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The Southern herald., 1915-02-05

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Once there was q full-bIown Wild
Peach, registered in the Family Bible
As Susan Mahaly.
Her Pa divided his time between
collecting at a Toll-Gate and defend.
ing the Military Reputation of Andy
Jackson.
The family dwelt In what was then
regarded by Cambridge, Mass, as the
Twilight Zone Of Semi-Culture, viz,
SWEET County, Pennsylvania.
Susan wore Linsey.W from
Monday to Saturday. She never had
tampered with her Venus de Milo
Topography and she did not even sus'
pect that Women had Nerves.
When she was seventeen she had a
Forearm like a Member Of the Turn.
Verein.
She knew how to Card and Weave
and Dye. Also she could make Loose
Soap in kettle out in the Open Air.
Susan never fell down on her Salt
Rising Bread. Her Apple Butter was
always Al.
It was commonly agreed that she
would make some Man a good House.
keeper, for she was never sickly and
could stay on her Feet sixteen hours
at a Stretch.
Already she was beginning to look
down the Pike for regular Fellow.
In the year 1840, the Lass of seven
teen who failed to get her Hooks on
some roaming specimen of the Oppo-
site Gender was in danger of being
whispered about as an Old Maid. Cell
bacy was listed with Arson and Man
slaughter
Rufus was destined to be an Early
Victorian Rummy, but he could lift a
Saw-Log, and he would stand without
being hitched, so Susan nailed him
the third time he came snooping
around the Toll-Gate.
Rufus did not have q Window to
hoist or a Fence to lean on. But
there is no Poverty In any Pocket Of
the Universe until Wealth arrives
and begins to get Luggy.
Susan thought she was playing in
rare Luck to snare a Six-Footer who
owned good Squirrel Rife and could
out-wrassle all Corners.
The Hills Of Pennsylvania were be-
coming congested, with Neighbors not
more than two or three miles apart, so
Rufus and his Bride decided to hit
q New Trail into the Dark Timber
and grow up with the Boundless West.
Relatives Of the Young Couple
staked them to a team of Pelters, a
Muley Cow, Bird Dog of dubious An
cestry, an Axe, and a Skillet, and
started them over the Divide toward
the perilous Frontier, away out yen
der in Illinoy.
It was Hard Life. AS they trun-
died slowly over the rotten Roads, to-
ward the Land Of Promise, they had
to subsist largely on Venison, Prai-
RE Chicken Quail, Black Bass, Ber-
The Southern herald., 1915-02-05

Il came Oat IN the sobblns Recital
that Hubert had presented her with y
$500 prize-winnins Pomerahian, direct
" related to the famous Fin, owned
By the Countess sida59gan of BEl-
carty.
Later on. he seemed to feel that tho
POmeFanian had come between him
and Ethel. The Situation became
more and meTe tense and finally, one
day IN Egypt, Within plain sight Of the
majestic Pyramids, be kicked Precious
ever 50 hard and raised guile a Swell
ling.
The Legal Adviser said Death was
too good for such q Fiend
In Vienna, though, that was where
he went SO lar that Separation be-
came inevitable.
Ethel had decided to take an $780,
600 Pearl Necklace she had seen in
Window. It was easily worth that
much, and she felt sure she could get
it in without paying Duty. She had
been very successful at bringing
things Home.
She could hardly believe her EarR
when Hubert told her to forget It and
back up and come out Of the Spirit
World and aIight on the Planet Earth.
He had been HeartIess on previous
Occasions, but this was the first time
he had been Mean enough to renig ON
mere side,issue such as coming
across with the Loose Change.
Ethel was simply determined 70
have that Necklace, but the unfeeling
Whelp tried to kid her out Of the No
tiOn.
Then he started in to Pile. He Sug-
gested Q $4,000 Tarara Of Rubies and
Diamonds as q Compromise. Ethel be-
came wise to the Fact that she had
Joined out with a Wad.
While she was pulling 3 daily Sick
Headache in the hope Of hEinging him
to Taw. the Maharajah Of UmsIopagus
came along and bought the Necklace.
That was whan Ethel had to be
taken to a Rest Cure IN the Austrian
Tyrol, and she never had been the
Same Woman since.
To all who had come pleading for.
Reconciliation, Ethel simply hung out
the Card, Nothing Doing"
After q Brute has jumped up and
down on the Aching Heart Of Girl
Of proud Lineage, he can't square
himself in 100000 years
So said Ethel, between the flowing
Tears.
Furthermore, there had been hope
less Incompatibility. In all the tim0
they were together, they never had
been able to agree on Turkish ciga-
rette.
The professional Home-Blaster said
she had enough on Hubert to get her
four Divorces. The Decree would ba
q Pipe.
Ethel said she hoped SO and to
please push 1t along, as she had quite
Watting.List.
Moral: Rufus had no business buy
ing the Clock.
The Southern herald., 1915-02-05

