The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-11-13

ous for her entieing arts.-standard
Dictionary.
A NATIONAL bank is about the last
- place where one would expect 20
find the literature on sirens. a
very young ambitious and studious
cashier in a national bank Is about tho
last person one would expect TO know
anything about sirens from personal ex-
perience or observation. OF all very
young bank tellers and all national banks.
Ralph +. Lowell and the First National
Bank Of Edgewater. New Jersey, were ap-
p~arently the least likely to be mp in the
theory and practice Of sirens.
Like the bank where he was employed
a. teller, young Lowell was interested
only In banking. lie was an ideai banker
in the making. faithful. trusted 20 tho
limit. ambltiOus-but ambitious only in
the direction 81 banking. To this end ne
was frugal in his way OF living, and he
spent most OF his evenings pursuing
those special studies most likely 10 ad-
vance him in his position.
He was only twenty-five years old. A
more w0ful state OF "Reminiscences
against sirens could hardly be imag' ned
The aucients we're differently trained
Ever the youths Of ancient Greece knew
All about sirens. understood their deadIr
hangers. Kept carefully out OF their way.
Possibly young Lowell may have heard OF
Calypso Who lured even the brave and
cunning Ulysses into her tolls. OF the
Lorelet. percIed upon a Rhine crag. who
Win her beauty and her siren song stole
away the wits OF honest Germans: or ~
the siTen-onchantress. Nlmue. who over
camc that arch e~ucnanter OF King
Arthur time. Merlin. finally burning him
under q great rock. which was proof
against all bis ircanta:ions.
but o. O. the way OF youth In these
nlodern times 90 scOf at sIch "0ld tales
thOuFh older and wiser men know fh4.
sirens were never So powerful and cum.
nlng m their entiCements as ther arc to-
dal. They also know that innocent am
industrious Youths like young Lowell sr,
me easiest m an prey that Dr. -rsIkcd lv
Sirens only one such a. mentioned On
ne literature o. sirens as having sscsr.J
Inat vas ParsIial. who remained proof
AGAINST an the o~rgaulzed aIIuremente ~
hAhhf5 and her Hover maidens But
IarsiIai vas armared by hia holy mission.
.i' rescue ~ fnc Holy Grail Hr uas
lool but Gods fool" AM such armo-
a. ihis young Lowell lacked
older and wiser mon know that
Ulysses fhe lraFest and most resource
mi ~ ancient HfrUn.. VAS enabled finally
10 escape from N.'s.-H. tolls ont. Do.
reason of hi7 superior cunning other.
wise hIF doom bad been complete like
oid MerIlr.s Nas fI .n ar tho handle of
the siren Eiuue
80. when Unfortunate Chance braur..
young Lowell. aI innocent and .ruorlut
acc 90 face H'tI H.. fnugfrr.a Ir 8..r
Ike a lamb Ted Orb f.a aIaHgHtrr Vo r4I
MOI even enough .. rho IambH natural
instinct to rar.a lIu I1 aIra. FROM fraf
moment ae vas I0s probably willingly
l0rf.
Sow. tho s.rsr. az r.... DAD.
acciufa fhrm.lf.. . uBgr .rr.srfrl
% lure poor raIilr. fI fhr.r dasfrI,t.Y
nor 10 '1eg s' upon rraFr % tho Hudson
hlfer rs.i.adr. With .f.II Ir1lf. art
tneir .i-'n rYnr. fI teal away fHr vito
ot yolhF men pa..' rr He .n motor .g.tr
lsuaHy i'| arn not oven r-.f.. '.1aIIv
known aa sirens
On ne surface sf Gree .'vrt f4rv .-.
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