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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-03-26
Evening Chat
The Music Of Sounds.

Who says everybody works but faith
er? l saw countless fathers out yes
terday evening in the glorious evening
twilight just before the dark of a day
much like summer, and everyone of
them was beating the very life out of
a very dusty, heavy rug just to please
that woman of all women-one's wife!
There's all sorts of music in the world
and none more beautiful than the mu-
sic OF the robin and the red bird with
the hen song and the rug drum.beat
coming in on the chorus. All chickens
are busy and cackling now from sun-up
to shutdown. Perhaps the noise they
make isn't exactly music except in the
sense that they represent through the
sounds they bring forth much content
cd energy and enthusiasm. believe
all happy sounds may be called music.
There's Just one kind of music after
another coming to this city from now
on. The time of sounds has almost
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-03-26
HAVE YOUR own
ICE MAKING PLANT
For Six Cents a Day You
Can Have All The Re-
frigeratiOn Needed.

The old gag, IT the gas man don't
Eet you the ice man will" will likely
Oe out OF date soon. The manufacture
II Ice artiGicially on large scale at
central plants suggests naturally the
same thing on small scale in ones
own homo. For years inventors have
sxDerlmente1 with the problem, and
The Fairtnopt Electric Service are
showing one Of tho little ice plants
hat can be erected right on top OF
your own refrigerator The freezing
solution is contained in small coil
hat occupies space little more than
.WelFe inches square in the top OF the
refrigerator. The cooling radiator
and the small electric motor which
operates the entire plant are both on
Top Of the radiator, in plain view and
easily accessible. a thermostat in the
refrigerator is so connected with the
wiring OF the motor that the machin.
cry automatically starts when the TEN.
peFature goes up to a certain degree,
and stops when the temperature is cool
enough. Six cents day is all the cur.
rent consumed by the motor which is
40 larger than an electric fan motor,
and the solution will last for years.
The Consolidation Coal company has
one OF the large style machines on
trial in The Shaft store on Pennsylva.
mia avenue and it seems to be giving
tine satisfaction. Should the PROPOSE.
ton prove feasible, and there is no
reason apparent why it should not,
the little plant ought to be wonder.
ful boon to the coal companies who
have electrical power. and have found
il 80 hard to get proper supply OF ice
regularly through the hot months.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-03-26
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found relief from pain and feel so puch
better than use to. When / bear Of
any girl suffering as / did ] tn them
how Lydia E. Pinkham' Vegetable
Compound helped me. y DELrNA
MARTIN, % Bowers St. Nashua, NH.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable COM
pound, made froRfS native roots and
herbs, contains no narcotic or harmful
drugs, therefore is perfectly safe rem
edy to give your daughter,Bho suffers
from such painful periods as did Miss
Martin. -
The reason 50 many girls write
Lydia E. Pinkhafn Medicine Co., Lynn,
Mass, for advice, is because from their
90 years experience they have store of
knowledge which is invariably helpful,
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-03-26

arrived and soon through open win
dows will come the sound OF the hoe,
striking against the ground, the noise
of the rake as 1t runs back aud forth
gathering up dead leaves and debris,
the chirp OF the sparrow, the song OF
the new birds just arrived, the call oil
the children and especially the sounds
OF piano and victrola which seem SO
very loud, when heard through open
doors and windows
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-03-26
Hold Close TO Ideals.


When the darkness creeps upon u
and We sit alone in the evenings as
many of us do-and u specially long
freight train keeps up an necessarily
long, slow rumble in the far distance
with many a minor whistle, what
thoughts come to us first? Isn't it
true that the dark moonless nights
have 4 depressing effect upon many
personalities? Sunshine and rain and
darkness all have different effects on
different people. sat dreaming last
evening OF all the sorrow and sin In
the world and because was alone, my
thoughts got the best Of me. Some.
times we are all inclined 10 believe
that human nature is failing in stead.
lastness day by day. There cone
days to all of US when we wonder il
there is much real truth or much IN.
selfish love in existence. And then
we think Of all the laws, all the ser.
mons, all the mothers and we know
that in every phase OF striving toward
better things, there lies the pulse OF
higher ideals which beats steadily on
in the face Of discourasements and
misunderstanding. If there were
nothing Of real good in the world, we
would have no need for reforms, Ice
lures. prayers. new schools, new lpres..
dents or anything in the line Of prog
ress. However inefficient the law, il
stands for the punishment OF crime
and the betterment oil civilization.
However low human beings sink in
the scale of living, there are always
others 10 uphold and keep pure high.
err standard of existence. Sometime
we come so closely in contact wit,
evil that the contamination begins TO
warp the imagination. It's then high
time to get out and away and form new
attachments and get into new sur.
roundings, for the loss of ones ideals
and beliefs is by far the greatest trag,
edy in the world.
Keep Close Watch.
Just now there is great deal Of talk
in the city about young people in the
different schools. Those who have
studied a rather unlovely situation say
parents are very largely to blame, be.
cause they do not always know just
where their boys and girls are after
school hours. Most boys and girls at
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-03-26

