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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-02-20
Dream Boy OF Her Imagination Recognized by Court as
More Important Than Reality, So Live Husband
Is Freed From Novelist.

lied in your husband?" the court queried
in substance
Il never realized that dream" she re-
piled. The dream-boy has long, wavy
hair-black hair-that | can run nv
fingers through. Ny husband, as you
can see, hasn't much hair He looks
like chestnut burr. No, he is not the
dream-boy. InstinctiveIy 1 have want
ed to fee from my Observation-Disclosures to
get away from him. But the dream-boy
with him have lived all my life!"
She has disproved her case with her
own lips" declared the court; so l am
compelled to find in favor of the petit
toner and award him a divorce. Her
description of what she admits to be her
ideal man does not fit her husband"
And so law acknowledged a phantom
as co-existent with reality, and of more
import in a woman's life than reality.
even though she said that the dream
had never been realized and probably
never would be realized. The court sent
her back to her dream-boy with the
wavy hair, and to the world where she
and her dream-boy have lived. And her
husband, being unable to understand the
existence of any world but his own. re-
turned to realities by which he will al
ways live.
'ss 49, -.
Destiny, who bestows dreams, exacts
compensation; exacts the keen sense of
proportion which separates the unreal
from the realities by which we live.
There is a twilight world where only
shadows seem substantial; where all OBJ
jects are distinct in the mist of wishes;
where the dreamer gropes, trying always
to comprehend.
Those who live outside do not un-
derstand; they do not acknowledge
dreams; they condemn so bitterly!
Justus Sheffield never acknowledged
the existence of his wife's dream-boy.
He named other males, however-not of
the dream worldwide he said caused
his wife considerable cropping. There
was one, Mr.. Rowland Colt, whom she
was trying always to comprehend, Shelf
field said. She tried so faithfully to COM
prehend, said he, that she wouldn't allow
him to come home at times.
she called me up at my Office and
said 1 couldn't come home one night"
he told the court, because Mr.. Colt was
going to visit the house.
Do you love this man, too?' l asked
her.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-02-20

1 just want to have a little adven-
ture. don't want you to be in the
way she replied. l didn't go home
that night"
But the next day, he went on, she
came to his Office and said she'd gone
sleighing with Colt, and would he please
cash check for fifteen dollars to pay
for the party?
The affair, which so much ANNOYED
Sheffield, was waited away by his wife as
a fleck of dust
He told me to stay home nights. l
nave an experimental mind; l purposeIy
obeyed. / stayed at home And l in
Vlted my friends to visit. l wanted to
see If Colt would come. He did"
Did Colt have long, dark hair like
your dream-boy?" she was asked
No, his hair was light"
And then she picked up her friendship
with Lloyd Osbourne, the writer, making
mere literary reciprocation of it,
II had read many of his writings and
they had given me pleasure, but l had
never met him nor written to him until |
was writing the first part THE Golden
Hollow" Then the idea came to me that
l would like to write something that
would give Mr.. osbourne as much pleas
ure as his writings had given me. That
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-02-20
Ba gga &c Doesn't
Make the General

IT may be laid down as military ak
ION that a generals ability is not
measured by the amount of baggage
he takes to war.
II is said that when General Sir John
French embarked to take command Of
the British forces all the baggage he
took was contained in a single suitcase.
When Stonewall Jackson started out on
a campaign he took along no personal
baggage except a withered carpet-bag of
ancient pattern, and even this modest re-
oeptacle was but half-flled. Both these
generals bear distinguished regulations
as successful leaders
Contrariwise, when Napoleon III, EN-
peror Of France, left Paris in 1870 to
take command of the armies which, he
said, were going straight to Berlin, he
took along forty-eight trunks, besides a
most voluminous kitchen and bedroom
eQufpage. The Germans got every scrap
Of 1t all at Sedan. His son, the prince
imperial, escaped from Sedan and the
beleaguertng Germans with his personal
effects, which filed a special train of
Ave sArS
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-02-20
Their War News
Sent by Wireless

