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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-06

days without any one being penny the
wiser-hut II you rc.&se me the shelter
III go, taking your husband en- PEASANT
He shall hear the truth from my lips.
JoVe! If there's any telling, IN not be
baked of the finest dramatic situation It's
ever been my lot to come within bow
shot Of"
He laid the KEY in her hand, out
stretched to him
The glance the woman cast at him was
full of hatred, and Levasseur was CON
scious of It, At that moment only fear.
the greatest force her nature knew, held
her back from denouncing him.
IF 1t were not for one thing" she
said, beneath her breath, "if it were not
for my child 1 would be glad to let you
tell the truth. Even now wonder if
1t is too late? My husband loves me.
Love is strong and forgives much He
might forgive my poor silence-my pitt
full deception"
Possible, but improba BILE, he sneered
Your Anthony is not of so uncommon a
type Then would he be wrong if he
turned you out of doors? Think Of your
lies and deceit-the maiden soul with
which he fell in love! Oh, come, in com
mon fairness, isn't It little more than a
mere deception"
Goaded on.
There was something so absolutely
fiendish in the mans manner that it
goaded Edith harrington to madness.
She uttered an angry cry and made a
quick step toward him.
The man caught her outstretched hand
in his
Don't be such COMPOUNDED fool" he
said, in a kissing whisper. Trust a
woman for giving herself away There's
some one at the door,
Mrs. Barrington's madness fell from
her like a cloak She turned a strained
face toward the door, her hands still
resting unconseiously in Levasseur's
grasp
Some one was trying the handle Of the
door, mpatiently
Say Yes, " whispered Levasseur
The handle ratified again Edith. are
you in there? What on earth's the mat
ter with the door? It's stuck"
1t was Anthony Barrington's voice, with
a curiously eager note-Anthony Bar
ringtons voice eager and irritated at
the unexpected opposition.
Levasseur almost pushed the woman
toward the door.
open it." he said land for heavens
sake, keep your head, I'll hide in the
bed room.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-06

A sight of beauty
in the depths.
This sea anem-
one, when in the
water, is a deli
cate pink, and
one does not
have to stretch
the Imagination
to liken it to q
rose or chrysan-
themum.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20
HAS BIGGEST SElSMoGRAPH
United States InstaIIs DelicateP
Adjusted instrument at New
York Museum.

New York.-The largest and most
delicately adjusted seismograph IN
the United States has just been IN
stalled in the museum of natural MS
tory here, The instrument was maze
in Germany and presented to the Ne"
York Academy of Science by its pres
ident. Emerson Mcmillan. The needle
is so sensitive that blasting opera
tions in some parts of New YORK CITY
have affected it in marked tashloh'
while one interesting series OF undu-
lations is believed to have been caus'
ed b. sea waves striking on the rochy
coast of Rhode Island and Massa'
chusetts
Even a heavy windstorm some
times produces a slight variation III
the needles course.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20
old FENNO HOUSE
Structure Erected in New Enn.
land 2o8 Years Ago.
First Settler of Canton AstonIshed ~.
Natives by Putting a Second sto,,
Upon the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Is Still Standing.

