Evening star., 1919-03-23
Here follows another letter:

who have relatives IN MARYLAND ana virginia.
The one who writes this is man who has
seen naval service In four wars including the
Inst one. 1t you'd afford me great honor and
an an interview with You, one whom / con- con.
slider wonderful historian II blush). for
you bring great Joy and pleasant moments to
deeply interested In the Rambler that We can
hardly wait for the next Sundays issue
oa buh to bring b.
that have mostly gone to the great beyond.
Two Sundays ago .l. the Rambler . mentioned
there in May. 1908: Also my wite's father,
William 7. Redden, Is buried in that church.
yard; He vas at one time the magistrate of
daushiers. Mrs. Myrtle Hill. and family at
present occupy the old home where the stete
wife was his daughter Isabella. We were
married at Rockville June a. 1907.
Is i possible for You ~ to u.s. secure data s q the
o%neS large farn ."t "s ago 90 IN the
vicinity Of Hermon Chapel. They had a
daughter by the name Of Mary Elizabeth.
Was the Pickrel family related to old Dr.
Grafton Tyler Of Georgetown. who had a SOP,
Dr. Buoy o, & Bowie Tyler, ;' Both died some
Of Anderson related to the Pickrels Tylers3
DID Mary Pietrei ever marryl Was there
stansbSry. I at % one time i''i clerk IN @ the United
n.entionedi II yon could answer some Of these
burden OF my heayy-ladcn heart Thanking
you in advance. ! also wish to state that you
are rendering valuable service to the public
In general by your Rambler articles"
In last Sundays ramble. which was
concerned through part of its length
house, the Rambler wrote: Rain had
poured through the open windows
and and the Sdo,: floor boards board, We're were waterlog.
and ceiling, Uttered the floor. Some
rubbish lay around. and in 1t was o
babys shoe" A haby's shoe in the
rubbish of an abandoned home is 4
little thing which might easily fur. \
nish material for a full story. but 1t
was given only bare mention, be.
cause the narrative was drawing to
it's close. You know how one thing
suggests another not always logically
associated with 1t. Many thoughts
came as the Rambler looked on that
baby's poor little dirty, broken and
wornout shoe; The first thought was
tion to the baby's shoe that the Ram
bier hesitates to set it down, but we
often have the funniest kind Of
fast and set the table in a roar; When
the Rambler saw the little shoe he
thought of the story of how Jason
lost his sandal in the Anauros Jason
Of Pelais. and Cheiron the' Centaur had
given him this bit of advance. which
is as good today as when Hellas was
young: Speak harshly to no soul
word which you shall speak"
Jason. after passing through "arbu-
tus thickets and downs of thyme"
according to Charles Kingsley. came
to the vineyard walls and the pome-
granates. and the olives in the glen.
and among the olives roared Anauros
all foaming with summer flood"
There he helped an old woman over
the other side, changed herself into q
goddess fairer than all women and
taller than all men. She was Hera,
Queen OF Olympus and wife of zeus.
pressed on to the city. where the pail
ace OF Pelias stood. In the street an
old man said to him that the oracle
IN Delphi had proclaimed that a man
kingdom from Pelias and keep it for
himself. Therefore," he said, "be-
ware how you go up, to his palace. for
NJ, ne is : tn. the fiercest and most cunning Of
Then the Rambler thought Of a
babys little shoe in Victor Huso's
great story. "The Hunchback Of Notre
Dame" the little shoe that EsmeraldA
had treasured. the little mate Of II
held as holy. All the characters march-
ed before thea mind--Claude Frollo,
Gringoire, Quasimodo, phoebus and
Dali. the wonderful goat with gilt
horns. gilt hoofs and gilt collar. All the
places In the great story whose plot
is held together by two baby shoes
came into the memory--the gibbet II,
the Place de Greve. Cour des Miracles,
the towers of Notre Dame, the big
hall Of the palace Of justice and the
retreat in which Monsieur Louis Of
France the XI said his prayers.
Another thing the Rambler thought
Of Is how mothers often treasure till
they are grandmas. the little socks OF
shoes which their babies first took on.
He knows that when baby passes to
the land above a little shoe often be-
comes holy relic to be taken from q
little box in moments of vast sadness
and wet tears. The Rambler wondered
what had become Of the baby who
wore the wretched little shoe in the
heap of debris In the old abandoned
house. II 1t was baby boy. had he
grown up and left those fields, or might
he be met on the river road, walking
in shoes ten times bigger than that
in the debris? If he had moved away,
was he now a soldier, a parson, q cop-
gressman, doctor. a lawyer or a rob.
ber? II 1t was a baby girl. the Ram
bier wondered II she grew up to be
beautiful in face and form and with
charm of manner? Was she married
and were little shoes with little feet
In them pattering about her home?
There was no answer to be had from
the little old shoe I'm the debris pile.