a WIRELESS dispatch Of 500 words
N will be sent each week by the
Canadian government to the cler-
gy of the Magdalen islands, in the Gulf
of st. Lawrence, to keep the islanders in
formed Of the latest war news and other
world events
The dispatches will be read to the
congregations each Sunday morning up-
til May. The demand of the natives for
war news caused the government to au-
thorize the reopening Of the Marconi
wireless station there. which was closed
soon after the war began.
After the mail steamer to the Magda-
len islands suspends its weekly trips the
people see no newspapers until May, be-
ing completely isolated for five months
The government will prepare a censored
letter to be transmitted nv the radio
operator at Picton, Nova Scotia, to thu
operator on the Magdslen islsndA
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-02-20

is why began to mail him chapters Of
the book in form of letters, just as
Barbara in the story is supposed to
send her letters to Captain CalderwOOd
Mr.. Osbourne hadn't any idea, of course,
who was sending the letters. 1t wasn't
until Norman Hapgood introduced us at
a dinner some time later that ] asked
Mr.. Osbourne if he had been receiving
the story. He said he had and liked it.
That is all
Golden Hollow" is the mirror held
by Mrs Sheffield to reflect her shadow
world The heroine. Barbara, portrays
the writer; Mac" is a sketch of Shelf
field, and Captain Dan Calderwood is
the dream-boy. But, she said, fact and
fiction are mingled in the story.
Life and have always played
hide and seek" writes Barbara:
"Tve Just looked out upon the world.
A lone star usually tops the cedar
below my window. 1t is Gods gift
that the poorest Of us may claim, but
tonight it is hidden by the storm.
The wind whirls the snowf1akes
about, piling up the drifts-sweeping
everything before it, free, goriously
free.
Love is like that An elemental,
masterful, fateful force that sweeps
one onward like the snowfiakes.
Does it not seem terrifying?"
80. 80.
The unhappy environment which causes
the creation of a dream world was ex-
planned when Mrs. Sheffield talked of her
early life.
my father married after my mothers
death" she said. Il do not recall that
ever spoke to him again alone after
that. l was at school most of the time
Ny stepmother didn't want me in the
house. She was very cruel to me.
From my eighteenth to my twentieth
year lived in Cambridge. Mass. on
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-02-20
Dream Boy" of Her

haps given something real with exqui-
site reality. Who shall say? .
80" go
When woman is thoroughly unhappy
about something she cant help, she be-
gins to pretend. All the Imagination of
all the world fashions her dreams; she
has created everything from a nose that
crying won't turn red to an orchestra cir
Gle reservation for the hea emily choir
When she is forlorn child she pretends
dolls for herself; when she is a forlorn
maiden she pretends a sweetheart. And
because pretending is a matter of wish,
ing and receiving, her dolls are always
beautiful and her sweetheart fascinat-
ing
Arises the question, how real in the
life Of the woman does the dream-sweet-
heart become? Surprising that he slips
away when a man-not like him a bit
comes into her life and marries her; and
supposing that, unhappy in marriage.
she recalls the dream sweetheart; is she
disloyal to her husband? And to what
degree must he consider the dream a
li'ol' "hO' eAdClly, snail answer!
There's a certain courtroom over in
Jersey City. It's prosaic and uninter-
esting courtroom, and the Judge who
sits on the bench there wears gray
tweeds and says "Har-r-r-ump!" when
he's impatient. He looks as though there
were more law than poetry in his dispo-
sltion. Yet he has passed upon a wom-
ans dream and judged between a dream
sweetheart and husband. He has ruled
against the dream! Because of the long,
wavy, dark hair and the Turing voice OF
her dream-man, Vice Chancellor Vivian
Lewis refused petition for divorce asked
by Rena Cary Sheffield, novelist and
poet, and awarded a decree to her hus-
band, Justus Sheffield, prominent attor-
ney of New York. Chancellor Lewis
ruled that the shadow lurking just back
of every witness. running liking a shin
ing thread through Mrs. Shefield's novel.
The Golden Hollow" and, on her own
confession, living with her all her life, is
no shadow at all so far as are concerned
the realities by which she lives, but a
most substantial force, rivaling her hus-
bands influence and usurping his love
"All my life," Mrs. Sheffield testified.
Il have had a dream-boy to whom I
have gone when all the world was cruel
to me-"
And this dream-boy-wss he real
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-02-20
Lo! len Commandments for Men
and Ten More for Their Wives
Foro rr;o1 Ne,
For a Married Man.