Fish-also some Hair-Cloth Furniture,
very slippery and upholstered with
Sand.
After Hiram gave her the Black Silk
and paid for the Crayon Enlargements
Of her Parents, Jennie did not have
the Face to Bone him for anything
more, but she longed In secret and
Hiram suspected.
Jennie was a Soprano. Not a reg
ular Soprano, but Country-Town So
prano, of the kind often used for aug
menting the Grief at a Funeral. Her
voice came from a point about two
inches above the Right Eye.
She had assisted a Quartet to do
things to "Juanita," and sometimes she
tossed out hints about wishing she
could practice at Home. Jennie was
Nice Woman but she did need Prac-
tice.
Although Hiram was tighter than
the Bark of a Sycamore, he liked to
have other Women envy the Mother
Of his Children.
When he spread himself from
Shin. Plaster, he expected a Fanfare
of Trumpets.
It took him long time to unwind
the String from the Wallet, but he
would Dig if he thought he was boost
ing his own Game.
By stealthy short-weighting Of the
Country Trade and holding out on the
Assessor, he succeeded in sailing away
numerous Kopecks in one corner OF
the Safe.
While in Chicago to buy his Winter
Stock, he bargained for two days and
finally bought a Cottage Melodeon,
with the Stool thrown in.
Jennie would sit up and pump for
Hours at. a time, HAPPY in the knowl-
edge that she had drawn the Capital
Prize in the Lottery Of Hymen.
In the year 1885 there was some
Church Wedding at the County-Seat.
Frances, daughter Of Hiram and Jen-
ME. had knocked the Town a Twlster
when she came home from the Female
College wearing Bangs and toting a
Tennis Racquet.
All the local Gallants, with Cocoa
Oil in their hair and Rings on their
Cravats, backed into the Shrubbery.
Hiram had bought her about $1,000
worth Of Hauteur at the select Insti-
tuition Of Learning. All she had to do
was look at Villager through her
Nose-Specs and he would curl up like
an Autumn Leaf.
A Cuss from Chicago came to see
her every few weeks.
His Trousers seemed to be choking
him. The Pompadour was protected
! By a Derby of the Fried-Egg species.
It was the kind that Joe Weber helped
to keep in Public Remembrance. But
in 1885 is was de Rigeur, au Fait,
and a la Mode.
Frances would load the accursed
City Chap into the high Cart and ex-
hiblt him up and down all the Resi-
dence Thoroughfares.
On nearly every Front Porch some
Girl whose Father was not Interested
in the First National Bank would peer
out through the Morning Glories at
the Pageant and then writhe like an
Angle-Worm.
The Wedding was the biggest thing
that had struck the town since Fore
paugh stopped over on his way from
Peoria to Decatur.
Frances was not 3 popular Girl, on
account Of being 90 Upplsh, 80 those
who could not dght their way into
the Church climbed up and looked
through tho Wlndoue.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-07-30

In the matter of lingerie one may
choose between much-trimmed or lit
tle-trimmed garments. providing they
are made of sheer, well-woven cotton
or linen fabrics The great majority
are made of cotton because it is cheap
er than linen, is just as good-looking,
and does not muss so easily. Linen is
thought to be more durable and is
therefore sometimes selected for lin
gerie which is to be northumberland.
BY comparison with cotton fabrics,
such as fine vOiles, woven of hard
twisted thread, durability lies rather
in favor of cotton.
The best known tub fabrics include
nainsOOk, batiste, long cloth, wolfe,
NULL lawn and the fine cotton crepes
One of the first three named is chosen
for the great bulk of all lingerie.
An empire gown of nainsook, with
body and sleeves of narrow val inser
ton is pictured here A narrow bead
ing is set at the top and bottom of the
body and serves TO carry the narrow
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-07-30