Canton.-The Fenno house IN r..
street, Canton, is one of the venar
able old dwelling houses Of New ~
land whose age is fully authenticste95
by documentary evidence as wall -
by family tradition. This rather sn,oT
structure, two stories in height main
ed red, and upon whose sides aro
still the original clapboards of 1904
was built 20S years ago by that Holm
Fenno who was the original Storob
ton, now Canton, settler of that name
1t was John Fenno's father, also Tobr
Fenno, who was a resident Of Ola
Dorchester, who purchased the Roger
Clapp farm in 1894. This original
Clapp property, which was a part ne
the lands of the Ponkapoag tribe oe
Indians, contained 500 acres. and Jobn
Fenno bought the whole area for 1oo
pounds. or at the rate of five acres ner
pound. Upon this land, before a road
of any description ran alongside of
it or through it, the second John Fen.
no built this 1904 house, and he as.
tonished the natives by putting a ser.
ond story, then unheard of luxury
to his new home. In this house there
were born nine children who. with
the wife and mother, who was Rachel
Newcomb of Braintree, constituted the
original family which lived on the
premises. This second John Fenno
died in I'LL, and he was succeeded
by Isaac, his son, who. was born
in the same old house-in 1899. Isaac
Fenno was twice married His first
wife was Hannah Puffer, who in 1881.
died at the age of twenty-one and
left a son and a daughter, Elizabeth
Mrs. Matthew Buck-and a junior
Isaac. The second wife was Mary
Niles of Canton, and she became the
mother of three daughters. The son,
Isaac, by the first wife, married Mary
Davenport of Canton in 1854, and he
made his home in the same old house.
with his father, the first Isaac. But
young Isaac was killed by falling
from "a steeple of a meeting house"
in October, 1852. Two sons were the
fruits of this marriage of Isaac, the
younger, with Mary Davenport, and
both of them, Enoch and Elijah, be.
came Revolutionary soldiers Elijah
was the son of soldier veteran who
maintained the family line in the old
red house, for Elijah and his wife,
Abigail Smith, became the parents Of
five children who were all doubtless
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20

Christian customs adhered to by the Austrian
German peasant can be traced back to heathen'
ish Germanen rites, some dispute the use of
tree at the Jul festivities nevertheless it is
tain that in Sweden needle pines and frs were
set UP at this time before the houses" Teutzel
of Saxony an antiquarian authority these
subjects, says THE ancient heather sat before
their houses between two crossed pine trees and
ate and drank at the turn of the year for nine
teen days"
The Christmas tree was introduced into Aus
tria some eighty years ago by a Duchess of
Wurtemberg and spread throughout Germany.
About 1910 it is supposed to have taken fresh
root in England, andr became. highly popular.
Both Thackeray and Dickens seized hold of the
idea OF happiness begot of Christmas gatherings
and the Christmas tree. and Charles Dickens in
1850 used 1.-THE Christmas Tree" a title for
OF his annual stories
Although Christmas was not celebrated in the
first centuries OF the Christian era, there are
indications in the records of early Roman his
tory OF the setting up of decorated tree at
Christmas time and the presentation of gifts of
fruit and toys. The Romans are supposed to
have taken the idea from the early Egyptians.
Centuries old. the customs of Christmas OBJ
servance have taken myriad forms in the various
countries of the world. In many cases they per-
petuate some ancient custom which long ante
dates the advent OF Christianity. Such are the
customs which have grown UP around the mis-
tletoe, worshiped by the ancient Druids of Brit
ain as sacred and magical plant. An old Eng
lish writer, speaking of the Druids celebration of
the winter solstice. Christmas says:
This was the most respectable festival of
our Druids called Yuletide; when the mistletoe,
which they called all-heal, was carried in their
hands and laid their affairs as an emblem of
the salutiferous advent of Messiah This mistle
toe they cut off the trees with their upright
hatchets of brass. called celts put upon ends of
their stats, which they carried in their hands
Innumerabe are these instruments found all
over the British isles The custom is still pre-
served, and lately at York the eve of Christ
mas day they carry mistetoe to the high altar
of the cathedral and proclaim public and uni
versal liberty, pardon and freedom to all sorts
of inferior and even wicked people at the gates
of the CITY, towards their four quarters OF
heaven"
The lore of the strange plant is prominently
in evidence in the Vouspa and other Scandina-
Wan Sagas. 1t with mistletoe branch-or
arrow prepared therefrom-that the blind
and heavyheaded deity Holder aimer his deadly
blow at Balder the god of light or benevolent
principle of northern mythology. The inspira-
ton of the use of the mistleoe of course, due
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20

not given definite promise to Freya to prove
harmless If used against the person of her son
Baider. Thus Scandinavian mythical lore ac-
counts for the death of the latter. And accord
ingly, traditional idea OF the poisonous proper
ties OF the mistletoe is found to persist in re-
mote regions of the north and west of Europe
even to the present day. In Great Britain Tin
the Forest Of Deanl it has been used down to
recent date as popular remedy in the treatment
or cardiac troubles. Like the strophanthus OF
African arrow poison fame 1t proved reliable
substitute for digitalis
kissing under the mistletoe is all that now re-
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20

