lace veil. 1t was favorite game with
us to enact it all over, and so coveted
was the honor of playing the brides
part that 1t had to be settled Sy lot.
Aunt Iris pear tree, planted by the
bride herself, after the ceremony, was
In our time huge old tree just with
in the entrance gate. The most de-
licious pears that l have ever eaten
grew on it. There are no such pears
nowadays. suppose they had cata-
logue name, but the old south orchard
had nomenclature all it's own, and
we knew them as Aunt Iris pears. y
There were many plum trees in the
orchard, as well as cherries-great
luscious oX-hearts and a sweet white
kind-pears and ounces, but OF
course more of apple trees than OF
any other kind. Uncle Bob's tree was
our favorite, because it bore delic-
ious, juicy. yellow apple with streak
Of red on one side. There were two
big trees-the twins trees-which
were given over to us entirely, be-
cause nobody except children could
eat their big, green, dead-sweet ap-
pies. And there was a Seeding tree
which had come up unbidden In a
sunny corner, the fruit of which we
used when our games called for a
trial by ordeal" The apples of il
were the sourest that ever grew;
hard, bitter, unpalatable. The "or-
deal" consisted in eating one Of them
in large bites without making single
grimace! Few of us ever passed it,
but there was one who never failed
our little French cousin. Laure
She could MUNICH those dreadful ap.
Piles without so much as change OF
expression on her little dark, elfin
face. But then, Laure could do any.
thing she. attempted. We could
never stump" her, as our juvenile
slang expressed it.
Every season brought new beauties
to the old orchard. 1t would have
been hard to say whey we loved il
best. In spring it was rare spot;
the grass would be green there when
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-27
Miss Templeton a Preacher.

Great interest was expressed in &C.
clesiastical circles over the appoint
ment of Miss Cecilia Payne Temple
ton to the assistant pastorate of the
First Congregational Church of st.
Louis.
According to the announcement
made by the pastor, DR.. Albert H.
Jordan, Miss Templeton will conduct
branch Of practical philanthropy in
connection with the church work.
Miss Templeton is an Albany girl, and
has had much experience in settle
ment work. For a while she was
secretary of the training school of
the Young Women's Christian Asso-
citation of Chicago. Miss Templeton
advocates the establishment of a no.
tel for self-supporting women in St.
Louis similar to the one recently
opened in New York City by the mil
lionaire, w. R. H. Martin.-Wash-
ington Star.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-27
Checks to Filtration.

when went abroad to Baden Ba-
den last summer" said the little in
valid. my husband gave me an Elk
pin to wear and my father Masonic
one. They said If there were any Ma
sons or Elks on board ship they would
look after me.
Every blessed man on board was
either Mason or an Elk. and not q
one OF saem would fiirt with me or
account of those pins.
You cal bet when I sailed for
home | put those blooming pins in
the trunk and kept them there. -
New York Press.