turn back upon it the cold winds OF
the north. Thus these mountains
give Galicia long, cold winters; short.
wet springs; hot, blistering summers
and dreary, chilly autumns.
The glory of Poland's past and
the hope of her future are Cracow
and Lemberg, for it was the former
that was her capital in the yesterday
OF history and the latter that is her
capital today and which would be her
capital tomorrow were Polish dreams
to come true. In Cracow, the great
CITY of Polands past, the royal palace
still stands; but it is used as a bar
racks and not as the home of king.
The cathedral Is now the Valhalla Of
its departed greatness; for there sleep
the kings and the heroes from the
Jagellons to Kosciuszko. Not far
away is the Kosciuszkoberg, one of
the most remarkable memorials ever
reared by the hand of mana huge
mound of earth brought by loyal Poles
from every battlefield in the world
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-07-30

consecrated with Polish blood.
The country around Cracow is fat
and is devoted almost wholly to small
farming and trucking The peasants
dress in white Jackets and blue
breeches, and, wear jackboots; their
womenfolk with large bright shawls
and picturesque headdress, brighten
and give spirit to the countryside.
Primitive Agriculture.
From Cracow to Lemberg the trav-
eler encounters good land; it is fairly
level and entirely innocent of fences,
boundary stones marking party lines,
and tethers or heTdsmen keeping
live stock where it belongs. The
same methods of agriculture that we
used in the United States before the
days Of the self-binder and the grain
drill are still IN force in that region.
1T is in Lemherg that the only
Polish-dominated legislative assembly
in existence holds it's sessions, for
Lemberg is the capital of Galicia, and
the Poles, both because of their
shrewd political ability and their nu-
merical weight, control the Galician
legislature in the face of their rivals,
the Ruthenians of East Galicia. The
city of Lemberg is largely modern-a
compact nucleus surrounded by scat
tering suburbs
While Galicia is almost wholly an
agricultural region, and while a large
percentage OF that agriculture is car
ried on in the old-time way, there are
some few manufacturing neighbor-
hoods and industrial districts. Dis
tilleries occupy first place among the
industries, and there are many beet
sugar and tobacco factories. Petro-
leum springs abound along the Car
pathians, and some of the towns in
this region grow from small villages
to modern Beaumonts between New
Year and Christmas.
Austrian Poles Fairly Well Treated.
Austria has never treated her
Poles as the Russians and the Prus-
slams have treated theirs. The Poles
of Austria are as free to sing their
national songs as the people of our
own South are free to sing Dixie"
They are as much at liberty to glorify
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-07-30

"the mistake you make is in supposing
that you run this place"
Flodie eyed her. We'll. you set me
such good example, you know, Miss
Gale-really-'
The door opened, and Hall came out
of the dark room blinking.
Hello, Hall! How's the boy" said
Rosamund, and rearranged her pose
quickly and deity.
Exit Flodie, to dry her eyes in the
offlce-to swear her innocent little
Darn it all, anyway" to wait and
wonder, to worry and grow ever more
fearful. as the voices reached her ears.
Halls face lighted as he saw Rosa
mund. Despite defects of detail. Rosa
mund so nCnchalantly posed, so fair
and flashing, animate with youth and
confidence, was. as ever. a picture IL
which he rejoiced She had none of
Carolyn's severe, clean-cut boyishness,
none of the fullness of Mrs. Royalton's
aristocratic maturity. She was Wom-
an that women would always shun.
and men fight for, love-and abandon.
Hall looked at her, and her beauty
sank deep into him. A golden tendril
of hair in front of her ear caught his
glance; and thence to the saucy frolic-
some dimple in her cheek, the little
uplifted corner of her delicate mouth,
her white even teeth, the straight line
of her nose, her fnely-drawn eye
brows, to her violet:blue eyes, his
quick glance travelled reveling. He
did not speak till: by jove, I'd like
to take you in that pose!"
She, of course, Immediately changed
it to prove her lack of vanity. but fell
into another as artfuI Well she knew
her trade.
ooh, don't talk shop all the time"
she said. I'm just calling. I've been
posing for three hours with Deertield,
and I'm all in. For heavens sake let
me sit where l can't see a camera.
Say, Hall, how about this party to-
night? You're not trying to cut me
out. are you?" She went up to him,
took him by the two lapels of his coat,
showed her teeth, and with her eyes,
dared him to touch her.
He ran his hand through his hair.
by jove," he replied slowly, didn't
you get an invitation? Miss Fisher
must have forgotten it,
She made a little gesture of re-
proach ooh, of course, if you didn't
want me-you know, Hall, l never butt
in. Never mind" Pouting prettily,
she turned away.
Why, of course l want you to
GOMEZ" What else could Hall say?
But indeed, looking upon her, he
meant it now. Say, you're devilish
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-07-30
CLING 70 BLEAK LAND
NATIVES OF SHETLAND ISLAND
LOVE THEIR HOME.
Have Hard Work to Coax Living
From Almost Barren Rock, But
Leave 1t UnwiilinaIy-Spot
Has Figured in History.

