Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-27
BY HALLE ERMINIE RIV
convright by Bobbs.M errill co.

even actual poverty, which yet created
no sort of social difference.
Opposite the canvas-eovered stand
sat twelve small mushroom tents.
each with a staff and tiny flag. Mid
way lines of faxen ropes stretched
between rows of slender peeled san
lings from whose tops ioated ranged
streamers of vivid bunting A
pavilion of purple cloth, open at the
sides, awaited for the committee. ana
near the centre a negro band was
disposed on camp-stools, the brass OF
the waiting instruments winking IN
the sunlight The stand was a eoa-
fused glow of color, of light gauzy
dresses, of young girls in pastel nus
Inns with flowers in their pelts' pic
turesque hats and slender articulate
hands darting in vivacious gestures
like white swallows-the gentrye from
the "big houses" About the square
babbied and palpitated the crowd OF
the farm wa on and carry-all, ana
at the lower end, jostling, Laughing
and skylarking beyond the barrier, a
picturesque block of negroes, picked
out by flashing white teeth. red ban
dannas folded above wrinkled count
enances and garish knots OF rlppoh
Haunting above the pert yellow races
of a younger mulatto race.
The light athletic figure, towed by
the white bulldog, drew many
glances Valiant's eyes, however, as
they swept the seats, were LOOKING
for but one, and at first Va1nly. ne
felt q quick pang of DISAPPOINTMENT :
Perhaps she would not come! 81
hans her mother was still i'll. lar
hans-but then suddenly his heart
beat high, for he saw her in the
lower tier. with a group of young
neople. He could not have told what
she wore. save that it was OF SOIL
Murillo blue with O hat whose down
curved brim was wound with a shad-
ed plume of the same tint. ter
mother was not with her. Sne was
not looking his way as he passeo-heI
arms at the moment being helu ou'
in an adorable gesture TOWARD itlie
child in a smiling matron's lap-aho
bnt a single glance was vouchsafed
to him before the major seized upon
him and bore him to the purple paw
lion for he was one. of the committee
But for this distraction, he mlgh'
have seen, entering the stand with the
Chalmers Just as the band struck ui
delirious whirl of Dixie" the two
strangers whom the doctor had Cd
served an hour before as they Wnirleo
by the Merryweather Mason mouse
behind the judges grays. Sllas farse
might have passed in any gatherlne
for the unobtrusive city man. MAIN,
a rine was noticeable anywhere, ano
TODAY her tall willowy figure in It's
champagne-color lingerie gown and
hat garnished with bronze and gold
thistles, setting in relief her ivory
statuesque face, drew wave OF WINS
pered comment which left a slDlian'
wake behind them. The party made
n picturesque group as they now dis
posed themselves, Katharine's color
less loneliness contrasting with the
eager sparkle of pretty Nancy Chal-
mers and the gypsy-like beauty oil
Betty Page.
"You call it tournament, don't
your" asked Katharine of the judge
Eyes" he replied IT'S kind oil
contest in which twelve riders com
pete for the privilege of naming a
Queen of Beauty. There's a ball to-
night, at which the lucky lady is
crowned. Those little tents are where
the noble knights don their shining
armor. See, there go their capa-
risoned chargers"
A file of negroes was approaching
the tents, each leading a horse whose
saddle and bride were decorated with
fringes of various hues. In the cen
tire of the roped lists, directly in from
of the stand, others were planting up
right in the ground a tall pole from
| whose top projected horizontal arm
like slender gallows. From this wa.
suspended a cord at whose end swung
a tiny object that whirled and gilt
tered in the sun.
The Judge explained. ION the enc
of the cord is a silver ring, at which
| the knights tilt with lanceS. Twelve
rings are used. The pike-points ar,
made to fit them, and the knight wht
| carries off the greatest number of tn,
| twelve is the victor. The whole thine
| is a custom as ancient as Virginia.
relic, of course, of the old jousting o.
| the feudal ages. The ring is sup
posed to represent the device on tn,
| boss Of the shield at which the lance
! thrust was aimed"
How interesting exclaimed Kath
orine and turning, swept the stant
with her lorgnette. II suppose all tn,
county's f. F. VS. are here" she sale
| laughingly to Nancy Chalmers. "I'v,
often wondered, by the way, what be
came of the Second Families of Vir
ginia."
"Oh, they've mostly emigatet
| North" answered Nancy. 1.-THE one.
that are left are all ancient. Their,
are families here that don't admi
they ever began at ALL
| Silas Fargo shook his stoopef
shoulders with laughter up North.
he said genially, we've got regula,
factories that turn out ready-mad,
| family-trees for anybody who want.
| to roost in one
Betty Page turned her piuuan-
| brown face toward him reflectively
| "Ah do think you No'therners art
wonderful she said in her languor.
GUS Carolinian, "at being just what
you want to be! All met a No'therr
cyril once at White Sulphur Springs
| who said such clever things, and Al
asked her, How did you ever learr
| to talk like you dol What do yor
reckon the cyril said? She said she
| bad to be clever because her nose was
SO big. She tried wearing tricky lit,
tie hats and a follow-me-in in the-twi-
| light expression, but it made her seen
ridiculous, so she finally thought oil
| brains and epigrams, and took Il
reading Bernard Shaw and Walter
| Pater, and 1t worked fine. She said
trouble suited her profile, and she'd
discovered people looked twice at sac
ayaS ca she'd cultivated popSiuf