Thou shalt keep thy past unto thy.
self. This is the first and the great
commandment.
Il-Thou shalt not scott.
Iil-Thou shalt be a careful kisser.
V-Remember that thou keep holy
thy marriage vows. Six days thou
shalt vaguely dream of miaht-have-
beens, but on the seventh-wake! Re-
member thy wife, to sing her praises
Give her freely Of thy time and wit,
for a dull husband is a discouraqement
to the gods, and clever one-almost
human.
V-Honor thy wife, and all her bills,
that thy days may be long in the land
which the Lord thy God hath given
thee.
VI-Remember thy mother-in-Iaw, to
keep her guessing, for wise mother
in-law IoVeth a cheerful liar, and
good excuse is better than none.
VII-Thou shalt not steal a march un.
to thy club.
VIII-Thou shalt not toy with danger,
though verify live impulse has low
voltage domestic boredom beaten to a
FRAGILE.
Ix-Thou shalt choose thy brand Of
tobacco, likewise thy experience, &C
cording to thine income.
x-Thou shalt be man, dependable
as thy best investment, thoroughbred
as racer, mellow as old wine, con-
slant as thy club dues; then of a
surety will favor cling to thee, as
Iichens to an old oak tree.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-02-20
For a Married Woman.

Thou shalt not nag.
h-Thou shalt keep they temper to
thyseIf
lII-Thou shalt not bore thy husband
N-Hemember that thou keep unholy
his many socks. Six days shalt thou
triNel and do all the things thou
lowest to do, but on the seventh
think! Remember his linen, to see IL
rs spotIess. Provide thou the extra
stud for the emergency that will come,
and watch lest the suit that hath her
pressed is not returned to its sccus-
TONED nail, as il will be the one h.
asketh for.
V-Honor thy husband and let him do
exactly as he plesseth, that thy praise
may be long in the land which the
Lord thy God hath given thee.
NI-Ihou shalt not ask him any cues
tons, neither in the morning, nor At
the MONDAY hour, nor at nioht. for
whatsoever man wsnteth thee 10
know, that will he tell thee unso-
Ilcited, and question mark is a hook
that catcheth who knows what
Nll-Thou shalt not complain. V.riIv
a complaining woman is worse than
shoe that pincheth.
NIIl-Thou shalt not steel thy heart
against his hobbies.
lH-Thou shalt obey hin-sor.ti,,.,
Uncertain ty hath charms when minds
are masculine
H-Thou shalt be fresh and sweet and
dainty as shower BOUQUET. for lin.
eerle is more to be desired than
ruoies, and good cook above Govern.
ment bonds.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-02-20

S26 month allowed me nv nv. e..,. d,
Sheffield, who is a descendsnt S.
SEWER, a governor of Tennessee 49, =.
member Of the Harvard and f,sn1b.'
clubs met Miss Cary when he wos ~
tending the Harvard law school Tbev
were married in 1898.
1t was soon after her marriage that
Mrs. Sheffield wrote her double decss
ioEue for men and their wives. That
however was at time when her dream
Doy had slpped into temporary forget
fulness, she said; when she was trTin1
to fit realities into the void left bv her
shadows
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-02-20
BY WINIFRED VAN DUzER.

a ND so Destiny, who bestows
n Dreams ss's's compensate"
For at the beginning of ma
ture there is a law of eternal balance
which never varies; so much for so
much; for that most to be desired a
price.
For dreams a price. The keen sense
of proportion which separates the unreal
from realities by which we live; a twi-
light world where only shadows seem
substantial.
Dreams created of wishes, fashioned
to the beauty of idealism. Is it strange
that the dreamer lives in a world
apart?
And who, exactly, is to say which of
the worlds is the real one; that which we
consider tangible, or the other world Of
shadows? Because one will remain long
after the other has passed away.
Is not a beautiful face more real than
the picture Of the face? Yet the like
ness will continue when the face is dust.
Destiny, who bestows dreams, has per-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31
CONGRESSIONAL WREATHs
NT EnfBERs or congress are seldom sparing