nad g1ch pain that
J. aid often faint
and have To leave
sehool. l had such
pain ! did not know.
what to do with my
self and tried 50
many remedies that
were ofB0 use. l
Eesd about Lydia E.
Pinkham's Fege-
e able Compound
in the n6Espsper6
and decid led to try if,
md fkof IL hnUJ
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-03-26

Two hundred additional tons Of CO.
Goa have Just been shipped 10 France
by The American Red Cross. How
many Jumps, please!
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-03-26
SCHOOL GIRL
TELLS OTHERS
How They Can Find Relief
From Periodic SufferingS.

Nashua. N. H.-"Isn, niasteen years
old and every month for Two ysbrs 1
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-03-26

To help che the men, aand children refugees of the
Allied Countries who the sorest need of Suits Coats
Shirts Underwear Socks Shoes, and all kinds of Clothing
Te need great to degree that few at home can possibly
realize cabled Col Harvey R. Gibson American Red Gross
preventative in Europe Every garment furnished will cover
body which otherwise would lack proper clothing and each gar
ment will actually prevent suffering.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26
Max Schlavvbnsky and his latest painting
titled The Russian Situaton''

8 perpetual exhibition. Sometimes-not
oftenit changes; the pictures are for
sale.
There is the portrait Of a negress, an
angry negress with elongated neck and
q necklace of conch- shells, holding bas-
ket of tired-looking fruit; therc is the
picture Of three strange trees with scarlet
trunks and the picture of the writhing
snake with a butterfly dancing on its tail;
and other pictures, painted by Rotstcin and
Brodowsky. At the further end of the room
is the enamelled door spattered with bright
colors in impressionistlc design, by
Leen Avnsky, and the door that leads to
the kitchen, hung in coal-black hangings
cut in openworl design, where chinks
of light peer through.
And then you feel something gentle and
Slavic and soft standing beside yout is
Dora-and you hear your own voice saying,
"I'll have some marinrte herring" and
then the babel assumes component parts.
1t rises up and smites you in the ear
You are at table with Sam, the artist;
he is drawing your picture on plate, in
India ink. It's indelible, too There's
intellectual Chinaman; he is anarchist;
a Yiddsh tailor ((he is eating knishes)
and the editor of q paper called "Free-
dom''-he expects it to be suppressed next
issue. There is fat man in Prince AL
bert and checked trousers, and a pretty
little thing from uptown.
"Tell me- said the pretty little thing,
leaning across the table to the tailor, "do
you believe in woman suffrage?"
hat %lo
fessor "let me expound a few of the laws
of nature to YOU"
And the Sirfessor said: personality Is
the producer of progress, for where per-
sonality presides power resides Next, ex-
ploitation is the first law of progress.
Next, self-preservation is the first law of
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26
:ds Remade While You Walton the East Side