Christian lore, as If 1t were still hedged about
with a vestige of the glory that arrayed it in
Paradise.
Time was, and time is now, when epilepsy is
one of the scourges of mankind; only now we
look for it's cure as we look for its cause, In
quite natural means and conditions. The notion
that some poor devil with the falling sickness
has been cursed from on high IS held scarcely
compatible In popular science, with the princi-
pies of eternal Justice or with cold observation
of cause and effect.
But in times that were, in Wales, when an
epileptic developed the symptoms characteristic
Of the disorder, 1t was commonly believed that
he was being scourged with the rod of Christ"
and that was the name by which the disease
went although 1t had another designation as
well-St Valentines sickness The cure for 1t
was believed to lie in the Rod Of Jesse. The use
of the mstletoe as the Rod of Jesse in epilepsy
was general and, If faith work wonders. per
haps the miracle of cure did sometimes attend
its employment.
Perhaps it didn't, If hard-headed science
choose to take shy at that gracious addition to
the list of miracle-workng agents. But whether
1t did didn't the mistletoe's rare birth and
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20

rocked to sleep in the same old an
cestral cradle which is still part of
the original furniture of the place.
Among the five children of Elijah
Fenno was Jesse, who was born in
1885. But Jesse, when he reached
mans estate, while he chose to re-
main on the family farm, built for
himself new house in 1910, near
the old red homestead, and which IS
today the abode of the descendants
in the seventh generation of the orig
inal 1904 John Fenno. So far as
known this 1904 house has not been
regularly tenanted, at least by the
Fennos, for a great many years.
Altogether this old 1904 family shell
ter is an interesting house for the in
spection of antiquarians and all other
persons whose attention might be at
tracted by the venerable landmark
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20

all over Germany. Three
trees in great pots were put
on a long table covered with
linen; each tree was illumi-
mated with three circular
tiers OF colored wax candles
blue, green, red and white.
Before each was displayed a
quantity of toys, gloves,
handkerchiefs. workboxes,
books and various articles,
presents made to the owner
Of the tree" This princess
was a Russian, and in her
later days lived mostly in
Paris. Then again Prof.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20

Ditchfeld, in his "O1d English Customs" says
that the Christmas tree was first imported into
England by some German merchants who lived
at Manchester in the first years of the nineteenth
century.
In 1900 writer on folklore said: although
accustomed to consider Germany the
home of the Christmas tree, it has not been gen.
eral there for more than. couple of centuries
Old people still living whose parents never
saw cue In Germany. The decoration Of houses
with olive leaves and green branches as in Eng
land az Christmas, is far more ancient custom
and can be noticed in Botticelli's picture of The
Alteration of the Shepherds" in the National Gal
lery in London. 1t is as Fritz Ortwein observes.
distinct remnant of ancient heather custom.
as at the turn of the year during the twelve
days Ok the Jul festival in honor of Wooden green.
cry cuuld be fetched by all from the woods
without punishment. and every hall was deco
rated with green leaves and branches.
Again in old works on English customs we
find many references to the decorating of the
interior of the dwellings, as we'll as the pious
acornment Of the churches with greenery. and
the introduction OF a hr tree as symbocal Of
the palm. In the halls of the barons and the
squires and in the gigantic kitchens of the
farmers fir tree ever held prominent place,
but whether ordinarily decorated not is not
specifically recorded Here we are in doubt
/ In all probability the remaining fruits of the
orchards of the year hung upon the
| branches as Precipitation to the gods of the
| fruits of the earth to insure good harvests.
Going abroad we get fuller knowledge of these
things. The custom OF carrying away branches
and trees from the woods at Christmas time In
various parts Of Austria became so extensive on
account of the superstitons OF the peasantry
that at Salzburg, IN 1856, and at Nuremberg, in
| 176S severe bylaws were issued against persons
purloining from the forests. In some regions oi
| Hungary a solemn procession with a decorated
tree takes place through each village before tbs
shepheld play begins at is adorned with rib
bons and fruit and is supposed to symbolic
the tree Of knowledge. Although most Of the
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20

fruition still carry with them
the tenderest of Christian
faiths, as they carry, too, the
story of humanity's most far
reaching disaster. 1t is one
of the Christmas greens
which has the warrant of re-
ligious associations dating
back to the very beginnings
of mans creation, even as 1t
is accorded the sublime
honor of typifying the ances-
trail origins of the Redeemer
of Man himself.
But what about the mistle-
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20