T ENfBERs OF seldom sparng in terms of 1W1 appreciation They intelligent men and know well thought nodest for one to call himself big njun wise world beating legislator But say and he another and glad the circle until it gets back home skipping nobody.
 The flood gates of congressional praise never fully dies "taken by the Great Reaper congressman simple method great man.
 Recently death removed Samuel A. IWherspoon of Mis- sissppi, a member of the lower house.
 speeches the foremost lawyer of his philosopher, could make the right victorious impose uponthe of others an intellect" He in short according to the speeches. such yet himself elected to the Congress States heart n1ed the trodden
 Persons vitht With ersoon appeared the world and these been strictly reserved for orucifixion.
 gets the soft studiousy irritable gentleman, o slightly reaconar type given to speaking terms of cold though seldom inclined differ sharply him. but nevertheless good conscientious duty ad trying to do rgh in the of the difficulties that beset us al ,. <ss
 pursued nowhere jealous congressional oratory It's good kind of oratory practice it will stray too far from the path
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31
RAILROADS AND THEIR EMPLoYEs

rN RAILROAD employees who have asked for shorter A wages cannot be expected to withhold their railroads in the hands of emen preferred playing the market to running Transportation business
 sA When it good hours and good conditions for hand and short hours and plenty of jewels Melen and Diamond Jim Brady there be doubt the of the United States VIII stand prinepality properly in the England could have eight tracks be- Boston, instead sof four there would be dividends and eight hours and good for the do the work
 What is true of New Haven
 whining the railroad workers want better condi tons
 When the railroads workers highly bodies of high individual intelligence and well led they come to 8 Waterloo.
 railroad manipulators with the aid of oraorica purchase legislatures they deceive the unorganzed public hut they cannot fool or trick the railroad unions
 The railroad workers know how the railroads have been watched apprehension the tions of frenzed finance, through many years
 workers the master hands that do the actual work
 raroadin the sound conclusion that they will of wholesale suindng They have 1ributed their honest part the railroads
 railroad presidents railroad directors and railroad dishonest parts let the dishonest the S g
 The demand eight day legitimate demand. raroader is eleven If he railroadn killed before the natural end . his life
 conceded that who live out the expectancy of than eight hours day. how it supposed with expectancy of useful life of but eleven years should work longer?
 those who dance the fiddler The workaen the railroads States danced they have not paghe brbed legislatures, bought trolley lines fancy racks diamonds Why should they punished for the sins of their
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31
LABOR MEN OPPOSED TO LIBERAL SUNDAY
 SAYS DIR. BROWN

New York, March 31-That the working man. whom it is claimed the liberal Sunday will benefit, does not want it, was the declaration of Rev. iaI Presbyterian church, in which a recent sermon on The Benefits of a Liberal Sabbath, .'It is the owners of moving picture shows and of anusements who want it; when the latter is brought before the legislature it will not be the poor working man who will urge the liberal Sunday, it will be the better class. At the Sun day amusements you do not find the working man in the majority at the baseball game or the moving picture show. When a vote was taken in Pennsylvania on the question. the working men voted it down.
 tHThe benefits of liberal Sunday are largely imaginary MT. Brown declared, <tthere are no facts in the case in the past which will bear the test of a thorough and scientific study. The history of the world fails to prove that where an open Sunday has been tried that it has been a success It has been without a, restraining int1u- ence, such as makes men animals, and causes men to know no govern ment. and commit vice without con- science Chicago, St. Louis, New York city and France were cited as instances where the open Sabbath had brought about degredation instead of uplift. s9The liberal Sunday he said, presumed that all men were angels with wings closed in a box and whenever the lid was opened they would fly out. There would be no war as at present raging with it's a1- most unbelievable crue1ties and reck- less regard for human life, had the animal desire for pleasure not been satisfied.
 With the throwing aside of the day for pleasure religious conscience had been made light, man is religious because he has to be and it acts as a restraint on him to obey the law.
 ttThe subject of Sabbath observance in relation to sports, etc, must, like every other important subject, be con- sidered from a scientific standpoint. with clear and open mind to the facts in the case, to the past and to it's benefits to mankind. In liberal observance of the Sabbath the facts are all one side; there are no benefits
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31
WINE ssAD'' IN CHURCH
 CONFERENCE LEAFLET