cashire. He breaches the coming of the
supercrat and the superman. There are
seven stages; let me explain.
"The first stage is the SIMPOLEON The
Smpoleon is mass of matter that
doesn't matter-except when exploited
"The second stage is the HOPEOLEON.
The Hopeoleon is one who suffers from in
iammation of the imagination.
"The third stage is the DEMOLEON The
Demoleon is an ego the half she'll, and
he suffers from perspiration of inspiration
"a semi-developed, semi-sane and hemi-
hatched organism, an underdone ego with
hard boiled beliefs and cross-eyed convic-
tions.
THE fourth stage is the PSYCHOLEON
He stands on the threshold Of thought,
gazing into the eyeball of ecstasy and eter-
nifty, so to speak, without getting dizzy
"The fifth stage Is the EGOCRAT, one
who has become a self-conscious egoist and
recognizes that psychology precedes all
progress and that enlightened egoism will
make for the higher life
"The sixth stage is the SUPERCRAT.
He is first cousin to the superman- o-be.
He is one who understands the seven won
ders of the ego and the six hundred laws
of nature. All supercrats seek danger be-
cause they seek new sensations New SEN
satons develop wisdom. and wisdom is the
mother of wit and wickednoss
"The seventh and last stage is the So
C1AL ARISTOCRAT The social aristocrat
is one who has developed his social instinct
until he is able to socialize his selhshness.
The surplus value of his ego he gives away
because 1t increases his happiness. In do
ing this the sum of happiness is increased
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26

were yellow then-though you can't tell in
picture"
"Well, well." admiringly from Hardy.
"And here he is taken with me when he
was five. He was so proud of that velvet
suit. But, N.Y. how he did hate his curls."
eyes. Hal didn't care much for his"
chuckled Hardy. 1--WE had to cut them off
when he was sx'
Mrs. Mason clicked her tongue against
the roof of her mouth sympathetcally.
'They're like that-boys are. And here's
Geordie when he graduated from grammar
school"
Always their talk was of their boys.
"reminiscences popped up constantly and
Hardy would have to postpone his potato
spraying to relate that hackneyed tale Of
Halls prowess when he licked the school
"bully" at the tender age Of eleven, or Mrs.
Mason would stop in the act of wedding
her pansies to tell Of Geordie's diligence in
achieving a soap order bicycle before he
was twelve, and on, ad infnitum.
Unconsciously their common sacrifice af~
forded both healthy outlet for words too
long pent up. AS the summer passed,
Hardy's lean, tired face, which had mirrored
all the ravages of his sixty-three hard
years, smoothed into its old kindly COM
placency, and Mrs. Mason's faded blue eyes
frightened amazingly AS often as not now,
her glasses would be propped carelessly up
on her furrowed forehead as she vent
about her house and garden duties, little
song on her lips. They grew to watch with
anxious care the coming of the postman,
each harboring a secret fear for the safety
of the others lad: each rejoicing in the
perusal of letters that brought good news.
The summer reached its zenith and began
to wane. Hardys garden fulfilled his
fondest expectations and was harvested and
divided with his next door neghbor Mrs
Mason's pansies and sweetpeas were sue
ceeded by autumny clusters of chrysanthe-
NUNS and dahlias, and the friendship be-
tween the two, which was still thing OF
snatched moments over the fence, grew into
o strong and comforting tie.
And then bronze fall day, Hardy,
coming home from his shop and donning
garden clothes usual, waited patiently
the length of time it takes to dig and sort
three hills Of potatoes for the appearance
of Mrs. Mason. There was newly arrived
letter from Hal lying next to his heart and
bursting to be made public. For Hal had
been promoted and decorated, and in the
natural course of events, Mrs. Mason should
have come f1uttering toward him through
her flower beds to share and rejoice in tho
good news.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26

temple just around the corner; they serve
free lunch, too, and some one else is try
ing to sell you red ticket to the l. W. w.
bali on Saturday evening, January 25, at
Park View Palace, on 10th Street, you
suddenly realize that the nice little thing
at your table is really very nice little
thing, and you start to tell her SO. but
along comes Esther and she says: This
is restaurant, not private ROOM"
So you tumble around for your hat and
stink out, and, as the door creaks behind
you you feel the warm smell of cooking
following you to the street and the voice
of the sirfessor saying: ~ am the only
one who knows anything about the Mentoid
of Mirth, new science, and you are
out in the clear night air.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26