Fair island 25 miles south of all
the other Shetlands, has had
strange enough pageantry passing
over its rocky surface. For not only
was it the home of the Picts, and then
of the Morse and for the Morse, the
signal beacon to give warning of the
coming Of the hostile sail; besides
that, it supplied a chapter in the 70.
nance of the Spanish Armada.
For here was wrecked the ship OF
Don Gomez de Medina, and that noble
and his men were for a time most
generously entertained by the island.
ers, writes Maude Radford Warren in
Harper's Magazine. But time passed,
the Spaniards stayed, the meal and the
mutton diminished. Then the island
ers. wrapped in by the wild storms,
unable to get TO any other island.
fearful of famine, hid their food. The
forced guests grew weak, many died
of starvation, and some, it is said,
were pushed over the tall cliffs into
the sea.
the Spaniards away in a ship, and
since that day the name of Umphrey
has been powerful in the Shetlands.
The Fair island people show plain
traces of Spanish blood, but they re-
sent the suspicion of it, saying that
the Spaniards were isolated when on
the island.
1t is hard to conceive how isolation
could we'll be possible on an island
two miles square; besides, the Fair
island people do not deny that the
strange patterns and the lichen dye
ing of the stockings and caps and
shawls their women knit were taught
them by the Spaniards, and indeed the
same sort of handicraft Is found to this
day in country places of Spain.
The Fair islanders were great
smugglers in the old days, and they
are still good bargainers. They are
very intelligent, seeming to know in
stinctively how to read; and not so
very long ago they would follow the
mail steamers in their light canoe
shaped boats, which none but them
selves can manage, begging for news
papers and books.
One of their terrors is of infec-
tious disease; another is of the dog
tax man, against whose coming they
are said to hang and drown their
dogs: another is of emigration, for
they love Fair isle. Yet 'emigrate they
must; about forty-five years ago
hundred of them went, unable longer
to coax living from their bare rock.
Their greatest joy is the occasional
visits of the minister, more frequent
ly now than in the old days, when
he arrived but once in about two years
to marry and christen. He breaches
every day of his stay, and they pro-
long his visit on every possible pre-
text. using, when all else fails, the
solemn prophecy of a storm
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-07-30
Vicious Wolves In France.

To talk of wolves in France seems
absurd-a country that has been set
tied for 1000 years, and has a popu.
lation of 100 to the square mile. Yet
in several of the departments tor
counties, as we would call theml-
notably in the Department of Yonne,
in the heart of France-the wolves
are extremely bold and enterprising.
Two troopers. one day last spring.
who were riding in company, came
suddenly upon huge wolf that. with
out the slightest hesitation, sprang
upon the nearest horse. The SOL
diers dismounted and drew their sa-
bers, expecting the wolf to turn tail,
but he showed fight and but for the
arrival of farmer with a gun, who
shot the animal, the republic might
have lost two of her army. The COM
bat would be thought nothing of in
Russia, or even in this country, but in
France-well, it shows how hard it is
for man to exterminate the wild ami
mails that infest the earth.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-07-30

their past and to speak their native
tongue as though they were free and
independent. Except that they must
pay their taxes to Austria and serve
in Austria's army they are practically
self-governing.
AS western Galicia is the strong
hold of the Austrian Pole, so eastern
Galicia is the main dwelling place of
the Ruthenian. The two races never
get along very well together. The
peasant population Of Austrian Po-
land exc out hard existence. In
many parts of the country the peas
ant lives in a log hut covered with
straw; he breakfasts, dimes, and
makes his supper of porridge, wash
ing it down with bad brandy; and in
general lives a life full of want and
empty of pleasure. The peasants
who farm for the mobiles receive no
money in payment, but only a share
of the crop, often as low share as
one-twelfth, a wage of slow starva-
ton"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-07-30
Reef in Panama

The beef consumed in the Panama
Canal Zone is to be from cattle slaugh.
tered there, instead of dressed beef
from the United States 1t has been
ascertained that saving of from 10
to 20 per cent can thus be made.
The Canal supply department has
already begun killing local cattle, in
order to test the quality of meat OBJ
tainable, and it has further arranged
to purchase cattle in other parts of
Central America, and even South
America, and bring them to the
isthmus for final fattening and
slaughter.
A cattle buyer, assigned to visit
the neighboring countries, will have
his purchases brought to the Canal
and inspected by veterinary sur
geon to prevent the introduction of
diseased cattle. The latter official Ia
already on his way to the isthmus.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-07-30
CTO BE CONTINUED.)
Rinht LIVING for the Child.