E. @. Wilson of the temperance or sanitation of the Methodist church adressed. the second days session of the Newark Methodist Episcopal Con- ference in Newark yesterday. He praised Iavishly the newspapers of the country which had taken a stand that no advertisements of alcoholic liquors should appear in their columns.
 Some of those in the church at the time smiled quietly at this and later showed the official conference pro- grarnrne One of the advertisements in it is that of local hotel man. who soIicits the patronage of the members of the conference. The advertisement reads:
 : 1.Best dinner iIl the, city. 50 cents; with. wine, $1.''
 Another page of the programme ad- vises the visitors ''to patronize our ad- yertfsers."
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31
DAMIEN YOUTH NAMED
 BY MCLEAN FOR TRY
 AT ANNAPOLIS EXAMS.

Washington, March 31-Senator George P. Mclean has appointed as his principal candidate for the naval academy examinations of April IS, 1916, Edwin w. Cooper. of Darien. Robert w. Bockius of Meriden is des- ignated as first alternate, Alan S. Rush of New Haven as second alternate and Patrick J. Torracca of Danbury as third alternate. These appointme were made as a result of a competitive examination held in Hartford, New Haven and Bridgeport on March 22, and the grades as rated by the United States civil service commission were Cooper 92.33: Bockfus 90.1O, Rush 86.40 and Torracca S6.3O-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31
SPIRITUALIsM.

The first modern spirituafstlc seance was held 68 years ago today in the Fox homestead near Hydesville, in Wayne county, western New York. The Fox family, living in a little two story frame house, were much dis t11rbed early in 184S by unexplained knockings and rappings. On the last day of March, it is said, Catherine or Kate Fox, a girl of nine. discovered that the cause of thes ounds was 1n- telligent, and would make raps as fe- ouested The girl claimed to have established communication with the knock ker,'' who professed to be the spriti of a murdered peddler. Mar garet Fox, Kate's elder sister, also al- Ieged that she received messages from the f'spook'' The two Fox girls, who were natives of Canada, soon removed to Rochester, where they lived with a married sister. Their reputation as s'nediuns'' soon became idespread, and they founded the modern spirit ualistic cult which still has thousands of adherents in the United States and Canda.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31
PRINCE HENRY WILLIAM.

Prince Henry William Frederick Al bert. the third son of King George and Queen Mary, will attain today to the. at1lre age of 16. Prince Henry is one of the leaders of that group of Ia ctitia.ns and military experts at Econ school who devote all their spare time in figuring out ways and means 10 achieve a speedy victory over the Teu- tons. It is true that the men responsl- bIe for British military and naval op- erations do not consult the young Prince and his advisory board, but that is so much the worse for them One of the most distinguished mem bers of this war council has been Prince Leopold, the eldest son of King Albert of Belgium. The Belgian Prince is several months younger than Prince
 Henry but he has had the advantage of actual service in the trenches. Since Prince Leopold was admitted to Eton the British Prince has had to play second fiddle in the deliberations or the war council, although his greater age and superior rank as the scion of the sovereign family of a world power makes him the nominal chief of the hoard of strategy. Prince Henry IS said to be the most brilliant, intellect 11alIv of the children of King George. He is an athlete of considerable le prowess and has also given much at tention to the development of the arts of oratory. In one or the Eron oe- bates last year Prince Henry argued that while the United States had suft1- cient Justification to declare war on Gernany, President Wilson was justi- fled in adhering to a. policy of neu- trality as long as possible. The Judges supported the Princes view by a vote of four to two.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31
TICKLING

466vx| oU TICKLE you" Tickling one
 oldest of getting along If I have ever expect to be in posi- you assistance then out to this caucus and give your support'' |
 Thus Judge Peck, straords leading statesman, standing crisis this took the form Republican 
 whom the judge had done small favors expect be position to require his assist ance was nothing to it. absolutely nothing.
 The judge vindicated Tickling vindcated There tickling this plus tie judge that he will be candidate for the General Assembly ought e be sent The General Assem- by is paradise Tickling there is ickled of its taxes stockholders out of their Of their -nion Ike judge will feel at home there.