The editor OF "Freedom,' The new maya
zine, spoke suddenly. from another table
Il should be ashamed to edit any sort of
paper that wouldn't be suppressed" said
he. "Read this!" and he handed mussed
journal to the Sirfessor, who read:
Freedom revolutionary journal,
dedicated to human freedom.
"GREETINGs
"'Freedom' enters upon the revolutionary
field the only English-speaking anar-
chist publication Of the Western Hemi-
sphere. For its appearance we offer no
apology; we are oppressed, depressed and
suppressed-yet we carry our colors majes-
tically amid the turbulent conditions of
Law and Order
"For many years America has been void
of q publication whose voice spoke revolu-
tion in every column. SO it is to occupy
this vacant space upon the intellectual ros-
trum that Freedom doth appear.
ats voice will shatter the foundation
stones upon which human society now
stands.
at advocates Destructionl
at advocates Construction
Freedoms mission is not to patch up
a worn-out system along reform or Social
ist, lines, but to abolish all existing insti-
tutions
Revolution means Revolution--not re-
forml
at is only when Gods, Governments,
Hypocrisy, Tyranny and Slavery crumbie
away into oblivion that man will be able
to assert himself Man, know thysef AS
sert your individuality! Demand-work-
and fight for individual freedom
"a. T."
"I voddn't gf five cents for dot" This
was the talors opinion.
IAN anarchist" amended the Sirfessor.
"is the meekcst organism that ever dashed
through space backward" young lieu
tenant in the uniform Of the Canadian Cav
airy came in at this point and stood star
ing at the Sirfessor who got up, and, sup
porting himself against the table in
lachrymose manner, continued: "Commu-
nism is the wild weak wall of weaklings.
cheapGngs, meeklings and groundlngs for
succor, support and sympathy Socialism
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26

and round beds Of nasturtiums; there was
a helf-moon of forget nots and full
moon Of azaleas; there were narrow borders
of sweetpeas, and already fccund Crimson
Rambers were climbing the surrounding
fences and the tiny back porch. 1t was
fairy wish in that commonplace land Of
unbelef.
Allen Hardy grunted little and was
about to let himself down, by easy stages,
into sitting posture, when the keeper
of the extravagant garden appeared,
watering-po in her hand, white apron
embracing her little, stovepipe waist. She
saw Hardy at once looming up there out
Of his vegetable patch and gave him a
bright, neighborly nod before she com
menced her round with the watering pot.
Hardy solemnly returned the bow, noted
that she was little and old and brisk
and resumed his lettuce thinning.
But from that day forward the neighbor-
ly exchange of mods continued. Very prob
ably it would have stopped right there
had she not spoken first and thereby di-
vulged her secret. 1t was on warm August
afternoon that Hardy, ready with his formal
greeting, discovered her bearing down upon
him, stepping carefully over and around her
colorful handwork. At sight of her coming
toward him he swept off his shade hat
and they achieved opposite sides of the
fence simultaneously Her crisp skirts were
gathered cautiously in one hand, while in
the other she he,d a curious, wry object
which she offered to Hardy.
OTIS the mousetrap," she explained,
"somehow it's gone wrong. / can't stand
cats-never could--and they're just run
MIN all over my cellar-the mice I mean.
I thought maybe you wouldn't mind my
askin' you"--
She was all of sixty, with thin, very
white hair, drawn carefully away from
pink part in the very centre of her head.
Her skin was the soft, apple blossom tint
Of an old lady whose womanhood was
achieved before the back pages of the
magazines were crowded with skin food
and powder advertisements.
Hardy's keen glance beneath his shaggy
brows thought her pale, blue eyes held
burden Of incffable sadness which differed
oddly from her brisk step and cheerful
manner He took the trap, hanging his
hat on "A convenient picket.
mighty queer" he said politely, chow
sometimes these things do go wrong. It's
the spring, | gucss."
"And It's ncw one. too, almost" shc
affirmed "Quccr about those mice, amt
tin q bran new house?"
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26
Ranck