Plenty of air, which includes sun
shine, as sunshine always gets in
with the air if it is anywhere around
Plenty of rest.
Plenty of water. (This means both
within and Without
Moderate and nourishing food.
Moderate clothing-ask yourself il
the child is coolly enough dressed
rather than warmly enough.
Plenty of play.
Plenty of common sense.
Which last, being interpreted, means
the wisdom and the initiative to adapt
all laws to individual conditions
Good Housekeeping Magazine
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-07-30

pretty, did you know it? I've never
seen you look so WE'LL"
Rosamund needed no more of an in
vitation. Well" she said comfortably,
IF you really want me, I'll promise 10
make some of that smart bunch OF
yours look like washwomen and that
no myth. either. Say, Hall, I've got a
new dress I'm dying to have you see
smart as pepper! It's some rag, be-
lieve me! Can | go the limit?'' She
circled her corsage, indicating a dar-
ingly lowcut neck.
He laughed and nodded "Oh, you
can get away with anything in the
way Of clothes. By jove, you'd look
all right in jumper and overalls."
Good idea, Let's try it some time !!
Queen of the Bricklayers." She struck
a graceful attitude.
Lord, you are pretty" Hall said
meditatively, watching her.
She gave him look, caught a new
expression on his face, and proceeded
to work it up. Her first step was to
say refiectjveiy, as she cast down her
golden lashes, Say, Hall, | don't know
i guess I'd better not come tonight,
though, after all. l don't believe you
want me"
"Of course want you, Rosamund. '
lie went Up 10 her and tried to take
her hand. 30 please,"
No" she drew away from hin. pet
tishly. I'M not corning. lie decided. "
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-07-30

- DR. months war dispatches from
ID a Galicia-where vast armies
have swayed back and forth,
r. locked in one of the outstand
ing, titanic struggles of history
to decide the fate of empires and of
two mighty races-have gripped the
popular attention more than the news
from any other battle theater On Ga
licia's fields during the past few months
have been done such feats at arms
as the modern world could not have
dreamed of; the strength of great
Russia swept over this Austrian
croWnland, driving its powerful ar
mics over the plain in the North, over
the central hills, up the southern
slopes of the ragged Carpathians. on
their lofty, icy crests. beyond these
crests, and lowered over the fertile
prairie land of Hungary.
Here the wave spent it's to then if
reslstible force, and upon the dreary
mountain rocks. above the clouds,
amid the ice and snow and chill cold
of early spring, the flower Of Russian
and Austro-German strength began
rolling backward toward the north,
still locked in continuous, grinding
battle, until the foothills were left be-
hind and the terrific contest surged
in the direction of Lemberg and the
northern plain. The nature of this
war theater that has beheld among
earth's sternest, most bitter scenes is
intimately described by William Jo-
seph Showalter in a statement pre-
pared for the National Geographic So
ciety. This writer says:
DenseIy Populated Land.
Austrian Poland is practically en-
braced by the crownland of Galicia.
This crownland is almost exactly the
size Of the state of South Carolina,
but it has a population six times as
great. If continental United States,
exclusive of Alaska, were as densely
populated as Galicia we would boast
of a population four times as great as
that of Russia. And yet Galicia is
the poorest of all the provinces of
Austria 1t lies outside the ramparts
of the Carpathians, which rob it of the
warm winds that otherwise would
come to it from the south, and also
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-07-30

Now that the filmiest of laces are
made by wonderful machinery and are
so plentiful and so cheap, every wom-
an should indulge herself in a dainty
negligee. If ever there lived a wom-
an without a longing for this strictly
feminine and most luxurious Of be-
longings she must have been feeble
minded, for every well-balanced daugh-
ter of Eve acknowledges their fascina-
ton.
The most enticing of neglgees are
made of crepe de chine or thin, sup
pie silk. with laces and ribbons.
Color plays SO important a part in
the makeup of these garments that
the fabric is the second consideration
All the beautiful and rich colors may
be set down as available, and the more
flowerlike the better. Also the more
frilly and frivolous and altogether ir-