Woman experts" who tell how to
prepare meal for six persons for AZ
cents are bringing unhappiness to
many a poor housewife who is doing
the best she can on the money her
husband hands to her.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20

HIM! To tell the truth If we want to be con-
sistently Christian in our Christmas greens and
the purposes to which they should be put there
isn't anything about it, at least of any records
which, such careful investigators as Alfred E. P.
Raymond Bowling have dug up while studying
the general subject. None viii deny that the
most consistent Christians have taken to the
mistletoe kiss with abundant enthusiasm and
faith in its excellent results that has never been
surpassed. But that doesn't make the mistletoe
kiss any more Christian than it ever was.
Isn't the excellent story of foolish Mother Eve
and the original mistletoe apple enough for any
reasonable Christmas decorator who wants to
justify its employment? And if it isn't haven't
we the legend of the Rod of Jesse to make it
distinctly one of the Christmas greens? AS for
the kisses that supposed to go with it-we
If you insist on knowing about them, you'll
simply have to take the consequences same
Eve did when she insisted on tasting of
that confounded tree of knowledge.
The mistetoe kiss seems not to be Chris
tianaat all Druidical probably, and therefore
heathenish, and therefore very very wrong
So all young men who encounter it, artfuly
suspended where pair Of ripe red lips must
pass do you piously refrain or more piously
tear down the hoary old temptation and fec
the accursed roof, as If 1t were the house Of
ARIA Marcella and you were not Gautier's
young Frenchman. And you, maidens, give
! leave to no pagan rites; remember the fate OF
your poor Grandmother Eve and beware leGs
the fruit of the mistletoe, accursed tree Of
knowledge prove now more bitter in the mouth
than it did in Eden
But If you have Ivy wreathe 1t generously for
the French know 1t as the herb of st. John tho
disciple whom the Savior loved, the emblem OF
pure friendship, the vine that heeds not decay
and death OF its beloved but clings ever mora
closely as the fall impends and bears up its fall
ing ally against all adversely. Learned students
of these legends have surmised too, that it may
be the herb OF St John the Baptist who is usual.
ly pictured as the boy in his cameTshair coat
--ainR at his cousin, the infant Jesus
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20

Dynamiters bought alarm clocks by
the dozen for their Internal machines,
but you cannot make commuter be-
lieye that dynamiting was bit too
good for an alarm clock.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20
Potatoes Would Soar.

Chicago.-Should the railroads Dc
permitted to advance their rates the
price of potatoes win go up ACCORDING
to a protest made to the interstate
commerce commission by Chicago
commission merchants.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20

10 invented the
Christmas tree?
Whence does it
come? It is a
curious fact
that most Of the
old ehroniclers
have thrown a
veil of mystery
a 70 u n d t b Q
CT Tistmas tree
and make no at
tempt to ex-
plain its origin.
1t has been
stated that the
tree came to us
frnm Y 0vnt
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20

Now a teorist thinks small girls
amusements tend to make them neu.
rotic. But the cold msterialism of the
DRY Is going little too far when 1t
attempts to make little girls stop play
ing mother with their dolls.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20

to the oppos-
ing principle
of darkness
or evil. The
p l ant which
furnished the
deadly d TT
grew on the
slope of AS
gard, and was
the sole agent
k n o " n to
gods or men
a IN o n 6 pol
sonous plants
which h a 4
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20