That was his great sacrifice to her loss
That proud letter against his heart burned
rebellious contradiction, but Hardy met the
test Loyalty, and it worked 9 nothing else
could have done. Geordie's mother thought
she detected little note of jealousy
yes, actual jealousy-in her friends voice.
The astonishing discovery brought her
back to herself-threw new light on her
sorrow.
Her emotions, released from their
bounds, began to shake her and sobs came,
racking her body and cleansing her bit
ter heart-great, relieving sobs. And while
she wept Hardy, his rough hand still on
her shoulder, patted and soothed her
Cant you just see him, that bravei
Giving up his life deliberately for us-go-
ing straight to hero's reward with every
other mothers son of them longing to have
the same chance? He knew you'd be proud
and glad!"
Gradually the sobs were subsiding.
why" he went on, elaborately, cant
you just see him-with every officer envy
ing his record-and the medal?"
There was a long silence, broken only
~ HSA ooAS weeping.
"But now Pm-I'm all-alone"-
So softly did the words come that had he
not been very close he would not have
heard them
"Not bit Of It," he protested belliger-
emily, "alone nothngl That medal-weu
hang it in the parlor, shall we? | got a
boy and you've got q medal-and a hero.
The two houses won't be necessary any
more. There's no need of you stavinp
alone here-and I need you, Hal and me.
and maybe my Hal, too-who knows"-
He was kneeling clumsily beside her, and
at last she raised a tear swollen face and
put out shaking hand--not in suppI;ca-
tion, but in comfort.
To an unimaginative onlooker the pict-
ure they made might have seemed almost
ludicrous. phese two, battered and lined
by mora than threescore years of life.
products of the unpicturesque middle class,
OF physical Labor and self-deniaI, finding
again the treasure Of unselfsh love.
We'll take down that picket fence" she
mused softly, her hand upon his rough
sleeve, "then you can grow twice as many
vegetables"-
"Flowersl" he interrupted quickly.
Vegetables" che repeated with finalitv
~I'vc wasted enough on flowers and we'll
hang 1.-THE medal-in your rarlor, Allen"
Our parlor. Agatha" he corrected,
softly.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26

the ego, seH-preservation is the second law
of human nature. Now, what have you got
to say, my MANI"
The tailor scratched his head and an
swered, with some thought, "I belief in
winners suffering"
But you turn to the expounder Of the
laws of nature and ask him to expound
himself and he tells you:
81 am SirTessor. A Sirfessor is a
knight of knowledge among benighted BIZ
peds, peddling pestiferous pifle. I'm an
Englishman by birth and human being
by adoption. don't support myself.
live by r'y wits. Pm the evangelist of the
gospel according to Malfew Seklew. an
English philosopher, called by the Ian
eashire Chronclc,thats the peoples
paper-the laughing philosopher OF Lam
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26

"My!" she said with sudden cheerful
ness "What a lovely garden. Those are
young tomatoes, sure as 1 live! Now, how
sensible to have vegetables"
"But not near so pretty as flowers" he
said Loyalty. "They are beautiful flowers,
douLt Of that. I never saw prcttier."
She beamed back at him.
"I'll pick you little bouquet No
now don't refuse 'em; my nasturtiums need
pickin.'
81 was just going to offer you some of
these radshes," he said eagerly, "and il
a day or so there'll be good mess of peas
if you'd like them
The radishes and nasturtiums changed
hands, and each gift held the invaluable
treasure of complete sympathy and under
standing. Each knew the depth of the
others loneliness, and to each the prox-
unity of fellow sufferer was bound
less comfort.
After that the two gardeners, in the late
afternoons, drifted inevitably toward the
fence. Brief little bursts of confidence en-
lightcned each about the other and Al
len Hardy came to know that Agatha
Mason, long widow, had come, little
reluctantly, to the city when Geordie had
been offered partnership in a brisk gro
Gerry business. This venture, under the
magic touch of Geordie, had thrived, the
perusal of real estate pamphlets had ceased
to be an idle pastime, and the small estate
with "the gorgeous view" was finally theirs.
"Those stuffy city flats just didn't agree
with me-" she confded to her neighbor.
"Geordie, he saw that, and it was his last
word that he was glad to leave me situated
here where l could have my flowers like
used to at home.'
"Georde' and HAL" it developed, had
much in common--quiet, retiring natures,
admittedly plodding rather than brilliant
Both had pondered long and laboriously
before taking the final step toward khaki
and the trenches, weighing the need Of
his single parent against that of his coun-
try, and succumbing finally to a conscien-
tious conviction that the latter's was the
greater.
Gradually, so magic was the bond be-
tween them, each grew to feel friendly
intimacy for the others son. Quite uncon-
sciously Mrs. Mason began to speak Of
Hardy's boy as Hal" and Hardy's GUS
tomary greeting for her was: Evening;
any news & Georde?"
This said Mrs. Mason, one late August
evening, hutterng over to the fence her
hands full of various sized squares of card
board, "this is. Geordic at two His curls