Twenty-three hundred love letters
were found among the effects OF an
Australian bachelor. Evidently he
either had to die or marry to stop
them.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20

mains of once horrible Druid rite.
The ceremonies which the mistle-
toe figured in among the ancient
Druids always accorded it a place
of honor. The myths that chung
around it In their wondering, puz-
cling minds were many more than
the few that have come to US in
these later years. But, old as they
are, those hoary, heather myths
lack the true flavor OF antiquity
when it comes to measuring tradi-
lions by the centuries.
Oh, we do not by any means owe
our mistletoe to the Druids. We
can go back so much further for the
first adventures of the mistletoe
that the Druids become merely
modern innovators. 1t was one Of
the noblest of the trees in Paradise,
the lordly tree of good and evil;
and on its twig hung the apple
which Mother Eve plucked with
such disastrous consequences. Alas
for Mother Eve and Father Adam!
And alas for us, their punished
heirs-at-law divine! But alas, too,
for the wicked, handsome, tempting
tree of knowledge which put human
lty in such graceless plight! Upon
it's lofty crown, its massive trunk,
it's delicious fruit, descended the
universal curse. It shriveled away
from the Mortified earth; it dwin-
died to the meanest smallness; it
was cast out into the bitter cold;
1t became a parasite and beggar,
existing by the bounty Of vulgar
neighbors. Only in the pearly
translucence of its shrunken fruit,
the most trivial of berries, did 1t
preserve some semblance of its
once radiant splendor.
And it has preserved some of it's
pristine virtues, too, in traditional
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20

A New York woman wants divorce
because her husband drinks cologne.
She can't be blamed, considering the
odor of some of the concoctions
classed under that name.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20

Statistics prove that bachelors go
insane oftener than married men, but
any married man knows that bacheL
ors have more time for such activ.
tiles.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20

The Illinois supreme court wants to
know whether poker is work. Too deep
for us, but It's evident that the play.
ers aren't union men.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20

Tortoises are cultivated in the Sey.
chelles island for their shell. And lob
sters are cultivated on Broadway for
their money.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20

Keeping "a headless cat alive IL
hours" may be triumph of medical or
surgical science. but it is awfully
hard on the cat.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20

The candy trust has been attacked
in the courts. Gladstone tidings for
the young man who starts his court
ship this winter
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20

Some scientists in New York can
now keep headless cats alive IL hours
-'if necessary" But If put to a refer
endum of normal cats it would never
be necessary.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20

The Blind Banker of Paris" who
was able to get away with $4,000, coo
belonging to his clients seems to have
had an eye for the main chance.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20

Pierre Lott announces that he ad
mires the freshness of the American
girl He is reticent. however, concern.
ing the freshness OF the American
boy.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20

A Pittsburg woman wants divorce
because her husband was sober twice
in twelve years. We take It that they
were not successive occasions.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20

Not only do transatlantic wireless
messages promise to be much cheap
er. but they may relieve us of the
hybrid word "cablegram.'
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20

"Aiarettes" Are Tails of Roosters'
Washington. government oulIe
tin declares that many of the fancy
feathers that pass for "aigrettes ars
lothing more than wisps from l
-dils of ROSTERS.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20

In New York speed contest typists
were writing from 113 TO lit words a
minute. Since we have observed that
people who wrote as fast as that don't
sey much, the news excites no envy.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20

Now the young man who took his
girl oct in canoe during the sum.
mer, is taking her out on motor
cycle.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20

A st. Louis woman threw clocks at
her husband, probably with the inten-
tion of lmpressing upon him the fact
that time flies.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20

The corset is of some real use to
mankind after all. A female imper-
senator has died because OF tight lac
ing.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20

Money that Europe does no. spend
on general war it can invest nice
ly in buying shoes for the baby.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20

Army aviators have invented
noiseless aeroplane. The harmless
one, however, is still uninvented,
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20

A New York paper advises It's read
ers to start pearl farm. Still seed
pearls are expensive.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20

Skirts slashed at the knee are the
latest fashion. Handy to get at the
money.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20

Youth has been defined as Just one
darned blunder after another
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20

Statistics show that more bachelors
than married men become insane.
Why say more?
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-20

Our only fear of woman in the
presidents cabinet is that she would
put scalloped paper on its shelves.